00:00:36.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:43.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:50.000And 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.
00:03:13.000Unfortunately, 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.
00:03:26.000The 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.
00:03:45.000America has always been focused on eternal principles rooted in the natural law.
00:03:51.000We 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.
00:03:59.000That 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.
00:04:09.000It's another thing to try to indoctrinate your kids.
00:04:11.000We're not going to tolerate that anymore.
00:04:21.000The fact that we as a nation have a birthday is a big deal.
00:04:25.000July 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.
00:04:50.000That you have a right to speech, that you have a right to organize, that you have a right to start a family.
00:04:55.000And we recognize in America, despite what the regime says currently, that those rights do not come from government.
00:05:02.000They come from God and you have them naturally.
00:06:35.000The disconnect between our leaders and you has never been greater.
00:06:41.000How 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?
00:06:50.000You see, America has the greatest people on earth.
00:06:55.000America is the most generous, decent, benevolent, forward-thinking, productive people on the planet.
00:07:03.000And we have been abused for far too long by a self-righteous ruling class.
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00:08:58.000The 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.
00:09:16.000Now, when the Department of Justice issued that letter, something different happened.
00:09:23.000Because the conservative movement that was around 10 years ago would have been really intimidated by that.
00:09:31.00010 years ago, we would have been like, Wow, the Department of Justice is saying that we have to sit down and shut up.
00:09:54.000And what was amazing is that the regime realized that there's something new happening in this country and it's unexpected.
00:10:03.000And 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.
00:10:14.000Not participants, not spectators, but participants in this experiment.
00:10:21.000And 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.
00:10:35.000And 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.
00:10:48.000This is not a place where all of a sudden you just get to go make a bunch of money and leave.
00:10:52.000We are a country that has an economy in it.
00:10:55.000We are not an economy that happens to be in a country.
00:10:58.000Now, 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.
00:11:10.000Go give $100 million to BLM Incorporated and then get out of here.
00:11:15.000There are more important things than making money in this world, everybody.
00:11:20.000Passing 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.
00:11:33.000And this is what makes this gathering different and this conservative movement different.
00:11:37.000We'll talk about high taxes and low taxes.
00:11:58.000And everybody here is committing that we're no longer going to accept the managed decline of America.
00:12:05.000We're not going to accept these weak need politicians that continually say one thing and then do another.
00:12:13.000And so we all know America is on very fragile footing.
00:12:17.000We know out of all the different kinds of different things that are happening in front of us.
00:12:22.000And I want to speak specifically to the students in the audience.
00:12:25.000And 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.
00:12:36.000It is very hard to be a conservative in America.
00:12:40.000It's especially hard to be a young conservative on college campuses because guess what?
00:12:45.000They're telling the rest of the world, I don't care if you call me a racist, a bigot, a homophobe, a colonialist.
00:12:52.000I don't care if you kick me out of the fraternity or sorority.
00:12:54.000My country matters more than my social status.
00:12:57.000My country matters more than my Instagram likes.
00:13:00.000My country matters more than my TikTok popularity.
00:13:04.000My nation matters more than whether or not I'm popular on a college campus.
00:13:08.000And 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.
00:13:20.000But our generation, even a little bit younger, has some very specific challenges.
00:13:26.000We would be fooling ourselves if we were saying that this generation has all the same opportunities in front of them that prior generations had.
00:14:40.000It'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.
00:14:53.000Now, 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?
00:15:08.000Lock down a generation that was not at significant risk.
00:15:12.000Take away their prom, their graduation, their social activities, in-person learning.
00:15:17.000We saw increases in depression, suicide, mental health issues, medication, the most suicidal, the most depressed, the most alcohol-addicted generation in American history.
00:15:28.000Then, 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.
00:15:40.000It was a scam played towards the next generation.
00:15:44.000And on top of it, we say, oh, now you have to go get a vaccine.
00:15:55.000Now you have to go get a vaccine against your will.
00:15:57.000And if you don't, you can't go work at a job, even though you might have already got the virus.
00:16:02.000And 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.
00:16:08.000But 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.
00:16:28.000You can surf the internet freely without wondering who's getting a hold of your search history or viewing habits or what they will do with that information.
00:16:36.000Do you want the government to be reading over your shoulder every time you go online?
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00:17:34.000We at Turning Point USA have been very clear about this.
00:17:39.000And 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.
00:18:12.000And not to mention, we're not even allowed to talk about early treatments.
00:18:16.000We're not even allowed to have a conversation, thought crimes, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, vitamin C, azithromycin, aspirin, monoclonal antibodies, or regeneron.
00:18:26.000No, we're not even allowed to talk about that.
00:18:28.000Instead, it's a one-size-fits-all policy.
00:18:31.000Because if you ever talked about early treatments or early intervention, then you might not have been as afraid.
00:18:38.000You see, tyrants capitalize on your fear.
00:18:42.000Authoritarians want you to be in a position of fear all the time.
00:18:47.000We used to say you have nothing to fear but fear itself.
00:18:50.000Now we say we have to shut down New York City over Omicron, even though no one's died from it.
00:18:55.000It'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.
00:19:08.000And 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.
00:19:21.000This was a means to the end for them to try to control your life and your children.
00:19:26.000And we are not going to let that happen, everybody.
00:19:29.000We are waking up against the medical industrial complex, and we're making up, we're waking up to the measures against us.
00:19:37.000But it's not the only virus in America.
00:19:41.000I think there's actually a more dangerous virus than the Chinese coronavirus out there.
00:19:48.000The media, that's pretty good, I gotta say.
00:20:20.000I don't care about the color of the skin of my pilot.
00:20:22.000I hope he can or she can land the plane when they need to land the plane.
00:20:32.000They have been trying to implement this existential threat against the American way of life.
00:20:39.000You 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.
00:20:48.000Where we should judge people based on character, not based on the color of their skin.
00:20:53.000We should judge them based on things they can change, not they can't change.
00:20:58.000But 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.
00:21:08.000And no, it's not an adulterer or an axe murderer.
00:21:12.000And it's too bad because there's a widespread issue with that term.
00:21:18.000There's a supply and demand issue with racism in America.
00:21:22.000America is such a un-racist, non-racist country.
00:21:26.000We 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.
00:21:43.000That's proof that there's not enough racism out there to prove the fact that America's racist.
00:21:47.000We're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:22:27.000Why have we allowed this nonsense to get as far as it is?
00:22:32.000The 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.
00:22:50.000You need to not care what they call you when you say something that is true.
00:22:55.000We live under the tyranny of their social conformity.
00:22:59.000We live under the tyranny that they hold the cards like, well, I might not be invited to the Cool Kids Club.
00:23:10.000The point is this, is that everything they are, they accuse us of.
00:23:16.000They say, yeah, you know, the right is really intolerant.
00:23:18.000Meanwhile, you're not allowed to come on any college campus.
00:23:21.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:23:28.000Very simply, people say, how do we retake the country?
00:23:33.000We 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.
00:24:02.000And here's the open secret that no one wants to tell you out loud.
00:24:07.000We 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.
00:24:18.000If 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.
00:24:35.000If you're willing to say these things, then yeah, you'll pay a price.
00:24:39.000When 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.
00:24:50.000There are more Americans that believe things that you do not have to overthink about.
00:24:55.000You 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.
00:25:04.000Like, yeah, I mean, some ideas are so stupid, you have to go to college to believe them.
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00:26:18.000It 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.
00:26:27.000We are a nation suffering from amnesia.
00:26:30.000Put simply, we are a nation that has Alzheimer's.
00:26:59.000Instead, the reason is they don't want you to have a historical reference point of something that is amazing and mighty and courageous.
00:27:10.000They want you to act as if you're the first humans ever to exist.
00:27:14.000They want you to believe that no one came before you and might have actually sacrificed so you can live free.
00:27:22.000And 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.
00:27:44.000Never 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.
00:27:54.000Never does Nicole Hannah Jones actually ever talk about how Thomas Jefferson argued for the abolition of slavery as the Virginia governor in the 1790s.
00:28:02.000Never 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.
00:28:14.000Never does Nicole Hannah Jones say nine out of 13 of the original colonies actually had abolished slavery by ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
00:28:22.000Never did Nicole Hannah Jones ever teach your kids the first anti-slavery convention was where?
00:28:37.000The 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.
00:28:53.000Imagine the pride, the hubris it would take to say that everything I have is a byproduct of my own action.
00:29:03.000That's basically what they say every single day, is that anything before you is racist and terrible and awful?
00:29:15.000You 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?
00:29:26.000Do you notice that people don't say thank you as often as they used to?
00:29:30.000Not just in interpersonal relationships, but also thank you to the parents that raised you, that allowed you to have the opportunities you have.
00:29:39.000Thank 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.
00:29:52.000As soon as you say thank you, it slows you down and actually makes you a happier person and a less bitter person.
00:30:00.000And 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.
00:30:19.000You see, we have a totally different perspective.
00:30:21.000We say we're small in this unwinding plan all around us.
00:30:28.000That life is a miracle in and of itself.
00:30:30.000The fact that we have consciousness and our ability to breathe is something so beyond even human reason.
00:30:36.000And 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.
00:30:44.000You think gatherings like this are happening in Australia right now?
00:30:47.000How about the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria?
00:30:56.000And yet here we have 10,000 people gathered in a room.
00:30:59.000There's something special about that, and it's unique.
00:31:02.000But put simply, is that, and we all know this, the nation is not going to save itself.
00:31:10.000We 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.
00:31:21.000And so here's the question, and I think I know the answer.
00:31:24.000Will 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?
00:31:56.000And 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.
00:32:06.000We get to be the ambassadors of reality, of things that you can see.
00:32:12.000As Thomas Jefferson said, the laws of nature and nature's God.
00:32:22.000If 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.
00:32:31.000The fact that young people, we have high school kids that traveled the country alone just to be here.
00:33:00.000And this all started when I was 18 years old.
00:33:04.000And 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.
00:33:16.000Only 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.