00:00:54.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:01.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:47.000I had all these, you know, I try to plan out some idea of what we're going to talk about a couple days ago.
00:01:52.000But honestly, given recent events, I kind of want to address that.
00:01:56.000And then we can do some question and answer, which is the most fun.
00:01:59.000And if you disagree, you get priority so we can talk from there.
00:02:03.000So over the weekend, I turn off my phone, turn off my devices from Friday night to Sunday morning, and I allow myself to just watch college football.
00:02:14.000It's kind of like my only thing that I watch.
00:02:16.000And by the way, what is this whole thing that you guys won the national title?
00:02:18.000Like, that's the weirdest thing, by the way.
00:02:56.000You really think that UCF would have given the tide in 17 a run for their money?
00:03:01.000Yeah, that's you guys are really loyal.
00:03:07.000So, yeah, that was when Tua, I think, threw the game-winning pass in the national title game in 18 when Jake Fromm was a freshman at the University of Georgia.
00:03:54.000I'm like, okay, well, something's very off here, right?
00:03:57.000This is not exactly what we have grown accustomed to, where rockets and then there's like a five or six day conflict and then they come to some sort of a ceasefire.
00:04:08.000And then all of a sudden I was like, 500 people.
00:04:10.000I was like, what on earth is going on here?
00:04:26.000It's a really amazing, great country in a lot of different ways.
00:04:29.000I mean, I don't agree with everything they do politically, but as a Christian, being able to actually go where Christ resurrected, where Christ walked on the water, to go prove that the Bible is true, changed my life, right?
00:04:40.000The Bible went from something that was, you know, obviously I believed in to something like, oh, wow, that is exactly where Abram or Abraham bought the, you know, the Hall of the Patriarchs in Hebron, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Sarah, Becca, and Leah.
00:04:55.000For me, it made me a much stronger and more serious believing Christian.
00:05:00.000And for that alone, I was just infinitely blessed.
00:05:03.000I was able to go to Capernaum and go to the Mount of the Beatitudes and go to the Mount of the Olives and go to the Garden Tomb and go to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
00:05:33.000And I think we're going to find out that the Israeli government was double-crossed by somebody within because it just, there's no way that six hours it takes to respond for this.
00:05:42.000But this was not a typical military type installation, not installation, operation.
00:05:50.000This was the closest thing that any of you have lived through to the Holocaust in your lifetime.
00:05:56.000The Hamas militants that do this in the name of Islam, yelling Allah Akbar, go and did not seek out militants, but seek out women and children actively.
00:06:06.000Go to a concert and kill 250 people completely and totally indiscriminately.
00:06:11.000And as the reports come in, and there's some debates, you know, debates about what the, there's some reports, did they actually cut the heads off of babies or not?
00:06:20.000It could be war propaganda, but it's savagery, right?
00:06:23.000It's 900 people that we know that have been intentionally murdered.
00:06:26.000And almost like clockwork, the next day in New York City, you have thousands of people in the streets cheering this on and celebrating this.
00:06:50.000And one of the things I want to kind of paint for you tonight is the very same narratives that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are using is the same stuff that we hear in our own politics all the time.
00:07:05.000And I'm going to kind of connect all of it, which is that we need to justify illegal immoral activity by a group because the white man or Western civilization or America pushed them to a boiling point.
00:08:20.000Let Israel be Israel and let them take this into their own hands, and they will.
00:08:26.000But the UN is coming out and they say, well, you know, we want a peacefire.
00:08:29.000It's easy for you to say when 900 of your own people weren't just slaughtered in the streets.
00:08:35.000And this goes to a deeper question, which is what was on display very clearly was barbary versus civilization.
00:08:44.000And in no context, can you possibly justify, you know, as a military operation going in and just targeting the women and the children and saying, this is who I want to try to kill.
00:08:59.000And then they celebrate it, they come back to Gaza and they get celebrated as heroes.
00:09:03.000And then on top of it, Black Lives Matter Global Network today posts on social media saying that we stand with Palestine with a picture of one of the gliders coming in.
00:09:13.000So you might say, what on earth does a Black Lives Matter activist in Chicago have to do with a Hamas militant in the Middle East?
00:09:26.000And intersectionality is exactly why you will see on college campuses people that otherwise would completely not agree on anything come together to fight conservatives, fight America.
00:09:39.000This is why you'll see, you know, for example, you'll see like the pro-Palestine groups and like the LGBT groups.
00:09:47.000You're like, yeah, I don't think you guys really know much about each other at all.
00:10:04.000It's like, you know, you think that America's homophobic?
00:10:08.000Yeah, go take a waltz in like a random Muslim Arab country with your gay pride flag won't work very well for you at all.
00:10:16.000Yet they find themselves as happy partners.
00:10:18.000And Kimberly Crenshaw, who's an academic 30 years ago, came up with this idea of intersectionality, which is that we must identify the great Satan, identify the big enemy, and bring together all of these mobilized parts.
00:10:31.000And so this is a generalization, but in America, you're usually a conservative if you produce more than you complain.
00:10:39.000You're usually a left-winger if you complain more than you produce.
00:10:43.000That's the best way I can explain the right and the left, okay?
00:10:49.000You know, if you produce kids, if you produce a healthy marriage, if you have a good church, if you produce a business, if you produce for your family, you're more likely to be a conservative.
00:11:00.000If you complain more than you produce, aka liberals, all they do is complain all day long.
00:11:04.000Their entire political project, the American left, is how can I get up in life to not work and to complain?
00:11:09.000It's the simplest, it's simplification, but it's 100% true.
00:11:13.000Take to the streets because they're transphobia.
00:11:51.000Again, there's some nuance to that, but that's a pretty simple way where you look at the American political project.
00:11:55.000Intersectionality is built on we are going to elevate all sorts of different groups that complain.
00:12:02.000So that's why you have the race arsonists from BLM that combine with the Palestinian groups, that combine with the LGBT groups, and they say, we are all in this together.
00:12:11.000And the group that organized that despicable rally in New York City, where they're literally saying, kill the Jews, you know, kill the Jews, unbelievable videos, right?
00:12:19.000Here in America, which begs the question of immigration, which I'll get to in a second, why these people were ever let into America in the first place is a failure of our own political system.
00:12:28.000We shouldn't import people that hate the country.
00:14:28.000I believe you're living in an act of blessing.
00:14:31.000They believe you're living in an act of problem.
00:14:35.000People say, well, we can have common ground.
00:14:37.000I don't know how you find common ground.
00:14:39.000If I think we're living in the greatest experiment in self-government in human history, and they think we're living in the most oppressed, awful place, where's the common ground exactly?
00:14:54.000And so this can boil down to with intersectionality is that they never want to try to improve the conditions of the groups that they allegedly represent.
00:15:04.000They would rather stay more powerful to try to call the other side fascist or enemies of democracy while never actually saying to the group of people, we're going to materially make your life better.
00:15:17.000As soon as the American left basically took over political control of the black community, the black community got poor.
00:15:23.000It's been an awful deal for the black community.
00:15:26.000And yet they keep on electing, you know, left-wingers and people that are Marxists, basically, because, ooh, we have to be afraid of the evil right-wing conservative.
00:15:34.000Same thing could be said with Hamas and with these Arab countries.
00:15:37.000Instead of saying, wait, hold on a second, like, okay, you guys are the Palestinian Authority.
00:15:40.000Like, why is it that Israel is able to make a desert bloom and make an unbelievable miracle in the Middle East?
00:15:49.000And like every other country that surrounds Israel is basically outside of oil, a third world hellhole.
00:16:18.000These Arab countries and these Muslim countries have everything at their tool and their ability to actually improve the condition of their countries, but they don't.
00:16:26.000First, they're captured by a religious ideology that prevents them from doing certain things.
00:16:30.000But secondly, some of these dictators stay in power because if actually people started to develop themselves into a middle class, maybe they would ask the question, why do we have a dictator?
00:16:42.000If they actually liberalize some of these countries, and again, I'm not a neoliberal, but basically, if you can own stuff and trade, your life generally is going to get better.
00:16:50.000No, but instead, they would rather stay permanently in power.
00:16:54.000And Israel for them is a license for them to stay in political power because they can say, look, look at the Jews.
00:17:14.000They don't want them answering, asking that question.
00:17:17.000And that's exactly the same reason why the people in charge of BLM in this country don't want the black community to say, wait a second, you guys have been in charge of the black community for 50 years.
00:18:03.0008% of the Palestinian authorities' budget, 8% is for a program called Pay for Slay, which means that if you are a militant and you kill a Jew, your family gets money for the rest of their life.
00:19:46.000And those sleeper cells could be activated at any moment.
00:19:48.000And I don't do that as a way to try to scare you.
00:19:50.000It's just a fact that if this stuff really heats up in the Middle East, they could activate a series of people that actually hate us.
00:19:55.000And if you want to go a step further, the one thing that we actually should have fixed after 9-11, it was not making it harder to get on an airplane so you have to have a, you can't have a water bottle, right?
00:20:04.000Which is the TSA is one of the, in my opinion, one of the worst overreactions to a tragedy.
00:21:20.000We like built this massive spy agency on Americans that are now being used against right-wingers.
00:21:25.000We have the Department of Homeland Security that again has the TSA underneath it.
00:21:29.000And so when it talks about immigration, my ideal immigration situation is not going to be implemented anytime soon.
00:21:37.000But if we have some change at leadership, maybe that could happen, which is your country will cease to exist if you keep on bringing people in that don't share your core values, fail to assimilate, and in fact have resentment for your core values.
00:21:51.000And we have to have the courage to say that.
00:21:53.000And when someone calls you a racist, tell them to go to hell and say it again and say that when you as a country keep on bringing people that don't share your values, your country will cease to exist.
00:23:06.000And she runs for Congress, and then she comes to Congress, and one of her first tweets, speeches, you know, collection of them, it's about how America is systemically racist.
00:23:49.000Maybe I should check my pride and my ego and have a little gratitude for Western society that was nice enough to come to a Kenyan refugee camp and lift me out from the third world into the top of the first world.
00:24:04.000Instead, it's always about and Rashida Talib, born in America, talks exactly the same.
00:24:08.000But Elon Omar's story is just so shocking.
00:24:12.000And at that, the past couple years, it's been more and more clarifying for me, which is that this immigration situation, which ties into what's going with Israel somewhat, but more broadly, this is the unsustainable ingredient.
00:24:25.000People say, Charlie, America, will it continue?
00:24:28.000Not if we keep on bringing people into the country that hate us.
00:24:32.000You cannot, because then some people say, you know, well, we can win them over and you know, they will liberalize, and eventually they'll be wearing like Levi jeans.
00:25:07.000It's strong to change some people that are willing to change.
00:25:11.000When immigrants came in the 1920s or 30s, they learned the language, they assimilated to the country, they wanted to be part of a bigger project.
00:25:20.000Now, when some groups come to the country, they're like, no, I'm going to keep on speaking my native language.
00:25:24.000I'm not going to assimilate, and I don't have resentment for this place.
00:25:27.000There's an interview that was aired on, you know, Fox with this guy was going back and forth, this young lady, full mask on, not a Fauci mask, like, you know, the Taliban type mask.
00:25:38.000And she, I'm not kidding, it's what it is.
00:25:41.000And the guy said, Do you want to put America first?
00:25:43.000She's like, why would I want to put America first?
00:25:46.000And he says, well, are you a U.S. passport holder?
00:25:50.000And it's like that, and I hate to put it this way because it's so cruel.
00:25:54.000I mean, it's the suicide of the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:25:58.000You cannot have an act of insurgency, all the while, by the way, filled simultaneously with us training our young to hate the country.
00:26:09.000And they kind of meet in the middle and they're like, We've been waiting for each other, right?
00:26:13.000The 20-year-old white woke, you know, kid from Boca Raton that's never worked an honest day in his life who thinks he's figured everything out because, you know, he read Karl Marx and he wants to take other people's stuff because he's a lazy bum.
00:26:26.000And, you know, the 25-year-old from Mogadishu, they're like, I've been waiting for you.
00:26:34.000Together, we can destroy the great Satan.
00:26:40.000That's what we stand for, a lot more than that.
00:26:42.000But honestly, we must draw the line in the sand and say, honestly, if you have resentment, bitterness, rage, anger for this nation, like you shouldn't be anywhere near political power.
00:26:52.000You shouldn't be in charge of anything.
00:26:53.000We have to multiply our numbers to find the people that are thankful to be here, despite our political differences, and to keep on persuading where necessary, building coalitions, because I want this country to continue.
00:27:04.000And one of the reasons why we don't actually do what is necessary and what is right is because we're afraid of the names that people call us.
00:28:03.000But the country's worth more than kowtowing to people that have never built anything, that are filled with resentment, who call you names because they want you to bend a knee to their agenda.
00:28:14.000And one of the reasons why, you know, it's so well attended here tonight is that there actually are more of us than them.
00:31:26.000I still believe in freedom of speech, and that means the freedom to be heard.
00:31:32.000And for any liberals that are here tonight, I want you to just file this away.
00:31:36.000You might be unconvinced by anything I say, but maybe this will all of a sudden bloom into a flower of enlightenment later in your life.
00:31:45.000When a liberal comes and speaks on campus, do they invite the conservatives who disagree to the front of the line for over an hour to hear, to say whatever they want to say?
00:31:57.000And with that, let's do the first question.
00:32:28.000No, I can't believe we made it this long.
00:32:31.000No, at the pace that I've been going, you want to break your neck or back, travel 3,200 days in a decade, a million mile on every airline, been to 20 countries, done all sorts of crazy things, been super blessed.
00:32:45.000But yeah, honestly, I was motivated at the time and I'm motivated now.
00:32:48.000I don't sit idly by when evil is on the march.
00:33:08.000But my life's work is about fighting evil.
00:33:10.000I think Christians, conservatives, whatever you, I'm a Christian, but if you're a conservative, we've done a very poor job at fighting evil.
00:33:39.000I'm trying to piggyback off of what you were just saying.
00:33:41.000When I became a girl mom, my whole world perspective and biblical perspective changed.
00:33:47.000How has, since you've become a girl dad, how has that changed your mindset and the way you view things, especially when you've got a little daughter to take care of now?
00:33:58.000I'm going to get in trouble for saying this, but that's why I'm here, right?
00:34:01.000So I take the complaint to the childless less seriously.
00:34:07.000That's not to say if you don't have children, I don't respect you.
00:34:10.000But if you're very, very, very opinionated and you've never had to raise a child, I kind of say, listen, you're missing a big element of who we are as a species.
00:34:22.000And again, there's some amazing people that have not been blessed to have children, and they've been incredibly obedient to God and they've built beautiful lives.
00:34:29.000And so there's exceptions to everything, right?
00:34:32.000But let's be honest, the exception is not governing the country, right?
00:34:37.000The exception right now is childless people that are running our politics.
00:34:45.000And the childless fundamentally are running the American left right now.
00:34:50.000The number one most vocal group are childless young women who are in their 30s with cats.
00:36:50.000Also, for the record, not that it matters, but if I were to host in the Vaton campus, I'd be more than happy to have people disagree with me to come first.
00:36:57.000Unfortunately, I do not get to host events.
00:37:00.000First off, I wanted to just make a small factual correction to something that you said, which is about the 130 migrants on the terror list that have crossed the border.
00:37:11.000The actual number is 160, and those were numbers that had been stopped at the border, meaning they were prevented from entering, which means that these people were stopped during the Biden administration.
00:37:21.000So you're not exactly strengthening your argument.
00:38:29.000But I'd like to go on to my point, if you will.
00:38:32.000Currently, Israel is actually being labeled by international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International as an apartheid state because they are attacking many people from within Palestine.
00:38:46.000And they have been actually, the land has been stolen from Palestine.
00:38:50.000Not to say that the people in Israel do not deserve their own land.
00:38:55.000I am personally, I am a believer in a two-state solution.
00:39:27.000The 86% of those were beaten in detention, 69% were strip searched, and 42% were injured at the point of arrest.
00:39:35.000Additionally, I would like to add, due to your claim about dictators, that Benjamin Netanyahu has been in power since 2009, and he also held in power from 1996 to 1999.
00:41:48.000Anytime that the Arabs want to talk, the Jews will come to the table to talk in the pursuit of peace.
00:41:53.000Meanwhile, this weekend and a slight vulnerability, what happened?
00:41:57.000Jews are celebrating the end of Yom Kippur, the reading of the Torah, and they come in and they kill 900 Jews.
00:42:03.000And answer me this: if this was an isolated incident, why were they greeted as heroes by the people of Gaza after they killed 900 women and children?
00:42:13.000I want to make this clear once more because you seem to not be understanding.
00:42:51.000Abraham Accords, trying to find peace, trying to sit down with Mahmoud Abbas?
00:42:54.000Israelites have hundreds of Palestinian children in detention.
00:42:58.000They have sent missiles to Palestine and killed hundreds of civilians.
00:43:02.000After this event, Netanyahu declared that he will send missiles to Palestine in an area where the Palestinian civilians are not able to leave.
00:45:42.000So I do have massive disagreements with you, but I do want to thank you for coming and speaking with us because I don't agree with people trying to silence you from speaking.
00:45:49.000So thank you for coming and speaking with us.
00:45:53.000I don't really understand this idea that President Trump is anti-establishment because I think his record shows that he's actually really establishment.
00:47:09.000In fact, he was the only one in the room trying to end the war in Afghanistan.
00:47:12.000And finally, if he was pro-establishment, how many new wars were started under Donald Trump?
00:47:17.000Well, so for the establishment trying to lock him up, I do think there's legitimate crimes there.
00:47:23.000We can disagree on that, but I do agree that the establishment.
00:47:26.000We're definitely going to disagree on that.
00:47:28.000I do agree that the establishment, it is a politically motivated thing because I think if he decided not to run, they wouldn't be going after him.
00:47:35.000So I do think it's political, but I don't think it changes the fact that those are legitimate crimes.
00:47:38.000But I don't think the establishment is scared of his, like, how he would govern.
00:47:42.000What the establishment hates more about Donald Trump is that, like, he, whenever he's like running for president, he exposes the corruption in the establishment and he has a way of making it seem like he's not part of them while playing the game while governing.
00:47:56.000So I don't think they're so scared of that.
00:47:57.000Okay, so let's talk about three policy issues.
00:48:46.000Yeah, but what kind of establishment guy fires the head of the FBI and then has to experience a two-year investigation launched by Mueller?
00:48:55.000I think that investigation was BS2, but he put away Christopher, but he put in Christopher away.
00:49:00.000Christopher Wray, right now, was protecting the Biden administration.
00:49:08.000So your argument is purely on personnel.
00:49:10.000And let me just say this: Donald Trump, as Rush Limbaugh would say, selects personnel that is perplexing at times.
00:49:16.000But what I think you will agree with is that his instincts and many of his major policy actions were generationally and transformationally against the regime establishment of the last 40 years in both political parties.
00:49:30.000And whether it be war, immigration, trade, international type agreements, and understand, he was the only one that was fighting, and these people would come in and they'd lie to him.
00:49:41.000I'm going to be an FBI director with this.
00:49:43.000And he will be the first one to say, should have handled Fauci differently, should have handled Berks differently.
00:50:02.000Hello, my name is Nicolas Camacho, and you can just call me Nick.
00:50:06.000I just want to start by saying that I am neither inclined to the left or inclined to the right.
00:50:12.000And I just want to say that I don't necessarily always agree with everything that you say, but I do appreciate and really like your passion and dedication to making Americans be happy to be American, to be supportive of America, and to want to better America in every way possible.
00:50:28.000And my question for you today is: would you consider it unfair for individuals of any political leaning to point out injustices and wrongdoings and failures of their opponents without the failures and shortcomings of ourselves first?
00:50:41.000That's generally probably a good rule.
00:50:55.000One of the main reasons we are in the mess that we're in is we do not have an opposition party in this country.
00:51:00.000Is that we have a uniparty type consensus that keeps the borders open, that is hungry to try to get us in another stupid war with Ukraine and Russia, which I think is one of the dumbest things we could possibly do while our own border is open.
00:51:12.000And so my criticism goes more towards people that wear the Republican jersey than the Democrat jersey, actually.
00:51:18.000My second part of that question is also how, in your professional opinion, do you think would be best for people of all colors, creeds, religions, political ideologies, and anything else come together to truly discuss and try to make furtherment?
00:51:32.000Because right now it's just a back and forth.
00:51:33.000It's just a tit for tat, and we're getting really nowhere.
00:51:36.000Yeah, and we're not going to get anywhere, honestly.
00:51:39.000And I mean, there's plenty of things you can fault the American right for.
00:51:44.000Not embracing speech is not one of them.
00:52:51.000I have a disagreement about the whole Palestine-Israel thing.
00:52:54.000I promise not to take up as much time as the last person who was up here.
00:52:57.000But I'd like to open with maybe like a little statement, which is that, you know, I'm not too partial to either particular side of the political spectrum.
00:53:05.000But I think that a sad reality is when we talk about the Palestine issue, the Gaza Strip is 50% people under the age of 15.
00:53:13.000It's about 2 million people in about 5 to 25 square miles.
00:53:17.000And the reality of it is that Israel has said they're going to make a complete siege of the area.
00:53:22.000They've cut off electricity, they've cut off water.
00:53:27.000And the reality is they also can't leave.
00:53:29.000There's only two ports of entry and exit.
00:53:31.000And so as much as you or others might be pro-Israel, how do we not condemn the Israelis for taking away resources like water from a population that's the majority children?
00:53:45.000And at what point do we say that it's kind of an open genocide, right?
00:53:58.000Well, one side's definitely swinging up and one side's swinging down.
00:54:00.000And I think that when you're a strip of land at which all of your water, airways, and electricity is controlled by a state, which you can't leave and it gets bombed by missiles, I don't really think it's quite equivocal.
00:54:12.000I mean, obviously, everyone here can condemn the killing of civilians, and that's not a debate that I'm going to have with anybody, left or right.
00:54:18.000But at what point or time, you know, you say you criticize Republicans, but why don't we ever criticize Israel for what they're doing by turning off water?
00:56:16.000But the answer is you just kind of roll over and allow people to come into your country into kibbutzes, into concerts, and mowing down people and say, you know, catch you next time?
00:56:26.000I'm just not entirely sure what water has to do with the conflict, Mr. Kirk.
00:56:30.000I just don't see how the Israelis, the Palestinians, the PLO, and Hamas can use water.
00:56:36.000The Palestinian Authority is too busy spending $300 million a year incentivizing the slaying of Jews instead of actually going and purchasing water filtration services, you know, all sorts of different things there.
00:56:46.000Number two, so they build their headquarters under hospitals.
00:57:34.000Israel has a right to defend themselves, and they're going to retaliate.
00:57:38.000And Hamas, they brought this upon themselves.
00:57:41.000They were the stewards of those women and children.
00:57:44.000And as stewards of those women and children, they said, we don't care about the women and children enough that we're going to go into the other.
00:58:07.000I do not think U.S. troops outside of very specific special forces to rescue Americans, which I'm sure you might be able to agree with, should be involved in this conflict.
00:58:16.000We cannot allow ourselves to get into another Middle Eastern quagmire that Lindsey Graham and Nikki Haley and Mike Pence might try to get us into.
00:58:43.000But however, my question is, while you show support for Israel, condemn the anti-Semitism on the far left and radical Islam, how can you ignore the anti-Semitism in the Roman Republican Party?
00:58:54.000Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's in the Republican Party.
00:58:59.000Some people say that the Republican Party is too pro-Israel, and other people say that it's not pro-Israel enough.
00:59:05.000Just recently in an event with Dennis Prager, somebody came up, and I asked them, because they were saying some rather suspicious things, I said, do you want a holy war against the Jews?
00:59:13.000And they refused to answer, and we treated them appropriately.
00:59:16.000I denounce Jew hatred in any form or fashion, whether it's on the right or left.
00:59:35.000Number one, when it comes to the attack, when Russia invaded Ukraine, not morally justifiable, they went for military targets, first and foremost.
01:00:26.000But if you're going to ask me where I am more likely to morally cheerlead, yeah, it's the country that just had 900 of their people, which is a 50,000-person equivalent, literally slayed in the streets, slayed in a concert.
01:00:39.000And I will say this: I believe that as a Christian, I have a moral obligation to protect the holy sites and access to the archaeological digs in the Holy Land.
01:00:49.000One of the main reasons why I support Israel, and this is not going to be persuasive to everybody, is that being able to prove that the Bible is true is a very important thing as a Christian.
01:01:00.000There is a non-stop war to destabilize and deconstruct the Holy Word of God.
01:01:05.000There has never been an archaeological discovery in Israel that has disproven the Bible.
01:01:10.000There is a lot of evidence that shows that when Arabs take over holy sites, they do not allow Christians to go to them.
01:01:24.000You could still go, but it's not easy.
01:01:27.000I think it would be a tragedy that I will not be able to bring my daughter to the garden tomb or the church of the Holy Sepulchre or the Mount of Olives or the Mount of Beatitudes.
01:01:52.000As you know, following this week's horrible events, Israel is at war.
01:01:55.000The people of Israel are under attack from brutal terrorists, targeting innocent civilians, including women and children.
01:02:00.000There's over a thousand casualties, as well as kidnapping and infiltration of southern Israeli towns.
01:02:05.000Israel is now retaliating and could escalate with a ground offensive against Hamas militants.
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01:03:17.000You know, as someone who's starting, I value what you're doing, spreading the truth and encouraging others to speak of just how to make that connection, you know, sharing a message and how to connect with an audience.
01:03:27.000Well, I want to compliment you already doing the first thing.
01:03:29.000You know, ask for what you want, right?
01:03:31.000And, you know, when I first started Turning Point USA, I can't tell you how many groups I would go to to try to give up my business card and meet people, and 99% of them didn't want to talk to me, right?
01:03:40.000But it's the 1% that will take you seriously that you really connect with, and you follow up with a coffee and you follow up with a dinner.
01:04:03.000And what I have found, it's not a perfect line through, but the people that dedicate themselves through putting more hours into something, real serious hours, tend to do very well over one year, five years, ten years of whatever they try to do.
01:04:34.000But how do you recommend students, particularly that conservative students who face discrimination?
01:04:40.000Sorry, how do you recommend students who face discrimination for their conservative views respond on campus?
01:04:46.000Specifically, I personally, I've been banned from two of my classes, student-made group chats.
01:04:52.000One instance I was banned for sending the link to this event, and the other instance we were planning a study group and discussing at what times everyone was free.
01:05:00.000And I responded by saying, oh, we all live in America.
01:05:02.000We're free all the time, which resulted in a ban.
01:05:08.000So one of the one of the students took it so far to report me to our professor for discrimination, and my professors thought that was bullshit.
01:05:21.000And now these same kids that I was studying with for like the past six weeks, and we were completely fine with no problems, these same kids are now calling me the same words that you said earlier: a bigot, a fascist, racist, and stuff like that.
01:05:34.000How would you recommend I go about responding to them besides just ignoring them?
01:05:37.000So, how many of you feel as if you're treated differently because of conservative or Christian views on campus, on this campus?
01:06:23.000But you have to make a decision whether I'm okay pretending to be somebody that I'm not and saying things I don't believe if it means that I will have an easier career.
01:06:34.000So, you know, Ben Shapiro and I disagree on this, okay?
01:06:37.000I have Ben Shapiro coming on our show tomorrow.
01:06:40.000And Ben would say, Hey, in college, just do what the professor wants you to do.
01:06:47.000Kind of keep your head down and get the great.
01:07:18.000Which is that when I was in high school, I made a decision that if I see something that I know is a lie, I'm going to do the best I can to correct it with truth.
01:07:28.000And if you live by that, you will live a better life.
01:08:12.000And for those of you, I never visited the Soviet Union, but something that marks me, obviously I wasn't alive, but if you read the literature of people that visited the Soviet Union, there was a characteristic that pervaded totalitarian tyrannical countries, where anytime you were going to talk to somebody, you would look over your shoulder in a Soviet country.
01:08:34.000Before you're going to say something, you want to make sure that the KGB is not listening.
01:08:38.000That's exactly the country we're living in right now.
01:08:41.000Where if you go to get coffee and you're going to go tell your friend that you think men are men and women are women and that men can't become women and that they're delusional if they think that, you're going to probably turn around before you say that at a coffee shop.
01:08:54.000That's actually considered discrimination at our school on our paperwork.
01:09:22.000I think being a courageous person at a young age is a much better decision than having an expedient or materially benefiting career because you might get that career and then it'll be miserable because you can't speak your mind.
01:13:05.000And so with that, I'm really familiar about the liberal views.
01:13:10.000And I'm still a little brand new to the conservative.
01:13:13.000And right now, I'm still a little mixed feelings about the guns and stuff because I've been told by people, hey, you cannot be a Christian and support the guns because they're barbaric.
01:13:32.000Look how many people that were killed.
01:13:34.000And I was like, but look at the people like Hitler and the other tyrannical leaders that are banning them and people can't defend themselves.
01:14:01.000May your journey be purposeful and bright onward to the conservative side of things and happy because we are much happier than the other side.
01:14:11.000So first of all, a gun is a piece of technology.
01:14:16.000So a gun in and of itself is not a morally good or a morally bad thing.
01:14:21.000A gun can be something that can save somebody's life.
01:14:24.000In fact, you know, praise God that good guys can have guns and erupt mass shootings or that a pregnant mom at home has a gun to protect herself if somebody comes in to go and try and harm them.
01:14:38.000So this idea of Christian passivity is not actually found in the Bible.
01:14:43.000Christ himself said to go buy a sword.
01:15:19.000But if an innocent or a child, for example, you know, let's use an example where Jesus singled it out, is to be harmed, you have a moral right in biblical Christianity. to defend the child and use any force necessary so that child will not be harmed.
01:15:34.000Including your family and including those that you steward.
01:15:38.000And so the Second Amendment also, though, protects one of God's priorities in the Bible, which is God's heart for his people is that people do not live in tyranny.
01:15:51.000That whether it be God delivering his chosen people from Egypt in the Exodus, whether it be John 10, 10, the enemy comes to lie, steal, cheat, and destroy.
01:15:59.000I've come to give life and life more abundantly.
01:16:01.000One of the messages of Christ's teachings is liberation, is not to live under some form of tyranny.
01:16:07.000You cannot have a free society unless the people are able to check and balance government if it becomes tyrannical.
01:16:14.000And this is the unpopular argument that needs to be said, though, that God forbid our government ever becomes so tyrannical that we'll have to defend ourselves.
01:16:24.000But if the Americans owned no weapons, period, the government would have all the control to do whatever they want all the time.
01:16:47.000And so as a Christian, we must fight for a free society.
01:16:49.000Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
01:16:55.000And if I care about my nation's welfare, I want free people to be able to own weapons and defend themselves against a usurptatious tyrannical government, against criminal thugs that might come to their home.
01:17:05.000But understand that the gun itself is not inherently good or bad.
01:17:08.000It is what is done with that piece of technology.
01:17:10.000Anybody who's afraid of guns is just that.
01:17:13.000They're afraid of a piece of technology that could be used in a certain way.
01:17:17.000You lock a gun in a gun closet, it's not going to do anything.
01:18:23.000For those of you that don't know, if you're not a Christian in normative Christian theology, without getting too big into pre-trib, post-trib, you know, eschatology, that there is an end of the world as we know it.
01:19:57.000And I'll just close with this, which is anybody who tells you decisively they know it's the end times, we're explicitly commanded not to make those claims.
01:20:07.000Instead, we should be focused on being as holy and good and faithful as we can.
01:20:50.000So without getting too deep into the geopolitics, I think China is the great evil of our time.
01:20:56.000And almost everything stacks up to the CCP, right?
01:20:59.000I think Russia pales in comparison to the existential threat the Chinese Communist Party poses to our way of life and to our civilization, right?
01:21:08.000So everything must be viewed through the lens of what decision are we making to restrain the rise of China and build coalitions to weaken China.
01:21:16.000Just understand my perspective, right?
01:21:18.000So that means we should go after Belt and Road, right?
01:21:20.000We should go after their infiltration of our universities, Confucius Institutes.
01:21:24.000But I think it's silly if we are inviting a new coalition that destabilizes the dollar, by the way, where the first time in your lifetime, the dollar might be completely abolished and destroyed.
01:22:18.000I don't think they're going to do a land invasion of the United States.
01:22:21.000I think that they are liars and cheaters in a lot of different things.
01:22:25.000But it's a fact that they conveniently avoid that we were able and willing to partner with Joseph Stalin to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II.
01:22:35.000And I'm afraid a lot of this posture out of Washington, D.C. is kind of this mix of Cold War nostalgia.
01:22:42.000And they're basically obsessed with the fact that Russia has not become completely European and embraced all of these wacky ideas that have permeated Europe.
01:22:52.000And so It's a complex answer, but I, for one, am just shocked that, not shocked, I should be shocked, but I'm disappointed that leaders in both parties, Republicans are just as guilty as Democrats, are not saying, Can we just have some form of peace in the Russia-Ukraine conflict?