The Charlie Kirk Show - It's Official—Elon Owns Twitter
Aired: 2022-04-25
Duration: 30:58


=== Musk's Unrefusable Twitter Offer (07:48) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today at the Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:00:01]  Elon has bought Twitter.
[00:00:03]  We go through the ramifications of that, the people opposing it, and the implications.
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[00:00:18]  Here we go.
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[00:01:04]  I'll be honest, I was cynical.
[00:01:06]  I was very cynical leading into this.
[00:01:10]  I was skeptical and cynical, I should say.
[00:01:13]  To think that Elon Musk would be able to pull off a purchase of Twitter seemed impossible, albeit almost just incomprehensible.
[00:01:24]  You see, we have grown conditioned to believe that the ruling class, the people in charge of our country, the elites, they're largely untouchable.
[00:01:34]  There's very little we could do to actually challenge their power.
[00:01:40]  In fact, I was asked a question last week at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with Candace Owens, and we both kind of had the attitude that it's very unlikely that Elon Musk will be able to pull this off.
[00:01:50]  That Elon Musk, despite being the world's richest man, will be met with poison pill measures and backlash at every turn.
[00:01:57]  That Elon Musk will, despite having more money and more access to capital, he will struggle to be able to navigate the kind of deep state tactics of corporate America.
[00:02:09]  But today, even though we've been very skeptical, it looks like this is more likely than not to happen.
[00:02:20]  Twitter shares jumped today on reports the company is nearing a deal with Elon Musk that could be announced as soon as today.
[00:02:25]  Twitter's board met with Sunday to discuss Musk's financing plan for his proposed bid.
[00:02:30]  The board negotiated with Musk into the early hours of Monday, according to the New York Times.
[00:02:34]  Their investment bankers are telling the Twitter board, like, you better look at this deal very carefully and closely because it's way overvalued, way over what the company is actually valued at, which is closer to $30 a share.
[00:02:50]  Musk is offering, I think, $42 to $43 to $44 a share, upwards of $50 a share.
[00:02:55]  The lawsuits, the backlash would have been overwhelming.
[00:02:59]  And Twitter is left with really no choice.
[00:03:02]  They would have been slammed with fiduciary complaints.
[00:03:05]  I would have joined it as well as I own two shares of Twitter in case this goes to a tender offer.
[00:03:10]  I want to be able to vote for Elon's takeover.
[00:03:14]  And it looks like this deal could get done.
[00:03:17]  Now, mind you, Elon has to be careful, but Elon knows what he's doing.
[00:03:21]  They're going to do everything they possibly can to try to have undetectable metaphorical minds all throughout the company.
[00:03:30]  That everywhere Elon turns, there'll be another difficult situation to deal with.
[00:03:35]  But Elon knows how to do that.
[00:03:37]  He knows how to navigate all of that.
[00:03:40]  Bloomberg and Reuters reported that two sides could reach an agreement as soon as today.
[00:03:44]  The board negotiated with Musk into the early hours of Monday, according to the New York Times.
[00:03:48]  This has been happening all weekend in real time.
[00:03:51]  Let's play cut six.
[00:03:52]  CNBC says, it looks like there is an agreement that's being formed, and this may be their only option, play cut six.
[00:04:00]  The company appears to be on track now to reach an agreement with Elon Musk as early as today.
[00:04:07]  A source told CNBC that Twitter's board met yesterday to talk about Musk's financing plan for his proposed bid for the social media company.
[00:04:15]  And I do think we're getting closer with a real concern among the board that the standalone plan, given that there have been no other bidders, would not do it and would not be something that would necessarily get them to the promised land.
[00:04:30]  He's got them.
[00:04:31]  He's got them in a corner.
[00:04:33]  Now, that CNBC guy, I think that's the same guy that was lecturing us about getting vaccinated and wearing a mask.
[00:04:40]  He didn't sound too excited about all this, did he?
[00:04:42]  He didn't sound too enthusiastic about the idea of Twitter changing hands from Pragod Agarwal.
[00:04:50]  Now, again, we've played a part in this entire saga.
[00:04:54]  Babylon B, Our Account, and, of course, Tucker Carlson all being suspended from Twitter has played a part in motivating Elon to take this over.
[00:05:07]  Put simply, Twitter was given an offer they were not allowed to refuse.
[00:05:13]  You know, some people would say, well, it's too good of an offer to refuse.
[00:05:15]  They would have refused it, but it seems as if they're so in the corner because of American security law, they have to take it, that they really have no choice.
[00:05:24]  And by the way, that was Andrew Ross Sorkin, who was the person that was hosting that on CNBC, who is kind of very sadly going, it looks like there's no other offer.
[00:05:35]  I don't really think there's anything we can do.
[00:05:39]  And so, of course, the seed of the equivalent benefit of all of us who have been banned and censored from Twitter over the last couple of years is that it caught the attention of someone with power.
[00:05:52]  And that someone is Elon Musk.
[00:05:56]  He does not have to be doing this.
[00:05:58]  But the backlash he's receiving from the intelligentsia is intense and it's fierce.
[00:06:04]  It's legitimate and it's real.
[00:06:06]  The article continues by saying, Wall Street was likely to view the news of Twitter's openness to a bid as quote as the beginning of the end for Twitter as a public company, with Musk likely now on a path to acquire the company unless a second bidder comes into the mix.
[00:06:20]  Jim Kramer says, quote, I think they have to accept the offer.
[00:06:25]  Twitter is set to report first quarter earnings on Thursday, including Kramer.
[00:06:29]  Expect the company to post disappointing results.
[00:06:32]  Locking up a deal today or tomorrow may sound pretty appealing for someone who knows they're in possession of bad news, but we've gone through this.
[00:06:38]  What is Twitter?
[00:06:40]  Is Twitter a for-profit company?
[00:06:42]  And for years it was not.
[00:06:44]  Twitter was a different type of thing.
[00:06:46]  It was a megaphone of the regime, a censorship tool to shut people up and control the discourse as they see fit.
[00:06:54]  Now, we received an email at freedom at charliekirk.com where someone says, well, why doesn't Elon just buy Facebook?
[00:06:59]  Well, first of all, Facebook's a lot more valuable.
[00:07:01]  But honestly, I don't think it's as important at shaping public opinion.
[00:07:07]  Twitter is the incubator for elite opinion.
[00:07:10]  It's where people that write columns, report on articles, people that host cable news shows, they look at Twitter as the place to find out what they believe and why they believe it.
[00:07:26]  So put plainly, if Twitter is in the hands of Musk and goes private instead of it in its current position, all of a sudden the kind of description of what Twitter is changes fundamentally.
[00:07:42]  You see, Elon Musk is treating Twitter like a company.
[00:07:46]  And the board of directors doesn't know how to react to that.

=== Food Processing Plants Catch Fire (05:26) ===

[00:07:49]  They're like, wait a second, we haven't been a company for quite some time.
[00:07:53]  Twitter only turned a $52 million profit, EBITDA, earning before its interest taxes depreciation and amortization, amortization.
[00:08:04]  And so we're at a place right now where the board of Twitter is left no choice at all whatsoever.
[00:08:15]  If he pulls this off, it will be the greatest rescue mission of free speech in the modern era.
[00:08:22]  Different than Facebook and different than YouTube, Twitter is where the top of the assembly line begins.
[00:08:29]  It's where the tributary starts.
[00:08:31]  It's where that is the starting point.
[00:08:34]  There's a lot of people asking about food shortages.
[00:08:37]  I want to play this tape here.
[00:08:38]  We're going to get back to Elon's stuff in a second.
[00:08:42]  But do you notice how many food plants have burned to the ground recently?
[00:08:47]  It's really suspicious.
[00:08:49]  I'm going to read out a list here.
[00:08:53]  And what's going on here?
[00:08:56]  April 20th, 2022, plane crashed into a General Mills plant in Covington, Georgia.
[00:09:01]  April 19th, fire at Azure Standard Headquartered in Darfur, Oregon.
[00:09:07]  April 13th, fire at Taylor Farms in Salinas, California.
[00:09:10]  April 13th, plane crashed in a Gem State processing plant in Hayburn, Idaho.
[00:09:15]  April 12th, fire at East Conway Beef and Pork in Conway, New Hampshire.
[00:09:19]  March 31st, fire at Rio Fresh Onion Warehouse in San Juan, Texas.
[00:09:24]  March 28th, fire at Maricopa Food Pantry in Maricopa, Arizona.
[00:09:29]  March 24th, fire at Benabascot McCrum Potato Processing Facility in Belfast, Maine.
[00:09:37]  March 23rd, fire at Walmart Distribution Center in Plainfield, Indiana.
[00:09:41]  March 17th, fire at Hot Pockets Plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
[00:09:45]  22nd of February, explosion at Scherer Food Chips Plant in Hermiston, Oregon.
[00:09:53]  February 16th, fire at Lewis Dreyfus Company Processing Plant in Claypool, Indiana.
[00:09:58]  February 15th, fire at Bonanza Meat Processing Plant in El Paso, Texas.
[00:10:03]  February 3rd, fire at Wisconsin Meats in Moston, Wisconsin.
[00:10:07]  February 2nd, fire at Winston Weaver Fertilizer Plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
[00:10:12]  January 22nd, fire at Washington Potato Company in Warden, Washington.
[00:10:16]  January 13th, fire at Cargill Neutrina Plant in Louisiana.
[00:10:22]  The 2nd of January, fire at La Vernon Van Drunen Farms in Illinois.
[00:10:29]  The 12th of December, fire at Westside Food Plant in San Antonio, Texas.
[00:10:33]  Back in November, fire at Made Wright Steak Company in Pennsylvania.
[00:10:37]  Back in September, fire at JBS plant in Grace Island, Nebraska.
[00:10:42]  Back in August, fire at Paddock Meat Products Facility in Georgia.
[00:10:46]  Back in July, fire at Tyson's River Valley Ingredients in Alabama.
[00:10:51]  Back in July, fire at Kellogg's plant in Memphis, Tennessee.
[00:10:55]  Back in July, nitrogen explosion at Dippendot's plant in Kentucky.
[00:10:59]  Last January, nitrogen link at Foundation Food Plant in Gainesville, Georgia.
[00:11:04]  Same day, fire at Deli Star meat plant in Fayetteville, Illinois.
[00:11:08]  And then back in January, fire at Raw Farm in Kerman, California.
[00:11:14]  That's all just since last January.
[00:11:16]  And they're picking up with massive acceleration.
[00:11:20]  One every couple days.
[00:11:21]  Is that normal?
[00:11:22]  I'm not in the food processing business, but why are so many food processing centers or food plants blowing up?
[00:11:31]  Why is no one talking about this?
[00:11:33]  Well, Tucker Carlson is.
[00:11:34]  Meanwhile, the media is talking about how Musk's Twitter bid is racist or whatever they're saying.
[00:11:40]  Play cut 15.
[00:11:42]  From the scene right now.
[00:11:43]  This is the second time in a week that something like this has happened.
[00:11:47]  On April 14th, a plane crashed into the gem state processing in East Idaho.
[00:11:52]  What's going on here?
[00:11:53]  Well, it started to get weirder.
[00:11:54]  Food processing plants all over the country seem to be catching fire.
[00:11:58]  A couple of days ago, a fire destroyed the headquarters of Azure Standard, one of the largest organic food distributors in the country.
[00:12:04]  At the end of last month, a fire severely damaged a fresh onion packing facility in South Texas.
[00:12:08]  In Oregon, a potato chip processing plant to support a boiler explosion that sent workers to the hospital.
[00:12:15]  Why is no one mentioning this?
[00:12:16]  Why is the New York Times not talking about this?
[00:12:19]  For those of you in the food packing or processing industry, tell me, is a fire every five days normal?
[00:12:25]  Well, look, if you do not have a good stockpile of food, now is the time to get one.
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=== Urban League Worries About Misinformation (15:18) ===

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[00:13:43]  We believe as constitutionalists that speech is the remedy to our issues.
[00:13:49]  Not that speech is the issue.
[00:13:51]  Big difference.
[00:13:52]  There's many divides in America right now.
[00:13:55]  There's the divide between the moody and the unmoody, the grateful and the ungrateful, the patriotic and the unpatriotic, the thankful and the unthankful.
[00:14:03]  And another divide in America you could add it to the list is do you think speech is a solution or a problem?
[00:14:10]  We believe that speech is a solution.
[00:14:13]  And we believe that speech should be allowed to be free.
[00:14:18]  And we believe that, especially in public forums, especially in public forums online, that speech de-radicalizes our politics.
[00:14:31]  Now, Twitter is the place where other opinions are formed.
[00:14:36]  Twitter is the place where people that tell you what to think actually go to find out what they think.
[00:14:44]  Let me say that again.
[00:14:46]  Twitter is the place where people who tell you what to think actually go to find out what they think.
[00:14:55]  People such as New York Times columnists, every single one of them, they always put their Twitter in their bio when they write something.
[00:15:02]  Follow me on Twitter.
[00:15:04]  These people that write these articles, they pretend like they know a lot of different things, but really they're flipping through their Twitter feed.
[00:15:12]  And based on the volume of tweets in a certain direction, they start to shape their opinion.
[00:15:20]  Now, Twitter is a unique social media platform.
[00:15:23]  We cannot and we should not conflate Twitter's power or its potential with other platforms.
[00:15:31]  Now, Twitter at its best, when Twitter was in its heyday, I'd say 2018.
[00:15:38]  Now, 2016, prior to Trump being elected, it was probably the most free.
[00:15:44]  But Twitter was its most powerful, not its most free, but it was still way freer than it is today in 18.
[00:15:50]  And our team, we went all in on a Twitter strategy.
[00:15:54]  We figured it out.
[00:15:55]  We understood how Twitter worked.
[00:15:57]  Short, spiffy tweets, the kind of thinking emoji, asking questions, lists of things that are true.
[00:16:05]  We did it repeatedly.
[00:16:07]  In fact, we built an entire, I would say, Twitter army around that.
[00:16:11]  Axios came out and said that Charlie Kirk's Twitter was the top five most engaged Twitter accounts on the planet.
[00:16:18]  They have not done a study such yet.
[00:16:21]  We were averaging well over 100,000 retweets a day.
[00:16:25]  I remember I was at an event once and I said that and someone didn't believe me.
[00:16:28]  I said, go see it for yourself.
[00:16:30]  It would be considered a bad tweet if we did not get 10,000 retweets on a certain tweet.
[00:16:37]  And of course, then Twitter realized, heading into the 2020 election and heading into post-COVID that they must become a censorship machine.
[00:16:48]  And I remember in the midst of the Fauci virus, our engagement just kind of went off a cliff.
[00:16:54]  So what was going on here?
[00:16:55]  All of a sudden, we were tweeting all the time.
[00:16:56]  We were getting engagement.
[00:16:59]  And next thing you know, there was a shadow ban and a suppression campaign against certain accounts.
[00:17:06]  We were one of them.
[00:17:07]  And of course, Donald Trump got kicked off Twitter in January of 2021.
[00:17:12]  And Twitter was never the same.
[00:17:15]  Twitter has become kind of a highly sanitized version of a Democrat precinct meeting.
[00:17:23]  You can only say what's approved.
[00:17:26]  You're not allowed to challenge the status quo.
[00:17:28]  And Twitter's become a lot more boring.
[00:17:32]  Now, Twitter says that they believe in free speech.
[00:17:34]  Of course, they don't.
[00:17:36]  We're suspended because we quote unquote dead named somebody.
[00:17:39]  It's ridiculous.
[00:17:40]  Babylon Bee still suspended because they did an article mocking the rear admiral secretary of health or whatever.
[00:17:49]  And now Elon Musk is inches away from announcing a deal, a takeover of Twitter.
[00:17:56]  What's so amazing is he is not just admirable to do this.
[00:18:01]  He's the only one that could do this.
[00:18:04]  Now, someone said the other day, they said, well, Charlie, I don't like Elon Musk because he's eccentric.
[00:18:09]  That's a weird reason not to like somebody.
[00:18:11]  Do you ever notice it's the eccentric people who get good done?
[00:18:15]  They do good.
[00:18:17]  It's the eccentric people that don't care what other people think and they stand up for what is the right, what is right in the world.
[00:18:23]  It's actually the non-eccentric people like Andrew Ross Sorkin, that person that hosts that CNBC show, who's just kind of goes along with the status quo.
[00:18:34]  It's the eccentric people that actually change the world.
[00:18:37]  Elon Musk certainly is changing the world.
[00:18:42]  Let's go to cut for Donny Deutsch from MSNBC.
[00:18:49]  He says, this is like Dr. Evil taking over the world.
[00:18:53]  Play cut four.
[00:18:54]  And also with us, the host of the podcast On Brand with Donny Deutsch, Donny Deutsch.
[00:19:00]  First, before we go into On Brand, your thoughts on Elon Musk?
[00:19:04]  Take care.
[00:19:05]  Simple equation.
[00:19:06]  I don't know.
[00:19:07]  To me, when the richest guy in the world takes over the most important social media platform, that's just not a winning formula to me.
[00:19:14]  It reminds me of old Bond movies where, you know, Dr. Evil and guys like that or Goldfinger were going to take over the media.
[00:19:21]  I just, my tummy meter says there's something just not great about this.
[00:19:25]  If someone could tell him not to retweet old tweets from five years ago and pretend they're today, that would be good.
[00:19:32]  Yeah, you're so funny, Mika.
[00:19:34]  Mika, you should be allowed to contribute on this one.
[00:19:36]  I don't know.
[00:19:37]  You're able to launch a rocket into space and have it land after you launch it.
[00:19:44]  Then I'll take what you have to say, Mika, seriously.
[00:19:47]  Or when you develop like five simultaneous billion-dollar companies.
[00:19:53]  So, what is Donny Deutsch saying here?
[00:19:55]  I don't like it when rich people decide to come in and tell us how to run our country.
[00:19:59]  I'm sorry.
[00:20:00]  You were perfectly fine with Mark Zuckerberg coming with $400 million to save our elections.
[00:20:06]  You were more than fine with Lorene Powell Jobs buying the Atlantic or Bezos buying the Washington Post.
[00:20:11]  We've said this very clearly.
[00:20:13]  We don't love the idea of rich people determining our speech, but I want to win.
[00:20:19]  And Musk coming in and fighting for the liberation of people to speak is a great thing.
[00:20:25]  We want to win.
[00:20:26]  We want victory.
[00:20:29]  And so while the other side all of a sudden now parades around their principle, you know, kind of a principle-type narrative, like, well, it's against our principles.
[00:20:39]  Well, they've never cared about principles.
[00:20:41]  The left has only cared about victory, which is one of the reasons why they've been so successful the last couple of decades.
[00:20:46]  Maybe it's time for us conservatives to start to realize that.
[00:20:48]  Is it ideal to have the world's richest man come in and have to buy a company?
[00:20:52]  Of course, it's not ideal, but it's necessary right now.
[00:20:55]  It's all we have.
[00:20:57]  The tweets coming out against Elon Musk is just laughable.
[00:21:02]  Leaving Twitter is trending on Twitter.
[00:21:05]  Good.
[00:21:05]  Go build your own.
[00:21:09]  An article came out from the Urban League, whatever that is.
[00:21:12]  The National Urban League pressed Twitter's board of directors to consult with the civil rights community before making a decision on Elon Musk's bid for the company.
[00:21:20]  Of course, remember, when they insert racial politics into our conversation, they want to use this to be able to stop merger and acquisitions they don't like, change voting laws.
[00:21:29]  It's always the final card, the race card.
[00:21:32]  The National Urban League, this is one of the great quotes ever in the history of self-irony, in the history of paradoxical statements, is this.
[00:21:46]  I found this earlier.
[00:21:47]  It's just unbelievable.
[00:21:49]  Okay, yeah, this right here.
[00:21:50]  It's unbelievable.
[00:21:52]  This is my favorite.
[00:21:54]  The National Urban League believes that Elon Musk owning could have serious implications on users' civil rights.
[00:22:06]  So the fact that Elon Musk wants to give people their civil rights back to speak is a big concern for the National Urban League that people might lose their civil rights.
[00:22:16]  The National Urban League says, quote, without key protections and safeguards, much of the concerning activity that we see on Twitter, including white supremacist propaganda, racial and religious hatred, voter suppression through election disinformation, algorithmic bias and discrimination, and the hardening of our national discourse are likely to proliferate under Musk's ownership.
[00:22:37]  I love how much they hate him.
[00:22:39]  This is really dumb for the left, by the way.
[00:22:42]  Do you want to have Tony Stark on your team or not?
[00:22:45]  I mean, the left, they're so stupid.
[00:22:49]  Not because we've earned it, not because we deserve it, but just because we're not them.
[00:22:56]  The American right is now inheriting Elon Musk to kind of just be an ally.
[00:23:04]  Good job.
[00:23:04]  You just lost like the coolest, most interesting person alive.
[00:23:08]  Whether you like him or not, again, I have a mixed opinion on some of the stuff he does, but he's certainly not boring.
[00:23:15]  The potential to negatively impact millions, the Urban League says, directly undermine our nation's culture and democracy indirectly and is exponentially damaging and should be part of your analysis and reviewing this or any other purchase.
[00:23:33]  The National Urban League is super worried that if people are able to speak, people will no longer be able to speak.
[00:23:42]  Remember, the party that says that men can become pregnant, they're the ones that want to control misinformation on the internet.
[00:23:50]  The party that tells you that men can menstruate, they're the ones that are really worried about misinformation.
[00:23:56]  The party that is really worried about misinformation is the one that told us that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.
[00:24:04]  The party that's really worried about disinformation is the one that said Border Patrol was on horseback whipping migrants.
[00:24:11]  The party that's really worried about misinformation and disinformation told us the vaccine was 100% safe and effective, would prevent against infection, and would prevent against death.
[00:24:24]  These are the people that are worried about disinformation and misinformation.
[00:24:30]  Maybe it's not misinformation.
[00:24:32]  Maybe it's just information they don't like.
[00:24:35]  Maybe it's facts they don't want to be put in the discourse.
[00:24:40]  We believe speech remedies these issues.
[00:24:43]  You see, the narrative industrial complex, the narrative that unites all of this, it's shaking.
[00:24:51]  With a takeover of Twitter, the regime becomes exponentially weaker.
[00:24:58]  In the last week, we have seen some of the most important organizations to get their word out, falter.
[00:25:14]  Let me say that again.
[00:25:15]  We have seen some of the most important organizations for the regime to be able to spread propaganda falter.
[00:25:21]  Netflix is down 40%.
[00:25:22]  CNN Plus has collapsed.
[00:25:24]  And Twitter is about to be taken over by Elon Musk.
[00:25:28]  Disney is down big time.
[00:25:30]  How are they going to be able to propagandize the public?
[00:25:34]  I love this because it truly is the last gasp of freedom and liberty at work.
[00:25:41]  I have a legitimate question.
[00:25:43]  What on the left has grown stronger in the last four months?
[00:25:48]  Name one thing.
[00:25:49]  The only thing I can name is the amount of illegals that have come into America, the potential population.
[00:25:56]  However, Hispanics are turning conservative in record numbers.
[00:25:59]  So even that, it's a little bit blurry.
[00:26:01]  What on the left has grown stronger in the last four months, since the new year?
[00:26:06]  Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson, and Johnson, they're on the ropes.
[00:26:09]  Disney is down.
[00:26:10]  CNN Plus is gone.
[00:26:13]  Twitter is about to be taken over and totally changed, which we know censorship is a fundamental need of this regime.
[00:26:22]  If they're not able to censor, they can't exist.
[00:26:24]  They must be able to shut you up.
[00:26:28]  The Democrat Party has lower approval ratings than ever before.
[00:26:32]  Where, what, who, what, where is stronger than they were four months ago?
[00:26:38]  I'll tell you who is stronger, though.
[00:26:40]  Rogan is more popular than ever before.
[00:26:41]  Tucker Carlson is more popular than ever before.
[00:26:44]  Bill Maher's anti-woke tirades are stronger than ever before.
[00:26:49]  Elon is richer.
[00:26:52]  His net worth might have gone down by 20 or 30 billion because of stock prices.
[00:26:56]  But Tesla was up 10% since last week.
[00:26:58]  10%.
[00:27:00]  Our podcast is up amazingly.
[00:27:02]  Our radio program is up.
[00:27:04]  Our social media engagement is up.
[00:27:06]  We can't find spaces big enough at Turning Point USA to be able to fit all the students that want to come to our events at Berkeley and Boulder.
[00:27:15]  Meanwhile, I'm not really sure if people are flocking in big numbers to go hear about critical race theory and Nicole Hannah Jones.
[00:27:21]  Maybe.
[00:27:22]  I don't think so.
[00:27:23]  If you kind of look at these fundamental indicators of where the society is going, Republicans are winning registration wars across the country, and DeSantis wiped out all of the gerrymandering gains that California and New York tried to do.
[00:27:37]  DeSantis basically leveled the playing field.
[00:27:40]  God bless that man.
[00:27:41]  What is going well for the left right now?
[00:27:44]  Because even if they were not popular politically, the left would always be able to point to their institutions.
[00:27:52]  One of the reasons why the left has been so successful is the two eyes, infrastructure and institutions.
[00:27:57]  They're very similar.
[00:27:58]  Words technically different, but they're very similar.
[00:28:01]  The left has always poured their resources into institutions and infrastructure.
[00:28:06]  We as conservatives, what have we done?
[00:28:08]  We've poured our money into their institutions and infrastructure, giving our money to their colleges, giving our money to their companies.
[00:28:16]  Now that's changed.
[00:28:18]  Now you have Rumble.
[00:28:20]  Now you have alternative educational options happening.
[00:28:25]  If you're kind of looking and you're, let's pretend that you're kind of in a war room and your job is to make the American left stronger every single year.

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[00:28:34]  Let's pretend that's your job.
[00:28:36]  And you're kind of sitting around and you have a big whiteboard and you're kind of tracking how things are going.
[00:28:41]  Huh.
[00:28:41]  College enrollment is down.
[00:28:44]  Homeschooling has quadrupled.
[00:28:46]  Moms and dads care more about education.
[00:28:48]  The president has the lowest approval rating in a generation.
[00:28:52]  Our ability to propagandize the public, Disney Plus is less popular.
[00:28:58]  Oh, don't worry.
[00:28:59]  We got this beautiful thing called CNN Plus coming out in the spring.
[00:29:02]  Gone.
[00:29:05]  Twitter.
[00:29:05]  At least we have Twitter.
[00:29:06]  We can control how people think.
[00:29:07]  Oh, never mind.
[00:29:09]  Don't have that anymore.
[00:29:12]  Well, at least we have the ability to win people over.
[00:29:20]  We have the alphabet mafia.
[00:29:26]  Okay.
[00:29:27]  I mean, of course, look, they still have institutional power.
[00:29:29]  They have Google.
[00:29:30]  They have all these.
[00:29:31]  I mean, Netflix is down 40%.
[00:29:32]  But it's not that they're powerless.
[00:29:34]  That's not the point.
[00:29:35]  I'm not making that point.
[00:29:37]  They're trending poorly is what I'm saying.
[00:29:39]  They are growing weaker.
[00:29:41]  And we are growing stronger.
[00:29:44]  And this trend has to sustain itself over many years.
[00:29:47]  And dare I say even a decade or two decades.
[00:29:50]  But it's not off to a good start.
[00:29:54]  We are seeing regular, everyday people, the rise of the citizen continue and all these other kind of institutions that they've poured so much money in that were otherwise untouchable.
[00:30:07]  And Disney is going through a reckoning right now.
[00:30:09]  Florida just said you got to pay $200 million extra in taxes every single year.
[00:30:13]  That's a lot of money for any company, even Disney.
[00:30:17]  You look a level deeper, the indicators are showing you that there's a realignment happening in what people are processing information, what movies they're watching, what they're spending money on.
[00:30:29]  And I'm telling you, this Twitter thing comes through with Elon.
[00:30:32]  We believe speech remedies issues.
[00:30:34]  If you think the left is doing poorly now, just wait till we get our speech back.
[00:30:40]  It'll make this country a lot freer.
[00:30:42]  Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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