The Charlie Kirk Show - Columbia Crashes: The Left's Campus Crisis

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:02.000 This is Andrew Colvett filling in for Charlie Kirk.

00:00:04.000 We have an amazing show in store.

00:00:06.000 This is actually an amazing hour.

00:00:09.000 We talk about the college campus craziness.

00:00:13.000 The pro-Hamas protesters, the inmates are running the asylum.

00:00:17.000 All hell is breaking loose.

00:00:19.000 And we break it down.

00:00:20.000 And I will say, after having a really rough April, it's somewhat, I will say, satisfying to see the left eating itself.

00:00:29.000 We break down the ideological inconsistencies that are at the heart of what's happening at Columbia, NYU, and other schools across the country, and how the left is struggling to deal with the fissures, the fractures within its own ranks.

00:00:44.000 You're not going to want to miss it.

00:00:45.000 We also have Blake Neff, our resident Dartmouth grad, an Ivy League himself, to help us analyze Buckle Up.

00:00:51.000 Here we go.

00:00:52.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:54.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

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00:01:51.000 We're going to be talking at the beginning of this show about all of this campus craziness that's going on because this exposes a fault line and the left's ideology unlike just about anything else.

00:02:04.000 It creates a rock and a hard place for the American political left.

00:02:11.000 It's progressives eating themselves in real time, and it's quite something to behold.

00:02:17.000 You have sort of the law and order faction of the Democrat Party, the Democrat system.

00:02:22.000 You sell cops in Democrat cities, after all.

00:02:24.000 They have a job to do to maintain the peace and order, at least ostensibly so.

00:02:29.000 They're hamstrung at every turn by woke politicians, Democrat politicians, especially in a place like New York.

00:02:35.000 And yet, they also have to contend with this woke ideology of intersectionality and DEI, which places a hierarchy of value on different protected classes.

00:02:45.000 So in that hierarchy, you have gender-confused peoples. 0.88

00:02:51.000 You have black and brown individuals.

00:02:55.000 You have indigenous peoples.

00:02:57.000 And then you have Jewish somewhere below. 0.99

00:03:00.000 As Alan Dershowitz wrote yesterday, he said that it's clear that Jews are second-class citizens.

00:03:06.000 And now they are joining the ranks of white people in this country that have been much maligned in recent years as second or third class citizens in their own country.

00:03:17.000 It's a sight to behold.

00:03:18.000 It's absolutely horrifying.

00:03:21.000 And so what we're seeing on campuses like Columbia is an explosion of violence.

00:03:29.000 They call it peaceful protesting.

00:03:31.000 We know that at least one woman was stabbed.

00:03:33.000 There's also been massive clashes with police.

00:03:36.000 There's been mass arrests at Columbia last night.

00:03:39.000 150 people were arrested.

00:03:43.000 There was 45 people arrested last night at Yale for trespassing.

00:03:47.000 And then you have the blowback after that.

00:03:49.000 So go ahead and play Cut 74 just as Brole if you want.

00:03:53.000 Play it in the background.

00:03:54.000 This is anti-Israel protesters carrying flares in the middle of the night last night after 150 of these protesters at Colombia were arrested.

00:04:06.000 So I see this image and I instantly go, oh, wait.

00:04:10.000 This is like the pro-Hamas version of the Charlottesville Tiki torches that we hear so much about.

00:04:18.000 And they're all wearing the headscarves in solidarity with Hamas. 0.98

00:04:24.000 And again, I think it's really important to state the obvious fact here.

00:04:27.000 And I'm sure in this audience, we have people that are more and less sympathetic to the state of Israel for varying reasons.

00:04:34.000 We could talk about those.

00:04:37.000 But it's really, really amazing to see how all of these, this moralizing, all of this, these momentary value hierarchies completely flipped around.

00:04:51.000 So we were told that Charlottesville was the worst thing that ever happened.

00:04:54.000 And then all of a sudden, you see the left doing just about the same thing.

00:04:58.000 It's important to remember where this started.

00:05:01.000 October 7th, 1,200, 1,300 Jews were slaughtered in cold blood in a planned terrorist attack where they invaded Israel.

00:05:09.000 And so now this eruption of violence is absolutely striking and shocking that these are the people they're rallying behind because Israel retaliated.

00:05:20.000 What did they think was going to happen?

00:05:22.000 I want to talk to these protesters on the streets.

00:05:25.000 If you have a terrorist group, Hamas, which keeps its people in abject poverty, and yes, Israel is antagonistic towards Hamas, which understandably so, since Hamas wants to destroy Israel. 0.57

00:05:40.000 If you were going to go kill 1,200, 1,300 Jews in cold blood, did you not think there would be a response, a military response in Gaza? 0.56

00:05:51.000 Or was that the plan the whole time? 0.98

00:05:53.000 Is that you were going to kill 1,200 Jews and then play the victim afterwards when there was a response? 0.96

00:06:00.000 And yet, this is what they're contending with. 0.96

00:06:04.000 They are forced to confront their own twisted, nonsensical, full of moral and intellectual and ideological pretzel making of their own intellects.

00:06:17.000 And they are confused.

00:06:18.000 The left is confused.

00:06:19.000 They don't know how to handle this.

00:06:21.000 And so I'm thinking towards Charlottesville, that image that we just played on the screen of the flares, relating it back to the Tiki torches.

00:06:30.000 And, you know, Joe Biden got asked about this very same thing.

00:06:35.000 So the reporter comes and asks Joe Biden, do you condemn the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses?

00:06:40.000 And then he says, yes, of course I do.

00:06:44.000 And we have a program for that.

00:06:46.000 Well, should, you know, do you, do you defend what Israel is doing? 0.51

00:06:51.000 Well, I've told them to ease off.

00:06:52.000 You got to understand, this is Biden trying to thread the needle.

00:06:56.000 He's trying to play both sides.

00:06:58.000 This is Joe Biden's Verifying People moment.

00:07:01.000 It's an incredible piece of tape.

00:07:04.000 And we're just pulling it up here.

00:07:05.000 I really want you guys to hear it.

00:07:06.000 It's going to be 76.

00:07:09.000 This is an amazing moment where we are, let's go ahead and play it, and then I'll react to it on the other side.

00:07:15.000 76.

00:07:16.000 Condemn the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses.

00:07:19.000 I condemn the anti-Semitic protests.

00:07:21.000 That's why I've set up a program to deal with that.

00:07:24.000 I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians and how they're being removed.

00:07:31.000 Should the Columbia University president resign?

00:07:34.000 I didn't know that.

00:07:35.000 I'm going to have to find out more.

00:07:37.000 Literally, very fine people on both sides.

00:07:41.000 Now, the way that the left has spun that clip over the years, obviously it's been debunked.

00:07:46.000 The president was not saying that Nazis are very fine people at all.

00:07:51.000 Now, without going into all that, it's just hilarious how the shoe is on the other foot.

00:07:55.000 And now, the elite leftists are realizing that they are no exception to the far left's all-consuming demand to wage war against civilization.

00:08:07.000 The left is an anti-civilizational movement.

00:08:11.000 Where there is order, they sow chaos.

00:08:14.000 Where there is law, they want criminality.

00:08:21.000 My heart goes out to the Jewish kids on campus, to my Jewish friends, my rabbi friends.

00:08:27.000 I feel terrible watching this for them because it's also insane.

00:08:31.000 But there is just a bit of, I mean, I'm popping a little bit of popcorn because this is absolutely insane to watch them grapple with a nonsensical ideology that is so anti-civilizational, they are trying to act like, you know, they've got this under control.

00:08:49.000 And now, let's remember what this all goes back to.

00:08:52.000 There were 100,000 people in Michigan that voted uncommitted.

00:08:58.000 And Joe Biden basically knows he will not be president if he does not hold the blue wall.

00:09:04.000 And so he's turned his back on Israel.

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00:10:09.000 Getting into this ideological conundrum that the left finds themselves in.

00:10:15.000 And again, remember, this is all because Joe Biden needs to win Michigan.

00:10:20.000 Michigan, the blue wall.

00:10:21.000 We've talked about it a lot on this program.

00:10:24.000 It's the blue wall of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.

00:10:28.000 And don't forget Minnesota, by the way.

00:10:30.000 Joe Biden spent a lot of money on Minnesota.

00:10:32.000 He just dispatched three very high-priced, high-paid, experienced operators into Minnesota to shore up Minnesota because Minnesota is a little different than the blue wall.

00:10:42.000 As you remember, it did not break for Trump in 2016 when the other three did, but it's been narrowing and there's a lot of good people in Minnesota.

00:10:51.000 So don't give up on Minnesota.

00:10:52.000 It might be a bit of a white whale at this point, but never forget about it.

00:10:56.000 So you've got this blue wall plus Nebraska, and I promise you there are going to be updates on Nebraska.

00:11:04.000 So keep your eye on any two.

00:11:06.000 That's Congressional District 2 in Nebraska and see how if Pillen and the legislature there, it's actually a unicameral Senate are going to move on this winner take all.

00:11:19.000 We're hearing some whispers.

00:11:20.000 So keep your eye on that space.

00:11:23.000 But let's remember, Joe Biden right now has to win the blue wall plus Nebraska second congressional.

00:11:30.000 He's the president, 270 to 268.

00:11:32.000 So Michigan has 100,000 uncommitted voters.

00:11:35.000 This Israel Hamas dynamic is a massive thorn in his side. 0.97

00:11:41.000 Then you compound that with RFK.

00:11:43.000 There's a lot going on here, people.

00:11:45.000 A lot in the equation for Joe Biden.

00:11:47.000 So he's basically trying to play both sides.

00:11:50.000 There's very fine people on both sides, if you will.

00:11:54.000 We played that clip eventually.

00:11:57.000 So, so there's very fine people on both sides trying to thread the needle.

00:12:01.000 But guess what?

00:12:02.000 Donald Trump, in the one minute that he has to come and talk to the media, calls him out on it.

00:12:09.000 And this is, you know, for all of the distractions, for all of the critiques of Donald Trump, you've got to give this man his due.

00:12:17.000 He hits the nail on, he has a way of doing this unlike any other politician I've ever seen.

00:12:23.000 And you see it in little ways.

00:12:25.000 You see it when he gives a nickname to one of his opponents, how he zeroes in on that very tiny little opening and he exposes it.

00:12:35.000 Well, guess what?

00:12:35.000 He's doing that right now when he's critiquing what Joe Biden is doing with Israel.

00:12:40.000 It's very fascinating.

00:12:41.000 Let's go ahead and play Cut 58.

00:12:43.000 Again, remember the context here.

00:12:44.000 He's in court in New York, surrounded by police.

00:12:48.000 No protesters are anywhere near him.

00:12:51.000 But he sees what's going on on college campuses and he calls it out.

00:12:55.000 And really, it's just a marvel if you look at how he just picks apart Joe Biden right where it hurts.

00:13:02.000 Play Cut 58.

00:13:04.000 What's going on at the college level and the colleges, Columbia, NYU, and others is the disgrace.

00:13:12.000 And it's really on Biden.

00:13:15.000 He has the wrong signal.

00:13:16.000 He's got the wrong tone.

00:13:17.000 He's got the wrong words.

00:13:18.000 He doesn't know who he's backing.

00:13:20.000 And it's a mess.

00:13:22.000 If this were me, he'd be after me.

00:13:26.000 He'd be after me so much, but they're trying to give him a pass.

00:13:29.000 But what's going on is a disgrace to our country.

00:13:32.000 And it's all by dissolved, and everybody knows it.

00:13:35.000 He's got no message.

00:13:37.000 He's got no compassion.

00:13:38.000 He doesn't know what he's doing.

00:13:40.000 He can't put two sentences together, frankly. 0.61

00:13:43.000 He is the worst president in the history of our country. 0.82

00:13:46.000 And again, what's going on is a disgrace. 0.95

00:13:49.000 Let's go ahead and keep following that up.

00:13:50.000 I love the you know, our team is messaging in the chat, like, oh, I wish the audio was better and all this.

00:13:55.000 You know what?

00:13:55.000 I love it.

00:13:57.000 He's taking advantage of the time he's given because he's basically on house arrest, but it's, you know, he's inside of a court.

00:14:04.000 He can't campaign.

00:14:04.000 Biden's done three campaign stops in Pennsylvania.

00:14:07.000 You know what?

00:14:07.000 The audio is what it is.

00:14:08.000 It shows that he is the victim of a corrupt system.

00:14:12.000 He's doing his best.

00:14:13.000 And I think enough people are seeing just how corrupt and disgusting this trial is that they're giving him a pass.

00:14:20.000 But guess what?

00:14:21.000 He still has the presence of mind to comment on the biggest news story of the day.

00:14:26.000 And that's these Columbia protests, these NYU protests.

00:14:29.000 Let's play 59.

00:14:30.000 He keeps going.

00:14:31.000 That's interesting outside for great Americans, people that want to come down and they want to protest at the court and they want to protest peacefully.

00:14:41.000 We have more police presence here than anyone's ever seen.

00:14:44.000 For blocks, you can't get near this courthouse.

00:14:46.000 And yet you have nobody up at a college where you have very radical people wanting to rip the colleges down, the universities down.

00:14:56.000 And that's a shame.

00:14:57.000 But it all starts with Joe Biden.

00:14:59.000 The signals he puts out are so bad.

00:15:02.000 The signals he puts out are so bad.

00:15:04.000 I think this is Trump 101.

00:15:07.000 This is an amazing masterclass and pinpointing just where he's vulnerable.

00:15:12.000 And he's putting him right in that rock in a hard place.

00:15:15.000 And I love it.

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00:16:38.000 I'm joined by Blake Neff, one of our other producers on the show for this hour.

00:16:42.000 And the reason being, Blake, is you are a resident Ivy League graduate.

00:16:49.000 You don't lead with that to your credit, but you do have experience in this way.

00:16:54.000 So I wanted to bring you in for this part of the discussion.

00:16:56.000 Blake, I am enjoying the heck out of watching the left eat itself because it feels like for the last couple of days, we've been talking incessantly about the factions within the right.

00:17:11.000 You see this play out perfectly with this foreign aid bill.

00:17:15.000 And it seems like Johnson's just basically abandoned his right flank.

00:17:19.000 He used to be a part of that right flank, but now he has to be an adult in the room, or so the Atlantic and others would like you to believe.

00:17:26.000 But I think that there is inspiration here.

00:17:29.000 Now, again, I feel bad for people that are suffering because of this and all the chaos that's ensuing, but it's exposing a fault line that we would absolutely be insane not to exploit on the left.

00:17:42.000 Am I right?

00:17:43.000 Well, exactly.

00:17:44.000 You know, we were discussing this when we were thinking, what should we cover?

00:17:46.000 And it's been a tough April, I think, for conservatives.

00:17:50.000 We've seen the House let us down.

00:17:53.000 We've seen conflict within our own ranks.

00:17:55.000 And it was useful today to pause and remember: wait, actually, the Democrats have a bunch of reasons.

00:18:01.000 They all dislike each other too.

00:18:02.000 And those are getting really intense.

00:18:04.000 We're seeing serious attacks on Biden.

00:18:07.000 They're not lightening up.

00:18:09.000 It's been six months since October 7th.

00:18:11.000 It's all getting worse.

00:18:12.000 We're hearing these genocide Joe chants all over the place.

00:18:17.000 And now the weather's warm.

00:18:20.000 I think we're going to see a lot more of these protests.

00:18:22.000 The war in Gaza hasn't ended.

00:18:24.000 We could see the situation where, who knows, maybe Bibbin Netanyahu wants Joe Biden out.

00:18:29.000 And so he'll time one of his big offensives right during the DNC or something.

00:18:33.000 And it's all going to be, but you never know.

00:18:38.000 It is still going.

00:18:39.000 They have delayed it several times.

00:18:42.000 That offensive they were worried about in Rafa, but it's not called off.

00:18:46.000 And I think you could easily see it's not easy to win either way because since this is mostly people on the left on both sides, both sides are really kind of, I don't know what the right word for it is, but they're very agitated very easily.

00:19:03.000 So you look at Columbia, the president of Colombia, he's been, they're calling for him to resign on the relative right because he's not clearing out all the protesters.

00:19:13.000 But on the left, they're also denouncing him because he's arrested some of them.

00:19:16.000 So it's sort of whatever you do, you'll have people freaking out.

00:19:19.000 You called the relative right.

00:19:21.000 You're just talking within the Democrats.

00:19:25.000 These are all still.

00:19:27.000 There's so many of these people on campus who had every BLM sign in 2020, who maybe had hands up, don't shoot in 2014.

00:19:37.000 And now all of these people are like, whoa, wait, wait, they're attacking the thing I care about.

00:19:42.000 They're using all that stuff against me.

00:19:44.000 This is exactly right.

00:19:45.000 Now, the same ideology that was behind Hands Up, Don't Shoot, and Black Lives Matter.

00:19:51.000 I almost said all lives matter.

00:19:52.000 Black Lives Matter.

00:19:53.000 This is just it reinvented.

00:19:55.000 And actually, if you go back far enough, it's part of the Occupy movement energy probably bubbling up.

00:20:01.000 But this is the same ideology reinvented, reworked, pushed by the same ideological core.

00:20:08.000 Oh, I don't want to say that.

00:20:09.000 It has no.

00:20:10.000 We shouldn't say it's the same because, again, a lot of the people on the pro-Israel side are pro-Israel Democrats who were on board with a lot of this.

00:20:21.000 A lot of them were, you'll find them who were, I don't want to say leaders, but prominent voices in this.

00:20:26.000 What I will say is the same is this is a core kernel of leftism as it's existed for the past hundred years, really.

00:20:36.000 There is always this impulse on the left that is anti-civilization, anti-structure, anti-institutions, anti-the West, anti-all of these things.

00:20:49.000 And what's sort of been a tension that's existed is Israel actually represents a lot of these things, especially in the context of the Middle East.

00:20:57.000 But for various reasons, it hasn't been a big issue within the Democratic Party.

00:21:01.000 But thanks to the way that they've reinvented their own party through immigration, through the coalitions they've built, through the ideological fads they've indulged, it's now blowing up on Israel, on people who care about it, and it's really ripping their coalition apart.

00:21:20.000 Well, and I think, you know, I have so many thoughts.

00:21:24.000 The Democrat convention is going to be just lit this year.

00:21:26.000 It's going to be absolute madness.

00:21:30.000 And we need to really be thinking strategically about how we message on that.

00:21:34.000 And we also have to stay disciplined in our messaging, right?

00:21:37.000 Like, I mean, you know, you mentioned April's been a bad month for conservatives.

00:21:40.000 Just no doubt.

00:21:42.000 It's been a write-off month as far as I'm concerned.

00:21:44.000 Just terrible on many fronts.

00:21:46.000 Our base is a little bit demoralized.

00:21:48.000 We need to realize that the fault lines that exist on the left are massive.

00:21:54.000 And you are exposing them piece by piece with this conundrum that is Israel. 0.93

00:21:59.000 Now, we have it a little bit on the right, but I think by magnitudes greater on the left.

00:22:04.000 And I want to play a clip here of John Fetterman, of all people.

00:22:07.000 Now, John Fetterman is a guy.

00:22:09.000 He's a leftist.

00:22:10.000 I think economically, there's no getting around that.

00:22:12.000 I'm not saying he's one of us.

00:22:14.000 Okay.

00:22:14.000 Just, you know, for everybody saying, I don't give into.

00:22:17.000 No, John Fetterman is a symptom of the ideological inconsistencies inside the Democrat Party.

00:22:26.000 Him bubbling up is just, it's sort of like a hat tip to him for having the courage to say it and having the courage of his own convictions.

00:22:32.000 It doesn't mean I believe in all of those convictions.

00:22:34.000 I'm not saying he's a conservative all of a sudden, but listen to John Fetterman.

00:22:39.000 Now, John Fetterman's gone around the protesters waving the Israel flag.

00:22:42.000 He's very pro-Israel.

00:22:43.000 Cut 63.

00:22:45.000 But it is not appropriate or illegal or it's helpful to advance your argument if you show up in a Starbucks, I mean, a Starbucks with a bullhorn and start yelling at people.

00:22:58.000 And that doesn't make you noble. 1.00

00:22:59.000 It just makes you a asshole. 0.99

00:23:01.000 It's very American to protest and to do that in the appropriate way. 1.00

00:23:05.000 Then I absolutely support that.

00:23:07.000 I'm not suggesting that you have to agree with our view, my view, but it's just saying it doesn't really allow you to disrupt lives and to inflict those kinds of damages on people that are just trying to get on with their lives.

00:23:21.000 John Fetterman, the voice of reason within the Democrat Party, we're living through strange times.

00:23:28.000 As they say, this timeline is out of control.

00:23:32.000 Blake, as a Dartmouth grad, as an Ivy Leaguer, when you see this sort of like this effervescent, passionate Just explosion of emotionalism.

00:23:46.000 And it's very infantile, in my opinion.

00:23:51.000 What is the root cause of this?

00:23:54.000 Is it truly held beliefs or is this sort of like mob mentality?

00:23:59.000 What exists on these Ivy Leagues, especially that makes this so possible?

00:24:03.000 Well, a lot of it is, first of all, they're definitely doing they're doing politics the way you're supposed to in modern America.

00:24:12.000 When I was there about 15 years ago, it was pretty much the exact same way as this.

00:24:18.000 It worked the same way.

00:24:20.000 It was only happening on college campuses then.

00:24:22.000 I would go home and I would tell people there's all this crazy stuff that's going to come out of these campuses that's going to blow up America.

00:24:28.000 And they'd be like, oh, that's so funny.

00:24:31.000 But now it's everywhere.

00:24:32.000 But it was the same thing.

00:24:34.000 What you have is it's sort of the culmination of a societal value set that rewards victimhood, that has relentlessly pushed all of history as a contest between victims and oppressors, between exploiters and exploited.

00:24:55.000 And when that's the entire way that you're framing the moral nature of reality, then you're going to make it so the people who go to top campuses are the people who have most successfully internalized this worldview.

00:25:09.000 They've learned to use it to get what they want.

00:25:12.000 They've also, frankly, used it to get into the school.

00:25:15.000 I mean, we have almost every single person on these campuses, like they end up having some sort of sob story for why they should be allowed in.

00:25:22.000 I know someone who was actually from a quite wealthy background, but they got into Dartmouth by writing an essay that basically tried to pretend that they were really poor and it seems to have worked.

00:25:34.000 I know another person who got in who was Asian, but what he did is he strongly implied that he was half Native American and this somehow worked.

00:25:44.000 And so this is when you have your entire value structure built around this.

00:25:49.000 Oh, what a shocker.

00:25:50.000 You have a giant group of people who are prepared to side with anyone that gets labeled a victim, no matter how abhorrent they are. 0.99

00:25:58.000 So Hamas are evil people who fly into rock concerts to murder people and rape people and kidnap people. 0.80

00:26:06.000 And then when they face any consequences for this, they sob about how sad it is that they're getting bombed and attacked. 0.97

00:26:12.000 And the people at Ivy Leagues are like, yes, they're the victims.

00:26:16.000 They're the, it's really sad what's happening to those Hamas people.

00:26:19.000 And yeah, now it's ripping apart the left.

00:26:23.000 And we should, I don't want to say like we should work to exploit it.

00:26:26.000 I think we should, we should, but don't overthink it.

00:26:30.000 We're fans of Senator Holly.

00:26:32.000 We're fans of Senator Cotton, but they recently called to send the National Guard in on campus.

00:26:38.000 I wouldn't do that yet.

00:26:40.000 I think, first of all, we shouldn't end up overreaching and becoming anti-free speech here.

00:26:46.000 We are supporters of free speech.

00:26:48.000 We should not blow that all up.

00:26:50.000 Well done.

00:26:51.000 Yeah, I'm not pro sending in the National Guard, but this whole leftist thing where they just occupy zones, like whether it be Chaz in Seattle or this like, you know, Hamas city that they've just built, this Gaza Plaza or whatever they're calling it at Columbia University, that to me is completely, you know, unacceptable and it should not be allowed to happen.

00:27:13.000 But I do think it should be handled on the local level.

00:27:16.000 But again, you're dealing with a city that is so beholden to these woke ideologies that I just don't know that they can deal with it.

00:27:23.000 But it's starting to become very, very clear to me, Blake, as we look towards November and the messaging discipline that we should have on the right.

00:27:30.000 When you've got, you know, this is a subtle story.

00:27:32.000 We haven't touched on it, but Charlie in a chat got really upset about it yesterday.

00:27:37.000 So I'm going to bring it up.

00:27:38.000 And that's, you see, this bill in California where they're trying to ban clear at the airports.

00:27:45.000 For those of you who don't know, I mean, if some credit cards offer this for free, if you sign up for the credit card card, they'll give you a clear membership.

00:27:51.000 And it's basically where you scan your eyes, you get front of the pat, you get front of the line at the airport check-in, getting through security.

00:27:59.000 It may seem unrelated, but to me, it's this assault on, you know, why don't they just ban first-class tickets, right?

00:28:08.000 Why don't they ban success?

00:28:10.000 Why don't they ban merit?

00:28:11.000 None of these things are consistent with the ideology.

00:28:14.000 And actually, if you really get down to it, a lot of people hate Israel because Israel's been successful, been successful as a country.

00:28:22.000 Jewish immigrants to America have had a lot of success in different ways.

00:28:26.000 They then see them as oppressors.

00:28:28.000 So it's part of this ideology where if you just sum it up, the left is at war with merit.

00:28:34.000 The left is at war with success.

00:28:36.000 The left is at war with anything that would allow you to get ahead.

00:28:42.000 And they're so ideologically driven that they can't help themselves.

00:28:46.000 They're even going to ban clear at the airports.

00:28:49.000 And it kind of sums it up.

00:28:51.000 It's like, you don't have to agree with us on everything.

00:28:54.000 But guess what?

00:28:55.000 There's one side of the aisle that still believes in an America where you can get ahead, where you can stay ahead, where you can make your family and your future better.

00:29:02.000 And there's a whole other party that says, we don't care.

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00:30:04.000 All right, let's throw this graph up, Blake.

00:30:07.000 You're skeptical about this, but let's start up.

00:30:09.000 Cut 78.

00:30:10.000 Just throw up the image.

00:30:11.000 This is a April 2024 national poll that basically posits that the more hours you work a week, the more likely you are to vote for Donald Trump.

00:30:23.000 So right at 30 to 39 hours a week, it's about even 43 for Trump, 45 for Biden.

00:30:29.000 But you see a big split at 40 to 49 hours.

00:30:32.000 You got 50% Trump to 38% Biden.

00:30:36.000 At 50 to 59 hours a week, you get 59% Trump to 35% Joe Biden.

00:30:42.000 And then at 60 plus hours a week, it's 80 to 7.

00:30:46.000 All right.

00:30:47.000 And that is from ECP, which I'm not exactly sure the source.

00:30:51.000 So, you know, I wish I had more on the source.

00:30:54.000 I didn't look that up before.

00:30:55.000 Blake, if you can get some details on that.

00:30:57.000 Now, what's interesting about this, when you relate it back to this cutting the line bill in California, when you relate it back to Israel, and I think it's almost too simplistic, but it's almost extremely accurate to say that one of the reasons Israel is the second class citizen on the leftist hierarchy is they code as white, that whiteness. 0.86

00:31:22.000 But overall, this is an attack against success, against working hard, against this American idea that you can make your life better if you put the work in, of meritocracy.

00:31:32.000 The best gets to the front of the line.

00:31:34.000 If you can afford or have good credit, You can get that house.

00:31:39.000 If you can get the credit card that has the clear pass with it, I think it's American Express and maybe some others.

00:31:46.000 You get to get to the front of the line at the airport.

00:31:49.000 They hate this stuff.

00:31:50.000 They hate it.

00:31:51.000 They hate standardized test scores.

00:31:53.000 They got rid of them and now they're all bringing them back because they realize that the students that were getting high test scores were actually the best students.

00:31:59.000 So, I mean, it's one thing after the other, but it's embedded deeply within their ideology and it must be exploited because leftism leads to mediocracy.

00:32:10.000 Hear me again: leftism leads to mediocracy.

00:32:14.000 And by the way, Blake, you, as our resident Ivy Leaguer, would agree that there's still a lot of smart kids at these Ivy Leagues.

00:32:24.000 It's not to say that.

00:32:25.000 But it's an ideology that's at war with their own exceptionalism.

00:32:29.000 Am I wrong?

00:32:29.000 Were they not that exceptional?

00:32:31.000 Yeah.

00:32:32.000 Well, they're less exceptional than they were before.

00:32:34.000 You have a higher and higher share who they are getting recruited for reasons that aren't just like raw ability.

00:32:42.000 You have much more, you know, rewarding spoils just based on basically, you know, skin color or sex or some sort of grievance story.

00:32:51.000 It's still highly demanding to get in.

00:32:52.000 These are very competitive places.

00:32:54.000 That's why I'm skeptical of that poll.

00:32:56.000 Where it's mostly, it's mostly true.

00:32:58.000 It's definitely true that if you work more than 40 hours, you're more likely to vote for Trump.

00:33:02.000 It's just at that 60-plus hour range where they say it's 80% Trump.

00:33:07.000 The people who work that many hours, I associate it with like corporate attorneys, finance professionals, doctors in residency.

00:33:16.000 You get, it gets weirder on that end.

00:33:18.000 And the idea that only 7% of those small businesses, though, Blake, small businesses putting in that many hours.

00:33:25.000 That's the people that own their own construction company, for example.

00:33:30.000 But I just say where you have thousands and thousands of people working that much.

00:33:36.000 I think you see that a lot in like, frankly, high-end professionals.

00:33:39.000 People who are in elite professional jobs actually work more hours than people who aren't.

00:33:45.000 And sadly, those people are liberal these days because that's the status ideology to hold.

00:33:50.000 I don't want to get down the rabbit hole of this.

00:33:51.000 What is true, you are correct, is this cancerous aspect of the left of being hostile to anything successful, being suspicious of anything successful, it is clearly getting worse and it's manifesting in a million different ways.

00:34:08.000 And the oldest principle in economics is sort of you get more of what you pay for, more of what you subsidize.

00:34:14.000 Just the other day, the Obama administration, Obama, the Biden administration sued Sheets, the convenience store, because they're discriminating against people with a criminal record in hiring.

00:34:28.000 And they say you can't do that because it's causing you to hire too many white people.

00:34:32.000 Well, okay, if you're sending the message that you can't be opposed to hiring criminals, well, you're going to get more criminals. 0.92

00:34:39.000 You're going to hire more criminals.

00:34:42.000 And that's especially bad when we also don't punish criminals anymore.

00:34:46.000 And we see this in a million different places.

00:34:49.000 In California, UC San Diego, they just implemented a new rule where if you want to go to a selective major like computer science, it doesn't come down to your grades.

00:34:59.000 It's going to come down to your background.

00:35:02.000 How much money do your parents make?

00:35:04.000 Are you from a disadvantaged background somehow?

00:35:07.000 All of that matters way more than your actual grades.

00:35:10.000 So again, I think messaging discipline, if you believe in the American ideal of work and merit and getting ahead, there's only one choice.

00:35:19.000 And we got to stay focused on that.

00:35:20.000 We get distracted too much.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - April 23, 2024

Columbia Crashes: The Left's Campus Crisis

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