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Dec. 21, 2021 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Joe Biden’s ‘Winter of Death’

Joined on this special episode of The Charlie Kirk Show by Alex Marlow, Editor-In-Chief of Breitbart News, and then by Brandon Tatum later on, Charlie walks through the Biden Dark Winter that “the unvaccinated” are being warned of, Dr Fauci, Francis Collins, as well as Kamala Harris, Charlemagne Tha God, and so much more. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Is The Economy Working For You 00:02:43
Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, we ask the question, is the economy working for you?
This is a comprehensive economic-minded episode.
And if that interests you, I think you'll really enjoy this.
We don't just go about jobs being created, not being created.
We go deeper about what does it mean to actually structure an economy using market principles for the pursuit of the betterment of the nation.
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A lot of stories I want to get to today as we wrap up this week.
Jesse Smollett found guilty on five of six counts.
We might go into that.
I think we went into that rather extensively yesterday.
But there's one clip I saw that was so outrageous.
Inflation Hits Thirty-Nine Year Highs 00:07:02
And you really have two competing teams in America.
You have team thankful and team unthankful, but also team reality and team utopia and insanity.
The division between the two are rather dramatic.
News reports have come out that shows that the Biden regime has been working the activist news network to try to get more positive coverage.
You see, they've been very worried that the amount of reality that's been covered as far as when it comes to economic conditions is hurting them with their voters.
Now, even the New York Times came out this morning and said, quote, America's weak economy.
This is the New York Times by David Leonhart.
Good morning.
Why do Americans, why do Americans think that the economy is in rough shape?
Because it is.
The New York Times says this.
Offices remain eerily empty.
Airlines have canceled thousands of flights.
Subways and buses are running less often.
Schools sometimes call off entire days of class.
Consumers waste time waiting in store lines.
Annual inflation has reached the highest level in three decades.
Does this sound like a healthy economy to you?
The New York Times says.
Now, I can't believe that I will be kind of complimenting the New York Times for saying that they are actually seeing things as they are, which is an economy that has totally fallen apart.
Levels of stress, sadness, and loneliness are at record high levels.
Interestingly enough, Republicans, when polled, 79% say they feel enjoyment on a daily basis.
Only 70% of Democrats do.
Democrats are more stressed, more sad, and more lonely.
It's really interesting.
That kind of actually fits their politics.
And by almost double digits, by the way.
Democrats are 9% less enjoying of life.
Democrats are 7% more stressed.
Democrats are 7% sadder and 5% lonelier.
The New York Times says that the economy is in rough shape.
Anyone who goes to buy anything right now, they see double-digit inflation.
You could barely pay for gas, not to mention the rising price of health care and the lowering of the quality of health care.
Gas is up 58.1% since last year.
Bacon is up 21%.
Eggs is up 8%.
Steak is up 24.6%.
Firewood is up 34.3%.
Furniture is up 11.8%.
Used cars are up 31.4%.
Coffee is up 7.5%.
Cigarettes are up 9.5%.
Couldn't care less.
Hotels and motels are up 25.5%.
And bikes are up 9.4%.
These are just some of the numbers.
If you go to CNBC and you say, hey, what does Jim Kramer have to say about this?
Jim Kramer says this is the best, strongest economy I've ever seen.
It's Jim Kramer.
Play cut 90.
All right, first of all, to me, we have the strongest economy perhaps I have ever seen.
She had a number this morning, unemployment.
It's the best in years.
They're not best in 69.
We have all spotted the endless help-wanted signs, the housing and apartment shortages, the tremendous demand for goods and services, a marvel to behold.
Oh, people are confident about their jobs.
I say fantastic.
And the ability to even get better ones if they want to.
They're spending more than I've ever seen, but they're doing it with cash down on credit.
They're doing so in a roaring 20s style.
This guy's on TV giving you economic advice.
The strongest economy I've ever seen.
Meanwhile, just to fill up the tank of gas is 58% higher than last year.
Used cars, 31.4%.
Inflation is at a 39-year high.
And for Jim Kramer, he's actually right.
For the people that Jim Kramer represents, the plutocrats, they have had a great year.
It is the strongest economy if your net worth is over $250 million.
Forget for a second CNBC on the same network saying that this is the highest level of inflation that we've seen since June of 1982.
Play cut 89.
Here's the money ball numbers year over year.
Year over year, up 6.8, up 6.8.
And this, of course, is a new record.
That is the highest level since June of 1982, 1982.
And if we look at X, food, and energy year over year, it's up 4.9.
And that also is a high watermark.
That is the highest level since June of 1991.
We'll call it 30 years.
Now, this show, our show, we predicted inflation early.
You can go back in the archives to March of 2020.
And we said that we are about to hit a massive inflation cycle.
And we were mocked and we were ridiculed and no one listened to us.
People in Wall Street even emailed me, say, Charlie, you don't know what you're talking about.
Don't mislead your audience.
Now we have the highest inflation since 1982.
But you see, inflation is a gift to the corporations and to America's ruling class.
Do you know that the corporations, major corporations, expanded their balance sheets by over $600 billion last year?
Do you know that corporations went on a borrowing spree?
Because they knew that low interest rates will never come back again.
And when you have this opportunity and double-digit inflation is about to come, by default, your debt does not change.
Your debt agreement is the same.
This is the way that I guarantee it, by the way, just wait.
This is how the activist press is going to frame inflation coming in the next year.
You ready?
Inflation is good for people who have mortgages.
Just wait.
I'm telling you, that article is going to come out soon.
Inflation is actually a gift for people that have a bunch of debt.
This is one of the main reasons why the leftists and the collectivists, they want to have inflation because it's the only way that they can get out of the massive debt burden that they've put on future generations, now approaching over $30 trillion.
$30 trillion.
We owe more money than our country is even collectively worth.
And what is the Biden regime and Mitch McConnell's solution?
Spend $1.2 trillion on infrastructure and another $2.7 trillion on whatever you want, not to mention the $3.5 trillion on continuing resolution and the $3 plus trillion dollars that we've borrowed of just deficit spending this current year.
But for Jim Kramer to say this is the best economy that we've ever seen, it is the best economy if you're the CEO of Goldman Sachs, Google, or Amazon.
It is the best economy if you're not working with your hands.
It is the best economy if you're Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, who have seen their net worth go up by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Phil Knight And Labor Arbitrage 00:14:39
Elon Musk's net worth has gone up 612%.
Elon Musk's net worth has gone up by $150 billion in the last 17 months.
Bill Gates' net worth has gone up $32 billion.
Larry Page, $66 billion.
Sergey Brin, $64 billion.
Warren Buffett, $37 billion.
Steve Ballmer, $33 billion.
Jim Walton, $14 billion.
Alice Walton, $14 billion.
Phil Knight, $32 billion.
Mike Bloomberg, $11 billion.
Mackenzie Scott, $18 billion.
You know what's so funny?
Mackenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex-wife.
She was like, oh, I'm going to spend all my money.
It doesn't look like you're spending all the money, Mackenzie.
You're giving it all away.
You're richer than you ever have been.
It's interesting how they talk a big game at the beginning.
She likes hoarding that wealth.
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Jim Kramer is a spokesperson for the plutocrat class.
Now, let's have a conversation about this.
We as conservatives, traditionally, never want to get in the way of someone getting rich.
I think that's a good thing.
I think that's a generally good rule.
I think it's a generally good rule to say that if someone has a good idea and they take a risk, they borrow money, they work weekends and nights, and they leverage themselves to get towards the place of value creation, you should be able to keep the profits of what you have created.
I think we as conservatives should never get away from that.
I think that's a good tradition to generally defend and believe in.
But I suppose it also warrants the question, though, of are all experiments in the market created equal?
Every entrepreneur should be treated with the same moral approach or the same moral footing, I guess you could say, as all others.
For example, Jeff Bezos being worth $188 billion, should that be a celebration of the American free enterprise system?
Or instead, is that a celebration of how an individual was able to game a package delivery system, pay almost $0 in corporate taxes, benefit from a massive lockdown, and then use his wealth to not make America more free or to defend our customs and traditions, but instead try to disintegrate them and try to enter into a global compact.
What I'm getting at is we as conservatives should never get in the direction of, obviously, Bernie Sanders, like, oh, there should be no billionaires.
But when Phil Knight, for example, who has seen his net worth go up by 108% in the last 17 months, Phil Knight, who has added $32 billion to his net worth, that's right.
Phil Knight, the head of Nike, $32 billion.
Phil Knight then comes out and the CEO of Nike says that Nike is a Chinese company, not an American company.
That's a direct quote.
How should we look at that?
Should we say, you know what?
Markets are markets.
You go, Phil Knight.
No, I think that there's a big difference between someone who makes their products in the country, like Mike Lindell from MyPillow, just one example, and someone like Phil Knight, who gets ridiculously rich from a massive labor arbitrage with the Chinese Communist Party, and then doesn't even use his net worth to make America a freer, more durable, or stronger country.
And so while we as conservatives should always be appreciative, supportive of markets, markets are the best way to organize human behavior.
Guess why?
Because that's generally not centrally organized, because centrally organizing things doesn't always work out.
With that being said, we should not be afraid to take precise and prudent and targeted action towards certain outcomes that we want to see.
For example, we should make it easier to have children in this country.
It's that simple.
Some conservatives, they start to say, oh, that's market interference.
Of course it is.
It's obviously market interference.
It's market interference that will hopefully have a result of more American children.
Therefore, we need less people coming from different countries that might not share our values, deteriorate our wages.
Just small things like that.
I'll give you another example of market interference.
We should prioritize necessary pharmaceutical production in America and not in Wuhan.
For example, vitamin C needs to be made in America.
How about that?
Penicillin needs to be made in America.
Now, some people on the libertarian side will say, Charlie, that is not puritanical.
You are in violation of the free market dogma.
I say, hold on a second.
Markets should serve a purpose, they should serve human beings and a national project.
When all of a sudden we have externalities like penicillin being made in Shoshong and not in Cincinnati, I think a prudent and precise public policy package is appropriate.
Look, stocks are at all-time high.
People are saying things are going well, but you know they aren't.
Interest rates are at zero, and the government just printed $5 trillion.
What could possibly go wrong?
Consumer confidence just hit a 10-year low, and inflation hit 6.8%, with parts of the United States seeing rates as high as 8%.
Something is not adding up.
Inflation is here, everybody, and you've got to do something about it.
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I think this is a really important conversation because we have to be able to have this with maturity.
And I want to re-emphasize this.
I love markets.
I love markets when they serve people.
I love entrepreneurs and people starting new things.
I love when I get to meet people that have come from halfway across the world and they wanted to start a trucking business or something really exciting.
I think that's unique, and we should never lose that ever.
But I think we can also agree that, in all things, balance and moderation.
And one of the major problems when it came to unfettered markets the last 20 or 30 years is the people that were the most, let's see, enthusiastic about the idea of markets, they actually didn't like markets.
They wanted an excuse to re-domicile labor from wheeling West Virginia to Wuhan China.
You see, in the late 70s and early 80s, there was massive inflation in America for a variety of different reasons.
There was inflation because of stupid monetary policy and also Jimmy Carter confiscatory fiscal policy.
Too high of taxes, sluggish regulation.
The American entrepreneur was depleted.
And the way that the conservative movement tells the story of Ronald Reagan is not inaccurate, but it's incomplete.
First of all, Ronald Reagan was a cheerleader.
He was able to excite new entrepreneurs.
He did lower taxes.
But Ronald Reagan also was unafraid to impose tariffs on our competitors.
Los Angeles Times headline: 1987: Reagan imposes 100% tariffs on Japan goods on the semiconductor industry.
Now, some would say that Silicon Valley's semiconductor boom was largely made possible thanks to Ronald Reagan's protection.
That's right, because we always get to say, oh, you don't want to be protectionist.
Well, why wouldn't we want to be protection against some core industries?
Now, I've become rather, let's say, opinionated on this topic.
I think that we should protect a lot of different industries.
But I don't think any puritanical person would say, you know what?
I think it's a good idea for China to have all the access to rare earth minerals.
Well, that's what's happened because of this unfettered flow, an unchallenged flow of markets for the sake of markets over the last 20 or 30 years.
But here's what ended up happening.
In the early 90s, all of a sudden the internationalist Wall Street crowd started to heavily lobby the Federal Reserve, and we started to see the lowering of interest rates.
Alongside of that, people from companies like McKinsey and other consulting companies started to be brought in towards these places that were having long, protracted labor disputes in the heartland of the country.
So I will probably have the most nuanced, balanced, and neutral view of this topic because I think everyone is to blame.
I think labor was far too arrogant, corrupt, and cocky in the early 90s.
And I think Wall Street was far too money-grubbing, was way too internationalist, and not patriotic enough.
Both sides are to blame for why we saw the erosion and the depletion of the American industrial heartland.
Connor, get the exact numbers.
I think it's something like 10 million jobs that were sent overseas.
So what ended up happening in the 90s is you would take a plant, for example, at General Electric.
Let's just use a nice American company like General Electric.
And maybe refrigerators were made in Ohio.
Or maybe a washing machine was made in Indiana.
Something super simple.
What ended up happening is because of an overly aggressive, a hyper-aggressive union posture, there were unrealistic and quite honestly profit-compromising demands that were being made by a lot of the unions that would be making refrigerators or whatever, textiles.
And so therefore, you'd have companies like General Electric bring in these consultants from New York City, from McKinsey and Company or Deloitte, and they would come in and they'd say, hey, I know that all of your workers are on strike right now because they don't want to make things for $12 an hour.
They want $14 an hour.
I know that all the workers in Fountain City, Indiana are on strike.
We get that.
But here's an idea, Deloitte would say.
Here's an idea, McKinsey would say.
Why don't you move your manufacturing facility from Winchester, Indiana, or from Troy, Ohio, to mainland China?
Now, this was resisted at first by the corporate class of these companies because they felt some loyalty, they felt some connection, they felt some anchoring to the American heartland.
At first, in the 90s, when this was proposed by the McKinsey and the Deloitte types, the number-crunching, penny-pursuing, Harvard and Stanford-educated finance people that had no loyalty to the country whatsoever, this was rejected.
Moving Manufacturing To China 00:05:05
But understand, this all worked together.
You see, the very same people that were encouraging the offshoring of American jobs from Troy, Ohio, or from Columbia, Missouri, they were educated at Harvard to believe America's not a great country.
You see, the introduction of critical race theory from Derek Bell in the early 90s and a very radical political agenda, all of a sudden we started to see the American consulting and financial class started to become increasingly internationalist-minded.
We then started to see slogans introduced through public awareness campaigns.
Remember the one that we are all citizens of the world, we are one of the world?
This was to try to liberate the American consciousness, move the Overton window, that it really isn't a bad thing.
In fact, it's a good thing that your refrigerators will now be made in Shanghai.
That it's a good thing that your washing machines will no longer be made in Indiana.
So you had a combination of the consultants advising General Electric and some of these other companies, and then they finally got textiles is where they started first.
That was the easiest one to offshore because people said, yeah, okay, whatever, shirts, I'm paying too much for a t-shirt.
But then they went for the critical stuff.
And at first, the CEOs of these companies were, they're like, I don't know, maybe we can get to a negotiation.
But then on the other side, you had increasingly unfair labor demands.
You had labor unions that were like, what?
You need us.
What are you going to do?
Leave?
What are you going to do?
Like, leave the country?
And they did.
Labor was way too arrogant and short-sighted.
They just were.
Not to mention we had in conjunction NAFTA, which offshore tons of jobs to Mexico, which if I were to choose Mexico or China, I'd choose Mexico in an instant, obviously.
But China was the one that offered a very compelling deal to actually subsidize the construction of these new manufacturing plants.
But then remember, we were told that this is actually kind of like an international charitable project.
That when you go buy a Nike shoe, you're actually helping some sort of poor infant be able to eat in Western China.
Then not to mention China's entrance into the World Trade Organization, I think that was in 2001, right?
Which then just further accelerated the nearly 5 million manufacturing jobs that were eroded due to trade and offshoring.
Now, at no point throughout this entire process did our leaders, except a couple people, credit to who?
Ross Perot, Donald Trump, believe it or not, Sherrod Brown, Bernie Sanders used to talk about this before he realized that he was on the wrong side of this.
Did any of them say, hold on a second, we know things will cost more in America.
But did you ever, making it in America, but did you ever consider these three factors?
Number one, it might be a higher quality product if you make it in America.
Number two, what are you going to do with the people that you displace from this?
Number three, what about those people then going on government benefits, being addicted to opioids?
Number four, are all products the same?
For example, the t-shirt I'm wearing, it's annoying that it might be made in Vietnam or China, whatever.
It's irritating.
But it's nowhere near as important as, oh, you're trying to tell me that we don't make rubber gloves in our country anymore?
That we don't make N95 masks in our country anymore?
You see, what happened is that we treated all products for offshoring the same, which of course can only be described by a ruling class that cared simply towards the promise of profits from McKinsey and Deloitte.
And then it became, guess what?
It became a pro, it became almost a machine.
Then all of a sudden, Harvard Business School started to teach classes on this.
How to offshore a company in six months or less.
You think I'm kidding?
That was a real type of class that was taught to the next generation of corporate types.
Then it became, hey, you're trying to tell me I can move a manufacturing facility from Montgomery City, Missouri to China, and then I can maximize profits by four cents on every t-shirt, even though there's costs of shipping things back and forth?
They said, yes.
Who cares about the external cost?
Who cares about the erosion of the American heartland?
Those people are deplorable anyway.
They own guns.
Offshore Classes At Harvard Business School 00:02:58
They're mostly Christian.
We don't like them anyway.
And Republicans never mentioned this.
In fact, it was Obama that actually did a better job of talking about the erosion of American manufacturing than Mitt Romney, who actually did this himself.
Mitt Romney actually went to literal plants in Indiana and told them, you no longer have jobs.
This is all going overseas.
And then we look around and we wonder why we have supply chain issues.
We wonder why all of a sudden the Chinese Communist Party is as strong as they are.
We did that.
The American ruling class did that.
But people like Jim Kramer, who say that, oh yeah, the economy is so wonderful.
No, no, no.
That is the failed muscle memory and the failed prism of looking at things, in fact, rather corrupt, from the 1980s and 1990s, where all you cared about was corporate profits and an inflated stock market.
And what the conservative movement is now saying, hold on, time out.
There's other things that are more important than that.
There are things that are much more important than just a $36,000 stock market.
Do we make things that matter in our country anymore?
Is it easier to have children?
Is the muscular class stronger or weaker?
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Corporate Growth Versus Liberty 00:03:52
I'm texting back and forth with a friend from Chicago who makes a great point, which is we should not have unfettered trade with countries that do not believe the Constitution is the greatest political document ever written.
It's a really simple litmus test.
Do you believe in natural rights?
Do you believe in naturally God-granted rights?
Do you believe in the pursuit of liberty for individuals, separation of powers, consent to the governed, independent judiciary?
If you don't, then excuse us when we don't want to make you super rich and trade with you.
The Constitution needs to be the centerpiece for that.
No serious country would have tolerated this.
No serious country would have had cooperative trade with a nation that doesn't share that.
And what's so interesting is that one of the lies of the neoliberalism agenda, one of the lies of the internationalists was this.
I heard this all growing up, that the more we trade with China, they're going to become more like us.
This was the most compelling promise, by the way.
And it made sense because you had people say, hey, if we trade products, next thing you know, Beijing, it's going to look more like San Francisco.
And the opposite has happened.
San Francisco now looks more like Beijing, and Beijing's only become more authoritarian.
They played us.
They took the cheap products and the cheap money, and they've only become more nationalistic in a bad way, not a good way, more regime-oriented, and more authoritarian.
So, Jim, we started the show with Jim Kramer's commentary all about how wonderful the economy is going.
You could only believe the economy is going well if you have a simple, simply and strictly, let's say, basic focus on corporate growth.
Corporate growth can be a component that we should look at.
But is that the most important thing?
Is GDP growth the most important thing to a nation?
How about this?
It seems as if Jim Kramer and some Republicans think that if we have corporate growth and strong GDP growth, but an erosion of liberty, everything is fine.
Guess what?
I couldn't care less if GDP numbers are so high while we also have inflation and vaccine mandates and mask mandates and people who hate their country.
We are a country that has an economy in it.
We are not an economy that happens to be in a country.
Jim Kramer thinks that we're an economy that's just in a temporary placeholder place called America.
No, no, no.
We're a country that then establishes an economic system, one that's based largely in markets, and we should continue that tradition, private property, which is a moral good, trade and commerce, entrepreneurship, but we're not one that wants to elevate, protect, and defend plutocrats for the sake of Bezos being worth $200 billion.
I care much more about whether or not our liberty is being protected, the pursuit of virtue is being protected, whether our natural rights are being protected, whether the Constitution is going to remain intact, and whether or not we're going to be able to have more children share our values and more children in general than whether or not Jim Cramer's price to earning ratios are complete.
Economics are important, but economics are a part of a broader analysis of whether or not our republic is strong or falling apart.
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