The Charlie Kirk Show - Why The Church Must Lean In and Save America

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00:01:16.000 Here we go Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:01:19.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:01:21.000 I want you to know.

00:01:22.000 We are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:01:24.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House.

00:01:26.000 Folks, I want to thank Charlie.

00:01:29.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:01:30.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:01:32.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

00:01:37.000 Turning Point USA.

00:01:38.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:47.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:50.000 Great to see everybody here.

00:01:51.000 It's awesome.

00:01:53.000 We've been having a great time the last couple of days.

00:01:55.000 Yeah, we had a great event yesterday.

00:01:57.000 Uh, we're going to the University OF Oregon tomorrow, so that should be a little different than tonight.

00:02:02.000 So, just a little bit different.

00:02:04.000 We were at University OF Vermont last week and that was obviously very different than here.

00:02:11.000 And Burlington, Bernie Sanders hometown, and we're going to Denver later this week and then Fort Collins and then Clemson University, University OF Alabama, back to Arizona.

00:02:22.000 We're crisscrossing the country.

00:02:23.000 I visit college campuses, so you guys don't have to and going to churches speaking to big groups.

00:02:29.000 We 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.

00:02:46.000 USA 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.

00:03:06.000 Well Charlie, you've been crushing it on the high school and college campuses and you've just rolled out Turning Point, Faith.

00:03:13.000 So, share with people what our vision and goal is.

00:03:16.000 Well, look, and this is an important topic, you know, being in a church here.

00:03:21.000 We as Christians have to step up.

00:03:23.000 And regardless of your theological views or your eschatological views, I believe in the inerrancy of scripture, the triune God.

00:03:31.000 I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

00:03:34.000 And you guys can sort out all the rest from there of your own denominational or theological differences.

00:03:39.000 We have to fight for liberty.

00:03:41.000 And liberty is God's idea, not man's idea.

00:03:44.000 And I am seeing so many churches that, especially over the last year and a half, there's three different types of churches in America.

00:03:52.000 There 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.

00:04:03.000 Those are the churches that are the ones that are flying the Black Lives Matter flags.

00:04:07.000 Those are the churches that have the LGBT flags outside their door.

00:04:10.000 They're the churches that give the sermons saying that we need to be woke and we need to embrace the diversity industrial complex.

00:04:17.000 These churches are actively involved in trying to further a very, very destructive left-wing agenda in our country.

00:04:25.000 And we're seeing that through some people at the very top level of the American Christian community.

00:04:29.000 Then there's the complacent church, churches that say, Pastors say, hey, you know what?

00:04:34.000 We don't do politics in our church.

00:04:36.000 We just do the gospel.

00:04:37.000 We don't talk about things that are happening in the news.

00:04:40.000 And this is not biblical.

00:04:42.000 All 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.

00:04:54.000 Daniel fasted and prayed for the well-being of the nation that he was in.

00:04:58.000 In Jeremiah 29, 7, it says, demand the welfare of the nation.

00:05:02.000 I have sent you in because your welfare is tied to the nation's welfare.

00:05:07.000 We as Christians are called to care about every realm and sphere in political life, in life outside the walls of the church.

00:05:15.000 And I never say what we are doing is the most important thing.

00:05:19.000 The most important thing is winning souls for Jesus Christ.

00:05:21.000 It's the most important thing that we can do.

00:05:24.000 But then the obvious question is: what's the second most important thing?

00:05:30.000 To 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.

00:05:50.000 We shouldn't tolerate that.

00:05:50.000 You know what?

00:05:51.000 It's never going to happen again.

00:05:53.000 And the church has to rise up and put people in leadership to say that the church is not non-essential.

00:05:59.000 It's the opposite.

00:06:00.000 It's the most essential thing.

00:06:02.000 The church being forcibly locked down.

00:06:04.000 And maybe you guys experienced this in Boise, maybe not.

00:06:06.000 I know some people in Idaho were arrested for singing songs.

00:06:09.000 I heard that.

00:06:10.000 I couldn't believe it.

00:06:11.000 And I think that was corrected, I hope.

00:06:13.000 But, Rick, you know this very well.

00:06:15.000 In 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.

00:06:23.000 And the complacent church has allowed this to happen.

00:06:27.000 And 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.

00:06:39.000 So some Christians say, you know what?

00:06:41.000 Jesus is coming next Thursday.

00:06:43.000 It's not my problem.

00:06:45.000 House is on fire.

00:06:46.000 Let's get the kids out. 1.00

00:06:47.000 And this is obvious.

00:06:48.000 You know, some people have a belief in that sort of eschatological view.

00:06:53.000 That's not my day job, which is to, you know, interpret certain parts of theology for you.

00:06:58.000 But let's say that is right, because it very well could be.

00:07:01.000 Then doesn't it say occupy till he comes?

00:07:04.000 Does it say retreat to the hills and hope you don't get eaten?

00:07:08.000 No, we have to lean into these moments.

00:07:10.000 And especially right now, if the American church does not stand and contest for truth and righteousness, who will?

00:07:16.000 Harvard, 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. 0.99

00:07:29.000 The church is the light of the world, and we as Christians must stand up and do something about it.

00:07:41.000 Charlie, 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.

00:08:00.000 And you, yes.

00:08:04.000 So I, yeah, I don't want to say any names because I think they mishandled this, but I was scheduled to speak at a church in Washington.

00:08:10.000 This is back in May.

00:08:12.000 And again, I want to love on this guy because I think he's able to make a correction.

00:08:17.000 He's a good heart.

00:08:18.000 Yeah, he does.

00:08:20.000 But you could be a nice person, but also be a weak person.

00:08:23.000 It's a very important thing.

00:08:25.000 And we could talk about that tonight.

00:08:28.000 We have a lot of nice, weak people running our country right now.

00:08:31.000 It's the 11th commandment.

00:08:32.000 Thou shalt be nice.

00:08:33.000 Yeah, I must have missed that one, actually.

00:08:35.000 Instead of being courageous.

00:08:36.000 Yeah, courageous or bold or clear or in pursuit of justice and truth.

00:08:42.000 So 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.

00:08:53.000 You know, we're going to go protest.

00:08:55.000 And unfortunately, that church got really intimidated by that and canceled my appearance to go speak at the church.

00:09:01.000 We found another church to host us and we had a couple thousand people show up.

00:09:05.000 And I'm happy to report, I actually returned to that county a couple of days ago and they were threatening to come.

00:09:10.000 They never come.

00:09:11.000 And if they show up, then, all right, then we'll bring twice as many security and we'll deal with it.

00:09:19.000 And so I was disappointed.

00:09:21.000 I was saddened by that.

00:09:22.000 But make no mistake, here in Idaho, you have a lot of people from Washington that are coming over and bringing their values over.

00:09:27.000 Hopefully the good people from Washington, right?

00:09:31.000 But yeah, this is an important point.

00:09:33.000 And I've dealt with all aspects of this.

00:09:35.000 And I do think that this particular church will have me back.

00:09:38.000 And I think that they're regretting not taking the stand that they wish they could.

00:09:42.000 But some churches are afraid to engage in the political matters for a couple of reasons.

00:09:47.000 They view the church as simply of having bigger budgets, bigger buildings, and more baptisms.

00:09:52.000 And I'm all for those things, right?

00:09:55.000 But if you look at the church simply as a business, like, well, if I talk about politics, we might lose membership.

00:10:02.000 So what?

00:10:03.000 You'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?

00:10:11.000 You need to speak truth regardless of whether or not you're going to hit your budgetary goals for that month.

00:10:17.000 And 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.

00:10:28.000 So I have spoken at over 80 churches in the last year.

00:10:32.000 Every single church, with the exception of just one, which I think is an outlier, has seen record growth, record tithes, record offerings.

00:10:40.000 If they tell their congregation, here's what the Bible says about being a good citizen.

00:10:44.000 Here's what the Bible says about how to engage with your government.

00:10:48.000 The pastors that are like, you know, we don't do that around here.

00:10:50.000 You know, we don't take truth claims.

00:10:52.000 You know, we don't want to offend.

00:10:54.000 Let me be very clear.

00:10:54.000 It's impossible to read the scriptures and the gospel, as it is said, without offending somebody.

00:10:59.000 You're talking about the issues of eternity.

00:11:01.000 Now, it shouldn't be your heart to offend.

00:11:03.000 That's not who we shouldn't try to offend people.

00:11:05.000 But 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.

00:11:14.000 When the truth, it cuts like a sword, there is going to be a judgment.

00:11:18.000 People don't like to hear that.

00:11:20.000 Then there is a God who loves us.

00:11:21.000 And 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.

00:11:28.000 And 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.

00:11:39.000 They'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.

00:11:48.000 They don't want to just kind of be told the same sort of squishy middle vanilla type message.

00:11:52.000 People 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.

00:12:04.000 And 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.

00:12:13.000 Tell me the truth.

00:12:14.000 And 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.

00:12:25.000 Like American Christians can't handle a sermon on transgenderism. 0.95

00:12:29.000 It's super simple.

00:12:30.000 God created man, God created woman. 1.00

00:12:31.000 End of sermon, right?

00:12:32.000 You don't have to overly complicate this one, right?

00:12:35.000 And 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.

00:12:49.000 But when people say, well, Charlie, your message is inherently divisive.

00:12:52.000 That's your problem, not mine. 0.63

00:12:54.000 And this is the kind of position we need to have.

00:12:57.000 And 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.

00:13:04.000 And you've been so helpful with this, is we're trying to challenge churches to do more right now as liberty starts to disappear.

00:13:13.000 And if you look at how this country was founded, this country was founded on biblical citizens.

00:13:17.000 55 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing, regular church-attending Christians.

00:13:23.000 Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, Jonathan Mayhew are just some of the activist pastors that inspired the American Revolution.

00:13:30.000 Whether 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.

00:13:43.000 And 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?

00:13:53.000 The American church.

00:13:54.000 And guess what?

00:13:55.000 We are called to higher account than just someone at the side of the street.

00:13:59.000 We are going to be judged and say, what did you do with that gift of America I gave you?

00:14:03.000 What did you do with that?

00:14:04.000 Did you sit idly by and act as if this country was the same as any other country?

00:14:07.000 Or did you contest and be salt and light in every single areas possible?

00:14:12.000 And 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.

00:14:23.000 And so, yeah, I'm optimistic because I'm starting to see pastors that have never spoke out before start to speak out.

00:14:29.000 I'm starting to see congregants start to demand their church to speak out.

00:14:33.000 And 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.

00:14:50.000 So because we're a part of this phenomenon in California, and I'm intimately involved with two churches that are fighting.

00:14:56.000 We're in trouble with the law.

00:14:59.000 And they grew in eight months, each of them like 400%.

00:15:03.000 We call it the corona revival.

00:15:05.000 So, you know, God can use all things together for good, right?

00:15:10.000 To stand up.

00:15:11.000 Anybody that stands up, as Charlie is saying, for the truth.

00:15:14.000 And Charlie is seeing this coast to coast.

00:15:17.000 And 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.

00:15:25.000 Amen.

00:15:25.000 Speak up.

00:15:26.000 And 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.

00:15:34.000 And the Bible has so much to say about proper governance.

00:15:36.000 Proverbs 11, 11, and I'm paraphrasing here, but basically, when the corrupt rule, things fall apart and you need to be an upstanding citizen.

00:15:45.000 We are called to be good citizens.

00:15:47.000 Citizen comes from a Greek word, which means co-ruler.

00:15:50.000 And 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.

00:16:00.000 Let's ask this question.

00:16:01.000 Do you think the enemy, and there is an enemy, there is a Satan, the church doesn't like to talk about it, right?

00:16:05.000 Too 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.

00:16:20.000 Do you think the enemy is happy and pleased when the church stands up for life or not?

00:16:26.000 The enemy would love to see the American church retreat into the hills and do absolutely nothing.

00:16:32.000 And 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.

00:16:41.000 This is the opposite.

00:16:42.000 You know, I run an organization on college campuses, some of the most godless, soulless institutions in America.

00:16:49.000 I mean, you could go to, there's a great scripture where it says it so clearly.

00:16:52.000 It says wisdom begins with the fear of God.

00:16:55.000 And you want to know why college campuses have just become so unwise.

00:16:58.000 There's no God, so there's no wisdom at the college campuses you send your children to.

00:17:03.000 And we could talk about that too.

00:17:04.000 I think college is largely a scam.

00:17:06.000 I'm happy to go through that.

00:17:08.000 And I mean that seriously.

00:17:10.000 And 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.

00:17:17.000 This is not a joke.

00:17:18.000 You might send your kids to college and they will come back with different values.

00:17:22.000 I cannot tell my number, my number one question when I meet parents, they say, oh, I have four kids.

00:17:26.000 I say, how many kids share your values?

00:17:28.000 Average answer is half.

00:17:30.000 That's a tragic thing when you think about it.

00:17:32.000 And I say, oh, so where did they go to college?

00:17:34.000 Stanford, University of Oregon, UCLA, you know, Colorado University.

00:17:39.000 And by the way, if all your children share your values, you've been very blessed.

00:17:43.000 Seriously.

00:17:44.000 And that's something that you should thank the Lord for.

00:17:46.000 It's a big deal.

00:17:47.000 It really is.

00:17:48.000 But kind of going to this question of how do we bring people to Christ.

00:17:51.000 Galatians 3 tells us that the law is a school teacher to Christ.

00:17:55.000 Some people are going to come to Christ in different ways.

00:17:59.000 Some people are so broken, they are so in need of salvation at that moment.

00:18:03.000 They walk into a church and they have an overwhelming experience.

00:18:06.000 They give their life to Christ.

00:18:08.000 We all know these people, right?

00:18:09.000 These are people that find themselves stumbling into the 11 a.m. service that didn't go to bed the night before on Easter Sunday.

00:18:15.000 They hear, you know, the call, the call to Jesus, John 3, 16, they're like, okay, I got it.

00:18:19.000 Some people, they are going to be a little tougher.

00:18:22.000 They're a little tougher selves.

00:18:23.000 And 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.

00:18:34.000 Where does that come from?

00:18:35.000 I'm happy to tell you where the idea of self-government, separation of powers, independent judiciary, and consent to the governed come from.

00:18:40.000 The Bible.

00:18:41.000 Once people start drinking from the streams of liberty, they want to find its source.

00:18:47.000 And 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.

00:18:57.000 And what we are seeing is this amazing coalition for liberty that is being built.

00:19:02.000 And the church is the central part of this.

00:19:04.000 This is we're going to contest for righteousness and truth where it really matters most.

00:19:07.000 And we are seeing thousands of people give their life to Christ.

00:19:11.000 And people, you know, there's a lot of ministries that are out there.

00:19:14.000 Again, my job is number two.

00:19:15.000 I'm focused on the second most important thing, right?

00:19:18.000 To make sure you can do the first thing.

00:19:19.000 But I'm also unapologetic about sharing the gospel to people who need it.

00:19:23.000 But 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.

00:19:32.000 I agree with the way that he talks about immigration.

00:19:34.000 And then all of a sudden they say, I trust him enough.

00:19:36.000 I'm going to hear him out on this gospel thing.

00:19:38.000 And then all of a sudden, there's an opening.

00:19:39.000 And 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.

00:19:46.000 I believe the church needs to lean into that.

00:19:48.000 Amen.

00:19:55.000 And that's specifically what we're seeing in the church.

00:19:57.000 We baptized over just in the last 12 months a couple of hundred people, and they are desperate.

00:20:03.000 They're afraid.

00:20:05.000 They're looking for leadership.

00:20:07.000 And where should you turn in your community?

00:20:10.000 Very much like the children of Israel, where the house of the Lord was in the center of the camp.

00:20:14.000 Where should they go in their community to find truth?

00:20:16.000 To the people of God.

00:20:18.000 And yet they go to a woke church and it's closed. 0.97

00:20:25.000 We'll stream in a very anointed message for you.

00:20:28.000 But there's nothing like getting together and standing for truth.

00:20:31.000 Let'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.

00:20:44.000 And, 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.

00:20:59.000 How in Idaho would these young families engage in their community to keep Idaho free? 0.74

00:21:05.000 That's such an important point.

00:21:07.000 And so I traveled the country.

00:21:09.000 My wife and I have been to all 50 states, you know, twice over, and we've done a lot of travel and we've done a lot of different things.

00:21:15.000 The people of Idaho are some of the most conservative, God-loving, God-fearing, America-loving people in the country.

00:21:22.000 Your politicians, you deserve a lot better from your political leaders.

00:21:40.000 And, you know, I want to make this clear.

00:21:45.000 You know, Turning Point USA, we're a 501c3 and focused on education and college campus work.

00:21:51.000 We also have a 501c4.

00:21:52.000 So anything I say politically, attribute it to me.

00:21:54.000 And if you think I'm being overly legalistic, just look at the White House, okay?

00:21:57.000 Just understand what we're dealing with.

00:21:59.000 And so I'm being spot on when I say that.

00:22:03.000 Idaho is a wonderful state.

00:22:05.000 It is with amazing people.

00:22:07.000 And Idaho is following at best and is not leading in the fight for liberty.

00:22:14.000 Why is it that Florida that has more registered Democrats than Republicans is a freer state than Idaho?

00:22:21.000 Leadership.

00:22:22.000 Leadership.

00:22:24.000 Why is it that Florida that has more registered Democrats than Republicans, where Mike Bloomberg spent $130 million to turn it into a Democrat state?

00:22:32.000 Why is it that Florida has passed bills that have not been implemented into law here in Idaho?

00:22:38.000 It's not because the people, that's for sure.

00:22:40.000 Call go to Key West.

00:22:42.000 You'll understand exactly what I mean.

00:22:43.000 It's a wacky place.

00:22:45.000 And no, it's very simple.

00:22:47.000 It's because Idaho currently is under the curse of one-party rule.

00:22:53.000 And you might say, what do you mean, the curse?

00:22:54.000 This is happening in a couple states.

00:22:56.000 I spend a lot of time in North Dakota.

00:22:58.000 I'm on radio three hours every single day across the country, including three hours in the biggest station in North Dakota.

00:23:04.000 And in North Dakota, they're going through this exact same thing where they will win every single election for Republicans.

00:23:11.000 But then the real work starts.

00:23:12.000 And 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.

00:23:21.000 So the Republican doesn't have to compete for your vote.

00:23:24.000 The Republican doesn't have to show you what he or her or she did to actually fight for your freedoms and liberties in Boise.

00:23:30.000 Guess what?

00:23:32.000 In Florida, that's not the case.

00:23:33.000 Every district is like a 50-50 district.

00:23:36.000 So the state legislators, they have to go to their district, like, hey, here's what I did.

00:23:40.000 Guess what we did?

00:23:40.000 We banned CRT, no vaccine mandates for everyone, nurses included, and young children, which is what they just did.

00:23:46.000 Just to give you an idea, in Florida, you're not allowed to fire nurses if they don't take the vaccine.

00:23:50.000 Idaho, it's happening every day.

00:23:51.000 Now, I know, but you guys don't live in Florida.

00:23:56.000 So demand, well, maybe you do, and maybe you guys are all, I mean, demand more.

00:24:04.000 It's not acceptable.

00:24:05.000 You guys don't live in Oregon.

00:24:07.000 This is a joke that this is happening in Idaho.

00:24:10.000 And look, I've been very outspoken against mandatory vaccinations.

00:24:13.000 Have you noticed how few conservatives talk about this issue, by the way?

00:24:16.000 They kind of run to the hills because many of them are bought by Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, and BioNTech.

00:24:23.000 I don't care if you got vaccinated.

00:24:24.000 It's not my business.

00:24:25.000 I really, I don't, I've never condemned anyone.

00:24:27.000 I've never mocked anyone, never ridiculed anyone.

00:24:29.000 I'm not getting vaccinated.

00:24:30.000 My wife's not getting vaccinated.

00:24:32.000 And we're very clear about that.

00:24:36.000 And that's everyone's own personal decision.

00:24:39.000 The 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.

00:24:52.000 Let me say that again.

00:24:53.000 The public relations campaign against early treatments has cost people lives.

00:24:57.000 I don't think we'll ever know the exact number.

00:25:00.000 It is a disgusting and outright campaign that has really hurt people.

00:25:04.000 But 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.

00:25:17.000 You know that's what they're doing, right?

00:25:19.000 They'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.

00:25:31.000 Where's the leadership?

00:25:32.000 Like, don't put up with this anymore.

00:25:34.000 And I know that a lot of you are saying, well, what else do we do?

00:25:36.000 You're not doing enough.

00:25:38.000 And 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.

00:25:54.000 His numbers go skyrocket, by the way.

00:25:55.000 His numbers went straight up when he said this.

00:25:57.000 He said, no nurse, police officer, or firefighter or worker is going to get fired on my watch in the state of Florida.

00:26:03.000 And it's because he's courageous enough to do it.

00:26:05.000 And so, look, Idaho's at a very, it's at a turning point.

00:26:08.000 It's at a tipping point.

00:26:09.000 It's at a moment that it's going to be a real test, right?

00:26:13.000 And right now, Idaho is on pace to be another Colorado, just so we all are clear, right?

00:26:18.000 It's on pace, and it's because of weak leadership.

00:26:22.000 And by the way, I mean this on the federal and the state level.

00:26:24.000 I mean it on both.

00:26:27.000 And like, let's, I'm not sure if you're cheering for him or if you're against him.

00:26:32.000 I don't really quite know what that was, whatever.

00:26:35.000 So, 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.

00:26:47.000 They love liberty.

00:26:48.000 They love freedom.

00:26:49.000 And yeah, look, you bring up a phenomenal point here.

00:26:52.000 Strength in what remains.

00:26:54.000 And yeah, there's tons of people that are coming from Washington and Oregon.

00:26:57.000 Why do you think they're coming here?

00:26:59.000 They're coming here because you were a conservative state and they know your leaders aren't going to do anything that will offend them.

00:27:05.000 That's why they're not, they're leaving Florida.

00:27:08.000 You know that, right?

00:27:09.000 They're leaving Texas.

00:27:10.000 Liberals are literally leaving these states because they're like, oh, they're passing open carry.

00:27:15.000 They're passing anti-CRT measures.

00:27:19.000 And yeah, some people say, well, Charlie, that's a little harsh.

00:27:21.000 Like, look, if you want to go destroy a state, there's plenty of dystopian, you know, West Coast cities you can go live in.

00:27:26.000 San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles.

00:27:29.000 Like, we're going to keep Idaho, Idaho.

00:27:30.000 Thank you very much.

00:27:31.000 And 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. 0.91

00:27:45.000 Like, no, that's what Seattle's for.

00:27:46.000 Thank you very much.

00:27:47.000 Get out of Idaho.

00:27:48.000 And that should be our position.

00:27:58.000 It always starts somewhere, Charlie, just like in Arizona.

00:28:02.000 Phoenix was a red city.

00:28:04.000 Now it's a purple city.

00:28:05.000 And Boise is the mayor there is a super leftist.

00:28:11.000 And 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.

00:28:25.000 She really wants this to be like Portland or Seattle.

00:28:27.000 And I know anybody from Boise, we're in Meridian, right?

00:28:31.000 So, okay.

00:28:32.000 Well, they've already exited Boise.

00:28:36.000 But just a word for them to, I mean, they could deal with one race that could save and strengthen what remains.

00:28:43.000 Yeah, I mean, mayor's races are incredibly important.

00:28:45.000 District attorney races are incredibly important.

00:28:48.000 Local sheriff races are remarkably important.

00:28:51.000 And yeah, there's a huge flow of left-wing billionaire money coming into the state to try to subvert your elections. 0.85

00:28:58.000 You know this through the Democracy Alliance, through Lorene Powell Jobs, through the Emerson Collective.

00:29:03.000 They're spending millions and millions and millions of dollars to try to undermine the Idaho way of life.

00:29:10.000 And you must understand what you're dealing with here.

00:29:12.000 You're dealing with a campaign that is imperialist in nature.

00:29:16.000 They're not just happy destroying Washington, Oregon, and California.

00:29:20.000 They want the whole country to be under their clutches.

00:29:22.000 They want to make every single city like Portland, like Chicago, like New York, like Boston.

00:29:28.000 There is no negotiating with these people either.

00:29:30.000 Trust me, I grew up in Chicago.

00:29:32.000 They have not even started to hit rock bottom.

00:29:34.000 They have got a long way left to go.

00:29:36.000 Same 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.

00:29:44.000 And Arizona used to be a very comfortable Republican state, but I'm going to keep on going back to Florida.

00:29:48.000 Do you know what Democrats are now saying about Florida?

00:29:51.000 They're getting demoralized.

00:29:52.000 They're like, all right, Florida's on pace to become another Alabama. 0.77

00:29:55.000 Let's go somewhere else.

00:29:57.000 They only understand force.

00:29:59.000 They don't understand like putting them in a room and trying to negotiate.

00:30:04.000 There's no negotiating with these people.

00:30:05.000 They're trying to vaccinate your children.

00:30:07.000 Like, where's the middle ground with that?

00:30:09.000 Like, oh, no, they get one shot instead of two or like our no booster shot.

00:30:12.000 Like, really?

00:30:13.000 And 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.

00:30:24.000 And it all comes back to states.

00:30:26.000 And so I said this last night.

00:30:28.000 Actually, I don't know if I said this last night.

00:30:29.000 I've given so many speeches in Idaho.

00:30:30.000 I can't remember what I said where.

00:30:32.000 But let me give you some ideas of how Idaho could reassert itself.

00:30:36.000 And 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.

00:30:46.000 But Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, they all have sanctuary cities.

00:30:51.000 So in essence, we're not going to deport criminals in our cities.

00:30:54.000 We're not going to comply with federal law enforcement.

00:30:56.000 That's an act of secession, right?

00:30:58.000 That's an act of nullification, and no one wants to say it out loud.

00:31:01.000 Why does Idaho not become a sanctuary state for liberty and freedom?

00:31:04.000 Why doesn't Idaho say that we're not going to comply with these federal laws?

00:31:08.000 Like, we're not going to comply by the OSHA mandate.

00:31:10.000 We're certainly not going to comply with your gun control legislation.

00:31:13.000 We're not going to comply with the money going to Planned Parenthood.

00:31:15.000 This is where Idaho needs to be a leader because guess what?

00:31:18.000 They're doing this to us.

00:31:20.000 You look what's happening.

00:31:21.000 You go to Seattle, they say, yeah, we're not going to comply with immigration customs enforcement.

00:31:25.000 We're not going to comply with it.

00:31:26.000 If you're an illegal, you're welcome in Seattle. 1.00

00:31:28.000 Well, Idaho should say, if you love America and love the Constitution, you're welcome in Idaho.

00:31:32.000 And they will bulldoze you and your values and the state.

00:31:37.000 And I know you might feel comfortable in Idaho because, you know, Trump won by 30 points or whatever.

00:31:41.000 And the people are amazing here.

00:31:43.000 I want to say you are not the target of what I'm saying.

00:31:46.000 Your political class is taking advantage of you and they take advantage of you.

00:31:49.000 This is how it works.

00:31:50.000 Okay.

00:31:50.000 Let me tell you how this works.

00:31:52.000 They're largely corrupt and they make a lot of money off of doing deals with international globalist type companies, but they know this.

00:32:00.000 They know that if you get a mailer in the mail or see a TV ad, I'm pro-life.

00:32:05.000 Look at me hunting, right?

00:32:08.000 I love jobs.

00:32:10.000 You're like, okay, I'll vote for that guy.

00:32:11.000 You won't do much thought about it, right?

00:32:13.000 They take advantage of you.

00:32:15.000 They take advantage of the issues you care about because they have no meaningful competition because it's one-party rule.

00:32:21.000 Where 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.

00:32:30.000 I want you to think about that.

00:32:31.000 Texas has actually become more politically conservative in the last two years, despite the elections being tighter and closer.

00:32:37.000 It's the opposite that you might think would be happening, right? 0.99

00:32:40.000 It's because all of a sudden they have to go back to their districts and they no longer can send out their stupid little mailer mailer. 1.00

00:32:45.000 I'm pro-life. 1.00

00:32:46.000 Look at me hunting pheasants.

00:32:47.000 People are like, yeah, I get that.

00:32:48.000 But 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.

00:32:58.000 I'm being told it's all because of George Floyd.

00:33:00.000 Like, what are you going to do about that?

00:33:02.000 Right.

00:33:03.000 And, 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.

00:33:11.000 So what's the lesson?

00:33:12.000 Yeah, primaries matter a lot, people.

00:33:14.000 Primaries matter a lot, and they need to be treated just as seriously as general elections here in Idaho.

00:33:26.000 We're now going to get to the good stuff, some QA with Charlie.

00:33:30.000 And if you have a question, we have some people out here with microphones, I believe.

00:33:34.000 And I want to encourage you very specifically: don't make statements.

00:33:41.000 Don't share with us your PhD thesis.

00:33:45.000 Ask a short question with a period at the end so that we can get to the good stuff and hear what Charlie has to say.

00:33:52.000 And I don't want to be rude, but if you go on and on, I'm just going to be rude and stop you so that we can hear.

00:33:59.000 And the next time you're on a chair on the stage, we'll let you talk as long as you want.

00:34:04.000 So we'll take a couple of lines for questions.

00:34:04.000 All right.

00:34:06.000 Instead of raising your hand, just get in line, guys, and then we'll go through them.

00:34:10.000 So we have our first win, right?

00:34:12.000 Yes, Charlie.

00:34:12.000 I love you.

00:34:13.000 We're all here because we love you.

00:34:14.000 Here's my question.

00:34:15.000 Until the Dominion machines get fixed in all 50 states, isn't all your passion and energy so much wasted energy?

00:34:21.000 Did you say the Dominion machines or the media machines?

00:34:25.000 All of it.

00:34:26.000 For voting purposes, because you said the voting is going to change in two years.

00:34:26.000 Okay.

00:34:30.000 I'm going, unless the Dominion machines are purged, isn't your energy wasted energy?

00:34:35.000 No, of course not.

00:34:36.000 No, I mean, I don't think energy is wasted ever.

00:34:40.000 I think rejecting, we must reject cynicism.

00:34:42.000 Are there a lot of questions that we deserve answers to?

00:34:44.000 Absolutely.

00:34:45.000 Let me say, though, that not every state uses those machines.

00:34:48.000 There's a lot happening in Arizona to fix these things, and there's ongoing investigations.

00:34:53.000 I don't think you intended it this way, but let me just kind of just say one thing, if I can, lovingly.

00:34:58.000 Don't ever believe anything you do for righteousness or truth is wasted energy.

00:35:02.000 And I don't think you meant it that way, but let me just say that, which is really important.

00:35:06.000 We are commanded as Christians to always believe what we do matters.

00:35:11.000 And one of the pieces of advice I gave this last night at our Turning Point USA event, we must reject cynicism.

00:35:18.000 Cynicism is from the enemy.

00:35:21.000 What I do doesn't matter.

00:35:23.000 It doesn't matter if my kids are conservative or liberal.

00:35:26.000 We'll just kind of phone it in and watch the Seahawks.

00:35:28.000 Wrong.

00:35:30.000 We must contest for truth at every place imaginable.

00:35:34.000 We must be strong and courageous, as it says in Joshua 1.9.

00:35:36.000 Let me talk about election integrity because that's the essence.

00:35:39.000 And you did say media machine, or I think you said that too.

00:35:42.000 This was the most interfered with election in American history.

00:35:45.000 And Joe Biden was implemented, not elected as president of the United States.

00:35:49.000 Let me say that.

00:35:52.000 And 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.

00:36:04.000 And I think there's things we must focus on.

00:36:06.000 But let me say, it was a complete, it was a highway robbery.

00:36:10.000 Okay.

00:36:11.000 And any conservative worth their salt that tells you to move on from this, stop listening to that person.

00:36:16.000 Okay.

00:36:17.000 And I will just give you a quick overview of a couple things we must focus on.

00:36:22.000 Okay.

00:36:23.000 Let's number one.

00:36:24.000 One 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.

00:36:34.000 Was Idaho a recipient of that, Ed?

00:36:37.000 Idaho was a recipient of Zuckerberg money.

00:36:37.000 It was?

00:36:39.000 I think that's been banned, right?

00:36:41.000 The legislature did that.

00:36:42.000 That's a good thing Idaho did.

00:36:43.000 They shouldn't have never took the money in the first place.

00:36:45.000 But Zuckerberg spent tons of money, $420 million, went into Gwinnett County, Cobb County, Maricopa County, Antrim County, and actually hired the ballot counters himself.

00:36:58.000 Most people don't even know this happened.

00:37:00.000 This is one of the great scandals and attacks of our institutions we've ever seen.

00:37:05.000 Now, that's just one example, where the money went, the counties it flowed to.

00:37:08.000 How about another example?

00:37:10.000 The fact that Facebook and Twitter did not allow us to talk about the Hunter Biden laptop story in the entire month of October.

00:37:17.000 This is third world regime-changing type stuff where they come in and they're like, all speech is now completely restricted.

00:37:26.000 If 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.

00:37:33.000 You'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.

00:37:45.000 We're not allowed to have a robust discussion about that in the month of October.

00:37:48.000 No, that's not fair.

00:37:49.000 That is an injustice to the American electoral system.

00:37:52.000 And 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.

00:38:03.000 We lowered signature thresholds.

00:38:05.000 The universal mail-in balloting is coming to Idaho very soon.

00:38:08.000 Now, Oregon and Washington and Colorado already have it.

00:38:11.000 They want to bring it here.

00:38:12.000 So you might say, Charlie, how are they going to flip it?

00:38:14.000 They will flip it first by trying to get mail-in balloting universal.

00:38:18.000 And it will be Republicans that will be blackmailed and will be conned into doing this more than Democrats because it's a one-party state.

00:38:25.000 You guys must do the opposite.

00:38:26.000 Do what Florida is doing.

00:38:27.000 No excuse absentee balloting.

00:38:30.000 Do not allow same-day registration.

00:38:33.000 It cannot be same-day registration.

00:38:35.000 They have to do a special affidavit that goes in a different sort of category if they want to do that.

00:38:39.000 And also, no more voting month.

00:38:41.000 Okay, this is ridiculous, where you could just like everything is open for the entire month.

00:38:45.000 It's out of control, okay?

00:38:46.000 It needs to be voting day and absolute minimum, a couple days leading up to the weekend before.

00:38:52.000 If 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.

00:39:02.000 We have mountains of evidence that this happened in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

00:39:05.000 I'm happy to go into that if you're interested.

00:39:07.000 But how will they flip Idaho?

00:39:09.000 They will flip it through mass mail-in balloting.

00:39:12.000 And it is incumbent that you guys do not let this happen.

00:39:15.000 Go the opposite direction.

00:39:16.000 Every state that allows mass mail-in balloting is a gift to the collectivists, the status, and the Democrats.

00:39:21.000 Florida has done the opposite.

00:39:23.000 Idaho, please hold your line on this.

00:39:25.000 So let me say, let me just kind of say this.

00:39:27.000 I am optimistic because we, as the conservative base, we are not forgetting what happened in the 2020 election.

00:39:32.000 We are going to get to the bottom of this.

00:39:34.000 We are going to find out the criminals that did this.

00:39:37.000 We are going to name the names and we're going to fix what was wrong.

00:39:39.000 We are problem solvers as Americans.

00:39:41.000 We're going to remain optimistic.

00:39:42.000 At the same time, we will not forget what was taken from us.

00:39:45.000 Okay, next question.

00:39:47.000 Hello.

00:39:48.000 Carly, thank you so much for coming to Idaho.

00:39:50.000 We truly appreciate it.

00:39:51.000 And 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.

00:40:00.000 But at the same time, we as Idahoans need to take responsibility for being cheap, myself included.

00:40:06.000 So 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.

00:40:17.000 I 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.

00:40:29.000 Can I ask you a question and put you on the spot?

00:40:31.000 Is that okay?

00:40:32.000 Do you know all the names of your school board members?

00:40:34.000 No, my kids aren't in school anymore.

00:40:36.000 I don't know if that's a good answer, but it's the truth.

00:40:39.000 Yeah, and I'm not trying to put you on the spot.

00:40:41.000 Yeah, every person needs to know every, and by the way, the Bible commands it.

00:40:45.000 1 Timothy, know the leaders in authority, pray for them by name so that you might live quiet and peaceable lives, right?

00:40:50.000 So let's just start with school boards.

00:40:52.000 There's a massive organic movement to take back school boards across the country.

00:40:56.000 And regardless, you're still a taxpayer of Idaho, right?

00:40:59.000 You pay way too high taxes in Idaho.

00:41:01.000 I can't figure out where your 6% income tax goes, by the way.

00:41:04.000 No, seriously, you guys rank 51st in education funding.

00:41:07.000 I was talking about this earlier with Ed.

00:41:09.000 Where does all your money go?

00:41:10.000 I don't understand.

00:41:12.000 You have really productive, entrepreneurial, and quite honestly, wealthy people here in Idaho.

00:41:17.000 Where does your money go?

00:41:19.000 I don't understand.

00:41:20.000 I want a full forensic audit of the Idaho state budget.

00:41:23.000 I mean, this needs to be done like yesterday.

00:41:27.000 No, seriously.

00:41:30.000 I don't get it.

00:41:31.000 I am just so confused by this.

00:41:33.000 Totally unrelated.

00:41:34.000 I'm sorry.

00:41:36.000 So, action items.

00:41:38.000 Yeah, 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.

00:41:43.000 It might sound generic, but every person can do this.

00:41:46.000 Every person tonight needs to make a pledge and a promise in front of the Lord.

00:41:49.000 You're going to be the same person in public that you are in private.

00:41:53.000 Now, this might not sound like a big deal.

00:41:54.000 There 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.

00:42:01.000 No more of that.

00:42:02.000 You need to be the same person in every single environment that you are.

00:42:06.000 No more pretending, no more camouflage, no more putting on the special uniform and being something that you're not.

00:42:13.000 This is a big deal.

00:42:14.000 The second thing, I can't stand the term cancel culture.

00:42:17.000 Okay, it drives me insane.

00:42:19.000 But there is a culture where we try to eliminate people because they participate in thought crimes.

00:42:24.000 So if anyone in your life is scheduled for cancellation for something that's deemed politically incorrect, don't put up with it.

00:42:32.000 Intervene.

00:42:33.000 Stand by that person, especially people in public life.

00:42:36.000 Now, if they've, I'll give you a great example with this.

00:42:39.000 And I joke around with this.

00:42:40.000 We did this last night as well, which I'm not a big John Gruden fan, okay?

00:42:44.000 But 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?

00:42:52.000 So, John Gruden gets fired because he had transphobic comments.

00:42:56.000 I could go into great detail about this.

00:42:56.000 Don't even get me started.

00:42:58.000 So, I'm not saying that you guys need a new football coach.

00:43:00.000 Maybe you think Boise State needs a new football coach.

00:43:03.000 Why doesn't a conservative state just go hire John Gruden as their new football coach?

00:43:07.000 Now, that symbolically would be a massive blow to the regime. 0.69

00:43:11.000 That, 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. 0.57

00:43:22.000 What 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.

00:43:32.000 Now, I'm not saying that would happen, right?

00:43:33.000 That 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.

00:43:39.000 The only power they have is the power we give them.

00:43:42.000 And we give them the power of being okay to terminate our fellow countrymen because they participated in thought crimes.

00:43:49.000 If 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.

00:43:55.000 And we need to be honest about that, right?

00:43:58.000 And so, I think it's super important.

00:44:00.000 The last thing is this: what can we do?

00:44:02.000 Boy, in Idaho, you're blessed.

00:44:05.000 You're only a state of 1.75, 1.8 million people, right?

00:44:08.000 You can make a huge difference in your state government really quickly.

00:44:12.000 When the legislature is in session, everybody, there needs to be viewing galleries as big as this event is right now.

00:44:18.000 Every single day the legislature is in session.

00:44:21.000 You need to be like, here's the thing: you, and again, I know the legislature's not in session right now.

00:44:26.000 Confront them when they're going, when they're going to the grocery store, ask them questions.

00:44:31.000 It's time for a citizen government to take this back.

00:44:34.000 And if you don't like your representatives, recall them, find new ones.

00:44:39.000 And so, yeah, I guess the final thing I'll say is this: of what you can do.

00:44:44.000 I know a lot of people here tonight, this is not your home church.

00:44:47.000 Challenge your pastor and challenge your church to do what we talked about at the beginning of our speech.

00:44:51.000 That's a really important thing.

00:44:52.000 And then, the last thing I'll tell you: this is an unusual thing: learn.

00:44:56.000 Every 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.

00:45:05.000 And so, this is so important and learn more about how the Bible touches every part of this life.

00:45:10.000 Learn.

00:45:10.000 What does that do?

00:45:12.000 That question you asked me will answer itself.

00:45:15.000 And so, we partner with Hillsdale College, Charlie4Hillsdale.com.

00:45:19.000 You guys can take these classes free of charge: citizenship, Constitution 101, presidency, constitution, federalist papers.

00:45:26.000 And guess what?

00:45:27.000 Every person that we have put through those courses, as they start to take them, they're texting me, Charlie, I get it now.

00:45:31.000 Now I know what I have to do.

00:45:32.000 I know the rights I have, I know where they come from.

00:45:34.000 I'm more convicted I want to fight.

00:45:36.000 So, I tell every conservative audience: turn off the reality television, turn off the nonsense, and spend an hour a day.

00:45:42.000 I know it might be a lot, and say, I'm going to go learn something.

00:45:45.000 Now, if maybe you guys know everything there is to know about American history, okay?

00:45:49.000 And maybe you feel as if you know enough and you're good.

00:45:52.000 I 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.

00:46:05.000 When 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.

00:46:20.000 I said, Oh my goodness, this is so exceptional.

00:46:22.000 I have to dedicate my whole life to this.

00:46:24.000 So, what can people do?

00:46:26.000 Know more about what you have, and that answer will come naturally.

00:46:29.000 Thank you so much for being here tonight.

00:46:31.000 Thank you.

00:46:31.000 Can you go to that website again?

00:46:31.000 Appreciate it.

00:46:34.000 Can you say that website again?

00:46:35.000 Oh, yeah, I'm sorry.

00:46:36.000 Charlie F-O-R-Hillsdale.com.

00:46:40.000 It is free of charge.

00:46:41.000 We have partnered with them for online courses that you guys can take.

00:46:45.000 I 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.

00:46:58.000 It should honestly be a federal law that every citizen should have to take it.

00:47:01.000 It's that good.

00:47:02.000 It's just, here's what it says.

00:47:03.000 Here's what it means.

00:47:04.000 And here's what you can do constitutionally to actually challenge the people in power.

00:47:08.000 Next question.

00:47:10.000 Thank you so much for being here.

00:47:13.000 I can feel all of us are extremely passionate about these things.

00:47:18.000 This is unheard of.

00:47:20.000 Okay.

00:47:20.000 Sorry.

00:47:22.000 But here's the thing: I don't know about anybody else.

00:47:25.000 I feel this down in my bones, right?

00:47:27.000 The need to be a part of this movement, taking the responsibility to stand for freedom and liberty.

00:47:33.000 What I would love advice from you about is how do we change hearts, though, with those who don't necessarily agree with us?

00:47:41.000 Because that's where, I mean, among our own stewardships in our families and within our own souls, we have to go there.

00:47:49.000 And I feel like I can have a general conversation with somebody.

00:47:52.000 I don't know necessarily how to approach it like you do across the country with people who vehemently disagree with you.

00:47:59.000 Yeah.

00:47:59.000 And this is something, thank you, by the way.

00:48:00.000 I appreciate that.

00:48:01.000 This is something we pride ourselves on at Turning Point USA.

00:48:05.000 We have a rule.

00:48:06.000 I didn't say the rule here tonight.

00:48:07.000 Well, maybe it's true.

00:48:08.000 If you disagree, you're allowed to go to the front of the line.

00:48:10.000 We say that whenever we go to a college campus and with young people because it's important.

00:48:14.000 And look, asking questions is the most important thing.

00:48:17.000 It's how Jesus constructed all of his dialogues of meaning, which was asking questions of what is true.

00:48:22.000 And who told you that?

00:48:24.000 Who's really in charge?

00:48:25.000 Instead of trying to explain to somebody what you believe, ask them why they believe what they believe and then dive deeper into that.

00:48:32.000 All of a sudden, you will then involve them in the process of learning alongside of them.

00:48:36.000 But 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.

00:48:48.000 It's a very important thing.

00:48:51.000 And I'll give you a great example of this.

00:48:54.000 I am 100% pro-life and I'm proud of it.

00:48:57.000 But there is this kind of movement within some circles in the conservative movement.

00:49:02.000 Charlie, stop talking about how life begins at conception.

00:49:05.000 Let's try to find a middle ground on abortion. 0.98

00:49:08.000 Now, I do believe we should lessen abortions.

00:49:10.000 I think the Texas law that has a six-week ban is a step in the right direction.

00:49:14.000 I'm not being imprudent, right?

00:49:16.000 I'm not trying to say that there's not something as many steps towards the inevitable goal.

00:49:20.000 But 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.

00:49:29.000 Here's what I have learned.

00:49:30.000 And this is the lie of the moderate Republican, right?

00:49:33.000 This is the consultant Republican lie, where they say, Charlie, don't say things that offend people.

00:49:38.000 I think people can actually handle a lot more and a lot more blunt truth than we give them credit for.

00:49:43.000 I really do.

00:49:44.000 Outside of the fragile, kind of protesting snowflakes, I think people are in so much moral chaos right now.

00:49:50.000 They want to be told what you believe and why you believe it.

00:49:54.000 And you know what's so beautiful?

00:49:55.000 You know, we have a rather substantial podcast audience the Lord has blessed us with.

00:50:00.000 I would say maybe 80, 70% of my audience agrees with me.

00:50:03.000 We get emails from people, Charlie, agree with you on very little, but you say it so passionately and you articulate it.

00:50:08.000 I've been turned on a couple issues.

00:50:10.000 And trust me, we're not into the watering down business in our show, but it's also the style of how you do it.

00:50:17.000 And this is the final thing I'll say.

00:50:19.000 While 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.

00:50:30.000 Tone is a very important thing.

00:50:32.000 I could say the same sentence three different ways, such as life begins at conception or life begins at conception.

00:50:40.000 Which one do you think is going to be more likely to win over someone that is not yet convinced?

00:50:45.000 Same words, totally different message.

00:50:47.000 And 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.

00:51:01.000 So thank you so much for being here.

00:51:03.000 Appreciate it.

00:51:09.000 Hey, Charlie, thanks for coming to Boise.

00:51:11.000 Honored to be here.

00:51:13.000 I was born and raised in Boise, lived here my entire life.

00:51:18.000 I'm a teacher.

00:51:18.000 I've been in education for 18 years.

00:51:21.000 Just left West Ada.

00:51:28.000 Just left West Ada to start Cornerstone Learning Academy, which is a bridge program for homeschoolers.

00:51:40.000 My 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?

00:51:50.000 And if so, what can we do to protect our homeschooling families from such an assault?

00:51:55.000 That is a smart and wise question.

00:51:57.000 It is.

00:51:58.000 And I've been saying this out loud for a while, and I have now received this question twice in the last couple of days.

00:52:04.000 France is outlawing homeschooling.

00:52:07.000 And California and New York will follow very soon.

00:52:11.000 So instead of waiting for it to come here, Idaho should do the opposite and say that it is legal and will always be legal.

00:52:18.000 It might already be the case that that's in state law, but whatever you could do to further enshrine it, do that.

00:52:23.000 And so let's talk about the beauty of homeschooling.

00:52:25.000 I am a massive homeschooling fan, by the way.

00:52:28.000 So let me tell you the importance of homeschooling from a biblical perspective.

00:52:35.000 Let me tell you a way that everyone here can be a homeschooling parent, even those of you that think you can't.

00:52:40.000 And then let me tell you something that I think we need to do a lot better with homeschooling where we fail dramatically and terrible.

00:52:46.000 Number one, the importance of homeschooling.

00:52:46.000 Okay.

00:52:48.000 The 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.

00:52:55.000 Every totalitarian government tries to separate and destroy the bond between a parent and a child.

00:53:01.000 They are doing that right now.

00:53:02.000 Washington Post headline, everybody.

00:53:04.000 I encourage you to look it up tonight.

00:53:06.000 Parents think they have a say in their child's curriculum.

00:53:09.000 They're wrong.

00:53:10.000 Front page of the Washington Post.

00:53:12.000 And you know who shared that article?

00:53:14.000 Randy Weiggarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers.

00:53:18.000 She's the head of the biggest teacher union in the country alongside the National Education Association.

00:53:23.000 They 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?

00:53:32.000 Now, it's not just because they think they're better than you.

00:53:35.000 They know that America becomes a socialist Marxist country when parental child relations weaken.

00:53:43.000 You guys have heard the phrase before, Mother Russia.

00:53:46.000 It was a phrase in the Soviet Union that people used to say about the Soviet government with Joseph Stalin.

00:53:52.000 Now, where did that phrase come from?

00:53:54.000 The phrase was an intentional campaign, a propaganda campaign to tell young children their true parents was the Russian communist government, not their biological parents.

00:54:04.000 In 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.

00:54:21.000 I think it ran from 1967 to 1977.

00:54:24.000 This is a pattern that we see in every single totalitarian type government.

00:54:28.000 So let me just say, homeschooling, super important from a biblical perspective.

00:54:31.000 If you want to have your children love the Lord and love the country and love liberty, please homeschool them. 0.99

00:54:36.000 Okay.

00:54:37.000 But the second thing, some parents are saying, Charlie, it's harder than you think.

00:54:40.000 You don't understand what it's like.

00:54:42.000 I'm running a business.

00:54:44.000 You know, I'm not going to homeschool anytime soon.

00:54:46.000 That's okay.

00:54:47.000 You're right.

00:54:48.000 It is hard.

00:54:49.000 And I'm not saying it's easy.

00:54:50.000 I'm not saying everyone is going to be able to do it.

00:54:52.000 But here's what you can do.

00:54:53.000 And it segues to the previous conversation.

00:54:55.000 Are you spending an hour a week with every screen in your home turned off, teaching your children something?

00:55:03.000 Not just casually.

00:55:04.000 No, no, no.

00:55:05.000 You're the teacher and you're teaching them one hour a week.

00:55:08.000 If you are not doing that, you've already given your children over to the state.

00:55:11.000 One hour a week.

00:55:12.000 Turn off all the screens and teach them something.

00:55:14.000 Now, parents say, well, Charlie, what do I teach them?

00:55:17.000 Well, that's why we did what we do with Hillsdale.

00:55:19.000 So you guys can become the teachers.

00:55:20.000 Seriously.

00:55:21.000 One hour a week.

00:55:22.000 Now you want to scale that.

00:55:23.000 That's 52 hours a year.

00:55:25.000 You do that every Sunday, call it the Liberty Hour.

00:55:28.000 All of a sudden, they will go back to school the next day.

00:55:30.000 They'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.

00:55:39.000 So I get it.

00:55:40.000 Not everyone can homeschool.

00:55:41.000 Then become a fractional homeschool parent.

00:55:44.000 Just one hour a week.

00:55:45.000 If you can't do one hour a week, we got a lot deeper problems, everybody, right?

00:55:49.000 One hour a week where you become full like dictator of the house.

00:55:53.000 Screens are off.

00:55:54.000 Sit at the table.

00:55:55.000 I'm in charge.

00:55:56.000 We're learning about Thomas Jefferson.

00:55:58.000 It will have a profound and eternal impact on your child.

00:56:02.000 Last thing.

00:56:04.000 Let me tell you one thing we got to get better with homeschooling, where I just, I don't understand it.

00:56:10.000 Some churches do this really well, but churches would be way better served for the future of the nation and the kingdom.

00:56:17.000 Instead of building bigger auditoriums, they should be giving cash to moms who need it, who want to homeschool their kids. 0.61

00:56:24.000 That's right, cash.

00:56:26.000 They need to make it financially easier to homeschool kids.

00:56:28.000 This is where the church needs to reprioritize some of their initiatives.

00:56:33.000 I'm not saying this church.

00:56:34.000 I'm not saying even a church in this area, but I've been to churches in California.

00:56:38.000 You and I know them, Rick.

00:56:39.000 They have like escalators and, you know, they have like these massive, huge superstructures.

00:56:44.000 You know the type of church that I'm talking about.

00:56:45.000 Like, 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. 0.99

00:56:53.000 Those 1,000 kids would have been have a higher likelihood to love the Lord, be on fire for liberty.

00:56:58.000 Every number, by the way, shows that if you want your kids to share your values, homeschool the kids.

00:57:03.000 Homeschool them. 0.65

00:57:03.000 It's like a 98.7% correlation. 0.65

00:57:05.000 It's insane.

00:57:06.000 It's super high.

00:57:08.000 And so that's where I think the church needs to step up.

00:57:10.000 I think the church needs to say, okay, we are going to give a tithe and an offering.

00:57:14.000 When's the last time your church at a tithe are authoring saying everything will be going to homeschool parents that need it?

00:57:18.000 Has your church ever done that?

00:57:20.000 Why?

00:57:20.000 It's the one thing we know that works that fixes all the other problems.

00:57:24.000 By the way, less drug addiction, less kids going to prison, less marital problems.

00:57:29.000 Every problem auto-corrects if you homeschool your kids.

00:57:32.000 So I think that's one thing we have to get better.

00:57:34.000 And I'm just giving that as kind of a loving solution.

00:57:36.000 I just want to encourage you, though.

00:57:37.000 Every parent out there that's homeschooling, God bless you, God bless you.

00:57:40.000 God bless you.

00:57:40.000 We have your back.

00:57:41.000 I know it's hard.

00:57:42.000 You will see the fruit of your work.

00:57:45.000 And Idaho needs to continue to be a place where homeschooling parents can remain untouched by the state and especially the federal government.

00:57:52.000 Thank you so much for being here.

00:57:53.000 Thank you, Kelly.

00:57:53.000 God bless you.

00:58:03.000 Charlie 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.

00:58:13.000 If you're looking for it, they've designed it.

00:58:15.000 You can get it.

00:58:16.000 It's free.

00:58:17.000 Tap into it.

00:58:18.000 It's amazing.

00:58:19.000 And it's charlie4hillsdale.com.

00:58:21.000 I've got to know them really well.

00:58:23.000 We have gone into the weeds at Hillsdale College.

00:58:25.000 And I sit on, my wife and I sit on the courses.

00:58:28.000 There 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.

00:58:41.000 I'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.

00:58:48.000 It's second to none.

00:58:49.000 Next question.

00:58:50.000 Thank you, Mr. Kirk, for coming to Idaho and bringing some clarity and some wisdom.

00:58:56.000 I've been struggling with a question that I can't seem to get an answer.

00:59:01.000 What is the difference between liberty and freedom?

00:59:06.000 That's a great question.

00:59:08.000 So thank you for answering that.

00:59:10.000 I will give you my own personal definition.

00:59:12.000 Not everyone here will hold it.

00:59:14.000 I'm going to tell you what the founding fathers believed, though.

00:59:16.000 And I think that's the most important thing.

00:59:18.000 And so we'll actually go back to the actual Greek and Latin.

00:59:22.000 So freedom comes from a Greek word, either isonomi or eleutheri.

00:59:28.000 I get them confused.

00:59:29.000 But there is this idea that in the ancients, true freedom is not being able to do whatever you want to do.

00:59:36.000 And a new word was developed called liberty, which was the pursuit of virtue.

00:59:40.000 Now, I'm not saying that if I'm all into, we literally have programs called freedom this and freedom that.

00:59:45.000 So we conflate them.

00:59:47.000 But let me tell you kind of how the founding fathers intended it, if that's okay, where liberty was the ultimate pursuit.

00:59:54.000 You 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.

01:00:02.000 And so this is a really important thing where liberty is understanding that there's a natural law.

01:00:09.000 Liberty is understanding that there's a transcendent order.

01:00:12.000 Liberty is understanding that there are things that human beings should try to strive for.

01:00:17.000 And the inverse of liberty is licentiousness.

01:00:21.000 So in all of the debates of the framers and the founding fathers, there was this struggle between liberty and licentiousness.

01:00:29.000 Now, 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.

01:00:41.000 This 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.

01:00:50.000 Now, I want you to think about this.

01:00:51.000 What is commune?

01:00:52.000 What is China's birthday?

01:00:54.000 No one can really tell.

01:00:55.000 What is France's birthday?

01:00:57.000 America has a birthday.

01:00:59.000 It's a big deal.

01:01:00.000 That means that there was a day when we decided to start.

01:01:03.000 And that was the day that we ratified and signed that document.

01:01:06.000 That 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.

01:01:19.000 And it goes on to say the laws of nature and nature's God.

01:01:22.000 That statement right there, what does that mean?

01:01:24.000 What Thomas Jefferson is doing is he's building a bridge between the fruits of the Enlightenment and the eternal truths of antiquity.

01:01:32.000 This is an unprecedented project that our people in political life have no idea even the brilliance of this.

01:01:40.000 So Thomas Jefferson says, whoa, we're developing all this stuff like freedom of speech, like freedom of assembly.

01:01:46.000 But 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.

01:01:57.000 And that's why he intentionally derived from John Locke this idea of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

01:02:04.000 The founding fathers believed liberty as a human being's ascent to the divine and the eternal and a well-soul man.

01:02:13.000 Liberty is not being able to do drugs whenever you want to do it.

01:02:16.000 Liberty is not getting drunk at the bar.

01:02:18.000 That's licentiousness. 0.72

01:02:19.000 That's a false freedom.

01:02:20.000 That's a false liberty.

01:02:22.000 Instead, liberty is you climbing up the ladder to try to finally get how God wants you to live here on earth.

01:02:28.000 That's a tough project.

01:02:30.000 That takes a lot of work.

01:02:32.000 It takes a lot of study.

01:02:33.000 Now, as liberty and freedom, they can be synonyms, but as it could be said very kind of lightly, liberty is the higher pursuit.

01:02:41.000 Freedom would just kind of be doing the ability to do inconsequential things.

01:02:45.000 Liberty is getting your teleological aim correct, which means the purposeful aims, right?

01:02:52.000 So why is it that so many young people are depressed and they're directionless?

01:02:57.000 It's because they don't have purpose.

01:03:00.000 It's because they've been told that liberty is to do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it.

01:03:04.000 Liberty is getting drunk.

01:03:07.000 Liberty 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.

01:03:18.000 And it's going to take some work.

01:03:20.000 It's going to take some development of the soul.

01:03:22.000 We have gotten away from that in our country in such a fundamental way.

01:03:26.000 And some people, I think, misunderstand kind of what liberty is and where it comes from.

01:03:31.000 And that's the final thing I'll say this.

01:03:32.000 Everything I just said is not a man-made idea.

01:03:35.000 It said there's this beautiful phrase at the Harvard Law School.

01:03:38.000 They're going to remove it soon.

01:03:39.000 It was way too wise for Harvard, where it says, the law is the wise restraints that keep men free.

01:03:46.000 I want you to think about that.

01:03:47.000 It's so paradoxical, isn't it?

01:03:50.000 That the restraints actually keep you free.

01:03:53.000 Anyone here that has dealt with an alcoholic knows this is true.

01:03:57.000 That when they stopped drinking, they got more free.

01:04:01.000 That when they put restraints on their own life, they became a freer person.

01:04:06.000 That when they were doing whatever they wanted to do, they were not free.

01:04:09.000 We as Christians need to reclaim the definition and the mantle of liberty.

01:04:14.000 I believe our country will be blessed by that.

01:04:16.000 Thank you so much.

01:04:16.000 I appreciate it.

01:04:17.000 Patrick, do you have time for maybe one more?

01:04:20.000 I'm enjoying this too much, Rick.

01:04:21.000 So I can do this all day.

01:04:23.000 Yes, next question.

01:04:24.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:04:26.000 My question is, you know, we kicked off the Q ⁇ A with a comment about election integrity.

01:04:31.000 Yeah.

01:04:32.000 Something that ties right into that is big tech.

01:04:35.000 I don't know if you saw the headline today.

01:04:38.000 George Soros and Reed Hoffman are coming together to fund startups that are going to be fighting disinformation.

01:04:46.000 What are your thoughts?

01:04:47.000 What are your thoughts on how we're going to combat that going forward?

01:04:50.000 Because it's pretty critical.

01:04:52.000 Let me tell you what Idaho should do.

01:04:55.000 The 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.

01:05:10.000 Idaho should say to the tech companies, if you want to operate in Idaho, you're going to have to pay a price.

01:05:18.000 Now, some people say, well, Charlie, that's not free market.

01:05:20.000 This is the problem with this idea.

01:05:23.000 A free market should serve people.

01:05:25.000 People should not serve the market.

01:05:27.000 The market should be designed so that we have an outcome we can recognize.

01:05:32.000 When 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.

01:05:42.000 That was not the case 12 years ago.

01:05:45.000 And the companies that are doing that are making out like trillionaire bandits on the minds and the addiction of your children.

01:05:51.000 So yeah, we have to do something about that.

01:05:53.000 And we should break up these companies.

01:05:55.000 We should fine them.

01:05:56.000 We should penalize them. 0.81

01:05:58.000 They're bad for America.

01:05:59.000 They're bad for humanity.

01:06:01.000 They're bad for the soul.

01:06:03.000 I could continue, but yeah, look, Florida did this.

01:06:05.000 Florida passed a law fining big tech companies, got struck down by a judge.

01:06:09.000 DeSantis, God bless him, is like ignoring the judge and he's still doing it.

01:06:12.000 And he's getting all sorts of, you know, what leadership looks like.

01:06:16.000 You know, he's just fighting hard and he might get in some trouble for that.

01:06:20.000 Don't care because he's a leader.

01:06:22.000 Idaho should do that.

01:06:23.000 Idaho should send a message to big tech companies.

01:06:25.000 All 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.

01:06:38.000 You're going to have to pay $10,000 per violation per day.

01:06:41.000 They'll change really quick.

01:06:42.000 The states have the power to go after companies.

01:06:45.000 Now, some of you say, Charlie, this is unprecedented.

01:06:46.000 No, it's not.

01:06:48.000 They do this to our companies all the time.

01:06:51.000 Look what they did to the Trump organization, right?

01:06:53.000 They 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.

01:07:04.000 Well, 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.

01:07:14.000 It'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.

01:07:25.000 The states are the solution to the big tech problem.

01:07:28.000 I wish the federal government would do something.

01:07:29.000 They're not, obviously.

01:07:30.000 That's a waste of time.

01:07:31.000 So now it's time for the states to take it into their hands.

01:07:34.000 Someone please introduce that bill the next session.

01:07:37.000 And all of a sudden, here's what will happen.

01:07:38.000 You want to know what will happen?

01:07:40.000 That bill will get not taken seriously?

01:07:41.000 I could you not.

01:07:42.000 Just look at flightaware.com.

01:07:45.000 You will see a Gulf Stream land at Boise International Airport.

01:07:48.000 I'm not kidding.

01:07:49.000 Of 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.

01:08:02.000 And so that will be a very interesting thing to say, to see.

01:08:05.000 So someone please take that up.

01:08:07.000 Thank you.

01:08:07.000 So God bless you.

01:08:08.000 All right, this will be the last question.

01:08:09.000 We're going really late.

01:08:10.000 I apologize.

01:08:11.000 I'm not picking favorites.

01:08:11.000 I'm sorry.

01:08:18.000 Some people really want to ask the question.

01:08:20.000 So I'll let you guys fight over it.

01:08:21.000 I might be able to take one more.

01:08:22.000 We'll see.

01:08:23.000 I'll let you arm wrestle. 1.00

01:08:24.000 Very grateful for you being here.

01:08:26.000 So I'm a healthcare professional and I am unemployed because I am not jabbed, as are many of my fellow nurses here. 0.90

01:08:40.000 Where did you work?

01:08:41.000 St. Luke's.

01:08:42.000 St. Luke's?

01:08:43.000 Yes.

01:08:44.000 So 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.

01:08:58.000 And so I chose to leave when they introduced the check mark system when some who were vaccinated had check marks.

01:09:10.000 Some of us who were not did not.

01:09:12.000 I chose not to disclose my private medical records to my patients.

01:09:18.000 My friend.

01:09:21.000 Can we have a question?

01:09:22.000 We're already over time.

01:09:23.000 I'm sorry.

01:09:23.000 So my question is, we are fighting for legislation and it's not happening soon enough.

01:09:30.000 What can we do?

01:09:32.000 What more can we do?

01:09:33.000 Well, I mean, look, your governor could solve it with one stroke of the pen.

01:09:35.000 It's that simple.

01:09:36.000 He could issue an executive order right now.

01:09:39.000 Greg Abbott has done it.

01:09:41.000 And so you guys have got to pressure the governor.

01:09:44.000 He gets one executive order.

01:09:44.000 You have to.

01:09:46.000 He could say, state employers, public employers, private employers, you are not allowed to mandate vaccines.

01:09:52.000 DeSantis did this.

01:09:53.000 Abbott did this.

01:09:55.000 I don't know why that's not the case here.

01:09:57.000 And yeah, like we want to fight and we need more ideas.

01:10:04.000 Yes.

01:10:04.000 All right.

01:10:05.000 So let me give you a bunch of them really quick.

01:10:08.000 It would be helpful if you guys had senators that cared about this. 0.50

01:10:10.000 I don't know if you do or not.

01:10:13.000 These 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.

01:10:26.000 Go find them and ask them if they're on the side of this and create a public pressure campaign on this issue.

01:10:32.000 In addition, contact every single one of their board members.

01:10:36.000 These are quasi-nonprofit for-profit type organizations.

01:10:40.000 But yeah, the biggest thing is this.

01:10:41.000 The biggest thing is that we need, at a fundamental level, we need leadership that will intervene.

01:10:48.000 And honestly, I'm just, I'm going to say this is bluntly.

01:10:51.000 Like, Idaho, just don't put up with this.

01:10:53.000 Figure it out.

01:10:54.000 Like, this is not hard.

01:10:55.000 Okay. 0.78

01:10:55.000 You 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. 0.78

01:11:02.000 I don't live here. 0.64

01:11:03.000 You guys have the collective wisdom in this room to figure it out.

01:11:06.000 If you have to get angrier, then do it.

01:11:08.000 But 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.

01:11:15.000 Like this should not happen in America, let alone in the beautiful state of Idaho.

01:11:19.000 So please figure it out.

01:11:22.000 All right.

01:11:24.000 We can go right there.

01:11:25.000 You're the last question.

01:11:26.000 I'm sorry.

01:11:28.000 I had a veteran's question.

01:11:29.000 I don't know if you want to ask.

01:11:30.000 You were very pushy.

01:11:31.000 We're already over time.

01:11:32.000 So it better be a really good question.

01:11:34.000 Yeah, I'm a Vietnam veteran suffering from the effects of Agent Orange, and I rely on the Boise Veterans Hospital.

01:11:42.000 And I just wanted to ask you, I heard something.

01:11:45.000 Oh, I believe that the VA hospitals across the country, veterans have earned the right to be treated.

01:11:53.000 And I thought I heard about a month or so ago that you were describing the VA system as a socialist medical facility.

01:12:01.000 I just want you to clarify that.

01:12:01.000 Yeah, the VA is a discussion.

01:12:03.000 Yeah, the VA is a disaster.

01:12:04.000 We 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.

01:12:12.000 So I did have a knee operation at St. Al's, and they do allow us to go to other hospitals to get treated.

01:12:21.000 And just my ending statement is I think the Boise VA does one heck of a good job for the veterans.

01:12:28.000 Well, that's definitely an exception because if you remember under the Obama regime, people were on waiting lists for PTSD suicide hotlines.

01:12:35.000 We lost hundreds of veterans for untreated there.

01:12:38.000 But I appreciate the comment and thank you for your service.

01:12:40.000 God bless you for that.

01:12:41.000 We appreciate that.

01:12:42.000 Okay.

01:12:44.000 We got to plug our idea.

01:12:48.000 Charlie, I just listened to two wonderful podcasts that you did this week.

01:12:52.000 They were really great.

01:12:54.000 How can you plug people into tuning into your wealth of knowledge, your research, your learning all the time?

01:13:00.000 You're seeing the country.

01:13:02.000 Help these people get plugged in.

01:13:03.000 So let me do a shameless plug, everybody.

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01:13:08.000 That you can bless us.

01:13:09.000 We're traveling 300 days a year.

01:13:10.000 This is going to sound silly, but it really does help us and it keeps us in touch with one another.

01:13:15.000 We're under constant big tech cancellation, as we mentioned.

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01:13:19.000 We work really hard.

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01:13:36.000 You may say, Charlie, this is silly.

01:13:37.000 This is the way it keeps us alive.

01:13:39.000 When rooms like this step up and just subscribe free of charge, it makes us impossible to cancel almost really hard.

01:13:47.000 So if you just take out the phone, Charlie Kirk Show on the podcast app, if you don't know how to do that, I saw some 14-year-olds that would be happy to show you how to subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

01:13:59.000 We also have a booth outside that can walk you guys through that.

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01:14:04.000 Please give us a chance to become the daily news source for you guys.

01:14:08.000 Just give us a chance to go through.

01:14:10.000 We are working.

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01:14:19.000 It does bless us tremendously.

01:14:21.000 And if every person in the room did this right now, we would beat Rachel Maddow in the podcast charts tomorrow morning.

01:14:28.000 So let's do it, everybody.

01:14:29.000 It would be a great blessing.

01:14:33.000 I want to leave you with one final thought.

01:14:35.000 You need to say this to yourself every single day.

01:14:37.000 We are going to win.

01:14:39.000 We are going to win, everybody.

01:14:40.000 There's more of us than them.

01:14:42.000 We have the truth and we are getting the courage and the conviction to fight.

01:14:46.000 We band together and we unite.

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01:14:49.000 God bless you guys.

01:14:50.000 Thank you so much for tonight.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - December 12, 2021

Why The Church Must Lean In and Save America

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