00:00:00.000A conversation at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, where I take questions to the audience and give a speech about what is necessary for conservatives to do.
00:01:11.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:18.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:39.000And we never have enough time for questions.
00:01:41.000And so I want to make sure we have a lot of time for that tonight.
00:01:44.000And many of you have kind of heard our stump speech before and all that stuff.
00:01:48.000But I want to talk about one news item that I found to be super interesting that connects with some of the themes that we talk about at Turning Point USA.
00:01:54.000And then we'll do some questions and we'll have back and forth and we'll see where time leads us there.
00:01:58.000So there's one story that I found super interesting.
00:02:01.000And if you listen to our podcast or if you listen to kind of what we talk about at Turning Point USA, we have been repeating the theme that the threats to our freedoms and liberties, it's more than just what the government is doing.
00:02:10.000It's also what corporate America is doing in collusion with the federal government.
00:02:14.000Regardless of your political views, we should all be able to agree back in the 2020 election, it was wrong for the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to go to Facebook and demand that they censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, saying that it was Russian disinformation.
00:02:29.000You might be the biggest Biden fan in the world here tonight, by the way.
00:02:38.000You should not be able to use the force of government or the threat of force of government to go to a private actor and be able to suppress stories that could impact an election.
00:03:05.000Okay, well, you might be liberated soon.
00:03:06.000We'll talk about that in just a second.
00:03:08.000So, but Twitter is not the biggest social media platform, but I think people misunderstand Twitter.
00:03:14.000Twitter is an incubator of elite opinion.
00:03:18.000So, people that write columns, people that host podcasts, people that are on television, they go to Twitter to see what the smart kids are thinking to have consensus, and then they put it kind of through their communication channels.
00:03:30.000So, said differently, Twitter is not about the amount of people consuming information, it's who is consuming the information.
00:03:37.000Now, Twitter has by far, maybe TikTok more so, but TikTok is pandering to a different generation, but that's a separate issue.
00:03:44.000Twitter has been the worst when it comes to speech of any private actor the last couple of years.
00:03:48.000For example, suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story, kicking people off for having heterodox opinions of where the virus came from, which, by the way, the virus did come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, not from some wet market where they said originally.
00:04:01.000And you could get kicked off Twitter for saying that originally, which now actually is factual and true.
00:04:06.000And so Twitter has been a blunt force object of a censorship regime.
00:04:12.000Now, this is really important because there's a lot of people in our government that would love to be able to shut up dissenting voices.
00:04:17.000And by the way, not just conservative dissenting voices, but liberal dissenting voices as well.
00:04:22.000By the way, I can't wait to meet anti-war liberals again one day.
00:04:39.000Because every single member of the American left is totally on board with the further escalation of this proxy war in Ukraine, $75 billion being spent in Ukraine.
00:04:59.000Okay, so it doesn't matter where you come from.
00:05:01.000If you have a heterodox opinion, you have a contrarian opinion, you have to admit there might be someone who wants to shut you up at some point, okay?
00:05:38.000Now, Twitter has lived under this regime of censorship.
00:05:41.000I got kicked off Twitter momentarily for a little period of time because I deadnamed somebody, a phenomenon I was not even familiar with, because I used the wrong name of a person that used to exist, of the man who thinks he's a woman that runs the rear admiral for the United States Navy, Levine.
00:05:58.000So I used the wrong gender pronoun, so I got kicked off Twitter.
00:06:01.000Anyway, that's kind of what happens on Twitter, right?
00:06:03.000And so the suppression was so bad is that somebody really started to pay attention to this.
00:06:10.000And the somebody who started to pay attention to this is someone that is a direct threat to the regime.
00:06:14.000Now, I don't agree with everything this person has ever done.
00:06:16.000You shouldn't have to, but it's a very interesting story, okay?
00:06:19.000Regardless of your politics, it's one of the most fascinating news stories of 2022 that I think the media is getting totally wrong because the media is very dishonest, which is the world's richest man, and it fluctuates based on stock prices, decided to just go purchase Twitter to go liberate it from the censorship regime.
00:06:35.000Now, I don't even think he was totally serious at one point.
00:06:53.000I want the internet to be a place of speech and discussion and discourse.
00:06:56.000The people that are policing speech right now on Twitter, it's making it very unhealthy for our country.
00:07:00.000And that if you want to be able to participate and speak freely online, Twitter should be a place for that.
00:07:05.000And it just got announced today, starting Friday, Elon Musk is going to have the keys to Twitter, which is remarkable when you think about it.
00:07:13.000Now, if that bothers you, I'd love to hear why, right?
00:07:18.000I just, I don't know the counter argument.
00:07:20.000Like, oh, they're going to use it for his own billionaire oligarchic purposes.
00:07:25.000You're trying to tell me that Twitter's not being used for billionaire oligarchy right now?
00:07:29.000Like, right now it's being used for every one of the pet projects of the World Economic Forum, open borders, like every single one of the pet projects of the billionaire elite trends on Twitter, even though 500 people are tweeting about it.
00:07:40.000No, I actually think Elon Musk is very interesting where he just doesn't care what people say about him.
00:08:33.000And our elites are in tandem to try to crush all of you.
00:08:36.000They're working harmoniously to do it, to suppress your speech, to deteriorate your currency, to keep the border wide open, to call you an insurrectionist if you wave a flag.
00:08:45.000Like you're the worst thing in the world.
00:08:46.000And really, we need a restoration of an American elite population that hopefully looks at the money that they've earned or the money they've received if they inherited it, not as some sort of massive repatriation campaign to go fund global warming type stuff, but instead, how can I preserve and protect the American project?
00:09:05.000And honestly, that's what Elon Musk is doing here.
00:09:10.000I mean, if you, I did not have on my bingo card in 2022 that the world's richest man was going to buy Twitter for $44 billion under the mandate that I'm going to fire 75% of the employees and make it fun again and make it the home for a free and open internet.
00:09:26.000Now, if you are here tonight and your contention is like, oh, disinformation, all this sort of stuff.
00:09:29.000Okay, so let's pretend that disinformation was actually a huge problem.
00:09:35.000Have more people be able to then comment on it and have more people make their own decisions.
00:09:40.000I trust the American people to make informed decisions a lot more than some fact checker at the New York Times that has the ability to shut up a Twitter account that they don't like.
00:09:49.000And you have to allow that process to unfold.
00:09:52.000And so, but what's also important is they say, well, Twitter shouldn't be a place of bullying.
00:11:06.000Because so many of the mass movements in our country, the last couple of years, have been built on extraordinary lies, not little lies, but extraordinary lies.
00:11:15.000That America is somehow systemically racist.
00:12:22.000And so from somehow, kids are going to be super spreaders in schools, that was a lie.
00:12:27.000There's no evidence at all whatsoever around that.
00:12:29.000And so you go through one after the other, after the other, you have to ask yourself the question: how much of our, what would our society look like if Twitter would have been liberated a couple of years ago?
00:12:43.000I actually think that our ideas, our being conservative, you know, pro-freedom, pro-liberty, pro-American ideas, generally, when given a chance to compete and spread, are very popular.
00:12:54.000In fact, censorship and the ability to restrict that kind of flow of information is the only thing holding that all together.
00:13:02.000That's why now the federal government, this is how corrupt these people are.
00:13:06.000The federal government has now come out and they have said we now need to have Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter undergo a national security evaluation to be able to hold up the deal because this might be threatening to our national security.
00:13:22.000It's funny, they didn't do a national security evaluation when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post.
00:13:27.000No, because they're doing everything they possibly can to slow this down.
00:13:31.000Now, somebody might say, Charlie, aren't we in a sad state of affairs that the world's richest man has to parachute in and buy a company and bail us out and liberate us?
00:13:39.000Of course, we're in a sad state of affairs.
00:13:42.000We're on the most fragile footing a republic has ever had.
00:13:45.000And I'm going to take any person willing to help us that we possibly can.
00:13:48.000And if Twitter does, in fact, get liberated, the next time there is a mass media campaign for whatever type of topic you want, and the Ukraine one is another great example, by the way.
00:13:58.000You've just seen public opinions shift on Ukraine almost overnight, right?
00:14:03.000Over the last six months, where it just started with this very, very clear, like good versus evil, when in reality, it's a lot murkier than that.
00:14:09.000And our involvement is a lot murkier than that.
00:14:15.000When we should be de-escalating, all these questions, right?
00:14:17.000The only way you can have a free society is if people are able to speak freely and consume information freely.
00:14:25.000And they've realized the government does not have the power yet to do that.
00:14:29.000So use the soft power of social media to do that, where that kind of happens online because they control CBS, they control ABC, they control NBC, they control the networks, they control the newspapers, they control Apple News and all that.
00:14:40.000But now that there might be a sliver that might be the spark of dissenting opinion, it's actually going to be a very big threat.
00:14:47.000And by the way, it's just going to be more fun.
00:14:48.000I mean, seriously, the creativity you get when you allow people to speak freely, yes, you get wackadoodles out there that say all sorts of nutty stuff.
00:14:56.000But generally, you get, it becomes a competition for human excellence over a period of time.
00:15:03.000And by the way, there's no other way around it.
00:15:06.000A free and open internet, the reason they must shut down the internet is that the internet was relatively free and open back in 2016.
00:15:14.000And every tech executive went on apology to were basically saying, we're so sorry at Twitter and Facebook that we allowed Donald Trump to become president.
00:15:22.000Oh, you mean when people can openly speak, candidates win that you don't like?
00:15:36.000We're seeing it happen all across the country.
00:15:38.000And some of the media reports about it is they're coming out and they're saying Hispanics are victims of misinformation campaigns and they don't know any better.
00:15:48.000Oh, they're too stupid to know right from wrong.
00:15:51.000So you have to be able to police the internet, you stupid racist that writes for whatever newspaper.
00:15:55.000Like, oh, they're too dumb to know what it is.
00:15:58.000Actually, I trust people to be able to process the information correctly and then make the decisions after that.
00:16:03.000And if not, you're like, I don't trust it.
00:16:05.000Then go start your own account and go grow a following and then start to tell you why you're wrong.
00:16:09.000Speech is always the answer to less speech or speech that you don't like.
00:16:13.000And that is a really exciting moment because I know a lot of people here have the politics on your mind and all that.
00:16:18.000I'm actually thinking bigger picture, even outside of the election.
00:16:21.000Long term, as far as a movement that is durable, that is grassroots, that is anti-fragile, one that is going to be building long term.
00:16:29.000I think historically, we're going to look back on the year of 2022 as the reclamation and liberation of Twitter as actually one of the greatest wins for freedom and liberty this calendar year, even more so than what might happen politically a couple of weeks from now.
00:16:43.000So let me say one or two other things, then we'll get to some questions, which so at Turning Point USA, we have chapters all across the country.
00:16:53.000We talk a lot about the woke and we talk a lot about CRT and all this.
00:18:19.000We have a supply and demand problem with racism in America.
00:18:22.000Meaning we have an incredible demand to find racism everywhere, yet the supply is so low because we're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:18:44.000Because he never actually, well, he got convicted, but he never actually admitted to it.
00:18:48.000And so when we talk about these issues, we talk about that.
00:18:51.000I would love to kind of move past that conversation.
00:18:53.000But the broader thing, we can talk about it in question and answer, is that it's unbelievably parasitically destructive to our society to continue to focus on these racial issues.
00:19:02.000It will tear everything that we love apart.
00:19:57.000In fact, I was talking to a reporter recently, and she said, Wow, Charlie, I think you could agree with some people on the left.
00:20:04.000You know, she didn't quite totally understand everything I was saying, but that's fine.
00:20:08.000And New York Times reporter goes with the game.
00:20:11.000So, and I said, Yeah, she said, But the one thing you just seem so distant on with the left is the issue of race.
00:20:16.000I said, Yeah, why do you think that is?
00:20:18.000I think that actually the country agrees on a lot of stuff, but they're trying to use this as a diversionary tactic to not actually talk about, I don't know, that the middle class is getting smaller, that inflation is 10%, always this over-dominating conversation on things that quite honestly can't change.
00:20:44.000And basically, there's no salvation in sight, it has to be eternal repentance, eternal apologizing, eternal abolishing of whiteness, which, by the way, now Coca-Cola comes out and says we have to get rid of whiteness in our company, which is just remarkable for an American company to say that.
00:21:00.000So, let me kind of put a cap on that and we'll do some questions.
00:21:03.000All of that line of thinking will destroy the country that we love.
00:21:06.000I don't care what your political views are, I don't care what perspective you come from.
00:21:10.000If you entertain this venom or this poison, even a little bit, it will take over like locusts to the very core of our constitutional republic.
00:21:18.000We have the wealthiest, most decent society ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:21:23.000We could talk about them at length, happy to explain it further.
00:21:26.000But we, considering the different cultures, languages, backgrounds, and races that generally coexist in our country beautifully well, you will lose that if we teach our kids all of a sudden that skin color matters.
00:21:39.000If we put some sort of platform of, oh, yeah, actually, how you look means something.
00:22:15.000But if there is, listen to what I'm saying, if there is a liberal that comes up and says something that you deem to be outrageous, please don't mock that person, don't laugh at that person.
00:22:24.000It takes courage to come to a conservative event and to come and express your opinion.
00:22:29.000Let it be known for everyone watching at home in the media that will never report this down, that at every single turning point USA event and every event that I do, disagreement is not just welcome, it is invited, and you have a chance to allow yourself to speak freely.
00:22:41.000We will be the ambassadors of free speech, the left will be the censors.
00:22:44.000So, let it be known and let them state their case, okay?
00:23:12.000You know, you believe in our core tenets, but I do not believe you can have a cogent conservative worldview or philosophy without at least first theism and definitely without some sort of biblical view.
00:23:36.000And you could believe everything that I believe politically, I would just probably say you derived it from a theistic Christian worldview, if that makes sense.
00:23:44.000So, do I think they're linked together?
00:23:47.000I think if you are a Bible-believing Christian, you should be a conservative as well.
00:23:51.000You know, conserving the good, the true, and the beautiful, protecting the vulnerable, those that can't protect themselves, using strength to protect the weak, not the strength to crush the weak, all these things that conservatives believe.
00:23:59.000At the same time, I do believe in a movement that is not only for Christians because we live in a pluralistic society of differences of opinions.
00:24:09.000I'm always going to own the fact that I'm a Christian, as evidenced by inviting Frank right up, you know, to just witness for you at the beginning.
00:25:51.000Actually, in the National Education Association's training manual, which is the largest teacher union in the country, they had a seminar on how to teach critical race theory to kids.
00:26:01.000That sounds like it's in our schools, doesn't it?
00:26:05.000What that is, is it's literally just common sense.
00:26:07.000It's saying that this is real history.
00:26:10.000This is what has happened in the past.
00:27:04.000So Ibram X. Kendi argues, who is one of the leading thinkers of critical theory, race theory, discrimination today to atone for discrimination of yesterday.
00:27:14.000We have black-only graduation ceremonies at Columbia University, black-only dormitories across the country, for example, at Western Washington University.
00:27:22.000Can you join me today in saying black-only dormitories are evil, wrong, and it's segregation?
00:27:27.000You still haven't answered my question about why does this history simultaneously mean nothing?
00:27:33.000Well, I'm happy to answer that, but the fact you're dodging segregation in America, why is that?
00:28:03.000So I think white-only and black-only anything is evil and wrong.
00:28:08.000That's why I hate critical theory and critical race theory, because when it's put in practice, when it's put in practice, you start to discriminate people based on race.
00:28:18.000So we're now south of the Mason-Dixon line in North Carolina.
00:28:22.000We did a lot of work to get rid of segregation in this country.
00:29:04.000But my question is, when 63% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, not even able to afford a home, car, or even basic necessities, when wages have only increased 15% since 1965, while the cost of a home has increased 118%, how does free market neoliberal capitalism address these issues when free market capitalism breeds these very issues?
00:29:25.000So I probably agree with part of that.
00:29:27.000I would reject the neoliberal because I'm not a neoliberal.
00:30:03.000I would say generally some of the facts that you cited are totally correct.
00:30:06.000I talked about the destruction of the American middle class.
00:30:09.000Some of that can be attributed to bad government policy.
00:30:12.000Hopefully you and I can agree that the government being able to create money out of thin air crushes the American middle class and creates a tax called inflation, where every single working person in this room is one month poor despite working harder this year.
00:30:23.000That is because of government, not because of free market capitalism, that inflation is running out of control.
00:30:29.000We spent $5 trillion we don't have on pet projects that were silly and awful and terrible.
00:30:33.000To your point, though, and I actually can agree, and I am not a neoliberal, is I actually think that our economic policy needs to be done prudently, not ideologically, in the sense of we should make more stuff here.
00:31:15.000But I'd say that generally, the ability to trade across state lines for small businesses to start new products, for family-owned business to pass down one family to the other without these crazy taxes and estate taxes, these are things I would support.
00:31:27.000Does that answer your question a little bit?
00:31:28.000Yeah, but that's not free market capitalism then.
00:31:31.000Okay, well, it depends how you define it, right?
00:31:32.000So do you mean laissez-faire, no government interference?
00:31:46.000So the original free market thinkers of the 1700s and 1800s, including Alexander Hamilton, they were free markets, but they were also nationalists.
00:31:54.000They wanted their country to be able to thrive and succeed because markets should serve people in the country.
00:31:59.000People in the country should not serve markets.
00:32:02.000Markets are a general good for society.
00:32:04.000We should only intervene prudently when we see externalities that start to harm people or wages go down or there are results that we don't like in that regard.
00:32:11.000Thank you for your question and thanks for being here, Dan.
00:32:19.000Hey, Charlie, first of all, I want to just say thank you for being here tonight.
00:32:21.000Thank you for speaking, and thank you for giving other people a chance to speak.
00:32:25.000The question I wanted to ask was actually on something you said earlier, how you said the question of hierarchy is not necessarily that to get rid of elites, but to just have better elites.
00:32:34.000The argument I would counter, and I just want to know your thoughts, is the way I see hierarchy is you can have terrible people at the top, theoretically, people that are working in their own best interest, people that are corrupt.
00:32:44.000And yes, that will affect the people at the bottom.
00:32:46.000But the way I've always seen hierarchy, especially in America and some of the stuff I see today, kind of goes back to what he said with lower wages.
00:32:56.000What is your opinion on the idea that hierarchy should be designed more so around just making sure the people at the bottom benefit regardless of whether or not the elites are necessarily corrupt?
00:33:06.000Well, yeah, that's a nice goal, but that didn't really work well in the 20th century.
00:33:12.000Well, I was going to comment on that and that some of the most prosperous points of America, a lot of people like to think back to it, things like the 60s and 70s.
00:33:21.000You had a very corrupt American elite.
00:33:23.000You had an American elite that was starting foreign wars that was after World War II with the defense industry.
00:34:11.000They're not going to get fabulously wealthy in their lifetime, but they should be able to have a commitment to retirement, see their life improve.
00:34:17.000Their kids should be able to get well educated and live a nice and normal life.
00:34:21.000And the society should be stabilized around that, right?
00:34:23.000When that middle class disappears and you get a permanent government-addicted class too much on the bottom, or you get too much of an oligarchy on top, then I think the entire system starts to shatter.
00:34:32.000So I think we're saying the same things in some ways.
00:34:34.000But my argument is that you're always going to have hierarchies.
00:34:37.000And I would love to be able to see leaders in the top of the hierarchy, the billionaire class, if you will, pander less to the needs, wants, and interests of some esoteric climate change propaganda from the World Economic Forum and instead say, hey, I have a lot of money.
00:34:50.000How am I going to use that money to benefit people's freedom and liberty and middle class potential, not trying to turn off our energy supremacy or superiority, which is the dumbest thing and actually hurts middle-income Americans and make your energy bills even more expensive, if that makes sense.
00:35:04.000So I guess you would probably agree then that kind of the difference between the 50s and now is that the middle class has kind of been ground down on the public.
00:35:14.000I think public policy, I think Wall Street's taken over our government.
00:35:16.000But also, I will say this, I don't agree with libertarians on a lot of stuff, but they are totally right on monetary policy.
00:35:22.000Our monetary policy has been a robbery campaign of the American middle class of destroying the American dollar, of depleting our purchasing power since the 1950s.
00:35:32.000So, for example, in the 1950s, your dollar just went further than it does now.
00:35:50.000You were banned on Twitter or whatever because you dead named somebody.
00:35:54.000And then you also made up the point, or not made up, sorry, you put out the point that people were being banned for saying the truth about the corona vaccine.
00:36:03.000I just wanted to say that two wrongs does not make a right.
00:36:06.000It's not right that you were deplatformed.
00:36:09.000I don't think anybody should be deplatformed for saying anything.
00:36:12.000I fully believe in freedom of speech, but I mean, I wasn't so happy with you.
00:36:17.000You seem kind of proud about, not proud, but it just wasn't seemed wrong to you that you were dead naming somebody.
00:36:34.000I think as generations go on, we become more accepting to things.
00:36:41.000And I think that even if you don't like somebody, it's not a good idea to normalize dead naming.
00:36:48.000So can you explain to our audience what is dead naming?
00:36:50.000You probably know it better than I do.
00:36:51.000Is when somebody transitions and they choose a new name conforming to their gender.
00:36:58.000So if their name was Lisa before and they changed it to Jack, if you called them Lisa before that or Lisa after they transitioned, that is dead naming.
00:39:55.000I think respect is just a give, it's a base thing.
00:39:59.000It's not like I'm going to go into this room and say, I disrespect every single one of you because you don't believe what I believe or you're not presenting how I want.
00:40:12.000You said it's wrong, but you can all of a sudden see where your viewpoint quickly becomes and we have to shut somebody up because you deserve respect.
00:40:17.000I mean, it's, I mean, honest to God, I'm not trying to like, I'm kind of losing my thoughts a little bit, but I just want to put out there that I think it's just basic human respect.
00:41:15.000Yeah, and not everybody who decides to transition decides to change their genitalia or go through something completely irreversible, right?
00:41:55.000And then he found Islam and he decided to be called something else.
00:41:58.000And all of a sudden, you get this rancor and this uproar that somehow I'm being hateful and no longer worthy of a Twitter platform because I said a fact that Levine had a name and a family and was a man and then claims he's a woman.
00:42:12.000If all of a sudden history and facts can be erased, we are dangerously approaching a 1984 dystopian world control scenario that I don't think any of us should entertain.
00:42:24.000Okay, to wrap it up, my point was basically just, I think it's better to normalize, just, or not normalize, but like not put out that it's okay to do these types of things.
00:42:35.000I think it's just general human respect.
00:42:37.000I think we just all need to become more accepting.
00:42:41.000And we don't really need to, you know.
00:42:59.000So my question is: given that 97% of scientists agree that man-made climate change exists and that it will cause negative impacts in our lifetime, from more severe storms to droughts, how do you as a conservative deal with that fact and what do you want to do to address it?
00:43:13.000I'm really curious about the 3%, aren't you?
00:43:54.000You think 2% of American physicists would say that force does not equal mass times acceleration or would reject Newtonian physics or the second law of thermodynamics?
00:44:03.0002% or 3% of people think that they can fly.
00:44:48.000Tried him put in prison and out to pasture because he dared disagree with the status quo and the scholastic belief.
00:44:55.000History is not very kind to the overwhelming tyrannical nature of scientists that say 97% of us agree that lobotomies work until we realize they don't.
00:45:12.000They argue that there's thousands of other explanations for rising global temperatures other than just carbon emitted from human beings.
00:45:20.000Sunspots, global tilt, natural cooling and heating patterns.
00:45:23.000And just to say it's all human beings all the time also begs the question, to what extent, what do you do about it?
00:45:28.000And what are you willing to then sacrifice?
00:45:30.000So real quick, you can actually check charts online that show you the graphs of how sunspots tend to affect temperatures on the United States.
00:45:37.000Sunspots, volcanic eruptures, all this stuff.
00:45:40.000And all of it doesn't account for the amount of difference that we've seen recently.
00:45:52.000Like if you check graphs on any website.
00:45:54.000So show me a single scientist that can tell me without a shadow of a doubt, empirically proven that man-made carbon emissions is solely to blame.
00:46:01.000And to what blame and what is the equation?
00:46:03.000And then what can we possibly do about it?
00:46:36.000But you are saying is when you start engaging in green energy fantasy or climate change fanaticism, let me call it that, you're going to have serious ramifications.
00:46:45.000The United Kingdom could be a net energy exporter instead.
00:46:48.000This winter, they're going to have rolling blackouts.
00:46:51.000They're going to have people potentially dying from blizzards and from incredible cold.
00:46:56.000Because they've had this entire green energy propaganda campaign that is making themselves intentionally poor because of a community of scientists that are saying we must shut ourselves down because anthropogenic, human-made, man-made cause climate change.
00:47:19.000So excuse me while I'm just the dissenting contrarian voice, which says the scientific community, whether it be in climate alarmism or in COVID vaccines or in epidemiology, I won't trust Anthony Fauci in epidemiology, nor will I trust his equivalent in climate change alarmism.
00:47:37.000In fact, I've grown accustomed to believe there's probably agenda, an agenda behind a lot of this stuff.
00:48:35.000Call everything racist till you control it.
00:48:37.000Oh, so wait, but then that literally means that critical race theory can mean basically anything you want it to, right?
00:48:46.000Only if you're calling it racist till you control it.
00:48:48.000I mean, I'm defining critical race theory in the modern American context as that.
00:48:51.000We can go back to Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man, or Jacques Derrida or Michelle Foucault, but the most agreed upon legal, I'm sorry, the most agreed upon academic theory is Intro to Critical Race Theory, 1991 by Derek Bell.
00:52:41.000Yeah, it's race, but it's a theory of how to view race of which is a mind virus pathogen destroying America, of which I said again, just to re-emphasize for those in the back, we could replay the tape.
00:53:24.000We have Turning Point Action, which is not represented here tonight, which is our political arm that would love to help you and train you and pour into you.
00:53:31.000It's an amazing organization that's doing such awesome things.
00:53:34.000Knock on more doors than your opponent.
00:53:36.000Have a message that resonates to voters.
00:53:38.000Respect your elders and talk to people that have been in politics for a while and listen to them.
00:53:43.000I don't like when young people run for office and they don't listen to people that have been around for a while.
00:55:57.000Let's say, let's say that a racist police officer shoots me, right, and kills me, right?
00:56:06.000For you to be a white man and you see that and don't say anything about it, I believe that my community would be upset about that.
00:56:17.000Now, all you have to do as a white man, you don't have to get on the internet or on Twitter and say, I'm sorry for being white, but you should, you should at least acknowledge the racism that happens around you.
00:56:32.000Okay, well, yeah, if an individual act of racism happens, that is just taking accountability for what happens around you.
00:56:55.000But what you should do is take accountability for the racism around you.
00:57:01.000Not pretend, not pretend that it doesn't happen around you.
00:57:05.000Like, again, the example that I gave you: that if I was shot by a police officer, police officer, and you found out that person was racist, right?
00:57:12.000Now, why would you say take responsibility?
00:57:16.000How can I take responsibility for somebody else's?
00:57:18.000What you should do is just take accountability and say, hey, yes, that was racist.
00:57:23.000Instead of saying, no, that person, that officer wasn't racist.
00:57:26.000You got to show me an instance and an example, but we're talking about such a micro problem that doesn't exist.
00:57:31.000Do you know that a black person is 18 and a half times more likely to shoot and kill a police officer than a police officer is to go and shoot an unarmed black man?
00:57:40.000But is that the question that I asked you?
00:57:42.000No, no, you asked a hypothetical about if I'm going to take accountability for a racist police officer.
00:57:46.000So again, do you understand if I inverted it on you, would you take accountability for all the blacks killing police in America?
00:57:55.000Why don't you take accountability for all the blacks killing police in New York?
00:57:59.000I wouldn't take accountability for it, but what I would say is, yes, there are a lot of black people in my community who do dumb things to other black people and to other white people.
00:58:10.000What I would not do is just pretend that it doesn't happen.
00:58:14.000So that, like I said, you as a white man has to do the same thing.
00:59:05.000And What is the reasons why you don't believe or you believe it should stay illegal?
00:59:13.000Yeah, now we have an overwhelming amount of data to show when it's legalized, states get more dangerous.
00:59:17.000It gets messier, more homelessness, more vagrancy, more overdoses, more kids going on drugs, more heroin overdoses.
00:59:22.000It is a gateway drug, regardless what people say.
00:59:25.000It's laced with chemicals, with fentanyl, with hallucinogenics.
00:59:29.000Colorado went from the 10th in carjackings to first in carjackings, fourth in arson to the first in arson, third in rape to the second in rape.
00:59:36.000I mean, I could go through every statistic.
00:59:38.000Every state that has legalized weed has seen more crime, more vagrancy, more dropouts, more kids on the social outcast of society.
00:59:45.000Would you say that when you legalize marijuana, you can see the lab test, you can see all the toxic chemicals inside of the cannabis plant.
00:59:55.000You can see how much THC is in there, how much CBD, what terpenes it has limonene, pinene, mercene.
01:00:02.000There's a lots of cannabinoids inside of you.
01:00:49.000So my knowledge is basically based on not necessarily, my question is not basically about whether about that statistics, but you said safer.
01:01:01.000I mean, that would be probably critical.
01:01:03.000Well, it's safer in terms of consumption, in terms of what you're consuming.
01:01:08.000If it has toxic chemicals, yeah, but guess what?
01:01:12.000You know, people still buy illegal weed despite the fact there's weed dispensaries on the corner in Vegas and in Denver.
01:01:17.000You don't get rid of the illegal drug market.
01:01:19.000You only enhance them to go to harder drugs and things they can't get in the store itself.
01:01:23.000There's more drug use in America than ever before, and we've legalized more drugs than ever before.
01:01:27.000It's been the great failure of the drug project the last 10 years.
01:01:46.000Yeah, now they're passing fentanyl in school, no longer weed in school.
01:01:51.000And so not only that, the crime, the vagrancy, the homelessness, the defecation, everywhere it's legalized has gotten more dangerous, period.
01:01:58.000So why would we want to bring that to our communities?
01:02:01.000So it's not, so that's not what I'm asking.
01:02:06.000That's not what I was basically talking about here.
01:02:09.000What I'm talking about is basically the consumption of the safetiness of people who consume cannabis.
01:02:16.000And also, there are many, many, lots of good benefits too, in terms of a lot, there are a lot of good terpenes in terms of limonen.
01:03:08.000I would love to be in your field one day, kind of doing what you do, as well as the other guy that was talking about Wonderful Office.
01:03:14.000I think that one thing that makes it very difficult a lot of times is that we live in a society that doesn't promote doing things differently.
01:03:24.000Like you didn't go to college and you're very adamant against the college scam, but as well as different aspects, as we live in a world that is just very aggressive towards a lot of those different things.
01:03:35.000And like for me as a high schooler, with a lot of steps I take, you know, to kind of get in that field, whether it be going to council meetings or doing a podcast, different things like that.
01:03:45.000What would you say that, whether it be a piece of literature or maybe social networking cues to pick up on that would really enhance, maybe not enhance, but help you kind of beat that system.
01:03:59.000Yeah, so look, you're talking about how to get into politics, basically, right?
01:04:20.000So the kind of overgeneralized story of Turning Point USA doesn't mention that, you know, in high school, I knocked on 100,000 doors for some candidates in Illinois.
01:04:29.000That's, you got to cut your teeth doing that, right?
01:05:39.000So my question is: knowing that abortion takes the lives of babies of all colors and ethnic backgrounds, but understanding it's the black genocide of today.
01:06:33.000But if you were trying to exterminate the black population, how would you do things any differently than what Planned Parenthood is doing right now?
01:06:42.000We got to talk about why life is beautiful.
01:06:44.000And honestly, we also got to step up, those of us that are Christians and conservatives, with the resources, the charities, the services to make sure that we get rid of the myth of unwanted children.
01:06:54.000There is not an unwanted child in America.
01:06:56.000We just need to make sure people that are in crisis that are pregnant are able to find adoption services, find the services necessary.
01:10:23.000No, it's Thomas Jefferson riding to the Danbury Baptist Convention in Massachusetts, assuring them that the church would not come after the state.
01:11:20.000We we played like, do live streaming, like online, yeah.
01:11:23.000So watching church on a live stream is like watching a fireplace on tv.
01:11:27.000You could see everything with no warmth okay, but if god is real all the time and you can't go to church because of a disease going around, what does it say in the Bible about?
01:11:35.000Do not forsake the gathering of believers where two or more are gathered in my name, okay.
01:11:54.000First of all, it says, I knew you before you were in the womb.
01:11:57.000Yeah, and what you are doing is paraphrasing what you consider to be ex nihilo, out of nothing made in the image of god, the breath of god, with actually where life begins.
01:12:05.000The question would be, was John The Baptist a baby when he left, when he leapt in in Elizabeth's womb?
01:12:25.000The verse that says that it begins at conception right, so I knew you before you were in the womb is one of many verses of which it reinforces that you should protect life in the womb.
01:12:37.000But you're, what you're doing is interpreting right, so I want you to tell me what you're saying.
01:15:21.000A cesarean section is a medical intervention that saves tens of thousands of lives every single year of a small slit done at the bottom of a woman's pelvis.
01:15:37.000If every woman that's lied to by Planned Parenthood was given a C-section instead of an abortion, then all of a sudden abortion would not be necessary to save their life.
01:16:38.000You should probably reconsider that because you are advocating for the most horrific and brutal, eugenic, non-Christian abortion policies that I could possibly imagine.
01:16:48.000I hope you prayerfully reconsider and repent.
01:17:23.000So I assume that you know about the trans woman in the girls' locker room in Vermont.
01:17:31.000And so I, of course, like disagree with that completely.
01:17:35.000And I don't believe we should accommodate for trans people, but for the safety of actual women and to avoid another situation like what happened in Virginia twice this year and last year with a boy who decided that he wanted to put on a skirt and go into the girls' restroom and decided to rape an actual girl.
01:17:53.000Do you believe that we should make a trans locker room for people with this issue?
01:18:16.000If you're a man who thinks you're a woman, go in the men's locker room.
01:18:19.000Go wear a dress in the men's locker room.
01:18:21.000Why do we need to accommodate you and put you in a locker room of your choosing?
01:18:23.000Answer: Because we completely inverted our morality to give a platform to people that claim they're oppressed and when in reality they aren't.
01:18:30.000And we should not reconfigure society based on groups that say that, oh, feel so sorry for me because I'm a victim.
01:18:36.000Yeah, actually, that's not the way that we should do things.
01:18:38.000Instead, you get a lot of other people having to reaccommodate their language, their speech, and their privacy and the protection of our women for some sort of fringe mental illness that unfortunately is plaguing our country.
01:19:02.000So pretty much every U.S. president for the past 20 years has disappointed the living hell out of him when it comes to foreign policy.
01:19:08.000George Bush with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Barack Obama with that barbaric drone program, and frankly, Donald Trump's was not too much better.
01:19:15.000And now Joe Biden, I don't like the $460 billion of weapons he sold to Saudi Arabia.
01:19:31.000I'm just saying I'm not going to pretend that he's this, you know, passive, that he's the all-time pacifist because I don't see.
01:19:38.000Well, no, I don't think he was an all-time pacifist, but could he at least agree he was the greatest challenge to the American foreign policy neoconservative regime?
01:22:10.000It's because neoliberalism has taken over the American left.
01:22:13.000And the only place, I'm going to ask you and think about this for the coming months and years, the only place left for critical discussion on the international American empire, which should not exist, is here on the American right.
01:22:24.000We won't agree on everything, but I think there's going to be oxygen in the room because the Democrat Party and the American left has unfortunately become just this war clamoring machine.
01:23:40.000Just, if you want to go to medical school, don't go to Michigan.
01:23:42.000I mean, I love our Michigan fans out there.
01:23:44.000They're great people, but they've gone so off the rails, woke, unfortunately.
01:23:47.000Here's the big thing: get involved with your turning point group, state, get a good church community, get through it as quickly as possible.
01:23:52.000I think you're going to make a great lawyer or doctor, whatever you end up with.
01:24:18.000I'm a student here at UNC Charlotte, and I just had a question.
01:24:21.000You've claimed to support free speech and right to assembly.
01:24:24.000Then why was Brandy Love kicked out of a Turning Point USA event in Tampa, Florida in July of 2021?
01:24:30.000So Brandy Love is a pornography actress, and we have minors at our event.
01:24:35.000And I will defend to anybody in any venue or forum not allowing people that spread or participate in pornography to be commingling or socializing around minors.
01:24:45.000Well, well, the clothes that Brandi was wearing and the conversation she was having had nothing to do with her pornography.
01:24:57.000If you participate in pornography, you're not going to be around young children.
01:25:00.000I'm not going to endorse that as an organizer.
01:25:02.000I'm not going to act like that's normal and that it's okay.
01:25:05.000If you engage in something that so many young men struggle with, that are addicted to, that are destroying marriages, I consider you to be a willful participant in a parasitic force in America, and that does not have a place at a turning point USA event.
01:25:23.000I disagree, but thank you so much for your time.
01:25:25.000Thank you so much for coming on campus.
01:27:17.000Hey, so I just wanted to, like, I disagree with you on your position on Ukraine.
01:27:22.000So I think, I believe that we should do everything we can to help Ukraine.
01:27:26.000Now, you say that we're sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, but actually the billion, that's the valuation of the equipment we're sending to Ukraine.
01:27:40.000We've appropriated $75 billion of our budget to buy bullets and weapons and missiles and then send them to Ukraine.
01:27:47.000I believe that's the equipment we already have.
01:27:49.000No, no, it's reappropriated dollars that otherwise would be used in other combat theaters or other deployments, other areas that are then being sent.
01:28:52.000We've had 2 million people cross into our country via an invasion, and yet we're sending arms and missiles and training and equipment and troops and money to a country that most people can't find on a map 5,000 miles away that's not a U.S. state.
01:29:12.000What does success look like in Ukraine?
01:29:15.000All the territories return to Ukraine.
01:29:18.000Then you're prepared for a 50-year war?
01:29:20.000I don't believe it would be a 50-year war.
01:29:22.000Does Eastern Ukraine want to be part of Ukraine or Russia?
01:29:26.000Well, I believe that Eastern Ukraine, the inhabitants of Eastern Ukraine are originally Russian inhabitants.
01:29:35.000Yeah, they speak Russian and they love Putin.
01:29:37.000So why should we tell them to go be part of Ukraine when they want to be part of Russia?
01:29:41.000Well, why don't they move to Russia instead of seceding from Ukraine?
01:29:45.000Well, because they like their home, which used to be Russia, which is actually where Russia was founded, and they want to live in Eastern Ukraine and call it Russia.
01:29:52.000Why are we telling them they have to be part of Ukraine?
01:31:07.000Because so you say the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
01:31:10.000What gets me fired up is that our elected representatives are screaming from the rooftops about Ukraine, Ukraine.
01:31:16.000I don't see them appropriating even a billion, $5 billion for a southern border wall, but they're really quick to go make sure Ukraine is their bullets to go fight a war that honestly Russia is going to end up winning.
01:31:26.000So you believe we're being invaded by next-in immigrants?
01:31:31.000By the cartel, yes, 2 million people a year.
01:32:23.000This is what it is: that Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin, the war industry and the defense contractors, are using this entire thing as a way to get us dangerously close to another proxy war while we care about a far distant conflict that looks nice on cable television, while our wages go down.
01:32:39.000Our kids are the most suicidal, depressed, alcohol-addicted, drug-added, psychiatric addicted, least educated, least socialized, least married, and least likely to have children generation history.
01:32:47.000But I have to be lectured by my leaders that I have to go send money to Ukraine.