The Charlie Kirk Show - Everything You Need to Know about BIDENFLATION
Aired: 2022-02-11
Duration: 36:14


=== Debt And Inflation Relief (15:20) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody, is there a national fertilizer crisis?
[00:00:02]  Also, what is happening on the front lines of America when it comes to mask mandates and parents pushing back?
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[00:00:32]  Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
[00:00:34]  Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
[00:00:36]  I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
[00:00:39]  Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
[00:00:43]  I want to thank Charlie.
[00:00:44]  He's an incredible guy.
[00:00:45]  His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
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[00:01:13]  How would one destroy a civilization?
[00:01:16]  Well, as we just spent quite a lot of time on, you would keep the borders open, you would destroy the rule of law, you'd get involved in petty foreign conflicts, you would demoralize the citizenry, you'd indoctrinate the youth and break the bond between children and parents.
[00:01:33]  The thing that has been happening in real time, in addition to all of that, that is incredibly important to focus on, is you would debase the currency.
[00:01:43]  Sound money is a critical piece of the social contract.
[00:01:47]  If you do not have sound money, if you do not know whether or not your dollar is going to be worth the same amount a year, five years, or 10 years, at least relative in a relative way, then all of a sudden you're going to be living in a place of chaos and uncertainty, which of course is the preferred posture of tyrants, authoritarians, dictators, and despots across the planet.
[00:02:09]  Inflation is not a mistake.
[00:02:11]  Inflation is a strategy.
[00:02:13]  Inflation was brought to you by both political parties.
[00:02:16]  Both parties gave you this.
[00:02:18]  The unnecessary stimulus bill that was passed in April of 2020, March or April of 2020.
[00:02:24]  The stimulus bill after that that was not necessary.
[00:02:27]  The infrastructure plan.
[00:02:28]  $6 trillion of additional federal spending in the last two years.
[00:02:32]  In a time where we went towards a hyper-technological approach to our economy, where we shut down the economy, where physical production went down, especially for restaurants, for hotels, for travel, whole portions of the economy totally and completely locked down.
[00:02:49]  And then you have a massive influx of created dollars.
[00:02:55]  Now, if you guys can get the exact number of the new dollar bills created, because there's a debate, we get fact-checked on this.
[00:03:00]  So I want to be very clear on it.
[00:03:02]  We're very committed to the truth here on this program.
[00:03:04]  But debasing the currency allows for bigger government programs.
[00:03:09]  When you have debt, you have three ways you can get out of debt.
[00:03:12]  You can cut spending, you can raise taxes, or you can inflate your way out of it.
[00:03:19]  So if you have a mortgage, if you have a lot of debt, a lot of credit card debt or student loan debt, believe it or not, this inflation news is not terrible for you.
[00:03:29]  Now, it's bad because your purchasing power is going to go down, but people with sizable debt burdens actually do really well in inflation.
[00:03:37]  This is exactly why corporate borrowing increased by $600 billion in the midst of the pandemic.
[00:03:43]  Really smart CIOs, chief investment officers of these companies, sent out memorandum after memorandum telling companies like Chili's, Target, front-facing companies, back-facing companies, whatever, hey, go borrow money now.
[00:03:58]  Do you notice?
[00:03:59]  And this is just kind of an interesting site.
[00:04:00]  Do you notice how many new looking Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, or Taco Bells there are?
[00:04:06]  Do you notice that driving around your community?
[00:04:08]  Or how about KFC's Kentucky Fried Chicken?
[00:04:10]  Do you notice they're kind of sleeker looking?
[00:04:12]  They're doing a lot of construction.
[00:04:13]  It's because there was a significant amount of borrowing that happened at the corporate level because they knew that they were never going to get this chance again of low interest rates.
[00:04:22]  And the debt actually becomes worth less as the currency also deteriorates.
[00:04:29]  For example, if you have $100 million in debt, let's say you had $100 million in debt in 2019, and every year there's a 10% inflation rate.
[00:04:40]  Well, that debt actually decreases by 10% every year that inflation.
[00:04:46]  Now, it doesn't decrease as if 100 million becomes 90 million.
[00:04:49]  No, but if the money supply increases and you have more dollar bills, but your debt stays the same, it actually works to your advantage.
[00:04:57]  And this is exactly why millennials and Generation Z, they're going to become radical socialists if conservatives don't get their act together here.
[00:05:05]  Because that works really well if you're owning property and you actually have debt against assets, not against liabilities.
[00:05:12]  So, for example, debt against liabilities would be like credit card debt.
[00:05:17]  These are assets that you bought or they're liabilities that you added to your balance sheet that largely do not increase in value over time.
[00:05:27]  Now, there's some obvious exceptions to that.
[00:05:31]  Medical debt actually does increase over time because you're alive, so you could still work.
[00:05:35]  So, that's helpful.
[00:05:37]  Certain wellness investments, so when you invest in yourself, but most credit card debt is spending of pleasure.
[00:05:43]  It's restaurants, clothes, travel, trips.
[00:05:47]  Most credit card debt are things that do not appreciate over time.
[00:05:51]  Their experiences, their movie tickets, Super Bowl tickets, things like that.
[00:05:54]  I'm not against that, obviously, but that's not a good place to put your money if you can't afford it.
[00:06:00]  But there's good debt where you actually borrow against assets, like you're borrowing against your business, or you're borrowing for your home.
[00:06:09]  And actually, the entire tax code is designed to actually benefit home loans.
[00:06:13]  So, if you have a debt burden against assets and the asset actually increases in value because there's more dollar bills, and your debt burden actually decreases because there's more dollar bills, who actually has that?
[00:06:23]  The biggest corporations and multi-billionaires took advantage of this.
[00:06:27]  Everyday people, most everyday people we work with at Turning Point USA, especially the 28, 29, and 30-year-olds, they don't own anything.
[00:06:34]  So, it is a, let's say, perfect storm.
[00:06:37]  It is three times more difficult.
[00:06:39]  And then, poor Connor, he has to be always used as the example, but Connor is a good example of this, right?
[00:06:45]  So, Connor's rent went up by $600 a month, right?
[00:06:49]  $600 a month.
[00:06:50]  Now, he does not have equity in that building, right?
[00:06:53]  He's not building wealth.
[00:06:56]  So, in order for Connor to live the same way he did last year without building actually his net worth, and by the way, it's Connor's not alone.
[00:07:03]  There's like 25 million people in the position that Connor's in.
[00:07:06]  They have to make $600 more just to be able to live in the place they were living.
[00:07:11]  And that place he was living was not actually building wealth and it wasn't a good level of debt.
[00:07:15]  So, you're seeing this bifurcation of American society of people that own property and were able to get into the game before the pandemic or in the midst of the pandemic or a reaction to the pandemic.
[00:07:25]  And a whole generation of people that will soon be rent control-demanding property redistribution socialists and conservatives are totally missing this.
[00:07:38]  Cut 94, inflation up 7.5%, the highest since 1982.
[00:07:43]  And by the way, I don't believe their inflation numbers.
[00:07:45]  I think inflation is 15 to 20%.
[00:07:47]  And I can prove it, but that's a separate issue for a different time.
[00:07:50]  Cut 94.
[00:07:51]  So, these were supposed to moderate.
[00:07:52]  They did not moderate.
[00:07:54]  Now for the biggies, 7.5 on year-over-year headline, 6% on year-over-year core.
[00:08:01]  So 7.5%.
[00:08:04]  And that is, of course, on headline.
[00:08:06]  You have to go to 1982 to find a higher number.
[00:08:10]  And of course, when we look at 5.5 on core, well, 5.5.
[00:08:16]  So now we have to go down on the whiteboard to August of 82.
[00:08:21]  Rick Santelli is a good man.
[00:08:22]  He actually started the Tea Party movement way back when by complaining about the very same policies we're going to get ourselves back into.
[00:08:30]  I am really frustrated about this because I was lectured by several people in the last year, not lectured, but private conversations of people that told me that inflation is no big deal.
[00:08:38]  How dare you worry about inflation?
[00:08:39]  Inflation is a wonderful thing if it happens at all.
[00:08:42]  Cut 99, CNN.
[00:08:43]  The only thing that won't cost more for your Super Bowl party are hot dogs.
[00:08:46]  Chicken is up 11.5%.
[00:08:48]  Ground beef is up 13%.
[00:08:49]  Steak is up 21.4%.
[00:08:51]  So why would it be that chicken, ground beef, and steak are up that much?
[00:08:55]  Because when you create dollars, all of a sudden they become worth less.
[00:09:00]  Everyone has more dollars.
[00:09:01]  But guess what?
[00:09:02]  You don't create more chicken or ground beef or steak.
[00:09:05]  So therefore, the things that you do not have a lot of become harder to find.
[00:09:09]  Therefore, the price goes up of those things.
[00:09:12]  When you debase your currency, the people that are in the business of producing goods or services that are finite will do even better, aka the rich and the wealthiest people.
[00:09:24]  So let me tell you another thing that's really important with this.
[00:09:27]  So we're talking about that which is limited and that which is unlimited.
[00:09:31]  Unlimited is not a great thing.
[00:09:32]  That which is limited and that which is abundant.
[00:09:34]  I think that's a better way to categorize it.
[00:09:36]  This is another reason why young people are going to get so smashed by inflation.
[00:09:41]  So when inflation occurs, you want to have, you want to own things that other people cannot find.
[00:09:49]  So economics is the war against scarcity.
[00:09:51]  So that's why people go to gold and silver, even though gold and silver is flatlined.
[00:09:55]  There's good reasons for that.
[00:09:55]  We've actually had some phenomenal emails sent to us to explain that.
[00:09:58]  This is why Bitcoin has gone up.
[00:10:00]  This is why real estate goes up.
[00:10:01]  This is why fine art goes up.
[00:10:03]  But this is another reason why young people and students are going to get crushed and squeezed by inflation because the skills they have, the labor themselves, is actually worthless because they went to college and got a meaningless piece of paper.
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[00:11:23]  Entrepreneurship and new products is a hedge against inflation.
[00:11:27]  When you create new things, all of a sudden that can bring prices down.
[00:11:31]  But when you have entire labor markets of young people that have the same sort of meaningless skills of being able to recite why America's racist or the BLM creed or how many different genders or pronouns there are, whatever they teach at universities now these days, which is largely useless.
[00:11:47]  90% of kids that go to college should not go to college, which is a theme that we will build out more in the coming months as my book is coming out.
[00:11:54]  Then all of a sudden, then you have a whole generation of people that rent and they don't own.
[00:12:00]  They have somewhat useless skill sets, and they now have to try to keep up with the rate of which prices are going up.
[00:12:11]  Play cut 99.
[00:12:12]  The only thing that won't cost more for your Super Bowl party are hot dogs, but chicken, ground beef, and steak are up double digits.
[00:12:17]  Play cut 99.
[00:12:19]  Two words, Laura, hot dogs.
[00:12:21]  I like them.
[00:12:22]  Only thing that won't cost more for your Super Bowl party, hot dogs.
[00:12:25]  For everything else, inflation is your uninvited guest to the party this year.
[00:12:28]  Watch out at the meat counter.
[00:12:30]  Those hot dogs are cheaper, but all the other meat is more expensive.
[00:12:32]  Chicken wings, prices up nearly 12% from last year.
[00:12:35]  Ground beef for your chili, 13% more.
[00:12:38]  Steak prices, they're up more than 21%.
[00:12:40]  Rick Santelli continues by saying, look, wages are up 5%, but they're not even close to keeping up with inflation.
[00:12:47]  Now, the way that our government calculates inflation, I think, is fraudulent.
[00:12:51]  I believe inflation has been happening for the last decade.
[00:12:54]  It just hasn't been reflected in the way that the government actually puts together the CPI, the Consumer Price Index.
[00:13:00]  They get to choose the goods and services.
[00:13:02]  I think inflation has been almost double digits for a while now.
[00:13:06]  I could be out on a limb here, but I don't think so because I see, for example, rent going up.
[00:13:12]  I mean, you go to a local Trader Joe's, you go to a local restaurant here, every price is up, not just 10%.
[00:13:19]  I'm talking 15% to 20% increase of prices across the board.
[00:13:23]  Play cut 121.
[00:13:24]  We know labor costs probably aren't going to be going down anytime soon, even though they are far from, at least at this point, competing with the actual rate of inflation.
[00:13:36]  It's lagging.
[00:13:37]  So even though wages are up close to 5%, they're not keeping up with inflation.
[00:13:42]  They're not keeping up with inflation.
[00:13:43]  Therefore, normal everyday people are getting poorer.
[00:13:46]  And employers have to make a decision.
[00:13:49]  Are you going to raise wages?
[00:13:51]  Are you going to lower your reduce your labor force?
[00:13:55]  Inflation is the ultimate intervention into an economy.
[00:13:59]  Let me say that again.
[00:14:00]  Now, this is a radical statement I'm about to say.
[00:14:02]  You ready for this?
[00:14:04]  I would rather have high taxes.
[00:14:06]  Like, I'm talking about European Scandinavian high taxes than inflation.
[00:14:14]  I would rather be able to plan what my currency is worth and what it will be worth and have to pay confiscatory taxes on top of that rather than a frenetic tax increase of chaos, unpredictability.
[00:14:31]  There is nothing beneficial to the everyday working man when it comes to the deterioration and the debasing of the purchasing power of the dollar in your pocket.
[00:14:44]  Ted Cruz agrees.
[00:14:45]  Play cut 100.
[00:14:46]  Laducci, you recently wrote an article for Forbes in which you stated: quote: Vegetarians can cope with inflation better than steak eating Ford F-150 owners.
[00:14:56]  And you suggest that for Americans to survive inflation by switching from expensive things to cheaper things and liking it, wouldn't it be better to adopt appropriate monetary policies such as reining in out of control, spending, and debt, rather than forcing people to abandon their preferences, not eat steak, not drive trucks, change their lifestyle?
[00:15:19]  He's exactly right.

=== Energy For The Nation (16:20) ===

[00:15:20]  And by the way, it's very good politics for Ted Cruz.
[00:15:22]  I think steak and F-150s are largely popular in Texas.
[00:15:25]  I think those still things get great, great response.
[00:15:29]  Inflation is going to cause bad incentives.
[00:15:33]  It's going to cause people that are outside of the labor market.
[00:15:37]  Remember, economics is the study and the war against scarcity.
[00:15:42]  If you think about it, there would be no supply and demand if there is an unlimited, if there's an unlimited production.
[00:15:48]  For example, in Phoenix, Arizona, most days, there is a nearly unlimited supply of the sun.
[00:15:55]  So the law of economics doesn't really apply to that.
[00:16:00]  But what happens all of a sudden when something becomes so abundant, it starts to be worth nothing.
[00:16:06]  You start to what?
[00:16:07]  Take it for granted.
[00:16:08]  And then all of a sudden, your currency collapses.
[00:16:10]  Money is the transference of value.
[00:16:12]  It's where value is stored.
[00:16:14]  It replaced the barter system.
[00:16:15]  And guess what?
[00:16:16]  The barter system is coming back because people don't know what anything's worth anymore.
[00:16:20]  And our politicians created it intentionally to try to usher in the great reset and the destruction of the muscular, blue-collar middle class.
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[00:17:29]  We like to talk about issues that go a level deeper and talk about trends that we are seeing happen in real time.
[00:17:37]  And someone who's a great friend of mine and a friend of this program, Keith Rose, came on back in November and warned us about a fertilizer crisis that was coming to America.
[00:17:49]  We received lots of emails from people mocking us, saying that's not true.
[00:17:53]  It's not going to happen.
[00:17:54]  Well, it is happening.
[00:17:56]  Let's play cut 105 before we welcome Keith to the program.
[00:18:00]  This is back from November, PlayCut 105.
[00:18:03]  We're going to go into a lot of different issues, but he really piqued my curiosity.
[00:18:06]  We were talking the other day about something that everyone needs to be aware of about not just the supply chain issue, but there's another shortage issue.
[00:18:13]  And remember, we are nine meals away from anarchy.
[00:18:16]  And if there is a fertilizer shortage, we're going to have some big problems.
[00:18:20]  It used to be fertilizer was $350 a ton.
[00:18:24]  Now it's $650 a ton.
[00:18:26]  And if you can get it in six months, it's projected to go $950 a ton.
[00:18:32]  So with us, the man who predicted that, who saw it coming, and that's reflected also in your rising food prices, is Keith Rose.
[00:18:38]  Keith, welcome back to the program.
[00:18:40]  Thanks, Charlie.
[00:18:41]  Good to be here.
[00:18:42]  So Keith, walk us through it.
[00:18:44]  The crisis is ongoing.
[00:18:45]  I'm reading many articles now where people say, we didn't see this coming.
[00:18:47]  Well, you did.
[00:18:48]  And I think it's resulting in some shortages of food supply and other means.
[00:18:53]  Walk us through it.
[00:18:54]  Well, Charlie, as you allude to a lot with this new green deal and the pressure put on energy companies, the price of natural gas continued to rise.
[00:19:05]  And as LNG liquefied natural gas prices rose, the price of fertilizer began to rose to where it became really prohibitory to actually produce fertilizer because most of the fertilizer in the United States is nitrogen-based.
[00:19:19]  So you have to make it with natural gas.
[00:19:22]  And when that was happening, we were talking about the spike in prices.
[00:19:26]  And the largest producers of fertilizer or the precursor chemicals for that are in Russia and China.
[00:19:34]  We don't exactly have our best national interests.
[00:19:38]  And Russia and China had shut us off, I believe, in November.
[00:19:43]  They were not even shipping.
[00:19:44]  And the largest fertilizer supplier was CF Industries, and they had cut production dramatically.
[00:19:50]  And as we spoke about, we thought it could be the perfect storm.
[00:19:54]  Add on top of that, the transit disaster, because you have truckers in the supply lines that aren't functioning because they can't get goods to market because of the blockades or the man-made disasters on the coastlines.
[00:20:09]  And it's not a good situation.
[00:20:12]  And you also have the yellow phosphorus shortage, which they need for pesticides.
[00:20:17]  So not only are they short or don't have fertilizer, they won't have pesticides as well.
[00:20:23]  Well, that could have major implications.
[00:20:26]  And so global farmers are facing a fertilized sticker shock, which may cut use, raising food security risks, Reuters reports.
[00:20:33]  Another article here from National Pulse: fertilizer price spikes and Chinese import reliance threatens U.S. agricultural security.
[00:20:42]  It really is a national security issue, isn't it?
[00:20:45]  It is.
[00:20:46]  We and a lot of our major corporations decided that instead of warehousing what we needed, they would shorten the supply chain to increase their profit margins.
[00:20:58]  And at the time, it seemed good.
[00:20:59]  The problem is the way they shortened the supply line was to rely more on foreign production in China and for fertilizer in Russia as well.
[00:21:08]  And so while we're coming out of a pandemic that started in China, we are now caught on the short end of the stick, literally for fertilizer.
[00:21:18]  And the American people I know are reeling from a man-made medical issue.
[00:21:24]  Now we're going to deal with a man-made food shortage.
[00:21:28]  And I've been in other countries when that happens, and it gets ugly really fast.
[00:21:33]  I totally agree.
[00:21:34]  So, shifting gears here, Keith, you know, we're experiencing inflation, open borders.
[00:21:38]  I went to Yuma yesterday.
[00:21:40]  You're a foreign intelligence expert.
[00:21:42]  Just kind of give us your analysis of the lay of the land.
[00:21:45]  Where do you think are some of the great vulnerabilities for the regime?
[00:21:48]  What are you seeing that is giving you hope, giving you optimism?
[00:21:51]  And what do you think are some of the things we really need to focus our energy and resources on?
[00:21:56]  Well, my hope is in God right now because our border is wide open.
[00:22:02]  There are several areas down there, ironically enough, that used to be fracking regions, especially in South Texas called the Eagleford Shale region.
[00:22:10]  And they have a lot of paved, developed internal roads and networks or arteries of roads that can go all through Texas.
[00:22:19]  And now you have an open border where someone could drive a semi-truck full of anything or everything and easily get it up into the United States.
[00:22:28]  So we're not secure at our border.
[00:22:30]  That on top of the fact that we left $80 billion in lethal aid in a country that Iran, which is one of the largest exporters of terrorism in the world, and Pakistan, who's trying to rival them for that, have access to.
[00:22:46]  And with open southern borders, to me, it's concerning.
[00:22:49]  And then when you see the regime talk about our biggest threat, they just released the other day is internal.
[00:22:57]  It's voting rights or misinformation or disinformation, which we all know is anything taken in the context of the actual reality is misinformation if it goes against the narrative.
[00:23:09]  And it's like you've talked about many times.
[00:23:12]  It's not politics we're talking about here.
[00:23:14]  It's when people are going to understand and get along in their American identity and understand that our entire nation is being subverted and divided.
[00:23:24]  What is the best way then to do a counter move to the subversion?
[00:23:28]  I mean, you have a lot of experience of that, looking at that in foreign countries.
[00:23:31]  People ask that all the time.
[00:23:32]  I mean, I went to Yuma yesterday, Keith, and I was blown away at the intentional policies by this regime to allow our borders to remain open.
[00:23:41]  To also, Border Patrol has become almost nothing more than a paper processing center for amnesty to give people the paperwork so they can get in-state tuition, driver's licenses, and vote in New York and California.
[00:23:52]  What is the best way to kind of execute that counter move?
[00:23:56]  The best way is what you're seeing in Canada, Charlie.
[00:24:00]  When you see mass movements of people based on an issue, the issue in Canada isn't the individual tyrannical moves of the Trudeau government.
[00:24:12]  The issue is freedom.
[00:24:14]  And when you have thousands, tens of thousands of truckers and people supporting them, that's what changes everything.
[00:24:22]  We had talked about a color revolution, which is what we're going through.
[00:24:26]  Peaceful, mass protests.
[00:24:28]  If you had thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, dare I say millions of Americans going peacefully to the streets and saying, you know what, enough is enough.
[00:24:42]  We've hurt our children with masking.
[00:24:44]  We've hurt our health with not early with lack of early treatment.
[00:24:48]  We're now hurting our food supply.
[00:24:50]  You know what we're hurting?
[00:24:51]  We're hurting the future development of our nation.
[00:24:55]  And we have something that Canada doesn't even have.
[00:24:57]  We have a constitution that is going on 245 years that spells out the separation of each branch of government.
[00:25:05]  It spells out not what we can do as Americans, but what government can't do.
[00:25:10]  And so what we have to do is rally around our national identity.
[00:25:16]  And that's the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence.
[00:25:21]  Because although we are a nation of multiple cultures, we're not a multiple culturalism nation where we have cultures where the culture is more important than the national identity.
[00:25:34]  And that's always been the tie that binds.
[00:25:36]  You could be from anywhere in the world.
[00:25:38]  You could be any color.
[00:25:39]  You could be any race.
[00:25:40]  You could be any gender.
[00:25:42]  But we all identified first as Americans.
[00:25:46]  And that is what they're trying to separate and they're trying to tear apart.
[00:25:50]  Talk about just what gives you hope right now.
[00:25:52]  I'm seeing people rise up in record numbers.
[00:25:55]  I totally agree.
[00:25:56]  Massive levels of support.
[00:25:57]  The rise of the citizen is a real thing.
[00:25:59]  You know, what we're seeing in the suburbs of Chicago right now is you're seeing dozens of schools that are doing massive walkouts under mask mandates.
[00:26:07]  At Turning Point, USA groups are doing this.
[00:26:10]  We're seeing this happen in California, Washington.
[00:26:12]  We're about to announce my visit to Chicago next week to help give these students reinforcement.
[00:26:17]  This is the type of energy that we need.
[00:26:19]  And it seems as if that's the sort of activity that makes the regime very nervous.
[00:26:25]  When immigrants came to this country, Charlie, in 1941, they got the American Handbook for immigrants.
[00:26:31]  And it stressed three things.
[00:26:33]  It stressed our past history, the family, and God.
[00:26:38]  And it said, we are rooted in our past.
[00:26:40]  That's the soil that allows the branches of our future to grow and reach for the sky.
[00:26:45]  I'm paraphrasing.
[00:26:46]  And what I believe is happening right now is the government, centralized government has completely allowed itself to be polarized.
[00:26:54]  We know where the problems are coming from.
[00:26:56]  The center of all of the chaos we're seeing is Washington, D.C.
[00:27:01]  And I think people on both sides of the aisle, and whether you're a D or an R in many cities, are seeing my children are being hurt.
[00:27:09]  Things aren't on the shelf that I can buy for food, basic necessities.
[00:27:14]  And they see other places rising up like Canada peacefully, but with a great sense of we want one thing, we want freedom.
[00:27:22]  And for this nation to come back, I love the way you start your show with an awakening.
[00:27:27]  We need an awakening in this nation, an awakening to our founding.
[00:27:31]  And we have to look back at our past if we're going to move forward in our present.
[00:27:35]  Amen.
[00:27:35]  Well, thank you so much, Keith, for joining us.
[00:27:37]  It's a pleasure, as always.
[00:27:38]  I deeply appreciate it.
[00:27:39]  Thank you so much, my friend.
[00:27:41]  Thanks, brother.
[00:27:42]  Keep up the good work.
[00:27:43]  Thank you.
[00:27:44]  Everybody, I want to play just a couple pieces of tape here, and we're going to build this out.
[00:27:47]  What's happening with students pushing back against the mask mandates is totally unprecedented and amazing.
[00:27:56]  Cut 103.
[00:27:57]  Yes.
[00:27:57]  Illinois father weeps with rage at a school board meeting over mask mandates that ruined his daughter's development.
[00:28:05]  Play cut 103.
[00:28:07]  I will never forgive myself for not fighting more.
[00:28:10]  I feel that I have failed her for not fighting more.
[00:28:16]  This district uses hashtags be bold.
[00:28:20]  Next to everything, you continue hiding behind others instead of leading and fighting for the kids that need you the most.
[00:28:27]  You've left them behind while you say that there's no lost learning.
[00:28:31]  The vulnerable, like my daughter, have lost, and she won't get these things back.
[00:28:38]  Now, I do not mean to be cruel, but he's right.
[00:28:42]  He did not fight hard enough, and he let this happen to his daughter.
[00:28:45]  But it's a heroic and a courageous action he took to admit that and to say that out loud.
[00:28:51]  So after the father was done talking, board member Kristen Fitzgerald reminds the crowd that everyone in the room needs to be wearing a mask.
[00:28:59]  Cut 104.
[00:29:01]  Hey, I'm going to write before I start, before we start, I'm just going to remind all individuals in this audience and in our overflow rooms need to have on a mask.
[00:29:11]  These people are demented.
[00:29:13]  I mean, they really are.
[00:29:15]  At some point, I don't even know if we're living in the same country with the same values, the same morals, and the same world.
[00:29:20]  You have a father there trembling saying, My daughter has been so damaged by these mask policies.
[00:29:26]  And Kristen Fitzgerald says, oh, by the way, everyone needs to be wearing a mask here.
[00:29:30]  There's energy happening in the suburbs of Chicago that is real.
[00:29:34]  It is genuine.
[00:29:35]  It is organic.
[00:29:36]  And it's grassroots.
[00:29:38]  And I'm probably heading there next week to go pour a megaton of gas on that fire.
[00:29:46]  Look, with all the different makes and models of cars, it could be very confusing.
[00:29:50]  I'm not a car guy.
[00:29:51]  I'm not.
[00:29:52]  And I get ripped off.
[00:29:53]  Okay.
[00:29:53]  If I go to a traditional storefront, it's a disaster.
[00:29:56]  It really is.
[00:29:57]  You know, these people that know a lot about cars, they're selling me all sorts of weird and wacky things.
[00:30:02]  They're like, you need a flagpole and you need a Wilson wire and you need a Hamilton bar and all this different sorts of stuff.
[00:30:10]  Never heard of.
[00:30:10]  I said, okay, sure.
[00:30:11]  Here's the credit card.
[00:30:12]  Next thing you know, it's thousands of dollars later and I've been ripped off.
[00:30:15]  Well, look, you have computers, so you can access rockauto.com at home and in your pocket.
[00:30:20]  So you should repair and maintain your cars.
[00:30:22]  It's a way to save money and you can use them for other important things like mortgages and food.
[00:30:26]  So go to rockauto.com.
[00:30:28]  That's rockauto.com.
[00:30:29]  Their prices are reliably low at rockauto.com always offers the lowest prices possible rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear like airlines do.
[00:30:38]  Rockauto.com is a family business serving auto parts customers online for 20 years.
[00:30:43]  Go to rockauto.com to shop for auto and body parts from hundreds of manufacturers.
[00:30:48]  Best of all, prices at rockauto.com are reliably low.
[00:30:51]  Go to rockauto.com right now.
[00:30:53]  See all the parts available for your car or truck.
[00:30:55]  Right, Charlie Kirk and the how did you hear about us?
[00:30:57]  So they know that we sent you.
[00:30:59]  Amazing selection, reliably low prices, all the parts your car will ever need, rockauto.com.
[00:31:07]  I'm just so proud of the work our Turning Point USA students are doing.
[00:31:11]  They are the vanguard.
[00:31:13]  They are the bulwark.
[00:31:15]  They are the front lines of liberty and freedom.
[00:31:18]  And we want to try to inspire parents to fight as hard as these students.
[00:31:22]  If you are a parent or a grandparent listening to this, I want to try to encourage you to fight as hard as these students.
[00:31:29]  Ethan Liu, turning point USA chapter president, I believe I met him last week, really great guy, spoke boldly to the Flagstaff Unified School Board members, calling them to unmask the children.
[00:31:39]  Play Cut 83.

=== Unmasking Our Children (03:32) ===

[00:31:40]  I can guarantee that in the next couple of months, more and more students will join to end these mask mandates.
[00:31:46]  If schools across the nation can hold block over gun violence like when I was in high school, I see no reason why students should do the same thing masculine schools.
[00:31:53]  You want masculines in?
[00:31:56]  You want your feedback?
[00:31:57]  I suggest you take action.
[00:31:59]  If you want massive results, you need to take massive action.
[00:32:02]  I'll say it again.
[00:32:03]  If you want massive results, you must take massive action.
[00:32:06]  Right now is the time to stand up.
[00:32:07]  Not next semester, not in a couple of months, but now.
[00:32:10]  So, how does the media cover Democrats versus Republicans lifting mask mandates?
[00:32:14]  Play Cut 80.
[00:32:16]  Glenn Young campaign as if he were an ordinary suburban, fleece-wearing dad with moderate and ineffensive views.
[00:32:22]  Young did exactly what a Republican does when they get into power.
[00:32:27]  Let's look at what's going on.
[00:32:28]  Let's move this state back 50 years.
[00:32:31]  Virginia Governor and Trump in training Glenn Young.
[00:32:38]  We know Glenn Young's true colors.
[00:32:40]  It's that.
[00:32:41]  It's MAGA red.
[00:32:42]  New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Oregon, and California all move to relax their mask mandates.
[00:32:48]  These are all states led by Democrats and once hard-hit COVID zones, and they seem to be decisions driven by science, not politics.
[00:32:55]  The reaction so far has been broadly, if not overwhelmingly, positive.
[00:33:00]  The facts are great.
[00:33:01]  We're headed in the right direction, as I think we hoped we would be.
[00:33:04]  More signs.
[00:33:05]  The country is pushing to get back to normal.
[00:33:08]  I hat-tapped the Washington Free Beacon.
[00:33:10]  That's one of the best videos I've seen in quite some time.
[00:33:12]  It's extraordinary.
[00:33:13]  The first part of the video is: Glenn Yunkin is killing people.
[00:33:16]  Then it's like a lullaby music.
[00:33:18]  And he's relaxing.
[00:33:20]  I love the word of repealing versus relaxing.
[00:33:24]  Don't you love that?
[00:33:25]  When Democrats do it, it's relaxing.
[00:33:27]  When Republicans do it, it's erroneously repealing.
[00:33:31]  Incredible.
[00:33:33]  By the way, the truckers are still in Ottawa.
[00:33:36]  They are not leaving.
[00:33:38]  So the government of Canada decided to try to confiscate all the diesel so truckers can't be in Ottawa.
[00:33:44]  So thousands of Canadians started to show up with diesel.
[00:33:48]  There's something very special happening.
[00:33:50]  Everybody, pay attention.
[00:33:51]  There's something happening.
[00:33:52]  The frequency is ascending.
[00:33:55]  Play that clip, please.
[00:34:12]  The visual was unbelievable for everyone watching on rumble.com, R-U-M-B-L-E.com, where they are carrying diesel fuel into downtown Ottawa.
[00:34:26]  CNN asks, are you concerned about the double standard on masks may come off where they are required in schools, but not for that for hurt Democrats?
[00:34:34]  Democrat Sean Maloney doesn't phase him.
[00:34:36]  Play cut 101.
[00:34:38]  Congressman, are you concerned about how the double standard on masks may come off, where they're required in schools for kids, but not for adults in the same states?
[00:34:47]  That that will hurt Democrats?
[00:34:49]  No.
[00:34:50]  No.
[00:34:50]  You know, I think a majority of CNN's viewership is, of course, airports, but also the cuts of their insanity of things that happen on their network.
[00:34:59]  I actually think that they have a massive residual viewership.
[00:35:03]  Now, they're not able to monetize that, obviously, because they can't sell ads on it, but just the mockery and the cutting and the splicing is pretty amazing.

=== Civil Disobedience Now (01:00) ===

[00:35:13]  If you are in Chicago and you have a child in public school, encourage them to engage in this generation's equivalent of civil disobedience.
[00:35:22]  Masking our children has never been supported by science.
[00:35:26]  It is terrible for their upbringing, for their spiritual, for their mental, and for their emotional health, spiritual, mental, emotional, physical health, every form of health.
[00:35:36]  And for parents out there, I'm going to encourage you to please fight harder.
[00:35:42]  You are in charge.
[00:35:44]  You own the school districts.
[00:35:46]  They work for you.
[00:35:48]  Do not allow your tax dollars to go towards the abuse of your children.
[00:35:56]  Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
[00:35:58]  Email me directly, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:36:01]  If you want to get involved with Turning PointUSA, go to tpusa.com.
[00:36:05]  Thank you so much for listening.
[00:36:06]  God bless.
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