The Charlie Kirk Show - From the Archive: "When the Women Rise Up, Watch Out" — Charlie's Speech at YWLS 2021

Episode Date: May 17, 2026

Ahead of Turning Point's Women's Leadership Summit, the show revisits Charlie's speech at the 2021 women's conference. Charlie gives the crowd of young women an empowering message about how to fight back against the many lies the wider culture tells them, and how they can restore a moral center to America. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com!    Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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winner. There you go. We've been doing this for a couple years, and to see it grow throughout the years has been amazing. It's been quite an amazing month. What, about five weeks ago, I got married to my wife, and you'll hear from her tomorrow. And what I should have said yesterday, when Alex Clark said, conservative women are better looking, I should have said, yes, I should no, I just married one. And there's a couple things I want to talk about. We'll talk about politics. We'll talk about government and all that stuff.

But there's a lot happening right now in the country. And as soon as young women and women in general start to talk about this correctly, things will change. You know, I was just at a school board meeting in Chandler Unified School District in Arizona. And there were some dads that were there, but it was the moms that showed up at this Chandler Unified School District. and started just screaming at these school board members, all of a sudden everything changes. Because, look, if we're honest with ourselves, as soon as the women of a nation rise up,

and they start to say there's something wrong with this, and they start to, that kind of maternal instinct of the nation kicks in, then all of a sudden we can start to save the country. And so we need to talk about what is it that conservatives actually stand for? Because I think there's been some confusion about that, especially over the last couple years.

And this is where we at Turning Point USA, want to be very, we want to be on the leading edge of this, especially with young women and young conservative women. So we first started this conference back in 2015 when Barack Obama was still president, and a lot of the chatter and the talk was about kind of anti-socialism, and obviously we don't like socialism. Socialism is terrible. It's awful. It's immoral. It's killed over 100 million people over the last 100 years. And I think that we've done a pretty good job of expressing that. But if we also don't talk about kind of what is freedom, what is liberty, what are we doing here, then we're just going to be the anti-socialist movement, which is fine in some settings,

but that's not actually a way to build a durable political movement or a cultural movement of actually what we stand for and why we stand for those things. And so there's three things in particular I want to go through with you of what I want you to remember and kind of why we're here. And all of it is incredibly politically and correct. like three, all these three things you're not allowed to say in a college campus. You're not allowed to believe, which is exactly why I'm going to lead with them at nine o'clock in the morning here at the Young Women's Leadership Summit. So the first thing is we have to be very clear. Women are women and men are men.

So that's, that's, and men are not women and women are not men. So men are better at some things than women and women are better at some things than men. And this idea that like, oh, I could do everything a man. does or a man says I could do everything a woman does, that's a lie. Now, that's not to say that certain women might be at the highest levels of excellence, be able to be very competitive, but generally, the general rule is the way that God designed us through whatever reason of brilliance that we should not even question. Women have certain character traits, such as the ability to have empathy, to nurture, to raise children, to be able to listen attentively, to have a higher level of focus,

things that I struggle with, men are more likely to have a singular task, be able to, quite honestly, run through a wall to get it done, be able to also have higher levels of testosterone, which is nice when you want to have an entire functioning economy built on hopefully using your hands and have plumbers, electricians, and HVAC, and police officers and firefighters. Not to say that women can't do those things, but when left to the agency of choice, women are more likely to go to elementary school education. They're more likely to become a psychologist. They're more likely to be in something that requires empathy and listening and counseling. And men are more likely to be into something like engineering or business or finance, like getting

the deal done. Now, if your nature tells you today that you want to have children and raise a family and go work for some boring, woke, anti-American company kind of doesn't really interest to you, having children and having a family and getting married will have a much larger and more positive impact on you and our nation than go becoming a partner at some law firm. That's actually not actually very fulfilling. In fact, don't pursue that if you think that's going to give you happiness. You will be a miserable unmarried 33-year-old woman. Let me say that again. You will be a miserable unmarried 33-year-old woman if you go pursue corporate, like, I'm going to go climb the corporate ladder. Okay, fine.

What really matters is, am I able to replicate my values? Can I find someone that I can spend the rest of my life with? Am I going to actually have that kind of sacrificial love that's talked about in the Bible? That kind of love where I can pour into somebody. That's eternal and divine and beautiful, not saying, you know what? I'm 35 and unmarried, but I'm a partner at Goldman Sachs, but I'm going to go revolutionize the world. You want to know why there's so many angry, liberal women that live in New York in Los Angeles?

It's because they've worshipped the corporate ladder for the last. 10 years and they have not actually valued what matters. And so obviously you're not allowed to say all this. And by the way, if you want to go become like a Dagney Taggart, the character in Atlas Shrug, then so be it. You have the liberty and the freedom to do that. I just want to make sure you manage your expectations that if you think that's going to give you some form, like eventually you're going to be at that place of happiness, I just want

to caution you. The happiest, the wealthiest people in the world that I meet are not the billionaires that have had a chance to spend time with, they're the people with nine, 10, and 11 children. They are the wealthiest people in the world. They're the people that homeschool their own kids. They are the people that go to church at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning. They're the people that are doing everything they possibly can to pour into what actually matters that's going to live longer than themselves.

So that's the first thing, which is we as conservatives and especially conservative women, we have to embrace what matters and what lasts and value what is eternal, not what is momentary, not what feels good. and not what is good. Now, you as women have a lot more power than you might think here. Now, let me just take a poll. How many of you are generally dissatisfied with the pool of men that you have to date or you have to go towards? Raise your hand. Right. So, now, let me turn this on you, though. That is 50% on you. Yeah, it is. It's 50% on you. It's 50% on the men who are generally weak, metrosexual, like vegan milk drinking, like soy milk, liberal, all that.

And by the way, I am very, very direct towards them about getting your life in order and assuming responsibility, stop blaming other people for your problems, and be someone worthy that someone actually wants to spend their life with. But at the same time, are you portraying to the world on social media as someone that is someone that has something worth desiring? Or are you just putting it all out there and saying, And I think pleasure is my ultimate value. Is that what you're putting on social media?

Maybe, I don't know. You can make that own decision. However, you have to understand that the way that men view a lot of your social media accounts is a lot different than how women view your social media accounts. I want to say that again, the way that men view your social media accounts are a lot different than the way that women view your social media accounts. And now this is completely opposite than a lot of the kind of predominant culture of, you know what, the most important thing?

I'm going to go out till 2 a.m. and have a wonderful time. and whatever, fine, you could do that if you want. If you think that's going to give you long-lasting and eternal a place of where, not just happiness, but a place where you're content, then I got a news flash for you. That's not going to happen. So what do you have to actually seek? Well, you have to embrace things that last, like having a family and having children. And so we have the most unmarried generation in American history.

Let me say that again. The most unmarried generation in American history. Why? it's because at most kind of like women empowerment summits people come up and they say you know what you live in a patriarchy all men are garbage and terrible and awful and don't get married and have kids instead go become a corporate you know partner at some law firm what is what kind of message is that send to men well if men are told by the time that they're eight years old that they're terrible and they're abusive and they're awful and you never have to take responsibility you never have to be a guardian then they're going to say you know what I'm going to go kind of be the lost boys at Peter Pan. I'm not going to ever take responsibility for my life.

And so there's actually something beautiful that we should embrace as this tradition of the Western family. It's a good thing. In fact, we should rebuild the American family and we need to rebuild it quickly. So we have about 2,500 young women here. We have 2,500 young women here.

If every single one of you got married and had at least five kids, we could take over the entire state of Wyoming in like 30 years. And it all kind of ties together. laugh about this. I ask kind of young women that get married. They're like, do you want to have kids? They're like, yeah, I want to have one of each.

Like, what are you? Like, picking out, like, tile? Like, I want to have one of each. Like, okay, fine. And look, everyone's free to make their own choices, obviously. I'm not here to judge. I'm making a general social critique that what's happening right now is deeply unhealthy.

It's creating people that are constantly looking through their devices and their phones and their dopamine machines and we'll get into that for their value and their net worth. So I deleted all my social media apps about six months ago. And it's just harder for women than for men, by the way. It is. Because all the numbers show that Instagram is just a female dominant app, more than even YouTube is more male dominated. And did it six months ago. Our team still obviously posts on social media. But I really believe that a lot of stuff that

happens on social media is absolute and complete garbage, almost all of it. And from the TikTok generation to Snapchat to Instagram, and I ask myself, I say, is it actually making us more decent human beings? And I think it's actually the opposite. I actually think it's making us terrible to each other. I think that it's making people value things that do not matter. And so this kind of ties into kind of of some of the BLM incorporated protests last year. I'm convinced, and a lot of you have friends like this, if social media did not exist, no one would have showed up to these protests last year. Like, oh, let me show a picture of you. Like, okay, got it. I'm going to be the little. one that ends racism in America as I, you know, show you how good of a person I am with my

picture, like, okay, got it. Or the black tile thing, which drove me absolutely insane. And the black tile thing in particular, which was nothing more than I'm going to show you that I'm a better person than you are. It's all virtue signaling, which is all signaling and no virtue. And really, in reality, it should be, okay, are you actually trying to improve your own character and actually try to become a better person in this world, which that's part of the struggle that's happening right now, and you're seeing this happen, where so many young people are saying,

I don't need to improve myself, I need to go revolutionize the world around me. So the way it used to work in the 1970s was that we used to teach children like, you got a lot of work to do, in fact, you're pretty awful, and America's awesome. Now we say that to our kids,

you're awesome, and America's awful. The opposite. And what that does, and by the way, this feeds into what I think, is one of the most destructive movements ever, which is the self-esteem movement. I can't stand the self-esteem movement, it's awful. And where you would tell young people in eighth grade,

you're perfect the way you are. Well, then why are you in school? Why do I have to do homework? If I'm absolutely perfect the way I am, what improvement do I have to do? Instead, you should tell young people, this is more to young men than young women, because young men are not being challenged.

One of the reasons why you are so upset with the young men you have to pick from is because they're not being challenged, they have no purpose, and they've never actually had to build any sort of strength, right? And there's this phrase, I wear, on one of the bands I have, which is strength rejoices in the challenge. All of you should go after things that are really challenging. Now guess what? Becoming in some corporation is actually not the most challenging

thing you could do in today's America. Getting married early and having children and explaining that's all of your secular friends, that's actually a lot more challenging than going to work for some woke company in New York. So embrace what matters and what lasts and value what is eternal. Now, I'm sure there's people of all different religious viewpoints here. I believe that we have to value a transcendent order. I think that we have to value things that are bigger than just who we are as human beings. I think we have to recognize that human beings have a spirit and a soul that there's a way and there's a way that works with how we live. And that's what the conservative movement should stand for, especially during these chaotic times.

We should not be the progressive conservatives. So, for example, I see, I see, think that it should be illegal, one example, illegal. That's right, not wrong, illegal to have some drag queen read some story to some six-year-old at some library. And you kind of see this manifested in this entire transgender thing, which obviously as a Christian, I want to have empathy and mercy for those people, but from a public policy standpoint, I also want to be very clear about why are we not making the argument that's so obvious, which is what, what, is a man and what is a woman. And obviously we know that through chromosomal

developmental development. And if I think the conservative movement like the governor of Arkansas, anyone from Arkansas, yeah, I'm sure there's a couple people. And it seems like a nice enough guy. He just catered to corporate interests, where he was like, you know what? I think it means to be a conservative

that eight-year-old should be able to chemically castrate themselves. That's not the conservative movement. And this is important because they say, oh, no, no. It's liberty. I can do whatever I want whenever I want to do it. And at that point, we've just opened up the greatest discussion of what actually the conservative movement stands for.

So are we a libertarian movement or are we a conservative? And by the way, there might be some libertarians here. Thank you guys for coming, by the way, because I'm super libertarian on guns, by the way. I think like we need less gun laws, not more gun laws, right? And so there's certain things I think they're really interesting there. But in general, especially in this time of confusion, where you feel like you are losing social order, where you turn around and all of a sudden you have seven-year-olds that are being, directly propagandized by the most socially degenerate causes imaginable.

Where you turn around and you say, wait a second, why is it that I was able to say this a couple years ago and I'm able to say this, you know, two years ago? There's some things, and I actually don't think human beings are able to sustain this for much longer, where we are saying, I need something I can count on year after year. Changing things for changing sake is actually driving people insane. I really do. I think that the constant change, we need something that is passed down. We need something you can count on.

We call this stability. By the way, men are largely supposed to be the source of stability in the traditional nuclear family. The fact that we have a bunch of metrosexual, very, very weak men in our country shows that people try to find that stability otherwise, and they look to the media, they look to Netflix, they look to social media, there is no stability there. And so in this whole argument, which I think is so bizarre,

so I grew up in a conservative, not in a conservative, I grew up in a political movement in the suburbs of Chicago, where all of the liberals were dominated by women. And they had an argument, and I didn't agree with it. I agree with part of it. But their whole argument was about women's rights. You guys have heard this before. And it's the most obvious contradiction I've ever heard.

Women's rights, women's rights. But if you're so into women's rights, why do you want men who think they are women, which they're wrong, to all of a sudden be able to destroy women's sports and go into women's locker rooms and go into women's bathrooms? that's the opposite of women's rights. And so then they say, well, you're, whatever they call me, transphobic. I was like, well, you know what, I actually am kind of afraid of a nine-year-old girl

having to go into a bathroom with a man. So yeah, call me that. Okay, I am afraid. I want to protect that young nine-year-old girl. And so they're very good at word games, obviously. That's what they do. But we have to pick the tough fights where we value what is good. and what is beautiful and eternal,

and we're willing to be called whatever name that is to protect that thing. And let me just tell you a piece of advice. You're never going to appease these people, okay? Ever. They're like, oh, we have to have the continually, morally shifting lines. And they say, well, the key now is like, we just have to kind of be, you know,

a little bit more accepting of all this. And I say, look, I'm not personally unaccept. I think they might be nice people. But as far as a political movement and my own views and one of a political organization or whatever, a nonprofit organization, if all of a sudden I have to say, you know what?

I think that it's perfectly fine that women's sports shouldn't exist. I'm not going to put up with that. And I don't think you should either. I think that, again, we notice that there are men and women two totally different beings made in the eyes of God that need each other, that society is able to exist with each other with masculine and feminine traits. That, by the way, if a society gets too feminine, it will get crushed.

If it gets too masculine, it'll get tyrannical. That's why a society must hopefully have a balance of both, of prudence and practical wisdom, and then, of course, assertion and daring, ambition, and risk, and those things mixed together, if all of a sudden we just throw that all out, we enter into this post-modern lie where it's like, you know what, there is no difference. And by the way, if you go to college, you're probably taught this. Has anyone been taught this?

Has anyone been taught this? A couple hands are going up. You're probably, you're in college. And it's such a stute, I'm going to be honest. You don't have to overthink these things, by the way. That's one of the things that I did a couple of years ago. I always tried to overthink this stuff. Here's just some piece of advice.

You actually don't have to overthink some of this stuff. You don't. You don't have to go read like 900 pages of why a man is a woman or a woman is a woman. You really don't. It's actually some of our viewpoints we can just say like, you know what, I don't need to go through your drivel. A man is a man. A woman's a woman. I think that a woman should be able to have her own competitive sports.

I think women should be able to have their own events and say that they're able to have other women that they can congregate with. And that's not something that I'm going to apologize for. So you don't have to over, and again, I'm happy to go with the deep 35-minute explanation of exactly how chromosomes are formed and how they develop differently and all the statistics behind it. But I just think that's unnecessarily yielding very valuable time with you guys to something that, quite honestly, is a pile of drivel that is determined to deconstruct everything that we know to be true. How much are life liberty in the pursuit of happiness worth to you? This is the question America's founders had to answer. You see, for more than 150 years, America's 13 colonies governed themselves until Britain declared they had no right to self-rule. So ordinary people had to make extraordinary choices and risked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to fight for independence.

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contrarian thing that I'm going to tell you right now, which is that discipline is freedom. It's the opposite of what you're told. What you, and so most of society right now tells you that indulgence and pursuing momentary pleasure, that's freedom. So let me tell you what we believe liberty to be. Liberty is not doing whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it. That is not liberty. Liberty is pursuing virtue without somebody getting in the way. So then you have to ask yourself the question, what is virtue?

Well, then we have a really important conversation of what is good or what is the good. And here's something that we should be unafraid to say that there is a better way to live than other ways to live. it's better to be loyal to your spouse than unloyal to your spouse. And if all of a sudden we as conservative say, you know what, we're not going to take positions on that. That's garbage. That's absolute garbage. No, if you make a covenant in front of God that you get married and you break that, we as a conservative movement should say, no, we don't support that. I'm not going to say you should make it illegal, but we should say we don't support that.

If all of a sudden we're going to be indifferent to the most important issues of our time, let me give you another example. In the traditional, like the secular view of liberty, they say, you know what, if a man wants to abandon his children, it's his liberty. That's perfectly fine. Now, again, not necessarily saying the government should go after that person and the state should go after that. But if a man abandons his children, he should be ridiculed, he should be condemned, he should be mocked. That's one of the most immoral things that a person can do.

And so it gets to this idea of actually if you want to live freely, you have to put restraints on yourself. the opposite of everything you're going to be told for the rest of your life in secular culture. If you actually want to live a free and fulfilling life, you have to put restraints on yourself. So it's like, you know what, maybe I'm not going to go out and drink till 3 a.m. By the way, there's a cost to that.

Here's a good rule of life. Anything that makes you feel a... Let me be very specific the way I say this. Anything that makes you feel good in the Eros sense of the Greek word in the moment usually has a cost associated with it. Let me say that again. Anything that makes you feel good in the chemical world usually has a cost associated with it. And that cost has an imprint on your soul and your spirit. Let me give you an example.

Like, oh, who cares if I go do heroin? I don't think anyone here is doing heroin, right? But we know friends that are, and I've lost friends to that. And they got there because their whole worldview was about pursuing pleasure. Now, it started with weed, and they're like, oh, weed's the greatest thing ever. Again, maybe we have some marijuana smokers there. I don't really care. I would recommend you to probably stop doing that. And I'm totally against the legalization of weed, but that's a different conversation for a different time. But I remember it. One of my really good friends started smoking weed in high school.

He's like, oh, it's the greatest thing ever. You know, Bob Marley, all this stuff. You guys know this people, right? They're all into it, like all in, right? Like, you know, we've been lied to. This is so cool. And I saw him become this. He was a super hyperactive guy,

and he used to always be the first in the weight room. And he just declined. And as soon as his ultimate value was a pleasure kick, As soon as his ultimate value was pursuing a chemical rush, next thing you know he's a drug addict and he committed suicide. Now, obviously, that's a radical example, but all of you know at least two or three people like that in your local high school. I guarantee it, especially if you're in an upper middle class high school across the country.

Because affluence, if you do not train children correctly and teach them correctly, they're going to go to try to pursue things that make them feel good because they don't know what is good. That's all they think in the world is just a bunch of chemical combustions, instead of actually things that value in what matter. And so instead of teaching young people self-esteem, we should be teaching them self-control. And that's one of the big lessons for you here is if, and the American system, you guys have heard this frame, this phrase self-government before? Of course you have.

But the most important self-government is you have to be in control of your own life, meaning you have to be able to have such an ability to control your own Constitution. That's right. Your constitution. And be able to be very clear about what you want and why you want it and the decisions and the choices you make, and guess what? That means you have to get really good at saying no. You have to get really good at that.

Now, in this whole whatever we're living through right now, where it's like, oh, I'm going to, and I've reiterated this point, and I'm going to say it again, that I'm going to glorify or glamorize, and you guys saw it through Cardi B, whatever that whole thing was, which was disgusting. But that, by the way, that's just the beginning. So those who that want children, your five-year-olds

are going to see Cardi B videos like that and think that's normal. we as conservatives should say that's reprehensible, that's disgusting, and I want nothing to do with that. That's what we as conservative should say. Instead, some people say, well, who am I to judge? No, you should absolutely judge that kind of video. Because that sort of intimacy should be protected and preserved for two people that come into a union to spend the rest of their life together, not put on network television for a seven-year-old to think that that's all of a sudden normal. And by the way, that'll create miserable people.

You want to know why suicide's going up, you want to know why drug usage is going up, you want to know why social isolation and alienation is going up, it's because we proselytize and evangelize momentary kicks of dopamine pleasure without explaining how these things actually are traditionally and ancestrally supposed to be passed down. So discipline is freedom. So you've got to create rules for your life. Obviously, Jordan Peterson wrote a good book on that.

Benjamin Franklin had 13 rules for life, but you've got to come up with your own. And so this is a lot easier. And so men gravitate towards this easier, just so you guys know. When I give this message to men, they jump out because no one's ever told them to take responsibility. Here's where you're all different. A lot of you are actually super responsible. You are. I could tell.

It's 9 a.m. You're dressed like perfectly. And you've all your makeup done. No, seriously. So you've got, you're actually, and by the way, you see this in test scores, women mature earlier. And by the way, there's for a reason women mature earlier because God knew. that if women get married early, someone's got to look after the kids while the guy rolls out of bed to go hunt the boar to go feed the family. Right? And by the way, you're going to want that

person around when an invader or someone tries to threaten your family or when you need the direction or all of a sudden things get really, really bad. And he has that, he has that hopefully extra ability to be able to persevere that family through that moment, God willing. Now, so you have to come up with rules for your life. And that's actually what will make you free. And that's actually what will make you free. and this is opposite than coming up with like big aspirational goals that's that's important by the way trust i mean we're all into goal setting here at turning point literally we're like we want 2,500 young conservative women goals are great it's actually not going to put you to a place where you're going to have that sense of peace or you're going to have that sense of purpose so purpose is one of my

favorite words purpose comes from the greek word telos where we get the word telescope from which means far out in the distance that which deserves to be desired what is all of your hello so your purpose. And if your purpose is like, I want to go be, you know, I want to go start this company, that's fine, but what is your end? That might be a means, but what is your end? And we don't talk to a lot of people about that. What is actually, what is, what actually do you want to be able to achieve, not just in the material world, but things that are going to transcend you and hopefully are going to last. And so you need to come up with rules. You need to come up with what you aren't going to do. And it might be like, hey, I am going to, maybe it's, I'm not going to

drink anymore. Or maybe it's like, I don't like this group of guys. They're a bad impact and influence on me, and I'm just going to cut them off. In the most bizarre, strange way, what I'm going to tell you today, it's what you don't do that actually is going to give you what actually is going to give you true fulfillment. And here's why, because we live in an abundant society. We live in a place where you could have literally weed delivered to your front door. It's like, what? And somehow, oh, that's liberty. No, that's actually slavery. That's actually a form of slavery for media matters watching. That's a form, it's a form of being, it's a form of being subservient to something that actually controls you. That's, that's not you being free. Are you

kidding me? No, that's you actually not being able to have the full agency and choices, because then you're going to be, that chemical is actually going to be free, not you. That chemical is then going to inflict, inflict on all of your ability to actually have the highest level of fulfillment and existence and pursue what is true and beautiful and good. Okay, so the third thing is this, which is where we're going to get kind of more into less kind of life advice commencement speech, but you guys probably don't hear a lot of this anyway on your college campuses, so I just need to say all that, which is this, which is this is a really important point, which is the women of this nation need to start to rise up and take responsibility for our nation as if it was our

home because it is. This is our home. I'm going to say that again. This is not a temporary place to live and then leave. So so much of what we are being talked, like some people in the conservative movement have said, and I don't think they've really thought deeply about this, they don't care about the social costs because they hide behind these abstractions. I'll give you a really short example.

We were just talking about this yesterday, which is this Wall Street company coming in, buying a bunch of single family homes, borrowing a zero percent interest called BlackRock, so that all of you, when you get married hopefully, you're gonna be priced out of the housing system. just using this as one example of thousands. And some people say, well, who's to say that we should ever get involved in the transaction of an $8 trillion company coming in and buying

single family homes? Well, that's actually a really important thing for us to get involved in. You know why? For those of you that rent and not own, you're not building long-term equity, you're much less likely to actually care about the nation or the place that you're in when you rent. and I believe that if you shoveled your own snow, there was not one person who shoveled their own snow who voted for Joe Biden in America. I'd like to find that person, seriously. Because all of a sudden you take ownership for what's around you.

It's not some HOA, it's not the tragedy to the commons. And so we have to have a public policy mandate to care about the well-being of the nation. Now, if you guys say, you know what, Charlie, America's like every other country. I don't care about the sacrifices of George Washington, Hamilton, Madison, John Quincy Adams, Frederick Douglass, the Civil War, the Bill of Rights, George Mason, the Constitution, being able to beat the British, the War of 1812, Civil War, I think I said Abraham Lincoln, I'll say it again, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, I don't really care about our ability to win two

world wars, I'm indifferent, this is just a temporary home, I'll move to Singapore. then that's a libertarian idea. What conservatives need to say is, no, no, no, we actually care about this three-tide knot. It's a three-tied knot of a promise of honoring those who came before us, caring about what happens right now, and then building something meaningful for those who have yet to come. That's what conservatives should stand for. And so what does that mean? It means that we should, we have to have a balance.

And I love markets. I think markets are great. I can't stand socialism, and I love entrepreneurs. And those who that want to be entrepreneurs, I really hope you succeed. And I hope that it's a means to hopefully an end of you building something meaningful, which hopefully is a family having lots of children. And just, and I love entrepreneurs and I love creating something out of nothing. With that being said, if all of a sudden we say, you know what, because we love entrepreneurs

and we love private property and we love markets, it's a good thing that we bring in piles of plastic from China and we never asked the question of whether or not it's actually hurting our nation. That's a bad thing for America. It's made China infinitely richer and we don't make vitamin C in America anymore. We don't make personal protection equipment in our country anymore. We've deindustrialized the entire Midwest sector of America, 15 million jobs, and it's bad for everybody. And they say, well, it's made us wealthier. Let me prove to you that's a lie.

How many of you have shirts, clothes, textiles, piles of plastic of things that you've never worn or worn once that you give away and that you're just like, I have no attachment to this. I have like entire rooms full of that stuff. You have garage sales, you have self-storage units. How much when you move into a college dorm room, there's stuff where you're like, I'm bringing up, but I'm probably never going to wear this stuff?

Of course, we have an abundance issue in our country. That doesn't make us wealthier. That means we have more physical stuff that we have no attachment to. Meanwhile, when you go drive to school, when you go move into school, maybe you go to Baylor, maybe you go to UT Austin, maybe go to University of Oklahoma, you drive by abandoned factories that used to make that stuff, that actually used to be better quality,

you used to value it, and you know your fellow countrymen was actually employed when that was being made. We're not getting wealthier. And so we need to be very clear that this, this beautiful country you've been given, the United States of America, is our home. And we have to be unafraid and unapologetic to say, you know what?

It's a cool thing that all of a sudden that all these Wall Street bankers are able to make all this money. And what, fine. God bless you guys. You guys, you know, work really hard, fine. But if we're not having a discussion of, are we actually leaving this republic for our children and grandchildren? That was the question the greatest generation asked. That was the question that they asked. This current generation that are ruling class, they don't care. They would never storm Normandy Beach. This current ruling class generation is a bunch of cowards. They have no courage. They have no concern for the

rest of their country. And this kind of idea of we want to pass something on is a lot of pressure on all of you. Because you know what the easy way out is? I'm going to live my own life. I don't care about the needs, wants, and concerns of anyone

around me. I'm going to make a bunch of money. And if I have to go to move to Wuhan, China, I will. That's not going to work for me. I'm not going to sit idly by while the country that every major war that my family fought in, this country that has been the most moral country ever to exist in the history of the world, most benevolent,

most opportunity, most protective of rights, the most protective of how God naturally made us in constitutional rights. We're just going to kind of sit down and be indifferent and be like, you know what, I'm not going to do anything because I think it's wrong to have bold and dramatic action, but I'm not going to win the argument and lose the country. I'm not going to do that. Instead, I'm going to say, here's what matters, here's what I value, here's what I know is always going to be right and now we have to build broad-based coalitions to try to get that done. Because you know what? The other side is willing to do whatever it takes. And we know that. They are willing to kick you out of your sororities. They are willing to go after you on social

media and call you every nasty name imaginable. They are willing to say that if you're a neighbor that voted for President Trump, that you're the worst person ever to exist in the history of the world. They're playing for keeps. And all I'm suggesting is that we have to all of a sudden value this as more than just a temporary experiment. Like, oh, this was a nice, America had a nice run at it. Man, what do you think Dwight D. Eisenhower and his generation would think of that? Anyone have relatives that fought in World War II?

So I don't know if any of them are living anymore. I did too. What would they think about this current leadership class? They would be horrified. You're exactly right. Because you know why? They dropped everything under this idea of strong national unity pursuing a moral good to try to wipe the earth of a certain form of evil in two different

hemispheres. It's pretty extraordinary. And that's not the only time that has happened, but that was a moment where a nation really banded together for a moral good. Now it's all about temporary consumerism, who cares about the nation, we can go do this somewhere else. And that's not true. If America falls, the world will go into a thousand-year abyss. Let me say that again. If America falls, the world will go into a thousand-year darkness. This is so rare what we have here. And so we are the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world. Of course you should applaud that.

But we're the greatest nation not just because of the output. We are the most charitable. We are the most benevolent. We're the most willing to help people in terms of natural disaster. We've created more wealth, all that. But we're the greatest country ever because we have the greatest moral claim to government. And this is where we, as conservatives, must be clear about this.

We believe in self-government. We believe in checks and balances, independent judiciary, consent to the government. But why do we believe those things? We believe those things because we know how a creator you could believe God, or maybe it was an act of randomness, whatever you believe, I believe it was a God,

made us a certain way with consciousness, with life, with the capacity to pursue virtue, and that we do not want a tyrannical government or anyone to be able to get in the way of us pursuing virtue. That's a moral claim. So why is it that we have a check and balance? Because the founding fathers feared that someone could get in the way of you going to church. Why is it that all of a sudden we have consent to the government?

You can't do bold, dramatic, and revolutionary stuff without our permission. Why is it that we have this expanse over space and time? And let me just say, we are a republic, not a democracy. If I have to hear that we're a democracy one more time, I'm going to lose my mind. Okay? Let me tell you the difference. A democracy would be if we took an up and down vote in this room, get rid of the First Amendment, it would get done.

A republic has very clear, public, and eternal truths that if you're going to get rid of them, you need to have more than just 51%. It's a long, deliberate process. And here's the thing. The preamble of the Constitution has never changed. Why? That's pretty amazing when you think about it, right? The preamble is the same then as it is now.

It's because the founding fathers did not write the Constitution for the times. They wrote it to stand the test of time. Because they wrote it. They didn't write it about it. current conflicts, they didn't write it, no, they wrote it for you and they wrote it for a people 100 years from now. How is that possible? Because times change, people don't. Our human nature is going to keep on replicating itself. So they wrote this on eternal truth. That's why you should go pursue things that are eternal, not things that are momentary. So not TikTok, instead

maybe the book of Thessalonians. Not Snapchat. But those things are actually what develop your soul and your character and your spirit, not like, oh, yeah, we're so involved because we're, and this is the postmodern line that a lot of you here on college campuses. Like, we are now postmodern human beings because we have planes. Like, okay, all technology does is allow you to do bad things quicker and more efficiently. And it could do good things, too, by the way. I mean, I think it creates bad habits, and I'll get to that in a second because I've become like super anti-technology.

But I'll get to that in a second. But this nation that we have was conceived so that you can govern yourself, conceived so that you can pursue things that are true and beautiful and wondrous and good. It was conceived so that you are able to build things that last. I want to talk to you about an issue so many Americans face, and that's health insurance. There's an organization I really, really appreciate, called Christian Healthcare Ministries. CHM is a faith-based alternative to health insurance. And this is real stuff, folks.

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It's the easiest thing on the world. And they're already doing this, by the way. It means getting rid of grading. That's the greatest way I can explain it. It's like the A student should get the same grade as the kid who never shows up. That's equity. They want that for the entire country. And the way that they value it is based on race.

So they say, okay, the white kids, you now get a C, the black kids, you get a C, who cares about any sort of how hard you worked or how much you studied, that's equity. Forced redistribution. And some of them think that they're doing the right thing. Some of them think that America's this systemically racist country, which, by the way, might be the greatest lie that I hear on television. We have the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world. And I could get into that.

You guys have heard that on my podcast plenty of times. I've kind of navigated that. But we are the greatest nation ever to exist. And I just want you guys to have this moment of gratitude at some point throughout this conference that you were born into this nation. And you can actually do something about it. I want you to think about that, though. That you just happened by God's providence or by an act of randomness,

whatever your metaphysics are, that you were born into this nation that has been, unlike any other. And so then the question is, what are we called to do about that? Well, some people think that if you're given things, given a gift, you have no moral claim to ever say thank you. These are the people that get gifts and all this and they're just like constantly walking around. They're like, I, you know, I deserve all of this. Do you guys think you're entitled to live in America? That's an interesting question. No. We actually don't deserve how good we have it here because most of the rest of the world has it. We have people that think they're entitled to live in the country,

and some of those people are conservatives. Some of their people like, oh, yeah, I'm such a good person, and of course, this stuff's always going to be this way. Let me tell you right now, America won't always be what we know it if we don't take bold and dramatic action. We are very fragile right now, very fragile. And so here's another thing that is important. A lot of you are going to be fired up to make a difference after this conference, and that's important. Start a turning point chapter, maybe you're going to tell your friends all your beliefs, you're going to have new friends. I'm going to tell you something that is true, but a lot of people don't want to hear. But it's important I tell you. If you make a commitment to actually want to make a difference,

it's impossible to make a meaningful difference without you actually bearing a cost. It's going to cost you. You will lose friends. You will get kicked out of social groups. You might lose your job, and you might get graded differently. Sounds wonderful, right? It's true, though. I'm not in the business of lying to people, but let me tell you what it will do. It will create you to be a stronger,

more confident human being with character that you've never understood before, for yourself. It will give you true friendships for a lifetime. I'm going to talk about friendship in a second, which you guys are all going to love. And it's going to give you true community and purpose. people ask me all the time, Charlie, if I, if I, I have a professor, I'm sure all of you guys have this situation.

And I have a contrarian view on this where people say, Charlie, I have a professor. If I write what I believe, I'm going to get a C. But if I just repeat the pablum, I'm going to get an A. What do I do? And I say, this is a perfect ethical question. So basically what you're saying is, do I lie to get a good grade, or do I tell the truth to bear a cost? So some people that are in punditry say, oh, you should lie. lie and just submit it and get through with it.

Okay, if you think career advancement and getting grades is your ultimate good, then you should do that. If you think getting grades is what matters and what lasts, if you think that on your gravestone it says, you know, Cynthia Jones, she got good grades. If you think that's what matters, then do that. I actually encourage you to lie your way to be valedictory. I encourage you to go cheat your way to be.

By the way, why not just cheat at that point? Some people in the conservative movement say that. I have a different view. What I did, and by the way, of course it cost me when I was in high school, is that I say, look, if you lie small, you lie big. The small things are the big things. And you can grade me differently. You can push me backwards.

It's going to make me a stronger person, but I'm going to be more free than anyone else. I'm not going to be a slave to this false essay I submitted to my professor. I'm not going to write this pablum. And people say, well, Charlie, I need to go to law school. You don't understand. I need to get A's. Okay, that's your ultimate good then. Career advancement, checking boxes, momentary pleasure, that's what matters to you.

I think telling the truth and being strong and confident and never, ever wavering to the cultural arbitrage, I think that matters a lot more than becoming some lawyer at some corporate law firm. And so what will make a difference will cost you. And things are only going to start to change when people that have, something to lose are going to start to all of a sudden take dramatic action and be willing and honest that they're going to lose it. If you guys want to be free, then all of a sudden say, I don't care what they take away from me because I know the truth and the truth will set me free. If you guys want to always be looking over your shoulder, the least free, I get people that

come up to me all the time. Charlie, how are you able to say all these things? I'm like, what are they going to cancel me from? What article are they going to write in the New York Times that they already haven't written? Right. I know what I believe. I'm I know what's true. I know who I love. I know whose I am. And so, fine, come after me. I don't care.

But what I would never want to do is come, kind of have some sort of corporate oligarchy over me, be like, if you dare, say this, you're not going to get a promotion. Man, that is a modern day form of control. That is social control. And all of you here, in one way or the other, are falling victim under social control. And it's not your fault. It might be social control. of a teacher, of a friend, of a boss, of a community, we were like, I'm less likely to say these things.

I'm less likely to do this sort of stuff. And that's where a lot of the prayer and the reflection has to happen. But here's the cool thing. So there are three different types of friendship. And this is why the best friends will be made at this conference. So the first type of, I'm going to tell you what, Aristotle said there's three different types of friendships. The first type of friendship is the type of friendship.

is the type of friendship where you're doing business together. The best example I can use for young ladies here, you kind of get assigned to a group project in school. You got to work with this guy, get it done. You have a goal, and you're like, oh, yeah, I had fun with them, and I recognize them in the hall. Are those people really your friends? And there's a form of friendship, right?

The second form of friendship is where you have some form of a purpose a little bit bigger than yourself. Think of sports. Right? Sports would be one where you're trying to achieve a goal and it's more than just the group project and you're going after that goal. The ultimate form of friendship is what happens here where it's the type of friendship where friends rarely look at each other and they're kind of uncomfortable talking about each other because they're too busy looking at the same unified ultimate purpose. So that's what all of you have here. The reason why real friendships are going to be boring here is because you're not just caring about getting a business deal done or getting some sort of goal done. No, no, no.

You're actually worried about something that's bigger than yourself. So you know when you walk through this room, you turn to a fellow young lady. You know she shares your values. You know that for the first time maybe ever, you're filled around an entire room of thousands of people that are looking at the same thing as you are. I want to save the country and I'm willing to do something about it. And that's, that is, that's transcendence. That's bigger than everyone here.

And those types of friendships, by the way, are rarely found. at most liberal college and universities. Let me say rarely. They can be found. The best friendships are the ones where you agree on the same big picture things and you're both trying to do something about it. And so if you say, I'm going to lose all these friends if I speak out, you're right, you will.

You will be bullied and you will be... All this stuff. And by the way, I'm not trying to, you know, intimidate you against this. I just never want you to leave this conference, be full of energy and enthusiasm to go do this stuff, and all of a sudden you're going to pay the price, and they're like turning point lied to me. No, no, no, no.

I'm telling you that it's a cost, and that's the sacrifice that we have to make. But then the back end of it, you'll be stronger and more fulfilled, more fired up, more energetic, you'll be tougher, more resilient. And guess what? You're a lot tougher than you think.

You're a lot tougher than you think. And so I was going to take questions, but I'm actually going to do that Sunday, just questions on Sunday. I do want to do a shameless plug. If everyone here is subscribe to our podcast that isn't already subscribed, we would beat Rachel Maddow,

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So let me close with a couple things, which is, I'm going to go through this list again. Embrace what matters and what lasts. value what is eternal, what is divine. These are hard questions, by the way. Maybe you're like, I don't know what lasts. By the way, I think we have some elementary school kids here. My friend Rita wanted me to call. I think we have some elementary school kids here somewhere.

There's an amazing nine-year-old. How are you? Glad you're here. Thank you for being here. How old are you? Nine? Nine years old. Nine years old.

Give it up. That's amazing. And maybe you're like, I don't know. what is eternal or what lasts. That's okay. The first thing you have to do is say I actually want to, I want to try to understand that a little bit. I'm going to go after that. By the way, that's what college used to do. College, which is, I'm not exactly a fan of, and a lot of times, unless you go to Hillsdale, then great. Anyone to go to Hillsdale here? Hillsdale, awesome. Then you know all this stuff. Yeah.

No, she's like, no, I don't. That's funny. So, but what college used to do is like, They would stand in a room like this and they'd say, there's a lot we don't understand in this world. But we know some things are more beautiful than others. We know some things are true. And we know some things are worthy of wonder. Let's find out what that means together. They would tease you to go on this journey throughout college to go pursue things bigger than you. You know how college works today?

They'd come up and they'd say, these are my preferred pronouns. and Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Zer-Z. Like, meat is the enemy. Men are terrible. God is dead. White people are the problem. You know, they have some weird, like, pride flag and BLM thing. And they're screaming and they're angry.

And basically, the essence of their point is, there is no truth, there is no beauty, there is no wonder. All that matters is that we're a bunch of cells that can make ourselves feel good. Go and have, like, sex week on campus and go pursue nihilism. and instead I'm going to teach you how to be a revolutionary so you can find purpose in the midst of all this. That's what they do on campus. And you see that now manifested, of course, in Alexandria Kasia-Cortez, is one example of that, and Elon Omar and Rishuette-Talib,

who are constantly looking for the next upheaval. You see, in college they train you to try to create upheaval. When in reality, you should, no, no, we should train you to preserve what's good. We should train you to pursue things that matter, not upheaval the entire society, which is what, AOC tries to do every single day, which, by the way, I just want to say, it was one of the most amazing things we participated in the Matt Walsh Daily Wire thing. I don't know if you guys saw or not, it was hilarious. And where she does not care about her grandmother to want to accept

$100,000, no, she doesn't. And again, so she drives a Tesla. She has like the nicest apartment in D.C. Never sends any money to her grandmother who's living in slum-like conditions in Puerto Rico, right? In Puerto Rico. She goes down in visits. She does a social media post to tell the world and show the world, blaming Donald Trump, even though Donald Trump gave a lot of aid. And the most obvious question is, wait a second, why are you driving a Tesla living in the nicest building in D.C. while your grandmother's literally living in the slums. And then we raised $100,000 to help her, Abuela, and she doesn't want the money. I mean, there's, there might be some ethical things there. What kind of person doesn't want $100,000 for their grandmother? Anyway, so, but it's

so sociopathic. She's so narcissistic, and she's so, always upheaval, right? No matter what the instead it is, it's the system that's the problem. And you know what she doesn't have? She has never been told that she needs to have self-government. Think about it. Instead of saying, oh my gosh, how did I let my grandmother live like this? Oh my goodness, I'm a bad person. And by the way, we all make mistakes. I'm not saying like, I'm just saying like, that's the immediate thought when she walked through her grandmother's mind should have been like, I don't have my own house in order. The immediate thought when she walked through her grandmother's mind should have been like, I'm going to give you money. We're going to make this right. I'm so sorry. Instead, she said,

how dare President Trump do this to my grandmother? And quite honestly, I feel bad for her because she never heard this speech I just gave, which is like, actually, you have to get your own house in order. You have to control your own. And then let's go through these rules. You have to value what matters and what lasts, family matters and lasts.

And so for her, like, well, why would I take care of my grandmother? The government does that. No, no, no. That's literally what matters and what lasts. Is taking care of, remember what came before, what's happening now, and what's about to come. And the definition of that would be grandparents.

I love grandparents. I'm very pro-grandparents. And yet, but for her, it's like, well, no, that's government's role. I'm going to go ride my Tesla and save the world. Now, that's one small example, just a small good example, I think, of the propaganda drivel you guys are all being fed. And the opposite should have been, no, I actually want to preserve and protect something that lives longer than me.

Remember, discipline is freedom. You've got to come up with your own rules. Everyone's rules will be different, but there's only like 20 rules you could possibly to come up with that are all kind of the same. Which is, like, maybe I have to pursue humility. Maybe I need to, maybe I need to lie less. Maybe I need to be more honest with who I am front facing. Maybe social media is making me a bad person.

Maybe I'm, by the way, if you're spending more than three hours of screen time a day, you have a problem. Let me just be clear. Three hours, you've got a problem. You have now, you've basically said, I am an own subsidiary of people that don't share my values that hate me. And they, by only addictive drugs and social media call the people that use their product, users. And by the way, what kind of weird thing that we have? Like, oh yeah, I'm a follower of Cardi B. So you're not a leader? You understand the social tricks that all these companies are doing?

They have neuroscientists that sit in a room to try to say, how do I make 17-year-old girls more addicted to think horrible about themselves, not have value, not find truth, but stare at their screen for meaning. Those, remember, the camera goes two ways, by the way. Everything you say and do, they're recording and they hear if you have the phone with you. Just so you guys. know. And it's designed to make you an unhappy, deeply troubled person and not actually value human contact. My wife and I were on our honeymoon.

We did no phones. At the most unbelievable sunsets you could imagine. Thank you. Most unbelievable sunsets you can imagine. And I looked to my right and a whole family was just looking at their phones ignoring the sunset. I looked at my left. The whole family is looking at their phones looking at the sunset. I thought to myself, you couldn't

see a more beautiful landscape if you tried. And they're just basically saying, I want these devices to have a higher That's a little bit of a side note. Maybe the discipline is I have to wake up earlier. Maybe the discipline is I have to cut people out of my life, which, by the way, is a good practice to do if people are just terrible to you.

And they don't make you feel content or at peace. And then finally remember, this country, this is our home. This is not a temporary place to live and leave. If you think this is a temporary place, then you might want to get out because it's about to get a little bit turbulent. But for those of us that honor the sacrifice that came before, for those of us that know what this nation actually is, and we want to raise children and grandchildren here,

then we know that there's going to be a little bit of a struggle. We know that, and we're going to win this struggle, by the way. Let me be very clear. We're going to win this struggle. And we're not leaving. We're not just going to kind of pull a cord and get out if things get tough. But we have to be very clear about that. So let me close with this.

When the women of America have rose up, there is no stopping that. Men are always looking for fights, right? Like whatever. That's kind of, and I'm Scottish, so I'm always looking for fights, right? It's just in my DNA. If there's an injustice, I'm like front row. School board meetings, protests, like that's just who I am, right? A lot of Scots-Irish kind of, I've always done that.

Ronald Reagan was Scots-Irish. But when women, the ones that are usually less likely to get into conflict, the ones that are a little less likely to want to get into altercations, the ones that want to be agreeable, that want to be peacemakers, counselors, right? We kind of go back to this idea of who you are as God made you. You want to try to bring people together. When that snaps, and you're like,

No, no, no, no, no. This is my home. You're not going to be teaching critical race theory. No more of this transgender garbage. No more of this false history. You're not going to take our guns. No more teaching our nine-year-olds. When the women rise up, watch out. So I want you to remember this. No pressure with 2,500 young women here. The future of this country is literally on you. The men are going to fight no matter what. Like, we got that all fired up. I got men. They're like, where do I go? Like, okay, I got it. Like, I got to harness that, right? I got it. Okay. This is a little bit different. it's like, I want to do it correctly. I want to do it agreeably. And that's all good stuff. You're going to have the best speakers in the world. But if you make that commitment, especially the moms out there, my goodness, to rise up and to get into the fight, I'm telling you right now, the greatest weapon to win is the women of America. And when all of you decide that we're going to win and that this is our home, I'm telling you right now,

victory will be ours. God bless you guys. Thanks so much. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.