Hold Firm and Fight On: Charlie after the 2022 Midterms

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. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. Hey, everybody. 00:01:17 Speaker 2: We went back through the archive to find some timeless Charlie wisdom after the disappointment that was the 2022 midterms. If you remember, we were supposed to have this red wave year and it turned into a trickle and most people basically chalked it up as a loss, okay? So this is not necessarily all the names are going to remain relevant and it's not all going to make perfect sense in our current moment but the themes are so powerful so you remember back we had the whole maricopa fiasco and things like that those things are have changed and we have different contexts now but charlie's message remained the same we adapt and we overcome and that's exactly what we're doing right now for the movement for the country and for charlie and everything he built so i really want you to dive into this enjoy it wanted to give you a little primer at the top of that because of course some things are different than they were in 2022 but the main lessons that Charlie is teaching and preaching remain the same. 00:02:14 Speaker 1: Now we have to game this out because if we are to surrender and engage in their psychological warfare, if we are to give up completely and totally, then they get all of their victories instantaneously. This here is to try to demoralize you. And I can understand it, by the way. I understand. I mean, I got another email right here. This person says, you know, Charlie, I used to be really involved. I'm done. I'm going to go move to rural Arizona and only watch the news every once in a while. I'm completely demoralized. These people have broken me. I'm giving up. 00:02:56 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:02:58 Speaker 1: People are, I understand that we're getting tons of emails of what looks like to be the biggest white flag surrender that I've seen in quite some time. I know personally, we're just getting started to lean into this fight. And what does that look like? In many different ways, it looks like making sure first and foremost in Arizona that Abe Hamadeh becomes Attorney General of Arizona. Abe Hamadeh is down 236 votes with still thousands of votes to be counted in Maricopa County, down 236 votes. This thing is going down to the razor wire. The razor wire. What else can we do? We can support good candidates for 24. We could pressure this Republican Congress to put points on the board. We can stay involved in local issues and local government. You could support your local Turning Point USA chapters, help start a high school chapter for Turning Point USA at your local high school. You can get engaged in the homeschool movement. There's so many things to do that we need to do right now. And it's going to take effort. It's going to take more work to fight the headwinds. But if you're willing to give up, then you're willing to tell me that Rush Limbaugh was wrong. Play cut 80, please. We are not sunk yet. We will never surrender. We will never give up. 00:04:30 Speaker 2: Never, never, never. 00:04:32 Speaker 1: It's not who we are. It's not what we do. We never give up. We never give up. That's who we are. We look at what went right. We look at what went wrong. We should be enraged by the grand larceny that happened in Arizona. Demand a new election. Understand realistically that a judge is going to be unlikely to do that, but let's do the best legal challenge we possibly can. And look at what's possible. Look at Florida. Sometimes it's going to take a little bit of a turn in one way to get into a positive direction. The people are with us. That is what the national congressional vote shows us. The people are with us. The problem is, though, is. I mean, it's the proverbial we're playing checkers and they're playing chess. We're playing flag football and they're playing full contact football. Things can improve, but it's going to take a citizen movement for quite some time. And look, I see it in real. I see it one after the other of people saying I'm done. I'm giving up. Well, that's not what we're doing here on this program. Welcome back, everybody. Email us freedom at charliekirk.com. A fair amount of people have responded to this nonstop email campaign of people that are giving up. There's a fair amount of you that say, I'm not going to give up. Charlie, these people that say we're giving up, what example are we setting for our kids? You need to show your kids freedom. Never give up on something you truly believe to be right, and they're fighting for their future, and quite honestly, their soul from evil that is trying to enslave us. And shout out to you and your team for keeping it real, but also showing there is a path. It won't be easy, but it is worth it. Charlie, I totally agree. We can never give up or give in. Thank you so much. We have to keep fighting. This one here is a little bit different. Eric says, Charlie, I'm giving up. I wish the best for you. America is dead. and I'm not going to be engaged anymore. Okay, so I think it's about 50-50. It's honestly very interesting. Something doesn't go our way, and just like that, we give up. Like, okay, I get it. It was an ambush. It was a sabotage campaign. You've got to look at this in terms of military terms. We broadcasted our main play for the opposition. We went straight through, and boom, they ambushed us. We won the congressional popular vote. The people are with us, and those trends are only going to increase again We're only going to persuade more people. We're only going to adapt. The people that came before us are forebearers. They never gave up. If you love your country, then you fight for it. Now, not all of you are saying you're giving up. There's plenty of you that are saying, Charlie, you know what? I agree. I'm not going to give them the gift. I'm never going to give up. And what does it mean not to give up? It means you keep on watching programs like this. You keep on praying for your nation. You keep on trying to influence your neighbor. You stay engaged. You stay involved. You donate where you can. Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast. They win when we surrender. If they can break our will, that is the final ingredient for their takeover of America. That's it. Someone says, Charlie, why are we giving up? We're not the weak party. Stop crying like the Democrats. You know, that's an interesting point. I would say that about half of the emails of people that have emailed us got a couple thousand emails today are people that want to quit. And that's fine. Maybe you just need a break. You need to blow up some steam. But when Democrats get something they don't like, they raise more money than ever before and they organize. We've got to take a page out of them. Remember, Donald Trump became president in 2016, sworn in in 17. And they created this mass oppositional movement, mass oppositional movement. Someone emailed this freedom at charliekirk.com. Charlie, I am ready to give up. I want to just stop being an activist, basically this whole thing. They've cheated. They've done all these things. What hope can you give me? Tyler, how often do you get messages like this of people that just want to totally give up? 00:08:38 Speaker 3: Look, there is no giving up. We've said this, right? There is no giving up. The moment you give up, weak men are what enable tyrants. This is what they want. Tyranny wants you to give up. Tyranny wants you to quit. Tyranny wants you to be your little guy that punches your heart. Guys, think about Soviet Russia. That's what I think about. That's what I studied. I lived over in Russia. I speak fluent Russian. I'm a 17th generation American, so I'm not a Russian plant or spy. But I studied that because I went on my mission to Russia. And I'm telling you, what the Soviet era did is the expectation was that you show up, you punch your card, and you go home, you shut up. That's what Marxism wants. That's what Marxism calls for. This is what these people want. They want you to shut up. Punch your time card and go home, and you'll like whatever is given to you. That's as simple as you can put it for any of your friends and family that aren't studious to Marxism versus freedom, right? Is that the life you want to live? Or do you like living the life where you get to go freely on vacation wherever you want? And you can buy whatever you want. You can do whatever you want. You can give the birds to the government and not get thrown in jail for it because that's not the trajectory we're on with these people that we're up against. 00:09:58 Speaker 2: For more on many of these stories, and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.