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We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives. And we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Thank you. Thank you, Grant. That's terrific. I love watching your Newsmax show. I usually have it on mute just because we have a whole panel of television, so. But you do a great job and alternative media is more important than ever. And I'm going to talk about that. I want to shout out our Turning Point USA chapter leaders and students that are here tonight. These students are doing the most courageous work in the country. Seriously, it is hard. And if you want hope and I see some amazing Turning Point alumni here, talk to these Turning Point USA young college campus conservatives. What they have to go through on a daily basis is unbelievable. And, you know, I talk to audiences all across the country. I probably give 300 speeches. I do three hours of radio a day, actually. You can hear me every day on the local salem station. It's AM660 every day. And people come up to me and they call in and they email. They say, charlie, it's really hard. I'm afraid my neighbor's gonna say something mean to me. I'm afraid a family member. I say, you think you have it hard? Go talk to the young people that self identify as conservatives publicly. They're basically saying to the world, you know what? I'm okay with potential career, family, friendship, penalties for standing for what's right. So the college conservatives and the high school kids here, they deserve your applause because it's harder than ever to be a young person and be conservative. It truly is. So, absolutely. I want to thank Carol Adams. You're amazing, and I'm honored to be part of this. I love local involvement. I am. One of my biggest critiques is how nationalized the conservative movement has become. We need to get more local. We need to get more focused on the races that actually impact our way of life. Congress really means nothing right now. It doesn't. It's a PR stunt. And I'm going to talk about the Uni Party because we have to understand that there's really just one party in D.C. and then there's people on the edges. We're going to talk about that. It's so important you recognize that. And I think people are waking up. Grant, you do a great job of covering that. But where the differences are actually made right now is where George Soros is spending his money. And that's in the local races, at the DA races, it's in the school board races. And we as conservatives have been distracted. We've been saying, we've been, oh, our salvation's gonna come on Air Force One. And look, I love national politics. I'm gonna talk about national politics. But we've just gotten steamrolled on the local level for the last 10 years. And it's largely because we, as conservatives, the most important thing in our life is not politics. It's family, it's church, It's Our business, therefore, the liberals, the leftists, because there's a difference, and we'll talk about that, too. They obsess about taking terrain. That's all they care about is, am I in control of more things this year than I was last year? For us, that's really not what drives us, right? I mean, for us, it's. Are my children developing with good character? Is my church flourishing? Am I getting in a closer relationship with my creator? Is my street safe? Am I doing well at my job? Like that's what we care about, right? And we should. Instead, the liberal, the leftists, they say, none of that really matters. Am I taking over terrain? And then you look after 10 years, and I have to tell you, I've been coming to Dallas for probably 12 or 15 years, and it's an absolute disgrace and it's reprehensible what's happened to Highland Park. No, it's actually a tragedy. And when I have to walk around. When I walk around the neighborhood today and I see BLM Incorporated signs 1 after the other, which basically is a sign that says, I'm a better person than you are. Look how good of a person I am. It's this ridiculous sign that I saw today on this probably $35 million home. You know, we believe in Black Lives Matter. We science is real and love is love. I mean, you see this signs. It's basically this big thing that says, look how good of a person I am. And maybe one day I could be as good of a person as you. And I say, that's Highland Park, Texas. And there's a reason why that happened. We'll talk about that. But. And then Tarrant county is now a battleground county. Used to be one of the most, you know, center. Not just center, right. But Republican stronghold counties in the country. And I love these energetic new candidates that are running. And that's one of the things I do want to just commend all of you before I get into some national commentary and some ideas and some things that can do is you have to obsess about the local politics. And it's actually really interesting because the local races are actually the ones that are most consequential, most controversial, and for whatever reason we're least likely to get involved in them. And I think it's because that's really. When politics, it gets to be really kind of flesh on flesh. It's eyeball to eyeball. It's all of a sudden the person that you're carpooling with, you have to really tell Them why you believe what you believe, where you can kind of be the silent Trump supporter, right? Where in local politics it really impacts you. And so you have to take over your school boards, you have to maintain control on your city council. This is where this pile of garbage and nonsense is being implemented all across the country. Critical race theory, transgender nonsense, the attacks on the church, which is just unbelievable. And so what this group is doing to try to take over local groups is terrific. I want to congratulate you and just I hope this group expands even more so because it's so incredibly important to get involved in local politics. Okay? So as I mentioned, Congress basically really is not what it used to be. And in some ways that's a good thing. In some ways it's a really bad thing. And so the question is, the question that Grant asked was, what are they doing? What is Lindsey Graham and what is Adam Kinzinger? And what are all these pro amnesty, you know, Rick Scott, who I have a good relationship with, but he's just such. He's been such an unbelievable disappointment because according to him, the most important thing is granting amnesty to lawbreakers. Like, that's what the Republican Party should be focused on, which is just stunning to me. It's like, let's not listen to one thing the voters have told us the last decade is, you know, we're just going to ignore the will of the people. Every election, voters are voting for stricter immigration, stronger borders, and quite honestly, less people coming into the country, both legal and illegal. And we should be for legal immigration. But we have way too many people coming into the country right now, and we should be unafraid to say that. And there's nothing racist or bigoted to say that we care about the wages of our workers, the welfare of our communities, the safety of our streets, and bring. And Grant, I'll correct you on one thing. The these are not children coming to the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Center. These are cartel young men, okay? You got 3015, 16 and 17 year olds, okay? And you look at pictures of them, I mean, these guys are built. I mean, these are not children. I mean, these are guys. And again, I'm sure there's some good people in there, but you got. You look at their tattooed up and there are studies that are showed, look, you got some cartel members that you're bringing right into the K. Bailey Hutchinson Center. So I have a proposal to every Highland park liberal that voted for Biden should have to take a cartel member into their home. Every single one of them. And so I'm going to go knock on the doors. And you guys, you know, this is a great thing. Carol, you got to do the star Patriots, go knock on the door of these people that have these virtue signaling, look how good of a person I am signs, right? And say, hey, I got a guy from Honduras and we know nothing about him. He could be wonderful. He could be terrible. You say that your doors are open and we didn't vote for this. You did. You have this wonderful sign and just look at their true racism shine through, right? Because that's really what it is. It's, look how good of a person I am until it hits home. And so it's actually fitting that 3,000 young men are coming to the K. Bailey Hutchinson center, because unfortunately, this area has been voting in that way. At least Highland Park, Genevieve Collins should have won by 10 points. Okay. In a normal race. And this place has changed dramatically over the last couple years. But you asked the question, Grant, which is really a good question, is what are they doing? Well, they're serving their corporate donors is what they're doing. And this goes to a broader point that we as conservatives have to get really precise about. And it's actually a really exciting time to be in the movement. So when I first got involved in politics in 2010, it's a tea Party movement. It was a lot of fun. A lot of you guys remember it. It was grassroots. It was authentic. It was a little wild. It was wacky, but it was awesome. And the great Rush Limbaugh, may he rest in peace, a friend of mine, he was a huge reason why that thing caught on the way it did. And Mark Levin, and I'm sure there are a lot of Tea Party leaders here in this room. And the Tea Party movement, in essence, was okay, Obama is overreaching. Big government is going to infringe in our liberties and freedoms. Stop spending. Deficits are bad. Debt and deficit is bad, right? You remember this, like national health care. And that was a really good ethos for the time. And we lost that debate. Generally, we might have won back the house in 2010, but then we had John Boehner that basically got elected and did the opposite of what his voters wanted. And then Donald Trump ran for office in 2015 because what the media wanted us to basically sit down and tolerate, what we were supposed to just sit down and shut up and accept was another Bush versus Clinton matchup. Like, that's what we were supposed to have. Jeb Bush against Hillary Clinton. And Jeb Bush is a nice guy, but not presidential material at all. And I'll get into the Bushes, which I'm not allowed to do in Dallas, which is exactly why I do it. And so, no, it's true. We should be unafraid to call bells and strikes on this stuff. But. And I'll get into that. So I'm making tons of friends here in North Texas, actually. It's amazing how many people actually think negatively about the Bushes. They're just afraid to say it around here. They really are. It's amazing. And so then I come in and it's actually pretty incredible. So I'll talk about that. So we're supposed to just accept. Okay, Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, which, by the way, Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton agree on basically every issue except corporate tax rates and school vouchers. They agree on open borders. They agree on unrestricted pro Chinese trade. They agree on corporate dominance over our economy. There's really no difference between the two. It's part of the uniparty, which is this false choice that we've been given where our Republicans, they talk a good game on guns and pro life and we say they're the lesser of two evils and we vote for them. And by the way, most times that's the right choice because we have no other choice. And so I'm going to tell you that that's still the right thing to do when you're presented with that option. But that also means we didn't do our work before that option presented itself to field good candidates. I'll get to that in a second. And so what Donald Trump represented is he comes onto the scene and basically he meant something different to every person. But the one unifying concept was that he was a throbbing middle finger to the uniparty that was lying to us on trade, immigration, and kind of these corporate insider deals of people that quite honestly took advantage of you for 30 years. They took advantage of all of us, and they never got anything substantial done. And we kind of liked the fact that he was a little off the cuff and he was unafraid to say the things we were all thinking. And we made excuses for good reason for all of his indiscretions because he was this Persona of what I called the bodyguard of Western civilization, which is a guy who's unafraid to stand in the door frame and defend your family against, quite honestly, criminal vigilantes that want to destroy our country. Like, that's, that's who we hired for a reason, because he was unafraid to pick that fight when you hire a bodyguard, you don't care about his tweet history. You care about is he willing to fight, is he going to win when the fight comes, Right? Like that's why you hire a bodyguard. And that's lost on establishment Republicans, obviously, because they are, they're under this false idea that we're still in a policy debate in our country, which we're not. We are not in a policy debate. This is a brass knuckle fight for power. It's that simple. I wish it wasn't the case. I wish we were having these wonderful Socratic dialogues about the meaning of the proper role of government and economics. I wish that was the case. This is as simply as this. Do you control more seats on the other side? And if you do, we're going to rule with an iron fist. It's that simple. And so the establishment, they want to go back to the uniparty. And so what Trump did and why, they hated him. They hated him a little bit because of his style and he irritated it gave them extra reason to hate him. But they really hated him because of three policy choices, policy positions that he was relentless on, which is we have to end these stupid, endless wars of foreign occupation overseas where they're not making us richer, they're not making us wealthier. We're sending our young people in the middle of nowhere to go fight for sand and death. And as Sun Tzu, who literally wrote the art of war said, a nation perpetually at war gets perpetually poorer. It's a phenomenal quote. He had another quote. He says, a nation perpetually at war, and you never get an advantage from that. So Trump was like, why are we still in Afghanistan? Like, what does success look like? And by the way, let me be very clear, this is by no means a slight to the heroes that fought in these wars. In fact, it's the opposite. I think that your sacrifice and your commitment has been thrown around as chess pieces by the political elite that don't know what it's like to actually serve in these wars. So let me be very clear about my commitment to the veterans and the people in this room. And so the second thing is, Trump comes on the stage and he says, all these trade deals have actually been hurting us. And that was the beyond third rail. I grew up in a conservative movement where you were not allowed to say that at all. Like, free trade, always no questions asked. It's awesome that we get piles of plastic coming in from China. Fentanyl is great. That's basically the ethos of the old Republican Party, right? That's the Bush Republican Party. Is that all that matters is how rich people are doing? It doesn't matter if we make things anymore. Who cares if our families are getting broken? Who cares that church attendance is down? Don't you understand? We need 5% GDP. And then Trump says, okay, but what about the 7 million manufacturing jobs that are lost? What country has ever been great and stayed great without having people make stuff with their hands? And that is the kind of common sense instinct that was completely lost on the Bush class and the people that ran our country? And the third thing is immigration, where Trump came in from the first time he came down the escalator, whether he realized it or not. But he hit the issue that we felt the most betrayed on. Right? The issue that everyone talks a good game on, and yet we see this continuous trend of open borders and the consequences of it. Wages going down, crime going up in certain communities, guns flowing into our country, women getting sex trafficked. And we said, okay, this guy who's literally a builder might be able to build something that actually can solve this problem. And the unit party hated him. And. Right. So Una obviously comes, you know, means of one. And what we're in right now is the unit Party wants to get things back the way they used to be. Right? So they so sorely want. And, and it's, it's less about Trump. I only use him as an example, but it's about you. And this is what's so incredibly boring about watching cable television outside of your show, Grant. No, I always give the correct carve outs, but it's so boring because it has nothing to do with Trump. It's about the voters that put him into office. That's what it's about. It's about the concerns of the people that showed up for the first time to vote in 30 years. He was just merely a hired gun. He was an employee for people that felt so upset. And you know what the really good news is that if he never runs again, you could find a candidate who can represent those ideas as well. It's unlikely, but he was nothing, not nothing more. He's more than that because he has persevered and all that. But what he really represented and what the, what the, what the boring activist, corrupt media misses is that there's still about 75 to, I think even more 80 to 85 million people that want changes in those three categories. Those three things they say, okay, what are we supposed to do exactly with the 7 million people that used to work in these beautiful manufacturing plants. We traded manufacturing jobs, we worked with our hands for opioids. And they say, well, no, it's wonderful because we get all of this cheap garbage from China. Now I can prove to you that their own case is wrong. How many people here have seen the dollar stores all over the DFW area. Do you value anything you get from those dollar stores? It's like their placeholder. They're trinkets, right? How many people have had a garage sale in the last five years? Of course we have so much stuff, we're asking people to take it away from. You know, the fastest growing real estate market in the country is self storage. We have so much garbage, we don't know what to do with it. Like get it out of my house type garbage. And meanwhile, we go take a drive through rural Oklahoma and Missouri, Kansas and Ohio, and those communities are really suffering. And what our leader should have done, what George Bush should have done, which he didn't because he was told a lie. And look, I love free markets, I love economics, but there's externalities to everything. And the externality to free trade is that you're going to displace millions of people and be careful how quickly you do that. And if you're just going to get piles of textiles, of stuff you're never going to wear, that you're not going to value, then somehow you're transferring money for a nation. And I don't like that. And that's what Trump really represented. And so, and what we should talk about more. And so the really interesting thing that's happening right now, and this is why we lost Georgia. We lost Georgia for a variety of reasons. We lost Georgia obviously because of the mail in balloting shenanigans. And the worst governor in America, Brian Kemp, who's an absolute disaster, he's very corrupt and he's not very smart. And he signed this consent decree with Stacey Abrams, basically allowing completely relaxed signature standards with more ballots coming in. And he lied to a lot of people. And we very well should have won those runoffs. But we also lost because Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, by the way, I was campaigning for them. I was helping them any way I could, but they weren't helping their case. And here's why. And here's, here's the provocative thing I'm going to contribute to tonight's evening, which is we're either going to win or lose with our ability to handle this paradigm is that every time Kelly Loeffler got up on stage. And every time David Perdue got on stage, they said, elect me or else we are going to become a socialist nation. And I said, wait a second. That's not the complete argument right now. It's not like socialism is a huge threat. I literally have an organization dedicated to fighting socialism. But. And we should care about it. But to act as if this is a binary choice, like it's either going to be socialism or capitalism. No, there's another threat out there that people are really worried about, and that's the woke industrial complex that's running our country. And so when Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, and I'm picking on them a little, probably too much, because I really hope they would win. And I tried to get them to win, but their messaging was terrible. Fed by the same Bush GOP consultants that have been losing races for the last 20 years because they don't talk to their voters is like, just tell people you hate socialism and you're going to win. I'm like, no, it's actually not that simple. No, Actually, the people in southeast Georgia hear Raphael Warnock promise him a $2,000 check and they're going to go vote for that guy unless you give them an argument that you're going to go declare war on the factory that just closed in Savannah, Georgia. And here's the interesting third thing that could be happening, and it is happening in our country. And I can make a pro conservative, pro liberty argument for why this is the greatest existential threat in our country, which is the uniparty wants to defend the woke industrial complex and the very dangerous, scary rise of corporations that are more powerful than our government. And this is the one thing that if you and Grant. I want to say the wisest commentary I've heard from a speaker in the last couple of weeks is what you said, and everyone should listen very carefully what he said. When you see an elected official, be kind, be gentle, but be direct and say, why do you defend the corporate class in D.C. so much? Why do you take money from Google? Like, these are things you. If you get in there. I see this all the time. People talk a good game, and then they're like, taking selfies with these guys. I'm like, what are you doing? Like, they work for you if they start to hear negative feedback from you face to face. And again, don't make a big scene. You don't have to film them. You don't have to do what the left does. But be direct and say, no, I don't like the fact that you're doing this. And so to go back to the point though is that there is, and this is something that conservative movement gets really nervous about talking about is that private companies are more powerful than our government right now. Google is more powerful than our government and no one likes talking about it. And so until we're willing to recognize and realize that there are two threats to our liberty, one that's in the government and one that's in Menlo park, then we're not actually having an honest conversation with what we're up against in our country. And what happens is that the corporate class only wants you to talk about the threat of the bureaucrats. I don't like the Employment Prevention Agency, the epa. I think they do terrible, you know, Environmental Protection Agency, but in Texas that would probably be a big thing. And so I understand the threat of the heavy hand of government, but I can make an argument that corporations are destroying more people's freedoms and liberties in the government right now. The founding fathers always feared centralized power and control for good reason. But they never envisioned a set of companies that can have as much power as the government, if not more power. Google is exponentially more powerful than our own government. Now you might say, charlie, Google can't put you in prison. Well, you're right, that's correct, they can't. But if the Department of Justice shows up to somebody right now and they say, hey, I'm going to indict you, you know what, you get a lawyer, you know that it's illegal. They do it anyway for the government to spy on you. It's not illegal for Google to spy on you. They do it all the time. And then they sell your data. You know, you could sue your own government. Can't sue. Google can't. Not when it comes to free speech violations or practices. Google has 25,000 full time employees that work nights and weekends with an IQ that is double that of anyone that works in the federal government. Just working on Google search, just working on manipulating what you and your children are processing on the Internet every day. Show me a government agency that has that much power. Now you might say, well, the military has that much power. You're right, totally, I agree. Potential power. I mean, they have, they have weapons, they have ammunition, they have all that. It's also probably like, should I used to make this argument, then they're militarizing DC and they're doing all this. I still think that even with the federal Department of Defense, and I think it's unlikely that the military is going to be used against the citizenry anytime soon. I just do. I don't think that the troops would go for it and I don't think, I think that's an unrealistic thing. I do think it's realistic that Google is going to make their big offensive and they already are to make America in their image where Mark Zuckerberg, a private citizen, put $400 million into this last election and no one talks about it. So what I am submitting to you right now is considered to be an illegal thought process in Republican circles. But it's the most important thing happening, which is that the wealthiest people in this country got $600 billion richer last year. And that's just the billionaire class and they hate you most times. The wealthiest people in our nation shared the values of the rest of the nation. You can say what you want about Rockefeller, Carnegie, JP Morgan, but they actually wanted what was best for America. They were patriots. They were too rich and too powerful. We broke them up. Good reason. Teddy Roosevelt did a great job and I'll debate anyone on that because there's this whole like weird libertarian revisionism that we should never have broken up Standard Oil. Way too much of a nuanced issue, but not worth the time for tonight. The point is that I'm glad we broke them up. But even with that, Carnegie and Rockefeller wrote extensively about how they love their country. Zuckerberg and these guys, they write extensively about how much they hate their country. And so what's really happening here, and this is something that Republicans have to get really serious about, is that this is not like an anti government movement of the Tea Party. Right? It's not, it's not, it's okay. We have to take a step back and we say what do we control? We don't control the colleges, we don't control academia, we don't control civil service, we don't control the corporations, we don't control media, we don't control Hollywood. Okay, that's horrifying. And so all of that is part of this kind of new woke industrial complex. But the institutions that matter most, the two things that we still have some touch hopefully to is the American family and the American church. Those are the two things. And I'm not going to overly religious the speech, but if you are, if we're not serious about activating the American church, we might as well give up. It's that simple. And there is no institution, there is no group of people left that believe in what we believe in generally as small C conservatives that could possibly help turn this thing around. It's impossible. And so as we look at the landscape, this is where it gets really exciting for us because we're on the right side of history. And if you believe the assessment what I just gave, you might disagree. And I will give credit where credit's due. This is a growing movement of the commentary, thanks to Tucker Carlson and people like him that have been warning about the wealthiest people getting so much richer, not sharing your values and using their resources and their wealth to pummel our country into non existence. And he's really been a pioneer in this regard and he deserves credit for that because he pushed the boundaries and was mocked a couple years ago, if you might remember, when he went after Amazon. And now everyone agrees that Amazon's a garbage company and should be broken up into pieces. And it's destroyed American small business nearly permanently. And that's the other thing. And I was a huge critic against the lockdowns. I think the lockdowns will go down as the worst mistake in American history. No doubt there was no science behind it. Anti liberty, anti freedom, not trusting the city. And we should be unafraid to say that. But the obvious question is never asked why did the lockdowns last so long? And the sloppy answer is, oh, because of the science. Like no, let's go back to what we know. What do we know? That rich people get what they want. That's what we know. Bezos was making an extra $50 billion every quarter that we were locked down. Why? Because we were all ordering stuff on his product service. Because all the small businesses were shut down. Rich people get what they want. So the wealthiest people love the lockdowns. Zuckerberg went from a 65 billion dollar net worth to 135 billion dollars. Net worth doubled. How many small businesses had a year like that last year? Probably not a lot. Small business owners out there, you probably got crushed. And if you survived, God bless you. And we should do more to support the backbone of the small business person in this country. And so the lockdowns were designed for and by the wealthiest people in our country. And I'm all for wealth creation, trust me, I'm a free market guy. But when you create wealth by forcibly shutting down the rest of the country, it's not a market, it's extortion. Like what? I mean, here's a great example. So, and then we do exactly the wrong thing and Republicans just surrender. They're just, they're just absolutely, most of them are absolutely worthless. And so they say, I'm gonna go spend another $1.9 trillion, even though we haven't spent the 1 trillion before it. And so anyone have trouble getting an Uber lately? It's like a new phenomenon in Arizona. It's a huge deal. You want to know why? Because when you send people $1,400 checks, why would anyone want to go drive Uber anymore? So the price of Uber has tripled in the last couple weeks, at least in the Phoenix metro area. It's a really simple. If you subsidize inactivity, you're going to get more of it. Some small businesses say, you know what? It was fun. I'm done. Never doing this again. That is not a good thing for the country. It is not. I'm just gonna be very clear. I'm a free market guy. I am not going to live in a country where we have 10 companies to choose from and they all have each other's back at all times. When Amazon has the servers to kick off parlor to have Twitter's back and Google has the App Store and Apple, that's a really sick state of affairs. It just. And that there's nothing free market, there's nothing capitalist. And guess what? Your Republican lawmakers are terrified to say what I just said. You know why? Because they're funded by those corporations. That's why. Because they celebrate big ribbon cuttings when these. And let me be very clear, and this is. And I. And by the way, what I'm saying is very provocative, intentionally so, because I know it's right. You guys got to stop accepting all these California companies into Dallas. Like, how many more ribbon come. I mean, what do you think? Oh, well, it's going to help with GDP enough. Oh, okay. So property values go up for rich people in Tarrant County. Then you bring in 45,000 communists to go do computer engineering in Dallas. Is that going to make Texas more free? If I have to look at one more social media post of a ribbon cutting with your governor of a tech firm, I'm going to lose it. Like, stop inviting these companies to Texas. Stop it. And people say, well, it creates jobs. Well, first of all, it creates jobs. If you conform to their woke ideology, that's number one. Number two, it's going to destroy your local communities. These people are like locusts. Okay? They don't all of a sudden like, oh yeah, they're going to start wearing cowboy boots and like cowboy hats. Like, no, they're going to come in and all of a sudden in your city council meetings and Your school board meetings, you're having gender pronouns. You're going to have Soul Cycle in every corner, and everyone's going to be vegan, and kale will be everywhere, and it's be awful. Okay. No, seriously. And next thing you know, like, what happened to my Texas? Like, when you were cutting the ribbon for Google to come to Dallas, that's what happened to your Texas. And don't be surprised when all of a sudden you're like, oh, yeah, Texas is a center for free enterprise, and that's great. Instead, why don't you start the next conservative Google here, Governor of Texas, and stop ribbon cutting with whatever that is. And again, I'm intentionally pushing the boundaries here because do you guys feel like Dallas is changing quickly? Of course it is, because you're inviting this entire machine into your wonderful state. Like, oh, we're gonna change them. Yeah, you should try. But these people went to Berkeley. Okay, that's not exactly mines for molding. Okay? And they're earning $600,000 a year to go work for some miserable company that brings in plastic from Wuhan or something like, okay, fine, great. Instead, we should be much more serious about what do we, as conservatives stand for? And what we stand for is strong, functioning, flourishing families, the rule of law. Being able to speak your mind without fear of retribution, be able to own firearms and weapons if we so choose, for our own protection. And God forbid if we ever have to use it, against usurpation, government, or corporate power. God forbid, if that would ever happen. And most importantly, out of all of it, we recognize that we're actually in a theological debate right now. And we believe two things. That there is a God, and you are not him. It's that simple. The tech people that you're bringing in from wherever, Menlo park, don't believe that. They're like, well, it depends what you mean by God. Like, well, I might be him, you know, if I am able to create myself into some Facebook, Oculus wearing whatever that they're trying to do. No, by the way, everything that. That the tech people are doing right now is literally trying to push against the laws of nature. It's very sick, and it's not healthy. And Texas should be like, I read this. It's scripted by the Chamber of Commerce. Who you guys, by the way, they're against all of your values, all of them. And the criticism someone would say is, well, Charlie, you're anti growth, and what about the local jobs and all this? And I think that's fair. The provocative way I would Respond is, I don't care. I think that the cost of always worshiping the dollar and economic growth at every single turn, While we have 52% divorce rates and 75% fatherlessness in the black community and 40,000 drug overdoses a year, maybe we should slow it down a little bit. Like, a little bit. Right. And that's. And this comes to the other part that Republicans are. By the way, if Republicans talked like this, we'd win every election by like 80%. And it's not because it's just. I know this is popular because what I just said right there, most Bernie Sanders people could agree with most of it. And they're the only ones that talk about corporate criticism. Their solution is to nationalize everything. Their solution is to get rid of private property. But there is an anxiety that's growing out there, isn't there? Yeah. Why do. What happened to Harry's coffee shop? Oh, lockdown destroyed him. What happened to John's auto shop? Well, not around anymore. And somehow we just are supposed to accept the fact that, you know, 10 or 15 companies are going to rule everything. Okay. And so then that's really what comes to this, is that. And we're stuck in this false debate is really what I'm trying to say. And I'm. I'm here to just liberate the American debate. And I might be wrong on some of this, but if I got people talking about it, then that's the right thing to do, which is this false debate of like, either we're going to live in Marxist Russia or Somali. Like capitalism is just a false paradigm. We got to shred that apart. Instead, it's. We have to say to the world what we stand for. We want functioning and flourishing families. We want to protect those that cannot protect themselves, especially in the womb. We want to be able. We believe that we should be very clear about our goals. We want church attendance to go up. We want divorce rates to go down. We want more young people to get married younger. We want people to value their children's character more than whatever. You know how many plastic packages you're getting every single year from Amazon? And I'm just submitting a modest critique of commercial society. I think commercial society can be very healthy, obviously, because you have innovations and products. But we've been in this kind of very strange corporate's prism, and it's time to break out of it. And so what we're really in right now is a values debate in our country, and that's one that we're going to win if we're unafraid to articulate it. But this is where you come in and you have to demand this out of your leaders and your leaders and your Republican leaders because they're mostly funded by the corporate types. They're afraid to talk like this. They are afraid that all of a sudden the chamber of commerce is not going to endorse or whatever it is, right? But this agenda, Most Americans are looking for a political party to be able to articulate this. And the other side is giving us a gift. The other side is literally saying it's the most bigoted ideology imaginable. Critical race theory, race. Somehow race is like the most important thing. I'm actually of the belief most people don't walk around every day just thinking about race. Nor is that a healthy thing for our country. Like, oh, this, I'm a white. That's what bigots do, okay? I don't care about your race, care about your character, okay? I care about who you are as a person, not what you look like. At least that's how I was raised. And what we should tell every one of our young people, instead we're telling them the opposite. We're 8 year old. They're saying, you know, your race really matters a lot. Oh, really? What kind of 15 year old, what kind of 30 year old do you think that's going to lead to? Probably a really dysfunctional society, which is exactly what they want. They want the collision, they want the conflict, they want people to be torn apart. They do not want to look at people's humanity, they want to look at people's melanin content, which is inherently a bigoted way to view the world. I actually think that's super unpopular. I think that as it reveals itself, it's going to give all of us an opportunity to articulate exactly what we're for and with it the Republican Party. And when we're given that chance again, if we're just the anti socialism party, it's not going to do it. But if we're the party that's like, you know what? Small businesses should have been the massive recipients of any sort of public policy decision over the last year. Not corporate America. And we should be unafraid to say that it's not a good thing when the wealthiest people are $600 billion richer. That's not a good thing for the country. And so I want to get to some questions. It's a really important conversation to have. And I just want to say one or two other things on this, which Is you guys matter more than you might think. So one of the biggest lies ever told by the enemy whispering in your ear is that your action, your voice does not matter. Let me be very clear. If every person in this room did one point of unified action a week, it would blow away a lawmaker, elected official, whatever employee, whatever grants you. Tell me what the right word is. Okay, employee of the citizens. How about that? Okay, great. It would blow them away. You have more power than you might think. And this lie of apathy that I'm trying to push back against, lovingly, that I. Charlie, what can I actually do? Does it actually matter? Stop it. All of it matters. Your activism matters more than ever. And the fact that we're able to draw 200 plus people when things look as, you know, bleak, as they do right now is awesome. And that should be the starting point. And it goes the full gauntlet from how you educate your kids to contacting lawmakers, to being unafraid to voice your opinions, all those sorts of things. And then before you realize it starts to multiply into further action from people. And this is something the left has been phenomenally good at, is they've actually believed more than us that their action makes a difference. Go figure. They've believed it and they've been very, very dedicated at what success looks like. And they've taken the education of our children very seriously. We generally haven't. We've kind of been just kind of indifferent. I can give a whole spiel on college. Happy to, if you guys are interested in that, because it's a whole different part of this. But you guys matter more than you might think. And so for every person out there creating a specific action plan of, you know what? I am going to knock on doors. I am going to support this great organization. I am going to run for local office. The precinct committee people. You know that half of precinct committee positions are empty in the Republican Party nationwide. Empty, half empty. Now what? You might not know what a precinct committee position is, just you're in charge of getting your neighborhood out to vote. When it comes to election day, that's it. It's usually three or four blocks at most. It could be as low as one block, as big as 10 blocks. And you get materials from your local county party because you guys have a great Dallas county party that I know, and I know some people that help run that. And you get your materials and you go knock on the doors and you say, you know what? I know these people are going to go vote and you're responsible for that. What if every person here went and signed up to be a precinct committee person? It's not a lot of work. It's the minimum amount. So before we say we've exhausted all options, Charlie, really, Half of precinct committee positions nationwide in the Republican Party are vacant. Democrats have 80% full. So they just want it more than us. And now they also have the teacher unions and local labor. So it kind of. That helps. But that's a really easy action step. You say, well, how do I do that? I guarantee you there's people here that can help you sign up for precinct committee positions. Right, Guarantee it. But I'm going to be very honest with you. Being a precinct committee person is hard in one sense. You're gonna have to talk to your neighbors about politics. It's tough. I know. Like, Charlie, I'm on board for everything except that. Like, okay, but the Democrats are unafraid to go wear four masks with a BLM Incorporated sign and knock on your door and say, you know, they do that with bold conviction and the one thing. And they harvest ballots and all that. And I will tell you one other piece of advice. The fear that you have in your head of the potential retribution and backlash, the fear is far. It's actually not even close to actually how good those conversations can go. And so dismiss that fear in that sense. And so I want to do some questions. This is a very exciting time because there's a new energy that's all of a sudden flowing through the conservative movement, and we owe Trump a lot of thanks to that. We're having real discussions about real things. Finally, as we just talked about here, where it's not just vote for us because we're not the other side. And by the way, that could have been my speech tonight. When I go to college campuses, that's mostly what I focus on, because you have to deprogram these people from all the nonsense, garbage that they're critical race theory and everything's racist, and climate change is getting on the earth and the planet. Okay, got it. We could talk about that if you want to, but you're already converted. So I don't have to tell you how bad the left is. Instead, I'm here to tell you how bad the right is. And that's a harder conversation sometimes to have, but a more necessary one. And if we have that specific pro family, pro person agenda, I'm telling you right now, you win every single election in a landslide. And then you say, you know what? I have guiding principles, but I have priorities. And I'm going to put my priorities first. When I see those priorities start to be challenged, then I'm going to put those always first, including the nation, our home, our family, and of course, our rights as human beings. And so I'm thrilled to be in this right now, because if we do what we're supposed to do, we're not just going to win a little bit. We're going to win huge, massive, by 70 to 80%. Now, we could screw it up, because Republicans are experts at that, like, phenomenal. Like, we actually specialize in messing things up. And I could give you 50 different ways that we could screw this up. But if we don't massively screw it up, we're going to win the midterms decisively. And this agenda will be a forefront agenda, and the Democrats won't know how to counter it. And I think that it's a really. It's a really phenomenal opportunity for all of us. Okay, you want to do some questions, Carol? Is that okay? Okay, great.