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My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You gotta stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord. Use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of the Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble gold investments@noblegoldinvestments.com that is noblegoldinvestments.com. you know, when I first started this, I was 18, no idea what I was doing. No connections, no money, but unlimited energy, enthusiasm. And I actually thought this was possible, which was kind of crazy if you think about it. But I'll tell you, I was in Europe a couple months ago. I was trying to explain what Turning Point USA is and what we do and how we operate to a group of Europeans do not recommend that, okay? I was trying to say, you know, we talk about freedom and we talk about American exceptionalism. We talk about the Constitution and these Italians, very snobbishly. Exactly right. Where's Alana, by the way? Where's Alana? Is Alana here? Of course not. I could bash the Italians non stop. Alana. Master Lagello. You think she's Italian? Her parents like invented the country. Anyway, so I'm trying to explain to them all this. And they say, well, wait, so people voluntarily. I was just bashing Italy. That's okay. So she's like, yeah, it's okay. People voluntarily give money to Turning Point usa. Like what do they get out of it? Like equity? Are they like shareholders? Like, no, no, no. We're a non profit, we're a charity. And we have 30,000 donors all across the country. A growing budget, you know, people that believe in us. Wait, people will give money without getting something in return just to advance ideas and all this? I say, yeah, but they get nothing in return. It's Not a business investment. They don't understand philanthropy in Europe. They don't understand individuals helping individuals. They couldn't wrap their head around the idea that an 18 or 19 year old would not go, as they call it, university is what they call it over there. That wouldn't go to university would start something to actually try to save the country and it would be successful. And so everything that I believe and the speech I'm going to give today is an unusual one, but it's one that all of you will enjoy. Why I believe what I believe and why I started this. And the foundational principles at the very level, very foundational level. And then we'll open up for questions. Would I believe that America is the greatest country ever to exist, period, bar none, is the greatest country ever to exist. Right. You're looking at a living example of that. If I was an enthusiastic 18 year old from France that really thought that France needed to be turned around, which it does, by the way. It's a total disaster. Or if I was a really enthusiastic Brit. But was that place a mess or what? Unbelievable. I'm glad we did the first Brexit way back when. I'm glad we did. We defected from that madness. But if I really believed in that, I couldn't have done this. I would have been looked by European snobbish elites. Go to college, just go do that. This is a waste of time. Or we don't give our money to anything unless it's a business investment. By the way, the. The amazing Brown family. I love them. Unbelievably great. From Colorado State University. Your sister did amazing work anyway. Does amazing work. This wouldn't have been possible anywhere else. And so only in America would an 18 year old with no idea what he was doing, literally no idea, be able to walk the halls of the Republican National Convention, give out business cards to every human being that you could possibly see that I made on a little topographical. Printers say we are losing our country. Young people are the answer. We need to do more on college campuses. And bit by bit and piece by piece, people said, oh yeah, I might believe in you a little bit. I'll pitch in $500. So the first year you raised $20,000, which at the time was unbelievable amount of money. Right. And we didn't have an office, we didn't have a staff. It was just me just traveling the country doing this. Pure grit, pure energy. And I was driven by core ideas and core principles that we are, we should be thankful, not angry to live in this country. Would you agree? We should be thankful. We should be kissing the ground and saying we are the luckiest human beings ever to exist that we are able to live in this country at this time with this president. We should be so thankful, right? Are we allowed to say that here? I think we're all allowed to say that. And yet I see that half our country seems upset. They seem angry that they're born in this country.
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And so I started this and I'm a living embodiment of the very ideas that I express. So I talk about a lot of stuff. For those of you that follow me on Twitter, you know that there's a lot of opinions out there that I. But why do I believe what I believe? And this is something I want all of you to bring back to your campuses. Because the what is inconsequential, the how is inconsequential. It's important, but it's not going to get you to that fundamental level. If you can answer the why, then you can answer every single question. And why is like a shovel. Because you can keep on asking, you keep on digging deeper, and you can keep on digging deeper. So someone say, charlie, do you believe in tax cuts? I'll say yes, right? I believe in. So someone says the next question is what? Why? Okay, why? Fine. Well, I believe that people should be free from government. I believe that you should be able to keep the money that you earn, that your time, your treasure, your own property is yours, not someone else's. What's the next question you should ask someone? Why? Why do you believe that? Okay, well, I believe that individuals. The individual is much more important than the collective, correct? Right. The most important thing is the protection of your consciousness, of your choices, of your creativity, of whether it be good choices or bad choices. You should be able to benefit from making good choices, but you might have to suffer if you make bad ones. What's the next question you should ask? Why? Oh, now we're getting really deep right now. We're getting to philosophy. Forget politics. What do we start with? Taxes. Now all of a sudden we're talking about what? Human nature. I believe that human beings are broken by nature. That we are not. We're not good. In fact, we're really, really, really bad. So I believe that we have to teach goodness to our children. So let's make an objective argument to this. Some people will say, well, the Marxists, for example. The Marxists will always say, we are good people in a broken system. Have you heard this before? This is the postmodernist stuff. Yeah, of course. My buddy from Portland here, he might as well live in Caracas, Venezuela. Portland, Oregon. What a disaster that city is. But we're going to come and speak out there once we go do that. So the Marxists will say, we are good, but we live in a broken culture, in a broken system rigged for what? Rigged for the rich, the powerful and the elite against us, which bring out the worst parts of human nature. We as individualists, we that believe in ration rationale and reason. And history will say, well, no, human beings are broken by nature. We should not try to be perfected at all. That's a horrific idea. Utopianism is evil. The idea of utopianism is impossible and it is evil. More people have died on the pursuit of utopianism than any other idea in the history of humanity. Whether it be Mao's China or Pol Pot's Vietnam or Stalin's Russia or Mugabe's Zimbabwe or Castro's Cuba or the Kim Jong Un's of North Korea. More people die in the pursuit of utopianism than any other idea. Now why is that? Because people are broken by nature. And you say, charlie, why? Or how can you possibly know that? So this is where it gets in the chart, why Charlie believes what Charlie believes. Right. Why do you believe something very simple and it's three words you might believe, you might not. God is real. I believe that. I believe there is a God and I think we shouldn't be afraid to say it. If you believe that, great. If you're not sure, that's okay. If you don't believe that, that's okay too. But why do I believe what? Well, I believe in the idea of original sin. I believed in the Judeo Christian construct that God created a perfect person that fell from nature, that committed a piece of sin. We all know the original story of Adam and Eve. And then sin was entered in the world. God created a perfect world that was broken by sin. And ever since, we have three words to describe life. Life is suffering.
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And the greatest book ever to exist, which I believe is the Bible. Right? And the Bible has a lot of the answers for this, if not all the answers. All the answers to every single problem we could ever face. 60 books. Well, if you're a Catholic, it's more than that. But it's 60 books. How many Catholics I have? I love the Catholics, by the way. Love the Catholics. Kind of a conversation about theology. If you guys read. I'm kidding. I got lots of Catholic jokes, by the way. Got lots of Catholic jokes. Where my evangelicals at? We got plenty of evangelicals here, right? Love, love the evangelicals. I'm kidding. We got all sorts. We're very. We're very ecumenical. We're very, very ecumenical. By the way, where's Sophia? We love. We love our Jewish brothers and sisters around here. By the way, we love Sophia. Where's Sophia? She's somewhere. She's. Yeah. Well, it is Shabbos, right? So it's okay. The Bible's the greatest book ever to exist. 60 books, over 30 authors, 5,000 years of history, answers to every single problem that you could ever possibly encounter with the most important individual ever to exist. Whether you agree with them, disagree with him, think he was divine or not divine. He was the most important person ever to exist. We used to have our whole calendar based around him. Now they're changing that too. But he was the most influential person ever to exist. No book has been copied, replicated, translated or read as much as the Bible. But no book has been banned or burned or banished as much as the Bible. It is the most important book ever to exist. The most influential book ever. Even if you think it is heresy and it is old wives tales, it's inarguable. Yet it's the one book we don't teach in our schools, which I find to be very troubling. We'll get back to that in a second. So Charlie, why do you believe what you believe? Well, I believe quite simply that God created the heavens and the universe and everything that we exist in. And he created man. Now why did he create man? Now that's a whole different conversation. I'm not going to get into that. But I will say this, that if you look at, if you want to describe the Bible in six words, Anyone want to try to do that? Anyone try to describe the Bible in six words? You do that, I'll give you a prize. Really tough, right? If I had to do it, as life is suffering, redemption is possible. Six words, not bad, right? That's the story of the Bible in six words. Now it's more than just the story of the Bible. It's the story of Western civilization. See, Western civilization, what we live in today is based on the Judeo Christian construct that, that things suck. We get that. The problem is the communists will never admit that they'll say things suck now. But we're going to create utopia. Things will get better. We'll take money from the rich, we'll create something a lot better. All this nonsense, right? And people believe in it. Free health care, free Medicare, free this, free schooling, right? They're always trying to paint that there's something in the distance that's always going to be better. But you know what we as conservatives need to do? We need to tell brutally hard truths, not well crafted lies. We need to Say, you know what, you're going to suffer, you're probably going to get sick, you're going to lose loved ones, you're going to lose a job, you're going to have a lot of, lot of tough times. Okay, we all get that. So what can. First and foremost, what's the most important next question after that? Not what revolution I can start, not what government I can overthrow. What's the most important question after that? What you can do about it. What can the individual do, as my buddy Jordan Peterson says. We love Jordan Peterson, right? We love him. He's so great. We love Jordan. Sit up, sitting prostrate, tell the truth, work harder, be better today than you were yesterday and find a way to be better tomorrow than you were today. That's the story of Western civilization because for thousands and thousands and thousands of years, people lived as serfs. You got up every single day, you worked in the field. If you were lucky, you had a wife, you had a kid. The kid had half a chance of living because infant mortality was so high. You lived in suffering, you went to church. That was it. And then you die when you're 35. That's human history between essentially 100 BC to 1700. Literally, that was it. Some variations, lots of wars, lots of conflict.
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Then what happened? What changed? What changed? Well, what changed is a lot of different things, is there was a group of bandits and rebels that started to get a little restless, right? We all know this story, but to tell it in this frame is not told in our schools. And these guys read the great works, and their names were Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin and George Washington, the great heroes that created the greatest civilization ever to exist. And they decided to do the impossible and the improbable and start a revolution against the greatest military power to exist of its time. And they were successful, and they overthrew the government. And they were the first political victors in world history. Think about this. The first political victors in world history that voluntarily gave up their political power. They could have created the Washingtonian, Jeffersonian, Hamiltonian ruling class, but they gave up their political power back to the people. They said, I don't want to be the ruler. I don't want to be king. I'm going to give it back to the people. Now, is the Constitution a perfect political document? No, nothing's perfect except the divinity of God. But it is the best political document ever written by far. Now, it is the best for one very simple reason, because they acknowledged exactly what I believe. Human beings are broken by nature, that human beings are very predictable. The rise and fall of the Roman, the Greek, the Chinese, and the British Empire are all very similar, even though they came in totally different times in totally different parts of the world. And what was similar about them? That when too much power gets concentrated too quickly, people die, people suffer. People's lives don't get better. So they Said, boy, that was a disaster. They started to study Aristotle, which talked about brutal truth and not Plato's utopianism. Big difference, right? So Plato talked all about. We could talk communism, we could do all this. Forget about that. Talking about the individual. All about the individual, the individual and the individual constitution was. We'll get back to the Constitution in a second. But how does this all connect to why I believe what we believe? Well, this is where the left gets it so horribly, horribly wrong. And I want you to raise your hand if you've heard this, that somehow the Bible or the life of Jesus is a defense of Marxism and communism. Like Jesus was a communist. Who's heard this before, Right? You've all heard this. Well, I love it because it's a bunch of atheists telling me this first and foremost, right? So first of all, if there's any atheists here, God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. I'll pray for you. They don't find that funny. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Without God, there would be no atheists. I got a couple more, but I'll save them for later. What? I always am challenged by that. So, first of all, a lot of atheists always try to use the life of Jesus Christ as a defense of neo Marxism. So why do I believe what I believe? Well, I believe that the gospel in four words. Okay, gospel in four words. What is the gospel? If you ever want to say if you're not a believer, that's fine. I'm going to tell you what the gospel is in four words. Three words. Two words.
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One word.
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Four words. Jesus took my place. Four words. Okay, three words. Him for me. Two words. Substitutionary atonement. One word. Grace. That's it. That's the gospel. Four, three, two, one words. You don't have to believe that. That's fine. I'm not trying to evangelize. I'm just telling you what I believe and why I believe. This does not reflect the views at Turning Point. You say, you hear that, Tyler? You get that? That's all good. Okay? But why did I start this? Why do I fight as hard as I fight? And why do I do this? Okay, so those are the gospels. So the story of the gospel and the story of the Bible is life is suffering, redemption is possible. So we have four accounts, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John by four different authors from four different perspectives, four different backgrounds, written in two different languages that account the depiction of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Okay, we got it. Whether or not you believe in it or you don't believe in it. It's miraculous. It's amazing that those texts actually existed, that the parallels, non contradictions, all those sorts of things happen. There's no other historical figure with that sort of authenticity, that sort of verification that long, that stood the test of time with the archaeological backing and that evidence. That's pretty amazing. That's pretty miraculous.
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Okay, but let's go back to the Marxism, communists and let's tie all this together. They say, well, Jesus talked about helping other people. Jesus talked about all these things that are very similar to Marxism. However, what was what, what are they missing? Everything that Jesus Christ talked about was about the individual. Everything. He never addressed people in the collective, ever. He never talked about banning your resources together or pooling a bunch of stuff as a collective or overthrowing a government so that you could have a better running commune. He said, no, no, you go give away your money, right? The first sinner amongst you throw the first stone. It's not, well, the ends justify the means. Therefore, no, he never said any of that stuff. It was always about the individual. It was about voluntary cooperation. It was always about treat others the way you want to be treated. Essentially is the golden rule, right? Well, what system requires you to treat others the way you want to be treated? What system? Yeah, exactly. Capitalism. Exactly, right. What's up, man? How you doing? Good to see you. Sorry, I didn't realize you there. Capitalism. Exactly right. Because if you Treat a customer horribly, they're not going to return. Right. If you have a product or service that you lie or you cheat, you steal, you're not treating that customer the way you would want to be treated. So a free market requires you to act in a virtuous way, which is against human nature. We'll get to that in a second. Okay, so why do I believe what I believe? Well, I'm a strict constitutionalist and a conservatarian, if you want to boil it down to that. I'm very skeptical of governmental power. I believe in natural rights, that our rights come from God, not from government. That government exists to protect our rights, not to give them away to that we should have rules for government first and foremost, and then rules for the citizenry that when power is concentrated and collected way too quickly, that suffering ensues. So what does all this tie together? And why do I do what I do and why do I believe what I believe? Well, I believe God is real. We went through that. I believe Jesus Christ is the savior of the world. We went through that. The Bible is the greatest book ever to be written. But then how does this all tie in together with America and who we are and what we're doing? Well, so I believe that we are literally at a turning point in our country. Forget politics, right? So I'm not here to talk about politics. If you love Trump, great. If you don't like Trump, that's fine. You know my opinion, all that we can get into it if you want to ask questions about it. Low tax is terrific. Embassy move to Jerusalem. That's great. It's a lot bigger than that, what we're fighting. I hope you all understand that we're fighting a war. And I'll leave the spiritual side to a second. We're fighting a culture war. Where are we going to embrace neo Marxist postmodernism that is all about victimhood, ideology, oppressor versus oppressed? That's going to create a very, very dangerous society for all of us to live in. Anyone that has aspirational goals or dreams or wants to better yourself, for the individual, Are we going to embrace an idea that the individual does matter? That dialogue and discourse and freedom of speech that is paramount first and foremost for a country and a civilization? And I see kind of what's happening. I see the forces of evil starting to win. You see it on college campuses. How many outward socialists and Marxists do you know? Probably your entire professor list is all Marxist and socialists. Because these ideas are growing and these ideas are Growing. And these ideas are growing. And it's up to dedicated patriots like this, everyone in this room, to fight back against that and to fight back in a variety of different ways. But if you cannot answer the why, you're nothing more than just engaged in the same sort of popcorn politics to the people that you're fighting against. Your why might be very simple. Your why might be, well, I'm inspired by the teachings of Ayn Rand and I believe so firmly individual that I only believe what I believe and that I exist. If that's your why, then that's great. I told you my why, didn't I? You have to be able to articulate it. Because every activist, every leftist activist cannot answer the why. They can't. There's hypocrisy within them. There's anger, There's. Ever see how angry leftists are, by the way? I mean, there's a reason for that though. There's a reason. Why are, why are leftists so angry? Why are they. Well, they're miserable because they would rather tell other people how to live their life than improve their own.
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It's very easy to be externally upset. Try to go 24 hours without complaining. It's very hard. Try to do that. Seriously, try. I can't do it. Whether it be an airplane, a long tsa which you put me in touch with tsa. The complaints come very quickly. They shall be fired, every single one of them. Try to go 24 hours without complaining. It's very, very tough to try to live with a aura of gratitude and graciousness. Very, very difficult. It's much easier to complain and to be resentful and to be angry and to be externally harsh towards the world. It's the rich people's fault, it's the white people's fault, it's the straight people's fault, it's the Christians fault, it's the university's fault.
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No.
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Well, maybe all that could be right. There could be arguments. But what are you doing to improve your own life? Have you done everything that you possibly can do? Are you waking up earlier? Are you not going out to drink? Are you exercising? Are you making better choices? Are you doing all those things and you're improving yourself to the top of the possible pinnacle of the individual? Then you might be able to start complaining. I very much doubt that the left is social justice warriors based on just looking at them. Are they making any of those decisions? Okay, not that I'm judging, but I'm just observing. Big difference. Kidding. So you got to be able to answer the why. I'm not going to tell you what your why is. You know my why. So once you have your why, then you can have agreement, right? You could have also, what's so cool about conservatives and libertarians? Any libertarians here? Hope we have libertarians. Any conservatives here? Hope we have conservatives, traditional Republicans, Trump supporters. That's great. We can have disagreement, all that. And we should. We love disagreement. That's what we're all about. We're not a mob. We shouldn't be. We're not the left. We should be able to disagree and to have dialogue or discourse. But we all love America. If you don't love America, that's. There's other organizations out there, Turning Point, USSR or something like that, Mutual respect on that front. But that's. If we all agree on the big stuff, the other disagreements will sort itself out. But I guarantee you there's different whys all across the room. I guarantee it. Some of it might be. Well, I just feel as if I'm losing my country and my family came here as immigrants and I want to save it. Great answer. Terrific. Dive deeper. Get to the why. Get to the why. Get to the why. Get to the why. And that's hard because sometimes you might not under. You might not know. You might not know. You might get down to the point where, well, I believe the individual is really important. Why?
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Well, I don't know.
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Because I want to be able to do what I want to do without someone telling me, well, why? What's the end result? And if you can't answer that, then one of two things will happen. You're much more likely to have kind of ambiguity in your political statements, which is fine. There's nothing wrong with that inherently. Or number two, you'll get quickly exposed by a leftist for being exactly what they are. But I guarantee you there's a lot of good answers as to your why here. I guarantee it. And by the way, once you're able to answer that question, you will fight harder and you will be more convicted and more foundational in your activism than ever before. Because then you know exactly why you are doing what you are doing, not what you are doing. And that's the most important question, isn't it? Because the answer to why is why a lot of people just wander through life without ever being able to do that. And there is no right or wrong answer, by the way. I'm not telling you my answer is correct. What I walked you through. It's the right answer for me. Someone else might have a different answer, and that's perfectly okay, because every individual is different. Every individual has different backgrounds or leanings or understandings or passions. But being able to articulate that to a level that is a lot deeper than saying, I want low taxes because it's going to spur economic growth, or I want low regulation because it's going to make the economy better. Or I think we should have a big foreign policy. You know, I should have a big military because there's forces of evil. Those are talking points, folks. Get deeper than that, get into the philosophy of all that. So as you can see, we're growing very quickly as an organization. I love these couple days. These are always my favorite couple days of the year, because you are on the front lines. You really are. And we are an organization committed to ideas and to principles, not the political parties or politicians. I have my own opinions. That's fine. But we have people within the organization that love the President and support him, that don't love him. That's all temporary, that's all momentary. We are in a generational battle right now that the stakes could not be higher. And the experiment and the gift that our founding fathers gave to us could be easily lost if we don't make the proper choices. The right course corrections. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust. Go to charliekirk.
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Com.