The Charlie Kirk Show - February 07, 2022


Ask Charlie Anything 94: Meta's Stock Price Collapse? SHAQ Goes Based? Johns Hopkins Obliterates Lockdowns? And MORE


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What is going on with the tech stocks collapse? An economic-focused episode at first, and we dive into some other very important topics here on the Charlie Kirk Show. Today's episode: - What is going wrong with tech stocks? - What caused it? - Why is it so bad? - What could be the cause? - How bad is it really? - Is it a correction? - Are we in a civilizational correction?

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00:00:08.000 What is going on with the tech stocks collapse?
00:00:12.000 An economic-focused episode at first, and we dive into some other very important topics here on the Charlie Kirk show.
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00:00:34.000 Here we go.
00:00:34.000 Buckle up, everybody.
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00:01:20.000 Hey, Charlie, what's going on with Facebook?
00:01:22.000 I see that their stock is really down.
00:01:24.000 What caused it?
00:01:25.000 Well, this is the front page of the Wall Street Journal actually today.
00:01:29.000 Meta is the new name of their company.
00:01:32.000 Their plunge rattles lofty tech shares.
00:01:35.000 Quote, Facebook parents' company Meta Platforms shed more than $230 billion in market value, a one-day loss that is the biggest ever for a U.S. company and increases pressure on a stock market, long powered by tech shares.
00:01:52.000 Stocks priced way down beyond perfection faces scrutiny.
00:01:58.000 Facebook parent company has record fall.
00:02:01.000 More than $230 billion, the biggest ever for a company ever for one day, biggest drop.
00:02:08.000 Meta platforms gave a disappointing financial forecast, helping the major indexes snap a four-session winning streak.
00:02:16.000 The tech-heavy NASDAQ composite index dropped 3.7%.
00:02:20.000 PayPal Holdings and Spotify Technologies also spooked investors in recent days when the payment giants lowered its 2022 profit outlook and the streaming company elected not to provide annual guidance.
00:02:33.000 So Facebook seemed like it was this untouchable company for quite a while, but they are just completely and totally collapsing.
00:02:41.000 The stock is down and it's up a little bit.
00:02:44.000 Actually, it's back down.
00:02:45.000 21% in the last 24 hours.
00:02:49.000 A 21% collapse.
00:02:51.000 Now, part of it is because the stock was just overinflated as it is, because there's so much cheap money out there.
00:02:57.000 People just kept on falsely rallying to Facebook shares.
00:03:04.000 But if you look at Facebook over a period of time, it hit its record high in September at $378 a share.
00:03:12.000 And now it's at $235 a share.
00:03:16.000 So if you bought Facebook back in September, it has collapsed nearly 35 to 40% in just the last four to five months.
00:03:25.000 Now, there's a theme here, though, that I want to explore with you, which is that it's not just Facebook that is collapsing.
00:03:31.000 CNN ratings are down by 90%.
00:03:35.000 Rachel Maddow is taking some time off to go film some irrelevant film with Ben Stiller.
00:03:42.000 You have Francis Collins, who resigned from NIH.
00:03:44.000 You have record amounts of Democrats resigning.
00:03:47.000 The power structures of the regime, technological, economic, cultural, political, it's not going too well right now.
00:03:54.000 Netflix, major crash, by the way.
00:03:57.000 Last week, Netflix, which is one of the top purveyors of nonsense in our country, of just awful content for children and grandchildren.
00:04:07.000 And by the way, no parent should allow their child to have a Netflix account.
00:04:11.000 It is total propaganda.
00:04:13.000 It's a separate issue for another time.
00:04:15.000 Netflix was trading just near $600 a share at the beginning of the year.
00:04:23.000 And now they're at $408 a share.
00:04:25.000 They've actually rallied from where they were, which was a total collapse of about $359 a share.
00:04:32.000 Their seven-week high was a market capitalization of about $300 billion.
00:04:39.000 And they're now at about $181 billion company.
00:04:42.000 Netflix is spending $17 billion on content alone this year, $17 billion just on content, most of which is BLM, alphabet mafia, complete and total nonsense. 0.91
00:04:54.000 So what's happening is you're starting to see a correction, but not just a market correction.
00:04:59.000 I think you're starting to see a civilizational correction.
00:05:03.000 I think you're starting to see across the board people disengage from these tech companies, push back against what we call the woke industrial complex, and it's starting to reflect in media ratings, starting to reflect in stock prices, it's starting to reflect in public approval ratings, starting to reflect in so many different indicators.
00:05:21.000 And this is something that we've been waiting for for quite some time.
00:05:24.000 We asked how long can these news companies continue to exist?
00:05:28.000 I mean, for the tech companies, they seemed untouchable for years.
00:05:31.000 Google and Facebook in particular, and Netflix alongside of it.
00:05:36.000 But Facebook in particular was one that we thought would never really kind of be properly challenged.
00:05:41.000 A new story out today basically describes it as an unprecedented cratering.
00:05:47.000 This is from the New York magazine.
00:05:48.000 Mark Zuckerberg's disaster is taking Silicon Valley with it.
00:05:52.000 Quote, with a single earnings report and a disastrous conference call, Mark Zuckerberg wiped out $240 billion for his company.
00:06:00.000 Now, this is a really interesting thing.
00:06:02.000 And I want to just reiterate this.
00:06:04.000 And we have double-digit inflation.
00:06:06.000 People can't afford rent.
00:06:08.000 We've been through that plenty of times.
00:06:09.000 People can't afford basic groceries.
00:06:12.000 Is this will be a massive stress test of wokeism?
00:06:18.000 You see, it's easy to fund and to entertain and to support woke ideology, critical race theory, all these different things when the profits are flowing.
00:06:31.000 When you just have rivers of cash from the Federal Reserve and a stock price that is super inflated, then it's easy to all of a sudden be like, yeah, okay, let's give the wokeies $100 million and let's go fund BLM and schools.
00:06:45.000 But now Zuckerberg is going to have to have a very serious question, which is, was it wise to declare war on half the country, Mark Zuckerberg?
00:06:52.000 Was that smart to kick Donald Trump off your platform?
00:06:56.000 But there was an arrogance, and this is a huge kind of development of the last year.
00:07:01.000 And I tell people this, and Facebook is a great example of it.
00:07:04.000 You know, where we're streaming right now, and we talk about it quite some time.
00:07:07.000 We've partnered with them on many different things, and we're involved in a lot of different kind of projects with Rumble.
00:07:14.000 Rumble in the last year has skyrocketed.
00:07:17.000 Now, Rumble is also publicly traded.
00:07:19.000 Full disclosure, I own some shares of Rumble.
00:07:22.000 I have to say that because I'm not going to be like those weird people on TV that tell you about stocks.
00:07:25.000 They don't disclose if they own it.
00:07:26.000 I own some shares of it.
00:07:27.000 It's an acquisition company.
00:07:28.000 It's CFVI stock, and it's a SPAC.
00:07:32.000 It's called a special purpose acquisition company.
00:07:35.000 And so, but the Rumble SPAC is up and Facebook creators.
00:07:39.000 Why is that?
00:07:40.000 Well, it's because Rumble's users are up.
00:07:43.000 It's because Rumble's technology is getting better.
00:07:46.000 And also, people are starting to see the market opportunity.
00:07:49.000 They're like, oh, well, Facebook is just basically a soon-to-be very shaky metaverse company.
00:07:54.000 I'm going to get into the meta part of it very soon.
00:07:56.000 I could do a whole hour on just kind of the whole metaverse because I've done a lot of thinking and a fair amount of research on it.
00:08:03.000 But basically, Facebook has said, okay, we're just going to pander to a very specific subset of ideology in the country.
00:08:13.000 And it leaves this overwhelming vacuum that is now going to be capitalized by other social media companies.
00:08:20.000 It could be capitalized by Truth Social, which is President Trump's company.
00:08:23.000 It could be capitalized on by Getter.
00:08:26.000 It could be capitalized on by Rumble, all these different sorts of alternative companies.
00:08:29.000 Telegram is growing very quickly, for example.
00:08:32.000 There is a seismic energy shift.
00:08:35.000 We've been on YouTube for five years, and we've stopped streaming on them with them because of how they've treated Dan Bongino.
00:08:42.000 We have 560,000 subscribers on YouTube.
00:08:46.000 We now have 893,000 subscribers on Rumble, nearly 900,000 subscribers on Rumble.
00:08:55.000 We nearly have double the audience we have on Rumble that we have on YouTube, and we've only been there a year.
00:09:01.000 And Rumble, their technology is not yet where it needs to be.
00:09:04.000 Let's put it that way.
00:09:05.000 It's developing, it's growing, it's getting there.
00:09:08.000 The platform, the platform is about five or six years old, but in its current state, it's about a year old.
00:09:12.000 That's correct.
00:09:13.000 In its current form, we're streaming live on there all the time.
00:09:17.000 And so many people have been wondering when is the technological reset going to happen?
00:09:24.000 Well, it's happening in front of our very eyes.
00:09:26.000 And no thanks to Republicans who refuse to break up these companies, but great thanks to you that have made the switch.
00:09:32.000 And we've been partnering and Dan Bongino and many others to go all in on these tech competitors to create a parallel economy.
00:09:39.000 Rumble acquired locals.com.
00:09:41.000 They have some other big things that are in the hopper.
00:09:45.000 And so metaverse is cratering.
00:09:48.000 And remember, Michael Jordan said Republicans buy shoes too.
00:09:52.000 And Google and Facebook, because the profits were so dramatic, they felt that they could alienate, they could destroy half the country, and there wouldn't be a competitor that would come up against them.
00:10:03.000 And they're quickly learning that there is Twitter.
00:10:05.000 I mean, what is Twitter doing with their?
00:10:07.000 I think Twitter is way down.
00:10:10.000 I mean, they're up today, but year to date, Twitter was trading at $42 a share.
00:10:15.000 They're now at $36 a share.
00:10:18.000 Just a couple years ago, they were at $63 a share.
00:10:22.000 They've nearly lost half of their market capitalization.
00:10:26.000 Half.
00:10:27.000 So Twitter is down.
00:10:28.000 CNN is down.
00:10:30.000 Meta is down.
00:10:30.000 Amazon is down.
00:10:31.000 Amazon's had a little bit of a surge.
00:10:33.000 And I know some of you aren't, you don't tune in for this to be a stock show.
00:10:36.000 That's not what the point, okay?
00:10:37.000 If you want to go to price to earning ratio or all that stuff, whatever.
00:10:41.000 Just go the last couple of years to Twitter, though.
00:10:43.000 They've collapsed nearly half their value.
00:10:48.000 So many people are worried about a major economic collapse right around the corner.
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00:11:50.000 There's a very curious story today.
00:11:52.000 It's good news for the country if it's true.
00:11:54.000 I'm not saying that there's some sort of scheme to try to falsify government data.
00:11:59.000 I just find the information to be stunning.
00:12:01.000 And it's good news for the country.
00:12:02.000 We cheer for the country when it does well.
00:12:04.000 I'm not going to give Biden credit for it because he certainly didn't do anything to help make this happen, but it's good news for the country for sure, which is the labor news that came out today.
00:12:12.000 It's very confusing.
00:12:13.000 I'll be very honest.
00:12:15.000 It took me like what, Connor?
00:12:17.000 It took us like 10 minutes to parse through this because they're like correcting data and they're publishing old data.
00:12:22.000 It's very, very weird.
00:12:23.000 So it's a January jobs report.
00:12:26.000 And it's so strange because just a couple, like last week, they had a totally contradictory jobs report.
00:12:31.000 By the way, is oil really $92 a barrel right now?
00:12:34.000 Are you kidding me?
00:12:36.000 It's at the top of Yahoo.
00:12:37.000 Can you double check if that's right?
00:12:40.000 Oil's at $92 a barrel?
00:12:44.000 That can't be right.
00:12:47.000 My goodness, it is.
00:12:50.000 Oh my goodness.
00:12:51.000 Remind me to talk about the significance.
00:12:53.000 $92 a barrel is like Iraq war territory.
00:12:57.000 It's a total sidetrack.
00:12:58.000 Just to kind of go through this, it has not been $92 a barrel since 2014, and it was right around there, 70.
00:13:08.000 Even during Iraq war in 2006, it was around $61 a barrel.
00:13:12.000 It's a good time to be in the Permian basin, that's for sure.
00:13:15.000 Total sidetrack.
00:13:15.000 Didn't mean to get on the.
00:13:16.000 It was a Yahoo finance article, and they have all the industrials at the top.
00:13:20.000 And so gold is up minorly.
00:13:21.000 And I was like, $92 a barrel.
00:13:23.000 Where have I been?
00:13:25.000 How?
00:13:25.000 When did that happen?
00:13:26.000 It must have been in the last month.
00:13:28.000 Yeah, it was in the last month.
00:13:29.000 I was going to say at Christmas, it was like at $66 a barrel, and now it's gone up 30%.
00:13:35.000 Oh, my goodness.
00:13:37.000 Yeah, during the virus, it went down to $18 a barrel.
00:13:40.000 I have a funny story about how I got really messed up on that.
00:13:46.000 I tried to buy oil futures, and the oil future I bought went bankrupt.
00:13:51.000 Even though, if I would have been able to hold on to the oil futures, look how I would have done.
00:13:55.000 It would have gone from $20 to $90 just in the two years.
00:13:58.000 Anyway, poor me, right?
00:14:01.000 So if this data is true, it says January jobs report: payrolls jump by $467,000 as unemployment rate rises to 4%.
00:14:11.000 U.S. employers added back far more jobs than expected in January, even as Omicron cases surges at the beginning of the year.
00:14:19.000 So they say that the job reports are lovely.
00:14:22.000 Now, this is what doesn't make any sense.
00:14:23.000 Labor force participation near lowest since 1977.
00:14:27.000 The Bureau of Labor Statistics defined the labor force participation rate as the percentage of civilian non-institutional population 16 years and older.
00:14:35.000 It's the lowest labor force participation rate, but they're saying we're creating all these jobs.
00:14:40.000 It's somewhat perplexing.
00:14:42.000 Some people are saying this is a corruption of institutions.
00:14:44.000 I have no evidence of that, but it sure feels that way.
00:14:48.000 And so here's the story that happened last week, right?
00:14:51.000 Which is last week, or just a couple days ago, it says companies unexpectedly cut 301,000 jobs in January.
00:14:59.000 And then we have this totally contradictory jobs report that comes out two days.
00:15:02.000 So which is it?
00:15:03.000 Did we cut 301,000 jobs?
00:15:06.000 Or do we have a jobs report that shows 400,000 new jobs?
00:15:11.000 So what is the official unemployment rate, by the way, right now?
00:15:15.000 Here's what I'm getting at: we are seeing economic indicators all over the map.
00:15:19.000 It's at 4%.
00:15:20.000 I don't believe it, but whatever.
00:15:22.000 Labor force participation rate is at an all-time low.
00:15:25.000 They say unemployment's at 4%.
00:15:26.000 Things are costing more than ever before.
00:15:29.000 Oil is at $92 a barrel.
00:15:31.000 Rent is going up by $800 a month.
00:15:33.000 Gold is flatlining, which is the most bizarre, one of the most bizarre things is that you would think in an inflationary time, gold would be up huge.
00:15:41.000 Gold is down year to date, or it's about even.
00:15:45.000 Gold was up really big, not really big.
00:15:47.000 It was relatively big around May of last year.
00:15:50.000 But isn't that an indictment for gold in some ways?
00:15:52.000 It's really weird.
00:15:54.000 No one has explained this to me why gold has not skyrocketed in a time of double-digit inflation.
00:15:58.000 No one.
00:15:59.000 Gas is soaring.
00:16:00.000 Bitcoin is up.
00:16:01.000 Facebook is down.
00:16:03.000 Twitter is down relative to the last couple of years.
00:16:06.000 Jobs reports are mixed up.
00:16:08.000 What could explain all this?
00:16:09.000 One thing.
00:16:10.000 Massive government involvement creates economic chaos.
00:16:14.000 Prices are the language that we use to communicate to one another without actually opening our mouth.
00:16:19.000 And when you have price controls or subsidies and massive amounts of cheap money coming in, the language gets disturbed.
00:16:28.000 All of a sudden, the price signals get completely and totally diluted and people start doing wacky things.
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00:18:08.000 I also think some of the disruptions in the labor force is obviously government intrusion, vaccine mandates, mask mandates, the quality of work as far as how hard it is just to work.
00:18:18.000 I mean, I was just at a restaurant yesterday in Orange County, California, meeting with our good friends Andrew and Todd.
00:18:25.000 That's AndrewandTodd.com for all of you keeping it score at home.
00:18:28.000 They're wonderful.
00:18:29.000 What godly men.
00:18:30.000 They're terrific.
00:18:31.000 And we were at this restaurant called the Water Grill.
00:18:33.000 I think producer Andrew probably knows it.
00:18:35.000 Probably goes there after he trains for his marathons or his Ironmen.
00:18:39.000 And it just frustrates me so much.
00:18:42.000 All those staffers are wearing masks.
00:18:44.000 And again, I don't do this to try to be disagreeable.
00:18:48.000 Pastor David Engelhart and I and Will Petty, who's on our team, we all went in there without masks and they didn't stop us.
00:18:53.000 Now, mind you, between Will Petty, David Engelhart, and I, it looks like a, you know, a Lithuanian basketball team that's walking into their restaurant.
00:19:01.000 It's like, I don't, I wouldn't want to stop us either.
00:19:04.000 But no one stopped us.
00:19:05.000 But there's also a moral component to it.
00:19:08.000 I don't want to be served by some sort of masked employee.
00:19:11.000 I don't like that.
00:19:12.000 I feel bad for them.
00:19:16.000 I don't, I do not like it at all.
00:19:18.000 I think it's bad for the culture.
00:19:20.000 I think it's bad for me.
00:19:22.000 I think it's bad for them.
00:19:23.000 Don't like it at all.
00:19:25.000 Now, if they want to wear a mask, that's a separate issue.
00:19:28.000 But every single person was wearing a mask.
00:19:30.000 Every single person that was working there, not every single person walking through.
00:19:37.000 Okay, let's get to some, it's another question here.
00:19:39.000 Charlie, did you see Shaquille O'Neal's recent comments on the vaccine?
00:19:44.000 Ties actually to this economic news.
00:19:47.000 And that is Andrea from Mississippi. 0.96
00:19:50.000 I did.
00:19:51.000 I think Shaq is from Louisiana.
00:19:53.000 Is that right?
00:19:54.000 Who went to LSU?
00:19:55.000 I don't know if he's from Louisiana, but I've always been a big Shaquille O'Neal fan.
00:20:01.000 And by the way, this chair, for all of you watching on Rumble, is literally the Shaq chair.
00:20:05.000 I'm by no means as big as Shaq, but we were struggling to find a chair that I could actually fit in with all of my back problems.
00:20:14.000 The Relief Factor has made him a lot better, by the way.
00:20:16.000 But the chair is so terrific.
00:20:20.000 I'm a big Shaq fan.
00:20:21.000 I always have been.
00:20:24.000 Andrew says, I'm a chair prima donna.
00:20:26.000 Of course I am.
00:20:27.000 There's a couple things that I'm very specific about: condiments, chairs, travel accommodations, language, temperature, gluten.
00:20:40.000 I suppose that as well.
00:20:42.000 If I eat gluten, it doesn't go well.
00:20:45.000 But I totally admit I'm a prima donna when it comes to chairs.
00:20:49.000 Whenever I speak at a church, I lovingly try to tell him I can't sit in stools.
00:20:53.000 I can't.
00:20:54.000 It hurts my back.
00:20:54.000 It kills me.
00:20:57.000 And shoes.
00:20:58.000 I need comfortable shoes.
00:21:00.000 A lot of this stuff is very focused on lower back pain, but that's a separate issue.
00:21:05.000 Okay, Shaquille O'Neal.
00:21:06.000 We're sitting in his chair.
00:21:09.000 I have to just compliment Shaquille O'Neal.
00:21:13.000 He's got wisdom.
00:21:14.000 He really does.
00:21:15.000 And he's never been left-wing political.
00:21:17.000 Am I right?
00:21:18.000 I don't think he's ever done that.
00:21:19.000 He's always been about hard work and entrepreneurship and doing the right thing and strong fathers and being a strong man.
00:21:28.000 Charles Barkley, similar.
00:21:30.000 Charles Barkley is a little bit more promiscuous in his personal life than I think people want to admit, but that's a separate issue.
00:21:36.000 And Kobe Bryant, I had a lot of respect for these men.
00:21:38.000 And Michael Jordan as well.
00:21:40.000 He's been a little bit BLM-y recently, but I just have so much respect for them versus LeBron James. 1.00
00:21:46.000 It's not even close.
00:21:47.000 It's like two separate categories of people.
00:21:50.000 Okay, let's play Shaquille O'Neal.
00:21:53.000 Play tape.
00:21:54.000 Look, I encourage everybody to be safe and take care of your family.
00:21:58.000 I do.
00:21:59.000 But there's still some people that don't want to take it.
00:22:01.000 And you shouldn't have to be forced to take something that you don't want.
00:22:05.000 I don't think people are being forced to take.
00:22:07.000 Well, there are some.
00:22:08.000 There are.
00:22:08.000 I mean, listen, we have a mandated CBS.
00:22:10.000 That's force.
00:22:11.000 We have a mandated CBS.
00:22:12.000 But my point.
00:22:13.000 That's force.
00:22:14.000 But where I wholeheartedly.
00:22:16.000 That's force.
00:22:16.000 No, it's not force.
00:22:17.000 It is force.
00:22:18.000 Because if the man don't take it, the man will get fired.
00:22:21.000 If the man don't take it, the man is going to get fired.
00:22:24.000 You could turn that into a billboard.
00:22:26.000 I have said this entire time: one of the great missed opportunities for the Republican Party and the conservative cause was allying with black men and athletes against mandatory vaccinations. 0.67
00:22:37.000 I think it's been one of the great political missed opportunities of a generation.
00:22:41.000 Now, why would the black community not be pro-vaccine?
00:22:45.000 Are they anti-science? 1.00
00:22:46.000 Are they stupid like white liberals would say? 1.00
00:22:48.000 Of course not. 1.00
00:22:48.000 Actually, I think they're really wise. 1.00
00:22:50.000 You see, white liberals think black people are stupid. 1.00
00:22:53.000 I think white people are super wise. 1.00
00:22:55.000 I think they're really smart. 1.00
00:22:56.000 I think that they have a history that is unquestioned of forced sterilization of, quote, idiot women, the Tuskegee trials, and medical experimentation. 1.00
00:23:10.000 And there is a general cynicism and distrust in the black community of government mandates towards what they call black bodies. 0.99
00:23:17.000 It's a little hyperracial for my personal opinion, but they're not wrong. 1.00
00:23:22.000 I don't think this vaccine was concocted just to try to hurt black people, obviously.
00:23:28.000 But I think that the skepticism and the cynicism a lot of members of the black community had was completely warranted. 1.00
00:23:34.000 And Shaquille O'Neal's articulating it perfectly.
00:23:37.000 And Kyrie Irving and Shaq and Kyrie Irving went back and forth.
00:23:41.000 He actually blasted Kyrie Irving for not complying with the vaccine.
00:23:44.000 And now maybe Shaquille O'Neal has evolved or what's the politically correct way?
00:23:51.000 Grown on the issue.
00:23:52.000 He's progressed, whatever they say.
00:23:54.000 It's like all these like pull-tested PR targets.
00:23:57.000 He's grown.
00:23:57.000 He's evolved.
00:23:58.000 He's strength.
00:23:59.000 That's right.
00:24:00.000 That's the new one that I love.
00:24:01.000 Is he strengthened on the issue?
00:24:03.000 Or the Justin Trudeau one when he wears blackface.
00:24:06.000 This is a learning moment for Canadians.
00:24:08.000 Oh, got it.
00:24:08.000 Learning moment.
00:24:11.000 That is true.
00:24:12.000 Shaquille O'Neal does not have much room to grow.
00:24:15.000 That is correct.
00:24:17.000 He is a specimen.
00:24:18.000 I'll tell you what.
00:24:19.000 One of the great athletes in the modern era.
00:24:22.000 Okay, let's get to another question here.
00:24:24.000 We're getting lots of different questions.
00:24:28.000 This is one.
00:24:28.000 Charlie, I heard about the Johns Hopkins story, and it doesn't make any sense.
00:24:32.000 Why did we lock down our country to begin with?
00:24:37.000 Thanks so much, Jason from Seattle.
00:24:40.000 Well, we never should have locked up our country, and our team has this cut in the cut sheet.
00:24:44.000 I don't like doing this, but I do this for a reason, only because we have a good track record on this program of taking firm stances and then being vindicated and validated despite all the pressure against us when those things happen.
00:25:00.000 So we are anti-lockdowns from the very beginning.
00:25:03.000 I don't think America ever should have locked on a single day.
00:25:05.000 And it's not because we saw the future.
00:25:07.000 It's because this show, and amongst many other people, like Larry Arn from Hillsdale College, who was anti-lockdown, if you ponder and stew over things that are eternal, and if you try to focus on wisdom, things that do not change, well, then you'll be able to see things a lot more clearly.
00:25:27.000 Unfortunately, our leaders have no such interest in that.
00:25:30.000 This was from March of 2020, two years ago, basically.
00:25:35.000 Play cut 81.
00:25:36.000 I am getting phone calls from people that are in panic right now.
00:25:40.000 And it's not panic about the virus.
00:25:42.000 It's panic about the economic catastrophe that we're about to come into.
00:25:46.000 It's people that are worried that they can't make payroll.
00:25:48.000 They can't make rent.
00:25:49.000 And they have confidence in the president of the United States, what he's doing here.
00:25:52.000 But they want to know on day 15 that they're going to get a green light to go back to work because you cannot cage the American entrepreneur.
00:26:00.000 Economic catastrophe.
00:26:01.000 There's another part where I said we are.
00:26:04.000 That was six days into 15 days to slow the spread, by the way.
00:26:07.000 Six days.
00:26:08.000 And we were saying that we can't have lockdowns anymore.
00:26:11.000 We're going on day 690 of 15 days to slow the spread.
00:26:16.000 And parts of America are still largely locked down.
00:26:19.000 Okay, let's get to another question here.
00:26:20.000 Hey, Charlie.
00:26:21.000 I've heard that the Constitution is changing.
00:26:24.000 Do you agree with that?
00:26:25.000 My teachers say they are.
00:26:27.000 I'm a high school student from Tennessee.
00:26:29.000 This is Teresa from Tennessee.
00:26:32.000 Well, Cut 46, Joe Biden talks about a beautiful document, the United States Constitution.
00:26:37.000 Let's play Cut 46.
00:26:38.000 The nominee should be.
00:26:40.000 And, you know, there's always a renewed national debate every time we nominate any president that nominates a justice because the Constitution is always evolving slightly in terms of additional rights or curtailing rights, et cetera.
00:26:57.000 And it's always an issue.
00:26:59.000 The Constitution is always evolving slightly, is what Joe Biden says.
00:27:04.000 Now, this is a Hegelian belief.
00:27:06.000 Hegelianism looks at the arc of history and they look at things as evolving towards inevitable perfection or utopia.
00:27:14.000 They take the Christian belief of the escaton, which means the end times, and they apply it to political theory, and they come up with this baseless idea that we are going to rumble and tumble through time towards a state of eventual perfection.
00:27:26.000 Now, the Constitution is not evolving.
00:27:28.000 It's not.
00:27:29.000 The promise of the Constitution remains constant, largely because it's either you believe human nature changes or it does not change.
00:27:40.000 Aristotle famously said that nature is the norm.
00:27:44.000 The Constitution was not written for the times.
00:27:46.000 It was written to stand the test of time.
00:27:49.000 Because human beings are always going to want to consolidate power.
00:27:52.000 They're always going to want to abuse that power. 0.96
00:27:55.000 We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
00:28:08.000 So there's an intergenerational promise there.
00:28:10.000 Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
00:28:15.000 Goes through the first seven articles of the Constitution, and it wasn't until 1791 that the Bill of Rights was officially ratified.
00:28:22.000 But to believe the Constitution is always changing is to believe that human beings are also changing, and we are not.
00:28:30.000 Just because technology changes, and just because things around us are moving faster, technology is very simple.
00:28:36.000 The best way to describe what technology is is doing more work with less force.
00:28:42.000 That's what technology is.
00:28:44.000 Being able to do more work with less force, more efficiently.
00:28:48.000 So technology could be a wheelbarrow.
00:28:50.000 It could be a fulcrum.
00:28:52.000 Technology could be an airplane.
00:28:53.000 It could be a car.
00:28:54.000 It could be a cell phone.
00:28:56.000 It could be a text message.
00:28:57.000 You're able to do more work with less work.
00:29:01.000 You're able to do more output with less force.
00:29:02.000 I have some of my physics terms a little bit twisted here, but you understand what I'm saying.
00:29:06.000 And just because you have technology does not mean the principles that govern the universe change.
00:29:10.000 And this is why Christians, I think, get so off track here when they don't engage in these arguments. 0.99
00:29:15.000 Do you believe in the natural law or not?
00:29:18.000 If you believe in the natural law, the unchanging principles that govern the universe, or as Thomas Jefferson would say, the laws of nature and nature is God, you do not believe what Joe Biden said, that the Constitution is slightly evolving.
00:29:29.000 The natural law is not slightly evolving.
00:29:31.000 So the Constitution remains because human nature remains.
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00:30:35.000 We have a lot of questions about this.
00:30:37.000 We got from Brian, we got from Mark, we got from Mikey, we got from Larry.
00:30:43.000 We got all across the spectrum about the Olympics.
00:30:46.000 And the questions are all over the map.
00:30:47.000 So let's just kind of talk about what's going to happen.
00:30:49.000 Do you see Pelosi's comments?
00:30:50.000 Just questions, question, question, question about the Olympics.
00:30:53.000 And emailed to us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:30:56.000 So, okay, let's get to Cassandra from Calispel as well.
00:31:00.000 So let's get into the Olympics here.
00:31:05.000 So Nancy Pelosi has some comments here about the Olympics.
00:31:09.000 Now, I don't defend Nancy Pelosi, but I think that it's actually a little bit unfair to attack her for what she said here.
00:31:22.000 Minorly unfair.
00:31:23.000 I think some of the criticisms towards Pelosi here have not been totally wise.
00:31:28.000 And I'm going to tell you why.
00:31:29.000 Okay.
00:31:29.000 So Nancy Pelosi tells U.S. athletes not to speak out against the Chinese communist regime, lest they risk incurring the anger of the Chinese government.
00:31:38.000 Now, she's being called the shill and the pup of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:31:41.000 That's right.
00:31:42.000 But I'll be very honest with you.
00:31:44.000 If I was sending athletes to China, I'd be telling them the exact same thing.
00:31:50.000 Unless you want them to end up as hostages like Lamello Ball was, you got to tell them what they're getting in for.
00:31:57.000 I'm not a fan of China. 0.95
00:31:58.000 I think China is an existential enemy. 0.85
00:32:00.000 So play cut 79.
00:32:03.000 I would say to our athletes, you're there to compete.
00:32:10.000 Do not risk incurring the anger of the Chinese government because they are ruthless.
00:32:17.000 I know there is a temptation on the part of some to speak out while they are there.
00:32:22.000 I respect that, but I also worry about what the Chinese government might do to their reputations, to their families.
00:32:33.000 Now, here's the way it should be done.
00:32:35.000 Okay.
00:32:36.000 First of all, why Pelosi's commenting on this?
00:32:38.000 I don't get that.
00:32:39.000 Is Biden should say, listen, I have given every athlete from America a green light to speak as you choose.
00:32:46.000 China, you lay a hand on them, you got a problem. 1.00
00:32:48.000 200% tariffs.
00:32:50.000 China's now a free speech zone.
00:32:52.000 Welcome to the party.
00:32:53.000 That has to come from the president, not from Pelosi.
00:32:57.000 I'm saying, if I was just like a House of Representatives and I'm like Pelosi, she's actually not wrong.
00:33:01.000 That's not the point.
00:33:03.000 The point is that Trump or Biden, whoever was president, should say, okay, we're going to go compete in your COVID-0 games.
00:33:10.000 You lay a hand on an American.
00:33:12.000 You are not getting a product into America for a year.
00:33:15.000 It's that simple.
00:33:17.000 We'll wreck your economy.
00:33:19.000 And if Trump did that, the athletes would be safe and free, and they would be doing Instagram lives from the Great Wall of China, and they'd be able to walk to Mao Zedong's grave.
00:33:29.000 People are focusing on the Pelosi element of it.
00:33:32.000 And it looks like she's pandering in all this, but I'll be honest.
00:33:36.000 What would you say differently?
00:33:37.000 Yeah, go protest Biden, go protest China when you have no backup from the White House.
00:33:42.000 Is that what you would say?
00:33:44.000 It sounds like Pelosi is pandering to the Chinese, which he very well might be. 1.00
00:33:48.000 But what would you say?
00:33:49.000 Would you go tell a bunch of athletes to go into China without State Department support and without presidential support and White House support to go protest the Chinese regime?
00:33:57.000 I don't think that's smart.
00:33:58.000 I just don't.
00:34:00.000 And I'm not defending Pelosi.
00:34:02.000 I just think that the automatic, like, ooh, she's doing the bad carrying of Xi Jinping.
00:34:06.000 Yeah, she's probably bought and paid for by them. 0.95
00:34:07.000 I think that was part of Schweitzer's book.
00:34:10.000 Or like, if you were in that position, what would you say?
00:34:13.000 Hey, skiers, figure skaters, curlers, actually go protest as much as you want, and then what?
00:34:23.000 You'll have a diplomatic mess on your hands.
00:34:25.000 This has to come from one or two people.
00:34:27.000 That's it.
00:34:28.000 The president of the United States and the head of the State Department, Secretary of State.
00:34:33.000 And honestly, Nancy Pelosi is saying this for another reason.
00:34:36.000 The last thing Democrats need is a hostage situation with China going into the midterms. 0.84
00:34:40.000 But then this does beg another question, Pelosi, which is, if you know how ruthless the Chinese is, why are we still doing business with them? 1.00
00:34:49.000 Why are you not censoring them?
00:34:50.000 Why are you not passing tariffs or measures against them?
00:34:53.000 You know, Pelosi's saying something that, considering the lack of backup, and she probably agrees with the lack of backup because she's purchased by the Chinese party, Communist Party. 0.57
00:35:03.000 I don't want my fellow Americans to be held hostage in China.
00:35:06.000 If we had a real president, it could end like that.
00:35:10.000 You tell Xi Jinping, one of your soulless apparatches lays a finger on an American, we wreck your economy.
00:35:17.000 Welcome to the Olympics.
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