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00:02:44.000You 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.
00:02:51.000And I kid you not, I saw somebody up in the cheap sheets.
00:02:54.000There was a tortilla that flew like 150 yards and went right on the 30-yard line.
00:02:59.000And you guys put like holes in them to try to perfect the aerodynamicism.
00:03:04.000Do you guys, do you guys like the frat houses?
00:03:06.000Like, you know, you try out or you kind of figure out the best way.
00:03:44.000Anytime you ever, ever play those longhorns, you got to beat them.
00:03:47.000That's just, it's got to be right in there.
00:03:49.000So 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.
00:03:55.000I've done a lot of studying recently about the history of Texas.
00:04:01.000And 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.
00:04:13.000In fact, so much so that the Mexicans were like, if you guys can settle in Texas, like you can have it.
00:04:19.000Like, if you're able to kind of figure something out in Texas, like, go ahead.
00:04:25.000You have the Comanche Indians that were not exactly easy, you know, to live with and very, very violent.
00:04:32.000And 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.
00:04:41.000And in the early stages of Texas, Texas was the closest thing to a Jeffersonian republic.
00:04:47.000There 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.
00:04:59.000It'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.
00:05:10.000People still, you know, did bad things.
00:05:13.000But Texas turned into this powerhouse where so many different cultures and different civilizations said, you know, we don't really want to settle there.
00:05:21.000And for whatever reason, Texas all of a sudden started to grow and grow and became its own country first, the Republic of Texas.
00:05:29.000And anytime you spend time around Texans, there's something different.
00:05:33.000There's you're Americans, but you're also Texans.
00:05:44.000Because I love people that are proud of where they're from and thankful for where they're from.
00:05:49.000And in the clearest possible way, Texas needs to start acting like Texas again.
00:05:54.000And 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.
00:06:01.000And Texas, which 20 years ago was nowhere in comparable population, has 10 million more people than the state of New York.
00:06:18.000This place is one of the best places America still has to offer.
00:06:24.000Texas never should have locked down for the virus lockdowns that happened during COVID.
00:06:30.000And the spirit of Texas is one of self-sovereignty, one of liberty, one that tends to buck the trend.
00:06:37.000And 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.
00:06:46.000I think that's why a lot of you are here.
00:06:50.000That would be a great slogan if someone ran for president on that.
00:08:02.000Why'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.
00:08:09.000And I'm like, well, where are you from?
00:08:11.000And they're like, well, I'm from Massachusetts.
00:08:13.000Like, okay, then go back to Massachusetts.
00:08:14.000They have abortion all over the place.
00:08:15.000Like, don't tell Texas how to run itself, actually.
00:08:38.000And 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.
00:08:49.000And it is to have anywhere between 10,000 to 15,000 people coming across the border is an invasion.
00:09:07.000And this is not a racial thing, but the bad guys actually look at it as a racial thing.
00:09:13.000Now, 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.
00:09:25.000They said that as Texas becomes more Hispanic and less white, they thought that Texas would become more left-wing.
00:09:32.000Well, 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.
00:10:10.000And act or even believe that somehow a stable country can continue.
00:10:15.000And 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.
00:10:25.000It is an insult for all of you that had to go through the proper protocol and process.
00:10:29.000That basically what it is is, why did you follow the law?
00:10:34.000And what they're saying basically is you don't have to follow the law anymore.
00:10:39.000And I've been patient and I actually have seen more and more fight out of your governor recently.
00:10:48.000I wish it would have happened earlier.
00:10:51.000And I want to see that next step taken.
00:10:53.000And 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.
00:11:07.000And largely because the federal government has left us no choice.
00:11:15.000And it is a very simple moral question.
00:11:18.000If 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.
00:11:44.000And I think Greg Abbott, to his credit, has been feeling the pressure and has been doing some stuff.
00:11:49.000I 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.
00:11:59.000It's hard for me to paint this picture.
00:12:01.000If 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.
00:12:18.000They would have gotten probably arrested by the federal government for, you know, violent confrontation of migrants.
00:12:24.000And that's another important point, which is there are some people that are coming that can fit the quote-unquote migrant mold.
00:12:30.000But a vast majority of these people are military age, fighting age males that are 20, 21, and 22 years old from 120 different countries.
00:12:41.000We 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.
00:12:50.000And I hate to say, but this feels awfully intentional.
00:12:54.000It feels as if that they want this to happen.
00:12:58.000We can have a robust discussion about it.
00:13:00.000But I don't get from the current ruling regime that they love the country like you do.
00:13:05.000That they love the country the way that those of you that serve this nation do.
00:13:09.000In fact, I feel as if they want to turn it into something different, that they want to try to overwhelm the system.
00:13:15.000Before 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.
00:13:23.000It was written in the 1970s by two academics, Cloward and Piven.
00:13:28.000They were communists, self-described Marxists and communists.
00:13:30.000And they said, hey, the way that we, communists, are going to take over America is three steps.
00:13:38.000We need to try to make sure America borrows so much money that the currency is worthless and the national debt becomes unsustainable.
00:13:46.000We 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.
00:14:00.000Now, we wouldn't know any one of those three things, of course.
00:14:03.000We are borrowing a trillion dollars every 100 days in this country.
00:14:07.000For 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.
00:14:18.000In 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.
00:14:29.000It is now $106,000 a year to be able to comfortably own a home in this country.
00:14:34.000Now, it might be less here in Lubbock, Texas.
00:14:36.000I mean, but I bet property has gone up everywhere.
00:15:45.000That's the guy you want to try to do business with.
00:15:48.000Everybody has a reputation, for better or worse, but everybody has a reputation because that closeness creates community.
00:15:55.000In New York City, you can kind of just be an anonymous widget in an 8 million person beast.
00:16:03.000I don't think that's a good thing, actually.
00:16:05.000I think it's a better country when you're held accountable by your neighbors.
00:16:09.000I think it's a better country when you know your neighbors' names.
00:16:12.000I 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.
00:16:22.000I 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.
00:16:38.000And these might strike you as overwhelmingly political statements, but they really aren't.
00:16:44.000Because it's a restoration of a normal way of life.
00:16:48.000And you guys still have it a little bit here in West Texas.
00:16:51.000And if there's one thing I can communicate to you, is you need to fight to protect that thing.
00:16:57.000Because how many pockets around this country have they allowed us to lose that American way of life?
00:17:03.000Where 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.
00:17:22.000They are targeting Lubbock because they look at themselves as imperialists, that there will not be a square inch where they don't control.
00:17:31.000There's a book that was recently published, and I can't help but just think of so many of you.
00:17:36.000The book's title is called White Rural Rage: The Threat to Democracy.
00:17:43.000And 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.
00:17:48.000These are two professors that wrote this book, and they were beautifully welcomed on MSNBC.
00:17:54.000And 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.
00:18:02.000I 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.
00:18:17.000And they blame the white rural rage voters because they don't think the way that the Harvard academics want them to think.
00:18:26.000And in fact, dare I say that it is the white rural rage that very well might save this country one day.
00:18:34.000It very well might end up course correcting us.
00:18:38.000And 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.
00:18:48.000So we need Texas to be Texas again for that attitude and that spirit to be reignited.
00:19:00.000I don't know what it's going to look like or how it's going to manifest politically.
00:19:03.000I've been doing this now for 11 years.
00:19:05.000I have visited more college campuses than any other speaker in the last decade.
00:19:09.000I've never seen crowds like we are drawing right now.
00:19:12.000And 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.
00:19:26.000That you actually don't want to worry about getting fired from your job for using the wrong pronoun.
00:19:31.000That you want an America that is strong, that is decent, that is stable, that is orderly.
00:19:38.000You want to be able to get married and have kids.
00:19:41.000And 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.
00:19:51.000And young ladies, we got some work to do, but it shows a lot of promise.
00:20:00.000Because I truly believe that there are more decent Americans than indecent Americans.
00:20:05.000And that we're going to, of course, correct this.
00:20:08.000And the entire spirit of Turning Point USA is we do want to see this country return to greatness.
00:20:13.000And 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.
00:20:25.000You can call them Marxism, but they are decaying the society all around us.
00:20:30.000And 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.
00:20:40.000And 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.
00:20:48.000Let's do some questions, everybody, and thanks for sitting through that.
00:20:56.000Okay, so you can start lining up for questions.
00:20:58.000Let me tell you how questions are going to work.
00:21:00.000This is obviously a predominant conservative audience.
00:21:04.000If you disagree, you get to go to the front of the line.
00:21:07.000Now, if somebody who is a liberal comes up and asks a question, do not boo them.
00:21:52.000As 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?
00:22:04.000And 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.
00:22:14.000And 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.
00:22:24.000And so people ask if I'm Seventh-day Adventist.
00:23:31.000And 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.
00:23:39.000In Hebrew, the word holy, so the to keep the Sabbath holy is repeated over 10 times in the Old Testament.
00:24:08.000Okay, Kirk fans, I need you to stop and pay attention to this.
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00:26:10.000Proverbs 31, try to find a Proverbs 31 woman.
00:26:13.000The best, the most important thing I would say, though, you have to agree politically and you have to agree most important theologically and religiously.
00:26:21.000I do not believe in marriages where people say, I'm a conservative, I'm a liberal.
00:27:22.000The 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.
00:27:32.000So, 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.
00:27:42.000And 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.
00:27:50.000It actually leads a really shallow and empty life, and that's not something that I think is really interesting.
00:27:54.000In fact, I think that's kind of what losers do is they kind of just pursue the next instant gratification.
00:27:59.000I 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.
00:28:10.000And 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.
00:28:18.000And 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.
00:28:27.000You need to date with the intention to marry, that you can be able to support your wife and support a child.
00:28:31.000And so, you need to figure that out, whatever that is, right?
00:28:33.000Whatever 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.
00:28:49.000I 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.
00:28:56.000There 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.
00:29:06.000I stand here as living proof of the immigrant dream, the illegal immigrant dream, the American dream.
00:29:11.000It 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.
00:29:18.000Do 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?
00:29:31.000Should 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?
00:29:55.000So, 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?
00:30:58.000Can 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?
00:31:06.000Well, but why does he have a right to come here in the first place?
00:31:10.000You don't have a moral right to enter the United States.
00:31:13.000Get in line like the Polish and the Irish and the Vietnamese.
00:31:17.000So, just because you live close does and I acknowledge that he came from a poor country.
00:31:32.000So we could make that argument to let in 100 million people.
00:31:35.000So 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?
00:31:48.000I 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.
00:31:58.000You said he came from a dirt poor country, which is an emotive sob story argument.
00:32:01.000But let me just ask another theoretical question.
00:32:04.000What should the penalty be for breaking and entering into a country illegally?
00:32:12.000I 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.
00:32:31.000He broke USC federal law that says you shall not enter the United States across the southern border without proper documentation or without proper entrance.
00:34:36.000He broke a federal law that says you cannot break into America.
00:34:39.000If 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.
00:34:46.000I say, wait a second, did he ever serve prison time?
00:34:48.000And thank you for acknowledging you must apply the law regardless of how nice the story is.
00:34:56.000And so I will ask the question again: should we get rid of that law?
00:37:31.000I think that they should have to face some sort of application if they want the legal rights of being in this country.
00:37:39.000I 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.
00:37:54.000But 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.
00:38:00.000Our construction industry in this country would be absolutely deteriorated.
00:39:29.000If your position is to get rid of the law, that is a position that people in this country have.
00:39:34.000I'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.
00:39:44.000You're just kind of a territory, and whoever wants to come can come.
00:39:48.000And that would be the end of the United States of America.
00:40:06.000But 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.
00:40:13.000Now, for those who don't know what fascism is, it's an ideology associated with Nazism.
00:40:18.000As 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.
00:40:36.000But people who openly call themselves fascists are here and are not afraid to admit they are fascists.
00:40:41.000So my question is: will you denounce fascism today, as the definition online puts it as an ideology including racial nationalism and authoritarianism today?
00:41:26.000No, I've read the phenomenology of spirit, and I know Hegel.
00:41:30.000But tell me, but why not denounce Marxism?
00:41:34.000So Mao Zetong, Marxist, Lenin, Marxist, Joseph Stalin, Marxist.
00:41:39.000I'll denounce Joseph Stalin for you, definitely.
00:41:40.000Yes, Joseph Stalin was an authoritarian leader who definitely killed millions of Ukrainians during the export of grain to, of course, build up their economy.
00:42:41.000Well, because if you look at, I'll give the example of North Korea.
00:42:43.000What we did is that we went in there during the Korean War and destroyed all their factories, right?
00:42:47.000Now, 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?
00:42:53.000So that's number one on why North Korea.
00:43:48.000So 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.
00:44:00.000Over 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.
00:44:19.000None of that is Marxist, even though they say they're Marxist.
00:44:22.000Well, it's tampering with Marxism because you have sanctions and you bomb their country.
00:44:27.000So, I mean, if you want to call that Marxism, then if you sanction and bomb them, I guess that's Marxism.
00:44:32.000Wait, so how have we sanctioned and bombed these Marx?
00:45:51.000It's impossible to, quote-unquote, have the workers owns the means of production because we don't share well as human beings.
00:45:58.000That'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.
00:46:08.000And 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.
00:46:19.000And so, you started this conversation by asking me to denounce fascism, which is responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths, said ideology.
00:46:28.000I'm pleading you one more time to denounce Marxism that is responsible for minimum 100 to 120 million deaths.
00:46:36.000Okay, academics have proven that wrong.
00:46:38.000That's from the Black Book of Communism.
00:46:56.000If you want to talk famine, impoverishing, lowering of standard of living.
00:47:00.000But 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.
00:47:31.000The 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.
00:49:12.000Thank you for coming to speak on our campus.
00:49:16.000So in America, we have a huge problem where additives and preservatives are put in our foods, contributing to cancer and neurological disorders in children.
00:49:28.000So as a conservative, how do you believe the FDA should be regulated or reformed to improve health for all Americans?
00:49:49.000I 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.
00:49:58.000It's one of the great poisons that is creating obesity in this country.
00:50:02.000And cancer rates are way up, and we don't know why.
00:50:05.000And it's the Food and Drug Administration's, especially for young people, by the way.
00:50:10.000And as conservatives, we're pro-business, but we shouldn't be slaves to business.
00:50:15.000And 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.
00:50:25.000And it's also, we have the most obese country we've ever seen.
00:50:29.000Isn't that kind of what the FDA and the CDC exist to try to address?
00:50:32.000And instead, the FDA is, you know, they're like flirting on like DEI, like how racism impacts, you know, food selections.
00:50:42.000Yeah, look, I think, I think it's not overly complicated.
00:50:46.000We need to blow up the food triangle that we teach every single kid.
00:50:51.000We are far too reliant and pushing of carbohydrates and cheap carbohydrates, especially like cereal and bread.
00:51:00.000And we are not as pushing of lean proteins and fats.
00:53:34.000Anyways, 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?
00:53:49.000I 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.
00:54:06.000Don't worry, I didn't bring any tortillas.
00:54:11.000So my question pertains to the federal income tax.
00:54:14.000How 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?
00:54:24.000Well, we used to fund it through tariffs mostly.
00:54:29.000And we ran into a problem with World War I because we wanted to be able to fund our incursion into World War I.
00:54:35.000And 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.
00:54:46.000And you're living at the last gasp of basically cheap money and fiat currency.
00:54:51.000So 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.
00:55:00.000And the Federal Reserve is turning out to be a disaster for working men and women of this country.
00:55:06.000If you do not have assets, you get 10% poor every year right now.
00:55:22.000So, 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?
00:55:32.000Yeah, I mean, the problem is we just have so much government to pay for.
00:55:35.000We have a $6 trillion federal budget, and we're not even reaching that, right?
00:55:38.000So, we're borrowing about two and a half to three trillion dollars.
00:55:41.000We're borrowing almost half, not quite, almost half of the entire federal budget every single year.
00:55:46.000I would love to be able to abolish the income tax and get rid of the IRS, but we have to significantly cut government spending.
00:55:50.000We have way too much government spending in this country.
00:56:27.000Lately, I wanted to truly find my faith because I didn't know if in my heart I believed in God or not.
00:56:32.000And so I went around from church to church and person to person, their different backgrounds, trying to figure out what they believed and why.
00:56:38.000And I've heard countless arguments everywhere and all sorts of reasons they believe why they believe their faith.
00:56:44.000But 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.
00:56:52.000I 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.
00:56:58.000So, 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?
00:57:05.000First of all, God bless you for the courage to come up and ask that question.
00:57:31.000And 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.
00:58:03.000You look around us, we can discover it, we can know it, we can reason with it.
00:58:07.000The idea that we even have reason is a belief that there is a creator because it's such an incomprehensible sort of idea.
00:58:14.000American 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.
00:58:27.000So, in the scriptures, we learn, especially in the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments, basically the 10 rules for life.
00:58:33.000And if you study it very closely, you realize that you break a lot of those commandments sometimes on a daily basis.
00:58:40.000And so, the more you study the law, the law teaches you about the nature of sin, and it points you to Christ.
00:58:46.000So, 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.
00:58:56.000But 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.
00:59:15.000Now, the significance of this is I could give you a million different reasons why that is compelling, right?
00:59:21.000The 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.
00:59:32.000I could give you the argument that it was women witnesses that saw Jesus.
00:59:35.000So, 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?
00:59:42.000I can go through all the different stories about how there's never been an archaeological discovery that's contradicted the truth of the Bible.
00:59:48.000But here's the final thing: you need to just open up your heart more than all that.
00:59:52.000And so, that's the most important thing.
00:59:54.000And it's only going to happen through prayer.
00:59:56.000And it's going to happen through, God, are you real?
01:00:02.000And I could do all that other stuff, but I could tell you this: that there is a creator.
01:00:06.000And 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.
01:00:15.000And 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.
01:00:23.000And 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.
01:02:02.000Yes, so the foster care system is too hard to navigate.
01:02:05.000My 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.
01:02:18.000There are a million abortions in this country every single year.
01:02:21.000There are two million couples on the adoption waiting list.
01:02:25.000I think it needs to be all simultaneous.
01:02:27.000And we also hopefully can try to make abortion an unthinkable act in this country and one that is harder and harder to do.
01:02:33.000You guys here in West Texas have done a great job of that.
01:02:36.000And you guys should be really encouraged for your heroism and your bravery in that regard.
01:02:41.000But the rest of the country is leaning more into abortion more so than ever before.
01:02:48.000But 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.
01:02:57.000Because a lot of people still game the foster care system.
01:04:36.000And 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.
01:04:52.000And so, which it is, it's digital prostitution if you have an OnlyFans page, right?
01:04:56.000And 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.
01:05:03.000You're subsidizing modern-day digital prostitution.
01:05:46.000And my question for you is, do you believe that the 2020 election was rigged?
01:05:50.000And 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?
01:06:20.000Well, first, the one that we can all agree upon that we don't talk about enough, it was rigged through information warfare.
01:06:25.000One particular element was the Hunter Biden laptop.
01:06:29.000We were not allowed to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop on social media, on Twitter, on Facebook.
01:06:33.000The New York Post lost access to their Twitter account.
01:06:36.000In 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.
01:06:50.000That 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.
01:06:59.000Not to mention all of the collusion between the FBI and Facebook, the Central Intelligence Agency, Five Eyes.
01:07:07.000And so they used all this different censorship through information warfare to stop dissident voices that we have now proven.
01:07:15.000Second 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.
01:07:33.000People 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.
01:07:39.000Finally, there's the mail-in ballots, which is we had a lot of shenanigans and activity.
01:07:44.000This 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.
01:07:53.000We did not have robust signature verification.
01:07:55.000We had days and days and days where they're counting the ballots, and people's faith and integrity in that system went down.
01:08:03.000Number 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.
01:08:12.000Number 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.
01:08:36.000And then finally, the mail-in ballot thing is the toughest question.
01:08:40.000Wisconsin has minorly changed their laws.
01:08:45.000But 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.
01:08:53.000We realize it's not the best thing for us, but we're going to do it.
01:08:55.000We'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.
01:09:07.000So no guarantees, but we're going to try our best.
01:11:13.000So 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.
01:12:40.000They know that 90% of permanent change comes from the mind, and they work on eliminating the reason you gain this weight in the first place.
01:12:45.000There's no shortcuts, pills, or injections, just solid, science-based nutrition and behavior change.
01:12:50.000And finally, probably most importantly, I lost 30 pounds.
01:13:53.000But the reason my question is about TikTok, because I use TikTok as a platform to reach fans.
01:13:59.000And 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.
01:14:18.000So the bill has passed the House to not ban TikTok, but to make it be sold to an American company.
01:14:25.000With that being said, and I could go on about all the negatives that tick, TikTok has literally shortened the attention span of young people.
01:14:34.000It 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.
01:14:47.000Side 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.
01:15:03.000With 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.
01:15:13.000I think that it will be used to censor us, and I can't stand TikTok.
01:15:17.000So, I actually think I have one of the best arguments because I don't benefit from TikTok.
01:15:24.000They've banned me, again, as I've said so many times.
01:15:26.000But 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.
01:15:34.000Way too much power that I don't want to give.
01:15:37.000And another reason is we're starting to see the golden era of the internet re-emerge.
01:15:41.000Again, I'm not on TikTok, but I'm told that conservatives and Trump supporters are doing very, very well on TikTok.
01:16:44.000But 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.
01:16:53.000So, 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.
01:17:02.000Like, 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.
01:17:11.000And that's something that's like super basic to me growing up.
01:17:14.000So, 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.
01:17:22.000Even though, you know, 15 years down the line, I'm like, yeah, I did that back when I was, you know, age or whatever.
01:17:26.000So, 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?
01:17:36.000You 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.
01:18:08.000You might have to, you know, serve and be deployed and all that.
01:18:11.000It's the most important thing you can do.
01:18:13.000Remember, the scriptures tell us children are a blessing of the Lord, and you are the guardian of that child, right?
01:18:18.000Which means you must protect that child from outside influences.
01:18:22.000There are three types of people in this world: there are predators, there are infants, and the protectors of infants.
01:18:28.000You fall into one of those three categories.
01:18:30.000So you're about to welcome an infant into the world.
01:18:33.000Your job is to protect the infant from the predators.
01:18:36.000And the predators take many different forms through groomers, through social media toxins, through criminals, through all these different things.
01:18:44.000And especially as the head of the household, the male, you must constantly be looking at the threats, right?
01:18:51.000You 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.
01:19:08.000And it's you as the father to instill values from a very young age.
01:19:11.000And 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.
01:19:23.000The earlier you introduce them to these ideas, the earlier you get them excited about Jesus and the word and the scriptures.
01:19:29.000And 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.
01:19:38.000Everything you do, from what you say to how you act.
01:19:41.000So, not as if there's like enough pressure already on you, right?
01:20:56.000The men of this country need to demand that biological men will never, ever be able to compete in female sports again.
01:21:02.000We need to draw a line, and this is unacceptable.
01:21:09.000They 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.
01:21:25.000Then, finally, this is a harder ask, but female athletes need to start to do massive boycotts.
01:21:31.000And 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.
01:21:44.000We're going to do a sit-out, we're going to do a walkout.
01:21:47.000This needs to become a movement, and shame on the NCAA and Charlie Baker that has allowed women to be preyed upon.
01:21:59.000And Charlie Baker at the NCAA, former Republican governor of Massachusetts, fumbles over himself on this issue because he's afraid of the alphabet mafia.
01:22:12.000He'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.
01:22:22.000No, actually, Mr. Thomas, you are not a girl.
01:22:26.000You're a cheater who is dressing like a girl.
01:23:09.000If you win, which you won't because you're not very good.
01:23:12.000We'll say that you're a transgender swimmer.
01:23:14.000Oh, so we have to reconfigure the entire sporting process for a fringe minority.
01:23:22.000So we can no longer have standards of excellence with just females.
01:23:26.000We 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.
01:23:42.000The 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.
01:24:24.000And, 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.
01:24:31.000Like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Matt Walsh would draw a bigger crowd on most campuses than like a cool celebrity.
01:24:38.000And so the left is also making themselves uncool.
01:24:42.000Like being the pronoun police and going around constantly censoring people's speech, there's zero countercultural energy on the left.
01:25:22.000So my question's got a little bit of background, so I apologize.
01:25:26.000But just start off, I believe dating is for marriage.
01:25:29.000I believe dating for the sake of dating is futile.
01:25:31.000That 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.
01:25:39.000I believe that people should save themselves for marriage.
01:25:41.000I've been dating my current girlfriend for almost a year and a half, and we both agree with this sentiment.
01:25:46.000Some 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.
01:25:55.000And 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.
01:26:03.000I believe this idea that people should date around is a path towards sin.
01:26:06.000How should my girlfriend and I go about explaining our point of view and the dangers of dating casually in our modern world?
01:26:14.000Yeah, I mean, just go back to scripture.
01:26:16.000If you're talking to Christians, cohabitation is a sin, period.
01:26:21.000And to live with another, if you are not married, just invites sexual immorality.
01:26:26.000And so, yeah, I mean, how you explain it, you shouldn't have to explain it.
01:26:30.000You have what hopefully they would want, which is you're saving yourself for marriage.
01:26:33.000And let's talk about why it's important to save yourself for marriage.
01:26:36.000Sex is the most personal, intimate thing that God gave us.
01:26:41.000And 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?
01:26:49.000Why would you want to all of a sudden be like, well, I've shared that now with seven other people.
01:26:52.000I don't even remember five of their names.
01:26:54.000You have now diluted the most beautiful and dare I say almost holy thing that God gave us between men and women.
01:27:07.000And 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.
01:27:30.000Their point of view isn't that they're going to go and act promiscuous.
01:27:34.000They 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.
01:30:22.000So obviously, I'm I in the current state of global affairs with Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Iran, China.
01:30:29.000So 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.
01:30:41.000Do 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?
01:32:04.000I think that we stayed in Afghanistan far too long.
01:32:07.000And the way that Joe Biden withdrew was obviously an insult to the country, an insult to all of us.
01:32:11.000And 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.
01:32:29.000And so that would be my personal take on that.
01:32:32.000And endless wars have been a big issue.
01:32:34.000And 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.
01:32:47.000So I think I'm somewhat of a moderate in your question in that sense.
01:33:27.000We need every single one of you to stay engaged, to stay involved.
01:33:31.000We 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.