The Charlie Kirk Show - May 02, 2022


Ask Charlie Anything 103: Is a Recession Coming? Discovery+ Child Drag Queens? Must Read Books? And MORE


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In this episode, Charlie talks about why he thinks we are headed into a recession and why it's a good thing we don't celebrate a recession. He also talks about the impact of government intervention in the economy and why we should be worried about it.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Today, the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000 Happy Monday, by the way.
00:00:02.000 And Ask Me Anything episode.
00:00:04.000 We start with the most important question on a lot of your mind: Is there a recession coming?
00:00:09.000 We dive into it.
00:00:10.000 I tell you why I think there might be a recession coming.
00:00:12.000 I build it out for you on this episode.
00:00:14.000 If you have bonds, stocks, investments, or worried about the economy, pretty in-depth economic episode here.
00:00:20.000 And we talk about Discovery Plus with Generation Drag, some books I hope that you'll read, and so much more.
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00:01:33.000 So, Ezra from Michigan says, Charlie, do you think we are headed towards a recession?
00:01:40.000 Very simple question with a not so simple answer.
00:01:42.000 Yes, I do believe we are headed towards a recession.
00:01:46.000 I'm not doing this to scare you.
00:01:48.000 I wish that was not the case.
00:01:49.000 We will not celebrate a recession.
00:01:52.000 We do not do that.
00:01:53.000 That is what the left did when Donald Trump was president.
00:01:56.000 They wanted a recession.
00:01:57.000 In fact, I believe there was somebody who said, I can't remember her name.
00:02:01.000 It was Gloria Steinman or someone that said that COVID was God's gift to the left.
00:02:07.000 That the fact people are dying, it's a gift that they have it.
00:02:10.000 So then they'll be able to destroy Donald Trump.
00:02:13.000 So we're starting to see negative economic growth.
00:02:15.000 The economy is now shrinking, despite the ingenuity of the American entrepreneur.
00:02:22.000 It turns out when you create six to seven trillion dollars out of thin air, pump it into the economy, things aren't going to work out rather well.
00:02:30.000 Cut 93, CNN tries to explain this.
00:02:33.000 Play Cut 93.
00:02:35.000 Surprising new numbers from the government today.
00:02:37.000 The U.S. economy shrank in the first quarter of 2022.
00:02:40.000 The nation's gross domestic product declined at an annual rate of 1.4%.
00:02:45.000 Most economists were expecting a positive growth number.
00:02:48.000 Instead, the numbers show the worst quarter in two years.
00:02:52.000 Worst quarter in two years.
00:02:54.000 So here's what happens: right?
00:02:56.000 So we locked down our country unnecessarily, never should have occurred while we had a booming economy.
00:03:02.000 So a good rule in economics is state intervention, especially dramatic state intervention, has unintended consequences.
00:03:14.000 So economics is the study of incentives.
00:03:17.000 We're constantly studying what drives one person to behave a certain way.
00:03:21.000 So those of us that believe in markets and we believe the greatest way to flourish is through markets, not through central control, not through Marxist or socialist economic planning, but instead through the protection of private property rights and through the proper elevation of the individual entrepreneurs and taking risks in a market.
00:03:39.000 That's the best way to organize society.
00:03:41.000 And if you were to have government intervention, the local is preferred to the federal.
00:03:45.000 But we did the worst possible thing.
00:03:46.000 We shut down the entire country.
00:03:49.000 And so when we shut down the entire country, we immediately subsidized the technology companies without realizing it.
00:03:56.000 It was a massive subsidy for people that did not have to meet in person to be able to sell their product.
00:04:01.000 It was also a handout and a subsidy to the major big box stores, Walmart, to use an example.
00:04:08.000 So we locked down the country unnecessarily when we could have never, we should never have done that.
00:04:12.000 And even if we locked down for two weeks reopening, we would have survived it rather quickly.
00:04:16.000 So we locked down the country and immediately the impulse of all of Washington, D.C., Connor, if you could get the vote tally for me, I don't think it received one opposition vote, not a single opposition vote.
00:04:28.000 It was a unanimous consent in the United States Senate.
00:04:32.000 And it was Jane Fonda who called coronavirus God's gift to the left. 0.97
00:04:35.000 So back when the stimulus package was being debated, the stimulus package had multiple aspects to it.
00:04:41.000 There was the PPP provision, which was free money for businesses that continues to stay open.
00:04:46.000 There is a constitutional argument that if you make people, if you lock down the country and they can't do business, it's almost like the confiscation of property.
00:04:54.000 Okay.
00:04:54.000 But then there was the paying for people to stay at home and do nothing, the stimulus checks.
00:04:58.000 And then there was the just general graft, the $75 million to NPR, the $50 million to the Kennedy Center, just the just completely inexplicable intervention of cheap money into the economy.
00:05:14.000 So you put all of that together.
00:05:16.000 Basically what we saw in a short period of time was one state intervention after the other.
00:05:22.000 And this is another rule of economics, which is when you massively intervene with the state, it almost necessitates another state intervention, unless you're willing to pay the price of that intervention.
00:05:35.000 What do I mean by that?
00:05:36.000 Which is when the government all of a sudden says that we're going to lock down the country, well, then you must all of a sudden now have a stimulus package to compensate for the damage of locking down the country.
00:05:46.000 So then you have the stimulus package and they say, well, we need another recovery package because the growth is not what we want it to be.
00:05:51.000 So that's what we did.
00:05:52.000 So we kept on passing these stimulus bills, one after the other, after the other, $1.2 trillion, $2 trillion.
00:05:57.000 We then bailed out blue states and blue state pension funds that were broken and corrupt for all of that.
00:06:03.000 And we were warning this entire time, like bad equation of being non-productive and locking down a society, paying people not to work while simultaneously inflating the money supply in an unprecedented way that will only result in a massive spike of inflation.
00:06:18.000 And so in the last year, you then see the reopening of the country as Omicron came and people became more comfortable to leave their homes.
00:06:26.000 And you started to see the reopening of the country with all these dollar bills.
00:06:30.000 And so the only way that this could have worked out, the only way was that if they would have timed it perfectly, that the amount of dollar bills they would have created would have correlated perfectly with the amount of economic growth.
00:06:42.000 And therefore, if growth would have outpaced inflation, it wouldn't have been felt as bad.
00:06:46.000 Now, of course, we're dealing with central planners who will mess up everything.
00:06:49.000 It's inevitable that they were not going to be able to do this correctly and they would not be able to do this precisely.
00:06:54.000 Of course, they didn't.
00:06:56.000 And growth did not hit the expectations that they would have had.
00:07:00.000 And inflation in certain cities like Phoenix and Dallas and Atlanta is anywhere between 20 to 30 percent.
00:07:04.000 That's right, 20 to 30 percent.
00:07:07.000 So we had the worst possible combination of a scenario.
00:07:10.000 Locking down America shouldn't have happened, creating all the thin air, money out of thin air shouldn't have happened, doing it again, and then not having pro-growth policies in addition to all those things has created what is now the worst of all scenarios.
00:07:23.000 So it goes from a sugar high to a crash.
00:07:26.000 And if you remember when you were young, when you go eat a bunch of ice cream or you eat a bunch of Twizzlers and you're on that high, you feel like you could do anything, you could run around.
00:07:34.000 And when you crash, oh boy, do you crash.
00:07:36.000 If you have a bunch of sugar on an empty stomach, you feel as if you could just do anything you want, and then you just hit a wall and you like need a nap, you collapse, you get very crabby.
00:07:45.000 That analogy, that metaphor is perfect to what we are about to experience in our country.
00:07:50.000 We had the sugar high the last year.
00:07:52.000 Have you all of a sudden been offered a job 20 or 30% more than you're earning?
00:07:57.000 Have you all of a sudden seen like, wow, I'm earning more money, but I'm actually not richer because prices are going up everywhere.
00:08:03.000 But at least you were able to stay afloat.
00:08:04.000 What's about to happen is the next worst chapter of all of this, which is the pullback, which is all of a sudden, if you're now realizing, wait a second, I was earning $60,000 last year, but now I'm earning $67,000.
00:08:19.000 But it used to cost me $50,000 to live my life, but now it costs me $60,000 to live my life.
00:08:24.000 I'm actually poor.
00:08:27.000 Then what do you end up doing?
00:08:28.000 You end up trimming.
00:08:31.000 You end up trimming your budget and you start prioritizing.
00:08:34.000 The early indicator of this was Netflix.
00:08:38.000 This is the canary in the coal mine.
00:08:39.000 And yes, Netflix has gone woke in all of this, but I guarantee you out of the 200,000 people that have decided to cancel their subscription with Netflix, not all of them have a political problem with Netflix.
00:08:48.000 A lot of them have a financial problem with Netflix.
00:08:51.000 A lot of the people that have canceled Netflix are like, it's actually not worth the, what is it, $15, $25, $30 a month?
00:08:57.000 I don't know how much Netflix costs anymore.
00:08:59.000 It's not worth that anymore to me.
00:09:01.000 I'm canceling them.
00:09:03.000 Now, you're going to start to see this.
00:09:04.000 And I believe that because of the high prices, people are going to say, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, time out.
00:09:09.000 I don't need that.
00:09:11.000 And I don't need to go there.
00:09:12.000 And I don't need to buy this.
00:09:14.000 And then you're going to see the worst of all possible economic outcomes.
00:09:20.000 High prices, low economic growth.
00:09:24.000 Otherwise known as stagflation.
00:09:26.000 The economy is not growing, yet everything continues to get more expensive.
00:09:31.000 So how do you get out of that debt spiral of stagflation?
00:09:34.000 Reagan did it rather profoundly.
00:09:38.000 You cut taxes, you inspire people to spend again, you empower entrepreneurs, and you deregulate the economy.
00:09:44.000 It's really not that difficult.
00:09:45.000 It's not.
00:09:46.000 And so, but what we're about to experience, though, is people that believe that their dollar is getting cheaper and that it's not worth continually to engage in the economy because they feel as if that sort of Damocles is going to fall at any time.
00:10:03.000 This time, it seems like it's by design.
00:10:05.000 That's a separate issue.
00:10:06.000 But to answer your question, yes, I do believe that we are heading towards a recession.
00:10:11.000 I don't want that.
00:10:13.000 I pray that does not happen.
00:10:15.000 I pray for all of you that will be losing your jobs.
00:10:17.000 What you're going to see, what you're going to see is that these companies that have just hired dramatically are then going to have to scale down.
00:10:23.000 For those of you that are employers and have to deal with kind of the smug, snarky attitude of people that are showing up late and you're like, I got no leverage because I can't find anyone to work.
00:10:31.000 The only benefit of a recession, which is hard to even believe there would be one, the only benefit is that employers are now going to kind of get some of their leverage back because everyone's going to be begging for a job soon.
00:10:42.000 Everyone.
00:10:42.000 So you go from like, where are all the workers?
00:10:45.000 Because they have all the leverage to the workers will be pounding down your door for a job. 0.76
00:10:51.000 One of the reasons why we are heading towards a recession is our war on energy.
00:10:56.000 If we had abundant oil and natural gas exploration, it would be a hedge against inflation.
00:11:04.000 When it costs too much to transport things, everything gets more expensive.
00:11:09.000 Everything.
00:11:09.000 Meanwhile, you have the Biden energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, saying we are committed to reducing the use of oil and natural gas.
00:11:16.000 Play Cut 75.
00:11:18.000 We're committed to securing the clean energy supply chains needed to reduce our reliance on unabated fossil fuels and increase our energy independence.
00:11:30.000 Saying that we are committed to making it harder and more expensive.
00:11:35.000 Now you might say, well, Charlie, that's not what's being said.
00:11:37.000 Oh, really?
00:11:38.000 How about this one?
00:11:39.000 Cecilia Rose suggests that in an ideal world, gas prices would be even higher.
00:11:44.000 Who is this person?
00:11:45.000 A top Biden economic advisor.
00:11:48.000 So now you have a top Biden economic advisor who is saying, honestly, in an ideal world, it's even more expensive than it is right now.
00:11:57.000 Play cut 94.
00:11:58.000 We know that when we're consuming fossil fuels, we're not paying nearly the cost that is generating from the social perspective.
00:12:07.000 So the private cost I pay even at the pump is not reflecting the social cost of the emissions from my car.
00:12:13.000 The private costs I pay even at the pump is not reflecting the social cost of the emission from my car.
00:12:18.000 These people don't care. 0.98
00:12:20.000 They want it to be expensive.
00:12:22.000 They don't care that you have to take out a mortgage when you go to the gas station.
00:12:25.000 They couldn't care less.
00:12:27.000 Cut 97, when the energy secretary is asked about a pipeline in Michigan that could create thousands of jobs, she laughs it off.
00:12:34.000 Like, I don't care.
00:12:35.000 So understand that this is a recession of design.
00:12:39.000 Yes, Republicans shouldn't have voted on that stimulus bill.
00:12:42.000 Yes, we should not have locked down the country.
00:12:44.000 But even so, the American economy is so resilient that after all of that, when we get into a recession, we still have to ask the question, why?
00:12:51.000 It's because of the green energy ideologues, thanks to colleges that have persuaded people that climate change is some sort of existential threat to humanity, which it isn't.
00:13:00.000 We have the energy secretary laughing off the fact that energy independence and jobs, like that's hilarious. 1.00
00:13:07.000 Play cut 97.
00:13:08.000 Let me ask this question because having been the former chief executive of your state, would you say that line five plays a massive economic impact on the state of Michigan?
00:13:19.000 I'm not going to.
00:13:20.000 I beg your pardon?
00:13:21.000 I'm not going to respond to that one because you're not going to respond to that question.
00:13:24.000 I'm not going to get into that because it's incorporated.
00:13:28.000 When I talk to people in the state of Michigan, the state of Ohio, they say it does have a major economic impact, but you're not going to respond to it.
00:13:36.000 Yeah, it's just, again, I'm not going to get into that.
00:13:38.000 I find that for the administration.
00:13:41.000 She doesn't care.
00:13:42.000 Obviously, she'll go sit on some board of some green energy company. 1.00
00:13:46.000 What's amazing with all of this, though, is that the push towards green energy had an unintended consequence.
00:13:51.000 The unintended consequence is making Elon Musk really rich.
00:13:54.000 So then he buys Twitter, but they don't want that to happen.
00:13:56.000 So the left really can't get their game together.
00:13:58.000 It's like this relentless push towards electric cars.
00:14:02.000 Well, it's made Elon Musk the richest person on the planet.
00:14:05.000 In fact, they loved Elon Musk until they hate him because he's no longer useful to them.
00:14:11.000 In fact, he's an opponent to them, a creature of their own making, a billionaire of their own desire to try to make green energy the dominant energy policy of America.
00:14:25.000 Cut 78, Fox report on the economy shrinking for the first time since the pandemic hit, play cut 78.
00:14:31.000 Markets opening after an alarming new GDP number and the U.S. economy shrinking for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
00:14:38.000 GDP contracting by 1.4% in the first quarter of 2022.
00:14:43.000 I'm afraid it will get even worse.
00:14:45.000 We have all the, unfortunately, we have the necessary prerequisites for a coming economic collapse.
00:14:51.000 Too many dollar bills, not enough value, supply and chain issues.
00:14:54.000 We're not making our oil and natural gas nearly quick enough.
00:14:57.000 Entrepreneurs are afraid of their own shadow.
00:15:00.000 Not good economic indicators.
00:15:03.000 It's terrible for the country.
00:15:05.000 Now, of course, Democrats are now going to use this and parlay this into a way to try to blame corporations because they're doing too much profit gathering.
00:15:13.000 Play Cut 22.
00:15:15.000 We also need to push back against the giant corporations that have decided not only are they going to pass along costs, they're going to take a big dollop of extra profits.
00:15:26.000 And those are things that get our economy.
00:15:30.000 I think the way to describe it is they get it out of whack.
00:15:32.000 They get prices too high.
00:15:34.000 We've got too many corporations that are doing too much profit gathering.
00:15:38.000 I don't agree with her here, but guess what, American corporations?
00:15:41.000 I'm not going to defend you.
00:15:43.000 I'm not.
00:15:44.000 I disagree with her.
00:15:45.000 I would vote against it if I was given an opportunity, but I'm not going to go advocate for American corporations that were just giving all this money to BLM. 1.00
00:15:52.000 The corporations are so dumb. 0.98
00:15:54.000 You think Democrats would actually defend you when it mattered most? 1.00
00:15:57.000 Of course not.
00:15:59.000 The very same Democrats you've been in bed with now all of a sudden want to raise your taxes.
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00:17:26.000 Someone says, Charlie, do you have a reading list of all the dystopian writings that Charlie Kirk mentioned in the podcast?
00:17:30.000 One is Orwell's 1984.
00:17:32.000 Read this already as required in schools and many years ago.
00:17:36.000 Yes, I recommend rereading it.
00:17:38.000 Okay, yes.
00:17:38.000 So there are five dystopian authors, all of whom were somewhat contemporaries of one another.
00:17:44.000 You've heard of all of them.
00:17:45.000 Probably one you probably haven't heard of.
00:17:47.000 They're all worth just refreshing.
00:17:49.000 As Christians, I encourage us to pursue whatever is true.
00:17:53.000 And I think these five books will bless you about what really drives the tyrant, what happens when the tyrant meets technology, and how technology brings out the worst impulses of our human condition.
00:18:05.000 So the five books, of course, the first is George Orwell's 1984.
00:18:09.000 The second is C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters.
00:18:12.000 You can read that alongside Mere Christianity, which was actually first delivered as radio broadcast during the German Blitz in the early 1940s, late 1930s through the British Broadcast Corporation.
00:18:26.000 The third is Elvis Huxley's Brave New World, which is a terrific book and addresses a lot of what we're living through when pleasure becomes the ultimate goal of a society.
00:18:36.000 The fourth book is a lesser known one by Winston Churchill and his only novel.
00:18:40.000 It's called Savrola.
00:18:42.000 I've actually not read it, but I'm familiar with it.
00:18:45.000 I took a course by Dr. Larry Yarn from Hillsdale College on Churchill, and he talked about it.
00:18:50.000 So that's the fourth.
00:18:51.000 And then the fifth is probably the least known of all five.
00:18:54.000 In fact, I plan to finish this book.
00:18:56.000 I started it, but I got a little distracted during my mini sabbatical coming up in a couple of weeks here.
00:19:02.000 It's called Darkness at Noon by Arthur Kessler, which is a terrific book.
00:19:07.000 And so I haven't finished it yet.
00:19:08.000 So those are the five books.
00:19:10.000 Arthur Kessler was a dissident.
00:19:13.000 And producer Connor says, I would include the fountainhead in there as neoliberal dystopian.
00:19:19.000 And Connor says, Darkness at Noon is phenomenal.
00:19:21.000 Great.
00:19:21.000 I look forward to finishing that by Arthur Kessler.
00:19:24.000 In fact, Dr. Larry Arn from Hillsdale has insisted that I finish Darkness at Noon.
00:19:30.000 So I will finish that under his orders.
00:19:33.000 I'd be a fool not to listen to what wise men have to say.
00:19:37.000 I'm also rereading Atlas Shrugged. 0.70
00:19:39.000 Halfway through, and I stopped for a variety of reasons, but I'm going to resume sometime soon and finish that up.
00:19:47.000 Okay, so a question here from Eric in Kentucky.
00:19:53.000 Charlie, I have canceled my Disney Plus subscription.
00:19:56.000 I've canceled my Netflix subscription.
00:19:59.000 What other streaming services should I be wary of for my six, nine, and 11-year-old?
00:20:04.000 Thanks so much.
00:20:05.000 Love the show. 0.99
00:20:06.000 Okay, they're almost all garbage. 0.96
00:20:08.000 Now, some of you might have this new one called Discovery Plus. 0.99
00:20:12.000 Discovery Plus has come out with this hatchet job going after Hillsong Church.
00:20:17.000 Very dishonest documentary.
00:20:20.000 Hillsong obviously has had its problems.
00:20:22.000 I know a lot of people that have been through there, some wonderful people that have worked for Hillsong in the last couple of years, but it's a largely just a propaganda piece trying to indict all of Western Christianity.
00:20:31.000 And I don't like it.
00:20:32.000 That is on Disney Discovery Plus.
00:20:34.000 But Discovery Plus has this new one.
00:20:36.000 We're going to play this entire tape.
00:20:38.000 What is this new one now that you might, your kids might stumble across?
00:20:41.000 It is glorifying, glamorizing, platforming kids that become drag celebrities. 0.74
00:20:52.000 Kids that become drag queens, or they go through drag contests, basically, which is pseudo-transgenderism, but that is now platformed at Discovery Plus as like the coolest thing ever.
00:21:07.000 I really wonder at Discovery Plus, how many people, and this is a legitimate question.
00:21:12.000 How many people in Oklahoma would be more likely to get a Discovery Plus subscription after they're about to hear this trailer?
00:21:22.000 Or Kansas or Montana.
00:21:25.000 The framing of the parents' party versus the perverts party has never been more clear.
00:21:30.000 Listen to this.
00:21:31.000 It's about a minute-long tape.
00:21:32.000 I intentionally had them cut it at a minute because this is the trailer.
00:21:37.000 What is the name of the series, by the way?
00:21:39.000 Is it called Drag Kids or something?
00:21:43.000 It's something like that.
00:21:45.000 Play cut 117.
00:21:48.000 Welcome to the Pink Palace, my lovely friend. 0.87
00:21:52.000 I first discovered drag at 13.
00:21:55.000 I didn't know what it was, but I knew I wanted it.
00:21:58.000 Put on the wig and the makeup, and I'm someone completely different.
00:22:01.000 I'm so proud.
00:22:03.000 What do you think of taking this photo's democracy?
00:22:07.000 Constant reminder that we had to pretend I was a boy.
00:22:12.000 Making friends has been a hard thing for me to do when I'm the coming Nemo.
00:22:17.000 Whoa.
00:22:18.000 Become more confident.
00:22:20.000 Let me make sure you are appropriately fluffed.
00:22:23.000 This transition has been difficult for them, but they try, and that's all you can ask for.
00:22:32.000 It's important for kids to understand that they're not alone.
00:22:36.000 So my mom started Draguton.
00:22:38.000 Kids and their families are coming from all over the country where we get to be our true selves.
00:22:43.000 So the name of that series is called Generation Drag.
00:22:48.000 It is produced by Tyra Banks, who I think used to run America's next top model. 0.96
00:22:55.000 I could be wrong, just kind of drawing from memory there.
00:22:59.000 She also used to be a Dancing with the Stars host.
00:23:01.000 So Tyra Banks is now the producer of Generation Drag, saying that this is a beautiful thing for kids.
00:23:09.000 They just need to be who they really think they are.
00:23:16.000 Cancel Disney Plus, cancel Discovery Plus.
00:23:21.000 It's hard to watch.
00:23:21.000 I mean, for those of you, you just had to listen to it.
00:23:23.000 It's hard.
00:23:23.000 Imagine having to watch this thing of just seeing these 12-year-olds and having these parents go along with it.
00:23:33.000 Well, yeah, my kid, he wants to do drag, which actually goes to a legitimate question.
00:23:38.000 And I want to answer it here.
00:23:40.000 We always take the tough questions here.
00:23:42.000 Where is this question here?
00:23:43.000 It's very short question, actually.
00:23:47.000 Where is it right here?
00:23:49.000 I'm just going to paraphrase it.
00:23:50.000 I don't remember who asked it.
00:23:51.000 We can find it.
00:23:52.000 Basically, Charlie, what happens if my kid is trans?
00:23:54.000 That's basically the question.
00:23:55.000 We can find the exact wording and who asked it.
00:23:57.000 Look, I would first ask other people that have been parents exactly how to do that, how to encourage their kids.
00:24:05.000 But let me just take you some very basic principles.
00:24:06.000 Okay, that's it.
00:24:07.000 Bill from State Paul.
00:24:08.000 What do you have to say to conservative parents who have a child who thinks they're trans?
00:24:11.000 Fix it, correct it.
00:24:14.000 So, what do you have to say when?
00:24:16.000 Look, here's what you got to do: you have to find the person that has been putting these terrible ideas into their life, and you say, No, you're not trans.
00:24:27.000 If your child comes forward with a mental delusion, you as a parent have a moral obligation to correct that delusion.
00:24:36.000 Kids want to eat dirt sometimes.
00:24:38.000 Should you let them do it?
00:24:39.000 No, you should not.
00:24:41.000 This all goes back to the question of what is education.
00:24:44.000 Education is not allowing the child to determine what is best for them.
00:24:50.000 You must establish guardrails.
00:24:53.000 You must get them into alignment what's best for them.
00:24:56.000 You could do so lovingly and compassionately.
00:24:59.000 But this idea that an eight-year-old, you know, is thinking that they should take puberty blockers.
00:25:07.000 And look, you should validate them and love the child.
00:25:10.000 You're not going to resolve it in one talk, but find out if there are external factors implicating impacting that, then identify them and try to neutralize them.
00:25:20.000 And also, don't I wouldn't turn them into the, you know, I wouldn't get angry at them, but I would address it very, very seriously.
00:25:31.000 Introduced order and natural law into the understanding of the world.
00:25:37.000 NBC says, How to talk to trans youth and their families from 2018.
00:25:42.000 I'm not even going to read it. 0.99
00:25:42.000 I'm sure it's all garbage. 0.99
00:25:44.000 Just a bunch of propaganda. 0.99
00:25:47.000 Okay, next question here: Charlie, Joe Biden is really unpopular.
00:25:51.000 What do you think that means coming into November?
00:25:53.000 We get kind of these questions every so often.
00:25:55.000 I chose this one in particular.
00:25:58.000 It's Andrew from Arkansas who's asking the question.
00:26:04.000 Well, first, let's kind of set the table here.
00:26:06.000 Cut 105 CNN report on Joe Biden, Play Cut 105.
00:26:10.000 Havana, we will come back to this in the weeks ahead.
00:26:12.000 Celinda Lake, veteran Democratic pollster, focus group, cited in Politico's playbook today.
00:26:16.000 What's the word Democratic voters use?
00:26:18.000 How things are going in the country?
00:26:19.000 Look at it.
00:26:20.000 Frustrated, disbelief, aggravated, discouraged, unsure, worrying, resigned, frightened.
00:26:25.000 Democrats need those people to vote in November, or else their majorities are toast.
00:26:29.000 So you would think they would get a little urgency, kick in the boots, if you might say.
00:26:34.000 Frustrated, disbelief, aggravated, discouraged, unsure, worried, resigned, frightened.
00:26:39.000 Can't imagine this is all kind of part of the cards for the Democrat regime.
00:26:45.000 But the question was: how do I think that is going to impact the midterms?
00:26:50.000 Not favorably.
00:26:51.000 I think the Democrats are running out of time to pull out stocks.
00:26:55.000 They're running out of time to pull their tricks.
00:26:59.000 Okay, next question here.
00:27:02.000 Let's go to one here that I think is rather applicable.
00:27:08.000 Jersey girl, how much longer do we have to wait until Hunter Biden is to be indicted?
00:27:12.000 I don't know.
00:27:14.000 I do think that they're going to continue to dangle the indictment of Hunter Biden as a way to try to entice them, entice Biden to do what they want him to do against his wishes.
00:27:27.000 Not just entice.
00:27:28.000 I think they're going to hold him hostage, blackmail him, basically, to do whatever they possibly can to push back against any sort of inclinations that Biden might have to go to the middle.
00:27:40.000 They're going to say, hey, if you step out of line, Hunter could get 10 years, 20 years in prison.
00:27:46.000 So when is he going to be indicted?
00:27:48.000 I'm not sure.
00:27:49.000 Kevin says, if America truly is an idea, didn't it die long, long ago?
00:27:54.000 It seems to me the founding fathers would have stopped recognizing this nation by the Civil War.
00:27:57.000 I'm concerned that America we all know and love is just so far removed from any semblance of what it is meant to be, if this is true.
00:28:02.000 And then what?
00:28:03.000 Well, America is not an idea.
00:28:04.000 It's partially an idea, but it's a home.
00:28:06.000 It's a nation.
00:28:06.000 It's a culture.
00:28:06.000 It's a people.
00:28:07.000 It's a history.
00:28:08.000 So it's not just an idea.
00:28:10.000 If it was just an idea, then anywhere could become America.
00:28:12.000 We know that's not true.
00:28:14.000 Western values can be applied anywhere, but not always successfully.
00:28:18.000 And we certainly have seen that in Middle Eastern countries and in African countries, is that you need the proper cultural prerequisites to be able to embrace self-government and liberty.
00:28:28.000 And I think this is underestimated in the teachings of neoliberals who think that you could just kind of turn on a switch and all of a sudden the country can become embracing of self-government and checks and balances, separation of powers.
00:28:41.000 The part of history we don't talk about is the colonial Christian heritage of America that was the slow yet steady buildup going into the 1760s and 1770s that encouraged preachers like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield and Jonathan Mayhew, to name a few, to then be able to spark the light of the Reformation, not the Reformation, the awakening that led to the founding fathers writing the Declaration of Independence and separating from Great Britain.
00:29:07.000 So we're more than an idea because there was this historical buildup.
00:29:10.000 We are a people.
00:29:11.000 It is a home.
00:29:12.000 It is a nation and a country.
00:29:14.000 I'm concerned that America, we all know, is just love so far removed.
00:29:17.000 Look, in some ways, you're right.
00:29:18.000 In some ways, I'm seeing Americans fight harder for their liberty than I think we've seen in quite a while.
00:29:23.000 And so I'm much more optimistic than that.
00:29:28.000 Hello, everybody.
00:29:28.000 Charlie Kirk here.
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00:30:26.000 Here's a question from Marissa from Buckhead.
00:30:28.000 Charlie, I heard private schools are better options for children than public school system when it comes to woke indoctrination.
00:30:34.000 However, I'm hearing things bubble up about a school in Westminster in Atlanta.
00:30:38.000 It's funny you mention this.
00:30:40.000 I'm familiar with this.
00:30:40.000 An elite private school in my community, and they're being done by organizations like NIIS, the National Association of Independent Schools.
00:30:47.000 Are private Christian schools like this still a viable alternative to public schools? 1.00
00:30:50.000 Or is homeschooling really the only option?
00:30:52.000 Thank you, Marissa, from Buckhead.
00:30:53.000 So look, there's actually some people that are doing this to expose this.
00:30:58.000 There's a website called educationveritas.org.
00:31:02.000 That Veritas means truth in Latin, which is all about education, not indoctrination.
00:31:07.000 Now, Westminster in Georgia is a great example of a macro trend that is happening, which is once great private schools that have become completely and totally woke.
00:31:18.000 There's another website you could go to for those of you that are familiar with this, or just to see kind of how bad these private schools have become, wokeminster.com.
00:31:25.000 That's W-O-K-Eminster.com.
00:31:29.000 And it goes through in detail exactly what is being taught.
00:31:33.000 For example, small activists, big impact, cultivating anti-racists and activists in kindergarten.
00:31:39.000 All right, Play Cut 116.
00:31:41.000 Kindergarteners, I want to say too that kindergartners are natural social justice warriors.
00:31:47.000 Like I mentioned before, I see this all the time on the playground.
00:31:51.000 That's unfair.
00:31:52.000 And this is why it's unfair.
00:31:54.000 This is the reasons that it's unfair.
00:31:56.000 And I think if we just build upon the mindset of a kindergartner, that it is fantastic.
00:32:02.000 You can get them to do fabulous things, fabulous things in the social justice realm.
00:32:09.000 I want you to think about how insane that is.
00:32:11.000 Let's build upon the instincts of a kindergartner.
00:32:13.000 Would they ever eat vegetables?
00:32:17.000 This is the type of insane ideology.
00:32:20.000 Look, kindergartners, they have a heart for justice.
00:32:23.000 Who taught them that heart for justice exactly?
00:32:26.000 Who taught them what was right and what was wrong?
00:32:28.000 You heard there, that's from the National American, that's from the National Association of Independent Schools, NAIS, which very well might be over your school, like Wokeminster or Westminster in Atlanta, saying that kindergartners are natural social justice warriors.
00:32:46.000 They're naturally inclined towards being a social justice activist.
00:32:51.000 How about this one?
00:32:52.000 Cut 115, introduction for the Randolph Center, co-founder of, I don't even know what that stands for, POCC, and NAIS's current director of equity and inclusion programming, PlayCut 115.
00:33:04.000 Many years as head of the NAIS Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Randolph was co-founder of the People of Color Conference, which we are now attending, as well as the Student Diversity Leadership Conference.
00:33:18.000 And then the personal thing for me is he's a former Black Panther.
00:33:25.000 And I think you need a little bit of that attitude to do this kind of work.
00:33:30.000 So former Black Panther is now in charge of education, curriculum, and diversity training for private schools across the country. 0.66
00:33:39.000 So again, the website is educationveritas.org.
00:33:42.000 I've got to know the people behind it.
00:33:43.000 They're wonderful.
00:33:44.000 Also, Wokeminster.
00:33:45.000 This could be happening anywhere at any one of the private schools.
00:33:48.000 So I have lost all faith in private institutions.
00:33:51.000 I've lost faith in public institutions.
00:33:53.000 I am a homeschooling advocate.
00:33:56.000 There are some good private schools.
00:33:57.000 There's some good faith-based schools.
00:33:58.000 But just be very careful, parents, before you put your name and your trust and your children into the firing line of some of these schools.
00:34:09.000 Be very, very careful.
00:34:12.000 You very well might be learning from that woman saying, kindergartners make natural social justice warriors.
00:34:19.000 This is exactly what's wrong with education.
00:34:21.000 Remember, education comes from the Latin word, which means to lead forth.
00:34:25.000 Who's leading whom?
00:34:26.000 If you say that kindergartners have the wisdom and you don't.
00:34:30.000 Who's in charge?
00:34:31.000 Whose children are they?
00:34:33.000 Education properly done is having a desired outcome, an appreciation of beauty and truth, beauty, that which is perfected in beating, truth, which is something that is true at all times, not just temporarily true, and getting children to go on that journey to get their working boots on and to find out what that means.
00:34:51.000 How?
00:34:53.000 Through reading the Western canon, doing a little bit of study and scholarship of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and things that were written a long time ago that have stood the test of time.
00:35:03.000 Probably more important than learning about how kindergartners can be social justice activists. 0.76
00:35:08.000 Never heard anything.
00:35:09.000 So insane.
00:35:10.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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00:35:18.000 God bless.
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