The Charlie Kirk Show - How to Save Texas
Aired: 2021-03-28
Duration: 01:00:19

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, here are some remarks I gave in Dallas, Texas about Californians moving into Texas, about the Uniparty, and about what you can do about it.
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[00:01:31]  Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
[00:01:33]  Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
[00:01:35]  I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
[00:01:38]  Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
[00:01:41]  I want to thank Charlie.
[00:01:42]  He's an incredible guy.
[00:01:43]  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.
[00:01:52]  We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
[00:02:01]  That's why we are here.
[00:02:04]  Thank you.
[00:02:07]  Thank you, Grant.
[00:02:08]  That's terrific.
[00:02:09]  I love watching your Newsmax show.
[00:02:11]  I usually have it on mute just because we have a whole panel of television.
[00:02:15]  But you do a great job.
[00:02:16]  And alternative media is more important than ever.
[00:02:18]  And I'm going to talk about that.
[00:02:20]  I want to shout out our Turning Point USA chapter leaders and students that are here tonight.
[00:02:25]  These students are doing the most courageous work in the country.
[00:02:30]  Seriously, it is hard.
[00:02:32]  And if you want hope, and I see some amazing Turning Point alumni here, talk to these Turning Point USA young college campus conservatives.
[00:02:43]  What they have to go through on a daily basis is unbelievable.
[00:02:47]  And, you know, I talk to audiences all across the country.
[00:02:50]  I probably give 300 speeches.
[00:02:51]  I do three hours of radio a day.
[00:02:53]  Actually, you can hear me every day on the local Salem station.
[00:02:55]  It's a.m. 660 every day.
[00:02:58]  And people come up to me and they call in and they email.
[00:03:02]  They say, Charlie, it's really hard.
[00:03:04]  I'm afraid my neighbor is going to say something mean to me.
[00:03:06]  I'm afraid a family member.
[00:03:08]  I say, you think you have it hard?
[00:03:09]  Go talk to the young people that self-identify as conservatives publicly.
[00:03:13]  They're basically saying to the world, you know what, I'm okay with potential career, family, friendship penalties for standing for what's right.
[00:03:24]  So the college conservatives and the high school kids here, they deserve your applause because it's harder than ever to be a young person and be conservative.
[00:03:31]  It truly is.
[00:03:33]  So absolutely, that's right.
[00:03:39]  I want to thank Carol Adams.
[00:03:41]  You're amazing.
[00:03:42]  And I'm honored to be part of this.
[00:03:44]  I love local involvement.
[00:03:46]  I am one of my biggest critiques is how nationalized the conservative movement has become.
[00:03:53]  We need to get more local.
[00:03:54]  We need to get more focused on the races that actually impact our way of life.
[00:03:58]  Congress really means nothing right now.
[00:04:00]  It doesn't.
[00:04:01]  It's a PR stunt.
[00:04:02]  And I'm going to talk about the Uniparty because we have to understand that there's really just one party in DC and then there's people on the edges.
[00:04:09]  We're going to talk about that.
[00:04:09]  It's so important you recognize that.
[00:04:11]  And I think people are waking up.
[00:04:12]  Grant, you do a great job of covering that.
[00:04:14]  But where the differences are actually made right now is where George Soros is spending his money.
[00:04:19]  And that's in the local races.
[00:04:20]  It's the DA races.
[00:04:21]  It's in the school board races.
[00:04:22]  And we as conservatives have been distracted.
[00:04:25]  We've been saying, we've been, oh, our salvation is going to come on Air Force One.
[00:04:29]  And look, I love national politics.
[00:04:31]  I'm going to talk about national politics, but we've just gotten steamrolled on the local level for the last 10 years.
[00:04:36]  And it's largely because we as conservatives, the most important thing in our life is not politics.
[00:04:42]  It's family.
[00:04:43]  It's church.
[00:04:44]  It's our business.
[00:04:45]  Therefore, the liberals, the leftists, because there's a difference, and we'll talk about that too, they obsess about taking terrain.
[00:04:52]  That's all they care about: am I in control of more things this year than I was last year?
[00:04:57]  For us, that's really not what drives us, right?
[00:04:59]  I mean, for us, it's, are my children developing with good character?
[00:05:03]  Is my church flourishing?
[00:05:05]  Am I getting in a closer relationship with my creator?
[00:05:08]  Is my street safe?
[00:05:09]  Am I doing well at my job?
[00:05:10]  Like, that's what we care about, right?
[00:05:12]  And we should.
[00:05:13]  Instead, the leftists, they say, none of that really matters.
[00:05:17]  Am I taking over terrain?
[00:05:19]  And then you look after 10 years, and I have to tell you, I've been coming to Dallas for probably 12 or 15 years, and it's an absolute disgrace, and it's reprehensible what's happened to Highland Park.
[00:05:30]  No, it's actually a tragedy.
[00:05:33]  And when I have to walk around, when I walk around the neighborhood today and I see BLM incorporated signs, one after the other, which basically is a sign that says I'm a better person than you are.
[00:05:42]  Look how good of a person I am.
[00:05:44]  It's this ridiculous sign that I saw today on this probably $35 million home.
[00:05:49]  You know, we believe in Black Lives Matter.
[00:05:51]  Science is real and love is love.
[00:05:53]  I mean, you see these signs?
[00:05:54]  It's basically this big thing that says, look how good of a person I am.
[00:05:58]  And maybe one day I could be as good of a person as you.
[00:06:01]  And I say, that's Highland Park, Texas.
[00:06:04]  And there's a reason why that happened.
[00:06:05]  We'll talk about that.
[00:06:07]  And then Tarrant County is now a battleground county.
[00:06:09]  Used to be one of the most, you know, center, not just center right, but Republican stronghold counties in the country.
[00:06:15]  And I love these energetic new candidates that are running.
[00:06:19]  And that's one of the things I do want to just commend all of you before I get into some national commentary and some ideas and some things I can do is you have to obsess about the local politics.
[00:06:29]  And it's actually really interesting because the local races are actually the ones that are most consequential, most controversial.
[00:06:37]  And for whatever reason, we're least likely to get involved in them.
[00:06:39]  And I think it's because that's really when politics gets to be really kind of flesh on flesh.
[00:06:45]  It's eyeball to eyeball.
[00:06:46]  It's all of a sudden the person that you're carpooling with, you have to really tell them why you believe what you believe, where you can kind of be the silent Trump supporter, right?
[00:06:55]  Where in local politics, it really impacts you.
[00:06:59]  And so you have to take over your school boards.
[00:07:01]  You have to maintain control in your city council.
[00:07:03]  This is where this pile of garbage and nonsense is being implemented all across the country.
[00:07:09]  Critical race theory, transgender nonsense, the attacks on the church, which is just unbelievable.
[00:07:15]  And so what this group is doing to try to take over local groups is terrific.
[00:07:20]  I want to congratulate you and just I hope this group expands even more so because it's so incredibly important to get involved in local politics.
[00:07:28]  Okay, so as I mentioned, Congress basically really is not what it used to be.
[00:07:35]  And in some ways that's a good thing.
[00:07:37]  In some ways it's a really bad thing.
[00:07:39]  And so the question is, the question that Grant asked was, what are they doing?
[00:07:43]  What is Lindsey Graham and what is Adam Kinzinger?
[00:07:46]  And what are all these pro-amnists, you know, Rick Scott who I have a good relationship with, but he's just such, he's been such an unbelievable disappointment.
[00:07:53]  Because according to him, the most important thing is granting amnesty to lawbreakers.
[00:07:57]  Like, that's what the Republican Party should be focused on, which is just stunning to me.
[00:08:01]  It's like, let's not listen to one thing the voters have told us the last decade.
[00:08:06]  We're just going to ignore the will of the people.
[00:08:08]  Every election, voters are voting for stricter immigration, stronger borders, and quite honestly, less people coming into the country, both legal and illegal.
[00:08:17]  And we should be for legal immigration, but we have way too many people coming into the country right now.
[00:08:22]  And we should be unafraid to say that.
[00:08:23]  And there's nothing racist or bigoted to say that we care about the wages of our workers, the welfare of our communities, the safety of our streets, and bring, and Grant, I'll correct you on one thing.
[00:08:35]  These are not children coming to the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Center.
[00:08:38]  These are cartel young men.
[00:08:40]  Okay, you got 3,000 15, 16, and 17-year-olds, okay?
[00:08:44]  And you look at pictures of them.
[00:08:45]  I mean, these guys are built.
[00:08:46]  I mean, these are not children.
[00:08:48]  I mean, these are guys, and again, I'm sure there's some good people in there, but you look at their tattooed up, and there are studies that are showed.
[00:08:55]  Look, you've got some cartel members that you're bringing right into the Kay Bailey-Hutchinson Center.
[00:08:59]  So I have a proposal: every Hindland Park liberal that voted for Biden should have to take a cartel member into their home.
[00:09:05]  Every single one of them.
[00:09:09]  And so I'm going to go knock on the doors.
[00:09:13]  And you've got, you know, this is a great thing, Carol.
[00:09:14]  You got to do this.
[00:09:15]  Star Patriots.
[00:09:16]  Go knock on the door of these people that have these virtues signaling, look how good of a person I am signs, right?
[00:09:21]  And say, hey, I got a guy from Honduras, and we know nothing about him.
[00:09:26]  He could be wonderful.
[00:09:27]  He could be terrible.
[00:09:28]  You say that your doors are open.
[00:09:30]  And we didn't vote for this.
[00:09:32]  You did.
[00:09:32]  You have this wonderful sign.
[00:09:33]  And just look at their true racism shine through, right?
[00:09:36]  Because that's really what it is.
[00:09:38]  It's look how good of a person I am until it hits home.
[00:09:40]  And so it's actually fitting that 3,000 young men are coming to the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Center because unfortunately, this area has been voting in that way.
[00:09:50]  At least Highland Park.
[00:09:51]  Genevieve Collins should have won by 10 points, okay, in a normal race.
[00:09:55]  And this place has changed dramatically over the last couple of years.
[00:09:58]  But you asked the question, Grant, which is really a good question, is what are they doing?
[00:10:02]  Well, they're serving their corporate donors, is what they're doing.
[00:10:06]  And this goes to a broader point that we as conservatives have to get really precise about.
[00:10:11]  And it's actually a really exciting time to be in the movement.
[00:10:14]  So when I first got involved in politics in 2010, it's a Tea Party movement.
[00:10:18]  It was a lot of fun.
[00:10:19]  A lot of you guys remember it.
[00:10:21]  It was grassroots.
[00:10:22]  It was authentic.
[00:10:22]  It was a little wild.
[00:10:23]  It was wacky.
[00:10:24]  But it was awesome.
[00:10:25]  And the great Rush Limbaugh, may he rest in peace, a friend of mine, he was a huge reason why that thing caught on the way it did.
[00:10:32]  And Mark Levin, and I'm sure there were a lot of Tea Party leaders here in this room.
[00:10:36]  And the Tea Party movement, in essence, was: okay, Obama is overreaching.
[00:10:43]  Big government is going to infringe on our liberties and freedoms.
[00:10:46]  Stop spending.
[00:10:47]  Deficits are debt and deficit is bad, right?
[00:10:49]  You remember this, like national health care.
[00:10:52]  And that was a really good ethos for the time.
[00:10:54]  And we lost that debate generally.
[00:10:57]  We might have won back the House in 2010, but then we had John Boehner that basically got elected and did the opposite of what his voters wanted.
[00:11:05]  And then Donald Trump ran for office in 2015 because what the media wanted us to basically sit down and tolerate, what we were supposed to just sit down and shut up and accept, was another Bush versus Clinton matchup.
[00:11:19]  Like that's what we were supposed to have.
[00:11:22]  Jeb Bush against Hillary Clinton.
[00:11:24]  And Jeb Bush is a nice guy, but not presidential material at all.
[00:11:29]  And I'll get into the bushes, which I'm not allowed to do in Dallas, which is exactly why I do it.
[00:11:34]  And so, no, it's true.
[00:11:38]  We should be unafraid to call balls and strikes on this stuff.
[00:11:40]  And I'll get into that.
[00:11:43]  So I'm making tons of friends here in North Texas.
[00:11:46]  Actually, it's amazing how many people actually think negatively about the Bushes.
[00:11:49]  They're just afraid to say it around here.
[00:11:51]  They really are.
[00:11:51]  It's amazing.
[00:11:52]  And so then I come in, and it's actually pretty incredible.
[00:11:55]  So I'll talk about that.
[00:11:56]  So we're supposed to just accept, okay, Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, which, by the way, Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton agree on basically every issue except corporate tax rates and school vouchers.
[00:12:09]  They agree on open borders.
[00:12:11]  They agree on unrestricted pro-Chinese trade.
[00:12:15]  They agree on corporate dominance over our economy.
[00:12:18]  There's really no difference between the two.
[00:12:20]  It's part of the Uniparty, which is this false choice that we've been given, where our Republicans talk a good game on guns and pro-life, and we say they're the lesser of two evils and we vote for them.
[00:12:31]  And by the way, most times that's the right choice because we have no other choice.
[00:12:35]  And so I'm going to tell you that that's still the right thing to do when you're presented with that option.
[00:12:39]  But that also means we didn't do our work before that option presented itself to field good candidates.
[00:12:43]  I'll get to that in a second.
[00:12:44]  And so what Donald Trump represented is he comes onto the scene and basically he meant something different to every person, but the one unifying concept was that he was a throbbing middle finger to the Uniparty that was lying to us on trade, immigration, and kind of these corporate insider deals of people that quite honestly took advantage of you for 30 years.
[00:13:04]  They took advantage of all of us.
[00:13:06]  And they never got anything substantial done.
[00:13:08]  And we kind of liked the fact that he was a little off the cuff and he was unafraid to say the things we were all thinking.
[00:13:14]  And we made excuses for good reason for all of his indiscretions because he was this persona of what I called the bodyguard of Western civilization, which is a guy who's unafraid to stand in the doorframe and defend your family against, quite honestly, criminal vigilantes that want to destroy our country.
[00:13:30]  Like that's that's who we hired for a reason, because he was unafraid to pick that fight.
[00:13:34]  When you hire a bodyguard, you don't care about his tweet history.
[00:13:37]  You care about is he willing to fight?
[00:13:39]  Is he going to win when the fight comes, right?
[00:13:41]  Like that's why you hire a bodyguard.
[00:13:44]  And that's lost on establishment Republicans, obviously, because they're under this false idea that we're still in a policy debate in our country, which we're not.
[00:13:52]  We are not in a policy debate.
[00:13:53]  We're not.
[00:13:54]  This is a brass knuckle fight for power.
[00:13:56]  It's that simple.
[00:13:56]  I wish it wasn't the case.
[00:13:58]  I wish we were having these wonderful Socratic dialogues about the meaning of the proper role of government and economics.
[00:14:06]  I wish that was the case.
[00:14:07]  This is as simply as this: Do you control more seats on the other side?
[00:14:11]  And if you do, we're going to rule with an iron fist.
[00:14:13]  It's that simple.
[00:14:14]  And so the establishment, they want to go back to the Uniparty.
[00:14:18]  And so what Trump did and why they hated him, they hated him a little bit because of his style and he irritated.
[00:14:23]  It gave them extra reason to hate him.
[00:14:25]  But they really hated him because of three policy choices that policy positions that he was relentless on, which is we have to end these stupid endless wars of foreign occupation overseas where they're not making us richer, they're not making us wealthier.
[00:14:39]  We're sending our young people in the middle of nowhere to go fight for sand and death.
[00:14:44]  And as Sun Tzu, who literally wrote The Art of War, said, a nation perpetually at war gets perpetually poor.
[00:14:51]  It's a phenomenal quote.
[00:14:52]  He had another quote and he says, a nation perpetually at war never, and you never get an advantage from that.
[00:14:57]  So Trump was like, why are we still in Afghanistan?
[00:14:59]  Like, what does success look like?
[00:15:00]  And by the way, let me be very clear.
[00:15:02]  This is by no means a slight to the heroes that fought in these wars.
[00:15:05]  In fact, it's the opposite.
[00:15:06]  I think that your sacrifice and your commitment has been thrown around as chess pieces by the political elite that don't know what it's like to actually serve in these wars.
[00:15:14]  So let me be very clear about my commitment to the veterans and the people in this room.
[00:15:19]  And so the second thing is Trump comes on the stage and he says all these trade deals have actually been hurting us.
[00:15:26]  And that was the beyond third rail.
[00:15:31]  I grew up in a conservative movement where you were not allowed to say that at all.
[00:15:36]  Like free trade always, no questions asked.
[00:15:38]  It's awesome that we get piles of plastic coming in from China.
[00:15:41]  Fentanyl is great.
[00:15:43]  That's basically the ethos of the old Republican Party, right?
[00:15:46]  That's the Bush Republican Party: all that matters is how rich people are doing.
[00:15:51]  It doesn't matter if we make things anymore.
[00:15:53]  Who cares if our families are getting broken?
[00:15:55]  Who cares that church attendance is down?
[00:15:57]  Don't you understand we need 5% GDP?
[00:16:00]  And then Trump says, okay, but what about the 7 million manufacturing jobs that are lost?
[00:16:06]  What country has ever been great and stayed great without having people make stuff with their hands?
[00:16:11]  And that is the kind of common sense instinct that was completely lost on the Bush class and the people that ran our country.
[00:16:17]  And the third thing is immigration, where Trump came in from the first time he came down the escalator, whether he realized it or not, but he hit the issue that we felt the most betrayed on, right?
[00:16:27]  The issue that everyone talks a good game on, and yet we see this continuous trend of open borders and the consequences of it.
[00:16:36]  Wages going down, crime going up in certain communities, guns falling into our country, women getting sex trafficked.
[00:16:42]  And we said, okay, this guy who's literally a builder might be able to build something that actually can solve this problem.
[00:16:48]  And the UNA party hated him.
[00:16:50]  And right, so UNA obviously comes, you know, it means of one.
[00:16:54]  And what we're in right now is the UNA party wants to get things back the way they used to be.
[00:17:01]  So they so sorely want, and it's less about Trump.
[00:17:06]  I only use him as an example, but it's about you.
[00:17:09]  And this is what's so incredibly boring about watching cable television outside of your show, Grant.
[00:17:16]  No, I always give the correct carve-outs.
[00:17:20]  But it's so boring because it has nothing to do with Trump.
[00:17:24]  It's about the voters that put him into office.
[00:17:26]  That's what it's about.
[00:17:27]  It's about the concerns of the people that showed up for the first time to vote in 30 years.
[00:17:31]  He was just merely a hired gun.
[00:17:34]  He was an employee for people that felt so upset.
[00:17:37]  And you know what the really good news is?
[00:17:39]  That if he never runs again, you could find a candidate who can represent those ideas as well.
[00:17:44]  It's unlikely, but he was nothing, not nothing more.
[00:17:48]  He's more than that because he has persevered and all that.
[00:17:49]  But what he really represented and what the boring activist corrupt media misses is that there's still about 75 to, I think even more, 80 to 85 million people that want changes in those three categories.
[00:18:06]  Those three things, they say, okay, what are we supposed to do exactly with the 7 million people that used to work in these beautiful manufacturing plants?
[00:18:15]  We traded manufacturing jobs.
[00:18:17]  We worked with our hands for opioids.
[00:18:20]  And they say, well, no, it's wonderful because we get all of this cheap garbage from China.
[00:18:26]  Now, I can prove to you that their own case is wrong.
[00:18:29]  How many people here have seen the dollar stores all over the DFW area?
[00:18:34]  Do you value anything you get from those dollar stores?
[00:18:36]  It's like they're placeholder, they're trinkets, right?
[00:18:38]  How many people have had a garage sale in the last five years?
[00:18:41]  Of course.
[00:18:41]  We have so much stuff we're asking people to take it away from.
[00:18:44]  You know the fastest growing real estate market in the country is self-storage.
[00:18:49]  We have so much garbage, we don't know what to do with it.
[00:18:52]  Like get it out of my house type garbage.
[00:18:54]  And meanwhile, we go take a drive through rural Oklahoma and Missouri, Kansas, and Ohio, and those communities are really suffering.
[00:19:04]  And what our leader should have done, what George Bush should have done, which he didn't, because he was told a lie.
[00:19:09]  And look, I love free markets.
[00:19:11]  I love economics, but there's externalities to everything.
[00:19:14]  And the externality to free trade is that you're going to displace millions of people.
[00:19:19]  And be careful how quickly you do that.
[00:19:21]  And if you're just going to get piles of textiles of stuff you're never going to wear that you're not going to value, then somehow you're transferring money for a nation.
[00:19:29]  And I don't like that.
[00:19:30]  And that's what Trump really represented.
[00:19:32]  And so, and what we should talk about more.
[00:19:35]  And so the really interesting thing that's happening right now, and this is why we lost Georgia.
[00:19:42]  We lost Georgia for a variety of reasons.
[00:19:43]  We lost Georgia, obviously, because of the mail-in balloting shenanigans and the worst governor in America, Brian Kemp, who's an absolute disaster.
[00:19:49]  He's very corrupt and he's not very smart.
[00:19:51]  And he signed this consent decree with Stacey Abrams, basically allowing completely relaxed signature standards with more ballots coming in.
[00:20:00]  And he lied to a lot of people.
[00:20:02]  And we very well should have won those runoffs.
[00:20:05]  But we also lost because Kelly Loffler and David Perdue, by the way, I was campaigning for them.
[00:20:09]  I was helping them any way I could, but they weren't helping their case.
[00:20:12]  And here's why.
[00:20:13]  And here's the provocative thing I'm going to contribute to tonight's evening, which is we're either going to win or lose with our ability to handle this paradigm.
[00:20:21]  Is that every time Kelly Loeffler got up on stage and every time David Perdue got on stage, they said, elect me or else we are going to become a socialist nation.
[00:20:29]  And I said, wait a second, that's not the complete argument right now.
[00:20:32]  It's not.
[00:20:33]  Like socialism is a huge threat.
[00:20:35]  I literally have an organization dedicated to fighting socialism.
[00:20:38]  But, and we should care about it.
[00:20:40]  But to act as if this is a binary choice, like it's either going to be socialism or capitalism.
[00:20:45]  No, there's another threat out there that people are really worried about.
[00:20:48]  And that's the woke industrial complex that's running our country.
[00:20:52]  And so when Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, and I'm picking on them a little probably too much, because I really hoped they would win, and I tried to get them to win, but their messaging was terrible, fed by the same Bush GOP consultants that have been losing races for the last 20 years because they don't talk to their voters, is like, just tell people you hate socialism and you're going to win.
[00:21:08]  I'm like, no, it's actually not that simple.
[00:21:10]  No, actually, the people in Southeast Georgia hear Raphael Warnock promise them a $2,000 check and they're going to go vote for that guy.
[00:21:17]  Unless you give them an argument that you're going to go declare war on the factory that just closed in Savannah, Georgia.
[00:21:23]  And here's the interesting third thing that could be happening, and it is happening in our country.
[00:21:27]  And I can make a pro-conservative, pro-liberty argument for why this is the greatest existential threat in our country, which is the UNIPA wants to defend the woke industrial complex and the very dangerous, scary rise of corporations that are more powerful than our government.
[00:21:43]  And this is the one thing that if you, and Grant, I want to say the wisest commentary I've heard from a speaker in the last couple of weeks is what you said.
[00:21:50]  And everyone should listen very carefully what he said.
[00:21:52]  When you see an elected official, be kind, be gentle, but be direct and say, why do you defend the corporate class in DC so much?
[00:21:59]  Why do you take money from Google?
[00:22:01]  Like these are things you, if you get in there, I see this all the time.
[00:22:04]  People talk a good game and then they're like taking selfies with these guys.
[00:22:06]  I'm like, what are you doing?
[00:22:07]  Like they work for you.
[00:22:08]  If they start to hear negative feedback from you face to face, and again, don't make a big scene.
[00:22:13]  You have to film them.
[00:22:14]  You don't have to do what the left does.
[00:22:15]  But be direct and say, no, I don't like the fact that you're doing this.
[00:22:19]  And so to go back to the point, though, is that there is, and this is something that conservative movement gets really nervous about talking about, is that private companies are more powerful than our government right now.
[00:22:31]  Google is more powerful than our government.
[00:22:33]  And no one likes talking about it.
[00:22:35]  And so until we're willing to recognize and realize that there are two threats to our liberty, one that's in the government and one that's in Menlo Park, then we're not actually having an honest conversation with what we're up against in our country.
[00:22:50]  And what happens is that the corporate class only wants you to talk about the threat of the bureaucrats.
[00:22:57]  I don't like the Employment Prevention Agency, the EPA.
[00:23:01]  I think they do terrible, you know, the Environmental Protection Agency.
[00:23:04]  I thought in Texas, that would probably be a big thing.
[00:23:06]  And so I understand the threat of the heavy hand of government.
[00:23:12]  But I can make an argument that corporations are destroying more people's freedoms and liberties in the government right now.
[00:23:18]  The founding fathers always feared centralized power and control for good reason.
[00:23:23]  But they never envisioned a set of companies that could have as much power as the government, if not more power.
[00:23:30]  Google is exponentially more powerful than our own government.
[00:23:33]  Now, you might say, Charlie, Google can't put you in prison.
[00:23:37]  Well, you're right.
[00:23:38]  That's correct.
[00:23:38]  They can't.
[00:23:40]  But if the Department of Justice shows up to somebody right now and they say, hey, I'm going to indict you, you know what you get?
[00:23:47]  A lawyer.
[00:23:49]  You know that it's illegal.
[00:23:50]  They do it anyway for the government to spy on you.
[00:23:52]  It's not illegal for Google to spy on you.
[00:23:53]  They do it all the time.
[00:23:54]  And then they sell your data.
[00:23:57]  You know, you could sue your own government.
[00:23:59]  Can't sue Google.
[00:24:01]  Can't.
[00:24:02]  Not when it comes to free speech violations or practices.
[00:24:05]  Google has 25,000 full-time employees that work nights and weekends with an IQ that is double that of anyone that works in the federal government just working on Google search.
[00:24:15]  Just working on manipulating what you and your children are processing on the internet every day.
[00:24:19]  Show me a government agency that has that much power.
[00:24:22]  Now you might say, well, the military has that much power.
[00:24:25]  You're right.
[00:24:25]  Totally.
[00:24:27]  I agree.
[00:24:27]  Potential power.
[00:24:28]  I mean, they have weapons, they have ammunition, they have all that.
[00:24:31]  It's also probably like, I used to make this argument, and then they're militarizing DC and they're doing all this.
[00:24:37]  I still think that even with the federal Department of Defense, and I think it's unlikely that the military is going to be used against the citizenry anytime soon.
[00:24:44]  I just do.
[00:24:45]  I don't think that the troops would go for it, and I think that's an unrealistic thing.
[00:24:48]  I do think it's realistic that Google is going to make their big offensive, and they already are, to make America in their image.
[00:24:54]  Or Mark Zuckerberg, a private citizen, put $400 million into this last election, and no one talks about it.
[00:25:01]  So what I am submitting to you right now is considered to be an illegal thought process in Republican circles.
[00:25:09]  But it's the most important thing happening, which is that the wealthiest people in this country got $600 billion richer last year.
[00:25:15]  And that's just the billionaire class.
[00:25:18]  And they hate you.
[00:25:20]  Most times, the wealthiest people in our nation shared the values of the rest of the nation.
[00:25:25]  You can say what you want about Rockefeller, Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, but they actually wanted what was best for America.
[00:25:30]  They were patriots.
[00:25:31]  They were too rich and too powerful.
[00:25:32]  We broke them up.
[00:25:33]  Good reason.
[00:25:33]  Teddy Roosevelt did a great job, and I'll debate anyone on that because there's this whole like weird libertarian revisionism that we should never have broken up standard oil.
[00:25:40]  Way too much of a nuanced issue, but not worth the time for tonight.
[00:25:44]  The point is that we should, I'm glad we broke them up.
[00:25:47]  But even with that, Carnegie and Rockefeller wrote extensively about how they love their country.
[00:25:51]  Zuckerberg and these guys, they write extensively about how much they hate their country.
[00:25:57]  And so what's really happening here, and this is something that Republicans have to get really serious about, is that this is not like an anti-government movement of the Tea Party, right?
[00:26:07]  It's not.
[00:26:08]  It's not.
[00:26:08]  It's, okay, we have to take a step back and we say, what do we control?
[00:26:11]  We don't control the colleges.
[00:26:12]  We don't control academia.
[00:26:13]  We don't control civil service.
[00:26:15]  We don't control the corporations.
[00:26:16]  We don't control media.
[00:26:17]  We don't control Hollywood.
[00:26:18]  Say, okay, that's horrifying.
[00:26:21]  And so all of that is part of this kind of new woke industrial complex.
[00:26:25]  But the institutions that matter most, the two things that we still have some touch, hopefully to, is the American family and the American church.
[00:26:34]  Those are the two things.
[00:26:35]  And I'm not going to overly religialize this speech, but if we're not serious about activating the American church, we might as well give up.
[00:26:42]  It's that simple.
[00:26:43]  And there is no institution, there is no group of people left that believe in what we believe in generally as small C conservatives that could possibly help turn this thing around.
[00:26:53]  It's impossible.
[00:26:54]  And so as we look at the landscape, this is where it gets really exciting for us, because we're on the right side of history.
[00:27:01]  If you believe the assessment what I just gave, you might disagree.
[00:27:04]  And I will give credit where credit's due.
[00:27:06]  This is a growing movement of the commentary thanks to Tucker Carlson and people like him that have been warning about the wealthiest people getting so much richer, not sharing your values and using their resources and their wealth to pummel our country into non-existence.
[00:27:19]  And he's really been a pioneer in this regard, and he deserves credit for that, because he pushed the boundaries and was mocked a couple years ago.
[00:27:25]  If you might remember when he went after Amazon, and now everyone agrees that Amazon's a garbage company and should be broken up into pieces and has destroyed American small business nearly permanently.
[00:27:35]  And that's the other thing.
[00:27:36]  And I was a huge critic against the lockdowns.
[00:27:39]  I think the lockdowns will go down as the worst mistake in American history, no doubt.
[00:27:42]  There was no science behind it.
[00:27:44]  It was anti-liberty, anti-freedom, not trusting the city.
[00:27:47]  We should be not afraid to say that.
[00:27:49]  But the obvious question is never asked.
[00:27:54]  Why did the lockdowns last so long?
[00:27:57]  And the sloppy answer is, oh, because of the signs.
[00:28:00]  Like, no.
[00:28:01]  Let's go back to what we know.
[00:28:02]  What do we know?
[00:28:03]  That rich people get what they want.
[00:28:06]  That's what we know.
[00:28:07]  Bezos was making an extra $50 billion every quarter that we were locked down.
[00:28:12]  Why?
[00:28:13]  Because we were all ordering stuff on his product service because all the small businesses were shut down.
[00:28:17]  Rich people get what they want.
[00:28:19]  So the wealthiest people love the lockdowns.
[00:28:22]  Zuckerberg went from a $65 billion net worth to $135 billion net worth.
[00:28:27]  Doubled.
[00:28:29]  How many small businesses had a year like that last year?
[00:28:31]  Probably not a lot.
[00:28:33]  Small business owners out there, you probably got crushed.
[00:28:35]  And if you survived, God bless you.
[00:28:37]  And we should do more to support the backbone of the small business person in this country.
[00:28:42]  And so the lockdowns were designed for and by the wealthiest people in our country.
[00:28:47]  And I'm all for wealth creation.
[00:28:49]  Trust me, I'm a free market guy.
[00:28:52]  But when you create wealth by forcibly shutting down the rest of the country, it's not a market.
[00:28:57]  It's extortion.
[00:28:59]  Like, what?
[00:29:00]  I mean, here's a great example.
[00:29:02]  So, and then we do exactly the wrong thing, and Republicans just surrender.
[00:29:05]  They're just, they're just absolutely, most of them are absolutely worthless.
[00:29:08]  And so they say, oh, yeah, I'm going to go spend another $1.9 trillion even though we haven't spent the $1 trillion before it.
[00:29:13]  And so anyone have trouble getting an Uber lately?
[00:29:15]  It's like a new phenomenon.
[00:29:17]  In Arizona, it's a huge deal.
[00:29:18]  You want to know why?
[00:29:20]  Because when you send people $1,400 checks, why would anyone want to go drive Uber anymore?
[00:29:26]  So the price of Uber has tripled in the last couple of weeks, at least in the Phoenix metro area.
[00:29:30]  It's a really simple, if you subsidize inactivity, you're going to get more of it.
[00:29:34]  Some small businesses say, you know what?
[00:29:36]  It was fun.
[00:29:37]  I'm done.
[00:29:38]  Never doing this again.
[00:29:39]  That is not a good thing for the country.
[00:29:41]  It is not.
[00:29:41]  I'm just going to be very clear.
[00:29:43]  I'm a free market guy.
[00:29:44]  I am not going to live in a country where we have 10 companies to choose from.
[00:29:47]  And they all have each other's back at all times.
[00:29:50]  When Amazon has the servers to kick off Parlor, to have Twitter's back, and Google has the App Store and Apple, that's a really sick state of affairs.
[00:29:59]  And there's nothing free market.
[00:30:00]  There's nothing capitalist.
[00:30:01]  And guess what?
[00:30:02]  Your Republican lawmakers are terrified to say what I just said.
[00:30:06]  You know why?
[00:30:07]  Because they're funded by those corporations.
[00:30:08]  That's why.
[00:30:09]  Because they celebrate big ribbon cuttings when these, and let me be very clear.
[00:30:13]  And this is, and I, and by the way, what I'm saying is very provocative, intentionally so, because I know it's right.
[00:30:21]  You guys got to stop accepting all these California companies into Dallas.
[00:30:26]  Like, how many more ribbon companies?
[00:30:28]  I mean, what do you think?
[00:30:30]  Oh, well, it's going to help with GDP.
[00:30:32]  Enough, okay?
[00:30:33]  So property values go up for rich people in Tarrant County.
[00:30:35]  Then you bring in 45,000 communists to go do computer engineering in Dallas.
[00:30:40]  Is that going to make Texas more free?
[00:30:42]  If I have to look at one more social media post of a ribbon cutting with your governor of a tech firm, I'm going to lose it.
[00:30:48]  Like, stop inviting these companies to Texas.
[00:30:51]  Stop it.
[00:30:53]  And people say, well, it creates jobs.
[00:30:55]  Well, first of all, it creates jobs if you conform to their woke ideology.
[00:30:59]  That's number one.
[00:31:00]  Number two, it's going to destroy your local communities.
[00:31:02]  These people are like locusts, okay?
[00:31:04]  They don't all of a sudden like, oh, yeah, they're going to start wearing cowboy boots and like cowboy hats.
[00:31:08]  Like, no, they're going to come in, and all of a sudden, in your city council meetings and your school board meetings, you're going to have to have gender pronouns.
[00:31:15]  You're going to have soul cycle in every corner, and everyone's going to be vegan, and kale will be everywhere.
[00:31:20]  It's going to be awful, okay?
[00:31:21]  No, seriously.
[00:31:22]  And next thing you know, like, what happened in my Texas?
[00:31:24]  Like, when you were cutting the ribbon for Google to come to Dallas, that's what happened to your Texas.
[00:31:29]  And don't be surprised when all of a sudden, you're like, oh, yeah, Texas is a center for free enterprise.
[00:31:33]  And that's great.
[00:31:33]  Instead, why don't you start the next conservative Google here, governor of Texas, and stop ribbon cutting with whatever that is.
[00:31:41]  And again, I'm intentionally pushing the boundaries here because do you guys feel like Dallas is changing quickly?
[00:31:48]  Of course it is.
[00:31:50]  Because you're inviting this entire machine into your wonderful state.
[00:31:55]  Like, oh, we're going to change them.
[00:31:56]  Yeah, you should try.
[00:31:58]  But these people went to Berkeley.
[00:32:00]  Okay, it's not exactly minds for molding, okay?
[00:32:05]  And they're earning $600,000 a year to go work for some miserable company that brings in plastic from Wuhan or something.
[00:32:13]  Like, okay, fine, great.
[00:32:15]  Instead, we should be much more serious about what do we as conservatives stand for.
[00:32:21]  And what we stand for is strong, functioning, flourishing families, the rule of law, being able to speak your mind without fear of retribution, be able to own firearms and weapons if we so choose for our own protection.
[00:32:34]  And God forbid, if we ever have to use it against usurptatious government or corporate power, God forbid if that would ever happen.
[00:32:40]  And most importantly, out of all of it, we recognize that we're actually in a theological debate right now.
[00:32:46]  And we believe two things: that there is a God and you are not him.
[00:32:51]  It's that simple.
[00:32:54]  The tech people that you're bringing in from wherever Menlo Park don't believe that.
[00:33:01]  They're like, well, it depends what you mean by God.
[00:33:03]  I'm like, well, I might be him.
[00:33:05]  You know, if I am able to create myself into some Facebook oculus-wearing whatever that they're trying to do.
[00:33:11]  No, I mean, by the way, everything that the tech people are doing right now is literally trying to push against the laws of nature.
[00:33:17]  It's very sick and it's not healthy.
[00:33:21]  And Texas should be like, I read this.
[00:33:23]  It's like scripted by the Chamber of Commerce, who you guys, by the way, they're against all of your values, all of them.
[00:33:30]  And the criticism, someone would say, is, well, Charlie, you're anti-growth, and what about the local jobs and all this?
[00:33:35]  And I think that's fair.
[00:33:37]  The provocative way I would respond is: I don't care.
[00:33:41]  I think that the cost of always worshiping the dollar and economic growth at every single turn, while we have 52% divorce rates and 75% fatherlessness in the black community and 40,000 drug overdoses a year, maybe we should slow it down a little bit.
[00:33:59]  Like a little bit, right?
[00:34:01]  And that's, and this comes to the other part that Republicans are terrible.
[00:34:06]  By the way, if Republicans talked like this, we'd win every election by like 80%.
[00:34:10]  And it's not because it's just, I know this is popular.
[00:34:14]  Because what I just said right there, most Bernie Sanders people could agree with most of it.
[00:34:19]  And they're the only ones that talk about corporate criticism.
[00:34:22]  Their solution is to nationalize everything.
[00:34:24]  Their solution is to get rid of private property.
[00:34:27]  But there is an anxiety that's growing out there, isn't there?
[00:34:30]  Yeah, why do what happened to Harry's coffee shop?
[00:34:33]  Oh, lockdown destroyed him.
[00:34:35]  What happened to John's auto shop?
[00:34:37]  Well, not around anymore.
[00:34:39]  And somehow we just are supposed to accept the fact that 10 or 15 companies are going to rule everything.
[00:34:43]  Okay, and so then that's really what comes to this is that and we're stuck in this false debate, is really what I'm trying to say.
[00:34:49]  And I'm here to just liberate the American debate.
[00:34:52]  And I might be wrong on some of this, but if I got people talking about it, then that's the right thing to do, which is this false debate of like either we're going to live in Marxist Russia or Somali like capitalism is just a false paradigm.
[00:35:06]  We got to shred that apart.
[00:35:07]  Instead, it's, we have to say to the world what we stand for.
[00:35:10]  We want functioning and flourishing families.
[00:35:13]  We want to protect those that cannot protect themselves, especially in the womb.
[00:35:17]  We want to be able, we believe that we should be very clear about our goals.
[00:35:25]  We want church attendance to go up.
[00:35:28]  We want divorce rates to go down.
[00:35:30]  We want more young people to get married younger.
[00:35:33]  We want people to value their children's character more than whatever, you know, how many plastic packages you're getting every single year from Amazon.
[00:35:42]  And I'm just submitting a modest critique of commercial society.
[00:35:45]  I think commercial society can be very healthy, obviously, because you have innovations and products.
[00:35:51]  But we've been in this kind of very strange corporate prism, and it's time to break out of it.
[00:35:58]  And so what we're really in right now is a values debate in our country.
[00:36:02]  And that's one that we're going to win if we're unafraid to articulate it.
[00:36:06]  But this is where you come in, and you have to demand this out of your leaders.
[00:36:10]  And your leaders and your Republican leaders, because they're mostly funded by the corporate types, they're afraid to talk like this.
[00:36:16]  They're afraid that all of a sudden the Chamber of Commerce is not going to endorse, or whatever it is, right?
[00:36:21]  But this agenda, most Americans are looking for a political party to be able to articulate this.
[00:36:28]  And the other side is giving us a gift.
[00:36:31]  The other side is literally saying it's the most bigoted ideology imaginable.
[00:36:36]  Critical race theory, race matter.
[00:36:38]  Somehow race is like the most important thing.
[00:36:40]  I'm actually of the belief most people don't walk around every day just thinking about race, nor is that a healthy thing for our country.
[00:36:45]  Like, oh, I'm a white black.
[00:36:47]  Bigots do, okay?
[00:36:48]  I don't care about your race, about your character, okay?
[00:36:51]  I care about who you are as a person, not what you look like.
[00:36:53]  At least that's how I was raised and what we should tell every one of our young people.
[00:36:56]  Instead, we're telling them the opposite.
[00:36:58]  We're eight-year-olds are saying, you know, your race really matters a lot.
[00:37:00]  Well, really?
[00:37:01]  What kind of 15-year-old?
[00:37:02]  What kind of 30-year-old do you think that's going to lead to?
[00:37:05]  Probably a really dysfunctional society, which is exactly what they want.
[00:37:09]  They want the collision.
[00:37:10]  They want the conflict.
[00:37:11]  They want people to be torn apart.
[00:37:13]  They do not want to look at people's humanity.
[00:37:15]  They want to look at people's melanin content, which is inherently a bigoted way to view the world.
[00:37:20]  I actually think that's super unpopular.
[00:37:22]  I think that as it reveals itself, it's going to give all of us an opportunity to articulate exactly what we're for, and with it, the Republican Party.
[00:37:30]  And when we're given that chance again, if we're just the like anti-socialism party, it's not going to do it.
[00:37:37]  But if we're the party that's like, you know what?
[00:37:39]  Small businesses should have been the massive recipients of any sort of public policy decision over the last year, not corporate America.
[00:37:49]  And we should be unafraid to say that it's not a good thing when the wealthiest people are $600 billion richer.
[00:37:53]  That's not a good thing for the country.
[00:37:54]  So I want to get to some questions.
[00:37:57]  It's really, it's a really important conversation to have.
[00:38:00]  And I just want to say one or two other things on this, which is you guys matter more than you might think.
[00:38:06]  So one of the biggest lies ever told by the enemy whispering in your ear is that your action, your voice, does not matter.
[00:38:14]  Let me be very clear.
[00:38:15]  If every person in this room did one point of unified action a week, it would blow away a lawmaker, elected official, whatever, employee, whatever grant, you tell me what the right word is, okay?
[00:38:28]  Employee of the citizens.
[00:38:30]  How about that?
[00:38:30]  Okay, great.
[00:38:32]  It would blow them away.
[00:38:33]  You have more power than you might think.
[00:38:35]  And this lie of apathy that I'm trying to push back against lovingly, that I, Charlie, what can I actually do?
[00:38:42]  Does it actually matter?
[00:38:43]  Stop it.
[00:38:44]  All of it matters.
[00:38:45]  Your activism matters more than ever.
[00:38:48]  And the fact that we're able to draw 200 plus people when things look as bleak as they do right now is awesome.
[00:38:55]  And that should be the starting point.
[00:38:57]  And it goes the full gauntlet from how you educate your kids to contacting lawmakers to being unafraid to voice your opinions, all those sorts of things.
[00:39:04]  And then before you realize it starts to multiply into further action from people.
[00:39:09]  And this is something the left has been phenomenally good at is they've actually believed more than us that their action makes a difference.
[00:39:16]  Go figure.
[00:39:17]  They've believed it and they've been very, very dedicated at what success looks like.
[00:39:21]  And they've taken the education of our children very seriously.
[00:39:23]  We generally haven't.
[00:39:24]  We've kind of been just kind of indifferent.
[00:39:26]  I can give a whole spiel on college.
[00:39:28]  Happy to if you guys are interested in that because it's a whole different part of this.
[00:39:31]  But you guys matter more than you might think.
[00:39:34]  And so for every person out there, creating a specific action plan of, you know what, I am going to knock on doors.
[00:39:41]  I am going to support this great organization.
[00:39:43]  I am going to run for local office.
[00:39:45]  The precinct committee people, you know that half of precinct committee positions are empty in the Republican Party nationwide.
[00:39:52]  Empty.
[00:39:53]  Half empty.
[00:39:54]  Now, you might not know what a precinct committee position is.
[00:39:56]  Just you're in charge of getting your neighborhood out to vote when it comes to election day.
[00:40:00]  That's it.
[00:40:01]  It's usually three or four blocks at most.
[00:40:03]  It could be as low as one block as big as 10 blocks.
[00:40:05]  And you get materials from your local county party because you guys have a great Dallas County party that I know.
[00:40:11]  And I know some people that help run that.
[00:40:13]  And you get your materials and you go knock on the doors and you say, you know what?
[00:40:17]  I know these people are going to go vote and you're responsible for that.
[00:40:20]  What if every person here went and signed up to be a precinct committee person?
[00:40:22]  It's not a lot of work.
[00:40:24]  It's the minimum amount.
[00:40:26]  So before we say we've exhausted all options, Charlie, really half of precinct committee positions nationwide in the Republican Party are vacant.
[00:40:34]  Democrats have 80% full.
[00:40:36]  So they just want it more than us.
[00:40:39]  And now they also have the teacher unions and local labor, so it kind of helps.
[00:40:43]  But that's a really easy action step.
[00:40:45]  You say, well, how do I do that?
[00:40:46]  I guarantee you there's people here that can help you sign up for precinct committee positions, right?
[00:40:50]  Guarantee it.
[00:40:51]  But I'm going to be very honest with you.
[00:40:52]  Being a precinct committee person is hard in one sense.
[00:40:54]  You're going to have to talk to your neighbors about politics.
[00:40:58]  Stuff, I know.
[00:40:59]  It's like, I'm, Charlie, I'm on board for everything except that.
[00:41:02]  Like, okay.
[00:41:04]  But the Democrats are unafraid to go wear four masks with a BLM Incorporated sign and knock on your door and say, you know, please, they do that with bold conviction.
[00:41:16]  And the one thing, and they harvest ballots and all that, and I will tell you one other piece of advice: the fear that you have in your head of the potential retribution and backlash, the fear is far, it's actually not even close to actually how good those conversations can go.
[00:41:32]  And so dismiss that fear in that sense.
[00:41:35]  And so I want to do some questions.
[00:41:39]  This is a very exciting time because there's a new energy that's all of a sudden flowing through the conservative movement, and we owe Trump a lot of thanks to that.
[00:41:46]  We're having real discussions about real things finally, as we just talked about here, where it's not just vote for us because we're not the other side.
[00:41:54]  And by the way, that could have been my speech tonight.
[00:41:56]  When I go to college campuses, that's mostly what I focus on because you have to deprogram these people from all the nonsense garbage that they're losing, you know, critical race theory and everything's racist and climate change is getting on the earth and the plan.
[00:42:07]  Okay, got it.
[00:42:09]  We could talk about that if you want to, but you're already converted.
[00:42:11]  So I don't have to tell you how bad the left is.
[00:42:12]  Instead, I'm here to tell you how bad the right is.
[00:42:15]  And that's a harder conversation sometimes to have, but a more necessary one.
[00:42:19]  And if we have that specific pro-family, pro-person agenda, I'm telling you right now, you win every single election in the landslide.
[00:42:26]  And then you say, you know what?
[00:42:27]  I have guiding principles, but I have priorities.
[00:42:31]  And I'm going to put my priorities first.
[00:42:32]  And when I see those priorities start to be challenged, then I'm going to put those always first, including the nation, our home, our family, and of course, our rights as human beings.
[00:42:42]  And so I'm thrilled to be in this right now because if we do what we're supposed to do, we're not just going to win a little bit.
[00:42:49]  We're going to win huge, massive, by 70 to 80%.
[00:42:52]  Now, we could screw it up because Republicans are experts at that.
[00:42:55]  Like, phenomenal.
[00:42:56]  Like, we actually specialize in messing things up.
[00:42:59]  And I could give you 50 different ways that we could screw this up.
[00:43:03]  But if we don't massively screw it up, we're going to win the midterms decisively.
[00:43:07]  And this agenda will be a forefront agenda.
[00:43:10]  And the Democrats won't know how to counter it.
[00:43:13]  And I think that it's a really phenomenal opportunity for all of us.
[00:43:18]  Okay, you want to do some questions, Carol?
[00:43:20]  Is that okay?
[00:43:21]  Okay, great.
[00:43:27]  Charlie, thank you for being here.
[00:43:29]  Really appreciate you having this opportunity.
[00:43:32]  My question really is around the outreach to the minority community.
[00:43:36]  You're seeing a lot of minorities who are now starting to come out and really understand what's really going on.
[00:43:41]  Me and my brother debate quite a bit about the historical nature of the Democratic Party, what they've done, how they've impacted the minority, particularly black communities, in a very, very negative night.
[00:43:52]  I grew up in Compton and Watts, California.
[00:43:54]  I grew up doing the gang eras, lost a lot of family members.
[00:43:58]  I lost and seen the death of so many things happen.
[00:44:02]  What I've also noticed is the miscommunication steps that the Republican Party has done to the minority community.
[00:44:10]  They've never done a great job of saying, look, let me explain to you what welfare does.
[00:44:15]  Let me explain to you what drugs do in your community.
[00:44:17]  The question is, is how do we get the word really out?
[00:44:20]  How do we get them to understand and know, like, look, these people are not your friends.
[00:44:24]  They have been your enemies for decades.
[00:44:27]  They've destroyed your community.
[00:44:28]  They've destroyed your families.
[00:44:30]  They destroyed your businesses.
[00:44:31]  They destroyed everything in, and they continue to move forward.
[00:44:34]  It's a great point.
[00:44:34]  And look, Republicans have to show up, and I think you would agree with that.
[00:44:37]  And Republicans don't do that enough.
[00:44:40]  The biggest fear that dominates American politics today, almost every single public policy decision on the Republican side is either made or not made, and more so in culture, out of fear of being called a racist.
[00:44:51]  It is the most powerful tool in American politics.
[00:44:54]  And so I get called that every single day by the activist media.
[00:44:58]  So I just say whatever I want.
[00:44:59]  So I really don't care.
[00:45:01]  And you guys shouldn't either, because that word, unfortunately, has lost all of its meaning because there are literal racists in the world.
[00:45:07]  And now we're all getting like grouped together.
[00:45:09]  Every human being on the center right gets grouped together with the most disgusting people you can imagine, which is too bad because there's no nuance and no precision in that.
[00:45:19]  But look, what you also say is absolutely true.
[00:45:22]  And Candace Owens, who worked with us for years, a couple years at Turning Point USA, she does an amazing job.
[00:45:29]  My friend Rita and I have got to know Candace very well.
[00:45:33]  And Candace was our communications director at Turning Point USA.
[00:45:37]  We had a lot of fun on college campus, as I can tell you.
[00:45:40]  She talks about the most important need, in her estimation, is getting the truth out about how the Democrat Party has never changed.
[00:45:47]  They've just changed their tactics.
[00:45:49]  So the Democrat Party went from the plantation to intimidation to entitlement.
[00:45:56]  Same sort of mentality of controlling people, just changing the method that they went about it.
[00:46:01]  And look, it's not going to happen overnight.
[00:46:05]  Trump made massive gains in the black community, but I have a contrarian view here.
[00:46:10]  And I think that the corporate agenda towards Republicans, that Republicans have had, is why we are not able to win more black voters.
[00:46:18]  Let me give you an example.
[00:46:19]  If a Republican went into the black community and talked seriously about the value of church, pro-life, rebuilding the American family, and saying the most impacted communities when it came to the manufacturing decay was the black community.
[00:46:35]  So we shut down all these manufacturing plants, and some of these manufacturing plants had 30 to 40% of their workers as black workers, which was a multiple of their proportion of the population.
[00:46:46]  And so when you shut down these manufacturing plants, the displacement largely targeted minority communities.
[00:46:52]  And so I look at Turning Point USA, we do a black leadership summit.
[00:46:55]  We have our Hispanic Latino leadership summit coming up in April.
[00:47:00]  So if there's anyone that wants to attend that, it's going to be phenomenal.
[00:47:03]  And so we're trying to lead by example in that regard.
[00:47:06]  And I've been, and one thing, it's so funny, Donald Trump got attacked by every way.
[00:47:11]  No person has ever been called a racist more than Donald Trump.
[00:47:14]  I think that's probably a fair thing, right?
[00:47:16]  Even more than David Duke, which is so unfair if you actually think about it.
[00:47:20]  And he did historically well with black and Hispanic voters.
[00:47:25]  In fact, we were competing in the Rio Grande Valley, as you well know, in seats that we've never gotten even close to thanks to that.
[00:47:32]  Now, why was Trump able to resonate with those voters?
[00:47:35]  Well, first of all, he had a no-BS, authentic way of speaking.
[00:47:39]  And I know this from a lot of Hispanic people on our staff.
[00:47:44]  And they said, Charlie, in the Hispanic community, you guys could correct me if I'm wrong, you must go with the heart first and then with the head.
[00:47:49]  You must be emotional.
[00:47:50]  I think you would probably agree with that.
[00:47:52]  And Trump, he was a performer at heart, right?
[00:47:54]  And he was able to all talk about that.
[00:47:57]  Strict immigration too, the border wall was a very big thing.
[00:47:59]  And then also, finally, he was able to diagnose the threat of socialism, which so many Hispanic families in South Florida, especially, which is a very different culture, and we should be very careful, you know, conflating them, have lived through.
[00:48:12]  And so, what I'm saying, though, is there's actually a movement in that direction, believe it or not.
[00:48:15]  That I believe firmly, the paradigm that I've always talked about is: here's the, everyone says America's so divided.
[00:48:21]  I'm like, let me tell you who's actually the divide is here.
[00:48:24]  The divide is between the Zoom and the Skype class and the muscular class.
[00:48:29]  You know who the muscular class is?
[00:48:30]  The amazing people right now that are helping us eat our dinner.
[00:48:33]  We should give it up for the people that work.
[00:48:34]  And it really is.
[00:48:36]  And so the people that are wonderfully serving us dinner and preparing dinner, they have to wear a mask.
[00:48:45]  They work so hard.
[00:48:47]  They want to work.
[00:48:48]  As soon as the American economy reopened, they want to be back doing this.
[00:48:54]  The muscular class has been punished.
[00:48:56]  And you know who is in the muscular class the most?
[00:48:59]  Black and Hispanic families.
[00:49:01]  They have the highest representation in the muscular class in our country.
[00:49:05]  Do you guys know what I mean by the muscular class?
[00:49:07]  I say that, some people don't understand it.
[00:49:08]  They work with their hands.
[00:49:09]  They work at their, they don't just open up a laptop two minutes before work starts and they're able to zoom in every day, which is fine if you're part of the, I'm part of the Zoom class.
[00:49:17]  I fully admit it.
[00:49:17]  I get it.
[00:49:18]  But we have just, our whole economy, from the truck drivers to the people that offloaded and unloaded trucks to the delivery people, we just ignored that whole portion of the American society and acted as if these things happen naturally.
[00:49:31]  Trump gave them a voice for the first time in a long time.
[00:49:34]  And we have to also say that the rise in automation in our country is going to come at a cost.
[00:49:41]  We're going to be able to get products cheaper.
[00:49:43]  We're going to be able to get products there faster.
[00:49:45]  We also could potentially disenfranchise 40, 50, or 60 million people.
[00:49:50]  And that's something that really we must get very serious about.
[00:49:53]  So I'm actually really optimistic about our chances, but currently Republicans are massively screwing it up.
[00:49:57]  Why?
[00:49:58]  Because they go back to the corporate agenda, right, Grant?
[00:50:00]  They go back to open borders.
[00:50:01]  They go back to what does the Chamber of Commerce want.
[00:50:04]  And if I may talk about immigration a little bit further, this is the one issue that the Democrats and the Republicans can agree on, the establishment types.
[00:50:11]  Democrats want open borders.
[00:50:13]  Why?
[00:50:13]  Because the 3,000 young men at Kay Bailey Hutchinson Center are future voters.
[00:50:18]  Republicans want open borders.
[00:50:20]  Why?
[00:50:20]  That's cheap labor to bring down wages so you don't have to pay Americans black families higher wages.
[00:50:27]  So Republicans have done a deal with the devil where they're like, you know, instead of paying black workers $18, $19, $20 an hour, let's get the black families on welfare, and then we'll bring in illegals and we'll pay them $10 an hour.
[00:50:40]  And that's been awful for every single community in America.
[00:50:44]  And yes, prices will go up a little bit.
[00:50:47]  And I'm not, I know, I know economics, a wonderful woman running for mayor from Plano.
[00:50:52]  I've read all the same books.
[00:50:53]  I get it.
[00:50:53]  What I'm saying, though, is that a small price adjustment so we might have a little pay a little bit more with rising wages and flourishing families is a trade-off I am willing to accept.
[00:51:03]  And that is something that we must say.
[00:51:05]  We've gone way too far in the other direction.
[00:51:07]  And I believe firmly that minority families want to work, they want to actually see their lives improve.
[00:51:14]  And when given the option, they can do that.
[00:51:16]  And school choice is also another very successful issue.
[00:51:19]  Okay, I took way too long on that question, but it was worth it.
[00:51:21]  It was terrific.
[00:51:22]  Okay.
[00:51:24]  Thank you so much for coming down here today.
[00:51:28]  Hello.
[00:51:29]  Yeah.
[00:51:29]  Thank you so much for coming down here tonight.
[00:51:32]  One of the things that I find most troubling is that the left has imposed this idea on everyone, especially corporations, that we have to be as politically correct as we can.
[00:51:43]  You know, sorry.
[00:51:45]  And so my question to you tonight is, how do we stray away from this idea that we have to be politically correct no matter what our opinions are?
[00:51:58]  Yeah, that's a great question.
[00:51:59]  And so, mind you, the political correct thing only works in one direction.
[00:52:03]  They could say whatever they want about us, no matter.
[00:52:05]  I mean, you have the talentless Kathy Griffin who has a decapitated head of Donald Trump, and she keeps her career.
[00:52:12]  Snoop Dogg is allowed to show himself shooting Trump.
[00:52:14]  Madonna says she wants to blow up the White House.
[00:52:17]  But if you dare make an off-color joke from 20 years ago, your entire life is over.
[00:52:23]  And so how do we push back against it?
[00:52:25]  Number one, you must make the left live up to their own rules.
[00:52:28]  And so if they're all of a sudden going to be the political correct police, then we must say, oh, wait a second.
[00:52:32]  And we could do it kind of lovingly and jokingly.
[00:52:34]  But why haven't you fired this person for obviously violating your own set of rules?
[00:52:37]  That's number one.
[00:52:39]  Number two, I believe political correctness is one of the top, the biggest threats of tyranny in our country.
[00:52:44]  And it is so unbelievably dangerous.
[00:52:48]  And where does this come from?
[00:52:50]  Where does political correctness?
[00:52:51]  You should ask that, where did political correctness come from?
[00:52:53]  It came from the universities.
[00:52:56]  What happens on college campuses does not stay on college campuses.
[00:52:59]  It will go on the halls of Congress and in corporate boardrooms and the rest of our culture.
[00:53:03]  College campuses are destroying our country.
[00:53:05]  And that's the, should be the title of my next book, actually.
[00:53:09]  It's close to that.
[00:53:10]  It's way more provocative, basically telling young people they shouldn't go to college.
[00:53:14]  Happy to talk about that if people want to before the parents say that my time is up.
[00:53:18]  But the, and I can make the, I could actually probably convince half the room, the other half would still think I'm wrong.
[00:53:23]  But these campuses have an out, we basically have turned our entire country into a college campus is what we've done.
[00:53:28]  Our entire country had been taken over by the college, by college campuses, where these corporations are basically part of the woke industrial complex.
[00:53:36]  And so how do we push back against political correctness?
[00:53:39]  Here's an action item for you.
[00:53:40]  The next time a family member, a friend, a neighbor, a business leader gets targeted for cancellation, go stand up for that person, please.
[00:53:51]  Just like, please, unless it's something that like they were actually part of the KKK when they were growing up, and they might, please defend them, okay?
[00:53:59]  I'm giving that asterisk because I got to see the New York Times.
[00:54:01]  Charlie Kirk, you know, says defend people at all costs.
[00:54:03]  Okay.
[00:54:05]  You know what I'm saying?
[00:54:06]  Please defend the silence from conservatives.
[00:54:09]  Like, oh, I guess that's kind of bad.
[00:54:10]  Like, stop it.
[00:54:11]  If they say that, and they don't even have to, they owe you no apology.
[00:54:15]  That's the other thing, too.
[00:54:16]  Like, oh, they haven't apologized.
[00:54:17]  Like, why do they owe you an apology?
[00:54:19]  30 years ago, he made a bad joke.
[00:54:21]  So what?
[00:54:21]  He didn't make it to you.
[00:54:23]  He doesn't owe you an apology.
[00:54:26]  If he says he's moved on from and he's matured, that should be perfectly sufficient.
[00:54:29]  I'm so sorry.
[00:54:30]  They want an apology because they want submission.
[00:54:33]  Cancel culture only works because we've allowed it to work.
[00:54:36]  Now, the people that push back against it, the ultimate person who never allowed himself to be canceled is Donald Trump.
[00:54:43]  He's just like, yep, I'm just going to keep on going to work and keep completely unfazed by threats to destroy, like completely, you know, not allowing him ever to get touched by that.
[00:54:52]  And so what we call cancel culture is only going to stop when we say no more.
[00:54:57]  We're not going to allow you to do this anymore.
[00:54:59]  We're not going to allow you to expel members from Congress.
[00:55:02]  We're not going to allow you just to kick people off.
[00:55:04]  It's not going to happen.
[00:55:05]  And we've tolerated it for far too long.
[00:55:07]  And they prey on our best instincts.
[00:55:08]  Like, oh, well, you know, we're more woke enlightened people.
[00:55:12]  Like, oh, you're not.
[00:55:12]  You're a bigot.
[00:55:13]  And you don't want other people to agree with you.
[00:55:15]  And you just want power.
[00:55:16]  That's all you want.
[00:55:17]  You just want to destroy everyone in your conquest for power.
[00:55:20]  And so we have to do everything we possibly can to draw the lines around that, most definitely.
[00:55:24]  Okay, next question.
[00:55:26]  Hey, thanks for coming tonight.
[00:55:28]  I've listened to you a lot.
[00:55:29]  I used to listen to you on Fox a lot.
[00:55:30]  I don't watch Fox anymore because of election night, but it's good to turn me on to Grant.
[00:55:34]  And I love your show.
[00:55:35]  Thank you.
[00:55:36]  I agree with most everything you said tonight.
[00:55:39]  There's one thing I'd like to take issue with a little bit.
[00:55:41]  And it's something that a lot of people on your level who have kind of dismissed election night and this whole election.
[00:55:49]  And we're not going to go fix it.
[00:55:51]  I know I'm a lawyer and I deal in Discovery.
[00:55:53]  You can't prove that stuff.
[00:55:53]  You can't prove it in four months.
[00:55:55]  It's never going to happen.
[00:55:56]  If there was fraud, if there was fake ballots.
[00:55:59]  But we all sat at 1045 here in Dallas-Fort Worth.
[00:56:02]  We watched the election.
[00:56:03]  I've watched the last four elections.
[00:56:04]  We saw 1045 Trump with seven to one, Vegas-odd, European, Vegas odds.
[00:56:08]  Those things are never wrong.
[00:56:10]  And then we watched six counties, the ones they targeted.
[00:56:13]  They knew they could flip those.
[00:56:14]  They knew they were turning in their votes last.
[00:56:16]  We saw them all simultaneously stop counting.
[00:56:19]  And then everyone here knows what happened.
[00:56:22]  And then we watched these people come forward and tell us about all these other little, all their testimony from the states and everything.
[00:56:29]  But I think in Georgia, it doesn't matter what Leffler and Purdue said.
[00:56:33]  I said on election night, if they don't change what happened there with the mail and COVID ballots and getting away with those targeted areas, they can flip the states, those big metropolitan counties.
[00:56:44]  And nobody talks about it.
[00:56:45]  And you say, okay, we can get out, we can vote.
[00:56:47]  But people are logical thinkers.
[00:56:50]  But let me push back.
[00:56:50]  700,000 people didn't show up that were Trump voters.
[00:56:53]  700,000, they didn't show up.
[00:56:55]  So they didn't shred 700,000 ballots.
[00:56:58]  That's the point.
[00:56:59]  Okay, that's fine.
[00:57:00]  But they have more than one way of cheating.
[00:57:03]  It wasn't, oh, we'll cheat in this way.
[00:57:04]  They had the whole shit, but they were not going to let Trump win.
[00:57:06]  I hear you, but your view is too cynical for me.
[00:57:08]  I think that they cheat, of course.
[00:57:11]  I've done 50 podcasts on it.
[00:57:13]  They cheat on the margins.
[00:57:14]  We won races in these states in certain districts that they thought they were going to.
[00:57:20]  The point is they didn't cheat everywhere.
[00:57:21]  They cheated in very targeted areas.
[00:57:23]  So you believe we won Florida, right?
[00:57:25]  Yeah.
[00:57:25]  Okay, so we won Florida.
[00:57:26]  They didn't cheat there.
[00:57:27]  How about Texas?
[00:57:28]  No, that's the point.
[00:57:29]  It's like, if you think it's like all broken everywhere, it's not true.
[00:57:33]  Why didn't they stop counting in Florida, in Texas, in Cleveland, and other big states?
[00:57:36]  Why do they only stop the stop county?
[00:57:39]  I can't get past the stop counting at 1045 and all this.
[00:57:41]  No, I hear you.
[00:57:42]  No, and I actually agree with you that this was interfered with.
[00:57:45]  But the Georgia runoff, we lost largely because 700,000 rural Trump supporters stayed at home.
[00:57:52]  700,000.
[00:57:54]  And I hear you.
[00:57:54]  Like, I went out of my way to go, and I'm not trying to be adversarial, right?
[00:57:58]  Like, if you'd like, you know, I'm going to validate your argument here.
[00:58:03]  What we witnessed this last election, we can never allow happen again.
[00:58:06]  Whether we're going to reform it or not, I don't know.
[00:58:10]  But, and let me platform this.
[00:58:12]  Like, and so I'm going to agree with you on this.
[00:58:15]  And I've done a ton of, I haven't been like some of these other guys that have been silent on this.
[00:58:19]  We've had the guests, we've had Mike Lindella, and he's fun, on our podcast.
[00:58:24]  And I'm less convinced on the machines, to be honest with you.
[00:58:28]  I'm more convinced on the signature verification, the ballots, and you probably agree, right?
[00:58:33]  And so the ballot drops in the middle of the night.
[00:58:36]  And here's the best argument I have for it, is the fact that we had a record number of mail-in ballots.
[00:58:42]  We don't know how they were counted.
[00:58:44]  We don't know the standards that were used to count them and the signature verification.
[00:58:48]  And we had these ballot drop boxes in these certain counties where we don't know who was putting the ballots in them.
[00:58:53]  They're using places like ballot harvesting.
[00:58:55]  So Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, they either have Democrat governors or weak governors, right?
[00:59:03]  And so that's what they have in common.
[00:59:04]  And they had legislators that did not step up and make the changes.
[00:59:07]  So I'll totally agree with you.
[00:59:09]  I'm just saying that on the Georgia runoff, we were right there.
[00:59:12]  And here's why.
[00:59:12]  Let me tell you why.
[00:59:13]  David Perdue won on election night that you're talking about.
[00:59:18]  He just barely narrowly got below the threshold.
[00:59:21]  The point is that we had the maxim to get, we had the voters to get there.
[00:59:25]  They didn't stay at home.
[00:59:26]  I think It was multifaceted, and I hear you completely.
[00:59:33]  But I also, my other argument, though, is that I'm not doing my job if I only talk about election integrity and I don't talk about other things that we can fix.
[00:59:42]  Because then, then I'm saying, then everyone's like, well, we got no choice except like, no, we made other mistakes as well.
[00:59:48]  So I'll agree, and I'll say this: we lost Georgia for a variety of reasons: bad candidates, bad messaging, poor election practices, mail-in voting, and a weak governor.
[00:59:57]  I think we can both agree on that.
[00:59:58]  Okay, cool.
[00:59:59]  Great.
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