All Episodes
Previous Next
Plain Text
May 6, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
01:13:43
How to Win the Culture War — LIVE from OutWest Bible Church

Charlie heads to Idaho Falls, Idaho, to have an incredibly important discussion on the truth behind the Trans movement, how to save your kids from woke ideology, the importance of strong churches, and takes audience questions.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcriber: nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2, sat-12l-sm, and large-v3-turbo
|

Time Text
Incredible Support for the Program 00:01:43
Hey everybody, today I'm Charlie Kirk Show.
Enjoy this incredibly important conversation.
But first, I want to thank those of you that support our program at charliekirk.com slash support.
That's charliekirk.com slash support.
I want to thank in particular Carla from Wisconsin.
Thank you so much for the support.
I want to thank James from California, Cheryl from New Jersey, Crystal from New Mexico, David from Pennsylvania.
I want to thank Todd from Michigan and Rebecca from Ohio.
Become a monthly supporter at charliekirk.com slash support.
It keeps us doing content and staying strong.
That is charliekirk.com slash support.
Buckle up, everybody.
Here we go.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
I want to thank Charlie.
He's an incredible guy.
His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
That's why we are here.
Wow, it's a big room.
Hello, everybody.
Good to see you.
Hey, Charlie's been tearing it up for about 11 years and having this vision and passion.
Jumped in at 18, but you really had that.
Give some people that are not as familiar with you, Charlie, just a little bit of your launch.
First of all, I love Idaho.
I think that we're going to talk a lot about Idaho tonight.
I think Idaho is one of the places that is going to be critical to the future of America, especially towns like this.
The American Church Must Wake Up 00:03:44
So I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade in the suburbs of Chicago.
Anyone from Illinois?
Any refugees?
Anybody?
You know, the fun thing about being from Illinois is we have term limits in Illinois.
It's different than most states.
It's one term in office, one term in jail.
And so when we ask for our governor's cell number, we actually mean his cell number.
It's a little different than most states.
So anyway, we grew up in Chicago, gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.
Most important decision I made in my life.
I encourage all of you that have not made that decision to come into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ to do that.
But I've always loved politics.
I've loved America, but I was taught early on, incorrectly, that my political views and my faith should be separate.
That you shouldn't mix the two.
And it's okay to have political views.
It's okay to have faith views, but they're different.
And that is not true.
The founding fathers, when they were thinking about how to design a government, they cited the book of Deuteronomy more than any other book.
The founding fathers, 55 out of 56 of them, were Bible-believing church-attending Christians.
The idea of morality and ethics of what is good, true, and beautiful all comes from the word.
And I was really challenged by my now pastor, who you know very well, Pastor Rob McCoy, during all the lockdowns.
And so I know we have some people, you guys listen to my podcast or watch us on live streaming, and thank you for that.
And I'm very honest when I fall short, I had the worst prediction in American podcasting, in the history of American podcasting, nearly three years ago.
You guys can look it up.
It was right during the beginning of the Fauci virus and the lockdowns.
And I said, I had this whole thing, right?
I wrote the whole thing.
I was so excited because I thought I was so right.
And I said, okay, these lockdowns, they may be coming, but let me tell you, the American church, they're not going to be told what to do by a local mayor or a local leader because the church loves liberty.
And that was the dumbest prediction in the history of American podcasting.
The church doesn't love liberty.
Some churches do.
Pastor Rick does, so many others, and so many good churches, but it's a minority of a minority.
No, the American church is largely filled with cowards.
A lot of pastors that care about bigger budgets and bigger buildings and skinny jeans and giving TED Talks and all that sort of stuff, they are not fierce and bold and courageous.
In fact, they locked down and they allowed this tyranny to really set in.
And then a couple months later, all of a sudden we decided to burn our country down from within based on a lie.
We called it Floyd de Palooza.
And like, oh, yeah, it's racial justice to burn down a Wendy's.
It's perfectly okay to loot.
And pastors were then talking about critical race theory and critical theory.
And I said, What is going on with the church?
And it was a wake-up call for me because I was a political guy as a Christian looking into the church saying, You guys have no idea what you're doing.
And we decided to then, I said, it's decided to go speak at a bunch of churches and learn.
I've spoken at over 100 churches across the country.
There are so many wonderful pastors out there, but they're few and far between.
And they're less than 5%, in my estimation.
And I believe one of the main reasons we are in the mess that we are in in America today is because the American church is no longer counselor to the king, is no longer standing boldly or courageous.
It's no longer telling the congregation what the word of God has to say about what's happening on the nightly news.
And instead, American Christians have become spectators to the downfall of America when in reality we should be leaders and calling good good, calling evil evil, protecting children especially, getting involved in the educational fight.
Identity Wars and Mental Health 00:14:59
So it just should be a non-non-issue.
And so this is, I do a lot of different things.
I visit college campuses, so you don't have to.
I run Turning Point USA, which is the nation's largest student movement fighting.
Thank you for the support of Turning Point USA.
I believe Turning Point USA is the most important organization in America.
I'm very biased, obviously, but let me prove it to you.
We are the most attacked organization in America.
Most death threats, most physical intimidation, most people coming after us.
The enemy only attacks the things that they consider to be a threat.
And so lots to talk about tonight, and I'm honored to be here.
But that's a little bit of my story.
And been 11 years of fighting, and we're just getting started.
Amen.
And praise God.
And it's such a joy, Charlie, just in front of everybody here.
What a joy for me to be so inspired by Charlie's youth, his boldness, his prowess.
God has his hand on Charlie to do this.
It's such a blessing.
And when you get older, I'm 58, I mean, you really start looking at that next generation, like, who's going to carry the baton?
So, Charlie, what a blessing.
Charlie, let's jump in head deep in transgender delusion.
I mean, take it, go fight, win.
Yeah, I think this is one of the most important issues happening in America.
I don't know if it's here yet in Idaho Falls.
I don't know if it's here.
Yeah, I mean, they don't stop.
Look, so what is the trans issue?
Let's take a step back.
So, we used to call this gender dysphoria, a mental issue, a mental delusion, a false representation of reality.
Mental delusions or mental issues are nothing new.
The question is: how does society respond to mental issues or mental delusions?
So, we as Christians should deal with mental delusions and mental issues with love and compassion, but also with truth and with clear lines, right?
So, for example, if somebody is anorexic, it's a very serious issue, we shouldn't trivialize it.
But if somebody's anorexic and they say, I want liposuction, so anorexic, they think they're fat, they're not fat.
They go to a doctor to get a surgical procedure to remove the fat.
You say, No, that's not what you're actually really skinny, you're underweight, you have a false perception of what you actually are.
So, we're not new to dealing with mental illness.
What is new is allowing somebody's mental imagination, their daydreams, their delusions to all of a sudden terrorize our customs, our behaviors, and then go after our children.
That is what is new.
And people are very intimidated by this because they say, well, it's their identity.
No, it's not.
Okay?
It's their perception of their identity.
That is a completely different thing.
Your biological reality does not change based on your will, based on your imagination, or based on your delusion.
Just because you are a man and you start wearing a dress, it's the same as me being a white person wearing black face.
They're wearing woman face.
It does not change who they are.
And the trans thing is spreading across corporate America, across schools.
It is a social contagion that is making young people, especially young girls in particular, I'll tell you why, really challenge their own existence, their own mental health.
And it's largely spreading because people that know better are afraid to call this what it is, which is a social movement from the pit of hell.
And people say, well, Charlie, shouldn't we have, you know, tolerance of this?
No.
No, you should not have tolerance on people waging war on their own reality.
We shouldn't have tolerance of 12-year-olds getting hormone blockers.
We shouldn't have tolerance of thousands of kids that are being experimented on by these evil people that call themselves doctors.
So then people say, well, Charlie, what would you like to have happen?
I think what we should do is what we have done successfully the last 30 years, call it gender dysphoria and help these people.
But first, we must get our terms right because people say, well, Charlie, can't we live and let live?
How does somebody wearing a dress impact you that's a man?
And in reality, somebody's daydream doesn't impact me.
It doesn't impact you.
But that's not what's going on here.
Not for a second.
What's going on here is the dude that's wearing the dress wants to also be able to go into women locker rooms.
It's not about him wearing a dress.
He wants to be able to compete in sports against women.
It's not about him wearing a dress.
He wants you to change your language.
The T and LGBT does not stand for trans.
It stands for tyranny.
It stands for I'm going to use force to change your customs, your beliefs.
And so it's a test.
And right now we are failing to test everybody.
We're failing the test because we somehow believe that this is going to go away or this is going to kind of pass over.
No, this is the beginning of where they really want to go, which there's a lot of different, they want to go to transhumanism, assault on language, assault on truth.
But if all of a sudden agreed upon terms of reality, truth is, spoken truth, which is the logos, can be reconsidered, then what else are they going to be able to do?
The answer is almost anything.
They cannot answer the question, what is a woman?
They cannot answer that question.
Because as soon as they answer that question, they must all of a sudden agree that there is an objective reality, not a subjective reality.
What you're really living through is not a political fight.
It's not a cultural fight.
It is a spiritual battle as to whether or not we are going to agree that some things are absolutely true.
As the great Tucker Carlson said in his short Twitter video this week, the iron law of the universe is that true things will ultimately prevail.
And boy is that beautifully said.
The question is, why are we putting up with it?
And the answer is, we're not as courageous or as bold as we should be.
Very simple.
This transgender social contagion should have no place in public life, period.
If you have a problem, we're here to help you.
The best way to help somebody is to say you are not what you think you are.
You're at war with your own reality.
For example, if you're schizophrenic, if you have a mental delusion, reality is freeing.
Reality is liberating.
As St. Augustine beautifully said, if you argue with reality, welcome to hell.
Absolutely.
Because it doesn't stop there, Charlie.
Now I just read an article today about ableism.
People have a mental, they're going to go now in a wheelchair.
Think I'm disabled, but they're totally healthy.
The furries, the people that are furries, and they think they're an animal.
This happened right over there.
That's a real thing.
Yeah, it just happened right over here at a garden center there on South Yellowstone because I think I won't call out their names.
Who was there?
Anyway, a mom and a daughter were there, and there's an elderly man.
He's like 70 years old.
And this girl's got a tail sticking out of her, you know, out the, and he's just like an old guy.
I mean, it's stuck out there three feet.
It's not like he assaulted her.
He wiggled her tail because it was kind of sticking out by goes, hey, you got a tail.
But he was just, and they called the cops on him and said it was an assault for touching the tail.
And so where's it?
It won't stop.
Hell is way deeper than you could ever imagine.
And that's what they're bringing here.
Good people have to stand up against this Luciferian spiritual darkness that is spreading across America.
And pastors, if there's a pastor in the audience right now, if you're not speaking out against the trans thing, just resign as a pastor.
You were a 1980s pastor when America was a decent and free country.
All right, fine.
Like, you might be a nice person.
Go be a street minister, okay?
We need wartime pastors right now.
This thing's going after our kids.
It's going after our textbooks.
It's going after all society.
So it won't stop because as soon as you allow subjectivism, not objective truth, to reign the day, for example, they say, well, I should be able to pick my own pronouns.
Well, should we be able to pick our own adjectives?
I'm skinny, rich, successful, and an NBA athlete.
So what forms of reality are you able to reconfigure based on your own wishes?
This is the stuff that happens for a lot of different reasons.
It's spiritual darkness.
TikTok has a lot to do with it.
But then people say, well, Charlie, what do we do?
It's so simple.
The number one thing that you can do is you don't put up with it.
You just don't put up with it in your schools.
And this is one of the things.
A pastor the other day said, well, Charlie, it's not very tolerant of you.
I said, of course it's intolerant of me.
Why do you think we as Christians need to be tolerant?
Where does it say that in the Bible?
Can somebody find me that?
Where should we be tolerant of evil?
No, no, no.
God says you must hate evil.
Psalm 97:10, if you love God, you must hate evil.
Instead, we as Christians have bought into this passive peacetime approach.
And I fully acknowledge there are some people in the audience right now that are probably getting deeply uncomfortable.
You think you live in a country you might not live in.
I'm sorry.
These parasites are taking over everything.
I'm a wartime guy.
That's what I am, okay?
I don't mince words.
I'm blunt, right?
I'm a little bit, let's just say, too clear at times, is how people, too clear, right?
What kind of a country to live in.
I'm not politically correct.
But you know what?
I have a daughter now, and I'm not going to put up with these cockroaches taking over the country.
I'm not going to put up with it.
And I hope you feel exactly the same.
Yeah.
And so, you know, some things we can do about it.
You can, the public education system, first of all, let me just honor you who are good teachers and good administrators.
You're doing a great job.
We're not talking to you, but you're under tremendous pressure, like those who are in this place.
And there's a time we have to exit that.
So in Idaho, because we're talking about Idaho, right?
We have to go after the voucher system so that the money can follow a child, but that's not enough.
You have to really know what they're being taught.
In the Christian school, a lot of Christian schools and churches are going woke.
That's why in California, psychologists and psychiatrists, they only have one choice when somebody comes in with a gender dysphoria.
They can only affirm if they try to talk reason to them, they lose their license.
So you no longer are able to exercise free speech, free thought, free expression in the state of California.
And this is the way it is.
It's going to happen in Oregon and Washington, those three states.
And they have a kidnapping bill that's going to be passed in California that if you're 13 years old and you say you're trans and your parents disagree with that or they think you might be going through a phase, which by the way, those are your parents, you know, phases come and go, right?
You know what we now call a phase?
Go get surgery.
Yeah.
That's literally what the trans thing is telling kids.
What is the large, the biggest mover of the trans thing is not men actually want to be women.
The biggest mover is young ladies that are going through puberty.
It's understandable to have anxiety, you know, doubts.
That's totally understandable.
It's misdiagnosed puberty anxiety where they think that there's something they're not and they go look on TikTok and they say, wow, maybe I'm actually a man.
Well, they might have been something called a tomboy when I was growing up.
And then again, it's a phase.
You grow through it and you struggle with it.
You don't go in for surgery and give them Lupron.
This is not an isolated thing, right?
You know, in 10 years from now, because of the silence of pastors, we are going to have about 100,000 kids that are going to be suing.
They are going to say, I never had puberty.
I had my breasts removed all because of a lie.
This is going to be one of the most just catastrophic communities of people.
I've met with the transitioners.
So have you.
Chloe Cole, all these people.
There was this girl that came up to the other day at one of our events.
She's crying.
She's 17 years old.
She's like, Charlie, I can't get back into puberty.
Like, I thought I was trans when I was 12.
I was given all these drugs.
I was given Lupron.
Lupron is, it's illegal to give rapists Lupron, and we give it to young girls.
And so I don't know where Idaho stands.
Have you guys passed bills disallowing this or prohibiting it?
You have?
Has the governor signed it in the law?
This year.
You guys did that?
That's very good.
Good.
And you guys, your leaders deserve credit for that.
I can't keep track because there's been so many of them.
And look, the alphabet mafia and the purple-haired jihadis, they come out here and they say, oh, wow, there's a war on trans youth.
And like, there's all these bad laws being passed.
Don't let that phase you, okay?
Don't allow the name-calling of the opposition to get in the way of you protecting children.
Amen.
And because it's, and little, Governor Little did sign also, no transgender men can enter into the girls' sport.
So that's, I mean, that's a win.
That's a blessing.
That's good.
Yeah, it's a blessing.
And I think that people really don't understand, because you keep thinking, oh, let's just give them this concession and it'll go away.
No, the next, I want you guys to know, the next thing is they've changed the name from pedophile to minor attractive person.
So they call them a map, minor.
That's a real thing.
It's growing quickly.
It's a real thing.
And what they want to do now is strip away the barrier between age of consent so that they can go after small children and have no repercussions.
The United Nations just came out.
Their jurist committee came out and said, let's decriminal, decriminalize all drugs and all pedophilia or sexual things.
So it's like the Judeo-Christian ethic is we want to protect the most vulnerable in society, which is women.
You go to any third world country, women and children are abused and trafficked.
And isn't this interesting?
And I'd love you to speak to it, Charlie.
That they're fighting on the foundation of the freedom that Western civilization brought them to destroy it.
And they wouldn't even, in third world countries, they couldn't get away with this.
They would be dealt with in not as pleasant ways in third world countries.
So there are three types of people.
There are infants.
There are predators.
And then there are protectors of infants.
Every person can get into one of those three categories.
So an infant like Moses, a predator like Pharaoh, or a protector of infants, the midwives, which very well could have been Hebrew or Egyptian midwives.
We don't know.
The scriptures aren't clear.
Both are actually very interesting to think about.
So right now we allow Pharaoh.
We allow the predators to do whatever they want.
We need more people to be protectors of infants.
And including your own.
I'm amazed at how parents allow these kids.
I mean, why do you allow your kids to have smartphones for the age of 18?
I don't get it.
Why are you doing it?
I just don't understand.
And I know I probably offended half the parents in this room.
Good.
Arizona Midterms and Democracy at Risk 00:07:33
I hope I did.
You might as well give your kid digital heroin.
I don't understand.
And I can't, that's a whole separate spiel.
But let me just kind of talk about the one dynamic here that I think is important, which is these people will not stop unless we stop them, right?
We must stop them legislatively and culturally.
And this is why they had to take Tucker Carlson off the airwaves.
This is why they had to silence Tucker Carlson.
The thing they fear even more than laws, the thing they fear even more than legislators, is people speaking the truth.
Tucker Carlson had an optional cable television show, and yet they considered him a direct threat to the regime.
Why?
Because every night, Tucker Carlson, he went there.
He went after January 6th.
He went after the vaccine.
He went after Ukraine.
He went after the southern border.
He went after corporate power.
And they had to take him out because of all those things.
And that should be really encouragement for all of you.
It is the spoken truth against lies that is our hope.
These people fear the truth.
That's why they have to try to censor us.
That's why they have to edit out Robert Kennedy Jr.'s interview on ABC News.
This is why they have to do everything they possibly can to try to intimidate and punish us.
And so the trans thing, though, it's a test, and we are failing the test.
Right now, the test is, well, we're just going to kind of remain quiet and hope it goes away.
These are the most motivated, violent, aggressive.
I mean, how many pastors in America gave a sermon saying, hey, by the way, six Christians are dead at a school in Nashville at the hands of a trans shooter?
Most pastors wouldn't even mention it.
Yet those same pastors went up on, and they said, it's a really sad day that George Floyd was killed by a police officer.
So why is it that most pastors had to speak out against George Floyd, but six Christians are murdered by a trans activist in Nashville, and it doesn't even get a whisper?
Makes you think, doesn't it?
And the White House press secretary is encouraging it.
They need to rise up and fight.
Fight back.
They say that trans people shape the soul of the nation.
That's what Joe Biden and Kareen Jean-Pierre said.
They said that they need to fight back.
Yeah.
That's what they say.
And by the way, there was, praise God, the police in Colorado Springs did their job.
There was a planned mass shooting by another trans activist in Colorado Springs that was arrested right on the way to go commit that mass shooting.
Praise God, the police intervened, because that could have been a whole nother bloodbath.
Not to mention Riley Gaines, who does a lot of stuff with us at Turning Point USA.
She's fabulous.
The trans activist kidnapped her at one of our Turning Point USA events, violently assaulted her.
These people aren't going away, everybody.
They're using quasi-terroristic methods domestically.
And I mean, it shouldn't surprise you when you give a bunch of 17 and 18 and 19-year-old girls and pump in testosterone replacement therapy and then put them on antidepressants.
It shouldn't surprise you when they start acting erratically.
This kind of pharmacological intervention is not normal for a 19-year-old.
Yeah.
So, Charlie, I know we'll get some of those questions, but where do you see things going?
We went through the midterms and everybody was saying, hey, there's going to be this red wave.
And their talking points really seemed to work, which was we're going to lose our democracy.
We're going to lose our democracy all the time.
I was just so frustrated.
But it seemed to work.
I mean, the midterms?
Yeah.
Well, I have a couple of thoughts.
I think the RNC is a complete waste of time.
The Republican Party is totally...
Stop giving money to the RNC, everybody, please.
That's my first piece of rice.
They're a waste of time.
So for those of you that watch my show, know my opinions on this.
The game has totally changed, and it's not changed for the better.
We don't have elections anymore.
We have the game called democracy, which is basically who can put the most pieces of paper in the drop box in a 30-day period.
And John Fetterman is an example.
It doesn't matter who the candidate is.
It doesn't matter.
I mean, Joe Biden is going to be tough to beat.
That's not something to laugh at.
They are heavily favored to win again, win again, because they have relaxed signature verification.
We do not have secure elections.
We have mail-in ballots in every direction.
And so the midterms, I think, is more of a lesson of it doesn't matter who they run.
It doesn't even matter what the issues are, right?
It matters more of who's actually going to do the grassroots grunt work.
And that's what the RNC should be doing in these key and these early states.
I live in Arizona.
Carrie Lake should be governor of Arizona right now, period.
She should be governor of Arizona.
And so then the question is, then what do we do about it?
Well, in Idaho, I don't know as applicable.
You guys have a different problem here.
You guys have Democrats that masquerade as Republicans and then run for statewide office.
You guys got a primary, every single one of them.
You are not being represented well here in Idaho.
You are not being represented well.
I could go through example after example, but why don't you guys have someone as strong as Josh Hawley in the Senate?
Why?
Why is it that you have people in the Senate cheerleading for the Ukrainian proxy war?
I don't understand.
The southern border is wide open.
What has your senator done recently about that?
Nothing is the answer.
5,000 people every single day come across the United States southern border.
Anyway, so the Republican Party is broken.
We have to rebuild it as a grassroots party.
The midterms, big disappointment on a variety of different reasons and levels.
But look, going into 2024, Trump is probably going to be the nominee.
I think we should end the primary the same way the Democrats have.
Trump, whether you like him or hate him, a $500 million primary is not going to help us win the election going into 2024.
And I think instead we should spend $500 million on suing in Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia for voter ID, signature verification.
It's a much better expenditure than, oh, Trump be DeSantis.
You know, the only people that want Trump and DeSantis to go after each other is the mainstream media and Democrats, okay?
I know President Trump really well, and I say this, and I know Ron DeSantis.
I've given Ron DeSantis this advice.
You're going to lose, okay?
The guy is going to shred you to pieces, okay?
I don't want to see that.
It's almost like you don't want to see the guy go into the lion's den.
Like, he's unstoppable, okay?
You might love Trump.
You may hate Trump.
You know what?
I hope you hate Democrats more than your opinions on Trump or DeSantis.
Okay?
Trump was a great president.
People say, oh, I don't like his tone.
Sure.
Okay.
You know what I hate?
I don't like this regime.
I'm going to be very nice.
Okay?
The deep state, the administrative state.
So I think we actually need a rallying cry to unite our forces to invest in the states that really matter.
This is my personal opinion.
It's all going to come down to three states, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia.
Those are the only three states that matter.
Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina, and Florida are comfortably center right or red.
Donald Trump won all four of those states both times he ran.
He'll win them again.
So it comes down to those three states, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, three states, by the way, that he won in 2016.
He won again in 2020, but he wasn't able to be called the winner because of all the garbage that happens in our country.
And we need to make sure that he gets more ballots counted than the opposition.
And so I'm calling for a suspension of the primary.
You guys might disagree with that, but a long, drawn-out primary makes Joe Biden stronger.
Five Fake Religions Threaten Truth 00:08:11
Every day, we have these stupid, silly debates.
We're going to have the same outcome, okay?
Whether it's Donald Trump with 58% of the vote or 78% of the vote, it's not the candidate anymore that matters.
It is the machinery on the ground that matters the most.
And until we start suing the way Mark Elias sues, and we do signature verification, and we do voter ID lawsuits, we're going to say, oh, wow, we had this long primary, and we have no money, and they will go really hard in the key states.
I hate to lose, and I know you hate to lose as well.
And I'm afraid that our current trajectory right now is a long, unnecessary, bloody primary that will just make us weaker against the Democrats in 2024.
Amen.
You have a question for Charlie?
Just present it, and he'll do a great job answering it.
But before we do that, Charlie, I was mentioning just the playbook of the Hegelian, socialist, that whole dynamic.
And Charlie, can you, I mean, what we see in the progressive left, can you connect those dots a little bit?
Sure.
So a couple things.
It's the best way to take this.
Okay, so everybody here tonight, we believe two things.
We believe that there is a God and we are not him.
Amen.
Big revelation.
Absolutely.
The American Democrat Party does not believe either of those things.
That's a big deal.
It is.
So we're up against people that do not acknowledge a higher power.
Genesis 1-1, the whole ballgame.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
That sets up your whole worldview.
If you believe Genesis 1-1, I could play ball.
We used to be a country where most people we sent to D.C. believed in Genesis 1-1.
Now less than half believe in Genesis 1-1.
That changes everything.
If you don't believe that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, well, then you're your own God.
Who's to say what is true?
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
That means there's an objective morality, an objective ethical system.
That means there's a purpose to your existence.
It's not Darwinian.
It's not chaotic.
It's not confusing.
And so I believe the whole ballgame comes with the first sentence of the Bible.
We are sending people to D.C. in both political parties that are afraid to acknowledge that there is a God who judges them, that there is a God who has rules for our life.
And yes, a God that loves you enough to send a rescue mission.
But Genesis 1-1, I think, is our ignoring of that truth is one of the reasons that we are in the mess that we are in.
The second is Genesis 1, 26, and 1.27.
This gets into Hegelianism, right?
So very simple thing.
When pastors say, I don't do politics, you should ask them a very simple question.
What is a human being?
Say, hey, what is a human being?
They've never been asked that question.
Such a simple question, right?
They'll say, well, but what is it?
Like, what is the feature?
What is the characteristic?
So a secular humanist, if you don't believe Genesis 1-1, then your answer, obviously, to Genesis 1, 26, 1, 27 will be dependent on Genesis 1-1, right?
So a secular humanist that rejects Genesis 1-1 will say a human being is an accident.
Right?
That is the secular humanist belief, that we came into being through an accident of Darwinian evolution through millions of years, and we just so happen to end up the way we are.
Genesis 126, 127 says something completely different, that you're an image-bearer of the divine.
Whoa, that's totally different.
If you're an image-bearer, that means you're also an image-bearer.
That means we both have equal rights.
I'm not better than you.
I don't get to terrorize you or have supremacy over you.
We're equal in the eyes of God.
We both have a soul.
That's a political statement.
Genesis 1 through 126 and 127 is the most political verse alongside Genesis 1.1.
What is politics?
Politics is the question of who gets power.
That's it.
We have such a fake and negative view of the word politics.
Oh, it's divisive.
It's all this.
No, no, it's a question of who gets power.
And you know how Christians should immediately answer it?
God should always get ultimate power.
And yet, pastors say, I don't talk about this.
Everything political is actually biblical.
Everything.
They're just afraid to talk about it because they don't want two angry emails or to lose 10 congregants.
Guess what?
If you lose some congregants because you speak the truth, God will reward you.
It's okay.
In fact, you should be speaking truth to try to trim down your congregation every so often to make sure you're going verse by verse and chapter by chapter and you're not doing the woke thing.
So secular humanism, I don't have time to get into this.
I have a whole thesis on this.
There are five fake worldviews that replace Christianity.
This is why it just drives me nuts.
As you can tell, I have a pretty strong opinion about weak pastors.
They don't like talking to me for whatever reason.
Because if you don't proclaim Christianity, a fake religion will take its place.
Genesis 1 through 11, read correctly, is a refutation of pagan river civilization fake religions, otherwise known as polytheism.
This idea of monotheism, which is what Genesis 1 through 11 argues, is just so different, so unique, that it shattered the old fake gods.
So there are five fake religions that your kids learn if you send them to college.
There are five fake religions that you'll see on CNN.
And I can go through them really quick.
Earth worship, which is otherwise known as environmentalism, the fake religion of tolerance, the religion of scientism, the cult of diversity, if you will, right?
Or the religion of progress.
Those are the five big religions that fill the void.
And what we must recognize and realize is that if you call yourself a conservative, which I do, you are then acknowledging the why in our political involvement.
We're trying to stop evil from destroying what is good, true, and beautiful.
The bad guys are trying, quote unquote, to keep on progressing humanity away from what we consider to be good, true, and beautiful.
That's what they consider to be Hegelianism or the Hegelian dialectic.
So a lot of different ways I could finish this up, but if you look at the Western world, what we consider to be common sense is actually an inheritance of our Christian worldview.
We all are inheritors of a Christian tradition.
And I'll prove it to you.
It is not normal to say children are off limits.
Most civilizations today in America, they don't consider, not in America, in the world, and increasingly in America, consider children to be just fine.
Look at the Aztecs, the Incans, the Mayans, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans.
In Greece, the pinnacle of ancient philosophy, they used to say that boys were for pleasure and women were for children.
The Taliban has things called T-Boys, where they bring in boys and they rape them.
This happens all throughout the Middle Eastern world.
Right now, there are more slaves right now on the southern border than any other time in recent memory, and our leaders couldn't care less.
87,000 kids are slaves right now on the southern border, and most people just roll their eyes and they don't care, right?
When you become more secular, that which we deem to be evil spreads very quickly.
The entire civilization that we care about, Western society, is built on a biblical worldview, the whole thing.
And it's also going to be our great hope and our great restoration.
So how do I see this all playing out?
I have no idea.
Resetting Civilization Against One World Order 00:12:10
We'll talk about that throughout the night.
But I'll tell you right now, good people are not fighting hard enough.
They are not.
Amen.
I know many of you are fighting hard.
I know many of you are in the arena, but there's so much left to be done.
And you might say, well, Charlie, how do I know if I am in the arena or not?
How do I know if I'm fighting?
It's very simple.
How many enemies do you have?
If you do not have a long list of exhaustive enemies that want you dead, then you're a spectator.
Stop being a spectator.
Get in the arena.
Charlie, and I have enough enemies for the whole room full.
We'll share some with you because we want to be, you know, inclusive and share with you some of those.
Yes, we're going to go to questions.
All right.
If we can have the individuals with the microphones come to these two.
I think we have a fair amount of time for questions, too.
And I also want to acknowledge our Turning Point USA chapter leaders.
Are they around here somewhere, our students?
I don't know.
I saw them earlier, but you should give it up for them.
They do a great job.
They really do.
Okay, step on up, everybody, and let's do some questions.
I want to hear from you.
Let's do it.
Hey, our individuals, our servants, are going to hang on to the microphone, so just speak into it.
Don't take the mic from them because once we give it to you, some people don't want to give it back.
So you can speak into the mic.
Please ask a brief question, not a long, extended analysis.
Let's go over here.
Thanks for my question.
Last weekend in the media, you had two prominent commentators being fired.
Don Lamon from CNN and Tucker Carlson from Fox News.
Now, in my opinion, that can't be coincidence.
There's got to be some higher power that has done that.
Could you give us a panel?
Yeah, so I agree with you on the Tucker thing.
Don Lamont is just an idiot.
So, I mean, it's just that one.
Yeah, he was long overdue.
No, but the reason Don Lamon got fired is because they wanted to bury the story the day that Tucker got fired.
So CNN was like, perfect, get it done.
No one's going to notice.
And they were largely right because the biggest story was Tucker being canned.
Tucker got fired.
And he told us this in his video.
And I encourage you guys to check out my podcast because he's so smart.
Tucker's a friend.
Spoke to him the other day.
He's in great spirits.
I can't really share too much.
All I can say is you haven't heard the last of Tucker Carlson.
He's going to come back bigger and stronger than ever before.
That's all I can say.
That's all I can say.
We talked a little bit more earlier, but I'm not at liberty to share as much as I said.
But let me just say this.
If you listen to Tucker's video, here's what you have to know about Tucker.
He was reading when he did the video.
That means he wrote it.
And Tucker takes his writing incredibly seriously, right?
Therefore, if he wrote it, that means that he was trying to communicate something to you he couldn't say explicitly.
What he was saying is that he got fired because of what he was doing.
He got fired because he called out the vaccine, because he called out the proxy war in Ukraine, because he was challenging corporate power, because he was talking about election integrity.
And the one that I think personally that set them over the edge was the January 6th thing.
I think when Tucker aired the January 6th tapes, he crossed the Rubicon.
That's when Chuck Yuschumer came out and said, we got to take you off the air.
You know, I demand Rupert Murdoch.
All of a sudden, all that happened.
So you're right, it's not a coincidence.
Don Laman was only fired because Tucker was fired the same day, right?
They wanted to get rid of him for a while.
Take the spotlight out of Tucker.
Or not even off Tucker.
They just wanted to bury the story because they didn't want.
And I think they also did it as a way where Don Lemon was pretty upset he couldn't play victim for a day.
The guy's a real sicko, right?
He's really, he's not a good person.
But let me just finish with this with Tucker, okay?
James O'Keefe was taken out of Project Veritas.
Tucker Carlson taken out at Fox News, and Donald Trump indicted.
All within 45 days.
That is not a coincidence.
It looks like a plan.
Yeah, you're right.
And what do they have in common?
In their own way, they are relentless and courageous in exposing the administrative state, the pharmaceutical companies, the war machine, and they have to take them off the chessboard.
We are dealing with an opposition that is done talking.
They think talking is a waste of time.
They are going to pure force.
And you better believe they're coming for me next.
Of course, and they're already starting.
And so pray for us and support us if you can.
Hopefully I survive.
And if not, I'll move to Idaho Falls or something.
Cheers, Luke.
Let's go over here.
Thank you.
But yeah, thanks.
Hi, Charlie.
Welcome.
So happy that you're here.
Big fan.
I wanted to ask you if you would speak on the Great Reset and maybe specifically about open borders, how that plays into it.
So the Great Reset, if your pastor is not talking about the Great Reset, find a new church.
Okay?
So the Great Reset, if you don't know what it is, it's launched by the World Economic Forum.
I think one of your lawmakers went and spoke in Davos, actually, right?
Rich.
Yeah.
He's a big fan of all that.
So Davos is, they believe in open borders, one world currency, destruction of the U.S. dollar.
These are stated beliefs.
Don't believe me, go read Klaus Schwab's book, COVID-19, The Great Reset.
So I did a long presentation, two of them actually, with who I consider to be one of the most important truth tellers in America, Jack Hibbs.
And if you don't know Jack Hibbs, you check him out.
He's special.
So I won't redo all of it, but here's the best way I could say it.
If you believe they're trying to reset something, then it's logical to then believe you must break something before you reset it.
And you are living through the intentional breaking of America.
And they're trying to destroy our currency.
They're trying to flood the borders.
They're trying to allow all these different things to come into the country.
And Klaus Schwab wants this.
They want a one-world currency, a one-world government.
The best way I can summarize this, and this was the theme of my last conversation with Jack Hibbs that you guys can find on our podcast channel, is Genesis 11, where in the city of Babel, not the tower, the city of Babel, they said, let us make a name for ourselves.
It's exactly the same sort of unclean spirit that has filled the World Economic Forum.
Here's the biggest takeaway.
If you just remember one thing from tonight, I want you to know that the people we are fighting do not mean well.
These people are not stupid.
I hear it all the time.
Charlie, these people are so dumb.
They don't know what they're doing.
They know exactly what they're doing.
They want to break the United States of America.
It is an intentional transformation to reset.
America is all that stands in the way of the global great reset.
That's why the dollar may no longer be the world reserve currency in the next 12 months.
That's why they're allowing 5,000 people across the border every single day.
That's why they're destroying our military.
You know, military recruitment is down 25 to 30 percent.
That's why they had to mandate the vaccine to try to get the strongest, most self-determined alpha males out of the U.S. military.
This is all strategic, everybody.
Mass demoralization, you know, as you say, mass destabilization.
And here's the one thing that should give you a micron of hope.
They are behind schedule.
Why?
Because they were so cocky and prideful, and they didn't think in a million years that Donald Trump would have won the 2016 election.
And he did not stop it, but he did slow a lot of this down.
He was such a disruption.
He was such sand in the gears, right, that they're trying to play catch up.
Everything you see right now is they're trying to get back on pace, and they're not on pace.
Hillary Clinton was supposed to usher in the new world order uninterrupted.
What did Donald Trump do?
Got us out of the Paris Climate Accord, got us out of the World Health Organization, restructured our trade deals, held China accountable, pushing back against these savage globalists every day, right?
Every day.
And the, yeah, he was doing his best to build the wall, all that sort of stuff.
He had immigration in a much better spot.
It wasn't perfect, but much better spot than what it is now, right?
He put judges on the Supreme Court, Gorsuch, Calvin, Amy Konyberry.
So he was a real glitch in the matrix, right?
So everything you're seeing now is to try to catch up where they thought they would be if Hillary Clinton would have won the presidency in 2016.
What do they want?
I'm asked all the time.
I say, read Genesis 11.
They want a one-world government.
They want control and power for power's sake.
And dissent will not be allowed.
Next question.
I see so many parents doing nothing or the wrong things.
If parents aren't parenting properly, it looks a lot to me like these children are orphans sacrificed to the prince or ruler of this world.
This insanity of what children are growing up in has and is going to cause a horrible backlash.
Do you have an opinion as to what I should study or do to prepare to do damage control for that?
And I see what's going on in the colleges, and I want to get my education and use it against them.
Yes, so, yeah, look, I try to read 50 books a year.
I know that's not possible for a lot of people.
I do thousands of hours of research and reading throughout the year, but I encourage all of you to go first.
The first thing I'll tell you is I said this in our time together in the other room.
Please support independent media, okay?
Stop watching corporate media and start supporting people like Matt Walsh and Dan Bongino and support people like Tim Poole and Steve Bannon and James O'Keefe.
If you can, listen to more podcasts and independent media like the Charlie Kirk Show, whatever, where they're really getting out there and explaining.
I think it's more interesting to listen to those people.
When people tell me they watch like the regular news, I say, it's so boring.
You're not getting the full story, guys.
And actually, you know what I have found is that most people aren't even aware of all the shows that are out there.
For example, I encourage everyone here, watch as your main news channel, Real America's Voice.
And most people don't even know it exists.
Steve Bannon is on every single day.
I'm on every single day for two hours.
It's very grassrootsy.
It's very fun.
It's very informative.
And then finally, if you want to know what's coming next, there's two books that are very powerful.
Read 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Aldous Huxley and George Orwell, better than two other authors, predicted the totalitarian, we're about the totalitarianism we're about to enter.
Orwell from a thought police surveillance state perspective.
And Huxley doesn't get talked about enough from Brave New World.
And if you're young, just kind of a little bit of a parental guidance.
Brave New World is like NC 17 rated, okay?
It's very sexual.
But I only recommend it if you, the parent, could guide through it, because what they predict is the deterioration of any sexual norms, any sexual ethics.
In fact, in the book Brave New World, they talk about, quote, everybody belongs to everybody else.
There's no such thing as monogamy.
It's gratuitous open sex.
Boy, is that where the country is going, right?
In Brave New World, they talk about mass medication to control society.
It's called Soma in the book, Brave New World.
So those are my two books I recommend for everybody.
And if you want to then say, hey, Charlie, what about some hope?
Just read C.S. Lewis.
C.S. Lewis, every Christian should read C.S. Lewis at least once a year.
Separation of Church and State Debate 00:06:18
Mere Christianity, abolition of man, screw tape letters, that hideous strength.
I'm shocked at how few pastors are teaching C.S. Lewis.
In my opinion, he was the best author of the 20th century, and there were a lot of good authors in the 20th century.
So if you want to know where we're headed, read 1984, read Brave New World, and if you want to get a little pick-me-up, read some C.S. Lewis.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Just wanted to thank you for coming out.
But Roe v. Wade being overturned, praise God, amazing.
But Engel versus Bidel, 1962, which was what took the Bible out of schools, the reference to be able to refer to it and the Lord's Prayer.
How do we fight back against that?
How do we get that overturned?
Yeah, so we should start on the state level.
So the first, most Christians don't know this, but the Lemon decision has been overturned.
This is super wonky.
People are going to be like, what are you talking about?
It's one of the great victories of religious liberty that nobody knows about.
The court that Donald Trump gave you has now basically said that the Ten Commandments can go back in courtrooms, that the crosses can go back on cemeteries.
People don't even know this.
And it's been overturned.
So right now, the Idaho legislature should be trying to push the boundaries of this.
For example, you guys should be trying to put the Ten Commandments back in every classroom.
Okay?
Now, the 1962 decision, I think that was the Warren Court, or maybe it was the Burger Court.
I get them.
They're one right after the other, so they're one and the same.
That has not been challenged or overturned yet.
So let's get to the fundamental lie that the Warren Court or Burger Court said, whichever one said.
I think it was Earl Warren, if I'm not mistaken.
They said separation of church and state, which is repeated ad nauseum by the low IQ maniacs that teach your children and on television.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say separation of church and state.
It does not say it in the United States Constitution.
What it does say is that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
And what they're talking about, there's the free expression clause and the establishment clause.
Basically, the founders were worried about a Lutheran church or a Presbyterian church or an Episcopalian church.
The founding fathers never had the belief that the church has no role in government.
One of the first acts of Congress was the federal government underwriting and subsidizing the printing and the distribution of Bibles.
One of the first, you know, this stuff even better than I do, Rick, but Thomas Jefferson brought in local churches to perform religious ceremonies in the Supreme Court building.
Where does that line, the separation of church and state, come from?
It's a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention that gets misapplied, but it's also taken out of context.
It was the Danbury Baptist Convention that was worried that the state was going to come after the church.
Just like what we lived through COVID, the same people that say separation of church and state thought that it was okay to shut down the church during COVID.
The same people that said separation of church and state thought it was okay to mandate vaccines and masks.
So I'm a little bit of a radical on this, and I don't care.
I think it's fine, which is I think the Bible should be taught in every single public school classroom across the country.
And I could, now, mind you, I'm not saying it should be necessarily taught as a religious text, but I think that if you don't teach the Bible, you're allowing secularism, which is a religion, to dominate.
For example, I love having these debates with these people that think they're super smart.
Oh, the Bible shouldn't be taught.
It's religious.
Question: Was King Hezekiah real?
Was King David real?
Yes.
There's history in the Bible.
There's wisdom in the Bible.
Just teach the Bible as a text of things that happened.
Was Jesus of Nazareth a real person?
Of course he was.
You don't have to teach it as it is, the inerrant breathed word of God from the divine, but to suppress it, to act as if the Bible doesn't exist, is allowing your religion to come in.
So I don't know where Idaho stands on this.
I think you guys should pass a law that the Bible should be taught in every grade.
I've said this for a long time.
It should be taught in every grade school.
And bring the Ten Commandments back in, bring the Lord's Prayer back in.
That's my view.
Push the boundaries.
If Idaho doesn't do that, you guys deserve better leaders.
Thank you.
Yeah, so Coach Kennedy was one of the reasons why the Lemon decision was repealed.
Amen.
Oh, did you?
Praise God.
Thank you for doing that.
Praise the Lord.
Okay.
Hi.
Hello.
Thank you for coming to Idaho.
So we all know that this is a spiritual warfare.
We can't fight this in the flesh.
I mean, only to a certain degree, right?
But I was wondering, do you speak to, or have you met any pastors out there that are telling their congregation, hey, let's do this with prayer and fasting to overcome all this evil?
Because even the disciples asked Jesus, you know, why couldn't we cast out this demon out of this boy?
And he said, because some demons need to be taken out by prayer and fast.
Do you want to answer that, Rick?
Sure.
Yeah.
Well, first of all, we know a lot of pastors that are doing these kinds of things and praying at the Capitol.
Marty, who just left, he's over in Boise going up there all the time.
Yeah.
Amen.
And so, pastors, our organization, the Turning Point Faith, there's a group of guys that are doing this, but not as many.
And obviously, the pastors know that it's a spiritual war that we need to conquer it in prayer and truth to pull down those strongholds.
So that is happening, but not on the level that we would like to see it happen, obviously.
Yeah.
Nothing's stopping us from doing it.
So there's nothing holding us back.
So it just has to be an organization with pastors and they do it in their churches locally.
And yeah, it's happening.
Yeah.
Amen.
Let's do one more.
Okay.
Great.
Go ahead.
Hi, Charlie.
I'm a freedom fighter from crazy Seattle visiting awesome Idaho.
Nature as God's Creation Not Idol 00:03:51
Can you comment on being a good steward of God's creation versus worshiping climate control?
Yes.
So that's a great question.
So, and I'm going to go five or ten more minutes.
We're just lines crossed.
So if you have a question, you can get back in line.
Very important.
So God has four attributes that we must remember.
That God is above nature.
God is moral.
God is personal.
God is orderly.
Right?
So, there's other ways to describe God.
Nature is none of those things, right?
So, earth worship is coming into the country way too much, in my personal opinion.
And God created the heavens and the earth.
God is above nature.
We are not to worship nature.
Nature is there for man.
So, the hierarchy goes: God, man, nature.
That is the hierarchy, right?
Now, when you look at nature, you could be reminded of the splendor and the magnificence of what God created, but only if it points you to God.
Nature should be a means, it should never be an end.
The worship of nature is exactly what the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, were trying to challenge and we're trying to go up against.
You see, the river civilizations, they would worship the sun, they would worship the sky, they would worship the river, they would worship the ground.
Instead, we worship the God that created those things.
Secularism is drawn to the worship of the earth.
Why is that bad morally?
If you worship the earth, then when you're presented with a choice of humans or nature, which are you going to choose?
And the environmentalists choose nature.
This is why the earth worshipers believe in depopulation because the humans are a pollutant on the earth, on nature itself.
We should preserve nature.
We can conserve nature.
We do not bend a knee to nature.
Now, if you read the Ten Commandments in the original Hebrew, which I encourage you all to do, you know, the way we, yeah, which actually read Exodus 20 and not just the Spark Notes version, when it talks about idol worship, what does it say?
You shall not bend a knee.
You shall not bow down.
What was the number?
What was the most common idol in the time of Moses?
Not the golden calf that was an idol, but not a bad answer.
The most common idol was the earth.
The most common thing that people would worship was the planet.
And God came in and said, no, no, no, you worship me and me only, Jehovah, Adonai, the one God.
And that's important morally, and it's also important societally.
It's important theologically.
So, Christians, we should enjoy nature.
Why?
Because we love God and we love human beings.
Nature is there for us.
It is a means to a flourishing end.
Amen.
And the Lord gave us dominion to manage the earth and with all its resources available to serve humanity.
That's the way he created it.
So people that get off on climate change, they twist those things and pervert those.
For instance, in California, they won't build a reservoir to capture enough water for the 40 million people there because they're just tied up with all these environmentalists because they're worshiping their nature in California has priority over 40 million people.
Cool.
Rick, Charlie, appreciate both of you being here.
Bobby Kennedy and Earth Worship Critique 00:02:46
Strong supporters of your program, Charlie.
You had Steve Bannon on the other day, and so I'm going to switch gears and go political here.
He brought up a Trump-Kennedy bipartisan, and you actually got kind of excited, at least through the radio.
What are your thoughts on that?
Yeah, I mean, I think conceptually it's interesting.
Probably not a great idea to have a Kennedy Democrat right one heartbeat away from the presidency.
But I agree with Bobby Kennedy Jr. far more than I do most Republicans.
And I think there's an interesting realignment happening.
And the Democrat Party fears Bobby Kennedy.
They fear him because he's willing to point out the administrative state, the fourth branch of government, the unelected, the Leviathan.
Look, Bobby Kennedy has gone after the pharmaceutical companies.
And look, you might have differing opinions on vaccines, but it's a fact that the pharmaceutical companies, they think they're above questions.
I don't trust the pharmaceutical companies.
And I think anybody that goes after Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, and Moderna deserves praise from the American people.
I really do.
I think they've done a lot of damage to our country.
And I don't think they make us healthier.
I think they make us sicker.
And Bobby Kennedy's willing to talk about it.
Bobby Kennedy is kind of into the earth worship thing.
It's kind of one of his shticks, drives me nuts.
So that's that, he's definitely more socially liberal than I am.
So I wouldn't like that, especially if he's a, I don't think Steve Bannon has necessarily thought through, do you really want him to be a tiebreaking vote in the U.S. Senate?
You know, that could be a little interesting, right?
No.
So, but what I think Steve Bannon is getting at, which is brilliant, is that there is a coalition of Kennedy Democrats and MAGA Republicans that don't like corporate power, that want closed borders, that want the muscular class represented, that's sick of Washington, D.C., that does not believe neoliberalism is benefiting the American worker.
Donald Trump, for all of his faults, has some virtues.
And one of the virtues that Donald Trump does not get enough credit for is being able to understand that the nation was angry and upset with 40 years of neoliberalism, of stupid wars and bad trade deals and nonsensical immigration.
Donald Trump saw that before anybody else and was able to package it into a way that people could process and understand.
And you guys have some neoliberal representatives here in Idaho, and I hope you'll retire them sometime soon.
Fighting Back in Idaho Against the Enemy 00:12:23
Thank you.
First, I want to thank you.
One of the reasons why I was drawn to you was your ability to face antagonism with logic and common sense.
Thank you.
Secondly, I've been a person who has forwarded posts.
I have been a person who's made posts on Instagram, on social media.
I feel like my efforts have been throwing drops of water into a lake.
I want to know what we can do to be more frontline.
Great question.
That's a really good question.
So let me challenge one thing.
Your work is not futile.
It's not.
The enemy wants you to believe that if you're just doing your little thing, it doesn't make a difference.
Let me challenge that just for one second.
If I believed that when I first started Turning Point USA, this beautiful movement of Turning Point USA would not exist.
Because at the time, it was just an 18-year-old kid setting up a card table on a college campus at a time.
If I believed that, that I didn't have a duty to just do my job, it never would have now gone into a movement of literally millions of young people and members of Congress and Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum and Jack Pesobic.
I mean, this beast that has now been created.
If you do the little things, God will reward that in amazing ways, okay?
But let me also, and I will answer your question, but I just want to also say, the other part is what if it doesn't turn into a mass movement?
Do you do the little things that are hard that are necessary because it's the right thing to do or because you want an immediate output?
One of my calls right now as I travel the country is to try to get people to change the attitude of how they view their activism.
I need you to view your activism as an act of obedience, as an obligation, not as something that you expect an outcome.
It doesn't matter if it yields the fruit you expect.
It's that I love God, I love America, therefore I'm going to do it.
So you say, how can I be more on the front lines?
Great question.
Every American patriot can do this.
You all have smartphones.
Find a powerful person who is abusing their power or not representing their voters and ask them questions and film yourself doing it.
If every American patriot was prepared, you might be at a diner, you might be at a restaurant, you might be at church, and you do real so respectfully.
But next time you say you go up to a senator, say, hey, why are you funding the war in Ukraine while our border's wide open?
Like, I don't get it.
Yes, I am filming you.
I'm your voter.
I'm your constituent.
And you work for me.
Like, I don't get it.
Can you tell me why you're getting us closer to a thermonuclear war against Russia?
Like, I really don't understand.
If all of a sudden they were starting to get exposed on a daily basis, things would change.
So next time you see a powerful person that's doing something wrong, go up and ask them questions and film yourself talking to them.
It could make a very big difference.
Amen.
I'll say, take one more, Charlie.
This will be the last question.
It's 2010.
Charlie, we have a daughter that goes to the University of Wyoming.
Go pokes.
And her mother and I are concerned.
What do we tell our daughter how to fight cancel culture there?
It's so prevalent.
She feels so isolated.
Yeah.
And she feels so alone at times that we're concerned.
That you're brave.
I wouldn't send my daughter there.
Yeah.
I don't want to scare you, but you're definitely playing Russian roulette with your daughter's values, right?
So to give you an idea of how bad University of Wyoming is, Cynthia Lummis, did you guys know this story?
It's unbelievable.
Senator Lummis, well, she might be terrible, but that's irrelevant to the story, okay?
So hear me out.
That's not relevant.
Okay.
Senator Lummis gave a speech, a commencement address at the University of Wyoming, and she said there were only two genders.
She started to get heckled by students at a commencement address, right?
And the university president came out and apologized that the senator would say something as incendiary as that.
When in reality, the president should have said, your diplomas are revoked.
You're a fool.
You've made a fool of the university.
You're done.
Good luck trying to find a job.
Your four years are gone.
Every diploma should have been pulled.
But the president of the University of Wyoming is a coward and an academic, but I repeat myself.
And think about that.
You have a U.S. senator come and say there are two genders, and students at a graduation ceremony, instead of sitting still and being quiet, you might disagree, decide to boo and walk out.
And the university president says, I'm sorry for putting you in an uncomfortable situation by hearing from a U.S. senator.
That's the University of Wyoming.
So what they can do, they could join our Turning Point USA chapter there.
I actually might go speak.
It's in Laramie, right?
Is that right?
Yeah, I'm going to go speak in Laramie.
And they don't want me there, but we'll see.
And look, here's the thing.
I believe this about the University of Idaho.
I certainly believe this about Boise State University.
All these schools should be completely and totally defunded, all of them.
Top to bottom, defund these schools.
They don't teach Western Civ.
It's diversity, equity, inclusion.
It's transgender stuff.
Boise State is one of the worst in the country, by the way.
I don't care what people are telling you.
They are as liberal as Portland there, okay?
I could tell you from firsthand.
If anyone, I could show you example and chapter and verse.
And so why are taxpayers that are God-fearing American patriots funding the downfall of America through these state schools?
Just cut them off.
Say, hey, go raise your own money.
Go raise money from the trans community.
Go do this stuff.
We're done.
Sorry.
You have a diversity, equity, inclusion statement.
You get $0 from the taxpayers of Idaho.
That's not going to happen.
obviously, but you can hope it can happen, right?
University of Wyoming, why do they still receive taxpayer money?
I do not know.
That remains a mystery to me.
Let me say a couple things in closing here, okay?
First of all, I love Idaho.
Here's the thing about Idaho, and I meant to say this earlier.
The country's falling apart, but that doesn't mean your city or your state has to fall apart.
The country is going in a bad direction.
Don't let Idaho go that way.
You guys have to be stronger and more firm and more bold.
You are losing this state.
Boise is unrecognizable.
It's becoming a mini Portland.
Trust me.
I know it when I see it.
You have to tell liberals they are not welcome in your state.
That's not a joke.
That's what they say to us.
If you come with a liberal worldview, Idaho is not for you.
Don't come here with your trans stuff or your pro-abortion stuff or your anti-religion stuff.
Go move to Denver.
You got plenty of that.
You guys like it here because it was built by conservatives.
Don't come here and ruin it.
Don't come here and take it over.
Now, that might be a little intense for people.
They will destroy your home, everybody.
I've seen them do it to Jackson.
I've seen them do it to Aspen.
I've seen them do it to Colorado Springs.
I've seen them do it to Bozeman.
I've seen them do it to, well, Missoula was always crazy.
I've seen them do it to Billings, right?
They do not know how to stop unless you stop them.
Okay, it's number one.
Number two, if the country does end up falling apart, there's going to be 200 or so cities that I hope can catch us.
Idaho Falls can be one of those cities.
You have to be self-reliant with strong mayors, strong city councils that are standing up against this nonsense.
You guys are laughing because obviously you don't have it, right?
You have a lot of work to do, right?
Just because America is falling apart doesn't mean your local city has to fall apart, all right?
Some of you tonight are probably wondering, Charlie, are you optimistic or pessimistic?
If I said I was optimistic, you would go home and say, boy, I don't have to do anything because Charlie said he's optimistic and everything's going to be fine.
If I said I was pessimistic, you would go home and say, I don't have to do anything because Charlie said he was pessimistic and everything's going to fall apart.
Here's the reality, and I mean this 100%.
I have no idea how this entire mess is going to end.
Victory is not guaranteed.
Ultimate victory is guaranteed.
Jesus will come back on his throne.
100%.
But victory of America, this place could fall apart to shreds and we could go to a place that is so dystopian and we're getting close.
Or we could stand up and wake up and say no more and build beautiful things and just reinvigorate the country and revitalize it.
Both are possible.
And isn't there a little bit of a thrill in the mystery?
A little bit of an excitement?
You're given a blessing and I hope everybody recognizes it and says, thank you, Lord, tonight.
I get to be alive when I don't know how the greatest country in the history of the world is going to end up.
I get to be alive.
I get to do something about it.
I get to play a small part in whether or not the most beautiful nation ever to exist, it's currently on life support, and I get to do something and maybe I'll succeed or maybe I'll fail.
But it's not, your contribution will not be insignificant.
Now, some of you are probably saying, Charlie, I've done everything that has been asked of me.
Everything.
I used to watch Tucker Carlson.
I bought the pillow.
I have Relief Factor.
By the way, promo code Kirk at mypillow.com, just so we're clear.
What else can I do?
I will finish how I started.
Idaho is a beautiful place, and it might feel comfortably conservative, but the maggots and the locusts are coming for this state, and you can feel it.
They will not stop.
It's not enough that they ruin Denver, ruined Seattle, and ruined Portland, and ruined San Francisco, and ruined Los Angeles, and ruined Chicago, and ruined Philadelphia, and ruined New York, and ruined Boston, and ruined Detroit, and ruined Milwaukee and ruined Minneapolis.
They're coming for this place.
They are locusts.
They do not stop.
But what can stop them is courageous, spirit-filled people that see the storm coming and act out of obedience to protect their home.
Jeremiah 29, 7.
Demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
That's God speaking.
We are commanded to care about our home.
And Idaho plays a critical and integral role.
And I want to just also mention the organizers of this event went through a lot of hell just to have me here.
And you guys should go out of your way to thank them and have a lot of gratitude and stand by them because it was not easy.
It's a very important thing.
And that's all I'm going to say about that.
But I'm honored to be here.
Here's what I'm going to do.
And I hope you pray about what God reveals in his perfect will to you.
James 1:5, ask for wisdom and he'll give it.
As long as I have breath in my lungs, I'm going to keep on hosting three hours of radio a day and do three podcasts a day and speak on hundreds of campuses and start thousands of new chapters and get hundreds of thousands of new young people involved and millions of young people aware of what we're doing on social media.
And I'm going to fight the left and I'm going to scrap and I'm going to hustle and I'm going to tell the truth as long as I have breath in my lungs.
I don't care if they put me in jail.
I don't care if they indict me.
I don't care if they subpoena me.
I don't care if they sue me.
I don't care if they've already done the death threat thing every day.
I don't care if they try to kill me.
It does not matter.
What matters more is I refuse to look at my daughter and say, I was too cowardly to face evil when it was taking over my home.
And I hope you'll join me in that fight.
God bless you and God bless Idaho.
Thank you so much.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.
Export Selection