00:01:08.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:24.000I got my start reading the brilliant texts from Milton Friedman at Adam Smith.
00:01:30.000And 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.
00:01:41.000I 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.
00:01:56.000However, markets should always serve people.
00:03:00.000So number one, so number one, you can raise taxes.
00:03:03.000Now, mind you, this used to be the idea of a multi-week story and scandal.
00:03:07.000It just kind of goes to show how politics have changed so much.
00:03:11.000This used to be something that would consume the entire news cycle for weeks on end.
00:03:16.000I vividly remember defending Mitt Romney and his statement.
00:03:21.000I 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.
00:03:32.000Now, the defense I remember articulating was, of course, true, but it was somewhat politically silly, to be honest with you.
00:03:39.000Looking 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.
00:03:50.000Mitt Romney, of course, lost in a rather decisive fashion.
00:03:54.000But his pro-corporate stance on basically every single issue was basically unchallenged and held by every single Republican in office.
00:04:03.000That is, until a billionaire from New York came down the golden escalator and jolted the entire American political system.
00:04:14.000You guys know all these mantras that President Donald Trump mentioned time and time again.
00:04:20.000Trump disrupted the entire conversation, the whole landscape, and with it, the corporate apologist position of the party.
00:04:29.000Now, 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.
00:04:41.000Gradually then suddenly, it is more and more clear that the biggest companies in America and the world fund the most destructive elements of society.
00:04:50.000And 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.
00:05:06.000This 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.
00:05:21.000When you are cheering for a certain team, you're always going to be asking the referee to be favoring you.
00:05:28.000Even 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.
00:05:37.000There's team right and team left, and on these teams are different coalitions.
00:05:41.000On 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.
00:05:54.000For 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.
00:06:03.000Team left is primarily composed of pro-abortion, anti-gun, anti-freedom, Medicare for all socialist types.
00:06:11.000Now, some of them might disagree on certain topics or issues, but they all find commonality under team left.
00:06:19.000Traditionally, corporations were on team right.
00:06:25.000But what if I told you that these companies don't even believe in capitalism?
00:06:31.000That might sound performatively contradictive, but it is true.
00:06:35.000These companies do not believe in a fair price system, competition, value exchange trade, or a restless entrepreneurial underbelly or activity.
00:06:46.000These mega companies are not capitalist.
00:07:13.000Due to the lockdown measures and the shutdowns, there are 100,000 less small businesses today than there were back in March.
00:07:21.000And if the shutdowns continue in 60 days, there will be another 100,000 small businesses that will go bankrupt.
00:07:27.000Corporate America is very happy when these stay-at-home orders are issued.
00:07:31.000For them, these are potential customers.
00:07:34.000People 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.
00:07:43.000For corporate America, the shutdowns have been massive business opportunities.
00:07:48.000Amazon is worth more than ever before.
00:07:51.000While middle-class families collapse under these lockdown orders and rising levels of debt, the trillion-dollar corporations are making out like bandits.
00:08:10.000However, these companies pose a threat because of their size, coupled with their commitment to funding racial politics and also depressing the American middle class.
00:08:20.000Never 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.
00:08:34.000Never 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.
00:08:46.000This has never happened before, going back even to Teddy Roosevelt's time, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, the titans of industry.
00:08:59.000They were funding charities and initiatives that benefited our country, universities, mental health clinics.
00:09:08.000They were giving back voluntarily to try and believe in a strong America.
00:09:12.000Now the elites of our country are doing the exact opposite.
00:09:17.000This is a hard thing for conservatives to talk about.
00:09:21.000But 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.
00:09:38.000I want to talk about internet freedom.
00:09:40.000Social media companies get to decide what content is suitable for the sensitive snowflakes among us and censor whatever they don't like.
00:09:48.000Shouldn't you be the one to decide what you want to read or watch, not them?
00:09:53.000Well, there's one thing you can control, their access to your data.
00:11:11.000Ford Motor Company also did not take any government bailout money despite Chrysler and General Motors taking federal bailout money.
00:11:19.000But here are five things that if you see a corporation is doing they fit this criteria.
00:11:25.000Number one, they support the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or vice versa.
00:11:31.000Now, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for a very long time has been posing as the front-facing voice of American business.
00:11:39.000Nothing could be further from the truth.
00:11:41.000It should be the U.S. Chamber of Crony Capitalism or the U.S. Chamber of Crony Corporatist Chinese Interests.
00:11:48.000The U.S. Chamber represents the biggest companies in our country.
00:11:51.000They do not represent the small businessman, the entrepreneur, the disruptor, the dreamer, or the creator.
00:11:57.000Look no further than the immigration portion of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce website.
00:12:02.000It says very clearly that we should protect dreamers, TPS recipients, and employment-authorized H4-dependent spouses.
00:12:08.000Basically, the U.S. Chamber's position is we need more low-wage workers to bring down the wages of middle-class Americans.
00:12:15.000If 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.
00:12:30.000On 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.
00:12:39.000The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the special interest advocacy arm of the big business in our country.
00:12:44.000Now, I was very pleased to see Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader, say he does not want the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's endorsement.
00:13:00.000That is a very hard stance for a Republican leader to take.
00:13:03.000Every Republican in the country should reject the U.S. Chamber of Commerce completely.
00:13:08.000I 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.
00:13:15.000New tariffs on steel, aluminum, and Chinese imports, as well as the potential for other tariffs, are spark a global trade war.
00:13:24.000Of 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.
00:13:31.000Does not matter that we have garage sales where we try to have people take garbage out of our homes.
00:13:39.000For them, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on U.S.Chamber.com, they want unlimited amount of trade that benefits China.
00:13:46.000For them, a strong China is a strong world.
00:13:49.000The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is bought wholeheartedly by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:13:56.000Here they talk about access and affordability.
00:13:58.000I 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.
00:14:12.000You go to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce website and then you go to other issues that actually matter.
00:14:17.000They have an entire slide on climate change and the environment, not about protecting American workers, coal workers, frackers, or actually protecting U.S. interests.
00:14:27.000Instead, they care about nice buzz issues, climate change, and the environment.
00:14:38.000And yes, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
00:14:41.000The 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.
00:14:52.000We as conservatives should reject this wholeheartedly.
00:14:56.000There is nothing free market about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
00:14:58.000They 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.
00:15:43.000Number 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.
00:15:54.000When 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.
00:16:15.000These are companies that I have not bought anything from in years.
00:16:18.000Brooks 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.
00:16:48.000269 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.
00:19:39.000PopTarts, 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,
00:19:54.000Sega, 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,
00:20:09.000Taco 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.
00:20:37.000Those are the 269 companies that have all pledged over $1.6 billion to BLM Incorporated and Antifa.
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00:22:25.000The 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.
00:22:41.000Are you currently buying products for something made in China?
00:22:56.000If 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.
00:23:09.000This is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor against our country.
00:23:14.000The cover-up in the economic casualty has been a crisis the likes of which we have not seen in our lifetime.
00:23:22.000So the question should be, if a company you know is still doing business in China, they love their profits more than they love America.
00:23:28.000Remember, I'm a capitalist because I believe it serves the best interest of America.
00:23:33.000We are a country that has an economy in it.
00:23:35.000We are not an economy that happens to be placed in a country.
00:23:38.000Number 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.
00:24:00.000So I'm a capitalist and it thinks this is wrong.
00:24:05.000Piles 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.
00:24:19.000And 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.
00:24:31.000I'm actually reading some of this from the Center for American Progress.
00:24:34.000It's actually a very fairly written article.
00:24:35.000It has the citations I was looking for, probably because it reinforced a pro-domestic union agenda.
00:24:41.000However, facts are facts, and I'm happy to use them.
00:24:44.000I can't believe I'm actually citing something from AmericanProgress.org.
00:24:48.000That kind of just goes to show how the political continuum has been completely changed, thanks to President Trump.
00:24:54.000We're going to get to that in just a second.
00:24:55.000The fifth is if a company does not pay their workers well.
00:24:59.000We have seen middle-class wages finally start to go up under President Donald Trump.
00:25:03.000But 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.
00:25:22.000So let's zero in on how some of these corporations have pandered and partnered with some of the most dangerous forces in our country.
00:25:57.000Amazon 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.
00:26:07.000Amazon 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.
00:26:15.000Recipients, 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.
00:26:30.000Gatorade gave a $500,000 gift to BLM Global Network Foundation.
00:26:35.000Microsoft announced on June 5th that it would donate $250,000 to the BLM Foundation, BLM Incorporated.
00:26:42.000How 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.
00:26:55.00023andMe, 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.
00:27:06.000Airbnb, $500,000 to BLM Matters Foundation and the NAACP.
00:27:12.000Nabisco, $500,000 to BLM Global Network Foundation.
00:27:45.000The Walton family donated more to Hillary Clinton than to Republicans back in 2016.
00:27:49.000Target 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.
00:28:00.000Levi's is donating $200,000 to the BLM Incorporated Movement, $100,000 to ACLU, and $100,000 in grants to Live Free USA.
00:28:09.000GAP brands, Athleta, Old Navy, and Gap, $250,000 to NAACP and Embrace Race.
00:28:16.000Athletic where Lululemon originally announced $100,000 to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.
00:28:22.000Minnesota Freedom Fund, of course, bailed out the terrorists and the thugs that were burning down downtown Minneapolis.
00:28:27.000I'm sorry to say every time I buy Lululemon, I now know better.
00:28:31.000So we'll no longer buy from Lululemon, which unfortunately is now funding the bail for terrorists.
00:28:40.000Lululemon also brandated $250,000 to local Minneapolis organizations of NAACP and BLM Incorporated.
00:28:47.000Nike promised to donate $40 million, $40 million to social justice organizations that support BLM Incorporated.
00:28:55.000McDonald's, fast food giant McDonald's, is committing $1 million to NAACP and the National Urban League.
00:29:01.000Wendy'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.
00:29:10.000Coca-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.
00:29:25.000Peloton announced a $500,000 donation to NAACP Legal Defense Fund and BLM Incorporated.
00:29:31.000Facebook pledged $10 million to organizations campaigning for racial justice.
00:29:36.000And Bank of America, $1 billion to BLM Incorporated.
00:29:39.000PepsiCo, $400 million to BLM Incorporated.
00:29:43.000Apple, $100 million to BLM Incorporated.
00:29:46.000And Comcast, $100 million to BLM Incorporated.
00:29:49.000All 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.
00:29:58.000So if you're wondering who's funding these protests, who's funding this riots and this arson?
00:30:03.000Well, it's very clear who's funding it.
00:30:05.000When 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.
00:30:15.000And 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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00:31:49.000The 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.
00:32:05.000I 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.
00:32:17.000The critical race theory swarm of ideologues have now changed their strategy.
00:32:22.000Instead of fighting corporate power, they have infiltrated the top levels of business and remade them in their image.
00:32:30.000The largest, most valuable companies are now at will funding mechanisms, like an ATM, whenever they want it, for BLM Incorporated.
00:32:39.000Now, this would be bad enough, that list that I just mentioned.
00:32:42.000Now 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.
00:33:04.000Tucker Carlson did a brilliant expose of AT ⁇ T.
00:33:07.000The biggest companies, by the way, are fighting for H-1B visas, which basically allow American companies to depress wages to fire existing American workers.
00:33:17.000They time and time again say that, well, we can't find American workers to do these jobs.
00:33:21.000What they're really saying is we don't want to pay American workers to do these jobs.
00:33:25.000AT ⁇ T, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, did what they call re-badging.
00:33:30.000They 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.
00:33:43.000So 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.
00:33:57.000And 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.
00:34:08.000As overseas outsourcing has really expanded and ballooned, U.S. manufacturing has suffered the brunt of the blow.
00:34:15.000This is a from, this again, this is from Americaprogress.org, and I double-checked all these statistics.
00:35:04.000We'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.
00:35:14.000If Jeff Bezos earned all $193 billion, then so be it.
00:35:19.000However, Amazon's position in the market is more corporatist than capitalists.
00:35:25.000They don't pay federal income taxes, yet you do.
00:35:30.000It's not their tax-free all the way up and down their operation.
00:35:34.000However, 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.
00:35:48.000We have 30 million people out of work.
00:35:51.000And 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.
00:36:01.000I'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.
00:36:10.000The 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.
00:36:20.000Also, we mentioned this before on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:36:23.000We're one of the only podcasts to actually mention this because it's actually interesting.
00:36:26.000The corporate media will not mention it.
00:36:28.000And unfortunately, there's so much political noise happening right now that it has just gotten glossed over.
00:36:34.000According to the Brookings Institution, reinforced by Bloomberg.com that said this data is correct, we are on the verge of a population collapse.
00:36:43.000Our country is about to have 500,000 less children next year than this year.
00:36:48.000This is the greatest population collapse in American history.
00:36:52.000Again, half a million fewer children, the coming COVID baby bust.
00:36:55.000Now, some of you might think, well, more people locked up at home.
00:36:58.000That means that the birth rate is going to go up.
00:37:14.000And most couples don't have that value after maybe having one or two kids.
00:37:18.000Most young people are not having kids.
00:37:19.000Most young people are not getting married because 52% of all young adults now live at home.
00:37:24.000What we're entering into is a very dangerous landscape.
00:37:26.000And 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.
00:37:33.000I've said this once and I'll say it again.
00:37:35.000Just because someone gets rich does not mean someone gets poor.
00:37:40.000However, 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.
00:38:41.000Corporations are people, my friend, is the exact quote.
00:38:44.000Well, if corporations are people, then these people are making bad choices.
00:38:47.000In fact, these people are now opposing Western values and our country.
00:38:52.000So now two things will happen because of this.
00:38:54.000Now, you're going to see people only purchase based on political ideology.
00:38:58.000You are going to see other companies rise up in competition.
00:39:00.000And 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.
00:39:09.000They're going to be punished in the marketplace because of it.
00:39:11.000I don't actually think they're going to benefit the more that they pander into this racial politics, anti-American ideas.
00:39:19.000I actually think they're going to lose market share eventually because of it.
00:39:22.000With that being said, I think that we as conservatives do not think analytically enough in that space.
00:39:29.000I actually don't think that we, as conservative purchasers or consumers, are harsh enough on these companies.
00:39:37.000You 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.
00:39:44.000And again, I do not actually come from the default position that corporations are bad.
00:39:48.000You actually have to earn the label of being bad in my eyes.
00:39:53.000You have to earn the label of being deceitful or being dangerous to a free society.
00:40:02.000Every 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.
00:40:28.000So then, of course, your church can then burn down, then Bibles can be burnt down on the streets of Portland and Seattle.
00:40:34.000Those corporations deserve no defense from conservatives.
00:40:39.000Number one, we need a new generation of entrepreneurs.
00:40:43.000If you're a young person that has an idea, go act on that idea instead of maybe going to college.
00:40:48.000There's a great article in the Wall Street Journal that says rising education levels provide diminishing economic boost.
00:40:54.000If 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.
00:41:08.000You've been sold a false narrative that college is going to benefit you financially and materially.
00:41:16.000One 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.
00:41:28.000So if you have an idea for a business, go start that business.
00:42:00.000These are questions we should be unafraid of asking.
00:42:03.000When a company is worth $2 trillion, they are more powerful than most countries on the planet.
00:42:07.000And they should be held to a very hard account.
00:42:10.000And 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.
00:42:19.000That is nowhere near the type of criticism I'm talking about.
00:42:22.000The third thing is we have to be very critical of these shutdown measures.
00:42:27.000Understand every single one of these trends, we have made corporate America stronger than ever before.
00:42:31.000And by the way, I am not calling for the same sort of criticism that the left puts forth in corporate America.
00:43:06.000They said, okay, BLM Incorporated, how much do you need?
00:43:08.000And they said, how about $1 million from you, $2 million from you, $300 million from you, a billion from you?
00:43:14.000And they said, we'll be back when we need more.
00:43:16.000For these companies, it's a rounding error.
00:43:18.000To not have the sort of relentless push from the activist class is extraordinary.
00:43:26.000To 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.
00:43:39.000The left used to criticize corporate America.
00:43:42.000Now they collude and have taken them all over.
00:43:46.000And understand, monopolies hate markets.
00:43:49.000When Amazon has gotten as big as they have and Google now controls 92% of all search results, they don't want competition.
00:43:58.000Find any left-wing cause that you think is ruining America.
00:44:10.000I guarantee you the biggest companies in our country are sending them seven-figure, multi-million dollar wire transfers.
00:44:18.000Liberals have now been paid off by corporate America, more so than any other time that I've been doing this and writing and thinking.
00:44:27.000I'm very worried about what comes next.
00:44:30.000Because if you think the restlessness is going to subside just because an election is over, I think you're wrong.
00:44:38.000I think you're missing the bigger point here.
00:44:40.000When 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.
00:44:52.000Meanwhile, corporate America is getting richer than ever before.
00:44:55.000When a socialist who comes along who's rather charismatic and blames other people, that person has a great deal of resonance to that generation.
00:45:15.000Now they understand it's just much easier to represent the corporate class.
00:45:18.000And there's a massive corporate marriage with China.
00:45:22.000Over 100 Texas A ⁇ M professors have been found to have undisclosed relationships with China, all on Chinese payroll, which is illegal, by the way.
00:45:33.000Former 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.
00:45:44.000A lot of this, by the way, has been covered by the great Tucker Carlson.
00:45:47.000Joe Lieberman, who's on television a lot and says some things that are true and correct, he lobbies for ZTE.
00:45:54.000And I've said this before, it should be illegal for former members of Congress to lobby for any company at all.
00:47:08.000And 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.
00:47:21.000Now, again, these companies are not bad because they are private corporations.
00:47:31.000They argue for open borders and lobby for them.
00:47:34.000They do not even represent remotely close to a pro-Western stance on the issues.
00:47:40.000If we are serious about addressing these questions, we as conservatives should be bold enough to engage in the conversation of corporatism taking over America.
00:47:50.000And 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.
00:47:56.000That'll say, well, Charlie, I thought that you're a free market capitalist.
00:47:59.000I'm worried about this because I'm a free market capitalist.
00:48:02.000Because 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.
00:48:20.000And 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.
00:48:39.000It really is corporations versus America.
00:48:58.000All these pieces together, actually left to their own devices, would not get along very well.
00:49:04.000One 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.
00:49:17.000And because of that, they have used that commonality and that agreement to play nice.
00:49:23.000There's actually a political opportunity for conservatives out there.
00:49:26.000Bernie Sanders built his entire political coalition criticizing and critiquing corporate America because he was criticizing corporate America.
00:49:37.000And 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.
00:49:49.000I agree at parts, I agree at times they should not offshore jobs.
00:49:53.000We've been through that, depress wages, pander to China.
00:49:57.000But just because a company does find levels of success or wealth, it is not therefore immoral.
00:50:20.000But 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.
00:50:38.000If you have a Bernie Sanders supporter in your life, send them this podcast.
00:50:43.000They might actually agree with parts of it.
00:50:46.000Their solution, actually, their prescription would be probably to nationalize more things and make it more inefficient and turn it more into a bureaucracy.
00:50:53.000My policy prescription would be we need more competition, more private property rights, more entrepreneurs, more ideas, more creativity, and a broader, more robust marketplace.
00:51:04.000Capitalist prescription or a socialist prescription.
00:51:06.000But 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.
00:51:22.000And that corporate government will be unelected, be ungoverned, and have unlimited control over our life, medically, data-wise, consumer-wise, and employment-wise.
00:51:34.000If 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.
00:51:47.000If we as conservatives get on the right side of this issue, we will win every single election in a landslide.
00:51:53.000We get on the wrong side of this issue.
00:51:56.000If 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.
00:52:05.000We as conservatives should not reflexively worship companies.
00:52:10.000We should not dogmatically protect entrenched corporate interests just because they exist.
00:52:17.000If a corporation does not display courage against critical race theory, they should be criticized.
00:52:23.000If a corporation sends jobs to India, China, or Vietnam, they should be criticized.
00:52:28.000If a corporation partners at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for pro-China policy or open borders, they should be criticized.
00:52:37.000This is a massive opportunity for those of us conservatives that care about winning and care about what's best for our country.
00:52:44.000If 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.
00:53:02.000If we act as if this does not exist and just say, oh, that's the market.
00:53:09.000It will turn into entrenched monopolies and the socialist demagogues will win the argument and we will wonder what went wrong.
00:53:16.000I challenge you to think creatively on this issue.
00:53:18.000We 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.
00:53:31.000That's why I am concerned about the current paradigm of corporations versus America.
00:53:37.000And we should be bold enough and courageous enough to engage on this issue.
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00:54:25.000Super 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.