00:00:33.000Crystal from New Mexico, Barbara from California, Maureen from New Jersey, Cynthia from Oklahoma, Olivia from California, Victor from California, Edith from Virginia, William from Washington, Matthew from Minnesota, Michelle from Idaho, Tyree from Colorado, Jerry from Nevada.
00:01:26.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:53.000But the courts have ruled unpredictably on issues, especially recently.
00:02:59.000The courts need to be the absolute worst-case scenario.
00:03:03.000And even then, you know, you're rolling the dice if something gets in front of the courts.
00:03:09.000If 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.
00:03:22.000And one of the best examples of this, and many of you remember, was John Roberts and his betrayal on Obamacare.
00:03:30.000Obamacare was basically dead on arrival.
00:03:33.000Obamacare was on life support under the Obama regime.
00:03:38.000Obamacare 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?
00:03:50.000Even 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.
00:04:13.000I don't see Jonathan Gruber around anywhere anymore.
00:04:16.000Jonathan Gruber was one of the Harvard academics actually behind Obamacare when Republicans failed to defeat Obamacare back during the Obama regime.
00:04:25.000And 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.
00:04:34.000I'm paraphrasing, but that's essentially what he did.
00:04:37.000Now, then there were some really good lawsuits and challenges against Obamacare.
00:04:41.000And for the younger listeners right now, you guys might not remember the Obamacare fights.
00:04:45.000The Obamacare fights were this massive question of what is the role of government.
00:04:50.000And 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.
00:04:57.000We elected Scott Brown in that special election race.
00:05:01.000But we're still living the consequences of Obamacare, make no mistake.
00:05:04.000The burdensome regulation Obamacare has contributed to inflation.
00:05:08.000Obamacare, by the way, I believe has also made our COVID response far worse.
00:05:14.000No one really talks much about Obamacare anymore.
00:05:16.000Isn't that interesting that Obamacare has not really been a focal point recently?
00:05:23.000Anyway, so then it went up to the U.S. Supreme Court and we thought we had it.
00:08:05.000And of course, Tucker is because Tucker's the man, which is where are all the workers?
00:08:10.000And 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.
00:08:20.000The workers aren't working because of all these different sorts of things.
00:08:22.000I 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.
00:08:30.000I really believe that if you lifted all the mask mandates, it would solve some of the problem.
00:08:35.000I 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.
00:08:46.000I can't imagine that's good for worker morale.
00:08:49.000And again, Aristotle told us about this.
00:08:51.000We go commonly back to this quote: that tyrants like to make people unfamiliar with one another.
00:08:55.000We have dehumanized the American workforce.
00:08:59.000We 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.
00:09:12.000And again, we've been against the Muslim hijab because we said it was dehumanizing.
00:09:17.000But now you have conservatives say you need masks because it has some sort of epidemiological advantage.
00:09:22.000Again, we've gone into that into great detail, but there's a serious labor shortage.
00:09:27.000And we know where that labor conversation is going to go.
00:09:30.000They'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.
00:09:42.000And 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.
00:09:47.000I 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.
00:09:56.000Remember, we came against the first stimulus package.
00:09:58.000First stimulus package, I think, passed with unanimous Senate consent.
00:10:02.000Your Republicans were supporting all the different types of factors that played into this.
00:10:12.000A $3.8 trillion wealth transfer from the poorest people to the wealthiest people.
00:10:16.000And now there's this mystery of where are all the workers?
00:10:19.000Well, I think that there's many different elements to this, but it's probably one of the most important economic questions right now.
00:10:25.000And the plutocrats couldn't care less.
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00:11:21.000So I want to play a little bit from Tucker's show.
00:11:32.000And I'm glad he doesn't because I think that's overcovered in a lot of different ways.
00:11:36.000When 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.
00:11:48.000It was probably, I don't know, you saw it, Connor.
00:11:50.000It 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.
00:13:08.000The best I've heard is that there's been this explosion of unemployment benefits that is more than ever before.
00:13:13.000The 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.
00:13:25.000But it's this usually you don't have a massive amount of people wanting to hire and people that don't want the work.
00:13:34.000Let's listen to some of those news reports here.
00:13:37.000We 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.
00:14:01.000To cover short staffing, a fact of life in so many businesses.
00:14:05.000Some Walgreens pharmacy drive-thrus, like this one at Maine and Mason Streets in Green Bay, have been blocked off recently.
00:14:12.000Signs posted on the windows say they don't have enough staff.
00:14:16.000Certain job sectors, like retail, restaurants, and hospitality, are understaffed.
00:14:21.000No matter how you slice it, the government has incentivized people not to work.
00:14:26.000So it's really tough to get people to work and then once they're here to stay on for more than six months.
00:14:33.000So the government has intentionally subsidized people not working.
00:14:36.000Rich 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.
00:15:11.000The 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.
00:15:19.000Those policies reward people who don't want a job and they punish people who do want a job.
00:15:46.000And how long can a society continue that doesn't have meaning and that doesn't revere work?
00:15:55.000If only there was a book that was written called Man's Search for Meaning, who wrestled with this.
00:16:01.000You know, what happens when people don't have meaning?
00:16:03.000Well, we're going to go through some of those numbers because it's all by design.
00:16:07.000Highest suicide rate in the history of human existence, drug use, alcoholism, social isolation, misery index is the highest it's ever been.
00:16:15.000Maybe modernity is not everything they told us it would be.
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00:18:56.000Charlie, here's a thought or question.
00:18:57.000With 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.
00:20:42.000They'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.
00:20:53.000We wrote about this in America Greatness seven months ago, eight months ago, actually.
00:20:59.000We predicted this on our show: that inflation was created by the ruling class to try to justify mass amnesty and mass immigration.
00:21:38.000So you saw, and we can even go back in the archives of the Charlie Kirk show.
00:21:42.000I said that, I think, a couple of days ago.
00:21:43.000I said, we're going to see a headline that mass immigration can actually solve this issue.
00:21:47.000We're going to see it, and here it is.
00:21:49.000Instead 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.
00:21:56.000Even though we do not have the infrastructure for it, the assimilation program for it, basically, this is the divide.
00:22:04.000Are 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.
00:22:14.000You see, a colony has subjects or just kind of independent nodes of people that kind of come in and out and trade.
00:22:22.000Or are we something much more beautiful than that?
00:22:26.000A country with a shared history, culture, and hopefully direction and purpose.
00:22:32.000That really is the question in front of us.
00:22:34.000Okay, let's get to the next question here.
00:22:50.000I think we have the minute-long tape actually that I could play.
00:22:52.000So it was super short yesterday where we played the tape of Elon Musk warning about population collapse.
00:23:00.000We've been on top of this on this program.
00:23:02.000Back in July of 2020, we did an entire podcast called The Impending Population Collapse.
00:23:07.000Of 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.
00:23:21.000Let's play the entire tape for context.
00:23:23.000I'm going to go into some of the details here.
00:23:24.000If you're hearing this for the first time, I want to reiterate this: that we are not having enough children in the world.
00:23:32.000This 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.
00:23:39.000The opposite is true, and the world's richest man said this.
00:23:43.000And before I play this tape, cut 80, get it ready.
00:23:58.000They covered the electric vehicle thing.
00:24:00.000But 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.
00:24:44.000And I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate and the rapidly declining birth rate.
00:24:54.000And 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.
00:26:01.000The 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.
00:26:12.000The American birth rate is now just 1.7 children per woman, and it's plummeting quickly.
00:26:17.000Now, 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.
00:26:26.000You could draw a direct correlation in San Francisco birth rates, New York birth rates, and Boston birth rates after what?
00:26:45.000There was a huge blackout in the eastern part of the United States.
00:26:49.000There's a massive blackout for whatever reason.
00:26:51.000It was like a huge power plant went under in New York, Boston, and so people really had nowhere to go.
00:26:58.000Nothing was working for a couple of days.
00:26:59.000Nine months later, the birth rate skyrocketed temporarily and then it went back down.
00:27:05.000Because obviously people were at home, nothing better to do.
00:27:07.000There was a direct connection between the blackout and the birth rate.
00:27:10.000So 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.
00:27:18.000All of a sudden, all these anthropologists went on TV, like, yeah, the birth rate's about to skyrocket nine months from now.
00:27:25.000And Dennis Prager had the most wise take on this.
00:27:28.000It shows that children are not a value.
00:27:31.000But 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.
00:27:47.000A recent pupil showed the fraction of non-parents between 1849 saying they're very likely to have kids fell from 32% to 26%.
00:27:55.000Meanwhile, those who are saying they were not too likely or not likely at all increased from 37% to 44%.
00:28:00.000Meanwhile, China is doing the opposite.
00:28:02.000China is now rescinding their one-child population.
00:28:05.000They once believed in population suppression, and now they're trying to subsidize population and family growth.
00:28:12.000Earlier this year, San Francisco was named the most childless city in the country, with the percentage of children in the city falling 13%.
00:28:20.000The world's population is set to decline for the first time ever in the next century.
00:28:24.000A new study published in the Lancet Journal has revealed.
00:28:27.000Currently, there's about 7.8 billion people in the world.
00:28:30.000The study has predicted that it will peak around 10 billion and then decline rapidly after that.
00:28:35.000With the creation of the metaverse, with the destruction of the Western mail, why are people going to get married and have kids?
00:28:45.000That doesn't give you purpose and meaning.
00:28:47.000Instead, laced marijuana and the metaverse will give you purpose and meaning.
00:28:51.000You'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.
00:29:02.000Where that's actually going to be the new currency, by the way.
00:29:05.000In the next 20 years, there will be more economic activity in the metaverse.
00:29:11.000I don't want to say then in the real world, but then in a lot of different areas.
00:29:16.000The quote-unquote metaverse is going to be the place where you could buy property, you could transact business.
00:29:21.000They're going to try to create a whole digital economy where you put your goggles on.
00:29:28.000Crypto, NFT, all of that is going to be integrated into that.
00:29:32.000So then why have kids in the real world?
00:29:34.000When you could just go have it in this other fake world.
00:29:39.000Internet privacy is extremely important.
00:29:41.000New 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.
00:29:52.000So what are you doing to protect your search history?
00:29:55.000Well, this is why you need ExpressVPN.
00:29:58.000Using the internet without ExpressVPN is like going to the bathroom and not closing the door.
00:30:56.000Express 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.
00:31:08.000When we see with the new announcements out of DC, if you spoke at a school board meeting lately, you better get a VPN.
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00:31:33.000Eastport 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.
00:31:43.000The new hiring was part of the new regulations regarding sudden cardiac arrest of students grades K through 12.
00:31:55.000So they bring in a new medical staff person who specializes in this.
00:31:59.000The letter says, quote, one such effort of our new regulations are regarding child sudden cardiac arrest.
00:32:06.000All 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.
00:32:17.000In 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.
00:32:26.000Please see the attached information on sudden cardiac arrest.
00:32:30.000This letter goes out to all these students, and these parents, I should say.
00:32:35.000Now, 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?
00:32:45.000The media comes out and says, quote, wave of cardiac condition in young people linked to mysterious climate changes.
00:34:05.000It is absolutely unacceptable when gun crimes are taking lives, when families don't feel safe going to the park or their local schools.
00:34:14.000And 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.
00:34:21.000We think you should step up and do something about it.
00:34:25.000Look, the reason why they do not want to get away from the defund policing movement is they've never wanted to defund the police.
00:34:33.000They want a woke FBI that will oversee all the crimes.
00:34:37.000They 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.
00:34:47.000It'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.
00:34:56.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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