00:00:57.000I mean, these speakers, hold your phone.
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00:02:20.000Don't miss on the amazing concert two.
00:02:23.000And let me tell you, I mean, come on, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Rob Schneider, Roseanne Barr, Dennis Prager, Allie Beth Stuckey, James O'Keefe, Patrick Bett David, Glenn Beck.
00:02:32.000I mean, just drop everything and come to Phoenix.
00:02:58.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:03:04.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:36.000No other country has a national holiday, national day of rest, where they just stop and they say, today we are going to prioritize gratitude.
00:03:48.000You cannot have a country, a religion, a faith without rituals.
00:04:15.000One of the main reasons, one of the reasons why the Jewish people have lasted so resiliently over 3,000 years of persecution is they have some incredibly strict rules about ritual.
00:04:31.000The Shabbat, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Pasach, and so on and so forth.
00:04:37.000The ritual of Thanksgiving is about giving thanks to something greater than you.
00:04:44.000America was founded by a group of men who believed that there was a God and it was not them.
00:04:52.00055 out of 56 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing church-attending Christians.
00:05:03.000Regardless of your theology, even regardless if you are Jewish or Christian, you cannot do any sort of overview of the scriptures without encountering a repeated declaration that you should give thanks.
00:05:15.000Ephesians 5:20, always give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of Lord Jesus Christ.
00:05:21.0001 Samuel 12, 24, be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart.
00:05:26.000Consider what great things he has done for you.
00:05:29.0001 Thessalonians 5, 18, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
00:05:36.000Psalm 118, 24, this is the day the Lord has made.
00:06:08.000You cannot have joy if you are not thankful.
00:06:11.000One of the main reasons that we are seeing the collapse of the West is we have sent generations of our young people, and now we're at two or three generations with Gen Z to go wildly into debt to get degrees in ingratitude.
00:06:33.000Now, it doesn't say Carol Jones degree in gratitude, but that's basically what it is.
00:06:40.000You're studying North African lesbian poetry.
00:06:43.000They're not telling you how great America is, how great the West is.
00:06:48.000You are not leaving with a sense of awe, wonder, and appreciation for what has been given to you.
00:08:03.000Now, maybe you're thankful to your parents or generations before, but there's a reason why so many kids come home from college and Thanksgiving is a place of turmoil and division and a schism.
00:08:19.000Because the premise of Thanksgiving is that you actually have a pretty awesome life.
00:08:24.000And even if you don't, you should still give thanks under all circumstances.
00:08:30.000And the philosophical foundation found in colleges is the opposite.
00:09:03.000We want to go back to slavery because at least we had meat.
00:09:08.000It might not feel like Thanksgiving is a political holiday, and I don't want it to be a political holiday, nor should you.
00:09:16.000But unfortunately, it's become one of the most political of all things because it's a test.
00:09:22.000If you have a big family dinner tomorrow, and the person who says, Thank you, Lord, for this country, yes, we have problems, but thank you that I get to live in this beautiful place.
00:09:32.000To the 19-year-old nephew that you have, who smugly and arrogantly says, But what about the injustice?
00:09:41.000How could I have a good Thanksgiving when the people of Gaza are living in an open-air prison?
00:09:50.000Don't be shocked when the ritual of saying thanks is put in jeopardy when you have sent tens of millions or most prized possession, our young people, to indoctrination camps and they have graduated with mountains of debt and degrees in ingratitude.
00:11:11.000As soon as one of those left-wing radicals at the Thanksgiving table tomorrow, an uncle and aunt, start complaining about our democracy, you say, that's not what this day is about.
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00:13:09.000At the root of Marxism is the following quote: the ruthless criticism of all that exists.
00:13:15.000It is not complicated to get a bunch of young people to do that, to complain.
00:13:46.000And Thanksgiving is a day that we have passed down through generations that is not on its surface political, but it is incredibly political in today's America.
00:13:58.000How you handle tomorrow tells me everything about your worldview.
00:14:03.000Now, somebody might say, but Charlie, I am not in a good place in my life.
00:14:12.000There is always something you can be thankful for.
00:14:15.000Victor Frankl's book, Man's Search for Meaning, is a beautiful example of that.
00:14:20.000If you are having a more difficult life than Victor Frankl, please email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:14:26.000Losing your wife at a concentration camp and every one of your blood relatives and having to serve in a concentration camp for multiple years and almost dying.
00:14:35.000If you're having a more tough time than Victor Frankl, I want to hear about it.
00:15:17.000There's many reasons, but the simple one is they're the least grateful generation ever.
00:15:24.000And I'm not even talking about the God question, which is the obvious one.
00:15:28.000If you don't believe in God, then how could you ever get to gratitude?
00:15:32.000But tomorrow is a day that was designed, whether intentionally or unintentionally, I'm not going to get into it, to understand that thankfulness and gratitude is a discipline.
00:15:44.000No matter your circumstances, you have to become good at it.
00:16:48.000We train the youth of America to see, instead of the beautiful grandeur, this tapestry of blessing that has been given to us, they find the little dot that is maybe wrong or imprecise and they make it their identity.
00:17:07.000Thanksgiving started as a way to say, thank you, Lord, for the provision.
00:17:13.000And it has been passed down as this incredibly beautiful institution that's focused on family, time off, and it leads into the Christmas season.
00:17:28.000And now I take a step back and now I know why I love Thanksgiving and why the people that are trying to destroy our country, I'm not going to say they're trying to get rid of Thanksgiving, but they don't honor it as the ritual towards the holy.
00:18:14.000If they tell their base, hey, guys, we actually have it pretty good, then why should they get more power?
00:18:20.000Tyrants will never, ever tell the population they're trying to master, hey, things are actually great.
00:18:27.000Instead, they'll say, things are miserable, so give me more power.
00:18:34.000Okay, Kirk fans, I need you to stop and pay attention to this.
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00:21:25.000I think parents are starting to wake up that when you send your kids to college, that it's not just the ideas that they learn, but it is the process of which they interpret the world.
00:21:39.000I've been trying to make this point, and honestly, I've made it rather clumsily over the last 11 years, but I'm getting better and better at articulating this, which is some parents will say, but Charlie, you know, who cares if they will read, you know, Rousseau and they read the Communist Manifesto.
00:21:56.000I want them to be open to all sorts of ideas.
00:22:18.000So, I'll give you a great example: how I read scripture.
00:22:22.000When I read scripture and I find something that I don't understand, or I see something that I personally don't like, I believe that I'm the one that's wrong, and scripture is right, and I need to figure out why.
00:22:39.000So, that's a system of thinking, and it's come over a long period of time.
00:22:45.000And it's, of course, it's still with inquiry, but the benefit is on scripture, not on me.
00:22:53.000When young people go to university, they view the world whether they realize it or not.
00:23:00.000Even if they come from a conservative upbringing, it wears them down because of the homework and the books and the lectures and the videos.
00:23:08.000Where instead of looking at the world as an abundance of opportunity, at a place of potential prosperity, rooted, of course, in a gratitude, thankful posture, they look at it as a place of exploitation, thievery, stealing.
00:23:25.000And so, the methodology of how they actually see the world and the formula of how they process information changes without parents even realizing it.
00:23:37.000So, it's not just the books you consume, it's not just what the professors are saying.
00:23:42.000They are reworking the actual neural pathways of how an entire generation will read the newspaper.
00:23:50.000Jordan Peterson said this better than I can, quite honestly, with Bill Maher the other day.
00:23:58.000I mean, part of the reason that you see all this foolishness on university campuses, too, is because people have bought this idiot meta-Marxism, which is that the way to look at every social relationship that people ever have is through the lens of power.
00:24:10.000And that is, we can put that squarely at the feet of the universities.
00:24:14.000Once you get that, which you can get in about two minutes, if you sit in the course that teaches that sort of thing, you have a lens to moralize about the whole world through.
00:24:21.000And then you see the situation is that the leftists have already decided the Palestinians are the victims.
00:24:27.000And as you pointed out, if you're a victim, then you're morally righteous.
00:24:31.000And even more conveniently, if you stand for the victim, then you're morally righteous regardless of what you do with your own life.
00:24:38.000So the bad guys will call this cognitive bias, but it's actually really a good way to interpret it.
00:24:45.000So if you have a group of people and there's a you know, clinic, there's clinical data after clinical data that shows this.
00:24:51.000And by the way, it's proved, you guys could do it right now.
00:24:53.000So if you're watching the Charlie Kirk show, you close your eyes for five minutes, and I want you only to think about the color green.
00:24:58.000Only think about the color green, only think about the color green, only think about the color green.
00:26:13.000It's just with your own reason you could do it.
00:26:15.000That is how you train a young student to view the world.
00:26:20.000They close their eyes, say, find the injustice, And they open their eyes and instead of looking at all of the blessing and the beauty and the grandeur and the improbability of what we've been able to do in the West and the fact that we're not tearing each other apart every single day, even though we're close to it, they've been conditioned to see the world in a specific way.
00:26:43.000Thanksgiving is a single day that pushes back against that.
00:26:48.000Thanksgiving instead tries to ritualize a single day that you will view the world through a grateful mindset.
00:26:59.000So if you train, incentivize, and then test millions of college students to see the world through oppressor-oppressed dynamics, that's not a joyful way to live.
00:27:50.000And in America, there is a settler, a European foreigner, alien settler cultural mythology.
00:27:59.000When we hijack the truth and we put in its place something that is more palatable, something that eases our guilty settler conscience, it sets us up for conflict.
00:28:17.000American Indian activist Chase Iron Eyes continues by saying, we are consciously deconstructing our Euro-hetero-Christian programming.
00:28:26.000Now, I wouldn't expect CNN to push back and say, hey, Chase Ironize, the part of the white European Christian programming you want to get rid of, is that, I don't know, common law?
00:29:15.000And we're just now in a state where we're consciously deconstructing Euro-hetero-Christian programming.
00:29:26.000When you look into it, I'm a lawyer and I've studied the sources of these cultural mythologies, the mythologies where one demographic is not only the settler, but the cowboys that tamed the Wild West and brought under their control and their subjugation all the beasts of the wild, not only the animals, but they're talking about us.
00:29:52.000They're talking about the merciless Indian savages.
00:29:56.000That is in the United States Constitution.
00:30:12.000I'll give him a little bit of grace there.
00:30:14.000But he says these European mythologies, he is just one example of hundreds I could play of the relentless, ruthless criticism of all that exists.
00:30:26.000I'm going to say this gently because I do have a heart for these people.
00:30:30.000Is why are Native American reservations so poor?
00:30:59.000Very high rates of alcoholism, very high rates of depression, very high rates of runaway kids, very high rates of abuse, very high unemployment rates.
00:31:15.000Or is it the same thing that is the connective tissue with Gaza, which is the people in charge haven't focused on the well-being and the prosperity of their people and instead have been focused on the white man?
00:31:31.000It does not take depth to blame the white man for your troubles.
00:31:36.000It takes maturity to say, we have work to do.
00:31:43.000All right, everybody, the holidays and big family feasts are upon us.
00:31:46.000But in D.C., there's no bigger turkey than Senate Bill 1339.
00:31:50.000It's still being pushed by that radical rascal, Bernie Sanders.
00:31:58.000Senate Bill 1339 is Bernie's latest attempt to sneak in a backdoor takeover of more of our health care.
00:32:04.000He falsely claims it will lower prescription drug prices.
00:32:06.000But S1339 will actually just do the opposite.
00:32:09.000It'll handcuff pharmacy benefit managers who are currently saving millions of dollars on an average of $1,040 a year.
00:32:15.000Bernie is hoping that despite thousands of your fellow Americans already going to lowermydrugprices.com to stand up against S-1339, you'll be too busy making holiday plans or getting ready for a year-end vacation to stop him from a power grab on your healthcare.
00:32:36.000I'm urging you to keep up the pressure against passage of S1339 by going to lowermydrugprices.com.
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00:32:56.000Remember, we have momentum, but we need your help today.
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00:35:26.000Abraham Lincoln, October 3rd, 1863, a declaration of Thanksgiving just days after Gettysburg.
00:35:35.000The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies to these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are proud to forget the source from which they come.
00:35:47.000Others have been added, which are so extraordinary in nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart, which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.
00:35:57.000Boy, they used to be such talented writers.
00:35:59.000In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved to all nations.
00:36:10.000Order has been maintained and the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theater of military conflict, which, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union, needful divisions of wealth and of strength in the fields.
00:36:26.000And it continues by saying, I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States and those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands to participate in Thanksgiving, or day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficient Father.
00:36:40.000This proclamation is viewed as the beginning of the national holiday of Thanksgiving Day.
00:36:44.000Abraham Lincoln issued the proclamation, but he did not author it.
00:36:46.000The Secretary of State William Seward penned the 1863 proclamation.
00:36:52.000In July of 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg resulted in more than 50,000 American casualties.
00:36:56.000Despite these losses, the United States gained a great victory during these three days.
00:37:03.000On October 3rd, 1863, with that victory in mind, as well as its cost, he wrote this proclamation.
00:37:08.000Even in the midst of unspeakable horror, he said we must give thanks.
00:37:13.000This was at the peak of the worst period in American history.