The Charlie Kirk Show - The Left's Modern Jim Crow: My Speech at San Jose State University

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00:00:25.000 Here we go.

00:00:25.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:27.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:28.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:30.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

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00:00:37.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:38.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:39.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:00:48.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

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00:01:08.000 Wow, great to be here.

00:01:09.000 I made it through that mess outside.

00:01:11.000 Oh my goodness.

00:01:12.000 It's so funny.

00:01:13.000 You know, I get sent these videos beforehand.

00:01:15.000 These people say, fascism has got to go.

00:01:17.000 So hold on a second.

00:01:18.000 Who are the fascists?

00:01:20.000 The people that are having a free speech event where if you disagree, you can come to the front of the line and have uninterrupted chance to talk?

00:01:27.000 Or the lunatics playing rock music, screaming into the sky with barely legible signs saying, fascism is so, they even know what fascism is?

00:01:35.000 No, of course they don't. 0.67

00:01:36.000 And they've spelled it wrong.

00:01:37.000 Of course they did.

00:01:41.000 Probably affirmative action, honestly, why they're here. 0.85

00:01:44.000 We'll talk about that in a second.

00:01:45.000 And they can't even spell.

00:01:47.000 And it really is something, though, because honestly, I look at these videos, and I'm not even saying this as a joke.

00:01:52.000 The lack of purpose and meaning in your life that you have to go take to the street and like scream into the sky, like, I'm fighting fascism.

00:02:00.000 I'm doing my part.

00:02:01.000 Like, why don't you like organize your life a little bit?

00:02:04.000 I don't know.

00:02:04.000 Like, get a girlfriend, like, get a job, any job, get married, have kids.

00:02:09.000 Like, there's something much more important in life than just being constantly angry at the world where you're trying to shut down the singular conservative event that's happening at San Jose State University. 0.59

00:02:21.000 What it shows is that these people are intellectual midgets and they are afraid. 0.51

00:02:26.000 Are you allowed to say midget anymore? 0.93

00:02:27.000 Honestly, I don't care.

00:02:28.000 I don't follow these rules.

00:02:29.000 Intellectual little person, right?

00:02:30.000 I think is the new term.

00:02:33.000 I honestly don't care.

00:02:34.000 With these people that are afraid to have a conversation, maybe there's some people tonight that do.

00:02:40.000 This is not good for the country.

00:02:42.000 It's not good at all.

00:02:43.000 Because they think they know what they're fighting, because they've been told that there's a fascist coming on campus.

00:02:48.000 But in reality, we love America.

00:02:51.000 We love the Constitution.

00:02:52.000 We have really nuanced beliefs on certain things.

00:02:54.000 We disagree on a lot of stuff, even amongst people in Turning Point USA.

00:02:58.000 And we believe that we become a meaner country when we don't listen to the other side and allow a short window of time for people to be able to speak.

00:03:07.000 And you think about it, you know, at San Jose State University, I want to thank, first of all, the police for all the help here.

00:03:13.000 They've been wonderful.

00:03:13.000 They've been really great.

00:03:15.000 They've been really great.

00:03:17.000 And thank you to the administration.

00:03:20.000 It's been a battle, but we're here.

00:03:22.000 So thank you guys.

00:03:23.000 I always thank the administration as long as the event happens.

00:03:26.000 And so thank you.

00:03:27.000 Appreciate it.

00:03:28.000 The issue is this, though.

00:03:30.000 When you do not have an opportunity to even hear the other side, then you think you know why you hate them.

00:03:36.000 When in reality, you have this kind of built-in prejudice or stereotype.

00:03:40.000 So you could go through like four years of San Jose State University. 0.81

00:03:43.000 You'll probably get an overwhelming dose of Marxist postmodernism, Foucault, Derrida, Marcuse, one-dimensional man, you know, Rousseau, all that trash.

00:03:53.000 And for, I don't know, 90 minutes, here we are.

00:03:56.000 We want to offer a different point of view, and there's like a revolt.

00:03:59.000 You think about it, like, wow.

00:04:01.000 Imagine having a worldview so fragile, so poorly constructed, that a singular speaker that comes on campus is a massive threat to the entire Marxist regime that you've built with every young person.

00:04:14.000 That goes to show that they're afraid of defending their positions.

00:04:19.000 That 60 minutes can undo four years of indoctrination.

00:04:23.000 One event.

00:04:24.000 That just goes to show everything.

00:04:26.000 So there's so much we can talk about here.

00:04:30.000 I just learned before I came up on stage that Henry Rogers, otherwise known as Ibram X. Kendi, is giving a speech here tomorrow.

00:04:41.000 Did you guys know that?

00:04:42.000 I actually in this room.

00:04:44.000 You guys should go ask him questions.

00:04:46.000 I wonder if Ibram X. Kendi says, if you disagree, come to the front of the line.

00:04:49.000 That would be interesting.

00:04:50.000 If you don't know who Ibram X. Kendi is, he's one of the archbishops of the cult of anti-racism.

00:04:55.000 He took $40 million from actually $10 million from Jack Dorsey.

00:04:59.000 The money went missing.

00:05:01.000 And he's under investigation by the Boston University now.

00:05:04.000 Tends to happen with BLM organizers.

00:05:06.000 All this money gets raised, and no one knows what happened to the money.

00:05:09.000 And so I wonder if he'll actually take critical questions and disagreement.

00:05:14.000 It's funny, Ibram X. Kendi, he was asked a question, which is actually part of what I want to talk about tonight.

00:05:19.000 They said, hey, what is racism?

00:05:20.000 And I'm paraphrasing, I want to be fair to him.

00:05:22.000 But he basically said, racism is the systems that perpetuate racism.

00:05:25.000 It's like, okay, answer the question without the word racism in it.

00:05:29.000 You actually have to define what it is.

00:05:31.000 And the reason he can't is because if he gave a definition of racism, he would realize that he's actually pushing some of the most bigoted, stereotyping, prejudiced ideas on the rest of us, which segues us perfectly to your new senator here.

00:05:45.000 So you have a new senator.

00:05:46.000 Congratulations.

00:05:48.000 LaFonza Butler.

00:05:51.000 Is that a household name in California?

00:05:53.000 LaFonza Butler.

00:05:55.000 I honestly thought it was going to be Oprah, honestly.

00:05:59.000 Honestly, I miss old Oprah.

00:06:00.000 You know what I mean?

00:06:01.000 Like the Oprah in the 1990s.

00:06:03.000 She was so nice and sweet, and now she's just become so mean and like new agey and kind of really strange.

00:06:09.000 Anyway, that's a separate issue.

00:06:10.000 But LaFonza Butler, okay, so you're Gavin Newsom, right?

00:06:13.000 Not exactly my favorite person in the world.

00:06:15.000 And by the way, what is all this like?

00:06:17.000 Every time Gavin Newsom gets in front of a camera, are you running for president?

00:06:20.000 Are you sure you're not running for president?

00:06:21.000 Like, it makes you think like maybe you're not so confident in the current guy you have.

00:06:24.000 If every time the governor of California gets in front of a camera, like, hey, are you running for president?

00:06:29.000 Are you sure you're not running for president?

00:06:30.000 Are you thinking?

00:06:31.000 Are you thought about the dream of you running for president?

00:06:31.000 Are you dreaming?

00:06:35.000 And so Gavin Newsom made a pledge, and he said, okay, if I am given the opportunity and there's an opening, I am going to pick a black female.

00:06:45.000 So that was his pick.

00:06:46.000 So obviously he wants to continue the tradition of affirmative action that has destroyed so many Asian and white families' dreams and aspirations here in California via the education system.

00:06:55.000 And he wants to continue that into the Senate seat.

00:06:58.000 So he picked someone who's not even lives here.

00:07:00.000 She lives in Maryland.

00:07:02.000 So that's interesting. 1.00

00:07:03.000 Like, yeah, let me just go on Twitter and start finding every black female lesbian that I can that is like pro-abortion. 0.98

00:07:09.000 And he found like LaFonza Butler, who lives in Maryland, by the way. 1.00

00:07:13.000 I'm sure she'll declare California residency soon.

00:07:16.000 And by the way, there are a million black women in California, but he had to go all the way to Maryland to find one that fit the criteria, I guess.

00:07:25.000 So, again, I don't know anything about Lafonza Butler, but I know enough to know that I'm not exactly a fan of her worldview.

00:07:32.000 But I will say this: it's actually not fair to her, and she should feel a little bit weird about it.

00:07:37.000 Same with Katanji Brown Jackson and Kamala Harris, another fan favorite from Calvary.

00:07:40.000 You guys really produce the world's best here.

00:07:44.000 You really got a real great, you got Pelosi, you got Kamala Harris.

00:07:49.000 You're doing great.

00:07:52.000 If I was LaFonza Butler, I'd feel a little weird because we know we're not picking you because of your credentials.

00:07:58.000 We know we're not picking you because of your brilliance.

00:08:00.000 We're picking you because you picked a very specific criteria in an affirmative action box.

00:08:06.000 And that's in some way, she obviously just wants the seat or power, so she'll take it.

00:08:11.000 But how is that fair to her?

00:08:13.000 So everyone's going to think, okay, you're only there because we care about the melanin content in somebody's skin.

00:08:13.000 It's actually not fair.

00:08:19.000 And so affirmative action, thankfully, the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action, but schools are going to find ways around it.

00:08:25.000 Yes, we should applaud it.

00:08:26.000 It's unbelievably great decision.

00:08:28.000 But the people that push for affirmative action, we'll get to the root of it in a second.

00:08:36.000 It really is deteriorating and destroying society.

00:08:39.000 I'll prove to you how bad it is, right?

00:08:40.000 Because you know we're always told, oh, there's white privilege, there's white privilege.

00:08:43.000 Yeah, okay, I'll believe there's white privilege the second I find a single college student that lies about being white on a college admissions paper.

00:08:53.000 Like, yeah, find me anyway.

00:08:54.000 If you have someone who's half black, half white, what do you think they're going to mark off? 0.99

00:08:57.000 You think they're going to mark off white?

00:08:58.000 Of course not.

00:08:58.000 They'll be penalized.

00:08:59.000 They'll mark off black and then they'll get in with a lower test score. 0.81

00:09:01.000 And that's exactly what affirmative action does.

00:09:03.000 And it is lowering expectations to try to say we are going to value pity and sympathy instead of excellence and meritocracy.

00:09:11.000 It's against everything that has made this country the greatest country in the history of the world.

00:09:15.000 And California schools are finding ways around it.

00:09:17.000 So here's some real examples.

00:09:19.000 You guys know UC Riverside, not exactly a right-wing bastion here.

00:09:22.000 Did you guys hear about the story?

00:09:23.000 So a few weeks ago at UC Riverside, an ethnic studies professor, Andrea Smith, was forced into retirement after it was revealed she spent her entire career falsely claimed to be Cherokee Indian, when in reality she's 100% white.

00:09:38.000 So she's like forced into retirement.

00:09:39.000 So again, if there's so much white privilege, why are so many white professors pretending to be quote-unquote marginalized groups?

00:09:45.000 The answer is because you get special tokens and you can move up faster if you pretend to not be white in the academy. 0.85

00:09:51.000 Second example: an hour north of here at UC Berkeley, oh my goodness, anthropology professor Elizabeth Hoover publicly apologized for mistakenly claiming to have Indian ancestry.

00:10:03.000 Completely bogus.

00:10:04.000 She lied because she knows that everyone in America knows that if she says she's white, she gets no extra points. 0.53

00:10:10.000 But being an American Indian or black or Hispanic, somehow that is good. 1.00

00:10:14.000 By the way, this is the same thing with Elizabeth Warren with Pocahontas.

00:10:21.000 Look, this is a fact.

00:10:22.000 Affirmative action is morally corrosive.

00:10:25.000 And it's not just something, again, that happens at the academy.

00:10:27.000 We pick our senators through it.

00:10:29.000 And by the way, one thing I'm struck by is that there are so many students here that are Asian.

00:10:35.000 It is like the, I'll go through the numbers.

00:10:37.000 It's so actively anti-Asian and anti-white, it should cause a revolt in the state.

00:10:43.000 But we'll talk about that in a second.

00:10:44.000 So in the world of affirmative action, instead of prioritizing, saying, I want to earn people's respect and admiration, it's a constant struggle of who can get the most points for something that does not matter.

00:10:59.000 Let's go deeper.

00:11:00.000 It actually prioritizes things you cannot change more than things you can change.

00:11:06.000 America is at its best when we prioritize stuff that you can change.

00:11:11.000 How much homework you study, how early you wake up, how seriously you take your classes.

00:11:16.000 How disempowering it is to say that your skin color should necessarily dictate whether you get into college or not.

00:11:23.000 In 2009, two researchers at Princeton calculated that to have the same chance of admission to an elite university, an Asian applicant had to score 450 points higher on the SAT than a black applicant who was otherwise the same.

00:11:37.000 The SAT only has a score range of 1,200 points, 450 points.

00:11:42.000 A few years ago, an AEI fellow found that black medical school applicants with below average scores were nine times more likely to be admitted than Asian applicants with the same scores.

00:11:52.000 In this recent Supreme Court decision, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, Supreme Court just decided it was revealed that to keep Asians out, Harvard would systematically rate Asian applicants as inferior personalities to everyone else.

00:12:08.000 Now, we were told that it was evil, and it was evil, when we had internment camps for Asians here in California during World War II.

00:12:14.000 We're doing this by different means by saying, You as Asians are not allowed into universities because we want to prioritize some other marginalized skin group.

00:12:23.000 Our elites are obsessed.

00:12:25.000 And by the way, affirmative action is just discrimination and racism by different means.

00:12:28.000 That's all that it is.

00:12:30.000 And at the root of affirmative action is the attitude of what is society refusing to give me.

00:12:37.000 And this is what people should think.

00:12:39.000 Instead, it's what can I still give to society?

00:12:42.000 That is what we should be telling young people.

00:12:44.000 You are not entitled to be able to go into some university.

00:12:48.000 You're not entitled to get somebody else's spot just because of the color of your skin.

00:12:53.000 But at the root of all this, and at the root of some of the rancor outside, is one of the great lies that permeates our society.

00:13:02.000 Because you can justify affirmative action.

00:13:06.000 You can support affirmative action if you think that every outcome you don't like is because of racism.

00:13:14.000 Racism is kind of like the force in Star Wars.

00:13:16.000 It's invisible, it's everywhere.

00:13:18.000 You could blame everyone.

00:13:19.000 And by the way, I could look at articles: obesity, that's why racism is why we have obesity, bad health outcomes, either that or climate change.

00:13:27.000 It's one of the two.

00:13:28.000 But can anyone actually define what racism is?

00:13:33.000 Because they'll say, well, black people can't be racist. 0.93

00:13:35.000 Only white people can be racist. 0.97

00:13:36.000 Oh, so it's a power struggle, is what it is.

00:13:39.000 And what this is, is a non-stop concerted effort to try to deteriorate the promise of America, which is a Latin phrase, e pluribus unum, out of many one.

00:13:49.000 They want you thinking about race all the time, and they're winning. 0.93

00:13:54.000 They're making us care about senators' skin color instead of anybody asking the obvious question, is this senator smart? 0.99

00:14:00.000 Like, I don't know maybe she is. 0.89

00:14:01.000 Maybe she's, I don't know.

00:14:02.000 Is she qualified?

00:14:03.000 Like, what has she done?

00:14:04.000 Oh, no, no, she just fits in the box. 0.98

00:14:06.000 Katanji Brown Jackson, affirmative action pick, was asked the question, what is a woman? 0.93

00:14:11.000 And she says, I'm not a biologist. 0.75

00:14:13.000 I don't know.

00:14:16.000 Literally, one of your nine Supreme Court justices can't tell you what a woman is.

00:14:20.000 It's okay.

00:14:20.000 Most college kids can't either.

00:14:21.000 So that's fine.

00:14:23.000 She's right on pace.

00:14:25.000 But here's the fact that people need to remember: is that when you have an outcome that you don't like, income levels, wealth disparities, there are other credible reasons to explain that away other than racism.

00:14:39.000 In fact, there are hundreds of other explanations.

00:14:42.000 If you blame everything on racism, everything, then you actually never get down to the root of the issue.

00:14:49.000 And so the question would be this: if you were to say to somebody, they say, oh, America is a systemically racist country and there's all these issues and all this sort of stuff.

00:14:58.000 You say, okay.

00:14:59.000 So let me ask you, in the black community, do you think racism or lack of fathers is a bigger issue in the black community?

00:15:08.000 Are you even able to ask that question?

00:15:10.000 We have entire corporate America, by the way, a lot of these tech companies right down the streets are the ones underwriting this.

00:15:15.000 Major tech company virtue signaling campaigns, NFL, which I'm so disappointed in them. 1.00

00:15:20.000 With these stupid helmet decals, end racism. 1.00

00:15:23.000 Obviously, end fathers abandoning the women that they impregnate. 1.00

00:15:27.000 Like, that would be helpful.

00:15:32.000 When was the last time the NFL?

00:15:34.000 It's like, it takes all of us, you know, all these like kind of quasi-communistic phrases.

00:15:39.000 Drives me nuts.

00:15:40.000 I think they've toned it down a little bit this year, but I'm sure they'll be back in time for next year's Cultural Revolution. 0.91

00:15:46.000 Presidential years, you know, they really got to ramp up.

00:15:49.000 Just, you know, everyone's going to get really mad for nine months and then they'll forget and do nothing and take advantage of those communities.

00:15:54.000 And just that happens every couple of years.

00:15:56.000 And so, but then the question is: the NFL mostly watched by men, right?

00:16:01.000 Instead of lecturing us about, I don't know, it's like the rainbow NFL thing that they do now, like, oh, yeah, this really just say, how about like stop being like a grown boy and a coward and stay with the woman that gets pregnant because fatherlessness is destroying the fabric of our society? 0.50

00:16:19.000 When was the last time you saw a single PSA from the NBA, the NFL?

00:16:23.000 No, no, no, because that actually would solve the problem.

00:16:26.000 And they're not in the business of solving problems.

00:16:28.000 They're in the business of staying powerful while the problem continues.

00:16:33.000 And so I'm happy to hear about all the different types of racism that exist in society.

00:16:38.000 Like, oh, yeah, there's all these disparate incomes.

00:16:40.000 Yeah, there's other reasons to explain that away.

00:16:42.000 But quite honestly, I won't even entertain that at a baseline level until we talk about the stuff that is actually driving the societal decay, which is kind of my final point here, and then we'll do some questions until we run out of time.

00:16:54.000 Which is, I've been coming to this, the Bay Area for the last decade.

00:16:58.000 And you guys know this.

00:16:59.000 I'm just reminding you that, you know, San Francisco is a perfect San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Palo Alto.

00:17:06.000 It is a perfect picture of exactly where the rest of the country is heading.

00:17:10.000 Okay?

00:17:11.000 And this entire place is governed by ideology, not by what you are experiencing in reality, but some sort of commitment to an ideological dream.

00:17:23.000 In downtown San Francisco, Nordstrom's closed, Gump's closes.

00:17:27.000 I mean, these are places that I'm sure some of you remember walking the streets of San Francisco without having to worry that you're going to get mugged or someone's going to defecate in front of you.

00:17:36.000 It doesn't have to be this way.

00:17:38.000 And there's a million different excuses.

00:17:41.000 You know, I left.

00:17:42.000 Gavin Newsom, you know, he wants to run for president.

00:17:44.000 I'm like, where have you ever been in charge where it's not a hellhole?

00:17:47.000 Like, can you just tell me one place where you took the oath of office and it's not like some dystopian, like feces and filled place afterwards?

00:17:54.000 Like one place.

00:17:56.000 Like, have you actually improved a place that you've been in charge of?

00:17:59.000 Like, I don't really care about your spin, about every sort of thing, you know, the one-liners that you rehearse in a workshop.

00:18:04.000 Like, have you ever actually improved the quality of life of the people that you were in charge of?

00:18:08.000 And of course, they can't do that because their ideology, Trump's, that's funny.

00:18:15.000 The ideology overrules what is actually happening in front of them.

00:18:19.000 But here's the kicker: is that your elites, the people at the ruling class on the top of Silicon Valley, not just the Zuckerberg type, that's the elite of the elite leave.

00:18:29.000 I'm talking about the next level down, okay?

00:18:31.000 I'm talking about people earning four, five, six, seven million dollars at Facebook, four, five, six, seven million dollars at Google, is that they're just going to build bigger hedges and they're going to hire more armed security.

00:18:43.000 They literally don't care that the structural middle class in the Bay Area is evaporating.

00:18:49.000 It is being destroyed.

00:18:50.000 Because for them, it's all just kind of peasants in their massive power grab.

00:18:54.000 And what I find to be just hilarious is, you know, all these people outside that are so worried that one conservative speaker is coming to speak for 60 to 90 minutes and take questions.

00:19:04.000 Like, when was the last time they went outside some mansion of some plutocrat here in Silicon Valley and was like, hey, why don't you do something to fix homelessness?

00:19:15.000 Or why don't you do something to actually not just give money to like gender equity or the chemical castration of kids, but to actually help, I don't know, people buy groceries.

00:19:25.000 No, because they are, again, they're just pawns in a bigger game, which is they need to be directed towards quote-unquote fighting the right winger when in reality your own quality of life is deteriorating in front of you.

00:19:37.000 San Francisco, some of you don't even remember this, was one of the world's greatest cities.

00:19:42.000 It is now a joke.

00:19:44.000 And by the way, I come from Chicago.

00:19:46.000 Chicago's a joke too now.

00:19:48.000 And it doesn't have to be this way.

00:19:49.000 But it happened because we pandered to the radical fringe, a fringe that said, oh, the streets are for everybody else.

00:19:56.000 You could do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do.

00:19:58.000 You do not have a society that way.

00:20:00.000 And what will the elites do?

00:20:01.000 They'll just go further away.

00:20:02.000 They'll buy another vineyard in Napa, or they'll go down to Carmel, or they'll buy another, they'll just flee.

00:20:08.000 And the rest of you that want to make a life in this state and a life in this city, this area, are going to be looking around and be like, yeah, you know, I was kind of on board for this socialism thing, but I was really on board for the revolution.

00:20:19.000 But why is there a homeless, a naked homeless guy on our yard and I can't remove him? 0.99

00:20:24.000 Like, shut up, bigot! 0.99

00:20:25.000 Like, oh, okay, great. 0.99

00:20:27.000 And if there is an ideology that you are committed to, and you have to just compare it to the real world, that's my final thought.

00:20:36.000 It's okay to have ideology.

00:20:38.000 That's fine.

00:20:39.000 Okay?

00:20:40.000 Ask yourself the question: is that ideology materially improving any place in the square footage of the United States?

00:20:48.000 And if your ideology is all about like defund the police and more like drug usage sites and everyone's streets is their own, then if you think San Francisco is going well, I don't believe you, honestly.

00:21:02.000 Because fine, prove it to me.

00:21:04.000 Go to Fisherman's Wharf.

00:21:05.000 If you're a young woman, you believe this, with no one with you, and walk one mile, one mile alone from midnight to 1 a.m.

00:21:12.000 Walk from Fisherman's Wharf to the Transamerica building and prove to me how safe San Francisco is.

00:21:19.000 And be like, oh, I'm scared.

00:21:20.000 Oh, you're scared.

00:21:21.000 It never used to be that way.

00:21:22.000 Muggings, robbing, beating, that never used to happen in San Francisco.

00:21:27.000 Everyone felt safe to walk the streets.

00:21:30.000 And now all of a sudden, people are totally terrorized.

00:21:32.000 And it's happening in New York.

00:21:34.000 It's happening all over these places.

00:21:35.000 We've allowed these hyper-aggressive, these ferocious academic ideologues to capture the entire society.

00:21:42.000 And they never have to live under the consequences of their own ideas.

00:21:48.000 They will escape them and leave you fighting over the dust of their governance.

00:21:52.000 With that, let's do some questions and God bless you guys.

00:21:54.000 Thank you.

00:21:58.000 Okay, so the way it's going to work, a couple things.

00:22:02.000 No need to raise your hand.

00:22:03.000 You can start lining up right there.

00:22:06.000 If you disagree, you're welcome to go to the front of the line.

00:22:09.000 You should find out if Iber Max Kendi actually invites disagreement tomorrow.

00:22:14.000 Second thought: this is a largely conservative audience.

00:22:18.000 So when someone with a more liberal view might say something you find wacky or strange, don't boo them, don't hiss at them.

00:22:26.000 Instead, respectfully listen to them and honestly applaud them for coming to an event that is not ideologically necessarily as friendly.

00:22:35.000 So we invite the disagreement.

00:22:37.000 Don't make people, we want it.

00:22:40.000 We are a healthier country when we can hear the other side.

00:22:44.000 All right.

00:22:44.000 Okay?

00:22:45.000 We have a lot of time for questions, so let's have some fun.

00:22:48.000 Good evening, Charlie.

00:22:49.000 Thank you so much for coming here tonight to San Jose State University.

00:22:53.000 My name is Aiden.

00:22:55.000 I'm a young conservative.

00:22:56.000 I'm actually the chapter president of Turning Point USA at UC Berkeley.

00:23:06.000 I'm excited to be here tonight, and especially to hear your thoughts.

00:23:10.000 I'm recently engaged to my now fiancé.

00:23:12.000 Good.

00:23:16.000 And I would like to hear your thoughts about constructing a new family and a new society in our modern world.

00:23:23.000 What can I do?

00:23:24.000 What can us as young conservatives do to promote family values in this leftist area?

00:23:31.000 First of all, I'm so happy to hear that you're getting engaged in getting married.

00:23:35.000 Young people, you need to do that more and do it younger and do it earlier.

00:23:38.000 And look, In a world that's falling apart, you need to go out of your way to act in a way that preserves the good, the true, the beautiful, and the things that eternally actually matter, like your relationship with God, your family, having kids.

00:23:56.000 And so, just some, I mean, you're asking for advice, happy to give some.

00:24:00.000 The first thing, though, is good on you.

00:24:02.000 And that is the hard task. 0.67

00:24:04.000 And it's one of the reasons why I speak so openly against hookup culture and just all this trash that has infected the younger generation.

00:24:11.000 And by the way, it's not some sort of speculation. 0.90

00:24:14.000 The more we have embraced this idea of free sex and hookup culture, we have the most depressed, most suicidal, most alcohol-addicted, most drug-addicted generation history.

00:24:24.000 Maybe we should ask the question: like going around and acting like a rabbit in your sexual ethics, is that actually creating happier people?

00:24:32.000 And it's not.

00:24:33.000 It's actually creating more distance.

00:24:35.000 It's creating more bitterness.

00:24:36.000 It's creating more depression.

00:24:38.000 It's creating all these different things.

00:24:39.000 So good on you.

00:24:40.000 And so I want to ask, I want to tell you this: that the hard things in life are the fulfilling things.

00:24:46.000 And one of the big lies that we are seeing in modern society is this idea that you can have a joyful, happy, deep, and fulfilling life while not putting in any of the work.

00:25:00.000 And the sad reality for any of you that have been around, you know, the beautiful things take commitment and they take discipline.

00:25:06.000 In fact, it takes saying no to your flesh on a daily basis to not watch pornography, to not smoke weed, to not, I don't think you should drink at all, but if you drink, to not drink in excess, right?

00:25:17.000 To actually ask yourself the question of, am I becoming the best version of myself?

00:25:21.000 And I don't even say those things necessarily in a judgmental way.

00:25:24.000 I really don't.

00:25:24.000 If you're doing those things, you're going to hit a wall eventually.

00:25:27.000 Like, the laws of nature will come to you.

00:25:29.000 I'm just trying to warn you: the quicker you can escape from that, the better, and to be free of that.

00:25:33.000 And so the challenge for young people, especially young men, because it doesn't come as easier for young men, young women have their own challenges, which we can talk about, which is can you commit to one partner, one person for the rest of your life?

00:25:49.000 And that's a beautiful thing.

00:25:50.000 That is an eternal promise that will bring you joy for the rest of your life and have lots and lots of children.

00:25:55.000 God bless you.

00:25:56.000 Thank you.

00:26:05.000 Hello.

00:26:06.000 I'm a conservative Muslim American.

00:26:08.000 And my question is: why do you think there has been less cooperation or no corruption at all between conservative right-wing America and Muslim community at large?

00:26:17.000 When ideally we have the same values of family values and everything we fancy?

00:26:21.000 Yeah.

00:26:22.000 You know, that's a great question.

00:26:23.000 So, first of all, welcome.

00:26:25.000 I'm glad you're here.

00:26:26.000 So, a lot of it has to do with a lot of, let's just say, post-9-11, post-war on terror, understandable tension there that I don't think has ever been sorted out.

00:26:36.000 I do think there's a place because there's a lot that we agree, right?

00:26:38.000 I had this conversation with Patrick Bette David.

00:26:40.000 Also, I am very clear.

00:26:42.000 I have some, let's just say, massive theological differences between Muslims.

00:26:47.000 But I would much rather work with Muslims to try and stop the chemical castration of children than have to live under the tyranny of the trans mafia that is going after children and medically kidnapping them any day. 0.99

00:27:01.000 But I feel it's also important that I'm not, you know, we can have a theological discussion otherwise.

00:27:07.000 That's not that helpful.

00:27:08.000 But some of it is, and you have to understand where conservatives are coming from, though.

00:27:12.000 There are some Muslims, not necessarily you or even, you know, the group that you come from, that do talk about not a free society, implementing Sharia, having a more theocratic form of government. 0.87

00:27:22.000 That's a thing that needs to be sorted out, especially amongst some of the higher levels in Muslim society. 0.58

00:27:28.000 What I see that's promising, right, is when Muslims are actually showing up more at school board meetings than rank-and-file Christians to fight for the right things politically. 0.84

00:27:39.000 For that, I say, honestly, let the ethical monotheists unite against this godless, secular Marxist agenda, and then we can have our spirited theological debate.

00:27:50.000 Thank you for being here.

00:27:51.000 Thank you.

00:27:59.000 Hi, my name is Ryan.

00:28:01.000 Thank you so much for your speech earlier.

00:28:03.000 And my question has to do with affirmative action, and I mentioned several times earlier.

00:28:08.000 The history of the United States, as we all know, Civil War ended in 1865, and a lot of people think that slavery ended back then, but there was another form that's called indentured servitude that lasted until around the early 1900s.

00:28:25.000 And so this form sort of continued.

00:28:27.000 And then we got the civil rights movement in 1965.

00:28:32.000 And so my question is, given the history, there are injustices done on people of color.

00:28:38.000 And do you think that they deserve some sort of reconciliation?

00:28:42.000 And if so, if not with affirmative action, what form?

00:28:46.000 And if affirmative action is the answer, which, according to your answer earlier, not exactly what you agree with, but for what length, right?

00:28:56.000 How long should it last?

00:28:57.000 That's my question.

00:28:58.000 No, like no reconciliation, no reparations.

00:29:00.000 We've already overly prioritized in society.

00:29:03.000 I'll prove it to you.

00:29:05.000 There is institutional black privilege in society today.

00:29:08.000 And no one wants to say it out loud. 0.98

00:29:11.000 Blacks can get into college with lower test scores. 1.00

00:29:14.000 They get more acting contracts. 0.97

00:29:15.000 They're literally in every other television commercial, right?

00:29:18.000 They're allowed to, literally, if a white person says a certain word, you could be completely terminated from public life, right?

00:29:25.000 And so we spent trillions of dollars post-Great Society, post-the Civil Rights Act paired with the Great Society.

00:29:32.000 Did any of that help?

00:29:34.000 No, actually, blacks got poorer on average.

00:29:37.000 And so before the Great Society, 75% of blacks growing up in America had a father and a mother in the home.

00:29:47.000 Now that number is anywhere between 20 to 25 percent.

00:29:51.000 So America got significantly less racist.

00:29:53.000 We spent trillions of dollars in our urban corridor.

00:29:56.000 We implemented affirmative action in our government hiring practices, in our corporate hiring practices, in our college admissions.

00:30:02.000 And yet blacks on average are poorer than they were in proportion to the 1960s.

00:30:07.000 What changed?

00:30:08.000 And the answer is that we are not confident, we're not honestly courageous enough to empower black voices to say, hey, you have to fix the problem in your own communities.

00:30:20.000 It's not about white guilt or white pandering.

00:30:22.000 It's about how about you stay with the woman you impregnate?

00:30:25.000 How about you stop embracing gangster rap culture?

00:30:29.000 How about you stop listening to music that glorifies the worst part of society?

00:30:33.000 And people are afraid to say this.

00:30:34.000 And Thomas Sowell wrote an entire book about it.

00:30:36.000 And the affirmative action creates race resentment is what ends up happening.

00:30:42.000 And while I acknowledge that, yes, of course there were laws that were unjust in the past, we've already lived under the biggest reparations program in the history of modern society, and it's been an abysmal failure.

00:30:54.000 You want to know what true liberation would look like?

00:30:57.000 Black America taking responsibility for their actions and doing the three to four things that are necessary to succeed in America. 0.68

00:31:03.000 Getting married before you have kids, graduating from high school, get a job, any job, and not committing crimes.

00:31:09.000 This is what drives me nuts about the looting stuff, is that people say, well, it's just a matter of, you know, it's a matter of survival.

00:31:18.000 How about you stop acting like a criminal?

00:31:21.000 How about you stop stealing stuff and we justify it?

00:31:24.000 And the more that we do that, the more we are building a baseline of an acceptance.

00:31:28.000 And here's the thing, just so we're clear, blacks make up about 12% of the American population, more specifically black men, 6% of the American population. 0.97

00:31:36.000 They're responsible for 60% of the murders. 0.98

00:31:40.000 That's a thought crime.

00:31:42.000 You have 6% of the American population doing 60% of the murdering. 0.99

00:31:47.000 And yet white people are the problem? 0.99

00:31:49.000 It's black privilege. 0.99

00:31:49.000 No. 0.99

00:31:50.000 And I'm not afraid to talk about it.

00:31:52.000 Appreciate it.

00:31:52.000 Thank you.

00:31:55.000 Follow up?

00:31:55.000 You want to follow up?

00:31:56.000 Sorry, you want to follow up?

00:31:57.000 I have a short follow-up.

00:31:58.000 So thank you for your response, and that was great insight.

00:32:02.000 And it sounds like you're personally affected to an extent through the effects that you talked about, through the black communities.

00:32:10.000 And since we are affected, and you as well, do you think we have some sort of responsibility to sort of fix the problems on, instead of just giving our opinion, actually doing to an amount of what we can do?

00:32:26.000 And if so, what would that look like?

00:32:28.000 Yeah, it's a great question.

00:32:29.000 So here's what's amazing is despite the fact that Asians have a harder job getting into college, harder job getting hired, Asians are like the wealthiest group in America by far, despite all the things that are thrown.

00:32:41.000 And you might ask the question, why?

00:32:43.000 Well, it's because Asian Americans stay loyally married far more than any other ethnic group.

00:32:48.000 They prioritize education. 1.00

00:32:50.000 And I don't want to overly generalize, but Asian moms don't put up with their kids committing crimes. 0.93

00:32:57.000 Am I right? 0.82

00:32:59.000 Right? 1.00

00:33:00.000 A bunch of Asians looting. 1.00

00:33:02.000 That dog does not hunt in the Korean American community or the Chinese American community. 0.95

00:33:08.000 So, yeah, there's like strong social fabric and cultural fabric that say it's not acceptable to engage in this sort of behavior.

00:33:16.000 So, no, I don't think we should ask for any special treatment.

00:33:20.000 What is the goal?

00:33:20.000 I think this.

00:33:21.000 The goal is to do our best to try to create a society that values meritocracy and values work ethic and things you can change, not things you can't change.

00:33:31.000 Thank you, man.

00:33:32.000 God bless you.

00:33:32.000 Thank you.

00:33:37.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:33:38.000 My name's Ella Bond.

00:33:40.000 I'm the chapter founder and president at Bue College up in Chico.

00:33:47.000 And my question for you is: what advice would you give for a brand new chapter officer to grow to fight against the crazy liberals that come and yell at us every time we table?

00:33:59.000 Well, first of all, so glad you're involved with Turning Point USA.

00:34:01.000 Most important thing a young person can do is start a Turning Point USA group.

00:34:05.000 Honestly, it's going to strengthen your resolve.

00:34:06.000 Look at it as an opportunity to grow stronger in your views, to grow deeper in your commitment to the pursuit of truth.

00:34:13.000 And they're going to try to cancel you and censor you and smear you.

00:34:17.000 Look at it all as pure joy, as it says in the scriptures, right?

00:34:20.000 To be persecuted in the name of truth.

00:34:22.000 So it's a question of attitude, right?

00:34:24.000 Instead of acting like a victim when all those things happen to you, say, you know what?

00:34:27.000 I'm so lucky because I'm going to learn how to better defend my positions because the world is really nasty and tough.

00:34:32.000 And that's one of my problems with college campuses in general, is that it creates this false reality that I can't hear different ideas.

00:34:39.000 I can't possibly, you know, be challenged or whatever it might be.

00:34:44.000 And to be perfectly honest with you, like life is really, really nasty at times.

00:34:48.000 It can come at you very fast.

00:34:50.000 Turning point USA leaders that have had to deal with that kind of hostility are far better prepared to live a happy, productive, and joyful life versus their left-wing counterparts that have been completely insulated from any criticism, never have to deal with any sort of backlash.

00:35:07.000 And, you know, you call it safe space or bubble wrap or whatever it is, but there will be a time when all of a sudden you go through a difficult moment in your life.

00:35:14.000 And I could say this from someone who's, you know, had a fair amount of those over the last 11 years.

00:35:18.000 It doesn't get easier, but you do manage it better when you've been through prior crises.

00:35:26.000 And I really feel for the 21-year-old social justice warrior that thinks the biggest threat to society is a conservative coming on campus talking about these ideas, because they're not going to make it when the mortgage comes due and their credit card company calls to collect and they're having a bad day at work.

00:35:42.000 Like, how are they going to deal with actual problems?

00:35:45.000 But you're going to be prepared.

00:35:47.000 God bless you.

00:35:48.000 Thanks so much.

00:35:55.000 Hi, my name is Spencer, and I'm a freshman here at San Jose State.

00:35:59.000 So my question is about what you said earlier about Justice Kentaji Brown's Jackson's qualifications for the Supreme Court and how you mentioned that she was unable to define what a woman is, and I'd like to compare that to Justice Barrett.

00:36:15.000 So Justice Jackson went to a public high school, attended Ivy Law Law School, clerked for the Supreme Court, was a public defender, served on a sentencing commission, was a district judge, and served on the Court of Appeals.

00:36:30.000 And as for Justice Barrett, she was a Supreme Court clerk, and she also sat in Court of Appeals.

00:36:39.000 And when she was being questioned by Senate during her confirmation, she was asked to name the Freedoms of the First Amendment, which she struggled with.

00:36:50.000 So my question is, what makes Justice Jack, Jack, pardon me, Justice Barrett more qualified than Justice Brown?

00:36:59.000 First of all, what does your shirt say?

00:37:00.000 I can't see that.

00:37:01.000 Trump 22, 24 years in prison.

00:37:04.000 Oh, got it.

00:37:05.000 Yeah, that's got it.

00:37:07.000 But we could talk about that in a second.

00:37:08.000 I was like, 16 double.

00:37:10.000 I was like, are you a Trump fan or not?

00:37:12.000 Yeah, obviously not.

00:37:15.000 Yeah, I mean, how is, by the way, how is Katanji Brown Jackson's Ivy League credentials impressive if she got in with affirmative action? 0.64

00:37:26.000 Why is that impressive? 0.99

00:37:29.000 And by the way, Amy Coney Barrett did her entire hearing without a shred of notes in front of her.

00:37:33.000 You remember that?

00:37:34.000 She had nothing but a notepad, all from memory.

00:37:36.000 Katanji Brown Jackson, I will just ask you, do you think it's important that one of the nine people determining the most important interpretation of our laws knows what a woman is?

00:37:51.000 Well.

00:37:58.000 Right.

00:38:01.000 Well, my counter to that is that we shouldn't really be seeing the world in black and white. 1.00

00:38:11.000 And a woman is, it's more than what meets the eye for a definition. 0.63

00:38:17.000 No, it's not. 0.99

00:38:19.000 No, we should see the world through male and female. 0.85

00:38:21.000 Yeah. 0.94

00:38:21.000 Why? 0.94

00:38:26.000 Well, why?

00:38:27.000 Because I live in reality, not in Narnia or some sort of weird, created academic abstract space that doesn't exist.

00:38:36.000 So why shouldn't a person be socially welcome to identify with gender outside of the binary?

00:38:45.000 Well, anyone can pretend to be something they're not, but that doesn't make them the thing that they're not.

00:38:50.000 Can I be black?

00:38:51.000 No. 0.75

00:38:52.000 Oh, but why can't I socially become black? 0.74

00:38:54.000 Blackface, right? 0.67

00:38:55.000 I could pretend, wear camouflage, masquerade as something that I'm not, right?

00:38:59.000 How's that different than a trans person? 1.00

00:39:00.000 Race and gender are two completely separate things. 0.55

00:39:04.000 They have nothing to do with each other, and the existence of being transgender does not imply the existence of being transracial. 0.54

00:39:12.000 So you can pretend to say that you have ovaries when you don't, but you can't put makeup on to pretend to be a black person. 1.00

00:39:21.000 What transgender women are claiming to have ovaries? 0.97

00:39:24.000 There's lots of men that pretend to have ovaries.

00:39:27.000 In fact, the CDC guidance says right now that men can chest feed.

00:39:30.000 Do you think men can chest feed?

00:39:35.000 That's not the sole criterion for being.

00:39:40.000 So let me ask you a question. 1.00

00:39:42.000 What is a woman? 1.00

00:39:44.000 A woman is someone who identifies as one. 1.00

00:39:51.000 Answer the question without saying the word woman.

00:39:53.000 You can't say the word woman.

00:39:55.000 That's called circular reasoning.

00:39:56.000 It's like saying a tree is something that looks like a tree. 0.99

00:39:59.000 So I'll ask again: what is a woman? 1.00

00:40:03.000 A woman is a person who lives a lifestyle aligned with feminine characteristics, not necessarily your chromosomes or your genitals. 1.00

00:40:14.000 So someone who just wears a dress.

00:40:16.000 So what you are doing is you are reducing womanhood to a costume. 0.98

00:40:30.000 No.

00:40:33.000 So are you suggesting that, like, a transgender woman goes about her day pretending to be a woman, but then when she gets home, she starts acting like a man? 0.89

00:40:46.000 No, delusional in every part of life.

00:40:48.000 But that doesn't mean they're not delusional.

00:40:48.000 I understand that.

00:40:51.000 I mean, there's a series of mental conditions where you could pretend to be a wolf.

00:40:54.000 Can you be trans species too?

00:40:56.000 Does your own mental condition dictate external reality?

00:41:00.000 Yes or no?

00:41:05.000 Not necessarily.

00:41:07.000 Okay, then why do you believe that a biological man can become something that he is not?

00:41:13.000 Because he thinks it.

00:41:15.000 Because gender is not interchangeable with sex.

00:41:20.000 So there are zero genders. 0.98

00:41:20.000 Yeah, right. 0.98

00:41:22.000 There are only two sexes. 0.99

00:41:23.000 Gender is a made-up term that started in the academy in the 1960s.

00:41:26.000 Talking about sex, which is the only thing that actually can be proven and that matters, XXXY. 0.61

00:41:32.000 I will ask the question again: why is it that a man can suddenly become a dress and can be treated exactly the same as a woman that is biologically, not just biologically different, but somebody has a different brain, a different hormonal system, menstruate, have children? 0.60

00:41:51.000 I'll be very honest with you.

00:41:52.000 It is so unbelievably insulting to women to have men have to lecture that all it takes is some weird dude with testosterone can put makeup on, wear a thong and a dress, and he suddenly becomes a woman. 0.61

00:42:11.000 Here's at the essence of the issue: is that no matter how much surgery you do, no matter how many drugs you take, you don't stop being the thing that you were born.

00:42:20.000 You don't get to determine your reality by a stroke of the will.

00:42:26.000 I don't deny for a second that the trans person thinks that they are.

00:42:30.000 Certain people think that they're younger than they are.

00:42:32.000 Some people think they're taller than they are.

00:42:34.000 Some people think they're richer than they are.

00:42:36.000 Some people think they're innocent when they're not, like Bob Menendez.

00:42:39.000 There's plenty of delusional people in this world.

00:42:42.000 It's up for society to say no to the delusional and yes to reality.

00:42:47.000 It is for us to not allow us to be reigned under the tyranny of somebody's imagination.

00:42:53.000 I appreciate you being here tonight.

00:42:54.000 Thank you so much.

00:42:55.000 Thank you.

00:42:57.000 All right, next question.

00:43:00.000 And give it up for him.

00:43:01.000 That's not easy to do at a conservative event.

00:43:02.000 I appreciate that.

00:43:08.000 Thank you.

00:43:10.000 Yeah, what's up, Charlie?

00:43:12.000 I actually got three questions.

00:43:13.000 First one is, can you say at least one positive thing about liberals?

00:43:19.000 Liberals are leftists.

00:43:21.000 That's the big difference.

00:43:22.000 Liberals.

00:43:24.000 Traditional liberals believe in free speech.

00:43:26.000 They're just weak, and they allow the tyranny of leftists.

00:43:29.000 I will say this.

00:43:30.000 I wish the right fought as hard as the left does.

00:43:32.000 I will say that.

00:43:34.000 I will say that.

00:43:36.000 I wish conservatives fought as hard as the Marxists do.

00:43:39.000 I have respect for how hard they fight.

00:43:41.000 Cool.

00:43:42.000 Second thing is: do you ever think it's possible to have an independent president ever?

00:43:50.000 Good question.

00:43:50.000 Probably not in the short term.

00:43:52.000 Yeah, probably not anytime soon.

00:43:54.000 We live in a two-party state, largely.

00:43:55.000 But, yeah.

00:43:56.000 Cool.

00:43:57.000 And then final question is, will you ever consider running president?

00:44:04.000 No, I'm having way too much fun doing this.

00:44:06.000 And no.

00:44:08.000 And there's far more qualified people than a kid who didn't go to college and hosts three hours of radio.

00:44:14.000 But I'm about to be 30, which comes with its own fun challenges and stuff.

00:44:19.000 But I hope we have a country by the time I'm 35.

00:44:22.000 But I'm not running for anything.

00:44:23.000 I'm here running Turning Point USA to save the country today.

00:44:26.000 Thank you.

00:44:28.000 Thank you.

00:44:29.000 Thank you.

00:44:29.000 All right.

00:44:34.000 First of all, I want to commend you for coming to such a left-wing campus, considering your views.

00:44:39.000 So thank you for coming.

00:44:41.000 But I was, I heard you mention safe injection sites and drug overdose is such a big issue today.

00:44:51.000 And there's this meta-analysis of 75 studies that shows that it reduces overdoses, increases access to health services, and is not associated with increased crime or increased drug use.

00:45:05.000 So what reasons do you have for being against it?

00:45:08.000 Do you think that San Francisco is a clean city?

00:45:12.000 They don't have clean injection sites, I don't think, but no, I guess not.

00:45:15.000 I believe they do have injection sites.

00:45:17.000 Oh, do they?

00:45:18.000 So do you think San Francisco is a clean city?

00:45:18.000 Yeah.

00:45:22.000 No, I do not.

00:45:24.000 Okay.

00:45:25.000 So why do you think that is?

00:45:27.000 I'm not sure.

00:45:28.000 I guess just a lot of crime and homelessness and whatnot.

00:45:33.000 Sure.

00:45:34.000 So we have 96,700 overdoses in America right now.

00:45:40.000 Off the top of my head, 72% of opioid, like 72% of all deaths for young men are opioid-related.

00:45:48.000 Having quote-unquote safe injection sites is nothing more than subsidizing an addiction to get somebody closer to the inevitable death.

00:45:58.000 But in this meta-analysis from Vancouver and Australia, it shows that it lowers.

00:46:06.000 I am positive that study says that.

00:46:08.000 Post-COVID, I think any study from the major health industries that contradict what I am seeing is steaming hot garbage.

00:46:18.000 But here's my evidence.

00:46:20.000 If you walk the streets of San Francisco, you will see littering of needles, feces.

00:46:27.000 You will see homeless people that are completely addicted.

00:46:29.000 And I'm going to talk more morally here, okay?

00:46:31.000 If you have somebody who is addicted, is it better to further their addiction or get them help so they can break free of that addiction?

00:46:39.000 That's a moral question, not a scientific one.

00:46:43.000 You could give people help while creating safer conditions for those who are still doing it and haven't gotten help yet.

00:46:49.000 So that's tapering.

00:46:50.000 That's a separate issue.

00:46:51.000 That is not what safe injection sites are.

00:46:53.000 Tapering is perfectly fine because literally if they stop using a form of opioid, they could die.

00:46:58.000 Safe injection sites is the continuation of the addiction subsidized by the taxpayer because we don't have the courage to say, you are suffering under a self-inflicted addiction.

00:47:09.000 We're going to get you help, but you first must take responsibility for your own actions.

00:47:14.000 The problem with the premise of safe injection sites is society itself is saying you're really a victim, and we're going to give you the needles and give you the tools.

00:47:22.000 And you could walk into San Francisco at any one of their health sites, and they will give you a kit, literally a kit, of syringes and needles, and literally an ability to put a large rubber band, a tourniquet, thank you, around your arm to be able to find the veins that you can inject.

00:47:41.000 Unsupervised, might I add you?

00:47:43.000 Unsupervised.

00:47:44.000 That's not a matter of tapering or getting people off of it.

00:47:47.000 A decent or a sane society would say, you know what?

00:47:51.000 There's a lot of suffering here.

00:47:52.000 Let's try to get you off of these things, not make it easier for you to continue to do drugs, which only continues the cycle of despair and death.

00:48:02.000 Thank you so much.

00:48:03.000 Thank you.

00:48:07.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:48:08.000 Earlier you were talking about sex and gender, there only being sex, gender not existing.

00:48:16.000 I was wondering, like, how you define male and female, and like what criteria you use to define them?

00:48:25.000 XX and XY chromosomes.

00:48:28.000 Okay.

00:48:32.000 So with intersex people then who might be born with like XX chromosomes, but they have... 1.00

00:48:40.000 An exception to the rule, right?

00:48:41.000 Yeah.

00:48:42.000 One in every 25,000 cases, yeah.

00:48:45.000 But that doesn't make the rule any less true.

00:48:47.000 It's like saying if you see someone with an amputated leg, you say, oh, wow, that's not normal, but you still have something normal to compare that to.

00:48:55.000 It doesn't make that the rule.

00:48:57.000 Yeah, I guess, so my question is more like, if somebody then does have like XX chromosomes, but they're born with like male anatomy, or yeah, male anatomy.

00:49:08.000 So they're intersex. 0.98

00:49:09.000 Yeah, so would that person be male to you or female?

00:49:13.000 So if they're XX chromosomes with male anatomy? 0.72

00:49:17.000 Yeah.

00:49:17.000 I'm not even, how common is that?

00:49:20.000 It depends on like the specific, I think that one's Turner syndrome.

00:49:25.000 So that can be like in one in 500 boys to like one in 2,500 boys.

00:49:29.000 How do you think they should identify?

00:49:32.000 I personally, in those cases, you know, like you say that there's only sex, but I personally think that those people should be able to identify how they want to identify because it's, you know, like, would you say that that's like an unclear circumstance or?

00:49:52.000 Well, I think that their chromosomes are rather clear, right?

00:49:54.000 Yeah. 0.94

00:49:55.000 And they have displaced genitalia. 1.00

00:49:58.000 Yeah.

00:49:58.000 Well, I don't...

00:50:00.000 But, so you would want them then to present as female, even though.

00:50:04.000 Well, it's not a matter of what I want them to present, it's what they are.

00:50:07.000 Yeah, so they...

00:50:08.000 Wait, did you say one in 500 cases?

00:50:10.000 Yeah.

00:50:11.000 That's insanely made up, I got to be honest.

00:50:13.000 Like, you said 500,000 or 500?

00:50:16.000 500.

00:50:18.000 No way.

00:50:18.000 That's...

00:50:19.000 Yeah.

00:50:20.000 Yeah.

00:50:21.000 It's what?

00:50:23.000 Yeah, so one in 3,000 is more accurate.

00:50:25.000 All right, we can use one in 3,000.

00:50:25.000 Okay.

00:50:28.000 So.

00:50:29.000 Just a factor of six, but yeah.

00:50:32.000 So then do you think that those people who are, you know, they have male anatomy, they should wear dresses, present feminine.

00:50:39.000 What is their hormonal makeup?

00:50:40.000 I'm curious.

00:50:42.000 Those people would have like male, like testosterone.

00:50:46.000 They would have more testosterone than estrogen.

00:50:48.000 Yeah, in those cases.

00:50:50.000 You'd have to think about that, actually.

00:50:51.000 Yeah, I'd have to think about that.

00:50:54.000 But the fringe case should not dictate the rule.

00:50:58.000 That's the point.

00:50:59.000 Is that fringe cases in any scenario, whether it be rape, incest, and abortion, or intersex with trans issues, is not the heat or the heart of the debate at all.

00:51:09.000 In fact, if I understand correctly, the study on intersex, again, it's somewhat of a distraction of the fringe cases that there can be, at the young age, like surgery that actually ends up helping based on the hormonal makeup.

00:51:23.000 Is that not right?

00:51:25.000 I mean, I think it's better when they're adults to have certain procedures like that done.

00:51:31.000 I think it can lead to issues when it's done when they're younger.

00:51:36.000 But I do think that there are.

00:51:39.000 So then, if you think that do you think anatomy has anything to do then with determining biological sex?

00:51:46.000 When you say determining biological sex, do you mean like in how we define sex?

00:51:52.000 Again, I'm just curious.

00:51:53.000 Again, I just want to reiterate: we don't have 15% of high school girls in America that are quote-unquote non-binary because of intersex issues.

00:52:02.000 We have 15% of high school girls saying they're non-binary because it's a social contagion that is infecting people that are perfectly normal and healthy with XX and XY perfectly functioning genitalia systems.

00:52:15.000 That's the real issue.

00:52:17.000 And so while I acknowledge this is incredibly murky and I need to think about it, this is a rare disease to muddy the issue up that biological reality needs to continue to exist regardless of somebody's own personal imagination.

00:52:33.000 Yeah, I think so, like from my understanding of sex, like reproductive biologists don't necessarily use chromosomes.

00:52:42.000 They use like what gametes you produce, like what sex cells, so like sperm or ovae.

00:52:51.000 But I don't know that Let me try to find some common ground here, okay?

00:52:57.000 So when the Biden government comes out and they say that men can take drugs to lactate and chest feed, do you think we've probably gone too far?

00:53:07.000 I haven't seen Biden say that.

00:53:09.000 He didn't.

00:53:09.000 His government did.

00:53:09.000 That's okay.

00:53:10.000 But I'm just trying to find some common ground because when the government says that it's how about this, when the government calls women that are pregnant birthing people, do you think we're probably going too far?

00:53:24.000 I think I'd, I mean, this is, I'd have to ask you more questions about what you believe because I don't know.

00:53:31.000 It's pretty simple and transparent.

00:53:32.000 I believe what people have believed for 5,000 years, that there's man and woman and that you can't pretend to be something that you're not.

00:53:38.000 I also believe what 99% of Americans believe.

00:53:41.000 So it's really not that complex.

00:53:43.000 But the fact you can't immediately answer gets right to the point of this, which is that we have this radical ideology that has infected every major part of American society.

00:53:53.000 And I don't think we should be focusing on fringe issues or fringe cases when it's literally staring us in the face and it's a social contagion that is resulting in tens of thousands of people chopping off their genitalia to create irreversible damage for the rest of their life.

00:54:07.000 Thank you so much.

00:54:08.000 Appreciate it.

00:54:13.000 Hi, I was wondering what do you think about the viewpoint that both Trump and Biden, if they committed crimes, should be investigated and prosecuted?

00:54:23.000 What crimes did Trump commit?

00:54:24.000 I'm curious.

00:54:25.000 That's why I think they should be investigated and seen in a trial in court.

00:54:30.000 We don't know for sure whether he committed crimes, but there is some good evidence to indicate that it might be possible.

00:54:37.000 And why shouldn't we have a trial to see what the result is?

00:54:41.000 Okay, so that's actually a really good-hearted question.

00:54:43.000 So for all of our adult life, actually since the founding of America, when you are a former president and you are running for a political office, unless you literally ran somebody over with your car maliciously, we're going to be very careful using the instruments of the Department of Justice because it does two things.

00:55:01.000 It looks nakedly political.

00:55:03.000 It takes the person out of the playing field so that you can vote for that person.

00:55:07.000 And the third thing is it makes us all distrust the justice system.

00:55:12.000 And so what would make actually more sense is that we should allow the voters decide whether or not they want Trump to be president or Biden to be president, not Jack Smith's own personal decision of who he wants to become president of the United States.

00:55:24.000 And so that's a far more logical and rational way.

00:55:29.000 You show me the man, I'll show you the crime, right?

00:55:31.000 We have a legal code that is so voluminous.

00:55:33.000 As James Madison said, more laws, the less justice.

00:55:36.000 Cicero said something very similar.

00:55:38.000 And again, we're getting to a place where we're going to investigate every candidate for every office, and then the enforcement of that will be whoever controls the Department of Justice.

00:55:48.000 And let me tell you right now, at the FBI building, they're not all wearing MAGA hats, right?

00:55:52.000 That is tilted in one direction and in one side.

00:55:55.000 I would much prefer to say, you know what?

00:55:57.000 Detente, Biden, Trump, like, let's see what the voters actually want.

00:56:01.000 Instead, Donald Trump is under active indictments facing 500 years in federal prison.

00:56:07.000 This has never happened before. 0.56

00:56:09.000 And they say, oh, it's because Trump is a criminal. 0.98

00:56:10.000 Like, oh, really? 0.98

00:56:11.000 Trump is a criminal while Hillary smashed devices and Joe Biden sold our country out to China. 0.91

00:56:16.000 I have to be lectured about Donald Trump giving a speech on the Capitol Hill or mishandling documents. 0.94

00:56:21.000 Like, yeah, how do you sit this one out, buddy?

00:56:23.000 All right.

00:56:24.000 But the more important issue is the question of why don't we allow the people actually decide who gets to be president, not unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. that are actively interfering with our constitutional right to pick who gets to run our country?

00:56:39.000 Thank you so much.

00:56:40.000 Thank you.

00:56:43.000 Follow-up question?

00:56:44.000 I'm sorry?

00:56:45.000 Follow-up question?

00:56:46.000 Really quick, yeah.

00:56:48.000 All right, why shouldn't we then have a trial for Joe Biden so the public can see what he actually did and make a decision based on that?

00:56:54.000 No, I mean, at this point, that's why I support impeachment is you have to fight fire with fire.

00:56:58.000 Like, we shouldn't take this laying down, right?

00:57:00.000 Like, okay, they crossed the Rubicon.

00:57:02.000 Now it's time to impeach Joe Biden and put actual crimes on display.

00:57:06.000 10% for the big guy, hold back your income, right?

00:57:09.000 Conference calls with your son Hunter.

00:57:11.000 I'll be very honest.

00:57:12.000 I don't rejoice this.

00:57:13.000 This is sad.

00:57:14.000 This is sad that we have to go to this place.

00:57:17.000 I would much rather have an election, not a competition of who could prove the most stuff in a hearing or some sort of fake trial with Fannie Willis or Alvin Bragg or Letitia James.

00:57:26.000 I hope you guys understand how insane what's happening with Letitia James is right now.

00:57:29.000 This is literally the New York Attorney General just saying, I'm going to take Donald Trump's business empire.

00:57:34.000 Like, this is, if third world governments did this stuff against former presidents, we would sanction them. 0.91

00:57:40.000 And so, no, I don't rejoice in it, but I do think it's necessary at this point.

00:57:43.000 And we have to know, remember, the gentleman before asked me the question.

00:57:47.000 I think he was a gentleman.

00:57:48.000 I don't want to assume his gender. 1.00

00:57:49.000 But the gentleman said, he asked the question, he said, what do you respect from the left?

00:57:54.000 They fight to win.

00:57:55.000 It's about we as conservatives need to start to fight to win, or else we're going to lose our country.

00:58:00.000 Thank you so much.

00:58:01.000 Thank you.

00:58:05.000 Hello.

00:58:07.000 First off, I just want to say it's a shame nobody's mentioned this, but I like your tie, by the way.

00:58:12.000 Oh, thank you.

00:58:13.000 So I identify as a conservative, and Roger Scrudon defined conservatism as the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.

00:58:27.000 I've noticed that in all of your various lucubrations and printed on every single poster in here is the word rebel.

00:58:37.000 My question to you is, how are people with personalities rebellious to authority satisfied at the heart of a conservative movement seeking to preserve mass social upheaval and the maintenance of our status quo?

00:58:58.000 Can you just help me out?

00:59:00.000 So what are you asking?

00:59:01.000 You're asking, how are we conservatives while being rebels?

00:59:05.000 Well, how are you satisfied as being a rebel in a conservative movement that tries to preserve the status quo?

00:59:13.000 Well, I'm not part of something that tries to preserve the status quo.

00:59:18.000 Like strong families?

00:59:19.000 Yeah, I mean, I just praised one of our chapter leaders for getting married at a young age and having kids.

00:59:24.000 And I mean, I also speak openly against pornography.

00:59:28.000 We should not legalize weed.

00:59:30.000 I mean, yeah, the status quo.

00:59:31.000 I also think that Greg Abbott should mobilize the Texas National Guard and secure the southern border.

00:59:35.000 That's hardly the status quo.

00:59:37.000 So I'm not really sure what you're getting at.

00:59:41.000 Well, I just think that when we identify ourselves as rebels, do we want to just give the message to the youth and the people after us that rebels had to fight for this stuff?

00:59:52.000 Okay, yeah, I'm not really sure what you're asking, but we are rebels.

00:59:55.000 Like, they control everything.

00:59:56.000 I don't want to lie.

00:59:57.000 I mean, they control Hollywood, Silicon Valley, academia, the entire governmental apparatus.

01:00:02.000 It is a rebellious act.

01:00:04.000 As Orwell said in one of his beautiful essays, he said, in the land of tyranny, speaking the truth is a revolutionary act.

01:00:12.000 And so us as truth tellers in a tyrannical country is literally a revolutionary act.

01:00:18.000 So I think we're just arguing over semantics.

01:00:19.000 But I agree with everything you've said.

01:00:21.000 What are you trying to conserve?

01:00:23.000 Families, faith.

01:00:24.000 Like, I want church attendance to go up, like, immediately.

01:00:28.000 I'm trying to preserve the country that we had from becoming a third world hellhole from having our borders wide open. 0.99

01:00:34.000 Like, I could continue.

01:00:36.000 So thanks for the question.

01:00:37.000 Appreciate it.

01:00:38.000 Thank you.

01:00:40.000 Again, if you disagree, feel free to pop on up.

01:00:43.000 But yeah, please.

01:00:45.000 Hey, Charlie, thank you so much for coming to San Jose.

01:00:48.000 I spent two years as chapter vice president, and I'm getting my teaching credential at California State East Bay, so wish me luck in the public education field.

01:00:57.000 But besides all that, I did have a quick question on foreign policy, if we could pivot really quickly.

01:01:05.000 One thing I've really appreciated about you lately is your willingness to call out the money pit that is Ukraine, the fact that we're wasting just gobs, billions of dollars in Ukraine so that we can, what, like hold some terrible concrete apartment blocks in Bakhmut? 0.85

01:01:20.000 I don't know.

01:01:21.000 But I'm wondering if this whole Ukraine debacle has sort of changed or molded your opinion on other aspects of, say, isolationism.

01:01:30.000 Like I myself am pretty hardcore isolationist.

01:01:32.000 And the two examples that I think of are like Pakistan, the fact that they don't hold their nukes well, the fact that they may or may not have harbored bin Laden, and we still give them $100 million a year. 0.94

01:01:43.000 And I know it's a touchy subject because some idiots have been really rude to you about it, but we give $4.5 billion per year to Israel. 0.67

01:01:51.000 And my take on that is, hey, if they want to build an iron dome, let them build an iron dome, but I don't want my tax dollars going to it. 0.98

01:01:57.000 So what I'm getting at with the question is, have you become more isolationist as this Ukraine war goes on just as a flashpoint issue in your Ukraine?

01:02:05.000 Or do you think your view has expanded throughout the rest of the world as well?

01:02:09.000 Sure.

01:02:10.000 And I've seen some people into the line.

01:02:12.000 If you guys disagree, you can tell Macy there.

01:02:13.000 She'll help you to the front of the line.

01:02:15.000 I just want to make sure everyone's aware of that.

01:02:17.000 I become more of a patriot, honestly.

01:02:19.000 I don't like the term isolationist. 0.99

01:02:20.000 I think there's a time to go kill our enemies and crush them, regardless of where they are around the world. 0.98

01:02:26.000 I'm not a hawk by any, like that neocon hawk. 0.99

01:02:29.000 Let's start with Israel.

01:02:30.000 I have Israel envy, I'll be honest. 0.84

01:02:32.000 I wish we had a border like Israel does. 1.00

01:02:34.000 I wish we were able to deport foreigners like Israel does. 1.00

01:02:38.000 I'm really jealous of them, right?

01:02:40.000 So as far as aid to Israel, the best argument I could give for aid to Israel is, as a Christian, the ability to access my holy sites is an absolute imperative for any American citizen or a Westerner.

01:02:51.000 And it is a fact that if Israel were to fall to their Arab neighbors, we would not be able to access the archaeological sites. 0.91

01:02:58.000 Capernaum, Bethlehem.

01:02:59.000 Well, Bethlehem is already captured.

01:03:00.000 It's a great example, actually, of what happens when the Arab countries do that. 0.98

01:03:04.000 Or, you know, Hebron, I will fully acknowledge I'm not like a defender of the Israeli government.

01:03:09.000 They have lots of things to explain themselves for, but honestly, I appreciate their gusto when they say, you know what?

01:03:15.000 We're going to be a country with a strong national identity.

01:03:18.000 And literally, there was like 300 people that were rioting in the streets from Etria.

01:03:23.000 And they're like, yep, you're all gone.

01:03:25.000 It's like, wow.

01:03:27.000 If we do that, we're called racist.

01:03:29.000 Why does Israel get to do that? 0.96

01:03:30.000 It's kind of something to think about, right?

01:03:32.000 But no, I do think there's a place for a partnership with Israel.

01:03:35.000 Whether or not we could look at the number and all that, I'm not getting in the weeds of that.

01:03:38.000 Pakistan, I haven't thought that deeply about it, to be perfectly honest.

01:03:41.000 The Ukraine thing, let me just say this.

01:03:42.000 I just think it's so morally objectionable and outrageous that while we have 10,000 people illegally entering the United States on a daily basis, I have to be lectured by our leaders that the most important thing is sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine.

01:03:58.000 Like, that's the most important thing.

01:03:59.000 How about you secure our border and you send $100 billion to our border to seal it from the invasion that's happening?

01:04:05.000 Like, this is not hard stuff at all.

01:04:08.000 And it's very clear that talking about Ukraine is a substitute for caring about America.

01:04:17.000 And that drives me nuts.

01:04:18.000 Is that there are young people in this audience that are going through serious financial difficulty, that have trouble buying groceries, trouble buying gasoline.

01:04:27.000 And our leaders are so focused on a proxy war abroad, by the way, that our own government wanted.

01:04:33.000 Even if you're super pro-Ukraine, this is a fact that you have to live with and you have to try to wrestle with.

01:04:38.000 That Joe Biden dispatched Boris Johnson to obliterate a potential peace deal that would have prevented the slaughter of people.

01:04:46.000 Our government did that.

01:04:48.000 Our government did that.

01:04:50.000 We wanted the war. 0.98

01:04:52.000 That is sick.

01:04:52.000 I don't care if you are Mr. Zelensky and you have the Ukraine flag over everything.

01:04:57.000 You should find that so unbelievably evil that our government would dispatch Boris Johnson and blow up a potential settlement.

01:05:06.000 Hundreds of thousands of people have died because our government saw dollar signs.

01:05:12.000 They saw dollar signs.

01:05:14.000 And that is, I don't care your political views, right, left, indifferent.

01:05:20.000 That is a disgrace, is what that is.

01:05:22.000 And so my opinion has been the entire time.

01:05:25.000 Why do I never hear about peace?

01:05:28.000 You have to try to broker peace.

01:05:30.000 People are dying.

01:05:31.000 The slaughtering is continuing.

01:05:32.000 No one's going to get everything they want.

01:05:34.000 Here's a thought crime.

01:05:35.000 Eastern Ukraine wants to be part of Russia.

01:05:37.000 No one wants to say that out loud.

01:05:39.000 They speak Russian.

01:05:39.000 Okay?

01:05:40.000 They're ethnically Russian.

01:05:42.000 Again, how is it in our interest?

01:05:44.000 Like, oh no, it's 100 miles this way, 100 miles that way.

01:05:46.000 Like, that's not the most important thing facing the United States.

01:05:49.000 Get them in the room, tell them to stop the killing, stop the supply of arms, tell Putin to stop the invasion, and you draw the line and you say Ukraine will never be part of NATO.

01:05:57.000 But our leaders are not willing to say that because they make billions.

01:06:02.000 The war industrial complex makes billions.

01:06:04.000 Orwell again warned us about this.

01:06:06.000 A regime perpetually at war never has to address the needs of the citizens at home.

01:06:12.000 They will distract you about what's happening overseas.

01:06:15.000 They did this in Vietnam. 0.70

01:06:17.000 They did this in Afghanistan.

01:06:18.000 No wind wars that impoverish our country.

01:06:21.000 And you want to know why young people are like revolting against the system, or they should be, honestly.

01:06:25.000 We've known nothing but a nation at war since our earliest memories.

01:06:29.000 All we've known is no wind conflicts, no wind conflicts.

01:06:33.000 So, you know, blessed are the peacemakers, as it says in the scriptures.

01:06:38.000 And all right, yeah, that's right.

01:06:40.000 Credit Jesus for that one.

01:06:42.000 And honestly, shame on our leaders.

01:06:45.000 And Joe Biden, he's going to need the forgiveness of Jesus Christ for dispatching Boris Johnson to start a war.

01:06:55.000 Appreciate it.

01:06:55.000 Thanks so much.

01:06:56.000 Just got to follow up.

01:06:58.000 I'm sorry.

01:06:58.000 No, we've got to get to the next one.

01:06:59.000 I'm sorry.

01:07:00.000 Got to get the next one.

01:07:02.000 Hi again.

01:07:03.000 This one isn't as much of a disagreement, just a question.

01:07:06.000 If you were in power, what would you, you were talking about homelessness.

01:07:10.000 If you were in power, what policies would you pass to address?

01:07:13.000 Identical what Rudy Giuliani did in the 1990s: compassionate but tough, which is we're going to give you help, we're going to give you services, but the streets are not your home.

01:07:21.000 That we're going to find a way to do both.

01:07:23.000 And he did it in a way where homelessness was rampant.

01:07:26.000 You guys remember New York in the late 80s?

01:07:27.000 It was not safe, it was not orderly, and New York became the gem of America.

01:07:32.000 You have to be willing to have police power and do it lovingly and say, Excuse me, sir, we're going to not allow you to have this tent on the side of this street.

01:07:32.000 But you have to be tough.

01:07:40.000 We're going to put you in a homeless shelter.

01:07:42.000 We're going to give you a meal.

01:07:43.000 We're going to give you mental health support, whatever it might be.

01:07:46.000 But, and by the way, being homeless is not a permission slip to commit crimes.

01:07:50.000 Let's be very clear.

01:07:51.000 And I think it deteriorates property values.

01:07:55.000 And here in San Jose, I'm driving into the campus, guys.

01:07:57.000 It's like this is not good for morale.

01:08:00.000 It's not good for the aesthetic of the city.

01:08:02.000 It makes people, I think, nastier.

01:08:04.000 It makes you less likely to be on the streets to talk to your fellow citizen.

01:08:08.000 It's bad across the board.

01:08:10.000 So, exactly what Mayor Rudy Giuliani did in the 90s to clean up the streets.

01:08:13.000 Thank you very much.

01:08:14.000 We'll get to the next one.

01:08:15.000 Thank you.

01:08:18.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:08:19.000 Thank you for coming to speak today.

01:08:22.000 I've been a lifelong Californian, born and raised in San Jose 31 years.

01:08:27.000 I've watched California change in ways I'm sure most people here that have lived have seen.

01:08:34.000 Homeless people are not the same breed that they were when I was a child. 1.00

01:08:39.000 When I was growing up in school, they said equality, you know, treat everyone equally.

01:08:44.000 There's no, you know, we shouldn't treat each other with racism.

01:08:47.000 Treat everyone equally.

01:08:49.000 Growing up now, it's a complete reverse of racism.

01:08:54.000 It's okay to treat white people, Asian people, which are white adjacent somehow. 0.96

01:08:58.000 Yes. 0.94

01:08:59.000 It's insane.

01:09:00.000 And what you said was so brave, you know, intellectually honest about the society that we live in, the Bay Area, not just San Jose, but the entire Bay Area, that they propagate saying, oh, stop Asian hate, but they don't mention who's committing the hate.

01:09:19.000 That's correct.

01:09:20.000 Yes, it's disproportionately young black men.

01:09:24.000 Our laws have changed.

01:09:26.000 We've completely banned open-carry firearms.

01:09:30.000 That was over 10 years ago.

01:09:31.000 I think there was a guts around anyway.

01:09:32.000 I know, and I was surprised.

01:09:34.000 And then we raised the age of purchasing a rifle from 18 to 21.

01:09:40.000 I'm getting to the question.

01:09:41.000 I bring all of this up.

01:09:43.000 We raised the age for purchasing a firearm from 18 to 21.

01:09:46.000 We raised the age of smoking from 18 to 21.

01:09:49.000 Please get up.

01:09:50.000 Lowered the age of transitioning. 1.00

01:09:53.000 Yes, that's correct.

01:09:54.000 From 18 to whatever it is, 12 or 14 or whatever.

01:09:58.000 How do we change this course in California?

01:10:00.000 Yeah, that is my question.

01:10:01.000 This is the big question.

01:10:02.000 You have to fight.

01:10:03.000 You are not alone.

01:10:04.000 You are outnumbered, but you are not alone.

01:10:05.000 And this is still a great state.

01:10:07.000 I see my pastor friend Mike McClure here, who I just want to shout out.

01:10:12.000 Does a great job.

01:10:13.000 Stand up, Mike.

01:10:14.000 I want to talk about Mike for a second.

01:10:16.000 Stand up.

01:10:17.000 He stayed open during COVID.

01:10:19.000 He is a great guy.

01:10:24.000 And you do it by being salt and light, and you have to not give up.

01:10:29.000 One of my favorite quotes, it's not a Bible verse, which is too bad, but it's by a rabbi.

01:10:33.000 It's close, though.

01:10:34.000 To despair is a sin.

01:10:36.000 It's close.

01:10:37.000 There's a verse very close to it in Deuteronomy, but it's not exactly right.

01:10:40.000 To despair is to sin.

01:10:42.000 If you find yourself despairing, you are sinning against God.

01:10:47.000 So that's the first answer: don't despair.

01:10:49.000 And that's a big one, by the way, because it's hard not to just constantly be in a state of despair.

01:10:53.000 You live in a beautiful state, they're destroying it.

01:10:55.000 Find decent people.

01:10:56.000 Victor Frankl said there's two types of people: there's the indecent and the decent.

01:10:59.000 Find as many decent people as you can, regardless of political affiliations.

01:11:03.000 And then you have to fight.

01:11:04.000 You have to fight tyranny wherever it is.

01:11:06.000 When they try to close down Mike McClure's church, he said no, and he's really a fighter, and he baptized hundreds of people.

01:11:13.000 So you have to fight.

01:11:14.000 You have to fight.

01:11:15.000 God bless you, man.

01:11:16.000 Thank you.

01:11:19.000 Hello.

01:11:20.000 Charlie Curry, thank you for coming onto our campus tonight.

01:11:23.000 And I just want to ask you this question, a disagreeing one, and a question that I think will find common ground.

01:11:31.000 All right, good.

01:11:32.000 So do you personally think that the Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court, should have term limits?

01:11:32.000 All right.

01:11:40.000 Well, that's a good question.

01:11:43.000 No, I don't.

01:11:44.000 I think that it's good that they're lifetime appointments and that they're not as contentious as Senate seats.

01:11:50.000 I think that's a good thing.

01:11:52.000 Okay, thank you.

01:11:52.000 And one last question is that, you know, do you think we can ever get to a time, you know, where both sides can respectfully disagree, agree with each other, you know, on college campuses?

01:12:07.000 Because, you know, I've been here for two years, and Turning Point USA was here last October, fall semester, and I personally debated with them despite being the vice president of the Democrats at SJSU, you know.

01:12:24.000 And, you know, I think it's really good that we have this type of dialogue and discussion because, you know, we're all Americans.

01:12:32.000 We're all Americans here.

01:12:33.000 And, you know, the first person I debated from your club is staying right over there. 0.98

01:12:38.000 Her name is Morgan Michael. 1.00

01:12:39.000 Morgan, stand up. 1.00

01:12:41.000 You know? 0.96

01:12:41.000 Stand up. 0.96

01:12:42.000 Stand up.

01:12:44.000 And, you know, we have a really civil conversation.

01:12:46.000 You know, we disagreed on a whole variety of issues, and I disagree with everything that your ma law said.

01:12:53.000 Everything, come on.

01:12:56.000 I am, man.

01:12:56.000 I'm still a progressive.

01:12:58.000 You think racism is bad?

01:12:59.000 Come on, man.

01:13:01.000 But I'm going to ask you a question because you seem like you can handle it in a second.

01:13:05.000 But I will say, just two tests.

01:13:07.000 Tomorrow, when Iber Max Kendi comes, ask yourself how many conservatives are out there making fools of themselves saying he shouldn't be allowed to speak.

01:13:15.000 Number two, when Iber Max Kendi, Henry Rogers, speaks here tomorrow, does he stand here for an hour and take the hardest possible questions and invites disagreement to the front of the line?

01:13:25.000 That's an important question, right?

01:13:27.000 I'll be at the event tomorrow, so you should ask him what racism is because he's not really sure.

01:13:35.000 Anyway, you know what?

01:13:36.000 You've come in great spirit.

01:13:38.000 Do you have anything else to say?

01:13:38.000 I mean, I could ask you a question or just one question.

01:13:43.000 Who do you think won the GOP debate?

01:13:47.000 Oh, Donald Trump.

01:13:49.000 Even though he wasn't there?

01:13:51.000 That's why he was the winner.

01:13:52.000 I mean, I don't know.

01:13:55.000 I think Rodney Santa had some good moments.

01:13:59.000 Do you prefer Trump over DeSantis?

01:14:01.000 Yes.

01:14:02.000 Really?

01:14:03.000 Come on.

01:14:03.000 The guy won Florida over 20 points in 2022.

01:14:07.000 Come on now, Charlie.

01:14:10.000 Yeah.

01:14:11.000 The fact that you want me to support DeSantis makes me like Trump even more.

01:14:15.000 I got to be very.

01:14:17.000 That's not true.

01:14:19.000 That's not true.

01:14:20.000 God bless you, man.

01:14:21.000 Thank you so much.

01:14:22.000 Whatever.

01:14:23.000 Bloodsy boat.

01:14:24.000 I'm going to give you the best chance to be by my home.

01:14:26.000 Thank you.

01:14:30.000 Hey, Charlie, thank you for coming here tonight.

01:14:32.000 I just have a question regarding healthcare.

01:14:34.000 Sure.

01:14:35.000 So tens of millions of Americans are struggling with health care bills and medical bills.

01:14:41.000 So what do you think is the free market solution to that kind of problem?

01:14:45.000 Yeah, this is an unbelievably complicated problem.

01:14:48.000 Everything we're doing is making it worse.

01:14:50.000 The easiest answer I could give without getting too wonky is we have to break up the hospital lobby.

01:14:54.000 That's the best answer that I can give.

01:14:56.000 Is that the hospital cartel is doing such damage to our country?

01:14:59.000 We need transparency in pricing.

01:15:02.000 You walk in, you have no idea what anything costs.

01:15:04.000 And it is this like shardo, shadow darkness of billing. 0.98

01:15:08.000 They're like pseudo-nonprofits attached with for-profits and different endowment boards.

01:15:13.000 It's an unsustainable model.

01:15:14.000 And you need to ask the question of what is the price of a procedure.

01:15:18.000 It's not a catch-all solution.

01:15:19.000 It's not a perfect solution, trust me.

01:15:22.000 But you are able, it is proven that in products where the entire society wants something, we've been able to stabilize pricing and increase the quality.

01:15:31.000 Cars, smartphones, right?

01:15:34.000 When you have price transparency, you empower the hundreds of millions of people to say, wait a second, two days in the hospital for this procedure is going to cost $27,000, and my deductible is this?

01:15:45.000 It's like, all of a sudden, these questions create a market.

01:15:48.000 And we don't have a market because the consumer is not currently informed.

01:15:52.000 That is not a perfect answer.

01:15:53.000 There's like 500 other problems.

01:15:55.000 There's health insurance problems.

01:15:56.000 There's Medicaid problems.

01:15:58.000 There's Medicare problems.

01:15:59.000 There are drug company problems, which I could probably agree with old liberals on, which we are living in a pharmaceutical-controlled state of Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Johnson Johnson that want you perpetually sick.

01:16:11.000 I could find great agreement on that.

01:16:13.000 But yeah, look, this is the Leviathan.

01:16:16.000 It is the hardest problem in America.

01:16:18.000 And the biggest issue with it is that the corporations are the ones that have cozied up with government and the everyday American people.

01:16:25.000 I think there's good arguments, honestly, by some liberals on this stuff and conservatives on this.

01:16:29.000 The answer is not to expand government, it's to empower the everyday American to make better choices and to stop giving favorable contracts to the four companies that have done such damage to our country: Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Johnson Johnson.

01:16:40.000 Thank you so much.

01:16:41.000 All right, I think we have only I'm sorry, we got to get any other disagreements.

01:16:46.000 I don't think we have a ton of time left.

01:16:48.000 So, yes, you have a disagreement?

01:16:50.000 Yes, yes.

01:16:51.000 Okay, great.

01:16:51.000 My name is Justin Tyne.

01:16:53.000 And I just got to say, I love being here.

01:16:55.000 It's my first time doing this in a long time.

01:16:57.000 But I have to tell you that you're loved, you're valued, and you're worthy.

01:17:01.000 Thank you.

01:17:02.000 And we all appreciate you, right?

01:17:04.000 We all do.

01:17:05.000 We all appreciate it.

01:17:06.000 And I'm sorry, I thought I must have got a golden ticket because I just got bumped to the front of the line.

01:17:12.000 Okay.

01:17:12.000 So I just love being here.

01:17:14.000 And I love Pastor Mike.

01:17:16.000 I've known him for a couple of years now.

01:17:17.000 Got it to the question.

01:17:18.000 We're out of time.

01:17:19.000 All right.

01:17:19.000 So it's about cannabis.

01:17:21.000 All right.

01:17:22.000 So when is it acceptable?

01:17:23.000 Because you've already said that you don't agree with it.

01:17:26.000 Correct.

01:17:27.000 Yeah, it should not be legalized.

01:17:28.000 Yeah. 0.72

01:17:29.000 It creates a dirtier society.

01:17:31.000 When is it acceptable?

01:17:33.000 That's the real question.

01:17:34.000 I mean, maybe in hospice, like maybe when you're wife.

01:17:37.000 But see, what if a young man like myself?

01:17:42.000 You've done weed?

01:17:43.000 I can't tell.

01:17:43.000 No, Yeah, I know.

01:17:47.000 I look a little stylish, right?

01:17:49.000 All right, but here's the question: Don't do drugs.

01:17:52.000 All right.

01:17:53.000 When you've got a tumor on your back and it takes the pain away, is it okay for that?

01:17:58.000 I mean, look, if it works for you, but like you also have to be honest, that it's harming your brain.

01:18:03.000 What about anxiety?

01:18:05.000 No, actually, it increases anxiety.

01:18:08.000 By the way, hold on a second.

01:18:10.000 Read the literature from Alex Berenson and Dr. Daniel Amon that shows that it increases depression, it decreases dopaminergic responses.

01:18:19.000 So it's like, oh, I have anxiety.

01:18:20.000 Like, hold on a second, time out.

01:18:21.000 Like, understand that half of the people that take marijuana have an adverse event with anxiety.

01:18:27.000 Half.

01:18:28.000 It makes it worse.

01:18:29.000 Half of the people.

01:18:30.000 Number two, number two, it is a gateway drug.

01:18:33.000 But number two, I don't want to get too deep into like, you know, I have a tumor and is it bad for me?

01:18:37.000 The broader question is, it's bad for society.

01:18:40.000 It lowers IQ, it lowers motivation.

01:18:42.000 And every state that legalizes weed sees crime go up, vagrancy go up, homelessness go up.

01:18:48.000 And let's just ask a more macro question, right?

01:18:51.000 If you were trying to destroy society, would you be cheering for the legalization of weed and usage of weed, or hoping that it doesn't get legalized?

01:18:59.000 Of course you would want more young men on marijuana, the fighting-age young men to be sitting at home and smoking dope instead of saying, no drugs, no alcohol, I'm going to commit myself to fitness, eat well, wake up earlier, do cold showers, and really be the best version of myself. 0.85

01:19:13.000 There is a beautiful future ahead of you that is more than just using the cool drug.

01:19:18.000 Yeah, final thought.

01:19:20.000 Just a rebuttal, all right?

01:19:21.000 Because I just do one little bit, one tiny little, one hit at a time.

01:19:25.000 I'm glad it works.

01:19:26.000 But hold on, because I am the best version of myself right now.

01:19:30.000 I actually need a rebuttal.

01:19:33.000 I wouldn't even say I'm the best version of myself.

01:19:35.000 Be very careful saying that.

01:19:37.000 That's a lot.

01:19:37.000 You know what?

01:19:38.000 You're right.

01:19:39.000 You're right.

01:19:40.000 I agree with you 1,000% because I can always do better.

01:19:44.000 Good.

01:19:44.000 We agree.

01:19:45.000 I can always do better.

01:19:46.000 That's the attitude.

01:19:47.000 Right.

01:19:48.000 I can always do better.

01:19:48.000 But I think we as a society can do better.

01:19:51.000 And I'm sorry, I thought this was going to be a different format because you said it's your chance to be famous, right?

01:19:58.000 So that's why I got all gussied up, right?

01:20:01.000 Great.

01:20:02.000 I got all gussied up.

01:20:02.000 So let me just say this as lovingly as you can.

01:20:04.000 You're not making a great case not to do weed.

01:20:06.000 Thank you so much.

01:20:07.000 Appreciate it.

01:20:07.000 Thank you.

01:20:10.000 No, next question.

01:20:11.000 Thank you.

01:20:12.000 Thank you.

01:20:13.000 Yes.

01:20:14.000 Since we're talking about the policy of giving aid to Ukrainians, I just have a similar question.

01:20:26.000 Would you do it?

01:20:30.000 Would you have the same policy if basically kind of tomorrow China decides to invade Taiwan?

01:20:39.000 In that case, basically, what would be your policy and talks about basically giving aid to Taiwan if China decides to just crush them?

01:20:50.000 It depends.

01:20:51.000 And I know that's not an answer you want.

01:20:53.000 Foreign policy requires prudence.

01:20:55.000 Did we blow up a peace deal between China and Taiwan?

01:20:57.000 If that happens, then honestly, that would make me very angry.

01:21:00.000 I stand 100% with Taiwan, and I think the CCP is America's greatest enemy.

01:21:04.000 So I'm more sympathetic towards it.

01:21:06.000 Let me just be very clear.

01:21:08.000 More sympathetic.

01:21:08.000 Taiwan is a sovereign nation.

01:21:10.000 But also, I'll just tell you both sides of it, because I don't have a good answer.

01:21:14.000 But I don't have a clear answer, which is when I see people that have been cheering for every no-win war over the last 30 years all of a sudden talk about China and Taiwan, Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley, I get very uneasy.

01:21:28.000 Like, wait a second, why am I going to trust you all of a sudden?

01:21:31.000 So it needs to be about deterrence, which is why I think the best thing we could possibly do is try to reject the bloodthirst of Washington, D.C. and try to say, you know what?

01:21:42.000 Why don't we talk?

01:21:43.000 I know this is like a foreign concept to D.C., but the react is if the Chinese Communist Party wants nothing but an invasion at any point in time.

01:21:50.000 Look, I think they are modern-day Nazis. 0.87

01:21:53.000 I think the Chinese Communist Party are, again, the party, not the Chinese people.

01:21:56.000 Let me be very clear.

01:21:57.000 It is terrible what they've done, and we need to stand with the Chinese people.

01:22:00.000 At the same time, I do not want to see America get into a no-win war against a country that could be very, very, you know, dangerous.

01:22:07.000 And honestly, war is a failure for all people.

01:22:09.000 We should do everything we possibly can to avoid war.

01:22:12.000 And I would only think the CCP would invade at this point if we provoked it.

01:22:16.000 Don't put it past our government.

01:22:17.000 Thanks.

01:22:18.000 I got to get to another question.

01:22:19.000 Thank you so much.

01:22:19.000 Got to get to the next question.

01:22:20.000 Thank you.

01:22:22.000 We'll take two more if there's any disagreements.

01:22:24.000 Final call.

01:22:24.000 Yes, sir.

01:22:25.000 Or, yeah, sorry to assume you're not.

01:22:29.000 Did I assume correctly?

01:22:29.000 I'm sorry.

01:22:30.000 Hey, Charlie, my name is Min.

01:22:31.000 I came from Vietnam like six years ago, but after I came over here, and I started getting to like Turning Point, USA.

01:22:38.000 So I really agree with you on a lot of points, because I'm following you on Instagram.

01:22:44.000 So I saw your post talking about President Trump being charged with frauds in NYC.

01:22:48.000 And so do you think that TCO has a chance to run for the White House in 2024?

01:22:53.000 Yes, he does.

01:22:53.000 Yeah.

01:22:54.000 So again, everything I'm saying politically is my own personal opinions.

01:22:57.000 Turning point USA, 501c3 educational project, but I can speak openly personally on this.

01:23:02.000 So when it's talking about Trump running for office, let me just tell you, yes, he can still run despite all the nonsense that's been thrown at him.

01:23:08.000 And I'll just be honest, my own personal opinion, it makes me support him even more when I see every single one of these indictments thrown at him.

01:23:16.000 And I say, my goodness, this guy had a comfortable billionaire lifestyle and he was hosting a television show at Mar-a-Lago.

01:23:24.000 And he is going through the depths of hell.

01:23:26.000 He is very flawed.

01:23:28.000 So am I.

01:23:29.000 We all are.

01:23:29.000 He also has unbelievable virtues.

01:23:32.000 He has perseverance that I will teach my daughter and say, I want you, when the world is against you, to fight as hard as Donald Trump did.

01:23:39.000 I want you to learn from him.

01:23:40.000 And we hear nothing but naga, I hate him. 1.00

01:23:43.000 He's this, he's that. 0.91

01:23:44.000 You know what?

01:23:44.000 It's easy to give up in life.

01:23:46.000 It's very easy.

01:23:48.000 It's easy to surrender.

01:23:49.000 You know what's hard?

01:23:50.000 It's to dig deeper and deeper when they literally take everything from you.

01:23:54.000 Everything.

01:23:56.000 They're going to try to put him in federal prison.

01:23:57.000 They're taking his business empire away from him, indicting him in the state of Georgia.

01:24:01.000 It's like, what have they not done? 1.00

01:24:03.000 They have this other lawsuit alleging that he raped somebody, so stupid, the whole thing. 1.00

01:24:07.000 And I think to myself, it's like, man, is there a breaking point for this man? 1.00

01:24:12.000 Is there a point where he just says, forget it?

01:24:14.000 I was a great president, had a sloppy election, to say the least, right?

01:24:19.000 Re-election campaign.

01:24:20.000 And he just says, forget it.

01:24:21.000 I'm going to go golf.

01:24:22.000 But he keeps going.

01:24:24.000 And he keeps going.

01:24:25.000 And I know some people say the tweets, or I don't like this, or I don't like that.

01:24:28.000 I kind of roll my eyes, honestly, at that stuff.

01:24:30.000 And I'm like, you know what?

01:24:32.000 When you're facing 500 years in federal prison, I hope you would love this country as much as he still does.

01:24:37.000 And so, yes, he is going to run.

01:24:39.000 And I think he has a fair shot at winning.

01:24:41.000 Thank you so much.

01:24:42.000 Appreciate it.

01:24:43.000 Final question.

01:24:45.000 Sorry, this will be the final thought.

01:24:47.000 So, hi, Charlie.

01:24:48.000 Thank you for coming over here tonight.

01:24:50.000 You mentioned within your speech that, especially here in the Bay Area, we've kind of, in a sense, defined the track that the country is going through.

01:24:58.000 That is true.

01:24:59.000 Yeah.

01:25:00.000 So I've noticed an increasing amount of, you could call it resistance or opposition to what's currently happening around the world, socially, especially.

01:25:08.000 And I wanted to ask your thoughts regarding this where do you think that the opposition and the increasing opposition we're seeing here in California will be reflected across the country eventually?

01:25:18.000 So you're starting to see it here in the Bay Area.

01:25:20.000 Well, I mean, I see it in this room.

01:25:22.000 And by the way, I want to just speak to you guys.

01:25:24.000 We just talked about not giving up.

01:25:26.000 You cannot despair.

01:25:27.000 You have to fight.

01:25:28.000 I know that it's hard.

01:25:29.000 I know it's overwhelming.

01:25:31.000 But there are so many decent people in this Bay Area, especially in the Vietnamese community and the Chinese American community and the Korean American community, people that have traditional American values that are not going to put up with this.

01:25:44.000 I'm telling you.

01:25:45.000 And California is worth it.

01:25:48.000 This is the gem of America.

01:25:50.000 You have the most beautiful state in the country.

01:25:53.000 And I've visited all 50 states five times over.

01:25:56.000 You've been given a gift from the Lord.

01:25:57.000 And every time I land, Mikey and my team will tell you, I say the same thing.

01:26:01.000 I say, what a crying shame what these maggots have done to this heaven on earth. 0.62

01:26:06.000 And I say it every time. 0.90

01:26:07.000 And I know you guys know what I mean.

01:26:10.000 When you go for your morning walk and you say, is there a more beautiful place than California?

01:26:14.000 It's unbelievable, right?

01:26:16.000 It's like, then you go to, I mean, I love Ohio, but it's no California, right?

01:26:20.000 It's like cloudy nine months out of the year.

01:26:22.000 And it creates a real hard minute.

01:26:24.000 I grew up in Chicago.

01:26:25.000 I did not know there was a place where you could see the sun in the month of February.

01:26:28.000 I didn't know it existed.

01:26:29.000 I didn't know it was a thing.

01:26:30.000 Imagine June gloom and it's like 27 degrees and nothing changes.

01:26:34.000 So what can we do?

01:26:36.000 Is you have to be the vessel for change, right?

01:26:38.000 You have to find issues that build consensus.

01:26:40.000 And you have to just continue to feed yourself with podcasting and videos and then find the fighters.

01:26:46.000 Look, it's no mystery, guys.

01:26:47.000 They're going after every truth teller.

01:26:49.000 They're going after Turning Point USA.

01:26:51.000 They're coming after me.

01:26:52.000 They're coming after Matt Walsh, literally.

01:26:54.000 You saw, it's unbelievable.

01:26:56.000 They went after James O'Keefe.

01:26:57.000 They go after Tucker.

01:26:58.000 They go after Steve Bannon.

01:26:59.000 And Russell Brand, thank you.

01:27:01.000 And it's not, I'm not doing this to feel sorry for us, but we're all in this together.

01:27:06.000 We're all in this arena.

01:27:07.000 And you guys help us.

01:27:08.000 And if I can help you and Turning Point can help you, then it's a beautiful mutual thing together.

01:27:13.000 But you are living through the most consequential time of whether or not this entire republic, and it starts here, will become a tyrannical wasteland.

01:27:22.000 But what if, I'm not saying, oh, we take back the Bay Area and there's going to be MAGA flags everywhere, but what if you make life hard for them?

01:27:28.000 What if all of a sudden they have to listen to you every time they show up at a school board meeting?

01:27:32.000 They have to listen to you every time they go to a constituency meeting.

01:27:35.000 That they have to get calls from you every time where they are annoyed and they're no longer comfortable.

01:27:41.000 And you get in their face respectfully and peacefully and you ask the questions.

01:27:45.000 And you say, why'd you vote on this?

01:27:46.000 Why are you trying to kidnap our kids? 0.99

01:27:48.000 Why are you trying to put gay pornography in the classrooms? 1.00

01:27:51.000 And you don't stop. 0.97

01:27:53.000 And honestly, what better place to help the rest of the country than to make them have to defend their own turf?

01:28:02.000 You will free up resources in the rest of the country if you try to culturally take back San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland.

01:28:08.000 And I'll close with this, and thank you for the question.

01:28:10.000 I'll close with this, which is, I'm an outspoken Christian.

01:28:14.000 And if you are not a Christian, highly recommend it. 0.99

01:28:17.000 It's pretty awesome.

01:28:19.000 And it's the most important thing you could give in your life.

01:28:21.000 It's the most important thing.

01:28:22.000 Giving your life to the Lord.

01:28:25.000 And I will say, as Christians, we must understand we fight, we act, not because we want a certain outcome, but instead because we believe we have a duty.

01:28:37.000 And if you're not a Christian and that doesn't move you, then at least have a duty to the prior generation. 0.96

01:28:42.000 Have a duty to the country that was built for you.

01:28:44.000 Don't be arrogant and ungrateful about it.

01:28:46.000 Oh, what is this?

01:28:47.000 This is a beautiful place, everybody.

01:28:49.000 And we have a duty to the divine, a duty to the Almighty.

01:28:52.000 We fight not because we like the odds in our favor.

01:28:55.000 We fight because it's the right thing to do.

01:28:57.000 And I know that it is so overwhelming and that it's negative and it's dark and all that.

01:29:02.000 But look around.

01:29:02.000 In the Bay Area, in San Jose, on a weeknight, there's well over 700, 800 people intensely engaged in trying to fight for liberty and freedom.

01:29:10.000 You can call it whatever you want, a remnant.

01:29:12.000 I call that hope.

01:29:14.000 And you guys are a hope of salt and light in this place of darkness.

01:29:17.000 God bless you guys.

01:29:18.000 Thank you so much.

01:29:26.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:29:28.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:29:30.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

01:29:36.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - October 08, 2023

The Left's Modern Jim Crow: My Speech at San Jose State University

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