Why are Democrats not adjusting to the new political order? Also, we give some advice to some Turning Point USA students on the front lines. We talk about Taiwan from a member, and again, you guys can be on the program if you become a member.
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00:02:00.000The issues in the colleges that we see at Harvard and everything and all the problems that they've created with the protests that they don't want to get rid of over hatred speech towards Jewish or a certain group.
00:02:11.000The second question also is, what is up with all of our – the other side of politicians wanting these gang members to say?
00:02:21.000I'm seeing it with local Democrat politicians in my area that are legislators that are saying – Like, they support these illegals and basically kicking their voters to the curb.
00:02:32.000Yeah, I just, look, I try to understand the Democrat mind.
00:02:36.000I seek to be an expert in the liberal consciousness.
00:05:19.000I flew to Taiwan with my husband in February to visit my mom-in-law, and while I was there, I became reconnected.
00:05:25.000With an old friend who is now elected the chairwoman of the Formosa Alliance, a very small but pro-America party based in Taiwan.
00:05:33.000And she's arguably the most pro-Trump Taiwanese I know.
00:05:36.000And she's faithfully followed his every move over the past four years.
00:05:41.000And I believe God has a hand in all of this.
00:05:45.000So Formosa Alliance's former chairman, Reverend Lo is hoping to come to see the National Prayer Breakfast next spring.
00:05:52.000And the founder of the party, Dr. George, is also a Christian and a developer, no less.
00:05:57.000So we at the Alliance are concerned that Taiwan's really democratic progressive party being factually and heavily infiltrated by Chinese operatives.
00:06:07.000And plenty of lawmakers have business dealings with China.
00:06:52.000But that's where the controversy came in, because that was the republic that the warlord, Chiang Kai-shek, set up before his defeat by Mao Zedong.
00:07:07.000Right. And so Taiwan is much more of a free society than the Chinese Communist Party.
00:07:14.000You know, I do feel called to visit Taiwan at some point.
00:07:40.000Okay, going back to what you said earlier concerning the peace treaty.
00:07:46.000Okay, according to Article 4B of the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1952, the disposition of both the Ryukyu, that's Japan and Taiwan, which were Japanese property, are subject to the directives of the United States military government.
00:08:04.000So the specifications in the treaty elevate the renewed use to the status of the United Nations trusteeship while continuing under the jurisdiction of USMG.
00:08:15.000For Taiwan, however, with no formal trusteeship agreement in place, a correct description of Taiwan's international legal status is quasi-trusteeship under USMG.
00:08:27.000But there has not been a formal conclusion of the USMG jurisdiction over Taiwan.
00:08:32.000If no such announcement has ever been made, that possibly suggests that Taiwan is an overseas territory of the U.S. Got it.
00:08:41.000So, yeah, with that being said, a historian in Taiwan has developed a set of robust way of research and legally based laws about U.S. rightfully taking over Taiwan.
00:08:52.000So is there a person or organization you can...
00:08:55.000Yeah, you can direct us to, we can speak to?
00:08:58.000Yes. I mean, look, there's a lot of people in the administration that are talking about Taiwan or thinking about it.
00:09:04.000I just want to caution some of what you're saying.
00:09:07.000The Chinese Communist Party believes it's theirs.
00:09:09.000And so any actions that America will do towards Taiwan could be seen as a direct invasion or military threat against the Chinese Communist Party.
00:11:22.000So first off, I just want to say that I've actually been approached recently to about starting a TPUSA chapter at my college, which is an extremely liberal college in Tennessee, so hoping to be able to at least establish that.
00:11:36.000But my main question is, we have seen recently, especially more recently than not, these lifelong Democrats and Republicans just staying in Senate and Congress, not stepping down, even though they are clearly kind of...
00:11:51.000overdoing it and they're just maybe doing it for personal glory, money, laundering, all the wonderful stuff that they actually do.
00:11:58.000So how do we actually have them impose term limits in Senate and Congress?
00:12:04.000I know we could go states convention, but we're about seven states short last I knew.
00:12:10.000So is there any other way we could potentially go about getting this as
00:12:15.000This is one of the great ironies and paradoxes of Congress.
00:12:20.000In order to get Congress to retire itself via term limits, it has to vote on it,
00:12:27.000The best proposal I've seen with term limits, and I think that J.D. Vance, when he runs for president in 2028, should run on congressional term limits.
00:12:37.000I think it should be a core pillar part of his campaign.
00:12:53.000The only way, however, that this can work, the only way it can work, Josh, is if it only goes into effect with future members.
00:13:03.000So if you are some octogenarian like McConnell or Grassley, you guys are not term limited.
00:13:10.000Therefore, they don't have to retire themselves.
00:13:12.000That's the only way that I've ever had it, is that current members are exempt.
00:13:16.000They're grandfathered in, which I honestly think is morally pretty fair because they were elected with different rules, but future members are term-limited.
00:13:24.000I think it should be probably two terms or maybe three for a U.S. senator, and then I think three or four for a member of Congress.
00:13:32.000I do want to caution everybody, though.
00:13:34.000This will not fix all of our problems.
00:13:37.000California has strict term limits, and they are completely messed up.
00:13:41.000Term limits are not a skeletal key to a free society.
00:14:32.000Actually, on that topic, as we are celebrating and observing this blessed time of year, which is Holy Week, what is a hymn that you look forward to singing on Easter Sunday?
00:15:10.000And in my conversation with Bill Maher, that will air on Sunday, I tried to explain the concept of grace to him, and he was rather mystified by it.
00:15:50.000The term Easter was a pagan term that was redeemed.
00:15:55.000But no, Easter itself is actually always aligning with the Jewish Passover, Pesca, which is happening this week as well, that those two things are always overlaid with one another.
00:16:07.000And the resurrection and the promise of Jesus, honestly, can be best described as a fresh start, as a reset.
00:16:14.000It's a beautiful idea, and it's a truism that has captivated billions of people throughout time.
00:16:33.000So I encourage people to check it out.
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00:19:13.000Look, it will remain its system, but they're so focused on their peculiar issues and their petty rivalries and their own little fiefdoms and their own little he-said-she-said nonsense.
00:19:22.000I literally, we spent a whole weekend right before the election.
00:19:26.000We took our entire team to Lincoln, and I met with the governor, who was fine on this.
00:21:11.000And I haven't been paying attention a lot, largely because of how scorned and bitter I became after spending time doing this in the fall.
00:21:20.000But look, I also want to say, to your credit, I'm very much happy how much people still care about this, that people understand this matters.
00:21:29.000And I am curious, could we give it a go at it back in 2026, Blake?
00:21:35.000Because I think they still do a session in 2026.
00:21:52.000Jonathan, thank you for being a member.
00:21:55.000My team has sent me something about you and your dad coming to AmFest and something that happened, but you wanted to ask me a question in the members' room.
00:22:10.000So, yeah, I'm actually the guy, I don't know if you remember or not, I actually got to ask Ben Shapiro a question on the Israel-Palestine war.
00:22:17.000Back at AM Fest in Arizona, and that was excellent.
00:22:22.000I was wondering what the next big Trump event is, so I can actually take my dad to an excellent...
00:22:26.000He's fine now, but I didn't want to take him to an excellent new event that he can actually enjoy himself.
00:22:31.000Absolutely. I will say that the next big event that you guys can attend, and we'll give you both free tickets because of what you had to go through with your dad's heart attack, is our SAS event that is in Tampa, Florida.
00:22:43.000It's our Student Action Summit in July.
00:22:48.000Daisy will reach out to you, and we'd love to give you some complimentary tickets.
00:22:52.000And for those of you in the audience, it might be called the Student Action Summit, and it's primarily students, but people of all ages are able to attend.
00:23:21.000My question is, I am a sophomore at Lehigh University, and we got denied last semester and this semester for starting a chapter of Turning Point.
00:23:29.000I just want some advice, and if there's any resources Turning Point can offer to pretty much aid our support in getting TPUSA registered on campus, that would be awesome.
00:23:49.000We would be happy to give you as many resources as we can on the local level, and I think that is a private school, if not mistaken, right?
00:23:58.000You know, one of the things I want the Trump administration to entertain is if these schools receive federal money, are they really private schools?
00:24:05.000And so they're able to act with widespread discrimination.
00:24:09.000Now, mind you, there is some caution here because Christian schools shouldn't have to all of a sudden do all the woke stuff if a Democrat president becomes president.
00:24:17.000So we've got to be careful here, right?
00:24:41.000But I am of the legal opinion for now that if you receive subsidized federal student loans, research grant money, or other subsidies, Why is it that you're allowed to suppress freedom of speech?
00:24:53.000So we're happy to connect you with the Alliance Defending Freedom.
00:24:56.000They do a great job with that, and thank you for your advocacy.
00:24:59.000And please come to our Student Action Summit.
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00:29:46.000Robert, Robert, thank you for being a member.
00:29:48.000Members.CharlieKirk.com, what's on your mind?
00:29:50.000Well, I wanted to know how WindRed is functioning.
00:29:54.000When it initially was created, it seemed like a great tool, and then I learned first that the distribution of funds was being controlled at the time by McConnell.
00:30:06.000And he was not funding candidates like Gary Lake.
00:30:11.000And then I found that they even would publish an appeal and advertise a given candidate.
00:30:20.000And when I dug into it, if you donated $100, only $1 went to the candidate.
00:30:27.000The other $99 went wherever they wanted to put them.
00:30:37.000So you're partially correct on this, and it's an important concern.
00:30:42.000So WinRed is a payment processor, so it connects the donor to where they want to donate.
00:30:49.000The biggest issue with WinRed is that some people think they're donating to a candidate, as to your very astute point, Robert, and it goes to a candidate's committee.
00:31:02.000Let's say that you get a text message from a candidate that you like and that you support.
00:31:06.000Let's say that it's J.D. Vance or Donald Trump or even more locally, let's say it's Ted Cruz.
00:31:13.000What you might not always realize is that Ted Cruz is sending that email on behalf of a joint fundraising committee, and it's not actually going to the campaign.
00:31:22.000It might be going to the Senate McConnell's fund.
00:31:26.000Now, WinRed, to their credit, though, they'll work with individual candidates and all that.
00:31:30.000The biggest problem I have with WinRed, and I have told them this, is how they share the data to other campaigns.
00:31:36.000And, Robert, I bet you get a nauseating amount of emails and text messages, don't you?
00:31:42.000The amount of fundraising solicitations that they send out, and I've said this to the RNC, I've said this to Michael Watley, you are losing your base with how much email volume you are sending out.
00:31:55.000Triple, a 50, match, get your gold card.
00:31:58.000I mean, like, okay, I'm all for raising money.
00:33:13.000Diane, wondering if your thoughts on all the Democrat infighting taking place between David Hogg and James Carville is this evidence of a bigger problem?