The Charlie Kirk Show - The Top Five Lies About America our Schools Teach to Children

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:01.000 Live from Lexington, Kentucky, the five biggest lies that people tell you about America and that your professors or teachers are teaching your children, or maybe even you, about our country.

00:00:11.000 We go through that in live format, then I take questions.

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00:00:32.000 Here we go.

00:00:34.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:36.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:38.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:41.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:44.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:45.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:46.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:00:48.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:00:55.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:04.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:07.000 It's great to be here in the great state of Kentucky.

00:01:09.000 So many friends here.

00:01:10.000 We're going to have a lot of fun.

00:01:11.000 I want to thank the University of Kentucky.

00:01:14.000 Really, really worthy of praise because we've been doing this campus tour.

00:01:19.000 And the fact that we're able to do this basically on campus is a great thing.

00:01:24.000 So I want to thank the University of Kentucky.

00:01:26.000 I don't actually make a habit of thanking colleges, but I think this is actually one where I'm going to say thank you to the University of Kentucky.

00:01:33.000 Given everything that's happening, they had every reason not to allow this event to happen and they deserve some thanks for that.

00:01:38.000 So I want to make sure I start with that.

00:01:41.000 I also want to say that my friend Senator Ram Paul was not able to join us tonight.

00:01:47.000 We had a video from him, but unfortunately, we weren't able to get that done.

00:01:51.000 Rand is a great guy, and he represents everyone in this room, if you're a citizen of Kentucky, every single day in Washington, D.C.

00:01:59.000 I also want to say Senator Mitch McConnell, I don't agree with him on everything, but what he did with Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett and protecting the filibuster is incredible.

00:02:10.000 And now we look back, we say, you know what?

00:02:12.000 I'm glad that we protected the filibuster.

00:02:14.000 And so I just want to say you have two good senators, different, different ways of going about things.

00:02:21.000 And I'm going to say nothing but positive things about both of them tonight.

00:02:24.000 And I think Senator Ram Paul, I probably agree with him on more issues.

00:02:27.000 But Senator Mitch McConnell, what he did with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett and 200 circuit court judges, he deserves applause for that.

00:02:34.000 He really, truly does.

00:02:35.000 He represented a lot of your interests very, very well.

00:02:38.000 So we're going to have some fun tonight.

00:02:41.000 I'm going to make this speech a little bit different than some of the other ones that we've been doing.

00:02:46.000 We were in Oklahoma and Missouri.

00:02:47.000 We've been crisscrossing the country.

00:02:50.000 And I want to talk about kind of the biggest lies that we are told about the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world, America, the United States of America, the country that we all love and that we're really worried about the current direction and the trajectory of our nation.

00:03:05.000 And over the last year, I think it's fair to say that we've never seen a year like this.

00:03:10.000 We probably never will.

00:03:11.000 Again, I hope it never will again.

00:03:13.000 And my goodness, have things changed.

00:03:16.000 And not only with the lockdowns and the infringing of our freedoms and liberties, but also over the summer with BLM Incorporated basically burning down our civilization, we had an entire national conversation.

00:03:30.000 I can't stand that because it wasn't a conversation. 0.59

00:03:32.000 No one was having a conversation as we were being lectured by people that hate our country and they got billions of dollars from our corporations to basically platform really, really bad ideas.

00:03:42.000 And before you know it, our children are being taught hatred of our country and a misrepresentation of who we are, why we're here, and what we believe.

00:03:53.000 And so this is not an exhaustive list by any means, but I pinpointed five lies about America that I want to talk about tonight that I want to explore with all of you that I want to talk about.

00:04:04.000 And every single one of you have seen this, either in social media, in your classrooms, from your professors.

00:04:08.000 You might have seen it on television.

00:04:10.000 And the first one is this.

00:04:11.000 And I've seen this repeat itself.

00:04:13.000 And it's this idea that America was founded on slavery.

00:04:18.000 You've probably heard this before, right?

00:04:20.000 And this one bothers me more than anything else because it is an intentionally lazy and inaccurate argument.

00:04:26.000 It's an argument that if you do not do further research, you don't really know the complexities of what was surrounding the American founding.

00:04:33.000 It sounds true because certain founding fathers did own slaves.

00:04:37.000 But when you take a broader picture at it and you say, wait a second, why were the founding fathers, who, by the way, were not just, they were not just special men.

00:04:46.000 They were, and women, of course, if you count Abigail Adams and the amazing people that were involved.

00:04:52.000 But these people gave our entire, the generations to come, a civilizational gift that we're totally screwing up right now.

00:05:00.000 And these founding fathers were, and this is another lie that I'm not even going to get into, but they were people that believed in the Bible.

00:05:06.000 They believed that people were made in the image of God.

00:05:08.000 They believed that our rights were given to us by God and not from government.

00:05:12.000 They believed that you deserve a right to live the life as you see fit.

00:05:16.000 And the greatest threat to that is probably going to be government.

00:05:20.000 And I'll make an argument tonight that there's actually another threat against that in addition to government.

00:05:24.000 And it's something that we use every single day in our right-hand pocket.

00:05:28.000 But this idea that we were founded on slavery is pathologically untrue.

00:05:33.000 So really the birth certificate to our nation was the Declaration of Independence.

00:05:37.000 What's so amazing about that document is it very well could have been a death certificate.

00:05:41.000 The founding fathers who signed that document, they did not know how things were going to end.

00:05:45.000 Now, mind you, they signed that in Philadelphia, which was right there on the coastline.

00:05:50.000 You're basically picking a fight with the greatest naval power in the history of the planet.

00:05:54.000 At any time, the British Navy could have came in and killed all of them almost instantaneously.

00:05:59.000 But they did that, and they pledged their lives and their fortunes and their sacred honor for a purpose.

00:06:04.000 And Thomas Jefferson beautifully wrote in the Declaration of Independence that we want to contest for the laws of nature and nature is God.

00:06:11.000 But if you look at the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, it's very interesting.

00:06:15.000 Thomas Jefferson, in his own handwriting, in some of the harshest language, he blames King George for slavery.

00:06:22.000 He says that slavery is unacceptable.

00:06:24.000 He says that it was the British Empire that brought slaves to the United States, and America should do everything they possibly can to try to get rid of it.

00:06:31.000 Now, you might say, well, why didn't that make it into the final draft?

00:06:33.000 Well, because you need to build a coalition of states, and the only way you could possibly ever push back against the British Empire is involving southern states.

00:06:41.000 Southern states were obviously more likely to support slavery than northern states.

00:06:45.000 A year after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Vermont independently abolished slavery in 1777, the first sovereign state in the history of the planet that we have recording that actually abolished slavery.

00:06:57.000 Why?

00:06:57.000 Because of the teachings and the writings of the Declaration of Independence.

00:07:01.000 Many of you have probably heard about the Northwest Territories before.

00:07:04.000 Northwest Territory was actually just right over the Ohio River.

00:07:07.000 It was considered the Great West in the 1780s.

00:07:10.000 And there was something called the Northwest Ordinance.

00:07:12.000 After the Treaty of Paris in 1783, George Washington signed what is called the Northwest Ordinance.

00:07:18.000 And that was the first new territory where slavery was completely outlawed.

00:07:23.000 And it was ratified by the United States Congress.

00:07:26.000 If we were founded on slavery, why is it that new lands we are expanding to were free of slavery?

00:07:33.000 It would be the opposite, right?

00:07:34.000 We'd want to expand slavery into more territories.

00:07:37.000 And that's a very, very big deal.

00:07:39.000 The Northwest Territories included Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois.

00:07:43.000 Nowadays, they didn't have those state lines back then.

00:07:45.000 And the fact that those states were non-slave states ended up being a tension point in years to follow.

00:07:51.000 Not to mention Thomas Jefferson, who was a very complicated person himself, the third American president, he, as one of his first acts as president, signed a moratorium of no new slaves allowed to be brought into the United States of America, which actually was a provision allowed in the U.S. Constitution, and he signed it into law.

00:08:11.000 And America was a better place because of that.

00:08:14.000 Now, the second great crisis in America was, of course, the crisis of slavery. 0.59

00:08:18.000 And then you saw a re-emergence of people that tried to defend slavery, Calhoun in the 1820s, Andrew Jackson among it.

00:08:24.000 Of course, obviously that came to a boiling point with the American Civil War.

00:08:27.000 But the idea that our founding and our ideals were rooted in the apology of slavery is completely untrue.

00:08:33.000 Now, a better way to say it is that some of the founding fathers had very complicated, very complicated issues that they were personally dealing with, but their ideal remained true.

00:08:43.000 And here's how I can prove it to you.

00:08:45.000 When Martin Luther King Jr. was advocating for civil rights legislation, he said that we are here to cash in on the promissory note of the founding fathers.

00:08:54.000 He never said that we have to get rid of the Declaration or get rid of the U.S. Constitution.

00:08:58.000 He said, if we're actually going to live up to these ideals, then we must pass the Civil Rights Act that all men are created equal and we should care about character, not skin color.

00:09:06.000 Now, unfortunately, in our country right now, we care more about skin color than character.

00:09:11.000 We're actually regressing backwards thanks to critical race theory and all these bigoted ideas that are being taught in many of your classrooms across the country.

00:09:17.000 But America was founded on freedom.

00:09:19.000 Now, mind you, slavery was a human and universal.

00:09:23.000 And by the way, slavery still exists on our planet.

00:09:25.000 Before we start to get on our moral high horse and we act as if all slavery has been abolished, just look at the southern border.

00:09:31.000 Thousands of children are being sold as slaves for unaccompanied minors, rented would be the term, and it's a disgusting thing to even think about, to be able to gain access into the United States with a cartel member or someone who wants to come into America.

00:09:44.000 That's not my own words.

00:09:46.000 That's Tom Holman, who used to ran immigration, customs, and enforcement.

00:09:50.000 Many of the world right now, actually, there's more slaves in the world today than there were back in the 1800s, Horn of Africa, all throughout the Middle East.

00:09:57.000 So the question should be: slavery was a human universal.

00:10:00.000 Why and how was it abolished?

00:10:02.000 And the answer to that is that men and women who took the teachings of the Bible very seriously, who took the Enlightenment very seriously, started and they created a great leap forward that we know is the United States of America to challenge humankind and mankind to be better and to create civil government to protect first principles.

00:10:23.000 We did not completely and totally live up to it at the beginning.

00:10:25.000 But as you can see in the Northwest Territories, the Northwest Ordinance, when we had an opportunity to actually live out that value system, our founding fathers did it.

00:10:33.000 And people say, and I'm never going to say America's a perfect country.

00:10:36.000 We've made plenty of mistakes.

00:10:37.000 And I'm happy to go through it, but it's kind of a waste of time because that's why you go to college, right?

00:10:41.000 You go to college to learn how terrible America is.

00:10:43.000 Tonight, you're going to learn how great America is, right?

00:10:45.000 That's the opposite of why you're here tonight.

00:10:47.000 I could go through everything we've done wrong, and I'll probably admit many of those things.

00:10:50.000 We've made mistakes, but America is not a mistake.

00:10:54.000 America in itself is a moral good for the world and the greatest country ever to exist, as I said, in the history of the world.

00:11:00.000 Okay, that goes to my second big lie about America that is just floating around and we need to, quite honestly, cut this entire thing out, which is that America is systemically racist.

00:11:12.000 I mean, and this is, there's a great book written on this topic.

00:11:17.000 Thomas Sowell wrote it, Discrimination and Disparities, which is when there's a disparity, you cannot automatically just blame discrimination.

00:11:24.000 And so I'm sure you've all heard that America is systemically racist repeatedly over the last couple of years.

00:11:29.000 And built on this idea, is that our systems are systems of law, are systems of how we engage in commerce. 0.90

00:11:37.000 They're so broken, they're so backwards that only white people can succeed and black people cannot succeed. 0.92

00:11:43.000 You've probably heard this in one manifestation or the other. 0.99

00:11:46.000 And it's not just that this is true, but the opposite is actually true.

00:11:50.000 Do you know that one of the richest immigrant groups to America are Nigerian Americans?

00:11:54.000 If America was systemically racist, how do Nigerian Americans do so well in our country?

00:11:58.000 They say, well, white privilege is what is guiding our entire country. 0.78

00:12:02.000 And if you're a white person, you must take a knee and atone for your privilege.

00:12:05.000 Let me be very clear.

00:12:06.000 And I've said this for years, and I don't consider this to be controversial.

00:12:10.000 White privilege is a racist myth that is rooted in bigotry, trying to classify people based on their skin color.

00:12:17.000 If you are a racist, you have something to apologize for. 0.95

00:12:20.000 If you are a white person who is not a racist, you have nothing to apologize for.

00:12:24.000 And anyone who makes you apologize just based on the color of their skin, of your skin, they're the racist, and you're not.

00:12:30.000 It's that simple.

00:12:33.000 And so this idea of our systems are racist also does not stand up against any sort of cross-examination of different ethnic groups in our country.

00:12:44.000 White people, on average, if you were to classify it, and again, I don't like the over-racialization of our country, but if that's where the left wants to lead this, the facts don't even support their entire charge against our country, is that Asian Americans and Indian Americans are far wealthier on average in our country than white Americans.

00:13:01.000 There are twice as many white Americans in poverty than black Americans in our country.

00:13:05.000 Now, black Americans are, they have a higher percentage to live in poverty, but this idea that every single white person in the country is living a life of luxury and convenience is totally untrue.

00:13:14.000 And according to not just the Hoover Institution, but U.S. Census data and government labor data, this is the greatest statistic to dispel it, which is that a black child raised by a mother and father is more likely to succeed by every independent metric than a white child who is raised by a single mother.

00:13:31.000 Now, I'm not bashing single mothers.

00:13:34.000 I think that they're modern-day heroes.

00:13:36.000 The point is that there's two parent privilege in our country, not white privilege in our country. 0.77

00:13:41.000 And if we're serious about rebuilding the black family, which we should be, we should be putting fathers back in the home. 0.89

00:13:48.000 And currently, the black fatherless rate is 74% in our country. 1.00

00:13:52.000 74% of black children will not be raised with a stable father in the home.

00:13:56.000 So I'm happy to go if people have questions about this specifics throughout all of it.

00:14:00.000 But be very careful to try to connect disparities necessarily with discrimination.

00:14:06.000 And so there's other parts of privilege as well in our country that are non-racial privilege.

00:14:11.000 For example, anyone here, the firstborn child?

00:14:14.000 I am.

00:14:15.000 You know that you have an exponentially higher likelihood of succeeding than the second child or the third child or the youngest child?

00:14:21.000 You ever heard of first-born privilege?

00:14:23.000 Probably not.

00:14:25.000 How about only anyone here, an only child?

00:14:28.000 You have way higher likelihood of succeeding.

00:14:31.000 Every independent study shows this.

00:14:33.000 Now, we can laugh and chuckle.

00:14:34.000 Of course, the point is that there are different inputs at times for why certain disparities are created.

00:14:41.000 And blaming all of it on deep-seated harbored racial resentment is not just incorrect, it's really corrosive for all of us.

00:14:48.000 And I would actually make the argument: we're not just, we're not systemically racist in our country.

00:14:53.000 We're the opposite.

00:14:54.000 We're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:14:58.000 We bring in more people into our country.

00:15:00.000 I'm happy to talk.

00:15:01.000 I actually think our immigration policies are way too generous and relaxed.

00:15:04.000 But we are the most generous, the most open-minded, most benevolent country ever to exist on the planet.

00:15:10.000 And yet we get labeled and categorized as the exact opposite.

00:15:14.000 And my challenge and my charge to everyone here in one way or the other is instead of just looking at skin color, look at other circumstantial factors such as education, such as two-parent households.

00:15:26.000 And the argument that the activists will make, and I'm sure someone here will make the argument, is that racism created those systems, right?

00:15:34.000 That it was racist.

00:15:35.000 And I can actually agree with part of that.

00:15:37.000 Just be very specific of what systems those are.

00:15:40.000 Like racist Southern Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson created the Great Society program to take black fathers out of the household to create a generation of blacks in poverty. 0.94

00:15:49.000 I can sympathize with that. 0.97

00:15:51.000 And if we're serious about improving the livelihood of our fellow countrymen, maybe we should be less focused on government welfare and more focused on work and literacy education and bringing fathers back into the home. 0.54

00:16:00.000 Did you know that actually the black marriage rate was higher than the white marriage rate in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s and 50s?

00:16:08.000 The black middle class was actually growing faster than the white middle class in the 1950s, despite discrimination.

00:16:14.000 And so we passed the Civil Rights Act, which I'll get to in a second.

00:16:17.000 And then despite after the Civil Rights Act, we passed the Great Society Act, where Lyndon Baines Johnson himself, it's reported to have said that he said something so gross where he said, I will have black people voting Democrats for the next 200 years by having them addicted to government programs. 0.74

00:16:31.000 That kind of black middle class boom that you were seeing in cities like Chicago and Detroit, completely destroyed through housing and urban development, through the subsidies of single motherhood.

00:16:41.000 Okay, so the third lie about America is that we are like every other country. 0.97

00:16:46.000 We're not.

00:16:47.000 We are an exceptional nation.

00:16:49.000 Now, people misinterpret this where they say, oh, what are you making some sort of supremacist argument?

00:16:53.000 No, absolutely not.

00:16:54.000 All human beings are created equal. 0.99

00:16:57.000 All cultures are not created equal. 0.95

00:16:59.000 Now, this is like trigger warning USA at a college campus, right?

00:17:04.000 You are not allowed to say this.

00:17:05.000 But our culture is more decent than the current culture in Iran.

00:17:11.000 It is.

00:17:12.000 We have freedom of speech. 0.96

00:17:13.000 We don't throw people off the tops of buildings because they happen to be homosexuals.

00:17:17.000 We do not engage in general mutilation in our country.

00:17:21.000 And we don't imprison reporters if they happen to have a story that the ruling class doesn't like.

00:17:28.000 So why is it that the American culture is different?

00:17:30.000 What is different about our culture?

00:17:32.000 Why is it that we're the wealthiest for now, most generous?

00:17:36.000 We give more to charity than any other country in the world.

00:17:38.000 And there's a couple reasons for this.

00:17:40.000 One of the reasons is our history is a history of a hero's journey, which is always improving, constantly reanalyzing, reorienting ourselves.

00:17:48.000 Our ideas are also centered in things that do not change.

00:17:53.000 Whether no matter what your professors might tell you, human beings are not malleable based on public policy.

00:18:03.000 Now, let me be very clear because it might come across as if I'm contradicting something earlier.

00:18:07.000 Human behavior and human character in its raw material form, who you are at birth, is consistent all throughout time, regardless of technology.

00:18:16.000 This is something that the left will completely, you know, reject.

00:18:21.000 And I can ask this audience, do you think human beings are naturally good, basically good, or basically bad?

00:18:27.000 And the answer is, of course, they're basically bad.

00:18:29.000 Of course.

00:18:30.000 You have to teach goodness to young children.

00:18:32.000 You have to tell young kids to stop stealing things and to stop making themselves the center of attention and manipulating one parent against the other.

00:18:39.000 You didn't teach them those things.

00:18:40.000 It's naturally in their nature to try to do those.

00:18:44.000 You have to tell a young person to continually say thank you.

00:18:47.000 We should have entire institutions based on teaching goodness.

00:18:50.000 And that wrestling between good and evil is very important.

00:18:53.000 So the question is, why is it that America that doesn't have the most oil, and I'm going to get to this Green New Deal nonsense in a second and this environmentalist garbage, because it's just since we're in Kentucky, it's just going to be kind of fun.

00:19:06.000 And so we don't have more oil.

00:19:10.000 We don't have more natural resources.

00:19:12.000 Russia has us beat there.

00:19:13.000 We don't have more people.

00:19:14.000 Why is it that our country has such a unbelievable success rate?

00:19:19.000 And I will contest to you, it's because of our history, our culture, our ideals, and our constant pursuit of improving our own character for the pursuit of the good.

00:19:27.000 And not every country can boast that.

00:19:29.000 Not every country is able to boast the, no country ever is what America has been able to do.

00:19:35.000 Okay, this is one of my favorite ones I really want to get into tonight, which is the fourth lie about America.

00:19:40.000 And I'm sure all of you have heard this before, and I'm actually most excited to go through this, which is that the parties have switched.

00:19:46.000 How many people have heard this?

00:19:47.000 That basically what they're saying is that the Republicans now are actually still the KKK people from 60 years ago or 150 years ago.

00:19:58.000 That's about right.

00:20:00.000 Am I summarizing that?

00:20:01.000 That there was this massive switch after the Civil Rights Act, and that everything that used to be Republican is actually think of that as a Democrat, and everything that used to be Democrat, think of that as a Republican.

00:20:12.000 This is completely untrue.

00:20:15.000 And there are three myths around that.

00:20:16.000 And the reason I really want to get into this is that this is a huge talking point in the American South, right?

00:20:21.000 This is what a lot of your professors talk about.

00:20:23.000 I gave the speech in California.

00:20:25.000 They kind of just shrugged their shoulders.

00:20:26.000 Here, I'm sure a lot of you are propagandized with this nonsense.

00:20:30.000 And so I'm going to first debunk it, and I'm going to say it's a little bit more complicated than the absolute switch, but I'm going to say that the talking point that saying the parties switched is completely untrue.

00:20:40.000 Okay, so in order to believe in this great switch, you must believe in three big kind of mythologies around that.

00:20:48.000 So basically, it's around this idea of the Southern strategy.

00:20:50.000 Anyone heard of the Southern strategy before?

00:20:52.000 Richard Nixon gets in a kind of a cigar-filled room and he says, Hey, we're losing.

00:20:58.000 And in order for us to win the South and win the country, we have to be more racist and we have to go pander to deep-seated racial resentment.

00:21:06.000 You guys have probably heard this in one way or the other in your political science course.

00:21:10.000 But in order for that to be true, those people, the left or the professors, they'd have to explain how is it that Herbert Hoover in 1928 won 47% of the Southern vote?

00:21:22.000 How is it that Dwight D. Eisenhower, well before the switch ever happened, Dwight D. Eisenhower won Tennessee, Florida, and Virginia, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican, re-ran in 1956, won this state, as well as Louisiana and West Virginia?

00:21:36.000 Dwight D. Eisenhower supported the integration of schools.

00:21:41.000 He supported the ruling of Brown versus the Board of Education and sent in federal troops to the Little Rock Nine.

00:21:46.000 How is it that Republicans started to do better in the American South before the Great Switch ever happened?

00:21:52.000 The answer is that maybe the Great Switch never occurred.

00:21:55.000 So the myth number two, which of course, as I mentioned briefly, is that the Democrats all switched parties at once.

00:22:00.000 This is around one man.

00:22:02.000 This whole myth is around one person by the name of Strom Thurmond.

00:22:06.000 You've probably heard of him before, a Southern Democrat from South Carolina.

00:22:10.000 He was one of 20 Democrats who filibustered the Civil Rights Act.

00:22:14.000 They filibustered for how long?

00:22:16.000 75 days.

00:22:16.000 Anyone know?

00:22:18.000 Now, this is wrongly used as a reason not to use the filibuster, right?

00:22:23.000 This is something that, again, Mitch McConnell deserves a tremendous amount of credit for holding the line on the filibuster.

00:22:29.000 What he's doing right now and he's articulating is so important.

00:22:32.000 I know it's like a procedural wonky thing, but it might actually be the end of our civilization if we don't have the filibuster right now with these maniacs running our government.

00:22:39.000 So only one person switched parties, one person, and that's Strom Thurmond.

00:22:44.000 Now, the reason for why he switched could be largely attributed to that he just wanted to continue to win re-election.

00:22:50.000 It wasn't a massive ideological switch.

00:22:52.000 It was one guy.

00:22:53.000 It wasn't like the whole party switched overnight.

00:22:55.000 And so if you look deeper into that and you say, wait, hold on a second.

00:23:01.000 I thought that Republicans started to do a lot better than in the South after the Great Switch.

00:23:07.000 It's not that simple.

00:23:08.000 Actually, if you look into it, the Republicans did not start dominating the deep South until 1994.

00:23:15.000 Bill Clinton won Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, this state, and West Virginia in 92.

00:23:22.000 And in 96, I'm not sure if he won the state, but he won most of the South.

00:23:27.000 Jimmy Carter in 1976, just 12 years after the Civil Rights Act passed, Jimmy Carter swept the entire South.

00:23:33.000 So if the great switch was enacted, why was it that Jimmy Carter was continually doing pretty well in the racist South by the account of the media, the professors, and the people that are trying to recreate history?

00:23:47.000 In reality, here's what actually happened.

00:23:50.000 What actually happened is that the American South got considerably less racist over time.

00:23:56.000 And as the American South got less racist, it got more Republican.

00:24:01.000 As the South got less racist, more Republicans were able to be in elected office, like your former wonderful lieutenant governor, who did a great job, and she deserves to be applauded, and she knows all about this.

00:24:12.000 She had to hear that.

00:24:13.000 Stand up, please.

00:24:15.000 Did a wonderful job.

00:24:18.000 So this point is deeper, though.

00:24:20.000 This point is, I will contend with you that the philosophical underpinnings of the Democrat Party have been largely unchanged.

00:24:28.000 That the Democrats went from the plantation to intimidation to entitlement.

00:24:33.000 That the Democrats have always cared about skin color then, and they care about it now.

00:24:38.000 That Republicans have always cared about character and not skin color.

00:24:42.000 And so you go through the last and final point of this, and then I'll connect it all together, which is kind of the history of the Democrat Party, which is that in order to believe this, you must think that the South is as racist as it was back in the 1960s.

00:24:58.000 Some people believe that, which is just pathological.

00:25:01.000 It really is.

00:25:02.000 South Carolina, which is considered to be one of the most racist states, according to the New York Times, has a Republican black senator where Republicans said, I don't want a white liberal, but I prefer a black conservative.

00:25:14.000 Louisiana, which is the home of David Duke, who, by the way, is a Democrat, just so we're clear, he endorsed Joe Biden for president and Elon Omar.

00:25:21.000 Louisiana had an Indian-American governor, so did South Carolina.

00:25:25.000 Again, as the South started caring less about skin color, it started to become more Republican.

00:25:31.000 It's a very, very important thing.

00:25:33.000 And so the history of the Democrat Party is one that must be reinforced.

00:25:37.000 Did you know the Dred Scott decision, which was an evil decision in our country, that every single Supreme Court justice who voted for it, all seven, all of them were Democrats, and the two dissenters were Republicans?

00:25:48.000 John Wilkes Booth, also a Democrat, who killed the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who said, quote, if slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

00:25:57.000 The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment were all opposed by Democrats.

00:26:02.000 Do you know that Republicans sent 22 black people to Congress before the year of 1900, and Democrats did not send a single black person to Congress till 1935?

00:26:12.000 What was the first movie ever shown in the White House?

00:26:14.000 A racist movie by the name of Birth of a Nation.

00:26:17.000 You might have heard of this before.

00:26:18.000 Who is it shown by?

00:26:20.000 Democrat Woodrow Wilson from Princeton University, who became governor of New Jersey, then an awful president of the United States, screened that movie as the first ever movie shown in the White House.

00:26:31.000 And so I am not contending that either party has a monopoly on racism.

00:26:36.000 I'm not saying that. 0.99

00:26:37.000 When you have a group of people that is 75 million, you're going to have a couple scumbags. 0.99

00:26:42.000 Instead, what I'm contending with you is that you have been sold a lie. 0.97

00:26:46.000 You have been told a lie by the people in charge that there is this some sort of perfect seamless switch when in reality, it's not just more nuanced than that.

00:26:54.000 It's simply untrue.

00:26:56.000 That people that harbor racial resentment, they have no place in the American conservative movement.

00:27:01.000 And if I have anything to say about it.

00:27:03.000 And you look at what the conservative movement cares about, it's upward mobility.

00:27:07.000 It's about improving people's lives, about school choice.

00:27:10.000 It's about caring about your soul, about your character.

00:27:13.000 Which side of the aisle right now can't stop talking about skin color?

00:27:17.000 So the fifth lie about America, and then we'll get to some questions. 0.72

00:27:20.000 I just, I wanted to make sure I hit that.

00:27:22.000 Actually, can I just, can I say something about, is the environmental thing a big deal around here?

00:27:26.000 Is that a big thing, sort of, cold country?

00:27:29.000 So, let me just say this, that I'm not going to get too weedsy into some of that stuff, but let me say this: if your biggest concern, and this might not be anyone here, but it could be someone, if your biggest concern is something that you cannot control or something that is not directly impacting you, you just must first admit you're living a great life.

00:27:50.000 So, if your biggest concern is existential, you by definition have a great life.

00:27:54.000 For example, the 300 million people that do not have access to toilets in India, their biggest concern is sanitation every single day, they're not living a great life.

00:28:04.000 And what I find about the activists that are finding on the environmental movement, more than anything else, there is an ingratitude baked into it.

00:28:12.000 And it's also alarmist in nature.

00:28:14.000 Now, I'm not going to get into it, I'm not going to contest every single one of their charges.

00:28:19.000 What I am going to say is this: that the alarmism that is built around the climate change and the Green New Deal nonsense is not just bad for our country, it's bad for humanity at large.

00:28:29.000 You want to know why we're able to improve products so quickly?

00:28:32.000 Because fossil fuels are cheap, plentiful, and reliable.

00:28:36.000 When you're in negative 30-degree weather in New Hampshire, solar panels are not going to be able to help you very much.

00:28:42.000 And what's amazing is that there's also a misunderstanding of actually what our energy grid is.

00:28:47.000 So, 33% of our energy grid would be classified as petroleum, right?

00:28:51.000 About 11% as coal, and they are pathologically obsessed about destroying every single coal job, despite the fact that the demand for coal is both domestic and international.

00:29:02.000 A lot of the coal demand is also overseas in the third world because they have such rising populations.

00:29:07.000 Wait a second, you are able to use coal to develop your economy.

00:29:11.000 Why can't we use it to develop ours?

00:29:13.000 About 11% of our grid is renewable energy, which is solar and wind.

00:29:17.000 If you hate birds, you probably love wind energy because there's no better way to destroy just millions and millions of birds than wind energy.

00:29:24.000 And they're also just awful to look at.

00:29:26.000 And then, nuclear energy is about 8%, but the environmentalists want to get rid of nuclear energy as well.

00:29:31.000 And then, about 32% is natural gas, which, again, is thanks to fracking and those developments, which is another thing they want to get rid of.

00:29:38.000 And so, when you talk about energy, it's really a morality argument.

00:29:41.000 And I don't make this argument lightly.

00:29:42.000 It's this: Do you care about human beings more or do you care about the planet more?

00:29:47.000 And they're not mutually exclusive.

00:29:48.000 I care about the planet.

00:29:50.000 I care about the environment.

00:29:51.000 I do not want to see dirty rivers and air that we can't breathe. 0.92

00:29:54.000 With that being said, I care about the flourishing of human beings and mankind a lot more than some delta-smelt fish that they have in Central California that causes power outages every single summer where the working class and lower-middle-income people, mostly racial minorities, are not able to have access to reliable, plentiful, and cheap energy.

00:30:15.000 And you want to know why utility rates are rising in other parts of the world?

00:30:18.000 It's because in parts of the country, it's because of the attack on fossil fuels.

00:30:22.000 And so, happy to talk about that if that interests people and we open up for questions.

00:30:26.000 But understand that most of the lifestyle you enjoy is made possible thanks to the amazing advancements that we have made in the fossil fuel industry.

00:30:38.000 Okay, my last point, my fifth lie about America, and then I want to get to some questions because that's always fun, which is that the Constitution is outdated.

00:30:47.000 I'm sure you've heard this before.

00:30:48.000 So, really, the main thrust of this contention is whether or not you think human behavior is constant over time or whether it changes over time.

00:30:59.000 I will submit to you and I will make this argument that the Constitution was not written for the times, it was written to stand the test of time.

00:31:06.000 It was written by a thank you.

00:31:08.000 It was written by a group of thinkers and scholars who studied very seriously about Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, St. Augustine, Burke, John Locke, every one of the thinkers that really cared deeply about who are we, why are we here, and how are we supposed to interact with the natural world?

00:31:28.000 And they made the contention over a long period of history examination that the greatest threat to your freedom and liberty is resigning all of that power to an unchecked bureaucracy or an unchecked governmental authority.

00:31:44.000 So the Constitution comes from the premise that you actually deserve to be free and that you are the sovereign and whomever's in charge is only there thanks to you.

00:31:54.000 They only have any power because you have what?

00:31:56.000 The consent of the governed.

00:31:58.000 You see this throughout the Declaration, which obviously came before James Madison was the father of the U.S. Constitution, Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration.

00:32:04.000 And James Madison contended in the Federalist Papers, which I encourage all of you to read, that liberty must be the default condition of humanity.

00:32:14.000 Otherwise, government will come in and act despotically and like a tyrant.

00:32:18.000 And I want to be very clear: liberty is really hard.

00:32:22.000 It's really hard.

00:32:23.000 You know why?

00:32:24.000 You will have unequal outcomes.

00:32:27.000 We need to say this more.

00:32:28.000 You're going to have unequal outcomes.

00:32:30.000 Some people are going to make better choices.

00:32:31.000 If I gave $100 to every single person in this room and I asked you to come back tomorrow night and we saw what happened, we're going to have all sorts of different decisions being made.

00:32:39.000 Some people will save it.

00:32:40.000 Some people will go on Robinhood and buy GameStop.

00:32:42.000 And we'll see how that works.

00:32:43.000 Some people will buy Bitcoin.

00:32:45.000 Some people will go to a local bar and some people will go buy a bunch of masks, right?

00:32:48.000 Like that, whatever.

00:32:49.000 The point is that when you have liberty, the choices are infinite, therefore the outcomes will be different.

00:32:56.000 Now, those different outcomes sometimes create tension.

00:32:59.000 They create distrust.

00:33:00.000 They create people that sometimes say, I don't like that someone has more than I do.

00:33:04.000 And if they stole and they compromise the system, that's a perfectly valid complaint.

00:33:09.000 But the Constitution is so remarkable because it treats you in a position that you must act responsibly.

00:33:16.000 And that's why that's one of my biggest complaints over the last year with all these unconstitutional and demoral lockdowns.

00:33:22.000 Is all of a sudden we went to this kind of compact or this construct where all of a sudden we are acting as if the government was supposed to be the one that was telling us how to best live our life.

00:33:31.000 Give people the freedom to act. 0.99

00:33:32.000 And if they're going to do something foolish and stupid, then so be it, especially when it comes to the. 0.99

00:33:38.000 And I make the contention, the lockdowns will go down as the worst mistake in American history. 1.00

00:33:42.000 It is the worst conscious repeated mistake in American history.

00:33:45.000 I'll make that contention.

00:33:47.000 The rise in suicides, the mental health issues, the small business closures, it only created more, it created so many more problems than it ever actually solved.

00:33:56.000 And that's not to say I'm not minimizing the virus.

00:33:58.000 The virus is a very real thing, and it's a very, very real thing if you're a certain age with certain underlying health conditions, and you should take that risk seriously.

00:34:07.000 Just like how, if you have a, if you have difficult seeing, I probably wouldn't recommend go buying a Ford F-150 and driving.

00:34:16.000 Every person has to make decisions based on your own condition in the natural world.

00:34:22.000 If all of a sudden if we're going to micromanage every single decision, and we've already been through that, but I'm going to say this: that the Constitution also spread authority over time and space, geographic space.

00:34:35.000 This is really important.

00:34:37.000 It's almost impossible to take over the entire United States government in one election cycle.

00:34:42.000 It takes at least six years because one-third of the Senate is up every two years.

00:34:48.000 You have to win the House, maintain the presidency.

00:34:50.000 That means you must have really good ideas that are popular and you advocate them for a long period of time.

00:34:57.000 And you're able to then make the contention that those ideas must be put in place.

00:35:00.000 A good example of that, the Civil Rights Act.

00:35:03.000 That you're able to then get that done.

00:35:05.000 It also over space.

00:35:06.000 The states created the federal government.

00:35:08.000 The federal government didn't create the states.

00:35:10.000 It's a really important distinction.

00:35:12.000 That every state is able to operate, as Louis Brandeis would say, as a laboratory of democracy.

00:35:18.000 That Kentucky is going to do things different than California.

00:35:21.000 That Kentucky is going to do things differently than New York, where they're banning fossil fuels and fracking.

00:35:26.000 That doesn't happen here anytime soon.

00:35:28.000 I don't think it will.

00:35:29.000 And those kind of ideas of differences between states is a uniquely American idea.

00:35:34.000 And I'll close with this when it comes to the Constitution, which is that it can be very frustrating to activists that want to fundamentally reshape the image, the country, and their image.

00:35:45.000 It's hard to get massive things done quickly.

00:35:49.000 And what I'm going to say to you is, because I think there's either a storm or someone's, I don't know, that what I'm going to submit to you is that that's a good thing.

00:35:58.000 That's an attribute of the American system.

00:36:01.000 In the French system and in the British system, you could take over the government in almost one election cycle and completely change the way of life.

00:36:08.000 We are not a democracy.

00:36:10.000 We are a republic.

00:36:12.000 And that difference is so critically important.

00:36:15.000 So, to recap, the five things, and I'd love to interface on these five things in particular.

00:36:21.000 We were not founded on slavery.

00:36:22.000 We are founded on freedom.

00:36:24.000 America is not systemically racist.

00:36:26.000 We are the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:36:29.000 We are an exceptional nation who's made mistakes, but we are not a mistake.

00:36:34.000 The party's never switched.

00:36:36.000 In fact, there's a through line that I would make from the original Democrat Party, the Democrat Party today, and the Republican Party, then the Republican Party today.

00:36:43.000 And the Constitution is not outdated.

00:36:44.000 In fact, it's the opposite.

00:36:46.000 The Constitution is more applicable today than in any other time in American history.

00:36:52.000 And so, with those five things, those are the five biggest lies that I think professors and teachers are teaching every single day.

00:36:57.000 And I'd love to do some questions and we'll have some fun.

00:36:59.000 So, thank you guys.

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00:38:02.000 Hey, Charlie, what do you think President Trump's role will be moving forward with the Republican Party?

00:38:07.000 Yeah, that's a great question.

00:38:08.000 Do you guys hear that?

00:38:09.000 Okay, I can repeat it.

00:38:10.000 The question was: what do you think President Trump's role will be with the party moving forward?

00:38:14.000 First of all, let's just understand that President Trump gave the Republican Party a gift in many different ways.

00:38:23.000 We were stuck in a false paradigm of just Jeb Bush versus Hillary Clinton.

00:38:30.000 That's what we were supposed to have in 2016.

00:38:33.000 And then all of a sudden, a billionaire from New York who came down the golden escalator changed American politics forever.

00:38:45.000 And he talked about three issues you are not supposed to talk about, in particular, trade, immigration, and foreign wars.

00:38:56.000 Those three things Republicans never talked about.

00:38:59.000 If you look at Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, they'd actually agree on those three things.

00:39:03.000 So, Donald Trump said, Hey, I don't like the fact that factories are closing in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

00:39:08.000 I don't like that.

00:39:10.000 You know, there's got to be some balance in this overindulgence in pro-Chinese trade. 0.94

00:39:16.000 I don't like the fact that we just keep on bringing people limitlessly into our country, which is why I called for an immigration moratorium last year during the pandemic, where our obligation when it comes to immigration, by the way, should always be to serve our fellow countrymen and fulfill the promise. 0.71

00:39:32.000 So, for you college graduates, the way that I view immigration, you guys deserve jobs first. 0.98

00:39:37.000 You went into debt, you played by the rules, you paid into the system. 0.53

00:39:42.000 You guys deserve the jobs first.

00:39:43.000 That's what the compact should be.

00:39:45.000 The third thing is this, which was around the foreign wars, where Donald Trump said, I'm sick of occupying Afghanistan indefinitely.

00:39:52.000 How is that going to make our country stronger or better?

00:39:54.000 And challenging them.

00:39:56.000 That's something that I really want to thank Senator Rand Paul on for leading on for quite some time.

00:40:01.000 Senator Paul's been terrific on that, and you guys are really lucky to have a spokesperson on that.

00:40:05.000 And so then Donald Trump won an election.

00:40:07.000 He wasn't supposed to win in a style that no one thought he could win, right?

00:40:10.000 And boy, did he give our country some breathing room, didn't he?

00:40:14.000 And that's the way we have to think about it, right?

00:40:16.000 And I'm also going to thank your other senator here, Mitch McConnell, who, unlike Trent Lott, put in more judges and more circuit court judges, where now a lot of this nonsense that Biden is trying to do is going to get struck down by those judges.

00:40:30.000 And that's a good thing.

00:40:31.000 And then Donald, so we got some time.

00:40:33.000 We got some time in the sense that the only, you know, the only, you know, no one ever talks about this.

00:40:37.000 You know the only reason we were able to survive the lockdown the way we did is because we had a booming economy over the three years prior.

00:40:44.000 So when you're able to save for the winter metaphorically, all of a sudden 90, 100 days is a little bit more manageable thanks to what President Donald Trump did with a middle-class renaissance, which is a segue to where I really want to see the Republican Party go.

00:40:57.000 And I foreshadowed this a little bit, but I want to bring this out.

00:41:00.000 And then I'm going to actually answer your question.

00:41:02.000 So, which is the Republican Party has a moment right now that I hope we don't screw up to be the working-class party.

00:41:10.000 I believe that America is not divided by rich and poor.

00:41:14.000 I think the current divide is the Zoom and Skype class and the muscular class. 0.58

00:41:20.000 And we have treated the muscular class like trash the last couple decades. 1.00

00:41:25.000 We consider them dumb, stupid, backwoods, rednecks. 1.00

00:41:29.000 You guys have heard all the pejoratives. 1.00

00:41:31.000 I will make the argument that a plumber or someone working in a coal mine has far more wisdom than a professor at Harvard University.

00:41:40.000 And so I want to see him answer your question: where do I want?

00:41:45.000 I want to see him actively involved in keeping the Republican Party a people-based party.

00:41:49.000 And also, so I talked about the Constitution and the greatest threats to our freedoms and liberties.

00:41:55.000 And I've talked about this the last two nights, where we as conservatives also have to recognize that it's not just a binary threat against our nation.

00:42:04.000 It's not just, oh, we're going to go to socialism or we're going to have American revival.

00:42:08.000 There's a third threat.

00:42:09.000 There's a second threat, which is we are possibly going to enter into a corporatist country.

00:42:17.000 Now, for all the Bernie Sanders people out there and the liberals out there, I could probably find some agreement with you guys on some of this.

00:42:22.000 I don't think it's a good thing when Jeff Bezos is able to demolish 40% of American small businesses.

00:42:29.000 I don't think it's a good thing when four tech companies control all the information flow in our country.

00:42:34.000 I don't think it's a good thing, nor do I think it's a constitutional thing, mind you, when our freedom of speech is basically controlled online by 5,000 people in their pajamas in Menlo Park that hate our values.

00:42:44.000 And so I want to see the conservative movement push back against this overly corporatist.

00:42:49.000 And I'm talking about 10 or 15 companies that fund all the Democrat candidates, that fund all the liberal causes.

00:42:55.000 So where does Donald Trump come into that?

00:42:57.000 He's able to raise small dollar donations.

00:42:59.000 Donald Trump could come here and just say nothing and just smile and he'd have 55,000 people.

00:43:04.000 That's a really amazing thing, right?

00:43:07.000 And so if Republicans are serious about taking back the House and the Senate, they should involve him in that.

00:43:14.000 And he might do something on social media.

00:43:16.000 He might do something.

00:43:17.000 We'll see what happens, as he likes to say.

00:43:19.000 But I also want to see one last thing from him, which I think is a segue to your shirt.

00:43:25.000 We got to fix the way we do elections in our country.

00:43:27.000 We have to fix the way we do elections in our country.

00:43:31.000 And I want to see Donald Trump get into the weeds of the policy debates and the fights to reform our elections.

00:43:39.000 Mail-in voting should never become universal in our country.

00:43:42.000 It should be for specific reasons and specific purpose.

00:43:45.000 We should fight for voter ID.

00:43:47.000 We should not have voting month in our country.

00:43:49.000 You shouldn't have an entire week to count votes.

00:43:52.000 Compress the time.

00:43:53.000 Disallow people to come in.

00:43:55.000 All those different things.

00:43:56.000 And Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin is where a lot of that is happening.

00:44:00.000 So for that, I just want to say that's my answer to that.

00:44:03.000 But I'm telling you, there are some people in the Republican Party that want to turn the page.

00:44:07.000 Like, oh, let's go back.

00:44:08.000 I think that is an awful mistake.

00:44:10.000 And as long as I have a platform, I'm going to make sure that never, ever happens.

00:44:15.000 Thank you.

00:44:16.000 Hey, Charlie.

00:44:17.000 Well, first of all, I just wanted to say that you're a personal hero of mine.

00:44:20.000 And if you ever ran for president, I would 100% vote for you.

00:44:24.000 Not very kind.

00:44:26.000 Thank you.

00:44:28.000 So my question is: as someone who's aspiring to be a pastor, what advice would you give to someone who wants to do that regarding the political ideas and issues of that time, especially considering how far left the church is becoming?

00:44:45.000 Can you expand on that?

00:44:46.000 Because I thought we're in like the buckle of the Bible belt down here.

00:44:49.000 Oh, well, not necessarily here, but I'm saying like places like California.

00:44:53.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:44:54.000 Well, some people might say it's here too.

00:44:55.000 Yeah.

00:44:56.000 So look, a couple things.

00:44:57.000 First of all, I want to encourage you.

00:44:59.000 We need more pastors that get it.

00:45:03.000 And so I want to encourage you to absolutely do that.

00:45:08.000 We're going to be launching a very big initiative very soon, which is very exciting, where we want to bring our capacity to organize and inspire and train into the pastor and church realm.

00:45:18.000 I've spoken to over 55 churches over the last year.

00:45:20.000 My pastor, Rob McCoy, has refused to lock down.

00:45:23.000 He's been terrific.

00:45:24.000 Jack Hibbs, James Cadiz, Ken Graves, the Barnett, Steve Smotherman.

00:45:28.000 There's a lot of great pastors out there.

00:45:30.000 So I think this actually might be of some interest to this audience because this tends to be a region of the world that has more awareness around American Christianity than not.

00:45:41.000 When I'm in Malibu, it kind of goes right over their head, right?

00:45:43.000 So, which is this.

00:45:45.000 I will make the argument, and I'm an evangelical Bible-believing Christian. 0.80

00:45:49.000 I believe in the inerrancy of the word of God. 0.61

00:45:51.000 I believe in the triune God. 0.88

00:45:52.000 I believe we're made in his image.

00:45:55.000 And I'm by no means, if people have different opinions, I'm glad you're here.

00:46:00.000 I really mean that.

00:46:01.000 And if anyone wants to ask me questions about that, perfectly happy to, right?

00:46:05.000 And so, with all that being said, with that kind of framework, I think that Christians have a biblical mandate to get involved in the political fights of our time.

00:46:16.000 And so this is controversial, right?

00:46:18.000 So some Christians say, no, no, no, stay away from that.

00:46:22.000 Well, how are we supposed to deal with Esther, Mordecai, Daniel, Joseph, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, all in the Old Testament, who tried to influence secular government for God's purpose?

00:46:31.000 How are we supposed to wrestle with in Jeremiah it says to pray for the welfare of the nation or the city of which you are in?

00:46:37.000 It says in 1 Timothy that pray for the leaders who are in charge that you might live quiet and peaceable lives.

00:46:44.000 Jesus at Caesarea of Philippi brought up his disciples and he asked his disciples, Who do you say that I am?

00:46:51.000 It's one of the most famous dialogues in the entire Bible.

00:46:54.000 And it gets to the point where one of the most famous verses ever, he says, on this rock build my, and we say church.

00:47:00.000 But the real word for that is a Greek word called eklesia.

00:47:04.000 It means public square, political influence.

00:47:07.000 It's a Greek term where people used to come and meet to improve the welfare of the nation around them around two Greek words.

00:47:15.000 Don't want to get too into the weeds about this.

00:47:17.000 Eleutheria and isonomia, which means freedom and equality.

00:47:21.000 I make the argument that Christians, we should not wall ourselves off and run to the hills and wait for the persecution to pass like it's some form of a hurricane or a tornado.

00:47:29.000 Instead, we should have comprehensive Christianity, not compartmentalized Christianity, that we should be in the cultural fights with grace, compassion, but 100% truth, never compromising what the scriptures tell us to do and why we do it.

00:47:44.000 What's happening is three things: pastors that want to get engaged and involved and they're speaking out, but they need a little bit of help.

00:47:50.000 And I want to encourage them.

00:47:52.000 Number two, pastors that are like, I'm not doing that.

00:47:55.000 I only do the gospel.

00:47:57.000 We don't do that in our church.

00:47:58.000 That is a mistake.

00:48:00.000 And I want to encourage every pastor out there to please speak out on these issues.

00:48:06.000 And the Bible speaks clearly about this: that we are supposed to be salt and light in every sphere of influence.

00:48:12.000 And that if we have the truth, then we should bring the truth to every single arena imaginable.

00:48:15.000 But let me, possible.

00:48:17.000 But let me also say this on the second group.

00:48:19.000 They're under this false belief that their ties and their offerings and their church attendance will go down.

00:48:24.000 Let me tell you: the churches that are open that are taking stances on these issues, they're having parking problems.

00:48:31.000 The American Christians are saying, Wait a second, you're going to tell me you have a financial counseling ministry, you have a youth ministry, you have a marriage ministry, but you're not going to tell me whether abortion is right or wrong. 1.00

00:48:45.000 You're not going to tell me whether or not this transgender garbage that is happening in our country, which is child abuse, by the way, what is happening in our country right now with this transgender nonsense. 0.99

00:48:56.000 All of a sudden, you're going to, all of a sudden, people are going to leave those churches because, like, hey, I rely on you, Mr. Pastor, to speak truth and clarity when I'm confused. 1.00

00:49:07.000 And if you're like, hey, I'm indifferent, then I'm going to go find another church.

00:49:10.000 And that's what's happening.

00:49:11.000 But then there's the third type of pastor.

00:49:13.000 And I'm not going to name any names, and I usually do, but I'm trying to get better about this.

00:49:19.000 There's a lot of national pastors, and you guys can figure them out yourselves.

00:49:22.000 These are the complicit pastors.

00:49:24.000 And these are the pastors that intentionally misrepresent the Bible to go help progressive political aims.

00:49:32.000 For example, this lie.

00:49:34.000 Did you know that Jesus Christ was a socialist?

00:49:37.000 You've heard this before?

00:49:38.000 Well, first of all, socialism violates two out of the ten commandments: thou shalt not covet, thou shalt not steal.

00:49:42.000 It violates the parable of the talents, which is basically a parable on fruitful multiplication.

00:49:47.000 Socialism is not about creation, which God says you speak into existence to be fruitful and multiply.

00:49:52.000 He never said go conquer, divide, pit people against each other, and steal.

00:49:56.000 It's against every single biblical mandate that we can say, where a man does not work, he shall not eat.

00:50:00.000 That's both in the New Testament and the Old Testament.

00:50:02.000 Paul said it, and Solomon said it in Proverbs.

00:50:05.000 But they misrepresent it.

00:50:06.000 Why?

00:50:07.000 Because they conflate compassion with socialism, when in reality, socialism is the opposite of compassion.

00:50:13.000 Socialism is coercion.

00:50:14.000 Socialism is force. 0.85

00:50:16.000 Socialism is putting a gun to your head and saying, Give me what you have, or otherwise I'm going to put you into prison.

00:50:21.000 Those pastors have got to cut it out.

00:50:23.000 I encourage any pastor who thinks that the word of God confirms some sort of aim of the Democrat Party, they're very, very confused.

00:50:32.000 And I'm happy to go through it chapter and verse, what it says, and why it says it.

00:50:36.000 And so I want to just finish with this.

00:50:37.000 I want to encourage you again.

00:50:39.000 We need hundreds of pastors like you.

00:50:40.000 If anyone out there is wondering what you want to do with your life, please consider being a pastor.

00:50:45.000 It's not easy being a pastor.

00:50:46.000 There's a lot of pressure.

00:50:46.000 It's a lot of work, but we need people that get it, that are courageous to step into it.

00:50:52.000 And I want to commend you, and God bless you for being here tonight.

00:50:54.000 Thank you.

00:50:56.000 Again, we want to say thank you, Charlie, for being here today.

00:50:59.000 My question for you is: many people, just like me in this room, are men and women that are pro-life.

00:51:04.000 We've all come to the consensus that life begins at conception.

00:51:08.000 And because that argument is solidified in science and in the Bible, okay, we've come to this split in the road where we're not arguing over whether life begins at conception.

00:51:17.000 Now we're arguing if life has value at conception.

00:51:20.000 For that reason, as a Christian and as a man of science, I believe in science, what is your biggest argument for that claim?

00:51:26.000 Yeah, that's a great, that's a great point.

00:51:28.000 A great question.

00:51:29.000 So here's how I look at the abortion debate.

00:51:31.000 We just had a wonderful dialogue last night.

00:51:34.000 And I encourage you guys to... think about what that word dialogue means because we don't have enough of that in our country.

00:51:40.000 Dialogue comes from the two Greek words dia, through, log, logos, which we know in the Bible, John 1, reason, thinking, speech.

00:51:48.000 So the more that we're able to reason, we're actually able to find truth and we're not going to tear each other apart, which is what the people that don't want dialogue want.

00:51:54.000 So we had a great dialogue on this last night.

00:51:55.000 But really, really gentle young woman who was asking about my position on abortion and what exceptions I would have.

00:52:02.000 And my position on that is only life of the mother. 0.65

00:52:05.000 That's the only exception that I would have.

00:52:07.000 And I'll tell you why, which is if I had a child right here in my arms, I would say, is it right to terminate that child?

00:52:13.000 And you'd say no.

00:52:15.000 I'd say, well, you're right.

00:52:17.000 And it's irrelevant whether or not that child was conceived in a brutal, unspeakable tragedy of which rape is, or whether it was done the otherwise.

00:52:26.000 The point is that it's a life either way.

00:52:28.000 And let me be very clear on my position on rapists. 1.00

00:52:31.000 I think they should be castrated and put in prison for the rest of their lives. 0.99

00:52:33.000 Like, I'm not trivializing that. 1.00

00:52:36.000 I'm not.

00:52:37.000 But let me say this.

00:52:38.000 So we had a great dialogue on that yesterday, which is a side note.

00:52:40.000 But how do size shouldn't matter?

00:52:44.000 It's this simple.

00:52:46.000 Size is irrelevant in whether or not you believe human life has value.

00:52:50.000 The only argument they have is the size of the human life.

00:52:54.000 So our best argument is that DNA starts to be formed the minute that conception happens.

00:53:00.000 Deoxoribonucleic acid, something that is beyond human comprehension, that the more we actually study it, the less we know.

00:53:08.000 Think about that.

00:53:09.000 We're able to know a little bit.

00:53:10.000 We're also like, there's more questions around it, it's the better way to actually say it, where we say we get deeper into how does this miracle, and that's really the best way to describe it, actually be formed.

00:53:19.000 That is deserving of constitutional protection.

00:53:22.000 But here's why this argument is framed as difficult in the public arena.

00:53:27.000 Because small things are easier to crush.

00:53:32.000 There's a belief that I'm already fully developed, therefore I should be able to have the moral authority to get rid of things that are smaller than I am.

00:53:41.000 To just reinforce the lunacy of that argument, I'm 6'4, 6'3, 6'4. 0.95

00:53:46.000 Anyone smaller than me, you die. 0.90

00:53:48.000 Like, I mean, that's insane, right?

00:53:50.000 And so the other argument they'll make, though, is degree of dependency, right?

00:53:54.000 There's a great acronym.

00:53:55.000 I didn't come up with it.

00:53:56.000 My good friend Seth Gruber, who only talks about this, by the way.

00:53:59.000 He's far more fluent on this than I am.

00:54:01.000 And I consider myself to be pretty engaged in the pro-life movement, has the acronym SLED, where these are the four biggest kind of framing of the pro-abortion activists.

00:54:10.000 The one that really is the one that stumps most pro-life people is degree, is the level of dependency, right?

00:54:16.000 Is that that child is dependent on a host?

00:54:19.000 Well, anyone who's raised children knows if you just leave a child in a crib, once it's fully born, it will die.

00:54:27.000 That'd be infanticide.

00:54:28.000 So this idea of dependency doesn't actually logically extend itself out.

00:54:32.000 And also, should we just pull the plug on every single person in a nursing home in our country?

00:54:36.000 Of course not.

00:54:37.000 What about people that have mental challenges in our country?

00:54:42.000 They're dependent on other caregivers.

00:54:44.000 So that doesn't stand up in any way at all.

00:54:47.000 Here's the bigger argument, though, is that we have 1 million abortions in our country every single year, 3,000 every single day.

00:54:54.000 So by the time some of you listen back to this podcast tomorrow, 3,000 more children will be aborted, right?

00:55:00.000 It's easy to do this because it's done in private and it's not done in public.

00:55:05.000 And I'm going to contend to you right now that the abortion argument is the new moral fight for every, not the new one, but it's the moral fight that's a winning argument.

00:55:13.000 It's a winning issue.

00:55:14.000 But let me also offer a little bit of piece of advice to the pro-life movement.

00:55:17.000 We have to do a better job of being over-the-top compassionate and graceful in the way we talk about this.

00:55:23.000 If there is a young woman out there watching online or anyone that has had an abortion, I actually don't fault you.

00:55:29.000 I fault the abortionist that lied to you when you did that.

00:55:33.000 I feel it's a predatory scheme to go after young women and lie to them about what's actually happening.

00:55:38.000 And I think that we should say that there's grace and forgiveness in finding healing in that.

00:55:43.000 So I kind of went all over the place.

00:55:45.000 I hope that helped answer it, but I appreciate the question.

00:55:48.000 Thank you.

00:55:49.000 Hello, Charlie.

00:55:51.000 A lot of people go to churches that don't take firm stances, and I think that's part of the problem.

00:55:58.000 And how do you know when to leave a church or whether to stay around and try to reform it?

00:56:04.000 Because some of these people, you know, their parents built up that church and they have attachment to it.

00:56:08.000 That is such a good question.

00:56:10.000 I actually wrestled with this.

00:56:12.000 So I was raised in a church in the suburbs of Chicago that was a Presbyterian church.

00:56:16.000 I always get them confused.

00:56:17.000 FPCUSA or FPCA?

00:56:19.000 Which one's the super liberal one?

00:56:20.000 FPCUSA, I think?

00:56:21.000 Super liberal, right?

00:56:22.000 I mean, like, for example, it was like watching Rachel Matt out with organ music, right?

00:56:26.000 It was like as liberal as you could possibly imagine, right?

00:56:28.000 We would just, we would sing the Democrat National Committee anthem.

00:56:31.000 And it was hard because I was raised in that church, right?

00:56:33.000 And we eventually made the decision to leave when we felt as if it was far more about politics on the left than it was actually about character development or pursuing truth.

00:56:41.000 It's not an easy thing.

00:56:43.000 But here's my specific piece of advice.

00:56:46.000 Number one, have private dialogue with your pastor if you do not feel they are speaking out correctly on these issues or not speaking out at all.

00:56:55.000 And lay out all the facts and the information and give them repeated attempts to try to make it right.

00:57:01.000 Don't just leave all of a sudden.

00:57:02.000 Like, all right, that's it.

00:57:03.000 Do your best to try to nudge or to try to correct.

00:57:07.000 That's number one.

00:57:08.000 Number two, when you do leave a church, don't do so publicly.

00:57:16.000 This is a very important point.

00:57:18.000 Leave quietly.

00:57:20.000 Those people are still in the kingdom.

00:57:22.000 Don't make a big scene.

00:57:23.000 You could write a private note, and then just all of a sudden, your noticeable empty chair will send a very, very big message, right?

00:57:30.000 After you've had those meetings, that is actually a lot more powerful than a stathing incendiary email to the entire church elder board, right?

00:57:38.000 In fact, I think that actually makes them less likely to reform.

00:57:41.000 I think that makes them less likely to correct course.

00:57:43.000 So it's not easy, but I encourage everyone to have those tough conversations and try to offer a little bit of grace for that correction because we need the churches that start stepping up in our country.

00:57:52.000 We need our churches to start speaking to them moral clarity and talking about what is right and what is wrong, the proper education of our children, character development, what is the good, the pursuit of truth.

00:58:01.000 Look, the church has built this country.

00:58:04.000 The first great awakening brought to you by Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards and before that, Roger Williams, that's what built the basis for this country.

00:58:12.000 Anyone know who Edmund Burke is?

00:58:14.000 Okay, a couple people, cool.

00:58:16.000 He's like the original conservative.

00:58:17.000 He was an Irish-English member of parliament.

00:58:21.000 You're saying, how you're Irish-English?

00:58:22.000 You're really from Ireland and that he originally from Ireland and served in England.

00:58:25.000 He's known as like the first conservative.

00:58:26.000 He wrote reflections on the French Revolution.

00:58:28.000 But he has a super interesting paragraph.

00:58:31.000 I encourage you guys to look at it where he's looking as a foreigner on what's happening in America right before the American Revolution.

00:58:38.000 And now, mind you, this guy's Anglican at the time, right?

00:58:41.000 He's not, he wouldn't be what was considered necessarily Protestant, but he's mainline hierarchical English church, right?

00:58:48.000 Obviously, after the English church stopped being Catholic for very selfish reasons.

00:58:53.000 But he's looking at the American Revolution.

00:58:56.000 He says, I have never seen a people desire liberty like the Americans because they read their Bibles, they understand what it says, and they're willing to fight for it.

00:59:04.000 And so he actually counseled the king of England, King George, who was actually not a very smart person.

00:59:09.000 Don't get involved there.

00:59:11.000 You have no idea what it's actually going to take.

00:59:12.000 These people are willing to die for freedom.

00:59:15.000 And King George, like, who people are going to willing to die for freedom?

00:59:17.000 What are we talking about?

00:59:18.000 Like, they're colonists.

00:59:19.000 We're just mull them over.

00:59:20.000 And Edmund Burke was like, no, no, no. 0.99

00:59:22.000 There's something different with the Americans.

00:59:24.000 They have a spirit moving within them.

00:59:27.000 And that was the black robe regimen of activist pastors that started our country.

00:59:31.000 And this rich, beautiful history, I encourage all of you to check out because the deeper you get into it, the more you realize how much you've been misled by the popular narrative.

00:59:38.000 But this country, when that Declaration of Independence was signed and it says, the laws of nature and nature is God.

00:59:44.000 You know, God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.

00:59:47.000 Why?

00:59:48.000 God, the God over everything, God, the executor, God, the legislator, and God, the judge.

00:59:53.000 That's where we get our three branches of government.

00:59:55.000 The vertical relationship we have with rights.

00:59:58.000 All of these ideas were brewing in the minds of the founding fathers and in an apex point.

01:00:02.000 So the church founded the country, and the church can decide whether or not to save the country.

01:00:07.000 It's that simple.

01:00:08.000 So I hope that was somewhat helpful and how to go back to your churches.

01:00:10.000 So thank you.

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01:01:24.000 Hey, Charlie, you're a big inspiration to me.

01:01:26.000 I wanted to know: what do you think about the current gun situation in Congress?

01:01:26.000 Thank you.

01:01:32.000 Like, for example, they're trying to pass the magazine registrations and capacity ban.

01:01:37.000 What kind of outcome do you think that will have just in America?

01:01:41.000 So I'm not libertarian on a lot of things.

01:01:44.000 I'm very libertarian when it comes to firearms.

01:01:46.000 And I think that our firearm laws are too restrictive and cumbersome in our country, truly.

01:01:52.000 And if you do not understand, I'm going to say what almost every pundit is afraid to say, which is why we actually have a Second Amendment.

01:02:01.000 Everyone tap dances around this, right?

01:02:02.000 I'm going to go right into it.

01:02:04.000 It's not for hunting.

01:02:05.000 It's fun.

01:02:05.000 Love hunting.

01:02:06.000 Self-protection.

01:02:06.000 It's great.

01:02:07.000 That's also important.

01:02:09.000 It's because the founding fathers knew that an unarmed citizenry has no leverage, no power against despots or tyrants whatsoever.

01:02:17.000 The Second Amendment protects all the other amendments.

01:02:20.000 Now, I get wrong, people get wrongly labeled and categorized as if I'm trying to incite something by saying that.

01:02:26.000 It's the opposite, actually.

01:02:28.000 I think that's what prevents conflict.

01:02:30.000 So let me prove it to you. 0.78

01:02:32.000 When the Hong Kong freedom fighters were fighting against the evil and sinister Chinese Communist Party, what's the one thing Hong Kong didn't have? 0.85

01:02:39.000 Well, Hong Kong used to be a territory or a province or port of the British Empire.

01:02:44.000 And they basically outlawed all firearm ownership.

01:02:47.000 Hong Kong people had no leverage.

01:02:49.000 Deep down, the Communist Party knew that they had tanks, they had bullets, and they don't, and we're going to win.

01:02:55.000 If every Hong Kong freedom fighter came with an AR-15 around their back, slung around their back, not use it and say, hey, let's talk.

01:03:03.000 All of a sudden, it would be a negotiation, not a hostage situation.

01:03:07.000 You see that?

01:03:08.000 That whole geopolitical situation would have been more peaceful if the people would have been armed.

01:03:13.000 So, let me say this: any Republican that supports gun control measures, I think, should leave the party completely.

01:03:18.000 And we're seeing that right now.

01:03:19.000 Eight Republicans voted for it, and they got to go find a new political party or they got to get primary.

01:03:24.000 This is that big of an issue in our country.

01:03:26.000 It really, really is.

01:03:28.000 And I do want to say this because we got media matters and everyone.

01:03:31.000 I think what happened in Boulder was a tragedy and an atrocity, and my heart truly goes out to those victims.

01:03:36.000 I'm not minimalizing pain and suffering.

01:03:39.000 That's not what my argument is.

01:03:39.000 I'm not.

01:03:41.000 Instead, I'm reinforcing the need for the freedom and the liberty that we uniquely have.

01:03:46.000 The Second Amendment protects all the other amendments.

01:03:49.000 And every trend of civilization we see are the few dominating the many.

01:03:56.000 The only balance we have against that is if the many have something to protect themselves against the few.

01:04:03.000 And that's what the founding fathers saw, and they built that in there for a reason.

01:04:07.000 If I may, one of the biggest lies around the Second Amendment, and I love your hat, it says we the people, which is obviously the beginning of the greatest political document ever written, which is the United States Constitution, the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights.

01:04:20.000 Some people will wrongly say, Well, Charlie, only people in a militia are allowed to have a firearm.

01:04:25.000 Well, if you understood what a militia meant back then, it was every man over the age of 18.

01:04:29.000 So basically, everybody.

01:04:31.000 So basically, the gun laws that they were advocating for back then were way more lazy fair using their own definition of militia than they would even today.

01:04:39.000 And I encourage all of you to dive deep into the Federalist papers, understand why we have these rights.

01:04:43.000 And the final thing I'll say is this: that states that actually have the most pro-freedom gun laws actually have reducing crime.

01:04:51.000 They have safer streets.

01:04:52.000 It is an oxygen.

01:04:53.000 It's actually the opposite.

01:04:54.000 I come from the suburbs of Chicago.

01:04:56.000 I could tell you, last year, 732 people were killed in the streets of Chicago despite having the strictest gun laws in the country.

01:05:04.000 Now, they say, well, the Indiana loophole, they're trafficking guns in from Indiana.

01:05:09.000 Okay, well, then compare Chicago's death rate with Gary, Indiana's death rate.

01:05:13.000 It's a fraction of it.

01:05:14.000 So the loose gun laws in Indiana and Gary, Indiana, have a much lower crime rate than that in Chicago.

01:05:19.000 So here's my position on the gun debate.

01:05:22.000 And both your senators have been terrific on guns.

01:05:24.000 I have to say, I see a no-compromise position, which is very, very good.

01:05:28.000 It's not going to happen.

01:05:29.000 We have to hold the line.

01:05:30.000 And it looks like Joe Manchin's not going to vote for that.

01:05:32.000 So it looks like it's not on a rival.

01:05:33.000 Thank you for the question.

01:05:36.000 Hey, Dewey, first of all, thank you for all your efforts that you do, and thank you for coming here.

01:05:42.000 What I'm interested in is I've been following for some time the Convention of States, and I find it interesting.

01:05:48.000 I find it a double-edged sword.

01:05:49.000 If it's not anything you've kind of exercised and run through, that's fine.

01:05:53.000 But if you have any thoughts to lend to that, I'd love to hear them.

01:05:57.000 I have done a lot of thinking about it.

01:05:58.000 So just so everyone knows, there's some amendments called the Liberty Amendments, which that's what Mark Levin calls them.

01:06:04.000 My friend Mark Meckler ran Convention of States for years.

01:06:07.000 And essentially, a lot of people don't know this.

01:06:09.000 There's a provision in the U.S. Constitution that allows the states to call a convention, basically a convention of states around certain issues.

01:06:16.000 Some people argue that that could eventually turn into a runaway convention.

01:06:22.000 I actually don't agree with that.

01:06:23.000 My friend Dr. Larry Arn makes that argument because the states could just disengage if it ever became a runaway convention.

01:06:30.000 So here's how it would work.

01:06:32.000 It takes, I think, two-thirds of states to call a convention.

01:06:35.000 They convene around a couple different issues, let's say term limits, balanced budget amendment, and building a southern border wall, right?

01:06:41.000 And then they'll vote amongst themselves, and it's a way to kind of bypass Congress.

01:06:45.000 My actual concern with the Convention of States is that it's never going to happen.

01:06:51.000 It just is not.

01:06:52.000 We're not going to get two-thirds of states.

01:06:53.000 I wish we would, but the math is not currently there.

01:06:58.000 But I'm supportive of it philosophically, and I'm also supportive of it as an expansion of the conversation of the constitutional tools we have at our disposal to push back against tyranny and protect liberty.

01:07:09.000 And so, for that reason, I hope it's very successful.

01:07:11.000 Has Kentucky passed the Convention of States?

01:07:13.000 I don't know.

01:07:14.000 I know some of the bordering states have, but I would encourage your legislators still to have it.

01:07:18.000 I'm just looking at a big picture.

01:07:19.000 I think it's currently unlikely to pass through.

01:07:22.000 And if anyone's interested, I think it's Article 3.

01:07:25.000 I could be wrong.

01:07:26.000 But anyway, it's called the Liberty Amendments.

01:07:28.000 I encourage you guys to check it out.

01:07:29.000 Mark Levin wrote an entire book on it.

01:07:31.000 So, great.

01:07:32.000 Thank you so much.

01:07:34.000 Mr. Kirk, your second point during your speech was specifically on systemic racism, and I'm going to expand on that.

01:07:41.000 Recently, the Blaze, the news site I'm sure you're aware of, reported a story that Cigna, which is a major insurance company, has urged all of their hiring managers to avoid hiring white men.

01:07:54.000 Now, naturally, if this was done with black men or Hispanic men or whomever, it would be immediately outcried.

01:08:01.000 So, my question is: why is it okay for the left and corporations to specifically discriminate against white men? 0.75

01:08:09.000 Yeah, great question. 0.61

01:08:10.000 It shouldn't be okay.

01:08:11.000 It's evil and it's wrong, but let me tell you why it passes.

01:08:15.000 Because we're talking about two different forms of the definition of racism.

01:08:21.000 So, the definition, based on your question, I think we'll agree, of what racism is, is any person of any skin color harboring racial resentment of which is immoral and evil against another group of people.

01:08:32.000 That could be a black person against a white person, it could be a white person against an Asian person, or a Latino person against a black person.

01:08:39.000 They don't believe that. 0.89

01:08:40.000 They believe only white people can be racist, and black people cannot be racist.

01:08:45.000 They look at racism not as the individual prejudice or stereotype of one person against the other.

01:08:51.000 No, no, no.

01:08:51.000 Instead, they look at it as a power struggle.

01:08:54.000 Therefore, that any sort of wrong that you put towards white people is actually for a greater good of correcting a past injustice.

01:09:02.000 This has got to stop.

01:09:04.000 This is a very, very big problem.

01:09:06.000 And I would make the argument that affirmative action is legitimate racism against white people and Asian Americans. 0.98

01:09:12.000 And by the way, let me say this: the anti-Asian hate thing that we've seen in the media, absent that one issue that we saw in Georgia, which was done by a scumbag for non-racial reasons, might I add, just so we're clear. 0.98

01:09:25.000 This was not an issue of white supremacy. 0.96

01:09:28.000 This is an issue more about the black community and the Asian American community.

01:09:32.000 Just so we're all clear about what the mainstream media narrative actually is there.

01:09:35.000 And again, I don't like overly racializing these things, but that's just the truth of the matter. 0.55

01:09:40.000 So, why is it okay?

01:09:41.000 It's okay because it's perfectly fine, according to the eyes of the media and government bureaucrats, to do that.

01:09:48.000 And I think we need to stand up against it.

01:09:50.000 That is racism, and it's wrong, and it's bigotry, and it's evil, and it's immoral.

01:09:54.000 So, thank you for your question.

01:09:58.000 Hi, I'm a student here at the University of Kentucky.

01:10:00.000 I'm actually in, I'm in mining engineering, and I'm going into be working in the coal industry this summer.

01:10:06.000 I have an internship.

01:10:08.000 Well, okay, so one of my close friends here, she really, really, really supports AOC, and she really likes the Green New Deal.

01:10:16.000 And I was wondering if you were able to have a conversation with her here tonight, what would you say to her to try and convince her or change her mind on why it is an awful proposal and also why, you don't have to go into this as much if you don't want to, on why AOC is not fit to run anything?

01:10:40.000 I like the way you think.

01:10:44.000 So, let's talk about climate change, if we can.

01:10:46.000 There's a couple questions that we must ask about it.

01:10:49.000 First of all, you must establish with anyone you're talking about what is called chaired intentions.

01:10:55.000 Don't allow them to have the moral high ground that they somehow want what's better for innocents or for even the planet or the environment more than you do.

01:11:05.000 They win this argument because they make the argument, I'm a better person than you are, and all you want is dirty rivers and dirty lakes.

01:11:12.000 That's how they win the argument, not actually on the merits.

01:11:15.000 So, when it comes to climate change and rising global temperatures, first, we must recognize that CO2 is not just something that we emit, it's a necessary emission needed for life.

01:11:31.000 That CO2 is not just an inconvenience, it's actually necessary for our species to continue.

01:11:37.000 There's also many different ways that the climate can cool and the climate can warm.

01:11:41.000 Sun, clouds, oceans, orbital variations.

01:11:47.000 There's a lot of different inputs that go into that.

01:11:49.000 And there is no evidence, despite what your professors might say, that CO2 is the dominant factor in rising global temperatures.

01:11:58.000 Between year 1800 and 2000, the best science that we can look at, global temperatures have raised 1.8 Fahrenheit.

01:12:08.000 That's not really alarmism.

01:12:09.000 And the other question is: are there any things that are happening favorable when it comes to the environment?

01:12:14.000 And then I'll get to your point about the Green New Deal, which is, do you know that there's more greenery on the earth than ever before?

01:12:22.000 That the Earth is more green than any other time in American history?

01:12:25.000 How's that possible?

01:12:26.000 Well, more CO2, you're going to have more green.

01:12:29.000 Like, that's basic science.

01:12:31.000 Now, they say it's a bad thing because we have more CO2 and rising global temperatures.

01:12:35.000 By the way, the polar bears aren't disappearing.

01:12:37.000 There's more polar bears than ever before.

01:12:38.000 Just so we're clear, I'm so sick of hearing the polar bear argument.

01:12:40.000 There's plenty of polar bears.

01:12:42.000 The polar bears are doing great.

01:12:42.000 They're everywhere.

01:12:43.000 They're in like boomtown, USA, polar bear, okay?

01:12:46.000 Let's just be very clear.

01:12:46.000 Enough of the, if I have to hear about the polar bears again, I'm going to lose it, right?

01:12:49.000 It's like one of the biggest lies.

01:12:50.000 It's all emotional, right?

01:12:52.000 And that's really the basis of it.

01:12:53.000 So here's a couple questions you have to ask when it comes.

01:12:55.000 And I'm not proposing I would be able to convince her.

01:12:59.000 I'm not.

01:13:00.000 Because the environmentalist argument comes down to something deeper and comes down to purpose.

01:13:06.000 It has given a lot of people purpose.

01:13:08.000 In a rich, generally fair society where you work hard and play by the rules and you're able to have an output that you can count on.

01:13:17.000 A lot of people want to find some reason that everything's actually awful and it's about to end.

01:13:23.000 And it gives a lot of people purpose.

01:13:25.000 And these social movements have a tendency to do that.

01:13:27.000 Now, if there's a social movement that I believe is actually trying to eradicate an immoral wrong in our country, I will join it.

01:13:33.000 Like the March for Life, I will go join that.

01:13:36.000 But all of a sudden, these people that say, well, the world's going to end tomorrow, that's climate alarmism.

01:13:40.000 So let me go through the three questions you must ask.

01:13:41.000 Number one, can you definitively prove using the scientific method that CO2 and human activity is absolutely contributing to rising global temperatures?

01:13:52.000 They cannot.

01:13:53.000 How many times have you heard that 97% of all scientists agree?

01:13:56.000 First of all, that's not even true.

01:13:58.000 It's a government-funded study, but let's pretend it was.

01:14:00.000 People are on government payroll.

01:14:02.000 It's very, very flawed.

01:14:03.000 But let's pretend it's true.

01:14:04.000 I did not know science was a democracy.

01:14:08.000 Typically, we use the scientific method to prove things.

01:14:11.000 And the one thing about the climate change cabal is they're unable to predict anything.

01:14:15.000 I wish I could believe in something.

01:14:17.000 Whether it gets hotter or colder, it stays the same.

01:14:19.000 I'm right.

01:14:20.000 Because their guiding thesis is unpredictability.

01:14:23.000 No, no, you must be able to prove something in order to tell.

01:14:26.000 You have to be able to predict anything, right?

01:14:28.000 That's kind of inherent in any sort of formulation of trying to say that we should massively reconstruct our society.

01:14:33.000 That's number one.

01:14:34.000 Can you prove that?

01:14:34.000 Number two, which is a very important question that we must ask, is what can you, let's pretend that the answer is, yes, I believe it, CO2.

01:14:43.000 Okay.

01:14:43.000 Then what can you say human beings can do to necessarily contribute to lower CO2 levels that will then result in lower global temperatures?

01:14:52.000 Is basically what are you willing to do, which is part of the third question.

01:14:55.000 At what cost are you willing to destroy our entire civilization to try to get our temperatures down by half a degree?

01:15:01.000 Right?

01:15:01.000 Like, at what cost?

01:15:03.000 Because everything comes at a cost, right?

01:15:05.000 And by the way, let me just say this: with the electronic electric cars, right?

01:15:09.000 Electricity comes from somewhere.

01:15:12.000 Usually it's fossil fuels.

01:15:13.000 I love these people.

01:15:14.000 Where does it come?

01:15:14.000 It comes from the holes.

01:15:15.000 Like, no, it doesn't come from the holes, okay?

01:15:16.000 Because it's like I get my energy from electricity.

01:15:19.000 Like, okay, yeah, electricity must come.

01:15:21.000 It must come from something combustible or something transferable, either the sun or wind.

01:15:25.000 Just have to say I've heard almost everything.

01:15:29.000 And also, if you love the environment, you should be really worried about electric cars.

01:15:33.000 You know why?

01:15:34.000 Batteries.

01:15:35.000 They do not know what to do with these batteries.

01:15:38.000 We are having massive issues of disposal of batteries in the American West.

01:15:42.000 Huge issues.

01:15:43.000 And these batteries are leaking.

01:15:45.000 They have to build entire landfills of just these Tesla batteries.

01:15:48.000 So until that's figured out, there's like, let's release them to space.

01:15:51.000 It's kind of funny.

01:15:51.000 It's like maybe they'll get there before Elon Musk gets to Mars.

01:15:54.000 Like, I don't know.

01:15:55.000 I guess that's going to work.

01:15:56.000 The point is this.

01:15:58.000 If you believe in climate change and you believe that things are getting warmer dramatically, the other question is: is it happening mildly or is it happening catastrophically?

01:16:09.000 You see, we human beings can adjust to things mildly.

01:16:11.000 For example, in northern Scotland in the 1500s, they had a Mediterranean climate.

01:16:16.000 But no more.

01:16:18.000 My whole ancestry is from Scotland.

01:16:19.000 I can trust you that not exactly.

01:16:21.000 That happened without carbon emissions, right?

01:16:24.000 So it's in that post-Ice Age period we're in.

01:16:26.000 Here's my biggest complaint about it.

01:16:28.000 I think it's an unbelievable distraction, and it also delegitimizes our intentions.

01:16:33.000 I want clean air and clean water.

01:16:35.000 I don't like people that pollute.

01:16:37.000 I want what's the best for human beings first, and I want to live in a country where we can breathe easily.

01:16:42.000 And I do not want to live in China, so I believe in reasonable environmental regulation.

01:16:46.000 And if you talk to people that are in coal and gas, they will never say they want to get rid of every regulation.

01:16:50.000 They just want to be treated fairly, and they want to be able to count on what regulation is happening year over year that won't shut them down.

01:16:57.000 Fossil fuels have been a gift to humanity.

01:16:59.000 We have gotten so rich so quickly and we live longer thanks to them. 0.99

01:17:03.000 It would be a brutal mistake to all of a sudden turn it off because of a 29-year-old bartender who thinks all of a sudden she can micromanage the decisions of 330 million people.

01:17:14.000 All right, Charlie.

01:17:15.000 I have a very simple question, but I want to give some context first.

01:17:18.000 So my family, we haven't been gun owners until the pandemic, like many other people with the gun sales rising.

01:17:23.000 And that's saying something because my dad got shot in Vegas and he didn't even buy a gun after that.

01:17:27.000 So, and now we're also looking for a house in Florida.

01:17:30.000 And that's all because the turning point for us was, like, I'm from St. Charles.

01:17:35.000 So you know St. Charles, Illinois?

01:17:36.000 Yeah, right by?

01:17:37.000 You're from St. Charles.

01:17:38.000 So Target, Dicks, towards what else?

01:17:38.000 Yeah.

01:17:41.000 Walgreens, all that, like many other places in the country, were brought it up.

01:17:44.000 And like, we're very far from the city.

01:17:46.000 You know that, where Chicago is having all these murders.

01:17:48.000 And that was a turning point for my dad to go buy a weapon.

01:17:51.000 And now we're looking for a house in Florida.

01:17:53.000 So my question is: what's next for other people like me and like many other people across the country moving and arming themselves?

01:17:58.000 Like, do you see us coming out of this better or people like Tim Poole and Stephen Crowder talking about the whole propaganda civil war?

01:18:06.000 Like, what's next, in your opinion?

01:18:09.000 First of all, I'm sorry your father went through that.

01:18:12.000 He's cool now?

01:18:13.000 All right.

01:18:14.000 Well, he's a tough man.

01:18:17.000 That was a terrible thing that happened.

01:18:19.000 Which, by the way, you said he was injured in the Las Vegas shooting?

01:18:22.000 Yeah, so he got shot in the leg at Las Vegas shooting, and he didn't care about motive.

01:18:26.000 He said it was evil, and he didn't even look turned towards buying a gun to just defend ourselves.

01:18:31.000 That's the point I'm making.

01:18:32.000 No, I only ask as a complete tan.

01:18:34.000 I only asked as a tangent to make sure I heard it.

01:18:36.000 Because just so you guys know, we never actually found out the motive of that shooter, which is like the weirdest thing ever.

01:18:40.000 It's the largest mass shooting in American history, and we just never got a motive.

01:18:44.000 Anyway, it's a complete tangent.

01:18:45.000 We should never forget about that.

01:18:47.000 There's just something very suspicious there.

01:18:48.000 Total tangent.

01:18:49.000 Okay.

01:18:50.000 The movement of people between states is historic of what's happening right now.

01:18:54.000 So, I actually, this was part of my speech yesterday, which is my rules for people that move between one state and the other.

01:19:00.000 Then, I'm going to make a couple predictions, okay?

01:19:02.000 Which is, you moved for a reason.

01:19:05.000 Identify that reason.

01:19:06.000 Might be crime, might be bad schools, might be taxes.

01:19:09.000 Number two, don't go implement the complaint you previously had in the new state you moved to.

01:19:15.000 Don't all of a sudden move to a new state and then implement the reason you move, which is what we're seeing in Arizona all the time.

01:19:21.000 People coming from California and they're trying to change it.

01:19:23.000 Okay, number three: this is a really interesting point that we need to talk about more, and it applies to national immigration too, which is your change is likely worse, and the people that were there before you probably know how to govern that state or that country, which is why you're moving there. 0.78

01:19:42.000 And your vote to change that place is going to disenfranchise people that can't move and didn't move.

01:19:49.000 Does that make sense? 0.95

01:19:50.000 So, I'm making an argument for assimilation, is what I'm saying.

01:19:53.000 And kind of connect it to a previous question: the Bible talks about assimilation when it comes to immigration.

01:19:58.000 Every single Bible verse when it comes to immigration is about assimilation.

01:20:02.000 But to more pinpoint to you're moving to Florida, I'm a Florida resident, I'll be there the next couple days.

01:20:07.000 Florida is an amazing state with a phenomenal governor, Ron DeSantis, who is doing a great job for our country.

01:20:15.000 He's saying no critical race theory in our schools.

01:20:18.000 He's allowing open carry, anti-rioting act, going after the tech companies.

01:20:22.000 He opened his state back in May.

01:20:24.000 He has open schools, open businesses, the second oldest population in the country with one of the lowest death rates, and virus rates, and hospitalization rates.

01:20:33.000 That's a pretty amazing success story.

01:20:34.000 So, I just want to say that.

01:20:36.000 So, where we are headed, it's all dependent on us, actually.

01:20:43.000 So, I actually think we're at a moment.

01:20:45.000 So, the Greeks had two words for time.

01:20:48.000 They had chronos, where you might know chronos watches, or chronology, that's where we get that word, chronological from.

01:20:54.000 They had another word for time, which is all throughout the Gospel of Mark, which is kairos, which means an action point, an inflection point, a time that is not like other times, right?

01:21:04.000 So, I would make the argument that this time, every one of your actions and your point of involvement matters with an exponent behind it, right?

01:21:12.000 So, look, it could go in a really bad direction.

01:21:13.000 I hope it doesn't, obviously.

01:21:16.000 I think that what these tech oligarchs are doing to our country is evil and immoral, and it has to stop.

01:21:22.000 They are manipulating human behavior, and they're acting monopolistically, not just in the marketplace, but also ideologically.

01:21:29.000 That really, really bothers me and concerns me.

01:21:31.000 You know what the number one form of censorship in our country is, though?

01:21:34.000 It's not even from the tech companies, it's self-censorship.

01:21:37.000 It's people shutting themselves up because they don't want to lose a friend, lose a job, get kicked out of class, or have to deal with it.

01:21:45.000 We have to end this plague, if you will, of self-censorship in our country.

01:21:51.000 And I encourage all of you, own your beliefs publicly and have each other's back.

01:21:57.000 And so, I'm a big believer that a lot of this nonsense and this tyranny of the left actually goes away the moment we have each other's back.

01:22:05.000 We don't offer this ridiculous cancel culture circus.

01:22:09.000 I can't, I hate that word, that term cancel culture.

01:22:11.000 It really bothers.

01:22:11.000 I just, it's not, it's deeper than that, right?

01:22:14.000 It's it's just civilizational decay.

01:22:17.000 Someone tweeted something 10 years ago: if they're a liberal or a Democrat and you see that they're not that person anymore, defend that person.

01:22:24.000 I defend liberals all the time that come under this ridiculous crazy that we must judge them by this insane standard.

01:22:30.000 And so, prediction, it's all depending on us.

01:22:33.000 It all depends on our action and our involvement and our engagement.

01:22:36.000 So, as President Trump says, we'll see what happens.

01:22:39.000 Thank you.

01:22:39.000 Great.

01:22:41.000 Hey, Charlie, I see you're not wearing your two masks.

01:22:45.000 I am not wearing two masks, you're right.

01:22:46.000 I'm sure you're not.

01:22:48.000 But my question was, so in recent, there have been times where we have seen two very far ends of the spectrum actually find some common ground.

01:23:01.000 One was AMC where AOC and yeah, AOC and Ted Cruz actually were tweeting basically the same thing.

01:23:12.000 And then it happened with the border crisis as well where...

01:23:16.000 The stars aligned and CNN, Trump, and AOC were sharing some similar thoughts about how the media was not given a chance to report accurately on the situation there.

01:23:31.000 So I mean, I don't know what universe it would be.

01:23:34.000 It would be the craziest universe ever.

01:23:35.000 But do you see a point or room for obviously not someone like AOC, but conservatives and liberals, moderate liberals, moderate conservatives, being able to mesh together and break away from a two-party system?

01:23:52.000 No, not in the current state of affairs.

01:23:54.000 Let me tell you why.

01:23:55.000 And I wish that we lived in an America where we had a wonderful policy debate and we had all this shared common interest.

01:24:03.000 We are in a brute force political fight for the future of our country, where if you have one more vote than the other person, they are going to jam through their agenda at any means necessary.

01:24:12.000 I yearn for an America where we can want the same thing and have different ways of getting there.

01:24:16.000 How many of you have heard this before?

01:24:17.000 We want the same thing, but we have different ways of getting there.

01:24:20.000 It's a lie.

01:24:22.000 They want a different America than we want.

01:24:24.000 They do. 1.00

01:24:24.000 They want men in women's locker rooms. 1.00

01:24:28.000 They want the assistant secretary of whatever, health and human services, to be a man who's completely confused about himself. 0.63

01:24:35.000 That gives puberty blockers to eight-year-olds, which is, again, as I said, a form of child abuse.

01:24:40.000 They're okay with a million abortions a year.

01:24:42.000 They want that border wide open.

01:24:44.000 They might have a different way of housing the people that are there, but they want that border wide open.

01:24:48.000 And I would be able to find some common ground with some of the progressives on corporate oligarchy and some of these other things I talked about.

01:24:54.000 But here's the problem.

01:24:55.000 If they are going to continue to say that we are the worst people on the planet and accuse our character and call us these awful things, I mean, you guys have seen it.

01:25:06.000 I mean, you had a former head in the National Intelligence Service say that we need to go after libertarians and we need to go.

01:25:12.000 You saw it.

01:25:13.000 They want to use the security state against Trump supporters.

01:25:16.000 And so we're in a moment of time right now.

01:25:19.000 And I wish this wasn't the case where this kind of John Lennon song, we're all going to kind of be running through the meadow and like finding a kumbaya moment.

01:25:26.000 Like that's not going to happen.

01:25:28.000 I wish it was.

01:25:28.000 I wish we could all have this wonderful moment.

01:25:31.000 They want us gone.

01:25:32.000 They do.

01:25:33.000 They have no interest in subcommittee meetings.

01:25:35.000 They have no interest in marking up bills.

01:25:38.000 You guys know this on college campuses, the nastiness, the venom.

01:25:41.000 And you can find common ground and you should.

01:25:43.000 And my one piece of advice to all of you is try to first, before you judge immediately, try to say that I want to have agreement with the best intentions of the person talking to me.

01:25:53.000 We think they're wrong.

01:25:54.000 They think we're bad, right?

01:25:55.000 They think we are bad people.

01:25:57.000 And we think they're wrong.

01:25:58.000 And we also think they want bad things for the country ever increasingly.

01:26:02.000 But I do think that there can be a very, if we can, I don't know what it's actually going to take to get past this moment of just persistent perpetual hostility.

01:26:12.000 But I see that hostility basically coming from one political party and one side.

01:26:17.000 And I got to tell you right now that there will not be political discourse if that does not change.

01:26:24.000 But on just basic policy, yeah, there's a lot that we can agree with some of those people on.

01:26:28.000 A lot.

01:26:29.000 But we're in a moment right now where they've convinced themselves that the conservatives in this country are moral equivalents to Benita Mussolini.

01:26:37.000 They've basically made that argument to themselves.

01:26:39.000 And that any action justifies what they want to do.

01:26:43.000 Any action.

01:26:44.000 And for the time being, I'm just far too cynical to believe that we can all kind of come together.

01:26:48.000 So then, what do you do?

01:26:50.000 You never stop having dialogue or discourse, but we just got to be very focused on winning.

01:26:54.000 And that's something that the conservative movement has to really be focused on.

01:26:58.000 And we got to take terrain.

01:27:00.000 We got to play offense.

01:27:01.000 So thank you.

01:27:04.000 Hey, Charlie, first off, I want to say thank you for everything that you do.

01:27:07.000 You inspire a lot of people, and I hope someday I can impact people like you do.

01:27:11.000 But actually, I had two questions.

01:27:12.000 My first question was: how do you think that leftist ideals have become, quote, politically correct?

01:27:19.000 And how can conservatives challenge that?

01:27:22.000 And how long do you think, or how probable do you think it is that conservative ideals could become the politically correct ones?

01:27:28.000 And then my second one was: what advice would you give to a young kid that wants to do something similar to what you've done with their career as far as starting Turning Point USA and just impacting people?

01:27:39.000 Those are two great questions.

01:27:40.000 Let me start with the first one.

01:27:41.000 The first question, which the essence of it is, remind me, it was about the discourse and the dialogue.

01:27:50.000 And then also, just can you repeat that?

01:27:52.000 The leftist ideals.

01:27:54.000 That's right, leftist ideals, how they got politically correct.

01:27:56.000 You're right.

01:27:56.000 Thank you.

01:27:58.000 So I'm actually shocked that leftism isn't more popular than it is.

01:28:05.000 I'm actually shocked we do as well as we do. 1.00

01:28:08.000 It is so easy and tempting to believe they're garbage. 0.98

01:28:13.000 You know how easy my job would be to go on a college campus like this and say, you know what? 0.99

01:28:18.000 Free cash.

01:28:19.000 Don't work.

01:28:21.000 Weed everywhere.

01:28:24.000 You never have to take responsibility for your actions.

01:28:27.000 And I will give you a list of who to blame.

01:28:30.000 Thank you very much.

01:28:30.000 And that's it.

01:28:33.000 I can't believe it's not more popular.

01:28:36.000 I'm actually stunned at how resilient our people have been.

01:28:42.000 When I see some of these election results, I'm like, wow.

01:28:46.000 You know, some people actually are pushing against this nonsense.

01:28:49.000 Look, it's nothing new.

01:28:51.000 If I can use a biblical story about this.

01:28:54.000 In Exodus, Moses famously brought the slaves out of Egypt.

01:28:59.000 God freed the slaves.

01:29:01.000 And God's chosen people, the Israelites, were wandering in the desert.

01:29:06.000 And they turned to Moses and started getting mad at him.

01:29:10.000 And they said, bring us back to Egypt because we had meat.

01:29:15.000 They were saying, bring us back to slavery because we ate better.

01:29:18.000 People do not want to be free.

01:29:20.000 Freedom is a value.

01:29:23.000 You must teach people the value of freedom, that you live a more fulfilled life, that you're able to reach your highest level of human potential.

01:29:33.000 So I'm shocked that they're actually not in control of even more.

01:29:36.000 I know that sounds kind of stunning, but what they're selling is no responsibility, indulgence all the time, and I will tell you who to blame.

01:29:46.000 I mean, you saw tonight, I have to go through these very logical, rational arguments to tell you, you know what?

01:29:52.000 I'm really not going to give you anything for free, and you got to work hard and wake up earlier and take responsibility for your life, and I'm going to try to preserve your liberty.

01:29:58.000 Like, that's a harder argument, right?

01:30:01.000 But it's a, you will live a better life, and you will be a better person.

01:30:06.000 And so, in order for conservatives to get back into the predominant position, I think we have some, you know, kind of momentum.

01:30:13.000 We have to be serious about being four things, specific things.

01:30:16.000 Number one, rebuilding the American family.

01:30:20.000 We have to rebuild the American family.

01:30:23.000 We have to support young mothers and we have to support young fathers.

01:30:26.000 And we have to do whatever it takes to bring the divorce rate down and the marriage rate up.

01:30:31.000 Do you know we're on pace to have 500,000 less children this year than last year?

01:30:36.000 We should do everything we possibly can to have more children in our country and having Americans having more children.

01:30:42.000 We must be serious about that.

01:30:44.000 Number two, we want church attendance to go up.

01:30:46.000 We want the church and the family to have a higher, a bigger role in local society than it currently does.

01:30:53.000 Number three, we want opioid use and screen time on your phones to go down and involvement in things that matter to go up.

01:31:02.000 Now, what I'm articulating is a pro-human agenda.

01:31:06.000 And I think that's actually how we're going to win.

01:31:08.000 Let them talk about secular nihilism and endless indulgence.

01:31:12.000 We're going to talk about building something that every person in this room can build, a family.

01:31:18.000 That's a really important thing, right?

01:31:20.000 And it's not building the library of Alexandria.

01:31:26.000 We can get to that later.

01:31:27.000 It's like, no, I believe in you to make a sequence of good moral choices over a long period of time, which will replicate your values and, of course, genetically replicate yourself to pass down what you believe in, which will then allow the country to do that.

01:31:41.000 And then from there, we can expand.

01:31:43.000 And that's what Aristotle said.

01:31:44.000 It goes from the individual to the family, to the village, to the city, and then to the county or the colony, whatever you want to call it.

01:31:50.000 So we got to get serious about that.

01:31:52.000 Okay, your second part of the question, advice.

01:31:54.000 How old are you?

01:31:56.000 I'm 18.

01:31:57.000 18?

01:31:57.000 Great age.

01:32:00.000 So I started Turning Point USA when I was 18.

01:32:02.000 I never went to college and ended up being a great decision for me.

01:32:06.000 I took a gap year, and it's been nine and a half gap years.

01:32:09.000 And I kind of talked about this a little bit.

01:32:12.000 And let me just say some, some would call it provocative or extemporaneous comments when it comes to college.

01:32:18.000 Not everyone in this country needs to go to college.

01:32:20.000 We have way too many people going to college in our country.

01:32:24.000 Now, some of you are doing the golf clap because you're probably at the University of Kentucky with some debt.

01:32:30.000 Get the most you can out of it.

01:32:32.000 Get a skill.

01:32:33.000 Learn.

01:32:34.000 Don't get indoctrinated.

01:32:35.000 Graduate as quickly as possible for the least cost imaginable and outwork your competition in the workplace or whatever.

01:32:42.000 But here's the biggest piece of advice I could give anyone that is young. 0.84

01:32:45.000 Let's say they're 18 years, like you're 18 years old.

01:32:49.000 Strive to be a better person every single day because your character is a reflection of your soul.

01:32:55.000 And your soul is a reflection of every single human action that you make, every decision you make.

01:33:01.000 You see, the secularists that are teaching our children, they don't teach you that.

01:33:04.000 They say that your human decisions and your actions really don't mean that much.

01:33:08.000 Learn something new every single day.

01:33:10.000 It doesn't matter where you go to college.

01:33:11.000 It's just a piece of paper, honestly.

01:33:13.000 What matters is who you are as a person.

01:33:16.000 If you want to succeed, you also must be willing to keep pushing on and enduring when things get really, really tough, when everyone wants you gone and it feels like the pressure on the world.

01:33:27.000 The best person that you can emulate in that is Winston Churchill, who I think was the greatest man of the 20th century.

01:33:33.000 Winston Churchill wrote 50 books, fought in a couple wars.

01:33:37.000 He saved Western civilization, and he gets nothing but hatred from the left for being a colonialist.

01:33:44.000 Okay.

01:33:44.000 A man that basically put our entire civilization on his shoulders and had the wherewithal and the fortitude to keep pushing.

01:33:50.000 And the other thing I'll say is this, and I wish I would have known this when I was 18.

01:33:56.000 Take the relationships with people that are older than you very seriously and memorialize those conversations forever.

01:34:05.000 So those smartphones, I think, are destroying our country.

01:34:08.000 But one thing they're good for is they're really good at recording.

01:34:10.000 They're good at recording voice memos or conversations.

01:34:13.000 Next time you sit down with a grandparent or a business person, record those conversations.

01:34:17.000 You're going to want them, trust me, when you're 25 or 30.

01:34:19.000 You're going to wish you had them.

01:34:21.000 You're going to wish you pushed that red button on the voice memo thing.

01:34:24.000 And the final thing is this, is when you encounter difficulty, train yourself to blame yourself.

01:34:30.000 Train yourself to say, it's my fault.

01:34:32.000 What did I do wrong?

01:34:33.000 That's hard.

01:34:35.000 Trust me, it's really easy to blame others.

01:34:37.000 It might be somebody else's fault, but find something you could have done differently.

01:34:40.000 And if you get in the practice of doing that, you'll be a stronger person.

01:34:44.000 The final thing is this.

01:34:45.000 Immerse yourself in eternal knowledge.

01:34:48.000 There's two types of knowledge, practical knowledge and eternal knowledge.

01:34:52.000 Practical knowledge is who's the governor?

01:34:53.000 I don't know.

01:34:54.000 In Kentucky, Bashir or whatever?

01:34:55.000 Not a fan.

01:34:57.000 Right?

01:34:58.000 So, whatever.

01:34:59.000 Yeah.

01:35:01.000 So, there's two types of knowledge.

01:35:03.000 Practical knowledge, those things.

01:35:05.000 Eternal knowledge.

01:35:06.000 Things that never change.

01:35:08.000 Those are the things that are constant all throughout time.

01:35:10.000 Where do you find eternal knowledge?

01:35:12.000 Well, we also call it wisdom.

01:35:14.000 There's a whole book written about that, Proverbs.

01:35:17.000 There's a lot of people that have walked in your shoes before.

01:35:21.000 And the more wise you are, the more cheerful and happy you will be.

01:35:27.000 There's a great quote that says, the wise man loves to be corrected.

01:35:32.000 When you're 18 years old, enjoy correction from other people.

01:35:35.000 I know that's hard, right?

01:35:36.000 Enjoy the process of people leaning into you and correcting your path.

01:35:40.000 You'll be thankful for them one day.

01:35:41.000 I wish I would have known that when I was 18.

01:35:43.000 It would have been, I would have avoided a lot of nonsense and adversity.

01:35:46.000 But the final, final, final, final thing I'll say is this, which is you live in a wonderful country.

01:35:52.000 We got problems. 0.99

01:35:53.000 We got ridiculous leaders. 0.99

01:35:54.000 We got all that stuff. 0.99

01:35:55.000 Man, what a gift we've been given.

01:35:58.000 Don't get into the whole complaining that everything around me is terrible and awful.

01:36:01.000 We talked about many of that.

01:36:03.000 But believe that your actions matter.

01:36:05.000 Apply yourself accordingly.

01:36:06.000 Work harder every single day.

01:36:08.000 And after a decade of that, I think you'll be in a pretty good place.

01:36:11.000 So thank you.

01:36:12.000 Thanks, man.

01:36:13.000 So I want to close with this.

01:36:16.000 I want to thank you guys for coming tonight.

01:36:18.000 Look around.

01:36:18.000 If you're losing hope in our country, a mostly young audience here on a college campus is here to hear ideas and have thoughtful questions and care about the welfare of their country.

01:36:28.000 Our best days are ahead of us only if we decide to act in a certain way.

01:36:32.000 Make today a starting point for your activism.

01:36:35.000 Maybe you're going to run for office.

01:36:37.000 We need more young people to run for office.

01:36:38.000 Maybe you're going to be more serious about educating the people around you.

01:36:41.000 Maybe until you say, you know what?

01:36:42.000 I am done allowing someone to self-censor me and I am going to wear the hat and I'm going to wear the shirt and I'm going to post on Facebook.

01:36:49.000 Maybe you're a behind-the-scenes person and you're like, now I am going to every single day dedicate myself to listening to a certain podcast or a radio show.

01:36:55.000 But make today the starting point.

01:36:57.000 And I want to thank those of you, I know some of you are here that listen to our podcast every single day.

01:37:02.000 If those of you, just completely self-promotional, if you're not yet subscribed to our podcast, and if every single person took out their phone and subscribed right now to the Charlie Kirk show, we would beat Rachel Maddow in the podcast charts by tomorrow morning.

01:37:15.000 This room can do that.

01:37:16.000 So I believe in you guys that Rachel Maddow can have a bad morning tomorrow morning. 0.99

01:37:18.000 That'd be really great. 0.75

01:37:20.000 But our podcast dives into a lot of these ideas every single day.

01:37:24.000 We've been given a gift.

01:37:25.000 It's our generation's turn, guys.

01:37:27.000 No more blaming other people and all that.

01:37:29.000 We've had difficulty the last year.

01:37:31.000 It's time to step up.

01:37:32.000 I want to thank our amazing turning point USA leaders, the Purple Shirt Freedom Warriors.

01:37:36.000 You guys are totally amazing.

01:37:37.000 You guys are making a huge difference.

01:37:40.000 And I know that it's dark.

01:37:43.000 I know it can be gloomy.

01:37:44.000 But I'm telling you right now, if you apply persistent activism and action, maybe five years, maybe 10 years from now, all of a sudden you are going to see the fruit of that labor.

01:37:56.000 The left is getting a little lazy right now.

01:37:58.000 They're starting to fight amongst themselves.

01:37:59.000 They have really, really bad ideas.

01:38:01.000 We have good ideas, and we're going to rededicate ourselves to this.

01:38:05.000 I know that there's a lot of bruises.

01:38:06.000 I know there's a lot of people licking their wounds.

01:38:08.000 Get over that.

01:38:09.000 Time to put a plan of action, and we are going to take this country back.

01:38:13.000 God bless you guys.

01:38:14.000 Thank you so much for coming tonight.

01:38:18.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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01:38:28.000 God bless.

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The Top Five Lies About America our Schools Teach to Children

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