00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show, it is book launch day for my new book, College Scam, CollegeScam.com.
00:00:05.000You're going to hear about it a lot this week from all sorts of different angles.
00:00:09.000I've been working on this book for a couple years.
00:00:11.000I've been thinking about the topic for over a decade.
00:00:14.000And the cool thing about this book is that all proceeds go to Turning Point USA.
00:00:18.000So maybe you were at our Student Action Summit.
00:00:20.000Maybe you saw the Student Action Summit online.
00:00:22.000When you go to collegescam.com and you guys buy a couple copies, all the profits go to Turning Point USA and the amazing work we're doing on high school and college campuses across the country.
00:00:32.000College Scam, you're going to see a lot of promo about it on radio, on TV, on text message.
00:00:36.000We're doing a massive promotion campaign for it.
00:00:39.000I've been working on it for quite some time.
00:00:40.000It's a hardcover book, How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth.
00:00:46.000Again, profits go to Turning Point USA.
00:01:17.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:23.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:44.000Today is book launch day for college scam.
00:01:46.000You guys can get your copy at college scam.com, The College Scam, How American Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth.
00:01:55.000We're going to be talking about this book all throughout the hour and giving some details and evidence of that.
00:02:00.000I got an email here, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:02:02.000Charlie, it's very hard for my generation to admit, being the baby boomers, what college has become.
00:02:11.000It's very hard for people to admit that college has become a legalized scam against America's young people.
00:02:17.000You guys can check out the book, college scam.com.
00:02:20.000All proceeds of the book, again, all profits, I should say, go to Turning Point USA.
00:02:25.000So it's a way that you are able to support Turning Point USA and our efforts on the ground on high school or college campuses across the country.
00:02:43.000But College Scam is now my next book since I've done that.
00:02:47.000And I think you guys would really enjoy it.
00:02:48.000We'll talk about it all throughout the hour.
00:02:50.000But first, I want to talk about some of the news that was made over the weekend at our Turning Point USA Student Action Summit.
00:02:57.000At our Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, we had 5,000 students from across the country that came from every corner to come to Tampa, Florida.
00:03:06.000We were there and brought to you by Turning Point Action.
00:03:08.000We had Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump and the biggest speakers in the entire movement, Josh Hawley, we had Laura Ingram, we had Ted Cruz, we had Greg Gutfeld.
00:03:17.000We had every speaker you could possibly imagine.
00:03:20.000And first of all, I was struck by the optimism and the positivity of our audience.
00:03:26.000I was moved by how so many of our students who attended were forward-thinking and were ready, willing, and able to get engaged and get involved.
00:03:36.000In fact, here's an amazing statistic for all of you watching at home.
00:03:40.000We had started over this weekend, over 300 new Turning Point USA chapters were started at the Student Action Summit.
00:04:38.000Now, the straw poll was really interesting.
00:04:41.000So we conducted the straw poll of all of our attendees.
00:04:44.000Trafalgar, an independent polling agency, did the straw poll.
00:04:48.000And again, we had 5,000 students there.
00:04:50.000And I was very curious about how they would possibly view the 2024 presidential race.
00:04:58.000In fact, I wasn't the only one that was curious.
00:05:00.000The media was clamoring over who's going to win the straw poll, who's going to win the straw poll.
00:05:04.000And so we made the decision: hey, let's have every speaker speak that's going to be a 2024 potential contender, and then let's do the straw poll.
00:05:11.000So, turning point action, we had Ted Cruz, we had Josh Hawley, we had Ron DeSantis, we had Donald Trump.
00:05:18.000And so, Donald Trump finished on Saturday evening after about almost a two-hour speech.
00:05:22.000It was like a one-hour and 45-minute speech, very, very long address, and the audience loved it.
00:06:01.00092.7 of our Turning Point USA students that attended our Student Action Summit disapprove of the Republican establishment in Washington, D.C. 72%.
00:06:15.000We then asked, Are you confident in the Republicans' ability to communicate to younger voters?
00:06:22.00073.8% of our attendees are not confident in the Republican Party's ability to communicate with younger voters.
00:06:33.00073.8% do not believe the Republican Party is well suited to communicate to younger voters.
00:06:39.000This should be a fire alarm for Republican leaders out there.
00:06:44.000If you're watching, if you're engaged, if you care, your own young conservative constituents think you guys are awful at messaging.
00:06:52.000Now, I'm not pretending that we have all the answers at Turning Point.
00:06:55.000I'm not saying we have every single one of these figured out, but we did fill a room with 5,000 young conservatives.
00:07:00.000We're definitely on the way, but most Republican politicians are completely uninterested in that.
00:07:05.000They would much rather do the next thing, which was so fascinating.
00:07:09.000And by the way, our in-depth conversation with Senator Rick Scott will air soon.
00:07:14.000I think you guys will really enjoy that.
00:07:16.000But we asked this question, which is Ukraine versus the southern border.
00:07:20.000Do you believe, this is the question we ask to our students, do you believe building a southern border wall or sending $56 billion to Ukraine is more important?
00:07:30.00098% of our students at Turning Point USA, 98% believed at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit this last weekend, that building a southern border wall is far more important than sending money to Ukraine.
00:07:45.0002% of our attendees thought Ukraine was more important.
00:07:54.000And yet, your Republicans in Washington, D.C. are much more fixated on financing a proxy war in Ukraine than building a southern border wall.
00:08:04.000I thought maybe it would be 70, 30, 98% of the Republican base.
00:08:10.000Why is it that Republicans are so enthusiastic about doing that, but not representing the interests of their voters?
00:08:15.000Well, it goes to show why 92.7% of our attendees disapprove of the Republican establishment in Washington, D.C., 92.7%.
00:08:27.000So the questions continued, where we also asked our audience, which candidate do you think will be the most difficult to defeat for president in 2024?
00:08:36.000And I can almost guarantee you the winner of this saw the result because it was all over MSNBC this morning.
00:08:41.000MSNBC totally ignored our Republican presidential straw poll, but they were very interested.
00:08:47.000And we did this, by the way, because I was interested in what our audience thought, but I also wanted to get our kind of event into mainstream news.
00:08:54.000So I said, the best way to get our event into mainstream news is ask Republicans which Democrat they don't want to run against.
00:08:59.000I was like, that would be an easy way to get in there.
00:09:03.000Which Democrat do you think is the most difficult to defeat?
00:09:05.000By the way, I want to ask you guys that, freedomatcharlikirk.com.
00:09:08.000Which Democrat is most difficult for us to defeat?
00:09:11.000Number one with 30% of the vote, Gavin Newsom.
00:09:15.000Gavin Newsom with 30.3% of the vote, followed by Michelle Obama at 13.6%, Hillary Clinton at 10.5%, Bernie Sanders at 10.3%, Camela Harris at 7.9%, AOC at 5.9%, Joe Biden at 4.4%, Pete Boot Edge Edge at 3.8%, Tulsi Gabbard at 1%, Stacey Abrams at half of a percent, Roy Cooper at 0.3%, Jared Polis at 0.3%, and then Nunn at 7.2%.
00:09:45.000Gavin Newsom is the one that Republican activists think is going to be the hardest to beat in 2024.
00:09:52.000But who will run on the Republican side in 2024?
00:09:56.000That is the question that we asked all of our students.
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00:10:59.000There's been huge amounts of coverage.
00:11:01.000President Donald Trump posted about it this morning on Truth Social, and he gave a two-hour address.
00:11:08.000So we asked the question to our students, 5,000 students, very, very high turnout, by the way, in the poll, very high.
00:11:15.000We asked the question, quote, if Donald Trump did run and the 2024 Republican presidential primary offers the following choices, for whom would you vote?
00:11:25.000Only those receiving votes are listed.
00:11:27.000So we asked the question, would you vote for Mike Pence?
00:12:24.000A nearly a 59-point victory, nearly 60-point tally.
00:12:30.000So then we asked the question: if Donald Trump did not run and the 2024 presidential primary offers the following choices, for whom would you vote?
00:13:04.000I know there's a lot of enthusiasm behind DeSantis, and that's reflected in the next question, by the way, that DeSantis has a lot of approval.
00:13:09.000I had a great time with DeSantis there.
00:13:11.000I think the world of him, he's a phenomenal leader.
00:13:38.000And with the results that came in, I was floored because so many people said, well, you know, younger voters, they prefer Ron DeSantis and all that.
00:13:49.000But this is a different type of demographic in one way, though.
00:13:51.000And this is the one thing I wish I could have clarified with some of the media that was covering this if they would just pick up the phone and ask us a question about our own straw poll.
00:13:58.000Is that a turning point activist, a turning point action activist is not like any other.
00:14:31.000Without these people, you do not have a political party, period.
00:14:35.000You can have people that passively vote and they go and they fill out a ballot, but these are the people that donate to campaigns.
00:14:40.000These are the people that are frontline volunteers.
00:14:43.000That's an important distinction because if Donald Trump wins in 2024, not only do I believe he has a wide level of support, he has a deep level of support.
00:14:53.000The people that are going to go do the extra work, make the phone calls, knock on the doors, drive to events.
00:15:00.000That's really what ends up winning a lot of elections, especially in primary campaigns.
00:15:06.000And I do want to say, we just got an email, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:15:10.000Hey, Charlie, I watched the event online.
00:16:01.000The media is trying to make it seem like it's a defeat for DeSantis and a win for Trump.
00:16:05.000It's a win for Trump and a win for DeSantis.
00:16:10.000Look, we talk about current events a lot on this show, but there's other things that are in life that are bigger than current events, bigger things.
00:16:16.000We try to do some shows every so often on these things.
00:16:19.000But look, what am I talking about when I say that?
00:16:22.000Right and wrong, prayer and the Bible or heaven and hell.
00:16:25.000So look, the great C.S. Lewis, who's one of the most amazing minds ever to exist, was a master at addressing these questions.
00:16:34.000And that is why Hillsdale College, the great college, the only college, in my opinion, wants you to learn more about him and his writings in their newest free online course, C.S. Lewis on Christianity.
00:16:46.000And it all starts with taking a short quiz to find out how much you already know about Lewis.
00:16:52.000He wrote more than the Narnia series, by the way.
00:19:28.000Regardless of what your story is, this is something that people realize I want to serve.
00:19:34.000I want to do anything for my country to better my country.
00:19:37.000That was from our event this last weekend at our Turning Point Student Action Summit, the Political Arm.
00:19:43.000The political session was sponsored by Turning Point Action, the remainder by Turning Point USA.
00:19:48.000So, I want to talk a little bit about the college scam.
00:19:50.000So, one of the arguments that I make in the college scam is that some of the most dangerous and pernicious ideas that have and will continue to infect our society stem from our universities.
00:20:05.000Now, this is one of the reasons why I have said to Republican politicians that we should completely and totally defund the humanities.
00:20:14.000We could still support science, technology, engineering, and math, but as long as the humanities are going to be teaching Derek Bell, they're going to be teaching Ibram X. Kendi, they're going to be teaching radical ideas rooted in postmodernism, post-structuralism, and critical theory.
00:20:29.000Why should Republican taxpayer dollars be supporting this?
00:20:32.000One of the things I want to accomplish with the college scam is to get states like North Dakota, won't happen because of Governor Bergham, or South Dakota, or Kansas or Oklahoma to fully and completely defund their universities in their states for the humanities.
00:20:45.000Still support the engineering, you need that.
00:20:47.000Still support math, still support technology, but defund the lesbian studies program or the gender studies program at the University of Kansas.
00:20:55.000I don't even know if that's a thing, I'm guessing it is in Lawrence, Kansas, one of the more liberal cities in America.
00:21:01.000So, make the gender studies departments go raise their own money.
00:21:05.000But if the taxpayers are going to be subsidizing state schools, then we should subsidize engineering, technology, math, science.
00:21:15.000These things are important, but even science itself has been politicized.
00:21:19.000But a question that people ask: why should our taxpayer dollars go to subsidize socialist boot camps?
00:21:26.000So, many years ago, a couple decades ago, there was an academic theory, an academic journal written by environmentalists.
00:21:34.000I believe it was at Oberlin or Williams, I'll get the exact study, that argued philosophically and academically for widespread depopulation.
00:21:45.000The argument was that we have too many people on the planet and that we need to radically reduce the amount of human beings that are living in the world.
00:21:53.000In fact, pollution, congestion, infrastructure, all of these can be solved through eugenics.
00:22:01.000Basically, what we need to do is we need to reduce the world's population significantly.
00:22:06.000Now, this is a set of ideas that Bill Gates has flirted with.
00:22:45.000So Smithsonian Magazine, the book that incited worldwide fear over overpopulation, of overpopulation.
00:22:51.000This was, though, a product of the American university.
00:22:55.000This idea of American, I'm sorry, this idea of mass overpopulation is a product of the assembly line of bad ideas.
00:23:05.000The same way that the Chinese coronavirus was bioengineered in a Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory is the same way that the worst ideas that are ruining your life and putting our civilization at risk are incubated in a laboratory called college campuses.
00:23:23.000So Jane Goodall at the World Economic Forum said something that is just now starting to get circulated.
00:23:31.000The World Economic Forum, of course, is trying to push forward the great reset.
00:23:34.000Many Republican politicians have no idea about the Great Reset or World Economic Forum.
00:23:42.000And so before I go any further, by the way, this guy that wrote The Population Bomb, he is still the professor emeritus of population studies at the Department of Biology.
00:23:53.000Maybe we shouldn't fund these science departments, by the way.
00:23:56.000Maybe we should just fund engineering.
00:23:58.000Science has actually become more politicized than anything else.
00:24:08.000The World Economic Forum is now coming out and saying that all of our problems could be solved if the population of Earth was reduced by 90%.
00:24:18.000I talk about this in my book, College Scam, CollegeScam.com, but this is not an abstract journal.
00:24:24.000This is now becoming policy play cut one.
00:24:28.000We cannot hide away from human population growth because, you know, it underlies so many of the other problems.
00:24:35.000All these things we talk about wouldn't be a problem if there was the size of population that there was 500 years ago.
00:24:44.000So Dr. Jane Goodall is someone that you should all know about.
00:24:47.000Dr. Jane Goodall is an anthropologist.
00:25:06.000Her whole life, she was involved with Cambridge College and Darwin College, Cambridge Darwin College.
00:25:13.000And so now she is an outspoken critic of overpopulation, that the world somehow has too many people.
00:25:20.000Now, a lot of people give Elon Musk kind of attitude.
00:25:24.000One of Elon Musk's greatest contributions to the American zeitgeist has been standing athwart the overpopulation lie and saying we're actually underpopulated as a species.
00:25:39.000The human species will be put seriously at risk very soon.
00:25:43.000So Dr. Jane Goodall is now parroting the same thing that was written in the journal The Population Bomb, the book that incited a worldwide fear over overpopulation, which written by Stanford University Paul R. Elric and his wife Ann Elric.
00:25:58.000It predicted worldwide famine in the 1970s and 80s due to overpopulation and was totally wrong.
00:26:03.000There has always been this misguided fear of overpopulation.
00:26:09.000But the point that I want to make, though, is that your taxpayer dollars and indirectly your child going to college is subsidizing the accreditation and the platforming of these ideas that now the World Economic Forum is absorbing and pushing out.
00:26:24.000Bill Gates, being a spokesperson and flirting alongside of the ideas of overpopulation, is all comes from the academy, people that have very little to any real world experience, but have been over-inundated with the academic nature that is college campuses.
00:26:41.000So in the book College Scam, I talk extensively about this.
00:26:44.000And I also just want to reiterate: all proceeds of the book College Scam go to Turning Point USA.
00:26:52.000Actually, directly doesn't even come into me at all.
00:26:54.000So if you guys get a book, college scam, college scam.com, it supports our movement at Turning Point USA, helps us hire more staff, grow our high school program, grow our college program.
00:27:02.000So that's just another incentive to go do it.
00:27:04.000And I think you're really going to learn something.
00:27:05.000In fact, I was just reviewing it last night, and I counted how many pages of footnotes we have.
00:27:10.000We have 35 pages of footnotes at the back of this book.
00:27:13.000But an important thing to realize is that this tyranny of the scientific elite, as Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against in his farewell address in the 1950s, it all stems from the university.
00:27:25.000And so I'm not a big fan of blaming just one institution for all of our problems.
00:27:30.000But I could say this: if you had to blame one institution for everything that's going wrong in America, if you were forced to do that, I believe, as they would say, all roads lead to Rome, all roads lead to college campuses.
00:27:41.000Where do you think Dr. Fauci got filled with his degrees that gave him credibility?
00:28:40.000And that sort of theory has been built out by people like Pete Hegseth and Dinesh D'Souza.
00:28:45.000What my book does a little bit differently than the college scam is it has action points that you got to stop sending your kids there and stop going.
00:28:51.000It's also unnecessary in a career standpoint, but it's from a societal standpoint.
00:29:01.000Speaking of a useful idiot, listen to Kamala Harris, cut 12, who now says the following, play cut 12.
00:29:07.000And, you know, listen, women are getting pregnant every day in America, and this is a real issue.
00:29:13.000And we need to act with a sense of haste about what is at play, what is at stake.
00:29:18.000And codifying Roe will be an important moment in terms of putting back in place protections for the folks who are at risk right now because of what the court did in Dodd.
00:29:31.000And that place is the American University and College campus.
00:29:37.000Now, I know this is a very difficult thing for people to stomach.
00:29:41.000I understand it could be an impossible pill to swallow.
00:29:46.000But the American University has been infected top to bottom with a contagion.
00:29:55.000I want to go to another piece of tape here.
00:29:58.000So as we talk about this college system and the damage it is doing to society, we must understand how it infects every portion of American life.
00:30:08.000For example, only the college educated, only the people that have doctorate degrees could all tell you to go get vaccinated.
00:30:17.000While it turns out they all end up getting contracted COVID.
00:30:20.000I want to play one of my favorite pieces of tape that I've seen recently, Play Cut 8.
00:32:01.000What we're seeing across the country is there are a lot of infections, but when people are vaccinated and boosted, they tend to have far less serious illness.
00:32:12.000This virus is going to be with us forever.
00:32:15.000This virus is going to be with us forever.
00:32:17.000But that's a different thing than what they told us previously.
00:32:20.000Remember, the regime needs emergency powers to maintain in power.
00:32:25.000They need emergencies to maintain power, I should say.
00:32:29.000All of these roads that we're seeing, medical tyranny, great reset, open borders, are given credibility through the seemingly endless journals philosophizing and writing from the academic industrial complex.
00:32:47.000I write about this at great length in the college scam.
00:32:50.000I talk about the tenets of critical race theory as well.
00:32:52.000On page 174, I talk about the basic tenets and themes of critical race theory.
00:32:58.000CRT claims that racism is present in every aspect of society, and therefore society can only be transformed by a race-conscious approach, not a colorblind approach.
00:33:08.000I go on to say how you could take a stand against CRT.
00:33:11.000I go deep into the essence and the roots of it.
00:33:16.000It's in the chapter Woke and Weaponized in my book, College Scam.
00:33:21.000Talk about Derek Bell and the totalitarian mindset and how it impacts your children.
00:33:28.000Check it out right now, college scam.com.
00:33:30.000Support Turning Point USA while getting the book.
00:33:33.000It's a great, basically two-for-one offer.
00:33:35.000You get the book at collegescam.com, and then the proceeds go to make sure more kids get to hear the message of liberty and freedom in the Constitution.
00:33:47.000Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:48.000Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.