Scott Jennings Shares Message To 'Mindless Liberals' Who Tell Him He'll Regret His Vote For Trump

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Scott Jennings speaks at Turning Point USA's "Student Action Summit" in Tampa, Florida.

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00:00Good afternoon, Tampa.

00:05I'm not used to hearing applause when I walk out onto the stage at the office these days.

00:10It's all garlic and crucifixes for yours truly.

00:15Or should I say, how do you do, fellow comrades?

00:17That's what they'll be saying in New York City soon enough, right?

00:20You know, I'm not sure why people are mad at me on these cable panels all the time.

00:27I'm just the designated driver at a party where everybody else is trying to crash the

00:31country into a ditch.

00:34I don't know whether I'm the Caitlin Clark of CNN or she's the Scott Jennings of the WNBA.

00:39Either way, we take a lot of abuse, but we score a lot of points along the way.

00:45I actually admire her, but I don't get it.

00:50They finally found someone who can make a layup and sell tickets.

00:54And their reaction is, let's see how smart she is after we gouge your eyes out.

01:00The trick to being a good pundit, it's also good advice for life.

01:04Just tell the truth and keep smiling.

01:07You'd be shocked at how few people can do it.

01:10But I'm not here today to talk about cable news or basketball.

01:15I'm here to talk about something bigger.

01:18About what's happening in the heartland of America.

01:21I'm here to talk about the revolution of common sense.

01:30That's the title of my upcoming book.

01:32And the phrase is courtesy of Donald J. Trump.

01:36And I wrote it, absolutely.

01:39And I wrote it because half the country deserves a defense of perhaps the greatest opening six

01:46months of any presidential term ever.

01:49And because I am tired of mindless liberals telling me every night, any day now, you all

01:56are all going to regret your votes from last November.

02:01Does a single person in this hall wish you could hop in a hot tub time machine and go back

02:08to November and vote for Kamala Harris or that buffoon Tim Walz?

02:14Hell no.

02:16Ladies and gentlemen, this is what I voted for.

02:20This is what we voted for.

02:25I wrote this book because I'm tired of gender studies majors lecturing welders about economics.

02:32I'm tired of condescending garbage from a political party that cares more about dudes who want

02:37to be women than dudes who just want to be dudes.

02:41The truth of the matter is, in America, common sense is back.

02:47And it's not, yes, it's not coming from the people who pump out the narratives and the

02:52BS.

02:54It's coming from places like this.

02:56From the grassroots, from middle America, from the bottom up, from people like our friend

03:01Charlie, and from every single person in this room.

03:07And who kicked this revolution into high gear?

03:11Who turned common sense into a battle cry?

03:14Who campaigned without flinching?

03:17And who governs without apology?

03:19The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

03:26Now here's a reality check for my colleagues.

03:29The President's having the best six months of any President of the modern era.

03:33His policies reinforce and advance the conservative movement, and they put America back on track.

03:39We encourage work instead of government dependence.

03:43We prioritize American citizens over illegal aliens.

03:47We secure the border instead of pretending that it doesn't exist.

03:51We unleash American energy instead of bottling it up.

03:55We keep taxes low on the people who actually pay them.

03:59The working men and women of this country.

04:02From the assembly lines, to the barber shops, to the diners, to the garbage trucks, to the

04:07farmers in the fields.

04:09Hardworking Americans that just want to get up and go to work, provide for their families,

04:14make their lives a little bit better without being condescended to by the elites in Washington,

04:18D.C.

04:20They now have a champion in the White House.

04:22Oh, and by the way, he's delivering world peace along the way.

04:28The Middle East, Africa.

04:32For God's sakes, give this man the Nobel Peace Prize already.

04:40And he's doing it all in the face of a hysterical opposition that has not recovered from the trauma

04:45of last November.

04:47Let's see.

04:48The Clintons, the Obamas, feel free to boo along.

04:53The Bidens, the Harrises, the Never Trumpers, the leftist media, the narratives, the lies,

05:01the political information distribution complex.

05:05Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone.

05:13All thanks to our President, Donald Trump.

05:16But here's the best part.

05:17He's not alone.

05:19He's got a movement.

05:21It's young, it's smart, and it's hungry to win.

05:27Now judging by the statements of some of my sparring partners lately, the left is panicked.

05:35Why?

05:36Because you aren't playing by their rules anymore.

05:40They want you to sit down and shut the F up.

05:44They want you to stay in your lane.

05:46Little did they realize that you would build your own road and go right through them.

05:56You all stand unapologetically for free speech in the places that they thought they owned.

06:02And Trump is bringing radical campuses like Harvard, Columbia, and UPenn to heal as we speak.

06:13Now let me be blunt and give you a direct message.

06:16We cannot concede any ground.

06:19Not an inch.

06:21Not a campus.

06:22Not a corporate hallway.

06:24Not a school board.

06:25Not a TV network.

06:27Not a single corner of our culture will we concede.

06:31And certainly not a dictionary, which is under assault from people who think words and DNA

06:36no longer have any meaning.

06:39Trump scares these people to death because they know he's gone right around them, straight

06:44to the American people.

06:46Our old cultural and political emperors have no clothes.

06:50Now it's just a hateful, buck-necked mob, desperate to regain some relevance.

06:56But the thing I learned, and I have learned, is never ever give an inch to this mob.

07:02Everyone learns sooner or later.

07:05No appeasement is ever enough.

07:08But you know what scares them even more, I think, than Trump?

07:11It's actually young conservatives with microphones, cameras, fax, and no fear.

07:17They thought they could cancel you.

07:21You fought back.

07:22They thought they could silence you.

07:24You got louder.

07:25They thought you'd eventually give in and give up.

07:28But it looks to me like you're just getting started.

07:32They thought when Trump was gone, their nightmare would be over.

07:38Nope.

07:40This is how we win.

07:42Not by hiding, but by marching right into the heart of their spaces and saying with a

07:48smile, we're here to tell the truth, and the truth shall set us all free.

07:59Let me say this clearly.

08:01Western civilization is not a crime.

08:04It is a miracle from God.

08:06It is the worldview that gave us liberty, dignity, reason, beauty, and yes, our common sense.

08:14But it is under assault.

08:16The barbarians are at the gate.

08:18It's our job to defend it.

08:21You are the vanguard.

08:23You are the next chapter in this American story.

08:26The heirs to the Minutemen and the patriots who gave us this country in the first place.

08:31And with Donald Trump back in office, you have a president who believes in you.

08:36So let's keep going.

08:38Let's fight for the dignity of work.

08:41Let's defend the necessity of borders.

08:43Let's stand up for women instead of deviling and devaluing them.

08:47Let's build a future that rewards truth and talent instead of identity politics.

08:53And let's remind every radical university president and professor, every smug pundit, every one

09:00of these free Palestine yahoos, every never-Trumper who threw in with the enemies of Western civilization,

09:07we're not going anywhere.

09:10You know, my first job as a teenager back home in Kentucky was taking care of people's yards.

09:23I'm still in that business over at CNN.

09:27Mowing down fake narratives, trimming the hedges of hysteria, planting the seeds of common sense.

09:35And friends, I can report to you today that business is good.

09:39I want to thank Charlie for this invitation.

09:46I want to say God bless you.

09:47I want to say God bless this movement.

09:49I want to say God bless our president.

09:51And God bless the United States of America.

09:53Thank you all very much.

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