WEBVTT - We Will NEVER Surrender 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:04.620 My name is Charlie Kirk. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.490 I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country 0:00:08.910 --> 0:00:12.530 fighting for the future of our republic. My call is 0:00:12.570 --> 0:00:15.350 to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most 0:00:15.430 --> 0:00:18.710 important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going 0:00:18.730 --> 0:00:21.329 to end up miserable. But if the most important thing 0:00:21.390 --> 0:00:24.489 is doing good, you will end up purposeful. 0:00:24.730 --> 0:00:26.050 College is a scam, everybody. 0:00:26.070 --> 0:00:27.770 You got to stop sending your kids to college. 0:00:27.860 --> 0:00:28.860 You should get married as. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.080 Young as possible and have as many kids as possible. 0:00:31.300 --> 0:00:33.900 Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start 0:00:33.940 --> 0:00:36.000 a Turning Point USA high school chapter. 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That 0:01:13.250 --> 0:01:14.770 is noblegoldinvestments.com. 0:01:17.730 --> 0:01:18.110 All right. 0:01:18.150 --> 0:01:22.420 Welcome back, everybody. It's Monday, September 14th. here at the 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.140 Y Refi Studios in Phoenix, Arizona. Honored to be with 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:29.100 you all as always. We have Blake Neff. 0:01:29.140 --> 0:01:29.380 Mr. 0:01:29.420 --> 0:01:33.750 Blake is in an undisclosed location, unless he chooses to 0:01:33.790 --> 0:01:34.290 disclose it. 0:01:34.450 --> 0:01:37.030 It's South Dakota. 0:01:37.130 --> 0:01:39.710 He's a Sioux Falls guy. He's very proud of that. 0:01:39.990 --> 0:01:42.510 And why shouldn't he be? It's a beautiful place. Great 0:01:42.530 --> 0:01:45.460 American patriots. By the way, The Dakotas have one of 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.700 the highest birth rates in the country, and you can 0:01:48.770 --> 0:01:50.670 tell if a nation or if a people or a 0:01:50.690 --> 0:01:54.809 community believe in themselves if they are procreating. It's a very, 0:01:54.950 --> 0:01:58.210 very clear sign. People believe in themselves if they want 0:01:58.230 --> 0:02:00.290 to have babies and bring them into this world. So 0:02:00.330 --> 0:02:03.730 good for the Dakotas. Blake, we all woke up on 0:02:03.830 --> 0:02:06.860 Sunday morning with a terrible news story that we were 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:08.920 forced to confront. I was on my way to church. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:10.900 I was taking the kids out for a big day 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.240 with some other kids. And in the midst of that, 0:02:14.730 --> 0:02:18.410 Guess what? We find out that on Saturday evening, late 0:02:18.430 --> 0:02:21.810 at night, in the dead of night, vandals, it looks 0:02:21.830 --> 0:02:26.070 like a group of them, swarmed Charlie's statue that was 0:02:26.310 --> 0:02:31.579 just unveiled and they vandalized it. And they obviously they 0:02:31.660 --> 0:02:36.959 mocked the manner in which Charlie was killed. They spray 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.080 painted red, which we all know the color of red, 0:02:39.100 --> 0:02:42.440 what that was meant to signify. And then they also 0:02:43.020 --> 0:02:46.710 vandalized the nearby sign. And they crossed out Charlie's face 0:02:46.770 --> 0:02:50.450 again and noticeably the name of Jesus. Now some people 0:02:50.490 --> 0:02:52.829 say that they wrote Satan over that. I'm not sure 0:02:52.870 --> 0:02:56.590 if I can see that or not. But nevertheless, it 0:02:56.700 --> 0:03:03.280 was detestable, vile, and ugly. But the team sprung into action. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.470 I was calling Tyler at probably as early as 6.30 0:03:07.470 --> 0:03:09.910 in the morning when I heard the news. He was 0:03:09.950 --> 0:03:13.669 already en route to campus. He and a team worked 0:03:13.710 --> 0:03:18.370 hard on it. Ryan, who lives nearby, actually dedicated most 0:03:18.410 --> 0:03:21.250 of his Sunday to helping clean that up along with 0:03:21.270 --> 0:03:24.070 some other team members. And so we're grateful to everybody 0:03:24.090 --> 0:03:27.079 that got the thing back and looking good as new. 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:31.500 So there it is restored. We've got the signs replaced already. 0:03:32.220 --> 0:03:35.380 So obviously evil may never sleep. They did this in 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.340 the dead of night, Blake, as I mentioned, but neither 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.790 do we. And we restored it, and we are safeguarding it. 0:03:41.860 --> 0:03:46.290 It's got 24-7 surveillance and security. Guarding that statue. It 0:03:46.310 --> 0:03:48.830 was only there temporarily. It was always supposed to be 0:03:48.890 --> 0:03:50.870 just there for a couple of days in honor of 0:03:51.130 --> 0:03:54.570 marking the one-year anniversary of losing Charlie. And we do 0:03:54.630 --> 0:03:58.450 have aspirations that that statue will end up in Statuary 0:03:58.490 --> 0:03:59.550 Hall at the U.S. 0:03:59.590 --> 0:04:00.010 Capitol. 0:04:00.530 --> 0:04:03.830 I don't know if that's fully been determined yet, but 0:04:03.870 --> 0:04:06.910 that's kind of one of our hopes. And anyway, so, Blake, 0:04:06.940 --> 0:04:07.820 what did you make of this? 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:08.240 I've already. 0:04:08.930 --> 0:04:11.690 expounded on it with other media outlets, but I want 0:04:11.710 --> 0:04:12.910 to hear from you. 0:04:12.990 --> 0:04:16.820 Well, it's very revealing. And is this as bad as 0:04:16.860 --> 0:04:18.720 what happened to Charlie a year ago? No, it's not. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.320 Is it as bad as a lot of things Antifa 0:04:21.339 --> 0:04:24.380 types do? It's not. But it's one of those smaller 0:04:24.580 --> 0:04:29.380 actions that is super indicative of the values that these 0:04:29.420 --> 0:04:31.760 people have. Andrew, I think you'd agree. It would never 0:04:32.339 --> 0:04:35.920 occur to us in a million years to vandalize a 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:40.260 statue honoring someone on the left who, especially if they'd 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.779 been heinously murdered or died some tragic death, even someone 0:04:43.860 --> 0:04:47.040 we might criticize, like let's say George Floyd as an example, 0:04:47.339 --> 0:04:50.240 we would never go and vandalize a George Floyd statue. 0:04:50.260 --> 0:04:53.220 That would be heinous. That'd be disgusting. And yet it 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.880 took not even three days for, as you said, apparently 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.779 a group of people call up your friends and go, 0:04:59.960 --> 0:05:03.760 let's go deface and desecrate a monument to someone who 0:05:03.810 --> 0:05:07.470 was assassinated. And apparently that's the sort of friend group 0:05:07.900 --> 0:05:15.370 that they have. And there's this very animalistic, anti-civilizational element 0:05:15.430 --> 0:05:18.190 to the left that's very disturbing. And it's something Charlie 0:05:18.210 --> 0:05:21.690 warned about. It's the same impulse that makes you celebrate 0:05:21.990 --> 0:05:26.870 Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson. It's that same impulse 0:05:27.210 --> 0:05:32.410 that makes them whoop and holler over looting, over destroying 0:05:32.450 --> 0:05:34.990 a target, over ripping down other statues that we've seen 0:05:35.029 --> 0:05:38.920 across the country. It's this very destructive impulse in the left, 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:40.300 and we have to be frank, and we have to 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.839 be brave in confronting it. We can't concede the public 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.440 square to these people. So if that statue doesn't go 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.560 to Statuary Hall, I saw Tyler mention, we might have 0:05:49.580 --> 0:05:51.560 to keep that statue out where everyone can see it 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.320 just so that we cannot be intimidated by these freaks. 0:05:54.540 --> 0:05:58.180 Yeah, and listen, if you– I think that's so well 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:02.050 said because– Charlie warned that violence was all that the 0:06:02.089 --> 0:06:05.650 left had. It was a fundamental feature of radical left-wing 0:06:05.690 --> 0:06:11.140 politics is that they have abandoned public debate, good faith discourse, 0:06:11.620 --> 0:06:15.859 and instead they believe that being vile, being ghoulish, as 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:21.180 you mentioned, Blake, defacing, desecrating a statue that was commissioned 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:25.710 to memorialize a great man who died innocently, doing politics 0:06:25.770 --> 0:06:28.450 the right way, mind you. Yeah, you don't have to 0:06:28.490 --> 0:06:30.390 believe in everything that he believed in. You don't have 0:06:30.410 --> 0:06:33.869 to agree with his politics. But you could at least 0:06:33.950 --> 0:06:36.830 acknowledge your shared humanity. But no, they can't even do that. 0:06:37.390 --> 0:06:40.620 And what's telling about this moment, Blake, is this story 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.320 went worldwide, by the way. I mean, anything with Charlie 0:06:43.339 --> 0:06:45.960 goes worldwide. It was crazy. I mean, there was just 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.340 a mountain of media requests pouring in over the weekend. 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.560 I'm trying to hang out with my friends and my family, 0:06:51.580 --> 0:06:52.180 and this is what we. 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:52.660 Had to deal with. 0:06:53.380 --> 0:06:56.430 But I will tell you what the enemy intended for 0:06:56.580 --> 0:06:59.980 evil was. God is using for good. I want to 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.180 praise so many of you out there. After this news broke, 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.230 the Commit 100 program that we've been pushing on this 0:07:06.270 --> 0:07:11.550 program is surging. So do not let evil win. Use 0:07:11.590 --> 0:07:14.370 this as motivation to get involved, to be a part 0:07:14.390 --> 0:07:18.230 of the solution. We cannot let evil ghouls win the day. 0:07:18.290 --> 0:07:21.650 We cannot be intimidated. We cannot be cowed. Never surrender. 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.660 So go do your part. Be a part of the solution. 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.600 Be a part of something bigger than yourself, as Charlie 0:07:26.620 --> 0:07:31.740 would always say. Go to tpaction.com slash 100, tpaction.com slash 100. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.640 If we have the graphic, I know we had that 0:07:34.140 --> 0:07:35.260 QR code from last week. 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:35.950 Please throw it up. 0:07:36.700 --> 0:07:41.330 But get involved. People have surged to our Commit 100 program, 0:07:41.370 --> 0:07:43.470 and so God bless you guys. And we even have 0:07:43.550 --> 0:07:46.570 some friends of Charlie and Erica that have put up 0:07:46.570 --> 0:07:49.790 $ 10, 000 reward if anybody has a tip that they can 0:07:49.830 --> 0:07:52.640 send law enforcement that leads to the arrest of the 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:53.300 vandals who did it. 0:07:53.340 --> 0:07:54.420 And it's very telling, Blake. 0:07:55.490 --> 0:07:59.910 I mean, the outpouring of just, I don't know, anger, 0:08:00.130 --> 0:08:03.690 frustration at this has been tremendous, and therefore a lot 0:08:03.710 --> 0:08:06.010 of love as well. I mean, we've heard from Andy Biggs. 0:08:06.030 --> 0:08:08.250 We've heard from Abe Homaday. We've heard from Jay Feeley. 0:08:08.270 --> 0:08:10.610 We've heard from Juan Siscamani. We've heard from all of 0:08:11.030 --> 0:08:13.670 the people that you would kind of expect, but also, like, 0:08:14.350 --> 0:08:17.620 around the country. Nobody with a D next to their 0:08:17.650 --> 0:08:20.360 name in the state of Arizona has even condemned what happened, 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:24.930 the vandalism. Katie Hobbs is completely silent. I don't know 0:08:25.010 --> 0:08:27.610 what it takes to find a unifying moment that you 0:08:27.630 --> 0:08:31.030 shouldn't be desecrating a statue that was commissioned to honor 0:08:31.050 --> 0:08:33.470 the life and legacy of, of somebody who was killed 0:08:33.510 --> 0:08:36.150 in cold blood. I don't know why that's okay for anybody, 0:08:37.050 --> 0:08:39.630 but we haven't heard from them. So we'd love to 0:08:39.670 --> 0:08:42.109 hear from Katie Hobbs or anybody to condemn this. 0:08:42.710 --> 0:08:44.720 And the word on the. 0:08:44.700 --> 0:08:47.840 Street, I just find myself thinking how, how much heaven 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:52.180 and earth was moved when someone, left a tire mark 0:08:52.540 --> 0:08:57.780 on one of those BLM, when they painted the, not BLM, 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.339 one of the pride flags, when they would paint those 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.820 on the street. And people would get arrested because they 0:09:01.860 --> 0:09:04.760 left a tire skid mark on those. And that's a 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.440 political symbol put into a public space, as opposed to 0:09:09.460 --> 0:09:14.459 a private statue honoring a specific person who was murdered. And... 0:09:14.970 --> 0:09:17.189 I just think of the scale of different reactions to 0:09:17.230 --> 0:09:18.369 that as very revealing to me. 0:09:18.370 --> 0:09:21.040 Listen, if this was something that had been desecrated on 0:09:21.059 --> 0:09:24.060 the left, something that they cared about, Katie Hobbs and 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.219 Mays and all these people would be up in arms, 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:32.700 holding a press conference, vowing justice and a hate crime, 0:09:32.740 --> 0:09:34.750 the book thrown at these people, nothing. 0:09:34.950 --> 0:09:35.929 Haven't heard a thing. 0:09:36.330 --> 0:09:38.910 And the sick little word on the street is the suspicion, 0:09:39.050 --> 0:09:40.890 I can't prove it, I don't think anybody can yet 0:09:40.929 --> 0:09:43.540 until we catch who did this, is that there's a fear, 0:09:43.660 --> 0:09:45.560 a real fear on the Democrat side of the aisle 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.250 in this state that the people who did this are 0:09:47.260 --> 0:09:50.209 associated with their political apparatus. They might be their activists. 0:09:51.150 --> 0:09:53.230 So we want to find them. And if I can 0:09:53.270 --> 0:09:56.970 get that footage released, we're going to release it. Working 0:09:56.990 --> 0:09:58.270 with law enforcement on that right now. 0:09:58.450 --> 0:09:59.969 So it's awful. 0:10:00.300 --> 0:10:03.120 It's awful that we, as Blake said, it would never 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:07.100 occur to us to desecrate a statue that meant something 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:07.760 to the left. 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:08.640 We would never. 0:10:09.660 --> 0:10:13.700 It's just some things, you know, we are not the same. Anyways, 0:10:13.740 --> 0:10:16.760 there was an old tweet of Charlie's. It's really powerful. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:21.220 Throw up 163. Charlie said, every time left-wing anarchists tear 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.460 down a statue of an American hero like George Washington, 0:10:24.540 --> 0:10:27.720 President Trump should commission two more statues to be built. 0:10:27.860 --> 0:10:28.220 Amen. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:33.470 Erica Kirk, 162, she says, responding to the desecration of 0:10:33.500 --> 0:10:35.850 the Charlie Kirk statue, says, Charlie once said we should 0:10:35.870 --> 0:10:38.510 be building two statues for every statue that they tear down. 0:10:38.670 --> 0:10:41.590 His instinct was always to build, not to destroy. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:42.220 Amen. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:42.320 Amen. 0:11:12.850 --> 0:11:13.150 Amen. 0:11:14.070 --> 0:11:17.230 I want to play some clips for you from Charlie himself. 0:11:18.890 --> 0:11:22.990 And I warn you in advance, these clips are hard 0:11:23.710 --> 0:11:27.240 to listen to. Like so many things in Charlie's life, 0:11:28.740 --> 0:11:32.280 you get this sinking feeling when you hear him back 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:36.380 that he sort of had some advanced knowledge or he 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.939 had a feeling or a premonition, whatever you want to 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:40.380 call it. 0:11:40.980 --> 0:11:46.300 And It's hard to listen to. So fair, fair advance 0:11:46.460 --> 0:11:47.660 warning here. 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.439 This is all they have is violence at the core 0:11:50.660 --> 0:11:55.040 of the left, at the core of a liberal. As 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:56.569 someone that would use the sword if they had it. 0:11:57.650 --> 0:12:00.250 They are very violent people at their core. They always 0:12:00.270 --> 0:12:05.610 have it. They can't debate. They can't have conversation. So 0:12:05.630 --> 0:12:07.640 they'll resort to these tactics. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:08.870 He goes on. 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.300 We have a lot of clips of these because, unfortunately, 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.640 it was a repeat theme in the last few years 0:12:13.740 --> 0:12:15.000 as Charlie was doing this show. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.750 They're going to do everything they possibly can to try 0:12:18.790 --> 0:12:20.670 to murder this movement because they can't beat us. So 0:12:20.690 --> 0:12:23.150 they're going to try to take weapons. And, no, we're 0:12:23.190 --> 0:12:24.510 very aware of that. I'm aware of it. We have 0:12:24.530 --> 0:12:25.449 to have full-time security. 0:12:25.650 --> 0:12:27.570 This is not a joke. This is who these people are. 0:12:28.010 --> 0:12:29.770 They want us murdered. They want us killed. That's why 0:12:29.790 --> 0:12:31.540 a lot of them celebrated Donald Trump getting shot, and 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.420 they lamented that it wasn't successful. This is everything for them. 0:12:35.460 --> 0:12:37.660 We're going after the core of their meaning. 0:12:38.620 --> 0:12:38.800 Man. 0:12:40.059 --> 0:12:42.340 You hear that part, Blake, where he's talking about they 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:49.449 celebrated and they lamented that the Butler shooter missed. And 0:12:49.710 --> 0:12:50.510 it's just hard to hear. 0:12:50.790 --> 0:12:51.070 I don't know. 0:12:51.110 --> 0:12:55.630 I mean, it's a total asymmetry because violence really is 0:12:55.850 --> 0:13:01.690 a core part of the left's political operation scheme. In 0:13:01.710 --> 0:13:04.690 a way, it just never is on the right that 0:13:05.130 --> 0:13:08.900 they will– They have absolutely no shame about taking something 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.939 like what we saw in 2020, where you have mobs 0:13:11.980 --> 0:13:16.180 of thousands of people doing wanton destruction, ripping down statue 0:13:16.220 --> 0:13:20.829 after statue, destroying stores, and they're ready there to say, well, 0:13:20.890 --> 0:13:23.730 a riot is the language of the unheard, or this 0:13:23.750 --> 0:13:26.290 just shows how out of control and bad things have gotten. 0:13:26.590 --> 0:13:29.370 We need to, of course, adopt all the things that 0:13:29.390 --> 0:13:31.429 we've wanted us to do anyway, or it'll be so 0:13:31.490 --> 0:13:35.130 much worse. There's never, in a million years, you never 0:13:35.290 --> 0:13:39.270 ever see the government worried that we need to implement 0:13:39.350 --> 0:13:42.750 a conservative policy or else the right will explode in 0:13:42.850 --> 0:13:46.010 anarchic violence. But that's something we routinely hear as a 0:13:46.050 --> 0:13:49.680 justification for adopting left-wing policies, that if we don't do it, 0:13:50.070 --> 0:13:53.520 they will kill us. And it's a central part. 0:13:54.300 --> 0:13:54.880 Yeah. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.020 You will know them by their fruits. And I'm reminded 0:13:57.059 --> 0:14:01.219 now again that in the wake of Charlie's assassination, we 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:01.740 didn't riot. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:02.340 We didn't loot. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.949 We held vigils and prayers and, And we held the memorial, 0:14:07.490 --> 0:14:10.390 which was one of the largest proclamations of the gospel 0:14:10.410 --> 0:14:11.110 in human history. 0:14:11.730 --> 0:14:12.730 That's how you know. 0:14:13.250 --> 0:14:16.750 And if you think about the dialectics here, Blake, the left, well, 0:14:16.790 --> 0:14:19.100 let's start with the right. The right fundamentally wants to 0:14:19.180 --> 0:14:22.440 conserve and preserve the good, the true, the beautiful. In 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.680 our base operating system, our software, if you would, we 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.560 are not trying to rip things apart and tear them 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.560 down and destroy things. We want to preserve things. We 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.500 want to preserve the good, the true, and the beautiful. 0:14:35.050 --> 0:14:38.500 The left doesn't believe that. As you've aptly stated here, Blake, 0:14:38.860 --> 0:14:41.880 the left believes in replacing just about everything that there 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.040 is about America, whether it's the body politic, the demographics, 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:49.479 the institutions, the ideology, the American dream. They want to 0:14:49.500 --> 0:14:53.090 replace all of those things. So at its core, if 0:14:53.110 --> 0:14:55.370 you want to replace something, what's the easiest way to 0:14:55.830 --> 0:14:58.410 do that? To destroy it, to get it out of 0:14:58.430 --> 0:15:01.910 the way, to remove it off the chessboard. That is 0:15:01.970 --> 0:15:05.950 why these two movements are so important. wildly different and 0:15:05.990 --> 0:15:08.350 blake i mean you are a student of history so 0:15:08.370 --> 0:15:12.430 let's talk about this idea that you know political violence 0:15:12.490 --> 0:15:15.050 is a right-wing phenomenon which is what the left loves 0:15:15.090 --> 0:15:17.610 to say and it's wrong it's been debunked if you 0:15:17.650 --> 0:15:20.340 look at the stats behind it it's wrong now and 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.660 it's probably been wrong throughout most of human history. 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.880 It's always been wrong because it's always premised on one 0:15:26.900 --> 0:15:30.580 of their best advantages which is to rewrite how we 0:15:30.620 --> 0:15:34.600 define things and so they'll for example when people have 0:15:34.620 --> 0:15:37.990 looked into the details of this, they'll love to categorize 0:15:38.750 --> 0:15:41.990 any crime committed by someone they've decided is, for example, 0:15:42.010 --> 0:15:44.150 a white supremacist, which might mean he was a member 0:15:44.170 --> 0:15:48.630 of a prison gang. They'll classify that as specifically right-wing 0:15:48.670 --> 0:15:53.240 political violence. But they'll never, for example, categorize everything that 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:58.060 happened in 2020 as left-wing political violence, when it clearly was. 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.490 It clearly hit dozens of cities across the country and 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:05.800 involved tens of thousands of individual crimes, but they won't 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.480 categorize it that way. They'll memory hole something like that 0:16:09.540 --> 0:16:11.980 Bill Ayers was in a group of people who were 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.450 planting bombs all over the country in the Capitol, in 0:16:15.470 --> 0:16:18.630 the Pentagon. They're planting bombs to target people for a 0:16:18.670 --> 0:16:22.650 political end, and that'll be memory holed out of existence. 0:16:23.430 --> 0:16:26.420 It's a story... over and over again with the left. 0:16:26.740 --> 0:16:28.840 I wonder if even what happened on Sunday will be 0:16:28.860 --> 0:16:32.220 clouded as a left-wing political violence when it's clearly meant 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:36.260 to menace and intimidate. That's just how it is. They 0:16:36.330 --> 0:16:40.730 rely on setting definitions so that they can redefine reality 0:16:41.090 --> 0:16:43.290 to deny what is right in front of our faces. 0:16:44.050 --> 0:16:44.510 Well said. 0:16:44.710 --> 0:16:48.050 And I would just say one more thing here. We 0:16:48.110 --> 0:16:50.910 will not be cowed by this. I love the spirit 0:16:50.950 --> 0:16:53.130 of Charlie's tweet. If they tear down one, we build 0:16:53.170 --> 0:16:56.350 two more. And we will not be cowed. We will 0:16:56.390 --> 0:16:59.830 not surrender. They are not going to intimidate us. If 0:16:59.910 --> 0:17:02.450 evil never sleeps, we have to sleep less. That's the 0:17:02.490 --> 0:17:06.500 mantra around here. Please get involved at tpaction.com slash 100. 0:17:06.490 --> 0:17:09.469 Be a part of something bigger than yourself. Use this energy. 0:17:09.609 --> 0:17:12.330 Use this moment to fight back in our way. But 0:17:12.410 --> 0:17:14.409 do not fight back in their way. I'm going to 0:17:14.450 --> 0:17:16.870 play this clip from Charlie as a warning of what 0:17:16.930 --> 0:17:20.890 not to do when we're reacting to this left-wing insanity. 0:17:20.930 --> 0:17:22.070 Stop 15. 0:17:22.070 --> 0:17:26.609 They're also taking down civil war monuments and they're erecting 0:17:26.670 --> 0:17:33.290 monuments to Satan in state capitals. 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I saw this 0:20:05.650 --> 0:20:07.330 ad you put out. We're going to play part of 0:20:07.390 --> 0:20:10.909 it at some point in this interview. Tell us the 0:20:10.970 --> 0:20:13.230 state of the race. Why are you running? Why is 0:20:13.250 --> 0:20:15.650 this important? And can you win, Bruce? 0:20:16.109 --> 0:20:18.780 Well, first of all, we're in a statistical dead heat 0:20:18.859 --> 0:20:22.179 right now. The latest poll that I saw, which is 0:20:22.220 --> 0:20:25.359 consistent with other polls that I've seen, has us within 0:20:25.380 --> 0:20:30.240 the margin of error. We're at 3.9% behind Kathy Hochul, 0:20:30.260 --> 0:20:32.920 which means she's going to lose. And we are going 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:38.010 to shock the political world around America today. by having 0:20:38.150 --> 0:20:42.290 a Republican governor on January 1st sworn in because we 0:20:42.350 --> 0:20:46.080 are the most overtaxed state in America. Our electric bills 0:20:46.100 --> 0:20:49.960 are 70% higher than the national average because of the 0:20:50.020 --> 0:20:54.520 green energy scam. Kathy Hochul is the most pro-criminal governor 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.859 in the United States of America. She does more to 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:02.660 protect criminals than our communities. And because we are number 0:21:02.660 --> 0:21:06.859 50 out of 50 states, dead last in economic outlook, 0:21:07.450 --> 0:21:10.090 So you can trust that with my record in a 0:21:10.150 --> 0:21:11.630 county larger than eight states. 0:21:12.150 --> 0:21:12.450 U.S. 0:21:12.490 --> 0:21:14.910 News and World Report says I have the safest county 0:21:14.930 --> 0:21:18.550 in America because I funded the police. I hired new 0:21:18.670 --> 0:21:22.990 law enforcement professionals. I haven't raised taxes a penny in 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.850 four years. As a matter of fact, I cut $ 150 0:21:25.490 --> 0:21:30.640 million in tax increases of my predecessor. And I have 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:36.760 tremendous economic development, job activity. People are moving to my county. 0:21:37.180 --> 0:21:40.320 And I want to make that our mantra for the 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:43.520