The Charlie Kirk Show - Keep Texas Free—LIVE from Texas
Aired: 2023-04-29
Duration: 01:01:06


=== Texas Self-Government Attitude (14:54) ===

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[00:00:31]  Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
[00:00:33]  Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
[00:00:35]  I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
[00:00:39]  Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
[00:00:42]  I want to thank Charlie.
[00:00:43]  He's an incredible guy.
[00:00:44]  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.
[00:00:52]  We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
[00:01:01]  That's why we are here.
[00:01:04]  Welcome, everybody.
[00:01:05]  You guys had a great day, I'm sure, right?
[00:01:08]  So thank you for your attention and your time.
[00:01:10]  That's the most valuable thing you have.
[00:01:12]  I'm only going to talk for a couple minutes, then we'll do questions.
[00:01:14]  I think that's the most fun.
[00:01:16]  The reason we wanted to do this and why we're doing the work here in Texas is I believe that Texas is special.
[00:01:24]  I'm not from here.
[00:01:25]  I wasn't raised here.
[00:01:26]  But I feel as if you're losing this state.
[00:01:29]  And I think a lot of you would agree.
[00:01:31]  Harris County, in particular, where we are, is not the same place that it was 10 years ago.
[00:01:36]  A lot of liberal influences, a lot of bad ideas coming into this state.
[00:01:39]  And if Texas falls, the country falls.
[00:01:41]  It's that simple.
[00:01:42]  And so we need to ask ourselves the question, what makes Texas so special?
[00:01:46]  Why is it that Texas has been one of the most prosperous states, one of the most freest states, and then the envy of the people that are fleeing California?
[00:01:55]  Where do they want to go?
[00:01:55]  They want to go to Texas.
[00:01:56]  Well, first of all, I think that as Texans, you guys have an attitude that I hope doesn't go away.
[00:02:02]  It's an attitude of self-government, of self-sovereign.
[00:02:06]  I get a kick out of it.
[00:02:07]  I don't know if we have it here tonight, but you guys do.
[00:02:09]  Oh, yeah, you do.
[00:02:09]  You always do the Pledge of Allegiance, then you do the Hail Texas flag.
[00:02:14]  And it's the only state to be its own sovereign territory before becoming a state.
[00:02:19]  And that's a really important thing, right?
[00:02:21]  Because this question of sovereignty is under attack every day.
[00:02:24]  Now, personally, I wish your governor took the invasion at our southern border more seriously, but call me old school.
[00:02:30]  Why the Texas National Guard is saying not another person crossing into our state?
[00:02:35]  But we get a lot of excuses.
[00:02:37]  I guess that's why.
[00:02:39]  But the other thing is that Texas has embraced the principles that have made America a great country, private property rights, free enterprise, freedom of speech.
[00:02:48]  But also in Texas, you guys, and you're losing this, I'll be honest.
[00:02:52]  There always was an attitude of we're not going to put up with nonsense.
[00:02:55]  We're not going to put up with evil.
[00:02:57]  We are going to have a cowboy type spirit that, you know, move, you know, move out of the way, lead follower, get out of the way.
[00:03:04]  And that is being lost.
[00:03:06]  And it's not just Harris County.
[00:03:08]  Obviously, a lot of it started in Travis County with the nonsense in Austin.
[00:03:11]  But, you know, it used to be that, oh, yeah, Charlie, it's like tomato soup with a little blueberry.
[00:03:15]  It's a lot worse than that.
[00:03:16]  You guys know it.
[00:03:17]  This is spreading all across Texas.
[00:03:19]  In fact, I don't know if you saw the Texas school book textbook that was rewritten.
[00:03:23]  I talked about it on my show, where they rewrote the Second Amendment.
[00:03:27]  And this is in Texas.
[00:03:28]  They rewrote the Second Amendment where it is not, you know, a right of the people to be able to own arms.
[00:03:34]  It now says people can own weapons only if they're in a state militia.
[00:03:37]  That's in Texas textbooks all across the state.
[00:03:40]  And the main kind of message I want to convey to you is you have to get back to the attitude of we are Texas and we're not going to allow coastal values to come in here and destroy our home.
[00:03:54]  And they might call you intolerant.
[00:03:56]  They might call you all these names.
[00:03:58]  But honestly, they by their own movement prove that this place is desirable.
[00:04:03]  And I have a contrarian opinion.
[00:04:05]  I don't think you guys should welcome all these Silicon Valley companies to Texas.
[00:04:08]  I think it's a big mistake.
[00:04:11]  I call these people, you know, they're ribbon cutters for the sake of ribbon cutters.
[00:04:15]  I love job growth.
[00:04:16]  I love economic progress, but you must balance all things, right?
[00:04:19]  Is economic growth the only thing you're supposed to desire?
[00:04:23]  Because then you bring all these trashy politics alongside of it, right?
[00:04:27]  And I mean, more Elon Musk's, I'm fine with that, but Google now says they want to start to build data centers here in Texas.
[00:04:34]  Why do you think that is?
[00:04:35]  Why do you think that Toyota and all these companies want to come here out of California?
[00:04:39]  And then they come here and tell you what to do with your government.
[00:04:42]  So they flee the totalitarian states of California.
[00:04:45]  They flee these unfree states.
[00:04:47]  They come here and then they start nickpicking.
[00:04:49]  Like, actually, you've lost your right to complain.
[00:04:52]  You come here as a refugee from totalitarianism and from tyranny.
[00:04:55]  I'm not going to reaccommodate our entire state to fit, you know, this idea that you want men to be able to go and compete against women in women's sports.
[00:05:03]  Like, we're not going to do that.
[00:05:05]  And I find this tension, which is Texas is almost too good of a state, that you're so attractive to people from these other states that haven't thought very deeply about these ideas that it might actually end up being the death of Texas.
[00:05:19]  And we're seeing this with Georgia.
[00:05:20]  We're seeing this Arizona.
[00:05:22]  Now, the only difference is why are you not seeing it with Florida?
[00:05:25]  Well, you're not seeing it with Florida because they have a really good governor that tells these liberals, like, you're not welcome here.
[00:05:29]  I'm sorry.
[00:05:30]  Like, this is where woke goes to die.
[00:05:31]  You have a problem?
[00:05:32]  Go back to New Jersey.
[00:05:33]  That's the attitude I wish Texas had.
[00:05:36]  Where is that?
[00:05:36]  I don't understand.
[00:05:39]  And by the way, you get more popular when you have that kind of attitude.
[00:05:42]  People then resonate deeply with you.
[00:05:44]  Like, wow, you're leading us towards something good.
[00:05:46]  And I'm not to say it's all bad from the governor's mansion here.
[00:05:49]  He's done a lot of good.
[00:05:50]  Obviously, I'm not here to try to make an anti-Abbott speech, but I think we all could agree that Texas deserves even better than what you're currently getting, right?
[00:05:57]  I'm not trying to make it seem that it's all negative, it's all bad.
[00:05:59]  He does some good things, but I think Ron DeSantis has set the bar of what is possible here to actually do.
[00:06:06]  And so Texas is at a critical place.
[00:06:10]  And I think the education system is largely to blame, but also this inward migration of people that do not share the common values.
[00:06:17]  And I mean, I'm driving through Harris County here stuck in traffic.
[00:06:20]  And I mean, it used to, I say this and people kind of get fired up when I say this, and I hope so.
[00:06:25]  It's like it's just culturally and aesthetically unrecognizable.
[00:06:29]  Like, why do you guys have so many like soul cycles and yoga bar?
[00:06:33]  I don't understand.
[00:06:33]  Like, this is, you guys are bringing all the worst cultural aspects of San Francisco.
[00:06:38]  I mean, I saw like big billboards, like meatless restaurant.
[00:06:41]  Like, this is Houston.
[00:06:42]  Like, what are you talking about a meatless restaurant?
[00:06:45]  And you might say, oh, that's, that's irrelevant.
[00:06:47]  No, it's actually really relevant because with this sort of cultural takeover comes really bad politics, right?
[00:06:54]  And so what are you to do about it?
[00:06:56]  Well, that's why Turning Point USA is making it a mission to make Texas our number one state.
[00:07:01]  We want Texas to be our number one state.
[00:07:04]  And most high school chapters, most college chapters, because we're going all in on Texas.
[00:07:11]  I love this country so deeply, but our founding fathers gave us a states-based model.
[00:07:16]  Praise God they did that, right?
[00:07:18]  That the states created the federal government, the federal government to create the states, did not create the states.
[00:07:23]  And Texas in particular is going to be a deciding point.
[00:07:27]  And it's going to take a new generation of leaders.
[00:07:30]  It's going to take taking back school boards.
[00:07:32]  I think a revival in actually how we do education in this country.
[00:07:36]  And I mean, just a great example.
[00:07:37]  I mean, if I were to kind of list complaints of what I think the governor could do differently, for example, Ron DeSantis has said no CRT in our schools and he's taken over a university, a public, I don't know if you guys know this.
[00:07:48]  He took over a taxpayer-funded university and he says, we're going to make it the most conservative school in America.
[00:07:53]  Why doesn't Texas do that?
[00:07:54]  I don't understand.
[00:07:56]  Like Greg Abbott could do that.
[00:07:57]  Why has Greg Abbott put left-wingers on the border regions?
[00:08:00]  I don't understand.
[00:08:01]  Like, maybe there's something I'm missing.
[00:08:02]  You guys can fill me in.
[00:08:04]  Every one of these small things you might think that doesn't matter matters.
[00:08:08]  That's what I'm trying to tell you.
[00:08:09]  Texas used to be comfortably conservative, where you were able to have a Marxist here and a trans activist there, and you kind of shrug your shoulders, like, oh, we're Texas.
[00:08:17]  We're always going to be.
[00:08:18]  You have to drop that and have a sense of urgency.
[00:08:20]  You're losing your home.
[00:08:22]  And as an Arizonan, I could tell you all about left-wing conquest.
[00:08:26]  That's all they do, right?
[00:08:27]  And they do it through the schools, they threw it through culture.
[00:08:30]  And, you know, I want to kind of emphasize, you know, one of the most important points here, which is, you know, we're living in a very strange time where the revolution is coming top down.
[00:08:39]  It's not coming bottom up, where the powerful people are bludgeoning the normal people and they're not stopping and they're not going to stop anytime soon.
[00:08:46]  And I remember I was in a dinner about two years ago here in Houston.
[00:08:50]  And it was just the trans stuff was a little bit, you know, on the periphery, but I have had and continue to have very strong opinions about it.
[00:08:57]  And this was a wealthy Republican donor.
[00:08:59]  If I said his name, many of you would know him, right?
[00:09:01]  He gives millions of dollars to causes, lives here in Houston.
[00:09:05]  Very nice person.
[00:09:05]  But he said, Charlie, I think what we should try to do is embrace the trans thing as a Republican.
[00:09:10]  He said, you know, these people are nice as long as they stay within their lane.
[00:09:15]  And I don't think it should be a big issue because he heard one of my speeches and I said that transgenderism is going to corrupt our children.
[00:09:21]  It's from the pit of hell.
[00:09:23]  And he was really offended by that.
[00:09:24]  He said, come on, Charlie, we have to be equal and we have to try to have towards equality or whatever kind of one line all that stuff is.
[00:09:31]  And I disagreed.
[00:09:32]  I said, well, first of all, you don't know the arc of the left.
[00:09:35]  These people never stop.
[00:09:36]  They're activists.
[00:09:36]  You can never give them enough.
[00:09:38]  They take over institutions and they are coming for children next.
[00:09:41]  And his response was, there's no evidence that they're going to be coming for children.
[00:09:45]  I said, well, just wait a couple of years, man.
[00:09:47]  Well, unfortunately, I was right.
[00:09:48]  It's everywhere, right?
[00:09:49]  And not only is it everywhere that if you do not do exactly what the trans activists want you to do, they're going to try to destroy your life.
[00:09:56]  They've kidnapped speakers at turning point USA events, Riley Gaines.
[00:10:00]  The death threats we get every single day is unbelievable.
[00:10:02]  They come at our events with weapons.
[00:10:04]  Not to mention, they corrupt our textbooks and they get to play the oppressed card while they get some of the biggest corporate deals for millions of dollars.
[00:10:15]  And they get a whole month dedicated to them and we have to be told that these people are oppressed.
[00:10:19]  I think a lot of you have an attitude.
[00:10:20]  And to defend this individual that was said this a couple years, I think the attitude that we wish for is the country I grew up in.
[00:10:27]  Your own imagination is not my problem.
[00:10:29]  This is the way we have to frame the trans thing.
[00:10:31]  Your imagination is not my problem.
[00:10:33]  Your actions can become my problem.
[00:10:36]  Those are two different things, right?
[00:10:37]  I'm not going to police your imagination.
[00:10:39]  That's silly.
[00:10:40]  It's unrealistic.
[00:10:41]  If you think you're something, you're not.
[00:10:42]  If you think you're an otter, a fish, if you think you're a different gender, like I'm not here to police your imagination, okay?
[00:10:48]  But if you make me all of a sudden have to repeat your imagination as a fact, we have a very serious problem.
[00:10:56]  And that's a completely different thing.
[00:10:58]  And so some people say, well, Charlie, you know, I wish we could just have a live and let live society.
[00:11:04]  So do we.
[00:11:06]  We were doing live and let live.
[00:11:08]  And they're the ones that came into NCAA sports.
[00:11:12]  And they're the ones that are now showering with teenagers in high schools.
[00:11:16]  Don't believe me.
[00:11:16]  Look at the Wisconsin story that came out two days ago.
[00:11:18]  18-year-old man went into a female locker room, shouted at 14-year-old girls, school covered it up, said it's progress.
[00:11:23]  It's equitable.
[00:11:24]  And we don't have to, you know, we don't have to inform any parents.
[00:11:27]  This is not going to stop everybody.
[00:11:29]  But you know what?
[00:11:29]  The only way you stop these people is if good people stop them.
[00:11:33]  And that's exactly the same thing you have to attitude you have to have towards Texas.
[00:11:36]  There is a temptation to get passive.
[00:11:39]  You know why?
[00:11:40]  Because I lived in a short window of this, but a lot.
[00:11:43]  And this is the biggest thing I have to deprogram with boomers.
[00:11:46]  And I love boomers, but I find a problem here with it, right?
[00:11:49]  Is they did grow up in America for 20 or 30 years where you were able to take it easy, where you wouldn't spend your afternoons at events like this, right?
[00:11:57]  You raise your kids, you go to church out.
[00:11:59]  America's dead, okay?
[00:12:00]  I didn't kill it, you didn't kill it, they killed it.
[00:12:02]  Let's try to resurrect something that's recognizable.
[00:12:05]  And they don't like it when I say that.
[00:12:07]  They say, Oh, no, no, Charlie, this is just a temporary, it's a temporary divide.
[00:12:11]  No, no, it's not.
[00:12:12]  They've taken over the entire country.
[00:12:13]  You are on enemy-occupied territory.
[00:12:15]  I don't find any joy in saying this.
[00:12:17]  These people can be defeated, I think, quicker than we realize, but they will only stop if we stop them.
[00:12:22]  You know, somebody said, Well, Charlie, you know, isn't it, isn't this stuff going to backfire?
[00:12:26]  In Colorado, it's not backfiring.
[00:12:29]  In Colorado, they made themselves the trans surgery sanctuary state.
[00:12:33]  Same in California.
[00:12:34]  That if you are in a state that does not allow the medical mutilation of a 12-year-old, Colorado will pay for your flight.
[00:12:40]  You can go there and get a taxpayer-funded medical mutilation surgery without telling your parent at 12, 13, or 14 years old.
[00:12:46]  Does that sound like a state that's going to backfire anytime soon?
[00:12:49]  Or how about in California?
[00:12:50]  Massachusetts is doing the same thing.
[00:12:52]  Minnesota is about to do the same thing.
[00:12:54]  And so the essence of it is that you have to stop these things early.
[00:13:00]  I would imagine this stuff is actually pretty far advanced here in Texas, more so than we can realize.
[00:13:05]  And so, but that sort of Texas attitude is exactly what we need to get back, which is like, you're a pervert if you go after my kids, and I'm not going to put up with this.
[00:13:14]  You might say, well, Charlie, that's kind of mean.
[00:13:16]  Yeah, they're evil for going after kids.
[00:13:17]  Excuse my tone.
[00:13:19]  And I don't yearn to be nice to freaks, and nor should you.
[00:13:26]  And that's what we're dealing with here: that people that have a concerted, deliberate campaign to go after children.
[00:13:33]  And there are three types of people in the world.
[00:13:35]  Okay, the Bible tells us this: there are infants, the protectors of infants, and predators.
[00:13:41]  Okay, this is the entire story at the beginning of Exodus.
[00:13:44]  Okay, so you have predators, like the king of Egypt, a Pharaoh, right?
[00:13:49]  Where it says, and then there was a king that came over Egypt that did not know Joseph, right?
[00:13:53]  Forgot the Jewish people, turned them into slaves.
[00:13:55]  Then there's infants, firstborn child, and then there's the brave midwives that stood up that were the protectors of infants.
[00:14:03]  You get to be one of three categories.
[00:14:05]  Now, if you want to remain a child the rest of your life, we've done a good job of that, actually.
[00:14:10]  We tell our teenagers to never grow up, they could do drugs all the time.
[00:14:13]  That's bad for society.
[00:14:14]  That comes with a different form of problems.
[00:14:17]  But even worse than that is becoming a predator or an ally of a predator.
[00:14:22]  Here's the norm that is hard for people to agree with, but human history tells us that predators will keep on going unless they are stopped.
[00:14:32]  And the Bible, so what did it take to eventually stop the predator in any of these biblical stories?
[00:14:39]  Is that a courageous person who is bold, filled with the spirit to go stand up against the evil?
[00:14:44]  That's the only thing that stops evil.
[00:14:47]  And because there is this accelerationist view where some people say, well, Charlie, there's no way that this stuff can keep on getting as insane as it is.

=== Defeating Predators on Campus (07:55) ===

[00:14:54]  No, it will.
[00:14:56]  You know, I tell you, I know this is a fact because I see how insane they want it to be.
[00:15:01]  You can say, how can you see into the future?
[00:15:03]  Because I spend time on college campuses.
[00:15:06]  You want to see the future?
[00:15:07]  Go to a college campus.
[00:15:09]  It's five years the country is going to look like is what's happening on a college campus.
[00:15:14]  Black-only dormitories on hundreds of college campuses.
[00:15:18]  You didn't know this?
[00:15:18]  Hundreds, right?
[00:15:20]  Whites get lower grades than blacks on hundreds of campuses.
[00:15:24]  Okay?
[00:15:25]  This is five years from now.
[00:15:27]  Widespread reparations, widespread private property confiscation.
[00:15:30]  I'm not coming here to tell you all the problems.
[00:15:32]  I'm telling you how we defeat these people.
[00:15:34]  And this will be my final thing, and then we'll do some questions.
[00:15:36]  If you look at America as having an immune system to bad ideas, I think that's a healthy analogy, right?
[00:15:42]  So bad ideas are nothing new.
[00:15:45]  Idea pathogens, as I call them, right?
[00:15:47]  The wokeism stuff.
[00:15:48]  There are two things, though, are the greatest and most important pinnacles to create antibodies against pathogens or viruses that come in, because we're all experts on viruses now after the last couple of years.
[00:16:00]  It's truth and justice.
[00:16:02]  And when those two things are suppressed, all of a sudden you have tumors and viruses and bacteria that replicate and take over your entire society.
[00:16:10]  Truth and justice are the only two things that have been proven to be able to fight back against viruses trying to take down a civilization.
[00:16:18]  Those things are suppressed.
[00:16:19]  So you need to become a truth teller in every possible way.
[00:16:23]  Now, you might say, well, what about justice?
[00:16:24]  Justice, actually, in my opinion, cannot happen unless you first have truth.
[00:16:28]  And I'll prove it to you.
[00:16:30]  Somebody in a court of law cannot be properly convicted if the judge or the jury does not believe in absolute truth.
[00:16:37]  It's impossible.
[00:16:38]  And we're seeing this, by the way.
[00:16:39]  In Chicago, if you are a black person, you get way more privileges to go loot and to plunder and to steal than if you're a white suburban person.
[00:16:47]  It's happening all across the country.
[00:16:49]  So you need truth before you have justice, okay?
[00:16:52]  And so, but here's the amazing thing.
[00:16:53]  And I'm sure we're going to have some questions about censorship.
[00:16:56]  Charlie, I'm so tired of being shut up.
[00:16:57]  I'm being tired of being suppressed.
[00:16:59]  I agree.
[00:17:01]  I think that the social media companies suppressing us is a big deal.
[00:17:04]  I think that we're seeing a lot of censorship.
[00:17:06]  But the number one form of censorship, and Stalin wrote about this in his private journals, he says, I do not have to shut up anybody if I can get people to shut up themselves.
[00:17:14]  And that's what's happening.
[00:17:17]  You know how you know you're living in a totalitarian country?
[00:17:19]  The amount of times people come up to me at a coffee shop, but they have to look over their shoulders before they say anything.
[00:17:26]  They look over and they look over.
[00:17:28]  I was listening to an old tape of Dennis Prager in 1995.
[00:17:31]  He said, boy, when I visited the Soviet Union, it was a mark of totalitarianism because people were over his shoulders.
[00:17:37]  In 1995, he said, I'm so glad in America we don't have that.
[00:17:40]  Oh, we do now.
[00:17:43]  So every one of us can make a decision that we're going to be the same person in public that we are in private.
[00:17:47]  And I'm going to preempt the inevitable question.
[00:17:49]  But Charlie, what about my grades?
[00:17:50]  What about my job?
[00:17:51]  What about my friends?
[00:17:52]  If those things matter more than your civilization than truth, then fine.
[00:17:56]  Lie your way through your existence.
[00:17:58]  Okay?
[00:17:59]  I think telling the truth matters a lot more than having fake friends, grades that do not matter, or maybe a temporary income where you can end up finding a job where you can actually be who you are.
[00:18:09]  I think that's more important.
[00:18:10]  Now, you might disagree.
[00:18:11]  You might say, Charlie, I have to provide for my family than you do you.
[00:18:14]  I'm not telling you what to do.
[00:18:15]  I'm simply creating the binary.
[00:18:17]  They win when we shut ourselves up.
[00:18:20]  That's why they have to keep on trying to get us to stay quiet.
[00:18:24]  And they're trying to invoke our surrender, which is a whole nother speech I can give.
[00:18:27]  Let me close with how I started.
[00:18:29]  We are investing tons of resources here in Texas.
[00:18:31]  We had an amazing year here in Texas.
[00:18:33]  We hit amazing high school chapter goals, incredible college chapter goals.
[00:18:37]  I love this state.
[00:18:38]  I want the attitude to come back.
[00:18:39]  I want the woke to say, I'm not moving to Texas.
[00:18:42]  That place is not in line with my values.
[00:18:44]  You know what that's what they're saying about Florida now?
[00:18:47]  You know that people in Florida are leaving, but they're probably coming here into Georgia.
[00:18:52]  It starts with the grassroots.
[00:18:53]  It starts with you.
[00:18:54]  It starts with you staying engaged, staying involved for the homeschool moms, the school boards.
[00:18:58]  And it is an uncomfortable truth that I communicate when I speak at these events because every so often I'll get a question maybe today, but Charlie, then when do we get our country back?
[00:19:07]  And my answer is an uncomfortable one.
[00:19:10]  I don't know when.
[00:19:11]  And I don't even know if.
[00:19:13]  I'm not a fatalist and I'm not an optimist.
[00:19:16]  I see the positive, but I also see the negative.
[00:19:19]  Here's what I could say is that it's rather uncertain.
[00:19:22]  Here's what's in our favor.
[00:19:25]  Their ideas are really bad.
[00:19:27]  In fact, they're outright evil.
[00:19:29]  Here's what's in their favor.
[00:19:31]  They have more money than us.
[00:19:32]  They have the whole media.
[00:19:34]  They have the whole culture.
[00:19:35]  They have every major government institution and they want it more than we do.
[00:19:39]  They just do.
[00:19:40]  They want it more than we do.
[00:19:41]  They work harder.
[00:19:42]  They put in more time.
[00:19:43]  They take over institutions.
[00:19:45]  So the question is who's going to win?
[00:19:47]  The people with the truth that we do outnumber them, make no mistake.
[00:19:50]  There are more decent Americans than not decent Americans who think it's insane to teach a seven-year-old that men can give birth, right?
[00:19:58]  You laugh, but if you send a kid to any public school, they are going to hear that, right?
[00:20:02]  And maybe even to obviously the college.
[00:20:04]  It said men can give birth is considered to be a fact on a college campus.
[00:20:09]  So, the question is, what do we do about it?
[00:20:11]  I know for one that if any people know how to fight for what's good, it's Texans.
[00:20:15]  And I hope we can help you guys do that.
[00:20:17]  All right, let's do some questions.
[00:20:18]  God bless you guys.
[00:20:19]  Thank you.
[00:20:27]  Hi, my name is Ferris from UT San Antonio.
[00:20:29]  I wanted to ask: what do you think about all the money managers and Wall Street investment bankers coming down from New York to Texas and Florida?
[00:20:37]  Like Kenneth Griffin runs like Citadel and he's moving to Miami.
[00:20:42]  So what do you think about all that?
[00:20:44]  Yeah, I think that Florida and other states have to be careful.
[00:20:47]  I mean, it's going to result in a mass.
[00:20:50]  I mean, Ken Griffin is a conservative.
[00:20:52]  So that's one example.
[00:20:53]  But most of those guys in that community is not like Goldman Sachs is moving, right?
[00:20:56]  For example, I don't celebrate it.
[00:20:59]  I don't.
[00:20:59]  I mean, Florida is not desiring for more economic growth right now.
[00:21:04]  But Florida has managed it because of leadership, right?
[00:21:08]  Florida just signed in a six-week abortion ban.
[00:21:10]  Florida has said that Disney no longer gets special tax privileges, and that's being disputed in court.
[00:21:15]  Florida is leading the way in a lot of this stuff.
[00:21:18]  And now you have left-wing companies saying, I would never want to move to Florida.
[00:21:22]  That's a good thing, actually, okay?
[00:21:25]  And there's nothing the left does that we cannot also do, right?
[00:21:29]  Now, this is important: the left is really good.
[00:21:32]  They're like parasites.
[00:21:32]  They're good at taking over things.
[00:21:35]  We're much better at starting things.
[00:21:37]  So let's have a revival of entrepreneurship, right?
[00:21:39]  This is why I can't stand this whole idea of sending kids to go to college.
[00:21:42]  If you want to kill the entrepreneurial spirit, send a kid to go to college, right?
[00:21:46]  It absolutely destroys the entrepreneurial potential, in my opinion.
[00:21:49]  I always laugh when someone says, I ask, what are you studying?
[00:21:52]  They say, I'm studying entrepreneurship.
[00:21:53]  I said, you don't study entrepreneurship.
[00:21:55]  You do entrepreneurship.
[00:21:56]  No offense if anyone's studying entrepreneurship.
[00:21:59]  You do it.
[00:22:00]  You take a risk.
[00:22:01]  You get into the market.
[00:22:02]  So I'm generally not a fan of left-wing enterprises because you know why I'm not a fan of it?
[00:22:10]  I'm not a fan of it because now if they have an idea, ideological shift, then that's great.
[00:22:16]  Like if these left-wing Goldman Sachs firms say, you know what, we're leaving New York because of the crime, because of the vagrancy, because of the schools, because of the taxes, and we're going to Florida, and now we see the world differently.
[00:22:26]  It's the opposite.
[00:22:28]  These people leave these states and come to Texas with zero self-awareness as to why this state is more attractive than the hellscape that they actually voted for.
[00:22:39]  So that really bothers me, and it should bother you too.
[00:22:41]  Thank you.
[00:22:45]  Thank you for your show.
[00:22:46]  I've been listening since 2020 and just been more active.
[00:22:49]  It's really changed my life, actually.

=== Sticky Thoughts and ADHD (04:32) ===

[00:22:50]  So, anyways, I had a question more theological in nature.
[00:22:55]  I'm part of the Bible in 365 with your wife, Erica.
[00:22:58]  And the live stream QA with Pastor James Cadiz that you did in March, you made this statement, our thoughts don't matter.
[00:23:06]  And I, anyways, so I was just had a question just because, you know, we know Jesus was tempted without sin, but also just I had a problem with that with Proverbs, you know, the thought of foolishness is sin.
[00:23:17]  And then also, as a man thinketh in his heart, and then Jesus and the new covenant, as we're called to a higher standard, as New Testament believers, Jesus talks about you shall not commit adultery, but also if you look on a woman, it's less after her, whatever.
[00:23:29]  So could you just expound more what you meant by that?
[00:23:32]  Yeah, that's a great, that's a beautiful question.
[00:23:34]  So this is, I get into a lot of heated debates and the fact you're asking it publicly, I'll get into even more.
[00:23:40]  I think that the, Let's say the rigid interpretation of these verses have created unnecessary mental torment for a lot of Christians because they know very little about psychology.
[00:23:53]  So, the way psychology works, we know this, is there's something called unwanted intrusive thoughts or automatic negative thoughts.
[00:23:58]  Every single person in this room has them.
[00:24:00]  You're driving on the side of the street, you say, Oh, what would happen if I would pull my car over to the side of the road?
[00:24:04]  You can't control these, they pop up, they're weird, they're strange.
[00:24:08]  The improper interpretation of those verses is somehow those ideas are part of your identity.
[00:24:13]  That's rubbish, they're not.
[00:24:15]  It's the thoughts that you act on and that you associate that matter.
[00:24:19]  So, what I'm trying to do by saying that is I'm trying to make Christians that might have, let's just say, ADHD-type tendencies that have sticky thoughts, thoughts they can't get out of their head, where all of a sudden they're in these thought loops.
[00:24:31]  By the way, it's millions of Christians are told by their pastors that those thoughts are demonic or satanic.
[00:24:36]  The thoughts might be, but they actually are probably in a negative thought loop pattern.
[00:24:41]  It happens to all of us, by the way, that all of a sudden they're thinking they're in a sinful pattern when it's their behavior or the thoughts they identify with that matter a lot.
[00:24:51]  So, let me be even more precise.
[00:24:53]  If I had a thought that I thought was interesting and I wanted to do that, I wanted to all of a sudden pull my car over and run somebody over.
[00:25:01]  That's not good.
[00:25:01]  But if you have a thought and it's against your values and you attach to it, oh my goodness, that thought scares me.
[00:25:08]  God is not holding against that you at all.
[00:25:12]  And so, most pastors get this totally wrong because they don't understand, first of all, that people have garbage thoughts, and we call them garbage thoughts in particular.
[00:25:22]  But here's what they really don't understand: you have garbage, unwanted, intrusive thoughts that are sticky and remain sticky about things you care about.
[00:25:32]  And that you say, What do you mean?
[00:25:34]  The reason they become sticky in your mind is you think the thought is actually a threat to the thing you care about.
[00:25:41]  So, for example, I guarantee every Christian here has had an unwanted, intrusive thought before, sitting in church being like, I could blurt something out right now.
[00:25:48]  And that thought, right?
[00:25:49]  Everybody laughs, right?
[00:25:51]  Why?
[00:25:52]  Because you consider the ceremony holy and that thought scared you because you wouldn't want to do that.
[00:25:59]  Is that thought your identity?
[00:26:01]  No, it's what you do with the thought that matters.
[00:26:04]  You should laugh it off, scoff at it, right?
[00:26:06]  And so, there's a ton of psychological literature to support this, but I can't tell you how many young people email me and they say, Charlie, my pastor says I have to, you know, I have to really repent for these terrible, awful, negative thoughts I'm having.
[00:26:21]  I don't even want to have them.
[00:26:22]  Well, that pastor is misleading his flock.
[00:26:25]  The better way to approach it is, what are your values?
[00:26:28]  Not what are your garbage thoughts that might pop up every so often.
[00:26:32]  It's what you do with those thoughts.
[00:26:34]  And happy to expound on that more.
[00:26:37]  There's some great books that talk about this.
[00:26:39]  Dr. Amon, the whole book, Overcoming Unwanted and Intrusive Thoughts.
[00:26:43]  And the Christian world is ill-equipped for dealing with mental health in such a terrible, awful way.
[00:26:49]  And I'm happy to build that out even more.
[00:26:51]  I see this because I get hundreds of emails a week from young people.
[00:26:54]  Charlie, I'm dealing with suicide.
[00:26:55]  I'm dealing with depression and anxiety.
[00:26:57]  My pastor just says pray and do all these different things.
[00:26:59]  I'm getting no guidance.
[00:27:01]  I have been so underwhelmed at how the church has no idea what they're doing largely with these topics and these ideas because they'll cherry-pick a verse with no context and understanding exactly what it is.
[00:27:11]  If you have a weird or crazy thought that you don't agree with, there's nothing wrong with you.
[00:27:16]  In fact, that's as normal as a weird commercial showing up on a TV screen.
[00:27:20]  It's what you do with that thought that ends up mattering.

=== The Neoliberal Skin Game (10:07) ===

[00:27:22]  Thank you.
[00:27:25]  I'm going to go about 10 or 15 minutes longer.
[00:27:28]  Is that okay with you guys?
[00:27:29]  Okay, great.
[00:27:32]  Hi, my name is Lindsay.
[00:27:33]  I go to Texas AM.
[00:27:34]  And my question is: is there anything that the Conservative Party is doing wrong?
[00:27:39]  Oh, yeah.
[00:27:42]  Yeah.
[00:27:43]  Yeah, I'll take all 15 minutes on that.
[00:27:46]  Yeah, I mean, I do want to first celebrate what's going on.
[00:27:51]  I've been in this for 11 years now.
[00:27:53]  The conservative movement has changed a lot, largely for the better.
[00:27:58]  We have a lot thicker skin now for when the media tries to take out one of our own.
[00:28:04]  James O'Keefe would have been ostracized 11 years ago, and now he's been embraced warmly after they've tried to destroy his life.
[00:28:11]  That's a good thing.
[00:28:13]  I think we're now understanding the campaigns of obliteration and smear and slander.
[00:28:17]  I think that's really positive.
[00:28:19]  I'm not a fan of neoliberalism.
[00:28:21]  Neoliberalism is three big ideas that are combined together, which is that we should invade the world, invite the world, and import unlimited amount of foreign products.
[00:28:31]  And all three of those things simultaneously are good for us.
[00:28:34]  There's some truth that maybe some parts of trade can be helpful for you, but largely the unlimited free trade policies have been bad for the American worker and the American purchasing power.
[00:28:45]  Our immigration policies are absolutely insane and destroying the fabric of our country.
[00:28:50]  And in my personal opinion, I think it's a tragic mistake to get engaged in this Ukrainian proxy war against Russia.
[00:28:57]  I would rather see that money spent on the southern border.
[00:28:59]  That's my personal opinion.
[00:29:00]  Not everybody agrees.
[00:29:02]  Obviously, there's some agreement there.
[00:29:04]  So neoliberalism, here's the problem, is neoliberalism is largely rejected by all of you, but it's largely embraced by the people you send to Washington, D.C.
[00:29:15]  And we call them sometimes neocons.
[00:29:18]  I prefer the term neoliberal.
[00:29:20]  Neoliberalism has proven to be an ideological construct that is better for the people that already have power, wealth, and privilege, and not the people that want to try to make some power, wealth, and privilege for themselves.
[00:29:36]  And I'll prove it to you, right?
[00:29:38]  If you own a mega company, it is in your best interest to try to get the lowest wage labor possible, okay?
[00:29:45]  I don't necessarily fault them for it, but they want relaxed immigration standards for that.
[00:29:50]  It's not the best for you, though, especially even those of you that might have gone to college and you're $100,000 in debt, and now you have to go into a market to go compete against a foreigner, right, that didn't spend the $100,000.
[00:30:03]  And so some people might say, oh, that's a free market.
[00:30:06]  Yes, it is, but markets should point towards some good, right?
[00:30:10]  And when you don't get the good you're desiring, you should have the courage to say, let's put our own graduates first because we have $100,000 in debt and we have a moral obligation to the 19-year-old American more than the 19-year-old person from India.
[00:30:22]  The 19-year-old person from India is probably a very sweet person, but our own citizens should get priority over the foreign citizen.
[00:30:28]  That is the mantra of America First, right?
[00:30:31]  And it has proven to be a very popular political slogan, obviously, but it's philosophically and morally correct, in my opinion.
[00:30:40]  So what can the conservative parties that are conservative movement do better or what we're doing wrong?
[00:30:46]  Yeah, look, here's my number one thing is I don't think we have, I don't, okay, let me word it this way.
[00:30:57]  That I still deal with far too many people, not you, that believe we're dealing with an opposition that means well.
[00:31:06]  If there was just one takeaway I could give, I hear it all the time.
[00:31:09]  People say, Charlie, you know, we all want the same thing.
[00:31:13]  We just have different ways of getting there.
[00:31:16]  If you believe that lie, then I think you make a hundred other bad decisions after that.
[00:31:21]  You're willing to negotiate in bad peace.
[00:31:23]  You're willing to do all the in bad faith and all that.
[00:31:26]  But instead, if you believe they want something completely different, which is the fundamental transformation of the American Republic with no borders, a destroyed currency, you know, trans ideology everywhere and cultural Marxism, you should be more skeptical all of a sudden one of the dealing with them, right?
[00:31:41]  And again, to defend my parents' generation, we used to live in America where both sides wanted the same thing.
[00:31:48]  They had different ways to get there.
[00:31:50]  That country has changed, right?
[00:31:52]  It has been altered significantly.
[00:31:55]  Again, I don't delight in that, but you would never, no one in this room would ever do a business deal, get into a covenant, get into a relationship, or do a home transaction with somebody you knew that was dealing in bad faith.
[00:32:10]  Someone that you have a proven track record where they're not actually trying to accomplish the same mission that you are, whether it be the purchase of a home or a marriage, you'd say, I don't trust you because you want something different than what I do.
[00:32:22]  And that is the left.
[00:32:23]  They want something different.
[00:32:24]  And I'll prove it to you.
[00:32:26]  We want a closed border.
[00:32:27]  They obviously want 5,000 people coming across every single day.
[00:32:31]  And they celebrate it.
[00:32:32]  We believe that children should not be taught LGBT trans ideology.
[00:32:36]  They believe in it and they celebrate with it.
[00:32:38]  We believe that skin color means nothing and character means everything.
[00:32:42]  They believe skin color matters.
[00:32:44]  We believe in free markets and private property and low inflation.
[00:32:47]  They believe in the obliteration of free markets and private property and high inflation.
[00:32:52]  I could go through every single topic.
[00:32:54]  These are not policy disputes.
[00:32:56]  These are philosophy differences now, right?
[00:33:00]  Where we view the existence of man and God and the relationship between them.
[00:33:05]  And the final one, I'll say this.
[00:33:06]  Everyone in this room believes that there is a God and we are not him.
[00:33:12]  Regardless of your own religion, almost nobody on the left believes both those two things.
[00:33:17]  They might believe there is a God, but I am him.
[00:33:20]  Or they might believe that if there was, there is no God, but I'm in charge of everybody.
[00:33:25]  So the suitor conservatives realize we're dealing with the other side that does not share your worldview and does not want what you want, I think it'll be very liberating in more ways than one.
[00:33:35]  Thank you.
[00:33:36]  Appreciate it.
[00:33:39]  Hi, my name's Emily Williams.
[00:33:41]  I'm a sophomore in high school.
[00:33:42]  You started TPUSA in 2012 and you were fairly young.
[00:33:46]  What inspired you to do so?
[00:33:48]  It's a great question.
[00:33:50]  So I had great mentors that helped me, but I was motivated.
[00:33:54]  And believe it or not, I thought our country was falling apart in 2012.
[00:33:58]  I was like, wow, this place is falling apart.
[00:34:00]  We're going to lose this great place.
[00:34:03]  And yeah, imagine starting an organization now, right?
[00:34:07]  Well, the Lord has blessed us significantly over the last 11 years.
[00:34:10]  But I was motivated.
[00:34:11]  I mean, I went to public high school in the suburbs of Chicago.
[00:34:14]  It's a really sad tale.
[00:34:15]  It's Wheeling High School.
[00:34:18]  It was a great place to go to high school.
[00:34:20]  Lots of Marxist elements, but it's way worse now.
[00:34:23]  But it was mostly focused on economics.
[00:34:25]  Rich people are bad.
[00:34:26]  All the same sort of stuff.
[00:34:28]  But the high school got one thing right.
[00:34:30]  And I'm going to tell you how much the country has changed in 11 years.
[00:34:33]  It was 53% Hispanic high school.
[00:34:35]  So as a white man, I was in a minority, and no one talked about race.
[00:34:40]  It was one of the most racially diverse high schools, blacks, Polish, South Africans, Vietnamese, you name it.
[00:34:46]  And no one talked about race.
[00:34:47]  We won football games together.
[00:34:49]  We won basketball games together.
[00:34:50]  We did some great things.
[00:34:51]  No one cared about race.
[00:34:52]  There might have been an off-color, insensitive joke here or there.
[00:34:55]  And then you throw one back and that's it.
[00:34:56]  You're 17 years old.
[00:34:57]  Like, who cares?
[00:34:58]  The whole high school's been destroyed.
[00:35:00]  CRT, white privilege walks.
[00:35:02]  And I have seen the regression of a beautiful institution.
[00:35:05]  Sure, it had its problems, but I raised, I never felt anti-white.
[00:35:09]  I never felt anti-anything.
[00:35:10]  It was about character.
[00:35:11]  We had signs.
[00:35:12]  They took down the signs, by the way.
[00:35:13]  They had a whole statue that said character matters.
[00:35:15]  They took it all down.
[00:35:17]  Because it does not matter anymore.
[00:35:19]  Character is not important.
[00:35:21]  Skin color is important to the Marxists.
[00:35:24]  So it motivated me.
[00:35:25]  I thought we were losing our country.
[00:35:26]  But I'll be honest, I was so naive to actually what we were up against 11 years ago.
[00:35:31]  I was trying to warn audiences about overspending and too big of government.
[00:35:36]  I mean, that's a problem, but that's just one of several problems now.
[00:35:39]  And so, but look, the attitude I had 11 years ago is the same attitude I have today, which is what I do matters.
[00:35:46]  And I don't sit still well and I don't sit on the sidelines.
[00:35:48]  So you got to do your part.
[00:35:49]  The Lord has blessed us and me in a way where we're now playing a very big part, right?
[00:35:55]  But if you are saying, oh, and here, the only part of the question I want to make sure I clarify is that sometimes people say, but Charlie, I can never make as big of a difference as you.
[00:36:05]  Well, I actually don't know if that's true.
[00:36:08]  Because if I would have had that belief 11 years ago, when then, I don't know, Newt Gingrich was talking, well, then all this amazing work at Turning Point would not exist, right?
[00:36:17]  Yes, we are the rarity.
[00:36:19]  Yes, we are the exception.
[00:36:21]  Yes, but it was a lot of work, a lot of blessing, a lot of grit, but also a commitment that what I do matters.
[00:36:30]  I hope everybody leaves with that attitude, that my own individual action is incredibly important to the saving of Western civilization.
[00:36:38]  Thank you.
[00:36:42]  Hey, Charlie, my name is Howard Barker, and I'm with the Harris County Republican Party and the Party of Texas.
[00:36:48]  I really want to thank you for what you're doing here to help us out in Texas.
[00:36:52]  I also want to let you know that we have a formal program to try to promote and support conservative clubs on high school campuses like you're doing, and we're available to do that.
[00:37:02]  I wanted to try to pick up on an earlier question that asked, what specifically can we do to change things, to help things?
[00:37:12]  And they asked for four or five things.
[00:37:15]  And I think the first thing we can do is to join a Republican group.
[00:37:19]  Get current information on a regular basis.
[00:37:21]  There are lots of clubs that meet weekly and monthly.
[00:37:24]  You can do that.
[00:37:26]  Find your precinct chair.
[00:37:28]  They need a lot of help.

=== Lupron for Rapists (03:21) ===

[00:37:30]  There are a lot of things they don't do because they don't.
[00:37:32]  Or become one.
[00:37:33]  Yeah.
[00:37:34]  That's right.
[00:37:35]  When they try to find a precinct chair, they may find there is none.
[00:37:42]  There are a lot of unregistered voters, and there are a lot of voters who don't vote.
[00:37:45]  Get out there, have those difficult conversations, and find some unregistered voters.
[00:37:49]  And finally, try to encourage those discouraged voters who are opting out of the system.
[00:37:56]  I mean, they're so frustrated they don't want to vote.
[00:37:58]  They're afraid their vote's going to be stolen.
[00:38:01]  Let's change those minds because we can't lose our base that we have right now.
[00:38:05]  We have to grow it.
[00:38:06]  God bless you.
[00:38:07]  It's a great list.
[00:38:08]  Thank you for your leadership.
[00:38:12]  Hi, I'm Caitlin, and I would like to ask you a question about puberty blockers specifically because I was on them for a several amount of years for a different medical condition.
[00:38:22]  I wanted to know, how do we erase and remove these usage, the usage of puberty blockers?
[00:38:30]  If you don't mind me asking, would you agree they're pretty savage pharmacological agents?
[00:38:37]  They've left me with permanent irreversible damage.
[00:38:39]  So yes, yes, they are.
[00:38:41]  Yeah.
[00:38:41]  Well, God bless you.
[00:38:42]  We're here to support you, and thank you for saying that.
[00:38:48]  Well, we need more people to speak out against it.
[00:38:51]  Look, I don't, there's a lot of fights going on.
[00:38:54]  You know, the left, they came after me.
[00:38:56]  They said, oh, Charlie is overly obsessed with child medication.
[00:38:59]  I mean, they could spin anything, right?
[00:39:01]  No, I'm not overly obsessed, but I mean, you take one puberty blocker, for example, which it's an off-label use, Lupron.
[00:39:09]  I was on that.
[00:39:09]  You were on Lupron.
[00:39:11]  Okay, so do you know what Lupron is used for usually?
[00:39:14]  Chemical castration.
[00:39:15]  It's used for prostate cancer.
[00:39:17]  It's used for off-label for endometriosis.
[00:39:20]  And it was used for precocious puberty, which is what I had.
[00:39:23]  Yes.
[00:39:24]  And the first one that you mentioned, rapists used to be given Lupron.
[00:39:30]  And the ACLU and left-wing groups came in and said it's inhumane to give people that are rapists Lupron.
[00:39:38]  Also, the pharmaceutical company has been sued many, many, many times.
[00:39:41]  Abby V, the rest of the pharmaceutical companies that have came over and took over Lupron as a drug, they've been sued several times.
[00:39:48]  Degenerative disc disease, infertility, endometriosis, you name it.
[00:39:54]  People are having it.
[00:39:57]  I'm just kind of speechless at your courage because so to get, just so you understand, tens of thousands of young girls are being prescribed these every quarter that we know of, right?
[00:40:11]  For what probably is just misdiagnosed puberty anxiety, probably, right?
[00:40:16]  That could be rectified with counseling or time or patience.
[00:40:20]  And so this is not a small, isolated thing.
[00:40:22]  But so Lupron, even if somebody has prostate cancer, it basically brings your testosterone production down to zero and suppresses all your natural hormone production tendencies.
[00:40:35]  And so I'm going to actually have you answer the question.
[00:40:38]  What would your message be then to the world where they say, but it's the loving thing to give a 13-year-old Lupron?
[00:40:48]  It will ruin your life, period.

=== Suppressing Puberty Anxiety (07:36) ===

[00:40:51]  Point blank.
[00:40:54]  Well, damage your body, leave you permanently infertile.
[00:41:01]  It is terrible.
[00:41:03]  Well, God bless you.
[00:41:05]  And you have a community here of people that support you and thank you for speaking up, okay?
[00:41:09]  God bless you.
[00:41:14]  Just so you guys know, this is not some isolated thing.
[00:41:17]  We're going to have a generation of no exaggeration, anywhere between 500,000 to a million young women.
[00:41:23]  That's the rate that we're at right now, 10 years from now, that will say, what do you mean I can't have kids?
[00:41:29]  What do you mean?
[00:41:29]  Can I go back?
[00:41:31]  It is irreversible damage.
[00:41:32]  I cannot put into words.
[00:41:34]  If you do not believe me, go look up how severe and how savage Lupron is.
[00:41:39]  And that's one of a cocktail of 15 pharmaceutical agents that they are giving to teenage girls right now without parental consent.
[00:41:49]  They're doing it without ever telling the parents.
[00:41:51]  Yes.
[00:41:53]  Yes, my question is.
[00:41:55]  Decades of coups and corruption around the world, our politicians put us in the wrong side of history.
[00:42:01]  All the traumas created by drugs, alcohol, abuse, and peer pressure got us into a timeline of lies and illusions.
[00:42:07]  Damaged lost souls are driving our country with the iron fist.
[00:42:12]  It's not many cheeks we can turn.
[00:42:15]  It's not time to be silent.
[00:42:17]  The secrets of the universe has been known.
[00:42:19]  We will win in truth.
[00:42:21]  How are we going to address the cartels feeding our government?
[00:42:25]  We are a trade road in Houston.
[00:42:30]  What can we do?
[00:42:31]  And what can I do about that?
[00:42:33]  Great question.
[00:42:34]  Thank you.
[00:42:35]  So look, there's 87,000 kids that we know of that have gone missing in the last 90 days in the interior of the United States.
[00:42:42]  And I have to be lectured by the left that America had slaves 200 years ago.
[00:42:47]  Yeah, we have slaves now that you guys are facilitating on the United States southern border.
[00:42:50]  Majorcas wants it.
[00:42:51]  Biden wants it.
[00:42:52]  Kamala Harris wants it.
[00:42:53]  They're enthusiastic supporters of the new, forget the, you know, forget the Atlantic slave trade.
[00:42:59]  We now have the Southern Triangle slave trade that is coming through America.
[00:43:03]  87,000 kids that are in sex trades, prostitutes working in factories right now.
[00:43:08]  Look, what you can do, and you guys, I don't understand the excuse why Greg Abbott has not put a middle finger to Joe Biden and has militarized the Texas National Guard, had 100,000 people with tanks.
[00:43:20]  Do you have tanks?
[00:43:21]  Build them.
[00:43:22]  Tell the federal government they're no longer a sovereign.
[00:43:24]  Secure the border.
[00:43:24]  I've been saying that for those of you that follow my podcast, I've been saying this for a long time.
[00:43:28]  And we always get excuses.
[00:43:31]  Here's people say, well, Charlie, when will you be happy?
[00:43:33]  When it is zero people a day crossing through the Rio Grande sector.
[00:43:37]  Why is the governor of Texas not doing that?
[00:43:40]  And I'll be honest, it's just, he's a wuss.
[00:43:43]  He's a nice wuss.
[00:43:44]  He's a pleasant wuss.
[00:43:45]  He's not a liberal wuss, but he's a wuss.
[00:43:49]  And you guys are being invaded, and kids are being sex trafficked.
[00:43:52]  He is overseeing the greatest slave trade in modern America.
[00:43:56]  There is no other, you might say, well, Charlie, what would you do if you're a governor?
[00:43:59]  It's not that hard.
[00:44:00]  You mobilize the citizen army and deputize them, give them weapons and training for three weeks.
[00:44:06]  You make the entire National Guard to the southern border.
[00:44:08]  If Joe Biden tries to reclaim the National Guard, say, no, we're a sovereign state.
[00:44:11]  We control our own borders.
[00:44:12]  You're being invaded every day by the cartels.
[00:44:14]  This could be fixed in a month, but we do not have political leaders that want to fix it.
[00:44:19]  Thank you so much.
[00:44:23]  Hey, Charlie, I've been listening to you for like maybe two years now.
[00:44:26]  A lot of podcasts, but I come from Collin College in North Texas.
[00:44:31]  And I made the mistake of dropping out maybe a month ago because I decided to take teachers that I didn't know would be leftist.
[00:44:43]  And my mom had a huge sheet of teachers that she said to take.
[00:44:46]  I just decided to not listen to that.
[00:44:49]  And some of the classes we had to do, in the first week, we had to talk about our political affiliation in front of the class.
[00:44:56]  And I thought it would be fine until after I spoke that I was a conservative and I didn't believe in all the leftist pushing that schools are teaching today.
[00:45:05]  I would not be taken seriously ever again in that class in any of my classes.
[00:45:10]  And so, I mean, I decided to drop out.
[00:45:12]  And like, there are a lot of conservative kids at Collin College that they can't be, like, they just can't speak out because they don't want to be targeted by the majority of the leftist students there.
[00:45:22]  And there are a huge majority there that are very violent.
[00:45:26]  And they, like, if you say something that they don't agree with, they will, like, they will assault you.
[00:45:30]  It has happened there before.
[00:45:32]  That's what they do.
[00:45:32]  So I will be going back in the fall to the technical campus.
[00:45:36]  And I will be a college student again.
[00:45:38]  The first thing I want to do there is start a turning point chapter there.
[00:45:40]  I love it.
[00:45:41]  Because people there need to be represented.
[00:45:43]  And if it's not fair that these students are being shut down, because there's nothing you can say.
[00:45:49]  If you say anything that's different than what the teachers push, you'll be shut down and you'll be told to leave the classroom.
[00:45:53]  So that's why I want to start a turning point chapter there to represent the students who can't voice themselves.
[00:45:58]  So here, let me just give you, I love it.
[00:46:00]  We're going to support you.
[00:46:01]  But let me kind of challenge you for one thing.
[00:46:04]  Become so good that you can win over your classmates.
[00:46:06]  And you might say, well, Charlie, what does that take?
[00:46:08]  20,000 hours of study.
[00:46:10]  Get started.
[00:46:11]  Listen to my podcast.
[00:46:12]  Listen to Matt Walsh.
[00:46:13]  Listen to Milton Friedman.
[00:46:14]  Read Thomas Soule books.
[00:46:15]  Take the Hillsdale online courses.
[00:46:18]  Within a couple hundred hours of study, you're going to become really sharp.
[00:46:21]  And then all of a sudden, you're going to know the right questions to ask.
[00:46:23]  And that's the other thing.
[00:46:24]  Never tell a left-winger, a liberal, or independent what you believe.
[00:46:28]  Ask them what they believe.
[00:46:29]  And use the questions as a guide towards truth.
[00:46:31]  Why do you believe that?
[00:46:32]  Does that work?
[00:46:33]  Well, then, what's your definition of truth?
[00:46:36]  So make it a challenge as you return to class this fall to be super 20,000 hours is not physically possible before the fall, but you get to 2,000.
[00:46:45]  I think so.
[00:46:46]  Now it gets 200.
[00:46:48]  But it's the 20,000-hour rule.
[00:46:50]  People say, Charlie, how do you get so good at this?
[00:46:52]  I've been doing this for 11 years, right?
[00:46:54]  I've given 4,000 speeches.
[00:46:56]  I've done 2,000 radio broadcasts, right?
[00:46:59]  1,500 television interviews, not to mention the study in between.
[00:47:02]  You do that, you start to master a subject, right?
[00:47:05]  And you start to see patterns and you can predict things ahead.
[00:47:08]  So become so convincing you can win those people over that think they hate you.
[00:47:12]  Yeah, thank you.
[00:47:12]  We got your back.
[00:47:13]  Thank you for starting the chapter.
[00:47:14]  God bless you, okay?
[00:47:15]  We'll do two more.
[00:47:16]  These will be the last two.
[00:47:19]  You hold it?
[00:47:22]  Hi.
[00:47:23]  My name is Mariano.
[00:47:26]  I am from Texas' favorite country, Mexico.
[00:47:31]  But yeah, first of all, I want to say thank you because you have really been an inspiration.
[00:47:38]  You really speak the truth.
[00:47:40]  And I think that's important because we are living in very difficult times, as the other speakers have said.
[00:47:47]  Like there's evil forces out there trying to battle humanity and end up all the good that we have.
[00:47:55]  I feel that it is important for me to represent because as a Mexican gay immigrant that lived five years in San Francisco, and I used to think of myself as a liberal person, I can really say that they are no longer, even though I do think that most Democrat people are good people, I do think that they don't know anymore what they are defending.
[00:48:17]  And because let's just say, they say that grooming children and telling them that changing their gender is correct and then mutilating their body is correct.

=== God Intervenes in Hard Times (12:37) ===

[00:48:28]  That is not correct, and that is not the solution.
[00:48:31]  So that's where I draw my line as a gay person.
[00:48:35]  As an adult, you can do whatever.
[00:48:37]  But anyway, this is a long discussion, I know.
[00:48:40]  My question goes more related to in the last two years, we have seen a lot of news and mainstream media trying to censor the truth in many, many, many fields.
[00:48:54]  Medical professionals and people in all areas.
[00:48:58]  And if you don't go along with the narrative that they want to do, they are going to censor us.
[00:49:03]  But that, if I understand correctly what I understand of this country, goes against the amendments, right?
[00:49:09]  So how, why haven't we really been able to protect our rights?
[00:49:14]  And why haven't we been able to stop the authorities when they are not following the rules?
[00:49:19]  So great question.
[00:49:20]  And God bless you.
[00:49:21]  And thank you for being here.
[00:49:22]  So, and I would hope to agree that 90% of the country could believe grooming of children is wrong.
[00:49:29]  I hope you're right.
[00:49:30]  So really quick.
[00:49:31]  So yes, the First Amendment, Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion or freedom of speech or freedom of assembly.
[00:49:38]  However, if you're a private company, you're not, that doesn't apply to you.
[00:49:42]  Where it gets tricky, though, and what we need to then emphasize, why did the federal government then, why were they allowed to then shut us up?
[00:49:48]  That's illegal.
[00:49:49]  Remember, the Constitution are not rules for us.
[00:49:52]  The Constitution are rules for the government.
[00:49:54]  It's completely different.
[00:49:56]  It's the first form of government ever where they decide to restrain government before they ever do a law for the people.
[00:50:02]  It's a pretty remarkable thing, right?
[00:50:04]  The Bill of Rights is a Bill of Rights reasserting God-given natural rights for you for what the government can't do.
[00:50:10]  So, for example, you might say, oh, Charlie, that's an exaggeration.
[00:50:13]  No, it's not.
[00:50:14]  When the Federal Bureau of Investigation actively went to Twitter and met on a weekly basis to shut up my Twitter account, that's against the law.
[00:50:22]  That's the government breaking the law.
[00:50:25]  And that needs to be exploited in the courts.
[00:50:27]  And people need to go to jail for a very, very long time for what they did.
[00:50:31]  Because the government is not allowed to shut you up.
[00:50:34]  They're not allowed to shut you up through proxy or through ally or through a wink and a nod or through an affiliate.
[00:50:40]  They cannot do that.
[00:50:42]  And so, but this leads to a broader point.
[00:50:45]  They need to censor us, though.
[00:50:47]  Censorship is a key ingredient in the formula for the totalitarian takeover.
[00:50:54]  This is why you might love him or hate him or think I have a very, I think, nuanced view where I find things objectionable about him, but also interesting and important.
[00:51:03]  Elon Musk buying Twitter is without a doubt a glitch in their censorship matrix.
[00:51:08]  It is.
[00:51:09]  And Rumble being on the scene and being a YouTube competitor is a very good thing.
[00:51:16]  They need to be able to stop dissident ideas.
[00:51:19]  They call dissident ideas disinformation, when in reality, it's information they don't like.
[00:51:25]  It's ideas that don't fit their narrative.
[00:51:28]  It is, I believe, a crime against humanity that we for years were not able to have a robust discussion online about early treatments for the Chinese coronavirus.
[00:51:39]  We weren't allowed to talk about it.
[00:51:41]  Is ivermectin?
[00:51:42]  I don't know, does it work?
[00:51:43]  Vitamin D levels, any sort of correlation, right?
[00:51:46]  IV therapy, baby aspirin.
[00:51:49]  Are there any sort of cross-blind clinical trials?
[00:51:51]  You were not able to mention that on social media.
[00:51:54]  I wasn't.
[00:51:54]  I had my social media obliterated because I tweeted out, wow, this is interesting.
[00:51:58]  Looks like there might be a cocktail of drugs, which actually ended up being the case.
[00:52:03]  And now I have to watch March Madness or football.
[00:52:06]  What do I see nonstop?
[00:52:07]  Pax Lovid brought to you by Pfizer as an early treatment.
[00:52:10]  Oh, now we can talk about treatments after you made your billions of dollars mandating the vaccine that doesn't work and isn't safe and is not effective.
[00:52:18]  Now you guys can do early treatment saves lives.
[00:52:21]  I mean, this is criminal, evil, diabolical type behavior that this regime has engaged in.
[00:52:28]  But the censorship thing drives me nuts.
[00:52:31]  But the censorship of the 2020 election, the censorship of Hunter Biden's laptop, right?
[00:52:37]  We were not allowed to talk about Hunter Biden's laptop for a whole month leading up until you might say, Charlie, what do you mean not allowed to?
[00:52:43]  I lost access to my Twitter account because I mentioned the Hunter Biden laptop.
[00:52:49]  I could not get into my Twitter account for two weeks because they said I was a spreader of disinformation.
[00:52:54]  They said it's not true that Hunter Biden left the laptop in Delaware.
[00:52:58]  This is Russian disinformation.
[00:53:00]  And they did that in the critical, and then as soon as the election ended, everyone's like, okay, it's over.
[00:53:03]  We got what we wanted.
[00:53:04]  And so how do we fight against it?
[00:53:08]  I have a lot of ideas.
[00:53:09]  I talk about it on my show.
[00:53:11]  I certainly don't have time here, but I would love to see some Republican attorneys general to start use handcuffs and subpoenas and perp walks for these criminals that have abused their power.
[00:53:21]  God bless you.
[00:53:21]  This will be the last question.
[00:53:22]  Thank you.
[00:53:24]  Sorry, we just got to get to the last one.
[00:53:25]  Thank you very much.
[00:53:26]  Hi, I'm Hannah Gibson, and I go to Bradley's Port College.
[00:53:31]  And thankfully, I was homeschooled.
[00:53:33]  Praise the Lord.
[00:53:34]  So it was quite a culture shock going to community college.
[00:53:39]  And my first semester, I'm a theater major, and my theater class is showing I'll be clean and say drag shows and saying this can be your job and showing my sociology class will show picture of a nude man and saying this is the culture of this tribe.
[00:54:01]  And I have a classmate who has a professor who has weed growing in their classroom.
[00:54:09]  How do we stop these crazy liberal professors?
[00:54:13]  I mean, look, I'm going to keep on saying the same thing.
[00:54:14]  You guys have a wuss as a governor.
[00:54:16]  These schools should be defunded a long time ago.
[00:54:18]  Why are they receiving, I don't understand, like, make the argument for me, okay?
[00:54:22]  You are actively allowing the bacteria of liberalism to take over your state.
[00:54:27]  Use some antibiotics, right?
[00:54:29]  Which is called courage.
[00:54:31]  Courage is the great antibiotic.
[00:54:33]  No, you're not allowed to grow weed in a classroom.
[00:54:35]  Go do something else freak.
[00:54:36]  Like, seriously, that's just weird, okay?
[00:54:38]  I mean, it might work in Austin, I guess.
[00:54:40]  And I mean, people might say, well, Charlie, isn't that, you know, too heavy-handed?
[00:54:44]  I'm sick of losing beautiful places in America.
[00:54:47]  And I'm sick of losing Texas and Georgia and Arizona because they are the ones that are allowed to be forceful.
[00:54:54]  And they're the ones that are allowed to push this ideology.
[00:54:56]  Now, you mentioned something very interesting.
[00:54:58]  I used to make fun of theater majors, no offense, of that you'll never be able to find jobs.
[00:55:02]  With the new drag queen thing, I actually think the left is going to have a lot of jobs for theater majors now.
[00:55:09]  I mean, think of all the libraries that kids need to have, you know, people torque in front of them.
[00:55:14]  Yeah, no, it's a boom industry, actually.
[00:55:16]  They're shutting down the Permian Basin, but they're going to replace the jobs, all the fossil fuel jobs gone with men in thongs in front of 11-year-olds, which is happening thousands of times across the country, by the way.
[00:55:28]  So, look, thank you for being involved, and I'm glad you were homeschooled.
[00:55:34]  We need actually conservatives in theater.
[00:55:35]  So, we do.
[00:55:37]  It's going to be a tough road, though, if you ever tell people your values because they're very totalitarian.
[00:55:43]  The T in LGBT stands for tyranny.
[00:55:48]  It is not enough that you say, because again, all of us, I think, are comfortable within America where you make your own personal decisions.
[00:55:56]  And I don't want to overly police that, right?
[00:55:58]  We all agree with that.
[00:55:59]  Now, laws are a separate discussion, obviously, but it's never about that.
[00:56:03]  It's not about tolerance.
[00:56:05]  And that tolerance quickly becomes that you must personally accept it, even if it's against your values.
[00:56:11]  And then you must celebrate it, where they say, Where is your pride flag in your window for a whole month?
[00:56:16]  Why aren't you showing up for the parade?
[00:56:18]  Like, I thought this was about tolerance.
[00:56:19]  Now it's mandatory celebration, and then it's mandatory participation.
[00:56:26]  That you must actively be engaged in participating in the exercise of whatever type of thing they're doing.
[00:56:34]  We here love freedom, we love liberty, so we actually don't think a lot of our mind space is not dominated by people that disagree with us halfway around the world, right?
[00:56:45]  But right now, right now, there are groups of trans activists in San Francisco that are super worried that 300 people are meeting in Harris County and why they don't see the world the way they do.
[00:56:57]  These people have more evangelistic zeal than Christian missionaries did in the 1800s about finding lost indigenous tribes for the gospel.
[00:57:06]  The only problem is that they're not selling the salt and light and the good word.
[00:57:11]  These people are selling things from the pit of hell.
[00:57:13]  Yes.
[00:57:15]  These people are coming and trying to make you believe to conform in a certain ideology.
[00:57:18]  So, God bless you.
[00:57:19]  Thank you.
[00:57:20]  Really appreciate it.
[00:57:21]  So, in closing here, everybody, if my language is too forceful, hopefully, I woke you up because it's the country you're living in.
[00:57:29]  And we need grassroots people to rise up and to do something.
[00:57:33]  So, let's just recap what you can do.
[00:57:34]  If you're a student and you are not yet running a turning point chapter, please do that and start a turning point chapter, high school chapter, or college chapter.
[00:57:43]  If you are a parent, I implore you that if you can, if you can, if you can, to take your kid out of government school, I'm not telling you what to do, but if you send your kid to government school, you're playing Russian roulette with their values.
[00:57:56]  We're not going to send our daughter to government school.
[00:57:59]  If you have to send your kid to government school, then you got to be a 24-7 operation overseeing curriculum, running for school board.
[00:58:06]  And that's fine.
[00:58:07]  We need all fronts.
[00:58:08]  We need to occupy all lanes.
[00:58:10]  And then finally, I want to just reinforce the spiritual disciplines, right?
[00:58:14]  You need to pray for your nation on a regular basis.
[00:58:16]  You need to fast for your nation on a regular basis.
[00:58:19]  And then finally, you need to learn about your nation on a regular basis.
[00:58:22]  We, I think, do a pretty good job on our podcast.
[00:58:24]  I'll put up a QR code if you guys want to listen to it.
[00:58:27]  We do three podcasts a day.
[00:58:28]  There's other great podcasts too you guys can listen to that you could, but that which you do not understand, you cannot save, okay?
[00:58:36]  And the key, I think one of the keys to saving America to turning around this country is going to be millions of people that do not know each other, but believe that there's other people that are doing the same thing as them that are doing dutiful action every single day, doing the hard work, the long work.
[00:58:56]  You know, I get asked often, they say, Well, Charlie, the country is falling apart.
[00:58:59]  What is the point?
[00:59:00]  And I say that attitude is exactly why we're in the mess that we are in.
[00:59:04]  Martin Luther famously said that even if the world was ending today, I would still plant an apple tree.
[00:59:09]  Even if you believe the country is falling apart, which is past the point of salvation, which I don't believe it is, you would still do the thing that will help the next generation be able to thrive and succeed.
[00:59:19]  To end on a spiritual note, many of you believe in a God that loves you, but also a God that expects something from you.
[00:59:28]  As an act of worship to that God, I implore you to read the scriptures correctly, that God cares whether or not you fight for the community around you.
[00:59:40]  Liberty is not man's idea.
[00:59:42]  It's God's idea.
[00:59:43]  God has intervened time and time again in this nation.
[00:59:46]  The question is, are we going to step up with courage and boldness?
[00:59:51]  What do you want to be caught doing when Jesus comes again?
[00:59:54]  It's a good question, right?
[00:59:56]  And if it's just kind of be sitting around and run into the hills, then so be it.
[01:00:00]  We have a beautiful nation.
[01:00:02]  It's the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
[01:00:04]  The Constitution's the greatest political document ever written.
[01:00:08]  Am I a pessimist and am I an optimist?
[01:00:11]  It depends wholly on your action.
[01:00:13]  Some of you probably say, Charlie, I've done everything that's been asked of me.
[01:00:16]  I watched Tucker Carlson on Fox News.
[01:00:18]  I bought the pillow.
[01:00:19]  I've done everything that has been asked of me.
[01:00:22]  By the way, promo code kirk at mypillow.com, just so we're clear.
[01:00:27]  Every day, it's a long slog.
[01:00:29]  It's the little work that matters.
[01:00:31]  And together, we will have a fighting shot.
[01:00:34]  I do not come with easy answers.
[01:00:35]  I do not come with a guarantee of temporal victory.
[01:00:38]  Here's what I can guarantee, though, is that we haven't lost and that victory is possible if we rededicate ourselves to it.
[01:00:46]  God bless you guys, and thank you for supporting Turning Point USA.
[01:00:49]  Thank you.
[01:00:52]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[01:00:53]  Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[01:00:56]  Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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