Actor and comedian, Rob Schneider, spoke at Turning Point USA’s Chapter Leadership Summit in Washington, DC, on July 10, addressing the specialness of America’s current youth and the positive contrasts he finds between it and prior generations.
“The boomers inherited an incredible country,” Schneider noted, praising the World War II generation as well in comparison. “We couldn’t have lowered the bar any lower. So your generation has nothing to worry about. The generation before mine was the greatest generation of Americans. They grew up in the Great Depression, then went off and defeated the Nazis, real Nazis, not the people who refused to celebrate Pride Month Nazis .
“They built skyscrapers, split the atom, put men on the moon, and created the greatest economy the world has ever known,” he continued. “We put tampons in boys’ bathrooms and started OnlyFans.”
Schneider is optimistic for the current generation.
“I’m going to tell you something from my heart, a prediction I believe will come true. The greatest generation of Americans we will ever know will be you. Greatness lies in each and every one of you. Young people have always been the engine for greatness.”
To emphasize this notion for his audience, Schneider mentioned the feats accomplished at young ages by historical figures such as Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Isaac Newton, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and even US Founders Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
“Your true inheritance was bequeathed to you by your own kind, not people my age,” he concluded. “This country just turned 250 years old, which means you are standing in the first week of the next 250. The first page of the sequel — and the sequel doesn’t get written by the people in the portraits. It gets written by whoever’s young enough and crazy enough and brave enough to pick up the pen. That’s you. It’s always going to be you: a republic, if you can keep it.”
