Summary
The Charlie Kirk Show discusses the alternative Super Bowl halftime show featuring country artists as a counter-programming response to what hosts view as overly political NFL halftime performances. The episode covers voter ID legislation (SAVE Act), immigration policy, and cultural commentary on celebrity activism and hypocrisy.
Insights
- Voter ID requirements enjoy overwhelming bipartisan support (75-85%) across all demographic groups, yet Democratic leadership opposes them despite constituent agreement
- Alternative cultural programming can succeed by directly addressing audience dissatisfaction with mainstream institutional offerings rather than competing on the same terms
- Immigration policy has become a proxy battle over electoral demographics and long-term political power rather than purely security or humanitarian concerns
- Celebrity political activism creates vulnerability when statements contradict personal lifestyle choices, enabling rhetorical counter-attacks
- Senate procedural delays on popular legislation reveal institutional resistance to executive priorities despite House passage and public support
Trends
Decentralization of media distribution: Alternative platforms (Real America's Voice, Rumble, YouTube, X) fragmenting traditional broadcast monopoliesCultural counter-programming as political strategy: Right-leaning creators building parallel entertainment infrastructure rather than reforming existing institutionsImmigration as electoral strategy: Explicit framing of border policy through demographic impact on congressional apportionment and Electoral CollegeVoter ID as litmus test issue: Bipartisan polling support creating political vulnerability for Democratic opposition despite party leadership resistanceCelebrity hypocrisy exploitation: Strategic use of public figures' contradictions to delegitimize progressive messaging on systemic issuesSenate obstruction patterns: Systematic use of committee procedures and continuing resolutions to delay House-passed legislationInstitutional leadership disconnect: Executives (NFL Commissioner) pursuing DEI initiatives despite stakeholder and audience oppositionState-level population migration: Blue-to-red state movement driven by regulatory burden and quality-of-life factors affecting future apportionment
Topics
Super Bowl Halftime Show Alternative ProgrammingSAVE Act Voter ID LegislationSenate Procedural Obstruction TacticsImmigration Policy and Electoral DemographicsNFL Commissioner Leadership and DEI InitiativesContinuing Resolution Funding MechanismsDHS Appropriations and Deportation PolicyCelebrity Political Activism and HypocrisyStolen Land Rhetoric and Property RightsState Population Migration PatternsCongressional Apportionment and Electoral College ImpactBipartisan Polling on Voter ID RequirementsMedia Distribution Platform FragmentationCultural Counter-Programming StrategySenate Rules Committee Jurisdiction
Companies
National Football League (NFL)
Primary institutional target regarding halftime show programming decisions and leadership under Commissioner Roger Go...
Real America's Voice
Primary streaming platform for alternative Super Bowl halftime show featuring country artists
Turning Point USA
Charlie Kirk's organization mentioned as model for activist engagement and chapter expansion
People
Roger Goodell
NFL Commissioner criticized for pursuing DEI initiatives and perceived weakness in institutional leadership
Mitch McConnell
Senate Rules Committee chair blocking SAVE Act voter ID legislation despite House passage and public support
Brandon Gill
U.S. Representative (TX-26) leading House effort to pressure Senate on SAVE Act voter ID requirements
Pete Hegseth
Secretary of Defense (Department of War) publicly requesting involvement in alternative halftime show
Kid Rock
Country artist performing in alternative Super Bowl halftime show
Gabby Barrett
Country artist performing in alternative Super Bowl halftime show
Lee Brice
Country artist performing in alternative Super Bowl halftime show
Brantley Gilbert
Country artist performing in alternative Super Bowl halftime show
Bad Bunny
Mainstream halftime performer expected to moderate political statements under NFL pressure
Billie Eilish
Grammy performer criticized for 'stolen land' rhetoric while living in gated mansion on Tongva ancestral territory
Jay-Z
Music executive with creative control over NFL halftime show selections, accused of booking left-wing acts
Nicki Minaj
Rapper cited as supporting voter ID requirements, demonstrating bipartisan public opinion on election security
Steve Bannon
Political commentator interviewed about alternative halftime show initiative
Sonny Hostin
Television personality opposing voter ID as voter suppression, representing Democratic leadership position
Harry Enten
Political analyst confirming polling data showing 83% American support for voter ID requirements
Quotes
"College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college."
Charlie Kirk•Opening segment
"This is a David and Goliath story. We're going up against a machine, a cabal."
Charlie Kirk•Halftime show discussion
"What Democrats are doing here is not trying to fight for voting rights...is fundamentally what they're trying to do is erode the meaning of American citizenship."
Brandon Gill•SAVE Act discussion
"No one is illegal on stolen land."
Billie Eilish•Grammy commentary
"Make these commies who want to abolish America live at least for a moment by their own rules."
Andrew Colvitt•Stolen land hypocrisy segment
Full Transcript
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a turning point you would say college chapter. Go start a turning point you would say high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am. Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends and viewers. All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. It's February 3rd, 2026. Honored to be with you and we're here in Phoenix and boy, oh boy, did the world react to the all American halftime show announcements that we did. I really liked the Department of War asking how they could get in on it. That was an exciting one. Secretary Hegseth said on Twitter, he said, how do I, how do we get the Department of War involved? And of course there's the graphic. Kid Rock was on the show yesterday. I mean, we might as well just reiterate, I just did a hit with Steve Bannon about it, but we've got Gabby Barrett, Lee Bryce, Brantley Gilbert and of course, Kid Rock. I've been seeing the images. I can't share them, of course, because we have to keep this all, you know, sort of a surprise for you all in the viewing audience, but the production value is going not, it's not going to disappoint. Put it that way. It is top top notch made for TV, view it like a concert, perfect to stream at home. You know, the stadium shows people are people do ask, people have been asking this right on the graphic, but people have been asking how do they watch it? Yeah. There are a lot of ways to watch it. There's a lot of ways to watch it, but since we are on Real America's voice right now, just tune in here. Just tune in here at Real America's voice. So if you are watching this show, you know how to get here, you know how to find it just at the, when, you know, the, the action of the game pauses, come right over and the stream will be up. Okay. And Real America's voice will be taking it. And I know they got some programming on either side of it. So it's going to be very seamless for our Real America's voice audience. If you are more prone to streaming, it'll be all over our YouTube pages, X page, rumble page. You can check it all over there. The TVN, NTD, OAN, daily wire plus those places will take it as well. And we're talking about potentially some others, but Real America's voice is the one stop shop. Rob and Parker Sigg instantly called when we made this announcement in the fall and said, how do we get involved? How do we, how do we support what you guys are doing? So check it out right here on Real America's voice. And this is a David and Goliath story. We're going up against a machine, a cabal. Stadiums didn't want to take it. I mean, the stories that we have of trying to put this together are truly worth sharing at some point, but the, but what we have, I think we ended in just the right place. The reaction's been, I mean, obviously there's some haters out there, but that's actually part of the fun. Just embrace the hate. Like they're mad that we're doing this and there's a lot of people that are very happy that we're doing this. Anytime you do anything important, you're going to have the haters. I said, bring it on, bring it on. David and Goliath, maybe you can't take on a pop mega superstar international, uh, queer rights, anti-ice, you know, act in the, in the pro pro football machine, or maybe you can, we're going to find out. Either way, we're going to have fun doing it. And I think it's already a win that we're just doing it because guess what? It's the 250th anniversary of this country. We want to celebrate America. We don't want to, we don't want to crap on it. We don't want to be a part of this movement that's trying to indoctrinate our children into hating this country. So check it out. Sunday, you're going to be all gathered together. Anyways, I just like, I just like that. It's like, you know, pause in the action of the game. What game? You know, you might happen to be involved in some sort of game, some sort of sporting event. We're not sure. You know, and there's no specific one. There's nothing by name. There's, there's no names. Some people watch no names. Some people watch pro Starcraft matches on Sundays. I'm sure. Yeah. I just, I just, I just love it. I think it's one of the most fun things. And I was, I was texting in our group chat with Jack this morning. No, I'm revealing this one. Okay. What was great was it finally occurred to Andrew. Wait a minute. We're doing this because Charlie didn't like halftime shows. That's not, and he never realized that before. Listen, I, I have a great story with Charlie did the sexual anarchy tweet. I don't know if we have that. So it was during, it was a couple of years back, they were doing the rappers from the nineties, you know, it was like, who was it? It was a ice cube. It was an ice cube. No, it wasn't ice cube. Anyways, it was like Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. February, 2022. And it was actually kind of a tame performance. NFL is now the league of sexual anarchy. This halftime show should not be allowed on television. Well, and I remember because basically I took one breather from like monitoring my phone to go get some barbecue because we were, I was at a Super Bowl party, obviously. And then unbeknownst to me in the five minutes I stepped away, Charlie fired off that, that all timer of a tweet. And I was just like, Charlie, that was the most tame halftime show that they've had in about a decade. But I think he was defiant, by the way. Did he actually see it or did you just, he was watching it? Yeah, he was watching it. And I mean, he was taking screen grabs to prove his point. And I was like, okay, all right. But anyways, the point is that Charlie always had a hot take on the halftime show. And, you know, I was sort of more in the headspace of like, you know, people don't like the current offering. They don't like it. There's a demand in the marketplace. I didn't create the demand. The other guys created the demand by choosing their anti English speaking, anti ice, queer celebrating person as the, as the performer. So I didn't create the demand. We didn't create the man. So that's where more where my head was at. But it turns out there's just a lot of demand. And yeah, obviously secretary of war, Pete Hexeth getting in the mix. We had a bunch of different people from government agencies say, Hey, how can we help? What can we do? We want to be a part of this. And a bunch of the streaming platforms reached out. It's been phenomenal. So the reaction has been great. It's pretty fun because we're actually reviving an old tradition. Do you know how the other things, halftime show got started in the first place? It started, they used to have more tame ones. And they thought, it's the Super Bowl. Nobody's going to mess with it. And then other channels started to counter program it deliberately. And so for example, in Living Color was that sketch comedy show that would monologue when you were growing up. And they just did like a big episode during the halftime show window on a different channel to try to steal viewers during it. And that's when they went over the top and said, Oh, we're going to, they got Michael Jackson the next year. But now it's, they had good acts for a long time. And now they've sort of come full circle back to bad acts that a ton of people don't want to watch. Yeah. I listen, I, I, that makes sense. They've, but they've gone woke. Jay Z is running the show over there. And yeah, that's listen, you get, you get your just desserts. That's how we got here. This is a weird artifact of Floyd, a Palooza around that time. Everyone said the halftime show is racist. It needs to be more culturally aware. And they just gave Jay Z total creative control over it. And so he's used it to book left wing anti-American kind of out, out of the mainstream acts, I would say that stuff that does not appeal to the broad base of, of fans. We have a, we have a throwback, throwback Charlie clip when he's wearing a hat. Is it the old studio? This is from February 2022. Let's just play it. 343. Look, the Super Bowl halftime show has a reputation. People say it's a spicy program. Okay. Listen, spicy. It's supposed to be boundary pushing. When you have the most televised event, this is true. Most televised event for the entire year, one of the most televised events on the planet, by the way, that should be a reflection of the virtue that hopefully you want society to embody. Man, I never, I never saw that studio. This is funny though. Look at this. 2014. Throw this up. 344. This is, this had one like, this how few people were following Charlie on Twitter at the time in 2014. Clothing optional halftime performance. One like. I just, man, that would have been, was he, he was, was he still 20 at that time? Yeah. I, I, I just think this is amazing. Uh, yeah. It's, I don't know. He was born, yeah, he would have been 21 years old and 21. It's a Charlie's. It's like, it's like the president hammering away at the halftime show. There's a tweet for everything. There's a tweet for everything. He's been hammering away at it for, for years and years. And here we are in 2026 and trying to do our best to honor him. And by the way, Charlie loved playing in the cultural space. He wanted to win the culture. I'll never forget. We were sitting down with a reporter in DC around the inauguration and, uh, won the, won the presidency obviously. And he goes, what's next? Like, have you guys done? And he's like, no, we want to win the culture. And I remember that moment with Charlie really distinctly. 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There's three million documents and people are still parsing through a lot of them and there's stuff on Bill Gates, which is funny and Elon Musk, which is funny and the Clintons are now agreeing to testify. We're going to get this tomorrow. I want to do it right. So we're going to devote our one to hitting that tomorrow because there's a lot to go through and I think we just have to, but I want to do it right. I don't want to rush it. So instead we're going to hit Roger Goodell, which is always really wants to hit Roger Goodell. Listen, the NFL is like a vest. It's like a throw back to peak woke. Roger Goodell is a, is should be in a museum somewhere. It's like he, he shouldn't be doing the job he's doing. And yet it's like, like I would more suspect him to be like Casteon formaldehyde up on some shelf in a scientist's lab because he's acting like it is peak woke still. And he just is so squish. He's so beta. He's such a bad leader of that amazing league. And so we're just going to hit him. He was asked at the annual Super Bowl press conference about the lack of diversity in NFL coaches, three 10, but everybody knows that this cycle over 10 for black coaches, one for nine for coaches of color. So should you just be resigned to the fact now that basically nothing you do can move the numbers between three to seven on coaches and three to seven on general managers, those historic numbers that we've seen? I think we need to continue to make progress. And I believe that I believe diversity is good for us. I think we have become a more diverse league across every platform, including coaching. But we saw more work to do. There's, there's got to be more steps. So we're reevaluating everything we're doing. It's it's like so it's so I feel like, frankly, Charlie would have a good bit on this. Like, as you say, he should be in a museum. He should be in formaldehyde because he actually is this very almost the platonic form of this certain type. He's this like, he certainly looks like red America. He's a 66 year old boomer. Yeah, boomer, white male guy who's running a big institution. Like, you'd think he's almost he could be in the dictionary is like, Oh, this is a core Republican voter. And yet he's this guy who's overseeing an institution that he didn't build. It was gifted to him, essentially, or handed to him. And then he almost to keep himself on top, he gets paid 20, 30, $50 million a year, someone's saying him out. And he's thought, I can keep control of this by giving in to all of this woke stuff below me, all of this liberal stuff below me, I will midwife, this new DEI America into being and they'll all love me for it. And that's the role he plays. And instead, he's massively messing it up. He's making a ton of people angry. He's making the NFL worse than it was before, when there really wasn't a big problem. Like, are we seriously going to claim that the NFL has a huge racism problem? Like, the entire concept is laughable. They're currently mad. They're mad because there were 10 coach openings and none of the new ones they hired were black. One, so what? They want to hire the best coach. This year didn't happen to go that way. Like, right now, they're going to go into 2026 with three black coaches, three out of 32. That's a little over 10%. What's the black share of the country? A little over 10%. Wow. Wow, what a crisis. Yeah, but how many black players in, you know, okay, but so what coaching is a different skill set from playing in the NFL. Why would the same people do it? I totally agree. I listen, I think you're right. He is a, by the look of him, he's red coded. He's, he's, uh, that's how they do this to you, but here's the thing. He is, he is a vestige of an artifact of a previous, a bygone era of GOP country club, Republicanism that proved to be feckless, that couldn't conserve Jack, that basically sat on their hands while we lost the country. So you're going to watch this man sit on his hands while he loses the NFL. That's what you're going to see. Can't stand this guy. He is, okay. So he's then asked about bad bunny getting political and green day, who is famously very anti-Trump, uh, but total washed up artist, by the way, 314. Bad Bunny made a pretty clear anti-ice statement at the Grammys last night. Um, what are you expecting in terms of political statement, whether that's from bad bunny or green day or any of the other performers? I think everybody in more than listen, bad bunny was, is, and I think that was demonstrated last night, one of the great artists in the world. Um, and that's one of the reasons we chose him. But the other reason is he understood the platform he was on and that this was, this platform is used to unite people and to be able to bring people together. I think bad bunny understands that and I think he'll have a great performance. Did you call him bad Benny there? Bad Benny. Good old bad Benny. That's how we're going to get around this. Not our Benny, the bad one. So bad Benny, good old bad Benny. So what that translation, that means they had a talk with bad Benny when he started saying he's going to wear a dress in the celebration of queer icons and queer identity and they said, could you tone it down just a little bit please? We got this, we got this alternative thing that's happening over here and they're really upset that we booked you. Could you just tone it down and he said, I's out. But what's amazing is I think he's got him kind of by the short hairs as it were, like what? He's not going to host it again. I don't think they ever really do a repeat Super Bowl act. There's really nowhere above. If he just says, if he told them, okay, fine, I won't do it. And then he just did it anyway. One, they have no way to stop him. And two, he'll basically be a Lib legend forever. Of course. He can absolutely humiliate them if he wants. The incentive structure is absolutely in the corner for bad Benny to humiliate the NFL and to do it with bells on and to do it and just ride the album sales all the way to the bank. And Roger would deserve it. He would deserve it so much because you have been cut because yeah, because you have been hoodwinked by the machine that you created by the cabal. You have overseen them and allowed them to cast aside. You deserve every perfect bad boomer. He can't preserve an amazing bad boomer and bad Benny. Very excited about this guest. I've been wanting to have him on for a long time and watching him just absolutely crush it. And that is Brandon Gill, representative Brandon Gill from Texas is 26th congressional district. He is the class president of the freshman class in the house. So self described, but I actually think it is probably true. Brandon, welcome to the show. We're honored to have you, Congressman. Thank you. Yeah, thanks for having me. Absolutely. You have been you've been doing such great work and we have your back a hundred percent and you are I think the you know, it's funny because actually truth be told, Charlie got to the point where he was like, I don't don't put Congressman on the show anymore. Ways to rations, you know, it's like nothing happens over there and it's like you have a zombie house, but you have been amazing and you are making waves because just yesterday you posted about this. I believe it was yesterday. Throw it up there. This is 352. I just sent a letter to Mitch McConnell asking his committee to stop stalling the save act. 83% of Americans want proof of citizenship to vote yet the Senate has done nothing for 300 days. The house did job. The Senate needs to do theirs. So Congressman, you you went straight for Mitch, the Mitch, the McConnell machine. Tell us about this and why. Well, sure. And thanks for having me on. I went there because we passed the save act out of the house almost a year ago. And you know, this is, I mean, you guys talk about it all the time. I mean, this is the most common sense piece of legislation you can imagine simply saying that if you are in a legal alien, you shouldn't be voting in American elections. If you're a foreign national and not a citizen, you shouldn't be voting. So we should have common sense measures like voter ID whenever you whenever you register to vote. That's something that almost 85% of Americans in this country agree with. That means that a lot of Democrats agree with us on that. So we passed it out of the house almost a year ago. Now it's sitting in the Senate and that's that gets taken up procedurally by the Senate Rules Committee, which Senator McConnell chairs. And what we want to do is be very clear that it is the will of the House for the Senate to get this passed. You guys need to do that. The American people are on our side. So let's get this thing moving and let's put it up for a vote in the Senate in a way that we can actually make this law. Yeah, absolutely. Well, and I've, you know, I've checked around on this because we when we booked you on the show, I wanted to see what the the vibe in the Senate was. And I think we can get 50 plus one over there. I don't think you're going to get Mitch. I don't think you're going to get Lisa. I don't think you're going to get Susan. I think you're going to get Rand. Rand has signed on. Thune has been signaling that he's supportive of it. He said this publicly that he's going to take it to a vote. The question is, you know, could you pass this in a reconciliation bill? Could you, could you nuke the filibuster for a funding bill that get rid of the zombie filibuster? There's all these options. So this looks like it can be a thing. Now, obviously you're in the house, not the Senate, right? So taking it back to the house, Speaker Johnson was doing a press conference this morning. I saw him talking about this. What, what, I, there's some confusion here. It's been sent back to the house to add some different stipulations. That mean you guys are going to have to pass it again. Are we going to be able to pass that? Fill us in on the details there. Yeah. So for quick background, we passed multiple appropriations bills out of the house. That includes the DHS funding bill, which funds, you know, the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, FEMA, TSA agents and everything sort of related in that area. We sent those bills over to the Senate. Now, it, while they were sitting in the Senate, Senate Democrats decided that they were going to go back on their agreement to, to pass these bills. And they were doing that because they want to leverage the chaos in Minneapolis in order to stop the president from carrying out his deportation agenda. Obviously that's not something that we're going to tolerate. It's not something the administration is going to tolerate. So what they did in the Senate is they combined all of those appropriations bills minus the DHS bill and sent it back to the house. What they did is they, instead of passing the DHS bill as part of that package, they did a two week continuing resolution to buy two more weeks of time to negotiate that bill. So that whole funding package has come back to the house. We actually just voted on the rule. The vote is open right now. Last I checked, there were two people who are still no on the rule and two people who haven't voted yet. So that's still, that's still ongoing. If I were to guess that, that ends up passing, but again, that's playing out in real time right now. The next step is to, to vote on final package with passage, which will be, and I believe about an hour or so. Okay, got it. Hi folks, Andrew Colvitt here. 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Well, let's just go back a step here and show just how wildly popular these simple common sense measures are. You've got Nicki Minaj who is weighing in on this 3 31. What sensible forward thinking cutting edge leading nation is having a debate on whether or not there should be voter ID. And then you have Harry Enten who basically chimes in and says, yeah, Nikki's right here. The American people agree with her 320. The American people are with Nicki Minaj because what are we talking about here? So take a look here. Favor voter ID to vote. Look, I got all this polling on the screen going back since 2018. You'll notice on all of it, it's all north of 75%, 76%, 76%, 76%, 81% and then 83% in the last year of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj. They favor photo ID to be able to vote. Yeah, but here's the thing Brandon, because it's really a form of slavery and it's like a throwback to Jim Crow. This is what Sonny Hostin has to say about it. 3 21. It's sort of a vestige of I think post slavery laws where they where black people had to prove their right to vote. And oftentimes they couldn't vote because they couldn't pass some crazy tests or they didn't have the appropriate ID. It also affects women, women that are married, maybe one, your passport reflects something that's different on your on your birth certificate or on your driver's license. So really the bottom line is voter suppression. And I agree with him 100%. It's a brilliant notion that less voter ID laws allows more people to vote. And most democracies do it that way. We're the only ones that really don't do it that way. Congressman, do most democracies do it this way? And you know, are they trying are you guys trying to keep married women from voting, which by the way, married women vote the most conservative of all the female groups. So this is a really dumb thing to suggest. Anyways, go ahead, Congressman. Right, I know in what what the leftists, they're trying to deflect here. The reality is that what the left ones after four years of open borders is to bring in millions upon millions of people into the country illegally, provide a path to citizenship, eventually give them voting rights. But in the meantime, they want those illegal aliens to impact congressional apportionment and to figure out ways to vote in our election systems. It's a way of sort of systematically rigging our elections in favor of Democrats at the expense of Republicans. What we're doing is we're simply saying no, you know, you got to use a you got to have a birth certificate to show to show your age to play in literally baseball. I mean, you got to show you get a show passport, oftentimes to travel in the United States or to travel abroad, certainly. So this is about as basic as it gets. And again, what what Democrats are doing here is not trying to fight for voting rights or any of that nonsense that you hear every day is fundamentally what they're trying to do is erode the meaning of American citizenship and erode the distinction between US citizens and foreign foreigners who are in the United States. We're saying that if everybody can vote in the United States, if every foreign national, if every illegal alien is going to the going to the polls and voting in our federal elections, which means if an illegal alien votes in a blue state that it impacts me and my constituents in Texas for federal elections, then you're eroding, you're essentially disenfranchising voters in red states or voters across the country. And we're saying we've had enough of this, you know, a core part of national sovereignty is being able to determine that the people who are a part of the body politic, who are citizens, who are who have sort of, you know, bought into the social contract of the United States are the ones who get and the only ones who get to determine how our government is run. And that's again, that's something that most Americans agree with it. It's such a basic, you know, core civic principle that we're trying to get back to. But the leftist fighting against us, because in you guys know this very well, they see the SAVE Act, they see illegal aliens voting, and they say that is our ticket to electorally winning in the United States. Again, it's a way of systematically rigging our elections. That's why they see this as an existential threat. Well, and if you look at the just domestic immigration inside the United States, blue states are losing population. They're losing native born Americans that hate the taxes, they hate the crime, they hate the regulations, they hate the malaise. I will tell you, I just moved from California, came to Arizona. You could feel the malaise in California. You can just feel it. You can feel businesses are struggling. Nobody wants to hire anybody there because it's a terrible place to do business. So they're voting with their feet and they're getting out. And that's going to affect the Electoral College. That's going to affect apportionments in Congress 100%. You're going to see those chickens come home to roost in 2030 in a big way. But in the meantime, this is why they're fighting against DHS so hard because guess who's moving into those places? Guess who they're protecting? The Legals. And there's a reason for that. All the grift, all the fraud, all the bilking taxpayer money. There's that news story that came out of Southern California with all those hospice centers within like a two mile radius. And I mean, this is truly remarkable levels of fraud. And obviously the Somali story in Minneapolis kicked it off. But I have more bad news for Sonny Haasden. Haasden, Haasden, whatever. The gal from the, one of the cackling hens from the view. We've got some polling on Black Americans and where they're at on voter ID as well. 355. Take a look here. Favor photo ID to vote. 85% of white people favorite. 82% of Latino. 76% of Black Americans favorite. So the bottom line is this. Voter ID is not controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that in fact you should have a photo ID to be able to vote. So something of a non. Okay, so let's just big picture here. You've got the voters who want it. You've got Black, white, Hispanic voters that want it. It seems to me the only group that doesn't want this is like Stacy Abrams, Sonny Haasden, Hakeem Jeffries. Why the disconnect? What do Democrat leaders know that their voters don't? Well, I mean, this has been the Democrat plan for a long time. And you know, this isn't a right wing conspiracy theory to say that Democrats are trying to import voters in order to get more Democrat voters. I mean, there's a book that came out about 20 years ago called the emerging Democratic majority. I mean, the thesis of the work is saying that essentially demographic changes in the United States politically benefit Democrats, and that is one of the ways that Democrats can hold on to power long term. So if you're an American citizen, it doesn't matter if you're if you're white, if you're black, or if you're Hispanic or any other race, you recognize that eroding eroding these principles and these ideas that really only hold the citizens voting rights, for instance, essentially disenfranchises American voters. Yeah, well, and Brandon, specifically Texas, that's their big, big get that's the white whale for the Democrats. We got to fight and save Texas got to keep Texas bright ruby red. So we love seeing new stars like yourself rise up in the ranks doing great work in Congress, keep up the great work, Congressman, you're doing a phenomenal job. Well, I appreciate that we've got a whole lot more work to do and we've got a lot more fighting to do. Alright, God bless you. Blake, are you living on stolen land? I think I just want you to go off on the concept of so no, so this is great. So this happened. We talked about this a little bit yesterday. Let's revisit it. So we talked about the Grammys and one of the big lines that we really teed off on was Billy Eilish declared that all everyone has the right to come here because no one is illegal on stolen land. Let's revisit it to 92 please. No one is illegal on stolen land. Now, a thing we didn't show, but we should have yesterday is as it happens, she has a quite palatial state. She's extraordinarily well. 293 with a very big wall and gate around it. It is not a super publicly accessible thing. But there's an excellent twist or follow up on this. So of course, Eilish lives in the Los Angeles area and there are some indigenous former inhabitant or tribes that are native to the Los Angeles Basin and it's the Tongva tribe and some members of this tribe got in contact with the media and they pointed out we don't believe that we have ceded our land in this area. And so they released a statement to Fox News as the first people of the greater Los Angeles Basin. We understand that her home is situated in our ancestral land. Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property. We do not. It's got to update value the instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history of this country or we do value, I guess. But so seems that she lives on stolen land, which means if no one can be illegal on stolen land, can you illegally trespass on Billie Eilish's property? And I think we should put this to the test. I think someone should get in contact at this tribe and offer them whatever supplies they need, whatever legal funds they need. If you guys want to do a demonstration, I think it might be time to occupy Billie Eilish's land. I think we need a chop city on Billie Eilish's palatial estate. Yeah. I think we need chop. We need the summer of love and Billie Eilish. Billie, you've really hemmed yourself in here. You're in a rock and a hard place on stolen land. You're living in Eilish. You're living on a palatial estate. Los Angeles Basin Autonomous Zone. Yes, there it is. I think that this needs to happen. Labop. Yeah. I mean, listen, Billie, you've got enough money. You can buy another one. If this doesn't work out, it'll be fine. Or she could do the right thing and she could bequeath it back. Give it to them. To the tribe. Yeah, make this. She says, you know, stolen land. She's rich enough. She could just do it. Yeah. And she could, you could own the high, you could take the high route here, Billie. You could be the solution to the problem. You can be the white savior, Billie Eilish. This is not even really a joke. There's, you know, the classic Sololinsky tactic is to, you know, make the opponent live by its own rules rather strictly. And you should make these commies who want to abolish America live at least for a moment by their own rules. And to zoom back on this, the point is to show that this is a crass absurdity. America is not a stolen country. It is not on stolen land any more than any other country in society in human history is stolen land or for that matter, any more than all the tribes in America were on stolen land. If you want an example that calls to mind for me, I'm from the Dakotas. We have the Lakota people there. They complain that the Black Hills were stolen from them. Europeans have owned the Black Hills longer than the Lakota owned the Black Hills because they yanked it from another tribe just shortly before after they got the horse, they expanded. And that's all of human history. All of human history is this or that, Stone Age people, Bronze Age people moving around constantly taking things. What actually gave us the concept of ownership and for that matter, the concept of theft and property and all of that is civilization and law. And that is why you can't just steal somebody's land today. It's a great thing. But they want, they hate those laws. They hate the West. They hate civilization. So they use those concepts to undermine them and blow them up. And it's just a pure anti-civilizational resentment. But if Eilish is going to indulge that, make her live by it. I love that. Well said. Make Billie Eilish give back her stolen land. Her stolen mansion needs to go back to what's the tribe's name? It is the Tongva. That sounds like a Pacific Island tribe. Billie Eilish, we are here by calling on you to give back your mansion to the Tongva tribe in the greater Los Angeles basin. You need to do it now. Do it today. You are rich enough to buy another piece of land on a non-stolen piece of property on planet earth. We're not sure what qualifies as non-stolen at this point based on your guys' faulty logic. But honestly, I think we know it qualifies as non-stolen if you know it's not white people. You could buy Jeffrey Epstein's island and buy it. Yes, you could buy that. Is that stolen land? Was that in happen? Yeah, probably. I don't know where you're going to find some non-stolen land. Even the UK is, you could make the argument is stolen, right? Well, no, and the UK belongs to everybody. That's what they say now. Well, we can go deep down that rabbit hole. But if you're not willing to do all of those things, Billie, then we have another good take on what you're supposed to do. This is Ricky Urvace, 363. If you do win an award tonight, don't use it as a platform to make a political speech, right? You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So if you win, right, come up, accept your little award. Thank your agent and your God and off. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com. Hi, Kevin McCullough, think fossil fuels are climate villains that the legacy media and establishment politico's ask us to believe that they are. 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