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00:01:30.000So, the lead of the show today, we're going to be bringing on Orrin McIntyre, the great Orrin McIntyre, great thinker, smart guy over with the Blaze.
00:02:27.000Well, I think it's very obvious that there have been some missteps by the administration, and I have not been quiet about those until the Iran war.
00:02:35.000But at the same time, it's critical that we understand that the Trump administration is still doing the best job of any Republican administration we've ever seen.
00:02:44.000Despite my disagreements on that foreign policy issue, I continue to support the president because when we see these types of victories, we need to understand that there's more going on than just the foreign policy.
00:02:55.000And we have seen some huge ones lately.
00:02:57.000The Trump administration has made huge wins across the board from immigration to court rulings to even things that I care deeply about as a former teacher, like the education system.
00:03:08.000And so I think it was time to pull these headlines together.
00:03:11.000It's been a rough patch for the administration in some areas.
00:03:14.000But the places where they're winning are very important, and we shouldn't brush those aside just because we don't like everything that's going on.
00:03:21.000Well, so here's just a list that I have in my head.
00:04:21.000What are your, I don't know, top four or five wins that, and you can probably recent wins that you think are worth highlighting for the audience?
00:04:30.000Well, like you said, the H1B1 is huge.
00:04:33.000And I'm also glad that the vice president. President has focused on these as solutions to the affordability problem.
00:04:41.000A lot of people in mainstream conservative outlets decided to decry the idea that there is any issue with affordability.
00:04:49.000And instead, JD Vance turned around and said, obviously, there is one.
00:04:52.000And one of the ways we're going to fix this is through fixing the H 1B program, making sure that we are securing jobs for American citizens.
00:04:59.000Another huge one is that the administration is voiding over 200,000 asylum visas.
00:05:13.000And this is my favorite one, probably, because it's the correct use of bureaucratic power.
00:05:18.000We saw a complete suspension of all visa interviews for immigration into the United States because the court said, well, you can't just narrow it down to like these 70 countries that you don't want there.
00:05:30.000And so we said, okay, well, then I guess we need to retrain all of our staff.
00:05:34.000And we just can't do any of these interviews.
00:05:48.000We are using the power of the deep state for good.
00:05:51.000This is exactly the kind of thing that you want to see happen.
00:05:54.000We also saw a massive win when it comes to a court ruling that just said from the Supreme Court that you can no longer block this executive order from Donald Trump when it comes to elections.
00:06:04.000And that order is basically going to be an in run around the blocking of the Save Act.
00:06:09.000You're going to have a mandatory list that goes out to all of the states of the people who are.
00:06:31.000And these are exactly the kinds of manipulations of bureaucracy, the use of executive power that the left thrives on, that we always fall down on.
00:06:39.000And so it's great to see the Trump administration deploy these when we can't get the other wins in the courts or in.
00:07:08.000And, I mean, ending temporary protected status, I think, is another one that'll be really underrated.
00:07:13.000That was not just people who had migrated to the U.S. illegally, but it was People here illegally who, because of various maneuvers exploited by Obama and Biden and the courts, they had work authorizations here.
00:07:26.000And suddenly, that's a million people whose work authorizations have been taken away.
00:07:30.000I think those will be people who will be under a lot of economic pressure to self deport.
00:07:35.000And that's going to be, I mean, you can look at the numbers that's 335,000 people from Haiti.
00:07:39.000That's, there's two different numbers about like 500,000 people from Venezuela, 8,000 from Afghanistan, 7,000 from Nepal, 3,000 from Yemen.
00:08:10.000It wasn't that Biden said, we have open borders now.
00:08:13.000It was all of the left wing's NGOs and lawyers breaking the system apart that, oh, well, when you arrive at the border, you have the right to petition for asylum.
00:08:23.000And, you know, if you say, I'm persecuted for being gay or I suffer domestic violence or I fear gang violence in my home country, well, we have to at least give you a hearing.
00:09:53.000I think this is the standout line for me, Oren.
00:09:55.000You said this is the most effective Republican administration in your lifetime.
00:10:03.000And I think that's really accurate, actually.
00:10:06.000We haven't talked about DEI, we haven't talked about.
00:10:10.000Women's sports and how they've been working, and the NC2A actually changed their rules after the Trump administration had some executive orders on the matter.
00:10:20.000So there's been tons and tons of wins.
00:10:22.000Is there something that stands out for you that we haven't talked about yet?
00:10:26.000Yeah, so here's one that if you're not familiar with the education system, you're not going to understand, but trust me, as a former teacher, this is a huge one.
00:10:33.000So the Department of Education has recently issued guidance to ignore what Barack Obama set in place when it comes to racial balancing.
00:10:43.000So, for those who don't know, there is functionally affirmative action for suspending students in schools.
00:10:49.000I worked in a majority minority school when I was teaching.
00:10:54.000And in that school, we basically were not allowed to suspend any students because literally all of our students were minorities and anyone we suspended would add to the district's total and therefore make them look bad in the statistics.
00:11:10.000We ended up with multiple prison riot style fights.
00:11:13.000I had one principal knocked out and sent to the Uh, hospital because they tried to stop a fight in the lunchroom.
00:11:19.000Eventually, a number of the videos of these fights ended up on the internet, and that is the only way we were allowed to suspend students again.
00:11:27.000And even though that worked great, and we were actually able to educate kids again, and we had a safe school again, eventually the numbers started stacking up.
00:11:34.000Too many black students were being suspended, they took that away, and we went right back to where we were.
00:11:40.000The Trump administration getting rid of this is huge.
00:11:42.000It makes schools safer, it makes your kids more likely to get good educations, it boosts morale.
00:11:48.000This is one of those little tweaks that goes under the radar but makes a big difference across the country in the lives of average people.
00:11:55.000I mean, I remember I wrote about education at the Daily Caller, and I remember this.
00:11:59.000There was a really memorable policy, St. Paul, of course it was Minnesota, where they made the rule, it was overtly racially discriminatory that if you wanted to suspend an Asian or white kid, you could just do it as a teacher or principal.
00:12:59.000They screwed up our public school systems.
00:13:01.000And the more that we can get students, By student out of the public school systems, the less dollars are going to be allotted to failing public schools, and they're going to get better private school education, Christian education, and we're going to starve that beast of a lot of funding.
00:13:17.000And so, the more money we can take out of the public schools, the better, in my opinion.
00:13:21.000We had a huge win, by the way, in the state of Arizona on that recently.
00:13:24.000A ballot initiative that was trying to get rid of our best in class, best in the nation school choice program didn't reach the threshold on signatures.
00:13:35.000The second one, though, was also in the big, beautiful bill.
00:13:38.000Which was the accelerated amortization of business investment.
00:13:43.000So, if you're a restaurant and you want to redo the kitchen, you can write off 100% of that in the first year.
00:13:48.000So, apparently, according to Scott Besant, we have the most industrial investment in this country that we've had in basically over two decades.
00:13:56.000So, people are, money is being invested.
00:13:59.000That creates construction jobs, that creates supply chain jobs up and down the supply chain, whether it's a dishwasher or whatever factory.
00:14:06.000We have a record number of new factories being built.
00:14:09.000And a lot of that is because of the one big beautiful bill and some of the tax tweaks that were made in that.
00:14:20.000I mean, I just love that we, for decades, had through Republican and through Democrat, were mindlessly accepting stuff from one of our most left wing administrations, Lyndon Johnson.
00:14:32.000A lot of that stuff was expanded by Nixon.
00:14:34.000We had DEI stuff expanded and entrenched by Republican presidents, by Nixon.
00:14:40.000By H.W., by George W. Bush, even a bit by Reagan, some of it even in Trump's first term.
00:14:46.000And now, like, we figured it out and we're saying these executive orders that are making us ruin our country by getting rid of merit, by getting rid of standards, they're going away.
00:14:57.000I mean, I think we're trying to overturn Jimmy Carter's maneuver where he tried to basically, he got rid of the federal hiring exam, essentially, because that was racist.
00:15:07.000We can finally hire competent people in the federal government.
00:15:09.000Our government used to be famously effective and competent.
00:15:12.000By the way, 94% of federal employees were working.
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00:17:29.000See why so many believers are taking a leap of faith?
00:18:08.000Yeah, Y Combinator is a Silicon Valley based left wing incubator and venture capital fund.
00:18:15.000Basically, you come in as a startup, they give you some money, they take a big chunk of your ownership, they take control of your board.
00:18:22.000And if it works well, you end up getting bigger and you end up getting sold and you make a lot of money, and America's better as a result.
00:18:29.000Unfortunately, this company, which was initially founded by a total left wing midwit, has been taken over by a bunch of anti American.
00:18:40.000Looney Tunes, many of them foreigners.
00:18:43.000And a lot of them have been letting their freak flags fly on social, trashing America, trashing flyover country, saying how superior everyone else is to us.
00:18:53.000And there's a real irony in this because if America was as bad as they say, if flyover country was as awful as they say, and all these other countries and cultures were so much superior, they wouldn't need to be here.
00:19:05.000This stuff would exist in India or China or wherever you have it.
00:19:11.000They come here, they trash us, they loot us.
00:19:13.000And then they act like we're somehow weird for noticing what they're up to.
00:19:18.000And the craziest thing to me is you had one of the general partners at Y Combinator, I think Ankit Gupta is his name, who was going in and trashing the head of the Federal Trade Commission, the co chair of the White House Fraud Task Force.
00:19:32.000And it kind of just illuminated how clueless these people are.
00:19:35.000They pitch themselves as elite human capital, but they actually end up being absolute morons.
00:19:41.000And all I'm asking, maybe just give us a little thanks.
00:19:43.000For allowing you in our country and allowing you to rest under the shade of American exceptionalism and glory instead of just trashing us at every opportunity you get.
00:19:53.000So, here's this one of the examples people are throwing out there.
00:19:59.000We had Andrew Ferguson's tweet up there where he's saying, well, hey, maybe Y Combinator is just a front for far left activists to destroy our country.
00:20:08.000So, Hunter Weiss put up this tweet and he highlighted two companies that I think are worth.
00:20:14.000You know, checking out says YC, Y Comedy has visa factories.
00:20:20.000The first one he highlights is Gale, a fast and data driven immigration platform.
00:20:35.000We've simplified the visa application process, streamlined compliance, and can integrate with HR systems, saving teams time, money, and headaches.
00:20:43.000Through automation, we enable the independent attorneys we coordinate with to maintain quality.
00:21:13.000They're monetizing immigration into the U.S.
00:21:18.000The head of Y Combinator right now is a guy named Gary Tan.
00:21:21.000He's a Total kook, given bazillions of dollars to left wing causes, donated to, you know, Ro Khanna, who's a total left wing nut job, the Minnesota DFL, Chuck Schumer, every left wing cause you can imagine.
00:21:37.000And Mike Cernovich, who's amazing, just a national treasurer, he has been asking for days is there a single general partner at Y Combinator who voted for Trump?
00:21:46.000Is there a single general partner there who doesn't hate Trump or hate Trump voters?
00:22:03.000They openly mock flyover country and the people who live there, you know, the people who actually grow our food and drive all the trucks that feed these people.
00:22:11.000And it's this attitude from these people that I think everyone has had enough of that if you are going to come to this country and get rich, the bare minimum we ask you is to not take a dump on us on social media every time you get the opportunity.
00:22:26.000Because if your countries were so great and your cultures were so awesome, You wouldn't be here.
00:22:32.000So, just acknowledge that we're better and maybe try to integrate yourself into what we're doing instead of taking craps on us all the time.
00:23:09.000Swatish, this is another Y Combinator funded company.
00:23:13.000And it says We offer a free U.S. FDIC insured checking account, free credit card, no interest rate, collateral fees, free ATT SIM card shipped to your home with 40% cheaper plans than retail, and save thousands of dollars in remittances to our customers, all by opening a free Swatish account.
00:23:31.000We enable New to America, expats become American in the eyes of.
00:23:37.000There's actually a grammar, a typo error there, by the way.
00:23:39.000So, I wonder what the nationality of the person that wrote this up is.
00:23:44.000In the eyes of the U.S. financial system, we're starting by serving 150,000 Indian expats migrating to the U.S. each year.
00:23:55.000We have a comprehensive solution that covers banking, credit building, communication, remittances, as well as value add services such as insurance, housing, et cetera, along with all the standard bells and whistles of neo banks.
00:24:10.000I don't think the average American understands that when you get these foreigners and they really want to come to America, the massive amount of infrastructure that has been built around making it easy on them.
00:24:21.000And the way it's so exploitable, in that because US citizenship is so valuable, that it gives you access to benefits that it turns out are easily scammed.
00:24:32.000It gets you access to a powerful passport.
00:24:36.000And of course, it gets you access to bring in all of your family members.
00:24:38.000This is such a driver of why it's able to bring wages down that essentially.
00:24:44.000Anyone who's coming here from a foreign country is being paid extra, something that an American citizen can't get, because they're getting paid with the ability to gain access to America.
00:24:58.000And when you combine this with ideological leftism, it's a perfect recipe for like absolutely a bonkers toxification of an important part of an American economy because we want a thriving tech system.
00:25:10.000Well, it also makes it harder for like DHS and State Department to deal with all this stuff when it's all AI driven.
00:26:24.000And what I think these left wing tech bros simply don't understand is the choice before you right now is you're not going back to 2004, 2012 and Mitt Romney republicanism.
00:26:35.000Okay, those days are over and they're gone forever.
00:26:38.000What you are going to get is you're going to get left wing socialism in Luigi Mangione, or you are going to get right wing America First MAGA populism.
00:26:49.000So if you're going to come in and hijack this bus and think that somehow you're going to get to drive it back in time, You are insane.
00:26:56.000And by the way, they may think people like you and me are crazy because we say the things we do and we don't really like what they're doing.
00:27:03.000They don't have to worry about us sneaking up behind them as they walk around a street corner in New York and shooting them in the back.
00:27:11.000You can be with Luigi or you can get on board, understand you're not driving the bus anymore, that you're a passenger, but you can get on board and be with us and you will be safe.
00:27:25.000And it's something I like that someone pointed out a lot of these guys got.
00:27:29.000So rich because they were good with computers, which means they weren't necessarily good at social skills as kids.
00:27:33.000That they're confused where they brought in a ton of people from the third world and then they see this rising socialism, rising communism, rising anti rich sentiment in all the places where they are concentrated.
00:27:45.000And it's like they need to get the idea.
00:27:47.000Okay, if you guys want to side with the right, you actually have to get on board with some of our platform and we're happy to play ball.
00:27:52.000The left is not going to play ball as soon as they decide that you need to be chucked.
00:27:58.000They need to get the message and get on board.
00:28:45.000And there's actually some stuff, you know, I want to highlight this tweet from Chris, a guy named Chris Corner, who apparently he runs, owns eight RV parks with investors and seven plus companies in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
00:28:59.000And he goes, It's becoming uncomfortably racist here in the Dallas suburbs.
00:29:04.000Here are the facts Indians are 2% of the Dallas Fort Worth area and own 5.3% of the businesses.
00:29:10.000Dallas Fort Worth's Indian population more than doubled from 2000 to 2010 and is at 220,000 today.
00:29:18.000Asian Indians are the majority in many Frisco subdivisions, and Frisco is one of the wealthiest, fastest growing suburbs in America.
00:29:26.000In Frisco, where Indians are the largest Asian group, Asian medium household income is $190,000.
00:29:32.000Medium home prices at $642,000, poverty 3.5%.
00:29:37.000Name the Dallas Fort Worth suburbs with the most Indian families.
00:30:28.000And by the way, Plano and Frisco were already top ranked Texas school districts back in 2010.
00:30:34.000The median household income in Plano and Frisco has been over $100,000 since 2010.
00:30:38.000Well, I think it's interesting because it.
00:30:41.000The entire discussion around Indian immigration gets in elements of the debate over immigration that you don't usually have because we obviously are most worried about immigrants who come in and they're criminals, they're immediately huge welfare sponges, quality leering centers, all of that.
00:30:58.000And that's really bad, and we want to block that.
00:30:59.000But there are other downsides to immigration, and it can come even when, as a lot of Indian immigrants do, they do follow the law, they actually are academically high achieving.
00:31:08.000But what you are doing when you do it at scale is You are bringing in people who are from outside of your cultural sphere.
00:31:16.000They're from outside, they don't have the same values you do.
00:31:20.000Even if they're not wantonly violent or destructive, they're just different.
00:31:24.000And especially if they're actually very talented, you're basically creating a new elite for your country.
00:31:30.000And it's usually not good for a country when it has a new elite of people who don't feel historically connected to that country.
00:31:38.000And I think that's what's driving some of those takes on X that are making people really angry.
00:31:44.000It's this guy who's just not historically from America, and he has obvious, blinding contempt for ordinary Americans.
00:32:01.000I believe this radical thought that stems from the Constitution, the Declaration, that America exists to secure the blessings of liberty for Americans, which is to say, America exists for Americans.
00:32:14.000Now, does that mean we should never, ever let anyone in again, ever from a foreign country?
00:32:20.000No, but it does mean that America needs to stay American.
00:32:23.000And you reach a certain point with immigration where the numbers get so high.
00:32:27.000That you have a tipping point where the people who are coming in are no longer becoming American.
00:32:33.000What they are doing is becoming people who just live in America.
00:32:36.000And you can see this in the cultural practices they retain.
00:32:39.000You can see this in where they are sending their money via remittances.
00:32:43.000So many, such a high percentage of people who are coming in do not see themselves as American.
00:33:26.000People like Homer Hickam from West Virginia did this.
00:33:29.000So, I want everyone else to understand we don't actually need you here.
00:33:33.000We have been the best country in all of history without you.
00:33:37.000So, the fact that we let you come here is a gift that you should be thankful for.
00:33:41.000You should want to become American and adopt our practices and beliefs because they are better.
00:33:47.000And at this point, I have no tolerance for the people who want to come in and replace our culture with theirs because if theirs was better, they wouldn't need to be here in the first place.
00:34:05.000We're Americans, we have a heritage, we're a people.
00:34:10.000This note kind of, you know, people, we go back to the tech bro thing.
00:34:15.000We have this issue within our own party as well.
00:34:18.000When you look at like Senator Curtis from Utah, who wants to sort of, he has a bill to bring, I guess, a certain number of immigration choices back to the state level so that they can import foreign labor and replace Americans.
00:34:32.000What do we, why is this such a dogged problem within the conservative ranks?
00:34:50.000Our fathers and grandfathers and great, great, great grandfathers died and shed their blood for this place.
00:34:56.000Okay, so this is ours, and we want to protect it.
00:34:58.000And on the other side, you have a lot of people who are probably more materialistic, a little more money minded, who see the immigration.
00:35:06.000They're like, Well, this would allow me to make more money because I can pay people less for the same job.
00:35:12.000And I don't really care if they come in and they actually cost more on net because the government's going to pay for it.
00:35:19.000And I can spread that cost over everyone else in the country as opposed to absorbing it.
00:35:25.000So it becomes kind of like a dollars versus a cultural protection argument.
00:35:30.000And I think far too many people in the party right now care more about how much they're making right now than they do about leaving a legacy in a country to their kids and their grandchildren that will give them the same opportunities that they had.
00:35:42.000You know, it's really simple things for me, too.
00:35:46.000I want to go to a park and talk to people that feel like my neighbors, I want to go to the DMV and hear English.
00:35:52.000I want to go to the emergency room if I have to use it and not feel like it's Ellis Island.
00:37:45.000In an era where pollsters were all establishment pollsters, they were all left leaning and they didn't know how to poll the right, Rich Barris came in and made a huge name for himself because you understand the base better than anybody.
00:37:58.000I really believe that in this space, Rich.
00:38:00.000But we've got a little bit of a different challenge for you today because you're not a one trick pony.
00:38:04.000You know the left as well, and you understand what's driving these surges.
00:38:08.000You poll everybody and you hear from voters.
00:38:11.000You're one of the few pollsters out there that is actually picking up the phone yourself or engaging in back and forth in digital communications.
00:38:19.000So, the question that I have, and this has come up over the last couple of days, that's something I've been percolating on.
00:38:24.000If you think about El Sayed, and I was on with Will Kane yesterday on Fox talking about something similar, that the left, the DSA is no longer the fringe.
00:38:32.000They are in some ways, in many ways, the dominant movement within the Democrat Party.
00:38:37.000So you ask yourself somebody like El Syed, which is this has been a huge, huge controversy on the left.
00:38:43.000If you watch CNN, if you watch MSNBC or MSNI, whatever it is, all they're talking about is Hassan Piker.
00:38:49.000You've got the former Obama bros talking about, can we just please not talk about Hassan Piker for one day?
00:39:31.000If he does outright condemn him, and you can see him trying to distance himself from Hassan Piker, but he's not condemning or ostracizing him because he knows, regardless, and even in a midterm cycle, there still is the majority of the Democratic Party that generally shares most of the views that Hassan Piker shares.
00:39:56.000Within 10 years, the Democratic Party, I actually think that's probably a lot.
00:39:59.000Within 10 years, the Democratic Party will almost have assuredly lost this fight to the DSA because more and more and more Democrats over the years have continued to identify as Democratic socialists, not just as traditional liberals.
00:40:13.000That identification is down like 12, 15% of Democrat identifying voters.
00:40:20.000So he's not doing it because he's afraid of alienating Democrats.
00:40:24.000What is effectively the Democratic base.
00:42:09.000You know, somebody like Joe Biden taking it from Bernie Sanders gave them a better shot in 2020, even.
00:42:15.000But that's not really true now because back then, 40% of the Democratic base called themselves a DSA or aligned themselves with Democratic Socialism.
00:42:24.000Now, when you ask them what they identify with, leave the Democratic Socialists of America organization out of it and just ask them ideologically, who do you align more with?
00:42:39.000Yeah, I mean, there's that Gallup poll that shows 66% of Democrats now view socialism favorably, right?
00:42:47.000When you take the DSA out of it, more Democrats now view socialism favorably than they view capitalism favorably.
00:42:54.000If you look at Veristat, they do a temperature gauge.
00:42:57.000They did it, I think, last time in June.
00:43:00.000The top three current office holders in the Democrat Party, their most favorable, the highest favorability ratings AOC, Bernie Sanders, Mamdani.
00:43:09.000So, we see they're saying they like socialism more, they like capitalism less, but we've seen some quirks to this, like that socialists are now the most pro free trade part of the US because that means you're opposing Trump's tariffs, for example, when historically socialists would not feel that way.
00:43:26.000So, how does this work out in terms of what they actually want policy wise?
00:43:31.000Are they embracing, besides saying they like socialism more, does this generation of young Democrats, what do they actually want government to do that older Democrats?
00:43:41.000Or is there more similarity in what they'd actually want government to do than we might expect?
00:43:46.000This is getting a little bit into burn it down territory here, Blake, because in truth, they're early and they're a bit premature in their movement, even though they've been around for a while, but they haven't identified policy platforms as sophisticated as another movement like the MAGA movement did, even very early, where Donald Trump got into specifics about why he was where he was on trade and immigration and how that benefited the worker.
00:44:12.000The DSA and the Democratic Socialists right now have some conflict.
00:44:15.000They're for positions that the public actually doesn't see, even younger people, many of them, they don't see as benefiting them.
00:44:24.000And that's the in for the right, okay?
00:44:26.000Because they'll get into a fight with the Democratic establishment if they do get a lot more office, if they start to hold a lot more offices.
00:44:34.000They'll get into a fight with some members of the Democratic establishment on where they want to go.
00:44:39.000Because the truth is, if you asked a common Democratic voter, not just A middle of the road or average voter.
00:44:47.000If you ask a common Democratic voter, what do they stand for that differentiates themselves from the establishment Democratic Party, they'll maybe answer Israel.
00:45:00.000It's well, Democrats still largely, elected Democrats still largely support Israel and foreign aid to Israel, where the DSA does not.
00:45:06.000When we get into places like trade, they're very gray.
00:45:10.000All they know is that very general stuff.
00:45:13.000I'm against oligarchy, but are you really?
00:45:16.000If that's where your position is on trade, on free trade, because you're anti Trump, are you really against the oligarchy?
00:45:23.000Because Donald Trump's trade policy is anti oligarchy.
00:45:27.000So this is where the right has an in right now.
00:45:29.000And I know that doesn't directly answer what you were saying, but I really did want everyone to understand there's a way to counter these people.
00:45:35.000And it's not the way we're handling it now, it's substance.
00:45:39.000I mean, Donald Trump, for the media, never really saw it in 2015 and 16.
00:45:50.000And it kind of strikes me that they're going to get better on their policy platforms.
00:45:56.000The intellectual vanguard is going to come up with some ideas, just like we saw MAGA sort of mature over time.
00:46:04.000The Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through a kind of experiment.
00:46:10.000Like, who can actually respond, particularly to young people's very real concerns about where they are at this point in their lives and what kind of future do they have for themselves?
00:47:44.000Now it seems that the DSA has caused them to revert.
00:47:49.000And this is always the great right hope, right?
00:47:53.000Is that Democrats can't control themselves.
00:47:56.000And it does seem like I think, and I just mentioned this the other day, I'm seeing glimmers, Andrew, of the Democrat party that we all know coming back because they're trying to placate these people and they really don't know how.
00:48:10.000And in the process, they're crazy starting to leak through, right?
00:48:15.000I mean, you're seeing their stupid stuff that that side talks about, the far left side talks about, seeping into what is their mainstream conversation.
00:48:25.000Like, we constantly have to focus on Natalie.
00:48:28.000We constantly have to focus on Trump's name on a building.
00:48:55.000But this is what's going on because why did he do it?
00:48:58.000He did it for the same reason that Hillary made that statement.
00:49:01.000He was trying to placate people who had heard him meeting with Jared Kushner and they flipped out over it because, God forbid, you have a conversation with the other side about anything, right?
00:50:42.000And this is something that I've tried to convey to people.
00:50:46.000You know, the elected Democratic class is.
00:50:52.000On this issue, the issue of support for Israel, I think we're letting Democrats get away while the right calls each other anti Semitic.
00:50:59.000We're letting Democrats get away with what's happening beneath their surface because the John Fettermans, the Cory Bookers, they do not represent the average Democratic voter.
00:51:10.000Guys, support for Israel, and it's coming from a very, I feel like on the right, it's a shame.
00:51:16.000I feel like on the right, a lot of honest discussion, and I'm not saying it's all honest or in good faith, but a lot of honest discussion is getting labeled anti Semitic.
00:51:25.000But I'm telling you on the left, It's really anti Semitic.
00:51:28.000When you're a pollster and an average Democratic voter has no problem saying something anti Semitic to the pollster interviewing them and not thinking, not even understanding that that's real hatred.
00:51:41.000You know, I mean, their issue is, you know, maybe 10 years ago was the treatment of the Palestinian people and they really cared about that.
00:51:49.000But we've moved into something else on the left.
00:51:51.000And unfortunately, the right needs to refocus, they need to stop the infighting and they need to direct their.
00:51:57.000You know, their fire where it belongs, you know, their criticisms where it really does belong because you could go to Detroit and hear some real anti Semitism, folks.
00:52:09.000Rich, I think it's interesting too because we've been talking about this horseshoe theory, you know, where you're seeing certain online personalities that, you know, are right coded, that were Trump supporters, but now they're sort of saying the left right paradigm.
00:52:22.000I tend to think that that's all about foreign policy.
00:52:25.000I really think that's the driving factor.
00:53:02.000There's, and I have so little time to address it, but it isn't necessarily true that the summer is a lull.
00:53:10.000There's like, and I've talked to people all the way at the top who say the same thing, but it really is the out of party power has a boost and then tends to gain.
00:53:20.000So, yeah, there was a lull in 22, but that's because there was, you know, it was a better Republican year.
00:53:26.000There was a lull in 16, but it was a better Republican year.
00:53:29.000When you look at something like 18, you know, there really wasn't.
00:53:33.000So, It really is more about the out of party than it is about just something that targets Republicans.
00:54:52.000It shaped how he lived, how he served, how he treated people every single day.
00:54:56.000Charlie Kirk, American Martyr, captures that heart.
00:54:59.000This documentary isn't just simply about remembering Charlie.
00:55:02.000It's an invitation for each of us to ask what kind of legacy we're building and whether we're willing to stand firm in our own faith when it's tested.
00:55:11.000I hope that you'll watch it with your family and have those conversations together.
00:57:20.000For those that have been to America Fest, it is America Fest on the road that caters specifically to our high school and college students, right?
00:57:28.000This is the programming that represents what they want to see, what they want to hear.
00:57:32.000Students, this is how Charlie changed the needle going into 2024, right?
00:57:38.000Was the tours, and we started them over a decade ago, bringing Charlie to rooms of about 100, 200, maybe 300 kids.
00:57:46.000We started Charlie going to assemblies of five people trying to get them to debate him.
00:57:50.000Yeah, the first time I brought him to a campus, I got 100 kids into a room, and I was proud of myself.
00:58:18.000And you know, here's the incredible thing about the tour the tour does two things.
00:58:22.000One, it addresses the culture war that's happening on college campuses.
00:58:26.000And two, it helps elevate new and upcoming names in the conservative movement.
00:58:30.000Will Witt, it's a full circle having Will Witt part of this tour because Will Witt, back in the day when we, in the early days of Turning Point USA, he was a student in Colorado helping build some of the early names of the Turning Point tour with Anna Paulina Luna, who's now a congresswoman for us, Brandon Tatum, who's a well known influencer in the movement.
00:58:51.000And those were just young, upcoming names at the time that Will Witt and others as students were hosting as part of our campus tour.
00:58:58.000And now Will Witt is one of those upcoming names that we are building.
00:59:01.000I don't mean to get ahead of myself here, but throw up graphic 183.
00:59:59.000You know, one of the things that I think is so important that I think Charlie was so good at, which I'm sure you guys have noticed as well, is that.
01:00:05.000A lot of people are kind of getting into this movement right now and they say they're conservatives, but their actual views on conservatism are very shallow.
01:00:14.000And so I think one of the things that's really good about this tour is they get to hear from people like myself and all the other people on there to actually help strengthen those ideas because going on social media and seeing clips of conservative stuff isn't what's going to save this country.
01:00:27.000It actually takes people understanding the ideas, reading the original thinkers, and asking questions to be able to save this country.
01:00:33.000And so I think this tour is going to be doing exactly that.
01:00:37.000Yeah, I mean, that's such a good point you just brought up.
01:00:40.000I think one of the things in this recent season, when you see all this tumult on social media, is that the roots didn't go down very deep with some people.
01:00:48.000And when things get a little bit hard, they want to bail on it for vibes or feels.
01:00:53.000I mean, this is something you talk about a lot.
01:00:54.000A lot of people have, they kind of have good gut feelings, but they're in an environment that's very hostile to maybe the values they grew up with, but now they're in college and they're not in that surrounding environment.
01:01:05.000They don't necessarily think about politics that hard, so they're vulnerable to arguments that are actually pretty weak.
01:01:11.000But they've never argued against them.
01:01:13.000And they gain strength from just being in an auditorium where they see someone who's confident, who can make an argument that maybe they've struggled to make themselves, and then it'll stick in their brain.
01:01:25.000They just need the people to be voicing the views they want to agree with.
01:01:52.000And I want to commend you for that because there's a lot of people that come in and out of the movement and they wash out, and you've got staying power.
01:02:00.000And the fact that we're getting this full circle moment with you is really exciting for me.
01:02:08.000And the reality, I mean, Blake touched on it so perfectly, is two thirds of those involved in the movement right now on the college level.
01:02:16.000And high school level started after 9 10 of last year.
01:02:22.000So, two thirds of our student leaders have joined the movement after the assassination, where they said, I'm standing up, I'm getting involved.
01:02:40.000We just got one from the UK, actually, a kid who said, Charlie massively inspires me, and he's the guy I look to model my life around.
01:02:48.000There are people who go that far, others who just say, I love his ability to debate, his confidence, and they want to learn from him and be modeled after him.
01:02:58.000We don't have Charlie anymore, so we need other people to pick up the mic, as it were, and continue this tradition.
01:03:04.000Well, in the so there's two, I want to make sure this is very clear for people out there, and we're going to get into the pick up the mic thing in segment two with Will and Andrew.
01:03:12.000But we're talking about this the big campus tour.
01:03:14.000These are the tent pole events where we do a massive, you know, event with live people.
01:03:19.000If you disagree, you come to the front of the line.
01:03:22.000That is mandatory at every single one of these events.
01:03:25.000That if you disagree, you get a chance to debate Will Witt, you get a chance to debate Brandon Gill, you get a chance to debate.
01:03:32.000Tulsi Gabbard and Don Jr. and Michael Knowles.
01:03:35.000I mean, this is like what this is really about.
01:03:38.000So we're excited about that opportunity.
01:03:40.000And I think this point, you know, some people, it's like they don't understand the dynamic here, Cypher, because actually our campuses are the ones that are requesting these speakers.
01:03:51.000So the campuses, when we partner with a school, let's say it's at UT Austin, they have like a request list and we try and work with their request list, right?
01:04:53.000Then we work with them on who are speakers that interest them.
01:04:55.000And then we go to work with these schools and these speakers to see where does it work with this guy.
01:04:59.000Yeah, that was kind of a revelation to me when I first started kind of getting involved with the tours and seeing how the sausage is made, is just how much these campuses will are like.
01:05:14.000And it's like, sometimes it's like, hey, you made the second tier this time, you know, but for the next, it was a spring tour in this instance, like, you know, you're on our list and we're going to, you know, but it's a wild thing.
01:05:24.000Like, that's got to feel kind of good, right, Will?
01:05:26.000That the kids are actually asking for Will Witt, right?
01:05:33.000I mean, I'm sitting here reading Robin Hood and I'm thinking, wow, there are people who actually want to come hear me speak and do these kind of things.
01:05:39.000It still blows my mind that this is what happens.
01:05:41.000And so I feel truly blessed, you know, to be able to.
01:05:44.000Do this with you guys and carry on Charlie's legacy and actually go and educate these people.
01:05:48.000You know, one of the things that was one of the most important things that Charlie taught me about all this, I mean, as you can see, the books behind me is what I'm doing, is actually reading the material.
01:05:57.000You know, I think that is so imperative.
01:06:00.000And I think, you know, you were talking before about how I've been doing this for a long time.
01:06:03.000I've had staying power, still relevant and growing and doing these things.
01:06:07.000And it's because I know a lot of the material inside and out.
01:06:10.000You know, I remember Charlie telling me that you need to be a better communist than the communists are so that you know their arguments.
01:06:15.000And so I think going into these tour stops with the people that we have.
01:06:18.000Going and speaking, being very prepared for these kinds of arguments, we can show those students that, man, you can fight against these powers of evil.
01:06:25.000You can fight against the communists and the far leftists and the gender theory and all these things and actually win just by going and actually knowing the information.
01:07:08.000Women who kill their own kids because they want to be the CEO of Ospaid, they're selfish, yeah.
01:07:15.000I believe that illegal immigrants do harm in this country by making it a worse place to live for people who are born in this country who are American citizens.
01:07:23.000We have to be the ones to equip our children and our grandchildren with the knowledge about some of the Evils and the danger of the world for the outside world gets to them.
01:07:32.000What do you do with the people that violate those laws?
01:08:37.000And we did a whole training here on debate and understanding the left and understand logical fallacies and logical traps.
01:08:45.000Tell us about how we're relaunching this program.
01:08:49.000Well, this goes back to the conversations I had with Charlie.
01:08:54.000It was there wasn't enough talent in the space, there weren't enough people doing what he was doing.
01:09:00.000And that was a frustration of his, was that.
01:09:03.000Yes, he was honored by the responsibility he was given, but he also wanted there to be more talent, more people that could articulate our viewpoints, that could take the battle to the front lines.
01:09:21.000Because when you do a night event, it's ticketed.
01:09:24.000There's only a certain demographic that will come to a night event that's ticketed.
01:09:27.000But when you go on to the quad, you're interfacing with the entire demographic of the student body, the apathetics.
01:09:34.000Those that are engaged, the opposition, those that are supportive.
01:09:37.000And so, this is our way to flood the zone to do what we did incredibly effectively with Charlie, but now with a variety of talent, whether it be students that are trying to, you know, they're stepping up since the last 910 to, you know, influencers like Will Way or Nick Fredis, those that have been doing this for a while to saying, hey, how do we flood the zone to be able to influence more students that are on the sidelines wanting to hear and participate in this that didn't have the chance or didn't think they'd have the chance when things changed?
01:10:04.000And, you know, I mean, but we're doing like, A bunch of these, right?
01:10:08.000So, with Charlie, obviously, it was this huge, you know, it was promoted, and there's thousands of people.
01:10:13.000But these might, you might, we might have some of these that have like 12 people at them.
01:10:16.000So, we were averaging about 20 to 25 a semester with Charlie, and that was a heavy lift.
01:10:21.000We were averaging about 3,000 to 4,000 per stop.
01:10:25.000Last spring, when we rolled this out as kind of a beta program.
01:11:02.000And I love that you mentioned that he was very good at it, but he did feel there was a talent shortage.
01:11:07.000And I think we talked about how Charlie always sought out mentorship, but another great thing about Charlie was he was not possessive or territorial about his talents.
01:11:16.000That he really wanted there to be more people who could do exactly what he did on campus.
01:11:22.000You're going to be doing it, aren't you?
01:12:09.000Brandon Tatum, Lucas Miles, who runs TPSA Faith, Nick Freitas, of course, Kristen Hawkins, great.
01:12:14.000Alex Clark, Blake, Chloe Cole, Jack Posobic, Joe Bob, Stephen Davis, Pastor John Amonchukwu, Anthony Watson, who just did a big high school event with us 600 kids at a high school.
01:12:25.000Graham Allen, Bo Alford, who's been doing some great man on the street stuff, Alex Stein, Joshua Haynes.
01:12:31.000Corey Sims, John Doyle, the moderate case, Matt Nuclear.
01:13:07.000And maybe collectively, if we all pick up the slack where we can, that, you know, yeah, nobody's going to get, you know, 2 billion views on their own, right?
01:13:40.000And I think doing these pick up the mic events and having all these people come out and actually ask questions, talk to people, do it in a compassionate way, like Charlie did, actually try and have conversations that lead to a good outcome.
01:13:50.000I mean, when I'm out there on the campus and I have, like, there's a clip that you guys probably have seen of me talking to that one black girl on campus and we're talking about racism.
01:13:57.000And at the end, she's agreeing with me.
01:13:59.000I mean, she was mad at me, but she's agreeing with me on these different points that I'm making and that light bulb moment.
01:14:04.000And you're just like, dang, like, this is why we do this.
01:14:07.000You know, it's not because of some we're trying to get these views or be like Charlie or, you know, step into these shoes.
01:14:12.000It's because We see the good work that happens on these campuses when someone's mind changes.
01:14:16.000You know, one of the best pieces of advice that Dennis Prager ever gave me when you guys were talking about only a couple people at some of these things was to treat every speech like it's the most important speech of your life because you have no idea the people that you'll influence who are there.
01:14:27.000You know, so the person who you talk to on the campus doing it, you have no idea where they'll go out, talk to other people, grassroots, change minds.
01:14:34.000I mean, it's truly a beautiful thing to be able to be able to talk to these people.
01:14:38.000So, TPUSAStudents.com, pick up the mic.
01:14:41.000TPUSAStudents.com, pick up the mic for that, or just go to TPUSA.comslashTours.
01:14:47.000If you want to get tickets to the college campus tour or get your students involved, your kid, your son or daughter, tpusa.comslash tours.