00:01:02.000tpusa.com/slash a-m-f-e-s-t tucker, kaylee mcinini, Greg Gutfeld, Ted Cruz, Jesse Waters, Rand Paul, Pete Heigseth, Jack Pesobic, Benny Johnson, the biggest names of the movement, all coming at tpusa.com/slash AMF EST.
00:01:21.000My speech at the University of Arizona.
00:01:47.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:31.000I actually kind of want to talk a little bit about this in particular because this state is so incredibly important that all of us and all of you, we start to take ownership for this state.
00:02:54.000But what we've seen is kind of a little bit of both.
00:02:59.000And the question is, are we going to be a state that kind of embraces the same sort of ideology of the people that are fleeing that from California?
00:03:09.000Or are we going to still be in this state kind of this respecting of individual liberty and freedom, but a family-friendly state?
00:03:18.000One where you don't have to worry about school board presidents spying on parents, an open carry state, but also one that is not going to force people to get a vaccine against their will.
00:03:27.000And let me just kind of start with that.
00:03:28.000No one should be forced to get the vaccine against their will, and no one should be fired from their job for not wanting to take a vaccine.
00:03:37.000And Arizona, so I grew up in Chicago, not here.
00:04:35.000So, but we came here for a reason at Turning Point USA because Arizona was a place where you could raise a family, it was affordable to live, where your first liberties were protected, that you could enjoy, obviously, the climate and there was a nice lifestyle, but you didn't have to worry about some sort of radical regime kind of taking over the state and going in a direction that we wouldn't like.
00:05:02.000And now I think some of us here in Arizona are like, wait a second, there's something way out of whack here.
00:05:08.000From the way that we administer our elections to what is being debated or trying to be implemented in this state to try and continue to try to curtail a lot of our freedoms and liberties.
00:05:20.000And so that's one of the big things that I want to first zero in on is the future of Arizona is really up in the air.
00:05:28.000As Arizona goes, the country's going to go.
00:05:31.000Is that if Arizona decides to go a very radical left-wing collectivist and kind of authoritarian direction, the country's also going to head that way.
00:05:40.000Arizona is the state that could very well determine the future of the entire republic.
00:05:46.000And before I go any further, I do want to make sure I thank our amazing Turning Point USA leaders and chapter members here.
00:05:52.000You guys do an amazing job and you guys deserve applause.
00:05:55.000You really do for the great work you do.
00:05:57.000Also, our Turning Point Faith chapter at Calvary Chapel Oro Valley did a great job.
00:06:05.000And it's just been such a great tour, I got to tell you, going from University of New York, which was really wild, Boise State.
00:06:13.000We did University of Vermont, Michigan, Minnesota, Clemson, Alabama, Baylor.
00:06:18.000But we wanted to make sure we ended with you guys, all of us here in Arizona.
00:06:24.000And I think a lot of you, the reason why you're here tonight, and the reason why we don't literally don't have enough seats for everybody, is that you feel something is terribly wrong with the country and you're kind of sick and tired of just doing the same sort of things.
00:06:38.000Like people ask me all the time, they say, Charlie, what can I do actually to save the country?
00:06:44.000And they're like, I do everything I've been told.
00:06:59.000And if you guys are moving in as high school to college kids, the best geezer dream sheets you could imagine.
00:07:04.000But no, in all seriousness, it's kind of one of these questions of what else can I do to save the country?
00:07:10.000And this is why I think that our Turning Point USA activists are doing such a, you're making such a meaningful difference, honestly, because you've done the most important thing as a start, which is you've decided to be the same person in public that you are in private.
00:07:25.000And you want to know one of the biggest issues we have in America is that we have 75 million people.
00:07:31.000A large percentage of that, they're afraid to tell anyone else that they're a conservative out of fear of being fired, fear of being mocked and ridiculed.
00:07:43.000And that doesn't mean you shouldn't speak out.
00:07:45.000So people say a lot, they say, Charlie, you know, if only my fraternity or sorority knew that I was a conservative, I'd get kicked out, or my friends would know, or my boss would know.
00:07:54.000And you think to yourself, are you really free in that sense?
00:07:57.000That you always kind of have to wear a different uniform or you have to kind of change what camouflage you put on when you leave your apartment or your house.
00:08:05.000And one of the things that people complain about most is cancel culture.
00:08:14.000But the reason why cancel culture, whatever, you know, however you want to define it, is powerful is partially because we make it so.
00:08:22.000It's partially because we allow the other people to have a lot of power over our lives.
00:08:27.000Is that we say, okay, I'll speak out, but if it means that I might get called a bad name, then maybe I'm just going to kind of sit down and let someone speak for me.
00:08:35.000And the most important thing that I want you to take away from this speech tonight is that you want in your life to try to be a free person in the sense that you don't have to pretend to people around you, you're something you're not.
00:08:48.000And this happens all the time, whether it be family members or friends or relatives, where all of a sudden it's, you know, it's going to happen next week at Thanksgiving.
00:08:56.000I guarantee it, half the room, it'll experience with this.
00:08:59.000Where all of a sudden they're like, oh, yeah, you know, that 19-year-old cousin of yours that goes to University of Texas, Austin, that took a single sociology class, right?
00:09:07.000And they got the whole world figured out, everything.
00:09:19.000You know, it might be very early on in the meal, right?
00:09:21.000When you kind of want to blow it all up, you have a decision of whether or not you're going to confront that lunacy and that insanity and that venom with truth and, of course, with grace.
00:09:31.000Or are you just going to kind of let it pass by and you are going to just basically say, you know what?
00:09:39.000I'm not saying you should just be bombastic and rude about it, but I think we all know what happens as soon as you challenge, you know, that kind of circumstance.
00:09:47.000One of the reasons we're in the position we're in and people feel alone and events like this are so incredibly popular and we need to find bigger rooms to do events like this is because what some of the things we're going to talk about tonight are considered thought crimes in American society.
00:10:00.000Some things that we are, for example, I'll just kind of give you one example.
00:10:04.000Only women can get pregnant, men cannot get pregnant.
00:10:06.000That's like a thought crime in America today.
00:10:29.000Very simple things that if you said that in certain polite society, people would start to pay a price.
00:10:35.000And my charge is a difficult one, is we need more people willing to start to pay that price.
00:10:40.000Now, here's where I am given hope, though, is that I am seeing amazing, regular, normal people be willing to lose their jobs and their careers because they don't want to take a vaccine.
00:11:12.000Yeah, I mean, let me just say this, that the governor needs to sign an executive order immediately saying that any state employees should not be forced to take a vaccine against their will.
00:11:22.000We need to demand that out of the state leadership.
00:11:26.000And so, and by the way, I get so frustrated about this.
00:11:34.000This is the ultimate logical fallacy that we're all living through, meaning that you are not allowed to even have an opinion or even say something after a year and a half of this circus.
00:11:45.000If you're not a doctor and you don't have a degree, like, excuse me, like, can I just ask some very simple questions?
00:11:53.000Like, why is it that the most vaccinated countries on the planet have the highest COVID rates they've ever had?
00:11:59.000Like, that's an interesting question, right?
00:12:01.000Why is that the most vaccinated state in the country has the highest COVID rate of any state in the country, Vermont?
00:12:06.000You know, why is it that Joe Rogan, who I have a lot of respect for, don't agree with him on everything, obviously, but he's very entertaining and hilarious, that he decides to take ivermectin and he gets smeared as, say, it's a horse dewormer, even though ivermectin is a drug for human beings and won a Nobel Prize to help human beings and cured river blindness in millions of people in Africa.
00:12:34.000Why is it, and Aaron Rodgers, by the way, I've never liked Aaron Rodgers, but I have so much respect for him after this last week.
00:12:39.000I got to say, what Aaron Rodgers did took a lot of courage, I have to tell you.
00:12:45.000But we're not even allowed to talk about it.
00:12:48.000And I think one of the great injustices of my life is the fact that people that have already had the virus are then being forced to get a vaccine for the virus that they might have.
00:12:59.000Where's the conversation on natural immunity?
00:13:02.000Where's the conversation on natural inoculation?
00:13:04.000How many people have already had the virus here?
00:14:14.000You know, that's part of kind of living in a civil society.
00:14:17.000But at the same time, if you're going to just say, oh, no, no, we're going to mandate it and then we're not going to allow discussion around it.
00:14:25.000Then all of a sudden you're starting to go into a direction that I think all of us know exactly where this is headed.
00:14:32.000And what I have been personally shocked about, and we've spoken out about this early, is how some conservatives have kind of just played along with this.
00:15:10.000I could go on about that topic for a while.
00:15:13.000And by the way, we need to enforce the law that's already passed here in Arizona, which against the mask mandates and against the vaccine mandates.
00:15:21.000And that's a new thing that we're seeing is that it's one thing to have the law on the books.
00:15:25.000James Madison and Cicero, the one-year Roman Council, both had a very similar quote.
00:15:32.000Madison said, who's the father of the United States Constitution, he said, the more voluminous the laws, the more injustice there will be, right?
00:15:41.000So the more laws that we have added to the books, all of a sudden, you're going to have the people in charge that get to decide what laws they want to enforce, right?
00:16:03.000That if you show up to a rally or you show up to a city burning while the National Guard is not there and the police have been told to stand down and you defend yourself because someone's trying to kill you and that someone trying to kill you is a child rapist, you're going to get tried for first-degree murder and your family has to go into debt to try to defend you, which we're seeing right now with Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:16:31.000And by the way, if this was 1892 and it was the KKK trying to take over a city and it was a black 17-year-old that took a gun to go to the burning city, we would have like a national holiday to that young man.
00:16:46.000I'm not saying that's what we need for Kyle.
00:16:48.000I'm not saying we need like a national holiday, but I'm saying that it would be, everyone would say this is the most amazing and heroic thing I've ever seen.
00:16:53.000But instead, let's just be, let's just be as blunt and honest about it.
00:16:56.000Kyle Rittenhouse checks a box of the type of, let's say, enemy they want to create.
00:17:02.000And we saw this earlier with what happened with the Nicola Sandman case.
00:17:05.000You guys remember that with the Covington kids?
00:17:07.000Remember the Covington kids where Nicholas Sandman on the steps of the Capitol, where that lunatic came up with the drum and started banging it in his head, in his head, in his face.
00:17:16.000And we were told that the young kid was the one that's provoking and saying racist things.
00:17:20.000You know, totally exonerated, won his lawsuits.
00:17:22.000But no, the thing that Kyle Rittenhouse did wrong is that he fit the perfect type of archetype where Joe Biden came out and said that Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist, said that on Twitter.
00:17:37.000Hope he gets sued for that one day in civil court.
00:17:41.000But instead, here's the essence of it: there was a picture, the same thing that happened on the southern border when you had Border Patrol agents on horseback, and they said, oh, they're using whips to go after migrants.
00:18:06.000No, but they, but all they have is the narrative.
00:18:09.000So Kyle Rittenhouse, they had the picture they wanted: AR-15, mouth wide open, young, white, Trump-loving, green shirt and hat backwards, looking like he's kind of playing the insurrectionist.
00:18:27.000And that's not the way we do things in our country.
00:18:30.000And what is actually giving me hope, and it's actually our, I think, path towards resolution in this country, is that you can fire John Gruden from being the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, which is insane and go into that one later, without due process and all this.
00:18:46.000But thankfully, there's still this like shred, this like little bit of a micron of a gift that our founding fathers gave us 245 years ago, which is the United States Constitution.
00:18:59.000Despite how many op-eds MSNBC writes or the New York Times writes, despite how much they hate Kyle Rittenhouse, guess what?
00:19:12.000Because without it, if they had their chance, just lock them up indefinitely, right?
00:19:17.000The same way that we have the sort of justice that kicks Donald Justice, I put in quotes, kicks Donald Trump off Twitter because we don't like the things he says.
00:19:45.000If you haven't been, it's been one of the most instructive examples of what's wrong with the country and how to fix it.
00:19:54.000And basically, despite the prosecution's best attempts to try and slander, to try and misrepresent, to try and literally tamper with witnesses, as we have seen, all of a sudden you have this kind of cantankerous old judge who actually still loves the Constitution.
00:20:14.000Like, I didn't know that actually still existed.
00:21:00.000That like in the hierarchy of oppression, it's like if a black person, it's the oppression Olympics, right?
00:21:06.000You have to always like be, it's a constant race, right?
00:21:09.000By the way, what's above transgender, though, is the medical thing.
00:21:12.000What comes first is obedience to the technocracy and the scientific state.
00:21:16.000Second is now the transgender and third is the racial thing.
00:21:19.000But it's been, and you see that, by the way, of how BLM, Black Lives Matter, was ignored when they said that we don't want to get vaccinated in New York, you know, because black people don't get vaccinated.
00:22:01.000He's like, takes out an AR-15 with a trick.
00:22:04.000Like, I mean, with his finger on the trigger, it's like the worst form you could imagine.
00:22:08.000And what, but this is an important point, is that we don't know what's going to happen in this trial.
00:22:13.000Betting odds is Kyle Rittenhouse gets acquitted and walks.
00:22:16.000But understand that regardless of your own opinion of the incident, and by the way, there really is only one right opinion of the incident.
00:22:24.000Is that Kyle Rittenhouse went to go administer medical aid and was attacked by a couple psychopaths and he defended himself once a gun was pointed at him.
00:22:32.000And you could have your own personal opinion about whether or not Kyle should have been there or not, but that's, you don't go to jail for making, you know, for going to a place that, you know, you don't think you should be.
00:22:42.000Anyway, is that the Constitution was designed for moments like this.
00:22:48.000And so if we're asking ourselves, like, how do we heal our country and how do we move forward?
00:22:53.000It's let's re-embrace those constants those principles.
00:23:00.000Allowing people to have their side of the story told before the punishment is administered.
00:23:06.000Actually valuing facts and reason above pathology, feelings, and emotion.
00:23:13.000And we've seen this in a variety of different ways, especially in the last couple years, where another really good example of this is the steel dossier that was used to go spy on President Donald Trump from the FBI.
00:23:28.000We are told that all these things are true.
00:23:30.000Then six years later, we are told that the steel dossier was completely manufactured and was an act of fiction.
00:23:37.000And I suppose the message and the takeaway is that we've been given an unbelievable gift, everybody, is that in other countries, someone like Kyle Rittenhouse gets locked up with no questions whatsoever.
00:24:12.000But meanwhile, you have, and this is the other kind of the inverse of this, of the destruction of the rule of law, is you have journalists that now disagree with the regime, having their door kicked in and their apartment searched and being put in handcuffs.
00:24:27.000I'm talking, of course, Project Veritas James O'Keefe.
00:24:30.000And this, regardless of your political affiliation, this should horrify you.
00:24:36.000Even liberals are coming out and speaking out against this.
00:25:04.000Now, why this is a concern of the FBI?
00:25:06.000No one has explained why the theft of a diary is the concern of the FBI while we have a southern border that's wide open and children are getting sex trafficked every single day across the southern border.
00:25:15.000Why the FBI doesn't care about that and they care about some diary is insane to me.
00:25:38.000His internal records are now in the hands of the government.
00:25:42.000And without an indictment of a crime, mind you, I want you to think about that.
00:25:48.000That we have now in the post-constitutional order, that if you say something that the regime doesn't like, it could be a knock on your door.
00:25:56.000Now you're like, oh, Charlie, whatever, that doesn't apply to me.
00:25:59.000Like, go read some 20th century history because that's already playing out in real time.
00:26:05.000And so James O'Keefe is pushing back rather effectively.
00:26:09.000And you see that also with the double standard of justice, the more laws, the less justice, of what happened in the last three to four days with Steve Bannon, where Steve Bannon is being held in contempt of Congress.
00:26:20.000Meanwhile, Eric Holder did the exact same thing in 2012 and was never indicted.
00:26:26.000And so part of the problem, I think, is that some conservatives are under the false impression that we're still playing under that same book of rules that was there 20 or 30 years ago.
00:26:38.000In certain corners and certain places, that's still intact.
00:26:41.000Kenosha, Wisconsin, I suppose they still follow the Constitution.
00:26:45.000And good for Kyle that that's the case.
00:26:47.000And that should be a roadmap further for that.
00:26:50.000But honestly, when you look at the Southern District of New York, is that I don't want our elected officials to go sign infrastructure deals with Joe Biden.
00:26:58.000I want answers why the FBI, with guns drawn and with hammer, with the, you know what I'm talking about, sledge, I guess, sledgehammers, are going into apartments and searching for your personal articles and your effects because it's a journalist we don't like.
00:27:42.000I mean, you're sending the FBI to go try and right the wrongs and intimidate people that might try to publish details about your personal family.
00:27:50.000And so we all see what this is happening.
00:28:28.000Because what they are more afraid of than anything else is the people actually starting to rise up and question all this nonsense that they are doing.
00:28:36.000And every time that happens, they lose.
00:28:40.000Look what happened in Virginia two weeks ago.
00:28:42.000What happened in Virginia was moms and dads started showing up in Loudoun County and starting asking questions, and it changed the entire dynamics of that state in a very serious and very, very profound way.
00:28:54.000So I want to talk a little bit about, I actually didn't do this at all in any of our other campus tours, kind of just I'm 28, so I'm kind of like, I'm transgenerational, so I get to pick what generation I want to be in.
00:29:07.000So I've decided I'm generation Z, not millennial.
00:30:29.000So we have to kind of press pause on that.
00:30:32.000And we also have to understand that one of the main accusations that someone that's a, you know, let's say Gen Xer or boomer know how to pull themselves up by the bootstraps.
00:31:27.000There's a war on young men in this country, and it's hurting women as well.
00:31:32.000And for parents, I would offer a little bit of a balance in how you talk about it: of yes, if you're seeing someone that's just trying to complain all the time and be a victim, fine, but you're dealing with a demoralized generation.
00:32:05.000But no, most young people, most students out there, they see Bernie Sanders not as an ambassador of free stuff, but instead someone that can offer them freedom.
00:32:27.000They borrowed money they didn't have to go study things that don't matter, to go to garbage colleges in stuffed classes for years to go find jobs that don't exist.
00:32:36.000And they're 27 and 28, and they're 35,000, 80,000, $150,000 in debt.
00:35:18.000Like, I'm going to go for the person that's at least going to kind of give me a fair deal because my parents didn't go $85,000 in debt when they graduated.
00:35:25.000And I'll get into the kind of the other side of it, which is the talk to students in a second.
00:35:29.000But my message for parents and grandparents out there is that, first of all, there's a massive opportunity to strike balance between you.
00:35:38.000There's a huge opportunity and not be for student loan forgiveness, which I'm totally against, by the way.
00:35:42.000I'm totally against student loan forgiveness because some of you worked your way through college.
00:36:23.000Oh, it's because they went $85,000 into debt to go study, you know, whatever, like Robin D'Angelo's White Fragility or 1619 Project or how to be an anti-racist by E. Man Rex Kenby, whatever it is, right?
00:36:35.000And they're like, well, I learned how awful America is, and I learned to check my privilege, and I could say my pronouns in five different languages, but I don't know how to fix a ventilation unit, which I did.
00:36:55.000Like when my car breaks down, I'm useless, like whatever.
00:36:59.000Go bring in the mechanic who's going to charge $700 I don't have to go fix this.
00:37:03.000And then in this amazing, stunning turn of events, the very people that your parents never wanted you to become, and let's just be very honest, most parents, they live vicariously through their kids.
00:37:12.000And this is for parents out there, I'm going to say this super delicately.
00:37:16.000Parents don't want their kids to become plumbers.
00:40:21.000It's like hiring, you know, New York lawyers aren't charging what Scottsdale plumbers are charging, right?
00:40:27.000And I got to thinking, and it's nothing new that I haven't said.
00:40:30.000And obviously, I didn't go to college.
00:40:31.000I have my own very strong opinions about it.
00:40:33.000But I think it's more clear than ever is that you as students, and I obviously say this a lot of you are currently in college, but you know it.
00:40:40.000You're participating in a scam that your parents made you go through.
00:42:22.000So it's the most miserable generation in American history because a lot of it, I think muscular work is a core component to human existence.
00:44:37.000It's like when you're lacking purpose and your whole existence is now, you know, we're going to go save some sort of bird or tree in Northern California, it gives you something to do.
00:44:48.000You have a villain, you have an organized way to do it.
00:44:51.000Same sort of thing with parts of the BLM movement.
00:44:54.000Parts of the BLM movement is a secularized type religion, is that it gives people purpose, identity, and connection.
00:45:03.000So you have all these different type of replacements that are just kind of all that are just, and same, same with some of these socialist movements and all these sorts of different things.
00:45:11.000And look, I'm not here to tell you any sort of particular religious belief.
00:45:15.000I'm happy to go into that if you guys want.
00:45:16.000Obviously, you know where I stand with Jesus is the king of the world, but I'm happy to go into that if you guys want.
00:45:22.000And so, and but if you think that, and this is, this is, I'll close on these couple thoughts.
00:45:31.000So if you think that you can be free absent moral guardrails, you're kidding yourself.
00:45:40.000And so this is the important thing: is that we have a false definition, a misleading definition that we tell ourselves of liberty in America, is that liberty is not being able to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it.
00:45:56.000Liberty is doing what you ought to do and pursuing virtue.
00:46:01.000And if you think that the country can remain free without some form of moral guardrails or guidelines, I don't think that's going to work.
00:46:13.000There's a great quote at Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School.
00:46:17.000They're going to take it down as soon as they realize how wise it is.
00:46:21.000And it says, the law is the wise restraint that keeps men free.
00:46:27.000So let me just give the best example I can of this.
00:46:30.000By the way, this is totally contradictory to what any professor will tell you, what popular culture will tell you, or what anyone outside of these walls will tell you, right?
00:46:39.000Unless you go to a great church like Calvary Chapel or Revell, which is this, which is that the people who do whatever they want to do whenever they want to do it, they're the least free people in the world.
00:47:05.000And there's other components outside of agency and self-will and all that sorts of things.
00:47:09.000It could be a diagnosable clinical condition.
00:47:13.000With that being said, just indulging whenever you want doesn't keep you happy.
00:47:19.000And the message that we should be giving college freshmen at the University of Arizona is not that your parents are the worst people ever and that what you were taught was a lie.
00:47:34.000It's the parties you don't go to, it's the drugs you don't try, it's the drinks you don't have, it's the relationships you don't engage with.
00:47:43.000It's being able to say no and have self-control.
00:47:45.000That's actually going to keep you free.
00:47:47.000Not the other way, it's the other way around, right?
00:48:05.000But you start to realize that I need to do more the next time to try to make it feel as exciting as it was the last time.
00:48:12.000It's like all of a sudden the guardrails start, you know, it's like the window starts to change.
00:48:15.000It's like, I have to outdo myself a little bit.
00:48:17.000And this is, this is one of the things, and so I don't, I don't, I could get a little bit into dating and all that stuff, which always gets people's attention.
00:48:26.000I won't say this to young women, but young women will appreciate what I'm saying.
00:48:45.000And so, but it's not all young men's fault, by the way, because they live in a society that coddles them, that infantilizes them and emasculates them, right?
00:48:53.000But you want to know a characteristic that young women want to find in men.
00:49:00.000It's a young man that can control himself.
00:49:02.000It's a young man that can go 90 days without drinking.
00:49:06.000It's a young man that can say no to all the other pressures.
00:49:10.000Because if someone's like, wow, if he's able to say no to somebody else, he'll make good decisions and he'll be able to protect me.
00:50:03.000Instead, I'm saying decide today to start to change things, if that makes sense, okay?
00:50:08.000Is that you'll be freer, you'll be happier, you'll be more thankful.
00:50:11.000And then I'll end on that, which is we have the most miserable generation in American history because it's the least thankful generation ever to exist.
00:50:19.000It's that the divide in America politically, socioeconomically, and partly religiously is a divide over half the country that is thankful to be in America and to have life, and the other half to have ingratitude and venom and they have anger towards that.
00:50:40.000If you are thankful for something, you're far less likely to want to go make a sign and protest outside of that something and destroy it.
00:50:51.000It's coming up right around the corner.
00:50:52.000And it's a uniquely American holiday and celebration.
00:50:56.000And what I love about Thanksgiving is that it's a whole day to give thanks to the transcendent.
00:51:01.000But if you think what you have around you is actually not worthy of thanks, if you don't even think there is a transcendent, why even say thank you?
00:51:31.000And yet it's actually exposing the opposite.
00:51:35.000It's that the more that technology is spread and the more access you have to these things is that you have the two worst combination of things happening: the ability to do whatever you want whenever you want to do it, and a society that says you should be able to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it.
00:51:48.000And they're both competing into those two separate things.
00:51:51.000And so, yeah, just to kind of close that out is we need to be thankful.
00:51:58.000We need to be thankful for our country, for our family, for just our just for life.
00:52:04.000And if there's anyone here tonight that is like, man, I just can't quite figure out my place in the world.
00:52:20.000The point is that gratitude is the fruit that makes all of the things taste sweet.
00:52:25.000It is a necessary component to a civil society and honoring things that came before you.
00:52:31.000The only 10 commandment that came with a civilizational promise is honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in.
00:53:22.000If you guys want to start filing up and lining up, we're going to give some of our volunteers an opportunity to ask questions first because they helped work this event.
00:53:30.000And then you guys, this lineup will go as long as we can.
00:54:08.000Now, look, we have people that work for us at Turning Point USA that are gay.
00:54:12.000I've always said that we need to try to build a coalition in the conservative movement that prioritizes liberty.
00:54:18.000But I think it was a mistake to try and say that it's now a stated coalition position of the RNC to try to say that we no longer hold traditional marriage.
00:54:28.000I could get into the kind of the technical parts of why it was a mistake, but we should be doing the opposite, quite honestly.
00:54:34.000We should be reaffirming the nuclear family at a time when it's being under attack from every single direction and at every single turn.
00:54:41.000And if that's not good enough for people, at the very least, in my opinion, it should have been just kind of agnostic position.
00:54:50.000Just kind of like, we're not going to comment on this.
00:55:20.000Charlie, I just want to say thank you for coming out and having some time to talk to us.
00:55:24.000So I'm actually struggling with a little something right now with Thanksgiving and especially Christmas coming up.
00:55:28.000Is that some of my family members who are fortunately leftist and ideology liberal are believing that Dr. Fauci is correct in the fact that we should not gather around during the holidays for if you are unmasked or unvaccinated.
00:55:43.000And so, but I want to bring my family together, and I do not believe that Dr. Fauci has any right to dictate anything that my family does.
00:56:55.000But you should follow the biblical commandment to honor your mother and father, but you have to acknowledge the tension that that does not mean you should embrace idiocy for evil, right?
00:57:07.000So honoring your parents is different than loving your parents.
00:57:11.000Those are two totally different Hebrew words in the actual 10 statements.
00:57:15.000It's actually 10 statements, not 10 commandments.
00:57:17.000It's actually 11, but we can get into that at a different time.
00:57:19.000So the first is, I am the Lord your God who delivered you from Egypt.
00:57:23.000Remember, I am the Lord your God who delivered you from Egypt.
00:57:59.000So my Generation Z is the most diverse, exposed, and educated generation yet, with this practically growing up online and 59% of us pursuing a degree in university.
00:58:11.000Furthermore, my generation also happens to be the most left-leaning generation to date by significantly large margins.
00:58:17.000According to Pew Research Center, 70% of Gen Z disapproves of Donald Trump's performance, with 65 of Gen Z voters voting for Joe Biden.
00:58:25.000More broadly, 70% of Gen Z also believes the government should be taking a larger, more active role in solving problems, including a 67% net support for Black Lives Matter and the movement's efforts towards criminal justice reform.
00:58:39.000Gen Z Republicans in particular believe that black people are treated less fairly, significantly more than previous generations, at about 43% versus the millennial Republicans.
00:58:50.000My question is: as the founder of Turning Point USA, an organization founded in 2012, that specifically serves to move my generation to the right, do you think that you're failing?
00:59:22.000I think we have a lot of work to do, and I think we've done a lot of good things, and I think we're going to continue to.
00:59:28.000But I think you bring up some good points in the sense that, yeah, we have a generation that's being indoctrinated from kindergarten to believe total lies and to believe that black people are mistreated in this country.
00:59:41.000I mean, it's just such an unbelievable thing to think that.
01:01:08.000So I'll tell you that it's time that our political leaders and our elected officials start to realize that some of the rules that they're following are being ignored by the other sides.
01:01:18.000Let me just give you kind of one really easy example.
01:01:22.000Let me give you one that applies to Arizona.
01:01:24.000The first is this, is that immigration is, according to federal statute and federal precedent, a federal issue, is what we're always told, right?
01:01:35.000The states have very little of anything that they could do with immigration, which is not true, but let's just pretend that's the case.
01:01:41.000Well, the other side has passed sanctuary city measures and sanctuary state measures in Chicago, New York, Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles, Philadelphia, outwardly stating that you are not allowed to deport illegals in these cities and you are not allowed to work with federal government to do that.
01:02:08.000Is that the governor of Arizona should ignore the federal government and send the National Guard and go secure the southern border immediately and tell Biden, like, I'm not going to take you seriously.
01:02:38.000You have a regime that wants gas prices to go up to try to usher in electric vehicles and to usher in alternative energy, whatever that is, right?
01:02:49.000And yet, Republican governors and governors in those states are kind of tolerating it.
01:02:56.000They're like, well, there's really nothing we can do.
01:02:58.000Oh, they there's something they could do.
01:02:59.000Every governor, governor in Montana, who I know, Gianforte, North Dakota, Burham, South Dakota, Nome, Kansas, I don't know her name, Oklahoma State and Abbott in Texas, and John Bell Edwards in Louisiana, they should all immediately say, okay, we're going to go build the Keystone XL pipeline.
01:03:40.000Where I'm not saying let's go burn a Wendy's, right?
01:03:43.000Or, you know, like what happened during Floyd Apalooza and that whole thing, right?
01:03:47.000Or, you know, I'm not saying like, you know, like, for example, George Floyd's cousin or whatever nephew comes out and says, we know all the jurors' names in the Rittenhouse trial.
01:04:00.000I'm not saying go do $2 billion of the damages.
01:04:02.000I'm not saying go create our own country in Seattle, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, right?
01:04:06.000No, I'm saying our version of that needs to be building pipelines, securing the southern border, deputizing the National Guard to go do that, right?
01:04:57.000So we're talking about a vaccine that was supported by Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Ben Shapiro, 95 out of 100 senators, including 45 Republicans.
01:06:30.000So let me read some, I'm going to read some of the VARES numbers from you, vaccine adverse event reporting system from you, which is the actual numbers that show adverse events with the vaccine.
01:06:42.000But before I get to that, what's really unusual, and no one will want to debate me on this, I have an open invite for anyone about this, is that why is it that the most vaccinated countries and states have the highest virus transmission rate?
01:06:56.000And why is it that third world countries and provinces like Uttar Pradesh in India, a province that has 270 million people that widely prescribed ivermectin, has five to 10 COVID cases a day?
01:07:12.000Why is it that poor African nations have been able to flatten the curve and turn the corner on the virus, and yet industrialized, wealthy nations like Israel and America haven't?
01:07:22.000It's because they take anti-malarials with their breakfast food in Central Africa because malaria is a big issue and hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin and vitamin D is proven to show and actually be able to heavily impact that.
01:07:35.000So I suppose a question is, why should we be peddling this vaccine?
01:08:44.000Yeah, and I fully agree with what you're saying.
01:08:46.000I don't think science should be a democracy like that.
01:08:48.000And I do think there's a lot of issues with the corruption of science.
01:08:51.000My overall point is just you, the facts that you put out might be true, but you're also ignoring a lot of other variables in these comparable populations.
01:09:02.000Like you can't compare the population of Israel with the population of Uttar Pradesh.
01:11:14.000We're told that Ivermectin is a horse de-wormer, which is insane.
01:11:18.000We're not even allowed to talk about regeneron or monoclonal antibodies, not to mention a majority of COVID deaths in the United Kingdom right now are vaccinated people.
01:11:26.000So it's not even effectively working as a treatment in the United Kingdom.
01:13:02.000I want to first thank you and Candace Owens because you guys gave me the motivation to change my major from criminal justice to political science.
01:13:14.000I mean this in respect, but so how the heck can you come to a state like Arizona, live here, and Tucson when we've had, and say there's no such thing as white privilege or racism when there's been not one, but two laws that have been deemed racist by a federal lawyer in the past 11 years.
01:15:22.000I mean, a judge could be wrong all the time without specific knowledge of what you're talking about with that.
01:15:26.000But here's the most obvious way I could debunk what you're saying, which is you assume Jan Brewer signed it because she hates Latino people.
01:17:46.000All right, before you start saying I'm playing that victim thing, I'm never going to call myself a victim, but I'm not blind to the fact that my journey is going to be different than someone that doesn't look like me.
01:17:58.000It's because affirmative action laws benefit people of color above white applicants to certain universities.
01:18:03.000At State Street Capital Advisors, if you want to be a financial manager, you know they're not allowed to hire white people without board permission, yet they can hire Hispanic people and black people as much as they want.
01:18:13.000Do you know that United Airlines wants to double the amount of Hispanic and black pilots and try to hire less white pilots?
01:18:51.000I said that your term could have been repealed for other reasons than racism, but I am saying this: that you're saying that it's a more difficult journey.
01:20:32.000Our journeys are all different, bro, because, like you say, you know, we're one united under God.
01:20:35.000You know, I have been pulled over by cops many times, most 99%, 0.9% of the times.
01:20:41.000These cops have treated me in the nicest ways.
01:20:43.000Cops that are probably look nothing like me.
01:20:46.000You know, every single turning point event that I've been to, where obviously I could tell all of my Caucasian brothers and sisters have treated me in the nicest of ways.
01:20:53.000It has always been always whites kind of on the left that have always mistreated me.
01:20:57.000I've gotten more mistreat from whites on the left than on the right for being a Latino conservative.
01:21:55.000So if there's no set of racist actions or institutions in our country, then what is your thought of the cause of such income inequality on racial lines?
01:22:07.000And I am a disciple and a believer in Thomas Soule's thesis, which is that there are thousands of inputs and variables that can account for that.
01:22:22.000The most important thing for American society is to keep American families strong.
01:22:28.000And what you see is Asian communities versus the black community far less likely to divorce, far more likely to have two-parent households, far more likely to have a child raised by a mother and a father, which that statistically shows you're more likely to have higher income, graduate from college, all these sorts of different factors and inputs.
01:22:46.000Thomas Sowell in discrimination and disparities also makes the culture argument.
01:22:51.000He says that unfortunately in the 1970s and 80s, this is him talking.
01:22:55.000He says that unfortunately in black culture, it became less appealing to want to have monogamous relationships and be married.
01:23:02.000And because of government intervention and many other things, it started to almost unravel what once was a very what would be more traditional, you know, in the American family sense.
01:23:12.000The final thing I'll say is this: as far as those different outcomes and those different things, is obviously families and family creation is exceedingly important.
01:23:23.000But if you look at Asians in particular, they, and this is just a fact, is that Asian Americans push their children and push their families to take education as a primary value almost more than any other community in America, more so than Caucasian and white communities, right?
01:23:44.000But here's the thing: when you deal with disparities, Thomas Soule's favorite thesis was do not blame disparate disparities or disparities on only discrimination.
01:23:56.000First, you must exhaust every other explanation: family background, income, culture, geography.
01:24:02.000So I'll give you an easy thought exercise to prove this, right?
01:24:05.000So Billings, Montana, and Pierce, South Dakota are poorer than Seattle and New York.
01:24:33.000The point is that sometimes you can explain something away as simply as saying there's other factors that play into that than just the simple, sloppy, and overly generalized kind of racial component to that.
01:24:44.000Really quick follow-up if you're interested.
01:24:45.000I guess my point was: I wasn't saying that it was entirely in any point racism, but do you think it plays any role?
01:24:54.000I mean, it depends on, I mean, that's why I think it's a role.
01:24:58.000I think, again, I'll say this: the only systemic racism that I can find on the books right now is the fact that white people are being actively discriminated against from applying to college and applying for jobs and getting medical treatment in certain parts of this country.
01:25:10.000If there is a role, it's so it's indecipherable, it's immeasurable.
01:25:15.000But what is measurable is family creation, monogamous relationships, and values, which matter a lot.
01:25:21.000And values, fathers in the home, and also just kind of this general idea of church attendance declining in certain communities and that playing a role.
01:25:30.000So if there was even an active role in it, I don't even think you'd be able to measure it scientifically.
01:26:30.000You should have to go somewhere to go vote.
01:26:32.000And maybe you could make some excuses for the terminally ill or the paralyzed, but very, very small excuses in that sense.
01:26:41.000We need harsher and harsher, but a stricter, I guess you should, yeah, harsh, I guess you should say, signature verification.
01:26:46.000This kind of idea that you're roughly in kind of the arena of it, that no way is that that should not be tolerated or counted.
01:26:52.000We need to purge our voter rolls of dead people, transient voters, people that have moved out of state.
01:26:56.000We need to know who's on the voter rolls and who's actually voting.
01:26:59.000And then finally, we should have voter ID.
01:27:02.000The fact that it takes voter an ID to board an airplane and rent a movie and that it doesn't take an ID to actually go vote, I think is ridiculous.
01:27:10.000And I think we need to push back against it.
01:27:11.000So those are some good places to start.
01:27:15.000But we have to never lose focus on the fact that if we do not fix our elections, that is the issue that kind of trumps or is over almost every single issue and is incredibly important.
01:27:48.000So anyways, my question is: you've probably heard about vaccine passport ideology and so on and so forth.
01:27:54.000You know, where you can't go to the beach without a vaccine or you can't, you know, what needs to fall in place for that to happen here in Tucson and how would you prevent it?
01:28:20.000I mean, you know, this is what we're doing at Turning Point USA: at OSHA, the Occupational Safety Hazard Association, whatever organization, they're coming in there saying, we at Turning Point USA must vaccinate all our employees, 100-plus employees.
01:28:37.000As an employer, we employ 185 people at Turning Point USA, even more if you count part-time people.
01:28:42.000Who am I as the boss to go sit down with my employees and ask their intimate medical details and history?
01:28:48.000Like, where do I get the right to do that?
01:28:51.000And so the first thing is we need mass non-compliance.
01:28:54.000And then you need to take back your city council here in Tucson and you need to make sure that never happens and that never actually gets put into effect.
01:29:48.000It was the quote from Harvard earlier that you mentioned that it's just important to operate under law, which can provide freedom for people.
01:29:54.000So law, in my opinion, needs to pursue virtue.
01:30:01.000Drag queen story hours should be outlawed in America.
01:30:04.000Children should not legally be allowed to go to these to people that in public libraries that wear dresses and prey on young children, right?
01:30:48.000And I'll give you an example, which is, you know, in some of these movements where they decriminalize certain measures, it doesn't actually make people happier or doesn't make the community better.
01:31:25.000So the question is: do we actually want to move?
01:31:27.000Is that us actually becoming more free, or this kind of false freedom that actually is a gateway drug, which it is, to something that actually isn't.
01:32:05.000And so keeping that in mind, that we want to have a Christian conservative marriage and raise Christian conservative babies, what could be the best advice that you would give to a newly married couple, keeping those specific points in mind.
01:32:50.000It will keep you focused on each other.
01:32:53.000And there is, and I'm kind of generally anti-social media for young people as it is, but not exactly a popular position.
01:32:58.000But I think you all know that it's making you deeply unhappy and comparing yourself to things that are unrealistic and you're being controlled by people who hate you.
01:33:49.000And I will actually remind me of something.
01:33:51.000Everyone here, you know, this is where I really make a lot of friends, which is reject hookup culture and save yourself for marriage and go find your one for marriage, please.
01:33:59.000Again, no one, I rarely ever get applause for that, but it's true, is that you'll be a happier, freer person.
01:34:09.000If you make a different decision, then whatever.
01:34:28.000And then I think all of a sudden, some of those verses that you have, you know, probably kind of been exposed to, you know, submit to your husband and all that.
01:34:37.000It will all say, oh, wow, now I understand how that the real hierarchy of all that is really fits in with God being kind of ahead of the marriage.
01:34:43.000And then, yeah, get really good pastoral advice ahead of your marriage.
01:34:46.000That's the other thing is every young couple needs to go through intensive, exhaustive premarital counseling.
01:35:38.000We have Tucker Carlson, Kaylee McEnany, Donald Trump Jr., Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Jesse Waters, all coming to the Phoenix Convention Center, December 18, 19, 2021.