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Students Fighting for Hope
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| Hey everybody, it's Anna Charlie Kirk Show. | |
| High school students are rising up. | |
| A little recap from our event in St. Charles, Illinois. | |
| It will give you hope. | |
| If you are looking for hope, this is the episode for you. | |
| It's really amazing. | |
| And if you are inspired to support or get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com. | |
| That's tpusa.com. | |
| At Turning Point USA, we are playing offense with a sense of urgency to win the American culture war. | |
| That's tpusa.com. | |
| Get engaged, get involved today. | |
| We are making hope happen. | |
| We are passing down American values to the next generation to make sure that you and your kids and your grandkids live in a free country. | |
| It's tpusa.com. | |
| If you want to subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast, take out your podcast app, type in Charlie Kirk Show, and hit subscribe in the upper right-hand corner. | |
| Buckle up, everybody. | |
| Here we go. | |
| Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. | |
| Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. | |
| I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. | |
| Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. | |
| I want to thank Charlie. | |
| He's an incredible guy. | |
| His spirit, his love of this country. | |
| He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. | |
| We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. | |
| That's why we are here. | |
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| Yesterday, we were in St. Charles, Illinois, right on the Fox River, standing in solidarity with the amazing Turning Point USA students that have been organizing walkouts that have been standing up against the mask tyranny and medical discrimination that has been happening in the high schools in suburban Chicago. | |
| There were parents, there were students, they were grandparents that were, let's just say, very enthusiastic and angry, and they should be, about the continued mask policies that are occurring in these high schools all across where I grew up. | |
| Now, a couple things struck me. | |
| Number one is how ready to fight the people of Illinois are. | |
| I have not seen that type of energy in quite some time. | |
| It reminds me of pockets of California, of people that are just fighting so hard for their freedom and liberty, despite the oppressive and authoritarian measures to try to break their spirit and their morale. | |
| You know, we did the event a little bit different. | |
| We had several Turning Point USA students speak before I came on stage. | |
| I just sat there and listened to them, and I was blown away how articulate they were, how courageous they were. | |
| All high school students, by the way, high school students. | |
| That were talking about how they take a stand against the administration and their teachers. | |
| They've lost all their friends. | |
| They are forced to go into their own room without a mask on because they don't want to wear a mask on. | |
| And they're happier and freer than ever. | |
| It was very surreal and emotional for me because I spoke at that Arcata theater in St. Charles before. | |
| And I actually did it when I was in high school. | |
| I spoke there at a local tea party meeting. | |
| And then to have 10 years later, almost exactly 10 years later, a new generation of kids who were eight years old when I started Turning Point USA, there at the theater, fighting for the very same values and principles that we were articulating 10 years ago. | |
| The first time I feel as if there's like this intergenerational kind of movement. | |
| And not by intergenerational, I don't, I've meant that older generations have supported us so generously. | |
| I mean now that there's a generation younger than me. | |
| That's something I've never experienced before. | |
| That there's a generation 10 years younger that is fighting hard and they're willing to do what is necessary. | |
| I want to play some tape from this. | |
| It was so moving. | |
| I'm pushing our Turning Point USA development team and media team really hard to get the kind of montage of the students. | |
| It was so powerful. | |
| Let's play Cut 80. | |
| It's a short cut up. | |
| JB Pritzker and the government do not give us our rights. | |
| Our rights are given by one person and one person only, and that is Jesus Christ. | |
| Our wonderful country and our beautiful state is in such a fallen state because Americans chose to stay silent and not stand up. | |
| At my school last Tuesday, around 50 of us refused to wear a mask, and our school decided to segregate us into the auditorium, not letting us get our education until we put on a face muzzle. | |
| Since when was segregation ever the answer? | |
| At this point, they're just begging for the lawsuits. | |
| This was never about the health of our or safety of our children. | |
| This was about control, and it started at the local level. | |
| They're high school kids. | |
| So if you're listening to this right now across the country and you have students that are being oppressed, they can do that. | |
| They should do that. | |
| It's one of the reasons why we came to Chicago and wanted to support them. | |
| It was Leslie Mendoza, Turning Point USA chapter leader, Peter Christos, Turning Point USA chapter leader at Glenberg North, and Samuel Phillips, Turning Point USA chapter leader at Niles West High School. | |
| So Samuel Phillips comes up and speaks, and he tells a story about how when he organized a protest against masks at a school, immediately there were these fake accusations that part of his group were using the N-word and making monkey noises. | |
| None of this was true. | |
| The NAACP has swooped in to try to make this a big issue. | |
| Now, of course, Chicago is quite used to fake hate crimes. | |
| Jussie Smollett, right down the street. | |
| We've had other Turning Point USA students that have been victim of fake hate crimes. | |
| In particular, a young lady in Minnesota, if I remember correctly, it was White Bear Lake or something. | |
| We'll get the name of it. | |
| She was recently a victim of that. | |
| Play Cut 85. | |
| My friend Murphy Maeve Holler and I decided that enough was enough, and we organized a walkout on Thursday. | |
| The walkout went great, and we were able to raise a lot of awareness around the school. | |
| But later that day, when I got home, I heard this terrible, terrible, terrible rumor that students, some people thought it was me, were saying the N-word and making monkey noises at other students. | |
| I was so blindsided by this accusation that I couldn't believe the lies that they were trying to make up. | |
| The reason why I know that this was a lie was when I went to the school and I asked them to punish these kids because this was a terrible thing, right? | |
| Punish these kids, right? | |
| They couldn't name one student and they couldn't provide any evidence that this ever happened at all. | |
| But because of this accusation, the progressive group abolition coalition organized a press conference and a protest with the NAACP trying to slander our movement. | |
| Trying to slander their movement of turning point USA students and freedom lovers and people that want their constitutional rights. | |
| Immediately, they go and play the race card. | |
| Immediately. | |
| Oh, you want to protest masks? | |
| Race card. | |
| You want to try to push back against what's happening? | |
| Race card. | |
| I could go through and play tape after tape. | |
| We're going to play a little bit more as we go on, but I just want to reinforce something, which is these students don't have to be doing this. | |
| They could be doing sports, applying for colleges, which I would not recommend. | |
| They could be doing all sorts of different things, hanging out with friends. | |
| No, but they're spending their time, those three, and we have so many others. | |
| They're saying, you know what? | |
| No, I actually want to contest for liberty. | |
| I want to get in the arena. | |
| And what was so amazing is how inspired the parents were. | |
| We talk about the building of the parents' party. | |
| We talk about the movement, grassroots of parents taking ownership for their kids' education. | |
| But what's so great is we are now seeing this intersection of parents that are helping their students, but also students that are rising up themselves. | |
| And I asked some of these activists, I said, what do your parents think? | |
| They're like, oh, yeah, my parents don't really support me very much, but I'm going to do it anyway. | |
| That's not all the students. | |
| Some of them, I said, that's amazing. | |
| I said, so you're doing this without your parents? | |
| They said, yes. | |
| He said, I'm inspired by what turning point USA is doing. | |
| I need to fight for my rights or else this country is going to fall apart. | |
| There's a lot of bad news in the world. | |
| Inflation, open borders, the current administration. | |
| But this is some really awesome news. | |
| Where in the bluest, darkest, one of the bluest and darkest places on the planet, you're seeing that next generation. | |
| And dare I say, incredibly articulate, too. | |
| It's not easy to come up and give a speech like that. | |
| If you look at 18-year-old Charlie versus, these kids are way more advanced than I was in high school. | |
| And you know what? | |
| They need to be because the stakes are higher. | |
| When I was in high school, we weren't talking about CRT masks, woke, and vaccine mandates, men can become pregnant or black-only dormitories. | |
| We were talking about higher or lower taxes. | |
| The stakes are higher. | |
| And a new generation of students is rising up to fight for their rights, to fight for their future, to fight for what really matters. | |
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| These students were so incredibly inspiring. | |
| And I just think that it's so incredibly important to stand up for your rights at a young age. | |
| It really is. | |
| Cut 86, a young man recounts how he was walking through his school hallway maskless. | |
| He was verbally and physically attacked by another student and ended up being sent to the office rather than the assailant because he was maskless. | |
| Now, of course, these schools couldn't care less, the suburban Chicago schools of Nile West, Niles West, or Glenbrook North. | |
| They couldn't care less about increase in suicides, self-harm, mental health issues, alcoholism, depression, anxiety. | |
| No, they're really worried about whether or not your child is obediently wearing a mask, which is really bad for IQ development, speech development, social immersion. | |
| Play cut 86. | |
| But as I continued my way through the school mask, like any patriotic American would do who loves their rights, I was approached by an individual who swore at me, flipped me off, slapped myself in my phone. | |
| All of this happened because I was not complying and I was standing up for what's right. | |
| After these events, after just getting sworn at, assaulted, cut, scratched, and grabbed, the teachers protected him, cheered him on, and applauded him. | |
| And I was the one sent to the office. | |
| Now, for those of you that are living across the country in free states, I'm saying, what are they protesting? | |
| Mask mandates are still in at many of these high schools. | |
| And let me tell you a story yesterday. | |
| I had to make a couple phone calls. | |
| I was in Barrington, Illinois, visiting some friends and some Turning Point USA supporters. | |
| And so we went to a coffee shop. | |
| And I go into the coffee shop and they say, show me your papers. | |
| I said, what are you talking about? | |
| Show me your papers. | |
| What papers? | |
| And this is how desensitized the freedom I have become living in Arizona. | |
| They said, show us your vaccination records. | |
| So what are you talking about? | |
| Like my MMR, my polio vaccine, my smallpox? | |
| Like, what are you talking about? | |
| They said, no, your COVID vaccine papers. | |
| I said, what, you're actually doing this? | |
| And they literally were like, back up, back up. | |
| This is Chicago suburbs. | |
| As if I was a leper. | |
| Show us your papers. | |
| So then I said yesterday at the event, I retold this story and I compared it to East Germany. | |
| And the media is Charlie likens being asked for vaccine papers to the Nazi regime. | |
| Like, yeah, of course I'm likening it to it. | |
| This is insane. | |
| Of course, that was worse, but this is the same sort of pattern, trajectory of tyranny that we saw in previous totalitarian governments. | |
| By the way, East Germany is not even, they don't know their history, but that's okay. | |
| That's fine. | |
| It's close. | |
| East Germany was not of the National Socialist Workers' Party. | |
| But when you go into a restaurant to go pick up some coffee at a place where you grew up in, and they're asking you for your intimate medical records, yeah, you got a serious problem. | |
| I know a lot of you listening right now are like, this is an unknown thing. | |
| I mean, in Florida, Sarasota, it's maskless, walk into a restaurant, do whatever you want, free, open, happy, safe, nice. | |
| Chicago, there's just this meanness that has just kind of come over the people that work in these places. | |
| And I guess they have a sense of purpose. | |
| It does create, and this is a term we created. | |
| I hear it here and there in little pockets, micro-tyrants. | |
| In order for big tyranny to be implemented, it takes lots of little people to do the legwork. | |
| And so you have someone that works at Corner Bakery or whatever, and they become really important, like really important, almost overnight, instantaneously, checking for vaccination records. | |
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Organizing Against Micro-Tyrants
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| The only way it's going to stop is to go through it. | |
| It's going to keep on organizing. | |
| You keep on spreading the message. | |
| It's going to be more students rising up, speaking out. | |
| Thankfully, you're starting to see these mandates collapse both worldwide and nationwide. | |
| But that's only part of it. | |
| Kind of rescinding these mandates is part of it. | |
| But the other part is justice. | |
| Who's actually going to be held accountable for this multi-year crime against humanity and our children? | |
| Who's actually going to have to pay for this? | |
| The billionaires are richer than ever. | |
| The corporations have more power than ever. | |
| Pharmaceutical companies have more power than ever. | |
| We're just going to kind of act like, oh, yeah, that was two years. | |
| Sorry. | |
| Or actually, not so sorry. | |
| We're going to have to entertain some ideas of what justice looks like. | |
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| I think we're going to demand a correction at a Media Matters. | |
| Media Matters says, Charlie Kirk likens a restaurant asking him for vaccine status to living in Nazi Germany. | |
| Well, no, I actually never said that. | |
| I said, quote, and it really sunk in coming back home to Illinois, you know, being treated like I'm visiting East Germany. | |
| Literally, no exaggeration. | |
| Okay, East Germany was not part of the third, the attempted Third Reich. | |
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The Transition Closet Debate
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| I demand a correction. | |
| Know your history. | |
| Well, they don't. | |
| They just think everything German must be. | |
| Yeah, actually, no, that's not true. | |
| Andrew's on the case. | |
| They'll be getting an email very soon. | |
| Okay. | |
| I want to play another tape here. | |
| Cut 84, young lady praising our efforts and the fighters in the audience. | |
| Play Cut 84. | |
| This is only my second year of being actively involved with this amazing organization, and I could not be more proud to be a part of this team. | |
| I'm so incredibly honored to be here speaking alongside one of the great leaders that I've looked up to for years. | |
| Someone who has become one of the most amazing role models in my life and who I have learned so much from. | |
| It's hard sometimes. | |
| Kids are brutal and they'll do every possible thing to break you down, but you guys are unbreakable. | |
| If you're joining us here tonight, I know you're a fighter. | |
| You're already on the right path. | |
| I promise you, it's all worth it. | |
| You live in the greatest country in the world, fighting for your God-given rights and the principles this nation was built on. | |
| High school kids. | |
| High school kids. | |
| I want to just re-emphasize that. | |
| It's just an unbelievable thing that these high school kids are doing that. | |
| It's Leslie Mendoza. | |
| Okay, I want to get to another clip here of just kind of the bubbling up effect that's been happening in the suburbs of Chicago. | |
| And it's actually a friend of mine, Mark Weiermüller, who was there last night. | |
| And it should be cut 62. | |
| This is now made national news because he spoke out at a school board meeting. | |
| Everyone listening to my voice should show up to your school board meetings because then things like this happen and they go viral. | |
| Mark Weiermüller shows up. | |
| He's a taxpayer and they didn't like that. | |
| Play tape. | |
| We'll start your two minutes now, sir. | |
| This is not what you promised. | |
| You said if they don't wear a mask, they can't speak. | |
| I have a mask. | |
| I can wear the mask on my head if you want. | |
| I mean, it's just you can wear your mask on your ball. | |
| Enough, enough. | |
| We're going to take recess for five minutes. | |
| Please. | |
| Take a room if he can't put his mask on. | |
| Mr. Todd, please. | |
| Recess in five minutes. | |
| These people are deranged. | |
| That's a school board member swearing openly at a taxpayer because he won't wear a mask after all the wonderful vaccines came forward and the boosters came forward, and he's swearing at a taxpayer over that. | |
| Who's actually in charge? | |
| Who is the sovereign? | |
| That's the question that we need to keep on asking. | |
| Is the weird, creepy school board guy that just is screaming and swearing the sovereign, or is it the taxpayer? | |
| Actually, Mark Weiermuller is the sovereign. | |
| Why are parents speaking out? | |
| Why are they getting more and more angry? | |
| The Postmillennial.com, quote, Oakland School launches Transition Closet to help students hide gender dysphoria from parents. | |
| A transition closet has come to Oakland's Fremont High School. | |
| The concept, which began in an Arkansas church, first launched at a Good Shepherd Lutheran church in Fayetteville, is designed to let trans-identified youth circumvent their parents and socially transition without their knowledge. | |
| Now, the fact that this started in a church is really bizarre. | |
| That's exactly what I was thinking, right? | |
| I just want to pause. | |
| I just want to say this whole idea of a transition closet started in a Lutheran church. | |
| What do you think Martin Luther would think about that? | |
| The Transition Closet announced with glee the new chapter from Fremont High School, right? | |
| And quote, we are extremely excited to begin our journey in working with Fremont High School in Oakland, California, alongside our favorite teacher of TikTok, quote, just a queer teacher, as was first reported by a Twitter account Teacher Exposed. | |
| Quote, the goal of the transition closet is for students to wear clothes that their parents approve of, come to school, and then swap out into clothes that fit who they truly are. | |
| I'm going to pause for a second. | |
| The goal of tyrants is to break the bond between the parent and the child. | |
| The only one of the 10 commandments that comes with a promise and involves your nation, the only one that comes with both a promise and involves your country, is honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in. | |
| It's the only 10 commandments that come with a promise if you follow it and it involves your nation. | |
| They want to cut off the transmission, the passing down of tradition, order, and values to children because then the queer teacher takes the place. | |
| And that's not a pejorative, by the way. | |
| If I said that 10 years ago, I'd be arrested by the ACLU or whatever. | |
| Now they call themselves queer teacher. | |
| They want to cut kids off from their parents. | |
| And so now at a public school where they got this from some Lutheran church in Arkansas, which I just can't get over, they are encouraging students to wear one thing to school, lie to their parents. | |
| Basically, they're encouraging deceit at minimum, outward lying at most, where they change their clothes to be somebody else, some other gender. | |
| Quote, I use the idea that this is like Superman changing in a phone booth, but that idea actually goes a lot further because Superman isn't Clark Kent. | |
| Clark Kent is actually the disguise. | |
| And when Clark Kent goes into the phone booth, he transforms into Superman because that's who he really is. | |
| The Facebook page for the transition closet spoke about the needs of the new transition closet. | |
| Quote, the near future holds transition closets and services throughout the school district for the students of the trans, non-binary, intersex, and additional LGBTQIA plus. | |
| Woo! | |
| That's a lot, isn't it? | |
| Community members. | |
| We are currently in need of clothing donations to help kickstart the first school-based transition closet. | |
| And they gave more information where materials could donate. | |
| I guarantee you there'll be a lot of donations coming from this Bay Area for this thing. | |
| The transition closet, which features videos teaching girls how to bind their breasts so they appear more masculine, recently received a grant from the Arkansas. | |
| What the heck is going on in Arkansas? | |
| It's that whole Asa Hutchinson thing. | |
| It's really weird. | |
| The grant will be used to, quote, provide gender-affirming clothing and accessories for transgender and non-binary Arkansas residents. | |
| The Transition Closet thanked the Big Binder Project, which provides free chest binders to girls seeking to hide their breasts. | |
| This is what they're worried about. | |
| Not suicide, fentanyl overdoses. | |
| They're funding projects in public schools so girls can learn how to bind their breasts. | |
| Like, really? | |
| The only requirement we have is, quote, that you need to be in need of a binder and there's no way to afford or obtain one on your own. | |
| In discussing the plans for the installation of the transition closet at Fremont High School, they said they're establishing transition closets worldwide. | |
| Quote, my principal just approved our school district's first transition closet. | |
| We'll be working with the organization, the transition closet, to provide clothes for transgender, blah, Okay. | |
| It's unclear if Oakland's Fremont High School will also be facilitating getting binders to trans or non-binary identified female students at the school without their parents' knowledge or consent. | |
| That's public school. | |
| Coming from Arkansas, ballplace, it's really weird. | |
| There's a new story from the Federalist: Meet the Sex Shop Founder Who Is Grooming Children Through Books in School Libraries by Spencer Lindquist. | |
| And it includes such obscene material. | |
| It's just hard to even believe. | |
| It's hard to even say on air. | |
| Transition closets. | |
| Yeah, that's why parents are pulling their kids out of school. | |
| Oakland School launched his transition closet to hide gender dysphoria from parents. | |
| And where are the churches speaking out against this? | |
| They're just like, oh, no, I'm sorry. | |
| The churches are helping. | |
| Some of them are helping. | |
| Not all of them. | |
| There's a lot of great churches out there, obviously. | |
| We work with a lot of them. | |
| But why is it that all of a sudden it's like, oh, yeah, thanks, Lutheran Church, for teaching us how to do this? | |
| That's really telling, isn't it? | |
| The Lutheran Church is leading in helping kids chemically castrate themselves, amongst other things. | |
| There is a concerted, well-funded effort to break the bond, the material bond, another bond that parents have with their children. | |
| Tyranny thrives when parent-child relations disappear and deteriorate. | |
| Dictators would love nothing more than to see parents and children no longer talk and no longer have relationships with one another. | |
| Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here. | |
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Rush Limbaugh at His Best
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| One year ago today, the great Rush Limbaugh went to heaven. | |
| He was special. | |
| I'll tell you what. | |
| All the times driving all across the country, it was a tradition. | |
| When I was first getting Turning Point USA started, I would rent cars. | |
| You know, I couldn't rent a car until I was like 22 or 23 or whatever. | |
| And I'd always be going to meetings and I'd try to schedule my meetings so I could be in the car during Rush. | |
| And so you'd Google like Los Angeles Rush affiliate, right? | |
| And I'd be driving from, I don't know, Santa Barbara or Oxnard to Orange County. | |
| And I'd be making calls in between, but right there on the radio is Rush. | |
| No matter where I was in the country, I could always get my Rush. | |
| And so then my great friend Tom Patrick, may he rest in peace, he was so special. | |
| He really got me onto Rush when Rush, I think, was at his best. | |
| Rush was at his absolute best, in my personal opinion. | |
| Not that he was ever bad, but just when I think he was just hitting home run after home run during 2016, 17, and 18. | |
| Those were the three years where Rush was most needed when it was the Amy, the not Amy Clinton, the Christine Balls A. Ford stuff, the Russia Gate stuff, and the Trump stuff in 16. | |
| Rush was spectacular. | |
| He kept people at ease about Trump. | |
| He kept people at ease about the whole thing. | |
| He was just so special. | |
| I could go on about my stories. | |
| I got to know him personally, and he was a friend. | |
| With the permission of his family, one day, I am going to release all my emails with Rush. | |
| And I think that would be a real special thing. | |
| I'm going to make sure I'm going to get Catherine's approval on that. | |
| But my emails with Rush, I think, are special. | |
| He would email me back in the middle of the show, the doctor of democracy. | |
| And he did it all with half of his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair. | |
| If we could have one 100th of the impact of Rush, I will have lived a full life. | |
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| It's a small story here that I just think is delightful and delicious. | |
| And this is a story that Rush would spend a whole hour on, this type of a story, right? | |
| He loved kind of his eternal battle with the media. | |
| So there is this fake kind of social media campaign saying that Turning Point USA is a white nationalist hate group, which of course is false. | |
| We know it's false. | |
| And so we got reached out to by this individual, Caleb McCullough, a nice enough guy from PolitiFact that was like, hey, I'm in charge of this story, and we have the meter, or is it true, or is it untrue or is it half true or is it false of whether or not Turning Point USA is a white nationalist hate group? | |
| And great kind of compliment to our PR team and everyone behind that. | |
| And we played ball and we sent them the information that, no, not only are we not a white nationalist hate group, we're the opposite of that. | |
| We believe that stereotyping based on race is evil. | |
| And we sent them all the evidence of all that. | |
| And coming out today, PolitiFact, the claim that Turning Point USA is a white nationalist hate group is false. | |
| If your time is short, quote, Turning Point USA, a conservative activist group operating largely in college and high school campuses, is setting up chapters in Iowa high schools, raising concern among parents who oppose the group's right-wing approach to policy and its criticism of progressive programs dealing with racial matters. | |
| Some on Twitter have accused Turning Point USA of being a white nationalist hate group. | |
| However, according to PolitiFact, and they're never wrong, but they're right on this one. | |
| I'm being sarcastic. | |
| Of course, scholars who study white nationalism and even the group's critics say calling Turning Point USA a white nationalist group goes too far. | |
| And it's right. | |
| It does go too far. | |
| We are not a white nationalist group. | |
| We don't believe in ethno-nationalism. | |
| We believe in the promise of the Constitution. | |
| We believe in the promise of Frederick Douglass. | |
| We don't want to judge people based on the color of their skin. | |
| We think it's disgusting and reprehensible. | |
| Thank you so much for listening, everybody. | |
| Email us your thoughts. | |
| As always, freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
| If you want to support our show, go to charliekirk.com/slash support. | |
| And if you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com. | |
| Thank you so much for listening, everybody. | |
| God bless. | |
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