00:00:36.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:44.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:58.000Okay, so the Corporate Equality Index is this scorecard-based system, which is used for Fortune 500 companies and other major corporations.
00:02:08.000And the group behind it, Charlie, is America's largest LGBT lobby group, the Human Rights Campaign.
00:02:16.000So HRD, by the way, receives millions of dollars in donations from George Soros's Open Society Foundation.
00:02:24.000So there's your first clue who is behind pushing this.
00:02:28.000Secondly, this score system means that this LGBT lobby group goes to companies every year.
00:02:33.000It gives them a points, a scorecard from zero to 100 based on how diverse they are, based on how many trans people they hire, based on how gender neutral the office uniforms are.
00:02:47.000And also, it takes points away from companies that donate or fund projects that are deemed with organizations that may be anti-LGBT.
00:02:58.000And according to the New York Post, this includes, could include Christian groups.
00:03:02.000So these companies are being lobbied to not give money to Christian groups or churches because it might lower their score.
00:03:10.000Yeah, and so let's just dive into this, right?
00:03:12.000So you have this very informative thread.
00:03:15.000You say a top Hollywood agency, CAA, which I think is Creative Arts Agency, if not mistaken, right?
00:03:21.000Or artists agency, yep, which usually only works with A-list celebrities.
00:03:25.000They now have access to working with all the biggest brands and relationships.
00:03:29.000So is it fair to say they're gatekeeping this?
00:03:33.000I mean, they're basically demanding that these companies embrace these trans influencers because basically what I'm getting at is that this is not organic.
00:04:04.000And for brands, they must have trans people as models.
00:04:07.000So this would explain why we're seeing predominantly Dylan Mulvaney as the face of Ole, as the face of Bud Life, and now as the face of Nike Sportsbras.
00:04:17.000And again, going back to her casting agency, so the talent agency is one of the biggest ones in Hollywood.
00:04:22.000And you know, Dylan Mulvaney is not an A-list, so they're just some person that mocks women.
00:04:26.000But, you know, they are being pushed by basically the biggest agency in Hollywood who only normally work with the biggest film stars.
00:04:33.000So their agenda is to push trans ideology.
00:04:37.000And, you know, they have a lot of power because if you work with Hollywood stars, you have access to every single major brand.
00:04:44.000So they can easily push this person and get them publicity, get press for the brand as well.
00:04:49.000So, you know, they are pushing very hard from Hollywood to normalize this, Charlie.
00:04:54.000We see constant transgender people being put in movies and films where it doesn't even make sense in the plotter part of these films to include them.
00:05:02.000And then if you couple that with the human rights campaign funded by George Soros, which physically goes to these companies, and if they get a bad score, you know, most of these companies have the same shareholders.
00:05:12.000So HRC puts pressure on the shareholders.
00:05:15.000BlackRock has shares in most of these companies, like Nike.
00:05:19.000So they put pressure on the shareholders to take action, you know, against the DO, whoever.
00:07:20.000So Dylan Mulverny has got over 10 million TikTok followers, and every single one of his videos gets millions of millions, some of them tens of millions of views.
00:07:30.000We've seen since TikTok came about in 2018, suddenly gender ideology is everywhere.
00:07:36.000Suddenly, kids in the classroom now want to transition.
00:07:39.000So TikTok has a huge responsibility with this.
00:07:43.000And the fact that TikTok pushes Dylan is not only China trying to destroy American society, trying to destroy the family unit, but this is also, you know, brands look at Dylan's views and they don't have morals.
00:08:24.000And I don't know because I'm just in the permanent state of curiosity of the country I live in.
00:08:30.000Because I obviously live in a bubble where I think this stuff is insane and I think it's wrong and it's evil and it's perverted and it's just terrible.
00:09:19.000So I think now, you know, we've seen Kid Rock, Travis Tritz.
00:09:23.000I don't think they expected that backlash.
00:09:24.000So I think in the long run, they are going to lose a lot of customers.
00:09:28.000And I mean, Bud Light, it doesn't even taste like beer.
00:09:30.000So, you know, choose another brand anyway.
00:09:34.000These other companies that embrace this, because I mean, it's just at some point, there's a shareholder duty, right?
00:09:41.000I mean, does Nike see an increase in sales because of this?
00:09:45.000Well, I certainly think Nike is going to lose a lot of female customers.
00:09:49.000We're seeing female athletes calling for a boycott of Nike because this is the biggest offense to women.
00:09:54.000So I think it's going to damage their brand in the long run.
00:09:58.000But at the end of the day, many Gen Z customers, which these brands are trying to capture them in their market, so they use Dylan to get the young audience.
00:10:08.000I think Generation Z are so indoctrinated with gender ideology.
00:10:13.000And I think, you know, for them, they're more likely to buy a product if their favorite TikTok influencer promotes it.
00:10:19.000So, you know, I think older categories of customers, the older demographic will boycott.
00:10:24.000But I think Generation Z simply won't care because they're already indoctrinated with this kind of trans ideology.
00:10:30.000Ali, tell our audience about your book.
00:10:32.000Okay, so my book is basically detailing everything that's going on right now with woke culture, with gender ideology.
00:10:39.000And I explore what is behind this recent trend that is pushing thousands of young people to transition.
00:10:45.000I look at how these clinics, these lobby groups are operating, how different schools are trying to indoctrinate people using drag story hours and classes on pronouns and changing gender, and how we have Hollywood, we have TikTok, we have popular culture, shows like RuPaul, how all of these are taking effect and changing and indoctrinating huge numbers of young people, Generation Z.
00:11:10.000So I look at all those issues and I look at how can parents regain their rights?
00:11:17.000Because we saw just the other day Riley Gaines was attacked.
00:11:20.000So my whole book covers all of these issues and how we can come together as a society to fix this current system that is causing so much harm to kids and so much harm to women.
00:11:44.000So do you think the problem is specifically the trans ideology infecting children or the trans ideology more broadly or more generally, right?
00:11:57.000And that's a question I would love you to weigh in on.
00:12:01.000Definitely with children, you're getting even to more fundamental issues, right?
00:12:05.000The blurring of line of innocence, right?
00:12:08.000And not allowing children to go through puberty.
00:12:31.000Yeah, I think it's transgenderism in general because we see how it is destroying the rights of women.
00:12:37.000We see how it is tearing families apart.
00:12:39.000So, no, but what these LGBT lobby groups, people like Rachel Levine, they are targeting children because they want the next generation, Generation Z and kids younger than them, they want them to believe these radical things that women do not deserve rights, that men can just go into women's sports.
00:12:57.000They want to indoctrinate all these kids.
00:12:59.000So that's what they're doing right now.
00:13:00.000It's a tactic of brainwashing, you know, very similar to what they did in the Soviet Union, indoctrinating a population.
00:13:06.000So, but I think, you know, broadly, we're seeing these university students, and you know, you witnessed this firsthand when you had these radical trans activists trying to cancel your speech and using violence.
00:13:16.000So, you know, it's the universities, I think, are breeding grounds at the moment.
00:13:20.000These woke places like San Francisco State University, where these trans activists targeted Riley.
00:13:26.000So I think, you know, it's seeping through all aspects of society.
00:13:29.000And I think it's really only the older generations that are fighting back, you know, people that were born before social media, people that were born before all of this was taught in schools.
00:14:11.000And if you're offended by that, I apologize.
00:14:13.000But that's really what they've become.
00:14:14.000They become a group of violent actors that they're so willing to go to outrageous means of cancellation, of interruption, intimidation, harassment.
00:14:24.000What is it about this group of people?
00:14:26.000Well, you know, you accurately described it as a mafia.
00:14:29.000I also call it, you know, the trans Taliban because they behave like men, the way the men that treat women in Afghanistan do.
00:14:35.000You know, they beat women, they try to silence them.
00:14:38.000So I, you know, I call them the trans Taliban because this ideology is causing so much harm and they've become an extreme group, Charlie.
00:14:46.000Every time a woman does a speech at a university or at a rally, women's rally, these women are violently assaulted.
00:15:18.000I'm going to use force to make you agree to certain pronoun usage, certain behavioral changes, certain erosion of institutions that are established for female and male sports, for example.
00:15:30.000The issue is not what somebody is doing in their living room, okay?
00:15:34.000Of some guy that goes and puts on a dress, right?
00:15:37.000Or his own struggles with his imagination.
00:16:04.000They're done supporting companies that rake in hundreds of millions of dollars, sometimes billions of dollars, while trashing the country that made their success possible.
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00:19:27.000So there are different standards when you're trying to remove an injunction versus simply deciding on the merits.
00:19:33.000And I think that the plaintiffs had argued that this wasn't an emergency.
00:19:37.000We argued that, in fact, it was because it might encourage more people to pursue this pathway.
00:19:43.000You're overturning a democratically elected law.
00:19:46.000But they sent us back to the Fourth Circuit now, but it's procedural.
00:19:50.000I still think we're the very clear favorite on the merits.
00:19:52.000Well, I think that's important because I think some of the headlines were a little misleading then because people thought the Supreme Court, like Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, were weighing in on men participating in female sports.
00:20:04.000But that is not the case in this regard, right?
00:20:12.000We had Alito and Thomas join in the dissent.
00:20:16.000But I still have a lot of hope that when this gets up on the merits, that people are going to say, Charlie, it is consistent with Title IX that was trying to advance women's athletic.
00:20:25.000It is consistent with the Equal Protection Clause for the Constitution.
00:20:29.000We're trying to help protect women, and that's certainly permissible for a state legislature.
00:20:47.000We'll be all done with our submissions by June, and then we'll have an oral argument.
00:20:51.000And I bet whatever happens in the Fourth Circuit, there's a very, very meaningful chance that sometime next year, whoever loses at the Fourth Circuit is going to file again to go up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:21:03.000But let me tell you one other thing, Charlie.
00:21:06.000This issue seems to be animating everyone in America, and they've been coming after me.
00:21:11.000The woke left has made me their target.
00:21:13.000And I would just say, look, if you care about defending women's sports, I need your help.
00:21:18.000Go to patrickmorrissey.com and chip in 10 bucks.
00:21:46.000Well, I am now running for governor of the great state of West Virginia.
00:21:50.000And if people like the work we've done taking on the woke left and defending women's sports, they're going to love what we're going to do as governor.
00:21:58.000Chip in 10 bucks at patrickmorrissey.com and let's help us fight because we still need to win this fight and many others.
00:22:12.000Last week, I know many of you guys saw the advertisement that came out, or it seemed to be a promotional campaign of Mulvaney getting this can from Bud Light.
00:22:29.000And I'm going to tell you what kind of was the basis of my confusion.
00:22:32.000Obviously, this is a bad move by Budweiser, no doubt.
00:22:36.000And I was so bothered by this, obviously sent out some tweets and we talked about it on the show.
00:22:41.000And I decided to start asking what's going on and ask people that I know that are connected with the issue or at least kind of remotely to the company, like, guys, this doesn't seem right.
00:22:51.000Let me tell you why, because, you know, kind of looking at the landscape of corporations, Coca-Cola, okay, I expect strange and weird things from Coca-Cola.
00:23:01.000Coca-Cola paid a huge bucket of money to have Robin D'Angelo come in and talk about how to be an anti-racist.
00:23:10.000Do you remember that the slideshow that came out of Coca-Cola where they said that we have to try to abolish whiteness or something of that variety?
00:23:17.000Or how Nike is one of the worst, as we just talked about with Ali London.
00:23:20.000Nike, who hired Colin Kaepernick or Disney, I mean, Disney, who comes out and they publish blatant and flagrant LGBTQ propaganda as actual content.
00:23:36.000Or remember the major league baseball who comes out and they say, yeah, we're moving the all-star game out of Atlanta, which is heavily and significantly black and going to Denver.
00:23:46.000But Anheuser-Busch, I'll be really honest, I was bothered by this because I, like many, I don't drink, and I know many of you drink or you don't, whatever, no, no moral judgment there.
00:23:55.000I just personally don't drink, that you feel an attachment to Anheuser-Busch, that it's this Americana brand that started in this country.
00:24:05.000And quite honestly, we thought of this brand as something that was supposed to be safe, as something that was off limits.
00:24:15.000And so I decided to look into this because it just did not make any sense.
00:24:18.000A very legendary brand across the board.
00:24:21.000And it was like, my goodness, like you lose Coca-Cola and you lose Nike and you lose Disney.
00:24:26.000And Budweiser or Bud Light or whatever, I mean, it was Bud Light, but obviously under Anheuser-Busch, held up its quality for quite some time.
00:24:36.000And based on all reports, it seems as if it was a mid-level management screw-up of somebody that sent out like a specific can.
00:24:45.000It's not a commemorative can, is what I've been told by people associated with the company, that it wasn't being sold in stores or anything like that.
00:24:52.000But I do think it's interesting because I said, okay, well, what are their politics, right?
00:24:59.000In the 2022 cycle, Anheuser-Busch donated nearly half a million dollars to try to get JD Vance elected, nearly $464,000 to try to fire Nancy Pelosi, $250,000 to try to win the Senate seat with Eric Schmidt, $200,000 for just broad Republican efforts.
00:25:18.000And they gave a little bit like a micron to Democrats.
00:25:21.000So they generally through their contributions, and they say they give it because of taxes and for trade policy, but they're not like some of these other companies that have just gone through the other side completely.
00:25:52.000And I think that's why so many of us were bothered from this, because this idea of institutional capture is troublesome.
00:26:03.000How many other brands have we just said, wow, that's what it means to be, you know, not Budweiser is what it means to be an American, but it's like an American brand.
00:26:30.000And I hope that it's just a one-time thing and they turn away from it.
00:26:34.000But they also don't seem to be overly political.
00:26:36.000And that's something I do want to mention is that after January 6th, because I started asking around to some of the big kind of DC groups, I said, hey, you know, after January 6th, many people stopped giving money to Republican groups.
00:27:21.000You look at one after PepsiCo is gone completely and totally woke, not to mention the ones that have signed on to this trans corporate bathroom bill.
00:27:30.000Anheuser-Busch refused to sign on to it.
00:27:32.000Airbnb, Amazon, American Airlines, Apple, AT ⁇ T, Capital One, Comcast, Dell, Facebook, General Mills, General Motors, Google, Marriott, MasterCard, Microsoft, Nike T-Mobile, Toyota, Walt Disney, Wells, Fargo, Yahoo, sign on to that letter.
00:27:49.000And so I guess we'll find out, right, as time proceeds.
00:27:54.000But if they're donating money to go get JD Vance elected and to go get Nancy Pelosi fired, it is possible.
00:28:00.000It is conceivable you can have one slip through.
00:28:05.000And by the way, if we found out throughout our research, because I always want to give you the truth, that these people were super woke and they hate the country, then I would tell you that, obviously.
00:28:15.000But it would be a tragedy to lose Anheuser-Busch to the wokies, wouldn't it?
00:29:09.000One of the co-sponsors might come on the program to defend the Restrict Act, the widespread censorship campaign, which is one of the worst pieces of legislation I have seen in recent memory.
00:29:18.000And so producer Andrew is in the final stages to try to secure that.
00:29:20.000I'm not going to tell you what, Senator, it is.
00:29:24.000We'll allow you to talk uninterrupted, make the case, whether you're running for president, you're a local congressperson.
00:29:29.000Tell us why we need a Patriot Act 2.0, a new censorship regime given to the Secretary of Commerce, an unelected, unknown bureaucrat, to be able to silence our speech.
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00:31:52.000I think that they do what's best for their own interest, and that's actually what we want.
00:31:56.000We actually want a company that provides a service and is not trying to be involved in every social cause.
00:32:02.000And quite honestly, there are so many other companies to hit, like Coca-Cola that actually lobbies for changing in Georgia voting laws or Nike.
00:32:13.000I mean, it seems as if this is just kind of a marketing person that wanted to change the company single-handedly.
00:32:20.000It's against the fiber and the DNA of how Budweiser is operated.
00:32:23.000So, no, I actually don't think that they're political.
00:32:25.000I think that they make beer, and that's what they've always done.
00:32:30.000So, to answer that question, okay, I want to play another piece of tape here.
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