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00:03:41.000Then you get to his Reddit feed, which we have warned about Reddit.
00:03:44.000Reddit and Blue Sky are basically where left wing extremism gets domesticated.
00:03:50.000Well, what's good about it is the left has a certain lack of survival instinct about posting online.
00:03:56.000So, you know, you'll have like right wingers will get in trouble for stuff they posted, but at least they usually had a pseudonym and someone had to hack it or whatever.
00:04:03.000Like, leftists will just be like small businessmen posting about how they want someone to shoot Trump in the head and they want a revolution and they fantasize about guillotine.
00:04:15.000It's because nobody's ever made them be held accountable for something.
00:04:19.000And the left has, in the case of Platner, what's really funny about it is they've just, they've actually like come out and openly said, That they would never forgive Plattner for his past if he were a Republican.
00:04:32.000But luckily, since he is a Democrat, we know that he's okay.
00:04:36.000Okay, so what are some of those comments?
00:04:38.000He's downplayed, made light of sexual assault and rape, at least in military contexts.
00:04:44.000Victim blaming, apparently, is some of it, or blaming intoxication.
00:04:49.000He's made racially charged remarks, questioning black tipping habits.
00:04:54.000He's been accused of misogyny, being homophobic, crude language.
00:04:58.000So basically, they've hurled a lot of the same.
00:05:01.000Insults at him as they do the average right winger.
00:05:36.000But, you know, the thing about it is, is they'll say he, honestly, it's probably believable that he just got this tattoo because he thought it looked cool and then covered it up later.
00:05:50.000Or he might just be this huge winger swinging back and forth every direction, one way or the other.
00:05:55.000I assume that's his updated, yeah, his updated tattoo.
00:05:59.000But, like, what matters a lot more is the fact that he, in recent history, yeah, that he's supportive of.
00:06:05.000Antifa, which, as we've tried to warn people, this is not just a left wing protest movement.
00:06:10.000It's a left wing street violence unit.
00:06:13.000The people they look up to, especially in Europe, this is a very refined art.
00:06:17.000They will go out, they'll bash people with hammers, they'll torch people's offices and stores.
00:06:23.000They will, they really believe in using street violence to get things done.
00:06:27.000And then engineering the legal system to avoid consequences for it.
00:06:44.000But that is who Antifa appeals to.0.98
00:06:46.000That's why they get so much, let's just say it, kind of disgusting riffraff.0.95
00:06:52.000People who have a lot of problems are drawn into Antifa, and it's this radicalization engine.0.91
00:06:59.000It makes them turn against everything functional in society.
00:07:03.000Anyone who has a business, especially a small business, Antifa types, they hate small businesses vastly more than big business most of the time.
00:07:34.000And we have to be very aware of the fact that when they go online and they see all this like crazy crap, they're liable to take hold of it and do something crazy about it.0.99
00:08:01.000Now, if this were a Republican candidate who had had a Nazi tattoo, covered it up when he was running for something, and had said all the things that he had said about black people, about women, about rape, et cetera, do you really think there's a world in which Democrats would be like, let's just let bygones be bygones?
00:10:00.000Apparently, she didn't like Erica's remarks earlier this week, and she went on some unhinged rant, basically, attacking Turning Point, attacking Erica.
00:11:03.000You'll see it right there, New York Post.
00:11:06.000President Trump, you know, asked President Trump to kill Turning Point USA.
00:11:11.000So if you remember, like, what Erica was even talking about this week, and we devoted a whole episode of the show to it, and Erica did a great job.
00:11:20.000She said it's the dehumanizing language, and she was reflecting on the White House correspondence dinner, the three assassination attempts on President Trump, and obviously the assassination of Charlie.
00:11:31.000And basically said, you know, Dehumanizing people leads to a really ugly place, and we need to stop.
00:11:38.000We're done putting up with this, and something needs to be done.
00:11:41.000And then, you know, lo and behold, somebody that steps into this role is Stanley Kubrick's estranged daughter, who became a Scientologist, it looks like, in the 90s and is now an avid supporter of people like Candace and other people that are into the conspiracy world.
00:12:07.000I just want to say to say out loud that you want to kill Turning Point USA.
00:12:14.000Vivian, I want you to understand that you are potentially stoking violent people to do crazy things.
00:12:19.000And that does not end in a good place.
00:12:22.000And so I pray that you restrain yourselves in the future and maybe get off the internet and go enjoy life because it's not worthy of anybody's time for you to be saying such vile things.
00:12:44.000I don't know, Blake, if you have any thoughts to add to it, but I wanted to address it because it's just another one of these things that pops up, and I wanted to address it.
00:12:53.000I guess it's just these children of directors.
00:12:57.000They're even probably even more lamentable than children of actors or the actors themselves.
00:14:18.000But a lot of people, they're much more willing to embrace, oh, I think this.
00:14:23.000Statement is threatening or should be indicted for this or that.
00:14:27.000And I'm almost always of the attitude that unless you are actively whipping up a mob to go burn someone's house down, go loot a business, go shoot someone, it's probably better to say that it's fine.
00:14:38.000Otherwise, you're going down the path towards Europe where.
00:14:47.000And I think what Erica is pointing out is when you have people recklessly fanning flames of hate.
00:14:56.000That is the step towards where people decide actually, we're okay with dialing back freedom of speech.
00:15:03.000Because the only reason we're going to have free speech stick around is if people want it to stick around and insist that it stick around.
00:15:10.000Right now, we keep it because we have a good legacy of federal judges in the 20th century who really entrenched freedom of speech as a value in America such that it's hard to restrict speech.
00:15:22.000But the left wants to restrict speech.
00:15:24.000The left are the ones who go around saying, well, there's hate speech exceptions.
00:15:28.000Okay, the public will go along with this if they're thinking there's going to be violence.
00:15:45.000Well, that's an open question that we're going to have.
00:15:47.000We're going to have Mike Davis on in the next segment to discuss just that.
00:15:50.000And by the way, we also have gotten word that the DOJ is going to enforce the Supreme Court ruling that has called racial gerrymandering illegal, essentially.
00:16:01.000And so those two topics we're going to get into with Mike Davis.
00:16:05.000But yeah, just to be very, very clear, I don't believe in the concept of hate speech.
00:16:30.000But that's not at all what I was talking about.
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00:19:56.000Yeah, no, I think this is some of the context that gets lost in this debate.
00:19:59.000And, and, Listen, I'm a little bit, I'm not sure what's going to happen here if this indictment's going to stick and he's going to get convicted.
00:20:07.000But I think that context is really important.
00:20:09.000So, as a former FBI director, he obviously is very aware of criminal elements and criminality in general, right?
00:20:15.000Secondly, President Trump at this point had just been, uh, survived two assassination attempts.
00:20:21.000Well, and he wrote a book about coded assassination attempts.
00:20:25.000It, it, that part of this story, I think, gets lost.
00:20:29.000You know, when you look at CNN or you look at MS Now or whatever, even Fox, whatever.
00:20:34.000But those are relevant and pertinent details.
00:20:55.000I think the question here is when you talk about 86ing somebody, it could be, like, the president, I think, did a truth on this where it could be, like, mob speak, violent speak.
00:21:46.000He politicized and weaponized the Justice Department to go after Trump.
00:21:53.000He set up Michael Flynn and caused a great deal of hardship for General Michael Flynn, President Trump's incoming national security advisor.
00:23:10.000He's testified in a hostile way to Trump.
00:23:12.000And he made posts on social media that are clearly hostile towards Trump.
00:23:16.000But I just feel it stretches credulity for me for anyone who saw that post to think James Comey is threatening to personally go or is inciting somebody to go and assassinate the president.
00:24:22.000Look, we just saw with this third assassination attempt that people take these messages and they act on them, and that's exactly what James Comey wanted.
00:24:32.000Again, he wrote a book about this, about coded messages, like leading to political violence.
00:24:39.000All right, I want to pivot really quick, Mike.
00:25:39.000Yeah, the Supreme Court's ruling, 6 3, made crystal clear you cannot have intentional racial discrimination when you're creating these congressional districts.
00:25:50.000You can't have DEI districts like the Democrats have done for so long.
00:25:56.000You can gerrymander based upon politics, but you cannot gerrymander based upon race.
00:26:02.000And so, when you have these blue states that have intentionally drawn their lines based upon race, DEI districts, the Justice Department's going to sue them and get those maps thrown out.
00:26:14.000And so, this is look, it's going to be an uphill fight for Republicans to keep the House, but this could change the momentum significantly.
00:26:25.000Well, yeah, and there's not a ton, you know, we talked about this with Ryan James Gurdesky yesterday.
00:26:30.000There's not a There's not as many swing districts as there used to be.
00:26:33.000So if you look at even between now and 2018, when the Democrats had that big wave election, I'm not sure there's enough seats to kind of replicate that performance.
00:26:45.000There's a lot of time between now and November.
00:26:47.000And if some of these House seats, Ryan was predicting about at least seven congressional districts will be able to get flipped as a result of this in time for the midterms.
00:27:34.000Republicans make up like 40% plus of New England.
00:27:37.000They have zero House seats in New England because they've been gerrymandered off the map.
00:27:43.000So, Republican governors, Republican legislatures, the DOJ move forward aggressively.
00:27:49.000And redraw your maps based upon politics and sue on the maps that are based upon race.
00:27:56.000We haven't talked about the legalities of this, but one of the outstanding questions with the SPLC story is that it seems like the FBI and the DOJ, they've uncovered this $3 million plus scheme to pay informants that were actually the leaders, the organizers of this white supremacy stuff, the KKK, the Aryan Nations, all that stuff, but they haven't charged individuals yet.
00:28:18.000And I wrote an op ed in Fox and I just said, listen, if.
00:28:23.000Like individuals that greenlit this stuff, I don't care if it's the board or the executives, people have to be held personally accountable for defrauding their donors.
00:28:32.000First of all, I think that's the easiest claim you could make.
00:28:35.000But maybe there's other things that they could go after for these executives for.
00:28:43.000I remember what they did here that the Southern Poverty Law Center was telling its donors that it was fighting the Klan.0.99
00:28:53.000When it was secretly funding the Klan, there's no way these little old liberal ladies would be sending their checks to the SPLC if they knew they were funding the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan nations.0.94
00:29:08.000And so you're exactly right, Andrew.0.79
00:29:10.000There has to be, and I think there will be, a superseding indictment or an amended indictment where they name the executives and they name other individuals who were involved.
00:29:59.000I think individuals that have defrauded their donors here and really just done a heinous thing, you know, fueling the hate so that they can fundraise off the hate.
00:30:12.000And, you know, and then the ideological blurring of the lines between Prager U and Turning Point and ADF and putting us on their hate map, putting a target on Charlie's back.
00:30:23.000You know, it was three months and 19 days after the SBLC put Turning Point on the hate map that Charlie was assassinated.
00:30:41.000Have you been following the Manacqua Brewing Company story?
00:30:45.000The brewery owner in Wisconsin, after the White House correspondence dinner, posted that really obscene post about it was almost free beer day, right?
00:30:56.000So the idea being if Trump gets assassinated, everybody gets free beer for the day at his brewing company.
00:31:03.000So he's posted something here and it says, Hi, folks.
00:31:35.000I mean, Blake and I are even in the breaks having a discussion about free speech and understanding that in this country we have very established.
00:31:44.000You know, precedence about what is incitement to violence, right?
00:31:48.000So, this guy was obviously gleefully enjoying the near assassination of our president again.0.86
00:31:54.000That's gross and disgusting, and it must be condemned.0.86
00:31:57.000But at what point are we at risk of blurring those lines and infringing upon his right to say gross and vile, disgusting things?
00:32:06.000Yeah, I mean, people have the first, and I agree with Blake on this, people have the right to say gross and vile and disgusting things.
00:32:13.000I say them every day on Twitter, as you guys.
00:32:58.000Yeah, I guess I haven't read this post that carefully, but under the Supreme Court's precedent from a couple years ago, it's called true threats.
00:33:07.000Meaning, when you make a threat, it has to be a true threat.
00:33:10.000You have to look at their subjective intent.
00:33:14.000Did they intend to harm someone with their threat, or is it political?
00:33:38.000But I would just say this more broadly that here's the bigger problem we have a Democrat party that promotes and celebrates political violence, including assassinations.
00:34:05.000We saw this with now three assassination attempts against President Trump, an assassination attempt against Steve Scalise, Justice Kavanaugh, Charlie Kirk, our dear friend.
00:34:18.000I mean, we have an assassination culture in the Democrat Party, and it's unacceptable.
00:34:24.000Yeah, Luigi Maggioni and Brian Thompson.
00:34:27.000It says from Monaco Brewing Company Well, we almost got hashtag free beer day.
00:34:32.000Either a brother or sister in the resistance needs to work on their marksmanship, or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle.
00:38:22.000A data center is basically a building that just has a ton of computer equipment in one spot.
00:38:27.000So you think of used to have mainframe rooms decades ago, but our need for computers has gone up exponentially since then.
00:38:36.000And so everything that you run through the internet, which is all your banking, your purchases, your surfing on Facebook, all those photos you're uploading into the cloud, everyone stores stuff on the cloud, has to go somewhere.
00:38:50.000And the demands for it are so great that Rather than Google isn't just going to have some room on their campus that does this, they're just going to build entire buildings dedicated to this stuff.
00:39:03.000And then, what's happened is since AI started to take off, the demands for computational power online have gone up so much that anticipating how successful this is going to be, a lot of companies, Amazon, Google among them, Microsoft, they're building huge numbers of new data centers.
00:39:20.000And so, it's become this front in the AI fight.
00:39:23.000But these do exist without AI, and they will continue to exist regardless.
00:39:29.000I know this is probably going to make me a giant target.
00:39:35.000In the sense that I think AI is going to be something we're going to have to manage, but it's clearly a major new technology that's not going away.
00:39:42.000And we want the United States to be strong in new technology, want to dominate a new technology.
00:39:47.000We don't want it to be where we secede from this and then China just eats our lunch on this powerful new tech.
00:39:56.000And on top of that, I think I would have to check the numbers, but whether they're a cost center or a revenue generator, I know I was reading in Loudoun County, Virginia, for example, which has a ton of them, they generate property taxes.
00:40:09.000They don't generate traffic, for example.
00:40:12.000They're a building that people pay property taxes to operate.
00:40:32.000And what we're really confronting there, that's sad, is it's a lot easier for us to say for a company to build a small, inefficient power plant.
00:40:40.000On their own thing because they're so desperate to get them up, they're willing to do this.
00:40:44.000But it would be vastly better if we were just building more normal power plants.
00:40:48.000And it's just, we're not able to do this.
00:40:50.000So I am a child of the West, Western United States.
00:40:54.000Charlie and I used to disagree on this stuff.
00:40:56.000Charlie was, I think, more amenable to some of Mike Lee's ideas about seizing a mass amount of federal lands, BLM lands, and putting houses on it.
00:41:06.000I thought that there would be better ways to do that.
00:41:13.000One of the things I hate most is going through the desert, and you can see it here in Arizona, and seeing these massive fields of solar panels out in the middle of the desert generating.
00:41:24.000You're starting to see that in New York, too.
00:42:08.000So I haven't talked to anybody about it, but I like it directionally, where you use old spaces that have become dilapidated, that have been underutilized.
00:42:16.000And you break ground there because it's already developed land.
00:42:20.000You're not going out into the middle of the desert here and building some monstrosity.
00:42:23.000Another great thing that's pointed out a lot of them just, they're built like ugly modern buildings.
00:42:28.000And in addition to use old buildings, the reason we want to use old buildings, old buildings are pretty.
00:42:32.000So we could just say, you can build your data center, but it's got to be art deco.
00:42:35.000It's got to look like it fell out of the 1920s.
00:43:16.000And the idea is to prevent drunk driving deaths, which is a good thing.
00:43:19.000Thousands of people get killed by drunk drivers every year.
00:43:22.000But obviously, there's this freedom dynamic, which we're basically, if we're going to add that tech to a car, what we're basically saying is we want.
00:43:31.000Tech in your car that is always spying on you can't be deactivated, can be used for infinity other potential uses.
00:43:40.000And you know, law enforcement and authoritarian government would be eager to do that.
00:43:44.000Now, whether President Trump can do anything about it, as you said, it is an act of Congress.
00:43:49.000We know this administration is pretty creative.
00:43:52.000Honestly, one thing that comes to mind that I wouldn't be surprised if they came out, if they took a page out of a Democrat playbook and said, well, we can't repeal this law, but we can just announce right now we'll never enforce it.
00:44:06.000I don't like that, but that is an option I could see this administration doing.
00:44:10.000Or they find creative ways to litigate it, or it could get stayed in the courts.
00:44:15.000They could say, another strategy they could do is they could invite someone to sue over it and say, we actually believe this law was an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, and we're not going to defend it.
00:44:28.000I've seen some people online attack this law because basically you could envision a situation where somebody's out in the Field, they get injured.
00:44:35.000Maybe they're a farmer or a construction worker.
00:44:38.000They get injured, they drag themselves into their car, but the car detects them in their injured state with maybe dilated pupils, whatever.
00:44:46.000It will not turn on, even though they're trying to drive themselves to safety.
00:44:50.000So that could be a realistic way to combat this law because it could get in the way of law abiding citizens that are just trying to get to the hospital.
00:44:57.000There's so many ways it could end up being annoying or obnoxious.
00:45:00.000And another thing I would say a reason to delay this is this is a huge intrusion on privacy when we know looking around that we're.
00:45:10.000What, maybe five years away from everyone being able to afford a car that just drives itself everywhere, and that's going to be vastly safer.
00:45:17.000And then we could just say, we don't even need to ban driving your own car, but we could just massively increase the penalties for drunk driving because we'll be able to say it's super easy.
00:45:24.000Every car made these days drives itself.
00:45:27.000You have no excuse for ever driving intoxicated.
00:45:31.000I think that would be a reasonable way through this.
00:45:33.000Just wait for technology to overtake us on this question.
00:45:36.000Yeah, but in general, we are very, very leery of it and want to see it get.
00:46:47.000I mean, the first thing I noticed, Elizabeth, was I looked to the back of the room, which was to my right, and I saw a chair flying in the air.
00:46:56.000And it was a Secret Service guy that couldn't get through.
00:46:58.000So he just took the chair and flung it somewhere.
00:47:00.000Hopefully, he didn't hit somebody with it.
00:47:02.000But you could tell something really intense was happening.
00:47:46.000I got over it pretty quickly, kind of gathered myself.
00:47:49.000It took a few minutes, but you know, I went over to go see where Erica was, and thankfully she'd already been moved to a safer spot.
00:47:56.000But like, I will tell you, it's very, it's a very clarifying moment.
00:47:59.000It's a very focusing moment when you live through that.
00:48:02.000And I think, listen, there's just so many takeaways.
00:48:05.000And I think she did a great job saying dehumanization leads to a point where eventually you can logically convince yourself that your ideological opponents don't deserve to exist.
00:48:14.000And we want to get away from that as a country.
00:48:16.000I think it's great that she's taken time this week to kind of just focus and just reflect.
00:48:22.000It's really powerful when you do that, when you have time to just be and think and think clearly.
00:48:27.000And again, I don't want to put words in her mouth, but that's my takeaway from this week.
00:48:48.000So, they actually had to do a second primary.
00:48:52.000Now, anything that was statewide, senator, governor, you know what I'm saying, that didn't have to be redone, but they had to do all the primaries over again for all the congressional seats.
00:49:03.000And so, this excuse out of Georgia, oh, we're already started our elections.
00:49:54.000So I have to go on to the stupid thing.0.99
00:49:56.000I mean, in general, I would say that where there's a political will, there's usually a way.0.99
00:50:00.000And these things will end up getting challenged in courts.
00:50:02.000So then you need to be prepared to fight it.
00:50:04.000This is why so much doesn't get done in our culture.
00:50:06.000Just, you know, as we sort of reflect on some of the things that have declined in our country, a lot of it is because everything's litigated, everything's overly litigated.
00:50:17.000That has now become strategy number one is that before you move or act, you just have to appreciate the fact that you're going to be drawn into a court situation, right?
00:50:28.000And that can work in our favor, can work against us.
00:50:30.000But I think as a whole, as Americans, we're just not able to get as much stuff done because we're constantly litigating everything.
00:50:35.000Yeah, no, the litigation question is a real one.
00:50:38.000You think about, I think a lot about everything the Trump administration, we were saying, one of the reasons this administration has been better than the first one is they did so much stuff on day one, all those executive orders.
00:50:49.000Because we knew so much of the best stuff immediately blocked by some Hawaii judge.
00:50:54.000Oh, got to spend a year, two years worming up to the Supreme Court.
00:50:58.000And the Supreme Court goes, Yeah, the administration is obviously correct.
00:51:03.000And there was so much great stuff the administration did the first time around that only came out in 2019, 2020, wasn't even in effect by the time there was a change of power.
00:51:13.000So it's much harder to undo a policy if it's in place.
00:51:17.000And the way you do that is by doing it early.
00:51:19.000And that's a little off topic from that.
00:51:22.000If it requires messing with your primary, I'm looking, it looks like with New York, The result I'm getting is they delayed the primary by two months.
00:51:30.000I'm not sure if they re ran it, but they might be mixed up about that, like I said.
00:51:34.000But you had to vote in two primaries that year.
00:52:04.000Because think about how annoying it is that anything this Republican Congress was going to do and it wasn't much, they had to do in the first year.
00:52:12.000Shorter election seasons mean more time either governing or better yet, just more time not doing politics because the best things in life are not politics.
00:52:22.000Yeah, and that's interesting because absentee voting for the May 16th primary in Louisiana is already underway.
00:52:27.000Early voting had been set to start for all races this weekend.
00:52:31.000So it was a last minute move, but it can be done.
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00:55:25.000But these guys, our people in charge are not listening because this guy, who's we're getting ready to go into the CIF prelims, and he's beating, we're going to the meet next week.
00:55:45.000He's still beating girls out, and girls are still getting replaced.
00:55:51.000So I'm just reminded as you're talking here, David, there was a March 2025 letter.
00:55:56.000From U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon, and she sent it to Governor Gavin Newsom, urging him to take action against the participation of transgender athletes in girls and women's sports, referencing his own recent comments to Charlie in that podcast when he referred to it as deeply unfair.
00:56:14.000The letter followed a period of the federal government ramped up pressure in California.
00:56:18.000So they basically have threatened funding for the CIF and California Department of Education grants.
00:56:27.000Via Title IX, because they're allowing transgender girls to compete, transgender people that are boys compete in girls' sports.0.86
00:56:36.000The federal officials gave California a 10 day deadline to comply with requirements, including banning trans athletes and redefining sex based on biology.0.84
00:56:45.000California officials rejected the demand with the state superintendent Tony Thurmond urging districts to resist, and Attorney General Rob Bonta filing a pre enforcement lawsuit against the DOJ.
00:56:55.000So it's basically an ongoing litigated decision.
00:57:01.000Title IX is an old federal law that says you can't have sex discrimination in government funded education.
00:57:09.000I don't think they anticipated what they were uncorking when they did that because I think that was just intended.
00:57:15.000Oh, you can't be discriminatory between men and women.
00:57:18.000Now that's turned into transgender in sports.
00:57:21.000The Biden administration tried to use it the other way, where they said it would violate Title IX if you didn't let men join women's sports teams.
00:57:28.000Very fascinating stuff, but we're using it towards a certainly more Justifiable goal right now.
00:57:35.000We have a relatively friendly Supreme Court, but we're getting back to what we were discussing in the last segment, which is the annoying fact that really, regardless of what the law says, regardless of how clear the policy is, everything needs to practically go up to the Supreme Court before you can get anything done.
00:57:50.000And I think they should probably just go ahead and pull the funding, to be honest.
00:57:53.000So, and then they'll sue about that too.0.96
00:57:56.000But that's how you ratchet up the pressure, is you just say, well, listen, while it's, you know, this is getting litigated, whether or not we have a right to tell you to stop putting trans.0.55
00:58:04.000You know, athletes in women's sports, we're just going to pull the funding anyways.0.56
00:58:08.000It'd be very enjoyable if the Trump administration just said, you know, given your pattern of willful defiance on this and on immigration, we're going to yoink all of your education funding elementary schools, high schools, colleges, the whole shebang.
00:58:22.000That would cause a very dramatic crisis in the state of California, which is a tumor constantly devouring federal funds for fraudulent purposes.
00:58:31.000Yeah, I mean, there's just so many instances of bad actors.
00:58:35.000Getting away with so much in California.
00:58:37.000Chris Rufo has been doing some great investigative journalism.
00:58:40.000Our front lines team has uncovered a bunch of it from the hospice care situations that we found in Los Angeles to the trans athlete stuff.
00:58:50.000But there's just so much runaway spending in California that now they're trying to do this wealth tax, by the way, which is obscene.
00:58:58.000And by the way, Elon Musk has been making this point where every tax that's ever been proposed to just get the rich eventually gets everybody.
00:59:07.000So you're on a slippery slope in California in that way, too.
00:59:30.000Mick says, I am frankly disappointed with the talking points that came up after Trump was almost assassinated this past weekend.
00:59:38.000I don't understand why build the ballroom was the main line when it should have been we are going to arrest people who make.
00:59:46.000Any threats of any kind to anyone based on their beliefs.
00:59:50.000I understand we have people who we can't alienate with super strong rhetoric.
00:59:55.000So, how do we effectively communicate that violence will be dealt with while not alienating too many people?
01:00:02.000You know, I find it interesting about your question, Mick, that you think that build the ballroom was the main talking point.
01:00:08.000It's interesting because that went viral on social media because the allegation was that there was some group chat or people were paid to do that.
01:00:42.000I think a way you could do it is just the fact that it hasn't, they argue that it hasn't been approved or endorsed, it would be good for them to.
01:00:49.000Approve it and maybe they could pro forma offer money unless private funding offsets it.
01:02:30.000Things like that should be met with more force, in my opinion, as frankly, the price to make sure that speech can be protected.
01:02:38.000We want to prevent the blurring of lines of violence and speech.
01:02:42.000And one of the easiest ways to do that is to make sure that low level politically motivated violence, just bam, you stamp that out really aggressively because that is not acceptable.
01:02:52.000Yeah, that's why I'm so supportive of what, to Blake's point, what happened in Minneapolis with the Ostrusko family, that they're attacking a journalist who's just trying to get B roll for a video.
01:03:01.000So, really important that you make a very loud noise as well when you arrest these people or when you prosecute them because it's one thing to arrest them, it's one thing.
01:03:11.000Another thing, if nobody knows that it happened.
01:03:13.000So, part of the job is on us to say, hey, this person was threatening the president.
01:06:27.000Is there's kind of this idea you could use to describe a lot of Democrat politics, which is they've horribly messed up their states and they've taken it to the point where they have really driven a lot of people out.
01:06:40.000And the people they drive out are the ones most inclined to vote them out.
01:06:43.000And it's politically advantageous for them to do so.
01:06:48.000Even if they're making the state worse off, it's great to be on top of the state.0.72
01:06:52.000And you can look at the domestic migration stats.
01:06:55.000I always like to look at those because that's the best proof we have that the blue state model has failed.0.63
01:07:01.000What's Americans who, when they move, they move to red states, they're moving to Texas, they're moving to Florida, Tennessee, everywhere in the South is gaining people from the rest of the country.
01:07:10.000But California is shedding hundreds of thousands of people like per year on average, in terms of the and New York is right behind them.
01:07:37.000And they're replacing them with Mamdani's who either can't vote or when they get the ability to vote, they're voting lockstep Democrat.0.90
01:08:09.000Well, I think also, like I said, having the, I do, we have about 50 of your chapter leaders.
01:08:14.000We are going to meet with him in campaign headquarters in two weeks, and we're going to take on those areas that really don't know him, that can benefit him or not.
01:08:24.000So we're going to go up to like upstate New York, upstate where these people are just going to vote Democrat because that's all they know, and try to push his 100 day plan, ending the sanctuary cities, slashing the utility costs, aggressive tax cuts like he did in Nassau County.
01:08:39.000One of the richest counties, I might add, expanding the law and order and going against all of the things that are making everybody unsafe, poor, and dangerous.
01:09:36.000This is from Pete, and it's another one we have to read.
01:09:39.000He says Speaking of fighting things with more force, as you guys just mentioned regarding free speech, it's good that you finally showed a bit of fight.
01:09:48.000This week, with respect to drum roll, Candace Owens.
01:09:54.000This is exactly what Charlie would have done.
01:09:57.000He wouldn't have sat back and let her set the agenda in her attempts to destroy Turning Point USA and to destroy Erica.
01:10:04.000He would expose her for exactly what she is.
01:10:06.000You need to dismantle her fake claims like they do on Paramount Tactical and speak more about their falling out.0.68
01:10:14.000When are you going to take the fight up to her?
01:10:16.000So he's talking about, you know, Erica's speech.
01:10:20.000That she gave on Wednesday, and where she said that she's been accused of killing her husband by killing her husband.
01:10:31.000I've had to watch far too much stuff about this where if they're saying Erica should be arrested, that if this evidence was against anyone else, they would be on trial, which has been said.
01:10:43.000If they're saying she's part of a conspiracy, they are saying that she did it, period.
01:10:47.000And I'm not going to accept any nonsense saying otherwise.
01:10:57.000You know, Candace was talking with a former employee of mine and saying, you know, my first question ahead of the December 15th meeting that they had in Nashville is going to be, why did you murder your husband?
01:11:09.000And I think that's what Pete is referring to.
01:11:12.000Yeah, I mean, listen, I think that there is some truth to that.
01:11:15.000And, you know, where the line really gets for me is if you're going to come for Erica Kirk, you're going to start having to go through me, Blake, and the rest of us because I'm sick of it.
01:11:24.000And I'm sick of Charlie's widow getting attacked senselessly.
01:11:31.000A ton of these people trash Charlie right up to the point of his death.0.99
01:11:35.000And then I'm sick of people who are trafficking in lies and presenting themselves as his best friend when they hate his organization, hate his wife, hate the people around him, hate what he fought for, hate the Jews, hate everyone.
01:11:47.000And they come out and they just deal in lies and manipulation because they think that'll make them rich and get clicks.
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