00:00:41.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:48.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:39.000So they deserve applause for that, okay?
00:01:46.000And the second thing, before we get to my main contention, and we can have fun, and anyone who disagrees can go to the front of the line, and we'll have lots of questions, and it'll be great.
00:01:57.000I want to comment on the time I spent out in the main quad area today.
00:02:02.000I appreciated the respect of most of the students that were there.
00:02:04.000For those that don't know, set up a table there for two hours, talk to students.
00:02:10.000Some of the smartest actually that I've had a chance to talk to.
00:02:14.000Misled on a lot of topics, and maybe that'll manifest tonight, but generally very respectful.
00:02:19.000It gave me hope that people can see the world completely differently.
00:02:22.000Started a little bit heated, and then from there, it was interesting to kind of explore a lot of different ideas and topics, especially things you're not allowed to talk about.
00:02:33.000And my goodness, you know, you got the apparatchiks outside.
00:02:36.000By the way, they're more than welcome to come inside and ask questions and have dialogue.
00:02:40.000But it's really interesting as they, you know, heckle at themselves and make themselves feel good while we actually are trying to find things we agree on or at least have clarity over agreement, right?
00:03:15.000You know, the last time I checked, the people that are a fascist are usually the ones that spend their evenings trying to prevent other people to speak.
00:03:23.000If our ideas were so terrible and did not resonate and were so bad, why do you have to spend your time screaming like a crazy person outside?
00:03:32.000Maybe you should just pull up a chair and you might learn something.
00:03:35.000But obviously, at the root of radical left-wing activism, at the root of radical left-wing activism, albeit at age 18, 19, or 20, is complete confidence you figured out the world.
00:04:01.000We're going to talk about them tonight.
00:04:03.000But you should also just be immensely curious in life.
00:04:07.000And American colleges have gone away from this in some sense.
00:04:12.000And I think it's still a fringe minority.
00:04:14.000I sure hope so, because I have a lot of hope, especially based on the conversations I had today.
00:04:19.000But when you're 18, 19, 20, or 21, obviously it's predominantly liberal with the professors and the curriculum and all that.
00:04:25.000But if a conservative comes on campus, if your default position is to go get a microphone and just scream, then that is the death of all curiosity.
00:04:34.000Maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are.
00:04:38.000There might be something you hear, and if not, then you'll be only reconfirmed how smart you actually are and how much you figured out the world.
00:04:46.000But it's very interesting, and I want to just shout out our amazing Turning Point USA students because, and they deserve so much credit.
00:05:17.000Most are able to be comfortable in their arrogant political positions.
00:05:23.000What I have found is that young conservatives, because they're in the ideological minority, they have to be really good at defending their arguments.
00:05:31.000They have to know the counter-arguments.
00:05:34.000They have to be able to cite the studies.
00:05:36.000And I actually think that is a really good thing for the health of the long-term conservative movement.
00:05:42.000Now, minus numbers, like, okay, there might be more young people on the left, totally.
00:05:46.000But I can say this: that the young patriots of Turning Point USA, or just young conservatives in general, you are more prepared to be able to defend your positions, to be able to go into a world where you're not always going to be accepted for your worldview.
00:06:04.000If you graduate college as a tougher person than you entered, then that's great.
00:06:09.000But the question should be: are the people outside going to graduate tougher than they entered?
00:06:13.000No, they're going to graduate more fragile.
00:06:16.000And if you allow young people to stay fragile, they will not just be unhappy, but they're constantly going to be looking for somebody to shut up and somebody to blame, or some institution, some movement, some ism to blame.
00:06:34.000And there is some people to blame in society for sure.
00:06:37.000However, the most important lesson, and I wish it was taught in every college repeatedly, is the biggest person to blame for your problems is yourself.
00:06:45.000Is that it's your decisions, your agency.
00:06:48.000Yes, things, bad things can happen to you, but you will end up leading a much better life and flourish if you end up realizing that I am going to take responsibility for my own actions.
00:06:59.000If I'm not happy, it's because of something I'm doing.
00:07:02.000It's not because of capitalism or whatever nonsense.
00:07:05.000Okay, so the sign I had out today was interesting.
00:07:32.000I mean, just thinking you are something because you wish it to be does not make reality change or comport to your will, unless you're an unbelievable egotistical narcissist and you think everything should realign because you suddenly wake up and think, I want nature to change.
00:07:48.000Like, yeah, you actually didn't create nature, and maybe you should get back in alignment with biological reality.
00:07:53.000Despite that, though, I was actually really curious of what is the Merriam-Webster definition of a delusion.
00:08:03.000Because I use that word, and I think we could all kind of come up with our own definition.
00:08:07.000A delusion is a false belief or judgment about external reality held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, occurring especially in mental conditions.
00:08:23.000And I think we have a lot of delusions in America right now.
00:08:27.000Not just delusional people, that is true, but delusions that we are believing, where despite incontrovertible proof, despite what is in front of us is so clear, we believe something that is the opposite.
00:08:41.000Now, there's a lot of reasons why that happens.
00:08:43.000And the number one reason why this happens, which is why I decide to go to places that I'm not always welcome, is one of the reasons why we are allowing delusions to be institutionalized is because people who know different do not speak out against this obvious mirage, this veneer, this falsehood.
00:09:03.000Is that one of the things I hope to do tonight is to inspire you to be able to say that's not true.
00:10:16.000You could build a whole civilization around that.
00:10:19.000So, under this premise that we're living under a false belief or judgment on external reality, held despite incontrovertible evidence, to the contrary, occurring especially in mental conditions.
00:10:32.000What are some delusions that we should talk about?
00:10:35.000I mean, I'll talk a little bit about the trans one if you guys want.
00:10:40.000I don't think we need to overthink it, but I'm happy to.
00:10:45.000But one that caught people's attention today that I think is really important is this delusion, this lie, that America is somehow systemically racist.
00:10:54.000And we've allowed this cancer, this idea pathogen, to go so far into our institutions.
00:11:02.000Not only is this not true, the opposite is the truth.
00:11:06.000We are the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:11:17.000And the evidence is so over, again, incontrovertible evidence.
00:11:25.000If America was so unbelievably systemically racist, why do so many racial minorities want to do whatever they possibly can to come into this country?
00:11:33.000There are more blacks that have immigrated to America since 1980 than were ever brought immorally in the slave trade, just since 1980.
00:11:42.000If you have a question, there will be an ample opportunity for you to speak your mind.
00:11:45.000And I didn't understand a word you said, but I'm glad you're here tonight.
00:12:34.000However, the promise of America as being fulfilled when I was a kid, and many of you remember a country, we didn't talk about race all the time.
00:12:42.000And here's the one thing that I do want to just mention on this whole race topic that I think is so important.
00:12:47.000Again, not only are we not systemically racist, we're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world, is that the people that are doing a lot of damage to our society would love nothing more than for us to talk about fringe racial ideology all day long, rather than why is it harder than ever for college kids to be able to own homes.
00:13:11.000The reason is that there's a legitimate class war happening in America.
00:13:15.000And this should resonate with some of the lefties if they're honest in this room.
00:13:18.000But they want to try to throw a smokescreen grenade to have you talk about race all the time instead of the fact that BlackRock is going and purchasing single-family homes to rent it back to you.
00:13:35.000In fact, it is not just a distraction.
00:13:38.000It's an excuse for these corporations to get away with it.
00:13:42.000BlackRock thinks they're untouchable because they have 300 black lesbians in some diversity, equity, inclusion department or whatever they have, and they give money to the right social justice warrior causes when in reality, they're making anybody under the age of 30, it will be nearly impossible for you to achieve the same American dream of owning a home and building material wealth.
00:14:03.000They're not the only one to blame, but boy, I would love to have bipartisan hearings on that instead of systemic racism, police brutality, nonsense.
00:14:26.000And it's so bad because when you actually dive into it, it comes down on a lot of different ways where it tries to disempower people from either taking responsibility for their own actions.
00:14:40.000And you're talking about the fact that fathers are no longer present in many black homes in America.
00:14:46.00075% now are in single-family homes or single mother homes, which is a tragedy.
00:14:52.000And instead, we talk all of our time talking, we spend a lot of our time talking about, at least in the propaganda networks and social media and the corporations, on things that actually disguise us from what keeps America bound together.
00:15:10.000Like, I mean, Klaus Schwab from the Great Reset says, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
00:15:14.000And I just want to make sure I emphasize this, that America will cease to be a country that you want to live in when you no longer have a middle class that owns stuff.
00:15:26.000And I know it sounds so materially obvious, but they're trying to get away from self-ownership of goods and into rideshare services or communal living.
00:15:35.000And what that really is, is a permanent corporate oligarchy under their fake woke pagan religion where you no longer have the autonomy or the agency to build intergenerational wealth.
00:15:47.000And instead, we have to have non-stop narrative, non-stop narrative, because these corporations love it.
00:15:53.000And by the way, the CCP loves it too, because then we take our eyes over the fact that we're actually being taken over by a foreign adversary.
00:15:58.000Separate issue, but actually equally important, which is that young people right now, whether it be this bitter lie that you must go to college to succeed, it's not true, that you have to borrow all this money to go to college to get a job.
00:16:12.000There's a ton of response that I have in my book, and I'm happy to talk about it.
00:16:16.000But despite all that, obviously, you guys are in college.
00:16:19.000I don't want to bash the college thing too much, but good luck.
00:16:24.000So, yeah, is they're using these delusions to distract us.
00:16:32.000And any one of the young people, either in this room or outside, that are actively promoting these delusions are not just doing harm to America, they're doing harm to themselves.
00:16:46.000And that's where I actually have a little bit of compassion: is that, and look, driving around Santa Barbara, I can understand why kids get so into these kind of like really weird liberal ideas.
00:16:57.000You kind of, if you live here for a little bit, I bet you can start to think that this is heaven on earth.
00:17:35.000And if we're honest about actually passing down a good country to the next generation, this ideological subversion campaign that is happening in real time in our country and the people that are pushing it need to be confronted.
00:17:53.000It's definitely Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, all of them.
00:17:58.000They know that there's actually a populist movement, probably in both sides of the political spectrum, that is ready to bubble up and ready to actually hold these people accountable and say it's probably not a good thing that we're about to enter into economic collapse.
00:18:16.000People own nothing and are owning less and less.
00:18:19.000Young people are in this kind of form of indentured servitude to their college.
00:18:24.000And the biggest thing that we have to focus on is one or the other is systemic racism or the trans thing or environmentalism, right?
00:19:11.000You could believe all those things, but you must equally admit, you must admit with equal time and equal footing that there's a cost to all things in life.
00:19:18.000And if you decide all of a sudden to shut down something that works, which is the extraction and utilization of hydrocarbons that have lifted more people out of poverty than any other energy source in human history, then you're more worried about an environmental green pagan agenda than actually helping people that are in poverty and need to be able to flourish and succeed.
00:19:41.000And that's fine, if that's your position.
00:19:44.000They're distractions, they're delusions, and I understand people believe them with a lot of fervor.
00:19:51.000Okay, here's what we're living through in a couple nuts and bolts, and then we'll get to some questions: is that ideology is very dangerous.
00:19:58.000Alexander Solshenitsyn wrote the Gulag Archipelago, which was the book that brought down the Soviet Union, and he said that the atrocities, the horrors, the murders, the concentration camps of the Soviet Union was, quote, all thanks to ideology.
00:20:11.000Bad ideas must be confronted, and they must be confronted clearly and passionately and publicly.
00:20:17.000This is not the time to shy away from it.
00:20:19.000I am not exaggerating or engaging in hyperbole when I say that these idea pathogens will do far more damage to America than COVID-19 ever could.
00:20:28.000It will destroy everything that we love and that we care about.
00:20:36.000So one of the ways that we must do it is we must confront it.
00:20:39.000Okay, so I kind of bounced around here a little bit.
00:20:41.000We'll get to some questions, but let me say this in closing.
00:20:45.000I'm thankful for the ability to have dialogue and discourse.
00:20:48.000As we get to questions here, we obviously have a fair amount of conservatives here, which I'm really pleased to see.
00:20:54.000And Santa Barbara, I'm really pleased to see that.
00:20:59.000But let me ask something out of the conservatives here.
00:21:04.000If somebody who does not agree with you comes up to the microphone and says something you would deem to be preposterous, outlandish, do not boo them.
00:21:14.000Instead, thank them for coming to an event where they can have their question hopefully answered, and hopefully do so respectfully.
00:21:20.000I get angry when the left treats conservatives, let's say, not so well, or they act like infants, of which is a leftist, so I repeat myself.
00:21:34.000Instead, allow them to ask the question, thank them for being here, and maybe their mind and somebody else's mind can be changed.
00:21:42.000The final point I'll say is this: as somebody asked me earlier, they said, Charlie, do you think you are being the most persuasive that you can be by saying transgenderism is a delusion?
00:21:55.000But I don't just say things to be persuasive.
00:21:58.000I say them because the spoken truth is a moral good for all to hear.
00:22:05.000And I believe that over the last decade, watering down, cutting corners, taking the easy way out, trying to compromise with absolute institutional insanity has not brought us closer to a free society or a decent society.
00:22:23.000In fact, I think the truth tellers having to self-censor themselves over the last decade has brought us further away from that.
00:22:32.000And based on the murmurs, the smirks, the condescending elitism from 20-year-olds that think they know everything, I can't wait to hear what they have to say.
00:23:14.000I'll start you off with an easier one.
00:23:16.000I just want to know: like, since you've become a father recently, has this changed at all what you are most passionate about promoting to the turning point organization and the public?
00:23:27.000Well, first of all, thank you for mentioning that.
00:23:29.000And by the way, if you disagree, go to the front of the line.
00:24:30.000I kind of have two questions, if that's okay with you.
00:24:32.000So the first one, I don't know if you heard this, a Florida state legislature just introduced a bill to completely cancel the Democrat Party in Florida.
00:24:42.000And second, as a film student at Cal State Long Beach, I'm kind of having thoughts about working in the film industry in Hollywood because they're all woke and stuff.
00:24:50.000So what advice would you give for me as a film major?
00:24:53.000So I'm not familiar with the first bill.
00:26:37.000First of all, I want to thank you for speaking here.
00:26:38.000I think it's important to be exposed to differing ideas, even if you don't necessarily agree.
00:26:44.000I think that's how consensuses are reached.
00:26:46.000So moving into my question, you mentioned that you don't think there's any institutional racism left in this country.
00:26:52.000And I think that's a pretty strong statement that I don't necessarily agree with, especially in our justice system where the United States Sentencing Commission actually contends that black men are 19% more likely to be sentenced, have longer sentences for similar crimes.
00:27:06.000And that's when every other demographic factor is accounted for, like age, income, I guess, area within society.
00:27:12.000So I was wondering what you think about that, particularly because there is that imbalance, and I would regard that as institutional.
00:27:20.000Is the quality of their legal representation factored into the study?
00:27:24.000I'm actually, I can't speak to that because I don't know.
00:27:43.000My contention is the following: there are other reasons to blame disparities other than discrimination a lot.
00:27:50.000And one of my biggest learning moments today on campus is how almost everything gets attributed to racism or discrimination.
00:27:57.000There's a fabulous book I encourage all of you to read, it should be required reading by black economist Thomas Soule called Discriminations and Disparities.
00:28:08.000I think it is discrimination and disparities.
00:28:09.000And he makes the argument there are hundreds of other potential explanations for not just racial groups, but smaller than racial groups, how you go locally, linguistically, and all this.
00:28:22.000I don't think for a second, then you wouldn't either, that Oprah Winfrey, who has a house right down the street, if she committed a crime, that somehow she would not be able to get the best legal help.
00:28:32.000It's not about skin color as much as it is income, which is not about race.
00:28:38.000It's about other choices, such as is there a father in the home?
00:28:41.000For example, if a black has a mom and a dad present, that family and that child has a higher chance of all objective facts of success, college attendance, low likelihood of committing crimes, than a white child that has just a single mother.
00:29:00.000You see, fatherhood transcends color lines.
00:29:05.000And what we have learned through massive macroeconomic studies is that when blacks have fathers around, not only do they succeed as much, they succeed even more sometimes than white families.
00:29:30.000I kind of want to continue the conversation about climate change.
00:29:33.000First of all, thanks for coming to UCSB.
00:29:36.000And I was just wondering: given that you believe human beings are exacerbating climate change, shouldn't you agree that we ought to transition away from fossil fuels?
00:29:48.000I do believe global temperatures are rising.
00:29:50.000I'm not willing to say definitively it's anthropogenic, meaning it's human activity.
00:29:55.000But if you connect the two, I asked the question I asked earlier: how much?
00:29:58.000Are there any other contributing factors to rising global temperatures other than human activity?
00:30:03.000If so, what are they, and to what degree do they factor into rising global temperatures?
00:30:07.000But sure, you want to follow up on that?
00:30:09.000Yeah, I was wondering how you not know whether climate change is happening when a recent survey of 88,125 climate-related studies done by Institutes of Physics cites that more than 99.9% of peer-reviewed scientific papers agree that climate change is caused by human activity.
00:30:44.000So, like, there's actually a statistics or a study done that suggests that climate-related disasters are eight times more likely than in the 1980s.
00:30:56.000You know that we have less people dying because of quote-unquote climate-related disasters thanks to fossil fuels.
00:31:01.000We have less people dying because of extreme exposure to cold, hurricanes, because of the advancements we have thanks to fossil fuels.
00:31:09.000You know, this idea, it's very interesting in modern society.
00:31:12.000We take for granted the idea of having widespread shelter, heating, or air conditioning in extreme climates thanks to hydrocarbons.
00:31:20.000We take for granted that used to be a leading cause of death of human beings up until the 1850s.
00:31:25.000Now, if I posit your contention, climate-related catastrophes, even though, according to peer-reviewed studies, that climate-related catastrophe death is actually at all-time low, the question is then for you, which is what would you get rid of when and what would the cost of that be?
00:31:42.000That is the question, so please answer that.
00:31:44.000Well, I was just wondering, like, you know, you didn't really answer my question, but I was, obviously, I can't give you like exact percentage of numbers, but I do think that we ought to transition away from fossil fuel, right?
00:31:56.000Like, I'm not against growth or development.
00:31:59.000I obviously agree with you that, you know, the Industrial Revolution, like, economic growth is good.
00:32:07.000But in developed countries today, where we have the ability to not damage our economy, but also benefit the environment, shouldn't we do that?
00:33:28.000All right, then that might be conceivable.
00:33:30.000So, I mean, yeah, but anyway, so I would say instead of subsidizing these fossil fuels companies, I would say that take these subsidies to renewables and other forms of cleaner energy that would be beneficial to the environment while still pertaining to the coalition.
00:35:09.000You can't answer the question because deep down you know that cobalt-powered batteries are worse for the environment than liquid and natural gas and nuclear power.
00:35:19.000So, you come up on here to try to virtue signal.
00:35:22.000I love the environment, but as soon as you ask me about the incredibly environmentally inefficient, destructive, animal-killing, acidic-producing batteries, you're a strong man.
00:36:21.000I'm a first-generation immigrant to America.
00:36:23.000Welcome to the India, and in a lot of ways, considering civil rights and civil liberties, I think our constitutions speak the same.
00:36:38.000We believe in giving people the power.
00:36:42.000Regarding abortion in America, and you and I can disagree about when life begins.
00:36:49.000And frankly, I don't care when you think life believes, when you think life begins, but taking a woman's right from her to choose what she wants to do with her body, when you go around campuses with the live-free banner, how guys, please, I warned you about this.
00:37:20.000Yeah, the baby is not free if it's murdered.
00:37:28.000So every human being deserves a right to live free, and therefore, stronger, more developed people should use their power to protect the pre-born so that they're able to live.
00:37:46.000So, my interpretation of when life begins and what life is, is the experiences that people live through.
00:37:56.000Is it not a burden to bring a child into this world when a parent or a single mother or an expecting mother is not ready for it?
00:38:06.000I don't think it does society any good.
00:38:08.000I know I don't have any religious baggage to support a pro-life sort of stance, but how do you think society can benefit, can in any way benefit from bringing a child into this world who has no one to look after, who doesn't have teachers to look after?
00:38:28.000If you were to guess, I don't want to put you too much, you're coming from a good place.
00:38:30.000How many abortions do you think there are in America every year?
00:39:22.000I mean, we could stand here all night and disagree, but I think a woman or a man, I think everyone's right to choose what to do with themselves and their bodies trumps anything and everything.
00:39:37.000So let me add, but do you admit that the baby is not her body?
00:39:42.000It's not like getting a haircut or getting a cosmetic improvement.
00:39:47.000There's a separate being involved, yes?
00:39:51.000And that boils down to your and my interpretation of what that separate being is and when its life and when its life begins.
00:40:01.000The child is inside the mother's body, and the mother needs to have the right to choose whether she wants to go through.
00:40:08.000Why does the location of the being matter to its moral worth?
00:40:13.000We're not going to get anywhere if we can't agree on when the being comes into existence.
00:40:18.000You believe that the child is born when it's conceived.
00:40:23.000I believe a child is born when it's born, when it lives experiences.
00:40:31.000When my baby was 26 weeks old, it would kick in familiarity to my voice, listen to music.
00:40:38.000So experiences, I mean, and why would you draw that line?
00:40:42.000Why not at the creation of the deoxorbonucleic acid, the DNA, when the new being's process into full and complete adult human development begins?
00:40:56.000I wouldn't like to say that you got me dumbfounded, but I think this conversation is essential to what America is.
00:41:10.000And to see what's happened at the Supreme Court and to see how it's affected young people on my campus, young people around America, young people around the world who resoundingly disagree with what you say.
00:41:23.000So I believe I'm not going to stand here and change your mind about this issue, but I think we're going to have to agree with you.
00:41:30.000Yeah, just so we're clear, the Supreme Court sent it back to the states.
00:41:33.000So how the heck did it impact anybody here at Santa Barbara?
00:42:22.000Like a clip on Twitter that I watched.
00:42:25.000I actually watched the clip because most of the people who talk about it just usually they just like see a screenshot of it and then the description.
00:42:32.000But so what you said, so you were talking about Leah Thomas undressing in a locker room in front of other swimmers.
00:42:42.000And you were talking to one of the swimmers who was there.
00:43:11.000In the 50s or 60s, the men, the fathers of those daughters, wouldn't have been able to get there fast enough because the local DA would have already indicted that philandering person for exposing himself to women for his own egocentric narcissism, weird fetish, to pretend he's something he's not.
00:43:43.000So, in relation to the study at the beginning, someone was saying that you were saying that it didn't control for quality of representation.
00:43:52.000But if it controlled for income, which he said that it controlled for income, shouldn't that by consequence also?
00:45:09.000Now, given that Trump's own Attorney General, Bill Barr, said that the DOJ was unable to find any evidence of widespread fraud and that Trump's claims were, quote, bullshit, do you still stand by that claim?
00:45:46.000Is it fair when the Federal Bureau of Investigation meets with the largest social media company, not the largest, one of the largest social media companies, to actively try to suppress a story that would hurt the Bidens and your answer?
00:45:56.000Charlie, I'm asking you a specific question about a statement you made.
00:46:05.000Voter fraud via social media companies, Zuckerboxes, $400 million from the Center for Technology and Civic Life, mass mail-in ballots, relaxed signature verification thresholds, an unconstitutional change to mail and balloting provisions in Pennsylvania, Maricopa County taking eight days to count ballots, Georgia having a suspicious, leaky faucet to count ballots.
00:46:27.000Yes, I stand by the contention, and I could go deeper if you wish, but please continue.
00:46:32.000Bill Barr, Trump's attorney general, Trump's cybersecurity chief, 42 out of 50 Republican senators, multiple conservative Republican governors, all certified Biden is the winner.
00:46:42.000Are they all in on the conspiracy too, or are you lying?
00:47:00.000We decided to upend traditional, bipartisan past election standards because of COVID, where we did mass mail and balloting.
00:47:08.000We relax the singer verification thresholds.
00:47:10.000And then, on top of that, Mark Zuckerberg illegally funded $400 million of ballot drop boxes in key battleground states that has now independently been shown that it was in 87% Democrat-controlled areas.
00:47:23.000On top of that, we were not allowed to talk about on social media, myself included, about the smoking gun of a story that, oh, yeah, by the way, Joe Biden's own son is not just doing business with the Chinese Communist Party, but also with Ukraine, does some really weird personal stuff.
00:48:13.000Some of them don't even know what they're voting for.
00:48:15.000Look what they're doing half the time in Congress.
00:48:17.000Here's what I will say: the American people, especially the American right, know what happened in 2020.
00:48:22.000There was a grassroots movement that was bubbling up in the key battleground states despite COVID and all these measures, and they needed to try to put as many mail in ballots as they possibly could through the system.
00:48:32.000They had an infrastructure due at Center for Technology and Civic Life.
00:48:35.000And the final thing is that well over 20% of Joe Biden's swing voters said they would have changed their vote if they would have known about the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:48:44.000You can thank Yo Roth and the Federal Beer of Investigation for the fact that that never happened.
00:49:37.000I'm not here to give specific advice to specific people, you know, because everybody's career path is different.
00:49:43.000But also, if you're not studying something that you think is going to be, you know, have a lot of market viability, and if you're a freshman or sophomore, then that might be the right choice, it might not be.
00:49:52.000But if you have a lot of passion and a lot of zeal for a very specific, you know, for a very specific industry or a very specific thing or a skill, then go for it.
00:50:02.000College is not for all people, but it is for some people.
00:50:15.000I am welcoming Booze as saying I am a Marxist.
00:50:19.000I'm very left-leaning, but I'm here to find some common ground with you.
00:50:23.000Your critiques of the monopolistic tendencies of multinational corporations align very closely with my beliefs as viewing the world through a class lens as being the major axis of inequality in this country.
00:50:36.000My question is: as a member, a leader of a conservative organization that really condemns large government, how do you address this ever-growing power and these monopolistic tendencies without using the federal government and big government?
00:51:03.000But the Marxists, their fascination with class is not wrong.
00:51:08.000And there is a place where class warfare is legitimate and ugly and cruel, and that powerful people are trying to stomp on people that don't have as much as they have.
00:51:17.000Do I think it's as plain and simple as Marx and Engels put out?
00:51:22.000But I do think that a bipartisan diagnosis of kind of class issues is something that's very interesting.
00:51:30.000I'd be curious to get your thoughts as a Marxist of why we talk about race all the time, because that will tell me what kind of Marxist you are.
00:52:04.000They want regulation that only they can afford.
00:52:06.000So the next social media company like Rumble is not able to pay the same that they're able to pay for that sort of data hosting, lawyer fees, and all that sort of stuff.
00:52:14.000So look, I think we can both agree, though, crony capitalism or cronyism is awful and wrong, and that entrepreneurial, bottom-up focused solutions is a beautiful thing.
00:52:26.000Where we will disagree, though, is that if you are a Marxist, and you seem too sweet to be a Marxist, so I'll put that aside.
00:52:32.000But is do you believe by definition in the entrepreneurial activity will result in exploitation and will result in the concentration of one person benefiting from the other?
00:53:26.000I think because so much industry has gone overseas with certain trade agreements, usually like very large corporations that dominate employment in America.
00:53:37.000So I don't think small businesses are doing very well, especially after the pandemic.
00:53:54.000So think about that, because I do think that exploitation happens, but largely, I think that there still is this amazing foundation of goodness in our markets of most people that are not trying to game somebody, but instead offer a service, and most people that are willing to trade their value, their time for that other service.
00:55:02.000Anyways, what I was curious about is the varying studies that you refer to.
00:55:08.000You name a lot of studies, not by name, but you reference them, saying that a lot of things show that climate is not related to anthropogenic results.
00:55:16.000I was curious, because I know a lot of studies that are related to that, do you think that more should be looked into?
00:55:21.000Like, we should maybe focus on this a little bit because the climate is changing.
00:55:24.000You know, we're getting forest fires, places where there's rain.
00:55:26.000You know, Europe's starting to cool down with the AMOC slowing, et cetera.
00:55:30.000Yeah, I mean, we should have research in the pursuit of truth always.
00:55:36.000My concern is that people that are quote unquote in the scientific elite community, they have a pretty bad track record the last couple years.
00:55:44.000And the people that told us that it was science to go jogging outside with a mask, or that it was science to lock kids and not put them in schools, or that it was science that the mRNA gene-altering shot they call a vaccine was safe and effective.
00:56:02.000Maybe you can relieve me of that concern with robust, peer-reviewed, actually transparent studies and people disclosing their government funding that might be conflicting, right?
00:56:12.000But no, and I mean that non-sarcastically.
00:56:14.000But I do not profess to have comprehended every study out there.
00:56:20.000I will ask the same question I asked earlier: what do you think should be done?
00:56:25.000My answer is more exploration of hydrocarbons and more using of them, not less.
00:56:43.000Well, that's interesting because, at least from what I've seen, this kind of protection of the elite seems to have infected the entire body politic of science.
00:56:56.000So maybe you're right, but please continue.
00:56:58.000Meaning, it seems to have gone from epidemiology to psychology to any part of the sciences seems to kind of be in harmony of the same sort of mantras, if you will, of what I would call wokeism.
00:57:49.000Where is they continue to uphold the reputation of UCSB, which is to publicly make fools of oneself in front of millions of people on YouTube?
00:59:03.000Okay, and following that, you said duty to your country is pretty important, and you have a pretty big following here and all around the U.S. Do you ever have any intentions of going into office with that?
00:59:37.000As a student, as a student leader here in this community and a leader with something big, and I think this is a good question for a lot of other people here.
00:59:48.000What do you, Mr. Kirk, think the best way to practice leadership and do leadership is?
01:00:17.000George S. Patton said, lead, follow, get out of the way.
01:00:20.000For those of you in leadership positions, the best way I had leadership described to me is the ability to effectively judge is the wrong word, but effectively be able to read people and organize them effectively.
01:00:48.000It seems this event is fueled on polarity on a polarity planet, which I'm a fan of.
01:00:53.000But this question is about your intent towards the trans narrative.
01:00:57.000I'm curious your take on the theory that the rise in gay and trans communities might be associated with the great poisoning of our physical environment, which has systematically created imbalances in testosterone and estrogen.
01:01:10.000The chemical astrazine has been proven to turn male frogs into female frogs.
01:01:13.000Could it be that we are intentionally being polarized and weaponized when the actual people, politicians, corporations, and institutions that have profits and toxins on their hands are laughing at the theatricality of this distraction between the religious right and the woke-wing left?
01:02:52.000Yeah, I mean, I think it should build anger, though, man.
01:02:55.000Like, if we find out that there has been a campaign of not telling the truth and producing products to young people and all people that have incredible damaging effects to your hormones, empathy, sure, let's get mad at the people that did it.
01:03:15.000Yeah, basically saying that would that direct some of that anger away from the trans people who are screaming outside towards the actual people who are committing the atrocities.
01:03:25.000Yeah, look, again, you got quite a theory here.
01:03:27.000It might be right, might not be right.
01:03:29.000Here's what I do know: we have to find points of widespread agreement against people that are treating us very poorly.
01:03:37.000And I think that, I don't know, the idea that you should be able to own a home in America by the time you're 30 is something that I think 80 to 90 percent of Americans should be able to agree on.
01:03:47.000That's what I kind of said with the BlackRock example.
01:03:49.000But I'd have to think more deeply about your theory.
01:04:27.000I think a prudent, moderate law should be if you're managing over a trillion dollars in assets, you shouldn't be able to buy single-family homes.
01:05:35.000I got mocked and ridiculed last year when I said that we should stop building tall, tall buildings that are cloistered in urban centers and that we should encourage young people to go out into the farmland, into the rural areas, and build a life.
01:05:49.000I was mocked relentlessly by the left where they said the cities are the best thing ever.
01:06:07.000We know you're less likely to actually build equity in a home.
01:06:10.000And I actually think it makes you further disconnected from the land.
01:06:13.000And so three things that are kind of my politics that are really simple, which is more young people should get mortgages, get married, and have kids.
01:06:21.000I think those three things would make America a much more conservative country.
01:06:24.000And if you live in downtown LA or downtown San Francisco, yes, you can buy a home, but most young people, young professionals, they're not able to build together the down payment necessary for that, let alone the mortgage payment or the cost of living.
01:06:43.000Delayed gratification and wealth creation is a moral good for all of society.
01:06:47.000My fear is this generation is going to be the first one in recent memory that is going to be so out of grasp, and they are going to be a nation of renters, not a nation of homeowners or property owners.
01:06:59.000And that creates a lot, creates bad politics, bad economics, and in some ways it paves the way for really, really radical Marxist ideas.
01:07:06.000Because if you have a generation that owns nothing, they're not going to feel very guilty about taking everything away from people that do.
01:07:43.000I can find you Jews who are pro-Jew who would also share these same, or some of these statements that were written, from the river to the sea, meaning equal rights for everyone between the Mediterranean and the Jordan, not a faith-based theocracy that was founded on top of Christians and Muslims that were indigenous.
01:08:26.000The question is: the chancellor asked people to inform if they knew who wrote these statements.
01:08:33.000And whoever wrote these statements on a bullet whiteboard in a classroom, which I consider chilling.
01:08:40.000And the sheriff's office asked for information about people passing out leaflets that were claimed to be, they were never claimed to be threatening in any way.
01:09:36.000We're generalizing based on someone you don't like in your characterization.
01:09:40.000And Netanyahu is a very nice man, I'm sure.
01:09:42.000But the point is: is this not chilling if they don't like the position and then they call for students, faculty, I don't know enough about the situation, but you have not won me over because that particular phrase is an incantation of direct Jew hatred that is used repeatedly of violence against Israel.
01:10:02.000So you have not persuaded me to the contrary.
01:10:13.000It sounds like an overreach, probably, like, but I don't know the situation.
01:10:17.000But you haven't won favor with me with that statement because I happen to know that when rockets are descending over the Holy Land, that is repeated time and time again.
01:11:22.000I mean, if you actually go through Pinterest and you read some of this stuff, instead it should be, I'm not all who I could possibly be.
01:11:29.000Maybe it should be a challenge to oneself, not a non-stop romantic love campaign with yourself.
01:11:35.000In fact, I think it creates more misery and more depression the more people think that they're in a romantic relationship with themselves.
01:11:43.000You should have respect for yourself, but you should have respect enough to say that I could be more than I am today, and I'm going to delay my own immediate gratification.
01:11:52.000And you should have love instead for the divine or for the creator, more specifically, in my view, the creator that took human form, Jesus Christ, that allows you to live forever.
01:12:03.000And so there are, let me be clear, there's a lot of good people that are into the self-help, self-love thing.
01:12:50.000Instead, it should be a pursuit and a journey towards development.
01:12:54.000That I am not there, but I'm going to keep on trying to either lose weight or improve my diet, stop lying, get better friends, find faith, and then maybe I can be a better version of myself.