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00:01:38.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:23.000I visit college campuses, so you guys don't have to and going to churches speaking to big groups.
00:02:29.000We got a country to save everybody, and our team is um, our team's putting a lot of work in, over 300 days a year on the road, 330 speeches, two podcasts a day, three hours of radio a day and our amazing team at Turning Point Faith and Turning Point.
00:02:46.000USA has put a lot of work uh, especially in the last couple weeks into this, and I I personally could not sit idly by as we see our beautiful country be intentionally destroyed, and so we got to do more, and i'm starting to see a new resolve and a tougher spirit amongst patriots and people all across the country so excited to explore that tonight amen.
00:03:06.000Well Charlie, you've been crushing it on the high school and college campuses and you've just rolled out Turning Point, Faith.
00:03:13.000So, share with people what our vision and goal is.
00:03:16.000Well, look, and this is an important topic, you know, being in a church here.
00:03:41.000And liberty is God's idea, not man's idea.
00:03:44.000And I am seeing so many churches that, especially over the last year and a half, there's three different types of churches in America.
00:03:52.000There are churches that are complacent, churches that are courageous, like this one that would host an event like this, or churches that are complicit, which are, we'll start with the complicit churches.
00:04:03.000Those are the churches that are the ones that are flying the Black Lives Matter flags.
00:04:07.000Those are the churches that have the LGBT flags outside their door.
00:04:10.000They're the churches that give the sermons saying that we need to be woke and we need to embrace the diversity industrial complex.
00:04:17.000These churches are actively involved in trying to further a very, very destructive left-wing agenda in our country.
00:04:25.000And we're seeing that through some people at the very top level of the American Christian community.
00:04:29.000Then there's the complacent church, churches that say, Pastors say, hey, you know what?
00:04:42.000All throughout the Old and New Testament, whether it be Esther, Nehemiah, Mordecai, Jeremiah, Joseph, and Daniel, they were God's chosen people fighting for God's purpose in secular government.
00:04:54.000Daniel fasted and prayed for the well-being of the nation that he was in.
00:04:58.000In Jeremiah 29, 7, it says, demand the welfare of the nation.
00:05:02.000I have sent you in because your welfare is tied to the nation's welfare.
00:05:07.000We as Christians are called to care about every realm and sphere in political life, in life outside the walls of the church.
00:05:15.000And I never say what we are doing is the most important thing.
00:05:19.000The most important thing is winning souls for Jesus Christ.
00:05:21.000It's the most important thing that we can do.
00:05:24.000But then the obvious question is: what's the second most important thing?
00:05:30.000To make sure you can do the first thing, to make sure the church never gets labeled non-essential again, to make sure that the church never gets locked down again, to make sure we never go through a chapter in American history where abortion clinics remain open, marijuana shops remain open, liquor stores remain open, and strip clubs remain open, but the church gets closed.
00:06:15.000In California, we have friends of ours who are pastors that are facing three and a half to four million dollars in fines for opening their church.
00:06:23.000And the complacent church has allowed this to happen.
00:06:27.000And right now, we as the body of Christ have to recognize and realize that we are in a spiritual battle and that we are called to contest for righteousness and truth in the domain of civic government.
00:06:39.000So some Christians say, you know what?
00:06:48.000You know, some people have a belief in that sort of eschatological view.
00:06:53.000That's not my day job, which is to, you know, interpret certain parts of theology for you.
00:06:58.000But let's say that is right, because it very well could be.
00:07:01.000Then doesn't it say occupy till he comes?
00:07:04.000Does it say retreat to the hills and hope you don't get eaten?
00:07:08.000No, we have to lean into these moments.
00:07:10.000And especially right now, if the American church does not stand and contest for truth and righteousness, who will?
00:07:16.000Harvard, the New York Times, Boise State University, the National School Board Association of America, Fauci, without the church, America will be a significantly more dangerous and unfree country.
00:07:29.000The church is the light of the world, and we as Christians must stand up and do something about it.
00:07:41.000Charlie, you have to share with the folks when you were invited to a church in Olympia, Washington, share that story because the thing is, you know, I've went through this last few years saying, I'm from Idaho, and it's almost this boast that we have all this freedom and we're out of reach of this.
00:08:36.000Yeah, courageous or bold or clear or in pursuit of justice and truth.
00:08:42.000So yeah, look, I was supposed to speak in Washington and, you know, the basement dwelling degenerates who call themselves Antifa, they sent out a couple blog posts like, oh, Charlie's coming to town.
00:10:03.000You're trying to tell me that you now make your sermons based on whether or not the tithe is going to hit the benchmark that singular month?
00:10:11.000You need to speak truth regardless of whether or not you're going to hit your budgetary goals for that month.
00:10:17.000And but here's the amazing thing, is that churches that don't speak out, that do speak out on these issues, they are growing like you wouldn't believe.
00:10:28.000So I have spoken at over 80 churches in the last year.
00:10:32.000Every single church, with the exception of just one, which I think is an outlier, has seen record growth, record tithes, record offerings.
00:10:40.000If they tell their congregation, here's what the Bible says about being a good citizen.
00:10:44.000Here's what the Bible says about how to engage with your government.
00:10:48.000The pastors that are like, you know, we don't do that around here.
00:10:54.000It's impossible to read the scriptures and the gospel, as it is said, without offending somebody.
00:10:59.000You're talking about the issues of eternity.
00:11:01.000Now, it shouldn't be your heart to offend.
00:11:03.000That's not who we shouldn't try to offend people.
00:11:05.000But if you all of a sudden read Luke 15, it's like, I did not come here to unite, but I came here to divide, like, whoa, that's a pretty harsh teaching when you think about it.
00:11:14.000When the truth, it cuts like a sword, there is going to be a judgment.
00:11:21.000And all of us who accept Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and the chairman of the board of our life, we do get to experience eternal life.
00:11:28.000And what I have found, though, Rick, and this is what's so interesting, is that people in politics, in church life, they've been so lied to by weak-kneed pastors, by corrupt politicians.
00:11:39.000They're going to the churches that tell them the tough truth, that tell them to stop drinking, to tell them to keep their eyes on Jesus Christ, to tell them to get their life together.
00:11:48.000They don't want to just kind of be told the same sort of squishy middle vanilla type message.
00:11:52.000People want to be challenged because we have been lied to at every level of leadership in corporations, in academia, in the press and through tech companies, through government.
00:12:04.000And I think that the people of America, and especially people that are interested in the gospel and the truth and the promise of Jesus Christ, we want to hear it as it is.
00:12:14.000And I think that in some ways, we have thought so low of the American Christian community as if American Christians can't handle a sermon on abortion.
00:12:25.000Like American Christians can't handle a sermon on transgenderism.
00:12:32.000You don't have to overly complicate this one, right?
00:12:35.000And so, but here's the good news is that we can do this in a magnanimous way, in a way that tries to build bridges and doesn't have the heart to try to divide.
00:12:49.000But when people say, well, Charlie, your message is inherently divisive.
00:12:54.000And this is the kind of position we need to have.
00:12:57.000And so part of what we're trying to do, Rick, at Turning Point Faith and traveling the country and we're building a pastor's network and we're getting churches engaged and involved.
00:13:04.000And you've been so helpful with this, is we're trying to challenge churches to do more right now as liberty starts to disappear.
00:13:13.000And if you look at how this country was founded, this country was founded on biblical citizens.
00:13:17.00055 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing, regular church-attending Christians.
00:13:23.000Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, Jonathan Mayhew are just some of the activist pastors that inspired the American Revolution.
00:13:30.000Whether it be John Adams to George Washington, these were pious, regular church attending, Bible-believing Christians that realized the true source of liberty was not King George, but it came from an eternal and transcendent power.
00:13:43.000And I believe, and then you go to the second great awakening, the third grade awakening, the fourth great awakening, every time America slips politically, religiously, theologically, or spiritually, who is there to catch it?
00:14:04.000Did you sit idly by and act as if this country was the same as any other country?
00:14:07.000Or did you contest and be salt and light in every single areas possible?
00:14:12.000And it's never been more clear, Rick, where you have one entire political movement that is okay with a million abortions a year, that sits idly by with the blurring of gender norms of man and woman when they say the church is not essential.
00:14:23.000And so, yeah, I'm optimistic because I'm starting to see pastors that have never spoke out before start to speak out.
00:14:29.000I'm starting to see congregants start to demand their church to speak out.
00:14:33.000And we're starting to see the beginning stages of a revival, awakening, and then we're going to see a realignment politically that I think is really going to surprise the ruling class in this country.
00:14:50.000So because we're a part of this phenomenon in California, and I'm intimately involved with two churches that are fighting.
00:15:11.000Anybody that stands up, as Charlie is saying, for the truth.
00:15:14.000And Charlie is seeing this coast to coast.
00:15:17.000And so I'm encouraging people, Charlie, find a good church that'll stand up for a love for Jesus, the truth of God's word, and that they love America.
00:15:26.000And I mean, it says, again, in Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the peace and the welfare of the nation that I've sent you in because your welfare is tied to the nation's welfare.
00:15:34.000And the Bible has so much to say about proper governance.
00:15:36.000Proverbs 11, 11, and I'm paraphrasing here, but basically, when the corrupt rule, things fall apart and you need to be an upstanding citizen.
00:15:47.000Citizen comes from a Greek word, which means co-ruler.
00:15:50.000And make no mistake, there is a deliberate and I dare say diabolical campaign by the enemy to try to get the church to retreat from the public square.
00:16:01.000Do you think the enemy, and there is an enemy, there is a Satan, the church doesn't like to talk about it, right?
00:16:05.000Too many churches don't even say that word because they're afraid their attendance, remember their budgets, their baptisms, and their buildings might decrease, the three bees that have built American Christianity, but there is an enemy, and that enemy is trying to get the church less engaged in things that matter.
00:16:20.000Do you think the enemy is happy and pleased when the church stands up for life or not?
00:16:26.000The enemy would love to see the American church retreat into the hills and do absolutely nothing.
00:16:32.000And here's the thing, everybody, is that some people say, well, Charlie, if we talk about politics in the church, we are never going to be able to win people over for Jesus Christ.
00:17:10.000And by the way, like as seriously as I can be for the grandparents and the parents out there, be very careful sending your children to college.
00:18:23.000And what we're finding at what the work we're doing is all of a sudden there are people that first agree with what I have to say politically, but I have to say from a conservative perspective, they say, huh, I want to find out more about that.
00:18:35.000I'm happy to tell you where the idea of self-government, separation of powers, independent judiciary, and consent to the governed come from.
00:18:41.000Once people start drinking from the streams of liberty, they want to find its source.
00:18:47.000And I believe the church is missing a massive evangelistic opportunity to communicate with people that might agree with us from the Constitution, agree with us on first principles, agree with us on natural rights.
00:18:57.000And what we are seeing is this amazing coalition for liberty that is being built.
00:19:02.000And the church is the central part of this.
00:19:04.000This is we're going to contest for righteousness and truth where it really matters most.
00:19:07.000And we are seeing thousands of people give their life to Christ.
00:19:11.000And people, you know, there's a lot of ministries that are out there.
00:19:15.000I'm focused on the second most important thing, right?
00:19:18.000To make sure you can do the first thing.
00:19:19.000But I'm also unapologetic about sharing the gospel to people who need it.
00:19:23.000But people trust us and trust me because I've built a rapport over 18, 24, 36 months where they say, I agree with the way Charlie interprets socialism.
00:19:32.000I agree with the way that he talks about immigration.
00:19:34.000And then all of a sudden they say, I trust him enough.
00:19:36.000I'm going to hear him out on this gospel thing.
00:19:38.000And then all of a sudden, there's an opening.
00:19:39.000And we know as soon as there's an opening, the transformation and the renewing of their mind and the gift of Jesus Christ can enter their life.
00:19:46.000I believe the church needs to lean into that.
00:20:18.000And yet they go to a woke church and it's closed.
00:20:25.000We'll stream in a very anointed message for you.
00:20:28.000But there's nothing like getting together and standing for truth.
00:20:31.000Let's just segue a little bit, Charlie, because I really, if I was a, I had a young family, my kids are raised, but if I had a young family, I mean, Idaho, I think I'm safe because it's more conservative.
00:20:44.000And, you know, the Lord spoke to the churches and he said, strengthen that which remains, because where there is a conservative state, you have to strengthen what remains because it can slip away so quickly with the migration of these people from all these different areas.
00:20:59.000How in Idaho would these young families engage in their community to keep Idaho free?
00:22:24.000Why is it that Florida that has more registered Democrats than Republicans, where Mike Bloomberg spent $130 million to turn it into a Democrat state?
00:22:32.000Why is it that Florida has passed bills that have not been implemented into law here in Idaho?
00:22:38.000It's not because the people, that's for sure.
00:23:12.000And here's the problem: is that many of you live in areas that are so overwhelmingly conservative, the Democrat doesn't have any chance at all whatsoever.
00:23:21.000So the Republican doesn't have to compete for your vote.
00:23:24.000The Republican doesn't have to show you what he or her or she did to actually fight for your freedoms and liberties in Boise.
00:24:36.000And that's everyone's own personal decision.
00:24:39.000The propaganda campaign that has clamped down on azithromycin, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, monoclonal antibodies, and aspirin has been one of the most diabolical and harmful public relation campaigns in the history of America.
00:24:53.000The public relations campaign against early treatments has cost people lives.
00:24:57.000I don't think we'll ever know the exact number.
00:25:00.000It is a disgusting and outright campaign that has really hurt people.
00:25:04.000But in a state like Idaho, when I get emails from people and I meet with them, they say, yeah, I was a nurse at St. Luke's or St. Alphonsus, and I'm going to have to lose my job or I'm going to lose my job, replaced by a California worker.
00:25:17.000You know that's what they're doing, right?
00:25:19.000They're flying in Californians here to Idaho, giving them a $6,000 per month per diem to go work in your hospitals while your fellow citizens and fellow countrymen here in Idaho gets fired and cast aside.
00:25:38.000And whatever it is, whether it be demonstrations, whether it be calling a special session, and this is where I really kind of put Idaho in this position where if Florida, a state where there's more registered Democrats than Republicans, Ron DeSantis comes out proudly.
00:26:27.000And like, let's, I'm not sure if you're cheering for him or if you're against him.
00:26:32.000I don't really quite know what that was, whatever.
00:26:35.000So, and what I'm telling you right now, though, is that the people of Idaho are people that have done their job and they have, they've been done what they've done what they're told.
00:27:31.000And no, you're not welcome here to go inflate our property values and go work from Zoom for Dropbox or Google and then go contest in the local school board election and tell us about critical race theory, wokeism, pornographic curriculum, and transgender bathrooms.
00:28:05.000And Boise is the mayor there is a super leftist.
00:28:11.000And for the people of Idaho, if they were to overcome one race, the power that we discovered through COVID of the lower magistrates, just speak to the mayor issue.
00:28:25.000She really wants this to be like Portland or Seattle.
00:28:27.000And I know anybody from Boise, we're in Meridian, right?
00:29:36.000Same thing in New York City and where we live now in Phoenix, in the Phoenix metro area, where there's a lot of people pushing back in Arizona, thankfully.
00:29:44.000And Arizona used to be a very comfortable Republican state, but I'm going to keep on going back to Florida.
00:29:48.000Do you know what Democrats are now saying about Florida?
00:30:13.000And so, yeah, there is this, there is this kind of posture, I think, Rick, that we need to take that we need to re-embrace the founders and the framers' vision of self-government.
00:30:32.000But let me give you some ideas of how Idaho could reassert itself.
00:30:36.000And so we've already seen the destruction of the rule of law in our country to a great extent and the nullification of state laws, federal laws, which I'm not a fan of.
00:30:46.000But Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, they all have sanctuary cities.
00:30:51.000So in essence, we're not going to deport criminals in our cities.
00:30:54.000We're not going to comply with federal law enforcement.
00:32:15.000They take advantage of the issues you care about because they have no meaningful competition because it's one-party rule.
00:32:21.000Where in the other states, the 50-50 states, as I mentioned again, this is one of the reasons why Texas has become more conservative the more Democrat it's become.
00:32:48.000But like there's a homeless guy defecating on my driveway and my six-year-old is being prescribed puberty blockers and like the Wendy's is on fire.
00:32:58.000I'm being told it's all because of George Floyd.
00:33:00.000Like, what are you going to do about that?
00:33:03.000And, but in Idaho, because you have things that are so nice and so beautiful and serene, like people just kind of mark the R box and they move on.
00:35:52.000And I will go, and let me also say there are some things that are out there that people believe with the 2020 election that I think is a wrong focus.
00:36:04.000And I think there's things we must focus on.
00:36:06.000But let me say, it was a complete, it was a highway robbery.
00:36:24.000One of the richest men on the planet, Mark Zuckerberg, spent $420 million and inserted himself into actually how the ballots were counted in cities across the country.
00:36:43.000They shouldn't have never took the money in the first place.
00:36:45.000But Zuckerberg spent tons of money, $420 million, went into Gwinnett County, Cobb County, Maricopa County, Antrim County, and actually hired the ballot counters himself.
00:36:58.000Most people don't even know this happened.
00:37:00.000This is one of the great scandals and attacks of our institutions we've ever seen.
00:37:05.000Now, that's just one example, where the money went, the counties it flowed to.
00:37:10.000The fact that Facebook and Twitter did not allow us to talk about the Hunter Biden laptop story in the entire month of October.
00:37:17.000This is third world regime-changing type stuff where they come in and they're like, all speech is now completely restricted.
00:37:26.000If this would have happened in a country that we are trying to topple a government for, we would have said this election was completely corrupted to the core.
00:37:33.000You're not allowed to talk about a laptop where it says 10% goes to the big man, who then Tony Bobielinski, the part and business partner of Biden, Joe Biden and Hunter Biden says that was for Joe Biden, who's doing deals with the Chinese.
00:37:45.000We're not allowed to have a robust discussion about that in the month of October.
00:37:49.000That is an injustice to the American electoral system.
00:37:52.000And the other thing is just the absolute, unprecedented, inexplicable expansion of mail-in ballots across the country, where we sent people ballots that never requested them.
00:38:46.000It needs to be voting day and absolute minimum, a couple days leading up to the weekend before.
00:38:52.000If you need to expand it a little bit, you need to have more restrictions and more integrity measures of going into nursing homes and vulnerable populations where these left-wing activist groups prey on the most vulnerable.
00:39:02.000We have mountains of evidence that this happened in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
00:39:05.000I'm happy to go into that if you're interested.
00:39:51.000And in regards to what you were saying about Idaho leadership, how they were taking us for granted or taking advantage of us, I appreciate that.
00:40:00.000But at the same time, we as Idahoans need to take responsibility for being cheap, myself included.
00:40:06.000So can you please give us, I know you touched a little bit on this, but give us clear, precise, concise details of how we can truly get involved.
00:40:17.000I mean, I keep hearing go to your local legislatures, and I've done that, but there's got to be things that we need to know that we don't know because I guarantee there's going to be so many people in this crowd that want to do something, but don't.
00:40:29.000Can I ask you a question and put you on the spot?
00:41:38.000Yeah, know your school board, city council, all this, but let's talk about a couple things that people can do that are a little more.
00:41:43.000It might sound generic, but every person can do this.
00:41:46.000Every person tonight needs to make a pledge and a promise in front of the Lord.
00:41:49.000You're going to be the same person in public that you are in private.
00:41:53.000Now, this might not sound like a big deal.
00:41:54.000There are people here tonight that can be comfortable here at this event, but not at their workplace, not with their family members, not with their friends.
00:42:40.000We did this last night as well, which I'm not a big John Gruden fan, okay?
00:42:44.000But the fact that John Gruden's emails are under more scrutiny than Hunter Biden's emails is a massive injustice and a disgrace to our entire country, right?
00:42:52.000So, John Gruden gets fired because he had transphobic comments.
00:42:56.000I could go into great detail about this.
00:42:58.000So, I'm not saying that you guys need a new football coach.
00:43:00.000Maybe you think Boise State needs a new football coach.
00:43:03.000Why doesn't a conservative state just go hire John Gruden as their new football coach?
00:43:07.000Now, that symbolically would be a massive blow to the regime.
00:43:11.000That, no, you don't get to go back into 10-year-old emails and just go off of some be the moral police of a guy that's loved by his black teammates and loved by even the gay teammates and be like, no, we're going to destroy your life.
00:43:22.000What that does is it weakens the ability to go fire someone right here that works at Albertson's and might go wear a Trump hat to work and you might get fired because of that.
00:43:32.000Now, I'm not saying that would happen, right?
00:43:33.000That might be an example because I'm, you know, it's a conservative family, but whatever it might be, like a local business of what it might be.
00:43:39.000The only power they have is the power we give them.
00:43:42.000And we give them the power of being okay to terminate our fellow countrymen because they participated in thought crimes.
00:43:49.000If I had every single person here's emails and text messages dating back for 10 years, a lot of people would be losing their jobs.
00:43:55.000And we need to be honest about that, right?
00:44:52.000And then, the last thing I'll tell you: this is an unusual thing: learn.
00:44:56.000Every day, dedicate at least an hour to turn off your phone and learn more about your nation, the founding documents, and the beautiful gift that we have been given as citizens.
00:45:05.000And so, this is so important and learn more about how the Bible touches every part of this life.
00:45:36.000So, I tell every conservative audience: turn off the reality television, turn off the nonsense, and spend an hour a day.
00:45:42.000I know it might be a lot, and say, I'm going to go learn something.
00:45:45.000Now, if maybe you guys know everything there is to know about American history, okay?
00:45:49.000And maybe you feel as if you know enough and you're good.
00:45:52.000I can tell you this: as soon as I decided to take learning seriously, my commitment and even my energy and my stamina towards this was exponentially further.
00:46:05.000When I saw and I studied the writings of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, of Jefferson and Adams, when I saw the sacrifices of Mayhew, Whitfield, and Edwards, when I went through John Locke to Thomas Hobbes, understand how this whole system was created.
00:46:20.000I said, Oh my goodness, this is so exceptional.
00:46:22.000I have to dedicate my whole life to this.
00:46:41.000We have partnered with them for online courses that you guys can take.
00:46:45.000I have taken seven of them, and they have been a phenomenal blessing to me and to our students from everything from Aristotle to just simple the Constitution 101 course with Hillsdale College.
00:46:58.000It should honestly be a federal law that every citizen should have to take it.
00:48:25.000Instead of trying to explain to somebody what you believe, ask them why they believe what they believe and then dive deeper into that.
00:48:32.000All of a sudden, you will then involve them in the process of learning alongside of them.
00:48:36.000But here's what we shouldn't do: we should not moderate our positions and we should not seek a false middle just to try to win over people that don't yet agree with us.
00:49:16.000I'm not trying to say that there's not something as many steps towards the inevitable goal.
00:49:20.000But trying to get me to, as if to try to soften my position on an issue as fundamentally important as life, to try to find a false middle, I think actually does more damage than good.
00:50:19.000While we should be clear and our positions uncompromising in them, being magnanimous, you know, coming at it in a non-abrasive tone, tone matters a lot in life, everybody.
00:50:32.000I could say the same sentence three different ways, such as life begins at conception or life begins at conception.
00:50:40.000Which one do you think is going to be more likely to win over someone that is not yet convinced?
00:50:45.000Same words, totally different message.
00:50:47.000And that's part of where we really need to pray for the renewing of our mind, as our scriptures tell us, to embrace that kind of stylistic and tonal ability, still while being uncompromising in the actual issues and principles that we espouse.
00:51:28.000Just left West Ada to start Cornerstone Learning Academy, which is a bridge program for homeschoolers.
00:51:40.000My question to you is, seeing all of the assaults that are happening on homeschooling, especially in France, is do you expect to see something similar happening in our country?
00:51:50.000And if so, what can we do to protect our homeschooling families from such an assault?
00:52:48.000The only one of the Ten Commandments that comes with a promise is honor your mother and father so that you might live long in the land of which you are in.
00:52:55.000Every totalitarian government tries to separate and destroy the bond between a parent and a child.
00:53:14.000Randy Weiggarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers.
00:53:18.000She's the head of the biggest teacher union in the country alongside the National Education Association.
00:53:23.000They are now saying out loud, if you're a parent right now in the audience, you're a grandparent, you have zero stay, say drop your kids off at school, stop asking questions, who do you think you are?
00:53:32.000Now, it's not just because they think they're better than you.
00:53:35.000They know that America becomes a socialist Marxist country when parental child relations weaken.
00:53:43.000You guys have heard the phrase before, Mother Russia.
00:53:46.000It was a phrase in the Soviet Union that people used to say about the Soviet government with Joseph Stalin.
00:53:54.000The phrase was an intentional campaign, a propaganda campaign to tell young children their true parents was the Russian communist government, not their biological parents.
00:54:04.000In Mao Zedong's China, where 60 million people were intentionally murdered, kind of glossed over in history, they used to pay children to turn in their parents if they were anything but loyal to the Chinese Communist Party government during the communist revolution, the cultural revolution, I should say, 10 years.
00:55:25.000You do that every Sunday, call it the Liberty Hour.
00:55:28.000All of a sudden, they will go back to school the next day.
00:55:30.000They'll be correcting their teachers because the people they appreciate most, the parents, will be filling them up with truth and it will last all the way to the next Sunday.
00:56:39.000They have like escalators and, you know, they have like these massive, huge superstructures.
00:56:44.000You know the type of church that I'm talking about.
00:56:45.000Like, huh, that money would have been a lot better spent on the 1,000 moms that had to make a decision between LA Unified School District or homeschooling.
00:56:53.000Those 1,000 kids would have been have a higher likelihood to love the Lord, be on fire for liberty.
00:56:58.000Every number, by the way, shows that if you want your kids to share your values, homeschool the kids.
00:57:45.000And Idaho needs to continue to be a place where homeschooling parents can remain untouched by the state and especially the federal government.
00:58:03.000Charlie was talking about Hillsdale, and they have, it's such a priority for them to have their homeschooling curriculum from kindergarten all the way through 12th grade.
00:58:13.000If you're looking for it, they've designed it.
00:58:23.000We have gone into the weeds at Hillsdale College.
00:58:25.000And I sit on, my wife and I sit on the courses.
00:58:28.000There is not a better community of intellectuals in America that are together to try to affirm the gospel of Jesus Christ, the authenticity of the Bible, and America first principles.
00:58:41.000I'm not saying that there aren't other good colleges, but boy, do they have heavy weights at Hillsdale that do the best job that I have found.
00:59:47.000But let me tell you kind of how the founding fathers intended it, if that's okay, where liberty was the ultimate pursuit.
00:59:54.000You know, you could have the freedom to kind of build a home, freedom to travel, but liberty was pursuing the things a human being ought to do.
01:00:02.000And so this is a really important thing where liberty is understanding that there's a natural law.
01:00:09.000Liberty is understanding that there's a transcendent order.
01:00:12.000Liberty is understanding that there are things that human beings should try to strive for.
01:00:17.000And the inverse of liberty is licentiousness.
01:00:21.000So in all of the debates of the framers and the founding fathers, there was this struggle between liberty and licentiousness.
01:00:29.000Now, if you notice that in my favorite document, a secular document, outside, obviously the Bible is not a secular document, but my favorite document that I study and I pour over with Dr. Larry Arn from Hillsdale is the Declaration of Independence.
01:00:41.000This document, and I like it even more, the Constitution, not that I don't like the Constitution, but I like the Declaration because it was first.
01:01:00.000That means that there was a day when we decided to start.
01:01:03.000And that was the day that we ratified and signed that document.
01:01:06.000That document starts when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have connected them with another, deriving the powers, the equal but separate station of which the powers of the earth.
01:01:19.000And it goes on to say the laws of nature and nature's God.
01:01:22.000That statement right there, what does that mean?
01:01:24.000What Thomas Jefferson is doing is he's building a bridge between the fruits of the Enlightenment and the eternal truths of antiquity.
01:01:32.000This is an unprecedented project that our people in political life have no idea even the brilliance of this.
01:01:40.000So Thomas Jefferson says, whoa, we're developing all this stuff like freedom of speech, like freedom of assembly.
01:01:46.000But if we just do that and we don't have the anchor of the laws of nature and actually the wise restraints that keep us free, this whole place is going to collapse into chaos immediately.
01:01:57.000And that's why he intentionally derived from John Locke this idea of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
01:02:04.000The founding fathers believed liberty as a human being's ascent to the divine and the eternal and a well-soul man.
01:02:13.000Liberty is not being able to do drugs whenever you want to do it.
01:02:16.000Liberty is not getting drunk at the bar.
01:03:07.000Liberty is going out with your friends when they should have been told liberty is pursuing something that is eternal and divine and good and true and beautiful.
01:04:55.000The next session, Idaho should pass a law heavily fining Facebook and Google for mining the data of Idaho citizens and making out like bandits while addicting your children to screens that are devoid of purpose and meaning.
01:05:10.000Idaho should say to the tech companies, if you want to operate in Idaho, you're going to have to pay a price.
01:05:18.000Now, some people say, well, Charlie, that's not free market.
01:05:27.000The market should be designed so that we have an outcome we can recognize.
01:05:32.000When I see, when I go out to a local restaurant, this happened in Boise, my wife and I will tell you, and I see a family of seven and everyone's staring at their screen, we got a big problem.
01:06:23.000Idaho should send a message to big tech companies.
01:06:25.000All right, you're going to stream YouTube videos unless you have these 10 requirements, which is privacy protection for children, you know, transparency of where the ad dollars are being spent, no more micro-targeted ads.
01:06:38.000You're going to have to pay $10,000 per violation per day.
01:06:48.000They do this to our companies all the time.
01:06:51.000Look what they did to the Trump organization, right?
01:06:53.000They drugged that man's family through the criminal gutter for six years because they didn't like his politics, indicting the people that worked in his office because they didn't file the taxes correctly.
01:07:04.000Well, excuse me, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and these companies are nothing more than massive internet-based Democrat super PACs that are trying to destroy your life, the Christian worldview, and the American worldview.
01:07:14.000It's time for us to start to use the power that we have to either say that Google's not going to operate here or you're going to have to pay a big price and actually, you know, kind of come to our demands if that's the case.
01:07:25.000The states are the solution to the big tech problem.
01:07:28.000I wish the federal government would do something.
01:07:49.000Of a lobbyist from Google that will land here and start writing checks and intimidating people in the last couple days of that bill getting out committee because they know the true threat will be the states rising up against these companies.
01:08:02.000And so that will be a very interesting thing to say, to see.
01:08:44.000So I was in family medicine and my friend who's here with me, she's a very gifted, I would say she's one of the most gifted NIC nurses that I've ever had the privilege of knowing.
01:08:58.000And so I chose to leave when they introduced the check mark system when some who were vaccinated had check marks.
01:10:13.000These hospitals should no longer receive federal funding, but they will, of course, because it's all kind of part of the uniparty cartel in Washington, D.C. I'm sure there's a lot of donors here in Boise that give money to St. Luke's.
01:10:26.000Go find them and ask them if they're on the side of this and create a public pressure campaign on this issue.
01:10:32.000In addition, contact every single one of their board members.
01:10:36.000These are quasi-nonprofit for-profit type organizations.
01:10:55.000You guys are a 60 to 70% conservative state, and it's ridiculous and it's disgusting that states like Florida can get this right and you guys can't.
01:11:03.000You guys have the collective wisdom in this room to figure it out.
01:11:06.000If you have to get angrier, then do it.
01:11:08.000But you, as a wonderful person, a healthcare worker who was called a hero for the first 18 months of this pandemic is now having to be unemployed.
01:11:15.000Like this should not happen in America, let alone in the beautiful state of Idaho.
01:12:04.000We should abolish the VA and give every veteran a Medicare for all card to go to any hospital they're choosing and get the best health care in America.
01:12:12.000So I did have a knee operation at St. Al's, and they do allow us to go to other hospitals to get treated.
01:12:21.000And just my ending statement is I think the Boise VA does one heck of a good job for the veterans.
01:12:28.000Well, that's definitely an exception because if you remember under the Obama regime, people were on waiting lists for PTSD suicide hotlines.
01:12:35.000We lost hundreds of veterans for untreated there.
01:12:38.000But I appreciate the comment and thank you for your service.
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