Today's episode is from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas where Charlie Kirk was the keynote speaker at the Texas Agriculture and Medicine University. What we are seeing on these college campuses is profound, and it connects to a piece of data that shows how social media is changing the world.
00:00:48.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:54.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:03:05.000With the exception of the great Rush Limbaugh on talk radio, if you were to read a newspaper, if you were to watch television, you would get some symmetry of what was happening in the world.
00:03:18.000Social media has changed all of that, and previously social media was very difficult for us on the right.
00:03:24.000Obama used social media to win both in 2008 and 2012.
00:03:28.000Donald Trump, however, used social media to win in 2016.
00:03:33.000And then, of course, in 2024, we used social media to communicate to the younger generation and move younger voters so significantly, so substantially in a way that shocked the world.
00:05:52.000They're not moving very far to the left, but they don't like Trump, and they're increasingly more and more sympathetic with what the Democrats are doing.
00:05:59.000Now, not the wonderful baby boomers in this audience.
00:06:52.000We are getting back to this idea that actually, we want a future.
00:06:58.000The next generation wants to be able to buy a home, to have kids, and be married.
00:07:02.000And in the latest poll, I want to show this up on stage, the oldest voters, according to real clear opinion research, the older you are, the more likely you are to disapprove of Donald Trump.
00:08:30.000And also, at Texas A&M University, it must be noted that there was an attempted competing liberal group as well, and they drew a couple dozen people to their little thing.
00:08:41.000With all this hype, and they flew all these people in the traveling circus.
00:08:45.000And meanwhile, we were able to draw thousands and thousands of people.
00:08:49.000This is highly unusual, because I went to the campus of Texas A&M University a decade ago, and we were outnumbered.
00:08:57.000We were outnumbered by liberals, leftists, and Democrats.
00:09:03.000We have done to keep on punching and punching and punching.
00:09:44.000I think once the information and the truth comes out, because so many people that are 75 or 80 are being lied to by the news that they are consuming.
00:09:53.000And they watch the news all day long, and of course it's anti-Trump, and of course it's just complete nonsense.
00:10:00.000Ask 10 people to define the word capitalism.
00:10:02.000How many different responses do you think you'll get?
00:10:04.000This is a word that comes up all the time, but does anyone know what it really means?
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00:12:00.000It's breaking news while we're here on air.
00:12:02.000Ukrainian President Zelensky is boasting on the front page of the Wall Street Journal that Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea.
00:12:10.000This statement is very harmful to peace negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of Barack Hussein Obama and is not even a point of discussion.
00:12:22.000Nobody is asking Zelensky to recognize Crimea as Russian territory, but if he wants Crimea, why didn't he fight for it 11 years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired?
00:12:34.000The area also houses, for many years before, the Obama handover, major Russian submarine bases.
00:12:41.000It's inflammatory statements like this that Zelensky makes that makes it so difficult to settle this war.
00:12:51.000He can have peace or he can fight for another three years before losing his whole country.
00:12:55.000I have nothing to do with Russia, but have something to do with wanting to save, on average, 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week who are dying for no reason whatsoever.
00:13:16.000The statement made by Zelensky today will do nothing but prolong the killing field, and nobody wants that.
00:13:23.000We are very close to a deal, but the man with no cards to play should now finally get it done.
00:13:28.000I look forward to being able to help Ukraine and Russia get out of this complete and total mess that would never have started if I was president.
00:13:35.000Okay, let's go through some of the facts.
00:13:37.000Crimea is not able to be retaken, period.
00:15:18.000Zelensky is going to emotionally and politically blackmail Donald Trump to keep this war going.
00:15:24.000That's the only card that Zelensky has to play.
00:15:26.000The only card that Zelensky has to play is to basically say, if you don't help me, Russian tanks will take over my capital, and that will be a political disgrace and a humiliation for you.
00:15:38.000His other card, of course, is to try to start a nuclear war.
00:15:41.000Have terrorists shoot up Russian cities, and he could totally do that.
00:15:44.000There's a ton of Ukrainian sleeper cells all throughout Russia that can be activated and do all sorts of terrible stuff throughout Russia.
00:15:55.000Zelensky thinks he has the cards because he'll say, oh, you don't want to be the U.S. president that had Kiev fall the same way that Kabul fell.
00:16:03.000I want you to think about how sinister that is.
00:16:05.000Basically, Zelensky is saying, I know my country will fall.
00:16:09.000If this war continues and you don't keep on giving me weapons, but you're going to be to blame and I will sacrifice my own people.
00:18:08.000The food industry is making the point that if you basically phase out ingredients that are banned throughout the rest of the world, it would impact 60 percent of food on grocery shelves in the U.S. They were saying that as if it was an argument not to do it.
00:19:13.000President Trump and Bobby Kennedy talk about this all the time, right?
00:19:16.000We have 38% pre-diabetes rates among teens in this country.
00:19:19.000They're going to take common sense action, common sense wins, and we're going to look back on history at this year and this first 100 days of the Trump administration when finally the HHS, the FDA, and the U.S. federal government stood on the side of kids.
00:19:33.000Okay, I want to make sure this is clear, though, that...
00:20:07.000They literally had scientists in a lab figure out how to combine literal petroleum to figure out how to make that neon red and that neon blue.
00:20:17.000And this is really important, Charlie, because I'm a free market person.
00:20:21.000This is actually a free market movement.
00:20:56.000The US companies make the food, make the Froot Loops, make all these foods.
00:21:01.000In the U.S. with watermelon juice, with carrot juice, and they ship them to Canada and ship them to Europe.
00:21:06.000U.S. exported food they make with safer ingredients.
00:21:09.000So they've bought off the organizations here just to have that color a little bit brighter, knowing, knowing that it's harming kids.
00:21:17.000Actually, Charlie, Mr. Paxton, Ken Paxton in Texas, just filed a lawsuit against some of the food companies because he thinks that they knew this many years ago, and he's actually searching for evidence of that.
00:22:45.000The Consumer Brands Association, the American Beverage Association.
00:22:48.000These groups to this day are arguing petroleum-based dyes are safe.
00:22:53.000And the American Beverage Association, Charlie, another huge win from President Trump and Secretary Kennedy.
00:22:58.000They've said we need to take soda off food stamps.
00:23:00.000Why is soda, soda, sugar-laden soda, the number one item?
00:23:06.000On food stamps, $140 billion entitlement program that's supposed to be going to nutrition for lower-income Americans.
00:23:11.000We are literally subsidizing $10 billion a year from food stamps, from the federal treasury to soda companies.
00:23:19.000The American Beverages Association just last week said it was anti-science to suggest that...
00:23:25.000Subsidized soda for kids increases obesity.
00:23:27.000So these groups, the American Beverage Association and the Consumer Brands Association, which is where all these food companies hide, should absolutely be called out.
00:23:35.000You mentioned the dietary guidelines and Fruit Loops not being healthy in general.
00:24:52.000There's some basic market co-option that Secretary Kennedy, working closely with Brooke Rollins, who's been a champion on this, is going to fix.
00:24:58.000So just to make sure I understand, this is going to be a guidance memo or a quote, not an executive order.
00:25:05.000What is the actual technical details of everything around?
00:25:52.000The behavior goes to normal when they stop these artificial diets.
00:25:56.000And it regresses when they reintroduce it.
00:25:58.000So it's like, why are we taking these risks when there are healthy natural ingredients?
00:26:06.000We're changing the way these get authorized so it'll be easier in the future.
00:26:10.000And by the time all these steps take place and have been fulfilled, there will be no more petroleum-based artificial dyes than U.S. food supply.
00:26:29.000It was absolutely incredible, the grassroots movement, and to putting turning point resources out there to capture that moment because, you know, frankly, the mainstream media wasn't there.
00:26:38.000And so it was absolutely incredible to have your organization carry our voices and look at us now, look at what we've accomplished.
00:28:37.000I do want to play this piece of tape, which I think is very interesting.
00:28:43.000The state of the Democrat Party and where they are going to go from here.
00:28:48.000The Democrats are thinking about embracing this new thing called Dark Woke, kind of like Dark Brandon, where they want to try to double and triple down on their most radical left-wing policies,
00:29:10.000If we do not pass this massive tax bill, if we do not cut spending, and if we do not fulfill promises on deportations, There will be a fair amount of anxiety out there, and we could have base decay.
00:30:09.000Democrats are trying out a new attitude.
00:30:11.000It's provocative, edgy, and perilously towing the line.
00:30:16.000I'm going to tell you right now how you beat Dark Woke.
00:30:20.000You beat Dark Woke by making them answer very simple questions about the most radical trans, social, parental, and education, and immigration issues.
00:30:33.000The economic stuff is also changing right now.
00:30:36.000You break Dark Woke by asking them, what is a woman?
00:30:39.000Should men be able to be in female sports?
00:30:43.000Should... Men be able to go into female locker rooms?
00:30:47.000Nothing has changed except this is trashy woke, is what this is.
00:30:51.000So they say it's woke, except it's nasty and hostile to people who disagree with it.
00:30:56.000Oh, so you're going to win over more people being nastier and hostile.
00:31:07.000In Republican politics, there is a belief that you can act like a mini-Trump when you run for governor.
00:31:14.000Or you can act as a mini-Trump when you run for the Senate.
00:31:16.000The laws of Trump do not apply to other candidates, period.
00:31:20.000They think that because Trump is a little bit blunt and that our movement has become very truth-telling, that they need to be like Trump.
00:31:29.000Let me tell you guys, the laws of Trump do not apply to you.
00:31:32.000If you think that being dark woke and being nasty to those who disagree with it, so now you're going to be acting more like Trump because that's what you think Trump is?
00:31:42.000And by the way, woke wasn't trashy before.