The Charlie Kirk Show - July 23, 2023


The Man in the Arena: My Speech to the International Order of Teddy Roosevelt


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In this episode, Tucker Carlson talks about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and why he believes God is speaking through the audio of the last speech he gave the night before he was killed. He also talks about why we should embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
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00:01:26.000 I was watching the other day.
00:01:28.000 I'm actually not a huge Martin Luther King fan or whatever, super flawed guy.
00:01:32.000 But I was watching the last, the audio.
00:01:35.000 I was listening to the audio of the last speech that he gave the night before he was killed, April 3rd, 1968.
00:01:40.000 He was killed the next afternoon.
00:01:42.000 And he gave this speech, and he had just been like cheating with a bunch of different women.
00:01:46.000 Okay.
00:01:46.000 Yeah, he had a tendency to.
00:01:48.000 Oh, my gosh.
00:01:48.000 No, he was like sexually out of control.
00:01:51.000 But he gave this speech in which he clearly predicted his own death.
00:01:55.000 Like, there is no doubt if you listen to this that God is speaking through Martin Luther King.
00:01:59.000 And again, I don't like Martin Luther King's program.
00:02:01.000 I don't like his behaviors.
00:02:04.000 You know, worshiping Martin Luther King is absurd to me.
00:02:06.000 But I got to say, if you listen to that speech, God is speaking through Martin Luther King.
00:02:10.000 There's no other explanation for that.
00:02:13.000 And you're like, well, that's kind of consistent with what we know.
00:02:16.000 We're all flawed.
00:02:18.000 The people in charge tend to be more flawed.
00:02:21.000 But it doesn't mean that they're not capable of greatness.
00:02:24.000 So let's just be honest about it.
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00:03:19.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:03:21.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:03:23.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:03:26.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:03:30.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:03:31.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:03:32.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
00:03:39.000 Turning point USA.
00:03:40.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:49.000 That's why we are here.
00:03:53.000 Wonderful surprise and honor to be here, everybody.
00:03:56.000 There's so many familiar faces.
00:03:58.000 I just want to first express my gratitude.
00:04:01.000 Many of you came up to me in the cocktail hour and they said, Charlie, I remember 10 years ago when you were at SCI, our Dallas Safari Club, introducing yourself for Weatherbee.
00:04:12.000 And I was talking to Sackmans earlier and so many amazing friends here.
00:04:18.000 And it really is this community that helped get Turning Point USA to the level it is today.
00:04:24.000 And I got to tell you, what we're doing every day, I believe, is America's best hope.
00:04:29.000 We are on thousands of high school college campuses across the country, fighting for the Constitution, fighting for American exceptionalism.
00:04:38.000 And I see Reedy Snyder back there, who's been a great friend for many years.
00:04:42.000 So many amazing people.
00:04:43.000 And many of you entertained me when I said, hey, we're going to try to start a youth movement.
00:04:48.000 And it sounded a little over the top and a little bit grandiose and very bold, but so many of you supported us financially and believed in us.
00:04:58.000 And I'm eternally grateful for that.
00:05:01.000 And so thank you.
00:05:02.000 And a lot's changed in 10 years.
00:05:04.000 10 years ago, it was a completely different country.
00:05:08.000 There are some of these forces that were growing in America, but the idea that 10 years ago we would have in our schools outward anti-Americanism as bad as it is today, it would be maybe on the fringes, maybe in Seattle, right, maybe in Portland or maybe New York, but it wouldn't be institutionalized.
00:05:30.000 What we have lived through over the last 10 years, and I want to emphasize why it's so important what you are doing tonight, why what you're doing tonight is so important, is we have kind of lived through our own version of a cultural revolution in the last 10 years.
00:05:43.000 And that's a radical thing to say, but the fact that our own military now, our military, is saying that men can give birth, that that's the United States military.
00:05:54.000 That's turned into almost like a college campus with tomahawk missiles.
00:05:59.000 And this cultural revolution we've lived through over the last couple years has started because, in my personal opinion, we did not do the education of our young people correctly or boldly.
00:06:10.000 Our mission statement at Turning Point USA is very clear.
00:06:13.000 We want your grandkids to live in a free America.
00:06:16.000 Is that true?
00:06:17.000 We want your grandkids to live in a country that is a free society.
00:06:22.000 In fact, some people say, well, Charlie, it's political.
00:06:25.000 I have very strong political views.
00:06:26.000 It's actually not political.
00:06:28.000 It's not political to say that you want American values to pass down from one generation to the other.
00:06:34.000 People who think that's political, they're part of the problem in the country.
00:06:38.000 It should not be a political statement to say that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers and Abraham Lincoln were some of the most exceptional people ever to live and were recipients of this incredible project that we call the United States of America.
00:06:54.000 You see, I visit college campuses, so you don't have to.
00:06:57.000 And bring in the good message of conservation and the Second Amendment and hunting and the Constitution.
00:07:04.000 And I can tell you, as I visit these college campuses, it's very clear that a majority of our nation's young people, they're going into debt, they're going to these colleges to learn a set of ideas that will create ingratitude.
00:07:19.000 Somebody asked me the other day, said, Charlie, what does success look like for you?
00:07:24.000 I said, I want to create a younger generation that has gratitude and is thankful to be an American.
00:07:30.000 One of the biggest issues in our country is that if you're not thankful for something, then why wouldn't you destroy that something?
00:07:38.000 And that's why what I think you're doing with the International Order of Teddy Roosevelt is so beautiful and so important.
00:07:44.000 Because isn't that what conservation is all about?
00:07:47.000 Is it rooted in gratitude and understanding?
00:07:50.000 You know, I made a quip at the table that said, Charlie, are you going to talk about conservation tonight?
00:07:54.000 I said, I absolutely will.
00:07:56.000 I'm also going to talk about the greatest conservational project of all, conserving the United States of America for future generations.
00:08:03.000 That's the biggest conservation project that I think all of us can purchase.
00:08:07.000 But I want to mention one thing: Teddy Roosevelt.
00:08:13.000 What a man.
00:08:15.000 And I am so thrilled that you decided to name your entire order around Teddy Roosevelt.
00:08:21.000 I'm going to riff on Teddy Roosevelt for a second.
00:08:24.000 For those of you that have not studied the courage, the boldness, the eccentricity of Teddy Roosevelt, I encourage you to do it.
00:08:32.000 Teddy Roosevelt, of course, was a hunter and a conservationist.
00:08:35.000 Very few people know that he was a former police captain of New York City.
00:08:41.000 He was governor of New York, an accidental vice president, who then became an accidental president because of assassination. 0.97
00:08:49.000 Teddy Roosevelt didn't take crap from anybody.
00:08:51.000 In fact, he was accused of being, let's just say, if Teddy Roosevelt had Twitter, I think we know exactly what people would say about Teddy Roosevelt. 0.74
00:09:01.000 Let's just put it that way.
00:09:02.000 Teddy Roosevelt would be sending out a lot of mean tweets.
00:09:05.000 But you know what?
00:09:06.000 Teddy Roosevelt loved America, and Teddy Roosevelt left an impact.
00:09:10.000 He left a permanent footprint of something that was very rare in the early 1900s, citizen-led government.
00:09:17.000 He started something that could be called the populist movement.
00:09:20.000 I just, honestly, I call it the pro-American movement, where he said, you know what?
00:09:26.000 There's some things that I love and I treasure.
00:09:28.000 For example, he was very worried about the destruction of the American middle class.
00:09:31.000 We should be also worried about that today.
00:09:33.000 The middle class is disappearing.
00:09:35.000 But Teddy Roosevelt had a heart also for the things that he believed were created by God.
00:09:40.000 Natural beauty.
00:09:41.000 And we can thank Teddy Roosevelt for being America's greatest conservation president by far, for giving us Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park, hundreds of millions of acres of now untouched beauty that future generations can enjoy.
00:09:56.000 Teddy Roosevelt, most people don't even know this, he brokered peace and won a Nobel Peace Prize.
00:10:02.000 People don't know this for ending the Russo-Japanese war very quickly.
00:10:06.000 You see, he had a very interesting negotiation style.
00:10:10.000 Now, we would have no comparison today of anybody that was like this.
00:10:13.000 Grandiose, bold, talked a lot, you know, was hated by the press, called the news fake news.
00:10:19.000 You would have no idea anything like that.
00:10:21.000 It's a foreign concept, actually.
00:10:23.000 Teddy Roosevelt ended a war that people said was unique, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people.
00:10:30.000 He did it basically an afternoon.
00:10:31.000 It was a great book breaking about it.
00:10:33.000 More than anything else, though, the legacy of Teddy Roosevelt that I hope all of you appreciate and enjoy, and you dwell on and you pray about, is a legacy of action.
00:10:45.000 My favorite quote of Teddy Roosevelt, and I'm going to paraphrase it, but the essence is what matters, is he said, the man in the arena is what counts.
00:10:53.000 It's not enough to be a spectator or a bystander.
00:10:57.000 It's the man who gets stuffed up, it's the person who gets spat at, the person who gets insulted.
00:11:02.000 It's the person in the arena.
00:11:04.000 And I think we need more citizens right now in the arena fighting for the future of America.
00:11:08.000 We need more of that kind of Teddy Roosevelt spirit.
00:11:12.000 And I'm really thrilled you guys decided to name your organization after him.
00:11:17.000 There's a lot we can learn from him.
00:11:19.000 He lived a full life, and Huntington was a big part of his life.
00:11:22.000 It was his release.
00:11:23.000 But he was also just a physical specimen.
00:11:26.000 If you read about Teddy Roosevelt, he would exercise like two or three hours a day.
00:11:30.000 I mean, most people don't know this.
00:11:31.000 And that was back before air conditioning.
00:11:33.000 And I mean, he was an absolute beast.
00:11:36.000 And he loved America and was willing to do a lot about it.
00:11:40.000 But Teddy Roosevelt did wrong.
00:11:42.000 And this is one thing he did wrong.
00:11:44.000 And we could probably take some, again, I'm not sure how appropriate this is.
00:11:48.000 My one piece of advice to, let's just say, a former president: do not run as a third party.
00:11:53.000 Let's just say that.
00:11:55.000 Teddy Roosevelt ran, as well peaceful, a lot of people know this.
00:11:57.000 Teddy Roosevelt ran as a third party in the 1912 election against William Howard Taft and gave us one of the worst presidents in American history, Woodrow Wilson.
00:12:06.000 So, as we're learning lessons from Teddy Roosevelt, let's just all agree we're not going to put up with former presidents running in third parties. 0.51
00:12:13.000 I think that's a good idea, right?
00:12:14.000 I don't think that's something we should do anyway.
00:12:16.000 I'm not sure how applicable it is.
00:12:18.000 But the point being is, it actually gave us the progressive era, Woodrow Wilson.
00:12:22.000 Woodrow Wilson was an academic from New Jersey.
00:12:25.000 He was former president of Princeton University.
00:12:28.000 And Woodrow Wilson is a complete 180 opposite of Teddy Roosevelt.
00:12:32.000 Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election won to a 46-47% of the vote.
00:12:37.000 He won because William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt split the then Republican vote between the Bull Loose Party and the Republican Party.
00:12:44.000 Woodrow Wilson was the first American president to declare war on the American founding.
00:12:50.000 Woodrow Wilson, as an academic, represents everything that many of your grandkids and kids learn if they go to college.
00:12:56.000 And it's everything that we are fighting against and everything the International Order of Teddy Roosevelt pushes against.
00:13:01.000 Woodrow Wilson believed that you must change your truth claims.
00:13:09.000 You must change the Constitution because the times change.
00:13:13.000 For example, he'd say, you know, now that we have a steam-powered engine and we have the Industrial Revolution, who needs a founding fathers?
00:13:21.000 We could throw that document away.
00:13:23.000 He basically said that repeatedly.
00:13:25.000 It's exactly what we hear today, isn't it?
00:13:27.000 We now hear from our leaders that the Second Amendment is completely irrelevant.
00:13:30.000 Now that we have Twitter and new airplanes, we no longer need the First Amendment.
00:13:34.000 But we, as people that understand the American tradition, know that the Constitution is actually more applicable today than any other time in American history.
00:13:44.000 The Constitution, because it's rooted on eternal truths.
00:13:47.000 And this is something that we talk about every single day at Turning Point USA, which is that times change, technology changes, but human beings do not change.
00:13:56.000 Human beings are just as broken and awful today as they were in the 1780s and 1790s.
00:14:02.000 Why is that important?
00:14:03.000 It means that, regardless of all the technology around us, the boundaries and the promises of the Constitution do not change.
00:14:11.000 Said differently, the Constitution was not written for the times.
00:14:14.000 It was written to stand the test of time.
00:14:17.000 It was written to be able to stand up against tyrants that want to take our guns away, against tyrants that want to prevent us from being free and engaging in self-government.
00:14:27.000 And we're partnering every single day with the International Order of Teddy Roosevelt.
00:14:31.000 I'm pleased to announce, thanks to your support and what you announced tonight, last week we had an amazing thing.
00:14:37.000 Over 170 of our Turning Point USA chapters did an entire conservation activism week.
00:14:43.000 High school and college kids that are talking about hunting and conservation.
00:14:47.000 This is in the grassroots.
00:14:48.000 This is real impact stuff.
00:14:50.000 In fact, so much, I just have these notes, we have over 200 other college chapters that want to do the conservation week and bring speakers on campus and talk about hunting.
00:15:00.000 This is a grassroots movement, and this is something we talked about when we did the board meeting last summer.
00:15:05.000 I think this is the greatest, this is one of the greatest opportunities for the hunting community ever to be able to tell the beautiful story of what it means to go out in the woods without your phone, without TikTok, and be in touch with something that God created.
00:15:20.000 You see, this is the most depressed, miserable, alcohol-addicted, and drug-addicted generation in history.
00:15:25.000 You know who some of the happiest people are in the world?
00:15:28.000 Hunters.
00:15:29.000 Because they're not staring at their phone all day long.
00:15:31.000 They're doing tough stuff throughout the nature.
00:15:34.000 They have to figure out how to, I mean, some of the hunts that you go, I mean, Barbara Sackman, I got to tell you, Reed Snyder, I mean, I couldn't do those hunts.
00:15:42.000 I mean, you're not going to go to something that takes you five weeks to find is unbelievable.
00:15:49.000 But you know what?
00:15:51.000 That's a lot more fulfilling than just scrolling through your Instagram feed all day long.
00:15:56.000 We want to heal some of the mental health problems.
00:15:58.000 It's a big problem in our country. 1.00
00:15:59.000 Let's get more young people to get out in the woods and hunt. 1.00
00:16:02.000 Let's get more people to get out of nature. 0.94
00:16:04.000 It's going to solve a lot of problems.
00:16:08.000 And it's something that I think is, you don't have to overthink it, actually.
00:16:12.000 It's who we are as a species.
00:16:15.000 It's what we did.
00:16:16.000 You see, this idea that all your food is given to you with almost no effort and you have to sit in the air conditioning.
00:16:22.000 I think it's making us deeply disturbed as a society.
00:16:27.000 My favorite book of last year that I recommend for all of you to read is called Comfort Crisis.
00:16:32.000 It's fabulous.
00:16:33.000 In fact, when I read Comfort Crisis, I thought of so many of you West Gates and my kingdom, and those of you that do these unbelievably adventurous hunts, and you go into the wild and you go into the wilderness.
00:16:43.000 The argument that author Michael Easter writes in the book Hunker Crisis is that we are unhappy as a people because we're no longer in the wild.
00:16:52.000 That's what the whole book is about.
00:16:54.000 And he proves it scientifically, he proves it neurologically.
00:16:57.000 He proves it that this generation is the most out-of-touch generation in history to what it takes to survive.
00:17:05.000 And we do not have the ability to then replace going out in nature, physical activity, charting your own pork, having to survive for an evening in, let's just say, less than ideal climate, that three meals a day provided to you in perfect 71-degree temperatures, staring at a screen all day long.
00:17:26.000 His argument in the book Hunker Crisis is that the crisis facing us today is a crisis unlike any other.
00:17:32.000 100 years ago, it was a crisis of how do we solve communicable diseases?
00:17:36.000 The crisis 500 years ago is how do we feed everybody.
00:17:39.000 The crisis 1,000 years ago is how do we get drinking water?
00:17:42.000 The crisis actually today is how do we keep our young people from killing themselves because they have everything that they need and they don't know what to do with themselves.
00:17:50.000 The answer is not that complicated. 0.99
00:17:52.000 Put them out in the wild and say go kill some. 0.99
00:17:55.000 It's not that complicated. 1.00
00:17:57.000 Figure it out.
00:18:01.000 I truly believe, and I can go on at length about this.
00:18:05.000 We have a crisis of masculinity in America.
00:18:07.000 We really do.
00:18:08.000 You want to solve part of the crisis of masculinity in America?
00:18:12.000 Put forth a challenge to the young men. 0.88
00:18:14.000 For one week, can you just eat what you hunt?
00:18:17.000 I'll give you the ammunition.
00:18:18.000 I'll give you a rifle.
00:18:19.000 I'll give you whatever.
00:18:19.000 Can you eat what you want?
00:18:22.000 Prior generations say, yeah, of course, that's what we do every night. 0.89
00:18:26.000 I think that one of the reasons we're seeing the rise of, let's just say, very feminine men.
00:18:31.000 And it's sometimes men who think they're women, which only get me started.
00:18:34.000 I promise I wouldn't talk about that stuff tonight.
00:18:38.000 Is anyone drinking Bud Lead tonight?
00:18:39.000 I should have done that.
00:18:40.000 There's nothing wrong with you at all.
00:18:42.000 There's nothing but that's all I'll say.
00:18:46.000 Is we have a nation of young people and a generation that is out of touch with what is most natural to them.
00:18:55.000 And so we are proud, we're thankful to bring this message.
00:18:58.000 Now, with millions of young people at Turning Point USA, we are reaching millions of people on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and make no mistake, all these things come together.
00:19:08.000 There is a war against hunting, just the same there is a war against the Second Amendment.
00:19:14.000 I don't have to convince you of that one.
00:19:15.000 Just in the last couple days, the state of Washington has passed an assault rifle ban.
00:19:20.000 Illinois, I think, is outsane, right, John?
00:19:22.000 Oh, well, you just said something wacky and crazy.
00:19:24.000 And I know there's a lot of lawsuits against it.
00:19:28.000 I'm one of the few people that has a sizable platform that's willing to say what needs to be said off the Second Amendment.
00:19:37.000 I'm going to just reiterate it for tonight, which is the Second Amendment is not about hunting.
00:19:42.000 I'm glad we're able to hunt.
00:19:44.000 The Second Amendment is not even about personal protection.
00:19:47.000 I'm glad we have that.
00:19:49.000 The Second Amendment is, God forbid, for us to defend ourselves against a government that might go tyrannical.
00:19:57.000 That's why we have a Second Amendment. 1.00
00:19:59.000 Now that freaks some people out.
00:20:02.000 That might make people nervous.
00:20:04.000 But you have to say that over and over again.
00:20:06.000 You know why?
00:20:07.000 Because if we say it's just for hunting, then they're going to get rid of any gun except things that are only used for hunting.
00:20:12.000 The point is this, is the founding fathers wrote explicitly that the intent of the Second Amendment was to protect all the other amendments.
00:20:20.000 And who are we that all of a sudden turn our back on 20th century history?
00:20:24.000 Every major totalitarian, tyrant, and despot disarmed the citizenry before they did their mass acts of evil.
00:20:31.000 I pray it never comes to that in America.
00:20:34.000 But boy, I'll tell you what, the people that want to take our weapons away, I do not trust their intentions.
00:20:40.000 I don't trust their intentions because they're unwilling to talk about some of the root causes that are actually driving gun violence, which is the lack of fathers in our home in America.
00:20:49.000 If there were more fathers in our homes in Chicago or Philadelphia, there would be less gun violence.
00:20:54.000 You know, we're the only country in America, the only country in the world that counts death by suicide with a firearm as a firearm death.
00:21:01.000 Do you know that there's about 32,000 gun deaths every single year, or less 3235,000 deaths by guns?
00:21:08.000 Two-thirds of them, two-thirds of them are death by suicide with the gun.
00:21:12.000 Now, that's a problem.
00:21:14.000 But that is not a gun problem.
00:21:16.000 That is a mental health crisis that is being used as a way to try to take our weapons away.
00:21:21.000 Those are two totally different issues.
00:21:22.000 The second issue, the next biggest population of gun crimes, is gang-related urban pistol gun crime, mostly of black on black or Hispanic on Hispanic crime in 10 cities.
00:21:37.000 You remove those two things, death by suicide and gang-related firearms, you're talking about less than 2,000 gun deaths every single year in a country of 330 million people.
00:21:50.000 Every death is a tragedy.
00:21:52.000 I'm not minimizing.
00:21:53.000 I'm instead adding context.
00:21:55.000 Because if you watch the major networks, it would make it seem as if gun deaths and mass shootings are the number one cause of death in America.
00:22:02.000 And it's not.
00:22:03.000 Here's a fact.
00:22:04.000 A young person is exponentially more likely to kill themselves than die in a mass shooting.
00:22:10.000 Mass shootings are a problem.
00:22:11.000 We could solve them if we had people with guns protecting our schools the same way we have people with guns protecting our sporting events and our banks and our airports.
00:22:20.000 Very simple.
00:22:20.000 More good guys with guns against bad lunatics that come, you can end these shootings very, very quickly.
00:22:26.000 The issue at hand, though, we know this, is that there has been a decades-long agenda to disarm the American public.
00:22:32.000 Now, some of you might disagree.
00:22:34.000 Some of you might say, I just came here for hunting and conservation.
00:22:37.000 That's fine.
00:22:40.000 But hear me out.
00:22:41.000 That the liberties we enjoy, Fourth Amendment liberties, 10th Amendment liberties, First Amendment liberties, all hinges in our ability to defend those liberties.
00:22:49.000 And just again, look at the 20th century. 0.75
00:22:51.000 Over 100 million people were murdered after they disarmed the citizenry. 0.91
00:22:55.000 Now, we must be willing to say this repeatedly, because that is the true intent of the Second Amendment.
00:23:00.000 And I love the Constitution because the Constitution is very important.
00:23:03.000 We talk about this every day at Turning Point USA.
00:23:05.000 The Constitution are not rules for us.
00:23:07.000 This is why the founders were so brilliant.
00:23:09.000 The Constitution is rules for our government.
00:23:12.000 Think about that.
00:23:13.000 They started with what the government cannot do.
00:23:16.000 Shall not infringe on our speech.
00:23:18.000 Shall not be infringed.
00:23:19.000 Shall not search and seizure.
00:23:22.000 Why would they do that?
00:23:23.000 Because their biggest fear was not individual people doing evil.
00:23:27.000 The biggest fear of the designers of the Constitution, in particular, James Madison and John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, the biggest fear was government coming after free people to make them free no longer.
00:23:40.000 The purpose of the United States Constitution is recognizing God-granted rights and making sure the government doesn't come afterwards.
00:23:46.000 And this is one of the things I love that the International Order of Teddy Roosevelt is doing so beautifully.
00:23:51.000 You guys are pushing for states to now allow hunting and fishing access.
00:23:56.000 Because the other beautiful wrinkle of the Constitution is that it's the states that created the federal government.
00:24:02.000 The federal government did not create the states.
00:24:05.000 And now, in some ways, this is troubling. 0.88
00:24:07.000 It's troubling because all those different Americas are being created. 1.00
00:24:10.000 And honestly, in some ways, it's promising.
00:24:12.000 It's promising that we're able to be here in Naples, Florida, that is significantly a freer state than Connecticut.
00:24:18.000 That is a good thing.
00:24:20.000 It's a good thing that certain states can say, you know what, we're not going to do a woke stuff.
00:24:24.000 We're not going to have these crazy gun laws. 0.98
00:24:26.000 We're going to have open carry or concealed caring.
00:24:29.000 States are willing to save so many of our liberties, everybody.
00:24:33.000 And that is a bottom-up citizen-led movement.
00:24:36.000 I want to mention a couple other things.
00:24:38.000 And when I visit these college campuses, I'm asked frequently by these students.
00:24:43.000 They say, what is good about America?
00:24:45.000 And for them, what they're saying is they've been taught that America is the worst country ever.
00:24:50.000 If you were to summarize Turning Point USA to a friend or why it's important to support our work, it's very simple.
00:24:56.000 If you do not teach a generation why their home is worthy of protection, they will not protect that home.
00:25:04.000 Excuse us analogy.
00:25:06.000 It's a little bit blunt.
00:25:07.000 But we are a nation suffering from Alzheimer's.
00:25:10.000 We have forgot our history.
00:25:13.000 And we're unwilling to articulate it.
00:25:15.000 We are the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:25:18.000 Not only do we have a history we should talk about, we have a history we should celebrate every single day in the classroom of our era.
00:25:25.000 We have a history that we should clean in and say, no other history as the name of no other country has been able to be so generous, so benevolent, so productive, so uplifting of all people of different races and backgrounds.
00:25:36.000 And of course, sometimes they'll say, well, Charlie, what about slavery?
00:25:40.000 Here's one thing that we all have in common.
00:25:42.000 We're all born into a world we did not create.
00:25:45.000 Every founding father was born into a world where slavery was everywhere.
00:25:49.000 By the time those founding fathers died, slavery was on its way out.
00:25:52.000 The first anti-slavery convention was hosted by Benjamin Franklin in 1775.
00:25:57.000 The first state ever to abolish slavery was Vermont in 1776.
00:26:00.000 Nine out of 13 of the original colonies had independently eradicated slavery by the time the Constitutional Convention came around in 1787.
00:26:09.000 This country started the abolition of slavery.
00:26:12.000 And before your liberal friend gets on their high horse, just remind them, there are more slaves alive tragically today on this planet than any time during the transatlantic slave trade.
00:26:23.000 In fact, I want to go even more blunt, there are slaves still today on the United States southern border that are being trafficked into our country every single day.
00:26:31.000 It's America that deserves credit, not blame, for ending the sin of slavery in the world that spread like a wildfire.
00:26:39.000 How many kids are actually learning that every day?
00:26:41.000 Answer, not enough.
00:26:43.000 The point is this.
00:26:44.000 Is that our history?
00:26:45.000 It's just complicated.
00:26:46.000 We've made mistakes, but it's a story of heroism, of courage, something that we have to lean in.
00:26:51.000 Because I'll tell you, you read the 1619 project in the New York Times, you read all these what these academics are teaching.
00:26:59.000 They want to create many revolutionaries in the world ways of women. 1.00
00:27:02.000 Let me say one thing that might be very nasty to talk about, which is slightly political, so I might get in trouble, but whatever.
00:27:09.000 You guys can get rid of it.
00:27:10.000 Okay, I am not going to talk about my preference of who I want the candidate or the nominee to be.
00:27:15.000 Let me just say one thing very quickly.
00:27:18.000 We need to learn that, regardless of who is running for the Presidency of the United States, that the American Democrat machine believes they can elect someone that is politically brain dead.
00:27:28.000 Senator Fetterman is evidence that candidate quality is not as important.
00:27:33.000 What is important is whether or not we invest in the states that matter in voter registration.
00:27:38.000 Early voting, it's way past time that we embrace early voting.
00:27:43.000 Ballot chasing, this is something we're going to be doing at Turning Point Action a lot.
00:27:47.000 Because people say, Charlie, how can Joe Biden win?
00:27:50.000 And I tell people, it's not about the candidate, it's about the machinery.
00:27:54.000 And the final thing I'll say about this: Georgia, the great state of Georgia, had 248,000 mail-in ballots in the election of 2018.
00:28:02.000 Now we have 2.48 million mail-in ballots, a 10 times increase in four years.
00:28:07.000 Maybe it's time that we as Republicans, maybe you're not a Republican, or we as Americans start engaging in early voting.
00:28:13.000 If we don't, we will lose regardless.
00:28:16.000 They could literally elect Jimmy Carter, and that's not an exaggeration because of their sophisticated machinery in these key states.
00:28:23.000 Let me close out a couple thoughts.
00:28:25.000 Some of you asked in the cocktail reception, Charlie, are you optimistic or are you pessimistic?
00:28:30.000 I always refuse to answer that question because if I was optimistic, you would go home and you would say, I don't have to do anything because Charlie said he's optimistic, everything's going to be fine.
00:28:40.000 If I said I was pessimistic, you would go home and say, I don't have to do anything because Charlie said we're going to lose.
00:28:46.000 I have no idea this country is going to make it.
00:28:50.000 I have no guarantees to share.
00:28:53.000 I don't do hopium.
00:28:55.000 Hopium is hope and hoping.
00:28:56.000 It sounds good.
00:28:57.000 You mix it together.
00:28:59.000 Oh, yeah, we're going to win no matter what.
00:29:00.000 That's not a guarantee.
00:29:01.000 It's not.
00:29:02.000 I have a lot to be hopeful for.
00:29:05.000 And so do you.
00:29:06.000 The movement of young people at Turning Point USA where we do our college events.
00:29:09.000 You know, our biggest problem at Turning Point USA?
00:29:11.000 We can't find rooms big enough to fit all the students that want to come to our on-campus events.
00:29:16.000 The biggest problem we have for me.
00:29:22.000 So the question then is, what do we do?
00:29:25.000 That's the most important question.
00:29:27.000 Because there's a chance this entire country falls apart and your kids don't live in a free America.
00:29:32.000 Or there's a chance we turn this thing around.
00:29:36.000 Some of you are probably looking at me and say, Charlie, I've already been, I've done everything that has been asked of me.
00:29:42.000 I watch, well, I used to say it, it's not funny.
00:29:45.000 I watched Tucker Cross and I guess I can't say that anymore.
00:29:49.000 I watched Fox News Life today.
00:29:51.000 Charlie, I do everything that's been asked of me.
00:29:53.000 I bought the pillow.
00:29:54.000 How about that?
00:29:56.000 Highkiller.com, by the way, just a real clip.
00:30:01.000 I bought Relief Factor.
00:30:03.000 I reverse mortgage my home.
00:30:05.000 I've done everything that has been asked of me, Charlie.
00:30:08.000 What else can I do?
00:30:10.000 And the answer is this: we need every patriot, whether you've been involved in this fight, like Mike Abraham has been in, for, I think, twice as long as I've been alive, Mike Agram has been fighting for liberty.
00:30:20.000 Or maybe you've never been involved.
00:30:22.000 Maybe you've heard me and you're like, oh, I don't like that political thing.
00:30:24.000 And maybe I'm touching you in a way you're like, ah, I got to do something.
00:30:27.000 It doesn't matter.
00:30:28.000 It's a question of what do we do.
00:30:31.000 And here's the thrill.
00:30:32.000 Here's the excitement.
00:30:34.000 The excitement is actually in the mystery.
00:30:36.000 And those of you as hunters should totally understand this.
00:30:40.000 You have no idea that you're going to get what you went to go get.
00:30:43.000 That's America right now.
00:30:45.000 I have no idea how this is going to end.
00:30:48.000 But we need every God-fearing patriot, regardless of politics, throw that out.
00:30:52.000 If you just believe America is a decent country and you think it's won rapidly in the wrong direction by radical forces, I believe every single one of them.
00:31:00.000 And one of the ways you can do that is support the International Order of Teddy Roosevelt in the auction and throughout this weekend.
00:31:05.000 We need this organization to double and triple in size next year.
00:31:08.000 It's very, very important.
00:31:10.000 And I'm telling you, we're going to use the resources you guys have given us to go to the front lines.
00:31:14.000 I'll close on this because I think I'm right up against my time here.
00:31:18.000 Which is, I'm asked often about then, Charlie, what is it I should do?
00:31:23.000 Give me the marching words.
00:31:25.000 The best answer I have for that is if you have not lost something significant in the last couple of years, then I challenge you to get further into the arena, as Teddy Roosevelt has called us.
00:31:41.000 It's the man in the arena that counts.
00:31:43.000 It's the man in the arena that the opposition fears, like Tucker Carlson or James O'Keefe or any of these people.
00:31:50.000 And what the opposition fears more than anything else is us awakening.
00:31:55.000 They want you to surrender.
00:31:57.000 They want you to be cynical.
00:31:59.000 They want you to just give up and say, this country has no hope.
00:32:02.000 I tell you right now, we are still a decent country.
00:32:05.000 You want to know what gives me hope?
00:32:06.000 What gives me hope is that the people in charge are doing things so out of step with normal everyday Americans that is not sustainable.
00:32:14.000 It will, of course, correct at some point.
00:32:17.000 It's going to be up to us to do that.
00:32:20.000 The greatest man to live in the 20th century is Winston Churchill.
00:32:23.000 Winston Churchill has not taught our schools nearly enough.
00:32:26.000 Winston Churchill is a great, courageous, and bold man, very similar to Teddy Roosevelt.
00:32:31.000 Winston Churchill was the only man smiling the morning after Pearl Harbor.
00:32:36.000 He walked into his war cabinet meeting with a cigar and a thing of whiskey, and everyone was down and they were sad.
00:32:42.000 And Winston Churchill comes into the war cabinet and proclaims, Gents, we have won the war.
00:32:49.000 They've gotten way too many drinks the night before.
00:32:51.000 They looked at him and he said it again, we have won the war.
00:32:55.000 And a brave soul in the war cabinet meeting decides to step up and ask Winston Churchill and challenge the prime minister.
00:33:02.000 Sir, have you all stood buggy mine?
00:33:06.000 We're losing a thousand loyal Air Force members a day.
00:33:10.000 We barely got our troops out of Dunkirk.
00:33:12.000 You're less popular than ever.
00:33:15.000 The military is cracking at the seas.
00:33:18.000 The Nazis are planning an invasion of Brighton and they might conquer this isle at any moment.
00:33:22.000 They're literally blitz-free in London and our hospitals and our schools every night. 0.53
00:33:27.000 What do you mean we have won the war? 0.72
00:33:29.000 And Churchill took a pump of his cigar and a sip of whiskey and he looked across his war cabinet and said, Ah, the Americans, they're a tricky bunch. 0.78
00:33:39.000 I've got to know them rather well over the last couple of decades. 0.61
00:33:42.000 Often late to party, but almost never wrong. 0.97
00:33:46.000 Let me tell you something about those tricky Americans.
00:33:49.000 When they awaken, they are an unstoppable force. 0.97
00:33:53.000 And let me tell you, folks, with this happened at Pearl Harbor, that sleeping giant is awake, and this war is over.
00:33:59.000 Ladies and gentlemen, we wake up, we win.
00:34:01.000 God bless you, and thank you for the role this year.
00:34:07.000 Thanks so much for listening.
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