00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we just hit a milestone and it's a horrific one.
00:00:05.000We talk about that as well as some new vaccine news and a new study that shows that lockdowns did nothing, that they actually did more harm than good.
00:00:13.000Fortunately, we've been saying that for quite some time.
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00:00:34.000And start a high school chapter or start a college chapter today at tpusa.com at Turning Point USA.
00:00:39.000We are focusing on passing down American values, the Constitution, liberty, separation of powers, consent of the governed, independent judiciary to future generations.
00:01:07.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:13.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:06.000It's the same moral dynamics that shuts down schools as it borrows money from kids or steals money from kids.
00:02:14.000The U.S. national debt has surpassed $30 trillion, according to the latest data released by the Treasury Department, marking a new milestone as government spending and borrowing continues to surge.
00:02:26.000The new record is for government's total debt outstanding, which includes the $23.4 trillion debt held by the public and another $6.5 trillion in intergovernment debt, such as China owning a lot of our debt.
00:02:43.000Spending by Congress was already increasing at a steady clip for years before the virus sparked a borrowing surge of $5 trillion in pandemic relief that accelerated the rate.
00:03:43.000We are trying to send out a distress signal for any citizens that dare care.
00:03:48.000And I know that you care and you feel helpless with that.
00:03:51.000Now, the question is, why is it that We continue to borrow and live outside of our means.
00:04:01.000Well, when you begin the process of what would be called a short-term debt cycle, there's only a couple ways to get out of it.
00:04:10.000So we started this short-term debt cycle in early 2000s, post-9/11.
00:04:16.000We had a balanced budget, believe it or not, under Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton.
00:04:21.000We started a debt cycle, though, after 9-11, where, because of the shock that 9-11 caused in the financial markets, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, tried something new.
00:04:42.000He made money cheaper to try and accelerate borrowing and spending to renew national morale after 9-11, and it worked.
00:04:51.000That Christmas, after 9-11, because it was only a couple months after, had some of the highest consumer spending and some of the highest investment ever that business people had seen to date.
00:05:03.000But what happened then in 2002, 2003, and 2004 is the same people that are wanting war with Russia right now-the Bushes, the Cheneys, the Schumers, the Pelosi's, the Clintons, both parties, the Uniparty, as Senator Mike Rounds literally says in his statement, the Uniparty, war is expensive.
00:05:26.000And it's hard to go to war without having to borrow money.
00:05:32.000We decided a ground invasion of both Afghanistan and Iraq simultaneously was the right thing for our country.
00:05:39.000Instead of rebuilding schools in Baltimore, Detroit, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Portland, we decided to try to increase literacy rates for girls in western Afghanistan.
00:05:49.000Instead of trying to rebuild water in Flint, Michigan, we decided to go rebuild the entire transportation grid in Iraq, displacing Saddam Hussein over $1.4 trillion in just Iraq alone, thousands of lives lost, tens of thousands of veterans lost afterwards in PTSD, suicide, drug addiction issues, and hundreds of thousands of veterans that suffer from psychological damage,
00:06:16.000and a country that remains to be in basically the third world.
00:06:24.000America is not any safer because of the displacement of Saddam Hussein.
00:06:27.000It's not any better because of the displacement of Saddam Hussein.
00:06:31.000Same could be said, unfortunately, for Afghanistan.
00:06:33.000Afghanistan is precisely in the same hands as it was 20 years later.
00:06:37.000So war required deficit and debt spending.
00:06:42.000But then all of a sudden, Wall Street started to realize that, hey, lower interest rates means more money velocity, means that we can do merger and acquisitions at greater rates.
00:06:57.000We love this kind of low interest rate frenzy.
00:07:00.000So in 2004, 5, and 2006, you saw the housing boom, largely thanks to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, thanks to the negligence of our own quote-unquote housing regulators, cheap money policies from Washington, D.C., buying up bad mortgages and incentivizing people to do the same.
00:07:17.000We built an entire economic model on a house of cards of people that were bar waitresses earning cash tips that had three homes, two of which they've never visited, because people were incentivized to go to low-income neighborhoods and sign up people for as many mortgages as they possibly can.
00:07:35.000We all know what happened next, which was the great financial crisis, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and for the first time ever, despite the insistence of Jim Kramer, those companies went under.
00:07:49.000In the years that followed, 2008 and 2009, our leaders were faced with a tough decision.
00:07:55.000You see, the 2000s saw an economic boom the likes of which we never thought was possible.
00:08:00.000Now, would our leaders decide to metaphorically take the cough syrup, tighten the belt, tell Americans that we're not going to indulge in this continual behavior of deficit spending and debt mounting on future generations?
00:08:15.000Barack Hussein Obama won the election in the fall of 2008, was sworn in in 2009, and Ben Bernanke, then Federal Reserve Chairman, Hank Paulson, Treasury Secretary, and Timothy Geithner, under Treasury Secretary, three awfully treacherous people, if you asked me, all decided, hey, let's just keep interest rates low.
00:08:35.000It's not like we're going to experience long-term inflation.
00:08:42.000And then we saw a stimulus package passed by Barack Obama, a then $850 to $900 billion stimulus package.
00:08:50.000It was passed as the National Recovery Act.
00:08:53.000After that, Obama passed Obamacare, a takeover of the American healthcare industry.
00:08:58.000Debts and deficits continued to soared.
00:09:00.000And then, a couple years later, I started to get involved.
00:09:04.000When I first got involved in activism, it was in the years of 2011, 2012.
00:09:11.000I used to go around to tea party meetings when I was a high school student with my good friend Mikey and many others and went to the local tea party groups with PowerPoint presentations warning Tea Party grassroots patriots that a $12.7 trillion debt might break the back of our nation, that it's a national security threat, it's an inflationary debt, that borrowing today is stealing tomorrow.
00:09:39.000$12.7 trillion, that was 10 years ago.
00:09:43.000In 10 years, our debt has increased by $17.3 trillion, way more than doubling, almost doubling and a half, actually, almost exactly.
00:09:56.000Now, we're in a tough situation because at every corner, our leaders, and both political parties, by the way, have decided not to raise rates, have decided not to cut spending, have decided not to raise taxes.
00:10:06.000I'm not a fan of raising taxes, but that's something you could do to restrict the money supply.
00:10:11.000And so now we're experiencing double-digit inflation.
00:10:13.000And we had the worst of all situations and scenarios.
00:10:15.000Shut down the economy, made people unproductive, they were full of fear, and you inject $5 trillion of new deficit spending into the economy.
00:10:23.00080% of all dollar bills ever created have been created in the last two years.
00:10:27.000So our debt burden is so massive, it's so enormous, that the only solution that our leaders have is, well, let's just inflate our way out of the debt because the more dollar bills you have out there, $30 trillion won't be $30 trillion anymore because the proportion of the debt actually goes lower to the amount of money in the money supply.
00:10:45.000So our leaders have admitted publicly, and you just have to read between the lines, that the strategy is not to cut spending.
00:10:52.000It's not to raise taxes or to tighten the belt.
00:10:54.000No, we are engaging in a Venezuelan, Argentinian, Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe strategy.
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00:13:39.000People from San Francisco are flocking to Montana, which has seen a 140% increase from San Francisco when comparing total moves from 2018, 19 to 2020, 2021, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
00:14:00.000Dorsch, who's a Bozeman real estate broker, I love Bozeman, says, I have a vacation rental in Bozeman, and the demand from the Bay Area has exploded.
00:14:11.000It's become slam-booked for the entire summer.
00:14:15.000Buyers were buying properties, sight unseen, to get out of the Bay Area.
00:14:20.000During the same period of time above, overall moves from the Bay Area to Montana increased about 51%.
00:14:26.000Now, on the surface, it might sound like a good thing for the economic development of Montana.
00:14:32.000I've actually spent a ton of time in Montana the last 10 years.
00:14:35.000A lot of time in Bozeman, a good amount of time in Butte, which is a mining town, good amount of time in Kalispell, a good amount of time in Whitefish.
00:15:11.000Well, the takeaway is that Montana is a beautiful, conservative, constitution-loving state.
00:15:19.000Yet the left-wingers that have destroyed San Francisco because of the open defecation, because of the needles in arms, because of the crime, the robbery, the arson, the assaults, the shoplifting, and at times murder, where do they want to go?
00:16:36.000While San Francisco saw the biggest pandemic era percent increase to Montana, all of 10 California's most populous counties saw move outs to the state increase significantly.
00:16:45.000So you destroy California, burn it to the ground metaphorically.
00:16:50.000So then you want to go to Montana and Arizona to continue to spread the pathogen.
00:16:56.000States that saw the biggest increase in move-ins from San Francisco during the pandemic by raw numbers.
00:17:03.000And the fewer people are moving to California.
00:17:07.000During the pandemic, the rate of people migrating to California is at a record low and out of is at a record high.
00:17:15.000The net domestic California migration by quarter, do you know how many people are leaving California every three months?
00:17:23.000200,000 people are leaving California every three months.
00:18:00.000The racial groups will, in fact, now, thankfully there's some good conservatives like the wonderful governor of Montana, my friend Governor Gianforte.
00:18:07.000But if this is not addressed and this migration continues, they're like locust.
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00:19:48.000So we locked down our entire civilization.
00:19:52.000We were not alone, but it certainly felt that way at times in saying that the lockdowns would have no epidemiological benefit.
00:20:02.000Lockdowns were one of the great government intrusions in private life that we've ever lived through.
00:20:08.000There was no reason at all whatsoever for it.
00:20:11.000However, we did it, and we continue to do it, and some parts of the world are still doing it.
00:20:16.000Some parts of America are somewhat locked down still, and Canada is largely locked down.
00:20:21.000Johns Hopkins, which is no fan of Western civilization, if you actually study the history of Johns Hopkins, heavily influenced by German historicists in the 1870s and 1880s, they have a new study out that said that lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.
00:20:41.000Before I go any further, this is just sad.
00:20:44.000And our leaders, they failed us again.
00:20:48.000A whole generation will be permanently impacted and damaged.
00:20:51.000You know how they say it's millennials, Gen Z. They're just going to call this generation the damaged generation.
00:21:02.000A new study out of the renowned Johns Hopkins University has concluded that global lockdowns have had a much more detrimental impact on society than they have produced any benefit.
00:21:12.000While researchers urging that they are, quote, ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.
00:21:20.000But remember, they wouldn't have got mail-in ballots if it wasn't for lockdowns.
00:21:24.000They wouldn't have had Jeff Bezos' net worth double or Mark Zuckerberg who's all about the wealth transfer to the billionaires.
00:21:32.000Well, you got poor to create $5 trillion, reintroduce it into the economy.
00:21:36.000If the economy remained open and lockdowns wouldn't have happened, maybe our national debt would be $24 trillion, not $30 trillion.
00:21:43.000Maybe Donald Trump would have won a second term.
00:21:46.000Lockdowns were not an instrument for the pandemic.
00:21:51.000The lockdowns, they were an instrument for the great reset.
00:21:57.000The focus of the study, according to the authors, was to determine whether this is empirical, there's enough empirical evidence to support the belief that lockdowns reduce COVID-19 mortality.
00:22:06.000The researchers define lockdowns as any government mandate that directly restricts people's possibilities, such as limiting travel, internal movement, closed schools, businesses, and ban international travel.
00:22:18.000The researchers further noted that, quote, to answer our question, we focused on studies that examine the actual impact of lockdowns on COVID-19 mortality rates based on registered cross-sectional mortality data and counterfactual differences in difference approach.
00:22:32.000In other words, did lockdowns reduce COVID deaths?
00:22:39.000Lockdowns have had little to no effect on COVID-19 mortality.
00:22:43.000More specifically, index studies find that lockdowns in Europe and the United States only reduce COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average.
00:22:53.000They add that the shelter-in-place orders were also ineffective, only reducing COVID mortality by 2.9% on average.
00:23:03.000Specific non-pharmaceutical intervention and PI studies also show no broad-based evidence to noticeable effects on COVID-19 mortality.
00:23:12.000In further analysis of lockdown versus no lockdown, face masks closing non-essential businesses or border closures or school closures and limiting gatherings, the study also found that, quote, no broad-based evidence of notable effects on COVID-19 mortality.
00:23:28.000The epidemiologist added that every single poor person on the face of the earth has faced some sort of harm, sometimes catastrophic harm, from this lockdown policy.
00:23:37.000Will it be counting the catastrophic health and psychological harms imposed on nearly every poor person on the face of the planet for an entire generation?
00:23:47.000The researchers found zero, none, absolutely none significant beneficial impact on restrictive measures when it came to COVID-19.
00:24:01.000We've known this all along, but they did it anyway.
00:24:04.000And the damage will live with us indefinitely.
00:24:09.000What's so incredible is we did it to ourselves.
00:24:13.000The smartest people in our society, they're never wrong.
00:24:20.000And they'll never really be held accountable for it, unless we make them held accountable for it through Nuremberg or other ways.
00:24:26.000And it also plays into the very same theme that we've been talking about: generational theft, stealing from future generations to benefit yourself with the time on this earth you have remaining.
00:24:58.000And if you have three doses of vaccine, remember the Israelis are now going to four.
00:25:02.000If you have three doses, so you have the booster, you have an even higher risk of being infected by Omicron than somebody that did not receive vaccine or received one dose of vaccine or received two doses of vaccine.
00:25:15.000So your risk of infection on average appears in some data sets from national governments to be highest if you've received three doses with Omicron.
00:25:28.000This is worrisome because it suggests that there are aspects of Omicron that may be being enhanced by something that is associated with vaccination.
00:26:20.000This is one of the great injustices of modern civilization.
00:26:26.000But don't worry, America will become the first country to vaccinate babies as young as six months as Pfizer asks for authorization to give the shot to children under five.
00:26:40.000Experts say it's not necessary because young people make up less than 0.1% of COVID deaths.
00:26:49.000But parents seem to be very, very engaged in vaccinating their children all the time, regardless of the circumstances.
00:27:00.000I remember I used to get in debates with left-wingers I went to high school with, and the first couple months of starting Turning Point USA.
00:27:06.000And at the time, I didn't think this was a good argument, but actually, it really is.
00:27:09.000They said the problem with having these pharmaceutical companies is they're always going to be trying to make people either sicker or permanently dependent on their products because that's their business model.
00:27:24.000It is a sick care model, not a healing care or health care model.
00:27:31.000Pfizer and its partner BioInTech, with all their new billionaires, have officially submitted data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to have its vaccine authorized for use in children ages six months to four years old to try to inoculate children against a virus that they are not even at even close to significant risk from.
00:27:55.000It would make the United States the only country on the planet to approve the Pfizer vaccine for children under five.
00:28:05.000Not to mention the vaccine adverse event report system of myocarditis, pedicarditis, the problems with boosters.
00:28:12.000But now the vaccine lobby is pushing very hard to be able to vaccinate your six-month-old granddaughter.
00:28:24.000The vaccine regimen for young children will include two doses and three micrograms each.
00:28:29.000For comparison, the jab for 12 people and older is 30 micrograms, and the shot for kids 5 to 11 is 10 micrograms.
00:28:36.000But they need a third dose, according to the Pfizer CEO, Albert Burla.
00:28:42.000Ultimately, we believe that three doses of the vaccine will be needed for children six months through four years.
00:29:14.000Cut 31, students in some Virginia schools are being suspended indefinitely for not wearing masks as left-wing activist school boards defy Governor Youngkin's executive order.
00:29:25.000Every morning last week, from Tuesday until Friday, Stephanie Lundquist Aurora escorted her three sons to school to attend this elementary, her oldest this middle school.
00:29:35.000None of the children wore masks, a violation of FCPS policy.
00:30:02.000These adults one day will have to face justice for the abuse they put on our children.
00:30:08.000Despite natural immunity and all the treatments available and the low risk that COVID poses to children in the first place, let alone the low risk that Omicron poses.
00:30:16.000They want children to walk around like they're living in some sort of Middle Eastern marketplace.
00:30:25.000Meanwhile, 77% tested at Baltimore High School, they read at an elementary level.
00:30:33.000Baltimore City teacher came forward with devastating information that shows that 77% of the students that were tested at a high school, they only read at elementary school level.
00:30:42.000But don't worry, they're wearing masks all day long.
00:30:45.000They're wearing masks and they know everything about BLM.
00:30:48.000The teacher works for Patterson High School, one of the largest schools in Baltimore, with a 61% graduation rate and a nearly $12 million budget to conceal her identity because they don't want this to be public knowledge.
00:31:03.000So the focus is on making sure that kids in school are wearing masks when 77% of the kids at a high school in Baltimore, they don't even just not read at grade level, they read at a kindergarten level.
00:31:17.000What they're doing all day in school, I don't know.
00:31:53.000Why is Moderna's spike vacc still limited to adults 18 and older?
00:31:58.000So I don't know anyone who uses that name either.
00:32:01.000But the short answer is that people, things get approved for exactly what they are applied for, and the companies are very careful to apply for indications where they've carefully tested.
00:32:11.000But in the particular case of the Moderna vaccine and the mRNA vaccines in general, there have been a very small number, a very low number of cases of myocarditis that have appeared in mostly young adolescent men.
00:32:24.000And so the FDA is looking very closely at that to make sure that everything is okay before going forward.
00:32:30.000Yeah, but no, let's go vaccinate our six-month-olds, right?
00:32:34.000Cut 34, Virginia mom says Democrats' nonsensical COVID policies in schools have induced a lot of anxiety in her children.
00:33:47.000We don't have a ton of time, so I don't have time to really build up to it the way I would like to, but I want to make sure we get to this.
00:33:51.000It's one of the most important pieces of Senate commentary I've seen in quite some time, and good for Senator Ted Cruz for leading on it.
00:34:13.000Senator, our Constitution prohibits race discrimination, discrimination on the basis of race.
00:34:21.000Okay, let me ask again, is racial discrimination wrong?
00:34:26.000Senator, as a judge, I don't deal with issues of morality or whether something's...
00:34:33.000Do you have no views on whether it's right or wrong?
00:34:35.000Senator, because that is an issue that is frequently litigated before the courts, pursuant to Canon 3 of the Code of Conduct.
00:34:44.000Okay, so why does the Constitution prohibit racial discrimination?
00:34:49.000Senator, I think it's part of our Constitution and this nation's history of aiming for equal justice and treating people regardless of any protected class status equally and fairly.
00:35:09.000So discriminating based on race violates, I think you just said, our Constitution's history of aiming for justice.
00:35:20.000Senator, our case law, if you're talking about race discrimination under the law, yes, pursuant to Supreme Court precedent, race discrimination under the law is prohibited.
00:35:35.000Now, of course, she went to Harvard and she went to UCLA.
00:35:38.000She says, well, I'm not one to say who's right and wrong.
00:35:56.000Well, according to Kenley Kiyakato, who is a United States District Judge for the Central District of California, who's a nominee to serve on the U.S. state's district judge, she can't say whether or not racial discrimination is wrong.
00:36:10.000She doesn't have an opinion on such matters.