May 29, 2026 • 38 mins
In this special Q&A from the 2022 Young Women’s Leadership Summit, Charlie answers audience questions on some of the most important challenges facing young women today: How does a person stay motivated through exhaustion and setbacks? Should you send your kids to college, even if it feels like a scam? And of course, how should a young lady find a good man to date? Charlie always brought his best when it came to guiding young people and this YWLS Q&A is no exception.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
My name is Charlie kirk I run the largest pro
American student organization in the country, fighting for the future
of our republic. My call is to fight evil and
to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you
is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable.
But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll
end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got
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to stop sending your kids to college. You should get
married as young as possible and have as many kids
as possible. Go start at turning point, you would say,
college chapter. Go start attorny point, you say high school chapter.
Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign
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made in my life, and I encourage you to do
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All Right, I think it's gonna be the best use
of our time if we just go straight into questions
here and so we can start lining up for that.
But first I have an announcement that we want to
make here. So how many people here this is your
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first Turning Point USA event? Raise your hand. That is awesome.
So we want you to continue to grow with us
and to come to more Turning Point USA events because
I know a lot of you are probably like, wait
a second, this is over in like an hour. And
by the way, how many people here have met some
new friends that you're going to stay in touch with.
How awesome is that? And so coming up in just
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a couple of weeks, we have our Student Action Summit
in Tampa, Florida, and yes it's boys and girls together.
We have sponsored by Turning Point Action President Donald Trump
who will be speaking, Ron DeSantis will be speaking, Kaylie
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mc and any, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Greg Guttfeld, Donald Trump, Junior,
cat Temp, Jesse Waters, and so many more. So applications
are wide open everybody, and you've got to get your
spot before it runs out. So here's what we're gonna
do for just y WLS attendees. We are going to
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waive the registration fee for the next fifty people. Okay,
that confirm your registration. Okay, so the next fifty people
that also at YWS and hopefully you're the first one
of the first fifty okay. And so it's very similar
kind of setup, much bigger room, I add, and where
else will you be able to And by the way,
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there's some other huge speakers that have yet to be announced.
We're working on some pretty pretty big things. And so
if you want to get more training, if you want
to come to a different type of event this summer,
bring your friends, maybe road trip because flights are so expensive.
So but Students Action Summit, you will be getting a
email from us. All you have to do is confirm
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your registration. But we're going to wave the registration fee
for the first fifty people here at YWS that confirm
your spots. It's a pretty awesome deal. Okay, let's get
to some questions.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Hi, I'm Liberty. I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and I was
wondering how do you stay like motivated, like getting into
politics and all that stuff. How do you keep yourself
motivated to learn more and keep researching, researching.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's a great question. Your nam is literally liberty. That's awesome,
that's amazing. So Turning Point USA celebrates ten years tomorrow,
amazing and our ten year anniversary. Look, you have to
have drive, and you have to be you have to
be somebody that wants it really bad, and I think
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a lot of you do. But it's not for everybody.
If you get involved in politics, you have to be
willing to lose all your friends. You have to be
willing to be bullied, harassed, called awful names, probably publicly doxed,
and be unfairly attacked for a long period of time. However,
the good part about getting involved in this fight is
that totally worth it is that you're actually doing something meaningful,
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not just rearranging numbers at some accounting firm. That you're
actually defending the greatest nation ever to exist in the
history of the world. And so the best way to,
let's say, continue the drive is to be able to
answer the why. And if you can't answer the why,
then you shouldn't get involved in this. And the why
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is the most important question, which is I want my
kids to live in a free country. And when you
look at things intergenerationally, all of a sudden, you stop
being the most important person in the world and you
start fighting for future generations that they might also enjoy
this nation. And so look, you have to know why
you're getting involved in it. And you brought up a
good point, which is, you know, one of the things
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I want to encourage everybody in this room to do
is take learning very seriously. You know, for about an
hour to an hour and a half every single day,
i turn my phone on airplane mode and I'm listening
to a book, reading a book, listening to something. Taking
Hillsdale online course, by the way, which all of you
could do. Charlie for Hillsdale dot com. All their online
courses are amazing and we partner with Hillsdale College. I've
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taken fifteen of them. There's thirty of them, and they're tough.
It's work, but it's fulfilling. You'll learn everything about from
economics to the Constitution of Declaration to American history. But
that's the kind of drive that I think will make
you be a differentiating factor. And I'll just say this,
that drive is diminishing after generation Generation Z is not
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as driven even as some people in millennials. And what
do I mean by that? It's just being willing to
show up early and stay late and not act as
if there's anything special because you worked extra hours. So
that's the great differentiator. But you got to be able
to answer the why great question? Thank you. Hi.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
My name is Amy Hardy and I'm a mom with
my daughter.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
My question is about college. So my husband and I
differ on this. I feel like she needs to go.
She is in school.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
She was at Point Low University that lasted one semester
and a big chunk of change pulled her out because
they were not doing turning. Point USA would not honor
the chapter. So the struggle now is she pulled back.
She's at the community college for a short time until
she can transfer in.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
The problem is.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
How do we take a stand for not vaccinated. I
don't want to be I'm not taking the job. I
don't want my kids to take the job, but I do.
My husband says, screw it, we're done with school.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
She doesn't need school. She's a go getter. She can
do it all day long on her own. I'm kind
of like she needs an education.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
But there's a struggle here because young people can't go
to school if they give into the job.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Or the boosters or all of that. So what are
we doing as parents to great question support? Can I
ask you a question, So, why do you think she
needs to go to college? Well?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
She probably Okay, let me just say this. My husband
went to college for three days and when he found
out they didn't take role, He's like, I'm out of here.
He's a self made millionaire, he's worked his ass off
his whole life. He had the exact same She's just
like that.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So I get it.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I guess sometimes I just think, and I might get
booed here, but I do think that women are overlooked
because we don't have enough credentials. We haven't gotten up
to this area in the workforce, so we are overlooked.
So my thing to her is like, girl, get out
there and get as many things as you can under
your belt and with you as a tool and a
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strategy so.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That you go you can go out. And that's actually
a really to do. That's the best answer I've ever
That's the best answer. I totally disagree, but that's actually
the best answer I've ever heard. I want to not
because your intent is right, which is that it's a
tough world and I want my child to be able
to at least have the credentials right, And you answered
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it correctly, which is you didn't say that college is
going to make her smarter or wiser. It was just
gonna be, like, you know, we need the boxes checked.
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Speaker 1 (10:07):
So, look, I never tell people what to do in
their own personal decisions because there's multiple millions of factors
of micro decisions that I'm not able to kind of
see into. But I'll just kind of give you some
kind of general wisdom, which is outside of a couple
colleges in America. I think college is a colossal waste
of time. I really do. And so now let me
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let me clarify. If you if you want to be
an engineer, a you know, a lawyer, or a doctor,
then I think there's a path for that. But a
vast majority of people that go to college go to
study the humanities or they go for a communications degree
and all that. I'm not trying to insult you if
you're studying those things. By the way, Okay, you are
just told to go get a piece of paper and
borrow a bunch of money. Don't have to study things
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that don't matter, to find jobs that don't exist, right,
And a cycle continues, and so it college has this
impression by upper middle class society kind of being this
right of passage and they're going to find themselves, and
that gonna happen with some people, for sure. I think
some people definitely grow in college. I will say that
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young women generally get a lot more out of college
than young men, I think, And that's just a general rule.
So your gut instinct in that way isn't totally wrong.
But she's at the Young Women's leadership someone here, so
she's probably exempt from this. However, parents need to hear this.
When you send your child to college, you're going to
play Russian roulette with their values. And I hear this
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every single day from parents. Again, we have over one
hundred thousand donors at Turning Point, USA, and we get
thousands of letters every single month. Charlie, I sent my
kid to this college, and our relationship has never been
the same. They no longer have faith, they hate the country,
and I don't know what happened to them, and I
paid for it, and so that I know that's probably
not a fear for you. But the question is what
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do you think you're going to get out of it? Right?
If you admit it's just kind of a credential and
I need to get that piece of pay, then that's
the proper way to go into it, right with kind
of and know that they're going to try to indoctrinate
you at every corner. But let me also say this,
though you say your daughter's a go getter and has
drive college, has a tendency and has a track record
of destroying that. It has a tendency to actually make
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you think less of your entrepreneurial instincts, has a tendency
to make you just think, go get a corporate job.
And because now you've got to pay off your you know,
your student loan debt. We need more entrepreneurs in our country.
We need more people to take risks. And I always
laugh when people say, and I mean no offense by this,
so please people say, I'm studying entrepreneurship. You don't study entrepreneurship.
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You do entrepreneurship. Okay, you go take the risk you
get in the marketplace. And so look, everybody's different. For me,
college wasn't the right choice. I took a gap year.
It's been a gap decade now, and I understand that
upper middle class society. What I just talked about is
kind of a thought crime. Right. But I'll say one
last thing to parents, and I'll leave it at this, right,
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which is is it about your child's future or is
it about yours? Your fear that you might have to
turn to your neighbors or your relatives and say Johnny
isn't going to college. That's tough because deep down, parents
talk a good game. They're like, yeah, you know, we
need more welders, we need more electricians, we need more HVAC,
we need more and everyone agrees. Right, but my kid's
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not going to work construction. My kid's going to be
an air conditioned office with a degree, looking at a
screen all day long. So it's something to think about
because a vast majority of young people, especially young men,
when asked the question, they believe they're getting nothing out
of their college degree. It's a waste the time, and
that they can't wait to get out of it. It's
a really expensive track and trajectory that we're on. By
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the way, the national graduation rate is fifty nine percent.
How many of you know someone that dropped out of college?
Raise your hand. Every hand goes up. If you had
a forty one percent chance of getting food poisoning from
a restaurant, they'd be closed down and they'd all be
indicted for mass poisoning. And yet forty one percent, forty
one percent of kids that go to drop out. Maybe
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we have too many kids going in the first place.
Thank you for your question.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Hi, Charlie, My name's Havana, and my question is you
have often talked about monopolies are bad. But if you
took all government involvement out of monopolies, such as tax
corruption or law supporting big tech, would there still would
monopolies still be bad? And if so, explain in detail why.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
That's a great question. It's a very thoughtful question. So
let's talk first why are monopolies bad. So one of
the principles of the Constitution that we love is this
idea of separation of powers, and so we believe that
not one person, one organization should be able to have
unchecked power over another, which is where we get the
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principle of checks and balances and so and its intent.
The United States Constitution was written to say that absolute
power corrupts absolutely is Lord Acton would say so, Therefore,
we believe that there should always be checks on that
kind of a power. Right. So then you bring it
to kind of what you're talking about is private company monopolies,
which is what is the check and balance on a
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private company? Well, that's competition and market forces usually. And
so what's happened though, and this is something where a
lot of conservatives, in my personal opinion, we need to
kind of think a little bit more openly about things,
is what happens when Google becomes stronger than your government?
What happens when Google becomes its own monopoly? Because we
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should have the premise right of separation of powers and
checks and balances. So how do we check Google? What
we start a competitor is what we're always told, right
like parlor, and then they eliminate Parlor in one night
when Amazon, Google and Apple decided it should no longer exist. Now,
your question was very specific, which is if we got
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rid of the cronyism and the tax loopholes and all
of this would still exist, We don't know. That's that's
I think a nice thought exercise for a college economics course,
but it's not rooted in anything that we're even close
to grasping in reality right now. So we can guess,
we could say, maybe, we could say it might. But
here's what I do know right now is that we
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as conservatives must be honest that our liberty granted by
God is under attack by both the government and private
companies both and that's something that we have to wrestle with,
right Because I'll let you have a follow up in
a second, which is we as conservatives always believe that
the market will then have a check on these private companies.
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But what happens when those private companies start to work
in collusion with one another? Right when Google starts to
look out for Apple's best interests, that look out for
facebook best interests against your best interest, to silence our
voice and then get our kids addicted to screens at
age of seven where they do nothing but stare at
Instagram and TikTok feeds all day long, and we're told
that somehow this is a better thing. That's the question
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that conservatives need to answer. So my general, my general,
let's say, argument for this is I want to try
to make market forces to solve problems that government created.
But when it comes to the Silicon Valley companies in particular,
and you do not have a check on power, I
believe that's a moral question.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Quick follow up, Yeah, well, I guess it's also like
people you talk about this and I don't want to
say like I'm for monopolies.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
But at the same time, with capitalism, like how far
should we.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Be regulating that?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Because I'm in my head, I'm thinking, well, no, we
shouldn't be regulating the market. The government shouldn't be involved.
But then we have these big monopolies. I mean, there's
there's not a really clear line, and you might not
have an answer, but I guess that's where I've been
thinking of.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, that's a great question. So where do you draw
the line. There's a great word that comes from a
great word which means basically common sense, called prudence. Right,
So I think we can all agree that if you
have one hundred and fifty million active users in America,
you probably should be treated a little bit differently than
the local bakery or the local coffee shop, right, I mean,
that's just prudence, right, You look at that, You're like, Okay,
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wait a second. I understand market principles, but when all
of a sudden, the business model of Instagram is to
try to hire a bunch of neuroscientists to get eight
year olds addicted to staring at screens all day long,
I'm not going to all of a sudden be like, well,
that's the market. I'm like, actually, no, that's no different
than pushing opioids on kids in a like a lesser extent.
And so that's where we have to kind of we
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have to balance the beauty of the market and the
ability to improve people's lives with also the human cost.
So what the best word is prudence? How do you
come across a prudent decision, dialogue, discussion, and also understanding
what the end goal is. The end goal is not
profit for profit's sake. This is where libertarians disagree with me.
The end goal is human flourishing and the pursuit of
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virtue and people to live happy in fate filled lives.
That's the end goal. And so as markets allow us
to achieve that goal, I'm all for it. When all
of a sudden, these massive companies start to act, I
think in ways that are a little more let's say, reckless,
then we have to start to consider other options. Wonderful question.
Thank you appreciate it.
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Hi. My name is Heliah.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I was fortunate enough to be a homeschool student all
the way through high school. So I just graduated high
school and I'll be going off to college this fall
to study nursing. And I was just wondering, so, for
students that haven't exactly faced adversity before, what advice would
you give for if I want to be part of
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like a Students for Life club or like a Turning
Point USA chapter, what advice would you give for students
that haven't handled that before.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That's a great question, So I think too high. I
leave all of you to lie to you. Your life
is going to be temporarily miserable. It will every high
school friend you thought that was close to you, not every,
but most will start sending you nasty messages. How many
of you experienced this as soon as you come out
as a conservative? You of course, and you just got
to be ready for it, and you got to make
that decision. Right, I'm not going to give any kind
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of false impressions or kind of but here's the cool
thing is that in life you want to be the
person that grows tougher as the circumstance stances grow more difficult,
not that you run away from tough situations. So the
cool thing is God made us as human beings, as
creatures that adapt, and we adapt really well, You're going
to get stronger through that, and it'll be tough, and
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you'll be texting your friends that don't want to talk
to you anymore, like why are you doing this? And
I don't understand, and then you're gonna make new friends
and then all of a sudden trial and tribulation isn't
going to really phase you because guess what, that's not
going to be the last kind of chapter of adversity
you're going to face as a human being. And this
is one of the things. This is why the left
is so fragile. This is why we are going to
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beat the Left, is because they run away from these
sort of difficulties. They're like, you're making me unsafe, like
life is actually unsafe, Like get tougher and stop trying
to make the world adjusts to your sort of mental paranoia.
Like the world is full of risks. Driving here is
a risk, living is a risk. You cannot be happy
if you are afraid of risk all the time. It's
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this mass neurosis that has kind of just spread across
our land. So lean in if that's what you want
for your life, but be ready that you might lose
job opportunities, internships. People will look at you differently. They're
gonna try to tar and feather you. You're gonna have
people try to say that, oh, yeah, you're making a mistake.
You can look around and know that you're not alone,
but you're gonna be tougher because of it. And here's
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the other good news. You have a big organization like
Turning Point USA that has your back. That's gonna make
it easy for you to do that. Okay, God bless you.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
Hi, my name's Maddie and I'm from Arkansas and I'm
just wondering what your advice is to women in their
mid twenties to early thirties who have desired to get
married and have children early on, but they're having a
hard time meeting a man to settle down with who
will be a leader and initiator.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Of the relationship. Great question. Okay, So the best place
to meet a man is this is the equation. Okay,
So go find a Bible believing church. This is how
you do it. Okay, get to know the pastor's wife
and tell her that you want to find a husband,
and it will happen. I'm not kidding her. I'm telling you.
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Pastor's wives are always setting people. They know the whole
roster of men. They're always looking. It's a gifting. I'm
telling you pastor's wives, they just get it. I've seen
more marriages happen there. But it's more than just kind
of looking at the church as a dating tool, which
is helpful obviously. But get involved in the church, right
is volunteer, get involved in in Bible ministries or small
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group ministries as I mean, that's a great place because
at least there's some form of shared values. And then
this is the other thing, which is tell people you're
actively looking for somebody. I know that, and don't be desperate,
but be like, look, I've kind of been striking out
the last couple of years. You know, if you know
anyone that'd be great, And then be open minded and
willing for what God might have in store for you.
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And but it's not going to happen just by kind
of sitting at home and be like he's going to
crash your the window at any moment. Maybe probably not right,
And so you got to put yourself in kind of
those environments where that is going to be fostered and
that is going to happen, and be active, right, make
yourself presentable and present yourself to the world in a
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way where at any moment you could meet your future partner. Right.
And so then I'll kind of go back to the
other advice I gave earlier, which is hold yourself to
a high standard. Here's the thing is that in a
world where men unfortunately are oversaturated to be able to
get whatever they want whenever they want it, have self
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discipline to all of a sudden be like, well, if
you want me, then you're gonna have to get your
act together. Because you think about it, it's the opposite, right,
it's and it's something that some women struggle with, which
is like, hey, if I'm going to get in a
relationship with you and I'm going to partner with you,
you know I'm gonna we're gonna have to have some
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very clear guidelines and rules, such as some women make
the decision that I'm saving myself for marriage, and I
think that's awesome, by the way. I think it's honorable.
I think it's phenomenal, and so that could be difficult
for some people, but I think the church is the
best place. And pastors' wives, I'm telling you it's the secret. God,
bless you, thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
My name is Catherine. I'm from Minnesota. I go to
a small Christian school, and so I was wondering what
would your advice be because a lot of my friends
share Christian values, biblical values for things like abortion, but
they're not really interested or as passionate maybe as I am,
because they don't want to get into the divisiveness of it,
kind of coming from the idea that Jesus is first,
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which I can't disagree with because that is for my life.
But how can I also encourage them that this is
how we can fight for spreading the truth of the
Gospel as well.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's a phenomenal question. So we have TPUSA Faith that
we launched last year to help answer this question. All right,
So let me kind of just add some context of this.
We have people of all different faiths and backgrounds here,
and people have no faith, and you're all welcome here
at Turning Point USA. We're all in the fight for liberty.
I'm very open about my faith. It's the most important
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thing in my life. I gave my life to Christ
in fifth grade and it's the greatest thing a human
being can do. So that's the most important thing, number one.
So my life's work is involved in the second most
important thing, which is to make sure you could do
the most the first thing, to make sure you could
have church, to make sure that you can have religious conscious,
to make sure you can live in a free society
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where you're able to worship your creator and be able
to spread the Gospel. And so this is the tension point,
which is some Christians will say that nowhere in the
Bible are their examples of people trying to influence government
or trying to influence secular government for God's purpose. Well,
they're going to have to explain Esther, Mordecai and Neemiah, Jeremiah, Daniel,
and Joseph. But that's a separate issue, because all throughout
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the scriptures there are heroes that we elevate of God's
chosen people trying to influence secular government. And then also,
I would encourage you to kind of present to them
Jeremiah twenty ninety seven. People talk a lot about Jeremi
twenty nine eleven, but Jeremi twenty nine seven is a
verse where it says, demand the welfare for the nation
that you are in, because your welfare is tied to
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your nation's welfare. That's the Lord's speaking, That is God
saying that you should care about your country, that you
should care about your nation. So the question then is, well,
how should I care about it as a Christian because
it just seems so unclear. Well, let's kind of I
think there's pretty three easy issues that Christians can all
agree on. The church is a central and it should
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never be shut down or locked down again by any
government or bureaucrat. Number two, life begins at conception and
every single life is worthy of protection. And number three,
God created man and God created woman, and we're not
overthinking it. It's that simple right. So hopefully they'll be
able to agree on part of it. But you mentioned
an interesting and interesting thing, which is they do not
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want to engage in the divisiveness well they should lead.
They should read parts of Luke where Jesus said I
did not come to unite, but I came to divide,
and I'm going to turn father against son, and I'm
going to turn brother against brother. Look, here's the harsh
part of the gospel that people don't always want to
talk about. And that's right. I said harsh, which is
that if you believe in the gospel, you also believe
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in damnation and you believe in truth. We want we
want the truth for all people. But if somehow there's
been this kind of kind of whitewashing of somehow, I
can't say anything that's going to offend anybody. Well, you
know if you kind of dive deeper into like, hey,
if you don't accept your life as Christ, it's not
going to work out very well for you in eternity.
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What we really have to challenge your friends with, which
is how exactly is the gospel not divisive? It's so
clear it says, I mean, whether it be the treatment
of children or not accepting Jesus as the Lord and Savior,
it's you know, for God so loved the world, for
his set is one and only begotten son, for what
it does not believe in him, shall not perish. That's
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pretty harsh, the perishing in the verse that many of
us identify as the most hopeful verse in the Bible.
But the final thing I'll say is, this is God's
heart for his children, both in an earthly way and
eternal way, is for us to live in liberty and
not to live under tyranny. It is a story of Exodus,
It's a story of Jesus. The truth will set us free,
and I believe it's also our mission here, part of
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our mission to make sure that we do not live
under dictatorship, authoritarianism, or centralized control. God wants us to
live free. Thank you.
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Hi. My name is is Sally.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
I'm from Kadie, Texas, and I want to say God
bless America.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Let's make America great again, and thank you for being here. Awesome,
thank you. Do you have a question now? Okay? All right,
all right, we'll take two more. If someone wants to
get in line really quick, we okay, there you go.
That's it. The taker has come.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Okay, Hi, I'm Elise. I'm from San Antonio, Texas. I
am also a lifelong homeschooler, and I was wondering what
advice would you give to someone who is still figuring
out what they would like to do career wise, and
I mean, like a business who has so many passions
and interests. Would you recommend a micro approach where you
choose something that you know makes money and you have
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time to present interests, or start a business that has
something to do with your passion and monetize that somehow.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I might give you a piece of advice you haven't heard.
What's your skill? What are you good at?
Speaker 9 (33:10):
I'm journalism, writing, photography, music, kind of that.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Which of your skills do you also have a passion
for all of them? Okay? Good, So my passion is
not directly correlated with my skill. If it was up
to me, I would just do college football all day long, NonStop.
And that's it. Not exactly my skill, Okay, I mean
I know a little. I know enough to be dangerous
about it. But I found something I was good at
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communications speaking, and also something I had a passion for.
So the intersection of your passion and skill is going
to be your purpose. And that's something where because sometimes
you have to realize your passion is not something you're
very good at. People say, follow your passion, terrible advice,
awful advice, Follow your passion that you actually are above
average at as well. Right, that's the advice I would
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give to you. So this is why I'm not a
fan of call is because when you're eighteen, nineteen, and twenty,
that's when you should be going to ask people that
are good at what they're doing and figuring out if
it's actually something you're passionate about, because you might think
you're passionate about it because you took a journalism one
on one course and you're like, man, this is terrible. Good.
If you find out what you don't want to do
when you're eighteen, you've saved all that time of not
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going and borrowing money and taking all those classes. Finding
out what you don't want to do is really really
powerful and great. So and I'll just reinforce that if
you do not know what you want to do with
your life, find something you're good at and something that
you're passionate about, and then find somebody who's already established
in that career and go look at them in the
eyes and say, can I work for you for free?
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I will clean the floors, I will bring you coffee,
and guess what. They will be so blown away because
of the lack of hunger and drive in the world.
They'll be like, yeah, uh sure, And guess what after
six months, if you really apply yourself and you show
up early, you will be further ahead in that particular
company ninety nine percent of the time than the kids
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that just graduated from UT and TI Tech ninety nine
percent of the time. Because here's what's gonna happen. Month four, month, five, month,
six Someone's gonna not show up to work and an
opening will happen. They'd be like, hey, you've been doing
a good job. Can you fill in for a second,
and that will be your time. Then all of a sudden,
step up and they're like, all right, I could just
hire you. And now this is a step right, that's
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a leap of faith, because, as we talked about, right,
some parents say got to have the piece of paper
to do that. I'm an employer, right. We employ four
hundred plus people at Turning Point, USA, The piece of
paper means nothing to me. I care about your character,
your drive, and your integrity, and I think that's what
employer is going to be looking more and more for.
Thank you, all right. Last question.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
Hi, I'm Reagan. I'm from Colorado Springs, and I was
just wondering, as like a young adult, a teenager, how
do I assert myself into the political world and kind
of like get into it more, I guess, and become
a character in it.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
So start a Turning Point USA chapter number one, number two.
Go to the beautiful church in Colorado Springs. They do
an amazing job. Is it fervent or brave? Fervid church?
They're in Colorado Springs. They'd love to talk to you
in the back of the room. They're an amazing church.
Spoke there, we had a packed event. But here's the thing. Look,
and it's kind of a recurring theme that I'm going
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to kind of put forward at Turning Point USA. There's
a multitude of opportunities to get engaged, get involved, start
a chapter, you become a leader all these amazing things.
But also just speaking out and learning how to articulate
your beliefs at a younger age is really important. Like
the lunch table conversations or the conversations with your friends,
because you're going to hear arguments that you might not
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have heard. Here's the cool thing though, at Turning Point
USA and our library of podcasts and videos, there is
not an argument from the left that we have not
heard that we can't help you with. And as you
kind of grow and you're like, wow, that's an interesting argument.
I want to be you will grow stronger, you'll grow wiser,
and guess what the other side, as time moves on,
they don't have those kinds. They do not sharpen their
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arguments as they get older. They just repeat the problem
over and over again, where so many of you like,
as you start to dive deep, you're like, oh, yeah,
I know how to respond to that, or I know
how to respond to this, and you become a better
activist and a better communicator. But the younger you get
involved in my personal opinion, the better. And it's a
leap of faith. But there's a great community that would
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love to support you in Colorado Springs and you start
that Turning Point chapter will change your life. So I'm sorry,
we got to I'm sorry. Thank you, We're good, thank
you all right, close this and then we have a
very special speaker coming up, so we'll close out the
conference in a minute. Just reminder sas Student Action Summit. Okay,
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I'll make sure you guys register for that. It's going
to be incredible. Rond De Santis, President Trump, so many
other people, And I just want to thank all of
you the last couple of days that have gone outside
your comfort zone to say hello to people and introduce
yourself to people that did not come here, came here
and didn't know anybody, So thank you for doing that. Amazing.
The amount of testimonials that are just pouring in is
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All Right, I think it's gonna be the best use
of our time if we just go straight into questions
here and so we can start lining up for that.
But first I have an announcement that we want to
make here. So how many people here this is your
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first Turning Point USA event? Raise your hand. That is awesome.
So we want you to continue to grow with us
and to come to more Turning Point USA events because
I know a lot of you are probably like, wait
a second, this is over in like an hour. And
by the way, how many people here have met some
new friends that you're going to stay in touch with.
How awesome is that? And so coming up in just
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a couple of weeks, we have our Student Action Summit
in Tampa, Florida, and yes it's boys and girls together.
We have sponsored by Turning Point Action President Donald Trump
who will be speaking, Ron DeSantis will be speaking, Kaylie
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mc and any, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Greg Guttfeld, Donald Trump, Junior,
cat Temp, Jesse Waters, and so many more. So applications
are wide open everybody, and you've got to get your
spot before it runs out. So here's what we're gonna
do for just y WLS attendees. We are going to
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waive the registration fee for the next fifty people. Okay,
that confirm your registration. Okay, so the next fifty people
that also at YWS and hopefully you're the first one
of the first fifty okay. And so it's very similar
kind of setup, much bigger room, I add, and where
else will you be able to And by the way,
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there's some other huge speakers that have yet to be announced.
We're working on some pretty pretty big things. And so
if you want to get more training, if you want
to come to a different type of event this summer,
bring your friends, maybe road trip because flights are so expensive.
So but Students Action Summit, you will be getting a
email from us. All you have to do is confirm
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your registration. But we're going to wave the registration fee
for the first fifty people here at YWS that confirm
your spots. It's a pretty awesome deal. Okay, let's get
to some questions.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Hi, I'm Liberty. I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and I was
wondering how do you stay like motivated, like getting into
politics and all that stuff. How do you keep yourself
motivated to learn more and keep researching, researching.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's a great question. Your nam is literally liberty. That's awesome,
that's amazing. So Turning Point USA celebrates ten years tomorrow,
amazing and our ten year anniversary. Look, you have to
have drive, and you have to be you have to
be somebody that wants it really bad, and I think
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a lot of you do. But it's not for everybody.
If you get involved in politics, you have to be
willing to lose all your friends. You have to be
willing to be bullied, harassed, called awful names, probably publicly doxed,
and be unfairly attacked for a long period of time. However,
the good part about getting involved in this fight is
that totally worth it is that you're actually doing something meaningful,
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not just rearranging numbers at some accounting firm. That you're
actually defending the greatest nation ever to exist in the
history of the world. And so the best way to,
let's say, continue the drive is to be able to
answer the why. And if you can't answer the why,
then you shouldn't get involved in this. And the why
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is the most important question, which is I want my
kids to live in a free country. And when you
look at things intergenerationally, all of a sudden, you stop
being the most important person in the world and you
start fighting for future generations that they might also enjoy
this nation. And so look, you have to know why
you're getting involved in it. And you brought up a
good point, which is, you know, one of the things
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I want to encourage everybody in this room to do
is take learning very seriously. You know, for about an
hour to an hour and a half every single day,
i turn my phone on airplane mode and I'm listening
to a book, reading a book, listening to something. Taking
Hillsdale online course, by the way, which all of you
could do. Charlie for Hillsdale dot com. All their online
courses are amazing and we partner with Hillsdale College. I've
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taken fifteen of them. There's thirty of them, and they're tough.
It's work, but it's fulfilling. You'll learn everything about from
economics to the Constitution of Declaration to American history. But
that's the kind of drive that I think will make
you be a differentiating factor. And I'll just say this,
that drive is diminishing after generation Generation Z is not
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as driven even as some people in millennials. And what
do I mean by that? It's just being willing to
show up early and stay late and not act as
if there's anything special because you worked extra hours. So
that's the great differentiator. But you got to be able
to answer the why great question? Thank you. Hi.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
My name is Amy Hardy and I'm a mom with
my daughter.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
My question is about college. So my husband and I
differ on this. I feel like she needs to go.
She is in school.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
She was at Point Low University that lasted one semester
and a big chunk of change pulled her out because
they were not doing turning. Point USA would not honor
the chapter. So the struggle now is she pulled back.
She's at the community college for a short time until
she can transfer in.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
The problem is.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
How do we take a stand for not vaccinated. I
don't want to be I'm not taking the job. I
don't want my kids to take the job, but I do.
My husband says, screw it, we're done with school.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
She doesn't need school. She's a go getter. She can
do it all day long on her own. I'm kind
of like she needs an education.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
But there's a struggle here because young people can't go
to school if they give into the job.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Or the boosters or all of that. So what are
we doing as parents to great question support? Can I
ask you a question, So, why do you think she
needs to go to college? Well?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
She probably Okay, let me just say this. My husband
went to college for three days and when he found
out they didn't take role, He's like, I'm out of here.
He's a self made millionaire, he's worked his ass off
his whole life. He had the exact same She's just
like that.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So I get it.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I guess sometimes I just think, and I might get
booed here, but I do think that women are overlooked
because we don't have enough credentials. We haven't gotten up
to this area in the workforce, so we are overlooked.
So my thing to her is like, girl, get out
there and get as many things as you can under
your belt and with you as a tool and a
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strategy so.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That you go you can go out. And that's actually
a really to do. That's the best answer I've ever
That's the best answer. I totally disagree, but that's actually
the best answer I've ever heard. I want to not
because your intent is right, which is that it's a
tough world and I want my child to be able
to at least have the credentials right, And you answered
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it correctly, which is you didn't say that college is
going to make her smarter or wiser. It was just
gonna be, like, you know, we need the boxes checked.
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Speaker 1 (10:07):
So, look, I never tell people what to do in
their own personal decisions because there's multiple millions of factors
of micro decisions that I'm not able to kind of
see into. But I'll just kind of give you some
kind of general wisdom, which is outside of a couple
colleges in America. I think college is a colossal waste
of time. I really do. And so now let me
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let me clarify. If you if you want to be
an engineer, a you know, a lawyer, or a doctor,
then I think there's a path for that. But a
vast majority of people that go to college go to
study the humanities or they go for a communications degree
and all that. I'm not trying to insult you if
you're studying those things. By the way, Okay, you are
just told to go get a piece of paper and
borrow a bunch of money. Don't have to study things
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that don't matter, to find jobs that don't exist, right,
And a cycle continues, and so it college has this
impression by upper middle class society kind of being this
right of passage and they're going to find themselves, and
that gonna happen with some people, for sure. I think
some people definitely grow in college. I will say that
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young women generally get a lot more out of college
than young men, I think, And that's just a general rule.
So your gut instinct in that way isn't totally wrong.
But she's at the Young Women's leadership someone here, so
she's probably exempt from this. However, parents need to hear this.
When you send your child to college, you're going to
play Russian roulette with their values. And I hear this
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every single day from parents. Again, we have over one
hundred thousand donors at Turning Point, USA, and we get
thousands of letters every single month. Charlie, I sent my
kid to this college, and our relationship has never been
the same. They no longer have faith, they hate the country,
and I don't know what happened to them, and I
paid for it, and so that I know that's probably
not a fear for you. But the question is what
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do you think you're going to get out of it? Right?
If you admit it's just kind of a credential and
I need to get that piece of pay, then that's
the proper way to go into it, right with kind
of and know that they're going to try to indoctrinate
you at every corner. But let me also say this,
though you say your daughter's a go getter and has
drive college, has a tendency and has a track record
of destroying that. It has a tendency to actually make
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you think less of your entrepreneurial instincts, has a tendency
to make you just think, go get a corporate job.
And because now you've got to pay off your you know,
your student loan debt. We need more entrepreneurs in our country.
We need more people to take risks. And I always
laugh when people say, and I mean no offense by this,
so please people say, I'm studying entrepreneurship. You don't study entrepreneurship.
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You do entrepreneurship. Okay, you go take the risk you
get in the marketplace. And so look, everybody's different. For me,
college wasn't the right choice. I took a gap year.
It's been a gap decade now, and I understand that
upper middle class society. What I just talked about is
kind of a thought crime. Right. But I'll say one
last thing to parents, and I'll leave it at this, right,
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which is is it about your child's future or is
it about yours? Your fear that you might have to
turn to your neighbors or your relatives and say Johnny
isn't going to college. That's tough because deep down, parents
talk a good game. They're like, yeah, you know, we
need more welders, we need more electricians, we need more HVAC,
we need more and everyone agrees. Right, but my kid's
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not going to work construction. My kid's going to be
an air conditioned office with a degree, looking at a
screen all day long. So it's something to think about
because a vast majority of young people, especially young men,
when asked the question, they believe they're getting nothing out
of their college degree. It's a waste the time, and
that they can't wait to get out of it. It's
a really expensive track and trajectory that we're on. By
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the way, the national graduation rate is fifty nine percent.
How many of you know someone that dropped out of college?
Raise your hand. Every hand goes up. If you had
a forty one percent chance of getting food poisoning from
a restaurant, they'd be closed down and they'd all be
indicted for mass poisoning. And yet forty one percent, forty
one percent of kids that go to drop out. Maybe
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we have too many kids going in the first place.
Thank you for your question.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Hi, Charlie, My name's Havana, and my question is you
have often talked about monopolies are bad. But if you
took all government involvement out of monopolies, such as tax
corruption or law supporting big tech, would there still would
monopolies still be bad? And if so, explain in detail why.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
That's a great question. It's a very thoughtful question. So
let's talk first why are monopolies bad. So one of
the principles of the Constitution that we love is this
idea of separation of powers, and so we believe that
not one person, one organization should be able to have
unchecked power over another, which is where we get the
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principle of checks and balances and so and its intent.
The United States Constitution was written to say that absolute
power corrupts absolutely is Lord Acton would say so, Therefore,
we believe that there should always be checks on that
kind of a power. Right. So then you bring it
to kind of what you're talking about is private company monopolies,
which is what is the check and balance on a
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private company? Well, that's competition and market forces usually. And
so what's happened though, and this is something where a
lot of conservatives, in my personal opinion, we need to
kind of think a little bit more openly about things,
is what happens when Google becomes stronger than your government?
What happens when Google becomes its own monopoly? Because we
(15:35):
should have the premise right of separation of powers and
checks and balances. So how do we check Google? What
we start a competitor is what we're always told, right
like parlor, and then they eliminate Parlor in one night
when Amazon, Google and Apple decided it should no longer exist. Now,
your question was very specific, which is if we got
(15:55):
rid of the cronyism and the tax loopholes and all
of this would still exist, We don't know. That's that's
I think a nice thought exercise for a college economics course,
but it's not rooted in anything that we're even close
to grasping in reality right now. So we can guess,
we could say, maybe, we could say it might. But
here's what I do know right now is that we
(16:17):
as conservatives must be honest that our liberty granted by
God is under attack by both the government and private
companies both and that's something that we have to wrestle with,
right Because I'll let you have a follow up in
a second, which is we as conservatives always believe that
the market will then have a check on these private companies.
(16:38):
But what happens when those private companies start to work
in collusion with one another? Right when Google starts to
look out for Apple's best interests, that look out for
facebook best interests against your best interest, to silence our
voice and then get our kids addicted to screens at
age of seven where they do nothing but stare at
Instagram and TikTok feeds all day long, and we're told
that somehow this is a better thing. That's the question
(17:00):
that conservatives need to answer. So my general, my general,
let's say, argument for this is I want to try
to make market forces to solve problems that government created.
But when it comes to the Silicon Valley companies in particular,
and you do not have a check on power, I
believe that's a moral question.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Quick follow up, Yeah, well, I guess it's also like
people you talk about this and I don't want to
say like I'm for monopolies.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
But at the same time, with capitalism, like how far
should we.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Be regulating that?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Because I'm in my head, I'm thinking, well, no, we
shouldn't be regulating the market. The government shouldn't be involved.
But then we have these big monopolies. I mean, there's
there's not a really clear line, and you might not
have an answer, but I guess that's where I've been
thinking of.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah, that's a great question. So where do you draw
the line. There's a great word that comes from a
great word which means basically common sense, called prudence. Right,
So I think we can all agree that if you
have one hundred and fifty million active users in America,
you probably should be treated a little bit differently than
the local bakery or the local coffee shop, right, I mean,
that's just prudence, right, You look at that, You're like, Okay,
(18:07):
wait a second. I understand market principles, but when all
of a sudden, the business model of Instagram is to
try to hire a bunch of neuroscientists to get eight
year olds addicted to staring at screens all day long,
I'm not going to all of a sudden be like, well,
that's the market. I'm like, actually, no, that's no different
than pushing opioids on kids in a like a lesser extent.
And so that's where we have to kind of we
(18:27):
have to balance the beauty of the market and the
ability to improve people's lives with also the human cost.
So what the best word is prudence? How do you
come across a prudent decision, dialogue, discussion, and also understanding
what the end goal is. The end goal is not
profit for profit's sake. This is where libertarians disagree with me.
The end goal is human flourishing and the pursuit of
(18:48):
virtue and people to live happy in fate filled lives.
That's the end goal. And so as markets allow us
to achieve that goal, I'm all for it. When all
of a sudden, these massive companies start to act, I
think in ways that are a little more let's say, reckless,
then we have to start to consider other options. Wonderful question.
Thank you appreciate it.
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Hi. My name is Heliah.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I was fortunate enough to be a homeschool student all
the way through high school. So I just graduated high
school and I'll be going off to college this fall
to study nursing. And I was just wondering, so, for
students that haven't exactly faced adversity before, what advice would
you give for if I want to be part of
(20:50):
like a Students for Life club or like a Turning
Point USA chapter, what advice would you give for students
that haven't handled that before.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
That's a great question, So I think too high. I
leave all of you to lie to you. Your life
is going to be temporarily miserable. It will every high
school friend you thought that was close to you, not every,
but most will start sending you nasty messages. How many
of you experienced this as soon as you come out
as a conservative? You of course, and you just got
to be ready for it, and you got to make
that decision. Right, I'm not going to give any kind
(21:18):
of false impressions or kind of but here's the cool
thing is that in life you want to be the
person that grows tougher as the circumstance stances grow more difficult,
not that you run away from tough situations. So the
cool thing is God made us as human beings, as
creatures that adapt, and we adapt really well, You're going
to get stronger through that, and it'll be tough, and
(21:40):
you'll be texting your friends that don't want to talk
to you anymore, like why are you doing this? And
I don't understand, and then you're gonna make new friends
and then all of a sudden trial and tribulation isn't
going to really phase you because guess what, that's not
going to be the last kind of chapter of adversity
you're going to face as a human being. And this
is one of the things. This is why the left
is so fragile. This is why we are going to
(22:02):
beat the Left, is because they run away from these
sort of difficulties. They're like, you're making me unsafe, like
life is actually unsafe, Like get tougher and stop trying
to make the world adjusts to your sort of mental paranoia.
Like the world is full of risks. Driving here is
a risk, living is a risk. You cannot be happy
if you are afraid of risk all the time. It's
(22:25):
this mass neurosis that has kind of just spread across
our land. So lean in if that's what you want
for your life, but be ready that you might lose
job opportunities, internships. People will look at you differently. They're
gonna try to tar and feather you. You're gonna have
people try to say that, oh, yeah, you're making a mistake.
You can look around and know that you're not alone,
but you're gonna be tougher because of it. And here's
(22:47):
the other good news. You have a big organization like
Turning Point USA that has your back. That's gonna make
it easy for you to do that. Okay, God bless you.
Speaker 8 (22:58):
Hi, my name's Maddie and I'm from Arkansas and I'm
just wondering what your advice is to women in their
mid twenties to early thirties who have desired to get
married and have children early on, but they're having a
hard time meeting a man to settle down with who
will be a leader and initiator.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Of the relationship. Great question. Okay, So the best place
to meet a man is this is the equation. Okay,
So go find a Bible believing church. This is how
you do it. Okay, get to know the pastor's wife
and tell her that you want to find a husband,
and it will happen. I'm not kidding her. I'm telling you.
(23:34):
Pastor's wives are always setting people. They know the whole
roster of men. They're always looking. It's a gifting. I'm
telling you pastor's wives, they just get it. I've seen
more marriages happen there. But it's more than just kind
of looking at the church as a dating tool, which
is helpful obviously. But get involved in the church, right
is volunteer, get involved in in Bible ministries or small
(23:58):
group ministries as I mean, that's a great place because
at least there's some form of shared values. And then
this is the other thing, which is tell people you're
actively looking for somebody. I know that, and don't be desperate,
but be like, look, I've kind of been striking out
the last couple of years. You know, if you know
anyone that'd be great, And then be open minded and
willing for what God might have in store for you.
(24:18):
And but it's not going to happen just by kind
of sitting at home and be like he's going to
crash your the window at any moment. Maybe probably not right,
And so you got to put yourself in kind of
those environments where that is going to be fostered and
that is going to happen, and be active, right, make
yourself presentable and present yourself to the world in a
(24:40):
way where at any moment you could meet your future partner. Right.
And so then I'll kind of go back to the
other advice I gave earlier, which is hold yourself to
a high standard. Here's the thing is that in a
world where men unfortunately are oversaturated to be able to
get whatever they want whenever they want it, have self
(25:00):
discipline to all of a sudden be like, well, if
you want me, then you're gonna have to get your
act together. Because you think about it, it's the opposite, right,
it's and it's something that some women struggle with, which
is like, hey, if I'm going to get in a
relationship with you and I'm going to partner with you,
you know I'm gonna we're gonna have to have some
(25:22):
very clear guidelines and rules, such as some women make
the decision that I'm saving myself for marriage, and I
think that's awesome, by the way. I think it's honorable.
I think it's phenomenal, and so that could be difficult
for some people, but I think the church is the
best place. And pastors' wives, I'm telling you it's the secret. God,
bless you, thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
My name is Catherine. I'm from Minnesota. I go to
a small Christian school, and so I was wondering what
would your advice be because a lot of my friends
share Christian values, biblical values for things like abortion, but
they're not really interested or as passionate maybe as I am,
because they don't want to get into the divisiveness of it,
kind of coming from the idea that Jesus is first,
(26:06):
which I can't disagree with because that is for my life.
But how can I also encourage them that this is
how we can fight for spreading the truth of the
Gospel as well.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It's a phenomenal question. So we have TPUSA Faith that
we launched last year to help answer this question. All right,
So let me kind of just add some context of this.
We have people of all different faiths and backgrounds here,
and people have no faith, and you're all welcome here
at Turning Point USA. We're all in the fight for liberty.
I'm very open about my faith. It's the most important
(26:37):
thing in my life. I gave my life to Christ
in fifth grade and it's the greatest thing a human
being can do. So that's the most important thing, number one.
So my life's work is involved in the second most
important thing, which is to make sure you could do
the most the first thing, to make sure you could
have church, to make sure that you can have religious conscious,
to make sure you can live in a free society
(26:57):
where you're able to worship your creator and be able
to spread the Gospel. And so this is the tension point,
which is some Christians will say that nowhere in the
Bible are their examples of people trying to influence government
or trying to influence secular government for God's purpose. Well,
they're going to have to explain Esther, Mordecai and Neemiah, Jeremiah, Daniel,
and Joseph. But that's a separate issue, because all throughout
(27:19):
the scriptures there are heroes that we elevate of God's
chosen people trying to influence secular government. And then also,
I would encourage you to kind of present to them
Jeremiah twenty ninety seven. People talk a lot about Jeremi
twenty nine eleven, but Jeremi twenty nine seven is a
verse where it says, demand the welfare for the nation
that you are in, because your welfare is tied to
(27:40):
your nation's welfare. That's the Lord's speaking, That is God
saying that you should care about your country, that you
should care about your nation. So the question then is, well,
how should I care about it as a Christian because
it just seems so unclear. Well, let's kind of I
think there's pretty three easy issues that Christians can all
agree on. The church is a central and it should
(28:00):
never be shut down or locked down again by any
government or bureaucrat. Number two, life begins at conception and
every single life is worthy of protection. And number three,
God created man and God created woman, and we're not
overthinking it. It's that simple right. So hopefully they'll be
able to agree on part of it. But you mentioned
an interesting and interesting thing, which is they do not
(28:22):
want to engage in the divisiveness well they should lead.
They should read parts of Luke where Jesus said I
did not come to unite, but I came to divide,
and I'm going to turn father against son, and I'm
going to turn brother against brother. Look, here's the harsh
part of the gospel that people don't always want to
talk about. And that's right. I said harsh, which is
that if you believe in the gospel, you also believe
(28:42):
in damnation and you believe in truth. We want we
want the truth for all people. But if somehow there's
been this kind of kind of whitewashing of somehow, I
can't say anything that's going to offend anybody. Well, you
know if you kind of dive deeper into like, hey,
if you don't accept your life as Christ, it's not
going to work out very well for you in eternity.
(29:04):
What we really have to challenge your friends with, which
is how exactly is the gospel not divisive? It's so
clear it says, I mean, whether it be the treatment
of children or not accepting Jesus as the Lord and Savior,
it's you know, for God so loved the world, for
his set is one and only begotten son, for what
it does not believe in him, shall not perish. That's
(29:25):
pretty harsh, the perishing in the verse that many of
us identify as the most hopeful verse in the Bible.
But the final thing I'll say is, this is God's
heart for his children, both in an earthly way and
eternal way, is for us to live in liberty and
not to live under tyranny. It is a story of Exodus,
It's a story of Jesus. The truth will set us free,
and I believe it's also our mission here, part of
(29:46):
our mission to make sure that we do not live
under dictatorship, authoritarianism, or centralized control. God wants us to
live free. Thank you.
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Hi. My name is is Sally.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
I'm from Kadie, Texas, and I want to say God
bless America.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Let's make America great again, and thank you for being here. Awesome,
thank you. Do you have a question now? Okay? All right,
all right, we'll take two more. If someone wants to
get in line really quick, we okay, there you go.
That's it. The taker has come.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Okay, Hi, I'm Elise. I'm from San Antonio, Texas. I
am also a lifelong homeschooler, and I was wondering what
advice would you give to someone who is still figuring
out what they would like to do career wise, and
I mean, like a business who has so many passions
and interests. Would you recommend a micro approach where you
choose something that you know makes money and you have
(32:59):
time to present interests, or start a business that has
something to do with your passion and monetize that somehow.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I might give you a piece of advice you haven't heard.
What's your skill? What are you good at?
Speaker 9 (33:10):
I'm journalism, writing, photography, music, kind of that.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Which of your skills do you also have a passion
for all of them? Okay? Good, So my passion is
not directly correlated with my skill. If it was up
to me, I would just do college football all day long, NonStop.
And that's it. Not exactly my skill, Okay, I mean
I know a little. I know enough to be dangerous
about it. But I found something I was good at
(33:35):
communications speaking, and also something I had a passion for.
So the intersection of your passion and skill is going
to be your purpose. And that's something where because sometimes
you have to realize your passion is not something you're
very good at. People say, follow your passion, terrible advice,
awful advice, Follow your passion that you actually are above
average at as well. Right, that's the advice I would
(33:57):
give to you. So this is why I'm not a
fan of call is because when you're eighteen, nineteen, and twenty,
that's when you should be going to ask people that
are good at what they're doing and figuring out if
it's actually something you're passionate about, because you might think
you're passionate about it because you took a journalism one
on one course and you're like, man, this is terrible. Good.
If you find out what you don't want to do
when you're eighteen, you've saved all that time of not
(34:18):
going and borrowing money and taking all those classes. Finding
out what you don't want to do is really really
powerful and great. So and I'll just reinforce that if
you do not know what you want to do with
your life, find something you're good at and something that
you're passionate about, and then find somebody who's already established
in that career and go look at them in the
eyes and say, can I work for you for free?
(34:38):
I will clean the floors, I will bring you coffee,
and guess what. They will be so blown away because
of the lack of hunger and drive in the world.
They'll be like, yeah, uh sure, And guess what after
six months, if you really apply yourself and you show
up early, you will be further ahead in that particular
company ninety nine percent of the time than the kids
(34:58):
that just graduated from UT and TI Tech ninety nine
percent of the time. Because here's what's gonna happen. Month four, month, five, month,
six Someone's gonna not show up to work and an
opening will happen. They'd be like, hey, you've been doing
a good job. Can you fill in for a second,
and that will be your time. Then all of a sudden,
step up and they're like, all right, I could just
hire you. And now this is a step right, that's
(35:19):
a leap of faith, because, as we talked about, right,
some parents say got to have the piece of paper
to do that. I'm an employer, right. We employ four
hundred plus people at Turning Point, USA, The piece of
paper means nothing to me. I care about your character,
your drive, and your integrity, and I think that's what
employer is going to be looking more and more for.
Thank you, all right. Last question.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
Hi, I'm Reagan. I'm from Colorado Springs, and I was
just wondering, as like a young adult, a teenager, how
do I assert myself into the political world and kind
of like get into it more, I guess, and become
a character in it.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
So start a Turning Point USA chapter number one, number two.
Go to the beautiful church in Colorado Springs. They do
an amazing job. Is it fervent or brave? Fervid church?
They're in Colorado Springs. They'd love to talk to you
in the back of the room. They're an amazing church.
Spoke there, we had a packed event. But here's the thing. Look,
and it's kind of a recurring theme that I'm going
(36:16):
to kind of put forward at Turning Point USA. There's
a multitude of opportunities to get engaged, get involved, start
a chapter, you become a leader all these amazing things.
But also just speaking out and learning how to articulate
your beliefs at a younger age is really important. Like
the lunch table conversations or the conversations with your friends,
because you're going to hear arguments that you might not
(36:37):
have heard. Here's the cool thing though, at Turning Point
USA and our library of podcasts and videos, there is
not an argument from the left that we have not
heard that we can't help you with. And as you
kind of grow and you're like, wow, that's an interesting argument.
I want to be you will grow stronger, you'll grow wiser,
and guess what the other side, as time moves on,
they don't have those kinds. They do not sharpen their
(36:59):
arguments as they get older. They just repeat the problem
over and over again, where so many of you like,
as you start to dive deep, you're like, oh, yeah,
I know how to respond to that, or I know
how to respond to this, and you become a better
activist and a better communicator. But the younger you get
involved in my personal opinion, the better. And it's a
leap of faith. But there's a great community that would
(37:20):
love to support you in Colorado Springs and you start
that Turning Point chapter will change your life. So I'm sorry,
we got to I'm sorry. Thank you, We're good, thank
you all right, close this and then we have a
very special speaker coming up, so we'll close out the
conference in a minute. Just reminder sas Student Action Summit. Okay,
(37:42):
I'll make sure you guys register for that. It's going
to be incredible. Rond De Santis, President Trump, so many
other people, And I just want to thank all of
you the last couple of days that have gone outside
your comfort zone to say hello to people and introduce
yourself to people that did not come here, came here
and didn't know anybody, So thank you for doing that. Amazing.
The amount of testimonials that are just pouring in is
(38:04):
just awesome. And once this general session is over, please
make sure you support our sponsors one last time. Go
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allow that to happen and I'll be back in a
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