00:00:01.000An advertiser-free episode of My Conversation in Menlo Park, San Jose, Silicon Valley, brought to you advertiser-free of those of you that support us, CharlieKirk.com/slash support.
00:00:14.000I love to hear your thoughts from this.
00:00:34.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:42.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:08.000It's an honor to be here at my friend's church, Pastor Mike McClure, who is one of the most courageous pastors in America.
00:01:24.000And for those of you that have never been to this church before, you're watching online, you don't know about Pastor Mike McClure, he opened his church in an act of boldness of his faith, and he has been attacked and smeared and persecuted by this local government at every turn.
00:01:41.000And he has refused to bend the knee to the secular government agencies.
00:01:51.000And I've gotten to know Mike and a lot of the other Calvary pastors across California.
00:01:58.000And for those of you that know Mike, he is, he really believes that the Lord is in charge.
00:02:08.000And this was a testing moment for a lot of different churches in the last year.
00:02:12.000And it would have been very easy in this community, which is one of the least churched communities in all of America, to just shut down and just say, you know what?
00:02:21.000I'm going to go turn our church into a YouTube channel.
00:02:24.000But, you know, I talked to Mike and Mike said, you know, Charlie, we're facing millions of dollars of fines.
00:02:29.000We're facing all these different pieces of backlash.
00:02:32.000By the way, if you're BLM Incorporated, you go burn down half a city, but you can't open the church.
00:02:38.000But he said, all of that is worth it because we have brought hundreds of people to Christ because we have in-person church, not just the online stuff.
00:03:18.000What am I supposed to do about all the issues around me?
00:03:20.000And what better place to have an event like this than at a church?
00:03:24.000And I'm going to say this as lovingly as I can.
00:03:27.000If your pastor or church are still closed, it's time to find a new church, everybody.
00:03:33.000It's time to find a church that is open and is doing the right thing.
00:03:40.000And so I could not think any higher of Mike McClure.
00:03:45.000And he's with his family, and he deserves to be with his family after the year that he has had.
00:03:49.000And so we're pitching in for him tonight.
00:03:51.000And so, I want to talk a little bit about the lockdowns because I think the lockdowns will go down as probably the worst mistake done domestically here in American history.
00:04:00.000The damage is beyond anything that we're even going to be able to measure for the next decade.
00:04:04.000The mental health issues, suicide, small business closures, drug usage, alcoholism, an entire lost generation when it comes to literacy rates, the capacity to be able to advance from one grade to the other.
00:04:18.000And the question is: did it make any difference?
00:04:21.000And so, that's an appropriate question to ask.
00:04:25.000And this speech, you know, we've been doing our generation free tour, and I want to thank our amazing Turning Point USA purple shirt wearing freedom fighters here.
00:04:52.000And this is going to be a different speech than any other speech I gave across the country because I'm going to be more California-specific and centric for a variety of reasons.
00:05:00.000You are the largest state, and I think there's a lot of lessons here, and there's also a lot of things happening here that are worthy of praise and also obvious correction.
00:05:12.000And if not, we'll try to enlighten you tonight on that.
00:05:15.000But this is a really interesting point.
00:05:18.000And again, our media is so dishonest that this should be communicated on every single news channel, which is: did the lockdowns actually work?
00:05:27.000And so, you have a state like California that has the largest population in the country that has less of an elderly population than Florida.
00:05:38.000And California decided to sustain its lockdowns throughout the summer, fall, and winter when Florida opened fully in late May and early June.
00:05:47.000Well, Florida, with more elderly people, with open schools and open businesses, has a better rate in hospitalizations, a slightly worse death rate, slightly, but if you factor in age, an actual better death rate if you factor over 65, which was always the focal point of this virus, and it should be.
00:06:06.000But Florida has something that California doesn't.
00:06:10.000They didn't lose a generation of children to self-inflicted harm.
00:06:14.000Their alcoholism and mental health issues have stabilized since last May and June.
00:06:18.000People are flooding to California and they're flooding, they're flooding Florida, I'm sorry, flooding out of California, flooding out of California, flooding to Florida.
00:06:26.000And the question is: what's the difference?
00:06:29.000And so there's a great quote by people say it's either Socrates or Aristotle.
00:06:34.000It doesn't matter because the quote is four words and it's phenomenal.
00:07:06.000Which leader handled this crisis with maturity, trusted their citizens, wanting to open up their economy, have economic growth and development.
00:07:17.000Florida is the state of the future, and your governor is now under a recall threat.
00:07:31.000Now, we're a 501c3, so I'm not going to say anything organizational about taking a stance on the recall.
00:07:40.000I will say this, though, personally and broadly.
00:07:42.000It's an awesome thing you have the capacity to recall a governor.
00:07:46.000Somebody asked me the other day, they said, well, what difference does it make?
00:07:51.000Because it might win, it might not win.
00:07:53.000I said, oh my goodness, you're not understanding this.
00:07:57.000Every hour on the hour, you are now living rent-free in Gavin Newsom's head.
00:08:03.000Every hour on the hour, Gavin Newsom now has to go re-raise a bunch of money, go justify his awful policies, travel around the state, go hand out more crony corporate favors, which will backfire on him.
00:08:16.000You guys are playing offense here in the state of California.
00:08:19.000And that's something that all of you deserve to be thanked and encouraged for.
00:08:25.000Because it would have been very easy for all of you that helped collect signatures, I know a lot of you did for the recall effort, to just give up.
00:08:32.000It would have been very easy for you just to say, you know what, we have no choice or no chance.
00:08:37.000So what makes the American system of government different is that our revolution was not about tea.
00:08:46.000Basically, you have no right to rule me unless I give you permission to do that.
00:08:54.000And so Governor Ron DeSantis understood this and he said, okay, we know how this virus operates.
00:08:59.000We are going to focus our attention on elderly communities and senior citizens.
00:09:03.000We're going to open up the rest of the economy.
00:09:04.000And if you want to do something stupid, then you're going to have to pay a price for that.
00:09:09.000So we opened it up and the success speaks for itself.
00:09:11.000And actually, in a strange turn of events, it turns out that certain communities had herd immunity and they were able to actually better fight the virus by not having the lockdowns.
00:09:20.000It's the exact opposite than what Dr. Anthony Fauci, who should have been fired a long time ago, by the way, and what he said.
00:10:14.000Well, there's a lot of different reasons for this, but one of the major ones is the left took taking over institutions very seriously in the state.
00:10:23.000Public sector teacher unions, civil service unions, our education system, Hollywood mass media, and of course, open borders and foolish immigration policies played a part in this as well.
00:10:32.000But now the people of California, in both parties, by the way, are saying, the person in charge is not representing my values.
00:10:40.000And the fact that this recall is happening is a really big deal.
00:10:44.000I hope you realize the rest of the country is watching this very closely because this is considered to be the most liberal state in the country.
00:11:37.000If you are a political group of any different persuasion, you're not allowed to give out anything of value to people waiting in line.
00:11:44.000And by the way, just as a side note, I never knew voting was so dehydrating.
00:11:47.000Like this idea that so incredibly, but you could still, in the bill, it says you can have water receptacles.
00:11:52.000President Joe Biden just lied pathologically about it.
00:11:56.000It shortens the primaries from nine weeks to five weeks.
00:11:59.000And the big reform that they're most upset about is the fact that you have to prove who you are when you send in a mail and absentee ballot.
00:12:08.000As if this is, in Joe Biden's own words, Jim Crow 2.0.
00:12:14.000And the reason they're doing this is very clear and very obvious: is that they know that if states start to reform their elections and Georgia turns to Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, all of a sudden, this mail-in deluge, which is their gateway to endless power, might actually be put in jeopardy.
00:12:33.000Because we do need to fix the way we do elections in our country.
00:13:27.000We all know exactly what I'm saying here: is that them requiring just to prove your identity when you send in a mail-in ballot, of course it's not racist.
00:13:40.000It's the opposite of racist because they're the racists to say that they don't think black people can get identification, which, by the way, you could kind of turn one of their arguments upside down, which is they're big proponents of reparations.
00:13:54.000Happy to talk about that tonight if that interests anyone.
00:13:56.000It's kind of somewhat of a, I think, a pretty simple topic.
00:14:06.000So you think that someone in Fulton County, Georgia, can get their paperwork together to prove they're an eighth-generation descendant of slaves, but it's racist to say that they need a voter ID.
00:14:17.000Like, I don't understand which one is it?
00:14:19.000It's either you can get your paperwork together to prove that you've been here, which is a really hard thing to do, right?
00:14:23.000We can go to ancestry.com and like print out the entire thing.
00:14:26.000Like at some point, it hits this apex of like, no, you're going to have to prove who you are.
00:14:31.000And there's so many things you can't do without a voter ID.
00:14:34.000Voter ID is extremely popular in our country.
00:14:36.000Most people think it actually is already the law.
00:14:38.000I don't know if you've ever worked as an election judge, the way it worked in Illinois when I first got my first kind of dose of this is most people will come with their ID voluntarily.
00:14:47.000An election judge will be like, oh, no, you actually don't need to show it, which is just astonishing and stunning.
00:14:51.000And so how does this tie into California?
00:14:53.000Well, we saw the corporate backlash to Georgia, which by the way, the Delta and the Coca-Cola CEO have been going after all week.
00:15:04.000And the people that frustrate me the most are people that are earning $18 million a year running an American company, some of which are heavily subsidized by our taxpayer dollars.
00:15:13.000And I have to be lectured by these guys about it doesn't represent our values at Delta.
00:15:18.000And I don't know if you saw this guy, Ed Bastion, who did this interview around the Delta law.
00:15:22.000It looked like a hostage situation, right?
00:15:24.000He's wide-eyed, and they gave him a script, and he just kept saying the same thing over and over again.
00:15:30.000Like, what part of the values does it not represent?
00:15:33.000Like, the part that getting on an airplane, which is literally the only thing that Delta should be doing, doesn't require not just an ID, but multiple checks of who you are.
00:15:41.000Ticket identification, verification, if you have any unruling or if you're unrest on an airplane, you can get kicked off.
00:15:47.000And we have to hear from him, the guy that's earning $17 million a year, that elections shouldn't be safe and secure.
00:15:53.000However, in one of the greatest self-owns, I think, in corporate history, and this is actually how tragic this is, because it shows that they actually don't care about the things that they say they care about, right?
00:16:03.000I'm sure all of you in San Jose have driven by your neighbors with these huge, like, Black Lives Matter flags.
00:16:28.000Fight systemic racism by moving the all-star game, let me get this straight, from a 62% black county in downtown Atlanta to a majority young white, like pot-smoking, college graduate, urban community in downtown Denver.
00:16:45.000Like that's the way that we're going to reverse systemic racism in America.
00:16:48.000So it's a $100 million stimulus that would have went to the black community in downtown Atlanta.
00:16:54.00030% of all the money spent would have been in black-owned businesses.
00:16:59.000And they go to downtown Denver to go basically do the opposite of what would actually been helpful for the communities that they say they want to help.
00:17:07.000And so then they say, well, it's all because of unbelievable injustice.
00:17:10.000And so then we should hold them accountable for that.
00:17:12.000Then why don't you cancel all 81 Atlanta Braves games in Major League Baseball in the state of Georgia?
00:17:17.000Maybe because you actually don't believe this stuff.
00:17:20.000And the fact, your stunt is actually going to hurt the community you say you want to help.
00:17:25.000And this is what goes to a deeper point, which is what actually triggers outrage from corporate America?
00:17:31.000I'll tell you something that should have triggered outrage from corporate America.
00:17:34.000When in the midst of a pandemic, with all the issues happening in California, the lockdowns, what does Governor Gavin Newsom decide to do?
00:17:42.000Sign SB 145, which some of you might be aware of, but everyone should be aware of, which was a handout to the pedophile lobby, basically saying that if you're an accused pedophile, under certain statute, I don't need to get into the specifics of it.
00:17:58.000You don't have to register as a sex offender.
00:17:59.000Basically, like his big thing is like on mid-September, right before an election, I want to go hand out a big win for the pedophile lobby in California.
00:18:08.000That's the type of governance that all of you are challenging currently.
00:18:12.000Where was the corporate backlash for that?
00:18:20.000Like, okay, I would have been with you with that.
00:18:23.000And so, insofar that the corporations are going to be the muscle in our country, they're going to be the people that come in and they enforce the right and wrong, and yet they say nothing about SB 145, and they act as if Georgia is reinstituting Jim Crow-style segregation, which is the exact opposite, actually expanded early voting and expanded Sunday voting.
00:18:46.000It's the opposite of what they say it was.
00:18:48.000Then these corporations have to come under all of our criticism and backlash.
00:18:53.000And I think that this is a tough thing for those of us that call ourselves conservatives to talk about.
00:18:57.000We've been leading on this for at least the last year amongst many other terrific people.
00:19:01.000Corporations are no longer our friends.
00:19:04.000So those of us on Team Right thought that the big companies would always share our values because we cut their corporate taxes and we always thought they would create jobs.
00:19:12.000Now these massive companies are basically the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party.
00:19:17.000They're acting like Democrat super PACs.
00:19:20.000And it's coming to a point where those of us that have a specific value system that is rather appealing to the rest of the country, might I add, and every time it's challenged, it's more than popular, then we have to do something against these corporations that are basically more powerful than our own government.
00:19:41.000And so it's actually fitting to be here in the San Jose area because we're within 20 square miles of a power source that is far more influential than our own government.
00:19:56.000You know exactly what I'm talking about.
00:19:58.000And I call them the masters of Menlo Park.
00:20:01.000And for good reason, because the power center in our country is no longer Washington, D.C.
00:20:07.000The people that actually set the rules of engagement in our country are right down the street.
00:20:12.000In fact, there might be some people in this room that work for those companies.
00:20:15.000And if you're a person with good values and you work in those companies, stay there and do your best to try to reform them as a quiet and silent dissident before they find you, because they will.
00:20:34.000Where these companies, and you know what I'm talking about, I call it the triangle of tyranny in particular, Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
00:20:53.000And so I'm a big fan, obviously, of the American founding.
00:20:59.000I'm a big believer in God-granted liberty, that our rights come from God, not from government.
00:21:04.000I'm a believer in the natural rights doctrine.
00:21:07.000And it's why our country was founded and how our country was founded.
00:21:10.000And out of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, half of them seriously studied divinity in college or in their upbringing.
00:21:17.000These were Bible-believing, God-fearing people that founded our country.
00:21:20.000And you read the Federalist Papers and you read the founding documents, they feared tyranny.
00:21:26.000The entire Constitution was a framework that was written first and foremost to try to protect your naturally God-granted rights and not give rules for you.
00:21:39.000It's the exact opposite of what you would think you would do.
00:21:43.000So the founder said the biggest problem we're going to face is a small group of people with no check and balance against them, being able to do what they want to do, however they want to do it, and we're going to have no say.
00:21:55.000So basically, they created a system that was really, really hard to mess up.
00:21:58.000Checks and balances, as far as you could see, they derived this from Montesquieu, amongst others.
00:22:04.000But the point is that if you go into the Federalist Papers, they feared a small group of people being able to suppress your first freedoms.
00:22:13.000How is that any different than what's happening with the tech companies right now?
00:22:16.000So I can make an argument of the spirit of the philosophical foundations of our country that if you actually care about God-granted rights, you should support pushing back against these masters of Menlo Park.
00:22:29.000And so some people will say, oh, they're private companies.
00:22:34.000We have to let them do whatever they want.
00:22:35.000I think Clarence Thomas had an amazing piece on this a couple days ago.
00:22:39.000Clarence Thomas, one of the most amazing Supreme Court justices in American history.
00:22:44.000And if you want To hold somebody up as a true American success story as a black American in our country, Clarence Thomas is beyond a great example.
00:22:59.000Interestingly enough, he's the one person that is missing from the African American History Museum.
00:23:17.000The same because you're actually not part of the identity group if you're a free thinker and you actually want to focus more on character and spirituality and less on skin color or melanin content.
00:24:00.000So you'll be able to recite it better than I can, which is that if you want to drive from Gary, Indiana to downtown Chicago, it's called the Chicago Skyway.
00:24:30.000The same rules that we have that govern the transportation of human beings should be the same rules that govern the transportation of ideas.
00:25:25.000What's the other way they could shut up this gathering?
00:25:27.000Well, they could say that anyone watching at home or online, you disappear.
00:25:32.000Now, what's our right of redress and grievance?
00:25:34.000Someone right down the street, literally 15 minutes away from here, sitting in an office cubicle right now, could press a button and every person watching online would lose the right to hear what I have to say.
00:25:53.000That you violated these arbitrary rules.
00:25:56.000And there's a great quote from a Soviet dissident.
00:26:00.000It's exactly what we're living through right now.
00:26:02.000She said, you will know that tyranny is in America and growing quickly if what you do one day is good and correct, but can be held against you as bad and unacceptable the next day.
00:26:16.000Because it's the constant changing of standards, which is you don't know if your actions are going to destroy your life a week, a year from now.
00:26:25.000So for example, they could go back into some video two years, they say, well, now all of a sudden it violated your community guidelines.
00:26:31.000Too much power in such a small group of people.
00:26:43.000Maybe instead of cutting the corporate tax rate for Google, you should have held Google accountable for their anti-free speech policies and their monopolistic practices against the American people.
00:26:53.000That would have been probably a good use of time.
00:26:55.000And so unfortunately, the window is passed for us to meaningfully do anything from the federal level.
00:27:07.000The state level, a lot of states can file proper lawsuits, but there's competitors coming up.
00:27:15.000Where if you become too big of a threat, you'll have three different companies in 24 hours collude together almost like a racketeering scheme and say you can't use our servers and you're not allowed to distribute in our two app stores like that.
00:27:28.000I thought we're supposed to create a competitor.
00:27:31.000Just like that, they can make you disappear.
00:27:45.000But the other issue beyond that is, and I encourage all, everyone watching online and all this, and it goes beyond just the tech companies, is every single purchase you make must reflect your values.
00:27:55.000Every single, everywhere you spend your time, how you use your email, your devices.
00:28:01.000And look, I think we have to make a very specific goal that by 2024, by the next presidential election, Twitter, Facebook, and Google will be as irrelevant as MySpace.
00:28:36.000I'm going to keep posting because I'm going to try to reach the unconverted and the people that are searching and seeking, and I don't want to all of a sudden disenfranchise our audience.
00:28:42.000But those of you that just consume content, disconnect.
00:28:48.000Go to Parlor instead of, if it exists, but whatever new infra, there's some ones coming up.
00:28:54.000And so there's the issue that I think that we have, though, more than anything else, is that people think that their individual action doesn't actually make a difference.
00:29:09.000And if I'm just one person in a sea of all this, that's the enemy whispering in your ear, trying to tell you that what you do does not matter.
00:29:18.000Every action that you make will eventually be reflected into your character.
00:29:23.000Character comes from the Greek word to engrave, right?
00:29:52.000And I actually think the courts are going to start to rule against a lot of these companies.
00:29:56.000So I want to talk about a couple other things, and then I want to get to some questions, which I really enjoy, which is, we're living through a top-down revolution.
00:30:03.000And this has really never happened before in human history.
00:30:07.000And I want to be very specific with how I describe it because we need to kind of take a breath because if you're like me, you see all this news coming in so quickly, and it's hard to kind of see where all of this is headed and what exactly is happening here.
00:30:21.000So let me try to describe it the way I see it, which is we're living through a slow-motion revolution that is not like other communist revolutions.
00:30:39.000These are the people that are in charge that their biggest concern is you.
00:30:47.000And so they are spending their time, energy, and resources to say, you know, the real problem in America is the person that attends church and that isn't completely into our whole woke worldview.
00:31:01.000That's who they believe is the real problem.
00:31:03.000And by the way, one of our podcast listeners said this, and it was such a wise thing.
00:32:03.000Because they actually know and they're worried that if they don't strike first, that their plunder is going to be exposed.
00:32:12.000They have a paranoia that is driving them to try and disenfranchise you from speaking online, from gathering in church, from sharing your values, from existing at all together.
00:32:22.000And so, put simply, our ruling class hates the country they govern.
00:33:07.000It's almost, it's best encapsulated in the deplorable comment because that is just so perfect the way it, in the context that was said and what it was, which is basically like: if you are not on my staff, and if you don't work for Facebook, Google, YouTube, or Roku, you're a bad person, and I'm going to govern you like that.
00:33:25.000And so they're preemptively striking the common man, and they're doing it in a variety of different ways.
00:33:29.000They're doing it in a school system in California now.
00:33:31.000I'm sure you've seen California teaching curriculum standards.
00:33:36.000It's technically optional, but it's in the standards to be taught to your kids.
00:33:44.000But it's the Aztec God of child sacrifice, a chance that children across California are going to be taught.
00:33:52.000Now, it's really interesting because I grew up in a setting where I was always told that we want to keep religion out of schools.
00:33:59.000So now we're bringing Aztec God sacrificed chance into public schools in California, which, by the way, reminds me of one of the big lies in America, the separation of church and state.
00:34:27.000So in California, they are preemptively striking and across the country because they're worried.
00:34:34.000Their paranoia is actually rooted in truth.
00:34:39.000They see that there's a pressure cooker about to go off, where all of a sudden they're no longer going to be in power.
00:34:45.000We're decent people that want to rebuild families, solve the opioid crisis, actually fix immigration and secure our southern border and take care of our fellow countrymen, challenge the college cartel, be able to speak online properly, increase church attendance, say something or do something about the unspeakable atrocity of 1 million abortions a year in our country.
00:35:08.000The idea that men can compete in women's sports just because they check a box differently.
00:35:13.000They are paranoid that if they don't strike first, then all of a sudden they're going to be out of power.
00:35:19.000But I'm here to tell you tonight, and this is why you're all here and what you're doing, and I'm going to give you three takeaways I think that California freedom lovers need to do even more of, is that this top-down revolution in our country is kind of what I call the great squeeze.
00:35:34.000So you have the most powerful people that fly around in their Gulfstream jets right down the street, most of them live.
00:35:40.000And then you have the kind of the grievance class.
00:35:43.000And I'm going to say this as nicely as I can, the people that are always angry about something.
00:35:48.000And I honestly find that they find eternal salvation.
00:35:50.000I mean that non-kiddingly, because it's the only thing that could solve.
00:35:53.000And they've been trained at universities to constantly blame the system, not look inwardly, to play the victim, not understand what being a victor is.
00:36:01.000Instead of making themselves tougher, they want to shatter the world around them.
00:36:04.000You guys all know those types of people.
00:36:05.000A lot of them are, you know, conveniently located not far from here in Berkeley.
00:36:10.000But you have the mobilized grievance class, and then you have the people in charge, the ruling class, that are trying to squeeze you.
00:36:20.000They're trying to squeeze what has always made America different, which is middle-class Americans that want a couple things.
00:36:30.000And it's best summarized in something that I call the American promise, which is a promise that is made between the citizens and our rulers.
00:36:38.000And the promise is this: if I do the right thing over a period of time, I can live an above-average way of life.
00:37:31.000I do it sometimes, even me, where you might avoid a conversation, where all of a sudden you don't wear the hat, that hat into a grocery store.
00:37:40.000Maybe you do and you're bold, but good luck.
00:37:55.000This is self-censorship by design in our country, where they want people to be their own censors, where they want people to be afraid to contribute to the conversation.
00:38:56.000We must recognize that self-censorship is a strategy that they're trying to employ on you.
00:39:01.000That's why events like this matter so much, where we send a statement like, not only are we not going to shut up, we're going to gather in bigger numbers than ever before in San Jose, California.
00:39:16.000So I want to expand on that even more, but here's three things that you guys have to do as California freedom lovers.
00:39:43.000It is more important than ever to understand that there are two types of economic classes in our country.
00:39:49.000And it's not an accusation if you're part of the first class.
00:39:52.000But generally, the people in this class have a bunch of, they have a bunch of resentment towards the other, which is the Zoom and the Skype class and the muscular class.
00:40:01.000And the muscular class in our country are people that work with their hands.
00:40:05.000They're the ones that delivered your packages all throughout the lockdown.
00:40:09.000They're the ones that made sure your grocery store shelves were full.
00:40:12.000They're the ones that drive our Ubers, that the plumbers, the electricians, HVAC, they're the backbone of the American economy.
00:40:19.000And we look down on those people far too often.
00:40:21.000And I'm here to tell you right now that the muscular class, the people that didn't go to Stanford, the people that are looked down upon, they are turning in the conservative direction in a way we've never seen before.
00:40:39.000Number three, this is very important, which is not just never lose hope, but understand things can change.
00:40:49.000Understand, this is a very important point.
00:40:54.000If you would have told me, man, if you would have told me that a state like Pennsylvania would have went the way it did in 2016, I'd say no way.
00:41:08.000State that was so unbelievably blue and to the left.
00:41:11.000If you would have told me that Florida would vote for Donald Trump with 400,000 vote margin, I would say no way.
00:41:32.000It's the small victories will mean big victories.
00:41:34.000It's never losing hope and not giving up and understanding things can change and that the working people of California are going to get fed up and want true representation and playing offense is going to force that hand.
00:41:46.000And so I am the most inspired when I get to speak in California.
00:41:50.000And I'm going to compliment all of you.
00:41:52.000You guys are the most resilient and yet eternally optimistic conservatives in the whole country.
00:43:05.000Now, why do we have such a lack of courage in our country?
00:43:07.000Well, because the best way to actually be able to communicate courage is show previously courageous people before you and say, that's a courageous person, act like him, like Winston Churchill, like George Washington, like George S. Patton, all the people that we're removing from our schools.
00:43:20.000And then people don't even know what good is.
00:43:21.000Like, oh, good and evil is a spectrum of postmodern.
00:44:25.000So, my name is Noelle Smith, and I am the president of San Jose State's chapter.
00:44:30.000My question for you is: as somebody who is not pursuing a career in politics, what is the best way that we can make our voice heard in our schools, families, and communities?
00:44:40.000So, there's three types of good people, as the great Dennis Prager says.
00:44:44.000There are those that do nothing, the fighters, and the people that help the fighters.
00:44:50.000And so, no matter what you do in your career, you don't have to go do the outward political thing, but you find ways in every action you make to at least help the fighters at the very least.
00:45:00.000So, depending, what are you going to be studying or what are you passionate about?
00:45:04.000I'm pursuing my career in speech pathology.
00:45:06.000Well, that's a really good, first of all, it's awesome, and it's super needed.
00:45:09.000In fact, we know someone who's an unbelievable human being who's a speech pathologist.
00:45:14.000Understand, first from just a Christian perspective, everything's a ministry opportunity.
00:45:20.000And so, Martin Luther famously said, the best way to spread the gospel, as if let's say you're a shoemaker, is not to put a cross into every shoe that you make.
00:45:33.000Instead, it's to show the grace, the mercy, the compassion of the gospel in your work and what you do.
00:45:40.000And the same I will say as a conservative.
00:45:42.000So, let me say this: be unafraid to tell people what you believe and why you believe it.
00:45:47.000You will get judged, and there might be times that you might lose your job because of it.
00:45:51.000Not trying to scare you, it's just the way it is.
00:45:54.000But you'd be surprised when you stand on the line, the Lord works in amazing ways.
00:45:58.000And I just want to just say that for anyone here, but here's what's going to happen.
00:46:03.000Every single person here has to realize that most people who consider themselves on the left, they know very few people who would self-describe as conservatives.
00:46:14.000And the reason that they're on the left sometimes is they have a stereotype of what that person is until they actually meet a human being that is the exact opposite of what they would have thought.
00:46:26.000Someone that is factual, someone that is calm, someone that hopefully respects their opinions and their right to say it.
00:46:32.000And so I hope that's somewhat helpful.
00:46:34.000And if you have children, please homeschool your children, which I'm a very big fan of.
00:48:09.000And voting is something that's super dear to my heart.
00:48:12.000We just had a Voters' Choice Act, which revolutionized voting and how it's done in California, a couple of the counties.
00:48:20.000And as one of the youngest election center managers, I had conversations with my team and kind of the political theory of how voting should be done and how these rights should be had in respect to voter IDs, mail-in ballots, and things like that.
00:48:36.000And some of the things that I agreed with was that voter ID is necessary.
00:48:52.000If I want to get a gun and I'm a law-abiding citizen, I should be able to go in and get a gun, pass the background check.
00:48:59.000If I want to speak my mind on Facebook, no, the irony, but you get the point.
00:49:05.000But the thing about mail-in ballots is that I've seen a lot of conservatives don't know too much about mail-in ballots and kind of shy away from that because of the voter ID.
00:50:07.000And since it's a right, we must go above and beyond to make sure that other people's vote is not disenfranchised by fraud, by treachery, by shenanigans.
00:50:17.000That's why I'm so focused on the integrity issue of it, because it's actually more important than just boarding an airplane or renting a movie.
00:50:25.000I think we've got to get rid of voting month in our country.
00:50:28.000This idea that voting is open for 30-plus days, I think is absolutely ridiculous.
00:50:34.000Number two, outside of just voting, and you asked a great question, one of the bigger issues is voter registration and cleaning up the voter rolls.
00:50:49.000So these are conflated sometimes, and I've done a lot of study on this, which is that if you're going to have universal mail-in voting for every single person on the mail-in balloting list, it includes people that might have moved, people that are dead, deceased, people that are no longer active voters.
00:51:08.000So you're going to be sending a massive amount of ballots that then are basically up for grabs, right?
00:51:13.000And so in California, it does not require an ID, which then would open the gateway for potential nonsense and tomfoolery and all of that.
00:51:20.000So more than anything else, if you say, Charlie, what does a successful election look like?
00:51:41.000It has signature and identification for mail-in.
00:51:44.000And if you try to vote twice, you're automatically getting convicted for five to ten years.
00:51:49.000Now, ideally, I'd like to limit mail-in voting for like super low.
00:51:53.000But here's the thing in Florida: highest turnout, high they've ever had, super secure.
00:51:58.000I think you must have all your election results in by 9:30 on election night.
00:52:02.000No more waiting weeks to count ballots.
00:52:09.000And finally, in Florida, they are sticklers in the voter registration process.
00:52:18.000That they find people on the rolls and they compare them, what a concept, with the people that have passed away and then the voter rolls, and then they correct them every quarter.
00:52:27.000Like, not that difficult to do, right?
00:52:29.000You look at the death certificates, look at the voter rolls, and then you clean them, which every county should do.
00:52:50.000I know you already covered this a little bit, but I was wondering what advice you had for young conservative teens who are wanting to start their own social media platform and spread their beliefs that are being censored.
00:54:59.000These things are designed by bad people right down the street to chemically addict your children to these phones, and they re-evaluate their well-being, their identity, who they are and their decisions.
00:55:11.000Try to go sell your children more advertisements of things that don't matter and they don't need.
00:55:16.000One of the greatest blessings that I had, again, I'm not talking about you in particular.
00:55:21.000I'm just saying one of the things that I had growing up was this amazing thing where the iPhone was not really popular till I was like 18 years old.
00:55:28.000It was kind of this like fringe thing.
00:55:39.000No, and I see these young people and they're like Snapchat and all this.
00:55:42.000They say, I'm so glad I didn't have any of that in high school.
00:55:46.000I say, what a robbery of youth we have done in our country.
00:55:49.000And I'm going to say this as, you know, parents, you got it.
00:55:52.000Like, if you think that's the best thing, and people say, well, I need to be able to call my kid in case of emergency, then go buy the jitter bug, okay?
00:55:59.000It's like on TV, it's like this big, right?
00:56:02.000Or it's like, all my friends have one.
00:56:13.000And if you guys go spend half a day, you know what's really interesting.
00:56:18.000You go meet the tech CEOs that built these mobile platforms.
00:56:21.000They don't let their own kids use them.
00:56:23.000They don't let their own kids use the stuff that many of your children are using or young people are using.
00:56:29.000And if it feels chemically addictive, it is.
00:56:31.000It's built for dopamine rushes and dopamine loads.
00:56:35.000And that's the way the algorithms are actually built.
00:56:38.000So, not exactly sure how to help you on the TikTok thing.
00:56:41.000I'm just, I would encourage you one thing: that just, and I'm not saying it's you, just anyone in particular, just think more broadly outside of social media.
00:56:48.000It's a big, broad, beautiful world out there.
00:56:51.000And I guarantee this is a rule of thumb for every young person.
00:56:54.000The less time you spend on those cyborg devices, the happier you will be.
00:56:58.000I'm telling you, these things are designed to destroy your humanity.
00:59:04.000And so I will say, I will say this: that you're thinking in things the right way, but they're also, China's cheering for the radical left every single day.
00:59:38.000And then I guess my question to you is so Philippians 4:6 through 7, it talks about being anxious for nothing, but in everything, give prayer and then think on good things.
00:59:51.000But as much as I want to keep my eyes focused on that, it's so difficult not to be so shifted onto what's going on in the world.
00:59:59.000So how do I accomplish that and also be in touch with what's going on in the world?
01:00:05.000Because if I just decide to focus on this passage, am I just turning the world off?
01:00:09.000Like, how do I show compassion and not get caught up at the same time?
01:00:41.000Wisdom is the knowledge of things that never change.
01:00:43.000There's practical knowledge and eternal knowledge.
01:00:45.000Wisdom is far more important than practical knowledge.
01:00:47.000We don't teach our children wisdom in schools anymore because there's no God, no wisdom.
01:00:51.000Therefore, they know a bunch of stuff, but they really know nothing.
01:00:53.000And so that's what happens in our universities.
01:00:56.000So favorite biblical character, that's a really good question.
01:01:00.000I mean, I would probably say in the Old Testament, I'm always drawn, I'm drawn to the story, not because of his moral issues, but the story of Samson I really enjoy because it's one that I think that it's someone that is after God's own purpose and was willing to contest and fight for God's purpose in a very specific way.
01:01:19.000I love Moses, and I love his ability to be able to lead God's chosen people and obviously writing the first five books of the Bible.
01:01:30.000And then I love the writings of King Solomon, not exactly a big fan in his after his life choices later in life, which we can not exactly good.
01:01:42.000But yeah, Proverbs is one of my favorite books.
01:01:45.000So your question is about being anxious and nothing, right?
01:01:47.000So I would have to say this, and again, I'm not a pastor or theologian.
01:01:51.000I just can tell you how I interpret the scriptures.
01:01:54.000I believe very heavily that faith without works is dead and that our awareness and involvement of what's going on is critical to the Christian walk.
01:02:04.000Now, we must understand that God is sovereign, God is in control.
01:02:08.000But also, if we believe that we do not have a call to spread the gospel and be salt and light and everything, then I think that's an excuse.
01:02:16.000And I don't buy into that at all whatsoever.
01:02:19.000I will say this, though, that it says to be anxious and nothing because we are born new in Christ Jesus.
01:02:28.000That you should interpret everything that's going on in the new cycle through that prison, that you have eternal life, that you're just here temporarily.
01:02:35.000So that should give you comfort, and that should give you peace, right?
01:02:39.000And that should give you a point of understanding that I'm going to do everything I possibly can do, but for me personally, in Christ Jesus, who died for us, then we have life eternal and we have hope springs eternal, right?
01:02:56.000Paul does not want us to be eternally worried or nervous about every little turn of events.
01:03:03.000We should be involved and engaged and understand that Jesus is 100% grace and 100% truth.
01:03:08.000And so I hope that's somewhat helpful.
01:03:10.000And let me just say this for everyone here.
01:03:12.000We have a lot of different people here.
01:03:14.000And the gospel of Jesus Christ is best summarized in four words, three words, two words, one word.
01:03:20.000And I could do this as quickly as possible.
01:03:23.000It's Jesus took my place in four words.
01:03:27.000Three words, him for me, two words, substitutionary atonement, one word, grace.
01:03:43.000Mercy is getting less of what you deserve.
01:03:45.000Stole something, go in front of a judge, and you get six months instead of six years.
01:03:49.000Grace is something totally different, and only the Christian faith author offers grace, which is you go in front of a judge because you stole something, you're about to go to jail, and someone pops up, he says, no, no, no, I'll serve the prison sentence for him.
01:04:03.000It's a sacrifice that was made for you so that you can live free.
01:04:07.000And I encourage everyone, if not already, to give your life to Jesus.
01:04:11.000It is the most incredible, renewing, important thing that every human being can do.
01:04:17.000And if there's ever any interest, I'm hardly a scholar on this, but people say that it's nothing more than a mythology.
01:04:25.000I'm happy to walk through the rational, logical case for the resurrection and for Christ's testimony and his life and what he did, if there's interest in that.
01:04:34.000So I hope that someone helps summarize your question.
01:05:09.000Our student government and our student wellness advisory board, this is with student money at a historically Christian conservative university.
01:05:17.000So my question is: what can students and parents do when this anti-white ideology of critical race theory is being used to is being pushed on us by our institutions?
01:05:29.000First of all, you exposing it deserves praise.
01:06:37.000Which we used to call that racism in our country, and we still should call that racism in our country when you care more about skin color than character.
01:07:00.000Find that family and write them a letter.
01:07:02.000FedEx it to them and say, Did you know that Pepperdine University is funding critical race theory with your millions and millions of dollars at Pepperdine?
01:07:17.000You're a current student and just say, you know, XYZ donor, did you know this?
01:07:21.000And have all the photocopies, have all your facts, don't embellish anything, or else they'll use that against you and your whole case will blow up.
01:07:26.000Be precise and then say, student fees, mandatory, Robin D'Angelo 1619 project, whole thing.
01:08:34.000Sorry, I'm trying to word it in my head.
01:08:37.000So there are places like Turney Point USA who I highly respect, and they go into these college campuses that are highly liberal and they change the culture.
01:08:46.000If I were to go to apply to college, I'm going to be in high school next year, but if I were to think about colleges.
01:09:02.000So if I were to go, so like, I personally would like to help, you know, change the culture.
01:09:08.000If I'm going to apply to college, would I want to go to a solid Christian college and get an education, or would I want to go to a liberal college and try to change the culture?
01:09:49.000I could tell you things I'm good at and things I'm not good at.
01:09:51.000Find your skill, the passion will follow.
01:09:54.000Once you find your skill, then find the school.
01:09:58.000If that skill necessitates a certification, maybe it's a lawyer.
01:10:01.000Maybe you're good at writing and you want to be a lawyer.
01:10:03.000Maybe you're good at helping people, you want to be a nurse.
01:10:06.000Maybe you're good at instructing, you want to be a teacher.
01:10:08.000Find a school at the highest level for the least amount of money that can graduate you the quickest, that can then not completely deteriorate your values and make you question everything that you know to be true.
01:10:39.000And his friends and family are saying it's because of the restrictions and lockdowns and the incessant dehumanization that we've all had to suffer.
01:10:46.000So my question to you is: how do you feel about the skyrocketed suicide rate in the country due to these murderous lockdowns?
01:10:52.000And what do you think would be the best way to combat this perpetual tragedy, especially when there are so many who, as I would say, are addicted to these COVID restrictions and don't want to give them up the same way a child might not want to give up their baby blanket?
01:11:04.000Yeah, I mean, first of all, I mean, my heart goes out to the family.
01:11:08.000I get hundreds of emails about this stuff on our podcast.
01:11:11.000I just did a whole podcast on this on Monday, if you guys want to hear me extensively.
01:11:15.000First of all, law of averages, someone in this room right now is dealing with depression.
01:11:47.000Number two, you're a lot tougher than you might think.
01:11:50.000That you have the capacity to endure a lot more than you might personally understand.
01:11:56.000Number three, what you're living through right now is very tough for a variety of different reasons.
01:12:04.000So don't be too hard on yourself in this way.
01:12:06.000Take a deep breath, and this is number three or four.
01:12:10.000Find the courage to communicate everything that you're feeling to someone directly in the eyes, not on phone, not on text, that has wisdom.
01:12:18.000It could be a pastor, could be a parent.
01:12:20.000Wisdom is the most important thing to search.
01:12:22.000Because I find more times than not, those situations happen because people do not clearly communicate and people stay too festered up.
01:12:29.000This is a serious epidemic in our country, and our leaders in both parties are completely ignoring it.
01:12:37.000I think there's a lot of different things contributing to it.
01:12:39.000I think our smartphones are absolutely huge culprits.
01:12:42.000I think the dehumanizing agenda of these lockdowns have been one of the worst things imaginable.
01:12:47.000And I also think that there's a stigma about the communication of it, and there is this belief built in the self-esteem movement that is an unrealistic pattern and narrative that is taught to our young people all the time, which is that you're perfect the way you are.
01:14:10.000Purpose comes from the Greek word telos, where we get the word telescope for, which means far out in the distance, North Star, something I can see.
01:14:25.000Lock you down in the basement, energy drinks, and video games, stay up to five o'clock in the morning, and sometime somehow that is going to give you fulfillment.
01:14:33.000And we're wondering why more young people in California have committed suicide than died of the Chinese coronavirus.
01:14:39.000And I'm here to tell you, and you guys get it because you're here tonight, our leaders have failed this generation on this issue.
01:14:47.000They have abandoned young people in America.
01:16:53.000And it is up for us to stand clearly and courageously.
01:16:57.000And tonight is a statement to the ruling class that we'll be locked down no longer, that we will be silent no longer, and we are not going to take it anymore.
01:17:05.000And so I just want to tell all of you, thank you for your commitment.
01:17:09.000This state, I'm so inspired by California conservatives every single day.
01:17:38.000In fact, say, I'm going to be louder than ever.
01:17:41.000Remember, we believe that speech is the remedy to our problems.
01:17:45.000And I'm telling you right now, if we do this, 10 years from now, we are going to be celebrating and winning in ways we have never seen before.