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March 16, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Theft of Childhood with Karol Markowicz and Jobob
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Stolen Innocence of Our Youth 00:10:26
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An incredibly important subject we're going to explore here.
And we've talked and we've said this for a while: that the left aims to steal the youth, to rob the innocence of our children.
That's exactly the name of a new national bestseller, Stolen Youth by Carol Markowitz and Bethany Mandel: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation.
And Carol joins us now.
Carol, welcome to the program.
Hi, Charlie.
Thank you so much for having me.
Tell us about the book and how are our children's youth being stolen?
The book is an exploration of the way the woke culture has taken over all of our institutions, all of our schools, organizations, licensing organizations, basically every facet of society, and is now aiming all of their power at children to get them indoctrinated and to separate the family.
In the book, we open with a history chapter on totalitarian societies and the way that this is not new.
This is, you know, we have new words for it and we have new ideas that they're trying to push.
But the idea of separating the child from his parents and getting that child indoctrinated into whatever idea you want them to have, that's a really old tale.
And we're seeing it happening in America today.
Yeah.
And so what is the agenda by these people?
Are they knowingly trying to corrupt the youth?
Are they intentionally trying to steal their innocence?
What is the guys that they're doing this under?
You know, before I started writing this book, I probably would have said, like, no, they're not doing it on purpose.
They have their ideas about what makes the world better.
And they just, you know, they want to just bring their ideas to the front.
But looking and researching this book, we've really discovered some sinister stuff.
Like teachers' colleges, they literally use Marxist texts to teach teachers.
These teachers then disperse throughout the country and they're at a school near you.
And that is not by accident.
That's not, I whoopsie snuck in a Marxist book to teach the teachers.
All of it comes from this place of pushing leftism everywhere that they go.
So when you hear a concept like math is racist, and we explore that in the book, it comes from somewhere.
And it really does originate at, like, say, a teacher's college.
And that's where they pick up the concept and then they pass it along to our kids.
Yeah.
And that's just one example of, you know, of many.
Why are parents putting up with this?
Why are parents not standing more forcefully against this?
It's a great question.
And one reason is that parents don't believe it's happening.
Look, I was born in the Soviet Union.
I know that secrecy is a big part of this, that this push of ideology has to be.
It's not secret.
It's right in the open.
I don't understand.
It is.
It is out in the open.
But for example, nobody runs on a we want porn in the school library platform, right?
They have to sneak it in.
So parents just don't think it's happening at their school.
It's the same concept as like when you ask voters, you know, what do you think of Congress?
And they all hate Congress, but they all like their own Congressman.
That's where we are with schools.
They think that this is not happening in their schools.
And it's worse in red areas and red towns, red villages, because they think it's definitely not happening there.
And they think, well, my teacher is not on TikTok.
My teacher is not on libs of TikTok, you know, outing their Marxist agenda.
So it's not happening.
Well, only a small percentage of teachers are on TikTok.
Only a small percentage of teachers will even admit what they're doing.
So if you think this is not happening at your local school, like think again.
Yeah.
And I just, even when we show the evidence, they say, oh, it's not that common or I don't support that.
Or, you know, it's not that widespread.
I mean, I just want to play some tape here.
You know, this is RuPaul saying that drag queens are the Marines of the queer movement.
Play cut 10.
Drag queens are the marines of the queer movement.
Don't get it twisted and don't be distracted.
Register to vote so we can get these stunt queens out of office and put some smart people with real solutions into government.
So they look at the drag.
And by the way, James Lindsay, who's done incredible work, has identified several academic papers years ago about how drag is the gateway to corrupt children.
So I just want to make sure our audience understands here.
Carol, are you making the argument in the book Stolen Youth that there's an institution of grooming in our country?
Yes, absolutely.
It is absolutely a purposeful maneuver to get children to be sexualized early, to have their gender identity being questioned.
All of this is very purposeful.
And in the book, we go through why that would be.
Like, why would anybody want to do this to kids?
But it makes them easier to indoctrinate.
When the kids are afraid of everything, when they're all messed up, when their anxiety rates are an all-time high, our suicide rates are an all-time high.
These kids are troubled and they're much easier to control when they're troubled.
Again, we've seen this.
This is not new.
It's happened in societies throughout history.
We just never could believe that it would happen in America.
And it's hard for me to believe it too.
I am rah-rah, patriotic American woman who never thinks anything bad about the country.
I'm always like, yeah, we're so good.
But this is a really dark, sinister moment where this is actually happening and it's happening to children.
And the past societies where this was going on, the totalitarian systems where this was happening, those people can say they didn't know.
Today, we cannot say we don't know.
We know.
Read the book, you'll know.
Give us more examples to the skeptics out there of the sexualization of our children and stealing the innocence of the youth.
Well, look what's going on in Florida, where they keep discovering these pornographic books in school libraries.
And when Governor DeSantis is trying to put a stop to it, it's considered like he's book burning.
And of course, again, no parent wants pornography in their child's library.
It's just, it's a non-starter.
So they have to sneak it in.
They have to pretend that it's some, you know, kind of banning that's going on.
When obviously any parent that sees these books will say, no, I don't want this in my school library.
That's also the thing.
The woke and the reason that we use wokeism instead of like liberalism, a lot of liberals don't want this either, but they're afraid of this.
Liberals have always been weak.
They're weak across the board.
They are.
They're afraid of them.
They're afraid of being socially isolated.
They're afraid of being called names.
And the thing is, these are your kids.
You can't be afraid of this, you know, somebody criticizing you on Facebook.
You got to delete block and move on with your life because these are your kids that you have to protect.
The fact that liberals like whisper to me and say, I agree with you, but like, I really can't talk about this.
I'm sorry, it's too late for that.
Now you have to talk about it.
Now you have to fight back.
Yeah.
I mean, we see a lot of these liberals that they don't believe it's as entrenched or they don't understand the depth or the extent of it.
And I mean, there are some parents that are perfectly fine with their kids being groomed and being indoctrinated, which is just so bizarre and strange.
And so you use the term woke, which I like.
You know, obviously it was all over the internet the last couple of days.
I mean, woke is super easy to define.
Let's call everything racist until you control it or just try to destroy the institutions around you and remake them in a postmodern, post-structuralist image.
What would you say?
How would you define woke?
I often turn to the forced conformity part of it to describe woke.
It's not just leftism.
It's leftism through a very narrow lens.
Even the leftists get in trouble a lot of the time because they, you know, haven't caught up with the latest language or the latest words that are acceptable.
Wokeness makes you walk a really fine line of explaining yourself or having ideas.
Like a great example of that is, you know, you can't say, I'm not racist.
You have to say I'm anti-racist.
If you don't use that word, then you're out.
And, you know, I see it happening now.
I see on Instagram people saying that people of color, they don't like that anymore.
Very soon, people of color is going to be out.
And if you're still using it, you're going to be caught up in that dragnet where they, you know, will criticize you, call you racist for using a term that they themselves were using five minutes ago.
So, you know, the jokey explanation I like to give about wokeness is the old leftism is, I got a woman's studies degree.
The new wokeness is, I got a woman's studies degree, but I can't define woman.
What is their complaint with people of color?
30 seconds.
Because, you know, you're not, it's really, they're just changing the language so that they know who the in-group is.
We talk about this in the book as well.
They have to keep changing it so that they can keep targeting people.
Without new targets, you know, their movement dies.
Yeah, look, I think you're making a great argument here.
These people are tyrants.
They're Stalinists.
They're Maoists.
Exactly.
And we have to call them that.
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Very important book, Stolen Youth by Carol Markowitz.
Check it out.
So, Carol, in the book, I'm not sure if you detail this, but I'd just be curious.
How do we go about fixing this?
There are three types of people.
There are infants.
There are the protectors of infants.
And there are predators.
Our predators are in our schools.
They're in our culture.
They're in our media, then our government.
How do we stop the predators from coming after our children?
Well, we present two different paths.
My co-author, Bethany Mandel, homeschools her six children.
I live in South Florida.
I send two of my kids to public school, one of them to private school.
And the paths really are different, but they end up hopefully at the same place, which is raising resilient children who aren't going to be crashing somebody's speaking event and throwing things through the doors and breaking glass.
We had our book party in New York City got crashed by protesters last week.
They also threw glasses around.
They hit Steve Forbes with a drink.
I hope to raise children who don't do things like that.
And I think that for me, we really lay the foundation at home.
We speak openly about our values.
We talk about what we believe.
We counter concepts that they hear out in the world.
And we make sure that we have a tight grip on raising them the way we want to raise them.
We don't, you know, take other people's suggestions on how to raise our children if that includes going to drag queen story hour.
We think that that's inappropriate and we don't care what everybody else says.
So the step one has to be being strong in who you yourself are and who your family, you know, how you want your family raised.
For Bethany, a lot of her concepts are pulling her kids out of culture, pre-reading all of their books, making sure that they don't watch anything that she finds offensive.
And, you know, those are different ways.
Like, I think my kids are going to encounter things in the world that I don't like.
And I want them to learn how to deal with it and how to, you know, not cower to it.
So the idea is to raise resilient children who grow into resilient adults and are able to live happy, fulfilled lives.
And it's a tragedy that it is coming to this.
I do agree with you in one sense that some decent people refuse to believe actually how awful and broken the country has become in this regard.
They just like, oh, come on, it can't possibly be that bad.
And it is.
And it's in our institutions.
It's in every kind of possible corner that we could think about or that we could imagine.
But I think there's also a very promising parallel effort, right?
New schools, new issues on this.
Ron DeSantis has been leading clearly on this.
Talk about some of the promising developments, the parents' party, because it's not all bad.
People, I think, are wake up.
A lot of people are waking up.
Is that right?
It's not all bad.
We have a chapter in the book on COVID because we felt like that was for a lot of people the meeting point of where they got involved.
We saw throughout COVID the way children were targeted with some of the worst restrictions and needlessly, and how their interests were just not considered at all.
But a lot of parents became motivated when they saw what the kids were learning over their shoulders.
And I think that that energy has stayed pretty strong throughout the country.
I think now we need politicians to take over some of that energy.
Like, what's the point of politicians who don't take action on behalf of children?
I, again, live in South Florida.
I moved here in large part because of Ron DeSantis's policies, COVID policies particularly, but also his just general school policies.
I think if you live somewhere where you're not feeling good about your school system, I know it's hard.
It was hard for us too, but you have to move your kids out of it.
Maybe that means private or parochial schools.
Maybe that means moving to a different town or a different state.
But saving your kids has to be your priority.
We go through a lot of this in Stolen Youth, but look, childhood is really short, and you really have only a limited opportunity to make your children become the kind of adults that you want them to be.
And taking action is just something throughout the book that we focus on.
Cut62 is a young girl around a bunch of parents, moms that are supporting them at Drag Queen child sexual exploitation.
The Lockdown Bank Crash 00:09:00
Play Cut62.
All right, we're going to give you 60 seconds eclipsing.
The moms seem really thrilled and happy.
Carol, 20 seconds, summarize it all.
They would never be accepting of that if that was a woman stripper, if that was a woman twerking on their kid.
They would never be okay with that.
Why is it okay for it to be a man in drag?
It's not.
And again, parents need to be the first line of defense and they need to stop this sort of thing.
Check out the book, Stolen Youth.
Thank you so much, Carol.
We'll talk to you soon.
Thank you.
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In a second, we're going to have Joe Bob join the program, one of the great talents of Turning Point USA and the conservative movement.
Does a great job, great spirit, really good energy, and a lot of optimism.
Appreciate it.
He opens up for us at these events and he gets people going.
That's a tough job to be an opening actor.
It's not easy.
The audience is like, who is this guy?
And what is this all about?
And all this.
But he gets them going, gets him laughing.
It's great.
Okay, I want to play a couple pieces of tape here unrelated to Joe Bob.
I just can't get enough of this.
There is a genre here on the Charlie Kirk show that I delight in.
The genre is wondering if Jim Kramer can outdo himself.
How Jim Kramer can just go to higher and greater lengths when he's talking about what stocks to buy.
Here's just a 2022 montage of Mr. Kramer play cut 18.
In February of this year, Kramer tweeted, Winning Stocks I Like, Upstart and Airbnb.
Since then, Upstart's down about 80%, Airbnb, 40%.
In April of last year, when Coinbase just went public, Kramer endorsed the company, saying it's a $475 stock.
Since going public, Coinbase is down over 80%.
Netflix is down 61%, Roku, 70%, Peloton, 83%, Square, 60%, PayPal, 68%, and Zoom, 65%.
You could lose a lot of money if you listen to Jim Kramer.
80%, 60%, 40%, 60%.
Tragically, some people actually do listen to his advice.
But there's a lot of questions going around.
Plenty of questions.
What is happening in the banking system?
What's happening in the financial system right now?
I can tell you, whatever Jim Kramer tells you to do, don't do that.
Play Cut 17, Jim Kramer.
Remember when he was defending Bear Stearns?
Great company.
Phenomenal.
And don't invest in that Tesla company.
There's nothing to it.
Play Cut 17.
Okay, Peter writes, should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terms of liquidity and get my money out of there?
No, no, no.
Bear Stearns is fine.
Do not take your money.
If there's one takeaway other than plus $400 somewhere, Bear Stearns is not in trouble.
I mean, if anything, they're more likely to be taken over.
Don't move your money from Bear.
That's just being silly.
Don't be silly.
Our own Jim Kramer yesterday said, I'm not sure that Tesla has a business plan that's going to work.
It's not a smart investment.
Is he right about it?
I'm sure he's right about something.
There's got to be something where he's been just off the charts, correct?
He was not just wrong about Bear Stearns.
People lost a lot of money, a lot of money, because they went bankrupt.
The Tesla thing, I don't know, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Jim Kramer endorsed Silicon Valley Bank a couple weeks ago.
Guy still has a cable television program, remarkably, still giving people advice.
But on the note, I do want to play this.
I think Charles Payne had a super smart take on the Silicon Valley Bank situation.
Let's play cut 19, please.
All of the money that cascaded into our economy at the beginning of the pandemic helped us spur that big IPO and SPAC streak.
If you guys remember, we had over a thousand IPOs, 59% of them are offerings, 59% of SPACs.
90% of them were pure crap.
The others all went out overvalued.
Everyone who bought them at the IPO price, every American is losing money right now, even before this crisis.
In the meantime, though, all of that money went to Silicon Valley Bank.
This is the lockdown bank crash.
The lockdowns were completely unnecessary.
The lockdowns were one of the greatest mistakes in American and world history.
And we create all this money out of thin air because of the lockdowns.
We're less productive because of the lockdowns.
We get into all this technology nonsense, staring at screens all day long, online shopping, all that.
And these banks start to invest in bad products.
And I hate to say that we called it on this program, but we did.
I knew the economy was heading in a very troubling direction when donors would approach me at Turning Point USA saying, Charlie, do you know any business deals?
Do you know where I should put my money?
And I remember telling him, I said, this is not a good sign.
When there is a greater supply of interest to invest than there is a supply of good places or places of value to put your money, you get something called malinvestment.
Malinvestment happens when you create trillions of dollars out of thin air.
You invest in a bunch of garbage.
Just today, Meta, Facebook, slashed another 10,000 jobs.
Mark Zuckerberg has put a massive bet into the metaverse.
Turns out it's a massive failure.
People just don't want to put goggles on all day long and play in some sort of weird, abstract world of poorly defined characters and figures.
It's not a success.
I'm sure some people like it.
It sure is.
It's been, you know, some people are looking at, but it's by no means a profit driver for the company at all.
Nothing even close.
So malinvestment occurs when you create these trillions of dollars out of thin air.
And when you remove the moral hazard and people think they can be forgiven or bailed out, then what difference does it make?
I want to play another piece of tape here.
Let's go to cut 27.
Former Treasury's Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman admits with Silicon Valley Bank, the Biden regime effectively nationalized the deposit base.
Play cut 27.
What the authorities did over the weekend was absolutely profound.
They guaranteed the deposits, all of them, at Silicon Valley Bank.
And what that really means is that they have guaranteed the entire deposit base of the U.S. financial system.
This is a breathtaking step, which effectively nationalizes or federalizes the deposit base of the U.S. financial system.
The authorities, including the White House, are not going to say that because what I just said, of course, implies that they've just nationalized the banking system.
And technically speaking, they haven't.
But in a broad sense, they're verging on that.
Silicon Valley Bank is now marketing themselves.
I mean, they should be shut down for fraud at this point.
It's unbelievable.
Where they say why there is not a, please join us for a call to learn at Silicon Valley Bank why there is not a single safer place to keep or transfer your deposits than Silicon Valley Bank.
Parenthesis, fully insured with no limits or caps.
Is that the new baseline for the FDIC?
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Is the FDIC going to say the rules are made up and the points don't matter?
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Values, Ideas, and Actions Matter 00:10:39
Speaking of a funny guy, we got Joe Bob with us.
I think finally he's on, ready to go.
Joe Bob, you're doing a great job at all these tours.
You got a tough job.
You got to warm up the crowd.
It's not easy.
You do a great job of it.
You were on the front lines yesterday.
You saw those windows smash.
You were right there.
What do you see?
What did you feel?
What did you sense?
Walk us through it.
Yeah, so it happened to be right there by complete luck of circumstance.
I was walking around the hallways and then saw a bunch of protesters break through the police barricade and were kind of cornering one of the police officers into the glass windows or the glass doors where everything ended up going down.
So I took out my phone, started filming, and we were able to let the officer into the building.
And, you know, naively, I thought, well, stop there.
And I was probably too close in hindsight to the doors when the first window got kicked in.
And that's when it all, well, pandemonium broke loose and they just shattered all of the doors.
Thankfully, the response of the riot squad was able to keep people out, or else I think they would have come in and seen how much damage they could actually do.
Which, like you said, this is way out of my alley.
I'm usually the sarcastic, snarky, funny guy, but found myself in the middle of a bunch of chaos, all because a bunch of emotional children didn't want to hear a guy talk.
And then not just talk, but allow them to talk too.
You want to have the mic?
You can do it, right?
So that's, and you mentioned it in your talk, but I feel like it should be reiterated over and over and over again.
I went out to talk to some people before the actual event that none of the rioters were willing to talk to me, but I did talk to some kind of students and I asked them, hey, did you know that you can go inside?
Anybody's welcome.
It's honestly kind of ironic that people are trying to break into the building, but you're more than welcome to come inside.
And not only that, we will give you a microphone.
And if you disagree, you get to the front of the line.
I guarantee you that the PA system is louder than any of your chants that you're going to yell outside.
So you're more than welcome.
But, you know, not to hammer the point home continually, but if they had good ideas and they had good arguments for those ideas, they would actually make them.
Ideas are either compelling or they are not.
And if you can't make a good argument for your dumb ideas, you resort to smashing windows.
And one of the issues, Joe Bob, that you pinpointed in your open is that this Gary guy, Gary May, lied about us at Turning Point USA, misrepresented our positions entirely.
And, you know, you saw what happened there.
I mean, you were literally feet away from them smashing the windows and all that.
Thankfully, you were not harmed.
But I mean, these are violent folks.
If they would have been able to, let's just say that they would have been able to breach those doors.
We don't know what would have happened, right?
We do not know what they would have done to our attendees, to our staff.
And by the way, the Sacramento Bee has now officially and publicly apologized.
They say a review of the video shows that Kirk never advocated for trans people to be lynched.
Oh, really?
Yeah, of course I wouldn't.
No decent person would ever even think that.
I never thought it's anything close.
And I mean, in the universe, what we said.
These notes have been added to the column.
The B regrets its comments, and we apologize for any misunderstanding this earlier version may have caused.
It's not a misunderstanding, Joe Bob.
There is violence because of them.
Yeah, absolutely.
So we were at breakfast when that video you were talking about, the chancellor of the university put out a video saying how, you know, we really, really hate these people, but we're going to stand against hate in protest.
We were watching that video as it was, as this thing was unfolding.
And I just thought to myself, does this guy think this is going to lessen the temperature or raise it?
Of course, it clearly raised the temperature.
And I think, this is my own personal opinion, his words in that video emboldened some of those people who may or may not have been as radicalized, but I think it added to the temperature of the entire situation.
And of course, it goes without saying they're lying about a bunch of the stuff.
I think in the video, he said, Charlie Kirk advocated for violence, which of course, you just mentioned the Sacramento B said, no, he actually didn't.
But of course, nobody would do any of that sort of stuff.
And I think the main takeaway from this is going to be ultimately nobody who smashed any of the windows is going to be held accountable for that.
The chancellor won't be held accountable for his actions in all of this.
And nothing inevitably is going to happen to anybody who has their woke ideology with them and nothing else.
We're going to try our best.
We're going to pursue a legal strategy.
We don't know if we'll be successful, but they got to be sued.
They got to explain themselves in court.
You cannot go around as the head of a chancellor of a school and materially lie about a guest speaker and then violence breaks out.
You got to hold them accountable.
If we win in the courts, great.
If we lose whatever, we got to stand for what's right.
Joe Bob, you said something really smart yesterday in your open.
I want to give you a chance to riff on it.
You said the tribal human instinct is to go to association based on color or race or creed.
Advancements, moral progress rooted in the Christian tradition is actually saying race means that nothing, literally nothing.
Values, ideas, and actions matter.
Explain that to our audience.
I thought that was very powerful.
Yeah, so it was really just remarking on the fact that, yes, human nature is such that people flock towards familiarity and everybody does it.
There's no denying that that exists.
It has been the case since the entirety of human history and will be forever.
The problem that leftists have is when they talk about familiarity, it seems to only be the familiar of appearance.
They congregate in these woke circles that really are only based around, again, like I said, appearance or race or skin color.
The more advanced model of society and one that I hope that everybody occupies sooner or later is flocking to familiarity, but familiarity based in ideas and moral virtue and culture.
Like I go to a church here in Southern California where, you know, I don't talk about the race makeup of the church, but there are Asian people.
There are Hispanic people.
There are black people.
There are people of every single race and color.
And nobody talks about it because that's not why we're there.
We are there to congregate around an idea, in this case, our Christian faith, but nobody talks about the fact that the quote-unquote diversity in our church is outstanding because that's not why we're there.
And hopefully, my hope is that someday the entirety of the country can elevate to a place where we, like Martin Luther King said, what, 50 years ago, you can be judged by the content of your character, not the color of your skin.
So I would hope that that's the direction that the country is going.
You know, remains to be seen.
It is the fallen nature of man is to just associate with your tribe.
The Torah, the first five books of the Bible, and it's repeated all throughout the scriptures, but very clearly it says, for example, we talk about loving the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt, as it says, Exodus 23, 9, Exodus 22, 11.
This repeated idea that you must go out of your way to love the person that doesn't look like you, that is not from your tribe.
That takes effort because the natural urge is to only associate with people that look the way that you do, right?
Or people that are from your certain tribe or whatever.
I want to play a piece of tape here.
You're in this video, actually.
This is the video that Elon Musk replied to.
So you can add that to your resume.
Joe Bob, that you could say that Elon Musk has seen a video that I'm in.
So congratulations.
Playcut 57 of the mostly peaceful attempt of breaking and entering of our event at Turning Point USA, UC Davis, Playcut 57.
For those of you on radio, it is a group of trained activists trying to break in.
Final thoughts here, though, Joe Bob.
These are not just college kids, as that one guy said.
These were sophisticated people.
Am I mistaken?
No, there was a lot of people that showed up way ahead of time that fortunately the security and law enforcement were able to identify that were not even close to college age.
But the one thing that I really wanted to, that I thought while watching that video is the fascinating component about this, and I think you probably would think the same thing is I would love to just sit down and have a conversation with any of those people that tried to break in and just see what they think.
And that is the last thing that they want.
Not only that, I would have loved to have them come and ask a question.
I don't want to see violence.
I don't like vandalism.
I think it's awful.
It's messy.
It's terrible for all people.
Destruction of property is reprehensible.
I think it's akin to theft and stealing because you're destroying something that's not your own.
So then suck it up, ask a question, be an adult.
But no, we're living under the tyranny of the infants and these quote-unquote leaders that allow these infants to reign terror.
Joe Bob, we're out of time.
See you at the next campus event.
Check it out, tpusa.com.
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Thanks.
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