The Charlie Kirk Show - Stickin' It to Silicon Valley—Live from San Jose St.

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:01.000 An 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.

00:00:14.000 I love to hear your thoughts from this.

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00:00:16.000 I take questions near the end of the speech.

00:00:18.000 You're going to love those.

00:00:19.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:20.000 Here we go.

00:00:21.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:23.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

00:00:25.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:28.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:32.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:33.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:34.000 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.

00:00:42.000 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.

00:00:51.000 That's why we are here.

00:00:54.000 A great turnout.

00:00:54.000 You know, I was told California is all locked down and everything.

00:00:58.000 And it's like freedom's alive here in the Bay Area, right?

00:01:02.000 My goodness.

00:01:08.000 It's an honor to be here at my friend's church, Pastor Mike McClure, who is one of the most courageous pastors in America.

00:01:24.000 And 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.

00:01:41.000 And he has refused to bend the knee to the secular government agencies.

00:01:51.000 And I've gotten to know Mike and a lot of the other Calvary pastors across California.

00:01:58.000 And for those of you that know Mike, he is, he really believes that the Lord is in charge.

00:02:06.000 The church is essential.

00:02:08.000 And this was a testing moment for a lot of different churches in the last year.

00:02:12.000 And 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?

00:02:21.000 I'm going to go turn our church into a YouTube channel.

00:02:24.000 But, you know, I talked to Mike and Mike said, you know, Charlie, we're facing millions of dollars of fines.

00:02:29.000 We're facing all these different pieces of backlash. 0.79

00:02:32.000 By the way, if you're BLM Incorporated, you go burn down half a city, but you can't open the church. 0.80

00:02:38.000 But 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. 0.78

00:02:47.000 And it's an incredible thing.

00:02:50.000 And so we wanted to do an event here in the Bay Area.

00:02:54.000 And what is a church?

00:02:56.000 That's a great question, right?

00:02:58.000 Well, a church should be a lot of different things.

00:03:01.000 And it should also be what we're experiencing tonight.

00:03:04.000 It's the ecclesia, as Christ said clearly in the scriptures, which means public square.

00:03:09.000 What's happening in the community around me?

00:03:11.000 How does my faith and the word of God intersect?

00:03:16.000 How does it communicate?

00:03:18.000 What am I supposed to do about all the issues around me?

00:03:20.000 And what better place to have an event like this than at a church?

00:03:24.000 And I'm going to say this as lovingly as I can.

00:03:27.000 If your pastor or church are still closed, it's time to find a new church, everybody.

00:03:33.000 It's time to find a church that is open and is doing the right thing.

00:03:40.000 And so I could not think any higher of Mike McClure.

00:03:45.000 And he's with his family, and he deserves to be with his family after the year that he has had.

00:03:49.000 And so we're pitching in for him tonight.

00:03:51.000 And 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.

00:04:00.000 The damage is beyond anything that we're even going to be able to measure for the next decade.

00:04:04.000 The 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.

00:04:18.000 And the question is: did it make any difference?

00:04:21.000 And so, that's an appropriate question to ask.

00:04:25.000 And 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.

00:04:33.000 These are heroes right here.

00:04:34.000 I'm telling you, they do an amazing job.

00:04:37.000 And so, we've been traveling the country from Missouri to Kentucky to Oklahoma to Tennessee.

00:04:43.000 We were in Vegas a couple nights ago, and now we're here in California.

00:04:47.000 And California is interesting.

00:04:52.000 And 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.

00:05:00.000 You 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.

00:05:07.000 Oh my gosh.

00:05:08.000 Not going to focus on much of the corrections.

00:05:10.000 I think that's rather self-evident.

00:05:12.000 And if not, we'll try to enlighten you tonight on that.

00:05:15.000 But this is a really interesting point.

00:05:18.000 And again, our media is so dishonest that this should be communicated on every single news channel, which is: did the lockdowns actually work?

00:05:27.000 And so, you have a state like California that has the largest population in the country that has less of an elderly population than Florida.

00:05:38.000 And California decided to sustain its lockdowns throughout the summer, fall, and winter when Florida opened fully in late May and early June.

00:05:46.000 Who did better?

00:05:47.000 Well, 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.

00:06:06.000 But Florida has something that California doesn't.

00:06:09.000 Had open schools, open businesses.

00:06:10.000 They didn't lose a generation of children to self-inflicted harm.

00:06:14.000 Their alcoholism and mental health issues have stabilized since last May and June.

00:06:18.000 People 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.

00:06:26.000 And the question is: what's the difference?

00:06:29.000 And so there's a great quote by people say it's either Socrates or Aristotle.

00:06:34.000 It doesn't matter because the quote is four words and it's phenomenal.

00:06:36.000 Power shows the man.

00:06:39.000 So if you want to see who someone really is, give them a bunch of power and put them in a pressure-filled situation.

00:06:46.000 You're going to find a lot about that person really quickly.

00:06:49.000 So look at California and Florida.

00:06:51.000 They both have rather dense populations, which we were told is where the virus is going to spread the most.

00:06:58.000 They both have elderly populations.

00:07:00.000 They both have a lot of different issues to deal with, diverse populations, massive populations.

00:07:05.000 Power shows the man.

00:07:06.000 Which leader handled this crisis with maturity, trusted their citizens, wanting to open up their economy, have economic growth and development.

00:07:16.000 It's not even close.

00:07:17.000 Florida is the state of the future, and your governor is now under a recall threat.

00:07:31.000 Now, we're a 501c3, so I'm not going to say anything organizational about taking a stance on the recall.

00:07:40.000 I will say this, though, personally and broadly.

00:07:42.000 It's an awesome thing you have the capacity to recall a governor.

00:07:46.000 Somebody asked me the other day, they said, well, what difference does it make?

00:07:51.000 Because it might win, it might not win.

00:07:53.000 I said, oh my goodness, you're not understanding this.

00:07:57.000 Every hour on the hour, you are now living rent-free in Gavin Newsom's head.

00:08:03.000 Every 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.

00:08:16.000 You guys are playing offense here in the state of California.

00:08:19.000 And that's something that all of you deserve to be thanked and encouraged for.

00:08:25.000 Because 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.

00:08:32.000 It would have been very easy for you just to say, you know what, we have no choice or no chance.

00:08:37.000 So what makes the American system of government different is that our revolution was not about tea.

00:08:43.000 It was not about taxes.

00:08:44.000 It was about consent of the governed.

00:08:46.000 Basically, you have no right to rule me unless I give you permission to do that.

00:08:54.000 And so Governor Ron DeSantis understood this and he said, okay, we know how this virus operates.

00:08:59.000 We are going to focus our attention on elderly communities and senior citizens.

00:09:03.000 We're going to open up the rest of the economy. 1.00

00:09:04.000 And if you want to do something stupid, then you're going to have to pay a price for that. 0.99

00:09:09.000 So we opened it up and the success speaks for itself. 0.99

00:09:11.000 And 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.

00:09:20.000 It'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.

00:09:20.000 Go figure.

00:09:33.000 And so we're here in this state, and I think it's a really exciting time if you live in California for a lot of different reasons.

00:09:40.000 Well, first of all, it can't get much worse.

00:09:43.000 I mean, it's kind of one of those own theories.

00:09:46.000 Once you hit rock bottom, you can then build back, not better, but you can build back up, right?

00:09:51.000 But it's also exciting because the left has controlled everything in this state.

00:09:57.000 And the results speak for themselves.

00:09:59.000 The results speak for themselves where you've aborted more children than the entire population of Canada since 1970.

00:10:06.000 You lead in homelessness, most unequal state, small business closures, drug overdoses, and homelessness.

00:10:12.000 And there's a reason for this.

00:10:14.000 Well, 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.

00:10:23.000 Public 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.

00:10:32.000 But now the people of California, in both parties, by the way, are saying, the person in charge is not representing my values.

00:10:40.000 And the fact that this recall is happening is a really big deal.

00:10:44.000 I 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.

00:10:51.000 I actually don't think it is.

00:10:53.000 I don't.

00:10:53.000 I actually think the state is far more conservative than people realize.

00:10:57.000 I think there are certain pockets that are way off the grid.

00:10:59.000 But I actually think that the people of California generally want some corrective mechanism to the radicalism that is ruling this state.

00:11:12.000 So I'll give you an example of this.

00:11:14.000 So there's all this ridiculous outrage around what's happening in Georgia right now, which, by the way, is a very boring and vanilla bill.

00:11:23.000 By the way, they should go much farther in voter reforms in Georgia.

00:11:27.000 That's like a good starting point.

00:11:29.000 And if you read the activist media, they say, oh, you're not allowed to give out water.

00:11:35.000 First of all, it's a complete lie.

00:11:36.000 It's a total lie.

00:11:37.000 If you are a political group of any different persuasion, you're not allowed to give out anything of value to people waiting in line.

00:11:44.000 And by the way, just as a side note, I never knew voting was so dehydrating.

00:11:47.000 Like this idea that so incredibly, but you could still, in the bill, it says you can have water receptacles.

00:11:52.000 President Joe Biden just lied pathologically about it.

00:11:56.000 It shortens the primaries from nine weeks to five weeks.

00:11:59.000 And 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.

00:12:08.000 As if this is, in Joe Biden's own words, Jim Crow 2.0.

00:12:12.000 That is his way to define it.

00:12:14.000 And 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.

00:12:33.000 Because we do need to fix the way we do elections in our country.

00:12:35.000 And we need to.

00:12:38.000 They're completely broken.

00:12:39.000 And so you look at what...

00:12:42.000 So in Georgia, there's outrage from Delta, Coca-Cola, Major League Baseball.

00:12:49.000 I want all of you to try something for me.

00:12:52.000 I want you to go to an Oakland A's game and try to get will call tickets and demand them and say that I will not show you my ID.

00:13:00.000 It is racist.

00:13:01.000 And get it on film.

00:13:02.000 The first person who does this, by the way, at either the Giants game or whatever, send me the video.

00:13:08.000 I will publicize it.

00:13:09.000 No, get it on film of Major League Baseball enforcing Jim Crow 2.0 for will call tickets at the Oakland A's game. 0.73

00:13:15.000 I want you to see, because of course it's ridiculous, right?

00:13:18.000 Anyone here watching online, please go try to board a Delta flight or get through security without an ID.

00:13:25.000 Film it.

00:13:25.000 Publicize it to the world.

00:13:27.000 We 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.

00:13:40.000 It'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.

00:13:54.000 Happy to talk about that tonight if that interests anyone.

00:13:56.000 It's kind of somewhat of a, I think, a pretty simple topic.

00:13:59.000 It's an awful idea.

00:14:00.000 That's the end of the topic.

00:14:01.000 But they're like, we need reparations for descendants of slavery.

00:14:05.000 I'm like, okay, hold on a second.

00:14:06.000 So 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.

00:14:17.000 Like, I don't understand which one is it?

00:14:19.000 It's either you can get your paperwork together to prove that you've been here, which is a really hard thing to do, right?

00:14:23.000 We can go to ancestry.com and like print out the entire thing.

00:14:26.000 Like at some point, it hits this apex of like, no, you're going to have to prove who you are.

00:14:31.000 And there's so many things you can't do without a voter ID.

00:14:33.000 We all know this.

00:14:34.000 Voter ID is extremely popular in our country.

00:14:36.000 Most people think it actually is already the law.

00:14:38.000 I 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.

00:14:47.000 An election judge will be like, oh, no, you actually don't need to show it, which is just astonishing and stunning.

00:14:51.000 And so how does this tie into California?

00:14:53.000 Well, we saw the corporate backlash to Georgia, which by the way, the Delta and the Coca-Cola CEO have been going after all week.

00:15:00.000 They're unbelievably, they're unbelievably spineless.

00:15:04.000 And 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.

00:15:13.000 And I have to be lectured by these guys about it doesn't represent our values at Delta.

00:15:18.000 And I don't know if you saw this guy, Ed Bastion, who did this interview around the Delta law.

00:15:22.000 It looked like a hostage situation, right?

00:15:24.000 He's wide-eyed, and they gave him a script, and he just kept saying the same thing over and over again.

00:15:29.000 This does not represent our values.

00:15:30.000 Like, what part of the values does it not represent?

00:15:33.000 Like, 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.

00:15:41.000 Ticket identification, verification, if you have any unruling or if you're unrest on an airplane, you can get kicked off.

00:15:47.000 And we have to hear from him, the guy that's earning $17 million a year, that elections shouldn't be safe and secure.

00:15:53.000 However, 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?

00:16:03.000 I'm sure all of you in San Jose have driven by your neighbors with these huge, like, Black Lives Matter flags.

00:16:08.000 You know what that really says? 0.78

00:16:09.000 They're trying to be like, I'm a better person than you are, flag.

00:16:11.000 Like, yeah, okay, thank you.

00:16:13.000 Virtue signaling to the extreme.

00:16:15.000 And so you go to the Major League Baseball and they say, okay, we want to fight systemic racism.

00:16:23.000 And the way we're going to fight systemic racism, which doesn't exist, but we're going to fight systemic racism.

00:16:27.000 It doesn't.

00:16:28.000 Fight 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.

00:16:45.000 Like that's the way that we're going to reverse systemic racism in America.

00:16:48.000 So it's a $100 million stimulus that would have went to the black community in downtown Atlanta.

00:16:54.000 30% of all the money spent would have been in black-owned businesses.

00:16:58.000 And that's gone completely. 0.99

00:16:59.000 And 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.

00:17:07.000 And so then they say, well, it's all because of unbelievable injustice.

00:17:10.000 And so then we should hold them accountable for that.

00:17:12.000 Then why don't you cancel all 81 Atlanta Braves games in Major League Baseball in the state of Georgia?

00:17:17.000 Maybe because you actually don't believe this stuff.

00:17:18.000 It's a stunt.

00:17:19.000 That's all it is.

00:17:20.000 And the fact, your stunt is actually going to hurt the community you say you want to help.

00:17:25.000 And this is what goes to a deeper point, which is what actually triggers outrage from corporate America?

00:17:31.000 I'll tell you something that should have triggered outrage from corporate America.

00:17:34.000 When in the midst of a pandemic, with all the issues happening in California, the lockdowns, what does Governor Gavin Newsom decide to do?

00:17:42.000 Sign 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. 0.96

00:17:56.000 They're really disgusting. 0.76

00:17:57.000 You can read it yourself. 0.98

00:17:58.000 You don't have to register as a sex offender.

00:17:59.000 Basically, 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.

00:18:08.000 That's the type of governance that all of you are challenging currently.

00:18:12.000 Where was the corporate backlash for that?

00:18:14.000 Right?

00:18:17.000 Where are all the people of a sudden?

00:18:19.000 This doesn't reflect our values.

00:18:20.000 Like, okay, I would have been with you with that.

00:18:23.000 And 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.

00:18:46.000 It's the opposite of what they say it was.

00:18:48.000 Then these corporations have to come under all of our criticism and backlash.

00:18:53.000 And I think that this is a tough thing for those of us that call ourselves conservatives to talk about.

00:18:57.000 We've been leading on this for at least the last year amongst many other terrific people.

00:19:01.000 Corporations are no longer our friends.

00:19:04.000 So 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.

00:19:12.000 Now these massive companies are basically the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party.

00:19:17.000 They're acting like Democrat super PACs.

00:19:20.000 And 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.

00:19:41.000 And 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.

00:19:56.000 You know exactly what I'm talking about.

00:19:57.000 I'm talking about the tech companies.

00:19:58.000 And I call them the masters of Menlo Park.

00:20:01.000 And for good reason, because the power center in our country is no longer Washington, D.C.

00:20:07.000 The people that actually set the rules of engagement in our country are right down the street.

00:20:12.000 In fact, there might be some people in this room that work for those companies.

00:20:15.000 And 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.

00:20:24.000 Seriously.

00:20:25.000 No kidding. 0.88

00:20:28.000 It's like a Soviet strategy, like keep your head down, try to infiltrate them. 0.99

00:20:32.000 And it's true.

00:20:34.000 Where these companies, and you know what I'm talking about, I call it the triangle of tyranny in particular, Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

00:20:42.000 They're all right here.

00:20:43.000 They're right down the street.

00:20:44.000 They have way too much power.

00:20:46.000 And it's not that they have way too much power.

00:20:47.000 That would be one thing.

00:20:49.000 They're abusing the too much power they have. 0.96

00:20:51.000 That's even worse.

00:20:53.000 And so I'm a big fan, obviously, of the American founding.

00:20:59.000 I'm a big believer in God-granted liberty, that our rights come from God, not from government.

00:21:04.000 I'm a believer in the natural rights doctrine.

00:21:07.000 And it's why our country was founded and how our country was founded.

00:21:10.000 And out of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, half of them seriously studied divinity in college or in their upbringing.

00:21:17.000 These were Bible-believing, God-fearing people that founded our country.

00:21:20.000 And you read the Federalist Papers and you read the founding documents, they feared tyranny. 0.95

00:21:26.000 The 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.

00:21:36.000 It's fascinating.

00:21:37.000 Just give rules to the government.

00:21:39.000 It's the exact opposite of what you would think you would do.

00:21:43.000 So 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.

00:21:55.000 So basically, they created a system that was really, really hard to mess up.

00:21:58.000 Checks and balances, as far as you could see, they derived this from Montesquieu, amongst others.

00:22:04.000 But 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.

00:22:13.000 How is that any different than what's happening with the tech companies right now?

00:22:16.000 So 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.

00:22:29.000 And so some people will say, oh, they're private companies.

00:22:32.000 How many people are you?

00:22:33.000 They're private companies. 0.92

00:22:34.000 We have to let them do whatever they want.

00:22:35.000 I think Clarence Thomas had an amazing piece on this a couple days ago.

00:22:39.000 Clarence Thomas, one of the most amazing Supreme Court justices in American history.

00:22:44.000 And 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.

00:22:59.000 Interestingly enough, he's the one person that is missing from the African American History Museum.

00:23:04.000 Isn't that interesting?

00:23:05.000 It's because they don't consider him to be black. 1.00

00:23:07.000 It's true.

00:23:07.000 It's because, according to them, identity is only applicable if you're a leftist.

00:23:13.000 Same reason why they call Candace Owens a white supremacist, right? 0.52

00:23:16.000 Same reason why it's true.

00:23:17.000 The 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.

00:23:27.000 I'll get to that in a second.

00:23:28.000 And so Clarence Thomas wrote recently on Monday, I think Monday or Tuesday, that these are common carriers.

00:23:35.000 That these companies connect point A to point B.

00:23:39.000 They try to say that they are a platform, yet they act like publishers.

00:23:43.000 I'll give you an example of this.

00:23:46.000 There are private highways in our country that are built by private investors.

00:23:51.000 For example, from downtown Gary, Indiana to downtown Chicago.

00:23:54.000 Some of you that listen to our podcast have heard me give this example many times.

00:23:58.000 Repetition is a soul of memory.

00:24:00.000 So 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.

00:24:09.000 It's private-owned, private-public partnership.

00:24:11.000 It's against the law to say that anyone is not allowed to ride on that expressway based on viewpoint, race, sexuality, gender.

00:24:21.000 It's an open access highway.

00:24:23.000 No matter who you are, you can ride on that highway.

00:24:26.000 It's an interstate highway.

00:24:27.000 Well, these are information highways.

00:24:30.000 The same rules that we have that govern the transportation of human beings should be the same rules that govern the transportation of ideas.

00:24:37.000 Open and accessible to all.

00:24:40.000 There must be some form of equilibrium here because what's currently happening is right down the street.

00:24:48.000 It's funny, usually I'm talking about Menlo Park and I have to say thousands of miles away.

00:24:52.000 Right down the street, I want you to envision this.

00:24:56.000 There's two different types of tyranny in the country that can exist that could shut up this gathering right here.

00:25:01.000 Okay?

00:25:02.000 One could walk through the door from the San Jose Police Department and start arresting people.

00:25:09.000 Now, if they started to do that, we could sue.

00:25:13.000 We could say that, well, the First Amendment has a free expression clause and an establishment clause.

00:25:17.000 We'd probably win those lawsuits.

00:25:20.000 And at least we'd have our time in court.

00:25:23.000 We'd have representation.

00:25:25.000 What's the other way they could shut up this gathering?

00:25:27.000 Well, they could say that anyone watching at home or online, you disappear.

00:25:32.000 Now, what's our right of redress and grievance?

00:25:34.000 Someone 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.

00:25:47.000 Like that.

00:25:48.000 And there is no recourse.

00:25:49.000 They'll say, oh, you violated our community standards.

00:25:52.000 That's what they would say.

00:25:53.000 That you violated these arbitrary rules.

00:25:56.000 And there's a great quote from a Soviet dissident.

00:26:00.000 It's exactly what we're living through right now.

00:26:02.000 She 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.

00:26:15.000 Think about that.

00:26:16.000 Because 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.

00:26:25.000 So for example, they could go back into some video two years, they say, well, now all of a sudden it violated your community guidelines.

00:26:31.000 Too much power in such a small group of people.

00:26:33.000 So what do we do about it?

00:26:35.000 Well, I get so fed up with some of these people that represent the Republican Party at times.

00:26:41.000 It's just beyond frustrating.

00:26:43.000 Maybe 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.

00:26:53.000 That would have been probably a good use of time.

00:26:55.000 And so unfortunately, the window is passed for us to meaningfully do anything from the federal level.

00:27:07.000 The state level, a lot of states can file proper lawsuits, but there's competitors coming up.

00:27:12.000 The problem is you can get parlored.

00:27:15.000 Where 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.

00:27:28.000 I thought we're supposed to create a competitor.

00:27:31.000 Just like that, they can make you disappear.

00:27:34.000 There's a couple.

00:27:35.000 There's rumble.com.

00:27:36.000 I encourage you guys to check it out, R-U-M-B-L-E.com.

00:27:38.000 It's a YouTube competitor.

00:27:40.000 Maybe Parlor will be allowed back on the App Store.

00:27:43.000 That remains to be seen.

00:27:45.000 But 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.

00:27:55.000 Every single, everywhere you spend your time, how you use your email, your devices.

00:28:01.000 And 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.

00:28:12.000 That needs to be the goal.

00:28:15.000 Right?

00:28:17.000 And so how do we go about and do that?

00:28:20.000 A lot of different ways.

00:28:21.000 75 million people went a certain way.

00:28:25.000 If we stopped using a lot of these platforms, it would make a difference.

00:28:28.000 Now, I want to make a distinction.

00:28:30.000 If you're a content creator, I encourage you to still use these platforms.

00:28:32.000 If you're a content consumer, go seek other platforms.

00:28:35.000 What do I mean?

00:28:36.000 I'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.

00:28:42.000 But those of you that just consume content, disconnect.

00:28:45.000 Find it elsewhere.

00:28:46.000 Go to Rumble instead of YouTube.

00:28:48.000 Go to Parlor instead of, if it exists, but whatever new infra, there's some ones coming up.

00:28:54.000 And 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.

00:29:06.000 That, well, I'm just one person.

00:29:09.000 And 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.

00:29:18.000 Every action that you make will eventually be reflected into your character.

00:29:23.000 Character comes from the Greek word to engrave, right?

00:29:26.000 Like imprint upon you.

00:29:27.000 And at the very least, act in a way that you want other people to act, and you'll see an amazing thing.

00:29:32.000 All of a sudden, that's exactly what will end up happening.

00:29:34.000 And every single micro action of everyone here tonight or online can make a map.

00:29:41.000 If every person here tonight stopped using YouTube, that makes a difference.

00:29:45.000 Compounder over one year, five years, 10 years, and your friends the same.

00:29:49.000 And so believe that your own personal actions make a difference.

00:29:51.000 We're going to find competitors.

00:29:52.000 And I actually think the courts are going to start to rule against a lot of these companies.

00:29:56.000 So 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.

00:30:03.000 And this has really never happened before in human history.

00:30:07.000 And 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.

00:30:21.000 So 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.

00:30:31.000 This is different.

00:30:32.000 This is the most powerful people that are preemptively striking the common man.

00:30:37.000 I want you to think about that.

00:30:39.000 These are the people that are in charge that their biggest concern is you.

00:30:47.000 And 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.

00:31:01.000 That's who they believe is the real problem.

00:31:03.000 And by the way, one of our podcast listeners said this, and it was such a wise thing.

00:31:07.000 I don't know if they're here or not.

00:31:08.000 I can't remember where they were from.

00:31:09.000 They said, How long until we need woke passports to go?

00:31:13.000 I said, that's exactly where this is headed.

00:31:16.000 Vaccine passports today, woke training passports tomorrow.

00:31:20.000 I kid you not, that will be something that you have to go through like critical race theory training to go stay at Marriott hotels.

00:31:28.000 The jokes of today is the reality of tomorrow.

00:31:30.000 Go read The Onion archive 10 years ago.

00:31:32.000 Seriously.

00:31:33.000 No, go read the, you go read The Onion.

00:31:36.000 Like 10 years ago, it's like the New York Times.

00:31:38.000 It really is.

00:31:39.000 It's like, oh my goodness, that's actually happening.

00:31:39.000 No.

00:31:41.000 There are men that are playing in women's sports and they're winning. 0.96

00:31:43.000 And that used to be something we'd laugh about. 0.99

00:31:45.000 Now it's actually an existential threat.

00:31:47.000 So this is a top-down revolution.

00:31:50.000 Not the Cuban Revolution or Chinese Revolution or Russian Revolution, where the workers unite up against the aristocracy.

00:31:56.000 No, the aristocracy, the people that are worth $150 billion, they are preemptively striking against you.

00:32:01.000 Why?

00:32:03.000 Because they actually know and they're worried that if they don't strike first, that their plunder is going to be exposed.

00:32:12.000 They 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.

00:32:22.000 And so, put simply, our ruling class hates the country they govern.

00:32:27.000 Think about that.

00:32:29.000 Our ruling class has contempt for the people they're in charge of.

00:32:33.000 Which begs the question: why are you in charge if you hate the people you actually govern?

00:32:37.000 You could say a lot about Donald Trump, but he loved the people that he was tasked to actually govern.

00:32:47.000 He loved them.

00:32:53.000 And you could see it in everything he did.

00:32:56.000 He had respect for the common man.

00:32:58.000 He cared about the muscular class.

00:33:01.000 He didn't have this elitist, snobbish attitude of looking out, even worse than elitism or snobbery, by the way.

00:33:06.000 It's worse than that.

00:33:07.000 It'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.

00:33:25.000 And so they're preemptively striking the common man, and they're doing it in a variety of different ways.

00:33:29.000 They're doing it in a school system in California now.

00:33:31.000 I'm sure you've seen California teaching curriculum standards.

00:33:36.000 It's technically optional, but it's in the standards to be taught to your kids.

00:33:40.000 Do you guys know about this?

00:33:42.000 Oh, that's good.

00:33:44.000 But it's the Aztec God of child sacrifice, a chance that children across California are going to be taught.

00:33:52.000 Now, 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.

00:33:59.000 So 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.

00:34:08.000 It's nowhere in the Constitution.

00:34:09.000 It's a singular decision from the war in court.

00:34:11.000 But let's take their bad, sloppy argument at face value.

00:34:14.000 Let's pretend that actually we had separation church and state in our country.

00:34:18.000 Then let's keep the state out of the church.

00:34:21.000 Right?

00:34:23.000 If that was actually true.

00:34:25.000 But I digress.

00:34:27.000 So in California, they are preemptively striking and across the country because they're worried.

00:34:34.000 Their paranoia is actually rooted in truth.

00:34:39.000 They 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.

00:34:45.000 We'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.

00:35:08.000 The idea that men can compete in women's sports just because they check a box differently.

00:35:13.000 They are paranoid that if they don't strike first, then all of a sudden they're going to be out of power.

00:35:19.000 But 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.

00:35:34.000 So you have the most powerful people that fly around in their Gulfstream jets right down the street, most of them live.

00:35:40.000 And then you have the kind of the grievance class.

00:35:43.000 And I'm going to say this as nicely as I can, the people that are always angry about something.

00:35:46.000 You guys all know them, okay?

00:35:48.000 And I honestly find that they find eternal salvation.

00:35:50.000 I mean that non-kiddingly, because it's the only thing that could solve.

00:35:53.000 And 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.

00:36:01.000 Instead of making themselves tougher, they want to shatter the world around them.

00:36:04.000 You guys all know those types of people.

00:36:05.000 A lot of them are, you know, conveniently located not far from here in Berkeley.

00:36:09.000 I've dealt with a lot of them.

00:36:10.000 But you have the mobilized grievance class, and then you have the people in charge, the ruling class, that are trying to squeeze you.

00:36:20.000 They're trying to squeeze what has always made America different, which is middle-class Americans that want a couple things.

00:36:30.000 And 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. 0.51

00:36:38.000 And the promise is this: if I do the right thing over a period of time, I can live an above-average way of life.

00:36:46.000 I can raise my children.

00:36:47.000 I can go to church.

00:36:50.000 My children can have a little bit better life than I can, and I can replicate and pass down my values.

00:36:54.000 And my government is not going to be used against me to try to destroy my worldview.

00:36:57.000 That's the American promise.

00:36:59.000 And the great squeeze, as it is, which is the bottom and the top, but it's mostly from the top down because they're funding it.

00:37:06.000 George Soros is funding a lot of these efforts from the bottom up, is trying to silence every single person here.

00:37:13.000 And they're doing it in a variety of different ways.

00:37:16.000 They're doing it forcibly, but I'm here to also give you one piece that you guys can say, you know what?

00:37:22.000 I could do something different, which is the number one form of censorship in our country.

00:37:27.000 Self-censorship.

00:37:29.000 You all do it.

00:37:31.000 I 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.

00:37:40.000 Maybe you do and you're bold, but good luck.

00:37:45.000 We all do it.

00:37:47.000 Where you don't always post on the Facebook post, where you kind of stay out of the conversation.

00:37:52.000 I get it.

00:37:53.000 They want that, though.

00:37:55.000 This 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.

00:38:05.000 Why?

00:38:06.000 Because you're going to be called a racist, right?

00:38:09.000 The fear of being called the R-word dominates American political life.

00:38:14.000 That's it.

00:38:15.000 The most powerful potent force in America right now is being called the R word.

00:38:20.000 Baselessly, with no evidence, but we all know what that means for so many people here.

00:38:25.000 Friendship ender, career ender, kicked out of sororities, kicked out of fraternities, right?

00:38:32.000 As soon as that R word is put upon you, it is the starlet letter and you are disbanded and put into exile, right?

00:38:40.000 So to try to prevent that from happening, we conform. 0.97

00:38:43.000 It says in the scriptures very clearly, do not conform to the ways of the world.

00:38:47.000 Romans 12, 2, 2.

00:38:51.000 One of my favorite passages.

00:38:52.000 Thank you.

00:38:54.000 So what do we do about that?

00:38:56.000 We must recognize that self-censorship is a strategy that they're trying to employ on you.

00:39:01.000 That'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.

00:39:16.000 So I want to expand on that even more, but here's three things that you guys have to do as California freedom lovers.

00:39:26.000 Number one, you're already doing it.

00:39:27.000 Play offense.

00:39:28.000 No matter what it is, play offense.

00:39:29.000 The recall is an offensive move.

00:39:31.000 I love it.

00:39:32.000 Stop trying to manage the ever-eroding terrain.

00:39:36.000 Go and do the impossible and push forward.

00:39:39.000 It's number one.

00:39:40.000 Number two, represent working people.

00:39:43.000 It is more important than ever to understand that there are two types of economic classes in our country.

00:39:49.000 And it's not an accusation if you're part of the first class.

00:39:52.000 But 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.

00:39:52.000 It's not.

00:40:01.000 And the muscular class in our country are people that work with their hands.

00:40:05.000 They're the ones that delivered your packages all throughout the lockdown.

00:40:09.000 They're the ones that made sure your grocery store shelves were full.

00:40:12.000 They're the ones that drive our Ubers, that the plumbers, the electricians, HVAC, they're the backbone of the American economy.

00:40:19.000 And we look down on those people far too often.

00:40:21.000 And 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.

00:40:37.000 Represent working people.

00:40:39.000 Number three, this is very important, which is not just never lose hope, but understand things can change.

00:40:49.000 Understand, this is a very important point.

00:40:54.000 If 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.

00:41:08.000 State that was so unbelievably blue and to the left.

00:41:11.000 If you would have told me that Florida would vote for Donald Trump with 400,000 vote margin, I would say no way.

00:41:19.000 Things can change negatively too.

00:41:21.000 I didn't think Georgia was going to go that way or Arizona.

00:41:22.000 Things can change and they're constantly in motion.

00:41:25.000 So what does it look like for those of you that want to build a life and be here in California?

00:41:30.000 Well, it's incremental progress.

00:41:32.000 It's the small victories will mean big victories.

00:41:34.000 It'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.

00:41:46.000 And so I am the most inspired when I get to speak in California.

00:41:50.000 And I'm going to compliment all of you.

00:41:52.000 You guys are the most resilient and yet eternally optimistic conservatives in the whole country.

00:42:00.000 No, it really is amazing.

00:42:02.000 And there is this spirit.

00:42:06.000 There is this spirit that we are not going to be crushed without giving it everything we possibly can.

00:42:13.000 So I want to get to questions.

00:42:14.000 I'll close with this point on this, though.

00:42:16.000 People ask all the time, my least favorite question.

00:42:18.000 So someone, if you ask it, I'll lovingly push back against it.

00:42:23.000 Charlie, do you think we're going to win?

00:42:25.000 My least favorite question.

00:42:26.000 You know why?

00:42:27.000 That's not what they're asking.

00:42:29.000 They're not asking me to play Vegas Oddsmaker.

00:42:29.000 No, no, no.

00:42:32.000 They're asking me this.

00:42:33.000 They're just saying it differently.

00:42:35.000 Can I give up?

00:42:37.000 That's what they're asking me.

00:42:40.000 The probability of victory is completely irrelevant to moral action.

00:42:43.000 What is courage?

00:42:45.000 So many young people can't answer that question because we don't teach courage anymore in our schools instead.

00:42:49.000 We teach diversity, whatever that is.

00:42:52.000 Courage is doing the right thing when you don't know how it's going to work out.

00:42:57.000 Courage is the proper course of action in pursuing the good, regardless of the potential cost.

00:43:04.000 That's what courage is.

00:43:05.000 Now, why do we have such a lack of courage in our country?

00:43:07.000 Well, 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.

00:43:20.000 And then people don't even know what good is.

00:43:21.000 Like, oh, good and evil is a spectrum of postmodern.

00:43:24.000 They're just, what are they?

00:43:26.000 It's a construct.

00:43:27.000 Like, yeah, okay, goodness.

00:43:28.000 You're paying for this?

00:43:30.000 You can get into that too.

00:43:35.000 The time to do the correct thing is always right now.

00:43:39.000 And don't allow yourself to play Vegas odds maker and hedge.

00:43:44.000 Oh, the odds are tough.

00:43:46.000 Like, the victory or the loss is up to the Lord.

00:43:50.000 Your action is actually what matters.

00:43:52.000 The amount that you put in is what you're going to be held accountable for and what you should do.

00:43:57.000 With that, I want to do some questions because that's a lot of fun.

00:44:00.000 I don't know how we're going to do it, but I just want to reiterate, I want to thank our amazing Turning Point USA chapter leaders.

00:44:05.000 These young people are totally amazing.

00:44:08.000 They really are.

00:44:14.000 So, hi, Charlie.

00:44:15.000 First, I want to thank you for taking the time to come out to San Jose and making San Jose State part of your campus tour stop.

00:44:21.000 Thank you.

00:44:25.000 So, my name is Noelle Smith, and I am the president of San Jose State's chapter.

00:44:30.000 My 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?

00:44:39.000 It's a great question.

00:44:40.000 So, there's three types of good people, as the great Dennis Prager says.

00:44:44.000 There are those that do nothing, the fighters, and the people that help the fighters.

00:44:50.000 And 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.

00:45:00.000 So, depending, what are you going to be studying or what are you passionate about?

00:45:03.000 What's your skill?

00:45:04.000 I'm pursuing my career in speech pathology.

00:45:06.000 Well, that's a really good, first of all, it's awesome, and it's super needed.

00:45:09.000 In fact, we know someone who's an unbelievable human being who's a speech pathologist.

00:45:14.000 Understand, first from just a Christian perspective, everything's a ministry opportunity.

00:45:20.000 And 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.

00:45:33.000 Instead, it's to show the grace, the mercy, the compassion of the gospel in your work and what you do.

00:45:40.000 And the same I will say as a conservative.

00:45:42.000 So, let me say this: be unafraid to tell people what you believe and why you believe it.

00:45:47.000 You will get judged, and there might be times that you might lose your job because of it.

00:45:51.000 Not trying to scare you, it's just the way it is.

00:45:54.000 But you'd be surprised when you stand on the line, the Lord works in amazing ways.

00:45:58.000 And I just want to just say that for anyone here, but here's what's going to happen.

00:46:03.000 Every 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.

00:46:14.000 And 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.

00:46:26.000 Someone that is factual, someone that is calm, someone that hopefully respects their opinions and their right to say it.

00:46:32.000 And so I hope that's somewhat helpful.

00:46:34.000 And if you have children, please homeschool your children, which I'm a very big fan of.

00:46:42.000 Big fan of homeschooling.

00:46:44.000 And awesome.

00:46:45.000 And then also in your communities, I got a beautiful email.

00:46:50.000 We have around about over 100 radio stations now.

00:46:54.000 And we got an email from a listener in Chicago, which I know very well.

00:46:58.000 I grew up there.

00:46:59.000 And she said, Charlie, I was inspired by you.

00:47:01.000 I got my whole family out to vote for a local community college election, Elgin Community College.

00:47:07.000 And the pro-freedom, pro-American candidate who was fighting against critical race theory won by eight votes.

00:47:14.000 Eight votes.

00:47:16.000 And so her family helped make the difference, never voted before in a provisional election.

00:47:21.000 And that is like the fourth largest community college district in Illinois.

00:47:26.000 And that now is not going to have critical race theory taught in Elgin Public Schools.

00:47:30.000 Eight votes.

00:47:31.000 Right?

00:47:32.000 Eight votes.

00:47:33.000 It's amazing.

00:47:35.000 And so I just want to encourage you that every point of action matters.

00:47:39.000 And no matter what you do, you're involved, whether it's publicly or behind the scenes.

00:47:43.000 Thank you so much.

00:47:44.000 Thank you.

00:47:49.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:47:50.000 Hey, Charlie, my name's Caleb, and I kind of noticed you trashed my campus, University of California earlier in his speech.

00:47:56.000 Berkeley or Berkeley.

00:47:56.000 That's okay.

00:47:58.000 Well, it deserves to be trashed. 0.93

00:47:58.000 Oh, Berkeley. 0.93

00:48:00.000 That's okay.

00:48:02.000 Palo City College.

00:48:04.000 I don't hold you accountable for that.

00:48:06.000 I study political science and public policy.

00:48:06.000 No, it's okay.

00:48:09.000 And voting is something that's super dear to my heart.

00:48:12.000 We just had a Voters' Choice Act, which revolutionized voting and how it's done in California, a couple of the counties.

00:48:20.000 And 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.

00:48:36.000 And some of the things that I agreed with was that voter ID is necessary.

00:48:41.000 It just makes sense. 0.54

00:48:42.000 Yes.

00:48:43.000 But something that's with voter IDs like any right is that voting is a right.

00:48:48.000 Same as free speech is a right.

00:48:50.000 And guns is a right.

00:48:52.000 If 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.

00:48:59.000 If I want to speak my mind on Facebook, no, the irony, but you get the point.

00:49:05.000 But 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.

00:49:15.000 No, it's not necessary.

00:49:16.000 I think in Georgia, that's changing.

00:49:19.000 But considering the hypothetical that mail-in ballots do have a voter ID attached to them, they are recognizable.

00:49:29.000 They could track who you are and that you are the person that is turning that mail-in ballot.

00:49:35.000 What's your view on that stance?

00:49:36.000 Should that be allowed or mail-in ballots expanded throughout the country?

00:49:39.000 So let me ask you a question.

00:49:41.000 In California, do they require a voter ID for a mail-in ballot?

00:49:45.000 Okay.

00:49:45.000 No.

00:49:46.000 Got it.

00:49:48.000 So that's a problem.

00:49:50.000 And I'm also a huge opponent of ballot harvesting, which is a massive problem here in California.

00:49:58.000 That's true.

00:49:59.000 Look, let me tell you my stance on voting, which is, I think, rather mainstream.

00:50:05.000 It is a right.

00:50:07.000 And 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.

00:50:17.000 That'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.

00:50:25.000 I think we've got to get rid of voting month in our country. 0.76

00:50:28.000 This idea that voting is open for 30-plus days, I think is absolutely ridiculous.

00:50:34.000 Number 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.

00:50:34.000 Number one.

00:50:49.000 So 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.

00:51:08.000 So you're going to be sending a massive amount of ballots that then are basically up for grabs, right?

00:51:13.000 And so in California, it does not require an ID, which then would open the gateway for potential nonsense and tomfoolery and all of that.

00:51:20.000 So more than anything else, if you say, Charlie, what does a successful election look like?

00:51:24.000 I'm willing to come to the middle.

00:51:26.000 I'm willing to say, let's do what Florida does.

00:51:29.000 Florida has safe and secure elections.

00:51:33.000 Florida had millions of people vote, including mail-in, but they do not have no excuse mail-in voting.

00:51:40.000 You have to give a reason.

00:51:41.000 It has signature and identification for mail-in.

00:51:44.000 And if you try to vote twice, you're automatically getting convicted for five to ten years.

00:51:49.000 Now, ideally, I'd like to limit mail-in voting for like super low.

00:51:53.000 But here's the thing in Florida: highest turnout, high they've ever had, super secure.

00:51:58.000 I think you must have all your election results in by 9:30 on election night.

00:52:02.000 No more waiting weeks to count ballots.

00:52:09.000 And finally, in Florida, they are sticklers in the voter registration process.

00:52:18.000 That 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.

00:52:27.000 Like, not that difficult to do, right?

00:52:29.000 You look at the death certificates, look at the voter rolls, and then you clean them, which every county should do.

00:52:34.000 Does that help clarify?

00:52:36.000 Thank you so much.

00:52:37.000 Thank you for being here.

00:52:38.000 Thank you.

00:52:44.000 Hi, my name is Gracie Gillette.

00:52:45.000 I'm also with the homeschool over here.

00:52:48.000 Thank you for being here.

00:52:50.000 I 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.

00:53:04.000 It's a great question.

00:53:06.000 First of all, if you desire to be famous, you're doing it for the wrong reason.

00:53:10.000 The thing I can't stand the most is these people that want to be famous more than wanting to be good.

00:53:16.000 And that's a very big problem.

00:53:18.000 I'm just trying to, just to hear me out, because there's a lot of people that are able to go viral very quickly now.

00:53:24.000 And it's bad for you.

00:53:26.000 It's bad for everyone the way the incentive structure is there.

00:53:28.000 That's number one.

00:53:29.000 Now, do you mean platform for yourself or do you just like a page?

00:53:33.000 As I have personally experienced it from TikTok mostly because it's very they shadow ban, they banned you from posting, from going live.

00:53:42.000 They've banned lots of people from they've just banned their accounts, period.

00:53:48.000 Just there are lots of conservative people and they are being majorly censored right now.

00:53:54.000 So I was wondering what advice you had for.

00:53:56.000 Yeah, I'm not actually on TikTok, go figure.

00:54:01.000 People ask me, are you going to go on TikTok soon?

00:54:03.000 But yeah, I don't think so.

00:54:06.000 So, but yeah, look, I don't have any specific advice.

00:54:11.000 I'm just going to give more general caution to young people that are in this kind of space.

00:54:17.000 You'll be miserable if you get into this for the wrong reasons.

00:54:19.000 I'm telling you right now.

00:54:22.000 The social media influencer thing is not a good thing for 18, 17, 18, 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds.

00:54:29.000 It's not.

00:54:30.000 And so, unless you're grounded and you're doing it for the right reasons, which I'm positive you are, I'm just saying more generally.

00:54:37.000 But there's something to be said about the way these platforms are, and I'll just talk more broadly about the platforms.

00:54:45.000 I'm a big, I'm provocative in this way.

00:54:47.000 I don't think young people should get smartphones till they're 18, just so we're clear.

00:54:50.000 Right.

00:54:51.000 Just so I think that parents should withhold smartphones till they're 18.

00:54:55.000 They're more powerful than AR-15s.

00:54:57.000 They are.

00:54:58.000 No, it's true.

00:54:59.000 These 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.

00:55:11.000 Try to go sell your children more advertisements of things that don't matter and they don't need.

00:55:16.000 One of the greatest blessings that I had, again, I'm not talking about you in particular.

00:55:21.000 I'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.

00:55:28.000 It was kind of this like fringe thing.

00:55:30.000 I thank God every day.

00:55:32.000 It was this amazing thing.

00:55:33.000 Did you know we went to high school and I had conversations with people?

00:55:36.000 No, it's actually unbelievable.

00:55:37.000 It was like 10 years ago.

00:55:39.000 No, and I see these young people and they're like Snapchat and all this.

00:55:42.000 They say, I'm so glad I didn't have any of that in high school.

00:55:46.000 I say, what a robbery of youth we have done in our country.

00:55:49.000 And I'm going to say this as, you know, parents, you got it.

00:55:52.000 Like, 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?

00:55:59.000 It's like on TV, it's like this big, right?

00:56:02.000 Or it's like, all my friends have one.

00:56:03.000 Still, not a great thing.

00:56:06.000 Anyway, again, I'm provocative on this for a reason because it's destroying our humanity.

00:56:11.000 Destroying our humanity.

00:56:13.000 And if you guys go spend half a day, you know what's really interesting.

00:56:18.000 You go meet the tech CEOs that built these mobile platforms.

00:56:21.000 They don't let their own kids use them.

00:56:23.000 They don't let their own kids use the stuff that many of your children are using or young people are using.

00:56:29.000 And if it feels chemically addictive, it is.

00:56:31.000 It's built for dopamine rushes and dopamine loads.

00:56:35.000 And that's the way the algorithms are actually built.

00:56:38.000 So, not exactly sure how to help you on the TikTok thing.

00:56:41.000 I'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.

00:56:48.000 It's a big, broad, beautiful world out there.

00:56:51.000 And I guarantee this is a rule of thumb for every young person.

00:56:54.000 The less time you spend on those cyborg devices, the happier you will be.

00:56:58.000 I'm telling you, these things are designed to destroy your humanity.

00:57:02.000 So, anyway, thank you.

00:57:04.000 Sorry.

00:57:07.000 Hi, I'm Josiah Christensen.

00:57:09.000 I'm homeschooled.

00:57:12.000 It's a great name, Josiah.

00:57:15.000 My question is: is a question that's been bothering me for a while.

00:57:18.000 I just can't figure out the answer.

00:57:20.000 What do you think is a bigger threat to America, the Chinese Communist Party or the radical left?

00:57:26.000 That's a great question.

00:57:30.000 It's a good question, Josiah.

00:57:33.000 What's the difference, right?

00:57:34.000 Like, I mean, I was a little better question.

00:57:42.000 So, you're a smart young man.

00:57:45.000 If I was, here's a fun thought exercise. 0.97

00:57:48.000 You're Xi Ji Ping. 0.56

00:57:50.000 Who are you cheering for?

00:57:54.000 No.

00:57:55.000 You own Hunter Biden, let's be very clear.

00:57:57.000 So, amongst other people.

00:57:59.000 So, no, but seriously, who are you cheering for? 0.86

00:58:01.000 If you're Xi Ji Ping, you would fund BLM Incorporated. 0.73

00:58:04.000 You would go fund all these groups. 0.94

00:58:06.000 They're tearing America apart at its seams.

00:58:09.000 And there's evidence to show that the CCP is in partnership with some of these organizations and these groups.

00:58:15.000 But I will say this.

00:58:17.000 It is the radical left.

00:58:18.000 It is.

00:58:19.000 If you made me choose, it is the radical left.

00:58:21.000 The radical left gets some of their help from the Chinese Communist Party.

00:58:24.000 America will fall from within.

00:58:25.000 It will not fall externally for now.

00:58:27.000 It will be an internal, self-quasi-suicidal decision where we just decide we no longer want to be great.

00:58:35.000 We want to be comfortable.

00:58:37.000 And as soon as that happens, we'll fall.

00:58:41.000 And so I'll just say this to kind of close the point.

00:58:45.000 It's tougher to fight internal fights. 0.93

00:58:48.000 It was easier when it was the walled-off, evil Soviet Union halfway across the world, right? 0.99

00:58:54.000 It's harder when it's your local university, your local high school, your local school board, your local corporation. 0.99

00:59:00.000 That's a lot harder.

00:59:02.000 It's a lot more difficult.

00:59:04.000 And 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.

00:59:16.000 Great question, Josiah.

00:59:17.000 Thanks for being here tonight.

00:59:24.000 Hi, my name is Angelica.

00:59:26.000 Thanks for coming out.

00:59:27.000 I'm a molecular bio student at San Jose State.

00:59:27.000 Thank you.

00:59:30.000 I can't say I enjoy it, especially when on the first day of your genetics class, they ask you what your pronouns are.

00:59:36.000 It's kind of weird.

00:59:38.000 And 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.

00:59:51.000 But 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.

00:59:59.000 So how do I accomplish that and also be in touch with what's going on in the world?

01:00:05.000 Because if I just decide to focus on this passage, am I just turning the world off?

01:00:09.000 Like, how do I show compassion and not get caught up at the same time?

01:00:13.000 So that's my question.

01:00:15.000 And then another question is: who's your favorite biblical character?

01:00:18.000 And what's your favorite passage?

01:00:20.000 Wow, that's a great.

01:00:21.000 I'll answer that one first.

01:00:22.000 My favorite passage of the Bible is James 1.

01:00:24.000 It's terrific, which it says very clearly.

01:00:26.000 I mean, it's phenomenal.

01:00:27.000 It covers persecution, it covers wisdom, and it also covers faith.

01:00:31.000 The three things that I think are so incredibly important in the scriptures.

01:00:33.000 And it says very clearly in James 1:5 that to ask God for wisdom and he will give generously.

01:00:40.000 And it's a beautiful passage.

01:00:41.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of things that never change.

01:00:43.000 There's practical knowledge and eternal knowledge.

01:00:45.000 Wisdom is far more important than practical knowledge.

01:00:47.000 We don't teach our children wisdom in schools anymore because there's no God, no wisdom.

01:00:51.000 Therefore, they know a bunch of stuff, but they really know nothing.

01:00:53.000 And so that's what happens in our universities.

01:00:56.000 So favorite biblical character, that's a really good question.

01:01:00.000 I 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.

01:01:19.000 I 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.

01:01:28.000 So I could go on further.

01:01:30.000 And 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.

01:01:42.000 But yeah, Proverbs is one of my favorite books.

01:01:45.000 So your question is about being anxious and nothing, right?

01:01:47.000 So I would have to say this, and again, I'm not a pastor or theologian.

01:01:51.000 I just can tell you how I interpret the scriptures.

01:01:54.000 I 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.

01:02:04.000 Now, we must understand that God is sovereign, God is in control.

01:02:08.000 But 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.

01:02:16.000 And I don't buy into that at all whatsoever.

01:02:19.000 I will say this, though, that it says to be anxious and nothing because we are born new in Christ Jesus.

01:02:26.000 And that's exactly right.

01:02:28.000 That 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.

01:02:35.000 So that should give you comfort, and that should give you peace, right?

01:02:39.000 And 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?

01:02:56.000 Paul does not want us to be eternally worried or nervous about every little turn of events.

01:03:03.000 We should be involved and engaged and understand that Jesus is 100% grace and 100% truth.

01:03:08.000 And so I hope that's somewhat helpful.

01:03:10.000 And let me just say this for everyone here.

01:03:12.000 We have a lot of different people here.

01:03:14.000 And the gospel of Jesus Christ is best summarized in four words, three words, two words, one word.

01:03:20.000 And I could do this as quickly as possible.

01:03:23.000 It's Jesus took my place in four words.

01:03:27.000 Three words, him for me, two words, substitutionary atonement, one word, grace.

01:03:32.000 What is grace?

01:03:34.000 Well, let's first go through what justice is.

01:03:36.000 Justice is getting what you deserve.

01:03:39.000 You stole something, you're going to jail.

01:03:41.000 The judge says, that's it, you're done.

01:03:43.000 Mercy is getting less of what you deserve.

01:03:45.000 Stole something, go in front of a judge, and you get six months instead of six years.

01:03:49.000 Grace 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. 0.73

01:04:02.000 That's grace.

01:04:03.000 It's a sacrifice that was made for you so that you can live free.

01:04:07.000 And I encourage everyone, if not already, to give your life to Jesus.

01:04:11.000 It is the most incredible, renewing, important thing that every human being can do.

01:04:17.000 And if there's ever any interest, I'm hardly a scholar on this, but people say that it's nothing more than a mythology.

01:04:25.000 I'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.

01:04:34.000 So I hope that someone helps summarize your question.

01:04:36.000 Thank you.

01:04:37.000 All right, we'll get to one or two more.

01:04:39.000 So pick your best question.

01:04:41.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:04:42.000 Thank you for coming out tonight.

01:04:43.000 Appreciate it.

01:04:44.000 My name is Spencer.

01:04:45.000 I'm the president of the Pepperdine College Republicans.

01:04:47.000 Awesome.

01:04:47.000 That's a long drive.

01:04:48.000 Jeez.

01:04:50.000 All right, now we're all locked down.

01:04:51.000 So up here, up here for the semester.

01:04:53.000 But it is historically a very conservative university.

01:04:56.000 But recently, I just wrote an article exposing my university for actually using student funds to push critical race theory.

01:05:02.000 Unbelievable.

01:05:03.000 And they're giving out copies of Robin D'Angelo's White Fragility.

01:05:08.000 Are you serious?

01:05:09.000 Yes.

01:05:09.000 Our student government and our student wellness advisory board, this is with student money at a historically Christian conservative university.

01:05:17.000 So 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?

01:05:29.000 First of all, you exposing it deserves praise.

01:05:32.000 So thank you for doing that.

01:05:38.000 And I hope everyone online and everyone here and the lots of people listening on our podcast, go contact Pepperdine University tonight.

01:05:48.000 I think that would be a good thing.

01:05:50.000 If everyone here just sent in an email, because here's what bothers me about that example: I've met a lot of people from Pepperdine.

01:05:56.000 You know, they go around to conservative donors raising money under the pretense that they're a conservative school.

01:06:00.000 That's right.

01:06:01.000 You know that.

01:06:01.000 Absolutely.

01:06:02.000 That a lot of the people at Support Turning Point USA are asked for money.

01:06:06.000 They say, Charlie, what do you think of Pepperdine?

01:06:07.000 I see, I think they're fine, but they're misrepresent, they're lying to their donors, what you're telling me.

01:06:12.000 Right?

01:06:12.000 Exactly.

01:06:13.000 So, you're trying to tell me that Pepperdine has Robin D'Angelo's book?

01:06:17.000 Yes, that's right.

01:06:18.000 With our money, student money that is mandatory that we have to pay every semester.

01:06:22.000 So, just so you guys know, Robin DiAngelo is the worst when it comes to this topic.

01:06:27.000 I mean, it is pure racism, pure bigotry, and it's all about caring more about skin color than character. 0.94

01:06:34.000 That's basically her entire thesis.

01:06:37.000 Which 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.

01:06:45.000 So, what do you do about it?

01:06:47.000 Make more noise.

01:06:49.000 Here's what you should do: who, what's the name of the biggest building on campus?

01:06:54.000 Whose last name is it?

01:06:56.000 Go name one name: Elkins.

01:07:00.000 Find that family and write them a letter.

01:07:02.000 FedEx 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?

01:07:11.000 Did you know that?

01:07:12.000 Go find, go, all the donors are probably public at Pepperdine.

01:07:16.000 Go write them all letters.

01:07:17.000 You're a current student and just say, you know, XYZ donor, did you know this?

01:07:21.000 And 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.

01:07:26.000 Be precise and then say, student fees, mandatory, Robin D'Angelo 1619 project, whole thing.

01:07:33.000 And then say, Did you know this?

01:07:34.000 And then I'm telling you right now, you'll start to see the impact you're making.

01:07:39.000 These universities, the only way you can get to these universities is go mobilize the people that finance them.

01:07:45.000 And that's the little, that's a playbook for all of you guys.

01:07:48.000 Go just find the names of the buildings.

01:07:50.000 Go look up if they're, they're usually, by the way, all the people that this is, this actually is an awful thing.

01:07:55.000 All the people that fund all your schools are conservatives, okay?

01:07:57.000 Almost all of them.

01:07:58.000 They voluntarily give their money away so that their children can learn to hate the country.

01:08:02.000 But like, no, it's true.

01:08:04.000 But go find, because you know what?

01:08:06.000 Most of these donors have no idea this is what's going on.

01:08:08.000 No idea.

01:08:09.000 So you're a current student.

01:08:11.000 Go find them and create more noise.

01:08:14.000 Because what you just told me is unbelievable.

01:08:16.000 Thank you.

01:08:16.000 I appreciate it.

01:08:17.000 Thank you very much, Charlie.

01:08:18.000 Thank you.

01:08:20.000 All right.

01:08:22.000 Thank you.

01:08:23.000 All right.

01:08:24.000 Well, we'll try to get to two more, but I don't want to keep people too late.

01:08:27.000 Yes?

01:08:29.000 Hello, my name is Mary Catherine.

01:08:31.000 So I just had a question.

01:08:34.000 Sorry, I'm trying to word it in my head.

01:08:37.000 So 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.

01:08:46.000 If 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.

01:08:51.000 Speak super well.

01:08:52.000 Thank you.

01:08:52.000 By the way, how old are you?

01:08:53.000 14.

01:08:54.000 Thank you for being here tonight.

01:08:55.000 It's awesome.

01:08:56.000 It's terrific.

01:09:02.000 So if I were to go, so like, I personally would like to help, you know, change the culture.

01:09:08.000 If 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?

01:09:17.000 What a great question. 0.68

01:09:21.000 So here's the best first question you must ask.

01:09:27.000 Why do you want to go to college?

01:09:30.000 Right? 0.58

01:09:31.000 That's the first question, because not everyone should.

01:09:35.000 And then ask yourself the question: what are you good at?

01:09:38.000 You guys don't ask that question very often, right?

01:09:40.000 So they're like, what's your passion? 0.99

01:09:41.000 Dumbest question ever. 0.99

01:09:42.000 Doesn't matter. 1.00

01:09:43.000 It's completely irrelevant. 0.98

01:09:45.000 Passions come later.

01:09:46.000 Find your skill.

01:09:47.000 Everyone's good at something.

01:09:49.000 I could tell you things I'm good at and things I'm not good at.

01:09:51.000 Find your skill, the passion will follow.

01:09:54.000 Once you find your skill, then find the school.

01:09:58.000 If that skill necessitates a certification, maybe it's a lawyer.

01:10:01.000 Maybe you're good at writing and you want to be a lawyer.

01:10:03.000 Maybe you're good at helping people, you want to be a nurse.

01:10:06.000 Maybe you're good at instructing, you want to be a teacher.

01:10:08.000 Find 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.

01:10:19.000 Thank you.

01:10:20.000 Yeah, you bet.

01:10:21.000 Thank you.

01:10:28.000 Hello, sir.

01:10:28.000 I'd just like to say it's an honor to be here today.

01:10:30.000 Thank you.

01:10:31.000 And I hate to end this on a bad note, but is it a bad note?

01:10:34.000 I didn't know them too well, but I found out today that a student at my school committed suicide.

01:10:38.000 Oh, geez.

01:10:39.000 And 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.

01:10:46.000 So my question to you is: how do you feel about the skyrocketed suicide rate in the country due to these murderous lockdowns?

01:10:52.000 And 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?

01:11:04.000 Yeah, I mean, first of all, I mean, my heart goes out to the family.

01:11:08.000 I get hundreds of emails about this stuff on our podcast.

01:11:11.000 I just did a whole podcast on this on Monday, if you guys want to hear me extensively.

01:11:15.000 First of all, law of averages, someone in this room right now is dealing with depression.

01:11:20.000 Someone is.

01:11:21.000 So let me tell you a couple things.

01:11:22.000 Number one, you matter to more people than you might have convinced yourself of.

01:11:26.000 And you need to hear that.

01:11:27.000 I don't know who you are, someone here.

01:11:29.000 Meaning you, stop thinking about yourself.

01:11:33.000 You actually matter to more people.

01:11:34.000 They might not tell you.

01:11:35.000 They might not express it.

01:11:37.000 So before you start to convince yourself that you don't matter to you, you should know that you actually matter to more people.

01:11:44.000 Number two, you're a lot tougher than you might think.

01:11:44.000 That's number one.

01:11:47.000 Number two, you're a lot tougher than you might think.

01:11:50.000 That you have the capacity to endure a lot more than you might personally understand.

01:11:56.000 Number three, what you're living through right now is very tough for a variety of different reasons.

01:12:04.000 So don't be too hard on yourself in this way.

01:12:06.000 Take a deep breath, and this is number three or four.

01:12:10.000 Find the courage to communicate everything that you're feeling to someone directly in the eyes, not on phone, not on text, that has wisdom.

01:12:18.000 It could be a pastor, could be a parent.

01:12:20.000 Wisdom is the most important thing to search.

01:12:22.000 Because I find more times than not, those situations happen because people do not clearly communicate and people stay too festered up.

01:12:29.000 This is a serious epidemic in our country, and our leaders in both parties are completely ignoring it.

01:12:35.000 How do we end this cycle?

01:12:37.000 I think there's a lot of different things contributing to it.

01:12:39.000 I think our smartphones are absolutely huge culprits.

01:12:42.000 I think the dehumanizing agenda of these lockdowns have been one of the worst things imaginable.

01:12:47.000 And 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.

01:13:04.000 You do not have to change.

01:13:05.000 You understand that has the opposite intended effect.

01:13:08.000 I never said you were perfect.

01:13:09.000 I said you're tougher than you think you are.

01:13:11.000 In fact, I think most young men do that unthinkable decision because they're not challenged enough.

01:13:19.000 I think most young men do that because they've never been looked in the eyes and say, you're way better than this.

01:13:24.000 Come on, let's push you to new limits.

01:13:26.000 The opposite actually happens, they get emasculated, feminized. 1.00

01:13:31.000 And women have different issues completely, by the way.

01:13:33.000 It's self-no, meaning like with the depression, meaning it's self-image issues, and actually they're forced to be men.

01:13:39.000 And that's a different problem.

01:13:40.000 It's true. 1.00

01:13:41.000 And that is way too much pressure for young women in our country.

01:13:43.000 I can go through that a different time.

01:13:44.000 But young men, in particular, they need a purpose and a call to adventure.

01:13:50.000 And without a purpose or a call to adventure, then they're going to just be grown infants.

01:13:58.000 And a grown infant eventually will ask themselves the question: what's the point?

01:14:04.000 And our society, parents, and pastors need to say, no, there's more than a point.

01:14:09.000 You need purpose.

01:14:10.000 Purpose 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.

01:14:18.000 I can always try to achieve.

01:14:19.000 What is my direction?

01:14:21.000 What am I able to say I'm doing every single day?

01:14:24.000 And what we've done is the opposite.

01:14:25.000 Lock 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.

01:14:33.000 And we're wondering why more young people in California have committed suicide than died of the Chinese coronavirus.

01:14:39.000 And 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.

01:14:47.000 They have abandoned young people in America.

01:14:50.000 And I hear this way too often.

01:14:57.000 And it's happening at such a pace.

01:14:58.000 And here's the call to action.

01:15:00.000 The second thing, every person in this room knows or suspects somebody who's going through that right now.

01:15:07.000 Call them and text them right now.

01:15:10.000 Because I'm telling you, I've lost dear friends to that unspeakable act.

01:15:15.000 And it's beyond a period of hell.

01:15:20.000 And I use that word intentionally for you if you did nothing.

01:15:25.000 And that's something that I hope everyone understands: that it's a call to action, every person in this room.

01:15:30.000 I'm glad you said that.

01:15:32.000 I hope it's somewhat helpful.

01:15:33.000 And every person needs to play a role in that here tonight.

01:15:35.000 It's very, very important.

01:15:36.000 God bless you.

01:15:37.000 Thank you.

01:15:37.000 Okay, this will be the last question.

01:15:41.000 I'm sorry, guys.

01:15:42.000 This will be the last question.

01:15:44.000 All right.

01:15:45.000 I can't live without Major League Baseball, and I can't live with myself for watching it.

01:15:50.000 How do we square reality with corporate boycotts?

01:15:55.000 10 seconds.

01:15:57.000 Yeah, I mean, just stop watching baseball.

01:15:59.000 I don't really understand the point.

01:16:00.000 Like, you can't live like it's like medication or something.

01:16:04.000 It was a metaphor.

01:16:05.000 Huh?

01:16:06.000 It was a metaphor.

01:16:07.000 Okay, yeah.

01:16:08.000 But look, the point is, like, yeah, we all have to sacrifice something, right?

01:16:11.000 I mean, Major League Baseball doesn't represent our values.

01:16:13.000 You can watch it if you want.

01:16:15.000 My decision is: I'm never watching baseball again.

01:16:16.000 Like, have a nice life.

01:16:17.000 Like, you know, that's the way I am.

01:16:19.000 So, look, I think that the spirit of the question is very good.

01:16:25.000 And I think that you have to understand that we need to start sending a message to these companies and to these institutions.

01:16:33.000 Either that or they're going to continue to be the muscle of the Democrat Party.

01:16:37.000 Okay, so I want to just close with this, everybody.

01:16:37.000 Thank you.

01:16:40.000 I have never been more optimistic about our future.

01:16:42.000 I know that sounds.

01:16:42.000 What are you talking about?

01:16:44.000 What we are seeing is an amazing, almost revival and awakening in America.

01:16:50.000 The truth is on our side, everybody.

01:16:53.000 And it is up for us to stand clearly and courageously.

01:16:57.000 And 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.

01:17:05.000 And so I just want to tell all of you, thank you for your commitment.

01:17:09.000 This state, I'm so inspired by California conservatives every single day.

01:17:13.000 It's a truly incredible thing.

01:17:15.000 And I want to end how I started.

01:17:19.000 Mike McClure is an amazing American pastor.

01:17:22.000 Support this man and support this church and start local.

01:17:28.000 Take back the city of which you are in.

01:17:30.000 Believe our best days are ahead.

01:17:32.000 Take education very seriously.

01:17:34.000 Support your turning point USA groups.

01:17:37.000 Do not self-censor.

01:17:38.000 In fact, say, I'm going to be louder than ever.

01:17:41.000 Remember, we believe that speech is the remedy to our problems.

01:17:45.000 And 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.

01:17:52.000 Our best days are ahead.

01:17:54.000 God bless you guys.

01:17:55.000 Thank you so much.

01:17:56.000 I really appreciate it.

01:18:00.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:18:02.000 Please support us if you can at charliekirk.com/slash support.

01:18:06.000 God bless you.

01:18:07.000 Speak to you, soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 11, 2021

Stickin' It to Silicon Valley—Live from San Jose St.

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