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May 5, 2024 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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5 Great Things in America the Media Won't Tell You

Enjoy Charlie’s speech in Fargo, North Dakota where he lets everyone know five important, positive things that are happening in our country that the media are ignoring. He also takes questions from the audience on the 2024 election and a lot more. Become a member at members.charliekirk.com! Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's great to be back in North Dakota, one of my favorite places on the planet.
And only Scott Hennan could get me back to North Dakota.
We've had a very, very busy month this week.
And Scott Hennan is the man.
And I just want to say I love meeting with all of you and talking with all of you.
Thank you for those of you that still continue to listen to talk radio, especially the Flag Radio Network.
I know a lot of you came up to me in the photo line.
He said, Charlie, listen every day.
I listen every day.
And that's so comforting because for those of us that talk into a microphone in an empty room all day long, we're like, oh, is anyone actually listening to this?
Turns out you are actually listening to this.
And you guys are listening intently and getting something out of it.
So I love the Flag Radio Network and love what Scott is doing.
And you guys need to keep on listening and supporting.
And understand the, I want to just riff on this for a second here.
The significance of talk radio, it is one of the only places where the sensors are not able to get to our ideas.
There is no algorithm.
There is no special social media manipulation.
It is straight from host to listener.
It is straight from host to you.
And I feel as if talk radio is one of the most important things that remain in this country that keeps the conservative movement alive.
And we need to also just kind of give a hat tip to the great Rush Limbaugh who invented the medium and understand what he did for all of us.
And by the way, they're trying to get rid of talk radio.
They've been trying to get rid of talk radio for years in D.C. They've been trying to get rid of talk radio by regulating the AM FM requirements.
In fact, they have this new thing.
I'll never forget, I was talking to one of these electric vehicle wackos, and he said that we can no longer have AM radio in electric vehicles.
Do you guys hear about this?
Because it might make the engine combust.
And that might be true.
I said, no, no, no, you don't want AM radio because that's where real Americans get their information without the BS from CNN and NBC.
That's why you don't want AM radio and the electric vehicles.
Oh, no, no, it might make the vehicle.
I said, hold on a second.
If you're worried about an engine combusting, maybe electric vehicles are a scam and not exactly a great idea.
He didn't like that answer at all.
But no, thank you guys for listening.
It is so important.
And support the sponsors on the radio stations.
We need to keep radio alive year over year over year.
The bad guys have been saying that radio is dead.
Radio is dead.
And we're showing that radio is alive and well, and so is the conservative movement.
So I'm honored to be back here, guys.
You know, Scott is such a great friend.
And Scott says, Charlie, you got to bring some hope here tonight.
And so I'm going out of my way to be overly positive tonight.
And then just before I get on, Scott says, Yeah, you know, my wife said that you put up this great tweet about Biden's executive order and how he's mobilizing the entire federal government, you know, to become a get out the vote arm.
And I said, I thought you wanted me to be positive, Scott.
So I could talk about all the negative.
We're going to do QA for quite a while tonight.
And quite one of the longer QAs I've done in a while.
So I look forward to that.
But I want to give you five positive things, five wins, and it's not hopium.
Do you know what hopium is?
It's hope and opium mixed together, and it feels really good, but it's really bad for you.
This is actual positive movements in the country because I could go through the negatives.
We don't have a southern border.
Democracy Under Attack 00:15:46
We have an illegitimate regime, death of representative government.
However, there are real things happening in the country that are fighting back against this.
That people are waking up, activists are stepping up, and the best of America is yet to come because the resolve and the spirit of America has not yet been destroyed by these oligarchs.
So I think it's important for us to frame really what we're up against.
What we're up against is not the typical administration.
We know Joe Biden is not the president.
We know that.
Instead, there is an illegitimate administrative state that is running the country.
And there is a better term for it.
And it's very interesting.
If you turn on MSNBC, which I do every morning, by the way, I record Morning Joe.
I live on the West Coast.
And I watch.
You might say, Charlie, why do you watch that garbage?
It's information warfare.
You know what they're thinking, what they're saying.
You could better understand their next moves.
And they'll constantly say, our democracy is under attack.
Our democracy is under attack.
Now, I know you're with me.
We are a republic, not a democracy.
And that distinction is critical.
We are a republic.
Nowhere in our founding documents does it say we are a democracy.
However, every time you hear the word democracy, replace it with the word oligarchy.
Who said that?
You are a good listener of the Charlie Kirk Show.
You know what you're talking about, right?
I beat that into you every morning.
I love it.
What is an oligarchy?
So a monarchy is the rule of one person.
Democracy is supposed to be the rule of the demos, the people.
A republic is, yes, the rule of the people, but you have certain unalienable rights that cannot be trampled by the government because God gave you those rights.
Government did not give you those rights.
But what is an oligarchy?
An oligarchy is a rule of the few.
And that is the best word to describe the transformation that we are living through right now, is that they are trying to transform us from a representative form of government to an oligarchy.
And this has happened not so subtly over the last 20 or 30 years.
And I'll prove it to you in one way.
Who is an oligarch?
An expert is an oligarch.
How many times they say, well, experts say that we have to shut down all the schools because of COVID.
Experts say you have to wear masks when you drive alone in a car.
Experts say you have to get a vaccine that is perfectly safe and effective.
By the way, we need massive lawsuits against these vaccine manufacturers for what they did, don't we?
Massive lawsuits.
And secondly, Fauci should be in prison for what he did when we locked down all of our schools in this country.
Someone needs to pay, and I will get into that, the lost generation that was created after we locked down all of our schools.
Experts say, trust the scientists.
Oh, we have knowledge that you don't have because we went to a special intel briefing.
That is not the rule of the people.
That is the rule of the oligarchs.
And that transformation is so important to understand because what we're fighting for is not a Republican revolution.
It's not even a conservative one.
Those are nice and we're going to get them.
We want a restoration of the founders' intent of the form and the structure of government itself.
Because it does not necessarily matter what party is in control.
It matters what form of government are they going to be in control of.
And if it is a Republican Party that is in quote-unquote control of an oligarchy, they're not actually in control because there's a permanent oligarchy and administrative state that is beneath them that is actually calling the shots.
Sidebar, this is why Trump is different and why Trump is a threat to them.
Because Donald Trump puts you in the room.
Donald Trump increases the awareness and the activism so that the people can retake their government from the despots that have been running it the last 20 or 30 years.
That's why he is facing 700 years in federal prison.
That's why they're trying to take his business empire away from him.
Because you're not supposed to care as much as you do.
You're not supposed to know the names of Peter Strzok or Lisa Page or Brewster Nelly Orr.
You're not supposed to care about how bureaucrats work.
Leave the business of running the government to the experts and you guys don't get in the way.
Trump disrupted all of that.
And that's why they hate him so much because he represents, more than anything else, a restoration of the founders' promise of citizens running the government, not the government running over the citizens.
And that is a profound distinction.
So these are five important things if we understand our goals.
Our goal is to crush the oligarchy.
Our goal is to say you do not run the country anymore, but it's going to be the citizens.
And this is what drives me nuts, and I think you will agree that if you do not have leaders that go to D.C., that listen to their voters, you no longer have a country, you have a colony, or you have something else.
And we say America first, but it would be nice if the Republican Party started acting in America first ways when we send them to Washington, D.C.
And I have polite and respectful disagreements with certain lawmakers here in the state, but I don't know about you, but I want money sent to the U.S. southern border, not to Ukraine, while we are being invaded.
So that is the direction we want ahead.
And these are five wins, five things that are happening in real time that are getting us closer.
Number one, I live in the great state of Arizona.
There is no path to the White House without winning Arizona, period.
You cannot get there unless some sort of a goofy math configuration.
Arizona has 11 electoral votes.
It was once a red state.
We want to bring it back to a red state.
I believe Donald Trump won Arizona in 2020, but we can do that during QA.
But we'll get to election integrity in a different seminar at a different time.
So that's a huge topic.
In 2020, there were 100,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats in the state of Arizona.
Now, just last week, thanks to the hard work of Turning Point Action and grassroots patriots who refused to give up, there are now 236,000 more registered Republicans than Democrats in the state of Arizona.
Now, that's going to be a turnout game.
Can we chase the ballots?
Can we get them out to vote?
I know what you're saying.
Oh, Charlie, the elections are corrupt and broken.
I will address all of that, but it is harder to steal when you overwhelm the system.
And understand, everyone has their role.
My role is to make sure that every single patriot goes and votes and gets into the system.
I also worry about election integrity, but you can't pick every single fight.
Election integrity is super important, but do you know the guaranteed way that we lose?
We lose if our people don't show up.
But if there's more of our people than not, we give ourselves a better chance that they can't steal it in at 2 a.m. any longer.
So Arizona is a massive, massive benefit because the Democrats have been spending hundreds of millions of dollars in Arizona, doing everything they possibly can to try to get Democrats registered to vote.
They have hundreds of full-time organizers.
Yet despite that, we're being outspent 10 to 1, 15 to 1, 20 to 1.
We have net increased the amount of registered Republicans by 136,000 new people just since 2020.
What can possibly explain that?
That means our message is reaching new communities.
Hispanic voters, younger voters, people that traditionally were not Republicans that are moving into the state of Arizona are identifying with our value system and the conservative agenda.
Second win I want to share with you, Pennsylvania.
So Pennsylvania recently passed a really stupid idea, but it's actually going to end up backfiring on Democrats, which is called the motor voter law, which means if you get a driver's license, you immediately get registered to vote whether you like it or not.
And so we said, oh my goodness, this thing's going to increase a bunch of fraud.
So there are 67 counties in the state of Pennsylvania.
For the first time in recent memory, all 67 counties in the state of Pennsylvania are outpacing with more Republicans than Democrats registering to vote in the state of Pennsylvania for the first time in recent memory.
They don't show you this on TV, do they?
That's why you got to listen to the Charlie Kirk Show.
Doom and gloom will break you down.
We'll build you back up all in three hours or less.
You've got plenty of doom and gloom, too, but you've got to talk about the good news, too.
And I just want to take a side note.
The attitude that I don't like that maybe someone here has is: Charlie, it's all over.
It's all broken.
It's all terrible.
That Jesus is coming next Thursday, and it's not falling apart, but it's fallen into place.
And I always say, look, maybe Jesus is coming next Thursday.
What do you want to be caught doing when Jesus returns?
Running like a coward to the hills or fighting for truth and righteousness and liberty when it matters most.
So we are out-registering them in Arizona.
We are gaining ground in Pennsylvania.
The third thing, which is one of my favorites, I want to spend some time on this, is the Democrats had a plan.
They plan everything out.
Remember, they are central planners.
They're oligarchs.
They're experts.
They go to Harvard, which, by the way, can we finally defund all of these Ivy League schools as being cancers on society?
Am I right?
Yale, Harvard.
We have a rule now at turning point.
If you're from the Ivy League, you will not get a job.
It's that simple.
Like, we're not going to hire.
If you go to Yale, I'm not hiring you.
I immediately think you're a bigot if you went to Yale.
I mean, you see what they're doing here?
They're taking over these entire schools because they hate Jews that much.
That sort of anti-Semitism has no place in decent American society.
So, secondly, they have a plan.
The plan that they had was this.
We're going to get Donald Trump in a bitter and bloody primary.
We're going to try to make his poll numbers go down.
We're going to put him on a debate stage where he's have to scream at a bunch of candidates.
And the Republican primary is going to be expensive.
It's going to be long, and he'll barely escape with escape at all.
In the midst of it, we're going to indict him, first in New York, then twice federally, and then in Georgia, make him spend a bunch of legal fees and bring down his popularity, bankrupt his campaign account.
The Republican base will leave him, and it will be a shell of where a movement once existed with only his most fervent supporters.
All the while, we're going to spend nonstop political advertising talking about Joe Biden's support of abortion, and we're going to waltz our way to election into November.
This was their plan.
Instead, Donald Trump won the Republican primary in historic fashion.
You won every single state, Nikki Haley, I guess technically won D.C. Guess what?
You can have it, Nikki Healy.
You won D.C.
I think that's wonderful that Donald Trump lost the D.C. primary.
I don't care if it's a Republican, a bunch of lobbyists don't like D.C., love Donald Trump, love him even more.
So, but despite all of this, every time they indict him, this is remarkable, his popularity goes up.
This is worthy of just thinking about for a second.
And I believe it's because Donald Trump is no longer a person.
Donald Trump is a symbol.
And he's a symbol of how we believe our country, and with that, our government has gone so far off track that a man who was an excellent president the best of my lifetime, and I'm guessing the best of many of your lifetimes, is being punished for doing everything he said he was going to do, for having no new wars, a flourishing economy, and a secure southern border.
And we are going to punish him by trying to throw him in jail permanently.
Those of us that still have reason and have capacity to think and process information, we say, I like Trump more the more that I see them throw lawfare at him.
In fact, they thought that the lawfare campaign against Donald Trump was going to break him.
Tragically, it has not broken him.
It has broken our faith in the American justice system.
And this is a very sad truth that we must sit in, is that they are going after all of us.
Just last week, they indicted rank-and-file patriots in the state of Arizona.
You guys have a great attorney general here, by the way, who's doing a wonderful job.
Unlike in Arizona, our attorney general in Arizona, who is awful, Chris Mays, despite the fact that we have an open border, flagrant crime, tons of opioids, Chris Mays indicts 11 people,
including the CEO of Turning Point Action, Tyler Boyer, who some of you know he's on our show a lot, who signed a piece of paper saying they wanted to be alternate electors for Donald Trump, a constitutionally protected tradition that was actually used by the Democrats in 1960 successfully.
She's indicted all of them.
Dana Nestler did the same thing in Michigan.
This is an outrageous campaign because you know why?
All they have left is handcuffs and leg irons.
They cannot win the debate about who can run the country better.
They cannot win the debate about who is better equipped to govern.
And so you might say, but Charlie, that's bad news.
It actually shows that they are so desperate, they are willing to desecrate our legal tradition to lock up political dissidents permanently just because they don't like them.
And what is remarkable gives me hope and gives me faith because I wasn't sure.
I was like, what country are we living in here?
I will say, I've never had less faith in our government, and yet I have more hope in the everyday American such as you, because despite all of this, 50 to 51%, 40% to 45% of what state still support Donald Trump despite everything they've thrown at him.
That is remarkable.
You've resisted the propaganda.
You've resisted the nonsense they've thrown at you.
Say, nope, I still support him.
You want to indict him one more time?
His poll numbers might go up even more.
In fact, I don't know about you.
When I see him sitting in that courtroom, which he's basically on courtroom house arrest, I think to myself, how did we get to a country where we are that corrupt, we are that broken?
And the answer is very simple: it's that we're very close to overturning their oligarchy.
That's how we got there.
This is a desperate regime using everything they possibly can at their disposal.
So Trump's popularity is remarkable.
That's the third thing.
Fourth positive thing I want to share, which is really important.
A recent poll by Axios was done, and they asked everyday Americans, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, would you support Donald Trump's plan to deport all, they even said undocumented immigrants from the country.
51% of all voters say yes, send them all back home.
51%, including almost the majority of Democrats.
Now, maybe it's not popular here in North Dakota, but guys, that's huge news.
Okay, I guess it's the main, okay.
It's funny.
When I say that in Texas, they're like screaming and they're, we need to deport every single person who has invaded this country under the Biden regime.
We are being invaded on a daily basis.
And despite the propaganda, they've thrown everything they can at us.
We need to have the largest deportation effort in the history of this country, day one of Donald J. Trump's presidency.
We need to have the cartels rounded up, anyone who is in this country illegally.
And you would think, oh, we don't have the stomach for it.
Daily Invasion And Deportation 00:02:43
It shows the opposite.
It shows that Americans are demanding this because they are tired of seeing the increase of crime, the overflow of social services, their jobs being taken.
But it's more than that.
It's an insult for those of you that follow the law.
It's an insult for those of you that pay your taxes, that send your kids to schools, and involve yourself in school board meetings.
It's an insult to all of you that maybe came to this country legally, which is the right way to come.
And we need to support that.
It's an insult to all of you that say, I want to live in a country that's law-abiding, that you can border jump and waltz into the country 15,000 at a time per day, and somehow you're granted victim status.
And to give you an idea how perverse Joe Biden and the Democrat regime is, Joe Biden at the State of the Union screwed up Lake and Riley's name, the young girl who was brutally murdered while jogging at the University of Georgia.
He said something of the sort of, you know, I don't support illegals or something like that.
He had to go do an interview a couple days after saying, I didn't mean to say that.
They're the people who built this country.
That's an offensive term.
You can look it up.
You can fact-check me on this.
That the priority is given to the criminal and the citizen is de-emphasized.
If we do not have a massive deportation effort like any other sane country would, we are no longer a country.
You cannot have millions of people break the most fundamental.
What is that signal does that send?
Your first contact with somebody, they say first impressions matter.
Yeah, the first impression is, I'm just going to break into your home.
Okay, yeah, I'm sure you're a nice person.
Besides that, like, are you going to pay rent?
No.
Like, oh, really?
Thanks for like taking the car, too.
It's all going to get better from here.
And what is a tragedy is that they are taking advantage of our generosity in this country.
Is that we are a generous country.
We are a charitable country.
We are a good country.
We have great people that sacrificially give to help other people.
However, we are not a country that should ever embrace chaos, discord, or the intentional erosion of the rule of law.
And when we see that happen on a daily basis, what it does is it makes it harder for us to enforce our other laws.
Oh, they come across the border on the southern border.
Okay, I guess looting is fine now, which it is in most American cities, by the way.
Oh, I guess you can take up to $900 of goods in San Francisco, and it's a misdemeanor equivalent to running a red light or jaywalking.
$900.
Collapsing Generation Of Young People 00:15:48
And as I always say, if we would just follow the Ten Commandments and make that the entire federal law, like law book, we'd be in a much better place than that garbage that we have right now.
Very simple.
Oh, you're not allowed to steal somebody's spot to come into America.
Got it.
Okay, thou shalt not.
Oh, you're coveting to come into the country.
You want to be, I can't go there.
Sorry.
Very simple, right?
The Ten Commandments, the Decalogue, the Rules for Life.
That right there.
Oh, really?
You want to have an abortion?
Sorry, thou shalt not murder.
Can't happen.
It's very simple, right?
Oh, really?
You want to trans your kid?
Okay.
Well, that violates many of the Ten Commandments, including making yourself God over nature.
Thou shalt have no other gods.
Is that of me?
The point, a little bit of a detour here.
But we are living through the excesses of secularism in more ways than one.
Final point I want to make here before I spend a little bit of time on the trans issue, which has become a very passionate issue of mine, which I believe is one of the more morally defining issues of our time, is what's going on with young people.
Turning Point USA, we have our amazing Turning Point USA leader here doing a great job quickly, right?
Is that right?
What?
Quinn, I'm sorry.
Quinn, stand up.
Doing a great job.
She's doing a great job.
Thank you.
And starting chapters across the country and just really doing a great, great work here.
The amount of movement we're seeing with younger voters is remarkable.
And in fact, data shows that young men are the most conservative that they have been in the last 50 years.
Young men are the most conservative they've been in 50 years.
You see that?
Those men are knuckle punching back there.
Now, young women are an opportunity for us.
We've got some work to do, right?
They are four points less liberal than they were in 2020, so that's good.
But they are significantly liberal, and we could talk about that.
There is a right-wing revolution happening with young men in this country.
You might say why.
From the moment that they enter school, especially white men, they are told that they are the problem.
That it's systemically racist.
You have white privilege.
You're trampling on indigenous grounds.
Oh, you misgendered me.
Oh, you talked to a woman wrong and you're toxically masculine.
And young men in this country are sick of the political correct crap.
They're sick of the hyper-feminized culture and they want to be men again.
And the conservative movement is a vehicle that allows them to be men in this country.
And this is a crisis.
Without, you know, again, I'm talking about positive things in this portion of the talk, but the younger generation is the most depressed, suicidal, alcohol-addicted generation in history.
We have the lowest fertility rates of any country in American history this year, lowest fertility rates, below replacement levels.
It is the least married generation, the least likely to have children, the least likely to own homes.
And I want you to understand for a second: it is easy and tempting to look on TV and think that all young people are those psychopaths that are supporting Hamas.
But there are tens of millions of decent young people that are doing the right thing that have been screwed.
Let's play the tape back just four years.
Four years ago, we shut down a country that we never should have shut down, let alone schools, for a virus that did not threaten young people with proms and graduations canceled, summer activities canceled, making them a permanently socially isolated generation where they stared at their screen all day long.
While they were locked up, no offense, baby boomers got way richer than they ever have.
Asset prices went up, homes nearly doubled in value across the country.
The stock market went from $19,000 to now $38,000.
A lot of young people don't own stocks.
They don't own assets.
They were just like, okay, I guess we're locked down wearing masks.
By the time they graduate college four years later, home ownership is at record low levels for the younger generation.
According to Zillow.com, you used to be able to own a home on an average $71,000 a year salary.
Now, it might be different here in North Dakota, but I'm guessing there's similar trends.
Now, according to Zillow.com, it's $115,000 a year to be able to buy a home.
So you have a generation that went four years into debt to study things that don't matter, to find jobs that don't exist, while they're not able to even own property.
They look around in the dating pool where one-third of the potential applicants to date are gay or transgender.
And then the ones that actually might want to date, they're like, no, I want to go move to Minneapolis and become a corporate lawyer, and I'll maybe date you in a decade.
And so you have a generation that is collapsing.
And by the way, the young people are laughing hysterically because we are training our young ladies to go become masculine versions of themselves, to go into the corporate sphere, reject their biological urge to have children and have a family, go move to our major cities, harden themselves, and maybe entertain dating seriously by the age of 32.
And we wonder why fertility rates are the lowest they've ever been in American history.
Maybe it's because we've turned our back on God's design and say, oh no, don't get married, it's a terrible thing, when we should be the ones celebrating marriage as God's design for all people to have children and to be fruitful and multiply.
And that message is a winning message.
It's a beautiful message.
And young men in particular, and I think as the men go, the women will go, I hope.
Meaning that hopefully they'll lead the women along because it's amazing.
If you are a single, 30-year-old, single woman in this country, you're like, you're almost guaranteed to be a Democrat.
It's like 85, 90%, right?
As soon as you get married, that goes down to like you're 60% likely to be a Democrat.
As soon as you have kids, you're a right-wing, raging Republican.
And we laugh, but we say, wait a second, if I wanted to create a bunch of communist revolutionaries, I would have the three things that are so simple in American life not happen.
And this is why people, you know, they call me a radical and all this stuff.
I say, no, actually, my politics are super, super moderate.
I want every young person to, first and foremost, be able to get married, have children without having to go into debt, and own a home.
If you were able to do those three things, I don't want to say easily, but you were able to do it affordably and you made it happen, you have something that this generation does not have.
And you might say, oh, come on, quit complaining.
Let's talk about health care debt, medical debt, student loan debt, credit card debt.
Have you seen prices are up 15% in just the last couple years, and wages are not keeping up with inflation, not even close.
So your dollar is worth less every single year.
We have to pay more taxes to go feed big daddy government.
And then to have children, the number one reason, and this is what's striking, and I don't, I reject this, but I sympathize with.
You might say, oh, kids don't want to have, they don't want to have kids because, you know, of all their left-wing values.
Sort of.
The number one reason why people are not having more children, it costs too much money.
Elizabeth Warren is a whack job.
However, she wrote a book that was very, very interesting before she became a senator.
And it was called The Two Income Trap.
I encourage you guys to read it.
This was done 20 years ago, okay?
This is back when she actually would do series scholarship, where she said it's bad for America to force both the mom and the dad into the workplace.
It's one of the most powerful books you can read.
Again, it's like Pocahontas, it's crazy stuff.
But you read it, you're like, is this really Elizabeth Warren?
Like, what happened to her?
And her argument is this.
She said, it's not good for a majority of kids in America to be raised in daycare, which they are, by the way.
Okay?
I'm not against daycare if you have to do it.
Totally understand, right?
But I don't think anybody can make the argument that's the ideal, okay?
And most parents who use daycare say, I wish I would not have to use daycare.
In 1985, when many of you were hustling and busting, bustling and making a good living, in 1985, you would be able to support a family of four on 36 weeks of work a year.
So there's 52 weeks.
That means anything over 36 weeks, you're building wealth, saving money, vacation time.
It now requires 56 weeks of work a year to support a family of four.
So every year you're getting poorer.
And by the way, those are two years outdated.
I bet it's like 60 weeks of work.
So the wife has to go into the workforce.
And then the kids don't exactly get as much time.
The divorce rate isn't, you're more likely to get divorced than married if you get married in this country.
And so this generation says, what's the point?
What's the path forward?
And here's where it could go one of two ways: is that it could go one way where we restore homeownership, family formation, having children.
Or this sets the table, and this is the danger warning, for a Marxist revolution like you've never seen in this country.
If you have a generation of 40 million people that don't own property, that's a generation that will want to take other people's property.
And it's hard to stop them because they have been scammed.
They've been scammed through COVID, scammed at college, scammed in the workforce.
And so my message to any Republican that will listen that's running for office is let's turn them into our voters, de-radicalize them by getting them a home, family, and kids.
As I always say, if you're paying a mortgage, you're less likely to burn down a Wendy's.
Just like kind of the rule of life, right?
I wonder how many of the people that participated in Floyd-Palooza had to go back and put a kid to sleep at night.
By definition, when you have children, it de-radicalizes your Marxist politics.
But if you're childless, own nothing, and not married, you are a sleeper cell waiting to be activated for a Bolshevik revolution.
A sleeper cell at any potential time.
Okay, I want to really zero in on the trans issue now.
I think it's super important.
Matt Walsh certainly is the best on this issue.
I would give myself a silver medal in the sense that I have read every book I can get my hands on because this issue, like many of you, it has bothered me at the fundamental core, which I have now come to the conclusion the trans issue, especially with children, but not exclusively children, is the quiet subterranean moral defining issue of our time.
That if we are not able to say that you cannot groom a 12-year-old, that you are not allowed to give cross-sex hormones to a 14-year-old, we have lost every cultural battle.
And understand, I'm 100% pro-life and want to see abortion abolished in my lifetime.
And the trans issue is an outgrowth of our inability to win on the life issue.
If Satan can't terminate you in the womb, he'll try to get you to chop off your breasts and call yourself by a different name.
It's all a life issue.
And so I've been told that the Fargo schools are doing some wacky stuff in defiance to state law.
We have to, I don't know the details.
You guys can inform me during QA.
I encourage every single one of you to do the following: that trans ideology, trans flag, pride flags should be nowhere near an individual under the age of 18 in the state of North Dakota, period.
There must be a line in the sand drawn.
And the tragedy of this is that we were, again, taken advantage of.
If there was a, again, I'm writing like four different books, but I have one coming up in the summer.
There's a book I could write quickly, which is How Our Generosity Destroyed America.
And essentially, we are so generous and we always look at people as their better angels, and they take advantage of that.
So, for example, I believe marriage one man, one woman.
I bet you guys are with me, right?
And they beat us over the head for years, though.
Why don't you want homosexuals to have your rights and all this?
And we kind of lost that argument, to be honest.
We shouldn't have, but we lost the argument.
And we kind of sued for peace.
Okay, you guys have the Obergefeld decision, live and let live.
And then all of a sudden, they're like, no, we're coming after your kids.
We're like, wait, I thought you just guys want gay marriage.
Oh, no, no, no.
It's live and let us rule.
You see, it started with acceptance.
You must accept me.
That's kind of weird.
Like, why do I...
Okay, fine, sure.
I'll accept you as whatever homosexual thing.
It's fine.
Okay, sure.
Even though it's against my value system.
Actually, no, you must celebrate me.
I must celebrate you?
What do you mean?
Okay, sure.
Flag.
Don't, you know, write in front of my building.
Okay.
Now you must participate.
I must participate.
Yeah, give us your kids.
I'm going to say something provocative, but it's true.
They cannot reproduce, so they must recruit.
Make that a bumper sticker and see how that goes in downtown Fargo.
And I know that might cut deep, but it is true.
If it was all about acceptance of a certain lifestyle of how people were, why do you need then in curriculum?
Why then do you need it in as a standard operating procedure?
Why can you just wait till someone's 18 to allow them to talk about it?
No, because it is a social contagion.
There has been a 5,000% increase in trans-identified youth in the last couple of years.
5,000% increase.
And it is being taught.
And now, I just want to scare the parents here for a second.
If you have a daughter, much more likely than a son, but it still impacts sons.
You might say, why is that?
Young ladies are far more likely to fall for social contagions than young boys are.
That's not a sexist thing.
It is a factual thing.
Young girls are more likely to cut themselves.
They're more likely to get into those weird packs that were really popular in the 90s, early 2000s.
Not a criticism.
It's just true, and it's manifesting it through puberty anxiety.
Transgenderism with kids, 99% of the time, especially with females, is, I don't feel comfortable in my body.
Which, by the way, if you talk to every woman in this audience, there was a point when they were 12, 13, 14, 15 where they did not feel comfortable in their body.
And the way you handle that is you love on that individual and you say, it's going to get better.
I love you.
I'm here for you.
You don't say, let's go down to the gender clinic and plan your breast reduction surgery.
Or, oh, how about hormones, honey?
Which is happening to now over 100,000 youth in this country.
So, happy to get deeper and deeper into this, but it starts with the little things because they'll say the following: they'll say, Well, we just must be affirming.
And you do not affirm a lie.
I want to say that again: you do not affirm a lie.
Now, that might sound cruel, but think about it.
If somebody with anorexia came to you and said, I want liposuction.
So, think about those terms: anorexia, I think I'm fat, so I do not eat.
Liposuction, a surgical process where you forcibly remove somebody's body fat.
Would you then, as a medical professional, affirm the anorexics decision to go into surgery to get liposuction?
You would lose your license and you would be muted, you would be destroying that person.
Parents Must Teach Honor 00:03:46
So, why is it any different with gender dysphoria?
The answer is they have classified it as a civil rights issue, and we've been way too polite on this for far too long.
If you're 20 years old and you want to wear a dress in your home, not my problem.
But if you blur the line between adult and child and you come after a 14-year-old, it is all of our problems, and we are not going to put up with it, groomer.
So, I want to encourage you guys to fight on that.
I think it's a civilizational defining issue.
Okay, Scott, let's get ready for questions here.
But in closing, Arizona voter registration going well, Pennsylvania voter registration going well.
Trump's popularity is anti-fragile and resilient despite what they've thrown at him.
Deportations are more popular than ever.
And finally, there is something promising happening with young voters, especially young male voters.
It's an opportunity in front of us.
They are seeing the collapse of several simultaneous bad ideas of secularism, globalism, of leftism, Marxism, and postmodernism.
And if we do our job, we can lead the younger generation to be the most conservative generation in history.
It's going to take work.
It's going to take Turning Point USA.
It's going to take high school chapters, college chapters, and of course, all of us continuing to speak the truth regardless of the cost.
Let's do some questions.
Thanks, guys, so much.
If you would like to ask a question, I'm going to be roaming around.
So just raise your hand and flight me down.
We'll be right there.
Here's the first question.
I've been a, I don't know how you'd phrase it.
I'd say he's a Fargo school board watchdog, is what I'd call you.
Yeah, that's fair.
A good one.
For over two years now.
One of the things that you said about what they're doing in secret, I can expand upon that a little bit.
They have this document that has only been seen by about 10% of the staff.
It's called their gender inclusion guidelines.
And in them, expressly, it asks the students whether they should inform the parents or not about all of their gender things.
So there's that.
I don't really have one.
Well, and that's important.
So, first of all, is that against the law, Scott, here in North Dakota?
Are they breaking the law?
The attorney general is in the front row.
You better ask him.
He's a better lawyer than I am.
I don't know.
I'm just wondering.
I didn't mean it facetiously.
It could be against parental notification.
Remember back to the Ten Commandments.
This is why the trans issue is bigger than the trans issue.
They seek to obliterate the bond between a parent and a child.
In the Ten Commandments, it is the only commandment that involves a promise and your nation.
It goes as follows in the original Hebrew: honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which God gave you.
You cannot live long in America if you do not have children honoring parents.
Now, without going too deep into, I'm sure you guys are a religious group, so I can go pretty.
If you're not actually, you need Jesus, so I'll just keep going anyway.
So, which is very important.
The word honor in Hebrew is a very interesting word.
It literally means to treat heavily, to treat with weight, to carry around as if it's not light.
Now, it's interesting.
The word to curse in Hebrew is the same word to carry lightly.
So, if you to curse somebody, you are to carry it lightly, carry it lightly.
If you're to honor something, it's to carry it heavily.
Interesting.
The word parent, so honor your mother and father, the word parent, Torah, and teacher are all the same root word in the Old Testament or in the Hebrew Bible.
So, the parent's role is to teach, as it says in Torah, and to guide the child in which the direction that they are in.
It's not the government's role to teach the parent.
Conservative Movement Direction 00:05:29
That's what I'm getting at.
Okay.
I'll do more Bible history in a second.
And then the question I had is: next time you're on Tim Poole's show, would you please bring him something positive to talk about?
Because he's so blackpilled all the time.
Yep.
See, if I get known as positivity, I will have fought my nature.
Not because I'm naturally negative.
I'm naturally real.
And it is dark right now, okay?
But you shouldn't always act how you feel.
Fighting your nature is one of the most important lessons of the Bible.
It doesn't matter how you feel.
You must act in the proper and correct way.
So when things seem overwhelmingly negative, okay, they are negative, but there are a lot of positives, and there are a lot of things to hold on to.
And we have an election in November, and we have a great candidate, and we still have agency, and Jesus is still on his throne.
Yes, next question.
All right, back here.
Hi, my name is Tanner Smith.
I've been a fan for quite a while, so thanks for coming.
I guess my question is just in general about, I feel like the conservative movement has just been pointing guns in every direction that we can for a while, and I kind of like the excitement, and I feel like any direction towards the right is good at this point.
But something I've been wondering is, are we being psyoped at all by this whole movement against like private businesses and corporations instead of focusing on politicians that are not doing the right thing?
Every politician, right or left, constantly talks about everyone being influenced by corporations and things like that.
And it seems like we're taking away from actually talking about the people who make decisions instead we talk about businesses.
Yeah, so that's a great point.
So if you didn't quite track that, it's a lot of social, and it's okay, it's not your fault.
It's that if you are under the age of 30 and you're in this room, you probably know all about the daily wire drama.
Yes?
If you're over the age of 50, you're like, what are you talking about?
Okay?
The way that young conservatives consume information is profoundly different than how older conservatives consume information.
We are unique.
We are on 150 radio stations.
We're on Real America's Voice, Flag Radio Network, and we're also very popular on social media.
So, we actually transcend the political generational landscape, one of the only ones that do that.
I will say, I haven't engaged in the daily wire drama or any of that because they're friends of mine.
And I think it's time that we stop shooting at each other as conservative influencers.
And we do need to hold our lawmakers accountable more when they do not represent the will of the voters when they go to Washington, D.C., especially here in North Dakota.
You guys are a safe Republican state.
You guys need to have leaders that reflect your values when you send them to Washington, D.C.
Yes, sir.
All right.
Hi, Charlie.
Honored to be here.
Huge fan.
My name is Christopher.
I'm a student at NDSU.
I have several professors who are foreign and can hardly understand a word they say when I go to class.
And I am Chinese.
I'm curious.
Chinese, Pakistanian, whatever.
You know, just most random things.
And I can hardly understand a word they say when they go to go to class.
It's quite frustrating.
And I'm not passing a couple of my classes right now because of it, and finals is next week.
So that's also frustrating.
Number two, recently, my sister sent me a text and said, hey, can you come to the greenhouse next week with me for a seminar?
And I said, why?
She said, well, apparently now white straight males are a minority at NDSU.
What advice do you have to me to combat these issues at our campus?
Well, so do you guys get like minority protections then?
I guess probably not, right?
Yeah, that's.
Yeah, that's the irony, right?
Is that you might be a minority, but they still treat you as if you're a majority.
That's right, because someone always needs to be blamed.
I don't, first, let me just, I don't even know how to answer the Pakistani professor thing.
I'm sorry.
So don't go to college is my answer because it's a waste of time and a scam.
Yeah, so I don't know if that helps at all.
But anyway, so this, sorry, that doesn't help.
Again, you're kind of proving my point.
Can't understand my professors and all this.
Okay, you're going into debt for this.
Why?
Exactly.
Okay, so the second part is important.
And I don't like talking about this, despite how the media attacks me relentlessly.
But I also say things that are true and are real because you guys tune in every single day and you trust me with your time and you trust me with a lot of other things, with sometimes, you know, supporting organization, whatever, turning point.
And so I tell you the truth, regardless if it's popular.
And there is a war on white people in this country, specifically on young white men.
Now, I don't think we should create our own racial identity group like the left has with BLM.
But if we don't acknowledge that the idea of colorblind society is currently under attack and that affirmative action and hiring practices, it's harder and harder for young conservative white people, especially to get into corporate positions than we are fooling ourselves.
And it is a self-hating ideology in our corporate practices, in our federal government, in our college admissions.
And so it creates a fair amount of, you know, I'm mad as heck and I'm not going to take it anymore.
And the proper way to respond to that, I mean, I don't know how to respond to the part that you're now a minority, but here's what I will say.
Even though all these things are happening against you, don't allow yourself to act like a victim.
And that's very important because nothing drives me nuttier than when people say, okay, it's rigged against me.
Pursuit Of Truth Through Dialogue 00:04:30
What's the point?
Give me a bunch of free stuff.
You could fix the injustice, which we should do, right?
And there's a great new book, by the way, by Jeremy Carl.
I had him on my show, which is literally a 500-page book that talks about the war on white people.
If you don't believe it, it will.
You will be speechless.
From what kids are being taught through K-12 schools, from how people are hiring jobs to black-only dormitories to black-only graduation ceremonies to corporations saying we are not going to hire white men anymore.
Outright saying it in a violation of the Civil Rights Act.
So I don't like talking at the topic because people take me out of context with it.
But instead, you must say, you know what?
It might be rigged against me.
I'm going to work harder.
I might start my own business and I'm going to prove people wrong.
That's the proper way to respond to injustice, not just kind of complaining all the time, which I'm not saying you will.
Thank you.
Hi, Charlie.
My name is Randy from South Dakota.
Again, I just want to give you one of my favorite quotes, and I'd like you to comment on it.
Knowledge is gained by study, whereas wisdom is gained by observation.
Now, with your, you know, we have so many educated people who lack any common sense or any sort of wisdom.
With your experience and turning point, what have you found to be the most efficient technique or the most effective argument that we can get these so-called educated people on the road to wisdom?
What a beautiful question.
So, number one, the scriptures say that wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord.
So, if you do not have a fear of an almighty God, you might know a lot of facts and be very educated, but you'll be an idiot.
And so, that's what I always say: being educated and wise are two different categories.
You perfectly put it in your question.
So, let's define the terms.
What is wisdom?
Wisdom is the knowledge of the things that do not change.
Better said, wisdom is the understanding of the things that do not change.
For example, good and evil.
What is a human being?
Were we created?
Is God in charge?
What is mercy?
What is justice?
What is humility?
Who is Jesus Christ?
What's in the book of Genesis?
Those things never change.
So, wisdom is the installation of these understandings that are the same in year 2024 than they would be in the year 1774 or in the year 1444.
So, classical education, I know some of you guys are involved in the Hillsdale School here, is a great way to do it.
So, wisdom can come of one of two ways.
Yes, observation, but it can come through life experience, so getting your teeth kicked in for a long period of time, mostly through pain.
So, pain is a teacher of wisdom, or reading beautiful things with humility and studying them closely, starting, of course, with the Bible, right?
So, you can get wisdom from other texts and other authors.
We do neither of those things.
Instead, we fill an entire generation full of rubbish and call them educated and give them a lot of cockiness and confidence to go destroy the world around them.
And so, they're not a religious generation, they're an increasingly secular one.
So, what have I found as a way to successfully instill wisdom?
Well, here's the teaching: which is you must administer the law to the proud and grace to the humble.
So, there are a lot of proud young kids that think they know everything.
So, you must give them the law, show them where they're wrong, essentially, right?
Pick apart their arguments, ask them difficult questions, not reject the premise, and stay on them and stay on them.
Some of you may have seen my many YouTube videos where we do this, right?
And you do that in a form of dialogue of the pursuit of truth.
Now, once they have been broken down and they realize they don't have all the answers, then you give them grace.
And the ultimate grace is Jesus Christ, right?
And then, once you start drinking from the streams of liberty, it will bring you to Christ.
So, if someone is really, really, here's what I found: I've spent a lot of time around intellectuals, people super smarter than me, and wiser than me, they're the most humble people when it comes to learning.
They are the least confident.
In fact, if you find a cocky intellectual, you should run the other way.
In fact, the people that take learning super seriously realize how little they actually know, how little they actually remember, and that there is a God, and we are not him.
Child Sex Slaves Crisis 00:04:06
The most important religious distinction in the country is not even Christian or Jewish or Christian or secular.
It's do you believe that there is a God, and do you believe you are him or not?
That's the most important two questions that you can answer.
And unfortunately, we have now put over 100 million kids through a broken education system in just the last couple of years, 100 million kids that do this completely wrong.
And now we are reaping the political consequences as a result.
Next question over here.
Hi, Charlie.
My name is Vicki.
I start every morning with you in my ear.
Anybody here that hasn't listened to Thought Crime, you have, you have to weekly listen to Thought Crime.
Anyway, that's my plug.
So Guatemala sent a letter to Greg Abbott a few weeks ago about all of their missing children.
It was articulated in the letter, all of the NGOs, that they've done all.
I'm embarrassed.
I'm ashamed because it's my country.
And they've articulated how their children are going missing and that they're coming into America.
Is anybody, I've heard nothing.
I've had my ear to the ground trying to figure out if anybody's doing anything.
And I thought maybe you would know.
That's a great point.
I need to do a segment on it, so I will.
Thank you for reminding me.
So let me kind of add context.
First of all, the book is Unprotected Class.
I meant to answer your question.
The earlier book is Unprotected Class by Jeremy Carl.
So the answer is very few people.
Laura Logan is trying to do some work on this topic.
I need to just explain what her question was in layman's terms.
It was a great question, which is a component of the open southern border are at the minimum thousands, probably tens of thousands of child sex slaves that are brought into the country and used as toys for cartel members and for rich people that purchase them as sex slaves.
Just a fact, right?
And so you go to, if you've never been to the southern border, I don't recommend it, but if you really don't believe me, you can go down to any one of the sectors and you will see fighting-age males with three girls that are 11, 12, and 13.
And they'll say, oh, these are my daughters or nieces and nephews.
The Biden regime has said no more DNA testing.
They got rid of all DNA testing.
So understanding DNA testing takes 90 seconds.
90 seconds.
Swab, swab, swab, machine.
We have amazing technology.
They've gotten rid of it all.
So as long as they claim they're the family, he can enter in as under asylum.
So he enters with his sex slaves and he goes to Houston or Atlanta.
And if I am bothering you, I hope I'm bothering you because we kind of act so pridefully that we got rid of slavery in this country.
We never got rid of slavery in this country.
There are more slaves being trafficked across the border.
Now, there are labor slaves, there are sex slaves.
The sex slave one is the most egregious.
And if you do not believe me, I could point to you every so often.
You'll see a story, and there was one about six months ago: huge raid of a home in Houston where there were a huge brothel, and there were 68 girls that were illegally trafficked into the country that were being used as sex slaves all under the age of 18, right?
And so, yeah, Joe Biden is helping facilitate and co-sponsor these missing children.
And so, Guatemala has come out and they're like, hey, we have all these missing kids.
Do you know where they are?
Because we have reason to believe they've been trafficked through the interior of the Central American Triangle of Mexico into the country.
And Biden doesn't even respond, right?
And there are a lot of reasons for this, but if you're not convinced that the southern border is a spiritual issue, I don't know what to tell you.
And honestly, shame, shame, shame on the Christian community for the continued silence of our pastors on the southern border while this continues.
Church As Salt And Light 00:09:58
Hey, Charlie, my name is Max.
I'm a student at the University of North Dakota just about an hour up.
Yeah, how many UND fans in here?
Is that Grant Forks, right?
Yeah, Grant Forks.
And so I'm a conservative student who's part of like student government.
I'm running for the State Board of Higher Education for the state of North Dakota.
But what I found is there's a lot of students on our campuses that are conservative.
Like the vast majority of the students are conservative.
But every one of the students that are in leaders or positions of leadership are all leftists.
Or like I'm the only person that ran for the state board that's a conservative.
And so in a climate that's dominated by Republicans and conservatives, how can someone like me motivate students on my campus to get more involved like I have and spread the ideals?
So this is a really important question.
And it is probably unique some ways to North Dakota, but not really, which is you say most of the kids you talk to are conservative.
When you fill in a college campus, that's not exactly the shared experience of every campus.
But understand this.
I'm not shocked that the conservative kids don't want to get involved in student government.
Because for us, politics and government is not the greatest good.
Friends are more important than government.
They are.
They should be.
Family.
Church.
Even work.
Government should be a sideshow that we don't think about, that doesn't get in our way and does their simple tasks.
And we don't have to talk about politics all day, every day.
But we become politics obsessed because government has broke the contract.
Because government is doing things it shouldn't do and is not doing things it should do.
For example, government is locking January 6th defendants into gulags in pretrial detention because they prayed a silent prayer or Granny's going to jail and they're not securing the border.
So that involves the politics.
But for the left-wingers, this is their church.
This is their meaning.
Politics gives them the same sort of satisfaction that you might get from leading a small group Bible study or bringing someone to the Lord or getting married.
For them, government and politics is everything because the state is God.
And so we're always going to be having an uphill battle.
And that's why Turning Point is so important is because we argue we have TPUSA Faith, which is a major pastor's project.
Woo, geez.
We just had a huge event, by the way, this weekend.
Where was that event?
Somebody from Bismarck.
I was told it went very, very well.
We had a TPUSA faith event at Bismarck.
And our role in the churches in high school and college is that we say, we know you don't like government and you don't care about government, but if you don't fight, government is going to care about you.
And I wish we had the country we grew up in where we didn't have to think about politics all the time, but it's interfering with us.
So stay involved with Turning Point.
Happy to help you out and give it up for this young man for wanting to make North Dakota a better state.
Hi, Charlie.
My name is Molly, and my question is in regards to the church.
You touched on the importance of the Ten Commandments.
If we could just get to a place where we could look back at the Ten Commandments, things such as abortion, when we look at the Ten Commandments, thou shalt not kill, and bring that into the church.
What do you believe, when you look at the local church here in the community of Fargo, should the church's role be in speaking out against these issues that are deemed political but are actually very spiritual?
Yeah, so great question.
This is one of my big issues and concerns, and it's been a passion project of mine.
So it doesn't matter what Charlie Kirk thinks.
It matters what the Bible says.
So I'm only going to tell you what the Bible says, and that's what churches should do.
So first and foremost, let's just look at the landscape.
Secularism is ascendant and is now the dominant religious view in the country.
Not believing in God is now more popular than believing in God.
That is a failure of the church, a failure of modern Christianity.
Secondly, we are seeing the tragedy of secularism with transgenderism, abortion, queer theory, critical race theory.
These are pseudo-fabricated religions that fill the place.
So if you believe that there is only air above us and ground below us, there's no heaven or hell, you're going to create your own fake God, the God of climate change or environmentalism or earth worship, the God of anti-racism or the God of self.
I can do whatever I want to do whenever I want to do it because that's how I want to do it.
And we play into that one way too often, by the way, in the West.
And the church has said, well, I don't want to be political.
We just do the gospel.
What an unbiblical approach that the church has been taking.
And I'm going to prove it to you, okay?
The church, as articulated in almost every single one of the 66 books of the Bible, is first and foremost, we must recognize that there is no separation of morality and state.
So they will say, well, there's separation of church and state.
First of all, that's not true.
It's not in the Constitution.
That was a single letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention, assuring that the government would not come after the state.
However, let's just grant that as a premise, that we're not going to have a national church or a national religion.
Wherever does it say there should be a separation of morality and state?
Every single law that is passed tries to do good.
The question is, what is good?
And only the church holds the answer to that.
So when the church goes silent on morality, goes silent on what is good or evil, right or wrong, infant or adult, we are then saying the distinctions or the moral order that God has created with his perfect and pleasing will is not important because the church wanted to be popular instead of biblical.
And the church over the last 30 years was more interested in bigger buildings, bigger budgets, and more baptisms.
They ignored the Great Commission, as Jesus said, go make disciples of all nations.
He did not say go make converts of all nations.
Discipleship is hard.
Discipleship is deep.
Discipleship takes time.
Discipleship is nurturing a plant that will grow that you will not even see when you die go to its full capacity.
So what does the Bible say?
First and foremost, we must be counselors to the king.
The biblical role of politics is that we must counsel the king for moral and righteous purposes.
Daniel, Esther, Mordecai, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Joseph, they were all counselors to secular government for God's purposes.
Secondly, Jeremiah 29, 7, it says, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
That is an explicit teaching that God tells you to care about your nation, your community, and what's happening around you.
Thirdly, my favorite verse, Psalm 97, 10, which in the Hebrew is done in the command form.
If you love God, you must hate evil.
How many American churches are actively even talking about what evil is, talking about what sin is, let alone hating evil.
Final point, and I could go on from this, which is that the church must shape culture, but unfortunately, the culture has been shaping the church.
Is that the church needs to be salt and light, as Christ our Lord said.
What do salt and light have in common?
They change the environments they come in contact with.
They'll make Fargo more Christian.
That does not happen.
They'll make Fargo more glorifying to God's perfect and pleasing will.
So how do we do that?
That means there is a role for Christians to run for government and for churches to express political opinions explicitly and say that this party believes that, this party believes that, vote this way and not this way.
You might say, well, what about the Johnson Amendment?
Happy to get into that.
That's kind of a wonky question.
Here's the point.
If you are worried about losing your 501 status as a pastor, you should not be a pastor because you fear the IRS more than the government.
We have pastors.
We have pastors that have a far bigger wardrobe budget than a book budget.
We have pastors that think church is a rock concert with nice coffee and organized parking.
When we need a hot gospel, we need the law will bring you to Christ.
What did I say earlier?
Law to the proud, grace to the humble.
How can you teach salvation if people do not know what they're saved from?
You cannot teach redemption if you do not know sin.
You're just taught, you're just then teaching a best help seminar to a generation to say, hey, Jesus will increase your 401k and Jesus will make sure you get that next job.
That is not true.
Your life may materially improve if you invoke God's perfect teachings into your life.
Maybe.
That doesn't make you as if tragedy won't hit you and that makes converts not become disciples long term.
So what should the church do?
The church should be salt and light.
They should be explicitly biblical in all of its stands, which is number one, we're never going to allow the church to be called non-essential again when weed dispensaries, liquor stores, and maintenance stores are allowed to remain open and the church is closed.
Number two, life begins at conception with no exceptions and we are going to be pro-life through and through.
And number three, that God created male and female with certain distinctions and we stand against the transgenderism, which is an ideology from the pit of hell that destroyed God's perfect distinctions that he set up in his word.
And that's the short answer, by the way.
So, all right, we'll go about 10 more minutes, right, Scott?
Yes, sir.
Restore Balance Between Men And Women 00:03:23
Hi, Charlie.
My name is Lexi.
Huge fan.
I wanted to reflect back on something you said earlier in your talk about the hyper-feminist culture and how it is harming and angering young men in our society, especially in the college environment.
My question is: as a woman who does not align with modern feminist concepts, I guess, how would you, what is your advice for those of us that are trying to fight against modern feminist culture and trying to restore proper balance between men and women and not this equality that's a great question?
Thank you for that.
And by the way, if modern feminists spend as much time hating men as instead of doing that, they should just like, I don't know, stop men who think they are women from coming into their locker rooms, country would be a much better place.
But anyway, it's so funny to me.
They're like, we hate men unless you think you're a woman and you're one of us.
I'm like, what is that all about?
It's very bizarre, very weird.
I still haven't figured that out.
I've asked a lot of great question.
What can you do?
Well, first and foremost, you have to live out the micro, which is look for a serious marriage partner as early as possible.
Try to get married as early as possible, have a ton of kids.
Now, parents don't like when I say this, which because that's why you're also responsible for the declining fertility rate.
Parents who say this, it's very funny.
Parents are like, don't tell my kid to get married too young.
I was like, do you want grandkids?
And they're like, oh, yeah.
I said, well, okay, if you wait till over 30, it's a 50-50 chance.
And they're like, what do you mean?
I was like, you realize it's not a sure thing, first of all, with fertility rates and the garbage that we're eating and with the vaccines and with all this nonsense that we have, that your kids will even be able to have children.
Okay?
Secondly, are they going to be able to find a partner over 30?
It's all guaranteed.
So why have we said to stop getting married when we've traditionally always done it?
Like, why are we trying to micromanage to go like build a big corporate career so you can have like a nice apartment, be a corporate partner, and like have a bunch of cats?
Like, I don't understand, like, why that is exactly appealing to people.
And finally, you need to speak out against these feminists and be like, no, we need strong men.
We want to see this masculine movement restore men.
There are estimates, estimates, estimates.
5 million men that have just checked out of society.
They're basically living their parents.
They're not working.
They're not dating.
They're not doing anything.
They've just checked out of society.
We call them drifters.
You guys might know some, by the way.
And you're all nodding your heads.
We don't have that same number for women.
Estimates are there's about 300,000 drifter women.
I want you to think about that.
But 5 million men that have just checked out of the dating pool, checked out a working, and they're done.
Video games, maybe a little cryptocurrency, and a lot of Uber Eats and weed.
And that's really troubling everybody.
And you can half blame them.
I would, you know, I think they need a male role bottle to scream at them in the face, but their excuse is, what's the point?
To go, you know, into a dating pool where the women don't want to marry and they're not serious about it, where the entire society is rigged against men.
I don't think those are good excuses, but they're all individually making that decision as a collective.
It's very, very troubling.
Okay.
Yeah, I hope that answers your question.
Next question.
Right here.
Okay.
Intention Matters In IVF Debate 00:04:24
Thank you.
My name's Marilyn and unfortunately I'm from across the border in Moorhead.
And we're like a little blue polka dot with a lot of red around us.
And as hard as we've tried, we've hyped, tried to get candidates because we just need one candidate that's our representative as an activist that's like believes in abortion till the whole nine months and the whole the whole thing.
But my question today is I'm interested in helping or to find the turning point chapter in Concordia, which is the college over there, MSUM, Rasmussen College.
And I've even thought if I could find like one or two kids over there to start uniting them, my home is right by the college.
And I would like even offer a dinner so that we could have some kind of social or something to bring the kids in.
I love that.
Quinn can help you.
Okay.
That's what I'm hoping for, to find somebody and to get started.
She's doing a great job.
She can help you out.
Thank you.
Excellent.
Hi, Charlie.
I'm the president of the Turning Point Chapter here over at NBSU.
I was just wondering, it's become more of a prevalent issue lately, and I've heard several Republican politicians and conservative speakers and stuff like that come out in support of IVF and surrogacy and say that it's a good thing and that we should not make it illegal and stuff like that.
And personally, I think it's a great evil.
It's a great atrocity.
I was just wondering what are your thoughts on it, and do you think a conservative can reasonably have a pro-IVF position and be pro-life?
And is this something that we can start talking about more as conservatives?
Great question.
Are you Catholic?
Of course you are.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So a very Catholic question.
And I love the question, by the way, because you're coming out from a great place.
But an evangelical would never, ever ask that question.
So, and I mean that as loving as possible.
So just everyone understands in Catholic, it's Catholic teaching, IVF is akin to murder.
So let's go through exactly what it is.
It's in vitro fertilization where sperm and an egg are put together in a laboratory and then they are put into utero, hoping that it will attach to the uterine wall and then gestation will begin.
Okay?
So, without getting too deep into it, politically, the position is very clear, which is like not only does 90% of the country, but like 90% of Republicans are pro-IVF, right?
But I'm going to get to my position, which is that I, again, it's very unpopular.
I don't think that fertilized embryos should ever be destroyed.
Number one, because I believe that they are life at conception.
Number two, there is a way to do IVF, just very low likelihood of it working, which is you only do one embryo at a time, implanted at a time.
Because the issue with IVF is you destroy a lot of the embryos and you put a lot of embryos into utero that will not survive.
That's why you get a lot of twins and triplets.
I will tell you, though, I'm morally conflicted on it because some of my best friends and changemakers for Christ and for patriotism are IVF babies.
So it's just hard for me to square that.
So not even sure how to go about that legislatively.
Love your enthusiasm.
I don't know if I'd call it a great evil.
I would say, though, that if you are intentionally destroying human life, that is a great evil, right?
And I sympathize a little bit with some of the parents that do it because I think they're different than a woman who walks into an abortion clinic.
And hear me out, which a woman who, because I do believe intention matters with this.
A woman who walks into an abortion clinic wants nothing more than a baby to go away.
A couple that walks into an IVF clinic is praying for a baby to come, please, from the heavens.
So I think that intention gives us some mercy for that family that's trying to do that.
With that being said, I think that if you want to be consistent, you say that it's done one fertilized egg at a time.
You would effectively end IVF in the country if that's the case because you need to kind of have mass fertilization.
Hope that answers your question.
But I got, it's very funny.
I did a whole IVF show because I do believe that we should be pro-IVF for the reasons that I mentioned.
However, I got like 1% of hate emails, hate, from Catholics.
And they were so mad at me.
So we can disagree on it.
And I love Catholics and they make the world a better place.
I mean that.
Spirit Of Antichrist Returns 00:03:10
Right, Scott?
Can't argue with that.
Come home to Rome.
Last question right here.
Yes, sir.
Thank you for being here, Charlie.
I'm a huge fan and a huge fan of the flag.
I have a declaration and then a question quickly.
Ephesians 6:12.
For our struggles, it's not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
If we don't know who our enemy is, what chance do we have?
So, Christians, believers, let's stand up, pray up, speak up.
The spirit of the Antichrist is here.
It's infiltered every institution that we have.
Question: Did you hear that they're trying to enact the Leahy Act?
My wife heard today when I was making a living that they want to declare Israel a terrorist state.
I bet they are trying to.
That's an awful idea.
I stand with Israel, and I hope you guys do too.
I think it's reprehensible what's happening to them.
And I love that you said, because you're technically spot on, the spirit of the Antichrist, because I think people get too caught up as the Antichrist is a person, which is a thing, but the spirit is the precursor to the person.
So I think that's great.
I also just want to caution the audience: do not get too deep into trying to find the time, date, or hour of Christ's return.
Instead, glorify God in all that you do, and Christ will return, okay?
And so be on the welcoming committee, not the planning committee, for Christ's return, okay?
Final point I'll make.
Is that okay, Scott?
One final thing, which is I want to thank you guys for supporting Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.
I want to thank you for supporting Scott and Freedom Matters.
It's a wonderful organization.
You guys have to keep on fighting here in North Dakota.
It is so important.
I want to just say a plug.
If you're not subscribed to our podcast, you can listen to, I don't know if you know this, you can listen to all three hours of radio.
You might hear a snippet on the flag.
If you want to hear all the shows and the interviews in its totality, you guys can open up your podcast app and get the Charlie Kirk show.
And you can get Thought Crime on there too, which doesn't air on radio, which is a lot of fun.
So you guys can do that tonight if you want.
I highly recommend it.
My final charge for you guys is this: North Dakota is a conservative state, but you guys are not immune to the social contagions or the Marxism that's coming here.
You need to contest for the welfare of the nation that you are in.
Jeremiah 29, 7.
Be that salt and light.
Run for office.
Pray for your leaders.
Fast when appropriate.
And you cannot give up.
The way that they win is our surrender.
Through mass demoralization, the Marxists win.
With our resolve, our grittiness, and hustle, I believe that we'll be ultimately successful, hopefully in November or even beyond, because truth will prevail and lies will collapse.
God bless you guys.
Thank you so much.
Thanks so much for listening.
Everybody, email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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