Transcript
Charlie Kirk (0:03)
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.
Charlie Kirk (1:41)
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.
