The Democrats' Terrible, Horrible, Unfathomably Awful New Fight Song

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The Democrats are at their lowest approval ever as a party, but they have a plan to fix it: A cringe-inducing new fight song. Charlie gives it a listen. Plus, are cell phone towers making kids sick? Mary Holland of Children's Health Defense thinks that's the case, and also argues that vaccines are causing the surge in autism. CA gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton talks about how Gavin Newsom has abandoned his failing state and left Los Angeles a burnt-out ruin to focus on a 2028 presidential run.

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Hey, everybody.

Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio.

Mary Holland from Children's Health Defense joins us about vaccines.

Ooh, quite a topic.

If you're interested in it, this is a great conversation that I think you'll enjoy.

We talk about autism, we talk about vaccine exemptions, and more.

Steve Hilton joins the show.

He's running for governor of California.

And the Democrats, they have a new fight song.

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Here we go.

Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

I want to thank Charlie.

He's an incredible guy.

His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.

We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

That's why we are here.

Gavin Newsom is on a media tour right now, and he thinks he's kind of found his whole new vibe and energy after he invited guests like me on his podcast.

It didn't go too well for him.

He's now just trying to convince people that he is the fighter to take on Donald Trump.

Well, joining us now is Steve Hilton, candidate for governor of California.

You guys could check out stevehiltonforgovernor.com.

Steve, great to see you, my friend.

Steve, what do you make of Gavin Newsom's new media circuit?

Let's play 426, then I want your reaction.

Play cut 426.

Study is ranked the dirtiest cities in all of America.

And unfortunately for California, the rankings did not go in our favor.

The rankings come from the national lawn care company Lawn Starter.

They analyzed cleanliness in categories such as pollution, living conditions, waste infrastructure, and resident dissatisfaction with with the environment.

San Bernardino was ranked the dirtiest city both in California and in America.

Los Angeles ranked number two on both the state and national list.

Detroit, Michigan, placed number three, followed by Reading, Pennsylvania.

Two more California cities placed in the top 10.

Ontario was ranked as the fifth dirtiest city.

Corona rounded out the top 10 at number 10.

Yes, Steve, California could not have literally a bigger government to solve this.

And we know this to be true.

Your thoughts, Steve Hilton, on this topic more broadly?

Well, Gavin Newsom is a total failure and a total joke, Charlie.

I mean, it's great to be with you.

And you know this because you've been on it all along.

He is the worst governor in America by far.

I mean, you just listen.

Every day there's something new.

Those rankings on the filth and squalor in our great, beautiful cities that once were the pride of America in California.

But every other metric, right now in California, we have the highest unemployment rate in America.

We have the highest poverty rate in America, the highest cost for everything that matters.

Gas, electricity, water, insurance, everything, the most expensive, housing, rent, you name it.

We have the worst business climate in America, 10 years in a row.

I mean, on and on.

Everything is a disaster.

So what's he doing?

This ridiculous, incompetent idiot.

He's running around lecturing everyone.

about authoritarianism and democracy.

Meanwhile, rigging the elections even further in California with his redistricting thing that he claims is all about Texas.

But he gave the game away because at the start of it, he said this is really about, in his words, our opportunity to end the Trump presidency.

So he's just a joke.

One last thing I'll say, Charlie, is that, yes, just this week, we talk about the dirty cities.

I was in Oakland, California, in the Bay Area.

I put out a video of it because even to me, and I've been on the road now for years, and I've seen, I thought, everything in California, the scale of the squalor that I I saw and the homelessness was off the charts.

I put out a video and Gavin Newsom himself, a year ago, he went to a homeless encampment in LA for some photo op.

Nothing like as bad as what I just saw in Oakland this week.

Here's the quote from Gavin Newsom: quote, people are done.

If we don't deal with this, we don't deserve to be in office.

That was a year ago.

He's done nothing.

Just as when he sat down with you and agreed with you about the obscenity of biological men in girls' sports, he said, yeah, that's massively unfair, deeply unfair, he said.

What's he done about it since then?

Nothing.

This guy is an absolute joke.

That's why I'm running for governor, Charlie, because while it's a joke, it's not funny.

California is turning into a failed state.

We can't let that happen.

This is a serious job taking on this corrupt elite.

I've been, I was, my parents are Hungarian immigrants, working class.

I got to Oxford University.

I taught at Stanford University.

I started companies on both sides of the Atlantic.

I've worked at the highest level in government.

I've got the media platform.

We need a serious fighter to take on these corrupt, elite idiots who are destroying this beautiful state that should be the pride of America.

Yeah, and I mean, I completely agree.

And let's just play some of this of Gavin Newsom's press tour.

This is him at a political conference today.

Yeah.

I don't know what he's doing there.

Play cut 462.

Like govern your state.

There are still burned cars on the sides of the street in the Pacific Palisades from the fire in December.

And that fire was largely because of Gavin Newsom's gross negligence.

Play cut 462.

I don't think Donald Trump wants another election.

You think for a second he wants...

I have two dozen Trump 2028 hats.

His folks keep sending me.

And you think he's going to run again?

Who spends $200 million on a ballroom at their home and then leaves the house?

Okay, so we're obviously getting under his skin.

People are trolling him, and he doesn't get it, obviously.

But also, I mean, also his fake pause.

Like, he thinks he's leading our DiCaprio.

Like, oh, let me do this.

kind of fake pause.

Steve, there are immediate and urgent concerns in California.

There are burned cars still in Malibu, and Gavin Newsom can't get the California Highway Patrol to clean up the burnt cars from December.

I know.

Look,

I was there on the six-month anniversary of the fires, and I stood in front to do my press conference.

I had people who lost their homes and everything, and like all the community there with me.

We stood in front of a pile of rubble.

blocking the sidewalk six months on, right?

In January, he said, Gavin newsom said we're going to have a quote marshall plan marshall plan to rebuild los angeles six months on he can't even clear the sidewalk i mean this is the depth of his complete superficiality he's a complete buffoon nothing he says can be taken seriously but the problem is we've got to take him seriously because he does manage to pull the wool over people's eyes he's a good performer and the democrats are lapping it up they love this stuff so we've got to take that aspect of it seriously because you cannot have this guy.

He's obviously only interested now in running for president, zero interest in dealing with any of the massive problems that he and his corrupt regime have caused in California.

He's not interested in California at all.

But we can't let him anywhere near the White House.

He is so disastrous.

And so we've got to take that threat very seriously.

Yeah, so you mentioned the redistricting.

We didn't really cut, we didn't, we didn't land the plane here on this program because there's been so much going on.

So did Gavin Newsom officially pass a redistricting?

What does that mean?

Will that mean there'll be no more Republican seats in the state of California?

That story was happening so fast and it happened kind of over a weekend.

So super helpful for us for you to catch us up to speed on this.

So I'll just try and lay it out very, very simply.

And there's a number of lies that Newsom and the Democrats are saying.

First of all, they're saying that we have in California an independent districting process that the people voted for for over 10 years ago, and that we have fair districts.

That is not true.

Democrats have already gerrymandered California in an obscene and grotesque way, far worse than anything Republicans have done.

So, right now, we have roughly 40% of the votes statewide, Republicans in California.

And

in exchange for that, we have 17% of the House seats.

If we had fair representation today in California, we'd have another 12 House seats.

So, let's just be clear.

He's already stolen 12 House seats.

What they've just done is put in a bill in the legislature, which they passed and Gavin Newsom has signed, to amend the California Constitution, to officially take the power away from the Citizens Independent Districting Commission, to implement maps that they've already drawn.

The maps are part of this ballot initiative.

They're going to put it on the ballot in November.

It's happening.

And they're going to pass these maps for the next three congressional cycles.

And the maps would mean that instead of what we have now, which is nine congressional districts for Republicans in California out of 52, there would be four districts.

They're going to steal another five.

So you're going to end up in a situation where for 40% of the vote minimum, Republicans in California would have 6%.

of the House seats.

It is an outrageous power grab, totally corrupt, and we've got to fight it.

Now, I'm fighting to stop it even getting to the ballot.

We're working with my lawyers.

We're going to be filing a lawsuit next week on constitutional grounds in federal court to try and stop him even getting it to the ballot.

Because by the way, this is going to cost $250 million.

$250 million.

Purely, it's basically a donation to his presidential campaign.

That's the only reason he's doing it.

They claimed that it was responding to Texas.

At the last minute, they took that out of the legislation.

They said, we're only going to do this if Texas goes ahead.

And that was a Texas treatment.

They deleted it from the bill.

So it's going to happen anyway.

Steve, remind the audience how they can support your campaign.

There are three great comedy nights coming up.

And if you're in Southern California, go to hollywoodforhilton.com because we've got some great events Sunday, Monday, and next week in Southern California.

It's a great way to support the campaign.

Anyone who's around, we'd love to see you.

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Love it.

Thank you so much.

Steve Hilton, excellent as always.

Thank you so much.

Great to see you.

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If we do not have control over our great cities, then we are not a nation.

We're something else.

Share of Americans who think crime is a major problem in certain locations.

81% of Americans think that crime is a major problem in our large cities.

And again, crime is not some sort of mystery.

This is not us trying to come up with a vaccine or a pharmaceutical treatment for a virus or a disease.

And we need to kind of have a Manhattan Project type thing to bring everyone together.

No, this is actually very solvable.

Very simple.

Not hard.

You need to allow police to do their job.

You need to put people in jail for longer periods of time.

You need to increase the amount of police force and increase the amount of force in general on the ground.

This is not hard.

The left and the high society part types, they want you to think that crime is just normal and you have to put up with it.

And honestly, Mayor Giuliani and Mayor Bloomberg showed that you can reduce crime in New York City dramatically.

You do not need to have a council of PhDs sitting around and hypothesizing, well, maybe we send social workers.

And now the mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser, is thanking President Trump.

Thanking President Trump, saying this surge and this swarm of resources was very good.

A complete 180.

Had to admit it, it completely worked.

This is a template for the rest of the country.

There has been an 84% drop in carjackings.

And Blake made a very good point when we first started.

This better work.

We better have numbers and data.

Like, for example, if carjackings went down 10%,

you know, okay, that's a big, that's a big push.

But an 84% drop in carjackings, this is a 99 to 1 issue.

If Republicans want to win the future, we need to be harsh on crime.

Harsh on crime.

Not just hard, harsh on crime.

People now could be more relaxed at stoplights.

People can walk this Labor Day weekend at night in D.C.

and not have to worry about some teenager coming up and mugging them.

And we've put up with this largely because of an entire class of people that Rob Henderson calls, we just had an amazing interview with him, really great.

One of my favorite interviews I've done recently of the luxury belief class.

His entire theory is that there is a group of people, the ruling class, that hold luxury beliefs that are status markers

that

push policies on the rest of the population that they themselves never have to live under the consequences of.

81% of people think that crime is a major problem in major cities.

This is an 80, 90% issue.

And I think we, as Republicans, we need to have a national battle plan and say, why would we not deploy the FBI, the National Guard?

Do you know America becomes statistically

a dramatically less murderous, less violent country if you were just to be able to get crime to go down in our 15 largest cities.

The crime force in this country is so concentrated in our 15 to 20 highest cities.

If you were able to modestly be able to put down the Chicago crime rate, it brings down the entire national crime rate.

And this is also a housing issue.

People say, Charlie, how do you solve the housing issue?

Housing is cheaper for everyone when more neighborhoods are safe.

It's an economic issue.

A huge amount of growth is lost to crime.

This is all a mindset.

Crime is a mindset.

You get what you put up with.

But so many people will tell you that

this is a takeover unnecessary.

Look at this.

This is RoConna, Play Cut 270, Democrat.

In terms of Democrats standing up, should your Senate colleagues hold the government funding, hold their votes back on government government funding in a couple of weeks in order to pull something from Republicans, whether that is getting the National Guard out of Washington, D.C., less weaponization of the DOJ?

Should they be holding back their votes on the funding?

Is this even a question?

Of course we should.

Did we not learn our lesson when we acquiesced early on in the administration?

Look, we didn't start off with a good foot.

We had Democrats vote for Lake and Riley that has allowed for deportation without due process.

We had Democrats vote for capitulation.

We need to stand our ground.

You hear it right there.

That is a leading Democrat in the House that says we absolutely should make D.C.

more murderous.

We absolutely should make D.C.

more dangerous.

Roe Conna stands for more carjackings.

I would love a chance to talk to these guys.

This is such a winning issue for us.

I'd love to be booked on Eugene Daniels' show.

Maybe I should text him.

Why would you stand up against less murders?

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Joining us now is Mary Holland, President and General Counsel of the Children Health Defense.

Mary, great to see you.

I know we've been trying to schedule this for quite some time.

Mary,

you do some very important work.

Why don't you introduce yourself and your organization to our audience for those that might not be familiar?

Sure.

Pleasure to be here, Charlie.

Thank you.

So, Children's Health Defense was founded by Robert F.

Kennedy Jr., now the Secretary of Health and Human Services,

back in about 2016.

And it is devoted to making sure that people understand what are the toxic exposures that are causing the chronic epidemic, the epidemic of chronic health in children, to hold the culprits accountable and to put in place safeguards so that this doesn't happen again.

So we have a free newsletter called The Defender at childrenshealthdefense.org.

We have a streaming platform that we run every day.

We do original science and we do litigation to support children's health.

We focus right now on vaccines and vaccine injury and mandates and exemptions and also on electromagnetic radiation.

We definitely think that people do not fully adequately understand the hazards of the radiation we're all being exposed to, and particularly children.

Let's start with the second component there.

What do you mean by electromagnetic radiation?

Do you mean Wi-Fi?

And what evidence, what studies do you have to support how that might be hurting our children?

Sure.

So basically, Charlie, the laws went into effect in the early 1990s ahead of widespread use of Wi-Fi and tablets and cell phones and laptops and computers.

There's just been an explosion going from 3G to 4G to 5G, working now on 6G, 7G.

And there's a tremendous amount of science showing that especially for developing children, the level of radiation that we're being exposed to, especially things like Wi-Fi and antennas and cell towers, is harmful to some people.

And so unfortunately, the law that was passed, the Telecommunications Act in the late 1990s, basically preempted, federal law preempts any kind of changes at the local level, the city or the municipality or the state level.

And so we're working on that right now.

Basically, people who have a cell tower put right next to their house and it's causing strokes or tinnitus or heart attacks or cancer and all those things are real.

They need to be able to have some ability to organize and say, no, you can't put it here.

You can put it someplace else where it's not going to harm people in a residential community.

So we have something called 704 No More.

It's section 704 of the Telecommunications Act.

And we're challenging that.

That basically state and local governments have no say in these radiation exposures that can be very harmful.

So, Bobby Kennedy is the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

He worked with your organization for some time.

Is that right?

And how did you get interested in all this?

I find that those stories always to be something.

I believe he founded actually the Children's Health Defense, and now you're carrying the torch forward.

Tell us about that story.

Sure.

So, actually, Bobby

is an environmental lawyer, and he often tells the story that when he was on the, you know, sort of giving lectures about mercury toxicity and water, moms would come up to him and say, you know, if you really care about this mercury toxicity issue, you've got to look at vaccines.

And so, he finally did.

And then he went on the board of something called the World Mercury Project.

And then it would changed into children's health defense.

It's not just mercury that's the only problem in vaccines or the only exposures from all kinds of different sources.

So I came on the board at children's health defense in 2018.

I'm the mom of a young adult son who's on the autism spectrum who was vaccine injured.

And so I worked on the board and then came on as general counsel in 2019, became president in 2021, briefly worked on Bobby's campaign, but came back as president in 2023

and am carrying the torch.

But with many others, we have a robust staff.

And as I say, we work in four different areas, education, advocacy, litigation, and science.

Yeah, and I was, you know, I've been in this space for 13 years in the conservative movement.

And I was always struck by when I spoke at these events, there would be these moms with piles of documents trying to get my attention around this.

This was before COVID.

And I was always so struck by the passion.

and the intensity.

Mary, I want to get your reaction to this piece of tape.

This is Bobby Kennedy, who says he has found and we're finding interventions that are almost certainly causing autism.

Let's play cut 433.

We're finding

interventions, certain interventions now that are clearly, almost certainly causing autism.

And we're going to be able to address those in September.

So one in 10,000, and now it's one in 31 or 34 or 12 if it's a boy.

Can you imagine that?

And that was one in 10,000 not so long ago.

Mary, two questions.

Number one, what could it be that Bobby is alluding to?

Number two, the skeptics would say, no, we've just changed the way that we are formulating it.

That we're changing the way that we are formulating or tabulating, I should say, autism.

It's not that more people have autism.

It's that we're changing the way that we're doing the test.

What is your response to those two things?

Well, first, I just want to say I'm thrilled that this is now being discussed at a cabinet level because this is a national crisis, right?

If you have one in 31 kids, one in 12 and a half boys in California, within a couple generations, if it continues at the same pace, you don't have a country.

This costs already trillions of dollars.

So I'm thrilled that it's there.

What is Bobby Kennedy likely to point to in September?

As he's often said, there's no such thing as a genetic epidemic.

Obviously, there are environmental toxic exposures that are causing the autism epidemic.

And it may not be one factor.

So we look a lot.

My son has a diagnosis of autism, but basically his early vaccines that included mercury, that included aluminum, that included formaldehyde, that include the antigens, include viral viruses,

they pass through the blood-brain barrier and they cause neurological damage.

It's not that hard to figure out.

Definitely vaccines are not the only route to autism, but it's the main driver.

to autism.

But lots of things can cause it.

It's basically a toxic exposure that that affects the brain.

It also affects the rest of the body.

Most of the people who, many, many people who have autism have other comorbid conditions like seizures or like gut severe gut issues.

So I don't think it's a huge mystery.

Aluminum can cause brain injury.

Mercury causes brain injury.

Both of those have been used for decades in vaccines.

This is not such a big mystery.

And Bobby Kennedy has written several books about this, a book about thimerosol, a book called Vax Unvax, Let the Science Speak.

He's really well versed in this issue.

And I think now as secretary of HHS, he has access to data that he didn't have before.

So you mentioned your second point, Charlie, is this notion of, oh, we're just, we doctors are so much better at diagnosing.

Really, there's no

definition, right?

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Exactly.

Yeah, keep going.

But we've expanded the definition.

We had a guest recently that said that.

Please, I want your, I want you to walk us through that, please, Mary.

So I do want to acknowledge, Charlie, that there have been changes in the definition of, we had, we used to have something called Asperger's.

We had different things under an autism spectrum diagnosis.

We have changed the definitions.

We got rid of some.

We got rid of Asperger's and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified.

They've definitely been changing around the definitions, which only makes the picture muddier.

But as Bobby Kennedy said, and I was at his press conference in April at HHS, there is very clear evidence that there is a real rise.

They did a really excellent study back in the 1990s at the beginning of this rise in Wisconsin, and they looked at every factor.

And it is very clear that the real number has increased.

And some of the best research on this from University of California at Davis, Dr.

Picciota, it's clear it's a real rise.

This denial that, oh, yeah, we're just better at diagnosing or, you know, we think it's quirky kids.

That's just nonsense.

And also, as Bobby Kennedy said, and he was attacked for this in April, he's talking about what he's most concerned about are the cases of profound autism or severe autism.

And that's about 20% of the total number of people.

So yes, there are people who are very high functioning and who would say, oh, I'm autistic because, you know, I have some repetitive thoughts or I'm socially awkward.

That's not what we're talking about.

We're talking about the adults who cannot speak, the adults who cannot toilet themselves.

the adults who may have multiple seizures every day.

We're talking about the people who will never be able to hold a job, who will never be able to pay taxes.

That is a profound issue that the country has not been willing to look at because sad to say, it does implicate the medical establishment.

It does implicate the regulars.

It does implicate the conflicts of interest.

And I'm so grateful that Bobby Kennedy is in the position that he's in now.

as difficult as it is and it must be very difficult because he does have the tools now to get the data to persuade the american public.

This is what's really happening.

These are the facts.

This is not the spin.

This is not big pharma.

This is not big media.

This is the facts based on the records we have from Medicare and Medicaid.

And so what would you say to some people that are concerned that if we have lower vaccination rates, we'll see higher rates of

otherwise preventable diseases.

Please, Mary Holland from the Children Health Defense.

Listen,

we don't, we'd like to imagine that we have herd immunity from these vaccines right now.

You know, very few people, very few adults are going back to get their measles shots.

We have good treatments for the most severe of these childhood diseases.

The most transmissible is measles.

We know what to do if somebody gets measles.

I'm old enough that I had measles.

Every child in my family, and there were many, had measles.

People imagine that these are deathly diseases.

These are not deathly diseases.

They're really not, and we have good treatments for them.

So yes, and some people, there may be a much safer vaccine schedule.

There may be much safer ways to make vaccines with different adjuvants.

There's a whole opportunity here that we haven't had before.

But in my view, the fundamental issue is that people need to be able to make these choices for themselves and their children.

The government cannot mandate an injection that could kill a child, which is the reality that we live with right now.

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Okay, Mary Holland, in closing here, I want you to talk about the Grace Act.

What is the Grace Act being sponsored by Representative Stubbe?

What is your,

are you in support of this?

Religious exemptions from childhood vaccine mandates.

What is this all about?

Right, so this is Representative Stubbe is going to be dropping a bill in Congress.

He has a number of original sponsors.

It's called, it's basically guaranteeing religion, religious rights in the state.

So under our First Amendment to the Constitution, free exercise of religion is right up there at the very top of what are our rights under the federal constitution.

And four states, including my home state of New York, do not have any religious exemptions to vaccination.

46 states do, ensuring that parents who have religious convictions against vaccines for many different reasons, for

my body is my temple, for

they don't want anything cultured in aborted fetal cell lines, to they don't want anything from a different species and purity of the blood, lots of different religious concerns.

Those parents should have the right to that opportunity for their children to have them be free from vaccines.

And this bill would state simply that this, that Congress can pass this.

Congress has the right to enforce religious rights under the Restoration of Religious Freedom Act, RIFRA from 1993 under the First Amendment.

And this would cut off federal education funding to any state that does not have a religious exemption.

So a state can continue not to have a religious exemption if it so chooses, but it would forego federal educational money.

I think it's long overdue, Charlie.

We actually at Children's Health Defense believe that there should be no medical mandates.

The idea of a medical mandate putting the population above the individual is antithetical to human rights and to medical ethics.

So we are very clear that there should be no medical mandates whatsoever.

But while there are,

we want families to be able to opt out of them.

And we have a right to religious freedom in this country, thankfully.

And so I'm very happy that Children's Health Defense is supporting the GRACE Act by Representative Stuby.

In closing, what other work are you doing, Mary?

We have a minute remaining that you want our audience to be aware of.

What is the website?

How can people get involved?

Because there's a lot of people in our audience that...

are having difficulty navigating this.

They have questions.

They don't always know what they believe about this topic, but they also know that there is something wrong about giving an 18-month-old the COVID shot.

I mean, that one is just ridiculous.

Charlie, not an 18-month-old.

It had been six months olds that had been recommended.

There's a lot going.

The good news here is there's a lot going on in this space.

So we're at childrenshealthdefense.org and we have a free newsletter, the Defender, you can sign up for.

We have streaming every day at 10 a.m.

We bring on doctors and scientists and lawyers to talk about these issues.

And we would welcome you and you can send in your questions.

We have people who answer the phone.

We want to be there for you and your children so that you can have healthy lives and you can practice your faith as you see fit.

Mary Holland from the Children's Health Defense, thank you for your time.

Talk to you soon.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, everybody,

we have big breaking news.

The Democrats have a new fight song.

It is college football season.

You know, we got the huge game on Saturday.

We got Texas, Ohio State.

You know,

you could just sing some of the great fight songs of college football.

You just hear them.

The Notre Dame fight song,

the Michigan fight song.

Danny loves the Michigan fight.

We should play the Michigan fight song every day.

And Ohio State, I think Ohio State's fight song, I don't know what it is, actually.

The FSU fight song, which is probably the most annoying band.

It just makes my skin crawl.

I mean,

Ryan, you like that?

Come on.

You've never been to a Florida State football game.

USC actually has a very good fight song.

USC has an objectively good fight song.

I don't like SC.

Notre Dame is very good.

I think that's Notre Dame, right?

Yeah, I think that is.

But now the Democrats have their own fight song.

Am I right?

Is that yep?

I was right.

But now the Democrats, they have their own fight song.

And they're going to be really a force to be reckoned with.

This will be up there with the jump around UW-Madison tradition.

This will be up there with the organ fight song.

This will be up there.

Everybody, I can't tell you.

They have released their new fight song at the Democrat National Convention.

Play Cut 493.

D E M S, we rise

stronger together, blue skies.

Lift your voice, you're bold and true

onward, Democrats, we

shine

blue

D E M S, we rise.

Okay, so

they released the words and then someone put the music to AI, but the words are very real.

Let's do this again.

D E M S, we rise.

Stronger together, blue skies.

Lift your voice, we're bold and true.

Onward, Democrats, we shine blue.

That is the new fight song.

I mean, it honestly sounds like an AI wrote it.

That's like a large language model.

This is now the Democrats' answer.

I mean, this is totally the words an AI would come up with.

There it is on screen, everybody.

Let's say it together: D-E-M-S, we rise.

Stronger together, blue skies.

Lift your voice, we're bold and true.

Onward, Democrats, we shine blue.

Yeah, they're a pretty aimless bunch right now.

The downfall of Democrats being cool needs to be studied in a book and needs to be a masterclass start taught at every major university.

How Democrats went from the cool party when I first started Turning Point USA, put this back up on screen, to this.

This is something that would come up at a

Democrat bingo hall.

You know, that's what we need.

We need a fight song.

It's just so cringe.

Nothing is less cool than a Democrat activist right now.

When you think of just a model Democrat, you're like, I don't want to spend time, and they're just going to scold me and police my language.

The only cool people on the left hate Democrats.

And if you actually want to end up being cool, you have to be a Mamdani-level communist.

So say it with me, everybody.

D-E-M-S, we rise.

Stronger together, blue skies.

Lift your voice, we're bold and true.

Do you know how you know it's AI?

Because of that little line.

AI uses that line a lot more than humans do.

Between Democrats and we, whatever they call it.

That's how you know AI wrote it.

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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