The Charlie Kirk Show - September 12, 2020


How George Soros and Critical Race Theory are Destroying America with Red State’s Jennifer Van Laar


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Jennifer VanLaurie of RedState joins us to talk about the alarming number of DA's across the country who are funded by George Soros and his organization, the Open Society Foundation. We talk about why this is a problem, and what Soros is really trying to accomplish.

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00:00:40.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:40.000 Welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, a very important episode with Jennifer Van Law, deputy managing editor of RedState.com, a terrific website.
00:00:52.000 She is probably best known for her incredible work with Katie Hill.
00:00:57.000 And I believe we met back last year, right, Jennifer, if I'm not mistaken?
00:01:01.000 At a Republican women's luncheon.
00:01:03.000 That's right.
00:01:05.000 I remember that.
00:01:06.000 That was something.
00:01:06.000 That was a very interesting event.
00:01:08.000 We're talking today mostly, though, about district attorneys.
00:01:12.000 We received a tip here on the Charlie Kirk show that we forwarded to you, and you did some digging, and now it's made national news.
00:01:19.000 Can you tell us about it?
00:01:21.000 Yes.
00:01:21.000 So we know about the problem with George Soros-funded DAs around the country, including in Chicago with Kim Fox and in St. Louis with Kim Gardner.
00:01:31.000 And out here in California, we have Diana Bechton in Contra Costa County.
00:01:35.000 So she is the one who had a couple charged with the hate crime when they painted over a Black Lives Matter mural, air quote mural, in Martinez. 0.57
00:01:45.000 And so she also has put some policies in place regarding looters during the riot.
00:01:52.000 So she charged this couple with a hate crime, but she put out a directive that cops and DAs have to go through this whole flowchart to decide whether a looter needed the item or if the place was already broken into before they went in, like this whole decision tree before they can even charge them with looting.
00:02:10.000 So can you just take a step back and tell us about the Soros back, the Soros-backed DAs?
00:02:15.000 So tell us about George Soros.
00:02:18.000 There's a lot of people that use his name.
00:02:21.000 Is he really funding district attorney races across the country?
00:02:24.000 Absolutely.
00:02:25.000 Not just funding.
00:02:26.000 He's money bombing them.
00:02:27.000 So when I tweet about it sometimes, of course, you get the liberals come back, oh, I didn't know George Soros had a black daughter.
00:02:33.000 What are you trying to imply here? 1.00
00:02:35.000 Just stupid replies like that. 1.00
00:02:36.000 They're totally uninformed. 1.00
00:02:38.000 But he's going around the country.
00:02:40.000 He's a big adherent of critical race theory that's made the news lately too.
00:02:45.000 And he basically wants to dismantle our justice system as we know it.
00:02:48.000 So he wants to do it through getting DAs that will refuse to press charges against people.
00:02:54.000 So he has funded Kim Fox.
00:02:56.000 He's funded all these other DAs that have to go through these ridiculous calisthenics of whether someone wants something or they need it, then they're able to get away with the crime.
00:03:07.000 And try to determine if they're going to sell what they got or if they're going to use it as if that matters.
00:03:11.000 They stole it.
00:03:13.000 I mean, yes.
00:03:15.000 So now it's means-based looting, basically.
00:03:18.000 So if you need it, then you can take it.
00:03:22.000 If you need Lululemons, you can take them.
00:03:25.000 And so what is Soros' agenda here, though?
00:03:28.000 People say, I don't quite understand why Soros would be doing this.
00:03:32.000 What is his agenda and what is he really trying to achieve here?
00:03:36.000 So Kim Fox, Diana Bechten, and a couple others wrote an op-ed in Politico last week.
00:03:42.000 And they started off with the premise that our entire justice system is designed to perpetuate slavery since we don't have that as an institution anymore.
00:03:50.000 Apparently, they've forgotten all the hundreds of years of judicial systems around the world before our country ever existed.
00:03:57.000 But they laid out 11 points in that piece that they want to accomplish as district attorneys.
00:04:04.000 And they're all Soros funded.
00:04:05.000 I think there were five of them in there that wrote this article.
00:04:09.000 How much money has Soros put into some of these races?
00:04:12.000 Oh, I don't have all of those figures, but enough that it buries the competition where he's just getting mailers out, robocallers, ballot harvesting, all of the above.
00:04:22.000 Yeah, this is really critical race theory in action.
00:04:25.000 I mean, we have talked about critical race theory quite a lot, but now you have George Soros, one of the wealthiest people on the planet.
00:04:31.000 He put $18 billion into the Open Society Foundation, who now is directly supporting these district attorneys, where if you need something, you could take something.
00:04:40.000 However, it is a misapplication of justice towards the people like the McCloskeys or Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:04:47.000 And so this is playing out all across the country.
00:04:50.000 And you've broken this story.
00:04:52.000 What's been the response generally?
00:04:54.000 Well, she, a lot of the mayors in her county didn't realize that she had done this policy.
00:04:59.000 And so when my story came out, she was called on the carpet by them, had to have a press conference and admit that the documents that I had received were authentic.
00:05:07.000 So I thought that was pretty big that she didn't try to even deny that that was her policy.
00:05:12.000 She admitted that.
00:05:13.000 She has another policy where even when an officer has on body cam evidence that he's been assaulted by someone he's trying to arrest, that that's not good enough to charge that person with assault on an officer.
00:05:25.000 They have to go through a senior DA signing off on that assault.
00:05:29.000 And most of the time they won't.
00:05:30.000 I had probably five or six law enforcement officers from that county contact me and tell me how discouraging it is to know that they can't use a little bit of force if they need to to arrest someone, which these are criminals.
00:05:42.000 They're fighting back.
00:05:43.000 You might have to get a little rough to effect the arrest.
00:05:47.000 I'm not trying to defend at all police violence, but if you're ever on the street with a law enforcement officer doing a ride-along, you'll see that it's not easy sometimes to apprehend someone.
00:05:57.000 And I would rather that officer use a little force to arrest them than let that person run a rampage on the community.
00:06:04.000 So a deputy attorney general that first got in contact with us kind of motivated this story.
00:06:11.000 Can you tell us more about what motivated them to reach out and dive deeper into it?
00:06:16.000 Kind of how this whole national news story has unfolded?
00:06:20.000 Deputy DA, I'm sorry.
00:06:21.000 So they're just really frustrated.
00:06:23.000 The law enforcement officers that contacted me, they said that if this keeps on going on, then you're going to lose the good law enforcement officers because there are some bad apples.
00:06:33.000 But the ones who are really just trying to work hard, get criminals off the streets, they're going to leave Contra Costa County.
00:06:39.000 They're going to leave California if this goes national or it goes statewide.
00:06:44.000 Also, if they get assaulted by a suspect and the suspect gets hurt in that scuffle, if the suspect is not charged with assault, that suspect can then go sue the county, the city, and that officer individually.
00:06:56.000 So it's putting them at risk.
00:06:58.000 And so, but it's also just putting communities at risk all across the country.
00:07:02.000 So just so everyone can understand, we have a multi-billionaire who is not born in this country who is spending billions of dollars to try and disintegrate our country through the district attorney's offices.
00:07:16.000 That is correct.
00:07:17.000 And it's people, this instance is in California.
00:07:20.000 So of course, everyone likes to hate on California and they say, oh, that's what you get for electing these people.
00:07:24.000 Well, no, that's happening up in Seattle, up in Portland, in Chicago, in Boston, in Durham.
00:07:31.000 It's about to happen in Los Angeles.
00:07:32.000 We have a longtime Democrat black woman DA, Jackie Lacey.
00:07:37.000 Apparently, she's not radical enough for George Soros.
00:07:40.000 So he's enticed George Gascon, who used to be DA in San Francisco, to come down to LA and run against her.
00:07:47.000 And he's funding that.
00:07:49.000 And these races, there's no campaign finance limitations.
00:07:52.000 You just can come in with whatever type of money that you want to be able to effectuate this sort of political tsunami.
00:08:00.000 Well, directly to the candidate.
00:08:01.000 Yeah, there's contribution limits there, but they go through PACs, they go through other organizations that can spend on that candidate's behalf.
00:08:10.000 And so, because of that, now we have an entire whole group of new DAs of the biggest cities in our country. 0.91
00:08:17.000 And Kim Fox in Chicago, just in the last month, there have been six first-degree murderers in Chicago let out on bail. 0.94
00:08:24.000 Think about that. 1.00
00:08:25.000 First-degree murderers on bail.
00:08:28.000 So, it's hard for me to believe that Soros, who is funding this, wants anything else than the complete and total destruction of the country.
00:08:36.000 The media doesn't like when we ever mention George Soros.
00:08:39.000 They get very upset about it.
00:08:41.000 Can you just build out more about the Soros funding mechanism and what he's really doing in our country?
00:08:47.000 He's just using through all of his different puppet organizations, I guess is the best term for them, putting funding in through there to affect these races and get that message out. 0.74
00:09:01.000 And the sad thing is, now with Black Lives Matter taking over so much, he doesn't have to spend as much money. 0.85
00:09:06.000 These people are everywhere spouting everything for him. 0.74
00:09:08.000 Once you get to that point of, I guess, a critical mass, it just takes off.
00:09:13.000 Is there any counter force to this to try to push back against this DA takeover?
00:09:19.000 People like you getting the word out.
00:09:22.000 And all of us, I think information is power and being able to get that information out.
00:09:28.000 And they're being more and more blatant about what they believe.
00:09:32.000 If I could just read one paragraph from this politico thing that I did.
00:09:34.000 Please do.
00:09:35.000 Yeah.
00:09:36.000 Yeah.
00:09:36.000 It says, Part of our responsibility as elected public servants is to be self-aware and recognize that we are part of the problem.
00:09:44.000 It is our moral and ethical duty to start advancing racial equity-minded policies.
00:09:48.000 And the community advocates and voters should hold us accountable for doing so.
00:09:53.000 So then they end with, unless we stop trying to reform the system and instead work to transform it, we will never achieve the kind of change needed to upend a system rooted in slavery.
00:10:03.000 So this is written in Politico.
00:10:05.000 Yeah.
00:10:06.000 So, I mean, Transportation.
00:10:07.000 Kim Fox is one of the authors.
00:10:09.000 Yeah, Kim Fox, who is the DA of Chicago, basically in charge of prosecutions for Chicago and letting people off if they just, you know, the BLM decides to riot 600 black-owned businesses.
00:10:25.000 And of course, she was the centerpiece of the Jussie Smollett controversy when Jussie tried to start a race war in our country. 1.00
00:10:25.000 They don't care. 1.00
00:10:32.000 And now we're actually living through Jussie's dream right now.
00:10:35.000 Jussie dreamed of a day like this.
00:10:36.000 That's what he was trying to start.
00:10:39.000 And obviously, it came across to be a hoax.
00:10:41.000 But not to reform the system.
00:10:43.000 They want to transform the system.
00:10:45.000 And those of us that study the left, we know that this is a complete and total agenda of the disintegration of America.
00:10:52.000 And a lot of, I talk to a lot of people about this in the more moderate camp, and they think we're being over-hyperbolic or alarmist.
00:11:01.000 And they say, oh, come on, there's no way that no one could actually get elected in America and believe that if you loot or cheat or steal, you shouldn't be held accountable.
00:11:10.000 But that's actually the case.
00:11:11.000 What were some of the other 11 points in this article that were articulated?
00:11:18.000 Do not prosecute peaceful protesters.
00:11:20.000 So not just looters, but peaceful protesters.
00:11:25.000 Hold police accountable by pursuing criminal charges against officers who unlawfully use excessive force and other forms of state-sanctioned violence.
00:11:35.000 So, but some of them they read like, ah, maybe that's not so bad.
00:11:39.000 Well, what do you consider excessive force?
00:11:41.000 What do you consider state-sanctioned violence?
00:11:43.000 Is going to jail, state-sanctioned violence?
00:11:46.000 I can see some of these people arguing that.
00:11:49.000 They want to decline to prosecute low-level offenses.
00:11:54.000 So they want to just basically get rid of any misdemeanor things.
00:11:58.000 Commit to using our office's power and platform to advance discussions of divestment from the criminal legal system and toward community-led and community-defined responses to harm.
00:12:11.000 They're the criminal legal system.
00:12:13.000 They want to divest from it.
00:12:14.000 That's insane.
00:12:18.000 Community-defined response.
00:12:19.000 Are we going to just have a vote?
00:12:21.000 Everyone go to town council and vote on this guy's sentence.
00:12:25.000 Or they're going to have the hierarchy of whoever has the biggest weapon is going to win, basically.
00:12:30.000 That's what it ends up like.
00:12:31.000 Continue on the list, though.
00:12:33.000 Okay, continue on the list.
00:12:34.000 Exactly.
00:12:34.000 I'm interested.
00:12:38.000 This is what they publicly say.
00:12:38.000 Develop grants.
00:12:40.000 Yeah.
00:12:41.000 Develop grant-based community reinvestment programs to be administered in partnership with community-based partners.
00:12:47.000 That's not necessarily a bad thing.
00:12:48.000 That's not the job of the DA.
00:12:49.000 We have all the rest of government doing that.
00:12:53.000 Require the review of all available evidence, including body-worn camera and other video footage in cases that rest solely on the testimony of an officer.
00:13:01.000 So we have men and women who have sworn to uphold the law and have been doing their job, and them taking an oath that they're telling the truth isn't good enough.
00:13:10.000 And from what the officers in Contra Costa County told me, even if you have the body-worn camera footage, they probably won't do it.
00:13:17.000 They even had DAs that want to charge it tell them, I don't want the blowback that's going to come at me from the seniors in my office if I charge this.
00:13:25.000 So then you have people on the street that imagine being an officer and you get a call to go respond to something.
00:13:31.000 And this person has assaulted officers before, but you don't know that because they never charge them.
00:13:37.000 So you're walking into a situation where you're at greater risk and you have no idea.
00:13:42.000 And this is all rooted in critical race theory where they believe that skin color means everything.
00:13:48.000 And honestly, it's an incredibly racist view of the world because if they're equating black people with criminals, which Krimp Kim Fox basically is, she says, we have to lessen the sentences on misdemeanors because that's going to help get rid of white supremacy.
00:14:02.000 But hold on a second. 0.90
00:14:03.000 If you actually play that out logically, she's saying that it's only black people that are committing crimes. 0.99
00:14:08.000 I mean, she's an incredible racist by saying that. 0.97
00:14:11.000 It's so confusing for normal Americans to process this.
00:14:15.000 And so we're seeing no conservative Republican money being spent while these cities just get taken over.
00:14:21.000 And the next cities will be Dallas and Houston, Miami, Atlanta.
00:14:26.000 They're coming up and they'll be taken over by critical race theorists.
00:14:29.000 And, you know, we as conservatives are very decent.
00:14:32.000 We're very reasonable.
00:14:33.000 We're very patient.
00:14:34.000 But while our entire urban centers of our country are going to get run over by these district attorneys, have you seen a direct correlation in the increase of crime when these DAs take over?
00:14:44.000 Yes.
00:14:45.000 I spoke to some of my sources in Contra Costa County yesterday about that.
00:14:49.000 They've seen especially an increase in the lower level crimes because they know they're going to get in statewide in California, we're seeing that because they've changed the rules where it has to be over $950 worth of value before you can really be charged with.
00:15:04.000 Say that again for our listeners out of California.
00:15:06.000 So if you study, if you steal $945 of value, what happens?
00:15:12.000 It's a misdemeanor.
00:15:13.000 And so a lot of times those officers won't even charge it because they know you're going to get thrown back out on the street and nothing's going to happen.
00:15:19.000 So the officers don't want to waste their time.
00:15:21.000 And so people just pretty much shoplifting is out of control in California because they know that nothing's going to happen to them.
00:15:29.000 I remember being in San Francisco right after speaking at UC Berkeley, right near the Trans America building.
00:15:36.000 San Francisco used to be a very decent and reasonable town and it's not anymore.
00:15:40.000 It is probably the worst city in America as how it's governed.
00:15:43.000 And there's so much darkness in that city. 0.99
00:15:46.000 It's really a sick place. 1.00
00:15:47.000 And so we parked right outside the trans, I think it's Trans America building, right? 1.00
00:15:51.000 The, yeah, right outside there.
00:15:54.000 Nice area, San Francisco.
00:15:56.000 And we had two SUVs there.
00:15:58.000 We had security.
00:15:59.000 We all went into Morton's only restaurant that was open, nice restaurant, come back out, every window was smashed.
00:16:04.000 All of our stuff was stolen.
00:16:06.000 Wow.
00:16:08.000 Right on the street.
00:16:09.000 And what's amazing is that no one called the cops.
00:16:12.000 No one did anything.
00:16:14.000 So think about this.
00:16:15.000 Right there, I was at Candace Owens and Dave Rubin.
00:16:17.000 We come out.
00:16:18.000 Dave Rubin's stuff was all stolen, totally smashed.
00:16:21.000 And then, so then we call the police and they get there 20 minutes later, right?
00:16:25.000 They couldn't have cared less.
00:16:26.000 We had security with us and they just happened to get something to eat.
00:16:29.000 They didn't see the smash and grab.
00:16:31.000 They stole about $800 worth of stuff.
00:16:33.000 So the first thing the police ask is, well, what was stolen?
00:16:35.000 We go through the whole list.
00:16:36.000 They're like, yeah, that's about $800 worth of stuff.
00:16:39.000 Honestly, we're never going to find these people.
00:16:41.000 It's not worth your time.
00:16:43.000 You could file a police report, but it's just not going to happen.
00:16:46.000 I tell this to people across the country and they don't believe me.
00:16:49.000 Did you see that I wasn't shocked as you were telling the story?
00:16:52.000 But please reinforce this, though, because this is a real thing.
00:16:56.000 We have listeners all across the country in Montana and Missouri, people in the middle of the road.
00:17:00.000 We have Democrats that listen to this podcast and we pray for them and God bless them.
00:17:03.000 And thank you for listening.
00:17:04.000 But they have to really realize what's happening in this country.
00:17:08.000 So can you just, can you just build that out a little bit more?
00:17:10.000 Yeah, I mean, even my hometown is Sini Valley.
00:17:13.000 It's one of the most conservative areas.
00:17:15.000 I live right next to the Reagan Library.
00:17:17.000 We have a great police force, but they're affected by the justice system too.
00:17:22.000 So I was on a ride-along last year with our cops and we came upon this couple in the park that their car had been had stalled.
00:17:30.000 We could see drugs right inside the bag.
00:17:32.000 It was visible.
00:17:33.000 We didn't have to look for it.
00:17:35.000 And they said, the cop pulled me aside. 0.91
00:17:38.000 He said, you know, it's a female.
00:17:40.000 I got to drive her all the way to Ventura.
00:17:42.000 And there's not that much there.
00:17:44.000 If I do that, that's going to be three or four hours.
00:17:46.000 There's one less cop in our, so they go through this whole decision tree.
00:17:49.000 He said, they're not going to do anything because it's not that much.
00:17:52.000 So we're just going to like let them go.
00:17:54.000 We're going to take the drugs and go take them to the station and destroy it, but let them go.
00:18:00.000 And I hated to hear that, but I could see the logic in what he was saying.
00:18:03.000 They're trying to still just get through their shifts every day too and be able to go home to see their families.
00:18:08.000 And these cops are being overworked, right?
00:18:10.000 They're being worked 12 hours on, 12 hours off, nonstop, no time with family, totally disrespected, rioters in the streets.
00:18:19.000 It seems like Soros and Fox and all these people, you said it earlier, they just want to break it.
00:18:24.000 They just want to get to a point where this system falls apart.
00:18:28.000 Can you walk us through how someone could believe something like that?
00:18:33.000 I've been thinking about this a lot with the critical race theory stuff and how can you want to destroy our country, especially today we're recording the September 11th.
00:18:42.000 I was just watching all of the coverage before we started this interview.
00:18:46.000 And it comes from a place I get, I think, of guilt.
00:18:49.000 People, we have done so well as a country and they feel a little guilty if someone else has less than they do or faces adversity.
00:18:57.000 And we should, we should have compassion.
00:18:59.000 But the critical race theorists, they prey upon that and convince people that you're bad because you have this or that or the other or convince people that are facing these challenges that they shouldn't have to, that because they're in America, they should just have all of this stuff, that that's their right.
00:19:17.000 And I think from there, once you start drinking that Kool-Aid, it just explodes.
00:19:22.000 And I'm not sure if you're aware, but LA County Public Health, Soros is getting into public health too.
00:19:28.000 The public health director there, Barbara Ferrer, she came straight from the Kellogg Foundation, which is aligned with Soros and was brought in by Hilda Solise, who is an Obama in the Obama administration.
00:19:41.000 And she's the public health director here in LA County.
00:19:44.000 So she's the one that got caught on tape the other day saying that the schools won't open till after the election.
00:19:51.000 Tell us more about that.
00:19:53.000 Barbara Ferrer also said something where she supported looting and rioting because she said that was a good activity, but she said, because it's the wokest virus we've ever seen.
00:20:04.000 We use those words.
00:20:05.000 Tell us more about her.
00:20:07.000 So she's not a medical doctor. 0.96
00:20:08.000 She's a PhD in social welfare.
00:20:11.000 She was in Boston for a couple decades, then went to, I've been investigating her too.
00:20:15.000 I've talked to some former staffers.
00:20:17.000 She apparently left Boston under some bad circumstances that I haven't fully explored yet.
00:20:23.000 Went to Kellogg Foundation and then to LA County. 0.99
00:20:26.000 Her big goals here are all racial equity, equity, and health equity, not preventing disease, which is what you think a public health officer would do. 0.50
00:20:35.000 She hasn't done anything about typhus that's been going through downtown LA and going to LAPD headquarters, officers getting typhus, hepatitis. 0.76
00:20:44.000 She didn't want to pay for vaccines for the doctors for some of the diseases they come in contact with all the time.
00:20:49.000 But it's all about getting Planned Parenthood counseling in the high schools, racial equity. 0.63
00:20:57.000 That's all she's about.
00:20:59.000 And so she is also part of, and she's Soros-backed.
00:21:03.000 Is that correct?
00:21:04.000 Right.
00:21:04.000 It's not an elected position.
00:21:06.000 So, but she, the organization she came from before was a Soros-aligned organization, Kellogg Foundation, that's all into this. 0.97
00:21:15.000 Hello Foundation, she started something based. 0.72
00:21:17.000 I forget the exact name of it, but it's a day where you basically apologize for being white. 0.63
00:21:22.000 Well, and I tell conservatives this, and this is a hard thing for conservatives to process, but the liberals want it more than we do. 0.67
00:21:30.000 And I use George Soros as the example.
00:21:32.000 George Soros is worth $23 billion or was.
00:21:36.000 He gave 18 of it, like that, to his foundation, which spits out a billion dollars in just earnings every single year.
00:21:43.000 He basically gave all of his money to this stuff.
00:21:46.000 He gave another $300 million to BLM Inc. last month.
00:21:50.000 We as conservatives, we don't do that.
00:21:52.000 We don't.
00:21:53.000 We have, by the way, if you actually tally up the amount of resources that conservative philanthropists have, and I'm so thankful for the conservative philanthropists that have supported us at turning point.
00:22:02.000 And this is by no ways a slight at them, but look at the landscape here, right?
00:22:06.000 It's kind of in some ways, I'm kind of like, hey, we can do more, guys, because Soros, Tom Steyer, Bloomberg, I mean, can you build out this kind of money that has this being spent at this stuff?
00:22:17.000 Because I don't think people realize it because, and God bless the amazing conservative, generous patriots like Foster Freeze and stuff that have supported me.
00:22:26.000 So I'm not trying to be, you know, full of ingratitude.
00:22:29.000 I'm just saying, look, we're not even engaging on some of the stuff where Soros is putting a country's GDP at work, right?
00:22:37.000 So can you just go through the overwhelming amount of resources that are being spent from every direction from BLM to every town to Planned Parenthood?
00:22:46.000 It's everywhere.
00:22:47.000 Right.
00:22:48.000 So I'm glad you brought up Bloomberg because a few years ago, I studied how Bloomberg was getting his gun control agenda passed through every town.
00:22:56.000 And it's very scientific the way that he picks different jurisdictions where he can get someone elected.
00:23:03.000 And then they introduce certain measures in the legislatures in those states like Washington and Oregon were big ones a couple of years ago.
00:23:11.000 And they pull out what messages are going to resonate with voters.
00:23:15.000 And then those are, that's the measures they go after first.
00:23:17.000 So it's very scientific.
00:23:18.000 And it's the same with Soros DAs.
00:23:20.000 He's going to do the same pattern of finding a jurisdiction that has a weak incumbent or where he thinks that he can make inroads and bring those candidates.
00:23:29.000 And I'm totally with you on with the conservative side.
00:23:31.000 There's great donors and great people doing a lot, but a lot of people aren't putting their money or their actions where their mouth is.
00:23:38.000 Because not just money, it's going out and registering voters.
00:23:41.000 It's going out and getting your friends to the polls. 0.89
00:23:44.000 And we need to realize, hopefully, this BLM stuff, if there's a silver lining, has made people really realize what the other side is about. 0.91
00:23:52.000 Yeah, this is something we try to do through our political vehicle, Turning Point Action.
00:23:56.000 And I argue that conservatives, we have a spectator culture, not an activist culture.
00:24:02.000 So we're at, I mean, we act, and it's really interesting when you dive into it.
00:24:05.000 There's definitely maybe even a book that could be built around this where how much talk radio conservatives consume, how much Fox News we consume.
00:24:17.000 And that's a good thing.
00:24:18.000 By the way, our podcast has grown beautifully because of conservative spectator culture.
00:24:23.000 But liberals are actually less likely to consume talk radio and television.
00:24:28.000 Their top show, Rachel Maddow, when it's all in, still pales in comparison to the Fox News nightly lineup.
00:24:34.000 It's just not even close.
00:24:36.000 Now, some people would say because there's only Fox News and it's center right more so.
00:24:40.000 Okay, that might be true.
00:24:41.000 I think they might be the only player in town. 0.96
00:24:43.000 But the left has an activistic culture.
00:24:45.000 We have a spectator culture where some conservatives, and I say this as lovingly as I can, we believe as conservatives that our involvement is listening to Rush Limbaugh or Mark Levin, watching Tucker Carlson and buying a pillow.
00:25:02.000 Like that's not going to save the Republic.
00:25:04.000 While the liberals, they might watch Rachel Maddow, but they're out there registering voters.
00:25:10.000 They're marching in the streets.
00:25:11.000 And someone said something, they said, well, Charlie, them marching in the streets up against police, it doesn't make a difference.
00:25:16.000 Let them scream their hearts out.
00:25:18.000 I said, you have no idea what it does to the morale of this police department, what it does to break the back.
00:25:24.000 So every day they're out there in Portland, they're getting closer to what they actually want.
00:25:29.000 And so I'm not saying conservatives should be doing that, but there is an agenda.
00:25:33.000 There is a, agenda is not the right word.
00:25:35.000 There is a strategy to this.
00:25:37.000 Can you talk more about how strategic they are in their approach?
00:25:40.000 How this is not just random acts of, you know, spending and shouting, but there's actually a formula to this.
00:25:48.000 There absolutely is.
00:25:49.000 And in my town, we're seeing it.
00:25:51.000 We had our first Democrat city council person elected in 2018 through this whole process of there's stuff with the illegal immigration.
00:26:02.000 So this woman started going to city council meetings and agitating, and then she had more and more people coming with her. 0.90
00:26:07.000 She ends up getting elected. 0.97
00:26:09.000 And then she worked with Katie Hill.
00:26:11.000 And watching that campaign happen, Seemi Valley's been conservative my entire life.
00:26:15.000 I've 48 been here most of my life.
00:26:19.000 Watching that campaign happen, and I know some of the local Democrats and how many hours they all spent volunteering.
00:26:26.000 They were writing postcards handwritten to voters.
00:26:29.000 They were making calls.
00:26:30.000 They were canvassing.
00:26:31.000 When they had the walks and the weeks leading up to the election, she had hundreds of people showing up.
00:26:38.000 And I worked on Steve Knight's first campaign back in 2014.
00:26:41.000 I could get five people maybe to go knock doors and she would get hundreds.
00:26:45.000 And it wasn't that he didn't have support.
00:26:47.000 It was like you were saying, we're just consuming conservative thought and not turning it into action.
00:26:53.000 That's right.
00:26:54.000 But it wasn't like people would be like, oh, yeah, go get them.
00:26:56.000 And I will say this, conservatives are more likely to have kids, have a job, have responsibility.
00:27:01.000 Liberals have none of those things usually.
00:27:03.000 And they don't care.
00:27:04.000 I mean, that's just their life is the disintegration of the West.
00:27:07.000 So it consumes them.
00:27:08.000 That's how they get meaning, right?
00:27:10.000 However, I've seen it happen before, though.
00:27:12.000 I've seen, and here's one of the things that bothers me is, you know, we do this at turning point action.
00:27:17.000 When we do a rally, for example, we always have everyone go knock doors after the rally, right?
00:27:21.000 So when we do our Super Saturdays, I'm just heading to Minnesota right now after I'm done with this recording.
00:27:26.000 I'm flying up to Minnesota because I think it's in play.
00:27:28.000 The president can win Minnesota.
00:27:30.000 After we do one of these rallies, we'll deploy our students to go knock on doors afterwards.
00:27:35.000 Imagine if the president's campaign did that with every one of his rallies over the last two years.
00:27:40.000 They do a big rally and they say, Hey, now you've downloaded this app.
00:27:43.000 Everyone who goes knocks on doors and whoever knocks on the most doors gets something signed by the president.
00:27:49.000 Go.
00:27:50.000 They would deploy because everyone's so fired up, right?
00:27:53.000 It's kind of a launching off point.
00:27:55.000 And what I'm trying, my call to action here, and I don't want this to be just a depressing landscape because you've been delivering some very, you know, unfortunate news, is that we as conservatives, we have to give more money.
00:28:06.000 I mean, I talk about Pastor Rob McCoy.
00:28:08.000 You know, Pastor McCoy, right down the street, Thousand Oaks.
00:28:11.000 He gives 10% of his income to candidates every single, every single election cycle, 10%.
00:28:16.000 He ties to the church, ties to candidates, and he makes a biblical argument for it.
00:28:20.000 So if you're not giving 10% of your income to politics, I tell people you're not, or at least 10% of your time, 10% of something, right?
00:28:26.000 If you don't have the money, that's fine.
00:28:28.000 And so you've been an activist.
00:28:30.000 You've been in this.
00:28:31.000 Can you just build this out even more about the urgency of the conservative activist right now?
00:28:36.000 Because it's missing.
00:28:37.000 I could tell you, it is missing.
00:28:39.000 It's 100% missing.
00:28:41.000 I did have some hope earlier this week.
00:28:45.000 Scott Pressler was in town and had, yeah, we filled this place called the Republican Value Center in SUNY Valley, over 100 people there.
00:28:53.000 And he had everyone fired up to go register people to vote and make sure that we get our ballots in to a ballot collection center, not through the mail.
00:29:01.000 And everyone was fired up to go, well, that hopefully that will go into action.
00:29:06.000 But it was nice to see that was the biggest crowd I've seen fired up to actually do something besides listen in a long time.
00:29:13.000 Yeah.
00:29:14.000 And Rob's church is always action-oriented.
00:29:16.000 They're knocking on doors.
00:29:17.000 They're doing those things.
00:29:18.000 There's pockets there, Jack Kibbs.
00:29:20.000 But generally, the amount of consumption versus action, it's got to change or else this country is going to be destroyed.
00:29:27.000 If you have kids, you need to do a knock on doors, bring them with you.
00:29:31.000 I would think most people are going to be nice.
00:29:34.000 Your kids aren't going to be in harm's way.
00:29:36.000 In our city, people get on street corners with the signs for their candidate and wave like during commute times because it's a big commuter city.
00:29:43.000 So people aren't always home to see who the candidates are.
00:29:46.000 So I have pictures of my son when he was about 10 and laying on a bench by DGI Fridays because we were out there waving signs for Steve Knight.
00:29:58.000 He's kind of just laying there holding up a Steve Knight sign.
00:30:01.000 But he was able to say he's in 12th grade now and taking U.S. government and able to say, yeah, I worked on a campaign.
00:30:07.000 That's right.
00:30:08.000 And it's real experience.
00:30:09.000 And so that's very helpful.
00:30:11.000 Well, thank you so much for joining our program, Jennifer, and just for the amazing work that you are doing.
00:30:17.000 How could people stay in touch with you?
00:30:19.000 How could people help and support your work?
00:30:22.000 They can go to redstate.com, find my stuff there every day.
00:30:25.000 I'm on Twitter at Jen Van Law and just share it.
00:30:30.000 Talk to people about it.
00:30:31.000 Not just my work, but any work that you find that you think people need to know what's happening in this country.
00:30:37.000 I love it.
00:30:38.000 Well, God bless you.
00:30:39.000 Thank you for what you're doing.
00:30:40.000 And the walkaway is, everyone, give more money, knock on more doors, get more people involved.
00:30:45.000 Please, you got Soros that is spending his entire life earning.
00:30:51.000 We need to do more, or else this country is not going to be the same very quickly.
00:30:54.000 That's right.
00:30:55.000 Thank you.
00:30:56.000 You bet.
00:30:56.000 Talk to you soon.
00:30:57.000 Thanks.
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