Charlie Kirk delivered the first speech of Turning Point USA’s America Fest which opened on Saturday, declaring that "I’m sick of being nice. I want to win."
Speaking on Turning Point USA’s sister organization Turning Point Action, he said that the Republican party needs to be remade from the "bottom-up" as a "grassroots party," and kick out the "Romneys, Paul Ryans from the Republican Party once and for all."
Kirk said it’s not enough "just to win elections, we need Republicans to act like conservatives, not just Republican in name only when they go to Washington DC, when they betray their voters."
"These Republicans need to feel the heat of the grassroots. And do you want to know the good news everybody? The good news is that you get it, but your leaders don’t. You want results. You want a border more than you want Zelensky to get more billions of dollars."
"You are repulsed when you see that gogo dancer show up with the turtle and 'truck you Schumer' and demand more of your taxpayer dollars when we are being invaded on a daily basis."
"You deserve a better Republican party," Kirk said, continuing on to state that "Ronna McRomney has to resign as chair of the RNC. She has to resign."
"She’s got to go."
"Oh that’s nice, I’m sick of being nice, I want to win."
During Kirk's speech, he applauded Musk's purchase of Twitter, now known as X, saying that the platform was "liberated."
"Elon Musk liberating Twitter will go down as one of the greatest free speech victories in the history of Western civilization," Kirk said, being met with cheers from the crowd.
"We can log on to Twitter and we can say that Dylan Mulvaney, he’s a man, Rachel Levine, he’s a man, kind of like a creepy pervert, honestly, that January 6 is probably an inside job, a fedsurrection, than anything else.
"That we can go on to Twitter and say that George Floyd wasn’t a hero and Derek Chauvin was targeted in a Soviet-style trial that was anti-American and un-American."
"One of the reasons why the powerful are getting nervous is because we could finally speak again online. One of the big victories of 2023 is that we can say that’s BS. No, you’re not going to trans our kids, you’re not going to groom our children.
"You see, as our ability to speak and challenge authority and challenge power grows, the likelihood of our victory increases," Kirk said.
He began his speech by noting that, "We’re living through a top-down revolution, everybody. We’re living through a revolution that’s different than most others. It is a cultural revolution similar to Mao’s China."
"But this revolution is when the powerful, the rich, the wealthy decide to use their power and their wealth to go after you. Instead of building hospitals and improving our country, they are spending their money to destroy the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world," Kirk added, noting names such as George Soros, Laurene Powell Jobs, Marc Benioff, "and yes, the person who calls himself president, Joe Biden."
Kirk, noting that the attendees of the conference are here "as a grassroots response to the top-down revolution happening in this country," said that "this is a bottom-up resistance and it terrifies the ruling class."
Kirk said that he’s regularly asked about how divided the country is, to which Kirk said, "the real division is Washington DC versus America."
"You know what the other division is? It’s the powerful, the well-connected versus the middle class, versus the everyday warrior. The division in this country is versus the decent and the indecent, as Viktor Frankl said in Man’s Search for Meaning."
"And we are living through this time where the question is still an open question: will the people who are the sovereign oin this country do everything they possibly can with this incredible blessing given to us by God to fight back and win against the elites?
"The elites don’t mean well. When you have a wide open border and 12,000 people are coming across the border every single day. Elites don’t mean well when they go after our children and they castrate our children."
