00:00:45.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:53.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:49.000Not only did I visit and give a speech in the evening, I embedded myself right on the campus itself.
00:01:56.000By the way, this is the number one news story right now at the Daily Beast.
00:01:59.000Must be a very slow news day where Charlie Kirk speaks at California University and clashes break out.
00:02:06.000Okay, that's a little bit of an exaggeration.
00:02:08.000So 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.
00:02:20.000But 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.
00:02:37.000Now, I'll give credit to actually the students at University of California, Santa Barbara.
00:02:43.000I have done this all across the country.
00:02:45.000They are actually some of the more knowledgeable.
00:02:49.000And 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.
00:02:59.000UC Santa Barbara, you could tell that these kids are, you know, scoring high test scores, that they're reading the news.
00:03:08.000However, 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.
00:03:21.000Again, many of them were very kind and very sweet, but you could tell that they've never seen such a thing.
00:03:30.000For 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.
00:03:43.000Almost like an animal at a zoo, like a circus act almost.
00:03:46.000They 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?
00:04:31.000The 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.
00:04:48.000This is so typical of a student newspaper.
00:04:50.000But, you know, these student newspaper types will then be hired by the media.
00:04:54.000Student protests, students protest TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk's visit.
00:05:54.000And the clips of the interactions, you know, we're going to publicize.
00:05:57.000But I want to read some of this because this shows you exactly what we're dealing with in our country.
00:06:02.000Because 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.
00:06:10.000It infects the halls of Congress, corporations, and the rest of society.
00:07:15.000Should bother you as the parents that are funding this stuff.
00:07:20.000Kirk 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.
00:08:03.000The creator of Turning Point USA is a well-known pro-fascist organization that spews anti-blackness, anti-immigrant hate, misogyny, and racism.
00:08:15.000Let USB, U.S. UCSB admin know that hate has no place on our campus.
00:08:24.000And then continued by another quote here, which is just so.
00:08:29.000Charlie Kirk is a white supremacist, campus Democrats.
00:08:32.000This is the campus Democrats, not the young socialists, that feeds hate speech and misinformation.
00:08:39.000Now, 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.
00:09:18.000The weaponization of name-calling has been nationalized as the primary weapon of how the Marxists control our country, as exhibited here.
00:09:32.000I 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.
00:09:41.000But I think that when speech is derogatory, hateful, or misinformed, like Charlie Kirk's, it just crosses a line.
00:09:51.000We at the UCSB vehemently oppose the platforming of alt-right, racist, transphobic groups such as TPUSA on this campus.
00:10:00.000The direct threat that this poses to marginalized people's safety is unacceptable.
00:10:08.000We 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.
00:10:22.000Because 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.
00:10:31.000In 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.
00:11:17.000Ideas that cease to be spoken will eventually cease to be thought of.
00:11:23.000We need to give people the courage and the confidence to be able to speak out of what they know is true.
00:11:29.000And unfortunately, campuses have become islands of totalitarianism.
00:11:32.000So when you visit, they mobilize the shock troops and they mobilize the activists.
00:11:37.000And 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.
00:11:56.000And 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.
00:12:05.000That was the criticism that somebody said privately to me.
00:12:09.000They said, you're dividing America by going into liberal environments and making people angry.
00:12:17.000And 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.
00:12:35.000And 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?
00:12:48.000You're the ones that are provoking them by going into the really left-wing environments.
00:12:55.000And 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.
00:13:16.000You talk to the people that you disagree with.
00:13:19.000You don't just partition yourself off.
00:13:22.000Like, oh, well, you know, these people are past the point of return.
00:13:26.000And 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.
00:14:38.000I love CPAC and I wish I could be there.
00:14:41.000I'm not on CPAC because we're on tour.
00:14:43.000And 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.
00:16:10.000But 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.
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00:19:28.000I'd love to have him back on about this piece.
00:19:31.000But it asks the question: can the right make a long counter march through the institutions?
00:19:39.000So there was a left-wing activist by the name of Rudy Dutchke.
00:19:43.000I'm going to butcher the pronunciation.
00:19:45.000Blake can fix, I think that was his name, Rudy Dutchke, Dutchke, whatever his name.
00:19:51.000And 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.
00:20:06.000That it's going to take multiple generations, that we're not going to take it over immediately.
00:20:12.000What he basically argued for was that we don't control the major spheres of cultural shaping.
00:20:43.000And he basically made the argument to his fellow comrades, literally, we got to infiltrate.
00:20:51.000Now, 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.
00:21:03.000If 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.
00:21:31.000In fact, Saul Alinsky would go up to those radicals yesterday and say, you guys are morons.
00:21:41.000Saul Linsky would go up to the people that throw bricks and threaten violence and he would say, you are helping no one.
00:21:51.000He would go up to Antifa, he'd go up to BLM and say, knock it off.
00:21:58.000And I'm going to paraphrase it off of memory, but we can get it here in the chat.
00:22:01.000Alinsky said, a true radical does not go in the streets committing arson, violence, or intimidation.
00:22:09.000He 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.
00:22:23.000Just like Obama, just like so many of these people, he argued that the undisciplined radical does what we saw at UCSB.
00:23:31.000And this is what's so creepy about it.
00:23:33.000These 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.
00:23:42.000They were more patient in some ways than the Christians and the religious and the conservatives who want immediate gratification when it comes to politics.
00:23:51.000Where Rudy Dutchke and Alinsky said, we're not actually going to see, quote unquote, the deliverance of our people to Egypt.
00:23:58.000They didn't use that term, but that's a proper metaphor.
00:24:01.000We'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.
00:24:11.000So this piece by Benjamin Whitegarten, Can the Right Make a Long Countermarch of the Institutions, is a direct challenge to Rudy Dutschke.
00:24:22.000And he writes here, it's very interesting.
00:24:24.000He 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.
00:24:51.000For example, he gives some examples of how to reform.
00:26:05.000You 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.
00:26:18.000But I think we also must be honest that winning back institutions is not going to be easy.
00:26:59.000Is it time for our young conservatives to be sleeper cells for freedom and liberty and re-infiltrate the body politic and the institutions?
00:27:08.000I don't have a good answer to that because I believe it's a moral good to speak your mind.
00:28:02.000Does the left actually control these institutions as much as they think they do?
00:28:06.000Maybe yes, but there actually might be more fighters and patriots within these massive organizations than we ever might realize.
00:28:16.000So the question is, can we do our own counter march to the institutions?
00:28:22.000And 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.
00:28:34.000When 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.
00:28:42.000They do not like hearing that, but it's true.
00:28:45.000This is not going to happen in the next five or 10 years.
00:29:12.000But 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.
00:29:21.000And they don't even think they're far enough.
00:29:28.000Instead, it has to be a commitment for a long-term generational, multi-generational project.
00:29:35.000And only then can a true reclamation of our infested institutions begin.
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00:30:56.000Okay, 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?
00:31:06.000Just a little bit of the spice of last evening, PlayCut 84.
00:31:10.000The media not covering stories you do not like is not voter fraud.
00:33:22.000That's why the pro-life movement does so well.
00:33:25.000The pro-life movement is one of the great examples, and the pro-gun movement, the Second Amendment movement, to their great credit.
00:33:33.000Those two issues have so much intensity and so much focus.
00:33:36.000The 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.
00:34:08.000And 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.
00:34:27.000What'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.
00:34:44.000But 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.
00:34:55.000They mean something in life, but they don't mean very much when it comes to activism.
00:35:00.000They mean so well, but they're burning down the Wendy's.
00:35:03.000They mean so well, but they're trying to shut down Charlie Kirk.
00:35:06.000Yeah, they're still doing something that's wrong and evil and incorrect.
00:35:10.000Some people are, you're emailing us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:13.000Charlie, I do not have the patience to wait for us to take back these institutions.
00:35:19.000You need to tell us how we could do it now.
00:35:21.000With all due respect, I think that's the wrong attitude.
00:35:24.000I think patience in life is one of the great virtues.
00:35:45.000But the left, being more patient than we have been over the last couple decades, should be motivating to us.
00:35:54.000And 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.
00:36:00.000And 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.
00:36:15.000If you're an entrepreneur and you love liberty and you love America, go do something about it.