TURNING POINT TONIGHT, WITH JOBOB, DECEMBER 22ND, 2025

Summary

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Real America’s Voice – Turning Point Tonight with JoBob (Dec 22, 2025)

Main Theme & Purpose

This episode of Turning Point Tonight, guest-hosted by JoBob and featuring an extended segment with conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, focuses on a full-throated critique of Critical Race Theory (CRT), "wokeism," and the perceived threats these ideologies pose to American society and values. Kirk presents his argument that CRT and related diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movements represent a moral and societal danger to the American way of life. The show also includes a lengthy Q&A session dealing with hot-button issues like socialism, abortion, racism, and education.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Threat of Critical Race Theory and "Wokeism"

[03:32–16:43]

• Framing CRT as Dangerous and Divisive:
  Kirk sets the episode's tone by stating CRT is best described as "critical racism theory" and calls it “a virus against America and civil and free society.” He likens CRT's ideological spread to that of a virus, arguing that “you don’t get natural immunity from critical race theory” and that the ongoing focus on immutable characteristics such as skin color undermines agency, merit, and moral society.

• American Values on Equality:
  Argues American values are grounded not in equal outcomes, but in recognizing the unique dignity and agency of each individual—“we never really cared about who your parents were... we put a preference on you, your actions, hold you accountable. That’s empowering.”

• Concrete Examples of CRT in Policy:
  Cites examples he claims embody CRT in current practice:

  • Pfizer filling leadership with “exclusively black and Hispanic people.”
  • Atlanta Public Schools segregating black and white second graders.
  • United Airlines pledging that 50% of future pilots will be black or women based on diversity hiring.
  • Black-only dormitories and graduation ceremonies at universities like Western Washington and Columbia.
  • The CDC labeling racism as a public health crisis.
  • Chicago allocating $10 million to “fight” racism.
  • Asserts these are not merely “thought exercises” but “public policy now.”

• Memorable Quote:

  “Let me be very clear: if you judge or categorize anyone based on skin color, you’re a racist. Period. End of story.” – Charlie Kirk [12:43]

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2. The Cultural and Societal Impact of “Woke” Policies

[16:43–30:45]

• Erosion of Colorblind Society:
  Kirk laments the move from a colorblind ideal to a hyper-racialized society. He claims CRT and associated policies have driven America to be more divided, less safe, and less pleasant.

• Rising Crime and Policing:
  Correlates “defund the police” and distrust in law enforcement—framed as products of CRT—with increased violent crime and worsening conditions for vulnerable communities.

• Whiteness and Western Civilization:
  Suggests that attacks on “whiteness” are veiled attacks on Western civilization itself—highlighting freedom of speech, separation of powers, and rule of law as cultural achievements being undermined.

• Quote:

  “When we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s, we were promised a colorblind society. In reality, we've got the exact opposite: instead of colorblindness, we now have heightened racial consciousness and awareness.” – Charlie Kirk [18:10]

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3. Rebuttal to Common Progressive Counterarguments

[30:45–39:50]

• Personal Testimony vs. Empiricism:
  Rejects the “walk in my shoes” defense, pushing for data-driven policymaking.

• Police Shootings Data:
  Cites Washington Post data to claim that police killing unarmed black people is rare; implies that the issue is inflated as a pretext for societal change.

• Questioning the Narrative Around the Founding Fathers and Slavery:
  Argues that the American founders should be judged by the standards of their time and credits them for first steps toward abolition—“When Thomas Jefferson was on his deathbed, was slavery more or less popular? It was less popular. That is how you should judge human beings.”
  – Charlie Kirk [36:01]

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4. Government: Speech or Force?

[39:50–42:36]

• Defines all governments as relying primarily on either speech (America) or force (Soviet Union, China).
• Warns that “wokeism” and CRT advocate rule by force, group identity, and suppression of dissent—contrasting it with American traditions of persuasion and open dialogue.

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5. The Three Waves of Attempted Takeover

[42:36–47:13]

Kirk outlines recent "takeovers" of American discourse:

• Occupy Wall Street - Class conflict, ultimately unsuccessful.
• Gender Conflicts - Highlighted by the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court hearings; didn’t gain mainstream traction.
• Racial Reckoning/BLM & CRT - Now the dominant mode for those wishing to “displace power dynamics.”

“Instead...they want to start a race war in this country. And I’m telling you, don’t give it to them.” – Charlie Kirk [46:30]

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Audience Q&A Highlights

On “Jesus as Socialist”

[47:13–52:12]

• Rejection of Jesus as Socialist:
  Kirk argues socialism opposes biblical commandments (“Thou shalt not covet...not steal”), and that Jesus stressed individual charity, not enforced redistribution.

  “Socialism is the creed of envy and a philosophy of failure. It’s rooted in wanting to take away somebody’s house, income or wealth.” – Charlie Kirk [47:38]

• Asserts that biblical justice is about giving a man “what he is due,” in contrast to socialism’s aim of “egalitarianism.”

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On Abortion and “Common Ground”**

[54:52–61:59]

• Binary Argument:
  Frames abortion as a binary—“Are human beings persons or property?”
  Cites embryology, degree of dependency, and environment to argue that life begins at conception.

• On Reaching Consensus:
  Kirk is skeptical about finding middle ground, stating,

  “If we cannot reach consensus on an issue that is so fundamentally clear as to when does life begin...then all the other issues that we're fumbling... can be attributed back to that one.” – Charlie Kirk [59:40]

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On Ensuring Future Generations Aren’t Racist

[62:01–62:57]

• De-Emphasizing Race:
  Kirk advocates focusing less on race altogether, and returning to character as the primary way to organize society.

  “I want to create an America where race is de-emphasized and character is elevated as the primary way that we organize society.” – Charlie Kirk [62:45]

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On Equity, CRT, and Educational Bureaucracy

[63:00–65:36]

• Equity Is “Word Laundering”:
  Kirk accuses administrators of using terms like equity and belonging as smokescreens for forced redistribution and group-based policies.
• Diagnostic Questions for Administrators:
  1. Is race a characteristic you care about in judging people?
  2. What is your opinion of black-only or Hispanic-only dormitories?
  3. Should people be grouped and punished based on their group identity?

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Individual Agency:
  “It’s not just empowering. It’s the only moral way to build a free and civil society.” – Charlie Kirk [04:45]

• On Policy vs. Proclamation:
  “These are not just like proclamations or some nut job going on television...This is in practice. This is policy.” – Charlie Kirk [09:48]

• On Defining “Racism”:
  “We have such a low, low amount [of real racists] and such a high demand to find them...” – Charlie Kirk [16:55]

• On CRT and Civil Rights:
  “Instead of colorblindness, we now have heightened racial consciousness and awareness.” – Charlie Kirk [18:10]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Introduction/Christmas Break – [02:48–03:32]
• Critical Race Theory Critique – [03:32–16:43]
• Intersection with Crime, Policing, Western Civ – [16:43–30:45]
• Empirical Arguments, Founding Fathers, Slavery – [30:45–39:50]
• Governance: Speech or Force? – [39:50–42:36]
• Recent “Takeovers” (Occupy, #MeToo, CRT) – [42:36–47:13]
• Jesus and Socialism – [47:13–52:12]
• Abortion and Reaching Consensus – [54:52–61:59]
• Promoting Non-Racism for Future Gens – [62:01–62:57]
• Challenging the Term ‘Equity’ in Schools – [63:00–65:36]

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Tone & Language

The episode maintains a combative, confident, and occasionally humorous tone, with Kirk using rhetorical flourishes, sarcasm, and direct audience engagement. The language reflects a strong anti-progressive stance, employing phrases like “woke industrial complex,” “public policy garbage,” and “slow motion cultural revolution.”

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Summary Takeaway

This episode puts forward a sweeping, philosophical, and policy-based critique of CRT and allied ideologies, arguing they undermine American moral and societal foundations by prioritizing group identity over individual merit and agency. It advocates for a return to colorblind values, open debate, and empirical reasoning, warning of the dangers of “word laundering” in policy and education. Audience questions allowed Kirk to expand on these principles in the context of socialism, abortion, racism, and the meaning of equity, all within a framework upholding traditionalist perspectives on American values and liberty.

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Good evening and welcome to Turning Point.

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Tonight where together we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback generally through the mockery of terrible lib ideas. As you can expect, the show is actually on our Christmas break, not our.

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Winter break, not our New Year's break, our Christmas break.

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And although I would have loved to be doing the show live, the team.

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I guess, has to be afforded some vacation time. So that's what we're doing here.

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They are taking a Christmas break.

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I would have loved to be live with you, but unfortunately I'm beholden to.

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The staff and they're a bunch of lazy people who want to celebrate with their families for some reason. Of course, I kid. I hope you are going to have a wonderful Christmas break.

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We do have fantastic material with you tonight.

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Charlie Kirk exposed Critical Race Theory. That's what's going to come at you right now.

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Watch this.

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So why would we name our tour and make a whole theme of our tour around critical race theory, or as we call it, critical racism theory theory. And it's impacted our life dramatically in the last year. And this is something that can be called wokeism or diversity, equity, inclusion or learning. And those of you that are obviously at University of Michigan, you have to deal with this all the time and all of its different manifestations. But it's amazing how few people actually understand this and talk about how it's an existential threat to the American way of life. And we need to talk about how critical race theory woke is and whatever you want to call it, right. It's a filler term, is a virus against America and civil and free society. And I use that term intentionally because we've been so worried about viruses over the last year and a half, and for good reason. I think that shutting down the country was probably the worst mistake that we made in our country's history. Never should have locked down our country. And let me just say this. I really don't care if you get vaccinated. I care if you're being forced to get vaccinated against your will. By the way, no person should be vaccinated against their will. I don't care if you. Now that everyone's here, I really don't care if you wear a mask. It doesn't bother me. Don't make me wear one against my will. These are very basic things. And yes, we got one. APPLAUSE that's good. I think the lack of that kind of wisdom that you have is definitely not shared. I should say the wisdom is not shared. There's a lack of wisdom by a certain state office holder here in the state of Michigan. We could talk about her at great length, too. But this is a different type of virus, because this virus, just because you get exposed to it and get over it, you don't get natural immunity from critical race theory. It doesn't have a 99.5% survivability rate. Doesn't. Now, I'm not saying it's worse than Covid because some media person says they're two totally different things. This is not an infectious disease. But I'm using a metaphor intentionally by saying if we allow these ideas to go unchallenged, then everything that we have grown to know as justice and the American way of life gets immediately compromised. And so what is this? What is this idea? Well, I think we all know it in our uncertain way, but let's start with what we believe and why we believe it. Super simple, not controversial. By the way, tonight's not even going to be political. I'm going to do everything I possibly can to not say Republican or Democrat. Right. We're just going to talk about ideas, what is true and what is good and what is beautiful. It's really simple. Every human being has dignity. I believe every human being is made in the image of God. I believe that every single human being is worthy of the idea of the American view of human equality. That is a fundamental American value. And that doesn't mean that everyone has the same talents. Obviously. You know, some football coaches are better than others. By the way, let me just say I'm a big Jim Harbaugh fan. I really am. I always have been. I don't know if you guys like him or not, but maybe not. Yeah, it's. The jury's still out. We'll see if he beats Ohio State. Right. Like, that's basically how it is. Yeah. People start applauding five and. Oh, it's a good start. We'll see. I always think he's very sincere, but some football coaches are better than others. Human equality does not mean equal talents, and it definitely does not make equal outcomes. It means that we're all the same sort of thing. As Aristotle would say, human beings are the speaking beings. We are the only type of being that can reason, that can make sense of the natural world through speech. Now, that sort of being should not be categorized or characterized by things we cannot change. So this is basically the divide right now for those of us that are deciding to launch kind of a critique of critical race theory, what it is or what they say it is, and the people that are defending it, which is, do you believe society should be organized around things that people can change or things that people cannot change. Usually America was said, okay, we want to have a preference, at least in some way or capacity, around things that you can change. How hard you work, how hard you study, whether or not you commit crimes, are you making good choices, A bad way to organize society. And a moral way to organize society is that's your skin color. Therefore, we're going to treat you a certain way because you can't change that. And therefore you are de emphasizing human agency and choice. And one of the reasons why America still remains the most exceptional nation on the planet, despite all of our shortcomings, especially in the last nine months, is that we never really cared about who your parents were. We never really cared about where you came from. And there's obvious exceptions. I'm sure, you know, someone will come up and they say, charlie Wright came from. That's all that mattered. Okay, fine. The point is that if you go to India, the second most populous country in the world, the caste system is everything. Your parents are your future, your destiny is your bloodline. Now, there might be some truth to that. If you're Lebron James, kid, in America, you're going to have a better future, okay? Or at least materially. But generally, we said, how do we design a society that puts a preference on you? Your actions hold you accountable. That's empowering. It's not just empowering. It's the only moral way to build a free and civil society. And so. But when all of a sudden you say, you know what? We are now going to reorganize society based on things. No matter how hard you try, you cannot change. And so, for example, when they're teaching white privilege at University of Michigan, I don't know if they are. Are they teaching white privilege? Are they? Wild guess, which is, we are now going to tell you that you have a certain sort of privilege based simply on the melanin content of your skin. Now, some people say, charlie, it's important that we have all these thought exercises. And critical race theory is nothing more than a construct. So I have here six examples of since last summer, Floyd of Palooza, when we decided to destroy our entire country and burn it all down, of how our country has profoundly changed. These are real policies. This is not just like proclamations or some nut job going on television. Pfizer, not exactly a fan, but Pfizer, a big company, said that it will fill leadership roles of their company with exclusively black and Hispanic people like they want to. And so what does that do? What Disenfranchises people that are not black and Hispanic. So you can either prioritize diversity or you could prioritize competency and character. I prefer competency and character. And I'm get. I'm going to, I'm going to prove it all to you because deep down everybody agrees, even the people that support critical race theory. Oh, that's the third example. You got to it. Atlanta Public School. Second example is putting black children, black second graders into one classroom and white second graders into another classroom. Now I remember growing up in America and saying segregation was evil. We shouldn't segregate people based on skin color. This is not some sort of theory, is what I'm trying to tell you right now. This is in practice. This is policy and the kind of woke industrial complex until it gets challenged from free and decent people that they are not going to stop. Here's a third example, which is United Airlines pledges 50% of all their pilots are now going to be black or women. I have nothing against black or women pilots, but are they as competent as the other people? Maybe they are. But if you're hiring based solely on skin color, then all of a sudden you're saying, you know what? We care more about melanin content than competency. When I have a pilot flying my plane, I couldn't care less about the color of their skin. I want to make sure they can land the plane. And every, even, even the person that. Even, even someone who is like, you take Patrisse Cullors, whatever, or Ibram X Kendi or Robin d' Angelo or Tahanisi Coates, any one of the people that write these ridiculous pieces of literature. I mean, you guys have to read that garbage. Maybe you do. Deep down, they don't want to have a pilot that is incompetent. Like, yeah, it's all fun and games. Like, who cares if you know the Department of Defense secretary doesn't know what he's doing? Like, who cares if 13 marines get killed? Like, okay, whatever. But all of a sudden, if it's a pilot and you have to ride in that plane, it's like, wait, hold on a second. Has this pilot ever flown before? No, no, no. Diversity is our strength. Like, it doesn't matter. Like all the good we're hiring based solely on skin color. Of course we know. The absurdity of that, right? Obviously, is that when you do things that where the pressure is very high, where success, you literally need to land on a certain airstrip. Like you're 50ft to the left and 50ft to the right, the margin of error is death. Like if you go into a doctor's office and you're like, you know, I have this tumor, I need it removed. It's the first thing you're going to be like, hey, I only want doctors of color to operate on me. Like, really? Like that's. Is that the new. And by the way, that's a new push by the American Medical association saying that we need not competency to be valued, but skin color to be valued. Now, any person here in this room that has grown up in the, you know, at least the semblance of a free society in America, this comes across you as absurd and insane. Yet it's happening and it's being implemented as policy number four, Western Washington University, which is kind of a radical place. This is not the only school that's done this, by the way, has come out and they have said they have black only dormitories now at Western Washington University. So again, I think segregation is evil. If you're defending this, then all of a sudden you want to have like a reinstitution of America of like American segregation based on skin color. Not to mention Columbia University. Maybe they have this at Michigan. Maybe not. Hope not. They have graduation ceremonies based on skin color. Black only graduation ceremony at Columbia University. Hispanic only graduation ceremony based on skin color. Now they don't have a white only graduation ceremony because everyone would lose their mind. Right? That's racist. Let me be very clear. If you judge or categorize and anyone based on skin color, you're a racist. Period. End of story.

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The CDC has come out and said racism is a public health threat. Now mind you, I haven't heard the CDC give like a long speech on how obesity is a public health threat or diabetes is a public health threat or what you eat is a public health threat. No, no, no. But racism. Now we're going to get into this because one of the advantages that the people that are pushing this garbage have is they never actually have to Define their terms. Do you notice this? Just racism, you say? It's like, okay, well, fine. And honestly, so many of us, because we mean well, we stop talking as soon as we get called a racist. It's an incredibly powerful tool to stop all conversation. It's almost. It puts people into paralysis. It's like, well, anything but being called that. Like, you could call me an adulterer, you could call me a thief. Do not call me a racist, whatever you do. Because that kind of is now the new social currency to be able to destroy discussion and debate and dialogue. And I always have to say this unnecessarily, so. But it's just kind of repetition. In case no one's ever heard me speak before. Yes, there are real racists. We have a supply and demand problem with racists in America. We have such a low, low amount of them and such a high demand to find them that when you find one, they get on the front page of the New York Times. It's like this incredible supply and demand problem. But if you are a racist, I hope you find Jesus Christ and repent and ask for forgiveness and apologize to the people that you've wronged. I mean, it goes without saying, right? But it's also to say that, like, the people that are instituting these things actually deep down harbor those types of resentments. And then finally, Lori Lightfoot, to fight the public health crisis. Wonderful. She's terrific. Yeah. To fight the public health crisis of racism, has allocated $10 million, whatever that money's going to go to. And so I could go on. I have many of these examples, but the reason I have those six examples is that, you know, as we kind of go on this tour, what I don't want to hear is that, Charlie, this is just some sort of spirited debate, right? We're just exposing young people to different ideas. How many times have you heard this as like a counter? Like, oh, we want to hear both sides of the story. Like, no, this is public policy now. Like, these are, these are. These are things that now impact people's lives, like who we're going to hire to fly our airplanes, how we're going to run our medical institutions, how are we going to house people and certain college campuses, or how are we going to educate our children? Black only classroom, white only classroom in Atlanta public schools. And so let's just state things that are very obvious, which is human equality. The way that we were raised to believe it in the American sense means that you should judge people if at all. But we all make judgments and you should. And you should never judge people based on the color of anyone's skin, but you should judge people based on character, their soul, and their spirit. So if there's like some random axe murderer or Eric Rudolph or Ted Kaczynski or Timothy McVeigh, you don't say like, oh, they're evil because they're a certain skin color. It's like, oh, they're evil because they killed a bunch of civilians and innocent people against. You know, with. With just totally belligerently, that that's an evil thing to do. However, what happens now is a mass categorization of a certain type of people. And then this new phrase called whiteness, which is a very interesting thing. Like you're participating in this custom or this civilization of whiteness. Now, again, when pressed, never can really define that, but when you dive into it, the truth reveals itself. Western civilization. They equate whiteness with Western civilization. And that is something that we must say. Hold on a second. You mean Western civilization, the place where reason and revelation met into one. The place where freedom of speech and dialogue and a transcendent order was instituted into a constitutional republic. Like the place that. Where the idea of separation of powers, independent judiciary, checks and balances, the idea that a government should be of and by and for the people. This idea of Western society is actually at the root of their critique. And that's what it really is. Because if you were to try to deconstruct Western civilization, they have realized, and they being the people that are supporting this garbage, which is in the predominant viewpoint of every major institution. What's interesting, though, is that I don't actually think a majority of Americans are okay with this. The polls show they aren't. I know that anecdotally, but it's. A majority of the powerful people are doing this. So it's not a majority of you, the subjects, not citizens, because that's how we're governed. No, it's the majority of people that run the colleges, that run our government, that run the tech companies. By the way, super thrilled. Facebook went off for like five hours today. It was a great thing. I was cheering for it just to continue. Fortunately, I think it's back online. Not all good things can last forever. Unfortunately. Not a fan, but anyway, maybe you guys are big fans of Facebook and whatever, so that the people that are running these major companies, they all embrace the certain orthodoxy. Why? It's because where you guys go to school, University of Michigan or whatever schools that are represented here, especially if you go to your Master's program or you get a law degree or a PhD. Those are a pipeline. It's a nonstop highway into the places of influence around the rest of the country. Where just like a normal person, a plumber from Indianapolis, Indiana looks at this and he's like, I don't need a PhD to know this is racism and bigotry. Like, some of this stuff takes so much unnecessary sort of time and attention where all of a sudden this sort of nonsense must be taught. And what's happened then is you have the people in charge of our entire society that are then trying to implement it against us. And here's the great irony of the whole thing, is that when we passed the Civil Rights act in the 1960s, we were promised a colorblind society. And in reality we've got the exact opposite, is that instead of colorblindness, we now have heightened racial consciousness and awareness. Where again, I feel like I'm 75 years old when I say this. When I was a kid in Chicago, which was like 10 years ago, when I was in high school, literally 10 years ago, if the idea that you would judge people based on their skin color would be deemed immoral and it would be intellectually sloppy and lazy, and at very best you would be asked to like completely reconsider that. Now this is considered to be tolerant. It's considered to be the status quo of kind of how you implement either ideas or public policy. And the consequences of this are very, very real. Is that not just because of all these six examples that I rattled off, but America is now rapidly becoming an unsafe and dare I say, more unpleasant place to live because of this is that. And again, I feel like I'm like yielding to this 50 year old nostalgia. Ten years ago, it was actually a much more pleasant, safer place to live. I'll just kind of give you some numbers. Ever since the defund police movement and abolished police movement, which is tied together with this entire argument. Systemic racism, marching the street, shooting black people without their consent, all a bunch of garbage and nonsense. But there's been a near 30% increase in murders since 2020. 21,570 total murders last year. The largest single single year jump since the bureau started recording crime statistics six decades ago, a surge in killings drove an overall 5% increase in violent crime. Last year, 2021 homicides are running ahead last year by account of 4,033 to 3,341. At the same time last year. And I read some blog, if some guy said, oh no, they're just making up for how they were locked down. Like, who's making. Like, the criminals are trying to make up for lost time. Like, what kind of crazy argument is this? You're like, oh, no, no, they were locked down, so they got to get it out. They got a lot of people they want to kill. Like, really? This is the argument that we're making. And police in so many communities are now no longer allowed to do their job because they're afraid that some activist group is going to call for their firing. Whatever interaction that happens will be widely misinterpreted and misrepresented on the news media. So the reason we did this tour, and we are doing this tour, is that regardless of your political affiliation, and trust me, I have plenty of opinions on every controversial topic you could possibly ask me about tonight. Feel free to ask me about technology, immigration, abortion. Like, whatever it is, I don't care. But the point is that at the very least, we need a 70, 80% consensus that if we keep going in this direction, there will be no disagreement of opinion, that America as we know it will shatter into a million different pieces, that we are going to be something that resembles a South American banana republic like Brazil, where the rich people are just fine, and there's nothing but persistent and perpetual racial conflict in every other corner of the country. And what's so tragic about this is that the very communities that they say that they actually want to help, you know, black communities, actually get harmed the most by these sorts of policies is they say this is all about representing, you know, black constituents that are being unfairly targeted by police officers. And the result is what's called the Ferguson effect, which happened after 2014, 2015, after the Michael Brown, hands up, don't shoot, lie. When all of a sudden, police officer said, fine. If you're all of a sudden gonna say that we're the problem, we're getting out, we're retreating. You see this in Minneapolis, you see this in Philadelphia, you see this in New York City, where all of a sudden you retreat from just kind of very basic policing and law enforcement. Then the people with money, they'll just go to Aspen on their private jet. They're going to be fine. But it's the single mother working two jobs with three kids that's trying to just survive or their kid gets shot on the way to school. And so the tragedy of this is, all of a sudden we're being ruled by these intellectually weak and, dare I say, dangerous and immoral ideas, where the very constituents, they say they're trying to help actually have become disproportionately hurt by these very ideas over the last year and a half especially. And so there's one other thought I want to get into with this, which is how we actually build a society, because people say, well, Charlie, what's your solution then? Well, first I need to agree with the problem. Do I think that police officers killing unarmed black people is a major problem in our country? Of course not. You look at the Washington Post, who's, like, ridiculously generous in their reporting towards this narrative. They said that there were 18. That's right, 18 unarmed black people that were killed by police officers in your 2019 or 2018. Now, even if you look at those definitions, some of them were like, oh, they were in a car trying to run over the police officer, like, trying to grab the police officer's weapon. I mean, you kind of look at that. You're like, okay, if you go down, it's probably like six where the police officer really and truly acted wrong. So you go through 335 million police interactions every single year, and you're trying to tell me we need to radically redefine society and change the way we hire pilots because six police officers are jerks, should go to prison. Like, that's the argument. Is that, like, that's the reason to totally tear apart the country.

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And I always get these arguments like you have to hear my story. Like you don't know what it's like to walk in my shoes. Like, look, if we're going to govern by our own personal testimony, then everyone's going to have a different form of government. The cool thing about empiricism is like, here's the data. Do you agree or disagree? Is this the way that we should organize society or not? And like some people, still commit to this idea that there is this unknown or non definable or undefinable, I should say, racism that exists in the bones and the structure of our country. And so then it kind of conveniently goes to something that I am very comfortable talking about, which is where they've always wanted to bring this argument, because I could show you the true police statistics. Happy to go through that, if anyone's interested. Kind of like verse by verse, chapter by chapter, where this idea of a disproportionate police force going after black people is just completely and totally untrue, when in reality it's the opposite. When in reality, actually police officers are more likely to be shoot by black. Shot shot by black people than the other way around. Eighteen and a half times more likely, actually, according to the Wall Street Journal's own statistics. But in reality, here's where it really comes down to, which is a full indictment of our story as Americans. This is what they've always wanted to get to. So they use, you know, the death of George Floyd, which I'm going to go into great detail tomorrow in Minnesota, will be a lot of fun to kind of talk like, again, I'm not saying he deserved to die, of course, I didn't say that. But we should also talk about how he was likely overdosing from drug use and that the first autopsy said that. And this guy is not someone that you should like deify and put up on some sort of platter. He literally was a lifelong criminal who went up to a pregnant woman with a gun. Like, that's not exactly someone. Like, let's go put statues to this man. Like, yeah, no, thank you. Okay. And so, and so let me just kind of extend past that where I say they use that as a segue and a gateway drug to go after our shared story experience, which is the American founding, the American framers and our American story. And this is one of the most important topics we can talk about, which is which is should we be proud of our founding or should we be scared to even mention it and always have to say this? I can't stand it when conservatives say this. Yeah, the founding fathers were brilliant, but yeah, they also own slaves. Why is that so necessary to say? Do you actually know the true context in history? Here's one thing. So human equality means the following, that we are all speaking beings, we have reason. And guess what? We were all born into a world we did not create. We all have that in common, right? So Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Ben Franklin, I could keep going. Were all born into a world that they did not create. So they were born into a world where slavery was ubiquitous. It was the norm, it was defended, and it was unchallenged. What did they do about it? Well, the first ever anti slavery convention in the history of the planet happened in 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, chaired by Benjamin Franklin, where all of a sudden they started to ask this question. They said, if we're going to believe in natural rights, how are we going to get rid of this thing? Is this right for all of a sudden human beings to own human beings? In 1777, right after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Vermont independently abolished slavery. First sovereign state to do that. Nine out of 13 of the states, by the time the Constitutional Convention met in the summer of 1787, had already independently abolished slavery. Nine out of 13. And George Washington's own private journals and musings, he said, it's not a matter of if we get rid of slavery, it's a matter of how we get rid of slavery. After the Constitutional Convention, the Northwest Ordinance came up, which is where we are right now. Congratulations, everybody. We're in the northwest part of the country. You're like, what are you talking about? This actually used to be considered the Northwest Territories because of how geographically different America was. The Mississippi river was the western boundary of America until the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 or 1806, where all of a sudden all the states met together and they said, what are we gonna do with this Northwest Territories? And I encourage all of you to read the Northwest Ordinance. It's a profoundly beautiful document. And Article 6, or kind of Provision 6 of Northwest Ordinance says the following, that the Northwest Territories will be free territories, not slave territories. One of the first measures ever put Forward by all 13 states unanimously agreeing. So you'd think that the new territories would be a reflection of the type of nation that you're trying to create. Yet all 13 states or 13 colonies agreed. You know what? The new territories, those places need to be free. It's a pretty amazing thing. And I could go through how Thomas Jefferson contested for the abolition of slavery. As Governor in the 1790s, Thomas Jefferson signed the first person to sign a moratorium of new slaves being brought into the United States as one of his first actions as president in March of 1803 or 1807. I could keep going list by list by list. But I think it's more important to realize this. This is the whole point. When Thomas Jefferson was on his deathbed, was slavery more popular or less popular? When Thomas Jefferson entered The world, it was less popular, it was less institutionalized, it was less widespread. That is how you should judge human beings. You should judge human beings based on what did the world look like when they entered and what was their mark on it? Not whether or not. Well, me in my 2021 lens, because I'm a 19 year old prick that goes to whatever school I think I know the best because I'm such a good person. And that's not to say I'm defending an indefensible evil, but I'm saying, who began the process of closing the door on unspeakable sin? Was it you? Like, with your sign that says climate change is gonna kill us all? Like, how about you read a book, a thick one, and get back to me sometime soon? Go understand that somebody that existed before you said something wise and beautiful and good and true, that there are some things that don't change. And the founding Fathers understood eternal wisdom and they were willing to do something about it. They were willing to all of a sudden create a new government that allowed for people to speak and not be ruled by force. And that's the kind of final point here before we get into questions, which is as we ask, like, how do we actually organize society? There's only two ways. There's two buckets where you could put every government in the world now and every government of the last 5,000 years in one of the two buckets. Is the government that you establish, is it central organizing principle, speech or force? It's that simple. Soviet Union, force, communist China today, force America, who knows? It's a little in the middle right now, right? But traditionally it was speech. What I mean by that? Well, to get elected you gotta make a good argument, you gotta convince people of something. You gotta tell them why. You need to get power. Power in America as the founders saw it, will always be given from us to them. Never forget that. The people first, then the leaders, by the process of persuasion and dialogue and discourse that did not exist in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's like, we have the guns. You don't. Thanks for playing. What ends up happening is because of this regime that we see, the CRT regime. Wokeism, diversity, industrial complex, Regimental is all of a sudden they say what white silence is violence. Allow certain voices to have an elevated sort of platform. And all of a sudden you're like, wait a second, are we now going to be governed by the tyranny of the forcible minority? Or a better idea, and I hate to make it as binary as that, but it really is that simple. The best governments ever to exist always put an emphasis on speech. The most tyrannical ones put an emphasis on force. We take it for granted, right? We're like, oh yeah, it will never happen here. It's happening here. And this is a slow motion cultural revolution. So what do we do about it again? I could. We could go into all the amazing things we disagree with. Happy to do that, by the way. Seriously, like, nothing is off limits. You can dive into that. But the most important thing is all of a sudden, like, wait a second, if we still want some semblance of a civilization, then we need to build a coalition. Absent political parties, absent whatever you call yourself. Like, I'm a libertarian, I'm a conservative, whatever, fine, I'm a conservative. We could talk about that. Where all of a sudden you're like, we need to defeat this woke industrial complex forcibly and quickly because that will destroy us all. It will destroy us from within quicker than any sort of domestic enemy ever could. And I'll close with this, which is many people that are kind of. That are kind. They remember a different America. And I'm told a lot from people. I'm asked a lot, Charlie, how did this happen? How did we get to the place that we are in? Well, put simply, post 1960s liberalism, they realized that to undermine the American nation, conflict is necessary to overflow the nation, not speech pitting people against each other. This is a doctrine of conflict, politics, which is rich against poor, man against woman.

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But I understand that you're a Christian, and I get a lot of people who tell me about, like, how Jesus was a socialist because he said, if.

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Your brother, you know, doesn't have food.

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Give him some need. All that, you know, basic morality. And I just wanted to know how you sort of combat that. Jesus was not a communist.

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So socialism violates two out of the ten commandments. Thou shalt not covet, thou shall not steal. Just right out of the bat. Jesus would. Let's just talk about Jesus. If he was anything less than, or some sort of political activist and the savior of the world and the son of God, I immediately say, timeout. You're now co opting the way, the truth and the life for some sort of weird political agenda. And I think that should be dismissed altogether immediately. But let me just say this, that Jesus talked very clearly, and I won't spend too much time on this, but I suppose there's some interest in this very clearly about the need for multiplication. The parable of talents is one of the best illustrations of this. Does socialism subtract and divide or multiply and add by definition? And did Jesus ever call for state run action to actually distribute the means of production or to try to help the poor? Did he call for you individually to help people? For you individually to give the cloak off your back? To help people? And let me say this, that using prudence, which comes from a Greek word, prudentia, we must look at things as they are, not how we wish them to be. Socialism is the creed of envy and a philosophy of failure. It's rooted in wanting to take away somebody's house, income or wealth. Now I think some Christians are saying, I want to help people. Let's talk about helping people. What does it say in the. What does Paul say about work? Man does not work, he shall not eat. Says that twice in Proverbs as well. Is the best way to help people to give them something that they did not earn or empower them to understand what earned success actually is. Jesus never, ever argued against private property itself. In fact, the idea of private property is a biblical idea. When Abraham went to go to Hebron, when he wanted to go buy a piece of land to bury himself and his lineage, a very important thing in Jewish custom. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he went and actually executed the first ever real estate purchase in the history of the world. He bought Hebron. He didn't conquer it. He didn't say, God wants. He said, okay, I'll exchange value for this piece of land. The idea of self government as we know it is actually a biblical idea. And so some people say, charlie, why do you believe the Bible is divinely inspired? A lot of different reasons, but one of the other reasons is that no people would ever write a book that makes themselves look as bad as the Jews wrote the Old Testament. It must be true. I mean, these. They're a total mess for like 500 chapters. They're lying, they're stealing, they're cheating. Like, only if this actually happened, this was divinely inspired, would they put this down. But also, this is a very important point, is that you take, for example, you take the Babylonians or you take the Hammurabi code. Some skeptics will say, well, the Hammurabite code is very similar to the Jewish code. There's nothing unique about it. But what's different is that the king came first in Babylonian culture, then the law came in Jewish culture, which of course is the Old Testament, the Christian Bible. The law came first and then the king came. In Galatians 3, it says, the law is a schoolteacher to Christ. The law is a guardian that points you to Christ. What's that important? Why is that important? It's important because if you advocate for socialism, you have a different view of justice than the ancient Jewish, Hebrew view of justice. The view of justice that those of you that are Christians have at least earthly justice is a man is given what he is due. You murder somebody, you pay a price for that. You steal something, you pay a price for that. The socialistic view of justice is a give give a man not what he is due, but what makes it egalitarian. One of the commandments in Leviticus says you shall never favor a rich man in a criminal trial or favor a poor person at a criminal trial. This is where we get the Western idea that justice must be blind. And the final thing I'll say about this is that throughout Jesus ministry, which of course was ended at the hands of the State, he wanted to bring people from a place of spiritual captivity to a place of freedom and liberty only through His Son and accepting Jesus Christ. The story of the Bible, put simply, is to set the captives free. God did it in Egypt with the Jews and again through Jesus Christ. Socialism does the opposite. It makes the free captive, not the captive free. And we must advocate for as many people to live in liberty as possible. Thank you so much.

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Now, one of the issues that I, you know, I've been having a very hard time with, you know, dealing with is this issue of abortion and, you know, pro choice and, you know, freedoms that we as Americans hold. Now, I believe that this issue, this freedom of choice, this bodily choice is the Achilles heel of our opposition. Now I'm very, I'm struggling right now because I truly believe that there is some common ground that the left and the right and us versus them can come to with this. But how, how do I go about doing this? How do I, through my organization bring people together when it's such a tough issue as abortion? It's, it's only tough if you, if you view a human life as property. So it's a binary choice. Are human beings persons or are you property? And the question is then when does human life begin? And so I'm very pro life. Human life begins at conception. The science of embryology tells us as soon as new DNA is formed and the sperm and egg meet, all of a sudden that human life begins the process of growing into a full and total mature human being. So the argument that is sometimes made by pro abortion activists is that, well, it's small, it's the size of a peanut. Well, I'm six four. Do I now have a moral right to be able to kill every single person in this room that is shorter than I am? Of course not. That's size. So for anyone here that cares about the abortion issue, these are the four biggest things that you're going to encounter. Then I'm going to talk about how we might be able to reach consensus, which I'm not too optimistic about, which is the second is level of development. So first is size, then level of development, which is how far along the developmental timeline are they. So this is where all of a sudden you get somewhat of these arbitrary weeks. Now don't get me wrong, I prefer obviously a 6 week ban than an unrestricted ban all the way through. But an 18 week old baby is equally a human being as a two week old baby. And it's just not developed all the way along the same. So here's what's amazing about human beings is that unlike putting together a Corvette at an assembly line is that a human being given nutrients will grow itself. It's not something you have to put inputs in. It's not something where you have to kind of add knobs and polish it. The human being within our genetic code is development itself. The third is environment that some pro abortion activists will say, well, because it's in the womb, not outside the womb. Therefore there's a different moral categorization characterization. Now we know this is not true obviously, that just because something is a different place doesn't give it a different moral right or different moral categorization. Just because someone who is 95 years old is in an old person's home or someone who is living at home, you know, in their own home, doesn't change the kind of way that we morally view them. And then finally, the one that trips up pro life activists the most is degree of dependency, which is how dependent is that being on another. This is the one that trips up a lot of people that are pro life where they say, well all of a sudden the pro abortion activists will say it's not a full and autonomous life because it's dependent on the mother, because it will not be able to survive in the state of nature without assistance. Now, any person who's dealt with a 6 day old or a 15 day old or a 20 week old knows very simply and clearly that that sort of autonomous ability to hunt and gather, that's not going to come for like a decade, let alone for 10 days. Same can be said for people that are on feeding tubes or in comas. Should we go start pulling plugs all the time for people in comas? Now some pro abortion activists will say, well, Charlie, we're able to pull plugs to people in comas. Like hold on a second, there's a very strict legal and dare I say, controversial process to do that. That happens rarely at a low percentage where There are over 3,000 abortions a day in America. And I would actually not support the kind of cord, plug pulling, kind of cord pulling that happens as, let's just say often as it happens with people in comas. Now, one argument, you guys will all see a debate, I put that in air quotes because it was a total circus that I have coming out on Thursday against a pro abortion activist, which is where this one guy thought he was being a smart aleck debating me, says, well, Charlie, what's your birthday? And your birthday is how old you are. Now this is a ridiculous argument, right? Because we don't call it our conception day, we call it our day of birth. I don't know if you ever heard this argument before, but it's like there, it's kind of like sophistry, linguistics, right, where we believe human life begins nine months before your birth. But what's the significance of your birth? All of a sudden the people who brought you into the world, your mother and your father, get to meet you for the first time. That's why we celebrate the birthday that you are outside of the womb. Now the final thing I'll say is this, which is the best logical argument against abortion, which is that if it's not your DNA, it's not your choice, that if it's some, if it's a different set of DNA that's been formed and that new, and whether it be the fingerprint, eyes, nose, breath, heartbeat. So how do you reach consensus on this issue? I don't have good advice on that, honestly, because I tend to be someone who believes if we. I'll give you some advice, it might not be helpful, which is if we cannot reach consensus or agreement on an issue that is so fundamentally clear as to when does life begin, do we defend those that can't defend themselves, then I believe all the other issues that we're fumbling and that we're clumsy with can be attributed back to that one. I would say, though, that one way that you might be able to reach consensus or agreement is just saying, do you want more abortions or less abortions? Do you think that's a person or is that a property where on the animal kingdom hierarchy is a fetus? Is it a crocodile that turns into a human being, or is it a human being that remains a human being and you believe you can abolish it because of its size, level, development, environment, or degree of dependency? And I believe there's actually. I believe the more we talk about this issue compassionately, rationally, and factually, I believe that we're winning on the pro life issue. And I think conservatives in elected office and in advocacy should be unafraid to talk about this and not try to pander to left's talking points on an issue as important as life. So thank you so much. I will re invite. If anyone has a disagreement, let it be known that I offered. Okay.

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Good evening.

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My name is Abby.

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I was just wondering what you think we can do to ensure that our future generation is not racist.

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Yeah. So I think you mean like the definition of racist we've been talking about, right? Okay, good. Yeah. I mean, I think we have to stop talking about race so much. I think that's like the first step is why are we focused so much on this? And again, we reluctantly did this as a counter move to just the arbitrage of the race conversation. Because I just kind of want to put this to bed once and for all. I don't know about you, but I'm so tired of, like, worrying about racial quotas and the melanin content in people's skin and whether or not pilots are going to be a certain skin color. And so I want to create an America where race is de emphasized and character is elevated as the primary way that we organize society. I think that's the best possible way I can answer that. So thank you.

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Hello, my name is Annette, and I am currently in a battle with two different superintendents at two different school districts over the word equity. And several parents I know who are here are in the middle of this battle as well. And the superintendent, my school district, I. I asked if you're meeting the mission statement of our school. Why are you now trying to push for this? Instead of crt, they're calling it dbei. Diversity, Belonging, Equity, Inclusivity. So why are you pushing for the equity, especially since, you know, that term is evolving. And she's trying to trip me up. Well, how is that term evolving?

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Right.

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So I'm trying to catch her in a trap by saying, if you were meeting the needs of every student with our mission statement, why the push for the dbei? She keeps saying it's important because not everyone comes from the same level playing ground. And she says, and how is equity changing? Can you tell me that? That's what she says to me. So.

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Well, I mean, it's so clear. I mean, it will be clear to you. And I. I don't know if you can convince this administrator. So what the other side is engaging in is word laundering, where they take a definition of the word. You guys ever see Ozark, Marty Bird? Great show. And they literally launder it through the system. They're like, oh, no, no. Equity actually means fairness and inclusivity when we know what it means. Where equity means forced redistribution. That's what it means. And I could give you multiple examples of how the critical race theorists themselves in their training seminars are now saying, let's start using equity and not use crt. But I think the best example is this. And I would just ask a set of questions of the administration they have to answer. And here actually, you actually segue to something I forgot to ask, which is these are three questions that you can ask any of your friends to see which side that they're on on this. These are three ones. Number one, is race a characteristic you care about in judging people? Is it any sort of a determining factor? If the answer is yes, but you're a racist, you're in the CRT bucket. Number two, what is your opinion of black only dormitories and Hispanic only dormitories, also known as segregation? And the third is this. Should people be grouped and punished based on their group? It's a very important question. Should people be punished or should they be organized based on their group based on their skin color?

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