The Charlie Kirk Show - Whose Country Is It Anyway? My Speech at Texas Tech University

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, my conversation in Lubbock, Texas.

00:00:04.000 That's right, Lubbock, Texas.

00:00:06.000 We have a very fiery dialogue.

00:00:08.000 I probably got a little more worked up than I should have at one point.

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00:01:32.000 Thank you, everybody.

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00:01:35.000 It is great to be back in Lubbock, Texas.

00:01:38.000 I got to tell you, I was here earlier last fall.

00:01:42.000 I guess I'll tell you why I was here.

00:01:44.000 It's going to upset some of you.

00:01:46.000 So my father and my uncle, my aunt, all went to the University of Oregon.

00:01:51.000 So we're big Ducks fans.

00:01:52.000 See, now you guys are going to get upset.

00:01:54.000 See, and I, okay, first of all, I have nothing against, you know, I've always, I was a big Texas tech fan.

00:02:01.000 Rest in peace.

00:02:02.000 Mike Leach when he was here, and I was always pulling.

00:02:05.000 And I can't stand the longhorns.

00:02:06.000 They're awful.

00:02:07.000 So we can agree on that, right?

00:02:09.000 Okay.

00:02:09.000 So we're all.

00:02:11.000 And so we make a habit out of trying to go to a game or two.

00:02:16.000 And Lubbock isn't too far from Phoenix, where I live.

00:02:18.000 And I come here.

00:02:19.000 We have an amazing time.

00:02:20.000 And everyone was super gracious, except for all the F-bombs, you know, being thrown at us, Duck fans.

00:02:24.000 And it was the goofy.

00:02:26.000 I was literally getting upset.

00:02:27.000 I got to tell you what you guys do.

00:02:28.000 This throwing the food thing on the what is this all about?

00:02:33.000 You know, their tortillas flying, whatever.

00:02:36.000 And then I learned they tried to get rid of it, and you guys kept their tradition alive.

00:02:41.000 And I kind of had respect for it.

00:02:43.000 I kind of said, you know what?

00:02:44.000 You guys keep doing it regarding, you know, no matter how much they try to tell you, you guys keep fighting the man and you keep on throwing.

00:02:51.000 And I kid you not, I saw somebody up in the cheap sheets.

00:02:54.000 There was a tortilla that flew like 150 yards and went right on the 30-yard line.

00:02:59.000 And you guys put like holes in them to try to perfect the aerodynamicism.

00:03:04.000 Do you guys, do you guys like the frat houses?

00:03:06.000 Like, you know, you try out or you kind of figure out the best way.

00:03:12.000 I've never seen tortillas fly so far.

00:03:15.000 So I needless to say, it was, you guys totally choked.

00:03:19.000 I got to be honest.

00:03:20.000 It was not a good night at the end of it.

00:03:23.000 But anyway, good memories for me.

00:03:25.000 Not so good for you.

00:03:27.000 And then we, okay, see, very passionate folks here.

00:03:32.000 And then we had a great Sunday at Trinity Church.

00:03:34.000 So it's great to be back in Lubbock, Texas, everybody.

00:03:36.000 And do me a favor.

00:03:44.000 Anytime you ever, ever play those longhorns, you got to beat them.

00:03:47.000 That's just, it's got to be right in there.

00:03:49.000 So I don't want to talk for too long before we get to questions because I think that's the most important and the most fun, and that's why you're here.

00:03:55.000 I've done a lot of studying recently about the history of Texas.

00:03:59.000 And it's fascinating.

00:04:01.000 And this is kind of one of the last bastions of how Texas used to be and what the future of Texas should really look like, which Texas was largely unsettled.

00:04:13.000 In fact, so much so that the Mexicans were like, if you guys can settle in Texas, like you can have it. 0.96

00:04:19.000 Like, if you're able to kind of figure something out in Texas, like, go ahead.

00:04:23.000 It's not easy land.

00:04:24.000 It's tough land.

00:04:25.000 You have the Comanche Indians that were not exactly easy, you know, to live with and very, very violent. 1.00

00:04:32.000 And so my people, the Scots-Irish, were crazy enough to navigate the Appalachian Trail and go west and come to this place now known as Texas.

00:04:41.000 And in the early stages of Texas, Texas was the closest thing to a Jeffersonian republic.

00:04:47.000 There was really like no police, no standing army, and it was the law and the belief in the code of the West that kept Texas together.

00:04:58.000 And it's very interesting.

00:04:59.000 It's the most similar, the most eerily similar example I can find to how the Hebrews lived in the Old Testament, where they had no police and no standing army.

00:05:09.000 And it wasn't perfect.

00:05:10.000 People still, you know, did bad things.

00:05:13.000 But Texas turned into this powerhouse where so many different cultures and different civilizations said, you know, we don't really want to settle there.

00:05:21.000 And for whatever reason, Texas all of a sudden started to grow and grow and became its own country first, the Republic of Texas.

00:05:29.000 And anytime you spend time around Texans, there's something different. 1.00

00:05:33.000 There's you're Americans, but you're also Texans.

00:05:35.000 I'll never forget.

00:05:36.000 The first time I did a speaking event in Texas, they did this hail Texas flag thing.

00:05:41.000 And then all of a sudden, I was like, whatnot?

00:05:42.000 This is really, nothing against it.

00:05:44.000 Because I love people that are proud of where they're from and thankful for where they're from.

00:05:49.000 And in the clearest possible way, Texas needs to start acting like Texas again.

00:05:54.000 And Texas needs to get that attitude back where you need to go tell the federal government to go pound sand, you're going to secure the border yourself.

00:06:01.000 And Texas, which 20 years ago was nowhere in comparable population, has 10 million more people than the state of New York.

00:06:18.000 This place is one of the best places America still has to offer.

00:06:22.000 And I'll give you another example.

00:06:24.000 Texas never should have locked down for the virus lockdowns that happened during COVID.

00:06:30.000 And the spirit of Texas is one of self-sovereignty, one of liberty, one that tends to buck the trend.

00:06:37.000 And I firmly believe this, that America cannot get back to greatness, which I think a lot of you guys are here tonight because you want to see America made great again.

00:06:46.000 I think that's why a lot of you are here.

00:06:50.000 That would be a great slogan if someone ran for president on that.

00:06:54.000 It would be really great.

00:06:56.000 And it cannot happen if Texas just becomes a flatter version of Tennessee.

00:07:01.000 Texas needs to go back into its roots of the can-do attitude to look towards that pioneer spirit.

00:07:10.000 And there is a toughness in the Texans that I've known that is very, very unique.

00:07:16.000 There is an attitude, too.

00:07:18.000 You guys got attitude like, holy, holy crow, you guys got attitude.

00:07:21.000 But I love it.

00:07:23.000 And I love it in a way where a lot of people are now looking for leadership, obviously.

00:07:30.000 And what an opportunity.

00:07:32.000 And we look around the country right now.

00:07:34.000 People are moving to the state.

00:07:35.000 And what drives me nuts, I'm sure you know this if you spend any time in Travis County and Austin or in Harris County and Houston.

00:07:41.000 A lot of people are moving to the state.

00:07:43.000 And they continue to act and vote in the pattern that they previously had when they destroyed the state that they fled from.

00:07:50.000 And, I mean, they destroyed California.

00:07:53.000 Then they come to Texas and they say, oh, I don't like the fact that, you know, in Texas, you can own firearms the way you can't.

00:08:00.000 Like, why'd you move here exactly?

00:08:02.000 Why'd you try to come here and try, like, the other thing that drives me crazy is they're like, we need to expand abortion access in Texas.

00:08:09.000 And I'm like, well, where are you from?

00:08:11.000 And they're like, well, I'm from Massachusetts.

00:08:13.000 Like, okay, then go back to Massachusetts. 0.90

00:08:14.000 They have abortion all over the place. 1.00

00:08:15.000 Like, don't tell Texas how to run itself, actually. 1.00

00:08:20.000 Stop trying to colonize Texas.

00:08:24.000 And I think there's a really important thing.

00:08:27.000 Again, it's not a racial thing either.

00:08:29.000 And this is what's so amazing: is that some of the most proud Texans are originally from Mexican descent and they're on the border.

00:08:35.000 And they're part of the Texas story.

00:08:38.000 And I think we can all agree, though, and I want to just emphasize this, and then we'll do questions, is that what's happening on the southern border is one of the most outrageous crimes against this country that we have seen in any of our lifetimes.

00:08:49.000 And it is to have anywhere between 10,000 to 15,000 people coming across the border is an invasion.

00:09:02.000 I don't care what your politics are.

00:09:03.000 You could be here, you could be on the super far left.

00:09:05.000 It doesn't matter.

00:09:06.000 It's unsustainable.

00:09:07.000 And this is not a racial thing, but the bad guys actually look at it as a racial thing.

00:09:13.000 Now, in a very perverse way, they might end up being wrong, but it's still wrong what they're doing because they think, and it's not my belief system of this, but just look at what the Castro brothers have said repeatedly.

00:09:25.000 They said that as Texas becomes more Hispanic and less white, they thought that Texas would become more left-wing.

00:09:32.000 Well, it's not that simple, actually, because it turns out the Hispanic community is not a monolith, and that there's a lot of Hispanic conservatives out there that don't believe that men can give birth and they want a secure border and they want police and they want a rule of law.

00:09:48.000 So it's not that simple.

00:09:51.000 But what it does do outside of the politics is it does destabilize the country.

00:09:58.000 And that's the bigger point: you cannot have an unregulated flow of millions of people.

00:10:04.000 We're not doing background checks.

00:10:06.000 We're not doing DNA testing.

00:10:08.000 We have no idea where they're from.

00:10:10.000 And act or even believe that somehow a stable country can continue.

00:10:15.000 And for those of you that either came to this country legally or your parents did, what is happening on the southern border is an insult to all of you that waited in line.

00:10:25.000 It is an insult for all of you that had to go through the proper protocol and process.

00:10:29.000 That basically what it is is, why did you follow the law?

00:10:34.000 And what they're saying basically is you don't have to follow the law anymore.

00:10:39.000 And I've been patient and I actually have seen more and more fight out of your governor recently.

00:10:48.000 I wish it would have happened earlier.

00:10:51.000 And I want to see that next step taken.

00:10:53.000 And I think his administration is getting closer and closer to that, which is it is now time for Texas to start to deport the foreigners that have come here to this state and return them to their country of origin. 0.99

00:11:05.000 It is time to now do that.

00:11:07.000 And largely because the federal government has left us no choice.

00:11:15.000 And it is a very simple moral question.

00:11:18.000 If the federal government is tasked with the safety and the well-being and the administration of the rule of law, and they have year over year told you they are not going to do that, Texas, which was once its own country, which can therefore declare an invasion clause easier than any other state in the nation, does not just have a right, but a duty to take this into its own hands and to fix this problem.

00:11:44.000 And I think Greg Abbott, to his credit, has been feeling the pressure and has been doing some stuff.

00:11:49.000 I mean, you've got the barriers, you got the razor wire, you've got balloons on the, you know, whatever, whatever those big things are in the big objects in the Rio Grande Valley.

00:11:57.000 You've got the National Guard.

00:11:57.000 That's fine.

00:11:59.000 It's hard for me to paint this picture.

00:12:01.000 If you haven't seen the video, I encourage you to look at it, where Texas National Guard really steamrolled by hundreds of people last week as if, like, no, no, no, this is our country.

00:12:09.000 We're just going to come right in.

00:12:11.000 And, you know, some people say, well, the Texas National Guard should have resisted.

00:12:15.000 But the Texas National Guard and ideal should have resisted.

00:12:17.000 But think about it.

00:12:18.000 They would have gotten probably arrested by the federal government for, you know, violent confrontation of migrants.

00:12:24.000 And that's another important point, which is there are some people that are coming that can fit the quote-unquote migrant mold.

00:12:30.000 But a vast majority of these people are military age, fighting age males that are 20, 21, and 22 years old from 120 different countries.

00:12:41.000 We know that thousands of people have been intercepted on the southern border from the terror watch list, and we have no idea where they're going on the interior of the United States.

00:12:50.000 And I hate to say, but this feels awfully intentional.

00:12:54.000 It feels as if that they want this to happen.

00:12:57.000 Now, why?

00:12:58.000 We can have a robust discussion about it.

00:13:00.000 But I don't get from the current ruling regime that they love the country like you do.

00:13:05.000 That they love the country the way that those of you that serve this nation do.

00:13:09.000 In fact, I feel as if they want to turn it into something different, that they want to try to overwhelm the system.

00:13:15.000 Before some of you yell up and say, you're a conspiracy theorist, well, you guys should study an academic paper that is called the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

00:13:23.000 It was written in the 1970s by two academics, Cloward and Piven.

00:13:28.000 They were communists, self-described Marxists and communists.

00:13:30.000 And they said, hey, the way that we, communists, are going to take over America is three steps.

00:13:36.000 Three very basic things.

00:13:38.000 We need to try to make sure America borrows so much money that the currency is worthless and the national debt becomes unsustainable.

00:13:46.000 We need to try to build an administrative state or a deep state bureaucracy that swallows the private sector and have D.C. be the most important part of the country and uncontrolled mass migration into America to destabilize the fabric.

00:14:00.000 Now, we wouldn't know any one of those three things, of course.

00:14:03.000 We are borrowing a trillion dollars every 100 days in this country.

00:14:07.000 For those of you that want to own a home, for those of you that want to have a future, it is literally getting stolen from you by these unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. Again, this is not a political statement.

00:14:18.000 In 2020, when there was a different president, the average income to be able to afford a home in this country was $59,000 a year, according to Zillow.com.

00:14:29.000 It is now $106,000 a year to be able to comfortably own a home in this country.

00:14:34.000 Now, it might be less here in Lubbock, Texas.

00:14:36.000 I mean, but I bet property has gone up everywhere.

00:14:36.000 I don't know.

00:14:38.000 I bet it's gone up here too.

00:14:40.000 But it's probably a little bit easier here.

00:14:43.000 But your incomes are probably not as high as they are in Dallas.

00:14:46.000 So it all kind of evens out.

00:14:48.000 And by the way, that's what they want.

00:14:50.000 They don't want you to own homes.

00:14:52.000 They want you to be permanent renters for the rest of your life because you're easier to control.

00:14:59.000 When I was landing here in Lubbock, I saw so many small towns and it reminded me how mass urbanization has destroyed this country.

00:15:08.000 And there's something very dark about big cities.

00:15:11.000 Not just the fact that the worst ideas come out of cities.

00:15:14.000 Not just the fact that the worst politics come out of big cities and the most crime.

00:15:18.000 But I want you to think for a second, it's very easy to be anonymous in a big city.

00:15:25.000 You don't have to know your neighbor.

00:15:26.000 You can kind of just blend in.

00:15:28.000 For those of you that have grown up in a small town, it is impossible to be anonymous in a small town.

00:15:34.000 That there's an accountability.

00:15:36.000 Your neighbors check in on you.

00:15:37.000 Everyone kind of has a reputation in a small town.

00:15:40.000 That's the drunk.

00:15:41.000 That's the thief. 0.98

00:15:42.000 That's the priest. 0.93

00:15:44.000 Stay away from that guy.

00:15:45.000 That's the guy you want to try to do business with.

00:15:48.000 Everybody has a reputation, for better or worse, but everybody has a reputation because that closeness creates community.

00:15:55.000 In New York City, you can kind of just be an anonymous widget in an 8 million person beast.

00:16:03.000 I don't think that's a good thing, actually.

00:16:05.000 I think it's a better country when you're held accountable by your neighbors.

00:16:09.000 I think it's a better country when you know your neighbors' names.

00:16:12.000 I think it's a better country where you own property and you go to church and your kids are raised walking around a farm, not staring at a screen all day long.

00:16:22.000 I think it's a better country when you don't have to wonder that you're going to have to go riskily into debt to be able to own a home.

00:16:38.000 And these might strike you as overwhelmingly political statements, but they really aren't.

00:16:44.000 Because it's a restoration of a normal way of life.

00:16:48.000 And you guys still have it a little bit here in West Texas.

00:16:51.000 And if there's one thing I can communicate to you, is you need to fight to protect that thing.

00:16:57.000 Because how many pockets around this country have they allowed us to lose that American way of life?

00:17:03.000 Where they come in with big developers and mass urbanization and cities that used to be very, very, let's just say, livable, just become kind of unthinkably progressive.

00:17:18.000 And they are targeting West Texas.

00:17:20.000 They are targeting Amarillo.

00:17:22.000 They are targeting Lubbock because they look at themselves as imperialists, that there will not be a square inch where they don't control.

00:17:31.000 There's a book that was recently published, and I can't help but just think of so many of you.

00:17:36.000 The book's title is called White Rural Rage: The Threat to Democracy.

00:17:43.000 And so if you get in a car and go 30 miles west or 30 miles east from here, you will find the people that this book is talking about.

00:17:48.000 These are two professors that wrote this book, and they were beautifully welcomed on MSNBC.

00:17:54.000 And for those of you that own farms and you work with your hands and you go to church, you happen to be white, they think you're the threat to democracy.

00:18:02.000 I think, first of all, how sick you must be to blame the people that have done the right thing for the last 100 years and originally were homesteading and raised a family and paid their taxes, many of whom served in the military.

00:18:17.000 And they blame the white rural rage voters because they don't think the way that the Harvard academics want them to think.

00:18:26.000 And in fact, dare I say that it is the white rural rage that very well might save this country one day. 0.65

00:18:34.000 It very well might end up course correcting us.

00:18:38.000 And it's not a racial thing, but they're making it a racial thing because it's those that own property and they have different values than that of the regime.

00:18:48.000 So we need Texas to be Texas again for that attitude and that spirit to be reignited.

00:18:55.000 And I'm just so touched.

00:18:56.000 I mean, look at this turnout here on campus.

00:18:58.000 There's something happening.

00:19:00.000 I don't know what it's going to look like or how it's going to manifest politically.

00:19:03.000 I've been doing this now for 11 years.

00:19:05.000 I have visited more college campuses than any other speaker in the last decade.

00:19:09.000 I've never seen crowds like we are drawing right now.

00:19:12.000 And I believe it's because so many of you in Gen Z, you are up, you have reached your limit of the nauseating, woke nonsense that has permeated the culture.

00:19:26.000 That you actually don't want to worry about getting fired from your job for using the wrong pronoun.

00:19:31.000 That you want an America that is strong, that is decent, that is stable, that is orderly.

00:19:38.000 You want to be able to get married and have kids.

00:19:41.000 And this is one of the reasons why, and again, this is what the data shows, why young men are the most conservative that they have been in the last 50 years.

00:19:51.000 And young ladies, we got some work to do, but it shows a lot of promise.

00:20:00.000 Because I truly believe that there are more decent Americans than indecent Americans.

00:20:05.000 And that we're going to, of course, correct this.

00:20:08.000 And the entire spirit of Turning Point USA is we do want to see this country return to greatness.

00:20:13.000 And we believe we return to greatness by recommitting ourselves to foundational principles and by not being afraid to confront the parasitic ideologies that have been destroying this country.

00:20:23.000 And what are those ideologies?

00:20:24.000 You can call them wokeism.

00:20:25.000 You can call them Marxism, but they are decaying the society all around us.

00:20:30.000 And it's resulting in an untouchable oligarchy that is not listening to the people, that is more and more afraid that the silent majority might be silent no longer.

00:20:40.000 And as we can see here by this incredible turnout and what's happening, I think our numbers are increasing to such a level that keeps them very nervous.

00:20:48.000 Let's do some questions, everybody, and thanks for sitting through that.

00:20:56.000 Okay, so you can start lining up for questions.

00:20:58.000 Let me tell you how questions are going to work.

00:21:00.000 This is obviously a predominant conservative audience.

00:21:04.000 If you disagree, you get to go to the front of the line.

00:21:07.000 Now, if somebody who is a liberal comes up and asks a question, do not boo them.

00:21:12.000 Do not make fun of them.

00:21:13.000 Do not make noise.

00:21:15.000 Show any liberals or people that have different ideas the respect that we as conservatives never get from the left.

00:21:23.000 That's what we're going to do here tonight.

00:21:23.000 Okay?

00:21:26.000 And so you could start lining up here if you have questions.

00:21:31.000 And again, disagreements get precedent.

00:21:34.000 And please try to remain as quiet as you can.

00:21:40.000 I'll let you get it out of your system.

00:21:42.000 I tell you, if you guys start throwing tortillas at me, you didn't bring any?

00:21:49.000 All right.

00:21:50.000 Yes, ma'am, you are first.

00:21:52.000 As someone who's been doing these college tours for, I think you said 11 years, how do you prioritize spending time with your wife and your children?

00:22:00.000 Well, that's a great question.

00:22:01.000 Yeah, you have to learn to say no.

00:22:04.000 And this should tell you how important it is for me to be here tonight because I say no to like 99% of the speaking events and engagements that I get asked to go to.

00:22:14.000 And so, and yeah, I mean, one of the life preservation tools that the Lord gives us is he tells us in the Ten Commandments, for six days you shall work and for one day you shall rest.

00:22:24.000 And so people ask if I'm Seventh-day Adventist.

00:22:27.000 I'm not, but I do honor the Shabbat.

00:22:29.000 I turn off my phone on Friday night.

00:22:30.000 I turn it back on Sunday morning.

00:22:32.000 It works for me.

00:22:33.000 And I believe one of the great failures of modern Christianity is our failure to honor the Sabbath.

00:22:39.000 Whether we like it or not, there is way too much work that occurs.

00:22:43.000 And again, your Sabbath can be Sunday.

00:22:46.000 It can be Saturday.

00:22:47.000 I am not a legalist on that.

00:22:49.000 I do Saturday because it works for my schedule.

00:22:51.000 I'm less likely to have to do work on Saturday.

00:22:53.000 It's a good end of the week.

00:22:54.000 That's fine.

00:22:54.000 If Sunday is your day.

00:22:56.000 However, most Christians that I encounter, I ask them this question. 0.98

00:22:59.000 If I walked into your house on Saturday or Sunday, would I be able to tell which day is the Sabbath?

00:23:06.000 And if the answer is no, then it's not actually the Sabbath.

00:23:09.000 If you walk into my house on the Sabbath, my phone is off and my electronic devices are off.

00:23:15.000 The only exceptions I make are for things that I truly enjoy, like college football or college basketball.

00:23:20.000 Because that's not work.

00:23:22.000 For six days you shall work, for one day you shall rest.

00:23:24.000 So it's nourishing to me, right?

00:23:26.000 But anything that involves work, I don't read a newspaper.

00:23:28.000 I don't visit a news website.

00:23:29.000 I don't listen to a radio program.

00:23:31.000 And so that's my only challenge to you is that your Sabbath, that if somebody walked into the day that you designate as your Sabbath, they should be able to see something different.

00:23:39.000 In Hebrew, the word holy, so the to keep the Sabbath holy is repeated over 10 times in the Old Testament.

00:23:45.000 To keep holy means separate.

00:23:47.000 It means distinct.

00:23:48.000 It means different then.

00:23:49.000 And so to keep it holy means that that day must look, feel, and act different than any other day of the week.

00:23:55.000 So whatever that means for you, make it happen.

00:23:58.000 Do something that you enjoy that is restful, and most importantly, spend time with your family and do something that honors your creator.

00:24:05.000 Thank you.

00:24:08.000 Okay, Kirk fans, I need you to stop and pay attention to this.

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00:26:03.000 As a student in college trying to find a partner, what are some qualities I should look for in a future wife?

00:26:08.000 Yeah, that's a great question. 1.00

00:26:10.000 Proverbs 31, try to find a Proverbs 31 woman. 0.98

00:26:13.000 The best, the most important thing I would say, though, you have to agree politically and you have to agree most important theologically and religiously.

00:26:21.000 I do not believe in marriages where people say, I'm a conservative, I'm a liberal.

00:26:25.000 That is a bad idea.

00:26:26.000 It does not work out.

00:26:28.000 For example, what values are you going to pass down to your kids?

00:26:31.000 You're going to kind of like, you get 50% of the dinner and they get 50% of the dinner.

00:26:35.000 It doesn't work.

00:26:35.000 There's enough already.

00:26:36.000 There are enough quarrels that already happen in marriage.

00:26:38.000 You don't need to add outside disagreement into something holy.

00:26:44.000 Marriage is holy and it should remain holy.

00:26:47.000 Secondly, the most important thing, though, is you should ask, is what should I do as a man to prepare myself for my wife?

00:26:54.000 And that is, and I say this as someone who once struggled with pornography, I'm very open about it.

00:26:59.000 Almost every young man in this audience has struggled with pornography.

00:27:02.000 Not everyone admits it, but it's just true.

00:27:03.000 It's a societal toxin.

00:27:05.000 It's a cancer. 0.87

00:27:05.000 And I love that porn hub, whatever, is now closed in Texas. 0.87

00:27:09.000 I think that's a great thing.

00:27:11.000 It is shut down and it's a great thing.

00:27:16.000 Try and not do that and not engage in that.

00:27:20.000 I highly recommend.

00:27:22.000 The quicker, the sooner as a college student, you understand, if it makes you feel good immediately, it comes with a price, and that price is heavier than that which you realize.

00:27:32.000 So, if it gives you a buzz of alcohol, again, I'm not trying to be overly legalistic, but the sooner you realize that the thing that gives you the buzz instantaneously comes at a price.

00:27:42.000 And I don't drink, don't do drugs, and that's the only way I'm able to keep the schedule that I keep and do what I'm able to do is because that stuff actually doesn't do anything for me.

00:27:50.000 It actually leads a really shallow and empty life, and that's not something that I think is really interesting.

00:27:54.000 In fact, I think that's kind of what losers do is they kind of just pursue the next instant gratification.

00:27:59.000 I think the beautiful things actually come with delayed gratification in life, where you delay the pleasure because you go for something that is greater than pleasure, which is hopefully glorifying God, which is greater than just making yourself feel good.

00:28:10.000 And then, as a man, try to become the most interesting person you can, and you will have to be the breadwinner and the income producer for your family. 0.55

00:28:18.000 And so, you need to take, you need to take before you get married or before you date, you need to make sure that if you date with the intention of marrying, because don't just date casually, dating casually is the stupidest thing ever.

00:28:27.000 You need to date with the intention to marry, that you can be able to support your wife and support a child. 0.90

00:28:31.000 And so, you need to figure that out, whatever that is, right?

00:28:33.000 Whatever you're studying, make sure that it can have a good payout in the end and that you can comfortably be able to provide for your family because that is the role of the man.

00:28:42.000 Thank you, man.

00:28:43.000 Appreciate it.

00:28:49.000 Hi.

00:28:49.000 I just wanted to start out by saying that I fully respect the work that you're doing here and respect the passion and intelligence that you have.

00:28:56.000 There is no ignoring the issue that we have on the southern border, but I think it is fair that we acknowledge the root of this issue might be partly due to a broken immigration system that has not been updated in around 50 years.

00:29:06.000 I stand here as living proof of the immigrant dream, the illegal immigrant dream, the American dream.

00:29:11.000 It is very easy to say that illegal immigrants need to go back to their countries and they're criminals when you are so far removed from the immigrant experience.

00:29:18.000 Do you not think that making the immigration process, the legal immigration process, a little bit easier could not help solve some of these backlogging issues and giving people reasons for being denied when they're applying for visas or naturalization would not help solve this problem?

00:29:31.000 Should people who are here legally, who have only come here to work for a better life for their children, who are only here to work hard and commit no crimes, a chance of becoming legal without them being sent back to their countries?

00:29:44.000 So, yes, they should be sent back.

00:29:45.000 But are you illegal or are your parents illegal?

00:29:48.000 My father was illegal.

00:29:49.000 He married my mother, and now he is a citizen of this great nation.

00:29:52.000 And then you were born here.

00:29:54.000 I was born here, yes.

00:29:55.000 Okay, thank you.

00:29:55.000 So, let me ask you just a theoretical question: If somebody robs a bank because they can't feed their family, should they be prosecuted for that crime?

00:30:04.000 Yes.

00:30:05.000 Okay.

00:30:05.000 So, therefore, we should not relax the immigration laws just because someone has a good story or they want to feed their family.

00:30:12.000 But do you not think that robbing a bank is a little bit different than just moving across the land, restricting people's views?

00:30:18.000 Hold on a second.

00:30:19.000 Breaking into the country.

00:30:20.000 Let me ask you a question because it's breaking and entering, right?

00:30:24.000 Okay.

00:30:24.000 Your father, did he know he was breaking the law when he came into this country?

00:30:28.000 My father was 14 years old when he came to this country.

00:30:30.000 Did he know it was illegal?

00:30:31.000 Yes, he knew it was illegal.

00:30:32.000 However, he was a child and came by himself.

00:30:35.000 Okay, well, he knew it was against the law.

00:30:37.000 So, we have penalties for juvenile people that break into banks and break into cars.

00:30:42.000 So, he knew the laws, he broke the laws, and he cut in line.

00:30:47.000 Was he invited or did he come uninvited?

00:30:50.000 He was not invited.

00:30:51.000 However, so what should we do to uninvited people that break our laws?

00:30:57.000 How should we handle those people?

00:30:58.000 Can we not acknowledge the fact that my father, coming from a dirt poor farm community in Mexico, would have had zero opportunity to do so legally?

00:31:06.000 Well, but why does he have a right to come here in the first place?

00:31:10.000 You don't have a moral right to enter the United States.

00:31:13.000 Get in line like the Polish and the Irish and the Vietnamese. 1.00

00:31:17.000 So, just because you live close does and I acknowledge that he came from a poor country.

00:31:25.000 Afghanistan is poor.

00:31:28.000 There are a lot of poor countries.

00:31:30.000 Zimbabwe is a lot poorer than Mexico.

00:31:32.000 So we could make that argument to let in 100 million people.

00:31:35.000 So is the argument that we should allow people that have a sob story, which is your father's case, entrance into our country when they were not invited?

00:31:46.000 I think it's hardly a sob story.

00:31:48.000 I think the work that my father has put into his life to become now a citizen and build a life for himself and be able to send his children to college would hardly be considered a sob story.

00:31:58.000 You said he came from a dirt poor country, which is an emotive sob story argument.

00:32:01.000 But let me just ask another theoretical question.

00:32:04.000 What should the penalty be for breaking and entering into a country illegally?

00:32:08.000 What should the penalty be?

00:32:10.000 The penalty?

00:32:12.000 I think that that is something that needs to be looked at as options to allow people who came here illegally who have worked hard and who have not committed any crimes other than the people.

00:32:21.000 No, no, hold on.

00:32:22.000 They did commit a crime.

00:32:23.000 They committed a crime when they crossed the southern border.

00:32:26.000 So your father's a criminal.

00:32:28.000 My father's not a criminal.

00:32:31.000 He broke USC federal law that says you shall not enter the United States across the southern border without proper documentation or without proper entrance.

00:32:42.000 He knew what he was doing.

00:32:44.000 And when he did that, every day he was here and he legally domiciled himself was a crime.

00:32:50.000 If you squat into somebody's home uninvited, every day you are committing a crime.

00:32:55.000 Yes?

00:32:56.000 I'm sure that he applied himself nicely.

00:32:58.000 I'm sure he raised a nice person, a nice individual such as you.

00:33:02.000 I don't doubt any of that.

00:33:03.000 The question, though, is the law.

00:33:05.000 And the law must be blind to any sort of nice, beautiful story.

00:33:10.000 He was not invited.

00:33:11.000 It's about reforming this law.

00:33:13.000 Hold on.

00:33:13.000 So should we repeal the law that says you cross the border, you should then be, it's illegal.

00:33:19.000 Should it be illegal to come into America uninvited?

00:33:22.000 I'm not saying that it should be legal.

00:33:25.000 I'm saying that this whole process should be changed.

00:33:29.000 Maybe if my dad would have had the opportunity, he would have come legally.

00:33:32.000 Maybe if.

00:33:33.000 He could have.

00:33:33.000 Hold on.

00:33:34.000 People come legally from Mexico all the time.

00:33:36.000 Absolutely.

00:33:37.000 We didn't have the resources.

00:33:38.000 Hold on.

00:33:38.000 Well, why didn't your father come legally?

00:33:40.000 He was 14 uneducated people.

00:33:42.000 Okay, so got it.

00:33:43.000 Now we're getting similar.

00:33:44.000 So he was poor, and so we should make exceptions for poor young people. 0.99

00:33:48.000 That's not at all what I'm saying.

00:33:49.000 Yes, it is.

00:33:50.000 No, that's not at all what I'm saying.

00:33:52.000 I'm not.

00:33:52.000 I'm saying.

00:33:53.000 You're saying that he didn't have the resources, so we should kind of just relax the laws.

00:33:57.000 So let me just be very clear.

00:33:59.000 We set the laws in America for the good of the people of this country, not for the good of the people of Mexico. 1.00

00:34:06.000 Period.

00:34:08.000 And so there is no relaxing, and there is no compromise on this.

00:34:13.000 Your father should have been deported, and he should still be deported because he has to pay for the crime when he broke into our home.

00:34:22.000 You think my father, who is a voting citizen of this country, should be deported?

00:34:25.000 He has to pay a penalty for breaking into America, and he never did, unless he served prison time, did he? 0.75

00:34:30.000 No.

00:34:31.000 Okay, then he has to pay a penalty.

00:34:32.000 Your father's not a criminal. 0.93

00:34:34.000 But your father is a criminal.

00:34:36.000 He broke a federal law that says you cannot break into America.

00:34:39.000 If someone came up here and they said, you know, my father broke into a bank or my father held up a grocery store, but he raised a beautiful child.

00:34:46.000 I say, wait a second, did he ever serve prison time?

00:34:48.000 And thank you for acknowledging you must apply the law regardless of how nice the story is.

00:34:56.000 And so I will ask the question again: should we get rid of that law?

00:35:00.000 Should we just say amnesty?

00:35:01.000 We give forgiveness to all who broke the law.

00:35:04.000 You are now here.

00:35:05.000 No, but why do we not put forth resources to try and help these people go through a legal process?

00:35:12.000 Well, we do.

00:35:12.000 Hold on.

00:35:13.000 You can apply on the Department of Home.

00:35:15.000 Do we understand how many applications are backlogged when you're denied applications?

00:35:21.000 You are giving no reason for why your application is.

00:35:23.000 No, you don't have a right to come here, though.

00:35:29.000 Whole premise is wrong.

00:35:30.000 You have no other choice.

00:35:31.000 You have a choice.

00:35:32.000 Go make Mexico great.

00:35:33.000 That is very easy to say when you are so far removed from the immigrant experience that your family came to win immigration. 0.78

00:35:39.000 Yes, you're right.

00:35:39.000 My family did help found the country.

00:35:41.000 You're right.

00:35:43.000 On my wine side, they did too.

00:35:45.000 Hold on a second.

00:35:46.000 Your family's from Mexico.

00:35:47.000 No, my family got here in 1620 and settled the country.

00:35:51.000 Your father broke into the country that my family helped build, okay?

00:35:54.000 Excuse me.

00:35:55.000 Let's be very clear.

00:35:56.000 Excuse me.

00:35:57.000 Your family broke into the country that my family served in a military for.

00:36:02.000 You came uninvited, and now you come up here and you say, well, I think my father's this great story.

00:36:08.000 No, no, no.

00:36:08.000 Your father couldn't wait in line.

00:36:10.000 He could not go make Mexico great again.

00:36:12.000 So he came into the country that he screwed up all the process. 0.98

00:36:17.000 Let me finish.

00:36:17.000 Hold on one second.

00:36:20.000 Where do you get the moral right to act as if we should even accept one immigrant? 1.00

00:36:27.000 Where do you get that from?

00:36:29.000 My question to you is: yes, your family was here.

00:36:31.000 They got to come here legally, right?

00:36:33.000 They got to build this country.

00:36:34.000 In 1620, yes, they settled.

00:36:36.000 They did not immigrate.

00:36:37.000 They came to a country that was barren, that was empty, and they helped found the country nearly 400 years ago.

00:36:44.000 Yes, and on my mother's side, they did the same thing.

00:36:46.000 And they came here and they followed all the customs and all the laws.

00:36:49.000 Your father didn't do that.

00:36:50.000 Because there were no customs or laws.

00:36:52.000 Well, yes, there was.

00:36:53.000 You know what the custom and laws were?

00:36:54.000 If you don't die, it's yours.

00:37:00.000 Right.

00:37:02.000 That was the custom and laws.

00:37:04.000 There was no restriction on where people could move and make a better lives to themselves.

00:37:08.000 Yeah, because there was nothing.

00:37:09.000 There was the Indians and weather, and it was 1620.

00:37:12.000 If you didn't die of smallpox or die of whatever.

00:37:15.000 So let me just try to find some understanding of common ground.

00:37:18.000 Right now, there are 5 million people that have illegally entered the United States in the last couple years.

00:37:23.000 What should happen with them?

00:37:24.000 Of the people who have entered the United States illegally since Biden became president, about 5 million people.

00:37:29.000 What should we do with them?

00:37:31.000 I think that they should have to face some sort of application if they want the legal rights of being in this country.

00:37:39.000 I think that there needs to be some kind of reform to look at their situations and see what, because getting rid of 5 million immigrants or however many immigrants that are here illegally in this country would have drastic implications.

00:37:49.000 No, no, there's 30 million.

00:37:51.000 I'm talking about just the five in the last couple years.

00:37:53.000 But what implications are there?

00:37:54.000 But if we're going to look at the 30 million people that are here illegally, if we were to get rid of all of them right now, this is not a racist slur.

00:38:00.000 Our construction industry in this country would be absolutely deteriorated.

00:38:05.000 Hold on.

00:38:06.000 How dare you say something like that?

00:38:09.000 Do you know what would happen?

00:38:10.000 Wages would go up because Americans would get the jobs who didn't steal Social Security numbers. 0.67

00:38:17.000 That's what would happen.

00:38:20.000 Then why can't we? 0.90

00:38:21.000 We'd have higher wages.

00:38:22.000 We would have less crime.

00:38:24.000 We would have less drug trafficking into this country.

00:38:27.000 And again, if these people build such a beautiful life like your father, why couldn't they do that back in Mexico? 1.00

00:38:35.000 If he's like, contribute so beautifully, go back to Mexico and enrich that country. 0.98

00:38:42.000 Because he was not lucky enough to be born in a country where he had those opportunities.

00:38:48.000 We are all lucky enough to just be born here.

00:38:51.000 We have no idea what it's like to want a better life for your children when you have no other opportunity.

00:38:56.000 A lot of people here have been born poor and have worked really hard.

00:38:59.000 Exactly.

00:38:59.000 Yes.

00:39:00.000 And secondly, and I'll close with this.

00:39:03.000 You're right.

00:39:04.000 It is hard work to make a nice country.

00:39:07.000 It's easy work to destroy a nice country.

00:39:11.000 And a country is destroyed when you have uncontrolled amounts of people and you have no idea who they are and they're not invited.

00:39:18.000 And then we have to then be told, we have a moral right to stay here because you didn't deport me in time.

00:39:24.000 It's like, okay, either we have the law or we don't.

00:39:28.000 And it's fine.

00:39:29.000 If your position is to get rid of the law, that is a position that people in this country have.

00:39:34.000 I'm going to say that ceasing to abide by the American Immigration Code, which is we should know and have control over who comes into this country, then you're not a country. 0.83

00:39:44.000 You're just kind of a territory, and whoever wants to come can come.

00:39:48.000 And that would be the end of the United States of America.

00:39:52.000 Thank you for your time.

00:39:53.000 Thank you.

00:40:00.000 I just want to start off by saying that it's always great to be politically active and to not be politically active.

00:40:05.000 So I thank you for that.

00:40:06.000 But I do want to start off by saying earlier I was outside protesting, as I usually do on campus, with a sign that says, tear the fascists down.

00:40:13.000 Now, for those who don't know what fascism is, it's an ideology associated with Nazism.

00:40:18.000 As I had this sign, not affiliating it to anybody, I had a group of individuals come up to me saying openly they were fascists attending your event and called me the F-born.

00:40:26.000 It's not a lie.

00:40:27.000 Now, I am not here to call you a fascist.

00:40:29.000 I'm not.

00:40:31.000 As I know you're not a Nazi sympathizer.

00:40:32.000 You've never openly sympathized Nazism.

00:40:34.000 I can see that.

00:40:36.000 But people who openly call themselves fascists are here and are not afraid to admit they are fascists.

00:40:41.000 So my question is: will you denounce fascism today, as the definition online puts it as an ideology including racial nationalism and authoritarianism today?

00:40:50.000 Yes.

00:40:50.000 Will you denounce Marxism as the greatest killer of human beings in the last hundred years?

00:40:54.000 Well, describe Marxism to me.

00:40:56.000 I'm sorry, what?

00:40:57.000 Describe Marxism to me.

00:40:58.000 The ideology that Mao Zetong, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, and Pol Pot employed to the mass scrove organization. 0.70

00:41:03.000 It did kill millions of people.

00:41:04.000 You're right.

00:41:05.000 Correct.

00:41:05.000 Okay.

00:41:05.000 So I'll denounce fascism.

00:41:07.000 You denounce Marxism.

00:41:08.000 Yeah?

00:41:08.000 Well, I would have to say, like, by definition.

00:41:10.000 No, Hold on, hold on, So my thing is that was it Marxism itself or was it a materialistic condition that caused that?

00:41:19.000 Because as Marxists, what we do say is that there's material conditions that contribute to society.

00:41:23.000 Now, you probably aren't familiar with dialectical materialism.

00:41:25.000 I'll try to explain it real quick.

00:41:26.000 No, I've read the phenomenology of spirit, and I know Hegel.

00:41:30.000 But tell me, but why not denounce Marxism?

00:41:34.000 So Mao Zetong, Marxist, Lenin, Marxist, Joseph Stalin, Marxist.

00:41:39.000 I'll denounce Joseph Stalin for you, definitely.

00:41:40.000 Yes, Joseph Stalin was an authoritarian leader who definitely killed millions of Ukrainians during the export of grain to, of course, build up their economy. 0.60

00:41:48.000 There's nothing about.

00:41:48.000 You don't think there's anything about the ideology that leads to the suffering, impoverishing, or the murdering?

00:41:52.000 Just like how Hitler called himself a socialist, it's not the ideology.

00:41:55.000 It's just what you actually do in practice.

00:41:57.000 Yes, he did call himself a socialist, but he was not a Marxist.

00:42:01.000 He was not.

00:42:01.000 Yeah.

00:42:02.000 But this National Socialist Workers' Party is the actual name of Nazism.

00:42:06.000 But where has Marxism ever worked?

00:42:08.000 Well, I wouldn't say that Marxism itself has ever actually been tried.

00:42:11.000 Now, of course, you can always say, like, oh, like, you know, that's an easy communist getaway question to it, right?

00:42:16.000 Well, but Marxism has killed a lot more people than Hitler.

00:42:19.000 Everywhere it's tried, it results in famine, impoverishing, death, destruction.

00:42:26.000 Every failed country on the planet right now, including North Korea, is some form of a Marxist dictatorship.

00:42:30.000 So why is it hard to denounce that?

00:42:32.000 Because it's easier for me to denounce fascism.

00:42:35.000 Why the struggle to just say, you know, Marxism, bad, evil, end of story?

00:42:39.000 Why can't we agree on that?

00:42:41.000 Well, because if you look at, I'll give the example of North Korea.

00:42:43.000 What we did is that we went in there during the Korean War and destroyed all their factories, right? 1.00

00:42:47.000 Now, what did this leave us left in a poverty society where they now had no means to, of course, get their needs because their factories were destroyed?

00:42:53.000 So that's number one on why North Korea. 0.62

00:42:54.000 Now, I don't like North Korea.

00:42:55.000 I'm just saying that's one reason.

00:42:56.000 It has nothing to do with the Marxist leader.

00:43:00.000 Nothing.

00:43:01.000 He's not a Marxist leader.

00:43:02.000 I wouldn't consider himself a Marxist leader.

00:43:03.000 So what ideology is his?

00:43:05.000 So the ideology of Marxism is simply that workers own the means of production.

00:43:09.000 The workers in North Korea do not own the means of production.

00:43:10.000 Do they have private property rights in North Korea?

00:43:12.000 They don't.

00:43:12.000 Then who owns the means of production?

00:43:14.000 The government does.

00:43:15.000 Oh, okay.

00:43:15.000 Yeah, but in a Marxist society.

00:43:17.000 No, but in a Marxist society.

00:43:19.000 That would be Marxism.

00:43:22.000 Because the workers own the means of production, not the government.

00:43:24.000 But who is the government?

00:43:26.000 The government is the people, the bureaucrats.

00:43:28.000 Oh, with control of power.

00:43:30.000 Okay, and that would be the people, the bureaucrats own the means of production, otherwise known as Marxism.

00:43:36.000 No.

00:43:37.000 You're getting it all wrong.

00:43:38.000 Literally, the word definition of Marxism is that workers own.

00:43:41.000 Workers own the means of production.

00:43:43.000 Right.

00:43:43.000 So where has that ever been tried or worked?

00:43:45.000 You say it's never been tried ever.

00:43:47.000 Yeah, okay, got it.

00:43:48.000 So even though the hammer and sickle and core Marxist ideology has been invoked repeatedly by these leaders, you're saying, no, no, no, not a Marxist.

00:43:57.000 No, no, no, not a Marxist.

00:43:58.000 No, no, no, not a Marxist.

00:44:00.000 Over 100 times it has been tried on every single continent, from Mugabe in Rhodesia, which became Zimbabwe, to parts of India, to China, to Korea, to parts of Eastern Europe, to Central and South America, to Venezuela.

00:44:19.000 None of that is Marxist, even though they say they're Marxist.

00:44:22.000 Well, it's tampering with Marxism because you have sanctions and you bomb their country.

00:44:27.000 So, I mean, if you want to call that Marxism, then if you sanction and bomb them, I guess that's Marxism.

00:44:32.000 Wait, so how have we sanctioned and bombed these Marx? 0.98

00:44:36.000 Like Venezuela.

00:44:37.000 Venezuela has sanctions to where we don't buy their oil anymore.

00:44:40.000 Why do you think we're sanctioning them?

00:44:42.000 Because they have Marxist ideologies that don't cooperate with capitalist ideology.

00:44:46.000 Yeah, they're also like a quasi-terrorist state.

00:44:48.000 But let's talk about Venezuela.

00:44:50.000 Venezuela used to be rich and prosperous when they had the private ownership of minerals.

00:44:54.000 Why is Venezuela now one of the poorest countries in South America?

00:44:58.000 What ideology caused that?

00:45:00.000 See, but that's the thing, though.

00:45:01.000 It's not the ideology, it's the practice.

00:45:03.000 Now, you could say the practice is Marxism, but again, do the workers own the means of production in that country?

00:45:08.000 Somebody does.

00:45:09.000 Yes, somebody does, but not the workers.

00:45:12.000 The government owns.

00:45:12.000 So, I mean, in the purest form of Das Capital Marxism, it is the government that comes in and abolishes private property.

00:45:21.000 Correct?

00:45:22.000 This is, of course, called, I think, the dictatorship of the proletariat, I think, is what you're referring to.

00:45:26.000 Right.

00:45:27.000 So, let me ask you a question.

00:45:28.000 So, you believe in this abstract Marxism that you don't ever want to denounce, even though it's been tried a hundred times.

00:45:36.000 But again, you say try, but we just said that it hasn't been tried because workers haven't owned the means of production.

00:45:40.000 Okay, well, why do you think that is?

00:45:42.000 Because they use the swan song of Marxism, and Marxism will always result in an oligarchy or a dictatorship.

00:45:50.000 Because you know why?

00:45:51.000 It's impossible to, quote-unquote, have the workers owns the means of production because we don't share well as human beings.

00:45:58.000 That's why only someone that has, and with all possible due respect, an infinite understanding of human nature can think communism can work because we're self-interested at our core.

00:46:08.000 And you have an economic system that is built not on private property, but on quote-unquote shared goods, you're going to have a dictator on top of it that is going to exploit and terrorize.

00:46:19.000 And so, you started this conversation by asking me to denounce fascism, which is responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths, said ideology.

00:46:28.000 I'm pleading you one more time to denounce Marxism that is responsible for minimum 100 to 120 million deaths.

00:46:36.000 Okay, academics have proven that wrong.

00:46:38.000 That's from the Black Book of Communism. 0.88

00:46:38.000 That's not true. 0.88

00:46:41.000 How many people did Mao kill?

00:46:42.000 Mao killed about 30 to 40 million.

00:46:44.000 How many people did Stalin kill?

00:46:45.000 Stalin killed about 20 to 30 million.

00:46:47.000 Okay, now we're at like 60 million, and I just mean like two countries, man.

00:46:50.000 Okay, so like we're out of the gate, and we're at like 60 million.

00:46:53.000 Okay, so I can keep on going, right?

00:46:56.000 If you want to talk famine, impoverishing, lowering of standard of living.

00:47:00.000 But what I want to just reiterate as we close this out, there's this pathological fascination with fascism, fascism, fascism, and a complete ignoring that Marxism, which is the other side of the authoritarian coin, has been far deadlier, far more costly, and is far more popular.

00:47:19.000 And I'll ask this final question.

00:47:21.000 What do you think has a greater chance of catching on in America, fascism or Marxism?

00:47:25.000 I would say fascism.

00:47:27.000 Okay?

00:47:28.000 You really think so?

00:47:29.000 I really do believe that.

00:47:31.000 The only way I would possibly agree with that is the left-wing fascists that shut up people on campuses and allow, you know, try to stop freedom of speech.

00:47:31.000 Okay.

00:47:41.000 But what it's just, I'm perplexed by your position and your inability and your unwillingness to denounce Marxism.

00:47:49.000 I don't know how many, maybe another 100 million people dead.

00:47:51.000 Maybe you'd change your mind.

00:47:53.000 Thank you.

00:47:54.000 Thanks.

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00:49:12.000 Hello.

00:49:12.000 Thank you for coming to speak on our campus.

00:49:16.000 So in America, we have a huge problem where additives and preservatives are put in our foods, contributing to cancer and neurological disorders in children.

00:49:28.000 So as a conservative, how do you believe the FDA should be regulated or reformed to improve health for all Americans?

00:49:36.000 It's a great question.

00:49:38.000 Boy, first of all, people need to go to jail for what they did during COVID at the FDA and the CDC.

00:49:43.000 I'll tell you away.

00:49:49.000 I don't have a great technical policy answer, but the FDA is basically purchased by big ag, and we need to divest from high fructose corn syrup.

00:49:58.000 It's one of the great poisons that is creating obesity in this country.

00:50:02.000 And cancer rates are way up, and we don't know why.

00:50:05.000 And it's the Food and Drug Administration's, especially for young people, by the way.

00:50:08.000 It's crazy.

00:50:10.000 And as conservatives, we're pro-business, but we shouldn't be slaves to business.

00:50:15.000 And we should really worry about, okay, so this younger generation is the most suicidal, most alcohol-addicted, most drug-addicted, most anxious, most depressed generation in history.

00:50:25.000 And it's also, we have the most obese country we've ever seen.

00:50:29.000 Isn't that kind of what the FDA and the CDC exist to try to address?

00:50:32.000 And instead, the FDA is, you know, they're like flirting on like DEI, like how racism impacts, you know, food selections.

00:50:42.000 Yeah, look, I think, I think it's not overly complicated.

00:50:46.000 We need to blow up the food triangle that we teach every single kid.

00:50:51.000 We are far too reliant and pushing of carbohydrates and cheap carbohydrates, especially like cereal and bread.

00:51:00.000 And we are not as pushing of lean proteins and fats.

00:51:04.000 There's three types of food.

00:51:05.000 It's protein, fats, carbohydrates.

00:51:06.000 Everything falls into those three things.

00:51:07.000 True.

00:51:08.000 You need two of those, not all three to live.

00:51:10.000 You need proteins and fats.

00:51:10.000 You do not need carbohydrates to lift.

00:51:12.000 It's that simple.

00:51:13.000 Now, you might need carbohydrates to get your blood sugar up, but I cannot emphasize this enough.

00:51:19.000 The FDA, they lied repeatedly during COVID and manipulated their behaviors and covered it up.

00:51:28.000 And I think that we need a truth and reconciliation committee.

00:51:32.000 If Donald Trump becomes the next president of the United States, we need to have a Warren Commission-style report issued for all the lies.

00:51:39.000 Yes, final point on this.

00:51:40.000 So the statistic is about 60% of our foods are processed.

00:51:46.000 Yes.

00:51:47.000 So what is a way you think the FDA can possibly turn that around?

00:51:54.000 It's not as much the FDA.

00:51:56.000 It has to start with a culture change, honestly.

00:51:58.000 And I mean, there's a lot of proposals out there.

00:52:01.000 I'm not that into the weeds of how to actually change that.

00:52:04.000 But the best first way is that you don't have to eat processed foods.

00:52:07.000 You don't have to.

00:52:08.000 In fact, you can reject processed foods and eat whole foods.

00:52:11.000 And I mean, there's a list of the worst things you could possibly eat.

00:52:14.000 And Americans are like the top consumers of those.

00:52:17.000 But I feel as even our whole foods are being poisoned as well through pesticides being put into the soil during planting.

00:52:31.000 And as well as stripping, let's say for bread, example, stripping the wheats of its just natural components.

00:52:41.000 I guess bleached flour would be the best way to put it.

00:52:47.000 All right.

00:52:47.000 Well, thank you for the question.

00:52:48.000 And I totally agree.

00:52:49.000 We have to change the way we eat and change the way we grow food in this country.

00:52:52.000 Thank you.

00:53:00.000 Hello, Charlie Kirk.

00:53:01.000 Thank you so much for coming for Texas Tech.

00:53:04.000 My name is Naylon.

00:53:05.000 I'm one of the Tech Talker Attack Content, your Daily Entertainment, and I did a viral video that you actually commented on.

00:53:14.000 Do you remember?

00:53:15.000 No.

00:53:16.000 Okay, it's how many genders are there, that video.

00:53:21.000 Oh, yeah, okay, yeah, that was you.

00:53:22.000 Okay.

00:53:22.000 Yeah, that was me.

00:53:23.000 A quick question.

00:53:24.000 What did you think about that video?

00:53:26.000 Obviously, I liked it.

00:53:27.000 Yeah.

00:53:28.000 Okay.

00:53:28.000 Cool, cool.

00:53:29.000 All right, so come through.

00:53:30.000 Good work, man.

00:53:31.000 Keep on creating content.

00:53:32.000 Thank you.

00:53:33.000 Exposing them, right?

00:53:34.000 Anyways, the real question is, if you had a power to change the mind of every single liberal of one political issue, what would it be and why?

00:53:43.000 Oh, wow, that's a good question.

00:53:45.000 If I had the power to change their mind on one issue.

00:53:48.000 Very simple.

00:53:49.000 I believe if I could get every single liberal to believe that there was a God and they were not God, the country would be on that prototype.

00:53:57.000 Amen.

00:53:58.000 Amen.

00:53:58.000 Thank you.

00:53:59.000 Thank you.

00:54:00.000 Trump 24.

00:54:02.000 Thank you.

00:54:06.000 Don't worry, I didn't bring any tortillas.

00:54:11.000 So my question pertains to the federal income tax.

00:54:14.000 How was the U.S. government able to fund its spending before the federal income tax was implemented and would going back to that still be functional with how much the U.S. has grown since then?

00:54:24.000 Well, we used to fund it through tariffs mostly.

00:54:27.000 And government was a lot smaller.

00:54:29.000 And we ran into a problem with World War I because we wanted to be able to fund our incursion into World War I.

00:54:35.000 And so we had to also simultaneously pass the Federal Reserve Act, which basically allowed us to print money on demand, which started a hundred-year cycle for us to be able to open up the money supply whenever we want.

00:54:46.000 And you're living at the last gasp of basically cheap money and fiat currency.

00:54:51.000 So you cannot get back to funding the government with lower taxes and or keeping more of your stuff if you don't actually first fix the currency.

00:55:00.000 And the Federal Reserve is turning out to be a disaster for working men and women of this country.

00:55:06.000 If you do not have assets, you get 10% poor every year right now.

00:55:09.000 Minimum.

00:55:09.000 And just look at groceries.

00:55:10.000 That's the best way you could look at it.

00:55:11.000 Look at homes, look at just durable goods.

00:55:13.000 And so the Federal Reserve is the number one place that I would focus at.

00:55:17.000 We're probably already too far down the runway.

00:55:18.000 I mean, we're borrowing a trillion dollars every hundred days at this point.

00:55:21.000 Gotcha.

00:55:22.000 So, is there anything that we could do that if we were to abolish the federal income tax that would get us back to a stronger economy and keeping more of our stuff?

00:55:32.000 Yeah, I mean, the problem is we just have so much government to pay for.

00:55:35.000 We have a $6 trillion federal budget, and we're not even reaching that, right?

00:55:38.000 So, we're borrowing about two and a half to three trillion dollars.

00:55:41.000 We're borrowing almost half, not quite, almost half of the entire federal budget every single year.

00:55:46.000 I would love to be able to abolish the income tax and get rid of the IRS, but we have to significantly cut government spending.

00:55:50.000 We have way too much government spending in this country.

00:55:52.000 We have so much waste, so much abuse.

00:55:54.000 Government is too big, and government used to be a lot smaller.

00:55:58.000 And that's why I kind of started with Texas: the spirit of Texas used to be kind of almost no government.

00:56:03.000 It was the spirit of the West.

00:56:04.000 You take care of yourself.

00:56:05.000 And so, I'd love to get part.

00:56:06.000 I'd love to get back to that.

00:56:08.000 Thank you.

00:56:08.000 God bless.

00:56:09.000 Thank you.

00:56:15.000 First things first, it's an honor to meet you.

00:56:17.000 I love the hat.

00:56:18.000 Oh, thank you.

00:56:19.000 I actually bought it because of you.

00:56:21.000 Yeah, that was the one that I was in Portland, and that young lady threw it on the ground.

00:56:25.000 That's right, when I was wearing it.

00:56:27.000 Lately, I wanted to truly find my faith because I didn't know if in my heart I believed in God or not.

00:56:32.000 And so I went around from church to church and person to person, their different backgrounds, trying to figure out what they believed and why.

00:56:38.000 And I've heard countless arguments everywhere and all sorts of reasons they believe why they believe their faith.

00:56:44.000 But now I'm going to admit, I'm more confused than I've ever been in my life because everyone claims to have a different answer and several different reasons why.

00:56:52.000 I wanted to believe that there's a creator and I might have a purpose, but now I don't know what to believe in, if anything at all.

00:56:58.000 So, what can I or someone else like me do to deal with severe doubts and uncertainty in spiritual guidance, finding meaning, and trying to find the truth?

00:57:05.000 First of all, God bless you for the courage to come up and ask that question.

00:57:08.000 I think that's great.

00:57:15.000 Have you visited a lot of churches too?

00:57:17.000 Is that what you're saying?

00:57:18.000 Yes.

00:57:19.000 So, let me tell you where I think the American evangelical community gets things wrong, especially the last 20 or 30 years.

00:57:25.000 I did not come up with this, but I'm an adoptee.

00:57:27.000 It's by Ray Comfort.

00:57:28.000 You may know him.

00:57:29.000 He's an author and a theologian.

00:57:31.000 And it's very simple: it's that most churches will tell you the following: give your life to Christ, and you're going to have a wonderful life ahead of you.

00:57:40.000 Now, that's partially true.

00:57:42.000 My life is much better thanks to I gave my life to Jesus.

00:57:44.000 But it's not a pain-free life, and it's not an easy life.

00:57:47.000 So, we must start first with the entirety of the scriptures, right?

00:57:52.000 Which starts with the first truth claim: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

00:57:56.000 So, this is, in my personal opinion, I'd love to have you study Aquinas' seven truths of God, self-evident.

00:58:02.000 We have an intelligible world.

00:58:03.000 You look around us, we can discover it, we can know it, we can reason with it.

00:58:07.000 The idea that we even have reason is a belief that there is a creator because it's such an incomprehensible sort of idea.

00:58:14.000 American Christianity gets wrong, though, is that they refuse to ever tell you about the wrath that is awaiting you in the next life, and they only tell you that your life is going to dramatically improve in the short term.

00:58:27.000 So, in the scriptures, we learn, especially in the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments, basically the 10 rules for life.

00:58:33.000 And if you study it very closely, you realize that you break a lot of those commandments sometimes on a daily basis.

00:58:40.000 And so, the more you study the law, the law teaches you about the nature of sin, and it points you to Christ.

00:58:46.000 So, here's a beautiful question during Holy Week: This week we remember that it wasn't just the cool dude, it wasn't just a motivational speaker, it wasn't just a good figure in history.

00:58:56.000 But we, as Christians, believe God incarnate took human flesh to dwell among us, live a perfect life, die an unjust death after doing amazing miracles, performing an incredible ministry, doing things that changed the world forever, died and rose again on the third day, which we celebrate on Sunday.

00:59:15.000 Now, the significance of this is I could give you a million different reasons why that is compelling, right?

00:59:21.000 The fact that we have four different accounts and using historical type analysis, we do not have anything close to that kind of analysis of any sort of historical events that are thousands of years old.

00:59:32.000 I could give you the argument that it was women witnesses that saw Jesus.

00:59:35.000 So, if you were going to make up after he rose from the dead, so if you were going to make something up, why would you have the resurrection story with female witnesses?

00:59:42.000 I can go through all the different stories about how there's never been an archaeological discovery that's contradicted the truth of the Bible.

00:59:48.000 But here's the final thing: you need to just open up your heart more than all that.

00:59:52.000 And so, that's the most important thing.

00:59:54.000 And it's only going to happen through prayer.

00:59:56.000 And it's going to happen through, God, are you real?

01:00:00.000 Jesus come into my life.

01:00:02.000 And I could do all that other stuff, but I could tell you this: that there is a creator.

01:00:06.000 And he left us his word as living evidence to show us exactly how to live, what he's done, the purpose for all of us.

01:00:15.000 And I can understand that you're confused, but understand that there might be a million different answers of how they see the universe, but there's only one truth and there's only one life.

01:00:23.000 And this Holy Week, my prayer for you is that you'll consider and welcome Jesus Christ into your heart, who will transform you and will save you from the wrath that is to come and save you from what happens because we cannot live under God's perfect and pleasing will.

01:00:41.000 Do you have a follow-up?

01:00:44.000 No, that's all I have.

01:00:45.000 I want to thank you for that.

01:00:46.000 I'm going to pray for you.

01:00:47.000 What's your name?

01:00:48.000 God, please work in Cameron's life this holy week.

01:00:48.000 My name is Cameron.

01:00:51.000 We pray that your Holy Spirit will move.

01:00:53.000 And Cameron, God bless you for your courage.

01:00:55.000 And Lord, we pray for your Holy Spirit to enter Cameron.

01:00:58.000 We'll be praying for you in Jesus' name.

01:00:59.000 God bless you, Cameron.

01:01:00.000 Amen.

01:01:07.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:01:08.000 My name is Catherine.

01:01:09.000 I'm freaking out right now.

01:01:10.000 Oh, my gosh.

01:01:11.000 This is really cool.

01:01:12.000 I wish I could talk to you about anything and everything.

01:01:14.000 I'm from El Paso, so I live with the border crisis.

01:01:18.000 I know exactly what we're dealing with.

01:01:20.000 I've seen tons of illegal immigrants get cuffed on the way to school and stuff like that.

01:01:26.000 It's kind of crazy. 0.99

01:01:28.000 But I wanted to talk about abortion, something that's very sucks, and I hate it. 0.99

01:01:33.000 And I wish that we could make it illegal right now. 0.97

01:01:37.000 I am curious as to see how you're going to respond with the foster care system because it's a very broken system.

01:01:44.000 And I know there's like a lot of women that just give up their babies and they don't have anywhere to go.

01:01:52.000 So my question is, what are the steps to take for such poor systems?

01:01:56.000 And should we make abortion illegal first, then the foster care system to take care after that?

01:02:01.000 Or how should we go?

01:02:02.000 Yes, so the foster care system is too hard to navigate.

01:02:05.000 My solution is not loved by the left, which is I think that Christian ministries and churches should help facilitate the adoption of children as a kind of an easier clearinghouse than the government.

01:02:18.000 There are a million abortions in this country every single year.

01:02:21.000 There are two million couples on the adoption waiting list.

01:02:25.000 I think it needs to be all simultaneous.

01:02:27.000 And we also hopefully can try to make abortion an unthinkable act in this country and one that is harder and harder to do.

01:02:33.000 You guys here in West Texas have done a great job of that.

01:02:36.000 And you guys should be really encouraged for your heroism and your bravery in that regard.

01:02:41.000 But the rest of the country is leaning more into abortion more so than ever before.

01:02:46.000 And it's happening in a horrific way.

01:02:48.000 But yes, as far as the foster care system, the only issue I have, it needs to be done in a way where you cannot allow predators an easier way to get their hands on children.

01:02:57.000 Because a lot of people still game the foster care system.

01:03:00.000 And there's two things.

01:03:01.000 They're not foster care and adoption.

01:03:03.000 They're technically two different things, but they are related.

01:03:06.000 And the adoption system in this country is absolutely messed up.

01:03:10.000 It's beyond screwed up in a lot of different ways.

01:03:12.000 So all of the above type approach.

01:03:15.000 Thank you so much for keeping me here.

01:03:15.000 Okay, awesome.

01:03:22.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:03:23.000 My name is Riley, and I'm very excited that you're here.

01:03:26.000 I love listening to your speeches and debates.

01:03:28.000 My question is, in a world where society teaches promiscuity as a healthy part of dating, what would be your best advice to counter it?

01:03:37.000 It's a great question.

01:03:38.000 Well, first, just say no to hookup culture and save yourself for marriage.

01:03:41.000 That is the first thing that I would say. 0.99

01:03:43.000 And we don't talk enough about piety, and you should just save yourself for your eventual partner.

01:03:51.000 And if you've already not done that, then you just start now, right?

01:03:55.000 If you've already, you know, it's not too late to start now.

01:03:57.000 It's not like, well, I've already broken that, and might as well keep on going.

01:04:01.000 That's a bad argument, so don't do that.

01:04:04.000 But everything comes at a price. 0.99

01:04:05.000 And especially for young women, free sex does not impact both sexes equally.

01:04:10.000 Free sex is far more damaging to women than it is for men. 0.76

01:04:13.000 It's damaging for men, but it is far more damaging to women than it is for men.

01:04:16.000 Because women view sex very personal, very relational. 0.99

01:04:20.000 Men view sex differently, and that's just how God wired us, right? 0.98

01:04:24.000 And far less so than women. 0.99

01:04:27.000 So how do you reject it?

01:04:29.000 You need to try to embrace piety.

01:04:31.000 Try to find other friends that are not into hookup culture.

01:04:34.000 Pray for your future husband.

01:04:36.000 And I could tell you that if you are saving yourself for marriage, you become a very, very attractive individual for men where all they see is OnlyFans girls walking all over the place and these digital prostitutes that are willing to sell themselves for $10 a month. 0.68

01:04:52.000 And so, which it is, it's digital prostitution if you have an OnlyFans page, right? 0.76

01:04:56.000 And by the way, for those of you that are men that have OnlyFans accounts, you're no better than the girls that are selling bodies, by the way. 0.64

01:05:03.000 You're subsidizing modern-day digital prostitution.

01:05:06.000 So it goes both ways. 0.90

01:05:07.000 Okay?

01:05:08.000 Goes both ways.

01:05:10.000 So there are a lot of great men in this country.

01:05:14.000 And then my advice is try to get married early.

01:05:16.000 Try to get married early.

01:05:18.000 I'm a big proponent of this. 0.99

01:05:19.000 The hardest emails I have to read are early 30-something women who waited, were not able to find a partner, and they earn a good living. 1.00

01:05:28.000 They live in Dallas. 1.00

01:05:30.000 They have a nice apartment.

01:05:31.000 They're a partner at a law firm, and they have a lot of cats.

01:05:34.000 Thank you so much.

01:05:36.000 Thank you.

01:05:42.000 Hey, Charlie, my name's Ben.

01:05:44.000 Thank you so much for being here.

01:05:46.000 And my question for you is, do you believe that the 2020 election was rigged?

01:05:50.000 And if so, what can people do who do not support Biden do to prevent it from happening again without stooping to the level of radical leftists that we hate so much?

01:06:00.000 It's a great question.

01:06:01.000 Yes, it was rigged.

01:06:03.000 Yeah, it's a great question.

01:06:04.000 I love Texas Tech.

01:06:05.000 This is great.

01:06:11.000 This is not Austin.

01:06:15.000 I've spoken there.

01:06:16.000 This is a lot different.

01:06:18.000 Yes, it was rigged.

01:06:19.000 Let's be very clear.

01:06:19.000 How was it rigged?

01:06:20.000 Well, first, the one that we can all agree upon that we don't talk about enough, it was rigged through information warfare.

01:06:25.000 One particular element was the Hunter Biden laptop.

01:06:29.000 We were not allowed to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop on social media, on Twitter, on Facebook.

01:06:33.000 The New York Post lost access to their Twitter account.

01:06:36.000 In fact, it was so bad that 50 former Intel agency officials came out and they said that the Hunter Biden laptop was hallmark Russian disinformation, which then was used as a reason to censor this entire story.

01:06:50.000 That very well could have been a decisive, in fact, polling shows that could have tilted the 2020 election to get Donald Trump re-elected in 2020.

01:06:58.000 Just that one issue.

01:06:59.000 Not to mention all of the collusion between the FBI and Facebook, the Central Intelligence Agency, Five Eyes.

01:07:07.000 And so they used all this different censorship through information warfare to stop dissident voices that we have now proven.

01:07:15.000 Second part of rigging is you had $400 million from Mark Zuckerberg that was pumped in to urban centers across the country through the Center for Technology and Civic Life that created these drop boxes that allowed mass mail-in voting to continue and to be really, really widespread.

01:07:33.000 People need to be held criminally accountable for what they did in the 2020 election because it was a drive-by shooting for the U.S. Constitution.

01:07:39.000 Finally, there's the mail-in ballots, which is we had a lot of shenanigans and activity.

01:07:44.000 This is harder to prove in a court of law, but we know that this occurred, that we have mass voter universal voter registration, tons of mail-in ballots that were sent all over.

01:07:53.000 We did not have robust signature verification.

01:07:55.000 We had days and days and days where they're counting the ballots, and people's faith and integrity in that system went down.

01:08:01.000 So let me tell you what we can do.

01:08:02.000 Let's go through the list.

01:08:03.000 Number one, Twitter has new ownership now, thankfully, and I think it's one of the reasons why we have a fighting chance to compete in November.

01:08:12.000 Number two, this is why, albeit I'm a very big critic of Speaker Johnson at times, I have him coming on the show in a couple days, we have to make sure that we all of a sudden don't hand over the gavel to Speaker Jeffries because we need the ability to have oversight hearings in the middle of the election if we believe any of these tech companies are interfering with our ability to basically have the 2024 election operate without the narrative being interrupted.

01:08:36.000 And then finally, the mail-in ballot thing is the toughest question.

01:08:40.000 Wisconsin has minorly changed their laws.

01:08:41.000 Georgia a little bit.

01:08:42.000 Arizona is still kind of a mess.

01:08:45.000 But we have to play with the rules in front of us, which is why at turning point action, we're kind of taking, we're kind of, you know, it's kind of taking the cough medicine.

01:08:53.000 We realize it's not the best thing for us, but we're going to do it.

01:08:55.000 We're hiring hundreds of full-time on-the-ground ballot chasers to go chase early ballots, and we're going to try to use the rules that they have built against them to, God willing, you know, get towards victory in November.

01:09:07.000 So no guarantees, but we're going to try our best.

01:09:09.000 Thank you so much.

01:09:10.000 Thank you.

01:09:11.000 You disagree, guys.

01:09:13.000 We'll get you on up there.

01:09:14.000 Yes, we'll keep going for a little bit.

01:09:15.000 Yeah.

01:09:15.000 All right.

01:09:16.000 My name is James.

01:09:17.000 It's honestly an honor to meet you or talk in front of you.

01:09:20.000 I'm actually nervous as crap.

01:09:21.000 Sorry. 0.61

01:09:22.000 Pardon my French.

01:09:23.000 But earlier on the border crisis that you mentioned, you mentioned Harris County, and that is where I'm from.

01:09:29.000 And it is a war zone.

01:09:30.000 My friends have been shot at in Whataburger parking lots.

01:09:34.000 Road rages, incidents are awful.

01:09:36.000 People are getting gunned down, chased in the parking lots, beaten, dragged out of their cars.

01:09:41.000 But lately, I'm also looking at the news because everyone knows that are my friends.

01:09:45.000 I hate Joe Biden with a passion. 0.87

01:09:46.000 Like, I cannot stand that man.

01:09:50.000 And I'm looking right now, and apparently they're like, oh, he is winning in the polls.

01:09:54.000 He just boosted up.

01:09:56.000 And part of my question is, is that true? 1.00

01:10:00.000 Or is that a bunch of bull crap? 1.00

01:10:01.000 Because I think it's bull. 1.00

01:10:03.000 Well, yeah, he's winning in some polls.

01:10:06.000 I mean, look, we can't get too cocky.

01:10:08.000 This is important.

01:10:09.000 They control so much in this country.

01:10:10.000 They control the media.

01:10:11.000 They control Goldman Sachs.

01:10:13.000 They control Citibank.

01:10:14.000 They control the social media companies.

01:10:16.000 So in certain states, Biden has the election apparatus kind of at his hand.

01:10:21.000 This thing's going to be very close.

01:10:23.000 It shouldn't be.

01:10:24.000 It should be a 50-state wipeout, but it's going to be very close.

01:10:28.000 And we have to walk into this thing, not cocky, but humble, and ask God to use us as faithful servants and to say, use us as your vessel.

01:10:37.000 Use us for your will.

01:10:39.000 But I would just tell your friends, like, let's not just, let's not poll watch.

01:10:42.000 You know, let's see what the final result is because you could drive yourself crazy.

01:10:45.000 Because some polls show that Donald Trump is up.

01:10:48.000 And look, we cannot be arrogant.

01:10:49.000 That's one of the most important things.

01:10:51.000 It's easy if you just go to events like this around to think like we are the majority.

01:10:56.000 I think we are the majority.

01:10:57.000 But we don't have an election system that represents the will of the people as accurately as we did 20 or 30 years ago.

01:11:03.000 You got to be honest about that.

01:11:04.000 I think we have to be humble, work our tail off, and then on election day, pray to God that he'll have mercy on this great nation.

01:11:10.000 Another question I have.

01:11:12.000 Yeah, really quick.

01:11:13.000 All right.

01:11:13.000 So I've seen you on Instagram and all those people that are censoring your speech, because my job actually did that because I posted something on Instagram against Palestine, and someone told my boss about that, and I got removed.

01:11:25.000 How do you deal with that?

01:11:26.000 Because they're screaming F off fascists, and you're just sitting there calmly.

01:11:29.000 How do you deal with it?

01:11:31.000 Yeah, here's my best answer to that.

01:11:34.000 My natural temperament is actually to kind of get upset, but only thanks to the fruit of the Spirit do I have self-control.

01:11:43.000 And I'm going to do my best here, but I think it's love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control.

01:11:51.000 I know I forgot one.

01:11:53.000 Which one did I forget?

01:11:54.000 Joy.

01:11:55.000 Well, yeah.

01:11:56.000 And faithfulness.

01:11:57.000 See, I did my best, okay?

01:12:00.000 I remember the end of it.

01:12:01.000 Self-control.

01:12:02.000 But honestly, dive into the scriptures, pray for it, and you will be given it.

01:12:06.000 It is the fruit of the Spirit. 0.90

01:12:08.000 And without the Spirit, I'd be screaming something back to them when they say F off fascist.

01:12:14.000 So thanks to God's infinite mercy.

01:12:16.000 It really is.

01:12:17.000 Thank you so much, and let's go, Brandon.

01:12:18.000 Okay, thank you.

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01:13:36.000 Mr. Charlie Kirk, it's an honor to meet you.

01:13:38.000 I've been following you since 2020.

01:13:41.000 I'm in love with you.

01:13:42.000 Not in love with you.

01:13:43.000 Sorry.

01:13:44.000 Not San Francisco, man.

01:13:46.000 I'll just mess with you.

01:13:48.000 But so I'm a country artist.

01:13:50.000 My name is Nate Reed.

01:13:50.000 I'm on Spotify and everything.

01:13:53.000 But the reason my question is about TikTok, because I use TikTok as a platform to reach fans.

01:13:59.000 And I've heard on the news everything going on with TikTok being shut down because China and the CC is stealing all the information and stuff and using that to take our identities and stuff. 0.74

01:14:12.000 Is that true?

01:14:13.000 And if so, what are we going to do about it?

01:14:16.000 Yeah, no, that's a great thing.

01:14:18.000 So the bill has passed the House to not ban TikTok, but to make it be sold to an American company.

01:14:25.000 With that being said, and I could go on about all the negatives that tick, TikTok has literally shortened the attention span of young people.

01:14:34.000 It has been the introductory vessel for the trans ideology in this country and his getting younger and younger people introduced the idea of gender dysphoria, which leads to their disfiguration and chemical castration. 0.99

01:14:47.000 Side note, any doctor, because I know there's a big medical center here, any doctor that butchers a child under transgender care should go to jail for the rest of their life.

01:14:57.000 Period. 0.75

01:14:58.000 Okay?

01:15:00.000 That just needs to be said.

01:15:03.000 With that being said, I actually oppose this bill because I don't trust the government and I don't trust all of a sudden speeding this bill through Congress because I think it's going to be used against us.

01:15:13.000 I think that it will be used to censor us, and I can't stand TikTok.

01:15:17.000 So, I actually think I have one of the best arguments because I don't benefit from TikTok.

01:15:22.000 I fight them every day.

01:15:24.000 They've banned me, again, as I've said so many times.

01:15:26.000 But with that being said, I would rather not give that power to the Biden regime to be able to censor our social media to be able to demand that they're sold.

01:15:34.000 Way too much power that I don't want to give.

01:15:37.000 And another reason is we're starting to see the golden era of the internet re-emerge.

01:15:41.000 Again, I'm not on TikTok, but I'm told that conservatives and Trump supporters are doing very, very well on TikTok.

01:15:47.000 That's what I'm told.

01:15:48.000 And that the message is getting out.

01:15:50.000 In fact, someone said, Charlie, some of your videos have like 30 million views on TikTok.

01:15:53.000 I said, okay, well, you know, not on my video.

01:15:55.000 People repost my stuff, which I don't care.

01:15:56.000 It's whatever.

01:15:58.000 But I'm glad you're benefiting from it.

01:16:00.000 Worst case scenario, it will be sold to an American company, but then we'll all of a sudden have transferred all this power to Joe Biden.

01:16:06.000 And if there's anything we have learned in recent years, power you give to the government will be power abused.

01:16:11.000 Thank you so much.

01:16:16.000 Hey, what's going on, Charlie?

01:16:19.000 I appreciate you being here.

01:16:20.000 You know, it's my first time being at an event like this.

01:16:22.000 I've always watched from YouTube, but you know, my first time here.

01:16:25.000 My question is more about parenting.

01:16:27.000 So, me personally, I'm a young adult.

01:16:30.000 I'm in the service, and I have my wife here with me, and we're about to have a kid.

01:16:34.000 So, yeah, so it's going to be my obviously, you know, it's going to be my first kid.

01:16:43.000 I'm nervous like a normal parent.

01:16:44.000 But one of the biggest things that's, you know, things that's ranging on my conscience as I'm about to be in a dad, you know, is just the environment I'm raising my kid in.

01:16:53.000 So, like, I was lucky to be born in a time where it was less, you know, chaotic with all these like gender this, gender that, LGBT, A, B, C, D, whatever you want to call it. 0.99

01:17:02.000 Like, all that stuff was not as relevant when I was growing up, but my kid, you know, is about to come into a time where I feel like we're fighting to know what man and woman is.

01:17:11.000 And that's something that's like super basic to me growing up.

01:17:14.000 So, like, me as a dad, the last thing I want to do is to hear my, you know, my son come back to me saying, hey, dad, I'm going to a college to hear about what a man and woman is.

01:17:22.000 Even though, you know, 15 years down the line, I'm like, yeah, I did that back when I was, you know, age or whatever.

01:17:26.000 So, like, that's my biggest question: is like, how do I have the confidence in knowing that the life that I'm about to bring into this world is something that I can at least control to some point?

01:17:36.000 You know, God controls everything, but it's something I can control at some point where I don't have him going, you know, having to fight these trials or these weird people out here.

01:17:44.000 What a great question.

01:17:45.000 Isn't that just terrific?

01:17:46.000 I love that.

01:17:51.000 I'm a new father.

01:17:52.000 We have a 20-month-old, so I'm by no means an expert.

01:17:54.000 But you'll learn that kids spell love, T-I-M-E.

01:17:59.000 And that's one of the most important things that as a father, every minute of time that you can spend is valuable and precious, right?

01:18:07.000 It's not as easy.

01:18:08.000 You might have to, you know, serve and be deployed and all that.

01:18:11.000 It's the most important thing you can do.

01:18:13.000 Remember, the scriptures tell us children are a blessing of the Lord, and you are the guardian of that child, right?

01:18:18.000 Which means you must protect that child from outside influences.

01:18:22.000 There are three types of people in this world: there are predators, there are infants, and the protectors of infants.

01:18:28.000 You fall into one of those three categories.

01:18:30.000 So you're about to welcome an infant into the world.

01:18:33.000 Your job is to protect the infant from the predators.

01:18:36.000 And the predators take many different forms through groomers, through social media toxins, through criminals, through all these different things.

01:18:44.000 And especially as the head of the household, the male, you must constantly be looking at the threats, right?

01:18:51.000 You must constantly be looking at the attack vectors because there is a growing, unregulated, unchecked community of predators in this country that are coming after children younger and younger and younger.

01:19:03.000 And that is not an exaggeration.

01:19:04.000 We call them groomers.

01:19:06.000 They're in our schools.

01:19:07.000 They're in our society.

01:19:08.000 And it's you as the father to instill values from a very young age.

01:19:11.000 And so I'm by no means an expert, but I could tell you this: I've seen over many years parents that have brought their kids to turning point events, parents that have exposed their kids these ideas, and it bears fruit.

01:19:23.000 The earlier you introduce them to these ideas, the earlier you get them excited about Jesus and the word and the scriptures.

01:19:29.000 And the final thing is the creepy thing that I've learned-not creepy-is how much even an 18-month mimics the parents' behavior and how much that they are in the mold.

01:19:38.000 Everything you do, from what you say to how you act.

01:19:41.000 So, not as if there's like enough pressure already on you, right?

01:19:44.000 No, right?

01:19:45.000 But look at that as like, I got to be the best version myself.

01:19:48.000 And as soon as you get married, you are no longer a boy and you become a man.

01:19:54.000 But when you become a father, a whole different thing comes in, right?

01:19:57.000 Because becoming a husband is awesome, and that you'll always have that.

01:20:02.000 Father is like a different level, right?

01:20:04.000 And balancing the paranoia with the fun times is something that all of us new fathers have to realize.

01:20:11.000 And I get told this all the time from parents: I don't know if I would have kept my head if I had to raise a kid in today's America.

01:20:18.000 I get that told all the time because it's just a different world.

01:20:21.000 But with God, God, all things are possible.

01:20:23.000 Amen.

01:20:24.000 God bless you, man.

01:20:25.000 Thank you.

01:20:32.000 Hello, my name's Carly, and like as everyone else has said, thank you for coming.

01:20:38.000 So, as a woman who has played sports ever since I was a little girl, went to play Division I basketball in college.

01:20:47.000 What is the cure to the problem of transgender playing college and women's sports? 1.00

01:20:54.000 Great question.

01:20:56.000 The men of this country need to demand that biological men will never, ever be able to compete in female sports again. 0.96

01:21:02.000 We need to draw a line, and this is unacceptable. 0.94

01:21:09.000 They are narcissists, they're cheats, they got deep-seated mental problems, and they need counseling, and they don't need us to affirm their gender dysphoria so they can cheat their way to victory in weightlifting and swimming in wrestling. 1.00

01:21:25.000 Then, finally, this is a harder ask, but female athletes need to start to do massive boycotts. 0.94

01:21:31.000 And I know this is a big ask, but we need to get to a place where if a biological man is competing against females in a championship or in a consequential sporting event, the biological women just say, We're not competing, we're not going to do it. 1.00

01:21:44.000 We're going to do a sit-out, we're going to do a walkout. 1.00

01:21:47.000 This needs to become a movement, and shame on the NCAA and Charlie Baker that has allowed women to be preyed upon. 1.00

01:21:56.000 Remember, three types of people. 0.85

01:21:59.000 And Charlie Baker at the NCAA, former Republican governor of Massachusetts, fumbles over himself on this issue because he's afraid of the alphabet mafia.

01:22:12.000 He's afraid to stand up to the transgender jihadis who go after you viciously and they say, You must affirm because I'm a girl.

01:22:22.000 No, actually, Mr. Thomas, you are not a girl. 1.00

01:22:26.000 You're a cheater who is dressing like a girl. 1.00

01:22:30.000 And you're a perv and you're a creep. 1.00

01:22:33.000 And you're not even that good of a swimmer when you compete against biological men. 0.99

01:22:39.000 And we have done a lot of speaking events with Riley Gaines, who has done more to expose the insanity and the darkness within this.

01:22:48.000 But the women's sports thing is just one element of this. 0.98

01:22:51.000 The only way you fix it is you say no. 1.00

01:22:54.000 No, you actually can't compete here.

01:22:56.000 And here's the solution.

01:22:57.000 People say, what's the solution?

01:22:58.000 First of all, you're acting as if it's a problem.

01:23:01.000 Okay, Mr. Thomas, you can use whatever name you want.

01:23:04.000 Just swim with the boys.

01:23:06.000 You could call yourself a girl.

01:23:08.000 Swim with the boys.

01:23:09.000 If you win, which you won't because you're not very good. 0.97

01:23:12.000 We'll say that you're a transgender swimmer.

01:23:14.000 Oh, so we have to reconfigure the entire sporting process for a fringe minority. 1.00

01:23:22.000 So we can no longer have standards of excellence with just females. 0.99

01:23:26.000 We now have to insult all the women that have worked their life to become the best in their sport or their craft so that somebody who has higher testosterone, more bone density, higher muscle mass, more lung capacity can scoot on over and cheat themselves to victory. 1.00

01:23:42.000 The NCAA, they're facing some big lawsuits, and they're going to be judged in history for their cowardice and their silence and turning their back on women.

01:23:50.000 Thank you.

01:23:51.000 Thank you.

01:23:57.000 We'll take a couple more.

01:23:59.000 And if you disagree with final call, it is Lovek, so we got two disagreements.

01:24:02.000 So there you go.

01:24:02.000 Yeah.

01:24:03.000 Hi, nice to meet you.

01:24:05.000 So the right kind of has a reputation of being uncool.

01:24:08.000 And what can we do both?

01:24:10.000 What can each of us do individually?

01:24:12.000 And what can we do collectively to kind of dispel that?

01:24:14.000 Yeah, I mean, I don't know what even being cool means anymore.

01:24:18.000 Like, I mean, I don't really care about being cool.

01:24:22.000 I care about being right.

01:24:24.000 And, I mean, you kind of look at, I could name three people that wouldn't be considered cool that could draw bigger crowds than like your everyday rapper.

01:24:31.000 Like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Matt Walsh would draw a bigger crowd on most campuses than like a cool celebrity.

01:24:38.000 And so the left is also making themselves uncool.

01:24:42.000 Like being the pronoun police and going around constantly censoring people's speech, there's zero countercultural energy on the left.

01:24:51.000 They control everything.

01:24:53.000 And, you know, being young and being cool is kind of being countercultural.

01:24:58.000 So, and if you're a real rebel in high school, are you a liberal?

01:25:01.000 No, you kind of just fit in.

01:25:02.000 You wear your mask and you take every Pfizer vaccine and like, you know, use the right pronouns.

01:25:07.000 If you want to be a rebel, wear a MAGA hat to your local high school.

01:25:12.000 That's being a rebel.

01:25:13.000 Thank you.

01:25:14.000 Thank you.

01:25:14.000 Thank you so much.

01:25:19.000 Hi, thank you for being here.

01:25:21.000 My name is Caleb.

01:25:22.000 So my question's got a little bit of background, so I apologize.

01:25:26.000 But just start off, I believe dating is for marriage.

01:25:29.000 I believe dating for the sake of dating is futile.

01:25:31.000 That is something that I believe is backed up by the Bible, as it seems clear that dating for the sake of dating or for fun is a recipe to fall into sexual immorality.

01:25:39.000 I believe that people should save themselves for marriage. 1.00

01:25:41.000 I've been dating my current girlfriend for almost a year and a half, and we both agree with this sentiment.

01:25:46.000 Some of our friends at church say they agree with us, but what they say, but then they say that before they look to settle down, they want to date around and find what kind of people they like.

01:25:55.000 And while they do not see it like this, their argument sounds very similar to the idea that people should sleep around to find their sexual preferences before settling down.

01:26:03.000 I believe this idea that people should date around is a path towards sin.

01:26:06.000 How should my girlfriend and I go about explaining our point of view and the dangers of dating casually in our modern world?

01:26:14.000 Yeah, I mean, just go back to scripture.

01:26:16.000 If you're talking to Christians, cohabitation is a sin, period. 1.00

01:26:21.000 And to live with another, if you are not married, just invites sexual immorality. 0.71

01:26:26.000 And so, yeah, I mean, how you explain it, you shouldn't have to explain it.

01:26:30.000 You have what hopefully they would want, which is you're saving yourself for marriage.

01:26:33.000 And let's talk about why it's important to save yourself for marriage.

01:26:36.000 Sex is the most personal, intimate thing that God gave us.

01:26:41.000 And so why would you want to share that with anything other than the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, your soulmate, where you become one with that individual?

01:26:49.000 Why would you want to all of a sudden be like, well, I've shared that now with seven other people.

01:26:52.000 I don't even remember five of their names.

01:26:54.000 You have now diluted the most beautiful and dare I say almost holy thing that God gave us between men and women. 0.99

01:27:02.000 It destroys it.

01:27:04.000 It deteriorates it.

01:27:05.000 It waters it down.

01:27:07.000 And the church has not done a good enough job of really holding up this ideal of marriage because they want to fit into modern culture, which is get married earlier.

01:27:16.000 Save yourself from marriage.

01:27:18.000 And so how you navigate it, just go back to scripture.

01:27:20.000 That's how I would.

01:27:21.000 And honestly, don't worry that if your friends really believe that, they might not be that close of friends, to be perfectly honest.

01:27:28.000 So I have one follow-up to that.

01:27:30.000 Their point of view isn't that they're going to go and act promiscuous.

01:27:34.000 They just think that they should go date a few people and just expect it to work out well, that nothing's actually going to happen, that they're going to move from person to person to person until they find the right one, and that somehow they're going to stay cure.

01:27:46.000 I don't think that's going to happen.

01:27:48.000 Yeah, I mean, again, well, so are they dating or are they shopping?

01:27:52.000 I think they're shopping.

01:27:53.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:27:54.000 So they just need to use the right term. 0.83

01:27:56.000 So dating is the practice.

01:27:59.000 And again, you can date multiple people before you get married.

01:28:02.000 Let me be very clear.

01:28:03.000 But every one of those dates or the people you date with must be the intention.

01:28:07.000 The first question is, is this someone I can spend the rest of my life with?

01:28:10.000 You need to say that in the first five minutes.

01:28:12.000 It's not like, is this person attractive?

01:28:13.000 Do I like this person?

01:28:15.000 No, no.

01:28:16.000 And if that question becomes further, all of a sudden answers itself, well, then the date is over.

01:28:21.000 Does that make sense?

01:28:22.000 So if they're dating with the intent to marry, then yes, you can have multiple partners that you can date.

01:28:28.000 However, most of those people that do that, they're kind of dating more for sport than they are for actual marriage.

01:28:33.000 Okay.

01:28:33.000 Thank you.

01:28:35.000 We'll do a couple more.

01:28:39.000 Hey, how's it going, Charlie?

01:28:40.000 How are you?

01:28:41.000 Awesome.

01:28:42.000 I just had a quick question.

01:28:44.000 So you obviously believe that there's a heaven and a hell and there's a God and there's a devil, yes.

01:28:49.000 I was just going to speed up the question.

01:28:51.000 Do you believe the Antichrist is alive right now?

01:28:54.000 I don't know.

01:28:54.000 Could be.

01:28:55.000 I don't know.

01:28:56.000 Also, can I say a quick prayer for you real quick?

01:28:58.000 That's okay.

01:28:58.000 Sure.

01:29:00.000 Dear Holy Father, Lord, thank you for his dead.

01:29:01.000 Thank you for just bringing Charlie to this event, Lord.

01:29:05.000 We're so blessed to have him, Lord.

01:29:07.000 I pray that as his travels go on, Lord, that you'll just keep him safe, him and his family, Lord.

01:29:11.000 And just thank you for blessing him to be a father, Lord.

01:29:14.000 Just so amazed for that, Lord.

01:29:16.000 Just pray you keep him safe, Lord.

01:29:17.000 In Jesus' name, amen.

01:29:19.000 Beautiful, man.

01:29:20.000 Thank you.

01:29:22.000 Thank you.

01:29:24.000 Going to sign it?

01:29:25.000 Yeah, we'll get it signed.

01:29:26.000 Just go right over there.

01:29:27.000 We'll do it.

01:29:27.000 Thanks, man.

01:29:28.000 Do you have a pen?

01:29:29.000 Happy to sign it.

01:29:30.000 Thanks for the prayer.

01:29:45.000 All right.

01:29:45.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:29:46.000 How are you?

01:29:46.000 First of all, I just want to say thank you for coming to Texas Tech.

01:29:49.000 I just want to also note firsthand, I have seen the rise in the conservative movement for Zoomers, as we're called, firsthand.

01:29:56.000 I am a political activist.

01:29:57.000 I have worked for Congressman Richard Hudson, and I am also a member of Turning Point USA, Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

01:30:04.000 So like I say, you are doing good work, and Zoomers are very much growing to be conservative. 1.00

01:30:09.000 So before I ask my question, I want to give some context on why I believe what I believe.

01:30:13.000 My dad died while deployed with the Army overseas, and I'm also about to leave for the Army next month.

01:30:18.000 So thank you.

01:30:22.000 So obviously, I'm I in the current state of global affairs with Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Iran, China.

01:30:29.000 So my question for you is, even though I'm a conservative, my main issue with the current state of the GOP seems to be that they want to tuck their tail and resort back to a 1900s isolationist movement that ultimately failed.

01:30:41.000 Do you believe that U.S. global hegemony is under attack, and do you think that it's in the interest of America to maintain a strong aggressive foreign policy towards countries like Russia, China, Iran, and Palestine, which doesn't exist, who continue to continuously undermine our interests in our sphere of influence?

01:31:00.000 Some of that I agree with.

01:31:02.000 I'm not sold on the Russia thing.

01:31:04.000 I don't think that we should.

01:31:05.000 I know this is the provocative thing.

01:31:07.000 I don't know why we're enemies with Russia.

01:31:09.000 I don't understand it.

01:31:10.000 I'm not saying they're good. 1.00

01:31:10.000 They're a bunch of gangsters and thugs. 1.00

01:31:13.000 But keeping Russia neutral was one of the best moves of Donald Trump. 0.95

01:31:17.000 And honestly, we fought alongside the Russians to defeat the Nazis in World War II.

01:31:22.000 It would have been geopolitically smart not to antagonize them.

01:31:26.000 We are now closer and closer to a war with Russia that has no national security interest whatsoever. 0.79

01:31:31.000 In fact, I believe the Mexican drug cartels pose a far greater threat to America than Russia does. 0.89

01:31:38.000 To answer your question, I push back against some of my conservative friends where we agree on that issue.

01:31:45.000 I do believe that America should remain the benevolent superpower.

01:31:48.000 I do.

01:31:48.000 However, that is being abused by the current regime and the neoliberal order.

01:31:53.000 I am not a neoliberal.

01:31:55.000 I do not believe.

01:31:55.000 I'm not either.

01:31:56.000 I'm a neoconservative.

01:31:56.000 No, I know.

01:31:58.000 Well, a neoliberal is a neoconservative.

01:32:00.000 So I don't believe we should invade the world and invite the world.

01:32:02.000 I think the Iraq war was a mistake. 0.99

01:32:04.000 I think that we stayed in Afghanistan far too long.

01:32:07.000 And the way that Joe Biden withdrew was obviously an insult to the country, an insult to all of us.

01:32:11.000 And I think that the last 20 years has been more foreign policy failures than successes out of Washington, D.C. With that being said, with the rise of China, I do believe that we should have a strong sword and be willing to wave it, because I believe that the Chinese Communist Party is one of the great adversaries, not Russia. 0.55

01:32:29.000 And so that would be my personal take on that.

01:32:32.000 And endless wars have been a big issue.

01:32:34.000 And we have to understand that there is a national security state, an intel apparatus in D.C., that does not exist to try to win wars, but keep them going, keep themselves getting rich, and keep on sending people like you to go fight in those no-win wars.

01:32:47.000 So I think I'm somewhat of a moderate in your question in that sense.

01:32:51.000 Some agree, some disagree.

01:32:52.000 Yes, sir.

01:32:53.000 Thank you.

01:32:53.000 I also have something for you.

01:32:55.000 Oh, you got something?

01:32:55.000 Cool.

01:32:56.000 I'm getting all these gifts.

01:32:57.000 I love this.

01:33:00.000 Oh, thank you so much.

01:33:01.000 God bless you, man.

01:33:02.000 Thank you.

01:33:06.000 You said this was your dad's?

01:33:08.000 Oh, my gosh.

01:33:09.000 Wow.

01:33:11.000 Wow.

01:33:12.000 That's really...

01:33:13.000 Thank you, man.

01:33:14.000 God bless his service.

01:33:15.000 Wow.

01:33:15.000 Well, that was a great event, everybody.

01:33:17.000 I want to close with just a couple thoughts.

01:33:19.000 This is a very, very consequential year.

01:33:20.000 And you guys, it might feel safe.

01:33:22.000 It might feel comfortable here in West Texas.

01:33:24.000 We need West Texas to roar in 2024. 0.80

01:33:27.000 We need every single one of you to stay engaged, to stay involved.

01:33:31.000 We need to run up the score here, support your local turning point chapter, get involved in the local community, and understand the progressive Eastern forces are coming here, and they're trying to organize.

01:33:43.000 They're trying to mobilize.

01:33:45.000 You have to stay on your guard.

01:33:46.000 You have to stay constantly understanding that they're trying to do some very bad things here.

01:33:52.000 I get asked all the time, Charlie, are you optimistic or are you pessimistic?

01:33:55.000 If I said I was optimistic, you would go home and do nothing.

01:33:58.000 Because you say, oh, we're going to win, because Charlie said he's optimistic.

01:34:01.000 If I said I was pessimistic, you go home and do nothing because, oh, Charlie said he's pessimistic.

01:34:05.000 I go home and do nothing.

01:34:06.000 You have to fight.

01:34:07.000 That is my answer.

01:34:08.000 And when people misinterpret that, oh, it means hand-to-hand combat.

01:34:11.000 That means you have to organize.

01:34:13.000 You have to register voters.

01:34:14.000 You have to get involved at the local level.

01:34:16.000 You have to contest for your views.

01:34:17.000 Some of you might say, Charlie, I've already done everything that's been asked of me.

01:34:20.000 I show up to events like this.

01:34:22.000 I bought the pillow.

01:34:23.000 I've done everything that's been asked of me.

01:34:26.000 Mypillow.com, by the way, promo code Kirk, just so we're clear.

01:34:30.000 We need all of you in the fight for a better and brighter future.

01:34:34.000 We need Texas to be Texas again.

01:34:38.000 And with that, I say thank you and God bless Texas.

01:34:41.000 God bless you guys.

01:34:43.000 Thanks so much for listening.

01:34:44.000 Everybody, email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:34:47.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 04, 2024

Whose Country Is It Anyway? My Speech at Texas Tech University

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