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Season two of Unrivaled Basketball is here and the talent is unreal. Paige Beckers, Nafiza Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Brianna Stewart and more are back to redefine the game. Unrivaled basketball Season 2, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy, tips off January 5 on TNT, TruTV and HBO Max support for the.
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Show comes from Public, the investing platform for those who take it seriously. On Public, you can build a multi asset portfolio of stocks, bonds, options, crypto and now generated assets which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index with AI. It all starts with your prompt. From renewable energy companies with high free cash flow to semiconductor suppliers growing revenue over 20% year over year, you can literally type any prompt and put the AI to work. It screens thousands of stocks, builds a one of a kind index and lets you back test it against the S&P 500. Then you can invest in a few clicks. Generated assets are like EFTs with infinite possibilities, completely customizable and based on your thesis, not someone else's. Go to public.com, and earn an uncapped 1% bonus when you transfer your portfolio. That's public.com podcast paid for by public investing brokerage Services by Open to the Public Investing Inc. Member FINRA SIPC Advisory Services by Public Advisors, LLC SEC Registered Advisor Generated Assets is an interactive analysis tool. Output is for informational purposes only and is not investment recommendation or advice. Complete Disclosures available at public.comDisclosures Foreign.
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To Turning Point Tonight we're together. We are charting the course of America's cultural comeback. I I'll allow us to say Happy New Year. We're, you know, close to the New Year, so you can say, I know we've been pretty stringent on Merry Christmas. Been saying Merry Christmas. This is still the Christmas break that we are currently on. So I of course wanted to be here live with you, but our staff for some reason, I guess needs vacation.
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So that's why we're going to bring you probably. Well, I was gonna say the second best option, but really this is the first best option. Charlie Kirk was famous for going on tour. This is from the Live Free tour.
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Charlie Kirk event in at Florida State in 2022. Watch and enjoy a master and a.
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Skillful wordsmith live at the live free tour stop. Hello everybody. Great to be here. Thank you. And thank you to our great Turning Point USA chapter. Give it up for them. They worked so hard putting this together. Did such a great job. Thank you guys. I understand we have some friends outside as well. It's too bad. Maybe they're in the room or maybe they'll be here later. Who knows. Nothing that we haven't seen before. Actually, last time I was at Florida State University, was anyone at that speech a couple years ago? Maybe a freshman or two? Yeah, that was the last speech I gave before all the lockdowns, actually. And that was a lot of fun. I remember we actually got a question at that event. Someone said, hey Charlie, what do you think about this Covid thing? And it turns out it just changed our entire society. Well, let me rephrase that. The way we reacted to it changed our entire society, which was one of the worst mistakes I think we've ever made as a country and as a civilization. So we'll talk about that. But I do want to address one of these flyers that they have Kirk off campus, which is just hilarious. I've actually never heard that one before. But there's one part of it that I do want to focus on where it says Florida State University continues to platform far right influencers like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro. Love Ben does a great job. These people invade our communities. That's what we're doing tonight. We're invading. Is that right? Spread their misinformation and oftentimes get funding from the university to do it. This must change. Join us in protesting. Okay, but I want to talk about the misinformation thing, because that's such an interesting thing, because you're starting to hear that more and more in our society right now, which is that people on the right are somehow purveyors of misinformation. And, you know, everything we do is rooted in facts and what can be proven. And it's not misinformation that they're worried about or facts. It's facts they don't like. It's facts that they want to make sure that students don't hear or opinions that are actually not going to be able to be presented. But while we're on the topic of misinformation, shouldn't we talk about actually who's been spreading the most misinformation over the last couple years? And I was thinking about some of the biggest stories kind of that have dominated the American news cycle. You remember, for quite some time during the 2020 presidential election, there was, and again, here's just a good rule for life, like exhibit A of why not to do crack cocaine. It makes you do really dumb things like, I don't know, drop off your laptop at a laptop repair shop and forget to pick it up. And by the way, who use laptop repair shops anymore? The whole thing's so bizarre. So Hunter drops off his laptop repair, his laptop at a laptop repair shop, forgets to go pick it up, and then somehow it expires over a certain window, and the property becomes the computer repair shop, his laptop, and then he then gives it to Rudy Giuliani. And all of a sudden, there's this laptop out there. And almost instantaneously, the media picked up a story that was complete and total disinformation and misinformation, which was that 50 intel experts came out and they said, this story is Russian disinformation. Remember this, right in the midst of an election, and you might love Biden, you might hate Biden, you might say, I hate Trump, I love Trump, whatever, but that's cheating. You're not allowed to do that. You're not allowed to all of a sudden come out using the media, social media and intel agencies and say, this is Russian disinformation because of the story that you're afraid might actually impact the election results. And so who got held accountable for spreading that misinformation or disinformation? Nobody. They just kind of Shrugged their shoulders. In fact, Mark Zuckerberg just recently came out on an interview with Joe Rogan. And Joe Rogan is awesome. He's one of the last, I think, legitimate free speech liberals. I don't even know he's a liberal libertarian. What do you want to call him? He's entertaining and smart and fun and actually hears other ideas, which is refreshing. Where Mark Zuckerberg went on Rogan's show and basically said, yeah, the FBI made a special visit to Facebook headquarters and told us that we have to clamp down on this story. And so if you tried to share the Hunter Biden laptop story in the midst of the election season, which, by the way, contained, let's just say, some rather juicy and salacious details about not just Hunter's personal conduct, but the soon to be potential president of the United States doing business deals with our adversaries. And if you even talked about it on Twitter, you had your Twitter account suspended for spreading disinformation and misinformation. So you gotta wonder, like, who's actually the ones that are spreading the misinformation in our country? Remember this story where they said that the virus came from a bat in the Himalayan mountains? Remember that? They said, oh, yes, just kind of came from a. Came from a random, you know, wet market is what they said. Well, now we know that it was from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in fact, early in the pandemic. And our reaction to the pandemic, if you dared even say that it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, then you could have lost your social media account and that you could be labeled as a disinformation artist. I see a pattern, and we're going to keep on going through this list that sometimes when they go the hardest after disinformation, it actually tends to be one of the most truthful things that actually ends up needing to be discussed and to be. To be spread and heard about. Another one that I think is really interesting and important was during the summer of 2020 during, during Florida Palooza, when we decided to destroy our entire country around a lie that America is systemically racist, which of course we're not. We're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world. We're a very decent country. We don't give ourselves credit for that is the mostly peaceful protest. And my favorite picture was CNN that was doing their. Their news hit while the Wendy's behind them was burning. Like, yeah, it's mostly peaceful out there. Things are fine. And you extrapolate that through public opinion polls and what people actually thought. And it was this amazing kind of contradiction where the media was telling us everything was peaceful, everything was fine, or they said, oh, yeah, protesting needs to be disagreeable. Who says it needs to be peaceful? When it actually became very clear that entire cities were burning down. And I can go through story after story from how they mislabeled Kyle Rittenhouse, the Nicholas Sandman. So how they told us that the vaccines were going to prevent transmission and that it was 100% safe and effective. And you got to wonder, like, okay, so you guys are ones that are spreading misinformation. And here's the best way you respond to misinformation. It's just, we're not going to shut you up and you don't shut us up. And then we're able to disagree and we're able to have dialogue because you guys are going to spread all this nonsense. But that's not what's happening here. What's happening is they label anyone on the American right that might have a difference of opinion. All of a sudden they say, we are now going to be able to use force and power to be able to stop your ability to speak. And so speech. And we take it for granted. And it's quickly disappearing in our country because there's two forms of censorship. And we'll talk about both of them tonight. One that happens internally and one that's internally, one happens externally. Is the speech is the best way to be able to find out what is true and how you react to certain crises or things happening in your country or civilization. You, if you are not able to consume information that is accurate for not even say information that's accurate, as you see things happening in real time, you're living in some form of a tyranny, period. And it's really interesting because the big censorship in this country is not just coming from the government. That's obviously happening with the kind of intimidation of people on the right from raiding Mar a Lago to raiding pro life leaders across the country, the unprecedented weaponization of our government. But it's also happening where people say, charlie, if I spoke out the way you do, I would lose my job. I'd get kicked out of class. I would get graded differently. I'm gonna have a career. The biggest form of censorship in this country is you shutting up. You. And it's people that say, I'm afraid to wear a MAGA hat to go to a grocery store. I'm sure we have Some MAGA hat here. God bless you. Someone that has the courage to do that. Always somebody. There's always the right front row. There you go. And there's always somebody. But most people, they do it in quiet. And the question should be why? I mean, you could see kind of the apparatchiks outside, they obviously are unashamed, you know, to spew their venom. And that's what they have a right to do, that they have a right to, you know, say whatever they want to say. And that's fine. But here's the thing, is that I'm confident. And you should be confident if you love liberty and freedom. We're going to beat those people. I mean, just look at them. Obviously, we're going to beat them, but all we need is an opportunity to speak. They know that if there's actually a marketplace of ideas and you're allowed to have ideas spread and people be persuaded, then that's a massive threat to the current status quo that they're trying to usher in. And you go through topic after topic after topic after topic. And so I always find it chuckling when people, you know, kind of zero in on that misinformation thing. And that's not to say that people get things wrong. I do my best to try to correct things. You might get facts and figures that are off, and you should do your best to, you know, kind of, oh, so that wasn't right? Or that should be, you know, focused on more. But no, you have entire narratives where there is a posture and an intent around things that are completely and totally fabricated. I'll give you another example. So a public opinion poll, they ask just 1,000 adults in America, how many blacks do you think are killed by whites every single year? Okay. Or how many unarmed blacks do you think are killed by whites every single year? And the responses were like 1000, 1500. That's about the average of what people thought. When in reality, the amount of unarmed blacks killed by police officers or killed by white people, something like 40 people a year, or if you just count police, it's about 18 people a year. How is it that you have people that believe it's 1200 or 1500, when in reality it's in the teens or the early 20s? It's because, well, the media is very, very good at making you believe that there's a problem that actually doesn't exist much larger than it really is. It's this massive propaganda campaign that. That.
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It's the most wonderful time of the year. And Valpak is here to make it even better this month as you sip through holiday mail, don't miss the blue Valpak envelope. From dining to holiday shopping, there's a sleigh full of savings in your mailbox, plus a chance to instantly win $100. That's right, you can find $100 Christmas cash inside. Want to save even more money on what you love? Go to valpak.com for local coupons and offers. It pays to open Valpak. No purchase necessary for instant Win voip prohibited prices are randomly inserted. See specially marked Valpak envelopes for details. Ten athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract for $250,000. This is where mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down.
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Trainer Games on Prime Video January 8th watch the trailer on trainergames.com did you.
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Know Microsoft has officially ended Support for Windows 10? Upgrade to Windows 11 with an LG Gram laptop, voted PCMag's Reader's Choice top laptop brand for 2025. Thin and ultra lightweight, the LG Gram keeps you productive anywhere, and Windows 11 gives you access to free security updates and ongoing feature upgrades. Visit lgusa.com iheart for great seasonal savings on LG Gram laptops with Windows 11. PCMag reader's choice used with permission. All rights reserved.
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Season 2 of unrivaled basketball is here, and the talent is unreal. Paige Beckers, Nafiza Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Brianna Stewart and more are back to redefine the game. Unrivaled basketball season two, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy TV, kicks off January 5 on TNT, TruTV and HBO Max support for.
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Another great example is this is that and this is the media fear mongering propaganda campaign is that during the height of COVID asked American adults by political affiliation how what's the chances you think you're going to be hospitalized if you get the Fauci virus or the Chinese coronavirus? What is the likelihood? And registered Democrats or registered people, people on the left would say that there is a 50% chance that I will be hospitalized if I get Covid. In reality it's 1 to 5% depending on age. How is it that that people would believe so firmly a 50% chance that you'd be hospitalized? It's because the misinformation artists. The center of the misinformation hub themselves is they're designed to keep you fearful and ignorant and not understanding what's actually happening in the country. And I'm sure there's some people on the left here tonight. I'm glad you guys came, but we'll have dialogue and we'll have discussion hopefully and see where we agree and disagree. But it's very tempting to want to use power that you have to shut up people you don't like because you think they're super evil. Like, oh, there's never been anything like these right wingers right now we have to shut them up. And then, okay, over a period of time, let's say you shut every single conservative up. Do you think that all of a sudden the censors are just going to stop until they shut up you? Until there's no disagreement on the left? I'll give you a great example. Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi Gabbard, you might like her, you might not like her, you might agree or disagree. Where is there space in the American left right now for Tulsi Gabbard's opinion on foreign policy or Wokeism doesn't exist. She's not allowed to even express those opinions anymore. She says it herself. She said there is no space for a classical liberal on the American left to be able to say that what we're doing in Ukraine is not exactly smart. We need to ask more analytical and, you know, let's say deeper questions and I think that it's really dumb to tell kids that men can become pregnant. Like, really basic stuff, right? That doesn't exist. And basic. And you learn. We learn this from the Russian Revolution and from kind of Bolshevikism is that as soon as you use the power of censorship, it knows no limitations whatsoever. So it's tempting, like, yeah, we got to shut those guys up. We have to be able to say that those people can't speak. Like, okay, and eventually it will come for you. And eventually. Here's the thing. Speech is inherently messy. You get all sorts of people that are characters that you might not like, things that you know, opinions that you might find reprehensible. But through a pattern of allowing people to speak even with those things is eventually, over a period of time, the American people have to come to some approximation of what is best for them. That has always been the track record. The worst thing you could possibly do is then use the government and then private actors. And that's the other thing that I find so funny, is that one of the accusations that. What is this? The Students for a Democratic Society, sds, says about Turning Point usns, they call us fascists, which is just hilarious. They don't really know what fascism is, but, like, okay, what is a fascist? A fascist is someone that tries to use government force to collude with private interests for a very specific purpose. How is that not the American government going to Facebook and asking them to censor political opponents? How is that not an act of some sort of technocratic fascism of saying, we're going to go to Google and say that? You must say that if you say certain perspectives or opinions, you're not allowed to have them. And so kind of putting all this together, I find it very comical and interesting every time people accuse us of misinformation, not to say we get everything right. Not to say that every opinion we have is popular, but the most prevailing narratives of the day are not rooted in truth, unfortunately, by the big propagandists. I want to close on a couple things, and we'll do some questions. I want to make sure we always save plenty of time there so that we can have good conversation there. Look, our generation. I'm millennial, not Generation Z. And so I guess we could say our generation. I'll say your generation, for all intents and purposes. By the way, I have to thank Generation Z. Finally, there's a generation boomers hate more than millennials. So I hear it all. It's really great. Congratulations. Finally, they said those Generation Z, they're the worst. It used to be all millennials, the worst ever at all time. But this is kind of really more to the adults first and then to the students, which is I want to kind of focus on something I said earlier, which is we say that Covid did all these things. And even I'm a little sloppy in my language at times because I'm so used to saying it the way the regime says it. But it really was not Covid that hurt young people. It was our reaction to it. And every single metric, from weight gain to suicide to psychiatric drug medication to alcohol all went in the negative direction during these lockdowns. And for what? It will go down as one of the worst mistakes ever made in decent society and in our civilization. All around kind of this prevailing dogma of mass propaganda and of fear. And now you have a generation that now let's just pretend everything was fine health wise, despite the fact that all of these things went up. Anxiety, depression, mental health issues, all those things went up. Let's just talk economically, our response to this. And this is where, you know, I'm trying to warn conservatives that if we don't get actually a coherent message around these sorts of topics and these issues, the socialists are going to have quite a field day with the next generation. Because when people don't own anything, they make for perfect socialists and everything is twice as expensive, minimum, in every major metropolitan area over the last two and a half years. And we did that. Both parties did that. Conservatives and liberals decided to go print a bunch of money. We did not have to inject it into mass stimulus packages. Obviously the current administration did it more than the prior one. But there is no doubt that it was a bipartisan agreement to go continue to inflate the currency and to basically create what is record inflation. Where many of you in this room probably have a fair amount of economic cynicism where you say, where exactly is this American dream that was promised to me? And honestly, you have a point. And I'm not one to play victim. I'm not one to say you should play a victim. I'm not one to say that young people should bash their adults or their elders, the adults or elders of their parents. But honestly, there needs to be a mass apology to Generation Z and to young people for what we did over the last two years, which was a drive by shooting of a generation. And then we just say, oh, just go work harder. Actually, no. How is a young person supposed to go buy a home right now? How are they supposed to afford a mortgage with everything twice as expensive, and by the way, they could barely pay for basic goods and services. And then obviously many of you are obviously in debt, going to college, of which I have a lot of opinions around that, that we can get into if you want. And the essence is this, is that this has been intergenerational robbery, the likes of which we have never seen. And just the message of, oh, yeah, just go get your act together, go work together, that doesn't cut it. Now, for the all you students out there on the inverse, I implore you to reject just playing a victim and being cynical. It's still a beautiful country. There's still huge opportunity. You can still get through it with grit and hustle. There's been a lot of obviously bad things that have been dealt to you, and they were not. They were done by bad decisions and decisions by people that are not of your generation. Despite all of that, there's still an immense. There's an immense amount of wealth and happiness that you can have in your life. With all of that through earned success and the proper application of your effort. There is still not in America a good reason to say, I'm just going to give up. I'm not going to do anything. I'm going to throw it all away. So I kind of put it on both sides. But honestly, I say this to adults all the time because, you know, a lot of adults, now that the stock market has gone down dramatically, they're feeling a little bit more. But when I say adults, I mean, you know, people of the age of 50, you know, they'll say all the time, they say, you know, this Generation Z is so cynical and all they want is free stuff. And they're, you know, 20 years old and they want social. They want socialism because they don't want to work. I say, that's some people, obviously. But honestly, the vast majority of young people find socialism attractive because they've been lied to their entire life. They went to go get a degree they know that is largely worthless, to go study stuff that doesn't matter, to go find jobs that don't exist. They've done everything they've been told. Go get the vaccine, go stay at home, go wear a mask, don't see your friends. And guess what it has done. Complete generational carnage to the ones they love, including themselves. And so they look up at adults, they're like, oh, really? We just have to go work harder and apply more. How about you guys leave a country that's even a little bit free or prosperous for us? Because the here's what's going to happen if conservatives don't get our act together and we don't get more young people doing three very basic things, buying homes, getting married and having kids. You're going to have a socialist revolution in this country, the likes of which you've never seen. And it's going to be very, very hard to stop. Because if a generation is increasingly not owning property, not getting married and not having kids, what on earth are you supposed to tell them to go work for? What are they trying to conserve? They're going to say, you know what, let's just go take the money from adults. And that's going to be very hard to stop. It's a bad idea. I don't support it. It's morally questionable at best. I don't find it to be supportive at all. But for those of you that actually want a free enterprise to exist and to survive in the future, you have a generation that is being completely priced out of the housing market. And then you have these massive Wall street firms coming in like blackrock, and what are they doing? They're buying up single family homes across America to turn you into lifelong renters, to make it so that you can never actually buy into, you know, the housing system to be able to build equity and to build wealth. And boy, that's not a country that is sustainable. One of the things that actually creates, I think de radicalized politics is when people own stuff, people that own homes tend to not burn down. Wendy's good rule of rule for life, right? People that are married and have kids tend to not go march in the streets endlessly against systemic racism. They got other things on their mind. But you have the least married generation. We have a population collapse that is down 20 to 30%. And this increased kind of aura of cynicism and I hate to be too big into the materialism because I think we have a spiritual crisis in our country as well. But when a generation works super hard and there's a lot of you that work hard, you work in minimum wage jobs, you work, you study, and you're getting poorer, that creates a lot of nihilism. A ton.
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You could find $100 Christmas cash inside. Want to save even more money on what you love? Go to valpak.com for local coupons and offers. It pays to open Valpak. No purchase necessary for Instant Win voip we're prohibited. Prices are randomly inserted. See specially marked Valpak envelopes for details. Ten athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fitness fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract worth $250,000. This is when mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down.
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Trainer Games on Prime Video January 8th watch the trailer on trainergames.com did you.
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Know Microsoft has officially ended Support for Windows 10? Upgrade to Windows 11 with an LG Gram laptop, voted PCMag's reader's choice top laptop brand for 2025. Thin and ultra lightweight. The LG Gram keeps you productive anywhere and Windows 11 gives you access to free security updates and ongoing feature upgrades. Visit lgusa.com iheart for great seasonal savings on LG Gram laptops with Windows 11. PCMag reader's choice used with permission. All rights reserved.
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Season 2 of unrivaled basketball is here and the talent is unreal. Paige Beckers, Nafiza Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Brianna Stewart and more are back to redefine the game. Unrivaled basketball Season 2, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy, tips off January 5 on TNT, TruTV and HBO Max.
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Support for the show comes from Public, the investing platform for those who take it seriously. On Public, you can build a multi asset portfolio of stocks, bonds, options, crypto and now generated assets which allow you to turn any idea into an investable index with AI. It all starts with your prompt. From renewable energy companies with high free cash flow to semiconductor suppliers growing revenue over 20% year over year. You can literally type any prompt and put the AI to it screens thousands of stocks, builds a one of a kind index and lets you back test it against the S&P 500. Then you can invest in a few clicks. Generated assets are like EFTs with infinite possibilities, completely customizable and based on your thesis, not someone else's. Go to public.com podcast and earn an uncapped 1% bonus when you transfer your portfolio. That's public.com podcast paid for by Public Investing Brokerage Services by Open to the Public Investing Inc. Member finra SIPC Advisory Services by Public Advisors llc. SEC Registered Advisor. Generated Assets is an interactive analysis tool. Output is for informational purposes only and is not investment, recommendation or advice. Complete disclosures available at public.com disclosures.
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When all of a sudden you're working a job just to stay poor, you're like, why don't I just go get government benefits? Like it would be easier. And that's not an exaggeration. I'm sure in Tallahassee, this has not been immune from inflation. But in many of the metropolitan areas, people that are 25 to 35, they are, they're working extra hours, they're putting more time in, and it's not even enough to stay out of debt. In fact, the recent study shows that 30% of Gen Z slash millennials are going to have to go into debt this calendar year just to pay for basic needs, groceries and rent. And so over a period of time, what's going to prevent them from then supporting the Bolshevik Marxist that says, you know what, let's just go take it from the most productive because you've been scammed. Now, I don't support the conclusion. I think there's some prudent steps we could take to actually restore this stuff. But man, we did this to ourselves. And if we just think it's going to autocorrect or self correct by doing the same things we do in the last 20, 30 years, I think that's sadly mistaken. I'm sure we could actually agree with some of the people on the left in this room, but here's where we will probably disagree with some of the people on the left. Or maybe we'll agree or not. It depends on where you're coming from. Is this, is that there is still a purposeful life ahead of you, is that there's so much that could still be done of getting married and having a wonderful and beautiful life. It's just going to take some proper steps from our leaders to actually care more about your generation. I could say our generation, but I'll say your generation than the people of Ukraine. Because if you ask me, sending $70 billion to Ukraine is an insult to every single one of you that is going into debt to go pay your rent while our citizens and your generation is working harder than ever, can't even put food on the table, and is going into a nihilistic, cynical tornado. And we're like, well, we need to go send Zelensky another $70 billion. And then Zelensky comes out and he demands money from us like, okay, pal, how about you set this one out? How about we go put our students first that are working their tail off, that have been lied to to go get degrees that really don't matter, that are never actually going to make them learn anything substantive. Maybe you guys are learning wonderful things all the time, and you could tell me that later. But vast majority of students that graduate say they wish they wouldn't have gone at all if it wasn't for just getting a piece of paper in return. And I think it's long past time for a realignment of priorities in more ways than one. And I sure hope our leaders start to listen. Okay, let's do some questions, guys. And thank you for sitting through that. And so we could do a line. Where are we doing the line? Doing a line right over here. Okay, cool. And we could turn up the house lights slightly. Okay. Okay. So just some ground rules for the. For the questions. Try to keep it to a question. I might want to have a dialogue back and forth, and that's fine. If you disagree, you guys can go to the front of the line. It's I, I think generally a conservative audience here tonight, so please don't heckle or boo or treat somebody poorly if they say something you find objectionable. Let it be known at Turning Point USA Events, if you disagree, you're given a platform and we could figure out what to do about that. I challenge every single left wing organization and group to do the same. Okay, let's start here. Oh, hey, Charlie. Thank you for being here in Tallahassee today. So I'm the president of the new Turning Point USA chapter at Tallahassee Community College. Awesome. And. And we've been struggling recently to get some recognition by the faculty and the leadership of the school. Obviously kind of an uncooperative administrative body, you could say.
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So I was just wondering if you.
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Had any tips for helping us gain the trust of those teachers and school leaders who could potentially help us launch our student group while still keeping to our conservative America first values. That's awesome. Well, first of all, thank you for your commitment and your leadership. You should be applauded for that. That's awesome. And look, it's going to take GR and hustle. You got to find a faculty sponsor. Not easy, right? I'm sure there's one. And if you can't find one, at least try to find one person that you might disagree with that still believes in freedom of speech. That, like, hey, you at least believe that something that you might not agree with has a right to exist on campus. But honestly, this is all a very good exercise for you and I just want to encourage you personally. The difficulty, the opposition, navigating a community that might not agree with everything that you hold is going to make you a tougher, more resilient person throughout your entire life. Just having everything easy when you are young creates a lot of misery. It does. And I have a whole theory about this, which is that young people are the most comfortable generation in history, which is why they're the most depressed generation in history. There's a great book called Comfort Crisis, you guys should check it out by Michael Easter, which makes this argument that we as a human species, we're not designed just to be able to sit around all day and have three meals in perfectly air conditioned, climate controlled situations over a period of time. It actually creates a lot of anxiety and depression. And so opposition is a good thing. I would consider that to be a blessing. At the same time, we're happy to give you resources and help in any way possible and I'm positive you'll be able to find hopefully a sponsor or two throughout it. But look at it as a blessing. Look at it as almost a metaphorical muscle building opportunity so that later in life you will have gone through, you know, being called nasty names, not being in the majority, and eventually you'll be stronger because of that. Okay. God bless you. Thanks for being here. Hi, Charlie. Thank you for coming.
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I'm a part of the exec board for the Turning Point USA chapter at fsu.
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So we really appreciate having you. Thank you for all your hard work. Great job. Well, thank you for coming.
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I just have a quick question for you. What is your advice to young adults who are in relationships with a significant other who has opposing political views? Views?
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Yeah, great question. So obviously everyone is free to make their own choices. I think that is a recipe for disaster. I do. And I, I'm not saying break up with that person. I'm not saying you can't have a nice time. But here's a good, here's a good question. Eventually you might have children. Let's pretend you have children with that person. Okay? Whose values are you going to teach the kid? Right? Who gets the. Not you. I'm just saying, like, I'm just asking more hypothetically, what kind of school do you send the kid? Right? Do you send it to a public school and government school or to a Christian school? And who decides then? And then over a period of time, you know, when you start living for a year or two or three years together and all of a sudden the news comes on and tension's already high in the house, are you going to be able to discuss the Nightly news politely and wonderful together. Are you going to see it all in the same way? What about charitable giving? Are you going to want to give to the same charities? I could go on and on and on and on, and I've seen it work every once in a while. I've seen people with opposing views build really beautiful lives and do great things, but I've seen it be of disaster more times than not. That doesn't mean, by the way, if you have find someone that shares your views, that it's going to be the most wonderful thing ever. But if you want to have children, then I believe firmly you have to marry somebody or be with someone that sees the world the same way you do, or else it's not fair to the child or else they're going to be having competing and confusing narratives and dialogues passed down to them at all times. And so do what you will with that. But I just, I also have seen a lot of people say, oh, I'm going to change them. Yeah, that's not a good idea. That usually doesn't work. And by the way, if you are in a relationship to change somebody, that's really not what a relationship is. Right. Typically people that go into a relationship with the intent of transforming the other. Yeah. That ends like the Hindenburg. God bless you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Oh boy. Okay, I'm liberal, Mr. Kirk. I mean, okay, I voted Trump in the 2020 election, but. Oh good, you're not that liberal.
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Oh, hey, okay.
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But things change my mind. But anyways, hey, I'm young, obviously, and I was wondering about trickle down economics. I was wondering when is it going to trickle down for me? Because historically, like, I don't, I've never personally seen it. Like for example, Liz Truss got, well, she resigned over the dumb tax things. George Bush said it was voodoo economics. So my question to you is, would trickle down, I mean, or when is it going to trickle down? Yeah, I'm not a defender necessarily. Trick or down economics. I mean, I think in some ways, if you want to talk about supply side versus demand, here's the thing. I happen to be, I used to be a really, you know, economic libertarian and then I grew up and you start to see that you actually need, you know, some checks and balances on externalities in the market. I am a big defender of the market though, generally. So how should we approach economics? I suppose that's a question. Right. And so here's how I'll answer that, which is that an economy should serve people. People should not serve the economy. I think you and I could both agree with that. And so I will defend, though, the idea of giving tax cuts to businesses. That's a very good idea because businesses are run by people and businesses employ people. Now, should you only give them to big businesses? No, I think that's silly. But the vast majority of businesses in America are small businesses run by entrepreneurs. And so, for example, my entire economic viewpoint is to make you more empowered and easier for you to be able to start a business and grow a business from something to nothing. So you can call it whatever you want, you can call it free market economics, entrepreneurship focused economics, whatever it is. But I think you and I could find some common ground on some things. For example, I think it's wrong and it's stupid and it's silly that the largest corporations in America don't pay anything in income tax, whether it be Amazon or ExxonMobil. It's not fair, it's not right. And I think a lot of these loopholes are designed to be able to favor the corporate lobbyists in Washington, D.C. while everyday people get completely and totally crushed. And I'm a conservative saying this, It's.
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Do you want to chime in really quick? Oh yeah, yeah I agree with you. I am not a big fan of bailouts like during the COVID pandemic. I was against it. Yeah the the airline industry had to be bailed out by the American people and I don't think that's right. If you have to shut down for a week and your whole business collapsed like probably not a sustainable business. Yeah, it's not sustainable. That's your fault. It's not for you to take the wealth of the American people and just put it back to your home. So, so let me find. Let me. Let me say one last thing. I think that hopefully we can agree on and this is where I'm probably in the most harmony with libertarians, okay? Which is what we are doing to our currency is immoral, wrong, and has been warned for multiple decades and generations by people in the kind of libertarian community. And it makes every single person in this room poorer and it makes the oligarchs and it makes the people that run our society richer. A hyperinflated currency benefits people that already have hard assets that are able to move money quickly. Working people get crushed by inflation. And so let's put this, let's put trickle down economics aside. Let's say this. We need to have a monetary policy that does not destroy the value of the $10% year over year so that everyday people can save and with expectations, so that they all of a sudden don't have to say, well, I'm going to get 10% poorer this year. You know what ends up happening? People end up spending all their money on stupid stuff because you have just created mass economic cynicism. They say, what's the point in saving? What's the point in going into the market? It's just going to crash. And so I think you and I could both agree that from a monetary standpoint we should encourage saving, overspending and restore the purchasing power of the American muscular middle class. God bless you man. Thank you. Appreciate it. Hey Charlie. So I used to be a conservative. I no longer am now. I'm actually a libertarian now. And a big reason for that is what I see as a contradiction within conservatism between supporting freedom, freedom of speech, to bear arms and support for law enforcement. Because if the government were to infringe on our freedoms even more than it already has, such as banning assault rifles for example, then the police would be the ones to enforce such tyrannical edicts as the Canadian truckers discovered. So is there a contradiction here for a conservatism why or why not? Very smart question. I can see where you're coming from. So the way I would answer it is that we look at the FBI a lot differently than a local sheriff. So local sheriffs have been the ones defying all of these kind of gun grabbing regulations and measures because the sheriff is probably someone in your local community you trust, probably someone that got elected publicly, probably someone whose kids goes to the local school and almost always as a strong adherent to the constitution. But I think you are yielding towards is something you and I could have a lot of agreement with, which is it's the FBI, the ones that take the knee for blm, the Ones that are calling for mass gun control. Do I trust them? Absolutely not. But do I think that local police is not just important, but necessary for human flourishing? Absolutely. And so I'm a localist with this stuff. I think that the less federal control when it comes to a lot of these issues, the better. I question so much of the legitimacy of what the FBI is doing recently, and it pains me to say that as an American patriot, where I look at everything they do through a political lens now, from raiding Mar a Lago to spying on Donald Trump to the raiding of the homes of pro life leaders. So your apprehension as a new libertarian is totally right. But I would just challenge you to be like, hey, that's a lot different than Sheriff Mark Lamb, for example, in Arizona, who is elected by the local people and doing everything he possibly can to go after smugglers and would never enforce a gun confiscation measure. And so we, we need to support our local police. Very, very important. They're in our community. They're one of us. Where the FBI is, though, I look at them as almost kind of infantry for the regime. Does that make sense? Well, it's that, you know, police, whether federal, state, or local, they're tasked with upholding, you know, all the laws of the United States of America, federal, state, and local. So if the federal government were to, for example, pass a law that banned assault rifles, then wouldn't the local police then be compelled to enforce that law? Is that not sort of necessary? That's a good question. We've already seen, though, a track record and a pattern of local police and sheriffs, hundreds saying, I will not enforce any of these. Montana, for example, okay, came out through every one of their sheriffs and said, we're not going to enforce an assault rifle ban. We will ignore the federal government. So I would just challenge you to kind of look at some of that, at how some of these more local law enforcement agencies are already vocalizing that they are willing to say we are not going to enforce an unconstitutional measure from the federal government. But your apprehension is well founded. I don't consider it a contradiction. I consider it a nuance and an important difference. But I think you would also agree you need some form of law enforcement. And I would much rather be policed by people that live in our communities that are close to us and share our concerns than somebody far off in a distant land. And I'll close with this. The left does not want to defund the police. They want to destroy local police and replace it with a national police force. And so you and I can definitely have agreement that a national police force is horrifying. It's something we do not support. I want thousands of local sheriffs that are accountable to the people and far less federal involvement kind of parachuting into our communities, telling us what to do. Thank you for your time. God bless you, man. Thank you. Hi, I'm Trevor Waller and I just had a question. Why do you think that leftists and.
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Liberals and people on the left side or why they push anti science ideas.
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In our school systems?
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Like they push the ideas where it's.
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Like a man can be a woman.
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A woman can be a man.
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There is no difference between genders and.
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Why parents accept that.
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And then one last question. What do you think we should do with public school systems? Should we try to change them?
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Should we take kids out of the.
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Public school system homeschooling? Because I'm a homeschooler.
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Just wondering what you thought.
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Yeah, great, great. So why do parents put up with it? That's a mystery to me. I think that's changing, though. I think parents are starting to push back. I think there is kind of a default setting of being polite in a lot of these communities, and parents don't want to come across as being impolite. So why do they teach things that are contrary to science? Yeah, that's a really important and good question. They would disagree with how you just categorized it, even though it is, you know, science in and of itself. But they also have a different view of what science is. I gave a whole speech on this in Kansas City that I encourage you to check out, which is science, properly understood, should be about the preservation of human life and the advancement and the flourishing of human life. Science, like I would say improperly applied, is about exerting your own will and dominion over nature to show supremacy over the design, or let's just say the state of what nature is. I'll give you an example, right? So two forms of medical technology that could be used by the same person for two complete and total differences, okay? An abortion and a C section. One gives life and protects life and one destroys life. They're both instruments of science. Because if you look at a test tube, you're not going to find morality in a test tube. So you have to bring some form of morality into science, right? This is one of the great lies, I think a secularist. So they say, oh, you can find morality in science. Now at some point you have to have some sort of a construct and a framework, right? These are Tools that you use, right? And so with that kind of advancement of technology, praise God, we have C sections in America, right? It's the most commonly performed surgery in America that has saved millions of, of pregnancies and babies that otherwise we don't know would have happened. But then you have abortion, very similar procedure in the way a trained technician has to do that, but a completely different result. And so the question really needs to be what is science? What is the point of science? I believe science should be first and foremost an inquiry into the natural world, understanding it. And if we have to intervene, if we have to create something new, it has to be under the moral framework of allowing human beings to flourish and to succeed. Your question about the public schools. Look, I'm a local guy. If local areas want to have public government schools, so be it. But I think we have to abolish the Department of Education in Washington D.C. i think we have to restore parents rights to be able to have school choice and vouchers. And let me just say you have a very, very good education program here in Florida. You're very lucky. Other states would give a lot to be able to have the type of educational mobility you have here in Florida. God bless you, man. I love, love homeschoolers. Thank you, thank you. Appreciate it. And if you guys disagree, you could come to the front. Just want to make that known. No pressure.
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So, hi, my name is Sarah. My parents got divorced when I was a toddler. I have no memory of them together. I'm 21 years old right now and I got married this past April.
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Congratulations. Thank you. Phenomenal. That's thrilling. So I've never had a good role.
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Model in terms of, you know, marriage with my parents.
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So I was wondering what would your.
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Best advice be for having a long, happy marriage?
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So I've been married a year and a half, so I don't know about long or happy. I don't know about happy. I don't know about long, so. Don't know about long, so. But we're working on the length. So look, I mean, it's not about you. That's the most important thing that you'll learn really quick. It's about service. It's about, you know, commitment to the other. And this is the, this is the, the thing I always laugh about when people say men and women are the same. When you're married for an afternoon, you realize men and women are very much not the same. A great example is when a man comes home from work. There could have been a nuclear explosion. At work. How was work? It was fine. It was good. Where the wife just will talk about every single detail. It's just the nature. It's completely different. And then Dennis Prager has a really great speech on this that drives the left crazy, which is that men. Men's nature is towards variety. Okay? And I think it's very important for wives to just say to their husbands, thank you for being loyal to me. It's a very important thing. A lot of men don't hear that enough. And it drives some women, like, I don't want to have to say that. It's like, just study a little bit about men's nature and understand how men are kind of programmed towards variety. It's a very important thing. The final thing is just carve time for one another. And, I mean, I'm a big believer in the Ten Commandments. I believe the Sabbath is one of the great gifts from God to be able to preserve the family. I think the Sabbath, properly understood, is the preservation of the family. And so I turn my phone off every Friday night, turn it back on Sunday morning. I'm unreachable by the world. And you can just. You just have to focus on another person. The last thing I'll say is this is. Social media and phones will do everything it possibly can to get in the way of your marriage. So do what you can to put those aside, silence them. And I wish you a very, very long and happy marriage and hopefully children sometime soon. And I fully support young people getting married early. I think that's a very important thing. Now, the reason. And people say, well, it's a risk. Why can't I wait till I'm 28 or 30? You know, because what if it's the natural. Everything in life is a risk, okay? Everything has a risk. But there's also another risk that you have to acknowledge, which is the risk of our thousands of listeners that email me and they say, I'm 35 and I haven't found anybody, and it's too late. That's a risk, too. And I could tell you right now the risk of having resentment, of having guilt or not guilt, having despondency or having just kind of regret. That's the better word. That's a risk that some people need to know just as much as the risk of you might not be able to go to Paris every summer. And so I don't think we communicate that all the time to young people. So God bless you.
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Thank you.
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Good evening, Mr. Kirk. My question is not for myself, but it's from my brother, actually. He's a. He's a huge fan. Question. Sure. I've gotten permission to record your response. So if it's okay with you, I'll read his question to you and then I'll start recording. And then if you could say, like, I don't know, hi, Brendan or something, that'd be pretty cool. Is his name Brandon or Brendan? Brendan. Brendan. Ooh, I was gonna say Brandon, but you can say, let's go, Brendan. He'd like that too. Let's go, Brendan. Okay, good. So here's this question. Who would you like to see in office for president in 2024? Is it Trump or DeSantis? Yeah, if so, who would it be and why? And if not either of them, who would you like to see in office? I've gotten this. I've received this question at every tour stop and so I do encourage people to watch it. But I'll give you the same answer I've given everywhere and hi, Brendan, how are you? Good, good. Let's go, Brendan. So look, I've said this is personally speaking personally, not on behalf of Turning Point USA or Turning Point Action. I've said this. If Trump runs again, I'm going to back him again. I'm a loyal guy. I can't stand in politics where people say one thing and do another or they're all of a sudden very wishy washy with all that being said with that kind of pretext. I'm a massive Governor DeSantis fan. I think he's amazing. I think he's done such a great job for the state of Florida. Governor DeSantis very well might be a once in a generation leader that we're looking for. I have looked far and wide for a reason not to like Governor DeSantis, and he has been incredible. Now, I'll close with this on this question. I think Governor DeSantis would make a phenomenal president. I know Trump made a great president, and so I know that getting him another four years would make US energy independent again, would get this entire Ukrainian mess figured out, would get our economy roaring again, would secure the southern border, would restore confidence of the nation in a way that's very profound, would get CRT out of our military, wokeism out of our schools that's enough for me to be able to say, hey, you earned the right to another four years, especially after all the nonsense and the shenanigans that happened in the 2020 election. Thank you, Brendan. Thank you, man. Thank you, Mr. Kirk.
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Have a good.
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Hi. Hello. Given the concerns you've expressed about censorship and interference with free speech, I wonder how you view the laws in Florida and other states that restrict what professors can teach about racism in the classroom. I mean, obviously you disagree with the doctrines you teach, but why, you know, would you extend to them the same right to free speech that you advocate for everybody else? No. I mean, it's a matter of curriculum.
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Right.
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So I would ask a question. Should we teach the flat earth theory in physics? Right. Should we. Should we teach bloodletting in biology? Should we teach lobotomies in medical school? Or should we teach eugenics in ethics? No. There's some ideas that are so reprehensible and provably wrong, they shouldn't be in anywhere close to an academic environment. Now, a professor obviously has the freedom of speech to say what he or she wants individually, but from a curriculum standpoint, from what you're able to measure or test, to say that all of a sudden we're going to teach that race matters, that somehow that people are suffering from a pandemic of whiteness, as Coca Cola would say, or just critical theory or critical race theory. No, that has no place in an educational environment, because in an educational environment it's less about really the opinion of the teacher or the opinion of the student. It's the pursuit of the soul and the entire being of the student towards truth, goodness and beauty. And so you must have. You must have a teleological destination for that. Yes, A follow up. Just one follow up. Which is. So you would say that the idea that there's systemic racism in this country is as off base as the idea that the earth is flat and as provably wrong as the idea that the earth is flat. Yes. I mean, I would ask you, how are we systemically racist? Well, I mean, we can have a long discussion, but I'm a journalist, I don't think it's a place for it. But possibly if you attended a class on it, you might get in a debate with the professor and see what their data shows and whether it's a matter of scholarly dispute. I mean, there's a lot of books on both sides or whether it's, as I'm not aware of, a lot of scholarly, well accepted books that advocate that the earth is flat. So I would say this is a matter of scholarly debate. There was till Galileo came along. Okay, well, thank you very much. Thank you. And yeah, just to close it. Yes, I think advocating for black only dormitories is a moral equivalent of bloodletting, lobotomies, and flat earth theory. I think it's evil, it's wrong, and has no place in American education. Hi, thanks for coming out. We really appreciate it. Both of my grandparents went into the hospital with COVID like a year ago last May, and they were doing fine, like, getting better with everything off, like whatever. They were both getting better, they were both feeling better. Expressed to my family that they were feeling better until they were put on remdesivir, which was supported by Tony Fauci. And then they both died. I also had a friend last night who passed away from the vaccine due to heart failure. He's 19 years old. Is there anything that anyone is doing, your team or anyone that you know, to bring Tony Fauci to justice? Yeah, that's a really good question. So, I mean, I hope and thank you for the journalist that's there. And by the way, I correct myself. Galileo did not posit that the Earth was not flat. He. He posited the heliocentric theory of the Earth. And so I was mistaken by saying that. But let me just ask a question for everyone here in the room. How many of you know someone that had a very serious reaction to the vaccine, to the. To the point of irreversible health damage? Raise your hand. Okay, so about half the hands are up. If this is true, and this happens everywhere I go to every single audience, then the CDC is not just lying. It's the greatest cover up in modern American medical history. Cuz they say it's one in a million. And every single room I go to, hands go up. So either everyone's lying and they're in on its mass conspiracy theory, or there's something here that people really are ignoring intentionally. So look, Anthony Fauci should be in prison for what he has done. He's a liar. He's a. He's an unbelievably sinister person. And there's not enough being done. And the new Congress, whoever ends up controlling it, priority number one, needs to make sure Anthony Fauci gets held to justice. And I'm very sorry to hear about the remdesivir encounters. The pushing of remdesivir is nothing more than expensive poison on an entire population that did not need it. Meanwhile, any conversation around Ivermectin hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D levels, intravenous therapy, potential ozone intervention, baby aspirin was suppressed from the top levels of our medical authorities. And so I'm going to make it a top priority to try to hold Anthony Fauci accountable and I encourage all of you to do the same. Thank you. Your ticket to Big Savings is that big blue envelope in your mailbox Valpak. It's printing with deals from big name brands and your favorite local spots, dining services, stuff you're already buying, all for less. And you could score $100 or other instant prizes just for opening it. Or save even faster with mobile coupons you can use right now@valpak.com Valpak there's definitely something in it for you.
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10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points. You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract for $250,000. This is where mindset comes in. Someone will be eliminated. Pressure is coming down.
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Trainer Games on Prime Video January 8th watch the trailer on trainergames.com did you.
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Season 2 of unrivaled basketball is here and the talent is unreal. The best women's players on the planet are running it back with even bigger moments and bigger stakes. Don't miss as Paige Becker's Nafiza, Karl Collier, Kelsey Plumb, Brianna Stewart and more take the court and redefine the game. This isn't your regular season. This is unrivaled, where the pace is faster, the energy is higher and every athlete shines. Unrivaled basketball Season 2, sponsored by Samsung Galaxy, tips off January 5 on TNT, TruTV and HBO.
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