The Charlie Kirk Show - The Key Pillars of America — My Speech to TPUSA New Hires

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Tuesday.

00:00:01.000 This is my conversation to our troops at Turning Point USA.

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00:00:33.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:00:44.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:45.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:46.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

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00:01:32.000 Thank you guys.

00:01:33.000 How great is Nick Koka, by the way?

00:01:34.000 You should give it up for Nick Koka.

00:01:36.000 He's not the best.

00:01:37.000 I'm going to put my drink here.

00:01:38.000 Is that okay?

00:01:39.000 All right.

00:01:40.000 Well, we're going to try to keep this pretty casual here and get your feedback.

00:01:43.000 You guys been having a good week?

00:01:46.000 I enjoyed meeting all of you the other night and saying hello, and you are the front lines.

00:01:51.000 I hope you guys know that.

00:01:53.000 The work that you're doing is making such a serious and critical difference, and we've been doing this for 12 years, and seeing How the culture has changed on these campuses of how students are more comfortable, how they're more confident.

00:02:06.000 That's the work that you're all doing.

00:02:07.000 So, okay, so essentially, I'm sure they've walked.

00:02:10.000 I'm positive that Andrew and Nick have walked through and Chris that each week has a different theme, right?

00:02:15.000 We've talked about that.

00:02:16.000 So, it's my job to try to just kind of give you a little bit of talking points here, and you guys can ask potentially critical or difficult questions that you think you might get on campus or questions you have about these topics, because part of your job is to be able to present ideas on these campuses that are not always being heard, And then helping equip some of your students to be able to confidently speak about these issues and these topics when it's not always very comfortable or easy.

00:02:50.000 So we pick these topics and these weeks with a lot of intentionality.

00:02:55.000 Some of them are very agreeable.

00:02:57.000 Some of them are incredibly, as you could say, I think this is very agreeable, but that's just me.

00:03:03.000 But some of them are more controversial.

00:03:06.000 And we do that Yeah.

00:03:07.000 I don't think this one would do very well in high school.

00:03:09.000 Yeah.

00:03:09.000 college the same or is there some there's some differences yeah I don't

00:03:15.000 think this one would do very well in high school yeah I mean I'm all for guns

00:03:20.000 but you know the yeah a little bit lighter Yeah, okay.

00:03:25.000 That's fine.

00:03:26.000 That's good, and that's the way it should be.

00:03:27.000 So, we're gonna go through this.

00:03:29.000 If you guys have questions, I don't think I've ever completed this presentation, right, Andrew, in the history of doing this, right?

00:03:35.000 So, it's my pledge to Andrew, I'm actually gonna get through the entire presentation today, just because I tried to sidetrack.

00:03:42.000 So, that's more on me than you, so let's start.

00:03:44.000 Okay, so, Freedom of All Caliber is obviously about Second Amendment and owning guns.

00:03:50.000 Everyone own guns here?

00:03:51.000 Yes.

00:03:52.000 Hands that aren't up, I'm sure you live in an unfriendly gun state.

00:03:56.000 So look, why is it necessary for citizens to be able to own weapons?

00:04:00.000 The government should not have a monopoly on force.

00:04:03.000 When the government has a monopoly on force, they have a monopoly on speech, and therefore they are able to prevent you from being a sovereign and free citizen.

00:04:10.000 So there's two ways to talk about the Second Amendment topic.

00:04:13.000 The one is kind of the normie, very simple, agreeable way.

00:04:17.000 And then there is the spicier one, which is the real reason we have the Second Amendment, which is a harder, harder way to argue it. 0.89

00:04:24.000 And it's a lot, it's, you're dealing with a lot of potential pitfalls.

00:04:28.000 And let me just pause.

00:04:29.000 Just remember, anytime you're talking about these things on campus, you could be, you could be filmed, you could be, and they could try to publicize Turning Point USA staffer.

00:04:37.000 So just always understand that.

00:04:38.000 Not to put pressure on you guys, but You know, just try to either A, know your stuff, or B, if you're not comfortable, you know, just tell a liberal troll to, you know, keep on walking along, right?

00:04:47.000 So just always understand that.

00:04:49.000 So the first way to think about gun ownership is the easy and the one that most Americans think we have it, which is for self-defense.

00:04:56.000 That is partially why we are able to own guns, is to protect yourself from criminals, from people that want to hurt your family.

00:05:03.000 I think this is fundamentally, should be championed by every woman in the country, and every, well, again, there's no people identifying as women, that's all fake, right?

00:05:13.000 Actual biological women, it is the great equalizer. 1.00

00:05:17.000 For young ladies that might feel uncomfortable at night going to their car, or if somebody wants to harm them, having a 9mm is a good way to equalize any sort of situation, right?

00:05:29.000 Self-defense actually was not considered to be a right until there was a Supreme Court case.

00:05:35.000 Anyone know the name of the case?

00:05:37.000 The Heller decision back about 20 years ago.

00:05:40.000 It was a 5-4 vote where the Supreme Court was debating, do you actually have a right to own a gun to protect yourself?

00:05:50.000 Now, they weren't debating the Second Amendment, but the question was, is it there for self-protection?

00:05:54.000 The Supreme Court said, yes, it is there.

00:05:56.000 You have a constitutional right that cannot be Trampled upon in any state.

00:06:01.000 Now, they do a lot of provisions and they do a lot of different nonsense of background checks and stuff, but that's the first part.

00:06:07.000 Now, what is the second part of why we have a second minute?

00:06:10.000 Don't say hunting.

00:06:11.000 Hunting is just recreational.

00:06:12.000 Yes, my two militia members in the back, yeah.

00:06:16.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:06:17.000 So this is the harder argument to make.

00:06:21.000 Not saying you should even have to go there, but let's be honest.

00:06:23.000 We don't have the Second Amendment to hunt deer.

00:06:26.000 We don't have the Second Amendment to even protect against criminals.

00:06:28.000 Those are nice side effects.

00:06:30.000 We have the Second Amendment because the government should not be the only ones with the guns.

00:06:35.000 It's that simple.

00:06:36.000 And for some people, they don't like hearing that.

00:06:38.000 They say, oh, what do you think that our government is going to become super tyrannical?

00:06:42.000 And again, we lived through one of the most insane periods in American history, three, four years ago, where they were firing people for not taking an mRNA gene-altering thing called a vaccine, where they were kicking people out of the military for that.

00:06:54.000 They're wishing us dead if you didn't take the shot.

00:06:56.000 I mean, we saw what a tyrannical government could become.

00:06:59.000 And imagine how even further tyrannical that would be if we, the citizens, did not have guns.

00:07:05.000 Said differently, the Second Amendment protects all the other amendments of the U.S.

00:07:11.000 Constitution.

00:07:12.000 There is no First Amendment without a Second Amendment.

00:07:15.000 You cannot show me a country in the world with robust free speech protections that does not also have firearm ownership.

00:07:25.000 Now, this is very important.

00:07:26.000 Europe, they say, oh, Europe is very free.

00:07:27.000 Europe does not have free speech protections at all.

00:07:30.000 One of the reasons we're able to have some of the, again, the First Amendment is fading in this country very quickly, but is because the government is a little bit afraid, like, oh wow, 120 million people own guns.

00:07:43.000 Now, I hope we'll never actually have to ever use those guns in that series, in that way, but look at the 20th century.

00:07:49.000 From Germany, to Russia, to Italy, you know, Vietnam, Cambodia, and we're flirting with that line here.

00:07:55.000 And, in fact, I would argue that the fact that we do own firearms, and that the American people do, it's actually the greatest way to prevent a potential conflict with the government from ever actually occurring.

00:08:09.000 Do you remember the Hong Kong freedom protesters a couple years ago?

00:08:13.000 And who won?

00:08:14.000 The Chinese Communist Party did.

00:08:15.000 Why?

00:08:16.000 Only one side had the guns.

00:08:18.000 You had all these beautiful people in Hong Kong that were out there with, you know, American flags and they were chanting and they were protesting and everyone's a tough guy until a tank rolls up.

00:08:27.000 Now imagine if the Hong Kong freedom protesters all had an AR-15 around their back.

00:08:33.000 That would have been a negotiation.

00:08:35.000 China would have been like, well, I don't know, they got 180,000 people with an AR-15.

00:08:38.000 I don't know if we want to go through with this.

00:08:40.000 And so think about that played out in, you know, American context and American time.

00:08:45.000 So that is a harder argument to make, is that the Second Amendment, as intended by the Founding Fathers, was to protect our God-given rights.

00:08:54.000 Any questions, feedback, or difficulty with this topic?

00:08:57.000 Yes, ma'am?

00:08:58.000 Do you think your AR-15 is going to be able to go against nukes in a tank?

00:09:00.000 And my response to that is, you know, I think that it's there to have a well-regulated militia.

00:09:04.000 We can't have a militia unless we have the same Um, limitations as the government, so personally I think I should be able to have a fireable tank, but clearly we can't, so why?

00:09:15.000 Yes, so reason, again, so I'm more in your category, but yes, so the whole idea, first, that an AR-15 is insignificant against a military, just look at first and foremost, so many military inventions, the Ukraine-Russian one's not a terrible one actually, where you have a lot of under-equipped Ukrainians, again I'm not Overly sympathetic to their cause, but that's a separate issue. 0.71

00:09:39.000 But you have a bunch of Ukrainians that are, you know, unequipped, and they have AR-15s, some have hunting rifles, and they're still a huge nuisance to the Russian military. 1.00

00:09:49.000 The point is that some form of force, some form of ability to protect yourself in a theater of war is very important.

00:09:55.000 But secondly, okay, you're right, we should not allow every American to own a thermonuclear weapon.

00:10:01.000 If the government's going to deploy thermonuclear weapons, like, that's, sorry, okay, you got me, okay?

00:10:06.000 You're right, atom bomb, okay? 0.67

00:10:08.000 Right?

00:10:09.000 However, I don't think anyone's arguing for the government to have a monopoly on drones either, like, so, as far as, like, military advanced drones, but...

00:10:17.000 I think there is something to be said that the government should not be only to own some of this equipment, but I think reasonable restrictions people can agree or disagree upon.

00:10:24.000 But that's not even where the conversation is occurring right now.

00:10:26.000 Kamala Harris, who's, again, we're not, this organization is just talking about this educationally, but her stated public policy position is gun registration and gun confiscation.

00:10:37.000 Which, again, I want just everyone to understand, in a time of rising crime, in a time of more people that are being victims, why would we want to take the guns away from the people that are doing everything right?

00:10:47.000 It's just kind of a little perplexing.

00:10:48.000 And finally, I'll go back to the Chinese example.

00:10:50.000 That was not a matter of nukes or drones.

00:10:53.000 In a very simple situation, it was that you had a disarmed population against an armed population.

00:10:58.000 And don't underestimate the potential power and potency of a hundred million Americans that only own AR-15s.

00:11:07.000 Against a over-equipped government that might want to terrorize them.

00:11:11.000 So, yes.

00:11:12.000 Other thoughts?

00:11:12.000 Yes, ma'am.

00:11:13.000 So, I have a bit of a specific question.

00:11:15.000 My territory is in Pennsylvania, so obviously where the Trump rally happened.

00:11:19.000 So, I'm anticipating some people to ask me on campus, like, why should we be allowed to have assault rifles that Assassin was able to have one?

00:11:27.000 So, I just would love to hear your advice on how to kind of combat that this upcoming semester.

00:11:31.000 Yeah, it's great.

00:11:32.000 First of all, if we had a functioning Secret Service, no one would really care about that, right?

00:11:35.000 So that's the first issue.

00:11:37.000 Secondly, let's go through the facts of that particular thing.

00:11:41.000 It was a great question.

00:11:43.000 There is no such thing as an assault rifle.

00:11:44.000 It doesn't exist.

00:11:45.000 An assault rifle is a made-up, fictitious term.

00:11:48.000 And it's a great question because that's exactly what they would say.

00:11:51.000 AR does not stand for assault rifle.

00:11:52.000 Anyone know what AR stands for?

00:11:53.000 Anyone?

00:11:54.000 Yeah, they're good.

00:11:54.000 You guys are a bunch of freedom lovers.

00:11:57.000 That's right.

00:11:58.000 So an assault rifle is a completely, again, if you ask anyone that knows even an elementary understanding of firearms, if you go to a gun store, like, I want to buy an assault rifle, they'd say, what the hell are you talking about?

00:12:10.000 They're all assault rifles, right?

00:12:12.000 They all can assault you, okay?

00:12:15.000 What they really mean by assault weapon or assault rifle is scary-looking thing that I think I don't know how to use, right?

00:12:24.000 So that's number one.

00:12:26.000 Let's go through actually how he got the weapon, okay?

00:12:28.000 This was his father's weapon that was not properly protected or observed.

00:12:33.000 So this is actually a parenting breakdown, more it is than a Second Amendment breakdown.

00:12:37.000 But then you must also have the courage and you must be principled enough to make even more difficult argument, which is we fully acknowledge and admit that in a free society it comes with costs.

00:12:48.000 And we, as Americans, have largely wanted to have a society that valued liberty over safety and comfort.

00:12:56.000 And the best example is driving.

00:12:59.000 It's the best example, okay?

00:13:01.000 Now, if we wanted to save lives, because that's the most important thing, we outlaw all driving.

00:13:06.000 We would save 55,000 lives a year, because 55,000 people die on the road.

00:13:10.000 You probably all know someone in your community that has died from... But we say, no, the benefit of driving is worth the potential downside of driving.

00:13:18.000 But secondly, from that situation, it has nothing to do with the particular weapon that he had, which they're trying to spin that into it.

00:13:25.000 It was a failure of the Secret Service protection or detail.

00:13:28.000 And understand, there was a police officer who went up the ladder and saw him, was like, oh yeah, nice having a nice day, and then went back down.

00:13:34.000 So, let's pretend that situation, here's the other final argument.

00:13:38.000 The people that bring it up, you say, hypothetically, let's pretend that situation did not happen.

00:13:42.000 Would you still be in favor of taking people's ARs away?

00:13:45.000 And they'd say, of course, so that has nothing to do with that situation.

00:13:47.000 You're using that as a piece of evidence to try and further your already deeply held belief and agenda of taking people's ability to own firearms away.

00:13:57.000 Okay, last question on this topic.

00:13:58.000 Yes, because I got to get through it all, right, Andrew?

00:14:00.000 Yes.

00:14:01.000 So yeah, talking about your Second Amendment rights.

00:14:04.000 I live in a district that's just, like, 30 minutes away from Oxford.

00:14:08.000 That's where the Oxford school shooting happened, like, a couple years ago, and then, because of that... What state?

00:14:14.000 Michigan.

00:14:14.000 Okay, I was thinking Oxford, Mississippi, but okay.

00:14:17.000 There's Oxfords all over the country, but okay.

00:14:19.000 That was the one where the parents got put in jail, right?

00:14:22.000 Yep.

00:14:22.000 Which I'm not crazy about.

00:14:25.000 I'm torn on that.

00:14:27.000 But in the situation, I have a Democrat governor, Governor Whitmer.

00:14:33.000 Yeah, she's great.

00:14:36.000 And both chambers are controlled by Democrats, so they passed a bunch of gun control legislation, thinking that, hey, this is going to work.

00:14:43.000 So in the case where we're trying to educate students, especially on high school campuses, about Second Amendment rights, When there's a situation where a student can be like, well, what about all these other gun control legislations that just got passed?

00:14:55.000 Like, these are reasonable gun control.

00:14:58.000 Why are you against reasonable, like, gun control?

00:15:01.000 Right.

00:15:01.000 So let's take that one at a time.

00:15:03.000 That specific situation, was there an armed guard at the school?

00:15:07.000 I don't think there was.

00:15:09.000 Correct?

00:15:10.000 So, okay, this is the best way to first think about this.

00:15:13.000 If I am a terrible school shooter, and I'm given the option of one school that has no guards and no police, or another school that has armed teachers, police, and a security guard, which school would I go to?

00:15:27.000 More importantly, if you are sending your child to school, which school would you rather send your child to?

00:15:33.000 The one with no protection, or not?

00:15:35.000 Any reasonable person would pick that.

00:15:37.000 And they say, well, you know, we don't want to militarize our schools.

00:15:43.000 Okay, great.

00:15:44.000 So then, let me understand this.

00:15:45.000 When you board an airplane, go watch the Arizona Diamondbacks, or go and deposit some money at a bank, why is it that all three of those have armed security, and our children do not?

00:15:56.000 Are our sports teams and our vacations and our money, are they more important than our children?

00:16:01.000 And the answer is yes, they are.

00:16:03.000 In current American society.

00:16:05.000 We protect our money, tourism, sporting events, more so than we do our own children.

00:16:11.000 And so you say, look, we understand there's a lot of guns in society.

00:16:14.000 The best way to stop a gun is someone who knows how to have a gun to prevent it, right?

00:16:17.000 You could end 99% of all school shootings if you had the same security that airports had, that schools have.

00:16:24.000 Now, I'm not talking about, like, TSA lines and all that, but I think we would all agree that a child is much worthier protection than the other.

00:16:32.000 Now, they say reasonable gun control.

00:16:35.000 Again, you have to look at the actual legislation.

00:16:36.000 Let me tell you what's not reasonable.

00:16:38.000 What's not reasonable is what Illinois has done repeatedly and has that deterred gun violence.

00:16:43.000 No, it's not!

00:16:45.000 Illinois is more murderous, bloodier than it ever has been, Despite very, very aggressive gun control.

00:16:51.000 So they'll say, but you know the bad guys just go to Indiana to get guns.

00:16:54.000 You're right, and the good guys don't.

00:16:56.000 So let's take two cities, again I could talk about this topic all day long.

00:17:00.000 If gun laws have no bearing on local crime, why is it that Houston, which also has gang violence, lots of drug trafficking, why does Houston have a significantly lower murder rate, despite an almost parallel population, than Chicago?

00:17:13.000 What is the difference between Houston and Chicago?

00:17:15.000 Look, a criminal is going to be a little bit less You know, with a little bit less gusto and zeal, if they know that millions of other people potentially might have a firearm meeting them around the corner.

00:17:25.000 In Chicago, they know that nobody has a firearm waiting for them.

00:17:29.000 Very simple, very rational and reasonable.

00:17:31.000 And finally, I am a big believer in allowing teachers to own weapons.

00:17:34.000 I know that this is something that, you know, blows people's mind, but let me just use one final example.

00:17:39.000 You will not be able to go into a jewelry store here in Scottsdale without the owner himself with a firearm behind his back.

00:17:46.000 Happened just the other day at a jewelry store.

00:17:48.000 Took it out, criminals left.

00:17:49.000 So again, the necklaces, the rings, and the jewels in Scottsdale are protected by guns and our kids are sitting ducks.

00:17:57.000 So I could go through the reasonable, I'd have to look at the laws, but every one of their quote-unquote reasonable gun laws has something in common.

00:18:04.000 Let's take more guns away from people who did nothing wrong to make it easier for people that do stuff wrong to hurt the people that did nothing wrong.

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00:19:19.000 So this is very complicated from a policy standpoint, but I think it's very simple and it's a way to try to liberate a lot of conversation on campus, which is that this is where I think you can make a lot of headway.

00:19:32.000 And I think we have another free speech one in addition to this, don't we?

00:19:35.000 This is just one of the free speech ones, is that right?

00:19:37.000 Okay.

00:19:38.000 Yeah, I think so.

00:19:39.000 And this is very important, which is that every single person you're talking to on campus has a smartphone.

00:19:39.000 Yeah, that's good.

00:19:44.000 They're in all this nonsense, right?

00:19:44.000 They're on TikTok.

00:19:46.000 And the question you should ask them, which is on social media, should free speech be prioritized above somebody's feelings or somebody's emotions?

00:19:54.000 Now, as you guys know, I post on social all the time.

00:19:57.000 We do all this stuff.

00:19:58.000 I'm reluctantly on TikTok.

00:19:59.000 I'm told it's going very, very well.

00:20:01.000 I don't know.

00:20:01.000 Daisy's here somewhere, probably posting on One of those things.

00:20:04.000 But we get banned from TikTok all the time.

00:20:07.000 Why?

00:20:08.000 Because of harassment.

00:20:10.000 Quote-unquote harassment.

00:20:11.000 Do you know I cannot post a video on immigration or transgenderism on TikTok without it being pulled immediately?

00:20:17.000 Now, a lot of Gen Zers agree with that.

00:20:19.000 They're like, oh yeah, people's feelings must matter more than, you know, people's free speech rights.

00:20:24.000 More importantly though, and this is kind of going into this overarching totalitarian thing, which is that You need to make the argument that tyranny is not only within the government.

00:20:35.000 Tyranny can also be found within corporations and within companies.

00:20:38.000 So, I could go on this at length.

00:20:39.000 Any questions you guys have?

00:20:40.000 Thoughts on this?

00:20:41.000 I know that's a big topic, but the idea that, you know, big tech can shut us up.

00:20:47.000 Anybody?

00:20:48.000 Yes, ma'am.

00:20:49.000 Yeah, that's a great question.

00:20:50.000 So, I'm not even saying I'm in favor of... I am in favor of the government coming in, but let's pretend for the Point of argument.

00:20:58.000 So, let's take a step back.

00:20:59.000 Why are we in favor of small government?

00:21:01.000 That's the more important question.

00:21:03.000 Because we don't like centralized power and the abuse of power.

00:21:06.000 So what happens when your companies are more powerful than your government?

00:21:10.000 And you say, well, what do you mean?

00:21:12.000 Google right now has far more power to manipulate people's opinions a lot more than the Department of Energy.

00:21:18.000 Would we agree?

00:21:19.000 Now, Google can't put you in a prison cell, but they can put you in an ideological prison cell.

00:21:24.000 So let's just take another interesting example, which I think if we don't intervene in the right way, we're going to be in a tough spot.

00:21:30.000 Let's look at ChatGPT.

00:21:32.000 If you type in to ChatGPT right now, tell me about the Trump assassination, they'll say, sorry, I can't answer that question.

00:21:39.000 So, what you have is the entire mindset of a generation.

00:21:44.000 And that's all private companies, right?

00:21:48.000 Free if three or four companies, which are given government handouts in favor, so that's something we could probably do, is stop giving them carve-outs and start giving them favoritism, all this nonsense.

00:21:58.000 And so, what I'd never want to live in a society is, again, let's pretend theoretically we have very, very small limited government, but we have four companies that control everything.

00:22:09.000 That will almost never happen because big companies really suck off of, you know, and leech off of Big government, so there's usually a harmonic relationship, but we are supportive of small government because we want people to be free.

00:22:23.000 I'll give you another example.

00:22:24.000 In the 2020 election, I lost my Twitter account for 30 days alongside many other people because I said that the Hunter Biden laptop was real and not Russian disinformation, right?

00:22:35.000 So here you have, and by the way, that was the government lobbying the tech companies, and the tech companies doing the bidding of the federal government, and we did not have a fair and free election because of that.

00:22:44.000 That's a tough question, but if you could at least get a student to agree that it's creepy and weird that we have multi-trillion dollar companies that are manipulating their mindset, their viewpoint, I think that's probably a step in the right direction.

00:22:44.000 So what is the solution?

00:22:58.000 Another question on this?

00:23:00.000 Anybody?

00:23:01.000 Okay, let's move to the next one.

00:23:02.000 Okay, which one's this one?

00:23:03.000 Yeah, so just kind of generally about the big government thing, right?

00:23:06.000 And again, I think that it's a little inconsistent on the first one, which is where some people say, I don't like big government, but I'm perfectly fine with big Google.

00:23:14.000 So I think we have to be a little bit consistent as far as we don't like these overarching tyrannical power structures.

00:23:20.000 Let's talk about big government.

00:23:21.000 So what exactly is big government? 0.98

00:23:22.000 Well, obviously it sucks, right? 0.93

00:23:24.000 And why is government growing? 0.98

00:23:26.000 Here's my own personal opinion as just kind of a side note.

00:23:29.000 I believe that government grows when people lose the ability to police their own life and to be able to govern themselves.

00:23:35.000 I believe that if you have a society that no longer believes in God, this is my own personal opinion, and no longer believes in almighty or higher power, they lose the ability to engage in self-government.

00:23:44.000 And so self-government is a prerequisite to liberty, and if you do not have people that are able to understand the principle of self-government, you'll no longer be able to live in a free society.

00:23:53.000 So, the federal government, how many articles of the Constitution are there?

00:23:58.000 Good guess.

00:23:58.000 Seven.

00:23:59.000 Yes, you're right.

00:24:00.000 That's right.

00:24:00.000 Seven.

00:24:01.000 And so the seven articles of the Constitution lay out the form and the structure of government.

00:24:06.000 Now, in the U.S.

00:24:07.000 Constitution, Article 1 deals with the, good, legislative.

00:24:11.000 Article 2 deals with the executive.

00:24:13.000 Article 3, that's right, by process of elimination, we're finally there, right?

00:24:16.000 Now, what article deals with the FBI, Department of Justice, EPA, Department of Energy, FBI, Trick question, that's right.

00:24:26.000 And that's really where we need to emphasize our focus, right?

00:24:29.000 Is that the last 100 years we have created an unconstitutional, super-constitutional, A multi-trillion dollar beast, a leviathan, that is not within our original form and structure of government.

00:24:42.000 It's called the administrative state, or the bureaucracy, or the deep state, whatever you want to call it, and there is no current check and balance.

00:24:48.000 They write their own laws, they're unaccountable, they're unelected, and they're largely unknown to the American people.

00:24:54.000 And they do whatever they want, regardless of the will of the American people.

00:25:00.000 If we're actually serious about retaking this country, it needs to be with assailing and restricting the fourth branch of government.

00:25:07.000 Questions, guys?

00:25:07.000 Any thoughts on that?

00:25:08.000 Yes?

00:25:09.000 Yeah, I mean, look, this is not Charlie running for president, but yes, I mean, like, yeah.

00:25:17.000 Yeah.

00:25:22.000 Yeah I think that provocatively you need to ask the question first and foremost which is that is it healthy that we have a standing army of secret police that arrests pro-life grandmas for praying peacefully outside of abortion clinics and raids the homes of pastors because you know for whatever I mean the FBI has become the secret police of the regime and not even doing what they're supposed to be doing There are hundreds of thousands of pedophiles that are not even touched or investigated by the government every single year that do whatever they want.

00:25:50.000 And meanwhile, you have Steve Bannon in federal prison, Peter Navarro in federal.

00:25:53.000 I mean, I can go through the list.

00:25:54.000 You guys know it, right?

00:25:55.000 And so, yes, in an ideal world, I would shut down the FBI.

00:25:58.000 I'd actually have the US Marshals take over all the casework.

00:26:02.000 I'm not against a federal police force.

00:26:07.000 Yeah, the U.S.

00:26:07.000 Marshals.

00:26:08.000 And they're amazing, and they're depoliticized, and they're just old school.

00:26:12.000 They're constitutional, straight and narrow.

00:26:16.000 They do their job.

00:26:17.000 And do you know that the U.S.

00:26:18.000 Marshals are one-twentieth the size of the Federal Bureau of Investigation?

00:26:21.000 And they have nearly ten times the amount of child sex crimes indictments as the FBI.

00:26:26.000 They just do their work.

00:26:27.000 They're amazing.

00:26:28.000 They're not political.

00:26:29.000 If you guys want to get really wonky about this, the chartering of the FBI was super suspicious.

00:26:34.000 J. Edgar Hoover was a really bad guy.

00:26:35.000 They've always existed as like the secret police of the current orthodoxy of the regime.

00:26:41.000 And I think that's really wrong and it's terrible in many different ways.

00:26:47.000 But yes, I could go through other things I would eliminate as well.

00:26:49.000 But yes, the other question is that you need to ask students, which is, do you think that you are going to live in a free society with the government the size that it currently is?

00:26:59.000 And unfortunately, we don't talk much about the size and scope of government anymore.

00:27:02.000 It's a tragedy.

00:27:04.000 Other thoughts, questions?

00:27:06.000 Concerns?

00:27:07.000 Okay.

00:27:08.000 Oh, yeah, this is great.

00:27:10.000 So, this kind of has two prongs here, which is like college being a scam, which we did last semester.

00:27:16.000 That was a lot of fun.

00:27:18.000 How many college is a scam questions did I get?

00:27:20.000 The content was great, right?

00:27:22.000 It's not a scam!

00:27:23.000 Trust me!

00:27:27.000 Sure, it's great.

00:27:28.000 So again, I think relentlessly reminding them that they're getting ripped off in college is fun, but also it's true.

00:27:34.000 This particular one applies more to young conservatives, probably, because they believe in free speech as long as you're a college liberal.

00:27:43.000 But yes, I mean, the whole proposition of college, I think there is a potential opening here, is reminding students That they are going into debt to subsidize themselves to not be able to express their opinions and not be able to really honestly learn anything at most of these colleges.

00:28:03.000 So yeah, the whole idea, the whole kind of topic we want here is trying to challenge them because here's the way that we think about it.

00:28:10.000 Is that we're not going to be able to get them to challenge big government and all this if they don't understand that they're currently living in a very rigged, authoritarian environment on that college campus.

00:28:21.000 If you can get them to think differently and analytically about the current college campus environment that they're in, then it might open up their mind for other such injustices.

00:28:32.000 Thoughts on this?

00:28:33.000 College in general?

00:28:34.000 Yes, ma'am.

00:28:34.000 Objections?

00:28:35.000 When I was in college, I went to Auburn University, actually.

00:28:39.000 War Eagle, yeah.

00:28:41.000 And we, our president and vice president, arranged a peaceful protest twice based upon your Educate, Don't Mandate that year.

00:28:47.000 And we got the mandate dropped at our school, and then you came and talked to us with Allie Beth Stuckey, and it was honestly the coolest thing ever, and we still talk about it.

00:28:55.000 Well, that's amazing.

00:28:56.000 Thank you.

00:28:57.000 And that means a lot.

00:28:58.000 Thank you.

00:29:02.000 That was one of my top five favorite viral moments.

00:29:05.000 Do you remember it at the end?

00:29:08.000 It was so great.

00:29:09.000 And it was the last question and she comes up and she says, where's your criminology degree?

00:29:16.000 That was your classmate in a poetry class.

00:29:22.000 Shocking.

00:29:24.000 And it was just such a great exchange.

00:29:26.000 I think that's been seen 50 or 60 million times.

00:29:30.000 I love when these, you know, young ladies, they're usually young ladies, but sometimes young men, they email us afterwards, I did not consent to being filmed.

00:29:38.000 I'm like, yeah, you were in front of 800 people, like, we're good, right?

00:29:44.000 It's like, what you didn't consent to is getting owned.

00:29:46.000 Like, that's a separate issue, right?

00:29:47.000 That's two different things, right?

00:29:51.000 Alright.

00:29:51.000 Other questions on that?

00:29:53.000 I have very strong opinions on college.

00:29:53.000 College.

00:29:55.000 You don't have to subscribe to them.

00:29:56.000 If you think college is great, fine.

00:29:57.000 Like, whatever.

00:29:58.000 That's not... That's not what this is all about.

00:30:00.000 Yes, ma'am.

00:30:00.000 But yes.

00:30:01.000 What would your recommendation be to students who are nervous about writing papers or putting out their beliefs in the written word for their classes and for their professors to see and then potentially downgrade them and so on?

00:30:15.000 Yeah, it's a great question.

00:30:17.000 I get it all the time.

00:30:18.000 I have a very different view than Ben Shapiro does on this.

00:30:22.000 I like Ben, he's a friend I've known for years, but he has a completely different view.

00:30:25.000 So, his view, you know, he went to Harvard, is just lie on your exams, lie on your paper, get the good grade, and march to the institutions, right?

00:30:34.000 Get the degree, and then use it against them, and all of that.

00:30:37.000 So, I have a completely different view.

00:30:38.000 I think grades mean nothing.

00:30:40.000 I think grades are completely irrelevant.

00:30:41.000 I don't care where you went to school.

00:30:42.000 I don't care what your grades were.

00:30:44.000 I care what your character is.

00:30:45.000 And I care about if you're a good person and if you have courage.

00:30:48.000 Like, if you have good grades and you're evil, there are a lot of really smart evil people.

00:30:52.000 And I'm not saying cheating on a test is an evil thing, but it brings your soul and your character closer towards evil deeds and actions than closer towards beautiful and good actions.

00:31:02.000 So my worldview is that everything you do matters in all places of time, regardless of the circumstances.

00:31:07.000 And that if you are going to do something that is questionable morally, you must have a really good reason to do it.

00:31:11.000 For example, someone knocks on your door.

00:31:13.000 Are you hiding Jews?

00:31:14.000 It's okay to say, no, I'm not hiding Jews.

00:31:16.000 That's perfectly fine.

00:31:16.000 Okay.

00:31:17.000 Okay.

00:31:18.000 We're not talking about that.

00:31:19.000 No, let's just be clear.

00:31:20.000 Okay.

00:31:20.000 We're talking about a college exam, right?

00:31:22.000 Cause some people say, well, Charlie, would you lie to hide you?

00:31:24.000 I would totally lie to them about hiding Jews. 1.00

00:31:26.000 And I would hide Jews and you should too, right? 1.00

00:31:26.000 Okay. 1.00

00:31:28.000 The whole idea, right?

00:31:29.000 No, seriously, that let's just be very clear.

00:31:32.000 But we're talking about a college exam where we have been propagandized to believe that grades matter.

00:31:37.000 I'm sorry.

00:31:37.000 They just don't.

00:31:38.000 Oh, I won't get into med school.

00:31:39.000 Oh, wow.

00:31:40.000 Yeah, your life is over if you don't get into med school, okay?

00:31:42.000 There's like a million different things that you could do in life.

00:31:45.000 And the issue is this, is that most parents have told their kids the most important thing is getting good marks and career ascension, where the way we should raise kids is that, no, the most important thing is being a person of strong character and solid virtue and a good person.

00:32:01.000 And a lot more than just getting A's on whatever test and you forget 99% of the subject material you're after anyway and it's just kind of as a matter of just passing through, not exactly important to me.

00:32:14.000 So my opinion does not always resonate with students because they are held hostage to this belief that they have to do well in that current, not just well, Whatever is the expense.

00:32:27.000 And let's play this out.

00:32:28.000 If every person in college that agreed with us was vocal in their classrooms, yeah, they might downgrade everybody, but wouldn't that be a better country to live in?

00:32:39.000 Where you have more courageous people, and more people speaking out, and less people just cowering in fear like, oh yes, and men can give birth, and I believe in reparations.

00:32:50.000 How ugly I would feel about myself.

00:32:53.000 I mean, if I, like, wrote that stuff?

00:32:56.000 Oh, wow, I got an A. Okay.

00:32:59.000 I mean, it's disgusting, actually.

00:33:01.000 That's the way I'm wired.

00:33:02.000 I'd rather fail and get thrown out of school than write something I knew was a lie, let alone something I don't believe.

00:33:08.000 Like, there's two different variations here.

00:33:10.000 You could write something you don't believe, and then just writing something that is a lie.

00:33:13.000 Like, Dylan Mulvaney is the most courageous person for living authentically.

00:33:19.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:33:21.000 Yes, ma'am.

00:33:23.000 Yeah, so kind of just to add on to that topic, when I was in, I did a stint at a community college locally, and my English professor put out an assignment to write a paper on socialism.

00:33:35.000 And so I wrote an anti-socialism paper, obviously.

00:33:40.000 And I submitted it and she gave me a really bad grade.

00:33:43.000 She failed me for the paper.

00:33:44.000 So actually what I did was I went back and I looked at the specific requirements for the paper and the assignment and nowhere in there did it say that it had to be like one or the other like pro or anti and so I went in and like complained and I got my grade changed because nowhere in there did it say that it had to be her view.

00:34:02.000 She was just a really pro socialism teacher.

00:34:06.000 Well thank you and that's amazing.

00:34:09.000 And you probably, in that experience, became a stronger, tougher person, right?

00:34:14.000 Awesome.

00:34:15.000 So, yes, very quick.

00:34:16.000 Yes, ma'am.

00:34:17.000 One thing that I know is still the norm is that parents still want their kids to go to college and have that degree and kind of move forward up in their careers.

00:34:24.000 What would your advice be for when we're talking about, at least for high school students who are wanting to get into college or who have parents who are pushing them to get into college?

00:34:35.000 Because we want the parents to be our allies too when there's that decision.

00:34:40.000 You do not have to take the Charlie Kirk worldview into your high school department.

00:34:43.000 However, what I'm saying is right, and people don't have to... I'm sorry.

00:34:47.000 It's just that I don't come to these conclusions lightly, and my entire thesis, in its totality, is written in a book, which you guys... Thank you very much.

00:34:58.000 The College Scam. 0.51

00:35:00.000 Thank you!

00:35:00.000 You dropped out of it?

00:35:01.000 And now you have a job!

00:35:04.000 I love it.

00:35:06.000 I love it.

00:35:07.000 Caden, right?

00:35:07.000 Well, thank you.

00:35:08.000 Yeah.

00:35:10.000 And so, again, you don't have to agree with everything there, but the analysis is bulletproof.

00:35:15.000 And so, look, I am a strong critic of parents that think that four-year college is the most important thing ever.

00:35:22.000 Here's my advice, is asking a series of questions to get people to think analytically and to challenge their premise.

00:35:31.000 So let me, I say this to employers all the time or parents.

00:35:35.000 I say, first of all, what would you, what do you want?

00:35:37.000 Do you want a successful kid or a good kid?

00:35:40.000 And they say, well, I want both.

00:35:42.000 And I say, okay, let me ask you this.

00:35:43.000 If I took your child and I asked them, does your parent want you to be happy, successful, smart, or good?

00:35:52.000 What do you think that, that the kid would say?

00:35:55.000 90% of kids say that my parents want me to be successful.

00:35:58.000 Very few say that my parents want me to be good.

00:36:01.000 So you can actually call out the parent in real time, and they're like, oh, well, I thought I was always telling you, like, no, you were always probably drilling it into them at family dinners, you better go to college, better college, not you better, you know, give back that $20 bill when you're supposed to get a 10 at the gas station.

00:36:16.000 That's why society is falling apart.

00:36:19.000 Or you better, you know, scan every item in the Whole Foods checkout line.

00:36:23.000 Right?

00:36:23.000 You could play it out, right?

00:36:25.000 Oh, it's just, you know, I'm not earning enough money.

00:36:27.000 It's 20 bucks or whatever.

00:36:28.000 You get how society unravels because we've raised it that way.

00:36:30.000 So anyway, that's the first thing.

00:36:31.000 Ask those series of questions.

00:36:33.000 But here's a good question.

00:36:35.000 You say to an employer or a parent, and if you had two resumes in front of you to hire somebody, Resume A is they went to University of Oklahoma, right, and they studied communications, and they did fine.

00:36:47.000 Okay?

00:36:48.000 Which a lot of your students will fit in high school under that criteria.

00:36:51.000 Nothing wrong with that, right?

00:36:53.000 Or Resume B, did not go to college and instead visited 50 countries and learned to speak two languages.

00:36:59.000 Which person pops up as somebody that is probably going to be a better employee?

00:37:03.000 I mean, it's not even close, right?

00:37:05.000 The person who was in Norman, Oklahoma, screaming at a football game?

00:37:08.000 The person that went to 50 countries, and I said, well, Charlie, it's really hard to go 50 countries.

00:37:11.000 You can travel a lot for $175,000.

00:37:13.000 Over four years.

00:37:17.000 I know this is a provocative thing to say, but I firmly believe that if we told our high school kids, like, yeah, you gotta go to 50 countries, come back to me when you get there, they're like, well, that's not safe!

00:37:26.000 Like, hold on, I thought that college campus was, like, rape culture, they're hunting you down at night, like, which one is it exactly, right?

00:37:32.000 So, and by the way, just so we're clear, Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo, way safer than Texas A&M, okay?

00:37:39.000 Way safer.

00:37:40.000 Sorry.

00:37:41.000 Or Texas Tech.

00:37:43.000 Or NYU, or whatever.

00:37:44.000 So again, we've fallen victim to our own premises that college campuses are this anointing and this christening.

00:37:51.000 And again, my role, you don't have to do this, I do think though that it's healthy that when a society has an overemphasis on something that's obviously dysfunctional, Freedom lovers should be unafraid to challenge those premises.

00:38:03.000 And sometimes those premises are right, but what I found with the college thing is that almost nobody defends it.

00:38:08.000 It's almost like hostile attacks, and it's like vicious name-calling, which, that's how you know you're exactly telling the truth about everything, right?

00:38:15.000 Oh, shut up, person that didn't go to college! 1.00

00:38:16.000 I go, hold on, no, but tell me why it's great. 0.98

00:38:18.000 Like, oh, you wouldn't know because, well, actually, I would know because I didn't go to college about what you could do without going to college.

00:38:23.000 Anyway, separate issue.

00:38:24.000 So, last one on this topic.

00:38:25.000 But you don't have to agree with everything I say on this.

00:38:27.000 I mean that sincerely, yes.

00:38:31.000 I just drop out, and by some miracle, if it's a conservative course, I say, well, join a chapter, start a chapter, it will make your college experience better than ever.

00:38:40.000 But what do I say to someone on the left who asks that?

00:38:43.000 Yeah, again, you're not their counselor.

00:38:44.000 That's number one.

00:38:45.000 So do not ever, I'm careful about this, I never give people specific advice.

00:38:49.000 Only like 99, like there's a 0.1% exception if I feel as if there's something I really can advise them on, but there's so many factors you don't know and nuances and they might not be telling you the whole truth.

00:39:00.000 So instead, just ask questions and let them stir and think about it, which is, does that current path, do you think it's going to get you closer to your end goal?

00:39:07.000 And again, ask them what type of person do you want to be, right?

00:39:11.000 What does success look like?

00:39:13.000 Is what you are doing getting closer or getting you closer or further away from that end goal?

00:39:17.000 So you're not here to be people's counselor.

00:39:20.000 You're certainly not there to be some random liberals, you know, guidance counselor when they walk by.

00:39:25.000 But what you will notice about any criticism, and we saw this, and Andrew can attest to this, we did this, you know, college is a scam thing, just the hostility of people's protection of the industry.

00:39:34.000 I was like, you guys are protecting an industry that's making you poorer and angrier.

00:39:38.000 Like, at least be value neutral about it.

00:39:41.000 And it was just like, they are defending college the way that a good Catholic would defend the Catholic Church.

00:39:47.000 That's the closest thing.

00:39:48.000 It was like, can do no wrong.

00:39:50.000 I will defend it at all costs.

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00:41:48.000 Pretty simple American exceptionalism.

00:41:49.000 We are the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:41:51.000 We don't have the greatest government, though.

00:41:52.000 So those are two important things, okay?

00:41:55.000 Greatest country, not greatest government.

00:41:57.000 Why are we great?

00:41:58.000 We're great because of our people, our traditions, our customs, our ideas, our principles, our history.

00:42:02.000 There is something special about this country, and we should never forget it.

00:42:06.000 Even though I am hypercritical about where the culture is, that doesn't mean that the country is lost.

00:42:11.000 Those are two different things, right?

00:42:12.000 A country is the combined embodiment of things that have become prior, unburdened by what has been.

00:42:19.000 And possible.

00:42:20.000 What's the last part?

00:42:21.000 It's nauseating.

00:42:23.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:42:26.000 But that's a very important thing because, again, you could dive into that.

00:42:29.000 Word salad.

00:42:31.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:42:32.000 By the way, I think we should lean into it.

00:42:34.000 I'm gonna get shirts that I say, like, just like, we are weird.

00:42:36.000 I think we have to just own it, right?

00:42:38.000 By the way, you know what they think is weird?

00:42:39.000 They think it's weird to get married, have children, go to church.

00:42:42.000 That's what they think is weird.

00:42:44.000 I think that all that trans-zealotry is very weird. 1.00

00:42:47.000 I think that Last Supper desecration is weird, okay?

00:42:50.000 Anyway, that's just me.

00:42:51.000 That's a separate issue.

00:42:54.000 Look, there's a lot of anti-Americanism here.

00:42:57.000 If there's one thing that I hope you got, and this is a really good topic for high school, this is probably the most agreeable high school one, is just be unapologetic of why we are great.

00:43:05.000 We are a beautiful country.

00:43:07.000 I just, again, I'm all open for criticism.

00:43:09.000 I literally host a show all day long criticizing the stuff that's going on in this country.

00:43:13.000 But there's so much goodness left in this country.

00:43:15.000 There's so many great people.

00:43:16.000 There's so much hope.

00:43:17.000 You can look at it objectively from greatest economy, most success, most gold medals, most Nobel Prizes, all that stuff.

00:43:27.000 But it's just so objectively true that there's something that went right here in this experiment that we are losing.

00:43:36.000 And I think one of the reasons we're losing it is a lack of gratitude for this country.

00:43:39.000 And I'm happy to go through the objections where people say, but Charlie, you know, we have the most prisoners or most whatever it's the whole, you know, list that they say, and you should never necessarily dismiss those.

00:43:50.000 So that's all legitimate.

00:43:51.000 Does the positive outweigh the negatives?

00:43:53.000 Is this country a better country than it is a worse country?

00:43:56.000 And if we're so bad, why do so many people want to be here?

00:43:59.000 And one of my favorite lines is, America is so great that even those who hate it refuse to leave.

00:44:04.000 And so, let's do some questions on this.

00:44:06.000 I could talk about this all day long.

00:44:07.000 Yes, ma'am.

00:44:07.000 So, last week I was at the Hamas protest in Washington, D.C.

00:44:11.000 when Netanyahu was there.

00:44:14.000 And there was a girl standing and yelling at us. 1.00

00:44:17.000 And I asked her, are you anti-American?

00:44:20.000 She screams yes. 0.99

00:44:22.000 And I started asking her, so maybe you go to Gaza and see that place, which makes, you know, no sense.

00:44:29.000 Why are you still here if you hate America?

00:44:31.000 So what do we do in those kind of sense when they try to attack us, but at the same time they don't want to leave America?

00:44:37.000 I love your accent.

00:44:38.000 What is it?

00:44:40.000 Ukrainian.

00:44:40.000 Okay, I hope I didn't offend you, but if I did, that's fine.

00:44:42.000 So, are we on the same page?

00:44:44.000 Yeah, okay, great.

00:44:44.000 See, a lot of Ukrainians like my... It's a very interesting thing, because they know what's going on.

00:44:50.000 Anyway, that's a separate issue.

00:44:52.000 Very good.

00:44:53.000 So, the... First of all, again, this is not like the Charlie Kirk for President Hour, but I would deport those people so quickly.

00:44:59.000 I mean, if you hate the country and you're invited as a visitor, like, why are you still here?

00:45:02.000 I don't understand.

00:45:03.000 Like, you have to come on our terms.

00:45:04.000 It's just insane to me.

00:45:07.000 This is what is so dangerous, what we're living through, is that some of these people were born here, and they're raised here, and they're educated here, and they have venom for the country.

00:45:15.000 And so there's something deeper going on where, and I mean this as gently as I could put it, is that they have other unremedied psychological issues sometimes, and they're just using a hatred of America as a vehicle and as a way to try and project other demons that they haven't necessarily wrestled with or

00:45:36.000 reconciled.

00:45:36.000 And so that's number one.

00:45:38.000 There's nothing stable or healthy about going and burning American flags

00:45:42.000 and putting graffiti all over the statues in downtown D.C.

00:45:44.000 Like, that's not stable behavior.

00:45:47.000 And there's a lot of reasons for that.

00:45:49.000 But yes, how we deal with it, this is one of the most frustrating things I have to deal with.

00:45:54.000 And this is why I also love first-generation immigrants that have come to this country

00:45:58.000 and they're on fire for America from Venezuela or from Vietnam.

00:46:01.000 And I just love it.

00:46:03.000 Are you first or second generation?

00:46:04.000 First.

00:46:05.000 Okay, and you get it, right?

00:46:06.000 Because you have no idea how bad it could actually... You try to tell people you have no idea how bad it could actually get and how, you know, this country could basically... is collapsing from its own weight.

00:46:14.000 So you have a great story to tell that you could get, I think, angrier and more intense from a righteous position than I can, Because these self-righteous, very, very entitled Americans that our family's been here for 150 years are telling you about how terrible this country is.

00:46:34.000 And they have no idea what they're talking about.

00:46:38.000 So there's two ways that you can operate in a society.

00:46:41.000 You can operate from a place of gratitude or ingratitude.

00:46:43.000 When you have gratitude for a country, you grow, you thrive, you prosper.

00:46:46.000 When you have ingratitude for a country, you collapse.

00:46:48.000 It's that simple.

00:46:49.000 And right now, we have more people that are ungrateful to be an American than grateful to be an American.

00:46:53.000 And again, two things can be simultaneously true.

00:46:55.000 Great country, terrible circumstance.

00:46:57.000 Great country, awful government.

00:46:59.000 Those things can simultaneously exist.

00:47:01.000 Other thoughts? Yes, sir.

00:47:02.000 Kind of going off your idea about awful government, I've empowered a lot of people who think...

00:47:06.000 who think that patriotism equates to pride in a government or loyalty to institutions or things like that.

00:47:13.000 How would you best differentiate between those things?

00:47:14.000 Yeah, and again, we are conservatives because we inherently do not have loyalty to the state, right?

00:47:19.000 We have loyalty to the nation, and the nation is not the state.

00:47:23.000 The state is the current composition of what is supposed to allow the nation to continue to exist.

00:47:28.000 The liberals, they will conflate nation and statehood as the same thing.

00:47:33.000 So, the best example of this, which is, does the country continue to exist if all of a sudden the federal government disappeared tomorrow?

00:47:39.000 Of course it would.

00:47:40.000 We'd have a lot of problems, right?

00:47:41.000 We wouldn't have highways and a military, but we could rebuild the state immediately because the nation pre-existed the state.

00:47:49.000 Does that make sense?

00:47:50.000 So we formed our government as a people, and then we decided to form a government.

00:47:55.000 The government did not exist, and then formed the United States of America.

00:47:59.000 And that distinction is incredibly important.

00:48:01.000 And a country is a combination of history, tradition, customs, and most importantly, values.

00:48:08.000 The American value system is the greatest value system on the planet.

00:48:12.000 There's not one that comes even close.

00:48:14.000 And the best way to summarize the American value system, I got this from Dennis Prager, is the American Trinity.

00:48:20.000 So in Christianity, the Trinity is God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.

00:48:24.000 Anyone know the American Trinity?

00:48:27.000 Anyone know it?

00:48:28.000 So it's on every coin.

00:48:29.000 Anyone have a coin?

00:48:30.000 Do you guys still have, like, dimes, pennies, quarters?

00:48:32.000 No?

00:48:33.000 Alright, it's liberty, In God We Trust and E Pluribus Unum.

00:48:39.000 So, liberty, which is a fundamental American value, which is not being able to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it.

00:48:43.000 It's actually the freedom to do what one ought to do.

00:48:45.000 That's a much deeper separate issue that you can have me back at a different time to talk about.

00:48:49.000 In God We Trust, I'm a firm believer that if you do not believe in some sort of an almighty, omniscient, omnipotent being, then government will replace that.

00:48:58.000 And then finally, E Pluribus Unum.

00:48:59.000 Anyone know what that means in Latin?

00:49:01.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:49:02.000 Out of many, one.

00:49:03.000 Correct.

00:49:03.000 Which means that skin color, race, color, tradition, none of that stuff matters.

00:49:07.000 What matters is that we are all human beings, made in the image of the end god that we put trust in, and that we are all one species together.

00:49:13.000 Human equality, basically.

00:49:14.000 Right?

00:49:15.000 That's the American trinity. 0.88

00:49:17.000 That value system is the greatest on the planet.

00:49:19.000 No one comes even close.

00:49:20.000 So when you have great values, and you have people that follow those values, and then sacrifice for those values with courage, Right?

00:49:28.000 The Greatest Generation, Storm Normandy's Beach, you have a great civilization for a long period of time.

00:49:32.000 Where we are in 2024 is we have been, think about this, we are all trust fund babies.

00:49:37.000 We're all trust fund babies of the Greatest Generation.

00:49:40.000 We did not earn this country.

00:49:42.000 We didn't build this country.

00:49:43.000 So we have been spending down our inheritance, first from Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, then the greatest generation, Eisenhower, and we are very low.

00:49:53.000 Our bank account is very low right now.

00:49:55.000 Because we are the metaphorical, to use a biblical analogy, right?

00:50:00.000 We are the son that has left and spent the entire inheritance, right?

00:50:05.000 Exactly, the prodigal son, thank you.

00:50:09.000 Are we gonna come back and repent?

00:50:10.000 That whole story's about repentance, basically, right?

00:50:12.000 Spent the inheritance, come back and realize, like, we got nothing left, because we haven't built any of it.

00:50:18.000 And the whole project at Turning Point USA is, like, first realizing that the inheritance is basically all been spent, and then go back to what actually gave us that inheritance in the first place, which is good values and virtuous people, appreciation for the country, appreciation for the flag, and core fundamental values and ideas.

00:50:33.000 Okay, last question on this one.

00:50:35.000 Yes, sir.

00:50:36.000 It kind of has to relate with some of the stuff you just said about repentance and God, and so I was just going to ask.

00:50:42.000 I'm a Christian, Holy Spirit-filled believer myself.

00:50:46.000 Do you think there needs to be an element of repentance and bringing God into it to save the country?

00:50:54.000 Absolutely, yes.

00:50:55.000 And for those of you that are not religious, I think you could—and I'm very religious, but again, this is not all about just Charlie's religious views—however, I think we can all objectively agree that the country has fallen apart as the country has fallen away from a belief in an Almighty Creator God.

00:51:11.000 Even if you are an atheist, Which Christopher Hitchens has said, he agrees with this argument, that as the West has become less Christian, it has become less free, because he believes those two things are actually tied together. 0.91

00:51:24.000 Don't take my word for it, John Adams said in the founding of the country, the Constitution is written wholly for a moral and religious people, it is wholly inadequate for the people of any other. 0.93

00:51:32.000 Said differently, it's that if you don't believe in, let's just say, a biblical God, It could be Jehovah, Yahweh, Jesus, whatever.

00:51:41.000 Some sort of a God that knows you, made you, judges you, and potentially saves you.

00:51:46.000 Those are the characteristics of the God of the Bible, right?

00:51:49.000 If you don't believe in that, then something else becomes that God.

00:51:52.000 There's a counterfeit.

00:51:54.000 And the counterfeits are really bad and really dangerous.

00:51:57.000 God of self, God of pleasure, God of environmentalism, God of anti-racism, God of social movements, God of all the isms.

00:52:04.000 Nihilism, yeah, socialism, scientism, are replacement theologies of what once was Judeo-Christian values in the West.

00:52:14.000 So what we have been led to believe is, oh, you know, religion is a bunch of hocus-pocus, it's a bunch of wizardry, never was true, doesn't matter, let's just kind of cast that aside, means nothing, and then people can just live free in a value-neutral way.

00:52:29.000 We were suckers to ever believe that, because what happened is replacement religions that are very sinister, never built anything, and have destroyed almost every civilization that it's come in contact with. 1.00

00:52:40.000 Last question on this. 0.71

00:52:41.000 Actually, let's go to the next one, and hold those questions if we have time.

00:52:44.000 Pretty simple.

00:52:45.000 Yeah, this is great, and I love this, which is that I don't think you'll have as much of an issue here, but people that complain a lot and refuse to vote—one of my least favorite categories ever, right?

00:52:56.000 These are people that will wait 15 minutes in line for their Frappuccino at Starbucks, but they won't fill in a mail-in ballot, because they're sticking it to the man.

00:53:02.000 Now, mind you, that's a uniquely boomer phenomenon that I deal with, which is like, I'm a tough guy, I'm not voting. 0.99

00:53:07.000 Like, yeah, you're an idiot, and I have no time for you, like, get out of the way. 0.97

00:53:12.000 All of you should be constantly encouraging your members, the people you come in contact with, to vote, to register to vote. 1.00

00:53:18.000 We are a 501c3.

00:53:20.000 You cannot and should not advocate for the defeat or the success of any particular candidate.

00:53:24.000 However, educating through values and all this stuff will make citizens we believe make informed and educated choices.

00:53:30.000 So, pretty simple here.

00:53:31.000 Any questions here on this one?

00:53:33.000 Yes, ma'am.

00:53:33.000 There's no other country out there that hates themselves as much as the left hates us.

00:53:37.000 So with that middle ground in mind, how do we spread these values to the most effective way to that middle ground?

00:53:37.000 That's beautifully put.

00:53:45.000 Because those are going to be the people that really do bring the change.

00:53:48.000 That's a really good question.

00:53:49.000 So I don't know, but I will tell you, I say this.

00:53:52.000 So I think our approach is best.

00:53:56.000 I think that there's multiple approaches.

00:53:59.000 But our approach has been this, which is be very bold and declarative of the truth, create shock and awe, spice and attention, and through that you will have invigorated troops, followers that are energized, and that the people in the middle will find what you do as a form of pseudo-entertainment, and they will then be drawn over over a period in the course of time.

00:54:23.000 I think that's the best way.

00:54:25.000 And I think the numbers show that.

00:54:27.000 I think our social media shows it.

00:54:28.000 I think our chapters show that.

00:54:30.000 Do you potentially turn off some people in the middle?

00:54:32.000 Yes, but what's the alternative?

00:54:34.000 We could be going through this be like, well, as to not offend people, let's try to do that.

00:54:39.000 That's I don't think that's the tone of the country.

00:54:41.000 I don't think that's the way you build movements.

00:54:43.000 Movements are not built on political correct Foundations.

00:54:48.000 Movements are built on truth, and they're built on people that believe it, and they're willing to go fight for it.

00:54:54.000 And so, winning over the middle, I think, is, it happens over a period of time, when courageous people are willing and able to defend their value system, when they receive opposition.

00:55:05.000 If that makes sense.

00:55:06.000 Yes, ma'am?

00:55:07.000 I'm kind of going off that point.

00:55:10.000 Do you think it's effective when talking to any crowd, whether it's people kind of in the middle, on the left, on the right, wherever it may be, to kind of raise like a deeper question?

00:55:19.000 Like, what is like the end goal for your life?

00:55:22.000 And I know that we can get into All sorts of different... That shouldn't be a deep question, by the way.

00:55:27.000 Yeah, that's... Hey, I agree with that.

00:55:31.000 But I guess that... Is that an effective strategy to take, is kind of my question.

00:55:35.000 I mean, yes, I think that dialogue is important.

00:55:39.000 You'll be able to find out... It's a very insightful question.

00:55:42.000 If you're talking to a liberal or a left... There's a little bit between liberal and leftist, but they're cousins of each other.

00:55:46.000 Liberals are weak, leftists are evil, but they're both cousins of each other, right?

00:55:49.000 And so if you're talking to a leftist, whatever, They usually do not have a very long horizon in their life, typically. 0.97

00:55:55.000 If you're talking to a conservative, they usually have a very, very long horizon.

00:55:59.000 So, said differently, a conservative typically will embody delayed gratification in almost everything they do, where a liberal will engage in indulgence and instant gratification with a very short-term horizon.

00:56:13.000 Now, those are generalizations.

00:56:15.000 But you think about it, a conservative says, I want to get married, I want to have children, I want to own a home, I want to save money.

00:56:21.000 All of that is that I am going to do things that are hard, but deep.

00:56:25.000 that are difficult but rewarding, but I want a government that allows me to do those things.

00:56:30.000 A liberal would be like, because here's the problem, is that liberalism and leftism, the undercurrent idea toxin is nihilism, which is what's destroying this country.

00:56:39.000 Nothing matters, nothing's true, who are you to say, let me do my stuff, give me some weed, give me some alcohol, free sex, no costs, right?

00:56:45.000 That is the undercurrent because they say, well, there's really nothing that's true.

00:56:48.000 I might as well feel good while doing it, right?

00:56:50.000 You only live once, right?

00:56:51.000 I want to, I want to have the most amount of fun, most amount of stuff, most amount of toys, most amount of pleasure, because we only get so many years.

00:56:57.000 And that is, I don't think anyone here holds that view, right?

00:57:00.000 Cause it's really damaging, really dark and leads to depression and suicide anxiety and all these other really dark places because life is actually infinitely more deep than that.

00:57:07.000 So yes, asking a simple question as what is your life's goal can sometimes flush that out.

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00:58:15.000 Socialism will inevitably result. That's a very powerful one. Result in communism. Yes. I mean, look, socialism is

00:58:25.000 like I'm not a fan of marijuana. If you know that. So I think if you're a fan, that's fine. I'm just saying that

00:58:31.000 socialism, I think marijuana actually is a gateway drug.

00:58:34.000 That's my own opinion. You don't have to agree with me. The data is overwhelming. I just don't think it's a good idea

00:58:37.000 to do that.

00:58:37.000 I think we're getting closer and closer to being able to say that definitively.

00:58:40.000 Socialism is a gateway drug to communism, right?

00:58:42.000 So as socialism happens, communism happens.

00:58:44.000 One leads to the other.

00:58:45.000 And yes, they're both totalitarian, but there really is not much of a distinction between the two, which is that in socialism, they believe in small citizen, big government.

00:58:54.000 We believe in big citizen, small government.

00:58:56.000 In socialism, they believe in almost no families, and the government becomes the family.

00:59:00.000 We believe that the family should be premier, and the government should take a backseat.

00:59:04.000 So on and so forth.

00:59:05.000 Questions on this?

00:59:05.000 Thoughts and comments?

00:59:06.000 Yes, you have not asked a question yet.

00:59:08.000 Just on this topic, what do you tell the people that talk about the European countries that have socialism and that it totally works there?

00:59:15.000 Yeah, it works.

00:59:16.000 I love when they're like, yeah, the UK works so well.

00:59:20.000 It's like, really?

00:59:20.000 The UK works really well?

00:59:22.000 Where they're being overrun by You know, like, basically Mohammedans, in a way that you wouldn't believe. 1.00

00:59:28.000 By the way, it's not a derogatory, that's actually the way you say it in the UK, just so we're clear.

00:59:32.000 But yes, I just, so I think they're specifically talking about Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark.

00:59:36.000 I've done hundreds of hours of videos on this.

00:59:39.000 Number one, say, okay, what are their immigration policies?

00:59:41.000 Very restrictive, right?

00:59:43.000 That's number one, which we would never do in our country, because diversity is our strength, right?

00:59:47.000 Number two, The Norwegian, Norway, they have a trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund made basically out of fossil fuel extraction and, you know, oil and natural gas.

00:59:57.000 But most importantly is this, which is, let's pretend that it quote-unquote works even though they have a very homogenous population, no immigration, all this.

01:00:04.000 Would you rather live in a comfortable society that gives you everything that you want, We're a free society that allows you to achieve anything that you wish to do.

01:00:12.000 Which one would you want?

01:00:13.000 Like, and most people are like, oh, I'd rather have stuff.

01:00:15.000 Like, okay, then hypothetically, let's just play this out.

01:00:18.000 What would you think if I told you, because this exists in America, I could have, you could have three meals paid a day.

01:00:24.000 You never have to pay for rent.

01:00:27.000 You'd be around some really interesting people.

01:00:32.000 You even get wifi.

01:00:35.000 You don't have to think because your whole schedule is like built for you.

01:00:38.000 And it's all paid for by taxpayers.

01:00:42.000 And some of them be like, well, yeah, where do I sign up for that?

01:00:44.000 Be like, just, you can go take a drive and we can be there pretty soon.

01:00:50.000 You all know I'm describing federal prison, right?

01:00:53.000 And that's what it is.

01:00:54.000 I don't want to live in that society, right?

01:00:55.000 I want to be able to have earned success.

01:00:57.000 But that's what, socialism is a sister of prison.

01:01:01.000 It is.

01:01:01.000 Three meals a day, lodging paid for you, housing, but you're not free.

01:01:05.000 And freedom is a value that unfortunately is being lost in society.

01:01:08.000 I can go on at length about the Scandinavian countries.

01:01:10.000 I've done that ad nauseum.

01:01:12.000 If you guys are super interested, we'll send you more links on that as a follow-up.

01:01:15.000 Yes, other questions on this topic?

01:01:17.000 Communism, socialism, totalitarianism, collectivism?

01:01:20.000 Yes, okay, next one.

01:01:21.000 Okay, taxation, the silent thief of liberty.

01:01:24.000 I got myself in trouble last year because I talked about inflation, which is true.

01:01:28.000 But yes, just so you understand, the true thief is inflation.

01:01:32.000 All of you are getting poorer every single month, every single year because of inflation.

01:01:36.000 But yes, taxation is the taking of resources from a body politic.

01:01:41.000 Under unreasonable means.

01:01:42.000 Of course, there should be some form of taxation.

01:01:44.000 The question is, what is fair, what is just?

01:01:45.000 I think 10% across the board would be a great, kind of, maybe even national sales tax, whatever.

01:01:49.000 I'm not here to say specific policy measures, but you should make, you should ask the argument, ask the question of a student on campus, whose money is it?

01:01:58.000 Is it your money or the government's money?

01:02:00.000 Very simple. 0.99

01:02:01.000 And understand, they're such hypocrites, right? 0.98

01:02:03.000 These leftists, they're saying, oh yeah, it's my body, my choice, my sovereignty, but is it your money or choice too? 0.98

01:02:09.000 Because that's interesting. 0.84

01:02:10.000 You want to take, like, 50% of my stuff, but you want to be able to, like, murder a baby in my womb, which is, like, really weird.

01:02:16.000 Like, that's the only thing that you— Or, why is it that you were okay with kicking people out of the military for not taking a shot called a vaccine?

01:02:26.000 But I thought it was my body, my choice.

01:02:27.000 Anyway, separate issue on that.

01:02:29.000 But taxation, silent thief of liberty, taxation is theft!

01:02:33.000 And we should do everything we can to limit it, but the silent, silent killer right now is inflation.

01:02:38.000 You increase the money supply, you destroy the value of the dollar, people's purchasing power nearly disappears.

01:02:42.000 Questions?

01:02:44.000 Yes?

01:02:45.000 So I'll be working with high school students, and I know sometimes many high school curriculums don't cover the depth of what taxes really are, and many of them might have not worked significant enough jobs where they really see the difference in that.

01:02:57.000 So how would you recommend reaching those students to really emphasize and get this point across?

01:03:01.000 That's a good question.

01:03:03.000 Probably, first of all, they are taxed before they even are able to vote, which is remarkable.

01:03:12.000 I think in high school, probably doing the very old but effective grade redistribution story, which is A students have to give their grades to F students so that everyone becomes C students, and that is equity.

01:03:24.000 I think that's probably effective for introductory high school kids.

01:03:27.000 College kids, they might shrug that off, right?

01:03:29.000 But everybody, and they'll say, well, that's not fair.

01:03:32.000 So every taxation argument is a question of justice, is of what is fair, what is just, what is right, what is true.

01:03:39.000 And yes, you should not take more from the high producers to subsidize the lazy low producers.

01:03:44.000 I think that's probably the best way to discuss it.

01:03:46.000 Other questions on this?

01:03:48.000 Yeah, go ahead.

01:03:48.000 Yes, one more.

01:03:49.000 Yes, sir.

01:03:50.000 My name is Alexander Young.

01:03:51.000 I'm with the Big Sky Territory.

01:03:53.000 My question is, scripturally, we're told to give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and how can you juxtapose a statement that taxation is theft when, biblically, we are told to pay our taxes?

01:04:05.000 Yeah, so that's a good question.

01:04:06.000 That's not the totality of what Christ was saying, but yes.

01:04:11.000 The question is, does the Bible support private property?

01:04:14.000 And the answer is yes.

01:04:16.000 Secondly, and I have to go back on this, it's been a long time, there's a phenomenal book I have to show you from Lawrence Reed, where he just goes through this, so I'll have to refer you to it, all about the render under Caesar what is Caesar's but understand

01:04:28.000 what was the second part of that run render under God's what is God's

01:04:31.000 so he's actually going even above Caesar saying that God is sovereign overall that's at least playing from my memory

01:04:37.000 but let's go back into the Old Testament first of God's law here

01:04:41.000 10 percent of everything to the government are at as a tie right was the kinda fair and form way

01:04:47.000 But secondly, and most importantly, was this idea in the protection of private property, which the first real estate deal ever done in the history of the world was Abraham buying Hebron for the Hall of the Patriarchs in Israel.

01:04:59.000 So, private property is fundamental to freedom, and if and when we do not have the ability of the agency to own property, then the government becomes bigger than the citizens.

01:05:09.000 So, I'd have to refer you to that.

01:05:10.000 It's a good question.

01:05:11.000 Lawrence Reed has a great book on it from FEE, the Foundation for Economic Education.

01:05:16.000 We'll get that sent to you.

01:05:17.000 So, yeah, you bet.

01:05:18.000 Veterans.

01:05:20.000 Anyone a veteran here?

01:05:21.000 Well, there you go.

01:05:21.000 Thank you.

01:05:22.000 Perfect segue.

01:05:23.000 And thank you.

01:05:23.000 Thank you for your service, guys.

01:05:24.000 You should give it up for them.

01:05:25.000 That's great.

01:05:31.000 My own personal opinions here, not that of Turning Point USA.

01:05:33.000 I think it's insane we keep on sending our best and brightest to no-win wars halfway across the world, and we can't secure our own border, and we have homeless veterans dying on our streets.

01:05:41.000 I think it's a violation of the social contract, and I think we engage... I think the war industry is one of the great injustices of the modern American experiment.

01:05:48.000 You do not have to agree with me.

01:05:49.000 That's my own personal opinion.

01:05:51.000 I do not think you can have a free society if you have a country that wants to go invade other societies saying that they aren't free when yourself cease to be free.

01:05:58.000 You don't have to agree with me.

01:05:59.000 That's fine.

01:06:00.000 But I think neoliberalism has done a lot of damage to our best that want to actually serve this country.

01:06:05.000 And we had a decision to make after the Cold War.

01:06:07.000 We could have pursued peace and we could have de-escalated.

01:06:10.000 Tensions with Russia and other countries.

01:06:12.000 Instead, we decided to increase tensions.

01:06:14.000 The war machine got humming.

01:06:16.000 We never should have invaded Iraq.

01:06:17.000 We never should have invaded... Well, the Afghanistan invasion was overdone. 0.92

01:06:20.000 Never should have happened.

01:06:21.000 And unfortunately, there's a lot of damage.

01:06:23.000 I think a veteran... Where's Dan?

01:06:24.000 Commits suicide every 13 minutes, right?

01:06:26.000 Yeah.

01:06:27.000 Am I wrong about that?

01:06:28.000 21 minutes or something?

01:06:30.000 Yeah, 22 minutes or something?

01:06:31.000 Yeah.

01:06:32.000 And that is almost solely because of this unrepentant war machine and this cult of death that calls themselves a military-industrial complex.

01:06:39.000 You do not have to agree with that, but that's my take.

01:06:42.000 I think that it's important to remember our veterans, but what are we doing to prevent the next one million people that go into a theater of war that are going to be dealing with mental health issues, anxiety, suicidal ideation, death, depression, broken families, all for what?

01:06:54.000 What did we get out of the invasion of Iraq?

01:06:56.000 The answer is a big nothing.

01:06:57.000 Anyway, You don't have to rate that.

01:06:58.000 Any thoughts, questions on foreign policy and stuff?

01:07:01.000 Yes, ma'am.

01:07:02.000 I'm Riley Ashby.

01:07:04.000 David's like, say your name.

01:07:08.000 Riley from Cascades.

01:07:09.000 Do you have any good arguments?

01:07:12.000 Because I'm from Oregon, so people aren't really super pro this.

01:07:18.000 Pro-veterans?

01:07:19.000 Yeah, like pro-respecting them.

01:07:22.000 But they're pro-sending money to Ukraine, which is amazing.

01:07:25.000 To let other people's veterans die for you, but not our own.

01:07:28.000 Yeah, they are.

01:07:31.000 But do you have any good arguments for, like, when people come up and say, like, they're murderers, like, how could you ever support them?

01:07:37.000 Like, any good arguments?

01:07:39.000 Yeah, of course.

01:07:40.000 First of all, I just... Thankfully, I think we've turned that chapter that used to be the way we treated our veterans.

01:07:46.000 I think we've largely... Have you guys agreed?

01:07:47.000 Is that a common thing?

01:07:48.000 I don't know that we've largely... Oregon's a bunch of wacky people.

01:07:51.000 Yeah, I... You what?

01:07:54.000 Yeah, you keep it very weird up there.

01:07:57.000 So, killing is not murder.

01:07:59.000 I know that's a complex argument that a leftist can't understand.

01:08:02.000 Those are two different things, right?

01:08:04.000 Killing is the taking of a life in a reasonable or justifiable way in self-defense.

01:08:09.000 Actually, in the scriptures, there's two different words for killing and murder.

01:08:13.000 Two completely different categorizations.

01:08:14.000 And in the Ten Commandments, it's, thou shalt not murder, not thou shalt not kill.

01:08:18.000 And then you should ask a question if they say this.

01:08:20.000 Well, hold on a second.

01:08:21.000 Is it ever right to kill?

01:08:22.000 You should ask them that.

01:08:23.000 And they'll say, oh no, it's never right to kill.

01:08:24.000 Say, okay, if someone's coming after your pregnant wife with a chainsaw, you can't take out a gun and protect yourself?

01:08:30.000 And so, I mean, the argument falls apart, you know, on its face value.

01:08:36.000 And I think you should play off and say, wait a second, so the person who signs up and puts their life on the line to go fight for the country halfway around the world so that you can keep on, like, smoking weed on the streets of Portland is somehow the enemy?

01:08:48.000 And you should say, you should direct all that anger that you think are the murderers to the current D.C.

01:08:52.000 political class.

01:08:53.000 That's who you should hate.

01:08:55.000 You should not hate the rank-and-file that signed up with duty and service to serve this country while these other people are playing war games.

01:09:03.000 So, I mean, I would try to redirect their anger towards the correct target.

01:09:06.000 But I think that the anti-military stuff has largely faded.

01:09:11.000 I could be wrong.

01:09:11.000 I think that's... We've turned a page on that.

01:09:14.000 Yes, ma'am.

01:09:15.000 Okay, so I am... I'm trying to think of the best way to ask this question.

01:09:19.000 So I'm a Christian, I'm pro-Israel, pro-veterans, my husband's a veteran, pro-military, but I generally don't... I believe we involve ourselves in wars we don't need to be involved in.

01:09:30.000 Can you explain, like, personally against the Ukraine war, right, but can you explain to me why we should, and maybe this is like as a Christian specifically, but also as an American, be supportive of the Israel war?

01:09:41.000 Because I have a hard time explaining that.

01:09:43.000 Yes, the Israel War.

01:09:44.000 So I'm very pro-Israel for multiple reasons.

01:09:46.000 I'll tell you why in my personal opinion.

01:09:48.000 Anyone been to Israel?

01:09:50.000 A couple people?

01:09:50.000 Yes, okay.

01:09:51.000 So I believe the Bible is the most important document ever written.

01:09:54.000 I believe proving the authenticity, the accuracy of the Bible is important for all of humanity.

01:09:58.000 The only way that we're able to continue to prove, experience, and see the accuracy of the Bible is to be able to visit Israel and the archaeological sites and visit actually where the Bible occurred.

01:10:07.000 That is only possible under the current kind of Israeli governmental structure.

01:10:11.000 If the Islamic fundamentalists were to take over Israel, we would, as 1.00

01:10:15.000 Christians, lose access to holy sites, archeological sites, and digs, which 0.99

01:10:19.000 would then be a step forward in destroying the accuracy of the people's

01:10:23.000 faith in the scriptures and the Bible.

01:10:24.000 That is my number one and overarching belief.

01:10:27.000 And that is not insignificant.

01:10:28.000 If you are a Christian, you're able to go to Israel.

01:10:30.000 You'll be able to go to Capernaum, go to Jerusalem. 0.58

01:10:32.000 I am not an apologist for the Israeli government.

01:10:35.000 Not really my thing.

01:10:35.000 I'm an America First guy.

01:10:37.000 However, I do think supporting Israel, secondly, against who I consider to be some of the most evil people on the planet, who are the, you know, Hamas Nazis. 0.94

01:10:46.000 I hope they succeed.

01:10:47.000 But yes, to be consistent though, we should be very careful about the amount of money, the amount of troops, the amount of entanglement, the amount of engagement, especially as our own country is largely collapsing.

01:10:58.000 Next slide.

01:10:59.000 This is the last one.

01:11:00.000 Flag the classroom.

01:11:01.000 There you go.

01:11:02.000 Which is all about the American flag.

01:11:05.000 This is mostly a high school thing, yeah?

01:11:06.000 Mostly high school.

01:11:07.000 Love it.

01:11:08.000 It's also a way just to be super patriotic and try to restore... By the way, here's why I love this.

01:11:14.000 It's a way to call out all that gay pride, like, flag stuff. 0.99

01:11:19.000 And, like, why do they get a flag and, you know, the American flag is not able to fly, right?

01:11:24.000 So I think that's a great way to push back against all that stuff and really show, you know, patriotism and love of country.

01:11:32.000 All right, one or two in closing.

01:11:33.000 Everybody?

01:11:33.000 Anybody?

01:11:34.000 We also recently the left freak out over this Project 2025 from the Heritage Foundation and how they tried to turn that into a national conversation.

01:11:41.000 Yeah.

01:11:44.000 I know with our mission we want to focus on the issues and the power players here at home.

01:11:49.000 Is it ever appropriate to bring up things like the UN Sustainability Goals and their agenda 2030 that's kind of, I think, been pushed back since they've kind of been foiled a little bit.

01:12:01.000 But those things really woke me up and kind of got me in the political movement because those things I can see in the future where that's headed.

01:12:08.000 Is it ever appropriate to bring that up?

01:12:10.000 Um, of course it is, but I'll just tell you, are you high school or college working in?

01:12:15.000 High school?

01:12:16.000 Yeah, they're not, they don't know what the UN is.

01:12:18.000 So that's, uh, yeah, the, the, just so you guys understand, the, the political and educational knowledge of most students you deal with Is TikTok level, right?

01:12:30.000 And so, but it's your job to build it up and to build awareness and to build, you know, educational viability.

01:12:35.000 But yes, I think that it's all legitimate.

01:12:37.000 I just, with some exceptions, some campuses are pretty great, but the lack of knowledge is pretty striking.

01:12:45.000 However, they're very, very confident.

01:12:47.000 That's a separate issue.

01:12:49.000 Yes, sir and ma'am, then we'll close.

01:12:50.000 Yeah.

01:12:51.000 Yeah, sure.

01:12:53.000 I think we're good on the flag.

01:12:54.000 So I got through the presentation.

01:12:55.000 I'm really proud of myself.

01:12:57.000 Hey, so I'm in Alabama, Mississippi.

01:13:00.000 Is there any specific advice you'd give to us sort of in red states as we move toward November for nonpartisan helping us as we move toward there?

01:13:07.000 Yeah, your goal is beyond the election for sure, but just break complacency.

01:13:11.000 Make people understand that they need to stay involved, stay active, you know, express their viewpoint and not just grow comfortable because they happen to be in the ideological majority.

01:13:21.000 Okay, last question.

01:13:22.000 Yes, ma'am.

01:13:23.000 Hi, I just have a general question as well.

01:13:25.000 My question is that you've seen a lot of people in your company come and go and become great leaders within your company and stuff.

01:13:31.000 What is like one of the qualities that you would say do instill in us when we're going out on the field and like we're doing things, what can we do to be leaders and better voices on campus?

01:13:40.000 I'll give you a couple things.

01:13:41.000 You have a great attitude, which a lot of you have.

01:13:44.000 Which is, even if it's a rainy day, you've got to drive far.

01:13:47.000 You are how you act, not how you feel.

01:13:49.000 Most important life, the sooner you learn that, the better life you'll have.

01:13:52.000 How you feel is completely irrelevant.

01:13:54.000 How you act matters.

01:13:55.000 You'll be having a bad day.

01:13:56.000 How you act to the external world actually matters.

01:13:57.000 And guess what?

01:13:58.000 You know the crazy thing?

01:13:59.000 You start to feel how you act.

01:14:00.000 That's what's really nuts.

01:14:01.000 It's a hack of life that they'll never teach you in college.

01:14:04.000 Like, oh, how do you feel?

01:14:04.000 No, it's completely irrelevant.

01:14:05.000 I don't care if you're sad.

01:14:06.000 I don't care if you're depressed.

01:14:07.000 How you act is actually how you end up becoming.

01:14:09.000 It's very interesting.

01:14:11.000 That's number one.

01:14:12.000 It takes a long time to actually embody that.

01:14:14.000 Number two, always tell the truth, right?

01:14:15.000 That's super, super important.

01:14:17.000 And then finally, you know, we have a high prize on creativity.

01:14:21.000 People that Take risks, want to constantly push boundaries, go the extra mile.

01:14:26.000 Obviously, our culture points are really important, but we're really proud that our entire leadership team has been hired from within, has grown from within, has come up through the ranks, and has built the most sizable and powerful field organization in the history of the country.

01:14:40.000 Thanks, guys!

01:14:41.000 Appreciate it!

01:14:44.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:14:45.000 Email us, it's always freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:14:47.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - September 03, 2024

The Key Pillars of America — My Speech to TPUSA New Hires

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