The Charlie Kirk Show - The Left STILL Can't Figure Out What Women Are: My Appearance at San Diego State

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00:01:47.000 Hello, everybody.

00:01:48.000 Great to see you again.

00:01:49.000 For those of you that are on campus today, good to see you guys.

00:01:52.000 And pretty good turnout, I'm told.

00:01:54.000 So, this is not as many, there's a lot more conservatives here on campus than people would ever believe.

00:01:59.000 So, you're not alone.

00:02:01.000 I want to single out our amazing Turning Point USA chapter.

00:02:07.000 You guys do such a great job.

00:02:09.000 Thank you for putting this together and for working so hard.

00:02:13.000 And I think that's some Aztec art or something out there.

00:02:18.000 I was going to do a whole speech about the Aztecs, but I don't need that.

00:02:21.000 You guys know enough about it, or maybe you don't.

00:02:23.000 Anyway, so I'm going to just talk about one thing super briefly, and then we're going to spend as much time as we can on question and answer.

00:02:30.000 How does that sound?

00:02:30.000 I think that's the most fun, right?

00:02:31.000 People have questions, and that's really why you're here, right?

00:02:35.000 Come on, I want to see you talk to some people.

00:02:37.000 So, I think it's actually a perfect thing to open up about, which is the most common question I get when I do change my mind, not this portion, but change my mind, which is, Charlie, why are you here?

00:02:48.000 Why are you here?

00:02:49.000 Which is such a bizarre question when you think about it.

00:02:52.000 And it's always kind of done in an accusatory way, which is like, What is your presence doing here?

00:02:57.000 They always say on my campus, which is like very possessive.

00:03:00.000 It's not your campus, actually.

00:03:01.000 It's taxpayer-funded, you know, and if anything, it's all the students' campuses, you're right, it's not your campus.

00:03:07.000 But it becomes this radical thing where a conservative comes on a campus and you want to have a conversation.

00:03:14.000 And we truly believe at Turning Point USA, and why we're here tonight is the spirit of this, which is that free speech is the only thing that's going to keep us from permanent and severe and disgusting radicalism in this country.

00:03:28.000 And we're going to have differences of opinions tonight.

00:03:30.000 We did today, and I think we had some really great conversations.

00:03:32.000 Is Muhammad here by any chance?

00:03:34.000 I don't know if that narrows it down, but no, I don't mean that negatively.

00:03:38.000 I mean, I just, what?

00:03:41.000 It's a common name.

00:03:42.000 It's like being named Jacob in Judaism.

00:03:44.000 It's a very, is that one that we talked earlier?

00:03:47.000 I don't know.

00:03:48.000 He was very great.

00:03:49.000 Anyway, we saw the Israel issue completely differently.

00:03:51.000 Super smart.

00:03:52.000 His name is Muhammad.

00:03:52.000 He didn't leave a last name if he's watching.

00:03:54.000 Good for you, man.

00:03:56.000 It was terrific.

00:03:56.000 We had a long dialogue.

00:03:57.000 And that's what it's all about, to have differences of opinion and to try to go in the pursuit of truth.

00:04:02.000 I always am interested, though, when they say, but why are you really here?

00:04:07.000 As if there's like some sort of alternative agenda.

00:04:09.000 So let me tell you what my agenda is, first and foremost.

00:04:11.000 It's to support our amazing Turning Point USA students that are under assault every single day for their conservative views on college campuses, every single day.

00:04:19.000 And they it is not easy to be a conservative on campus.

00:04:26.000 And maybe it is at this campus, but you could tell me differently.

00:04:29.000 Is it?

00:04:29.000 Is it easy to be a conservative here?

00:04:30.000 Not so easy.

00:04:32.000 Well, then it's like almost every other campus.

00:04:34.000 The second thing is to give those of you that are not involved with Turning Point USA, you kind of look to your left and look to your right, you're like, whoa, there's a lot more conservatives and at least people that are open-minded these ideas on campus than I ever would have imagined.

00:04:46.000 You see, one of the tricks of the left is they try to cast the spell of isolation, that you're the only one, that you don't have community.

00:04:55.000 And the left, to their credit, they're really good at this.

00:04:57.000 They constantly have marches and parades and they take over entire months of the calendar.

00:05:02.000 It's incredible.

00:05:03.000 And like we as conservatives, we kind of just are like, yeah, we have our viewpoints.

00:05:08.000 And this is one of the reasons why, and we could talk about this later, why Trump rallies became so popular, is because it was like, oh my goodness, I'm not alone and I share my values with thousands of other people.

00:05:17.000 And the third thing is this, which is I learned stuff by going to these campus events and we open up the mic and we have different conversations.

00:05:25.000 And maybe those of you that are on the left that are here tonight, maybe you'll learn something too.

00:05:30.000 And I will say that the people that hope to destroy this country, they do not believe free speech is a fundamental value.

00:05:36.000 They don't.

00:05:37.000 And part of the tradition of freedom of speech is you sometimes have to hear things you don't always want to hear.

00:05:44.000 It's voluntary, by the way.

00:05:44.000 If you don't want to hear it, you can leave the event.

00:05:46.000 There's other people that want to take your place.

00:05:46.000 It doesn't matter.

00:05:47.000 We oversold this thing.

00:05:49.000 But it's also that if you have a very strong opinion and you're not willing to debate about it, then it's actually probably a really fragile opinion.

00:05:59.000 You might believe it strongly, but it's a fragile opinion.

00:06:02.000 And this is why long term, beyond just in the next five or ten years, why I think conservatives and young conservatives in particular, why we're ultimately going to be successful, is because in order to be a conservative on campus, you constantly have to be defending your belief system.

00:06:15.000 You constantly have to know your facts and know how to respond to people always around you.

00:06:20.000 Whereas if you're a libertarian just kind of fit in, you're like, okay, great, that's terrific.

00:06:23.000 And you might be challenged here or there, but it's not heterodox to the norm of what the academy believes.

00:06:30.000 And, you know, look, my job more than anything else is to try to speak to the next generation, speak to all people, and, you know, there's all ages here tonight, but is to try to point a different, try to paint a different picture of what does a conservative actually believe?

00:06:43.000 What do we believe at Turning Point USA?

00:06:46.000 And we might agree on part of it or disagree on other parts of it.

00:06:49.000 And it's pretty simple stuff, actually.

00:06:50.000 I don't consider it to be overly partisan.

00:06:52.000 It's that we believe this is the greatest country ever to exist, ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:06:57.000 We believe the Constitution is the greatest political document ever written.

00:07:00.000 And we also believe that if you're complaining more than you produce, you've probably got problems.

00:07:06.000 And you're probably on the left, honestly, if you complain more than you produce.

00:07:08.000 If you produce more than you complain, you're probably a conservative.

00:07:11.000 That's the two general rules for life.

00:07:13.000 And even deeper and beyond that, we look at what's happening in the West right now and we believe it's a crisis.

00:07:21.000 And this transcends political lines.

00:07:23.000 Young people are the most depressed, suicidal, alcohol-addicted, and drug-addicted generation in history.

00:07:28.000 And maybe we should start talking about why.

00:07:31.000 Maybe it would be more interesting to me to find out why so many young people are committing suicide than systemic racism.

00:07:36.000 I think that's probably a better national conversation to have.

00:07:38.000 I guarantee every single one of you lost a friend or someone you know in your immediate circle to suicide in the last year or two years, or at least somebody that you're generally aware of.

00:07:45.000 Like that's an actual national crisis that's happening.

00:07:47.000 110,000 people drug overdose in our country every single year.

00:07:51.000 And so I guess that kind of begins to answer the question of, why are you here?

00:07:54.000 Well, I'm here to continue and hopefully reignite an American tradition, which is that no place is off-limits for conservatives to go and speak.

00:08:02.000 And you will see that we're not afraid of any sort of different ideas.

00:08:04.000 You guys can bring any sort of perspective you want, and we can have at it.

00:08:09.000 And I will say that the side that is most willing to engage in debate, robust discussion, is one that is going to be willing and being able to build large consensus over a period of time.

00:08:20.000 And I want to say this, you know, to the credit of the students on the campus today where we had a conversation.

00:08:25.000 I wasn't shouted down.

00:08:26.000 I don't think we were insulted once.

00:08:27.000 There are a couple trolls here.

00:08:29.000 You're going to get that.

00:08:29.000 It's a college campus, right?

00:08:31.000 But generally, you know, you guys are a lot better behaved than some of the other university campuses went to.

00:08:36.000 Much better than Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

00:08:39.000 That's much better.

00:08:41.000 But so I want to get to some questions, but I'll kind of reiterate this point: we as human beings are the speaking beings.

00:08:48.000 It's our ability to make reason of a very confusing world.

00:08:53.000 And as soon as we stop speaking, we are going to get into some sort of very dark chapter here in America.

00:08:59.000 And there is an assault on free speech, unlike anything we've ever seen in the West right now.

00:09:02.000 Whether it be restriction of speech on social media, praise God for Elon Musk for purchasing Twitter.

00:09:08.000 I can never call it X. It'll always be Twitter to me.

00:09:11.000 And opening it up so that people can speak freely.

00:09:14.000 And especially, you know, I got my Twitter account back, so I'm kind of biased.

00:09:17.000 I was banned under the prior regime and dictatorship that we had there.

00:09:22.000 But it's also, you might learn something.

00:09:24.000 You might have your boundaries pushed.

00:09:25.000 And if we have any hope of saving this country, it will be able to go to a place where you're not in the ideological majority, having a difference of opinion, seeing some common ground and having clarity and not necessarily agreement.

00:09:37.000 Okay, with that, let's get to why you guys are all here.

00:09:39.000 Let's get right into question and answer.

00:09:41.000 Here's how it works.

00:09:41.000 If you disagree, you go to the front of the line.

00:09:43.000 That's right.

00:09:43.000 If you have a disagreement, you guys get precedence.

00:09:46.000 You guys can start lining up here.

00:09:48.000 Is that the only question line?

00:09:49.000 Is that right?

00:09:50.000 That's going to fill up.

00:09:51.000 So you guys can stand up, start getting in line.

00:09:53.000 I know we have people of all ages here.

00:09:55.000 So students are going to get the priority, okay?

00:09:59.000 And let me just repeat: please make it a question, not a statement with an inflection at the end of it.

00:10:06.000 All right?

00:10:06.000 I might ask you a question back.

00:10:08.000 Now, this is a majority conservative audience.

00:10:10.000 Would you guys agree?

00:10:11.000 But I think we have a lot of conservatives here tonight.

00:10:13.000 Great. 0.77

00:10:14.000 So with that being said, if someone who is on the left or someone who is a liberal comes up and asks a question, it is tempting to want to mock them or laugh or they might say something silly.

00:10:28.000 Don't do that.

00:10:29.000 Give the liberals here tonight the respect that they don't give us as conservatives on a daily basis, okay?

00:10:38.000 And with that, let's open it up.

00:10:42.000 Hi, welcome.

00:10:42.000 Thank you so much, Charlie.

00:10:44.000 My name is Chelsea.

00:10:44.000 And so I wanted to ask you today: how can we help today's first-time voters understand the importance of protecting the rights of the individual, especially our children, which here in our own state of California are trying to get the Protect Kids California initiative on the ballot?

00:10:59.000 I think the Protect Kids initiative is here, isn't it?

00:11:02.000 Just so everyone knows, this is one of the most important things that's happening in the country.

00:11:06.000 Here in the state of California, you can undergo hormone replacement and quote-unquote transgender care without even notification of your parent.

00:11:16.000 This is immoral.

00:11:17.000 It's shocking.

00:11:18.000 In fact, sometimes they can, quote-unquote, come out as trans without even notifying the parent at school.

00:11:25.000 This bill is all about informed consent.

00:11:27.000 It is a restoration of parents' rights.

00:11:30.000 And I personally want to see it on the ballot here in November.

00:11:32.000 Let democracy play out, right?

00:11:34.000 Let the people decide.

00:11:36.000 Amazingly, the alphabet mafia, which is the transgender jihadis, they don't want this to go on the ballot because the party of democracy is really worried that people might vote against their special interests. 0.97

00:11:50.000 But it turns out that the vast majority of people do not believe that 13-year-olds should be on puberty blockers.

00:11:56.000 The vast majority of people do not believe that 14-year-olds should have hysterectomies or breast replacement removal surgeries.

00:12:03.000 Chloe Cole here, she was here earlier.

00:12:05.000 I encourage you guys to look at Chloe Kohl's social media content.

00:12:09.000 Is that Chloe right there?

00:12:10.000 Oh, she's in line.

00:12:11.000 She's going to ask a question. 1.00

00:12:13.000 And when Chloe gets to the mic, we'll lit her up in a sec.

00:12:18.000 She says an unbelievable story.

00:12:19.000 She's a detransitioner. 1.00

00:12:21.000 She was someone that was sold the lie of the trans poison and the trans agenda and regrets it and is now an advocate to try to warn children about how much damage that could be done by the trans agenda. 0.70

00:12:34.000 God bless you.

00:12:37.000 We'll get to Chloe in a sec, but yes.

00:12:41.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:12:42.000 My name is Sasha Riva.

00:12:43.000 I'm vice president of this chapter at San Diego State University.

00:12:46.000 God bless you.

00:12:47.000 Thank you.

00:12:48.000 So I have a question.

00:12:50.000 I'm originally from Ukraine and I moved here illegally.

00:12:53.000 So I do have a question.

00:12:55.000 What do you think of those people who cut in line in front of me like me, illegal, legal immigrants?

00:13:01.000 And what should we do about that?

00:13:03.000 Yeah, it's a great question.

00:13:04.000 First of all, thank you to your family for coming here legally.

00:13:07.000 We need more of that and that needs to be the standard.

00:13:10.000 Yeah, I mean, people that come into this country illegally are line cutters, border jumpers, and they're squatting in our country and they should all be deported and sent back to their country of origin. 1.00

00:13:19.000 Every single one of them.

00:13:21.000 And I could go through the line.

00:13:23.000 I mean, I would go to the list, and if anyone disagrees, tell me why.

00:13:26.000 There's a law in the book saying you can't break into America.

00:13:28.000 We decide to not enforce that law.

00:13:30.000 They know that they're breaking the law.

00:13:32.000 They claim asylum.

00:13:33.000 Give me a break, okay?

00:13:34.000 Oh, yeah, I'm claiming asylum from China or Azerbaijan or Russia.

00:13:37.000 Over 115 countries are represented now on the invasion happening on the southern border.

00:13:42.000 Just so we're clear, anywhere between 10 to 15,000 people are walking into this country without DNA testing right now, without background testing.

00:13:49.000 We know at least well over 1,500 people on the Department of Homeland Security terror watch list have walked across the southern border.

00:13:55.000 Praise God, Border Patrol was able to find one person three days ago that was walking across the border and he said, hey, I want to go bomb New York City.

00:14:03.000 Thankfully that flags somebody like, hey, maybe we should ask this guy some more questions.

00:14:06.000 Praise God for Border Patrol for actually doing their job and finding this guy.

00:14:10.000 He said it, a quote, I want to go bomb New York City.

00:14:12.000 But I think it's reprehensible and disgusting that your families waiting in line, filling out the paperwork, and waiting your turn and paying fees is somehow a moral equivalent with someone that flies to Mexicali, goes to a bus to the Yuma-Mexico border, claims asylum, and cuts in line while you guys had to do it the right way.

00:14:35.000 We're a nation of laws, we're a nation of order, and every single person who breaks our immigration law should be returned to their country of origin. 1.00

00:14:42.000 Thank you very much.

00:14:48.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:14:48.000 Thank you for coming.

00:14:49.000 My name is Corey Jernigan.

00:14:51.000 I'm the president of University of San Diego College Republicans.

00:14:54.000 My question is, with growing security state and most media becoming blatant propaganda, a lot of people feel like they're the small individual.

00:15:01.000 What can I do?

00:15:01.000 I hold these beliefs, but like you said earlier, I feel alone.

00:15:04.000 For the individual, other than voting, what would be your advice to make them feel like they can make a difference?

00:15:10.000 Yeah, so you have to invest in self-sovereignty.

00:15:12.000 So you have to don't ever try to be in a place where you never have to be dependent on the government.

00:15:16.000 So from the currency that you have, I mean, I'm a big believer in alternative currencies, gold, silver.

00:15:22.000 I do not have faith in the long-term perspective of the U.S. dollar at all.

00:15:26.000 In fact, they're destroying the U.S. dollar every single year.

00:15:28.000 That's what inflation is.

00:15:29.000 Inflation is the continual slow-motion suicide of the U.S. dollar.

00:15:33.000 And this is going to sound, you know, it's going to be taken out of context, but I don't care.

00:15:37.000 I think that anyone who's serious about self-sovereignty should own weapons and know how to use them and own them responsibly.

00:15:42.000 And I think that what we're seeing right now is We're seeing a rise in crime across the country while they're simultaneously trying to take our weapons away from us.

00:15:53.000 And it's not about fear-mongering, but the standard norm of human history is chaos, bedlam, war, division, strife, civil conflict.

00:16:01.000 We're all born into kind of a very stable country in a sense, and we're seeing it destabilize in front of our eyes.

00:16:08.000 And then finally, don't make excuses.

00:16:09.000 Try to exercise your agency, get married, and have lots of kids.

00:16:13.000 Stay loyally married to that person.

00:16:15.000 Try to find Jesus Christ in your life, which I believe is the most important decision that people can make.

00:16:20.000 And despite everything that's against us, oh my goodness, the globalists, you know, all this sort of stuff.

00:16:27.000 That's fine.

00:16:27.000 We still live in a great country.

00:16:29.000 We still can do something about it.

00:16:30.000 Get engaged on a local level.

00:16:32.000 You can run for office, support those that do, support the petition signatures.

00:16:36.000 And I'm optimistic because there's so much fight left in the American people.

00:16:40.000 We are being pummeled right now by this regime every single day.

00:16:44.000 They are trying to destabilize the country.

00:16:46.000 There is a theory called the Cloward Piven political strategy or political theory that was introduced by political theorists back in the 1960s, 1970s.

00:16:54.000 And they said the way that we are going to get left-wing domination, the way that we are going to get Marxist politics, is by three things: building a permanent deep state bureaucracy in Washington, D.C., borrowing so much money that we'll never be able to pay back, and bankrupting the country, and having mass migration of people from all over the world and flooding the citizen immigration.

00:17:12.000 I wonder what those three things would ever look like if they came into practice.

00:17:15.000 You can look it up.

00:17:16.000 Cloud Piven strategy.

00:17:18.000 What you are living through right now is not a mistake. 1.00

00:17:20.000 It's not that Joe Biden and the current White House, they're stupid. 1.00

00:17:23.000 They know what they're doing. 1.00

00:17:24.000 They know exactly what they're doing.

00:17:25.000 It's a strategy.

00:17:26.000 It's a plan.

00:17:27.000 They're trying to overload the system so they can break it, so then they can build whatever comes next.

00:17:32.000 And if we have anything to say about it, we're going to say no and keep on building something that's bold and beautiful and hopefully rooted in traditional conservative American values and principles.

00:17:41.000 Thank you.

00:17:46.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:17:47.000 My name is Peyton Clyden, and I am the treasurer for the San Diego State Turning Point Chapter.

00:17:52.000 I have a quick question about what happened last week with the Ken Buck situation.

00:17:57.000 And obviously, I listened to your show.

00:17:59.000 I listened to a couple other shows where they said that Lauren Boebert, who is the current sitting representative in I think the 4th Colorado District, she was going to be moving to the 3rd district to replace Ken Buck eventually when he retired or not retired, but got a CNN position at the end of his term.

00:18:19.000 So I've heard from you and then particularly Dan Bongino.

00:18:23.000 I listen to him a lot, but they're mentioning that Boebert has to run or she can't run in the primary and in the runoff for the seat that Ken Buck is vacating.

00:18:35.000 Can you clarify that a little bit?

00:18:36.000 Are you from Colorado?

00:18:38.000 No.

00:18:38.000 Okay, you are really passionate about Colorado politics.

00:18:40.000 I love it, though.

00:18:41.000 I'm not trying to pick on you.

00:18:42.000 It's great.

00:18:43.000 I'm just passionate about federal politics, especially.

00:18:45.000 I'm giving you a hard time.

00:18:46.000 I think it's great.

00:18:47.000 So, just everyone knows the House of Representatives, the House of Republicans now have a one-seat majority because Ken Buck has now inexplicably resigned to go work for CNN.

00:18:55.000 So, long story short, Lauren Boebert can't run for the new seat.

00:18:58.000 This was all a plan.

00:18:59.000 This was basically a coup by Colorado center-right, center-left Democrats, very, very far-left Democrats, and people that call themselves Republicans in Colorado.

00:19:07.000 Without getting too deep into the weeds, it's just bad news across the board, basically, for Republicans.

00:19:11.000 And hopefully, we'll be able to sort it out in November. 1.00

00:19:13.000 But Lauren Boebert has to stay in the harder-to-win, more competitive seat in a different part of the state.

00:19:18.000 So, God bless you, man.

00:19:19.000 Thanks for being involved.

00:19:20.000 Thank you.

00:19:25.000 Hey, Charlie, before I get into my question, my name is José Munoz, and I actually come from the leftist wasteland that is Los Angeles.

00:19:31.000 And I'm actually going to transfer to Cal State LA in the fall.

00:19:34.000 And so, and so we'd really appreciate it if you made a stop there next semester or sometime soon.

00:19:39.000 My question is: what are your thoughts on the fat acceptance movement?

00:19:43.000 Because I'm curious because I'm surprised that we never heard you speak on this, and I want to hear your thoughts.

00:19:47.000 I'm very against the fat acceptance movement.

00:19:49.000 Everybody is deep down, by the way.

00:19:50.000 Because if you said to your girlfriend, hey, you look like Lizzo, she'd break up with you.

00:19:58.000 Because, how dare you insult me?

00:20:00.000 Because deep down, people don't want to look like Lizzo.

00:20:02.000 No, we should, look, as someone who used to be 30 pounds overweight, we shouldn't accept people that are morbidly obese or overweight.

00:20:08.000 Like, get your act together.

00:20:09.000 Go wake up earlier.

00:20:10.000 Stop drinking alcohol.

00:20:12.000 Stop eating poorly. 0.95

00:20:14.000 We're a fat country. 0.98

00:20:16.000 We are. 0.97

00:20:17.000 And I'm not trying to fat shame people.

00:20:18.000 I'm just trying to challenge you.

00:20:20.000 I mean, again, you can look at videos.

00:20:21.000 I was 35 pounds heavier a year ago, and I was like, wow, I'm really overweight.

00:20:24.000 I need to get my act together.

00:20:26.000 And honestly, I fat shame myself.

00:20:27.000 It was kind of awesome.

00:20:29.000 But if I've accepted myself, I mean, it was really great.

00:20:31.000 My cholesterol went down.

00:20:32.000 My energy went up.

00:20:33.000 Like, all my blood work looks amazing now.

00:20:36.000 And should I have accepted myself?

00:20:38.000 No.

00:20:39.000 It's like, okay, you have your first kid.

00:20:40.000 All of a sudden, you start eating more carbs.

00:20:41.000 You're like, wow, that's not how I want to look.

00:20:43.000 So I got my act together, and we have a great partner on the show, myphdweightloss.com.

00:20:48.000 And so it's not easy for me to keep weight off.

00:20:50.000 I don't eat dessert ever.

00:20:52.000 I don't drink alcohol, like whatever.

00:20:53.000 But being fit and having more energy is way better than eating what you want all the time.

00:20:58.000 And we are a chronically obese country.

00:21:00.000 Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans, followed by all sorts of liver failure, kidney failure, things that happen because of obesity.

00:21:08.000 And I think we have to reject this idea that, well, you're perfect the way you are.

00:21:12.000 Some people naturally put on weight more than others, but being obese is a choice.

00:21:18.000 Outside of a chronic medical condition, I might have come across one where you're like dehabilitated in a bed for like years on end.

00:21:24.000 Even then, I don't know if you have to become obese.

00:21:26.000 Being obese is a choice, and we have done way too much pandering to try to accommodate society for what quite honestly is a lifestyle choice.

00:21:36.000 And we are one of the fattest countries on the planet.

00:21:38.000 We shouldn't be proud of that.

00:21:39.000 What we are feeding our kids is a disgrace, high-fructose corn syrup to the highly processed foods, to the cereal, to the Twinkies, to all that nonsense that we give our kids.

00:21:51.000 And not to mention what we are drinking all the time from the caffeinated, not just the caffeinated beverages, the energy drinks across the board.

00:22:01.000 So yeah, I think that the conservative movement should stand for a restoration of everybody being the best version of themselves, which is, you know, hey, maybe you need to lose 10 or 15 pounds.

00:22:10.000 And that is actually a loving thing to say because if you lose that 10 or 15 pounds, you're going to feel better.

00:22:16.000 You might be less depressed.

00:22:17.000 Do you know that being overweight is directly correlated with suicidal ideation and depression?

00:22:21.000 It actually limits blood flow to the brain.

00:22:23.000 So anyway, I think that might answer your question.

00:22:26.000 And I think that we should try to advocate for a skinnier, healthier, happier society.

00:22:30.000 And anybody can achieve that if they put their mind to it.

00:22:33.000 Thank you.

00:22:39.000 Thank you.

00:22:40.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:22:42.000 So I'm a student here.

00:22:43.000 I'm just going to start off and say that I disagree with you on a lot of things.

00:22:46.000 And specifically, I'd like to ask about how you and the people you associate with, the people you provide a platform for, often say things that are a lot of rhetoric that's definitely against the LGBT community, like the comedian on here earlier who was making fun of a trans person.

00:23:01.000 And I'm just wondering how you feel that this kind of rhetoric, pushed primarily by the right, maybe influences the phenomenon that are observed, such as LGBT people having higher rates of suicide.

00:23:10.000 How do you think that that might play into the not at all?

00:23:12.000 They should get tougher.

00:23:14.000 Life is tough.

00:23:16.000 But let me ask the question.

00:23:18.000 Let me ask the question. 0.93

00:23:20.000 Are a bunch of Christians committing suicide because of all the anti-Christian films, music, and jokes that have permeated Hollywood the last 30 years? 0.64

00:23:27.000 What anti-Christian media? 0.89

00:23:29.000 Like everything?

00:23:31.000 How about the entire. 0.98

00:23:32.000 You cannot watch a Simpsons episode, a Family Guy season, a Netflix special, Hulu special without, you know, oh, this pastor is unfaithful, one-off joke about the hypocrisy of the church, or, oh, this Catholic priest is a pedophile, or oh my goodness, they're covering for their licentiousness. 0.98

00:23:46.000 It is widespread. 0.96

00:23:47.000 It is embedded into the fiber of the creative code of Hollywood.

00:23:52.000 So I'll ask the question: has the bullying, the slander, and the mockery of how about conservative America, watch Bill Maher.

00:24:00.000 They'll make fun of deplorables. 0.75

00:24:01.000 They're awful people. 0.97

00:24:03.000 They cling to their guns and their religion in Walmart. 0.99

00:24:06.000 Have we seen an increase in suicide of conservative Christians because they're made fun of so much?

00:24:11.000 Do you think that maybe if you think this does?

00:24:14.000 No, you've got to answer the question because it's either that widespread mockery leads to suicide.

00:24:19.000 Have we seen that connection in other places?

00:24:21.000 Well, then why?

00:24:22.000 Why is that?

00:24:23.000 So hold on, guys, hold on. 0.84

00:24:24.000 Why are trans people committing suicide so much? 1.00

00:24:26.000 Why? 0.99

00:24:27.000 Because they have deep-seated mental problems to begin with. 0.96

00:24:29.000 Or because they're not accepted by people like you.

00:24:34.000 What did you say?

00:24:35.000 I can't hear you when they're clapping.

00:24:37.000 It's because people, I mean, society in general, you mentioned earlier that bill about making it so that a school will not have to tell parents about the kids being trans.

00:24:45.000 That's because many people live in a household in which they would not be accepted for that.

00:24:48.000 They shouldn't be accepted at age 15.

00:24:50.000 Really?

00:24:52.000 If you are a boy and you come home and think you're a girl, you have a deep-seated mental problem that needs treatment, not hormones. 0.55

00:25:00.000 You need a counselor, not a surgeon.

00:25:04.000 You need a parent, not a groomer.

00:25:07.000 If you come home and say, as a 15-year-old boy, and say, I think I'm a girl, you need someone to say, I love you enough not to accept your lie.

00:25:16.000 So let me ask you a question.

00:25:17.000 If someone came to you and said, I am anorexic and I'm going to want liposuction, should we give it to them?

00:25:25.000 If they're an adult, sure.

00:25:29.000 I don't know exactly what that involves.

00:25:31.000 Hold on.

00:25:32.000 So do you know what liposuction is?

00:25:33.000 I know it's a fat reduction surgeon.

00:25:35.000 Yeah, so someone who's anorexic thinks they're fat when in reality they're starving themselves to death.

00:25:35.000 I don't know what's happening.

00:25:39.000 That's okay.

00:25:40.000 So let's just, I want to make sure we're morally clear here.

00:25:42.000 No, it would be important to recognize that that's not a solution.

00:25:45.000 Oh, okay.

00:25:45.000 But it's also...

00:25:46.000 So it's okay to intervene and say that certain medical interventions are bad for the patient.

00:25:50.000 Hold on.

00:25:51.000 I think there's a distinction between medically transitioning and accepting different gender roles. 0.58

00:25:55.000 Gender roles are definitely not based in biology.

00:25:57.000 They've changed so much over the same time. 0.98

00:25:58.000 No, you're changing the topic.

00:26:00.000 We're talking specifically about, you mentioned parental consent, how we're mocking trans people, how it's hurting them.

00:26:05.000 I was not talking about biological transitioning.

00:26:07.000 I'm talking about people identifying.

00:26:08.000 You can't biologically transition.

00:26:09.000 You can only castrate yourself.

00:26:11.000 That's not what you're talking about.

00:26:13.000 Transitioning is a fiction.

00:26:14.000 No matter how much surgery you get, no matter how many drugs you take, you're still a man, you're still a woman, period.

00:26:18.000 You stay the way that you are.

00:26:19.000 You can look different.

00:26:20.000 You can't change your chromosomes. 0.81

00:26:20.000 Why? 0.81

00:26:22.000 Yeah, but that's not what defines a man or a woman.

00:26:24.000 See, see, ah, so let's get to it.

00:26:27.000 Hold on. 1.00

00:26:28.000 What is a woman? 1.00

00:26:37.000 What is a woman?

00:26:38.000 This is a very simple answer to that.

00:26:39.000 Say that again?

00:26:40.000 This is a very simple answer.

00:26:41.000 A woman to someone who identifies as.

00:26:43.000 Ha, guys, guys?

00:26:46.000 You can't answer the question.

00:26:48.000 I did answer the question.

00:26:49.000 Hold on.

00:26:49.000 That's an answer.

00:26:50.000 Hold on.

00:26:51.000 If you, in freshman introductory to logic, if you said, please define a door, a door is a thing that looks like a door.

00:26:58.000 They say no.

00:26:58.000 How else would you define it?

00:26:59.000 You define a door.

00:27:00.000 XX chromosomes. 1.00

00:27:02.000 An adult female with the capacity to menstruate, have birth, a womb, and a uterus and a vagina. 0.85

00:27:08.000 So you choose that definition.

00:27:09.000 It's not choosing.

00:27:10.000 That is a choice.

00:27:11.000 It is choice.

00:27:12.000 Language is a choice.

00:27:12.000 Language is not based on biology.

00:27:14.000 So you choose words.

00:27:15.000 Before we descend too far into your postmodernist chaos, let me ask you another question.

00:27:21.000 In the human species, what categories are there between male and female?

00:27:25.000 I'm not sure what you're asking.

00:27:26.000 You mean like traits?

00:27:27.000 In the human species, what other categories are there in addition to male and female?

00:27:34.000 I'm not entirely sure.

00:27:35.000 There's plenty.

00:27:36.000 It changes rapidly.

00:27:37.000 I don't know the whole list.

00:27:38.000 There's intersex people are.

00:27:41.000 So, has there ever been an intersex person that has the capacity to impregnate themselves? 0.81

00:27:46.000 No.

00:27:46.000 So they either have sex organs of more the female or the male.

00:27:49.000 And intersex is a deformity. 1.00

00:27:51.000 So it's saying like this, for example, in a normal human being, you're born with two arms and two legs.

00:27:55.000 If someone's born without a leg, we don't say, oh my goodness, you know, that changes the entire human species.

00:28:01.000 And it's an exception to the rule, not the rule itself.

00:28:04.000 And so intersex is a deformity of a rule. 1.00

00:28:07.000 And the rule is very clear that there is male and female. 0.69

00:28:10.000 Even intersex people will either have the capacity to procreate from male with you know with semen or with women with an egg. 1.00

00:28:18.000 So the question I will remain go back to: biologically, socially, culturally, environmentally, whatever you want to call it, what other categories besides male and female in the animal kingdom of homeo sapens are there?

00:28:30.000 Biologically, you could say that there are essentially no more, but that's biologically.

00:28:34.000 And if you think about social media, so now we're getting somewhere else.

00:28:37.000 If you identify as a man or woman, that is a choice of how you want to employ yourself in society.

00:28:43.000 Now we're talking. 1.00

00:28:44.000 Why is that determined about whether you have a penis or a vagina? 0.99

00:28:47.000 Why does that affect what role you should have and how you should be seen by other people? 0.98

00:28:51.000 Before we get to roles, do you agree there are fundamental differences to how men and women are wired biologically and chemically?

00:28:56.000 Very few.

00:28:58.000 Very few.

00:28:59.000 Yes.

00:29:00.000 Okay, so how important is let me ask the question.

00:29:05.000 How important is testosterone and estrogen differences?

00:29:09.000 Important to what?

00:29:10.000 How about muscle mass, bone density, cardiovascular?

00:29:15.000 Hold on. 0.93

00:29:15.000 Let's just say differences of male and female differences of needs, wants, desires, attitudes, traits. 0.93

00:29:22.000 Why is it that females like certain musical artists and men gravitate more towards the UFC?

00:29:28.000 Why is it that a Taylor Swift concert is 99% female and a UFC event is 99% male?

00:29:34.000 Were they told from a young age, you must like combat sports and you must like pop singers that only sing a certain way?

00:29:41.000 Or is it that maybe there's something biological that resonates more with what Taylor Swift is presenting and more with the honestly brutal hand-to-hand combat that you'd see at the UFC?

00:29:51.000 How can you not recognize that any of this is social?

00:29:54.000 Pop music, all music is a social phenomenon.

00:29:56.000 That's not rooted in our biology.

00:29:58.000 How can you say that the certain genre of music is apparently masculine?

00:30:02.000 That's fair.

00:30:02.000 So then answer me a question.

00:30:04.000 Can you point to a single instance of when there was a controlled variable study of when a child was given a different gender than the sex one than what they were given at sex and they were able to live a full, mature and flourishing life?

00:30:16.000 What do you mean given a gender?

00:30:18.000 Meaning that they, meaning, for example, do you know about the John Money experiment where they had identical twins and one of the kids tragically had basically his genitalia seared off and John Money?

00:30:27.000 Do you know who John Money is?

00:30:28.000 No, I'm not familiar with this experiment.

00:30:30.000 Okay.

00:30:33.000 You're just barely dipping into the waters of the trans toxicity, my friend, which is John Money is the New Zealand 1950s, 1960 theorist who came up with this idea of gender. 0.96

00:30:45.000 So before John Money, there was sex and personality.

00:30:50.000 So for example, we have two sexes, zero genders, unlimited personalities. 0.92

00:30:55.000 John Money said, no, no, gender is this whole new concept and anybody can pick their gender at any time.

00:31:00.000 And so what he did is there was twins. 0.62

00:31:02.000 One of the kids seared off his genitalia, said, I'm going to raise this kid as a girl. 0.94

00:31:08.000 And the kid had whole life had higher testosterone rates. 0.99

00:31:12.000 Wanted to always play with trucks and was saying, no, no, you're a girl. 1.00

00:31:15.000 You're a girl.

00:31:16.000 And despite all the social phenomenon, he ended up being told at age 16, you actually were a biological boy.

00:31:22.000 Said it was the most important thing anyone ever told me because I knew I was a boy my entire life and everyone was telling me I was a girl.

00:31:28.000 And that John Money experiment, the guy who came up with the idea of gender itself, participated in the greatest clinical self-own in scientific history, where even he could not get a Tabula Rasa, a blank slate of a child who was saying, Hey, you're a girl, we're going to raise you as a girl.

00:31:44.000 Turns out that boys will be boys and girls will be girls, regardless of how much you try to change them.

00:31:51.000 Go ahead.

00:31:54.000 That's certainly an interesting case study.

00:31:56.000 However, a single anecdote is not data.

00:31:58.000 It doesn't reflect an overall trend.

00:32:00.000 And I'd like to point out that you mentioned this idea of feeling like they were trapped in the wrong gender's body, which is how millions of trans youth throughout the world.

00:32:08.000 I'm glad you mentioned that.

00:32:09.000 So, can you sometimes feel things that are not true?

00:32:12.000 Yeah.

00:32:13.000 Okay, that's what's going on with trans youth. 0.94

00:32:15.000 They're feeling something that is not true for you.

00:32:17.000 For example, why is it not true?

00:32:18.000 Because it's not correlated with their biological reality.

00:32:21.000 For example, they believe that, oh my goodness, I'm really a boy, I'm really a girl.

00:32:26.000 Okay, well, where's the evidence of that?

00:32:28.000 And by the way, the majority of young people that say that they're quote-unquote trans are autistic, they have behavioral type issues, they have underlying health conditions, depression, suicidal ideation, anxiety.

00:32:38.000 To go back to your original question, why do so many trans people end up A, either committing violence or B, committing suicide? 0.74

00:32:44.000 Number one, they don't get the actual watchful waiting type treatment that is necessary that's been proven successful by clinicians like Dr. Miriam Grossman over the last 30 years.

00:32:52.000 You know what watchful waiting is?

00:32:54.000 Instead of acting as if puberty is the problem, puberty is the solution.

00:32:57.000 When a 15-year-old girl says, oh my goodness, I feel I'm a boy, we say, okay, let's wait it out.

00:33:02.000 Let's wait nine months, and maybe you might feel differently.

00:33:05.000 Every girl in this audience will tell you there was a time when they were growing up where they did not feel comfortable in their body, but they grew through it.

00:33:11.000 And praise God, we did not give every girl in this audience testosterone because they felt uncomfortable with their body.

00:33:18.000 Every single girl felt that way.

00:33:20.000 Secondly, secondly, on top of that, the idea that somehow we're going to give a false hope to a 16-year-old, that chemicals are going to make you feel better, and then just another surgery, and then just another intervention.

00:33:33.000 It leads you down this rabbit trail where you are a shell of a human being, where you no longer have the parts you were born with.

00:33:39.000 God forbid, if you have regret, like Chloe Cole, who's just right behind you, by the way, who was sold that lie, and she may never be able to have children again because of what the trans industry has done. 0.98

00:33:48.000 And Chloe, I hope you sue them for a billion dollars and put them all in prison for what they did for you.

00:33:53.000 Is can we at least agree on this?

00:33:57.000 If it can't be reversed and young minds make bad decisions, shouldn't we at least wait till they're 18 before we give them drugs?

00:34:04.000 100%.

00:34:05.000 Okay, we agree on that.

00:34:06.000 Yes, I agree on that.

00:34:07.000 However, that is a strong moral agreement.

00:34:10.000 You're making a little straw man here.

00:34:11.000 You're assuming that the majority of these cases are young people who are being forced to transition either through surgery or hormones.

00:34:19.000 In the vast majority of these cases, that's not what it is.

00:34:22.000 It's people either as an adult transitioning or when they're young, they're choosing to identify differently, to dress differently, to present themselves differently.

00:34:29.000 Not necessarily to go through a surgery or hormones.

00:34:31.000 That's the minority of it. 0.57

00:34:33.000 If a man who's a lunatic who thinks he's a woman wants to wear a dress in his home, that's never been the concern.

00:34:38.000 You know what the concern is? 0.97

00:34:40.000 Making me call him a woman by force and firing me or somebody from a job if I don't use the right pronoun.

00:34:47.000 I have no problem if somebody has mental problems in their living room alone. 0.92

00:34:51.000 So be it.

00:34:52.000 Dress as Cinderella, dress as a wolf, not the problem.

00:34:56.000 The issue is when you storm the HR department and say, Sam used the wrong pronouns, and I think they should be disciplined for that.

00:35:03.000 And now we all have to use these pronoun markers in our bio to cater to a fringe minority that's so fragile, that is so weak that you can't possibly tolerate the idea of somebody mispronouning you or misgendering you.

00:35:15.000 Like, grow up.

00:35:16.000 Like, welcome to civil, mature adult society.

00:35:19.000 Sometimes, how about you go be strong enough to go confront the other person and say, use my own pronouns?

00:35:25.000 But no, at the root of the LGBT movement, the T stands for tyranny. 1.00

00:35:30.000 And it's, you have to use my pronouns. 0.98

00:35:33.000 You have to allow me to teach your children transgender pornography. 1.00

00:35:36.000 You have to allow me to allow myself into your life. 0.99

00:35:41.000 It is not live and let live.

00:35:42.000 At the root of trans ideology is live and let us rule.

00:35:47.000 And we are currently living under the enemy occupation of the trans zealots.

00:35:51.000 That if you misgender somebody, you could lose your entire career. 0.97

00:35:55.000 That if you drive over a pride flag, it is a hate crime punished by the Department of Justice.

00:36:01.000 But if you burn an American flag, they call it free speech.

00:36:04.000 We have an entire month that is dedicated towards protecting LGBTQ pride.

00:36:10.000 It's not live and let live.

00:36:11.000 If it was, then they would do their own thing.

00:36:13.000 We'd do our own thing.

00:36:14.000 Instead, it is a grooming, proselytizing strategy of people that need to recruit because they can't reproduce.

00:36:42.000 Is your masculinity so fragile that you cannot just call someone by their preferred pronouns and move on?

00:36:51.000 You're willing to put away all of that.

00:36:53.000 We agreed on the children thing.

00:36:55.000 Thank you for your time tonight.

00:36:56.000 Thank you.

00:37:04.000 Hey, Charlie, how you doing?

00:37:06.000 I'm a former international student who came to this country legally.

00:37:10.000 Now that I've graduated.

00:37:14.000 Thank you.

00:37:14.000 Thank you, guys.

00:37:15.000 It's been an honor to be here, by the way, and I have a lot of respect for you.

00:37:18.000 Watching your videos helped me learn how things really are in America and helped me make a lot of friends.

00:37:24.000 However, I can't agree with all of the things you said.

00:37:27.000 I agree with 90% of the things you said, but there's one or two things I have to disagree with, or maybe I've just misunderstood it for now.

00:37:35.000 I apologize if you didn't say this, but I've heard you say that you want to limit legal immigration in this country.

00:37:41.000 That's correct.

00:37:42.000 And I think President Trump seems to also stand for removing the H-1B program, which allows international students to work legally after they graduate.

00:37:51.000 For me, it just doesn't make sense because international students mostly come with engineering degrees, medical degrees, nurses, a lot of valuable things that can be very productive for this country's economy.

00:38:03.000 But you want to get rid of that.

00:38:05.000 And as a legal immigrant, when we become citizens, we're going to remember that.

00:38:09.000 And we want to be on your side.

00:38:12.000 But...

00:38:13.000 I love how you frame it as like a threat.

00:38:14.000 It's okay, man.

00:38:15.000 No, it's not a threat.

00:38:18.000 It's okay.

00:38:19.000 Perfectly fair.

00:38:20.000 So, I mean, look, I'm not going to win you over on this, and that's fine.

00:38:23.000 I'm going to ask you, though, because this is fun, why do you think I want less legal immigrants, if you were to guess?

00:38:30.000 See, that's the part that I'm going to say.

00:38:32.000 No, then you're coming in good faith.

00:38:33.000 It's very simple.

00:38:34.000 That the students here that are American-born, American-raised, and been American-invested in, that are studying to become nurses and engineers, they should be given priority above foreigners. 0.99

00:38:44.000 And I don't mean this as an insult because you seem like an American-loving, great person.

00:38:48.000 And honestly, if we had a real working immigration system, we should have more people like you, regardless of the H-1B system, that would come to this country. 0.99

00:38:55.000 And I'm somewhat torn because you're a great ambassador of someone who loves the country and wants to continue this tradition.

00:39:01.000 Unfortunately, we don't see as much of that as we would like.

00:39:04.000 But the biggest thing is this, is that we have a social contract to American-born citizens, as almost any industrialized country does, right?

00:39:12.000 Which is first and foremost, if the people in this room, one metric I'll give to you, it's harder and harder to own a home in this country.

00:39:19.000 Prior to COVID, it was average annual salary of $59,000 a year to own a home four years ago.

00:39:25.000 Now, according to Zillow.com, the average needs to be $106,000 a year to own a home.

00:39:31.000 And it's much higher here in California, by the way.

00:39:33.000 It's about $135,000 to $140,000 a year, okay?

00:39:37.000 So in economics, you have to make decisions.

00:39:39.000 And we fully acknowledge that when you restrict the labor supply, you're going to see higher wages because of the restriction of the labor supply.

00:39:48.000 So my perspective is that we have had this flooding of the system of both illegal and legal immigration, and we need a slowing and cooling off period where we can start to put the young people of this country that no longer are able to have the same very basic promises their parents are able to have, buying homes, owning property, having a family. 0.56

00:40:08.000 And I'm not saying that immigration is necessarily always the problem.

00:40:11.000 There are immigrants that contribute beautifully to this country.

00:40:14.000 But when it comes specifically with the H-1B1 issue, H-1B is indentured servitude.

00:40:18.000 I don't know how much you know about this or not, but you're not allowed to leave the company that you work for, basically.

00:40:23.000 It is lobbied by the tech companies for the tech companies.

00:40:26.000 That anybody here studying computer engineering, anybody studying computer engineering here?

00:40:30.000 Yeah, a couple people.

00:40:31.000 You're very smart.

00:40:32.000 You're going to now have to compete against not just American educated, but also foreign-born and non-American educated. 0.70

00:40:39.000 Final point.

00:40:41.000 You are the toughest case to try to push back against because we kind of made the decision, I'm not saying for better or for worse, to bring you into the country to educate you.

00:40:49.000 And then you say, hey, I'm here, I want to stay.

00:40:52.000 It's very difficult to build political consensus to say, hey, go back to your country of origin, right?

00:40:56.000 So I'm not trying to overly personalize the policy here, but I will say, though, that absent some sort of a normalization of our legal immigration process, our own computer engineering students, our own data scientists, our own American workers are going to have to compete with foreigners that never had to be invested in at the same level. 0.88

00:41:14.000 Does that make sense?

00:41:16.000 Yes, it does.

00:41:16.000 And that was a great answer.

00:41:18.000 But let me ask you this, though.

00:41:20.000 The reason America is such a great country is because it allows people from everywhere in the world to have a fair battleground where they can...

00:41:27.000 Is that why we're a great country?

00:41:29.000 That's part of the reason, in my opinion.

00:41:31.000 Okay.

00:41:31.000 I mean, my father served 20 years for the U.S. government as well while not being a U.S. citizen.

00:41:36.000 I don't want to get in too much detail, but I think when you allow people from all the countries to come here legally and give them that equal opportunity, I think it gives birth to people like Elon Musk, who is also a legal immigrant.

00:41:48.000 Elon's a great example of how immigration could be a net asset.

00:41:51.000 President Trump's wife as well.

00:41:52.000 Let me counter.

00:41:53.000 Elon Omar is a great example of how immigration can be a net negative for your country. 1.00

00:41:58.000 And so it goes both ways.

00:42:00.000 And the Elon Omar story is, I think, important.

00:42:03.000 Again, I will reiterate this.

00:42:04.000 I think you are a great ambassador for the legal immigration argument, right?

00:42:09.000 You love the country.

00:42:10.000 You show up here.

00:42:10.000 You're very respectful.

00:42:11.000 You want to make something of your life.

00:42:13.000 However, my immediate concern is native-born Americans of all different races, by the way.

00:42:19.000 This goes black, Hispanic, Asian, it's not a race thing, that are consistently put second and third in line for the needs, wants, and interests of either bigger corporate profits, you know, a maximized global experiment, or quote, esoteric economic growth.

00:42:32.000 I want to see 18 to 30-year-olds see real wage growth, be able to own property and flourish a little bit, and then we can start to consider opening up the legal immigration parameters a little bit more.

00:42:43.000 Thank you so much.

00:42:49.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:42:49.000 My name is Alexa.

00:42:51.000 I am a former D1 female wrestler.

00:42:53.000 And I was.

00:42:54.000 I won't mess with you.

00:42:57.000 And often I noticed that wrestling with males growing up made me stronger against females.

00:43:03.000 Now, where would you put that divide between equality and obviously gender differences in athletics and in sports?

00:43:13.000 Yeah, so can I ask you a question in wrestling in, let's just say, age category of like collegiate female wrestling and collegiate male wrestling.

00:43:24.000 Could the best female collegiate wrestler compete with like an average male wrestler at the same weight class?

00:43:31.000 I did. 1.00

00:43:32.000 Okay.

00:43:34.000 But it's not common.

00:43:36.000 Okay.

00:43:37.000 So I would just draw it very simply. 1.00

00:43:39.000 If a female XX chromosomes wants to compete against men, like more power to them. 1.00

00:43:45.000 My bigger concern, though, is XY chromosomes coming into XX chromosome competitions and trying to use their inherent muscular advantage, their bone density advantage, cardiovascular ability to then basically cheat their way to a championship. 0.99

00:44:01.000 And the most famous example, of course, is Mr. Thomas from University of Pennsylvania.

00:44:06.000 Mr. Thomas, for those of you keeping score at home, that cheated and decided he wanted an NCAA championship, and he was a mediocre swimmer before he went into the female competition.

00:44:21.000 Super simple.

00:44:22.000 Some people say, oh, what about hormone therapy and all this?

00:44:24.000 No, no, no, no.

00:44:24.000 Very simple.

00:44:26.000 You must compete with the chromosome of your birth.

00:44:29.000 That's the way it's always been.

00:44:30.000 It's the way it should be.

00:44:31.000 It's the only way to maintain fairness in sports. 1.00

00:44:33.000 Now, if females want to be as so bold to go compete against men, I think they should be applauded.

00:44:38.000 And the men who lose, you know, I bet you ridiculed a fair amount of men in your time that you beat.

00:44:44.000 But God bless you.

00:44:45.000 Thank you so much.

00:44:46.000 Thank you.

00:44:51.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:44:53.000 I'm Sam.

00:44:54.000 I've been here for, I've been with TPUSA for a couple of years, and I've been paying attention to most of your stances on stuff.

00:45:00.000 I agree with 90% of them, similar to another guy before me, except one.

00:45:04.000 And that particular stance means...

00:45:06.000 Yes, it's Israel.

00:45:07.000 Yes, it is Israel.

00:45:08.000 You're right.

00:45:08.000 How do I know?

00:45:09.000 Oh, I don't know.

00:45:11.000 Who could have possibly told you?

00:45:12.000 Anyway, that being said, I just guess.

00:45:16.000 Yes, that is true.

00:45:16.000 But anyway, that being said, I just want to know, like, you're a Christian.

00:45:21.000 You're my fellow brother in the Lord.

00:45:23.000 I'm just wondering, what is the justification for supporting Israel when we can see them persecuting Christians in their own land?

00:45:34.000 Okay, so you're coming after this in good faith.

00:45:36.000 I want to know, just curious, what is your, are you Catholic?

00:45:39.000 Are you Protestant?

00:45:41.000 I am not of a denomination.

00:45:42.000 Okay, but you are Christian?

00:45:44.000 Yes.

00:45:44.000 Okay, cool.

00:45:45.000 I figured by the Christ is king, sure.

00:45:47.000 Can you add more specificity by what you mean treating Christians poorly?

00:45:52.000 Can you tell me what you mean?

00:45:54.000 Usually it's sort of, usually it's abuse, like being spit on when they're out in public, et cetera, et cetera, things like that.

00:46:00.000 Yeah, so I mean, the spitting is a real thing by certain very radical Hasidic sects. 0.99

00:46:06.000 Have you ever been to Israel?

00:46:08.000 No, let me just contribute this as a fellow brother in Christ.

00:46:12.000 When we as Christians go to Israel, we are celebrated and treated like the most amazing you could ever imagine, okay?

00:46:18.000 So I'm positive that there are radical, you know, Hasidic sects that believe certain things as are written in parts of the Talmud where they have anti-Christian beliefs. 0.94

00:46:30.000 That is not my experience with mainline Israeli belief or mainline Judaism.

00:46:36.000 And I will say this.

00:46:37.000 Why do I like Israel so much? 0.99

00:46:39.000 I'm biased, because Israel changed my life. 1.00

00:46:41.000 When I went to Israel, I was reading Bible stories my whole life as a committed Christian.

00:46:46.000 And all of a sudden, I had a life-changing experience.

00:46:48.000 I went to Sia Galilee.

00:46:49.000 I'm like, oh my goodness, this is not a fairy tale.

00:46:52.000 That's where Jesus walked on water.

00:46:54.000 I went to the old city.

00:46:55.000 I said, that's where Christ our Lord rose from the dead.

00:46:57.000 I went to the Garden of Gethsemane.

00:46:58.000 I said, that's where Christ our Lord was betrayed.

00:47:01.000 I went to Hebron.

00:47:01.000 I said, that's the Hall of the Patriarch, so I can see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

00:47:06.000 It demythologized the Bible for me.

00:47:09.000 And it convicted me in the clearest possible terms that the Bible is real, the Bible is true, and it showed me, it made it come to life for me.

00:47:20.000 And I love your heart.

00:47:24.000 I don't want to see any Christians treated poorly.

00:47:27.000 For the record, I tweeted out against the Israeli government when they bombed a church in Gaza.

00:47:32.000 You can look at it.

00:47:32.000 It's very public.

00:47:33.000 I do not put up with the persecution of holy sites, and I stand up for my religion.

00:47:39.000 But I will say this: that I've always been treated very decently and very well when I went to Israel, and access to my holy sites and access to the archaeological truth of the Bible is something that I believe is not just a good for America, but for the world.

00:47:53.000 And being able to prove that the Bible is true, be able to see that the little coins of King Hezekiah, to be able to go to Mount Carmel and see, like, oh my goodness, that's where Elijah threw it down with King Ahab. 0.67

00:48:03.000 To be able to go to Mount Sinai and say, that is where God delivered the greatest moral app in human history, the Decalogue, right?

00:48:11.000 That the Western civilization is built upon.

00:48:13.000 So we might not agree on everything.

00:48:15.000 That's why I have the heart for Israel.

00:48:16.000 It changed my life.

00:48:17.000 And I encourage you to go and visit and see it for yourself.

00:48:19.000 God bless.

00:48:20.000 Thank you.

00:48:20.000 God bless you.

00:48:21.000 Thank you.

00:48:23.000 Chloe Cole, everybody.

00:48:37.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:48:39.000 My name is Chloe, and I am a detransitioner from the San Joaquin Valley of California.

00:48:45.000 And I would like to ask, how can organizations like Turning Point continue to partner with detransitioners like myself to make real tangible social and legislative change?

00:48:55.000 I said this in a group text.

00:48:56.000 I said, Chloe Cole is one of my heroes.

00:48:58.000 And I just want you, and Chloe, can you just, in 30 seconds, tell your story?

00:49:03.000 You said it so beautifully early.

00:49:05.000 She receives more death threats than I do. 0.89

00:49:07.000 She is hunted down like you wouldn't believe by the trans mafia. 1.00

00:49:10.000 Am I exaggerating that you are hunted down when you do public events?

00:49:14.000 Yes.

00:49:15.000 No, it happens all the time.

00:49:17.000 I get threats all the time just for doing my work and my advocacy.

00:49:21.000 I am a formerly trans-identified teen, and I went through the process of going through a medical gender transition and miraculously coming back out of it all before the age of 18.

00:49:32.000 I started calling myself a boy at 12 years old after years of dealing with undiagnosed neurodivergence, body image issues, and early puberty, and simply just growing up as a tomboy with normal feelings of distress around my body.

00:49:46.000 And yet at 13 years old, I was fast-tracking the process of medical transitioning.

00:49:50.000 So I was put on Lupron to suppress my puberty.

00:49:53.000 Just a few months later, they put me on my first shot of testosterone to masculinize my body.

00:49:57.000 And at 15 years old, I underwent my first and only surgery during this time, which was a radical double mastectomy to remove my breasts.

00:50:04.000 And this was the summer after my sophomore year of high school.

00:50:08.000 Less than a year later, I realized that I regretted every single part of this, that I wanted to grow into a woman, that I wanted to become a mother, and that no matter what I did to my body, no matter what these doctors did to my body, it would never actually make me into a boy.

00:50:25.000 And Chloe, first I'll give it up for her.

00:50:27.000 It's just unbelievable.

00:50:28.000 And so we're going to do everything we can to bring you as many campuses as possible because this trans thing is out of control. 1.00

00:50:42.000 And so that's my answer to your question.

00:50:43.000 But final thing I want you to talk about, Chloe, here, before we get to the next question.

00:50:47.000 What is your message to a 16-year-old that is convinced by everyone around them that they need drugs and hormones?

00:50:55.000 What is your message to that young person struggling with this right now?

00:50:59.000 You deserve better.

00:51:01.000 There is no such thing as being born in the wrong body because the way that we're made, whether we're male or female, old or young, sick or healthy, our life, our body, is a gift.

00:51:14.000 And our sex, our roles in society are to be celebrated.

00:51:19.000 It's something to be proud of.

00:51:21.000 Praise God.

00:51:22.000 Chloe, you're a hero.

00:51:23.000 God bless you.

00:51:24.000 Thank you so much.

00:51:25.000 Give it up for Chloe, everybody.

00:51:26.000 She's incredible.

00:51:37.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:51:38.000 I'm actually another D-transitioner.

00:51:41.000 My name is Laura Becker.

00:51:43.000 So I do kind of similar things to Chloe, and I'm very proud that this year I'm actually releasing a memoir about how I survived the transgender cult. 1.00

00:51:52.000 And so, thank you.

00:52:00.000 So, my question is: you know, there's a lot of D-transitioners that I know who obviously have severe psychological damage, PTSD, and that damages their ability to trust groups or to move on. 1.00

00:52:11.000 And so, a lot of D-transitioners that I know are skeptical of the rights and the rights' motives because basically they worry about falling into another manipulation, just like they did on the left. 1.00

00:52:23.000 So, my question is: how can conservatives provide assurance to de-transitioners that it's safe to find community on the right and that they won't be swept under the rug once we succeed in fighting gender ideology? 0.96

00:52:36.000 What a beautiful question.

00:52:37.000 And look, here's my best answer to you.

00:52:40.000 And this is just off the top of my head: we did not think or talk about the trans issue five or six years ago.

00:52:47.000 We don't have an agenda about it.

00:52:48.000 It came to us.

00:52:51.000 And our agenda is super simple.

00:52:53.000 We want the division and a bright line and a movable line between adult and child.

00:53:01.000 That is something that can build consensus amongst all sorts of different groups.

00:53:05.000 And as far as building community, there's no special agenda.

00:53:11.000 I mean, we're not here to push anything except that we believe this is a social contagion.

00:53:16.000 I don't have to convince you of it.

00:53:18.000 It is a cult.

00:53:19.000 It operates like one.

00:53:21.000 If you dare speak out against it, they might use violence.

00:53:23.000 They might use force.

00:53:24.000 They definitely use intimidation and name-calling.

00:53:27.000 And so, you know, I would just say also judge us by our fruit.

00:53:31.000 Judge us by how, over a long period of time, detransitioners are treated at turning point.

00:53:37.000 I think we treat everyone with respect, and I've just been so inspired to learn from Chloe first and foremost.

00:53:43.000 And that's the last thing I'll say: is that we more have a posture of we want to learn from you, not tell you.

00:53:49.000 I've learned more from Chloe Cole about the intricacies of all of this than almost anybody else because she was in the operating room going under general anesthesia from the transgender cult. 1.00

00:53:59.000 So I hear the skepticism, I hear the concern.

00:54:03.000 And the more detransitioners that ever want to come to our event, that ever want to speak out, they're always welcome. 0.59

00:54:09.000 And, you know, this is a safe organization for them that will celebrate them and help them recover from the trauma they experienced.

00:54:16.000 Thank you so much.

00:54:16.000 God bless you.

00:54:17.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:54:25.000 Ooh, sorry.

00:54:27.000 Hi, my name's Miracle.

00:54:29.000 And, oh, hold on.

00:54:31.000 Everyone in I Trust, I did not mean to cut you guys.

00:54:33.000 You say your name is Miracle.

00:54:35.000 That's a beautiful name.

00:54:36.000 Thank you, thank you.

00:54:38.000 I wanted to ask what you thought of affirmative action because I am Salmone.

00:54:45.000 I'm a Pacific Islander.

00:54:46.000 I fall under that tree.

00:54:49.000 And I am a senior in high school and I plan on attending college.

00:54:53.000 Many of my teachers have told me, especially my counselors, like I've been nervous about getting into colleges.

00:55:00.000 Many have told me, oh, like you're underrepresented.

00:55:04.000 You're a person of color.

00:55:06.000 Like, you're guaranteed a spot in the College of Your Dreams.

00:55:09.000 And I've been told that by many of my teachers.

00:55:12.000 And I wanted to ask you what you thought about it because I refuse to believe that I'm going to be accepted into the College of My Dreams due to the color of my skin or the underrepresentation of my people.

00:55:22.000 And more on, I have great grades.

00:55:25.000 I'm smart.

00:55:25.000 I'm intelligent.

00:55:26.000 And I plan on.

00:55:34.000 Affirmative action always puts one person above another based on characteristics that I don't think are important.

00:55:40.000 And you have just beautifully isolated what is so deeply morally wrong about affirmative action, which is you've studied really hard, I imagine, right?

00:55:50.000 You've applied yourself, and your teachers are looking at you as a skin color.

00:55:54.000 They're not looking at you as someone with good character, good test grade, someone that shows up and does all the extra homework.

00:56:00.000 They're obsessed with your skin color.

00:56:03.000 And we have a word for that. 0.91

00:56:05.000 It's called being a racist and a bigot.

00:56:07.000 I hate to cut to that too fast, but if there was ever a time to use that term, it's that.

00:56:13.000 And let me tell you the tragedy that you're going to have to navigate.

00:56:18.000 Let's pretend your dream school is Stanford.

00:56:21.000 Okay, let's just pretend.

00:56:22.000 It's got problems, but it's got some good departments, okay?

00:56:26.000 And you go to Stanford.

00:56:27.000 Do you know the problem is?

00:56:28.000 People are going to think you got there just because of your skin color.

00:56:32.000 It creates more racism.

00:56:35.000 They're not going to assume that you had good grades, that you could have gotten in on your own merits, which, based on how articulate you ask the question, you probably could.

00:56:43.000 Then all of a sudden you're going to have this hanging over your head of people that might say, is she there because of affirmative action?

00:56:48.000 Is they she there because of these policies? 0.94

00:56:50.000 We want merit.

00:56:51.000 We want a society based on how hard somebody works, how hard they apply themselves, the content of their character, not just what they look like.

00:56:59.000 And so I'm glad to see the Supreme Court that came in and say that parts of affirmative action are unconstitutional, and I think we need more of it. 0.90

00:57:06.000 And I think that you're a great example of that because you want to be judged by your work, not just the underrepresentation of your people.

00:57:14.000 God bless you.

00:57:15.000 Miracle, thank you.

00:57:19.000 Is that Erica again?

00:57:20.000 It is Erica again.

00:57:22.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:57:22.000 So since meeting you.

00:57:23.000 We made friends earlier.

00:57:25.000 She was homeless a year ago and now she's thriving.

00:57:27.000 How great is that?

00:57:32.000 Since meeting you a few short hours ago, I've already had numerous people remove me on Instagram and tell me they can no longer be my friends because I'm here at a free event learning both sides of the spectrum.

00:57:43.000 Anyway, oh, and I also forgot to tell you my pronouns.

00:57:46.000 I identify as non-Biden-ary. 0.58

00:57:48.000 Joe Biden.

00:57:54.000 Live and let live.

00:57:55.000 Everybody can live however they want.

00:57:57.000 They can do whatever they want.

00:57:58.000 And my question for you is: do you have any hate?

00:58:01.000 And is Turning Point USA against the LGBT community?

00:58:06.000 Because I'm being told that by coming here and listening to you speak that I'm either a racist or a fascist or against the LGBT.

00:58:13.000 And isn't fascism when someone doesn't agree with your beliefs and your views and they want it either your way or the highway? 0.67

00:58:19.000 Yeah, the people that defriended you on Instagram, they're the fascists.

00:58:22.000 That's what I thought. 0.82

00:58:24.000 Yes, I do hate, and I'll tell you who.

00:58:25.000 Okay.

00:58:26.000 The Bible tells me in Psalm 97, 10, if you love God, you must hate evil.

00:58:31.000 And I'll tell you what do I mean by evil.

00:58:34.000 I hate people that call themselves doctors that butchered Chloe Cole. 0.93

00:58:38.000 That's who I hate. 0.95

00:58:39.000 I hate people that call themselves doctors and perform the million abortions we see every single year in the abortion industry. 0.99

00:58:45.000 I hate people that sex traffic women into this country under the guise of immigration on the border.

00:58:50.000 So I do not have hate for a group. 0.80

00:58:52.000 I do not have hate for a people.

00:58:54.000 I have hate for actions and individuals, especially that are in professions that institutionalize evil.

00:59:00.000 So, just so I can get it on my camera.

00:59:00.000 Yes.

00:59:03.000 Don't worry.

00:59:03.000 We got plenty of cameras.

00:59:05.000 But yes, so you do not hate the LGBT community.

00:59:07.000 And Turning Point is not against LGBT.

00:59:10.000 Well, how could I hate that which I have a heart for?

00:59:13.000 Thank you.

00:59:14.000 And I might not agree for some of the lifestyle choices that some people make, but of course not.

00:59:19.000 And if someone said, Charlie, what's your view on marriage?

00:59:21.000 I'd say, I believe marriage is between one man and one woman. 0.79

00:59:24.000 But if you ask me, do I have hate in my heart for somebody that doesn't choose the lifestyle that I believe that God laid out in the scriptures?

00:59:33.000 Of course not.

00:59:34.000 Yes, I was told that Turning Point USA is against LGBTQ.

00:59:37.000 Well, you could be told a lot of different things. 1.00

00:59:39.000 I know it's all bullshit. 0.99

00:59:43.000 I rest my case. 0.94

00:59:44.000 Thank you so much.

00:59:45.000 God bless you, Charlie.

00:59:53.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:59:54.000 My name is Noah.

00:59:55.000 I just want to say everything you said, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, 100% agree.

00:59:59.000 I was just wondering what you would do about the economics problem in this country.

01:00:04.000 So, you know, we deficit spend every year.

01:00:07.000 The government is in a continuous cycle where we deficit spend more and more every single year.

01:00:12.000 What would you say that we should probably do about this issue that's kind of continuous and anonymous?

01:00:19.000 So every person in this audience is getting 10 to 15 percent poorer every single year.

01:00:23.000 It's called inflation.

01:00:25.000 And do not believe the spin on the media.

01:00:27.000 There is only one reason why we have inflation, and that is the overspending of the federal government.

01:00:33.000 And we made a decision.

01:00:35.000 Both parties made a decision.

01:00:36.000 I want to be factually correct on this.

01:00:38.000 Where at COVID, we decided to lock down our country unnecessarily.

01:00:44.000 The lockdowns will go down as one of the worst mistakes in American history that we will have to pay off for the next 100 years.

01:00:54.000 Secondly, we decided to go spend $7 to $8 trillion that we do not have.

01:00:59.000 We have added anywhere between $7 to $8 trillion to our national debt in the last four years.

01:01:04.000 It is four years ago, almost to the day, when Mike Pence took the podium and he said 15 days to slow the spread.

01:01:11.000 We have added $7 to $8 trillion to the national debt.

01:01:13.000 That's on top of the huge spending on top of it.

01:01:16.000 So what is inflation?

01:01:17.000 It's very simple.

01:01:18.000 Inflation is when you have more of a currency and fewer goods and services, and when the currency or the dollar or the money is outpacing or is more than the goods and services, when that balance goes out of whack, when you have more dollars than people know what to do with it.

01:01:33.000 That's why you see the stock market creeping up to 40,000 points, even though it's not correlated to economic growth.

01:01:38.000 It's not correlated with robust consumer confidence.

01:01:41.000 It's not correlated to wage growth.

01:01:42.000 It's just we have so many dollar bills they have to go somewhere.

01:01:45.000 And so how do we fix it?

01:01:47.000 Well, neither political party in D.C. is serious about fixing it, unfortunately.

01:01:50.000 And the way we need to fix it is we need to dramatically cut federal spending, dramatically cut federal spending.

01:01:56.000 We need to come together, both political parties, and balance our budget because we are stealing money from future generations.

01:02:02.000 And the normal things that are in front of you that would have been in front of your parents' generation are coming more and more out of reach for all of you.

01:02:09.000 So cut federal spending, and then we need to audit the Federal Reserve because the Federal Reserve is a criminal enterprise.

01:02:15.000 Yeah, I was wondering.

01:02:20.000 What do you think we should spend less on, though?

01:02:23.000 Like more electricity?

01:02:23.000 Everything.

01:02:24.000 Everything.

01:02:24.000 The only thing I wouldn't touch are current obligations of Medicare and Social Security, but we need to cut the bureaucracy.

01:02:29.000 We need to cut our military budget.

01:02:31.000 We need to cut our defense budget.

01:02:32.000 We need to cut our social services.

01:02:34.000 We need to go across the board.

01:02:35.000 And it's not easy.

01:02:36.000 You're going to have to make harsh cuts.

01:02:38.000 But you know who makes harsh cuts?

01:02:39.000 This is what really ticks me off.

01:02:40.000 Many of your families when you were growing up made harsh cuts after the 2008 financial crisis.

01:02:45.000 After the 2008 financial crisis, many of you didn't go on vacations for four or five years.

01:02:50.000 Many of you had to downsize from the home that you were living in.

01:02:52.000 Maybe you had to go move into an apartment and you had to rent.

01:02:54.000 Maybe your mom had to carpool to work.

01:02:56.000 Everybody in this room went through downsizing after the 2008 financial crisis.

01:03:00.000 And D.C. refuses the downsize.

01:03:02.000 Eight out of 10 of the wealthiest counties in America are around Washington, D.C.

01:03:06.000 They get richer and you get poor.

01:03:08.000 It's a moral injustice.

01:03:10.000 Thank you very much.

01:03:11.000 Thank you.

01:03:14.000 I want to shout out Freedom 2-0, which is our official water sponsor, by the way.

01:03:20.000 There you go.

01:03:22.000 Before I forget to do that, we'll go about another 15 minutes if we can.

01:03:25.000 Yes, sir.

01:03:26.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:03:27.000 My name is Ori.

01:03:28.000 I was wondering what your thoughts are about the current BDS movement on campuses and the rising anti-Semitism in the country.

01:03:35.000 I call it Jew hatred. 1.00

01:03:37.000 I'm very much against BDS.

01:03:38.000 BDS, just so you know, is Boycott Divestment Sanctions, which is a Jew hatred movement to try to blockade Israel by misrepresenting Israel as an apartheid state.

01:03:47.000 So I'm pretty well documented.

01:03:49.000 I'm one of the more non-Jewish pro-Israel voices in the conservative movement.

01:03:53.000 I'm not an apologist.

01:03:54.000 I call balls and strikes if Israel does something I don't like. 0.77

01:03:58.000 But Jews have a right to a homeland, and half the world's Jewry lives in the nation of Israel.

01:04:03.000 And the Bible is abundantly clear that we must bless Israel, period.

01:04:07.000 And I stand by that.

01:04:09.000 Thank you very much.

01:04:10.000 Thank you.

01:04:13.000 Hi.

01:04:13.000 Hello, Charlie.

01:04:14.000 It's nice to see you again.

01:04:16.000 So my question is, sorry, I'm nervous.

01:04:22.000 How is the best way to solve homelessness and crime in America?

01:04:28.000 Because it has, I come from Tijuana, and when I got here, I always hear about America being the greatest nation where no one is poor, you know?

01:04:41.000 And then when I got here, I remember the first time I went to San Diego downtown, it was horrible.

01:04:47.000 And then I went to LA.

01:04:49.000 I can just see the YouTube video. 0.97

01:04:51.000 Mexican immigrant says America is horrible. 0.99

01:04:55.000 No, I'm giving you a hard time. 0.99

01:04:55.000 I get to see it. 0.99

01:04:57.000 It's very simple.

01:04:59.000 We know how to solve crime.

01:05:00.000 You lock up criminals and you don't relax penalties.

01:05:02.000 We know how to solve homelessness.

01:05:03.000 I have a heart for the homeless.

01:05:05.000 Many of them have mental issues that they're dealing with.

01:05:07.000 A vast majority have substance abuse issues.

01:05:10.000 You have to have a prime directive.

01:05:10.000 Super simple.

01:05:12.000 The streets are not your home.

01:05:13.000 Period.

01:05:13.000 We're going to get you help.

01:05:14.000 We're going to bring you to a shelter.

01:05:15.000 We're going to help you recover.

01:05:16.000 We're going to get you treatment.

01:05:17.000 We're going to make sure you get attention.

01:05:18.000 You're going to get fed.

01:05:19.000 You're going to get clothed.

01:05:20.000 You don't do it in the open air.

01:05:21.000 It's not good for you.

01:05:22.000 It's not good for society.

01:05:23.000 It's not good for our hospital system.

01:05:25.000 It's not good for anybody.

01:05:26.000 For example, if you go to a local hospital between 1 and 5 a.m., I guarantee there'll be two to three homeless people every night that run into traffic.

01:05:32.000 They get run over by a bus.

01:05:32.000 They get run over by a car.

01:05:34.000 And it is completely unnecessary in the sense that if they're in a shelter, that wouldn't be happening.

01:05:38.000 And these poor people, a lot of them die.

01:05:39.000 They run into traffic.

01:05:40.000 It takes huge resources.

01:05:42.000 You know, you have to all of a sudden, you know, redirect a lot of things in the emergency room.

01:05:45.000 Other people who need critical care might get triaged and they might not get the same attention that's necessary.

01:05:49.000 That's just one example of dozens.

01:05:51.000 And so we need to do what we once did in this country, which is we love you.

01:05:55.000 We're not going to allow you on the streets.

01:05:57.000 We're going to nicely and kindly pick you up and we're going to bring you to a homeless shelter.

01:06:00.000 And if you come back again, we're going to bring you back to the homeless shelter.

01:06:03.000 And I, for one, do not want to raise my child in a country where I have to tell her what to do when she's playing in a playground if she encounters a hypodermic needle.

01:06:12.000 That is literally there are guidelines in Seattle and Portland public schools of what kids, what to do if you're a seven or eight-year-old, if you come across a hypodermic needle.

01:06:21.000 And that is the excesses of allowing a fringe population to basically manipulate the standard of living of the rest of us.

01:06:29.000 So have compassion for the homeless.

01:06:30.000 The streets are not your home.

01:06:31.000 Thank you so much.

01:06:32.000 Thank you, Charlie.

01:06:32.000 I appreciate it.

01:06:33.000 Thank you.

01:06:38.000 Hi, Mr. Kirk.

01:06:39.000 My name is Dan.

01:06:40.000 I come from the northern part of San Diego.

01:06:43.000 I have a question alongside with a fun question.

01:06:46.000 So question is, what's your message for our generations who are very anxious from issues ranging from elections or future elections to family issues?

01:06:59.000 And then the fun question is, I was wondering if you're a Star Trek fan, is there a Mr. Spock on board?

01:07:05.000 Yeah, that's very funny.

01:07:06.000 I actually am more of a next generation guy than I am a Captain Kirk guy, believe it or not.

01:07:10.000 I have a whole theory for that, but we can geek out on Gene Roddenberry a different time.

01:07:15.000 So to your first question, if you're anxious, look, do not wait for politicians to solve the problems for you.

01:07:23.000 I will say this, this is Charlie Kirk speaking.

01:07:25.000 We have Turning Point Action.

01:07:26.000 This is not the official position of Turning Point USA, but I sure hope that Donald Trump wins in November, and I think all of you agree, okay?

01:07:34.000 And if he wins, if he wins, I think it will be a lifeline for the country.

01:07:43.000 But don't act like your life is going to be amazingly better just because someone wins an election.

01:07:48.000 You might still, you still need to get married.

01:07:50.000 You need to get your faith right.

01:07:50.000 You need to go to church.

01:07:52.000 You need to maybe get your body right.

01:07:53.000 You need to stop watching pornography.

01:07:55.000 Maybe you need to get better friends.

01:07:57.000 You need to not be around people that gossip all the time.

01:08:00.000 And so I'm a massive believer, and I don't believe college, I see no evidence that college has an emphasis on this.

01:08:06.000 In fact, I think college is the opposite.

01:08:07.000 College really teaches you that you're just a symptom of the things around you.

01:08:12.000 I'm a huge believer in agency.

01:08:14.000 Your ability to wake up one day and say, I no longer want to be what I am.

01:08:17.000 I could be a better version of myself.

01:08:19.000 This is why I'm so inspired by people that go through AA, and I mean that.

01:08:22.000 The most amazing people are former alcoholics.

01:08:25.000 And they are constantly recovering, and they're so honest.

01:08:28.000 And by the way, AA is a religious exercise, just so we're clear.

01:08:31.000 It's literally Christianity put into a recovery program.

01:08:34.000 And so I'll just repeat that, which is this generation is suffering.

01:08:39.000 It's the most depressed, suicidal, alcohol-addicted, drug-added generation in history.

01:08:42.000 And a politician is not going to save that.

01:08:44.000 It's going to require a bottom-up revival spiritually and mentally, emotionally across the board.

01:08:50.000 Final thing I'll say is this.

01:08:51.000 You can't have revival without repentance, and you can't have repentance if we don't talk about sin.

01:08:55.000 And we all fall short of the glory of God.

01:08:57.000 And I'll rest my case on that.

01:08:59.000 Thank you.

01:09:04.000 We'll get a couple more here.

01:09:06.000 Hi, Mr. Kirk.

01:09:09.000 I just wanted to ask you, well, with everything that's going on with Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and how he has been trialed as almost like criminal and sent to re-education, and they're wanting to revoke his license and censor him and not let him speak.

01:09:29.000 And that's a very famous person.

01:09:31.000 How dangerous and crucial and just horrible is it really for the average person?

01:09:38.000 I mean, they're going to come after everybody.

01:09:40.000 The soft tyranny will not stop at Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.

01:09:43.000 It will not stop at Jordan Peterson.

01:09:46.000 This is an all-encompassing leviathan that wants to swallow the entire civilization and society.

01:09:52.000 And this is what drives me nuts about people that are cheerleading Donald Trump to go to prison.

01:09:56.000 I just laugh, especially the socialists.

01:09:58.000 I'm like, you realize they're coming for you guys next.

01:10:00.000 Like, if they take out all of us conservatives, they're going to nuke all of the social.

01:10:04.000 You think like, oh yeah, we're buddy buddies with the regime.

01:10:06.000 They're going to come after all of us.

01:10:09.000 Anyone that has a disagreement or a differing view with the neoliberal order.

01:10:13.000 And Dr. Peterson has a differing view on the trans-Orthodoxy, which literally is a religion.

01:10:18.000 We are living under the religion of basically transgenderism of the West. 0.87

01:10:24.000 So it's a big deal, and I love Dr. Peterson, and we need to pay very close attention to it.

01:10:28.000 We need to keep supporting him in everyday life.

01:10:28.000 Thank you so much.

01:10:30.000 Every way we can.

01:10:31.000 I agree.

01:10:31.000 Thank you so much.

01:10:32.000 Thank you.

01:10:36.000 Thank you.

01:10:37.000 Thank you for coming here, Mr. Kirk.

01:10:39.000 So a quick background.

01:10:41.000 So my dad came here from Iraq 40 years ago.

01:10:45.000 We're a small community called Chaldeans, small Catholic community.

01:10:48.000 They're incredible.

01:10:50.000 And over these past 40 years, from barely graduating high school to not even being able to afford college, he's been able to build himself up and he's been able to live the American dream, which is something that I'm very proud that he's been able to do.

01:11:02.000 What we've able to see here, especially at SDSU, I go to USD, is the lack of hatred for America from students that live here who haven't gone to any other countries, where they talk down about it, saying America is a colonizing country, that we need to do this, this, and this to help all these people because we're such a bad country and just hating it in general.

01:11:27.000 So what would your solution be for us conservatives to fix that, as well as how can we fix ourselves as a country to be more to put God first?

01:11:36.000 Because three years ago, I'm part of the College of Republicans at USD.

01:11:40.000 We had Kristen Hawkins at university.

01:11:43.000 When there was a lot of protests, there was students saying that it's very bad to say, but that God raped Mary, that a lot of bad and a lot of derogatory stuff towards Jesus and God.

01:11:53.000 And this is a private Catholic university.

01:11:56.000 So how can we fix that?

01:11:58.000 No, is that a private Catholic university?

01:12:00.000 Yeah.

01:12:00.000 Wow, that's really, that's heretical, isn't it?

01:12:04.000 And Catholicism, I would imagine.

01:12:06.000 I'm not Catholic, but I have to dive that. 1.00

01:12:08.000 I don't have to dive that deep into the catechism.

01:12:12.000 Yeah, Catholic in name only.

01:12:14.000 We know the type in the evangelical world, too.

01:12:18.000 This is what drives me nuts, is that historians are going to look back on America and wonder why so many millions of people had it so great and they decided to hate the country that gave them so much.

01:12:30.000 It is the sociological question of our time.

01:12:33.000 And I don't have a great answer.

01:12:34.000 The only answer I have is why do people commit suicide?

01:12:38.000 And we don't know.

01:12:39.000 We know some, we kind of, we think we know, but we don't know what people are thinking in those last moments, right?

01:12:44.000 I mean, some people, praise God, aren't successful and they tell us they think it's hopeless or they have other issues going on.

01:12:50.000 You're living through a slow-motion suicide of America.

01:12:53.000 That's what you're living through.

01:12:54.000 There is no other way to spin it.

01:12:55.000 Economically, what's happening on the border, culturally. 0.56

01:12:57.000 I mean, we have this transgender thing going on.

01:13:00.000 And the good news of that is we can stop doing it.

01:13:03.000 It's not happening to us.

01:13:04.000 We're doing it to ourselves.

01:13:06.000 And this is why President Donald Trump is so successful right now, and I hope he continues to be.

01:13:10.000 Because he's the only one right now that says, hey, maybe we should stop hurting ourselves and start being Americans again and rebuild our country from within.

01:13:19.000 Thank you so much.

01:13:20.000 Appreciate it.

01:13:25.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:13:26.000 First off, very big fan.

01:13:28.000 I've been following you from the beginning, man.

01:13:30.000 So I appreciate you being here.

01:13:34.000 There've been multiple people talking about it, including that last guy.

01:13:36.000 So I think I can answer your question as someone who was once suicidal about why people feel like that.

01:13:44.000 During those suicidal times, I felt very alone and in the sense of like not having that community like has been mentioned before, you know, community, whether that be within the Catholic community or then or amongst friends or just amongst the general public area.

01:14:03.000 So and then amongst that, also, like was mentioned before, I have been fired for discrimination just the moment people find out I'm Catholic, they find any type of complaint to go against me and then and the way that they write it up on papers, I can't really fight it.

01:14:20.000 So my question is how to, what is the best, in your opinion, what is the best approach to reach out to people that like used to be me that were suicidal but don't feel like that feeling of loneliness and they just drag themselves deeper into that pit of feeling alone.

01:14:37.000 First of all, thank you for your testimony.

01:14:40.000 Can you just repeat the question exactly that you want me to answer because there's so much there?

01:14:45.000 What do you suggest for how can people reach out more to those who have that feeling of loneliness?

01:14:53.000 Okay, great.

01:14:54.000 So it's not dissimilar to the analogy earlier.

01:14:56.000 We're losing a sense of community in this country.

01:14:58.000 I firmly believe that our over-addiction of smartphones is one of the most destructive developments in the modern era.

01:15:04.000 I really do believe that.

01:15:08.000 So let me tell you, I always look to the scriptures for an answer.

01:15:11.000 I honor the Sabbath.

01:15:12.000 I'm a Christian.

01:15:12.000 I'm not a Seventh-day Adventist.

01:15:14.000 But I turn my phone off from Friday night to Sunday morning.

01:15:17.000 I highly recommend you guys all do that.

01:15:19.000 You need to carve out an entire day where your phone goes off.

01:15:21.000 If I can do it, you guys can do it.

01:15:23.000 And your life will improve dramatically.

01:15:25.000 Yeah, it's a little hard.

01:15:26.000 Your friends might not be able to reach you.

01:15:27.000 They might have to go, I don't know, knock on your door and find you like the way it was, you know, in a different time, in a different place.

01:15:33.000 And so, yeah, that's what I honor the Sabbath and keep that day holy.

01:15:38.000 For six days you shall work.

01:15:40.000 For one day you shall rest.

01:15:41.000 I'm a big believer in that.

01:15:42.000 I think it would solve some, not all, of the mental health issues that some people are facing.

01:15:46.000 And then finally, we have a crisis of isolation.

01:15:50.000 We need more young people to get married and have families.

01:15:52.000 We need more people to be part of faith communities.

01:15:55.000 And finally, I also, I know this might sound a little, I don't know, like hippie, but I really believe they're poisoning us with a lot of the food that we eat in this country.

01:16:04.000 And I think you have to be very careful with what you eat and what you consume.

01:16:10.000 At least do a little more research about, you know, macros and micros.

01:16:14.000 There's only three types of food, fats, proteins, and carbohydrates.

01:16:17.000 You don't need any carbohydrates to live, and they actually might be hurting you.

01:16:20.000 I'm not here to give like wide-sweeping nutritional advice, but at least for me, when I cut out basically all carbs, it was like a great thing for me.

01:16:26.000 My body just doesn't handle it well and lost a bunch of weight and have a lot of energy.

01:16:29.000 And again, everyone's different.

01:16:32.000 But the way that it currently is, we eat almost all carbohydrates, the bad types of fats, and not enough protein.

01:16:40.000 And so we end up getting super overweight, and our blood work is terrible, and we get type 2 diabetes and heart disease and all that other stuff.

01:16:46.000 So anyway, I just live a deliberate life and live with intentionality.

01:16:50.000 And for those of you that are doing great, find someone who isn't and try to be their friend and try to be there for them.

01:16:56.000 Because we're living through a major mental health crisis.

01:16:58.000 All right, we'll do two more.

01:17:00.000 Yes, thank you.

01:17:01.000 Thank you very much.

01:17:02.000 Thank you.

01:17:05.000 Hello.

01:17:06.000 I agree with you on most things, but there's one major issue I disagree with on.

01:17:14.000 I think that communism can be used for the good of society.

01:17:17.000 Hold on.

01:17:18.000 Guys, bear with me.

01:17:19.000 Well, I'm going to stand up for you.

01:17:20.000 Guys, let him talk.

01:17:22.000 We talked about it.

01:17:24.000 Before I ask my question, can you state why communism always fails?

01:17:29.000 Okay, yeah, great question.

01:17:31.000 Very simple.

01:17:32.000 Human beings, in my belief and in any sort of observation of human nature, are viciously self-interested, and they will not act communally, whether ever given an opportunity to do so otherwise.

01:17:45.000 So we are not communal social creatures, as postulated by either Rousseau or Marx.

01:17:50.000 In fact, we're far more self-interested and sinful in our disposition.

01:17:55.000 And that is why communism has never worked and will never work, unless you have an example you can point to.

01:18:02.000 I don't.

01:18:03.000 I agree with you, which is why this comes across as weird.

01:18:09.000 We know that communism fails.

01:18:12.000 And sorry, very bright lights here.

01:18:19.000 We know that communism fails because I'll help you out a little bit.

01:18:27.000 Maybe this might help you.

01:18:28.000 It's anti-human.

01:18:29.000 It is anti-family.

01:18:30.000 Remember, Marks talked openly about destroying the nuclear.

01:18:32.000 Is that helping at all?

01:18:33.000 It does.

01:18:34.000 It does.

01:18:34.000 Okay, good.

01:18:34.000 So communism fails on when you see someone's business, all the other businesses that are in that industry stop selling.

01:18:45.000 So if we know that that's going to be the result, why don't we use that, the negatives of communism for good?

01:18:53.000 And what I mean by that is use it for a good that we don't want people to have, specifically drugs.

01:18:58.000 We don't want people to have meth or fentanyl.

01:19:01.000 So why not socialize the drug industry?

01:19:03.000 So the government sees drugs from drug dealers and distributes to users to force shortages and to basically force a drug famine.

01:19:14.000 That is a very interesting idea.

01:19:17.000 So your idea is, because I want to take every idea seriously, is we nationalize the meth industry and it will be so poorly run, no one will get their meth on time.

01:19:29.000 And there'll be like TSA waiting lines to get your meth.

01:19:34.000 They'll be like super bankrupt.

01:19:37.000 They'll like take every possible federal holiday off and people will stop doing meth because the delivery mechanism and the production, they'll be like 10 years delayed in making meth and people will just give it up.

01:19:48.000 Basically, yes.

01:19:49.000 That's actually kind of smart.

01:19:54.000 The meth stores only open four hours a day.

01:19:56.000 Everyone's super angry when you walk in.

01:19:59.000 You might be onto something.

01:20:00.000 I'm not even being sarcastic.

01:20:02.000 I think that users would be more than willing to turn in their dealers.

01:20:05.000 And once dealers realize that they can't sell drugs because they'll be seized and distributed, that's sort of the end of the drug market.

01:20:14.000 Hey, I mean, you got me at trying to make the meth stores like the TSA.

01:20:19.000 So God bless.

01:20:21.000 Thank you.

01:20:22.000 Thank you.

01:20:27.000 Hey, Darren.

01:20:28.000 Hi.

01:20:28.000 Had I known that was going to be the last question, I never would have stood up.

01:20:31.000 But I didn't hear what he said.

01:20:33.000 I was just curious as to how you feel about those kids in Massachusetts that were just charged criminally for the racist group chat.

01:20:41.000 I hate it, and I plan on speaking out against it.

01:20:44.000 I don't know what they said, so I want to make sure, even if it was very, very vile, I do not.

01:20:48.000 So Jennifer misunderstands the situation, okay?

01:20:50.000 You might have heard it.

01:20:51.000 It's become a national news story.

01:20:53.000 I do want to see the messages for myself so I could speak precisely, because I don't believe the media, when they say they're racist messages, I want to know exactly what they are.

01:21:01.000 This is a group of 16-year-olds, right?

01:21:03.000 Eighth graders.

01:21:03.000 Eighth graders, that's even worse.

01:21:05.000 Oh, my goodness.

01:21:06.000 That's a group of 15, okay, 14 and 15-year-olds.

01:21:09.000 They were in a group chat, some as young as 13, that were posting, let's just say, gross things in a private group message that the media is telling us is racist.

01:21:21.000 Let's pretend it's as vile and as racist as it gets.

01:21:24.000 They are now going to face criminal penalties under incitement of violence and hate crime laws.

01:21:31.000 Let me be as blunt as possible.

01:21:34.000 This is a modern-day death penalty for these kids.

01:21:38.000 How are they ever supposed to recover if they get indicted for a hate crime at age 16?

01:21:42.000 That will be hung over their head for the rest of their lives.

01:21:46.000 And I just find it to be so amazing to me.

01:21:49.000 Here is the left in Massachusetts, perfectly fine.

01:21:54.000 If a kid wants to chop off their parts, if they want to go into a trans clinic, you know, we're not going to ask any questions, right? 0.91

01:22:02.000 There's no way they could be making a mistake.

01:22:05.000 And here's a bunch of kids that are in a private group message.

01:22:07.000 And every one of you have said stuff in group messages that you probably regret.

01:22:10.000 Don't act too wholly, okay?

01:22:12.000 Every one of you have, okay?

01:22:14.000 And we're now going to criminalize teenage gossip.

01:22:19.000 I want to see the messages.

01:22:21.000 I want to.

01:22:21.000 I want to see the charging documents and the indictment.

01:22:24.000 But based on everything that I have learned, it is one of the grossest overreaches of government power.

01:22:29.000 And this is going to come after everybody then.

01:22:33.000 If you now make an off-color text message, things I said in this speech, I say, you're inciting violence because of all this, I find it to be awful, and I hope that they lose on appeal.

01:22:44.000 And I hope these kids don't kill themselves.

01:22:46.000 I really do. 0.68

01:22:46.000 Because, I mean, could you imagine all of a sudden you're now a national news story because you were posting stuff in a bunch of group chats that you now regret, and you're 13 years old? 0.68

01:22:57.000 We're now going to hold people as their moral worth for the rest of their life for what they do when they're 13 years old.

01:23:04.000 It's remarkable to me.

01:23:05.000 Thank you for the question.

01:23:06.000 I appreciate it.

01:23:07.000 All right.

01:23:08.000 In closing, everybody, I want to thank you guys for sitting through all that.

01:23:14.000 We live in a great country.

01:23:15.000 I want to speak about California.

01:23:16.000 I know it might seem like you guys are outnumbered, but I have a special place in my heart for California Patriots.

01:23:21.000 I really do.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 24, 2024

The Left STILL Can't Figure Out What Women Are: My Appearance at San Diego State

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