As young kids get doxxed who are trying to help the government, we also have the latest on USAID, Jack Posobiec joins the program, and we recap the decline in Bud Light stock and why it has happened.
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00:03:10.000What is your take on USAID and should it continue to exist?
00:03:15.000Charlie, the easy answer there is no, at least not in its current form.
00:03:19.000It's great to be here, by the way, but this question of USAID and what we've seen over the last week since Marco Rubio at the State Department has taken control and tried to...
00:03:32.000Make transparent some of the funding schemes going on there has really got me and I think a lot of people really heated because it's very clear that what USAID is doing is the exact opposite of what is in the interest of the United States and the American people.
00:03:50.000And USAID really is a kind of perfect microcosm of both the stupidity and the malice.
00:03:57.000of the unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats who run our State Department and use our tax dollars, the money that we make and that should be helping our people and supporting our interests instead goes to spreading this international ideology.
00:04:17.000What we might just call international wokeism for the benefit of their own pockets and of their own interests, which again are entirely divorced from the interests of the American people.
00:04:29.000So, you know, I'm really glad that this is now out there, that this is a discussion we're having.
00:04:35.000And what was previously so opaque about some of this funding and this waste is now open for everyone to see.
00:04:44.000I want to thank, by the way, Data Republican, a great account on Twitter, also put together a tool at datarepublican.com where you can go and search this stuff for yourself.
00:04:55.000So I encourage you to go to datarepublican.com, type in USAID to the grant search tool, and see what comes up.
00:05:03.000And here's just one small sample of something I found.
00:05:07.000$30 million going to an organization called Creative Associates International.
00:05:13.000What does Creative Associates International do?
00:05:16.000They fund women in the Guatemalan Highland to stitch their own ponchos.
00:05:23.000They also fund vague community organizing efforts in Burkina Faso.
00:05:30.000I dare anyone listening to this to explain to me why that money being spent on ponchos in the Guatemalan Highland Is more appropriate than spending that money to fix up, let's say, the floods in North Carolina or the fires that just devastated our people in California.
00:05:48.000And there's also some nefarious activity here as well, in addition to the extraordinary.
00:05:54.000Talk about how this money is also used in parallel with some of the nefarious goals of our intel agencies.
00:06:06.000And I think, you know, this requires a kind of deep dive into the history of the State Department and some of our globalist policies, what some people like our friend Darren Beattie, who's now at the Department of State, has called the global American empire.
00:06:19.000Which is really an offshoot of the neocons, going back to the Iraq War, and this idea that we could spread democracy across the world.
00:06:28.000And we would do that by force initially.
00:06:31.000It turns out that you can't just march an army into a place like Iraq or Afghanistan and turn it into a liberal democracy.
00:06:41.000That strategy has transmogrified now, and we use a kind of soft power, and we use this kind of ideology of wokeness to impose the interests of this global American empire on the rest of the world.
00:06:56.000A lot of this is represented in things like...
00:07:00.000LGBTQI plus initiatives, things like environmental justice.
00:07:04.000You see words like Latinx politics popping up all over the place when you search for this stuff.
00:07:10.000Our friend Josh Howerton, he's a great account on Twitter.
00:07:13.000He mentioned, for example, he found that a lot of Christian organizations and religious organizations around the world, this money is dangled over their head and they only get access to it so long as They allow for and accept the leftist activist views on things like LGTB issues and trans issues.
00:09:39.000Foreign policy option that we have is a nationalist, American-first foreign policy.
00:09:46.000USAID has been operating on the globalist foreign policy ideology for the last several decades.
00:09:55.000Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, our patriots now in charge of our government, are reasserting a foreign policy that prefers And supports the interests of the American people over the rest of the world.
00:10:14.000And part of this now is going to be revising how we spend our money and returning that money to the American people.
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00:20:02.000I mean, this really was sort of the tipping point.
00:20:04.000And when Bud Light did the sponsorship with Dylan Mulvaney, I think that was a red pill moment for most of America when they said, we've just had enough of corporations getting involved in political issues.
00:20:13.000We saw when the NFL got involved with having half their players kneel and accepted it.
00:20:18.000We saw companies like Disney, who all of a sudden were promoting all of a sudden parental rights in Florida issues that were going on.
00:20:26.000And then when Bud Light, I mean, the most American...
00:20:28.000The most American of brands, the most American of beers, all of a sudden starts doing this controversial partnership with Dylan Mulvaney.
00:20:34.000This is really when people had enough.
00:20:35.000And this is when you actually saw customers left in droves.
00:20:39.000The company lost billions of dollars of shareholder value.
00:20:42.000Their profits plunged by $2 billion as well.
00:20:45.000And this is when all of a sudden you actually saw more companies take a step back and look at some of the really controversial, divisive DEI and ESG policies that have been implemented across corporate America by the Biden administration, by asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, by a bunch of consultants like McKinsey.
00:21:04.000And this is when all of a sudden corporations actually took a step back and said, you know, maybe we don't need all this.
00:21:25.000You have Costco, JP Morgan have doubled down on their DEI policies.
00:21:28.000And then now there's been a lawsuit that's been filed by a lot of DEI officers at companies that are trying to undo some of Trump's recent legislative agendas.
00:21:36.000So this is very much still a topic that is alive, and I think we're going to not be seeing the end of the DEI movement anytime soon.
00:21:45.000So I want to get into the details here of your book and your experience, but in April of 2023, if my timeline is correct, they decided to make Dylan Mulvaney one of the faces of Bud Light and kind of do this whole thing.
00:22:00.000And the stock price was at $65.52 a share.
00:22:09.000You're a former president of Anheuser-Busch.
00:22:12.000Do you believe that this decision and the backlash has contributed in this nearly 20% decline in their stock over the last year and a half?
00:22:51.000Bud Light, companies like Target, very similar.
00:22:54.000When Target two years ago got involved in Pride Month and they were having the tuck-friendly bathing suits, as you might recall, their stock is down double digits over that time period where their biggest competitor, Walmart, who Walmart has taken its big step back.
00:23:06.000Walmart ditched their divisive DEI policies.
00:23:09.000They were more focused on the customer.
00:23:10.000Walmart's stock has doubled over that same time period.
00:23:13.000So I think it's very clear that you're starting to see this really diversion happen.
00:23:16.000Companies that are leading into controversial DEI ESG. Those businesses are going to thrive, especially, I think, in the coming years.
00:23:33.000And I think those businesses are going to add a ton of value to their share price.
00:23:37.000And then also, I think they're going to add a lot of value to just our broader sort of American environment.
00:23:42.000But the private sector and companies used to be an area where people could come together, whether you were black, white, gay, straight, Democrat, Republican, who cares, and just work on the mission of a company, be united around that.
00:23:52.000And then all of a sudden, the workplace became a very fragmented environment over the last couple of years with companies taking...
00:23:58.000Very controversial stance on defund the police initiatives, on overturning election integrity laws, Roe v.
00:24:12.000And that sort of message is, I think, still being written and will continue to be written over the next couple of years.
00:24:18.000And we'll see, really, some companies separate themselves and others continue to fall behind based off who's going to get involved in political issues moving forward.
00:24:30.000How did we go from Clydesdale's to Tranny's with beer?
00:24:36.000Yeah, there's a short story and a long story.
00:24:39.000So the short story is that the company really adopted really divisive.
00:24:47.000Now, a lot of corporate America was doing this at the exact same time.
00:24:51.000They adopted these policies because a lot of people that own Anheuser-Busch tend to be these large asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, that get a lot of their money from progressive institutions like the state of California, state of New York, European sovereign wealth funds.
00:25:06.000And there was a big push by these organizations, especially when Trump was first elected and pulled out of global organizations like the Paris Climate Accord, UN Human Rights Coalition, World Health Organization, that all of these large progressive institutions said, if now Trump and government is not going to solve these so-called existential if now Trump and government is not going to solve these so-called existential crises of climate change, of systemic racism, of police brutality, then all of a sudden
00:25:31.000And for large, mostly New York and East Coast-based institutions like BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, that manage $20 trillion worth of capital, those were the ones that all of a sudden were the single largest shareholders in companies like Anaheim.
00:25:45.000And they started telling these companies that we need you to start solving all these problems.
00:25:51.000And all the companies really unfortunately didn't have.
00:25:54.000Much of an opportunity to push back because these companies, they vote for shareholder proposals every single year at companies.
00:26:01.000They put companies in ESG index funds, which is our funds that you invest money into, hoping that the companies are going to return capital.
00:26:09.000And they were threatened to be not put in these funds or to not have the support of these large asset managers that were using other people's money to foist these policies on them.
00:26:17.000And so unfortunately, Anheuser-Busch was uniquely susceptible.
00:26:21.000The company was bought by a European company called InBev about 10 years ago.
00:26:25.000This European company allowed them to, unfortunately, switch the ideology away from sort of American values, just focusing on the bottom line, focusing on shareholders, more towards this European model of being beholden to your stakeholders, being involved in programs like ESG and DEI.
00:26:42.000So the company all of a sudden switched their focus from Clydesdales winning the Super Bowl ad meter award every single year.
00:26:52.000This was by far the company that was the best in terms of winning Super Bowl Adminer.
00:26:56.000They've won more of them than any other company, but haven't won one since 2011. And that was one of the reasons why everyone got so upset is that this wasn't Patagonia, which was well known as a left-wing environmental company.
00:27:07.000This is Heartland, St. Louis, as good as it gets, right?
00:27:13.000Beer drinking, just great American Midwest consumers.
00:27:17.000And all of a sudden, they too are kind of bending the knees.
00:27:20.000Were they just trying to be trend followers?
00:27:24.000Did people inside the company warn them?
00:27:27.000What was the process that this actually went about?
00:27:58.000If you're eating Ben& Jerry's, it's free market, you know, go eat it.
00:28:01.000You know that you're going to be supporting defund the police causes and giving land back to Native Americans and all kinds of things Ben& Jerry's does.
00:28:08.000But if you drink Bud Light, you were just about, I mean, this is using the VP of Bud Light in the marketing.
00:28:34.000You have Kid Rock that's using the AR-15 to be able to take out a bunch of Bud Light cases.
00:28:38.000And now the company all of a sudden, because they had adopted an ESG DEI policy, they couldn't apologize to their loyal customer base.
00:28:46.000But they couldn't also go and say that we're kind of more about the Ben & Jerry's type of brand because they're going to lose even more sales.
00:28:53.000Really quick, I want you to plug your book and answer this question.
00:28:55.000Do you think they've learned their lesson?
00:29:00.000I don't think they've learned their lesson because here's the deal.
00:29:02.000If this company's ever going to be redeemed and their customers, really the path to redemption, it goes through forgiveness.
00:29:09.000But to be forgiven, you have to admit that there was a mistake.
00:29:12.000So I think this book, it talks about not only the mistake of broader corporate America getting involved in ESG, DEI. Programs that didn't deliver any shareholder value and were more divisive, but it really uses the story of Bud Light and uses the story of this company to tell that story to really make it easy to understand for folks because Bud Light was the biggest brand.
00:29:33.000So we'd love you to read Last Call for Bud Light to learn more about what went wrong in corporate America and to learn what Bud Light needs to do to move forward and get its customer base back.
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00:31:37.000And so the idea being that we were up on Real America's Voice at that time, but then you were covering down two to three on both.
00:31:45.000And so we were sort of simultaneously overlapping each other.
00:31:49.000So it turned out to be that when we were looking at this third hour, said, OK, what could we do with it?
00:31:54.000That, hey, I was already doing a show in that hour to begin with.
00:31:58.000And so it just sort of made sense to say, well, why don't we just put that show out and being able to have a few conversations with the Salem team?
00:32:06.000And having them understand that I'm not only all about what their values are, but in many ways, I was able to learn the values of the conservative movement and actually learn what it means to be in a conservative in America by just listening to Salem.
00:32:22.000And in fact, for people who don't even know the deeper backstory, humanevents.com was actually under Salem at one point, and it later went independent.
00:32:31.000But now I kind of feel like it's it's almost like human events and Salem are rekindling that great partnership.
00:32:38.000And so it's an incredible place to be with everything that's going on in our country.
00:32:52.000Look, I talk to journalists a lot frequently, a lot more frequently than in the past.
00:32:57.000You know, they used to have this more antagonistic relationship, but suddenly they realized that, oh, if they want to actually know what's going on, we might have to talk to people like Jack Posovic or Charlie Kirk, and they're all telling me, we can't keep up.
00:33:08.000What you guys are doing is so fast, and they don't realize how many years people in this movement have spent studying these issues and understanding these nodes.
00:33:18.000So you've got Mike Benz on USAID. That's just one spot.
00:33:21.000If you think that was big, wait till you see what comes next.
00:33:24.000When it comes to Tulsi Gabbard and the intelligence community, RFK, with the Maha movement, with the FDA and the FTC even a little bit.
00:33:34.000And so they didn't realize that President Trump had this ability with this all-star team that he put together to go through and be firing down on multiple avenues, multiple verticals at the same time in a place where they don't even know where to put their resources because look at the corporate media.
00:33:51.000They've actually been downsizing over the past couple of years.
00:34:21.000And so what President Trump has done is utilize this and his team...
00:34:25.000The comms team with Stephen Chung, with Caroline Levitt as the press secretary, they've understood that the way to get ahead of the media is to literally drive faster.
00:34:36.000Caroline Levitt just a couple of minutes ago announced that these illegal alien flights are already beginning down to Guantanamo Bay.
00:34:44.000The media hasn't even been able to pick up on any of this yet because it's all moving way faster.
00:34:50.000And I'm sorry, guys, you're going to have to start working or you're going to be left in our dust.
00:35:22.000But understand, none of these people have been confirmed until they're confirmed by the United States Senate.
00:35:28.000And there's some senators out there, Charlie, who I think might need a little bit of our attention, maybe just to hold their hand as we walk them down.