The Charlie Kirk Show - February 19, 2024


Ask Charlie Anything 176: ShotSpotter and the SAT? Ditching The Pill? Chicago’s Unsolved Murders?


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It's an Ask Me Anything episode where we cover all things Chicago, including Mayor Johnson's inexplicable decision to get rid of a gunshot detection technology, and birth control. We also talk about our Black voters shifting to Trump, and so much more.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Monday.
00:00:01.000 It's an Ask Me Anything episode.
00:00:03.000 We cover all things Chicago, Sweet Home Chicago, and the inexplicable decision by Mayor Johnson to get rid of a shot detection technology.
00:00:12.000 We also talk about birth control.
00:00:14.000 We tease that.
00:00:15.000 We're going to talk more about it throughout the week, actually.
00:00:17.000 I'll be doing the listening.
00:00:18.000 Alex Clark will lead us through that discussion.
00:00:21.000 We also talk about our black voters shifting to Trump and so much more on this Ask Me Anything episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:01:52.000 William from Mount Prospect, Illinois, I know it very well, said, Charlie, I'm trying to explain to my friends what Mayor Johnson just did, removing some sort of gunshot detection technology.
00:02:05.000 Can you help me understand, love the show?
00:02:07.000 When are you coming back to Chicago?
00:02:09.000 I don't know when I'm coming back to Chicago, but I know Mount Prospect very well.
00:02:12.000 Thank you for the question.
00:02:13.000 Grew up right down the street.
00:02:15.000 So there's a technology called shot spotter.
00:02:18.000 It's not overly sophisticated, but it's very effective.
00:02:21.000 Shot spotter, effectively, as a shooting happens, because they put up basically audio configurations on the streets of Chicago.
00:02:32.000 It detects where gunshots happen in a city.
00:02:34.000 It's very effective and it can save lives.
00:02:38.000 Well, Mayor Johnson, who is the new, of course, mayor of Chicago, who is a race Marxist, he says we got to get rid of this shot spotter.
00:02:48.000 This shot spotter thing is racist.
00:02:52.000 It's racist.
00:02:53.000 Now, why is audio detection of gunshots racist?
00:03:00.000 Well, Mayor Johnson, who is overseeing one of the bloodiest, most dangerous cities in the Northern Hemisphere, he says it's racist because police have to go into black and Latino neighborhoods so often.
00:03:15.000 Okay, so why do they have to go into black and Latino neighborhoods? 0.98
00:03:21.000 Before I answer that very obvious question, what Mayor Johnson has to answer is, well, who are the victims typically, though?
00:03:31.000 Who are the victims?
00:03:33.000 The perps are usually black or Latino, and the victims are usually black and Latino.
00:03:39.000 This is one of the reasons why on this program, we are so forcefully against configuring policy, language decisions, vocabulary, all against the threat of being called racist.
00:03:55.000 We say quite often that the power of the R-word can be used to destroy your society.
00:04:02.000 Look at Chicago.
00:04:04.000 In the city of Chicago, it is quite common just right now, year to date, just since New Year's, 40 shot and killed in Chicago, 192 shot and killed, 232 total shot, and 47 total homicides.
00:04:17.000 By the way, the vast majority of these murders go unsolved.
00:04:21.000 No arrests, no indictments.
00:04:22.000 Did you know that?
00:04:24.000 The vast majority of the murders in Chicago, they don't even bother.
00:04:28.000 Yeah, another gang shooting.
00:04:31.000 They will start to get a little bit interested if like an innocent girl or bystander child gets shot.
00:04:38.000 The police will put some effort into it.
00:04:41.000 But unfortunately and tragically, if just a 20-year-old gangbanger gets shot, the police are just like, forget it.
00:04:47.000 They don't put the effort in.
00:04:49.000 Last year in Chicago, let's look at the numbers in 2023.
00:04:53.000 How did Chicago do?
00:04:54.000 576 people were shot and wounded in Chicago.
00:04:57.000 2,501 shot and killed.
00:05:00.000 576 people shot and killed.
00:05:02.000 2,501 shot and wounded.
00:05:04.000 3,077 total shot.
00:05:06.000 And 647 total homicides.
00:05:09.000 And America got a picture into what happens in Chicago every single day at the Kansas City Super Bowl celebration where they just spray and pray.
00:05:21.000 And I believe a young woman died because of it.
00:05:24.000 And, you know, the ESPN says, oh, it's a dispute.
00:05:27.000 Oh, is that what we call gang-related violence now?
00:05:30.000 A dispute.
00:05:32.000 This is going to make Chicago even less safe, further empower the gangs and the criminals, all because we're supposed to care about the R-word. 0.98
00:05:46.000 This is one of the reasons why I'm so fervent, because I see where this is headed.
00:05:50.000 They will reconfigure all of society under the guise of racism.
00:05:55.000 Don't believe me?
00:05:56.000 Listen to Mayor Johnson, Play Cut 165.
00:05:59.000 Good afternoon, Mayor.
00:06:00.000 I'll be quick.
00:06:01.000 First question, if the city isn't considering a gunshot detection alternative to ShotSpotter, then what should replace it?
00:06:07.000 Will it still be a form of surveillance technology?
00:06:10.000 As I've said, my plan and my vision for the city of Chicago is comprehensive.
00:06:17.000 Investing in people is our best pathway forward.
00:06:22.000 And so I don't want us to fall into the trap in the behavior of old, where we only look at policing as the only form to build a better, stronger, safer Chicago.
00:06:34.000 That's not the best clip.
00:06:34.000 So let me make sense what he's saying.
00:06:36.000 This is a huge difference between the left and the right.
00:06:39.000 And he's talking in code here because he's supposed to be mayorly.
00:06:42.000 But let me tell you what he's really saying here.
00:06:44.000 You know what that was?
00:06:45.000 Comprehensive, more than policing.
00:06:48.000 What he's saying is that poverty is to blame for crime.
00:06:51.000 That's what he's saying.
00:06:52.000 They don't have enough stuff.
00:06:54.000 Yeah, they might be on EBT and they might have benefits and subsidized housing, but you can't really blame them because they're poor and that's what poor people do.
00:07:02.000 How insulting to the working poor of this country that have not committed crimes and did the right thing. 1.00
00:07:08.000 How many of you are currently in the working poor?
00:07:11.000 Number one.
00:07:11.000 How many of you are temporarily in the working poor?
00:07:14.000 Number two, how many of you had parents in the working poor?
00:07:16.000 How many of you had grandparents in the working poor that never committed crimes and kept your head down and paid your taxes and went to work?
00:07:24.000 This is one of the great divides in the country and Mayor Johnson is playing right into it.
00:07:28.000 Instead of penalizing the criminal, he feels sympathy with the criminal because, oh, it's because he didn't have enough money.
00:07:34.000 He didn't have enough stuff.
00:07:36.000 This is a Marxist argument rooted in trash philosophy that only materialism can blame for the evil that we see in our society.
00:07:48.000 Play cut 166, please.
00:07:50.000 ShotSpotter alerts police departments to gunshots fired through acoustic sensors.
00:07:56.000 That company took a stock hit Tuesday after Mayor Brandon Johnson announced he would fulfill a campaign promise and give the company a six-month extension, but then not renew their deal.
00:08:08.000 The mayor's announcement before he had a deal signed with the company.
00:08:13.000 The city has lost all its leverage when you make an announcement that you're canceling ShotSpotter and extending it until September without having a signed contract.
00:08:23.000 This is a great loss for the city of Chicago, particularly as we prepare to go into the summer months and as we go into a Democratic National Convention already with a police department that is undersized by at least 2,000 officers.
00:08:39.000 If you want crime to go up, this is what you'll do.
00:08:42.000 He thinks it's racism spotter.
00:08:46.000 What is being created in Chicago is the equivalent of basically no-go zones.
00:08:51.000 And they effectively already exist, the no-go zones, where police just don't patrol and they just go to clean up the bodies.
00:09:00.000 That's it.
00:09:01.000 Chicago police officers have, and I can get this map here.
00:09:05.000 I know Chicago very, very well.
00:09:06.000 Grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
00:09:09.000 And it's only gotten worse.
00:09:10.000 I mean, it is so much worse.
00:09:11.000 So this is Cook County, essentially.
00:09:14.000 It's actually, it's a city of Chicago.
00:09:15.000 Cook County is much bigger than that, but that's in Cook County.
00:09:18.000 And this is effectively the no-go zones.
00:09:20.000 The red parts are where the most killings and the most murders happen.
00:09:24.000 The blue parts, the police are welcome. 0.90
00:09:25.000 And that's the west side and the south side.
00:09:29.000 Do you see that?
00:09:29.000 The west side is incredibly dangerous.
00:09:32.000 That is the United Center.
00:09:34.000 That's what's called the West Loop.
00:09:35.000 It's right near University of Illinois Chicago.
00:09:38.000 It's right basically the end of nice Chicago is like Greektown and Little Italy.
00:09:45.000 And then you are, you're all in.
00:09:48.000 You better have a weapon.
00:09:50.000 The south side, you go south of what used to be called Kamiski Park, U.S. Cellular.
00:09:55.000 I think it's 35th Street.
00:09:57.000 I'll look it up, 42nd Street, something like that.
00:09:59.000 Once you go south of U.S. Cellular, I think they've renamed it again. 0.91
00:10:02.000 Ridiculous. 0.78
00:10:03.000 It would always be Camisky to me. 0.91
00:10:05.000 Oh, it's called Guaranteed Rate Field.
00:10:07.000 What is that all about?
00:10:08.000 Everything's changed.
00:10:09.000 It's all going south.
00:10:10.000 35th Street.
00:10:11.000 I wasn't that far off.
00:10:12.000 Once you go south of 35th Street, forget it.
00:10:15.000 That's what the map is.
00:10:16.000 Effectively, Mayor Johnson wants no go zones. 0.94
00:10:18.000 He doesn't care about innocent blacks being killed. 0.99
00:10:20.000 He doesn't care about innocent Latinos being killed. 1.00
00:10:23.000 I do, but he doesn't care.
00:10:25.000 There is no rational reason to get rid of a shot detection service that uses audio, by the way.
00:10:33.000 That's it.
00:10:33.000 Okay, bang, bang, bang, bang.
00:10:35.000 Okay.
00:10:35.000 You know what?
00:10:36.000 It's super amazing technology.
00:10:37.000 Bang, bang, bang, ba-bang.
00:10:39.000 Police say, okay, there's a shooting right now.
00:10:41.000 It saves lives.
00:10:42.000 It allows early detection.
00:10:44.000 And nothing less, it allows them to send an ambulance.
00:10:47.000 Not anymore.
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00:11:57.000 Yeah, Chicago is an amazing example of just how miserable a place can become and you just keep voting Democrat.
00:12:04.000 Keep voting Democrat.
00:12:05.000 It's really sad.
00:12:06.000 It's very tragic.
00:12:07.000 By the way, I was wrong.
00:12:08.000 I looked this up in the break.
00:12:11.000 Do you know that 74% of all murders go unsolved in Chicago?
00:12:18.000 74%.
00:12:20.000 Last year, it reached a record high in the city of Chicago.
00:12:24.000 By the way, you know that the U.S. murder rates are at around 50% of solved rates that come to completion.
00:12:30.000 So about half of murderers get away with murder.
00:12:34.000 I think that's actually a very persuasive data point to tell people.
00:12:40.000 They think everything's fine, everything's great.
00:12:41.000 You say, do you know that half of the people that kill somebody else will never be arrested and that will be an unsolved case?
00:12:48.000 I just don't care.
00:12:49.000 In certain parts of Chicago, it goes down about 66%, other parts, 75%.
00:12:54.000 And you heard in that other clip, it's all coded language.
00:12:58.000 It says, yeah, you know, we're hitting into the summer months.
00:13:00.000 That's the gang-killing season.
00:13:03.000 It's not even bad right now.
00:13:04.000 It's cold.
00:13:05.000 The gangbangers do not like the cold.
00:13:07.000 No one likes the cold.
00:13:08.000 It's Chicago.
00:13:09.000 Stay inside.
00:13:10.000 Murder rate goes down in the winter months.
00:13:12.000 Remember one of my favorite stories ever?
00:13:15.000 It was short-lived.
00:13:16.000 It was the only good thing that came out of COVID: the gangbangers were more afraid of COVID than they were of getting shot out in the side of the street.
00:13:24.000 It's like the murder rate for like 30 days went down to next to nothing because no one knew what COVID was.
00:13:30.000 And it was like, oh my goodness.
00:13:31.000 So everyone stayed inside and the murder rate basically went down to nothing in Chicago.
00:13:37.000 And of course, obviously it went back up in the summer of love and it hasn't gone, murders are up tremendously.
00:13:42.000 But it just goes to show, of course, it can be stopped.
00:13:45.000 It obviously can be stopped.
00:13:46.000 So ShotSpotter, the way it works, is they have this audio detection system in these areas.
00:13:51.000 They hear a gunshot, something that can be easily detected, and immediately pops up on the Chicago Police Department's radar and they can respond and they can send ambulatory services.
00:14:02.000 They can send police and they can help.
00:14:04.000 Not anymore.
00:14:05.000 Now it's just 911.
00:14:06.000 Now it's just, hey, something happened.
00:14:08.000 It's far less efficient, far less precise.
00:14:11.000 But why would we ever think that Mayor Johnson wants what's best for Chicago?
00:14:15.000 Why would anybody think that?
00:14:17.000 He's a communist. 0.96
00:14:18.000 He wants to destroy Chicago.
00:14:21.000 He doesn't want people to live in nice and safe neighborhoods.
00:14:23.000 That's not why he's there.
00:14:26.000 Let's play 136, please.
00:14:29.000 Investing in people is our best pathway forward.
00:14:33.000 Other technological advances, you know, that I may not be aware of that provide a non-police response to respond to emergency because 40% of the calls that come through are mental health crises.
00:14:49.000 There could be some forms of technology that can give us a response so that EMT can show up and mental health crisis providers can show up.
00:14:56.000 I'm not aware of any.
00:14:58.000 But again, the approach here is to build a comprehensive approach.
00:15:02.000 And that's what we've done.
00:15:03.000 And so I don't want us to fall into the trap in the behavior of old, where we only look at policing as the only form to build a better, stronger, safer Chicago.
00:15:15.000 Comprehensive.
00:15:17.000 How's that working, Mayor Johnson?
00:15:19.000 I do think it will be interesting, and I do plan to attend with many, many armed guards.
00:15:24.000 I do think it's really something.
00:15:26.000 And I think it's very, very fitting that the Democrat convention will be held in Chicago.
00:15:37.000 I think it's fitting that the Democrats have chosen a once beautiful, majestic place that is now a hellhole as the place where they try to make the pitch to the American people for four more years.
00:15:50.000 I think it's perfect.
00:15:53.000 I think it's perfect that the Democrats are in a place where 75% of murders go unsolved, where there are 500 people murdered every single year, where they can't find entire kids, the entire schools, they can't find a kid that can read at grade level.
00:16:08.000 Homelessness and crime and property taxes, income taxes, people leaving the state in droves.
00:16:14.000 I think it's perfect.
00:16:17.000 And it shows that they think it's terrific.
00:16:20.000 Even though every imaginable independent metric shows that Chicago and Illinois is collapsing, they think it's going just fine.
00:16:30.000 Viva la revolution.
00:16:32.000 You're going to have J.B. Pritzker.
00:16:36.000 Obama will give an address.
00:16:37.000 And deep down, they know, that's the thing, deep down they know that they wouldn't send their kids to the west side of Chicago.
00:16:42.000 They wouldn't walk the streets of the south side.
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00:17:55.000 This one is from Joe from Tennessee.
00:17:58.000 Charlie, I have a couple daughters, and the doctors keep on pushing birth control on them.
00:18:02.000 I recently saw a tweet about Elon Musk.
00:18:04.000 I'm not really sure how to handle this.
00:18:06.000 My wife says that birth control is necessary and fine.
00:18:09.000 What do you think?
00:18:10.000 Okay, I'm by no means an expert on this, but Elon Musk has recently tweeted about this, and I think it's really interesting.
00:18:15.000 Quote, Elon Musk said the following: Hormonal birth control makes you fat, doubles risk of depression, and triples risk of suicide.
00:18:21.000 This is a clear scientific consensus, but very few people seem to know it.
00:18:26.000 This is true, that there are a lot of negative side effects to hormonal birth control.
00:18:30.000 It makes women more likely to get on antidepressants, makes women more likely to have suicidal ideation.
00:18:36.000 It does deal and mess with your ability to stay at a healthy weight.
00:18:40.000 And hormonal birth control is being ditched.
00:18:43.000 Many fathers and parents don't know this, but the hormonal birth control is partially about birth control, but it's also about, oh, you don't need to have your period or you have acne.
00:18:52.000 It is a catch-all for all the puberty anxiety that young ladies might be feeling.
00:18:58.000 And again, I'm a man and I know I believe in male-female differences deeply. 0.99
00:19:02.000 So I'm not going to say in any, like, let's just say, decisive way that I could tell you from a personal experience or perspective.
00:19:11.000 But there is study after study to reinforce this.
00:19:13.000 And we will have Alex Clark on the program next week to speak about this on the program.
00:19:20.000 I think you guys will really appreciate and enjoy that.
00:19:23.000 Okay.
00:19:23.000 Next question here.
00:19:24.000 We are taking your questions live.
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00:19:32.000 Let's go to this one about the SAT, Trevor from Idaho.
00:19:36.000 Charlie, what do you think?
00:19:37.000 What do you make of the SAT coming back to the Ivy League schools?
00:19:41.000 I think it's really something.
00:19:42.000 Okay, this is amazing.
00:19:44.000 So they got rid of the SAT a couple years ago.
00:19:46.000 This is an article written by Jill Flipovich, Filipovich, journalist and author behind the book, Okay, Boomer, Let's Talk How My Generation Got Left Behind.
00:19:57.000 She's a far left-wing activist, and she embraces all the talking points you would imagine.
00:20:03.000 So Dartmouth College will reinstate its policy of requiring applicants to submit the SAT.
00:20:08.000 They got rid of it for a while all around inequality.
00:20:13.000 This is what Jill says: quote, there's no question that students who are white or Asian or from wealthy families generally score higher on the SAT than those who are black, Hispanic, or poor.
00:20:23.000 For that reason, many progressives, including myself, have historically looked at the SAT with deep skepticism, seeing the test as a tool for reinforcing inequality.
00:20:31.000 The problem, though, is that this experiment in getting rid of the test, coupled with a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that forbids schools from taking student race into account in admissions, may be even worse.
00:20:41.000 You see, they're scrambling.
00:20:43.000 They're scrambling trying to figure out how they can keep the race hustle going at these Ivy League schools.
00:20:50.000 What's happening behind the scenes is that there's a ton of ridiculously unqualified people who are let into these top schools, and faculty is freaking out.
00:20:58.000 We're getting leaked emails and text messages.
00:21:01.000 We're getting a lot of incoming from people because we know a lot of people that are attached to these universities.
00:21:07.000 And even liberal faculty are saying, there are people here in my class who can barely read.
00:21:17.000 How did this happen?
00:21:18.000 And so the Ivy League schools are trying to fix it.
00:21:21.000 Like, okay, well, let's go back to the SAT because you probably have to read to be able to get into the SAT.
00:21:27.000 They are refusing at every turn to build an institution on merit.
00:21:32.000 Because if they build the institution on merit, we don't know what that institution will look like.
00:21:38.000 But it might result in something that they consider to be unequal.
00:21:44.000 It might end up resulting in something that isn't as diverse as they like, and they cannot stomach that.
00:21:51.000 They cannot stomach in outcome a disparity that is not to their liking.
00:22:00.000 And it's very interesting.
00:22:01.000 Jill Flipovich, she is conflating white and wealthy in this article time and time again.
00:22:08.000 So MIT, Georgetown, and Dartmouth are all bringing it back after the Ivy Leagues have ditched it.
00:22:13.000 Because what they discovered is when they did this, the kind of more, oh, tell us about your personality, all this other nonsense, is that it actually helped white and Asian kids even more. 0.93
00:22:26.000 That's because without the SAT and with pervasive grade inflation, that means huge numbers of straight A students are applying to top schools, college admission officers are using softer, more personalized metrics, the kind that may be even easier for affluent students from more sophisticated families to game.
00:22:42.000 This is what's hilarious.
00:22:43.000 SAT scores do indeed reflect radical and economic privilege, racial and economic privilege, I'm sorry.
00:22:48.000 But so do college essays, extra critical activities, and letter recommendations.
00:22:51.000 She's acknowledging that at some point, you need to allow merit when you're trying to build an institution.
00:23:00.000 Objective measures are always what will help real underdogs the most.
00:23:06.000 When you make things vague and soft and murky, it favors the secret society.
00:23:13.000 You favor people who are politically connected, favored by the regime.
00:23:16.000 Corruption or merit.
00:23:18.000 Institutions can run on one of two things.
00:23:21.000 They can run on corruption or they can run on merit.
00:23:24.000 There is no other option.
00:23:27.000 So think about that.
00:23:28.000 Either it can run on who is the best and the best should be here, or who has the insider access.
00:23:38.000 And the left and the progressives and the academic elite, at no matter what it takes, they do not want anything built on merit.
00:23:49.000 Why?
00:23:51.000 Because they don't have the capacity to stomach inequality. 0.99
00:23:58.000 Inequality is the norm.
00:24:01.000 Inequality is the state of nature.
00:24:04.000 Now, what you do with inequality is a different question.
00:24:07.000 You have charity, you have generosity, benevolency, you build a society that lifts people up based on all sorts of different types of backgrounds.
00:24:14.000 But if you have an institution where the mission statement is centered around excellence, which is what the Ivy Leagues are supposed to be, the best schools, the best students, the best breakthrough, the most important breakthroughs, you cannot have it centered on diversity.
00:24:29.000 And if it does, it all of a sudden starts to collapse the institution from within, which is exactly what's happening in higher education.
00:24:35.000 Okay, let's get to this one here.
00:24:38.000 Patricia from Florida.
00:24:39.000 Charlie, inflation feels worse than ever.
00:24:41.000 When will this end and what are the major things driving it?
00:24:45.000 I had a liberal friend tell me it was all Trump's fault.
00:24:47.000 Okay, let's play cut 59 about how inflation is hotter than expected.
00:24:52.000 Play cut 59.
00:24:53.000 Headline number expected to be up two-tenths of a percent is up three-tenths of percent.
00:24:59.000 That's the hottest since SEP of 23 when it was up four-tenths of percent.
00:25:03.000 Strip out food and energy, even hotter.
00:25:05.000 Up four-tenths of a percent, also one-tenth hotter than expected.
00:25:10.000 Up four-tenths of percent, well, you equal that going to May of last year.
00:25:14.000 You surpass it going to April of last year when it was up 0.5%.
00:25:19.000 Okay, so what is driving inflation?
00:25:23.000 Inflation is when you have more dollar bills chasing fewer goods and services.
00:25:29.000 That's it.
00:25:30.000 And so the way that the American economy is configured is you have a central bank that controls monetary policy, and then you have Congress or the government that controls fiscal policy.
00:25:39.000 So an economy is centered on a combination of monetary, fiscal, and then the market.
00:25:47.000 We are the market.
00:25:48.000 So what does the market do?
00:25:50.000 What does the fiscal side do?
00:25:51.000 What does the monetary side do?
00:25:53.000 We are in a death spiral.
00:25:56.000 Do not believe, oh, stock record highs, best housing market ever.
00:26:00.000 We are in a death spiral right now.
00:26:02.000 And it's just a matter of time until we acknowledge it.
00:26:05.000 We are extending the sugar high.
00:26:07.000 We are extending the bender. 1.00
00:26:12.000 Now, I'm not a drinker, but allow this analogy.
00:26:16.000 From what I understand, if you wake up with a hangover and you have liquor when you wake up, you could prolong the pain of the eventual hangover from setting in.
00:26:28.000 I believe it's called hair of the dog.
00:26:30.000 And so you wake up after a long night of drinking and you have another bloody Mary.
00:26:35.000 You just keep the party going.
00:26:37.000 That's the American economy right now.
00:26:40.000 You drink to make the headache go away, but the drinking will eventually bring in another headache.
00:26:45.000 You're just essentially prolonging it.
00:26:48.000 The crash will eventually come.
00:26:49.000 It's not a hack.
00:26:51.000 It's not a glitch in the biological system.
00:26:57.000 It's a cop-out.
00:26:59.000 The crash will eventually come.
00:27:01.000 COVID was our drunk college night.
00:27:05.000 Trillions of dollars we didn't have, and we pushed the envelope.
00:27:10.000 And we are deciding to have a couple shots of vodka.
00:27:15.000 And eventually, that bill will come due.
00:27:18.000 There is no soft landing.
00:27:20.000 I'm not trying to overly depress you, but we are doing, we are borrowing nearly $2 trillion on the fiscal side, and we are continuing massive quantitative easing.
00:27:32.000 The Fed is so treacherous.
00:27:35.000 They are so dishonest.
00:27:38.000 Many of us did not know that when the Silicon Valley bank collapse occurred last year, that opened the guzzle of cheap money.
00:27:49.000 Remember, the market was correcting before that.
00:27:52.000 Boy, as soon as they came and rescued Silicon Valley Bank, what I should have done, I should have been smarter.
00:27:57.000 You should have just bought as many stocks as you possibly could.
00:28:00.000 Not because any value was being created, because they were quietly turning on the guzzle.
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00:29:02.000 Let's get to some more stories here.
00:29:05.000 This one here from Tanya from New Hampshire.
00:29:09.000 Charlie, I'm starting to see more and more evidence that black voters are moving in Donald Trump's direction.
00:29:14.000 Loved the interview with Terrence Williams.
00:29:16.000 Can you elaborate more?
00:29:18.000 I'm starting to see this happen too.
00:29:20.000 Again, for whatever it's worth.
00:29:21.000 And again, all it needs to be is a five-point move in Georgia or a three- to five-point move.
00:29:28.000 I think some of the proclamations that Donald Trump will win the black vote, that's probably overdone.
00:29:34.000 But I think a five to ten point move is certainly in the cards in some of these states.
00:29:39.000 Jesse Waters, the great Jesse Waters, love Jesse.
00:29:43.000 He's noticing a trend here.
00:29:45.000 Let's play Cut 79.
00:29:46.000 And even the most popular names in hip-hop, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, or MAGA Curious, you could say.
00:29:53.000 Kanye, well, he still knows what it is.
00:29:57.000 Still back in Trump.
00:29:58.000 Yeah, of course.
00:29:58.000 It's Trump RNA.
00:29:59.000 What are you talking about?
00:30:00.000 You know what it is?
00:30:01.000 And now Killer Mike, a hip-hop artist who backed Bernie and just won three Grammys, went on the view and refused to back Biden.
00:30:09.000 Watch.
00:30:10.000 In terms of nationally, I'm just kind of doing what my grandfather said.
00:30:13.000 Staying out of white folks' business and watching what happens. 0.79
00:30:15.000 You know, I'm going to see what happens.
00:30:17.000 If there's a candidate that pops up around September, October that needs a push, that's really in policywise.
00:30:22.000 It's good for us going to jump up.
00:30:24.000 But for right now, I just don't want to be involved in the soap opera. 0.94
00:30:26.000 Black people, especially black men in the South, are afraid. 0.74
00:30:29.000 They have concerns around immigration. 0.98
00:30:31.000 They have concerns around gun control.
00:30:32.000 They have concerns around wealth building.
00:30:35.000 I'm not a rap fan.
00:30:36.000 I watched this.
00:30:37.000 His name is Killer Mike.
00:30:39.000 Is that right?
00:30:39.000 Yeah.
00:30:40.000 I watched him on The View.
00:30:41.000 Very articulate.
00:30:42.000 And he was very impressive.
00:30:45.000 And he's had a really tough family situation with some medical thing.
00:30:48.000 And I don't know why he got arrested at the award show, but I thought he handled it very well.
00:30:53.000 And, you know, these white liberals, I suppose not all of them are white, but these white liberal women on The View is almost like a kind of a humiliation session. 0.73
00:31:02.000 So again, I'm far from a rap aficionado, but Killer Mike is very popular.
00:31:08.000 And he's an American rapper and activist.
00:31:10.000 And you would expect that he would just kind of parrot the line.
00:31:13.000 You know, we need Joe Biden.
00:31:14.000 We need the left wing.
00:31:15.000 We need Democrats. 0.99
00:31:16.000 We need that whole thing.
00:31:18.000 And He said, no, he said, I'm staying out.
00:31:21.000 And honestly, Killer Mike saying he's staying out is kind of a deathblow to the Democrats.
00:31:26.000 It's like shocking.
00:31:28.000 Snoop Dogg recently, by the way, was asked by some reporter, what do you think about Trump?
00:31:32.000 And Snoop Dogg was like, I love Trump.
00:31:34.000 He's the most amazing person ever.
00:31:35.000 No, he didn't say that.
00:31:36.000 He said, effectively, I will never say a bad word.
00:31:38.000 He pardoned some guy from NWA or something.
00:31:42.000 Or he founded some sort of company with him or some sort of rap company.
00:31:45.000 And he'll forever be in high stead with me because he pardoned this guy.
00:31:50.000 Remember, Donald Trump also pardoned Lil Wayne, who's now in Super Bowl commercials.
00:31:54.000 You have to wonder if some of this on the margins can really start to add up.
00:31:58.000 I think it's very exciting.
00:31:59.000 And Killer Mike, again, not scripted.
00:32:02.000 I thought that he was impressively articulate in the sense of how he was talking about politics and navigating the view.
00:32:08.000 And he said one thing that was really interesting in that clip: he said, black voters have a lot on their mind, immigration.
00:32:16.000 Time out.
00:32:17.000 If Killer Mike is saying immigration is a major issue for black voters, that means that they're 100% looking at this from a conservative perspective. 0.90
00:32:27.000 No one in the black community has liberal views on immigration.
00:32:31.000 Okay?
00:32:31.000 It's either you have no views and you don't care, or you're a right-winger on the immigration topic, period.
00:32:37.000 The spectrum in the black community, no person, unless you're like an academic Joy Reed type, wants amnesty. 0.55
00:32:45.000 Part of what Killer Mike's entire approach is, is that, hey, black people have been wronged.
00:32:51.000 We need to try to rebuild our community.
00:32:53.000 Let's put Americans first, and specifically, black Americans need to have a better opportunity.
00:32:58.000 That's his argument.
00:32:59.000 And so, therefore, he isolates immigration.
00:33:02.000 And immigration is a consensus builder.
00:33:06.000 And I think of that whole tape.
00:33:09.000 If I was Donald Trump, you know, I am going to advise him the best I can publicly and privately, and he knows this stuff much better than I do.
00:33:15.000 But I would say, look, I think this is an attack vector where you can build this incredible coalition.
00:33:21.000 And Killer Mike is broadcasting to you on the view.
00:33:24.000 Notice he didn't say policing.
00:33:28.000 Killer Mike didn't say, you know, black voters have a lot on their mind. 0.97
00:33:30.000 It's police brutality and it's white supremacy and it's the KKK marching through the hills. 0.98
00:33:35.000 Killer Mike said, you know, black voters have a lot in their mind. 0.99
00:33:37.000 Immigration. 0.98
00:33:37.000 Boom, first thing. 0.98
00:33:39.000 Advantage Trump.
00:33:40.000 Not to say Trump's going to win the black vote.
00:33:42.000 But if Trump does three points, four points, five points better in Wisconsin and Georgia, runs up the score in the conservative areas and does a little bit better in the suburbs, watch out.
00:33:54.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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