The Charlie Kirk Show - 'The Game Has Changed' — Charlie's Opening Speech LIVE from AmericaFest

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, my opening remarks at Turning Point USA's America Fest.

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00:00:14.000 This is given in front of 10,000 people, the largest multi-day conservative event in American history.

00:00:20.000 Buckle up, everybody, here we go.

00:00:22.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:24.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:26.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:29.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:32.000 I want to thank Charlie.

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

00:00:34.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:00:36.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:00:43.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:00:52.000 That's why we are here.

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00:01:22.000 Thank you, everybody.

00:01:26.000 It's a great day to be in America.

00:01:28.000 What would you say?

00:01:33.000 Please take a seat.

00:01:34.000 Everybody, I want to just give a thanks to our amazing Turning Point USA staff that have put all this on.

00:01:38.000 The work they have put in is unbelievable.

00:01:40.000 Give it up for our Turning Point USA staff.

00:01:43.000 They've done an unbelievable job.

00:01:47.000 And we have people from all across the country here.

00:01:50.000 And for those of you that have been coming to Turning Point USA events for a couple years, look around, everybody.

00:01:56.000 You are not alone, and we're going to win.

00:01:58.000 And we're going to win big time.

00:01:59.000 Look around.

00:02:00.000 It's unbelievable.

00:02:05.000 We are here to celebrate the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:02:12.000 We're here to reclaim the narrative.

00:02:16.000 We have over 10,000 people from all across the country.

00:02:20.000 I'm told we have people from all 50 states, from Alaska.

00:02:23.000 Who's from Alaska out there?

00:02:24.000 Someone's there.

00:02:25.000 Right there, from Hawaii.

00:02:26.000 Who's from Hawaii?

00:02:27.000 Someone's got to be from Hawaii.

00:02:28.000 There to California.

00:02:30.000 We won't hold that against you.

00:02:33.000 How about Texas?

00:02:34.000 We got some people from Texas here.

00:02:38.000 And Arizona.

00:02:39.000 I mean, come on, we got some people from Arizona.

00:02:46.000 America is our home.

00:02:50.000 And what's been going on in our country for far too long is we have allowed self-interested politicians and liars to take advantage of us and destroy our home.

00:03:01.000 No more.

00:03:02.000 We're taking back our country, everybody.

00:03:03.000 We're not going to let it happen anymore.

00:03:07.000 We have a unique history and culture as Americans.

00:03:11.000 We need to be unafraid to say that.

00:03:13.000 Unfortunately, the fact that we as Americans have to now tolerate the renaming of schools from Abraham Lincoln to some sort of woke nonsense in San Francisco.

00:03:26.000 The fact that we are not putting up statues to Thomas Jefferson, but instead tearing them down, we as Americans must understand that it's a gift we get to live in the United States of America, a gift from God that we get to be Americans, the freest, most prosperous, greatest nation ever to exist.

00:03:45.000 America has always been focused on eternal principles rooted in the natural law.

00:03:51.000 We as conservatives, we are people that want to conserve the good, the true, and the beautiful against those that want to try and destroy it.

00:03:59.000 That means, and you saw this in the last year, and I'll talk about it in a second, that it's one thing to post something on television or to do something weird on social media.

00:04:09.000 It's another thing to try to indoctrinate your kids. 0.83

00:04:11.000 We're not going to tolerate that anymore.

00:04:13.000 Parents are going to be first. 0.87

00:04:18.000 We celebrate our birthday every July.

00:04:21.000 The fact that we as a nation have a birthday is a big deal.

00:04:25.000 July 4th, 1776, when Thomas Jefferson wrote, When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands of that which is tied to them and never separate, but equal station, which derives from the laws of nature and nature's God, everybody, no other country in the history of the planet, in the history of the human species, was founded on an eternal call that says you as a human being have dignity.

00:04:50.000 That you have a right to speech, that you have a right to organize, that you have a right to start a family.

00:04:55.000 And we recognize in America, despite what the regime says currently, that those rights do not come from government.

00:05:02.000 They come from God and you have them naturally.

00:05:13.000 And they can never take them away.

00:05:15.000 It is government's role to protect our rights against tyranny.

00:05:18.000 Government does not give you rights.

00:05:20.000 Government is not going to tell you how many people you get to have over for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

00:05:25.000 They work for us.

00:05:26.000 The United States Constitution starts with we, the people.

00:05:30.000 They work for us, everybody.

00:05:36.000 We love our country.

00:05:39.000 But right now, I'm not loving our government.

00:05:42.000 We need to make that difference because if you dare say that you don't like your government, the media says that you're unpatriotic.

00:05:51.000 Questioning your government is one of the most patriotic things a citizenry can do.

00:06:01.000 Never in American history have we seen the government so disconnected from the people.

00:06:08.000 This is what I think drives all of you to come to an event like this.

00:06:12.000 This is what motivates you to run for school board.

00:06:14.000 Who's running for school board, by the way?

00:06:16.000 Raise your hand.

00:06:17.000 God bless you.

00:06:19.000 You're taking back the country.

00:06:20.000 By the way, who homeschools?

00:06:22.000 Anyone homeschool here?

00:06:23.000 Raise your hand.

00:06:24.000 You are the heroes.

00:06:24.000 Give it up for our homeschooling parents.

00:06:30.000 The people are with us.

00:06:33.000 Our leaders are not.

00:06:35.000 The disconnect between our leaders and you has never been greater.

00:06:41.000 How many times do we send politicians to Washington, D.C. or Sacramento, where they say they're going to do one thing and they do the exact opposite?

00:06:50.000 You see, America has the greatest people on earth.

00:06:55.000 America is the most generous, decent, benevolent, forward-thinking, productive people on the planet.

00:07:03.000 And we have been abused for far too long by a self-righteous ruling class.

00:07:09.000 And both parties, by the way, it's not even political.

00:07:11.000 I think we all agree.

00:07:12.000 This is not even about parties.

00:07:14.000 This is about right versus wrong and truth versus lies and light versus darkness, everybody.

00:07:25.000 Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here.

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00:08:36.000 So, how does the ruling class treat you?

00:08:39.000 While our borders are wide open, over 2 million people are crossing into our country so far.

00:08:46.000 Inflation double digits.

00:08:50.000 We give 85 billion dollars of weapons to the Taliban.

00:08:53.000 I could go on.

00:08:54.000 What's the priority?

00:08:58.000 The priority was that all of a sudden you saw the Department of Justice in September issue a memo saying that moms and dads that show up to school board meetings across the country need to be treated like domestic terrorists.

00:09:16.000 Now, when the Department of Justice issued that letter, something different happened.

00:09:23.000 Because the conservative movement that was around 10 years ago would have been really intimidated by that.

00:09:31.000 10 years ago, we would have been like, Wow, the Department of Justice is saying that we have to sit down and shut up.

00:09:38.000 But you know what happened next?

00:09:40.000 More people showed up to school board meetings once that memo was written.

00:09:44.000 More people started to question what their kids were learning.

00:09:47.000 More people said, You are not going to teach critical race theory to my child.

00:09:51.000 I'm not going to put up with this.

00:09:54.000 And what was amazing is that the regime realized that there's something new happening in this country and it's unexpected.

00:10:03.000 And what's happening is all of a sudden, we, the sovereign in this country, are finally reclaiming our rightful role as citizens of this great country.

00:10:14.000 Not participants, not spectators, but participants in this experiment.

00:10:18.000 A nation is defined by its people.

00:10:21.000 And the moms and dads that have been showing up to these school board meetings, running for school board, and doing these amazing things on the city and local level, all of a sudden, this is happening in all 50 states, in counties all across the country.

00:10:35.000 And we must realize, as conservatives, as people who love freedom, that there's a fundamental difference between America as a country, which we are, and that we're not a colony.

00:10:48.000 This is not a place where all of a sudden you just get to go make a bunch of money and leave.

00:10:52.000 We are a country that has an economy in it.

00:10:55.000 We are not an economy that happens to be in a country.

00:10:58.000 Now, what we have is a ruling class, people in charge, Bezos, Zuckerberg, plutocrats that hate you, that think they can make as much money off of you as possible.

00:11:10.000 Go give $100 million to BLM Incorporated and then get out of here.

00:11:15.000 There are more important things than making money in this world, everybody.

00:11:20.000 Passing your values down to your children, having a nation you can recognize, having a southern border, making sure that this beautiful gift that we've been given continues for future generations.

00:11:33.000 And this is what makes this gathering different and this conservative movement different.

00:11:37.000 We'll talk about high taxes and low taxes.

00:11:40.000 We'll talk about free markets.

00:11:41.000 We love all of those things.

00:11:43.000 But we know there's a deeper game being played, everybody, than tax policy right now in our country.

00:11:48.000 The game that's being played is very simple.

00:11:50.000 Are you thankful that you're an American or are you angry that you're an American?

00:11:54.000 And are you willing to do something about it?

00:11:57.000 That's the difference.

00:11:58.000 And everybody here is committing that we're no longer going to accept the managed decline of America.

00:12:05.000 We're not going to accept these weak need politicians that continually say one thing and then do another.

00:12:13.000 And so we all know America is on very fragile footing.

00:12:17.000 We know out of all the different kinds of different things that are happening in front of us.

00:12:22.000 And I want to speak specifically to the students in the audience.

00:12:25.000 And by the way, turning point USA students out there, you guys are American heroes for what you guys are doing on college and high school campuses.

00:12:36.000 It is very hard to be a conservative in America.

00:12:40.000 It's especially hard to be a young conservative on college campuses because guess what?

00:12:45.000 They're telling the rest of the world, I don't care if you call me a racist, a bigot, a homophobe, a colonialist.

00:12:52.000 I don't care if you kick me out of the fraternity or sorority.

00:12:54.000 My country matters more than my social status.

00:12:57.000 My country matters more than my Instagram likes.

00:13:00.000 My country matters more than my TikTok popularity.

00:13:04.000 My nation matters more than whether or not I'm popular on a college campus.

00:13:08.000 And my challenge is some of the adults out here, you could be inspired by the courage of these young conservatives on campuses that take that leap of faith.

00:13:20.000 But our generation, even a little bit younger, has some very specific challenges.

00:13:26.000 We would be fooling ourselves if we were saying that this generation has all the same opportunities in front of them that prior generations had.

00:13:34.000 Now, let me be clear.

00:13:36.000 I think that kind of there's something to be said that young people sometimes can work harder and apply themselves better.

00:13:42.000 Fine.

00:13:43.000 I think it's a mistake, though, when all of a sudden there's kind of this generational lecturing that occurs.

00:13:48.000 Like, come on, when I was young, I didn't have to go to debt to go to college.

00:13:52.000 I could work my way through it.

00:13:54.000 Yeah, the game has changed if you haven't found out.

00:13:57.000 And the best example of one of the great moral injustices ever done to our generation was how we mishandled the Fauci Chinese coronavirus.

00:14:11.000 And by the way, Fauci should be in prison for how he handled the Chinese coronavirus.

00:14:30.000 Just so the media hears, so the media is going to write this up.

00:14:34.000 It's lock him up.

00:14:35.000 Am I hearing that right?

00:14:36.000 Lock him up?

00:14:38.000 That's right.

00:14:40.000 It's a crime against our generation and a crime against humanity, what that self-righteous sycophant has been able to do to you, your family, and your children.

00:14:53.000 Now, for a virus that already had a 99.5 survivability rate, for a virus that was not an existential threat to humanity, let alone to our generation, what did we decide to do?

00:15:08.000 Lock down a generation that was not at significant risk. 1.00

00:15:12.000 Take away their prom, their graduation, their social activities, in-person learning.

00:15:17.000 We saw increases in depression, suicide, mental health issues, medication, the most suicidal, the most depressed, the most alcohol-addicted generation in American history.

00:15:28.000 Then, as soon as we start to reopen the economy, millennials try to go buy a home and everything's 50% more expensive because we decided to go create $7 trillion that we don't have to go inflate all the hard assets in our country.

00:15:40.000 It was a scam played towards the next generation.

00:15:44.000 And on top of it, we say, oh, now you have to go get a vaccine.

00:15:55.000 Now you have to go get a vaccine against your will.

00:15:57.000 And if you don't, you can't go work at a job, even though you might have already got the virus.

00:16:02.000 And you might not be at risk from getting the virus that you already have, because you got to get a vaccine, even though you already had the virus to make sure you don't get it.

00:16:08.000 But it actually doesn't make sure you don't get the virus that you shouldn't get because you might die, not die from the virus you shouldn't get.

00:16:14.000 Am I following this correctly?

00:16:15.000 If it doesn't make sense, it does it because it's insane.

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00:17:34.000 We at Turning Point USA have been very clear about this.

00:17:39.000 And the fact that not every conservative has said this out loud and repeatedly, no one should be forced to get the vaccine against their will under any circumstances whatsoever.

00:17:51.000 Period.

00:17:52.000 End of story.

00:18:12.000 And not to mention, we're not even allowed to talk about early treatments.

00:18:16.000 We're not even allowed to have a conversation, thought crimes, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, vitamin C, azithromycin, aspirin, monoclonal antibodies, or regeneron.

00:18:26.000 No, we're not even allowed to talk about that.

00:18:28.000 Instead, it's a one-size-fits-all policy.

00:18:30.000 Why?

00:18:31.000 Because if you ever talked about early treatments or early intervention, then you might not have been as afraid.

00:18:38.000 You see, tyrants capitalize on your fear.

00:18:42.000 Authoritarians want you to be in a position of fear all the time.

00:18:47.000 We used to say you have nothing to fear but fear itself.

00:18:50.000 Now we say we have to shut down New York City over Omicron, even though no one's died from it.

00:18:55.000 It's almost as if the ruling class made $3.8 trillion of a wealth transfer of addicting you to screens to buy products you don't need to try to jab your children against a virus that probably won't kill them at all, like statistically at all.

00:19:08.000 And all of a sudden what we're seeing, and we see it all across this room and across the country, people waking up to exactly the motivations of either Fauci or the whole ruling class, which is very simple.

00:19:21.000 This was a means to the end for them to try to control your life and your children.

00:19:26.000 And we are not going to let that happen, everybody.

00:19:29.000 We are waking up against the medical industrial complex, and we're making up, we're waking up to the measures against us.

00:19:37.000 But it's not the only virus in America.

00:19:41.000 I think there's actually a more dangerous virus than the Chinese coronavirus out there.

00:19:48.000 The media, that's pretty good, I gotta say.

00:19:50.000 It's hard to disagree with that.

00:19:53.000 It's the virus, and there's a lot of different words to describe it.

00:19:57.000 Wokeism, diversity, equity, inclusion, critical race theory, and it's everywhere.

00:20:04.000 At Columbia University, they have black-only graduation ceremonies.

00:20:08.000 At Western Washington University, they have black-only dormitories.

00:20:12.000 United Airlines is now announcing that 50% of all the new pilots they're going to hire are going to be black pilots.

00:20:19.000 I don't know about you.

00:20:20.000 I don't care about the color of the skin of my pilot.

00:20:22.000 I hope he can or she can land the plane when they need to land the plane.

00:20:32.000 They have been trying to implement this existential threat against the American way of life.

00:20:39.000 You know, I'm old enough to remember that when you actually cared about people's skin color, you were rightly called a racist when you cared about people's skin color.

00:20:48.000 Where we should judge people based on character, not based on the color of their skin.

00:20:53.000 We should judge them based on things they can change, not they can't change.

00:20:58.000 But what the problem is, is so many people are afraid to even touch this because they're afraid of being called the worst thing you could be called in American society.

00:21:08.000 And no, it's not an adulterer or an axe murderer.

00:21:10.000 It's a racist.

00:21:12.000 And it's too bad because there's a widespread issue with that term.

00:21:18.000 There's a supply and demand issue with racism in America.

00:21:22.000 America is such a un-racist, non-racist country.

00:21:26.000 We have people like Jussie Smollett that need to make up racial incidents in the middle of the night in Chicago to try to prove that we are racist when he hires two Nigerian brothers wearing Make America Great Again hats when it's negative 30 degrees outside while he's going to Subway to try to prove that we're so racist.

00:21:43.000 That's proof that there's not enough racism out there to prove the fact that America's racist.

00:21:47.000 We're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:21:50.000 Period.

00:21:57.000 We also are suffering under the virus of political correctness.

00:22:01.000 Now, I'm going to say some things you're not allowed to say.

00:22:06.000 Only women can become pregnant. 1.00

00:22:08.000 That's it.

00:22:08.000 I said it.

00:22:09.000 I know.

00:22:10.000 I know.

00:22:13.000 There are only two genders. 0.99

00:22:19.000 Men are different than women. 1.00

00:22:21.000 I know.

00:22:21.000 It's...

00:22:27.000 Why have we allowed this nonsense to get as far as it is?

00:22:32.000 The reason, and we're breaking that right now at this conference and to our amazing people watching online and to our amazing sponsors and the people streaming live on Fox Nation and all that, is this, is we're breaking it because you need to not care what they call you when you say something that is true.

00:22:50.000 You need to not care what they call you when you say something that is true.

00:22:55.000 We live under the tyranny of their social conformity.

00:22:59.000 We live under the tyranny that they hold the cards like, well, I might not be invited to the Cool Kids Club.

00:23:04.000 Look around.

00:23:04.000 You're at the coolest kids club in America right now, everybody.

00:23:07.000 Who cares what they have?

00:23:10.000 The point is this, is that everything they are, they accuse us of.

00:23:16.000 They say, yeah, you know, the right is really intolerant.

00:23:18.000 Meanwhile, you're not allowed to come on any college campus.

00:23:21.000 Meanwhile, they say that, you know, we have a racial problem in the country, yet they're the ones that are focusing on people's skin color.

00:23:28.000 Very simply, people say, how do we retake the country?

00:23:31.000 It can happen overnight.

00:23:33.000 We can retake the country when decent people start to care more about a greater good and about what is right than whether or not their personal cost will be.

00:23:42.000 And guess what?

00:23:44.000 For some of you out there that are business owners, you say, well, Charlie, you know, I can't push back against this.

00:23:49.000 I might lose business.

00:23:50.000 You're right, you might.

00:23:51.000 Charlie, I don't know if I could speak out against this.

00:23:53.000 I might not be able to get a job in my field.

00:23:56.000 You're right.

00:23:57.000 The question is, what matters more?

00:24:00.000 That's the question.

00:24:02.000 And here's the open secret that no one wants to tell you out loud.

00:24:07.000 We will not defeat the left and we will not destroy what they're trying to do without every single person in this room sacrificing some form of comfort.

00:24:15.000 It's that simple.

00:24:17.000 It will not happen.

00:24:18.000 If you think your life will just become instantaneously and immediately better, no matter what, and you're also going to be able to stand for conservative principles and say only women can become pregnant and say that America is the least racist country in the history of the world and say that white privilege is a racist myth that doesn't exist.

00:24:35.000 If you're willing to say these things, then yeah, you'll pay a price.

00:24:38.000 But look around.

00:24:39.000 When all of a sudden thousands and thousands and millions of people are saying it, they realize that all of a sudden they have been ruling under the tyranny of a minority because there are more of us than them.

00:24:50.000 There are more Americans that believe things that you do not have to overthink about.

00:24:55.000 You don't have to say, you know, do we need some sort of campus, you know, lecture or study about whether men and women are different. 0.99

00:25:04.000 Like, yeah, I mean, some ideas are so stupid, you have to go to college to believe them. 0.99

00:25:07.000 Like, we know that, right? 0.99

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00:26:18.000 It stops when we start to say we care about what is right in the future of the nation more than what we could do what they could do against us.

00:26:27.000 We are a nation suffering from amnesia.

00:26:30.000 Put simply, we are a nation that has Alzheimer's.

00:26:34.000 We do not know our history, our past.

00:26:37.000 Therefore, we don't really know where to go forward.

00:26:40.000 And they're doing this intentionally.

00:26:43.000 Why do you think they're trying to take down the statues of Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln?

00:26:49.000 Now, they say it's, oh, it's because those people were terribly racist and awful. 0.98

00:26:53.000 It's a bunch of nonsense. 0.99

00:26:53.000 You know it. 0.99

00:26:54.000 These people were heroes.

00:26:55.000 They built the country that we get to enjoy.

00:26:56.000 Okay, it's that simple.

00:26:57.000 It's nonsense.

00:26:59.000 Instead, the reason is they don't want you to have a historical reference point of something that is amazing and mighty and courageous.

00:27:10.000 They want you to act as if you're the first humans ever to exist.

00:27:14.000 They want you to believe that no one came before you and might have actually sacrificed so you can live free. 0.60

00:27:22.000 And the deeper significance of this, and this is why we as conservatives need to understand the broader game at play here, is that when they all of a sudden say, yeah, we're going to teach the 1619 project, and by the way, Nicole Hannah Jones, if you're watching this, the 1619 project is total garbage and you're a con artist and it should be taken out of every single school in the country. 0.95

00:27:41.000 It's absolute nonsense.

00:27:44.000 Never does Nicole Hannah Jones talk about how Thomas Jefferson actually banned the importation of slaves into the United States as one of his first acts as president in March of 1803.

00:27:54.000 Never does Nicole Hannah Jones actually ever talk about how Thomas Jefferson argued for the abolition of slavery as the Virginia governor in the 1790s.

00:28:02.000 Never does Nicole Hannah Jones from the 1619 project ever talk about in the original draft of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, did Thomas Jefferson actually admonish King George for bringing the sin of slavery to the United States.

00:28:14.000 Never does Nicole Hannah Jones say nine out of 13 of the original colonies actually had abolished slavery by ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

00:28:22.000 Never did Nicole Hannah Jones ever teach your kids the first anti-slavery convention was where? 1.00

00:28:26.000 Held in Philadelphia in 1775.

00:28:28.000 Why? 0.88

00:28:29.000 Because she's a liar and she shouldn't be a professor and she shouldn't be teaching your children anything about U.S. history. 1.00

00:28:34.000 Doesn't teach any of that. 0.97

00:28:35.000 But the point is not any of that.

00:28:37.000 The deeper point is that we have to have the humility and the understanding that you stand on the shoulders of people before you that even allowed you to have freedom.

00:28:53.000 Imagine the pride, the hubris it would take to say that everything I have is a byproduct of my own action.

00:29:03.000 That's basically what they say every single day, is that anything before you is racist and terrible and awful?

00:29:10.000 We know it's exactly the opposite.

00:29:13.000 And that's rooted in gratitude.

00:29:15.000 You see, gratitude, if a nation is thankful, if a nation has gratitude, then all of a sudden it's harder to have a revolution, isn't it?

00:29:26.000 Do you notice that people don't say thank you as often as they used to?

00:29:30.000 Not just in interpersonal relationships, but also thank you to the parents that raised you, that allowed you to have the opportunities you have.

00:29:39.000 Thank you to the organizations or efforts that try to make America a freer place, or most importantly, thank you to God for giving you life, because life is really special.

00:29:50.000 Now, why is that important?

00:29:52.000 As soon as you say thank you, it slows you down and actually makes you a happier person and a less bitter person.

00:30:00.000 And what we're experiencing is a generation of students and young people that are being trained to do this, but also by, you know, the self-righteous ruling class that are basically saying that you have nothing to be thankful for and you have nothing to be thankful to.

00:30:19.000 You see, we have a totally different perspective.

00:30:21.000 We say we're small in this unwinding plan all around us.

00:30:28.000 That life is a miracle in and of itself.

00:30:30.000 The fact that we have consciousness and our ability to breathe is something so beyond even human reason.

00:30:36.000 And the fact you're able to live in a country where you can gather like this and be around amazing friends, let's just talk about the West.

00:30:44.000 You think gatherings like this are happening in Australia right now?

00:30:47.000 How about the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria?

00:30:50.000 Of course not.

00:30:51.000 You have 10 people in a room in Australia.

00:30:54.000 They bring in the police.

00:30:56.000 And yet here we have 10,000 people gathered in a room.

00:30:59.000 There's something special about that, and it's unique.

00:31:02.000 But put simply, is that, and we all know this, the nation is not going to save itself.

00:31:10.000 We are living on the last gasp of the sacrifices of the generation that stormed Normandy Beach, the last gasp of the generation that gave us this.

00:31:21.000 And so here's the question, and I think I know the answer.

00:31:24.000 Will our generations, millennials, generation Z right there, are we willing to do what is necessary to sacrifice what might feel good for something that is good?

00:31:35.000 Because guess what?

00:31:36.000 Our opposition, we have an amazing advantage.

00:31:40.000 Their ideas are awful.

00:31:43.000 They tend to be very angry, bitter people.

00:31:47.000 They're always trying to destroy, and they've never built anything in their life.

00:31:54.000 Ever.

00:31:56.000 And so we have this advantage where we get to be the ambassadors of gratitude and optimism, of large families and getting married early and having lots of children.

00:32:06.000 We get to be the ambassadors of reality, of things that you can see.

00:32:12.000 As Thomas Jefferson said, the laws of nature and nature's God.

00:32:16.000 I want to do one housekeeping thing.

00:32:17.000 Raise your hand if you came to this event alone not knowing anybody.

00:32:21.000 Raise your hand.

00:32:21.000 Okay.

00:32:22.000 If you are part of a turning point chapter or you know, or you know other people, go find people that just raise their hand and make sure by the end of tonight they know somebody else.

00:32:31.000 The fact that young people, we have high school kids that traveled the country alone just to be here.

00:32:36.000 And it's amazing.

00:32:39.000 They should not leave this event or this room tonight without somebody saying, hey, do you want to hang out with us?

00:32:45.000 Hey, do you want to get to know us?

00:32:48.000 Whatever.

00:32:49.000 The point is that that's a leap of faith and we want to make sure that we help you guys out in any way possible.

00:32:55.000 In closing, let me say this.

00:32:57.000 This event is so special.

00:33:00.000 And this all started when I was 18 years old.

00:33:04.000 And I want to just say thanks to Bill Montgomery, who's passed away, for his amazing mentorship and help for what he did for all of us in this room.

00:33:11.000 What are we fighting for in America?

00:33:13.000 Only in America, freedom as well.

00:33:16.000 Only in America, though, could an 18-year-old with no money, no college, no connections, and no idea what he was doing, start something from nothing in a small garage in Lamont, Illinois.

00:33:26.000 And one thing led to the other.

00:33:28.000 It's now the largest grassroots conservative freedom movement in the country.

00:33:32.000 And that's thanks to you.

00:33:33.000 God bless you guys.

00:33:34.000 Thank you so much.

00:33:37.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:39.000 Email us your thoughts.

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00:33:45.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:46.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 03, 2022

'The Game Has Changed' — Charlie's Opening Speech LIVE from AmericaFest

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