The Charlie Kirk Show - The REAL Reason Young People Are Turning to Socialism—LIVE from the University of Arizona

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00:01:26.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:02:26.000 So there's some good things to celebrate tonight.

00:02:29.000 And I love the state of Arizona.

00:02:31.000 I 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.

00:02:42.000 This state could go either way.

00:02:43.000 This state could go the way of Colorado or California or could go to the way of Texas and Florida.

00:02:49.000 And I prefer Texas and Florida.

00:02:51.000 I'll tell you what.

00:02:54.000 But what we've seen is kind of a little bit of both.

00:02:59.000 And 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?

00:03:09.000 Or are we going to still be in this state kind of this respecting of individual liberty and freedom, but a family-friendly state?

00:03:18.000 One 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.

00:03:27.000 And let me just kind of start with that.

00:03:28.000 No 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.

00:03:37.000 And Arizona, so I grew up in Chicago, not here.

00:03:41.000 This is not my.

00:03:42.000 Anyone else from Chicago?

00:03:43.000 It's great.

00:03:44.000 We're all we moved from Chicago.

00:03:46.000 The great thing about being from Chicago.

00:03:47.000 So Illinois is an interesting place.

00:03:49.000 Unlike most states, it has term limits, but it's different than Arizona.

00:03:53.000 It's one term in office, one term in jail for our politicians.

00:03:57.000 When we ask for our governor's cell number, I mean his actual cell number, right?

00:04:01.000 If you're from Illinois, you know exactly what I mean.

00:04:03.000 Arizona's not nearly as corrupt, thankfully.

00:04:05.000 But I came here for a reason.

00:04:07.000 We came here for a reason.

00:04:08.000 Turning Point USA is headquartered right down the street in Phoenix.

00:04:11.000 I'm not going to get in the whole Phoenix-Tucan debate.

00:04:15.000 I like Phoenix.

00:04:16.000 We'll just leave it at that.

00:04:17.000 But yeah, you guys can make your own choices.

00:04:20.000 I love all of Arizona.

00:04:21.000 How about that?

00:04:21.000 I'm not going to pick sides.

00:04:23.000 But I was in Chicago yesterday and I kind of got in the whole Cub Sox thing. 0.99

00:04:27.000 I got booed off the stage almost.

00:04:28.000 Yeah, see, we're not going to get into that, all right?

00:04:30.000 So we'll just say, go Cardinals, right?

00:04:32.000 They're good this year.

00:04:33.000 But we don't watch football anymore.

00:04:34.000 So I guess whatever.

00:04:35.000 So, 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.

00:05:02.000 And now I think some of us here in Arizona are like, wait a second, there's something way out of whack here.

00:05:08.000 From 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.

00:05:20.000 And 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.

00:05:28.000 As Arizona goes, the country's going to go.

00:05:31.000 Is 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.

00:05:40.000 Arizona is the state that could very well determine the future of the entire republic.

00:05:46.000 And before I go any further, I do want to make sure I thank our amazing Turning Point USA leaders and chapter members here.

00:05:52.000 You guys do an amazing job and you guys deserve applause.

00:05:55.000 You really do for the great work you do.

00:05:57.000 Also, our Turning Point Faith chapter at Calvary Chapel Oro Valley did a great job.

00:06:05.000 And 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.

00:06:13.000 We did University of Vermont, Michigan, Minnesota, Clemson, Alabama, Baylor.

00:06:18.000 We've been all over the place.

00:06:18.000 But we wanted to make sure we ended with you guys, all of us here in Arizona.

00:06:24.000 And 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.

00:06:38.000 Like people ask me all the time, they say, Charlie, what can I do actually to save the country?

00:06:44.000 And they're like, I do everything I've been told.

00:06:47.000 I watched Tucker Carlson.

00:06:49.000 I bought the pillow.

00:06:51.000 Like, I did everything I was supposed to do, right?

00:06:54.000 By the way, promo code Kirk at mypillow.com, just so we're clear.

00:06:58.000 No, seriously.

00:06:59.000 And if you guys are moving in as high school to college kids, the best geezer dream sheets you could imagine.

00:07:04.000 But no, in all seriousness, it's kind of one of these questions of what else can I do to save the country?

00:07:10.000 And 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.

00:07:25.000 And you want to know one of the biggest issues we have in America is that we have 75 million people.

00:07:31.000 A 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.

00:07:41.000 And they're right.

00:07:43.000 And that doesn't mean you shouldn't speak out.

00:07:45.000 So 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.

00:07:54.000 And you think to yourself, are you really free in that sense?

00:07:57.000 That 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.

00:08:05.000 And one of the things that people complain about most is cancel culture.

00:08:09.000 I never liked cancel culture.

00:08:09.000 I hate the term.

00:08:11.000 I think it's overly simplistic, quite honestly.

00:08:14.000 But the reason why cancel culture, whatever, you know, however you want to define it, is powerful is partially because we make it so.

00:08:22.000 It's partially because we allow the other people to have a lot of power over our lives.

00:08:27.000 Is 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.

00:08:35.000 And 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.

00:08:48.000 And 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.

00:08:56.000 I guarantee it, half the room, it'll experience with this.

00:08:59.000 Where 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?

00:09:07.000 And they got the whole world figured out, everything.

00:09:10.000 And they say, you know what I hate? 0.97

00:09:12.000 I hate rich old white men saying that we have to control women's bodies. 0.98

00:09:17.000 And you'll have a decision to make. 0.96

00:09:19.000 You know, it might be very early on in the meal, right?

00:09:21.000 When 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.

00:09:31.000 Or are you just going to kind of let it pass by and you are going to just basically say, you know what?

00:09:37.000 I don't want to upset the apple card.

00:09:38.000 Now, let me be very clear.

00:09:39.000 I'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.

00:09:47.000 One 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.

00:10:00.000 Some things that we are, for example, I'll just kind of give you one example.

00:10:04.000 Only women can get pregnant, men cannot get pregnant. 1.00

00:10:06.000 That's like a thought crime in America today.

00:10:09.000 You think I'm kidding?

00:10:10.000 By the way, it's a very simple thing, right?

00:10:14.000 You're not allowed to say that.

00:10:15.000 Or there's only two genders, right? 1.00

00:10:17.000 Or America's not systemically racist.

00:10:20.000 Or we're the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:10:23.000 Constitution's the greatest political document ever written.

00:10:26.000 I could go on.

00:10:27.000 She needs borders. 1.00

00:10:29.000 Very simple things that if you said that in certain polite society, people would start to pay a price.

00:10:35.000 And my charge is a difficult one, is we need more people willing to start to pay that price.

00:10:40.000 Now, 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.

00:10:52.000 That's a pretty amazing thing.

00:10:54.000 Is anyone dealing with that right now?

00:10:56.000 I don't want to out you, but yeah.

00:10:58.000 And does the University of Arizona, do they mandate the vaccine?

00:11:01.000 What do they, I don't, for employees?

00:11:04.000 Okay.

00:11:07.000 For employees or students?

00:11:09.000 Employees?

00:11:12.000 Yeah, 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.

00:11:22.000 It's that simple.

00:11:22.000 We need to demand that out of the state leadership.

00:11:26.000 And so, and by the way, I get so frustrated about this.

00:11:34.000 This 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.

00:11:45.000 If you're not a doctor and you don't have a degree, like, excuse me, like, can I just ask some very simple questions?

00:11:51.000 Ask some questions, right?

00:11:53.000 Like, why is it that the most vaccinated countries on the planet have the highest COVID rates they've ever had?

00:11:59.000 Like, that's an interesting question, right?

00:12:01.000 Why is that the most vaccinated state in the country has the highest COVID rate of any state in the country, Vermont?

00:12:06.000 You 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.

00:12:32.000 We're not allowed to talk about that.

00:12:34.000 Why 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.

00:12:39.000 I got to say, what Aaron Rodgers did took a lot of courage, I have to tell you.

00:12:45.000 But we're not even allowed to talk about it.

00:12:48.000 And 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.

00:12:59.000 Where's the conversation on natural immunity?

00:13:02.000 Where's the conversation on natural inoculation?

00:13:04.000 How many people have already had the virus here?

00:13:06.000 Yeah, well, there you go, right?

00:13:08.000 Now, here's a very interesting question.

00:13:10.000 The most important question.

00:13:11.000 I don't think we got a picture of this last time.

00:13:13.000 So if Connor or Mikey's here, take the question.

00:13:15.000 How many people, now be careful, think about it before you raise your hand.

00:13:18.000 How many people here have a friend or someone you know of or yourself that had an adverse event to this vaccine?

00:13:27.000 Raise your hand.

00:13:28.000 That's insane.

00:13:32.000 I want you to think about this.

00:13:34.000 You put your hands down.

00:13:35.000 We are told it's 100% safe and effective.

00:13:40.000 So either everyone here is lying or there's something else going on we're not even allowed to talk about.

00:13:46.000 By the way, I've done this at every one of our tour stops lately, the same sort of portion of hands, about half.

00:13:51.000 So they're told, oh, no, no, it's a one in a million shot.

00:13:54.000 So let's just go through some statistics here.

00:13:56.000 If half the hands in this room go up and we're told it's one in a million, something's totally out of whack here.

00:14:03.000 Again, you make your own decision.

00:14:04.000 I'm not going to tell you what to do with your own medical decisions.

00:14:06.000 If you want to get vaccinated, whatever, right?

00:14:09.000 If you want to go to McDonald's after this, like whatever.

00:14:11.000 I hope it works out for you, right?

00:14:13.000 Taco Bell or whatever.

00:14:14.000 You know, that's part of kind of living in a civil society.

00:14:17.000 But 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.

00:14:25.000 Then all of a sudden you're starting to go into a direction that I think all of us know exactly where this is headed.

00:14:32.000 And 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.

00:14:41.000 Isn't it amazing?

00:14:42.000 It's like, oh yeah, we're all for the freedom and liberty thing.

00:14:44.000 As long as you do exactly what we tell you to do when we want to do it, or else we're going to destroy your life.

00:14:49.000 It's like, hold on a second.

00:14:50.000 Freedom and liberty is not some sort of sound bite that you put on a bumper sticker for your campaign.

00:14:55.000 It's like when you get elected in office, it's what matters the most.

00:14:59.000 It's the moments that matter the most.

00:15:02.000 That's why we put you in there.

00:15:04.000 And so, and yes, you should applaud that.

00:15:07.000 That's the most important thing.

00:15:10.000 I could go on about that topic for a while.

00:15:13.000 And 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.

00:15:21.000 And that's a new thing that we're seeing is that it's one thing to have the law on the books.

00:15:25.000 James Madison and Cicero, the one-year Roman Council, both had a very similar quote.

00:15:30.000 Madison basically copied from Cicero.

00:15:32.000 Madison said, who's the father of the United States Constitution, he said, the more voluminous the laws, the more injustice there will be, right?

00:15:41.000 So 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?

00:15:50.000 Cicero said it better, honestly.

00:15:52.000 He said, the more laws, the less justice.

00:15:55.000 And what we've done is we have all these laws on the books.

00:15:57.000 Therefore, the people that then enforce the laws get to pick and choose who they actually want to go after.

00:16:01.000 I'll prove it to you.

00:16:03.000 That 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.

00:16:31.000 And 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. 0.59

00:16:46.000 Seriously.

00:16:46.000 I'm not saying that's what we need for Kyle.

00:16:48.000 I'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.

00:16:53.000 But instead, let's just be, let's just be as blunt and honest about it.

00:16:56.000 Kyle Rittenhouse checks a box of the type of, let's say, enemy they want to create.

00:17:02.000 And we saw this earlier with what happened with the Nicola Sandman case.

00:17:05.000 You guys remember that with the Covington kids? 0.94

00:17:07.000 Remember 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.

00:17:16.000 And we were told that the young kid was the one that's provoking and saying racist things. 0.79

00:17:19.000 Total lie.

00:17:20.000 You know, totally exonerated, won his lawsuits.

00:17:22.000 But 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.

00:17:37.000 Hope he gets sued for that one day in civil court.

00:17:39.000 There is no evidence of that.

00:17:41.000 But 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.

00:17:53.000 Total lie.

00:17:54.000 It's called a bridle or a saddle.

00:17:56.000 You ever ride a horse before?

00:17:57.000 New York Times weirdo, right?

00:17:59.000 No, of course not.

00:18:00.000 Never even been west of the Mississippi River, let alone ever mounted a horse, right?

00:18:04.000 No, it's a whip.

00:18:06.000 No, but they, but all they have is the narrative.

00:18:09.000 So 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.

00:18:24.000 Boom.

00:18:25.000 Put him in jail.

00:18:27.000 And that's not the way we do things in our country.

00:18:30.000 And 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.

00:18:46.000 But 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.

00:18:59.000 Despite how many op-eds MSNBC writes or the New York Times writes, despite how much they hate Kyle Rittenhouse, guess what?

00:19:06.000 He still gets a trial by a jury.

00:19:09.000 He still gets a lawyer.

00:19:12.000 Because without it, if they had their chance, just lock them up indefinitely, right?

00:19:17.000 The 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.

00:19:24.000 Just get rid of him. 0.99

00:19:25.000 But for Kyle Rittenhouse, he had this opportunity.

00:19:28.000 It was so obviously self-defense.

00:19:30.000 We knew this early on.

00:19:31.000 And I came out and supported Kyle early.

00:19:32.000 And so many people are like, why are you doing that?

00:19:34.000 Because you see the video, you see what's happening.

00:19:36.000 But then you've seen the last couple of weeks, all of a sudden, the Constitution play out in real time.

00:19:41.000 Have you guys been following this in one way or the shape?

00:19:43.000 Okay, I'm good.

00:19:44.000 And by the way, you should.

00:19:45.000 If 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.

00:19:54.000 And 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.

00:20:14.000 Like, I didn't know that actually still existed.

00:20:16.000 It actually makes me kind of happy.

00:20:18.000 Where he starts to come in and say, wait a second, you're not allowed to do that.

00:20:22.000 Like, you're supposed to play by the rules here.

00:20:24.000 And what I saw in the Rittenhouse trials, oh, my goodness, our society's been missing impartial referees for the last 30 years.

00:20:31.000 It's like we've been playing a sports game without someone saying, like, you're not allowed to do that.

00:20:36.000 You're not allowed to just tackle someone by the face mask, like 15 yards.

00:20:41.000 Instead, it's like totally no rules in society in the last 20 years.

00:20:44.000 You guys have seen that, especially in the last couple of years, right?

00:20:47.000 If someone gets outraged enough, Dave Chappelle has to cancel it from Netflix because he's hilarious because he insulted.

00:20:52.000 And by the way, it's really interesting with the Dave Chappelle thing.

00:20:54.000 You see the transgender thing that gets treated more seriously than the racial thing.

00:20:58.000 Do you guys see that recently?

00:21:00.000 That like in the hierarchy of oppression, it's like if a black person, it's the oppression Olympics, right? 1.00

00:21:06.000 You have to always like be, it's a constant race, right? 1.00

00:21:09.000 By the way, what's above transgender, though, is the medical thing.

00:21:12.000 What comes first is obedience to the technocracy and the scientific state.

00:21:16.000 Second is now the transgender and third is the racial thing. 0.97

00:21:19.000 But 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. 0.99

00:21:28.000 Like, yeah, sit down and shut up. 0.98

00:21:29.000 We're still going to, we're still going to do this. 0.99

00:21:31.000 But it was interesting with Chappelle because he goes after the transgender. 0.99

00:21:34.000 I don't even know what he said.

00:21:35.000 I think I saw a clip of it.

00:21:36.000 I can't remember.

00:21:37.000 I know it was hilarious.

00:21:38.000 And they just do stage outs and walkouts and the whole thing.

00:21:42.000 And Chappelle obviously, you know, survived it.

00:21:45.000 But we saw this chaos in the last couple of years.

00:21:47.000 I could go to so many different examples.

00:21:49.000 But in the Rittenhouse trial, all of a sudden it's like, wait a second.

00:21:52.000 No, there's a process for this.

00:21:54.000 And this lunatic that calls himself a prosecutor, I don't know if you saw this, he's waving guns at the jury. 0.99

00:21:59.000 Like he's a total psychopath. 1.00

00:22:01.000 No, seriously. 0.98

00:22:01.000 He's like, takes out an AR-15 with a trick. 0.98

00:22:04.000 Like, I mean, with his finger on the trigger, it's like the worst form you could imagine.

00:22:08.000 And what, but this is an important point, is that we don't know what's going to happen in this trial.

00:22:13.000 Betting odds is Kyle Rittenhouse gets acquitted and walks.

00:22:16.000 But understand that regardless of your own opinion of the incident, and by the way, there really is only one right opinion of the incident.

00:22:22.000 Let's be very clear, right?

00:22:24.000 Is 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.

00:22:31.000 Like that's what happened.

00:22:32.000 And 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.

00:22:42.000 Anyway, is that the Constitution was designed for moments like this.

00:22:48.000 And so if we're asking ourselves, like, how do we heal our country and how do we move forward?

00:22:53.000 It's let's re-embrace those constants those principles.

00:22:56.000 Guess what those are?

00:22:57.000 No rushing to judgment.

00:22:58.000 Go figure, right?

00:23:00.000 Allowing people to have their side of the story told before the punishment is administered.

00:23:06.000 Actually valuing facts and reason above pathology, feelings, and emotion.

00:23:13.000 And 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.

00:23:28.000 We are told that all these things are true.

00:23:30.000 Then six years later, we are told that the steel dossier was completely manufactured and was an act of fiction.

00:23:37.000 And 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.

00:23:50.000 And let me be very clear.

00:23:52.000 We got so many constitutional violations happening on a daily basis.

00:23:55.000 It's unbelievable.

00:23:56.000 That needs to be our guide, though.

00:23:57.000 It's like that needs to be the centerpiece, is that that document was written for a reason.

00:24:02.000 Another example, I mean, so I got so upset when I saw this ridiculous infrastructure signing thing today.

00:24:07.000 I mean, that's $1.2 trillion that we don't have to go spend money on, whatever.

00:24:11.000 We don't know.

00:24:12.000 But 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.

00:24:27.000 I'm talking, of course, Project Veritas James O'Keefe.

00:24:30.000 And this, regardless of your political affiliation, this should horrify you.

00:24:36.000 Even liberals are coming out and speaking out against this.

00:24:39.000 Let me tell you what's happened.

00:24:40.000 James O'Keefe and Project Veritas, they have been hitting home runs lately.

00:24:45.000 Let me just put it that way.

00:24:46.000 They've been exposing Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Health and Human Services.

00:24:51.000 They've been going after election integrity.

00:24:53.000 You name it.

00:24:54.000 He's been going after it.

00:24:55.000 So he was approached in the fall of 2020 where someone came up to him and said, oh, hey, I have Ashley Biden's diary.

00:25:03.000 Okay.

00:25:04.000 Now, why this is a concern of the FBI?

00:25:06.000 No 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.

00:25:15.000 Why the FBI doesn't care about that and they care about some diary is insane to me.

00:25:20.000 Anyway.

00:25:22.000 And so he doesn't publish the diary.

00:25:28.000 He tries to give it to law enforcement.

00:25:30.000 A year later then, he gets a knock on the door.

00:25:33.000 His journalists get put in handcuffs.

00:25:35.000 His whole apartment gets searched.

00:25:36.000 His phone gets confiscated.

00:25:38.000 His internal records are now in the hands of the government.

00:25:42.000 And without an indictment of a crime, mind you, I want you to think about that.

00:25:48.000 That 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.

00:25:56.000 Now you're like, oh, Charlie, whatever, that doesn't apply to me.

00:25:59.000 Like, go read some 20th century history because that's already playing out in real time.

00:26:05.000 And so James O'Keefe is pushing back rather effectively.

00:26:09.000 And 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.

00:26:20.000 Meanwhile, Eric Holder did the exact same thing in 2012 and was never indicted.

00:26:26.000 And 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.

00:26:38.000 In certain corners and certain places, that's still intact.

00:26:41.000 Kenosha, Wisconsin, I suppose they still follow the Constitution.

00:26:45.000 And good for Kyle that that's the case.

00:26:47.000 And that should be a roadmap further for that.

00:26:50.000 But 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.

00:26:58.000 I 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.

00:27:15.000 I want you to imagine something.

00:27:17.000 I want you to imagine that the New York Times got their hands on the Donald Trump Jr. diary.

00:27:23.000 I want you to imagine the Washington Post got their hands on the Ivanka Trump diary.

00:27:28.000 And Donald Trump sent the FBI to the offices of the Washington Post.

00:27:33.000 Do you think that there would be a little bit of attention to that?

00:27:36.000 He would be impeached over that.

00:27:37.000 He would.

00:27:37.000 He got impeached for a phone call.

00:27:39.000 They would definitely impeach him.

00:27:40.000 And guess what?

00:27:41.000 He would deserve it.

00:27:41.000 Of course he would.

00:27:42.000 I 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.

00:27:50.000 And so we all see what this is happening.

00:27:52.000 We see the significance of it.

00:27:54.000 But I think we must understand that this current moment that we're in is going to require a renewal of the American citizen.

00:28:03.000 And I understand that it's tempting to not want to care about a lot of this.

00:28:07.000 You can go one of two ways.

00:28:08.000 I either see people get so far into this, they're all in.

00:28:08.000 I see this.

00:28:11.000 They're like, I'm going to go run for school board.

00:28:13.000 I'm going to go start a turning point chapter.

00:28:15.000 I'm going to do whatever it takes.

00:28:16.000 But I know a lot of you are tempted at times not to want to watch the news.

00:28:20.000 You're like, I can't handle it anymore.

00:28:21.000 I can't do this.

00:28:22.000 Like, it's so rigged.

00:28:23.000 It's so backwards.

00:28:24.000 You have to reject cynicism.

00:28:26.000 You have to.

00:28:28.000 Because 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.

00:28:36.000 And every time that happens, they lose.

00:28:38.000 Just look at Virginia. 1.00

00:28:40.000 Look what happened in Virginia two weeks ago.

00:28:42.000 What 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.

00:28:54.000 So 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.

00:29:07.000 So I've decided I'm generation Z, not millennial.

00:29:10.000 I know you'll understand.

00:29:11.000 You can pick everything else nowadays.

00:29:13.000 So why not?

00:29:16.000 So I'm decided I'm younger.

00:29:17.000 So you're welcome.

00:29:19.000 So when I say our generation, it's just how I identify.

00:29:23.000 Okay.

00:29:24.000 It's my own choice.

00:29:25.000 So our generation, I want to talk to two audiences at once.

00:29:31.000 I want to talk first to students and people that are in college or in high school or recently graduated college.

00:29:38.000 And I want to talk to parents and grandparents because I think both are currently on the conservative side missing a component.

00:29:45.000 Okay.

00:29:46.000 Let me start with parents first.

00:29:48.000 Okay.

00:29:49.000 Far too often I hear from parents and grandparents nothing but disdain and complaining about the younger generation.

00:29:58.000 They don't get it.

00:29:59.000 They don't know what it's like to work.

00:30:01.000 And by the way, sometimes that is true.

00:30:03.000 I agree that you got some schleps around.

00:30:06.000 Okay.

00:30:07.000 But I've looked at the baby boomer generation.

00:30:09.000 They're not all rock stars either.

00:30:11.000 So, you know, let's just understand enough of the condescending intergenerational lecturing.

00:30:11.000 Okay.

00:30:18.000 Okay.

00:30:19.000 Now, I get it.

00:30:20.000 There's some young people that probably want to get more stuff than want to work.

00:30:24.000 But again, I don't think that's a generational thing.

00:30:27.000 I think that's a human thing.

00:30:28.000 Okay.

00:30:29.000 So we have to kind of press pause on that.

00:30:32.000 And 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.

00:30:43.000 They're half right.

00:30:45.000 And then I will segue to the younger generation.

00:30:47.000 Let me tell you why they're half right.

00:30:49.000 There is a sentiment that has set in where victimhood is a currency.

00:30:53.000 I hate it.

00:30:55.000 They're right on this, that victimhood is given a higher platform than it should.

00:31:00.000 That victimhood of kind of, I get to complain about how oppressed I am, it gets taken way too seriously.

00:31:06.000 However, we would be fooling ourselves if we said that this generation is getting the same deal that college graduates got in the 1980s.

00:31:16.000 That is a lie.

00:31:18.000 And that young people have been lied to.

00:31:21.000 They have been locked down, literally.

00:31:23.000 They have been massed against their will.

00:31:25.000 They've been demoralized.

00:31:27.000 There's a war on young men in this country, and it's hurting women as well.

00:31:32.000 And 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.

00:31:43.000 You understand that?

00:31:45.000 And let me tell you why.

00:31:46.000 So, I get asked all the time, Charlie, why is Bernie Sanders so popular?

00:31:51.000 And the easy, cheap, sloppy answer is: oh, people just want free stuff.

00:31:55.000 Again, fine, 15 to 20% just want to smoke weed and play video games and just like get checks, fine, whatever.

00:32:02.000 I'm not necessarily fighting that.

00:32:05.000 But 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.

00:32:15.000 And people laugh at that.

00:32:16.000 They're like, oh, what do you mean, Bernie Sanders offering freedom?

00:32:18.000 He's the opposite of freedom, high taxes, all this.

00:32:20.000 I don't know, no.

00:32:21.000 There's a generation of young people that did what they were told to do.

00:32:25.000 They took the AP classes.

00:32:27.000 They 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.

00:32:36.000 And they're 27 and 28, and they're 35,000, 80,000, $150,000 in debt.

00:32:42.000 They're not getting married.

00:32:44.000 They look around to their peers, and there's like a directionless crisis.

00:32:48.000 And they say, you know what?

00:32:50.000 I was lied to because I went and studied North African lesbian poetry at the University of Arizona or whatever it is, right?

00:32:57.000 Whatever, right?

00:33:00.000 I'm not sure if that's a major here or whatever, right?

00:33:04.000 Or, you know, South African migratory bird studies from Arizona State.

00:33:08.000 Okay, so we're an equal opportunity offender.

00:33:10.000 So, but how can you blame an 18-year-old if their parents say you must go to college to succeed?

00:33:17.000 Here's a good thing for parents to look in this room and see.

00:33:20.000 How many of you know someone that dropped out of college?

00:33:23.000 Raise your hand.

00:33:24.000 41% of people that go to college drop out.

00:33:24.000 Yeah.

00:33:27.000 41%.

00:33:28.000 We have way too many people going to college in this country, and no one wants to say it out loud.

00:33:33.000 I guarantee you, if I went person by person here, college kid after college kid, you'd say, oh, yeah, that class is a waste of time.

00:33:39.000 That class is a waste of money, right?

00:33:41.000 Am I correct?

00:33:43.000 It's a scam.

00:33:45.000 You do not need the degree to succeed unless you're in a couple very finite fields.

00:33:50.000 Doctor, lawyer, engineer, psychology, nothing against you.

00:33:58.000 You're probably not going to get a job in that field.

00:34:00.000 It's true.

00:34:01.000 And so then you have resentment of 28-year-olds that study something and they're like, this was useless.

00:34:10.000 So I got to go find a whole new way to retrain myself.

00:34:13.000 And by the time they're 29, they look at their parents who are then lecturing them, like, why don't you have your life together?

00:34:20.000 When I was 29, I was moving up in this company and all this.

00:34:22.000 It was so nice and so easy.

00:34:23.000 Hold on a second.

00:34:24.000 Have you seen the price of housing?

00:34:26.000 So here's the other thing: it's like, okay, then we're going to lock down everything for our generation.

00:34:33.000 So it's really hard to find jobs.

00:34:35.000 No gyms, no sporting events, no social activities.

00:34:39.000 So you can't meet people.

00:34:40.000 So you're super miserable.

00:34:41.000 Most suicidal generation in American history, by the way, most drug-addicted generation in American history. 0.92

00:34:45.000 I go through it.

00:34:47.000 And then when finally Gen Z and millennials, like the country opens up again, they're like, okay, I'm going to go buy a home.

00:34:52.000 Oh, everything's like 50% more expensive in the Scottsdale real estate market, literally, in 18 months.

00:34:58.000 And so then you ask yourself the question: what kind of political strategy do you think they're going to embrace?

00:35:04.000 Are they going to embrace the right that just has nothing but condescending things to say about them?

00:35:09.000 Like, oh, yeah, you're a bunch of AOCs that want free stuff.

00:35:13.000 And I don't blame young people.

00:35:15.000 It's like, you know what?

00:35:16.000 I have nothing in common with this.

00:35:17.000 Like, you know what?

00:35:18.000 Like, 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.

00:35:25.000 And I'll get into the kind of the other side of it, which is the talk to students in a second.

00:35:29.000 But my message for parents and grandparents out there is that, first of all, there's a massive opportunity to strike balance between you.

00:35:38.000 There's a huge opportunity and not be for student loan forgiveness, which I'm totally against, by the way.

00:35:42.000 I'm totally against student loan forgiveness because some of you worked your way through college.

00:35:45.000 Some of you go to community college.

00:35:47.000 Some of you didn't go to college.

00:35:48.000 Some of you got scholarships, all those sorts of things, right?

00:35:51.000 But outside of student loan forgiveness, there's a way to say, you know what?

00:35:55.000 We're going to make it easier to get married and have kids in this country.

00:35:58.000 We're going to make it easier that you don't have to go in debt to go pursue the same lifestyle that your parents were able to do.

00:36:05.000 Like if you do not, and this is another important thing, and Phoenix is going the wrong direction in this totally.

00:36:10.000 We're becoming a country of renters, not owners.

00:36:15.000 It is the most, it is the least, lowest homeownership of any generation in American history, which is millennials. 1.00

00:36:21.000 And soon to be Generation Z. Why?

00:36:23.000 Oh, 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?

00:36:35.000 And 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.

00:36:55.000 Like when my car breaks down, I'm useless, like whatever.

00:36:59.000 Go bring in the mechanic who's going to charge $700 I don't have to go fix this.

00:37:03.000 And 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.

00:37:12.000 And this is for parents out there, I'm going to say this super delicately.

00:37:16.000 Parents don't want their kids to become plumbers.

00:37:18.000 They don't.

00:37:19.000 Now, I know.

00:37:20.000 I know some people laugh, but it's true. 1.00

00:37:22.000 It's like there's something like, I don't want my kid to have to sweat for a living.

00:37:27.000 And it's true. 0.56

00:37:29.000 Most parents are like, I don't want my kids to work construction.

00:37:33.000 And it's like, instead, I'd rather have them become like far left-wing activists and atheists than work in construction. 0.92

00:37:42.000 Like anything but that, right?

00:37:44.000 So I live in Scottsdale.

00:37:47.000 And I'm telling you what, when I call my plumber, I mean, he like owns the town.

00:37:53.000 You call in, he shows up whenever he wants, by the way.

00:37:56.000 It's like a range of like 19 hours.

00:37:57.000 I'll be there between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m.

00:38:00.000 Like, thanks.

00:38:02.000 Why so specific, right?

00:38:04.000 Shows up.

00:38:06.000 And by the way, you want to talk about like extortionist prices.

00:38:09.000 It's just whatever he wants to charge because there's no supply of plumbers.

00:38:13.000 There's no supply of carpenters because we decided we don't need those people.

00:38:16.000 No, we need a bunch of people tapping on their computer about how racist we are. 0.96

00:38:19.000 Or people that can like repeat the incantation of diversity, equity, inclusion, or whatever.

00:38:25.000 And so then the plumber shows up.

00:38:28.000 It's like, yeah, you need a new Johnson rod.

00:38:30.000 Okay, sure.

00:38:31.000 Okay.

00:38:31.000 Yeah.

00:38:31.000 I know nothing about this stuff.

00:38:33.000 Like, okay, sure, great.

00:38:34.000 And by the way, without plumbers, like, good luck having a decent society without plumbers, by the way.

00:38:38.000 And the same goes for mechanics and carpenters and all this.

00:38:41.000 And then I asked him, I said, how's business?

00:38:45.000 And he said, it's the best it's ever been.

00:38:48.000 He's like, you know, we have more work than we know what to do with.

00:38:51.000 I can literally charge you whatever I want.

00:38:52.000 That's what he says to me.

00:38:53.000 I'm like, oh, really?

00:38:54.000 Like, this is a really phenomenal negotiating position I'm in, right?

00:39:00.000 And I said, where'd you go to college?

00:39:01.000 He said, of course I didn't go.

00:39:02.000 I mean, that would be a waste of time.

00:39:04.000 I said, what are you earning a year, plumber in Scottsdale?

00:39:06.000 It's like, I'll clear $375,000 this year.

00:39:11.000 You think I'm kidding?

00:39:14.000 No debt.

00:39:16.000 Couple employees, $1099.

00:39:20.000 Statistically, it'll be lucky if half this room ever earns $375,000 in the next 15 years.

00:39:25.000 And that's not an insult.

00:39:26.000 It's not.

00:39:27.000 I'm just saying statistically.

00:39:29.000 But he's the enemy, right?

00:39:30.000 He's the person that parents don't want to see their kid become. 0.96

00:39:34.000 He's the deplorable. 0.87

00:39:36.000 He's the flyover. 1.00

00:39:37.000 He's the smelly Walmart guy. 0.69

00:39:39.000 And yeah, he was like mildly overweight, like whatever.

00:39:43.000 But it's like, you know, ripped jeans, like whatever.

00:39:47.000 But nicer car than I have, I can tell you that much.

00:39:49.000 Like, my goodness.

00:39:51.000 And but then you ask yourself the question, and I asked him the final question I asked, I said, are you happy?

00:39:58.000 Of course I am.

00:40:00.000 And I said, why?

00:40:00.000 He's like, it's not about the money.

00:40:02.000 He said, because I know that I have purpose.

00:40:04.000 It's like, I have a problem and I fix it.

00:40:06.000 And I have a problem and I fix it.

00:40:08.000 And there's a problem and I fix it.

00:40:10.000 And I said, oh, so you have satisfaction.

00:40:11.000 He's like, of course.

00:40:13.000 I live a great life.

00:40:14.000 I said, thanks so much.

00:40:15.000 You know, $4,000 or whatever it was.

00:40:17.000 And then you moved on.

00:40:18.000 It wasn't that much, but it was a lot, right?

00:40:20.000 Thanks for your time.

00:40:21.000 It's like hiring, you know, New York lawyers aren't charging what Scottsdale plumbers are charging, right?

00:40:27.000 And I got to thinking, and it's nothing new that I haven't said.

00:40:30.000 And obviously, I didn't go to college.

00:40:31.000 I have my own very strong opinions about it.

00:40:33.000 But 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.

00:40:40.000 You're participating in a scam that your parents made you go through.

00:40:43.000 You know, it's true.

00:40:45.000 Most of you wouldn't be there if you didn't want to.

00:40:47.000 How many people wouldn't be in college if it wasn't for your parents?

00:40:50.000 Raise your hand.

00:40:51.000 Of course.

00:40:52.000 It's a lot of people.

00:40:55.000 And so I'm not saying drop out immediately, but that might be wise.

00:40:58.000 But when we talk to young people, we ask why are they going to socialist directions, put yourself a little bit in their shoes.

00:41:09.000 It's not that they're like big admirers of Cuba, Venezuela.

00:41:12.000 There's some people that are like that.

00:41:13.000 It's not that they even think government can like run things better.

00:41:17.000 It's we've been lied to.

00:41:19.000 We've been scammed.

00:41:21.000 I have no money.

00:41:22.000 I own nothing.

00:41:23.000 How much worse could it get?

00:41:26.000 And it could get a lot worse, but you understand what I'm saying.

00:41:28.000 Okay.

00:41:29.000 So then let me transition to the student and younger person part of it.

00:41:32.000 Okay.

00:41:32.000 Which is, in some ways, it's going to sound like I'm contradicting the other side of it, which is, okay, everything I said was true.

00:41:40.000 Stop complaining.

00:41:41.000 So is everything I just said.

00:41:43.000 Seriously, you live in a great country.

00:41:44.000 Despite the fact you own nothing and you're in debt, you still have the ability to make a lot out of your life.

00:41:49.000 Go do it.

00:41:50.000 Go find something to be responsible for.

00:41:52.000 Go wake up earlier.

00:41:54.000 Stop blaming other people for your problems.

00:41:56.000 Challenge yourself every single day.

00:41:57.000 Those things are always true.

00:42:00.000 And most importantly, get God in your life.

00:42:10.000 It's the most important thing.

00:42:15.000 And so now I'm going to commit some thought crimes.

00:42:21.000 Why not?

00:42:22.000 So 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.

00:42:32.000 I really do.

00:42:33.000 And kind of, it's part of who we are.

00:42:35.000 And you just kind of remove that.

00:42:37.000 You just put people behind a screen all day long.

00:42:39.000 And they're like, oh, yeah, they're going to be super happy.

00:42:40.000 I actually don't think that's true.

00:42:42.000 But beyond that, we know what the real problem is.

00:42:44.000 You have a generation that is the most, is the least religious generation in American history by far.

00:42:52.000 And yeah, I'll go here.

00:42:55.000 Okay.

00:42:55.000 I was perplexed by this.

00:42:56.000 So Arizona Christian University came out with a study.

00:42:59.000 And maybe you guys could help me with this.

00:43:01.000 I thought it to be ridiculous, but maybe it's true. 0.99

00:43:03.000 That 39% of Gen Z is LGBT. 0.70

00:43:07.000 39%?

00:43:09.000 Do you guys believe that? 0.97

00:43:10.000 Do you think, like, just based on your conversation, do you think, I thought it was ridiculous. 0.72

00:43:14.000 Okay, let me ask a question.

00:43:15.000 Raise your hand if you think that's about right.

00:43:18.000 Raise your hand.

00:43:19.000 Okay, raise your hand if you think that's about wrong.

00:43:21.000 Okay, so it's most people think it's wrong.

00:43:23.000 So let's pretend it's 20%, whatever.

00:43:25.000 And I'm not going to get into it.

00:43:26.000 Just thought it was like 39%.

00:43:28.000 That's unbelievable.

00:43:29.000 I mean, and so least religious generation, and they're wondering where their place is in the world.

00:43:38.000 And that shouldn't surprise you.

00:43:41.000 Is that the more secular America has become, the less free it will be.

00:43:46.000 Is that you could try all these different secular replacement religions, which we are trying, by the way.

00:43:54.000 And make no mistake, there is a high priestess that many young people basically tithe to.

00:44:03.000 They do sacraments to.

00:44:04.000 I'm talking about Greta Funberg, of course.

00:44:07.000 You think I'm kidding?

00:44:09.000 She's a high priestess of the pagan climate change religion. 0.73

00:44:13.000 I'll prove it to you.

00:44:14.000 It's true.

00:44:15.000 Everything about her has religion laced in it.

00:44:18.000 It's a different type of religion.

00:44:20.000 World is going to end in 10 years.

00:44:22.000 Where have I heard that before?

00:44:23.000 I mean, like, geez.

00:44:24.000 By the way, I'm not trying to insult anyone's eschatology.

00:44:27.000 It's just kind of like the world's going to fall apart.

00:44:29.000 We need dramatic action.

00:44:31.000 We need unity.

00:44:32.000 We need meetings.

00:44:33.000 She has like a core code of beliefs.

00:44:35.000 And it gives people purpose.

00:44:37.000 It'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.

00:44:48.000 You have a villain, you have an organized way to do it.

00:44:51.000 Same sort of thing with parts of the BLM movement.

00:44:54.000 Parts of the BLM movement is a secularized type religion, is that it gives people purpose, identity, and connection.

00:45:03.000 So 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.

00:45:11.000 And look, I'm not here to tell you any sort of particular religious belief.

00:45:15.000 I'm happy to go into that if you guys want.

00:45:16.000 Obviously, 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.

00:45:22.000 And so, and but if you think that, and this is, this is, I'll close on these couple thoughts.

00:45:31.000 So if you think that you can be free absent moral guardrails, you're kidding yourself.

00:45:40.000 And 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.

00:45:55.000 That is not liberty.

00:45:56.000 Liberty is doing what you ought to do and pursuing virtue.

00:46:01.000 And 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.

00:46:13.000 There's a great quote at Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School.

00:46:17.000 They're going to take it down as soon as they realize how wise it is.

00:46:21.000 And it says, the law is the wise restraint that keeps men free. 0.69

00:46:27.000 So let me just give the best example I can of this.

00:46:30.000 By 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?

00:46:39.000 Unless 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.

00:46:50.000 And I'll prove it to you.

00:46:51.000 You ever spend time around an alcoholic?

00:46:54.000 Are they free?

00:46:56.000 It's a great example, isn't it?

00:46:58.000 That they did, they do what they want to do whenever they want to do it.

00:47:01.000 And I'm not minimizing alcoholism.

00:47:03.000 It's a very real thing, obviously.

00:47:05.000 And there's other components outside of agency and self-will and all that sorts of things.

00:47:09.000 It could be a diagnosable clinical condition.

00:47:13.000 With that being said, just indulging whenever you want doesn't keep you happy.

00:47:19.000 And 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.

00:47:26.000 Instead, it should be this.

00:47:28.000 It's what you don't do at the University of Arizona that will keep you happy.

00:47:32.000 That's what kids need to hear.

00:47:34.000 It'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.

00:47:43.000 It's being able to say no and have self-control.

00:47:45.000 That's actually going to keep you free.

00:47:47.000 Not the other way, it's the other way around, right?

00:47:49.000 It's that, no, freedom is indulging.

00:47:52.000 Freedom is being young only once or whatever, YOLO, you only live once.

00:47:58.000 And maybe when you're young, you can get away with it.

00:48:01.000 Maybe you get it out of your system.

00:48:03.000 Don't recommend it, but whatever.

00:48:05.000 But 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.

00:48:12.000 It's like all of a sudden the guardrails start, you know, it's like the window starts to change.

00:48:15.000 It's like, I have to outdo myself a little bit.

00:48:17.000 And 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.

00:48:26.000 I won't say this to young women, but young women will appreciate what I'm saying.

00:48:29.000 I'll talk to young men.

00:48:30.000 So I always say this, and all the young ladies always applaud when I say this.

00:48:33.000 I say, young men, you got to get your act together, okay?

00:48:35.000 You got to get your act together.

00:48:36.000 And all the young ladies are like, oh, yes, absolutely.

00:48:38.000 So a lot of young men are directionalists.

00:48:41.000 It's like prolonged adolescence, right?

00:48:44.000 It's mature infants, right? 0.60

00:48:45.000 And 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?

00:48:53.000 But you want to know a characteristic that young women want to find in men.

00:49:00.000 It's a young man that can control himself.

00:49:02.000 It's a young man that can go 90 days without drinking.

00:49:06.000 It's a young man that can say no to all the other pressures.

00:49:10.000 Because 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.

00:49:15.000 Like, that's a really cool thing.

00:49:16.000 And that's really rare.

00:49:18.000 Instead, it's kind of like, yeah, I really don't have much control over me.

00:49:22.000 I don't know if I'm going to show up to class.

00:49:23.000 I don't know what I'm going to show up to.

00:49:25.000 I don't really know what I'm doing.

00:49:26.000 And that creates miserable people.

00:49:29.000 It creates a generation where, by the way, you have more people committing suicide than dying from the Fauci virus in this country.

00:49:35.000 More people committing suicide than dying of the Fauci virus.

00:49:39.000 And that should be a fire alarm, shouldn't it?

00:49:41.000 Where you have suicide rates going up the way they are?

00:49:44.000 Drug usage, alcoholism, all these different sorts of things.

00:49:47.000 And part of it is that we put on a pedestal the next dopamine rush.

00:49:54.000 You know, the next thing that's going to feel really good at that moment.

00:49:56.000 By the way, I'm not moralized.

00:49:58.000 I want to be very clear.

00:49:58.000 We've all made mistakes in our life.

00:50:00.000 I'm not here to say like I'm better than you or anything.

00:50:02.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:50:03.000 Instead, I'm saying decide today to start to change things, if that makes sense, okay?

00:50:08.000 Is that you'll be freer, you'll be happier, you'll be more thankful.

00:50:11.000 And 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.

00:50:19.000 It'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.

00:50:40.000 If 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.

00:50:49.000 You think, I love Thanksgiving.

00:50:50.000 It's a beautiful day.

00:50:51.000 It's coming up right around the corner.

00:50:52.000 And it's a uniquely American holiday and celebration.

00:50:56.000 And what I love about Thanksgiving is that it's a whole day to give thanks to the transcendent.

00:51:01.000 But 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?

00:51:07.000 Why be thankful?

00:51:09.000 And this is why you have the generation that is, they have more access to more information.

00:51:16.000 They have supercomputers in the right-hand pocket.

00:51:18.000 Should be the happiest generation, right?

00:51:20.000 Guys, you have Uber Eats.

00:51:23.000 You have as much food as you want, right?

00:51:26.000 You could communicate in an instant.

00:51:28.000 You could FaceTime.

00:51:29.000 Wow, you have Twitter.

00:51:31.000 And yet it's actually exposing the opposite.

00:51:35.000 It'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.

00:51:48.000 And they're both competing into those two separate things.

00:51:51.000 And so, yeah, just to kind of close that out is we need to be thankful.

00:51:58.000 We need to be thankful for our country, for our family, for just our just for life.

00:52:04.000 And if there's anyone here tonight that is like, man, I just can't quite figure out my place in the world.

00:52:09.000 Start with gratitude.

00:52:10.000 There's something you must be thankful for.

00:52:12.000 Now, I always say this: that if we brought everyone up here, we could have a non-stop parade of things that are going wrong in your life.

00:52:18.000 That's not the point.

00:52:20.000 The point is that gratitude is the fruit that makes all of the things taste sweet.

00:52:25.000 It is a necessary component to a civil society and honoring things that came before you.

00:52:31.000 The 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.

00:52:39.000 Why?

00:52:39.000 It's because if you're not thankful for those that came before you, everything's going to fall apart.

00:52:44.000 And many of the people that are in charge and that are running our country are not thankful.

00:52:48.000 They're the opposite of that.

00:52:50.000 And we have to be ambassadors of those very of that and very important issue.

00:52:53.000 Okay, let's do some questions and God bless you guys.

00:52:55.000 So.

00:52:55.000 Thank you.

00:53:01.000 So, Jonah, raise your hand.

00:53:06.000 So, Joan, your name's Jonah.

00:53:09.000 You got two Jonas.

00:53:10.000 It's kind of cool.

00:53:10.000 That's okay.

00:53:11.000 It's a great book in the Bible.

00:53:15.000 We'll talk about all about Nineveh and the lessons from Jonah if you guys want.

00:53:17.000 We could do a lesson on that.

00:53:18.000 So, no, I'm kidding.

00:53:20.000 So, we'll do some questions.

00:53:22.000 If 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.

00:53:30.000 And then you guys, this lineup will go as long as we can.

00:53:34.000 A couple things.

00:53:36.000 If there is, this is obviously a predominant conservative audience.

00:53:40.000 If someone from the left wants to ask a question, show them opportunity, show them respect.

00:53:45.000 Do not interrupt them and give them the decency that we don't always get from them.

00:53:51.000 So, okay, let's do questions.

00:53:53.000 Hey, Charlie, thank you for coming to U of A. That's awesome.

00:53:56.000 I'm wondering, what do you think about the conservative movement's recent decision to embrace the LGBTQ community?

00:54:03.000 I think you're talking about the Mar-a-Lago thing, right?

00:54:06.000 Yeah.

00:54:06.000 So, I think it's a mistake.

00:54:08.000 Now, look, we have people that work for us at Turning Point USA that are gay.

00:54:12.000 I've always said that we need to try to build a coalition in the conservative movement that prioritizes liberty.

00:54:18.000 But 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.

00:54:28.000 I could get into the kind of the technical parts of why it was a mistake, but we should be doing the opposite, quite honestly.

00:54:34.000 We should be reaffirming the nuclear family at a time when it's being under attack from every single direction and at every single turn. 0.96

00:54:41.000 And if that's not good enough for people, at the very least, in my opinion, it should have been just kind of agnostic position.

00:54:50.000 Just kind of like, we're not going to comment on this.

00:54:53.000 We're not going to do that.

00:54:55.000 But I think that I know a lot of pastors that are very, very upset about that.

00:55:00.000 But I have a lot of respect for the people that run the RNC.

00:55:03.000 I know them very well.

00:55:04.000 Disagreements are part of civil society.

00:55:07.000 And I know a lot of, I've been going back and forth with them.

00:55:10.000 And so they'll figure it out.

00:55:12.000 But I think it was a mistake.

00:55:13.000 Thank you.

00:55:14.000 Appreciate it.

00:55:15.000 Thank you.

00:55:20.000 Charlie, I just want to say thank you for coming out and having some time to talk to us.

00:55:24.000 So I'm actually struggling with a little something right now with Thanksgiving and especially Christmas coming up.

00:55:28.000 Is 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.

00:55:43.000 And 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.

00:55:49.000 What should I do in this situation?

00:55:51.000 Yeah.

00:55:53.000 You know, this is why I believe in the power of the transcendent for moments like this, right?

00:55:58.000 For divine intervention and help with that.

00:56:00.000 I mean, if you really take Fauci seriously, right?

00:56:04.000 Still, I mean, that's amazing.

00:56:06.000 I mean, he should be in prison, let alone giving advice on Thanksgiving meals.

00:56:09.000 He should have been locked up a long time ago for what he did to our country and lying under oath to Congress.

00:56:15.000 Be full of grace.

00:56:18.000 But first, I just want to say it's a tragedy what you're going through.

00:56:23.000 That life is not long, and that you don't get many times with your family.

00:56:28.000 And the fact that they want you to wear a mask or not gather to prioritize some sort of abstract safetyism thing, it's terrible.

00:56:37.000 I mean, it's really, it's really terrible.

00:56:38.000 It's really awful, not knowing all the facts and circumstances around it.

00:56:42.000 But yeah, I struggle to give advice because I would probably blow that conversation up in about 30 seconds or less.

00:56:52.000 But try to be full of grace. 0.97

00:56:55.000 But 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? 0.95

00:57:07.000 So honoring your parents is different than loving your parents. 0.77

00:57:11.000 Those are two totally different Hebrew words in the actual 10 statements.

00:57:15.000 It's actually 10 statements, not 10 commandments.

00:57:17.000 It's actually 11, but we can get into that at a different time.

00:57:19.000 So the first is, I am the Lord your God who delivered you from Egypt.

00:57:23.000 Remember, I am the Lord your God who delivered you from Egypt.

00:57:26.000 Pray on it.

00:57:27.000 I don't know if you're Christian or not, but hopefully, I don't know. 1.00

00:57:29.000 Okay.

00:57:30.000 James 1:5, pray for wisdom and God will give it to you generously.

00:57:34.000 And so you're in a tough spot.

00:57:37.000 I'll be very honest.

00:57:38.000 I might be the worst person to give advice for you on that because I have blown up my fair share of conversations recently about it.

00:57:44.000 But I'll pray for that grace that I don't have for you.

00:57:47.000 So I hope that's helpful.

00:57:49.000 Thank you.

00:57:50.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:57:56.000 Gotcha.

00:57:57.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:57:59.000 So 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.

00:58:11.000 Furthermore, my generation also happens to be the most left-leaning generation to date by significantly large margins.

00:58:17.000 According to Pew Research Center, 70% of Gen Z disapproves of Donald Trump's performance, with 65 of Gen Z voters voting for Joe Biden.

00:58:25.000 More 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.

00:58:39.000 Gen Z Republicans in particular believe that black people are treated less fairly, significantly more than previous generations, at about 43% versus the millennial Republicans.

00:58:50.000 Gotcha.

00:58:50.000 My 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?

00:59:01.000 And why?

00:59:02.000 Do I think I'm failing?

00:59:03.000 Look around.

00:59:04.000 I mean, good.

00:59:05.000 Goodness.

00:59:05.000 I mean, do I think I'm failing?

00:59:12.000 Don't ever become a prosecutor.

00:59:14.000 So, look, we have huge challenges and hurdles, obviously.

00:59:18.000 We have plenty of successes.

00:59:21.000 No, I don't think I'm failing.

00:59:22.000 I 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.

00:59:28.000 But 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.

00:59:41.000 I mean, it's just such an unbelievable thing to think that.

00:59:45.000 The opposite is actually true.

00:59:47.000 It's the total opposite is true.

00:59:50.000 And I could go through example of example.

00:59:51.000 We just a whole tour on that.

00:59:53.000 So we're going to keep on having a lot of success at Turning Point USA.

00:59:58.000 And I think we're going to be instrumental in helping turn things around.

01:00:01.000 Thanks for being here tonight.

01:00:07.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:00:08.000 My name is Steve Phillips.

01:00:09.000 I'm here with my wife, Arisa.

01:00:10.000 And first, we want to say thank you.

01:00:11.000 Our daughter, Dominique, is the president of the U of A chapter.

01:00:21.000 Sorry, Dominique, I'm just a proud father.

01:00:24.000 So onto my question on the heels of the last question is I'm a CPA.

01:00:28.000 I've got several clients who are attorneys.

01:00:30.000 And they tell me that when the truth is on our side, we tell the truth.

01:00:36.000 When the truth is not on our side, we bang our fists on the table and make lots of noise.

01:00:41.000 My generation, I'm 55 years old.

01:00:43.000 We've always followed the rules, but the deck is stacked against us.

01:00:47.000 We are against a opposition that does not follow the rules, breaks the law, breaks the Constitution.

01:00:55.000 Yet we're the generation that will always follow the rules.

01:00:59.000 How do you combat against that?

01:01:02.000 And is it time for us to start banging our fists on the tables?

01:01:05.000 That's a really good question.

01:01:08.000 So 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.

01:01:18.000 Let me just give you kind of one really easy example.

01:01:20.000 I could give you two, actually.

01:01:22.000 Let me give you one that applies to Arizona.

01:01:24.000 The first is this, is that immigration is, according to federal statute and federal precedent, a federal issue, is what we're always told, right?

01:01:35.000 The 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.

01:01:41.000 Well, 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.

01:01:58.000 So they don't like the law.

01:01:59.000 They just disobey it.

01:02:01.000 And so we look at this.

01:02:02.000 The southern border is wide open.

01:02:03.000 You see what's happening here in Arizona.

01:02:05.000 It's impacting the way of life here in Arizona.

01:02:07.000 It's terrible.

01:02:08.000 Is 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.

01:02:20.000 And is that unprecedented?

01:02:23.000 Of course it's unprecedented.

01:02:24.000 This whole chapter we're in is unprecedented.

01:02:27.000 And I wish that wasn't the case.

01:02:28.000 I wish the law, like I said, with the Rittenhouse case, was actually followed.

01:02:32.000 I'll give you another example.

01:02:34.000 Gas is really expensive right now, right?

01:02:37.000 Intentionally.

01:02:38.000 You 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?

01:02:48.000 They can't define it.

01:02:49.000 And yet, Republican governors and governors in those states are kind of tolerating it.

01:02:56.000 They're like, well, there's really nothing we can do.

01:02:58.000 Oh, they there's something they could do.

01:02:59.000 Every 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.

01:03:16.000 We don't care what Biden has to say.

01:03:17.000 We're sending them back to work.

01:03:19.000 We're going to send the hard hat construction workers back to work, and we're going to build the pipeline.

01:03:24.000 And you're going to have to go arrest a bunch of welders and construction workers. 0.95

01:03:28.000 What am I getting at?

01:03:31.000 It's time for us, both of those examples, are constructive, positive ways to bang our fists on the table.

01:03:39.000 Does that make sense?

01:03:40.000 Where I'm not saying let's go burn a Wendy's, right?

01:03:43.000 Or, you know, like what happened during Floyd Apalooza and that whole thing, right?

01:03:47.000 Or, 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.

01:03:55.000 We know where they live.

01:03:56.000 And we're filming them, right?

01:03:57.000 No recourse, obviously.

01:03:59.000 I'm not saying do any of that.

01:04:00.000 I'm not saying go do $2 billion of the damages.

01:04:02.000 I'm not saying go create our own country in Seattle, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, right?

01:04:06.000 No, 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?

01:04:15.000 Starting an Arizona border patrol.

01:04:16.000 That our version of escalation needs to be in pursuit of the law and pursuit of the good, not what the other side does.

01:04:24.000 And I think that contrast is supported by the American people because this is the argument that the moderates will make, right?

01:04:31.000 This is the argument that we're told that's frustrating you.

01:04:33.000 We just got to wait another three years to the next election to secure the southern border.

01:04:37.000 Like we're not going to have a country at this point at that case, right?

01:04:40.000 So it's like, okay, we could wait or we can act.

01:04:42.000 And we're going to act.

01:04:43.000 We're going to act in the pursuit of the law and the good of the citizenry and the nation.

01:04:48.000 I hope that answers your question.

01:04:49.000 And you should be very proud of your daughter.

01:04:50.000 She's doing a great job.

01:04:57.000 So we're talking about a vaccine that was supported by Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Ben Shapiro, 95 out of 100 senators, including 45 Republicans.

01:05:09.000 And the exact stat was 97% effective.

01:05:12.000 Ben Shapiro said it was 97% effective.

01:05:14.000 Never said anything about it being 100% effective.

01:05:17.000 So you're kind of misquoting the stats to kind of straw man the argument.

01:05:21.000 Well, I'm not pro-vaccine mandate or anything like that.

01:05:24.000 I believe in individual liberties.

01:05:25.000 But why is there so much vaccine hesitancy on the conservative side?

01:05:29.000 And how do we get more conservatives to take the vaccine without vaccine mandates?

01:05:33.000 So let me ask you, what's the most vaccinated state in the country?

01:05:36.000 I'm not sure.

01:05:37.000 Florida?

01:05:39.000 So, no, it's Vermont.

01:05:40.000 So, and what state has the highest COVID rates?

01:05:43.000 I assume it's Vermont.

01:05:44.000 Yeah, so that kind of starts in hesitancy, doesn't it?

01:05:47.000 Sure.

01:05:48.000 So let me ask you another question.

01:05:48.000 Yeah.

01:05:49.000 What's the most vaccinated country in the world?

01:05:52.000 Israel.

01:05:52.000 Not sure.

01:05:53.000 Israel, yeah.

01:05:53.000 After the third round of boosters, they have some of the highest COVID transmission rates and COVID rates in the world.

01:05:53.000 Okay.

01:05:59.000 Yes.

01:06:00.000 So I think one of the things that you have to do when you're doing a scientific study is compare comparable variables, right?

01:06:05.000 You can't, you know, there's different populations in Vermont and Israel, right? 0.91

01:06:08.000 To like a different source.

01:06:10.000 So Singapore is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world.

01:06:12.000 84% vaccinated, some of the highest COVID rates.

01:06:15.000 Same for Gibraltar or other places.

01:06:17.000 So let me tell you why, what's really happening here.

01:06:21.000 First of all, they changed the definition of what a vaccine is.

01:06:25.000 This is a treatment and a questionable one at that.

01:06:28.000 Okay?

01:06:30.000 So 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.

01:06:42.000 But 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?

01:06:56.000 And 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?

01:07:12.000 Why 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?

01:07:22.000 It'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.

01:07:35.000 So I suppose a question is, why should we be peddling this vaccine?

01:07:40.000 Well, you are peddling.

01:07:42.000 I'm curious, answer.

01:07:44.000 So I'm saying that you're comparing so many different populations.

01:07:47.000 There's so many other variables you're taking into account.

01:07:49.000 And again, if the vaccine is so bad, why is Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Ben Shapiro?

01:07:54.000 They're such a straw man.

01:07:55.000 It's like, I can't disagree with them.

01:07:57.000 I mean, come on. 0.98

01:07:58.000 It's like, I mean, that's such a ridiculous point. 0.97

01:08:01.000 It's like, I love Donald Trump. 0.89

01:08:02.000 I respect Ben Shapiro.

01:08:03.000 They're horribly wrong here.

01:08:05.000 Like, I mean, is that the argument?

01:08:08.000 It's not the argument.

01:08:09.000 I'm just saying that like it's widely supported.

01:08:12.000 It's not just people on the left who are doing this.

01:08:13.000 It's not like a leftist vaccine by any means.

01:08:16.000 People can be widely wrong about things.

01:08:18.000 Like totally wrong.

01:08:19.000 We used to think that we used to think that the Earth was the center of the universe until the heliocentric theory with Galileo.

01:08:26.000 The whole point of science is consideration and the scientific method and testing your thesis and your hypothesis, right?

01:08:35.000 And so, but let me ask you a question.

01:08:37.000 So I'm just asking you, he's like, since when is science a democracy where it's like widely expected?

01:08:42.000 I don't care about the percentage.

01:08:43.000 I care about what's right.

01:08:44.000 Yeah, and I fully agree with what you're saying.

01:08:46.000 I don't think science should be a democracy like that.

01:08:48.000 And I do think there's a lot of issues with the corruption of science.

01:08:51.000 My 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.

01:09:02.000 Like you can't compare the population of Israel with the population of Uttar Pradesh.

01:09:06.000 Like how is that?

01:09:07.000 You're right.

01:09:07.000 Israel has much better health care than Uttar Pradesh.

01:09:10.000 Israel's much wealthier and Israel has running water and does not have literally 50 million people without toilets.

01:09:19.000 Yeah.

01:09:19.000 So you're trying to say that, you know, like Uttar Pradesh literally has 50 million people without toilets.

01:09:25.000 I would think that COVID would have a more difficult time in that place than Jerusalem.

01:09:29.000 Go ahead.

01:09:30.000 How are you measuring the cases in Uttar Pradesh?

01:09:33.000 Do they have wide testing available compared to what they have in Israel?

01:09:36.000 How about this?

01:09:37.000 Deaths.

01:09:38.000 Their deaths are almost nothing from COVID.

01:09:40.000 It's like one thing with testing.

01:09:41.000 It's like if bodies start showing up at the morgue, it's like that's rather universal.

01:09:45.000 And they've totally turned their corner on COVID deaths in India.

01:09:49.000 Not to mention Zambia, not to mention Tanzania, not to mention all across Central Africa.

01:09:54.000 And this has been one of the great suppression campaigns, is we're not even allowed to talk about these other countries.

01:09:58.000 Singapore, Gibraltar, that went on mass inoculation campaigns.

01:10:01.000 Austria, one of the most vaccinated countries in the world.

01:10:04.000 You know what they're doing tonight?

01:10:05.000 They're locking down again.

01:10:07.000 I fully disagree with the lockdowns.

01:10:08.000 I'm not sure.

01:10:09.000 No, no, I know, but the point they're locking down is because the virus is still raging.

01:10:12.000 So in a weird way, the most vaccinated countries actually are doing the worst with this.

01:10:18.000 And could it be the opposite causation?

01:10:20.000 Like, if you're doing the worst with it, you get the vaccine more?

01:10:23.000 Like, that's, that's, you know, why are you assuming that it's the other way around?

01:10:26.000 Well, because Israel's COVID rates were plummeting and going down by 80%.

01:10:29.000 They massively vaccinate and they go spike again.

01:10:32.000 They go down.

01:10:33.000 They massively vaccinate and they do it again.

01:10:35.000 So you're saying the vaccine is causing the virus?

01:10:37.000 I'm asking a question.

01:10:38.000 That's what science is doing.

01:10:40.000 I respect the fact that you're asking the question.

01:10:41.000 I'm not disagreeing with you.

01:10:42.000 But doesn't it make you curious that all of a sudden we vaccinate more and then rates go up?

01:10:47.000 You need an actual hypothesis.

01:10:48.000 You can't just.

01:10:56.000 And so I guess the question is this.

01:11:00.000 I mean, and you seem like you're asking this in good faith, but you asked the question: like, why are people so skeptical?

01:11:08.000 We're skeptical because at every corner we ask questions and we submit evidence.

01:11:12.000 We're suppressed, maligned.

01:11:14.000 We're told that Ivermectin is a horse de-wormer, which is insane.

01:11:18.000 We'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.

01:11:26.000 So it's not even effectively working as a treatment in the United Kingdom.

01:11:29.000 So I could go on and on and on.

01:11:31.000 But yeah, I mean, I think that people are starting to wake up that this thing is not what we were told it was.

01:11:38.000 And not to mention, you know, the VARES stats, which is the vaccine adverse event reporting system.

01:11:43.000 So this is why people are skeptical, okay?

01:11:46.000 According to the own government's website, there's been 818,042 adverse events.

01:11:51.000 I want to remind you of something.

01:11:52.000 Raise your hand if you know someone that's had an adverse event to this vaccine, raise your hand.

01:11:56.000 Look around.

01:11:57.000 You want to know why people are skeptical, my friend?

01:11:59.000 This is why people are skeptical.

01:12:00.000 They're not making that up.

01:12:02.000 They have friends that what?

01:12:03.000 Maybe can't walk.

01:12:05.000 Maybe their dad suddenly dropped dead?

01:12:07.000 Heart attack, got COVID and died from it.

01:12:10.000 127,641 doctors' visits, according to VARES.

01:12:14.000 83,412 people have been hospitalized after getting the vaccine, according to VARES.

01:12:20.000 92,017 people put in urgent care according to VARES.

01:12:25.000 This is the government's own website, publicly available, right?

01:12:28.000 26,199 people disabled after getting the vaccine, according to VARES.

01:12:33.000 10,179 people had Bell's palsy, according to VARES.

01:12:38.000 10,304 people got myocarditis according to VARES.

01:12:42.000 And I could keep on going: 8,408 heart attacks, 2,631 miscarriages, 17,128 deaths.

01:12:49.000 So excuse me while I say it's not what it's being sold.

01:12:53.000 Does that make sense?

01:12:55.000 All right, thank you.

01:12:56.000 Thank you.

01:13:02.000 I 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.

01:13:10.000 I have a little bit of awesome.

01:13:12.000 You'll see.

01:13:14.000 I 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.

01:13:34.000 And here's the law.

01:13:35.000 I know how you go after people, man, and I got my facts.

01:13:38.000 Buckle up. 0.96

01:13:39.000 All right, cool.

01:13:43.000 All right.

01:13:46.000 So in 2003, Tucson Unified School District created a program called Mexican American Studies.

01:13:51.000 You know what it is?

01:13:53.000 Sounds pretty self-evident.

01:13:55.000 It's critical race theory we are against.

01:13:57.000 Okay.

01:13:59.000 So in 2000, it was made to close the achievement gap for Latino students, for European American students.

01:14:04.000 Tucson has 75% Latino students.

01:14:07.000 In 2007, we caught up.

01:14:10.000 This is right around the time where Tom Horn, the state superintendent, saw this.

01:14:15.000 He called these races, he called these classes racist, teaching the overthrow of the government.

01:14:21.000 He lied and said they were segregating these schools, segregating the students.

01:14:25.000 But here's the thing: he never went to a class.

01:14:28.000 And he tried three different times in 2007, 2008, 2009.

01:14:33.000 And by 2010, Governor John Bruce signed a law that banned these classes.

01:14:38.000 The only reason why he saw this is because he saw that Latinos were catching up.

01:14:44.000 In 2000, In 2017, a federal judge deemed that the law was racist and that his whole point of view was racist.

01:14:56.000 And it was a 14th Amendment that was wrong for us.

01:15:00.000 He deemed these classes that were racist the whole time.

01:15:03.000 So I want to know, how can you come here and tell me there's no such thing as white privilege and no such thing as racism?

01:15:09.000 Easily, there's no such thing as white privilege or racism.

01:15:14.000 There's racism, but it's not institutional.

01:15:17.000 I mean, so you know.

01:15:19.000 So are you saying the judge was wrong?

01:15:21.000 Of course.

01:15:22.000 I mean, a judge could be wrong all the time without specific knowledge of what you're talking about with that. 0.83

01:15:26.000 But 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. 0.96

01:15:32.000 Is that right?

01:15:33.000 It came out that she has.

01:15:34.000 It's been proved.

01:15:34.000 Hold on a second.

01:15:35.000 Hold on.

01:15:35.000 Whoa, What evidence do you have that Jan Brewer hates Latino people?

01:15:38.000 Go watch the documentary about Raza Studies.

01:15:41.000 What?

01:15:44.000 Go watch the documentary called Raza Studies.

01:15:46.000 It's about Mexican-American students.

01:15:47.000 Oh, La Raza Studies?

01:15:49.000 Raza Studies.

01:15:50.000 Okay.

01:15:50.000 Well, yeah, not exactly well-versed in that, but...

01:15:55.000 What's wrong with that?

01:15:56.000 I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it.

01:15:57.000 Sounds interesting.

01:15:59.000 But I suppose the question is, would there be another explanation for Jan Brewer doing that?

01:16:06.000 Are you going to blame him?

01:16:06.000 He signed another law called SB 1070.

01:16:09.000 What about SB 1070?

01:16:10.000 What's wrong?

01:16:11.000 Do you know what SB 1070 is?

01:16:12.000 Tell me what it is.

01:16:13.000 It's basically a law for an officer to pull me over and ask for my papers.

01:16:16.000 When I've never even been to Mexico.

01:16:18.000 Okay, well, I think people should be asked for their papers regardless of the scale.

01:16:21.000 Okay, so there we go.

01:16:22.000 Here's white privilege.

01:16:23.000 Why is that white privilege?

01:16:24.000 Okay, here we go.

01:16:26.000 How is that white privilege?

01:16:28.000 Here we go.

01:16:29.000 Who are they going to ask for their papers?

01:16:30.000 Me or you?

01:16:31.000 I get asked for papers all the time.

01:16:32.000 Well, you don't.

01:16:34.000 Yeah, I can show you my pile of duties.

01:16:37.000 You get asked to prove that you're a citizen of the United States.

01:16:39.000 Hold on a second.

01:16:40.000 First of all, I get asked for my driver's license all the time when I get pulled over.

01:16:44.000 In fact, every time I get pulled over, I get asked for my driver's license, okay?

01:16:49.000 So, here's the one thing.

01:16:51.000 Hold on.

01:16:53.000 Do you really think that you're being pulled over just because of the color of your skin?

01:16:58.000 Dude, it's happened many times.

01:16:59.000 Hey, guess what?

01:17:00.000 I get pulled over too.

01:17:02.000 You're never going to know it because you don't look like me, man. 0.92

01:17:05.000 You're never going to have to know my struggle.

01:17:09.000 I mean, this is the problem.

01:17:10.000 I'm just going to give you a piece of advice.

01:17:12.000 Honestly, you complimented me and Candace Owens.

01:17:15.000 You're looking at the world as a victim.

01:17:16.000 Okay. 0.99

01:17:17.000 You're looking at the world as if there's systemic racism and the evil white man that's trying to crush you. 0.99

01:17:22.000 It's a lie. 0.99

01:17:22.000 It's a lie that is designed to keep you down. 0.99

01:17:25.000 It's a lie that is designed to try and disempower you. 0.92

01:17:29.000 And white people get pulled over all the time to be asked for their papers.

01:17:34.000 And if a non-citizen does not have their papers, they should be deported from this country if they do not have their papers. 1.00

01:17:44.000 So please go ahead.

01:17:46.000 All 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. 0.67

01:17:54.000 You're right.

01:17:55.000 So you know how it's going to be different?

01:17:56.000 It's going to be easier for you.

01:17:58.000 It's because affirmative action laws benefit people of color above white applicants to certain universities.

01:18:03.000 At 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.

01:18:13.000 Do you know that United Airlines wants to double the amount of Hispanic and black pilots and try to hire less white pilots?

01:18:19.000 You're right.

01:18:20.000 You and I have it different.

01:18:21.000 And currently, the current regime and status quo is making it easier for you.

01:18:25.000 You have privilege.

01:18:36.000 I love how you turn it around after I threw facts at you.

01:18:39.000 You're telling to go backwards like this, but the facts is it's there.

01:18:43.000 The facts is that these laws that you say that were good.

01:18:48.000 I never said they were good.

01:18:49.000 Are they good luck?

01:18:50.000 You're turning it around.

01:18:51.000 I 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.

01:18:58.000 I'm saying the opposite.

01:18:59.000 I'm saying right now in America, you have every opportunity.

01:19:02.000 In fact, it's even more than that.

01:19:03.000 You have preference as a person of color.

01:19:06.000 It's easier for you to succeed than your white counterpart in this room right now. 1.00

01:19:10.000 You are given a hand up.

01:19:11.000 You are given discrimination in your favor right now.

01:19:17.000 That's 100% not true, bro.

01:19:18.000 It's FBS that you'd be teaching right now.

01:19:25.000 Thanks for being here tonight.

01:19:27.000 Appreciate it.

01:19:30.000 All right, enough.

01:19:31.000 I don't know who she's saying.

01:19:33.000 All right.

01:19:34.000 Thank you.

01:19:34.000 Next question.

01:19:35.000 Appreciate it.

01:19:36.000 And let me just say this is the final thing.

01:19:37.000 I encourage you to really think deeply and say, why do I, why?

01:19:43.000 Thanks for coming.

01:19:44.000 I encourage you to ask this.

01:19:45.000 It's like, you say that the journey will be different regardless of skin color.

01:19:49.000 And how about this?

01:19:50.000 For our Latino conservatives here, do you like when you hear stuff like this?

01:19:56.000 He doesn't like, and by the way, I just encourage.

01:20:00.000 And he's darker.

01:20:00.000 So he's.

01:20:01.000 Yeah.

01:20:02.000 And so, by the way, can you come up?

01:20:05.000 Can you come up to the line?

01:20:11.000 Go to the line.

01:20:18.000 Okay.

01:20:18.000 So I just want to ask our friend, our volunteer, our turning point.

01:20:22.000 What's your name?

01:20:22.000 Daniel.

01:20:23.000 Daniel Fuentes.

01:20:23.000 Daniel.

01:20:24.000 Daniel Fuentes.

01:20:28.000 Daniel, are our journeys different?

01:20:31.000 Does skin color matter? 0.97

01:20:32.000 Our journeys are all different, bro, because, like you say, you know, we're one united under God.

01:20:35.000 You know, I have been pulled over by cops many times, most 99%, 0.9% of the times.

01:20:41.000 These cops have treated me in the nicest ways.

01:20:43.000 Cops that are probably look nothing like me.

01:20:46.000 You 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.

01:20:53.000 It has always been always whites kind of on the left that have always mistreated me.

01:20:57.000 I've gotten more mistreat from whites on the left than on the right for being a Latino conservative.

01:21:03.000 God bless you and thank you, Dan.

01:21:04.000 Thank you both.

01:21:05.000 We'll get to the next question.

01:21:05.000 Appreciate it.

01:21:07.000 Thank you.

01:21:08.000 We'll go to the next question.

01:21:09.000 Thank you.

01:21:11.000 Let's go, Brandon.

01:21:13.000 Let's go.

01:21:25.000 Sorry, we got the mic.

01:21:26.000 Oh, sorry.

01:21:27.000 Just want to say, Charlie, it's not.

01:21:33.000 Just want to say, Charlie, it's an honor to hear you speak.

01:21:35.000 I've been looking forward to this for years.

01:21:37.000 I guess my question is specifically with racism.

01:21:41.000 According to the Census Bureau from 2017, average median household income for Asian American families was $81,000.

01:21:49.000 Whites was $68,000.

01:21:51.000 Hispanics was $50,000. 0.69

01:21:53.000 And blacks was $40,000. 0.89

01:21:55.000 So 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?

01:22:05.000 It's a really thoughtful question.

01:22:06.000 Thank you.

01:22:07.000 And 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.

01:22:16.000 And it's hard to generalize.

01:22:18.000 We have to be careful not to, but let me tell you three things.

01:22:21.000 Number one, families.

01:22:22.000 The most important thing for American society is to keep American families strong.

01:22:28.000 And 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.

01:22:46.000 Thomas Sowell in discrimination and disparities also makes the culture argument.

01:22:51.000 He says that unfortunately in the 1970s and 80s, this is him talking.

01:22:55.000 He says that unfortunately in black culture, it became less appealing to want to have monogamous relationships and be married.

01:23:02.000 And 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.

01:23:12.000 The 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.

01:23:23.000 But 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?

01:23:41.000 So those things all play factors.

01:23:43.000 They all play roles.

01:23:44.000 But 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.

01:23:56.000 First, you must exhaust every other explanation: family background, income, culture, geography.

01:24:02.000 So I'll give you an easy thought exercise to prove this, right?

01:24:05.000 So Billings, Montana, and Pierce, South Dakota are poorer than Seattle and New York.

01:24:14.000 Why?

01:24:15.000 Is it because of race?

01:24:17.000 Is it because of background or whatever?

01:24:21.000 Or would it be best explained by, oh, Seattle and New York are port cities, so it's easier to trade with them.

01:24:26.000 That cities that are by rivers and by oceans are always richer than cities that are landlocked or in mountains.

01:24:32.000 That has nothing to do with race.

01:24:33.000 The 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.

01:24:44.000 Really quick follow-up if you're interested.

01:24:45.000 I guess my point was: I wasn't saying that it was entirely in any point racism, but do you think it plays any role?

01:24:54.000 I mean, it depends on, I mean, that's why I think it's a role.

01:24:57.000 I think it plays a role.

01:24:58.000 I 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.

01:25:10.000 If there is a role, it's so it's indecipherable, it's immeasurable.

01:25:15.000 But what is measurable is family creation, monogamous relationships, and values, which matter a lot.

01:25:21.000 And 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.

01:25:30.000 So if there was even an active role in it, I don't even think you'd be able to measure it scientifically.

01:25:36.000 So I'd say no.

01:25:37.000 Thank you.

01:25:37.000 Appreciate it.

01:25:43.000 Hey, Charlie, I just want to say thank you for coming out.

01:25:45.000 I've been a big fan for the past two years over all of this craziness.

01:25:48.000 And I've been listening to your podcast.

01:25:49.000 I just want to say thank you for your authenticity and your consistency through everything.

01:25:52.000 But my question is around election integrity.

01:25:55.000 And so obviously there have been so many questions.

01:25:58.000 I found myself extremely frustrated in November of last year and seeing no action from the right.

01:26:04.000 And so what do you think are the best first steps to having safe and secure elections that all Americans can count on, left and right?

01:26:12.000 And how can we as college students, and I guess everyone in the conservative movement, best help that fight?

01:26:17.000 It's a great question.

01:26:19.000 I know Arizona likes mail-in balloting for whatever reason.

01:26:22.000 We got to ban mail-in balloting.

01:26:24.000 No more no excuse mail-in balloting.

01:26:24.000 No more of that.

01:26:26.000 It's really number one.

01:26:30.000 You should have to go somewhere to go vote.

01:26:32.000 And maybe you could make some excuses for the terminally ill or the paralyzed, but very, very small excuses in that sense.

01:26:41.000 We need harsher and harsher, but a stricter, I guess you should, yeah, harsh, I guess you should say, signature verification.

01:26:46.000 This 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.

01:26:52.000 We need to purge our voter rolls of dead people, transient voters, people that have moved out of state.

01:26:56.000 We need to know who's on the voter rolls and who's actually voting.

01:26:59.000 And then finally, we should have voter ID. 0.69

01:27:02.000 The 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.

01:27:10.000 And I think we need to push back against it.

01:27:11.000 So those are some good places to start.

01:27:15.000 But 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.

01:27:28.000 Thank you for being here tonight.

01:27:29.000 I appreciate it.

01:27:29.000 Thank you.

01:27:34.000 Good evening, Mr. Kirk.

01:27:35.000 It's great to see you here.

01:27:37.000 Speaking of mail-in ballots, I would support mail-in voting only if they allowed us to do mail-in vaccines as well.

01:27:44.000 So I can sign my own vaccine card.

01:27:48.000 So anyways, my question is: you've probably heard about vaccine passport ideology and so on and so forth.

01:27:54.000 You 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?

01:28:03.000 Oh, okay.

01:28:04.000 I was going to say, how do I prevent it?

01:28:05.000 Yeah, good.

01:28:06.000 The way you said it, put into place.

01:28:09.000 Well, look, we need mass non-compliance.

01:28:11.000 And the fact is that if you're a business owner that might come under this vaccine passport thing, do not follow it.

01:28:17.000 Don't enforce it.

01:28:18.000 Don't force it on your employees.

01:28:20.000 I 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.

01:28:32.000 I'm like, yeah, right.

01:28:33.000 Good luck, right?

01:28:34.000 That's not going to happen.

01:28:36.000 And by the way, let me just say this.

01:28:37.000 As an employer, we employ 185 people at Turning Point USA, even more if you count part-time people.

01:28:42.000 Who am I as the boss to go sit down with my employees and ask their intimate medical details and history?

01:28:48.000 Like, where do I get the right to do that?

01:28:51.000 And so the first thing is we need mass non-compliance.

01:28:54.000 And 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.

01:29:01.000 I appreciate it.

01:29:01.000 So thank you.

01:29:05.000 I have multiple employers like myself who the fact of the matter is that we get influenced.

01:29:10.000 We got a line.

01:29:11.000 I'm sorry.

01:29:12.000 And by costing money on me when you show them that they're very soon because of violating the ADA, that's how you would employ it.

01:29:19.000 That's smart.

01:29:20.000 I think that's true.

01:29:21.000 That they are violating the ADA in some of these cases.

01:29:24.000 Two more questions.

01:29:25.000 Yes.

01:29:26.000 Earlier this evening, you mentioned that more laws equals less freedom.

01:29:26.000 Hello.

01:29:31.000 And then later, you quoted Harvard by mentioning that operating within the boundaries of laws creates freedom.

01:29:38.000 Where do you feel that the line is drawn for that?

01:29:40.000 So just say that again.

01:29:41.000 So it's kind of the similar quote.

01:29:43.000 You're saying, so the more secular, the less free.

01:29:45.000 Just repeat that.

01:29:46.000 Sorry, I was a little distracted.

01:29:47.000 Correct.

01:29:48.000 It was the quote from Harvard earlier that you mentioned that it's just important to operate under law, which can provide freedom for people.

01:29:54.000 So law, in my opinion, needs to pursue virtue.

01:29:54.000 Yeah.

01:29:58.000 I'll give you a great example, right?

01:29:59.000 Here's just like an easy one.

01:30:01.000 Drag queen story hours should be outlawed in America. 1.00

01:30:04.000 Children should not legally be allowed to go to these to people that in public libraries that wear dresses and prey on young children, right?

01:30:14.000 That shouldn't be allowed, right?

01:30:15.000 I'll give you another example.

01:30:16.000 It should be illegal to have pornographic sexual education curriculum for children in high school and below.

01:30:21.000 It should be illegal, right?

01:30:23.000 And so that's an idea of the law trying to point towards virtue, right?

01:30:29.000 And this is part of what it means to live in a constitutional republic.

01:30:32.000 We're going to have to debate it.

01:30:33.000 We're going to have to talk about it, right?

01:30:35.000 Sometimes you have to be willing to say that should not be allowed, but that actually makes people freer.

01:30:41.000 I know that's like something that sometimes more strict libertarians is like, how dare you say that?

01:30:46.000 Well, it's true, though, right?

01:30:48.000 And 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.

01:31:01.000 I'll give you one example.

01:31:02.000 It's not exactly popular with young people.

01:31:04.000 I don't care, which is the legalization of marijuana.

01:31:06.000 I'm totally against it, right?

01:31:07.000 I think it's a false flag. 0.98

01:31:08.000 I think it's ridiculous. 0.90

01:31:10.000 And I think that marijuana is really bad if you don't do it. 0.92

01:31:12.000 And I get hatred from both sides on this.

01:31:15.000 Don't care.

01:31:16.000 The point is that as states have legalized weed, the states have become more dangerous.

01:31:23.000 More children are doing it.

01:31:24.000 They've become more suicidal.

01:31:25.000 So the question is: do we actually want to move?

01:31:27.000 Is 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.

01:31:35.000 So I hope that's somewhat helpful.

01:31:36.000 But these are some things I think we should try to draw the line on.

01:31:38.000 So thank you.

01:31:39.000 This will be the final question.

01:31:40.000 Thank you.

01:31:46.000 Hi, my name is Bailey.

01:31:47.000 I am getting married one week from today.

01:31:49.000 Congratulations.

01:31:50.000 Here in Tucson.

01:31:54.000 One week from today here in Tucson.

01:31:56.000 And obviously, I admire you and Erica.

01:31:59.000 I both heard you speak at YWLS.

01:32:02.000 It was amazing.

01:32:03.000 You guys have a beautiful marriage.

01:32:05.000 And 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.

01:32:17.000 So honor the Sabbath.

01:32:19.000 I turn my phone off for 24 hours every week, put it in a drawer, and I focus on things that aren't in the cyber world.

01:32:25.000 It's been a beautiful gift.

01:32:27.000 All of you will realize that the Ten Commandments are there to bless you, not to make your life worse.

01:32:31.000 You honor the Sabbath.

01:32:33.000 It's the greatest gift.

01:32:34.000 I encourage every young person, especially young couples.

01:32:36.000 You turn your phone off, you journal, you read books, you focus on each other, right?

01:32:40.000 Even if you're traveling, all of a sudden there's no interruptions.

01:32:43.000 There's no Instagram.

01:32:44.000 There's no tweets and all that.

01:32:45.000 That's my other advice for young couples.

01:32:46.000 Delete all social media.

01:32:47.000 I mean that.

01:32:48.000 Delete it.

01:32:50.000 It will keep you focused on each other.

01:32:53.000 And there is, and I'm kind of generally anti-social media for young people as it is, but not exactly a popular position.

01:32:58.000 But 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.

01:33:08.000 Besides that, it's wonderful.

01:33:09.000 By the way, follow me on Instagram later.

01:33:12.000 So, and but that's the other thing.

01:33:15.000 And the final thing is this, which I mean, I've only been married six months.

01:33:18.000 My wife's amazing, which is you just got to put in work. 1.00

01:33:21.000 You got to put in the effort, right?

01:33:24.000 It just doesn't happen.

01:33:25.000 You have to carve out time.

01:33:26.000 You have to prioritize it, right?

01:33:27.000 You have to be patient and you have to make it important.

01:33:31.000 You're going to have to say, I'm not going to that event.

01:33:34.000 I'm not going to hang out with that person.

01:33:36.000 It's then my marriage comes first.

01:33:38.000 And then also the final thing is, you know, people say, oh, happy wife, happy life.

01:33:43.000 Better, it's happy spouse, happy house, right?

01:33:46.000 Which is both sides need to be happy.

01:33:49.000 And I will actually remind me of something.

01:33:51.000 Everyone 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.

01:33:59.000 Again, no one, I rarely ever get applause for that, but it's true, is that you'll be a happier, freer person.

01:34:09.000 If you make a different decision, then whatever.

01:34:11.000 That's fine.

01:34:12.000 I'm not here to moralize.

01:34:13.000 I'm just giving you advice.

01:34:14.000 That's all.

01:34:15.000 And I mean that.

01:34:16.000 You make whatever decision you want.

01:34:19.000 But it's a beautiful thing.

01:34:20.000 It's how God wants you to live.

01:34:22.000 And the final, final thing I'll say is put God first, though.

01:34:24.000 You put God even above your husband.

01:34:28.000 And 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.

01:34:37.000 It 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.

01:34:43.000 And then, yeah, get really good pastoral advice ahead of your marriage.

01:34:46.000 That's the other thing is every young couple needs to go through intensive, exhaustive premarital counseling.

01:34:52.000 I highly recommend it.

01:34:53.000 It's very, very important.

01:34:54.000 But you're going to do great.

01:34:55.000 And so congratulations.

01:34:56.000 That's really great.

01:34:57.000 So, all right, in closing, everybody.

01:35:02.000 Oh, yeah, and have lots of children once you're married.

01:35:04.000 We need to, we as conservative Christians need to have lots of kids.

01:35:04.000 That's right.

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01:35:10.000 Our best days are ahead, everybody.

01:35:12.000 America's a gift.

01:35:13.000 It's a gift from the Lord.

01:35:14.000 We have to keep on fighting for it.

01:35:15.000 We have to keep on contesting for it.

01:35:17.000 Be the same person in public that you are in private.

01:35:20.000 Be courageous.

01:35:21.000 Be strong.

01:35:22.000 Focus on the good.

01:35:23.000 Focus on things that are meaningful and that are wonderful.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - November 27, 2021

The REAL Reason Young People Are Turning to Socialism—LIVE from the University of Arizona

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