The Charlie Kirk Show - Exposing the Inherent Child Abuse Caused by the Chinese Coronavirus
Aired: 2021-05-20
Duration: 35:31

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[00:00:25]  Hey everybody, child abuse is occurring in our schools and it's time to start fighting back against it.
[00:00:30]  And what does the Constitution tell us about a time like this?
[00:00:33]  We talk about Senator Raphael Warnock and explore that together.
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[00:01:11]  Buckle up, everybody, here we go.
[00:01:13]  Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
[00:01:15]  Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
[00:01:17]  I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
[00:01:20]  Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
[00:01:24]  I want to thank Charlie.
[00:01:25]  He's an incredible guy.
[00:01:26]  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.
[00:01:34]  We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
[00:01:43]  That's why we are here.
[00:01:45]  All right.
[00:01:46]  We might commit a thought crime here.
[00:01:48]  That's the warning.
[00:01:50]  What is child abuse?
[00:01:53]  According to childhelp.org, child abuse is when a parent or caregiver, whether through action or failing to act, causes injury, death, or emotional harm or risk of serious harm to a child.
[00:02:04]  There are many forms of child maltreatment, including neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and exploitation, and emotional abuse.
[00:02:12]  So there's a lot there, but it's not very specific.
[00:02:16]  So is it child abuse to force a 10-year-old to wear a mask, which dehumanizes them, is very uncomfortable, has very little to no medical utility for the 10-year-old itself for a virus that they are not at risk of dying from, large risk of dying from.
[00:02:36]  Significant risk, I should say.
[00:02:37]  Is that child abuse?
[00:02:39]  At what point does it become child abuse?
[00:02:43]  Well, this is what a mature society would be talking about.
[00:02:45]  Instead of trying to mandate that a child has walk around with a piece of cloth all the time, we'd be asking a very mature question, what is the risk?
[00:02:56]  What is the cost?
[00:02:57]  And are there going to be any long-term damaging effects because of this?
[00:03:05]  So parents have basically, in my opinion, failed this test.
[00:03:12]  Some have spoken out.
[00:03:13]  Some have decided to organize.
[00:03:15]  Most parents are far too agreeable, and they have allowed their children to be abused by society and their schools.
[00:03:23]  So some children are now speaking out.
[00:03:25]  10-year-olds.
[00:03:26]  This one young man, I guess you could call him that, he's a kid, he's 10 years old, by the name of John Provenzano.
[00:03:32]  You probably saw him on Tucker Carlson.
[00:03:35]  Tucker has a phenomenal show.
[00:03:37]  Who's now speaking out against these mask mandates?
[00:03:39]  Again, he is 10 years old.
[00:03:41]  And there is more wisdom of this 10-year-old from this 10-year-old than almost every single teacher, school board member, or quite honestly, most parents across the country.
[00:03:51]  Play cut 57.
[00:03:53]  If the parents aren't speaking out, then the 10-year-olds will save us.
[00:03:56]  Cut 57.
[00:03:57]  One teacher walks around with a clipboard full of referrals for any student whose mask isn't on promptly.
[00:04:03]  It makes me feel scared.
[00:04:04]  That same teacher yells at us having our mask-bounded drink of water while we are outside in Carlin.
[00:04:10]  She told us we had to wait until we were in our parents' car to have a drink of water.
[00:04:15]  And it seems unfair teachers take their masks off while they yell at us kids and that we need to pull ours up.
[00:04:24]  I asked my mom if there is a word for this and she said there is hypocrisy.
[00:04:33]  I asked my mom if there's a word for this and she said there was hypocrisy.
[00:04:38]  Now I'll get into the root of what the Greek word hypocrite means, but I want to finish the point because it's actually a very important point.
[00:04:46]  So John Provenzano on Tucker was saying that basically he was getting anxiety for this clipboard enforcing micro-tyrant, which is a term we coined here on the Charlie Kirk show.
[00:05:00]  We coined together.
[00:05:01]  The audience responded very favorably.
[00:05:03]  And basically, when you have rules, you need rule enforcers.
[00:05:07]  And then you need subjects, not citizens.
[00:05:11]  So instead of going to school to learn, to be fulfilled, to pursue truth and be enlightened, John Provenzano and 10-year-olds across the country are being treated, maltreated, and abused by the people that have been tasked to care for them.
[00:05:29]  And where the parents are, I don't know.
[00:05:31]  But the 10-year-olds are speaking out because they have far more wisdom and courage than most parents do.
[00:05:37]  CUD 58.
[00:05:39]  You said later in your talk, and we didn't play it, but it was, I thought the most poignant part, you said, you saw one of your teachers outside of school and she didn't recognize you.
[00:05:49]  She didn't know what you look like.
[00:05:52]  So she's actually never seen me or any of my classmates' faces before.
[00:05:58]  So when I bumped into her at a school, I said, oh, hi.
[00:06:04]  And she's like, oh, wait, that's you?
[00:06:08]  And I'm like, oh, yeah, that is me.
[00:06:13]  And she's like, oh, hi, John.
[00:06:14]  I really don't see your face because all I see is just your eyes.
[00:06:19]  That's sick.
[00:06:21]  That's child abuse.
[00:06:24]  I spoke out for years against the Muslim burqa at great cost and all the activists coming up because I think it's dehumanizing to women.
[00:06:32]  I think God gave us a face.
[00:06:34]  A face is a unique way to tell people's feelings, emotions, the spirit and the soul manifest on the face.
[00:06:42]  And we're able to communicate, connect, and love one another better when you're able to see faces.
[00:06:50]  We have said, we have read the Aristotle quote many times here that tyrants seek to make citizens unfamiliar with one another.
[00:07:00]  That is the goal of the tyrant, to make one citizen distrustful of one another.
[00:07:05]  And John Provenzano, the 10-year-old on Tucker Carlson, says it best.
[00:07:10]  How can you know me?
[00:07:12]  How can you teach me if you can't even see my face?
[00:07:18]  John Provenzano, 10-year-old on Tucker, said his teacher doesn't even know what he looks like.
[00:07:24]  And you heard in his quote, oh, almost a sulking attitude.
[00:07:28]  And there's so much wisdom in what he's saying, but he's basically like, you're not teaching me.
[00:07:34]  You're not connecting with me.
[00:07:36]  Remember, education comes from the Latin word to lead forth.
[00:07:39]  How can you lead forth children if you don't know what they look like?
[00:07:44]  If they're nothing more than widgets and automatons to be tyrannized.
[00:07:51]  So hypocrisy comes from a Greek word, hippocresis, Which actually means play acting, acting out, or coward.
[00:08:05]  I actually like going back to the Greek because it's actually this is where these words stemmed from.
[00:08:09]  So we have that word hypocrite, and usually we say hypocrite is one person who says one thing or does another.
[00:08:14]  I like a play acting, jealous coward.
[00:08:20]  That's who these teachers are that go around enforcing these ridiculous mask mandates for kids that don't need to wear them.
[00:08:27]  They don't.
[00:08:27]  It's child abuse.
[00:08:29]  You are going to see increases in pharmaceutical prescriptions, suicide, emotional damage, social isolation, self-confidence issues.
[00:08:42]  All because some hall-modering, monitoring, low-IQ tyrant that has a teaching certificate is going around like the Gestapo.
[00:08:54]  And if parents aren't going to stand up and do anything, and some are, I mean, some parents are going to school board meetings and they're starting to speak out, but it is nowhere near the outrage that I would have thought.
[00:09:05]  It is nowhere near the sort of standing up for the innocent, which is literally children that I would have anticipated.
[00:09:18]  I went to a grocery store recently, and producer Connor had a very similar example of this.
[00:09:24]  And two and three-year-olds look at you when you don't wear a mask as if there's something wrong with you.
[00:09:31]  There's a lot of truth there, of course, because what better way to break a bond between a parent and a child than insert the state and dehumanize that child to make them feel as if they have no individuality and they're nothing like them.
[00:09:49]  You are nothing more than a cog in the machine.
[00:09:52]  There is a whole generation of toddlers who are going to think that mask wearing is the norm.
[00:09:58]  They'll never appreciate the impact of a smile or a kind expression from a stranger because they're being trained to live behind this conformity shield.
[00:10:10]  We are training a generation that will be phenomenal at obeying whatever they are told.
[00:10:18]  It makes a perfect generation for power-hungry leftists.
[00:10:26]  I don't know where the parents are.
[00:10:28]  I'm still looking.
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[00:11:26]  It fascinates me as I watch our republic be blitzkrieged by these collectivist authoritarians.
[00:11:36]  I'm still trying to make sense of it, why so many decent Americans are allowing this to happen.
[00:11:42]  Almost all of the tragedy of the 20th century is starting to make sense.
[00:11:46]  And if you think you're any better person than anyone in the 20th century and you're not doing something about what is happening to our children right now, spare me.
[00:11:57]  Our children are being abused by our taxpayer dollars in real time.
[00:12:02]  And something we talk about quite often at Turning Point USA is our broken government school system and why parents continue to send their kids to those schools.
[00:12:13]  I suppose it's only out of financial necessity.
[00:12:15]  There is no other reason to do that.
[00:12:18]  So there's a new video that has come out, Poinette High School in Wisconsin.
[00:12:21]  This is the sort of imbecile and maniac that is teaching your children.
[00:12:27]  This person should not be allowed to flip burgers at a Wendy's, let alone be in charge and tasked with educating children.
[00:12:39]  Play Cut 72.
[00:12:42]  I don't care if you're vaccinated, you little dick.
[00:12:45]  Okay.
[00:12:46]  I don't want to get sick and die.
[00:12:49]  Okay.
[00:12:49]  There's other people you can infect just because you're vaccinated.
[00:12:52]  You know what?
[00:12:53]  You're not a special person around here.
[00:12:56]  You should hear about how everybody talks about you.
[00:12:58]  You're a jerk.
[00:13:00]  You're a jerk.
[00:13:02]  Okay.
[00:13:03]  And you need to have respect for other people in your life.
[00:13:06]  I do.
[00:13:07]  You're not a big man on campus.
[00:13:10]  That's a teacher.
[00:13:12]  You're not a special person.
[00:13:14]  You're not like me.
[00:13:16]  You're not a teacher.
[00:13:17]  Now, to give her some credit, I can see why she's worried.
[00:13:21]  She's a very big person.
[00:13:22]  And I think if she got the virus, she'd be in the risk category.
[00:13:25]  So I think that there's some truth to that.
[00:13:28]  I think that she should make some different life decisions.
[00:13:30]  I mean, she's basically a house.
[00:13:32]  And that shouldn't be the kid's problem.
[00:13:35]  He's fully vaccinated.
[00:13:37]  And he's like, why do I have to wear a mask?
[00:13:39]  And she starts berating him.
[00:13:43]  You hear how the teacher was talking to him?
[00:13:45]  The tone?
[00:13:46]  That is a government-funded, taxpayer-funded teacher that thinks it's now fully acceptable and fine to scream and say, you know how everyone talks about you?
[00:13:57]  Who's the bully in this situation?
[00:13:59]  I have long said that the bullying crisis in America is teachers bullying kids.
[00:14:05]  It's not kids bullying kids.
[00:14:07]  It's teachers bullying kids.
[00:14:10]  I'm going to play another cut from the John Provenzano interview.
[00:14:14]  Tucker Carlson asks John Provenzano if teachers ever explain the science, and he said no, cut 59.
[00:14:23]  Do they ever explain the science to you?
[00:14:26]  No.
[00:14:26]  They just simply tell us, just wear it.
[00:14:29]  It keeps you safe.
[00:14:31]  Just wear it.
[00:14:32]  That's all they tell us.
[00:14:33]  They yell at you?
[00:14:35]  What do they say when they yell at you?
[00:14:36]  Sometimes.
[00:14:38]  Oh, they literally say, I'm done.
[00:14:41]  Put your masks on because you're being disrespectful to all of us teachers who have to work really hard.
[00:14:48]  And I'm like, we're also working hard too.
[00:14:52]  It's almost 100 degrees outside, wearing cloth masks, and you expect us not to be hot and complain.
[00:15:04]  It's just insanity.
[00:15:08]  It's just insanity.
[00:15:11]  And the reason why you have a 10-year-old telling something is insane is because the guardians of our society are nowhere to be found.
[00:15:20]  A civilization will no longer be able to exist if the people who have been around, who should have wisdom, knowledge of things that never change, eternal knowledge, not practical knowledge.
[00:15:34]  A civilization will Be smashed into millions of pieces if the guardians do not take care of the most precious resource imaginable, which is the children.
[00:15:48]  And so that's why a 10-year-old is going on Tucker Carlson.
[00:15:52]  I don't know if the school board member where John Provenzano goes to school cares or not, but they likely don't.
[00:15:58]  These school board members are mostly cowards and spineless activists and the typical kind of corporate types that don't care about their nation but only care about short-term profit maximization.
[00:16:13]  There's something very serious here.
[00:16:16]  And it bothers me on a personal level.
[00:16:20]  And I've been talking about this for weeks and months.
[00:16:23]  We're starting to see more people go to school board meetings.
[00:16:25]  We're starting to see more parents speak out.
[00:16:30]  It's not happening enough.
[00:16:33]  This is the greatest movement of child abuse in American history.
[00:16:38]  And the parents are either silent or they're in on it.
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[00:17:46]  One of my biggest complaints is people like LeBron James, Oprah Winfrey, and Raphael Warnock, successful blacks that have made it in America, and then they make it their daily obsession to tell other blacks that they're oppressed and they can't make it.
[00:18:01]  It bothers me on a deeply personal level.
[00:18:06]  In the sense that it is rooted in ingratitude, it is rooted in keeping others down so that they might stay up.
[00:18:15]  And it is almost a feudalistic view of America.
[00:18:19]  And so Raphael Warnock, who's not a very smart person and never should have been a U.S. Senator, there's a lot of reasons why that happened, and we can get into that.
[00:18:26]  The Georgia runoff still is a stinging open wound that I have politically.
[00:18:33]  And it's just really hard because if Republicans would control the Senate, even with Mitch McConnell with one vote with Susan Collins and Murkowski, the entire dynamics of Washington would be different right now.
[00:18:44]  Committees would be controlled by Republicans.
[00:18:46]  They could subpoena Biden over this Nord Stream 2 nonsense.
[00:18:50]  They could hold hearings on Hunter Biden.
[00:18:53]  It would be a completely different political atmosphere.
[00:18:56]  There would be a check and a balance.
[00:18:58]  They could subpoena the head of the FBI and say, wait a second, why did you knock down Rudy Giuliani's door at 6 a.m.?
[00:19:06]  And said, when you control no chambers of power, it becomes a one-party state.
[00:19:12]  So Raphael Warnock told a group of college graduates that they need to do their part to get out of this COVID-16-19.
[00:19:22]  This is a U.S. senator.
[00:19:25]  Cut 56.
[00:19:27]  Go forth.
[00:19:28]  Don't just teach us how to make our way out of COVID-19.
[00:19:32]  Teach us how to make our way out of COVID-1619.
[00:19:40]  I do have to say the best part of that speech is the fact that almost no one applauded.
[00:19:46]  That it was kind of, it went over like a lead balloon.
[00:19:49]  I could tell you that was not resounding applause.
[00:19:53]  It actually gives me hope.
[00:19:55]  But you understand that the smear merchants, the people that basically professionally misrepresent our history, like Raphael Warnock and Oprah Winfrey and Nicole Hannah Jones and Ibram X. Kendi, and what's the other guy that's the total moron?
[00:20:11]  Trying to think what the other guy's name is.
[00:20:12]  Oh my gosh, I'll think about it.
[00:20:14]  He's the Tahadisi Coates.
[00:20:15]  That's right.
[00:20:16]  Tahad Nisi Coates and Don Laman.
[00:20:19]  I actually don't think these people's constituency is that big.
[00:20:22]  If you've seen CNN's ratings lately, they did not have one show on Monday that reached 1 million viewers from 4 p.m. onward.
[00:20:29]  Not one show.
[00:20:30]  Actually gives me hope.
[00:20:32]  Instead of empowerment, instead of trying to lift people up and say, make better choices and the future is yours, instead they are trying to motivate a swarm of activists so that they can stay in power.
[00:20:47]  Just something to always remember when you're dealing with these Democrats is they need the division and they need the conflict in order to justify themselves staying in power.
[00:21:01]  Now, I believe that one of the greatest mistakes made in American history is one that we don't talk about enough.
[00:21:12]  And I've been waiting to talk about this until there was the right example.
[00:21:17]  And I think Raphael Warnock saying that triggers this thought while it's still fresh enough.
[00:21:23]  So what would happen if Raphael Warnock would have said something that unbelievably stupid in 1910?
[00:21:33]  What would happen?
[00:21:34]  Well, the state legislature used to appoint the U.S. senators.
[00:21:40]  The state legislature used to be the oversight of the United States Senate.
[00:21:48]  So therefore, as the state Senate was Republican, the senators would have also been Republican.
[00:21:54]  What would that mean right now?
[00:21:56]  That would mean right now, the U.S. Senate would have 54 Republicans and possibly even more because Republicans control about 27 state legislatures.
[00:22:09]  And I believe one of the greatest mistakes ever made in American history that gets almost no credit and very little understanding from scientists and historians, not scientists, historians, political scientists, what I meant, was the 17th Amendment.
[00:22:24]  So when Raphael Warnock would be going around talking about all this, what would have happened if we wouldn't have the 17th Amendment?
[00:22:32]  Well, the 17th Amendment says very clearly that it's the direct election of senators.
[00:22:38]  This was a massive mistake.
[00:22:39]  This is an anti-republic pro-democracy reform.
[00:22:44]  See, a republic spreads power over space and time.
[00:22:47]  A republic slows things down.
[00:22:51]  A republic creates a process because there are rights that are naturally granted and recognized by the government that they can't be infringed upon.
[00:23:06]  Democracy is straight up mob rule, Athenian style, quick to rise, quick to fall, and the burn is going to be dramatic.
[00:23:15]  And so once we got the 17th Amendment in place, senators became very stupid.
[00:23:22]  They became nothing more than public front-facing celebrities that promised things they could never deliver to their constituents instead of worrying about being accountable to the actual people, which were the state legislatures.
[00:23:34]  So, Raphael Warnock goes around talking about the 1619 project as if that is the top concern of the people of Georgia.
[00:23:42]  Now, you might say, well, Charlie, he's going to have to face an election.
[00:23:44]  Well, of course he will.
[00:23:47]  But in those massive statewide elections, it's far less about the daily and monthly accountability that the state legislatures used to have in place.
[00:23:58]  So, just to give you some example of this, the state legislatures, they used to recall senators all the time.
[00:24:05]  They used to say that you are not currently representing the needs, wants, and interests of the state of Georgia.
[00:24:12]  You're not currently representing the needs, wants, and interests of the state of North Carolina or of Texas.
[00:24:19]  So, Raphael Warnock is able to be this almost pseudo-national figure, which was never what the founding fathers intended.
[00:24:26]  The founding fathers wanted the Senate to be a reflection of the states, and most importantly, the state legislative body, because that's where the most power actually is.
[00:24:37]  It's the closest to the people, it's the greatest reflection of the rights people hold near and dear.
[00:24:42]  Not that these senators become these national figures more focused on federal government than states' rights and state government.
[00:24:51]  The 17th Amendment, I believe, is one of the biggest reasons over the last 100 years we have seen our freedom and liberty, our nation, our home, and our culture deteriorated.
[00:25:04]  Because there's no recall mechanism.
[00:25:06]  There used to be a recall mechanism where Raphael Warnock would get a call right now from the state legislature: like, hey, you keep it up with the 1619 nonsense.
[00:25:14]  We're recalling you and we're taking you out.
[00:25:16]  You're done.
[00:25:17]  And he'd calm down a little bit, and then he'd focus on what Georgia actually wanted.
[00:25:22]  And the Founding Fathers were worried as they were writing the Federalist Papers.
[00:25:26]  They were worried as they were creating a federated system, a centralized system, because they needed to have something.
[00:25:32]  The Articles of Confederation just weren't working.
[00:25:35]  They're having legitimate insurrections.
[00:25:38]  There was Shays Rebellion.
[00:25:39]  There was a lot of problems brewing.
[00:25:41]  And so they called the Constitutional Convention in the summer of 1787, and it almost didn't work.
[00:25:46]  You needed the states' agreement.
[00:25:48]  You needed unanimity.
[00:25:49]  You needed every state to sign on to it.
[00:25:52]  And or else you wouldn't have a republic.
[00:25:54]  You wouldn't have a union.
[00:25:54]  You'd just have a Confederated States.
[00:25:56]  And the power of the entire colonies would have just been diffused, and probably it would have been conquered by Britain 20 or 30 years later, and the whole American Revolution would have been for naught, which is one of the main reasons why the Founding Fathers went over and above to try to make overtures to the slave-owning states, which gets highly criticized by the intelligentsia today, even though those reforms, the Three Fifths Clause, were blows to the slave states, not boons to the slave states.
[00:26:21]  Different topic for a different time.
[00:26:23]  But the Founding Fathers in the Constitutional Convention were very worried that the federal government would kind of take a life of its own.
[00:26:32]  You have to understand that the way we view government right now is so overly national.
[00:26:39]  It's hard for us to even comprehend how the founding fathers first viewed government.
[00:26:43]  They viewed it in Aristotelian terms.
[00:26:45]  That first there's the individual, then there's the family.
[00:26:48]  It's very important.
[00:26:49]  They talked about this at length.
[00:26:51]  Individual family, then there's the community, the city, then the state, and then the nation.
[00:26:56]  It goes up from there.
[00:26:58]  And so, first and foremost, you're an individual, and your rights must be protected.
[00:27:02]  And the family, those rights must be protected.
[00:27:05]  Then the local community, those rights must be protected.
[00:27:07]  And as you get further and further out, there's the greater threat that all of a sudden that a widespread boot on the neck style tyranny could crush every single level of existence.
[00:27:19]  So, the founders, the biggest fear when they were creating the legislative branch, when they were creating the House of Representatives in the Senate, the fear they had is that the U.S. Senate would become nothing more than an instrument of trying to justify the expansive powers of the federal government.
[00:27:37]  And so, you have the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers.
[00:27:40]  I don't think the Anti-Federalist papers get enough love.
[00:27:42]  The Anti-Federalist papers were largely pushed by Thomas Jefferson and others.
[00:27:47]  They made some great points.
[00:27:48]  I think that they were wrong on certain things, obviously, the Federalist Papers.
[00:27:51]  One, but the Anti-Federalists warned that one day you are going to have swarms of demagogues promising things they can't ever fulfill, preying on the best intentions and the desires of the masses to erode your freedom and liberty and break the back of the union.
[00:28:08]  I mean, isn't that what we're living through right now?
[00:28:11]  It's as if the founding fathers had a fear.
[00:28:14]  And so, then the Federalists, James Madison, and Hamilton said, okay, I hear you.
[00:28:19]  Here's what we're going to do: we're going to empower and have the U.S. Senate be nothing more than a mirror of the state legislature.
[00:28:27]  And so that the state legislature will basically have a representative in the Senate, which is called a senator.
[00:28:33]  And the anti-federalists and the smaller states, like Delaware and Connecticut, which actually Connecticut was rather populated, but Vermont, they said, okay, we can live with that.
[00:28:47]  It was under Article 1, Section 5, Clause 2 of the Constitution, that a member of Congress shall be removed from office before the normal expiration of his or her constitutional term by expulsion or from the House of Representatives upon a formal vote of resolution agreed to by two-thirds members of the body president voting.
[00:29:03]  And it also could be removed by the state.
[00:29:07]  That the state could recall their own senators and they could replace them.
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[00:30:14]  If you go into Midland, Texas, and you try to run for office and you say that you are going to ban fracking and you are going to ban meat, would you be able to win an election?
[00:30:26]  If you go into Brooklyn, New York, and you say you are going to mandate AR-15 ownership and try to increase the amount of pickup trucks, would you be able to win an election?
[00:30:40]  The answer to both, of course, is no.
[00:30:43]  Why?
[00:30:44]  Well, the Founding Fathers realized as they created the Constitution, which is basically a local document, first and foremost.
[00:30:52]  It's local.
[00:30:52]  It builds up to its ultimate purpose of a necessary, small, nimble, yet effective federal government.
[00:31:00]  That there's differences between the needs, wants, and concerns of the people of Virginia and the people of Connecticut.
[00:31:05]  And those must be respected and must have some sort of representation in the federal government because there's power in the union, there's power in that commerce, there's power in having a nationwide experiment.
[00:31:15]  But the differences between states are stark and dramatic.
[00:31:18]  And one of the reasons why you feel like you're losing your country is because your own local area has basically been steamrolled by some sort of nationalized, utopian, multi-thousand-mile-away agenda and worldview that is so distant from actually how you live.
[00:31:39]  So the Constitution was supposed to protect us from this.
[00:31:41]  And the 17th Amendment basically eliminated a lot of those protections.
[00:31:46]  But remember, the Constitution and the American Revolution that preceded it.
[00:31:52]  And again, it's important that the Constitution was basically the culmination of many events.
[00:31:57]  And it wasn't even finished in just the Constitution.
[00:32:00]  There was a whole four-year period where the Constitution went without its own Bill of Rights.
[00:32:05]  And so the first was, of course, the Declaration and then the Northwest Ordinance.
[00:32:09]  No, Declaration, then Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.
[00:32:15]  The Northwest Ordinance, by the way, we talked about that a lot here.
[00:32:18]  It was, it's very important.
[00:32:20]  If anyone ever tells you America was systemically racist, you want to sound very smart and very educated, just say, go look up Article 6 of the Northwest Ordinance.
[00:32:30]  I encourage all of you to do that.
[00:32:31]  Go look up Article 6 of the Northwest Ordinance.
[00:32:33]  The Northwest Ordinance was 500,000 square miles of new land of Ohio and Indiana and Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
[00:32:43]  500,000 square miles.
[00:32:47]  And Article 6 said very clearly that there will be no slaves in the Northwest Territories.
[00:32:57]  Anyone who says America was founded on slavery is lying pathologically.
[00:33:01]  And this was, you know what's so amazing?
[00:33:03]  Is that the Northwest Ordinance was approved by even slave states.
[00:33:07]  It had unanimous consent.
[00:33:09]  Even South Carolina came to the table and they approved the fact that the Northwest Territories would be free territories.
[00:33:14]  Why?
[00:33:16]  Well, before the villain of American history, John C. Calhoun, came onto the scene, slave states actually were beginning to admit that the slave trade was sunsetting.
[00:33:26]  That in the Constitution, there was a literal sunset provision to the slave trade.
[00:33:30]  So the slave states said, you know what?
[00:33:32]  We're losing this battle.
[00:33:33]  And it wasn't until John C. Calhoun, who decided to declare war on the American founding principles of freedom and equality and said, was really the original author of identity politics.
[00:33:43]  If there's a couple people that you should know that your children are learning to think like, it's John C. Calhoun, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Bedford Forrest, and Nicole Hannah Jones.
[00:33:52]  Write those three words down.
[00:33:54]  John C. Calhoun, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Nicole Hannah Jones.
[00:33:58]  They all think the same, that skin color matters.
[00:34:00]  Everything's a power struggle.
[00:34:01]  We might as well win.
[00:34:03]  The American idea was different than that.
[00:34:05]  But the Constitution was a local document.
[00:34:08]  And so what do you actually do about that?
[00:34:11]  The only way that you can make the Constitution spring to life is when you start to actually get involved in the local domain.
[00:34:20]  We are way too focused on Washington, D.C. As you notice, we don't talk about it very much here.
[00:34:24]  We don't talk about Senate bills and House resolutions.
[00:34:29]  If it really is important, we'll talk about it.
[00:34:30]  It's sort of boring.
[00:34:32]  And honestly, it's so distant from what I think is actually going to retake the country, which is normal people doing what the founding fathers thought would be the safeguard of our freedom against tyranny.
[00:34:43]  The localized, first the individual, then the family, then the city, then the state, then the federal.
[00:34:52]  So it starts with you, then your family, and then the local area.
[00:34:56]  And the Constitution still has multiple amounts of provisions to protect that and allow that to continue.
[00:35:02]  There's a lot more I wanted to get to about this, but Raphael Warnock got me into that direction today.
[00:35:07]  So that's the reason.
[00:35:08]  That's where we decided to go.
[00:35:10]  And if we still had the 17th, if we didn't have the 17th Amendment, he would be recalled quickly, as he should.
[00:35:17]  Are you a high school or college student?
[00:35:18]  You should get involved at Turning Point USA.
[00:35:20]  Go to tpusa.com, tpusa.com, start a chapter, get engaged, get involved, and you can always email me directly, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:35:29]  God bless you guys.
[00:35:30]  Speak Yusuf.