The Charlie Kirk Show - The Great Reset Vs America LIVE From the First Principles Forum

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00:00:38.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible.

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00:00:42.000 We are lucky to have Charlie Charlie Kirk's running the White House.

00:00:47.000 Folks, I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:50.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:51.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:00:52.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

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00:00:59.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

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00:01:10.000 Thank you everybody.

00:01:11.000 Great introduction, thank you well.

00:01:13.000 Charlie and I are excited because on the way walking over here, I was telling him some thoughts I had about how deep we want to go and he said, all right, let's do it.

00:01:22.000 Let's do it.

00:01:23.000 Um Charlie, your new book just came out.

00:01:25.000 The Rate Reset yes, a lot of people have heard the term.

00:01:29.000 A lot of people don't understand what that term means, so let's go through some definitions.

00:01:33.000 We want to touch on the great Reset yes, and I want you to tell us what a globalist is.

00:01:37.000 You got it.

00:01:37.000 Uh, great to be here, by the way, I love Indiana.

00:01:39.000 Uh, I grew up in Illinois, right across the border.

00:01:42.000 Any other refugees from Illinois?

00:01:44.000 Yeah, that's what i'm talking about, freedom lovers that found a better place.

00:01:47.000 So um, we'll get into the great reset in a second.

00:01:51.000 But many of you don't know this.

00:01:52.000 We have term limits in Illinois, but it's different than most states.

00:01:55.000 It's one term in office, one term in jail.

00:01:58.000 So when we ask for our governor's cell number, we actually mean his cell number.

00:02:03.000 If you were there last night, you had to hear that twice.

00:02:05.000 Now in the last, almost three times right mic in the last 24 hours, it works every single time.

00:02:10.000 Um, so honor to be here.

00:02:11.000 I love Indiana.

00:02:12.000 So the great reset, it's a very real thing.

00:02:14.000 Um, it came after the Chinese Fauci coronavirus.

00:02:18.000 The World Economic Forum wrote a booklet called pushing towards the Great Reset.

00:02:23.000 But first let's talk about the world, what the World Economic Forum is and what the World Health Assembly is.

00:02:27.000 So the World Economic Forum is an organization that meets in Davos Switzerland, every year.

00:02:33.000 They're actually just concluding their meeting right now.

00:02:35.000 This is celebrities, heads of state, heads of business.

00:02:39.000 They get together to try and further globalize the world.

00:02:43.000 So what does that mean?

00:02:44.000 A borderless one world currency.

00:02:46.000 They have stated aims and objectives, what the great reset is and what they think the world is going to look like in the coming decades, if you will, in 2030 or 2040.

00:02:56.000 some of their goals are so provocative i personally believe it's called hiding in plain sight so my belief is that it's so hard to grasp that their communication strategy is that instead of doing it in kind of smoke-filled rooms they just put it on a website and then they say oh it's not news it's Come on, it's right there on the website.

00:03:13.000 And you read this stuff, you're like, oh, wow, you say that we're going to own nothing and we're going to be happy by the year 2030.

00:03:20.000 Like, that's really creepy.

00:03:22.000 They're serious.

00:03:22.000 And they're very serious.

00:03:24.000 And so the World Economic Forum meets with regularity and they have a lot of power.

00:03:31.000 Now, out of these meetings come other kind of global contracts and treaties and the kind of push towards this borderless society that we're seeing, you know, very quickly here in the West.

00:03:42.000 That's kind of where it's masterminded.

00:03:44.000 Now, this is all run by an individual by the name of Klaus Schwab.

00:03:47.000 Now, if anyone ever seen the Bond film Spectre, there is that character called Blofeld, acted by the great Christoph Waltz.

00:03:55.000 It's like exactly the same.

00:03:56.000 I mean, this Klaus Schwab guy wears like a space suit.

00:03:59.000 It's like straight out of central casting. 0.72

00:04:01.000 Now, whoever in the European kind of community thought it'd be a good idea to have a very hard-to-understand German as the head of like the Bond villain thing, like you couldn't pick the French guy when he's going to take over the world. 0.93

00:04:15.000 Like when he talks, you can't even believe it. 0.88

00:04:17.000 And so they just got done with their meeting.

00:04:19.000 They talk about digital vaccine passports.

00:04:22.000 They're talking about the inevitability of world currencies collapsing.

00:04:26.000 So we're going to explore this a little bit because I believe that if you get even a little bit of what I'm talking about tonight, it's the proper prism for you to be able to view otherwise confusing news.

00:04:38.000 That's true.

00:04:39.000 And so you see these news items.

00:04:40.000 You're like, well, why are they doing that?

00:04:42.000 Like, that doesn't make any sense.

00:04:43.000 I mean, I do that almost every day, right?

00:04:45.000 But then if you realize that there is a greater goal to reset the world, then all of a sudden it starts to make more sense.

00:04:53.000 But let's kind of go to that term, reset.

00:04:55.000 You can't reset something or reboot something unless it's broken.

00:04:59.000 So first you must break it.

00:05:01.000 And I believe personally, we're living through the intentional breaking of a lot of what we hold near and dear here in the West and in America, especially on the terms of border economic strength and otherwise.

00:05:12.000 One other point I want to make about the great reset in the World Economic Forum is that whenever we mention it, the media always kind of calls this a conspiracy theory.

00:05:20.000 You're more than welcome to go tonight and fact check everything I'm saying.

00:05:24.000 It's on the World Economic Freedom, World Economic Forum website very clearly.

00:05:28.000 You say, that's really what they're talking about and what they're planning.

00:05:31.000 So there's eight goals.

00:05:32.000 We could talk about that tonight if you want to explore that.

00:05:35.000 But I personally believe the most important news item that has not been covered the last couple of weeks was the gathering in the World Economic Forum and the gathering happening right now in Geneva, Switzerland with the World Health Assembly.

00:05:47.000 And praise God, 12 out of 13 of the amendments that the Biden administration came to try to impose, which actually would have weakened America and would have brought in potential international digital vaccine passports, have failed at the World Health Assembly in the last couple of days.

00:06:01.000 And largely because of all of you that have been shining a light on that and really exposing that.

00:06:07.000 So what is a globalist?

00:06:08.000 Someone who does not want nations.

00:06:10.000 They want a one-world global community and they want to be part of the group that are making that are calling the shots.

00:06:14.000 And so often, like you said, you will hear in the media that this is another conspiracy theory.

00:06:18.000 And just, I want you to share this, Charlie.

00:06:21.000 If it was a conspiracy theory, you guys sent a crew to Davos and to Switzerland and something happened.

00:06:27.000 You're not going to try and close someone's mouth if it's a conspiracy theory.

00:06:31.000 So will you explain to people what happened to Jack when he was doing it?

00:06:34.000 So we have the great Jack Posobiec that works with us at Turning Point USA.

00:06:37.000 Some of you might follow him.

00:06:39.000 He's one of the best out there as far as breaking news.

00:06:42.000 He's incredible.

00:06:43.000 And we work with him on a daily basis.

00:06:45.000 So the World Economic Forum, they posted their dates.

00:06:47.000 I said, Jack, you're going to Davos.

00:06:49.000 Congratulations.

00:06:50.000 Davos?

00:06:50.000 Like, what?

00:06:51.000 So we sent him out to Davos just to be a grassroots reporter to kind of see what's happening.

00:06:55.000 Now, mind you, this is a militarized town at this point.

00:06:58.000 These are the people that want a borderless society.

00:06:59.000 And you cannot walk a block without having a massive fence erected or snipers on the roof.

00:07:05.000 You know, for everything they say that we shouldn't have for our society, they have for themselves.

00:07:08.000 Only in Davos, Switzerland can 5,000 people lecture you about climate change when they get to and from on their private jets, right?

00:07:17.000 Only in Davos, Switzerland is that possible.

00:07:19.000 So we send Jack Pesobic there to do some reporting, and he really is just kind of walking the streets of Davos.

00:07:25.000 And out of nowhere, like 20 armed guys pop up with these badges that say World Economic Forum police, and they detain him.

00:07:33.000 They want to see his camera footage.

00:07:35.000 They say he can no longer be filming.

00:07:37.000 Now, look, Switzerland does not have a First Amendment like we do.

00:07:39.000 We should be very thankful for our founding fathers, by the way, for giving us the ability to challenge power.

00:07:44.000 The fact we even have a grab, like the last gasp of that kind of freedom is amazing. 0.95

00:07:49.000 So Jack was detained for quite some time, asked all these questions by these super angry authoritarian Swiss people. 0.67

00:07:55.000 And Jack, to his credit, held the ground. 0.94

00:07:57.000 Like, what do you mean?

00:07:57.000 I'm a journalist.

00:07:58.000 Why can't I be here?

00:07:59.000 And finally, they let him go.

00:08:01.000 Tape went totally viral.

00:08:03.000 And it just kind of goes, they start asking questions about Turning Point USA.

00:08:06.000 And I can't tell you how comforting it is to know the World Economic Forum is worried about Turning Point USA.

00:08:11.000 It's one of the great accomplishments of my career that these people, like, Turning Point Set of Representative, like, perfect, it's great.

00:08:21.000 So we have a new book out that any one of you, you guys can get free of charge, just not free of charge, it's a gift of any amount, I should say, $5, $2, $10 at tpusa.com called The Conservative Response to the Great Reset, because this can be very overwhelming.

00:08:36.000 And if I could just add a couple more details about this.

00:08:38.000 So you go to the World Economic Forum website.

00:08:41.000 They have what they think the world is going to look like by 2030.

00:08:44.000 These are aims or objectives or goals.

00:08:46.000 Some of these are kind of really weird.

00:08:48.000 For example, you're not going to eat meat anymore, that we'll have people going to Mars.

00:08:54.000 Okay, not a big deal.

00:08:55.000 But there are three in particular that I want to zero in on that I think are really important.

00:08:59.000 Okay, number one, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

00:09:04.000 Okay, private property is a necessary prerequisite to freedom.

00:09:08.000 If you cannot own stuff, you are not free.

00:09:11.000 Now, we take that for granted.

00:09:14.000 We take it for granted because we've all grown up in a world where private property rights are respected.

00:09:18.000 By the way, private property is also your thoughts.

00:09:20.000 It's also your opinions.

00:09:22.000 It's also your ability to copyright your own work.

00:09:25.000 For those of you that are artists or musicians, private property means that you'd own nothing.

00:09:30.000 This is a goal that they think is going to happen by 2030.

00:09:33.000 Boy, that starts to all of a sudden add some clarity to the otherwise confusing inflation policies we've seen.

00:09:38.000 You can only make people own nothing if you completely deteriorate the currency.

00:09:42.000 It's number one, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

00:09:44.000 Number two, America will no longer be the world's superpower.

00:09:47.000 That's a stated goal by the World Economic Forum.

00:09:50.000 So in order to get the world to become kind of a globalist project, they must destroy America's strength and dominance both economically, our sovereignty, and otherwise.

00:10:00.000 It's right there on the website that America will no longer be the world's superpower.

00:10:03.000 And then the third one is that Western values will be brought to a breaking point.

00:10:07.000 Now, this one in particular kind of goes over people's heads.

00:10:10.000 What are Western values?

00:10:11.000 For those of you that have traveled the world, you know how exceptional Western values are.

00:10:15.000 Things that we take for granted.

00:10:16.000 Due process, separation of powers, consent of the governed, independent judiciary, constitutional rights.

00:10:23.000 Also, the strong defending the weak.

00:10:26.000 We take that for granted.

00:10:27.000 Most other countries do not have it where the strong go out of their way to protect the weak.

00:10:31.000 If any of you have spent time in India, you know it's a caste system that if you're in a certain area, you have no moral obligation to stop and help somebody on the side of the road.

00:10:40.000 It's a Western value to have a, let's say, a focus that if you have something, that you should try to help somebody else.

00:10:49.000 Now, Western values, I believe, have created the most wealthy, the most generous, the greatest place to live in the history of the world, period.

00:10:57.000 Western values are an outgrowth of the Bible, outgrowth of this idea of self-government, first principles, of course, principles given to us by God.

00:11:04.000 What do you replace Western values with?

00:11:06.000 Well, they would replace them with this idea of not the many ruling the few, but the few ruling the many.

00:11:12.000 Almost all throughout human history, people were not citizens.

00:11:16.000 They were subjects or they were slaves or they were serfs.

00:11:19.000 We get to be citizens.

00:11:20.000 That means we're co-owners of our government.

00:11:22.000 It's a very unusual thing.

00:11:24.000 It's rare, and they're trying to end it because citizens ask questions.

00:11:28.000 Citizens can kick tyrants out of power.

00:11:31.000 They want the end of the citizen.

00:11:33.000 It's up to us to say, no, the citizen is going to rise again and take power away from the regime.

00:11:37.000 That's up for us to do.

00:11:39.000 However, they don't like this idea of the disagreeable act of citizen.

00:11:43.000 And so those are the, so they have a lot of stated goals, but I just want to add one thing, and I have to take it, and it's not a cheap shot.

00:11:49.000 I just hope you all know this.

00:11:51.000 Your governor went and visited the World Economic Forum inexplicably.

00:11:56.000 And I can't even imagine how you would be able to look yourself in the mirror or your voters and say, I'm going to go spend time with the people that are saying we want America to be weaker.

00:12:08.000 They're saying that the three goals, you'll own nothing, you'll be happy.

00:12:12.000 America will no longer be the world's superpower.

00:12:13.000 And Western values will be brought to a breaking point.

00:12:16.000 Synthetic organs, too.

00:12:17.000 They talk about the synthetic organs.

00:12:18.000 Yeah, synthetic organs and all sorts of COVID passports.

00:12:20.000 There was someone who just said that free speech is a construct that we must destroy.

00:12:24.000 Man, Indiana is facing a lot of problems right now.

00:12:26.000 What the heck is your governor doing in Davos, Switzerland, rubbing elbows with these people?

00:12:31.000 I don't know.

00:12:31.000 That's the only time I'll mention it.

00:12:33.000 It deserves focus because it's really extraordinary.

00:12:38.000 Someone told me that the other day.

00:12:39.000 I could not believe it.

00:12:40.000 It's mind-boggling.

00:12:41.000 And, you know, I've heard a lot of people say, you know, how did this happen so quickly?

00:12:46.000 Why is this all of a sudden happening?

00:12:48.000 And the truth of the matter is that this is not all of a sudden happening.

00:12:52.000 This has been planned for decades.

00:12:54.000 This is a well-thought-out, strategic plan.

00:12:57.000 And so I want to kind of go through what we call the seven mountains.

00:13:01.000 The seven mountains are critical in terms of how you take something, break it from within, and change it.

00:13:08.000 And that is what we're all experiencing.

00:13:09.000 The seven mountains, I'm going to say them all, and then Charlie, we'll just take them as we go.

00:13:12.000 It's arts, it's commerce, it's education, it's family, it's government, it's media, and it's religion.

00:13:22.000 How are all these things connected and how are they doing it?

00:13:25.000 Let's take arts.

00:13:27.000 Yeah, so the seven mountains of cultural influence, it actually started with a Pentecostal preacher who came up with this in the 1940s or 50s, who actually said this is how Christians are going to take back the culture.

00:13:37.000 What he didn't realize is that he beautifully articulated how the left was taking over the culture, just so you understand the background.

00:13:43.000 So those seven mountains of cultural influence are a really good way to divide every single way the left has made America less free in the last couple decades.

00:13:52.000 So let's start with the arts.

00:13:53.000 My goodness, look at Disney.

00:13:54.000 I grew up watching Disney films.

00:13:57.000 Disney made billions of dollars being a safe haven for families.

00:14:00.000 Disney was always the safe choice where moms and dads could be making dinner, turn on a Disney film, and you don't have to be policing everything that's on TV because you know that there were good values and morals and clean content there.

00:14:10.000 Disney has taken a sharp turn from a safe haven for families to now put forward content that is so reprehensible where they are saying that 50% of their characters by the end of this calendar year are going to be gay, bisexual, or transgender, and that almost every single one of their movies is going to have a gay kissing scene for five, six, and seven-year-olds to see.

00:14:30.000 They are now saying that, and then they come out against the Florida voting law, which is like the most boring law ever, by the way, saying that parents should know what their children are being taught and that sex education has no place for a four, five, or six-year-old.

00:14:44.000 Nowhere in that law did it say don't say gay. 0.68

00:14:46.000 Yeah, they just made it up. 0.98

00:14:48.000 It's a complete fabrication.

00:14:50.000 And so then Disney comes in and says this is one of the worst acts against trans people ever, which is just a lie.

00:14:55.000 It's a complete and total fabrication.

00:14:57.000 Well, Disney stock is down 25% in the last 60 days, which gives me great comfort.

00:15:02.000 But it's not just Disney.

00:15:05.000 And by the way, you should totally boycott Disney.

00:15:07.000 I am.

00:15:07.000 Cancel your subscription.

00:15:09.000 They're going down like a rock.

00:15:10.000 That includes Hulu for all of you keeping score at home.

00:15:13.000 By the way, sorry.

00:15:14.000 I know.

00:15:14.000 I'm a big Frasier fan.

00:15:15.000 I can no longer watch Frasier.

00:15:17.000 It's the only place you're able to get Frasier is at Hulu.

00:15:19.000 Now, that's also Netflix.

00:15:21.000 Netflix has become a total woke company.

00:15:24.000 They have a new special that came out with a pregnant man called He's Expecting.

00:15:29.000 Now, I want to be very clear, though. 0.96

00:15:31.000 These kind of outrageous examples I'm giving are recent and receive backlash.

00:15:36.000 But what doesn't get the attention is that the subtle kind of mentions in the arts over the last 30 to 40 years were actually far more effective than he's expecting, which is just insane.

00:15:48.000 People look at that, or the special cuties that Netflix did, which was basically child pornography, by the way.

00:15:55.000 In fact, Netflix got indicted in a county in Texas for putting that forward.

00:15:58.000 That's not an exaggeration.

00:15:59.000 It's so extraordinary when you watch that special.

00:16:02.000 It's beyond what I could, it's sick, anyone that has to watch that.

00:16:06.000 And so, but what they did with the arts, though, is they realized that, look, you guys can teach your kids whatever values you want.

00:16:14.000 If we control what movies and TV shows they watch, then we're really going to shape how they view the world.

00:16:20.000 And so, arts and the entertainment, from the music that young people listen to to the stories that are told, they've completely taken it over.

00:16:28.000 But here's the good news, though.

00:16:29.000 Here's why I think it's totally falling apart: is that the liberal story or the left-wing story, actually, no one wants to go watch it.

00:16:37.000 So, the hero's journey is the conservative story.

00:16:40.000 It's the story of Star Wars, it's the story of Lord of the Rings, and it's the story of Harry Potter.

00:16:44.000 You know, all three of those stories are exactly the same story, just retold differently.

00:16:48.000 I'll prove it to you.

00:16:49.000 A person without a father grows up in a place of vulnerability, like under a staircase, on Tatooine, or in the Shire.

00:16:56.000 Out of nowhere, they get called to adventure, and someone who knows what they're talking about, an age elder, comes in and charts their direction, like Gandalf, like Dumbledore, or like Obi-Wan Kenobi.

00:17:07.000 They go through kind of a period of self-reflection, like, who am I and how did I get here?

00:17:11.000 They start to rebel against that, and they start to build a team.

00:17:14.000 A team like in Harry Potter would be Hermoni, or Ron, or in Star Wars would be Chewbacca and Han Solo, or in Lord of the Rings, would be Bilbo and the entire team of Hobbits.

00:17:28.000 They then go on this journey and they realize that when they have to go fight evil, the true evil that they have to confront is actually in themselves.

00:17:37.000 The climax of all three films, Harry Potter, Frodo, and Star Wars, it's the voice in your head.

00:17:44.000 It's your own dragon that you have to slay in order to be able to get to that next level.

00:17:49.000 All three of them end the same way, right?

00:17:52.000 Now, that's an awesome story.

00:17:53.000 All of us know it because it resonates with us because we live it every single day.

00:17:57.000 The left-winger story is like, okay, Luke Skywalker grows up on Tatooine.

00:18:02.000 He does a lot of weed, and he becomes like a transgender social justice warrior activist.

00:18:07.000 And Obi-Wan Kenobi tries to tell him to fight evil.

00:18:09.000 He says there's no such thing as good and evil, and I don't have time.

00:18:13.000 But everyone's happy.

00:18:14.000 Yeah, everyone's fine, and everyone can kind of do their own thing.

00:18:17.000 No one wants to go buy tickets to go watch that movie.

00:18:19.000 It's probably boring, actually.

00:18:21.000 We want the dragon slayer.

00:18:23.000 We want the call to adventure.

00:18:24.000 We want the hero's journey.

00:18:26.000 That's why these Netflix stories are so unif I have to watch another one of these Netflix, again, it's like market research.

00:18:32.000 Every story is the same.

00:18:33.000 Like socially estranged 19-year-old youth who has gender identity problems, gets into heavy drugs, and like meanders between Seattle and Portland and has like free sex and like ends up like almost committing suicide, decides not to, and finds a cooking hobby.

00:18:50.000 It's really awful television.

00:18:54.000 And this is one of the reasons why these companies are cratering.

00:18:57.000 Because guess what?

00:18:57.000 The West was built on the story of the individual challenging evil and overcoming that evil.

00:19:03.000 And as long as they try to eradicate those stories, we're going to have a chance to win.

00:19:08.000 So that's an extended answer on the arts part.

00:19:10.000 Well, and the arts part feeds directly into our commerce and directly into our economy and all of those things.

00:19:15.000 Let's break down that and how that's been attacked.

00:19:18.000 For commerce.

00:19:18.000 Yes.

00:19:19.000 Yeah, and this is the hardest one for a lot of people here to grasp, right?

00:19:23.000 Because I grew up in America where business was on team right, where business was team America, they were team free markets, and we were always kind of fighting the opponents of business.

00:19:34.000 You remember that?

00:19:34.000 It was the big companies would always kind of make fun of Al Sharpton when he kind of came to go ask for money.

00:19:39.000 Like, who is this guy, right?

00:19:40.000 Like, this is making stuff up.

00:19:42.000 He's just screaming it.

00:19:43.000 It's been a total change, largely because of college.

00:19:46.000 We'll get into that.

00:19:47.000 But corporations have now totally become co-opted by the worst, most woke social justice warrior influences you can imagine.

00:19:56.000 I mean, how do we get to a place where all of a sudden these otherwise non-political companies like Google are coming out and you type in, can a man become pregnant in Google? 0.65

00:20:07.000 And the answer is yes. 0.59

00:20:09.000 Where Apple comes out, you could check it on your iPhone tonight, where they have a pregnant man emoji on your Apple iPhone.

00:20:17.000 And you say, how on earth did this happen?

00:20:19.000 Well, largely because of weakness and because the CEOs were on the latter end of their career, they just wanted to cash out.

00:20:24.000 They wanted to get their bonuses and they didn't want to try to confront the HR demons, if you will, of these kind of social justice warrior activists that have infiltrated their company.

00:20:35.000 But I have another opinion, though, which is, and this is very contrarian, so go with me really quickly on this.

00:20:41.000 I think cheap money policies subsidize really bad social behavior.

00:20:45.000 So when you print all this money out of thin air after you lock down society and everyone gets record corporate profits artificially, then really, really bad ideas are allowed to be entertained because the company is not in a place of crisis. 0.58

00:20:57.000 Now, this is the only good thing that will come out of a recession is that finally the woke people, all of a sudden they're going to do like kind of a forensic audit of Coca-Cola and be like, yeah, those 3,000 lunatics that work in the HR department that kind of work on Tuesday and maybe Thursday, and they're constantly complaining and telling us to fire every white man in our company. 0.73

00:21:14.000 Like maybe we should fire them because we're not turning a profit this quarter, right?

00:21:18.000 And so cheap money policies and kind of really bad business practices, I believe, have unintentionally subsidized the worst influences that have now infiltrated corporate America.

00:21:30.000 When companies have to reduce their workforce and tighten their belt, the woke will be the first to go.

00:21:35.000 And it will be hilarious to see these CEOs, not just for the woke, these CEOs that are going to get all these leaks on them and these harassment suits.

00:21:43.000 Like, I thought we were buddies.

00:21:45.000 I gave $100 million to BLM.

00:21:48.000 It's like, you were never really with us, you fake.

00:21:50.000 And like, you can never appease these people, right?

00:21:52.000 But I just want to make sure you guys know, out of the Fortune 100 companies, there might be a couple exceptions, but a majority of the Fortune 100 companies are at direct war with your values.

00:22:02.000 And I know that's a hard thing for people to accept and to believe, but it's now become a total co-opted with team left.

00:22:08.000 And that's something we have to admit and push back against.

00:22:10.000 And it's important to research those things as well because they don't hide a lot of these agendas.

00:22:15.000 We talk about, when we laugh about a pregnant male emoji, we talk about infiltration.

00:22:18.000 It's a real thing.

00:22:19.000 It's very sad because our children, two and three and four and five-year-olds, are seeing this and they're becoming confused and they're becoming desensitized to basic values.

00:22:28.000 And that's where we go into the education because it's been infiltration there as well.

00:22:32.000 Totally.

00:22:32.000 And just one more thought.

00:22:33.000 You guys can look up the exact numbers yourself, but something like 95% of all Google, Facebook, and Twitter employees gave money to Joe Biden and less than 1% gave money to Trump.

00:22:42.000 Goldman Sachs was well over 85%.

00:22:44.000 You can go look up the numbers yourself, but corporate America tilts so dramatically in one direction.

00:22:49.000 It will just blow you away.

00:22:51.000 That these companies that should be pro-American that have benefited so much from our system are now at war with our values.

00:22:56.000 Okay, so education.

00:22:57.000 This is the biggest one.

00:22:58.000 This is one that I spend all my time on.

00:23:00.000 Education comes from a Latin word, which means to lead forth, and we are not leading forth our children towards wisdom or virtue recently.

00:23:06.000 Our education system is so sorely broken from the beginning to college and to post-college, a doctor to master to doctorate.

00:23:14.000 One of the only positives that I believe that came out of the Fauci virus was the fact that parents finally started to get active, engaged, and mad at what their kids were being taught in these schools.

00:23:28.000 And I just want to encourage all of you, and I want to thank all of you.

00:23:32.000 If you're a mom out there that asks questions forcefully of a teacher or administrator, thank you, keep it up.

00:23:37.000 If you showed up at a school board meeting, thank you, keep it up.

00:23:40.000 You are heroes.

00:23:41.000 You need to keep the pressure on because you are not just impacting your kids' education.

00:23:47.000 You have made the education better for parents who have no idea, who don't believe you.

00:23:51.000 You've improved the well-being of education for people all across the board.

00:23:54.000 So I just want to encourage you for that.

00:23:55.000 And I want to ask you this about that, too, because there have been parents that have come to me and asked, Well, how do we say something?

00:24:00.000 What do we say?

00:24:01.000 We're not allowed to go to school board meetings sometimes.

00:24:03.000 We're being shut down.

00:24:04.000 Do you have any maybe tips or wisdom that our parents can utilize?

00:24:08.000 Yeah, and actually, we got a great question yesterday of somebody who is a school board member.

00:24:11.000 I don't know if she's here tonight.

00:24:12.000 She asked a really good question.

00:24:13.000 Look, the questions are almost always the same, which is you got to find the curriculum, find out first-person testimonials, find out if they're doing diversity, equity, inclusion seminars.

00:24:23.000 And so they're not going to call it critical race theory.

00:24:25.000 Okay, they've actually learned.

00:24:26.000 They rename it.

00:24:27.000 They rename it.

00:24:28.000 It's by a completely different name.

00:24:29.000 But look, you should ask a very simple question, which is, is our district actually focusing on race, or are we focusing on character?

00:24:36.000 Are we focusing on the spirit and soul of an individual?

00:24:39.000 Focusing on race is bad for everybody.

00:24:41.000 I don't care about race, and you shouldn't either.

00:24:43.000 The other side cares about race.

00:24:44.000 Race is irrelevant.

00:24:46.000 I care about your character.

00:24:48.000 I care about who you are as a human being.

00:24:50.000 Your melanin content is completely immaterial.

00:24:53.000 And so, but these are good questions just to ask.

00:24:56.000 And so you could also fill out a FOIA, which your attorney general can help you with, which is a freedom of information request or freedom of information act.

00:25:04.000 And now, mind you, schools can play games and they could delay you and they could filibuster all those different sorts of things.

00:25:09.000 Let me just say one more thing about education, though, is that, and now I'm going to challenge everybody in the audience a little bit.

00:25:15.000 You might get a little uncomfortable at this time, but that's okay.

00:25:17.000 You brought me here to tell you the truth, not just to, you know, tell everything that's rosy.

00:25:22.000 College, as it is right now, is doing unbelievable damage to our country.

00:25:27.000 And it needs to be repeated and it needs to be understood by everybody.

00:25:30.000 A majority of kids going to college should not be going to college.

00:25:34.000 They shouldn't.

00:25:35.000 College is a scam for most kids that go to college.

00:25:37.000 Just ask them.

00:25:38.000 They have to take classes they don't want to take.

00:25:40.000 They said, I wouldn't be here if my parents didn't force me.

00:25:43.000 A vast majority of people that go to college are not going to become engineers or doctors or lawyers.

00:25:47.000 They're coming to get a piece of paper because they're told they have to go.

00:25:50.000 If you send your child or grandchild to college, you are playing Russian roulette with their values.

00:25:55.000 And if you have a kid that successfully survived college and still shares your values, praise God every single day.

00:26:02.000 Because the most frustrating conversations I have and the notes that I get from our over 100,000 donors we have at Turning Point USA are parents that write me and they say, I dropped my kid off at Notre Dame.

00:26:16.000 I dropped my kid off at Northwestern and I've never seen them since.

00:26:20.000 They came back for Thanksgiving and I said, hey, honey, how was your first semester at Northwestern?

00:26:25.000 Excuse me, I'm non-binary now.

00:26:27.000 It's like, oh, okay, like, well, let's have a good Thanksgiving. 0.51

00:26:29.000 No, it's Indigenous People's Day and that Turkey did not consent to being killed and eaten and I'm a vegan. 0.98

00:26:35.000 How dare you contribute to FOSS? 0.99

00:26:37.000 I said, what is this?

00:26:38.000 I'm paying for this.

00:26:39.000 Yes, you are, actually.

00:26:40.000 And so we need more people in the trades.

00:26:43.000 We need more carpenters, electricians, and plumbers and people that work at their hands in our country.

00:26:47.000 Now, let me challenge you further, though.

00:26:50.000 I'm so glad everyone applauds, but we said this in our conversation earlier.

00:26:54.000 I'm going to challenge you a little bit.

00:26:56.000 Don't be the parent that quietly doesn't want your kid to walk to work construction because that's most people in upper middle class America.

00:27:04.000 Most people in this room, if you're honest with yourselves, you don't want your kid to become a plumber because it would be tough explaining to your neighbors your kid became a plumber.

00:27:12.000 It's true.

00:27:14.000 So just and I, the number one reason why kids are pressured into four-year degrees is because of parental pressure and parent and just kind of general family pressure.

00:27:22.000 Now, what do the numbers show?

00:27:23.000 The numbers show that 41% of kids that go to college don't graduate.

00:27:27.000 41%.

00:27:28.000 41% of kids that enroll do not graduate.

00:27:31.000 Now, I think Indiana schools are a little bit better, but who knows, right?

00:27:34.000 But go see what they're teaching in these schools.

00:27:38.000 And the trades are making a lot of money.

00:27:39.000 Well, yeah, I mean, the average plumber in Phoenix is earning like $81,000 a year.

00:27:43.000 I mean, I had to call in a plumber, and it's like he could charge whatever he wanted.

00:27:47.000 It took like, it was like scheduling a meeting with the Pope.

00:27:51.000 I mean, it's just like, yeah, I have an opening between, you know, 2.45 and 3 o'clock on this day, three weeks from now.

00:27:58.000 And they're calling all the shots.

00:28:00.000 And because there's not enough of them, right?

00:28:02.000 It's because we have a lot of people that went to Purdue or went to IU and they studied lesbian poetry or lesbian archery or whatever. 0.98

00:28:11.000 But they didn't, we don't have the people that are necessary to build a strong country.

00:28:17.000 And it's a lot of different factors that play into that.

00:28:20.000 It's the demeaning of the muscular labor.

00:28:21.000 It's the war on the war on the class that actually built America.

00:28:25.000 But the final point I'll put is this: what is the purpose of education?

00:28:28.000 And then I'll stop the overly provocative comments for about five minutes, which is this.

00:28:33.000 The purpose of education is not to hear what kids think.

00:28:36.000 Okay?

00:28:36.000 This is why I'm such a big fan of classical education.

00:28:39.000 One of the worst things that ever happened, no, I'm a huge fan of class.

00:28:42.000 I'm a massive fan.

00:28:43.000 One of the worst things ever happened in education is where all of a sudden you go around the room to ask kindergartners what they think.

00:28:48.000 It's irrelevant what they think.

00:28:49.000 They're kindergartners.

00:28:53.000 They're almost all emotion.

00:28:54.000 No, seriously.

00:28:55.000 Now you should ask them, you should try to get them in a dialectic or a dialogue process to get closer to truth.

00:29:02.000 But proper education done the right way is done in a process.

00:29:07.000 Classical does it the best.

00:29:08.000 There's other ways, but classical does it the best where the student understands they are on a hard work journey to understand the beautiful, the good, and the true.

00:29:16.000 It's not about trying to feel good.

00:29:18.000 It's not, and this is another thing about education.

00:29:20.000 This is why we have the most miserable generation in history.

00:29:24.000 And I know it because a lot of my friends are totally miserable and they grew up in the same generation I did, which is this is the damage of the self-esteem movement.

00:29:32.000 The self-esteem movement had really good intentions.

00:29:35.000 It has done unbelievable damage to our country.

00:29:37.000 Where you kind of walk around a school and it's this poster and it says you're perfect the way you are.

00:29:42.000 And I remember turning to a teacher, I said, if I'm perfect the way I am, why am I in school?

00:29:46.000 Why am I studying?

00:29:47.000 Why am I pushing myself?

00:29:49.000 No, instead, the poster should be, you're not who you could be yet.

00:29:52.000 That's a lot different.

00:29:54.000 That's a totally different way.

00:29:56.000 Instead, it's, oh, no, you have no improvements.

00:29:58.000 No, you're not, actually.

00:29:58.000 You're perfect.

00:30:00.000 And for young men, by the way, being told you're perfect does unbelievable damage.

00:30:04.000 Men need adventure.

00:30:05.000 Men need confrontation.

00:30:06.000 Men need to be challenged.

00:30:07.000 You want to know why?

00:30:08.000 We have all these horrific tragedies happening, all this.

00:30:11.000 The isolation of young men and the hyper-feminization of our culture and our education system is largely to blame.

00:30:19.000 And I think, too, when we go into conversations, you're asking school boards, you're asking teachers, understand the definition that they're operating under.

00:30:27.000 One of the biggest questions I would always tell parents is: know the difference between equity and equality.

00:30:32.000 Those are two very fundamentally different things.

00:30:35.000 And when people say equity, a lot of times people think they're talking about equality and they're not.

00:30:40.000 Yeah, and so there's equality under the law, which is what our country was founded on.

00:30:45.000 There is equality of opportunity, which is something we should strive for, but we're never going to get.

00:30:50.000 But we can get close through charter schools and try to bring people out of it.

00:30:53.000 These are wonderful efforts.

00:30:54.000 We're never going to get there because we live in a fallen and broken world.

00:30:57.000 But then there's equality of outcome, which is equity.

00:30:59.000 Exactly.

00:31:00.000 And that is wrong.

00:31:01.000 Equity is redistribution.

00:31:02.000 Equity is taking from the successful or the industrious or the disciplined to give to the people that are not as disciplined or have not applied themselves as much.

00:31:12.000 Okay?

00:31:12.000 So equity is using force to try to balance out the end of the equation.

00:31:18.000 And here's something that no one likes to hear.

00:31:20.000 You cannot have liberty without some bad outcomes.

00:31:25.000 It's impossible.

00:31:26.000 If I gave every single one of you $100 and you came back a week from now, some people would make really good decisions and you'd go buy some cryptocurrency you never heard of and you're super rich.

00:31:35.000 Some of you would just go to the bar and gamble it and you'd have nothing.

00:31:38.000 When you have agency, that means you're going to have outliers.

00:31:42.000 Now, that doesn't mean we should have charity and compassion and benevolence for those people.

00:31:45.000 But when you're talking about the use of the state in that regard, then all of a sudden you're talking about punishing the successful, the entrepreneurial, the industrious, and the people that had good ideas at the expense of the people that did not properly discipline themselves or have such as good ideas.

00:31:59.000 So it's a tough truth that people don't want to say out loud.

00:32:02.000 We talked a little bit about family.

00:32:04.000 Let's go into that quickly.

00:32:05.000 You kind of already talked about it, but there's an intentional effort to redefine the family and to break the family from within.

00:32:12.000 Strong families are necessary to try to keep a society free.

00:32:17.000 The stronger the family, the weaker the tyrant.

00:32:19.000 It's that simple.

00:32:20.000 When families are strong, government is not as necessary for social programs, for interventions, all these different sorts of things.

00:32:28.000 So there's been a deliberate attempt to try to destroy the family.

00:32:31.000 Look, I could go into great detail about some of the reasons for this.

00:32:34.000 I believe that in the 1960s and early 1970s, the feminist movement did a lot of damage to destroying what it really means to have strong nuclear families in America. 0.85

00:32:47.000 We are now seeing a vast majority of black Americans grow up without a stable father in the home.

00:32:53.000 It's trending towards a majority of white Americans are growing up without a stable father in the home.

00:32:58.000 I really put the blame mostly on men in this equation, though. 0.59

00:33:02.000 I mentioned this in the end of my previous answer.

00:33:04.000 The hyper-feminization of men has been one of the worst things ever to happen.

00:33:08.000 I believe it involves diet as well.

00:33:10.000 You are not the man your grandfather was.

00:33:12.000 Testosterone levels are down 80% over the last 30 years.

00:33:16.000 I think it's everything from the toxins in our food to our, from oversaturated fat diet to hyper, to hyper, high-fructose corn syrup, overdone in our society and overdone in our diets.

00:33:28.000 You look at every single study.

00:33:29.000 There's got to be some explanation for it.

00:33:31.000 I also think less red meat has not been a good thing for keeping testosterone levels high.

00:33:35.000 I'm super provocative.

00:33:36.000 People attack me like you wouldn't believe when I say that.

00:33:38.000 Like, no, actually, red meat's awesome, and it's good for society because they did it for thousands of years and they were just fine.

00:33:43.000 So, but yeah, the family, look, we have a society right now where we have encouraged people to almost marry the government and not stay loyally married to their spouse.

00:33:54.000 We need strong families.

00:33:56.000 We need lots of children.

00:33:57.000 And look, where we are right now, just so everyone understands, we are on the verge of a population collapse.

00:34:04.000 We are on the precipice of having so few children in America that we are well belown replication and replacement levels.

00:34:14.000 Elon Musk talks about this openly.

00:34:16.000 It's the opposite of what the climate change alarmists have actually been saying recently.

00:34:20.000 So we have the least married generation in history and having the least children ever.

00:34:25.000 So this is really interesting because you would think that post-COVID, when everyone is kind of hunkered down at home all the time, that birth rates would go up.

00:34:35.000 But they actually went down substantially.

00:34:38.000 And that goes to show, like they went down unlike anything we've ever seen, and people can't believe it.

00:34:42.000 And they went down because having children is a value.

00:34:47.000 The impulse to do what it requires to have children is not a value.

00:34:50.000 That's an impulse.

00:34:52.000 But if you have the technology to prevent yourself from having children, you will do that.

00:34:56.000 You know how many 30-somethings right now are having difficulty now having children?

00:35:00.000 And there's a massive fertility issue in America. 1.00

00:35:02.000 That's a separate issue that needs to be addressed.

00:35:05.000 But look, the family is instrumental to being able to preserve liberty. 0.56

00:35:09.000 And they would love nothing more than breaking the strong nuclear family.

00:35:13.000 That was a stated goal of BLM, by the way, which is to destroy the Western prescribed nuclear.

00:35:18.000 It was on their website.

00:35:19.000 Yes.

00:35:19.000 They were not hiding this.

00:35:20.000 It was on their website, but we weren't being told.

00:35:23.000 The media was not explaining to people who founded this.

00:35:26.000 What is their stated goal?

00:35:29.000 And what is the outcome that they're looking for?

00:35:31.000 And a lot of people thought out of their good hearts that they were supporting something that was going to do good, that stayed for good, that stood for civil rights.

00:35:37.000 It does not stand for any of those things.

00:35:39.000 And unfortunately, we're going to talk about media next.

00:35:41.000 The media was not educating people on what they were supporting.

00:35:44.000 Businesses were not being educated on what they were supporting.

00:35:47.000 Now we see a lot of corruption that has come out of that organization.

00:35:52.000 So how does all this happen?

00:35:53.000 How does this all pull together?

00:35:55.000 The media is a big part of it.

00:35:56.000 You know all about the media.

00:35:57.000 You could tell us more about the media than I could.

00:36:00.000 The media, I've never had less faith, less confidence, less respect for the mainstream media than what I have today.

00:36:08.000 And I wish that wasn't the case.

00:36:11.000 And I will echo that because being in the media, it's not what many of us journalists signed up for.

00:36:18.000 Our job as journalists was to practice ethical journalism, to give you full and complete unbiased information so that you have the freedom to make well-educated decisions for yourself and for your family.

00:36:31.000 That is not what's happening right now.

00:36:33.000 The moment the media decided we're going to manipulate information, we're going to omit information, they took on the role of God.

00:36:40.000 God gives us free will.

00:36:42.000 The media is not even giving us the basic freedom of free will to make educated decisions.

00:36:45.000 And that is a very serious and sick problem.

00:36:49.000 And most people don't realize how bad it is.

00:36:51.000 These are activists that pretend to be journalists.

00:36:54.000 And so the good news is that people are defecting from this in record numbers.

00:36:59.000 I mean, CNN Plus, they spent $300 million and it collapsed after like two scaramuccias.

00:37:05.000 I mean, it was like two weeks and the whole thing just totally imploded.

00:37:09.000 And look, I mean, Joe Rogan had the greatest quote about CNN Plus.

00:37:12.000 He said, who there thought it would be a good idea to charge people money for something they wouldn't want to watch for free?

00:37:20.000 One of the great quotes, right?

00:37:21.000 I mean, that's why Joe Rogan is the number one podcaster on the planet.

00:37:25.000 He's great.

00:37:26.000 Here's the good news.

00:37:26.000 We'll talk about that.

00:37:27.000 Let me kind of add some good news about the media.

00:37:29.000 Yes, the left controls the media, but out of every single vertical, this is the one that I'm the most optimistic about.

00:37:35.000 I'll be very honest.

00:37:37.000 I have seen more entrepreneurial activity, more new kind of ventures in this space than I ever would have dreamed possible.

00:37:46.000 And so Joe Rogan is the number one podcaster on the planet after they tried to destroy him, after they tried to smear him.

00:37:53.000 And so if you want to get some hope, because I know a lot of you want some hope, go to Apple Podcasts and just go to the top 20 podcasts out there in the news category.

00:38:02.000 Consistently, 14 to 15 out of the top 20 podcasts on Apple Podcasts are conservative podcasts.

00:38:09.000 And young people listen to podcasts a lot more than people over the age of 50.

00:38:14.000 So think about it.

00:38:15.000 So there's no way you can manipulate this, by the way.

00:38:18.000 It's straight up, whichever podcasts are the most successful, most popular, getting the most subscriptions.

00:38:23.000 And so there are podcasts like ours, like Ben Shapiro, like Dan Bongino, like Steve Bannon, like Matt Walsh, like Michael Knowles, like Candace Owens.

00:38:31.000 And you look at this and there's, okay, there's the New York Times and NPR, they're top five, but then it's just this nonstop, like conservative, And what is it about podcasts, though?

00:38:41.000 Is that the delivery mechanism is someone has to go seek it out, right?

00:38:45.000 It's like you don't turn on it, you can turn on a channel, I guess, if you watch it on YouTube or on Rumble.

00:38:49.000 But the point is that you have to earn your listeners.

00:38:52.000 Is that the point with cable news is it's kind of automatic viewing.

00:38:56.000 You kind of just turn it on.

00:38:57.000 It's like that old Seinfeld thing.

00:38:58.000 Why are you watching it?

00:38:59.000 Well, it's because it's on TV.

00:39:00.000 It's like, oh, they're going to watch it.

00:39:01.000 It's because it's on TV.

00:39:02.000 It's kind of automatic.

00:39:03.000 Podcast, you're not going to go listen to a podcast unless it's good, unless you find some meaning in it, unless you find something worthwhile.

00:39:09.000 And conservatives are dominating the podcast space.

00:39:13.000 And we dominate on every single one.

00:39:15.000 Whenever we are given a fair hearing, so one of my favorite kind of questions that Mark Zuckerberg got in front of Congress, well, my second favorite question, my favorite question was when one of those 85-year-old senators asked him, like, hey, can you help me log into my Facebook?

00:39:27.000 No, I'm kidding.

00:39:27.000 Because I can't remember.

00:39:28.000 That didn't happen.

00:39:29.000 So, but Zuckerberg was asked, they said, why is by one of these left-wing senators, I think it was Elizabeth Warren, why is it that conservative content does so well on Facebook?

00:39:42.000 Because he was expecting some sort of manipulation.

00:39:45.000 And Zuckerberg, under oath, said, it's just the most popular content on our platform.

00:39:50.000 He's like, we've done every data analysis.

00:39:52.000 People want to see it.

00:39:53.000 People want to share it.

00:39:54.000 And it does really, really well.

00:39:56.000 And by the way, it's totally true.

00:39:57.000 You look at the most popular Facebook pages in America, the top 50, like 32 out of 50 are conservative run pages.

00:40:03.000 So what am I getting at here?

00:40:05.000 Outside of CNN, outside of NPR, which is funded by our taxpayer dollars, outside of the New York Times, the media landscape is changing rapidly in such an exciting and new way.

00:40:17.000 And so, but they've done everything they possibly can.

00:40:19.000 This is why, by the way, they have to.

00:40:22.000 They're pulling out every trick in the book to make sure Elon Musk doesn't buy Twitter.

00:40:26.000 They have to make, because censorship is central to their regime.

00:40:31.000 Now, who here wants hope?

00:40:32.000 Let me tell you one thing that will give you hope.

00:40:32.000 You guys all want hope?

00:40:35.000 If their victory was inevitable, their propaganda would not be necessary.

00:40:41.000 If it was inevitable that they were going to win, they would not have to lie to us every single night.

00:40:46.000 And it goes to show that there's so much weakness in what they're trying to actually implement, that their fear is a fair and honest hearing.

00:40:55.000 That one of the reasons why Donald Trump won in 2016 was because Twitter and Facebook was kind of like the Wild West.

00:41:01.000 Like if you had a good idea, and they locked that down in 2020.

00:41:06.000 Hunter Biden laptop story, nope.

00:41:08.000 Zuckerberg tried to atone for his sin of letting Trump being president by putting $400 million through Zuckerboxes all across the country, these drop boxes.

00:41:17.000 So to close the point on media, media is how we consume information news of the day.

00:41:21.000 Five years ago, I would have been like, oh man, like three years ago, I'd been like, boy, it would have been tough.

00:41:25.000 We have new platforms.

00:41:26.000 We have Rumble.

00:41:27.000 We have Truth Social.

00:41:28.000 We have Parlor.

00:41:29.000 We have Getter.

00:41:29.000 Ooh, okay.

00:41:32.000 We have all these different things.

00:41:34.000 So I'm very optimistic on the media front.

00:41:36.000 I really am.

00:41:37.000 Numbers also show that our young people have such a thirst for truth right now.

00:41:41.000 And that's why this post-truth society is so dangerous.

00:41:43.000 We just need to make sure our young people have access to the truth.

00:41:46.000 And these podcasts and the media is doing that.

00:41:48.000 Really quick, five more minutes, because I want to give you in the audience an opportunity to ask Charlie questions.

00:41:53.000 Religion, when we look at the political landscape, a lot of us will say, and I know, Charlie, you've talked about this, this really is not a political fight.

00:42:00.000 It is a spiritual fight.

00:42:01.000 And so would you just speak to that a little bit?

00:42:03.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:42:04.000 And so, look, religion always, especially in American Christianity, it was traditionally on team right.

00:42:10.000 It was definitely more on the conservative side.

00:42:13.000 But in recent years, I think we've seen a lot of pastors and churches all of a sudden kind of become left-wing activist organizations where I drive by church after church and they have the LGBT flag or they have the Black Lives Matter flag.

00:42:25.000 What on earth is going on here?

00:42:26.000 And they've understood that it's a key pillar of cultural influence to try to impact and to try to steer in a favorable direction.

00:42:33.000 I do believe this is a spiritual fight.

00:42:35.000 I do believe there's an invisible war that manifests itself in the visible.

00:42:38.000 And I believe that we must engage in that in any way we possibly can.

00:42:42.000 But I think we must understand, though, that George Soros and the left, they are pumping in tons of money to try to take over churches, take over seminaries, because they think if they can get the church to become further left-wing, then the country will fall with it.

00:42:56.000 And we talked with Pastor Micah at great length about this last evening.

00:43:00.000 But I believe the opposite.

00:43:01.000 I think the church is starting to rise.

00:43:02.000 I think the church is starting to stand.

00:43:04.000 I think we're seeing courageous pastors starting to break out.

00:43:07.000 I think Jack Hibbs is one of the man.

00:43:11.000 Jack Hibbs and many others.

00:43:12.000 So I'm very optimistic about what's happening there, but it's going to be a fight.

00:43:16.000 And I want to say this too: make sure your church is teaching biblical principles, not watered-down, I would say, social principles.

00:43:24.000 It has to be biblical principles because God's word never changes.

00:43:27.000 Bad theology leads to bad politics.

00:43:29.000 I'm going to come down and I'm going to offer the mic to anyone who has a question.

00:43:34.000 We have about five or six minutes before our young people go and spend some time with Charlie.

00:43:39.000 So if you'd like to ask a question, quickly make your way here so we can get the microphone to you.

00:43:44.000 Anyone have questions?

00:43:45.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:43:47.000 I'm 50.

00:43:47.000 I graduated from college with a bachelor's degree last month.

00:43:51.000 It's been a challenge.

00:43:53.000 Everything that you've said, thank you.

00:43:56.000 I am worried about the children.

00:43:57.000 I have a 15-year-old, and I can't imagine him having to support the principles we have grounded him in in three years with the challenges I had with my college professors.

00:44:09.000 So much to the point that you're saying.

00:44:13.000 I am worried because I was required to take a class on globalism in order to graduate.

00:44:19.000 I can defend myself.

00:44:20.000 I'm not sure he's there yet, and God willing, he will be.

00:44:24.000 But how do we, as Americans, make the federal government understand that we don't have a lot of interest in UNESCO in the United Nations and NATO when they have their same eight millennial goals that the WEF has?

00:44:41.000 So I'll go, it's a great question.

00:44:43.000 I'll go a step further.

00:44:44.000 So I think that one of the great hopes we have for America has to be in the states.

00:44:49.000 The states have so much more power than they realize.

00:44:52.000 We have been bullied far too long by the federal government.

00:44:55.000 The states created the federal government.

00:44:57.000 The federal government did not create the states.

00:44:59.000 We are the United States of America, and we must recognize and realize how much power the states actually have.

00:45:05.000 So what does that mean?

00:45:06.000 That means there has been this long-brewing confrontation that only the left has engaged in for quite some time.

00:45:12.000 They don't enforce laws they don't like, yet we follow laws that we don't like.

00:45:16.000 And that's got to stop.

00:45:17.000 I'll give you an example.

00:45:18.000 In Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago, they didn't want to enforce federal immigration law, so they created sanctuary cities.

00:45:26.000 Sanctuary cities are an act of secession.

00:45:29.000 They are.

00:45:30.000 It's saying that we don't like this federal law.

00:45:32.000 We're not going to do it.

00:45:33.000 Well, the media covered for it, and we acted like it's okay.

00:45:35.000 So before I go any further, the federal government has been challenged by the left when they don't like laws that they don't like.

00:45:41.000 So it's about time, in my personal opinion, for the states to flex their muscle and do the following.

00:45:46.000 Texas and Arizona to build a border wall immediately and tell the federal government, get out of here, it's no longer your jurisdiction.

00:45:53.000 Now, some people don't like that.

00:45:54.000 They say, well, you know, that's not the state's role.

00:45:56.000 What has to be?

00:45:57.000 The point is that we have to get more local and local as the federal government fails us.

00:46:01.000 I'll give you another example.

00:46:02.000 This is not being done, but it kind of goes to show how difficult this can be.

00:46:07.000 Why isn't North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, just build the Keystone XL pipeline?

00:46:12.000 Gas prices are higher than ever.

00:46:13.000 Just do it.

00:46:14.000 Forget the federal government.

00:46:15.000 Make them arrest you.

00:46:16.000 Go to work.

00:46:17.000 And by the way, people say, well, we need leases for federal land.

00:46:20.000 Defy them.

00:46:20.000 Who cares?

00:46:21.000 This is the only way that we're actually going to send a message to the Democrats and to the left.

00:46:26.000 Now, this is provocative stuff.

00:46:28.000 I get it.

00:46:29.000 I understand it.

00:46:30.000 But they have to realize we mean business.

00:46:32.000 They have to understand the sword swings the other way.

00:46:35.000 They're sending the FBI after moms and dads at school board meetings, and we're acting like this is still a fair fight.

00:46:41.000 It is not at all.

00:46:44.000 And so the final thing I'll say is this: Indiana should do what Ron DeSantis is doing, pass a preemptive measure saying that any measure from WHO, World Health Organization, will not apply in the state of Indiana, period.

00:46:54.000 That's all.

00:46:58.000 Any other questions?

00:47:00.000 Question?

00:47:01.000 Anyone else?

00:47:02.000 I'll come back to you.

00:47:02.000 Yes.

00:47:03.000 Then I'll come get you.

00:47:06.000 Charlie, man, thanks so much for being here.

00:47:09.000 A question I have for you is: I'm in group chats with my buddies, and the gun violence, it's the biggest deal.

00:47:16.000 And I got buddies from high school and college.

00:47:18.000 They're like, man, like, no guns, all the guns.

00:47:22.000 So, what do we do?

00:47:24.000 Yeah, I mean, I don't give an inch on gun control. 0.58

00:47:27.000 And so I'm happy to walk through it.

00:47:28.000 It's an unbelievable tragedy that happened in Texas.

00:47:31.000 And the more we learn about it, the more angry I get.

00:47:33.000 There's this inexplicable hour gap between the shooter going in and then the Border Patrol tactical agent going in there.

00:47:41.000 So the excuse they're giving is, well, oh, he stopped killing people.

00:47:44.000 Okay, I'm sorry, what?

00:47:45.000 What about kids that bled out or needed medical attention?

00:47:47.000 You waited an hour before going in there.

00:47:49.000 And so I just want to make sure everyone knows about it.

00:47:52.000 I think cops are heroes.

00:47:53.000 Police officers are awesome.

00:47:54.000 But there's a lot of explaining that needs to be done.

00:47:57.000 The hour gap, one hour that we know of right now.

00:48:01.000 Okay, so about guns.

00:48:02.000 Look, I mean, we need to make decisions in public policy with our heads and not our heart.

00:48:06.000 Emotions will steer you wrong every single time.

00:48:09.000 And we must understand why we have a Second Amendment.

00:48:11.000 I don't think your buddies and your group chats will resonate with this argument, but too bad.

00:48:15.000 We don't have a Second Amendment for personal protection.

00:48:17.000 We don't have it for hunting deer.

00:48:18.000 Those are nice things.

00:48:19.000 I support those things.

00:48:20.000 No, we have a Second Amendment to protect us against our government.

00:48:24.000 And people don't like to mention it, but it's exactly why we have it.

00:48:27.000 We have a Second Amendment. 0.98

00:48:29.000 Let me be very clear.

00:48:30.000 If we did not have a robust and widespread gun ownership community in America, the COVID lockdowns would have been 10 times worse.

00:48:36.000 We would have been in Shanghai or Australia.

00:48:38.000 The only reason politicians, when it really matters, when the rubber hits the road, they don't go that extra mile, they know we have guns. 0.94

00:48:45.000 Now, we don't have to use them.

00:48:47.000 That's not the point.

00:48:48.000 The point is, even in their imagination, that there might be something we have that can make their job difficult.

00:48:53.000 Now, I say this, and the media says that I'm calling for civil war and all that.

00:48:57.000 That's not true. 0.99

00:48:58.000 That's garbage. 0.99

00:48:59.000 I call for peace. 0.99

00:49:00.000 In fact, I think an armed citizenry keeps us more peaceful, actually.

00:49:04.000 I think it keeps the government in check.

00:49:06.000 And I'll make one final point on this, which is if you look at the 20th century and you're trying to tell me that you still trust governments after what you saw, what happened in Germany, the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong's China, Cambodia with Pol Pot, or Vietnam, and you're trying to tell me that we should just always just let the government have all the guns?

00:49:24.000 No.

00:49:25.000 The founding fathers understood the Second Amendment protects all the other amendments.

00:49:29.000 I understand people's sensitivities on this issue.

00:49:31.000 I totally resonate and understand that.

00:49:33.000 But I want you to go look right now at Shanghai when 26 million people have been locked in their homes the last 60 days because the tyrant told them to do so.

00:49:41.000 If they had guns, that would not happen.

00:49:44.000 They would ask them and they'd go back to work.

00:49:46.000 The Second Amendment keeps us free.

00:49:48.000 We must be clear why we have a Second Amendment in our country.

00:49:50.000 Thank you.

00:49:51.000 Very important.

00:49:52.000 Did you have one last question?

00:49:53.000 And then the final question.

00:49:56.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:49:57.000 My name is Claire, and our family came down from Chicago.

00:50:00.000 We have Lincoln.

00:50:03.000 Yep.

00:50:03.000 We have two sons, 23 and 20.

00:50:06.000 And a question I have, and I'll bet you a lot of people in this room have, is we understand what's happening as adults, and we know we need courage.

00:50:18.000 How do we instill that in our children without taking all the joy out of their life, right?

00:50:24.000 It's this balance between they're young, they should be happy, they should be joyful, and yet the message I have as a mother is one that's pretty darn heavy.

00:50:36.000 How do we strike that balance?

00:50:38.000 Help me with that.

00:50:39.000 That's a great question.

00:50:40.000 So I'm going to spend a little time answering this and then we'll wrap it up.

00:50:44.000 And then I'm also going to kind of give some marching orders because a lot of you say, Charlie, give me something to do.

00:50:48.000 And then I'll give you an extra jolt of hope because we all need it.

00:50:51.000 We need some hope, right?

00:50:52.000 Okay, look, the reality is this, is that this is a really kind of depressing time to live in our country.

00:50:59.000 It just is.

00:51:00.000 I don't like it and you don't like it.

00:51:01.000 I hate seeing our country snatched away from people that I believe are illegitimately in power that have been doing everything wrong intentionally for a long time.

00:51:10.000 It's very hard to watch.

00:51:12.000 It's hard when I see members of my generation who reach out to me on a daily basis with problems and issues of depression, suicide, mental health issues.

00:51:23.000 Just so we understand, it's the most suicidal, drug-addicted, alcohol-addicted, anxious, Medicaid generation history.

00:51:30.000 It's a very serious issue there.

00:51:32.000 And you're right.

00:51:33.000 We do want them to be happy and we want it to be joyful and all that.

00:51:36.000 And so you got to strike a balance there.

00:51:38.000 At the same time, I believe there's a season for everything.

00:51:41.000 The Bible tells us that.

00:51:42.000 And I believe we're in a season of what I would call the fourth turning.

00:51:47.000 If you know what a turning is, and you read the fourth turning, it's one of the great books ever.

00:51:50.000 We're smack dab in the middle of it where this is not going to get better anytime soon.

00:51:54.000 Now, what do I mean by that?

00:51:55.000 Doesn't mean you have to be unhappy.

00:51:56.000 I'm a happy person.

00:51:56.000 Happiness is a choice, by the way.

00:51:58.000 Happiness is an attitude, right?

00:51:59.000 You have to go about it intentionally every single day.

00:52:02.000 Dennis Prager, I think, has written the best book on this called Happiness is a Serious Problem.

00:52:06.000 It's a life-changing book.

00:52:07.000 It really is.

00:52:08.000 With that being said, though, I think you should try to understand that when they're 20 and 23, if they say, Mom, I don't care, that's fine.

00:52:16.000 Give them that space because eventually they will have to care.

00:52:21.000 And politics will take an interest in them, even if they don't take an interest in politics.

00:52:26.000 And let me just kind of say one final thing on the younger generation and give some marching orders/slash some hope.

00:52:32.000 I said this in the pre-meeting.

00:52:33.000 Look, we got some serious problems with this generation.

00:52:36.000 Rent has gone up 37% in one month in Phoenix, month over month.

00:52:40.000 We are creating a generation of renters that are unable to buy homes and are feeling increasingly cynical about the American economic financial system.

00:52:49.000 If we're not serious about addressing this, you are going to see very radical policies and politics come forward in a way that we've never seen before.

00:52:56.000 I'm talking about massive generation bashing, and it's going to be very, very negative.

00:53:00.000 With that being said, the positive is where we could turn a lot of this discontent and a lot of this frustration that younger voters have and say, hey, we're going to be the party that will make it easier for you to buy a home, get married, and have children.

00:53:13.000 Those three things are conservatizing events.

00:53:16.000 Those three things make you more bought into the system.

00:53:19.000 You want to know why people march in the streets and they're looking for meaning because they don't own anything.

00:53:24.000 They're increasingly less married and they're not having children at as high rates.

00:53:27.000 So those are the three things that I would implore to answer that question.

00:53:32.000 So to close it all together, just kind of one plug.

00:53:35.000 If you're not subscribed to my podcast, I would really appreciate it if you guys would consider doing it.

00:53:39.000 We do three podcasts a day, three hours of radio a day.

00:53:41.000 Traveled 330 days last year.

00:53:44.000 So you guys take out your phone, you open up your podcast, and you subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:53:48.000 I would deeply appreciate it.

00:53:49.000 It's a way you guys could get behind the work we're doing.

00:53:51.000 So thank you for considering doing that.

00:53:53.000 If you don't know how to do that, we can ask a teenager in the audience here that would be more than happy to walk you through that.

00:53:58.000 So some of you came here tonight and I could tell you're like, all right, Charlie, I've done everything that's been asked of me.

00:54:05.000 Okay?

00:54:06.000 Watch Tucker.

00:54:10.000 I bought the pillow.

00:54:14.000 I have a whole cabinet of relief factor.

00:54:17.000 I reverse mortgaged my home.

00:54:19.000 I did everything I was supposed to do.

00:54:22.000 What else do you want from me, Charlie?

00:54:24.000 Patriot food supply.

00:54:25.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:54:26.000 Preparewithkirk.com, by the way, right?

00:54:29.000 Look, we need to continue to have this attitude of optimism and courage.

00:54:35.000 No longer being spectators.

00:54:37.000 Now we're participants, right?

00:54:38.000 That's why I love first principles, what you're doing.

00:54:40.000 I love the school board mom showing up because if we're serious about saving America, it's going to be that all of us are going to be the arena.

00:54:47.000 Now, not all of you have to go as wild as I'm going, you know, 330 days on the road going to Berkeley and Boulder back-to-back days and doing podcasts and radio.

00:54:54.000 That's my calling.

00:54:55.000 I'm going to keep doing it.

00:54:56.000 Help us if you can.

00:54:57.000 But instead, for some of you, it's like, man, I can become a precinct committee man, or I can support a school board candidate, or I'm going to homeschool my kids, or I'm going to create a pod schooling network.

00:55:07.000 One of the coolest stories I heard today.

00:55:08.000 I'm going to do something constructive.

00:55:10.000 So, three things: take time to learn every single day.

00:55:13.000 Learn something you didn't know yesterday about your country, about your nation, or about your faith.

00:55:16.000 You'll be a happier person and you'll be more convicted towards action.

00:55:20.000 Number two, help support the fighters.

00:55:22.000 There's two types of people in the world that are necessary for this fight: the fighters and the people that help the fighters.

00:55:28.000 There's the George Washingtons and there's the John Hancocks.

00:55:30.000 John Hancock is really famous for his signature because it was big.

00:55:33.000 He never wore the uniform of the Continental Army.

00:55:36.000 He was a financier.

00:55:37.000 He was a helper.

00:55:38.000 He was a supply chain guy.

00:55:39.000 He made sure all the things were held together, but he was just as important as the people that went and fought in the battles that founded our country.

00:55:46.000 And the third thing that I just want to kind of, we have to build new stuff.

00:55:49.000 We have to build bigger families, build bigger churches.

00:55:52.000 We have to support businesses that share our values.

00:55:55.000 We have to support the next generation of entrepreneurs.

00:55:57.000 We have to build new things.

00:56:00.000 And for those of you that are saying, Charlie, what are the odds?

00:56:04.000 Hey, here's who we have on Team Reality and Team Liberty: We have the world's richest man.

00:56:11.000 We have the number one podcaster.

00:56:12.000 We have the truth.

00:56:14.000 We have the grassroots of America that is not going to put up with it anymore.

00:56:19.000 We have the United States Constitution.

00:56:20.000 Who do they have?

00:56:22.000 Well, they have that weirdo on CNN, Brian Stelter.

00:56:28.000 They have AOC.

00:56:31.000 The worst ideas imaginable.

00:56:33.000 They believe men can become pregnant. 0.99

00:56:35.000 America's an awful country.

00:56:38.000 I'm going to place my bet on the side with the truth, the side with you, and the side of the citizen that is rising against the regime.

00:56:46.000 We're going to win if we act, everybody.

00:56:48.000 God bless you guys.

00:56:49.000 Thank you so much.

00:56:50.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:56:55.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:56:57.000 Email me your thoughts as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:57:00.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:57:01.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - July 17, 2022

The Great Reset Vs America LIVE From the First Principles Forum

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