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Thank you for listening to this Podcast 1 production now available on Apple Podcasts, Podcast 1, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
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I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
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I want to thank Charlie.
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He's an incredible guy.
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His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa.
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We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed 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, guys. Honored to be here. Please sit down. I see some Cubs jerseys in the back. So good to be from Chicago, not in Chicago. We'll get into that throughout the speech. I want to thank Brock, Madison, Rachel and Holly for planning this event. South Dakota College Republicans, thank you. And I hope that I'll be able to convey more wisdom than most college classes will teach you nowadays. So we're gonna have a fun time together. It's an honor to be in South Dakota. I'm originally from Illinois. Our office is in Phoenix, Arizona, at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action. And it's hard for me not to travel. I travel typically when things are normal, whatever on earth that means now 350 days a year. So I basically perpetually travel. And for the first time since high school, I was basically locked down in Arizona for, I think, 10 weeks without traveling. That was a very bizarre experience. But throughout the entire lockdown, I kept looking to South Dakota. I was like, why could I not live in South Dakota during all of this? And. Right. And I want to talk about a lot tonight, but leadership is a very hard thing. Leadership means you're going to endure criticism. Leadership means you have to put forth a vision. Means you have to be able to read people correctly and organize them effectively. Leadership means you're going to do what's right, even though you know there's going to be a backlash, the likes of which you couldn't expect. And you have a leader as a governor of South Dakota, and you should be very proud of that because she did the right thing. And I could tell you she's been proven correct throughout this entire circus of locking down our entire country. And I visited some of these lockdown places, and it doesn't. When you lock down a society. And for those of you that have been here in South Dakota, I'm sure you had various degrees of this, but nothing even close to being even. I was just in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and I felt like it was something out of Chernobyl. Everyone's wearing. Four year olds are wearing masks and no one's happy and they're all angry at each other. And the stores are only open two hours a day and they're closing things down. And they tested 1,200 people in Teton County. They couldn't find one case of the Chinese coronavirus. And that's right, I do call it the Chinese coronavirus. So thank you very much. So I think that if you call it Ebola and you call it all these other things, the place of origination, I think it's only fair to label what closed down our society the last four or five months. So. But leadership is hard. And your governor, Kristi Noem, and I consider her a friend and I always considered her to be courageous. But what she did, to just say, look, the data is not there to lock down my state. I trust my citizens that if they want to stay at home, they have the liberty and freedom to do so. We are going to protect and help people that need the help, that want to stay at home. Call your church, call your local government. We'll supply you if there's something that you need. But I'm not going to use the power of the state, basically threaten to arrest you at gunpoint if you dare leave your home to go to church. Like, it's just not that hard of a concept to understand. And even some of these neighboring states to South Dakota, they were just so afraid that the media was going to call them bad names. And South Dakota really was the only state in the country that did not offer a draconian shelter in place order. And there are some other states that say they didn't do it. This revisionist history just makes me so sick. I was just in Wyoming and I had to hear from, let's just say, other governors, let's just put it that way, not going to say any names. And they're like, yeah, we didn't shut down. I'm like, only Kristi Noem could say that and South Dakota could say that. So. But look, here's the very important thing that we have to recognize when it comes to leadership, when it comes to leadership, you have to make a vision, convince your citizenry, hopefully. And as you are putting forth the decisions that you are trying to make and the entire mainstream press comes after you, the entire national media comes after you, what does Kristi Noem do? She stands Strong. And I say to the entire Republican Party that's just perpetually afraid that the media is going to call them bad names. I say, kristi Noem. Boy, I have to be a little bit. I know we're live streaming, so I'm going to say this as nicely as I possibly can. She. She has more of a backbone, let's put it that way. Okay? Let's use that attribute. Okay? You guys can fill in the rest, right? Let your creativity run wild. I always try to make things pg, but, boy, do I want to just be able. Anyway, she has more of a spine than the entire Republican Party combined. Because the fact that we are supposed to shut down our entire society, especially in a state like South Dakota where you're basically already socially distanced, let's just be honest, okay? Everyone lives within, like, a couple hundred acres of the next person, okay? And I love South Dakota, by the way. The state's awesome. Like, no income tax. You all love liberty. Everyone owns firearms. Like, a MAGA hat's considered, like, a good thing in South Dakota. It's amazing, right? So. And the fact that this state was supposed to abide by what every other authoritarian maniac was doing, I just think is a. Is. It was. First of all, in this beautiful state where you have Mount Rushmore and you have the champions of freedom and you have the champions of liberty so beautifully positioned, you know, just 30 minutes south of here, I think it'd be a disservice and it would be a moral outrage to shut down this state when we have so many people that sacrificed for our freedom and liberty. And let's just talk about this, because now they're trying to shut down the country again. And you see Republican governors that are going along with it. And so I'm a data guy, I'm a science guy. I love statistics. First of all, they say, well, there's a record new amount of cases. Well, why is that? Well, you can't walk into a hospital now without being mandatory tested. You can't. And so for all the elective surgeries, for all the visits and the doctor's visits that were postponed during the lockdown, all of a sudden they're all being rescheduled. So you walk into any doctor's office with symptoms or without symptoms, and they're testing you, right? So they're testing you. And by definition, when you increase the testing pool, you're going to have more people that are testing positive. But they're not telling you that in every single state except Arizona, which for its own Reasons is an outlier. Deaths are going down, intensive hospitalizations are going down. The media says, well, the ICUs are totally packed. Well, they're totally packed because people are going to the ICUs now for what they call elective surgeries for the first time in a long time. And so you add this kind of nuance, you're like, oh, well, I didn't think of it that way. Well, maybe you should start thinking in general when you start to make very important public policy decisions. And look, I'm not minimizing and saying the virus is nothing and you shouldn't take it seriously, but for a country that was founded on this frontier mindset, that this state in particular was founded in negative 30 degree weather, right, homesteading, I think that we can handle a virus. Like, I think that's probably pretty fair. And when you have freedom, this is a very important thing. We do not communicate to young people. It's fun to say freedom, right? Like, yeah, freedom and liberty. You could do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it. It's impossible to have freedom if you don't have responsibility. It's impossible. So, for example, if you think you could just have limitless freedom and do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it and not take responsibility for your actions, that's what petulant children do, right? And by the way, this is the infantilization of our country that's happening in real time, right? The left wants the entire country to become like a daycare that they take care of us all the time. Seriously, seriously, you can leave here, you can't leave there. Just look to us. Nanny state's going to take care of you all the time, right? Where I actually want to live in a mature society, I want to live in a society that trusts us with firearms, that trusts you to be able to make informed decisions, to say, you know what, if you want to go to church on Easter Sunday, you can go to church on Easter Sunday. And we are not going to lock you down to prevent you to go to church on Easter Sunday. And then to add insult to injury to this entire thing, they lock down all of America. And then you. And I'm going to get very, very into this throughout the speech. But you have like half a million people that storm the streets, some of which are not wearing masks, most of which aren't wearing masks, not socially distanced because of the protests for they call it racial injustice. And I'll get into it. But fine. People should have the right to express their own First Amendment, I'm completely supportive of that. But I was like, I thought we're locking down the country. Like, I thought that was a thing, right? I mean, you guys sent out armed militias to prevent us when we were trying to protest the lockdowns all across the country. And you have 200,000 people in Brooklyn, New York, or 150,000 people in Philadelphia or 100,000 people in Los Angeles. And all of a sudden we're supposed to just say, oh, it's okay, because they're protesting something good. This is the wokest virus I've ever seen in my life. Apparently it doesn't infect you if you're protesting racial injustice. Like, it's, it's very strange. And then they're like, well, I wonder why the cases are increasing again. Testing is one of the reasons. But maybe it was the hundred thousand people that were in the streets on Memorial Day weekend, protesting without a mask, right up against each other. And the media's like, oh, well. And then you have 1400 health professionals that are saying, well, it's okay to go protest. I kid you not, this is a real thing. They say you can go protest in the streets because the threat of white supremacy is greater than COVID 19. So I was like, okay, if you could find a cause great enough, I guess the virus stops mattering or something. It's very strange. And so that's why I respect your governor here in South Dakota. Because leadership is by definition being a contrarian if you're going along with the flow, especially the flow of the left wing, collectivist, in my opinion, anti American narrative that is stemming all across this country to dare say you disagree with that. They are going to try to destroy your life. It's that simple. And Governor Kristi Noem could have done what every other governor did. She could have said, that's right, don't call me bad names. We're going to kind of sort of lock down the state. And these other neighboring governors are trying to make it seem like that's what they did. Like you're the only state that stood up against the mob, that stood up against the swarm. And you said, I actually trust my citizens. I trust the 800,000 people in the state of South Dakota. That's what a mature society does. By the way, when you have freedom, you also have responsibility. So we should give it up for Kristi Noem, because you guys are so blessed with a terrific governor. It's incredible. And. Now she's being proven correct. And people are, that's the other Thing that the Republican Party has to learn is that leadership will be rewarded, that it's really hard when you're going through the thick of it. But people need leaders now more than ever. We do not need more people that do the Democrat light thing, right? They're like, well, we can sort of shut down our state and, you know, I guess we can give less free stuff than the Democrats. And what I think the American people are actually looking for right now, as evidenced by your governor and evidenced by the few truth tellers that are out there, is that we don't want, like, a nicer, more moderate form of Chuck Schumer. Like, that's not what we're looking for. Right. We want something that actually re. Embraces the founding commitment to our country, that defends our citizens, that does not allow the icons of our founding, like George Washington, to be torn down violently. Like, we want a government that's going to protect our history. We want a government that's going to teach it correctly to the next generation. And I get the feeling, and I'm incredibly vocal lately about this, is that you like it or not, the Republican Party has completely squandered this opportunity in the last couple of weeks. They just have. And South Dakota is probably one of the most Republican states in the country, one of the most conservative states. And so why you guys do not have national leadership screaming at the top of their lungs on the floor of the US Senate or the US Congress while our statues are being torn down, while they're threatening to take down Mount Rushmore. I just. I don't understand it. It's just. I mean, it'd be one thing if, like, oh, I'm worried about losing reelection. Like, you represent South Dakota. Okay. I know that Kristi nola's in a tough governor's race, but it's probably pretty fair to say that you're going to keep on electing the incumbent Republican. In fact, I think you'll win by more. In fact, if. I think if you come out and you say, if any Democrat wants to see what happens when you try to take down Mount Rushmore, you're going to be met with, let's just say, a lot of angry South Dakotans that. Let's just say they love their Second Amendment. Right. By the way, we need a renewal of courage in our country. Again, it's very hard to find, though. And this is why. And again, they're tearing this stuff down. The left destroys everything they touch. If there's one thing, it's probably one of the more Dark things to remember from my speech. But if it's only one thing to remember, it's the left. They destroy everything they touch. They've never built anything. Okay? They're metaphorical locusts, let's put it that way. Right. No, seriously, they destroyed Hollywood. They destroy our movies. They destroy our school system. They're destroying the National Basketball Association. They're destroying the National Football League. They're destroying the Boy Scouts. I'm an Eagle Scout. They have girls and Boy Scouts, and they have all the strange new things about social justice and, you know, racial diversity. And I'm like, I remember when the Boy Scouts were like, actually about developing strong men because our country needs strong men. Like, what an incredible, you know, topic that we actually need strong men and strong women. And I think the hyper feminization of America has been one of the downfalls of our country because you actually need that balance. And it talks about that in the Bible, that it becomes one flesh, that there's attributes of the feminine and the masculine that are needed. And society is no different, by the way. And a society that gets too masculine also is not good either. Don't get me wrong, you get strong men, authoritarians, and no checks and balances, but a society that totally discounts the role of the masculine. That's why you have 77% of black children being born without a stable father in the home. And that's when you start to see the entire family structure decay. So in the last couple weeks, for those of you that follow, might follow my social media or not, and thank you for those of you that you do, I have been more vocal than ever. And for whatever bizarre identity politic reason the left believes, and this is a postmodernist reason, and I'll dive into this, they think that if you are not the right skin color, you are not allowed to comment on issues. That's their new thing. So they've told me to shut down. Literally. I've had people in the media to say, charlie, just shut up and listen. So I've been louder than ever because I don't take to that crap. Like, I don't do that. So, I mean, truth is truth, regardless of skin color. One of the crowning achievements of our country was when Martin Luther King said we should judge people on character, not color of their skin. Like, I completely agree. That's a biblical concept. That is a Western society concept. And it took us a long time to actually achieve it and fulfill it. Now we have a very strange and dangerous and malevolent and pernicious digression where we're now judging people on the color of their skin, not on the contents of their character, where you have people that are going around and being forced to take a knee because of the color of their skin. And so let's talk about this because a lot of young people in schools all across the country are now experiencing this. And they say, well, Charlie, you have to go apologize for the institutional racism that your skin color, you know, embodies first. Like, first of all, you don't know my family's history, and I'd be happy to educate you on that. Second of all, since when do we have like 12th century feudal blood guilt? Like, since when is that the way we run our country? I'm a completely separate entity than my father and then my grandfather. I am related. They brought me into the world. But I can make my own decisions. I can make my own choices. In fact, the Christian ethic is the one that built our society where it's like, your father cannot atone for your sins. You must have an individual relationship with Christ. And we take this for granted a lot. But it was the Bible that actually taught us that every single individual was what made in the image of God. That it's not your tribe, it's not where you were born, it's not your last name. It's actually, you have to find your own surrendering personal salvation through Jesus Christ. And no matter how good of a person your mother is, she can't save you for you. She can try to guide you in that direction. She can try to instruct you. And so we built an entire society around this idea, around the sovereignty of the individual. That you matter. That you matter, that you matter. But you must have your own personal connection with the Almighty. It didn't work that way a thousand years ago. The way they used to punish people because they only lived till they were like 35, was like, if you did something bad, they're going to banish your next five generations out to the hills. Seriously. They did blood guilt punishment. Whereas, like, if you did something bad, your children's children and your children's children's children will live in the outskirts and will be peasants forever, basically. Right? That was the way that they used to punish people. Like, oh, no, please do anything to me, but don't do that to my kids. And that's a pretty bad thing, right? I mean, could you think of something more evil because you're by definition then punishing an innocent, right? And so Western society, and this is where we get Common law from. Derived from the Bible is like, that's not fair at all. Like, punish the person as severely as you need to, but don't punish the kids. And we all accept this, right? Like, this is something that is so obvious to us. We call that what those two words, common sense, right? And that's why Trump won. It's because he was saying things that are within our spirit. It's within our nomenclature. It's in our story. So when we say those two words, common sense, we just kind of dismiss it. Right? But common sense isn't that common now at all. In fact, it's like rare sense. In fact, if you dare say something like this, they call you the worst things that you can call someone. They say that you're a racist, you're a bigot, you're a homophobe. So let's be perfectly clear. No person should be judged on what their father or their grandfather does. Period. End of story. No mature or advanced society should ever build anything around that. With that being said, people say, well, Charlie, don't you understand that white individuals have benefited tremendously out of the systems that were built completely for them? Now, if that was true, let's just take that argument and just defeat it. Because lies need to be defeated early and often so they don't spread into widely held public opinion. This is one of the big things. The big issues I have with the Republican Party is like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna allow my colleagues to call our country an awful place. And eventually, you know, people won't believe it. Next thing you know, 62% of young people think America's an awful place. That's what happens when you don't speak out and you don't defeat the lie. So they say this. Well, the country was built. Built for you, for white people. Okay, fine. First of all, no, but let's. Let's look at the data. If that was true, why is it that the average White family earns $72,000 per year annual income, and the average Indian American family earns $123,000 per year income? Average Taiwanese individual, 118,000, and all the way down. So was the Constitution written in Hindi or written in Korean? Like, maybe it's not the color of your skin, maybe it's the choices that you make. Maybe it's the ultimate privilege. In our country, the number one correlation is whether or not you were raised by a mother and a father. That is it. If you were raised by a mother and father in the home, you have a higher likelihood to succeed than almost any other guiding metric. Now, with that being said, single mothers do a phenomenal job in our country, and they should be rewarded as such. But the nuclear family that is prescribed in the Bible has been defended over the last 2,000 years, still to this day creates a socioeconomic safety net that more than likely will create a country that is really what Tucker Carlson calls. And it's brilliant, a colorblind meritocracy where I don't care about the color of your skin, work hard, play by the rules, and have good character. To succeed in America, you need to do three things. And the fourth is pretty obvious. But the three things that are not so they should be obvious. Graduate from high school, get married before you have kids, and get a job, any job. The fourth thing is don't commit crimes that shouldn't be that big. That one's for, like don't. Like, don't burn down your neighborhood. Like, you know, don't go steal a 72 inch screen TV and say you're doing that because you're remembering George Floyd. Like, no, you're a criminal. Okay? Like I just. Because you got. Oh, yeah, everything's on sale. Like, it's not a sale. You're stealing it. Okay? You're a, you're a thief. Okay, well, yeah, nothing says remembering the legacy of George Floyd like pillaging, you know, the Gucci store. Like, okay, yeah, that's, it's. And then people are trying to justify it on television. But here's a very interesting statistic. A black individual in America who's raised by a mother and a father is far more likely to succeed than a white individual raised by just a single mother. And I find a lot of just, I just find it so repulsive that we are engaging in these kind of. Well, this skin color, therefore gives you by definition, a higher likelihood to succeed. And having actually driven through Appalachia, which is 98% white, and having to look at opioid clinics that do not have the capacity to service white America, having driven through rural America and understanding how we just shipped our manufacturing jobs overseas, which overwhelmingly impacted the white working class, I think it's very fair to say that it's more than fair to say that if we just continue this balkanization of what group is the most oppressed in the country that is so anti western, it's anti America. And so their whole argument is, well, Charlie, what would you attribute then to. For why black America is not doing very well? Because I think it's fair to say that it's More than fair to say. The statistics show that. And first of all, if we are such a racist country, why is it that 2 million people voluntarily have immigrated from Africa since the 1980s? So why is it that more people have voluntarily came from Africa since the 1980s than came here as slaves? If you were such a racist country, who on earth would do that? Right? I mean, like. Right. Like, why would anybody do that? It's just counterintuitive. Like, I wouldn't want to go that country. Right. Like, don't. Don't actually know. It's actually, we're a very decent country. They say we're systemically racist. I think systemic. Systemically decent. I think that most interactions that people have of individuals that look different than them, I actually think they're rather congenial, mutually respect. I think that actually it's hard to find the indecency. I think you have to look for it. I think you actually have to create it. I mean, you have to find a garage door opener that you think's a noose. You have to. You have to make up some sort of crazy story in downtown Chicago where you said that two people wearing MAGA hats in negative 10 degree weather said, this is MAGA country and they threw a noose over you. And by the way, that Jussie Smollett thing is one of my favorite stories to talk about because it was just so fraudulent. I knew it was nonsense because I've lived in Chicago almost my whole life. Go Cubs. And as soon as I heard the story, I was like, two people in negative 10 degree weather. First of all, you guys know what negative 10 degree weather actually is, okay? I say this story in California, they think it's cold. Like, no, it's like hell, okay? It's not cold, okay? It's completely different. And so they say, oh, well, I was like, first of all, I've never seen anyone wear a MAGA hat in Chicago, okay? First of all, let alone in negative 10 degree weather hunting down Jussie Smollett at 1:30 in the morning. And as soon I knew it was a hoax, as soon as I saw the police video where they walk into his apartment, right? And Jussie's there, he's crying, he's got the whole melodrama, right? And he still has the noose on him, right? Like, who does that? And so then the first thing, the police officer is like, why don't you take the noose off? So. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry. So, like, that's like, probably someone's about to Kill you. Right. Like, that would probably be the first instinct to take the Noosa anyway. So then also hate crime hoax 101, do not hire black Nigerian brothers if you're trying to pull off a racist hate crime in the downtown Chicago, like, probably. And then also don't write a check. Like that would be a bad idea, you know? Right. Like, don't write like mugging supplies. Right. No, it's what he did. And finally he's being held accountable for that. But our country is such a decent country, we like, in order to try to prove the point, they have to conjure this stuff up. And I'm not saying that there aren't real incidents of this. I'm not saying that. But when you start to look at the. The incidents that are just created and conjecture and concocted, it does beg the question, why do they do that? They do that because you get a special currency and you get treated differently if all of a sudden you're a victim. And all of a sudden they like, desire the victimization. It's like, I'm going to be. I'm going to be glorified and glamorized if I get that kind of Oppression Olympics medal. And we're a country of victors, not victims. We're a country that overcomes adversity, not one that wants to just overly focus. And just in some ways, I think it's incredibly dangerous to do this and try to build an entire society of who's the most oppressed victim group. And I'm not saying that certain people have not gone through hardship, but if I went through this room right now and I ask people what they're going through that they might not publicly proclaim. It's incredible the amount of suffering that is in life. In fact, I think that's one of the most agreed upon universal principles. And it's a Christian one and it is also a Buddhist one. But life is suffering. Like, it's really a hard place. And if we all of a sudden start to get to become a society where you should be rewarded more because awful things have happened to you, I think that's. That is how you start to have a gateway to Marxism and socialism in a very, very dangerous way. And so to kind of put a whole kind of button on this is that. I call the movement BLM, by the way. First of all, I know BLM's not very, you know, favored out in the American west. So I think that's probably. But I call it BLM Inc. And I say this for a Couple reasons, because the statement, they're very good at messaging Black lives matter. And they do matter. All lives matter. And by the way, you should all be unafraid to say all lives matter. The fact that this has become like hate speech, all lives matter. It's a biblical concept. It's American concept. I say it all the time. You guys should say it. It's just. There's nothing wrong with it. And so. But the statement is 100% true. But the organization and the movement is malevolent and Marxist and trying to deconstruct our countries. That's why I call it blm, because I'm just trying to distinguish the two because I don't want ever to be my words chopped up or to hear as if I'm dismissing the statement, which is of course true. And the way they message it is 100% intentional. They try to have that kind of mix up happen. But blm, if you read the website, I encourage all of you to do this. Their mission statement, one of the first things like, oh, wow, that's really interesting, is to disrupt and destroy the western prescribed nuclear family. Like, that's their opening shot. Like, wow, okay, that's the organization that hundreds of millions of dollars has flowed to abolish prisons. That's not a good idea. Abolish police. You've heard that one, right? Defund police. By the way, I just, it's just so, it's just so predictable, right? So the Minneapolis City Council, I don't know if you guys seen this video in the last couple days. You know, they're granting and they're raving, defund the police. Get them out of our communities. And yet they are paying $4,600 a day for private security. Right? Because they're so worried about the threats against them. And so it's a wonderful socialist mindset. It's very French Revolution esque. Like, we're gonna be the ones that pioneer the revolution. We'll get the spoils, we'll get the treatment. We're gonna protect ourselves. But you guys, not so much. And then we're just gonna keep on causing problems in your communities to keep us in power. The left is always in a relentless pursuit of perpetual power. If you understand the left, you understand that all they care about is nonstop dominant political power. And so the Minneapolis City Council, they're trying to defund the police. So let's just talk about police in our country because they get such a bad rap. And of course there's bad cops, there's bad everything by the way people say, oh, the police are so rotten. Show me one institution that's not rotten. I can show you a church that's rotten. I could show you a food bank where someone's probably stealing something, right? There is not anything that involves human beings that by definition you're not going to find certain people that are self interested, greedy, sinful and are going to give a bad name to that institution. It's impossible. And if you think otherwise, then you believe in an incredibly flawed view of human nature where you think human beings are naturally good. And that's a rossoian view of human beings. And I can get into that later if anyone's interested in the deeper philosophy of it. So they, by definition, they think, well, we can get rid of police, people's lives are going to improve. And it's just like, well, hold on a second. Like, let's. That's absurd. And in fact, it's so absurd, someone from a university had to come up with this idea, right? Like, there's no way that anyone. That was not. No, seriously. And I mean that, because you have to be spending 16 to 18 hours a day in a university, not living in the world to come up with something as absurd, nonsensical and honestly immoral as that, right? It sounds like someone who lives in New Haven, Connecticut and teaches at Yale and has private security and comes up, I wonder what the world would look like without police. Like, you need to just teach Aristotle and just stop teaching, right? Like, stop trying to act like you're the smartest person in the world because you're not, right? And so, but here, like, so we have an example of this though, right? So the insurrectionists, that's what I call them, they created a new country in our country, 156 country, Chaz or chop or whatever they call it, right? And they took over seven city blocks in downtown Seattle. So at Turning Point USA, we're on 2000 high school and college campuses across the country. We play offense, we're very, very aggressive because we do it with a sense of urgency because we feel like we're losing our country. If you feel like you're losing your country, we agree with you and we're trying to do something about it. And so thank you. I completely agree. And so we sent our video team into Chaz or Chop or whatever they call it, right? And the videos have gone viral. You guys can check it out and you guys have probably seen it. I mean, the drug usage, the feces, you know, all this sort of stuff. It's Very typical left wing governance. What's so interesting though, is if. If the no police thing works so well, and this is tragic, I mean, we can laugh at it and kind of we should, but two teenagers have died in CHOP in the last two weeks. And so they just took it over finally. Like, what a concept. And by the way, the only reason they've disassembled this new sovereign country is because they just started to protest the mayor's house. If you actually follow the story is that the leader was like, these people are the worst. Like, no, you were calling it the Summer of Love three weeks ago. Seriously, she was calling it the summer. It's like the summer of blood, okay? Not the summer of Love. And so two teenagers die and Chop or Chaz or whatever. But if getting rid of police gets rid of all the sin, then it should have just been this wonderful place, right? It should have been harmonious. Everyone should have been getting together. But no, you get rid of police, thugs are going to take over. And it's either you believe that hierarchies exist or you don't. And these people for whatever. I mean, just again, you have to spend time. You have to get like a doctorate from Brown to believe this, because no, real. That's why I love South Dakota. You guys actually live in the real world. You act in the real world. You have real communities and churches, and it's just incredible. And you go out East. Everyone has gone to some prestigious eastern, you know, east coast school where they live in a utopia, which means nowhere. And they think that they can socially engineer and design the country, when in reality, of course, they can't. And so Seattle's a great example of this. But if black lives matter to blm, why that? Why on earth are they not outside every single abortion clinic across the country? First of all. Okay, so let's just talk about this. So I'm very vocal on abortion. I think it's one of the most unspeakable tragedies in our country. I believe life begins at conception. I think that we in the, in the pro life movement need to do a better job of consoling and being compassionate individuals that have had abortions and not. And not be condemning and not be accusatory. I think that's a huge mistake. So I want to preface it by saying it. But I think that we have to understand that life does begin at conception. Life in the womb should be equally protected under the law, and that a million abortions a year, which is what we have every single year, is A moral outrage. It just is pure and simple. It's just a moral outreach. And so happy to get into the science and the morality of all of it. However. So let's just look at who actually is getting the most abortions in the country per percentage of population. So we have a million abortions a year, which is outrageous. The abortion rate in the black community in the city of New York is greater than the birth rate. So if you see a pregnant black woman in the city of New York, she's more likely going to Planned Parenthood than to Manhattan General to have the child. Like that's. They always said, by the way, the left always said this would never happen. They said that it would be rare. And you know, was it cheap? Rare. And I could never get the three words right. Anyway, they say that it would. It would be very rare and not be widespread. That's of course not the case. It's now become a form of birth control, which is just unspeakable. So 450,000 of those million abortions a year are black individuals. But let's talk about how actual, how this is actually how outrageous this is. So black people make up about 13 to 14% of the American population. The new census numbers will come out, and I guarantee you that the census numbers will be just about the same portion of the population, because the black birth rate just basically has remained the same since the 1960s because of abortion. Right. So 13 to 14% of our country is African American or black. So about half of that are female. About half of that are infant bearing age. So 3% of our entire national population accounts for 47% of all the abortions. And so if you wanted to stop a birth rate from increasing, if you want, my goodness, you should be like the biggest Planned Parenthood advocate across the country. And by the way, if black lives mattered to BLM, wouldn't they be in Chicago where over 120 people were shot and in just the last couple weeks? And two teenagers, two black teenagers were gunned down in a convenience store because they asked another black individual, hey, how tall are you? Kills them both. Kid you not happened in Chicago last weekend. You probably don't know their names. I have their names in here, but we don't know their names because those particular deaths do not fit the narrative that BLM wants to accomplish. Right. And so I said from the first time I saw the video to the ninth, to the hundredth time I saw the video, that it's inexcusable what Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd, and he should be held criminally accountable. And yet the media said, we're divided over this. I have never met a human being. And maybe you guys have that defended what Derek Chauvin did. In fact, I don't think we weren't divided. We were actually more united around that video than ever before. And yet they used a very emotional video to fit into a narrative that simply does not exist. And then they tried. Then they're extending this into the most outrageous things imaginable, one of which is the 1619 Project. Right, the 1619 Project. Anyone know what this is? They're probably teaching your kids this. Unless you're homeschooling. By the way, God bless homeschoolers. We have to double our homeschooling population in the next five years. Like one of the most important things. Big fan of homeschooling. So one of the. And by the way, some conservatives are repeating this on television and they get some very strongly worded emails from me afterwards. And one of the lies of the 1619 Project is that America's actually 400 years old, right? That our birthday is not July 4th. It's either in February, April, or whatever the date actually might be. Whatever it is, August in 1619, when the first slaves arrived to America, this is their argument. And so I see a lot of conservatives all of a sudden saying, yeah, we're 400 years old. Like, you have no idea about American history. So let's walk through it. We were under British colonial rule. We did not invent slavery. Slavery is one of the sickest sins that a human being can do in the eyes of God. Let me make that perfectly clear. It's outrageous. Anyone who participates in it should be held criminally accountable here, domestically, internationally, and also before the eyes of God. I can't think of. I can think of maybe something even more evil than that. But it's probably one of the most evil things a human being could possibly do, which is enslave another sovereign, innocent life. It's been around on Earth for 5,000 years. It's an uncomfortable conversation to have. But everyone from the times of Jesus Christ, there were still slaves that walked the earth. To the prophet in the faith of Islam, he owned slaves like Muhammad owned slaves. And that's a different conversation for a different time. But how the media just conveniently does not mention that, I think is incredibly hypocritical. Anyway, so. But then we were under British colonial rule and there were a lot of freedom seeking religious individuals that came to our country from Scotland and from Ireland. And they founded the United States through 13 pseudo religious colonies, right? And we did not invent slavery. And in fact, there was already tension in the early 1700s around, is slavery really biblical? And you go to, you could go to early writings of who ended up being the founding fathers of the country that were kind of challenging it. And so then what happened in 1774, you have the conflict between Britain and the colonies really start to come to a head. And in 1776, we wrote our birth certificate. This is what we celebrate this coming weekend. By the way. This is not just like a date on the calendar where you, you know, grill hot dogs and get really drunk and watch fireworks, right? This is, this is a time in history where everything changed. And the left will never teach our children this. And this is why we celebrate, and we, we, we, we do celebrate our country. I shouldn't diminish it, but we should really understand why this date is special because this was when we put an absolute turn in the ground, a pivot away from all of human history. And you read the birth certificate of the United States, it says so clearly that when in the course of human events, it comes time to dissolve ties like, whoa, the, this is a rebellion, folks. Like, we don't believe in what you're doing anymore. And that wasn't just we don't believe in your taxes, because that's the cheap way of describing it, right? It was the authoritarian boot on the neck of the freedom loving Americans. And then you see it so clearly in the laws of nature and nature's God. So it was the recognition that we have natural rights that are given to us by God. Now the 1619 Project and the radical leftists, they'll never teach our children this. But in 1777, a year after that was sent off to King George and the heroes of our country, Hancock, Jefferson, they basically signed what should have been a death certificate, like, come and find me and kill me and hang me in front of my farm and burn everything down. That's how much they were committed to the cause of liberty. Like, we have no comprehension of that, right? And so, so then in 1777, the first sovereign state, Vermont, abolishes slavery. Whoa. So one year after the declaration, we abolished slavery. So 1776 is the founding of our country, which inspired the abolition of slavery, not 1619, which was British colonial rule that embraced it and tried to push it on the throats of the American people. We were rebelling against these sinister practices. Now, mind you, in the Constitution that was ratified in the late 1780s, and it went back and forth. We set forth a very ambitious goal. Now mind you, our founding fathers were hypocrites. Some of them. Who on earth is not a hypocrite on this earth? Show me the first of you that say one thing and does not do it themselves. However, many of them atoned and denounced their own holding a slaves. And some of them didn't hold slaves as widespread, if at all. However, they still shot that North Star that all men are created equal. Show me another country that shot that sort of goal forward and then sacrificed so much to attain it. Understand that the the downfalls of America or the less than desirable parts of America are universal. Every country had our downfalls. Our positives have always been unique. The country that articulated what it means to express yourself freely, defend your family, the idea of locking in natural rights. You fight a civil war inspired by what party actually was. The party that came up with the Abolitionist party, founded in 1816 in ripened Wisconsin. The Republican Party. Very convenient. The Republican Party has always been the party of liberation. We should be unafraid to tell the entire world this. And for whatever reason, we have Republicans running the hills. Like we should embrace this conversation around race in our country because the Republican party's always been on the right side of race in our country. Always. And so then we fight a civil war, bloody, brutal. 600,000Americans die to try to eradicate a moral stain on our country. This is a history we should be incredibly proud of because for over 19002000 years, human freedom was flatlined. Basically the course was there is slavery, get used to it. There's. It took the offspring and the shoot up of America to disrupt that and to change that. And that's what we celebrate this weekend on the Independence. I hate calling it July 4th because I think it's just so cheap. It's just like another day on Independence Day on independence from tyranny and authoritarian rule. And yet so many kids today that I talk to in college, they have no grasp or no understanding at all whatsoever of why this country is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world. Now mind you, America has made mistakes, but America is not a mistake. That America is a country without America, the world would be a much darker much just. It's unspeakably different and yet it's all being put in jeopardy right now. Right now our entire country is in a cultural crisis where a majority of young people that go to college think that this flag is a flag of hatred. They think our history is something to be ashamed of. They think that our country was bigoted, homophobic, colonialist, all these awful things, none of which are true throughout the course of our country's history. And so I think you all understand the cultural moment that we're in. But if we do not speak louder than ever before and call out the lies as we see them with truth, we're not gonna have a country anymore. Like, we could sustain it for probably another decade or two. But when you have, and I kid you not, the poll came out today. When you have 44% of college kids that think America's a good country, you. You cannot. That's not sustainable. It's just not. Like, eventually that will result in voting, result in behavior, and it will deconstruct the country. And the left has been incredibly patient, by the way, for decades and decades and decades. The last power source that we have, like it or not, is the Republican Party. Like, that's it. The Republican Party's the last political force that needs to find some backbone or some courage at some point to be able to denounce exactly what's not just denounce, but clarify. I would love to have one. Republican senators do this. The Republican Party has always been on the right side of history. The Democrat Party has always cared about people's skin color. The Democrat Party cared about people's skin color in 1860. The Democrat Party cared about people's skin color in the 1920s. The Democrat Party cared about people's skin color in the 1960s. And the Democrat Party cares about people's skin color today. The Republican Party passed the Civil Rights act, passed the 13th and 14th amendment, fought a war successfully to eradicate slavery, literally. The first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln that they're trying to take down right now. Republican Party passed women's suffrage, which we celebrate. And the left tries to act as if that was the Democrat movement. It was the Republican movement. The first black Senator in the US Congress was a Republican. Actually, the first 14 representatives that went to Congress were all Republican. The Republican Party is the party of liberation. The Democrat Party is the party of perpetual low expectations and bondage. Which future do you want for our country? Like, I would love to hear a Republican articulate that. But they get scared and they're afraid that people are gonna call them bad names and all that. Here's one. They're gonna call you bad names no matter what. Okay, here's just, like, an honest truth, okay? They're going to call you the worst things you can possibly call a human being. And now and more so than any other time, we need people to rise up and say that is not true. This is why our country is so exceptional and why we need to essentially articulate what it actually means to be an American again. Which is just. I never thought we'd have to get to it. I do want to get to some questions, but let me finish with this, which is. If we don't recognize the mistakes we've made in the last 90 days and we just re lock down our country and we're okay with that, I'm afraid for the soul of our country. So I was asked today, I say, Charlie, what are you most worried about? Like what should I be most worried about? And I listed things off. I said, our education system. I said, how the ruling class hates our country. It's a really important and very interesting thing to study. Like we had a ruling class in the early 1900s that had way too much power and they were broken up by Teddy Roosevelt, I think correctly generally overdid his power sometimes the Sherman Antitrust Act. But Andrew Carnegie, I'm sorry, Andrew Carnegie and Mellon and J.P. morgan and Rockefeller, they're actually really pro American. Like say what you will about the amount of wealth that they accumulated, they love their country. Now we have a ruling class that hates our country. Like you have Jeff Bezos and, and you have Sergey Bin and you have Larry Page. You have guys that are the wealthiest people on the planet in our country that are actively trying to destroy our country. It's a really important thing to point out that our ruling class actually doesn't want what's best for America. But the thing that actually has bothered me the most in the last hundred days, despite the fact that we've seen our entire country get put on referendum and put in jeopardy without people speaking out against it, is how willingly our country abided by the lockdowns. To be honest, it horrifies me actually. I saw a little bit of spurts here of people protesting. I was like, where's the 200,000 people, right? And I'm gonna be. I tweeted this. They will have to arrest me this time. I am not going to follow this nonsense. It's just not gonna happen. Like you're gonna have to put me in handcuffs. I'm gonna live my life that simple. Well, that's, that's what people say. I won't get arrested here, but. And people say you got to wear masks and all this. Look, I think, I think the first of all, for those of people that are wearing these like handkerchief Masks, I don't mean to offend anyone that's wearing one right now has no medical utility at all whatsoever. You know, if you're going to wear a mask, just get N95 mask. Don't do this thing where you make it a handkerchief. Has no medical utility at all. I'm not huge on masks. I think it dehumanizes people. And I think God gave us a face for a reason. But I guess it could be debated whether or not it helps slow the spread of the virus. But with that being said, I just don't like the idea that I have to wear one. I'm just, you know, call me a American rebel in some sense. Like, I think that liberty is a pretty special thing and that that's just maybe how I'm built. I think it's a uniquely American concept that you could take responsibility for your own actions. And what's so amazing is we do this all the time. Like, there's a lot of hunters in this room, right? I'm sure a lot of hunters. You guys get a hunting license, you go off the grid a little bit. Like, if you shoot yourself in the foot, like, it's your responsibility at that moment, right? You go get that hunting license to say, hey, I'm willing to take responsibility for whatever happens at this point forward. Like, if you incorrectly load a rifle and it explodes in your face, like, well, that's kind of. I'm sorry. Like, but you signed up for this program, right? Like, we, we have, we have, we have examples of how we. How we operate under this idea of dangerous liberty all the time. What kind of society we come in where we just convince ourselves we can just be safe all the time. That sounds awful, by the way. That sounds like prison. Like, it does. Like, do you want to be three meals a day and not just be in kind of a cushioned environment? I guess. I mean, that's not the country I want to live in. That's not the country I'm going to fight for. And I'm not going to abide by it any longer. I'm telling you, these authoritarian governors that come after it, it's not going to happen. It's just not going to happen. And I want to say this. Unlike BLM that run around like cowards, if you read Henry David Thoreau's thesis on civil disobedience, I will take the punishment. It's very important. If you are going to disobey a law, don't be a coward. Go. Go turn yourself in. So I'm telling Any governor across the country, if you have a problem with me disobeying your thing, fine, lock me up. I don't care. I will take the punishment to show how ridiculous it is. And there's a lot. The fact that people burned down the inner cities and they still haven't arrested the amount of people that did it, and they're arresting Christians that were just going to Eastern Easter church is incredible to me. It just shows the priorities of the ruling class and the governing class in our country. And so that's. That's something that honestly really concerns me. You guys got it right. And you guys, as I mentioned at the beginning of my speech, you have a governor that articulated it. Because I'm telling you, if they can just lock us down out of fear that quickly, God forbid, what else they could do to mind manipulate and to hypnotize our country. Seriously. And I mean, I was. I predict. I'm going to be honest, I get more things right than I get wrong. But when I get wrong, I'll tell you when I get something wrong. As soon as they lock down the country on March 13 ish, I was like, this is not one week. People are in the streets, like, waving flags. Not gonna happen. Like, everything is desolate. April, everything is desolate. Palm Sunday, no backlash. Easter, like, five pastors speak out, and half of them are arrested. I was like, wow, okay, this is Thomas Hobbes Leviathan. If you have read it, it's like, fear can just keep people crippled. And I'm not saying it's not a real thing. I'm not saying any of that. What I'm saying is that the threat of government authoritarianism should terrify people a lot more than COVID 19. It just should. And that's some of the lessons of the 20th century. So I don't know how we're doing on time. I love questions the most, and I want to have a dialogue. Yeah, we have time. We have tons of time. So just, yeah, let's have a conversation. I do want to say let's get some of the younger people to ask questions. Let's do one every other. Is that fair? Because I want to. I know a lot of students came in from six or seven hours away.