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Charlie Kirk
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You gotta stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Point USA College chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord. Use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go.
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Hey, guys, we have a very special episode for you today. This is the last speech Charlie ever gave. His speech to the San Seito party in Tokyo, Japan. He talked about migration, he talked about pro family policies, and he witnessed to his Christian faith. It's going to sound a little strange listening to it. Charlie was speaking slowly and carefully because it all had to be translated into Japanese. So we wanted to give you a heads up about that. But it's an incredible and moving speech and we wanted to make sure you were able to listen to it. Enjoy.
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Charlie Kirk
Hello, everybody. I'm so grateful to be visiting this incredible country for the first time. I've heard a lot about Japan from my friends, but it's something completely different to see up close. I knew something was very different the moment I entered the bathroom at my hotel. The toilet lid rose up automatically. On its own, I thought I was traveling to another country, but in reality, it's like I was traveling into the future. But I was even more impressed walking the streets of Tokyo this morning. Everything works so well. One of the things I noticed right away is that almost everybody takes a huge amount of pride in their work. I noticed right away that bus drivers have perfectly clean uniforms. Every employee at the airport, and every shopkeeper cares about doing their job as well as possible. There is a combination of pride and perfectionism that you so rarely see anywhere else. You have a very beautiful, a very clean, and a very impressive country. I'm not just impressed in a lot of ways, I'm envious. In fact, this morning when we were walking the streets we decided to play a game. Could we find anyone taller than me? We were not successful. However, I think all of us agree that this amazing country that you have is also in some danger, very grave danger. In fact. If this danger comes to pass, and I will talk about it throughout my speech, then the country that I've been so impressed by since I flew in Yesterday won't exist 20 years from now. It will be gone forever and will only exist as a memory. The danger facing Japan today comes from the same forces that have done so much damage to my own country, America, which I have fought so hard against. In America, the forces of globalism struck earlier and have done far more harm. But at the same time, in America, we're also further along in figuring out how to fight back. Here in Japan, the forces of globalism are just ramping up. Most Japanese people don't understand how dangerous things are. But with luck and with hard work, the Japanese people will be able to recognize this threat, stop it cold, and save your wonderful country. And if it wasn't for the election of President Donald Trump, the forces of globalism would be even stronger. Today, I'm told that your party name, Senseito, translates as do it yourself in English. That's a well chosen name because the first step to any great political change is to convince people that you can really make a difference. I read about your political history before I came here. For all but five of the last 70 years, you've been led by the same political party. It hasn't mattered whether the economy is good or bad. It hasn't mattered whether the people think Japan is on the right track or the wrong track. You keep getting the same party back in the United States. I've seen what happens in situations like that at the state and local level. It offers an easy excuse to tune out, stop caring and stop paying attention. Why vote? Why get engaged if the same people are going to hold political power no matter what? But if we let that same attitude prevail in America, we we'd have a far different and far worse world right now. I founded Turning Point USA, which is the name of our organization, back in 2012 when I was just 18 years old. Because I wasn't yet ready to go to university, I thought, I'll take a one year break from education to work in the real world before going back to school. Well, in America, we call this a gap year. It turns out my one year gap year became 13. And now a lifelong mission. Over the past 13 years, Turning Point USA has become one of the fastest growing and I believe most important organizations in America we have ever. We have over 2,500 chapters in American high schools and universities and hundreds of thousands of members across my country. I am living testament of something you might have heard of before, which is something I think has made the world a better place. The American dream. Turning Point's mission is very straightforward. When I was 18 years old, America was headed in exactly the wrong direction. The globalists and the communists were winning. Everywhere I looked, not only was everything getting worse, but I saw defeatism everywhere. People would tell me that there was no chance of ever defeating the left wing coalition of Barack Obama. I was told that American conservatives would have to accept amnesty for illegal immigrants, globalism, open borders, and a radical LGBT agenda in order to win elections. Others were telling me there was no point in voting at all because the alternative parties were so ineffective. It was like not voting at all. To be honest, there were a lot of reasons to think that the pessimists were right. Because In America in 2012, 13 years ago, young people were overwhelmingly on the left and only getting more left wing every year. So people would say, what hope do we have? Left wing young people would become more and more left wing, replaced by a new generation of young people who are even more left wing. Even if we won an election, they said, in four or five years, the demographics would be different and we'd be losing again. That was the argument when I told people my goal was to win young people away from the left and back to conservative pro America values. Most thought that it would be impossible. But it wasn't impossible. It wasn't a scientific law that young people were on the left. Young people voted for the left because the left was culturally dominant. The right, meanwhile, was politically incompetent and filled with cowards. Our schools were left wing, our media was left wing, our celebrities were left wing, our businesses were left wing. And nobody was seriously fighting back. People were becoming lazy. Instead, they were giving up, saying that change was impossible and sitting at home. But it was not impossible. We just needed someone to actually stand up and fight. So I went out to fight for change on American university campuses. Early on, it was very lonely. I would go to an American university campus and set up a table that simply said, prove me wrong. Maybe you've seen the videos on social media, maybe not. I would debate any students who came up and disagreed with me on any topic. In the early days, I might sit on a campus for an entire afternoon and debate only five people. But gradually, the tide started to Turn. Dozens of people started to show up, then hundreds of people, then thousands of people. Not only that, but their attitude started to change. In the early days, almost everyone I interacted with on a college campus was against me. Lots of people wanted to argue with me, some people wanted to hurt me. Not many people wanted to agree with me. In early 2024, I saw all of that change rapidly. Suddenly, I wasn't seeing an army of protesters at every event I held. I started to run into huge armies of fans. I would make an argument in favor of closing the border or deporting migrants or condemning all the lockdowns or sharing my faith in Jesus Christ, and I would get cheers. Suddenly, young Americans that I were told were going to be left wing forever were coming out as conservatives. In 2012, the year I started Turning Point USA, Americans who were under the age of 30 voted for Barack Obama by 23 points. In 2020, they voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump by 29 points. But in 2024, after everyone said it was impossible, the voters under the age of 30 between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was a dead heat. Donald Trump won the youth vote in critical battleground states. In the United States of America, college age young men voted for Donald Trump decisively. It was one of the most rapid and unexpected political swings in American history. When I first started Turning Point usa, I told people I thought it would take decades to change the voting habits of young people and instead it took just 12 years. Now, if you are a young person in America, all the energy and the excitement is on the right. The people saying interesting things online are on the right. Left wing takes are stale and behind the times, all the energy is with nationalism, loving your country and fighting globalism. Young men are fed up with being shamed for being men. They're angry that an expert class locked them up during COVID for almost no reason. They're fed with wokeism, they're fed up with being bossed around by everybody who hates them. And most importantly, they're now ready to push back and vote for something else. Today, the political landscape in America has completely transformed under President Trump. We finally have a government that with zero shame, has shut down our borders and started deporting illegal immigrants. We have a government that without shame, is enforcing the law on our streets and arresting dangerous criminals. I know this might be a hard concept for you to understand, but Joe Biden literally opened our country to 10 million people and we had no idea who they were, many of which from countries that wished us harm. But now that has come to a stop. We have a government that without shame, is rejecting cultural Marxism and woke lunatics. And finally, one that is standing up to the Chinese Communist Party. In less than one year, President Trump has completely remade America. We have a lot more work to do in the next three years to come. And every single one of those things we're doing, I would have thought would have been impossible, because I was told they were impossible 10 years ago. So I'm here to bring a message of hope to Japan. For those with political will, determination and bravery, nothing is impossible. Obviously, I've spent my life fighting for America, but the funny thing about being an American nationalist, it means I'm also a nationalist for other countries. The truth is that nationalists all around the world are natural allies with one another. We are allies because we all share a common globalism. This is a clear and present danger that is facing Japan right now. Globalism wants to erase the distinctions that separate different countries and cultures. They preach a doctrine they call diversity, but they actually hate diversity more than anything. Globalism wants to turn 200 countries on Earth into one indistinguishable blob. Imagine for a second you were at a giant feast with 100 different foods available. Chicken, beef, sushi, which I'm enjoying here, vegetables, french fries, lasagna, watermelon, and so on. Then imagine someone taking all of those foods and dumping them into one giant blender, blending it all up until it was one big sludge. Then imagine that person feeding that sludge to you and telling you it was delicious. I want you to keep that image in your head in the coming years because that is exactly what they're going to try to do to this wonderful country. This is what the globalists want to do with the world's countries. They want no more America. They want no more Europe. They want no more Japan. And on Europe. If you have visited Europe recently, it is a conquered continent and unrecognizable from where it was a couple decades ago from those that remember it. Globalists claim to support democracy, but that is a lie too. They want oligarchy. They want elections to be irrelevant choices where you get the same policies no matter who wins. They want the same power to steamroll any protest from the public. If the public somehow votes against them, they want to replace them with new people imported from abroad. They've already done that in some states back in my home country. These are very destructive, power hungry, and dare I say, evil people. That's why any group around the world that is fighting against them is my friend. I want America to remain American, and I want Japan to remain Japanese. If Tokyo became identical to New York or Japan looked just like the Philippines, that would not just be a loss for the Japanese, but for the whole world. The entire world is better off having a Japan that is emphatically, unapologetically Japanese. And that is why I want to deliver a warning here from someone who has seen what it can do, who has fought against it, not simply just to this room, but but to the people of Japan. Japan has the chance to avoid major mistakes that we made in America, mistakes that we only dodged thanks to Donald Trump having his life spared by just a couple centimeters. But for Japan, time is running out. Before I came here, I looked up some numbers. I imagine a lot of you here already know them as well. As of this spring, the immigrant population in Japan has risen to 3.8 million people. That number grew by more than 300,000 in 2024 alone, and it's risen by a million since 2021. Right now, you might say things aren't too bad. Some of these immigrants are of Japanese heritage. Some are, at least from cultures with similar values.
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Charlie Kirk
But everybody, this is always how it starts here in Japan. You have high social trust. You have low crime. And compared to America, your cities are immaculately clean. You don't have leaders who lecture their own people that you deserve to be replaced by better people from another country. But let me warn you, once you lose those things, it's nearly impossible to get them back. It takes hundreds of years to build a civilization. It takes one generation of mistakes to throw it away.
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Charlie Kirk
Even in America, we know that Japan has a low birth rate and a falling population. In fact, Japan is often brought up as a warning. They will say if we don't use immigration to keep our population growing, we'll. We will be like Japan. That's what they will say. I always respond. And now I'm able to say this having visited and tell them how insane that argument is. Oh no. Imagine being like Japan where the streets of every city are completely safe, where there is zero crime and everything works. Imagine. But that really is the argument that they make. In the years to come, this is how it will work. Powerful forces both inside Japan and around the world are going to put enormous pressure on Japan to change. They will tell you that Japan's only option to remain a rich country is to embrace mass immigration from abroad. Let me tell you their playbook as someone who understands this intimately well, and I will walk you through this step by step of what they will say. They will tell you that mass immigration is the only way for Japanese people to afford retirement. They will then shame you morally. They will say that it's racist and immoral to want Japan to be a country for Japanese people. This is all a sham and must be rejected eventually. If they get their way, Japan's problems will not be solved. In fact, your problems will only multiply quickly. Crime will end up being higher. Your cities will be dirtier and less well run. You'll have a larger and larger group of people in your country who don't understand or respect your amazing Japanese culture and your heritage and your birthright. You will have children attending your public schools who don't read or speak any Japanese. And your country will feel less and less like Japan. The globalists have taken London, Paris, Canada and almost all of Europe. And they have their sights on Tokyo next. People might call me an alarmist, but honestly, good for me for pulling the alarm to warn you about what's coming. What happens next is that some politicians will reach a very dark realization. They'll see there are ways to get power that don't require winning over Japanese people. Instead, they will have a new calculation they believe. Then they can import new voters who from another country. These politicians will fight to give citizenship and voting rights to foreign arrivals. Then they'll try to buy their votes with your tax dollars and they'll shame you if you don't support it. And then if you complain about it, the same people who told you it would be great to let in all these people will change their story. They will tell you that Japan deserved this bad outcome. They will shame you for being a racist. Or they'll say you deserve it for something Japan did in a conflict a long time ago. They will say that because of that, you don't deserve to have your own country or keep your way of life. This might sound completely ridiculous. Some people might still be skeptical. It might sound unthinkable to imagine Japanese politicians turning against their own people like that. But trust me, if you follow the path of national destruction, this is exactly what will happen. If you don't believe me, let's look at a second at Great Britain, where most of the political ruling class actively hates native British people. Right now in Britain, there are natives who are being harassed and arrested by the police for waving the flag of England. There are hundreds of people who have been harassed, fined, or arrested or even imprisoned because they made social media posts critical of migrants or of Islam. And just a few weeks ago, it was revealed that their government was spending billions of pounds to secretly fly tens of thousands of Afghans into Britain, then allowing them to settle permanently with free houses, free welfare, and no expectation that they'll ever work for a job. Not only that, the government made it illegal for the British press to report that it was happening until it was all over and couldn't be stopped. Great Britain is the birthplace of free speech and parliamentary democracy. Now they have neither. And along the way, they're becoming a Third World hellhole, too. One more statistic on Great Britain. In the next 15 or 20 years, native English will be a minority in their own country. They were told it would make them richer, it would make them safer. And those were all lies. And now Britain and England are becoming nothing more than a memory. My country, America, came terrifyingly close to the same fate. I don't think people outside of America understand how reckless the Biden administration was the last four years. As I mentioned, Joe Biden was not pro immigration. He was truly anti American. He hated America. He. He wanted bad things to happen to America and its people. Under Joe Biden, literally anybody could show up to the US Mexico border, including people caught crossing illegally, and say the magic word, asylum, immediately get a free ticket into the United States, and they'd be given a court date for their asylum claim. But if they blew off that court hearing, nothing would happen. Under Joe Biden, foreign criminals already convicted of rape, robbery, and even murder were allowed to remain in America free from deportation. We know that because as soon as President Trump took office, we easily found these criminals and started sending them back. That could have happened at any time. But Biden wanted criminals to remain in America. He wanted them to be free to rape and kill Americans. He saw it as a good thing because Americans were bad and foreigners were superior and he wanted them replaced. This is the reality. What has happened in Britain and America and across Western civilization, ruling elites and a conspiracy to replace and destroy their own people. All of that could happen in Japan unless it stopped now. It's a very simple question that I ask people all the time. It involves your country. If all of a sudden you replace the Japanese population with 50 million Ukrainians, is Japan still Japan? World leaders would say yes. I would say no, because Japan is for the Japanese, not for the people of the world, as they so choose. This is one of the reasons, because of the threat that we're up against is I'm so excited what Senseito is doing and to see so many people here. I was told there were thousands of people that wanted to be here and they couldn't get tickets. In other countries like Great Britain, France or Germany, populist anti immigration movements only gain momentum when the crisis is already severe. In Britain, a majority of people in London are already non British. In France, the majority of people in parents are already non Paris, already non French. But you are lucky. The vast majority of people in Tokyo are still Japanese. And this is why your attendance, your energy and your activism early matters so much, because you still have time to dodge a bullet the same way that Donald Trump dodged a bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania. So you all deserve to be commended and encouraged for seeing it early and loving your country enough to stand up against it. Quite frankly, I'm impressed because there will be so much pressure to have you be shut up and not attend by the media and the global elite. Ignore them. But of course, the fight against globalism is not just about stopping immigration. For Japan to have a great future, you need Japanese people to make it happen. I've seen the numbers and you know the numbers. Last year, Japan reached a dark anniversary. It's been 50 years since Japan's birth rate fell below two children per woman. For 50 years, Japanese society has been unable to replace itself. Today, almost one third of the country is over 65 and it will keep rising. This is a key point that I don't always hear people make. The lack of having children is what gives globalists their power. It's the justification for every evil policy that they promote. Because in the long run, a nation without children is a nation without a future. It's just a group of people indulging in their own desires and then waiting to die and disappear. All of you here need to make sure to fight that fight and make sure that your nation's young people get married and stay married and have children, lots of children, if they can. If you're a young person and you follow this political movement or, or you're here in this audience, get married young, have children, lots of children, six or seven will do. You are an ancient and beautiful culture and civilization. Imagine if you would tell your ancestors a thousand years ago that your greatest problem would not be shelter or food, but the lack of children. They would think that there was something wrong with you. All kidding aside, every time you see a little baby and you see a child in a park, you should think that child gives globalists less power over Japan. I know that it's not easy. I know that it's easier said than done. But this country has done some miraculous things. You have a high speed rail system that I marvel at. In my country, in California, we've been doing permitting for high speed rail for 25 years and not even broke ground. Japan can do big things. Japan can have more babies. This is not some minor aspect of social policy. This is the single greatest crisis your country has faced since World War II. Act accordingly. Every policy you consider in this country should ask the question, does this make it so that there will be more Japanese children? Or does it mean that we'll be disappearing or replaced? Will this help us keep us have a Japan 200 years from now, 500 years from now, 1,000 years from now? Back in America at Turning Point USA, we try to set an example. I have two beautiful young children. Some of our staff already have five or six. We have a competition going at Turning Point USA of who could have the most children. I tell people all the time have more children than you can afford to. Nobody I know regrets having one more child. But I know many who regret not having one more or not having any at all. I am not here to moralize or to try to shame anybody. Instead, try to inspire a culture of family formation, marriage and children. One that will make Japan a stronger nation. It's going to take work, but that's no excuse to give up. Because remember, a fall in the population can be undone. But if Japan stops being Japanese, it can never be undone. History is littered with once great nations that vanished off the face of the earth. Never to be seen again. It would be a shame and a tragedy if joint if Japan joined them. As I begin to close my remarks and we get ready to have our panel discussion, as America got so close to the brink, I personally believe it was the hand of God that saved America from the forces of evil and darkness, from taking over our civilization. And for those of you that are involved in this political fight, I could tell you things might get difficult. You might be called names, there might be protesters. I could tell you that in the midst of all of that, having strong family and friends and having a relationship with God is the most important way to to sustain a movement like this. And for me personally, that looks like, as I mentioned previously, my personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I can't tell you exactly how to win and fight over every aspect in Japan. That's one of the great things about nationalism. Every country has its own quirks and traits that I'll never understand as an outsider. I can tell you though, that America stands with the Japanese people. As an outsider, I could tell you that we fight together against the same common enemy. The Trump movement, the MAGA movement, are with the Japanese people. You need to continue to be courageous, fight for your beliefs and stand with the people of Japan as well. Let's, together with our two wonderful countries, work in harmony to make Japan great again. Thank you so much and God bless you all. Thank you.
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All right, we're onto the Q and A portion of the Charlie event. Same deal. He'll talk a bit slowly, but it should all be pretty clear. And we wanted you to listen to it as well. Go ahead.
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Charlie Kirk
Thank you. And that was such a wonderful welcome you all gave me. I'm really enjoying being here. For the interpreter's sake, I'm going to kind of break my answers into paragraphs. So when I stop, I might talk after. So the first thing is you need to give young people purpose. They have to feel connected to their nation. One of the things that globalists try to do is they tried to disconnect a citizen's attachment to their government or to their country. And allow me to introduce another term in addition to globalism that you're fighting with young people and that is nihilism. It's a English term, but I'm sure there's an equivalent where really young people embrace it. They say there is no purpose in life. There's no meaning, there's no reason to go on. And that is a civilization destroyer. We've seen it time and time again that nihilistic belief is like a cancer that can infect a country. And this is why I mention in my speech my belief in God. You need something, whatever that is above yourself, that you are aiming towards or that you have purpose towards. The modern morality that is destroyed most of the west and is trying to destroy Japan is that there's only the self, only the self matters. And that actually ends up creating a lot of disengagement and cynicism. I could go on further. Yeah. To add on to what you said, and thank you. Don't worry, you have great job security. But isn't it so exciting that I, as an American can be cheering on your nationalist movement? And I want nothing from you, except I want you to keep Japan Japanese. One of my favorite English words, and I bet there's a really good Japanese equivalent, is the word duty. And embedded in that word duty is an implication that there's something above you that you owe your time and your commitment to. And you see that in Tokyo, from the bus drivers to the police officers, that it's not just about what they want, it's about what the cause above them that matters. And this is why the anti globalist message matters, to get young people involved. Because if they feel as if their nation is just going to be Flooded with foreigners. Why have a duty to that nation? Because that nation will cease to exist. And this is something that both our countries are facing. I think that technology, social media, online gaming, and always the messaging is about you, you, you, not above something bigger than you, whether it be God or nation. And that is a destructive force on par with globalism. And this is why I talk about having children. Because once you have children, then you have a duty as your parent to provide for them. You have a duty as a parent to leave a better country for them. So what you have to do is create the conditions where people feel called towards duty and honor. And the modern world increasingly thinks of duty as a negative word. One last thought, which is that the issue that we are facing with young people in both our nations is they are aimless. And an aimless young people means that they need to point towards something good and we need to show them what that is. That could be a restoration of Japan. It could be having families, but it's incumbent on adults and politicians and leaders to create something worth aiming towards, something worth pointing your life towards. Otherwise, you will have a aimless generation, and it will be harder and harder to get them involved in matters like this. I think Japanese people know what's best for Japan, and Americans shouldn't tell you what to do in 2025. So that's what I think about that. I'm cheering for you to take back Japan from the globalists and the foreigners. And I think tradition is awesome and tradition matters. And that's why you guys should have elections and vote your mind and speak your mind. I can talk more conceptually. One must be very careful about taking away traditions after long periods of time. In my own country, I can speak of this, we had a very bloody civil war. And in the American Civil War, it was the bloodiest conflict in our history. There was a huge push recently to remove all the statues of anybody involved in these conflicts because they were racist and they were terrible. You lose your identity as a nation. If you remove too much tradition, you become something else. And so what do I think of it? I think that Japanese people know what's best for Japan. And that's what's great about nationalism, not globalism, not me telling you what to do. Yeah, the best, as I mentioned, I will repeat part of my speech, the two best measures to globalism is, number one, having lots of children, and then number two is making sure you reject any immigration. I know this might sound radical, but you do not need the levels of immigration that you are Experiencing right now, you are being propagandized. I've seen this play out before all throughout the West. Think about it, everybody. We're about to enter a period of mass automation where artificial intelligence and robotics are going to take up a lot of jobs. Why is it that you need more and more foreigners to come to Japan? There increasingly is less of an economic argument for it. And I've seen this play out time and time again. I just want to say the Globalist Project only works in countries with low birth rates. When there's a high birth rate, the Globalist Project is not able to come in. But once you have a low birth rate, the formula goes low birth rate. Then politicians claim a crisis and they claim a solution. And the solution is import a bunch of people. But if you're able to have a lot of children, then that sequence is not even able to start in the first place. Allow me to add one other thought on this, is that embedded in globalism is pride. It is pride that you want to run the entire world. Embedded in nationalism is a sense of humility that I will not tell Japan what to do and you guys are able to govern yourself and vice versa with America. In the book that I believe is the word of God. In the Bible, there's Genesis 11. In the story of the Tower of Babel, there was a creation of a one world government. In fact, the scattering of nations, we believe, is an act of humility that only God should be able to run the entire world. Not a certain government, not the United nations, not the World Health Organization. But individual nations are what matter. But how else do we fight against it? We fight against it by knowing their nature and knowing their playbook and knowing how they infiltrate. The other final point that I will make is that it's necessary for a citizenry to love their nation more than they fear what the media will call them. Let me say it again for emphasis, to love your nation more than what the fear of what you will be called from the media or from your critics. Yeah, and let me talk about my country for a second because this is something that may be helpful or not helpful, and because we fight this, it's very well funded. There's something in America that took up a lot of seam in the summer of 2020 called the 1619 Project. Now, my country was founded on July 4th, 1776. That's our birthday and we celebrate it every July 4th. They wanted to basically retell the American story and say that America was actually founded in 1619, the first year that American slaves arrived. Trying to rewrite the narrative was an intentional plot by the Marxists and by the globalists to try and change the identity of the United States of America. And so American education has lost its step in a lot of ways. But at least from an American perspective, we want to make sure our kids love America and they know why. America is great, understand Japan is great and America is great, sometimes for the same reasons, sometimes for different reasons. And that's okay. That's actually diversity, as the media always say. And you could call that a strength. But America, especially one of our core values, which is not a value that's held by every country, is a value of liberty, value of freedom. And I don't expect every country to value liberty the same way we do, but in our education system. Increasingly, they removed a liberty based education system material and we found that to be objectionable. So allow me to summarize it like this. You must know what you stand for, you must know what you want to point towards, and then that is what you must educate. Values based education is critical. And our national identity is in three big things. That's on every piece of currency. It's a Latin phrase called E pluribus unum, which means out of many, one liberty and in God we trust. In America, education is about those three big things at its best. And I think from the Japan perspective, you know what your values are and that's what you should be teaching in your education system. It's a very good question. We're attempting to get rid of the education department. It hasn't happened yet. In America, education has been used as a tool of indoctrination. I don't know if there's a great word to translate that to, but it's very important because it's about trying to set a value system towards a young person to fundamentally hate America. Education actually comes from a Latin word which means to lead forth. But if you're leading a young person forth, you must know what you're leading them towards. And the problem with education the last 50 years is we've been leading young people in America towards a future of Marxism, towards a future of anti Americanism, one that is increasingly against the values of Western civilization. However, there's a resurgence in America of something that I don't know if has any popularity here in Japan, but it's called homeschooling. It's where parents educate the kids and the government is not involved. Again, this is why different countries are great. You know that over 30 million people in America are homeschooled or have been homeschooled. And that's amazing thing, because in my. One of the things I love about America, and I don't expect every country to do this, is that if the government does something we don't like, we resist it, we make a lot of noise about it, and we do it better ourselves. And so as the Education Department kind of became a big failure, we started forming our own schools, educating our own kids, and kind of doing it outside of the system. And the results have been extraordinary. We call this education freedom in America. It's a very important point you bring up. Political correctness is inherently totalitarian. It seeks to be able to first be able to police your speech and then be able to police your thoughts. If you want to see a vivid picture of this, it's a very popular novel in America. But no better book encapsulates what political correctness leads towards than 1984 by George Orwell. This should be required reading for everybody, including in your education department, because in this book it shows that the forces of the state or of a political correctness will do everything they can to police not just what comes out of your mouth, what happens between your ears. This just a couple years ago in the United States, and it's still bad in certain areas. The people would say that there is 87 genders. You are very welcoming people. You do not want that part of America in your country, trust me. And however it got even worse, part of what I mentioned is the LGBT movement. What starts as well, you have to tolerate what these individuals want to do. And then all of a sudden it leads to, well, then you have to affirm it or accept it, and then it leads that you have to celebrate it, and then you have to participate in it. What ends up happening through political correctness is, is they want to change you through language, and then it changes your politics. And let me give you one final real world example of how it applies to your country. Once you allow them to police your speech, then let's say they import a million people from Pakistan into Japan. Are you allowed to speak out against it? No. That's where political correctness comes in, is it mutes and silences the citizen from being able to call out things that are happening in your country that are negative. This is an existential problem that you must face. That sounds familiar. Well, if I may allow you to just give a piece of advice, not telling you what to do. In order for a movement like this to be successful, you must embrace a culture of free Speech. I know this can be a controversial topic because free speech in Japan is not as robustly defended as it is in the United States, but it is still a much more pro free speech country than many other Asian counterparts. But allow me to make this case for you. Donald Trump would not be president the first time and absolutely the second time if we in the United States did not have free speech. They tried to put him in jail, they tried to shoot him, they tried to take his businesses away from him. The only reason we were able to win is millions of people were able to speak their mind. They were able to speak out regardless of what the government was doing against them. Free speech was the mechanism that allowed us to save the United States of America. The final point I'll make about this is at times some people will say, but we must censor speech because there could be bad ideas out there. Everybody, I live in the most pro free speech country in the world. There can be problems. But it is far better to live in a country that is too free for free speech than a country that is too restricted when it comes to free speech. It is not even close. It is always better to err on the side of allowing opinions than disallowing opinions. Because let me bring it home. If you don't have freedom of speech, they could shut down this political party. That's what they're doing in Germany. They're trying to do it in the United Kingdom. Don't take it for granted. Free speech is the life force of any political movement that wants to be successful.
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Well, the most important thing is, obviously, you know, me being here and cheering you guys on. But we must understand the nature of the globalist threat. The best coordination or the best way to work together is understand their playbook does not change. And what they want, what do they want exactly? They want a one world government. They do not believe in ethnic differences, they do not believe in racial differences, and they do not believe in religious differences. They want a one world, indistinguishable pile of slop, as I talked about earlier in my speech. And it's very important, we must then articulate what does it mean to be a nation in English? It is the three Ps, it is people, it is principles, and it is place. You remove one of the three, you'll start to disappear. Remove two out of three, you're basically gone. Three out of three, you don't exist. So let's play this out first, of which is people, this is the most obvious. If all of a sudden Japanese Japan became all Muslim from Saudi Arabia, it wouldn't be Japan. But let's also talk about place. If all of a sudden we took the entire population of Japan and put you on Madagascar, is that Japan? No, it's something else. That's not the place that your ancestors are buried. That's not the place that you love. That's not the place with the shrines that you take seriously. So place really matters. But also principles. And don't forget the principles part. This is America is a principal nation alongside the other two. What are the ethics, duty, the culture and the history? The globalists seek to remove all three. They don't want you to live in your land anymore. They don't want the people to be there. And they want to change the principles of what it means to be in Japan. If you can articulate those three things, we can better then coordinate and harmonize our shared objectives against the globalist. Its place, its people and its principles. You have to make it very real and you have to connect it. So again in America, mass immigration was one of the defining issues that propelled President Trump towards election in both 2016 and 2024. But it was very simple. We asked a series of questions in America. We said, do you want your hometown to be more people that speak Spanish or English? It was very simple. You see, a nation is also the globalists seek to eliminate the three Ps by getting rid of borders, language and culture. So a very simple question that I would ask here in Japan that I mentioned in my speech. Do you want school children in Japan to learn Japanese, the language? Of course you do, right? But not Arabic. And we laugh. But you know what? People in London would have laughed 40 years ago in an event just like this. And yet more people are going to speak Arabic in London in 20 years from now than today. So you have to make it very real, very tangible. The problem is that Tokyo is so nice and that Japan is so great that you're almost in a place where it's very easy to be apathetic. Oh, this will never happen here. We've stood the test of time. Remember they said the sun would never set on the British Empire? I'm sure you've remembered hearing that before. It wasn't war that took down the British Empire. It wasn't any of the other conflicts. It was mass immigration that took down the British Empire. So you must enter with a sense of cautiousness, but also immediacy to communicate in real language that in real words that this can have a very serious impact on what people care about most. I still am dealing with them. This is why all of you matter so much. I want to try to tell you that politics is not a spectator sport. It is not just watching Shohei Ohtani on the Dodgers. You are as involved as the person on stage. So the next time they try to harass 100 people should show up in orange shirts and outnumber them and dwarf them. You see, you all matter in this movement in a way that grassroots politics is critical. You are on the cutting edge of a people centered populist movement that wants to save Japan and the way that we dealt with it. You must first know that if they're protesting you, you're doing something right. Number two, it does not matter the names the media will call you. Number three, that it matters more about the crowd that you're able to draw. And credit to you guys, this is a very serious crowd. And if I come back next year, we'll have to do it in an arena or something because it's a serious, serious increase. But I'm seeing this because what you are doing, what you're communicating is hitting a nerve because this mass immigration issue is the number one issue happening on the planet. They're trying to reorganize so many great countries around, it's happening simultaneously. And one final thought is that you should run a digital, social media centric campaign that in the new era the media is not going to give you the same airtime and they're not going to treat you fairly. So when those protesters come, you should go out and have a debate with them, discuss with them, expose their bad ideas, show that you're the more reasonable person in America. I debate on College campuses 100 hours a semester. That's over 200 hours a year. In fact, this Wednesday, I will be back on a college campus in front of thousands of people debating where anybody who disagrees with me is allowed to come up to the microphone and ask any question for three hours straight. What it does over time, we put all the videos on the Internet is it creates a mass movement where every question is answered, where every critic is challenged. And your supporters then feel more courage to go advocate for what you believe in because they see that you are taking the arrows. And honestly, I follow in the footsteps of the most courageous man of American politics probably ever, President Donald Trump, who took arrows for all of us, who took a bullet for our country, who was the most smeared, slandered, indicted man imaginable. And he stood up and still said, fight, fight, fight, and won the greatest landslide that our country has seen in quite some time. An amazing story of heroism. Yes. I'll tell you, I'm keeping a close eye on what's happening in the United Kingdom with Nigel Farage and the Reform Party, which is gaining a lot of traction. We have seen very closely what's happening in France. But understand, remember this theme, that if you don't have free speech, they will put the opposition leaders in prison. It's a very important lesson and we see this happening with Marine Le Pen, who is a opposition anti immigration leader. Let's look at Brazil. Jair Bolsonaro was the president and was displaced on an anti globalist message. And Lula is now the president of Brazil, which is basically now a vassal state of the Chinese Communist Party. Let's look at Germany. The most popular party that is ascending in Germany is called alternative for Deutschland AfD, which is currently being monitored by the German government as potentially being seditious and treasonous. You know all of these examples, but it's very important. So you look at, and by the way, in Canada, they had an unsuccessful populist nationalist Pierre Polevey run and he was unsuccessful. And they have the now the Carney government. So you have Canada, you have uk, you have France, you have Germany, you have a lot of attempts. But again, it goes down to this fundamental thing. You end up being successful if people can speak their mind and they feel as if there is not a high social cost to Speak out. Just to add one more element on top of this though is also in South Korea right now, you see the dissident party that is being imprisoned. In fact, you are seeing Christian pastors that are being thrown into jail in South Korea. I hope for one thing I could do for you is I hope I gave you a face and a voice as a Christian that shares also a lot of your goals here. Because I understand some people might not always have been able to meet Christians that share the same goals. So I hope I did that for you today. But as another side note, I want to just mention that in this anti globalist push that it is the parties that are able to stay focused on two or three issues, whether it be mass migration or whether it be family formation that will ultimately be the most successful. You stay on those and it is the question of whether or not you can then can become a governing coalition. And so again we see this in many of these other countries. I meet with a lot of these leaders, I study behind them. But isn't it fascinating everybody in lands, in countries that have almost very little in common from a geopolitical standpoint are all seeing this pattern happen. Why? It's because the globalist plan was to take down multiple great powers at once. We can say London might have fallen and Europe, but together let's make sure we say that America and Japan will not fall to the power of the globalists. And we stand together in that ultimate goal and purpose. You have a wonderful country and you have a wonderful country because of the people. And when the people are no more, I don't think this will be a wonderful country. And a replacement is trying to come underway. And I understand, you know, politicians have to say things like, well, I'm not against this, I'm not against xenophobic, but in some ways you're already debating on their terms. By even having to say that, you have to just say, I love Japan. I want Japan to be for Japanese. And if you're against it, you're the problem. You're imposing something parasitic in our home. Your history is so rich and vast. You are one an incredibly old and ancient culture and civilization. And amazingly, you are now at a place where it could cease to no longer exist. Your people have overcome more than this. This is not the greatest obstacle that Japan has faced. It's not even close. But it is one that could end Japan as we know it. And it will happen if you yield your country to a foreign influence from dialogue and to media and to say, well, maybe we no longer want to be Japan. I know you guys don't feel that way. And here I am as an American cheering that on because we should have a collection of nations, as it says in Jeremiah 29:7, demand the best or the welfare of the country that you are in. You should be fighting for Japan every single day. The last thing I'll say is this, is that we are involved, even though 5,000 miles away from each other, fighting similar sinister, evil forces. And I know that with the great people in this room, your commitment and your drive, and with American allies, we will defeat the globalists and we will make our civilizations triumph and great and be around for thousands of more years to come. You are wonderful people. God bless Japan. Thank you so much for welcoming me. Thank you. For more on many of these stories and news you can Trust, go to charliekirk.com.