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June 30, 2020 - The Charlie Kirk Show
01:38:22
An Urgent Message To The Republican Party

Charlie joins the Wyoming GOP Convention to deliver a timely and incredibly important message to the Republican Party: We could lose it all—yes, even deep Red Wyoming in the next six years—if we don’t start fighting back with a sense of...

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Fighting for Our Country's Fabric 00:14:41
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Hey, everybody, on this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, you're going to hear one of my most enthusiastic and important speeches I have ever given.
I gave it a couple days ago at the Wyoming Republican Convention, and I make a very clear argument and call to action for conservatives and Republicans all across the country.
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You guys are going to love this speech.
Buckle up, everybody.
Here we go.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
I want to thank Charlie.
He's an incredible guy.
His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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.
That's why we are here.
Hello, everybody.
Honored to be here.
Thank you so much, Frank.
Great people, great leadership, and congratulations on a great convention.
I think this is probably the third biggest gathering of people post-lockdown in the entire world.
So congratulations for that.
The first would be the president's rally that he had.
The second would have been the event that we had for him in Phoenix a couple days ago, and the third here.
So I've done 66% of the biggest events in the world post-lockdown.
So I'm very honored to be here tonight.
Congratulations on all the passages of this convention.
So now my tone is going to be a little bit different tonight than it was yesterday, because now we have to get very serious.
Because if you're like me, you feel like you're losing your country.
And it's time we're very honest about that.
So congratulations.
And let's just be honest.
Trump's going to win this state.
You're going to probably, that's great.
Terrific.
Trump's going to win this state.
You're probably going to have a Republican senator.
Great.
We got that out of the way, right?
So, but if that's the extent of what all of us take away from this weekend, we will not be doing what we should be doing for our country.
Because having Wyoming deliver three electoral votes is good and important and all that.
Making sure we win state and local races is terrific.
But my goodness, is there a problem happening in our country right now?
And let's talk about it.
So in just the last couple of weeks, we've probably gone back 30 years in cultural digression.
We are seeing the greatest cancellation of history, the greatest targeting of dissenting voices, the crackdown on free speech, the misrepresentation of American values that we've probably ever seen in history.
Never before in my experience, at least in my, let's say, analysis of American history, and Dennis Prager, the great Dennis Prager, agrees with me, who we hosted at University of Wyoming, Turning Point USA.
And boy, was that a circus.
My goodness.
I'll tell you about that in a minute.
Never before in American history have we seen people that work at their profession be forced to take a knee because of the color of their skin.
And if they don't, they might be fired.
I get hundreds of messages every single day from young people that are being removed from jobs, having to get kicked out of college, kicked out of school, bullied on social media, getting death threats because they support the president, because they say Black Lives Matter, the organization, is doing incredible damage to our country racially and otherwise, that they have incredible insidious aims to divide us, to not actually bring our country together, that it is a racist movement, that it's not about healing any sort of racial wounds we have in our country, instead trying to create new ones.
And to be perfectly honest with you, now that we are here at a Republican convention and I'm the closing speaker, my goodness, where are the Republicans, everybody?
Where is our party right now?
We are...
It's not all gems and roses out there.
And I'll tell you, there is a cultural crisis happening right now.
Right now, tonight, they have voted to rename John Wayne Airport in Orange County because they say he's a racist.
They're taking down statues of Abraham Lincoln in downtown Boston.
They're taking down a statue of George Washington and not replacing it in Portland, Oregon.
They're leading the statue of Vladimir Lenin and Caesar Chavez and all the other interest, let's just say beyond horrific individuals in our country.
They're teaching our generation that we're racist, bigoted, homophobic, backwards country through and through.
And to be perfectly honest with you, most of our elected Republicans are talking about, I don't know what they're talking about.
We're in the midst of one of the most important cultural defining moments where I'm not being hyperbolic when I say this.
If we do not take a stand now like we did during the Brett Kavanaugh, we will not have Brett Kavanaugh fight.
We will not have a country in five years.
It's just that simple.
This is not about a policy debate.
This is not about shuffling papers on a committee.
This is about whether or not we're going to have a country in a couple years.
Because at the rate that they're at right now, they are going around making people on the color of their skin take a knee for something they didn't do.
They are going around on the streets of New York with reckless abandon and looting and rioting and burning down the core cultural institutions that we care about so much.
Removing a statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside of the Museum of Natural History.
Removing the statue of Christopher Columbus from the state capitol in California that's been there for over 100 years.
And the lack of backlash and just the fleeting to the hills has been, I think, one of the most cowardest moves I've ever seen in my short experience in the conservative movement.
Seriously.
And it's not enough to offer press releases.
This is not a policy debate anymore.
This is not high taxes or low taxes.
It's not about whether or not we're going to have good judges.
All that stuff is incredibly important if you have a country.
It's wonderful if you have a country.
And people say, Charlie, you're being hyperbolic.
You're being over-exaggerative.
Oh, really?
Tell me right now why the Sacramento Kings announcer got fired who's in there for 30 years because he said, quote, all lives matter, gets fired from his position.
Is that a country that you want to live in?
It is a country when corporate America starts to fund an organization, Black Lives Matter, which again, the statement is, of course, true.
Black Lives Matter, but all lives matter.
And no one should lose their job or be kicked out of their profession for saying something that is true.
No one should.
And so you go to their website, encourage you to do that.
It says, quote, we exist to disrupt and destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family.
Abolish prisons, abolish police, legalize sex work.
They want more abortions.
They say that anyone who dares get in the way in the pursuit of life, that they somehow are racist.
Well, I'll tell you what, you know, 400,000 black individuals are terminated in the womb every single year.
Despite the black community being 14% of the U.S. population, 6% are women, and half of that are infant-bearing age.
3% of the population is 48% of all the abortions.
If you see a black woman who is pregnant in downtown New York City, she's more likely going to the abortion clinic than the pregnancy delivery room.
This is one of the great moral injustices in our country.
And I was just enlightened today that somehow it was impossible to pass a born-alive bill in the state of Wyoming.
This is a disgrace that in our state, you cannot get a born-alive bill passed.
It is an absolute moral outrage that that bill was not signed into law in this state.
And people say, well, Charlie, why are we losing our country?
Why are we losing our country?
It's because we control 31 governorships.
We have a majority in the Senate.
And God bless Trump because I feel like it's Trump versus the world, don't you?
And we're acting like it's all roses and peaches, folks.
It's wonderful because we got all the committees.
Don't you understand?
We don't have a country to have a committee in if this continues.
They're going to keep down ripping our history.
They're teaching our kids to hate our country.
You know, my generation, a majority of my generation, thinks that America's a racist, bigoted, homophobic, backwards, colonialist country that never should have existed in the first place.
How are you supposed to even govern a country like that?
It's immaterial if you have good judges or high taxes or low taxes.
I'm saying that's important, but my goodness, this is about the soul of our country, isn't it?
This is about whether or not our kids are going to love America again.
And so I encourage, this is a deeper and broader.
I want to explore this tonight of what we can do.
We're going to do that together and we're going to come to some very serious and specific and concrete action steps because I'm going to get you revved up and then I'm going to tell you exactly what to do because I'm not just going to get you revved up and then walk off stage and you're like, well, I got really angry and mad and we clapped and complained a lot.
But that young kid who we might never see again, but he talks really fast, I don't know what the heck I'm going to do.
No, no, no.
I'm actually going to give you something to do and we're going to talk about it and then we're going to go do it, okay?
That's what we're going to do.
And so the first thing is this: is that if the most important thing in your life is losing re-election, then you shouldn't have gotten in politics in the first place.
The pursuit of truth is the most important thing any human being can do.
Standing for principle, clarity, conviction, and courage.
And my goodness, this is a beautiful state.
I love visiting here.
It's a state that works.
It's a state with great people and moral people.
It's the most conservative state in the country.
And if there's any state that can send people to DC to fight for our generation, my goodness, wouldn't this be the state, right?
If there's a moment when, and I'm sure all of you feel this, and if you've been watching Tucker Carlson recently, he's exactly spot on.
Because we, I'll give you an example.
There is this absolute fool, Bubba Wallace, the NASCAR driver.
And he finds a garage door opener and he thinks it's a noose.
And he tells NASGARDS.
I don't know if you saw this story.
It's absolutely outrageous, right?
And so in response, we go send 15 FBI agents to go investigate this thing.
And every single person in the Republican establishment is like, well, this must be true, blah, blah, blah.
I mean, lest we forget Jussie Smollett, right?
And 15 FBI agents.
I mean, that's like twice the size of the biggest Joe Biden rally that we have to date, right?
I mean, it's an extraordinary amount of people.
And of course, they discover, because they brought in a small platoon to go investigate it, that it was just a garage door opener and it wasn't a noose and all this.
And I asked myself, where in God's green earth were the 15 FBI agents that were defending our monuments from being destroyed in our American cities?
Where were the 15 FBI agents that were going to go arrest Antifa from causing domestic terrorism in our country?
And the answer is this, is that the priorities right now are about, and I've done a lot of thinking about this, and I've spent a lot of time with these people in their offices for the last couple of years.
And I can say this with no reservation.
It comes down to a lot of Republicans are afraid that you're going to be called mean names, that they're going to call you things that are untrue.
Guess what?
They're going to call you those names anyway.
So you might as well fight for the country while you still have it.
They're going to call you a fascist.
They're going to call you intolerant.
They're going to call you these things.
So you might as well fight no matter what because they will never, you will never earn their respect.
And so people say, well, Charlie, my goodness, we got to learn to get along with the left.
Have to really learn to compromise.
I'm saying, hold on a second, hold on a second.
I say, you want me to compromise with Elon Omar.
This is why you want me to compromise with Alexandria Casio-Cortez.
See, isn't it interesting?
Every time that Republicans compromise, we're compromising in their direction.
Every time we compromise, it's like we should only borrow a couple trillion dollars this time.
Every single time we compromise, it's like we'll only sort of nationalize American health care.
Every time we compromise, it's like you could take away these guns, but not these guns.
Every time we compromise, you're like yeah, planned parenthood can get 440 million dollars instead of 500 million dollars this year.
Every time we compromise, it's like yeah, you can get this.
Okay justice instead of a great conservative justice.
Can you name one time the Democrats have ever compromised in our position?
Can you name one time they've ever said, you know what it might be a good idea if we sometimes start working with Democrats?
They want pathological, fundamental takeover of our country.
And so people say, well Charlie, I mean you're really trying to.
You're dividing the country.
I say, hold on a second.
We're already divided and it's very, very simple, you love the country or you don't love the country, and that, by The way, i'm happy to live in those dividing loans.
It's that simple.
It's, either you're grateful to live in America or you're ungrateful that you live in America, and if that means that you're dividing the country well, maybe that's a division that needs to happen.
And this whole thing is like, well Charlie, we just need to come together as a country.
I completely agree.
How about this, if we have a country right now that American flag is going to be kneeled by overpaid spoiled, brat athletes that don't know what the hell they're talking about, excuse my language.
I mean, they are going to be kneeling this upcoming season J Watt Baker Mayfield, these black athletes that have it unbelievably well thanks to the opportunities afforded them in this country they're going to be kneeling saying that America's a racist bigot, homophobic country.
Now, it's a very important lesson.
People say, well Charlie, what can I do?
And some of the members of the?
U.s Senate, I call and I text, and I call and I text and I don't get calls back anymore.
But so what?
My politicians?
They just whatever.
I care about my country, I care about the people.
Politicians can go in the kingdom of Washington D C and keep their lobbyists happy, but i'll tell you, what the people, how you?
What people say, how do I fight?
What do I do?
If you allow a lie to be spoken without a truth, cross-examining it, you are complicit in the lie.
It is that simple.
So people say, well, what is this?
Every single time they go on tv, every single time that they say that America is backwards and racist and awful, we say no, we're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.
We're a generous country, we're a benevolent country, we're a creative country, we're a forward-thinking country.
We do not give an inch on this, you know.
They say oh, we're gonna defund the police.
And what do we do?
We put forth a police reform bill that looks like it was authored by Nancy Pelosi in the United States Congress.
It's like well that that we are constantly playing on their terrain.
America Is Not Racist 00:10:38
Here's an interesting point.
We do well.
We win when we play offense.
When Republicans play defense, we lose our country.
Brett Kavanaugh is a great example.
Brett Kavanaugh the most united we've ever seen the party.
In fact, Lindsey Graham like woke up and had like a pretty amazing moment, right.
I've never seen it like Lindsey Graham Said, I mean, it was just, it's like, wow, I never knew you had that kind of venom in you.
Susan Collins comes up and gives this great speech.
And I thought, wow, we know how to fight.
We can fight.
Where in the heck has that been recently?
And so here's the first thing.
Here's what's ended up happening.
We have run to the hills the last couple weeks.
It's just true.
We've run to the hills.
Donald Trump is fighting basically alone.
And bad ideas have now metastasized in America quicker than we could ever imagine.
Black Lives Matter, the organization, is more popular than the Pope.
68% of Americans approve of them.
This is what happens when you don't fight lies.
All of a sudden, they become widely held beliefs.
See, we as conservatives, we just think, oh, truth will eventually win.
Well, of course it will.
And those of us that are Christians know that the ultimate truth is ultimate victory.
But where, theologically or religiously or psychologically, do you think that you can just think truth is going to win if you don't speak the truth?
If you don't fight for the truth, if you're not willing to sacrifice for the truth, if you're not willing to surrender for the truth, if you're not willing to put everything on the line for the truth, if somehow you could just, oh yeah, we're just going to float it out there.
And so now what we have now is an unbelievably dangerous moment in our country where my generation, a generation that basically has given, they've been given everything you could possibly imagine.
They don't have to worry about housing or food or medicine.
Generally, of course, there's extenuating circumstances, but they live in the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
And we threw them mostly into government schools.
And they learned American history from a villainist lens.
That everything about our country is dark.
That Jefferson and Washington and Franklin and the founders of our country, the brilliance that they had, that they were racist and backwards and slave owners that hated other people.
And this is perfectly articulated in the New York Times 1619 project.
You might be aware of this.
And if you're not, your kids are probably learning from it.
And if not, your tax dollars are probably funding it in one way or the other.
The 1619 Project, New York Times Project, number one podcast on Apple Podcast for like the last couple weeks and last couple months.
They make the argument so incorrectly and so insidiously and just so malevolently where they say America was not founded in 1776.
It was founded in 1619.
And so this idea is now widespread and we just accept it as and some leaders of conservative organizations that you have probably sent money to by the way they are now publishing that America is 400 years old.
What?
Hold on a second.
We had a very specific founding.
We are under English control.
And then you know what ended up happening?
We wrote the Declaration of Independence, our birth certificate.
It was completely different than any other document.
We said the laws of nature and nature is God.
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
Previously it was property.
It was inspired by the writings of John Locke.
And right after we sent that letter to King George, the first state, Vermont, abolished slavery in the year 1777.
It was because of America that slavery started to end.
We didn't invent slavery.
We didn't all of a sudden endorse it wholeheartedly.
In fact, it was a friction point all throughout the American founding.
We set this ideal in our preamble and we said, maybe we can get to a place where all men are created equal under the law.
Wow, what a moonshot.
We didn't live up to it immediately, but within 60 years, we fought a bloody war.
Within 20 after that, we'd eradicated slavery.
We're already talking about black senators serving in the United States Congress.
Show me another country that improved that quickly, that had that kind of progress, and sacrificed so much for a moral good.
That is not a racist country.
That is a moral country.
And that's all I want out of the party.
That's that kind of narrative, that kind of we will not give an inch, because we did not fight two world wars.
We did not liberate South Korea.
We did not create the Western world to just allow these overly privileged, hyper-entitled, self-righteous, sanctimonious socialists to destroy the country from all the generations that sacrificed everything before us.
All of them, including from this great state.
So let's talk about what else is happening here in this country right now.
So my big focus is I visit college campuses all across the country.
I'm here in my personal capacity, by the way.
I do run a 501c3 nonprofit, Turning Point USA.
You guys might be familiar with it.
Thank you very much.
2,000 high school and college campuses across the country.
My good friend Bo Beatman has been supporting us for years.
However, everything I say is in my own personal capacity here tonight because I'm getting rather political.
Good.
What's happening in higher education is one of the greatest threats to America, make no mistake.
Colleges and universities, including some in this state, pose the greatest threat to the future of America that I could possibly articulate.
We have a generation of children that are, they're borrowing money they do not have to study things that don't matter to go find jobs that don't exist.
And what they do study is why there should be no, there is no God.
You should love yourself.
Do whatever you want whenever you want to do it.
There is no such thing as truth.
America is an awful place.
And it creates incredibly unhappy people, unproductive people, after a couple years.
And when you watch these protests and you watch the swarms and the swaths of people in the streets, you should ask yourself the question.
You probably do, where did this come from?
The university system is where this comes.
I've been dealing with these people for the last couple of years.
I've been stormed out of restaurants by Antifa.
I've been spit in the face, had things thrown at me.
My family has been doxxed.
I've been getting death threats for years.
It's not exactly a new concept what these people do.
And by the way, they almost never get arrested.
They never get held accountable.
It seems as if our government decides not to go that extra step for whatever reason to hold these insurrectionist terrorists in our country accountable for the damage that they're doing.
Oh, because they're protesting fascism.
Like, oh, yeah, okay, first of all, they are the fascists.
They're the ones that want to wear the masks.
They're the ones that want to destroy our cities.
They're the ones that are planting bombs in all of our urban centers.
And so all of this originates in our university campuses, almost all of it.
These bad ideas have been allowed to spread endlessly to generations of young people, to young people that are going into debt to learn from, yes, the established professor.
In the University of California system, for example, if you say, quote, there is only one race, the human race, that is considered to be hate speech.
You are not allowed to say that in the University of California system.
You're not allowed to fly a flag at the University of California, Irvine.
That is considered to be hate speech.
We have black dormitories and over 100 speeches across the country.
So we are re-segregating black people away from white people.
Now we are now judging people on the color of their skin, not on the content of their character.
All the progress that we made in the 1960s is being reversed in three weeks or less.
Three weeks or less.
Now, why is this happening?
Because the left knows that the core ideas, the American Trinity, as Dennis Prager would say, e pluribus unum, in God we trust, and liberty.
That is what binds us together as a people and makes us actually very decent.
We're an unbelievably decent country.
The fact that we have been able to bring in immigrants from all across the world, the fact that we've been able to have so many people that speaks different languages, it's unbelievable.
We have been able to make this experiment work.
And here's people say, well, Charlie, don't you know how racist we are?
If we are so racist, why did 2 million people from Africa come here legally since the 1980s?
More than ever came here as slaves.
If we are so racist, why did the caravan come north from Central America, not south to Venezuela?
If we're so racist, why is there a waiting line to come into our country for people of color?
If we are so racist, why is it the idea to come into America?
Of course not.
And they use this as a way to try to shame every single person in this room across the country to take a knee.
First of all, I'm not taking a knee to anything except Jesus Christ.
Let me just be very perfectly clear.
They can arrest me.
They could throw me in jail.
That has just not happened.
I don't care.
And you have Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and those self-righteous sycophants and those apparatchiks.
Wear those kente cloths, which is so unbelievably pandering, and they go take a knee.
And we're all supposed to believe this is because a police officer did something evil and wrong in Minneapolis.
We're supposed to believe that.
We're supposed, yeah, nothing says honoring the legacy of George Floyd, like stealing a 70-inch television in Long Beach, right?
Like that's supposed to honor his legacy?
Of course not.
The left saw a moment.
They saw a breaking point.
They saw an opportunity when people were very pent up.
When you had unemployment was record high, men are living in the inner city.
Testosterone is building the inner cities.
The gyms are closed.
There's no sports.
There's no recreational opportunities.
What a great time to try to start to divide us.
You know, it's so amazing.
From the moment I saw this story, I said, oh my gosh, please.
And I contacted every single legislature I could.
I said, hold the line.
They're going to try to start this into something huge.
And of course, we didn't.
And of course, it grew because the media says the killing of George Floyd divides America.
No, actually, it was probably the most agreeable incident I've ever seen in American life.
No one was divided.
In fact, everyone was united around this.
And so then they create this false division where all of a sudden they're like, well, we think we need to have the division over this.
And so what do you have?
You have the burning of the cities, the looting, the rioting, the targeting.
And then it gets completely out of control would be an understatement, right?
Like we've experienced out of control.
Someone came up to me, I don't know who they said.
I lived through the 68 riots and I never thought I was losing my country.
Well, you probably think you are now because this is different.
Now you have corporations funding millions of dollars to these organizations, which is just a form of extortion.
Like don't boycott us next.
You have CEOs that have to step down in disgrace because they say all lives matter or because they don't have preferences to go hire more black people than white people, which is incredibly racist in and of itself.
This is just judging people on the color of their skin.
And so then in every single college across the country, they say, well, it's because we live in a system that has white privilege.
And this is in every single major school system across the country.
I don't know if it's in Wyoming or not.
I pray to God it's not.
Oh, it is.
Well, there you go.
So no piece of turf is left untouched by the left.
Do you guys notice that the left is always the one that is taking over institutions, that we're almost the ones that's never taking over institutions?
Do you guys notice that we're always the one that's like, well, we lost Hollywood, we lost the colleges, we're losing the churches, we're losing that.
Like, what's one thing that we've advanced positively, except a couple political stuff, which of course is only temporary?
It's because the left has been so focused on multi-generational, multi-decade cultural takeover.
We'll talk about how to fix that in a second.
This lie of white privilege must be defeated immediately.
Fathers Make Families Succeed 00:02:08
And I speak out against this so aggressively to great personal cost because if you dare say something that is true and assertively and you're not the right skin color, they come after you.
So I had the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, all these people coming after me.
They say, well, Charlie, you're a white Christian male.
You're not allowed to speak on this.
So I've been speaking louder than ever before.
Thank you very much.
And so.
And it's truth is truth, regardless of the person who is saying it.
Something is true regardless of the skin color of the person that is communicating it.
So when I say very simply that we should not be focusing on the color of people's skin on the content of their character, that is true.
When I say that, show me very specifically how on earth this is, we have white privilege in America when the richest individuals in America are Indian Americans, Taiwanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans.
In fact, not just by a little.
The average white American family earns $76,000 a year.
The average Asian American family that just articulated $110,000 to $130,000 a year.
The Constitution wasn't written Korean and it wasn't written in Vietnamese.
In fact, anyone can succeed in this country if you just do three basic things.
Get married before you have kids.
Get a job and a job.
Graduate high school.
Oh, yeah, don't commit crimes.
You're going to do great.
In fact, that's the way our system is built.
If you play by the rules and you do that generally over a couple of generations, you can succeed.
But we have taught our children to go blame other people for your problems.
It's because of all these institutional hurdles that you can't succeed.
You want to bust a lie?
Do so forcefully, and here's a great way to do it.
A black child that is raised by a mother and a father is far more likely to succeed than even a white child that is raised by a single mother.
Single mothers are American heroes.
They're amazing.
However, statistically, that child is less likely to succeed than even a black kid that has a mother and a father.
So the real problem is not institutional racism, it's institutional fatherlessness that's happening in the black community.
We have removed the fathers in our communities.
77% of black children in America will grow up without a stable father in the home.
That's according to the Washington Examiner.
77%.
How are you supposed to have functioning social systems when kids do not have fathers?
You know what happens when they don't have fathers?
By the time they're eight, they go find a male father figure.
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And you know who that usually is?
It's the gangbanger on the side of the street that gets them into crime by age 11.
They're doing drugs by 13, and they're in the criminal justice system by 15.
And they all say they hate the police because they have no positive interactions with it.
And it's this endless cycle.
And guess what?
If they get lucky, they'll get into a school system.
Oh, by the way, run by the corrupt Democrat cartel teacher unions.
You go to Baltimore, Maryland, 13 schools that are almost all black kids.
You can't find one kid that reads at grade level in the fifth grade or does math at grade level.
This is a civil rights issue of our time.
And so maybe the issue isn't that there is institutional racism.
Maybe it's because we removed fathers from the home and we allowed the teacher unions and the cartels to run roughshod over our entire country and our government school system.
Maybe that would be part of the problem in our country.
However, that kind of nuance and that kind of detail is not always articulated by the people that we need to be.
So here's one thing I do want to mention.
We will get to some questions and I want to go deeper into 2020 as well.
Higher education is a huge issue, as I mentioned.
And so I encourage all of you that have young people to think very carefully before you send a kid to go to college.
If you send a kid to go to four-year college, be prepared to play Russian roulette with their values.
And every college is different.
Liberty University is a terrific school, and I have a project at Liberty University with the great Jerry Fowl Jr.
He's terrific.
It's in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Hillsdale is a good school.
There's a couple other good ones.
But lo and behold, most colleges across the country engage in an institutional and deliberate indoctrination of the next generation.
They're training activists.
They're not liberating young minds.
I've spoken on more college campuses than any other person on the conservative circuit in the last couple years.
And I could tell you, the lack of wisdom, knowledge, worldliness, and tolerance that is being stuffed down the next generation's throat or lack of thinking is absolutely detrimental to the future of America.
And so you should be asking high school seniors, hey, why are you going to college?
Not where are you going to college?
Ask them the reason that they're going to college.
Don't act as if there's an expectation to send them to school.
We need more plumbers, welders, HVAC individuals.
We need more police officers, people that take gap years, entrepreneurs, military service members, tradespeople, carpenters, you name it.
We need more people that work with their hands and less people that are able to recite 16th-century lesbian poetry and how awful America is.
And college, college, and I never went to college, and I admit it, which is the great irony of the entire thing.
I run a college organization because I didn't go to college.
So people try to use that against me.
And I say, well, maybe that's why I was able to get this whole thing together because I didn't go to college.
I'm half kidding, of course.
But college has become far more about the credential than actually the education.
Understand, a hungry mind will learn for the rest of their life.
A hungry mind can learn outside of college thanks to the unbelievable access to knowledge that is out there on the internet.
You can read and you can learn.
You can watch lectures at things they'll never teach you for $80,000, $90,000 in debt that it takes you to go.
And so what we've done is we've created this incredible, dangerous cultural expectancy that if you do not go to college, you somehow are less intelligent.
I've spent time around people that have doctorates from Ivy League schools and people, and I've debated all of them.
I could tell you right now, there is far more wisdom of somebody that works in an oil well in Wyoming or a plumber in Gillette or a carpenter in Jackson Hole than any of the people that with these degrees and doctorates from Yale and Stanford by a long shot.
In fact, the reason there is no wisdom in these schools is goes back to an old Hebrew saying, no God, no wisdom.
They have no God, so they have no wisdom in any of these schools.
They have these people that are constantly trying to outdo themselves into a search for nothingness.
They say that there's 127 genders at Brown.
If you didn't know that, there's over 127 genders.
They say that the Bible is an outdated ancient document that should be completely removed from our schools.
They say there is no God.
They say America's a racist, bigoted, homophobic country.
They say there's no such thing as absolute truth.
Only someone that went to Brown University and has a doctorate could believe something as foolish as this.
They have very little applicable life experience.
And what they do is they have deep contempt for the world that all of us live in.
And so we send off our most prized possession.
We say, here, here's our young people.
And we tell our kids, yeah, just go in debt, sign on the dotted line, $60,000, $70,000, $80,000 a year.
And good luck.
And all of a sudden they come back at Thanksgiving.
And, hey, honey, how was college first semester in college?
And they say, I'm no non-binary.
And I don't think Thanksgiving should be a recognized holiday.
I think it should be National Indigenous Peoples Remembrance Day.
And I think that you guys stole all your money and you should give it away.
And like, all of a sudden, it's like this completely different person.
And you wonder, like, what the heck happened?
Well, these are intentional indoctrination factories that are doing incredible.
They pose a tremendous threat.
So what do we do about it?
Number one, we need to have a massive movement right now to make sure that anyone that graduated from any college across the country, unless it's Hillsdale or Liberty or a conservative school, do not give your alma mater another nickel of your money.
Defund these colleges completely.
Divest your money proudly.
And so I run into this issue all the time.
I've spoken all the great schools, right?
I've spoken at Brown.
I've spoken at Yale.
I corrected.
I spoke at Columbia.
I was speaking at Harvard this next fall if it doesn't get canceled.
I've spoken at Stanford.
I've spoken all across the country.
Do you know who the biggest donors are to these schools?
Do you know who has the biggest names on these schools?
Do you know it's conservatives?
It's conservatives that have written the biggest checks.
It's conservatives that have written the nine-figure checks.
That's right.
Scribble how many numbers that is.
That's over 100 million so that your kids can learn to hate America.
So it's conservatives that have voluntarily funded the destruction of our country.
So I beg you, please stop funding these schools.
They do not need your money.
In fact, every single person in this room has had to sacrifice something because of the shutdowns, because of the Chinese virus.
And these colleges are being like, well, we're going to have to go through layoffs and we're going to have to...
Good.
You might actually start to fire some of the crazy apparatches that you have working for you.
Like, about time you have to go through some layoffs.
My goodness.
And so, and so more broadly, here's two other things, and we can get to some questions.
I do want to make sure we talk about what else is happening.
People say, well, Charlie, what can I do locally?
Every single person in this room right now, the Wyoming Republican Party, should know every single member of your school board, and you should run for school board yourself.
Every single person.
The lack of activism in local school boards and conservative Republican circles is unbelievable to me.
It's like we care about all of this.
We're worried about the destruction of America and all of our kids.
And quite honestly, we are just letting the unions run our school boards for us.
We're letting them use these textbooks that are approved by anti-American globalists.
We're allowing people that hate our country to just run our school system.
And if the Republicans got smart and tough about taking over the school systems, we could make real sizable change.
And these races are won in this state by like a couple thousand votes if that.
I mean, some of these local school board races might have like a thousand, two thousand votes.
And so I urge all of you that might be thinking about it.
What can I do?
Well, first of all, get involved in the school board races, if not run.
They are so unbelievably important.
And guess what?
They're almost all former individuals in the education system, almost all of them.
Almost all of them are people that serve in the education system.
There's nothing wrong here, nothing to see here.
Now, mind you, Wyoming, you guys are not the worst culprit in the country of all this.
But I'm going to tell you something shocking right now.
I'm a data guy.
And I spent about an hour and a half yesterday, late at night, going through your trends, going through voter registration numbers, going through voting records.
You guys are six years from making this a blue state.
Six years.
Six years, this will be a Democrat state, maybe less.
So we could celebrate.
We're all doing great, right?
Six years, this is Colorado.
I look at outward migration trends, which are only going to accelerate because people are coming in from other states because they've screwed up the rest of the country.
The state's very attractive because of a 0% income tax.
Liberals are coming here quickly and they're teaching your kids to hate the country too.
And so if you're not serious, if we don't get serious about this very quickly, you know, a decade from now, I'll be invited to the Lincoln-Reagan Day dinner or something and be like, yeah, the Democrat governor, and my goodness, will that be a sad day.
If Wyoming turns, and if you don't think it's possible, just look at other states around you.
Look at Montana.
Look at Christine Noam had an unbelievably close race for governor.
It was within like 12,000 votes.
Colorado used to be a deep red state.
Nevada used to be a deep red state.
They've all turned.
Now remember the trend.
The left takes the left.
If there's one thing you take away from this, it's not exactly the most enlightening thing to remember, but it's the left destroys everything it touches.
They're like locusts.
They take something over, they move to the next thing.
They take something over, they'll destroy everything.
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They destroyed football, they destroy music, they destroy fine art.
The left is a relentless force of destruction.
And they're coming for Wyoming if they're not already here.
And they're going to try to infiltrate your party.
They're going to try to infiltrate your political class.
They're going to try to infiltrate things that you care about, infiltrate your churches.
And I hope that's a wake-up call for all of you because I used to come to many states that are now blue states that were once red states that eight years ago I wouldn't have dreamed.
Texas is now a battleground state.
Arizona is now a battleground state.
Georgia is now a battleground state.
And the reason being, number one, is Republicans refused to fight and we elected Democrats that call themselves Republicans.
Number two, that we just completely vacated the entire cultural landscape.
So you're probably six years from losing this state if you don't actually elect and fight on every single term, every single front.
So I want to talk about the churches too, because I spoke at a church this afternoon, an amazing church, Family Life Church, Family Life Church, something like that.
I think that was a great church, terrific church.
Great pastor.
And I was very warmly welcomed.
Thank you for that.
And it shouldn't be a controversial thing for a pastor to host me, unfortunately.
It is.
I'm a Bible-believing Christian.
It's the most important thing in my life, and I contest for Christianity on college campuses, in the public square, and social media.
But so many pastors have come out against me and denounced me and say that, well, we as Christians can't get involved in politics.
I hear this all the time.
Christians can't get involved in politics, which is just so amazing to me that I must have missed that in the gospel about not getting involved in politics.
In fact, I remember the commission is go make disciples of all nations, which in the original translation is every corner of everything in life is you should be spreading the gospel and the kingdom of Jesus Christ.
The most important thing you could do in your life is accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
The second most important thing is making sure you could do the first thing.
And that is now somehow a controversial position.
They're taking down statues of Jesus Christ, by the way.
The Black Lives Matter radicals came out the other day that say they want to take down statues of Jesus Christ.
Churches are being lit on fire.
And guess what?
Do you want to know who the biggest points of endorsement and activism for a lot of this is?
People that call themselves Christians.
Mega church pastors have come out with Black Lives Matter t-shirts who, you know, they are pro-sex work, abolish prisons, abolish police, destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family.
Must have missed that in Matthew 5, the whole pro-sex work thing.
But a lot of these pastors are just coming out and they're saying, yeah, you know, we support this and our congregants are going to get behind this.
And now, one of the only reasons why America has been resistant to socialist and Marxist takeovers is because of the church.
One of the reasons we've always had a firewall is because the church has prevented it from happening for so many years.
That's not the case now.
In fact, the church is the driving force for Marxist social change throughout the country.
And so I highly encourage you, if your pastor is not speaking out boldly and biblically against the hate group that is Black Lives Matter, if they are not speaking out boldly and biblically against the lies of white privilege, if they are not telling the congregation that now is the time not to go silent and that say this will pass, now's the time to stand and fight, please go find another church.
Because now is not the time to just abdicate all of our responsibility and our authority.
And so here's what you can concretely do.
People say, well, Charlie, what can I give to?
When you do your year-end budgeting, give more money to political or social causes than you spend on coffee every single year.
And that's a good rule of thumb.
The average American spends $10 a day on coffee.
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Incredible.
I guess inflation or something, my goodness, right?
$10 a day.
That's a lot of money.
And so if being caffeinated is more important than having a country, then, okay, well, then so be it.
But I encourage all of you to, on your hierarchy of lists, to be very specific about where your time, your energy, and your resources are.
And that's the other thing, is that this is not a spectator sport.
Like the fight for our country is not something where you turn on the TV and like, go, Trump, go, and then like you just check out.
Every single person in this room should be putting something on the line for the fight of freedom.
Every single person in this room should be ready to sacrifice something that is near and dear for your country.
And that is a little, that is a small ask out of you compared to what prior generations did for our country.
And what I'm finding is some people are just willing to be like, you go get them, Charlie.
I'll be cheering for you from afar.
I'm like, that's fine.
There's three types of people.
There's the people that help the enemy or do nothing.
There's the fighters and the people that help the fighters.
I'm one of the fighters.
I'm going to keep on doing it.
I'm going to go to more college campuses than ever before.
I'm going to get things thrown at me.
I'm going to get all the news media to continue to call me the worst names in the world.
That's fine.
That's what I signed up for.
Then just help the fighters if that's not you.
Be the supply chain in the military analogy.
Because very specifically and concretely, we are being outgunned right now.
I am getting hundreds of messages from young people that are saying, Charlie, I love Donald Trump and he has my back.
And the party has totally left us for ruin.
And they're not wrong.
Because this is no longer about like passing bills and debates.
It's now about a culture war.
And we as conservatives haven't really engaged in the culture war for a long time.
Longer, multi-generational things, I highly encourage you to homeschool your kids.
Highly encourage it.
I'm a huge advocate of homeschooling.
Please do that.
So that's multi-generational and it's longer term, but that's a different thing.
And then on the most personal level, think to yourself, am I willing to watch my country burn if they don't come from me?
And I'm not willing to be that.
In fact, I want to be an active participant in that.
And I know exactly what they're doing.
I know their aims.
And let's talk about the election, then we'll do some questions, Frank, okay?
So Joe Biden is going to be the Democrat nominee.
People say, do you think he's going to get switched out?
I thought that at one point.
I see no evidence of that whatsoever.
I mean, and I'm going to tell you something awfully depressing because it's very important for you to hear this.
This guy is the most confused, corrupt candidate ever to run for the history of the presidency, most corrupt vice president in American history.
Sold us out to China, sold us out to Ukraine for his son's benefit and his son's interest.
He confuses his wife with his sister, doesn't know what state he's in, doesn't know what president he served for, calls people that wants to vote for him, lying dogface pony soldiers.
And according to him, 150 million people died of gun deaths last year, and 120 million people have died of COVID-19.
The guy has serious mental cognitive problems, right?
We all know this.
We all see this.
Sort of.
I was talking to a Democrat friend of mine in Chicago and parents, and we've known each other for years.
I went to school with their kids.
She still talks to me amazingly.
And I asked her, I said, is she still voting for Biden?
She thinks he's great and all that.
And I asked, I said, well, what do you think of Biden's cognitive decline?
And she said, what are you talking about?
Just so you understand the echo chamber we live in.
Okay?
And I said, you know, the fact he screws up and he can't really make sentences.
And she's like, Charlie, I've known you for years.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
All I know is that Trump can't walk down a ramp.
He can't take a glass of water.
He always slurs his words.
And I think Trump has mental problems.
Now, she was not trolling me.
This is a very sincere conversation between a thoughtful voter who watches the news, someone who I consider to actually be a more than informed person.
And I said, you've seen nothing about Biden's decline?
She says, I think he's speaking pretty nice, actually.
I said, have you ever seen a full speech?
She's like, well, no, but I'll see you like 20-second snippets on the news.
And I said, okay.
If you think that we're just going to win this thing, because of that, I mean, most of the country doesn't even know what we know that is so obvious to us.
And we live in a mass propaganda war right now where the news, the activist news media is so unbelievably determined to destroy this country, they're going to try to put a corrupt, borderline, senile individual into the White House without ever trying to have him campaign.
So Donald Trump right now is, the polling reflects that he's not doing as well.
I think the polling is pretty misleading.
I think there is some truth to that, though.
I think that he probably has taken a hit.
I think that's fair to say.
I don't think he's down as much as the polls say.
But I think it's probably fair to say he's tied, if not a little bit down, in some of those states.
And I think that sort of humility is actually needed.
I don't think there's actually any utility in us saying he's going to win.
He's going to win a 50-state landslide.
Like, I don't, there's people that do that.
I just, I don't think that's actually helpful.
I don't think that's actually going to make him elected to a second term.
So we're very lucky because we have an incredible president who's fought for us at every single turn, fought for our country, decided to just sacrifice everything for the betterment of everything we care about.
And I believe he's going to have a bounce back.
I think he will.
And in order for him to do so, it's going to take, I think, a kind of recalibration of his message.
And it's part of the brilliance of his 2016 message.
And all of us were captured around this, is that he kind of, he entered into the imagination of the American people.
He made us dream for the first time in 40 years.
He's like, we can bring back jobs.
You're going to get so sick of winning that you're going to say, stop the winning, right?
You're going to get sick of it.
You're going to have a physical wall.
He was almost pushing the boundaries of what we could.
And guess what?
He actually fulfilled everything he said he was going to do.
It's miraculous.
But what's really sobering, and we have to recognize this, is because of these lockdowns and because of the virus, he almost has to not run as an incumbent.
He has to rerun for the presidency altogether.
And I think that's a very hard thing to admit.
But unfortunately, a lot of his landmark economic accomplishments have been totally disappeared.
People don't remember them.
People don't feel it.
People have a completely different set of anxiety right now than they did back then.
And so he's very innovative.
He's very adaptive.
And I think he's going to be able to do that.
And thankfully, once a campaign is eventually going to emerge, when it's Joe Biden versus Donald Trump, I think he's going to, I can't even see a scenario where that campaign exists and swing voters in the states that matter are going to be able to make that informed decision.
And If it does, then we've got a lot more structural problems than Trump versus Biden if we elect Biden and that campaign actually happens.
But I want to say this, that Donald Trump has done so much for our country.
And I have to go around, we should applaud that, by the way.
Thank you.
I wrote one of the best performing pro-Trump books called The MAGA Doctrine, sold incredible amounts.
I actually make the articulation of what the philosophy is of the Trump presidency.
And thank you for those of you that bought the book.
I appreciate that very much.
And blown away by the support.
And the president's endorsed it multiple times.
And I make the argument that Donald Trump was actually a 40-year reckoning, a throbbing middle finger against the ruling class, that it was this repulsion that all of us have for stodgy politicians, that we actually enjoyed the offhand remarks.
We enjoyed someone that wasn't like the rest of them.
That almost from a very symbolic perspective, we wanted someone that was a little rough around the edges.
In fact, we wanted someone that was going to be the bodyguard of America, right?
Like we wanted someone that was going to be kind of the bouncer outside of the club, right?
That was going to look the enemy in the eye and say, you're going to touch the American people.
You got to go through me first, right?
We wanted the street fighter from Brooklyn to be like, you know what, American left?
I'm going to punch you twice as hard.
And you've never been punched like you've been punched like Donald Trump.
And he was right.
And Donald Trump actually played offense for the first time in a long time.
When you had all these politicians, they have all their plans and 36 different points.
You have Mitt Romney, who's a total and complete disgrace and should be kicked out of the Republican Party immediately.
And you have all these guys that they care much more about appeasing lobbyists and kowtowing to China.
You have a guy that, for the first time in a long time, he's like telling the truth.
And you're like, oh my gosh, like, what's this all about?
And not only does he tell the truth, he tells it brutally and bluntly.
Like, we've been losing.
You ready to start winning?
Elect me.
We're going to bring jobs back.
These deals are the worst deals I've ever seen in my life, and I could do better deals.
And he's actually fulfilled those things.
And he confirmed the justices he said he was going to confirm.
This pandemic was a curveball that a lot of us couldn't see.
We should not have locked down our country the way that we did.
That was an unbelievable mistake.
And we need to recognize that mistake.
And this state went way too far in what you did.
You guys should have done the South Dakota model.
So I'm just going to say that right now.
So.
God bless Christine Noam.
Incredible.
And I'm seeing her in a couple days, so I'll tell her hi from all of you.
But you guys got it better than most states, so I'll say that.
But it was way too much.
The data just didn't reflect any of it.
It just didn't.
And again, what I love about this part of the country should know, take responsibility for your life.
Like if you're a rancher and you own property and you're 45 minutes off the grid and you get in a little bit of trouble, that's self-reliance and you got to know how to take care of yourself and your family's going to take care of you.
And at the absolute worst case scenario, you're going to call in a helicopter.
But this kind of spirit of taking responsibility and freedom is built into this part of the world.
And this idea that that wasn't translated into the public policy of the lockdown was just amazing to me.
It was like, your whole state was built around the idea of taking care of yourself in less than desirable circumstances.
Like, right?
It's like your whole, I mean, it's way more dangerous to be, let's just say, facilitating a 50,000 anchor ranch in negative 30-degree weather than getting COVID-19.
I'm sorry, like, that's just, like, it's way more dangerous.
And you guys do it, and you do it well, and that's the fabric of your state.
And so let's just recognize, let's never do that again, right?
Maybe you protect the nursing homes and maybe use shelter in place certain areas.
Maybe you put forth very firm guidelines for certain people.
And then you say something that the people were waiting for, take care of yourself because you have your own ability to make decisions.
Freedom requires responsibility.
Go be American.
Like, that would have been really great to hear, right?
I mean, geez, Louise.
Instead, instead, what we saw across the country, especially in the Marxist states, I want to give credit to Brian Kemp and Ron DeSantis.
They did a very good job of improving the lockdown measures, and they deserve credit.
And I don't always see eye to eye with Governor Kemp on certain things, but he deserves credit on that.
He really does.
And DeSantis is a dear friend.
He was terrific.
And they opened up their state, and they're holding the line.
And what we saw is... incredible acceleration of suicides, mental health problems, depression, alcoholism, social isolation, joblessness.
And the solution was the cure was worse than the disease.
Make no mistake.
And since when do we believe we can control a virus?
Like what kind of what kind of messianic deification oubris do we think we have that we can like control the spread?
Now, that's not to say you should be foolish, right?
And you should have like a mosh pit in Cheyenne.
That's not what I'm recommending.
But it's also not reason to shut down a state where generally every person in the state knows how to take care of themselves.
So I just, I think that's insane.
So anyway, there's, but, and, and Trump, Trump did, and this is a very important point is that people blame the lockdowns for Trump.
And this is a nuanced point, but Christy Noam was an example that not every state had to lock down, that it wasn't on Trump.
He issued his guidelines, left it to the states.
And I think Trump has to push back a little bit more here and say, I didn't force you guys to lock down.
I think his poll numbers will go up because I think part of the reason that people are, I know the spirit of this country.
I know that the lockdowns were not favorable.
I just know that.
And especially the way that they were implemented.
And so that took a huge hit.
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And that was unforeseen.
And it bothers me as a Trump supporter.
It bothers me as an American that he's being blamed for something that was so outrageously out of his control.
He was the one that warned us against China.
He's the one that told us that they were an insidious force against the world.
He's the one that tried to hold them accountable, renegotiate the trade deals.
And then China lies about the virus.
They release the virus onto the rest of the world, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
You guys can fill in the gaps yourself.
But then 100,000 Americans die, which is a total tragedy.
And then we shut everything down.
So he's in a less than desirable situation.
But the one thing, I wrote five chapters about this in my book, and I've done tons of research.
I know the biography of Donald Trump extraordinarily well.
And I encourage all of you guys to check it out because it's really special.
It really is.
I mean, built Trump Tower by the age of 31 or 32, rebuilt Woman Rink, rebuilt the convention center at age 28, renovated Hotel Commodore in Midtown Manhattan.
They changed into the Grand Hyatt, always fighting the establishment, fighting the conventional orthodoxy, trying to be an innovator, putting tough problems on his shoulders, not always succeeding, but recalibrating and innovating, bought a football team.
I don't know if any of you know that, sued the NFL and almost won.
And by the way, they call him a racist.
Herschel Walker was like babysitting Donald Trump Jr. when he was growing up.
You know who Herschel Walker is.
He's a black running back who I think actually won the Heisman Trophy.
And by the way, what's so unbelievable to me, and Republicans don't usually fight on this.
Donald Trump's a racist.
Explain to me how someone magically becomes a racist the moment he starts to run for the presidency.
Like every black person in the country loves Donald Trump.
He's He's in every single rap song.
They go visit him.
They take pictures with him.
He's glorified in the black community.
They gave him like the Black Hero of the Year award in year 2007.
And the moment he decides to run as a Republican, they use, oh, he's the worst person in the world because he wants to secure our country.
I mean, and so, but the one thing that I know about this guy, and I've gotten to know him and I've spent time with him, is, and I think you all see this, is that there's a relentlessness, there's a perseverance to him.
And with whatever 100 days left we have to the election and all that, the one guy that you want in this moment in time, after we've locked down, after the joblessness, after all this nonsense of the virus, the one human being that could still win election after being re-election, after being impeached, after being spied on, the Mueller probe, which was a total hoax, and Republicans voting for his impeachment, and every former president that's alive doesn't support him.
If there's one guy that can do it, it's Donald Trump.
Let me tell you, if there's one guy that can rise above all of them, it's Donald Trump.
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And that's where all of you come in.
So what can I do concretely?
Okay, so I think it's fair to say Wyoming is going to vote for Trump, right?
You got a really important Senate race in Montana for Steve Daines.
Some of you go across the border from Sheridan to buildings that ever go knock on doors.
Arizona's a battleground state.
You guys want to go on a road trip?
I'll put you to work to go knock on doors to go tell Arizonans that came from California to go vote for Trump.
The point is this: mobilize the Wyoming standing army to go be activists for the betterment of our republic.
This election will be determined by 10,000 votes here and 12,000 votes here and 800 votes here and 900 votes here.
It's basic, it almost statistically guaranteed that this is going to be a marginal victory election if we win.
And so for those of you like, oh, I'm in Wyoming, I can't do anything and I can't travel.
That's fine.
There's huge opportunities.
You know, phone bank from home in other states.
There's opportunities to be able to advocate and do all those sorts of things.
Get that kind of activist posture as we get into this reelection because right now, the left, they think they got us on the run.
We have plenty of intelligence.
We got plenty of intelligence all throughout the left.
And I could tell you, they think that they are six to nine months from getting exactly where they want to go.
And I understand that there's a fear out there about all the lockdown and everything, the pandemic.
But if there's ever been a time to rise up and to fight harder than we ever fought, now is the time.
And do that in your personal, do that politically and otherwise.
All right, let's do some questions, okay?
That'll be kind of fun.
I've been trying for about a month now on Facebook to just call out when I see a lie that's obviously a lie or just a falsehood that they try to disguise as the truth or like they use anecdotal evidence and you try to show them percentages and stats and they're very they have a lot of cognitive dissonance and they don't listen to arguments.
How can you get past that and try to just like get them to recognize the truth?
Yeah, it's a very, it's a great point.
Thank you, by the way, for being here.
Anyone ever feel like you have trouble communicating with a leftist or a liberal?
Anyone ever have this phenomenon?
Yeah.
That is my full-time job.
So it's what I do every single day.
First of all, don't grow in despair.
You'd be amazed at how many people I've seen that have been pathological leftists and one sentence of truth can diffuse them immediately into a pursuit of what is right and good and honest in the world.
And so don't grow in despair and keep holding the line and calling out the nonsense as you see it.
Also, understand this.
You're young, you're a conservative.
Be ready to lose any and all of your friends because that probably will happen if you fight for truth.
I see it happen all the time.
Kids are the most popular person in high school.
They say one thing in favor of me or Trump, they lose everything.
But they're talking about the truth, which is far more important than that popularity.
I hope all of you guys recognize and realize that, that you might be a little disconnected.
I mean, the price that our students are paying for advocating for this is unbelievable.
I mean, we just hosted 3,300 students in Phoenix, Arizona.
And every single one of them came up to me and they said, Charlie, we're ready to lose everything.
Let's go.
I mean, you want to see the fire?
It's the young conservatives.
It really is them.
And I mean, I'm sitting around some of these senators and they're like, everything's great.
Like, we're fine.
Like, this is, we have got to get rid of that wing of the party and like go into retirement, man, because, like, we got a country to save.
Like, oh, my goodness.
And because our generation is the one that's getting the blunt of all this, we're the ones getting canceled.
We're the ones getting kicked out of school.
We're the ones that are having reporters show up and literally hunt us in the middle of the night.
We're the ones that have death threats put against us and our families.
We're the ones that have to get under police protection.
And these are 15 and 16-year-old kids that are just trying to support their president.
The turning point USA leaders are the ones that have had their dormitories firebombed, that have been punched in the face on the campus of UC Berkeley, that have had bear spray at their Turning Point USA chapter meetings with 16 of our members having to be hospitalized.
None of that stuff makes national news, by the way.
None of it.
And so that should inspire all of you because there is a firm, conservative base of students that are so dedicated to holding the line.
And so I want to thank you for that because don't grow in pessimism and with all of that.
And so if you guys want to, I encourage all of you one way that you could help me tonight.
And I want to thank those of you that have said nice things about it.
I do about 12 podcasts a week, try to do 14 to a day.
And you guys can all subscribe and help us beat the New York Times.
You guys type into any one of your smartphones on your podcast app, Charlie Kirk Show, and hit subscribe.
We could wake up tomorrow and we might be beating the New York Times.
If everyone in this room did that, we would beat the New York Times on every one of your smartphones.
But you guys would enjoy it.
I just interviewed the president three days ago.
And what I do is I also answer questions from young people all across the country.
I do an hour, ask me anything every single Monday.
Charlie, how do I debunk this study?
How do I do this?
And our research team does dozens of hours of research every single week.
I mean, it's incredible what we do, our entire podcast platform.
And it's really, really easy to listen to when you're driving or working out.
So you guys would bless me if you guys subscribe to that.
So let's go to the next question.
Yeah.
Charlie, I'm curious.
We do need to reach out.
And I understand that Wyoming's solidly in the Trump camp.
And that's awesome.
But we do need to go to these other places.
And I've heard Marty say it, and Corey, too, that we're not really a place where we're going to see Trump or any of the campaign much because he doesn't need to be here.
But we are going to need to go to other places.
Are there resources and trainings that we can get involved with and learn about so we can maybe take a van with several people and go door to door in Phoenix or something like that?
Yeah, so thank you.
I'm sure the Danes campaign would be very welcome to that.
I highly encourage you guys to help there.
Steve Daines is a friend.
He has been one of the few fighters, and he's really, he's on the ropes right now in Montana.
He's running up against Bullock, who's unbelievably corrupt.
I think he's currently the governor.
He's about not to be to run for Senate.
And so Steve's in a tough race there.
And so that's not that far away.
But the answer is yes, there are resources.
I'm not involved with the campaign.
I legally can't be because I run an outside group.
But I'm sure if you guys reach out to your party through your committee, men and women, they have those resources and they can help you do that.
But I encourage that.
I really do.
Because again, if you're able to persuade 5, 10, 15 people in Maricopa County in Arizona or in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it could help save the future of the Republic.
No pressure, my goodness.
But next question.
So how do we basically get our Republican congressmen and representatives to fight back and fight for us?
Is there a way that we can do that?
I'm sorry.
I'm right here.
I'm sorry.
I was looking back there.
Yes.
Look, how do I say this?
I think everyone knows.
Let me answer this question a little bit back from the back.
Everyone knows here how to be persuasive.
You guys have all persuaded someone in your life.
I want to be very, very clear here, though.
You guys are the sovereign in this relationship.
Like, you guys are actually the ones that have the power, not the other way around.
And so I want to be very clear.
Like, our document is very clear about this.
And I think we get hypnotized sometimes.
It's almost like there's this disconnect.
Like, here comes the ruling class.
We have to stop acting.
Like, it's the exact opposite.
And I encourage all of you to politely and compassionately, but also directly and unapologetically, communicate, be like, you guys work for us.
You know that, right?
It says very clearly, we the people, the sovereign in this country is everyone in this room.
And so look, I'm not going to get into any specifics of this state or any other states.
You guys can make your own conclusions.
And I've intentionally not said any names tonight because that is not my style.
And you guys can fill in the blanks there.
Okay, that's what you guys, you guys are very smart, and I trust all of you to do that.
But in other states, the states that I reside in or where I come from, I can tell you that I am very clear with elected officials where I stand and where they don't stand.
And I could tell you, I do have a big platform, so it's not completely and totally applicable.
But I basically go into those interactions being like, I don't really care if they ever get back to me or if they like me or not.
Like, I'm just going to tell the truth.
And so I know that's a hard thing for some people to hear, but I can't convey to you the sense of urgency right now that is needed for us to hold the line.
And I think you all agree with that, that if there ever was a time to fight, it is this moment.
And so I implore all of you to do that.
So next question.
Charlie, thanks for coming tonight.
If there was one thing that you think is totally misunderstood by conservatives in our governance, what is that one thing?
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That's a great question.
What'd you say?
I think he's saying.
Oh, okay.
God bless you.
One thing.
Wow.
Okay.
Okay.
Here's one thing that I think that is generally misunderstood by conservatives in our government generally.
That things are going well.
Like, I get the impression when I hear from our elected officials, like how good things are going.
And I'm like, we're fighting for every inch right now.
And maybe things are great in the kingdom of Washington, D.C. Maybe things are really wonderful in the fruited plains of the lobbyist class.
But that's, I don't think anyone here feels like we're having our country's best chapter right now.
That's number one.
Number two, it's also that, like, here's a really good one.
That the worst thing that could ever happen to you is losing re-election.
That's a really good one.
Like, that, I, I just, I don't live in that world, so I don't see it that way.
But there are worse things that can happen besides, like, you need to just surrender that maybe you might lose re-election if you're going to fight for what is right.
But you know what the irony is?
What's so incredible that if you actually fight for what's right, you're not going to lose re-election?
It's like the craziest thing in the world.
It's like, it's the opposite that ends up happening.
And so, and the last thing is this, is that I think that, I mean, look, we, our debt is approaching $26 trillion, right?
That's our generation that has to pay for it.
It's us, our young people, right?
And I thought we control all this, and we don't, but we don't.
And so that's a big misunderstanding.
So, yeah, and I also just think, I think there's a misunderstanding at how much we disdain Washington, D.C.
I think that there's like a really disconnect, that we think that they're like a problem-solving mechanism and extension of our states.
It's like, no, we really don't like you.
Not you personally, but like the political system.
And we believe it's rotten to the core.
And that's why Trump won when he said drain the swamp.
Like, he won because it was like, finally, someone's saying this, that you're not representing us.
So I hope that's communicated in some way.
And there's some good ones out there.
And I'm happy to recognize them when they're there.
Charlie, thanks.
I really appreciate you speaking about religion and its point in your life.
As I've said to several people, one of the biggest lies that was ever perpetrated upon the American people is that in polite society, we don't talk about religion or politics.
And one of the biggest differences between today and the founding of our country was then whenever people came together, whether it be at the village square or the pastors from the pulpit, is they talked about the current events, our politics of the day, and that's how we became a country.
Today, nobody wants to talk about it.
They don't have time.
And whether it's religion or politics, every time we believe that, we lose.
Yeah, it's well said.
And I mean, again, the churches are going to be the saving grace of this country.
And I pray for a revival and an awakening happening in the American churches because it's our last best chance all across the country.
It really is.
And it needs to happen in every single denomination of Christianity and Catholicism and Protestantism and you name it because I think that a revival saying that this is our country, we need to have civil governance again, I think is so extraordinarily important because right now we have this disconnect and it's just so another incredibly pernicious lie.
I hear Republicans say this.
They say separation of church and state.
I say that's not in the Constitution.
Like it's a singular letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention in 1803.
It's nowhere in our laws.
It's nowhere in the Constitution.
The only thing that's there is that you can't have a state-run religion.
But this idea that the Constitution is not around natural rights, in order to have natural rights, you have a natural rights giver, which is the Almighty.
The idea that we do not recognize the sovereign Almighty God, and it's in our birth certificate.
Just look at our birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence.
Laws of nature and nature is God.
It could not be more simple that our country was founded by a moral people that were reckoning for this idea of liberty.
And it took so long post-Christ for people to actually be like, wow, we can organize a government around every individual having dignity.
Now, mind you, we did not fulfill that until completely post-Civil War and even more so after that.
But the inspiration resulted in action when Vermont went above and beyond and they abolished slavery in the year 1777.
We have such an amazing, beautiful, rich history as our country.
I mean, on the Liberty Bell was a verse from Leviticus.
I mean, all throughout the founding of our country was symbology and metaphors and direct references to the greatest book ever to exist in the history of the world.
And so, and this is just to give an idea of like how little I care about what the media says about me.
And I just, I love saying this because this one really irritates them.
I say this on Capitol Hill.
Anywhere I speak, I say every Republican running for office should advocate that if a classroom does not teach the Bible, they should lose all federal funding.
By the way, that should be a core position.
It just should be.
And so then, so then this is a very interesting thing because then people say, well, Charlie, separation church and state already went through that.
But I'll say, hold on a second.
What you're trying to say, though, is that we can't have a state-run religion.
First of all, the lack of teaching the Bible is a religion.
The book exists.
Now, I don't say you have to teach it as a religious text.
What if you just teach it as a text that exists?
Like, it's there, right?
Like, you can't just act as if it's not there because I believe we believe people who read the word will eventually be led towards salvation, right?
Just acting as if our schools can just systematically remove it.
Hold on a second.
You have incredible history in this book.
The nation of Israel was founded and the temple was destroyed once, if not twice.
You have Roman occupation, not to mention the most important person ever to exist in the history of the world is in that book, Jesus Christ, whether you believe he's a savior of the world like I do, or just, you know, kind of a radical revolutionary that was killed.
Of course, that's a wrong interpretation of it.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't teach the book.
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It created deep moral governance.
And so these Republicans are like, well, Charlie, that's really controversial.
You represent Wyoming.
Like, if there's any state you should advocate for the Bible being taught, it should be Wyoming.
It's like, it's like, I mean, and by the way, I say this, and it's very interesting.
I say this at Brown University.
I say this at Stanford.
And there's a revival happening in our country where people are starting to respect not necessarily, they're getting to the divinity of the book, but they're at least respecting the improbability of its existence, right?
That the fact that this is just not a mistake that this book was put together, it's every answer a human being could possibly want.
It's the stories that built Western society.
You're dealing with a problem.
I'll find you a verse.
I'll find you a story.
I'll find you an archetype that's in that book that can give you an answer to what you're going through right now.
From marital issues to alcohol issues to anything you're dealing with, that book has an answer to it.
Who do I marry?
What do I do?
How do I work?
Should I tell the truth?
All the answers are within there.
Yet that's the book that we don't have in the schools that our taxpayer dollars are funding.
We are doing a moral disservice to every child across the country that has never been able to learn the beauty and the depth of the greatest book ever to exist in the history of the world.
And they dare to teach the Quran all across the country and not teach the Bible.
This is happening all across the country.
And so this should be a primary issue.
And I'm telling you, it's a winning issue.
Even in Democrat areas, it comes across at first, they're like, oh, they want to push religion.
But then you explain it and you say, no, no, no, this is history too.
This is a historical document.
You have King Hezekiah.
You have King David.
You have the destruction of the temple.
This stuff happened.
We have archaeological evidence.
It's like, if you're actually, you know, the liberals really want to educate kids about history, fine.
You can't ignore this book.
You just can't.
And so that's what I advocate for that.
Now, guess what?
We will be richly rewarded if we stand for truth when it's very hard, especially on that issue.
Charlie, thank you so much for coming to Wyoming and really giving us your wisdom.
We really appreciate it.
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I moved here a few years ago from Connecticut, and I worked for the NRA.
So I'm used to fighting Democrats and used to having a target on my back.
One of the problems in this state is that as a state that's going to vote 70 to 75% Republican, we fight with each other more than we do Democrats.
We have a lot of infighting.
What would be your, and we've got 400 people in this room that are never going to agree on everything.
What would be your advice on, as Republicans, how we can get along and help support the Republican Party as a whole and not diminish our influence?
That's a very good question.
Thank you.
And I think that's a very interesting thing.
What ends up happening in these, in a state like Wyoming, and there's very few states like this, but I'm very familiar with it, is when you have such one-party rule, the other party starts to infiltrate the singular parties, right?
So it's very interesting, actually.
So you take the example, right?
So I'm looking at states that are far less Republicans signing born alive bills than Wyoming.
And I'm like, how is that possible?
Like, like Ohio, I don't know if it's Ohio or one of the Midwestern states did.
It might have been Indiana or something like that, but not as conservative as the state, pretty generally conservative.
And the reason is that the party sometimes gets infiltrated by people who are not of that party.
And so I'm not as intimately familiar with that in the state.
I'm getting the impression that is the case here, just based on some conversations that I've had.
But then it's just a question of like, what is a Republican?
What is a conservative, right?
And so I think that's a really important question.
And I don't love infighting, but if there's only a one-party state, it's really not infighting.
So I think that's a really important thing because you're actually just arguing, you're not arguing over titles because you're all under the same title, right?
So at that point, there's no infighting.
Like, for example, if this was Ohio and like every single vote mat, you know what I'm saying?
It was a question whether or not this was going to be a Republican or Democrat state.
I would have a different position.
I would argue a little bit more.
Well, you know, keep the focus and all that sort of stuff.
But it's like you're Wyoming.
Like, come on.
Like, if there's any state to be able to be very clear and convicted on what it means to be a constitutional Christian conservative, I think that this should be the state that does that.
And so that's my opinion on that.
Other questions?
Oh.
Yeah.
Hello, Charlie.
Brian Miller.
Hey, a couple of different things.
The last question was one of my two questions I was going to ask you.
So I'm very happy about that.
Thank you very much, like you said, for coming to Wyoming.
You came to Wyoming six years ago and went to our Republican dinner in Sheridan County.
That was great for Sheridan County.
Thank you.
We have a ton of youth who are now participating in the party.
It's awesome.
And it's a lot to do with you coming in and talking to people.
So thank you for that.
Thanks for coming when you weren't famous, and thank you for coming back multiple times now that you are famous.
Thank you.
The other thing that I wanted to bring up is our is to ask you ask a question of you.
What do you think about candidates actually going out and working with each other across the state?
I found, and I'm talking, we already mentioned we have 38 or 40 candidates that are pretty conservative.
What do you think about folks working across the state with each other?
So you would mean like if someone's representing the eastern part of Wyoming to help someone get elected in the western part, basically?
Well, not necessarily that, but possibly, but mostly senators and representatives that cover the same area, campaigning with each other.
Yeah, I mean, being a part of that.
And absolutely.
Is that something you advocate for?
Yeah, sure, as long as they're, you know, of like mind.
Yeah.
So I want to nuance that.
Like, I don't want to make a generalization.
But yeah, of course.
I mean, I think that it would be foolish if not.
And look, the Democrats are very smart guys.
When there's a one-party state and they can count what's happening, they're just going to try to infiltrate the one-party state.
Like, it's not, they're very Machiavellian.
They don't, honesty and truth is not a left-wing value.
So they don't care if they have to pull a different ballot or say something that they're not.
No, seriously.
It's like there's a Republican, these are just terms to them.
Like it's just a different jersey, right?
It's like getting traded to a different football team.
To them, it's not, it doesn't mean anything to them.
It's just like they're going to advocate for the exact same thing under a different jersey.
And so I can't use any material examples here.
I'm sure my friend Bo can give you chapter and verse of what happens there.
But I know this because I've spent plenty of time in South Dakota and Nebraska and North Dakota, states that have a similar type of composition and makeup.
And so what Democrats just like, yeah, I'll just put on the Republican jersey, like why not?
Like, okay, so that's not good.
And so then that ends up, you know, not representing the actual fabric of the state.
So do we have a question here?
Josh Wheeler, I want to call back to something that you said earlier today on the fact of the Republican Party and how the Democrats are scheming and scheming and have been scheming.
What is your thoughts on the fact that the whole time that our last president, Obama, was in office, the Republicans stayed silent for fear of being called racist?
Do you think that's something that actually has harmed our party for the foreseeable future to where we're not going to be able to do anything now without that stigmata?
Yeah, I think that that's part of it.
Think that there's a, look, I want to give more credit to the conservatives than I probably have tonight, and then I'm going to qualify it, which is conservatives are generally really decent people.
Like, we, we're actually the most important thing in our life is not politics, and it shouldn't necessarily be because we're Christians.
So, the most important thing, of course, is our relationship.
Not all of us are Christians, but tonight I'm getting the idea that this is mostly a Christian audience.
But at least we don't believe in nothingness.
Let me say that, okay?
So, for us, if we had to rank our hierarchy and we could be like, if I never have to get involved again, and I knew that the government would stay out of my life and they'd balance the budget and not declare silly foreign wars and represent our interests and not have ridiculous immigration policies, and I could build a family and go to church, a lot of conservatives would take that deal because this is not a part of our identity.
Like, we get involved because we love those other things.
Do you see what I'm saying?
And so, we're actually really decent and we don't love conflict, and that's okay.
Like, we shouldn't.
In fact, Proverbs tells us not to love conflict.
It says you should stray away.
Like, someone who loves a quarrel is not someone after God's own heart.
I'm paraphrasing in it, but that's said many times throughout the Bible.
And so, we as conservatives try to find agreement.
We try to find harmony because we're generally very decent people.
So, because of that, we either don't fight the left and we let them take over everything.
Or when we have to fight, we have no idea how to do that.
And so, that's what ends up happening: is like when it actually comes time to stand our ground, we're like, What is a protest?
Like, I don't understand what any of this stuff is.
Like, counter-messaging, they're calling me bad names.
I'm a pretty good person.
Why are you calling me these names?
Like, stop it.
Like, the mob's outside of my house.
I can't handle it, right?
And it gets in their head.
And I want to give, I'm going to give more, let me just say, more, what's the right word?
I'm going to give more rope, if you will.
I'm going to give them more space than probably I did earlier, which is like a lot of conservatives generally get into this because they're so like wonky on tax policy and stuff and all this.
And they don't realize that there's like an undergirding culture war that will determine the future of Western society, right?
And all of a sudden, when they get thrown into that, it's like, I did not sign up for this.
So, what's happening now is young conservatives that are 15, 16, 17, 18, and my age, 26, we start in the culture war.
We start with the hand-to-hand combat.
We start with the digital social media stuff, and then you get into politics, and you have a whole new generation of fighters.
You see what I'm saying?
And so, but the left has always been the activists, right?
They don't know, they know no different.
For them, every piece of their life is activism.
Everything.
There's nothing that they don't do is that not involved in perpetual leftist activism.
So, for us, when we get called bad names, it bothers us.
And if it doesn't bother you, like you've either come to a place like me where you just become so siloed and you're used to it, or you're sociopathic.
Like, it should bother you, right?
Because it's like, no, I'm like, I'm not those things.
Like, stop calling me those names, right?
And so, I want to give you guys, you know, the credence and the credit.
I'm just to a point where I know that every single person that calls me these names are pathological, hopeless, just unbelievably unhappy, sinister people that I don't care what they call me.
It's like, good, you want to add on another ist because you missed one, right?
And, but not everyone has that kind of daily occurrence.
And I get it because you are all decent people.
Like, you want to go build your church or build your family or build a business, and you should.
What I'm telling you right now is like now is the time we actually have to become activists.
Now, we have to wade into the waters of uncomfortability, right?
We have to do stuff that is not in our DNA, where it's like, these people want to destroy our country.
I'm not going to let it happen.
Like, now this has taken priority over the business, over the church, over the family, right?
And that's a hard thing for conservatives to be able to do because we are builders of our country.
Like, conservatives built America.
We built the moral fabric of America.
We built the greatest businesses.
We built all, it's this incredible fabric.
And we're like, now we have to go discuss with Alexandria Casio-Cortez.
Like, I don't want to do that.
Like that's, you know, that's nonsense.
And so the admission, if anyone running for office in this room, I highly encourage you to enter into running that office to know that no matter what they call me, it's not going to impact me because they're going to call you those names anyway.
And I know the state might be different because of the one, it's generally one party rule, right?
But it's a very important lesson for anyone that gets involved in this stuff because the left are relentless political organizers.
And you have Elon Omar, you have Ayana Presley, you have Alexandria Cazio-Cortez, you have Rashida Talib.
Ask yourself the question, do you think there's going to be more or less people like Alexandria Acasio-Cortez in 10 years in Congress?
More.
Why?
Lost the culture.
How do we fix it?
That's where I come in, right?
I'm involved in the culture war every single day.
Fighting on the universities, finding structural solutions, divesting money from the university, all these sorts of things.
Because what happens, and Andrew Breitbart, God bless Andrew Breitbart, boy, do we miss him?
And we need Andrew Breitbart now more than ever.
Oh my gosh.
And if I could just be one 100th of the impact that that incredible human being had in our country, it would have been a life well served.
Where he said brilliantly, politics is downstream from culture, right?
So culture is what will eventually dictate politics.
And so I'm going to tell you what's coming next because I've been telling, when I spoke in Sheridan six years ago, that was one of the speeches when I warned you guys, you guys might remember that there was a socialist insurgency that was going to materialize in the U.S. Congress.
And I was taken seriously by you guys, but some people questioned that.
But the reason that I said that and why I believed it is because I saw it happening on the campuses.
The campuses are the harbinger of things to come in the culture.
Whatever happens on college campuses will soon happen in the halls of Congress and in the corporate boardrooms across the country.
So do you want to know what's happening next?
Hyper-segregation, white apologism, and it's going to be the most divisive country you could possibly imagine because that's what's happening on campuses.
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And so you have to basically attack that early and not allow that to happen and also go after the core basis of it all.
So next question.
Hi, Charlie.
Could you address for us how we can best utilize social media as they close ranks and start to block us and kick us off?
I'm speaking specifically about Facebook and Twitter, because if we jump to Parlor, we're just speaking to our...
I agree with that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sorry, I interrupted.
You're good?
Okay.
So first of all, no Republican, I want to make very clear, and I'm going to put this on Instagram later, which will be seen by a couple people.
No Republican should ever take money from the tech companies, ever.
No Republican should allow donations from the tech companies.
And just so you understand, most of our elected Republicans in D.C. are taking money from Facebook and Twitter and Google, or the lobbyists that represent them, just so you understand.
So our own party is being funded by the same tech elites that have unbelievable power.
Now, for all the young people in this room, this will resonate with you.
I encourage all of you to listen very intently because this is one of the biggest issues in our country that is getting glossed over and we're not taking seriously at all.
Founding Fathers wrote extensively in the Federalist Papers about centralized power, right?
We don't like power.
That's why we're conservative, centralized power.
We don't like it.
That's why we're conservatives.
We all agree?
Centralized power.
Now, the Founding Fathers, you listen, you look very carefully in the Federalist Papers, they keep repeating that word power.
And then they conclude that the greatest power that they knew was government, right?
So in 1700 America, the greatest power that they could conceive was an authoritarian, tyrannical government.
And that was absolutely true up until recently.
I believe that Google is more powerful than the federal government.
I can make that argument in a variety of different ways.
They're more efficient.
They're more pathological.
There's no checks and balances.
They know where every single one of you are at every single moment.
They can manipulate your behavior.
They can topple a government.
They can monitor, track you, kick you off any sort of social media site at any single time.
They know what you're looking at.
They know what you're buying.
They know what you're doing.
The federal government has none of that information.
And if they did, it's an IRS audit that's requesting it, and you have access to an attorney, due process, and cross-examination.
The only thing the government can do that Google cannot do is put you in prison.
But even if they try to put you in prison, you still have representation rights.
You still do.
There's no representation rights at these tech companies.
It doesn't exist.
And so the question then comes: we as conservatives, we don't like government, right?
We don't.
We don't want to grow government.
We don't want to increase liberty.
But what happens when something's more powerful than the government?
We've never experienced that before.
The only time we could is maybe J.P. Morgan in the early 1900s when he twice bailed out the federal government or the vertical monopolization in the early 1900s.
Now, I'm not advocating for huge government takeovers of these tech companies.
I am not saying that.
First, I'm saying we shouldn't take money from them because they all hate us and they want to destroy our movement and destroy our worldview.
And they've just about gotten close to doing that.
Number two, I think we have to get very serious about what platform access is and what it actually means to have access to social media.
I'm getting close to believing that access to Facebook and Twitter should be a civil right.
I'm getting close to believing that.
Now, it's a very provocative view.
It's something that is hard to understand, but the founding fathers said you should have the right to petition your government, right?
And so in order to petition your government, you need access to the public square.
So you need to be accessed to be able to sit outside the Capitol and be able to access your lawmakers.
But when all the conversation is happening digitally and you can't access that, are your First Amendment rights being violated?
People say, well, it's a private company.
That's fine.
Can a telecom company disconnect your call if you say you like Donald Trump?
No, they cannot.
Can an airline kick you off the airline because you wear a MAGA hat?
No, they cannot.
So the question is: why can a tech company then take you off because you support Donald Trump?
So I understand it's a very difficult issue for conservatives to wrestle, but these tech companies, they hate all of you.
They are staffed by people that hate our country, that hate our civilization.
And they have so much power that if they want to make sure Donald Trump loses, they will do that.
And they might.
There's nothing we can do at that point.
And so there's a variety of different section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is being discussed at a very high level.
I know that some of you do not use social media.
You don't understand the significance of it.
Here's the only way I can equate it to.
Imagine in the 1970s or in the 1980s, the way that you connected with your friends, every source of information that you got disappeared instantaneously.
That's what's happening every single day to young conservatives.
They're being censored.
They're being kicked off these social media sites.
Donald Trump's tweets are being removed from Twitter.
Our president of the United States, his tweets are being removed by Twitter on an almost other daily basis, every other day, on average.
They're being removed.
Totally removed.
And so it is one of the most important issues.
To parlor, I love parlor.
I use it, but it's just creating another echo chamber.
So I think you're exactly right in that analysis.
But I think if we don't get serious about these tech companies and what they're doing to our country, it's a very, very, very serious issue.
So thank you for highlighting that.
I really appreciate it.
So next question.
Yes, I was born in South Chicago, a Democrat.
And not until about, I guess, about 45 years ago, I realized from all the people around me that I wasn't.
I'm a conservative.
I want to support what you said.
I've been here three and a half years, me and my wife Jackie.
And I have heard, I've been on certain boards interviewing different people, and I've heard commissioners say, I ain't taking a penny from that damn Republican Party.
And I hate Trump, Republicans.
I've heard priests talk about how police officers are separating children from their families.
I was a police officer for 34 years.
And I approached that priest and said, How dare you insult us?
Now, I apologize for not asking a question.
I had to make the statement.
And I've been here and I moved here so that me and my wife and my daughter can have a child and we can grow up in a decent place.
Be very careful.
I think it's less than five or six years.
Well, what I have seen just from my three and a half years here is unbelievable.
Now, fortunately, I rented some really decent conservatives like Brenda.
But don't stand by.
Thank you.
Speak up.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Hi, Charlie.
I agreed with everything that you had to say when you talked about the Bible being taught in schools, but I want to know what we can do to keep them from taking the Bible and twisting it and making it look like something horrible, just like they've done with our history.
Yeah, it's a great question.
We have 50 to 1 with liberals versus the right in colleges.
How do we stop them from making our children hate us just from looking at the Bible?
Because the things they're going to say about it, they're going to twist it and make it look horrible.
Thank you for the question.
I agree with that.
I don't think that's a reason not to have it taught.
I think that that's a completely separate issue.
That's why I also advocate that every single public school across the country and in this state should have a camera that every single parent should be able to access at any time and see what the teachers are saying because they are your employees.
And I don't know why that hasn't existed to this point.
But so I want to repeat that point.
It's called the Teacher Transparency Project.
I've tried it.
No one wants it because they're afraid of the teacher unions.
But in this state, it's a state you guys should do.
That every public school classroom should have a camera in the back of the classroom that any parent can access at any time that they can see what the teachers are doing.
And if they have nothing to hide, they should be proud of the parents snooping in, right?
What do they have to hide?
Why don't you want a camera?
Why don't you want it recorded?
What are you doing to our kids?
So that's the first thing.
And they hate that.
Oh, my gosh.
They just drive some nuts.
But they're our employees.
They work for us.
Like, give me a break.
You're our employees.
We pay our tax dollars so you guys can get employed.
So that's number one.
The other point about, I mean, look, the Bible is being incredibly misinterpreted and misapplied right now by a lot of people in seminaries and theological schools.
And it's happening at a rapid rate.
And the amount of people that are Christians that say Jesus Christ is a socialist, that we need Christian Marxism, it's at an unbelievable increase right now.
Incredible.
And so it's not enough just to teach the Bible.
You need to teach it correctly.
So it's a very important thing to mention because, just so you guys know, the thing I run up against the most, not the most, I shouldn't say that, but the thing that disappoints me the most is Christians that are advocating for Bernie Sanders and for Joe Biden.
These are pastors that are marching in the streets for abortion, thousands and thousands of thousands.
And so it's a huge crisis in our country, needless to say.
And also, the fastest growing religion in America is not Christianity, it's atheism.
The fastest growing religion in America is atheism, a belief in nothingness, and a complete and total commitment to something that doesn't exist.
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I think we can take one more.
Is that okay?
Okay, I could go all night, but yeah, that's fine.
So.
Well, thank you, Charlie.
I would like.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Do I get one question?
You say you have Trump's ear.
We'll do that one, and then we'll do that one because you have the mic, okay?
We'll do two more.
Thank you.
Yes, yes, go ahead.
You have Trump's ear.
Please help him get back to the positiveness of his previous campaign, of what the opportunities are here now with bringing manufacture back that's been in China, our drugs, our animal health drugs.
We've all been affected so much financially by that Chinese takeover.
He's got to focus on that, the potential for our country, which is what he's been about all along.
Thank you.
And I appreciate that.
And I completely, I agree that the more positive he is and the more specific he is about making America think big again, I actually think he'll be richly rewarded in the polls and also electorally.
I think we got to get, and my advice to him, and I've said this publicly and also to him, is he's one of the most positive figures in American history.
And I think he can capture the imagination of the country again.
In fact, if you look at the brilliance of him over 40 years, he would have you that you could believe personal success.
He'd have you that you could believe you could reach to your higher limits.
He wrote a book in 2007 called Think Big.
And one of his most amazing quotes is: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.
I think right now is a time for him to say, you know what?
Here's 15 specific things that we're going to do.
And you might say they're impossible, but we do impossible things in our country, right?
We're going to make our kids love America again.
We're going to keep the Constitution in all of our schools.
We're going to bring back manufacturing.
We're going to be self-sufficient.
We're going to hold on to the very specific aspirational.
Maybe it's going to be so hard, but it will create chatter type things.
You know what I mean?
He did that in 16.
I mean, because when I was at the convention, people were smiling and being like, I'm going to get sick of winning if this guy wins.
Like, there was an aura of magnetism and positivity, right?
And I think that he will get back to it because I have so much faith in him.
And he's also a highly flexible candidate.
He's able to self-correct.
You're not dealing with a normal politician.
And please keep him in your prayers because he needs prayer more than ever right now.
Totally.
So last question.
I have a comment and then a suggestion from the comment.
Okay.
We have run for state office twice in the northwest part of the state about 10 years ago.
And one of the things that we got hit hardest with, and probably what we were experiencing on a much smaller scale than Donald Trump is now then, was that we thought in larger parameters.
Get Your Signed Copy Today 00:03:15
Because the word conservative is thrown around this state like just anything.
I'm against abortion and I'm for the Second Amendment.
That makes me a conservative.
No, it does not.
And I wish that people would understand that this state is conservative, but it's very purple because they don't understand the word conservatism.
And I would like for you to comment on that even more when you talk about conservatism because people use that very lightly.
Yeah, thank you.
It's just like God doesn't.
I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Okay.
So, does anyone have a question?
Or do not?
Okay, that's fine.
All right, we'll close with that.
Do you have a question really quick?
Make it super quick.
No?
Okay.
Yeah, because we've been...
Okay.
Super, any questions?
No?
Hey, Charlie?
Yeah.
Steve St. Clair here.
Grew up in Wyoming, got drug all over the continental U.S. working.
I know what I know.
Why are you doing this?
Why are you doing what you do?
Thank you for the question.
I'll tell you a little bit of my biography.
It's a good way to end.
I didn't tell you guys.
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
My lifelong ambition was to go to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
I was an Eagle Scout, top of my class, all those sorts of things.
I ended up not getting into the United States Military Academy, best thing that never happened to me.
I saw in my generation something incredibly troubling, which was the growth of anti-Americanism at a rate that was going to be the death of everything we care about.
Started this organization, Turning Point USA, when I was 18 years old.
Never went to college.
Eight years later, it's on 2,000 high school and college campuses across the country, 250,000 people actively involved.
To answer your question, why am I involved?
Because I need to fight like hell to make sure that this country survives and every single person in this room needs to do exactly the same.
So with that, I want to say thank you guys so much for having me tonight.
Thank you guys for hosting me so generously and warmly.
God bless you and God bless the state.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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