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Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here, live from the Bitcoin.com studio.

I am profiled on South Park.

What is that all about?

And then we also dive deep into what is a blue slip.

You're about to learn something that is a blue slip educational crash course as to why President Trump can't get some of his nominees through the U.S.

Senate.

Senator Michael Lee joins us to react and email us as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.

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Here we go.

Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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Yesterday was an interesting day.

Apparently, I'm going to be highlighted on South Park.

We'll talk about that later in the hour.

It goes to show the cultural impact that we have achieved at Turning Point USA.

Oh, we'll talk all about that.

But first, this is something much more important than the fact that we have reached a cultural pinnacle.

The U.S.

Senate has some very goofy traditions.

And right now, President Donald Trump has hundreds of people that he needs in his administration that are not being confirmed.

Hundreds of people, people such as third in line at the Department of Justice, people such as general counsels at the Department of Education, very important positions.

So, when you don't fill these positions, do you know who then currently occupies those slots and those posts?

Careers.

Career employees of these agencies that have contempt for Donald Trump.

They are part of the deep state of government.

These folks run the day-to-day operations.

So, basically, President Donald Trump has not yet taken over the federal government.

Donald Trump won the election.

Donald Trump is president, but Donald Trump has not yet taken over the federal government.

I want you to think about that.

Even though we had an election almost a year ago, even though Donald Trump has been president for six months, he still does not have his people in there.

Career bureaucrats in a city that went 90-10 for Democrats are running your government.

And it's not because of Donald Trump or the White House.

They're doing their job and they're doing it rapidly.

No, it's because of the U.S.

Senate.

Now, we've talked yesterday, and I mean this half-jokingly, the U.S.

Senate, John Thune, turn off the air conditioning.

By the way, in the coming days, it'll be a very muggy 85 degrees in D.C., and you better believe they'll start confirming people if you do that.

But there's another problem at play here outside of the delay, which we examined thoroughly with Senator Rick Scott and with Senator Mark Wayne Mullah.

And then we have Senator Lee coming up because we are keeping the pressure on on this program.

We are demanding pace.

We're demanding confirmations.

At this show right now, in this midsummer moment, the most important thing that we can draw your attention to, the most important thing that we as a collective Charlie Kirk show team can do is to demand the U.S.

Senate Acts.

But it's not just the delays.

It's something also called

a blue slip.

You're about to learn something.

If you don't know what a blue slip is, you're about to learn how the good old boys club of the U.S.

Senate operates.

The blue slip refers to a practice used by the Senate Judiciary Committee for judicial nominations, for circuit and court judgeships, but also for U.S.

attorneys.

So what is a U.S.

attorney?

A U.S.

attorney is someone that works for the Department of Justice, confirmed by the U.S.

Senate, that oversees prosecutions and indictments and criminal cases.

The U.S.

attorney, they have geographic jurisdictions.

So there's a U.S.

attorney for the Southern District of New York.

There's a U.S.

attorney for South Florida.

There's a U.S.

attorney in Arizona.

The problem is that President Donald Trump wants to be able to crush sanctuary cities for one.

He wants to be able to go after the Democrat Act Blue apparatus.

However, this is the key.

Donald Trump can't proceed on so much of the sanctuary city cartel activity until he gets his U.S.

attorneys confirmed.

So U.S.

attorneys must go through the Senate Judiciary Committee.

And so President Donald Trump wrote this scathing truth social yesterday, but let me dive this a little bit deeper into this.

Before the 1950s, blue slips were never used.

But in 1956 onward, a senator by the name of James Eastland, the blue slip, became a tool to allow either home state senator to veto a nominee by simply not returning the slip.

So basically, let's say Donald Trump wants to get a U.S.

attorney for where I live in Phoenix, Arizona, or even more importantly, a U.S.

attorney in Tucson.

Tucson is filled with cartel activity, child sex trafficking, narco-drugs.

Right now, and we're aiming to eventually fix it, Arizona has two Democrat senators, Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego.

So let's say Donald Trump wants to have a rock star, non-controversial U.S.

attorney for Arizona who wants to go after the cartels.

And he nominates, let's just say, Mark Lamb, for example, someone that's just a rock star.

To kill that U.S.

attorney that the president wants and that people voted for, all Mark Kelly or Ruben Gallego have to do is submit an anonymous blue slip, and that nominee dies.

Now, the timeline under Orrin Hatch, a nominee could receive a hearing even if one home state senator objected, but basically the tradition, this is simply tradition.

This is not constitutional.

This is not Senate rules.

This is nothing more than a statesman tradition of the United States Senate.

Now, but Donald Trump put out a very fiery truth social last night, and he's right.

It's a blue slip scam.

Joe Biden openly broke with this at least two times.

So Democrats have broken with this in the past, but we as Republicans, you see, we're the guardians of tradition while we can't get U.S.

attorneys.

Now, here is where it completes the point.

You want to know why we have not indicted Brandon Johnson as the mayor of Chicago?

Do you want to know why we can't go after Karen Bass?

Do you want to know why we can't go after some of the act blue oligarchs that have obviously been flirting up against the law?

Do you want to know why we have not been able to go after the sanctuary cities in New York?

It's because we don't have U.S.

attorneys confirmed there.

We have Biden holdovers running the U.S.

attorneys' offices all across the country.

Now, ultimately, of course, Pam Bondi is in charge of them, but there's, I think there's like 130 U.S.

attorney jurisdictions.

I could be wrong.

And so Pam Bondi can't possibly, and Todd Blanche possibly manage every single U.S.

attorney outfit in Montana and Alaska and Hawaii and Missouri.

You need your people there.

So Donald Trump has made recommendations and nominations for all these people, but it unfortunately, a good man is doing something wrong.

And that's what happens sometimes in politics.

Good men do something incorrect.

And that is Chuck Grassley.

Chuck Grassley is an awesome person.

He's a legend.

He's been around forever.

He's one of the older guys in the U.S.

Senate.

I have a lot of respect for.

He has won a lot of elections in Iowa, but he is old school.

And this is a hill he will die on.

You see, Chuck Grassley is empowering blue state Democrats.

Chuck Grassley is giving power to Ruben Gallego and to Mark Kelly.

Chuck Grassley is giving power to Gillibrand, to Schumer.

So if we want to get a U.S.

attorney in the southern district of New York, which we need, by the way, to go after sanctuary cities and child sex trafficking and drugs.

We can't do it if Chuck Schumer or a Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee submits a blue slip.

And so then they go back to the home senators, and here's the one that matters for all of you in the audience and you probably care about.

How about Alina Haba?

Alina Haba is trying to become the U.S.

Attorney for New Jersey, but Corey Booker refuses to move on her.

Corey Booker has veto power over the president, even though we have a Senate majority because of this ridiculous tradition called the blue slip scam.

President Donald Trump writes last night, I would never be, therefore, after this long explanation that basically I just gave, I would never be able to appoint great judges or U.S.

attorneys.

So it goes for a judge and U.S.

attorneys in California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Virginia, and other places where there is coincidentally the highest level of crime and corruption.

President Trump is spot on here.

This is 10 out of 10, Trump, where Trump is like, I'm trying to clean up the cities of LA, San Francisco.

I'm trying to clean up Portland.

I'm trying to clean up Seattle.

I I am the president of the United States of America, not the president of the red states of America.

But unfortunately, because of this blue slip tradition that never should have happened because the Senate takes themselves so seriously,

they are able to overrule the will of the president.

Do you see a pattern here?

This reminds me of the parliamentarian story, loopholes gumming up the works of popular sovereignty.

This is not constitutional.

It's not within like, well, Article 3 or Article 4 or subsect.

Not ain't wrong.

This is simply an old boys' club of some sort of, well, we must honor the senator from Arizona, Ruben Gallego, who, by the way, his policies are awfully akin to that of the cartels.

So Ruben Gallego can block, again, I care about Arizona, he can block a U.S.

attorney that wants to go against the cartels, even though Donald Trump won Arizona by six points.

So Trump wins Arizona, and he doesn't get the U.S.

attorneys that people voted for because Ruben Gallego has veto power over the president because Chuck Grassley is defending this ridiculous tradition.

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So people are blowing us up on emails: freedom at charliekirk.com.

Charlie, what can we do?

What can we do?

What can be done?

Do we have to go to the Supreme Court?

Nope.

Just very simple.

Chuck Grassley has to decide to no longer honor this ridiculous tradition.

That's it.

Doesn't require a vote.

Doesn't require a parliamentarian.

Chuck Grassley literally has to just say, I'm not giving veto power to Democrats over a president who won a popular vote majority.

And even here's the kicker, won the swing states

that

they are contesting in.

Let me give you another example.

Atlanta.

Atlanta.

Not exactly a mostly, it's a mostly peaceful city.

Two Democrat senators, Raphael Warnock and John Ossif.

If Donald Trump wants to put a U.S.

attorney in Atlanta, easily could have pocket veto.

So again,

that's a state Donald Trump won.

Donald Trump won Georgia.

Donald Trump won Arizona.

Donald Trump won Nevada.

What if Donald Trump wants to put a U.S.

attorney in Las Vegas, one of the child sex trafficking capitals of America?

So is Atlanta.

So Donald Trump wants to put a U.S.

attorney in Vegas.

Nope.

Cortez Masto can veto him.

And there's nothing he can do about it.

It's because Chuck Grassley is defending an antiquated, broken system when the Senate used to actually be about commonality.

And by the way, that tradition was when we were in a different country.

This is the key.

Grassley is defending a tradition that started in 1950 when we used to be a country of neighbors, not strangers.

We are a different nation.

We have to have dramatic and bold action.

This is not even that dramatic.

It's, can a president get the U.S.

attorneys he wants?

There's no Senate rule about this.

It's simply a spoken tradition.

That's it.

This was all birthed out of Pax Americana.

Chuck Grassley fires back to Donald Trump.

Again, I like Chuck Grassley a lot.

He is very wrong here.

Chuck Grassley is wrong.

And, sir, if you're listening or your team is listening, we have great respect for you.

Do not die on this hill.

This will be a legacy ender.

This will be you not finishing well, but you've ran a great race.

Do not do this.

Do not give veto power to New Jersey, California, Illinois, Arizona, and Atlanta Democrats to be able to usurp the sovereign of this country.

Don't do this.

Play Cut 392.

Last night, I was surprised to see President Trump on Truth Social go after me and Senate Republicans over what we call the blue slip.

The people in real America don't care about what the blue slip is,

but in fact, it impacts in their states the district judges who serve their communities and the U.S.

attorneys who ensure the law and order is enforced.

I was offended by what the President said, and I'm disappointed that it would result in personal insults.

Now, we're here to do business that's a very important part of this committee's work.

to do our constitutional duties of reviewing

people that require Senate confirmation.

Okay.

First of all, this was not a personal insult attack by Donald Trump.

This was very tepid by Trump Truth Social means.

So Chuck Grassley should just kind of understand that was hardly a salvo from the President of the United States.

We've seen truth socials that get a little bit hot and spicy.

That was cool as a cucumber.

Secondly, did he say that people in real America don't care about this?

No, I think this audience really cares about the fact that Donald Trump, the winner of the election does not get

his u.s attorneys they're by the way people say when are we indicting all the russia gate people not going to happen will not happen until you get u.s attorneys you understand that there will be no high profile indictments we're all waiting where are the indictments coming can't happen if you have u.s attorneys literally i mean again the u.s attorney general Pam Bondi can do some of this, but over time, it's just, it's a manpower.

You need somebody to come into a U.S.

Attorney's office and then they run the entire thing.

It's pure delegation.

The Department of Justice has tens of thousands of employees.

You're not going to have just a couple civilians like Todd Blanche and Pam Bonnie be able to run the entire thing.

I think that we need to line up.

Well, I think we need to light up

Leader Thune's phones on this.

Forget Grassley.

Grassley's not, he's a stick in the mud.

He's not going to move.

But John Thune can get Grassley to move.

And John Thune's phone number is 202-224-2321.

Well, not his phone number, but his DC office, his publicly listed one.

That's 202-224-2321.

Let's put it up on screen.

It's 202-224-2321.

Call Leader Thun's office and say,

we're not going to put up with this blue slip scam.

The leader needs to come in and say, Chuck, enough.

This has been a 1950s Pax Americana tradition that we've grandfathered in.

We're going to put an end to this.

Because I'm telling you right now in the audience, you will get a fraction of what you voted for if the blue slip scam remains.

Email me your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com, and give a ring to Jon Thune and give him a piece of your mind.

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Joining us now is Senator Mike Lee.

Senator Lee, thank you so much for taking the time.

Senator, our audience is pretty fired up about the blue slips.

Where did this tradition come from, and why should we give veto power to Democrat senators over President Trump's ability to have U.S.

attorneys as he chooses?

As far as where it came from, it's a precedent that's many, many decades old.

And it really is a protection that's there to make sure that local judges, U.S.

attorneys, U.S.

marshals have the support of their home state senators.

Now, one thing I should point out here is that it's not an immutable rule.

It was not carved into stone.

It's not set by law or even rules of the Senate.

It is only a tradition.

Consequently, it has changed many times, including during the previous Trump administration.

So what exists today as the blue slip process is not identical to what it's always been.

It changes periodically.

More changes could be made as it's abused.

Customarily,

members of both political parties have in the past deferred in many respects to some of the sitting presidents' priorities, even if they're of the opposing party.

People have recommended district judges and U.S.

attorneys, for example, who might not be the same people they would recommend if the president were of their party,

but who they find

acceptable nonetheless.

Over time, though, Democrats have started abusing the blue slip and in many instances,

unreasonably refusing to identify anyone who might be mutually agreeable to both them and the president.

Right.

And so that's where we're running into a little fork in the road.

So, for example, in California, these senators do not want anyone.

And so, is it time for us or is there conversations to bypass this blue slip tradition?

Because, Senator, you and I both want to see cartels gone after.

We can't have empty U.S.

attorneys' offices for years.

That robs President Trump of an important instrument of his government, including in New York or Seattle or Portland.

In some ways, you're basically confederating the entire country.

This is a neo-Confederate way to create sanctuary zones where U.S.

attorneys would not be able to fulfill what the president won a popular vote majority on, Senator.

Yeah, and we certainly can't have that happening.

Look, in previous Democratic administrations, including most recently in the Biden administration, we had the understanding that

you could break the blue slip if you acted unreasonably.

If you unreasonably refused to consent to anyone the president might find acceptable or refuse to recommend somebody to return a blue slip.

If you did that unreasonably, that the

blue slip might well be circumvented.

And so I suspect we may near that point if we're not there already.

Yeah, so as far as my encouragement goes, Senator, I think you guys are there.

And I have such great respect for Senator Grassley.

I think he's wrong here to just be,

let's say, immovable.

So for whatever it's worth, I think you need to tell the colleagues, your colleagues, our audience is fired up.

Because look, when you are now six, seven months into administration and you guys can't get U.S.

attorneys confirmed, too deferential to the Democrats.

And you and I both know, Senator, that if these were good faith objections by the Democrats and they're trying to come to some sort of happy medium thund, this is pure obstructionism.

This is hate Trump, get in the way of the agenda.

There are cartels that are running rampant in a lot of these states, and we need U.S.

attorneys to be able to

broker the enforcement of the law.

So, Senator, I now want to ask you more broadly about confirmations.

The audience is also very fired up as to why there are so many, there's a confirmation backlog.

Do you have a lot of thoughts on this?

You were texting me the other day.

I actually missed a call from you, so sorry.

So, we'll talk now, I suppose.

Senator, what is the plan forward so that we can get President Trump his personnel and properly staff the government?

Look, there are two basic ways we can approach this.

As of right now,

we're approaching 150 Trump nominees who are on the Senate's executive calendar.

That is the pending list of presidential nominees before the Senate.

It keeps going up every day.

Just day before yesterday, it was at 144.

We just this morning, two of the committees I serve on, Energy and Natural Resources, which I chair, and Foreign Relations, on which I also serve, those two committees alone submitted an additional six names to the executive calendar just today.

And we're not clearing the backlog nearly as quickly as we're adding to it.

So here's my basic pitch.

The Senate has no business taking a recess

for the month of August, which is currently set to be the entirety of the month of August, without first clearing the backlog.

But we shouldn't do that.

The American people work hard.

They expect us to do the same, especially when we're seriously behind.

Now, there are reasons for this.

The Democrats have delayed unreasonably.

They've thrown every procedural or wrench in the gears that they can find.

But we got to work twice as hard when they do that.

So we shouldn't recess.

And if somehow the Senate were to decide to recess, unwisely in my mind, without clearing the backlog, at a minimum, for the love of all that is sacred and holy and constitutional, we should not be holding what are called pro forma Senate sessions while we are in recess.

Because those pro forma sessions, what they do is prohibit the President of the United States from exercising what would otherwise be his power to fill appointments for a recess appointment under the Constitution.

So don't recess.

And if we unwisely recess, no pro forma sessions.

That's the formula.

Yeah.

And so

is there also a strategy to try to break the will of the Democrats to try and get them to basically surrender their obstruction, Senator?

Yes.

Yes.

And the best way to do this is the way the Senate always works.

The Senate works according to unanimous consent.

You can't do almost anything in the Senate without the Senate agreeing unanimously to move to the next step.

Now, you can grind the Senate to the halt if you've got objectors who object to literally everything.

But there's a way around that.

And the Senate works on the principle of exhaustion.

Meaning

at some point when we remain in session and these guys have to show up and speak, they have to show up and vote.

They get tired of all the procedural objections because it becomes more difficult, particularly where you hold them in at a time when they don't want to be here.

So let's use it to our advantage.

They want to get out of town.

We want to get these people confirmed.

Let's think when, when.

Hold them in session on until they relent, and then we can get through these nominations very quickly.

I love it.

Now we're talking, Senator.

The way you just crisply put that in the last minute is the best I've heard anyone summarize it.

It works on exhaustion.

And also, I know people make fun of me when I say this.

Just turn off the air conditioning.

Oh, Democrats, you guys want to

obstruct us?

85 degrees humid.

Air conditioning is not in the U.S.

Constitution.

All kidding aside here, though, Senator,

on exhaustion, is

there

a plan to get the Democrats what they want?

Democrats want to go to Aspen, Jackson Hole, Kenny Bunkport.

They want to get out of town.

You want our people.

But, Senator, is the Republican Conference unified?

I mean, look, I know you can't talk ill of your colleagues, but I know some colleagues, for example, that they get out of town Thursday at the first moment they can.

Will we have a unified Republican conference?

That's a very important question, question, or will Republicans also end up sipping cocktails in the south of France in August when they should be voting for nominees?

Look, I want to believe, Charlie, and in most ways, I do believe, that most of my Republican colleagues want to get this job done.

Now, I think there are a number of different opinions.

We've got 53 Republican senators, got a lot of different opinions on exactly how best to go about that.

But I will say this: based on our conversations yesterday afternoon,

the conference is coming together much more than we were last week in acknowledging that there is a problem that it has to be addressed and we can't simply leave without fixing the problem there's still uh a number of opinions about how exactly to go about that but i think we're coming closer to being unified on this issue uh i myself could could accept several different variations of an outcome But the one we absolutely must not do is recess and then prohibit the president from doing what presidents are allowed to do during a recess.

That is unacceptable.

The very best solution involves staying here, getting butts and chairs, and making those same senators who are delaying the process be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.

When we make it easy for them to delay and obstruct, just so that they can have more governance, more dominance by the overwhelmingly left-leaning deep state bureaucrats that otherwise will control these agencies, as long as we don't confirm these personnel,

The more we facilitate that and make it comfortable for them to obstruct and delay, the more we'll get that.

And by the way, Charlie, if we leave and we don't fix the backlog,

even if we didn't add a single additional nominee between now and next year,

we'd still be well into the second quarter of 2026.

probably the end of April before we got

these nominees confirmed.

And that's before you consider the fact that there'll probably be at least 200 additional nominees on the calendar by then.

August is where all the Democrats they do all their planning.

They want time off.

Take it from them.

Break a deal.

Senator, really quick, the SAVE Act, Chuck Schumer went after you so aggressively the other day.

What is the latest on the SAVE Act?

And remind people exactly what it is.

Minute and a half remaining.

The SAVE Act tells the American people what American people already expect and demand, which is that only U.S.

citizens may vote in U.S.

elections.

Now, that is already the law, but unfortunately, the way the Supreme Court has interpreted the law, the states which run voter registration are not even allowed to ask on the National Voter Registration Act forms for proof of citizenship, even if they know or have reason to know that somebody is, in fact, either illegally in the country or in the country legally, but not a citizen.

They're not even allowed to ask for it or deny somebody that if they certify that they are citizens, just taking it on their word.

So the SAVE Act would require proof of citizenship at the time you register to vote.

Look, you have to prove who you are when you get on an airplane, when you go to the drugstore, when you go to the doctor's office, when you get a hunting license.

Why not when you have to vote?

Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer comes out, calls it a return to Jim Crow.

Chuck Schumer, how exactly is that a return to Jim Crow to require people to prove?

who they are when you have to do that every time you go to TSA.

This is absolutely nonsense and it's irresponsible for the party of Jim Crow to be comparing to Jim Crow that which any sane American recognizes must be the law.

Gotta go.

Senator, thank you for your time, and please go back to your colleagues, Senator Grassley and Senator Thune, and say, Look, good job passing Big Beautiful Bill, but we got to end this blue slip operation that gives Democrats an outsized and leveraged veto power over the presidency.

Senator, great work as always.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Chelley.

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So let me continue on the Jon Thune situation.

Let's go, and the Chuck Grassley one.

Let's go 409 up on screen.

This is John Thun's DC office.

If you guys want to call, calls 202-224-2321.

Far too often, Republicans play to protect traditions, and Democrats play to win.

Let me say that again.

Republicans play to protect traditions, and traditions should be protected if the tradition is helping the country.

Traditions should not be

observed if they are bad or

they're not lifting you up towards something important.

John Thun's D.C.

office is 202-224-2321.

And look, a lot of egos are involved in this.

Many senators don't like being told how to run their kingdoms.

The reason I'm not putting Chuck Grassley's number up is that this has got to come from higher up.

Democrats are abusing the tradition.

Democrats do not have good faith.

This is what always...

is important.

People say, well, Charlie, you know, don't Democrats know.

They don't have the same intentions that we have.

Democrats are abusing the tradition, is what makes this entire thing null and void.

It invalidates the tradition at its core.

You see, taking a step back here,

the

idea

that President Donald Trump cannot have the people of his choosing because some Senate Democrat from a blue state doesn't like him, I think it's completely and totally outrageous.

Because I do want to talk about South Park.

So yesterday, I just started laughing when someone sent this to me.

Apparently,

our very popular prove me wrongs and our extraordinarily viral campus debates are being prominently profiled on South Park.

Let's play cut 394.

Wednesday, August 6th.

You can just shut up, babe, because you hate America and you love abortion.

On an all-new South Park.

The epic season continues.

South Park, new episode Wednesday, August 6th to 10th on Comedy Central and next day on Paramount Plus.

So if you don't watch South Park, it's very, very popular, especially with younger people.

Look, I mean,

I think we just should have a good spirit and laugh about this and a good attitude.

But first of all, that trailer was hilarious.

You could shut up because you hate America and love abortions.

I mean, that's a pretty good summary of the lot of the left I see on campus.

But look, of course,

this is going to be professional comedians.

They know what they're doing.

They're going to probably roast me.

But it's about time that we don't take ourselves so seriously.

That's one of the problems with the current political landscape, especially on the left, is that people take themselves so seriously.

Be able to take a joke, have a good sense of humor.

And so, South Park is kind of a cultural phenomenon.

And make no mistake, being mocked, it means that you're doing something.

And I've been texted, by the way, congratulations by so many people.

And they're probably going to be nasty and

vulgar and all that stuff.

But as you see, Benny Johnson's tweet up on screen there, which is

Cartman is playing Charlie Kirk, which is

pretty cool.

And also, you see the security guy behind and the water bottle.

Let's put some of these up on screen.

Benny Johnson says, Cartman is playing Charlie Kirk on the next episode of South Park, and it's a great honor pop culture can bestow upon you.

Jack Besobic says, South Park is doing Cartman as Charlie Kirk.

Cartman is playing character inspired by Charlie Kirk in the next South Park episode, Daily Caller Rights, and Colin Rugg as well.

This is all very good.

And this shows that the cultural impact that we are making at Turning Point USA cannot even be ignored by the professional comedians at Comedy Central.

And

billions and billions of views later, I tell you guys, hey, we're going viral on Instagram and TikTok.

This is exhibit A.

This is evidence.

And we love it.

And look, they're going to make fun of me or whatever.

Great, fine.

That means I've done something.

That means that we are in a different league of cultural penetration.

We are on their feeds.

You know what this means?

This means that

all the graphic designers, all the artists, all the script writers, all the comedians, they're seeing Charlie Kirk Turning Point USA stuff.

When they're flipping through Instagram, when they're flipping through TikTok, our stuff is going viral and it is making a difference.

In fact, one of my favorite things is when I'm on vacation or I'm traveling, when a liberal parent has to take the picture of their conservative son who likes me.

Oh, it's great.

Yeah, they asked me to take a picture, but I can't stand you, but my son loves you.

It just goes to show how viral what we are doing at Turning Point USA is.

And look, the left killed comedy.

We didn't.

And I think it's fine.

I mean, look, if you can't make fun of yourself or get made fun of, especially if you're a public figure.

I mean, if you're making fun of just some guy on the side of the street, that's cruel.

I mean, look, but I'm a public figure, billions of views.

Okay, great.

So it's part of the game.

However, we did do some research.

And we have been told that it's a very rare cultural accomplishment as a conservative to kind of be profiled on this program.

This is Tim Poole and also Steve Cortez saying that this is evidence that we are winning the culture war.

Play Cut 418.

Charlie Kirk, congratulations, man.

You made it.

It's wild because I'm pretty sure South Park is older than Charlie is.

Yeah.

By the way, so a huge win for Charlie Kirk, Chicago boy, like we are.

We love to see Chicago boys do well, but more importantly for the country, you know, I think the point is here, you're right.

We are winning the culture war, right?

When South Park feels that they need to mock a show host and a campaign operative, albeit a super important one, like Charlie Kirk.

And that is just more evidence and an example of the cultural penetration that we have enjoyed at Turning Point USA.

We commonly say that cult, that politics is downstream from culture.

And what this shows is that through the phenomenon of us going on these campuses, by having those debates, by engaging in this, that South Park and the whole leadership team of South Park, they can't escape us.

And the response has been amazing because the left is very mad that I am not mad about this.

I changed my profile picture.

I think it's hilarious.

And yes, of course, and people say, Charlie, they're making fun of you.

Aren't you mad?

Okay, like, because I don't take myself as seriously as you take me, I suppose.

And also, just have a little lightheartedness about it.

Be able to take a joke.

It's okay.

It's part of life.

And it's just a symbol that we're making a big difference.

And look, I'm sure, again, to repeat myself, it is just going to, it's going to be pretty intense.

Fine, great.

And look, the whole season apparently is woke is dead.

So that was Cartman's thing in the last episode that Trump won and all the young people are conservative.

And look,

the tweet that we put out of, by the way, can we put up that?

That's my new profile picture.

And apparently they have the PC principal behind him, which apparently PC principal changed his name this season or something.

Is that right, Brian?

To something else?

I didn't watch the first.

The first episode, by the way, was super anti-Trump and really

nasty.

And so we're anticipating it.

But yeah, look, so that tweet right there has 88,000 likes.

My favorite responses are liberals that are so mad.

And oh, yeah, it's the power Christian principal.

By the way, it's also, if you look at the little details, the picture of Cartman, he has the holy Bible.

By the way, no joke.

I am not kidding you.

I told Mikey this fall I'm bringing a Bible with me actually so I can quote the scripture.

It's like hilarious.

South Park is one step ahead.

They're like one step ahead of us.

Now, the only thing that they're missing, and they might, they have time to fix it, wear my lozenges.

Where are the lozenges?

Where is the tea?

They got my hair perfect.

They got the security guard.

They even have the little background, the mic, the kind of the darker shirt.

And where are the hats?

It's exactly right.

And by the way,

they have distilled my essence rather well.

And so I have to say,

again, we got to watch the episode, but if Cartman comes out throwing hats at people, woof, that'd be phenomenal.

And so we see no hats so far, but just the entire image and the entire thing

is obviously us.

And so, again, just like we said with Media Matters yesterday, we love this.

It's all just another example of the cultural penetration, the success.

And we're going to take this in good step and in good spirit.

And it's just a good lesson for life, everybody.

Don't take yourself so seriously.

We're all sinners.

We all fall short of the glory of God.

We're all broken people.

And look, comedians got to do what comedians do.

They're going to throw stuff at you, have a little humility, have a little grace.

And, you know, if they go too far, they go too far.

It's like, okay, fine, whatever.

Just shrug your shoulders.

And that's the attitude that I encourage you guys to have in your life.

And we're going to really enjoy it.

It feels,

and look, some people think that them mocking me will make it like attack us.

Honestly, Honestly, it's

it's the it's not even an attack.

Of course, it's an attack, it's that, but in some ways, it'll only make us bigger, it would only make us stronger.

And honestly, it is uh, it is a thrill.

Growing up, watching, you know, several episodes of South Park, I'll watch in about a decade, you know, been busy building some stuff, but it's without a doubt a cultural phenomenon.

I think they signed a $1.5 billion,

$1.5 billion five-year deal with Paramount and CBS.

Is that right?

$1.5 billion, $33 million in episode, $33 million

an episode.

And so I am a happy, in-kind contribution to the $33 million an episode.

But honestly,

it is a fun moment, and it goes to show that when we go to those campuses and producer Andrew fills in and we're doing hundreds of hours of debate a year on these campuses and explaining and teaching and being with students, that it's been so popular that now it is a really a household thing, moving the needle and helping to win this cultural battle.

Getting, no joke, billions and billions of views.

It is a remarkable thing to witness and to be a part of.

Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

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