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Rylie Barnes

Rylie Barnes

Vice president of the University of Utah College Republicans and pre-med student, known for the viral "Kirkiversary" cake controversy and free-speech advocacy.

Sep 24, 2026

7:13
Okay.
7:14
Yeah, so it could range from abortion is murder to taxation is fraud.
7:19
I like to put at least two questions.
7:22
One, about something social and then something economic, just so that people have different things to debate about.
7:31
And to see the conservative students come up and find interest in debating with other students on campus has been very, very beneficial for our group and growing that as well.
7:41
And just everything that has happened with me and Riley Beesley, we've seen our numbers grow, I would say, over 100 already.
8:40
So do you think that really gets students more involved with your group? Because a lot of conservatives on university campus kind of just keep quiet, right? They don't say much.
8:54
I definitely do think it gets students more involved to see that because it's not just me out there.
95:17
What happened? Just fill our audience in.
95:22
Yeah, of course.
95:23
So we're out tabling, trying to get the memorial for the Charlie Kirk down at UVU just 45 minutes away from U of U. We're promoting it, trying to get students up here involved and actually getting carpools for students up here to go down there as well.
95:39
We had a whiteboard that stated, did you think that Charlie Kirk deserved to get murdered? We had 12 tallies saying yes and a lot of tallies saying no, but this girl came up with her cake and she laughed at our board and said, I think my cake is pretty funny.
95:54
When we asked her to remove the lid, she removes the lid and then we see that it says, happy Kirkiversary.
96:02
We then tell her that we're going to take a photo of it and then she stood there for 10 minutes and started posing.

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113:12
That is threatening you personally.
113:17
No, you're absolutely correct.

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