00:00:19.000So maybe you'll fast forward to that point, but I think you'll really enjoy it.
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00:02:24.000So 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.
00:02:35.000You can get your Twitter account back.
00:02:37.000And so we logged onto our Twitter account.
00:02:38.000We're like, wait, why don't we have access to our Twitter account anymore?
00:02:41.000So I tweeted this out, and I want anyone to tell me if there's anything inaccurate about this tweet.
00:02:47.000Richard Levine spent 54 years of his life as a man.
00:03:53.000You know, we used to do a lot on Twitter.
00:03:55.000And I thought to myself, you know what?
00:03:56.000Every 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.
00:04:04.000I'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.
00:04:10.000Meanwhile, keep fighting on campus, everybody, and see you later.
00:04:16.000If you want to give me my account back without me pressing that stupid red button, then fine.
00:04:21.000And it kind of goes to this deeper question.
00:04:24.000And by the way, If you read my tweet, I think I was actually like overly generous, quite honestly.
00:04:28.000I admitted that one can transition from a man to a woman, which I don't believe, actually.
00:04:33.000I think you could think you can, but I think your chromosomal structure is unchangeable scientifically.
00:04:37.000That's totally true, regardless of how much scientific intervention that you put forward.
00:04:41.000And so, but you can think whatever you want to think.
00:04:44.000And still, Twitter's like, nope, you deadnamed that person.
00:04:47.000Again, 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.
00:04:59.000And 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?
00:05:08.000And so I know this is so hard for some of us to grasp.
00:05:13.000I know I'm not a biologist, so I'm not really well-versed to be able to answer these questions.
00:05:21.000Of course, for those of you that, I don't know, watch the Oscars and not, which is funny enough, we'll get into that.
00:05:28.000So, but don't watch anything that happens around you.
00:05:32.000Katangi Brown Jackson, woman that wants to, I think she's a woman.
00:05:38.000She won't tell us because she doesn't know what a woman is.
00:05:41.000Trying 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?
00:05:48.000And she responded with this kind of smug arrogance, no, I can't.
00:07:01.000Like 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.
00:07:11.000And 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.
00:07:19.000Like, okay, I think that's probably overblown, but at least you agree that there's differences, right?
00:07:26.000At least like this, you know what I'm the type of feminist I'm talking about.
00:07:29.000And 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.
00:07:37.000And there is Levine, like right in the middle of it as the woman of the year.
00:08:10.000Maybe 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.
00:08:21.000The 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.
00:08:41.000So, what's so again, I don't like desire to talk about this issue, like what is a man, what is a woman?
00:08:47.000But this issue's been forced, and we're gonna win.
00:08:50.000And it's kind of one of the most important things.
00:08:52.000You 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.
00:09:00.000You've probably got to get the fundamental building blocks of society right.
00:09:04.000And 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.
00:09:17.000So, 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.
00:09:58.000So, 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.
00:10:11.000One day, Thomas wakes up and changes the name to Leah Thomas, and decides that he wants to keep swimming.
00:10:19.000So, goes from the 462nd best swimmer to the best swimmer almost overnight.
00:10:25.000And this happened really slowly, by the way.
00:11:24.000Like, 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.
00:11:32.000And 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.
00:11:41.000Like, I think that's all really healthy stuff.
00:11:46.000And we saw this in the Kavanaugh hearing, is where it gets into the hatred of men, which is a whole separate conversation.
00:11:53.000But it's amazing to see the American left in the last couple of years.
00:11:56.000You saw it in the Kavanaugh hearings, right?
00:11:58.000So 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.
00:12:14.000No substantial evidence at all behind it.
00:12:16.000They almost derailed the entire confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh.
00:12:20.000And then a couple years later, they put up their own nominee who's like, yeah, I don't know what a woman is.
00:12:26.000And it's like, that's a huge change, by the way, in just a short period of time.
00:12:32.000And I just want to kind of take pause.
00:12:33.000I think we have to kind of take a cultural timeout as a country, by the way, and say, how did that happen so quickly?
00:12:40.000How did we go from unquestionably protecting women's sports to now having men winning NCAA championships?
00:12:47.000And 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.
00:12:58.000Where 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%.
00:13:06.000It'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.
00:14:04.000And so it really is something worth pondering, which is how do we allow this to happen?
00:14:08.000And 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.
00:14:17.000I know that's super politically incorrect to say, but it's true, okay?
00:14:20.000It's that men go to war to go do things that you don't want to always see happen so you could remain free.
00:14:26.000That's the way things have worked for thousands of years.
00:14:28.000And 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.
00:14:44.000I'm like, that's why this is happening.
00:14:50.000And 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.
00:15:59.000So, look, this is something I want to just kind of encourage you.
00:16:05.000If 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.
00:17:08.000I 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.
00:17:19.000It's like men, women, they're like, well, I don't know.
00:17:22.000We might want to not, you know, upset the apple cart on this.
00:17:39.000Like whatever it takes to go prove America's not racist.
00:17:42.000Like 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.
00:17:55.000But it's like the one thing that we're asking you to break glass for, like societal, civilizational structure, people like back away.
00:18:04.000And it really goes to show the power of the cultural machine.
00:18:08.000And that's part of why we're here tonight, by the way.
00:18:10.000So 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.
00:18:26.000And so that's the other thing I want to mention is that, you know, we talk, I hate tyranny, you should hate tyranny.
00:18:30.000I hate when a few people rule a lot of people without their permission.
00:18:34.000That's basically what tyranny is, right?
00:18:36.000Small group of people ruling a lot of people without their permission.
00:18:40.000One 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.
00:18:48.000You can't do something dramatic or bold without our permission, and we will check and balance to make sure that it doesn't happen.
00:18:54.000And so, but there's other forms of tyranny, though.
00:18:57.000And 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.
00:19:07.000You see, like the government didn't ban me from Twitter, right?
00:19:10.000I 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.
00:19:17.000And 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.
00:20:20.000Without 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?
00:20:26.000You want to have a career in this company?
00:20:28.000You better sit down and shut up because we're in charge.
00:20:48.000And there's other ways to fight it, start your own business, entrepreneurship, all this sort of stuff.
00:20:52.000But that's not actually coming from the government.
00:20:55.000And that's where we need as conservatives need to broaden our kind of indictment of what is really challenging young people in particular.
00:21:02.000What are the things that you're coming up against?
00:21:05.000And 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.
00:21:12.000But 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.
00:21:24.000And those four years at the University of Arkansas will be for nothing.
00:21:28.000So 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.
00:21:46.000And 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.
00:21:54.000You guys could fill in whether or not they're enlightened or woke or whatever, I don't know.
00:21:58.000But 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.
00:22:11.000How 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.
00:22:22.000We're only going to hire people of color.
00:22:25.000And 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.
00:22:39.000And that's a good thing to want, obviously.
00:22:43.000But 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.
00:22:52.000I mean, I could go example after example after example.
00:22:58.000We can get to that in quite QA if you guys want.
00:23:01.000So 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.
00:23:07.000So I get in a lot of trouble when I say this, but adults don't heckle me when I say this.
00:23:12.000But I think just let me finish the argument.
00:23:14.000The students are going to be enthusiastic about it when I say this, which is that this generation has gotten a really raw deal.
00:23:22.000And this generation, I think, has been lied to and manipulated more so than any other generation in recent history.
00:23:29.000And I'm going to tell you why exactly.
00:23:30.000I'm not saying that they shouldn't work harder and all this.
00:23:33.000People, I just get the craziest emails.
00:24:05.000So they borrow money they don't have to study things that don't matter to go find jobs that don't exist.
00:24:10.000Then they go move into urban metropolitan areas filled with a debt burden to go rent property and not own property.
00:24:17.000We as conservatives should be advocates for owning things.
00:24:20.000It creates better citizens and better people.
00:24:22.000It is the least, it is the lowest property ownership of any generation in American history.
00:24:28.000We should support increasing property ownership, especially with acreage all around.
00:24:33.000It creates conservatives like immediately, right?
00:24:35.000When you have to like go manage something that isn't just like pushing a button in an elevator, that's what we should support.
00:24:40.000And so, but then they followed the rules, they followed the rules, and then what next hit?
00:24:44.000At 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.
00:25:19.000It'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.
00:25:33.000No society has done that in recent memory at all.
00:25:36.000And the argument was like, well, young people could spread it to older people.
00:25:40.000How do young people stop seeing them until there's a solution that could actually be put forward?
00:26:33.000But 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.
00:27:16.000We've never seen anything quite like it.
00:27:18.000And 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?
00:27:31.000Where we act as if the people who work at their hands are stupid, when in reality, they're necessary and wise.
00:27:37.000And the people that are stupid are the people that say, I can't define what a woman is.
00:27:41.000And, but no, but you all know this when you're in high school.
00:27:44.000You get this like relentless train of questioning, like, where are you going to college?
00:27:57.000And basically, when you're 18, it makes a really big impact.
00:27:59.000Like, oh, you're going to be lower on the caste system.
00:28:02.000Like, you're going to be one of those people.
00:28:03.000You're going to be like a sweaty person.
00:28:05.000And so, basically, and you guys all know it's true.
00:28:08.000Like, 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.
00:28:20.000And so it creates this caste system where the people who keep the economy alive are the muscular class, the ones that drive the trucks.
00:28:30.000They're the ones that make sure our stores continue to have food on them.
00:28:33.000They're the ones that plant and grow the food.
00:28:36.000They're the ones that protect our streets when there's civil unrest.
00:28:39.000They're the ones that go fight the wars that keep us safe.
00:28:42.000They're the ones that police our border.
00:28:44.000But what happened is during the lockdowns is the Zoom and the Skype class decided that everyone just can kind of work from a laptop.
00:28:54.000We're just going to open up our laptop.
00:28:55.000What's so interesting is the mandates that obviously we're here to hopefully will say will never happen again.
00:29:01.000They disproportionately affected the people that were actually keeping the country afloat.
00:29:06.000It'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.
00:29:21.000And it's this caste system that was built in.
00:29:24.000And 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.
00:29:33.00018 months, and it's not like the country was the same when you left it.
00:29:50.000It'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?
00:29:58.000The lockdowns were a massive government intervention that did nothing but made young people poorer and made rich people richer.
00:30:04.000It was an upside-down wealth distribution scheme to make students and recent college graduates less likely to own property, get married, and have children.
00:30:14.000And 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.
00:30:22.000You all of a sudden want young people to be less depressed, have them start owning land, finding a partner of meaning and have children.
00:30:29.000Those three things are like the easy things we should be talking about.
00:30:31.000There's other things in particular, you know, beyond that.
00:30:33.000Having a job would be nice, you know, because that would make the other things possible.
00:30:38.000But so, but instead, I'm afraid that conservatives are kind of missing this opportunity.
00:30:43.000And there's this opportunity, and this is one of the reasons why Bernie Sanders resonates so well with younger people.
00:30:49.000And this is something that a lot of, I think, adults are missing, and you guys would resonate.
00:30:54.000It's not just that students want free stuff.
00:30:58.000But instead, they look at Bernie Sanders and they say, I actually look at him and he's going to give me freedom.
00:31:03.000I 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.
00:31:13.000And 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.
00:31:22.000And Bernie Sanders is going to wipe me clean of that debt.
00:31:24.000It's like he's going to break my shackles.
00:31:26.000Now, of course, that is not the argument that I would make, but that is the way that a lot of people process it.
00:32:12.000Because 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.
00:32:26.000And they put them up and it's like, you know what?
00:32:28.000I think it's time for a year of jubilee, which was a commandment, by the way, in the Old Testament.
00:32:33.000I 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.
00:32:40.000That's going to be a hard argument for me to kind of refute.
00:32:54.000We need to make sure all of you are bought into the system.
00:32:56.000This is one of the things that has always made America so difficult to have a socialist revolution is the middle class.
00:33:02.000The middle class is completely disappearing.
00:33:04.000They 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.
00:33:14.000You get the government checks, you get the stimulus checks, you really don't get much wealthier every single year.
00:33:19.000You kind of live in your government-appropriated housing unit.
00:33:22.000Super depressing, by the way, like incredibly depressing.
00:33:25.000And small business entrepreneurship basically disappears.
00:33:28.000So that kind of putting all that together, my challenge to adults is that there needs to be an intergenerational apology.
00:33:38.000The 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.
00:33:56.000So 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.
00:34:09.000Not 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.
00:34:18.000It's super depressing, but it's like, you know what, actually, this is an amazing country and you should believe in it again.
00:35:44.000People desire a strong man when things start to fall apart.
00:35:48.000So they want you to be confused about gender norms.
00:35:49.000They want you to be confused about historical norms.
00:35:51.000They 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.
00:35:59.000This is exactly why these kind of seemingly silly kind of culture war disputes are super important.
00:36:05.000Being 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?
00:37:11.000And this is something that we're kind of debating right now in our country.
00:37:15.000And you see that in this whole Florida situation, right?
00:37:18.000Where 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?
00:37:30.000And by the way, this is total gaslighting.
00:37:40.000It'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.
00:37:47.000Instead, the exact opposite has happened.
00:37:49.000Instead, Governor Ron DeSantis, God bless him, by the way, the courageous and the wonderful Ron DeSantis, signed into law this parental rights bill.
00:38:01.000Disney is now saying by the end of the year, they want half their characters to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans.
00:38:07.000I can't remember all the letters, whatever.
00:38:15.000You can make your own judgment on that, whether you think five-year-olds need to be exposed to that.
00:38:19.000And 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.
00:38:29.000Okay, 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.
00:38:35.000We need to give teachers free speech to five-year-olds.
00:38:38.000I say, who on earth, what do you think education is?
00:38:42.000Do you think it's the time for a teacher to spout out whatever they want to talk about?
00:38:46.000You're developing a mind there, and that's a really fragile thing.
00:38:50.000I don't care your opinion at all, actually.
00:38:52.000There'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.
00:39:41.000It's completely irrelevant what the children think.
00:39:44.000What's relevant is what we want and what is good.
00:39:46.000If 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.
00:39:58.000This is the most obvious thing that we could get.
00:40:01.000We say, and they're like, well, no, we need to have all the children share their opinions.
00:40:05.000It's like, actually, it's irrelevant what an eight-year-old opinion is to me.
00:40:09.000What'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.
00:40:24.000To 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.
00:41:28.000Do 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.
00:41:39.000If the answer to that question is yes, you are not free.
00:42:25.000So, 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.
00:42:41.000In fact, I shouldn't even say 10 people.
00:42:43.000I 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.
00:42:53.000No one should be forced to get the vaccine against their will.
00:42:56.000And 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.
00:43:06.000So what should conservatives do about that?
00:43:08.000Well, 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.
00:43:25.000And 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?
00:43:33.000Why is it we can never talk about those things?
00:44:01.000In 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.
00:44:14.000You mentioned a lot of that as an issue, but you didn't really provide much of a solution to that issue.
00:44:20.000You just kind of stayed that it's an issue and then you kind of continued onwards.
00:44:24.000And in regards to that, you did bring up how Bernie Sanders, you said, takes advantage of that fact.
00:44:57.000Didn't have as much time to dive into it as I would like.
00:44:59.000So first, and this will be the generic answer, and then I'll get into the non-generic answer, okay?
00:45:03.000The 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?
00:45:17.000Now, I say that's the generic answer because that's the answer you'll get from almost anyone on the center, right?
00:45:35.000Even the San Francisco Federal Reserve, who's basically incentivized not to say that, has come out and said that.
00:45:40.000So 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.
00:45:53.000The number one reason why people do not have children in this country is economic.
00:46:00.000If it's too expensive to have kids, we should say that matters more than just tax cuts, right?
00:46:07.000So we need to have a hierarchy of needs, wants, and concerns, right?
00:46:10.000So when the birth rate plummets by 600,000 babies last year, like, whoa, that's not good for society.
00:46:17.000That creates really kind of nihilistic people.
00:46:20.000Now, 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.
00:46:29.000So it sounds too idealistic, but maybe there might be a way to get this done.
00:46:32.000It's an interesting conversation if we could pull it off, right?
00:46:34.000Which would be, I actually think that we need to make it easier to do that.
00:46:38.000And so this is a moral question, right?
00:46:40.000Especially under kind of the current state of affairs that we have right now.
00:46:43.000We 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.
00:47:02.000So if you're math, you're like, wait a second, that's more than the whole year.
00:47:04.000Yeah, which means you have to go into debt or both spouses have to work.
00:47:09.000In 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?
00:47:18.000And 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.
00:47:33.000Now, I'm going to do something you're not allowed to do.
00:47:51.000Now, I'm not saying everyone who works for Walmart's a bad person or that they've never done anything right, whatever, okay?
00:47:58.000But 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.
00:48:09.000Now, 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.
00:48:20.000The men no longer have direction in the community, and what do we get in return?
00:48:56.000Instead, 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.
00:49:03.000But 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.
00:49:12.000Because the trajectory right now is this generation will go down as the lost generation, the depressed generation, and that can quickly be turned into.
00:49:19.000Just study history, study the Weimar Republic, how quickly those types of generations can embrace really bad ideas.
00:49:24.000If their money is worth nothing and they own nothing and they're not married, that is like the perfect prerequisite for a super revolution.
00:50:45.000I was just curious about the last thing you said about teaching our kids.
00:50:49.000What 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?
00:50:59.000So, 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.
00:51:09.000Okay, so happy to go into a whole classical education course on why that isn't the case.
00:51:14.000Look, let me make this more broad, and you guys can fill this in yourself.
00:51:18.000What is good, what is true, what is beautiful?
00:51:20.000The founders knew it, and they put it very specifically in the Declaration of Independence.
00:51:24.000This is the universal statement, then I'll get to the more specific one: the laws of nature and nature is God, right?
00:51:30.000The laws that put our entire universe in motion.
00:51:33.000Not just the laws of physics, but also the laws of ethics, right?
00:51:37.000The laws of how human beings should operate.
00:51:39.000More specifically, what is good and true and beautiful?
00:52:09.000Let's just say an unchanging standard.
00:52:11.000If you remove that, then right and wrong is merely in an opinion.
00:52:15.000And 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.
00:52:46.000So 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.
00:52:54.000And by the way, they used to get this reinforced by watching movies and film.
00:52:59.000So they used to live in a culture that actually elevated these beautiful stories.
00:53:12.000Even 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?
00:53:18.000Like, should I give them a smartphone?
00:53:32.000What 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?
00:55:53.000It's a very simple moral question, right?
00:55:56.000So, 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?
00:57:09.000Well, 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.
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00:58:25.000I'd like to continue upon her question.
00:58:29.000So you put a lot of focus on Leah Thomas and that whole situation.
00:58:33.000However, what about all of the other trans athletes that don't make it to the top?
00:58:40.000Because I unfortunately don't have a list of every trans athlete known to man.
00:58:46.000I didn't fully prepare, but what about all of the because Leah Thomas is one case out of many.
00:58:53.000So 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?
00:59:02.000Well, they're still beating other women, aren't they?
00:59:57.000I'm just saying that we should just simply, because it's not a battle between I'm elevating this person over another person.
01:00:05.000It'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.
01:00:45.000What 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?
01:00:55.000If 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?
01:02:13.000Yes, I wanted to steer back towards what we talked about with comfort.
01:02:18.000It is shown, and this is legitimate, those who transition and are treated as the gender that they identify as mentally improve unbelievably.
01:02:40.000It has 27,000 members on Facebook of people who make the chemical castration decision to transition, and that's an irreversible decision.
01:02:48.000It's a growing group of people that say, I was sold a complete bill of goods here.
01:02:53.000And 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.
01:03:32.000And 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.
01:03:42.000That'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.
01:03:50.000Like, who's the bully in this situation?
01:03:52.000Well, it's disrespectful to do that because she identifies as a woman.
01:04:54.000I mean, maybe my tweet was all about the courageous journey of Ricardo Levine, that once was named Richard and now it names Rachel.
01:05:01.000Do 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.
01:05:08.000And your opinions, you can have your opinions.
01:05:10.000But what we're talking about tonight is how we structure society, right?
01:05:13.000And that is a totally different thing than your opinion.
01:05:16.000So 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.
01:05:29.000Is the person who says, I'm the most victimized, therefore I get to create the rules because I'm not comfortable.
01:05:34.000And 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.
01:05:53.000Instead 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.
01:07:06.000But 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.
01:07:16.000And that's where we as conservatives draw the line.
01:07:17.000I want to thank you for being here tonight, truly.
01:07:32.000And 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.
01:07:40.000My question is very relevant to the previous questions I have been asked with respect to what gender and sex is.
01:07:50.000You place an emphasis on the roles of men and women.
01:07:53.000So I must ask, what do you consider masculinity to be?
01:08:58.000In high school, I knew a man who took care of students who struggled, whether it be from broken homes, mental illness, or other issues.
01:09:07.000He 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.
01:09:18.000Which, in your case, when you speak of counselors, you'd be right.
01:09:22.000Now, that man has been an inspiring figure to me, and I call him a man because he's a transgender woman.
01:11:07.000There's different needs, wants, and interests all around you.
01:11:08.000So 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.
01:12:12.000I'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.
01:12:25.000And, you know, I love what you're doing.
01:12:28.000You're on the road 330 days a year because you believe that this country can be saved.
01:12:34.000I think a lot of us have kind of just been through a lot of ups and downs since specifically the 2020 election.
01:12:43.000So, 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?
01:13:08.000Look, 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.
01:13:18.000But 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.
01:13:30.000We are seeing the rise of the citizen at every single corner.
01:13:33.000We're seeing students care more about their education.
01:13:35.000We're seeing moms show up to school board meetings all across the country.
01:13:38.000We're seeing people show up in massive numbers and demand better out of the people in charge.
01:13:44.000And 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.
01:13:57.000And instead, they said, I want to be a citizen.
01:14:00.000Being a citizen means you're going to take responsibility for your country and responsibility for your actions.
01:14:05.000Being 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.
01:14:12.000Being a citizen means voting is like the minimal thing that you do.
01:14:16.000And so, I'm very optimistic in that way.
01:14:18.000And 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.
01:14:34.000Is 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.
01:14:53.000When 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.
01:15:03.000And that gives me so much optimism because they are doubling and tripling down on the most unpopular, radical ideas imaginable in our society.
01:15:11.000You said you're a small business owner?
01:15:54.000Yeah, 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.
01:16:01.000Malcolm X railed against white liberals that were trying to use the black population for their own personal gain.
01:16:09.000And so you kind of look at, I mean, just look at one public polling poll, right?
01:16:13.000Where the question is, do you support defunding the police?
01:16:16.000Most black communities don't support defunding the police.
01:16:18.000Who supports defunding the police are like upper white liberals on the northeast side of New York.
01:16:23.000It's like there's this huge disconnect.
01:16:26.000And 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.
01:16:40.000They're actually at the exact opposite.
01:16:42.000I 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.
01:16:52.000It's like it's the least popular, especially when it comes to like men.
01:16:58.000And yet it's being pushed by white liberals on a party where they're the most reliable voting demographic, right?
01:17:03.000And so look, put simply, is that I believe that white liberals running the entire apparatus have taken for granted the average black voter.
01:17:14.000They think it's just already baked in.
01:17:16.000And at the very least, it's like you have to compete for the vote, right?
01:17:19.000I mean, in black communities across the country, you have failing schools, rising crime, and deteriorating households.
01:17:25.000The same political decisions keep on being made over and over again.
01:17:28.000So 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?
01:17:37.000The best for human beings is to be able to own property, get a fair education, have streets that aren't widespread with crime.
01:17:44.000These issues should not be controversial at all.
01:17:47.000You know, it shouldn't be controversial to say that we want school choice, we want better schools, all these sorts of things.
01:17:55.000Being a black conservative, how does the black community treat you in that way?
01:18:02.000So my Barbara Easy, I give my haircut in Favo.
01:18:04.000And every time I sit down in the chair, he's asking me all kinds of questions.
01:18:07.000And 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.
01:18:13.000And I just have to sit there and take it.
01:18:15.000I don't know what exactly stats to refute those with.
01:18:59.000Hey, 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?
01:19:17.000So look, this is the tough part, right?
01:19:19.000Which 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.
01:19:26.000That's not a good set of circumstances.
01:20:14.000This connects to kind of what I said earlier, that if you're a young person, you want to believe in the country, right?
01:20:19.000You want to believe in the system, and you're like, okay, I'm penalized for saving.
01:20:24.000You will get 25% poor for saving your money.
01:20:26.000That's a bad country to live in, right?
01:20:29.000Not that America is bad, but you know what I mean?
01:20:30.000Like you don't want to live in that country where the people who save are the ones that are penalized the most.
01:20:35.000And so the people that spend quickly are the ones that actually get rewarded.
01:20:38.000That creates really bad economic decisions.
01:20:41.000It creates people to invest in ideas that don't really matter.
01:20:44.000It 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.
01:20:53.000So does anyone own property that's young over there?
01:21:08.000I own property and they do too, but it's awful for this side of the room.
01:21:11.000Your debt, let's say you have a half million dollar mortgage on your home and all of a sudden inflation is 25%.
01:21:16.000Your debt burden actually decreased by 25%.
01:21:19.000And 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.
01:21:26.000So you see the different sides of the room there in disenfranchises.
01:21:28.000So 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.
01:21:35.000You know corporate borrowing went up by $650 billion in the midst of the pandemic.
01:22:52.000The 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.
01:23:04.000They'll go to inflation-resistant assets, like apartment complexes.
01:23:07.000Apartment complexes are the perfect thing to own in inflation.
01:23:19.000You'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.
01:23:29.000It's the best thing we could do and do it quickly.
01:24:54.000Using 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.
01:25:05.000You'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.
01:25:19.000You'll see video after video after video.
01:25:20.000So, look, I'm not going to speculate on the machines.
01:25:22.000You know a lot more about it than I do.
01:25:42.000Any 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.
01:25:50.000It 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.
01:26:29.000Okay, 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.
01:26:36.000But it's not against you, which is important, though.
01:26:38.000If you make the decision to be an open conservative in your life, it will come with a cost.
01:27:24.000But what's really important is: are you developing the soul of an individual?
01:27:27.000And 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.
01:27:34.000In fact, it's an essential thing for a young person to go through.
01:27:37.000So here's where you'll be able to have confidence.
01:28:44.000And I just want to encourage you guys.
01:28:46.000We live in the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
01:28:49.000The 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.
01:28:57.000The future of America and your own future is in our hands.
01:29:00.000And so let's do something about it and let's create a country that is worth living in, that is free and prosperous.