LIVE FREE Tour LIVE from Florida State University with Charlie Kirk

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name is Megan Rodriguez and I have the [00:13:48] honor and privilege of serving as the TP [00:13:50] USA chapter president here at Florida [00:13:51] State University [00:13:53] foreign [00:13:56] thank you [00:13:58] our chapter here at FSU has been blown [00:14:00] away by the response from the community [00:14:01] for this event so many people have been [00:14:03] so kind and amazing we would first love [00:14:05] to thank fsupd and other law enforcement [00:14:07] not only for their amazing work today [00:14:09] who are going to keep us safe but also [00:14:12] for their hard work and diligence [00:14:13] putting their lives on the line for us [00:14:14] every single day [00:14:21] of course I cannot continue without [00:14:22] thinking a few more instrumental people [00:14:24] to our chapter thank you to our amazing [00:14:26] volunteers who helped with us today [00:14:29] okay [00:14:32] a huge thank you to our field reps Noah [00:14:34] Durham and Browning Sandusky [00:14:39] a 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get you [00:15:25] free general admission to the event [00:15:27] these are events y'all do not want to [00:15:29] miss [00:15:34] thank you [00:15:36] again thank you all so much for joining [00:15:38] us this evening and we will get started [00:15:39] in just a moment [00:15:49] welcome to Turning Point USA's proudly [00:15:52] hosted 2022 event the Live Free tour [00:15:56] joining us on stage tonight Charlie GERD [00:16:00] we are here to celebrate the greatest [00:16:03] nation ever to exist in the history of [00:16:05] the world you as a human being have [00:16:07] dignity [00:16:08] that you have a right to speech that you [00:16:10] have a right to organize that you have a [00:16:12] right to start a family they are the [00:16:14] Invaders we are Americans and we are [00:16:17] going to win [00:16:20] let's get this started now welcoming to [00:16:23] the stage Charlie Kirk [00:16:27] [Applause] [00:16:34] [Music] [00:16:37] hello everybody great to be here thank [00:16:39] you and thank you to our great Turning [00:16:41] Point USA chapter give it up for them [00:16:42] they work so hard putting this together [00:16:43] it is such a great truck [00:16:46] thank you guys I understand we have some [00:16:48] friends outside as well it's too bad [00:16:50] maybe they're in the room or maybe [00:16:51] they'll be here later who knows [00:16:53] um nothing that we haven't seen before [00:16:55] last actually last time I was at Florida [00:16:57] State University was anyone at that [00:16:59] speech a couple years ago maybe a [00:17:00] freshman or two yeah that was the last [00:17:02] speech I gave before all the lockdowns [00:17:05] actually and uh that was a lot of fun I [00:17:07] remember we actually got a question at [00:17:09] that event someone said hey Charlie what [00:17:11] do you think about this uh this covid [00:17:13] thing and it turns out it just changed [00:17:16] our entire Society well let me rephrase [00:17:17] that the way we reacted to it changed [00:17:19] our entire society which was one of the [00:17:21] worst mistakes I think we've ever made [00:17:23] as a country and as a civilization so [00:17:25] we'll talk about that but I do want to [00:17:27] address one of these uh Flyers that they [00:17:29] have Kirk off campus which is just [00:17:31] hilarious [00:17:33] um I've actually never heard that one [00:17:34] before but there's one part of it that I [00:17:36] do want to focus on where it says [00:17:38] Florida State University continues to [00:17:41] platform far-right influencers like [00:17:43] Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro love Ben [00:17:46] does a great job these people invade our [00:17:48] communities that's what we're doing [00:17:49] tonight we're invading is that right [00:17:51] spread their misinformation and [00:17:53] oftentimes get funding from the [00:17:55] University to do it this must change [00:17:56] join us in protesting okay but I want to [00:17:58] talk about the misinformation thing [00:17:59] because that's such an interesting thing [00:18:01] because you're starting to hear that [00:18:03] more and more in our society right now [00:18:05] which is that people on the right are [00:18:06] somehow purveyors of misinformation and [00:18:09] you know everything we do is rooted in [00:18:11] facts and what's you know can be proven [00:18:13] and it's not misinformation that they're [00:18:15] worried about or facts it's facts they [00:18:17] don't like it's facts that they want to [00:18:18] make sure that students don't hear or [00:18:21] opinions that are actually not going to [00:18:22] be able to be presented but while we're [00:18:24] on the topic of misinformation shouldn't [00:18:26] we talk about actually who's been [00:18:27] spreading the most misinformation over [00:18:29] the last couple years and I was thinking [00:18:31] about some of the biggest stories kind [00:18:32] of that have dominated the American News [00:18:34] cycle you remember for quite some time [00:18:37] during the 2020 presidential election [00:18:40] there was and again here's Just A good [00:18:42] rule for life like exhibit a of why not [00:18:44] to do crack cocaine um it makes you do [00:18:47] really dumb things like I don't know [00:18:48] drop off your laptop at a laptop repair [00:18:50] shop and forget to pick it up up [00:18:53] um and by the way who used laptop repair [00:18:54] shops anymore the whole thing's so [00:18:56] bizarre so [00:18:57] Hunter drops off his laptop repair his [00:19:00] laptop and a laptop repair shop forgets [00:19:03] to go pick it up and then somehow it [00:19:05] expires over a certain window and the [00:19:06] property becomes the computer repair [00:19:08] shop uh his laptop and then he uh then [00:19:11] gives it to Rudy Giuliani and all of a [00:19:13] sudden there's this laptop out there and [00:19:15] almost instantaneously the media picked [00:19:18] up a story that was complete and total [00:19:20] disinformation and misinformation which [00:19:22] was that 50 Intel experts came out and [00:19:25] they said this story is Russian [00:19:26] disinformation remember this right in [00:19:28] the midst of an election and you might [00:19:30] love Biden you might hate Biden you [00:19:32] might say I hate Trump I love Trump [00:19:34] whatever but that's cheating you're not [00:19:36] allowed to do that you're not allowed to [00:19:37] all of a sudden come out using the media [00:19:39] social media and Intel agencies and say [00:19:42] this is Russian disinformation because [00:19:43] it's a story that you're afraid might [00:19:45] actually impact the election results and [00:19:47] so who got held accountable for [00:19:49] spreading that misinformation or [00:19:50] disinformation nobody they just kind of [00:19:52] shrug their shoulders in fact Mark [00:19:53] Zuckerberg just recently came out uh in [00:19:56] an interview with Joe Rogan and Joe is [00:19:58] awesome he's one of the last like I [00:19:59] think legitimate Free Speech liberals I [00:20:01] don't even know if he's a liberal [00:20:02] libertarian what do you want to call him [00:20:03] he's entertaining and smart and fun and [00:20:05] actually here's other ideas which is [00:20:06] refreshing where Mark Zuckerberg went on [00:20:09] Rogan's show and basically said yeah the [00:20:12] FBI made a special visit to Facebook [00:20:15] headquarters and told us that we have to [00:20:17] clamp down on this story and so if you [00:20:19] tried to share the hunter Biden laptop [00:20:21] story in the midst of the election [00:20:23] season which by the way contained let's [00:20:25] just say some rather juicy and salacious [00:20:27] details [00:20:28] um about not just Hunter's personal [00:20:30] conduct but the soon-to-be potential [00:20:32] president of the United States doing [00:20:34] business deals with our adversaries and [00:20:36] if you even talked about it on Twitter [00:20:38] you had your Twitter account suspended [00:20:39] for spreading disinformation and [00:20:41] misinformation so you got to wonder like [00:20:43] who's actually the ones that are [00:20:44] spreading the misinformation our country [00:20:45] remember this story where they said that [00:20:47] the uh the virus came from a bat in the [00:20:51] Himalayan Mountains remember that they [00:20:53] said oh yes just kind of came from a uh [00:20:55] came from a random you know wet Market [00:20:57] is what they they said well now we know [00:20:58] that it was from the Wuhan Institute of [00:21:00] virology in fact early in the pandemic [00:21:02] and our reaction to the pandemic if you [00:21:05] dared even say that it came from the [00:21:07] Wuhan Institute of virology then you [00:21:09] could have lost your social media [00:21:10] account and then you could be labeled as [00:21:12] a disinformation artist I see a pattern [00:21:14] and we're going to keep on going to this [00:21:15] list that sometimes when they go the [00:21:17] hardest after disinformation it actually [00:21:20] tends to be one of the most truthful [00:21:21] things that actually ends up needing to [00:21:23] be discussed and to be to be spread and [00:21:26] heard about another one that I think is [00:21:28] really interesting and important is [00:21:30] during the summer of 2020 during during [00:21:32] floydapalooza when we decided to destroy [00:21:34] our entire country around a lie that [00:21:36] America systemically races which of [00:21:37] course we're not we're the least racist [00:21:38] country ever to exist in the history of [00:21:40] the world we're a very decent country we [00:21:42] don't give ourselves credit for that is [00:21:44] the mostly peaceful protest and my [00:21:46] favorite picture was CNN that was doing [00:21:48] their their news hit while the Wendy's [00:21:50] behind them was burning yeah it's mostly [00:21:52] peaceful out there things are fine [00:21:54] and you you extrapolate that through [00:21:57] public opinion polls and what people [00:21:59] actually thought [00:22:00] and it was this amazing kind of [00:22:02] contradiction where the media was [00:22:04] telling us everything was peace loving [00:22:05] was fine or they said oh yeah protesting [00:22:07] needs to be disagreeable who says it [00:22:08] needs to be peaceful when it actually [00:22:10] became very clear that entire cities [00:22:11] were burning down and I can go through [00:22:12] story after story from how they [00:22:14] mislabeled Kyle Rittenhouse the Nicholas [00:22:16] Sandman to how they told us that the [00:22:17] vaccines were going to prevent [00:22:18] transmission and that it was 100 safe [00:22:20] and effective and you got to wonder like [00:22:23] okay so you guys are ones that are [00:22:25] spreading misinformation and here's the [00:22:27] best way you respond to misinformation [00:22:28] it's just we're not going to shut you up [00:22:30] and you don't shut us up and then we're [00:22:32] able to disagree and we're able to have [00:22:34] dialogue because you guys are going to [00:22:35] spread all this nonsense but that's not [00:22:37] what's happening here what's happening [00:22:39] is they label anyone on the American [00:22:41] right that might have a difference of [00:22:42] opinion all of a sudden they say we are [00:22:44] now going to be able to use force and [00:22:45] power to be able to stop your ability to [00:22:48] speak and so speech and we take it for [00:22:51] granted and it's quickly disappearing in [00:22:52] our country because there's two forms of [00:22:54] censorship and we'll talk about both of [00:22:55] them tonight one that happens internally [00:22:57] and one happens internally one happens [00:22:58] externally is the speech is the best way [00:23:02] to be able to find out what is true and [00:23:05] how you react to certain crises or [00:23:07] things happening in your country or [00:23:09] civilization if you are not able to [00:23:10] consume information that is accurate for [00:23:12] not even say information that's accurate [00:23:14] as you see things happening in real time [00:23:16] you're living in some form of Eternity [00:23:18] period and it's it's really interesting [00:23:20] because the big censorship in this [00:23:22] country is not just coming from the [00:23:24] government that's obviously happening [00:23:25] with you know the kind of intimidation [00:23:27] of people on the right from raiding [00:23:29] Mar-A-Lago to rating pro-life leaders [00:23:31] across the country the unprecedented [00:23:32] weaponization of our government but it's [00:23:35] also happening where people say Charlie [00:23:37] I if I spoke out the way you do I would [00:23:40] lose my job I'd get kicked out of class [00:23:41] I would get graded differently I want to [00:23:43] have a career the biggest form of [00:23:44] censorship in this country is you [00:23:47] shutting up you and it's people that say [00:23:49] I'm afraid to wear a Maga hat to go to a [00:23:51] grocery store I'm sure we have some Mega [00:23:53] hat here God bless you someone that has [00:23:54] the courage to do that uh always [00:23:56] somebody there's always that right front [00:23:57] row there you go and it's always [00:23:59] somebody and um but most people they do [00:24:02] it in quietly and the question should be [00:24:04] why I mean you could see kind of the [00:24:06] apparatrix outside they obviously are [00:24:07] unashamed you know to spew their venom [00:24:09] and that's what they have a right to do [00:24:10] that uh they have a right to you know [00:24:12] say whatever they want to say and that's [00:24:14] fine and but here's the thing is that [00:24:16] I'm confident you should be confident if [00:24:18] you love Liberty and freedom we're going [00:24:19] to beat those people I mean just look at [00:24:21] them obviously we're going to beat them [00:24:22] and but all we need is an opportunity to [00:24:25] speak they know that if there's actually [00:24:27] a Marketplace of ideas and you're [00:24:29] allowed to have ideas spread and people [00:24:31] be persuaded then that's a massive [00:24:33] threat to the current status quo that [00:24:35] they're trying to usher in and you go [00:24:37] through talk topic after topic after [00:24:38] topic after topic and so I always find [00:24:40] it chuckling when people you know kind [00:24:43] of zero in on that misinformation thing [00:24:45] and that's not to say that people don't [00:24:46] get things wrong I do my best to try to [00:24:47] correct things you might get facts and [00:24:49] figures that are off and you should do [00:24:50] your best to you know kind of so that [00:24:52] wasn't right or that should be you know [00:24:54] focused on more but no you have entire [00:24:55] narratives where there is a posture and [00:24:58] an intent around things that are [00:25:00] completely and totally fabricated I'll [00:25:01] give you another example so a public [00:25:03] opinion poll they asked just you know a [00:25:05] thousand adults in America how many [00:25:07] blacks do you think are killed by whites [00:25:09] every single year okay or how many [00:25:11] unarmed blacks do you think are killed [00:25:13] by whites every single year and the [00:25:14] responses were like a thousand fifteen [00:25:16] hundred you know seven like that's about [00:25:19] the average of what people thought when [00:25:21] in reality the amount of unarmed blacks [00:25:23] killed by police officers or killed by [00:25:25] white people something like 40 people a [00:25:27] year or so if you just count police it's [00:25:29] about 18 people here how is it that you [00:25:30] have people that believe it's 1200 or [00:25:33] 1500 when in reality it's in the teens [00:25:35] or the early 20s it's because well the [00:25:38] media is very very good at making you [00:25:39] believe that there's a problem that [00:25:40] actually doesn't exist a much larger [00:25:42] than it really is it's this massive [00:25:43] propaganda campaign that that happens [00:25:45] another great example is this is that [00:25:48] this is the media fear-mongering [00:25:49] propaganda campaign is that during the [00:25:52] height of kovid asked American adults by [00:25:54] political affiliation how what's the [00:25:56] chances you think you're going to be [00:25:58] hospitalized if you get the fauci virus [00:26:00] or the Chinese coronavirus what what is [00:26:02] the the likelihood and registered [00:26:04] Democrats or registered people people on [00:26:06] the left would say that there is a 50 [00:26:09] chance that I will be hospitalized if I [00:26:12] get coveted in reality it's one to five [00:26:14] percent depending on age how is it that [00:26:16] that people would believe so firmly a 50 [00:26:18] chance that you'd be hospitalized it's [00:26:21] because the misinformation artists the [00:26:22] center of the misinformation Hub [00:26:24] themselves is they're designed to keep [00:26:26] you fearful and ignorant and not [00:26:28] understanding what's actually happening [00:26:29] in the country and I'm sure there's some [00:26:31] people on the left here tonight I'm glad [00:26:32] you guys came and but in well dialogue [00:26:36] and we'll have you know discussion [00:26:37] hopefully and see where we agree and [00:26:38] disagree but it's very tempting to want [00:26:42] to use power that you have [00:26:44] to shut up people you don't like because [00:26:46] you think they're super evil [00:26:48] like oh there's never been anything like [00:26:50] these right Wingers right now we have to [00:26:52] shut them up and then okay [00:26:54] over a period of time let's say you shut [00:26:55] every single conservative up do you [00:26:57] think that all of a sudden the sensors [00:26:59] are just going to stop until they shut [00:27:00] up you until there's no disagreement on [00:27:02] the left I'll give you a great example [00:27:04] Tulsi gabbard Tulsi gabbard you might [00:27:06] like her you might not like her you [00:27:07] might agree or disagree where is there [00:27:09] space in the American left right now for [00:27:12] Tulsi gabbard's opinion on foreign [00:27:14] policy or wokism doesn't exist she's not [00:27:17] allowed to even express those opinions [00:27:18] anymore she says it herself she said [00:27:20] there is no space for a classical [00:27:22] liberal on the American left to be able [00:27:24] to say that what we're doing in Ukraine [00:27:26] is not exactly smart we need to ask more [00:27:28] analytical and you know let's say deeper [00:27:30] questions and I think that it's really [00:27:32] dumb to tell kids that men can become [00:27:34] pregnant like really basic stuff right [00:27:36] that doesn't exist and basic and you [00:27:39] learn we learned this from the Russian [00:27:40] Revolution and from kind of bolshevikism [00:27:43] is that as soon as you use the power of [00:27:45] censorship it knows no limitations [00:27:47] whatsoever so it's tempting like yeah we [00:27:49] got to shut those guys up we have to be [00:27:51] able to say that those people can't [00:27:52] speak like okay and eventually it will [00:27:54] come for you and eventually here's the [00:27:56] thing speech is inherently messy you get [00:27:58] all sorts of people that are characters [00:28:00] that you might not like things that you [00:28:02] know opinions that you might find [00:28:03] reprehensible but through a pattern of [00:28:06] allowing people to speak even with those [00:28:08] things is eventually over a period of [00:28:10] time the American people have to come to [00:28:12] some approximation of what is best for [00:28:14] them that has always been the track [00:28:16] record the worst thing you could [00:28:17] possibly do is then use the government [00:28:20] and then private actors and that's the [00:28:21] other thing that I find so funny is that [00:28:23] one of the accusations that um what is [00:28:25] this the students for a Democratic [00:28:27] Society SDS says about turning point us [00:28:29] and as they call us fascists which is [00:28:30] just hilarious they don't really know [00:28:32] what fascism is but like okay what is a [00:28:34] fascist a fascist is someone that tries [00:28:35] tries to use government Force to collude [00:28:37] with private interest for a very [00:28:38] specific purpose how is that not the [00:28:40] American government going to Facebook [00:28:42] and asking them the censor political [00:28:44] opponents how is that not an act of some [00:28:47] sort of technocratic fascism of saying [00:28:49] we're going to go to Google and say that [00:28:51] you must say that if you say certain [00:28:53] perspectives or opinions you're allowed [00:28:55] to have them and so kind of putting all [00:28:57] this together [00:28:58] I find it very comical and interesting [00:28:59] every time people accuse us of [00:29:01] misinformation not to say we get [00:29:02] everything right it's not to say that [00:29:03] every opinion we have is popular but the [00:29:05] most prevailing narratives of the day [00:29:07] are not rooted in truth unfortunately by [00:29:08] the big propagandist I want to close on [00:29:10] a couple things and we'll do some [00:29:11] questions I want to make sure we always [00:29:12] save plenty of time there so that we can [00:29:14] have a good conversation there [00:29:17] um look Our Generation Millennial not [00:29:19] Generation Z and so I guess we could say [00:29:21] our generation I'll say your generation [00:29:22] for all intents and purposes by the way [00:29:24] I have to I have to thank Generation Z [00:29:26] finally there's a generation Boomers [00:29:28] hate more than Millennials so it's I I [00:29:30] hear it all it's really great [00:29:31] congratulations finally they said those [00:29:33] Generations Z they're the worst we used [00:29:35] to be it used to be all Millennials the [00:29:37] worst ever at all time but this is kind [00:29:39] of really morphed to the adults first [00:29:41] and then to the students which is I want [00:29:43] to kind of focus on something I said [00:29:45] earlier which is we say that kovid did [00:29:47] all these things and even I'm a little [00:29:48] sloppy in my language at times because [00:29:50] um I'm so used to saying it the way the [00:29:52] regime says it but it really was not [00:29:54] coveted that hurt young people it was [00:29:56] our reaction to it and everything single [00:29:58] metric from weight gain to Suicide to [00:30:01] psychiatric drug medication to alcohol [00:30:03] all went in the negative Direction [00:30:07] during these lockdowns and for what it [00:30:09] will go down as one of the worst [00:30:11] mistakes ever made in decent society and [00:30:14] in our civilization all around kind of [00:30:16] this prevailing dogma of mass propaganda [00:30:20] and of fear and now you have a [00:30:22] generation that now let's just pretend [00:30:24] everything was fine health-wise despite [00:30:25] the fact that all of these things went [00:30:27] up anxiety depression mental health [00:30:28] issues all those things went up [00:30:31] let's just talk economically our [00:30:33] response to this and and this is where [00:30:35] you know I'm trying to warn [00:30:36] conservatives that if we don't get [00:30:38] actually a coherent message around these [00:30:40] sorts of topics and these issues the [00:30:41] Socialists are going to have quite a [00:30:43] field day with the Next Generation [00:30:45] because when people don't own anything [00:30:46] they make for perfect socialists and [00:30:48] everything is twice as expensive minimum [00:30:50] in every every major metropolitan area [00:30:53] over the last two and a half years and [00:30:55] we did that both parties did that [00:30:57] conservatives and liberals decided to go [00:30:59] print a bunch of money we did not have [00:31:01] to inject it into Mass stimulus packages [00:31:03] obviously the current Administration did [00:31:05] it more than the prior one but there's [00:31:07] there's no doubt that it was a [00:31:09] bipartisan agreement to go continue to [00:31:11] per to to inflate the currency and to [00:31:14] basically create what is record [00:31:16] inflation where many of you in this room [00:31:18] probably have a fair amount of economic [00:31:21] cynicism where you say where exactly is [00:31:24] this American dream that was promised to [00:31:26] me and honestly you have a point and I'm [00:31:28] not one to play victim I'm not one or to [00:31:31] say you should play a victim I'm not one [00:31:32] to say that young people should bash [00:31:33] their adults or their Elders the adults [00:31:35] or Elders or their parents but honestly [00:31:37] there needs to be a mass apology to [00:31:40] Generation Z and to young people for [00:31:42] what we did over the last two years [00:31:43] which was a drive-by shooting of a [00:31:45] generation and then we just say oh just [00:31:46] go work harder actually no how is a [00:31:49] young person supposed to go buy a home [00:31:51] right now how are they supposed to [00:31:52] afford a mortgage with with everything [00:31:53] twice as expensive and by the way they [00:31:55] could barely pay for basic goods and [00:31:57] services and then obviously many of you [00:31:59] are obviously in debt going to college [00:32:01] of which I have a lot of opinions around [00:32:03] that that we can get into if you want [00:32:04] and the essence is this is that this has [00:32:07] been intergenerational robbery the likes [00:32:09] of which we have never seen and just the [00:32:12] message of oh yeah just go get your act [00:32:13] together go work together that doesn't [00:32:15] do that doesn't cut it now for the St [00:32:16] all these students out there on the [00:32:18] inverse I implore you to reject just [00:32:21] playing a victim and being cynical it's [00:32:23] still a beautiful country there's still [00:32:25] huge opportunity you can still get [00:32:27] through it with grit and hustle there's [00:32:29] been a lot of obviously bad things that [00:32:31] have been dealt to you and they were not [00:32:32] they were done by bad decisions and [00:32:34] Decisions by people that are not of your [00:32:36] generation despite all of that there's [00:32:38] still an immense that there's immense [00:32:40] amount of wealth and happiness that you [00:32:42] can have in your life with all of that [00:32:44] through earned success and the proper [00:32:46] application of your effort there there's [00:32:48] there is not there is still not in [00:32:51] America a good reason to say I'm just [00:32:54] going to give up I'm not going to do [00:32:55] anything I'm going to throw it all away [00:32:56] so I kind of put it on both sides but [00:32:58] honestly I say this to adults all the [00:33:00] time because you know a lot of adults [00:33:01] now that the stock market has gone down [00:33:03] dramatically they're feeling a little [00:33:04] bit more but when I say adults I mean [00:33:06] you know people of the age of 50 you [00:33:08] know they'll say all the time they say [00:33:09] you know this generation Z is so cynical [00:33:10] and all the they want is free stuff and [00:33:13] they're you know 20 years old and they [00:33:14] want social they want socialism because [00:33:16] they don't want to work I say that's [00:33:17] some people obviously but honestly the [00:33:19] vast majority of young people find [00:33:20] socialism attractive because they've [00:33:22] been lied to their entire life they want [00:33:24] to go get a degree they know that is [00:33:25] largely worthless to go study stuff that [00:33:27] doesn't matter to go find jobs that [00:33:28] don't exist they've done everything [00:33:30] they've been told go get the vaccine go [00:33:32] stay at home go wear a mask don't see [00:33:33] your friends and guess what it has done [00:33:35] complete generational Carnage to the [00:33:37] ones they love including themselves and [00:33:39] so they look up at adults they're like [00:33:40] oh really we just have to go work harder [00:33:41] and apply more how about you guys leave [00:33:42] a country that's even a little bit free [00:33:44] or prosperous for us because the app [00:33:46] here's what's going to happen if [00:33:47] conservatives don't get our act together [00:33:49] and we don't get more young people doing [00:33:51] three very basic things buying homes [00:33:52] getting married and having kids you're [00:33:54] going to have a socialist revolution in [00:33:55] this country the likes of which you've [00:33:56] never seen and it's going to be very [00:33:57] very hard to stop because if a [00:33:59] generation is increasingly not owning [00:34:01] property not getting married and not [00:34:02] having kids one on Earth are you [00:34:04] supposed to tell them to go work for [00:34:05] what are they trying to conserve they're [00:34:07] going to say you know what let's just go [00:34:08] take the money from adults and that's [00:34:09] gonna be very hard to stop it's a bad [00:34:10] idea I don't support it it's morally [00:34:12] questionable at best I don't I don't [00:34:14] find it to be supportive at all but if [00:34:16] for those of you that actually want a [00:34:18] free enterprise to exist and just you [00:34:19] know survive in the future you have a [00:34:22] generation that is being completely [00:34:24] priced out of the housing market and [00:34:25] then you have these massive Wall Street [00:34:27] firms coming in like BlackRock and what [00:34:29] are they doing they're buying up [00:34:30] single-family homes Across America to [00:34:32] turn you into lifelong renters to make [00:34:36] it so you can never actually buy into [00:34:38] you know the housing system to be able [00:34:41] to build equity and to build wealth and [00:34:43] boy that's not a country that is [00:34:45] sustainable one of the things that [00:34:46] actually creates I think de-radicalized [00:34:48] politics is when people own stuff people [00:34:50] that own homes tend to not burn down [00:34:52] Wendy's good rule rule for life right [00:34:54] people that are married and have kids [00:34:55] tend to not go March in the streets [00:34:57] endlessly against systemic racism they [00:34:59] got other things on their mind but you [00:35:01] have the least married generation we [00:35:03] have a population collapse that is down [00:35:04] 20 to 30 percent and this increased kind [00:35:07] of Aura of cynicism and I hate to be too [00:35:10] big into the materialism I think we have [00:35:11] a spiritual crisis in our country as [00:35:13] well but when a generation Works super [00:35:16] hard and there's a lot of you that work [00:35:17] hard you work in minimum wage jobs you [00:35:19] work you study and you're getting poorer [00:35:21] that creates a lot of nihilism a ton [00:35:24] when all of a sudden you're working a [00:35:27] job just to stay poor you're like why [00:35:29] don't I just go get government benefits [00:35:30] like it would be easier [00:35:32] and that's not an exaggeration I'm sure [00:35:34] in Tallahassee this has not been immune [00:35:36] from inflation but in many of the [00:35:38] metropolitan areas people that are 25 to [00:35:40] 35 they are they're working extra hours [00:35:42] they're putting more time in and it's [00:35:44] not even enough to stay out of debt in [00:35:46] fact the recent study shows that 30 [00:35:48] percent of gen Z Millennials are going [00:35:51] to have to go into debt this calendar [00:35:52] year just to pay for basic needs [00:35:55] groceries and rent [00:35:56] and so over a period of time what's [00:35:58] going to prevent them from then [00:36:00] supporting the Bolshevik Marxist that [00:36:02] says you know what let's just go take it [00:36:04] from the most productive because you've [00:36:06] been scammed now I don't support the [00:36:08] conclusion I think there's some you know [00:36:09] prudent steps we could take to actually [00:36:10] restore this stuff but man we did this [00:36:12] to ourselves and if we just think it's [00:36:14] going to auto correct or self-correct by [00:36:16] doing the same things we've been doing [00:36:17] the last 20 or 30 years I think that's [00:36:19] sadly mistaken I'm sure we could [00:36:20] actually agree with some of the people [00:36:21] on the left in this room but here's [00:36:22] where we will we'll probably disagree [00:36:24] with some of the people on the left or [00:36:25] maybe we'll agree or or not it depends [00:36:27] on where you're coming from is that [00:36:30] is this is that there is still a [00:36:32] purposeful life ahead of you is that [00:36:35] there's so much that could still be done [00:36:36] of getting married and having a [00:36:37] wonderful and beautiful life it's just [00:36:39] going to take some proper steps from our [00:36:41] leaders to actually care more about your [00:36:43] generation I could say our generation [00:36:45] but I'll say your generation than the [00:36:46] people of Ukraine because if you ask me [00:36:48] sending 70 billion dollars to Ukraine is [00:36:51] an insult to every single one of you [00:36:52] that is going into debt to go pay your [00:36:54] rent while our citizens and your [00:36:56] generation is working harder than ever [00:36:58] can't even put food on the table and is [00:37:01] going into a nihilistic cynical tornado [00:37:04] and we're like well we need to go send [00:37:05] zelenski another 70 billion dollars and [00:37:07] then zelenski comes out and he demands [00:37:09] money from us like okay pal how about [00:37:10] you set this one out how about we go put [00:37:12] our students first that are working [00:37:13] their tail off that have been lied to to [00:37:15] go get degrees that really don't matter [00:37:17] that are never actually going to make [00:37:18] them learn anything substantive maybe [00:37:20] you guys are learning wonderful things [00:37:21] all the time and you could tell me that [00:37:22] later but vast majority of students at [00:37:24] graduates say they wish they wouldn't [00:37:25] have gone at all if it wasn't for just [00:37:27] getting a piece of paper in return [00:37:29] um and I I think it's long past time for [00:37:32] a realignment of of priorities in more [00:37:34] ways than one and I sure hope our [00:37:36] leaders start to listen okay let's do [00:37:37] some questions guys and thank you for [00:37:38] sitting through that and so we could do [00:37:40] a line where are we doing the line [00:37:45] we're doing a line right over here okay [00:37:46] cool [00:37:48] and we could turn up the house lights [00:37:49] slightly okay [00:37:54] okay [00:37:55] so uh just some ground rules for the for [00:37:58] the questions try to keep it to a [00:37:59] question [00:38:00] um I might want to have a dialogue back [00:38:02] and forth and that's fine if you [00:38:04] disagree you guys can go to the front of [00:38:05] the line [00:38:06] um it's I think it's generally a [00:38:08] conservative audience here tonight so [00:38:10] please don't Heckle or Boo or treat [00:38:13] somebody poorly if they say something [00:38:15] you find objectionable let it be known [00:38:18] at Turning Point USA events if you [00:38:20] disagree you're given a platform we [00:38:21] could figure out what to do about that I [00:38:24] challenge every single left-wing [00:38:25] organization and group to do the same [00:38:27] okay let's start here oh hey Charlie [00:38:29] thank you for being here in Tallahassee [00:38:30] today [00:38:32] um so I'm the president of the new [00:38:33] Turning Point USA chapter at Tallahassee [00:38:36] Community College awesome and uh [00:38:41] and uh we've been struggling recently to [00:38:43] get some recognition by the faculty and [00:38:46] the leadership of the school obviously [00:38:48] uh kind of an uncooperative [00:38:50] administrative body you could say [00:38:52] um so I was just wondering if you had [00:38:54] any tips for helping us gain the trust [00:38:57] of those teachers and and school leaders [00:38:59] who could potentially help us launch our [00:39:01] student group while still keeping to our [00:39:04] conservative America First values that's [00:39:06] awesome well first of all thank you for [00:39:07] your commitment and your leadership you [00:39:09] should be applauded for that that's [00:39:10] awesome and [00:39:12] look it's going to take grit and hustle [00:39:14] uh you got to find a faculty sponsor not [00:39:16] easy right I'm sure there's one [00:39:18] um and if you can't find one at least [00:39:20] try to find one person that you might [00:39:22] disagree with that still believes in [00:39:23] freedom of speech that like hey do you [00:39:25] at least believe that something that you [00:39:26] might not agree with has a right to [00:39:27] exist on campus but honestly this is all [00:39:30] a very good exercise for you and I just [00:39:31] want to encourage you personally the [00:39:33] difficulty the opposition navigating a [00:39:36] community that might not agree with [00:39:38] everything that you hold is going to [00:39:40] make you a tougher more resilient person [00:39:41] throughout your entire life [00:39:44] um just having everything easy when you [00:39:46] are young creates a lot of misery it [00:39:49] does and I I have a whole theory about [00:39:51] this which is that young people are the [00:39:53] most comfortable generation in history [00:39:54] which is why they're the most depressed [00:39:56] generation in history there's a great [00:39:58] book called Comfort crisis you guys [00:39:59] should check it out by Michael Easter [00:40:00] which makes this argument that we as a [00:40:03] human species were not designed just be [00:40:04] able to sit around all day and have [00:40:06] three meals and perfectly air [00:40:08] conditioned to climate controlled [00:40:09] situations over a period of time it [00:40:12] actually creates a lot of anxiety and [00:40:14] depression and so opposition is a good [00:40:16] thing I would consider that to be a [00:40:17] blessing at the same time we're happy to [00:40:20] give you resources and help in any way [00:40:22] possible and I'm positive you'll be able [00:40:24] to find hopefully a sponsor or two [00:40:25] throughout it but look at it as a [00:40:27] blessing look at it as almost a [00:40:29] metaphorical muscle building opportunity [00:40:32] so that later in life you will have gone [00:40:34] through you know being called nasty [00:40:35] names not being in the majority and [00:40:37] eventually you'll be stronger because of [00:40:39] that okay God bless you thanks for being [00:40:41] here [00:40:42] [Applause] [00:40:51] Dr FSU so we really appreciate it thank [00:40:54] you for all your hard work great job [00:40:56] thank you for coming [00:40:58] um I just have a quick question for you [00:40:59] what is your advice to young adults who [00:41:02] are in relationships with a significant [00:41:03] other who has opposing political views [00:41:05] yeah great question [00:41:07] um [00:41:08] so obviously everyone is free to make [00:41:10] their own choices I think that is a [00:41:13] recipe for disaster [00:41:15] I do and I I'm not saying break up with [00:41:19] that person I'm not saying you can't [00:41:20] have a nice time but [00:41:23] here's a good here's a good question [00:41:25] eventually you might have children let's [00:41:27] pretend you have children with that [00:41:28] person okay whose values are you going [00:41:30] to teach the kid [00:41:33] right who gets that it's not not you I'm [00:41:35] just saying like I'm just asking more [00:41:36] hypothetically what kind of school do [00:41:38] you send the kid right do you send it to [00:41:41] a public school and government school or [00:41:43] to a Christian school and who decides [00:41:45] then and then over a period of time you [00:41:47] know when you start living for a year or [00:41:49] two or three years together [00:41:51] and all of a sudden the news comes on [00:41:54] and tension's already high in the house [00:41:56] are you gonna be able to discuss the [00:41:57] Nightly News politely and wonderful [00:41:59] together you're going to see it all in [00:42:01] the same way what about charitable [00:42:02] giving are you going to want to give to [00:42:03] the same Charities I could go on and on [00:42:05] and on and on and I've seen it work [00:42:07] every once in a while I've seen people [00:42:08] opposing views build really beautiful [00:42:10] lives and do great things but I've seen [00:42:13] I've seen it be a disaster more times [00:42:14] than not that doesn't mean by the way if [00:42:16] you have to find someone that shares [00:42:17] your views that it's going to be the [00:42:18] most wonderful thing ever but if you [00:42:21] want to have children [00:42:22] then I I believe firmly you have to you [00:42:25] have to marry somebody or be with [00:42:27] someone that sees the world the same way [00:42:28] you do or else it's not fair to the [00:42:30] child or else they're going to be having [00:42:31] competing and confusing narratives and [00:42:35] dialogues passed down to them at all [00:42:36] times and so do whatever do what you [00:42:38] will with that but um I just I also have [00:42:42] seen a lot of people say oh I'm going to [00:42:43] change them yeah that yeah I [00:42:46] yeah that that's not a good idea that [00:42:48] that usually doesn't work and by the way [00:42:49] if you are in a relationship to change [00:42:52] somebody [00:42:53] that's really not what a relationship is [00:42:56] right uh typically people that go into a [00:42:58] relationship with the intent of [00:43:01] transforming the other [00:43:02] yeah that that's that ends like the [00:43:04] Hindenburg [00:43:05] God bless you thank you appreciate it [00:43:09] oh boy um [00:43:13] okay [00:43:14] um I'm liberal Mr Kirk I mean [00:43:17] okay I I voted Trump in the 2020 [00:43:19] election but oh good [00:43:21] you're not that liberal okay but things [00:43:23] change my mind but anyways [00:43:25] okay [00:43:26] um I'm young obviously and I was [00:43:29] wondering [00:43:31] about trickle-down economics I was [00:43:34] wondering when is it going to trickle [00:43:36] down for me because historically [00:43:39] like I don't I've never personally seen [00:43:41] it like for example Liz trust got well [00:43:43] she resigned over the dumb tax things [00:43:46] George Bush said it was voodoo economics [00:43:50] so my question to you is [00:43:53] would trickle down I mean or when is it [00:43:56] going to trickle down [00:43:57] yeah I'm not a Defender necessarily A [00:43:59] trigger down economics I mean I think in [00:44:02] some ways if you want to talk about [00:44:03] supply side versus demand here's the [00:44:05] thing I happen to be I used to be a [00:44:08] really you know economic libertarian and [00:44:09] then I grew up and you start to see that [00:44:11] you actually need you know some checks [00:44:13] and balances and externalities in the [00:44:14] market I am a big defender of the market [00:44:16] though generally so how how should we [00:44:18] approach economics I suppose that's a [00:44:20] question right and so here's how I'll [00:44:22] answer that which is that an economy [00:44:24] should serve people people should not [00:44:26] serve the economy okay I think you and I [00:44:28] could both agree with that and so I will [00:44:30] defend them the idea of giving tax cuts [00:44:34] to businesses that's a very good idea [00:44:35] because businesses are run by people and [00:44:38] businesses employ people now should you [00:44:40] only give them to big businesses no I [00:44:42] think that's silly but the vast majority [00:44:44] of businesses in America are small [00:44:45] businesses run by entrepreneurs and so [00:44:47] for example my entire economic Viewpoint [00:44:50] is to make you [00:44:52] more empowered and easier for you to be [00:44:54] able to start a business and grow a [00:44:55] business from something to nothing so [00:44:57] you can call it whatever you want you [00:44:58] can call it free market economics [00:44:59] entrepreneurship focused economics [00:45:01] whatever it is but I think you and I [00:45:03] could find some common ground on some [00:45:04] things for example I think it's wrong [00:45:06] and it's stupid and it's silly that the [00:45:08] largest corporations in America don't [00:45:09] pay anything in income tax whether it be [00:45:11] Amazon or Exxon Mobil it's not fair it's [00:45:13] not right and I think a lot of these [00:45:15] loopholes are designed to be able to [00:45:17] favor the corporate lobbyists in [00:45:19] Washington DC while everyday people get [00:45:21] completely and totally crushed and I'm a [00:45:23] conservative saying this should you want [00:45:24] to chime in really quick oh yeah um yeah [00:45:26] I agree with you I [00:45:28] I am not a big fan of bailouts like [00:45:30] during the covet pandemic I was against [00:45:32] it yeah the the airline industry had to [00:45:34] be bailed out by the American people and [00:45:36] I I don't think that's right if you got [00:45:38] to shut down for a week and your whole [00:45:39] business collapsed like it's probably [00:45:41] not a sustainable business yeah it's not [00:45:42] a sustainable business that's your fault [00:45:44] it's not [00:45:45] for you to take the wealth of the [00:45:47] American people and just put it back to [00:45:48] your home so so let me find Let me let [00:45:50] me say one last thing I think that [00:45:51] hopefully we can agree on and this is [00:45:53] where I'm probably in the most harmony [00:45:55] with Libertarians okay which is what we [00:45:58] are doing to our currency is immoral and [00:46:00] wrong and has been warned for multiple [00:46:03] decades and generations by people in the [00:46:06] kind of libertarian community and it [00:46:08] makes every single person in this room [00:46:09] poorer and it makes the oligarchs and it [00:46:12] makes the people that run our society [00:46:13] richer a hyper-inflated currency [00:46:16] benefits people that already have hard [00:46:18] assets that are able to move money [00:46:19] quickly working people get crushed by [00:46:22] inflation and so let's put this let's [00:46:24] put trickle down economics aside let's [00:46:26] say this we need to have a monetary [00:46:28] policy that does not destroy the value [00:46:31] of the dollar 10 year over year so that [00:46:35] everyday people can save and with [00:46:37] expectations so that they all of a [00:46:40] sudden don't have to say well I'm going [00:46:41] to get 10 poorer this year you know what [00:46:44] ends up happening people end up spending [00:46:46] all their money on stupid stuff because [00:46:48] you have just created Mass economic [00:46:50] cynicism they say what's the point in [00:46:52] Saving what's the point in going into [00:46:53] the market it's just going to crash and [00:46:55] so I think you and I could both agree [00:46:56] that from a monetary standpoint we [00:46:59] should encourage saving over spending [00:47:01] and restore the purchasing power of the [00:47:03] American muscular middle class I am God [00:47:05] bless you man thank you appreciate it [00:47:12] hey Charlie [00:47:13] so I used to be a conservative I no [00:47:16] longer am now I'm actually a Libertarian [00:47:18] now and a big reason for that is what I [00:47:22] see as a contradiction within [00:47:25] conservatism between supporting freedom [00:47:28] freedom of speech to bear arms and [00:47:31] support for law enforcement [00:47:33] uh because uh if the government were to [00:47:36] infringe on our freedoms even more than [00:47:38] it already has such as Banning assault [00:47:41] rifles for example then the police would [00:47:44] be the ones to enforce such tyrannical [00:47:47] edicts as the Canadian truckers [00:47:49] discovered so is there a contradiction [00:47:51] here for a conservatism why or why not [00:47:53] very smart question I can see where [00:47:55] you're coming from so what the way I [00:47:57] would answer it is that we look at the [00:47:58] FBI a lot differently than a local [00:48:00] sheriff [00:48:01] so local sheriffs have been the ones [00:48:03] defying all of these kind of gun [00:48:05] grabbing regulations and measures [00:48:07] because the sheriff is probably someone [00:48:09] in your local community you trust [00:48:10] probably someone that got elected [00:48:12] publicly probably someone whose kids [00:48:14] goes to local school and almost always [00:48:16] is a strong adherent to the Constitution [00:48:18] but I think you are yielding towards is [00:48:21] something you and I could have a lot of [00:48:22] agreement with which is it's the FBI the [00:48:25] ones that take the knee for BLM the ones [00:48:28] that are calling for Mass gun control do [00:48:30] I trust them absolutely not but do I [00:48:33] think that local police is not just [00:48:36] important but necessary for human [00:48:38] flourishing absolutely and so I'm a [00:48:40] localist with this stuff I think that [00:48:42] the less Federal control when it comes [00:48:44] to a lot of these issues the better I [00:48:46] question so much of the legitimacy of [00:48:48] what the FBI is doing recently and it [00:48:51] pains me to say that as an American [00:48:52] Patriot where I look at everything they [00:48:55] do through a political lens now from [00:48:56] raiding Mar-A-Lago to spying on Donald [00:48:59] Trump to the rating of the homes of [00:49:02] pro-life leaders so your apprehension as [00:49:04] a new libertarian is totally right but I [00:49:07] would just challenge you to be like hey [00:49:08] that's a lot different than Sheriff Mark [00:49:10] Lamb for example in Arizona who is [00:49:13] elected by the local people and doing [00:49:15] everything he possibly can to go after [00:49:16] Smugglers and would never enforce a gun [00:49:20] confiscation measure and so we we need [00:49:23] to support our local police very very [00:49:25] important they're in our community [00:49:27] they're one of us where the FBI is [00:49:29] though I look at them as almost kind of [00:49:32] infantry for the regime does that make [00:49:33] sense [00:49:34] well it's that you know police whether [00:49:37] federal state or local uh they're tasked [00:49:39] with opponing you know all the laws of [00:49:41] the United States of America Federal [00:49:42] state and local so if the federal [00:49:44] government were to for example pass a [00:49:46] law that banned assault rifles then when [00:49:50] the local police then be compelled to [00:49:53] enforce that law is that not something [00:49:55] that's a good question we've already [00:49:56] seen though a track record and a pattern [00:49:59] of local police and Sheriff's hundreds [00:50:00] saying I will not enforce any of these [00:50:02] Montana for example okay came out [00:50:04] through every one of their sheriffs and [00:50:05] said we're not going to enforce an [00:50:07] assault rifle ban we will ignore the [00:50:08] federal government so I would just [00:50:10] challenge you to kind of look at some of [00:50:11] that at how some of these more local law [00:50:13] enforcement agencies are already [00:50:15] vocalizing that they are willing to say [00:50:17] we are not going to enforce an [00:50:19] unconstitutional measure from the [00:50:21] federal government but your apprehension [00:50:22] is well founded I don't consider it a [00:50:24] contradiction I consider it a nuance and [00:50:26] an important difference but I think you [00:50:28] would also agree you need some form of [00:50:31] law enforcement and I would much rather [00:50:33] be policed by people that live in our [00:50:34] communities that are close to us and [00:50:37] share our concerns then somebody far off [00:50:39] in a distant land and I'll close with [00:50:41] this the left does not want to defund [00:50:43] the police they want to destroy local [00:50:45] police and replace it with a national [00:50:46] police force [00:50:48] and so you and I can definitely have [00:50:50] agreement that a national police force [00:50:52] is horrifying it's something we do not [00:50:54] support I want thousands of local [00:50:56] sheriffs that are accountable to the [00:50:58] people and far less Federal involvement [00:51:00] kind of parachuting into our communities [00:51:02] telling us what to do [00:51:04] God bless you man thank you [00:51:09] uh hi I'm Trevor Waller and I just had a [00:51:13] question why do you think that [00:51:14] leftists and liberals and people on the [00:51:17] left side or why they push anti-science [00:51:21] ideas in our school systems like they [00:51:23] push the ideas where it's like a man can [00:51:26] be a woman a woman can be a man there is [00:51:28] no difference between genders and why [00:51:31] parents accept that and then one last [00:51:33] question what do you think we should do [00:51:35] with public school system should we try [00:51:36] to change them should we take kids out [00:51:39] of the public school system [00:51:39] homeschooling because I'm a homeschooler [00:51:41] just wondering what you thought yeah [00:51:43] great great so why do parents put up [00:51:45] with it that that's a mystery to me I [00:51:46] think that's changing though I think [00:51:48] parents are starting to push back I [00:51:50] think there is kind of a default setting [00:51:52] of being polite in a lot of these [00:51:53] communities and parents don't want to [00:51:55] come across as being impolite so why do [00:51:58] they teach things that are contrary to [00:51:59] science yeah that's a really important [00:52:01] good question they would disagree with [00:52:03] how you just categorized it even though [00:52:04] it is you know science in and of itself [00:52:06] but they also have a different view of [00:52:07] what science is I give a whole speech on [00:52:09] this in Kansas City that I encourage you [00:52:11] to check out which is science properly [00:52:14] understood should be about the [00:52:15] preservation of human life and the [00:52:17] advancement and the flourishing of human [00:52:18] life science like I would say improperly [00:52:22] applied is about exerting your own will [00:52:24] and dominion over nature to show [00:52:26] Supremacy over the design or let's just [00:52:29] say the state of what nature is I'll [00:52:30] give you an example right so two forms [00:52:33] of medical technology that could be used [00:52:34] by the same person for two complete and [00:52:36] total differences okay an abortion and a [00:52:39] C-section [00:52:40] one gives life and protects life and one [00:52:43] destroys life they're both instruments [00:52:45] of science because if you look at a test [00:52:47] tube you're not going to find Morality [00:52:48] In a test tube so you have to bring some [00:52:50] form of morality into science right this [00:52:52] is one of the great lies I think of [00:52:54] secular so they say oh you can find [00:52:55] Morality In Science now at some point [00:52:57] you have to have some sort of a [00:52:58] construct and a framework right these [00:53:00] are tools that you use right and so with [00:53:03] that kind of advancement of Technology [00:53:04] praise God we have C-sections in America [00:53:06] right it's the most commonly performed [00:53:08] surgery in America that has saved [00:53:10] millions of pregnancies and babies that [00:53:13] otherwise we don't know would have [00:53:14] happened but then you have abortion very [00:53:16] similar procedure in the way a trained [00:53:18] technician has to do that but a [00:53:20] completely different result and so the [00:53:22] question really needs to be what is [00:53:23] science what is the point of science I [00:53:25] believe science should be first and [00:53:26] foremost an inquiry into the national [00:53:27] natural world understanding it and if we [00:53:30] have to intervene if we have to create [00:53:32] something new it has to be under the [00:53:34] moral framework of allowing human beings [00:53:35] to flourish and to succeed your question [00:53:37] about the public schools [00:53:39] um look I'm a local guy if local areas [00:53:41] want to have public government schools [00:53:43] so be it but I think we have to abolish [00:53:45] the Department of Education in [00:53:46] Washington D.C I think we have to [00:53:48] restore parents rights to be able to [00:53:50] have school choice and vouchers and let [00:53:52] me just say you have a very very good [00:53:54] education program here in Florida you're [00:53:57] very lucky other states would give a lot [00:53:59] to be able to have the type of [00:54:00] educational Mobility you have here in [00:54:02] Florida God bless you man I love love [00:54:04] homeschoolers thank you thank you [00:54:05] appreciate it [00:54:08] and if you guys disagree you could come [00:54:10] to the front just want to make that [00:54:11] known no pressure so [00:54:13] hi my name is Sarah [00:54:15] um my parents got divorced when I was a [00:54:18] toddler I have no memory of them [00:54:19] together I'm 21 years old right now and [00:54:22] I got married this past day [00:54:23] congratulations thank you phenomenal [00:54:26] um that's thrilling so I've never had a [00:54:28] good [00:54:30] role model in terms of you know marriage [00:54:32] with my parents so I was wondering what [00:54:34] would your best advice be for having a [00:54:36] long happy marriage [00:54:37] so I've been married a year and a half [00:54:39] so I don't know about long or happy well [00:54:40] I know about happy I don't know about [00:54:41] long so um [00:54:43] don't know about long so um but we're [00:54:45] working on on the length so look I mean [00:54:48] it's not about you that's the most [00:54:49] important thing that you'll learn really [00:54:51] quick it's about service it's about you [00:54:54] know commitment to the other and this is [00:54:55] the this is the thing I always laugh [00:54:57] about you know when people say men and [00:54:58] women the same when you're married for [00:55:00] like an afternoon you realize men and [00:55:01] women are very much not the same right [00:55:04] and so I mean a great example is you [00:55:06] know when a man comes home from work [00:55:07] there could have been a nuclear [00:55:09] explosion at work how was work it was [00:55:10] fine it was good [00:55:12] where the wife just will talk about [00:55:14] every single detail that it's just our [00:55:16] Nate the nature right it's completely [00:55:17] different [00:55:19] um and then you know Dennis Prager has a [00:55:21] really great speech on this that drives [00:55:23] the left crazy [00:55:24] um which is that men men's nature is [00:55:27] towards variety okay and I think it's [00:55:30] very important for wives to just say to [00:55:32] their husbands thank you for being loyal [00:55:34] to me it's a very important thing [00:55:36] um a lot of men don't hear that enough [00:55:37] and it drives some women like I don't [00:55:39] want to have to say that it's like well [00:55:41] just study a little bit about men's [00:55:42] nature and understand how men are kind [00:55:44] of programmed towards variety it's a [00:55:46] very important thing [00:55:47] um the final thing is just carve time [00:55:49] for one another and I mean I'm a big [00:55:51] believer in the Ten Commandments I [00:55:52] believe the Sabbath is one of the great [00:55:54] gifts from God to be able to preserve [00:55:55] the family I think the Sabbath properly [00:55:57] understood is the preservation of the [00:56:00] family and so I turn my phone off every [00:56:02] Friday night turn it back on Sunday [00:56:04] morning I'm unreachable unreachable by [00:56:06] the world and you can just you just have [00:56:09] to focus on another person the last [00:56:10] thing I'll say is this is social media [00:56:12] and phones will do everything it [00:56:14] possibly can to get in the way of your [00:56:15] marriage so do what you can to put those [00:56:17] aside silence them and I wish you a very [00:56:21] very long and happy marriage and [00:56:23] hopefully children sometime soon and I [00:56:25] fully support young people getting [00:56:26] married early I think that's a very [00:56:28] important thing now the reason and [00:56:29] people say well it's a risk why can't I [00:56:31] wait till I'm 28 or 30. you know because [00:56:33] what if it's the not through everything [00:56:34] in life is a risk okay everything has a [00:56:36] risk but there's also another risk that [00:56:38] you have to acknowledge which is the [00:56:40] risk of our thousands of listeners that [00:56:42] email me [00:56:43] and they say I'm 35 and I haven't found [00:56:46] anybody and it's too late that's a risk [00:56:47] too [00:56:48] and I can tell you right now the risk of [00:56:50] having resent of having guilt or have [00:56:53] not written the guilt um having [00:56:55] despondency or having just kind of [00:56:58] regret that's the better word [00:57:00] that's a risk that some people need to [00:57:02] know just as much as the risk of you [00:57:04] might not be able to go to Paris every [00:57:06] summer [00:57:07] and so I don't think we communicate that [00:57:09] all the time to young people so God [00:57:11] bless you thank you thanks for being [00:57:12] here [00:57:12] [Applause] [00:57:17] what's a good Mr Kirk um so I'm not sure [00:57:21] how up to date you are with [00:57:24] um what's been going on with Kanye West [00:57:25] and his uh interview with Tucker very [00:57:28] hard to keep up with it yeah it's a lot [00:57:31] um his interview with Tucker Carlson and [00:57:33] uh Cuomo and the podcast [00:57:36] um but I was wondering what are your [00:57:37] thoughts on what like he had to say [00:57:39] about [00:57:40] um the media and politics in general [00:57:42] um and in specific on what are your [00:57:45] thoughts on him and Candace Owens in the [00:57:47] uh in the white lives Matter t-shirts [00:57:49] um also uh do you believe that or what [00:57:52] or do you believe that Donald Trump was [00:57:55] a good president why or why not okay [00:57:57] that's a lot of questions let me start [00:57:58] with the easiest look I wrote a whole [00:58:00] book saying Trump was a good president [00:58:02] so yes uh definitely believed that and [00:58:04] he was a great president economically [00:58:05] American strength energy independent all [00:58:07] that sort of stuff so I wrote a whole [00:58:09] book on that [00:58:11] so to your and I'll answer the most [00:58:14] controversial part of the question [00:58:15] intentionally uh because it's important [00:58:17] that people are honest so I I don't love [00:58:19] the way what Kanye said but I do not [00:58:22] think that Kanye is an anti-semite [00:58:23] because I'm a behaviorist and I have [00:58:25] never seen Kanye ever treat someone who [00:58:28] is Jewish without respect or honor or [00:58:30] decency that's a very important thing [00:58:32] which is okay should he have said what [00:58:35] he said that's debatable and [00:58:36] questionable however the outrage from [00:58:38] people to cancel him and throw him out [00:58:40] the window ask the question is how has [00:58:41] he treated people that are Jewish and [00:58:43] across the board he's treated them very [00:58:44] well so that says a lot before you start [00:58:47] all of a sudden going to the rafters and [00:58:49] saying he's the worst person ever [00:58:50] because of what he said and I think it [00:58:52] could obviously been worded differently [00:58:53] I had the opportunity to spend some time [00:58:56] with him you know over a summer [00:58:59] um and that was a whole Whirlwind of [00:59:01] time that was back in 2018 or 19 and I [00:59:04] found him to be an incredibly decent and [00:59:06] loving father and so I think a lot of [00:59:08] these characters Slanders and smears [00:59:10] against him are wrong and awful and from [00:59:12] people that have never met him so I'll [00:59:13] just that was kind of the first answer [00:59:14] that the second thing is he's [00:59:16] undoubtedly one of the most talented [00:59:18] artists of a generation his [00:59:19] communication style is not for everyone [00:59:21] he says things that um you know people [00:59:24] don't like okay that happens a lot in [00:59:26] life stop taking yourself so seriously [00:59:29] instead understand this is someone who's [00:59:31] worth multiple billions of dollars that [00:59:33] is now speaking out against a couple [00:59:34] things what he calls a genocide in the [00:59:36] black community which is regular [00:59:38] abortion that's a that's a very serious [00:59:40] thing he's speaking out against and he's [00:59:42] also talking about liberating this idea [00:59:44] that you must believe a certain thing [00:59:46] because of your skin color so I support [00:59:48] the uh I support the White lives matter [00:59:50] shirt because White lives do matter all [00:59:51] lives matter and the outrage from the [00:59:53] kind of collective media I think was [00:59:55] rather insane so do you have a follow-up [00:59:57] with that uh not all pretty much it but [00:59:59] I think you're a great um orator and [01:00:01] appreciate the answer God bless you man [01:00:02] thank you so much for being here thank [01:00:04] you [01:00:09] uh hello Charlie uh thank you for uh [01:00:12] being here today my name is Ari dalgin I [01:00:15] am a freshman political science major at [01:00:17] Florida State [01:00:19] um my question is going to be about uh [01:00:22] two things you've said tonight uh our [01:00:24] leaders stepping up for us and the [01:00:26] freedom to make our own choices but [01:00:28] first of all I want to ask why the [01:00:30] orange branding we're in Tallahassee not [01:00:32] Gainesville oh that's it so in all [01:00:35] fairness it is the national branding so [01:00:37] every tour stop gets the orange shirts [01:00:39] okay that's a fair question I have to [01:00:41] say it is okay but for the record I have [01:00:43] spoke more at Florida State University [01:00:44] than at the University of Florida [01:00:52] so [01:00:54] I think my question is going to be a lot [01:00:56] different than other people especially [01:00:59] people who disagree with you I am one of [01:01:01] them [01:01:02] um [01:01:03] I'm going to throw you Candace Owens and [01:01:06] Ben Shapiro into the same category three [01:01:08] people who are mainstream to the modern [01:01:11] conservative movement all three of you [01:01:14] uh uh you know hosts podcasts you go to [01:01:18] colleges and you know host events like [01:01:21] these and I'm sure you know that there [01:01:23] are a lot of moments where people come [01:01:25] up try to challenge you and you end up [01:01:28] I would I guess I would say winning an [01:01:30] argument and it ends up getting posted [01:01:32] on social media and people say oh [01:01:33] Charlie Kirk owns the libs [01:01:36] um [01:01:37] but at the end of the day I don't think [01:01:40] that [01:01:41] you know trying to win an argument is a [01:01:45] win for either of us because even though [01:01:49] we have these events our politicians [01:01:51] still continue to screw our lives over [01:01:53] every day and you were talking about our [01:01:55] leaders stepping up for us so my [01:01:58] question to you and let's say Candace [01:02:02] Owens or Ben Shapiro were to also hear [01:02:04] my question is that why have neither of [01:02:07] you or any of you considered running for [01:02:10] political office and okay I just want [01:02:12] you to know that I I wouldn't vote for [01:02:14] you because I disagree with you guys on [01:02:15] nearly everything but I think you guys [01:02:17] would win because obviously obviously [01:02:23] because obviously you know you guys are [01:02:25] are very good at marketing you have huge [01:02:27] platforms [01:02:28] instead of [01:02:31] you know coming here debating against [01:02:33] college students who all three of you [01:02:35] have a clear advantage over because you [01:02:38] have more life experience why don't you [01:02:39] debate the politicians who we are all [01:02:41] critical of and actually make the laws [01:02:44] in order to right their wrongs well two [01:02:46] things I'm happy to debate anybody I [01:02:48] debate College professors if they want [01:02:49] to come on the show I'll debate AOC [01:02:51] she's welcome anytime on my program I'll [01:02:53] have a long debate with Rashida Talib or [01:02:55] Elon Omar Hillary Clinton Elizabeth [01:02:57] Warren Bernie Sanders [01:02:59] um I think Candace Owens and Ben would [01:03:01] also agree or Matt Walsh or Michael [01:03:02] Knowles kind of all of us in the same [01:03:04] sort of team if you will we'll have a [01:03:06] conversation with anybody as long as [01:03:07] it's in good faith now the reason we're [01:03:09] here in college campuses and we take [01:03:11] open questions and I don't think it's [01:03:12] debating I think it's such a respectful [01:03:14] disagreeing and if someone really gets [01:03:16] heated then yes we are going to kind of [01:03:18] ramp up the temperature and kind of just [01:03:20] show the world kind of the proper way to [01:03:22] have dialogue but look around in the [01:03:24] room and I think that if I by show of [01:03:25] hands do you think that most of the [01:03:28] professors on campus are conservative or [01:03:30] liberal they probably say it's mostly [01:03:31] liberal on campus and they're hearing [01:03:33] mostly liberal so we're here to [01:03:35] hopefully broaden the intellectual and [01:03:36] ideological diversity on campus and to [01:03:39] do something that's actually more [01:03:40] important than running for office which [01:03:41] is to give so many young people here the [01:03:43] confidence and the courage and the [01:03:45] reminder that they're not alone and that [01:03:47] there's other people that think the way [01:03:48] they do on campus [01:03:50] and to be able to give them a community [01:03:52] and network and so I think I think our [01:03:54] questions in good faith right uh I'm not [01:03:57] here to you know just obviously I've [01:03:59] been doing this for 10 years and so if [01:04:01] someone has a disagreement we'll have [01:04:02] fun back and forth [01:04:04] um at the same time though you know it's [01:04:06] I think it's important that from some [01:04:08] people who see our campus interactions [01:04:10] forget winning or losing the debate I [01:04:13] think it's really helpful for the [01:04:15] hundreds of millions of people that have [01:04:16] seen our videos or the views over the [01:04:18] last couple years to kind of see what [01:04:20] it's like to have two ideas Collide in [01:04:22] real time without scripting of cable TV [01:04:24] I think that's exciting and helpful for [01:04:27] people right you know for example if I [01:04:28] asked you do you think men can become [01:04:30] pregnant [01:04:31] I don't think you asked me that well I'm [01:04:33] just asking you do you think men could [01:04:34] become pregnant [01:04:36] I don't think so okay good so we agree [01:04:38] so you're not left this year liberal and [01:04:40] um that's important for people to see [01:04:42] and I think there's value in Merit in [01:04:44] that so thank you man appreciate you [01:04:45] being here tonight [01:04:46] [Applause] [01:04:52] good evening Charlie [01:04:53] my name is Martin Walker I'm the vice [01:04:55] president of the chapter at TCC awesome [01:04:59] from my understanding you wrote a book [01:05:01] uh you had mentioned that college was [01:05:03] not for everyone yes and getting a [01:05:06] degree for me it's not the end of the [01:05:07] world I just want to be successful I [01:05:10] just want to [01:05:12] me personally I want to get more [01:05:14] politically active or involved in [01:05:16] politics how would someone like myself [01:05:18] go about doing that [01:05:19] great question so a degree in politics [01:05:22] means next to nothing right if you want [01:05:23] to get into politics no one's going to [01:05:25] care about where we went to school [01:05:26] politics is the closest thing to a pure [01:05:28] meritocracy of any industry you'll ever [01:05:30] see it's are you going to show up early [01:05:31] at precinct committee meetings are you [01:05:33] going to make the phone calls are you [01:05:35] going to drive halfway across the state [01:05:36] for an event with 15 people are you [01:05:38] going to be a body man to a State Rep [01:05:40] and you know kind of help them out [01:05:41] really when they need it and so [01:05:43] basically if you want to make it in [01:05:44] politics you have to do the gritty [01:05:46] hustle work for years and eventually [01:05:48] you'll get a shot to move up yeah [01:05:50] absolutely I'll I can make the effort [01:05:52] then then you're going to succeed in [01:05:54] politics I mean so at Turning Point USA [01:05:56] we have an amazing staff 250 people and [01:05:59] our Turning Point USA staff is a [01:06:01] majority of them started as Turning [01:06:03] Point USA chapter leaders doing the [01:06:05] nitty-gritty work and then got [01:06:06] internships and then started to work [01:06:08] their way up through the ranks and so [01:06:10] it's we we love people that dedicate [01:06:12] themselves and work really hard and kind [01:06:14] of in the political space you know it's [01:06:16] a place where you could be really [01:06:17] significantly rewarded by doing that so [01:06:20] absolutely thank you God bless you man [01:06:21] thank you [01:06:27] good evening Mr Kirk um my question is [01:06:30] uh not for myself but it's from my [01:06:32] brother actually um he's a huge fan so [01:06:35] honest question sure [01:06:37] um I've gotten permission to record your [01:06:39] response so if it's okay with you I'll [01:06:40] read his question to you and then [01:06:43] um I'll start recording and then if you [01:06:44] could say like I don't know hi Brendan [01:06:47] or something that'd be pretty cool is [01:06:49] his name Brandon or Brendan Brendan [01:06:51] Brendan ooh I was gonna so close Brandon [01:06:53] but uh [01:06:55] you can say let's go Brendan he'd like [01:06:57] that too let's go Brendan okay [01:07:00] all right so here's this question [01:07:02] who would you like to see in office for [01:07:04] president in 2024 is it Trump or [01:07:06] DeSantis yeah if so who would it be and [01:07:09] why and if not either of them who would [01:07:11] you like to see in office I've gotten [01:07:12] this I've received this question at [01:07:14] every tour stop and so I do encourage [01:07:16] people to watch it but I'll give you the [01:07:17] same answer I've given everywhere and hi [01:07:19] Brendan how are you good good let's go [01:07:21] Brendan [01:07:21] um so [01:07:23] uh look I I've said this is personally [01:07:26] speaking personally not on behalf of [01:07:27] Turning Point USA or Turning Point [01:07:28] action I've said this um if Trump runs [01:07:30] again I'm gonna back him again I'm a [01:07:32] loyal guy I can't stand in politics [01:07:33] where people say one thing and do [01:07:34] another or they're all of a sudden very [01:07:36] wishy-washy with all that being said [01:07:38] with that with that kind of uh pretext [01:07:40] I'm a massive Governor DeSantis fan I [01:07:43] think he's amazing I think he's done [01:07:44] such a great job for the state of [01:07:46] Florida [01:07:48] Governor DeSantis very well might be a [01:07:51] once in a generation leader that we're [01:07:53] looking for I have looked far and wide [01:07:55] for a reason not to like Governor [01:07:56] DeSantis and he has been incredible now [01:07:58] I'll close with this on this question I [01:08:00] think Governor DeSantis would make a [01:08:03] phenomenal president I know Trump made a [01:08:05] great president and so I know that [01:08:08] getting him another four years would [01:08:10] make us energy independent again would [01:08:12] get this entire Ukrainian mess figured [01:08:14] out would get our economy roaring again [01:08:16] would secure the southern border would [01:08:18] restore confidence of the nation in a [01:08:20] way that's very profound would get CRT [01:08:22] out of our military wokeism out of our [01:08:25] schools that's enough for me to be able [01:08:27] to say Hey you earned the rights to [01:08:29] another four years especially after all [01:08:32] the nonsense and the shenanigans that [01:08:33] happened in the 2020 election [01:08:35] thank you Brendan thank you man [01:08:39] thank you Mr Kirk have a good one [01:08:42] hi hello [01:08:46] about censorship and interference with [01:08:48] free speech I wonder how you view the [01:08:50] laws in Florida and other states that [01:08:52] restrict what professors can teach about [01:08:55] racism in the classroom I mean obviously [01:08:58] you disagree with the doctrines you [01:08:59] teach but why you know would you extend [01:09:02] to them the same right to free speech [01:09:04] that you advocate for everybody else no [01:09:06] I mean it's a matter of curriculum right [01:09:08] so I would ask a question should we [01:09:10] teach the Flat Earth theory [01:09:12] in physics [01:09:14] right should we [01:09:16] should we teach bloodletting in biology [01:09:19] should we teach lobotomies in medical [01:09:22] school [01:09:23] or should we teach Eugenics and ethics [01:09:25] no there's some ideas that are so [01:09:27] reprehensible and provably wrong they [01:09:29] shouldn't be in anywhere close to an [01:09:30] academic environment now Professor [01:09:32] obviously has the freedom of speech to [01:09:33] say what he or she wants individually [01:09:36] but from a curriculum standpoint from [01:09:38] what you're able to measure or test to [01:09:40] say that all of a sudden we're going to [01:09:41] teach that race matters that somehow [01:09:44] that people are suffering from a [01:09:46] pandemic of whiteness as Coca-Cola would [01:09:48] say or just critical theory or critical [01:09:50] race Theory no that has no place in a in [01:09:52] an educational environment because in an [01:09:54] educational environment it's less about [01:09:57] really the opinion of the teacher or the [01:09:59] opinion of the student it's the pursuit [01:10:01] of the soul and the entire being of the [01:10:04] student towards truth goodness and [01:10:06] beauty and so you must have you must [01:10:09] have a teleological destination for that [01:10:11] yes a follow-up we're just one five [01:10:12] which is so you would say that the idea [01:10:14] that there's uh systemic racism in this [01:10:16] country is as off base as the idea that [01:10:19] the Earth is flat and is provably wrong [01:10:21] is the idea that the Earth is flat yes I [01:10:23] mean I would ask you how are we [01:10:24] systemically racist [01:10:26] well I mean we could have a long [01:10:28] discussion but I'm a journalist I don't [01:10:29] think it's a place for it but possibly [01:10:31] if you attended a class on it you might [01:10:33] get in a debate with the professor and [01:10:35] see what their data shows and right [01:10:37] whether it's it's uh it's a matter of [01:10:39] scholarly dispute I mean there's a lot [01:10:40] of books on both sides or whether it [01:10:43] says I'm not aware of a lot of scholarly [01:10:45] well [01:10:46] accepted books that Advocate that the [01:10:49] Earth is flat so I would say this is a [01:10:51] matter of scholarly debate until Galileo [01:10:54] came along okay well we thank you very [01:10:56] much thank you and yeah just to close it [01:10:58] yes I think advocating for black only [01:11:01] dormitories is a moral equivalent of [01:11:03] bloodletting lobotomies and flatter [01:11:04] Theory I think it's evil it's wrong and [01:11:06] has no place in American Education [01:11:11] hi [01:11:12] um thanks for coming out we really [01:11:14] appreciate it [01:11:15] um both of my grandparents went to the [01:11:17] hospital with covid um to like a year [01:11:20] ago last May and they were doing fine [01:11:22] like getting better with everything [01:11:24] um off like whatever they were both [01:11:26] getting better they were both feeling [01:11:27] better expressed to my family they were [01:11:29] feeling better until they were put on [01:11:31] REM de severe which was supported by [01:11:33] Tony fauci [01:11:35] um and then they both died I also had a [01:11:37] friend last night who um passed away [01:11:39] from the vaccine due to heart failure [01:11:40] he's 19 years old is there anything that [01:11:43] anyone is doing your team or anyone that [01:11:45] you know to bring Tony fauci to Justice [01:11:49] um yeah that's a really good question so [01:11:51] I mean I hope uh and thank you for the [01:11:54] journalists that's there and by the way [01:11:55] I correct myself Galileo did not pause [01:11:57] that the Earth was not flat he he [01:11:59] posited the heliocentric theory of the [01:12:01] earth and so I was mistaken by saying [01:12:03] that but [01:12:04] um let me just ask a question for [01:12:05] everyone here in in the room how many of [01:12:07] you know someone that had a very serious [01:12:09] reaction to the vaccine to the to the [01:12:11] point of irreversible Health damage [01:12:14] raise your hand okay so about half the [01:12:16] hands are up if this is true and this [01:12:18] happens everywhere I go to every single [01:12:20] audience then the CDC is not just lying [01:12:22] it's the greatest cover-up in modern [01:12:24] American medical history because they [01:12:26] say it's one in a million and every [01:12:27] single room I go to hands go up so [01:12:30] either everyone's lying and they're in [01:12:31] on its mass conspiracy theory or there's [01:12:33] something here that people really are [01:12:35] ignoring intentionally so look Anthony [01:12:37] fauci should be in prison for what he [01:12:40] has done he's a liar [01:12:42] he is a he's an unbelievably Sinister [01:12:45] person and there's not enough being done [01:12:47] and the new Congress whoever ends up [01:12:49] controlling it Priority number one needs [01:12:52] to make sure Anthony fauci gets held to [01:12:54] Justice and I'm very sorry to hear about [01:12:56] the REM deserver encounters the uh the [01:12:59] pushing of REM deserveer is nothing more [01:13:00] than expensive poison on an entire [01:13:03] population that did not need it [01:13:04] meanwhile any conversation around [01:13:07] Ivermectin hydroxychloroquine vitamin D [01:13:10] levels intravenous therapy potential [01:13:12] ozone intervention baby aspirin was [01:13:15] suppressed from the top levels of our [01:13:17] medical authorities and so I'm going to [01:13:20] make it a top priority to try to hold [01:13:21] Anthony fauci accountable and I [01:13:23] encourage all of you to do the same [01:13:24] thank you [01:13:30] hey Mr Kirk my name is Sam Dev uh [01:13:32] permission to record your answer yeah [01:13:33] when we're live streaming so okay cool I [01:13:36] know that you and other conservative [01:13:37] speakers have spoken at length about [01:13:39] left-leaning uh universities and [01:13:42] colleges and I agree with you to that [01:13:43] point about how toxic and could be my [01:13:46] question is is there any blame to be [01:13:48] placed on students who are coming into [01:13:50] colleges without any moral ideals [01:13:54] without any political ideals and if [01:13:56] there is blame whose fault is it what's [01:13:59] causing this and what can we do about it [01:14:01] there's a little blame on students but [01:14:03] you can't totally blame an 18 year old [01:14:04] for not having a certain grasp of a [01:14:06] moral framework I mean I put the blame [01:14:08] on the parents for the parents for not [01:14:10] teaching morals or ethics or you know [01:14:13] proper civics or history [01:14:15] um and also it's not just colleges high [01:14:17] schools now it's elementary schools it's [01:14:19] grade schools and so I just say to [01:14:21] parents all the time you have to make it [01:14:22] your full-time job to make sure your [01:14:24] children shares some form of values of [01:14:27] your own [01:14:28] and obviously there might be some [01:14:29] differences in nuances there but I [01:14:31] wouldn't put a lot of blame on the [01:14:32] students a lot of kids are 18 they do [01:14:34] what they're told they really haven't [01:14:35] thought that deeply yet that's not an [01:14:37] accusation or criticism it's just the [01:14:38] way it is I put it more on the [01:14:40] educational system and parents not [01:14:41] properly doing their job [01:14:43] God bless you man thank you [01:14:48] hi Charlie thank you for coming I'm a [01:14:50] sophomore here at FSU but I'm from [01:14:52] Massachusetts and spent my last two [01:14:54] years of high school during kind of [01:14:56] Massachusetts restrictions on the from [01:14:58] the coronavirus I watched how incredibly [01:15:00] detrimental it was to my community's [01:15:03] mental health and I really appreciate [01:15:04] what you said about America's response [01:15:06] to covid and everything that came with [01:15:07] it thank you why do you think America is [01:15:09] not more focused on those issues as [01:15:12] opposed to covet deaths like why is the [01:15:14] CDC so focused on coronavirus deaths as [01:15:17] opposed to the increasing amount of [01:15:20] suicides obesity alcohol everything you [01:15:22] mentioned why do you think that covet is [01:15:24] the focus instead of everything that was [01:15:26] detrimental to mental health during that [01:15:28] period of time yeah I mean look no one [01:15:29] gets more powerful talking about suicide [01:15:31] no one does you got a lot more powerful [01:15:34] talking about an invisible contagion [01:15:35] that could be spread at any moment you [01:15:37] got to wear a mask got to take a vaccine [01:15:38] got to lock down Society destroy small [01:15:40] businesses Pfizer makes 100 billion [01:15:42] dollars a lot of people get wealthy and [01:15:44] Powerful off of that I hate to be that [01:15:46] Sinister or cruel but if our leaders [01:15:47] cared about us if our leaders really [01:15:49] cared they'd be talking about the 90 to [01:15:51] 100 000 fentanyl overdose deaths that [01:15:53] happen every single year in our country [01:15:54] sponsored by the Chinese Communist party [01:15:56] trafficked in by the sinola cartel [01:15:58] across the southern border of which I [01:15:59] bet half of this room knows someone in [01:16:02] their life that has suffered from a [01:16:03] fentanyl overdose in one way shape or [01:16:04] form and they're now doing in form of [01:16:06] candy where kids are getting fentanyl [01:16:09] laced candy and it's killing kids all [01:16:11] across the country but the CDC is more [01:16:13] worried about making sure you have your [01:16:15] seventh booster of which they say has [01:16:16] now been tested on eight mice not humans [01:16:19] all you guys should know that by the way [01:16:21] if you get your booster it's tested on [01:16:22] mice not humans and they admit that it [01:16:25] doesn't even stop transmission what are [01:16:26] we doing here well what happens is we [01:16:28] have an entire country that's controlled [01:16:29] by a Pharma industry that does not care [01:16:32] about the well-being or the interest of [01:16:33] young people a young person the leading [01:16:36] cause of death for a young person is [01:16:38] either drug overdose or suicide that [01:16:40] should just be a fire alarm for our [01:16:42] society our leaders should just say time [01:16:44] out what are we doing here there is a [01:16:46] risk in everything there's a risk you [01:16:49] might get the flu tonight you might get [01:16:50] a cold you might get food poisoning [01:16:53] saying there's no risk is insane and you [01:16:55] know what's so amazing is that we told [01:16:57] the generation of students that now live [01:16:59] in total fear that are eight nine and [01:17:00] ten years old that you know there might [01:17:02] be an invisible virus around the corner [01:17:03] that might kill you even though [01:17:04] statistically that they're in more [01:17:07] danger in the car being a passenger to [01:17:10] and from school every single day then [01:17:12] covet ever was for them [01:17:14] and so look a fearful population is [01:17:16] easier to control a fearful population [01:17:18] allows tyrants to be able to do that [01:17:20] what they wish with a population a [01:17:22] population that cares about Liberty and [01:17:24] is courageous is a tyrant's worst [01:17:26] nightmare [01:17:27] God bless you thank you so much [01:17:34] good evening Charlie my name is Jonathan [01:17:36] Ramirez [01:17:37] um I happen to be a conservative I went [01:17:39] to three Trump rallies I'm very serious [01:17:41] about my stance on politics and [01:17:44] supporting people who voiced the same [01:17:46] principles that I agree with [01:17:49] um despite me being a conservative I do [01:17:51] happen to be pro-choice how do you feel [01:17:54] on the matter and where as a nation we [01:17:57] can come together to agree on something [01:17:58] sensible [01:18:00] sure well I'll just ask you when do you [01:18:02] think human life begins [01:18:04] me personally when I feel like a degree [01:18:05] it begins with the heartbeat sir [01:18:09] okay so then so you would a six-week ban [01:18:11] is okay then [01:18:13] I'm pro-choice with exceptions no one I [01:18:16] don't feel like if a woman is due to [01:18:18] have a child next week that she could [01:18:21] choose to abort the child that's that's [01:18:23] not decency that's not decent okay so [01:18:26] but why a heartbeat like what's what's [01:18:28] the reason for that why a heartbeat yeah [01:18:31] like what so do you think we should not [01:18:32] allow abortions right around six weeks [01:18:34] or something however I feel like six [01:18:36] weeks [01:18:37] is slightly too early only because [01:18:40] correct me if I'm wrong I'm not a [01:18:42] gynecologist but that means that's week [01:18:45] six [01:18:46] that mean Mr period by three weeks give [01:18:49] or take and that's already then it's too [01:18:51] late potentially right but there's a [01:18:53] heartbeat around six weeks correct so [01:18:55] just to play it out that would be a [01:18:57] termination of human life right correct [01:18:59] right so so why why do we have murder [01:19:01] laws then [01:19:03] you ask why do we have murder laws yeah [01:19:06] because that'd be murdering a kid right [01:19:07] if it's a human life by your own [01:19:09] estimation correct [01:19:11] so you stumped me there you I'm not [01:19:15] gonna lie you didn't stop me there is I [01:19:16] contradict myself where I stand with the [01:19:18] matter [01:19:19] um that's why I'm asking more or less [01:19:20] with that's okay your take on it yeah so [01:19:22] my take is this life begins at [01:19:23] conception [01:19:25] and when life is formed in the womb [01:19:30] and [01:19:31] deoxyribonucleic acid is created a new [01:19:33] being comes into formation and that [01:19:36] being is still growing it's still in its [01:19:38] process but we as human beings tend to [01:19:42] have size level of development [01:19:45] environmental and degree of dependency [01:19:47] privilege we think just because we're [01:19:50] bigger and stronger and no longer in a [01:19:52] womb we have a moral right to do [01:19:54] whatever we want to those that are still [01:19:56] in the womb and the toughest questions [01:19:58] are the ones when we ask what does it [01:20:01] have to do with me and is it worthy of [01:20:04] protecting those that can't protect [01:20:05] themselves [01:20:06] and so to be consistent we say that's [01:20:09] when human life begins and just because [01:20:11] the being is small just because the [01:20:13] being is in a womb doesn't mean that we [01:20:16] have a moral right to obliterate it does [01:20:17] that make sense yes it does I think [01:20:19] you're actually pro-life [01:20:22] I am is I just think you know of [01:20:25] personal situations and you know things [01:20:28] of that matter but let's let's play that [01:20:30] out just for a second situational ethics [01:20:32] for example if a family is going [01:20:34] bankrupt because the four-year-old is [01:20:37] eating too much food you can't kill the [01:20:38] four-year-old to be able to [01:20:40] reduce the family budget right correct [01:20:44] I if if I have the time I will say for [01:20:47] one reason that I am I do happen to be [01:20:49] pro-choice a lot of people that is [01:20:52] pro-life feels like it is an extremity [01:20:55] for women [01:20:57] that is already on the system to [01:21:00] continue to have more kids I hear you to [01:21:02] be given more funds [01:21:05] so if with the same notion I feel like [01:21:09] it's like having your cake and eating it [01:21:11] too if you don't want women to be able [01:21:13] to have the option at all to get an [01:21:15] abortion but feels like they shouldn't [01:21:18] continue to get more welfare that means [01:21:21] that child being born into the world [01:21:23] is going to not be brought up to the [01:21:26] same measures I think you're coming at [01:21:27] it from a good perspective [01:21:29] um that I reject kind of situational [01:21:31] malthusian ethics in that regard in the [01:21:34] sense that if it just makes your life [01:21:36] easier doesn't mean you can commit an [01:21:38] injustice against another human being [01:21:40] the same goes for our sin or robbery or [01:21:42] whatever it might be but I will agree [01:21:44] that we have to make it easier to adopt [01:21:46] kids in America there's two million [01:21:48] families right now on the adoption [01:21:49] waiting list and there's a million [01:21:51] abortions every single year so the idea [01:21:53] of an unwanted pregnancy is [01:21:54] statistically untrue and I believe that [01:21:57] churches and communities and yes even at [01:21:59] times city and state and local [01:22:00] governments need to step up and say okay [01:22:02] we want row repealed but we have to make [01:22:03] sure that families and parents and moms [01:22:06] have the support that they need and I'll [01:22:08] say one final thing I think you agree to [01:22:10] the Cowardly men that in pregnant women [01:22:12] impregnate women and disappear shame on [01:22:14] you and you're a big part of this [01:22:16] problem 100 correct God bless you thank [01:22:19] you [01:22:23] oh [01:22:25] Charlie you spoke about the economic [01:22:27] hardship that a lot of Young Americans [01:22:29] are facing what can conservatives do to [01:22:32] PR like [01:22:34] make a difference on that like how can [01:22:36] we modify our national economy to [01:22:39] relieve that [01:22:41] suffering I mean that's that's very real [01:22:44] yeah I mean this is what's so [01:22:45] frustrating right is that we're kind of [01:22:47] under the tyranny of academics right now [01:22:49] so just a couple very simple things we [01:22:50] got to get energy independent again this [01:22:52] is very simple we got a drill baby drill [01:22:54] drill far drill wide and tell Greta [01:22:57] thundberg to get the heck out of our [01:22:58] national discourse and start actually [01:23:01] understanding how energy policy impacts [01:23:04] every single person in this room okay [01:23:05] we've got to bring down the price of oil [01:23:07] we got to tell OPEC to go shove it we [01:23:09] have to go exporting oil again you got [01:23:11] to get oil beneath forty dollars a [01:23:12] barrel quickly now that impacts [01:23:13] everything let me just say that lowers [01:23:15] the cost of food because you got to [01:23:17] transport it the cost of Transportation [01:23:19] the second thing and these are very [01:23:20] agreed upon things second thing is we [01:23:22] have to go after inflation with a sword [01:23:24] right we have got to go through [01:23:26] intentional monetary policies that cool [01:23:29] the quantitative easing of the last 15 [01:23:31] years you got a follow-up no I was just [01:23:32] going to say do you think that it's sort [01:23:34] of the academic and media Elite that the [01:23:37] that put us in the situation to begin [01:23:39] with it was their policies and their [01:23:41] philosophy their propaganda that made it [01:23:45] so that our national economy became over [01:23:48] financialized and it ate out the real [01:23:52] economy yeah I mean it all's kind of [01:23:54] there's there's a couple things that [01:23:55] happened in the 1990s we allowed China [01:23:57] into the World Trade Organization we had [01:23:59] NAFTA we a repealed glass-steagall which [01:24:01] never should have happened amongst other [01:24:03] things and then 9 11 happened we lowered [01:24:05] interest rates as soon as Greenspan did [01:24:07] that as soon as we set the precedent [01:24:08] that there's any sort of economic misery [01:24:10] any sort of economic hardship we could [01:24:12] just kind of turn the lever on cheat [01:24:14] money it set this 20-year cycle that [01:24:16] we're still living through right now [01:24:17] with all that other nonsense of the [01:24:19] de-industrialization of the American [01:24:20] economy of the hyper financialization as [01:24:22] you say led to 08 and then what was our [01:24:24] immediate reaction to 08 not was it it [01:24:26] wasn't just financial and fiscal [01:24:28] stimulus it was in monetary stimulus is [01:24:30] that we're going to lower rates [01:24:31] unrealistic and so then what ends up [01:24:33] happening covet happens and our reaction [01:24:35] to covert got to go down to record low [01:24:36] rates well there is a price of doing a [01:24:39] 20-year sugar high it's unsustainable [01:24:41] and so we've been on a 20-year monetary [01:24:43] Sugar High not caring about the Next [01:24:45] Generation not caring about your [01:24:46] purchasing power couldn't care less [01:24:48] about any of it and so the result is [01:24:50] what we're living through right now [01:24:51] which is your hyperinflation and almost [01:24:53] very dangerously low economic growth and [01:24:55] a tumbling stock market stock market [01:24:57] yeah you're living through crash flation [01:24:59] basically even worse than stagflation [01:25:01] and so if I was head of the Federal [01:25:03] Reserve I mean the only way to say is [01:25:05] that we're gonna have to go through an [01:25:06] intentional six-month recession to get [01:25:09] this solved there is no other way to do [01:25:10] it because you've created this [01:25:12] ridiculous unrealistic circumstance but [01:25:14] Wall Street doesn't like that Americans [01:25:16] don't like that so basically here's [01:25:18] what's going to happen my prediction is [01:25:21] that we are now going to be told by our [01:25:23] Elites we have to get used to eight to [01:25:24] ten percent inflation for the next [01:25:26] decade [01:25:27] it's the only way to do this unless [01:25:29] you're willing to tighten the belt The [01:25:31] New Normal will be eight to ten percent [01:25:32] inflation and you're just gonna have to [01:25:34] get used to it that's catastrophic of [01:25:36] course it is that's the agenda to reset [01:25:38] the currency allow the globalists into [01:25:40] our system to destroy the American [01:25:41] dollar by other means that's my [01:25:44] prediction you're going to see a labor [01:25:45] market collapse in March mark my words [01:25:47] you're going to see unemployment go to [01:25:48] four or five percent and then you have a [01:25:50] crash stock market hyperinflation just [01:25:52] in time to try to blame the Republicans [01:25:54] thank you Charlie thanks [01:25:56] all right and if you guys disagree I'm [01:25:58] happy to come up okay [01:26:00] we'll take a couple more Yep hey there [01:26:02] Mr Kirk I'm David May I'm 17. I'm a [01:26:04] junior in high school here in [01:26:05] Tallahassee it is a great honor to be [01:26:07] here and uh be able to speak to you I'm [01:26:09] a huge fan uh and so I don't know if you [01:26:13] watch the Kim Abrams debate Sunday night [01:26:15] I didn't I'll be honest I'm the biggest [01:26:17] Kemp fan but well he's better than Stacy [01:26:20] Abrams for sure for sure um so and I [01:26:24] watched parts of it uh so Abrams [01:26:26] attacked uh the election Integrity of [01:26:28] Georgia which is currently experiencing [01:26:30] record voting especially in early voting [01:26:32] and Kent responded that it's easier to [01:26:35] vote harder to cheat so my question is [01:26:37] especially with how the mainstream media [01:26:39] is now mad at DeSantis here in Florida [01:26:41] for allowing some leeway in the counties [01:26:43] affected by Hurricane Ian how can we in [01:26:46] a debate with just ordinary people [01:26:48] refute those claims that particularly [01:26:51] red states are somehow manipulating [01:26:54] votes and manipulating populations uh to [01:26:57] turn the election in their favor yeah I [01:26:59] just find it hilarious because you know [01:27:01] we just spent the last year and a half [01:27:03] talking about election integrity and [01:27:05] being called election deniers and [01:27:06] misinformation spreaders and now they're [01:27:08] talking about how voting is not [01:27:09] accessible enough and how elections are [01:27:11] being manipulated and we're like oh yeah [01:27:13] that's perfectly normal you're allowed [01:27:14] to say which one is it exactly [01:27:16] um and so look here's the thing you just [01:27:18] got to stay factual on this again I'm [01:27:20] not the world's biggest Governor Kemp [01:27:21] fan I can tell you why but I think he's [01:27:23] obviously better than Stacy Abram [01:27:25] um and I say this in my own personal [01:27:26] capacity not on behalf of Turning Point [01:27:28] when I say that but I just want to [01:27:30] re-emphasize when it comes to this the [01:27:33] kind of the voting in Georgia [01:27:36] they're voting month now it's easier [01:27:38] than ever to vote if you don't have time [01:27:39] to vote in Georgia I don't know what [01:27:41] you're doing okay they have precincts [01:27:44] they have mail and balloting they have [01:27:45] abs I still think it's too much time and [01:27:48] it's so it's so open to it and so look [01:27:50] here here's the here's the issue in [01:27:52] Georgia in 2018 these are approximation [01:27:54] of numbers right there were 247 000 [01:27:57] mail-in ballots okay in 2020 there were [01:28:01] 1.2 million those numbers about right [01:28:03] yeah 1.2 million so if you think that [01:28:06] when you increase mail-in ballots by by [01:28:09] nearly five times that there's not going [01:28:12] to be some sort of spillover or overflow [01:28:15] mule operation whatever you want I mean [01:28:17] it's just silly to make that argument so [01:28:19] look I support the voter the voter [01:28:21] Integrity reform measures and the final [01:28:23] thing I'll say about this with Stacey [01:28:24] Abrams it makes me laugh she still has [01:28:26] not admitted she lost the 2018 [01:28:28] governor's race okay so don't give me [01:28:31] this whole thing about election deniers [01:28:32] Stacey Abram still goes around being [01:28:34] like I'm the duly elected governor of [01:28:36] Georgia from 2018. [01:28:38] why isn't her house been raided by the [01:28:40] FBI [01:28:42] she's she's part of the she's part of [01:28:44] the regime gotta get some more questions [01:28:46] thank you so much Mr Carter appreciate [01:28:48] it [01:28:48] [Applause] [01:28:52] hi Mr Kirk I'm a freshman here at [01:28:54] Florida State University and I am [01:28:55] grateful and humbled to be here and I [01:28:58] have looked up to you for many years and [01:29:00] as well as other people like Jack the [01:29:02] Soviet and similar people so I'm [01:29:05] grateful for all that you have done for [01:29:07] us and I would like to ask you a [01:29:08] question I actually wrote many questions [01:29:10] but this was the one that I thought was [01:29:12] the best so let me pull it up here [01:29:17] while I agree with having a limited [01:29:19] government and believe that we should [01:29:20] have that in the long run wouldn't a [01:29:22] limited federal government allow for [01:29:24] states to infringe on our constitutional [01:29:25] rights such as the right to life do we [01:29:27] need to temporarily use big government [01:29:29] in to protect our god-given rights and [01:29:31] Godless States like California good [01:29:33] question so uh thankfully I don't live [01:29:35] in California but a lot of people do [01:29:37] watching on the live stream hello are [01:29:38] California people [01:29:39] um so I believe in a small but strong [01:29:42] government that's an important part [01:29:43] right so if you go read The Federalist [01:29:45] Papers of which I encourage all of you [01:29:47] to read if you ever want to get ready [01:29:48] for bed and fall asleep um they're [01:29:50] they're beautiful they are it's just [01:29:52] they're written in a type of English [01:29:53] that isn't really uh around but you [01:29:56] could learn so much you read The [01:29:57] Federalist Papers there was this tension [01:29:58] and by the way by the way read the [01:30:00] Anti-Federalist papers too they're just [01:30:01] as interesting [01:30:02] um that kind of gang of three John Jay [01:30:05] Alexander Hamilton and James Madison who [01:30:08] formed our structure and system of [01:30:09] government in a lot of different ways [01:30:11] they were debating in the open air [01:30:12] against the jeffersonians and both one [01:30:15] right and so what they what they [01:30:17] wouldn't really admit is that they took [01:30:19] a lot of things to Heart from [01:30:20] Jefferson's critique of too strong of a [01:30:22] centralized government but basically [01:30:24] history Vindicated Hamilton okay history [01:30:27] showed you need some form of a federal [01:30:29] government you because the Articles of [01:30:31] Confederation were a mess okay [01:30:32] absolutely the Articles of Confederation [01:30:34] you had no centralized government you [01:30:36] had nothing and so there was there was [01:30:38] cues there were rebellions no one knew [01:30:39] how to trade there was not the strong [01:30:41] system of government all this sort of [01:30:42] stuff and so to answer your question [01:30:44] should we have a federal is it time to [01:30:47] use big government no it's not what it [01:30:49] is time though is to pass laws that do [01:30:52] protect the most basic things so for [01:30:53] example [01:30:54] if I'm a big supporter of pro-life [01:30:57] legislation in all 50 states if you [01:30:59] can't protect those people that can't [01:31:00] protect themselves that you're not even [01:31:02] due to the most basic thing that [01:31:03] government should do okay and I mean so [01:31:06] for you have this insanely sick and [01:31:08] twisted thing of events let's take the [01:31:10] state of Oregon okay so in the state of [01:31:12] Oregon they have you'll have a it's an [01:31:15] amazing cartoon right of a guy that is [01:31:18] sniffing cocaine with a straw [01:31:20] which one do you think is illegal [01:31:22] the straw I think the straw is because [01:31:25] uh probably because you know of all [01:31:27] those that's the left focused and light [01:31:29] bogus uh sorry environmental yeah it's [01:31:31] environmentalism over I don't know human [01:31:33] human decency and flourishing so [01:31:35] um that's that's big government gone [01:31:37] awry not even doing its basic basic [01:31:38] things all right I got two more [01:31:39] questions thank you sorry about my [01:31:41] misuse of words there no you're great [01:31:43] man thank you so much I hope you have a [01:31:44] great rest of your day thank you [01:31:49] thank you [01:31:51] hey Charlie uh thank you so much for [01:31:53] being here I'm a student here at FSU and [01:31:55] I'm a member of Turning Point awesome so [01:31:56] it's awesome to see here I've been a fan [01:31:58] for Years love to talk to you today so [01:32:00] my question is more about the future [01:32:03] um I know no one can tell the future [01:32:04] including me but in the next 10 to 15 [01:32:06] years I want to have I want to be [01:32:09] married and I want to be starting a [01:32:10] family [01:32:11] um I'm one of five kids to Two Loving [01:32:13] parents and we've been married over 20 [01:32:15] years and I just I'm a strong believer [01:32:18] in raising my own family so however like [01:32:22] you say inflation it's on the rise it's [01:32:25] becoming harder and harder to make and [01:32:26] save money you also talk about how [01:32:28] depression is at the high for this [01:32:30] generation and I've noticed that people [01:32:33] who are in jobs they don't tend to like [01:32:35] or don't aren't in jobs they love [01:32:38] they're more likely to have depression [01:32:40] or some form of mental health issues so [01:32:42] for me [01:32:43] like the careers some of the careers I'm [01:32:46] interested in don't pay the kind of [01:32:48] money that I think it would take to [01:32:50] support the kind of family I want [01:32:51] especially because I want to have a lot [01:32:53] of kids because I'm a family with a lot [01:32:56] of kids so [01:32:58] how do you think that I should go about [01:33:01] finding a career that I both enjoy and [01:33:04] pays the bills so that I can be happy [01:33:06] and raise my family because I think [01:33:08] being happy is necessary to emotionally [01:33:10] physically and mentally support let me [01:33:12] uh let me challenge one of your your [01:33:14] Frameworks I think it's going to be [01:33:15] helpful for you don't go do what you're [01:33:17] interested in do what you're good at so [01:33:19] what's your skill [01:33:21] talking persuasion well you can make a [01:33:24] lot of money talking because I'm not [01:33:26] kidding if you if you are if you are [01:33:27] good at communication from a public [01:33:29] speaker to a writer you can make a ton [01:33:31] of money now what are you interested in [01:33:34] um business is a huge interest [01:33:37] um I also like I like I like [01:33:41] I like groups like turning point or [01:33:44] groups where you advocate for something [01:33:45] I'm a huge mental health Advocate [01:33:48] um I'm huge on that I'm uh huge you'll [01:33:50] figure it out the point is this is that [01:33:52] I hear kids all the time say that you [01:33:54] know I'm following my heart and my [01:33:55] passion that's a really bad idea and [01:33:58] it's it's the worst advice follow your [01:34:00] skill that you don't hate [01:34:01] no serious and then then you'll if you [01:34:04] don't hate I'll give you a great example [01:34:05] if I followed my passion I'd be a [01:34:07] college football coach seriously and I [01:34:09] mean I love college football than [01:34:11] anything else and I I I by the way I'm [01:34:13] not a fan of your coach I'm just gonna [01:34:15] be very honest [01:34:16] he's not gonna make it he's not going to [01:34:18] bring it to the promised land I'm [01:34:19] telling you right now it's not going to [01:34:20] happen mark my words just wait [01:34:23] just wait okay when was the last time [01:34:26] you guys went to a bowl game right not a [01:34:28] long not a wild what [01:34:31] two wins away [01:34:33] wow what is it week seven yeah [01:34:36] I'm saying Florida state is like you [01:34:38] could compare that to Bowden okay you [01:34:41] guys deserve you guys should be [01:34:42] undefeated is what you should be but [01:34:43] anyway I don't know how I even got onto [01:34:44] that I don't mean to insult but um I [01:34:47] love college football a big fan now if [01:34:49] Florida beats you guys this year I think [01:34:50] he might be getting the X but we'll see [01:34:52] so um and but that's that's not what I'm [01:34:56] the best at does that make sense yeah [01:34:58] it's about you're following your skill [01:34:59] okay and following your skill is very [01:35:03] important because then other things [01:35:04] start to fall into alignment okay and [01:35:06] make sure you don't hate that skill and [01:35:07] then the final thing is this you just [01:35:09] have to dedicate if you want to be [01:35:10] successful in life you have to dedicate [01:35:12] yourself to hustle and grit it's very [01:35:14] rare to find show up the earliest leave [01:35:16] the latest and complain the least you do [01:35:18] those three things I don't care what you [01:35:20] do you're gonna move up because that's [01:35:21] very very hard to find yes sir thank you [01:35:23] God bless you thank you [01:35:28] hey Charlie my name is Sharon I'm a mom [01:35:30] of four and my old being here thank you [01:35:33] for being here [01:35:34] um my oldest is actually your age and my [01:35:36] youngest is a junior in high school he's [01:35:38] right over there anyway [01:35:40] um my question is um well first of all [01:35:43] all four have gone through public school [01:35:44] which back in 1999 when we started that [01:35:48] it didn't seem like a bad idea and [01:35:49] actually we've had many great teachers [01:35:51] and it worked well for us for a long [01:35:53] time but obviously in recent years our [01:35:56] eyes have been opened and there's been a [01:35:57] lot of going on and agendas pushed [01:35:59] within the school system I'm also the [01:36:02] local chapter chair for our moms for [01:36:04] Liberty so that on the Forefront been on [01:36:07] the Forefront of trying to fight our [01:36:08] district who has been one of the ones [01:36:10] you know defying the governor in our [01:36:12] state laws so my question for you is [01:36:14] around school choice I see that Arizona [01:36:16] just this year voted to have a Statewide [01:36:19] school choice system and actually I've [01:36:21] been feeling with the frustration [01:36:23] locally that maybe it's a better idea to [01:36:26] put energy and time into supporting [01:36:29] getting behind advocating for Statewide [01:36:31] school choice system in Florida [01:36:33] yes so the issue with your Florida [01:36:36] education is you guys have a very tricky [01:36:38] funding model right so if I understand [01:36:40] correctly every school district gets [01:36:42] appropriated the same amount of tax [01:36:43] dollars am I understanding that [01:36:45] correctly uh per student is how I [01:36:47] understand that's right that's correct [01:36:48] so it gets funded by students that is [01:36:50] very unusual right so Illinois it's [01:36:52] based all on school district and it's [01:36:53] all sort of messed up but I'm still a [01:36:55] huge school choice Advocate the problem [01:36:58] the only issue is that you're going to [01:37:00] have trouble getting it through the [01:37:01] legislature because there's a lot of [01:37:02] these deals that have been made and [01:37:04] relationships and infrastructure that's [01:37:05] built there and so I would start small [01:37:07] so Arizona just passed the best school [01:37:09] choice legislation in the country took [01:37:10] 20 years to get there of small [01:37:12] incremental work it's so good in Arizona [01:37:14] any parent can send their tax dollars to [01:37:16] any school of their choosing at any time [01:37:18] regardless of circumstance I want that [01:37:19] school I want that private school that [01:37:21] charter school that it's full Choice [01:37:22] it's awesome yes and so if a Hispanic [01:37:25] family in the west side of Phoenix who's [01:37:26] just really struggling economically [01:37:28] doesn't like the local school they could [01:37:30] pull the trigger and get their kid to a [01:37:31] successful school if they don't like CRT [01:37:33] the walk is is in the pornography in [01:37:34] their school boom they can move it right [01:37:36] up right yeah and so um I would [01:37:38] encourage you guys to entertain that I'm [01:37:40] not a policy wonk on this thing but you [01:37:42] guys have a very you have a much better [01:37:45] um school choice system than most other [01:37:47] states and I hate to give credit to him [01:37:50] for this but Jeb Bush did a pretty good [01:37:51] job actually on schools and for at least [01:37:54] getting a charter model and more broadly [01:37:57] and nationally the Florida Charter [01:37:59] system inspired so many other states to [01:38:02] get involved in it and Jeb was really [01:38:05] kind of the pioneer of that as much as [01:38:07] it pains me to say so but I would still [01:38:09] argue for school choice and more than [01:38:11] that I just think the fight also has to [01:38:13] be in curriculum standards and all this [01:38:15] and Governor DeSantis deserves such [01:38:17] credit [01:38:18] for not allowing the CRT nonsense I know [01:38:21] it's still happening and it's going back [01:38:22] door and all of that but to set a [01:38:24] standard from the state level is so [01:38:26] incredibly and critically absolutely [01:38:27] very thankful for him and what he's [01:38:29] doing on stage he's a courageous leader [01:38:30] yeah thank you thank you all right last [01:38:31] question [01:38:35] hey Mr Charlie how you doing first off [01:38:37] go Knowles okay I have a question for [01:38:39] you man we'll see how it works yes sir [01:38:41] uh I'm a junior at Florida State [01:38:44] University I have a question from my [01:38:45] sister who's a campaign manager for [01:38:47] district 114. she's younger than me [01:38:49] actually she's only 20. wow uh so she's [01:38:51] got here the House Representatives [01:38:52] um we were wondering property taxes [01:38:54] insurance and association dues account [01:38:56] for half of property owners [01:38:58] um expenses [01:39:00] um how much do you think these costs are [01:39:01] impacting of the rents you know besides [01:39:04] the fact that inflation has doubled the [01:39:05] prices of the housing market as it is [01:39:07] right now a fair amount so you're [01:39:09] talking about Florida right yeah and I [01:39:11] have to say you guys you have it so well [01:39:13] in Florida I was a Florida resident for [01:39:14] a couple years and now I'm Arizona I [01:39:16] mean you have no income tax on corporate [01:39:18] or personal you know how rare that is [01:39:19] okay that in Arizona the 3.8 income tax [01:39:22] and it's all this nonsensical corporate [01:39:24] tax so you got to fund your government [01:39:25] somehow right so and if you were to try [01:39:28] to find I'm not a huge opponent of using [01:39:31] property taxes if necessary [01:39:33] um I think that's probably better than [01:39:35] sale sales tax for the reason being is [01:39:37] that the bigger the property the more [01:39:39] tax in some ways it is kind of a little [01:39:40] bit more distributed based on income I'm [01:39:42] not a fan of any tax I wish we could get [01:39:43] rid of all of it right but the one thing [01:39:45] I really don't want to see happen is an [01:39:48] increase in the sales tax I'm really [01:39:51] opposed to that that is a direct tax on [01:39:53] working people and on Lower middle class [01:39:55] families right [01:39:57] um but I think Florida had a surplus [01:39:59] that am I Am I Wrong two years a year [01:40:01] and a half ago is that maybe I'm wrong [01:40:03] but look a surplus means you're spending [01:40:05] too much money yeah and so the next [01:40:06] Florida budget needs to cut spending and [01:40:09] instead of trying to find more Revenue [01:40:10] sources to try to just continue to [01:40:12] expand the budget so not doing the Weeds [01:40:14] on a policy wonk side of it but um the [01:40:17] other part is insurance and I hate to [01:40:20] break it to Floridians but I am kind of [01:40:23] a big believer in flood insurance and [01:40:25] you know that's kind of a big part of [01:40:27] living in Florida I hate to say it um [01:40:29] that shouldn't drive it up too much [01:40:30] though the bigger Drive of in of rent is [01:40:33] inflation and also so a development [01:40:36] housing crisis don't know how that [01:40:39] applies in certain metropolitan areas in [01:40:40] Florida I think that they've actually [01:40:41] been pretty pro-growth on this but at [01:40:43] least out west there's a massive housing [01:40:45] crisis because of the environmentalists [01:40:47] they are not allowing new development to [01:40:49] happen so less Supply rent goes up [01:40:51] people moving back in with their parents [01:40:52] it's just a terrible it's a downfall [01:40:54] disaster So yeah thank you so much thank [01:40:56] you all right guys well [01:40:59] I want to thank our incredible Turning [01:41:01] Point USA group again stay engaged stay [01:41:03] involved make sure you are registered to [01:41:05] vote and you vote and you get your [01:41:07] friends to go out and vote as well very [01:41:08] very important we're 19 days out from [01:41:10] the election so make sure you do that I [01:41:12] don't care who you vote for I'm not here [01:41:13] to today to tell you 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