The Charlie Kirk Show - Understanding the Terminal Threat of Corporatism to America—LIVE From Missouri State University

00:00:00.000 I gave a speech tonight in Missouri that I want you to hear.

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00:00:55.000 My remarks straight from Missouri.

00:00:58.000 Buckle up.

00:00:59.000 Here we go.

00:01:00.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:01:02.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:01:04.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:01:07.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:01:10.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:01:11.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:01:12.000 His 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.

00:01:21.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:30.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:33.000 It's great to be in the great state of Missouri.

00:01:36.000 Boy, I can't see how many people are here.

00:01:37.000 My goodness, it's packed.

00:01:38.000 Woo!

00:01:39.000 It's great to be here.

00:01:40.000 Can you guys hear me okay in the back?

00:01:41.000 Is that good?

00:01:42.000 Great.

00:01:43.000 Thanks for coming out tonight.

00:01:44.000 It's nice to be out in person, isn't it?

00:01:46.000 It's phenomenal.

00:01:48.000 And, you know, we're going state by state, and we are in Oklahoma yesterday.

00:01:56.000 Missouri today, Kentucky tomorrow.

00:01:56.000 It's a great state.

00:01:59.000 And we're going to states that are open, that trust their citizens to make good choices.

00:02:05.000 And you have good leaders here, and you've seen from other states how these lockdowns have destroyed the humanity in our country.

00:02:17.000 I have said from the very beginning that these lockdowns will go down as one of the worst mistakes in American history.

00:02:24.000 And 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?

00:02:36.000 Even 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.

00:02:43.000 But it goes to a deeper point that I want to explore with you tonight, which is liberty is very hard.

00:02:50.000 Liberty's not easy.

00:02:51.000 You see, America was founded on this idea of liberty and responsibility.

00:02:55.000 But in order to have liberty, you must have trust of your citizens.

00:02:59.000 Over the last year, we have seen our leaders go towards safetyism over liberty.

00:03:06.000 You see, people want to be taken care of more than they want to be free.

00:03:10.000 And 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.

00:03:20.000 You see, freedom not only requires trust, it requires politicians to understand the framework that we're in.

00:03:28.000 See, 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.

00:03:39.000 We have seen young suicides going up like we've never seen before.

00:03:44.000 And we are seeing a deterioration of our humanity with one-size-fits-all government policy intervening at once.

00:03:52.000 So the question is, Charlie, the people say all the time, Charlie, what would you have done instead?

00:03:56.000 Well, I think locking down for the first two weeks, the first month, is fine.

00:04:00.000 But 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.

00:04:12.000 As 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?

00:04:27.000 And 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.

00:04:34.000 And look, I want to be very clear.

00:04:36.000 You know, we're going through a gun debate in our country right now, and I'm going to weigh right into it.

00:04:41.000 And I think it's very important that we articulate why we have the Second Amendment.

00:04:45.000 It's not for hunting.

00:04:46.000 It's not for self-defense, for something much more important than that.

00:04:49.000 The Second Amendment is the amendment that protects all the other amendments.

00:04:53.000 Without the Second Amendment, there is no First Amendment.

00:04:55.000 There is no Fourth Amendment.

00:04:57.000 An 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.

00:05:07.000 And I want to sympathize with some people that wanted to keep the country locked down through the summer and through the fall.

00:05:13.000 The resort towards safetyism, acting as if a politician is going to come in and save you, is very tempting.

00:05:19.000 It's tempting to believe that our leaders can come in and prevent you from something dangerous possibly coming.

00:05:26.000 When 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.

00:05:34.000 And we should never lock down our churches again in our country.

00:05:40.000 But also, there's a really important component to this that we don't talk about enough, which is the family.

00:05:46.000 The family is under attack in our country right now.

00:05:49.000 And the family is supposed to go, so let's go individual, family, village, city.

00:05:55.000 That's the hierarchy of how you're supposed to build a government.

00:05:58.000 And obviously from there, county, state, federal government, we'll get into that.

00:06:03.000 However, 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. 0.98

00:06:10.000 And 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.

00:06:18.000 There are so many different things that we allow the cost of liberty to exist all the time. 0.78

00:06:22.000 A great example is how most of you got here tonight.

00:06:25.000 Automobiles.

00:06:26.000 Over 30,000 people die on the road every single year driving.

00:06:30.000 That's a lot of people.

00:06:32.000 But no reasonable person runs for office.

00:06:34.000 Well, I guess San Francisco, they do this all the time.

00:06:36.000 But no reasonable person in this part of the world says we should go get rid of cars.

00:06:40.000 Why?

00:06:41.000 Because we know that the liberty of being able to drive with the potential downside of dying in an accident is worth it.

00:06:48.000 The freedom of being able to drive, and we say we're going to trust you to make good choices.

00:06:53.000 And quite often people don't.

00:06:55.000 Now, if we were really serious about saving lives, we'd put national speed limits down to five miles an hour, not 60 miles an hour.

00:07:01.000 Now, those of you that came from Little Rock, Arkansas, where are our Arkansas friends, by the way?

00:07:04.000 Anywhere?

00:07:05.000 Right there.

00:07:05.000 Awesome.

00:07:06.000 It would have taken you three and a half days to get here.

00:07:09.000 But we say we want the liberty and the convenience to go fast so that you can live more complete and full lives.

00:07:15.000 That's what liberty is about.

00:07:17.000 But again, liberty requires people that don't want to be taken care of, but instead are able to take responsibility for their actions.

00:07:26.000 And 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.

00:07:32.000 And 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?

00:07:41.000 Like you don't have to leave your home.

00:07:44.000 And if you believe masks work, then go ahead and wear one.

00:07:47.000 I'm mask agnostic, which is a Greek word agnosis.

00:07:50.000 I don't know if they work or not.

00:07:51.000 I've seen studies that say they don't.

00:07:52.000 The point is, do not force me to wear a mask.

00:07:55.000 I thought it was my body, my choice.

00:07:57.000 Isn't that what the left always says?

00:08:03.000 And so we have seen states like Missouri handle this a lot better than states like California and New York.

00:08:11.000 I 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.

00:08:20.000 And 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? 0.66

00:08:26.000 All of a sudden, you're seeing a lot of Chicagoans come in.

00:08:29.000 And by the way, we have term limits in Illinois.

00:08:31.000 It's one term in office, one term in jail, right?

00:08:33.000 It's different than most states.

00:08:35.000 And so, now, I got to say, Missouri is competing for the corrupt politician thing, but we'll get into that.

00:08:41.000 Not quite.

00:08:42.000 Illinois still, I think, is winning.

00:08:45.000 But I want to talk about this idea of moving from state to state.

00:08:48.000 There's a lot I want to cover tonight.

00:08:49.000 I also want to read parts of the Declaration of Independence because it's so important.

00:08:52.000 We don't teach it to our young people.

00:08:54.000 And when it is taught to you, it's taught completely incorrectly from a biased perspective.

00:08:58.000 And then I obviously want to have some questions, which is always really fun.

00:09:01.000 But I want to talk about this idea of people moving from state to state.

00:09:06.000 And a lot of you are probably thinking about moving to another state or you've moved to Missouri to seek freedom or to seek liberty.

00:09:13.000 We have seen the greatest movement of people between states in the last year since like the 1860s or 1870s right after the Civil War.

00:09:20.000 We've never seen this before.

00:09:22.000 10 million people have changed their residence from New York to Florida, California to Arizona.

00:09:27.000 Our headquarters at Turning Point USA is in Arizona, and it's changing.

00:09:31.000 It's changing rapidly.

00:09:33.000 And I have a couple rules for people that go from one state to the other.

00:09:37.000 And there's three rules.

00:09:38.000 Obviously, I'm not going to put these into government edicts, but they're rules that any reasonable, respectful, and responsible person should follow.

00:09:46.000 And I think they're also applicable to how we should craft our immigration policies nationally in our country.

00:09:50.000 And the first rule is this, is that if you move, you moved for a reason. 0.72

00:09:56.000 Moving's a big deal.

00:09:57.000 Those of you that have moved before, you don't just move just for fun.

00:10:00.000 Moving, picking up your entire life, is you move for a reason.

00:10:03.000 Identify that reason.

00:10:05.000 So if you've moved from California to Arizona or if you move from Illinois to Missouri, why did you move?

00:10:10.000 Well, you probably left Illinois because of high taxes, corruption, highest property taxes, rising crime, lockdowns, and the infringing of your freedoms and liberties.

00:10:19.000 So then don't go from Illinois to Missouri and all of a sudden try to turn Missouri into Illinois.

00:10:24.000 I'm going to talk about this because it's really important.

00:10:26.000 I'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. 0.98

00:10:34.000 It's also so unbelievably foolish. 0.96

00:10:36.000 You moved for a reason. 1.00

00:10:38.000 Identify that reason and don't try to create your new state into the wasteland that you fled.

00:10:43.000 And this is happening in Arizona.

00:10:44.000 This is happening in Texas.

00:10:45.000 It's happening in Florida.

00:10:47.000 And 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.

00:10:58.000 What do you think they're going to do?

00:11:00.000 They're going to bring their values with them.

00:11:02.000 They're going to bring their ideas with them.

00:11:05.000 Instead, I'm all for job creation.

00:11:07.000 I'm all for economic development.

00:11:09.000 But I also think that there's such differences in the way that we view the basic American value system.

00:11:15.000 We're going to build that out tonight of what that actually is, that supersede the profit motive.

00:11:20.000 You 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.

00:11:29.000 And I'm going to talk about what that means because I'm all for profits.

00:11:32.000 I'm all for entrepreneurship.

00:11:33.000 But 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.

00:11:41.000 You're a corporatist.

00:11:42.000 It's a very big difference.

00:11:44.000 Okay, the second rule for when you move state to state, let's say someone from Illinois moves to Missouri.

00:11:49.000 They say, oh, yeah, I'm going to change Missouri.

00:11:51.000 I mean, they're all going to eat kale and vegan or whatever they're talking about.

00:11:55.000 Try to get rid of cows because they're somehow destroying the world.

00:11:58.000 Your change is likely worse.

00:12:00.000 Your 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.

00:12:07.000 There's a reason why you're moving, remember?

00:12:09.000 And we're seeing this happen in real time.

00:12:11.000 This is why Georgia all of a sudden is different.

00:12:14.000 This is why Arizona is all of a sudden is different.

00:12:16.000 And that's the third rule.

00:12:18.000 And this is something we don't talk about enough.

00:12:20.000 And 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.

00:12:35.000 So 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.

00:12:46.000 All 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?

00:12:55.000 All of a sudden, you're the ones that are encroaching in other people's lifestyles saying that I know better than you do.

00:13:02.000 And that, in essence, I believe, is immoral, especially when you look at what's happening at the rate of which it's occurring.

00:13:07.000 And it's amazing because if California and New York and Illinois were such wonderful examples for public policy, they would not be losing population.

00:13:17.000 Instead, the outward migration from these states is so unbelievably telling.

00:13:21.000 And I think all of those rules also apply to our international immigration system.

00:13:26.000 Now, this is something that conservatives need to get very clear about.

00:13:29.000 I called for an immigration moratorium last year as soon as the pandemic hit.

00:13:33.000 If 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.

00:13:49.000 So we love free speech in the conservative movement, right?

00:13:53.000 But if you don't share a language with your fellow countrymen, how can you express and share ideas?

00:13:58.000 So we talk about speech, but let's talk about the moral imperative of speech.

00:14:02.000 Why do we like freedom of speech?

00:14:04.000 We like freedom of speech because it's the best way that we can govern ourselves without actually having to get to physical conflict.

00:14:12.000 Dialogue, 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.

00:14:23.000 Our capacity to say, you know what, debate me.

00:14:26.000 Come up and tell me why your ideas are better.

00:14:28.000 But 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.

00:14:42.000 So we talk about censorship a lot in the conservative movement.

00:14:46.000 Do you know what the number one form of censorship is in the country?

00:14:49.000 It's not from Google.

00:14:50.000 It's not from social media, and I'm going to get to that.

00:14:52.000 It's self-censorship.

00:14:54.000 I see that beautiful Trump hat right up there.

00:14:58.000 Maybe you have the courage, maybe not.

00:14:59.000 I know some people, if you're wearing the Trump pet, you might just put it aside before you go in the grocery store.

00:15:03.000 So you don't want to deal with it.

00:15:04.000 Nope, you're okay.

00:15:05.000 You're more courageous than I am.

00:15:07.000 But 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?

00:15:20.000 The answer is almost every single person in this room, whether your hands go up or not.

00:15:24.000 That form of self-censorship is such an unbelievably dangerous trend that's happening in our country.

00:15:30.000 And what does that result in?

00:15:32.000 That 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.

00:15:43.000 So I want to get into that even further, which is, there's so many things I want to get into.

00:15:47.000 And I'm trying to make every one of these speeches different from yesterday.

00:15:50.000 But I do want to get into this, which is there are two threats facing the conservative movement right now.

00:15:55.000 And so I grew up in a conservative movement where we were very focused on overreach of government power.

00:16:01.000 And we should be.

00:16:02.000 Abuse of the IRS, abuse of the federal agencies, big government and socialism being a threat.

00:16:08.000 We should stay focused on that.

00:16:10.000 But I'm here to tell you that there's an equal or greater threat against our value system, against our families, against our way of life.

00:16:17.000 And that is corporations.

00:16:19.000 I don't say this lightly.

00:16:21.000 I will make the argument that certain corporations in our country are more powerful than our own government.

00:16:27.000 That's hard to say.

00:16:28.000 We as conservators are supposed to be free market people, right?

00:16:31.000 We're supposed to always be on the side of the private entity.

00:16:35.000 But when Google has 92% of all search results, is that a free market?

00:16:40.000 Or is that a monopoly?

00:16:41.000 It's a monopoly.

00:16:42.000 And they have no interest whatsoever in allowing dissenting ideas or discourse, exhibit A, this last election cycle.

00:16:49.000 And make no mistake, I will continue to talk about this last election as being the most interfered election in American history.

00:16:56.000 And I encourage you to never give up on that.

00:17:01.000 This last election, somehow, Rudy Giuliani came in possession of Hunter Biden's laptop.

00:17:10.000 You remember this story?

00:17:11.000 It's as if it just disappeared.

00:17:13.000 You have a laptop with very questionable material on that.

00:17:16.000 I'll just say that.

00:17:18.000 Who's the son of the next president and now the president of the United States?

00:17:23.000 Not one media outlet is interested in covering it, except Fox News and Tucker Carlson, and God bless him for that.

00:17:29.000 Former 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.

00:17:42.000 He says that on network television.

00:17:44.000 There's emails to prove it from this laptop.

00:17:47.000 And if you said it on any social media network, you would lose your account instantaneously.

00:17:51.000 How many of you have seen tech bias or social media censorship in one way or the other?

00:17:55.000 I mean, the president literally doesn't have a Twitter account.

00:17:57.000 Former president literally doesn't have a Twitter account.

00:18:00.000 These companies have far too much power.

00:18:02.000 So we are conservatives.

00:18:04.000 Why?

00:18:05.000 First of all, we believe two things that the left does not believe.

00:18:09.000 There is a God, and you are not him.

00:18:16.000 We also believe in the laws of nature and nature is God.

00:18:18.000 And we'll get to that.

00:18:19.000 It's very important.

00:18:20.000 We're actually in almost a theological debate in this country, and most conservatives and Republicans refuse to admit that.

00:18:27.000 It doesn't matter your religious belief.

00:18:29.000 We are arguing human nature, whether you realize it or not in our country.

00:18:32.000 We have an answer for those things as conservatives.

00:18:34.000 We recognize our rights come from God.

00:18:36.000 So we are worried that the government will shut us up.

00:18:40.000 We'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.

00:18:47.000 We should be equally worried when a corporation comes in and says you're not allowed to speak.

00:18:52.000 So 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.

00:19:02.000 And that second part is usually a no-go zone.

00:19:05.000 And I have to say, your wonderful senator Josh Hawley does a great job of articulating this.

00:19:11.000 I 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.

00:19:20.000 Have your senators back.

00:19:21.000 Enough of this cancel culture nonsense.

00:19:24.000 He's a smart man.

00:19:26.000 He loves his country.

00:19:27.000 He needs your help.

00:19:28.000 Stand by him.

00:19:29.000 He's a good man.

00:19:33.000 And he articulates this, that we as conservatives should care about family formation.

00:19:38.000 We should care about natural rights given to us by our creator.

00:19:41.000 And we seek to preserve those rights regardless of who threatens them.

00:19:46.000 So I have here the Declaration of Independence.

00:19:48.000 And if you're in an education environment that is not teaching the Declaration properly, you're not just missing out.

00:19:56.000 It's a disservice to our country.

00:19:57.000 And 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.

00:20:04.000 And by the way, we need to double our homeschooling population in the next couple years in our country.

00:20:08.000 I'm a big homeschooling fan.

00:20:11.000 But one of the biggest issues in our country is that we are teaching our children to hate America.

00:20:18.000 And it comes with the slandering of the founding fathers, their character, their values, and their intent.

00:20:27.000 And 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.

00:20:34.000 Now, what is beauty?

00:20:36.000 Do we even teach that in schools anymore?

00:20:37.000 That which is perfected in being.

00:20:39.000 This is a nearly perfect document for what it was trying to do.

00:20:43.000 It has three parts in the Declaration.

00:20:45.000 We celebrate it every July 4th.

00:20:47.000 1776 was a big year for humanity.

00:20:49.000 It was also the year that the Wealth of Nations was written by Adam Smith.

00:20:53.000 It was also the year that Thomas Paine officially published Common Sense.

00:20:56.000 And it culminated in that July 4th moment where they signed what could have been their death certificate.

00:21:03.000 Courageous men pursuing the good of all humanity.

00:21:07.000 Could have been a death certificate, ended up being a birth certificate.

00:21:11.000 What is courage?

00:21:12.000 Doing the right thing when you don't know the results.

00:21:15.000 That's what courage is.

00:21:16.000 We don't have enough courageous leaders right now in Washington.

00:21:20.000 People always, well, I'm only going to act if I know how it's going to end.

00:21:24.000 The 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.

00:21:30.000 That's courage.

00:21:31.000 The founding fathers had courage because they didn't know how this was going to end.

00:21:34.000 And it's written in such beautiful prose and form by one of the most brilliant men ever to live, Thomas Jefferson.

00:21:41.000 Now, I encourage all of you to read the original draft of the Declaration.

00:21:45.000 They don't teach this in many schools.

00:21:46.000 Did 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?

00:21:56.000 Probably didn't know that about Thomas Jefferson.

00:21:58.000 They say, oh, he's a racist. 0.98

00:22:00.000 He was terrible.

00:22:01.000 Very complicated person, aren't we all?

00:22:04.000 He 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.

00:22:24.000 It starts when in the course of human events.

00:22:26.000 Let's stop there.

00:22:27.000 What does that mean?

00:22:28.000 This document's applicable to all people, all places, all times.

00:22:32.000 He didn't just say, hey, King George, we got a problem here.

00:22:35.000 He's making a big argument.

00:22:36.000 He's saying what's happening right here in America is bigger than just America.

00:22:41.000 This is about how human beings deserve to be governed.

00:22:45.000 That's a really big argument.

00:22:47.000 That's not just saying like you're doing some bad things.

00:22:49.000 He gets to that later in the document, right?

00:22:51.000 He lists all the complaints, but he starts as big as someone can say.

00:22:55.000 He says, it becomes necessary.

00:22:57.000 Wow.

00:22:57.000 Necessary.

00:22:58.000 Not just that it becomes optional.

00:23:00.000 He'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.

00:23:10.000 For 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.

00:23:24.000 That ends up being the inspiration for a large part of the U.S. Constitution, to which the laws of nature and nature is God.

00:23:31.000 Wow, that is that a big statement.

00:23:33.000 What are the laws of nature?

00:23:35.000 Well, 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.

00:23:47.000 As a side note, you guys do know that there's the laws of the left, too, right?

00:23:51.000 Which is everything they touch ends up being destroyed.

00:23:53.000 So that's the laws of the left.

00:23:54.000 It's true.

00:23:55.000 And they somewhat knew that.

00:23:57.000 I'm half kidding when I say that.

00:23:59.000 And nature's God.

00:24:01.000 You know, God is mentioned four times in the Declaration.

00:24:04.000 God, the Creator, God, the lawgiver, God, the executor, God, the interpreter of the law.

00:24:07.000 Huh.

00:24:08.000 I wonder where you get that for the three branches of government.

00:24:10.000 Where do they get that from?

00:24:10.000 Straight out of Isaiah.

00:24:11.000 These were Bible-believing men.

00:24:13.000 Don't let your professors tell you otherwise.

00:24:15.000 A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

00:24:23.000 What Thomas Jefferson is doing here is basically saying, King George, you're not in charge.

00:24:29.000 God is.

00:24:30.000 It's the first people to try to peacefully separate from a despotic tyrant and say, we can do this better.

00:24:38.000 Now, the obvious question is, where did they get the courage to do this?

00:24:42.000 Black 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.

00:24:53.000 The 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.

00:25:01.000 Then he says, we hold these truths to be self-evident.

00:25:03.000 Whoa, that's a very big statement.

00:25:06.000 Where all of a sudden they're saying, no, no, no, no.

00:25:08.000 Every human being using reason knows that men deserve to be free.

00:25:14.000 This 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.

00:25:27.000 That all men are created equal.

00:25:29.000 We'll get to that later.

00:25:30.000 That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.

00:25:33.000 You guys know this.

00:25:35.000 That among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:25:38.000 John Locke beautifully put that.

00:25:39.000 So what's the significance of this, and how does it apply to us today?

00:25:43.000 Basically, 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.

00:25:55.000 The powerful people are only there because of the consent of the governed.

00:25:59.000 They require our permission.

00:26:02.000 That the sovereign is us.

00:26:04.000 It's not Mark Zuckerberg.

00:26:05.000 It's not Larry Page.

00:26:06.000 It's not Jeff Bezos.

00:26:08.000 And it certainly isn't Joe Biden.

00:26:10.000 It comes from us, the people.

00:26:12.000 And 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.

00:26:23.000 That this document became alive when Donald Trump ran for office.

00:26:28.000 All 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,

00:26:56.000 or we get a public storage unit because we have so much garbage that we can't even take it.

00:27:00.000 Meanwhile, our communities are devoid of purpose.

00:27:03.000 Our churches are crumbling, and our families are deteriorating.

00:27:07.000 Donald Trump said this bargain is not working for the American people.

00:27:11.000 And then finally, you look at what the Constitution aimed to do.

00:27:15.000 And 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.

00:27:34.000 The argument that I'm submitting to you tonight, though, is for a variety of different reasons.

00:27:38.000 It's government and these massive corporations.

00:27:42.000 That the promise of the declaration, when Thomas Jefferson wrote this to King George, we need to write our own declaration to the tech companies.

00:27:50.000 That when you say our rights are being infringed upon, it's happening slowly from the federal government.

00:27:57.000 We should watch out for it.

00:27:58.000 But what do we have as a check and balance against Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google?

00:28:05.000 The answer is next to nothing.

00:28:07.000 So 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.

00:28:20.000 I am going to preserve natural rights and natural freedoms over transnational corporate profits for people that hate us and do not share our values.

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00:30:00.000 If you're in school right now, you're probably learning critical race theory.

00:30:04.000 I'm not sure if they're teaching at Missouri State.

00:30:06.000 I'm sure they are.

00:30:07.000 And by the way, I want to use this opportunity to thank our amazing purple shirt volunteers.

00:30:10.000 Thank you guys for all the hard work to put this event together.

00:30:14.000 Critical race theory is taking over our country.

00:30:17.000 I did a whole video on this, and this is the one thing you're not supposed to talk about, so happy to talk about it tonight.

00:30:23.000 Whatever.

00:30:24.000 The death of George Floyd, you've all been lied to.

00:30:27.000 There's a lot more to that story.

00:30:29.000 I'm not saying that Derek Chauvin acted properly or perfectly.

00:30:32.000 In fact, I wouldn't make that argument.

00:30:34.000 But I encourage all of you to watch the video that I published and just look at the facts and the evidence behind it.

00:30:39.000 He was probably dying of a drug overdose before the police ever came in contact with him.

00:30:43.000 He was not racially targeted.

00:30:45.000 There is zero evidence to suggest that whatsoever.

00:30:48.000 George Floyd asked to be put on the ground seven times and said, I can't breathe before they even laid hands on him.

00:30:54.000 And putting your knee on the back of someone's neck is actually within the Minneapolis handbook of proper behavior.

00:31:01.000 Did he probably put it too long and he was probably guilty of manslaughter?

00:31:04.000 Let the jury decide that.

00:31:06.000 But all of that extra nuance behind that was never communicated by the most powerful people in the country.

00:31:12.000 Why?

00:31:13.000 Because 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.

00:31:26.000 This is controlling our corporations.

00:31:28.000 This is controlling parts of our military.

00:31:30.000 This is controlling almost every single aspect of human life as we know it.

00:31:35.000 And it's part of what I call the woke industrial complex.

00:31:39.000 Here's the best example.

00:31:40.000 When Coca-Cola brings in Robin DiAngelo, did you see this example the other day? 0.94

00:31:45.000 They bring in Robin DiAngelo to teach all their employees that whiteness is a cancer that must be abolished. 0.89

00:31:52.000 That's true, that whiteness means to be colonialist, means to be oppressive, and that the problem will never be solved. 0.99

00:32:00.000 What a wonderful business model, by the way, right? 1.00

00:32:02.000 To 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.

00:32:11.000 I mean, it is the ultimate business model, right?

00:32:14.000 That person will be rich forever. 0.99

00:32:15.000 Robin DiAngelo, who wrote the pile of garbage called White Fragility. 0.96

00:32:18.000 And I'm not sure if you guys are forced to read that. 0.97

00:32:20.000 You should not, I guess you could read it for humor or satire.

00:32:23.000 And so these ideas must be confronted.

00:32:27.000 I 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.

00:32:41.000 So what is critical race theory?

00:32:43.000 Critical 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.

00:33:00.000 They'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.

00:33:12.000 To implement it as public policy is evil and it's immoral.

00:33:15.000 Basically, they were saying you must take into effect people's circumstances, their way of life, before you try and put forward sentencing guidelines.

00:33:23.000 I reject that.

00:33:24.000 I think justice should be blind.

00:33:25.000 That's how it started.

00:33:27.000 Where it is now is it was implemented as critical race theory, which embraces the Marxist struggle of the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat.

00:33:36.000 Proletariat being the working man, bourgeoisie being the owners of the means of production.

00:33:42.000 This is something that Karl Marx and Engels talked about in Das Capital in the Communist Manifesto.

00:33:47.000 And they were wrong about a lot of things.

00:33:48.000 They were right about a couple of things.

00:33:50.000 Happy to get into that if anyone's interested.

00:33:51.000 They'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.

00:34:01.000 And happy to break that apart if people are interested.

00:34:03.000 The point is that the Marxists believe that struggle is inevitable.

00:34:08.000 And 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.

00:34:22.000 And they hit a soft spot, didn't they?

00:34:25.000 They used our best intentions against us.

00:34:30.000 You see, they tried the Occupy Wall Street movement.

00:34:32.000 You remember that?

00:34:32.000 They tried to take over the country by saying we want more stuff and get money away from the rich.

00:34:36.000 It didn't work.

00:34:37.000 Why didn't it work?

00:34:38.000 Because we have a vibrant middle class, and most people say, you know, I'm actually going to keep on working hard.

00:34:43.000 And I think that there's some problems with our system, but I don't want to burn it all down to the ground.

00:34:47.000 Go get a job.

00:34:48.000 Like, that was basically the dismissal of the Occupy Wall Street movement for good reason, right?

00:34:52.000 Then they tried it with the Me Too movement, turning men against women.

00:34:55.000 It didn't work because they tried to slander an innocent man, Brett Kavanaugh, and they failed in public fashion, unlike ever before.

00:35:02.000 And people realize there's more nuance to this, which is we shouldn't believe men or believe women.

00:35:07.000 We should believe facts.

00:35:08.000 We should have cross-examination of witnesses and due process. 1.00

00:35:11.000 And if there is a scumbag out there, put them in jail forever. 1.00

00:35:13.000 But we're not going to redefine our entire society just because of some really angry women activists that have taken over our colleges, right? 1.00

00:35:19.000 Like, we're not going to do that. 0.99

00:35:20.000 And we should be unafraid to say that.

00:35:22.000 And so, but then they found, and this has been boiling for many years.

00:35:28.000 And they found a sweet spot, which is that no one in this room wants to be called the R-word.

00:35:36.000 No one. 1.00

00:35:38.000 For good reason.

00:35:39.000 Because that is the mark that will destroy your livelihood.

00:35:44.000 And it's basically a public condemnation, as close to Circe and Game of Thrones walking through the city as you can imagine.

00:35:53.000 If you guys don't get the reference, fine, if you get it, you know exactly what I mean.

00:35:56.000 That you're a bad person. 0.99

00:35:58.000 We're going to destroy your life. 0.99

00:35:59.000 No one wants to be called the R-word.

00:36:01.000 So 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.

00:36:12.000 And then basically it's like, I'm not going to challenge it because they must be right because they call themselves anti-racists. 0.60

00:36:18.000 Most ridiculous thing that I've ever heard. 0.98

00:36:19.000 They're actually the bigots, by the way. 0.99

00:36:22.000 They're the ones that want to classify people based on skin color.

00:36:28.000 And let me be very clear.

00:36:31.000 If you harbor racial resentment against any form of people, you have a lot of work to do.

00:36:37.000 You have a character improvement plan you must go on.

00:36:39.000 You have apologies you must offer.

00:36:41.000 You have repentance you must go through.

00:36:44.000 I encourage you to get back in contact with your Creator through His Son and intermediary, Jesus Christ.

00:36:49.000 I mean that because racism is a sin.

00:36:51.000 It's a real thing.

00:36:52.000 And you should, if that is you.

00:36:55.000 But, and here's the but that people don't say.

00:36:59.000 Your mere existence as a white person does not mean that you are a racist.

00:37:04.000 It doesn't. 0.51

00:37:07.000 In fact, the categorization of all white people being racist is in itself racist.

00:37:15.000 But that's not what they view as racist.

00:37:20.000 They view racism not as a singular person harboring evil, sinister stereotypes against another person.

00:37:30.000 They view racism as a power struggle.

00:37:33.000 Going 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.

00:37:43.000 That is a sloppy way to view the world.

00:37:45.000 In fact, that's a dangerous, imprecise way to view any sort of thing in our country.

00:37:50.000 And here's the danger in this.

00:37:52.000 We're talking about race way too much in our country.

00:37:55.000 Way too much. 0.96

00:37:56.000 They're trying to distract you away from real issues.

00:38:00.000 Like more young people are committing suicide than ever before.

00:38:03.000 Like violent crime is going up.

00:38:05.000 The divorce rate is going up.

00:38:06.000 We have a million abortions in our country every single year.

00:38:09.000 All of those things are infinitely more important than some sort of subconscious racial bias training.

00:38:14.000 Like, give me a break. 0.95

00:38:15.000 If you care about black lives, you'd want to end abortion in our country and stop the slaughter of black children in the womb. 0.99

00:38:23.000 This 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. 0.91

00:38:34.000 And his perspective is the right one, which is that this ideology is not about progress.

00:38:40.000 It's regressive in nature.

00:38:42.000 It's about having you categorize other people based on things they can't control.

00:38:48.000 That is not the country I want to live in.

00:38:50.000 And that is not the country that we as conservatives want to embrace.

00:38:53.000 And I'll end with this before we go to questions.

00:38:56.000 For all the liberals or Democrats or whatever, the leftists watching on the live stream are here in the audience tonight.

00:39:01.000 Let me tell you a story about the French Revolution.

00:39:04.000 Because I know it's tempting if you're on the left to use this moment, this revolution, to get power.

00:39:10.000 That's what they're doing, right?

00:39:11.000 They're trying to seize all of this together.

00:39:13.000 And basically, by the way, if you have a BLM sign in your yard, basically it's just like, look how good of a person I am.

00:39:19.000 That's basically what they're trying to say, right?

00:39:21.000 Cut it out.

00:39:22.000 The leftists that are trying to seize this virtue-signaling moral plateau, look how good of a person I am.

00:39:29.000 Here is a rule that replicates itself all throughout history: that the left will be devoured by the beast of their own creation.

00:39:38.000 The French Revolution happened in the same time period of the American Revolution, right afterwards.

00:39:42.000 It was a different type of revolution, though.

00:39:44.000 It was not one that pursued liberty and freedom.

00:39:47.000 It was more based in revenge and overthrowing an aristocracy.

00:39:51.000 The Jacobins were the ones that were the main thrust behind the French Revolution.

00:39:56.000 Two philosophers in particular were the philosophical underpinnings of the French Revolution. 0.97

00:40:01.000 One being Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who a lot of you are probably learning in your philosophy classes right now, who's complete garbage.

00:40:07.000 And then the other one, Montesquieu, a French judge who our founders liked, but they misapplied a lot of his texts.

00:40:12.000 Jean-Jacques Rousseau preferred the primitive over the civilized.

00:40:15.000 He preferred the infant over the adult.

00:40:17.000 He preferred the adulterous lover over the loyally married spouse.

00:40:22.000 He wrote the second best-selling book in the 1800s was his book, basically glamorizing the romantic novel of committing adultery.

00:40:30.000 I kid you not.

00:40:32.000 The title escapes me, but he was very big in trying to deconstruct Christian norms. 0.76

00:40:36.000 It's actually 1700s, not 1800s.

00:40:38.000 And so the French Revolution starts, and a guy named Robespierre becomes the leader of the French Revolution.

00:40:45.000 He popularized the guillotine, public executions.

00:40:50.000 We must make people known.

00:40:51.000 They were so committed to revolutionary change in the French Revolution, they changed time.

00:40:57.000 I kid you not.

00:40:58.000 They got rid of the seven-day calendar and they went to a 10-day-a-week calendar.

00:41:02.000 They said, we must change everything down to time itself.

00:41:05.000 Now, Robespierre was an outspoken revolutionary.

00:41:09.000 But like all revolutions and beasts you create, things have a tendency not to go well.

00:41:14.000 See, the Jacobins said, that guy has too much power.

00:41:16.000 We don't like him.

00:41:18.000 So they one day staged a coup.

00:41:20.000 They brought him up to the very same guillotine that he created where he killed the French aristocracy. 0.85

00:41:25.000 And they cut Robespierre's head off. 0.50

00:41:28.000 And they cheered for 10 minutes, uninterrupted. 0.80

00:41:32.000 The beast you create will eventually devour you.

00:41:37.000 So 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.

00:41:47.000 This is a movement of chaos and deconstruction.

00:41:50.000 This is not a movement of order and decency and respect and dialogue. 0.82

00:41:53.000 It is one that is most similar to the French Revolution.

00:41:56.000 And how did the French Revolution end?

00:41:58.000 When 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.

00:42:04.000 You want a despot to take over, have everything fall apart, and that's how you get a Napoleon.

00:42:09.000 And that's how Napoleon came to power: you have that chaos everywhere.

00:42:12.000 You see, the left, they want that dictatorial control.

00:42:15.000 They desire it.

00:42:15.000 They do.

00:42:16.000 We, as conservatives, are like, no, I want to start a family, have kids, grow my church, improve my community, start a business.

00:42:24.000 For us, political power is just a means to living a better life.

00:42:28.000 For them, political power is everything.

00:42:30.000 And so, for the leftists out there that are tempted by critical race theory in this woke industrial complex, I'm warning you, stop it.

00:42:38.000 Come 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.

00:42:51.000 And that is the right side of history.

00:42:54.000 All right, let's get questions.

00:42:56.000 Let's get to as many as possible.

00:42:58.000 So, questions, not speeches, and right up here.

00:43:01.000 Sorry.

00:43:02.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:43:03.000 Thanks for coming for one.

00:43:05.000 How do you keep going forward with everything going on right now?

00:43:09.000 Just me personally?

00:43:10.000 Like, what really drives you as a person?

00:43:13.000 Yeah, so it's a good question.

00:43:14.000 I mean, people ask me all the time: am I optimistic or pessimistic?

00:43:18.000 And that's basically, you know what they're really asking when they ask that?

00:43:21.000 Hey, can you give me an excuse to give up?

00:43:24.000 That's what they're saying.

00:43:25.000 You know it's true.

00:43:26.000 You're like, come on, if you say it's bad enough, now I could just go back and try to not be eaten by the beast, right?

00:43:33.000 I refuse to answer that question.

00:43:34.000 I have reasons for optimism.

00:43:35.000 I have reasons for pessimism.

00:43:36.000 The reasons for pessimism is the left controls everything.

00:43:40.000 It's probably pretty pessimistic.

00:43:42.000 Reason 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.

00:43:49.000 And we know who these people are.

00:43:51.000 We know that they do not want our, they do not have our best intentions at heart.

00:43:54.000 And let me get to that.

00:43:55.000 How many of you have heard this phrase, we want the same thing, we have different ways of getting there.

00:44:02.000 I was growing, that was what my political science teacher told me.

00:44:05.000 And I think that's probably fair for some people on the left.

00:44:09.000 It's not the categorization that's accurate of the current leaders of the left in our country.

00:44:15.000 They want a completely different America than what we want.

00:44:19.000 They do not want the same end result. 0.95

00:44:21.000 They're perfectly okay with 1 million abortions a year.

00:44:24.000 I'm not. 0.99

00:44:24.000 They're perfectly okay with men competing in women's sports. 0.99

00:44:29.000 They'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.

00:44:40.000 I'm afraid to say that.

00:44:43.000 And so that's not what we believe in.

00:44:45.000 Cambridge, Massachusetts comes out today and says that they now recognize legally this phrase called polyamorous marriages.

00:44:55.000 Now, what else is in Cambridge, Massachusetts?

00:44:58.000 Harvard University, exactly. 0.99

00:45:01.000 You want to know the dumbest ideas in America come from? 1.00

00:45:05.000 It's from Harvard. 1.00

00:45:06.000 You know why?

00:45:07.000 Well, I believe that God is the source of all wisdom.

00:45:10.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of all things that are eternal and do not change.

00:45:13.000 There's two types of knowledge: there's practical knowledge and eternal knowledge.

00:45:18.000 Well, there's no God at Harvard, so there's no wisdom.

00:45:21.000 So 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.

00:45:32.000 You see, this is something that our schools do not teach well.

00:45:35.000 They actually teach the opposite.

00:45:36.000 They teach you that human nature can be changed.

00:45:39.000 Now, let me be clear.

00:45:41.000 Human character and human decisions can be developed over time based on the society and the education systems we have.

00:45:48.000 Absolutely.

00:45:48.000 But who we are naturally, our raw material is unchanged.

00:45:52.000 This is a biblical view of the world.

00:45:54.000 It's original sin, that we're broken by nature.

00:45:58.000 You see, the Rassoians, the Marxists, the far left, they don't have that view.

00:46:02.000 Their view is that human beings are naturally good.

00:46:07.000 We believe that human beings are basically bad.

00:46:10.000 Now, 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?

00:46:22.000 If they're naturally good, did you teach them to manipulate one parent against another?

00:46:27.000 Or did they know that naturally?

00:46:31.000 Now, of course, they're a byproduct of somewhat of their circumstances of their environment.

00:46:36.000 But only Americans can believe that human beings are naturally good.

00:46:40.000 You know why?

00:46:41.000 Because in America, people are actually pretty decent to each other.

00:46:45.000 You travel the rest of the world, you'll have a completely different perspective.

00:46:49.000 Human beings in a state of nature are in need of character development.

00:46:53.000 They're in need of parents.

00:46:54.000 They're in need of the family structure.

00:46:56.000 And we're losing that very quickly in our country.

00:46:58.000 So to answer the question, how do I keep going?

00:47:00.000 I have no choice.

00:47:01.000 I don't care if we're going to lose or win.

00:47:02.000 I'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.

00:47:10.000 They want us to give up.

00:47:11.000 They want us to believe that we're never going to win again.

00:47:13.000 But we must be of good cheer.

00:47:14.000 And let me say one last thing on this.

00:47:16.000 Do you notice how angry these people are?

00:47:18.000 They control everything.

00:47:21.000 I've never seen winners be so angry.

00:47:23.000 We're the losers and we're happier than ever.

00:47:26.000 That goes to show you who's on the right side.

00:47:28.000 Thank you.

00:47:31.000 And by the way, if you disagree, feel free to cut it in line.

00:47:35.000 I'm happy to, yeah, cool.

00:47:36.000 Okay.

00:47:37.000 Yes.

00:47:37.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:47:38.000 Thank you for taking my question.

00:47:40.000 You talked a lot about race today.

00:47:42.000 And 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?

00:47:56.000 I just don't see the math.

00:47:57.000 And I've been wondering a while.

00:47:58.000 I'm wondering if you figured it out yet or not.

00:48:00.000 No, so what you're, yeah, I sympathize with what you're being, you're being sarcastic, obviously, right?

00:48:05.000 So that's what they try to throw at me.

00:48:06.000 Let me be very clear that there are different cultures in our country.

00:48:11.000 Of course there are.

00:48:12.000 There'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.

00:48:22.000 What I reject, though, is the hyper-racialization of every single human being. 0.54

00:48:28.000 And so we would be a fool not to recognize cultural differences, right? 0.93

00:48:31.000 Those obviously exist.

00:48:33.000 What 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.

00:48:42.000 So I appreciate the lighthearted, sarcastic question.

00:48:45.000 I haven't been able to figure that out either.

00:48:46.000 God bless you, men.

00:48:47.000 Thank you.

00:48:51.000 Hi, I'm actually more libertarian in my views, so I agree with most things.

00:48:56.000 When it comes to the topic of abortion, I'm agnostic, so I might look at life a little bit differently than you.

00:49:02.000 I agree if you do the deed, that you should have to suffer the consequences.

00:49:06.000 I give you that.

00:49:09.000 And I've seen Ben Shapiro dismiss the people that have been raped and didn't have a choice in that.

00:49:15.000 So how would abortion look to you as law for those kind of people if you want to get rid of all of it?

00:49:25.000 If there's a rapist, how likely are they to be convicted?

00:49:29.000 And there's a time limit.

00:49:31.000 Just so I know where you're coming from, when does life begin?

00:49:35.000 At birth, when there's a heartbeat, yes.

00:49:37.000 Okay, heartbeat.

00:49:38.000 So you said birth and heartbeat.

00:49:39.000 Those are two different things.

00:49:40.000 So heartbeat can be as early as three weeks to six weeks.

00:49:44.000 Birth is nine months, so which is. 0.68

00:49:46.000 I'm saying when there's a heartbeat, which is usually when you can tell you're pregnant. 0.95

00:49:50.000 So why heartbeat? 0.99

00:49:52.000 Because that's when.

00:49:55.000 Well, okay, that's fair.

00:49:57.000 Because if you see other forms of life.

00:49:59.000 So basically at conception, then I can.

00:50:01.000 Okay, cool.

00:50:01.000 Got it.

00:50:02.000 I can give you that.

00:50:03.000 Thank you.

00:50:04.000 I agree.

00:50:05.000 So let's go from there.

00:50:07.000 And it's a well-intentioned question, so we're going to work through this together, right?

00:50:11.000 Yeah.

00:50:11.000 Is human life that can't defend itself worthy of protection?

00:50:17.000 If it is not dependent on another life.

00:50:19.000 Got it. 1.00

00:50:20.000 So should we get rid of every mentally handicapped person in the country that's dependent on a caregiver? 1.00

00:50:25.000 Not if there are people that are willing to take care of them. 0.99

00:50:28.000 Okay, so it's dependent then on the willingness of the host.

00:50:31.000 Correct.

00:50:32.000 Okay, so the morality of the human being is based on whether or not the host wants that person or not.

00:50:38.000 Correct. 1.00

00:50:38.000 So 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. 1.00

00:50:45.000 No, because there's people willing to take care of them that are not.

00:50:48.000 There are millions of people that want to adopt babies right now.

00:50:51.000 That's what I'm saying.

00:50:52.000 There are people willing to.

00:50:54.000 Right?

00:50:57.000 And 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.

00:51:07.000 That body does not want that.

00:51:10.000 Got it. 0.99

00:51:10.000 So how many sets of DNA are present when a woman is pregnant? 0.99

00:51:17.000 I guess I don't know. 0.91

00:51:18.000 So do you have a moral right to choose the future of another person's DNA?

00:51:23.000 If I am the host of that body, yes.

00:51:25.000 Got it.

00:51:26.000 So what percentage is that baby, the mothers or the fathers?

00:51:32.000 Well, if it was a rapist, then it's the mothers.

00:51:35.000 The father should have no choice in that.

00:51:37.000 Okay.

00:51:38.000 So your moral argument, I'm not saying it's a clean, it's not an easy thing to say, but here's my perspective.

00:51:45.000 Okay.

00:51:45.000 Life of the mother, that is a very rare instance in case, right?

00:51:49.000 Very rare. 0.51

00:51:50.000 Rape is also extraordinarily rare when it comes to abortions in our country.

00:51:54.000 It's less than 1%. 0.88

00:51:55.000 It's less than 1% of the time.

00:51:56.000 It does happen.

00:51:58.000 They are important.

00:51:59.000 Yes, very rare.

00:52:00.000 And I have met some amazing adults and amazing people that were survivors and were babies that were born conceived out of a sin.

00:52:09.000 How does doing a wrong after a wrong equal a right?

00:52:12.000 And I know some people who have been raped, and they are important too.

00:52:16.000 I agree with you, totally.

00:52:18.000 But also, a termination of a life because of a crime, in my opinion, is not a justified reason to terminate that life.

00:52:26.000 So you would force every person to have a baby.

00:52:30.000 What's your stance? 0.87

00:52:31.000 I would grant life to a child that otherwise would not have it.

00:52:34.000 But here's my question.

00:52:36.000 Let's take a step back.

00:52:37.000 Would you agree that abortion is wrong in every circumstance except rape? 0.95

00:52:41.000 Correct.

00:52:41.000 Okay, so you agree that 99.7% of all abortions should be outlawed.

00:52:46.000 So we agree on that.

00:52:47.000 The problem with this, if I can.

00:52:49.000 But there's a difference between law and morality.

00:52:51.000 Morality is a problem.

00:52:52.000 Oh, no, there is.

00:52:52.000 That's correct.

00:52:53.000 Okay. 0.99

00:52:54.000 So should we have murder laws? 0.97

00:52:55.000 No, there is.

00:52:56.000 Should we have murder laws? 1.00

00:52:58.000 Yes, we should have murder laws. 1.00

00:52:59.000 Murder laws.

00:53:00.000 Because they're important.

00:53:02.000 They're how we live.

00:53:03.000 Is it wrong to take a life?

00:53:04.000 Yes.

00:53:05.000 So laws and morality are tied together, right?

00:53:07.000 To a degree.

00:53:09.000 When does that degree stop?

00:53:10.000 When there's a gray area, such as rape.

00:53:13.000 Okay.

00:53:14.000 I believe in absolute truth and absolutes.

00:53:16.000 I guess that's where we go.

00:53:17.000 Rape is not something I trivialize.

00:53:19.000 Let me be very clear. 0.99

00:53:20.000 I think rapists should get life in prison and get castrated. 0.99

00:53:22.000 Okay? 0.99

00:53:23.000 Let me be very clear.

00:53:24.000 Okay?

00:53:27.000 With that being said, I believe firmly that life begins at conception.

00:53:33.000 We agreed.

00:53:34.000 Okay.

00:53:34.000 Right?

00:53:34.000 No, I just want to say that.

00:53:35.000 I'm just telling you my point.

00:53:37.000 And for the sake of everyone else here, I'm going to walk through it.

00:53:40.000 That it's not your DNA, it's not your choice.

00:53:44.000 And 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.

00:53:59.000 And here's why.

00:54:01.000 If you go through the acronym, SLED, size, level of dependency, environment, and degree of dependency, or level of development, I should say.

00:54:10.000 We do not have a moral argument to ever kill someone who's smaller than us, right?

00:54:15.000 I'm 6'4 ⁇ . 0.97

00:54:16.000 If I have all a son said everyone who's 5'2 ⁇ , should go away, you'd say you're nuts, right? 0.97

00:54:21.000 Level of dependency.

00:54:22.000 A baby is born, that baby is dependent on the mother for the first 18 months, cannot feed itself, can't think.

00:54:29.000 It's wholly dependent, right?

00:54:30.000 Environment.

00:54:31.000 Doesn't matter where you are, right?

00:54:33.000 You should always have your constitutional rights protected.

00:54:36.000 And then finally, the degree of development or how dependent you are on the mother.

00:54:40.000 I will say this.

00:54:41.000 I think you're coming at this from a good place.

00:54:43.000 And I don't come to this conclusion lightly, and I do not trivialize the crime or the sin.

00:54:49.000 But 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.

00:54:59.000 Instead, 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.

00:55:08.000 I want to thank you for your courage for being here tonight, and I enjoyed the conversation.

00:55:12.000 Thank you.

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00:56:25.000 I'm honestly really starstruck to meet you, Charlie.

00:56:27.000 I've been watching your videos since I've been junior in high school.

00:56:30.000 Actually, my high school teacher showed me your videos.

00:56:33.000 My question for you is: recently your colleague Candace Owens has came under fire by Cardi B, you know, whatever you want to call it.

00:56:41.000 By the way, can we give it up for Candace Owens?

00:56:43.000 She does a great job.

00:56:48.000 So 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?

00:56:56.000 And 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. 0.99

00:57:10.000 Well, not only that, she drugged people and stole stuff from rapes. 0.99

00:57:13.000 I mean, she did. 0.97

00:57:14.000 No, she's coming all that.

00:57:15.000 I'm not making this up. 0.63

00:57:16.000 She's not a good person. 0.85

00:57:17.000 No. 0.99

00:57:18.000 And she's not very smart.

00:57:19.000 And I don't say that lightly.

00:57:21.000 Her tweets, like hieroglyphics.

00:57:22.000 You need to bring in an interpreter.

00:57:25.000 What is this, right? 0.94

00:57:27.000 So look, sorry, you had other comments on top of that?

00:57:30.000 I was just saying, like, where do we get off on putting our trust into Cardi B versus Candace Owens?

00:57:36.000 Like, I don't get it.

00:57:37.000 Yeah, no, it's a great question. 0.87

00:57:39.000 Candace is a threat to them.

00:57:41.000 Cardi, Cardi, Cardi is perfect for the left. 1.00

00:57:46.000 She makes sexual openness more likely, which, of course, is part of their entire agenda to deconstruct Western civilization. 0.97

00:57:53.000 Candace talks about getting married, having children.

00:57:56.000 She talks about getting a job, not blaming other people for your problems.

00:58:00.000 Cardi B doesn't do any of those things. 0.92

00:58:02.000 So Candace is a threat to them.

00:58:04.000 And I just find this so amazing that in one week, we get rid of Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head.

00:58:11.000 And then on network television, we have that X-rated display of Cardi B.

00:58:16.000 And 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.

00:58:27.000 And my response to that is: wait a second, this is network television.

00:58:30.000 By definition, you have cancel culture for certain things, right?

00:58:34.000 You don't allow swearing.

00:58:35.000 You don't allow indecency.

00:58:37.000 That's the whole idea of network television.

00:58:38.000 Now, why were those laws put in place for the first place?

00:58:42.000 For the protection of the innocent, the protection of our children.

00:58:45.000 They've never been interested in the protection of our children.

00:58:47.000 So 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.

00:58:56.000 I will go toe-to-toe with anyone on this, and sometimes it gets into a circular argument.

00:58:59.000 Sometimes it's really fun.

00:59:01.000 The 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.

00:59:11.000 Very close.

00:59:12.000 In fact, I think they might have passed it.

00:59:13.000 But it was really interesting.

00:59:14.000 And Dennis Prager did a whole show on this, and he's just so phenomenal.

00:59:17.000 He's such a brilliant mind.

00:59:19.000 Now, it actually failed in the San Francisco City Hall.

00:59:23.000 Why?

00:59:25.000 No one in the San Francisco City Hall made the argument that it was wrong.

00:59:28.000 No, they said it was unsanitary.

00:59:33.000 So why not? 1.00

00:59:34.000 Why not allow people? 1.00

00:59:35.000 So then someone said, okay, well, then we'll provide towels to all the nudists.

00:59:40.000 You 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.

00:59:53.000 But for the San Francisco secularists, they say, oh, no, no, it's unsanitary.

00:59:56.000 It's going to be bad for spreading communicable diseases.

01:00:00.000 And so if you do not have an arbiter of what is right and wrong, that's where it leads you.

01:00:04.000 Cardi B is perfect for that. 0.99

01:00:06.000 She's an agent of chaos and a foolish one at that. 1.00

01:00:09.000 She 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. 1.00

01:00:22.000 And so that's why Candace Owens is a threat. 1.00

01:00:25.000 And so I love watching that back and forth.

01:00:28.000 First of all, it's completely unfair, right?

01:00:30.000 It's like Muhammad Ali boxing up against a high school student, right?

01:00:33.000 It's just completely unfair, right?

01:00:35.000 And it's so important for our cultural conversation because you know it's the one thing Cardi B can't call Candace.

01:00:42.000 She can't call her a racist. 0.59

01:00:44.000 She actually has, but it's hilarious.

01:00:47.000 And that one exchange that you've all seen has made millions of people view politics differently.

01:00:54.000 So your accurate observation on cultural trends, I appreciate.

01:00:59.000 And I think all of us need to speak out louder.

01:01:01.000 Say, wait a second, we get rid of Dr. Seuss and we allow Cardi B. Something's gone wrong in our country and most Americans are with us.

01:01:08.000 Thank you for your question.

01:01:08.000 I appreciate it.

01:01:09.000 Thank you so much.

01:01:10.000 Thank you.

01:01:12.000 So given the fact that gun control has come up in the conversation again for politics, this is a question relating to that.

01:01:20.000 So in a letter to James Madison back in 1778, a captain of a trade ship asked for clarification on the Second Amendment.

01:01:26.000 And he asked if he could arm his ship with cannons to protect himself from pirates.

01:01:30.000 And Madison was like, yeah, go right ahead.

01:01:33.000 So 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?

01:01:45.000 Yeah, so it's a great question.

01:01:46.000 I am not libertarian on a lot of things.

01:01:48.000 I'm very libertarian on firearm ownership, very.

01:01:51.000 And I think the libertarians are totally wrong on trade and immigration, but I tend to trust citizens to make good choices.

01:01:57.000 And so, for example, the 1986 ban on certain firearms, I would get rid of it.

01:02:03.000 That's one example.

01:02:04.000 I think it's the automatic ban.

01:02:06.000 I generally go on the side of liberty in this case.

01:02:08.000 And there's a cost to that, of course.

01:02:12.000 I'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.

01:02:28.000 Here's the essence of it, though.

01:02:30.000 I'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.

01:02:37.000 And here's where they're going after it, if I may.

01:02:39.000 They're going after your ammo.

01:02:41.000 They're not going after your guns, okay?

01:02:43.000 Listen to me carefully, everybody.

01:02:44.000 They're going after your ammo.

01:02:47.000 They know that there's a constitutional right to firearm ownership because of DC versus Heller in 2008.

01:02:53.000 There's no constitutional right to ammo ownership.

01:02:57.000 So the smart people on the left are trying to go towards ammo registration and ammo regulation, right?

01:03:02.000 So that's a really important thing that you guys must pay attention to if you care about firearm ownership.

01:03:07.000 And if you're watching this closely, there is an ammo shortage in this country, unlike anything we've ever seen before.

01:03:13.000 There's massive back orders and ammo prices are going up dramatically.

01:03:17.000 And so I just want to contribute that to the conversation because we need to have a more holistic view of it.

01:03:22.000 In fact, Virginia just recently arrested someone because they didn't have their ammo properly registered.

01:03:28.000 Not that their gun was not properly registered.

01:03:30.000 So I hope that I answered the spirit of your question.

01:03:32.000 I'm not going to get too far into the details or specifics, but I tend to stay on the side of I trust people to own firearms.

01:03:38.000 And if you did want to look it up, I think the captain's name is William Bradford.

01:03:42.000 Okay.

01:03:43.000 I will.

01:03:44.000 That was a great question.

01:03:44.000 Thank you for being here.

01:03:44.000 Thanks.

01:03:45.000 Thanks.

01:03:48.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:03:49.000 Hi, thanks for being here.

01:03:51.000 Right.

01:03:51.000 So 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.

01:04:05.000 And 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?

01:04:16.000 So if I can ask you, what is the mascot?

01:04:19.000 Or the Chiefs.

01:04:20.000 Okay.

01:04:20.000 Yeah.

01:04:22.000 Okay.

01:04:22.000 Good.

01:04:22.000 Got it.

01:04:23.000 So 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.

01:04:34.000 That's a very good point.

01:04:36.000 Every public poll shows that they don't want these mascots actually pulled or removed.

01:04:41.000 Number two, this kind of goes to a broader point of cultural appropriation, right?

01:04:46.000 Which I always get a chuckle out of this.

01:04:49.000 And if Media Matters is going to write this up, Dennis Prager made this point first, okay?

01:04:53.000 So go blame him, okay?

01:04:56.000 Shouldn't we be happy for cultural appropriation?

01:05:00.000 Shouldn't we be happy that people want to embrace other cultures?

01:05:04.000 So let me just say one other thing, and I'd love to.

01:05:06.000 I mean, you know, the cultural appropriation, that's like this group's main argument in favor of changing the mascot.

01:05:13.000 So 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?

01:05:25.000 That 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.

01:05:43.000 But that's actually their argument, right?

01:05:45.000 That 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.

01:05:56.000 And I would hold the line on this because I'm a big believer that these names were given for a reason.

01:06:02.000 Indigenous people in our country are supportive of those names staying there.

01:06:05.000 And 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.

01:06:16.000 So I hope that's somewhat helpful for you.

01:06:18.000 Thank you.

01:06:19.000 Thank you.

01:06:21.000 Hi, thank you for taking my question and thank you for being here and doing everything for us.

01:06:25.000 I've been watching you election night and everything.

01:06:27.000 I'm a nurse in a local facility and you know, I've been watching a lot of stuff, paying attention to things.

01:06:35.000 And I mean, as we all know, we saw Joe Biden, we saw him trip three times up Air Force One.

01:06:42.000 And one of the first questions we ask on our admission assessment is, have you fell in the last three months?

01:06:48.000 And the next question is, how many have you fell one to three times in the last three months?

01:06:54.000 I mean, seriously, as a nurse watching him, he is not there.

01:07:00.000 Like, when are we going to get our country back?

01:07:00.000 When is this chaos?

01:07:02.000 First of all, he's the first person to fall upstairs.

01:07:04.000 Have you ever seen that before?

01:07:05.000 Yes, yes.

01:07:06.000 And he said that the stairs were slippery.

01:07:09.000 Well, I watched the video feed.

01:07:11.000 I watched the video feed today from Dan.

01:07:15.000 His name escapes me, but I believe his name is Dan Scavino.

01:07:19.000 He showed the picture side by side of what happens whenever it's slippery and it's wet and the weather is dangerous.

01:07:26.000 They actually lift a ramp that is lower so they don't have this issue.

01:07:30.000 And they showed the side by side because the media is obviously protecting him.

01:07:34.000 If it was so slippery and if it was so windy, why didn't they have it done?

01:07:38.000 Yeah, look, you're far too logical for all these people, right?

01:07:41.000 You're like, way too in the rush.

01:07:43.000 You're like, way too logical.

01:07:45.000 I mean, we're going to get bonders for this.

01:07:46.000 Look, 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.

01:07:54.000 He 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.

01:08:04.000 And 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.

01:08:13.000 I think that he needs life alert.

01:08:15.000 You guys ever see that advertisement, which is health I've fallen and I can't get up.

01:08:20.000 Like, I think that's Joe Biden.

01:08:22.000 And look, let me be very clear.

01:08:23.000 I do not trivialize the aging process.

01:08:26.000 We should care for our elders.

01:08:27.000 We should.

01:08:28.000 I don't say that lightly.

01:08:29.000 Also, but he's in a very intense, pressure-filled situation, and he's being taken advantage of.

01:08:34.000 This is the deeper point, okay?

01:08:36.000 And 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.

01:08:36.000 Totally.

01:08:43.000 Those people should not be in charge of high-pressure situations.

01:08:47.000 And so that's the deeper point, right?

01:08:48.000 I 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.

01:09:00.000 And I would feel bad for him if he wasn't trying to destroy our country every single day.

01:09:04.000 That's what breaks my heart.

01:09:05.000 So what do we do?

01:09:06.000 So, well, I mean, we have elections, right?

01:09:08.000 And so that don't make any difference.

01:09:10.000 Why don't we get ballot dumps at 3 a.m. Right?

01:09:12.000 So you bring up a good point, and we're going to talk about that.

01:09:16.000 We can talk about that.

01:09:17.000 So love your spirit, right?

01:09:20.000 We're going to channel it to the right thing, right?

01:09:21.000 No, it's good spirit, right?

01:09:22.000 It's good spirit.

01:09:26.000 So yes.

01:09:27.000 So what do we do?

01:09:28.000 They want you to give up.

01:09:29.000 That's what they're not going to give up, right?

01:09:30.000 So you're already committing to the first thing.

01:09:33.000 Let me tell you, can I talk about the election thing?

01:09:35.000 Because you brought it up, okay?

01:09:36.000 We got to fix the way we do elections in this country.

01:09:38.000 We've got to fix the way we do elections, right?

01:09:42.000 I cannot.

01:09:43.000 So everyone here loves to win.

01:09:46.000 I hate to lose more.

01:09:48.000 I hate it.

01:09:49.000 And especially when there is all this shenanigans and nonsense and all this stuff.

01:09:53.000 So now we must make it our daily mission to put pressure on our lawmakers in Arizona and Georgia to first.

01:09:59.000 We still don't know exactly what happened, okay?

01:10:02.000 There's still a lot of ambiguity.

01:10:04.000 Let me tell you what we do know what happened, though.

01:10:06.000 $400 million was spent from tech oligarchs privately into our public elections.

01:10:11.000 $400 million through an organization called the Center for Technology and Civic Life.

01:10:16.000 We know that happened.

01:10:17.000 We know that the tech companies prevented the spread of information all across the country.

01:10:21.000 We know that happened.

01:10:22.000 We 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.

01:10:34.000 And we know when you allow lesser signature standards and more mail-in ballots, you're going to get more nonsense.

01:10:34.000 We know that happened.

01:10:40.000 And with that, went the entire direction of the U.S. Senate.

01:10:43.000 What we still need to find out is the extent and the depth.

01:10:46.000 There's speculation behind it.

01:10:48.000 And I am willing to make an argument that there's so much there that's not being reported on.

01:10:53.000 So that's where we must stay on this.

01:10:55.000 And that's why I do podcasts on this.

01:10:56.000 You guys might listen to our podcast.

01:10:58.000 We have been on this more than almost any other podcast.

01:11:01.000 And it's the drumbeat because we're going to get to the bottom of this. 0.84

01:11:05.000 And then our legislators have to reform the way we do elections.

01:11:08.000 Mail-in voting should be for certain people for a certain reason.

01:11:13.000 It should never become universal in our country.

01:11:15.000 Mail-in voting should never become universal in our country.

01:11:19.000 Also, we need voter ID.

01:11:22.000 And so they say voter ID is racist.

01:11:24.000 I think you guys went through a whole fight on voter ID being racist in this state.

01:11:27.000 So let me prove to you that the left does not even believe that voter ID is racist.

01:11:30.000 Can I prove it to you?

01:11:31.000 So how many of you heard about this ridiculous idea for reparations in our country?

01:11:36.000 So how are you supposed to prove that you were an ancestor of slaves?

01:11:40.000 So 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.

01:11:47.000 Like something here doesn't exactly add up.

01:11:49.000 So it's either you're pro-paperwork or anti-paperwork, right?

01:11:53.000 And it seems as if the left is completely contradictory there.

01:11:56.000 But here's what we need more than anything else is we need to get away from these long counting periods of counting votes.

01:12:03.000 We need to know who won election night.

01:12:06.000 That will put everything in a shorter and more controlled environment.

01:12:11.000 When 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.

01:12:21.000 And that's why the states that had their results immediately, Donald Trump won by 400,000 votes in Florida, right?

01:12:27.000 Florida used to be a battleground state.

01:12:30.000 And yet Donald Trump wins it by 400,000 votes.

01:12:32.000 So we must compress the time.

01:12:33.000 We must professionalize our elections, limit mail and voting.

01:12:36.000 I hope we get voter ID.

01:12:37.000 That's a tougher one because whatever, Republicans don't want to do that one.

01:12:40.000 Those other ones can be past George is moving in that direction.

01:12:44.000 We've got to get Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan as well.

01:12:46.000 And there's lots of lawsuits happening.

01:12:48.000 So don't lose faith and don't lose focus.

01:12:50.000 But can I give you one piece of advice?

01:12:53.000 Don't become cynical.

01:12:54.000 All right?

01:12:55.000 Stay optimistic and say we're going to fix it. 1.00

01:12:58.000 What makes Americans different than the French? 1.00

01:13:00.000 We solve problems. 1.00

01:13:01.000 They complain about them.

01:13:03.000 We are going to solve this problem.

01:13:07.000 Thank you.

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01:14:18.000 Good evening, Charlie.

01:14:19.000 You know, most conservatives will condemn illegal immigration.

01:14:22.000 They'll advocate for building the border wall, enforcing the immigration laws we currently have.

01:14:28.000 However, something that most conservatives won't address are the harmful impacts of mass legal immigration.

01:14:34.000 Over the past year, we've seen millions of Americans be displaced from their jobs due to COVID.

01:14:40.000 And in this past March, you stated on a podcast that America could take over 50 million immigrants over a span of 10 years.

01:14:48.000 Now, 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?

01:15:04.000 Yes.

01:15:05.000 And just so you did you hear my speech?

01:15:07.000 Yes, I did. 0.95

01:15:08.000 Okay, so I did say I was for a permanent immigration moratorium, just so we're clear, right? 0.82

01:15:12.000 I supported it last March, two weeks before the president.

01:15:15.000 The virus has ravaged communities. 1.00

01:15:17.000 It makes no sense to allow foreign workers to continue to disenfranchise our workers. 1.00

01:15:22.000 And your question is exactly right. 0.80

01:15:24.000 Your question is that it's both legal and illegal immigration.

01:15:27.000 How many of you right now are in college worried about a job? 0.64

01:15:31.000 Maybe when you graduate, you should come first.

01:15:34.000 Our priority should be to our fellow countrymen, the people that paid taxes and really played by the rules. 1.00

01:15:41.000 And it shouldn't be to foreign workers or to foreign nationals. 0.99

01:15:45.000 That's what government is supposed to do. 0.98

01:15:47.000 And so I just want to correct you a little bit because I have been very firm in public on an immigration moratorium.

01:15:53.000 And that's because I care about the fellow workers in our country.

01:15:56.000 I care about strong families.

01:15:58.000 And 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.

01:16:06.000 And you know what?

01:16:07.000 Even 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.

01:16:17.000 And 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?

01:16:27.000 Votes and lower wages, right?

01:16:30.000 And so the Chamber of Commerce and the Democrat Party are able to agree on that.

01:16:34.000 And 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.

01:16:43.000 Because here's what happens.

01:16:44.000 You have these tech companies that I'm railing against.

01:16:47.000 They go dish out these H-1B visas, right? 0.51

01:16:49.000 And H-1B visas are like a form of indentured servitude.

01:16:54.000 You're not even allowed to leave those firms.

01:16:56.000 They lower the wages because they don't want to hire American workers.

01:16:56.000 So what happens?

01:17:00.000 You know, one of the biggest lies is that there's jobs that Americans don't want to do.

01:17:04.000 It's a lie.

01:17:05.000 Especially 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?

01:17:12.000 Because I have to go service a $40,000 debt.

01:17:14.000 So that's what our immigration policy should be in this country, serving our fellow countrymen, especially after the pandemic, especially after all of this.

01:17:23.000 So I want to thank you for the spirit of your question, and we must always put our country first.

01:17:27.000 So thank you so much.

01:17:28.000 I appreciate it.

01:17:30.000 I 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.

01:17:40.000 What do you think about impeach 46?

01:17:43.000 Yeah, I mean, we have to have the House first, right?

01:17:45.000 I mean, so now that we just impeach people for whatever reason, I mean, my goodness, is there more than enough reason?

01:17:51.000 Yeah, I mean, sure, we have to win back the House and then win back the Senate.

01:17:55.000 But your broader point is we should keep the pressure on the Biden administration.

01:17:59.000 We should have hearings.

01:18:00.000 We should be doing all these sorts of things.

01:18:01.000 That's what they did to all of us the last couple of years.

01:18:05.000 And not to mention, they have a lot of explaining to when it comes to the Chinese Communist Party, a lot of explanation.

01:18:12.000 And 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.

01:18:19.000 So the biggest point that you just made is we're not going to get along with the Biden administration anytime soon.

01:18:25.000 They declared full-out resistance on Donald Trump from day one.

01:18:28.000 Joe Biden gives this long speech about unity and bringing people together.

01:18:33.000 I'm still waiting for that unity, aren't you?

01:18:36.000 He's passing $1.9 trillion bills without one Republican vote.

01:18:40.000 Mitch McConnell went on television yesterday and he said he has not talked to the president once since he got sworn into office.

01:18:46.000 You can say whatever you want about Donald Trump.

01:18:48.000 He was the most accessible, communicative president.

01:18:51.000 He would call Nancy Pelosi all the time.

01:18:53.000 He was always trying to make a deal for you guys, the American people.

01:18:56.000 Joe Biden doesn't care about making a deal for you.

01:18:58.000 He 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.

01:19:06.000 So I appreciate the essence and the spirit of the question.

01:19:09.000 Thank you.

01:19:12.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:19:13.000 How are you doing?

01:19:13.000 Good.

01:19:14.000 So I just have a simple question that could be a complicated answer.

01:19:19.000 Are rising gas prices and building materials the result of the Biden administration?

01:19:25.000 And how do these rising prices affect Americans' confidence in the market?

01:19:31.000 So the short answer is yes.

01:19:33.000 So why are oil prices going up?

01:19:36.000 It's because they're restricting further oil and gas exploration and the transportation of that oil and gas.

01:19:42.000 Also, there's demand going up.

01:19:43.000 So what happened last year is we shut down our entire economy.

01:19:47.000 Any of you that know oil and gas, it's a highly leveraged economic venture to be in.

01:19:52.000 So a lot of oil and gas companies went under because they couldn't service the debt because oil was at like $18, $19 a barrel, right?

01:20:01.000 And so then you have less people actually exploring and developing oil.

01:20:04.000 Then supply goes back up again, right?

01:20:06.000 Where it is, I mean, demand goes up right again and supply stays down.

01:20:09.000 So now it goes up.

01:20:10.000 And so Donald Trump was able to celebrate low gas prices, which is a middle-class tax cut for all of you, by the way.

01:20:18.000 You guys see how it's going up right now?

01:20:20.000 Now, Joe Biden has a plan here when it comes to energy.

01:20:22.000 And I'm going to tell you what it is, and it's not good.

01:20:25.000 Which is Donald Trump wanted more supply, more exploration, more using of our American assets for our country and for the American worker.

01:20:34.000 Joe Biden is temporarily going to allow to get gas go way up.

01:20:38.000 Now, that helps foreign enemies of our country. 0.57

01:20:41.000 So, you know, Joe Biden's all like, oh, Russia's the worst thing ever.

01:20:44.000 You want to crush Russia?

01:20:45.000 Go back to $17 oil.

01:20:47.000 Allow fracking, allow exploration, allow drilling, and allow the Keystone XL pipeline.

01:20:51.000 Of course, he doesn't want any of those sorts of things.

01:20:54.000 He wants, though, more than anything else, he wants no more exploration at all of fossil fuels and oil and gas.

01:20:59.000 He wants to go to a complete solar, wind, renewable grid altogether, and basically destroy millions of jobs.

01:21:07.000 And there's so many reasons why that's actually bad for the environment and bad for humanity.

01:21:11.000 And then the second thing about housing prices, or not housing prices, but housing materials, that's also because of the environmentalists.

01:21:17.000 It's also because of incredible demand for housing supplies all across the country in some of the upper middle class areas in America.

01:21:26.000 And it's more expensive than ever to build a home in our country.

01:21:29.000 So how do you bring down prices?

01:21:30.000 You bring down prices through competition, and you bring down prices by increasing the supply.

01:21:35.000 Joe Biden is making it nearly impossible on both of those things.

01:21:38.000 And so the one that I'm really focused on is the gas prices, though.

01:21:42.000 You guys are going to probably see $5 or $6 a gallon gas by summer.

01:21:46.000 And it's going to happen.

01:21:47.000 And it's because he wants to break the back of American energy in our country.

01:21:52.000 Thank you.

01:21:53.000 Thank you.

01:21:56.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:21:57.000 I started, or I helped start, and I'm the vice president of the first turning point chapter at my high school.

01:22:03.000 And 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.

01:22:16.000 So do you ever truly see America turning towards socialism?

01:22:20.000 And what can we do as Gen Z and as teenagers to stop that?

01:22:24.000 It's hard to say.

01:22:24.000 Yeah, so we eventually could get to socialism.

01:22:28.000 I 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.

01:22:39.000 And we're seeing that happen really quick.

01:22:41.000 The wealthiest people in our country are $600 billion wealthier today than they were before the pandemic.

01:22:48.000 We have less small businesses than ever before.

01:22:51.000 We have less business startups than ever before.

01:22:54.000 So 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.

01:23:04.000 Now that very well could lead to a socialist type takeover.

01:23:09.000 So 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.

01:23:21.000 So let me tell you what's really happening.

01:23:23.000 Jeff Bezos is worth $160 billion.

01:23:26.000 If Bernie Sanders were to have his way, he will nationalize all the services that Amazon is doing.

01:23:33.000 That is not a good idea.

01:23:35.000 But Bernie Sanders complaining about Amazon is a perfectly legitimate complaint.

01:23:39.000 The point is that we are making socialism an easier sell to the American people because of how powerful these companies have become.

01:23:48.000 So I think before we have socialism, we're going to have this intermediary of this corporate dominance of every single portion of American life.

01:23:59.000 And that's not what we as conservatives should advocate for.

01:24:03.000 Remember, we like markets.

01:24:05.000 Why?

01:24:07.000 Because they benefit humanity.

01:24:09.000 When 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?

01:24:25.000 And you guys want to know where Joe Biden got most of his money from?

01:24:28.000 The massive transnational corporations.

01:24:31.000 You guys want to know who's doing his bidding?

01:24:33.000 The massive transnational corporations.

01:24:35.000 And so I am fearful of that in the first step before a complete and total socialist takeover.

01:24:41.000 But 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.

01:24:56.000 Now, let me tell you what the socialists are doing wrong, that if they fix, we're screwed.

01:25:00.000 I don't know if I should say this.

01:25:02.000 We talk about this a lot, but I might as well. 0.99

01:25:03.000 The socialists are doing something really dumb. 0.97

01:25:06.000 They're the first socialist revolution ever that espouses to hate the country they're trying to take over. 0.99

01:25:12.000 Think about that.

01:25:14.000 Have you ever seen that before?

01:25:15.000 I mean, the Chinese Revolution, they were always pro-China. 0.52

01:25:18.000 The Russian Revolution, they were pro-Russian.

01:25:21.000 And so they said that communism was the best thing for Russia.

01:25:24.000 This socialist revolution, whatever it is, they're trying to take over the country saying we actually hate the country.

01:25:30.000 Now give us power.

01:25:31.000 If the socialists got smart and they were pro-American socialists, that's a really big problem.

01:25:39.000 So their biggest vulnerability is on the woke industrial kind of cultural issues on that.

01:25:44.000 So how do we defeat socialism in this country?

01:25:47.000 We should debunk it and debate it.

01:25:49.000 But more than anything else, we must offer alternatives.

01:25:52.000 And we must offer specifics of the America we want to live in.

01:25:55.000 This is something Republicans are awful at.

01:25:57.000 You know what Republicans are trying to do right now?

01:26:00.000 Pass an amnesty bill right now in Washington, D.C. Senator Rick Scott is trying to do that.

01:26:05.000 And they introduced a bill to repeal the estate tax.

01:26:09.000 Now, I would like to, I think I, fine, get rid of the estate tax.

01:26:12.000 It hurts farmers.

01:26:13.000 Is that the number one priority of what Republicans should be caring about?

01:26:16.000 No.

01:26:17.000 Republicans should be very clear that we want our children to love our country again.

01:26:22.000 We want church attendance to go up.

01:26:24.000 We want divorce rates to go down.

01:26:26.000 We want drug overdoses to go down.

01:26:29.000 We want civil liberty protections to be made permanent.

01:26:32.000 We don't want our weapons taken away.

01:26:34.000 We want to be able to speak freely on social media.

01:26:36.000 Those are the concerns of the 70 and 80 percent of the country, not repealing the estate tax or some sort of amnesty deal.

01:26:43.000 The way we defeat socialism is we have tangible, specific policy items that can excite the American people that say, you know what?

01:26:50.000 Yes, I want an America that has flourishing families, that make young families want to have more children, not less children.

01:26:58.000 That puts the local coffee shop above the local Starbucks.

01:27:02.000 That puts the local convenience store over the local Walmart.

01:27:05.000 That'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?

01:27:20.000 No one can ever tell you these endless wars must end.

01:27:23.000 That's what the conservative movement should stand for, and that's how we're going to defeat socialism in our country.

01:27:28.000 Thank you.

01:27:31.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:27:33.000 So, first, I want to congratulate you on your engagement.

01:27:35.000 Thank you.

01:27:36.000 Erica's right here.

01:27:37.000 We're getting married May 8th.

01:27:38.000 We're very excited.

01:27:42.000 Probably seems like light years ago with everything going on in our world.

01:27:46.000 But with that in mind, I want to know if you think that government should be involved in the marriage business.

01:27:53.000 In the marriage business.

01:27:55.000 So, yeah, look, if it was presented right in front of me, I just did a whole interview on this of what I believe marriage is. 0.83

01:28:00.000 Marriage is between one man and one woman.

01:28:02.000 Let me be very clear. 0.95

01:28:03.000 That is what marriage is.

01:28:06.000 And we lost that debate because we allowed a lie that we said that marriage is only about love.

01:28:16.000 Marriage is about a lot of things, but it's not just about love.

01:28:20.000 So you have these big signs, love is love.

01:28:22.000 Well, now you have the resolution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that says that polyamorous marriages are now recognized by the government.

01:28:30.000 So where does marriage come from?

01:28:32.000 Well, first of all, marriage has always been and should always be a covenant of and by the church.

01:28:40.000 Government's intrusion into that is a rather new development to try and change that.

01:28:45.000 Do I think it's realistic, though?

01:28:47.000 Probably not.

01:28:48.000 I don't think that in my generation or the next generation, we're going to see any sort of movement there.

01:28:52.000 I will say this, though.

01:28:53.000 It's more popular than I think people think, traditional marriage.

01:28:56.000 And here's why.

01:28:57.000 This was never voted on by the people of our country.

01:29:00.000 I 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. 0.95

01:29:10.000 And that is right. 0.68

01:29:11.000 And so you guys never had a chance to actually vote on it.

01:29:14.000 And then all of a sudden, it just got from a top-down fiat.

01:29:17.000 And 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.

01:29:31.000 And let me be very clear.

01:29:32.000 You 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.

01:29:43.000 And I think those people should have a place in the conservative movement.

01:29:46.000 I do not believe in a conservative movement that focuses primarily on just subtraction and division.

01:29:52.000 But you asked me what I think marriage is.

01:29:53.000 And 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.

01:30:01.000 I will never waver on that.

01:30:02.000 So thank you so much.

01:30:03.000 Thank you.

01:30:05.000 Hello.

01:30:06.000 Thanks for taking my question, Charlie.

01:30:08.000 I'm sorry?

01:30:09.000 I said thanks for taking my question.

01:30:12.000 So 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.

01:30:22.000 They don't care about politics.

01:30:23.000 They don't care about anything.

01:30:25.000 You 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.

01:30:38.000 How 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?

01:30:55.000 Such a great question.

01:30:56.000 First of all, look around.

01:30:58.000 You'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.

01:31:09.000 There's a sense of urgency in this country still, and we're far away from an election.

01:31:13.000 That's a good thing.

01:31:14.000 The attendance tonight, the enthusiasm, the energy, the commitment, there's people that care.

01:31:19.000 We need more people.

01:31:20.000 And 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.

01:31:30.000 I wish that wasn't the case.

01:31:32.000 I wish there did not have to be unneeded pain and suffering for people to wake up.

01:31:36.000 But here's the charge.

01:31:37.000 It's a perfect segue.

01:31:38.000 Thank you.

01:31:39.000 For every person in this room: Have tonight be the beginning of your activism.

01:31:44.000 Have tonight be a time when you say, you know what, I am going to do more.

01:31:47.000 Maybe you're going to run for precinct committee men.

01:31:49.000 You know that half of precinct committee positions nationwide are vacant.

01:31:53.000 I guarantee some people in this room don't even know what a precinct committee position is.

01:31:57.000 A precinct committee position is just saying, I'm going to be responsible for my neighborhood to go and vote.

01:32:02.000 So go do at least that.

01:32:04.000 Go register new voters.

01:32:05.000 Go start a turning point USA group like our amazing activists up here.

01:32:08.000 Maybe the adults in the room, you're busy, you're raising kids.

01:32:11.000 Then support your local turning point USA group.

01:32:13.000 Have them over for dinner.

01:32:14.000 Mentor them.

01:32:15.000 And then here's what we need to do more than ever.

01:32:18.000 We need to be relentless and have perseverance and then be specific of what success looks like.

01:32:24.000 That's something that I think we're missing because people say, I don't have hope.

01:32:28.000 The lack of hope, I believe, is a lack of clarity in our future destination.

01:32:33.000 We need to have a sense of purpose again.

01:32:36.000 And here's the good thing.

01:32:37.000 I think we're finally finding it.

01:32:38.000 I think the conservative movement is less about opposition and more about creation of something new and exciting.

01:32:44.000 Like I mentioned, I want to have flourishing families again in this country.

01:32:48.000 I want to see the population rate go up, not go down, because we are on the verge of a population collapse in this country.

01:32:54.000 We're having 500,000 less children this year than last year.

01:32:58.000 I 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.

01:33:06.000 I want our children to love America more than their parents love America.

01:33:14.000 We are on the right side of this.

01:33:16.000 And there is a relentless metaphorical bombing campaign that tries to make you care less day by day to engage in apathy.

01:33:26.000 This is why we're here today.

01:33:27.000 This is why I've gone from Dallas to Midland to Boise to Oklahoma City to Springfield to Kentucky. 0.97

01:33:31.000 We're traveling the country because I want to look people in the eyes because this Zoom stuff drives me nuts, quite honestly. 0.98

01:33:36.000 It just does. 0.97

01:33:36.000 We're human beings. 0.97

01:33:37.000 We're social creatures.

01:33:38.000 We need to be around each other.

01:33:39.000 And 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.

01:33:49.000 We are on the right side of this.

01:33:50.000 We have truth.

01:33:52.000 We have the facts.

01:33:53.000 We have the evidence.

01:33:54.000 We have reason.

01:33:55.000 They have emotions.

01:33:56.000 That's it.

01:33:57.000 And we need to get better at organizing and more specific of what our agenda is.

01:34:00.000 So here's a couple action items and then we'll wrap.

01:34:04.000 In this local area, for young people, you know, all the young people here, care deeply about the education of your children.

01:34:10.000 Please.

01:34:10.000 I love the homeschooling parents that are here.

01:34:12.000 We need to get deeper into our history and better at defending America.

01:34:16.000 We have to get better at making the case for America.

01:34:19.000 I wish that wasn't the case, but we do.

01:34:21.000 Number two, we have to be more serious about the indoctrination of our children and intervening earlier.

01:34:27.000 Do not leave it up to some government bureaucrat to teach your children about what's happening in our country.

01:34:33.000 Number three, we need to get our churches more active on these issues.

01:34:38.000 We got to get pastors speaking out.

01:34:40.000 We got to get our local fellowships to take moral stances on these issues.

01:34:45.000 And you guys that attend these churches can do that.

01:34:48.000 And then the final thing I'll say is this, which is something I kind of talk about, is try to learn something new every single day.

01:34:54.000 We need the conservative movement to know our stuff better than the left.

01:34:59.000 This is something we try to do on our podcast every single day.

01:35:02.000 Totally shameless self-promotion.

01:35:05.000 If everyone would subscribe to the Charlie Kirk show, I would deeply appreciate it.

01:35:08.000 And we would beat Rachel Maddow in the charts by tomorrow morning.

01:35:12.000 If every single person watching online and here did that, we deeply appreciate it.

01:35:15.000 We do two podcasts a day and we go deep.

01:35:17.000 You guys listen to our podcasts.

01:35:19.000 Anyone listen to our podcast here?

01:35:20.000 Oh, that's awesome.

01:35:21.000 Thank you.

01:35:21.000 Well, I'm selling to the choir, so there we go.

01:35:26.000 But go deep into those ideas.

01:35:28.000 Know why you believe what you believe.

01:35:30.000 You're going to be more informed and more prepared for action.

01:35:35.000 I'll close with this.

01:35:36.000 They want you to give up.

01:35:39.000 If we don't give up, victory is inevitable.

01:35:42.000 If we give up, they take over everything.

01:35:44.000 We are at a moment right now that's such an exciting moment to be involved in this, right?

01:35:48.000 This is where everything you do matters more.

01:35:50.000 Every conversation you have matters more.

01:35:52.000 An audience like this gives me hope.

01:35:54.000 The traction we have at Turning Point USA and what we're doing gives me hope.

01:35:58.000 And 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.

01:36:08.000 Never give up.

01:36:09.000 Never give in.

01:36:10.000 We'll be celebrating together very soon.

01:36:12.000 I'm telling you right now, our best days are ahead.

01:36:16.000 God bless you guys.

01:36:16.000 Thank you so much.

01:36:22.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:36:23.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:36:26.000 If you want to support us, go to charliekirk.com/slash support and get involved right now at TurningPointUSA, FCPUSA.com.

01:36:33.000 God bless you guys.

01:36:34.000 Speak to you soon.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 25, 2021

Understanding the Terminal Threat of Corporatism to America—LIVE From Missouri State University

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