The Charlie Kirk Show - Corporations Vs. America

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00:00:09.000 Are corporations on the best side of our country?

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00:00:41.000 Corporations versus America.

00:00:44.000 Buckle up, everybody.

00:00:46.000 Here we go.

00:00:47.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:49.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

00:00:51.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:54.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:58.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:59.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:01:00.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

00:01:07.000 Turning point USA.

00:01:08.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:17.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:21.000 I love free markets.

00:01:24.000 I got my start reading the brilliant texts from Milton Friedman at Adam Smith.

00:01:30.000 And for any younger listeners out there, I highly recommend that you guys check out Milton Friedman's incredible work on capitalism and freedom and an inquiry into the wealth of nations by Adam Smith.

00:01:41.000 I have and still to this day amazed by the price system, the flow and balance of supply and demand, the invisible hand, and the miraculous innovations made possible thanks to the free marketplace.

00:01:56.000 However, markets should always serve people.

00:01:59.000 We should not serve markets.

00:02:00.000 Like all things, our system should be set up to protect God-granted rights of speech, property, liberty, and assembly.

00:02:08.000 Whenever any person, system, idea, or institution no longer is protecting the American way of life, they deserve criticism.

00:02:17.000 We should be unafraid to call them out and clearly state why.

00:02:22.000 In 2012, Mitt Romney famously remarked, Corporations are people, my friend, when he was running for president.

00:02:30.000 Play tape.

00:02:31.000 To make sure that the promises we make in Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare are promises we can keep.

00:02:37.000 And there are various ways of doing that.

00:02:38.000 One is we can raise taxes on people. 0.55

00:02:41.000 Corporations!

00:02:43.000 Corporations are people, my friend.

00:02:47.000 Of course they are.

00:02:48.000 Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people.

00:02:51.000 Where do you think it goes?

00:02:52.000 Oh, it goes in their mind!

00:02:57.000 Huge businesses!

00:02:59.000 Huge businesses!

00:03:00.000 So number one, so number one, you can raise taxes.

00:03:03.000 Now, mind you, this used to be the idea of a multi-week story and scandal.

00:03:07.000 It just kind of goes to show how politics have changed so much.

00:03:11.000 This used to be something that would consume the entire news cycle for weeks on end.

00:03:16.000 I vividly remember defending Mitt Romney and his statement.

00:03:21.000 I remember I was repeating a typical widely held view that corporations are staffed by people, they are meant to serve people, and therefore there's no such thing as a corporation.

00:03:30.000 There's just people.

00:03:32.000 Now, the defense I remember articulating was, of course, true, but it was somewhat politically silly, to be honest with you.

00:03:39.000 Looking back eight years ago, similar to today's political landscape, those of us that were conservatives, we always felt the need to defend Mitt Romney because of how terrible Obama was.

00:03:50.000 Mitt Romney, of course, lost in a rather decisive fashion.

00:03:54.000 But his pro-corporate stance on basically every single issue was basically unchallenged and held by every single Republican in office.

00:04:03.000 That is, until a billionaire from New York came down the golden escalator and jolted the entire American political system.

00:04:10.000 We are getting ripped off.

00:04:12.000 I'm so sick of losing.

00:04:13.000 We can win again.

00:04:14.000 You guys know all these mantras that President Donald Trump mentioned time and time again.

00:04:20.000 Trump disrupted the entire conversation, the whole landscape, and with it, the corporate apologist position of the party.

00:04:29.000 Now, even in the last four years, myself as a free market capitalist, I have found myself more and more critical of positions these massive companies have been taking.

00:04:41.000 Gradually then suddenly, it is more and more clear that the biggest companies in America and the world fund the most destructive elements of society.

00:04:50.000 And they're more than happy to outsource generations of talent and work, to press wages, lobby for open borders, pander to racial politics, and have a growing not-so-subtle hostility to our values, customs, and our country.

00:05:06.000 This has been a very challenging new landscape for many on the right to navigate, because typically we would think of big companies as being on team right.

00:05:16.000 I've mentioned this before.

00:05:18.000 They're basically two political teams.

00:05:19.000 Think of it as a sports analogy.

00:05:21.000 When you are cheering for a certain team, you're always going to be asking the referee to be favoring you.

00:05:28.000 Even though you might know that the wide receiver on the team that you guys are cheering for might have stepped out of bounds, you still might hope the referee might rule in your favor.

00:05:37.000 There's team right and team left, and on these teams are different coalitions.

00:05:41.000 On team right are gun owners, pro-life believers, people of faith, individuals that revere the Constitution, doctrinaire conservatives, and President Donald Trump has changed the teams.

00:05:54.000 For now, those of us that do not enjoy foreign wars, those of us that want to end foreign conflicts overseas, we support President Donald Trump.

00:06:03.000 Team left is primarily composed of pro-abortion, anti-gun, anti-freedom, Medicare for all socialist types.

00:06:11.000 Now, some of them might disagree on certain topics or issues, but they all find commonality under team left.

00:06:19.000 Traditionally, corporations were on team right.

00:06:25.000 But what if I told you that these companies don't even believe in capitalism?

00:06:31.000 That might sound performatively contradictive, but it is true.

00:06:35.000 These companies do not believe in a fair price system, competition, value exchange trade, or a restless entrepreneurial underbelly or activity.

00:06:46.000 These mega companies are not capitalist.

00:06:49.000 They are corporatist.

00:06:51.000 Instead of spending resources on research and development, these companies would much rather spend it on lobbying and government affairs.

00:06:58.000 They want the rules written to favor them special perks to protect their interests.

00:07:04.000 These massive corporate interests have only grown more powerful by the shutdown and the recent closure of over 100,000 small businesses.

00:07:12.000 That's right.

00:07:13.000 Due to the lockdown measures and the shutdowns, there are 100,000 less small businesses today than there were back in March.

00:07:21.000 And if the shutdowns continue in 60 days, there will be another 100,000 small businesses that will go bankrupt.

00:07:27.000 Corporate America is very happy when these stay-at-home orders are issued.

00:07:31.000 For them, these are potential customers.

00:07:34.000 People that are staying at home are going to be more likely to watch Netflix, order Amazon packages, maybe use Uber Eats, and also, of course, go to Walgreens or CBS.

00:07:43.000 For corporate America, the shutdowns have been massive business opportunities.

00:07:48.000 Amazon is worth more than ever before.

00:07:51.000 While middle-class families collapse under these lockdown orders and rising levels of debt, the trillion-dollar corporations are making out like bandits.

00:08:01.000 Now, let me be very clear.

00:08:02.000 These companies are not inherently a problem because they are big.

00:08:06.000 I am not against corporations by nature.

00:08:09.000 I am a capitalist. 0.53

00:08:10.000 However, these companies pose a threat because of their size, coupled with their commitment to funding racial politics and also depressing the American middle class.

00:08:20.000 Never has a country survived when its elites and its most vested members of society are playing an active role in the downfall of the country they live in.

00:08:34.000 Never before in our country's history have we had the wealthiest Americans spend their resources voluntarily to destroy the country they live in and where they made their money.

00:08:46.000 This has never happened before, going back even to Teddy Roosevelt's time, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, the titans of industry.

00:08:56.000 They were funding philanthropies.

00:08:59.000 They were funding charities and initiatives that benefited our country, universities, mental health clinics.

00:09:08.000 They were giving back voluntarily to try and believe in a strong America.

00:09:12.000 Now the elites of our country are doing the exact opposite.

00:09:17.000 This is a hard thing for conservatives to talk about.

00:09:21.000 But these mega corporations must be viewed no differently than elite colleges, news organizations, Hollywood actors, athletes, or any other vessel that represents the disintegration of America.

00:09:38.000 I want to talk about internet freedom.

00:09:40.000 Social media companies get to decide what content is suitable for the sensitive snowflakes among us and censor whatever they don't like.

00:09:48.000 Shouldn't you be the one to decide what you want to read or watch, not them?

00:09:53.000 Well, there's one thing you can control, their access to your data.

00:09:58.000 And for that, I use Express VPN.

00:10:01.000 You see, the problem with big tech companies is that they not only censor what you read, but they track what you do online.

00:10:07.000 They track what you're searching for, the videos you watch and everything you click.

00:10:11.000 They use this data to serve you ads and can match your activity to your offline identity using your device's unique IP address.

00:10:19.000 When I use ExpressVPN, these tech companies can't see my IP address at all.

00:10:23.000 My identity is masked and anonymized by a secure VPN server.

00:10:27.000 Plus, ExpressVPN also encrypts 100% of your data to protect you from hackers and internet bad guys.

00:10:33.000 So right now, go to expressvpn.com/slash Charlie, E-X-P-R-E-S-S-V-P-N dot com slash Charlie, expressvpn.com slash Charlie.

00:10:45.000 And why would you give these tech companies a free license to know everything about you?

00:10:48.000 So go to expressvpn.com/slash Charlie today.

00:10:55.000 So how do you know if a corporation warrants criticism?

00:10:58.000 Now, not every single company should be applied to this list.

00:11:02.000 For example, Ford Motor Company resisted calls from their employees to stop making police cars and they told them to get back to work.

00:11:09.000 Good on you, Ford Motor Company.

00:11:11.000 Ford Motor Company also did not take any government bailout money despite Chrysler and General Motors taking federal bailout money.

00:11:19.000 But here are five things that if you see a corporation is doing they fit this criteria.

00:11:25.000 Number one, they support the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or vice versa.

00:11:31.000 Now, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for a very long time has been posing as the front-facing voice of American business.

00:11:39.000 Nothing could be further from the truth. 0.91

00:11:41.000 It should be the U.S. Chamber of Crony Capitalism or the U.S. Chamber of Crony Corporatist Chinese Interests. 0.72

00:11:48.000 The U.S. Chamber represents the biggest companies in our country. 0.91

00:11:51.000 They do not represent the small businessman, the entrepreneur, the disruptor, the dreamer, or the creator.

00:11:57.000 Look no further than the immigration portion of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce website.

00:12:02.000 It says very clearly that we should protect dreamers, TPS recipients, and employment-authorized H4-dependent spouses.

00:12:08.000 Basically, the U.S. Chamber's position is we need more low-wage workers to bring down the wages of middle-class Americans.

00:12:15.000 If you go to the USChamber.com and you go to diversity and inclusion, it's all about BLM Incorporated, embracing how we need to embrace black-owned businesses, which I do support, but not the over-pandering of such agenda.

00:12:30.000 On the U.S.Chamber.com, you can only go about halfway through the website where all of a sudden they have Black Lives Matter on the front page of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

00:12:39.000 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the special interest advocacy arm of the big business in our country.

00:12:44.000 Now, I was very pleased to see Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader, say he does not want the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's endorsement.

00:12:53.000 He does not hope for it.

00:12:55.000 He does not wish for it because they have sold out to China. 0.85

00:12:58.000 Good for you, Kevin McCarthy.

00:13:00.000 That is a very hard stance for a Republican leader to take.

00:13:03.000 Every Republican in the country should reject the U.S. Chamber of Commerce completely.

00:13:08.000 I could go piece by piece, but if, for example, you go to international trade and investment, it says very clearly trade works, tariffs don't.

00:13:15.000 New tariffs on steel, aluminum, and Chinese imports, as well as the potential for other tariffs, are spark a global trade war.

00:13:24.000 Of course, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's position is that the more piles of plastic that we have coming in from China, the better.

00:13:31.000 Does not matter that we have garage sales where we try to have people take garbage out of our homes.

00:13:39.000 For them, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on U.S.Chamber.com, they want unlimited amount of trade that benefits China.

00:13:46.000 For them, a strong China is a strong world.

00:13:49.000 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is bought wholeheartedly by the Chinese Communist Party.

00:13:54.000 You go to healthcare. 0.86

00:13:56.000 Here they talk about access and affordability.

00:13:58.000 I could have basically written this for them by saying that I want some sort of corporatist agenda, nothing about price transparency, nothing about holding the hospital lobby accountable, nothing about actually informing consumers.

00:14:12.000 You go to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce website and then you go to other issues that actually matter.

00:14:17.000 They have an entire slide on climate change and the environment, not about protecting American workers, coal workers, frackers, or actually protecting U.S. interests.

00:14:27.000 Instead, they care about nice buzz issues, climate change, and the environment.

00:14:31.000 Now, why is this?

00:14:32.000 Well, it's because whatever happens on college campuses does not stay on college campuses.

00:14:37.000 It grows to corporate America.

00:14:38.000 And yes, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

00:14:41.000 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is all about believing in almost a gilded age America, that a small subset of very powerful companies should make every single decision for us in our country.

00:14:52.000 We as conservatives should reject this wholeheartedly.

00:14:56.000 There is nothing free market about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

00:14:58.000 They argue for special cutouts, carve out subsidies and favors that benefit their clientele, which are the companies on the Dow 30 or the SP 500, the companies that can afford multi-million dollar lawyers and government affairs departments, companies that quite honestly fund the most insidious forces of America.

00:15:18.000 That is the U.S. Chamber.

00:15:18.000 And I encourage you guys to go to U.S. Chamber.com.

00:15:20.000 And I want to make something very clear.

00:15:22.000 This is different than many of your local chambers, maybe the chamber in your local county, local city.

00:15:26.000 Some of those chambers might be in the good direction because they're actually locally governed.

00:15:31.000 Some of them are not.

00:15:32.000 But the National Chamber of Commerce has not represented small business owners for quite some time.

00:15:36.000 They are a proxy of the Chinese Communist Party and very well might just be a proxy of the Democrat propaganda machines.

00:15:43.000 That's number one.

00:15:43.000 Number two, if a corporation funds or panders to BLM Incorporated, I've made a significant amount of online purchases over the last couple of years.

00:15:54.000 When America had its so-called racial reckoning after the killing of George Floyd, all of a sudden every single company in the country was almost forced and/or compelled, one way or the other, to email every customer that has ever done business with them, what they are doing to fight systemic racism in America.

00:16:15.000 These are companies that I have not bought anything from in years.

00:16:18.000 Brooks Brothers, American Express, you name it, any sort of company I have ever even subscribed to or done business with sent me an email saying, here's what we're doing.

00:16:27.000 Here's the money we're giving away.

00:16:29.000 If you're an American corporation funding BLM Incorporated, you're on the other team.

00:16:34.000 You might as well leave the country because you represent forces that are so insidious, malevolent, and dangerous.

00:16:40.000 You want to see America collapse from within.

00:16:43.000 So those are some of the bigger examples.

00:16:46.000 But let's go through the entire list.

00:16:48.000 269 mega companies, massive corporations, who are supporting BLM and Antifa that have pledged financial support and other means of support to BLM Incorporated and Antifa, the terrorism happening in our streets.

00:17:07.000 269 companies.

00:17:10.000 23 and me.

00:17:12.000 72 and Sunny.

00:17:13.000 This is in alphabetical order, by the way.

00:17:15.000 AbV, Abbey, Road Studios.

00:17:19.000 The Academy, The Oscars.

00:17:21.000 Activision, Blizzard.

00:17:23.000 Adidas, Airbnb, Alaska Airlines, Amazon, AMD, American Airlines, American Express, American Apparel, Apple Music, Ancestry, Armani, Astro Gaming, ATT, Atlantic Records, AWS, Axe, Barclays Bank, Barnes Noble, Bandcamp, Bank of America, Buyer, Bergdorf, Goodman, Bethesda, Ben Jerry's Billboard, BMW, BP, Booking.com, Boost Mobile, Bratz, Burger King, Bungie, Burberry, Burt Speez, Cadillac, Call of Duty, Capcom,

00:17:53.000 Capital Records, Canada Goose, Cartoon Network, Chick-fil-A, Chipotle, Cisco, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, ColourPop, Cosmetics, Condé Nost, Converse, Corsair, Creative Commons, Criterion Collection, Crunchyroll, CW, CBS,

00:18:07.000 DHL Express, Dell, Degreed, Devolver Digital, DirecTV, Discord, Disney, Dorito, StoorDash, Duolingo, Dribbble, Dropbox, E-News, EA, Eaton, EB, 8, Sleep, ESPN, Etsy, FedEx, Fender, Figma, Fila,

00:18:23.000 Fitbit, Footlocker, Formula One, Fox, Frosted, Mini Wheats, Funimation, GameSpot, Gartner, Gatorade, Genetech, General Motors, Gibson, Glossier, GoDaddy, Goldman Sachs, GoFundMe, Google, GoPro, Guerrilla Glue, Grammarly,

00:18:38.000 Grinder, Guerrilla Collective, Gumroad, Gushers, Habitat for Humanity, Harry's, HBO, HBO Max, Head Up, Help, Scout, Hershey's, HM, Home Depot, Honda, HP, Hulu, Humana, Humble Bundle, HyperX, IBM, IKEA, IMAX, Indiegogo, Itch.io, Intel, Envision, ITV, Kickstarter, La Coste, Lego, Levi's, Lenovo, Lexis, LinkedIn, L'Oreal, Paris, Logitech, Lowe's, Lucky Brand, Lulu, Lemon,

00:19:08.000 Louis Vuitton, Lyft, Madden, NFL20, Marvel Entertainment, MasterCard, Mattel, McAfee, McDonald's, Mercedes-Benz, MetLife, Metropolitan Opera, Microsoft, Mozilla, Napster, NASCAR, NCSoft, Netflix, New Balance, New York Life, NFL,

00:19:24.000 NHL, Nynantic, Nickelodeon, Nike, Nintendo, Nordstrom, Northface, Old Spice, OnlyFans, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Network, Patreon, Peloton, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Inc., PlayStation, Plex, Pokemon, Popeyes, Chicken,

00:19:39.000 PopTarts, Porsche, Pringles, Procter Gamble, Pugent Systems, Puma, Pushin, Qualcomm, Quick and Loans, Reddit, Red Hat, Red Lobster, Red Wing, Reebok, Reese's, Rice Krispies, Riot Games, Rockstar Games, Salesforce, Santa Fe, Scholastic,

00:19:54.000 Sega, Sesame Street, Society, General, US, Showtime, Sketch, Slack, Sephora, Shopify, Skillshare, Snap, Snapchat, Sony, SoundCloud, Spotify, Square, Enix, Starz, Starbucks, Star Wars, Subway, Supreme New York, Cisco Corporation,

00:20:09.000 Taco Bell Target, TBS, Tesco, Ticketmaster, TikTok, Timberland, Tinder, T-Mo, Will, Tumblr, Twitch, Twitter, Uber, Uber Eats, Ubisoft, UG, Ulta Beauty, Under Armor, United Health Group, Vanguard Vans, Veggie Tales, Verizon, Versace, Vivovo, Via, Viacom, CBS, Virgin Records, Verda, Viz, Vivalde, Warner Brothers, Warner Records, Wells, Fargo, Wendy's, WeWork, Xbox, Yamaha Music, Yelp, YouTube, Zara, and Zoom.

00:20:37.000 Those are the 269 companies that have all pledged over $1.6 billion to BLM Incorporated and Antifa.

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00:22:25.000 The third characteristic of a corporation that warrants criticism, that might be a corporatist company, not a capitalist company, is they refuse to disclose or end their relationship with China.

00:22:41.000 Are you currently buying products for something made in China?

00:22:43.000 If so, why?

00:22:45.000 Try to stop doing that. 1.00

00:22:47.000 Never buy anything ever again made in China if you can help it. 1.00

00:22:51.000 It might be textiles, it might be technology. 1.00

00:22:53.000 I know it's hard, but do your best. 0.98

00:22:56.000 If an American company is still doing business in China after what they have done to our country and the world through the Chinese coronavirus, the covering up of it, the lying, the misrepresentation of it, then they are on Team China, not on Team America. 0.97

00:23:09.000 This is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor against our country. 0.96

00:23:12.000 More people died.

00:23:14.000 The cover-up in the economic casualty has been a crisis the likes of which we have not seen in our lifetime.

00:23:22.000 So the question should be, if a company you know is still doing business in China, they love their profits more than they love America.

00:23:28.000 Remember, I'm a capitalist because I believe it serves the best interest of America.

00:23:33.000 We are a country that has an economy in it.

00:23:35.000 We are not an economy that happens to be placed in a country.

00:23:38.000 Number four, if they're outsourcing jobs, very conservative estimates, according to the Department of Commerce, showed that U.S. multinational corporations, the big brand name companies, which employ a fifth of all American workers, cut their workforces by 2.9 million workers during the 2000s while increasing employment overseas by 2.4 million.

00:24:00.000 So I'm a capitalist and it thinks this is wrong.

00:24:02.000 I don't think this is a good thing.

00:24:04.000 What do we get in return?

00:24:05.000 Piles of plastic garbage that didn't make us any wealthier or richer, and generations of workers that became addicted to opioids, lost the factories that they knew to be their place of meaning, their place of work, and their place of provision.

00:24:19.000 And a Wall Street Journal analysis showed, quote, 35 big U.S.-based multinational companies added jobs much faster than other U.S. employers in the past two years, but nearly three-fourths of those jobs are overseas.

00:24:30.000 And I can't believe it.

00:24:31.000 I'm actually reading some of this from the Center for American Progress.

00:24:34.000 It's actually a very fairly written article.

00:24:35.000 It has the citations I was looking for, probably because it reinforced a pro-domestic union agenda.

00:24:41.000 However, facts are facts, and I'm happy to use them.

00:24:44.000 I can't believe I'm actually citing something from AmericanProgress.org.

00:24:48.000 That kind of just goes to show how the political continuum has been completely changed, thanks to President Trump.

00:24:54.000 We're going to get to that in just a second.

00:24:55.000 The fifth is if a company does not pay their workers well.

00:24:59.000 We have seen middle-class wages finally start to go up under President Donald Trump.

00:25:03.000 But if massive companies do not pay their workers well or fair wages, then the question should be why, and if they're willing to outsource them just for an extra buck or an extra penny on a dollar, then maybe those companies are far more interested in maximizing their profit margins than actually having sustainably strong companies for our country.

00:25:22.000 So let's zero in on how some of these corporations have pandered and partnered with some of the most dangerous forces in our country.

00:25:30.000 For example, DoorDash.

00:25:31.000 DoorDash Incorporated, which delivers prepared food, gave $500,000 to BLM Incorporated.

00:25:37.000 Most of this list, by the way, I'm about to read, is from the Federalist great website.

00:25:41.000 Deckers, Deckers, as a company, is standing together in solidarity to fight for equality, they said in an email to the Daily Signal.

00:25:48.000 And they also gave $500,000 to BLM Incorporated to build power to bring justice and healing to black people across the globe.

00:25:56.000 How about Amazon?

00:25:57.000 Amazon linked to BLM Global Network Foundation in a press release on June 9th, identifying it as among 12 groups that would get a total of $10 million from the online retail giant.

00:26:07.000 Amazon announced as part of that effort, Amazon will donate a total of $10 million to the organizations that are working to bring about social justice and improve the lives of black and African Americans.

00:26:15.000 Recipients, selected with the help of Amazon's Black Employee Network, include group focused on combating systemic racism through the legal systems, as well as those dedicated to expanding educational economic opportunities for black communities.

00:26:29.000 How about Gatorade?

00:26:30.000 Gatorade gave a $500,000 gift to BLM Global Network Foundation.

00:26:35.000 Microsoft announced on June 5th that it would donate $250,000 to the BLM Foundation, BLM Incorporated.

00:26:42.000 How about Glossier, which is a skin care and makeup company, said in a May 30th press release that it would divide $500,000 among the five organizations, including BLM Incorporated and the BLM Incorporated Global Network Foundation.

00:26:55.000 23andMe, CEO Ann Wojishki, announced June 2nd that the biotech company and its employees would donate to BLM Incorporated and linked to the BLM Global Network Foundation.

00:27:06.000 Airbnb, $500,000 to BLM Matters Foundation and the NAACP.

00:27:12.000 Nabisco, $500,000 to BLM Global Network Foundation.

00:27:16.000 Dropbox, $500,000 to BLM.

00:27:18.000 Fitbit said that they were going to make a donation.

00:27:20.000 We don't know how much.

00:27:21.000 Tinder online dating app said that it would donate its proceeds to the BLM Global Network Foundation.

00:27:27.000 Walmart said it would contribute $100 million over five years to create a new center for racial equity.

00:27:35.000 CEO Doug McMillan said Walmart generally gets accused of being a Republican propaganda arm or protector or donator to Republican causes.

00:27:44.000 We know that is not true.

00:27:45.000 The Walton family donated more to Hillary Clinton than to Republicans back in 2016.

00:27:49.000 Target announced $10 million in an effort to advance social justice through supporting partners like the National Urban League, an African American Leadership Forum, and BLM Incorporated.

00:28:00.000 Levi's is donating $200,000 to the BLM Incorporated Movement, $100,000 to ACLU, and $100,000 in grants to Live Free USA.

00:28:09.000 GAP brands, Athleta, Old Navy, and Gap, $250,000 to NAACP and Embrace Race.

00:28:15.000 How about Lululemon?

00:28:16.000 Athletic where Lululemon originally announced $100,000 to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.

00:28:22.000 Minnesota Freedom Fund, of course, bailed out the terrorists and the thugs that were burning down downtown Minneapolis.

00:28:27.000 I'm sorry to say every time I buy Lululemon, I now know better.

00:28:31.000 So we'll no longer buy from Lululemon, which unfortunately is now funding the bail for terrorists.

00:28:40.000 Lululemon also brandated $250,000 to local Minneapolis organizations of NAACP and BLM Incorporated.

00:28:47.000 Nike promised to donate $40 million, $40 million to social justice organizations that support BLM Incorporated.

00:28:55.000 McDonald's, fast food giant McDonald's, is committing $1 million to NAACP and the National Urban League.

00:29:01.000 Wendy's pledged $500,000 to support social justice, the youth and education of the black community, starting with the Third Good Marshall Fund and, of course, BLM Incorporated.

00:29:10.000 Coca-Cola, $2.5 million, and they sent out a statement saying this is where we stand on social justice, and $2.5 million in grants from the Coca-Cola Foundation and NAACP Equal Rights Initiative.

00:29:22.000 And of course, BLM Incorporated.

00:29:25.000 Peloton announced a $500,000 donation to NAACP Legal Defense Fund and BLM Incorporated.

00:29:31.000 Facebook pledged $10 million to organizations campaigning for racial justice.

00:29:36.000 And Bank of America, $1 billion to BLM Incorporated.

00:29:39.000 PepsiCo, $400 million to BLM Incorporated.

00:29:43.000 Apple, $100 million to BLM Incorporated.

00:29:46.000 And Comcast, $100 million to BLM Incorporated.

00:29:49.000 All in all, according to Axios, the largest 100 U.S. companies have so far committed to $1.6 billion to BLM Incorporated and its allies.

00:29:58.000 So if you're wondering who's funding these protests, who's funding this riots and this arson?

00:30:03.000 Well, it's very clear who's funding it.

00:30:05.000 When you go buy something at McDonald's, Wendy's, stay at an Airbnb, go to Walmart, Target, buy Levi's jeans, maybe deposit a check at Bank of America.

00:30:15.000 And while you're at it drinking a Diet Coke, you are funding the riots in the Arson of America via Corporate America.

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00:31:49.000 The most incredible development of the rise of corporatism that is bizarrely blended with social change and critical race theory is how the activist left has totally abdicated any criticism of these big, powerful companies.

00:32:05.000 I remember a day when Michael Moore and the media colluded to attack the entire corporate class just merely out of spite because it was aligned with George W. Bush, which of course it was.

00:32:17.000 The critical race theory swarm of ideologues have now changed their strategy.

00:32:22.000 Instead of fighting corporate power, they have infiltrated the top levels of business and remade them in their image.

00:32:30.000 The largest, most valuable companies are now at will funding mechanisms, like an ATM, whenever they want it, for BLM Incorporated.

00:32:39.000 Now, this would be bad enough, that list that I just mentioned.

00:32:42.000 Now that BLM Incorporated and the Biden activist arm is sitting on a billion dollars of extra cash, not to mention the $300 million put on by George Soros, the hundreds of millions of dollars from Mike Bloomberg, and the hundreds of millions of dollars from Tom Stire.

00:32:57.000 All of that would be bad.

00:32:59.000 But these companies are not even acting in the best interest of our workers.

00:33:02.000 Take AT ⁇ T, for example.

00:33:04.000 Tucker Carlson did a brilliant expose of AT ⁇ T.

00:33:07.000 The biggest companies, by the way, are fighting for H-1B visas, which basically allow American companies to depress wages to fire existing American workers.

00:33:17.000 They time and time again say that, well, we can't find American workers to do these jobs.

00:33:21.000 What they're really saying is we don't want to pay American workers to do these jobs.

00:33:25.000 AT ⁇ T, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, did what they call re-badging.

00:33:30.000 They re-badged 8,000 jobs where they made 8,000 Americans train their replacements halfway around the world in Hyderabad, India, and offshore all of their talent.

00:33:43.000 So these American companies have had a choice to represent their workforce, represent our country, and instead they would much rather give these jobs, give the work and the middle class income halfway around the world.

00:33:57.000 And as I mentioned in this article, which is stunning, 2.9 million jobs have been offshored and over 2.4 million new people overseas have been hired.

00:34:08.000 As overseas outsourcing has really expanded and ballooned, U.S. manufacturing has suffered the brunt of the blow.

00:34:15.000 This is a from, this again, this is from Americaprogress.org, and I double-checked all these statistics.

00:34:20.000 It's just true.

00:34:21.000 Facts or facts and how you use them is up to you.

00:34:23.000 Manufacturing plants have declined sharply in the last decade, shrinking by more than 51,000 plants, 51,000 plants that have just closed.

00:34:33.000 51,000 averaging, let's say, 200 people per plant.

00:34:37.000 That's the entire middle part of our country.

00:34:40.000 So Malibu and Manhattan can get abundantly wealthier.

00:34:44.000 Jeff Bezos is now worth $168 billion.

00:34:49.000 In fact, if you type in Jeff Bezos' net worth, you'll get five different answers.

00:34:52.000 One says $193 billion.

00:34:54.000 One here says $162 billion.

00:34:57.000 Conservatively, he's making about $321 million a day.

00:35:02.000 $321 million a day.

00:35:04.000 We've spoke at length here on the Charlie Kirk show, what happens when the middle class in our country no longer feels invested or has faith in the direction of our country.

00:35:14.000 If Jeff Bezos earned all $193 billion, then so be it.

00:35:19.000 However, Amazon's position in the market is more corporatist than capitalists.

00:35:25.000 They don't pay federal income taxes, yet you do.

00:35:27.000 No, they pay other taxes.

00:35:28.000 They pay payroll tax.

00:35:29.000 They pay property tax.

00:35:30.000 It's not their tax-free all the way up and down their operation.

00:35:34.000 However, for a singular individual like Jeff Bezos to be worth $193 billion, while consumer-held individual middle-class debt in this country has now surpassed $14 trillion, that's right, $14 trillion.

00:35:48.000 We have 30 million people out of work.

00:35:51.000 And according to a recent study done by Pew Research, quote, a majority of young adults in the United States live with their parents for the first time since the Great Depression.

00:36:01.000 I'm reading from the article here, quote, the coronavirus, the Chinese coronavirus outbreak, has pushed millions of Americans, especially young adults, to move in with family members.

00:36:10.000 The share of 18 to 29-year-olds living with their parents have become a majority since the U.S. Chinese coronavirus cases have begun spreading earlier this year, surpassing the previous peak during the Great Depression era.

00:36:20.000 Also, we mentioned this before on the Charlie Kirk show.

00:36:23.000 We're one of the only podcasts to actually mention this because it's actually interesting.

00:36:26.000 The corporate media will not mention it.

00:36:28.000 And unfortunately, there's so much political noise happening right now that it has just gotten glossed over.

00:36:34.000 According to the Brookings Institution, reinforced by Bloomberg.com that said this data is correct, we are on the verge of a population collapse.

00:36:43.000 Our country is about to have 500,000 less children next year than this year.

00:36:48.000 This is the greatest population collapse in American history. 0.92

00:36:52.000 Again, half a million fewer children, the coming COVID baby bust. 0.93

00:36:55.000 Now, some of you might think, well, more people locked up at home.

00:36:58.000 That means that the birth rate is going to go up.

00:37:00.000 That's not what it means.

00:37:01.000 Because of access to, let's just say, sophisticated technology, I'll keep it PG.

00:37:05.000 Couples can now decide if they want children or don't want children.

00:37:08.000 And most couples are saying they don't.

00:37:10.000 It's too expensive.

00:37:11.000 It's too chaotic of a world.

00:37:12.000 And having children are a value.

00:37:14.000 And most couples don't have that value after maybe having one or two kids.

00:37:18.000 Most young people are not having kids.

00:37:19.000 Most young people are not getting married because 52% of all young adults now live at home. 0.67

00:37:24.000 What we're entering into is a very dangerous landscape.

00:37:26.000 And we as conservatives should be unafraid to dive right into this discussion because I actually think we're on the right side of this issue.

00:37:33.000 I've said this once and I'll say it again.

00:37:35.000 Just because someone gets rich does not mean someone gets poor.

00:37:38.000 I've said this before and it is true.

00:37:40.000 However, when middle-income people have the belief that the system no longer benefits them if they work hard and play by the rules, and most of your young people are in an unproductive state, they're not getting married.

00:37:54.000 They're not having kids.

00:37:55.000 They do not have work.

00:37:56.000 They don't own anything.

00:37:58.000 52% of young adults live at home for the first time since the Great Depression.

00:38:02.000 And yet the Dow hits record numbers.

00:38:04.000 Companies are worth more than ever before.

00:38:06.000 And Jeff Bezos is now worth $190 billion or $160 billion, whatever number you use.

00:38:13.000 And Bill Gates is worth $115 billion.

00:38:16.000 Slow yourself down and ask yourself the question, how is this going to get better the more power we give these massive corporations?

00:38:22.000 And you ask yourself, why are these young people marching in the streets? 0.96

00:38:25.000 Of course, some of it is the garbage that they learn in the university system. 0.98

00:38:29.000 We talk about that quite often. 0.94

00:38:30.000 But it's also because these corporations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

00:38:35.000 These corporations are not our friends.

00:38:37.000 As I said earlier, Mitt Romney said, corporations are people.

00:38:40.000 Don't you understand?

00:38:41.000 Corporations are people, my friend, is the exact quote.

00:38:44.000 Well, if corporations are people, then these people are making bad choices.

00:38:47.000 In fact, these people are now opposing Western values and our country.

00:38:52.000 So now two things will happen because of this.

00:38:54.000 Now, you're going to see people only purchase based on political ideology.

00:38:58.000 You are going to see other companies rise up in competition.

00:39:00.000 And I actually think that these companies that are engaging in this woke politics that are trying to find some sort of woke privilege, I actually think they're going to be punished financially.

00:39:09.000 They're going to be punished in the marketplace because of it.

00:39:11.000 I don't actually think they're going to benefit the more that they pander into this racial politics, anti-American ideas.

00:39:19.000 I actually think they're going to lose market share eventually because of it.

00:39:22.000 With that being said, I think that we as conservatives do not think analytically enough in that space.

00:39:27.000 I don't.

00:39:29.000 I actually don't think that we, as conservative purchasers or consumers, are harsh enough on these companies.

00:39:37.000 You see, we have been conditioned through a lot of think tanks that have been very generously funded by Corporate America to believe all corporations are good.

00:39:44.000 And again, I do not actually come from the default position that corporations are bad.

00:39:48.000 You actually have to earn the label of being bad in my eyes.

00:39:53.000 You have to earn the label of being deceitful or being dangerous to a free society.

00:39:59.000 And these companies have.

00:40:02.000 Every single one of these companies that I've mentioned, I've listed that are funding BLM Incorporated, and they're using your hard-earned dollars in Middle America to then convert it to offshore work, keep wages down, make employees retrain their counterparts halfway around the globe while they get fired and terminated with no bonuses and no severance packages while simultaneously funding the riots and the arson of our country.

00:40:28.000 So then, of course, your church can then burn down, then Bibles can be burnt down on the streets of Portland and Seattle.

00:40:34.000 Those corporations deserve no defense from conservatives.

00:40:38.000 So what do we do about it?

00:40:39.000 Number one, we need a new generation of entrepreneurs.

00:40:43.000 If you're a young person that has an idea, go act on that idea instead of maybe going to college.

00:40:48.000 There's a great article in the Wall Street Journal that says rising education levels provide diminishing economic boost.

00:40:54.000 If you are still going to college and you are tens of thousands of dollars into debt, unfortunately, you are going to be tied to that massive debt burden and you are going to have a far less likelihood of finding a job because you have been sold a swong song.

00:41:08.000 You've been sold a false narrative that college is going to benefit you financially and materially.

00:41:13.000 And for some people, it does.

00:41:14.000 Most people, it does not.

00:41:16.000 One of the major reasons why these corporations have been able to have such massive power over young people is because young college graduates need these jobs so desperately because they've amassed such significant financial debt.

00:41:28.000 So if you have an idea for a business, go start that business.

00:41:31.000 We need more entrepreneurs.

00:41:32.000 Number two, we need to be unafraid to be harshly critical when certain companies get too big.

00:41:39.000 Apple is worth $2 trillion.

00:41:41.000 Is Apple going to close down all their manufacturing in China anytime soon?

00:41:44.000 And if not, why?

00:41:46.000 I get push notifications from Apple News quite often pushing propaganda from CNN and from New York Times and the Washington Post.

00:41:55.000 Why is that?

00:41:56.000 Who's in charge at Apple News?

00:41:57.000 Who's in charge at Apple?

00:41:59.000 Who runs the App Store?

00:42:00.000 These are questions we should be unafraid of asking.

00:42:03.000 When a company is worth $2 trillion, they are more powerful than most countries on the planet.

00:42:07.000 And they should be held to a very hard account.

00:42:10.000 And that does not mean that the four tech CEOs just zooming into Congress asking very easy vanilla, sometimes pre-scripted questions fed to them by lobbyists.

00:42:19.000 That is nowhere near the type of criticism I'm talking about.

00:42:22.000 The third thing is we have to be very critical of these shutdown measures.

00:42:27.000 Understand every single one of these trends, we have made corporate America stronger than ever before.

00:42:31.000 And by the way, I am not calling for the same sort of criticism that the left puts forth in corporate America.

00:42:36.000 They think all corporations are bad.

00:42:37.000 I'm not saying that.

00:42:39.000 But I'm not saying all corporations are good either.

00:42:41.000 See, the left has shown how morally bankrupt they really are.

00:42:45.000 For years, the left said corporations are bad, wealth accumulation is awful until the corporations did something very tricky, very sneaky.

00:42:54.000 They were tired of the criticism, so they just purchased the activist class.

00:42:58.000 They were tired of being picketed, tired of being boycotted, tired of being shouted out and screamed at.

00:43:04.000 And the extortionists won.

00:43:06.000 They said, okay, BLM Incorporated, how much do you need?

00:43:08.000 And they said, how about $1 million from you, $2 million from you, $300 million from you, a billion from you?

00:43:14.000 And they said, we'll be back when we need more.

00:43:16.000 For these companies, it's a rounding error.

00:43:18.000 To not have the sort of relentless push from the activist class is extraordinary.

00:43:26.000 To not have that relentless push from this insurgent activist community has been a sigh of relief for most of these CEOs because we as conservatives just do not do that.

00:43:39.000 The left used to criticize corporate America.

00:43:42.000 Now they collude and have taken them all over.

00:43:46.000 And understand, monopolies hate markets.

00:43:49.000 When Amazon has gotten as big as they have and Google now controls 92% of all search results, they don't want competition.

00:43:58.000 Find any left-wing cause that you think is ruining America.

00:44:02.000 Planned Parenthood, gun confiscation groups, critical race theory, BLM Incorporated.

00:44:08.000 Then go check the donor list.

00:44:10.000 I guarantee you the biggest companies in our country are sending them seven-figure, multi-million dollar wire transfers.

00:44:18.000 Liberals have now been paid off by corporate America, more so than any other time that I've been doing this and writing and thinking.

00:44:27.000 I'm very worried about what comes next.

00:44:30.000 Because if you think the restlessness is going to subside just because an election is over, I think you're wrong.

00:44:38.000 I think you're missing the bigger point here.

00:44:40.000 When you have a generation of young people that does not own anything, they have certificates or diplomas that taught them nothing except resentment, bitterness, and arrogance and deceitfulness.

00:44:52.000 Meanwhile, corporate America is getting richer than ever before.

00:44:55.000 When a socialist who comes along who's rather charismatic and blames other people, that person has a great deal of resonance to that generation.

00:45:05.000 And this is happening in real time.

00:45:07.000 We as Republicans, as conservatives and Trump supporters, we now represent the middle class.

00:45:13.000 The Democrats used to say they did.

00:45:15.000 Now they understand it's just much easier to represent the corporate class.

00:45:18.000 And there's a massive corporate marriage with China.

00:45:22.000 Over 100 Texas A ⁇ M professors have been found to have undisclosed relationships with China, all on Chinese payroll, which is illegal, by the way.

00:45:33.000 Former senators, such as Mark Kirk, who used to be an Illinois senator that I used to work for, I'm ashamed to say that, works for a Chinese-U.S. exchange relationship.

00:45:44.000 A lot of this, by the way, has been covered by the great Tucker Carlson.

00:45:47.000 Joe Lieberman, who's on television a lot and says some things that are true and correct, he lobbies for ZTE.

00:45:54.000 And I've said this before, it should be illegal for former members of Congress to lobby for any company at all.

00:45:59.000 Go find another job.

00:46:00.000 Go be like the rest of us.

00:46:02.000 If you served in Congress or on a congressional staff, it should be illegal, punishable up to life in prison if you go lobby.

00:46:08.000 It's that simple.

00:46:09.000 We as Republicans have to get on the right side of the campaign finance issue because that's really at the root of all this.

00:46:14.000 We as conservatives should never be corporatists.

00:46:18.000 We should be capitalists.

00:46:20.000 We should love a free enterprise system, competition.

00:46:23.000 That is vanishing and disappearing very quickly in our country.

00:46:27.000 American entrepreneurship is vanishing.

00:46:31.000 And it's vanishing quicker than anyone can realize.

00:46:35.000 According to many recent studies, the rate of startup creation has been decreasing for years.

00:46:41.000 And because of the shutdown, it basically is gone.

00:46:45.000 Entrepreneurship was already in decline prior to the shutdown.

00:46:50.000 Now it might just be something of a past life.

00:46:55.000 It's more than a startup slump.

00:46:58.000 It is now a startup crisis in our country.

00:47:01.000 And so we as conservatives, we value new ideas.

00:47:05.000 We love marketplaces.

00:47:06.000 We love competition. 0.89

00:47:08.000 And a permanent corporate class that serves the interests of the wealthy elite and continue to push down the same sort of products that are made in China towards us is a new form of permanent corporate tyranny. 0.84

00:47:21.000 Now, again, these companies are not bad because they are private corporations.

00:47:25.000 They're bad because they're both big.

00:47:28.000 They're abusing their power.

00:47:29.000 They depress wages.

00:47:31.000 They argue for open borders and lobby for them.

00:47:34.000 They do not even represent remotely close to a pro-Western stance on the issues.

00:47:40.000 If we are serious about addressing these questions, we as conservatives should be bold enough to engage in the conversation of corporatism taking over America.

00:47:50.000 And there are plenty of people that listen to this podcast, and I hope you guys email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, your thoughts on this.

00:47:56.000 That'll say, well, Charlie, I thought that you're a free market capitalist.

00:47:59.000 I'm worried about this because I'm a free market capitalist.

00:48:02.000 Because I actually don't think monopolies that are permanently entrenched, that use the tax code to their advantage, that use public policy to protect their incumbency, that use political favors to grant them insider deals and government contracts, I don't think we should be celebrating that, such as Amazon does and so many of these massive companies.

00:48:20.000 And even more than that, even if these companies were not doing that and they were very, very big, if they're funding BLM Incorporated and they are offshoring jobs at the rate that they are in the midst of a pandemic, I'm in no position morally to defend them, and I won't.

00:48:39.000 It really is corporations versus America.

00:48:42.000 It's Hollywood versus America.

00:48:44.000 It's NBA versus America.

00:48:45.000 It's Major League Baseball versus America. 0.95

00:48:47.000 It's now Christian Inc. versus America. 0.83

00:48:51.000 It is corporations versus America. 0.80

00:48:54.000 It's universities versus America.

00:48:55.000 It is the Democrats versus America.

00:48:58.000 All these pieces together, actually left to their own devices, would not get along very well.

00:49:04.000 One of the reasons why, as to why all these different parts and these components are playing nicely, almost in a machine, is because of their agreement of how much they hate Donald Trump, of how they hate the president.

00:49:17.000 And because of that, they have used that commonality and that agreement to play nice.

00:49:23.000 There's actually a political opportunity for conservatives out there.

00:49:26.000 Bernie Sanders built his entire political coalition criticizing and critiquing corporate America because he was criticizing corporate America.

00:49:37.000 And I think unfairly at times, just saying they're nothing but bad because they exist in the private marketplace as a Democrat socialist, which is not my complaint at all whatsoever.

00:49:49.000 I agree at parts, I agree at times they should not offshore jobs.

00:49:53.000 We've been through that, depress wages, pander to China.

00:49:57.000 But just because a company does find levels of success or wealth, it is not therefore immoral.

00:50:03.000 I do not hold that view.

00:50:05.000 In fact, I think that in order to find that sort of success level, you had to persuade people to buy your products.

00:50:11.000 Generally, I think they should be rewarded for that and incentivized to do more of that.

00:50:15.000 I think competition is a good thing.

00:50:17.000 I just think it's really troubling.

00:50:18.000 That's not what's happening.

00:50:20.000 But the general corporate critique is a place that we as conservatives can find at least a starting basis point with those of which on the left or in the Democrat community are not in the Biden corporate wing of the Democrat Party.

00:50:38.000 If you have a Bernie Sanders supporter in your life, send them this podcast.

00:50:43.000 They might actually agree with parts of it.

00:50:46.000 Their solution, actually, their prescription would be probably to nationalize more things and make it more inefficient and turn it more into a bureaucracy.

00:50:53.000 My policy prescription would be we need more competition, more private property rights, more entrepreneurs, more ideas, more creativity, and a broader, more robust marketplace.

00:51:04.000 Capitalist prescription or a socialist prescription.

00:51:06.000 But we both can agree that the current corporate class is trending in a direction where we will have a government within our own country that is not the U.S. government, and it will be a corporate government.

00:51:22.000 And that corporate government will be unelected, be ungoverned, and have unlimited control over our life, medically, data-wise, consumer-wise, and employment-wise.

00:51:34.000 If a company is funding BLM Incorporated, I do not trust them in any sort of facet to make moral decisions for their workers or for our country.

00:51:44.000 It's corporations versus America. 0.56

00:51:47.000 If we as conservatives get on the right side of this issue, we will win every single election in a landslide.

00:51:53.000 We get on the wrong side of this issue.

00:51:56.000 If the Democrats get on the right side of money and politics and corporate power, conservatives and Republicans will be a minority party for generations to come.

00:52:05.000 We as conservatives should not reflexively worship companies.

00:52:10.000 We should not dogmatically protect entrenched corporate interests just because they exist.

00:52:17.000 If a corporation does not display courage against critical race theory, they should be criticized.

00:52:23.000 If a corporation sends jobs to India, China, or Vietnam, they should be criticized.

00:52:28.000 If a corporation partners at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for pro-China policy or open borders, they should be criticized.

00:52:37.000 This is a massive opportunity for those of us conservatives that care about winning and care about what's best for our country.

00:52:44.000 If this goes unaddressed, the 30 million people out of work and the 52% of young people at home and the $14 trillion of consumer debt, all of that will combine as introductory ingredients into a socialist hurricane that none of us are comfortable living through.

00:53:02.000 If we act as if this does not exist and just say, oh, that's the market.

00:53:05.000 It'll play itself out.

00:53:06.000 That is not the market.

00:53:07.000 It won't play itself out.

00:53:09.000 It will turn into entrenched monopolies and the socialist demagogues will win the argument and we will wonder what went wrong.

00:53:16.000 I challenge you to think creatively on this issue.

00:53:18.000 We need to dive deeper and challenge maybe some of the presuppositions and some of the premises that we had in prior political discourses and discussions.

00:53:28.000 I love liberty.

00:53:30.000 I love free markets.

00:53:31.000 That's why I am concerned about the current paradigm of corporations versus America.

00:53:37.000 And we should be bold enough and courageous enough to engage on this issue.

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00:54:25.000 Super interested to hear where you guys are on this issue because I think it's a growing issue and something that we as conservatives should be unafraid to address.

00:54:33.000 Thank you guys so much for listening.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - September 08, 2020

Corporations Vs. America

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