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00:01:21.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:59.000And we're going to states that are open, that trust their citizens to make good choices.
00:02:05.000And you have good leaders here, and you've seen from other states how these lockdowns have destroyed the humanity in our country.
00:02:17.000I have said from the very beginning that these lockdowns will go down as one of the worst mistakes in American history.
00:02:24.000And if you look at what the lockdowns did to small businesses, to mental health, to alcoholism, drug usage, to social isolation, to young people, for what?
00:02:36.000Even in the states that lock down heavily, let's look at California, they have worse death rates, worse hospitalization rates than states that are fully open.
00:02:43.000But it goes to a deeper point that I want to explore with you tonight, which is liberty is very hard.
00:02:51.000You see, America was founded on this idea of liberty and responsibility.
00:02:55.000But in order to have liberty, you must have trust of your citizens.
00:02:59.000Over the last year, we have seen our leaders go towards safetyism over liberty.
00:03:06.000You see, people want to be taken care of more than they want to be free.
00:03:10.000And so being here tonight is a statement to the bureaucrats, to the control freaks, to the central planners that we do want to be free and trust us to make good decisions.
00:03:20.000You see, freedom not only requires trust, it requires politicians to understand the framework that we're in.
00:03:28.000See, over the last year, we have seen not just these lockdowns have a historic toll on our freedoms and our liberties, but also we have seen the moving of the goalposts.
00:03:39.000We have seen young suicides going up like we've never seen before.
00:03:44.000And we are seeing a deterioration of our humanity with one-size-fits-all government policy intervening at once.
00:03:52.000So the question is, Charlie, the people say all the time, Charlie, what would you have done instead?
00:03:56.000Well, I think locking down for the first two weeks, the first month, is fine.
00:04:00.000But the moment that all of a sudden our leaders started lying, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, who should be fired immediately from any position at all in our country.
00:04:12.000As soon as our leaders started lying about social distancing, masks, children in schools, we should have asked the question: is this about trusting the science or is this about trusting the scientists that you like?
00:04:27.000And that's really what it was always about, is that we have a certain political agenda that we are using science as a way to try to put it forward.
00:04:57.000An armed citizenry that is able to protect themselves against despots and tyrants is essential to the protection of all the other liberties that we enjoy in our country.
00:05:07.000And I want to sympathize with some people that wanted to keep the country locked down through the summer and through the fall.
00:05:13.000The resort towards safetyism, acting as if a politician is going to come in and save you, is very tempting.
00:05:19.000It's tempting to believe that our leaders can come in and prevent you from something dangerous possibly coming.
00:05:26.000When in reality, we know that the hierarchy of what government should be is, of course, first the self, recognition of the individual, and your rights come from God, not from government.
00:05:34.000And we should never lock down our churches again in our country.
00:05:40.000But also, there's a really important component to this that we don't talk about enough, which is the family.
00:05:46.000The family is under attack in our country right now.
00:05:49.000And the family is supposed to go, so let's go individual, family, village, city.
00:05:55.000That's the hierarchy of how you're supposed to build a government.
00:05:58.000And obviously from there, county, state, federal government, we'll get into that.
00:06:03.000However, the way that we should have handled this virus is first and foremost, politicians should have been very clear about the data in real time.
00:06:10.000And they also should have said, if you want to do something foolish in regards to this virus, you have the right to make dumb choices.
00:06:18.000There are so many different things that we allow the cost of liberty to exist all the time.
00:06:22.000A great example is how most of you got here tonight.
00:07:17.000But again, liberty requires people that don't want to be taken care of, but instead are able to take responsibility for their actions.
00:07:26.000And this came at a collision point in the last year, which is why I'm so insistent that we must open up our country immediately.
00:07:32.000And one of the false choices about lockdowns is that you do know that once we reopen the country, you're still allowed to stay at home and wear two masks while you shower, right?
00:07:41.000Like you don't have to leave your home.
00:07:44.000And if you believe masks work, then go ahead and wear one.
00:07:47.000I'm mask agnostic, which is a Greek word agnosis.
00:08:03.000And so we have seen states like Missouri handle this a lot better than states like California and New York.
00:08:11.000I think that their lockdowns were a little bit too severe here for a little bit, but I'm glad to see your state handled it more reasonably than most other states.
00:08:20.000And if you start to see all of a sudden people from my home state, Illinois, flooding into this state, and are you seeing this a lot?
00:08:26.000All of a sudden, you're seeing a lot of Chicagoans come in.
00:08:29.000And by the way, we have term limits in Illinois.
00:08:31.000It's one term in office, one term in jail, right?
00:09:38.000Obviously, I'm not going to put these into government edicts, but they're rules that any reasonable, respectful, and responsible person should follow.
00:09:46.000And I think they're also applicable to how we should craft our immigration policies nationally in our country.
00:09:50.000And the first rule is this, is that if you move, you moved for a reason.
00:10:05.000So if you've moved from California to Arizona or if you move from Illinois to Missouri, why did you move?
00:10:10.000Well, you probably left Illinois because of high taxes, corruption, highest property taxes, rising crime, lockdowns, and the infringing of your freedoms and liberties.
00:10:19.000So then don't go from Illinois to Missouri and all of a sudden try to turn Missouri into Illinois.
00:10:24.000I'm going to talk about this because it's really important.
00:10:26.000I'm going to talk about why I think it's actually really immoral to try to go to a new state and try to make it in your previous image.
00:10:47.000And if I have to see another governor do a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Texas with some tech firm that comes in, like, oh yeah, let's go welcome 3,000 Californians into Chandler, Arizona.
00:10:58.000What do you think they're going to do?
00:11:00.000They're going to bring their values with them.
00:11:02.000They're going to bring their ideas with them.
00:11:09.000But I also think that there's such differences in the way that we view the basic American value system.
00:11:15.000We're going to build that out tonight of what that actually is, that supersede the profit motive.
00:11:20.000You see, I think that the conservative movement, this is a little bit of a tangent, I'm going to talk about this, has been far too focused on profits and not focused enough on patriotism.
00:11:29.000And I'm going to talk about what that means because I'm all for profits.
00:11:33.000But when all of a sudden you are putting business profits for transnational corporations above the American way of life and the American promise, then you're not a conservative.
00:12:00.000Your change that you're going to try to implement in a new state is probably going to make the new state you're going to a worse place to be in.
00:12:07.000There's a reason why you're moving, remember?
00:12:09.000And we're seeing this happen in real time.
00:12:11.000This is why Georgia all of a sudden is different.
00:12:14.000This is why Arizona is all of a sudden is different.
00:12:18.000And this is something we don't talk about enough.
00:12:20.000And we have to apply it to national immigration policy, which is you will then, if you do try to change the area that you're in or the state you move to, you're then imposing your views on someone that can't move and didn't move.
00:12:35.000So for those of you that are second or third generation in this wonderful, beautiful state where you've made decisions to respect the Second Amendment, you've made decisions to respect a certain way of life.
00:12:46.000All of a sudden, you have people coming in from other states and you say, wait a second, now am I going to have to move to preserve the Missouri way of life?
00:12:55.000All of a sudden, you're the ones that are encroaching in other people's lifestyles saying that I know better than you do.
00:13:02.000And that, in essence, I believe, is immoral, especially when you look at what's happening at the rate of which it's occurring.
00:13:07.000And it's amazing because if California and New York and Illinois were such wonderful examples for public policy, they would not be losing population.
00:13:17.000Instead, the outward migration from these states is so unbelievably telling.
00:13:21.000And I think all of those rules also apply to our international immigration system.
00:13:26.000Now, this is something that conservatives need to get very clear about.
00:13:29.000I called for an immigration moratorium last year as soon as the pandemic hit.
00:13:33.000If a country does not have a shared language, culture, or history, it's going to stop being a country and it'll just be a temporary colony where you make a bunch of money and you lose any sense of congruency and any sense of familiarity with your fellow countrymen.
00:13:49.000So we love free speech in the conservative movement, right?
00:13:53.000But if you don't share a language with your fellow countrymen, how can you express and share ideas?
00:13:58.000So we talk about speech, but let's talk about the moral imperative of speech.
00:14:04.000We like freedom of speech because it's the best way that we can govern ourselves without actually having to get to physical conflict.
00:14:12.000Dialogue, which comes from the Greek word through reason, through thinking, is what makes us different in the West than almost any other country around the world.
00:14:23.000Our capacity to say, you know what, debate me.
00:14:26.000Come up and tell me why your ideas are better.
00:14:28.000But all of a sudden, if speech is disappearing, which it is in our country, and I'm going to get to that in a second for a different reason as well, then all of a sudden, you're more likely to self-segregate from a certain conversation or shut yourself up.
00:14:42.000So we talk about censorship a lot in the conservative movement.
00:14:46.000Do you know what the number one form of censorship is in the country?
00:15:07.000But the point is, how many people, and you don't have to raise your hands, how many people here self-censor your views because you're afraid of losing a job, getting kicked out of fraternity, getting kicked out of a sorority, or having your friends call you the R-word?
00:15:20.000The answer is almost every single person in this room, whether your hands go up or not.
00:15:24.000That form of self-censorship is such an unbelievably dangerous trend that's happening in our country.
00:15:32.000That results in half the country voluntarily saying that they don't even want to care about what we think, that they care nothing more than a power struggle of controlling our entire country.
00:15:43.000So I want to get into that even further, which is, there's so many things I want to get into.
00:15:47.000And I'm trying to make every one of these speeches different from yesterday.
00:15:50.000But I do want to get into this, which is there are two threats facing the conservative movement right now.
00:15:55.000And so I grew up in a conservative movement where we were very focused on overreach of government power.
00:17:18.000Who's the son of the next president and now the president of the United States?
00:17:23.000Not one media outlet is interested in covering it, except Fox News and Tucker Carlson, and God bless him for that.
00:17:29.000Former business partner of Joe Biden, Tony Bobulinsky, goes on network television for one hour and says that Joe Biden has tangible shares with the Chinese Communist Party, 10% for the big man.
00:18:20.000We're actually in almost a theological debate in this country, and most conservatives and Republicans refuse to admit that.
00:18:27.000It doesn't matter your religious belief.
00:18:29.000We are arguing human nature, whether you realize it or not in our country.
00:18:32.000We have an answer for those things as conservatives.
00:18:34.000We recognize our rights come from God.
00:18:36.000So we are worried that the government will shut us up.
00:18:40.000We're worried that the government will come in and arrest pastors like they did in the last year and say, you're not allowed to worship your creator.
00:18:47.000We should be equally worried when a corporation comes in and says you're not allowed to speak.
00:18:52.000So we care about natural rights and the preservation of those rights, regardless if it's a bureaucrat from the federal government or a computer programmer from Google.
00:19:02.000And that second part is usually a no-go zone.
00:19:05.000And I have to say, your wonderful senator Josh Hawley does a great job of articulating this.
00:19:11.000I just want to say, I'm saying this intentionally because I know this is the one thing they're going to cover in all the local papers.
00:19:57.000And I wish our education system did a better job of teaching this because largely, and I don't know, there's a lot of homeschooling people here.
00:20:04.000And by the way, we need to double our homeschooling population in the next couple years in our country.
00:20:11.000But one of the biggest issues in our country is that we are teaching our children to hate America.
00:20:18.000And it comes with the slandering of the founding fathers, their character, their values, and their intent.
00:20:27.000And when you read the Declaration of Independence and you really understand why it was written and what it's saying, it's a beautiful document.
00:21:16.000We don't have enough courageous leaders right now in Washington.
00:21:20.000People always, well, I'm only going to act if I know how it's going to end.
00:21:24.000The most courageous generation, the greatest generation, when they stormed Normandy Beach, they did not know if they were going to live to the next morning.
00:21:31.000The founding fathers had courage because they didn't know how this was going to end.
00:21:34.000And it's written in such beautiful prose and form by one of the most brilliant men ever to live, Thomas Jefferson.
00:21:41.000Now, I encourage all of you to read the original draft of the Declaration.
00:21:45.000They don't teach this in many schools.
00:21:46.000Did you know in the original draft of the Declaration, in Thomas Jefferson's own handwriting, there's an entire paragraph where he condemns slavery and blames King George for bringing slaves to the United States?
00:21:56.000Probably didn't know that about Thomas Jefferson.
00:22:01.000Very complicated person, aren't we all?
00:22:04.000He was brilliant, fought for the moral good and the abolition of slavery in the Virginia House of Commons, signed a moratorium of new slaves being brought into the United States 20 years after the ratification of the Constitution of the United States as a third American president, and wrote probably what's the most consequential political document in world history, probably second only to the United States Constitution.
00:22:24.000It starts when in the course of human events.
00:23:00.000He's making the argument, and all the founders that signed on to it, they say, we have no choice if we are going to continue to say we're pursuing a moral good, but to get behind these words.
00:23:10.000For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station, let's stop there, separate and equal.
00:23:24.000That ends up being the inspiration for a large part of the U.S. Constitution, to which the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:23:35.000Well, all that work that happened in the Enlightenment, Newtonian physics, force equals mass times acceleration, object of rest will stay at rest, the discovery of the laws of gravity, thermodynamics, the second law of thermodynamics, the inevitable law of decay.
00:23:47.000As a side note, you guys do know that there's the laws of the left, too, right?
00:23:51.000Which is everything they touch ends up being destroyed.
00:24:30.000It's the first people to try to peacefully separate from a despotic tyrant and say, we can do this better.
00:24:38.000Now, the obvious question is, where did they get the courage to do this?
00:24:42.000Black robe regimen, Jonathan Edwards, Whitfield, pastors that were speaking out and arguing the great leap forward that all of you enjoy today, because most of the world would give anything to have the freedom that you have right now.
00:24:53.000The freedom to speak, the freedom to assemble, the freedom to have firearms, the freedom to start a business, the freedom to own property, all started here in this document, where they put their entire lives on the line.
00:25:01.000Then he says, we hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:25:06.000Where all of a sudden they're saying, no, no, no, no.
00:25:08.000Every human being using reason knows that men deserve to be free.
00:25:14.000This is completely obliterating the dictatorial despotic construct that every single person lived under prior to the American Revolution, with the absence of maybe Athenian democracy for a short term or the Roman Republic, and they screwed that up.
00:25:39.000So what's the significance of this, and how does it apply to us today?
00:25:43.000Basically, what the founding fathers articulated so beautifully, and they fought for it and they sacrificed for it, and we're on the verge of screwing it up right now, is that we are in charge.
00:25:55.000The powerful people are only there because of the consent of the governed.
00:26:12.000And one of the main reasons why they hated Donald Trump is for the first time in a long time, you had a voice in this entire process.
00:26:23.000That this document became alive when Donald Trump ran for office.
00:26:28.000All of a sudden, this bipartisan uniparty that was governing our country of these endless and reckless foreign wars, of these poorly crafted trade deals that I'm sure all of you have seen, Missouri, the collateral damage of that, the factories closed, the opioids coming in, the people that are suffering because all of a sudden we decide to close a manufacturing plant and send it to Wuhan, China, and bring in a bunch of textiles in exchange of stuff that we don't wear, we don't appreciate, and have dollar sell-offs as garage sales,
00:26:56.000or we get a public storage unit because we have so much garbage that we can't even take it.
00:27:00.000Meanwhile, our communities are devoid of purpose.
00:27:03.000Our churches are crumbling, and our families are deteriorating.
00:27:07.000Donald Trump said this bargain is not working for the American people.
00:27:11.000And then finally, you look at what the Constitution aimed to do.
00:27:15.000And obviously the Declaration, I make the argument, the Declaration and Constitution were far more compatible than most people would make the argument for, is that you have a moral right to be free, and the biggest threat to that is government and or a tyrant that can put in its place.
00:27:34.000The argument that I'm submitting to you tonight, though, is for a variety of different reasons.
00:27:38.000It's government and these massive corporations.
00:27:42.000That the promise of the declaration, when Thomas Jefferson wrote this to King George, we need to write our own declaration to the tech companies.
00:27:50.000That when you say our rights are being infringed upon, it's happening slowly from the federal government.
00:28:07.000So when these God-given rights and liberties are infringed upon, That's when we must not break up these companies altogether, but we must say, I don't care about some sort of corporate national chamber of commerce agenda.
00:28:20.000I am going to preserve natural rights and natural freedoms over transnational corporate profits for people that hate us and do not share our values.
00:28:36.000With the ever-increasing numbers of makes like Fiat, Kia, and Models Pacifica X-T5, it is now impossible to stock all the parts you need in a traditional chain storefront.
00:28:47.000Why endure all the questioning that can be intimidating around your car and wait while the counterman orders the parts on his computer, choosing the only brand his warehouse happens to carry?
00:28:57.000You have computers with access to rockauto.com at home and in your pocket.
00:29:02.000One reason to repair and maintain your cars is to save money that then you can use for other important things like the mortgage or food.
00:29:09.000Why would you choose to spend 30, 50, or 100% more for the exact same auto parts?
00:31:13.000Because they wanted to overly racialize what was a tragedy, a death of a person, to try to implement the most bigoted ideology that we have seen since the KKK, which is critical race theory.
00:31:40.000When Coca-Cola brings in Robin DiAngelo, did you see this example the other day?
00:31:45.000They bring in Robin DiAngelo to teach all their employees that whiteness is a cancer that must be abolished.
00:31:52.000That's true, that whiteness means to be colonialist, means to be oppressive, and that the problem will never be solved.
00:32:00.000What a wonderful business model, by the way, right?
00:32:02.000To go be paid all this money by these corporations, come lecture and say, you know, you got to hire me next year because we're never actually going to solve this problem.
00:32:11.000I mean, it is the ultimate business model, right?
00:32:15.000Robin DiAngelo, who wrote the pile of garbage called White Fragility.
00:32:18.000And I'm not sure if you guys are forced to read that.
00:32:20.000You should not, I guess you could read it for humor or satire.
00:32:23.000And so these ideas must be confronted.
00:32:27.000I don't care if you're a liberal here tonight, if you're a Democrat, if you're an honest human being that cares in the decency and the future of America, we must stand in opposition to critical race theory, regardless of your political affiliation.
00:32:43.000Critical race theory was a fringe ideology that was popularized by Michelle Foucault and Jacques Derrida and the postmodernists and Herbert Marcuse in the 1960s and 70s, spread in the 80s and was introduced seriously in law schools, critical law theory, which basically is this.
00:33:00.000They're trying to change the way, and as an exercise, intellectual exercise, it's not a completely, I don't want to say bad idea, it's a fair discussion to have.
00:33:12.000To implement it as public policy is evil and it's immoral.
00:33:15.000Basically, they were saying you must take into effect people's circumstances, their way of life, before you try and put forward sentencing guidelines.
00:33:27.000Where it is now is it was implemented as critical race theory, which embraces the Marxist struggle of the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat.
00:33:36.000Proletariat being the working man, bourgeoisie being the owners of the means of production.
00:33:42.000This is something that Karl Marx and Engels talked about in Das Capital in the Communist Manifesto.
00:33:47.000And they were wrong about a lot of things.
00:33:48.000They were right about a couple of things.
00:33:50.000Happy to get into that if anyone's interested.
00:33:51.000They're completely wrong about the solution to a lot of these problems, but they were somewhat right about that a small group of people have a tendency to control the means of production over time.
00:34:01.000And happy to break that apart if people are interested.
00:34:03.000The point is that the Marxists believe that struggle is inevitable.
00:34:08.000And so the postmodernists and the critical race theorists said, ah, you see, the reason why America has not become Marxist yet is because we've been focusing on economic struggle, not race struggle.
00:34:22.000And they hit a soft spot, didn't they?
00:34:25.000They used our best intentions against us.
00:34:30.000You see, they tried the Occupy Wall Street movement.
00:35:08.000We should have cross-examination of witnesses and due process.
00:35:11.000And if there is a scumbag out there, put them in jail forever.
00:35:13.000But we're not going to redefine our entire society just because of some really angry women activists that have taken over our colleges, right?
00:36:01.000So then we have entire public dialogue that happens where good-meaning people embrace really bad ideas because they don't want to be called the R-word.
00:36:12.000And then basically it's like, I'm not going to challenge it because they must be right because they call themselves anti-racists.
00:36:18.000Most ridiculous thing that I've ever heard.
00:36:19.000They're actually the bigots, by the way.
00:36:22.000They're the ones that want to classify people based on skin color.
00:37:33.000Going back to that postmodernist, critical race theorist Marxist thing, where they believe that black people cannot be racist and all white people are always racist.
00:37:43.000That is a sloppy way to view the world.
00:37:45.000In fact, that's a dangerous, imprecise way to view any sort of thing in our country.
00:38:15.000If you care about black lives, you'd want to end abortion in our country and stop the slaughter of black children in the womb.
00:38:23.000This is a moment, and a good friend of mine who's an atheist and a liberal, a legitimate liberal, James Lindsay, has spoken out so wonderfully against critical race theory from a liberal perspective.
00:38:34.000And his perspective is the right one, which is that this ideology is not about progress.
00:41:28.000And they cheered for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
00:41:32.000The beast you create will eventually devour you.
00:41:37.000So for the leftists and the Democrats and liberals out there that are tempted to want to engage in this movement, I am warning you right now, they will not stop.
00:41:47.000This is a movement of chaos and deconstruction.
00:41:50.000This is not a movement of order and decency and respect and dialogue.
00:41:53.000It is one that is most similar to the French Revolution.
00:41:56.000And how did the French Revolution end?
00:41:58.000When you have all this chaos, then all of a sudden a short guy that wants to declare war on everyone gets to power really quickly.
00:42:04.000You want a despot to take over, have everything fall apart, and that's how you get a Napoleon.
00:42:09.000And that's how Napoleon came to power: you have that chaos everywhere.
00:42:12.000You see, the left, they want that dictatorial control.
00:42:16.000We, as conservatives, are like, no, I want to start a family, have kids, grow my church, improve my community, start a business.
00:42:24.000For us, political power is just a means to living a better life.
00:42:28.000For them, political power is everything.
00:42:30.000And so, for the leftists out there that are tempted by critical race theory in this woke industrial complex, I'm warning you, stop it.
00:42:38.000Come and join the side that is opposing this and trying to say, we want to be a country that cares about character, not skin color, that cares about your soul, not the melanin content in your skin, that cares about who you are, not what you look like.
00:42:51.000And that is the right side of history.
00:43:42.000Reason for optimism is we're on the right side of history and that we're not giving up and we're still gathering and we're louder than ever before.
00:44:24.000They're perfectly okay with men competing in women's sports.
00:44:29.000They're okay with a man who thinks he's a woman becoming the health and human secretary, whatever that is, and giving puberty blockers to young children, which is a form of child abuse.
00:45:07.000Well, I believe that God is the source of all wisdom.
00:45:10.000Wisdom is the knowledge of all things that are eternal and do not change.
00:45:13.000There's two types of knowledge: there's practical knowledge and eternal knowledge.
00:45:18.000Well, there's no God at Harvard, so there's no wisdom.
00:45:21.000So you have a bunch of really smart people that know a bunch of stuff that are constantly at war with what Thomas Jefferson said is eternal, the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:45:32.000You see, this is something that our schools do not teach well.
00:45:54.000It's original sin, that we're broken by nature.
00:45:58.000You see, the Rassoians, the Marxists, the far left, they don't have that view.
00:46:02.000Their view is that human beings are naturally good.
00:46:07.000We believe that human beings are basically bad.
00:46:10.000Now, the best example of this is when any of you that have children or have dealt with young children, if young children are naturally good, why do you have to teach them goodness?
00:46:22.000If they're naturally good, did you teach them to manipulate one parent against another?
00:47:01.000I don't care if we're going to lose or win.
00:47:02.000I'm committed to the optimistic belief that we are going to win because that's the moral good that we have to hold on to, that victory is within sights.
00:47:42.000And I'm just curious how a man whose organization hosts a black leadership summit, a young Latino leadership summit, a young Jewish leadership summit, how can he be a misogynistic white supremacist?
00:48:12.000There's black culture, there's Latino culture, and all of whom, especially black culture's contribution to our country, is rich and beautiful in many different ways in art and in scholarship.
00:48:22.000What I reject, though, is the hyper-racialization of every single human being.
00:48:28.000And so we would be a fool not to recognize cultural differences, right?
00:48:33.000What they're going after is something way different and deeper, which is that your melanin content, by definition, makes you a certain way, and we must categorize you based on that way.
00:48:42.000So I appreciate the lighthearted, sarcastic question.
00:48:45.000I haven't been able to figure that out either.
00:50:38.000So the mentally handicapped person that's left on the side of the street should be left to die because their parents no longer want to take care of them.
00:50:45.000No, because there's people willing to take care of them that are not.
00:50:48.000There are millions of people that want to adopt babies right now.
00:50:57.000And I agree with that, but the people that didn't have the choice whenever they conceived that don't want that, that life depends on that body to survive.
00:53:37.000And for the sake of everyone else here, I'm going to walk through it.
00:53:40.000That it's not your DNA, it's not your choice.
00:53:44.000And every single life, as soon as that DNA is formed, with the only extraordinarily rare exception, when the mother's life is put in jeopardy, which again is so unbelievably rare, it's a couple dozen cases nationwide every single year, is worthy at a chance of being able to live.
00:54:01.000If you go through the acronym, SLED, size, level of dependency, environment, and degree of dependency, or level of development, I should say.
00:54:10.000We do not have a moral argument to ever kill someone who's smaller than us, right?
00:54:41.000I think you're coming at this from a good place.
00:54:43.000And I don't come to this conclusion lightly, and I do not trivialize the crime or the sin.
00:54:49.000But I struggled with this for a while, and I came to a place where I said, I am not going to justify a wrong act to try to fix a wrong act.
00:54:59.000Instead, I believe that love, compassion, the protection of that human life, even if it was conceived through a sin, is someone that is worthy of constitutional protection.
00:55:08.000I want to thank you for your courage for being here tonight, and I enjoyed the conversation.
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00:56:48.000So basically, my question for you is, is we're talking about this cancel culture, but where do we go and cancel Cardi B for the wrong things that she says?
00:56:56.000And we're going to look up to her, you know, in a positive manner when she's attacking somebody with good moral beliefs and somebody that's a strong, independent activist and leader when Cardi B is a, excuse my language here, but a former stripper.
00:57:10.000Well, not only that, she drugged people and stole stuff from rapes.
00:58:04.000And I just find this so amazing that in one week, we get rid of Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head.
00:58:11.000And then on network television, we have that X-rated display of Cardi B.
00:58:16.000And so then some people say, well, Charlie, you're engaging in cancel culture against Cardi B, which is a hilarious reversal of something we complain about.
00:58:27.000And my response to that is: wait a second, this is network television.
00:58:30.000By definition, you have cancel culture for certain things, right?
00:58:37.000That's the whole idea of network television.
00:58:38.000Now, why were those laws put in place for the first place?
00:58:42.000For the protection of the innocent, the protection of our children.
00:58:45.000They've never been interested in the protection of our children.
00:58:47.000So I have a great example of this, and it goes back to where we find right and wrong, which is if you do not believe in a God, right and wrong is merely an opinion.
00:58:56.000I will go toe-to-toe with anyone on this, and sometimes it gets into a circular argument.
00:59:01.000The point is this, and here's a great example of this, and it kind of ties with Cardi B. San Francisco, a couple of years ago, was very close to allowing public nudity.
00:59:35.000So then someone said, okay, well, then we'll provide towels to all the nudists.
00:59:40.000You see, for us that believe in the protection of the innocent, the development of young people, the biblical construct of what sexuality is supposed to be, of course, we have a reason for why that's wrong.
00:59:53.000But for the San Francisco secularists, they say, oh, no, no, it's unsanitary.
00:59:56.000It's going to be bad for spreading communicable diseases.
01:00:00.000And so if you do not have an arbiter of what is right and wrong, that's where it leads you.
01:00:06.000She's an agent of chaos and a foolish one at that.
01:00:09.000She is trying to desensitize young people to not care about monogamous, loyal relationships, instead to try to play into this garbage of hookup culture, whatever that is, and all that nonsense.
01:00:22.000And so that's why Candace Owens is a threat.
01:00:25.000And so I love watching that back and forth.
01:00:28.000First of all, it's completely unfair, right?
01:00:30.000It's like Muhammad Ali boxing up against a high school student, right?
01:01:12.000So given the fact that gun control has come up in the conversation again for politics, this is a question relating to that.
01:01:20.000So in a letter to James Madison back in 1778, a captain of a trade ship asked for clarification on the Second Amendment.
01:01:26.000And he asked if he could arm his ship with cannons to protect himself from pirates.
01:01:30.000And Madison was like, yeah, go right ahead.
01:01:33.000So given that cannons are at least, they would at least equate to like a bazooka in nowadays terms, where, if anywhere, do you draw the line on what citizens are allowed to have by the Second Amendment?
01:02:06.000I generally go on the side of liberty in this case.
01:02:08.000And there's a cost to that, of course.
01:02:12.000I'd have to look further into that quote that you mentioned, but I think that most gun laws in our country are way too cumbersome and way too restrictive, especially in cities like Chicago, where they have almost a handgun ban, and still 727 people were shot and killed last year in Chicago.
01:02:30.000I'm not going to give you a specific policy answer because I haven't done that much thought on it, but I think they're too cumbersome and too restrictive in most states.
01:02:37.000And here's where they're going after it, if I may.
01:03:51.000So I just want to start us off by my high school has been recently going through, like there's a group at my high school that is seeking to overturn a Native American mascot at our school.
01:04:05.000And so basically my question to you is, like, what is the best or the most logical argument in favor of the preservation of Native American mascots in schools and colleges?
01:04:16.000So if I can ask you, what is the mascot?
01:04:23.000So this is what I can't quite understand is that, first of all, when you poll Indigenous people, they are very much on the side of not removing these mascots.
01:04:56.000Shouldn't we be happy for cultural appropriation?
01:05:00.000Shouldn't we be happy that people want to embrace other cultures?
01:05:04.000So let me just say one other thing, and I'd love to.
01:05:06.000I mean, you know, the cultural appropriation, that's like this group's main argument in favor of changing the mascot.
01:05:13.000So my argument's the opposite, which is we're celebrating the tradition of Native Americans in our country enough that we want to wear it on every jersey and every t-shirt, that we respect our Native American heritage in our country, not the opposite of it, right?
01:05:25.000That and their perspective, which just to give you a little bit of help where they're coming from, they believe, and this is wrong, that white nationalist supremacists are using that as like, oh, we conquered you and now we're going to wear you as some sort of like token.
01:05:43.000But that's actually their argument, right?
01:05:45.000That we like wear these like their merit badges, like all the different land that we conquered, as if you being a 14 or 15 year old, that's the reason you want to, it's such, it's a fallacious, illogical argument.
01:05:56.000And I would hold the line on this because I'm a big believer that these names were given for a reason.
01:06:02.000Indigenous people in our country are supportive of those names staying there.
01:06:05.000And it's a good thing if we're doing it in good faith to remember our history, appreciate it, and celebrate it insofar that it's not done in a bad spirit or for a bad intent.
01:06:16.000So I hope that's somewhat helpful for you.
01:07:45.000I mean, we're going to get bonders for this.
01:07:46.000Look, let me comment on this because you actually strike a really important point here, which is number one, the way they treated Donald Trump was so unbelievably reprehensible for our country.
01:07:54.000He walked slowly down a ramp at West Point and took a sip of water, and there was a national conversation about his mental deterioration and his physical well-being, you know, kind of crumbling.
01:08:04.000And so that this idea that we can't talk about and there's no coverage whatsoever of someone literally falling up the stairs three times is pretty remarkable.
01:08:36.000And I've dealt with family members, I've dealt with friends, and I've dealt with relatives that have been in those compromised positions where they're slipping a little bit.
01:08:43.000Those people should not be in charge of high-pressure situations.
01:08:47.000And so that's the deeper point, right?
01:08:48.000I mean, we can have a little bit of fun here and there, and we should, because they were so nasty to Donald Trump that we're not going to forget that with how awful they were, and that we're going to have a little bit of lighthearted, you know, feedback there.
01:09:00.000And I would feel bad for him if he wasn't trying to destroy our country every single day.
01:10:22.000We know Georgia went from 248,000 mail-in ballots to 1.2 million mail-in ballots with a signature consent decree that was signed with Stacey Abrams' insistence with Brian Kemp and Brad Roffensperger.
01:10:34.000And we know when you allow lesser signature standards and more mail-in ballots, you're going to get more nonsense.
01:11:31.000So how many of you heard about this ridiculous idea for reparations in our country?
01:11:36.000So how are you supposed to prove that you were an ancestor of slaves?
01:11:40.000So you prove the paperwork that six generations ago, you're a descendant of a slave, but you can't get a photo ID to go vote.
01:11:47.000Like something here doesn't exactly add up.
01:11:49.000So it's either you're pro-paperwork or anti-paperwork, right?
01:11:53.000And it seems as if the left is completely contradictory there.
01:11:56.000But here's what we need more than anything else is we need to get away from these long counting periods of counting votes.
01:12:03.000We need to know who won election night.
01:12:06.000That will put everything in a shorter and more controlled environment.
01:12:11.000When you extend the period of time, you allow more external influences to pop their heads up and do things that are immoral, maybe they're illegal.
01:12:21.000And that's why the states that had their results immediately, Donald Trump won by 400,000 votes in Florida, right?
01:12:27.000Florida used to be a battleground state.
01:12:30.000And yet Donald Trump wins it by 400,000 votes.
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01:14:19.000You know, most conservatives will condemn illegal immigration.
01:14:22.000They'll advocate for building the border wall, enforcing the immigration laws we currently have.
01:14:28.000However, something that most conservatives won't address are the harmful impacts of mass legal immigration.
01:14:34.000Over the past year, we've seen millions of Americans be displaced from their jobs due to COVID.
01:14:40.000And in this past March, you stated on a podcast that America could take over 50 million immigrants over a span of 10 years.
01:14:48.000Now, as we've seen what COVID has done to this country, would you support instituting an immigration moratorium that would extend past COVID to help give time for Americans to reearn those jobs and address some of the problems that have been sprouting up here in the heartland?
01:15:58.000And I believe those of you that go borrow $30,000 to go get an engineering degree, you should get the jobs first until we reach full employment.
01:16:07.000Even then, I think that there's other aspects non-economic we have to talk about, which is culture and language and immersion and being able to bring in this mass volume of people.
01:16:17.000And so one of the main reasons why this keeps happening is because there's a bipartisan uniparty in our country that wants to keep the borders open for two different reasons, right?
01:16:30.000And so the Chamber of Commerce and the Democrat Party are able to agree on that.
01:16:34.000And so I just, I want to thank you for that question, just tweak it a little bit, but also say that we must put pressure on our elected officials to put our college graduates first.
01:17:05.000Especially when we have young aspirational graduates like you guys, and you say, okay, there's a job I'll do, but can you at least pay me a fair wage?
01:17:12.000Because I have to go service a $40,000 debt.
01:17:14.000So that's what our immigration policy should be in this country, serving our fellow countrymen, especially after the pandemic, especially after all of this.
01:17:23.000So I want to thank you for the spirit of your question, and we must always put our country first.
01:17:30.000I believe Nancy when she says that the law applies to everybody, and I believe it's illegal to harbor illegal aliens or assist illegal aliens.
01:18:00.000We should be doing all these sorts of things.
01:18:01.000That's what they did to all of us the last couple of years.
01:18:05.000And not to mention, they have a lot of explaining to when it comes to the Chinese Communist Party, a lot of explanation.
01:18:12.000And the Biden family and the way that they're catering to the Chinese Communist Party is unbelievable, and we have to keep the pressure on that.
01:18:19.000So the biggest point that you just made is we're not going to get along with the Biden administration anytime soon.
01:18:25.000They declared full-out resistance on Donald Trump from day one.
01:18:28.000Joe Biden gives this long speech about unity and bringing people together.
01:18:33.000I'm still waiting for that unity, aren't you?
01:18:36.000He's passing $1.9 trillion bills without one Republican vote.
01:18:40.000Mitch McConnell went on television yesterday and he said he has not talked to the president once since he got sworn into office.
01:18:46.000You can say whatever you want about Donald Trump.
01:18:48.000He was the most accessible, communicative president.
01:18:51.000He would call Nancy Pelosi all the time.
01:18:53.000He was always trying to make a deal for you guys, the American people.
01:18:56.000Joe Biden doesn't care about making a deal for you.
01:18:58.000He cares about power if he cares about anything, because I think he's so unbelievably confused and being manipulated by Machiavelli and sinister influences in our country.
01:19:06.000So I appreciate the essence and the spirit of the question.
01:20:47.000Allow fracking, allow exploration, allow drilling, and allow the Keystone XL pipeline.
01:20:51.000Of course, he doesn't want any of those sorts of things.
01:20:54.000He wants, though, more than anything else, he wants no more exploration at all of fossil fuels and oil and gas.
01:20:59.000He wants to go to a complete solar, wind, renewable grid altogether, and basically destroy millions of jobs.
01:21:07.000And there's so many reasons why that's actually bad for the environment and bad for humanity.
01:21:11.000And then the second thing about housing prices, or not housing prices, but housing materials, that's also because of the environmentalists.
01:21:17.000It's also because of incredible demand for housing supplies all across the country in some of the upper middle class areas in America.
01:21:26.000And it's more expensive than ever to build a home in our country.
01:21:57.000I started, or I helped start, and I'm the vice president of the first turning point chapter at my high school.
01:22:03.000And so my question is, see, we've seen so many countries in recent years start turning to socialism and socialist policies, and they completely deteriorated in a lot of the cases.
01:22:16.000So do you ever truly see America turning towards socialism?
01:22:20.000And what can we do as Gen Z and as teenagers to stop that?
01:22:24.000Yeah, so we eventually could get to socialism.
01:22:28.000I think that's something we have to worry about first is something I touched on in my remarks, is this closer to fascist corporate dominance of our country where we're ruled by 10 companies.
01:22:39.000And we're seeing that happen really quick.
01:22:41.000The wealthiest people in our country are $600 billion wealthier today than they were before the pandemic.
01:22:48.000We have less small businesses than ever before.
01:22:51.000We have less business startups than ever before.
01:22:54.000So what I'm really fearful of is almost a corporatist agenda that's okay with all this woke nonsense as long as they're maximizing their profits.
01:23:04.000Now that very well could lead to a socialist type takeover.
01:23:09.000So one thing that the corporations don't realize and the National Chamber of Commerce doesn't realize is that they are doing deals with people that actually hate their value system and hate that they exist altogether.
01:23:21.000So let me tell you what's really happening.
01:23:35.000But Bernie Sanders complaining about Amazon is a perfectly legitimate complaint.
01:23:39.000The point is that we are making socialism an easier sell to the American people because of how powerful these companies have become.
01:23:48.000So I think before we have socialism, we're going to have this intermediary of this corporate dominance of every single portion of American life.
01:23:59.000And that's not what we as conservatives should advocate for.
01:24:09.000When humanity starts to all of a sudden be under the pressure and under the tyranny of some of these corporations, we should say, hey, what tools do we have at our disposal given to us legally by the consent of the governed to allow more competition, small businesses, and push back against these sort of companies?
01:24:25.000And you guys want to know where Joe Biden got most of his money from?
01:24:35.000And so I am fearful of that in the first step before a complete and total socialist takeover.
01:24:41.000But if we don't push back against that Chamber of Commerce open-border China trade endless war agenda, then we are going to get a legitimate socialist revolution in this country, unlike anything our country has ever seen before.
01:24:56.000Now, let me tell you what the socialists are doing wrong, that if they fix, we're screwed.
01:26:34.000We want to be able to speak freely on social media.
01:26:36.000Those are the concerns of the 70 and 80 percent of the country, not repealing the estate tax or some sort of amnesty deal.
01:26:43.000The way we defeat socialism is we have tangible, specific policy items that can excite the American people that say, you know what?
01:26:50.000Yes, I want an America that has flourishing families, that make young families want to have more children, not less children.
01:26:58.000That puts the local coffee shop above the local Starbucks.
01:27:02.000That puts the local convenience store over the local Walmart.
01:27:05.000That's what the conservative movement should care about, that wants to put more investment in Springfield, Missouri, and less investment in the Kandahar Valley in Afghanistan, where you have this 20-year war that we keep on sending our people, our amazing heroes, to go die for what reason?
01:27:20.000No one can ever tell you these endless wars must end.
01:27:23.000That's what the conservative movement should stand for, and that's how we're going to defeat socialism in our country.
01:28:57.000This was never voted on by the people of our country.
01:29:00.000I think Missouri might be one of the states, I could be wrong, that passed a traditional marriage referendum that was overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States, if I'm not mistaken.
01:29:11.000And so you guys never had a chance to actually vote on it.
01:29:14.000And then all of a sudden, it just got from a top-down fiat.
01:29:17.000And it got wrongly framed as an issue that is more about, that is less about what marriage is supposed to be, which is about the raising of children and a covenant before your creator, and more about this idea that, well, love is love.
01:29:32.000You know, Turning Point USA, we have people, and we have really good friends like Dave Rubin and people that are in the movement like Rick Grinnell, who's incredibly courageous, who are openly gay.
01:29:43.000And I think those people should have a place in the conservative movement.
01:29:46.000I do not believe in a conservative movement that focuses primarily on just subtraction and division.
01:29:52.000But you asked me what I think marriage is.
01:29:53.000And with that previous statement, I will say, I will always believe that marriage is between one man and one woman and a covenant before our Creator.
01:30:12.000So I think a lot of the, I might speak for everyone here or a lot of people here, but so many around us, like people our age, they just don't care about politics, you know, right or left.
01:30:25.000You know, it seems like a lot of people, adults included sometimes, are preoccupied with TikTok, Netflix, what their favorite food is that they're going to make or buy or DoorDash, whatever.
01:30:38.000How do we convince people that the liberal agenda that you've talked about, that the degradation of culture that you've talked about, how do we turn people from this idea of bread and circuses to realizing that what we are a part of is something so much greater than TikTok?
01:30:58.000You're in the midst of what's supposed to be the continuous lockdowns nationwide, and you have people showing up to go hear someone talk about the declaration and take questions for an hour and a half.
01:31:09.000There's a sense of urgency in this country still, and we're far away from an election.
01:31:20.000And unfortunately, the greatest reason involvement is going to increase is because the left is implementing such awful ideas and immoral ideas that people are going to start to wake up.
01:32:38.000I think the conservative movement is less about opposition and more about creation of something new and exciting.
01:32:44.000Like I mentioned, I want to have flourishing families again in this country.
01:32:48.000I want to see the population rate go up, not go down, because we are on the verge of a population collapse in this country.
01:32:54.000We're having 500,000 less children this year than last year.
01:32:58.000I want our children to be so excited about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington that their parents have to calm them down at the dinner table.
01:33:06.000I want our children to love America more than their parents love America.
01:33:39.000And I'm here looking in your eyes, telling you that if you commit yourself to activism and to action and improving the welfare of the community around you, we are going to win.
01:35:54.000The traction we have at Turning Point USA and what we're doing gives me hope.
01:35:58.000And so make this the starting point of the new conservative movement that puts what right, what is right first, and your action will be amplified through everything.