From the Archive: Charlie's Q&A at Texas Tech

00:00:03 Speaker 1: 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 going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning 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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I tell you, if you guys start throwing tortillas at me. You didn't bring any? 00:02:12 Speaker 2: All right. 00:02:13 Speaker 1: Yes, ma'am, you are first. 00:02:16 Speaker 3: As someone who's been doing these college tours for, I think you said 11 years, how do you prioritize spending time with your wife and your children? 00:02:25 Speaker 1: That's a great question. Yeah, you have to learn to say no. And this should tell you how important it is for me to be here tonight because I say no to like 99% of the speaking events and engagements that I get asked to go to. And so, and yeah, I mean, one of the life preservation tools that the Lord gives us is he tells us in the Ten Commandments, for six days you shall work and for one day you shall rest. And so people ask if I'm Seventh-day Adventist. I'm not, but I do honor the Shabbat. I turn off my phone on Friday night. I turn it back on Sunday morning. It works for me. And I believe one of the great failures of modern Christianity is our failure to honor the Sabbath. Whether we like it or not, there is way too much work that occurs. And again, your Sabbath can be Sunday. It can be Saturday. I am not a legalist on that. I do Saturday because it works for my schedule. I'm less likely to have to do work on Saturday. It's a good end of the week. That's fine. If it's Sunday is your day. However, most Christians that I encounter, I ask them this question. If I walked into your house on Saturday or Sunday, would I be able to tell which day is the Sabbath? And if the answer is no, then it's not actually the Sabbath. If you walk into my house on the Sabbath, my phone is off and my electronic devices are off. The only exceptions I make are for things that I truly enjoy, like college football or college basketball. Because that's not work. For six days you shall work, for one day you shall rest. So it's nourishing to me, right? But anything that involves work. I don't read a newspaper. I don't visit a news website. I don't listen to a radio program. And so that's my only challenge to you is that your Sabbath, That if somebody walked into the day that you designated as your Sabbath, they should be able to see something different. In Hebrew, the word holy. So to keep the Sabbath holy is repeated over ten times in the Old Testament. To keep holy means separate. It means distinct. It means different then. And so to keep it holy means that that day must look, feel, and act different than any other day of the week. So whatever that means for you, make it happen. Do something that you enjoy that is restful, and most importantly, spend time with your family and do something that honors your creator. Thank you. 00:04:37 Speaker 4: As a student in college trying to find a partner, what are some qualities I should look for in a future wife? 00:04:43 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great question. Proverbs 31, try to find a Proverbs 31 woman. The most important thing I would say, though, you have to agree politically, and you have to agree most important theologically and religiously. I do not believe in marriages where people say, I'm a conservative, I'm a liberal. That is a bad idea. It does not work out. For example, what values are you going to pass down to your kids? You're going to kind of like, you get 50% of the dinner, and they get 50% of the dinner. It doesn't work. There's enough already. There are enough quarrels that already happen in marriage. You don't need to add outside values. disagreement into something holy that is marriage is holy and it should remain holy. Secondly, I would, the most important thing though is you should ask is what should I do as a man to prepare myself for my wife? And that is, and I say this as someone who once struggled with pornography and very open about it. Almost every young man in this audience has struggled with pornography. Not everyone admits it, but it's just true. It's a societal toxin. It's a cancer. And I love that Pornhub, whatever, is now closed in Texas. I think that's a great thing. It is shut down, and that's a great thing. Try and not do that and not engage in that. I highly recommend that the sooner as a college student you understand, if it makes you feel good immediately, it comes with a price, and that price is heavier than that which you realize. So if it gives you a buzz of alcohol, again, I'm not trying to be overly legalistic, But the sooner you realize that the thing that gives you the buzz instantaneously comes at a price. And I don't drink, don't do drugs, and that's the only way I'm able to keep the schedule that I keep and do what I'm able to do is because that stuff actually doesn't do anything for me. It actually leads a really shallow and empty life, and that's not something that I think is really interesting. In fact, I think that's kind of what losers do is they kind of just, Pursue the next instant gratification. I think the beautiful things actually come with delayed gratification in life where you delay the pleasure because you go for something that is greater than pleasure, which is hopefully glorifying God, which is greater than just making yourself feel good. And then as a man, try to become the most interesting person you can. And you will have to be the breadwinner and the income producer for your family. And so you need to take, before you get married or before you date, you need to make sure that if you date with the intention of marrying, because don't just date casually. Dating casually is the stupidest thing ever. You need a date with the intention to marry that you can be able to support your wife and support a child. And so you need to figure that out, whatever that is, right? Whatever you're studying, make sure that it can have a good payout in the end and that you can comfortably be able to provide for your family because that is the role of the man. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. 00:07:27 Speaker 3: Hi. 00:07:27 Speaker 5: I just wanted to start out by saying that I fully respect the work that you're doing here and respect the passion and intelligence that you have. There is no ignoring the issue that we have on the southern border. But I think it is fair that we acknowledge the root of this issue might be partly due to a broken immigration system that has not been updated in around 50 years. I stand here as living proof of the immigrant dream, the illegal immigrant dream, the American dream. It is very easy to say that illegal immigrants need to go back to their countries and they are criminals when you are so far removed from the immigrant experience. Do you not think that making the immigration process The legal immigration process, a little bit easier, cannot help solve some of these backlogging issues and giving people reasons for being denied when they are applying for visas or naturalization would not help solve this problem. Should people who are here legally, who have only come here to work for a better life for their children, who are only here to work hard and commit no crimes, a chance of becoming legal without them being sent back to their countries? 00:08:24 Speaker 1: So, yes, they should be sent back. But are you illegal or are your parents illegal? 00:08:27 Speaker 5: My father was illegal. He married my mother, and now he is a citizen of this great nation. 00:08:32 Speaker 6: Okay. 00:08:32 Speaker 1: And then you were born here? 00:08:34 Speaker 7: I was born here, yes. 00:08:35 Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. So let me ask you just a theoretical question. If somebody robs a bank because they can't feed their family, should they be prosecuted for that crime? 00:08:45 Speaker 3: Yes. 00:08:46 Speaker 1: Okay. So, therefore, we should not relax the immigration laws just because someone has a good story or they want to feed their family. 00:08:53 Speaker 5: But do you not think that robbing a bank is a little bit different than just moving across land, restricting people's movement? 00:08:59 Speaker 1: Hold on a second. Breaking into the country. Let me ask you a question because it's breaking and entering, right? 00:09:05 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:09:06 Speaker 1: Your father, did he know he was breaking the law when he came into this country? 00:09:09 Speaker 5: My father was 14 years old when he came to this country. 00:09:11 Speaker 1: Did he know it was illegal? 00:09:13 Speaker 7: Yes, he knew it was illegal. 00:09:14 Speaker 5: However, he was a child and came by himself. 00:09:16 Speaker 1: Okay. Well, he knew it was against the law. So we have penalties for juvenile people that break into banks and Break into cars? So he knew the laws, he broke the laws, and he cut in line. Was he invited, or did he come uninvited? 00:09:32 Speaker 5: He was not invited. 00:09:32 Speaker 7: Okay. However. 00:09:33 Speaker 1: So what should we do to uninvited people that break our laws? How should we handle those people? 00:09:40 Speaker 5: Can we not acknowledge the fact that my father, coming from a dirt poor farm community in Mexico, would have had zero opportunity to do so legally? 00:09:50 Speaker 1: Well, but why does he have a right to come here in the first place? You don't have a moral right to enter the United States. Get in line like the Polish and the Irish and the Vietnamese. So just because you live close, and I acknowledge that he came from a poor country. Afghanistan is poor. There are a lot of poor countries. Zimbabwe is a lot poorer than Mexico. So we can make that argument to let in 100 million people. So is the argument that we should allow people that have a sob story, which is your father's case, entrance into our country when they were not invited? 00:10:31 Speaker 5: I think it's hardly a sob story. I think the work that my father has put into his life to become now a citizen and build a life for himself and be able to send his children to college would hardly be. 00:10:40 Speaker 7: Considered a sob story. 00:10:41 Speaker 1: You said he came from a dirt poor country, which is an emotive sob story argument. But let me let me just ask another theoretical question. What should the penalty be for breaking and entering into a country illegally? What should the penalty be? 00:10:54 Speaker 8: The penalty? 00:10:57 Speaker 5: I think that that is something that needs to be looked at as options to allow people who came here illegally, who have worked hard and who have not committed any crimes other. 00:11:06 Speaker 1: Than moving across the border. So your father's a criminal. My father's not a criminal. My father's a citizen of this nation. He broke USC federal law that says you shall not enter the United States across the southern border without proper documentation or without proper entrance. He knew what he was doing. And when he did that, every day he was here and he illegally domiciled himself was a crime. If you squat into somebody's home uninvited, every day you are committing a crime. Yes, I'm sure that he applied himself nicely. I'm sure he raised a nice person, a nice individual such as you. I don't doubt any of that. The question, though, is the law. And the law must be blind to any sort of nice, beautiful story. He was not invited about reforming this law. So should we repeal the law that says you can't you cross the border? You should then be. It's illegal. Should it be illegal to come into America uninvited? 00:12:09 Speaker 5: I'm not saying that it should be legal. I'm saying that this whole process should be changed. Maybe if my dad would have had the opportunity, he would have come legally. 00:12:19 Speaker 1: But no, he could have. Hold on. People come legally from Mexico all the time. 00:12:23 Speaker 7: Absolutely. 00:12:24 Speaker 1: When you have the resources. 00:12:25 Speaker 3: Hold on. 00:12:26 Speaker 1: Well, why didn't your father come legally? He was 14, uneducated, did not go to school. Oh, okay. So got it. Now we're getting somewhere. So he was poor. And so we should make exceptions for poor young people. That's not at all what I'm saying. 00:12:37 Speaker 3: Yes, it is. 00:12:38 Speaker 5: No, that's not at all what I'm saying. 00:12:39 Speaker 9: I'm not. 00:12:40 Speaker 1: You're saying that he didn't have the resources, so we should kind of just relax the laws. So let me just be very clear. We set the laws in America for the good of the people of this country, not for the good of the people of Mexico. Period. And so there is no relaxing and there is no compromise on this. Your father... should have been deported, and he should still be deported, because he has to pay for the crime when he broke into our home. 00:13:09 Speaker 5: You think my father, who is a voting citizen of this country. 00:13:11 Speaker 1: Should be deported? He has to pay a penalty for breaking into America, and he never did. Unless he served prison time, did he? 00:13:18 Speaker 7: No. 00:13:18 Speaker 1: Okay, then he has to pay a penalty. Because my father's not a criminal. But your father is a criminal. He broke a federal law that says you cannot break into America. If someone came up here and they said, you know, my father broke into a bank or my father held up a grocery store, but he raised a beautiful child, I'd say, wait a second, did he ever serve prison time? And thank you for acknowledging you must apply the law regardless of how nice the story is. And so I'll ask the question again. Should we get rid of that law? Should we just say amnesty? We give forgiveness to all who broke the law. You are now here. 00:13:53 Speaker 5: No, but why do we not put forth resources to... Try and help these people go through a legal process. 00:13:59 Speaker 1: What will you do? Hold on. You can apply on the Department of Homeland Security. 00:14:03 Speaker 5: Do we understand how many applications are backlogged? When you're denied applications, you are giving no reason for why your application is being denied. You are spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars for having no idea why your application is being denied. 00:14:16 Speaker 1: Your whole premise is wrong. People think they have no other choice. You have a choice. Go make Mexico great. 00:14:21 Speaker 5: That is very easy to say when you are so far removed from the immigrant experience that your family came. 00:14:25 Speaker 1: Here when immigration was much easier. Yes, you're right. My family did help found the country. You're right. Absolutely. 00:14:30 Speaker 7: On my wife's side, they did too. 00:14:31 Speaker 1: Hold on a second. Your family's from Mexico. My family got here in 1620 and settled the country. Your father broke into the country that my family helped build, okay? Excuse me. Let's be very clear. Excuse me. Your family broke into the country that my family served in a military for. You came uninvited. And now you come up here and you say, well, I think my father's this great story. No, no, your father couldn't wait in line. He could not go make Mexico great again. So he came into the country that he screwed up all the process. Let me finish. Hold on one second. Where do you get the moral right to act as if we should even accept one immigrant? Where do you get that from? 00:15:16 Speaker 5: My question to you is, yes, your family was here. They got to come here legally, right? They got to build this country. 00:15:22 Speaker 1: In 1620, yes. They settled. They did not immigrate. They came to a country that was barren, that was empty, and they helped found the country nearly 500 years, 400 years ago. 00:15:32 Speaker 5: Yes, and on my mother's side, they did the same thing. 00:15:34 Speaker 1: And they came here and they followed all the customs and all the laws. Your father didn't do that. 00:15:37 Speaker 5: Because there were no customs or laws. 00:15:39 Speaker 1: Well, yes, there was. You know what the custom laws was? If you don't die, it's yours. 00:15:48 Speaker 10: Right. 00:15:50 Speaker 1: That was the custom and laws. 00:15:51 Speaker 5: There was no restriction on where people could move and make a better lives to themselves. 00:15:55 Speaker 1: Yeah, because there was nothing. There was the Indians and weather, and it was 1620. If you didn't die of smallpox or die of whatever. So let me just try to find some understanding of common ground. Right now, there are 5 million people that have illegally entered the United States in the last couple years. What should happen with them? 00:16:13 Speaker 5: Of the people who have entered? 00:16:15 Speaker 1: The United States illegally in the last since Biden became president, five million people. What should we do with them? 00:16:20 Speaker 5: I think that they should have to face some sort of application if they want the legal rights of being in this country. I think that there needs to be some kind of reform to look at their situations and see what because. Getting rid of 5 million immigrants or however many immigrants that are here illegally in this country would have drastic. 00:16:38 Speaker 1: No, no, there's 30 million. I'm talking about just the five in the last couple of years. But what implications would it have? 00:16:43 Speaker 5: But if we're going to look at the 30 million people that are here illegally, if we were to get rid of all of them right now, this is not a racist slur. Our construction industry in this country would be absolutely deteriorated. 00:16:53 Speaker 1: Hold on. How dare you say something like that? No, there's... Do you know what would happen? Wages would go up because Americans would get the jobs who didn't steal social security numbers. That's what would happen. We'd have higher wages. We would have less crime. We would have less drug trafficking into this country. And again, if these people build such a beautiful life like your father, why couldn't they do that back in Mexico? If he's like contribute so beautifully. Go back to Mexico and enrich that country. 00:17:31 Speaker 5: Because he was not lucky enough to be born in a country where he had those opportunities. We are all lucky enough to. 00:17:38 Speaker 7: Just be born here. 00:17:40 Speaker 5: We have no idea what it's like to want a better life for your children when you have. 00:17:44 Speaker 1: No other option. A lot of people here have been born poor and have worked really hard. Exactly. 00:17:48 Speaker 9: Yes. 00:17:49 Speaker 1: And secondly, and I'll close with this. 00:17:52 Speaker 9: You're right. 00:17:53 Speaker 1: It is hard work to make a nice country. It's easy work to destroy a nice country. And a country is destroyed when you have uncontrolled amounts of people and you have no idea who they are and they're not invited. And then we have to then be told we have a moral right to stay here because you didn't deport me in time. It's like, okay, either we have the law or we don't. And it's fine if your position is to get rid of the law. That is a position that people in this country have. I'm going to say that ceasing to abide by the American immigration code, which is we should know and have control over who comes into this country, then you're not a country. You're just kind of a territory. And whoever wants to come can come. And that would be the end of the United States of America. Thank you for your time. 00:18:42 Speaker 5: Thank you. 00:18:49 Speaker 6: Hi, folks. 00:18:50 Speaker 11: Andrew Colvett here. I'd like to tell you about my friends over at Y Refi. You've probably been hearing me talk about Y Refi for some time now. We are all in with these guys. If you or someone you know is struggling with private student loan debt, take my advice and give them a call. Maybe you're behind on your payments. Maybe you're even in default. You don't have to live in this nightmare anymore. Y Refi will provide you a custom payment based on your ability to pay. They tailor each loan individually to They can save you thousands of dollars, and you can get your life back. 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As I had this sign, not affiliated to anybody, I had a group of individuals come up to me saying openly they were fascists attending your event. 00:20:14 Speaker 1: And called me the F word while I had it. 00:20:17 Speaker 7: It's not a lie. Now, I am not here to call you a fascist. 00:20:21 Speaker 12: I'm not. 00:20:23 Speaker 10: As I know you're not a Nazi sympathizer, you've never openly sympathized Nazism. 00:20:26 Speaker 7: I can see that. But people who openly call themselves. 00:20:32 Speaker 10: Fascists are here and are not afraid to admit they are fascists. So my question is, Will you denounce fascism today as the definition online puts it as an ideology including racial nationalism and authoritarianism today? 00:20:44 Speaker 9: Yes. 00:20:44 Speaker 1: Will you denounce Marxism as the greatest killer of human beings in the last 100 years? Well, describe Marxism to me. I'm sorry, what? 00:20:51 Speaker 7: Describe Marxism to me. 00:20:52 Speaker 1: The ideology that Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, and Pol Pot employed to the massacre of our 100 million people. It did kill millions of people. 00:20:58 Speaker 3: You're right. Correct. 00:20:59 Speaker 1: Okay. So I'll denounce fascism. You denounce Marxism. 00:21:02 Speaker 3: Yeah? 00:21:02 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:21:02 Speaker 7: Well, I would have to say, like, by definition... No, no, no, no, no. 00:21:05 Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. 00:21:07 Speaker 7: Hold on, hold on, hold on. 00:21:09 Speaker 10: So my thing is that was it Marxism itself or was it a materialistic condition that caused that? Because as Marxists, what we do say is that there's material conditions that contribute to society. Now, you probably aren't familiar with dialectical materialism. I'll try to explain it real quickly. 00:21:21 Speaker 1: No, I've read the Phenomenology of Spirit, and I know Hegel. But tell me, so why not denounce Marxism? I mean, so Mao Zedong... Marxist, Lenin Marxist, Joseph Stalin Marxist. 00:21:33 Speaker 7: I'll denounce Joseph Stalin for you, definitely, yes. 00:21:35 Speaker 10: Joseph Stalin was an authoritarian leader who definitely killed millions of Ukrainians during the export of grain to, of course, build up their economy. 00:21:42 Speaker 1: But there's nothing about– you don't think there's anything about the ideology that leads to the suffering, impoverishing, or the murdering? 00:21:46 Speaker 10: Well, just like how Hitler called himself a socialist, it's not the ideology. It's just what you actually do at practice. 00:21:52 Speaker 1: Yes, he did call himself a socialist. Yeah. But he was not a Marxist. He was not, yeah. But he was National Socialist Workers Party is the actual name of Nazism. But where is Marxism ever worked? 00:22:03 Speaker 7: Well, I wouldn't say that Marxism itself has ever actually been tried. 00:22:05 Speaker 10: Now, of course, you can always say like, oh, like, you know, that's an easy communist getaway question to it. 00:22:10 Speaker 7: Right. 00:22:10 Speaker 1: Well, but Marxism has killed a lot more people than Hitler everywhere. It's tried. It results in famine, impoverishing, death, destruction. Every failed country on the planet right now, including North Korea, is some form of a Marxist dictatorship. So why is it hard to denounce that? Because it's easier for me to denounce fascism. Why the struggle to just say, you know, Marxism, bad, evil, end of story? Why can't we agree on that? 00:22:35 Speaker 10: Well, because if you look at, I'll give the example of North Korea. What we did is that we went in there during the Korean War and destroyed all their factories, right? 00:22:41 Speaker 7: Now, what did this leave? 00:22:42 Speaker 10: It's left an impoverished society where they now had no means to, of course, get their needs because their factories were destroyed. 00:22:47 Speaker 7: So that's number one on why North Korea. Now, I don't like North Korea. I'm just saying that's one reason why. 00:22:51 Speaker 1: Has nothing to do with the Marxist leader? Nothing. 00:22:55 Speaker 7: He's not a Marxist leader. I wouldn't say he's not a Marxist leader. 00:22:58 Speaker 1: So what ideology is his? 00:23:00 Speaker 10: So the ideology of Marxism is simply that workers own the means of production. 00:23:03 Speaker 7: The workers in North Korea. 00:23:04 Speaker 1: Do not own the means of production. Which they have private property rights in North Korea? They don't. Then who owns the means of production? The government does. Oh, okay. 00:23:10 Speaker 7: Yeah, but in a Marxist society. 00:23:12 Speaker 1: No, but in a Marxist society... And that would be Marxism? 00:23:15 Speaker 3: No, it's not. 00:23:16 Speaker 7: Because the workers own the means of production, not the government. 00:23:19 Speaker 1: But who is the government? 00:23:21 Speaker 7: The government is the people, the bureaucrats. The bureaucrats who control the power. 00:23:25 Speaker 1: Okay, and that would be the people, the bureaucrats, owning the means of production, otherwise known as... No. 00:23:30 Speaker 7: No, no, no. You're getting it all wrong. 00:23:32 Speaker 10: Literally, the word definition of Marxism is that workers own. Workers own the means of production. 00:23:37 Speaker 1: Right. So where has that ever been tried or worked? You say it's never been tried ever? 00:23:41 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:23:41 Speaker 1: Okay. Got it. So even though the hammer and sickle and core Marxist ideology has been invoked repeatedly by these leaders, you're saying, no, no, no, not a Marxist. No, no, no, not a Marxist. No, no, no, not a Marxist. Over 100 times it has been tried on every single continent from... Mugabe in Rhodesia, which became Zimbabwe, to parts of India, to China, to Korea, to parts of Eastern Europe, to Central and South America, to Venezuela. None of that is Marxist, even though they say they're Marxist. 00:24:17 Speaker 10: Well, it's tampering with Marxism because you have sanctions and you bomb their country. So, I mean, if you want to call that Marxism, then if you sanction and bomb them, I guess that's Marxism. 00:24:27 Speaker 1: So how have we sanctioned and bombed these Marxists? 00:24:31 Speaker 7: Venezuela has sanctions to where we don't buy their oil anymore. 00:24:34 Speaker 1: Why do you think we're sanctioning them? 00:24:36 Speaker 10: Because they have Marxist ideologies that don't incorporate with capitalist ideology. 00:24:40 Speaker 1: Yeah, they're also like a quasi-terror state. But let's talk about Venezuela. Venezuela used to be rich and prosperous when they had the private ownership of minerals. Why is Venezuela now one of the poorest countries in South America? What ideology caused that? 00:24:55 Speaker 7: See, but that's the thing, though. It's not the ideology. 00:24:56 Speaker 1: It's the practice. 00:24:57 Speaker 7: Now, you could say the practice is Marxism, but again, do the workers own the means of production in that country? 00:25:03 Speaker 1: Somebody does. 00:25:04 Speaker 7: Yeah, somebody does, but not the workers. 00:25:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, the government owns. So, I mean, in like the purest form of Das Kapital Marxism, it is the government that comes in and abolishes private property. Correct? 00:25:17 Speaker 10: This is, of course, called the dictatorship of the proletariat, I think is what you're referring to. 00:25:22 Speaker 7: Right. 00:25:22 Speaker 1: So let me ask you a question. So you believe in this like abstract Marxism that you don't ever want to denounce, even though it's been tried a hundred times. 00:25:31 Speaker 10: But again, you say try, but we just said that it hasn't been tried because workers haven't owned the means of production. 00:25:35 Speaker 1: Okay. Well, why do you think that is? Because they use the swan song of Marxism and Marxism will always result in an oligarchy or a dictatorship. Because you know why? It's impossible to quote unquote have the workers owns the means of production because the We don't share well as human beings. That's why only someone that has, and with all possible due respect, an infant understanding of human nature can think communism can work because we're self-interested at our core. And you have an economic system that is built not on private property, but on quote unquote shared goods. You're going to have a dictator on top of it that is going to exploit and terrorize. And so you started this conversation by asking me to Denounce fascism, which is responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths, said ideology. I'm pleading you one more time to denounce Marxism that is responsible for minimum 100 to 120 million deaths. 00:26:32 Speaker 10: Okay, academics have proven that wrong. 00:26:33 Speaker 1: That's not true. 00:26:34 Speaker 7: That's from the Black Book of Communism. 00:26:36 Speaker 1: How many people did Mao kill? 00:26:38 Speaker 7: Mao killed about 30 to 40 million. 00:26:39 Speaker 1: How many people did Stalin kill? 00:26:41 Speaker 7: Stalin killed about 20 to 30 million. 00:26:42 Speaker 1: Okay, now we're at 60 million, and I just mean like two countries, man. 00:26:45 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:26:45 Speaker 1: Okay. So like we're out of the gate. We're at like 60 million. OK, so I can keep on going. 00:26:52 Speaker 3: Right. 00:26:52 Speaker 1: If you want to talk famine, impoverishing, lowering of standard of living. But what I what I want to just reiterate as we close this out, there's this pathological fascination with fascism, fascism, fascism and a complete ignoring that Marxism, which is the other side of the authoritarian coin, has been far deadlier. far more costly, and is far more popular. And I'll ask this final question. What do you think has a greater chance of catching on in America, fascism or Marxism? I would say fascism. 00:27:23 Speaker 10: Okay. 00:27:25 Speaker 1: You really think so? I really do believe that. 00:27:27 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:27:27 Speaker 1: The only way I would possibly agree with that is the left-wing fascists that shut up people on campuses and allow, you know, try to stop freedom of speech. But what, it's just, I'm perplexed by your position. and your inability and your unwillingness to denounce Marxism. I don't know how many, maybe another 100 million people dead. Maybe you'd change your mind. 00:27:50 Speaker 7: Thank you. 00:27:50 Speaker 1: Thanks. 00:28:03 Speaker 3: Hello. 00:28:04 Speaker 2: Thank you for coming to speak on our campus. So, In America, we have a huge problem to where additives and preservatives are put in our foods, contributing to cancer and neurological disorders in children. So as a conservative, how do you believe the FDA should be regulated or reformed to improve health for all Americans? 00:28:29 Speaker 1: It's a great question. Boy, first of all, people need to go to jail for what they did during COVID at the FDA and the CDC. I'll tell you what. I don't have a great technical policy answer, but the FDA is basically purchased by big ag, and we need to divest from high fructose corn syrup. It's one of the great poisons that is creating obesity in this country. And cancer rates are way up, and we don't know why. And it's the Food and Drug Administration's, especially for young people, by the way, it's crazy. And as conservatives, we're pro-business, but we shouldn't be slaves to business. And we should really worry about, okay, So this younger generation is the most suicidal, most alcohol addicted, most drug addicted, most anxious, most depressed generation in history. And it's also, we have the most obese country we've ever seen. Isn't that kind of what the FDA and the CDC exists to try to address? And instead, the FDA is, you know, they're like flirting on like DEI, like how racism impacts, you know, food like selections. Yeah, look, I think it's not overly complicated. We need to blow up. up the food triangle that we teach every single kid. We are far too reliant and pushing of carbohydrates and cheap carbohydrates, especially like cereal and bread. And we are not as pushing of lean proteins And fats, there's three types of food. It's protein, fats, carbohydrates. Everything falls into those three things. 00:30:00 Speaker 3: True. 00:30:00 Speaker 1: You need two of those, not all three to live. You need proteins and fats. You do not need carbohydrates to live. It's that simple. Now, you might need carbohydrates to get your blood sugar up, but I cannot emphasize this enough. The FDA, they lied repeatedly during COVID and manipulated their behaviors and covered it up. And I think that we need a truth and reconciliation committee if Donald Trump becomes the next president of the United States, we need to have a Warren Commission-style report issued for all the laws. Yes, final point on that. 00:30:34 Speaker 2: So the statistic is about 60% of our foods are processed. Yes. So what is the way you think the FDA can possibly turn that around? 00:30:47 Speaker 1: It's not as much the FDA. It has to start with a culture change, honestly. And, I mean, there's... There's a lot of proposals out there. I'm not that into the weeds of how to actually change that. But the best first way is that you don't have to eat processed foods. You don't have to. In fact, you can reject processed foods and eat whole foods. And, I mean, there's a list of, like, the worst things you could possibly eat, and Americans are, like, the top consumers of those. 00:31:10 Speaker 2: But I feel as even our whole foods are being poisoned as well through pesticides being put into– the soil during planting, and as well as stripping, let's say for bread example, stripping the wheat of its just natural components. I guess bleached flour would be the best way to put it. 00:31:40 Speaker 1: All right. Well, thank you for the question. And I totally agree. We have to change the way we eat and the change the way we grow food in this country. Thank you. 00:31:53 Speaker 7: Hello, Charlie Kirk. 00:31:54 Speaker 13: Thank you so much for coming for Texas Tech. My name is Nalen. I'm one of the TikTokers. I had a content, Your Daily Entertainment, and I did a viral video that you actually commented on. 00:32:07 Speaker 14: Do you remember? 00:32:08 Speaker 3: No. 00:32:09 Speaker 1: Okay. 00:32:10 Speaker 13: It's how many genders are there, that video. 00:32:14 Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Okay. 00:32:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was you. Okay. Yeah, that was me. A quick question. 00:32:17 Speaker 13: What did you think about that video? 00:32:19 Speaker 1: Obviously, I liked it. 00:32:20 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:32:21 Speaker 7: Okay, cool, cool. All right, so come through. 00:32:23 Speaker 1: Good work, man. Keep on creating content. 00:32:25 Speaker 13: Thank you, thank you, thank you. 00:32:26 Speaker 1: Exposing them, right? 00:32:27 Speaker 13: Anyways, the real question is, if you had a power to change the mind of every single liberal of one political issue, what would it be and why? 00:32:35 Speaker 1: Oh, wow, that's a good question. If I had the power to change their mind on one issue. Very simple. I believe if I could get every single liberal to believe that there was a God and they were not God, the country would be a much better place. 00:32:50 Speaker 3: Amen. Thank you. 00:32:53 Speaker 1: Thank you. 00:32:54 Speaker 15: Trump 24. 00:32:55 Speaker 1: Thank you. 00:33:00 Speaker 16: Don't worry, I didn't bring any tortillas. So my question pertains to the federal income tax. 00:33:08 Speaker 9: How was the U.S. 00:33:09 Speaker 16: Government able to fund its spending before the federal income tax was implemented? And would going back to that still be functional with how much the U.S. has grown since then? 00:33:18 Speaker 1: Well, we used to fund it through tariffs mostly. And government was a lot smaller. And we ran into a problem with World War I because we wanted to be able to fund our incursion into World War I. And so we had to also simultaneously pass the Federal Reserve Act, which basically allowed us to print money on demand, which started a 100-year cycle of for us to be able to open up the money supply whenever we want, and you're living at the last gasp of basically cheap money and fiat currency. So you cannot get back to funding the government with lower taxes and or keep more of your stuff if you don't actually first fix the currency. And the Federal Reserve is turning out to be a disaster for working men and women in this country. If you do not have assets, you get 10% poorer every year right now, minimum. And just look at groceries. That's the best way to look at it. Look at homes. Look at just durable goods. And so the Federal Reserve is the number one place that I would focus at. But we're probably already too far down the runway. I mean, we're borrowing a trillion dollars every hundred days at this point. 00:34:15 Speaker 15: Gotcha. 00:34:16 Speaker 16: So is there anything that we could do that, if we were to abolish the federal income tax, that would get us back to a stronger economy and keeping more of our stuff? 00:34:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the problem is we just have so much government to pay for. We have a $ 6 trillion federal budget, and we're not even reaching that, right? So we We're borrowing about $ 2. 5 to $ 3 trillion. We're borrowing almost half, not quite, almost half of the entire federal budget every single year. I would love to be able to abolish the income tax and get rid of the IRS. But we have to significantly cut government spending. We have way too much government spending in this country. We have so much waste, so much abuse. Government is too big. And government used to be a lot smaller. And that's why I kind of started with Texas is that the spirit of Texas used to be kind of almost no government. It was the spirit of the West is you take care of yourself. And so I'd love to get back to that. Thank you. God bless. Thank you. First things first, it's an honor to meet you. I love the hat. Oh, thank you. 00:35:14 Speaker 4: I actually bought it because of you. 00:35:15 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the one that I was in Portland, and that young lady threw it on the ground. That's right, when I was wearing it. Well, lately I wanted. 00:35:24 Speaker 4: To truly find my faith because I didn't know if in my heart I believed in God or not. And so I went around from church to church and person to person, a different background, trying to figure out what they believed and why. And I've heard countless arguments everywhere and all sorts of reasons they believe, why they believe their faith. But now I'm going to admit I'm more confused than I've ever been in my life because everyone claims to have a different answer and several different reasons why. I wanted to believe that there's a creator and I might have a purpose, but now I don't know what to believe in, if anything at all. So what can I or someone else like me do to deal with severe doubts and uncertainty? in spiritual guidance, finding meaning, and trying to find the truth. 00:36:02 Speaker 1: First of all, God bless you for the courage to come up and ask that question. I think that's great. Have you visited a lot of churches too? Is that what you're saying? Yes. So let me tell you where I think American evangelical community gets things wrong, especially the last 20 or 30 years. I did not come up with this, but I'm an adoptee. It's by Ray Comfort. You may know him. He's an author and a theologian. and it's very simple. It's that most churches will tell you the following. Give your life to Christ, and you're going to have a wonderful life ahead of you. Now, that's partially true. My life is much better thanks to I gave my life to Jesus. But it's not a pain-free life, and it's not an easy life. So we must start first with the entirety of the scriptures, right, which starts with the first truth claim. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. So this is, in my personal opinion, I'd love to have you study Aquinas' seven proofs of God, self-evident. We have an intelligible world. You look around us. We can discover it. We can know it. We can reason with it. The idea that we even have reason is a belief that there is a creator because it's such an incomprehensible sort of idea. American Christianity gets wrong, though, is that they refuse to ever tell you about the wrath that is awaiting you in the next life, and they only tell you that your life is going to dramatically improve in the short term. So in the scriptures, we learn, especially in the Decalogue, the Ten Commandments, basically the ten rules for life. And if you study it very closely, you realize that you break a lot of those commandments, sometimes on a daily basis. And so the more you study the law, the law teaches you about the nature of sin, and it points you to Christ. So here's a beautiful question during Holy Week. This week, we remember that it wasn't just a cool dude. It wasn't just a motivational speaker. It wasn't just a good figure in history. But we as Christians believe God incarnate took human flesh to dwell among us, live a perfect life, die an unjust death after doing amazing miracles, performing an incredible ministry, doing things that changed the world forever, died and rose again on the third day, which we celebrate on Sunday. Now, the significance of this is I could give you a million different reasons why that is compelling, right? The fact that we have four different accounts and using historical type analysis, we do not have anything close to that kind of analysis of any sort of historical events that are thousands of years old. I could give you the argument that it was women witnesses that saw Jesus, so if you were going to make up after he rose from the dead, so if you were going to make something up, why would you have the resurrection story with female witnesses? I can go through all the different stories about how there's never been an archaeological discovery that's contradicted the truth of the Bible, but here's the final thing is, you need to just open up your heart more than all that. And so that's the most important thing. And it's only going to happen through prayer. And it's going to happen through, God, are you real? Jesus, come into my life. And I could do all that other stuff, but I could tell you this, that there is a creator. And he left us his word as living evidence to show us exactly how to live, what he's done, the purpose for all of us. And I can understand that you're confused, but understand that there might be a million different answers of how they see the universe, but there's only one truth and there's only one life. And this Holy Week, my prayer for you is that you'll consider and welcome Jesus Christ into your heart, who will transform you and will save you from the wrath that is to come and save you from what happens because we cannot live under God's perfect and pleasing will. Do you have a follow-up? No, that's all I have. I want to thank you for that. I'm going to pray for you. What's your name? My name is Cameron Burke. God, please work in Cameron's life this Holy Week. We pray that your Holy Spirit will move. And Cameron, God bless you for your courage. And Lord, we pray for your Holy Spirit to enter Cameron. We'll be praying for you in Jesus' name. God bless you, Cameron. 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And I know there's like a lot of women that just give up their babies and they don't. 00:42:08 Speaker 5: Have anywhere to go. 00:42:10 Speaker 3: So my question is, what are the steps to take for such poor systems? And should we make abortion legal first, then the foster care system to take care after that? 00:42:19 Speaker 1: Or how should we go? Yeah, so the foster care system is too hard to navigate. My solution is not loved by the left, which is I think that Christian ministries and churches should help facilitate the adoption of children. as a kind of a easier clearinghouse than the government. There are a million abortions in this country every single year. There are two million couples on the adoption waiting list. I think it needs to be all simultaneous. And we also hopefully can try to make abortion an unthinkable act in this country and one that is harder and harder to do. You guys here in West Texas have done a great job of that. And you guys should be really encouraged for your heroism and your bravery in that regard, but the rest of the country is leaning more into abortion, more so than ever before, and it's happening in a horrific way. But, yes, as far as the foster care system, the only issue I have, it needs to be done in a way where you cannot allow predators an easier way to get their hands on children because a lot of people still game the foster care system. And there's two things. There's not foster care and adoption. They're technically two different things, but they are related. And the adoption system in this country is absolutely messed up, it's, it's beyond screwed up in a lot of different ways. So all of the above type approach. 00:43:32 Speaker 15: Okay. 00:43:33 Speaker 17: Awesome. 00:43:33 Speaker 7: Thank you so much. 00:43:34 Speaker 1: Thank you for being here. 00:43:41 Speaker 9: Hi, Charlie. My name is Riley and I'm very excited that you're here. I love listening to your speeches and debates. My question is in a world where society teaches promiscuity as a healthy part of dating, what would be your best advice to counter it? 00:43:55 Speaker 1: Uh, it's a great question. Well, first, uh, Just say no to hookup culture and save yourself for marriage. That is the first thing that I would say. And we don't talk enough about piety and you should just save yourself for your eventual partner. And if you've already not done that, then you just start now, right? If you've already, it's not too late to start now. It's not like, well, I've already broken that and might as well keep on going. That's a bad argument, so don't do that. But everything comes at a price. And especially for young women, free sex does not impact both sexes equally. Free sex is far more damaging to women than it is for men. It's damaging for men, but it is far more damaging to women than it is for men because women view sex very personal, very relational. Men view sex differently, and that's just how God wired us, right? And far less so than women. So how do you reject it? You need to try to embrace piety. Try to find other friends that are not into hookup culture. Pray for your future husband. And I could tell you that If you are saving yourself for marriage, you become a very, very attractive individual for men where all they see is OnlyFans girls walking all over the place and these digital prostitutes that are willing to sell themselves for $ 10 a month, which it is. It's digital prostitution if you have an OnlyFans page, right? And by the way, for those of you that are men that have OnlyFans accounts, You're no better than the girls that are selling bodies, by the way. You're subsidizing modern-day digital prostitution. So it goes both ways, okay? It goes both ways. So there are a lot of great men in this country, and then my advice is try to get married early. Try to get married early. I'm a big proponent of this. The hardest emails I have to read are early 30-something women who waited, were not able to find a partner, and they earn a good living. They live in Dallas. They have a nice apartment. They're a partner at a law firm, and they have a lot of cats. Thank you so much. Thank you. 00:46:02 Speaker 14: Hey, Charlie, my name's Ben. Thank you so much for being here. And my question for you is, do you believe that the 2020 election was rigged? And if so, What can people do who do not support Biden do to prevent it from happening again without stooping to the level of radical leftists that we hate so much? 00:46:20 Speaker 1: It's a great question. Yes, it was rigged. Yeah, it's a great question. I love Texas Tech. This is great. This is not Austin. This is not Austin. This is not Austin. I've spoke there. This is a lot different. Yes, it was rigged. Let's be very clear. How was it rigged? Well, first, The one that we can all agree upon that we don't talk about enough, it was rigged through information warfare. One particular element was the Hunter Biden laptop. We were not allowed to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop on social media, on Twitter, on Facebook. The New York Post lost access to their Twitter account. In fact, it was so bad that 50 former Intel agency officials came out and they said that the Hunter Biden laptop was hallmark Russian disinformation, which then was used as a reason to censor this entire story. That very well could have been a decisive, in fact, polling shows that could have tilted the 2020 election to get Donald Trump reelected in 2020. Just that one issue. Not to mention all of the collusion between the FBI and Facebook, the Central Intelligence Agency, Five Eyes. And so they used all this different censorship through information warfare to stop dissident voices that we have now proven. Second part of rigging is you had $ 400 million from Mark Zuckerberg that was pumped in to urban centers across the country through the Center for Technology and Civic Life that created these drop boxes that allowed mass mail-in voting to continue and to be really, really widespread. People need to be held criminally accountable for what they did in the 2020 election because it was a drive-by shooting for the U.S. Constitution. Finally, there's the mail-in ballots, which is we had a lot of shenanigans and activity. This is harder to prove in a court of law. but we know that this occurred, that we have mass universal voter registration, tons of mail-in ballots that were sent all over. We did not have robust signature verification. We had days and days and days where they were counting the ballots, and people's faith and integrity in that system went down. So let me tell you what we can do. Let's go through the list. Number one, Twitter has new ownership now, thankfully, and I think it's one of the reasons why we have a fighting chance to compete in November. Number two, this is why, albeit I'm a very big critic of Speaker Johnson at times, I have him coming on the show in a couple days, we have to make sure that we all of a sudden don't hand over the gavel to Speaker Jeffries because we need the ability to have oversight hearings in the middle of the election if we believe any of these tech companies are interfering with our ability to basically have the 2024 election operate without the narrative being interrupted. And then finally, the mail-in ballot thing is the toughest question. Wisconsin has minorly changed their laws. Georgia a little bit. Arizona is still kind of a mess. But we have to play with the rules in front of us, which is why at Turning Point Action, we're kind of taking the cough medicine. We realize it's not the best thing for us, but we're going to do it. We're hiring hundreds of full-time on-the-ground ballot chasers to go chase early ballots, and we're going to try to use the rules that they have built against them to, God willing, get towards victory in November. So no guarantees, but we're going to try our best. 00:49:28 Speaker 14: Thank you so much. 00:49:29 Speaker 1: Thank you. If you disagree, guys, we'll get you on up there. Yes, we'll keep going for a little bit. 00:49:35 Speaker 8: All right. My name is James. It's honestly an honor to meet you or talk in front of you. I'm actually nervous as crap. 00:49:41 Speaker 1: Sorry. Pardon my French. 00:49:43 Speaker 8: But earlier on the border crisis that you mentioned, you mentioned Harris County, and that is where I'm from, and it is a war zone. My friends have been shot at in Whataburger parking lots. Road rages incidents are awful. People are getting gunned down, chased into parking lots, beaten, dragged out of their cars. But lately, I'm also looking at the news because everyone knows that are my friends. I hate Joe Biden with a passion like I cannot stand that man. And I'm looking right now and apparently they're like, oh, he is winning in the polls. 00:50:15 Speaker 1: He just boosted up. 00:50:17 Speaker 8: And part of my question is, is that true or is that a bunch of bull crap? 00:50:22 Speaker 1: Because I think it's bull. Well, he's winning in some polls. I mean, look, we can't get too cocky. This is important. They control so much in this country. They control the media. They control Goldman Sachs. They control Citibank. They control the social media companies. So in certain states, Biden has the election apparatus kind of at his hand. This thing's going to be very close. It shouldn't be. It should be a 50-state wipeout, but it's going to be very close. And we have to walk into this thing not cocky but humble and ask God to use us as faithful servants and to say, use us as your vessel. Use us for your will. But I would just tell your friends, like, let's not just let's not poll watch. You know, let's see what the final result is, because you could drive yourself crazy because some polls show that Donald Trump is up. And look, we cannot be arrogant. That's one of the most important things. It's easy if you just go to events like this where you around to think like we are the majority. I think we are the majority, but we don't have an election system that represents the will of the people as accurately as we did 20 or 30 years ago. You got to be honest about that. I think we have to be humble, work our tail off. And then on election day, pray to God that he'll have mercy on this great nation. 00:51:31 Speaker 8: Another question I have. 00:51:32 Speaker 1: Yeah, really quick. 00:51:33 Speaker 4: All right. 00:51:34 Speaker 8: So I've seen you on Instagram and all those people that are censoring your speech because my job actually did that because I posted something on Instagram against Palestine and someone told my boss about that and I got removed. 00:51:46 Speaker 1: How do you deal with that? 00:51:47 Speaker 8: Because they're screaming F off fascists and you're just sitting there calmly. 00:51:50 Speaker 1: How do you deal with it? Yeah, here's my best answer to that. My natural temperament. is actually to kind of get upset, but only thanks to the fruit of the Spirit do I have self-control. And I'm going to do my best here, but I think it's love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control. I know I forgot one. Which one did I forget? 00:52:15 Speaker 3: Joy. 00:52:16 Speaker 1: Well, yeah. And faithfulness. See, I did my best, okay? I remember the end of it. Self-control. But honestly, Dive into the scriptures, pray for it, and you will be given it. It is the fruit of the spirit. And without the spirit, I'd be screaming something back to them when they say, F off fascist. So it's thanks to God's infinite mercy. It really is. 00:52:37 Speaker 8: Thank you so much, and let's go, Brandon. 00:52:39 Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. Mr. 00:52:45 Speaker 18: Charlie Kirk, it's an honor to meet you. I've been following you since 2020. I'm in love with you. 00:52:50 Speaker 1: Not in love with you. 00:52:50 Speaker 8: Sorry. 00:52:53 Speaker 1: Not San Francisco, man. That's with you. 00:52:57 Speaker 18: But so I'm a country artist. My name is Nate Reed. 00:52:59 Speaker 1: I'm on Spotify and everything. 00:53:01 Speaker 18: But the reason my question is about TikTok, because I use TikTok as a platform to reach fans. And I've heard on the news everything going on with TikTok being shut down because China and the CC is stealing all the information and stuff and using that to take our identities and stuff. Is that true? And if so, what are we going to do about it? 00:53:25 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a great thing. So the bill has passed the House to not ban TikTok, but to make it be sold to an American company. So here's where I stand on this. I can't stand TikTok. I think it's societal poison. And I'm glad you're benefiting from it because someone should. I have been banned from that darn platform so many times for hate speech violations. We put up very basic videos, and so we're at war with them constantly. With that being said, and I could go on about all the negatives that TikTok has literally shortened the attention span of young people. It has been the introductory vessel for the trans ideology in this country, and his getting younger and younger people introduced the idea of gender dysphoria, which leads to their disfiguration and chemical castration. Side note. Any doctor, because I know there's a big medical center here, any doctor that butchers a child under transgender care should go to jail for the rest of their life. 00:54:24 Speaker 6: Period. 00:54:24 Speaker 2: Okay? 00:54:27 Speaker 1: That just needs to be said. So, with that being said, I actually oppose this bill because I don't trust the government and I don't trust all of a sudden speeding this bill through Congress because I think it's going to be used against us. I think that it will be used to censor us. And I can't stand TikTok. So I actually think I have one of the best arguments because I don't benefit from TikTok. I fight them every day. They've banned me, again, as I've said so many times. But with that being said, I would rather not give that power to the Biden regime to be able to censor our social media, to be able to demand that they're sold. Way too much power that I don't want to give. And the other reason is we're starting to see the golden era of the Internet reemerge. Again, I'm not on TikTok, but I'm told that conservatives and Trump supporters are doing very, very well on TikTok. That's what I'm told. and that the message is getting out. In fact, someone said, Charlie, some of your videos have like 30 million views on TikTok. I said, okay, well, not on my video. People repost my stuff, which I don't care. It's whatever. But I'm glad you're benefiting from it. Worst case scenario, it will be sold to an American company, but then we'll all of a sudden have transferred all this power to Joe Biden. And if there's anything we have learned in recent years, power you give to the government will be power abused. Thank you so much. 00:55:39 Speaker 7: This is it. 00:55:43 Speaker 12: Hey, what's going on, Charlie? I appreciate you being here. You know, it's my first time being at an event like this. I've always watched from YouTube, but, you know, my first time here. My question is more about parenting. So me personally, I'm a young, young adult. I'm in the service and I have my wife here with me and we're about to have a kid. So, yeah, so it's going to be mine. Obviously, you know, it's going to be my first kid. I'm nervous like a normal parent. But one of the biggest things that's, you know, things that's weighing on my conscience as I'm about to be a dad, you know, is just the environment I'm raising my kid in. So, like, I was lucky to be born in a time where it was less, you know, chaotic with all these, like, gender this, gender that, LGBT, ABCD, whatever you want to call it. Like, all that stuff was not as relevant when I was growing up. But my kid, you know, he's about to come into a time where I feel like we're fighting to know what man and woman is. And that's something that's like super basic to me growing up. So like me as a dad, the last thing I want to do is to hear my, you know, my son come back to me saying, hey, dad, I'm going to a college to hear about what a man. 00:56:48 Speaker 1: And woman is. 00:56:49 Speaker 12: Even though, you know, 15 years down the line, I'm like, yeah, I did that back when I was. 00:56:52 Speaker 1: You know, age or whatever. 00:56:53 Speaker 12: So like that's my biggest question is like, how do I have the confidence in knowing that the life that I'm about to bring into this world? is something that I can at least control to some point. You know, God controls everything, but it's something I can control at some point where I don't have him going, you know, having to fight these trials or these weird people out here. 00:57:11 Speaker 1: What a great question. Isn't that just terrific? I love that. I'm a new father. We have a 20-month-old, so I'm by no means an expert. But you'll learn that kids spell love, T-I-M-E. And that's one of the most important things that as a father, every opportunity, Every minute of time that you can spend is valuable and precious, right? It's not as easy. You might have to, you know, serve and be deployed and all that. The most important thing you can do. Remember the scriptures tell us children are a blessing of the Lord and you are the guardian of that child, right? Which means you must protect that child from outside influences. There are three types of people in this world. There are predators, there are infants, and the protectors of infants. You fall into one of those three categories. So you're about to welcome an infant into the world. Your job is to protect the infant from the predators. And the predators take many different forms. Through groomers, through social media toxins, through criminals, through all these different things. And especially as the head of the household, the male, you must constantly be looking at the threats. You must constantly be looking at the attack vectors. Because there is a growing, unregulated, unchecked community of predators in this country that are coming after children younger and younger and younger. And that is not an exaggeration. We call them groomers. They're in our schools. They're in our society. And it's you as the father to instill values from a very young age. And so I'm by no means an expert, but I can tell you this. I have seen over many years parents that have brought their kids to Turning Point events, parents that have exposed their kids these ideas, and it bears fruit. The earlier you introduce them to these ideas, the earlier you get them excited about Jesus and the word and the scriptures. And the final thing is the creepy thing that I've learned, not creepy, is how much even an 18-month mimics the parents' behavior and how much that they are in the mold. Everything you do from what you say to how you act, so not as if there's like enough pressure already on you. right? Right. But look at that as like, I got to be the best version of myself. And as soon as you get married, you are no longer a boy and you become a man. But when you become a father, a whole different thing comes in, right? Because becoming a husband is awesome. And that you'll always have that. Father is like a different level. 00:59:30 Speaker 9: Right. 00:59:31 Speaker 1: And balancing the paranoia with the fun times is something that all of us new fathers have to realize. And I get told this all the time from parents. I don't know if I would have kept my head if I had to raise a kid in today's America. I get that told all the time because it's just it's a different world. But with God, God, all things are possible. 00:59:50 Speaker 10: Amen. 00:59:51 Speaker 1: God bless you, man. Thank you. 00:59:57 Speaker 6: Hi, folks. 00:59:58 Speaker 11: Andrew Colvett here. I'd like to tell you about my friends over at YRefi. You've probably been hearing me talk about YRefi for some time now. We are all in with these guys. If you or someone you know is struggling with private student loan debt, take my advice and give them a call. Maybe you're behind on your payments. Maybe you're even in default. You don't have to live in this nightmare anymore. YRefi will provide you a custom payment based on your ability to pay. They tailor each loan individually. They can save you thousands of dollars, and you can get your life back. 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They got deep-seated mental problems, and they need counseling, and they don't need us to affirm their gender dysphoria so they can cheat their way to victory in weightlifting and swimming, in wrestling. Then finally, this is a harder ask, but female athletes need to start to do massive boycotts. And I know this is a big ask, but we need to get to a place where if a biological man is competing against females in a championship or in a consequential sporting event, the biological women just say, we're not competing. We're not going to do it. We're going to do a sit out. We're going to do a walkout. This needs to become a movement and shame on the NCAA and Charlie Baker that has allowed women to be preyed upon. Remember, three types of people. And Charlie Baker at the NCAA, former Republican governor of Massachusetts, fumbles over himself on this issue because he's afraid of the alphabet mafia. He's afraid to stand up to the transgender jihadis who go after you viciously and they say, you must affirm because I'm a girl. No, actually, Mr. Thomas, you are not a girl. You're a cheater who is dressing like a girl. And you're a perv. And you're a creep. And you're not even that good of a swimmer when you compete against biological men. And we have done a lot of speaking events with Riley Gaines who has done more to expose the insanity and the darkness within this. But the women's sports thing is just one element of this. The only way you fix it is you say no. No, you actually can't compete here. And here's the solution. People say, what's the solution? First of all, you're acting as if it's a problem. Okay, Mr. Thomas, you can use whatever name you want. Just swim with the boys. You could call yourself a girl. Swim with the boys. If you win, which you won't because you're not very good, we'll say that you're a transgender swimmer. Oh, so we have to reconfigure the entire sporting process for a fringe minority. So we can no longer have standards of excellence with just females. We now have to insult all the women that have worked their life to become the best in their sport or their craft so that somebody who has higher testosterone, more bone density, higher muscle mass, more lung capacity can scoot on over and cheat themselves to victory. The NCAA, they're facing some big lawsuits, and they're going to be judged in history for their cowardice and their silence and turning their back on women. Thank you. Thank you. We'll take a couple more. And if you disagree in the final call, it is Lovick. So we got two disagreements. So there you go. 01:04:28 Speaker 2: Yeah. 01:04:30 Speaker 1: Hi, nice to meet you. 01:04:32 Speaker 16: So the right kind of has a reputation of being uncool. 01:04:35 Speaker 1: And what can we do both? What can each of us do individually? And what can we do collectively to kind of dispel that? Yeah, I mean, I don't know what even being cool means anymore. Like, I mean, I don't really care about being cool. I care about being right. And I mean you kind of look at– I can name three people that wouldn't be considered cool that could draw bigger crowds than like your everyday rapper. Like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Matt Walsh would draw a bigger crowd on most campuses than like a cool celebrity. And so the left is also making themselves uncool. Like being the pronoun police and going around constantly censoring people's speech, there's zero countercultural energy on the left. They control everything. And, you know, being young and being cool is kind of being countercultural. So and if you're a real rebel in high school, are you a liberal? No, you kind of just fit in. You wear your mask and you take every, you know, Pfizer vaccine and like, you know, use the right pronouns. If you want to be a rebel, wear a MAGA hat to your local high school. That's being a rebel. Thank you. 01:05:41 Speaker 3: Thank you. 01:05:42 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Hi, thank you for being here. My name is Caleb. 01:05:50 Speaker 19: So my question's got a little bit of background, so I apologize. But just to start off, I believe dating is for marriage. I believe dating for the sake of dating is futile. That is something that I believe is backed up by the Bible, as it seems clear that dating for the sake of dating or for fun is a recipe to fall into sexual immorality. I believe that people should save themselves for marriage. I've been dating my current girlfriend for almost a year and a half, and we both agree with this sentiment. Some of our friends at church say they agree with us, but then they say that before they look to settle down, they want to date around and find what kind of people they like. And while they do not see it like this, their argument sounds very similar to the idea that people should sleep around to find their sexual preferences before settling down. I believe this idea that people should date around is a. 01:06:33 Speaker 1: Path towards sin. 01:06:34 Speaker 19: How should my girlfriend and I go about explaining our point of view and the dangers of dating casually in our modern world? 01:06:42 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, just go back to scripture. If you're talking to Christians, cohabitation is a sin, period. And to live with another that if you are not married, just invite sexual immorality. And so, yeah, I mean, how you explain it, you shouldn't have to explain it. You have what I hopefully they would want, which is you're saving yourself for marriage. And let's talk about why it's important to save yourself for marriage. Sex is the most personal, intimate thing that God gave us. And so why would you want to share that with anything other than the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, your soulmate, where you become one with that individual? Why would you want to all of a sudden be like, well, I've shared that now with seven other people. I don't even remember five of their names. You have now diluted the most beautiful and, dare I say, almost holy thing that God gave us between men and women. It destroys it. It deteriorates it. It waters it down. And the church has not done a good enough job of really holding up this ideal of marriage because they want to fit into modern culture, which is get married earlier. Save yourself for marriage. And so how you navigate it, just go back to Scripture. That's how I would. And honestly, don't worry. If your friends really believe that, they might not be that close of friends, to be perfectly honest. So I have one follow-up to that. 01:07:57 Speaker 19: Their point of view isn't that they're going to go and act promiscuous. They just think that they should go date a few people and just expect it to work out well, that nothing's actually going to happen, that they're going to move from person to person to person until they find the right one, and that somehow they're going to stay here. 01:08:13 Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to happen. Yeah, I mean, again, well, so are they dating or are they shopping? I think they're shopping. Yeah, exactly. So they just need to use the right term. So dating is the practice of... And again, you can date multiple people before you get married. Let me be very clear. But every one of those dates or the people you date with must be the intention. The first question is, is this someone I could spend the rest of my life with? You need to say that in the first five minutes. It's not like, is this person attractive? Do I like this person? No, no. And if that question becomes, all of a sudden answers itself, well, then the date is over. Does that make sense? So if they're dating with the intent to marry, then yes, you can have multiple partners that you can date, uh, However, most of those people that do that, they're kind of dating more for sport than they are for actual marriage. 01:09:00 Speaker 19: Okay, thank you. 01:09:01 Speaker 1: Thank you. We'll do a couple more. 01:09:06 Speaker 7: Hey, how's it going, Charlie? 01:09:07 Speaker 8: How are you? 01:09:09 Speaker 15: Awesome. I just had a quick question. So you obviously believe that there's a heaven and a hell and there's a God and there's a devil, yes. I was just going to speed up the question. Do you believe that Antichrist is alive right now? 01:09:21 Speaker 1: I don't know. Could be. I don't know. 01:09:23 Speaker 7: Also, can I say a quick prayer for you real quick? 01:09:25 Speaker 1: That's all right? 01:09:26 Speaker 3: Okay, sure. 01:09:27 Speaker 15: Dear Holy Father, Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for just bringing Charlie to this event, Lord. We're so blessed to have him, Lord. I pray that as his travels go on, Lord, that you'll just keep him safe, him and his family, Lord. And just thank you for blessing him to be a father, Lord. Just so amazed for that, Lord. I pray you keep him safe, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. 01:09:46 Speaker 1: Beautiful, man. Thank you. Thank you. Are you going to sign it? Yeah, we'll get it signed. Just go right over there. Thanks, man. Do you have a pen? Happy to sign it. 01:09:58 Speaker 11: Thank you. 01:10:14 Speaker 7: Hi, Charlie. 01:10:15 Speaker 2: How are you? 01:10:15 Speaker 17: First of all, I just want to say thank you for coming to Texas Tech. I just want to also note firsthand I have seen the rise in the conservative movement for Zoomers, as we're called. Firsthand, I am a political activist. I have worked for Congressman Richard Hudson, and I am also a member of Turning Point USA Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. So I can say you are doing good work, and Zoomers are very much growing to be conservative. So before I ask my question, I want to give some context on. 01:10:41 Speaker 1: Why I believe what I believe. 01:10:42 Speaker 17: My dad died while deployed with the Army overseas, and I'm also about to leave for the Army next month. 01:10:49 Speaker 1: So, thank you. 01:10:53 Speaker 17: So obviously I'm eyeing the current state of global affairs with Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Iran, China. So my question for you is, even though I'm a conservative, my main issue with the current state of the GOP seems to be that they want to tuck their tail and resort back to a 1900s isolationist movement that ultimately failed. 01:11:12 Speaker 1: Do you believe that U.S. 01:11:13 Speaker 17: Global hegemony is under attack, and do you think that it's in the interest of America to maintain a strong, aggressive foreign policy towards countries like Russia, China, Iran, and Palestine, which doesn't exist, who continue to continuously undermine our interests and our sphere of influence? 01:11:32 Speaker 1: Some of that I agree with. I'm not sold on the Russia thing. I don't think that we should– I know this is the provocative thing. I don't know why we're enemies with Russia. I don't understand it. I'm not saying they're good. They're a bunch of gangsters and thugs. But keeping Russia neutral was one of the best moves of Donald Trump. And honestly, we fought alongside the Russians to defeat the Nazis in World War II. It would have been geopolitically smart not to antagonize them. We are now closer and closer to a war with Russia that has no national security interest whatsoever. In fact, I believe the Mexican drug cartels pose a far greater threat to America than Russia does. To answer your question... I push back against some of my conservative friends where we agree on that issue. I do believe that America should remain the benevolent superpower. I do. However, that is being abused by the current regime and the neoliberal order. I am not a neoliberal. I do not believe– I'm not either. I'm a neoconservative. 01:12:27 Speaker 8: No, I know. 01:12:28 Speaker 1: Well, a neoliberal is a neoconservative, but yeah. So I don't believe we should invade the world and invite the world. I think the Iraq war was a mistake. I think that we stayed in Afghanistan far too long, and the way that Joe Biden withdrew was obviously an insult to the country, an insult to all of us. And I think that the last 20 years has been more foreign policy failures than successes out of Washington, D.C. With that being said, with the rise of China, I do believe that we should have a strong sword and be willing to wave it, because I believe that the Chinese Communist Party is one of the great adversaries, not Russia. And so that would be my personal take on that. And endless wars have been a big issue, and we have to understand that there is a national security state, an intel apparatus in D.C. that does not exist to try to win wars but keep them going, keep themselves getting rich, and keep on sending people like you to go fight in those no-win wars. So I think I'm somewhat of a moderate in your question in that sense. Some agree, some disagree. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you. I also have something for you. Oh, you got something? 01:13:26 Speaker 7: Cool. 01:13:27 Speaker 1: I'm getting all these gifts. I love this. Thank you so much. God bless you, man. Thank you. You said this was your dad's? Oh, my gosh. 01:13:40 Speaker 3: Wow. 01:13:42 Speaker 9: Wow. 01:13:43 Speaker 1: That's really. Thank you, man. God bless his service. 01:13:46 Speaker 3: Wow. 01:13:47 Speaker 1: Well, that was a great event, everybody. I want to close with just a couple thoughts. This is a very, very consequential year. And you guys, it might feel safe. It might feel comfortable here in West Texas. We need West Texas to roar in 2024. We need every single one of you to stay engaged, to stay involved. We need to run up the score here. Support your local Turning Point chapter. get involved in the local community and understand the progressive eastern forces are coming here and they're trying to organize, they're trying to mobilize. You have to stay on your guard. You have to stay constantly understanding that they're trying to do some very bad things here. I get asked all the time, Charlie, are you optimistic or are you pessimistic? If I said I was optimistic, you would go home and do nothing because you say, oh, we're going to win because Charlie said he's optimistic. If I said I was pessimistic, you go home and do nothing because Charlie said he's pessimistic. I go home and do nothing. You have to fight. That is my answer. And when people misinterpret that, oh, it means hand-to-hand combat. That means you have to organize. You have to register voters. You have to get involved at the local level. You have to contest for your views. Some of you might say, Charlie, I've already done everything that's been asked of me. I show up to events like this. I bought the pillow. I've done everything that's been asked of me. Mypillow.com, by the way. Promo code Kirk, just so we're clear. We need all of you in the fight for a better and brighter future. We need Texas to be Texas again. And with that, I say thank you and God bless Texas. God bless you guys. 01:15:29 Speaker 7: For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.