The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 121: What Actually Is a Marxist? Pareto Principle? America's Marxist Military?

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00:01:21.000 Charlie, you're always talking about Marxists.

00:01:24.000 I hear this a repeated theme: Marxist, Marxist, Marxist.

00:01:28.000 What is a Marxist?

00:01:29.000 What did Karl Marx actually believe?

00:01:32.000 My 19-year-old at the University of Alabama is being taught by her professors that Marx was smart, profound, and visionary.

00:01:41.000 Help me out here.

00:01:42.000 Who was Karl Marx?

00:01:45.000 Great question.

00:01:46.000 So, Karl Marx is without a doubt one of the most influential people ever to live.

00:01:50.000 There is no questioning that.

00:01:51.000 So, Karl Marx is interesting.

00:01:53.000 He was a radical student, part of the young Hegelian group at the University of Berlin.

00:02:01.000 Now, Hegel is a very complicated topic, very deep.

00:02:04.000 He wrote a book called The Phenomenology of Spirit.

00:02:07.000 Hegel basically stole Christian eschatological framing, end times, and created a theory of history.

00:02:16.000 So, whenever you think of Hegel, think of history that things are constantly unfolding towards an inevitable perfection.

00:02:23.000 It goes through this series of thesis and antithesis.

00:02:27.000 It creates a synthesis.

00:02:29.000 We talk about this a little bit actually in an upcoming podcast, which is why you have to subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast with James Lindsay, who understands the topic far better than I do.

00:02:38.000 I have a surface understanding of it.

00:02:39.000 He has a deep, complex understanding of Hegel.

00:02:43.000 Hegel was profound, though, because he got people to basically buy into the idea that history is constantly unfolding, that we're on a journey towards inevitable utopia.

00:02:52.000 Now, that is against Christianity in the sense that our actions or the state actions are not going to bring us towards utopia, but we do believe that eventually the people who give their lives to the Lord will end up living in paradise, living in heaven.

00:03:07.000 So, Karl Marx is a leader of the young Hegelians.

00:03:13.000 He actually got kicked out of a group.

00:03:18.000 Actually, the university refused to publish a paper of his in 1842 because he was too radical.

00:03:23.000 So, then he started to, he met this guy, Engels, which, of course, is the lesser-known counterpart, Friedrich Engels.

00:03:32.000 And in 1848, they published a very famous book called The Communist Manifesto.

00:03:38.000 So, that actually is where we get the term communist from, is from Marx and Engels.

00:03:44.000 Now, they also came up with the term capitalist.

00:03:47.000 Capitalist is actually a slur.

00:03:50.000 It was meant to be a pejorative, meaning all you care is about the flow of capital.

00:03:55.000 Now, what's tricky about Marx is that Marx was actually right about several things.

00:04:01.000 I wouldn't say Marx was right about a lot because those are all relative statements, but Marx was correct in certain observations of human behavior.

00:04:10.000 Most specifically, Marx was right about what could best be described as the Pareto principle or the Matthew principle.

00:04:18.000 For all of you devotees to Jordan Peterson, you know exactly what the Pareto principle is.

00:04:24.000 Now, the Paret principle is fascinating.

00:04:26.000 The Pareto principle is something that is true across any discipline, across music, across sports, across restaurants, across wealth distribution.

00:04:36.000 And basically, the Pareto principle states that for any outcome, roughly 80% of all the consequences or benefits come from 20% of the people.

00:04:48.000 Said differently, 20% of the people, otherwise known as the vital few, drive forward the progress and the benefits.

00:04:57.000 So, what does that actually mean?

00:04:58.000 That means, regardless of how hard you try, if you have any form of a market, any form of private property, you're going to have hierarchies designed, not designed, but eventually as the outcome.

00:05:09.000 Some people are going to work harder, some people are going to save better.

00:05:12.000 It is known as the Paret principle.

00:05:15.000 And so, you dive into this, by definition, you're going to have otherwise known as structural inequality.

00:05:24.000 Now, what Marx realized is that this is baked in.

00:05:27.000 You're not going to be able to avoid it.

00:05:29.000 Now, his conclusion was totally wrong, is therefore we must tear down that system.

00:05:34.000 How is it fair that 20% of the people, the vital few, are able to get 80% of the outcomes?

00:05:40.000 So, let's just say this differently: 20% of all, let me say that, 80% of the most popular musical compositions, movies, plays, dramas, sporting awards, Super Bowls, World Series are dominated by 20% of the people.

00:05:55.000 It gets even crazier than that.

00:05:57.000 And this is the number just off the top of my head: 1% actually end up getting 90% of the 80%.

00:06:04.000 So, it gets even thinner and it goes even shorter the more you go down the Pareto principle.

00:06:08.000 So, anyway, Marx didn't articulate it exactly like that, but essentially, Marx said there's a huge problem here.

00:06:14.000 The problem is that over time, a smaller and smaller group of people are going to be able to get more and more stuff.

00:06:20.000 And by definition, they're exploiting people to do that.

00:06:24.000 So, what Marx introduced into the entire international conversation was a framing, was a framing of the oppressor versus the oppressed, but he did it strictly in economic terms.

00:06:36.000 He framed it the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat was the way which his original frame was his original framing. 0.93

00:06:43.000 Marx was critical of being able to own private property, which originally was an idea that Plato even conjectured and Rousseau then took up, the French philosopher who spent a lot of time in Geneva, who himself was a massive hypocrite.

00:06:57.000 A lot of, if you send your kid to college, they're going to learn a lot from Rousseau.

00:07:01.000 So, Marx really incubated a lot of these ideas.

00:07:03.000 I don't think Engels gets enough credit for this, but Marx was right that in a market, you're going to have winners and you're going to have losers.

00:07:11.000 What Marx was wrong about, though, is that are the losers as big of losers as you actually think they are?

00:07:18.000 Because Marx would think that if someone has a big house and they traded for that house, that you must have exploited your way to get up there, that you weren't able to have a good product or an idea, that you didn't invent something meaningful, that you weren't able to take a contributing risk to the world that all of a sudden people wanted to have.

00:07:35.000 For example, you created a movie that people wanted to see that enriched their life, or you created a car that allowed them to be transported.

00:07:41.000 That he looked at markets simply and strictly and sloppily, might I add, through a prism that if you were able to obtain wealth, then you what?

00:07:51.000 Capitalized, there's that word capital, capitalized via capital on somebody else's labor.

00:07:57.000 Doesn't matter if they get paid, doesn't matter if they want to do it, doesn't matter if they find it enriching.

00:08:02.000 They are being oppressed, but they don't even realize it.

00:08:05.000 So, Marx wrote in the Communist Manifesto, amongst other places, let the workers of the world unite.

00:08:10.000 That's kind of his phrase.

00:08:12.000 Anytime you see it, that's a Marxist phrase.

00:08:14.000 But Marx went so much deeper than that.

00:08:17.000 Marx wrote on and on and on.

00:08:18.000 And again, his most popular book, actually, that's not the right way to put it.

00:08:22.000 His most popular book is the Communist Manifesto.

00:08:24.000 His most powerful book is Das Capital.

00:08:28.000 And so the famous phrase was, Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.

00:08:34.000 Now, that is a hearkening back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who said, men are born free, but they spend the rest of their lives in chains.

00:08:41.000 Now, of course, Karl Marx also said religion is the opiate of the masses.

00:08:45.000 Democracy is the road to socialism.

00:08:48.000 Marx was across the board indicting what we would consider to be core tenants of Western civilization.

00:08:55.000 Now, what's important is he took that kind of Hegelian ideology, that Hegelian philosophy, that kind of idea of the march through history, this journey towards the arc of our existence, towards an eschatological utopia.

00:09:09.000 And eventually, Marx argues that the last phase of communism, after the government takes over everything, is actually the government taking over nothing, that we'll live in harmony, that we'll get back to our romantic, ideal, childish, infant-like way of living.

00:09:24.000 But the way we must do that is we must first destroy the capitalist hierarchy, private property, the ability to trade, exist in markets.

00:09:33.000 We must tear it down all through the workers.

00:09:36.000 So Marx was able to employ all of this. 0.89

00:09:39.000 And Marx, of course, inspired Hitler in some sense. 0.62

00:09:42.000 He inspired the Soviet Union. 0.69

00:09:44.000 Largely, Marx was very, very revered in Leninist type of ideology.

00:09:48.000 Marx inspired Mao.

00:09:50.000 Marx inspired North Korea.

00:09:52.000 Marx inspired Castro.

00:09:54.000 But Marxism, this idea of oppressed versus oppressor, that framework, that kind of dialectic, that tension, was then taken up by the identity politics type who ran the Marxist school in Frankfurt, Germany in the 1930s and 40s.

00:10:08.000 And they brought it to America and they broadened it outside of economic terms.

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00:12:28.000 So essentially, what ended up happening then is Karl Marx's ideas germinated throughout the European academy.

00:12:36.000 And a very clever, sinister person by the name of Herbert Marcuse in the 1930s and 40s was overseeing the Frankfurt School and then took those ideas and transplanted them into America.

00:12:51.000 But it wasn't just the Marxist theory on economics, it was beyond that.

00:12:55.000 It wasn't just oppressor versus oppressed and bourgeoisie and proletariat.

00:12:59.000 No, instead, it was applying that kind of theory of Marxist class struggle because Karl Marx was so focused on class struggle.

00:13:11.000 The owner of a business and the workers of a business in particular must understand the times of which Karl Marx wrote this.

00:13:19.000 His all philosophy is a reflection of the times and the issues.

00:13:23.000 Karl Marx wrote this during the height of the Industrial Revolution when Europe was becoming widespread industrialized and people were making the transition from the farms to the factories.

00:13:35.000 And Marx started to see the, let's just say, unexpected externalities.

00:13:41.000 People that were getting black lung, people that were dying at work, people that were being overworked, child labor.

00:13:46.000 Those were some very legitimate concerns.

00:13:50.000 But instead of talking about improving what was a massive standard of living increase in the mid-1800s, he just throws out the entire system altogether, pairs it with Hegelian and Rousseauian ideology, and says this construct needs to be thrown apart.

00:14:04.000 Whenever you hear construct, that is a Marxist term, just to keep your ear out.

00:14:09.000 So then Marcuse takes this and says, ah, I love this idea.

00:14:14.000 Again, it was over many decades.

00:14:15.000 It wasn't like overnight.

00:14:16.000 And he says, why can't we apply this to all walks of life?

00:14:20.000 Apply this to feminist movements. 0.95

00:14:22.000 Apply this to class, to race movements, apply this to everything.

00:14:28.000 That the Marxist theory of struggle, oppressor versus oppressed, it goes everywhere.

00:14:34.000 And so where he was able to hit it perfectly is the introduction of critical theory.

00:14:41.000 Now, he himself, I don't think, ever used that term.

00:14:45.000 I could be wrong, but it was a critical lens on anything that might exist.

00:14:50.000 And then there were other disciples as well, Jacques Derrida and Michelle Foucault, who were just straight out postmodernists, which is that we need to now break ourselves of the shackles of modernity and challenge basically everything.

00:15:02.000 Deconstruct it.

00:15:04.000 Your opinion is the truth.

00:15:05.000 You have your truth.

00:15:06.000 There is no the truth.

00:15:07.000 That is a white supremacist, colonialist, heteronormative belief system.

00:15:12.000 So, how does that now manifest in our life?

00:15:14.000 Well, in a variety of different ways.

00:15:16.000 So, I'm going to play you a couple of clips here.

00:15:18.000 Now, this young lady is being interviewed by Peter Bogosian.

00:15:21.000 It's cut 158 to get it ready.

00:15:23.000 Peter Bogosian is an atheist liberal.

00:15:26.000 I'm actually on great terms with Peter Bogosian.

00:15:28.000 I want to have Peter Bogosian come on our program.

00:15:32.000 I think we actually hosted one of his events at Turning Point USA at Northern Arizona University.

00:15:36.000 Peter Bogossian is a very smart guy, despite our metaphysical differences of opinion.

00:15:41.000 And he does hate the woke, and we're on great terms on that.

00:15:44.000 He loves free speech.

00:15:45.000 I think Peter Bogogian wants a free society, and he's very fun, and he's brilliant.

00:15:51.000 He's wickedly smart, runs laps around me on certain topics that I couldn't even comprehend.

00:15:56.000 And he has a new project where he's just going out and interviewing people.

00:15:59.000 It's called the reverse QA, where he asks people about their experiences about what's happening on the front lines.

00:16:08.000 So let's play cut 1-5-8.

00:16:12.000 Capitalism cannot function without inequality.

00:16:15.000 In order for capitalism to function, there must be inequality.

00:16:21.000 And because America has such a racist history, that inequality becomes racial inequality.

00:16:28.000 So it's not inherently.

00:16:32.000 Yeah, but I think what it has progressed to be has turned. 0.76

00:16:37.000 There are kind of levers behind this system keeping minorities down. 1.00

00:16:41.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:16:42.000 Mainly through the form of policies.

00:16:44.000 You know, that's not an isolated opinion.

00:16:45.000 These are the future leaders of America that'll run the FBI, DOJ, Goldman Sachs, CIA, all of that.

00:16:51.000 But I'm not here to attack her at all.

00:16:54.000 You know, I'm just here to criticize her ideas.

00:16:56.000 I do want to give her credit, though.

00:16:57.000 She articulated Marx very well.

00:16:59.000 That was not a clumsy what that was really good.

00:17:02.000 It's actually exactly what I talked about very succinctly.

00:17:05.000 The inevitable end of capitalism is inequality.

00:17:08.000 But then she blends it.

00:17:09.000 Did you see what happened there?

00:17:11.000 She blended old marks with new marks.

00:17:14.000 Pretty impressive young lady. 0.99

00:17:16.000 She's on the ball.

00:17:17.000 I mean, she's listening in class.

00:17:18.000 She's taking notes.

00:17:19.000 She's writing papers because she took first what was an economic complaint, right?

00:17:23.000 That was original Marxist.

00:17:25.000 It ends in economic inequality and then inequality.

00:17:28.000 And say, oh, but then, therefore, there's all this racial inequality.

00:17:32.000 Wait, hold on a second.

00:17:33.000 I thought we were talking about class, not race.

00:17:35.000 That's the new Marxist.

00:17:36.000 That's Derrida, Foucault, and Marcuse.

00:17:39.000 She did it very succinctly in 14 words.

00:17:43.000 She's probably going to run some government agency and will try to imprison half the country one day. 1.00

00:17:48.000 I hope not.

00:17:48.000 But the point is, that's the kind of mind virus that infects our academy.

00:17:52.000 What are the implications?

00:17:52.000 We're going to continue on with a clip from AOC and another clip of Peter Boghogian on campus as we continue our Ask Me Anything episode.

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00:19:38.000 These ideas start with Marx and it goes to Marcuse.

00:19:45.000 It goes to Derrida.

00:19:46.000 It goes to Foucault and it just spreads.

00:19:49.000 And then it becomes policy.

00:19:50.000 So it's not just bad ideas.

00:19:52.000 And this is what's so important for people to realize is that this is not just bad ideas of kids that are saying this stuff on college campuses because I hear this from conservatives.

00:20:01.000 And I wrote this in the book, The College Scam.

00:20:02.000 Oh, yeah, these ideas have always been around.

00:20:05.000 First of all, they have not been this bad.

00:20:06.000 Second of all, they're now implementing them as actual actionable policy in our country.

00:20:13.000 So just one more.

00:20:14.000 This is Cut 159, young lady at Peter Bogoshian's event, play cut 159. 1.00

00:20:18.000 Poor minorities.

00:20:20.000 I'm a minority.

00:20:20.000 I'm Hispanic and I am a woman.

00:20:23.000 And I'm like, I'm not a victim and I don't need you to feel sorry for me.

00:20:25.000 We don't need social justice. 0.92

00:20:27.000 And they keep telling, and they keep saying, oh, yes, we do because we're a social justice school.

00:20:32.000 That is what we do.

00:20:33.000 And if you don't want to be here, you don't have to be here.

00:20:36.000 You can leave.

00:20:37.000 An advisor, listen, told me this.

00:20:40.000 I told her, I'm not a bad person.

00:20:42.000 I actually care about the education system and getting, you know, getting making sure that minority students actually get into STEM.

00:20:48.000 That's my mission and my purpose.

00:20:50.000 And I'm like, I'm not a bad person.

00:20:52.000 You know what she told me?

00:20:52.000 She told me this.

00:20:54.000 Oh, we don't know that yet.

00:20:56.000 Yeah, we don't know that yet. 0.79

00:20:58.000 If you do not subscribe to the critical race theory orthodoxy, regardless of your skin color, they are the administrators, administers, I should say, of what considered to be good and not good. 0.66

00:21:11.000 As James Lindsay perfectly put it, Dr. James Lindsay, we have an upcoming episode with him. 0.60

00:21:15.000 We had a conversation at the Turning Point USA Great Reset event.

00:21:19.000 Our Turning Point USA team did such a great job.

00:21:21.000 As James Lindsay perfectly put it, he said, critical race theory is calling everything racist till you control it.

00:21:30.000 And it's the best summary.

00:21:33.000 It is a takeover mechanism. 0.92

00:21:34.000 CRT, post-structuralism, transgenderism. 0.99

00:21:38.000 It is a military strategy. 1.00

00:21:39.000 You could call it the fifth column to take over what already exists so that they get to call the balls and strikes.

00:21:48.000 They get to be the moral referees of society.

00:21:50.000 They get to be in power and you get to be displaced.

00:21:53.000 They get to be monarchs and rulers and you get to be plebes and serfs.

00:22:00.000 So how does this manifest into policy?

00:22:04.000 Yolanda from Oklahoma, Charlie, I'm so worried about what's going on with our military.

00:22:09.000 I live in Enid, Oklahoma.

00:22:11.000 There's a big military base right nearby.

00:22:13.000 I've actually visited there, had a great speech at the local church there.

00:22:18.000 Is it true that our military is becoming woke?

00:22:21.000 I'm hearing about it in local restaurants.

00:22:22.000 I'm hearing about it with people that are serving in the Air Force.

00:22:26.000 What is going on?

00:22:27.000 Please help me understand fact from fiction.

00:22:31.000 I'm very worried.

00:22:33.000 So, yes, all these ideas starting with Marks applied all this.

00:22:36.000 Now it's in our military. 0.60

00:22:38.000 And I have not heard enough from our Republican, soon-to-be majority about what they are going to do, what they are willing to do to shut down the government and stop continuing resolutions to ensure that this idea pathogen, which is more dangerous than the Chinese coronavirus, gets out of our military.

00:22:58.000 So we're going to play some tape here.

00:22:59.000 We're going to go one by one.

00:23:01.000 First is this.

00:23:03.000 This is Lieutenant General Richard Clark, the first black U.S. Air Force Academy superintendent, talking about why diversity is so important in the armed forces, saying it will, if we don't have diversity, it will weaken us.

00:23:18.000 Well, really, how does diversity, not that it's a bad thing, but I'm just wondering, how is that an elemental and fundamental component?

00:23:26.000 Why is that a necessary focus of an ingredient into beating the Chinese at war?

00:23:32.000 What about it?

00:23:33.000 What about diversity makes you stronger?

00:23:35.000 I'm not saying it makes you weaker.

00:23:37.000 I want an explanation.

00:23:38.000 Besides the fact that it's a nice bumper sticker and you can repeat it over and over again, and people are afraid to ask you this question because they're going to be called racist. 0.94

00:23:44.000 I want to know specifically and concretely how this makes us more likely to defend ourselves against the Iranians and the Chinese. 0.98

00:23:53.000 Play Cut 160.

00:23:55.000 We are getting more diverse.

00:23:57.000 And if you're going to look out, you know, 10, 15, 20 years from now, if we don't start really opening up the entire population for us to draw from, to draw talent from, and there's talent there, we're going to, we limit ourselves and it will weaken us.

00:24:14.000 And it's not just the military.

00:24:15.000 It's across all segments of society.

00:24:19.000 He talks like a trained Marxist.

00:24:21.000 All segments of society.

00:24:24.000 Yeah, if we don't change the way we've been doing things, it's the greatest military in the history of the planet.

00:24:29.000 It's going to weaken us.

00:24:31.000 161, this is our military, new diversity and inclusion outreach plans coming for officers and recruiting efforts. 0.94

00:24:37.000 They're not worried about defeating the Chinese at sea, defeating the Chinese with their new technology.

00:24:42.000 No, the focus of the military now is a college campus.

00:24:46.000 They want everyone to look different, but think the same.

00:24:53.000 Cut 161.

00:24:55.000 Aaron Space Force officer commissioning programs are developing new diversity and inclusion outreach plans by the end of this month to reach updated applicant pool demographic goals.

00:25:04.000 The effort was directed by Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall.

00:25:08.000 He says it's imperative the composition of the military services better reflect the nation's highly talented, diverse, and eligible population.

00:25:15.000 Kendall added the outreach plans continue to progress towards achieving a force more representative of the nation while leveraging diversity to enhance the air and space forces.

00:25:25.000 People ask all the time, Charlie, would you serve in the military?

00:25:27.000 You know, would you recommend serving in the military?

00:25:29.000 And I'm like, I have not served in the military.

00:25:31.000 I'm very thankful for people who have served the military.

00:25:34.000 So I'm not one to talk.

00:25:35.000 But I will say, talking to people that are in the military, they say, stay out.

00:25:41.000 Stay out right now.

00:25:42.000 That is what they're saying.

00:25:44.000 And by the way, enrollment numbers are showing.

00:25:49.000 They are down 13%.

00:25:52.000 The latest military enrollment numbers are down dramatically.

00:25:57.000 They're down huge.

00:26:00.000 These ideas have huge consequences.

00:26:04.000 Yeah, it might seem like nothing more than a coffee shop debate.

00:26:07.000 It might seem like nothing more than just going back and forth.

00:26:11.000 It just kind of, oh, yeah, that's fun.

00:26:13.000 That's Marx. 0.74

00:26:14.000 That's Engels.

00:26:15.000 That's Derrida.

00:26:16.000 That's Foucault.

00:26:16.000 That's Davis.

00:26:17.000 That's Bell.

00:26:18.000 But then what happens when the Army can't hit their recruitment goals?

00:26:22.000 In fact, they're down dramatically.

00:26:27.000 What happens when all of a sudden our military is far more focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, social-emotional learning, critical race theory guidelines than they are about killing our enemies and winning wars?

00:26:44.000 We've said for a while the military shouldn't be a social experiment.

00:26:47.000 Well, it is.

00:26:50.000 The statists went from hating the military, spitting on vets, burning flags, wanting to defund the military, to now realizing all they have to do is take it over with their idea pathogens.

00:27:02.000 Every branch of the military that we have numbers for is missing their recruitment goals.

00:27:10.000 Down double-digit percentage.

00:27:12.000 We are just beginning to see the consequences of what these ideas mean, what these insidious principles can do.

00:27:24.000 Okay, let's get to another question here.

00:27:25.000 Charlie, did you see the latest out of AOC?

00:27:27.000 I'm not sure what to make out of it. 0.95

00:27:28.000 She's a buffoon, but she has a big following. 0.99

00:27:30.000 That's right. 1.00

00:27:31.000 She is a fool. 1.00

00:27:32.000 So AOC, I only listened to this one passively. 1.00

00:27:35.000 I want to let's listen to this together.

00:27:36.000 In fact, I'm going to be reacting to it.

00:27:38.000 I haven't really had a chance to process it.

00:27:38.000 I did see it.

00:27:41.000 Play cut 127.

00:27:42.000 But there are quite a few countries that are really struggling because young people, under the burdens of capitalism and under living under a society that's increasingly concentrating wealth among the rich, we're not having kids.

00:27:57.000 Or we're not having kids at the same rate.

00:28:00.000 And we actually need immigrant populations to help balance things out. 0.72

00:28:05.000 We can't continue to fund Social Security, Medicare, all of this stuff without immigrants. 0.99

00:28:13.000 She's all over the place. 1.00

00:28:14.000 Okay, so first of all, what's so interesting is that AOC is this abortion fanatic, and she's all of a sudden worried about birth rates.

00:28:22.000 She's worried about birth rates and she's all about trying to intervene with children and terminate them in the womb. 1.00

00:28:31.000 That's number one. 0.73

00:28:33.000 Secondly, America's fertility rate is collapsing. 0.81

00:28:35.000 There's a lot behind this.

00:28:37.000 Declining testosterone rates, too expensive to have children.

00:28:41.000 Now, she blames that on capitalism.

00:28:43.000 Obviously, it's the opposite.

00:28:45.000 It's her own government policies of inflation and runaway government spending that are making it too unaffordable. 0.84

00:28:51.000 And of course, there's some corporate malfeasance involved in that.

00:28:55.000 According to the NBC, they're super happy that the fertility rates are falling.

00:29:00.000 According to NBC News, the feminist victory at the heart of America's falling fertility rate. 0.97

00:29:04.000 So we have the most depressed, suicidal, anxious generation in history, most psychiatric addicted, and least ability to replicate itself.

00:29:14.000 So when you ask young people, well, first of all, they wait way too long to get married, in my own personal opinion. 0.52

00:29:20.000 That's just a separate issue.

00:29:21.000 But this idea of like, oh, yeah, go launch a career and then you're going to be super happy on the back end doesn't turn out very well.

00:29:27.000 But that's okay.

00:29:28.000 We get a lot of people that email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:29:30.000 I'm 34.

00:29:31.000 I put my career first and now I can't find anybody.

00:29:33.000 I'm like, yeah, okay, well, that's value what matters first early, maybe.

00:29:36.000 But I'm not here to tell you how to live your life.

00:29:38.000 Whatever you think is best, go do it.

00:29:40.000 But I've seen far too many miserable people filled with regret with a lot of cats and a good corporate job.

00:29:45.000 So look, AOC says that this is all because of capitalism and that we need immigrants.

00:29:50.000 So wait a second.

00:29:51.000 Let me get this straight.

00:29:52.000 So AOC wants immigrants who bring in socially conservative big family values while she and her party call the middle part of the country deplorables because they want to have a bunch of kids. 1.00

00:30:05.000 We actually predicted this differently.

00:30:08.000 We thought they would do with inflation and they have in some sense, Durbin and others.

00:30:11.000 But their solution to whatever crisis there is, it's always either immigration, take the guns away, or environmentalism.

00:30:20.000 So declining birth rate, we need more people.

00:30:25.000 Too much crime, take the guns away.

00:30:27.000 It's as if they have the solution before they know the problem.

00:30:33.000 It's as if the left, the solution I put in air quotes, it's as if they have the policy prescription before they even heard what the problem is.

00:30:41.000 So AOC just hears a problem. 1.00

00:30:42.000 More immigrants. 1.00

00:30:45.000 Hold on a second. 1.00

00:30:46.000 If we didn't have a million abortions a year, how many people would we have exactly AOC? 1.00

00:30:53.000 For every four people born in America this year, three people have come across the border. 0.96

00:30:59.000 And anytime you mention that, they say, oh, that's the great replacement. 0.99

00:31:02.000 Shut up, you're a race. 1.00

00:31:03.000 Like, hold on a second. 1.00

00:31:04.000 I don't even know what the great replacement is. 0.99

00:31:05.000 You obviously do because they're a bunch of racists.

00:31:08.000 But for four people that are born in America, three come across the border.

00:31:12.000 What exactly is going on here?

00:31:15.000 We should make it easier to have Native-born American children. 0.88

00:31:19.000 We've said that before.

00:31:20.000 A family should not have to go into debt to raise children.

00:31:23.000 Unfortunately, having children has become a luxury of the rich.

00:31:29.000 It's much easier not to have children right now.

00:31:33.000 And you're seeing that reflected in this declining civilizational defining issue that our program, alongside very few others, Tucker and Bannon and Elon Musk deserves credit for this, has been trying to warn people we are hitting a level where the species will be put in jeopardy.

00:31:49.000 That is not a joke.

00:31:50.000 You play this out over a couple generations.

00:31:53.000 It's not good.

00:31:54.000 Email is freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:31:57.000 Frank from Pensacola, Florida.

00:31:59.000 Charlie, many of my friends are suffering from myocarditis.

00:32:06.000 Are the leaders ever going to apologize for the mRNA gene altering intervention that they pushed on all of us?

00:32:13.000 Well, there's a new advertising that's normalizing myocarditis in children.

00:32:18.000 Play cut 123.

00:32:21.000 I've been into fashion since I can remember.

00:32:24.000 But one day I had a stomachache so bad, I didn't want to do anything.

00:32:29.000 The team at New York Presbyterian said it was actually my heart.

00:32:32.000 It was severely swollen.

00:32:34.000 Something called myocarditis.

00:32:37.000 But doctors gave me medicines and used machines to control my heartbeat.

00:32:41.000 They saved me.

00:32:42.000 So now I can become the next great fashion designer.

00:32:47.000 Normalizing myocarditis.

00:32:51.000 124.

00:32:53.000 Moderna used to say there was no incident of myocarditis.

00:32:57.000 And yet we're seeing a very strange uptick in pericarditis and myocarditis.

00:33:01.000 Play cut 124.

00:33:03.000 In summary, and very briefly, the reactogenicity of this vaccine was essentially the same, no better or worse than what we've seen with any of a number of childhood vaccines that we regularly administer to our children.

00:33:18.000 There was no incidence of myocarditis or multi-system inflammatory syndrome of children.

00:33:24.000 Cut four, Joe Biden says during an interview on 60 Minutes, he believes the pandemic is over.

00:33:29.000 Does that mean now he's not allowed to cancel student loans?

00:33:31.000 I think it's illegal as it is.

00:33:33.000 Does he now give away all of his emergency powers?

00:33:36.000 Play cut four.

00:33:38.000 Is the pandemic over?

00:33:40.000 The pandemic is over.

00:33:42.000 We still have a problem with COVID.

00:33:44.000 We're still doing a lot of work on it.

00:33:47.000 But the pandemic is over.

00:33:49.000 If you notice, no one's wearing masks.

00:33:50.000 Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape.

00:33:53.000 And so I think it's changing.

00:33:54.000 And I think this is a perfect example of it.

00:33:57.000 It's all just midterm strategy nonsense.

00:33:59.000 But he doesn't want to give away the emergency use authorization.

00:34:03.000 So if we take back Congress, it'd be a great question.

00:34:05.000 Hey, can you strip away the EUA immediately?

00:34:09.000 Why has Congress not been informed on that?

00:34:11.000 Now, what is important about that?

00:34:13.000 What's important is that under the EUA, these mRNA experimental gene therapies are shielded from liability.

00:34:23.000 This is why they need to get them on the child vaccination schedule.

00:34:26.000 This is why every other country, not every other country, that's not true.

00:34:29.000 Most other countries that we have respect for are removing the mRNA gene altering technology from the childhood vaccination schedule.

00:34:38.000 For example, I don't want to speak inaccurately here, but I believe the United Kingdom has removed it completely for anyone at the age of 12.

00:34:43.000 I believe that's true.

00:34:44.000 Now, we would be doing that if it wasn't for this goofy way that we wrote the legislation in our country, where in order for these vaccine companies, these makers, to be shielded from potential legal recourse, to be shielded from a check and balance from the plaintiff's lawyers, they need to get it on the childhood vaccination schedule.

00:35:06.000 So vaccine companies will go bankrupt without the emergency use authorization.

00:35:10.000 Ooh.

00:35:11.000 So Biden admits that the EUA is over.

00:35:13.000 I'm sorry, the pandemic is over.

00:35:15.000 Therefore, the EUA should be over.

00:35:17.000 So somebody should file in federal court using his own language saying that the EUA needs to be stripped away.

00:35:25.000 Not another military member should be kicked out of the military for not having a vaccine.

00:35:31.000 How many people had their wonderful careers obliterated and ruined?

00:35:35.000 In fact, every single person who wants their job back in the military should be hired back with back pay.

00:35:40.000 Donald Trump said that in an event, and I'm glad he said that.

00:35:43.000 It's very important.

00:35:45.000 This is a scandal that if Republicans take over, it's going to be tempting for Republicans not to focus on the vaccine, the approval of vaccine, Operation Warp speed, and the way they will do it.

00:35:58.000 The Democrats are so clever, and that's why you got to play a step ahead.

00:36:02.000 How do you think they will message a Republican onslaught of an investigation into the vaccine?

00:36:09.000 How do you think they'll do that?

00:36:10.000 The Democrats right now are going to destroy certain documents and place certain documents that blame it on Donald Trump and his White House.

00:36:19.000 That's what they're going to do.

00:36:21.000 They know that if we have a full investigation into this with the Republicans taking back the Congress, and we should have Nuremberg trials, but it's not going to happen immediately.

00:36:30.000 It could happen long term.

00:36:31.000 I don't want to say it's not going to happen.

00:36:33.000 Is this that they're going to, their last case resort, they're already sprinkling this in the media.

00:36:38.000 Is they're going to say it's a Trump's vaccine.

00:36:40.000 It's Trump's vaccine.

00:36:42.000 He rushed it.

00:36:42.000 He went over regulatory hurdles.

00:36:45.000 It's one of the reasons why Senator Ron Johnson so sorely needs to win in the great state of Wisconsin.

00:36:51.000 Senator Johnson has been a bulldog on this issue for transparency, for oversight, and for his voters.

00:36:59.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:37:01.000 Email me your thoughts as always.

00:37:02.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:37:04.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:37:05.000 God bless.

00:37:09.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk dot com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - September 26, 2022

Ask Charlie Anything 121: What Actually Is a Marxist? Pareto Principle? America's Marxist Military?

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