The Charlie Kirk Show - March 02, 2023


They Hate Me, They Hate Me Not—What I Learned at UC Santa Barbara


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Charlie Kirk reflects on his trip to Santa Barbara, California, and talks about the long march through the institutions to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. Charlie's speech at the University of California, Santa Barbara was interrupted by hecklers.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:02.000 I reflect on my trip to Santa Barbara at University of California, Santa Barbara.
00:00:06.000 And then we talk about the long march through the institutions.
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00:00:32.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:34.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:36.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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00:00:43.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:44.000 He's an incredible guy.
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00:00:53.000 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.
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00:01:17.000 Last evening, I gave a speech at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
00:01:22.000 Here's the good news: You want some hope for America?
00:01:24.000 We could not find a room big enough to fit all the students that were interested and curious to attend our event.
00:01:30.000 We had to turn away anywhere between 80 to 200 students last night.
00:01:34.000 Now, that's upsetting in one sense.
00:01:36.000 We should have been able to get a bigger room, but to the credit of University of California, Santa Barbara, they were accommodating.
00:01:41.000 We got the room.
00:01:43.000 The microphones worked, which sometimes doesn't always happen when you go on college campus.
00:01:46.000 They deserve credit for that.
00:01:48.000 It's very interesting.
00:01:49.000 Not only did I visit and give a speech in the evening, I embedded myself right on the campus itself.
00:01:56.000 By the way, this is the number one news story right now at the Daily Beast.
00:01:59.000 Must be a very slow news day where Charlie Kirk speaks at California University and clashes break out.
00:02:06.000 Okay, that's a little bit of an exaggeration.
00:02:08.000 So I set up a card table for two hours on campus yesterday and I just ask questions about any topic that they want to explore certainly attracts interest and curiosity.
00:02:20.000 But the first hour, and I'm there for about two hours, they've never had an opportunity before to have robust, rigorous dialogue or debate with a conservative who has thought deeply about these issues.
00:02:37.000 Now, I'll give credit to actually the students at University of California, Santa Barbara. 0.99
00:02:41.000 They are not stupid. 0.95
00:02:43.000 I have done this all across the country. 0.98
00:02:45.000 They are actually some of the more knowledgeable.
00:02:49.000 And I would say, on top of the issues, students, I would even go as far as say they were almost smarter than the UC Berkeley kids, to be honest.
00:02:59.000 UC Santa Barbara, you could tell that these kids are, you know, scoring high test scores, that they're reading the news.
00:03:08.000 However, as I was sitting there, despite all the insults, people telling me to go that, and I'll read, you know, go to hell and all that stuff.
00:03:15.000 That's all whatever. 0.61
00:03:16.000 That's normal.
00:03:17.000 They first treat you as if you're an extraterrestrial.
00:03:20.000 And I don't mean that negatively.
00:03:21.000 Again, many of them were very kind and very sweet, but you could tell that they've never seen such a thing.
00:03:30.000 For someone to come and say that America is the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, that systemic racism does not exist in America, that institutional racism does not exist.
00:03:43.000 Almost like an animal at a zoo, like a circus act almost.
00:03:46.000 They look at you and they cannot in the moment process it because it's usually met with just like laughing and smirking and looking at their friends like, could you believe this guy?
00:03:56.000 This guy just said we need a border.
00:03:59.000 But the importance of going to places where our message has not been heard is of the, it is mission critical to the civilization.
00:04:09.000 I hear all the time and people say, Charlie, I'm tired of preaching to the choir.
00:04:12.000 I actually think the choir needs to hear the sermon every so often.
00:04:15.000 We got to make sure that the troops know what they believe and why they believe it.
00:04:21.000 I speak at churches.
00:04:22.000 I speak at places where 99% of the people there agree with what I say.
00:04:26.000 Last night was not one of those cases, and I actually enjoy it even more.
00:04:30.000 Now, it's so deceiving.
00:04:31.000 The Daily Nexus, which I think is the local student newspaper of the University of California Santa Barbara, instead of talking about the fact that we packed out the auditorium and that we had amazing dialogue, and I even agreed with a Marxist, and that tape will be coming out soon.
00:04:48.000 This is so typical of a student newspaper.
00:04:50.000 But, you know, these student newspaper types will then be hired by the media.
00:04:54.000 Student protests, students protest TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk's visit.
00:04:59.000 That's such a misleading headline.
00:05:01.000 That wasn't the essence of there. 0.56
00:05:03.000 Yeah, there are a bunch of really angry apparatchiks outside who were too cowardly to come ask me questions.
00:05:09.000 And by the way, any campus stop that we do, if you disagree, you're allowed the microphone uninterrupted. 0.79
00:05:16.000 And some kids decided to try to troll me.
00:05:18.000 Didn't go too well.
00:05:19.000 Some kids try to just say outlandish and crazy things.
00:05:23.000 And some of them just want to ask serious questions.
00:05:25.000 You're allowed the mic.
00:05:26.000 Give me your best case.
00:05:28.000 And by the way, it's one after the other, after the other.
00:05:30.000 So they get to prepare their question.
00:05:32.000 I have no idea, you know, what they're going to ask.
00:05:34.000 And they have, sometimes they look at their notes perfectly fine.
00:05:37.000 And you guys have seen those videos and you got to be on top of it.
00:05:39.000 And then boom, boom, boom.
00:05:40.000 And it's every topic imaginable.
00:05:42.000 Trans issues, race issues, systemic racism, history, environmentalism, climate change, border, pharmaceutical, industrial complex, Marxism, economics.
00:05:52.000 You got to be on top of your game.
00:05:54.000 And the clips of the interactions, you know, we're going to publicize.
00:05:57.000 But I want to read some of this because this shows you exactly what we're dealing with in our country.
00:06:02.000 Because it only reaffirms the premise that I've been making for quite some time, which is what happens on college campuses does not stay on college campuses.
00:06:10.000 It infects the halls of Congress, corporations, and the rest of society.
00:06:13.000 It doesn't just stay there.
00:06:14.000 So what I saw at University of California, Santa Barbara is going to have a downstream effect to the rest of our culture.
00:06:21.000 It doesn't just stay there.
00:06:23.000 It doesn't like, oh, yeah, they're going to get older and they're going to shed their liberalism.
00:06:27.000 In some ways, that's sort of true, but they're going to stay as almost nearly as radical as they are now.
00:06:33.000 So this is one of the quotes in the newspaper article covering my visit yesterday at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
00:06:40.000 This is here.
00:06:42.000 This person is just referred to as he.
00:06:45.000 I don't even know who the name is.
00:06:46.000 I'll find the name in a second.
00:06:47.000 Anyway, I think that people here, I think people probably shouldn't be welcoming of Charlie Kirk.
00:06:52.000 Whether he has a right to speak or not, that's a completely separate conversation.
00:06:57.000 But I think he should not be welcome here.
00:06:58.000 And I think this is an appropriate level response.
00:07:02.000 The protesters started to chant, abort Charlie Kirk.
00:07:06.000 Transphobia has no place here.
00:07:08.000 Yeah, really, really deep and really complex. 1.00
00:07:11.000 This is the type of garbage that your taxpayer-funded universities produce. 0.99
00:07:14.000 It doesn't bother me. 0.99
00:07:15.000 Should bother you as the parents that are funding this stuff.
00:07:20.000 Kirk then launched into the crux of his speech a tirade against the existence of transgender people that drew the applause of hundreds inside the lecture hall. 0.99
00:07:31.000 I did no such thing.
00:07:33.000 I didn't even get close to saying it.
00:07:35.000 I said that transgenderism is a delusion, which is technically true, by the way. 1.00
00:07:41.000 And that wasn't the crux of my speech.
00:07:43.000 I mean, again, this is a student newspaper, so you wouldn't expect accuracy in reporting.
00:07:48.000 It's activism.
00:07:50.000 Continues, this is one of my favorite quotes where they got this activist here.
00:07:56.000 They say, Charlie Kirk is a white supremacist.
00:07:59.000 Where do you think they get this from?
00:08:01.000 College activists?
00:08:02.000 They never grow up. 0.98
00:08:03.000 The creator of Turning Point USA is a well-known pro-fascist organization that spews anti-blackness, anti-immigrant hate, misogyny, and racism. 0.63
00:08:15.000 Let USB, U.S. UCSB admin know that hate has no place on our campus.
00:08:24.000 And then continued by another quote here, which is just so.
00:08:29.000 Charlie Kirk is a white supremacist, campus Democrats.
00:08:32.000 This is the campus Democrats, not the young socialists, that feeds hate speech and misinformation. 0.95
00:08:39.000 Now, mind you, this person was too cowardly to come say that to my face because this person, he or she or they or them, knows that I would have intellectually pummeled them because it's a lie.
00:08:50.000 It's a falsehood. 0.72
00:08:51.000 But that's all the left has is lies.
00:08:53.000 There's an open mic.
00:08:54.000 For literally 50 minutes, any one of them could have come up and told me this to my face. 1.00
00:08:59.000 But they're cowards. 0.98
00:09:01.000 So instead, they go to the student newspaper or they go outside with their signs and say Charlie Kirk's a white supremacist. 0.99
00:09:07.000 They know it's not true.
00:09:08.000 It's all they have is name-calling.
00:09:10.000 And that's the broader message: is that what I experience on college campuses, again, I'm not saying fiels argument.
00:09:15.000 It's fine.
00:09:15.000 It's fun, actually.
00:09:18.000 The weaponization of name-calling has been nationalized as the primary weapon of how the Marxists control our country, as exhibited here.
00:09:32.000 I think it's totally important for campuses, this is so hilarious, campuses and any environment to have multiple points of free speech and different perspectives.
00:09:41.000 But I think that when speech is derogatory, hateful, or misinformed, like Charlie Kirk's, it just crosses a line.
00:09:51.000 We at the UCSB vehemently oppose the platforming of alt-right, racist, transphobic groups such as TPUSA on this campus.
00:10:00.000 The direct threat that this poses to marginalized people's safety is unacceptable. 0.99
00:10:08.000 We only beat these people when you go into their places of comfort, you challenge their lies, you challenge the deceit, you challenge the delusion, and you inspire other people that are filled with common sense to fight back against this garbage.
00:10:22.000 Because I can say confidently, there were people that, I can't say confidently, minds were totally changed, but people definitely had to think differently about it.
00:10:31.000 In fact, we have a clip of one kid that said, I'm not going to say you dumbfounded me, but I got no good response to that.
00:10:36.000 And I appreciate his honesty.
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00:11:17.000 Ideas that cease to be spoken will eventually cease to be thought of.
00:11:23.000 We need to give people the courage and the confidence to be able to speak out of what they know is true.
00:11:29.000 And unfortunately, campuses have become islands of totalitarianism.
00:11:32.000 So when you visit, they mobilize the shock troops and they mobilize the activists.
00:11:37.000 And by the way, yes, there were students that were opposing me, but the actual Antifa that was there, they're mostly adults from the local community.
00:11:46.000 They're not actual students.
00:11:48.000 Some are, but most of them are not.
00:11:50.000 And that could change depending on what city and locality we go to.
00:11:54.000 But isn't it fascinating?
00:11:56.000 And this is just, you know, we should press pause on this because I recently had a conversation with somebody where they said, Charlie, I think what you are doing is dividing America.
00:12:05.000 That was the criticism that somebody said privately to me.
00:12:08.000 I said, how?
00:12:09.000 They said, you're dividing America by going into liberal environments and making people angry.
00:12:17.000 And I said, with all fairness, I think that's incredibly flawed and a silly argument that I'm the problem because I want to show up on American college campus and talk about biological reality, the Constitution, free markets, and America.
00:12:32.000 I'm the problem.
00:12:35.000 And it's interesting because I've actually, this is a narrative that is becoming more and more popular, which is, hey, conservatives, why don't you just leave the liberals alone?
00:12:48.000 You're the ones that are provoking them by going into the really left-wing environments.
00:12:55.000 And this is so insane that somehow we should be to blame for calmly and rationally and respectfully going to places that we are in the ideological and intellectual and philosophical minority that we are the problem.
00:13:14.000 You know how you heal a divide?
00:13:16.000 You talk to the people that you disagree with.
00:13:19.000 You don't just partition yourself off.
00:13:22.000 Like, oh, well, you know, these people are past the point of return.
00:13:26.000 And by the way, if any major liberal who knows their stuff, any one of the professors, any one of those professors at UCSB could have come up to the microphone and try to quote unquote, make a fool out of Charlie Kirk yesterday.
00:13:41.000 You had an open mic.
00:13:42.000 Why didn't you do that?
00:13:45.000 No, instead, they do these press releases, hater, transphobic, all this, because I think they're afraid.
00:13:52.000 And also they know they don't need to do that because a 90-minute speech by Charlie Kirk is a huge threat to them, though.
00:14:00.000 And isn't that interesting?
00:14:01.000 Doesn't that show the power of the truth?
00:14:06.000 Here's the deal that I say to most kids on campus.
00:14:10.000 Your professors get you for four years.
00:14:12.000 Give me 90 minutes.
00:14:16.000 Give me 90 minutes and I might be able to get you to think differently.
00:14:19.000 I'm not saying I'll be able to completely change your mind, but I will be able to make you think differently.
00:14:25.000 Not guarantee, but if those 90 minutes were so ineffective, then they wouldn't have to do what they're doing.
00:14:35.000 Now we're getting a lot of emails.
00:14:36.000 Charlie, why are you not at CPAC?
00:14:38.000 I love CPAC and I wish I could be there.
00:14:41.000 I'm not on CPAC because we're on tour.
00:14:43.000 And I think all of you guys can appreciate, and you want me actually on the front lines doing what we are doing, which is to go to places that are not always welcoming to the conservative, pro-American, pro-liberty viewpoint.
00:14:59.000 So how do we go about fixing this?
00:15:01.000 We need more of what happened yesterday.
00:15:03.000 And the Turning Point USA team did an unbelievable job.
00:15:07.000 The field program, the chapter leaders, the staff, they did so unbelievable.
00:15:11.000 It's like, I was marveling at the machine, literally.
00:15:15.000 I mean, from the amazing video team, they did unbelievable.
00:15:19.000 From the security to getting the students lined up.
00:15:23.000 I mean, it's like, wow, after a decade, this is a well-oiled machine to get the students ready to go, to get the ticketing.
00:15:29.000 These are not small logistical things.
00:15:31.000 I know some of you at home might say, oh, come on, Charlie, what's the big deal?
00:15:33.000 You just open it up.
00:15:34.000 No, no, no, no.
00:15:35.000 There are thousands of intricate moving parts that need to be simultaneously kind of put in place.
00:15:46.000 And it's easy to kind of take it for granted.
00:15:48.000 Like, oh, yeah, this just happens to the microphone on campus.
00:15:51.000 Like, no, no, no.
00:15:52.000 You have to deal with the bureaucracy.
00:15:53.000 You got to deal with the security threats, got to deal with the death threats.
00:15:55.000 You got to sweep for bombs.
00:15:56.000 You got to make sure the ticking are there.
00:15:58.000 They try to do false ticketing.
00:15:59.000 The protesters, the people outside, make sure it's filmed.
00:16:01.000 Make sure it's live streamed.
00:16:02.000 Make sure all the university demands are satisfied.
00:16:06.000 You push back against the ones that are unreasonable.
00:16:07.000 It's a full-time job.
00:16:08.000 They make it that way, so it's hard.
00:16:10.000 But thankfully, we've created this machine at Turning Point USA that can navigate that leviathan to be able to effectively still host these events that make a sizable difference, not just for the students that attend them in person, but the millions of other people that watch them online.
00:16:27.000 And that's a big deal.
00:16:31.000 So how do we win?
00:16:32.000 We do more of what happened yesterday.
00:16:33.000 We speak the truth with courage and boldness.
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00:19:22.000 There's a fabulous piece on real clear education by Benjamin Weingarten.
00:19:27.000 We've had him on the program before.
00:19:28.000 I'd love to have him back on about this piece.
00:19:31.000 But it asks the question: can the right make a long counter march through the institutions?
00:19:39.000 So there was a left-wing activist by the name of Rudy Dutchke.
00:19:43.000 I'm going to butcher the pronunciation.
00:19:45.000 Blake can fix, I think that was his name, Rudy Dutchke, Dutchke, whatever his name.
00:19:51.000 And he was a left-wing activist who made the argument that Marxists need to embrace patience to be able to march through the major institutions in America.
00:20:06.000 That it's going to take multiple generations, that we're not going to take it over immediately.
00:20:12.000 What he basically argued for was that we don't control the major spheres of cultural shaping.
00:20:21.000 It's Dutch key.
00:20:22.000 Hey, I wasn't that far off.
00:20:24.000 I am, by the way, I am at this point well known for butchering pronunciations.
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00:20:37.000 I'm just being honest.
00:20:38.000 We're getting better, okay?
00:20:40.000 Dutchkey, thank you.
00:20:41.000 Rudy Dutchke, thank you, Blake.
00:20:43.000 And he basically made the argument to his fellow comrades, literally, we got to infiltrate.
00:20:51.000 Now, if you read Saul Alinsky carefully, who of course Saul Linsky wrote Rules for Radicals, dedicated the book to Lucifer, to Satan, saying he was the first rebel.
00:21:03.000 If you read other writings of Saul Linsky, because it's not as pronounced in Rules for Radicals, but in some of his own private journals and musings and diaries and his speeches, Alinsky argued that a true radical does not go in the streets like those weird apparatchiks yesterday at the University of California, Santa Barbara, chanting, what is this, abort Charlie Kirk. 0.99
00:21:31.000 In fact, Saul Alinsky would go up to those radicals yesterday and say, you guys are morons. 0.93
00:21:41.000 Saul Linsky would go up to the people that throw bricks and threaten violence and he would say, you are helping no one. 1.00
00:21:51.000 He would go up to Antifa, he'd go up to BLM and say, knock it off.
00:21:55.000 In fact, the quote is so powerful.
00:21:58.000 And I'm going to paraphrase it off of memory, but we can get it here in the chat.
00:22:01.000 Alinsky said, a true radical does not go in the streets committing arson, violence, or intimidation.
00:22:09.000 He said, no, no, no, a true radical wakes up early every day, shaves himself clean, slicks back his hair, puts on a three-piece suit, and infiltrates the institution with his radical ideas.
00:22:23.000 Just like Obama, just like so many of these people, he argued that the undisciplined radical does what we saw at UCSB.
00:22:33.000 They act like infants and like child.
00:22:35.000 In fact, Alinsky says you're only helping the conservatives by doing what you were doing yesterday.
00:22:41.000 That you make it seem as if our ideas are unpopular and unreasonable.
00:22:48.000 Hey, I actually did pretty well.
00:22:50.000 I was off of memory.
00:22:51.000 This is the real quote.
00:22:52.000 True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism.
00:22:55.000 They cut their hair, put on suits, and infiltrate the system from within.
00:22:58.000 I mean, that's not, I wasn't that far off.
00:23:00.000 I was in the general zip code there.
00:23:02.000 Okay, true revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism.
00:23:05.000 They cut their hair, put on suits, and infiltrate the system from within.
00:23:09.000 And we are living in a country that has now been taken over by the Alinsky patient discipline.
00:23:19.000 I get asked all the time, Charlie, how do they control the CDC, the FDA, the FDA, the FBI, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca?
00:23:27.000 And how do they do all this?
00:23:29.000 Because they made a commitment.
00:23:31.000 And this is what's so creepy about it.
00:23:33.000 These are secular, non-religious people that are saying that we are actually going to do something that we might not actually see the end fruit.
00:23:42.000 They were more patient in some ways than the Christians and the religious and the conservatives who want immediate gratification when it comes to politics.
00:23:51.000 Where Rudy Dutchke and Alinsky said, we're not actually going to see, quote unquote, the deliverance of our people to Egypt.
00:23:58.000 They didn't use that term, but that's a proper metaphor.
00:24:01.000 We're not going to see the people eventually come into the promised land from Egypt to Israel, I should say, deliverance from Egypt to Israel. 0.97
00:24:08.000 We're not going to see it.
00:24:11.000 So this piece by Benjamin Whitegarten, Can the Right Make a Long Countermarch of the Institutions, is a direct challenge to Rudy Dutschke.
00:24:22.000 And he writes here, it's very interesting.
00:24:24.000 He said, there's a newfound willingness among state officials and their appointees to intervene on behalf of their constituents to shape schools, state schools, in ways that challenge the woke progressive ideological monoculture, that's a great word, I'm going to use that, that prevails within them and broadly over the academy, which subsequently could pervade American life.
00:24:51.000 For example, he gives some examples of how to reform.
00:24:53.000 Can we take back these institutions?
00:24:56.000 Can we win them over?
00:25:00.000 Or is it better just to start institutions anew?
00:25:04.000 Is it better to start new institutions and new places of learning?
00:25:11.000 This is the question in front of us.
00:25:12.000 So let's just get a little bit more taste of kind of what we saw yesterday.
00:25:18.000 It was, I mean, every possible topic you could imagine.
00:25:23.000 What's a good one here that might actually illuminate this?
00:25:29.000 The cut sheet hasn't totally been filled out yet.
00:25:31.000 But so we'll get to some of them.
00:25:36.000 Instead, there's a debate on the right, which is do we abandon these institutions altogether?
00:25:47.000 Do we retreat from them and surrender?
00:25:49.000 Or do we try to start new institutions?
00:25:53.000 And I think Ron DeSantis is currently answering the question, it's an above-all approach.
00:25:57.000 We take back the ones we can that we have political power.
00:26:03.000 We start new ones.
00:26:05.000 You see, the new college of Florida, which Ron DeSantis has said is going to be the anti-woke college, University of Florida, is only because he has political power.
00:26:18.000 But I think we also must be honest that winning back institutions is not going to be easy.
00:26:23.000 Is it time?
00:26:25.000 Now, here's a provocative question for you.
00:26:29.000 Is it time for conservatives to take the quote from Alinsky and maybe change some words?
00:26:38.000 Here we go.
00:26:39.000 This is an interesting question.
00:26:41.000 What if I told our turning point students this?
00:26:45.000 True patriots do not flaunt their conservatism.
00:26:49.000 They cut their hair, put on suits, and infiltrate the system from within.
00:26:55.000 Should we do that?
00:26:57.000 That's an honest question.
00:26:59.000 Is it time for our young conservatives to be sleeper cells for freedom and liberty and re-infiltrate the body politic and the institutions?
00:27:08.000 I don't have a good answer to that because I believe it's a moral good to speak your mind.
00:27:14.000 I think you should be who you are.
00:27:16.000 At the same time, is that prudent?
00:27:19.000 Is it effective?
00:27:24.000 Because one part of being an outspoken conservative is being outspoken.
00:27:29.000 But I am touched by so many emails I get from you, which is that this is really not a hypothetical.
00:27:36.000 I think the left would be terrified to know how many conservatives are actually in the institutions they think they control.
00:27:44.000 I get the emails from you.
00:27:46.000 I get the emails from you that work for the FBI, the Department of Justice.
00:27:49.000 I get the emails from you that work for college campuses, that work for major institutions, and they always start null-capped.
00:27:55.000 Please don't tell anyone I'm emailing you this.
00:27:58.000 Please don't read this on air.
00:27:59.000 And I honor that, obviously.
00:28:02.000 Does the left actually control these institutions as much as they think they do?
00:28:06.000 Maybe yes, but there actually might be more fighters and patriots within these massive organizations than we ever might realize.
00:28:16.000 So the question is, can we do our own counter march to the institutions?
00:28:22.000 And if I were to present a provocative but true critique of the conservative movement of something that audiences do not like, but it is true and I communicate it.
00:28:34.000 When I am speaking to a largely older audience and I tell them, you're probably going to be dead when the country gets back to a free society.
00:28:42.000 They do not like hearing that, but it's true.
00:28:45.000 This is not going to happen in the next five or 10 years.
00:28:47.000 We can make progress.
00:28:48.000 We can have victories.
00:28:49.000 We can get well on our way.
00:28:51.000 But the reclamation of this republic is not going to happen overnight.
00:28:56.000 It's not going to be on Air Force One just swooping down.
00:28:58.000 It's going to be long, drawn-out, arduous work.
00:29:01.000 I might not even fully see the country reclaim the liberty or self-government.
00:29:05.000 That's an unpopular thing for people to hear.
00:29:07.000 They don't want to hear it.
00:29:08.000 They say, Charlie, I want to see it.
00:29:11.000 I do too.
00:29:12.000 But if we are realistic about it, we have been taken over by people that said, I'm probably not going to see my left-wing Marxist ideas fully come to fruition.
00:29:21.000 And they don't even think they're far enough.
00:29:26.000 It's not going to happen immediately.
00:29:28.000 Instead, it has to be a commitment for a long-term generational, multi-generational project.
00:29:35.000 And only then can a true reclamation of our infested institutions begin.
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00:30:56.000 Okay, this was one of the questions that a student got fired up about asking, Charlie, do you still think there was something unjust, to use the word stolen, about the 2020 election, PlayCut 84?
00:31:06.000 Just a little bit of the spice of last evening, PlayCut 84.
00:31:10.000 The media not covering stories you do not like is not voter fraud.
00:31:14.000 You made specific claims.
00:31:15.000 No, hold on.
00:31:16.000 That's not the media not covering it.
00:31:18.000 That's Twitter not allowing you to say it.
00:31:20.000 That's a completely different thing.
00:31:22.000 Just to be clear, you agree that all of the Republican senators who voted to certify the election are all in on the conspiracy?
00:31:31.000 Not in a conspiracy.
00:31:32.000 I think some of them are gutless wonders. 1.00
00:31:34.000 I think some of them are cowards. 0.97
00:31:35.000 Some of them don't even know what they're voting for. 0.99
00:31:37.000 Look what they're doing half the time in Congress.
00:31:39.000 Well over 20% of Joe Biden's swing voters said they would have changed their vote if they would have known about the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:31:46.000 You can thank Yo Roth and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the fact that that never happened.
00:31:52.000 Thank you for being here tonight.
00:31:54.000 And the full exchange actually, I think, is even more illuminating.
00:31:57.000 There was a powerful part of it.
00:31:58.000 I'll talk about that in a second.
00:32:01.000 We need to have a long march for the institutions.
00:32:04.000 And it needs to be a multi-generational goal that our kids and our grandkids, a project, if you will.
00:32:14.000 The left have, they've been so effective, the Marxists, in having the patience and the deliberative steps to infiltrate.
00:32:22.000 And it is a multi-front war.
00:32:24.000 And everybody is called in a different part of this war.
00:32:27.000 Everybody.
00:32:27.000 James O'Keefe, got to make sure he's back and empowered.
00:32:30.000 And I'm talking to him and trying to do everything I can to help him.
00:32:33.000 It's ridiculous what's happening with Project Veritas.
00:32:35.000 Inexcusable that he has to be so distracted and that all that work has to be derailed.
00:32:40.000 Place for James O'Keefe, place for what we're doing on campuses and what we're doing with churches and doing with education.
00:32:44.000 Place what Steve Bannon is doing to educate millions of people on War Room every day.
00:32:48.000 Place of what Tucker Carlson is doing to have the zeitgeist focused on the issues that matter and expose these evil deeds and corruption.
00:32:55.000 There's a place what the House Freedom Caucus is doing.
00:32:57.000 So it's a multi-front war.
00:32:59.000 But one of the things that we have to commit to doing better is understanding the left has won more.
00:33:05.000 And this is not what you want to hear, but you need to hear it.
00:33:09.000 The left has won more because largely they have cared more.
00:33:13.000 Politics is about numbers, but also about intensity.
00:33:16.000 It's a physics equation.
00:33:18.000 Numbers times intensity.
00:33:20.000 Force equals mass times acceleration.
00:33:22.000 That's why the pro-life movement does so well.
00:33:25.000 The pro-life movement is one of the great examples, and the pro-gun movement, the Second Amendment movement, to their great credit.
00:33:33.000 Those two issues have so much intensity and so much focus.
00:33:36.000 The conservatives have actually made America more in the image of their desire, and my desire, of those two issues over the last 20 or 30 years.
00:33:44.000 That's a good thing.
00:33:47.000 And it's because conservatives are so intensely committed to it, constantly organizing.
00:33:52.000 There are thousands of people whose entire life is committed to pro-life causes.
00:33:56.000 And praise God for that.
00:33:57.000 And they're good at it.
00:33:58.000 Yesterday, a group of moms came up to me and they said, we're part of this group, love life every day.
00:34:03.000 This is our passion.
00:34:04.000 This is our focus.
00:34:05.000 I was like, wow, it's amazing.
00:34:08.000 And the left, what the left is able to do on the issues of race, environmentalism, and this trans thing, which is just so ridiculous, they're able to capture the energy of idle youth that think there's all these mass injustices in the world on those particular topics and mobilize them because they think they're being good people while doing it. 0.64
00:34:26.000 They think they're virtuous.
00:34:27.000 What's so interesting is that if you privately interviewed every one of the Apparatchs that were trying to shut me down yesterday at University of California Santa Barbara, they would think they are fighting evil.
00:34:36.000 They think they are doing well.
00:34:38.000 They think that they are like standing in the breach.
00:34:42.000 They think it's like their D-Day.
00:34:43.000 That's an exaggeration.
00:34:44.000 But there's a little bit of a moral symmetry there where they think they are fighting actual Nazis, which is, of course, where I always kind of push back on intentions don't mean anything.
00:34:55.000 They mean something in life, but they don't mean very much when it comes to activism.
00:35:00.000 They mean so well, but they're burning down the Wendy's.
00:35:03.000 They mean so well, but they're trying to shut down Charlie Kirk.
00:35:06.000 Yeah, they're still doing something that's wrong and evil and incorrect.
00:35:10.000 Some people are, you're emailing us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:13.000 Charlie, I do not have the patience to wait for us to take back these institutions.
00:35:19.000 You need to tell us how we could do it now.
00:35:21.000 With all due respect, I think that's the wrong attitude.
00:35:24.000 I think patience in life is one of the great virtues.
00:35:27.000 It's also a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
00:35:29.000 Now, there can be immediate wins.
00:35:31.000 Yes, of course, there can be immediate liberations.
00:35:35.000 Obviously, one of the most famous quotes ever is: a journey of a thousand miles starts at a single step.
00:35:39.000 Confucius said that in the Analects.
00:35:42.000 And we should remember that.
00:35:45.000 But the left, being more patient than we have been over the last couple decades, should be motivating to us.
00:35:54.000 And some of it needs to be public, and some of it needs to be confrontational, and some of it needs to be calling out this nonsense.
00:36:00.000 And then there's a third rail as well, which is not just reclamation of the institutions, but entrepreneurs, start new stuff, new businesses, new institutions, new nonprofits, new colleges, new hospitals.
00:36:15.000 If you're an entrepreneur and you love liberty and you love America, go do something about it.
00:36:20.000 Take a risk.
00:36:23.000 I know so many of my friends that are now succeeding.
00:36:24.000 Look at Rumble.
00:36:26.000 They decided to create something new, multi-billion dollar company.
00:36:29.000 News came out, public square, they're going public, $200 million company.
00:36:33.000 Patriot Mobile, doing unbelievable.
00:36:35.000 Hillsdale College, booming like crazy.
00:36:38.000 Let's start new stuff.
00:36:39.000 So it can be taking back institutions.
00:36:44.000 It could be liberating ones that have been momentarily controlled by the Marxists, but also starting new ones.
00:36:52.000 And that's my big advice to the younger listeners out there.
00:36:54.000 If you have the energy, the passion, and the zeal, and the gusto to save America, and you have a good idea, go act on it.
00:37:02.000 Start something new.
00:37:03.000 You might just succeed.
00:37:05.000 Look what Turning Point USA has been able to do over the last decade.
00:37:09.000 From nothing to the largest conservative organization fighting for liberty in America.
00:37:15.000 We're really proud of that and thankful.
00:37:17.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:37:18.000 Email me your thoughts as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:37:22.000 Thank you so much for listening and God bless.
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