Topics: News Commentary, News, Politics
**Charlie Kirk** (0:03)
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 USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA 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.
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**Andrew Colvet** (1:17)
All right, welcome everybody. It is Monday, August 10th, 2026 Blake's holding it down in the Y Reefi Studios. How are we doing, Blake?
**Blake** (1:26)
I'm doing great. I think we're coming to the cosmic realization, Andrew, that it is my Mike flag now. I think I have possessed this flag more days in the last month than you have, and I don't think that's going to be changing this week.
**Andrew Colvet** (1:38)
So I'm the captain now. That's what Blake says. Well, listen, Blake, I entirely disagree. It is my Mike flag. I'll be there to reclaim it in due time. Nevertheless, we have a show to do about much of the news that has been happening, and I would be remiss if we did not be honest with this audience about what we are facing in this current moment.
Now, if you asked me, is it okay to vote Democrat? I would tell you, very, very clearly, absolutely not. I don't know what's gotten into people across the podcast sphere, the internet sphere. There is a lot of people that will look you straight in the face that you have known to be conservatives for many years that will tell you, actually we need to vote Democrat. We need to burn this down and we need to usher in an era of post left and right politics. That's an old paradigm, bro.
Well, that's not true.
If you vote Democrat, they will let in 3 to 5 million third-worlders a year illegally and they will do it happily. They will smile to your face. They will lie to you about why they are doing it, that it's even happening at all. They will tell you the border is secure and they will overrun this country. For that issue alone, you should never vote Democrat again. There are myriad issues of which you could put in that category. But for that issue alone, you do not want America to be invaded again by third-worlders. If you have kids, grandkids, you do not want to vote Democrat.
But if our pitch is only going to be that voting Democrat is the least worst choice, or is the most worst choice, and that voting Republican is the least worst choice, then that is not an inspiring message to about 50% of the country. Because you got 25% Hardin on this side, 25% Hardin on that side, and you got about the mushy middle, the normies as we sometimes call them. And that's not a pejorative, by the way. People should not be so fixated on politics. The politics of this country should run itself and should be something you could sort of put in the background and depend upon that it will be handled professionally in an adult manner with common sense. What's in the best interest of the country? We are not in that era.
And so there are a lot of people fixated on politics and they're just getting bad vibes. And I will repeat myself till I'm blue in the face that I think it goes back to the way Epstein was handled for a lot of people that felt like a psychic break, a betrayal of trust, of transparency. Whether or not the admin knew that, I don't think they understood that, but it was a break, okay? And you could get mad at me in the emails if you want that we're playing into the hoax. I'm just telling you the politics of it, folks. Now, do I think Trump did anything wrong? No, of course. But I think that it could have been handled better. Then you get into Iran. A lot of people believe that President Trump said no new wars. It's not exactly what he said. He was very consistent on Iran. Nevertheless, the Iran conflict, you go back to Midnight Hammer, but then you get into the spring and the ongoing conflict with Iran. It's been a drag, okay? It's been a drag. And unfortunately, this has resulted in some very negative polling and we have to be honest about it. We have to offer something better than we're just not as bad as the other guys. And I think Blake would agree. Blake, I'm going to play this clip and then I'm going to have your reaction on the other side and you can, you can sort of analyze how we got here. Stop 15
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