Charlie is making his first campus visits since the big November win, and he's getting fresh face-to-face encounters with the left. So, are liberals rethinking any of their priorities, and if not, what is likely to happen to them? Plus, Charlie talks to Scott Baller of Saturate USA about the spiritual state of America and the promising signs of a potential revival.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What is the focus of Charlie Kirk's latest campus tour?
Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. It's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. I was on campus at the University of Florida. We had an amazing turnout, a record turnout, actually. I have been at the University of Florida multiple times.
In fact, Ryan could probably go back into the archives. I, back in 2019, visited the University of Florida, and we were getting screamed at, and we had protesters. It was not an easy campus visit. I mean, it was typical at the time, a lot of opposition, a lot of activist spark on the left. Andrew went to the University of Florida with me. I actually went with Donald Trump Jr.
two or three weeks previous to that, and there were protests everywhere. When we returned to the University of Florida and we were met with over 2,000 friendly supporters, 2,000 students. In fact, it was so overwhelming at the end, there almost was a creation of a tunnel where I had to walk through to be able to exit people asking for selfies and for signatures.
Chapter 2: Are Democrats rethinking their stance on trans athletes?
It was very similar to like a college football team entering a stadium. There were a couple liberals, one interaction in particular that will probably go viral of a young man who was not dumb. He was very passionate, well-read. And I asked him, I said, are you guys willing to move on from this idea that men can compete in women's sports? I said, it's not popular.
Can we just end the chapter on this? And he said, absolutely not. He said that trans men should be able to compete and trans women should be able to compete in women's sports. He was so married to it. And for any of you that think the Democrats are going to adjust from the grassroots, it's not going to happen.
Now, there might be a candidate that comes in and declares war on the base of the Democrat Party. But the base of the Democrat Party is more on board for this nonsense than ever before. The base of the Democrat Party. thinks that there's nothing wrong with men stealing medals and awards from women. They have made a deal with the trans zealots of the base of their party, and they are married to it.
But more broadly, the biggest takeaway is how the Democrat base has never had to deal with losing a culture war battle. They can't psychologically accept it. They've never had to do this in their existence. They are outnumbered now on campus. No, not necessarily outnumbered. I think if you took a poll on campus, these campuses are still probably five to 10 points to the left.
But there's a passivity to the Democrat activism on campus. There is none. And there is energy and there is vitality behind any one of us that are Trump supporting conservatives. Everything they can remember is as far as being Democrats and leftists, has always been a one-way ratchet. There were professors. It's very interesting.
I'm getting more and more teachers and professors that are coming up and asking me questions, which, of course, I'm well. This is not just a student, prove me wrong, anybody. There was a PhD professor, professor of history. And, oh, one of those moments, I wish that Blake would have been there. Oh, I wish Blake would have been there.
This guy was a PhD of the interwar period between World War I and World War II. And, look, I know... a little bit about that. I know in the general population, a fair amount, but a little bit compared to this guy was, he was like, well, Charlie, don't you see the similarities between the rise of Hitler and the rise of Donald Trump? I teach this professionally. I'm a PhD.
And I think that everyone needs to know that the rise of Hitler and Donald Trump are very similar. It's just, it's such a sloppy, shallow analysis. It's total garbage. It's complete garbage. And this was his contention in front of the entire audience, him being the PhD. And Blake just made a great point in the chat, which is exactly right.
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Chapter 3: Why does James Carville suggest Democrats 'play dead'?
I told them, I said, can you please get another reference point other than Nazi Germany? So Blake and I are on the same page. I said, can you read about any other country at any other time? There's a lot of other things that happen in history other than the evils of the 1930s and the 1940s. And he's just so focused on this saying, nope, most important thing ever.
Donald Trump's rise is very similar to the rise of Hitler. What is so important, everybody, is that we are living through a potential generational realignment that could become permanent. James Carville wrote a piece. If you guys can pull up this piece, I think it's very important. James Carville wrote a piece giving his recommendations for the Democrat Party.
James Carville said, listen, we as Democrats don't have a leader. We don't have the energy on the ground. He suggested and recommended that Democrats roll over and play dead. That was James Carville's recommendation. Roll over and play dead. And that is a very dangerous and unusual political strategy. He said, quote, we need a strategic political retreat, a strategic political retreat.
And I can tell you in modern digital political warfare, I don't think that's going to work for them. Again, I could be wrong because every day we are winning over new converts. Every day we are winning over new young fans. And there is no sizable, well-funded opposition. And it really makes you wonder that once you stop the funding at USAID, all of a sudden these campuses simmer down a little bit.
Now I know I might be going a little too far in that direction, but it really makes you think, how much of a racket of a money flow was USAID towards the pressure campaign of the left? James Carville is basically saying this. Stop. Stop it all. Wait and hope Trump screws up. But so far, Trump's strategy has been popular, and I think we're in a brave new era.
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Chapter 4: How are universities reacting to funding changes?
I think we're in a completely new chapter. The digital online chapter where news is moving with such high velocity. We are reaching new demographics and new audiences. James Carville says, quote, the best thing Democrats can do at this moment is Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.
Only until the Trump administration is spiraled into the low 40s or 30s in public approval should we make like a pack of hyenas and go for the juggle. Until then, I'm calling for a strategic political retreat. It's very, very risky, Mr. Carville, because what if we're actually increasing our ranks? And by the way, it's not just funding USAID. It's cuts to NIH, NSF, and the ban on DEI colleges.
Do you guys know when you get an NIH grant? Let me take the University of Pennsylvania, for example. The University of Pennsylvania will do a lot of NIH research and they'll apply for these grants. Do you know that they are able to mark up on top of the grant 10, 25, 40% for overhead? Donald Trump signed an executive order capping what is called a supplementation.
It's a supplementation adage to any NIH grant to only be 10%. If that ends up being held up in court, which of course it should be, the University of Pennsylvania will lose $270 million a year. Let me say that again. The University of Pennsylvania will lose $270 million a year if they only get 10% for supplementation. That's just one school. That is a singular school, everybody.
$270 million a year. These universities are now sending out panicked emails. We got an internal email from an Ivy League school notifying everyone that at their conference are brown bag lunches now. No more free taxpayer lunches, literally. James Carville says for the Democrats, stay put, don't do anything, roll over, play dead.
While we at Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action are embarking on the most aggressive evangelism campaign, for lack of a better term, conversion campaign, persuasion campaign, and it's working. And obviously I want the Democrats to fail, not succeed, but they're going all in that we are going to fumble. But we have our foot on the gas.
We are ascendant and we are multiplying our numbers on a daily basis.
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Chapter 5: What are the common questions Charlie Kirk encounters on campuses?
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In fact, the dialogue at University of South Florida, I had a young man bring up something in regards to the trans debate that I should have known, but I didn't. And I did some research called the Swire syndrome at a campus at University of Florida. There were other little elements. There was a young man, you guys will get a kick out of this video, saying that we need to legalize LSD.
Made a pretty compelling case. I wasn't able to Counter it, or counter or support it, not exactly a subject matter that I care about, but almost like clockwork. I would say the number one question I receive with regularity is not even abortion. I did not get a single abortion question yesterday at the University of Florida. Pretty amazing when you think about it.
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Chapter 6: How does Charlie Kirk view the current state of Israel and its challenges?
I will get marijuana a lot, and there were some guys smoking marijuana the whole time yesterday. It smelled terrible. but I will always get a question on Israel. And of course, we are America first here on this program. We are not America only. Israel is an ally. I love Israel. I treasure Israel.
It's a beautiful country, not a perfect government, and not everything they've ever done is admirable or good or defensible, nor is the American government. That's not the point. But Israel as a nation is is a place worth defending. Israel as a place with sovereignty and borders.
And Israel shines a lot brighter when you contrast it with the barbarism and the disgusting behavior, that's being very sweet, the butchery, For anyone that has eyes to see and ears to hear and actually reads the Qadith and reads parts of the Quran, you know that conquest is an Islamic value. To submit is literally what Islam means, to make those submit.
It's very hard to get serious Muslims to admit to this, that they actually do want conquest, that they do want to take over. Gaddafi said something similar in the late 90s, saying that we're going to take over Europe without ever having to lift a sword. So there has definitely been enough intellectual cover that said this.
We've had imams in England saying they want to mount the West like a woman to be mounted and subdued. This young man, I understand he's just a young man, I believe, though, is an embodiment of a lot of the Islamic world. Islamic has rules for how to distribute the spoils of war, including sex slaves. This is a mindset that is dominant, a worldview that is popularized in the Islamic Arab world.
This video is going viral. It is worth listening to carefully. Play cut 245. If Israel laid down all of their weapons and said our military is no more, what would happen?
At this point in time, I don't believe they would come to a two-state solution after everything that's gone on. That wasn't the question.
If Israel disbanded its military, what would happen?
The Palestinians would take over, but they would let the Jews. Listen, listen, listen. Not forcefully. This is how they operate. This is how Muslims operate Islamically. They let them live under them in Jizya. They tax them, and they let them live, and they take that tax and give it back to them. How do you think the Ottoman Empire worked and lasted 600 years?
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