The Charlie Kirk Show - December 10, 2023


We Only Lose if We Despair: My Speech LIVE at FlashPoint Pasadena


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My speech at Flashpoint in Pasadena, CA on the 16th anniversary of the founding of Turning Point USA. Thank you so much to Charlie Kirk and his organization, Flashpoint USA, for standing up for freedom and fighting for freedom in this country.

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00:00:00.000 Happy Sunday, everybody.
00:00:01.000 This is my speech at Flashpoint in Pasadena, California, and we bring the heat.
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00:00:21.000 Email me as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:00:28.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:29.000 Here we go.
00:00:30.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:32.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:34.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:37.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:41.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:42.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:43.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:00:44.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:51.000 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.
00:01:00.000 That's why we are here.
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00:01:12.000 You know, I just want to say before you address everybody for a few minutes, you know what, you're standing for Israel.
00:01:18.000 I appreciate that.
00:01:19.000 And I never thought that would be, I would, it feels like sometimes we're in the minority to stand up, especially like you are on a college campus somewhere.
00:01:27.000 But I just want you to listen.
00:01:29.000 Charlie's got a lot of great wisdom.
00:01:31.000 Most of it he got from me.
00:01:32.000 So take a few minutes, Charlie, address everybody.
00:01:36.000 First of all, how great is Flashpoint, everybody?
00:01:38.000 What a great service they're doing to this country.
00:01:39.000 Thank you, Jean.
00:01:41.000 And I'm going to get back at Eric.
00:01:44.000 I'm really glad he dressed up wearing jeans.
00:01:46.000 You hear that, Eric?
00:01:47.000 It's really great.
00:01:48.000 And it's unbelievable.
00:01:51.000 I'll tell you what.
00:01:52.000 A couple things that I want to share with you.
00:01:54.000 We're in a war, everybody, and it's more clear than ever before.
00:01:58.000 And we will lose if we surrender and we give up.
00:02:01.000 I get a chance to travel the country.
00:02:03.000 I visit college campuses, so you don't have to.
00:02:06.000 Everything from UCLA to UC Berkeley, Arizona State University.
00:02:10.000 I could tell you that despite all the headlines that you might see in the Hamas support on these campuses, there's an amazing amount of hope.
00:02:17.000 When I go to these campuses, we can't find rooms big enough to fit all the students that want to attend our Turning Point USA events.
00:02:23.000 It's amazing.
00:02:28.000 But I hear almost every single day something that is explicitly a sin in the scriptures: despair.
00:02:35.000 Far too often, I see, even in Christian circles, people say, but it seems overwhelming.
00:02:41.000 It's very dark out there.
00:02:43.000 And that what can I possibly do?
00:02:46.000 This is a time where we must not be focused on the outcome, but instead our obedience.
00:02:51.000 We do what we do, not because we want to see a certain outcome.
00:02:55.000 That'll be nice, but the outcome is the Lord's. 0.70
00:02:57.000 The obedience is ours.
00:02:58.000 We fight because God commands us to fight.
00:03:06.000 These are not normal times.
00:03:08.000 And I understand that some people wish that we could go back to a time of great bipartisan unity, of moderation.
00:03:18.000 Some people say, but Charlie, can't we go back to the days where everybody goes along to get salon?
00:03:24.000 And now I know that some of you might have mixed opinions about who to support and who to vote for in the Republican primary, whatever.
00:03:30.000 But what I'm going to say are the facts, which is Donald Trump did not divide this country.
00:03:36.000 He exposed the divide that already existed in this country.
00:03:42.000 And he certainly has a lot of faults.
00:03:47.000 We all do.
00:03:48.000 But he has a lot of virtues that we rarely talk about.
00:03:52.000 These are not normal times.
00:03:54.000 And when I watch and I see The mockery of these Republican debates, and I see them act as if it's 1985, as if everything's fine.
00:04:05.000 Donald Trump is facing 700 years in federal prison.
00:04:09.000 They're doing everything they possibly can to throw that guy in jail, and he has every reason to give up, every reason to surrender, and yet he keeps on fighting.
00:04:18.000 They're trying to take his business empire away from him.
00:04:20.000 They're trying to smear and slander his family every single day.
00:04:24.000 They spied on his campaign, they impeached him twice, they lied about all the events around January 6th, and yet he continues to fight.
00:04:32.000 And understand it is not him that they're going after, it is you.
00:04:41.000 He just happens to be in the way.
00:04:44.000 And now I know there's a lot of people that say, but I don't like his tone and I don't like his tweets.
00:04:49.000 And honestly, I'm growing a little tired of these one-liners.
00:04:53.000 And again, you can have all sorts of different opinions.
00:04:55.000 You might support Nikki Haley, which is hilarious.
00:04:57.000 You might support good luck with that.
00:05:02.000 But here's the bigger truth that I think we all need to acknowledge and admit: there's only one candidate that they are willing to throw everything they possibly can at.
00:05:11.000 And it's a lesson for all of us, isn't it?
00:05:13.000 How would you act if you were facing 700 years in federal prison?
00:05:17.000 Would you give up, run for the hills?
00:05:19.000 You see, there's a reason they fear him so much is because they're afraid that you are learning from him.
00:05:26.000 They're afraid that all of a sudden there are millions of grassroots activists that are no longer going to be afraid of the media, afraid of the names that they call you.
00:05:37.000 You see, for years, we've allowed the media to dictate the terms of engagement, allowed us to cower in fear every time they called us a racist, every time they called us these sorts of names.
00:05:48.000 Donald Trump played offense against some of the most bitter, awful institutions in this country.
00:05:54.000 Not only did he play offense, but he refused to play the game that so many of us have been tricked into playing for all of these years.
00:06:00.000 Understand that our republic, which I believe was given to us by God, is on very fragile footing right now.
00:06:08.000 And the elites have tried everything they possibly can.
00:06:11.000 They tried mass mail-in ballots.
00:06:13.000 They are trying to go after Mike Lindell.
00:06:15.000 They've gone after 1,300 people that were there on January 6th.
00:06:18.000 They've gone after people that were alternate electors of constitutional right in some of these states.
00:06:24.000 They're using the FBI as a personal enforcement squad of Joe Biden.
00:06:28.000 And I don't know about you, but I think this election is a lot bigger than Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
00:06:33.000 When they use the instruments of the criminal justice system to go after a former president, that makes me like Donald Trump even more than before.
00:06:48.000 And make no mistake, Hamas never would attack Israel if Trump was president.
00:06:55.000 There would be no Ukraine and Russian war.
00:06:58.000 The border would be secure.
00:07:02.000 Christopher Wray would not continue his terror campaign against American citizens.
00:07:07.000 The only reason we got Roe versus Wade repealed is thanks to Donald Trump putting Amy Coney Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.
00:07:16.000 Now, I'm not even here to say you must vote for the men, but you should thank God that he is fighting for you every single day.
00:07:27.000 So, what does that mean for all of us?
00:07:30.000 We still have an opportunity to save this great country, but it's bigger than politics.
00:07:34.000 It involves every single facet of our life: how we educate our kids, whether or not we're going to stand up, the totalitarian bullies in our own life.
00:07:44.000 Well, that we turn our back on somebody that might have been canceled for saying some wrong think thing.
00:07:50.000 And yes, the fight matters in your churches.
00:07:53.000 One of the things that I have dedicated some of our work at TPUSA Faith to, which is why I love working with Flashpoint, is getting the church to stand biblically and courageously against wokeism both outside and inside the church.
00:08:10.000 Understand that a vast majority of seminaries in this country are infected with the woke mind virus, postmodernism, social relativism.
00:08:21.000 It should be of no mystery and no mistake when you see some of these people come out like Russell Moore or Andy Stanley or Rick Warren.
00:08:30.000 And by the way, I name names.
00:08:31.000 I'm sorry, everybody, but time is running out. 0.97
00:08:35.000 And so many of these feckless cowards that call themselves pastors and they come out and they say, you know what? 0.99
00:08:43.000 Gay marriage is okay or transgenderism. 0.99
00:08:45.000 There's nothing wrong with it. 0.97
00:08:47.000 We must excommunicate wokeism out of the American church. 0.99
00:08:52.000 It is from the pit of hell.
00:09:00.000 And if we are honest with ourselves, one of the reasons why we are in the mess that we are in is because we in the church got complacent.
00:09:11.000 I blame us first.
00:09:13.000 We should not blame a secular world for our country falling apart.
00:09:18.000 It's because the church did not stand on biblical truth.
00:09:22.000 It's because the church was more worried about expanding their wardrobe budget than their book budget.
00:09:31.000 It's because the church was unwilling to say to a world, I don't care if you hate me, I only answer to God and God alone.
00:09:42.000 And one of the reasons why I love what Flashpoint is doing and this amazing ministry, it's going out into the nation, the country, and speaking to all of you and empowering pastors to stand with biblical courage.
00:09:55.000 And that's where all of you come in.
00:09:57.000 One of the most important things you can do is, first of all, you should go to this church.
00:10:00.000 Cheon is doing a great job here at this church, I got to tell you.
00:10:05.000 Is if you go to a different church, by the way, Jack Hibbs has a great church and Rob McCoy has a great church, right?
00:10:12.000 And so many others.
00:10:13.000 But maybe you go to a church and they're wavering a little bit.
00:10:16.000 And they say, we don't do politics around here.
00:10:19.000 You should say, well, do you do the Bible around here?
00:10:25.000 How about Esther, Mordecai, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, or Joseph?
00:10:29.000 They were awfully political.
00:10:31.000 They were counselors to the king.
00:10:33.000 It says in Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
00:10:42.000 Daniel fasted and prayed for the nation that he is in.
00:10:45.000 Who is in?
00:10:46.000 God cares about whether or not you care for your nation.
00:10:50.000 And we should love our neighbor as yourself, as it says in Leviticus 19.
00:10:55.000 Christ says all the commandments are on, love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind.
00:11:00.000 Deuteronomy 6, 5.
00:11:01.000 In Leviticus 19, it says, love your neighbor as yourself, as well as some other amazing teachings.
00:11:06.000 We cannot love our neighbor as ourself if you have a Marxist totalitarian government.
00:11:11.000 The best way to love your neighbor is to give them the gift that God first gave us, which is liberty, which is God's idea, not man's idea.
00:11:19.000 A free society is the greatest gift that we can give a neighbor.
00:11:25.000 And yet, Christians across the country sit idly by.
00:11:28.000 They sit on their hands.
00:11:30.000 A majority of pastors did not thank the Lord that Roe versus Wade was repealed.
00:11:36.000 The church founded this country.
00:11:38.000 55 out of 56 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing church-attending Christians.
00:11:45.000 Nine out of 13 of the original state constitutions of the 13 original colonies said that you must be a Protestant Christian to be an office holder at the time of the American founding.
00:11:55.000 Almost all 13 out of 13 said you must believe in Almighty God.
00:11:58.000 This was founded as a Christian country, and it will be Christians that will save it.
00:12:05.000 And yet, we have bought the lie that is peddled by too many of these fake pastors across the country.
00:12:12.000 They sell you your book and say that I just want happiness and I want peace on earth.
00:12:17.000 Yes, Christ will bring peace on earth, but first he must bring a sword.
00:12:22.000 And the sword is the word of God.
00:12:24.000 And the word of God will cut through the lies of all culture.
00:12:27.000 But I hear from people like Andy Stanley, he says, well, you know, we must meet young people where they're at, that you're going to turn young people off if you talk the truth too bluntly and clearly.
00:12:39.000 Well, how is that working out?
00:12:41.000 We have watered down the word of God for the last 30 years and church attendance is down.
00:12:45.000 I can tell you how to pack an auditorium full of 18, 19, and 20-year-olds.
00:12:49.000 I do it every single night.
00:12:50.000 You know how you do it?
00:12:51.000 You tell the truth plainly and repeatedly to a generation that needs to hear it.
00:13:03.000 This is a testing moment for the church.
00:13:05.000 And if we're honest, most churches failed during COVID.
00:13:08.000 We masked in fear and hid behind Romans 13, an inappropriate analysis of Romans 13, saying that we must submit to our government leaders and authorities and those that are there because they're there for our good.
00:13:20.000 Even though when you ask the pastor the next question, well, who's the authority in America?
00:13:25.000 It's we, the people in America, not the mayors, not the governors, but they don't read that far.
00:13:33.000 It is the church that needs to rise, that needs to stand for this biblical truth and identify wokeism wherever we see it.
00:13:44.000 And in 2024, it will be a testing moment.
00:13:47.000 You're going to hear from the Russell Moore types, oh, don't get involved in politics.
00:13:52.000 There's no difference to the two parties.
00:13:54.000 Excuse me.
00:13:55.000 Now, by the way, there's plenty of problems with the Republican Party.
00:13:58.000 I do a three-hour show about it every single day.
00:14:00.000 You guys should listen.
00:14:01.000 It's the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:14:02.000 I know some of you guys do.
00:14:03.000 Thank you, by the way.
00:14:05.000 I complain more about Republicans than Democrats every single day.
00:14:08.000 But hold on a second.
00:14:10.000 Let's get our facts right.
00:14:13.000 There are three things that every pastor should agree on.
00:14:16.000 And if they don't, they should resign from the ministry.
00:14:18.000 Number one, life begins at conception and that abortion has no place in America.
00:14:24.000 Number two, God created male and female and this transgenderism nonsense will end in this country. 1.00
00:14:34.000 And to go a step further, you will not mutilate our children. 0.99
00:14:37.000 You will not teach them this gay pornography. 1.00
00:14:40.000 You will not go after them with this trans agenda. 1.00
00:14:43.000 Our children are off limits, period.
00:15:11.000 And finally, that we will never allow the Bride of Christ, the church, to be labeled non-essential again.
00:15:17.000 When marijuana dispensaries, liquor stores, and convenience stores were lamed essential, we will never close the church for what you call a pandemic again, period.
00:15:31.000 You need to go home to your pastor and ask those three questions.
00:15:34.000 When does life begin?
00:15:36.000 Do you believe God created male and female in his image?
00:15:39.000 And do you believe the church is essential?
00:15:41.000 That is your three-part test.
00:15:43.000 That is not political, that is biblical.
00:15:45.000 And if every pastor asked those questions and answered them correctly, the country could be saved.
00:15:54.000 But it starts with you.
00:15:56.000 It starts with you getting a coffee with your senior pastor and asking them.
00:15:59.000 They say, Well, I don't want to lose people.
00:16:01.000 They say, Then you shouldn't be a pastor.
00:16:04.000 You should try to preach your church down to a manageable size, telling the truth.
00:16:08.000 And if God blesses you with increased attendance, that's God's provision and blessing, not because of your talented preaching.
00:16:19.000 But, but I uh, I have an elder board.
00:16:23.000 Oh, they say mean things.
00:16:24.000 You should preach the truth.
00:16:26.000 And if the elder board fires you for preaching the Bible, then they will have to stand in front of Almighty God and account for that.
00:16:33.000 But I um, I don't know, it's just not clear.
00:16:37.000 There's no difference between the two parties.
00:16:39.000 Again, there's a lot of problems in this country.
00:16:43.000 I could tell you, there is one party that believes in post-birth abortion. 0.90
00:16:49.000 There's one party that is pushing this transgenderism poison on every one of your children. 1.00
00:16:54.000 In this state, the state of California, God bless you for fighting for California, by the way.
00:16:58.000 Do not give up on California.
00:17:02.000 The Democrats in the Senate and the House agreed to block a bill that would have notified you as a parent if your teenager was currently undergoing transgender conversion therapy.
00:17:14.000 Simple notification.
00:17:16.000 The Democrats don't even want you as a parent to know what is happening.
00:17:20.000 And it's very simple and very clear.
00:17:22.000 The church does a poor job of this because the church has its motives all wrong.
00:17:26.000 What is the best way to fight Marxism?
00:17:28.000 It's the family.
00:17:29.000 It is the only one of the Ten Commandments that involves a promise on your nation.
00:17:33.000 Honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in.
00:17:38.000 The transgender lobby, the Marxists, the totalitarians, the tyrants, the Democrats, the despots. 1.00
00:17:44.000 But I repeat myself.
00:17:47.000 They know that they have to separate the bond between a parent and a child.
00:17:54.000 For all those of us that are parents, myself now included, by the way, we must protect our children from the groomers.
00:18:06.000 And that's right.
00:18:07.000 I call them groomers, and they hate it when we call them groomers.
00:18:11.000 There are three types of people in this world: there are infants, there are predators, and the protectors of children.
00:18:16.000 Many of you are no longer infants, thankfully.
00:18:20.000 I hear some infants in the back, God bless them.
00:18:22.000 So that means you could be in one of two categories: you could be a predator or a protector of children.
00:18:28.000 It is incumbent on good people to protect our children from the predators.
00:18:34.000 The predators in the public school system, the predators that seek to come after your children's innocence.
00:18:42.000 And pastors need to say that clearly and plainly and repeatedly.
00:18:47.000 This is not a political war.
00:18:49.000 This is a biblical and a spiritual war.
00:18:52.000 I get a lot of emails from many of you, and you say, Charlie, what else can I do?
00:18:57.000 Some of you even say, I've done everything that's been asked of me.
00:19:00.000 I watched Flashpoint.
00:19:02.000 I bought the pillow.
00:19:05.000 By the way, let's clear this up.
00:19:07.000 Promo code Kirk.
00:19:11.000 Okay?
00:19:12.000 I don't know what all this other nonsense is.
00:19:15.000 K-I-R-K. 1.00
00:19:16.000 By the way, that's the easiest of all to remember, okay?
00:19:20.000 It means church, by the way.
00:19:22.000 Okay, so there you go.
00:19:23.000 Eric, I don't know what that means.
00:19:25.000 So, promo code Kirk.
00:19:27.000 Okay, we got that out of the way.
00:19:32.000 Make a commitment to do more.
00:19:35.000 No longer be a spectator, but be a participant in the fight for liberty and freedom.
00:19:40.000 Get in the arena.
00:19:42.000 Homeschool your kids. 0.99
00:19:43.000 Take your kids out of government schools, everybody.
00:19:47.000 Support your local turning point USA chapter.
00:19:50.000 Run for precinct committeemen.
00:19:52.000 Hold your pastor accountable.
00:19:53.000 Leave your church if it's gone woke.
00:19:55.000 Have the tough conversation with your loved one.
00:19:58.000 Become a relentless fighter for liberty and freedom because the bad guys are trying to invoke your surrender.
00:20:04.000 They're trying to get you to give up, and I'll end how I started.
00:20:08.000 Look at the man who's facing 700 years in prison and his business empire about to be taken away.
00:20:13.000 Nobody can tell me you have it harder than Donald Trump right now.
00:20:17.000 Nobody.
00:20:17.000 I hear complaints all day long, but I could lose my job and someone could say a bad word about me.
00:20:23.000 Donald Trump's about to lose everything he's ever earned.
00:20:25.000 His name, his reputation, his flint, his family, his wealth.
00:20:29.000 He might go to jail for the rest of his life if he keeps on fighting for you.
00:20:32.000 So I don't want to hear your complaints.
00:20:35.000 I want to see you fight.
00:20:37.000 I want to see you fight with everything that you have.
00:20:46.000 The greatest man to live in the 20th century was Winston Churchill.
00:20:50.000 Trump is very similar to Churchill.
00:20:53.000 Hated before, loved during, hated after.
00:20:57.000 A little rough around the edges, but necessary, blunt, and courageous.
00:21:01.000 Churchill was the only man that was smiling the day after Pearl Harbor.
00:21:06.000 His team came in.
00:21:09.000 The war cabinet convened the day after Pearl Harbor, and they were downtrodden and sad.
00:21:14.000 And Churchill was very happy with a cigar and a thing of whiskey.
00:21:18.000 And he proclaimed to his war cabinet, we have won the war.
00:21:22.000 And his war cabinet said, what are you talking about?
00:21:24.000 Gents, we have won the war. 1.00
00:21:26.000 And a brave soul said, sir, have you lost your bloody mind? 0.98
00:21:30.000 He said, we could barely staff the Royal Air Force. 0.99
00:21:34.000 They're planning a ground invasion of Brighton.
00:21:36.000 We barely got our troops off Dunkirk.
00:21:38.000 There's a vote of no confidence planned for you.
00:21:40.000 What do you mean we've won the war?
00:21:41.000 And Churchill took a puff of a cigar and a sip of whiskey and he says, ah, I've studied the Americans and got to know them quite well.
00:21:48.000 They're often late to the party, but once Americans awaken, they are a beast that cannot be defeated. 0.99
00:21:55.000 You awaken, everybody.
00:21:57.000 We win.
00:21:57.000 God bless you guys.
00:21:59.000 Thank you so much.
00:22:01.000 Charlie Kirk!
00:22:07.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:22:09.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:22:10.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:22:13.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:22:14.000 God bless you.
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