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Speaker 1: Good evening and welcome in to Turning Point.

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Speaker 2: Tonight.

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Speaker 1: We're together, we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback.

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Speaker 1: My name is Jobob. Tonight special treat for you, Charlie

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Speaker 1: Kirk on the American Comeback Tour is live from Texas

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Speaker 1: A and M University in College Station. Let's take you

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Speaker 1: there right now. What's going on a M? Hey, I

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Speaker 1: heard a thing that this was the home of the

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Speaker 1: Twelfth Man. I feel like you guys can do better

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Speaker 1: than that. What's going on?

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Speaker 3: A M?

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Speaker 1: If you don't know who I am, my name is

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Speaker 1: Joe Bob. That is legally on my birth certificate. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty difficult growing up with a name like Jobob

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Speaker 1: in California. But when I'm in the Great State of Texas,

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Speaker 1: it's still a really weird name, you know, considering the

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Speaker 1: fact that we're in Texas and this is a pretty

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Speaker 1: conservative crowd. I did think that this was really interesting. Specifically, outside,

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Speaker 1: there was a left wing influencer that was outside doing

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Speaker 1: some stuff.

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Speaker 2: And they had some They had some.

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Speaker 1: They had some camera equipment and they left it on

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Speaker 1: a bench to go talk to someone. This is a

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Speaker 1: picture of that camera equipment. Now here's the only reason

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Speaker 1: I point that out considering this is a conservative event.

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Speaker 1: A lot of conservative people here. They came back and

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Speaker 1: the camera was still there. Now, give me a yes

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Speaker 1: or no answer. If this was a left wing event,

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Speaker 1: do we think that camera would still be sitting on

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Speaker 1: that bench? Oh boy?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 1: Uh who by renoplause? Who was outside at that proved

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Speaker 1: me wrong table earlier today? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I always think those are super fun.

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Speaker 1: And if you were there, you probably heard a lot

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Speaker 1: of discussion about DEI diversity, equity and inclusion and in

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Speaker 1: specific promoting race, among many other things as opposed to merit.

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Speaker 1: Right now, because DEI was a big topic of conversation

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Speaker 1: out there, and because we're in Texas, I would like

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Speaker 1: to point out my favorite DEI higher and that woman

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Speaker 1: is Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett now Congressman jazm And Crockett. If

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Speaker 1: you're not familiar with her work, she is the up

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Speaker 1: and coming AOC And if my goal is to defend

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Speaker 1: conservative values, anytime she gets a microphone, my job gets

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Speaker 1: so much easier.

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Speaker 3: Now, if you don't know this.

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Speaker 1: About Jasmine Crockett, you might be thinking, well, she's not

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Speaker 1: a DEI hired. She was elected to Congress, not entirely

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Speaker 1: talking about that job. Here's a clip of Jasmine Crockett, congresswoman,

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Speaker 1: at a committee hearing, not all that long ago.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead and play that.

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Speaker 4: When I first became a public defender, I had no

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Speaker 4: criminal defense experience. And I walked in and I told

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Speaker 4: my boss Charlie, I said, listen, you should hire me.

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Speaker 4: He said why, I said, because I'm blacked. Charlie looked

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Speaker 4: at me like I was crazy.

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Speaker 3: Two things.

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Speaker 1: I can only imagine what would happen if I tried

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Speaker 1: that same thing, Like if I walked into the offices

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Speaker 1: at Turning Point, slammed a resume down on Charlie's desk and.

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Speaker 3: Say you need to hire me.

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Speaker 1: He goes, why because I'm a black woman. First of all,

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Speaker 1: I think he would say, no, you're not. And I say,

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Speaker 1: sure I am. I love cookouts, I make a mean

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Speaker 1: collared greens.

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Speaker 3: I can do my finger snap in the.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine my interview at Turning Points would not

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Speaker 1: go very well. Second thing, though, can you imagine being

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Speaker 1: her client walking into a courthouse? So, public defender, do

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Speaker 1: you have a lot of experience in criminal defense? I

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Speaker 1: have no experience whatsoever. Oh, where did you come from?

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Speaker 1: Were you doing litigation somewhere? What was your back?

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 1: Why did they hire you? Because I'm a black woman?

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Speaker 1: You would walk into that courthouse with an over unpaid

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Speaker 2: But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Everybody in this room probably would ask, well, why does

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Speaker 1: that matter? And the thing is it doesn't. But unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: so many people on the lefty side of the aisle

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Speaker 1: think that immutable characteristics actually matter. And the problem with

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Speaker 1: that is if you believe that race matters more than

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Speaker 1: anything else, you're going to look at the world through

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Speaker 1: a racial lens. And when you look at the world

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Speaker 1: through a racial lens, everything you see will be about race.

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Speaker 1: And that is, unfortunately, what has happened to my favorite

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Speaker 1: DEI Higher, congress Woman Jasmine Crockett. Just today, Congresswoman Crockett

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Speaker 1: tweeted this on Earth Day, Let's be real, Black and

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Speaker 3: First and worst.

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Speaker 1: In other words, the weather is racist. There is a

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Speaker 1: litany of things that Jasmine Crockett has called racists, trump voters,

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Speaker 1: policy backlash memes, interracial marriage, not wanting open borders, criticizing eyelashes,

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Speaker 1: and on, the problem, of course, is if everything is racism,

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Speaker 1: then nothing is racism. There are actual racists out there

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Speaker 1: that exist, and if Jasmine Crockett and her fellow lives

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Speaker 1: we're never going to be get to condemn them, because

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Speaker 1: we would because everything is racist. Now, there's three big

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Speaker 1: things that are a problem are the problem with racism

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Speaker 1: as a whole. The first thing is, obviously it's discriminatory

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Speaker 1: against somebody who isn't the priority race. If you don't

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Speaker 1: get a job because your skin color wasn't dark enough,

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Speaker 1: or you weren't the right this or that, that's obviously horrible.

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Speaker 1: The second is the people that unfortunately are impacted by

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Speaker 1: someone who got a job who shouldn't be there in

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Speaker 1: the first place, whether that be I don't want to

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Speaker 1: get into specific sect to give me in trouble. But

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Speaker 1: the last thing is that I think the so what

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Speaker 1: people don't talk about enough is how it belittles minorities

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Speaker 1: who have worked hard to achieve something. The end of

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Speaker 1: the day, if you prioritize minorities over someone just because

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Speaker 1: of their race. It very well could be that a

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Speaker 1: black guy, Hispanic woman, gay man, whatever. It very well

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Speaker 1: could be that they are the most qualified person in

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Speaker 1: the interview and no one will believe them. That is

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Speaker 1: the problem when you prioritize race over merit. So with that,

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Speaker 1: don't be like Jasmine Crockett. Go fight for your values

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Speaker 1: and your belief on a fair and even playing field,

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Speaker 1: because that's what we have in the United States of America. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: being a certain race isn't an achievement and being a

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Speaker 1: victim is not a skill. So with that, can you

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Speaker 1: guys promise me three things. Never stop fighting for read

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Speaker 1: them yes, yeah, Never stop fighting for truth, yes, And

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Speaker 1: never stop fighting for this country. Yes, guys, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much. It's gonna be a great evening. God bless America.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the American Comeback Tour. Let's get started now.

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Speaker 2: Welcoming to the stage.

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Speaker 3: Charlie Hurt. I feel like that. I gotta be honest,

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Speaker 3: that was the coolest intro I've ever had. That was

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Speaker 3: pretty awesome. Verbother I wanted to do that for a while.

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Speaker 3: I was like, there's something about an intro at a

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Speaker 3: Texas A and M football game that is almost metaphysical,

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Speaker 3: I gotta tell you. So that was a really st

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Speaker 3: tough for everybody. All Right, we're gonna have some fun tonight.

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Speaker 3: Thank you to the great Turning Point USA chapter leaders

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Speaker 3: for putting this together and our Turning Point USA Chapter. Also,

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Speaker 3: I'm obligated to say this, we are hiring at Turning

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Speaker 3: Point USA as well. So if you want to work

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Speaker 3: us at Turning Point. Talk for a little bit, then

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Speaker 3: we'll do questions. And by the way, this is the

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Speaker 3: big I think the biggest campus event we've ever done

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Speaker 3: in Turning Point history. Look at this is amazing. People

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Speaker 3: all the way up for it. Incredible. So I want

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Speaker 3: to talk about the most important thing that someone can

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Speaker 3: do in their life, which is the decision of whether

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Speaker 3: or not you make Jesus Christ the chairman of the

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Speaker 3: board of your life. The most important thing. And the

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Speaker 3: look at it. It's a good conversation. Bill Maher is

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Speaker 3: not a Christian. If you don't know that he's very

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Speaker 3: much not a Christian. He is an atheist, and maybe

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Speaker 3: And I sat down with It was a kind of

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Speaker 3: interesting and he treated me very well. To his credit.

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Speaker 3: He we just dialogued a lot. He was smoking pop

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Speaker 3: the whole time, which mayor may not have impacted me.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I've never done marijuan in my life.

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Speaker 3: like makes you not as sharp as you could be.

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Speaker 3: but that second hand, that secondhand hime might be a

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Speaker 3: real thing. Anyway, we talked a lot about not just Christianity,

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Speaker 3: important for a society to have and agreed upon moral structure.

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Speaker 3: That if you do not have a religious basis, specifically

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Speaker 3: a Christian one for your society, something else is going

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Speaker 3: that we must first and foremost give our life to Christ.

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Speaker 3: Why is that important? Short gospel message for all of you?

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Speaker 3: glory of God. Nothing we can do, nothing we can earn,

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Speaker 3: God sent his son on a rescue mission to save

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Speaker 3: us from our broken nature. Of course, Jesus Christ lived

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Speaker 3: JUDAEI and Samaria died a wrongful death to only resurrect

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Speaker 3: has risen in your risen. And now the significance of

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Speaker 3: all about you have to work hard to get closer

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Speaker 3: have to say something, whereas Christianity, the promise is completely

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Speaker 3: inverted and different. Where God actually comes to us is

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Speaker 3: a relationship as much as it is a religion. It

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Speaker 3: is that we have a personal connection with our Lord

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Speaker 3: and Savior that transforms you, that challenges you, that provokes you.

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Speaker 3: For those of you that have given your life to Christ.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm talking about. You know that it

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden becomes a metaphysical difference in how

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Speaker 3: and how you whether you're gonna drink or you're gonna smoke,

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Speaker 3: which I think is important, we are seeing, especially arouse

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Speaker 3: young people. I'm so excited to see so many people

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Speaker 3: applaud when I talk about Jesus. Just amazing to see,

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Speaker 3: honestly in a college monk. It's just so great. Which

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Speaker 3: is which is when you become less religious, which this

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Speaker 3: generation is Gen Z is becoming less and less religious

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Speaker 3: out of the lack of Christianity is where we get wokeism.

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Speaker 3: Understand that it's easy to attack wocism, this idea that

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Speaker 3: that I'm sure we'll have some wonderful people talk about tonight.

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Speaker 3: change the environment that you come in contact with. Mind you,

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Speaker 3: Christ did not tell us to look more like the

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Speaker 3: environment that we come in contact with. We're supposed to

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Speaker 3: be the change agents. And that goes with your local

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Speaker 3: city council, that goes to your state government, and that

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Speaker 3: goes to your national government. As it says in Jeremiah

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Speaker 3: twenty nine to seven, demand the welfare of the nation

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Speaker 3: that you are in. Because your welfare is tied to

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Speaker 3: your nation's welfare. We are called to care about the

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Speaker 3: peace of the country that we are in. Daniel fasted

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Speaker 3: and prayed for the nation that he was in before

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Speaker 3: he was thrown into the lions den, to contest for

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Speaker 3: values that we so care about in the public square

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Speaker 3: and in the public arena. And the failure to do that,

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Speaker 3: if I may say so, is bad for everybody, and

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Speaker 3: even an honest atheist. And I think I didn't quite

447
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Speaker 3: get Bill Maher there. He was not exactly an agreement here,

448
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Speaker 3: But it's a conversation worth continuing with him, because I

449
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Speaker 3: think he wants to get to this conclusion, which is this,

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Speaker 3: which is that even an honest atheist might not believe

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Speaker 3: in God, but can recognize and notice that a society

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Speaker 3: that does not believe in God is bad for even atheists,

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Speaker 3: and that is the necessity of believing in God. Is

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Speaker 3: one that must be talked about more because the moral

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Speaker 3: chaos and the moral confusion. At some point you have

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Speaker 3: to discuss what are you going to teach your kids

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Speaker 3: by what moral standard? And if all of a sudden

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Speaker 3: you're saying, well, I'm gonna just teach my kids what

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Speaker 3: the New York Times says, that's a bad answer, or

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna just whatever my teacher wants, that is a

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Speaker 3: bad answer. Instead, you need something to appeal to at

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Speaker 3: all points you will hear people say, well, that's good

463
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Speaker 3: or that's bad, or that's evil, or that's wrong, and

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Speaker 3: your answer should always be by what standard, just so

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Speaker 3: we know that we can, you know, basically judge the

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Speaker 3: same thing, that we can have the same idea of

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Speaker 3: what we are appealing to. The final point I'll make

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Speaker 3: is this, and then we'll open it up for some questions,

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Speaker 3: is that we as Christians, I think, at this moment

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Speaker 3: in time, must be unafraid to not just share our faith,

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Speaker 3: but to see where our faith overlays with political engagement

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Speaker 3: and involvement, and understand politics is not the most important thing.

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Speaker 3: Jesus is the most important thing. And therefore I'll say

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Speaker 3: that again, the most important thing is Jesus. But what

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Speaker 3: is the second most important thing? To make sure you

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Speaker 3: could do the first thing to make sure we still

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Speaker 3: have religious liberty and to make sure we live in

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Speaker 3: a free society. A free society is awesome for the gospel.

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Speaker 3: A free society is good for all people, for poor people,

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Speaker 3: for marginalized people, for people that plan honestly want to

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Speaker 3: be able to get ahead. And at its core and

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Speaker 3: at its foundation, we as Christians should not be saying, oh,

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Speaker 3: you know, looks like the raptures coming this next Thursday.

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Speaker 3: I'm about to get zapped up. No bad, you might

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Speaker 3: be right. I'm not going to get into that. You

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Speaker 3: might be wrong. I'm not going to get into that. Instead,

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Speaker 3: you should have a belief system. How am I going

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Speaker 3: to make this country? How I'm going to make this

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Speaker 3: campus more ready for Christ's return? How am I going

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Speaker 3: to fight evil? In Psalm ninety seven ten, it says,

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Speaker 3: those of you who love God, it's in the command form.

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Speaker 3: Those of you, as who love God, you must hate evil.

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Speaker 3: That is in the command form to hate it. And

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Speaker 3: by the way, we should be able to say what

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Speaker 3: evil is. And in America, evil is butchering babies while

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Speaker 3: they are still in utero and calling at healthcare. That

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Speaker 3: is not glorifying of God. It is telling a sixteen

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Speaker 3: year old that you might be another gender because you

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Speaker 3: might be going through a difficult patch in your puberty.

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Speaker 3: That is evil, everybody. It's also evil simultaneously to allow

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Speaker 3: the border to be completely wide open. The Bible explicitly

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Speaker 3: affuses the idea of nations of borders, of boundaries of

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Speaker 3: a nation, and it creates moral chaos, not to mention

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Speaker 3: the terrible exploitation of women and children that happen on

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Speaker 3: the southern border over the last four years, of sex trafficking,

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Speaker 3: all the associated things, and so it is thing as Christians,

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Speaker 3: and you're here tonight's your great credit. But I want

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Speaker 3: to reinforce this. There'll be moments where people will tell

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Speaker 3: you no, no, no, no, stop being political. Just be a Christian.

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Speaker 3: Say you know what, I'm being biblical, not political, because

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Speaker 3: I'm called to get into the tough fights to make

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Speaker 3: that place more Christian, to make the government more glorifying God.

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Speaker 3: It look, it's very difficult. There's so much wretchedness and

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Speaker 3: nonsense that infuses our government. But the other alternative is

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Speaker 3: this is the alternative, just like we should retreat from

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Speaker 3: the public square, run to the hills and just kind

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Speaker 3: of live in our own homeschool communities, which I support

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Speaker 3: by the way, to raise children, but have I love homeschooling,

519
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Speaker 3: but to have no contact with the outside world. And

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Speaker 3: here is the balance. We need to be in the world,

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Speaker 3: but not of the world. And my contention is that

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Speaker 3: the last twenty years Christians have forsaked the public square

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Speaker 3: because it wasn't easy and it was not comfortable. Christ

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Speaker 3: said on this rock, build my church. Catholics in this

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Speaker 3: audience will have a different interpretation of that. That's fine.

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Speaker 3: The word is ecclaca, which literally means build my public

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Speaker 3: gathering place, build my civic center of meeting. No matter

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Speaker 3: how you interpret it, we can all agree that we

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Speaker 3: should try to bring the truths of the scriptures to

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Speaker 3: every domain and dimension imaginable. We should not force it

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Speaker 3: upon people. But that's the final thing, is that although

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Speaker 3: you might believe we have separation of church and state,

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Speaker 3: a little more complicated than that. Nobody believes, including Bill

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Speaker 3: mart to his credit, we have separation of morality and state.

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Speaker 3: And therefore it begs the question by what standard do

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Speaker 3: you say that is good? By what standard do you

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Speaker 3: say that is evil? We have the answer that has

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Speaker 3: been unchanged. We believe it's breathed out of the scriptures

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Speaker 3: and as true today as it was two thousand years ago.

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Speaker 3: The liberals have no alternative, and I encourage all of

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Speaker 3: us that are believers to keep on bringing that into

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Speaker 3: the public square for the remainder of our life. Let's

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Speaker 3: do some questions and thank you guys so much. I

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Speaker 3: want to remind you guys, that Turning Point USA is hiring.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to say that one more time. So if

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Speaker 3: you guys want to work for us, we have a

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Speaker 3: booth out there that can help make that happen. So

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Speaker 3: as they get the question line all set up, I

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Speaker 3: also want to say the turning Point. Do we have

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Speaker 3: any high school Turning Point leaders here? What school brand?

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Speaker 3: That's good for you? Guys? That's great? Is that in

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Speaker 3: Houston or where? Oh? San Antonio, that's quite a drive.

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Speaker 3: Good for you guys? Where are you from? You're a

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Speaker 3: high schooler? Good. I didn't hear what that said, but

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you're here. So where else other high schoolers? Tobalt?

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Speaker 3: Tom Ball? I thought you said Cobalt. Are we ready, sir,

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Speaker 3: Let's begin.

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Speaker 5: Hi Charlie Kirk, my name is Camille Burns, and I'm

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Speaker 5: a freshman agriculture economics major here at Texas A and M.

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Speaker 5: And I would just like to say, on behalf of

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Speaker 5: Texas A and M University, we are so grateful to

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Speaker 5: have you here today. My question for you is, if

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Speaker 5: you were stranded on a deserted island with any political

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Speaker 5: opponent of your choice, who would you choose and why.

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Speaker 3: I won't say Bill Maher because I can't stand the

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Speaker 3: smell pot so I couldn't. I couldn't live on an

567
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Speaker 3: island smelling marijuana the entire time. Definitely not Gavin Newsom Nope,

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Speaker 3: that wouldn't happen. We don't have to think about that.

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Speaker 3: Let me see. So it's hard to pick. I mean,

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Speaker 3: so if you're stranded, let's play this out. If you're

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Speaker 3: stranded on a deserted island, you can reason that you

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Speaker 3: want that person to be very productive, not a complainer,

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Speaker 3: and have done something in their life. So that's like

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Speaker 3: no democrats at all. So and they're also like most

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Speaker 3: of them are super old, say they probably like die

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Speaker 3: while we're on the island, could be like super awk,

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Speaker 3: like oh, Chuck Schumer's dead, like and bad of course,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I would have to think about that. I

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Speaker 3: don't have a good answer. But probably how long am

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Speaker 3: I on this dessert? I'm infinitely stranded with no hope

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Speaker 3: of reconciliation forever, my goodness, it's like for for you know, infinity,

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Speaker 3: I don't. I would probably pick like the most resourceful

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Speaker 3: democrat that I could find, Like I don't know, like

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Speaker 3: Mark Kelly from Arizona's an astronaut, so he probably knows

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Speaker 3: how to start a fire. And it's like, like, by

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Speaker 3: the way, if if you wanted to survive on a

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Speaker 3: desert island, there'd be like a million Republicans to pick,

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Speaker 3: Like I'd pick like Joe Rogan, like people that can actually,

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Speaker 3: you know, haunt and gather. Right, But if it's about survival,

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Speaker 3: I don't know. The Democrats would try to unionize the

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Speaker 3: island with just two of us. They would constantly steal

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Speaker 3: my stuff and then call me a racist, like it'd

593
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Speaker 3: be terrible.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Hi, Charlie.

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Speaker 6: My name is Casey Klagis. I'm an animal science major

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Speaker 6: in class of twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: I's got all this stuff on It's great.

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Speaker 6: My question for you today is that I want to

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Speaker 6: know what your why is. Was there a specific point

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Speaker 6: in your life where you realize this is something you

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Speaker 6: needed to do with it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean again, my ultimate why is Jesus, so

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Speaker 3: you all must If it's not Jesus, then it's something

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Speaker 3: we are aiming at. Something you aim at, a destination.

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Speaker 3: And so for me, I wanted to aim at the

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Speaker 3: ultimate thing, the biggest thing imaginable and the truest thing,

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Speaker 3: which is Christ, our Lord. So everyone tonight should think,

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Speaker 3: in the next couple of days, what am I aiming at?

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Speaker 3: What's the most important thing? What am I thinking? Where?

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Speaker 3: Where's my destination? Right? And then yeah, look, as far

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Speaker 3: as politics go, I've always been conservative. I grew up

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Speaker 3: in a very different era. I grew up when Obama

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Speaker 3: was ascendant and Obama was very popular. Back in like

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Speaker 3: two thousand and eight, thousand and nine, I was a

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Speaker 3: freshman in high school, and I saw a massive need

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Speaker 3: for a youth movement like this. I saw a need

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Speaker 3: for a grassroots movement to try to counter what Obama

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Speaker 3: was doing. And I do want to just add like,

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Speaker 3: when we started, it was not like this. It would

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Speaker 3: be maybe two or three kids showing up to our events, right,

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Speaker 3: and that would be a success. And it's easy to

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Speaker 3: kind of like make fun of it and mock it.

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Speaker 3: But that was really gritty and really really grabs routsine.

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Speaker 3: When I started, it seemed like a daunting generational project.

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Speaker 3: And I just give all glory to God, and I'm

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Speaker 3: just so humbled that I get to live to see

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Speaker 3: the fruit of the last thirteen years of my relentless

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Speaker 3: traveling around the country and speaking to very small crowds

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Speaker 3: just to give some idea though like people say, you know, Charlie,

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Speaker 3: I want to do what you do. I said, right, fine,

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Speaker 3: you can. But for ten years straight, I traveled three

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Speaker 3: hundred days a year. That's three thousand days on the road.

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Speaker 3: I'm a million miler in United in Delta and American.

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Speaker 3: I know every possible hotel and airport combination imaginable. I

635
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Speaker 3: didn't pay myself for the first five years, and it

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Speaker 3: was very, very hard to break out of Hey, other Republicans,

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Speaker 3: Conservatives don't want you to succeed, and so my why

638
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 3: was constantly, of course, the ultimate aim of Christ. But

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00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 3: I believe deep down that there was untapped conservative potential

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Speaker 3: on these college campuses, that there was massive opportunity and

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Speaker 3: really big upside. And boy, this last November, Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: won the youth vote in Michigan. Donald Trump won the

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Speaker 3: youth vote In Texas. Donald Trump won the youth vote.

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Speaker 3: It's unbelievable and it's been so satisfying to see all

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Speaker 3: of that fruit come to harvest. God bless you, Thank

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Speaker 3: you so much, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 6: Hi.

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Speaker 5: My name is emmaclair. I'm a freshman polysi'gn major here

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Speaker 5: on campus, And I've heard this argument recently and I

650
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Speaker 5: wanted to ask your opinions on it.

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Speaker 2: So it's that if Jesus.

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Speaker 5: Were to come to America in a modern daytime, that

653
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Speaker 5: Republicans wouldn't let him in, and I just wanted to

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Speaker 5: get your opinion on that.

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Speaker 3: Sure, So yeah, thank you for that. So the argument

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Speaker 3: is this is that Jesus was a refugee and therefore

657
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Speaker 3: we wouldn't let him in. First of all, Jesus actually

658
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Speaker 3: was not technically a refugee. He was actually going to

659
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Speaker 3: two parts of the Roman Empire. Just we want to

660
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Speaker 3: be like hyper technical and weird Bible nerdy, Egypt was

661
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Speaker 3: actually under Roman jurisdiction, so it was not technically a refugee.

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Speaker 3: But like, so, I guess the argument is that because

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Speaker 3: we want to put our own citizens first and have

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Speaker 3: closed borders, we wouldn't let Christ our Lord come across

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Speaker 3: the southern border. I would have with them like we

666
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Speaker 3: don't want like Hayeseus coming across the southern border illegally,

667
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Speaker 3: and so a little different, right, But what this is

668
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Speaker 3: fundamentally is an attempt to manipulate us and it's an

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Speaker 3: attempt to be so theologically sloppy in so many different

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Speaker 3: ways it's hard to even know where to begin. And

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Speaker 3: what they're implying is that like there's a divine character

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Speaker 3: amongst the tens of millions of people that want to

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Speaker 3: come to this country. So fundamentally it's an attempt to

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Speaker 3: manipulate us. And it's not a very good argument.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Yes, so I was going to tie it to

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Speaker 5: the fact that there were people that are against Jesus.

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Speaker 5: Not everyone was for him, including Jews and Romans. But

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Speaker 5: so my basically what I'm trying to say is that

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Speaker 5: there are like compared to the southern border, because you know,

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Speaker 5: it affects us, especially here in Texas, that there are

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Speaker 5: not or there are good people coming in.

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Speaker 2: It's not all bad people, of course, and that.

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Speaker 5: We don't necessarily like, I know that there's bad people

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Speaker 5: being let in, but there's also good people letting And

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Speaker 5: I just think everyone should have an equal opportunity to.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, fair enough if you come from the belief that

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Speaker 3: we must let anybody in. And so right now we

688
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Speaker 3: have let fourteen million people. We have no idea who

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Speaker 3: they are. Of the last four years, you don't have

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Speaker 3: to let people into your country. It is a privilege,

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Speaker 3: not a right. And right now we've completely diluted that

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Speaker 3: over the last couple of years. And if and when

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Speaker 3: we have immigration, it should be highly qualified people who

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Speaker 3: love America and want to assimilate to our country. And

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Speaker 3: so of course, when you let fourteen million people in,

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Speaker 3: you're going to allow some people in that are great

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Speaker 3: and some people that are are not so great. But

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Speaker 3: think about this in the micro, and what is true

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Speaker 3: in the micro can be true in the macro. And

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Speaker 3: in this case it's correct. Our country is a home

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Speaker 3: really for people in it. We don't have open borders

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Speaker 3: at your home. You don't have open borders in your

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Speaker 3: dorm room. And so I guess I would say, why

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Speaker 3: should our country have open borders if we don't do

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Speaker 3: it on the micro? And I would say this that

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Speaker 3: it actually as we as Christians, it's much harder to

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Speaker 3: love our neighbor if all of a sudden we're allowing

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Speaker 3: in tens of millions of people we have no idea

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Speaker 3: who they are, and we have actually forgotten the neighbors

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Speaker 3: that we're here understand that there are tens of millions

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Speaker 3: of forgotten Americans of all different skin colors that have

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Speaker 3: been forgotten this country. And President Trump's run to office

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Speaker 3: in successful election was about basically saying, we want to

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Speaker 3: put the American citizen re first. It's more about loving

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Speaker 3: American citizens, not about hating foreigners.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So I actually wanted to bring up this quote

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Speaker 5: from Exodus that says, do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner.

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Speaker 5: For your foreigners in Egypt, directed, I mean, we're a

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Speaker 5: country built on foreigners, and I just think it's a

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Speaker 5: matter of when you were born and where you were born,

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Speaker 5: if you get the liberties that you can.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but look at the scripture, by the way, Equally,

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Speaker 3: in Deuteronomy, Moses warns about having mass migration because the

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Speaker 3: migrants will become your masters. Just so we're correct. But

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Speaker 3: that's fine, But we're not talking about mistreating that though.

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Speaker 3: Saying you get to go back to your home is

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Speaker 3: not a mistreatment, right. We're not abusing them. We're not

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Speaker 3: like say, okay, fine, go back to your country of origin.

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Speaker 5: But even when they are legally here, there's still like

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Speaker 5: restrictions put in place that I believe are unfair. For example,

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Speaker 5: I my roommate back home. I talked to her. She

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Speaker 5: has a lot of family that have immigrated here legally.

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Speaker 5: For example, her uncle has been here for twenty plus years,

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Speaker 5: but he's not legally allowed to go home for the

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Speaker 5: fear that he might not be able to come back.

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Speaker 2: I just think that once you're.

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Speaker 5: A citizen, you should be a citizen.

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Speaker 2: You shouldn't be restricted.

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Speaker 3: Well, he was not a citizen, then he might have

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Speaker 3: like temporary green cards for that US for twenty years.

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Speaker 3: But a US citizen can come and go out of

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Speaker 3: America as they please. So I'm not sure about your example.

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Speaker 3: I might be missing something, but that's that's not how

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Speaker 3: it works.

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Speaker 5: Okay, sorry, Yeah, I just think that we should let

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Speaker 5: more people in because I love thy neighbor.

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Speaker 4: You know you should.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I got it. But it's okay, guys. Let me.

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Speaker 3: Let me make a Christian argument. Though the entire Book

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Speaker 3: of Nehemiah is dedicated towards building a wall, you must

751
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Speaker 3: have it's called an order of loves. My Catholic friends,

752
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Speaker 3: you're gonna love this. It's from Thomas Aquinas. You're gonna

753
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Speaker 3: love this. You're gonna love this. It's called ordered loves,

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Speaker 3: and it's one of Thomas Aquinas's most potent moral teachings,

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Speaker 3: which is, first you are called to have a relationship

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Speaker 3: with Christ. Then you must love your family. And if

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Speaker 3: you don't have one of these things, you cannot do

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Speaker 3: the next one. Then, after you love your family and

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Speaker 3: take care of your family, you love your community. Then

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Speaker 3: you love your state, and then love your nation, and

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Speaker 3: so on and so forth. We've done a very very

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Speaker 3: bad job of the ordered loves. In fact, I think

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Speaker 3: we have not taken care of our neighbor as well

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Speaker 3: at all. We have tons of vets in this country

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Speaker 3: that are treated terribly. We have a lot of people

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Speaker 3: that have seen their jobs shipped overseas. And fundamentally, you

767
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Speaker 3: need to have a country that first loves its citizens,

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Speaker 3: and then once we generally have our act together, we

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Speaker 3: can have a compassionate immigration system, one that is strictly

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Speaker 3: based in merit to let other people into them. And

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Speaker 3: I would also just say allowing fourteen million people to

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Speaker 3: bum rush into America has not been good for anybody.

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Speaker 3: It's not good for American citizens, it's not good for

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Speaker 3: native born Americans. And finally, the last point that I'll

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Speaker 3: make on this is that when a government ceases to

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Speaker 3: understand that it exists first for its own people and

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Speaker 3: not from the people the other country. You actually don't

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Speaker 3: have a government, you have something else. You have like

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Speaker 3: a big social experiment, and I think that's been incredibly

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Speaker 3: destructive to the American body politic the last couple of years.

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Speaker 5: Okay, it was nice talking to you.

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Speaker 3: That's all I have to thank you very much, thanks

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Speaker 3: for being here, thank you for being respectful.

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Speaker 7: Yes, next question, well, thank you very much for giving

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Speaker 7: me a chance to ask your quick question. So, my

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Speaker 7: name is Andrew Jansen. I'm the CEO of Street Simplified.

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Speaker 7: And there's each year in the United States, forty four

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Speaker 7: thousand people die in.

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Speaker 3: Traffic crashes of traffic crashes, yeah, traffic crushes.

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Speaker 7: And the US spends twenty one billion dollars and that's

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Speaker 7: a conservative estimate on Medicare and Medicaid payouts to crash victims,

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Speaker 7: but they only spend four billion to actually solve the

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Speaker 7: transportation safety problem. On top of that, the four billion

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Speaker 7: that they are spending is being wasted because over the

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Speaker 7: last fifteen years from twenty ten on, an additional one

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Speaker 7: thousand people are dying in traffic crashes.

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Speaker 2: In the year before on average.

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Speaker 7: So my question for you is who do you know

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Speaker 7: they can actually get to the root of this problem

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Speaker 7: and solve it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know a lot of people, but that's

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Speaker 3: not the question. But no, I mean, are you advocating

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Speaker 3: for driverless cars? Is that you're av No?

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Speaker 2: My question. I actually work in a company that helps

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Speaker 2: solve this.

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Speaker 7: Problem, but I cannot get to the right people on

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Speaker 7: the usdots.

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Speaker 3: Okay, got it.

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Speaker 2: It's like a brick wall.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm happy to connect you with Sean Duffy and

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Speaker 3: his team, just so we understand that traffic debts tragically

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Speaker 3: have gone up because of depolicing. It turns out when

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Speaker 3: you take the police out of a community, it's bad

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Speaker 3: for every layer of crime. But more than that, I mean,

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Speaker 3: they say that I don't know if this is your

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Speaker 3: ad I asked you, but like they say, driverless cars

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Speaker 3: would drop auto fatalities by ninety percent. I have a

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Speaker 3: lot of moral problems with driverless cars, and it feels

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Speaker 3: a little too ttalitarian to me that I'm not able

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Speaker 3: to control my vehicle when someone else is in it.

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Speaker 3: But that's a separate issue. But I do see the

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Speaker 3: potential upside. But happy to what how would you say,

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Speaker 3: just really quick, we could best let's say the stem

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Speaker 3: the increase of traffic fatalities.

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Speaker 7: So, I mean there's a lot of factors, right, and

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Speaker 7: I can spend an hour on this, but the short

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Speaker 7: of it is, ninety eight percent of crashes are caused

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Speaker 7: by humans, right, There's two percent no weather related technical

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Speaker 7: vehicle failures. Sure, so we have to solve the human problem.

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Speaker 7: And you could say it's you know, you look at

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Speaker 7: you know.

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Speaker 3: So it's autonomous vehicles.

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Speaker 7: No, I think you don't have to actually fully autonomy.

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Speaker 7: You can automate one to one thousands of the decisions

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Speaker 7: drivers make when they veer off the road, when they're sleeping.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to automate the entire vehicle.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so respect, what do you think about what Elon's

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Speaker 3: done with Tesla? Is that a good start? Is that

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Speaker 3: a good direction? Frankly, I'd love for you to connect

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Speaker 3: me with him. He's one that's one way, with all due respect,

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Speaker 3: A lot of people would but that's fine. But maybe

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Speaker 3: I'll send him this clip and maybe he'll be persuaded

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Speaker 3: by it. But I think Tesla has done a lot

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Speaker 3: of good work though, to have the car begin to

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Speaker 3: intervene when these things happen.

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Speaker 7: Right, what we do at Street is worthy infrastructure side,

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Speaker 7: got it, Tesla is doing on the vehicle side.

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Speaker 3: It's a very admirable cause your own Thank you very much,

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Speaker 3: thank you, thank you. I'm you could talk to one

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Speaker 3: of our staffers.

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Speaker 2: And by the way I gave you, I brought a

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Speaker 2: study bible.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 7: This is a John MacArthur's study Bible. I'll give it

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Speaker 7: to one of the staffers.

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Speaker 3: Is it a John MacArthur you said, this is a

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Speaker 3: John MacArthur's. That's the greatest. He's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 7: I given it to you for your own personal walk.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, and thank you for taking the time saying

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Speaker 7: God bless you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. E.