The Charlie Kirk Show - September 15, 2026


The Indian Immigration Debate + New Butler Shooting Mysteries

We Will NEVER Surrender

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00:01:18.000 Welcome, everybody.
00:01:18.000 September 15th, 2026.
00:01:21.000 We're here from the Y Refi Studios in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:01:24.000 Honored to be with you as always.
00:01:27.000 Blake is stranded in South Dakota.
00:01:31.000 That's all right, Blake.
00:01:32.000 We still live there.
00:01:34.000 The problem with living in God's country is God only lets a couple flights a day leave it.
00:01:38.000 And if that flight gets delayed, You're stuck an extra day.
00:01:41.000 Well, that's all right.
00:01:42.000 Your family probably appreciates it.
00:01:45.000 We have some breaking news.
00:01:47.000 And, you know, it strikes me as interesting.
00:01:49.000 And I'm sure that the haters will love it.
00:01:52.000 But I am distinctly intrigued by the Thomas Crook story out of Butler, PA.
00:01:58.000 It's one of those stories that never has felt like we've gotten the full picture.
00:02:04.000 And I'm not alleging grand conspiracy just yet, but I am very intrigued.
00:02:09.000 And we get new details that emerge today.
00:02:13.000 And President Trump is chiming in.
00:02:14.000 And so we want to unpack all of that.
00:02:16.000 It's breaking news this morning from the New York Post.
00:02:20.000 They got the scoop.
00:02:21.000 Cremation of would be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks' body was paid for by an anonymous donor.
00:02:29.000 So an anonymous donor paid for the cremation of President Trump's would be assassin, Thomas Crooks, just days after the deadly Butler PA rally shooting, according to federal records reviewed by the Post.
00:02:41.000 The revelation was included in a trove of documents provided to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley.
00:02:47.000 Republican out of Iowa, good man, as part of his ongoing inquiry into the first Trump assassination attempt.
00:02:53.000 That's one reason to stop the reading right there.
00:02:56.000 The first Trump assassination attempt.
00:02:58.000 There have been multiple, after all.
00:03:01.000 So this is very strange because more and more revelations are coming out about this.
00:03:07.000 Tom Elliott on his Substack, tomselliott.substack.com, has been reviewing a trove of documents.
00:03:15.000 And then this broke today.
00:03:16.000 So he added it on.
00:03:17.000 He said 10 basically suspicious things.
00:03:21.000 About what we're learning from the Crooks assassination attempt.
00:03:26.000 So, Blake, I can stop right there if you want to chime in, but are you suspicious at least at this point?
00:03:32.000 I would say it's, I don't want to say suspicious.
00:03:35.000 I would say interested.
00:03:37.000 It flags a lot of stuff that makes you raise a bit of an eyebrow.
00:03:41.000 So, for example, the day before the shooting, Crooks was at a rifle range.
00:03:46.000 He signed in.
00:03:47.000 We know it was him, apparently.
00:03:49.000 And apparently, he spent a very long time.
00:03:54.000 Interacting with another person, an unknown club member on the range.
00:03:59.000 And did the FBI follow up on this to find out who that specific guy was?
00:04:05.000 Do we have a specific reason that we know that person wasn't suspicious?
00:04:08.000 Was he just another guy on the range?
00:04:11.000 At least from this info, it appears that's unresolved.
00:04:14.000 They also flag the contents of his bag, seem a little unusual.
00:04:19.000 It includes a tape measure, a red sharpie, a hyper tough stapler, and a box of staples.
00:04:27.000 Elliot says, make of that what you will.
00:04:29.000 The agents didn't.
00:04:30.000 I'm thinking that might actually be the stuff he took to the shooting range the day before.
00:04:34.000 You could staple up a target.
00:04:36.000 But it's stuff like that.
00:04:37.000 And then four encrypted Belgian email accounts.
00:04:41.000 Don't know what's going on there.
00:04:42.000 There's just a lot of this stuff.
00:04:44.000 Yeah, that to me is one of the more interesting pieces of this, right?
00:04:48.000 He seemed to have connection online.
00:04:51.000 He didn't write a lot, there was no manifestos.
00:04:53.000 His dad described him as not a writer.
00:04:56.000 By the way, his dad's account of Thomas Crooks is very, very strange.
00:05:01.000 He would Pace around, they said dancing and whispering in the middle of the night and pace around the home.
00:05:07.000 And his dad made jokes about him saying, Are you hearing voices?
00:05:11.000 I think his dad probably was a little bit weirded out by his own son.
00:05:15.000 And his son said, No voices, I just talked to myself.
00:05:18.000 Huh.
00:05:19.000 Okay.
00:05:19.000 Well, that's interesting.
00:05:21.000 But there's multiple layers here that are just interesting, right?
00:05:24.000 Like Christopher Wray, the FBI, on July 24th, 2024, FBI director at the time, Christopher Wray, told the House Judiciary Committee, We did not find the ladder at the scene.
00:05:37.000 So he added that the Bureau did not believe crooks used one to reach the roof.
00:05:42.000 But this is what's interesting.
00:05:44.000 They found the ladder basically 40 minutes away, 40 miles away in a wood lot, and the FBI already had custody of it.
00:05:53.000 So when he chooses these words, he chose to narrowly tailor his words very specifically.
00:05:58.000 So it was technically accurate in the narrowest possible reading of his words.
00:06:03.000 So Christopher Wray is, I mean, just like, why be that specific?
00:06:10.000 And why be that narrow?
00:06:12.000 There's a lot of questions here that I think Christopher Wray should have to answer for.
00:06:16.000 President Trump is chiming in on this, by the way, which I think is of note.
00:06:22.000 He said Everybody knows the crooked Joe Biden FBI didn't do what they should have with respect to the lunatic who shot me in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:06:32.000 By the time I got into office on January 20th, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone.
00:06:40.000 New info was just found.
00:06:42.000 Why wasn't it seen long ago?
00:06:44.000 It's a great question.
00:06:46.000 That's really interesting that he's saying that because the best argument, really, against worrying too much about this is in the past, Trump has suggested he's very satisfied with the Butler case, that he'd gotten the explanation and he wasn't more worried about it.
00:07:01.000 And he was the guy who was shot at.
00:07:03.000 And so it seemed he would have the most concern.
00:07:06.000 But now he does seem to be changing course.
00:07:08.000 He's seeing something that's upsetting him about this.
00:07:11.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:07:12.000 So I have not been.
00:07:13.000 As fixated on this story as some because of Trump's own reaction.
00:07:18.000 But this changes everything for me.
00:07:20.000 This changes the whole calculus.
00:07:22.000 If Trump is waving the flag and saying, hey, guys, there's something to see here, that's a huge deal because, as you point out, rightly, he was the individual shot at.
00:07:32.000 So, dirty cop Christopher Wray should pay a price for the way he handled this assassination attempt and certainly for the things he said.
00:07:38.000 God bless America. 0.94
00:07:39.000 Make America great again, President Donald J. Trump.
00:07:42.000 All right.
00:07:43.000 So, it's just very, very interesting.
00:07:46.000 So, A couple other revelations that we have to point out here.
00:07:52.000 Number two, the FBI was looking for a second phone.
00:07:56.000 Again, we get this from Tom S. Elliott.
00:07:57.000 Four days later, on July 21, a special agent and a supervisor walked a linear search pattern across the same area, coordinates given to six decimal places.
00:08:07.000 So it's very, very specific.
00:08:09.000 And rummaged through a dumpster for a phone believed to be associated with Thomas Crooks.
00:08:14.000 They also searched a second location, an apartment complex on Library Road, because its coordinates were saved on Crooks' phone.
00:08:21.000 And reviewed a funeral home security cameras covering the road outside of it the morning of July 13th, which is when the assassination took place.
00:08:28.000 This is about a week after.
00:08:29.000 They found nothing.
00:08:30.000 But the search only makes sense if investigators believed a device existed and that they did not have access to that phone.
00:08:38.000 So they are already basically saying, we believe there's multiple phones and we're searching for multiple phones.
00:08:44.000 Why would this sort of lone gunman, just a complete lone wolf, have Belgian encrypted email accounts, had multiple phones, be spotted with multiple different people at different locations?
00:08:58.000 And we don't seem to know about this.
00:09:00.000 And Christopher Ray is being very, very specific and very narrow with his word choice.
00:09:05.000 Like, there's something that's not right here, you know, and I have to just compare and contrast it.
00:09:11.000 You know, there's a lot of people that have built a cottage industry around Charlie's assassination.
00:09:18.000 And I have not had those same red flags go up nearly as often.
00:09:21.000 I want to know who was on the Discord chats and because anybody else be involved.
00:09:26.000 But it does seem like there's a much more well rounded story that I can understand.
00:09:32.000 Here, there's so many holes that I don't know where to begin.
00:09:37.000 So, very, very interesting revelations.
00:09:39.000 And then, Blake, to have somebody come in and pay for the cremation of Thomas Crooks while there's a congressional investigation going on, it's very, very interesting.
00:09:50.000 Very interesting.
00:09:51.000 Well, my gut feeling reading through a lot of this is it does remind me, frankly, of how a lot of other, let's just say it, conspiracy theories get started, where you take one or two things that you can kind of make you raise an eyebrow, especially if you present it a certain way.
00:10:06.000 So, for example, the encrypted Belgian email addresses.
00:10:10.000 Well, looking at the details again, what it is is he had repeatedly accessed MailFence, which is an email service that is hosted in Belgium.
00:10:19.000 So it's basically he went to a website that is based in another country that is a secure email server, which some most of us probably just use Gmail or Hotmail or whatever.
00:10:30.000 But some people are really paranoid and they want to use these specific secured email things, and that often means using a foreign site.
00:10:38.000 Or similarly, The guy he's with on the range.
00:10:41.000 Well, they say it's another member of the club.
00:10:44.000 My guess is they have pretty good reason to believe that that's not a suspicious interaction.
00:10:49.000 It would be nice to know more.
00:10:51.000 And similar with the cremation.
00:10:53.000 It sounds like Crooks' family was not well off.
00:10:57.000 Cremation, for some reason, is a pretty expensive thing.
00:11:02.000 I wouldn't be surprised if the family didn't necessarily even know the person.
00:11:05.000 It might be there, there might be an anonymous donor who literally donates to provide funeral services for someone.
00:11:11.000 What this strikes me as is.
00:11:13.000 It's like the FBI is just not dotting every I and crossing every T in the way we might consider ideal.
00:11:19.000 That this is a super high profile case that people are going to lose their minds over.
00:11:25.000 So we'd really like it if they were just exhaustively detailed about everything where they could say, okay, we found this other club member.
00:11:34.000 They're a normal guy who's there every week and we have no connection to Thomas Crooks.
00:11:41.000 If they were doing that, I think this would tap down this.
00:11:43.000 Reading through all of this, I would say, I don't.
00:11:47.000 I don't feel that concerned about it.
00:11:49.000 Or, for example, another part of it where we mentioned this that he was, that Crooks was pacing around his house all of the time.
00:11:56.000 Or another, apparently a classmate said it was like having a course with Lee Harvey Oswald.
00:12:01.000 That's evidence that points towards he could be a lone shooter.
00:12:04.000 He's this nutball who talks to himself, who acts strangely, who could fixate on something. 0.78
00:12:09.000 Even if he's not talking about politics all the time, he just might be the kind of guy who gets the delusion in his head that he should try to assassinate a former and future US president. 0.83
00:12:19.000 So that's my gut feeling on this, taking all of it in over the course of this half hour.
00:12:24.000 Yeah, I mean, I definitely understand.
00:12:27.000 I think some of these explanations, we call it the evidence of the gaps fallacy, right?
00:12:31.000 And we see this with the story with what happened with Charlie that if people don't have a piece of information that they feel entitled to, then they fill it in with all kinds of conspiratorial thinking, right?
00:12:43.000 And that can be a problem, right?
00:12:45.000 We have to follow the evidence, follow the logic, follow the rationale.
00:12:48.000 But it does.
00:12:49.000 Again, let's play the other side of this, Blake.
00:12:53.000 President Trump is now sounding off, upset that he feels like Christopher Wray did not handle this the right way, that the evidence was corrupted, it was missing, it was altered.
00:13:04.000 Those are huge, huge, huge allegations.
00:13:07.000 And I'm kind of remember, I'm reminded of the time where President Trump accused law enforcement of wiretapping him, right?
00:13:15.000 Everybody was like, oh, we don't wiretap anymore. 1.00
00:13:17.000 It turned out to be true.
00:13:18.000 President Trump's instincts on this stuff, Oftentimes, it can be pretty spot on, and we have to give a lot of credence to the fact that he went from not sounding overly concerned to now he's saying he's concerned.
00:13:29.000 Very true, though.
00:13:31.000 I will note his specific takeaway is he wants accountability for Christopher Ray, who is a specific person he has a grievance with.
00:13:39.000 So he seems to be putting this into the pile of reasons we should indict or penalize or go after Christopher Ray, as opposed to what we're more concerned about, which is can we get more information?
00:13:53.000 On this shooting.
00:13:54.000 And so I just wanted to flag that as an element of this.
00:13:58.000 Fair enough.
00:13:59.000 Fair enough.
00:13:59.000 It is interesting the Lee Harvey Oswald comment from, I guess, a classmate or something, because originally there were anti Trump remarks attributed.
00:14:08.000 This classmate got very upset that those anti Trump remarks were passed along because they didn't experience the same interactions with him, just said that he was genius level smart and that according to his parents, he was walking around whispering to himself.
00:14:23.000 He does seem like a disturbed individual, but.
00:14:25.000 He does seem like somebody that could be radicalized.
00:14:28.000 And this is something else that you need to understand in the audience actually happens.
00:14:32.000 When young people, especially that are on these chat groups or online in these kind of corners of the internet, foreign operatives will get in there and they do something called nudging.
00:14:44.000 This is one of the things that I've been researching and studying with regards to Tyler Robinson.
00:14:50.000 Is somebody nudging, whether it's from China, Iran, Russia, wherever, that could be trying to radicalize?
00:14:58.000 You know, malcontents, people that have emotional or mental problems to get them to do something radical, to get them to do something extreme, like an attempted assassination of a president.
00:15:09.000 This would be something that I would be very curious to know more about somebody that seems to be a bit of a loner, be very, very strange, strange behavior, high IQ, high agency.
00:15:19.000 Is this somebody that you could, you know, try and lead down a really dark path, right?
00:15:25.000 Now, there's another thing from these documents that I just want to point out really quick.
00:15:28.000 Someone who looked like crooks walked into a gun store 120 miles away.
00:15:32.000 With two men.
00:15:34.000 So every witness in this file, family included, says the same thing.
00:15:37.000 Crooks did everything alone.
00:15:39.000 He went to the range alone, bought ammunition alone, had no friends in general.
00:15:43.000 Then there is a Keystone Armory in Edinburgh, Pennsylvania, two hours north of Bethel Park.
00:15:48.000 The store called FBI Pittsburgh itself to report that on May 25th, 2024, a person of interest who resembled the shooter spent about an hour browsing the store, accompanied by a white male believed to be around his mid 30s and another older white male with a gray beard.
00:16:02.000 The lookalike bought 20 rounds of ammo, basically, and this ammo would match one of Thomas Crooks' weapons.
00:16:11.000 So the timing is plausible.
00:16:13.000 Crooks was booked at 5 p.m. carbine class in Mars, Pennsylvania, the same day.
00:16:18.000 So he had a class there.
00:16:20.000 And so he could have been there.
00:16:21.000 It was very similar, and there were two people with him.
00:16:24.000 Now, I will just give one note of caution.
00:16:27.000 You know, in the Tyler Robinson's case, there's this whole Penguin Steakhouse alternate timeline theory, right?
00:16:33.000 That has been debunked, but this is somebody that people at the restaurant thought could look like Tyler Robinson.
00:16:39.000 So just because somebody says that somebody looks like Tyler Robinson does not mean that it is.
00:16:44.000 In the same case, just because somebody thinks that it looks like Thomas Crooks does not mean that it is, right?
00:16:48.000 Our memories are foggy, we misremember things, we get details wrong.
00:16:52.000 Nevertheless, There's definitely more to look into here.
00:16:56.000 I'm very intrigued.
00:16:57.000 My interest is peaked.
00:16:59.000 And if President Trump says he's not satisfied, that is a huge change of the game.
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00:18:21.000 We have Megan Basham, who's awesome.
00:18:24.000 She has a great book, Shepherds for Sale, and it's going to be the theme of our discussion here.
00:18:32.000 So, got a weird break.
00:18:34.000 Apparently, Congressman Thomas Massey has just moved to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
00:18:41.000 He was recognized to raise a question of the privilege of the House.
00:18:45.000 The form of the resolution is as follows in a matter of impeaching Secretary of War Peter Bryan Hegseth.
00:18:53.000 So, I don't really know what to make of that, other than the fact that I didn't see it coming.
00:18:56.000 It was not on my bingo card this morning, Megan.
00:18:59.000 I don't know about you, but it was.
00:19:01.000 No, you're breaking this news to me.
00:19:04.000 So, yeah, well, welcome to the upside down world that is.
00:19:09.000 Well, we can tie it into the bigger picture because what Megan's book is about and what she's often talked about is that really bizarre desire among people who claim to be conservative or conservative institutions to do a lot of legwork for the left.
00:19:26.000 And we see that with self identified libertarians and we see it a lot with self identified Christian leaders.
00:19:32.000 Yeah.
00:19:33.000 And so much of the debate that we had seen over the last 48 hours over the infamous Beau French tweet, to me, it was kind of the pattern that we have seen from so much of the establishment, both the political establishment on the right and also the evangelical establishment, because so often they walk arm in arm.
00:19:53.000 And it's that we can debate something like that post.
00:19:56.000 Like, was that the most effective way to communicate frustrations about the fact that the demographics in Texas are changing so rapidly?
00:20:05.000 Like, you can say, okay, Taking this particular photo from a football game maybe wasn't the best choice because we don't know what the circumstances were to bring those particular students into that particular part of the stadium.
00:20:16.000 Maybe they're part of a South Asian club on the campus or something.
00:20:19.000 So who knows?
00:20:20.000 But the immediate rush to condemn from John Cornyn and these other candidates was exactly what you see.
00:20:27.000 And by the way, from a lot of evangelical leaders too.
00:20:29.000 I think I saw Daniel Darling of the Southern Baptist Convention was one of those who kind of weighed in and said, you know, this is despicable.
00:20:38.000 And none of them wanted to grapple with what is the sentiment behind this?
00:20:42.000 What are the frustrations that are being projected onto this picture?
00:20:46.000 And so instead, you've got this virtue signaling rather than a serious discussion of, okay, what's motivating that sentiment?
00:20:52.000 And what's motivating it is, you know, and we can look at the demographics of Texas and look at some of these school districts and say, okay, why has the Copple school district gone from 18% Asian?
00:21:07.000 In 2006 to 57% Asian in 2026.
00:21:12.000 Same thing with Frisco.
00:21:13.000 It's gone from 16% Asian to 44% Asian. 0.97
00:21:17.000 That's not organic. 0.92
00:21:19.000 That is a deliberate effort to change the demographics of Texas through immigration, through these H 1B things and other visas. 0.97
00:21:28.000 And so I look at that and I just go, it's fine to say, hey, that wasn't the appropriate way to express this sentiment of the voters, but it is a real sentiment. 0.94
00:21:38.000 And so I wanted to grapple with that and say, okay, let's look at the realities on the ground.
00:21:42.000 And say, where is this coming from?
00:21:44.000 And that is what you get from the evangelical and conservative establishment that was heavily represented in John Cornyn saying, I'm not going to vote for Beau French.
00:21:53.000 No one should vote for Beau French.
00:21:55.000 Even Karl Rove saying, I am not going to vote for Beau French.
00:21:59.000 In fact, I'm going to vote for his opponent, who is someone who is much more morally questionable, someone who has openly opposed banning puberty blockers for students and for minors.
00:22:11.000 And so that's the kind of moral weight that they're.
00:22:14.000 Making that they're saying, I'm going to put more weight on this, you know, maybe unfortunate tweet than the fact that his opponent is somebody who is absolutely supportive of transgender surgeries and puberty blockers for minors.
00:22:26.000 Yeah, let me just address something.
00:22:28.000 We've had a guest on this show in the past who is the former GOP chair in the state of Texas, Abraham George.
00:22:33.000 He's an Indian, you know, but a conservative, conservative Indian.
00:22:37.000 He and Beau French are friends, and he does not think Beau French is racist against Indians.
00:22:43.000 And there is a lot of people in Texas that will say, hey, You know, some of these Indian guys, they're real, they're great.
00:22:49.000 It's everything's great, but there's just, you know, it's a lot and it's happening really, really quick.
00:22:54.000 And so you're seeing whole neighborhoods get transformed, whole school districts get transformed like that.
00:22:59.000 And people don't understand, like, this is historic.
00:23:02.000 What's happened to America in the last 40 years, the pace of change, the number of people that we've brought in is historic.
00:23:10.000 And I think it's insane that when you're going to, you know, import 70 million people or whatever it's been and not expect the native born population to notice. 0.98
00:23:20.000 Or for that not to cause consternation or frustration, because it's going to. 0.97
00:23:24.000 It's going to rapidly change the culture.
00:23:27.000 My question for you, though, Megan, is why is the church so susceptible to being hoodwinked by this stuff?
00:23:34.000 Why are they so susceptible to the sob stories, to pastors parroting this open borders garbage, parroting all the stuff that allows this to happen?
00:23:44.000 It gives them the moral license to do this. 0.67
00:23:48.000 I mean, for one thing, I think we've established a standard that the left gets to set our cultural midpoint.
00:23:54.000 So, whatever we sort of presume is neutral, we have allowed the left to set that.
00:23:59.000 And in part, it is because They hold a lot of the levers of power.
00:24:02.000 So, if you want to be published in the New York Times or you want to be hailed in the Washington Post or by the Atlantic, typically the way you do that is by taking these positions, is by saying, I'm going to condemn this tweet.
00:24:13.000 And I'm not going to ask what the legitimate objections that are behind the sentiment that reacted to that tweet were.
00:24:23.000 Because those are the things that they don't want to look at, like the fact that, okay, we are seeing workers in the United States displaced.
00:24:31.000 There is the fact that in the University of Texas system, Roughly 30% of the graduate students are international students.
00:24:40.000 If you get into the high paying STEM programs, it actually gets up to more like 50 to 60% of those students are foreign born.
00:24:47.000 And so there's a lot of resentment about that because they're thinking, you know, a lot of our taxpayer money goes to prop up this system.
00:24:53.000 So why aren't our pastors sometimes speaking for us or to our concerns?
00:24:58.000 And so, you know, I think that there's been a lot of effort within the church.
00:25:04.000 And, you know, part of it is, I think, just man pleasing, right?
00:25:07.000 They see what the.
00:25:08.000 The dominant position is of the establishment power players.
00:25:12.000 And so they drift that way.
00:25:13.000 But I also think, you know, as I demonstrated in Shepherds for Sale, there's also been a very deliberate effort on the left to come into churches and to create evangelical front groups.
00:25:22.000 Yeah.
00:25:23.000 Megan, because our memories are so short, give me like a concrete example of the money flow, of the influence flow that comes from on high, that comes from outside really evangelical circles, but then infiltrates the church to propagandize them and get them to parrot their message.
00:25:40.000 Yeah, okay, so let's talk about, for example, one of the evangelical leaders who condemned Beau French's post was Daniel Darling, who has been involved with the evangelical immigration table.
00:25:52.000 I think he has signed some of their letters and been involved with organizations that linked arms with them.
00:25:59.000 So, this group is actually a part of a secular immigration NGO that is called the National Immigration Forum.
00:26:08.000 So, that is the umbrella group.
00:26:10.000 It's a left wing group, it is funded heavily by people like George Soros.
00:26:14.000 And other left wing billionaires.
00:26:16.000 So they created an evangelical front group.
00:26:19.000 And legally, there's no separation.
00:26:21.000 They're the same entity.
00:26:22.000 But they created this evangelical front group to go into churches and say, we are representing the evangelical vote.
00:26:29.000 And so they took money via the National Immigration Forum.
00:26:34.000 They took money from them, which was then George Soros' money goes to the National Immigration Forum, which then goes to the evangelical immigration table.
00:26:41.000 And they then go out and draft these sort of generic letters.
00:26:45.000 That says, you know, maybe we stand opposed to racism or we stand opposed to, you know, this kind of xenophobia.
00:26:51.000 And they get all these pastors to sign on.
00:26:53.000 And so the pastors sign on because they think, well, we don't want to be for racism or xenophobia and we want to love our immigrant neighbors.
00:26:59.000 So they sign on.
00:27:00.000 And those letters are then taken and presented to our legislators on the right.
00:27:05.000 So our GOP legislators, and they're saying, look, this is what the evangelical vote wants.
00:27:10.000 They're offended by this.
00:27:11.000 And so that is what then gets the right wing representatives.
00:27:16.000 To say, oh, well, then gosh, I don't want to offend them.
00:27:18.000 And so they rush out to condemn the statement too.
00:27:21.000 And nobody grapples then with what it was that motivated that sentiment.
00:27:25.000 That, okay, what is happening on the ground with our policy that is angering people?
00:27:29.000 It's so outrageous because this actually happens in a lot of domains.
00:27:32.000 The left does this a lot where we give grants to various NGOs to engage in community activism or whatever.
00:27:40.000 And they use that money to then produce reports that agitate for left wing policies.
00:27:45.000 And it's a big self licking ice cream cone.
00:27:47.000 But I don't think so many people realize how much this happens. 0.76
00:27:51.000 On the right, with Christians that, yeah, we're paying churches to do this stuff. 0.88
00:27:56.000 So they write letters saying, keep doing this stuff. 0.90
00:27:58.000 And then it's presented to our politicians as neutral values based opinions.
00:28:03.000 And it just, it never is.
00:28:04.000 And if you look at the actual voters, they largely don't believe in this.
00:28:08.000 Yeah.
00:28:09.000 And there's also, you know, very much a structure in place to keep those pastors who have come out, let's say you live in Texas and they say things like, actually, no, scripture does not require us to have open borders.
00:28:21.000 Then they no longer get access to some of the opportunities like, Right now, media and big conferences.
00:28:26.000 So they know if they speak out, it's going to drum them out of the club.
00:28:32.000 A devout Catholic family in Massachusetts locked in a huge legal fight to stop the state from transitioning their teen daughter to a boy without their consent.
00:28:42.000 Joseph and Arlene Kutsko haven't spoken to their daughter since the end of 2024 after the Department of Children and Family Services removed her from their home.
00:28:51.000 Family claims it was because of their Catholic faith that would not allow them.
00:28:55.000 To affirm their daughter as a boy.
00:28:57.000 Child services removed Sophie from their home and accused them of abuse.
00:29:01.000 The Cootesco say their daughter's school, Algonquin Regional High School in Southboro, Massachusetts, exposed Sophie to a culture steeped in gender ideology and blamed a school counselor for socially transitioning their daughter to becoming a boy without their knowledge or permission.
00:29:16.000 This is a heartbreaking story out of Massachusetts that obviously touches on religious themes because, Megan, I have been told that if you do not Affirm your child when they think that they're born in the wrong body, that God made them the wrong way, then you are an abusive parent.
00:29:35.000 And that seems to be the case here is that they have been accused of being abusive to their daughter, Sophie.
00:29:41.000 It is apparently a devout Catholic family.
00:29:43.000 I've seen their clips, by the way, just crying on camera.
00:29:46.000 They miss their daughter.
00:29:48.000 And this daughter seems to have been subjected to radical gender ideology at this school by a school counselor, and they're getting blocked from access to Sophie.
00:29:57.000 It's a terrible story.
00:29:58.000 And the fact that it's still going on is.
00:30:00.000 Is shocking.
00:30:01.000 It's one of those ones that feels like, didn't we win that battle?
00:30:03.000 How is this still happening?
00:30:05.000 Yeah.
00:30:05.000 And I think, you know, that actually links very much back to the previous segment because we're pretending like, you know, we're past this.
00:30:12.000 We're past the crazy, really, you know, extreme left wing candidates.
00:30:17.000 And so we've settled the battle over the trans ideology and we can now go back to debating more sane political issues. 0.68
00:30:24.000 And this just demonstrates that that is not the case. 0.81
00:30:27.000 You know, it's a little bit like, I can speak about this with some knowledge.
00:30:31.000 When you have cancer and the chemo doesn't kill the cancer and you just go off and you stop trying to treat it, the cancer then comes roaring back stronger than ever before.
00:30:41.000 And I think we're very much at risk of that happening.
00:30:44.000 If these midterms go very poorly, I think we're going to see all of these things coming back on steroids.
00:30:50.000 And again, that really highlights the fact that, you know, Beau French, whatever he posted as a candidate, you can disagree with it.
00:30:58.000 But it is insane for someone like Karl Rove to say, because I disagreed with this post, I am going to therefore.
00:31:05.000 Elect a candidate who is exponentially more morally disordered.
00:31:11.000 So, you know, this just highlights that for me that this is not done.
00:31:15.000 This is still a live issue.
00:31:17.000 We still have to fight it.
00:31:18.000 We still have to speak out on it.
00:31:20.000 And, you know, right now on the books, there are still laws in places like California and I think Illinois where this will still happen.
00:31:28.000 Like if you're a foster care family or an adoptive family and you are trying to get a child, they will tell you if you don't affirm them in this madness, then you can't have this child.
00:31:39.000 You are not, therefore, qualified to adopt or foster.
00:31:43.000 So this is still very much a live issue.
00:31:44.000 Well, listen.
00:31:45.000 And I think, Megan, it shows an imbalance, unfortunately, between the right and the left that.
00:31:52.000 I think the right is more prone to think we won on this thing, we won this election, we got this executive order, this Supreme Court case, it's over.
00:32:01.000 The left, I think because they're more used to working within institutions, they have a lot more entropy, a lot more tide goes in, tide goes out, wear away at this.
00:32:11.000 Oh, we took a loss, we can come back.
00:32:13.000 Stuff like prison abolition hasn't gone away, all their pro crime rhetoric, that hasn't gone away just because crime is down for the moment and we're more tough on crime. 1.00
00:32:22.000 And this trans version is the scariest version of that. 1.00
00:32:25.000 They still have all these people. 1.00
00:32:27.000 They got appointed to various bureaucratic apparatuses.
00:32:30.000 They know all those rules that we're not aware of, and they're going to weaponize them where they can right now.
00:32:36.000 But as soon as we have a Democrat back in power in the White House, or if they're able to pack the Supreme Court, they have all of this stuff ready to be rolled back out, and it can be just like it's 2019 all over again on this.
00:32:49.000 Well, one second here.
00:32:51.000 I want to also bring up this what you mentioned, the Karl Rove thing, because Blake is completely right.
00:32:56.000 They seem to have this entropy, this ability to go with the flow.
00:32:59.000 Our side.
00:33:00.000 Tucks tail and runs. 0.97
00:33:01.000 And the Karl Rove wing of the party, the neocon, old school, we're going to play by their moralizing rules, Karl Rove wing of the party is disgusting. 0.97
00:33:10.000 It disgusted Charlie. 0.80
00:33:11.000 And by the way, it's exactly why we kept losing for so long until Trump came along.
00:33:16.000 It is exactly the wrong way to do things.
00:33:19.000 By the way, I mentioned this before.
00:33:20.000 Beau French is really good friends with the former state GOP chair of Texas, who's an Indian American.
00:33:25.000 Abraham George will tell you he's not a racist.
00:33:27.000 Okay, you can maybe say, oh, his tweet was not racist.
00:33:31.000 You know, done the right way or whatever.
00:33:34.000 It doesn't negate the fact that a lot of Texans feel displaced in their own homes.
00:33:39.000 Okay.
00:33:39.000 It doesn't negate the fact that we have an immigration problem.
00:33:41.000 It doesn't negate the fact that they're still transing our kids in Massachusetts and this Catholic family had CPS show up at their door and kidnap their child from them. 0.97
00:33:50.000 Like the whole old way of doing things needs to just go out the window. 0.94
00:33:54.000 And we need to fundamentally reject Karl Rove type politics as a conservative movement because it's loser mentality.
00:34:01.000 It's loser think.
00:34:02.000 And if we give into it in one, Iota, then we are going to be losers again for another decade.
00:34:07.000 That's what we're looking at.
00:34:09.000 Anyways, Megan, sorry, I didn't mean to.
00:34:11.000 No, and I agree with every word.
00:34:13.000 And I also think, you know, we have to acknowledge that there is a class based element to this, that I think that they just want to be with the people that they consider more elitist, higher brow.
00:34:24.000 And for whatever reason, and, you know, a lot of the reasons are money, fear of man, influence.
00:34:30.000 But the range of opinion they are willing to.
00:34:34.000 Tolerate on the left appears to be just infinite.
00:34:37.000 There is no level of insanity that will make them say, I would never touch that candidate.
00:34:42.000 I would never vote for that Democrat.
00:34:44.000 And yet, the range of opinion that they will tolerate on the right is extremely small.
00:34:49.000 So, even if you don't take one instance or it, yeah, you don't express whatever the view is of how we're having this immigration debate in just the right way, in just the right way to appeal and to appease to those.
00:35:04.000 Intellectual, they view it this way, your intellectual betters, then they're going to just condemn you and completely focus on that and completely ignore the issue that gave rise to the commentary.
00:35:14.000 Well, and Megan, this is the whole thing.
00:35:16.000 The rubber chicken dinner crowd, the country club Republican crowd are the same people who sold this country down the river for decades.
00:35:23.000 Okay. 0.93
00:35:24.000 I'm sick of listening to them.
00:35:25.000 I'm not going to be lectured by them.
00:35:26.000 Okay.
00:35:27.000 Then, secondly, you have to think about the actual people here on the ground, the actual Americans that are getting victimized, that get left behind in this whole conversation by our intellectual betters.
00:35:38.000 Screw them.
00:35:39.000 I'm, we are done with these people. 0.99
00:35:41.000 We have to spit them out completely.
00:35:43.000 I, I, and we're going to continue talking about it with Jeremy Carl and all this stuff, but, but, We cannot be lectured by these people.
00:35:50.000 The battle is existential.
00:35:52.000 This girl, I mean, I'm just reading this article, got kidnapped from her parents.
00:35:57.000 Why do we not?
00:35:58.000 This is the same group, by the way, that will not distance themselves from Hassan Piker, that will not disavow Hassan Piker, but they're demanding that we disavow Beau French right now.
00:36:07.000 They're demanding that we, because he made a tweet they didn't like.
00:36:10.000 And it wasn't even that mean, by the way.
00:36:13.000 I mean, final 20 seconds to you, Megan.
00:36:15.000 Yeah, no, I mean, I agree with all of that.
00:36:17.000 And that's, um, We're rapidly reaching a point where we're going to continue to see the old guard, I think, lose.
00:36:23.000 We're going to continue to see candidates like John Cornyn lose, and they're going to be frustrated, but eventually they're going to get the message.
00:36:29.000 Megan Basham, a national treasure.
00:36:32.000 Go pick up a copy of Shepherds for Sale.
00:36:34.000 It's such an important book.
00:36:35.000 Thank you, Megan.
00:36:37.000 Thanks for having me.
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00:37:56.000 This is going to be the hour that we really get into the Beau French tweet.
00:38:01.000 It is all the rage on the internet right now.
00:38:05.000 It's what everybody's talking about.
00:38:06.000 And here to help us unpack it is Jeremy Carl, author of The Unprotected Class and a Claremont Fellow.
00:38:14.000 Jeremy, welcome back to the show.
00:38:16.000 You put out a great tweet yesterday talking about this tweet from Beau French.
00:38:24.000 And you made the qualifiers at the beginning.
00:38:27.000 You said, Hey, I've lived in India.
00:38:28.000 I've worked in India.
00:38:29.000 I enjoyed my time there.
00:38:31.000 Indians are great people, all this stuff.
00:38:34.000 I have a lot of friends that are Indian.
00:38:35.000 Yeah, you even did that one.
00:38:37.000 Well, Andrew, before we talk about that, because I think actually the quote unquote throat clearing is actually important because I think, you know, I've just found enough from talking about these sorts of issues that there are a lot of people who will simply not hear you if they think you've got some sort of an animus against, yeah, no, fair enough.
00:38:58.000 And so that's why you do it because I don't, you know.
00:39:02.000 So it's really easy for me to demonstrate that I don't.
00:39:05.000 And, you know, it'll kind of annoy the most based people who are like, well, you know, why do you have to do those qualifiers?
00:39:10.000 But respectfully, I've done this a lot in front of an audience.
00:39:16.000 Jeremy, before you dive into yours, we actually haven't shown the tweet during this show, Andrew.
00:39:20.000 So I think we should throw it up real quickly.
00:39:23.000 Just so people who aren't online know what we're talking about.
00:39:25.000 So this happened over the weekend.
00:39:27.000 The Texas Longhorns played a game against Ohio State.
00:39:34.000 And it was a very exciting game, to say the least.
00:39:38.000 And Texas won.
00:39:40.000 And so.
00:39:41.000 Beau French, he tweeted this, an image from the game, and he said, I heard UT graduation this year looked like this.
00:39:49.000 I didn't believe it.
00:39:50.000 The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined. 1.00
00:39:53.000 And it's an image from UT fans celebrating, and almost everyone you can see in the image is clearly of Indian descent.
00:40:03.000 And so, kind of, it gives the impression almost that the whole stadium is filled with nothing but Indians, although I think it's probably maybe an Indian student group or some such.
00:40:13.000 But that got 48.2 million views as of this post.
00:40:18.000 So that's what everyone is reacting to.
00:40:20.000 Well, and Beau French, I guess, is held to a different standard because he's running for Texas Railroad Commissioner.
00:40:26.000 So it's a statewide elected office.
00:40:29.000 Now, which, as the name suggests, is in charge of regulating the state's oil industry, of course.
00:40:36.000 Yes, which, so, yeah, exactly.
00:40:38.000 That's an important job.
00:40:40.000 Yeah, but I love this line that you had in your tweet, and I, I, I suggested people read the entire tweet and I quote tweeted it as well.
00:40:48.000 And you're saying, like, hey, listen, there's great patriotic Indians.
00:40:51.000 Nevertheless, this mass influx of Indians, and it really has been basically over the last two decades, Jeremy. 1.00
00:40:59.000 It says this leads to cultural, ethnic, and religious balkanization and the erasure of Texas's historical majority. 0.99
00:41:08.000 It's a not so great replacement.
00:41:10.000 Explain what you mean.
00:41:11.000 Yeah, I mean, it's just these things are numbers.
00:41:14.000 Questions, right?
00:41:15.000 And I pointed out it not even just, you know, in a sort of throat clearing, apologetic way.
00:41:19.000 I mean, I have a number of literally, I can think of several Indian American friends I have from Texas who are great patriots.
00:41:25.000 They're conservatives. 1.00
00:41:27.000 But when you have sort of a limited number of high skilled immigrants who come over, you know, that's one thing. 0.85
00:41:34.000 When you have entire major school districts in Texas, in the Dallas area, kind of being transformed in two decades from overwhelmingly majority Anglo. 1.00
00:41:47.000 To overwhelmingly majority Asian, you know, that I think that creates some challenges, right? 0.99
00:41:54.000 And we should just be honest about that.
00:41:56.000 And we shouldn't jump down Beau French's throat and start screaming at him because he's pointing out that, hey, this is an issue and replacement is an issue.
00:42:06.000 Yeah.
00:42:07.000 And I think, Jeremy, I think what stands out that makes this debate particularly challenging and also interesting is we've heard all the rhetoric about immigration from, if you're having illegal immigration from, Central America or from Africa, that we're bringing in a lot of people who end up on the dole, who end up committing crimes. 0.97
00:42:27.000 We've seen all the heinous illegal immigrant crimes. 0.85
00:42:29.000 Indians in America, they have a very high educational attainment.
00:42:34.000 They do economically very well. 0.74
00:42:37.000 That's why they're all over that stadium.
00:42:38.000 They get a very high number of seats at the University of Texas.
00:42:42.000 And you have to react to this a bit differently because the problem is not that we're just bringing in people who are criminals, it's that we're just bringing in people who are. 0.62
00:42:53.000 Alien that we've brought in, like we basically decided to replace our upper crust with people from a different cultural background, a totally different value system. 0.90
00:43:05.000 And if you have a ton of those people come in all at once, it's going to radically change your country. 0.57
00:43:11.000 You're going to have an elite cast in Texas who don't know, let's just put it this way they don't know who Moses was.
00:43:20.000 I heard a university professor say that he's encountering the Moses problem.
00:43:23.000 He's talking to university students who literally have never heard of who Moses was.
00:43:28.000 And that's a growing issue that we're going to have if we're bringing people who are from a totally different cultural context than the one we're used to.
00:43:37.000 No, Blake, I think that's exactly right. 0.97
00:43:38.000 And I think this is the key thing.
00:43:39.000 You really hit on what you said.
00:43:41.000 We're bringing in a new upper crust.
00:43:43.000 People focus constantly on that bottom 10, 20%.
00:43:47.000 And I agree.
00:43:48.000 That's probably a huge problem.
00:43:51.000 I'm not saying that's not a problem. 0.54
00:43:53.000 But there's also a problem of mass importing a new elite or a kind of new upper to middle elite in terms of how it kind of just changes the entire cultural project of your country when you're doing that, when people are taking their cues. 0.85
00:44:09.000 From people without that type of background.
00:44:12.000 And again, it's a numbers question. 0.98
00:44:13.000 It's not that we couldn't have some.
00:44:15.000 I'm not saying that if we have some super hotshot, incredible, groundbreaking engineer from India, we shouldn't let them in just because they happen to be Indian.
00:44:25.000 But as I pointed out, and there's other people who've pointed this out, I mean, of these visas, there's also huge numbers of them who are getting them illegitimately. 0.54
00:44:36.000 We've got visa mills, colleges, basically things posing as colleges that are really visa mills in the US.
00:44:42.000 And we're effectively just kind of recruiting in.
00:44:45.000 In many cases, people who will work for 30% less than, say, a U.S. software engineer without any better skills, and then that person's being replaced, that just doesn't serve the U.S. interest in any respect, in my view.
00:44:58.000 You know, it's interesting, too.
00:45:00.000 And Blake has a bunch of analysis on the way that we're importing Indians. 0.87
00:45:06.000 Actually, you know, India is such a giant country that there is a lot of lower class Indians. 0.98
00:45:12.000 The vast, vast, vast majority of India is lower class people that would. 1.00
00:45:17.000 You know, be I think even more shocking to the American sensibilities, yeah. 1.00
00:45:21.000 To build that out, it's that we've right now they've been pretty high quality, they're very high achieving.
00:45:26.000 But over time, our rules in America we have family reunification, we have so many mechanisms to get additional people.
00:45:34.000 Inevitably, it's going to get less selected, we're going to get people closer to India's average.
00:45:40.000 And what is the average in India?
00:45:42.000 It is a poor country, it is a country with a lot of problems.
00:45:46.000 And we're already seeing that there's been a lot of focus on, for example.
00:45:50.000 Truck drivers who are getting these commercial driver's licenses, even though they're illegal or not able to drive.
00:45:55.000 And a lot of these are coming from India.
00:45:58.000 We're getting more of the mass of India's population. 1.00
00:46:02.000 And so we're going to get the downsides. 1.00
00:46:05.000 And we've also brought in a new elite that is probably going to keep pushing this because they have cultural affinity with the country they're coming from.
00:46:13.000 All right, I want to read something to you, Jeremy.
00:46:17.000 In 2005, 28% of undergraduates at the University of Texas were white men.
00:46:25.000 As of this year, that number is down to 12%.
00:46:28.000 So, way more than 50% decline.
00:46:31.000 Went from 28% white men in 2005, 20 years later, it's down to 12%.
00:46:36.000 In 2005, less than 4% of UT undergraduates were international students.
00:46:42.000 That number now exceeds 30%.
00:46:46.000 30%.
00:46:48.000 Pretty wild stats when you start boiling it down.
00:46:50.000 And that doesn't even get into whole neighborhoods like Frisco, Irving, Copple.
00:46:55.000 The entire school districts are now. 0.99
00:46:57.000 Basically, Asian students. 1.00
00:46:59.000 It happened so quickly, so quickly. 1.00
00:47:02.000 And I think that's what's so shocking here.
00:47:04.000 And you said in your tweet, I think you said that Beau French kind of took a Trumpian effect.
00:47:10.000 He played the Trump role, saying something sort of gruffly and rudely, but in a way that grabbed people's attention.
00:47:16.000 Your reaction?
00:47:17.000 Yeah, no, I mean, that's the thing.
00:47:19.000 And I sort of learned my lesson on this with Trump because I've always tried to speak about these issues pretty carefully.
00:47:24.000 And when Trump kind of came on the scene, I was like, man, he's talking about things that are really important, but I'm not totally comfortable with some of the rhetoric he uses.
00:47:33.000 But you know what?
00:47:33.000 He put attention on this issue.
00:47:35.000 And Beau French, you know, this is not necessarily always the way that I would choose to talk about it, the way he talks about it, but now we're talking about the amount of H 1B scams, diploma mills, the replacement of kind of the people who descended from the people who built the state of Texas with people with very little cultural or historical ties to Texas.
00:47:57.000 We're talking about those issues.
00:47:58.000 So if that's what it takes, then great.
00:48:01.000 And it's almost been a perfect split in the GOP in that the people who are attacking him are universally from.
00:48:09.000 The Karl Rove wing.
00:48:11.000 And people who are defending him are universally from the America First wing.
00:48:16.000 And that's actually encouraging.
00:48:17.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:48:19.000 So this is the tale of two reactions here, Blake and Jeremy.
00:48:22.000 All right.
00:48:23.000 So you've got, let's throw up image 177.
00:48:27.000 So this is John Cornyn, who was just kicked to the curb, by the way, by the voters of Texas.
00:48:33.000 So he's reacting to this tweet.
00:48:34.000 He said, This is the Republican nominee for statewide office.
00:48:37.000 Are other Republican elected officials going to condemn the intolerance of racism?
00:48:41.000 Or look the other way while it becomes normalized.
00:48:44.000 This is how great political parties self destruct sad.
00:48:47.000 All right.
00:48:48.000 To which, if you throw up 176, you see James Talrico gets in the mix.
00:48:53.000 Says, Thank you, John Cornyn, for your leadership.
00:48:55.000 Notice what happens here.
00:48:57.000 The Republican, the rhino, basically plays the game, virtue signals, wants to say, Hey, hey, hey, I'm not racist.
00:49:04.000 You can't call me racist.
00:49:06.000 I am excluded from it.
00:49:08.000 He throws up the alley oop so that James Talrico can dunk the basketball.
00:49:11.000 Then Attorney General Ken Paxton doesn't take the bait.
00:49:15.000 Perfect, perfect response here.
00:49:17.000 I condemn racism in all its forms, which is important, folks.
00:49:21.000 Just because we have critiques about mass replacement level immigration does not mean we give in to identity politics.
00:49:28.000 We are all God's children.
00:49:30.000 But he says, I condemn racism in all its forms, including James Talrico saying white men are America's top terror threat and that he prays to overcome his own whiteness, whatever that means.
00:49:38.000 Only one person in this race has a history of dividing Texans by race, and it's James Talrico.
00:49:42.000 Bravo, Ken Paxton.
00:49:44.000 Perfect reaction.
00:49:46.000 You notice this split.
00:49:47.000 You noticed the tale of two reactions.
00:49:50.000 What is your takeaway from it, Jeremy Carl?
00:49:52.000 Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely.
00:49:53.000 It's just that Ken Paxton has always gotten it, and John Cornyn never has.
00:49:58.000 And he immediately didn't kind of take the bait, didn't sort of go in for the very predictable framing, and turned the attention to the fact that he is running against an anti white racist in James Tallarica, who has made a number of just completely non defensible statements about white people.
00:50:21.000 That, I mean, yeah, we talk about them on the right, but of course, the kind of so called legacy media will just ignore.
00:50:27.000 They're not going to treat it seriously.
00:50:29.000 And that's what needs to be about because there are still enough both white voters and then other voters who don't like anti white racism out there that if these sorts of racist comments from Tallarico get out there, people are going to say, you know what?
00:50:42.000 I don't really care what Beau French said.
00:50:43.000 I don't want this guy representing me.
00:50:46.000 And so they're going to go vote for Beau French.
00:50:47.000 They're going to go vote for Ken Paxton, who's been a very successful attorney general in Texas.
00:50:52.000 And that's what we need more of.
00:50:54.000 Blake has a story here, Jeremy.
00:50:56.000 I don't know if you've heard about it, but it involves wheelchairs.
00:50:59.000 Yeah, well, it's just such a perfect illustration of that values issue we were talking about.
00:51:04.000 That if you go through an airport, and this is many people know, if you claim you need a wheelchair to get through to get to your gate, or if you need it to get on, you're able to get that for free.
00:51:16.000 They'll often will you through security at an escalated pace, they'll put you on the plane first.
00:51:21.000 And what's become a notorious problem, and Indians themselves will talk about this, is flights that are heavily Indian or to or from India will have way more people using this service.
00:51:32.000 They themselves will talk about it. 0.60
00:51:34.000 This is a post that was on Reddit from an Indian.
00:51:36.000 He says, Every time I take a flight to India, the line of wheelchairs is five to ten times as much as any other flight I've taken.
00:51:44.000 Indians never seem to bother using other concierge options because they have this free option available if you just abuse the wheelchair system. 0.98
00:51:51.000 It's frustrating to see this pattern of Indians abusing a free system built off a universal system of social trust that will happen until the system breaks down. 1.00
00:52:01.000 And I think it's just a perfect example of. 1.00
00:52:04.000 When you bring in a large number of people from a very different culture, a culture that might think it's much more automatic to, oh, that's a free thing I can use, I will do that.
00:52:13.000 They're not going for the more traditional, if I don't really need it, I shouldn't use this thing that's meant for other people. 1.00
00:52:20.000 It breaks down your country.
00:52:21.000 That's what so many people are reacting to when they get upset about this.
00:52:24.000 15 seconds, Jeremy.
00:52:26.000 Yeah, no, this is right.
00:52:27.000 And we live in a high social trust society, or at least we have historically.
00:52:31.000 I can tell you, having lived in India, even though I had a great time there, it is not necessarily a high social trust society.
00:52:36.000 And we are running right now an uncontrolled experiment.
00:52:39.000 About what that's going to look like when we mix those two things in mass.
00:52:42.000 And I just don't think that's a good idea.
00:52:43.000 Jeremy Carl, the man, the myth, the legend.
00:52:46.000 Thank you, my friend.
00:52:47.000 We'll see you soon.
00:52:50.000 I had the honor of a lifetime to call Charlie a friend.
00:52:54.000 And what I remember most wasn't just what people saw on stage, it was what was behind the scenes.
00:53:01.000 That was an unwavering commitment to his faith, his love for his family, and his genuine desire to encourage others to live with courage and conviction.
00:53:10.000 Charlie believed that following Christ wasn't something you compartmentalize.
00:53:13.000 He didn't put it in a box, he lived it out loud.
00:53:16.000 It shaped how he lived, how he served, how he treated people every single day.
00:53:21.000 Charlie Kirk, American Martyr, captures that heart.
00:53:24.000 This documentary isn't just simply about remembering Charlie, it'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.
00:53:36.000 I hope that you'll watch it with your family and have those conversations together.
00:53:40.000 Go to angel.comslash Kirk.
00:53:42.000 That's angel.com slash Kirk.
00:53:44.000 Become an Angel Guild member, watch Charlie Kirk, American Martyr, and help bring more stories of faith, courage, and conviction to audiences around the world.
00:53:56.000 We have reduced Americanism down to, well, have you filled out your paperwork?
00:54:00.000 And the left doesn't even believe that.
00:54:02.000 They believe Americans is the presence of being in the United States of America.
00:54:07.000 So, what is an American?
00:54:08.000 The best way I can answer it is someone that has demonstrated through objective measurements and markers that this is home.
00:54:16.000 That you have more than respect or reverence, that you're willing to die, that you are all in, that this is a place that you're willing to bleed for and sacrifice for.
00:54:24.000 This is not a dumping ground for the third world, this is not a social experiment.
00:54:29.000 You got a tear in your eye on July 4th, that you worship God, not Allah, that you have a sense of weight and responsibility, that you care about your fellow neighbor.
00:54:43.000 An American is more than just someone that has a U.S. passport.
00:54:47.000 Amen.
00:54:47.000 That was Charlie, I believe, in August of 2025.
00:54:52.000 I was at that event with him.
00:54:54.000 Orrin McIntyre joins us now.
00:54:55.000 He's a great thinker, columnist with The Blaze.
00:54:57.000 He's got his own show there that I check out frequently because he's smart and I like smart people.
00:55:03.000 Orin, this whole.
00:55:04.000 Okay.
00:55:05.000 I just want to get one thing out.
00:55:07.000 Okay.
00:55:08.000 Beau French, the tweet goes out, goes viral. 0.97
00:55:11.000 All the usual suspects come in and they go, oh, he's a terrible racist. 0.88
00:55:15.000 We must condemn this.
00:55:16.000 And Karl Rove and John Cornyn jump on him.
00:55:18.000 And of course, James Talrico, thanks him for their service.
00:55:23.000 But then there was this second wave of everybody going, hold on a second.
00:55:26.000 Hold on.
00:55:28.000 This is actually a legitimate thing to be criticizing because the body politic of Texas, across other states too, by the way, this is just Texas conversation, has been transformed almost overnight.
00:55:40.000 So, two things can be true. 0.87
00:55:42.000 We don't need to give into identity politics, but we can absolutely have a critique about the way we do mass replacement level immigration in this country. 1.00
00:55:52.000 And you've been one of the most articulate voices on this, especially when it comes to H 1Bs. 0.93
00:55:56.000 So, give us your take of what you make of the Beau French tweet controversy.
00:56:01.000 Well, as a former high school history teacher, it's always great to be discussing the French and Indian War.
00:56:06.000 But that said, I think this was actually very encouraging.
00:56:11.000 Previously, if a Republican had said something like this, they would have been destroyed in public.
00:56:17.000 We did see a lot of the Texas GOP come out and denounce Beau French.
00:56:20.000 But what we saw was really a popular backing.
00:56:23.000 I think a lot of people recognized Beau French was right over the target.
00:56:27.000 They sympathized with that tweet.
00:56:29.000 They understood exactly what he was saying.
00:56:30.000 They didn't see it as hateful.
00:56:32.000 They didn't see it as vicious.
00:56:33.000 They saw it as truth.
00:56:34.000 They look around Texas and they recognize that, well, they don't recognize it.
00:56:38.000 When I go to Dallas, it's a question of whether I'm in Texas or Mumbai.
00:56:43.000 Everybody who's in that area knows exactly what Beau French is talking about.
00:56:47.000 It's not just one Texas football game, it's the entire existence of that state. 0.96
00:56:52.000 When you see temples going up, you see statues to Hindu demons being erected in Texas, it should be just as offensive as when you see a mosque going up. 0.98
00:57:03.000 This is not our culture, this is not our country. 0.98
00:57:05.000 And the people of Texas have a right to prefer their way of life, their faith, their tradition, their heritage to others.
00:57:13.000 There's nothing wrong about that.
00:57:14.000 There's nothing evil about that.
00:57:16.000 The Republican Party needs to be able to stand up and say this strongly because if they can't, they are going to lose.
00:57:21.000 We cannot cede the issue to the left.
00:57:23.000 We already tried to do that, and it is a failure.
00:57:27.000 So, what I and Blake is so good on this too.
00:57:30.000 It feels like for years, the dialogue around immigration, conservatives were scared to say what you just said.
00:57:38.000 And that has turned a corner.
00:57:39.000 What you just said was we prefer our way of life, our culture, our values, our God more than theirs. 1.00
00:57:46.000 As a matter of fact, we don't want to have to share a country with people that are, you know, erecting, you know, temples to foreign demons. 0.68
00:57:55.000 Now, that is not a very respectful way to say it. 0.89
00:57:57.000 It's a pretty blunt way to say it, but we used to not be able to say it.
00:58:01.000 The whole conversation was about GDP, it was about economics, it was about the fact that Indians are so good at tech and STEM and all of this sort of thing.
00:58:11.000 Now, Those two things can be true.
00:58:13.000 And by the way, I do want to reiterate there are a lot of good Indians.
00:58:16.000 I was talking with Abraham George, who is the former Texas GOP chair, just yesterday, because I wanted to get his thoughts on all this stuff.
00:58:23.000 He goes to a Pentecostal church in Texas with a bunch of Indians that are all Pentecostals.
00:58:27.000 That's great.
00:58:28.000 That's really good. 0.99
00:58:29.000 Assimilation is good.
00:58:31.000 Them becoming Christians is good.
00:58:32.000 But this mass level is, I think, something that is worth talking about.
00:58:37.000 Now, just focus that one second for with me on that particular part of the debate.
00:58:45.000 What made us.
00:58:46.000 Turn the corner on this debate where we're not just talking in economic terms, we're talking in cultural, we're talking in civilizational terms.
00:58:52.000 I think the big turn here has been the recognition that immigration has an impact beyond just the illegal aspect.
00:58:59.000 We knew for a long time that illegal immigration was the focus.
00:59:02.000 These people were breaking the law.
00:59:04.000 There's a procedure you have to go through, that's what matters. 0.78
00:59:07.000 And once we fix that, well, then we'll have fixed the immigration issue.
00:59:10.000 But actually, we quickly discovered that it's not just illegal immigration that changes the country, it's not simply the procedure itself, the legality that matters.
00:59:18.000 Though we do prefer legal immigration over illegal immigration.
00:59:22.000 When we look at something like the H 1B visa, which is being given 70% to people from the nation of India, we quickly recognize that this is not on merit. 0.96
00:59:32.000 This is an ethnic cartel operating inside the United States. 0.86
00:59:36.000 And when we're talking about individual Indians, obviously there are fantastic individual Indians who are part of America. 0.72
00:59:41.000 If every Indian is Dinesh D'Souza, we'd all be fine, right?
00:59:45.000 But ultimately, the point is that when we're looking at immigration, we have to look in blocks, we have to look at general characteristics, not just look at the best. 0.96
00:59:53.000 Example, because we're letting in so many people from the same place, they're going to bring that culture with them.
00:59:58.000 Everyone recognizes if you bring all of Haiti over to the United States, it doesn't turn them all into Americans.
01:00:04.000 They turn where they go into Haiti. 1.00
01:00:05.000 We recognize this with Somalians. 1.00
01:00:07.000 It's the same as true with India. 1.00
01:00:09.000 And it's okay to recognize that. 0.99
01:00:11.000 Again, there is a manipulation of the procedural outcome that has allowed the mass migration of Indians into places like Texas. 0.83
01:00:18.000 This is a manipulation of the system. 0.87
01:00:20.000 And we have to be able to call that out just because it's technically legal, just like the Haitians who were here were technically legal. 0.99
01:00:27.000 That doesn't mean it's good for the United States. 0.98
01:00:30.000 And another thing that I think is we should be allowed to point out because it's highly relevant is actually just in a raw political lens. 0.82
01:00:38.000 We got used to hearing, for example, that Hispanics were natural conservatives when in reality they're at best natural swing voters and they usually tilt Democrat.
01:00:47.000 Well, if you look at the numbers, Indian immigrants to America are among the most left wing people in the entire country.
01:00:56.000 I have an image I just sent in.
01:00:57.000 Let's see if they can throw that up.
01:01:00.000 It was the polling in California when they had Prop 16.
01:01:03.000 And Prop 16 was the measure to re legalize racial discrimination in California.
01:01:09.000 They're going to re legalize discrimination based on race in employment, in university admissions, in government programs, and all of that.
01:01:17.000 And an Asian group polled different Asian subgroups and found that Indians were by far the most supportive of it.
01:01:25.000 58% were planning to vote yes. 0.92
01:01:27.000 And that was a measure that failed, thankfully, even in California.
01:01:31.000 And you'll find that a lot, a lot of embrace to the extent that they do assimilate to the United States.
01:01:35.000 It's to embrace some of the most maximally left wing narratives about this country.
01:01:43.000 And it's been pointed out as well.
01:01:44.000 Frankly, we remember India was colonized by the British.
01:01:49.000 A lot of the most politically engaged Indians in America feel they have a very big grievance against British culture, against Western culture, because they think it humiliated their country, and now they have a chance to.
01:02:03.000 Get back at it.
01:02:04.000 This is simply a fact.
01:02:06.000 It is a real reality that you encounter.
01:02:08.000 And we should be concerned if we're going to have that be a new big part of our elite culture in the United States.
01:02:15.000 One note here, Oren, before you chime in, that this polling is really stark.
01:02:20.000 I mean, that one group is way ahead of all the others.
01:02:24.000 And I will say that it's anecdotal, but I've heard it from a lot of people. 0.96
01:02:28.000 We've gotten emails about it here on the show that when Indians get into these managerial positions where they're actually Have power to hire, they tend to favor other Indians. 1.00
01:02:37.000 They tend to be insular. 0.99
01:02:39.000 They create not only communities that are enclaves of, you know, Balkanized Indian groups, but in the corporations that they get hired at, they tend to do the same.
01:02:48.000 It's just, it seems to be a unique cultural peculiarity of the Indian culture.
01:02:53.000 Your thoughts, Oren. 0.98
01:02:54.000 I don't think it's even that unique. 1.00
01:02:55.000 I think that's just how non European cultures tend to behave.
01:02:59.000 I think this is actually very common among foreign cultures. 0.97
01:03:02.000 And when we import in foreign cultures, we get their norms, not ours. 0.99
01:03:05.000 So when we're surprised that they behave the way they normally have, well, we shouldn't be. 0.99
01:03:09.000 Also, let's not forget that India has been very clear about what it's doing with its diaspora.
01:03:14.000 The leaders of India, the institutions of India, have said that they plan to use their very large diaspora to influence.
01:03:20.000 Politics in other countries to benefit India.
01:03:22.000 So, this is not a mistake.
01:03:23.000 This is not some kind of confusion.
01:03:25.000 This is literally a plan that is circulated and discussed openly by Indian leaders on a regular basis.
01:03:31.000 So, I think it's entirely reasonable to ask the question is the presence of this group that is going to regularly vote in the favor of Democrats beneficial to the United States?
01:03:41.000 Is this something that the right should be fighting for?
01:03:43.000 And the answer is, of course, no.
01:03:45.000 Most ethnic minorities, almost all major ethnic minority groups vote for the left.
01:03:50.000 That's just an absolute reality. 1.00
01:03:52.000 That's why they encourage immigration, both legal and illegal. 0.99
01:03:56.000 And it's even more dangerous when it comes to many Indians than many of the illegals previously, because the Indians are entering into higher caste jobs. 0.98
01:04:03.000 They are entering into college. 0.96
01:04:05.000 They are entering into business leadership, into government.
01:04:07.000 They are not just going in and building a building, they are taking control of the apparatus that controls our culture and makes decisions about who comes in and who comes out.
01:04:16.000 So they get to make decisions that benefit them.
01:04:20.000 Yeah, let's play this clip here.
01:04:21.000 It's a 60 minute clip that also.
01:04:24.000 You know, talks about the replacement of Americans in the workforce.
01:04:27.000 It's an older clip, but it still hits hard.
01:04:29.000 203.
01:04:30.000 I didn't get laid off for lack of work.
01:04:34.000 I got laid off because somebody cheaper could do my job.
01:04:39.000 We met with this group of workers who all had to train replacements.
01:04:44.000 I was given the news that in 90 days my job was over and I had to train my replacement.
01:04:49.000 Never in my life did I imagine, until this happened at Disney, that.
01:04:55.000 I could be sitting at my desk and somebody would be flown in from another country, sit at my same desk and chair, and take over what I was doing.
01:05:04.000 It was the most humiliating and demoralizing thing I've ever gone through in my life.
01:05:09.000 Breaks my heart every time I see that clip because we've done this to ourselves.
01:05:14.000 And if anybody ever points it out, racist!
01:05:17.000 Can't say that, can't notice.
01:05:19.000 Now, Oren, I should say, there is a back and forth going on with, I guess, like Peter Schiff and.
01:05:27.000 Kash Patel, right now.
01:05:28.000 Apparently, there's some blow up, and we might get to that in just a second here.
01:05:31.000 But I've noticed you've got a back and forth going with Ben Shapiro.
01:05:35.000 Now, Ben Shapiro has taken sort of an opposite position than we have on this, and that's fine.
01:05:41.000 We can disagree.
01:05:42.000 But here's a clip from him, and I'd like to get your response to it.
01:05:45.000 Sop 14.
01:05:46.000 Are conservatives supposed to be upset that people from different ethnic backgrounds enjoy college football?
01:05:50.000 A viral photo of, like, I don't know, 30 Brown students from the stands of this weekend's UT Ohio game went viral when a random low level local GOP candidate said, Kind of gross things about their skin color.
01:06:00.000 These are not people who are there flying the Mexican flag or the Palestinian flag or protesting for Gaza.
01:06:07.000 The only evidence we have about the belief system of these people is that they are putting up the Texas hook 'em horns for a football team in Texas.
01:06:19.000 That's literally the only thing we know about them, is that they are Texas football fans.
01:06:22.000 So I will say here, Oren, before you react, you know, we have a big chapter at UT Austin.
01:06:28.000 I'm told it's a very diverse chapter.
01:06:30.000 We even have Indians that are a part of the leadership there.
01:06:36.000 What does Ben get wrong here, in your opinion?
01:06:38.000 Well, first, it's kind of telling that Ben thinks the only thing that disqualifies you from being an American is having a Palestinian flag or chanting something.
01:06:49.000 Very strange, very strange thing to interject there.
01:06:52.000 I mean, what Ben is getting wrong here is that he's not treating America as an actual country the way that he would like other countries to be treated.
01:06:59.000 I think it's very obvious this logic breaks down almost immediately. 0.81
01:07:03.000 If we put 10 million Palestinians into Israel, but they were all wearing a yarmulke, Would that make them Israeli? 0.99
01:07:12.000 Would that mean that that's fine? 0.98
01:07:14.000 Would that be more than fine with Ben? 0.86
01:07:16.000 If we moved 10 million Indians into Israel and they all converted to Judaism and had a true and passionate devotion to Judaism and they started sitting in all of the universities and replacing all of the previous Israelis that were in those universities, would Ben see no issue there? 0.90
01:07:34.000 I think he recognizes immediately what the problem is, but we're pretending that America is something different. 0.84
01:07:39.000 America is not a real country.
01:07:40.000 America is just something anyone can be.
01:07:42.000 America is a sports team, America is a t shirt.
01:07:45.000 America is a hand sign.
01:07:47.000 No, I'm sorry.
01:07:48.000 Like, America is a real country.
01:07:49.000 We're a real people, a real nation with a history, with beliefs, with traditions that we care about, a faith that means a lot to us.
01:07:56.000 That's who we are.
01:07:58.000 And no, sorry, you can't just lift anyone into this country and then suddenly expect that they have that same identity.
01:08:05.000 I think that St. Augustine, or sorry, rather, Thomas Aquinas was correct that assimilation takes three generations of intermarriage, conversion to faith, And acceptance of the language.
01:08:17.000 That is that time that shows that you have become one of the people.
01:08:21.000 You don't suddenly become American because you happen to touch down and put on a Texas t shirt and walk in and cheer for the team.
01:08:27.000 That's just not how it works.
01:08:29.000 I think what I would say in his defense is I think Jeremy got at this in our previous segment as well that we have to approach this carefully because it is very easy to reduce this to just pointing and saying, I don't like the look of all the people at this sports game.
01:08:48.000 And I don't think that's a political winner.
01:08:50.000 I think it kind of does look ugly. 1.00
01:08:51.000 I do think we want to focus on all the real reasons we've cited to be concerned about Indian immigration, which is that they are very left wing, according to polls, that they do seem to be a displacing elite with different values. 1.00
01:09:05.000 And you should be careful about just trying to do the easy thing and saying they're at a sports game, which we probably would want them to do. 0.99
01:09:13.000 We probably do want them to the extent that they are here attending sports games and becoming big football fans, because that is a part of American culture.
01:09:21.000 So I think we should.
01:09:23.000 We should make note of that, that there are good and bad ways to approach this issue.
01:09:27.000 And I think, as Jeremy said, Bo, he did us a favor by making it so people are talking about this, but it's probably not the way we should all go about talking about it. 0.57
01:09:36.000 Well, and I will say, to your point, though, Oren, the fact that America is so large, you made the contrast with Israel.
01:09:43.000 And I think, you know, Israel is the size of New Jersey, it's got a 10, 12 million person population. 0.84
01:09:49.000 It's so much easier to sort of visualize that and understand the fragility. 1.00
01:09:54.000 Of a population mix.
01:09:55.000 But America, you know, we've got 350 million people scattered from coast to coast.
01:09:59.000 It's harder to feel the impacts of these diasporas when they come in in such waves until you have people actually in Texas saying, hey, I don't recognize Frisco anymore.
01:10:09.000 I don't recognize parts of Austin anymore. 0.74
01:10:12.000 And to your point, it's just, you know, I remember Charlie actually got embroiled in some controversy with this, or somebody asked him, you know, if America's population was replaced with 350 million Indians and they were all Christian, would they still be Americans? 0.65
01:10:27.000 And he kind of got.
01:10:28.000 I think he claimed that he misheard the type of the question, but it is, without a deeper level of analysis, a trickier question.
01:10:37.000 But the answer is no, it wouldn't still be America because what you said, we have a heritage.
01:10:42.000 We are a people.
01:10:43.000 We are a real country.
01:10:44.000 We talk about George Washington.
01:10:46.000 We talk about Thomas Jefferson.
01:10:47.000 We talk about the founding fathers or the Tea Party and all of these things.
01:10:51.000 It's all of these shared collective memories and values and our God that make a people a people. 0.84
01:10:58.000 And so the ethnicity, when it has different values, different religion, it does matter and it does change things.
01:11:05.000 And you're allowed to prefer your own. 0.78
01:11:07.000 Culture.
01:11:08.000 And that is a tremendous development in this discourse.
01:11:12.000 Oren.
01:11:12.000 Yeah, I think that's exactly correct.
01:11:14.000 We have to be able to have this discussion.
01:11:16.000 We have to take this head on.
01:11:17.000 Okay, look, the left is going to be able to discuss this topic and they are going to be able to set the frame.
01:11:22.000 So the question is do we want to see yet another critical topic to the future of the American left or do we want to have a difficult conversation that might make some people unhappy?
01:11:32.000 Ultimately, we have to know what an American is.
01:11:34.000 We have to be able to answer that question.
01:11:37.000 Any country that cannot answer that question, Will not survive into the future.
01:11:41.000 And we are in no way immune from that.
01:11:43.000 Now, ultimately, that doesn't mean that we have to be ugly to people.
01:11:47.000 And I do think that, you know, Jonathan Peugeot talks a lot about how in previous cultures and different times, the definitions of identity were fuzzier.
01:11:56.000 They existed, they were real, but they had more play in the joints, more around the edges.
01:12:01.000 And I think what the problem is here is everyone wants a hard, fast definition they can easily quantify so they can argue about it.
01:12:07.000 But the truth is that American identity is real.
01:12:11.000 But it has fuzzy boundaries.
01:12:13.000 There are some people who are going to be able to assimilate, some people who are going to make it in to be American in a way that other people are not.
01:12:20.000 That doesn't mean that America isn't real.
01:12:22.000 It doesn't mean we shouldn't have a real identity and treat ourselves as a real nation.
01:12:25.000 But it also means that it might be a little more flexible than previous understandings of ethnicity or nationhood.
01:12:31.000 And that's okay.
01:12:32.000 Ultimately, though, we still have to have a real conception.
01:12:36.000 I think that's really fascinating, actually.
01:12:39.000 The flex in the joints.
01:12:40.000 America does have a distinct identity.
01:12:43.000 But maybe one of its features, one of the beautiful things about it is that there is a little bit more flex in the joints.
01:12:47.000 There's a little bit more fuzziness, so more people can be a part of it.
01:12:51.000 But that doesn't mean that we don't have a defined nature, value system, heritage, culture, history, which I certainly want to fight to maintain and continue on for next generations.
01:13:01.000 Orrin McIntyre, great to see you, my friend.
01:13:03.000 Thanks for making the time for us.
01:13:05.000 Fascinating discussion.
01:13:06.000 Went really quick today, Blake.
01:13:08.000 Really quick.
01:13:09.000 We'll see you guys tomorrow.
01:13:10.000 Hopefully, Blake will be joining us in studio.
01:13:12.000 Pray for his flights.
01:13:13.000 Talk to you then.
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