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Simon Van Zylenwood

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
196 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

He was too pro-Israel.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

He was too in favor of the U.S.-Israel relationship and U.S.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

support for Israel's war on Gaza.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

He was seen as too pro-immigration.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

And mind you, this is somebody who wants to deport every undocumented immigrant in the country.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

He was too in favor of legal immigration.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

The big flashpoints on the young Gen Z right now is the question of legal immigration and H-1B tech-oriented visas.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

Especially at STEM schools, a lot of these kids basically just think, well, we can't compete with foreign labor.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

It's too whatever.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

And there's these litmus tests.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

So they'll just over and over again.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

It's like you sit in these rooms and it's like the only two policies in the entire world involve Israel and H-1B visas.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

Like you cannot say those words enough on conservative campuses right now.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

And so Charlie Kirk used to get grilled the exact same way.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

And he would get grilled by the so-called groipers.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

This has happened for years.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

Groypers are followers of the white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who's a podcaster who broadcasts every night alone.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

And he's sort of a darkly transgressive figure who says stuff that, you know, would have been beyond the pale before him.