The Charlie Kirk Show - Taking Back the Culture War From Trans Activists — LIVE from University of Arkansas

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, a bonus episode of the Charlie Kirk Show today.

00:00:02.000 My remarks at University of Arkansas.

00:00:05.000 And boy, do I mix it up with trans activists, pro-trans feminists, and a guy that sounds like Marlon Brando.

00:00:11.000 I think you're going to really enjoy this episode.

00:00:13.000 My speech, followed by unedited, unscripted questions from the audience.

00:00:18.000 A lot of disagreement.

00:00:19.000 So maybe you'll fast forward to that point, but I think you'll really enjoy it.

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00:00:42.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:43.000 Here we go.

00:00:45.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:46.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:48.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:52.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:55.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:56.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:57.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:00:59.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:01:05.000 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.

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00:01:28.000 Great to be here.

00:01:29.000 We're kicking off our tour again.

00:01:30.000 We're going to have a lot of fun.

00:01:32.000 I love Arkansas.

00:01:33.000 I've come here a couple times in my life.

00:01:36.000 And my cousins are here.

00:01:37.000 It's great to see them.

00:01:38.000 See, we all fled Chicago together.

00:01:40.000 There's a lot of that going around.

00:01:41.000 Anyone else flee Chicago?

00:01:43.000 Yeah, we're all in this together.

00:01:46.000 And so it's a great place to be.

00:01:49.000 We now live in Arizona and traveling the country, bringing the good message of freedom and liberty.

00:01:54.000 I just want to thank our amazing Turning Point USA students.

00:01:56.000 They've done such an amazing job promoting this event.

00:01:59.000 They've done such a great job.

00:02:02.000 And it's really important what they're doing, being outspoken conservatives on high school and college campuses.

00:02:10.000 It's the most important thing that's happening in our country.

00:02:13.000 So I'm banned from Twitter, everybody, if you haven't heard.

00:02:17.000 So we're going to walk through that.

00:02:19.000 I actually haven't spoken very much about it publicly.

00:02:20.000 I did a podcast or two on it.

00:02:23.000 And it's on a very interesting thing.

00:02:24.000 So the way Twitter works, if you don't know, if you violate one of their kind of guidelines, they give you an opportunity to delete the tweet, basically, okay, I engaged in hate speech.

00:02:35.000 You can get your Twitter account back.

00:02:37.000 And so we logged onto our Twitter account.

00:02:38.000 We're like, wait, why don't we have access to our Twitter account anymore?

00:02:41.000 So I tweeted this out, and I want anyone to tell me if there's anything inaccurate about this tweet.

00:02:47.000 Richard Levine spent 54 years of his life as a man.

00:02:52.000 He had a wife and a family.

00:02:53.000 He transitioned to being a woman in 2011.

00:02:57.000 Joe Biden then appointed Levine to be a four-star admiral and is now USA Today has named Rachel Levine as woman of the year.

00:03:04.000 True.

00:03:04.000 Where are the feminists?

00:03:05.000 Right?

00:03:06.000 Perfectly factual.

00:03:08.000 But now I engaged in something called dead naming.

00:03:10.000 Are you familiar with this phenomenon?

00:03:12.000 No, I had to learn it alongside everyone else, including our millions of followers.

00:03:16.000 So dead naming is when you use the name that used to exist of someone who's trans and super like politically incorrect, I guess.

00:03:27.000 You're like not even allowed to mention the birth name anymore.

00:03:30.000 It's now called dead naming.

00:03:32.000 So I guess you can't call like Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay anymore or anyone who's ever changed their name ever.

00:03:38.000 And so because of this, Twitter basically says, okay, you're no longer allowed to have access to your account.

00:03:44.000 You have to acknowledge and bend the knee and tell the rest of the world that you engaged in hate speech.

00:03:49.000 And there's this like big red button that says you can press delete.

00:03:52.000 And look, it's very tempting.

00:03:53.000 You know, we used to do a lot on Twitter.

00:03:55.000 And I thought to myself, you know what?

00:03:56.000 Every single semester, I'm traveling, I'm talking to college kids, telling them to hold the line, that it's worth the cost, that you might lose friends. 0.57

00:04:04.000 I'm like, what a hypocrite I would be if I just pressed that red button and told Twitter, like, you know, I did something wrong.

00:04:10.000 Meanwhile, keep fighting on campus, everybody, and see you later.

00:04:12.000 You know what?

00:04:13.000 No, actually, no.

00:04:14.000 Like, Twitter, have a nice life. 1.00

00:04:16.000 If you want to give me my account back without me pressing that stupid red button, then fine. 0.99

00:04:21.000 And it kind of goes to this deeper question. 0.97

00:04:24.000 And by the way, If you read my tweet, I think I was actually like overly generous, quite honestly.

00:04:28.000 I admitted that one can transition from a man to a woman, which I don't believe, actually.

00:04:33.000 I think you could think you can, but I think your chromosomal structure is unchangeable scientifically.

00:04:37.000 That's totally true, regardless of how much scientific intervention that you put forward.

00:04:41.000 And so, but you can think whatever you want to think.

00:04:44.000 And still, Twitter's like, nope, you deadnamed that person.

00:04:47.000 Again, not anything I was even like trying to do or was aware of, just kind of giving a factual biography of the entire set of circumstances, which kind of leads to a question I want us all to ponder over tonight and think deeply about.

00:04:59.000 And I'd love all of your opinions, which is the most important question that has really been confusing people, including the top levels of our government, which is what is a woman, right?

00:05:08.000 And so I know this is so hard for some of us to grasp.

00:05:13.000 I know I'm not a biologist, so I'm not really well-versed to be able to answer these questions.

00:05:21.000 Of course, for those of you that, I don't know, watch the Oscars and not, which is funny enough, we'll get into that.

00:05:28.000 So, but don't watch anything that happens around you.

00:05:32.000 Katangi Brown Jackson, woman that wants to, I think she's a woman.

00:05:37.000 Who am I to say?

00:05:37.000 I don't know.

00:05:38.000 She won't tell us because she doesn't know what a woman is. 1.00

00:05:41.000 Trying to be on the U.S. Supreme Court, was asked a question by Marsha Blackburn, very simple question, what can you define what a woman is? 0.90

00:05:48.000 And she responded with this kind of smug arrogance, no, I can't.

00:05:53.000 I'm not a biologist.

00:05:56.000 So look, I'm not a veterinarian.

00:05:58.000 I know a dog when I see one.

00:05:59.000 I'm not a meteorologist.

00:06:00.000 I know that there was a tornado yesterday at 4.30 in the morning, right?

00:06:03.000 Not exactly something I didn't need to have like a degree in biology to be able to understand what a woman is. 1.00

00:06:08.000 And it kind of got thinking as she was so smug and she responded, which is this has now become a wildly controversial thing in America.

00:06:15.000 It's that if you, you're not even able to say, you know, this is a woman and this is a man.

00:06:20.000 And what's so amazing about this is that 95 to 97% of the country agrees in biological reality.

00:06:28.000 And yet 95 to 97% of the country is afraid to talk about this issue.

00:06:32.000 And so it's like this totally out of whack balance, right?

00:06:35.000 Where regardless of your politics, regardless of your view, I think we could all agree that there are differences between men and women.

00:06:41.000 Like men can't become pregnant. 1.00

00:06:42.000 Women can, like very basic things. 1.00

00:06:44.000 Apple, by the way, has a pregnant man emoji.

00:06:47.000 You guys can check it out on your phone.

00:06:48.000 I don't know why you would.

00:06:49.000 It's kind of weird.

00:06:50.000 But anyway, you can if you want.

00:06:52.000 And so we're at this moment where a Supreme Court justice is like, what?

00:06:57.000 You're asking me to kind of define what a woman is? 0.90

00:07:00.000 And it's so interesting.

00:07:01.000 Like when I grew up and all the liberals were screaming at me in like high school and they were mostly feminists, like all they cared about was like women's rights. 1.00

00:07:10.000 Like it was the number one thing.

00:07:11.000 And I look back, I kind of agree with like 90% of what they used to say, which is, we women are so different than men, we don't want to be oppressed by you.

00:07:19.000 Like, okay, I think that's probably overblown, but at least you agree that there's differences, right?

00:07:26.000 At least like this, you know what I'm the type of feminist I'm talking about. 1.00

00:07:29.000 And so now I open up USA Today on the plane yesterday on the way here, and they have the woman of the year kind of on display.

00:07:37.000 And there is Levine, like right in the middle of it as the woman of the year.

00:07:42.000 And yeah, it is disgusting. 0.55

00:07:44.000 That's right.

00:07:44.000 We should be unafraid to say that, by the way, like this is not normal.

00:07:46.000 This is not like the new progressive thing.

00:07:48.000 It's awful and should be rejected and repudiated.

00:07:51.000 And anyone who believes it shouldn't be taken seriously, honestly.

00:07:53.000 Like they should be put in the category of flat earthers.

00:07:55.000 Mean that.

00:07:56.000 I mean, it's not something you should take it seriously.

00:07:58.000 Like, well, we need to really think deeply about a woman.

00:08:00.000 It's no, we know.

00:08:00.000 Actually, now I could see women in this audience and see men in this audience, and it's that simple.

00:08:04.000 And, but no, you're not a biologist.

00:08:06.000 You don't have a PhD to be able to interpret it.

00:08:08.000 Maybe that's the problem, isn't it?

00:08:10.000 Maybe the problem is we've been giving all this power to people with PhDs and medical degrees, and we've become less free, less healthy, sicker, more depressed, more addicted to alcohol and drugs in the last two years.

00:08:21.000 The more power we give to these experts that are biologists and scientists like Fauci and all these people that run this country, maybe they know very little, and the everyday plumber, electrician, police officer, and welder have far more wisdom than some biologist in Harvard that's supposed to tell us how to run our life.

00:08:41.000 So, what's so again, I don't like desire to talk about this issue, like what is a man, what is a woman?

00:08:47.000 But this issue's been forced, and we're gonna win.

00:08:48.000 It's that simple, okay?

00:08:50.000 And it's kind of one of the most important things.

00:08:52.000 You can't get this right, you're probably not gonna be able to decide whether or not you should have border security or how you should educate your kids or whether you should have kids.

00:09:00.000 You've probably got to get the fundamental building blocks of society right.

00:09:04.000 And so, this all happened simultaneously: the Twitter ban, Levine being called woman of the year, and then just kind of the death of female NCAA sports that most people didn't even know what happened.

00:09:16.000 It happened in real time.

00:09:17.000 So, I have to always kind of re-educate, not re-educate, just kind of reiterate it for the audience of what happened because it's amazing how the media censored this entire story.

00:09:26.000 So, enter William Thomas.

00:09:28.000 I'm not allowed to say that because dead naming, whatever, William Thomas, whatever.

00:09:32.000 All these rules.

00:09:32.000 That's how you know you're living in tyranny, by the way, when you can't remember the rules you have to live under.

00:09:37.000 I can't even remember them all.

00:09:40.000 I'm not allowed to say that.

00:09:42.000 Are we streaming on YouTube?

00:09:43.000 I can't even remember all of it.

00:09:44.000 It's like, well, I might get stripped.

00:09:45.000 I don't know.

00:09:46.000 We'll have fun.

00:09:46.000 Maybe I'll lose my Twitter and YouTube in a week.

00:09:48.000 I think we are streaming right now, so whatever.

00:09:51.000 Actually, it's not against YouTube's rules to dead name.

00:09:53.000 Anyway, whatever.

00:09:54.000 So, I can't remember all of them.

00:09:57.000 I can't get it straight.

00:09:58.000 So, William Thomas, okay, seems like a nice enough person, was the 462nd best swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania in the country, was a man, born a man, XY chromosomes, was trying to compete in swimming, wasn't really getting anywhere. 0.54

00:10:11.000 One day, Thomas wakes up and changes the name to Leah Thomas, and decides that he wants to keep swimming.

00:10:19.000 So, goes from the 462nd best swimmer to the best swimmer almost overnight.

00:10:25.000 And this happened really slowly, by the way.

00:10:27.000 This wasn't like an overnight thing.

00:10:28.000 If you were watching this carefully, like we were, we were covering this for like a year and a half.

00:10:32.000 They were like, hey, this is going to be a problem.

00:10:35.000 Like, hey, this is going to be a problem.

00:10:36.000 And they're like, oh, no, it's not like they're not going to let Thomas compete at the top level of the championship.

00:10:41.000 And there you go.

00:10:42.000 At the NCAA championship in Atlanta two weeks ago, Thomas was competing and won the NCAA championship as a biological man.

00:10:51.000 And again, that kind of goes back to that whole feminist critique, right? 1.00

00:10:54.000 Which is we're so upset that because we're being oppressed by men.

00:10:58.000 And I say, so the feminists are silent because they're now okay because they're oppressed by men, even though they think they're women. 1.00

00:11:05.000 It's like, isn't that against the entire argument that I was told my entire life?

00:11:10.000 So now we have conservatives trying to stand up for women because the feminists no longer think that women are necessary to be defended. 1.00

00:11:16.000 Like, if you're confused, good, because I think it's part of the point, quite honestly.

00:11:21.000 I can't keep the rules straight.

00:11:22.000 Like, who's on what team?

00:11:24.000 Like, I've, and I'm sure there's some feminists that are pretty upset about this, but they're being drowned out and they're not being taken seriously. 1.00

00:11:32.000 And by the way, I'm not necessarily against like first-wave feminism or parts of second-wave feminism, which is like we have biological differences, we might have different needs and wants and concerns.

00:11:41.000 Like, I think that's all really healthy stuff.

00:11:43.000 I don't think we should reject that.

00:11:45.000 I think it goes way too far.

00:11:46.000 And we saw this in the Kavanaugh hearing, is where it gets into the hatred of men, which is a whole separate conversation.

00:11:53.000 But it's amazing to see the American left in the last couple of years. 0.97

00:11:56.000 You saw it in the Kavanaugh hearings, right? 0.94

00:11:58.000 So Kavanaugh, you had this incredibly enthusiastic, like quasi-militant base of a major political party that was like, okay, this guy drank beer when he was 16 years old, and he might be a gang rapist. 0.90

00:12:13.000 And it was like crazy, right?

00:12:14.000 No substantial evidence at all behind it.

00:12:16.000 They almost derailed the entire confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh.

00:12:20.000 And then a couple years later, they put up their own nominee who's like, yeah, I don't know what a woman is. 0.96

00:12:26.000 And it's like, that's a huge change, by the way, in just a short period of time.

00:12:32.000 And I just want to kind of take pause.

00:12:33.000 I think we have to kind of take a cultural timeout as a country, by the way, and say, how did that happen so quickly?

00:12:40.000 How did we go from unquestionably protecting women's sports to now having men winning NCAA championships?

00:12:47.000 And I have a couple theories behind this, and I think it's a little bit contrarian, which you can agree or disagree with, which is I blame men for a lot of it, to be perfectly honest.

00:12:58.000 Where were the fathers that allowed this Thomas character to go abuse their daughters when they were, and yes, it is abuse, by the way, 100%.

00:13:06.000 It's not abuse in the physical setting, but you're using your higher levels of testosterone, your increased bone density to be able to win.

00:13:13.000 That's cheating.

00:13:15.000 We don't like cheating.

00:13:17.000 And it's all about stuff.

00:13:18.000 I want a medal.

00:13:18.000 It's about my truth.

00:13:19.000 Actually, it's not about your truth.

00:13:21.000 It's not.

00:13:22.000 And by the way, here's the easy choice.

00:13:24.000 People say, Charlie, what's your solution?

00:13:25.000 It's very simple.

00:13:26.000 You could go transition.

00:13:28.000 Just compete with the chromosomal structure you were born with.

00:13:32.000 Go continue to be the 462nd best swimmer against men.

00:13:35.000 You can go wear a bonnet.

00:13:36.000 You could do whatever you want.

00:13:39.000 But we're not going to allow you to go compete against other women. 1.00

00:13:42.000 We'll go respect your transition.

00:13:44.000 You could take the drugs.

00:13:45.000 You could do the whole thing.

00:13:46.000 Compete against the chromosomes you were born with.

00:13:48.000 No, but instead you could leapfrog from 462nd to the first.

00:13:51.000 And it is cheating.

00:13:52.000 And it's cutting in line.

00:13:53.000 We don't like cheaters as society.

00:13:54.000 In fact, any three or four-year-old, kind of into their own intuition, will say that's not fair.

00:14:02.000 And it isn't fair.

00:14:04.000 And so it really is something worth pondering, which is how do we allow this to happen?

00:14:08.000 And I'll just kind of complete the point, is that, I mean, men in a lot of different ways are supposed to be the ones that pick the tough fights to defend people that can't defend themselves.

00:14:17.000 I know that's super politically incorrect to say, but it's true, okay? 0.94

00:14:20.000 It's that men go to war to go do things that you don't want to always see happen so you could remain free.

00:14:26.000 That's the way things have worked for thousands of years.

00:14:28.000 And so when there is an issue that arises, and I was watching these videos of the NCAA championship, and they showed the fathers, and they're wearing like four masks, and like they're like hunched over, and like they don't know.

00:14:44.000 I'm like, that's why this is happening.

00:14:46.000 It's like the rise of the beta male.

00:14:48.000 That's exactly why this has happened.

00:14:50.000 And it's not a, it's like, I mean, you should laugh at it because it's, you know, intended to be somewhat of a joke, but it's actually not a joke because it's these like upper middle class northeastern corridor fathers that always thought that like, I'm going to raise my daughter to feel like she's going to be boss babe.

00:15:05.000 She can rule the world. 1.00

00:15:06.000 She could do whatever she wants to do.

00:15:07.000 She can have it all, right?

00:15:08.000 Like that's kind of like the Northeast.

00:15:11.000 You're like born in Boston.

00:15:13.000 You grow up in the Philadelphia corridor.

00:15:15.000 Like that's what you tell your daughter.

00:15:16.000 Like you could seize dragons.

00:15:18.000 You could do it all.

00:15:19.000 Like don't get married immediately.

00:15:20.000 Men are just going to bring you down. 1.00

00:15:21.000 And then like next thing you know, at the NCAA championship, a man is beating them and the man is like, I don't know what to do.

00:15:27.000 I mean, I'm not going to like stand up for my daughter.

00:15:29.000 And it really does beg the question, which is, where is society going to draw the line?

00:15:34.000 We don't know the question.

00:15:35.000 We don't know the answer to that question yet.

00:15:36.000 We certainly don't draw the line on bathrooms, right?

00:15:38.000 Most states across the country can just waltz in whatever bathroom you want. 1.00

00:15:42.000 I don't think Arkansas's passed that.

00:15:44.000 I hope not.

00:15:45.000 You have?

00:15:46.000 You've passed it in law?

00:15:47.000 Well, I don't know.

00:15:48.000 Target only.

00:15:50.000 Oh, in Target only?

00:15:51.000 Yeah, okay.

00:15:53.000 Has Walmart passed that yet?

00:15:54.000 No?

00:15:55.000 Okay, good.

00:15:56.000 Yeah, that's good.

00:15:59.000 So, look, this is something I want to just kind of encourage you.

00:16:05.000 If you feel like you're afraid to talk about these topics and that you're really intimidated because it comes too academic, that is a propaganda technique.

00:16:14.000 Okay?

00:16:15.000 So there's this effort that's been launched in the country to use an argument from authority.

00:16:23.000 We all know argument from authority, right?

00:16:25.000 It's a logical fallacy.

00:16:26.000 Like, I have a doctorate in a certain field, therefore I'm able to comment on things that you aren't able to comment on.

00:16:33.000 And of course, we know that's not true.

00:16:34.000 That's not a way to argue.

00:16:35.000 You just can't say, I have a bunch of degrees, therefore the laws of physics don't actually apply.

00:16:39.000 Like, you have to prove it.

00:16:41.000 You have to make an argument behind it.

00:16:42.000 And so, but they want you to be intimidated, and they're really good at it, by the way.

00:16:46.000 They're phenomenal at actually making you feel intimidated and afraid.

00:16:51.000 And, you know, the alphabet mafia, as I call them, the people that kind of run this entire cartel, they're nasty. 1.00

00:16:56.000 I get it.

00:16:57.000 Like, they will fire you from your job if you dare speak out against this, right?

00:17:02.000 And what's so, anyone in sororities, by the way, it's kind of a big thing in the South?

00:17:05.000 Sororities?

00:17:05.000 Anyone?

00:17:06.000 Sororities or fraternities?

00:17:07.000 Yes, a good amount of people.

00:17:08.000 I don't know, around here, but in other states, it's like the sororities are afraid to talk and speak out on the very issues that are pretty fundamental to like the chartering documents of what a sorority and fraternity is.

00:17:19.000 It's like men, women, they're like, well, I don't know. 0.52

00:17:22.000 We might want to not, you know, upset the apple cart on this.

00:17:26.000 And it's so interesting.

00:17:27.000 It's like when you want to all of a sudden like put your fist up to say that America is a super racist country.

00:17:33.000 It's like everyone's willing to break glass, right?

00:17:35.000 Like I'll go get arrested.

00:17:37.000 I'll go protest till 2 a.m.

00:17:39.000 Like whatever it takes to go prove America's not racist.

00:17:42.000 Like I'm going to go march in the streets, black square on Instagram, everybody, and then get me the one with the mask and the vaccine and then the Ukraine one and whatever's next. 0.78

00:17:49.000 I'm in line for it.

00:17:51.000 Whatever it is, I'm already in support of the next hysteria.

00:17:54.000 Okay, like whatever, sure.

00:17:55.000 But it's like the one thing that we're asking you to break glass for, like societal, civilizational structure, people like back away.

00:18:04.000 And it really goes to show the power of the cultural machine.

00:18:08.000 And that's part of why we're here tonight, by the way.

00:18:10.000 So that you know that you're actually not alone, that there's hundreds, if not thousands, of other young people that actually share your views and your values, that whatever the kind of current tyranny of the moment isn't isn't unquestionable.

00:18:26.000 And so that's the other thing I want to mention is that, you know, we talk, I hate tyranny, you should hate tyranny.

00:18:30.000 I hate when a few people rule a lot of people without their permission.

00:18:34.000 That's basically what tyranny is, right?

00:18:36.000 Small group of people ruling a lot of people without their permission.

00:18:39.000 We love the Constitution.

00:18:40.000 One of the reasons we love the Constitution is because it has permission built into the Constitution, consent of the governor, very basic component of the Constitution.

00:18:48.000 You can't do something dramatic or bold without our permission, and we will check and balance to make sure that it doesn't happen.

00:18:54.000 And so, but there's other forms of tyranny, though.

00:18:56.000 It's not just government.

00:18:57.000 And that's the one thing that I always try to tell conservatives is that there's cultural tyranny and there's corporate tyranny that is sometimes actually more powerful against you than just the government.

00:19:07.000 You see, like the government didn't ban me from Twitter, right?

00:19:10.000 I mean, if the government banned me from Twitter, I would actually be able to sue them and say that it's a First Amendment right.

00:19:15.000 It's a private company.

00:19:16.000 You could do whatever you want.

00:19:17.000 And I know a lot of you that are looking now to go to apply for jobs, you know, and you're going to graduate college soon, and you're probably afraid.

00:19:24.000 And I get it.

00:19:24.000 I actually do.

00:19:25.000 I'm not telling you not to be afraid.

00:19:27.000 I'm telling you, it's probably not, it's probably you're going to be a happier and freer person if you dismiss that fear.

00:19:31.000 We could talk about that.

00:19:32.000 But it's a legitimate thing, right?

00:19:33.000 You went into debt, you know, to go study whatever they told you to go study.

00:19:38.000 Hopefully you benefited from it.

00:19:39.000 Probably not, but like whatever, that's college.

00:19:42.000 Happy to get into that.

00:19:45.000 By the way, most young people believe that college is a waste of time.

00:19:47.000 That's a separate conversation for a different time.

00:19:49.000 More of an indictment of the college cartel than anything else.

00:19:53.000 But then you're nervous, right?

00:19:54.000 You want to get a job.

00:19:55.000 You want to be able to work for a good company.

00:19:56.000 And the next thing you know, you go look up 10 places you want to go to apply.

00:20:00.000 Or even worse, you look up places where you're going to go get internships, right?

00:20:03.000 Which is kind of a prerequisite.

00:20:05.000 And all of a sudden, those of you that have summer internships, you go work for any of these companies.

00:20:08.000 Like, whoa, like just like the HR training, Zoom call, it's like, I have to put my pronouns to like go work at this investment bank.

00:20:16.000 And then all of a sudden, you know what that is?

00:20:18.000 That's a warning shot for you.

00:20:20.000 Without them ever putting it in writing, they're trying to tell you they're like, hey, conservative over there, you want to get a paycheck?

00:20:26.000 You want to have a career in this company? 0.94

00:20:28.000 You better sit down and shut up because we're in charge. 1.00

00:20:31.000 And it's really, I get it. 0.98

00:20:32.000 It's intimidating.

00:20:34.000 Now, there's ways to work through that.

00:20:36.000 I actually think that's a really unhappy way to live, to live under the tyranny of other people just for a paycheck.

00:20:42.000 But for some people, I get it.

00:20:43.000 You went into debt.

00:20:44.000 You want to move your family up the socioeconomic ladder, but that's a form of tyranny. 0.97

00:20:47.000 It's immoral.

00:20:48.000 And there's other ways to fight it, start your own business, entrepreneurship, all this sort of stuff.

00:20:52.000 But that's not actually coming from the government.

00:20:55.000 And that's where we need as conservatives need to broaden our kind of indictment of what is really challenging young people in particular.

00:21:02.000 What are the things that you're coming up against?

00:21:05.000 And it's not just you're worried about the FBI or the Department of Justice, which is, you know, obviously super corrupt and comes after people for political purposes.

00:21:12.000 But you're like, actually, I'm worried that my employer is going to have something, they're going to dig up something I said on my social media eight years ago, take it out of context, put it as a referral to the HR manager, and my career is going to get obliterated.

00:21:24.000 And those four years at the University of Arkansas will be for nothing.

00:21:27.000 That's what keeps me up at night.

00:21:28.000 So now I want to improve my social credit score system by posting the Ukrainian flag, posting the black square flag, and posting, showing that I got four boosters and I'm on the waiting list for the fifth or whatever it is that boosts your social credit score.

00:21:41.000 That's so Maoist.

00:21:43.000 Like it's insanely totalitarian.

00:21:46.000 And I know that there's some exceptions to this, but generally when you go work for a major corporation, I mean, I don't want to speak for the major corporations here in Arkansas.

00:21:54.000 You guys could fill in whether or not they're enlightened or woke or whatever, I don't know.

00:21:58.000 But generally, most across the country, the Fortune 100 companies, the Fortune 25 companies, when you graduates go work for there, it's like compliance and there's another thousand people that want your job.

00:22:09.000 And so how did we get here?

00:22:11.000 How did we get to a place where Capital Street Partners, one of the largest investment banks in the country, are saying that, you know, we're not going to hire white people for the next couple years without full unanimous permission of the board.

00:22:22.000 We're only going to hire people of color. 1.00

00:22:23.000 How do we get to that place, right?

00:22:25.000 And it kind of goes to this false virtue of tolerance that I want to explore with you guys, which is for far too long, like we always sought to be the people that were liked and were nice.

00:22:39.000 And that's a good thing to want, obviously.

00:22:41.000 No one wants to be hated.

00:22:43.000 But when they start to take over every major corporation and they take over every place that you're going to actually get value from, then all of a sudden you're like, wow, I wish people would have been a little disagreeable before.

00:22:52.000 I mean, I could go example after example after example.

00:22:55.000 And so what do you do about it?

00:22:58.000 We can get to that in quite QA if you guys want.

00:23:01.000 So I want to speak now just a little bit about kind of the things facing students and young people, and then we could do some questions and we'll have some fun.

00:23:07.000 So I get in a lot of trouble when I say this, but adults don't heckle me when I say this.

00:23:12.000 But I think just let me finish the argument.

00:23:14.000 The students are going to be enthusiastic about it when I say this, which is that this generation has gotten a really raw deal.

00:23:22.000 And this generation, I think, has been lied to and manipulated more so than any other generation in recent history.

00:23:29.000 And I'm going to tell you why exactly.

00:23:30.000 I'm not saying that they shouldn't work harder and all this.

00:23:33.000 People, I just get the craziest emails. 0.97

00:23:34.000 Charlie, all millennials are lazy. 1.00

00:23:36.000 You know what? 0.99

00:23:36.000 No. 0.99

00:23:37.000 Some millennials are lazier than other generations.

00:23:39.000 But most millennials, they want to get their act together and they're the generation of rule followers.

00:23:44.000 Now, you guys are mostly Generation Z. Is that right, Gen Z-ish?

00:23:47.000 So let me tell you kind of this, how this generation was raised and where all of a sudden things went wrong.

00:23:53.000 They did everything they were told to do for a decade.

00:23:56.000 Okay, go get good ACT scores.

00:23:58.000 Go get good SAT scores.

00:24:00.000 Go take the AP courses.

00:24:01.000 Go borrow a bunch of money to go to a school.

00:24:03.000 You know, go to that school.

00:24:04.000 Keep showing up to it.

00:24:05.000 So they borrow money they don't have to study things that don't matter to go find jobs that don't exist.

00:24:10.000 Then they go move into urban metropolitan areas filled with a debt burden to go rent property and not own property.

00:24:17.000 We as conservatives should be advocates for owning things.

00:24:20.000 It creates better citizens and better people.

00:24:22.000 It is the least, it is the lowest property ownership of any generation in American history.

00:24:28.000 We should support increasing property ownership, especially with acreage all around.

00:24:33.000 It creates conservatives like immediately, right?

00:24:35.000 When you have to like go manage something that isn't just like pushing a button in an elevator, that's what we should support.

00:24:40.000 And so, but then they followed the rules, they followed the rules, and then what next hit?

00:24:44.000 At the place where millennials in Gen Z are the most likely to have the surge of their income going up or their wealth increasing, we decide to lock down our country for two years because of a virus that they were not at threat from. 0.98

00:25:00.000 And so they followed the rules.

00:25:01.000 Okay, I'm going to stay at home 15 days to slow the spread.

00:25:04.000 Well, we're now on day like 790 of 15 days to slow the spread.

00:25:04.000 You got it.

00:25:09.000 Okay, I'm going to follow the rules.

00:25:10.000 I'm going to wear the mask at all times.

00:25:11.000 I'm going to work from home, work remote.

00:25:13.000 I'm going to do what I'm told to do.

00:25:15.000 Where promotions and job advancement is a lot harder when you're working at home.

00:25:18.000 It just is.

00:25:19.000 It's like a lot of these companies went through a stagnation and went through a short spurst, but you saw this incredible moment where we as a society decided to forsake the well-being of the young to try to protect the old.

00:25:33.000 No society has done that in recent memory at all.

00:25:36.000 And the argument was like, well, young people could spread it to older people.

00:25:40.000 How do young people stop seeing them until there's a solution that could actually be put forward?

00:25:44.000 So what ended up happening?

00:25:45.000 Well, everything now costs twice as much.

00:25:47.000 Everything.

00:25:48.000 From gas to property.

00:25:50.000 And so this generation, it's so funny.

00:25:53.000 I get people that reach out.

00:25:54.000 They say, oh, this generation needs to just go buy property and land.

00:25:57.000 Really with what money exactly?

00:25:59.000 Like with the money they're not earning because they studied North African lesbian poetry at some local college or something?

00:26:07.000 Or with the debt burden that they went into debt to go do that?

00:26:10.000 Like what money are they supposed to do?

00:26:12.000 A down payment on a home now that everything is more expensive?

00:26:15.000 Everything.

00:26:16.000 It costs like $900 to get from Little Rock now to here in the car or whatever it is, right?

00:26:21.000 I'm sure you guys are paying like $150 to pay up, fill your tank of gas.

00:26:26.000 And so what I'm getting at, I'm not saying that young people can't work harder and make better decisions.

00:26:31.000 All those things are true.

00:26:32.000 I get that.

00:26:33.000 But the three things that create good citizens, and I would say conservative citizens, are happening at the lowest rates ever in the country's history.

00:26:44.000 Three things, okay?

00:26:45.000 Owning property, getting married, and having children.

00:26:49.000 So this generation is doing those three things less than any other generation in history.

00:26:55.000 Adults should say timeout.

00:26:56.000 Why is that the case?

00:26:57.000 Is it all because they're a bunch of rebellious punks?

00:27:01.000 There's plenty of them.

00:27:01.000 No.

00:27:02.000 They're smart Alex, whatever, okay?

00:27:04.000 Fine.

00:27:04.000 Cultural stuff, Disney's a problem, social media, all this.

00:27:07.000 I get all of it.

00:27:08.000 I'll agree with all of it.

00:27:09.000 That is not why this generation has more people that are unmarried in their 30s than are married.

00:27:16.000 First time ever.

00:27:16.000 We've never seen anything quite like it.

00:27:18.000 And so I would argue that one of the main reasons is obviously the cartel of the colleges and the whole scam that is embedded in that and how we have just totally, condescendingly destroyed muscular work in this country, right? 0.98

00:27:31.000 Where we act as if the people who work at their hands are stupid, when in reality, they're necessary and wise. 1.00

00:27:37.000 And the people that are stupid are the people that say, I can't define what a woman is. 1.00

00:27:41.000 And, but no, but you all know this when you're in high school. 1.00

00:27:44.000 You get this like relentless train of questioning, like, where are you going to college?

00:27:47.000 Where are you going to college?

00:27:48.000 Where are you going to college?

00:27:49.000 Not why are you going to college, but where are you going to college?

00:27:51.000 Where are you going to college?

00:27:52.000 And never used to be like, you know what?

00:27:54.000 I'm going to go become a welder.

00:27:54.000 I might not go to college.

00:27:55.000 Like, oh.

00:27:57.000 And basically, when you're 18, it makes a really big impact.

00:27:59.000 Like, oh, you're going to be lower on the caste system.

00:28:02.000 Like, you're going to be one of those people.

00:28:03.000 You're going to be like a sweaty person.

00:28:05.000 And so, basically, and you guys all know it's true.

00:28:08.000 Like, you know, high school guidance counselors have done more damage to destroying muscular work in this country than any other community of people that I could think of.

00:28:20.000 And so it creates this caste system where the people who keep the economy alive are the muscular class, the ones that drive the trucks.

00:28:30.000 They're the ones that make sure our stores continue to have food on them.

00:28:33.000 They're the ones that plant and grow the food. 0.99

00:28:36.000 They're the ones that protect our streets when there's civil unrest.

00:28:39.000 They're the ones that go fight the wars that keep us safe.

00:28:42.000 They're the ones that police our border. 0.51

00:28:44.000 But what happened is during the lockdowns is the Zoom and the Skype class decided that everyone just can kind of work from a laptop.

00:28:54.000 We're just going to open up our laptop.

00:28:55.000 What's so interesting is the mandates that obviously we're here to hopefully will say will never happen again.

00:29:01.000 They disproportionately affected the people that were actually keeping the country afloat.

00:29:06.000 It's like, yeah, if you're able to kind of roll out of bed at 8:55 and open up your computer and just go to work the same, then like vaccine mandates and mask mandates don't irritate you the same as someone that has to work on an assembly line all day long to make sure that your family has food to eat that night.

00:29:21.000 And it's this caste system that was built in.

00:29:24.000 And so then young people were basically put in a penalty box, you graduate, earlier recent graduates or current college students, a penalty box for 18 months.

00:29:33.000 18 months, and it's not like the country was the same when you left it.

00:29:37.000 So for 18 months, nothing was normal.

00:29:40.000 So we have the most suicidal, most depressed, most alcohol-addicted, most drug-addicted generation in history.

00:29:44.000 And I hear from people that are baby boomer plus, like, oh, they just need to work harder and get their act together.

00:29:49.000 It's like, wait a second.

00:29:50.000 It's like, do you think there might be anything with public policy that might have actually handed them something where they're in a less free country?

00:29:58.000 The lockdowns were a massive government intervention that did nothing but made young people poorer and made rich people richer.

00:30:04.000 It was an upside-down wealth distribution scheme to make students and recent college graduates less likely to own property, get married, and have children.

00:30:14.000 And so one of the things I try to implore with conservatives running for office, and this is kind of one of the takeaways, is that we should talk about making those three things easier.

00:30:22.000 You all of a sudden want young people to be less depressed, have them start owning land, finding a partner of meaning and have children.

00:30:29.000 Those three things are like the easy things we should be talking about.

00:30:31.000 There's other things in particular, you know, beyond that.

00:30:33.000 Having a job would be nice, you know, because that would make the other things possible.

00:30:38.000 But so, but instead, I'm afraid that conservatives are kind of missing this opportunity.

00:30:43.000 And there's this opportunity, and this is one of the reasons why Bernie Sanders resonates so well with younger people.

00:30:49.000 And this is something that a lot of, I think, adults are missing, and you guys would resonate.

00:30:54.000 It's not just that students want free stuff.

00:30:57.000 There's plenty of people that do.

00:30:58.000 But instead, they look at Bernie Sanders and they say, I actually look at him and he's going to give me freedom.

00:31:03.000 I know this is going to sound silly, but it's like, he's going to forgive my student loans because I was lied to and I didn't, I went to college and I know that it was wrong for me. 0.93

00:31:13.000 And he's going to wipe that out because when I was 18, when I was most vulnerable, I was told I had to go to some stupid school to go get a degree when in reality it wasn't necessary.

00:31:22.000 And Bernie Sanders is going to wipe me clean of that debt. 0.98

00:31:24.000 It's like he's going to break my shackles.

00:31:26.000 Now, of course, that is not the argument that I would make, but that is the way that a lot of people process it.

00:31:32.000 So what do you do about it?

00:31:33.000 Well, if we do nothing, and I'm not saying I have all the answers, let me tell you what's going to happen if we do nothing, okay?

00:31:39.000 You're going to get some really radical politicians that are going to take advantage of this.

00:31:43.000 I'm talking about really radical.

00:31:45.000 That'll make AOC look like a moderate.

00:31:48.000 No, no.

00:31:49.000 Think about it.

00:31:50.000 You have a generation that doesn't own anything, that isn't married to people and has no kids. 0.88

00:31:54.000 You're talking about like a combustible engine that's waving to take off for a legitimate socialist revolution in this country.

00:32:00.000 Where you have two people that own more than 40% of the bottom quadrant, people are like, how do we stop socialism?

00:32:06.000 Get young people to start owning stuff quickly, like now.

00:32:09.000 They better be bought into this society, like quickly.

00:32:11.000 The clock is ticking.

00:32:12.000 Because the longer that window goes, a generation of renters, a generation of just people staring at their screens all day long, there will be a moment where the left actually has someone that is somewhat articulate and not totally insane.

00:32:26.000 And they put them up and it's like, you know what?

00:32:28.000 I think it's time for a year of jubilee, which was a commandment, by the way, in the Old Testament.

00:32:33.000 I think we need to take all the money from the billionaires and give it back to young people who are locked down, who are more suicidal, more alcohol-addicted, more drug-addicted.

00:32:40.000 That's going to be a hard argument for me to kind of refute.

00:32:43.000 I don't believe it.

00:32:44.000 I think it's bad for society.

00:32:45.000 Mass wealth confiscation is immoral, but that tsunami will be really hard to stop.

00:32:50.000 And it'll make America less free.

00:32:51.000 It'll only make the government more powerful. 0.97

00:32:53.000 So how do we stop it?

00:32:54.000 We need to make sure all of you are bought into the system.

00:32:56.000 This is one of the things that has always made America so difficult to have a socialist revolution is the middle class. 1.00

00:33:02.000 The middle class is completely disappearing. 0.95

00:33:04.000 They want a class that if you're lucky enough to make it, you work for a major corporation or a major tech company, and you're kind of in that ruling elite, the top 2% of the country, or you're just kind of in this managed poor.

00:33:14.000 You get the government checks, you get the stimulus checks, you really don't get much wealthier every single year.

00:33:19.000 You kind of live in your government-appropriated housing unit.

00:33:22.000 Super depressing, by the way, like incredibly depressing.

00:33:25.000 And small business entrepreneurship basically disappears.

00:33:28.000 So that kind of putting all that together, my challenge to adults is that there needs to be an intergenerational apology.

00:33:36.000 And people don't like hearing that.

00:33:38.000 They don't.

00:33:38.000 The lockdowns have created, and the fiscal policy that went alongside of it, by the way, and the $6 trillion of new money that was created, I believe, have created a set of circumstances that are making this generation so far behind the eight ball before they can even vote when they're 18 years old, that this is a deal that is immoral from the very start.

00:33:56.000 So I'm not saying redistribution, but there needs to be a national recovery program, a program that prioritizes young people, Generation Z and millennials in particular, and gets them excited about something again.

00:34:09.000 Not just this kind of constant gloom of like wokeism and am I like violating the tenets of white fragility or whatever it is that people talk about nowadays.

00:34:18.000 It's super depressing, but it's like, you know what, actually, this is an amazing country and you should believe in it again.

00:34:23.000 And I want you to believe in it.

00:34:25.000 And so you want to create conservatives, create people that own stuff, that are married, and that have lots of children.

00:34:31.000 That will get the liberalism out of it like immediately and will make your country much more recognizable.

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00:35:25.000 Okay, so yeah, let me just kind of mention this, which is if you're confused about what's happening in the country, it's intentional.

00:35:30.000 I mentioned this.

00:35:31.000 Confusion and chaos always end in a tyrant.

00:35:34.000 So they're creating confusion because then it's easier to consolidate power.

00:35:38.000 This is exactly what happened to the French Revolution, Rubespierre.

00:35:41.000 You guys can study it closely.

00:35:42.000 Napoleon took advantage of it.

00:35:44.000 People desire a strong man when things start to fall apart.

00:35:48.000 So they want you to be confused about gender norms.

00:35:49.000 They want you to be confused about historical norms.

00:35:51.000 They want you to be confused about the country in general because they're going to use it as a means to the end to try to get towards some sort of authoritarianism and tyranny.

00:35:59.000 This is exactly why these kind of seemingly silly kind of culture war disputes are super important.

00:36:04.000 They're not silly, right?

00:36:05.000 Being able to define what a man is, what a woman is, is because, you know, we should reject tyranny and all of its forms, but when people are owning nothing and they're in this kind of place of widespread confusion, they're going to be more likely to want to latch onto someone that's going to come in and say, you know what?

00:36:20.000 I'm going to nationalize things.

00:36:21.000 I'm going to get rid of inflation, all this.

00:36:23.000 It creates the conditions for that kind of person to come into place, right?

00:36:27.000 And that's the way that you kind of view of all this.

00:36:29.000 Finally, I want to ask, what is the purpose of education?

00:36:32.000 A lot of you guys are in education right now.

00:36:35.000 I've made my thoughts somewhat clear about college.

00:36:37.000 Happy to go into that more.

00:36:38.000 Parents out there, be very careful sending your kids to college.

00:36:41.000 You'll play Russian roulette with their values and you may never see them again. 0.90

00:36:44.000 Maybe the University of Arkansas has no liberals.

00:36:46.000 I don't know.

00:36:47.000 I don't know.

00:36:47.000 You guys could tell me.

00:36:48.000 So there you go.

00:36:50.000 So you guys could tell me all about it, I'm sure.

00:36:53.000 So I never go into a state and tell people what's wrong with their state.

00:36:57.000 California, actually, that's the exception.

00:36:59.000 I do that all the time in California. 0.98

00:37:01.000 I'm dumb though. 0.96

00:37:02.000 That's not true. 0.65

00:37:03.000 But you guys could tell me in QA, and then I can respond to that and we can explore that together.

00:37:09.000 But what is the purpose of education?

00:37:11.000 And this is something that we're kind of debating right now in our country.

00:37:15.000 And you see that in this whole Florida situation, right?

00:37:18.000 Where in Florida, somehow Disney, $250 billion major media company, is coming out and they're super upset because all of a sudden, you know, five-year-olds won't be learning about gay sex or whatever, right? 0.95

00:37:30.000 And by the way, this is total gaslighting. 0.63

00:37:32.000 It's pure and total propaganda, okay?

00:37:35.000 Is that if you think you're losing your mind, you're not.

00:37:38.000 This is a propaganda technique, okay?

00:37:40.000 It's a parental rights bill that was passed in Florida that is so vanilla, it should have gotten unanimous support and Disney should have supported it.

00:37:47.000 Instead, the exact opposite has happened.

00:37:49.000 Instead, Governor Ron DeSantis, God bless him, by the way, the courageous and the wonderful Ron DeSantis, signed into law this parental rights bill.

00:38:01.000 Disney is now saying by the end of the year, they want half their characters to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans.

00:38:07.000 I can't remember all the letters, whatever.

00:38:08.000 All that stuff.

00:38:09.000 By the end of the year, they want half. 0.98

00:38:11.000 They want more children to be exposed to gay kissing and that stuff. 0.97

00:38:14.000 That's their own statement. 0.71

00:38:15.000 You can make your own judgment on that, whether you think five-year-olds need to be exposed to that.

00:38:19.000 And then Disney comes out and they say in their private Zoom call now leaked that it's the not-so-secret gay agenda at Disney.

00:38:29.000 Okay, so if we don't actually know what education is, some of these things can be kind of hard to dispute because someone will say, no, it's free speech.

00:38:35.000 We need to give teachers free speech to five-year-olds.

00:38:38.000 I say, who on earth, what do you think education is?

00:38:42.000 Do you think it's the time for a teacher to spout out whatever they want to talk about?

00:38:45.000 Of course not.

00:38:46.000 You're developing a mind there, and that's a really fragile thing.

00:38:50.000 I don't care your opinion at all, actually.

00:38:52.000 There's some guy in MSNBC who says, you know, I'm really concerned because I won't be able to tell my five-year-olds in kindergarten that I went paddleboarding with my husband.

00:39:02.000 It was a guy that was saying this.

00:39:03.000 I was like, and he called them his children in the class, which was super creepy, right?

00:39:07.000 But I was like, wait a second, whoever told you that's the purpose of why you're a teacher?

00:39:11.000 You as a teacher are there to lead a student towards what is good, true, and beautiful.

00:39:16.000 You're there to create good citizens.

00:39:18.000 You're there to capture their imagination so they can study the Western canon towards things that make them a fully developed human being.

00:39:25.000 And then people say, well, Charlie, what if the children think differently?

00:39:29.000 Exactly, who cares?

00:39:30.000 They're children.

00:39:31.000 They're not in charge of their own education.

00:39:34.000 This is exactly what's wrong.

00:39:35.000 And by the way, you think about it, we've been propagandized about this.

00:39:37.000 People say, well, we have to listen to children's opinion.

00:39:40.000 No, we don't.

00:39:41.000 It's completely irrelevant what the children think.

00:39:44.000 What's relevant is what we want and what is good.

00:39:46.000 If we now think it's controversial to say adults know what is better for children than what children think for as children, then we got to redo the entire dietary guidelines now.

00:39:58.000 This is the most obvious thing that we could get.

00:40:01.000 We say, and they're like, well, no, we need to have all the children share their opinions.

00:40:05.000 It's like, actually, it's irrelevant what an eight-year-old opinion is to me.

00:40:09.000 What's relevant is are they grasping things that get them on the journey to be a complete human being, understand the unity of mind, body, and spirit, to understand what it's like that the world is really tough, really nasty, really mean, and they're going to have to be tough and have perseverance and grit to get through that.

00:40:24.000 To know that they are just one part in an ever-unfolding story of a God who made them and loves them and they're made in the image of that God.

00:40:32.000 Are we communicating that?

00:40:33.000 And so what is the purpose of education?

00:40:38.000 It's not giving a teacher some soapbox to say whatever they want to say.

00:40:43.000 It's instead having teachers that know they want to lead them forth towards what is good, true, and beautiful.

00:40:48.000 And that's actually where the word education comes from.

00:40:50.000 It means literally to lead forth in Latin.

00:40:52.000 Okay, so that's a lot of fun.

00:40:54.000 Let's do some questions.

00:40:55.000 I just want to say this in closing of this part of the remarks.

00:40:59.000 I just want to encourage all of you right now that might feel as if you're living under some form of tyranny right now.

00:41:04.000 Okay?

00:41:05.000 It's normal.

00:41:05.000 It's okay.

00:41:07.000 But it is never the wrong thing to push back against tyranny.

00:41:12.000 It might not be comfortable.

00:41:15.000 It might not be easy, but you will be rewarded long term, especially if you do that at a young age.

00:41:21.000 The younger you get used to that, the freer and happier your life will be.

00:41:26.000 So what is the definition of tyranny?

00:41:28.000 Do you have to watch your language, your word choice, your association, your social media comments, always as if someone is watching, and if you say something wrong, your life will be derailed.

00:41:39.000 If the answer to that question is yes, you are not free.

00:41:43.000 So do something about it.

00:41:44.000 And that's what our turning point USA kids are doing every single day.

00:41:47.000 They're making the decision, like, hey, there's going to be a constant.

00:41:49.000 I don't care.

00:41:49.000 I'm going to live in a place of personal freedom.

00:41:51.000 And I want to get that country back, and you guys can all do that.

00:41:53.000 Okay, thank you so much.

00:41:54.000 Let's do some questions, guys.

00:42:03.000 Okay.

00:42:04.000 Right here, if you guys line up, and we love disagreements.

00:42:08.000 No soapbox, though, please.

00:42:10.000 So we reserve the right to interject.

00:42:13.000 Okay, let's get to some questions here.

00:42:15.000 We've got a fair amount of time, too.

00:42:17.000 Okay.

00:42:18.000 At what point do you think corporations have a right, if any, to require vaccinations of any kind?

00:42:23.000 It's a great question.

00:42:25.000 So, look, I think over a certain size, over 10 employees, I would have loved to have seen every conservative legislature to say that vaccination status is a protected class, and it's none of the business of an employer to be able to come in and to require the vaccine of anyone.

00:42:41.000 In fact, I shouldn't even say 10 people.

00:42:43.000 I should just say in general, if you are in a workplace, similar under the Civil Rights Act, where there is a protected class, if you will, and look, no one should be forced to get the vaccine against their will.

00:42:53.000 No one should be forced to get the vaccine against their will.

00:42:56.000 And the amount of people that lost their jobs, lost their livelihoods, that saw their entire world fall apart all around them, was so unbelievable to me.

00:43:06.000 So what should conservatives do about that?

00:43:08.000 Well, lawmakers should step up and say, listen, if you have rights as an employee, that you should not be able to be terminated for your job just because you don't want to take an experimental vaccine, that we all know, by the way, does not prevent against infection, does not totally prevent against hospitalization.

00:43:25.000 And by the way, if we're talking about this in general, why is it that we're never allowed to talk about azithromycin, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, vitamin D?

00:43:33.000 Why is it we can never talk about those things?

00:43:35.000 Ever.

00:43:37.000 So, Corporations should, so vaccine status should fall under HIPAA.

00:43:46.000 Let me say that again.

00:43:48.000 Vaccine status should fall under HIPAA, and it currently does not.

00:43:51.000 And so that's a very easy fix that anyone in our government could do.

00:43:56.000 Thank you for your question.

00:43:57.000 Thanks.

00:43:58.000 Yeah, right here.

00:44:01.000 In regards to, you're talking a lot about the caste system, the streams like how there's a wider gap between the lower class and the higher class and how the middle class is disappearing.

00:44:14.000 You mentioned a lot of that as an issue, but you didn't really provide much of a solution to that issue.

00:44:20.000 You just kind of stayed that it's an issue and then you kind of continued onwards.

00:44:24.000 And in regards to that, you did bring up how Bernie Sanders, you said, takes advantage of that fact.

00:44:30.000 Well, and then you said that.

00:44:38.000 So in regards to that, as okay, I probably should.

00:44:47.000 That's okay.

00:44:48.000 So you're asking basically what would be some of my solutions to that, right?

00:44:51.000 Not just addressing the problem.

00:44:52.000 Is that a fair?

00:44:54.000 Okay, that's fine.

00:44:54.000 More or less.

00:44:55.000 Yeah, so I'm glad you mentioned it.

00:44:57.000 Didn't have as much time to dive into it as I would like.

00:44:59.000 So first, and this will be the generic answer, and then I'll get into the non-generic answer, okay?

00:45:03.000 The first and foremost is, and this is idealistic and unlikely to happen, is that the federal government has to get off the backs of entrepreneurs, stop creating money out of thin air, which is hyper-inflating our currency and destroying the wealth of regular everyday people, right?

00:45:17.000 Now, I say that's the generic answer because that's the answer you'll get from almost anyone on the center, right?

00:45:21.000 But it's totally true.

00:45:22.000 Totally true.

00:45:23.000 Inflation is a thief.

00:45:24.000 It is a thief.

00:45:25.000 Inflation makes you poorer.

00:45:27.000 And inflation is directly correlated thanks to the $6 trillion additionally that we created at thin air in the last 18 months.

00:45:33.000 Period, end of story.

00:45:35.000 Even the San Francisco Federal Reserve, who's basically incentivized not to say that, has come out and said that.

00:45:40.000 So let me tell you something, though, that will be a little bit contrarian, which is that I believe that conservatives should entertain certain policy portfolios where there are tax packages, tax incentives for people to have children.

00:45:53.000 The number one reason why people do not have children in this country is economic.

00:45:58.000 And that's wrong.

00:46:00.000 If it's too expensive to have kids, we should say that matters more than just tax cuts, right?

00:46:07.000 So we need to have a hierarchy of needs, wants, and concerns, right?

00:46:10.000 So when the birth rate plummets by 600,000 babies last year, like, whoa, that's not good for society.

00:46:17.000 That creates really kind of nihilistic people.

00:46:20.000 Now, I'm not saying free handouts or free money or any of that, but I think if you're a working family and that you're paying your taxes and you're doing things the right way, of course, government will screw this up. 0.99

00:46:29.000 So it sounds too idealistic, but maybe there might be a way to get this done.

00:46:32.000 It's an interesting conversation if we could pull it off, right?

00:46:34.000 Which would be, I actually think that we need to make it easier to do that.

00:46:38.000 And so this is a moral question, right?

00:46:40.000 Especially under kind of the current state of affairs that we have right now.

00:46:43.000 We give checks to illegals that come into our country, yet we don't give any sort of benefit, except like maybe like an $800 tax rebate, if that, for young families that are trying to make it.

00:46:53.000 So let me give you an example, right?

00:46:54.000 So in order to sustain a family of four, you need 53 weeks of labor right now.

00:47:01.000 53 weeks.

00:47:02.000 So if you're math, you're like, wait a second, that's more than the whole year.

00:47:04.000 Yeah, which means you have to go into debt or both spouses have to work.

00:47:09.000 In 1985, it was 36 weeks of labor, which means that the breadwinner could maybe work 42 and take off 10, whatever that might be, right?

00:47:18.000 And so what's happened is now because of inflation, because of the hypercorporatization of our country, because we don't make stuff in our country anymore, because we've destroyed the backbone of the blue-collar base in our country, and we made this big bargain.

00:47:33.000 Now, I'm going to do something you're not allowed to do.

00:47:36.000 You guys ready?

00:47:37.000 I am going to criticize the biggest employer in this state.

00:47:41.000 You're not allowed to do that, right?

00:47:43.000 And so, but let's be honest.

00:47:45.000 Walmart is largely to blame for the deindustrialization of the core of this country.

00:47:50.000 Okay?

00:47:51.000 Now, I'm not saying everyone who works for Walmart's a bad person or that they've never done anything right, whatever, okay?

00:47:58.000 But let's be honest, is that they were front and center of all the trade deals of saying we're going to send stuff over there, bring it back cheaper, and bring it and sell it back to the communities.

00:48:08.000 Bad deal.

00:48:09.000 Now, it could be okay in some nuanced way, maybe, but when you all of a sudden lose 11 million manufacturing jobs and you have the hollowing out, you're like, wow, we no longer have jobs, no longer have the tax basis.

00:48:20.000 The men no longer have direction in the community, and what do we get in return? 0.90

00:48:24.000 Cheap plastic from Wuhan and opioids.

00:48:26.000 That's a bad deal.

00:48:29.000 And I don't care if it increases the stock price of a favorable company in this area.

00:48:34.000 We should say, morally, I'm not okay with that.

00:48:37.000 Like, the obligation of the people of our country are to their citizens first and foremost, not corporate profits.

00:48:42.000 And so, that's a lot kind of I touched on, but this is one of the things that really bothers me.

00:48:47.000 And kind of just dealing with the current state of affairs.

00:48:50.000 I actually think everything I just talked about is agreed upon by 85 to 90 percent of the country.

00:48:54.000 I really do.

00:48:56.000 Instead, I find that we can't find agreement because of other issues that pop up that I think the media focuses on that we're not going to back down on.

00:49:03.000 But look, yes, I think that there needs to be entertaining, new, and exciting ideas that will put our citizens first and understand that this generation needs right now some form of new energy.

00:49:12.000 Because the trajectory right now is this generation will go down as the lost generation, the depressed generation, and that can quickly be turned into. 0.65

00:49:19.000 Just study history, study the Weimar Republic, how quickly those types of generations can embrace really bad ideas. 0.86

00:49:24.000 If their money is worth nothing and they own nothing and they're not married, that is like the perfect prerequisite for a super revolution.

00:49:32.000 I don't want to live through that.

00:49:33.000 You guys don't either.

00:49:34.000 Thank you for your question.

00:49:35.000 I appreciate that.

00:49:36.000 Thank you.

00:49:41.000 Hey, my question is kind of a two-parter.

00:49:43.000 Is that all right?

00:49:44.000 Make it quick.

00:49:45.000 Okay, so first off, if you had to choose between Doc or whatever outside and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who would you choose?

00:49:53.000 So, we're a 501c3, so I'll answer your question, but I'm going to say it personally, if that's okay.

00:49:58.000 So, I've known Sarah for a very long time, 100% Sarah Huckabee Sanders, not even close.

00:50:02.000 So, to answer your question.

00:50:04.000 That's on me personally, so don't hold the organization accountable for that.

00:50:08.000 And also, I told my mom I was coming.

00:50:09.000 Is there a way I can get a selfie?

00:50:11.000 You asked so politely, so yes.

00:50:12.000 Okay?

00:50:13.000 All right.

00:50:21.000 You got to get it ready, man.

00:50:29.000 You got it?

00:50:30.000 Let's start.

00:50:31.000 All right, next question.

00:50:32.000 And by the way, if you have a disagreement, you're welcome to come to the line and we can chat.

00:50:41.000 Okay, who's up?

00:50:43.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:50:44.000 My name is Jeremy.

00:50:45.000 I was just curious about the last thing you said about teaching our kids.

00:50:49.000 What would you say to those who say that what's teaching our kids that's true and beautiful and right is teaching our kids about sexuality and that kind of stuff?

00:50:59.000 So, okay, so they would say that what is, so that like teaching kids about like gay issues is that they are like teaching them about gay sex is true and beautiful and what they should be learning.

00:51:09.000 Okay, so happy to go into a whole classical education course on why that isn't the case.

00:51:14.000 Look, let me make this more broad, and you guys can fill this in yourself.

00:51:18.000 What is good, what is true, what is beautiful?

00:51:20.000 The founders knew it, and they put it very specifically in the Declaration of Independence.

00:51:24.000 This is the universal statement, then I'll get to the more specific one: the laws of nature and nature is God, right?

00:51:30.000 The laws that put our entire universe in motion.

00:51:33.000 Not just the laws of physics, but also the laws of ethics, right?

00:51:37.000 The laws of how human beings should operate.

00:51:39.000 More specifically, what is good and true and beautiful?

00:51:41.000 The teachings of the Bible.

00:51:42.000 And we should be unafraid to say that out loud, right?

00:51:45.000 And so.

00:51:47.000 And this is.

00:51:49.000 And so some people, let's make this more universal, right?

00:51:53.000 I know this is a kind of more Christian audience, but let's try to make this even more universal.

00:51:57.000 Let's just make it abstract where it says a transcendent higher power.

00:52:01.000 Absent a belief in a transcendent higher power.

00:52:03.000 It could be the Buddhist God or the Hindu God or the Christian God, whatever.

00:52:06.000 Obviously, I'm a Christian.

00:52:07.000 I'm unapologetic about it.

00:52:09.000 Let's just say an unchanging standard.

00:52:11.000 If you remove that, then right and wrong is merely in an opinion.

00:52:15.000 And we could have that back and forth all day long, but if you just deduct it back down to no God, no higher purpose, it really is like, I think you're right, I think you're wrong.

00:52:23.000 You need something unchanging.

00:52:25.000 You need something unmovable as the standard, whatever that standard might be.

00:52:30.000 And this is the problem that humanists and atheists will always run into.

00:52:33.000 They're like, well, we just kind of know murder is wrong because it's just wrong.

00:52:36.000 It's like, really, according to who, what is wrong?

00:52:38.000 Where do you get that from?

00:52:39.000 And they'll say eventually, well, it's because there's a standard above, oh, okay, so you're elevating something.

00:52:43.000 So you do believe in a hierarchy.

00:52:45.000 You do believe in something.

00:52:46.000 So this is, I'm summarizing it the best I can in 90 seconds or less, but this is tough work, and we need to get our kids learning this from a young age.

00:52:54.000 And by the way, they used to get this reinforced by watching movies and film.

00:52:59.000 So they used to live in a culture that actually elevated these beautiful stories.

00:53:03.000 And now it's the opposite, right?

00:53:05.000 Now, even if you send your kids to a classical education or you're homeschooling, you know what homeschooling, by the way?

00:53:09.000 God bless you guys.

00:53:10.000 Amazing.

00:53:12.000 Even if you're homeschooling, even if you're doing that, you're like, whoa, what are they going to watch when I'm not homeschooling them, right?

00:53:18.000 Like, should I give them a smartphone?

00:53:19.000 Probably not.

00:53:20.000 Like, all these sorts of things, right?

00:53:21.000 Really, really important.

00:53:22.000 So I'm happy to get into the specifics of that more, but I want to get to some more questions.

00:53:26.000 So thank you.

00:53:31.000 Hello.

00:53:32.000 What would you say to feminists, specifically those I think you would consider biological women who are in support of trans women being able to access historically women spaces like female bathrooms and being able to participate in women's sports?

00:53:48.000 Okay, what would I say?

00:53:49.000 Let me ask, are you one of those feminists? 1.00

00:53:51.000 Oh, okay.

00:53:51.000 I am.

00:53:52.000 Lucky guess.

00:53:53.000 So, yeah, what is a woman? 1.00

00:53:57.000 Somebody who identifies as a woman.

00:53:59.000 So can I become a woman?

00:54:01.000 Do you have gender dysphoria?

00:54:02.000 Thankfully, no.

00:54:06.000 Then no.

00:54:08.000 So only if you have gender dysphoria, you can identify as a woman?

00:54:12.000 It's a medical condition.

00:54:13.000 It's a medical condition.

00:54:14.000 So anyone at any time can become a woman? 1.00

00:54:19.000 No.

00:54:21.000 Well, anyone could have gender dysphoria. 0.65

00:54:24.000 You claim it upon yourself.

00:54:27.000 You know what?

00:54:28.000 I'm actually thinking I might actually have gender dysphoria.

00:54:30.000 So can I become a woman?

00:54:31.000 Well, I wish you the best in your transition, and I hope that society accepts you.

00:54:35.000 So let me ask you a question.

00:54:36.000 What is cheating?

00:54:38.000 What is cheating?

00:54:41.000 I can pull up a dictionary definition.

00:54:42.000 No, like give an example.

00:54:43.000 Maybe taking something from somebody or a strong person, you know, maybe using their power against the weak.

00:54:50.000 Sure.

00:54:51.000 Somebody using their power against the weak.

00:54:52.000 Got it.

00:54:53.000 Is Leah Thomas or William Thomas biologically stronger than the competitors that he or she was against?

00:54:53.000 Okay.

00:55:01.000 I don't know about that specific situation.

00:55:04.000 Probably because she is number one.

00:55:08.000 Won the national title.

00:55:09.000 Yes.

00:55:10.000 Well, after the transition, right?

00:55:12.000 Okay, is that fair?

00:55:15.000 Yes.

00:55:16.000 So the other women against the man were born with less bone density, lower testosterone levels. 0.91

00:55:23.000 What are they supposed to do to make it even?

00:55:29.000 I would not know on that specific situation.

00:55:32.000 So, there's nothing they can do because men have more testosterone, muscle mass, and bone density.

00:55:32.000 Right.

00:55:39.000 So, wouldn't that be cheating?

00:55:47.000 I feel like I'm being pulled into a trap, and I'm going to step away.

00:55:50.000 No, it's not a trap.

00:55:51.000 No, it's not.

00:55:52.000 I mean, just one sec.

00:55:53.000 It's a very simple moral question, right?

00:55:56.000 So, if someone is stronger and was born that way is able to compete against people that are not as strong because they're born that way, wouldn't that be the textbook definition of cheating?

00:56:09.000 I don't know about that one.

00:56:10.000 I'm going to step away.

00:56:12.000 Thank you.

00:56:12.000 Okay.

00:56:13.000 Can I ask you one more question, though?

00:56:15.000 Yes.

00:56:16.000 Okay.

00:56:16.000 So, you're a feminist, and you say anyone who has gender dysphoria can transition to become a woman at any time.

00:56:24.000 That's your position?

00:56:26.000 Okay.

00:56:26.000 Sure.

00:56:27.000 Do you think chromosomes have anything to do with determining what a female is?

00:56:31.000 Yes.

00:56:32.000 Okay, so then where does the gender dysphoria come into place? 0.99

00:56:35.000 I think that sex and gender are different things.

00:56:38.000 Right, but then what is a woman? 1.00

00:56:41.000 Somebody who identifies as a woman.

00:56:43.000 So anyone can be a woman at any single time.

00:56:46.000 You've asked me this question.

00:56:47.000 It's still no.

00:56:49.000 Got it.

00:56:50.000 And you're a feminist? 1.00

00:56:51.000 I am.

00:56:53.000 So who are you trying to protect?

00:56:54.000 Still true.

00:56:55.000 What was that?

00:56:56.000 What women are you trying to protect? 0.99

00:56:58.000 Women. 0.81

00:56:59.000 All women. 0.74

00:57:01.000 That you're fine.

00:57:02.000 Regardless of whether or not they've transitioned.

00:57:07.000 Whether or not they've transitioned.

00:57:09.000 Well, I wish you well in the coming situation where now, as a feminist, you're going to have to live under the tyranny of men who think they're women. 1.00

00:57:19.000 Thank you for being here tonight.

00:57:22.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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00:58:24.000 Hello.

00:58:25.000 I'd like to continue upon her question.

00:58:29.000 So you put a lot of focus on Leah Thomas and that whole situation.

00:58:33.000 However, what about all of the other trans athletes that don't make it to the top?

00:58:40.000 Because I unfortunately don't have a list of every trans athlete known to man.

00:58:46.000 I didn't fully prepare, but what about all of the because Leah Thomas is one case out of many.

00:58:53.000 So what about the other trans athletes that have transitioned and do participate in sports but don't make it to the top and are in the middle of the pack?

00:59:02.000 Well, they're still beating other women, aren't they? 0.99

00:59:06.000 They're taking somebody's spot, right?

00:59:08.000 Well, no.

00:59:10.000 They are women. 1.00

00:59:11.000 Okay, so they transitioned.

00:59:13.000 So let's ask a question.

00:59:14.000 So thank you for being here and the courage for talking.

00:59:16.000 First of all, what is a woman? 1.00

00:59:17.000 Let's start there.

00:59:19.000 Well, as she said, anyone who identifies as such, and traditionally, it would be gender dysphoria, that is a legitimate medical condition.

00:59:27.000 So if you have gender dysphoria, yes.

00:59:31.000 Okay, so let's let's that's interesting.

00:59:33.000 So that's your personal definition of what a woman is. 1.00

00:59:35.000 Why should society adopt that definition, therefore disenfranchising chromosomal boring women? 1.00

00:59:42.000 Really, it's out of respect for those that have the condition.

00:59:45.000 Got it.

00:59:46.000 So we should elevate the people with the mental condition over half the population. 0.96

00:59:51.000 No.

00:59:55.000 Not at all.

00:59:57.000 I'm just saying that we should just simply, because it's not a battle between I'm elevating this person over another person.

01:00:05.000 It's merely out of respect for that person for them to feel comfortable and to participate in the sport of their gender that they identify as.

01:00:17.000 Okay, so feeling comfortable.

01:00:18.000 So giving people what they want is not always the right thing.

01:00:22.000 Okay?

01:00:23.000 So let me give you an example.

01:00:25.000 We do not give liposuction to people with anorexia.

01:00:30.000 People with anorexia would want liposuction.

01:00:32.000 It would kill them.

01:00:34.000 We know better than that.

01:00:36.000 So just giving people what they want is not always the right thing.

01:00:39.000 So you say to make people comfortable.

01:00:40.000 We could probably agree.

01:00:41.000 I don't want people to be uncomfortable.

01:00:43.000 But then you have a choice to make.

01:00:45.000 What if all of a sudden you're making half the population uncomfortable and the sport itself is all of a sudden being destroyed and standards as we know it are completely destroyed?

01:00:53.000 So let me ask you a question.

01:00:55.000 If someone, and I don't want to assume your gender, you could tell me whatever it is, is dealing with that situation, why don't they continue to compete as that new gender with the people with their chromosomes that they share? 0.98

01:01:09.000 Because they don't identify as such.

01:01:12.000 And I actually, I'm really glad you brought up the example with the...

01:01:16.000 I'm sorry, could I like steer the conversation back towards what you said about comfort?

01:01:22.000 But let me ask you another question.

01:01:22.000 So how people identify matters a lot to you, right?

01:01:25.000 Yes, okay.

01:01:26.000 So should we allow adults who identify as toddlers compete in preschool soccer?

01:01:34.000 No.

01:01:35.000 Why?

01:01:35.000 They identify as a child.

01:01:37.000 We want them to be comfortable.

01:01:39.000 No, because that's not a legitimate mental issue.

01:01:41.000 It absolutely is.

01:01:42.000 No, That's a real thing.

01:01:45.000 Having people think that they're in a different body is a totally real thing.

01:01:50.000 People think that they're dogs.

01:01:52.000 People think that they're cats.

01:01:53.000 And some people think they're children still.

01:01:55.000 They never grow out of it.

01:01:55.000 It's a legitimate mental condition.

01:01:57.000 So shouldn't we accommodate fully grown 50-year-old men who want to play T-ball?

01:02:06.000 Well, no, because they require a different treatment plan.

01:02:10.000 And this is what I wanted to steer back to.

01:02:12.000 Really?

01:02:13.000 Yes, I wanted to steer back towards what we talked about with comfort.

01:02:18.000 It is shown, and this is legitimate, those who transition and are treated as the gender that they identify as mentally improve unbelievably.

01:02:30.000 And it is absolutely true.

01:02:32.000 So I hate to break it to you.

01:02:33.000 They're more likely to commit suicide.

01:02:34.000 There's a huge community called Transition Regret.

01:02:39.000 I encourage you to look at it.

01:02:40.000 It has 27,000 members on Facebook of people who make the chemical castration decision to transition, and that's an irreversible decision.

01:02:48.000 It's a growing group of people that say, I was sold a complete bill of goods here.

01:02:53.000 And so, you know, that really is the question, which is if it's irreversible, and you're citing some study that honestly the data shows exactly the opposite, is that they're more likely to commit suicide, more likely for self-harm, all these sorts of things.

01:03:09.000 What is the proper way to treat it?

01:03:11.000 As I said, this study has not been disproven.

01:03:14.000 The reason that the suicide rate is so high is because they are bullied for who they are.

01:03:20.000 I have seen it in school, and this is a truth.

01:03:23.000 You know why I know it's nonsense?

01:03:24.000 Because every single person in this room disagrees with you fundamentally and is treating you incredibly respectfully tonight. 1.00

01:03:29.000 That is a pile of garbage. 0.99

01:03:30.000 I know it's a pile of art. 1.00

01:03:32.000 Of course.

01:03:32.000 And so instead, and I'll be honest, it's the people that are in those positions that end up becoming the bullies themselves that kick me off of Twitter.

01:03:42.000 That's, and no offense, but kind of your team is the one that's super offended that I used a name that Levine used to have.

01:03:50.000 Like, who's the bully in this situation?

01:03:52.000 Well, it's disrespectful to do that because she identifies as a woman. 1.00

01:03:58.000 And it is just disrespectful.

01:03:59.000 That is why we some, I can't speak for everyone else.

01:04:04.000 I can only speak for myself at the end of the day, right?

01:04:08.000 And it's just disrespectful.

01:04:13.000 And it is not right to call Leah Thomas her dead name out of respect for her.

01:04:19.000 Kirk Levine or whatever.

01:04:21.000 But let me zero in on this, right?

01:04:23.000 So it's a birth name, whatever you could call it a dead name.

01:04:26.000 It's fine.

01:04:26.000 But if I were to do a biography on Thomas and I would include that name, how is that disrespectful?

01:04:34.000 Isn't that like, let's take your argument at face value.

01:04:37.000 Wouldn't that be a journey of transition, a courageous movement towards who you really are?

01:04:41.000 Like an uplifting kind of sort of story and saga from the man I used to be and the woman I am now?

01:04:47.000 How's that disrespectful?

01:04:49.000 Oh, well, in that context, probably.

01:04:52.000 Oh, so dead naming's now okay.

01:04:54.000 I mean, maybe my tweet was all about the courageous journey of Ricardo Levine, that once was named Richard and now it names Rachel.

01:05:01.000 Do you see what's getting here is that you're putting a lot of preference on context and on how I identify and all of this.

01:05:08.000 And your opinions, you can have your opinions.

01:05:10.000 But what we're talking about tonight is how we structure society, right?

01:05:13.000 And that is a totally different thing than your opinion.

01:05:16.000 So when we start to structure society on a vast minority opinion and we start to use power and force around that vast minority of an opinion, all of a sudden, the only way you can win that argument is the person who wins the oppression Olympics.

01:05:29.000 Is the person who says, I'm the most victimized, therefore I get to create the rules because I'm not comfortable.

01:05:34.000 And here's something that you might not want to hear: is that if you have liberty, by definition, you're not going to be comfortable.

01:05:41.000 You cannot have liberty and comfort.

01:05:44.000 You can't have them together.

01:05:46.000 Instead, you know what?

01:05:47.000 And I think deep down you have this in you.

01:05:49.000 You can get stronger.

01:05:51.000 And I want you to get stronger.

01:05:53.000 Instead of you trying to remove everything that offends you in the world, I want you to dig deeper and be tougher than the people around you.

01:05:59.000 That's what we believe.

01:06:04.000 Final thought.

01:06:08.000 Final thought.

01:06:09.000 Yeah.

01:06:09.000 Oh, final thought.

01:06:12.000 I'm sorry.

01:06:15.000 Trying to think of a final thought.

01:06:17.000 At the end of the day, like, no hate towards you.

01:06:22.000 I respect your opinion.

01:06:24.000 Of course, I'm not here to cause a fight or an intense argument.

01:06:28.000 I'm just saying I disagree.

01:06:30.000 And there is no oppression Olympics.

01:06:34.000 All that we want is simply just recognition and respect.

01:06:40.000 That's really it.

01:06:42.000 Well, look, here's the thing: that's what you want.

01:06:46.000 And individually, I think I've given that to you, but here's where I draw the line.

01:06:50.000 I'm not going to restructure society on something I know that's not true.

01:06:52.000 I'm not going to turn my back on 50% of the population for something that's not true.

01:06:56.000 And I'm certainly not going to call somebody a pronoun that I know that isn't true in front of me.

01:07:01.000 So I believe your soul totally demands respect.

01:07:04.000 Absolutely.

01:07:05.000 100%.

01:07:06.000 But as soon as you then start to get into society and civilization and restructure everything around your feelings, then all of a sudden it's whoever has the loudest voice and who's willing to use power.

01:07:16.000 And that's where we as conservatives draw the line.

01:07:17.000 I want to thank you for being here tonight, truly.

01:07:20.000 Thank you for your time.

01:07:20.000 Thank you.

01:07:27.000 That's Charlie.

01:07:28.000 Oh, my bad.

01:07:29.000 I don't realize that.

01:07:30.000 Yes, Charlie.

01:07:30.000 My name is Johan Gonzalez.

01:07:32.000 And first of all, I want to thank you for taking time to answer not only my question, but to those that came before me and those that will come after me.

01:07:40.000 My question is very relevant to the previous questions I have been asked with respect to what gender and sex is.

01:07:50.000 You place an emphasis on the roles of men and women.

01:07:53.000 So I must ask, what do you consider masculinity to be?

01:07:58.000 Boy, how much time have you got?

01:08:01.000 The masculine characteristic inherently favors the unknown. 1.00

01:08:05.000 Single-minded, willing to challenge for the greater good.

01:08:10.000 The masculine is the one that is less likely to nurture, but more likely to protect. 0.64

01:08:19.000 The masculine is necessary, but without the feminine, you get an autocrat. 0.99

01:08:24.000 A country best balanced is the best mixture of the feminine and the masculine. 0.66

01:08:29.000 The feminine, you might ask, what is the feminine? 0.87

01:08:33.000 More likely to listen.

01:08:34.000 Never doubt a woman's intuition.

01:08:36.000 I know when my wife says something, I listen very carefully.

01:08:40.000 But if there's a bully, a tyrant, a problem, I don't expect her to go solve it.

01:08:46.000 That's my job.

01:08:47.000 And I'm going to do it.

01:08:49.000 Men and women are made for each other. 1.00

01:08:51.000 They need each other.

01:08:52.000 Does that answer your question?

01:08:53.000 Now, I ask this because I want to follow through with another point.

01:08:57.000 Okay.

01:08:58.000 In high school, I knew a man who took care of students who struggled, whether it be from broken homes, mental illness, or other issues.

01:09:07.000 He spoke with us with an empathy that was not given to many of us by others who were told to protect us and to give us the guidance that we needed.

01:09:18.000 Which, in your case, when you speak of counselors, you'd be right.

01:09:22.000 Now, that man has been an inspiring figure to me, and I call him a man because he's a transgender woman.

01:09:32.000 You know, under your definition.

01:09:33.000 So, does that make him less of a man?

01:09:35.000 Does the character he's displayed not only as a teacher, but as a veteran?

01:09:39.000 Does that reduce his masculinity?

01:09:41.000 Well, it's awfully hypothetical because I don't know this person, but you're kind of proving my point.

01:09:44.000 You said that the trans person is really empathetic, therefore feminine. 0.98

01:09:49.000 Not really, no.

01:09:50.000 There's no correlation there.

01:09:51.000 Empathetic is empathy.

01:09:52.000 Empathy is not a feminine trait. 0.96

01:09:54.000 It absolutely is not.

01:09:55.000 Absolutely not.

01:09:56.000 You get a group of men together.

01:09:57.000 There is no difference.

01:09:57.000 No, no, no.

01:09:59.000 There are no exactly.

01:10:00.000 The football team is not caring.

01:10:02.000 Empathy is one of the most masculine traits imaginable.

01:10:06.000 And that's what brings about change.

01:10:08.000 All right, okay.

01:10:09.000 So you're wrong.

01:10:12.000 How am I wrong?

01:10:12.000 Because you're pandering to a specific crowd?

01:10:15.000 All of a sudden, my point isn't valid?

01:10:16.000 Look, again, you're playing the machismo card.

01:10:19.000 I'm not.

01:10:20.000 Machismo, yes.

01:10:21.000 Because you're the one who's placed such a value on the role of men.

01:10:24.000 You're the one.

01:10:25.000 Let me finish this.

01:10:26.000 Slow down.

01:10:26.000 Go on.

01:10:27.000 You're at like a 10.

01:10:28.000 You've got to be at like a three, man.

01:10:29.000 All right.

01:10:29.000 There's one person getting upset here.

01:10:31.000 Here, you get a bunch of men together, a hunting club, a football club, any sort of group of men.

01:10:37.000 They're not sharing feelings, and they're not talking about like deep sort of things.

01:10:41.000 You know, you get women together, what do they do? 1.00

01:10:43.000 Book club?

01:10:45.000 Not exactly like hunting and fishing.

01:10:45.000 Right?

01:10:47.000 There's reasons for this.

01:10:48.000 God designed us differently.

01:10:49.000 You don't have to overthink it.

01:10:50.000 Now, can certain men be more feminine than others?

01:10:53.000 Of course.

01:10:53.000 Can certain men have more of kind of an inclination towards empathy?

01:10:56.000 Obviously, do men have zero empathy?

01:10:58.000 No.

01:10:58.000 But there's a hardwiring, there's circuitry, there's a DNA in us.

01:11:02.000 And the Bible speaks to this, experience speaks to this, and quite honestly, just look around.

01:11:06.000 It speaks to you.

01:11:07.000 There's different needs, wants, and interests all around you.

01:11:08.000 So you asked a hypothetical question, but does it make the person less of a man, even though I'm not going to answer the hypothetical, but I will say this: the rejection of the patently obvious masculine and feminine traits that have built all of society and the humility it takes to say, I don't have patience as a man like women do. 0.99

01:11:28.000 Guess what?

01:11:29.000 Every man should have the courage to say that.

01:11:31.000 I lose patience easily.

01:11:31.000 I don't.

01:11:33.000 I look at women, they have the patience to listen, and all of this.

01:11:36.000 That's not the way I'm wired.

01:11:39.000 I want to go through walls.

01:11:40.000 I want to take care of problems.

01:11:41.000 Guess what?

01:11:42.000 That's masculine energy.

01:11:43.000 If it's not properly harnessed, you could invade Ukraine. 0.66

01:11:45.000 Like, that's basically what ends up happening, right?

01:11:49.000 And we see that on full display.

01:11:51.000 So, thank you for your question.

01:11:52.000 I want to get to other questions here tonight.

01:11:53.000 So, thank you.

01:11:54.000 Appreciate it.

01:11:58.000 Hey, Charlie.

01:12:00.000 I'm not going to ask you about gender.

01:12:02.000 Okay.

01:12:06.000 I don't mind.

01:12:06.000 We can keep the firing line going.

01:12:08.000 Sure, yeah.

01:12:09.000 But you know, why not?

01:12:10.000 Let's mix it up.

01:12:11.000 So, my name's Jarrett.

01:12:12.000 I'm a local business owner here, and I started my business back in 2021, which I almost didn't do because I think a lot of us were very pessimistic on the right.

01:12:25.000 And, you know, I love what you're doing.

01:12:27.000 And I think that you're here.

01:12:28.000 You're on the road 330 days a year because you believe that this country can be saved.

01:12:34.000 I think a lot of us have kind of just been through a lot of ups and downs since specifically the 2020 election.

01:12:43.000 So, my question for you is: specifically in that time period from the 2020 election until now, how would you describe the change in your optimism that we can still change this country, that we can save this country?

01:12:58.000 Yeah, that's a great question.

01:12:59.000 Thank you, by the way.

01:13:00.000 I appreciate that.

01:13:02.000 Yeah, of course, I have optimism.

01:13:03.000 I think we could change it.

01:13:05.000 I know the problems.

01:13:06.000 We're up against a lot, my goodness.

01:13:08.000 Look, here's the thing: the regime, if you can call it, which is like the collection of cultural institutions, media institutions, economic institutions, they're more powerful than ever.

01:13:18.000 But there's an unexpected development that gives me optimism, that gives me a spirit of positivity, which is the people are more alert and more aware, and they have zero tolerance to this nonsense more than any other time I've seen this in the last decade.

01:13:30.000 We are seeing the rise of the citizen at every single corner.

01:13:33.000 We're seeing students care more about their education.

01:13:35.000 We're seeing moms show up to school board meetings all across the country. 0.99

01:13:38.000 We're seeing people show up in massive numbers and demand better out of the people in charge.

01:13:44.000 And so, what's happening is all of a sudden, the American people are rejecting their kind of identity, if you will, in being a subject or a serf.

01:13:57.000 And instead, they said, I want to be a citizen.

01:13:59.000 Being a citizen is hard.

01:14:00.000 Being a citizen means you're going to take responsibility for your country and responsibility for your actions.

01:14:05.000 Being a citizen means you're going to show up to meetings like this and learn and take nights to do this when you very well could be just sitting at home doing nothing.

01:14:12.000 Being a citizen means voting is like the minimal thing that you do.

01:14:16.000 And so, I'm very optimistic in that way.

01:14:18.000 And I also believe some of this discussion here tonight and just kind of the back and forth that we've had, just so we know, that 95% of the country thinks the points that were previously made are so insane, they'll vote for anyone who doesn't believe in that stuff.

01:14:33.000 Like anyone.

01:14:34.000 Is that this idea, like, wait a second, anyone could be a woman and all this, that the woke, if you will, they are giving a massive once-in-a-generation opportunity to all of a sudden bring this country back to some sort of normalcy and some sort of center.

01:14:49.000 They are so out of whack.

01:14:51.000 They are so out of balance.

01:14:53.000 When you start to say that we need black-only dormitories at colleges across the country where men can become pregnant and all this sort of stuff, most people say, I don't know what I believe politically, but I don't believe that.

01:15:03.000 And that gives me so much optimism because they are doubling and tripling down on the most unpopular, radical ideas imaginable in our society.

01:15:11.000 You said you're a small business owner?

01:15:12.000 Yes, that's right.

01:15:13.000 I have an insurance agency here.

01:15:14.000 We need more entrepreneurs.

01:15:16.000 Let me say that again.

01:15:17.000 We need more entrepreneurs.

01:15:18.000 Thank you so much.

01:15:20.000 We're hiring.

01:15:21.000 We're hiring, by the way.

01:15:23.000 Okay, good.

01:15:26.000 My name is Micah.

01:15:27.000 And just a quick question. 0.99

01:15:29.000 I get a lot of flack and crap for being black and conservative. 0.99

01:15:31.000 So like Malcolm X in the 60s said that black people are only used as a political football for white liberals, yeah. 0.98

01:15:39.000 What would you say that your best argument is to like disprove that fact and whatnot?

01:15:44.000 Well, I kind of agree with Malcolm X, if that's okay to say.

01:15:48.000 I don't know if you're asking me to disprove that.

01:15:51.000 No, like prove that it was true.

01:15:53.000 Oh, I'm sorry.

01:15:53.000 Okay, thank you.

01:15:54.000 Yeah, so just to understand, Malcolm X. kind of a mixed bag and don't agree with everything he believed in, but Malcolm X was totally right on this.

01:16:01.000 Malcolm X railed against white liberals that were trying to use the black population for their own personal gain.

01:16:07.000 And boy, was he right.

01:16:09.000 And so you kind of look at, I mean, just look at one public polling poll, right?

01:16:13.000 Where the question is, do you support defunding the police?

01:16:16.000 Most black communities don't support defunding the police.

01:16:18.000 Who supports defunding the police are like upper white liberals on the northeast side of New York.

01:16:23.000 It's like there's this huge disconnect.

01:16:26.000 And so, look, if you look at even more fundamental, deeper level of this, I think what is most interesting and most important is that like black culture in America is completely disconnected from white liberal metropolitan culture. 0.59

01:16:40.000 They're actually at the exact opposite.

01:16:42.000 I mean, you could speak, and you might disagree, but at least my experience and the black conservatives I spent time with is that this like trans issue is the least popular in the black community of all the communities in the country.

01:16:52.000 It's like it's the least popular, especially when it comes to like men.

01:16:56.000 They're like, what?

01:16:57.000 Are you kidding me?

01:16:58.000 And yet it's being pushed by white liberals on a party where they're the most reliable voting demographic, right?

01:17:03.000 And so look, put simply, is that I believe that white liberals running the entire apparatus have taken for granted the average black voter.

01:17:14.000 They think it's just already baked in.

01:17:16.000 And at the very least, it's like you have to compete for the vote, right?

01:17:19.000 I mean, in black communities across the country, you have failing schools, rising crime, and deteriorating households. 0.97

01:17:25.000 The same political decisions keep on being made over and over again.

01:17:28.000 So yeah, I can help you unpack that further, I suppose, but it really kind of goes down to this, which is what is the best for a human being regardless of color?

01:17:37.000 The best for human beings is to be able to own property, get a fair education, have streets that aren't widespread with crime.

01:17:44.000 These issues should not be controversial at all.

01:17:47.000 You know, it shouldn't be controversial to say that we want school choice, we want better schools, all these sorts of things.

01:17:52.000 So happy to unpack that further.

01:17:54.000 But let me just ask you a question.

01:17:55.000 Being a black conservative, how does the black community treat you in that way?

01:18:02.000 So my Barbara Easy, I give my haircut in Favo.

01:18:04.000 And every time I sit down in the chair, he's asking me all kinds of questions.

01:18:07.000 And he gives me all these stats, and I don't even know if any of them are actually true, but he says them confidently enough to where they might be true.

01:18:13.000 And I just have to sit there and take it.

01:18:15.000 I don't know what exactly stats to refute those with.

01:18:19.000 It's not your job.

01:18:20.000 So I mean, I just get, and all my uncles and everybody just rails on me.

01:18:24.000 I've been called Uncle Tom, every name in the book.

01:18:26.000 There's a great movie.

01:18:27.000 I don't know if you've seen that, but I've seen that with Larry Elder in the Great Canada zones.

01:18:30.000 Yeah.

01:18:30.000 So let me just kind of encourage you, though.

01:18:32.000 You've got to keep holding the line.

01:18:34.000 You're not alone.

01:18:34.000 There is a growing community of black conservatives across the country that are sick and tired of the one-stop shop monolithic thinking.

01:18:42.000 The great Larry Elder, as I mentioned, Candace Owens, Brandon Tatum, have been helping lead this charge.

01:18:47.000 You are not alone.

01:18:48.000 They want you to make you feel alone.

01:18:50.000 And I just want to say we have your back 100%.

01:18:53.000 God bless you.

01:18:59.000 Hey, Charlie, I appreciate how much time you spent talking about housing policy specifically, but I want to ask you, what do we as young people do when the people in charge of things like interest rates and down payments at the Federal Reserve only care about making Green Line go up for woke Wall Street businesses?

01:19:15.000 What a great question.

01:19:17.000 So look, this is the tough part, right?

01:19:19.000 Which is we're now in a place where your financial future is less in the hands of what you do and more in the hands of what your leaders do.

01:19:26.000 That's not a good set of circumstances.

01:19:28.000 I'll prove it to you, right?

01:19:29.000 So we'll have 23% inflation in most cities across the country this year, minimum.

01:19:34.000 I don't believe the government numbers, and you shouldn't either.

01:19:35.000 It's 23 to 25% across the board.

01:19:37.000 At least it is in Phoenix.

01:19:38.000 We know it.

01:19:39.000 We've charted it.

01:19:40.000 So that means that you, if you just keep your money in your bank account, you'll get 23 to 25% poor each year.

01:19:46.000 So what do you have to do then?

01:19:47.000 You have to go put your money to work.

01:19:49.000 And this is the, so people buy risky stocks or investments hoping that they'll be able to have the market go up in a correlated fashion.

01:19:55.000 I'm not a market guy.

01:19:56.000 I know enough to be dangerous.

01:19:57.000 I don't think the Dow's going up 25% this year.

01:20:00.000 Maybe I'm wrong, but if the market goes up 25%, that means you're just staying neutral.

01:20:06.000 That means you're not getting poor.

01:20:07.000 That means you're just staying the same.

01:20:09.000 I want you to think about that.

01:20:10.000 And so this is the issue, right?

01:20:12.000 Which is this creates cynicism.

01:20:14.000 This connects to kind of what I said earlier, that if you're a young person, you want to believe in the country, right?

01:20:19.000 You want to believe in the system, and you're like, okay, I'm penalized for saving.

01:20:24.000 You will get 25% poor for saving your money.

01:20:26.000 That's a bad country to live in, right?

01:20:29.000 Not that America is bad, but you know what I mean?

01:20:30.000 Like you don't want to live in that country where the people who save are the ones that are penalized the most.

01:20:35.000 And so the people that spend quickly are the ones that actually get rewarded.

01:20:38.000 That creates really bad economic decisions.

01:20:41.000 It creates people to invest in ideas that don't really matter.

01:20:44.000 It also creates a lot of economic cynicism, meaning like I might as well go on a vacation, I might as well go into debt, which is the other thing, which is the great winners of this entire equation.

01:20:53.000 So does anyone own property that's young over there?

01:20:55.000 Anyone, raise your hand?

01:20:56.000 Like two or three hands.

01:20:57.000 So what's terrible?

01:20:58.000 And I guarantee this side of the room owns a lot of property, right?

01:21:01.000 Yes, almost the whole side of the room.

01:21:03.000 So here's the awful nature of what just happened.

01:21:07.000 Not awful for me.

01:21:08.000 I own property and they do too, but it's awful for this side of the room.

01:21:11.000 Your debt, let's say you have a half million dollar mortgage on your home and all of a sudden inflation is 25%.

01:21:16.000 Your debt burden actually decreased by 25%.

01:21:19.000 And so if you have, you're rewarded, but then you want to go buy a home, it's 25% harder because everything went up in value.

01:21:26.000 So you see the different sides of the room there in disenfranchises.

01:21:28.000 So if you owned property and you borrowed a bunch of money in this kind of short window when rates were super low, you're making out like a bandit right now.

01:21:35.000 You know corporate borrowing went up by $650 billion in the midst of the pandemic.

01:21:39.000 They knew what was happening.

01:21:40.000 They're like, rates are low.

01:21:41.000 Let's just borrow as much money as we can.

01:21:42.000 We're never going to get this opportunity ever again.

01:21:44.000 So there's ways to fix this.

01:21:46.000 We actually don't have to overcomplicate it.

01:21:48.000 I believe we got to raise rates like immediately.

01:21:50.000 It's like Coffs Europe.

01:21:51.000 You got to take it.

01:21:52.000 You don't like it, but it's good for the economy.

01:21:54.000 The longer we are on this low-rate kind of sugar high, the harder it's going to be for this side of the room to ever break out of it.

01:22:01.000 And then we don't have to overcomplicate this part.

01:22:02.000 My goodness, you want an immediate stimulus?

01:22:05.000 Open up the American energy entrepreneur.

01:22:07.000 Like, what are we doing here?

01:22:09.000 I mean, that's an easy thing to do.

01:22:13.000 And yet, we're thinking of buying oil from foreign adversaries, Iran and even Russia.

01:22:18.000 We won't even use our own.

01:22:20.000 That right there will create jobs.

01:22:21.000 And then finally, we need to reopen the American economy.

01:22:24.000 That's the big thing is that if you're growing at least, then inflation can be managed, right?

01:22:30.000 So let's say they say inflation is 7%.

01:22:32.000 I don't believe them, but let's pretend it's 8%, okay? 0.60

01:22:35.000 But if you're growing at 9%, well, then at least your growth is outpacing the inflation.

01:22:39.000 Not ideal, but it's not catastrophic.

01:22:41.000 So what's happening is that average corporations are like, oh, yeah, here's a 3% raise.

01:22:45.000 That's what Delta Airlines did.

01:22:47.000 That doesn't cover the 6%, 7% cost of living increase.

01:22:50.000 So you're getting 4% poor.

01:22:51.000 But guess what?

01:22:52.000 The CEO of Delta, he's able to either defer gains via stock, which continues to go up, or rich people are able to deploy their assets a lot quicker and easily in terms of inflation.

01:23:04.000 They'll go to inflation-resistant assets, like apartment complexes.

01:23:07.000 Apartment complexes are the perfect thing to own in inflation.

01:23:10.000 Why?

01:23:10.000 You can raise your rates every month.

01:23:12.000 And the asset will only increase in value.

01:23:14.000 That side of the room is not owning a lot of apartment complexes, right?

01:23:16.000 They're the ones using it.

01:23:18.000 So what can you do about it?

01:23:19.000 You've got to vote people into office that are going to return sound money, stop this ridiculous spending spree that Washington, D.C. is on, and get back to some fiscal sanity.

01:23:29.000 It's the best thing we could do and do it quickly.

01:23:30.000 Thank you.

01:23:32.000 Okay, I think we have time for one or two more, right?

01:23:35.000 Two more.

01:23:35.000 Okay.

01:23:37.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:23:38.000 Thank you very much for being here this evening.

01:23:40.000 My question to you is: what exactly is your position on what happened in the 2020 election?

01:23:47.000 Because I see this even among conservatives that I talk to daily, there's just mostly a bunch of blank looks, honestly.

01:23:57.000 And, well, there's a lot of also different conservative speakers out there who will say, well, stuff happened in the media, which is true.

01:24:06.000 Stuff happened on the ground, which is also true.

01:24:09.000 But I see almost an unwillingness to think that I personally believe that stuff happened with the actual voting machines.

01:24:22.000 I'm a data analytics miner.

01:24:25.000 A lot of my professors are more moderate, and they say the data makes no sense.

01:24:31.000 None of it at all.

01:24:32.000 When you look at even the actual results of what happened, it made no sense.

01:24:38.000 Yeah, so, but you're close because even you will say we're not there yet to be able to prove that.

01:24:43.000 So I agree, the data makes no sense.

01:24:45.000 I have suspicions, but let me tell you what I do know and what I do believe.

01:24:47.000 Let's start with a movie that I'm in that all of you guys got to see, Dinesh D'Souza's upcoming movie, 2000 Mules.

01:24:52.000 It's going to be incredible.

01:24:54.000 Using cell phone technology, they were able to trace ballot traffic harvesters in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, that actually moved ballots illegally in the middle of the night, 3 a.m.

01:25:05.000 You'll see videos of people getting out of the car, stacks of ballots, latex gloves, fully masked, 3 a.m., going up to ballot drop boxes, full videos, putting ballots into the drop boxes, taking pictures of every ballot so you can get paid, taking off the latex gloves, and throwing it in the trash.

01:25:19.000 You'll see video after video after video.

01:25:20.000 So, look, I'm not going to speculate on the machines.

01:25:22.000 You know a lot more about it than I do.

01:25:24.000 I'm open-minded to it.

01:25:25.000 I've had every expert come on my show, but it kind of always stops with we think, not that we can prove.

01:25:31.000 I'll be very honest.

01:25:32.000 That's just not there yet.

01:25:33.000 You and I could talk privately about that.

01:25:35.000 But let me be very blunt about this. 0.59

01:25:42.000 Any person running for office that isn't willing to say that that election was anything short of a highway robbery is a coward because it was.

01:25:50.000 It was a highway robbery from every single way, from Zuckerberg's $420 million that came in, from the ballot mules to the Hunter Biden suppression story, all of it.

01:26:00.000 It all played in tandem together.

01:26:02.000 So thank you for being here tonight.

01:26:03.000 We're almost out of time.

01:26:03.000 I got to do the last question.

01:26:04.000 Thank you.

01:26:07.000 Hi.

01:26:07.000 I'm Nico, and I just started a Turning Point USA chapter at my Don Tyson School of Innovation.

01:26:13.000 I was wondering if you had.

01:26:17.000 Thank you.

01:26:20.000 I was wondering if you had any tips on how I could further that and what I could do in response to criticism or hate on that.

01:26:27.000 Are you in high school?

01:26:28.000 You said yes.

01:26:29.000 Okay, so great question to end on, because now I've got to tell you the truth, and you'll never forget this, but it's going to hurt, but you'll like it.

01:26:36.000 But it's not against you, which is important, though.

01:26:38.000 If you make the decision to be an open conservative in your life, it will come with a cost.

01:26:43.000 It is unavoidable.

01:26:45.000 This is not the roses and unicorn speech.

01:26:47.000 It's not.

01:26:48.000 You're going to be bullied.

01:26:49.000 You'll be called names.

01:26:49.000 You'll be ridiculed.

01:26:50.000 You're going to lose a lot of friends, but you'll be tough.

01:26:53.000 And then all of a sudden, you'll get in a place of mind that will bless you for the rest of your life.

01:26:57.000 You'll no longer go around looking for things wrong to try to remove them.

01:27:01.000 You'll say, I'm tough enough to be able to get through them.

01:27:03.000 It's the best thing a young person can get through.

01:27:05.000 So how do you get through it?

01:27:07.000 You're just going to have to dig deep and become a tougher person.

01:27:09.000 We'll be there to support you.

01:27:10.000 We'll be there to support you with resources, trainings, conferences, staff, you name it.

01:27:13.000 That's what we do at Turning Point USA.

01:27:15.000 But I'm not going to cut any corners.

01:27:16.000 Like, yeah, you're going to be called every name in the book.

01:27:18.000 Teachers are going to look at you funny.

01:27:19.000 It might even impact what college you go to if you decide to go to college, right?

01:27:22.000 It will.

01:27:22.000 All those things are true.

01:27:24.000 But what's really important is: are you developing the soul of an individual?

01:27:27.000 And when you're fighting for things that are virtuous and you're getting backlash for them, that's a great thing for a young person to go through.

01:27:34.000 In fact, it's an essential thing for a young person to go through.

01:27:37.000 So here's where you'll be able to have confidence.

01:27:40.000 You're not alone.

01:27:41.000 Look at all these fellow leaders.

01:27:42.000 Look at everyone in the room.

01:27:44.000 You're part of a movement.

01:27:45.000 It's all across the country.

01:27:46.000 You're fighting for things that are true and beautiful and that have been around and worked.

01:27:50.000 You're fighting for the natural law and it will make you be more charismatic, wiser, and a better person.

01:27:56.000 But there'll be tough moments.

01:27:57.000 There'll be friends you thought you knew from the very beginning and they'll be like, really?

01:28:00.000 Now all of a sudden, and like, all right, you're going to learn a lot about those things.

01:28:04.000 But deep down, you're going to be blessed through that entire journey.

01:28:06.000 That's exactly what we at Turning Point USA are here to help you with.

01:28:09.000 So thank you.

01:28:10.000 I appreciate that.

01:28:11.000 All right, everybody.

01:28:12.000 So I want to thank you guys for a great night.

01:28:15.000 I want to thank the opposition people that came up here tonight that were bold enough to be able to speak.

01:28:21.000 I thought that was really helpful.

01:28:22.000 If you're not already subscribed, I appreciate you guys that listen to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

01:28:26.000 Thank you for that.

01:28:26.000 You can re-listen to all of these at any time.

01:28:29.000 If you're not yet involved with Turning Point USA, get involved.

01:28:31.000 We have our Young Women's Leadership Summit coming up in Dallas, June.

01:28:35.000 I want to say 2nd, 3rd.

01:28:37.000 You can check it out.

01:28:37.000 TPUSA.

01:28:38.000 No, 3rd, 4th, and 5th.

01:28:39.000 That's right.

01:28:39.000 TPUSA.com slash YWLS.

01:28:42.000 Check it out.

01:28:43.000 It's not too far from here.

01:28:44.000 And I just want to encourage you guys.

01:28:46.000 We live in the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.

01:28:49.000 The people in charge are paranoid and they are worried that normal, everyday people are rising up in record numbers to fight for liberty and to fight for freedom.

01:28:57.000 The future of America and your own future is in our hands.

01:29:00.000 And so let's do something about it and let's create a country that is worth living in, that is free and prosperous.

01:29:05.000 God bless you guys.

01:29:06.000 Thank you so much.

01:29:07.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

01:29:09.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:29:11.000 And support the Charlie Kirk Show at charliekirk.com/slash support.

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01:29:16.000 God bless.

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