00:00:00.000Hey everybody, this is producer Andrew Colvet, otherwise known as Mr. Iron Man at the Charlie Kirk Show, filling in for Charlie one last time.
00:00:11.000We're talking about Florida and redistricting, how one brave governor might just save all the rest of the conservative governors in the redistricting battle with the Eric Holders and the Barack Obamas of the world.
00:00:33.000We have a great discussion about what we saw, what we learned, what we're picking up from this new generation, what we're picking up from their cynicism to their optimism, what's driving them, what's behind the things they say and do.
00:01:08.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:17.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:41.000So if you have paid any attention to this show, you know that we have been bemoaning the RNC's lackluster attempts at staving off this onslaught, which is exactly what it is, led by guys like Eric Holder that have been plotting this for a long time, Barack Obama at taking over the redistricting battle that they feel like they've been losing to Republicans for decades.
00:02:08.000So guys like Eric Holder spent a lot of time, raised a lot of money to say that he was going to push back at the Republican efforts at redistricting.
00:02:21.000Massive losses in New York, massive losses in California, anywhere where the Democrat stronghold was the machine where they were running the political discourse from top to bottom, where they controlled the House, the Senate, whatever, the Assembly, the governor's mansion.
00:02:37.000They took aim and they held nothing back.
00:02:40.000Now, what did we see in GOP states, GOP-controlled states?
00:05:43.000So this will be challenged in court, and it's possible he might lose some of what he's been fighting for.
00:05:49.000But what we can say is that DeSantis took the moment, shot for the fences, swung for the fences, shot for the moon, and took a massive step in the right direction.
00:06:05.000We're looking to 2022, the midterms in November, and we're saying, yes, this could be an extinction-level event for the Democrat Party.
00:06:12.000Yes, this could be the moment where we have a great awakening across the political landscape of this country and the spiritual landscape and the psychological landscape of this country.
00:06:22.000And we see what these woke politics are doing to our nation.
00:06:26.000The Democrats in these deep blue states take advantage of the redistricting process, hold nothing back, and then take back those hard-fought gains, not to mention the election integrity issues that still plague so many parts of our country, so many states.
00:06:44.000Not to mention the way that they're going to still try and rig the mail-in voting, not to mention the fact that so many of these states which went used the judiciary, the Supreme Court, like Pennsylvania, going around and changing the election laws, not to mention that they can still do that heading into November.
00:07:08.000So you may think that there's this bloodbath on the horizon for the Democrat Party, and yet they are working the way they do elections.
00:07:17.000They always work the mechanisms, the modes of distribution, the way that we vote, while we're working messaging, while we're working appealing to people's sense of common sense, where we're appealing to pragmatism, policies.
00:07:34.000Yes, but the way we do these elections, the way we draw the maps is critically important.
00:07:38.000And in one fell swoop, Governor DeSantis could be saving the conservative movement in the United States by wiping out the ill-gotten gains that Democrats got in places like New York and California, where they control all the political levers of power.
00:09:15.000Because of just how poorly this country has been managed by the failed Biden regime on so many fronts, people are waking up.
00:09:23.000And now, if we can do the mechanics and the messaging of how we run elections in this country, we are looking at an absolute extinction event within the Democrat Party, and they are running scared.
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00:10:58.000We are going to be joining now with Joe Bob, which, you know, now that I'm saying it, I think of it as one name, but there's actually two names there.
00:11:08.000Joe Bob, he's a Turning Point USA contributor, who was with us yesterday.
00:11:45.000When I think about my experience yesterday, I have so much I want to say.
00:11:49.000I mean, there's not enough time in this hour.
00:11:51.000I cannot stress enough to the people listening to the radio show, to the podcast, listening on streaming, just how impactful yesterday actually was for me at UC Berkeley.
00:12:04.000Tell the audience what you saw, your approach, by the way, because you were sort of undercover.
00:12:10.000You were keep California weird or keep Berkeley weird or something like that.
00:12:14.000And we have some clips here that we can show.
00:12:53.000So tell us what you were doing and what we just saw.
00:12:56.000So Charlie was set up doing his thing, which was hilarious.
00:13:00.000And I wish I could have seen more of it because I think there was some substantial dunking on leftist thought there going on at the table.
00:13:07.000But we were incognito, kind of going around, milling around with the I had my black beanie on, my sunglasses, my black shirt, kind of just confused and aloof of everything happening at the protest.
00:13:22.000I think there were people protesting, but I don't even know what they're saying.
00:13:24.000There was definitely some Nazi name-calling going on.
00:15:30.000I mean, there's looking for logic in some of the arguments is actually futile.
00:15:37.000I actually am more interested in, I mean, I was saying before, I was around the booth where Charlie was talking, and I was having my own sidebar conversations with some of the students.
00:15:47.000Charlie and I debriefed on this afterwards.
00:15:50.000I want to talk about that clip we actually we just saw from your footage, which is just amazing.
00:15:54.000But Charlie and I were talking about, you know, there was sort of a lot of smart kids.
00:16:03.000It's not that they didn't have the raw horsepower to reason through these arguments.
00:16:08.000It was that their arguments were founded on a false premise.
00:16:12.000Like their entire logic was built on a lie, was started on a lie.
00:16:18.000So you had to sort of deconstruct layer upon layer upon layer.
00:16:22.000And then what I think your clip so beautifully illustrated, Joe Bob, was that just the pure shock in these kids' expressions that there would be somebody present on UC Berkeley's campus that said something bad about Kamala Harris.
00:16:53.000You know what's actually, well, okay, so to your point that you made earlier about there were, there were smart kids there because there are smart kids that go to that school that, you know, think bad ideas.
00:17:03.000I honest to God think that they picked a side too early on and are too prideful to admit when somebody makes a good argument against their bad ideas.
00:17:50.000Joe Biden's approval in California, the bluest of the blue states, is at 50% with a disapproval at 40%.
00:17:59.000And on top of that, this is what I thought was super fascinating, that that girl was talking about Kamala Harris.
00:18:03.000She went on a little bit of a tirade about how much, well, no, Kamala Harris definitely has the grit and brain capacity to be, this is not affirmative action at all.
00:18:14.000California voters in this Berkeley poll gave Kamala Harris in her home state where she was the attorney general and a senator in the Bay Area 35% approval rating.
00:18:40.000Because even then, we're not reaching that bar.
00:18:43.000But it was fascinating talking to them.
00:18:45.000Again, we weren't going to be at the capacity that we were engaging with people.
00:18:51.000We weren't going to change anybody's mind.
00:18:52.000We're just kind of asking questions and seeing what they said.
00:18:55.000I think the most fascinating part is not the fact that they couldn't form articulate arguments against anything that Charlie was saying, but the fact that they also really couldn't stand the current administration almost just as much, if not more, than the previous administration.
00:19:10.000I got that vibe too when I was having the sidebar conversations that I was having.
00:19:15.000I sensed, Joe Bob, this, and I think Charlie's going to unpack this in the days and weeks to come, but this deep, almost nihilistic cynicism, this, I mean, when we talk about generational theft, which we do on this show all the time, we talk about generational theft, when you talk about what happened in the lockdowns, where you stole years that these kids will never get back of college, which are supposed to be, right?
00:19:43.000Our culture at least says that college is these are these irreplaceable years of youth, and they're amazing years.
00:19:49.000They can be amazing years, despite the college cartel and the scam of the colleges that they're currently engaged in.
00:20:41.000Well, so my biggest, I think, in line with what you're saying, I saw that on the campus walk when we were talking to people, but I think I saw that most when, remember, Berkeley, California, the event was not only sold out, there were people outside the doors trying to get in.
00:21:02.000If that doesn't say exactly what we're all thinking of, like, look, even people that are that are, you know, youthful and call themselves liberals and leftists, there's a growing population within them that are just fed up with it, exactly what you're talking about.
00:21:19.000You saw the angst and the anger on the but it, but it's going both ways, Joe Bo.
00:21:32.000It's like, it's like you're seeing the people that are searching out for hope and meaning and purpose, and then you're seeing this like cynicism, this nihilistic pursuit, right?
00:21:41.000You're seeing the winnowing fork of culture, and it's like you could see the kids that are like curious and reaching out this way.
00:21:47.000I had a number of them pull me aside and be like, totally, yo, there's actually way more conservatives on campus than you would think.
00:21:52.000Like, you know, and I met like kids that told, I mean, looked completely like they'd be liberal.
00:21:57.000I mean, I know that's, I don't mean to be presumptive.
00:21:59.000You look like a liberal, but you, you know, and I mean, and they were pulling me aside.
00:22:04.000So you saw this, and you're to your point.
00:22:06.000I mean, we could have filled up an auditorium of 1,500.
00:22:09.000And, you know, they gave us 299 seats.
00:22:12.000Like, even the space that they did give us could have sat 600.
00:22:29.000I think to kind of wrap up the point in the segment, the best thing that I think Charlie pointed out during the speech was how proud he was of the turning point volunteers that were there not feeding into the angst.
00:22:46.000There was a girl that popped a big unicorn balloon that it was a free speech unicorn, not like a unicorn fairy desk stuff.
00:22:53.000There was some stuff that got knocked over.
00:22:54.000There were some physical altercations, and nobody on the turning point acted with anything other than respect.
00:23:00.000And I think that's going to hopefully sort of bridge this gap.
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00:25:07.000Unfortunately, I think in a lot of those super lefty enclaves like Berkeley, that is the case.
00:25:14.000I think the optimistic view, and Charlie hit on this yesterday when he was talking, is that a lot of people are looking at that nihilistic cynicism and going, ooh, I don't know if I really like that.
00:25:26.000And in the same way that the current administration is pushing people towards curiosity, that nihilistic, cynical attitude of your ultra-woke is pushing people also towards curiosity.
00:25:38.000And our job, it would seem, is to give them a handshake and a hug and say, yeah, welcome to less government and more freedom.
00:25:47.000That's at least, I think, the optimistic view.
00:25:50.000Now, the unoptimistic view is it, you know, devolves into utter chaos, which nobody really wants to see that.
00:25:58.000No, but I think what you're talking about is really scary and a real possibility here.
00:26:03.000Now, I'm not a my glasses tend to be half full, you know.
00:26:07.000But when we see cynicism set in, and I think Charlie touched on this actually, you are in a generation, if we're not there yet, which who knows what the heck, you know, maybe we're already there, but it's like within a generation, when these kids grow up and assume mantles of serious authority, power, whatever, you know, their generation could already embody the necessary seeds for serious domestic strife and conflict.
00:26:35.000You know, like I said, we've already seen this crime wave, we've seen riots, we've seen whatever.
00:26:41.000We've seen the dissolution of the bonds of society on a large scale, but we could see even more.
00:26:46.000I mean, if this cynicism doesn't get dealt with, I mean, it leads to a not good place, folks.
00:26:54.000Well, no, and that's what I, again, going back to what Charlie said last night, is everything in the conservative movement, or at least what we're talking about is solution-focused.
00:27:06.000And I think that hopefully brings people out of that.
00:27:10.000And I think, you know, one of the things that's so important, Charlie and I talk about this all the time, is that those interactions on campus, those things that you do all the time in your role, Joe Bob, as a contributor and all the, are you sort of man on the street, you're reporting that kind of stuff.
00:27:24.000It's like, it's not necessarily that you're going to see a conversion in that moment.
00:27:29.000The lights don't always come on right then.
00:27:30.000But like years down the line, you know, it was interesting.
00:27:33.000The one girl came up to me and she was hearing the guy on the megaphone calling everybody Nazis and stuff.
00:27:40.000She looks at me and she goes, she goes, I don't think he's being very fair.
00:27:51.000And it just reminds me, and I think that's the message I hope is that these seeds that are getting planted with people like you that have such a massive following online and you're touching so many people like virtually, but also like, you know, through these interactions in person, it's like this is going to have an impact.
00:28:09.000You know, it's difficult right now to be optimistic, but I tell you what, I genuinely am.
00:28:17.000I was talking to Candace Owens, and same thing.
00:28:22.000She's that this is going to sound bad, but the Biden administration is doing everything they can to push people towards more freedom and less government and more conservative ideals.
00:28:32.000And as bad as things are right now, and again, I don't want people to have to continue to go through these sorts of bad things.
00:28:40.000We have a great opportunity right now to seize a bunch of people that are wandering aimlessly and say, hey, this is where we can be and this is where we should be.