The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 89: Where are the Workers? Population Collapse? Election Integrity and the Courts? And MORE

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00:00:03.000 We talk about will the courts rule correctly constitutionally when it comes to voter fraud and election integrity.

00:00:09.000 We talk more about the population collapse.

00:00:11.000 Where have the workers gone?

00:00:13.000 I read some of your emails that are super insightful.

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00:02:06.000 Good day, Charlie.

00:02:07.000 Hello.

00:02:07.000 I agree with you completely that voting is the top priority for the Democrats.

00:02:12.000 They want federal elections so they can stay in power and have a one-party system forever.

00:02:17.000 They know that if they don't have this, they could lose a lot of elections over the years.

00:02:21.000 I thought this was interesting.

00:02:23.000 They fought hard for HR1, but it ended too easily, which I also found interesting.

00:02:27.000 Why did they not push harder on it?

00:02:29.000 They just let it go because it just makes sense to come back to it when people aren't paying attention.

00:02:33.000 Very, very wise.

00:02:34.000 It is a smoke and mirrors game if you think of it.

00:02:37.000 Now, my question to you is this: The U.S. Constitution says the states oversee the handling of elections and electors.

00:02:45.000 Say this gets passed.

00:02:47.000 Can't the courts take it down since it goes against the Constitution?

00:02:51.000 Theoretically, yes.

00:02:53.000 But the courts have ruled unpredictably on issues, especially recently.

00:02:59.000 The courts need to be the absolute worst-case scenario.

00:03:03.000 And even then, you know, you're rolling the dice if something gets in front of the courts.

00:03:09.000 If we go all in on just a court-driven strategy, then we're fooling ourselves as if we actually want to defeat bad legislation and put good legislation in.

00:03:22.000 And one of the best examples of this, and many of you remember, was John Roberts and his betrayal on Obamacare.

00:03:30.000 Obamacare was basically dead on arrival.

00:03:33.000 Obamacare was on life support under the Obama regime.

00:03:38.000 Obamacare was not going to be ruled constitutional until John Roberts, in a very surprising turn of events and development, out of nowhere, said, you know what?

00:03:48.000 Actually, it's a tax. 0.91

00:03:50.000 Even though the authors of Obamacare explicitly said, like people like Ezekiel Emmanuel and Jonathan Grube, remember Jonathan Gruber, the guy who said that people are so stupid that we had to pass something that they wouldn't, that they think they'd understand, but it's actually a deceit. 0.96

00:04:06.000 Jonathan Gruber is someone. 0.92

00:04:07.000 We should get that tape of Jonathan Gruber, actually.

00:04:09.000 It's one of the most extraordinary tapes.

00:04:12.000 It's been memory hold.

00:04:13.000 I don't see Jonathan Gruber around anywhere anymore.

00:04:16.000 Jonathan Gruber was one of the Harvard academics actually behind Obamacare when Republicans failed to defeat Obamacare back during the Obama regime. 0.98

00:04:25.000 And Jonathan Gruber famously said: the only reason we were able to get Obamacare passed is because we lied to people because they're too stupid to know otherwise. 0.97

00:04:34.000 I'm paraphrasing, but that's essentially what he did. 0.93

00:04:37.000 Now, then there were some really good lawsuits and challenges against Obamacare.

00:04:41.000 And for the younger listeners right now, you guys might not remember the Obamacare fights.

00:04:45.000 The Obamacare fights were this massive question of what is the role of government.

00:04:50.000 And we should have won those and we lost for a variety of different reasons, even though we won the Massachusetts special election when Ten Kennedy passed away.

00:04:57.000 We elected Scott Brown in that special election race.

00:05:01.000 But we're still living the consequences of Obamacare, make no mistake.

00:05:04.000 The burdensome regulation Obamacare has contributed to inflation.

00:05:08.000 Obamacare, by the way, I believe has also made our COVID response far worse.

00:05:14.000 No one really talks much about Obamacare anymore.

00:05:16.000 Isn't that interesting that Obamacare has not really been a focal point recently?

00:05:23.000 Anyway, so then it went up to the U.S. Supreme Court and we thought we had it.

00:05:27.000 That's when Scalia was still alive.

00:05:29.000 Ruth Bader Ginsburg was still alive.

00:05:30.000 Sodomayor and Kagan were on the court.

00:05:34.000 Let me think, it'd be Scalia and also Kennedy.

00:05:37.000 Kennedy was on the court, of course.

00:05:38.000 Kennedy was on the court.

00:05:40.000 And then out of nowhere, John Roberts, in a June decision, I'll never forget it.

00:05:44.000 It was June 2012, right after I started Turning Point USA.

00:05:47.000 John Roberts came out with his 5-4 decision upholding Obamacare.

00:05:53.000 Now, it's really interesting.

00:05:54.000 This is where you can go back into the archives of the Charlie Kirk Facebook page.

00:06:00.000 The day before the ruling, I predicted that Obamacare was going to be upheld by the courts.

00:06:09.000 And I'll never forget my good friend from Chicago, C. Stephen Tucker, great guy.

00:06:14.000 And he came back and he said, Charlie, what do you mean, blah, blah, blah.

00:06:17.000 And I said, here's my prediction.

00:06:19.000 And my prediction was honestly not based on facts.

00:06:21.000 It was because on BarackObama.com, the campaign website, they still had a whole page up celebrating Obamacare.

00:06:28.000 And they say, we're going to make Obamacare a key re-election issue.

00:06:31.000 This is how cynical I was then.

00:06:32.000 And not much has changed with this.

00:06:34.000 I said, Obama wouldn't have this on his website if he didn't think that Obamacare was going to get overturned.

00:06:40.000 It was kind of a very simple argument.

00:06:42.000 And it ended up being true.

00:06:45.000 So to answer your question, can the courts do that?

00:06:48.000 Do not count on the courts to do the right thing when you need them.

00:06:52.000 They failed us on Obamacare.

00:06:54.000 In a lot of different ways, they have not done what they needed to do to look into the 2020 election.

00:07:00.000 And I wouldn't be too optimistic that if they pass an HR-1 equivalent, they'll do the right thing on this as well.

00:07:06.000 Okay, let's get to the next question here.

00:07:08.000 Hey, Charlie, have you noticed that there's a decrease in male labor force for decades?

00:07:12.000 Do you believe what's happening with the vaccine mandates and other left-wing initiatives is a continued part of the war on men?

00:07:18.000 Of course, obviously.

00:07:20.000 But also, I think that one of the, I mean, this is the great mystery.

00:07:23.000 And I got such a chuckle out of watching Tucker last night.

00:07:25.000 Tucker's a great friend, and we're going to see him tomorrow, actually, at our event.

00:07:30.000 And I get it.

00:07:32.000 I laugh when I watch Tucker's show because I feel like I'm talking to myself.

00:07:38.000 And what I loved most about Tucker's show last night is that he approached the labor force participation rate story with mystery.

00:07:48.000 I love that.

00:07:49.000 We're going to play some tape from it.

00:07:51.000 But Tucker said what everyone should be saying: we don't really know why there are no workers.

00:07:58.000 We can guess.

00:07:59.000 We can try to find out.

00:08:02.000 And we did a whole last week.

00:08:03.000 We did a whole show on this.

00:08:04.000 And no one else was talking about it.

00:08:05.000 And of course, Tucker is because Tucker's the man, which is where are all the workers?

00:08:10.000 And we've received some really insightful emails, freedom at charliekirk.com, from people saying, Charlie, the workers are not working because of the mask mandates.

00:08:20.000 The workers aren't working because of all these different sorts of things.

00:08:22.000 I do think there is a legitimate argument that the quality of work, because you have to wear a mask all day long, isn't worth it to people anymore.

00:08:30.000 I really believe that if you lifted all the mask mandates, it would solve some of the problem. 0.95

00:08:35.000 I could be wrong, but I can't imagine working as a barista at Starbucks with this stupid thing on your face while after you're vaccinated or you're naturally immunized, whatever. 0.98

00:08:46.000 I can't imagine that's good for worker morale. 0.99

00:08:49.000 And again, Aristotle told us about this.

00:08:51.000 We go commonly back to this quote: that tyrants like to make people unfamiliar with one another.

00:08:55.000 We have dehumanized the American workforce.

00:08:59.000 We have turned the American workforce into an unit, it is almost indecipherable from that of Riyadh Saudi Arabia, where every woman walks around with a mask on their face. 1.00

00:09:12.000 And again, we've been against the Muslim hijab because we said it was dehumanizing. 0.97

00:09:17.000 But now you have conservatives say you need masks because it has some sort of epidemiological advantage.

00:09:22.000 Again, we've gone into that into great detail, but there's a serious labor shortage.

00:09:27.000 And we know where that labor conversation is going to go.

00:09:30.000 They're going to say we need another 6 million people from El Salvador because of this labor shortage, even though we have the dormant labor here in America that just doesn't want to work because we decided to subsidize that.

00:09:42.000 And what's so interesting, and again, you can go back in the archives, and I don't like to do the I told you so thing.

00:09:47.000 I really don't, but I'm going to indulge in that just a little bit because we came out so forcefully against lockdowns and the first stimulus package.

00:09:56.000 Remember, we came against the first stimulus package.

00:09:58.000 First stimulus package, I think, passed with unanimous Senate consent.

00:10:02.000 Your Republicans were supporting all the different types of factors that played into this.

00:10:10.000 Totally unnecessary.

00:10:12.000 A $3.8 trillion wealth transfer from the poorest people to the wealthiest people.

00:10:16.000 And now there's this mystery of where are all the workers?

00:10:19.000 Well, I think that there's many different elements to this, but it's probably one of the most important economic questions right now.

00:10:25.000 And the plutocrats couldn't care less. 0.98

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00:11:21.000 So I want to play a little bit from Tucker's show.

00:11:24.000 It's terrific.

00:11:25.000 And it was really insightful because Tucker doesn't do a lot of economic segments.

00:11:31.000 He just doesn't.

00:11:32.000 And I'm glad he doesn't because I think that's overcovered in a lot of different ways.

00:11:36.000 When Tucker does cover what's happening with the economy, he does a beautiful job of connecting it to the question of the national character and that are more than just more important than just dollars and cents.

00:11:48.000 It was probably, I don't know, you saw it, Connor.

00:11:50.000 It was one of the most nuanced, one of the most fair kind of takes on it because he was also saying, look, if people are quitting their jobs at Goldman Sachs to go become apple orchard farmers, it's actually a good thing.

00:12:02.000 It actually sounds really exciting.

00:12:03.000 It was a word-for-word thing he said.

00:12:05.000 PlayCut 81, Tucker Carlson says, We have a labor shortage.

00:12:09.000 I just want to say we're taking your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:12:12.000 And if any of you listening to my voice have any insight into where all the workers have gone, please email me freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:12:20.000 It is a mystery.

00:12:21.000 We have a general idea of what's happening, but no one has a solid answer, and I'd love to learn from you.

00:12:25.000 PlayCut 81.

00:12:26.000 What's confusing as hell is our labor market.

00:12:30.000 The unemployment rate is higher than it was before COVID.

00:12:33.000 Not a ton, but some.

00:12:34.000 That means fewer people have jobs than did two years ago.

00:12:38.000 Labor force participation, meanwhile, a slightly different measurement, is way down.

00:12:42.000 And that means fewer people are working or even looking for jobs.

00:12:45.000 So that's the picture on one side of the labor market.

00:12:48.000 And yet, this is the truly bizarre part: we are simultaneously experiencing a serious labor shortage.

00:12:55.000 So we have a shortage of labor and a glut of labor simultaneously.

00:12:59.000 It's so incredibly confusing.

00:13:02.000 And, you know, we've gotten some emails from people like Charlie, I got it all figured out.

00:13:05.000 And there's some good insight.

00:13:08.000 The best I've heard is that there's been this explosion of unemployment benefits that is more than ever before.

00:13:13.000 The best other answer I heard is that because so many young people are living at home with their parents, they can kind of do gig economy stuff and just barely kind of pay enough to get by and they don't want to go work because the quality of their work.

00:13:25.000 But it's this usually you don't have a massive amount of people wanting to hire and people that don't want the work.

00:13:34.000 Let's listen to some of those news reports here.

00:13:37.000 We have a question here that I just want to keep the flow going from Frank, which is, Charlie, I run a small business in Banger, Maine.

00:13:45.000 I cannot find workers.

00:13:47.000 We are paying $22 an hour.

00:13:51.000 Please help me make sense of what's going on.

00:13:52.000 We're getting hundreds of emails about this, everybody.

00:13:55.000 PlayCut 82.

00:13:56.000 At Nugget Market, the manager works the register for three packs.

00:14:00.000 Yep.

00:14:01.000 To cover short staffing, a fact of life in so many businesses.

00:14:05.000 Some Walgreens pharmacy drive-thrus, like this one at Maine and Mason Streets in Green Bay, have been blocked off recently.

00:14:12.000 Signs posted on the windows say they don't have enough staff.

00:14:16.000 Certain job sectors, like retail, restaurants, and hospitality, are understaffed.

00:14:21.000 No matter how you slice it, the government has incentivized people not to work.

00:14:26.000 So it's really tough to get people to work and then once they're here to stay on for more than six months.

00:14:33.000 So the government has intentionally subsidized people not working.

00:14:36.000 Rich people are richer than ever before, yet middle-class jobs that we're told that people want if you just open it, they do not want them.

00:14:45.000 So what's really going on here?

00:14:47.000 Let's play cut 85.

00:14:48.000 Tucker talks about these incentives and that we've put together a reward.

00:14:53.000 Again, if you want to just kind of summarize, what is economics?

00:14:57.000 Economics is the fight against scarcity and the analysis of incentives.

00:15:03.000 It's that simple.

00:15:04.000 It's obviously deeper than that, but that's basically the summary of the science of economics.

00:15:10.000 PlayCut 85.

00:15:11.000 The incentives that we've constructed in this country over a long period of time, to be fair, but accelerating recently, have a very specific effect.

00:15:19.000 Those policies reward people who don't want a job and they punish people who do want a job.

00:15:26.000 What they do is they degrade work.

00:15:29.000 They strip it of its inherent meaning.

00:15:31.000 And that's a problem in a country that is running out of things that have inherent meaning.

00:15:36.000 They're telling you that your religion means nothing.

00:15:38.000 Your patriotism means nothing.

00:15:40.000 Your family means nothing.

00:15:42.000 Now they're telling you your work means nothing.

00:15:44.000 What does mean anything?

00:15:46.000 And how long can a society continue that doesn't have meaning and that doesn't revere work?

00:15:55.000 If only there was a book that was written called Man's Search for Meaning, who wrestled with this.

00:16:01.000 You know, what happens when people don't have meaning?

00:16:03.000 Well, we're going to go through some of those numbers because it's all by design.

00:16:07.000 Highest suicide rate in the history of human existence, drug use, alcoholism, social isolation, misery index is the highest it's ever been.

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00:17:49.000 We got a couple other emails here about the labor shortage.

00:17:52.000 I just want to kind of hear what people are saying.

00:17:54.000 It's very interesting.

00:17:57.000 Let's go to this one right here.

00:17:58.000 Labor shortage is not the only problem.

00:18:00.000 Forget the labor shortage.

00:18:02.000 Do some research and dig deep into the housing shortage and the cost.

00:18:06.000 There is something very dark going on with housing and it isn't just due to COVID.

00:18:10.000 I'm convinced all this is part of a plan to destroy America.

00:18:13.000 Well, actually, the labor shortage is tied to the housing shortage because you can't build more homes.

00:18:16.000 No one wants to work.

00:18:18.000 And you can't get the supplies that you want.

00:18:20.000 And you need to build the homes if no one wants to transport the supplies.

00:18:23.000 And so it's all self-reinforcing.

00:18:24.000 In some ways, that is kind of connected.

00:18:27.000 Other people are saying, I'm a nurse.

00:18:29.000 I stopped working because the vaccine mandates take care of my four kids.

00:18:32.000 We realized that during the pandemic, nothing was more important than raising them in this corrupt society.

00:18:36.000 That's a good answer.

00:18:38.000 So the fact that people aren't working to go raise their children, it's terrific.

00:18:43.000 One person emailed us, Jim.

00:18:45.000 Charlie, like myself, a huge number of baby boomers took early retirement.

00:18:49.000 That is true.

00:18:50.000 And the price of housing is exploding dramatically.

00:18:54.000 Let's do another one.

00:18:55.000 Here's Charlie.

00:18:56.000 Charlie, here's a thought or question.

00:18:57.000 With regular folks trying to leverage religious exemptions, it's hard to say whether or not other religions are getting the same treatment in regards to this.

00:19:04.000 Thoughts on why people say home?

00:19:05.000 Brad, cultural shift.

00:19:07.000 Teenagers and 20-somethings have gotten used to staying at home and collecting a government check.

00:19:11.000 They've also been scared to death from government officials about COVID outbreaks.

00:19:16.000 They've got their Netflix, food delivery, and their couch.

00:19:19.000 They're not going anywhere until it becomes uncomfortable to stay home.

00:19:22.000 Thankfully at AmericaFest, a lot of kids will be leaving home.

00:19:25.000 That's for sure.

00:19:27.000 Brian with a thought crime emails as freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:19:30.000 Charlie, it's the marijuana industry.

00:19:34.000 It's big and all these people are paid under the table.

00:19:36.000 Check it out.

00:19:38.000 That's interesting, that they're not registered.

00:19:40.000 That could be something.

00:19:41.000 Weed destroys lives, everybody.

00:19:44.000 I think it's a big part of the problem.

00:19:45.000 The labor part might not, this is interesting.

00:19:48.000 Dawn says, I think a big part of it might be women. 1.00

00:19:50.000 Many women were forced to work from home or laid off altogether. 0.99

00:19:54.000 Now that things are opening back up, they've seen the garbage doled out on their kids at CRT.

00:19:58.000 They consider the child tax credits being paid to them monthly.

00:20:01.000 The work situation during lockdowns forced them to do more with less.

00:20:05.000 So now they're accustomed to it.

00:20:07.000 What they don't like is happening at home at the school with their kids.

00:20:09.000 And women make up a pretty large, sizable portion of their population. 1.00

00:20:13.000 So it makes a difference.

00:20:14.000 Just a thought.

00:20:15.000 I think all of this is true, by the way.

00:20:17.000 I think that we have a multi-variant, multi-input situation here where it's not just one thing.

00:20:25.000 You would think that this would be the most important thing that our leaders would be talking about.

00:20:31.000 Instead, they're much more concerned about other things, such as voting rights.

00:20:36.000 Let's go to, we actually already played that one.

00:20:39.000 This is the kicker, though.

00:20:40.000 Why are they doing this?

00:20:42.000 They're doing this because they want to try to create a plan that could potentially result in mass amnesty to bring in more obedient and loyal voters from the third world.

00:20:53.000 We wrote about this in America Greatness seven months ago, eight months ago, actually.

00:20:59.000 We predicted this on our show: that inflation was created by the ruling class to try to justify mass amnesty and mass immigration.

00:21:07.000 Play cut 86.

00:21:09.000 So in Washington, they're already thinking of ways to use mass immigration to shaft unskilled workers out of their recent gains.

00:21:15.000 Quote, immigrants could fix U.S. labor shortage, read a recent headline in Vox.

00:21:19.000 Of course, it did.

00:21:20.000 The head of Domino's Pizza agrees he'd like to pay his employees less, and he wants to use newly imported foreign workers to do it. 0.98

00:21:27.000 How's the White House feel about this?

00:21:28.000 Of course, Biden's on board with it.

00:21:30.000 He wants more Democratic voters from foreign countries.

00:21:32.000 So what you're looking at is the perfect alignment of malignant motives.

00:21:36.000 So expect the borders to stay open.

00:21:38.000 So you saw, and we can even go back in the archives of the Charlie Kirk show.

00:21:42.000 I said that, I think, a couple of days ago.

00:21:43.000 I said, we're going to see a headline that mass immigration can actually solve this issue. 0.97

00:21:47.000 We're going to see it, and here it is.

00:21:49.000 Instead of actually trying to get to the structural issues of vaccine mandates and all this other stuff, we're just going to say, let's just go bring in more people.

00:21:56.000 Even though we do not have the infrastructure for it, the assimilation program for it, basically, this is the divide.

00:22:04.000 Are we just going to admit we're nothing more than a colony, aka an economy, just bring in as much people as you can, hit the GDP numbers, or are we going to say, no, no, we're a country with citizens.

00:22:14.000 You see, a colony has subjects or just kind of independent nodes of people that kind of come in and out and trade.

00:22:22.000 Or are we something much more beautiful than that?

00:22:26.000 A country with a shared history, culture, and hopefully direction and purpose.

00:22:32.000 That really is the question in front of us.

00:22:34.000 Okay, let's get to the next question here.

00:22:37.000 This is Rochelle from Newark.

00:22:39.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:22:39.000 I heard you cover the idea of the collapsing population on your podcast.

00:22:43.000 And I was wondering if you could dive a bit deeper into what's happening there and what conservatives could do to try to prevent that.

00:22:48.000 Thank you.

00:22:49.000 I'm going to replay the tape.

00:22:50.000 I think we have the minute-long tape actually that I could play.

00:22:52.000 So it was super short yesterday where we played the tape of Elon Musk warning about population collapse.

00:23:00.000 We've been on top of this on this program.

00:23:02.000 Back in July of 2020, we did an entire podcast called The Impending Population Collapse.

00:23:07.000 Of course, most conservatives didn't even think deeply about this, about how the human species is on pace to basically get endangered very, very soon, and that we do not have near enough people on earth, and that having children is decreasing dramatically.

00:23:21.000 Let's play the entire tape for context.

00:23:23.000 I'm going to go into some of the details here.

00:23:24.000 If you're hearing this for the first time, I want to reiterate this: that we are not having enough children in the world.

00:23:32.000 This is a massive issue, and yet all the people in charge of the Democrat Party and the ruling class say we have an overpopulation problem.

00:23:39.000 The opposite is true, and the world's richest man said this.

00:23:43.000 And before I play this tape, cut 80, get it ready.

00:23:45.000 We talked about this yesterday.

00:23:48.000 Why is it that almost zero media outlets covered this part of Elon Musk's remarks?

00:23:55.000 They covered the fact that he didn't like Biden spending.

00:23:57.000 They covered the inflation.

00:23:58.000 They covered the electric vehicle thing.

00:24:00.000 But they somehow had a massive memory hole blackout suppression gaslighting campaign on the world's richest man warning that we don't have enough human beings.

00:24:10.000 Play cut 80.

00:24:11.000 The economy, the foundation of the economy is labor.

00:24:15.000 I mean, capital equipment is essentially distilled labor.

00:24:19.000 So I was spoken to a friend of mine actually to say, you know, just like, what should we optimize for?

00:24:27.000 And what he said was gross profit per employee, fully considered.

00:24:33.000 So you've got to include the supply chain in that.

00:24:36.000 The fundamental constraint is labor.

00:24:38.000 There are not enough people.

00:24:40.000 I can't emphasize this enough.

00:24:41.000 There are not enough people.

00:24:44.000 And I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate and the rapidly declining birth rate.

00:24:54.000 And yet so many people, including smart people, think that there are too many people in the world and think that the population is growing out of control.

00:25:01.000 It's completely the opposite.

00:25:03.000 Please look at the numbers.

00:25:05.000 If people don't have more children, civilization is going to crumble.

00:25:08.000 Mark my words.

00:25:10.000 If we do not have more children, civilization is going to crumble.

00:25:12.000 Mark my words.

00:25:14.000 A 2017 research revelation that looks into the sperm counts for men living in the West have plunged by 60% since 1971.

00:25:22.000 That's probably a pretty important story for the New York Times to cover.

00:25:25.000 Why are sperm rates down 60% since 1971?

00:25:28.000 I thought we're healthier than ever before.

00:25:30.000 We have more vegan smoothie shops.

00:25:34.000 We have more gyms than ever before.

00:25:35.000 We have fitness apps.

00:25:37.000 We got rid of smoking.

00:25:40.000 And yet now people have sperm rates that are 60% lower.

00:25:44.000 Could it be processed food?

00:25:46.000 Could it be the emasculation of young men?

00:25:48.000 Could it be the lack of testosterone?

00:25:50.000 I don't know.

00:25:51.000 But it's interesting.

00:25:52.000 Something that we should probably talk about.

00:25:54.000 It's something that I would love to see a late night segment on: the fact that we have a bunch of soy boys everywhere. 1.00

00:26:00.000 Maybe.

00:26:00.000 I don't know.

00:26:01.000 The 2017 research continues to connect with this trend: that 2020 saw the fewest babies born relative to the population of women between 15 and 44 of any year in human history.

00:26:12.000 The American birth rate is now just 1.7 children per woman, and it's plummeting quickly.

00:26:17.000 Now, every person who thought they were being really cute and smart, they thought all of a sudden that the pandemic, everyone being locked down and nowhere to go, you're going to see an increase in the birth rate.

00:26:26.000 You could draw a direct correlation in San Francisco birth rates, New York birth rates, and Boston birth rates after what?

00:26:33.000 Summer time blackouts.

00:26:36.000 It's well studied in anthropology and sociology that when there was the massive Eastern blackout, you could look it up.

00:26:42.000 I think it was 1982.

00:26:45.000 There was a huge blackout in the eastern part of the United States.

00:26:49.000 There's a massive blackout for whatever reason.

00:26:51.000 It was like a huge power plant went under in New York, Boston, and so people really had nowhere to go.

00:26:58.000 Nothing was working for a couple of days.

00:26:59.000 Nine months later, the birth rate skyrocketed temporarily and then it went back down.

00:27:05.000 Because obviously people were at home, nothing better to do.

00:27:07.000 There was a direct connection between the blackout and the birth rate.

00:27:10.000 So then you had these anthropologists that really aren't very smart that work for the colleges that your taxpayers that you fund that you send your kids go to hate the country and hate themselves.

00:27:18.000 All of a sudden, all these anthropologists went on TV, like, yeah, the birth rate's about to skyrocket nine months from now.

00:27:23.000 And yet it went down.

00:27:25.000 And Dennis Prager had the most wise take on this.

00:27:28.000 It shows that children are not a value.

00:27:31.000 But children are a value, meaning that you have to have a belief that having children is important, that it's not automatic, that as soon as you have the technology to be able to prevent children from being born, aka birth control or abortion, you're going to take advantage of that.

00:27:47.000 A recent pupil showed the fraction of non-parents between 1849 saying they're very likely to have kids fell from 32% to 26%.

00:27:55.000 Meanwhile, those who are saying they were not too likely or not likely at all increased from 37% to 44%.

00:28:00.000 Meanwhile, China is doing the opposite.

00:28:02.000 China is now rescinding their one-child population.

00:28:05.000 They once believed in population suppression, and now they're trying to subsidize population and family growth.

00:28:12.000 Earlier this year, San Francisco was named the most childless city in the country, with the percentage of children in the city falling 13%.

00:28:20.000 The world's population is set to decline for the first time ever in the next century.

00:28:24.000 A new study published in the Lancet Journal has revealed.

00:28:27.000 Currently, there's about 7.8 billion people in the world.

00:28:30.000 The study has predicted that it will peak around 10 billion and then decline rapidly after that.

00:28:35.000 With the creation of the metaverse, with the destruction of the Western mail, why are people going to get married and have kids?

00:28:44.000 That's an unnecessary burden.

00:28:45.000 That doesn't give you purpose and meaning.

00:28:47.000 Instead, laced marijuana and the metaverse will give you purpose and meaning.

00:28:51.000 You're going to have your kids and grandkids, if you don't intervene, are going to spend more time with goggles on their head, looking at a fake world that doesn't exist.

00:29:02.000 Where that's actually going to be the new currency, by the way.

00:29:04.000 Just so we're clear.

00:29:05.000 In the next 20 years, there will be more economic activity in the metaverse.

00:29:11.000 I don't want to say then in the real world, but then in a lot of different areas.

00:29:16.000 The quote-unquote metaverse is going to be the place where you could buy property, you could transact business.

00:29:21.000 They're going to try to create a whole digital economy where you put your goggles on.

00:29:28.000 Crypto, NFT, all of that is going to be integrated into that.

00:29:32.000 So then why have kids in the real world?

00:29:34.000 When you could just go have it in this other fake world.

00:29:39.000 Internet privacy is extremely important.

00:29:41.000 New news out shows that Google has been colluding with the federal government to hand over your data if you might have searched something wrong into the search bar.

00:29:52.000 So what are you doing to protect your search history?

00:29:55.000 Well, this is why you need ExpressVPN.

00:29:58.000 Using the internet without ExpressVPN is like going to the bathroom and not closing the door.

00:30:04.000 It's in fact even worse than that.

00:30:05.000 It's inviting someone to the bathroom, which is really weird and creepy.

00:30:08.000 Internet service providers know every single website you visit.

00:30:12.000 ISPs can sell this data and information to ad companies and tech giants who then use your data to target you.

00:30:20.000 ExpressVPN creates a secure encrypted tunnel between your device and the internet.

00:30:25.000 So your online activity cannot be seen by anyone.

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00:30:51.000 Here's the thing.

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00:30:56.000 Express VPN for me has been a game changer to be able to know that the tech companies or the government, they have to go through a whole other barrier to try to spy on us.

00:31:08.000 When we see with the new announcements out of DC, if you spoke at a school board meeting lately, you better get a VPN.

00:31:14.000 Secure your online activity by visiting expressvpn.com slash Charlie today.

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00:31:33.000 Eastport South Manor Central School in Suffolk County, this is from the Gateway Pundit, sent out an email to all parents informing them about the new physician in their district.

00:31:43.000 The new hiring was part of the new regulations regarding sudden cardiac arrest of students grades K through 12.

00:31:49.000 Wait a second.

00:31:50.000 Am I unaware that just like K through 12 kids have sudden cardiac arrests?

00:31:53.000 Is that a thing?

00:31:55.000 So they bring in a new medical staff person who specializes in this.

00:31:59.000 The letter says, quote, one such effort of our new regulations are regarding child sudden cardiac arrest.

00:32:06.000 All school districts are now required to ensure that nurses and coaches can address the treatment and monitoring of students who exhibit signs and symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest.

00:32:17.000 In addition, districts are required to make sure that all staff are aware of warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest and what they do if a person experiences sudden cardiac arrest.

00:32:26.000 Please see the attached information on sudden cardiac arrest.

00:32:30.000 This letter goes out to all these students, and these parents, I should say.

00:32:35.000 Now, of course, the obvious question is, is this at all related to the spike in myocarditis and heart issues that may be related to the mass inoculation strategy?

00:32:45.000 The media comes out and says, quote, wave of cardiac condition in young people linked to mysterious climate changes.

00:32:52.000 Here's another one.

00:32:53.000 Too much freedom makes young people feel safe and unprotected, a possible explanation of alarming myocarditis events.

00:33:00.000 That's what the press says is causing the cardiac problems.

00:33:04.000 Now, they're going to have a hard time explaining this one away.

00:33:06.000 So, wait, why are you hiring a health official who is an expert in sudden cardiac arrest for like a small school district?

00:33:13.000 What exactly are you worried about?

00:33:16.000 Like, oh, yeah, I'm really worried my eight-year-old is going to just drop dead of a sudden cardiac arrest.

00:33:21.000 I'm not going to jump to conclusions here, but I think all of you know exactly what's going on.

00:33:26.000 You're smart.

00:33:28.000 Okay, let's get to the next question here.

00:33:31.000 There's a lot of questions here.

00:33:33.000 Okay, this one's about rising crime.

00:33:35.000 And this all is together.

00:33:36.000 As you have less people working, you're going to have crime rates go up.

00:33:38.000 And of course, you have all these different deals.

00:33:42.000 The deputy press secretary of the United States refuses to call on Democrat mayors to stop pushing defund the police policies.

00:33:49.000 Basically, Paul from Minnesota has a question around this.

00:33:51.000 Play cut 88.

00:33:53.000 Would President Biden, as the leader of the Democratic Party, advise Democratic mayors not to pull money from police budgets?

00:34:03.000 So I can say this.

00:34:05.000 It is absolutely unacceptable when gun crimes are taking lives, when families don't feel safe going to the park or their local schools.

00:34:14.000 And so if you're a mayor, this is what we say to local leaders, if you're a mayor or a local leader, there is a crime problem in your community.

00:34:21.000 We think you should step up and do something about it.

00:34:25.000 Look, the reason why they do not want to get away from the defund policing movement is they've never wanted to defund the police.

00:34:31.000 They want a national police force.

00:34:33.000 They want a woke FBI that will oversee all the crimes.

00:34:37.000 They want to get rid of local sheriffs, local DAs, and try to bring in a diversity, equity, inclusion federal bureau of investigation that's in charge of everything.

00:34:47.000 It's important to realize the motives here, that they want to get rid of local control and they want to try to nationalize and federalize.

00:34:56.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:58.000 Email us your thoughts as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

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Ask Charlie Anything 89: Where are the Workers? Population Collapse? Election Integrity and the Courts? And MORE

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