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00:02:22.000If you get a girl to come home with you and she's sort of like, oh, so this is where you live, kuk clunk, press play on that, and it'll help sort of vibe her into the house, get things groovy, take the tension out.
00:07:34.000In Japan at this very moment, the only people who think that culture shouldn't be shared are racists like you.
00:07:40.000And then scroll down a bit, she goes, to top it off, 80% of Japanese customs, traditions, and food came from other countries.
00:07:46.000Japanese is an integration of different cultures like America.
00:07:50.000Japan takes influences from places like Korea, China, Russia, Europe.
00:07:54.000If Japan stuck to itself, there'd be no tempura, Japanese tea, tea ceremonies, kabuki, Japanese bread, Japanese curry, J-pop, anime, cars, or modern fishing techniques.
00:09:16.000My face was all white with a black mustache and a top hat.
00:09:19.000And I go, that's getting a bit greedy, don't you think?
00:09:23.000And about half the time, the kids would scream blue murder.
00:09:28.000But sometimes you just have, often a girl, actually, like a six-year-old girl would just stare at me after I jumped out of the coffin, not phased one iota.
00:09:36.000One little spoiled brat was dressed as Deadpool with the two swords.
00:10:58.000So they have an unfortunate scenario where one has to be in a chair because they're connected at the head and she has funny little legs.
00:11:04.000So Blake and Josh dressed up as them, dressed up as Cheech and Chong for Halloween.
00:11:14.000So first they got the faces correct and everything.
00:11:17.000And then Blake stood in a box with fake legs coming out of a chair that the other Chappelle sister, Chappelle sister, Shrapnel, I don't know what she's called.
00:12:13.000Whoa, my ghetto blaster's fighting back.
00:12:15.000That's my ghetto blaster telling me that we've got to move on.
00:12:17.000But this is a brief look at Ariana Rollins.
00:12:21.000Well, because we only had 200 seats available and 1,000 people showed up, we wanted to bring Milo back so more people could come see him.
00:12:29.000So 17 days after the conclusion of the event, I went to the administration because they wanted to do a debriefing session about the previous Milo event.
00:12:38.000And at that debriefing session, they told me, well, I said, well, I'm going to bring Milo back right before the election.
00:12:45.000We're going to do a little rally for Trump.
00:12:47.000And they said, well, Ariana, I'm not very happy to hear about that.
00:12:50.000And I said, well, sorry, but it's happening anyway.
00:12:56.000Four hours later, I get an email saying that my club has been suspended for An entire year because we had failed to file a certificate of proof of insurance.
00:13:07.000That's what they do with these conservatives.
00:13:14.000This is her talking to Dana Lash about life as a conservative.
00:13:17.000And by the way, liberals, look what you've done.
00:13:20.000You've created ninja warriors who want to kill you.
00:13:25.000You kept giving all these parameters and antagonizing all these non-liberals.
00:13:30.000I don't even like calling them conservatives.
00:13:31.000And eventually, you made someone who can take you on, who is going purely on the offense.
00:13:35.000What did you think was going to happen?
00:13:37.000So students that are independent thinkers are absolutely scared to be going to, whether it's college libertarian meetings or college Republican meetings.
00:13:46.000Now these posters were actually posted across the campus, but they were specifically targeted where the college Republicans were meeting because they turned them inside out so they'd face into the window so the students could see the message.
00:13:56.000So, I mean, it just shows that if you break from the mold at all, if you're not a part of that hive mind, that collective thought, they're just going to marginalize you and try to make you basically shut up and go away.
00:14:11.000You know, this happened in the Bronx where they shut the Bronx down.
00:14:16.000Robert Moses isolated the Bronx and built a highway through and demolished all these buildings, ruined an entire neighborhood, ruined an entire culture.
00:14:29.000Okay, I know I'm way over here, but I just want to show you the universe that these college Republicans, and not even college Republicans, just college non-social justice warriors.
00:14:39.000I'm going to show you the hell that they live in, and then we'll cut to Ariana Rowlands, okay?
00:14:45.000And we'll jump right after that to Lauren Cooley, and you'll see two women fighting back against these lunatics.
00:14:52.000But before we do, I just want to show you what these lunatics are like.
00:15:49.000You were taking a break from courtship.
00:15:52.000And you had been banned for a year from college campus, your organization, because of some made-up technical glitch in a contract that wasn't even there that said you didn't provide enough security for Milo Yiannopoulos.
00:16:09.000And so after a week of negative articles every single day, and I sort of rejected every single sort of term of compromise from the administration until they did a referral reversal on that ban.
00:16:35.000So especially in California, a lot of lawyers are needed for College Republican clubs because the students and the administration don't really like the students very much, the College Republicans.
00:16:48.000So they try and infringe upon their rights.
00:16:50.000And so I just got elected as state chair of the California College Republicans.
00:16:55.000And one of the new policies that I'm going to enact is I'm going to create a California College Republicans legal defense team that's going to provide pro bono lawyers for the College of Republicans that need it.
00:17:07.000You know, you sound like a revolutionary beatnik in the 50s.
00:17:12.000I bet that the, you know, the radical hippies of the early 50s had to go through similar things at their colleges.
00:17:59.000You know, these people hate us more than ever before.
00:18:01.000No matter what we do, they're always going to hate us.
00:18:05.000No matter how many times we concede, how many times we help them out with a policy and compromise our values, they're still going to turn around the next day and call us a racist or a bigot and try to shut us down.
00:18:17.000So I'm trying to reach out to moderates.
00:18:19.000I'm trying to reach out to people who are already Republicans and get them involved in our cause and champion it.
00:18:25.000Well, we've got Lauren Cooley on the show today, too, and she's doing a Make Campus Grade Again tour.
00:18:32.000And the thing I say to every college Republican is it's not safe anymore because the right has been so dehumanized by the left that it's okay to spit in their face.
00:18:46.000If my kid, I've said this a million times, my kid was conservative, if my kid was a gay conservative, I wouldn't feel safe about sending him to a college, especially in California.
00:19:01.000You know, I was just up there, you know, last month.
00:19:04.000And, you know, I hear stories all the time from the college Republicans about how they're stocked, how they're walking around, and people are taking videos of them, watching them, posting their locations all over social media, wherever they are.
00:19:18.000Just because you disagree on a sort of ideological scale that you're stocked and threatened and physically in danger, I think that's a new level of ridiculous.
00:19:28.000Well, what they've done is They've made the right Nazis.
00:19:32.000So now if you beat up a Republican or spit in his face, you're spitting in the face of Hitler as a teenager, so it's morally justified.
00:22:24.000I mean, they try the Russia thing, they try everything, and he's like RoboCop.
00:22:29.000And I feel like the same thing's happening with you.
00:22:31.000The nice girl didn't win this CCA thing, CCR, because she was too kind.
00:22:39.000So the left has created monsters like you and me.
00:22:43.000Well, yeah, you know, if they wouldn't have infringed upon my rights or my peers' rights so many times, then I wouldn't have had to have fight back.
00:22:50.000I wouldn't have had to kick their ass, basically.
00:22:53.000And every time we kick their ass, we only get stronger because we learn more about how to kick ass.
00:22:59.000So, you know, if they just left me alone, I'd probably, I don't know, maybe I'd be in a sorority or something and be dealing with that drama.
00:23:32.000I can't find any video of this, but there was people screaming wherever you were, and then someone yelling, you're not going anywhere, are you?
00:23:40.000And running back in when you were about to be torn out.
00:23:44.000So there were two conventions, and the first convention ran out of time because the establishment ran down the clock because they realized I was going to win.
00:23:52.000So they hadn't prepared for the fact that I was going to win.
00:23:55.000Even though they tried to cheat and invalidated like a quarter of my delegates.
00:24:01.000And then that was postponed six months until the CRP convention in October.
00:24:05.000And then they also tried to prevent people from voting.
00:24:08.000And when I was trying to get people to vote again, and I was trying to remove the person who was running against me from chairing the meeting, which would give her pretty much ultimate power over decision making, she threatened to throw me out.
00:24:56.000And so she gave all of her voters this proxy card to make them super delegates and then denied my voters their proxy cards and I still won.
00:25:27.000So you've got this legal defense fund to help college Republicans fight back legally because you keep getting bogged down with all this bullshit, with all these made-up stats and these contractual lies.
00:25:42.000And what I find more inspiring is your general message, which is the time for negotiation is passed.
00:27:21.000Ariana, thanks for coming on the show and this is an exciting time for you.
00:27:24.000The last time I spoke to you, it was like you're under a pile of wet blankets bogging you down in bureaucracy and you just threw them off and now you're free.
00:27:35.000Still a ton of wet blankets, but less.
00:27:53.000What are you trying to achieve with this Make Campus Great Again tour?
00:27:58.000So basically what it really came down to is I had a lot of college students reaching out to me and saying, you know, we worked really hard during the election to get Trump elected.
00:28:08.000We worked really hard because we wanted to help make America great again.
00:28:11.000But now that the election's over, what can we do on campus to actually be successful, to actually move the ball forward, to help President Trump here on campus?
00:28:20.000And so I had to sit back and think about it for a few minutes because for so long, I know, at least all my adult life, we were playing defense, right?
00:28:31.000And so the question was, what exactly can we be doing?
00:28:35.000And all of a sudden, I realized we need to be playing offense.
00:28:37.000And so that's where the Make Campus Gradigan tour came from.
00:28:40.000Instead of sitting around and waiting for the liberals or the left on campus to do something crazy and then having, you know, us, the conservatives or the Republicans, say, oh, no, and fight back, why don't we start spearheading our agenda?
00:28:52.000Who cares what the left's doing on campus?
00:29:03.000They're mentally ill would be my addition to that argument.
00:29:07.000And the idea of having an open discourse, I don't know, I'm of two minds about it because I like the idea of, you know, bringing people together.
00:29:15.000But on the other hand, I think, when do you give up?
00:29:52.000He said that the thing about a debate is when you both go in, you both need to have common ground in that you both want to get to the truth.
00:30:01.000But when you debate a liberal these days, they just want to win, they want to cheat, they make up stats, and you go, it's sort of like playing pool with someone where every time you turn around, they're sinking a ball.
00:30:12.000Well, I don't want to play pool with you.
00:30:17.000And that's where the left has gone because it used to be where we had this common denominator where we wanted to see our country succeed.
00:30:23.000But now the left really wants to see, you know, our country fail, wants to see our system of government fail.
00:30:29.000And it's the same type of thinking no matter what topic you're talking with the left on.
00:30:34.000So like let's talk about diversity for a second.
00:30:36.000It used to be we want a diverse group of people, whether that means skin color or gender or what have you, because the ultimate goal was different experiences and different viewpoints.
00:30:46.000Today, a room of leftists would rather everybody had the same exact viewpoint as long as they hit those different categories, which used to bring us to the real diversity, which was diversity of opinion and thought, but now they're just checking off those boxes.
00:30:59.000So no matter what topic you're talking about, yeah, we're not starting from the same point and we're definitely not looking to end at the same point.
00:31:06.000So it's hard to have that conversation.
00:31:08.000So when it comes to campus activism, let's just, you know, take it for what it is and say it's time for us to push our agenda forward.
00:31:30.000If you don't really speak out, if you're just kind of doing your thing, you want to go to class, you're going to hear your professors oftentimes talking about these different leftist policies.
00:31:39.000They're going to try to indoctrinate you.
00:31:40.000You may have to regurgitate some of it in class to get a good grade.
00:31:44.000But for the most part, you can make it through okay.
00:31:48.000The problem is when you're conservative and you speak up and you speak out.
00:31:51.000And that was definitely my experience when I was an undergraduate student.
00:31:55.000You know, I protested liberal speakers that came to campus.
00:31:59.000Automatically, people wanted to call me racist.
00:32:01.000I remember one time I'm sitting in the dining hall and this girl walks up to me and says, so can we talk for a minute?
00:32:40.000So now all you have to do is sort of shove someone into that box, and then you're done with the argument because that box then gets shipped away to Nazi town.
00:32:49.000And I think it's made the left really lazy because when you actually confront them and say something like, how many illegals are in this country?
00:32:56.000Or what do we spend on education per student per year?
00:33:00.000And their answers aren't even in the same realm as reality.
00:33:05.000I had a woman, a lesbian, once tell me that there's 70 billion illegals in America, and that's enough.
00:33:14.000And I go, it's not quite 70 billion, but that would be too many if it were 70 billion.
00:33:22.000I mean, they've forgotten math and they've forgotten facts because they're spoiled rotten.
00:33:28.000Yeah, well, you make a great point because people always tell me, is there any plus side to being a conservative on campus?
00:33:34.000And my argument is if you can get through it, it really makes you stronger because the kids that show up on campus and they already are, you know, left-leaning, their professors tell them what they already believe or what they want to hear.
00:33:48.000They pretty much just regurgitate their own opinion on these tests.
00:33:52.000Everybody pats them on the back when they, you know, do a great job protesting the president and they call it a day.
00:33:58.000They may act like it's so difficult and they need to have these like safe spaces and mass screaming events, which is ones coming up where I guess a year from the day the president was elected, everybody's going to scream to the sky.
00:34:10.000I mean, these are bizarre things, but they really have it pretty easy.
00:34:13.000But the conservative students on campus, they're the ones that actually have to have critical thinking and sharpen their views and be able to actually debate and hold their own against their professors.
00:34:23.000They're the minority thought leaders on campus.
00:34:25.000They've got to be sharp and on top of things.
00:34:27.000But I think that type of pressure really makes you stronger in your beliefs.
00:34:58.000Like every time I check social media, I see another professor has said that all white people need to die.
00:35:06.000I've heard that Trump is Hitler, that there's some assistant professor who's talking about genocide, and he's got his black power fist in the air.
00:35:16.000I mean, it seems like, I saw one the other day.
00:35:19.000It was a group of College Republicans meeting that got stormed by Antifa and these radical lefties who said they were going to prosecute them for hate crimes.
00:35:28.000And then one of them, one of the guys at the College Republican thing, was a registered Democrat, but he was still guilty of a hate crime.
00:35:35.000And then one of the kids said, your mere existence is a hate crime.
00:35:40.000And to that, I say, have we gone past the point of no return?
00:35:44.000Yeah, I mean, so obviously it's not something that we would prefer that these conservative students on campus have to deal with things like this.
00:35:51.000I would prefer that both left-leaning students and right-leaning students are challenged on a daily basis.
00:35:59.000But what you're bringing up is actually becoming the norm, and that's not okay.
00:36:03.000I know this has happened at many colleges across the country, just in this semester alone.
00:36:10.000I reported on a story the other day about how Antifa in New York City is putting up posters of students' faces and names and saying, if you see these students, they're the college Republicans, tell them what you think.
00:36:23.000Meaning, obviously, tell them that you think they're fascists, they're terrible people, and they deserve, you know, X, Y, and Z. So that's becoming the norm.
00:36:31.000That's definitely something that's heightened in the last, I'd say, six months to a year with President Trump coming in.
00:36:37.000But that just shows the difference between how the left behaves when they're in power and the left behaves when they have to play defense.
00:36:44.000We played defense for eight plus years, and we were never posting pictures and names of the college Democrats on campus and saying, oh, tell them how you feel, go beat them up or whatever else.
00:36:55.000And so, yeah, there's definitely a difference, but I think that's where you get the moral high ground with the right versus some of the crazy leftist tactics that we're seeing today.
00:37:04.000Yeah, I think the answer is a balance.
00:37:06.000It's a balance of retaining our morals and retaining our integrity and also fighting dirty.
00:37:12.000I'm not going to pick a fight, but if someone punches me, I'm going to finish that fight, and that's going to include kicking in the balls.
00:37:19.000Well, you know, so one thing that I tell students a lot is they need to read Solinsky's Rules for Radicals.
00:37:25.000And I think it's a great book, not because I endorse everything in there or the fact that it's dedicated to the devil himself, but I think, one, we need to understand the tactics that the left is using.
00:37:37.000And two, a lot of these political tactics are philosophically neutral.
00:37:42.000And so when it comes down to it, yeah, we have the moral high ground and we're not going to post pictures of leftist students and humiliate them.
00:37:51.000And I mean, we're going to win on ideas.
00:37:53.000But at the same time, I think there are some really edgy, forward-thinking activism ideas that students can be doing that right now a lot aren't just because we're so not used to being in the position that we're in.
00:38:05.000So that's really the whole point of my tour with Make Campus Great again is just we've got to change the way that we do activism on campus.
00:38:13.000And if we're not planning out our goals and our activism projects and we know exactly what we're after, the left is going to continue to hound us.
00:38:21.000And so just because we won this one election, President Trump's in the White House, we've got to be doing a lot more on campus to succeed.
00:38:28.000Well, I wish you nothing but the best.
00:39:04.000They meant we don't have a diversity of thought here, and we don't want you here if you don't agree with us.
00:39:10.000And I think what we're learning here from the new right, the offensive right, the young new right, is it's not their campus, it's everyone's campus, and that includes the non-liberals.
00:39:22.000So the next time they say, whose campus our campus, say, get off my campus.