Charlie Kirk on Marriage, Momentum, and Standing Up at School Board Meetings Across Arizona

i'd want to share some awesome news i got married just about a month ago that's the most important thing i'm going to share tonight and we had an amazing celebration a couple days ago and you know i i was really praying and reflecting on what i wanted to share tonight and we've been talking about this a lot on radio and i just want to thank first of all all of you that send me your warm notes of encouragement uh that you're praying for us and praying for me it's you know it's a battle out there and there's definitely some spiritual warfare going on do you feel that too that this is not just in the material so i want to thank you guys for all of that and it just came to me today i was talking to my very good friend pastor greg who's in from a great church uh from california of what to share and it's actually we have a really good message to share tonight one of optimism and hope and one of positivity and if you're like me you could use some of that right now especially what's going on in the world and in our country so there's one word i really want to focus on tonight and it's the word momentum so what is momentum well momentum for those of you that have built you know pastor barnett you know all about momentum once you hit that curve things just start to happen the question is how do we get to that place of momentum you guys know this when you have a sports team any of you guys chicago bulls fans oh i'm sorry about that michael jordan beat the phoenix suns with sorry about that when a i'm a big bulls fan by the way when you get momentum it's like a team plays at another level now i don't watch professional sports anymore so you guys could tell me who's doing well no i really don't i heard lebron lost that's all i cared about and so so for that i want to i guess it was phoenix was it yeah i used to i used to love sports but then everyone can make their own decision have a nice time i wish you well and but you guys know in sports when you get momentum there's nothing else like it there's a lot of golfers out there i know the barnett's love golf when you get momentum when you're a golfer you can have one week can change your golf career forever jordan spieth had one week that changed his entire golf career so we need to ask ourselves when we're trying to reclaim the country for christ what is momentum and how do we get momentum and so first let's just get to the physics definition of momentum momentum is very and newton discovered this he didn't invent it force equals mass times acceleration how big is something how fast is it going and when we feel as if we don't have momentum we feel as if there's not enough or not going fast enough and if you're like me since january especially feels like we've been a little bit on defense a little bit on the heels a little bit like we've got no momentum we're losing ground it seems as if our values our ideas are always under attack and it seems like the mass is decreasing and any movement is going backwards but in the last couple days i've felt actually something different a certain senator from west virginia came out and he said look i might be able to negotiate on a couple things but hr1 and hr5 and adding dc and puerto rico estates and mail-in ballots that's not going to happen we're going to have to work together and the other senator from this state who i think is nuttier than a fruitcake sometimes senator cinema did the same and i think she should be thanked for that quite honestly i really do and so all of a sudden that that through a boomerang and things and they got the other side got very angry about that and all of a sudden people are stopping me in airports and they're stopping me when i'm traveling and they're saying you know what charlie i'm so i'm showing up to school board meetings i'm going to start getting more aware and i'm feeling something that's happening that's all of a sudden this force equals mass times acceleration i'm seeing the mass increase and i'm seeing the speed increase ever so slightly so what does the bible say about momentum what does the bible say about this and so i went through some of my favorite parts of the bible and i actually literally just typed in momentum it's not actually in the bible um is a word that was actually just created in like 1794 i love finding out where words come from but there are similar stories about this concept of momentum so a a lesser referenced book of the bible is the is the book of zechariah and this is in all fairness uh it's not referenced because it's glossed over but i think it's super important to focus on tonight and so we most of you know the story of the first temple and the second temple so the first temple was solomon's temple it was in all of its splendor and for those who had been in israel you could just imagine how beautiful and majestic this was the son of david built something to the glory of god that was so incredible but that temple was destroyed and the jews were sent out into exile jews coming from the tribe of judah the hebrews god's chosen people then a secular man best described as someone who is not part of god's chosen people cyrus as said and was prophesized came and said you know what you can go back to jerusalem and you can reclaim what is yours so they get back and they have all this momentum they get back to jerusalem they're excited kind of like how we were a couple years ago right we were fired up we had a plan and then all of a sudden kind of what happens with big projects a little bit of cynicism said it all of a sudden people started complaining the bricks are too heavy what's the big deal why do we need to build a temple who is this god that you say and if you look in zechariah 1 2 3 and 4 they're kind of complaining they're kind of like you know what i watched trucker carlson i bought the pillow and the world is not saved okay and by the way promo code kirk if any of you go to mypillow.com let me just be very clear and by the way buy as many pillows as you can i'm fully in support of that but i get it i'm there with you it's kind of a little bit of a hey i'm not i'm not loving this right now but then all of a sudden this man of god zechariah and there's over 30 people with that name in the bible and historians point this specific prophet as being kind of a hype man he was the guy that came to zerubbabel say that three times quickly zerubbabels okay zerubbabel who was commissioned alongside ezra to rebuild the second temple and so just you understand the significance of the temple this was considered to be the holy of holies the place of god and we we now that we have the new covenants we know that the third temple is really christ's return here on earth we know that we know how the story ends and so the second temple was very significant and zechariah basically comes to the jewish people and he starts to say hold on a second you guys are complaining you guys are getting down with yourself and it's one of the most beautiful pieces of scripture and i have two different translations for in english just for emphasis and it's it's zechariah 4 6 and then 10 and it says not by might not by power but my spirit says the lord do not despise the day of small things i'm going to say this differently in a different translation do not despise these small beginnings for the lord rejoices to see the work begin to see the plum line in zerubbabel's hand you kind of feel like you're in the days of small things like charlie what's the difference showing up to the school board meeting that's not gonna save the republic but zechariah is like no that actually that small thing actually really does make a difference that one email that one brick that you're going to put on that second temple actually makes a big difference that the lord commands us to care about the small things and it has this this cumulative impact and little did zerubbabel know and he was building the very temple that our savior was going to walk through little did he know he was going to fulfill that covenant perfectly so that the son of god could come and fulfill the promises now that temple was destroyed in about 70 a.d by titus and that was also prophesized by jesus himself and so it really got me thinking that the enemy tries to get in our ears to tell us that the small things don't matter and by the way i'm not immune to this i'm not i'm like does this speed is this speech really going to move the dial like we were in bangor maine no one ever goes to bangor maine okay i love ken graves he's awesome but i mean that is you know basically nova scotia and i'm like what what is the difference right and that's the enemy that is not of the lord and i and if you're like me you're getting bombarded every day and then what comes from cynicism comes nihilism nothing matters my actions don't matter it doesn't matter if i lie steal or cheat it doesn't matter if i care if i do my taxes correctly because what i do does not have a reflection in the broader world around me the lord tells us to never accept cynicism in fact the bible is like the anti-cynical document it's the most anti-cynical document if you're like me i'm sick of all the cynicism in our country right now i'm sick of people saying it doesn't matter there is no truth there is no beauty kind of depressing isn't it and so it's now when we're seeing a little bit of momentum and that's what zechariah was he was encouraging momentum and as we look at that scripture we know how it ends and so if momentum is the product of weight or mass times velocity or speed then a big heavy dead object could be going really fast but that's not momentum and so what we need to under or very slow speed i should say so the the issue that we have here is we need to continue to expand our ranks and look around this freedom square has momentum and then the question is what are we going to do about it and so i want to tell you a miracle in american history then we're going to get into arizona because that's fun right because i want to i always want to get into what we can do not just come up and just do the zechariah 2 thing everything's terrible everything's bad the temple's not going to get built goodbye we're not doing that but for those of you that say a small thing doesn't really change history what if i told you a piece of wood this big created america what if i told you a piece of wood this big changed the course of human history all of you have heard of benedict arnold before benedict arnold was a traitor to the united states in the revolutionary war period we were in a bitter war against the greatest power the world has ever seen with a navy that was unmatched and ground forces that were well trained an unlimited budget king george basically declared war on us for sport he was like ah the american colonists i'm going to prove it to them and adding insult to injury benedict arnold betrayed the armed forces and he befriended this guy by the name of major john andre he was constantly flipping secrets of troop formations and george washington was always confused how the british knew that there was going to be one or two moves ahead he was always like how do they know what i'm going to do before i do it it was bothering him so benedict arnold similar to someone that we know in the scriptures decided to sell out america for 20 000 british sterling sound familiar this deal was brokered at west point new york anyone been to west point it's where our united states military academy is it's beautiful it's right on the shores of the hudson but it's not an in it's a super consequential military base it's built like a fort because it was a fort this was the gateway to the american colonial military base if you could get west point the war is over it would be it would be the equivalent that in america that if you could control the port city right now of miami or philadelphia it's everything it would be like san diego on the west coast where our entire fleet is so west point was the whole enchilada now this guy benedict arnold was very clever now similar to someone who's running our public health department right now in our country clever people can be the most dangerous i'll let you fill in which uh personnel is be careful of clever people if they are not rooted in truth and ethics deceit arrogance and treachery be very very careful of those three things so benedict arnold was a serpent undercutting and disobeying his oath so there was a meeting that was brokered secretly in the middle of the night in west point new york major john andre from the british forces came up and he went beneath arnold he said okay 20 000 shilling it is let's get it in writing here's a little note to anyone that's deciding to betray your country don't do it in writing bad idea right that that was the first mistake but as we know in the bible if you decide to do acts of treachery what is done in darkness will be brought to light so this deal gets brokered and major john andre gets on the ship he's excited because he just brokered the deal where benedict arnold said i'm going to tell you when to attack west point and how to attack at the perfect time i'm going to strike the force he sold the whole country down right like the whole vector of our country was sold so major john andre is just kind of going back down to the hudson back to the british navy and we didn't have a navy right i mean we we were just kind of minute men and minute women and we were just put we were just held together we talked about this at last freedom square by a belief in a higher power and we wanted to govern ourselves that was our secret weapon it was our resilience and our grit and our capacity to endure whatever they threw at us so major john andre he's really excited he's going down the hudson river and he's got benedict arnold's papers in his jacket and by the way everything i'm telling you right here is 100 verified by historian after historian and every child in america should learn this story so so major john andre has the benedict arnold concession papers right and a couple of american colonialists have a cannon right on the hudson river they're like oh british ship they shoot a cannon at the boat does very little to no damage to this ship but strangely and bizarrely it hits the wood in a certain way where a splinter of wood this big pops up and goes up into the nose of major john andre so major john andre gets really annoyed and irritated and he's like you know what just turn the boat around i can't focus i can't man the ship turn this around so i can get this fixed or you can find another person and no one really knowing the significance of the documents he has right there in his jacket they go back they get intercepted by three american minute men and they and all of a sudden they say they pat them down and they get all the papers and they look at this and they say oh my goodness and a man by the name of major benjamin talmadge who is who is one of george washington's secret spies a man who is loyal and committed to the truth said i will take that he ran as fast as he could got on horseback and rode through the night nearly killed his horse to general washington he said this is how they know what we're doing before we do it and immediately george washington said ah i see benedict arnold fled and there's this whole drama but the trust of benedict arnold was broken and you say okay but what's the significance well let's think back to that story if the cannonball would have destroyed the ship everyone would have cheered but they just would have sent another ship to go have benedict arnold sell us down the only a piece of wood this big that could have annoyed a sociopath by the name of major john andre to turn around to then go to shore and have three american minute men then get in the custody to get the papers that show irrefutably that benedict arnold was selling our troops only that could have happened so be that piece of wood will you please will you go be that one little piece of action because the small things are the big things and that changed the course of the entire american revolution from that point forward george washington only kept his dearest friends and he had checks and balances against everyone around him all of a sudden the american troops had a shot of energy and the british troops had a little bit of despair it changed the course of history nearly permanently and i truly believe it was a miracle in the hand of god i believe what was being done in darkness for selling out our country for lies and deceit and for tyrannical control was done for the reason of trying to preserve power the small things are the big things everybody the little things have big big impact and a piece of wood that big very well could have won the american revolution and with it all the freedom and liberty that we enjoy today the small things are the big things okay let's get to what's happening now in arizona so a lot has happened since our last meeting and i first just want to thank all of you that have had a recommitted energy and focus on school boards in general so i'm going to do a couple school board updates here things that are happening trends what's wrong with them then we're going to get to some statewide stuff and then we'll do some questions which we really really enjoy so many of you are aware of what's been happening in the scottsdale unified school district um and yeah so quite a lot's been happening for they had a meeting in late april and they canceled the meeting because they said it was a bunch of agitators there um about mass policy and whatever it is i just want to say one thing when you do go to these meetings if you go please embody christ in all things that you do don't give them a reason to try to ever try and accuse you of anything that's not totally there with that being said whatever you're doing in scottsdale is working and um so i think we're going to see some very very big reversals there sometime soon you also might be aware what's happening in the chandler unified school district uh we have some chandler people here um chandler is let's say entertaining something very very dangerous right now now just as some background maybe this is your first freedom square i believe that the most important focus for us in arizona right now has to happen in school boards i really do i think that we have to recommit ourselves to knowing what our children are being taught where is it coming from because a country a nation and a people cannot continue to flourish if we are not able to pass down our proven traditions and our customs to the next generation and look i'll be honest i think that we've been taken advantage of i think that we gave trust and then we kind of just said you know what i trust you to do this and we ran our lives we built churches we built businesses we raised our kids next thing you know you turn around on a school board they're like whoa they're teaching what exactly now we went through the litchfield arizona example last time that is still very much in play and if any of you live in litchfield arizona anyone live around there you have to there i have to say because of what we've done here they released a statement that they're reconsidering their equity critical race theory curriculum so god bless you guys for that a very big deal now just as a refresher before i get into chandler because it's really important that's just not just chandler i'm going to go through a couple other examples and i met with some amazing teachers um previously is that what what exactly is it that we find to be so um troubling about this new trend and so we went into this last time but it's worthy of repetition which is there is a there is a movement right now in the country to try to implement critical race theory into our schools and critical race theory comes from this idea of critical theory it was born out of the frankfurt school in germany and it's by a guy by the name of herbert marcuzza and a woman by the name of angela davis who is still alive angela davis is a member of the american communist party and critical theory especially critical race theory is at direct odds with the teachings of the bible and the traditions of western civilization it cares about skin color it's teaching your children and our children to believe that skin color is really really important i quite honestly couldn't care less about skin color i care about your soul your spirit your character and your actions i think your skin color is completely and totally irrelevant it also by definition tries to restrict dialogue and freedom of speech uh they teach young children that freedom of speech and dialogue is a heteronormative cis-gender colonialist practice now if that sounds like a pile of rubbish you are right it is and in some ways they divide the world overly plainly and simply into two different categories and the kind of the archbishop of critical race theory is a guy by the name of ibram x kendi i've talked quite a lot about him and he has a book called how to be an anti-racist he believes the world can be divided into racist and anti-racist in a bizarre turn of events he believes that by focusing on skin color it will make the world in some way less racist he believes that current discrimination is necessary to atone for previous discrimination that is an exact quote now instead of emphasizing action trying to understand how every person is made in the image of god critical theory going back to herbert marcuzza believes everything is a power struggle that everything without whether you realize it or not is one group fighting another group we as christians find this to be quite honestly reprehensible we find that every person at birth is of course broken by nature and needs a personal relationship with jesus christ that you might be part of a group of your choosing you might be part of some group but the most important group that you should be part of is called the kingdom of heaven group that's the group that we care about the most and that tradition that was passed down through western culture allowed this idea of individual rights to really be created you have to understand before america this idea of ancestral guilt that you must atone for what your great grandfather did was normal so if i told you right now that all of a sudden you must do something that you didn't do but someone that you were related to did you'd say no that that's not me i make my own choices and my own action now we know this and how we explain salvation to young people we say this in a lot of youth groups we say hey you need to your parents can't save you you got to come in your own relationship with christ now that idea that you will be individually held accountable is uniquely christian idea that has been passed down either consciously or subconsciously in our american traditions customs and in the rule of law so here's how it would work let's say you kind of have an errant brother the brother decides to go do a bunch of let's just say not so good things on a saturday evening should we administer justice by saying anyone who's related to this brother must now go to prison for arson and theft of course not we'd say that's my brother i might be related to him but that's not me that's pretty obvious but the way that critical race theory teaches oh no no you look like that person therefore you must be held accountable with that person and anyone who's grown up in the west as we have we know this to be rather so obvious sloppy dangerous and dare i say unethical and evil so this is what's being pushed and i do want to say but i think some people that are pushing it i'm offering an olive branch here i think some of them actually want to make the world a better place some of them and i think that some of them have a misunderstanding i think of actually what's happening in the country and i think some of them have an urge to want to be part of something bigger than themselves i think some of them have a desire to try to be part of the next major movement now i have a theory and i think you would agree with it if social media didn't exist a lot of these people would never do this stuff okay if you couldn't post about this publicly to your friends that's just a guess i'm just saying now with that being said of course there are issues and problems that we should address of course there are things that we should try to approve in our country but we know the way that we can improve conditions of all people regardless of your skin color your background no matter what it is it's very simple the thing that's truly been destroyed in our country is the nuclear family in our country is being able to be raised with a mother and a father so i'll prove it to you if a child hears 3 000 words or less every single day they are far more likely to go to prison commit crimes or join a gang if they hear 3 000 words or more higher more vocabulary more likely to have higher cognitive function they're like more likely to be able to go to college and not commit crimes now you ask yourself is the child more likely or less likely to hear more words if they have a mother or father around it's a very simple question and we know according to the data that a child that is a white child that is raised by a single mother and god bless our single mothers by the way it's in a phenom we should support them in every way is less likely to succeed not because of the single mother just because of the pressure and the weight of raising a child than a black child that is raised by a mother and a father that single statistic is the most universal and colorblind statistic but instead the emphasis on this conversation that is unfortunately being entertained in chandler unified school district amongst many others is one that will reverse everything that i said and this is where i think we have to continue to stand up clearly and boldly and understand where these ideas come from you know i remember 10 years ago 10 years ago when we used to say you know what if you cared about skin color uh you're kind of engaging in racism and i think that we should actually just repeat what martin luther king jr said which is i dream of a day where we care about the content of someone's character not the color of your skin it's a very basic american principle so in chandler they're entertaining this there is some people that are being pushed to many other they have a voices that matter campaign that has been started and there's a person in leadership that is continuing trying to push this there i'm not going to get overly into details if you're interested you could look it amongst your own things but i believe that sunlight is the best disinfectant i believe that if this room cumulative cumulatively together said you know what what's going on in litchfield what's going on in chandler scottsdale's a different example i don't think kids should have to wear a mask when they go to school i think it's absolutely insane and i think we should all stand against it let me just be very clear okay if you want to wear one fine god bless you i won't say anything but this mandatory i think it's bad for childhood development i think it makes people unfamiliar with each other i think it makes children less likely to see what god has given us a face i think it makes less likely to see the nuance the spirit and every single way that we communicate with one another and so it goes back to this question what is a human being we are the speaking beings and if i can only hear you mumble and i can't see your entire expression i think it actually dehumanizes our interactions with one another and makes us less civil less likely to have empathy less likely to be compassionate less likely to love like christ did if we're walking over the masks all the time acting as if you're the problem not the opportunity let me say that again we're acting like people are the problem not the opportunity okay so that thing in scottsdale is a whole other thing and so there's a couple bills though thankfully that can address this so let me just say this nationally there have been a couple states oklahoma as one montana as the other and florida as the other that have passed pieces of legislation in the state level that have done the following arizona currently has not done this but the opportunity is there number one that has said that men are not allowed to compete in female sports against females florida has signed that into law and god bless governor ron desantis for doing that another one would be banning this idea of critical race theory now let me say this i'm not one to go quick into this idea of banning after all we do love freedom of speech and discourse however there are certain ideas that are so vile so against our ethical system that we do not believe they should be the forefront of how we train and instill values into our children especially in the formative years because we know this especially those of you that are teachers and that have worked in childhood development you only get so much time and attention with a five and six and seven year old and if you're using that valuable time to all of a sudden emphasize things that we do not want emphasized then all of a sudden we should say time out that is not what education should be for so education comes from the latin word to lead forth so how are we leading forth the seven-year-olds that say you know what what really matters is not how you act it doesn't matter your decisions it doesn't matter your relationship with your creator what matters is something you can't change that's kind of awfully depressing for a seven-year-old to here and so there are a couple bills right now that are up against uh that are kind of being debated right now and the arizona session is coming to an end i want to just name a couple that have been vetoed and i hope that there's some reconsiderations of these right now in arizona um hb 2792 was vetoed by the governor which prohibits the delivery of early ballots to anyone who has not specifically requested one um another one that was vetoed which is kind of bizarre that this was vetoed um is the one right here that requires the attorney general to review the constitutionality of any executive orders by the president that seems rather obvious the one that i can't quite understand why it was vetoed and again i'm not going to make any other personal comments about anyone in leadership you guys can make your own i'm just telling you facts here you guys make your own decisions right and we're doing everything as a 501c3 would i'm just here telling you the facts right that sb 1074 was vetoed by the governor which would have banned requiring public employees to participate in critical race theory training which includes teachers educators and administrators that seems like a no-brainer another one uh sp 1022 was vetoed which renamed references in law from product of human conception to unborn child that's a big deal to all of a sudden kind of say that so there's about 22 of these bills i'm not sure why they were vetoed your legislature was doing their job um but i hope and i pray that um we can change that we have a lot of little pieces of wood that all of a sudden get very very loud in the next 30 days maybe and do that so there was an opportunity here to do something opportunity is not lost but i'll let you guys draw your own conclusions on that of kind of how that is all happening there the house did pass an unbiased teaching act barring racist sexist and politicized instruction in arizona schools and here's what representative udall said quote racism cannot be combated by teaching children to be racist amen our country has not lived has not always lived up to that concept that all men are created equal still is a fundamental idea that should be upheld by our schools government institutions and society to teach our children otherwise is immoral and fuels corrosive social tensions within our state and nation so let's just be somewhat solution oriented how about we say governor i'm not sure why you vetoed these 22 bills we're going to say it with a smile but why don't you pass the unbiased teaching act here in arizona and lead the rest of the country and saying we in arizona care about character not skin color there is still time to do this and all of you guys can get that done right here in the state of arizona and so this is still coming up and michelle udall is a republican member of the house representatives in mesa and so there's a lot happening in arizona and as we talked about last time this state is the gateway to the rest of the country uh there are hundreds of millions of dollars pouring into the state on the state local level um and i just want to re-emphasize this point and i'd love to do some questions and dive into this even more re-emphasize the point that the small things are the big things you never know when your individual courageous action could very well be the thing that all of a sudden changes the course it could be one letter one conversation but i also want to say that let us never become angry or bitter or anything less than joyful in how we communicate that i've tried my best to do that in the way that i've done this despite any sort of personal reservations i have and you guys can make your own feelings but i think that with good cheer and embodying how we're supposed to communicate and be empathetic but also clear remember jesus was so unique obviously he was 100 grace and percent truth he never wavered on what was true but he never ever once was one that got into i mean he had every insult possibly thrown at him he could have got raised his voice he could all these things but he always showed love compassion mercy and i think we have to continue to do that i think it's actually the most effective way that we can continue to push this forward in our state and so i want to re-emphasize one other thing which is this this now has become sb1532 if any of you are interested here in uh arizona to get engaged and get involved in that and so in close let's do some questions in a second here i'm super thrilled because i'm feeling the momentum no longer do i have to tell you guys the problem you guys are asking me what can i do about the problem i have parents that are reaching out to me that are not saying hey charlie why do i have to go show up to a school board meeting there say show up with me you see i've said before my least favorite thing that i have to hear and i don't hear it a lot anymore i'm actually hearing it less and less was this thing that i would hear when people would kind of pat me on the shoulder they say hey charlie how's it going out there what do you mean out there what am i like a running back for the arizona cardinals or something right instead and there's nothing special about what i do it's just energy and it's participation instead i'm hearing people that are saying man like these amazing parents i just met with from a certain unspecified part of arizona they said we're in the trenches we're getting called names we're getting called all these things and i feel what you feel and thank you for having my back and we have your back and that's really what we're here to do to enlighten to educate and if you feel so compelled all of a sudden you believe what zechariah said and i'm going to reemphasize this piece of scripture the small things are the big things that the little action that might feel so insignificant that god can use for that great purpose let me say this again do not despise these small beginnings the lord is testing us in this year of 2021. this is the year of small beginnings temple construction was suspended since january it's like all right enough and all of a sudden we kind of need that catalyst we need that hype man we need that reinsertion and i can tell you this guys once that momentum happens we know that unstoppable force equals mass look around you this is almost every seat full right pastor luke 2 000 people times acceleration how fast are we going to move what are we going to do about it we're going to keep on recruiting and doing that that is the definition of momentum i can tell you right now once we have momentum with grace and truth we are going to win and it's going to be pretty glorious all right let's do some questions guys which i really enjoy and um let's keep the questions uh short if possible and i want to thank you guys again i want to re-emphasize a couple things um i want to just thank dream city how awesome is it that dream city is allowing this forum and is allowing this sort of discussion which is awesome thank you luke and um that is a very impressive outfit you have i have to say so thank you thank you for being here oh sorry about that so first i'd like to thank you for all you do i'm a very big fan of yours thank you thank you so i'm gonna try and keep this brief can you define in one sentence why figures such as david chipman who by the way is running for the aft as joe biden would call it oh yeah right why is control not the answer to protect our liberties and freedoms that our founding father instilled in this country so why is control gun control so like like like you said in one of your previous episodes big fan of the charlie kirk show thank you you said control is not the answer and that is the key word it's not gun but it's control they want control i totally get what you're getting right so let's talk about what makes the american system unique and where did that come from that i'm going to land the plane as i kind of try to always hopefully do the american system is unique because it was the first experiment ever that had the following attributes consent otherwise known as permission it was the first time people said you know what we agree to this we're cool with this and we're gonna form something voluntarily number two independent judiciary meaning you got some people that are outside of the mechanisms of politics that can insert themselves and protect what god gave you let me say that again there is an institution that exists that can insert themselves and protect what god gave you what did god give us well who are we in the state of nature we have consciousness we have speech speech is a big deal speech is what separates us from the beasts of the wild so it separates us just from a dog or from a cat or from a giraffe speech is the logos in the beginning god created the word and the word was with god and the word was god that word logos is a very heavy word in greek and so it's it's not it's word it's reason it's truth it's all of those things we are the speaking beings and the american founders knew that and they put forward a rules for government first and foremost what else makes this system different is permission independent judiciary and also this idea of a republic we are not a democracy everybody it makes me want to pull my hair out of my head when i hear that we're a democracy now what's the difference well democracy would be this we take a vote in a room like this we say how many of you want to get rid of freedom of speech and if 51 of the hands go up it's gone a republic is intentionally slow and deliberate because it recognizes things that are eternal things that don't change you see the professors and the people that run our public health department and the people on television they try to convince you because we have airplanes and internet and twitter and facebook that human beings have evolved so much since the times of christ no we're just as lying deceitful treacherous self-centered narcissistic and sociopathic as the pharisees were we haven't really improved much at all in fact in some ways technology has made it worse so the founding fathers built a system on things that do not change don't let your smug friends say oh we've advanced so much in post-modern america i can fly to new york therefore we're better people or i can communicate well now actually those things only reinforce or accelerate our broken nature in fact it only makes us need jesus more and so this republic style of government recognizes that the american system also has this idea of checks and balances so if you dive deep into the philosophy behind the american founding you start to see this recurring theme which is it's really hard to change things quickly right i want to just i want to reiterate that it's hard to change things quickly and so the founding fathers realized that this idea of liberty is super rare but all the founders knew and the declaration was signed i always point to conor because he's our producer he always gets the exact number i think it was 70 out of 74. the signers of the declaration where self-declared christians are regular church attenders they were inspired by the teachings of jonathan edwards and george whitfield they knew that liberty was not man's idea it was god's idea they knew that this idea of liberty was so short-lived so let's go through the bill of rights if we can i won't go through all 10 because not all of them apply but why not so first amendment right we are the speaking beings that's who we are we're not we're not beings that just have force chimpanzees fight each other we don't just pursue pleasure plenty of animals do that no speech is what differentiates us jesus spoke god spoke and it became true in genesis 1 right he spoke and the world came into existence were made in the image of god just as god spoke so that's why the first amendment's so important that you're able to speak your mind let the best ideas win let us have this sort of debate this discourse this dialogue it's fundamental to who we are second minute i'll get to that in a second third amendment's kind of fun it's like you can't put soldiers in your home it's i know you kind of like we laugh at that one that was actually a really really big deal back in the revolutionary times that you just can't quarter soldiers like oh i own the place thanks very much fourth amendment right to privacy right that the government just just can't storm into your home and take all of your stuff fifth amendment that you're able it's the right against self-incrimination six seven eight are all about due process quick and speedy trial the ninth amendment is really kind of fun because the ninth amendment says that there are rights out there that exist that aren't currently articulated in the constitution i actually love that amendment because it says very clearly in the bill of rights it says if we didn't touch it it doesn't mean we got it wrong it means very well that we're not saying we have all the answers it's the most humble amendment of the entire united states constitution and honestly the most looked after the ninth amendment the tenth amendment which means that anything we didn't cover goes down to the states and down to the people i love the 10th amendment because remember the states created the federal government the federal government did not create the states let me say that again the states created the federal government the federal government not create the states now what's interesting and i will get back to your second amendment question is that the bill of rights was not put or passed till december of 1791. if you if you guys remember in 1787 in september after some heated debates that's when the constitution was passed it took him four years to get this passed it was george mason good old george mason who passed the original bill of rights in virginia which recognized this idea like hey you need extra protections so human beings don't get steamrolled by government because that's how god made them and they are they need to be able to pursue virtue let me say what liberty is liberty is not being able to put drugs in your body or do things as you want to do it this like weird secular version of liberty that is never what the founding fathers new liberty to be liberty is the ability to pursue virtue which means the good without someone getting in the way that's what liberty is liberty is your ability to be able to pursue virtue without someone getting in the way that means what we're doing here freedom of worship and assembly now the second amendment i believe the second amendment is the amendment that protects all the other amendments the second without the second amendment there would be no first amendment now this is a some people would call it a controversial way to describe this i don't care because if we just have a little bit of reading of history it is time and time again of well-meaning people that represent the people that all of a sudden take away our freedoms and liberties and the founding fathers knew this they knew that in order for consent of the government to work and permission to work people had to be able to defend themselves not just from someone coming into their home but god forbid from a usurpatious government right and this is a unique characteristic of the american system this is one that i believe actually it creates more peace than conflict it creates more negotiation and bargain than actual toil and division and it's almost completely contrarian than what you might believe so the new atf person as i now come back to your question is now up for confirmation he will he does not believe that firearm ownership is a constitutional right um he has a whole litany of he thinks that ar-15s aren't um they're they should be confiscated he thought that waco went well if anyone thinks that the waco siege went well like he's like like you're gonna campaign on chernobyl next or something like is that all of a sudden like three mile island like greatest thing ever like okay that's definitely not the government he oversaw waco but i do want to say this that you're uh very surprising and um how do i characterize her i don't really know but is she's either courageous or she's really wants power senator cinema she has not said she's gonna vote for him yet and so um i don't know she's been pretty good on a couple things again i know that she's awful unlike everything else but the fact that she opposes breaking the filibuster and adding these things and she's giving some of these nominees a hard time honestly thank you because i could use a couple people standing up and kind of doing just throwing a little chaos there but let me just complete the point it is about control and i'll give you one final example of this if you're not yet won over on this and i'm a big second amendment guy obviously which is i want you to think back to hong kong hong kong protesters two years ago the hong kong protesters again hong kong for 100 years had a 100 year contract with the british it was a sovereign place where they had private property rights freedom of commerce 100 year contract basically expires long story short the chinese communist party basically assumed control of it still sovereign but the ccp super um they're super they're very very um what's the word i'm looking for not just greedy but they're they just want more territory and so they got this conflict remember that two years ago that we're going to govern ourselves we knew that that was not a negotiation that was a hostage situation why because the hong kong people had no way to defend themselves at the end of that whole thing it was whoever brings in the tanks is gonna get what they want now i want you to imagine a situation if the people of hong kong peacefully had an ar-15 strapped around their back all 600 000 of them the chinese communist party would have said let's negotiate that's how you can have an armed citizenry that can broker peace and prevent conflict and ensure liberty and freedom thank you next question hello charlie thank you again for being here and i think i speak for everybody when i thank you that we thank you for all your hard work all your dedication all your research all being rooted in the truth information that you come back to inform us so thank you for your wonderful wedding gift too by the way i meant to thank you for that give me the sweetest wedding gift thank you you're welcome so here's my question last night on tucker candace owens was was on and she spoke about how the democrats are actually changing the democrat demographics of the united states that the harris biden the biden harris administration however you want to go ahead and look at it is actually changing the demographics of the united states by bringing in all these illegals they're the new votes for the democrats so here's my question how do i as an individual how do we we being the corporate consensus christian conservatives how do we stand up against this and stop this insanity yes so thank you for your question so let's talk about biblical immigration for a second because i think that there's a little bit of a misunderstanding here every time immigration migration or transferred one land to the other is talked about in the bible assimilation is almost always mentioned almost always so what is assimilation assimilation is coming and agreeing to the pre-existing culture or language or history and so that's a very important thing this idea of borders is actually a biblical idea this idea of a nation is actually a biblical idea so let's talk about what a nation is a nation is mentioned many many times all throughout the scriptures a nation is when people come together hopefully voluntarily and they agree again hopefully through their actual consent to be able to govern themselves in one way the other nations are rarely if not ever acts of randomness nations are usually deliberate now sometimes you have some people that play war games with that but in where we are right now most nations are deliberate if nations all of a sudden are just kind of suggestions and borders are nothing more than lines drawn on a map then all of a sudden that means the bill of rights does not really apply to the people of america it might apply to the entire western hemisphere but whose bill of rights the mexican bill of rights or the american bill of rights now i have nothing against the mexican bill of rights but the second amendment's not in the mexican bill of rights nothing against the mexican bill rights but they do not have as robust free speech protections or maybe the canadian constitution where they just locked up another nine pastors for violating orders for doing exactly what you did right now what i'm getting at is that borders and immigration the ability to have self-determination is a fundamentally moral question now let me say this when it comes to this idea of immigration into the country we have to also broaden the conversation that it's not moral for the people that are coming here the women that get raped taken advantage of trafficked across the southern border for sport and for pay by coyotes in the cartel that have created these vacuums of of oh boy what's the right word i'm looking for they create these vacuums of they're they're taking advantage these vacuums of quite honestly horror that's the best way to say it and so the moral thing to do would be what nehemiah did build a wall and have a process if you want to come in to come in the entire book of nehemiah is just about that because in the book of nehemiah it says very clearly and i'm quoting i'm paraphrasing i should say that there are threats sometimes that want to diminish the state of israel there would and this idea about nations and borders i love israel by the way greg you and i talk about israel all the time i love israel israel is awesome and one of the reasons i love israel is that israel is very clear about the country that they are now look we're jewish we are the one jewish countries at israel we're the one place for the jewish people and and thank you for being here tonight by the way thank you i appreciate that so israel has its ability to say that we have self-determination that we are going to be a jewish state and because of that they have walls and they have a defense mechanism we saw what happened when some people wanted to wipe israel off the face of the earth let me just say this about israel if israel laid down their weapons there would be no israel if the arabs laid down their weapons there would be peace that's all i have to say about israel in the middle east with that being said i believe it is a moral thing that israel says we are going to have control over the people that come into our nation and that so what can you do i think we should i think we should have gracie grace and mercy and truth at the same time we must be very clear through public policy decisions that if immigration which i believe it is being used as a political tool that is immoral and it is wrong and is being used as a continual political football and i find that to be reprehensible so thank you next question hi um i'm just going to start with an opening statement okay so uh 86.9 million dollars was given to a non-profit organization to house illegal immigrants talking about immigration in hotel rooms now uh how many people right now uh who served this country are having trouble paying for the house for the housing bills including you know the medical their meals and yet we have 87 million dollars given to illegal immigrants uh to an organization to house them until they get you know a court date uh so my question is can you give us one practical thing we can do to avoid this or to stop the government from doing this because i don't know about you but i prefer american citizens to get help even more veterans to get help than illegal immigrants or criminals that come into this country i i totally agree and so here's what there's a lot of problems with the whole way this system is is designed we now have an incentive structure for more and more people to come we have created chaos and we're subsidizing chaos and we're housing it and we're attracting more of it so practical is tough i will say this though that the more the governors of the southern states can try to use whatever resources they have at their disposal to try to protect the sovereignty of the states that they've been sworn to protect i'm in full of support of that it seems like the federal government is completely uninterested in helping right now that our vice president goes down to guatemala and is interested in that i can look we had a time where border crossings are at an all-time low it was about 14 months ago we had a policy of a return in mexico uh remain in mexico and guess what the amount of rapes human smuggling child sex trafficking drugs and guns being smuggled were plummeted so i think we have to talk about the holistic human cost here as well and i just got to be honest i'm i'm losing my patience with the current people in power that lectured me and us for nine months about children in cages of which it was not happening and now that is even worse than ever before and all of a sudden we have to be just kind of just virtue signaled non-stop so this is where hopefully we can get a leadership class in our country that starts to be very clear about what immigration is what that mechanism is and mass migration is not good for anybody it isn't it's not good for the people it's not good for you it's not good for the workers not good for crime it's not good for schools it's not good a nation as described in the bible has a moral right of self-determination to be able to decide who comes into their country and for what purpose i'm afraid that the spirit of generosity we have has now been taken advantage of on a national and international level and that it is now coming at a great cost to us and so we have to be very clear about that i wish i had more solutions man but it's kind of heartbreaking because we saw that go in a positive direction 14 months ago and that's something that has a lot of federal so i what i would love to see happen is the governor of arizona and texas new mexico is a total waste of time maybe getting into you know i mean like they're they're they're on a reservation just ask steve smotherman all about that he's got a lot to tell you about that um come to some sort of state-based coalition to say look i'll just use texas example if you're not going to do it i'm going to mobilize the texas rangers right like i mean at some point there's got to be a breaking point there right because um there's a mechanism for this to work but you guys see this and just so you guys know scottsdale road scottsdale road there is a hotel that used to be a double tree right across from the hampton and its suites where there are hundreds of foreign nationals that have illegally entered into america that are being paid 384 dollars a night to stay there and quite honestly i'm really insulted because i grew up around czechoslovakians and poles and arabs and persians and koreans that waited their turn and they applied and they came into this country and that somehow we should give preference to people that jump in line and border jump i'm not a fan and i find that to be something that we should oppose so thank you so much i really appreciate that hi charlie thanks for being here um so this is a heavy topic i apologize if it's painful for anyone here i want to know how we can more emphasize god's love mercy and forgiveness for those who have already participated in abortion instead of rejecting or judging them because they're the ones that need our compassion the most first of all thank you for that question and i totally agree and i'm going to speak some tough love to the pro-life movement right now um so i've been pro-life my whole life and i think the pro-life movement is doing some good things lila rose and others but we're do i don't know what i i've never seen an advertisement i could be wrong and i'm going to say this as lovingly as i can an advertisement reached out to ever by a pregnancy crisis center anywhere in the country ever we should be leading with that we should be leading with the pregnancy crisis anyone not even knows what a pregnancy crisis center is let me tell you what a pregnancy crisis center is it's the pro-life equivalent of a planned parenthood you would be stunned how many pro-life activists don't even know these exist wow and so a pregnancy crisis center is a place that's rooted usually in christian ethics and values but it's all about trying to love and counsel and give compassion to expectant mothers to have the child and i'll say this i think that the way the pro-life movement currently is in some of its messaging it is way too harsh for women that were taken advantage of by abortionists i'll give you a great example of this i got a question the other day in ohio and it was contentious it was back and forth and he said charlie i think that women that have had abortion should pay a price and i got really upset and i don't i don't get upset very easily right i try to embody the fruits of the spirit the last of which is self-control i was like forget it right and truly i said hold on a second you know so little about how this process works these are people that come with whatever option the small framework of options that have been given to them we don't have a culture of life in many communities including by the way upper middle class white communities just so we're clear upper-middle-class white communities there's like nothing worse than being pregnant as a teenager or early 20-something and we should be way more understanding and accepting and lifting mothers up like okay you made a mistake but you just made right for a mistake that you just made instead we're like oh you did that premaritally like you're a bad person said like no actually okay you made a mistake a lot of people do and there's grace every day thanks to our creator jesus christ and god bless you for now saying you're going to take responsibility to bring that life into this world and a lot of young women they fear nothing more than having to have that kind of conversation quite honestly i can see that to an extent secondly they underestimate the abortionists these abortionists have a profit incentive to misrepresent the facts to go after women and try to have a system that that they profit from that they have a financial model i i'm perfectly cool with this conversation of holding abortionists accountable but i think women have to be met with grace and compassion and mercy and say look man it was it's bad for everyone you know majority of women regret having abortions in our country and a lot of women never even knew it was an option they didn't know adoption was an option they didn't know and i know that's hard for a lot of people to hear because maybe you're right in maybe you're in the foxhole the pro-life space and like we have this option in this option and this option i don't see any of it i don't i know what dream city is doing which is awesome and but holistically we need to do a lot more and i think it's also a tonal thing too it has a tonal t-o-n-a-l which is we got to be the ones that are like hey we're pro-life but we're also gonna be the ones that if we need to look after a kid we will we're gonna be the ones that are gonna help you know in any way possible and i i think you're right and this is something i've been talked about a lot and um we're only going to ever i think win on that issue when we embrace the entire cycle of life which exactly what this beautiful church does from the people that are lost and abandoned and forsaken all throughout i really believe that and so um just a word of improvement when we talk about this issue we got to talk about the miracle of life we got to talk about everyone made in god's image but also understand that in certain communities across the country young women that might be pregnant they're in crisis and what they fear is not raising the child that is not what they fear they fear the conversations with critical and judgmental sanctimonious moralists they're gonna say oh you got pregnant oh that's actually what a lot of women fear and i just want to make sure that's very clear we have to be solution about that so god bless you and thank you for that question okay next question is that okay luke okay okay okay tommy you're you're the man i just wanted to thank you for the fire that you lit underneath parents like me and it really is working i wanted to let you know that uh there is a group called the west side moms united i love that and we have gotten together and we are taking josh's barnett who is the gentleman who had that that fitness a place and we are serving the school boards we are serving the principals we are serving the governor we are serving the sheriffs we are serving everyone about the mass mandates and the vaccine mandates that's awesome so your small thing so first of all this is i just want you guys to understand this is uniquely american i get messages from people across the world lithuania norway korea and they're locked down in the government and this idea of the disagreeable citizen this idea of the of the now you're going to need my permission to do that is so amazingly american and you embody that and all of you guys do too and that's what and it's something that that is so special and we have to preserve it because when tyranny oversteps its bound the true check and balance everybody is you and us that's the true check and balance so god bless you for saying that and any way i can help you let me just re-emphasize one thing i am not pro-vaccine i'm not anti-vaccine i am vaccine i say agnostic it's not the perfect word for it i'm neutral like whatever just do your research i'm not personally getting the vaccine that's my own decision you don't have to applaud some people applaud some people boo whatever i am so against vaccine mandates i can't even tell him i think we can all agree especially for children for vaccine mandates for the chinese coronavirus vaccine especially so so this is about parents rights it is their right to mask their child or not it is their right to vaccinate their child or not that's what this is for and the west valley moms united what a great name for a group and i wouldn't want to get in your way so god bless you it's not yours but you're part of it so whoever is running it god bless that person so thank you okay next question uh hello my name is elise and i'm 16. so thank you for being here thank you so my question is a little bit specific how do you encourage someone to think for themselves when they're surrounded by far-left influences and you're the only conservative influence on their life well so i want you to look around this is one of the reasons why i love freedom square so i'm gonna do the thing where i i'll eventually get back to it um aristotle said politics is the highest form of community because it combines sociability and morality and i just want you to know this is a community for you and if you're the only one you should get involved with turning points keep coming to freedom square because this is a place where you can look around and know you're not alone know that people share your values and that you want to do something about i just want to just re-emphasize that it's tough the situation you're in you're in high school it's only going to get worse and one of the tricks no it is you know you