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Simon Van Zylenwood

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
196 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

Like, TPSA, there's all these girls.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

There was this male president of a TPSA chapter that was saying that, you know, his dating life has never been better since he became president of TPSA.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

Like, it's that sort of dynamic.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

Even pre-Erica Kirk, part of it is this more kind of ecumenical populist look at politics.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

They're not obsessed with immigration in Israel to this kind of debilitating extent.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

There's a kind of bigger tent.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

And there's also a handful of issues that TPSA really homes in on.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

that is activating for conservative women in the Heartland or the South or Kirk country, as I call it, all over the country.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

TPSA has an influencer called Alex Clark who hosts a podcast and she's a big Maha influencer.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

Maha, extremely popular right now with young conservative women.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

There are other kind of, quote, trad, unquote, influencers who are affiliated with TPSA.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

There's also two really, really interesting issues that are activated in the Deep South and in kind of athlete-focused state schools in particular.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

And I call it the issues of the two Rileys, Lakin Riley and Riley Gaines.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

Laken Riley was a nursing student who was killed by a Venezuelan migrant in 2024 near the University of Georgia campus, a Venezuelan who entered illegally during the Biden administration.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

And then there's Riley Gaines, who is a swimmer who was at the University of Kentucky who competed against the trans athlete Leah Thomas, who swam at University of Pennsylvania.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

Trans sports issues and illegal immigration are issues that TPSA focused on a lot, and especially the trans sports issue.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

And you go to these big state schools,

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

And TPUSA conservative women, especially on the Riley Gaines issue, the swimming issue, are extremely radicalized against liberals.

Today, Explained
They are Charlie Kirk

They feel like liberals have sold women like them out.