Brett Cooper Reveals How Charlie Kirk's Assassination Awakened Generation Z Across America and Beyond

[00:00] Gen Z has basically been the butt of

[00:02] every joke for years. We were written

[00:04] off by most people in politics,

[00:07] especially on the political right here

[00:08] in America, except for one person, and

[00:12] that was Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk

[00:14] never gave up on Gen Z, and we are

[00:16] witnessing the impacts of that right

[00:18] now.

[00:22] So, the thing that has given me the most

[00:24] hope in the wake of Charlie Kirk's

[00:26] brutal assassination last week has been

[00:28] seeing the response from young people.

[00:31] And obviously, if you have spent any

[00:33] time on social media over the last week,

[00:35] obviously there have been incredibly

[00:37] vile remarks from people in the

[00:39] mainstream media, from young people on

[00:41] Tik Tok, on X, on threads, you name it,

[00:43] Reddit. It has been disgusting. And

[00:46] instead I want to focus on something

[00:47] that has given me a lot of hope and that

[00:50] has been the response from good moral

[00:54] young people around the country. Young

[00:56] people who in a sense have been awakened

[00:59] and roused by Charlie's death. And I

[01:02] want to share some of those videos with

[01:03] you because as I've been scrolling on

[01:05] social media, um, nap trapped with my

[01:08] newborn, trying to make sense of

[01:10] everything that has gone on over the

[01:11] last seven days, these are the videos

[01:13] that have inspired me and made me think,

[01:16] okay, not all hope is lost. For example,

[01:20] these are high school students in

[01:22] Washington State. These are high school

[01:24] students on a school night celebrating

[01:26] Charlie Kirk and his legacy. And the

[01:28] cars are honking in support. These are

[01:30] all young people, all high schoolers.

[01:32] They're out with candles. They are out

[01:33] with signs, posters, and this has been

[01:36] across the country. I saw a few in

[01:38] California, like in Orange County, um,

[01:40] Huntington Beach area. There was a huge,

[01:43] huge demonstration in Beverly Hills that

[01:45] was not just young people, but they were

[01:46] families there. And again, they have

[01:48] just been everywhere. This one is

[01:49] actually on the campus of University of

[01:52] Tennessee Knoxville Govalls. And the

[01:54] thing that stood out to me the most

[01:55] about so many of these videos is that

[01:57] they were not organized by the schools.

[01:59] These were not organized by TPSA

[02:02] chapters. Even though there have been

[02:03] visuals that have been organized by

[02:04] TPSA, they are not organized by young

[02:06] Republicans or the GOP. These are just

[02:08] young people who were so impacted by

[02:12] Charlie and what he did. the way that he

[02:14] brought people together, the way that he

[02:16] spoke to young people, his activism,

[02:18] they were impacted by him and they came

[02:20] together to celebrate that all on their

[02:23] own valition, which was so incredible. I

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[03:34] Here is a photo from the Candlelight

[03:36] Vigil for Charlie Kirk at Texas A&M. I

[03:38] cannot even count how many people were

[03:41] there. Um, you're also seeing things

[03:43] like this was at Auburn, I believe, at

[03:46] one of their tailgates last week for

[03:48] college football. Long live Charlie

[03:50] Kirk. Um, and it was a fraternity that

[03:53] put up this sign. Um, here we have

[03:55] another one. This is at Miss and some

[03:57] students hung out the sign, pray for the

[03:59] Kirks. Again, completely on their own

[04:03] valition. Nobody's telling them to do

[04:05] this. But that is how impacted they were

[04:08] by Charlie and his work. It has been so

[04:10] prevalent on social media that I feel

[04:13] like it has completely, at least for me,

[04:15] washed away the hate and the vitrial

[04:16] that I have seen. It was so prevalent,

[04:18] especially in the 24 hours in the

[04:20] aftermath. But it has become so

[04:22] widespread that even the New York Times

[04:24] had to take note. And this is the video

[04:26] that they uploaded about Charlie Kirk's

[04:28] young fans. Just take a watch.

[04:30] He actually played a big role in how I

[04:33] thought about politics and how I put

[04:38] politics and God together. One day I was

[04:42] scrolling on Tik Tok. It was probably

[04:45] like 2020 and I found him and I really

[04:49] just loved what he was saying.

[04:51] I was so heartbroken when they told me

[04:54] Charlie was just because somebody says

[04:56] something you don't like doesn't mean

[04:58] you get to kill people. He didn't

[04:59] deserve it.

[05:01] I am 10 years old and how I learned

[05:03] about Charlie Kirk was he did these

[05:04] really great shows. And one of the most

[05:06] important things that he said is I love

[05:08] God. I love my family and I love my

[05:10] country. I just have to pause there

[05:11] because I think it's pretty incredible

[05:13] that a 10-year-old has more of a moral

[05:16] compass and empathy than a lot of people

[05:18] online obviously based on what we've

[05:20] seen over the last seven days. But that

[05:22] just because somebody says something you

[05:24] don't agree with or that you don't like

[05:25] doesn't mean you just get to go kill

[05:27] people. It seems obvious that a

[05:28] 10-year-old would be able to articulate

[05:30] that and understand that. But in the

[05:31] world that we live in, with everything

[05:32] that we have seen online, the disgusting

[05:35] people celebrating Charlie's

[05:36] assassination, it has become abundantly

[05:38] clear that we do not live in a very sane

[05:42] world. There are people that share our

[05:45] air who do not agree with that

[05:46] statement. And that is why it is so

[05:47] impressive that a 10-year-old is able to

[05:50] share that, especially in the

[05:52] socopolitical climate that we're living

[05:53] in. kind of said what we were all

[05:55] thinking just that traditional families

[05:59] is just that's just how families are

[06:01] supposed to be done.

[06:04] That's what resonated with a lot of us.

[06:08] I'm not really big on politics.

[06:11] I was a little bit more in between and

[06:14] just kept the peace and didn't speak my

[06:17] mind. Honestly, going forward, this

[06:20] makes me more empowered to

[06:25] feel a little bit more conservative and

[06:27] speak my mind, honestly, cuz I'm just so

[06:29] sick of it.

[06:32] It feels we're on the brink of something

[06:35] that's a little bit scary, but a little

[06:37] bit revolutionary. I think it's so

[06:38] incredible that that young woman said

[06:40] that, you know, Charlie's death, the

[06:43] impact on her is that it's going to

[06:44] encourage her to be more outspoken and

[06:47] more conservative because at the end of

[06:48] the day, that is what Charlie wanted.

[06:51] Obviously, he hoped that people would

[06:53] find God and that they would be

[06:55] conservative, that they would love

[06:57] traditional values. But he also just

[06:59] wanted young people not to be silent. He

[07:01] wanted them to get involved. He wanted

[07:03] them to wrestle with big ideas and

[07:05] debate and seek to understand each

[07:07] other. He had this idea of a world that

[07:10] was based on civil discourse and

[07:11] understanding. He wanted young people to

[07:13] live happy and healthy and full lives.

[07:16] He was concerned about our economy and

[07:18] the things that Gen Z and Gen Alpha will

[07:20] be facing. He was concerned about the

[07:21] fact that we can't buy homes, that young

[07:24] people are not getting married because

[07:25] they are scared about the economy, that

[07:27] they are scared about, you know, world

[07:29] wars. He listened to young people. His

[07:32] fight was not one-sided. He had a

[07:34] holistic view of how he thought Gen Z

[07:37] should thrive based on what people in my

[07:40] generation were actually saying to him,

[07:41] what he was actually seeing on college

[07:43] campuses. And so, you know, the comments

[07:47] on this New York Times video were

[07:49] obviously disgraceful. People were not

[07:51] happy to see the New York Times publish

[07:53] something that was as as unbiased as

[07:55] this was, that was genuinely kind and

[07:58] sweet without a, you know, snide remark

[08:01] in the video. And I'm really glad they

[08:03] posted it. And I think it probably

[08:05] forced some people in their audience to

[08:07] reconcile with what Charlie meant to

[08:09] young people if they actually took the 3

[08:12] minutes to watch the video in its

[08:13] entirety, which granted based on the

[08:15] comments, I'm guessing they did not. But

[08:18] everything that you saw there in that

[08:20] video, the vigils from across the

[08:22] country, that is why people feared

[08:26] Charlie so much. But obviously, they

[08:28] didn't just fear him, they hated him.

[08:31] Millions of people hated him with a

[08:33] burning passion because of the things we

[08:35] just talked about, his hateful beliefs,

[08:37] the lies that they saw online, the clips

[08:39] that were taken out of context. And I

[08:41] just want to say, if you are somebody

[08:43] that is watching this video and you have

[08:44] fallen in that camp, first of all, I'm

[08:47] glad you're here. I'm glad you're

[08:48] watching. I'm glad we are talking. But

[08:50] if you are somebody who wants to

[08:52] understand Charlie better and understand

[08:54] his beliefs better and maybe see

[08:55] everything within the full scope of what

[08:57] he was trying to convey, I would highly

[08:59] encourage you to go watch my friend Amir

[09:01] Odum's video. He did an incredible

[09:03] video. It is getting millions of views

[09:04] on YouTube and on X. It was so well put

[09:07] together. He basically debunks

[09:08] everything about Charlie. And Amir is

[09:10] one of my best friends. He is a black

[09:12] gay conservative. So, he's coming at it

[09:13] from that perspective. It's very humble.

[09:16] It's very insightful. But back to the

[09:17] point that I was making. So many people

[09:19] did hate Charlie, but they really were

[09:22] terrified of him because of the

[09:23] influence that we have been talking

[09:25] about. And it isn't just, you know,

[09:27] shown in Tik Toks and tweets and vigils.

[09:30] The data backs all of this up. In fact,

[09:32] I have an article pulled up here.

[09:34] According to a national survey done by

[09:35] Tik Tok, the platform's users under 30

[09:37] who voted for Trump trusted Kirk more

[09:40] than any other individual. young

[09:42] Republicans, young independents, people

[09:45] who were, you know, wanting to walk away

[09:46] from the left, they were listening to

[09:49] Charlie. He was the voice of this

[09:52] generation, of this political faction. I

[09:55] mean, this was obviously evident in the

[09:56] 2024 election with how many young people

[09:58] came over for Trump that had not been

[10:00] seen for Republicans ever before. But it

[10:02] is even more evident when you see this

[10:04] visual of how college campuses shifted

[10:07] politically in 2024. This is insane. If

[10:09] you have lost hope in the American

[10:11] political system, if you have ever

[10:13] doubted Gen Z, I am excited to show you

[10:15] this because almost every single college

[10:18] campus that they surveyed shifted to the

[10:20] right. Young voters on college campuses

[10:22] shifted towards Trump. Look at these

[10:23] arrows. This is where the GOP gained I

[10:26] think I only see one arrow that's moving

[10:29] towards the left. Basically, every

[10:30] single college campus moved towards the

[10:33] right. And I would stake my life on

[10:35] saying that Charlie Kirk was a

[10:37] significant motivating factor in this.

[10:40] Not just because of his viral videos and

[10:41] his presence on social media, but the

[10:43] fact that he was actually there. He

[10:44] showed up to those campuses. He debated

[10:47] in good faith. He had conversations that

[10:49] lasted longer than 30 secondond Tik

[10:51] Toks. He sought to understand and

[10:54] therefore he was able to change people's

[10:56] minds. But guys, it wasn't just on

[10:58] American soil. This is also something

[10:59] I'm so excited to show you. Charlie's

[11:01] influence was global. And again, I know

[11:03] that there has been a lot of disgusting

[11:05] bitterness and vitrial, just absolutely

[11:08] asinine posts over the last seven days.

[11:10] But I hope you have also seen videos

[11:13] like this. It is genuinely remarkable.

[11:16] In fact, as I was sitting down to film

[11:18] this video, I was scrolling on Instagram

[11:19] and I saw posters from an event that is

[11:21] being held in Peru. And the comments as

[11:24] I was going through and clicking, you

[11:25] know, the Instagram translate button,

[11:27] there were so many young people saying,

[11:29] "Thank you, Charlie. your impact was so

[11:31] widespread. This was a good man. He

[11:33] sought to understand. He sought to

[11:34] spread the gospel. Like this was an

[11:36] incredible person. We're so excited to

[11:38] celebrate him. I mean, guys, this is a

[11:39] global global influence. And I kind of

[11:43] want to jump into something that is

[11:44] happening in the world right now because

[11:45] I know we're spending a lot of time

[11:46] talking about Charlie and we should be

[11:48] because again, his influence was

[11:51] unmatched. But I also think Charlie

[11:53] would want us to continue and continue

[11:55] talking about current events and

[11:56] continue the fight moving forward. And I

[11:58] know people are starting to do that. But

[12:00] all of this made me think of something

[12:01] that has been going on in the last

[12:02] couple of weeks in Nepal because Jenzers

[12:06] in Nepal just successfully overthrew

[12:08] their communist government in a albeit

[12:11] very violent revolution. Gen Z just

[12:14] overthrew a communist government. We'll

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[14:14] not here to say that Charlie was the

[14:16] cause of this or had any role in this. I

[14:18] have actually not seen any posts linking

[14:20] him to this whatsoever. This Nepal story

[14:23] was kind of brushed under the rug

[14:24] obviously um in the wake of Charlie's

[14:26] assassination. But I do think that this

[14:28] story is relevant considering how much

[14:30] has changed in Gen Z. How much Gen Z has

[14:33] been awakened over the last couple of

[14:35] years. And if you have not followed this

[14:37] story, basically it starts with Nepal's

[14:40] prime minister whose name is KP Sharma

[14:41] Oi who had been serving since 2018 and

[14:44] was the chairman of Nepal's Communist

[14:47] Party which I believe was founded in

[14:49] 2014. So he's been the prime minister

[14:51] for four terms since 2018. And under his

[14:55] governance, Nepal has absolutely

[14:57] crumbled. The economic gap has widened.

[15:00] A fourth of the country allegedly has

[15:02] fled because they could not survive in

[15:04] Nepal. The average income was $1,400 a

[15:08] month. I believe it might be less than

[15:10] that. So you can fact check me, but I

[15:11] believe that that is what I saw. I have

[15:13] that written down. So economically,

[15:15] Nepalies were struggling. Meanwhile, the

[15:17] political communist elites were living

[15:19] lavishly and of course were preaching

[15:21] about equality. They were saying, "Yes,

[15:22] we are, you know, Marxist. We are

[15:24] socialist, communists and we are here to

[15:26] help everyone live an equal life. We are

[15:28] spreading equity. Everything we are

[15:30] doing is for your benefit even though

[15:32] you are living in poverty and you know

[15:35] us and our families were living lavish

[15:37] lives in these huge you know mansions

[15:39] and castles right next door to you. Now

[15:41] simultaneously while all of this was

[15:42] happening the United States through USA

[15:45] ID was sending Nepal money. We had

[15:47] committed $900 million over the last 5

[15:50] years, I believe, and we were sending

[15:53] this money to the political elites in

[15:54] Nepal to help spread a democracy.

[15:57] However, based on recent reports, it

[15:59] looks like that didn't actually happen.

[16:00] And what we were doing with our American

[16:02] tax dollars was simply lining the

[16:04] pockets of these communist elites.

[16:06] Obviously, the people of Nepal were fed

[16:08] up. They were angry, especially Gen Z.

[16:11] And so, Gen Z did what Gen Z does best,

[16:14] and they took to social media. They went

[16:15] on Tik Tok and they started a trend

[16:17] called the Nepo baby trend where

[16:19] basically they would talk about the

[16:21] communist Nepo babies of the communist

[16:23] politicians in Gen Z and they use Tik

[16:25] Tok and this trend to demonstrate the

[16:27] drastic differences between the lives of

[16:29] these children and the lives of normal

[16:32] regular Nepales. Just watch one of these

[16:34] videos and we're going to have to cut

[16:35] the sound on this due to copyright but

[16:37] behind this video is the winner takes it

[16:39] all by ABBA. And all of this started

[16:41] about a month ago I believe. So, this

[16:43] was really ramping up over the last

[16:44] couple of weeks. Here's another example

[16:46] of this. Again, just contrasting the

[16:48] lives. Now, these videos went mega viral

[16:51] and Tik Tok just blew up. The

[16:53] conversation kept getting louder and

[16:56] bigger. It was spreading around the

[16:58] world. It was not just limited to Nepal.

[17:01] And the government was furious. They saw

[17:03] that unrest was stirring in their

[17:05] country. They saw how angry Jenzie was.

[17:07] And so they did what communists like to

[17:10] do and they asserted more authority.

[17:12] They thought, "Oh, okay. I know how we

[17:14] can stop Gen Z. We will ban social

[17:16] media." It's almost laughable that they

[17:19] thought that would work. So they did it

[17:20] in one full swoop. They banned 26 apps

[17:24] in total. And they claimed that it was

[17:26] because these apps were not following

[17:27] Nepal's rules for registering with the

[17:29] government and paying some sort of

[17:30] digital tax. but really because an

[17:32] uprising was brewing because Gen Z had

[17:35] realized that their government was not

[17:37] working for them. Now, in response to

[17:40] this digital iron curtain being slammed

[17:42] down, Gen Z unleashed and they started a

[17:46] revolution that completely toppled the

[17:48] Nepal government in 48 hours, guys. 48

[17:54] hours, Gen Z toppled a communist

[17:56] government. Here are some photos from

[17:57] this # wakeup Nepal. Unmute our voice.

[18:00] The time is now. Wake up Nepal. Again,

[18:02] all young people. This is an incredible

[18:04] video that people have been sharing.

[18:06] Here they are even tearing down the

[18:08] hammer and sickle flag at the Communist

[18:10] Party of Nepal headquarters. I mean,

[18:12] that is an image for the ages. I know

[18:14] that Jenz laughs about this and we say,

[18:16] you know, we're tired of living through

[18:18] these massive historical events, but

[18:20] that's really what's happening. I mean,

[18:21] these are things that are going to be

[18:22] written about in textbooks. Jenz is now

[18:25] taking life and politics and government

[18:28] by the horns, literally ripping down

[18:31] communist flags. Jenzie was able to do

[18:33] all of this. They were able to organized

[18:35] through the use of VPNs and different

[18:37] secure messaging channels. And within a

[18:39] day, within 24 hours, they had all

[18:42] organized on Discord and they had voted

[18:45] in a new prime minister. I believe that

[18:47] a 100,000 people had joined this

[18:48] Discord. They had a lineup of different

[18:50] people. They voted in. They voted in a

[18:52] woman. The military has now even had to

[18:55] recognize this vote. They have

[18:57] recognized the revolution and they are

[18:58] standing with the Gen Z revolutionaries.

[19:01] Now obviously this was not peaceful in

[19:03] the slightest. A lot of people are very

[19:05] angry about this. A lot of people

[19:07] believe that this has actually just set

[19:08] Nepal back hundreds of years. And

[19:10] granted due to the infrastructure that

[19:11] has been destroyed, I am sure that that

[19:13] is true. Many have died. Hundreds have

[19:15] been injured. I believe thousands of

[19:17] prisoners were emptied into the streets

[19:19] when the prisons were burned. It has

[19:21] been chaotic and bloody as all

[19:24] revolutions in history have been. But it

[19:26] paints an important picture and that is

[19:28] why I am sharing it with you because Gen

[19:30] Z is unlike the other generations that

[19:33] are living right now. that might be

[19:35] completely unlike any other generation

[19:36] that we have ever experienced purely

[19:38] because of the way that we were raised

[19:40] and the digital world that we are living

[19:42] in. And around the world, whether it is

[19:44] in Peru or Nepal or Germany or New

[19:47] Zealand, wherever we are seeing these

[19:49] vigils, these protests, these

[19:51] celebrations of Charlie, Jenz is waking

[19:54] up. Jenz is fighting back against the

[19:56] status quo. Jenz is becoming bolder and

[19:58] more courageous. And especially here in

[20:01] America, I do believe that Charlie's

[20:02] assassination has roused something even

[20:05] deeper, something that is far more

[20:06] spiritual. We are seeing that in the

[20:08] young people that are flooding churches

[20:10] around the country who are saying, "I'm

[20:12] coming here for Charlie. I've never gone

[20:13] to church before. I haven't been to

[20:15] church since I would go with my parents,

[20:16] but I am showing up here today because

[20:18] it is so important and because it is

[20:20] what Charlie Kirk would have wanted."

[20:22] And this is so important to me because

[20:23] again, for years, people have overlooked

[20:26] my generation. We have been mocked and

[20:29] laughed at. We have been waved off,

[20:31] especially by conservatives, especially

[20:33] by the political right. People said,

[20:34] "There's no hope with Gen Z. Let's just

[20:36] move on to the next generation. Gen

[20:38] Alpha seems kind of crazy, but maybe we

[20:40] can rely on them. Gen Z is too far gone.

[20:43] We cannot rely on them." And granted,

[20:45] there were a lot of things to critique.

[20:47] I have been one to critique uh Jenz. I

[20:50] actually have a full maternity leave

[20:51] episode that is talking about some of

[20:53] the psychological issues that Jenzie is

[20:54] going through right now. I think that

[20:56] there are important things to critique,

[20:57] but I've never believed that hope has

[20:58] been lost with Gen Z, even when so many

[21:01] people did. And Charlie Kirk never wrote

[21:04] us off. He never faltered in that. He

[21:07] consistently fought for us. He fought

[21:09] for us. He fought with us. He fought to

[21:12] help young people find courage no matter

[21:14] where they were in their lives, whether

[21:16] they were high school students, college

[21:17] students, young people who were coming

[21:19] to work for him, starting their careers.

[21:20] He fought to help people cross the aisle

[21:23] and seek understanding and have civil

[21:25] discourse and break through the anger

[21:27] and the vitrial and the bitterness that

[21:29] held so many of us apart when we

[21:31] disagreed with others. And above all, in

[21:33] my opinion, he encouraged Gen Z to seek

[21:36] moral goodness, to be good people, to

[21:39] create good lives, to live empowered

[21:41] lives that were fulfilling, to find God

[21:44] and start families and fall in love and

[21:47] do something meaningful with your life

[21:49] because that is goodness and that will

[21:51] bring you fulfillment and joy. That

[21:52] above all else is what Charlie was

[21:55] advocating for. And clearly based on

[21:57] everything that I am seeing on social

[21:59] media as I am up at 3:00 a.m. nursing a

[22:02] baby, scrolling online, clearly Charlie

[22:05] was successful, and that is something

[22:08] that will always be worth celebrating.

[22:10] Talk to you guys next time.

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