The Charlie Kirk Show - What Is Life and Why Protecting It Is An Ideological Hill Worth Dying On

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00:00:26.000 My speech at a pro-life group, the Open Arms Pregnancy Clinic, right outside of Los Angeles, California.

00:00:33.000 A great organization.

00:00:35.000 Enjoy this speech.

00:00:36.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:37.000 Here we go.

00:00:38.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:40.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

00:00:42.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:46.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:49.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:50.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:51.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

00:00:59.000 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.

00:01:08.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:11.000 Look, we all complain about the woke industrial complex.

00:01:15.000 The woke Marxists that are running our schools, that are running media, and yes, also running our banks.

00:01:24.000 You see, look, the real estate market, it's red hot.

00:01:27.000 Tyler, he just sold his home and he said, Charlie, I've never seen the market so unbelievable.

00:01:32.000 So maybe you want to go buy a home.

00:01:34.000 Maybe they're taking advantage of low interest rates.

00:01:36.000 With all the economic uncertainty underway, people need to invest in real stuff.

00:01:41.000 So here's a rule of thumb.

00:01:43.000 We here are a solution-based show.

00:01:45.000 So if you don't like the woke nonsense, stop using the woke banks.

00:01:51.000 It's that simple.

00:01:52.000 No more Wells Fargo.

00:01:54.000 No more JP Morgan.

00:01:55.000 No more Goldman Sachs.

00:01:57.000 No more big bank culture.

00:01:59.000 Instead, I have these two great friends, and they do a great job.

00:02:03.000 It's Andrew and Todd, Andrew Del Rey and Todd Avakian.

00:02:07.000 They love the Lord.

00:02:08.000 They are Christians.

00:02:08.000 They are honest.

00:02:09.000 They are straight shooters.

00:02:11.000 And they are on a mission to make sure that you guys can refinance, but be told the truth.

00:02:16.000 Look, when I took out mortgages for the properties that I have, it was one of the worst experiences I've ever been through.

00:02:21.000 Yeah, some of the people were very nice, but I could tell you the bank itself was just so bureaucratic and hard to work with.

00:02:28.000 My producer, Andrew, is working right now with Andrew and Todd to fight against the woke banking culture.

00:02:34.000 And he tells me that they're part counselors, part financial counselors, planners, and they're really helping him.

00:02:40.000 So here's the thing.

00:02:41.000 Andrew and Todd are mortgage bankers.

00:02:43.000 They're not brokers.

00:02:44.000 That means Andrew and Todd and their team can take care of your loan personally from start to finish.

00:02:49.000 You'll likely actually talk to Andrew and Todd yourself.

00:02:52.000 So right now, maybe you're walking or you're like, I want to refinance the home or maybe I'm under the process.

00:02:56.000 Stop it.

00:02:57.000 No more Wells Fargo.

00:02:58.000 They're funding a billion dollars to BLM Incorporated.

00:03:00.000 It drives me nuts.

00:03:01.000 Bank of America shut off a U.S. Senate candidate running, who's running in Senate and Delaware, just shut off their bank account.

00:03:07.000 Instead, let's support the good guys.

00:03:09.000 I know a lot of you right now say, Charlie, I want to support the good guys.

00:03:12.000 Let's do it together.

00:03:13.000 So here's how you do it.

00:03:13.000 Okay.

00:03:14.000 Go to AndrewandTodd.com.

00:03:15.000 That's pretty easy to remember, right?

00:03:17.000 Andrew, Todd, AndrewandTodd.com or call 888 888 1172.

00:03:21.000 That's 888 888 1172 and say, hey, I want to talk to Andrew and Todd.

00:03:25.000 Charlie Kirk told me to call.

00:03:26.000 In fact, I just had this unbelievable meeting with them.

00:03:28.000 We talk theology.

00:03:30.000 We talk the church.

00:03:31.000 They're conservative.

00:03:32.000 They're unbelievable.

00:03:34.000 And all you have to do is call them up.

00:03:35.000 Just go to andrewandodd.com, call 888, 888, 1172.

00:03:39.000 That's 888, 888, 1172, and say, Andrew or Todd, I would like to speak to you.

00:03:43.000 Charlie Kirk sent me.

00:03:44.000 And I'm telling you, you'll probably get them on the phone unless they're traveling or handling some crisis.

00:03:48.000 They take a lot of the phone calls themselves.

00:03:50.000 Great people.

00:03:50.000 AndrewandTodd.com.

00:03:52.000 No more woke banks.

00:03:53.000 Let's work together to crush the back of woke Wall Street and support the good guys.

00:03:58.000 AndrewandTodd.com.

00:04:03.000 Thank you.

00:04:04.000 It was great to be here tonight and quite an honor.

00:04:08.000 I do speak a lot across the country and we get a lot of people that kind of want us to travel.

00:04:15.000 And I always try to do pregnancy crisis centers.

00:04:18.000 I think they're so important.

00:04:19.000 I think they do such incredible, unique work.

00:04:22.000 And quite honestly, from a purely selfish standpoint, I just love coming to these because I just feel better about life.

00:04:28.000 And just, I'm like, this is like the most beautiful thing I've seen in the last year.

00:04:31.000 Is that not?

00:04:31.000 Like all these people that are so happy to have children.

00:04:34.000 And we need more of that in our country and less of whatever they're putting on television.

00:04:37.000 So thank you for that.

00:04:38.000 I lifted me up.

00:04:39.000 And so I just want to reiterate this.

00:04:42.000 This is a wonderful organization.

00:04:44.000 And I am going to, at the end of this, ask for you to support this organization because the fight for life is the most important fight that we're involved in.

00:04:53.000 And I'm going to talk about the work that I do on high school and college campuses where a lot of this kind of intersects.

00:04:59.000 But I just want to reiterate the entire team here at Open Arms Pregnancy Crisis Center is so important because the whole team, they're dedicating themselves to this.

00:05:10.000 And you see the budget of this center.

00:05:12.000 A lot of the people that work for these centers, they very well could go work for a different hospital institution, but they make a choice to go work in an arena that literally saves lives at the moment where it's needed.

00:05:24.000 So I just want to give a round of applause for the team of Open Arms Pregnancy.

00:05:27.000 That's so important.

00:05:34.000 And Debbie, you're doing a wonderful job.

00:05:36.000 So, and I really mean that.

00:05:37.000 It's a hard, it's a very difficult job to do, especially under all these circumstances.

00:05:42.000 So we were supposed to do this in May, and I want to thank all of you for rescheduling.

00:05:47.000 Now, I had a very good excuse in my defense.

00:05:51.000 Was that a good excuse?

00:05:51.000 Would you agree?

00:05:52.000 So I try not to pull rank, but I contacted Debbie.

00:05:57.000 I said, look, I'm getting married in early May.

00:06:00.000 Is there any way that we could reschedule this?

00:06:02.000 And you guys were so understanding.

00:06:04.000 So thank you for that.

00:06:05.000 And my wife is actually, she just came in. 0.98

00:06:07.000 So Erica, please stand up.

00:06:09.000 And we've been married six weeks now.

00:06:18.000 And so thank you for allowing us to reschedule this.

00:06:20.000 And for obviously important reasons, there was one event that we actually had to move.

00:06:24.000 I was telling the story at dinner.

00:06:25.000 They were like, is there any way you could come a couple days after? 0.99

00:06:29.000 I said, look, I'm not going to be like overly a jerk here. 0.97

00:06:33.000 I'm not speaking at your event. 0.99

00:06:35.000 I'm going on a honeymoon.

00:06:35.000 I'm getting married.

00:06:37.000 I'll pay you.

00:06:37.000 Okay, how about this?

00:06:38.000 I'll pay you not to come speak.

00:06:40.000 And we got it figured out.

00:06:41.000 You guys were so wonderful and full of grace.

00:06:42.000 So thank you.

00:06:43.000 I never had to do that before where I was just kind of like, I'm drawing the line here.

00:06:46.000 I think marriage is probably a good line to draw for that.

00:06:49.000 And so, so what is life?

00:06:52.000 That's an important question.

00:06:53.000 Life is a gift.

00:06:54.000 It's given to us by the theme of this dinner tonight from our creator.

00:06:58.000 We are made in his image.

00:07:00.000 And we talk a lot about the need to protect life, but we also have to talk about a culture of life.

00:07:06.000 And tonight, I think it's really important for us to understand that all of us here, when we protect life and we talk about the need to fight for those that can't fight for themselves, is we're really trying to articulate that there is a transcendent order.

00:07:19.000 That if you do not believe that these beautiful children that you've seen are worthy of protection, then you're really engaging in a theological debate without ever actually admitting it.

00:07:29.000 And this is what happens on our college campuses and our high schools every single day.

00:07:33.000 We are in the midst of a theological debate right now in our country.

00:07:36.000 And the theological debate is very simple.

00:07:38.000 I don't mean eschatology versus Arminianist.

00:07:41.000 I'm not getting into any of that.

00:07:43.000 Here's what I mean.

00:07:44.000 All of us here tonight generally believe in two things.

00:07:47.000 That there is a God and you are not him.

00:07:52.000 That's a general agreement.

00:07:54.000 Can I get a round of applause for that?

00:07:56.000 Generally, what we believe here, right?

00:07:58.000 Now, if I say this on a college campus, it's largely considered heresy.

00:08:05.000 The first one was like, who are you to say that there's a creator?

00:08:08.000 And I have fun with atheists a lot.

00:08:10.000 I think that we have to have more fun generally.

00:08:13.000 I think that we have great ideas, but we have to be less mean and angry.

00:08:17.000 I need to take my own advice sometimes, by the way.

00:08:19.000 Let me just be very clear.

00:08:20.000 You know, there's no such thing.

00:08:22.000 Everyone knows that sometimes you have to take sometimes the advice you give, including to your children and people around you.

00:08:27.000 And so I have fun with atheists, and I start with, and people come up to me.

00:08:30.000 And by the way, atheism is a religion.

00:08:32.000 I think we have to be more clear about this.

00:08:34.000 Not every Christian agrees with me when I say this, but they have a code of beliefs. 1.00

00:08:38.000 They try to proselytize non-believers. 1.00

00:08:40.000 They are fervent about their belief in nothingness.

00:08:44.000 And they organize themselves all the time to try to get people to their side.

00:08:49.000 And so one of the first things I always try to say to people that have committed their life to believe in nothing is that, well, without God, there would be no atheists.

00:08:57.000 And that one just like really, like, what are you talking about?

00:09:01.000 No.

00:09:04.000 And no, of course, there's nothing and therefore nothing came out of nothing.

00:09:07.000 Like, okay, well, really, that's interesting.

00:09:11.000 That one really bothers them, right?

00:09:12.000 And so, and my favorite thing to talk about with atheists is really the motivation, right?

00:09:19.000 Is the willingness to be open-minded.

00:09:22.000 Is do you hope you're wrong?

00:09:24.000 That's the most important question you can ask someone who has to, who has decided to believe in nothing.

00:09:28.000 Now, let me be very clear.

00:09:29.000 There's a difference between agnostics and atheists, right?

00:09:32.000 People that are agnostic, it comes from a Greek word without knowledge or searching or trying to find the truth.

00:09:37.000 I have a lot of respect and empathy for agnostics.

00:09:39.000 I do.

00:09:40.000 People that are trying to figure this whole thing out. 0.98

00:09:41.000 An atheist is something completely different.

00:09:43.000 An atheist is someone that is saying, I figured it all out at age 19 because I took intro to metaphysics and there's nothing.

00:09:51.000 That's basically like, I got it all figured out because I go to UCLA and I'm the smartest person in the world.

00:09:57.000 Like, okay, got it.

00:09:58.000 Thank you.

00:09:59.000 And so, and it's kind of interesting.

00:10:01.000 We, again, there's no age limit on wisdom.

00:10:05.000 I've met plenty of people that are very old without wisdom and plenty of young people that have wisdom.

00:10:09.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of things that never change, right?

00:10:11.000 So let's just make sure we define wisdom.

00:10:13.000 Wisdom is the knowledge of things that are eternal.

00:10:16.000 It is the knowledge in the divine.

00:10:17.000 It is the knowledge in how human beings act.

00:10:19.000 For example, a human life is worthy of protection 2,000 years ago.

00:10:22.000 A human life is worthy of protection now.

00:10:24.000 And a human life will be worthy of protection 2,000 years from now.

00:10:27.000 That is an eternal truth.

00:10:28.000 That does not change just because we have Twitter, right?

00:10:31.000 It does not change just because we have airplanes.

00:10:34.000 The idea of the mechanics of our society does not change our morality.

00:10:37.000 College does not teach you this.

00:10:39.000 College teaches you that we're in this postmodern moment.

00:10:42.000 And because we've made all these advances in science, yeah, okay.

00:10:46.000 We can talk about that.

00:10:47.000 That's not what I'm here to talk about tonight.

00:10:49.000 But, you know, Jon Stewart said it best.

00:10:52.000 You know, thank goodness we had science to get us through the last year because science created all of this.

00:10:56.000 It's very, coming from a laboratory.

00:10:58.000 Jon Stewart said it.

00:10:59.000 Probably one of the greatest bits of late night television I've seen in quite some time.

00:11:03.000 But there's this idea in morals and ethics that we've progressed so much that the truths of the Bible no longer apply.

00:11:10.000 That look at us, we have airplanes.

00:11:12.000 Why do we read Proverbs anymore?

00:11:16.000 It's true.

00:11:17.000 That's basically part of what college morality teaches you: is that we have advanced so far as a species.

00:11:23.000 And kind of our job, those of us that believe in eternal truths, the things that do not change, is kind of to slow down and say, hold on a second, we're just as broken and in need of a savior today as human beings were 1500 years ago or 2,000 years ago.

00:11:39.000 That human beings are just as desiring for power, just as treacherous, just as deceitful.

00:11:46.000 And that's a really important argument to engage in.

00:11:50.000 Because if you all of a sudden say that somehow modernity is making human beings so much better, now don't get me wrong, some of our circumstances have improved, of course, but that doesn't mean our human nature has improved.

00:12:02.000 There's a difference between the framework, our laws, and our circumstances, and actually who we are.

00:12:08.000 And so we were made in the image of God, and then there was a fall, a separation.

00:12:12.000 Sin is the separation from God, and we have a tendency to keep on wanting to separate from God.

00:12:18.000 And the story, the first 11 books of Genesis, is kind of how do we reconcile with this?

00:12:23.000 What do we try to do? 0.60

00:12:24.000 Well, first, we, with incredible jealousy and with vengeful anger, we go and kill our brother. 0.99

00:12:31.000 It's like that's pretty awful.

00:12:33.000 We lie to our spouse, and we try to create a structure in Genesis 11 to challenge God himself, the Tower of Babel.

00:12:40.000 We know how God responds to that. 0.61

00:12:41.000 So we see in the first 11 books of the Bible, kind of this sinful nature replicate itself in a variety of different ways.

00:12:47.000 And then kind of after Genesis 11, the story of the Bible actually begins in a sense of like the history of the Bible.

00:12:53.000 I'm not to say that Noah was not history, but where we actually have like Abraham and the lineage on down from there.

00:12:58.000 And then the story replicates itself in the same similar way, which is God gives you a promise.

00:13:04.000 They temporarily honor it.

00:13:05.000 We think we're smarter, right?

00:13:07.000 We think we're not God, or we think we are God.

00:13:09.000 We think we can do whatever we want to do.

00:13:10.000 And then we go into kind of this cycle of abandonment.

00:13:13.000 God dishonors that.

00:13:14.000 We go into chaos and then we have to retreat back to God.

00:13:17.000 That sounds like Tuesday, right?

00:13:19.000 That sounds like every single day. 0.96

00:13:21.000 And it's true.

00:13:22.000 And then eventually God gave us this gift that we did not earn.

00:13:24.000 We cannot pay for.

00:13:26.000 That there's nothing that is this thing called irresistible grace, amazing grace, which is his son.

00:13:32.000 And we have this through, and if there's any non-believers here tonight, thank you for coming, by the way.

00:13:37.000 And I mean that.

00:13:38.000 No, there are some people that I was told that were here that don't, you know, have not yet found Christ.

00:13:43.000 I'm really glad you're here because I want you to hear this truth.

00:13:48.000 And if you ever find anything better than Jesus Christ, I'll give you my cell phone number.

00:13:51.000 Seriously, because there is nothing better than Jesus Christ in this entire world.

00:13:54.000 Please go find it.

00:13:59.000 And we have four gospels written by four different people that never contradict themselves.

00:14:07.000 With even the idea of archaeological texts, it is the most verifiable, reinforced, from a purely historical standpoint, idea of what we can prove.

00:14:18.000 There's never been archaeological discovery that has disproven a truth of the Bible.

00:14:22.000 We believe that Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle wrote what they wrote, yet we have 1,000 times more archaeological and literature evidence to reinforce the truths of the Bible.

00:14:31.000 There was a pool of Siloam.

00:14:33.000 There was Herod's gate.

00:14:35.000 You could go there, you could touch it, you could see it, you could walk through it.

00:14:38.000 And yes, Jesus Christ was a real person who turned water into wine, who actually manifested himself to be amongst one of us, to be a human being, lived a perfect life, resisted the temptation of Satan, taught us how to live, literally rose the dead, and then was tried, accused, and accused, tried, and crucified for something he didn't do, died, and then rose again.

00:15:02.000 And that was the fulfillment of something we don't deserve, which is eventually eternal life if you accept him into your life.

00:15:08.000 Now, this is the truth that we all need to get out.

00:15:11.000 And around that truth is then this idea of a call for us that are Christians to try to contest for that truth in every single arena.

00:15:19.000 And that's why we're all here tonight.

00:15:21.000 And so I'm always struck by the people, and I'm not to say that you can't be an atheist and also run a pregnancy crisis center. 0.68

00:15:28.000 But I am struck that almost every single pregnancy crisis center is run by Christians. 0.92

00:15:34.000 And I have a whole other shtick on like big families. 0.99

00:15:36.000 I'm still looking for an atheist family with eight children. 0.89

00:15:38.000 If you know one, please find.

00:15:40.000 No, seriously, it's like an open offer.

00:15:41.000 I'm sure it's out there somewhere.

00:15:43.000 Please, I want to find this family.

00:15:45.000 Like every major family, like they're Mormon or they're Quaker, or like there's whatever, they believe in a God.

00:15:50.000 Haven't found the guy that's like, I don't believe in a God.

00:15:52.000 Let's go have seven kids.

00:15:53.000 I wonder why. 0.89

00:15:55.000 The same as with pregnancy crisis centers.

00:15:57.000 The law, the truth, I'm sure there's someone out there, but the truth remains firm, which is, why do this?

00:16:02.000 This is hard work.

00:16:04.000 This is really sacrificial work.

00:16:06.000 Why would you do a pregnancy crisis center?

00:16:09.000 And their answer to that question is because you've been given that grace, you've been born new, and now you feel so charged and reborn that you want to go give life to somebody else, even if it's in a little bit of a glimpse, because you've been given life by your creator.

00:16:23.000 That's why you're here tonight.

00:16:24.000 And that's why this center exists.

00:16:26.000 It's because all of a sudden you were born new and you're like, I'm willing to do a pay cut.

00:16:29.000 I'm willing to get there at 6 a.m.

00:16:30.000 I'm willing to do the thankless work.

00:16:31.000 I'm willing to get yelled at, whatever, all this stuff, because if I could just save one life, I then can give back to what I've already been given.

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00:17:50.000 But this is really a question of morality and ethics.

00:17:54.000 And so if there is no transcendent order, if you do not believe that there is something greater than you, then all of a sudden, life, and yes, abortion becomes a utilitarian debate.

00:18:06.000 And this is a very important thing.

00:18:07.000 So I speak on college campuses all across the country, right?

00:18:10.000 I've spoken over 160 college campuses.

00:18:12.000 I'm the only conservative to speak at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford in one semester and live to tell about it.

00:18:18.000 I've been all across the country, right?

00:18:19.000 I've been from Brown.

00:18:21.000 I've been to Columbia.

00:18:22.000 You name it.

00:18:22.000 I've spoken there.

00:18:23.000 Turning point USA, we're on thousands of high school and college campuses.

00:18:26.000 We have over 160 full-time staff.

00:18:28.000 I'm hearing what your children are going into debt for, right?

00:18:32.000 I hear what your grandchildren are borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars for.

00:18:36.000 And there is this zeal that exists on these campuses to try to make you into little evangelistic nihilists.

00:18:45.000 It's like we are going to make you to believe in nothing and not just nothing.

00:18:48.000 Like you're going to enjoy it and then you're going to become a revolutionary.

00:18:50.000 And if not, you're a bad person. 1.00

00:18:51.000 Shut up, racist. 1.00

00:18:52.000 Like, okay. 1.00

00:18:52.000 Like, what? 1.00

00:18:54.000 What if I believe in a creator?

00:18:55.000 Like, then all of a sudden you get into this struggle.

00:18:59.000 And the baseline of all of this, which I think is very, very important, is this question of how important you actually think you are.

00:19:12.000 And this is something we have done an awful job of in our society.

00:19:15.000 And this is why I think the self-esteem movement was one of the most harmful movements ever propagandized on my generation.

00:19:22.000 We should have a self-control movement, not a self-esteem movement.

00:19:24.000 Let me tell you very much.

00:19:25.000 We need a self-control movement like right now.

00:19:28.000 But it makes sense, though.

00:19:30.000 If you want to turn people into little Nero's and into like the 19-year-old equivalent of Caligula, then of course you're going to have them believe they're the most important thing ever.

00:19:43.000 And so I never got the self-esteem movement thing until my friend Dennis Prager explained it to me.

00:19:48.000 By the way, God bless Dennis Prager.

00:19:49.000 That guy.

00:19:50.000 And he, and it was so, so I was in high school, and it never made sense to me.

00:19:54.000 There's these massive posters, right?

00:19:56.000 You're perfect the way you are.

00:19:58.000 And I understand the intention, right?

00:19:59.000 They were trying to stop bullying.

00:20:00.000 They were trying to stop self-harm.

00:20:02.000 It had the opposite impact, actually.

00:20:03.000 It had the absolute opposite.

00:20:04.000 You're perfect the way you are.

00:20:05.000 Everything's great.

00:20:06.000 And I remember asking my teacher once because we had self-esteem like hour, like once a month, right?

00:20:11.000 No, it's true.

00:20:12.000 It's like, you're so perfect, you're so great.

00:20:14.000 Like, look up to the skies and like whatever, like the stars, whatever.

00:20:17.000 And so it's like some sort of strange pagan, like pseudo-religious ceremony.

00:20:22.000 And so, and I remember asking once, just sort of irritable, if I'm perfect the way I am, why am I in school?

00:20:30.000 Right?

00:20:31.000 Like, that's sort of an interesting question, right? 0.67

00:20:34.000 And she was like, no, shut up, like, whatever.

00:20:36.000 She didn't really think it, like, didn't really think it that through, right?

00:20:38.000 It's like, no, I'm not really that interested in that.

00:20:41.000 And that's actually really important, though, because what education should be is a challenge.

00:20:46.000 What education should be is to tease, especially men. 0.71

00:20:50.000 I want to just commend the man that runs the men's ministry.

00:20:53.000 I heard a deep, bellowing voice.

00:20:55.000 You're doing awesome work.

00:20:57.000 Awesome.

00:20:58.000 Because strong men are so important in this conversation.

00:21:03.000 I'm going to get back to that in a second.

00:21:05.000 And because a challenge is something that deep down, every young man desires.

00:21:13.000 And we've removed that.

00:21:14.000 And instead, we've created this entire young men and women, but men especially really, really yearn for a challenge and they desire pressure and they desire to be pushed.

00:21:24.000 We put this society where it's like, you're perfect the way you are unless you're a man and then you must apologize for your entire life.

00:21:30.000 You must apologize for it in your entire life.

00:21:31.000 And so, but it really struck me, like, how important do you actually think you are?

00:21:36.000 Well, if education was actually working properly, you would think you're not very important.

00:21:42.000 You're not very wise, but you want to do everything you possibly can to try to figure out about the God that put you here.

00:21:49.000 And you are thankful that you even have breath in your lungs and you desire to understand beauty at all costs.

00:21:54.000 That's what education used to be.

00:21:56.000 Education used to be teasing an 18-year-old.

00:21:59.000 Welcome to college.

00:22:00.000 You ask the 18-year-old who's super smart, high IQ, think they know the whole world, what is beauty?

00:22:05.000 What is goodness?

00:22:06.000 What is truth?

00:22:07.000 And they think that, come with us.

00:22:10.000 We're going to find out together.

00:22:11.000 That's the way education used to work.

00:22:13.000 It used to work in college.

00:22:14.000 It's like, we're going to break you, we're going to break you down almost to the point where you can't take it anymore.

00:22:18.000 And you're going to rise up with stronger metaphorical muscles and you will have a stronger character because of it.

00:22:23.000 Now, college and education is the exact opposite.

00:22:25.000 Now you walk in when you're 18 and they're like, there is no beauty, there is no goodness, there is no truth, there is no God.

00:22:32.000 And I'm going to tell you the one thing you can do about it, which has become kind of like a pseudo-revolutionary.

00:22:36.000 And you're really important, even though there's nothing, because that's all you know.

00:22:39.000 Right?

00:22:40.000 When you think about it, when there is no God, what becomes the ultimate guiding principle?

00:22:44.000 You, your consciousness.

00:22:46.000 It's the obvious deduction when you don't believe there's anything above you.

00:22:50.000 And then that explains exactly how we are able to morally justify a lot of the things that happen.

00:22:56.000 Because then abortion and life becomes a utilitarian debate, which is like, no, no, what's best for me?

00:23:02.000 I'm not ready.

00:23:03.000 And I just want to say what this pregnancy crisis center does is it solves the problem of what I consider to be the greatest criticism of the pro-life movement.

00:23:10.000 And we talked about this on the phone, which is the pro-life movement has to do a much better job of having grace and compassion, healing, and openness for women that are pregnant or have had abortions and not make them the target of your virtue signaling or your condemnation.

00:23:26.000 We are all sinners.

00:23:27.000 If a woman had an abortion, they deserve grace that only Christ can provide.

00:23:31.000 If you're looking for someone to exhaust your frustration, go after the abortionists or the professional abortion incorporated lobby, not the women that were lied to or propagandized in those clinics.

00:23:42.000 I encourage you to do that.

00:23:45.000 And so.

00:23:49.000 And so this is the real debate that's happening here.

00:23:54.000 And I think that it's actually a debate that we are going to win.

00:23:58.000 And so I want to encourage you, that those of us that care about life, and we believe every single life is worthy and deserving of protection, I want you tonight to dismiss one thing that I know all of you have had come across your radar screen, metacynicism.

00:24:15.000 Things can't change.

00:24:17.000 The abortion lobby, they get pills on demand.

00:24:21.000 We're just, we're going to do all we can, but I don't think we can think transformationally.

00:24:24.000 I want to encourage you that we have to think bigger than ever.

00:24:28.000 I want to encourage you that we can actually turn the corner on this, big time.

00:24:33.000 And I believe that the biggest issue, and you saw it in this video, the biggest issue was not the question of whether or not we have the truth. 0.89

00:24:42.000 The question is whether or not, can we get a pregnant mother to look at an ultrasound screen? 0.58

00:24:42.000 We know that. 0.58

00:24:47.000 That's a mechanical issue when you think about it.

00:24:49.000 It's not like we need to find a better truth.

00:24:52.000 We have the truth. 0.61

00:24:53.000 The barrier is whether or not a mother is actually understanding the full facts and knowledge around that very specific decision.

00:25:00.000 And so when we talk about this issue and actually building a culture of life and some of the arguments that are made, I'm going to tell you one thing that I think is a couple of things that are super important.

00:25:12.000 And we all know the statistics.

00:25:13.000 And Seth Gruber here does an amazing job.

00:25:15.000 He's a great friend of mine, one of the best pro-life speakers out there.

00:25:17.000 And I always text him.

00:25:18.000 He knows all the numbers so well.

00:25:20.000 Eight weeks, a baby can feel pain.

00:25:22.000 At 21 to 23 days, a heartbeat begins.

00:25:25.000 And six weeks is when I think it becomes detectable in some ways on an ultrasound.

00:25:29.000 And then you go through all the numbers.

00:25:32.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:25:34.000 But even beyond that, we ask ourselves the question, when does life begin?

00:25:38.000 Or we ask somebody else.

00:25:39.000 And we're winning on that.

00:25:40.000 So I want to encourage you to continue to ask that question.

00:25:43.000 That is a winning question.

00:25:44.000 When does life begin?

00:25:46.000 And it begins at conception.

00:25:48.000 But that only wins if you're able to then win the moral argument.

00:25:53.000 And let me prove it to you.

00:25:55.000 There's a dialogue I had with a pro-abortion activist in Washington, D.C. that went very viral, had 20 million views.

00:26:02.000 And I asked her, I said, and I didn't even know I was being filmed.

00:26:05.000 Someone just came up to me.

00:26:05.000 I was just super curious.

00:26:06.000 It was really calm.

00:26:07.000 It was really respectful.

00:26:08.000 I said, when does life begin?

00:26:09.000 She said, oh, it begins at conception.

00:26:12.000 I said, then how are you a pro-abortion activist?

00:26:14.000 And I was introduced to their next argument and get ready for this.

00:26:17.000 Well, she said, well, no, we need population control. 1.00

00:26:20.000 And like, we have too many people and too many children.

00:26:22.000 It's bad for the environment.

00:26:23.000 And we don't need unwanted people.

00:26:26.000 And so I'm making the moral argument not to have that person exist.

00:26:30.000 So don't assume just because you can win people over that that's a human being, that that is actually going to be applicable in this kind of new morality that we live in.

00:26:40.000 And so it all comes back to this idea of who are you and why are you here and in whose image are you made.

00:26:47.000 And that really is a theological debate.

00:26:49.000 It comes back to ultimate purpose.

00:26:51.000 And that's what I love about the center is that it actually brings people to that type of ultimate purpose and salvation.

00:26:57.000 Because if we just, if we look at this myopically, I don't think we're going to win.

00:27:02.000 If we look at this broadly and transformationally, we know we have the truth.

00:27:07.000 We see people's lives changed.

00:27:09.000 And we also know, and this is a very, very important point, that when people are actually able to see the entire complexity of the argument, their life is never the same.

00:27:19.000 Do you notice that we have nothing to hide as pro-lifers and they are always hiding something?

00:27:26.000 Do you notice that?

00:27:27.000 That's how you know you're on the right side of the argument.

00:27:30.000 You know you're on the right side of the argument where you're like, I'll show you all my materials.

00:27:33.000 I'll let you tour my facility, interview my staff, you know, audit my uncle.

00:27:38.000 Like, what else do you need me to do, right?

00:27:41.000 Whereas like the Planned Parenthood, it's like one-way glass.

00:27:44.000 Like, you're not allowed within 50 feet.

00:27:47.000 No total anonymity.

00:27:49.000 What's done in darkness will eventually come to light.

00:27:52.000 And the deeds of darkness and that what that is done has to be done behind a protection of a one-way glass and the total enemy.

00:27:59.000 That's how you know what they're doing is not right.

00:28:01.000 And so the question is, how do we shine more of a light on the goodness and the truth of all that?

00:28:05.000 And here's the beginning.

00:28:06.000 There's two calls to action, which includes supporting this center.

00:28:09.000 We have to think way bigger as pro-lifers.

00:28:11.000 We're thinking way too small.

00:28:13.000 And what do I mean by that?

00:28:14.000 We have to think of like, huh, how many of you remember when there was a culture of smoking in this country?

00:28:20.000 Right?

00:28:20.000 And we kind of like laugh at it.

00:28:21.000 It's kind of stigmatized.

00:28:23.000 We could do the same thing with abortion.

00:28:24.000 We can have a culture of life where all of a sudden there's like, there's no smoking signs everywhere.

00:28:28.000 And we do it with grace and compassion and mercy and love where people think it's unthinkable to actually have an abortion.

00:28:34.000 That would be an amazing win.

00:28:36.000 And how did that happen?

00:28:37.000 Happened through mass media, private conversations, telling the truth, being unafraid to engage on the civic and the law side, which I'm going to get to in a second, because sometimes pro-lifers don't want to get involved in the laws of things.

00:28:50.000 We have to wherever we possibly can.

00:28:52.000 And that's an idea of something that actually changed.

00:28:55.000 Seatbelt laws is another example.

00:28:56.000 You might not like them. 1.00

00:28:57.000 It was a change.

00:28:58.000 People used to ride around on the back of pickup trucks.

00:29:01.000 Someone used to do that?

00:29:01.000 Is that a thing?

00:29:03.000 Everyone's laughing.

00:29:03.000 They're like, oh, yeah, I did that.

00:29:04.000 It's perfectly safe.

00:29:05.000 And we had a camel, too.

00:29:06.000 It's like, hey, hey, it's great.

00:29:10.000 Yeah, America used to be.

00:29:12.000 I love this.

00:29:13.000 It's so much fun.

00:29:13.000 It's like, America used to be so free.

00:29:14.000 I'm like, tell me why.

00:29:16.000 And like, of course, they're right, but the example they're like, we used to ride around on the back of a pickup truck with a 12-gauge and a camel.

00:29:21.000 I'm like, really?

00:29:21.000 That's totally free.

00:29:24.000 Yeah, it's terrific.

00:29:25.000 Sounds fun.

00:29:26.000 Now we're like wearing masks and we shower.

00:29:28.000 Like, oh, yeah.

00:29:28.000 We're just like, oh, my gosh.

00:29:30.000 Way too much in the other direction.

00:29:31.000 So the points, as I digress, the point is we could think big, everybody.

00:29:39.000 Things can change.

00:29:41.000 They could change for the worse.

00:29:42.000 They can change for the better.

00:29:43.000 That is determined on us.

00:29:45.000 It's, are we going to vision cast?

00:29:47.000 It says in Proverbs, without a vision, the people perish.

00:29:50.000 So what's the vision?

00:29:52.000 The vision for this center is to save more babies.

00:29:54.000 I'm going to list out the numbers for this center.

00:29:55.000 It's a really amazing thing.

00:29:57.000 866 clients serve.

00:29:59.000 That's a lot of people in this valley.

00:30:00.000 1,447 appointments kept.

00:30:03.000 539 pregnancy tests.

00:30:05.000 393 ultrasound exams.

00:30:07.000 230 male partner sessions.

00:30:09.000 Awesome.

00:30:10.000 I love hearing about that.

00:30:11.000 That's so important.

00:30:12.000 664 gospel and faith conversations.

00:30:16.000 664 people heard the gospel.

00:30:19.000 Face to face.

00:30:20.000 642 pregnancy parenting classes and 429 baby closet visits.

00:30:25.000 The annual budget, $660,000 a year.

00:30:29.000 The $660,000 a year, that's like the white wine budget at Play and Parenthood every month.

00:30:35.000 It is.

00:30:36.000 And by the way, they drink white wine while they're doing some things that David DeLeiden caught on camera.

00:30:41.000 And please keep David DeLeiden in your prayers, by the way.

00:30:43.000 David DeLeiden caught on camera the incredible criminal enterprise that existed in this state of the aborting of children, the selling of their baby parts for cash.

00:30:52.000 Those videos have been wiped from the internet.

00:30:54.000 Kamala Harris raided his apartment.

00:30:56.000 He's been criminalized and somewhat forgotten in certain circles.

00:30:59.000 I'm not going to forget David DeLeiden.

00:31:00.000 I'm going to use my platform to try to reinforce him and support him and pray for him.

00:31:04.000 That man is a hero.

00:31:12.000 And so that's one example of thinking big and doing what we need to do.

00:31:16.000 And the last, the last thing I'll say is this.

00:31:18.000 Well, I kind of do a pastor's close, so it's like 45-minute clothes.

00:31:21.000 So it's like they'll close like the speech.

00:31:23.000 See, forgive me.

00:31:24.000 So it's like we're kind of like going around.

00:31:26.000 We're kind of doing like a big approach, right?

00:31:29.000 Is that all of you have to be individual ambassadors for life?

00:31:34.000 What do I mean by that?

00:31:35.000 Is that we're only gonna change things when you have the courage and the confidence and the clarity of thought to be willing not just to post a tweet, not just give money to this, but sit around the table with your relatives and your cousins and have that tough conversation.

00:31:49.000 I'll give you one great example of a conversation starter, and it was from an eight-year-old at the March for Life.

00:31:54.000 Anyone been at the March for Life before?

00:31:56.000 It's one of the coolest things ever.

00:31:59.000 I love it because it's the true definition of spontaneous order.

00:32:02.000 It is the most disorganized thing I've ever been to in my entire life.

00:32:06.000 Seriously, no one is in charge, yet everyone knows kind of what's happening.

00:32:09.000 It's awesome.

00:32:10.000 And it's like you have to block off a whole week, right?

00:32:13.000 You know what I'm talking about, right?

00:32:14.000 It's like people come from out of the hills and the rivers and the valleys, and like, who's that person?

00:32:19.000 It's like out of control, right?

00:32:20.000 And so literally, like 700,000 young people descend on Washington, D.C. for the March for Life every single year.

00:32:27.000 And from every single denomination imaginable, all saying that we need to fight for life.

00:32:32.000 And it's beautiful.

00:32:32.000 And this one girl was just kind of on this side of the corner.

00:32:35.000 And I just kind of like to look at little nuggets of wisdom.

00:32:38.000 My wife and I call these God winks when the Lord speaks through kind of unusual vessels.

00:32:43.000 And there was this eight-year-old that had this sign, and I saw every single sign imaginable, right?

00:32:47.000 Like choose life and like all the kind of generic ones.

00:32:49.000 But this eight, it was so obvious this eight-year-old made her sign herself because everything was misspelled. 0.96

00:32:53.000 It was like backward ass and like whatever, right? 0.93

00:32:55.000 And it was, but I was like, this is amazing. 0.98

00:32:57.000 And so I went up to her, I said, who made this sign?

00:33:00.000 And she said, it just came to me one day in science class and it said, if it's not your DNA, it's not your choice.

00:33:06.000 I was like, that is the greatest, that is so wise.

00:33:09.000 And really what it comes down to is, yes, who are you?

00:33:12.000 If you come down to its fundamental level, to the mapping of the human genome, you are a bunch of deoxoribonucleic acid.

00:33:18.000 And if it's not your deoxorbonucleic acid, it's not your choice.

00:33:23.000 And I was like, that's so smart.

00:33:25.000 And so I've obviously used it a lot since.

00:33:27.000 And I didn't give attribution to the random eight-year-old March for Life from two years ago.

00:33:31.000 Whoever you are, I hope you become a U.S. Senator or something because you're super smart.

00:33:35.000 And that's why we must choose life.

00:33:36.000 We're just barely touching the surface of the combined wisdom of this entire country and planet, by the way, because of how many, you know, God forbid, people that we have unfortunately discarded.

00:33:45.000 The point is that we need better arguments and we need to be unafraid to be at the table to make those kind of arguments and ask questions in the pursuit of truth.

00:33:53.000 So what I'm really saying is that this is no longer a spectator sport.

00:33:58.000 And so when I ask you to support this center tonight, you need to do that generously.

00:34:02.000 But then you have to say, hey, who in my life and my circle am I bringing to go see the pro-life cause correctly?

00:34:09.000 Because I can tell you that's what they're doing on their side.

00:34:11.000 They're doing everything they possibly can to do pamphlets and leaflets.

00:34:15.000 They're well funded by taxpayer dollars.

00:34:17.000 They get $500 million a year of federal taxpayer dollars go for Planned Parenthood's overhead.

00:34:23.000 That's just for their overhead budget.

00:34:26.000 Not to mention the small dollar donations they get, the celebrity donations, the massive foundations.

00:34:31.000 They got more money than they know what to do with.

00:34:33.000 And then there's all the other different ones that they incorporate around that.

00:34:37.000 And so that's the call to action for all of us.

00:34:40.000 And so let's vision cast.

00:34:42.000 In 20 years from now, when I'm 47, not 27, are we going to have a culture where we have less abortions and we have laws that reflect God's eternal truth?

00:34:55.000 Or are we going to keep on doing the we got us?

00:34:58.000 I don't like the we got us.

00:35:00.000 That's, I started Turning Point USA because I got so tired of the we got us.

00:35:04.000 We got to do this.

00:35:05.000 We got to reach young people. 0.88

00:35:06.000 I don't like the we got us.

00:35:07.000 This center is not a we gotta center.

00:35:09.000 The centers are the well, we are center.

00:35:12.000 And every single one of you are part of that.

00:35:15.000 And this is the, I'm gonna tell you the thing that bothers me the most that I hear when people say, hey, Charlie, how's it going out there?

00:35:21.000 It's like, what am I, like a running back for the Los Angeles Rams or something?

00:35:25.000 Like, what do you mean out there?

00:35:27.000 Like, you know, kind of in the world of trying to change minds and fighting for what's right and good in the world.

00:35:31.000 I say, wait, hold on.

00:35:33.000 I didn't go to college.

00:35:34.000 There's nothing special about what I do except that I decided to try to do it and I got really lucky and the Lord blessed me along the way.

00:35:40.000 And I have some incredible people that have tried to support me.

00:35:43.000 Every single person can do this.

00:35:44.000 Every single person.

00:35:46.000 It is, and in a different variety of ways.

00:35:49.000 It's not for everyone to go up and speak and do all this, but for some people, it might be, man, I feel really called to do 10% more in that area.

00:35:57.000 Maybe it's becoming a sidewalk counselor, which I got a crash course in tonight.

00:36:01.000 And I want to, I can't remember your name.

00:36:03.000 Tant saved the life in the last 48 hours of a woman that was going to an abortion clinic in just the last two days.

00:36:10.000 How amazing is that?

00:36:11.000 That's being pro-life in the entire culture, right?

00:36:15.000 And so, and these things have momentum.

00:36:18.000 And I have really good news to share.

00:36:20.000 This is the most pro-life generation in American history.

00:36:23.000 Every single number shows it.

00:36:24.000 And when confronted with the facts, it just totally all of a sudden goes down from like 40% pro-abortion to like 20% pro-abortion.

00:36:32.000 It collapses.

00:36:33.000 And so it's a matter of getting those ideas out there and getting that truth out there.

00:36:38.000 And that's where all of you come in in more ways than one.

00:36:42.000 And so.

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00:37:49.000 I have a couple of closing thoughts and remarks here.

00:37:54.000 The first is I want to invite anyone here who has not accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior to do so.

00:37:59.000 I'm not going to do an altar call or a hand, you know, raising of the hands.

00:38:02.000 There's nothing more important than getting in contact and being born renew anew by a creator that loves you and you're made in his image.

00:38:10.000 I'm going to tell you what grace is by first telling you what justice and mercy is.

00:38:15.000 Justice is getting exactly what you deserve.

00:38:17.000 You stole something and you go in front of a judge and the judge says, you stole something, you're going to jail for five years.

00:38:24.000 Mercy is getting less of what you deserve.

00:38:26.000 You go in front of a judge and they say, well, you stole something.

00:38:29.000 You get two years of prison.

00:38:31.000 Grace is something entirely different.

00:38:33.000 It's something that's hard for us human beings to even understand.

00:38:36.000 You stole something, you go in front of a judge and you're sentenced to five years in prison.

00:38:41.000 And the moment you're about to serve that prison sentence, someone steps up and says, I'm going to serve that prison sentence for him.

00:38:46.000 He can go free.

00:38:46.000 That's grace.

00:38:47.000 And that's what Jesus has done for every single person here.

00:38:50.000 Something we did not deserve and we did not earn.

00:38:52.000 So I encourage all of you that that resonates with you at all.

00:38:58.000 I encourage you to open up the greatest, most powerful book ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:39:03.000 One book and a common theme: a God that created us.

00:39:06.000 We rebelled.

00:39:06.000 He redeemed us, and we live forever in harmony with him.

00:39:09.000 That's what the whole book is about.

00:39:10.000 It's a lot more complex than that, but that's kind of the spark notes version of the most important book ever to exist in the history of the word.

00:39:17.000 66 books.

00:39:18.000 There's only one author.

00:39:18.000 It's all the word of God.

00:39:19.000 There's more wisdom in just one page of the Bible than every single college campus in this entire country combined.

00:39:25.000 And so I'm going to end with two things.

00:39:28.000 I promise, because I said I'd be done by nine.

00:39:32.000 The first thing is when people say, Charlie, are we going to win?

00:39:36.000 I get asked this question all the time.

00:39:38.000 They say, Charlie, are we going to win?

00:39:39.000 And I don't know if they're talking about politically, morally, culturally.

00:39:42.000 And I know why people ask that question.

00:39:46.000 They ask that question, some of them, because they want me to give them permission to give up.

00:39:50.000 Because they want me to say, you know what, we're going to lose, which I don't believe.

00:39:54.000 But let's say I said that.

00:39:55.000 They may be able to go home and say, hey, I just got to sit at home because I was told that we're not going to win.

00:40:00.000 I am not a Caesar's Palace betting odd maker.

00:40:04.000 I don't know if we're going to win or we're going to lose.

00:40:06.000 Is the probability of victory a reason or not for us to go do the right thing?

00:40:10.000 Absolutely not.

00:40:11.000 That is never, ever, anywhere in the Bible or anywhere in biblical truth.

00:40:16.000 Are we supposed to weigh the odds of whether or not we think we should do something that is righteous and obedient?

00:40:22.000 That is not what we're supposed to do.

00:40:24.000 But let me tell you something about this beautiful nation that we live in, the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:40:30.000 We believe that our rights come from God, not from government, a republic of, by, and for the people, separation of powers, consent to the governed, independent judiciary, a constitutional republic that is enshrined based on biblical and eternal and divine truths.

00:40:43.000 Let me tell you something about this country.

00:40:45.000 This country has withstood the test of time and has been tried through a lot of things throughout our history.

00:40:50.000 And there's something unique that is almost in the soul and the spirit of our nation.

00:40:54.000 It's resilience, perseverance, grit, the ability to overcome the impossible, to shoot for the stars and sometimes actually land there on the moon, to build an interstate highway, win two world wars on two different fronts.

00:41:06.000 And there's a story that I think embodies this better than any other.

00:41:09.000 When you think things can't get any worse, and I know a lot of you have probably been watching television, you just close it, you're like, I just can't take it anymore.

00:41:16.000 I just feel like it is nothing but darkness and doom and gloom.

00:41:20.000 Let me tell you a story about one of the darkest days in American history, a day that was, quote, that will always live in infamy. 0.88

00:41:27.000 I'm talking about Pearl Harbor when Japan preemptively striked us on a sunny day in Hawaii and they sunk the entire Pacific Fleet. 0.63

00:41:35.000 Thousands of American soldiers died in 30 minutes or less.

00:41:39.000 We did not declare war on the Japanese. 0.89

00:41:41.000 They declared war on us.

00:41:42.000 We didn't know what we were going to do.

00:41:43.000 And all of a sudden, we didn't have just one war.

00:41:45.000 We had two wars on our hands.

00:41:46.000 Because if we're at war with Japan, that means we're also at war in the European theater.

00:41:50.000 America was scrambling.

00:41:51.000 We didn't know what to do.

00:41:52.000 And Franklin Doano Roosevelt gives the speech.

00:41:54.000 This is the day of an infinite in Congress.

00:41:56.000 He almost unanimously votes for a declaration of war in both theaters.

00:42:00.000 America was solemn, somber, confused, and looking for direction.

00:42:03.000 But there was one man that was smiling on December 6th.

00:42:06.000 And that man was the greatest man to live in the 20th century, a person that we've deleted from our textbooks and from our history.

00:42:12.000 It's Winston Churchill.

00:42:13.000 Winston Churchill was the greatest man to live in the 20th century because he was built for that moment.

00:42:17.000 They hated him before the war and they hated him after the war.

00:42:20.000 He wrote 50 books and he understood the world better than anyone else.

00:42:23.000 He called the Nazi scourge before it happened, while it happened and during it and was able to defeat it. 0.86

00:42:28.000 But he was smiling that morning. 0.90

00:42:29.000 Why was he smiling?

00:42:31.000 He walked into his war cabinet, probably on two hours of sleep with a little bit of whiskey and a little bit of a cigar, the way Winston Churchill always would.

00:42:38.000 A smile a mile wide, you'd think would be Christmas morning.

00:42:41.000 And his war cabinet was distraught, almost crying.

00:42:45.000 And they said, Prime Minister, have you lost your mind?

00:42:49.000 Why are you smiling?

00:42:50.000 And he's smiling.

00:42:52.000 He says, ah, takes a puff of his cigar.

00:42:56.000 We have won the war.

00:42:58.000 And his war cabinet, his war minister, shuffles his paper, says, sir, with all due respect, what do you mean we have won the war?

00:43:05.000 Currently, they just bombed the church in North London.

00:43:08.000 The Royal Air Force is losing 300 people a day.

00:43:12.000 We barely got our troops out of Dunkirk.

00:43:14.000 The opposition is planning a ground invasion of any moment at Brighton.

00:43:18.000 We can't even field an army, let alone staff a Navy.

00:43:21.000 Our Air Force is a laughing stop against the Luftwaffe.

00:43:24.000 What do you mean we have won the war?

00:43:27.000 Winston Churchill takes another puff of his cigar.

00:43:31.000 I know the Americans.

00:43:34.000 Once they awaken, it is over. 0.88

00:43:37.000 We have won the war.

00:43:40.000 And ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you: when we awaken and we contest for truth, the war is won.

00:43:45.000 It is a matter of how bad we want it.

00:43:47.000 It's in our spirits. 1.00

00:43:48.000 If we wanted to retreat, we'd go to the French.

00:43:50.000 If we wanted a day off, we'd go to Italy. 0.63

00:43:52.000 If we wanted to sue for peace, we would go back to France.

00:43:55.000 If we wanted to complain, we would go to the United Kingdom.

00:43:58.000 If you want to win, you go to America.

00:43:59.000 It's in our spirits, in our soul.

00:44:01.000 It's who we are.

00:44:01.000 We are going to win.

00:44:02.000 God bless you guys.

00:44:03.000 Thank you so much.

00:44:08.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:44:10.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:44:12.000 And if you want to get involved at Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com.

00:44:16.000 See you in Tampa, Florida, July 17, 18, 19, 20.

00:44:20.000 tpusa.com slash SAS.

00:44:23.000 Thanks so much, everybody.

00:44:24.000 God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 07, 2021

What Is Life and Why Protecting It Is An Ideological Hill Worth Dying On

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