The Charlie Kirk Show - What's the Matter With Maine?

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, 10 at Charlie Kirkshow.

00:00:01.000 My speech in Maine all about how foreigners are overrunning the state of Maine. 1.00

00:00:06.000 It's worse than you might think.

00:00:07.000 The people of Maine are upset about it.

00:00:09.000 It's at Maine Civic Action.

00:00:10.000 You guys could check it out.

00:00:11.000 And Scott Robinson is the one that did the interview, a wonderful man from the Maine Wire.

00:00:15.000 I think you'll really enjoy this wide-ranging conversation, including with some question and answer.

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00:00:32.000 Buckle up everybody here.

00:00:33.000 We go.

00:00:34.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:36.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:37.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:41.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:44.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:45.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:46.000 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.

00:00:55.000 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.

00:01:04.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:07.000 Thank you, everybody.

00:01:09.000 Heidi, that was beautiful.

00:01:11.000 Thank you so much.

00:01:11.000 That was wonderful.

00:01:13.000 It's great to be here in Maine.

00:01:14.000 There is no better place than...

00:01:18.000 And it is in an extraordinary state with amazing people that, honestly, the ancestry of this state is uniquely American.

00:01:27.000 As you know, going back 100, 150 years ago, this is not an easy state to live in.

00:01:32.000 And, you know, they always say that Maine has hard people.

00:01:36.000 And I say, I love that Maine has hard people because you, you are tough, you are gritty, and you've built a life here in a way that I just want to let you know that you're not forgotten.

00:01:47.000 A lot of you guys say that Maine is the forgotten state, but you're not forgotten.

00:01:51.000 And I think part of this is that the rest of the country needs to know that you Maine is not just going to roll over and just become a third world dumping ground, and that the best days for Maine are ahead.

00:02:07.000 So I want to talk about a couple of things, then we'll do some questions, and we're going to have some fun.

00:02:13.000 The first of which is, as you know, I visit college campus, so you guys don't have to, and there's something very special happening with the youth of this country.

00:02:22.000 And Heidi, I love what you were saying.

00:02:24.000 Young men in this country are the most conservative they have been in fifty years, and they're only becoming more and more right wing.

00:02:31.000 It's happening in dramatic numbers.

00:02:35.000 Young ladies are a work in progress, right? 1.00

00:02:39.000 You got work in progress.

00:02:41.000 But I'll tell you, young men, they are sick of the toxic feminism that has infected our culture. 0.99

00:02:48.000 We want to let men be men again in America.

00:02:52.000 And one thing I know that is a big sticking point here in this country and the state is the blurring of lines between male and female distinctions.

00:03:03.000 No men in female sports, no men in female locker rooms. 1.00

00:03:06.000 That should be a no brainer.

00:03:09.000 And this is what's so important.

00:03:13.000 One of the reasons why Maine has changed is two simultaneous things.

00:03:18.000 The first of which is hyper elite coastal education in colleges, and the second of which is immigration.

00:03:25.000 I'll get to that in a second.

00:03:27.000 But first, Maine has so many people that, first of all, some of your universities here are very overrated, very expensive, and to the left of Stalingrad.

00:03:37.000 Would that be fair to say?

00:03:40.000 And it's so important because the muscular class, those of you that wake up before the sun comes up, and those of you that shower before before work and shower after work, you send your kids to go to K through 12 schools saying, Hey, go to college so that you can get a good job.

00:03:57.000 They go to college and they learn to hate the country, hate themselves, believe there is no God, and come back and probably change their gender. 0.87

00:04:05.000 And you're like, Well, who exactly are you?

00:04:07.000 And one of the reasons why Maine has changed so much is that Maine continues to be a hard working, gritty state, but it's increasingly a college educated state that is an upper suburb of New Hampshire and Boston.

00:04:21.000 And you are a great people.

00:04:25.000 And we're going to talk about that because.

00:04:26.000 because they're trying to make you no longer a people.

00:04:29.000 They're trying to change what it means to be a Mainer.

00:04:31.000 We're going to talk about that in a second.

00:04:33.000 And so this influx of hyper college educated people in Portland, you all know the type.

00:04:39.000 They're the type that has in this house we believe in signs.

00:04:44.000 And you're driving through some of those streets near the College of Atlantic, and they have these huge resist signs.

00:04:52.000 Resist.

00:04:53.000 Resist.

00:04:53.000 Like what am I resisting?

00:04:55.000 A closed border?

00:04:56.000 I'm resisting the fact that we finally have mass deportations, or you're resisting the fact that Donald Trump has ended five wars in the last couple of months.

00:05:06.000 This college-educated idea pathogen that has infected so many in the state, I think it's the true virus that continues in this country, which starts on our college campus but doesn't stay in our college campus.

00:05:18.000 It infects the rest of the entire world.

00:05:20.000 And that's where so many people say, but they don't, where has common sense gone?

00:05:24.000 You go to college to lose common sense, to get a credential, to go into debt a bunch of money, to borrow money you don't have, to study things that don't matter, to find jobs that don't exist.

00:05:36.000 Maine doesn't need more sociology majors.

00:05:39.000 Maine doesn't need more people that are studying, as I said earlier, North African lesbian poetry that's not going to make Maine great again. 1.00

00:05:51.000 We need electricians, we need carpenters, we need welders, we need entrepreneurs, we need police officers, we need lobstermen. 0.87

00:06:02.000 Enough of the purple haired jihadis that are walking around downtown Portland, like, who are you?

00:06:14.000 And you know, people say that's insensitive.

00:06:17.000 Just wait for the second part of my discussion, okay?

00:06:20.000 You'll see.

00:06:22.000 I say what you believe, and then you'll have me.

00:06:24.000 you can vote on whether you have me back.

00:06:26.000 But I know you all feel this because this state is being colonized.

00:06:30.000 This state is being colonized first by an out of state college elite that is driving up your housing prices.

00:06:36.000 And that are building new housing development so they can have a nice condo in July because Boston gets a little too humid for them.

00:06:44.000 And then, of course, it's being driven up by another population.

00:06:47.000 But there's a the Trump movement has been amazing to witness because Donald Trump said things that were true when everybody attacked him.

00:06:58.000 And he repeatedly said it over the course of a decade.

00:07:02.000 And Maine reminds me of where the nation was ten years ago.

00:07:06.000 You guys are almost behind the nation in some ways.

00:07:09.000 Like the whole nation has really made a rightward turn, but this state has not really been able to figure itself out yet.

00:07:16.000 But I think it will.

00:07:17.000 And this now goes to the second part of my conversation.

00:07:19.000 So the first part is that you have wokeism infecting every major institution.

00:07:24.000 Men and females sports, men and females locker rooms.

00:07:26.000 Oh yeah, men can give birth. 1.00

00:07:27.000 We're going to shut you up if you believe otherwise.

00:07:30.000 I mean, all of the worst things that you could teach a young person, right?

00:07:34.000 That, you know, I'm a super anti racist.

00:07:36.000 Like, yeah, okay, sure.

00:07:37.000 I'm going to prove it by bringing a Somali in. 1.00

00:07:39.000 Okay.

00:07:40.000 And so you're being colonized by foreign ideas, leftism, and then you guys, not in this room, but your leaders, who should all be run out of office, made a traitor's decision to not just be colonized by foreign ideas, but foreigners themselves.

00:08:00.000 And here is the part that you all know it's happening.

00:08:03.000 You get called mean and nasty names for saying out loud, but there's something wrong with the fact that Maine continues to import people from the third world and calls it progress. 1.00

00:08:16.000 Lewiston is unrecogniognizable.

00:08:20.000 I say this as someone who's been coming here over the last ten years.

00:08:24.000 The fact that half of the kids in some Portland schools half do not speak English and they speak a different language.

00:08:31.000 And let's talk about the types of immigrants we're bringing in because there are some people here that immigrated to this country.

00:08:36.000 I met them earlier.

00:08:37.000 If you assimilate to our country, we will bring you on the team.

00:08:41.000 However, immigration without assimilation is an invasion. 0.94

00:08:47.000 And Maine is being invaded.

00:08:49.000 And my contention to you is take a page off of Donald Trump's book and do not seek to offend something.

00:09:00.000 But if and when you see something that is true, be unafraid to say it out loud.

00:09:05.000 It does not matter if the local newspaper is going to call you names.

00:09:08.000 For example, Somali immigrants are not making the state better. 1.00

00:09:12.000 They're not making you happier.

00:09:14.000 They're not making Portland safer.

00:09:15.000 I'm not a, I'm sure there's individually some really wonderful ones that you call neighbors and friends.

00:09:20.000 But the macro project, everybody, we know what's happening here.

00:09:24.000 Look at Minneapolis.

00:09:25.000 They're about to elect Omar Fatah as the mayor of Minneapolis.

00:09:29.000 Is Islam a main value?

00:09:32.000 Understand this, that a homeland is not a hotel.

00:09:37.000 This homeland has has to have a connection to your ancestry.

00:09:41.000 For those of you where your ancestors fought and died and gave so much for this state, all of a sudden have your leaders give up and be like, well, you know, we're a 98% white state.

00:09:50.000 Therefore, we must be racist and we want to bring it down to a 91% white state. 0.79

00:09:54.000 I'm sorry, wait a second. 1.00

00:09:56.000 Do you know how you know they're full of crap? 1.00

00:09:59.000 Because they all vacation here. 1.00

00:10:02.000 They go to Kenny Bunkport.

00:10:03.000 They go to Northeast Harbor.

00:10:05.000 They go to Bar Harbor.

00:10:06.000 Oh, wait, so I hope I get this straight. 0.99

00:10:08.000 you're okay, you elite master of the universe, that calls you racist, you're okay vacationing in Kennebunkport, call Screw you, that's evil actually. 1.00

00:10:25.000 And that's disgusting. 1.00

00:10:27.000 And it is deteriorating the fabric of your state.

00:10:31.000 And so what is now, I feel as if there is this pent up demand because there's like this over political correctness.

00:10:40.000 And that's not who you guys are as Mayners. 0.99

00:10:42.000 You guys tell it like it is.

00:10:45.000 You guys are hard people.

00:10:46.000 This is not like WASPy Hamptons, okay? 0.72

00:10:51.000 Where everyone, you kind of like have this like passive aggressive political.

00:10:55.000 correctness.

00:10:55.000 You know what I mean?

00:10:56.000 Like, oh yes, you know, the local city is looking a lot different.

00:10:59.000 You guys are Maineers.

00:11:01.000 Tell it like it is.

00:11:02.000 Get to the heart of the matter.

00:11:04.000 Why are you living under this coastal left-wing paradigm, which is suicide by immigration?

00:11:12.000 And if you don't believe me, then I mean, I'm sure you do, but the media who's covering this, I hope they write this up, because you know what they'll say?

00:11:18.000 Charlie Kirk's racist xenophobia, that doesn't work anymore.

00:11:22.000 2016 wants their talking points back.

00:11:25.000 This is 2025.

00:11:27.000 Just calling me a racist doesn't mean I'm going to stop saying it.

00:11:30.000 And when you look at what ends up happen happening, the scams that are being run, the pay for phone scams in Lewiston, the drug operations by the Chinese nationals, the Dominicans that are running. 0.91

00:11:42.000 You say to us, wait, what are we really doing here?

00:11:45.000 And it's so clear that they have contempt for you, the native population of Maine, they have contempt for so many of you, and they want to replace you.

00:11:55.000 And they're trying to replace you by mass migration.

00:11:57.000 And it's time for you to say, hell no, we're not going to do that.

00:12:00.000 We're not going to put up with that.

00:12:02.000 Maine is for Maineers. 1.00

00:12:03.000 And if you are coming to this state and you're trying to bring your third world values into our home. 0.99

00:12:11.000 It's not xenophobic to say, you're not allowed into my home.

00:12:15.000 You lock your doors for a reason.

00:12:17.000 In fact, Maine used to be a place where you didn't have to lock your doors, right?

00:12:21.000 And some people now all of a sudden I hear stories like you have to all of a sudden call a locksmith for the first time in the family's generation, where all of a sudden you sleep a little bit less good at night because people all throughout Bangor are breaking into homes to go pay off their drug debt.

00:12:36.000 to go steal stuff so it has a massive increase in crime.

00:12:40.000 And then it's a cycle because then what happens?

00:12:42.000 Your most precious thing you have in the state is what?

00:12:45.000 Your young people.

00:12:45.000 And your young people say, forget this.

00:12:49.000 I'm going to Atlanta.

00:12:50.000 I'm going to Miami.

00:12:52.000 And how many, I'm sure you all know, bright, aspirational, wonderful young people that you wished would have stayed here in Maine?

00:12:59.000 They don't always come back.

00:13:01.000 That's not true.

00:13:03.000 They come back in the summer.

00:13:05.000 Exactly.

00:13:10.000 or they come back changed it's very simple this is not Republican or Democrat you want to create a Maine where a high schooler wants to build a life here and stay here.

00:13:20.000 You want to build a Maine where they're not going to graduate high school and flee to go to better opportunity.

00:13:25.000 They'll realize they live.

00:13:27.000 in heaven on earth and they want to fight like heck to preserve it and get married and have children.

00:13:32.000 You want to stop the outward exodus of this state, which is happening.

00:13:36.000 You know, you have the oldest state in the country.

00:13:39.000 I learned this earlier.

00:13:40.000 It's like 41 years old.

00:13:41.000 It's because so many young people leave.

00:13:44.000 And so the breakdown of what we are seeing, it's happening in real time, but it can be reversed.

00:13:50.000 And it can be reversed, of course, and it's so simple by having political leaders that are willing enough.

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00:15:05.000 I look at, you know, South Portland, Maine.

00:15:08.000 What was her name?

00:15:09.000 Dalaqua or something.

00:15:10.000 You know, she was the mayor. 1.00

00:15:12.000 And she might be a super sweet person and very charitable and nice, but that's not Maine.

00:15:17.000 That's something else.

00:15:19.000 And you can't go bring in a foreign population of a war-torn third world country and bring them in and have no, and even worse, have no expectation for assimilation. 0.97

00:15:28.000 That's the other problem with our immigration problem. 1.00

00:15:31.000 It's bad enough that we're bringing in people that have third world values and have no idea what's going on in the first world and they just signed up for government benefits like crazy. 1.00

00:15:38.000 And your governor Mills, by the way, I think is a traitor to this state and should we run out of the governor's mansion? 0.88

00:15:42.000 She's a disaster. 1.00

00:15:49.000 And I don't say that lightly.

00:15:51.000 She expanded all the government benefits for third worlders to make it even more attractive. 0.99

00:15:57.000 So for those of you that are paying taxes, you guys are suckers. 0.94

00:16:02.000 You are paying for someone that has no birthright here. 0.93

00:16:06.000 Now, it would be one thing if they all came and they said, you know what?

00:16:08.000 We're not going to take any government benefits.

00:16:10.000 That's not what's happening.

00:16:11.000 You know that's not what's happening.

00:16:13.000 The way immigration used to work in this country is we're going to learn the language, we're going to pledge fealty to America, we're going to quote unquote burn the boats, we're not going to send money home. 0.64

00:16:23.000 This is our home, this is our place.

00:16:25.000 Please welcome me, and I'm going to earn your trust.

00:16:28.000 That's how it used to be 100 years ago.

00:16:30.000 I'm going to earn your trust.

00:16:31.000 I'm going to work really hard so that you will end up liking me because you'll see my character.

00:16:36.000 And guess what?

00:16:37.000 We used to expect that out of our immigrants. 1.00

00:16:39.000 We used to say, you know what, if you want to come here, it's a high bar.

00:16:41.000 We have now brought the entire bar down.

00:16:44.000 And why is this happening?

00:16:45.000 And this is why these are two related.

00:16:47.000 Both of these colonization efforts of Maine are tied together because one allows the other. 0.98

00:16:52.000 Because white liberals, deep down, hate themselves. 0.99

00:16:55.000 And white liberals who hate themselves, they don't believe in Jesus. 0.98

00:16:59.000 By the way, the most important thing I'm going to tell you today is accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. 0.94

00:17:03.000 It's the most important thing you can do in your life.

00:17:05.000 And men.

00:17:08.000 Maine Maine church rates are not where they need to be.

00:17:12.000 You guys know that.

00:17:12.000 This is one of the lowest churched states in the country, so we got to improve that.

00:17:16.000 So you have white liberals who hate themselves. 0.99

00:17:18.000 They They don't believe in God. 0.99

00:17:19.000 They don't believe in any afterlife.

00:17:21.000 And so therefore, what is their theology?

00:17:24.000 Because everybody has a theology.

00:17:26.000 Everybody does, including self-prescribed atheists. 0.63

00:17:29.000 So white liberals in suburban Portland, and you know who I'm talking about, you know the type I'm talking about.

00:17:34.000 Yeah, this you listen to my show, that's great.

00:17:38.000 I call them the Subaru gang.

00:17:39.000 That's exactly right.

00:17:40.000 You know what I'm, no offense if you drive a Subaru, but you should probably make a different vehicular choice.

00:17:48.000 You know what I'm, I do call them, I use all sorts of fun coded.

00:17:51.000 I call them the Subaru gang.

00:17:55.000 And in some ways, you have to just an just analyze this from the outside.

00:17:58.000 They are deeply broken because they do not believe in a higher power.

00:18:03.000 So their theology, the modern world theology, is that God is just a guess and the worst thing you can do is judge and the worst sin you can commit is being a racist.

00:18:13.000 Therefore, if they believe the worst sin you can commit is a racist and they believe that being white itself is a racist, what then do you do religiously?

00:18:21.000 You go bring in a bunch of foreigners because you're atoning for your sin. 1.00

00:18:24.000 And that's exactly what's happening throughout the state.

00:18:26.000 You have a bunch of unchurched, godless white liberals that went to college and they have a bunch of money and they're super upset with their life and they're like, how do I find myself in the cosmos?

00:18:36.000 I know we're going to import fifty thousand people.

00:18:38.000 import 50,000 people from Mogadishu and I'll feel better about it. 0.95

00:18:40.000 And like diversity is our strength.

00:18:42.000 And guess what?

00:18:43.000 Many of the people that make these decisions are inoculated or they are immune from any of the consequences of the decisions they make.

00:18:52.000 They are always kind of, they're always partitioned off.

00:18:55.000 It's you that has to send your kids to school that is unrecognizable.

00:18:59.000 And then even more, so you have the third worldification. 0.96

00:19:02.000 Then on top of it, they're like, well, you know, Everybody, there is no such thing as objective truth.

00:19:08.000 Everybody has their own truth.

00:19:09.000 So if someone says that they're a boy, there says they're a girl, so be it. 0.99

00:19:13.000 And then you see the trans thing infected. 1.00

00:19:15.000 And this state is the meeting point of all that, but they made a big mistake with Maine is that you guys are not California.

00:19:23.000 You're not Massachusetts, and you are one candidate away.

00:19:27.000 You are one spark plug away of this state getting lit on fire.

00:19:31.000 Because the demographics of this state are still hardworking common sense people. 0.97

00:19:35.000 Yes, you have your psycho self hating liberals on the side.

00:19:39.000 That's not my experience. 0.99

00:19:40.000 The majority of this are normal Maineers.

00:19:42.000 Yeah, they're a little hard, a little rough, table manners, you know, are, but honestly, I like it because it's not fake, it's real.

00:19:53.000 And we need more of that.

00:19:54.000 It's real.

00:19:57.000 And so we're at this moment where a fuse could be lit.

00:20:04.000 And that is why the final thing I'll say, and then we'll do some questions, that's why they have to call you these names that we call thought terminating clichés.

00:20:12.000 Look what has happened when Trump started talking about mass immigration.

00:20:15.000 Other people were allowed to talk about it.

00:20:17.000 Other eyes were opened.

00:20:18.000 Look what's happened in the United Kingdom.

00:20:20.000 And I don't want to see Maine go the way of the UK.

00:20:22.000 Because I'll tell you right now, do I think America will go the way of the UK?

00:20:26.000 No.

00:20:27.000 I think, you know, Donald Trump's doing an amazing job.

00:20:29.000 We have the border secure deportations.

00:20:31.000 But I think Maine could.

00:20:32.000 I'm just being honest.

00:20:35.000 I think that your leaders are so self-hating, so self-loathing, have such contempt for you.

00:20:42.000 They hate your history.

00:20:43.000 I mean, the involvement of Maineers in the American Civil War, in the Revolutionary War, it's heroic.

00:20:51.000 And you do not have a people, as was said earlier, if you don't have a history.

00:20:56.000 Your ancestry is not something that you just study.

00:20:59.000 Your ancestry points to your future.

00:21:01.000 And that is what your country is all about, not just the colony.

00:21:05.000 And that's the place I want to be part of.

00:21:07.000 And that's why Maine sticks out like a sore thumb on the entire national project in a good way.

00:21:12.000 Because I think they've picked a fight with the wrong state.

00:21:15.000 And no one's really put this together yet.

00:21:17.000 But if you've been here for more than a couple generations, you should be a little bitter that someone that has never been here can just cut in line and get a bunch of government benefits that you pay for, lie about it, scam it, commit crimes, and not report it to the police.

00:21:29.000 That should bother you.

00:21:31.000 Because they haven't done any of the work to be here.

00:21:34.000 and it's a violation of the social compactness the social contract and so that's where the thought police comes in because they know how powerful what I'm saying is right they know that what I'm saying right now would resonate with like 90 percent of Mayners.

00:21:50.000 That's why they have to make sure no one says it.

00:21:52.000 They're going to call you a racist.

00:21:53.000 They're going to pick it outside of your home.

00:21:55.000 They're going to follow you in the streets.

00:21:56.000 They're going to do whatever you have to do.

00:21:59.000 But I don't think that's going to work once we hit a critical mass in this state.

00:22:04.000 And it all ties into things are getting more expensive.

00:22:07.000 Well, I wonder why things are getting more expensive.

00:22:09.000 You're buying, you know, retired Air Force bases or military bases.

00:22:12.000 You know, we were talking about earlier.

00:22:14.000 All of a sudden you build 300 housing units and every single one of them is Somalis. 0.85

00:22:18.000 And by the way, I'm not against any person individually.

00:22:22.000 What I will say though is that you haven't really demonstrated that you can make Somalia great.

00:22:28.000 So I'm a little bit, Let's just say not one over.

00:22:32.000 I'm a little bit unconvinced you can make Portland great if you can't make Mogadishu great. 0.96

00:22:38.000 Thank you.

00:22:45.000 And if you want to call me a name for saying that, it's true.

00:22:49.000 It is a third world nation.

00:22:51.000 And when you have a third world nation and you throw them into a first world nation, they don't really know how to deal with it. 1.00

00:22:57.000 Oh, free stuff?

00:22:57.000 Sure, I'll take free stuff.

00:22:59.000 Delayed ratification built the West, and Somalia has not believed it. 0.97

00:23:03.000 It's a terribly war-torn country.

00:23:04.000 And you don't have to take my word for it.

00:23:06.000 Elon Omar is not obviously from the state, but she is part of the entire Somali project.

00:23:12.000 And that comes with the final thing.

00:23:14.000 What is it that we are fighting for?

00:23:16.000 We should tell our young people, we should challenge our young people, hey, instead of taking the easy way and getting some dumb finance job in New York City where you can stare at a screen all day long, stay in Maine and be part of a new founding generation to get married and have children.

00:23:30.000 Go do something hard and challenging that the history books will remember you as one that reversed this downward trend.

00:23:37.000 Because you guys know Maine is in a spiral right now, largely supported by tourism, federal money and a couple big employers, right?

00:23:45.000 And you're in that kind of spir spiral, but a generation that says, no, we want to live here and we want to build a future here, but it starts with a complete and total wholesale cultural change.

00:23:57.000 I'll close with this, and then we will do some questions.

00:24:00.000 The country at large right now is, I think, finally got its mojo back.

00:24:04.000 There's a lot of things that we need to do better, a lot of things that I think we're on pace for.

00:24:09.000 I love the no tax on tips.

00:24:11.000 I love the no tax on overtime.

00:24:12.000 I love the new ICE investment that we get from President Donald Trump.

00:24:16.000 I love the fact that President Trump finally stands up for the United States.

00:24:18.000 Some of these trade deals, by the way, benefit Maine.

00:24:21.000 They're going to buy our lobster now in the European Union.

00:24:23.000 Very important.

00:24:24.000 It's big deal.

00:24:26.000 so there's a lot of good happening but we have to look at this even bigger that there is a concerted effort happening in every western every western country and especially here in Maine to displace the native population make you feel bad about it if you do not cheerlead it every single step of the way silence you if you dare notice it and then you basically have to become the underclass In Deuteronomy 28,

00:24:54.000 one of the last things that Moses said before the God's chosen people entered the promised land, he said, be careful who you allow into the nation of Israel, into the promised land.

00:25:03.000 land because the foreigners will soon become your masters. 1.00

00:25:06.000 Everybody, I think every Maynard should commit that verse to memory and have the courage and the conviction to speak out, which is obviously a third world colonization project of this beautiful state.

00:25:17.000 Thank you guys so much.

00:25:18.000 And let's do some questions.

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00:26:11.000 Fantastic.

00:26:11.000 Thank you very much, Charlie.

00:26:12.000 That was very well, very well taken.

00:26:15.000 And it's interesting because I was reading a press herald article.

00:26:19.000 condemning a candidate for governor for commenting on a Somali refugee turned politician who has said herself that she should be putting Somalia first.

00:26:30.000 And I can't help but take a shot at the Press Herald, our competition here in the state.

00:26:35.000 But thank you, everybody, for submitting questions as well.

00:26:38.000 So I'll go through some of these.

00:26:40.000 The first one, I think, is something you've talked about before.

00:26:45.000 Generally, what is going on with Jeff Epstein, the Trump administration, Pam Bondi?

00:26:52.000 Oh boy.

00:26:53.000 Well, look, I will say I'm very encouraged that the Trump administration is moving to unseal the grand jury testimony documents, that they're moving to unseal stuff in Florida and in New York.

00:27:05.000 I got it.

00:27:05.000 I hear you.

00:27:06.000 I'm also very encouraged that Glaine Maxwell will be speaking.

00:27:10.000 I don't think she should get a pardon in it.

00:27:11.000 But look, I said it earlier.

00:27:13.000 I said, I want to see what's in there.

00:27:14.000 The Trump administration, right?

00:27:16.000 That's their it's their prerogative, their directive to like look in, not just look into this, but to act how they see fit.

00:27:23.000 But let me take a step back and explain why people care about this, if that's okay.

00:27:27.000 Because there's been some confusion.

00:27:28.000 Like, Charlie, why do you talk about it?

00:27:30.000 Why do you care about it?

00:27:31.000 Well, the reason why regular American people care about the Epstein story and why people are so animated about this this.

00:27:39.000 It's not the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was a child pedophile, which does matter.

00:27:45.000 Instead, he is a proxy and he is a fill in for a ruling class that is never held accountable.

00:27:51.000 While every single one of you has to live by the rules, and there is an untouchable class that is able to be exempt from all of that.

00:27:59.000 People care about the Epstein story because he is a fill in also for the same economic populism that drove the Trump movement.

00:28:09.000 It feels as if that no matter what the ruling class does, whatever the oligarchy does, they get away with it.

00:28:16.000 And so here you have a pedophile that was probably working for one if not many intelligence agencies, right?

00:28:24.000 Definitely was working for foreign intelligence, maybe Mossad, maybe Saudi, maybe MIC, whatever, maybe CIA.

00:28:30.000 It doesn't matter as much, but probably a freelancer.

00:28:32.000 But most importantly, this guy got unusually rich, was totally untouchable, and did stuff that was unspeakable.

00:28:40.000 But also the people around him did unspeakable things, right?

00:28:44.000 Bill Clinton, and who else?

00:28:45.000 Now I will say this.

00:28:46.000 George Mitchell.

00:28:47.000 Yeah, and no, yes.

00:28:48.000 And I will defend, I'm going to defend Donald Trump on this because some people say, oh, he's in the Epstein files.

00:28:53.000 Like, yeah, he probably is, but not.

00:28:55.000 in a criminal way. 0.97

00:28:56.000 Understand, Donald Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his club for being a total perv.

00:29:00.000 Donald Trump lived as a socialite in Manhattan and Maralaga many years prior.

00:29:05.000 They had a huge falling out.

00:29:07.000 So I don't for a second think that Donald Trump was into that kind of weird sex stuff that Jeffrey Epstein was in.

00:29:12.000 Donald Trump definitely has some documented sins over the last couple of decades.

00:29:17.000 That is not one of them.

00:29:18.000 And I think we should push back against anyone that is insinuating on that. 0.99

00:29:21.000 I think it's total garbage. 0.51

00:29:22.000 The final thing I will say though, the President Trump did say this, which is that I want to see all the information and I think everyone should. 0.97

00:29:29.000 However, we should be cautious that the people that were in the prior administration might have done some things like the Wall Street Journal piece that we saw of some fake stuff against Donald Trump that could be used against him.

00:29:40.000 So I think we should proceed with some caution in that way.

00:29:43.000 But honestly, I look at the Epstein story as a fill in of a ruling class of a governing elite that is never held accountable, that has never been prosecuted, and I want to learn as much about it as I possibly can.

00:29:54.000 Thank you.

00:30:01.000 So in your recent podcast with Tucker Carlson, which everybody should go listen to that as well, you were critical of conservatives in this kind of knee-jerk embrace of capitalism, free markets, almost a worship of corporations as if they can do no wrong.

00:30:20.000 I thought that was a very enlightened, poignant criticism.

00:30:24.000 Are there other things that you think are shibbolists for conservatives that are holding us back?

00:30:29.000 Are there other areas where you think conservatives should maybe stop defending certain practices or certain elements of the ideology that have been around since the Reagan era, for example?

00:30:44.000 I'll think of two.

00:30:44.000 The first of which is there is a push by some in the Republican Part Party to stop talking about social issues.

00:30:51.000 Now I know in Maine this might be very bowten because this state seems to be socially liberal and like extremely pro abortion.

00:30:59.000 At least your Susan Collins votes that way. 1.00

00:31:02.000 I don't know.

00:31:02.000 I actually defend Susan Collins a lot and I think you guys should vote for her.

00:31:05.000 I say that non sarcastically because I actually think it's much better than a Democrat and I actually get in trouble for defending her.

00:31:12.000 And so I want that to be on the record.

00:31:14.000 And she has been there when we need her for high stakes votes, but that's a whole separate.

00:31:18.000 And there's a lot of voting trading there.

00:31:20.000 Do I agree with everything she says?

00:31:22.000 Of course not.

00:31:22.000 But she represents Maine, right, not Mississippi.

00:31:25.000 And that you have to remember that.

00:31:27.000 Now, I think though that we as conservatives, we have to understand that what we are at our core is that we want big families and small government.

00:31:37.000 And the other side want big government and really small families or no families at all.

00:31:43.000 If we do not support a family policy, which is marriage between a man and a woman, pro-life policies against all this trans stuff and make it easier to have kids, then what are we actually as conservatives? 0.94

00:31:55.000 And I think we need to realize that we have a declining fertility rate.

00:31:59.000 We have a declining marriage rate.

00:32:00.000 I can tell you as someone who's trying my best to reverse the fertility rate here in the West, we have two kids and we're not slowing down.

00:32:07.000 Having children is the most important way to brag about your sex life. 0.97

00:32:11.000 Exactly.

00:32:12.000 Exactly.

00:32:13.000 And so I can, I can, I just want to reiterate though that when we're trying to present a future for our children, it's not about making money.

00:32:23.000 Not being poor is really great.

00:32:26.000 Not having debt is really great.

00:32:28.000 Once you reach a certain threshold, that's not what gets you happiness.

00:32:31.000 It's not.

00:32:31.000 In fact, super rich people tend to be very miserable and very paranoid.

00:32:36.000 because they're like always thinking they're going to lose their money.

00:32:38.000 So not being poor is awesome.

00:32:40.000 Not being debt is great.

00:32:41.000 Being able to pay things for cash is amazing.

00:32:43.000 But the most precious thing is to have children.

00:32:46.000 And that's why we are here, to have children.

00:32:49.000 And so I think we need to talk about that more.

00:32:51.000 And the second of which, again, I don't know how much we want to talk about this, but I would say that I think Donald Trump has done a great service on his recalibration of the trade policies, that we need to put American workers first, and shipping jobs overseas through NAFTA or through Chinese trade deals has been a disaster for the people of this country.

00:33:14.000 Well, this next question kind of relates to that one.

00:33:18.000 Somebody asks, what should a college-age woman pursue if her goal is to someday be a wife and a mother as an alternative to an expensive degree and still have the skills to support themselves while single and waiting for love?

00:33:33.000 Yeah, it's a great question.

00:33:34.000 So I'm one of the few people that has a good answer to this because I'm willing to say what everyone is thinking on this, which is this, which first and foremost, that if the most important thing or the more important thing is family over career, then you need to say that and state it and write it down.

00:33:54.000 Now, if career is more important than family for you, you have the agency to do that.

00:33:57.000 I think you might want to second guess that a little bit and think about it and pray about it.

00:34:02.000 But some women. 1.00

00:34:03.000 end up being career driven and that's what they want to do and they live a fulfilled life most women cannot or do not want to do that deep down most women have a biological urge and need to get married and have children so therefore if you want to meet a good man where do you to go well i encourage you to go to an sec school and get an mrs degree and an mrs degree it's misses degree if you know mrs and again people say oh that's so mean if you say wait a second If we all agree children's the most important thing, 0.92

00:34:31.000 getting married is a covenant in front of God.

00:34:34.000 Wouldn't you prioritize that above becoming the CEO of a shoe company?

00:34:38.000 And what better place to meet a husband And you think I'm kidding, but what we have, what we've done is we've said, oh no, no, college is not for that.

00:34:53.000 And now our marriage rates are low, our birth rate is low, and we have a whole generation, the least married generation in American history.

00:34:59.000 So what I think we should do, we should celebrate young ladies to go to college to get skills, but also to find a husband.

00:35:06.000 What could be more important than that?

00:35:07.000 By the way, that's what happened in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

00:35:11.000 Ladies would go to college, they would find a husband, and it worked. 1.00

00:35:14.000 The fertility rate was going up or at least was stable.

00:35:17.000 I'm not kiddinging them that way, but the secondary point, and I'll say just with this, if you want to get skills, then you could also get that while you're in college.

00:35:25.000 What we have to do though is we have to push for marriage to be younger.

00:35:29.000 We are getting married too late.

00:35:31.000 When you get married too late, birth rates go down.

00:35:33.000 Everybody, we are at extinction levels in this country, and you are at mass extinction levels in this state, like horrifyingly low replacement numbers of births, right?

00:35:43.000 Am I correct, Stephen?

00:35:45.000 Last year, there were 33 births per day in Maine in a state of 1.4 million.

00:35:51.000 That is like, that's catastrophically.

00:35:53.000 46% off replacement rate.

00:35:55.000 And that includes, by the way, the Somali population.

00:35:59.000 Yeah.

00:36:00.000 So that is so catastrophically low that we need to have a whole reconsideration of what matters.

00:36:08.000 And so all I'm saying is that if family matters, prioritize it early, find a husband. 0.59

00:36:13.000 And I joke around at the SEC school because, look, if you go to University of May, half the guys are gay and they're not going to date you.

00:36:20.000 And the UMO. 0.84

00:36:23.000 Am I right?

00:36:24.000 They're nodding along.

00:36:25.000 Yeah.

00:36:27.000 And no, literally at Brown University, they said that 45% of the men were like bisexual or gay.

00:36:34.000 So it might not be half, like 30%, right?

00:36:37.000 Ish?

00:36:38.000 Pretty close.

00:36:39.000 These are University of Maine, you know?

00:36:41.000 Yeah, I think they're pretty close.

00:36:43.000 So go to University of Georgia, find your future husband, and then come back to Maine with your husband and have lots of children.

00:36:52.000 Thank you.

00:37:00.000 So this question is kind of related.

00:37:02.000 What did you think about the American Eagle ad with Sidney Sweeney?

00:37:08.000 Well, it's not Nazi propaganda, but I will say, look, I found nothing wrong with it. 0.99

00:37:14.000 I will say the one thing I would caution us Christians.

00:37:17.000 That ad is definitely more lustful than we should probably support.

00:37:22.000 Is it Nazi propaganda?

00:37:23.000 Of course not.

00:37:24.000 Is it funny?

00:37:25.000 Yes.

00:37:26.000 Do some people have good genes both literally and yes.

00:37:30.000 But I will say though, I think Ali B. Stuckey had a wonderful statement on this, which is that we should caution ourselves saying that was probably too lustful for what we would consider to be like an ideal ad.

00:37:41.000 I tend to agree.

00:37:43.000 I think that there's too much skin being shown in movies, TV shows, social media.

00:37:48.000 I think we should bring back piety.

00:37:50.000 But look, I'm not trying to be the moral police here.

00:37:53.000 I found nothing necessarily wrong with it.

00:37:55.000 instead the left's reaction to it.

00:37:58.000 So they called it Nazi propaganda.

00:38:00.000 And I was like, okay, do you want to know why young men are moving to the right?

00:38:06.000 You are calling the supermodel of their generation, their Brooke Shields, right?

00:38:11.000 They're Cathy Ireland, if you guys are kind of going back in time, right?

00:38:14.000 You know, they're Farrah Fawcett, okay?

00:38:17.000 Right?

00:38:19.000 Imagine someone calling Farrah Fawcett a Nazi propagandist.

00:38:23.000 You would like to revolt.

00:38:24.000 You would go to the streets.

00:38:26.000 So you want it every time that they call Sidney Sweeney a Nazi, another young man registers as a Republican.

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00:39:29.000 So this question relates to a subject you touched on earlier, Maine being one of the least churched states.

00:39:35.000 But even with that, there's a lack of turnout.

00:39:40.000 There's Christian voter apathy in the state of Maine.

00:39:43.000 So how does the church community, the Christian community in a state like Maine, how do you solve the problem of Christian voter apathy where Christians believe like people in this room but have just kind of given up on politics.

00:39:56.000 It's a great question.

00:39:57.000 First, I thought you were going to say, how do I solve a problem like Maria?

00:40:01.000 But that's a separate issue.

00:40:02.000 So sorry.

00:40:05.000 Ken Graves is a great pastor and banger. 0.98

00:40:08.000 I don't know if you know Ken or not.

00:40:09.000 He's phenomenal.

00:40:10.000 So I just want to shout him out.

00:40:12.000 Calvary Chapel, banger, Maine.

00:40:14.000 Bangor.

00:40:16.000 Bangor.

00:40:18.000 I think I said it right in my speech.

00:40:19.000 I felt wrong.

00:40:20.000 So bangor, right?

00:40:22.000 All right.

00:40:22.000 Thank you.

00:40:23.000 Great.

00:40:24.000 I will say it is the home of Stephen King.

00:40:25.000 So I'm not totally crazy about that.

00:40:27.000 Am I right?

00:40:27.000 He lives there.

00:40:29.000 He pretends to live there.

00:40:30.000 He actually lives on Keyser Lake in a different manner.

00:40:32.000 Really?

00:40:33.000 Okay.

00:40:33.000 Got it.

00:40:34.000 So, but Ken Graves is a phenomenal person.

00:40:37.000 So look, this state, when it's not summer, it seems to have a different energy to it.

00:40:45.000 I think you guys would agree.

00:40:46.000 Depression is widespread in this state.

00:40:49.000 Part of it, I think, is just seasonal depression.

00:40:51.000 I hate to be like overly simple, but we don't see the sun for four months out of the year.

00:40:55.000 That does something to your soul, right?

00:40:57.000 something to your character, but However, I will say this, though.

00:41:04.000 This state is in more need of a Christian revival and the gospel more than almost any state that I visit in the country, right?

00:41:11.000 And so, and I think a hot gospel, the truth of Jesus Christ is so necessary here.

00:41:20.000 So we need more pastors that will be unafraid to teach the gospel properly, verse by verse, chapter by chapter.

00:41:26.000 But your question was about political engagement, which is that if you are a pastor of a church, and we're trying to fix this at TPUSA Faith, if you're a pastor of a church, And if you're not, for example, let's say you're pastor in Portland, okay?

00:41:39.000 And if you're not speaking out about the fact that men are in female sports, you are not doing your job as a pastor.

00:41:46.000 You're failing as a pastor.

00:41:49.000 And that's where a lot of you also come in.

00:41:54.000 If your pastor's at, you need to challenge your pastor or find a new church.

00:41:58.000 You need to find churches and tithe the churches and go to churches that reflect biblical values.

00:42:04.000 The church is not supposed to be an isolated, walled off, partitioned off entity that does not come in contact with culture.

00:42:11.000 Christ our Lord talked about salt and light.

00:42:14.000 Salt and light change the environment that they come in contact with.

00:42:18.000 And so we need pastors that are saying, hey, we're going to try to take over school boards.

00:42:22.000 Or at the very least, we're going to talk about what's happeninging in our school boards.

00:42:26.000 It's wrong that this state believes in abortion, and let me tell you why.

00:42:29.000 It's wrong that we have men in locker rooms, and let me tell you why.

00:42:33.000 It's wrong that we're importing third worlders into Portland, and let me tell you why. 1.00

00:42:38.000 So we need a whole reconsideration, a whole revival of what the church actually is and what the church stands for.

00:42:46.000 And the church should be the ecclesia as it says in the Scriptures.

00:42:49.000 And so I think that there will be a move of God in this state.

00:42:54.000 I believe it.

00:42:55.000 Keep praying for it.

00:42:56.000 Keep looking out for it.

00:42:57.000 All it will take is a couple of pastors, a couple of truth tellers.

00:43:00.000 Because here's the good news, everybody.

00:43:02.000 Gen Z is the most Christian generation that we have seen since Billy Graham.

00:43:06.000 Let me repeat that.

00:43:09.000 The most popular music streamed on Apple Music is disproportionately Christian music by like Forrest Frank and by a lot of the right, the young people would agree. 0.91

00:43:20.000 This generation is going back to the divine.

00:43:23.000 They're going back and yes, Christ is king.

00:43:25.000 That is exactly right.

00:43:27.000 Going back to the fundamental truths that built not just civilization, but actually matter.

00:43:33.000 Why is that?

00:43:35.000 Because they saw the darkness and the emptiness of mask mandates, vaccine mandates, school mandates.

00:43:40.000 school closures of wokeism and they say enough of this modernity I don't like this false theology and this religion I want to find the real thing Gen Z is looking higher they're looking up which honestly is the greatest of all the trends happening right now in this country All right,

00:44:06.000 the next question is, what is the biggest problem facing the conservative movement?

00:44:13.000 Well, the biggest problem first initially will be how do we keep this energy post Trump.

00:44:20.000 And I think we're starting to figure that out.

00:44:22.000 I'm a big JD Vance fan, by the way.

00:44:23.000 I think JD is amazing.

00:44:24.000 Don't we love JD everybody?

00:44:26.000 I'm a big JD guy.

00:44:28.000 And so he's a he's a he's a dear close personal friend.

00:44:34.000 Is that his birthday today?

00:44:35.000 I'm I'll give him a call later.

00:44:37.000 Wish him happy birthday.

00:44:39.000 Thank you for reminding me.

00:44:42.000 I'll also say the conservative movement is going to have to decide what it believes on foreign policy.

00:44:50.000 This is not necessarily happening with the over fifty crowd, but the under fifty crowd, would you agree?

00:44:57.000 It is the number one thing of how we view Israel, how we view foreign conflicts.

00:45:02.000 And I know there's a lot of mixed opinions on that.

00:45:05.000 I tend to try to bring different viewpoints together on my show and our events to try to find some similarity.

00:45:11.000 I think we should stop sending foreign aid to every single country while we're 37 trillion dollars in debt.

00:45:16.000 That's just my view.

00:45:18.000 At the same time, I can rip up that question.

00:45:22.000 Somebody asked, should we send foreign aid?

00:45:24.000 Yeah, no, I think we should spend all foreign aid, including to Israel, every country, because we're a nation in debt.

00:45:29.000 By the way, BB Netanyahu says we want to stop receiving aid from America because it's hurting us.

00:45:34.000 So you can make an argument.

00:45:34.000 It's actually in Israel's, it's in, it's in their favor.

00:45:37.000 But beyond that, like we're a nation that's in debt, that doesn't have its priorities straight.

00:45:41.000 So I think the younger generation believes that.

00:45:42.000 But at the same time, I don't think people in this audience would tend to want us to be isolationist.

00:45:47.000 I don't think necessarily people want us to have no rule.

00:45:49.000 I think we want to be America first, but not America only.

00:45:52.000 And look, Donald Trump, I had my concerns.

00:45:55.000 I had my skepticism.

00:45:56.000 But the moment he authorized it, I got behind him.

00:45:59.000 And I listed out all the ways this could have went wrong.

00:46:01.000 But President Trump, without losing a single U.S. troop, without no endless war, you know, was able to fly B-2 bombers from Missouri all the way to Iran and back, take out Iran's nuclear capabilities for the time being.

00:46:15.000 And honestly, that's a new doctrine that isn't like permanent war and it's not total retreat and isolationism.

00:46:21.000 And I think that's a really good way forward that a lot of us can be, you know, strong military against our enemies while not getting into endless permanent quagmires.

00:46:29.000 So I think we have to figure that out because there is a bubbling up collision point happening on foreign policy.

00:46:36.000 But I think President Trump is demonstrating a very successful third way forward.

00:46:47.000 So this next question is about legal immigration and it's from the author expressed some frustration with the process of bringing a spouse in through the legal immigration system.

00:46:58.000 What are your thoughts on our legal immigration system?

00:47:01.000 Should it be reformed?

00:47:02.000 Should it be streamlined?

00:47:04.000 And just generally, you know, how should we approach legal immigration as opposed to the flood of fake asylum seekers coming over the border and up to Maine?

00:47:13.000 It's a great question.

00:47:14.000 So first, I mean, we have to ask ourselves the question, what is immigration?

00:47:17.000 Immigration needs to be an additive and a force multiplier to your homeland, period. 1.00

00:47:21.000 It is not a charity case.

00:47:23.000 It's not a feel good thing.

00:47:24.000 It needs to be, does it benefit your homeland?

00:47:26.000 And legal immigration can, but currently isn't benefiting the United States.

00:47:31.000 First of all, we have this H1B scam, which is basically firing American workers so foreign tech workers can come and take computer science jobs from our own graduates. 0.71

00:47:40.000 H1B is a huge scam that is happening right now.

00:47:44.000 But I'm of the opinion, and people don't always agree, I think we should shut off all immigration right now, legal and illegal, because we are a packed, crowded country. 1.00

00:47:52.000 Housing prices are too high.

00:47:54.000 We do not have a lack of people problem.

00:47:55.000 Now, I could probably carve out a couple hundred visas a year for geniuses.

00:48:00.000 I think if there's like a super genius, I think that there's a place for that, right?

00:48:03.000 You know, if there is, you know, the next, you know, the next yo-yo ma, you know, or the next, you know, person that's mapping the human genome.?

00:48:11.000 Elon Musk.

00:48:11.000 Yeah, Elon, sure.

00:48:12.000 Like someone that really brings value.

00:48:14.000 But what I think we need to stop and reconsider is a million.

00:48:19.000 So just so you know, we have 1.5 million legal people coming in the country every year.

00:48:25.000 And we're a little crowded right now.

00:48:27.000 Our infrastructures are being strained, our hospitals are being strained, our schools are being strained.

00:48:32.000 And what we have not done is we have not paused and then reconsidered what's best for the homeland.

00:48:37.000 One of my favorite presidents and who I think is the best president of the 20th century, and it's a very provocative take, is Dwight D. Eisenhower.

00:48:46.000 I like him better than Reagan.

00:48:47.000 I like Reagan.

00:48:48.000 The reason is he was a supranationalist.

00:48:50.000 He was able to keep the country together in a postwar period and really built the superpower that we still enjoy to this day.

00:48:56.000 But he had no immigration basically for eight years.

00:48:58.000 He shut off basically all immigration into the United States.

00:49:01.000 Because, you know, he said it's like, look, we have a moral obligation to World War two veterans to put them first.

00:49:06.000 Now, mind you, Europe was in tatters.

00:49:08.000 But at the same time, think about how much leadership that took for Eisenhower to not take European refugees after World War two.

00:49:17.000 So there were millions of people from Europe after Dresden, after Paris, they wanted to come to America.

00:49:22.000 Eisenhower said, we'll help you rebuild your country, but we need to build our country.

00:49:26.000 I think that's a really good attitude our leaders need to have.

00:49:29.000 And we have far too often been led to believe, like, well, we're a nation of immigrants.

00:49:35.000 Well, first we're a nation of settlers.

00:49:38.000 Maine was built by settlers, not by immigrants.

00:49:41.000 When the people first came to this state, it was a barren, uncivilized land.

00:49:46.000 Yes, there were indigenous people, but it wasn't there were not buildings and running water and, you know, churches and town centers.

00:49:52.000 We forgot to do our land acknowledgement in running of this event.

00:49:56.000 What about the land acknowledgement to the white Christians that came here five hundred years ago?

00:49:59.000 Thank you, by the way, for building Maine into a wonderful state.

00:50:03.000 Oh, you're not allowed to say that because you're racist. 0.99

00:50:05.000 Okay, it's ridiculous. 0.99

00:50:07.000 So anyway. 0.76

00:50:08.000 i think we shut off all immigration and until we figure out what the heck is going on uh how do we How do we approach the issue of pornography addiction in young teens in America?

00:50:23.000 Yeah, it's a major problem.

00:50:24.000 And it's also a problem in our churches, by the way, and a problem with our pastors.

00:50:28.000 Huge problem.

00:50:30.000 I'm not quick to ban things because I'm not a leftist, so I don't love banning stuff.

00:50:34.000 You can make a good argument though that pornography, the negatives far outweigh any of the positives.

00:50:40.000 And like honestly, what is the positive of pornography?

00:50:42.000 Like what someone can make that argument.

00:50:45.000 I think a great way to start is to follow Texas example.

00:50:48.000 Texas, they issued an age authorization portal.

00:50:52.000 You just have to prove you're 18 years old and porn rates went down significantly.

00:50:56.000 Turns out people feel a little shame even when you're 36 years old to put in your driver's license, go watch porn.

00:51:02.000 And guess what?

00:51:03.000 The birth rate went up, believe it or not.

00:51:08.000 And so I, again, I don't want to shame if you're struggling with pornography.

00:51:13.000 I certainly have in a previous part of my life.

00:51:16.000 I get it.

00:51:16.000 It's very addictive.

00:51:19.000 It's put in a way to try to wire the dopamine circuitry in your brain to keep on going back to the source, but at least I think we can have a national consensus that we need to make it almost impossible for a 14-year-old to be able to view graphic pornography.

00:51:35.000 There's something deeply wrong.

00:51:37.000 If you're 38 years old and you want to do that, I don't think we should glorify it.

00:51:40.000 I don't think we should make it easy.

00:51:42.000 Should we ban it?

00:51:43.000 Nah, maybe, maybe probably, but it would be difficult through the courts.

00:51:48.000 But I think we can have a national rallying cry that we need to make it so hard for teenagers to get access to graphic pornography.

00:51:55.000 It's ruining their dating life.

00:51:57.000 It's ruining their interaction with other women.

00:51:59.000 It's creating men that wall themselves off from real life interactions.

00:52:03.000 They have unreal expectations for men and for women.

00:52:06.000 It's really bad.

00:52:07.000 I think it's demonic at its core.

00:52:10.000 It is in Mark 722.

00:52:12.000 It's the word pornia.

00:52:13.000 It's actually where we get the word pornography from, pornia, which is sexual immorality. 0.88

00:52:17.000 We are now seeing infect the entire country and world.

00:52:20.000 And I think there is a place for public policy and for laws to make it much harder and also impossible as much as we can for younger people.

00:52:28.000 Less porn, more babies.

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00:53:36.000 I love these questions.

00:53:37.000 These are great, right?

00:53:38.000 These are terrific.

00:53:39.000 On Tucker the other day, you mentioned an anti-Teddy Roosevelt brand of conservative.

00:53:45.000 Could you build out that argument more and weigh in on that?

00:53:49.000 Just explain more of what you were talking about then.

00:53:51.000 Yeah.

00:53:51.000 So someone who I really respect and who I call a friend, Glenn Beck, who I really like, he wrote a whole.

00:53:57.000 book basically against Teddy Roosevelt.

00:53:59.000 And again, I'm not attacking Glenn Beck.

00:54:02.000 We just have a disagreement here.

00:54:04.000 Glenn Beck comes from a school of thought that Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive, and he was in some ways.

00:54:09.000 I'm actually a huge Teddy Roosevelt fan.

00:54:11.000 I think Teddy Roosevelt is awesome.

00:54:14.000 I don't want to bore the audience on like abstract historical stuff.

00:54:17.000 But Teddy Roosevelt used prudence and courage and boldness to actually interestingly restrain the Titans that used to vacation here in the state, like the Rockefellers. 0.99

00:54:29.000 from basically creating a permanent oligarchy.

00:54:33.000 And you could actually argue Teddy Roosevelt saved 20th century capitalism because what we had is a rush of people from the farms to the factories and it was so disordered that Teddy Roosevelt brought some harmony to it that actually built the American middle class throughout the 1910s and 1920s.

00:54:51.000 So I'm a huge Teddy Roosevelt fan.

00:54:53.000 There are some in the Republican Party that says, no, he started the progressive movement.

00:54:56.000 I would actually say the real progressive author was Woodrow Wilson, who was the president of Princeton University, governor of New Jersey, won only because of a plurality of the vote.

00:55:06.000 The worst thing Teddy Roosevelt actually did was run for president in 1912 in the Bull Moose Party because we had William Howard Taft, we had Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt.

00:55:15.000 So Woodrow Wilson was able to become president by getting like 38%, 40% of the vote.

00:55:20.000 And Woodrow Wilson was a nightmare, right? 0.97

00:55:22.000 Also a huge racist. 0.99

00:55:23.000 Yeah, actually. 0.97

00:55:24.000 Like actual racist, right?

00:55:26.000 He was a eugenicist, right?

00:55:28.000 And so Woodrow Wilson gave us the income tax, gave us the Federal Reserve Act, tried the League of Nations.

00:55:34.000 We should end the Fed.

00:55:35.000 My good Ron Paul fans out there, right?

00:55:39.000 So all of that combined together, I think we can look to Teddy Roosevelt as a model.

00:55:44.000 as someone who shed orthodoxies of both parties and did one thing, what is best for the people of the United States of America.

00:55:51.000 Teddy Roosevelt gave us our national parks.

00:55:53.000 Teddy Roosevelt ended ended wars.

00:55:55.000 He was also a man's man.

00:55:57.000 He was a hunter.

00:55:58.000 He was a fisherman.

00:55:59.000 He was an outdoorsman and a legend.

00:56:02.000 and I think we can learn a lot from them.

00:56:10.000 So you obviously spend a lot of time on college campuses.

00:56:13.000 So this is a question that's right up your alley.

00:56:15.000 Can the U.S. higher education system be saved?

00:56:18.000 And related to that, should the Trump administration, the federal government tax the endowments of these large elite colleges and universities?

00:56:29.000 We should absolutely tax the endowments, first and foremost.

00:56:31.000 These are hedge funds with schools attached.

00:56:34.000 And what we should do is we should tax the endowments and send a rebate to every blue collar worker that had their jobs sent overseas to China over the last 40 years.

00:56:46.000 Because what you might say, those two things are disconnected.

00:56:49.000 No, no, no.

00:56:50.000 Those universities created the people that designed the redomiciling of the factories to China.

00:56:56.000 Harvard sits on 50 billion dollars.

00:56:59.000 50 billion dollars.

00:57:01.000 They don't need it.

00:57:02.000 Harvard is not doing good for the world outside of some medical research, but they're just not doing good.

00:57:07.000 And so can it be saved?

00:57:08.000 No, it cannot be saved.

00:57:10.000 Some colleges are great.

00:57:11.000 Hillsdale College is America's greatest college.

00:57:13.000 You guys should support them.

00:57:15.000 They're phenomenal.

00:57:17.000 Outside of Hillsdale, Liberty University, Grand Canyon University.

00:57:21.000 I mean, there's a couple that are really good.

00:57:22.000 We probably have forty, fifty really good schools in this country, and I could name some of them.

00:57:28.000 But outside of that, guys, I don't mean to bash on some of your homegrown products here.

00:57:31.000 What is it, Bowden?

00:57:32.000 Is that how you pronounce it?

00:57:33.000 I'm a Bowden graduate.

00:57:35.000 I'm a Bowden graduate.

00:57:36.000 Yeah, I'm sorry.

00:57:37.000 Nightmare, okay?

00:57:38.000 Close that place down, tax the endowments, and turn those buildings into condominiums, okay?

00:57:45.000 So, here's what I will pronounce correctly.

00:57:48.000 College the Atlantic, wow, that place is left wing.

00:57:52.000 I mean, that because I was I was near there recently and I was just researching it.

00:57:56.000 So, so environmentalists, so left wing.

00:57:58.000 So here's the problem when it comes to higher education is that higher education, first and foremost, the financial, I could do a whole hour long speech on the financials, you know it.

00:58:07.000 They're disconnected from reality.

00:58:09.000 But the worldview themselves that they are presenting is one that is against Western values.

00:58:15.000 They are not creating graduates that want to fight for this place.

00:58:18.000 They're creating graduates that want to change this place.

00:58:22.000 And those are two totally different things.

00:58:24.000 So I love what the Trump administration is doing, I'm cheering them on to do even more.

00:58:29.000 I think they should seize the endowments, they should tax them into oblivion.

00:58:33.000 And I think we need less of these quote-unquote Ivy League institutions, and we need more places like Hillsdale College that love America, love God, and teach kids about liberty.

00:58:42.000 Thank you.

00:58:49.000 So these last two questions, I'm going to blend them together, because they're kind of the same.

00:58:53.000 The first is that in your Tucker podcast, you talked about baby boomers, and you and Tucker both agreed about some of the disagreements.

00:59:01.000 I love baby boomers. 0.99

00:59:02.000 Well, Tucker took a different tack.

00:59:05.000 I love the baby boomers in this audience.

00:59:07.000 I like So the question is, what can the baby boomers in this audience, baby boomers broadly, do to be part of the solution?

00:59:20.000 That's a great question.

00:59:21.000 And also, from a younger perspective, how does someone who is at the high school or college level go about starting a chapter of a turning point?

00:59:32.000 I'll start with the last one.

00:59:33.000 We'd love to see how great would it be for everyone to have like 100 high school turning point USA groups in Maine?

00:59:38.000 Wouldn't that be amazing?

00:59:40.000 So we want to make that happen.

00:59:43.000 I think we have a table out there maybe.

00:59:45.000 I see a lot of our buttons, so I'm inferringring maybe we do are you our turning point students around we got to get pictures after that's awesome so tpusa.com start a high school group start a college group would would love it and maybe I gotta cut gotta come back to the University of Maine is that in Augusta is that right or or no okay Bangor you guys are funny I love it You know,

01:00:13.000 The old joke, and then I'll get to the first question, is how could you tell if someone who immigrated to Texas was actually immigrated, you ask them who won at the Alamo, and if, you know, basically their answer is...

01:00:33.000 So the first part of your question was important.

01:00:36.000 I'm actually failing to remember it.

01:00:37.000 About what can baby boomers, yeah, so now that they've laddered up, I hate generalized. 1.00

01:00:42.000 So of course there's exceptions to everything, okay?

01:00:45.000 There's some phenomenal baby boomers and there's some crummy ones, but generally, look, and I get the most of all the hate mail I get. 1.00

01:00:53.000 You know, I go after Somali immigrants, the trans thing. 1.00

01:00:57.000 The most angry emails I get is anytime I say anything about baby boomers.

01:01:00.000 They're very sensitive people.

01:01:01.000 But no, but no, it'ss not even, forget sensitive.

01:01:04.000 I know sensitive.

01:01:05.000 They're so loyal to their generation.

01:01:08.000 That's what I don't understand, though.

01:01:10.000 Like, if someone insults millennials, I join in. 1.00

01:01:12.000 Like, I don't get it.

01:01:13.000 Like, yeah, of course we're terrible, right?

01:01:14.000 I mean, it's like we're used to it.

01:01:17.000 So I'm not here to even insult the whole generation.

01:01:20.000 I'm here to say a truth, okay?

01:01:22.000 A truth is this.

01:01:22.000 If you are a baby boomer, you experienced the greatest uptick in American prosperity ever recorded, okay?

01:01:30.000 You had the golden age.

01:01:32.000 You lived the dream.

01:01:34.000 You were able to buy the home, see it get more valuable, go on a couple of vacations, raise a few kids, and not have to.

01:01:41.000 go enormously into debt.

01:01:42.000 Okay?

01:01:43.000 That is the golden era.

01:01:45.000 You bought some stocks in the 1980s and then buy them.

01:01:48.000 They are ridiculously more valuable today in 2025, right?

01:01:52.000 Even if you bought stocks in 2010, they're more valuable today.

01:01:55.000 You bought stocks in 2020, they're more valuable today.

01:01:59.000 A generation right now, we are suffering, not me, but this generation is suffering in a way.

01:02:06.000 that we have not seen a generation suffer in American history in comparison to their parents.

01:02:10.000 It is the first time in American history, including the Great Depression, where kids are sizably and measurably poorer and worse off than their parents.

01:02:20.000 We've never seen that before.

01:02:22.000 So are baby boomers to blame for that? 1.00

01:02:24.000 No.

01:02:25.000 Is there some baby boomer mentality that led to the lockdowns?

01:02:29.000 Yes.

01:02:30.000 Some.

01:02:31.000 Some baby boomers like shut down America because I might get sick and I don't care if my kids get harmed.

01:02:37.000 That's dark stuff, everybody.

01:02:39.000 That is, and I think everyone in this audience agrees by the way, right?

01:02:42.000 Everyone in this audience spoke out against it.

01:02:44.000 So when I say the stuff in my show, I'm not even bashing you guys.

01:02:46.000 I'm saying the baby boomers that were like shut everything down because I want, you know, I might get COVID, but I don't care how my kids do. 1.00

01:02:53.000 That's upside down generational child sacrifice and we shouldn't put up up with that.

01:02:57.000 And so, and the, look at it since 2020.

01:03:06.000 If you are a boomer and you own your home, your home definitely got more valuable since 2020.

01:03:13.000 Your stocks definitely got more valuable.

01:03:15.000 Your kids got poorer.

01:03:19.000 And so what happens is it's economic nihilism that sets in and cynicism, where the next generation is like, oh.

01:03:26.000 all of you guys were able to experience all the upside and now everything is so they can't afford downpayments on homes they're buying groceries on credit they're constantly in debt so what can be done?

01:03:39.000 My one thing I want, I don't want boomers to sell their second home and give it back. 1.00

01:03:43.000 I'm not in all that.

01:03:44.000 I want the baby boomer generation. 0.99

01:03:47.000 Some need to say they're sorry, but that's not even the whole thing.

01:03:50.000 The more important thing is to say, Stop telling the next generation just to work hard, and then everything will sort itself out.

01:03:57.000 That used to be the case.

01:03:59.000 It used to be just tell a bunch of young people, act correctly, have good character, work hard, and you can achieve the American dream.

01:04:05.000 Now there needs to be a tenderness and a compassion from the baby boomer generation of you don't have it like how I did.

01:04:11.000 So let's figure it out.

01:04:14.000 That alone can make a major difference because what creates resentment, again, I'm the exception.

01:04:20.000 I, Charlie Kirk, I've loved the America Dream.

01:04:22.000 I didn't go to college.

01:04:23.000 I have an amazing podcast, a beautiful life, you know, top income bracket, all that stuff.

01:04:27.000 But the kids I represent, they are, they get so jaded when their mentors say, well, just pull yourself up by the bootstraps.

01:04:34.000 It was really hard when I was in the 1980s.

01:04:36.000 Guys, I'm going to show you the numbers, okay?

01:04:39.000 You have no idea what you're talking about.

01:04:42.000 It might have been hard in the 80s.

01:04:43.000 It is twice as hard as it is now, okay?

01:04:45.000 To make the down payment, to pay the property taxes, to keep the.

01:04:49.000 income.

01:04:50.000 The numbers speak for themselves.

01:04:52.000 So what I think is we need intergenerational compassion from boomers that don't just pull up the ladder, you know, say, oh, we made it.

01:04:59.000 Instead, looking down at the next generation, being excited they're becoming more godly, excited they're becoming more conservative, but also a helping hand generationally so that the generation I represent can experience even a fraction of the prosperity that baby boomers were able to experience the last couple of decades. 0.55

01:05:20.000 Have we done?

01:05:21.000 Can I say one last thing?

01:05:22.000 You want to do one more question?

01:05:23.000 Oh, yeah, sure.

01:05:24.000 Or I'll just say one, yeah, one more question or whatever.

01:05:26.000 Yeah, sure.

01:05:26.000 Well, the final question was actually, how do you balance family and work life?

01:05:30.000 It's a great, so this is an exception, it's how much I love you guys, but Saturdays, I actually honor the traditional Jewish Sabbath.

01:05:37.000 I'm Christian, but I like doing it better on Saturdays.

01:05:38.000 If you want to do Sundays, it's fine.

01:05:40.000 I'm actually writing a book all about the Sabbath, it's coming out this December, it's called Stop in the Name of God, Why Honoring the Sabbath will change your life.

01:05:47.000 Everybody, you should turn off your phone for one day a week and just spend time with family.

01:05:50.000 It'll change your life.

01:05:52.000 Get away from modernity, get away from technology.

01:05:55.000 So it says in those holy scriptures, for six days you shall work, for one day you shall stop and rest.

01:06:01.000 I'm a big believer.

01:06:02.000 This is the forgotten commandment in the Ten Commandments.

01:06:04.000 We in the West, we never talk about it.

01:06:06.000 We kind of just shrug our shoulders at it.

01:06:07.000 We kind of forsake it to our own detriment.

01:06:10.000 So I'm able to have a great family life because one day a week, I believe God tells me to stop.

01:06:15.000 Again, this is the exception I'm working today and because I just couldn't say no to you wonderful Mayners and I wanted to fire you all up to save your state.

01:06:22.000 But I will say that that's a great preservation tool.

01:06:29.000 And the thing I learn in life, again, I'm still learning a lot, you get what you prioritize.

01:06:33.000 What you prioritize.

01:06:34.000 And so if golf matters, you get golf, right?

01:06:37.000 If football matters, you get football.

01:06:38.000 But if family matters, you will get time with family.

01:06:40.000 And even with my crazy schedule, I give hundreds of speeches a year.

01:06:43.000 I do two hours of radio day.

01:06:44.000 We have a thousand employees.

01:06:46.000 We have to raise 100 million a year.

01:06:47.000 I still am able to get phenomenal family time because I prioritize it.

01:06:50.000 In closing, everybody, I love this state.

01:06:53.000 Get loud.

01:06:54.000 Fight like hell.

01:06:55.000 And make Maine great again.

01:06:56.000 Thank you so much.

01:06:59.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:07:01.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:07:03.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - August 23, 2025

What's the Matter With Maine?

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