Happening Now featuring Charlie Kirk (December 2019)

[Music] I you have a platform and an opportunity to speak and not only speak but you speak with a knowledge that is beyond your years you've I'm sure you've heard this from people it's actually a gift given to you by God people tonight will know this if they've not encountered you there's something absolutely not only charismatic about you but you are a man that understands things that many of the agent MS you are unique and I consider you a national treasure and I just just so look forward to your future our desire is to pray for you and and to stand behind you and support you listen what what I want to just lay out this this evening and then on on widowed Jesus Christ Himself said that when the opportunity had come for the citizen of the Roman Empire to show their allegiance a coin was brought before Jesus and it had the inscription of Caesar on that coin and they thought that is the hierarchy thought that they could stump Jesus with this because if Jesus says that you should take this coin that has Caesars inscription on it and you should pay taxes then you're going against the temple but if he says it any other way we've got him on a dilemma we're gonna get Jesus no matter how he answers this and of course Jesus being God asks the people whose inscription is on this coin and the people shouted Caesars and Jesus said then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are gods and it was a brilliant statement that left them befuddled in fact it says at the end of that moment they dared not ask him any more questions after that why because Jesus made it very clear that coin Caesar Rome the Empire didn't belong to Caesar it belonged to God himself and when we talk about that this is not a political discussion tonight this is a cultural discussion this is a discussion around judeo-christian values this is a discussion about the issues of life and all of that is under the jurisdiction of God you need to understand that tonight so when Charlie and I get into this and and start talking you need to remember this stuff matters because you're gonna be hearing things that might be quite shocking to some of you have your kids in college and you're gonna possibly want to ask the question assume what can we do about it so Charlie tell us start us off with what's turning-point all about what are you doing sure so it's such an honor to be here I so kind of surprised to be able to go to a church and get a warm welcome like that I not exactly the state of modern Christianity as I've always seen it so this is kudos to you and just such a blessing to be here so thank you so much for that and you know to be able to speak to fellow Christians that are equally as concerned about the crisis in our culture in our country because it's happening in front of our very eyes and there is a crisis happening in Christianity well dive into that tonight of course so a little bit of more my background not much of a background being the age that I am but I not exactly very long but it's been eventful nevertheless I started turning-point USA which is the nation's largest conservative student organization present on over 1,500 high school and college campuses thank you thank you I started this seven and a half years ago my whole life leading up to that I was very focused on doing what most high schoolers want to do which is get into good school and go to college I ended up not getting into my dream school which was West Point and it was the best thing that never happened to me and I convinced my thing that never that's exactly right and I thought my dreams were crushed and everything was gonna go downhill from there and boy God has a way of surprising you when you think you got it all figured out especially at that age I convinced my parents to allow me to take a gap year before entering college it's now been seven and a half gap years and I actually and I could do a whole lot longer speech on the value of gap years and kind of the scam that is College and higher education but we can get into that too which parents have to be very acutely aware of how most students are getting ripped off in most four-year universities and most four universities don't honestly care about the students that they're running through their overly inflated and quickly diminishing value degrees that they're dishing out while they're teaching students to hate our country and not believe in God besides that it's a great place so Turning Point USA has been an unbelievable journey throughout the last seven and a half years seeing it grow we say we are on the front lines of America's culture war we are a secular organization but I will say I'm a Christian I'm a proud Christian I'm a vocal Christian I believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ at the Son of God I'm never shy away from saying that and it's amazing how many people that come through our ranks and communicate with what we're doing end up finding Christ when they actually find people that will stand for truth and truth that is originally rooted in the Bible truth of hard work dignity freedom liberty separation of powers things that quite honestly our founders were inspired by the judeo-christian construct in the Bible the the Word of God and they created the greatest framework or the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world we have so much to be thankful for living in this country and unfortunately our children are the next generation a lot of your children my peers and my generation they're being taught bitterness that they live in this country there's one part of America right now that's angry that you live in America the other part that is thankful that they live in America it's that simple when you're not thankful for something you have you make no qualms about destroying that something or deconstructing that something and I always kind of joke around with the people that want to deconstruct our country and our culture you know on Thanksgiving what are you thankful for and who are you thankful to and the honest answer is most of them aren't in fact what it takes a deliberate effort mostly by the secular left to try to teach bitterness when you live in a country with as much blessing and opportunities we have here we have our challenges we make mistakes but America is not a mistake make no mistake about that America is not a mistake there you go the fact that we have the type of fabric in this country that we have the opportunity to freedom the liberty and I'm afraid though that we now have a growing generation that is being instructed and taught to not be thankful for this great experiment and instead try to participate in the deconstruction of it so that's what I that's the message that I bring to college and high school campuses every single day I'm the only conservative speaker ever to speak at UCLA Berkeley and Stanford in one semester and lived to tell about it and look I am on the road 345 days a year but I love every minute of it and some of you guys might have seen one or two of my videos where I have very very opinionated but people that are constantly wrong but never in doubt individuals screaming in my face about how horrible whatever they think I believe in because most of its misrepresentations are but I'll tell you being a Christian in this culture where we understand it's really a spiritual war happening in our country right now and that's the real divide even beyond all the political right versus left it's light versus darkness it's now and what we cannot we'll talk about this at length but I see a direct connection with the rise of atheism in this country and secularism with the rise of leftism and I say that atheism is the fastest growing religion in America and the faith the failure for Christians to recognize and realize that when people stop believing in a higher power when people stop believing in a God whether it be a you know a just God and omniscient omnipotent God well something has to replace that yearning for meaning human beings have it built into our DNA bit built into an existence is a desire to find order in this disorderly world and traditionally we have taught the judeo-christian tradition to our children and now unfortunately we're teaching that you can find some sort of false fulfillment in a secular world and that creates miserable people and even worse it creates a chaotic society a chaotic culture and one that is that is quickly getting away from the roots that created this country Charlie but yes the campus agree with you fully completely but doesn't the child arrive on campus already ill-equipped I mean without a doubt and so and I say this I think churches are not doing enough to take declarative stands on these cultural issues and when we start to have men who think they are women competing against women in female sports this is unacceptable and it's immoral and by the way we're all the feminists on this issue exactly and as and as you put it Jack so so perfectly well where do you know the leftist medial say where do you get that well that's Genesis 1:1 you have to you know flip through your Bible to find that and God created man and woman it's like not that it's not exactly that difficult and understanding endure some very basic biology very basic and of science science and the left always likes to say that well we're we're pro science you guys are anti science well it's actually the exact opposite when you actually the further you dive into mathematics and the deeper you dive into science the more that should confirm your already deeply held belief that God is real and that there was a creator behind all of this I like to say I don't have enough faith to be an atheist yeah I don't have enough faith to believe that everything that we know to be true and all the unbelievable scientific discoveries that have been that that we've we've achieved that somehow this is a mistake takes a lot more faith to believe in that than to believe that there was a loving God behind this entire experiment in this entire life that were able to participate in but even beyond this look children aren't being inundated in the culture they are being misguided by our public schools on the church outside of this church but I'm finding the general church not this specific Church is confused and afraid they're afraid of losing membership which is a bunch of nonsense and if you're not running a restaurant you're running a church okay if you lose 10% of your membership than so what and and I use this example I'm originally from Chicago Illinois the fun thing about being from Illinois is we have term limits in Illinois it's a little different than California term limits our term limits is one term in office one term in jail so so when we asked for our governor's cell number we actually mean his cell number so I'm originally from suburbs of Chicago and you guys might have saw the news article recently that at Palatine high school men who think they are women are now allowed in locker rooms with young women and the young women are so upset about this and of course the feminists are silent you know the suburban moms are basically silent the school board has taken over by radical secular leftist but you know who else was silent is the church was silent in Palatine High School where I where I went to school right down the street the church that I grew up in has issued no statement has said nothing about this and when you have crisis is happening in your culture that are in direct defiance to the law that God gave first gave Moses and reinforced throughout the greatest book and the Mogul the Word of God and then of course was was fulfilled by Jesus Christ the Son of God and God Himself then what are we doing here because and there's there's that here's the conflict happening and one of the crisis is happening in Christianity do we just want to be correct and have our own little Enclave in the hills or are we gonna go fight in the culture and going to proclaim the truth when it's difficult and when there's a price to pay and and I find at times it's not this and it's not to say that they're any less you know they're any less correct theologically or they might believe the things deeply held but I do not believe in this particular time were called to just look inwardly an especially when it comes to civic engagement in the public policy debates and boy has there never been more clear choices of what Christians should believe in this confused culture whether it be as you mentions the sex education nonsense that's happening here in California whether it be the public funding of abortions that's happening at the federal level for Planned Parenthood or whether it be the attack on religious liberty I mean these are very morally clear decisions that we as Christians can make and I'm v I'm afraid that the Church is silent if not complicit with some of this stuff and I and there's there's differences between evangelical and Catholicism but far too often you find you find priests or you'll find certain you know people in certain traditions be outwardly vocal to give push more and more power to the secular Marxist forces that are only allowing the continued disintegration of our culture that's awesome uh let's kind of change gears a little bit but by no means Charlie do we have to take anything off the table so you said earlier and I agree and you could hear the people applaud you that the issue behind it all is spiritual we believe that the scripture makes that very clear when we look at what's happening right now in our nation the United States right now stands in opposition to globalism personified in the person of Donald Trump yes he is the block wall of globalism right we know from Scripture that globalism the rise of it it's written in Scripture we understand we get that the point that I'm trying to make is this where do you see both in front of the scene and behind the scene this impeachment thing going yeah I'm happy to to talk about that shirt I bring it up for this reason I bring it up for this reason because somebody might say well what it was up to do the Bible the Bible warns in the last days that there's going to be a rejection of authority period just a rejection of authority that when there was no one in charge as the Old Testament teaches as well every man does what's right in his own eyes so right now we have a nation that is taking the constitution or I should say some leaders that are taking a consultation Constitution to the brink on this impeachment issue speak into that what's happening yeah and what's up let me just and I'm you know I I'm the same in a church as I wouldn't mean I'll just say you know I'm a very vocal supporter of this president and I have been for quite some time and if and if you're not then I'll try to convince me so look I get I get plenty of people that criticize that and that's fine but let me let me tell you first and foremost why I believe what I believe first and foremost I'm a Christian then I'm a constitutional and then I'm an American then I'm a constitutionalist and I'm a conservative in that order so as a Christian I believe that all of this politics in all this there's a greater calling to all of it now that's not a substitute to not getting engaged in the Civic debate not getting engaged in politics and it's definitely not an excuse in fact it's the exact opposite that you the scriptures say very clearly and in the theological you know belief that I have and that I understand all of you have that you do good works because you are saved you don't do good works to get safe amen and so no matter what you are in why don't you go and express your values and you and you go forth as a Christian that's saved by Jesus Christ God in three parts and and you and you go forth so then you say to yourself when in human history has there been big advances for freedom and liberty for natural rights when was there a great leap forward because most of human history there you're the Roman Empire the Greek Empire the Byzantines the Chinese Empire but when did things change and why did they really change and you look at the American Founding as something that could only be explained as the intervention of God and how this nation was formed and most importantly the ideas behind this country the ideas of where our rights come from let's just start with that that our rights not come from a king a ruler a tyrant someone that was born into an it doesn't come from government they come from God this is so fundamentally a transformational and so then just from an objective analysis you have to say is the world a better place because of United United States of America and the answer is of course even even if you say you don't like this country if you don't answer that question yes you're not looking at history honestly we're the most benevolent generous creative accepting country ever to exist in the history of the world we take in half the world's immigrants we give away the most money to charity when an earthquake natural disaster strikes you don't call the Belgians you don't call the French find countries you call the Americans or something built into the fabric of this country is Alexis de Tocqueville and many others said America will only be great if America continues to be good and so the question is what are these founding ideas separation of powers articulated in the United States Constitution where our rights come from fair and impartial judges that don't say don't enact as judges of what they want to see they're not activists but instead what the law actually says the belief in a free market economy and I could make and I will make the biblical case for a free market economy that socialism Marxism collectivism are actually in defiance of two of the Ten Commandments and directly against the teachings of Jesus Christ somehow that you shouldn't have to work and blame other people for your problems and take other people's stuff I don't find that supported anywhere in the gospel of Jesus Christ in fact I find the exact opposite and so with all that being when all that being why I believe what I believe we have to understand that prior to the election of Donald Trump and his improbable election almost impossible and some would say again I think and I've said this publicly it seems as if that God came down and intervened at that moment and spoken to a lot of different people where the choices were so clear where one side says I believe in post birth abortion and the other side says I'm gonna be a pro-life president one one person says here the judges that I'm gonna nominate and the other person says I'm gonna continue down this reckless path and so with President Trump with all of his flaws I'm flawed you're flawed we're all sinners but if we're all of a sudden going to remove all the sinners from the Bible then you take Samson right out of it right you take him out of the spiritual Hall of Fame no doubt however God speaks into particular people for particular moments and what he has been able to do let's just talk about what matters to us Christians the life issue the most pro-life president in American history who were Cindy the Mexico City policy he nominated Brett Kavanaugh and nominated Neel Gorsuch in 150 circuit court judges who not to mention a huge issue in the Christian community is the horrendous sin of sex trafficking and this president is washing sounds backpage.com and has emboldened ice and the FBI to arrest more sex traffickers than the past four administrations combined some we don't talk about enough listen did you hear that and I want that again because listen maybe you're up maybe you're watching maybe you're here tonight and and you're what is it the apprehensive what will the white female suburban woman who is supposed to be anti-trump we know is what we're hearing so repeat that again regarding sex traffic yeah I would hope everybody in this room would be against sex trafficking but and and and just in particular there was a website that existed called backpage.com the some of the earth and for years the government tried to get it shut down and basically this was an online marketplace where children's sex trap was children were SEC traffic it's so beyond disgusting and it was always hosted on back servers and through a republican-led Congress and through the president's leadership with Ivanka Trump in the White House they said we're gonna shut this thing down and they passed a bill in the House of Representatives in the United States Senate and the previous Congress not this Congress my goodness they're too busy doing whatever that thing they were doing today yeah having professors tell us you know anyway we can talk about that later but they shut that website down and with that the present United States ended the war on ice and ice by the way ice immigration customs and enforcement they are the number one agency that goes an arrest child sex traffickers which is a huge problem in our country by the which there is more sex trafficking happening in America than most people would ever believe and the arrests are finally there going up and these these sick individuals are being held accountable for the almost and you know the for this the sin that is almost unspeakable of what they're doing in our society and this has has directed his agencies to make this a top priority for the domestic law enforcement agencies and that should be that should be something at all people for the law and so other issues we care about such as religious freedom and religious liberty if we're honest with ourselves there is an attack an assault on religious liberty throughout they'll prove the previous administration whether it be the religious liberty and religious freedom executive orders that were passed or the judges that he put in place do you know how many presidents have ever spoken at the March for Life just one this president the president added States President Bush didn't President Clinton didn't President HW Bush didn't what this is the first president who has actually been able to cut funding to Planned Parenthood another thing you probably didn't hear in your daily news not all of it but he's cut some of it he cut about two hundred million dollars in planned parenthood in there they're just in a total Barrett they're upset good is what I say I'm glad that they're upset and that Paul debate gets mislabeled as a debate around women's health there are other places that do unbelievable work pregnancy crisis centers women's health clinics that don't offer abortifacient or abortion services that do that sort of women mammogram and work that should be getting that funding if we want to actually fund women's health that don't push abortion as much as they do and as someone who's very pro-life and vocally pro-life I'm happy to see a president also you know stand on the side of life so I say all that and so here's the challenge that President Trump had entering the challenge that he had historically and I have this I'm articulating this in an upcoming book is trying to revitalize a nation that felt like it was in decline I want you to understand that this is so historically unprecedented it's only been done maybe eight or nine times in world history not even American history King Justinian did it with the eastern Roman Empire and instituted the Justinian code and all but basically helped spread Christianity to places that otherwise had never been done Queen Elizabeth Abraham Lincoln Winston Churchill who might have been the most courageous clear thinker of the 20th century that all but saved Western civilization so President Trump had in front of him a country that was almost accepting a descent into mediocrity and something that I say as a Christian first in an American second we have to realize and recognize as America being the greatest country in the history of the world that we're not the same morally as Iran we're not on the same footing as some of these countries that do not have the same foundational principles or ideas that we have and so what this idea and this descent into globalism is basically making America on an equal footing with countries that have medieval Islam Oh fascism as the ruling as the ruling doctrine of their country and what President Trump said he's a defender of sovereignty first and foremost is this country plays a special role in the defense of our own citizens but also the entire world and a strong America means a freer world but you know internationally and so what he's done is so remarkable and I'm outspoken about I get plenty of people that are you know that disagree and reasonable disagreement is just fine however what I don't find comforting I'll say this about the impeachment you know which is where your question started which is how many times have these individuals that have been testifying over the last two weeks how many times have they been interrupted by protesters none zero how many times were the people that were tested when Brett Kavanaugh was testifying how many times has he interrupted over two hundred and thirty times and what I just have isn't that one just a sample size of one side the Conservatives that no matter how borderline unethical and the immoral this impeachment is you'll still respect the process and respect the institution and be decent throughout that process where the other side is rather Machiavellian the ends justify the means well we'll pay protesters to go there and screen and shout and and I I'm a little bit frustrated that that double standard isn't always talked about but just from a basic you know what talk about the impeachment you can't pitch something someone when there's no crime and and Jonathan Turley said it so well today and he was testifying as one of the professor's there he said what exactly is the crime is Right Jesse you can't pitch a president because you don't like his Twitter account you can't teach a president because you wish you wouldn't have won an election and you can't impeach a president just because you hope he doesn't win re-election and it sure seems that the true motives are now coming out and here's what really frustrates me is we've got a lot of problems in this country we are the greatest country ever to we're 22 trillion dollars in debt we're posting a trillion dollar deficit this year we got prescription drug prices skyrocketing we got trade deals that need to be signed we've got foreign occupations of Afghanistan that I think need to be reconsidered with serious problems in this country and the time and the energy and the attention of our representatives in the United States Congress is trying to impeach and remove a president despite us having an election in 12 months if you don't like them that's fine go canvass and find your own candidate but use your time in the United States Congress to solve problems not politically grandstand against the president that you don't like it's become so evident that their hatred for him is greater than their love if there is a love for this country that a graph that they are rabid and the questioning if you had a chance to watch the questioning and everything I don't know if you pointed this out if it was Shapiro someone pointed it out laid it out how many times you heard them say I feel I felt that's correct it was my assumption it seemed to me all of these things literally it's in the hundreds and hundreds where you're supposed to be an effect finding mission and you have somebody under oath giving testimony saying well I felt like what was going on wasn't the right thing to do a a low-level no one criticizing the discussion between two presidents of two sovereign nations these things are insane which is a harbinger of what's coming with this election we've not discussed this but I think I think Charlie and I might share a view I many of you asked me prior to the 2016 election you asked me who I thought mirror I started out as campaigning and endorsing Ted Cruz so no did you like Walker then Cruz yeah and I got to tell you I got I have to tell ya I hope he's not watching right now but with all due respect to senator Cruz Kim jong-un and Vladimir Putin would eatin him alive okay wouldn't it worked then you asked me well you do you think Hillary's gonna win or do you think Trump's going to win and I told you if you look at it hands-down Hillary's going to win mathematically hands-down she's gonna win unless there's a miracle I had a look javi out there unless there's a miracle I believe there has to be a miracle for this next election that's equal to for this reason there's enough going on with Elizabeth Warren there's enough going on with Buddha judge boot a judge Buddha judge can never pronounce it correctly a judge Buddha boot edge edge Buddha Buddha judge Buddha judge there's enough going on where it's scary enough that if college college-age kids decide to vote like when Obama said hey hey make sure you go out and vote on Tuesday and they went out and voted and never paid attention to another thing again that could happen again and I don't like the idea of you know it's not over until the fat angel sings I don't like thinking I don't like thinking oh the economy and the strength and the and all this is going so well oh this elections a slam dunk I don't think so I don't think so I think it's gonna take another miracle for Donald Trump to get elected because I'm concerned with how how dumb because listen we can become real content real fast and forget real quick that concerns me you need to register to vote and we'll tell you later in the year how to vote I love this church so that let's let's talk about 2016 so every election has its themes so 2008 the first election I really was really aware of was the election of Barack Obama growing up in the Chicago suburbs everyone was supportive of Barack Obama that election was tired of eight years of George Bush but was more just about a very it was a movement towards what can be possible and what kind of leader can we achieve and President Obama was a much better candidate than John McCain and that was kind of the the ethos of that election 2012 not as much there wasn't as much of kind of a pattern or a theme so it's not not as distinguishable 2016 had a very very specific theme and president Donald Trump was the right person for the right moment so in 2016 there was pent-up anxiety in both political parties that were fed up with the establishment and the ruling class that seems to continue to stay in power while the rest of America just barely gets by while middle-class incomes go down while our jobs get shipped overseas while our borders stay open and Washington DC gets rich and the promises don't get fulfilled upon that you get these flashy TV commercials every couple years and nothing changes and so the Republicans had it all figured out remember it was supposed to be Jeb Bush so he was the ruling class favorite he was from the right family he spoke correctly he had all the right technocratic positions he was the Rutte he was the candidate for the right and the left had it all figured out and it was supposed to be Hillary Clinton no matter what the ruling class would still stay in power because Bush and Clinton things would basically stay the same I mean we would still continue to declare war on countries you shouldn't declare war on we would still borrow a bunch of money we would still not address illegal immigration we would still nominate vanilla justices we would never move the embassy to Jerusalem Iran would stay in power it was basically one of the same moderate differences on tax policy maybe but no big philosophical differences and then everything changed when a brash billionaire businessman from New York City came down the escalator and broke all the rules he was politically incorrect and he didn't care and I'm speaking as someone who has a crew supportive making an honest analysis what happened someone who by the way was embedded in the consciousness of our country for over thirty years best-selling author in the 80s and 90s one of the top television shows ever and even in every other rap song and most Americans said hey who's one billionaire that comes to mind they wouldn't even say Bill Gates they would say Donald Trump there was in the ethos of America but then he announces and he immediately becomes a villain in the media because he says things you're not supposed to say and he says them unapologetically and he says it in a way that people said well that you're not supposed to talk like that but do you know what enough people said I'm fed up with people talking the way they're supposed to talk is they keep on acting in a way that makes my life worse and so what 2016 was really about was can we challenge the ruling class and answer that question was we didn't know to be purple probably thought we couldn't and so let's get this straight he beats 15 Republicans that were all senators and governors and supposed to be more qualified he beats the bush dynasty and then he gets the nomination remember it was all he's gonna drop out he's not gonna do it he's not gonna get there he wins he wins New Hampshire goes from there is absolutely incredible and then they said no way landslide and then he beats the Clinton dynasty the media dynasty the deep state voter fraud I mean it's absolutely unbelievable and so here's what happened is is you had more people in opposite parties voting for the other party in 2016 people that thought they were Democrats for a long time because what they saw in him as they said my job just got shipped to China yep the borders are still open opioids are flooding my community political correctness is seeping into my church my family my community my kids are off in college learning about how awful this country is this guy says things he's not supposed to say go blow it up because something's not working for us go there and just do it just throw up the tables and say you guys your time is finished and the founding fathers knew that people got anxious very easily they studied revolutions so that's why we have elections elections are pressing pressure release valves that's right elections are what we're supposed to do so we don't have revolutions in the streets and thank goodness the founding fathers recognized this so they put it in you know what a lot of people did is they said I'm gonna go as a middle finger to the system and I'm just gonna do it and you'll probably lose but so what and enough people said instead of being belligerent I'm going to go vote and enough people did that where it actually worked and what's so amazing is 2016 was about a stress test of the American founders can we peacefully change direction and change trajectory peacefully and guess what that promise is no longer a promise in most of the industrialized world I'll give you an example 90 days before President Trump won in a way that was totally historic brexit was voted upon in the United Kingdom people rose up in a surprise fashion and challenged the ruling class guess what the United Kingdom has still not withdrawn from the European Union everything is the same so it would be like we vote for Donald Trump and on inauguration day Hillary Clinton is there that's basically the equivalent of what happened in the United Kingdom United Kingdom democracy is dead if all in aberration its vapor it doesn't exist the ruling class does whatever they want in America it actually still exists that you can go down an escalator and say things are not supposed to say and then fulfill those promises 2020 will not be about that that experiment has come and done that's a one in a hundred year type election just so you understand and all of you that saw it will know the moment when some of you went to bed early and some of you said you thought he was gonna win at all I think the stories that I've heard are unbelievable and I have I have plenty of stories too and they're they're quite fun 2020 is not about that 2020 will be a question of what does it mean to be an American and what is America that's it it will be a public referendum on the ideas and this country the likes of which we have never seen before never before have we had so many people within our own country say they hate it it's never ever happened before so I can totally see where you're going on this the reason being this this egg that was laid decades ago in school yes is now out and in walking around and it's called socialism that's correct and I gotta tell you I used to just get so angry looking at my TV set and I would hear somebody like a Bill O'Reilly say how could this be happening how could this be happening in America and and I knew right then and there when O'Reilly said how could this be happening that he had not stepped onto a college campus in a long time it was obvious that this was coming and so talk to the talk to the socialist issue and go ahead and wiggle in there you mentioned it earlier but go ahead and wiggle in there because the argument is so pathetic but people will try to employ Jesus into their argument that socialism is a biblical thing how much time you got so whatever happens on college campuses will soon happen in corporate boardrooms in the halls of Congress college campuses are the leading indicator of the culture okay we're all now having this ridiculous conversation about men who think they are women and they're competing in sports against women where did that start college campuses we're having this ridiculous conversation about socials and where does it start college campuses are having these ridiculous conversations in our country now about bathroom bills and all whereas our college campuses if you want to test out a bad idea go to a college campus it's a great place to test it out and because you have overly confident people that have never lived in the real world called professors and youth that want to create utopia and change and try to change the world and it's this it's this horrible unholy alliance right so here here's really what's happening as we go into 2020 are we going to be a country as I mentioned earlier are we thankful or that we are we angry that we live in America are we gonna be a generation of victims or generation of victors traditionally our country was one of Victor's you you might have had it tough everyone has challenges but pull yourself up by the bootstraps work hard and make better choices now it's you're gonna blame other people for your problems right now it's the billionaires fault now it's somebody else's fault that you might not be where you want to be and so this stems from the universities and I do it you know I do want to give a whole portion of this talk giving direct advice to anyone that might be making that choice soon because I visit more universities probably than almost anyone in politics I do nothing but university visits and talks and have a very good understanding of what is and what isn't happening there but I will say and I've said too slowly there's a crisis happening in Christianity right now we're false teaching is permeating and spreading at an alarming rate that somehow Jesus Christ was a socialist it is it should be mocked and it should be laughed because it's a work of fiction and I encounter this question so often well Charlie Jesus was a Marxist and I have to just stop them and I say can you repeat the question and because they mean they say well Charlie didn't you know Jesus was a Marxist like no actually I didn't know so let's just start with the absurdity of it Marx wrote in the mid 1850s Jesus cried eight Christ's 18-year 1,800 years earlier so they're now giving their abdicating more ideological authority to some misguided workers rights revolutionary author in the mid 1800s than the savior of the world just so you understand where that argument stems from that somehow Jesus Christ was something other than the savior of the world is just preposterous to me is that he's something other than you know the door and and everything that we know it to be true second is this is that if you look specifically what Jesus Christ commanded to us and what he taught us about individual initiative in our involvement it's so important to realize that never once did Jesus Christ say go take everyone else's stuff and redistribute it and stop working and go form a government around these things it was a gospel that first and foremost was specified to each individual going out of your comfort zone and helping other people and until the end of it until you individually start to help other people and clothe clothes the people and help the poor then hold on a second there was something very specific and different to saying that we all of a sudden have to create a massive government albatross that doesn't even do a good job of that first and foremost but then also is going to take from other people through envy and greed the second thing I'll say is this let's look at the parable the talents the parable the talents is one of my favorites to talk about and so on the least appreciated just about the gifts that God gives you the the one of the doctrines of what Jesus Christ talked about is the teaching of multiplication is the teaching that God will give you certain gifts and understanding that God does not want you to be sedentary he doesn't want you to be stationary and he does not want you to make excuses for not multiplying the gifts that God gave you to advance his kingdom now those gifts might be building a business those gifts might be pastoring or shepherding or might be counseling to others those everyone has those specific gifts but what Jesus would happen and he was so fierce about this that in the parable the talents the individual that was given a certain amount and hid it basically did nothing with it was was given a punitive discipline saying that you will be basically condemned if you do not multiply so you must ask the question what kind of society what kind of culture what kind of governmental system would allow you as an individual to flourish and to multiply the gifts that God gave you was that happening the Soviet Union were people flourishing and multiplying in the Soviet Union they weren't given the freedom or the liberty to do that do you think people are flourishing and multiplying for the kingdom mind you in Venezuela of course not and so when we as Christians look at what kind of government structure should we argue for well one that allows us to be the most the most the highest and best used for the kingdom of Jesus Christ that allows us to have the freedom and liberty to accomplish what God has called us to do and when you are when you're on the verge of civil war when you can't feed your citizens when you are built on envy and greed and in a permanent ruling class explain to me how the gospel will be able to spread in a country where you can't even feed your citizens explain to me how that's good for Christianity it isn't and that's why America has been a gift to the kingdom of God is because more so than anything else when people are able to multiply when people are able to create in a free market economy and given that freedom and liberty you're able to see individuals gravitate towards the gospel and record numbers and that's why when there's a hurricane a flood in an earthquake Americans step up guess why because we've multiplied we've created wealth therefore we have wealth to give away and that sort of relationship is so important and it's preposterous to believe that Jesus Christ was somehow anything else and anything anything less anything more he was exactly the savior of the world but this is coming out of churches this that's right charlie what's alarming is that this is coming out of mainstream churches in America that's right today and young people are swallowing that and embracing that I don't know if it's if it's seminaries that are producing this but it's certainly happening in churches where this what you just said is anathema to them they would have they would have their arguments and yet it wouldn't be found at a pulse I'm sure that would be the feeling it's the where's the compassion that's the imp and I don't want to you know diminish people there so here's how it's framed if you want to help people then why wouldn't you want government to do that that makes sense right I mean so a lot of these people come from a good place I will say a lot of people say well charlie I want to help people that's why I want medicare-for-all and I want to help people and that's why I want government to do it so let's let's break that argument into pieces yeah first of all when seemed that's okay first of all it's never happened before where the government gives me good no but it also let's let's look at it any years in any generation ever never because by default the incentive structure of government is not to help people it's not to clothe you clothe the poor I feed the hungry or to look after the vulnerable which we are called to do as Christians and we should do at every moment we can instead the incentive structure of government is to push more power to itself and boy have they done a good job of that so let's break that argument into two pieces number one the utilitarian argument and number two the moral argument number one the utilitarian argument government does a horrible job at everything let's just admit that that's true they they can't this trick they can't run the Department of Motor Vehicles everybody knows this and yet we're supposed to let them run our health care so these are the people that we want to and and the lot of them are staffed by wonderful people but the incentive structure in government does not allow those wonderful people to flourish you know why because the good employees don't get raises the good employees that might work extra hard it's not a meritocracy in government it's who's been there the longest and it's impossible to fire the people that might not show up early and work late so I'm in no ways attacking the individuals that might be working there that are doing a wonderful job number two is is the moral argument so let's be honest and I say this and people disagree with it but I'll say this loudly and clearly if every single government program was abolished the church would step up and make sure that every single person in this country was taken care of imagine for a second that if there were calls to action through our tithes and our offerings for each and every one of you and the wealth that we have created rightfully in this in this in this country and we were able to have the equivalent back in taxes to say we need to make sure that the individuals that were on public housing have the housing they need and they have the food that they require I know the spirit and the fabric of this country would step up because we always have yeah and here's the peers the other utilitarian argument of it when you say government should go do it not only do they do a poor job of it not only will you all have to have less money less freedom and less liberty but guess what over time it will diminish the role of the church and this is why the church is dead in Europe is because people start to say well the government is going to take care the ports right that's why charity does not exist in most of the rest of the world we're the most charitable country in the history of the world because still and there's a problem we say well where's where's the church where's the Red Cross where's the synagogue where's the local community center I'm gonna go help that person we gave away 500 billion dollars to charity last year as a country that's that we know if that's too clear to the IRS it's probably double that how many of you have probably paid for someone's meal that needs that or helps you you know an uber ride for someone that couldn't afford it or just looking out for a neighbor that stuff's not reported in the IRS numbers that people helping people but what happens over time is that when institutions of moral stature like the church abdicate that responsibility and give it to the government over time that institution will cease to exist the church from its original charter from the letters of Paul said that you must be active and involved in the community the very things that Jesus Christ said and so that's where I say welfare state hold on a second let's get our moral institutions to step up and say let's do even more to to help the poor and clothe the individuals that need it because I'll tell you government is a poor job event we set that example I think we should say it's a good thing when people get off of government assistance and they're able to get back on their feet I think that's a good way in every way and every way that's a good thing because first of all the scripture teaches us regarding a man's of man when I say man it's mr. and mrs. man you I mean your nobility when you build something work for something when you sweat when you get there is a sense of value and participation in the culture the scripture says if a man doesn't work a man doesn't eat amen think of that and you talk about I love what he just said about the government the government should I believe in paying taxes for first of all I paid all my taxes I don't like it but I do same well okay I pay eight times I pay too much here's the thing I don't mind paying taxes when I flush my toilet and it actually works I don't mind paying taxes when the street lights come on at night the church shouldn't be involved in flushing toilets are turning on street lights but the church should be involved how wonderful would it be if the church got up and said we are going to demand that the the local governments give us the homeless give us those that are hurting let us know city let us know those that can't make their light bill because you need to know that that can happen it does happen in a small scale but it's a pathetic day when the United States government has a welfare system with all the Bible teaching in America that's exactly right there should be no welfare Sandom and and the church should be the engine that takes care of those within its borders well and some people will say well Charlie there's just not enough money it's not true the numbers work in a way like you wouldn't believe that the amount that we already voluntarily give to charity with as much as we are taxed first of all I believe one dollar to the church goes farther than a hundred dollars to the government let's just start with that okay let's just start with that argument okay and people say it's just not enough it's just not enough if you present a need to a vibrant loving engaged church that need will be met I've seen it countless times someone that needs that might need help making a car payment someone that might need getting through a semester of school someone that can't afford food that Church will step up and help them but just from a utilitarian need if you look at 500 billion dollars given to charity if there was that call to action with the Christian fabric on our country that would double that would double if you say to the Christian community we got to double our tithes and offerings to make sure that the work that the country is fed that would double that would be just as much as we're spending on the welfare state and guess what do you know what else is so amazing about private philanthropy and charity versus government assistance there's a relationship there's a name and there's a face and there's accountability but instead of just this faceless welfare state that exists in DC the money disappears that someone you'll never see most of it goes away forever too that senseless and nonsense overhead and then eventually it gets back to the individual which by the way never is incentivized to get off of that government assistance when you go to your local church and you say hey I'm really struggling right now I lost my job I'm in a tough relationship and you know my partner is not helping me out my kids are having these troubles a loving vibrant engaged Church would say let's get you into a small group we are going to help you out and we're gonna Shepherd you along the way and then all of a sudden after a couple months you start to say hey can we help you get a job too can we you know can we can we please like well I don't have a skill that's okay Tom's a carpenter exact Tom can teach you a skill that's where the church fills in where's all this on your teaching self-reliant anything and then that person can help other people in the future Charlie I gotta tell you you guys you may or may not remember but I just have to tell this story because it happened when Katrina hit and devastated the South there was a or there is a man here that is a major beef rancher and he's got his he's got his beefing in places and and we got we got word out of out of Louisiana that FEMA there's tons of trucks of food from Walmart everybody but FEMA had some permit issues that they couldn't open up the trucks because there weren't this when certain federal clearance given and there are people in line hungry and we got a we got a phone call from a cab of a pickup truck and the governor of Louisiana was driving the pickup truck Bobby Jindal he's great guy and we're starving here and people from this church got out there or whatever they do to make hamburgers with their cows and this church shipped in trucks cattle that had been slaughtered to feed the people in Louisiana and it was funny because there's some federal laws that don't allow the to meet the cross state lines and proves my point right don't help people stop helping people that's what we're here for the government the governor literally spoke to the youth you and said I will have of escorts get this beef to my starving people in Louisiana people got fed in spite of the government and people got total strangers were fed cows in this case the most serving cows came from California they were not the happiest but they did the most but you're right that there's there's this thing now look I'm still grieving America much of America is rejoicing over the 2016 election Charlie I don't know if you know this or not but California literally went backwards into the Stone Age yes in 2016 we went worse America went forward we went backwards we not only went backward we went to bed we went to bed that night with what people we had voted for that were 25 points ahead and woke up the next morning and they were crushed they were la they had lost their election in some areas in Orange County had one hundred and twenty two percent voter turnout that's Chicago level in California we worse we didn't have a 2016 and yet I am unusually optimistic maybe it's out of ignorance but when we see the recall effort that's going on when we people when we see churches you I don't have you heard that 260 sod churches up and down the state we're getting involved there's I know people say you're nuts you're in California it's over you know what I don't I really believe that good people I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat if you vote right in this next election I don't mean right as a pun correct if you vote correctly and we're gonna help you do that I love this skirt California California could change in one night if enough people did the right so I have some good news about California yes there's actually more Republicans in this state than any other state in the country I don't know if you knew that the problem is the Democrats outnumber you so no it's true because you have the most population but look California has a lot of structural problems to it despite the fiscal mess and the teacher unions running this state like a pseudo cartel and it's true it's absolutely true the the open borders that unfortunately allow you know just limitless amounts of individual sorry sorry wait wait wait so you cut you giggle at what he said a second ago those of you who are in unions you tell me you tell me that you're Union at your work tells you how to vote well but but it might be an honest do they not influence your vote and then if a church tries to influence your vote all a cheat double hockey sticks comes down because a church shouldn't be involved in those kinds of things and yet the if it's please if it's fire if it's if it's the teachers you are told you are coerced you are almost score eiated if you don't tell them I'm voting this way I'm voting such a way god help you at your school if you vote a certain way well the truth is you you're not going to tell them how you vote because of fear of retaliation he used the word cartel they are it's exactly what it is if you don't have the freedom to vote because you're in association with a union and they're pressuring you that's just like Guido and what's-his-face out of Chicago well and so I don't use that word lightly and and I say it if you look at the damage that the leaders not the individual teachers I'm very Pro teacher but the leaders of the public sector teacher unions have done to this state it is it is almost unmentionable because what you have right now in particularly black and Hispanic neighborhoods you have minority youth that are trapped in failing public schools with others that you're not allowed to pay good teachers more money you're not allowed to fire bad teachers because it's all unionized and you have this downward spiral of failing public schools and if you ever dare have a conversation about it or mention it you get excommunicated from it altogether and so what these teacher unions have done is not only do they control the state politically but now they control it structurally through the through these schools where if you look at states like Arizona and Florida that have a loud school choice to happen trust the parents don't trust the state trust the parents don't trust the state where you're allowed to have a parent trigger essentially a parent can pull a trigger if their kid is in a failing public school by federal guidelines by pulling the trigger they say my kid should be allowed to use the tax dollars that I pay to go to a functioning public school now what happens when you do that or charter school or parochial school or home school what happens when you do that as you start to create some semblance of a marketplace in schooling and education we're innovative and accountable principals are rewarded with more students we're better teachers are allowed to be paid and guess what good teachers should be paid a lot more than they're paid right now and bad teachers should be fired that shouldn't be that controversial of a thing to say in fact in fact if the California education system got out of politics and did their job you wouldn't have this problem and this is the problem California has got to be number one or number two of highest paid system if the money goes into the education system maybe most maybe Massachusetts is above this I'm not sure we're up there okay where's it going where's the money because you may be you may be a California teacher here tonight and you're feeling my goodness I'm working my tail off I'm doing the best I can I love my kids and it's not happening for me let me ask you something think every time there's an issue and an election someone on your TV is going to say our school system needs more money will you approve prop XYZ because we can do more with more money you already have the most money what are you doing with it and that is the thing that you're not supposed to ask yeah and you see it in this state and many others and if you look at a Catholic school or a parochial school or Christian school they're able to educate a student for a fraction of the cost of what it takes to get a student through the Li you know la unified school district and so here's here's the fundamental question when it comes to education in our country which is do we actually want to frame this as a civil rights issue which I think it actually is and if you if you look at it from that prism the current system of public sector teacher unions and what they have done to this state and so many previously prosperous states like Illinois before they are violating these individual civil rights by not giving them the ability to read and write at grade level because you have unmotivated teachers that unfortunately feel as if they're they are prison to a system that does not appreciate them and does not reward what they put into it now if you look at the one thing if you want to change education in America the one study that always comes back it's not class size it's not funding it's not even zip code it is the quality and the dedication of the teacher in the classroom so how do you do it that well basic market forces you change the compensation package you say good teacher and guess what I went to public education in the suburbs to Chicago I had some of the best teachers that changed my life and they got in at 6 a.m. and they left at 6 p.m. and guess what they were earning just the same if not less of teachers that were there for 20 years that couldn't care less that should have been fired that had no motivation and took every other day is a sick day and it created a culture of mediocrity over time because the teachers feel as if they're unappreciated and they don't care and the final thing you say is this is if you do not allow some sort of movement of funds to happen a parents that can reassign a tax dollars that they're putting into a failing public school to go somewhere else this downward spiral is only gonna continue there you go imagine imagine right now just just think of the dynamic the politic of this imagine if right now I happen to have whatever is needed in my pocket what if I tonight had I'm guessing 10 million dollars in my pocket and I look around town and I see that there's some land and we and we and we go to the city and we say we want to buy this because we want to build a school a school instead of them saying wow you know what we know that you guys are all about excellence your kids are you know what we know that you guys run a school in Africa it's a highest education in Africa with these kids we know that you guys know what you're doing they'd be amazing we'd never be able to buy the property they never get that through and if we got it through can you imagine the stonewalling that would go on if it was a completely privately funded school promising bringing in guest speaker educator that would definitely get it's done well think of it think about it think about what this church has opportunity to do this church can bring in senators and congressmen and corporate executives and and people who move this nation in areas to teach your kid and you would say let's start at school tonight here's here's some money you know what it wouldn't be enough because if money wouldn't be the answer it's an entrenchment that I don't know what the answer is of course prayer yes prayer after prayer we need to we need to vote we need we need to vote we need to start voting and we have 15 minutes you want to do your questions it's not yeah okay here's the rule on Q&A and I'm not joking do I need everyone's attention this is and I'm dead serious if we're gonna do Q&A with a microphone you have 30 seconds which is a long time to ask your question if you want to preach leave the building if if you want to goof off the microphones gonna go mute okay this is private property we can do this we're not gonna waste Charlie's time and we're not gonna waste other people's time if you have a question if you have a good question get behind the mic over here so I have one shameless plug though so oh yeah plug but one thing is if you guys have a podcast out if you guys want to subscribe my podcast on Apple podcast it would really screw up the New York Times if we surged in the charts and beat them tonight's know you look tonight so ya know we could do it we could beat the New York Times tonight if you guys go tonight every smartphone is a podcast app either Google podcasts or Apple podcasts on your iOS device type in charlie Kirk show press subscribe I'd love that the New York Times wake up tomorrow morning and see the Charlie Kirk show ahead of them that would give me great joy okay sound sound board this room this room could get me to be number one if everyone in this room did it forget about it they don't know dude they'd be writing stories about it they'd be great okay so sorry Dave how do we get rid of the Union Teachers Union well so that was the shortest question I really appreciate that thank look thanks to so if anyone's in a union right now guess what thanks the president Trump appointing meal Gorsuch and the Janice decision you can get out of your Union I don't know but you know that's a no-no say that again if you're in a union today if you're in a public sector teacher union and by the way I want to make a very big distinction I'm I'm not in the essence of anti private unions I'm against union leaders of public sector unions that exploit and use this undue influence to able to enrich themselves I'm not against workers I'm not against teachers not it's carpeted unions are pipefitter unions that is not my position at all whatsoever labor has a very important voice in place and industrialized society what the problem is is that public sector to sector teacher unions and public sector unions in particular as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt warned have an unbelievable undue influence in our society because they have no competition so if you're in a public sector Union you are allowed to get out of that union um you are able to save the money and you're legally no longer forced to be in that union so if you haven't gotten out you should do that sometime soon hi Charlie um as someone who I work with turning-point is a Miss Elsie chapter president awesome as someone who's familiar with your organization and the employees that you have that kind of thing I know that you are open to the LGBT community my question is just as a person who's a Christian but doesn't run the organization as a Christian organization what is your stance on the LGBT community was still being loving to them thank you so much for the question I appreciate that so I get this this question quite a lot and so I believe in biblical marriage let's start with that and I believe exactly as the Bible says it man a god created man and woman and they become in one flesh upon marriage and I believe I was originally raised in my mom was raised Catholic and she was raised that marriage as a sacrament and I believe that it is sacred under God in every sense of it with that being said and understanding biblical marriage in particular number one I would make the argument that allowing marriage to ever get under the auspices of government was a mistake in the first place yeah that marriage basically became something that was just about tax benefits it's a lot bigger than that in fact the church should have always just continued to maintain the authority of marriage it is a union under God first and foremost and involving government I think was a mistake I do I do push back to some people at some point though where they say and I get this accusation they say Charlie there is no place for gay people in the conservative movement I get this accusation because we have gay members at Turning Point USA we have some gay people on staff and I've shared stages with people like Dave Rubin that are openly openly gay and I don't I do not believe in it I believe that you could be firm in your principles and with what you stand for while still saying that the conservative movement a political movement should be one about addition and multiplication and not subtraction and you could stand you can have you can have be very firm in what you say the Bible says very clearly in biblical marriage but Jesus Christ if you look at his teaching he communicated and he he basically interfaced with everybody and he expressed that love and was long-suffering and was compassionate but clear and so you could be compassionate and clear so that's how I stand on that issue so thank you very much but I'll add this he has the he has the ability remember Turning Point USA is a is a secular organization remember this everybody because this is really important about the spirit of these of these kinds of discussions he runs a secular organization with judeo-christian values we had founding fathers with judeo-christian values that created a secular nation did you know that's what we have they believed that even though they disagreed with how people might live they were free to live with all the same exact rights though our founding fathers wouldn't ascribe to a certain that listen founding our founding fathers didn't ascribe to Catholicism did you know that read it but they allowed the Catholics that lived here to have the same exact constitutional rights Charlie's not a church he doesn't he's not a pastor of a church if there's a conservative like dave rubin and dave rubin is a homosexual this is we're talking that the arena of dave does Dave Rubin have the right to vote no one would say well because as a homosexual dave rubin can't vote no that's more like iran that's a great point you say well pastor jack to you do you believe in dave Reubens lifestyle of course not do i do i pray for dave rubin yeah absolutely so should you we live in that kind of a that's American exceptionalism that we live in the nation that allows us to have this freedom to live like this on a secular level and yet have religious freedom atheist even have the freedom here in America to be atheists does that make sense you need to make that difference so as a conservative in high school surrounded by a lot of misinformed liberal 'kids what what is your quickest argument that Trump is a successful president and not also not a racist oh wow okay oh six minutes and 47 seconds and then you can yield the rest of your time to me well I'm happy to yield the floor how does somebody magically become a racist just because they start running for president that's the first question this guy was in the most public life you could possibly imagine in every rap song going to fights with Don King and even Al Sharpton jeez having literally being best friends with professional athletes owning football teams I'm some of you guys might know that might not know about that with Donald Trump used to own football teams actually sued the NFL how does somebody that hosts The Apprentice of people of all different you know races and religious backgrounds all of a sudden become someone that is so hateful just because he starts to run for president the answer is that's preposterous anyone would say that and it's unfortunately become an easy cheap in an accurate label to throw on him because they disagree with him on policy here's the thing there are real racists in America they exist when anyone comes across them they should be repudiated that the the belief in racial superiority is anti-christian it's anti biblical and it's anti-american however because we are a decent country we've actually done a really good job of confronting that evil and it's become a minimal of a minority population in our country the problem is when you call so much racist when it isn't in cheapens real racism is what it does is the word start to mean nothing second thing here's how the easiest way you ask a very honest question is America in a better place today or the day before Donald Trump got inaugurated January 19 2017 any honest observer of the analytic of the analytics and the facts and the statistics of our country will even say I might hate his Twitter account I don't like the style I don't like any of it but America is in a better place because it is economic numbers Louis ever black poverty rate Louis ever Hispanic unemployment slow slower listen this is what I wanted under under Trump under Trump black unemployment low seven lowest ever in 300 years by the way let's be fair by the way under Barack Obama it was one of the highest go figure okay women female employment Hispanic employment this is the only thing I wanted to add was this shirt well what is shoe why don't you go to a Trump Hotel you have to stay there you can't afford it better walk in walk in or go look and find out how many people of ethnicity this Trump have working not cleaning rooms but in senior level positions and executive level of positions I challenge you and and two capstone that there's not one statistic not a singular statistic economically or anything else across the board even in a foreign policy landscape we're not in a more competitive a more advantageous position than we were the day before he got inaugurated record growth 141 stock market records being broken Louis ever black poverty rat my favorite statistic I'll say six million people have gone off government assistance and are now self sustainable under President my favorite statistic that's right news you guys most millionaires created in the last three years in American history most millionaires more people became millionaires in last three years because of the economy and all thanks for the question first shout out to the church and the leadership thank you for allowing things like this and promoting things like a second charlie you're doing great work I need five colleges that I can send my kids to great so I will do another plug I don't so I have recently started a new initiative and Center at Liberty University phenomenal school at Liberty University called the Falkirk Center for faith and Liberty that is designed so Turning Point USA's a secular organization it's my passion I'm never gonna leave it I'm never gonna you know stop working towards it but I realized that there's also a very important culture war happening about the in the inseperable intersection of American constitutional Liberty and first freedoms and natural rights and the gospel of Jesus Christ and who's fighting for that and the answer is not enough people so we started the Falkirk get a jerry falwell charlie kirk center for faith and liberty at liberty university you guys are gonna be seeing a lot from that center and exciting things to come Liberty's a great school it's a terrific school Hillsdale College is a terrific school but more importantly and I only got a minute fifty five to do my college to stick so I'll do it as quickly as I possibly can not everyone who graduates high school has to go to college let's start with that even more importantly I highly recommend most kids that graduate high school to take a gap year we asked our high school seniors hey where are you going to school not why are you going to school college should be about career preparation not ideological exploration I'm gonna speak some truth to parents I don't mean this offensively say it slow so they get it because it's a big deal and I love it it's a hard truth but it's real it's real far too often it is parents pushing kids into an expensive school then kids wanting to go to that expensive school themselves I find far too often and there's exceptions to this where parents are afraid to confront their neighbors or be confronted by their neighbors or their friends or their family and explain that their kid might not be going to four years college or explain that their kid might be going to local Community College or might have joined the military or become a plumber which there's nothing wrong with the trades by the way our country needs more HVAC and carpenters and entrepreneurs there's nothing we have to stop Spig MacIsaac the trades in our country as if they these individuals are less intelligent or less wise are less likely to succeed and so for parents out there I encourage you to check the ego at the door and imagine that you can confront that neighbor who loves to brag about how little Johnny gets perfect test scores and is going to Harvard on a full scholarship and imagine looking them straight in the eyes and saying my son is not going to college and I'm okay with that and he's okay with that if that is if you're just like if I can't imagine doing that then unfortunately that conversation has become more about you and less about your kid exactly because none of that stuff actually matters none of that the societal acceptance throw all that away it should be about is my child going to college to become more competitive to get a job in the future do not send your child to college to find values they won't find them there they'll lose their value that's rights do not send your child to college to learn about the world they won't learn about the world in college do not send your child to college to meet connections or to meet people that is one of the biggest lies about college instead tell you if your kid is passionate about ministry if your kid whatever it is go find someone in your local community that is really good at that particular thing and have them mentor under that person for a summer and learn everything they possibly can about that particular thing what two things will happen they're gonna find out they really love it or really hate it really quick and you might save a bunch of money just awesome and they're gonna learn so much about the world and then if they do end up going to college make sure for goodness sake it is done in a financially financially conscious way debt is the slavery of the free I see people's dreams crushed every single day by student loan debt do not take this lightly people in their 40s and 50s still are paying off student loan debt so here's what's happening we have people that feel like they are being forced to go to college to go borrow money to study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist all because they're afraid of telling their friends they don't want it that they that they're that oh I have to go to college you do not have to go to four-year college guess what I never went to college everybody okay you don't have to go to college to succeed the final thing I'll say and I could go on about this thing endlessly and I don't want to take your time about it but if if we if we look at individuals and saying I care much more about how you act then where you went to school we will live in a better country [Applause] which you I'm sorry I could I can go all this one more and that's Ryan right how do we young people like make a difference when we're fighting against this pressure to be like going join the rat race of going to college or like getting stuck into low-level jobs and stuff like that when there's a such a like huge epidemic of like homelessness and things like that that we feel like we can't make a difference because the taxes are so high up here in California and it's just like it feels like there's so much pressure like just weighing on us if there is like making any difference how do we move towards making a difference in what should we are invest ourselves in so that we can financially help these people and like B so let me let me give you the answer college is rigged against you the tech companies are rigged against you the DC elites are rigged against you culture is rigged against you the taxes are too high there's too much regulation guess what that's not an excuse don't play the victim I'm gonna talk I talk a lot about problems I talked about it endlessly I write a book about problems okay for all that away first thing you could do I'm time with the general you not necessarily you okay be the best human being you possibly can be that's the first thing now what does that mean that means I am going to reject the false promise in the secular left that unlimited indulgence and unlimited freedom is going to give me happiness and it's going to give me fulfillment reject that instead do hard stuff regularly that makes a difference that is what will get you fulfillment so what does that mean words that are not talked about enough in our society discipline and responsibility discipline and responsibility guess what that means I'm going to put restraints on my own things that I know I struggle with that might be alcohol might be drugs might be a sexual sin it might be whatever that has put guardrails on yourself because indulgence comes at a cost and we don't say that enough to our youth that's right and if you indulge too much you could lose everything and we say that we say a little bit of that and guess what you aren't in the current position right now of where you want to be what I mean by that reject the self-esteem nonsense if you look at a poster and say you're justifying find the way you are say no I'm not if I was why would I be in school if I was why would I be in church uh and if you come from the Christian doctrine of this we're all broken we're like shattered pieces were horrible we're sinful we need Redemption we're really really bad and so the self-esteem nonsense where we go self-esteem where we go to these 12 year olds and say you're so perfect you're wonderful and there's these ridiculous posters and it's like a smiley face and it's just a yellow emoji smiley face and it says self-esteem your greats or something ludicrous know what that does is it puts a false sense of pressure on someone that looks they say maybe I'm not great there's actually freedom in accepting that you're broken amen and saying I'm nothing like I'm nothing I'm a sinner I've made horrible choices and I only have redemption in one thing and that's the blood of Jesus Christ so for you personally for you personally all that stuff's rigged against you all of it people are gonna try to be taking your jobs that are from other countries all that stuff fine we could try to fix that in public policy but guess what there's only three things you need to do to succeed in America and every single person in this room can do these three things because it's around choices number one get married before you have kids it's number one number two get a job any job any job any job and work hard at it in the past ethically work hard at it ask questions act ethically you will move up in it the third thing you have to do to succeed in America is just graduate high school you do those three things and you work harder than the person next to you treat people well you act ethically you try to be better today than you were yesterday you can achieve things in this country beyond your wildest expectations do not blame systemic problems for your current failure because you know what ends up happening I don't want to have the oppression Olympics like the left has where everyone starts to blame other people for their problems well I can't succeed because of racism or xenophobia or homophobia some of which might be legitimate you are the master of your own destiny it starts with making your bed in the morning being the best version of yourself and being a champion of the decisions you make so thank you very much [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right you need to know Jesus Christ died on the cross for those sins that Charlie was talking about that's what God was doing at the cross for us he died in our place Jesus rose again from the dead just as the Bible said he would he said I will turn no one away who will come to me he will transform your life we are all standing here as examples of that he loves you he loves you so much that he wants by his power to change you maybe you don't know him personally maybe you've had religion up to here but nothing's ever happened on the inside Jesus died for that sin of yours those sins of yours at the cross and he rose again from the dead you believe in him and you trust him just like Ryan's question tonight if you keep focused on that fact that God brought you into this world for a purpose there's no excuse that can keep you from that purpose if everything be stacked up against you doesn't the scripture says greater is He that's within you then he that's in the world didn't Paul himself say that eat neither death nor life nor principalities nor powers nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus listen opposition breeds endurance and strength it's the American story the American story is a biblical story it's God's good hand upon a nation like no other country has seen in the history of mankind and I don't believe God's done with this nation and I don't believe God's done with California 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Length: 89min 14sec (5354 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 05 2019