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Start a Turning Point USA Chapter
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| My name is Charlie Kirk. | |
| I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic. | |
| My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. | |
| If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. | |
| But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful. | |
| College is a scam, everybody. | |
| You got to stop sending your kids to college. | |
| You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. | |
| Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. | |
| Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter. | |
| Go find out how your church can get involved. | |
| Sign up and become an activist. | |
| I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. | |
| Most important decision I ever made in my life. | |
| And I encourage you to do the same. | |
| Here I am. | |
| Lord, use me. | |
| Buckle up, everybody. | |
| Here we go. | |
| The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends, and viewers. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, Charlie Kirk. | |
| We're people! | |
| Thank you, everybody. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Good evening. | |
| I'm Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action. | |
| Together, the largest conservative grassroots organizations in the country. | |
| Thanks to our work, I talk to a lot of young people on campuses, at our events, on my radio show, podcast, and social media. | |
| Said differently, I visit college campuses, so you don't have to. | |
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American Dream Deferred
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| I hear a lot from young people about their hopes, their dreams, and their fears. | |
| You see, young people are idealists. | |
| They respond to vision. | |
| For the past four years, they've seen the vision of the Biden-Harris regime. | |
| That vision is, you'll own nothing and be happy. | |
| The Democrats say, instead of owning a home, you'll rent a 400-square-foot studio apartment. | |
| Instead of owning a car, you'll rent a scooter using some app. | |
| Their vision is this. | |
| Limit your dreams. | |
| Give up. | |
| Aim lower. | |
| Be content with less. | |
| If you're a 20-something in America, life has been really tough. | |
| You've watched home prices rise 47% since 2020. | |
| 47%. | |
| Home ownership is now out of reach unless you make over $106,000 a year. | |
| Since I last spoke at the Republican convention four years ago, I've become a husband and father. | |
| In fact, we have two under two. | |
| I think I get extra points for that. | |
| For millions of people my age, that is a dream that feels farther away than ever under the Biden-Harris administration. | |
| According to current projections, one-third of today's young Americans will never get married. | |
| The average American is having fewer children than ever before. | |
| Why? | |
| It's because for far too many, they simply can't afford them. | |
| The basic things our parents enjoyed are increasingly out of reach for Gen Z and millennials. | |
| You see, the American dream has become a luxury item for the wealthy elite. | |
| Happy countries have children. | |
| Broken countries have addiction, depression, and suffering. | |
| Democrats have given hundreds of billions of dollars to illegals and foreign nations, while Gen Z has to pinch pennies just so that they can never own a home, never marry, and work until they die, childless. | |
| Under Biden, our young people own nothing and they are miserable. | |
| Donald Trump refuses to accept this fake, pathetic, mutilated version of the American dream. | |
| When he was president, young people were richer than ever before, and he will do it again. | |
| Donald Trump is on a rescue mission to revive your birthright. | |
| One your grandparents and those before them gave everything to hand down to you. | |
| And listen carefully, everybody. | |
| This is why young men are the most conservative that they have been in 50 years. | |
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Choose Success Together
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| To all the Gen Zers watching this convention on TikTok right now, I have a message just for you. | |
| You don't have to stay poor. | |
| You don't have to accept being worse off than your parents. | |
| You don't have to feel aimless and unhappy. | |
| You don't have to support leaders who lied to you and took advantage of you for your vote. | |
| America's future is a series of choices. | |
| Our current state of slow-motion national decline is a choice. | |
| This November, we're going to choose success. | |
| We're going to choose to put the future of Americans first. | |
| We are going to choose to no longer be spectators this election. | |
| We together are going to do the work to save America. | |
| We are going to choose to work harder than ever before, to chase ballots, to vote early, to register new voters. | |
| And all of us together working harder than ever, we will fire the Biden-Harris regime and put Donald Trump back in the White House where he belongs. | |
| God bless you guys. | |
| Thank you so much. | |