The Charlie Kirk Show - January 05, 2024


DEI and the C-Suite


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The fight over diversity and equity continues into the C-suite, with a new report from the New York Times on what's happening in the halls of power at Harvard and the University of California-Berkshire Hathaway.

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00:01:34.000 The fight over DEI continues into the C-suite.
00:01:40.000 Michael Seifert joins us from one of our favorite partners, Public Square.
00:01:44.000 Michael, welcome back to the show.
00:01:46.000 So it's publicsquare.com.
00:01:48.000 So tell us about this story here in the New York Times, fight over DEI in the C-suite.
00:01:52.000 People must understand the DEI fight is more in corporate America than ever before.
00:01:57.000 Talk about it.
00:01:58.000 Well, it was spawned, Charlie, by the resignation of Claudine Gay, the president at Harvard.
00:02:04.000 And what's really interesting about her quote-unquote resignation is that she's actually still being paid $900,000 a year for what?
00:02:11.000 I'm not sure exactly.
00:02:13.000 But what's interesting about this resignation is that New York Times is saying softly, but they're still saying it throughout this piece that this fight against DEI is actually a racist endeavor.
00:02:26.000 They believe, as Claudine has mentioned, as well as Al Sharpton and other proposed racial rights advocates, they've claimed that any opposition from Bill Ackman or Elon Musk or myself or you, Charlie, is inherently rooted in racism when the opposite is true.
00:02:43.000 I actually believe that DEI is a racist ideology.
00:02:46.000 And in this piece, Bill Ackman breaks that down.
00:02:48.000 He says that DEI at its core is actually a racist and divisive ideology that prioritizes some skin colors above other skin colors.
00:02:56.000 And it just so happens that white people over the past two decades have been at the losing end of this DEI fight.
00:03:02.000 So Bill Ackman is not asking that white people would have a leg up in employment decisions.
00:03:08.000 We're asking for actual equality.
00:03:10.000 But Charlie, you'll notice as you read this New York Times piece that came on the heels of an Axios piece, which I can discuss in a second, but this New York Times piece spoke in favor heavily of terms like equity, which is the true nemesis of actual equality.
00:03:25.000 We want to get back in our economy to a place.
00:03:28.000 And this is what Bill Ackman and Elon and myself and you are all saying.
00:03:31.000 We want to get back to our place in our economy where excellence and meritocracy are the reasons for employment decisions.
00:03:37.000 Claudine Gay did not deserve to be the president of Harvard. 1.00
00:03:40.000 She had zero credentials that would have accounted for her position from a meritocracy perspective.
00:03:46.000 And not only that, plagiarism at this institution, defended by entities like the AP or CNN, should absolutely disqualify you from higher academia in general, let alone the president of one of the most prestigious, quote unquote, entities in the country.
00:04:02.000 So this whole battle is not about one side is fighting for equity and the rights of those that are most marginalized, and the other side is fighting for white people.
00:04:14.000 That's not this.
00:04:14.000 This is racism versus common sense.
00:04:17.000 And we're on the side of common sense.
00:04:19.000 And you're an amazing tech company.
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00:04:24.000 I want to emphasize this Bloomberg story.
00:04:26.000 It didn't get the coverage that it deserved.
00:04:28.000 And by the way, it was written by Bloomberg as a celebratory story.
00:04:32.000 They wrote it and they said, oh, my goodness, this is so amazing.
00:04:35.000 And by the way, this goes to show that you'll never get to a level of pandering that they are sufficient with because the number is so unbelievable.
00:04:43.000 It says that in 2021, that specific year, that 96% or maybe 94%, whatever, 94, 96% of all new hires out of 300,000 jobs in the S ⁇ P 100 went to non-whites.
00:04:58.000 Now, they were like, this is so great.
00:05:00.000 It's so amazing.
00:05:01.000 It's so unbelievable.
00:05:02.000 How can we possibly, you know, we're celebrating this.
00:05:06.000 And wait, hold on.
00:05:07.000 You're trying to tell me that 6% of all new jobs went to white people?
00:05:12.000 That is active stereotyping and discrimination, Michael Seifert.
00:05:17.000 Well, Charlie, I'm glad you brought that up.
00:05:19.000 There was a new development in that story this morning as well.
00:05:21.000 Zero Hedge on X broke that after looking at the recent jobs numbers, it was discovered that there have been no new jobs, no new job growth for native born Americans over the last five years.
00:05:36.000 Since 2018, the scale has stayed flat for new jobs for non-immigrants.
00:05:42.000 But new job growth for illegal immigrants and migrants coming across the southern border, people that are breaking the law to enter our company has skyrocketed. 1.00
00:05:51.000 So what we're finding is that not only are companies actively discriminating against white people, they're actively discriminating against Americans favoring foreign labor.
00:06:00.000 So if you pair that sort of reality with the rhetoric out of people like Joe Biden or even Nikki Haley on the Republican side, who celebrates open borders and says we need to be compassionate toward these people coming over looking for a better life for their families, I'm sorry,
00:06:14.000 but Somalian middle-aged men coming through the southern border illegally, jumping the line of people that are waiting to do it the right way and then taking jobs while native born Americans have been completely flatlined in their ability to achieve job growth is the very opposite of what any healthy, functioning, equality-focused country would ever pursue. 0.61
00:06:37.000 No, no, that's exactly right.
00:06:38.000 And you look at the tech company, the tech jobs in particular.
00:06:42.000 And Michael, comment on this.
00:06:43.000 There's this narrative that we need to bring in foreigners. 0.87
00:06:45.000 We have to bring in foreigners for all of our tech jobs, all of our tech jobs. 1.00
00:06:48.000 And yet Americans who study in these fields now have to compete and wages go down against this kind of form of indentured servitude that exists with a lot of these tech companies.
00:06:58.000 At Public Square, you guys are America first through and through, publicsquare.com.
00:07:03.000 And what is it going to take to get our companies to prioritize American labor over foreign profits?
00:07:10.000 Well, first off, they have to see that the profit centers are shifting.
00:07:14.000 That's why a company like ours exists.
00:07:16.000 We have to shift the profit structures toward the businesses that are American owned and operated. 0.96
00:07:20.000 They're independent at their core.
00:07:21.000 They're not owned by foreign conglomerates.
00:07:24.000 And secondly, we have to rid ourselves of the institutions that were supposed to be supporting American small businesses decades ago, but have since long left that original mandate.
00:07:34.000 A good example is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
00:07:36.000 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has advocated for open borders policies that harm the very small businesses that are supposed to be employing American workers.
00:07:45.000 So it continues and promulgates this vicious cycle where business communities in the United States today are incentivized to foreign work and foreign labor coming in our shores.
00:07:56.000 And it absolutely prices native-born Americans out of the market.
00:08:01.000 The only way that shifts, we have to see our profit centers maximize toward American-owned entrepreneurship.
00:08:07.000 Businesses like Public Square, businesses like Rumble businesses that are offering alternatives to sort of the mainstream institutional America are absolutely imperative.
00:08:16.000 We have to support as well the supply chain enterprises that are based here.
00:08:21.000 They have to be given access to a great network of small businesses because we have to help people understand not only is it the right thing to do to support American labor, it is also, in the long term, the profitable thing to do.
00:08:34.000 We have to see an American Renaissance era created where the incentive structures are actually reversed back to the way that it was in the 50s and the 60s, coming out of World War II, where American labor was actually prospering before we saw our country sold out to globalists for cheap labor.
00:08:50.000 The chairman of FedEx, for example, who built FedEx as the founder, has celebrated Chinese labor for far too long.
00:08:57.000 We need that generation to no longer be in power and have a new generation of populists that arise that say, guys, we cannot sell out Main Street at the expense of simply a cheaper bottom line.
00:09:09.000 It will not work.
00:09:10.000 The only way that happens, though, Charlie, is if consumers, at the end of the day, because the consumer drives the change more than anybody else, the consumer has to put their money in different places.
00:09:19.000 We have to make our message loud and clear.
00:09:21.000 We are shifting our dollars to companies that will actually support our communities.
00:09:25.000 That's the only way we win in the long run.
00:09:26.000 It's bigger than just voting.
00:09:28.000 It has to look like voting with our dollars as well.
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00:09:46.000 They are doing their best to support their local economies.
00:09:49.000 They're doing their best.
00:09:50.000 These are over 75,000 vendors, by the way, Charlie.
00:09:52.000 They're doing their best to try to source as many of their products from our shores as they possibly can.
00:09:58.000 They're on a journey to doing that, and they deserve our support.
00:10:00.000 Not only that, these 75,000-plus vendors at publicsquare.com have all agreed with our core values.
00:10:05.000 They've been vetted in alignment with those values.
00:10:08.000 And the majority of them will actually give discounts to you when you go and shop there at publicsquare.com.
00:10:13.000 We have amazing brands that are third parties.
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00:13:36.000 I want to play this piece of tape here of Vivek Ramaswamy, someone we both know, Michael, and he's pushing back against all this narrative.
00:13:42.000 Let's play CUT 26.
00:13:44.000 I'm not going to recite some catechism for you.
00:13:46.000 I'm against vicious racial discrimination in this country.
00:13:49.000 So I'm not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism, which actually fits the test.
00:13:54.000 I'm not going to bend the knee to your religion. 0.98
00:13:56.000 I'm sorry.
00:13:56.000 I'm not asking you to bend the knee to mine, and I'm not going to bend the knee to yours.
00:13:59.000 But do I condemn vicious racial discrimination?
00:14:02.000 Yes, I do. 0.97
00:14:03.000 Am I going to play your silly game of gotcha? 0.96
00:14:05.000 No, I'm not. 0.68
00:14:06.000 And the reality is, I condemn vicious racial discrimination in this country.
00:14:10.000 But the kind of vicious and systematic racial discrimination we see today is discrimination on the basis of race in a very different direction.
00:14:17.000 So Michael, what he did there is push back against this almost mandatory kneeling that you see in corporate America.
00:14:23.000 It takes courage.
00:14:24.000 Talk about what you're trying to do at Public Square and how it's difficult to reject the tempting ESG country club.
00:14:32.000 Well, I will tell you, Charlie, that I really admire Vivek because he actually has been at this for a while.
00:14:37.000 He wrote the book, Woke Inc., as a very prophetic warning of what would happen if the economy would embrace this sort of woke, DEI, ESG-driven cesspool that's far more focused on pandering to, quote, marginalized communities rather than just providing value to your shareholders and your customers.
00:14:55.000 And anytime you're trying to push back against a real cultural behemoth, it takes a lot of perseverance and you have a lot of arrows flying your way.
00:15:01.000 We've certainly experienced them at public square.
00:15:03.000 I know you've experienced it at turning point.
00:15:05.000 But I will tell you that no great movement was ever born rid of adversity.
00:15:11.000 In fact, most great movements were birthed in a direct rebuke of whatever was culturally popular at the time.
00:15:17.000 And so while we certainly face a massive amount of challenges as a company that's trying to go against the status quo, I'm confident of two things.
00:15:26.000 Number one, I'm confident that history will look fondly upon our efforts.
00:15:29.000 And number two, I'm confident that we are actually representing what the actual American people want.
00:15:35.000 People do not want to be lectured about race and gender when they're simply trying to shop.
00:15:39.000 They do not want to be hired based upon their race.
00:15:42.000 They do not want to be discriminated against based upon their race.
00:15:46.000 And here's the reality.
00:15:47.000 There's only one side in this debate that's actually trying to help everybody.
00:15:50.000 And it's our side.
00:15:51.000 Here's an example.
00:15:53.000 If you are a black person in this country today that is hired based upon the fulfilling of a DEI quota, you will live the rest of your life in that career, never certain whether or not you were hired because of your skill set, your resume, your excellence at your craft, or whether it was just because you needed to fill a racial quota.
00:16:12.000 And it just so happened that an immutable characteristic that you had no control over was actually responsible for your hiring.
00:16:18.000 So you have that realization that you have to live with.
00:16:21.000 Or we could have a society where you were hired with the blessed assurance that it was purely because of the excellence of your skill set.
00:16:29.000 You were purely hired because you were good at your job.
00:16:31.000 You were purely hired because you have the track record of expertise to showcase that you would be a value add to this organization.
00:16:37.000 There's only one side of the argument that's trying to fight for that sort of reality in corporate America.
00:16:43.000 And it is the side of you and me and people like Vivek.
00:16:46.000 And so I love for him to be the tip of the spear out there shouting this message.
00:16:50.000 It's certainly one that we are trying to pair it at Public Square.
00:16:53.000 I love it.
00:16:54.000 Michael, keep up the great work.
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00:16:56.000 Keep it up.
00:16:56.000 Great work.
00:16:57.000 Thanks so much.
00:16:58.000 Good to see you, Charlie.
00:16:59.000 I want to read you a text message, everybody, that is being sent out right now.
00:16:59.000 Thank you.
00:17:04.000 It's being sent out to Democrat donors.
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00:17:23.000 Well, first of all, that's Turning Point Action, but this comes as 12th grade boys, many of whom are first-time voters in 2024, are now more conservative than at any point in the last 50 years.
00:17:32.000 I promise you I didn't write this.
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00:17:50.000 These guys exist just obsessing about us.
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00:18:44.000 I tell people 300,000, they don't believe it, but it's true. 1.00
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00:20:00.000 Joining us now is one of my favorite senators.
00:20:02.000 He is fighting very, very hard, and he's doing a great job from the great state of Alabama, Senator Tuberville.
00:20:08.000 Senator, welcome back to the program.
00:20:10.000 Happy New Year.
00:20:10.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:20:11.000 And it's great to hear you talking about our patriots.
00:20:13.000 And I just saw a terrible stat last year.
00:20:16.000 We've got 378 police officers shot in a line of duty, a huge wreck, big record.
00:20:22.000 And we don't need records like that.
00:20:24.000 And folks, the Calvary's coming.
00:20:26.000 We've got election year coming up.
00:20:28.000 Oh, don't ever.
00:20:28.000 We've got to take a look at.
00:20:29.000 So, Coach, I want to ask you about the border.
00:20:33.000 I have some pieces of tape I want to play here, including getting your reaction to Mayorkas.
00:20:37.000 But of all the topics that we cover on this program, the one that makes me the most angry and honestly the most demoralized is the invasion happening on our southern border.
00:20:46.000 The Senate is coming back into session.
00:20:47.000 I'm worried that they're going to quote unquote strike some deal.
00:20:50.000 That is not exactly a deal where it's actually just going to make the invasion happen seamlessly, effectively.
00:20:56.000 What's going on here, Senator?
00:20:57.000 Your reaction to the daily invasion of America happening on our southern border?
00:21:02.000 Well, it took three years, Charlie, to get the Democrats and Joe Biden to come to the table, and they had to because they want to hold the American taxpayer hostage for $100 billion more dollars to send overseas.
00:21:13.000 And that's the only reason that they're negotiating.
00:21:16.000 Now, James Lankford, senator from Oklahoma, has done a great job.
00:21:19.000 But the problem is, you know, there's laws right now that we have that would fix this.
00:21:24.000 They're not going to go by anything.
00:21:26.000 They're going to break every law in the world.
00:21:27.000 Joe Biden has not gone by any laws of the Constitution since he's taken over.
00:21:32.000 There's no reason.
00:21:34.000 You know, we're up 480% at the northern border.
00:21:37.000 People don't realize that.
00:21:38.000 The northern border, we're so far up.
00:21:40.000 People are coming across the border because Canada has gone to heck in a handbasket.
00:21:45.000 And so we're getting attacked from both sides.
00:21:47.000 But the Biden administration, they're globalists.
00:21:50.000 They want everybody to come here.
00:21:52.000 They want to take over.
00:21:53.000 They want to just eliminate the Constitution.
00:21:55.000 They want a one world government.
00:21:57.000 And we're going to have one more shot at this, and it's going to be next November.
00:22:01.000 It's coming down to it.
00:22:02.000 So, Senator, I want to play a piece of tape here of Mayorkis.
00:22:06.000 This guy, I believe, is actively committing treason against the country.
00:22:10.000 I know those are heavy words, but he's not doing anything to stop what's happening on the southern border.
00:22:16.000 Let's play Cut 97, please.
00:22:19.000 Would it be surprising you to hear the CBP sources say that currently they are releasing more than 70% of the migrants crossing every day and sometimes more than that number, higher than 70%?
00:22:31.000 Would that surprise you?
00:22:35.000 It would not surprise me at all.
00:22:37.000 I know the data, and I will tell you that when individuals are released, they are released into immigration enforcement proceedings.
00:22:45.000 They are on alternatives to detention, and we have returned or removed a record number of individuals.
00:22:52.000 We are enforcing the laws that Congress has passed.
00:22:56.000 I mean, Senator, this is really, really bad stuff here.
00:23:00.000 He is saying, I love this.
00:23:02.000 By the way, he's got some slippery PR agent.
00:23:04.000 I want to find out who that is working at DHS because they've been alternatives to detention.
00:23:09.000 Senator, your reaction.
00:23:10.000 Yeah, just talk in circles is all they do.
00:23:13.000 The Obama-Biden administration, that's what it is.
00:23:18.000 They want open borders.
00:23:19.000 They did the same thing in Europe.
00:23:21.000 If you remember back 10, 12 years ago, Europe was being overrun by refugees, and Obama basically said, hey, if you don't let them in, we're going to cut your money off.
00:23:32.000 And so they've ruined Europe, basically have lost control.
00:23:35.000 Well, they're doing the same thing here now.
00:23:37.000 And they know that we cannot handle this many people.
00:23:41.000 They know that it's going to be a detriment to the taxpayers of this country.
00:23:45.000 You know, we're spending money that we don't have to take care of these people.
00:23:48.000 And we love everybody.
00:23:50.000 But we have got to keep control of our borders if we're going to have to.
00:23:54.000 So, Senator, what can you fill in without obviously having any private conversations?
00:24:00.000 Maybe Pollock, what's the chatter right now?
00:24:02.000 Because there's some reporting, Political.com that there might be some bipartisan border deal.
00:24:08.000 Are you optimistic about this?
00:24:09.000 Do you think it's actually going to secure and seal our southern border?
00:24:13.000 Is it just going to be for paperwork processing?
00:24:15.000 What is the kind of Senate hallway chatter indicating?
00:24:19.000 Well, you know, first of all, you've got a group of us that say, listen, the only way that we're going to agree to anything is they limit the number of people that come across the border.
00:24:29.000 Basically to limit it.
00:24:30.000 And it's going to have to be a very, very low number, probably about 10% of what they're letting across right now.
00:24:36.000 Other than that, they're going to break the law, Charlie.
00:24:39.000 They're not going to do anything that they will agree to as long as they get that $100 billion in their pocket where they can give it away over in Ukraine or wherever.
00:24:48.000 And then at the end of the day, you know, not be accountable for it.
00:24:51.000 But I don't see anything happening.
00:24:55.000 I think at the end of the day, if everything goes as what we're seeing, we're going to have to live with this until next November.
00:25:04.000 Now, I had breakfast a few weeks ago with a high official out of Mexico.
00:25:08.000 And I just, I want to come talk to you.
00:25:10.000 Sit down and tell me what's going on.
00:25:13.000 And he basically said, listen, Coach, we have hired in Mexico 38,000 new people to stop the flow of people coming from Central America. 1.00
00:25:22.000 Now, if we had not done that, you would already be overrun.
00:25:25.000 But he said, I will tell you this.
00:25:27.000 He says, I don't care how many people that we put in and on the border of Central America, it's not going to work for this last year because they know that Joe Biden probably is not going to run or win.
00:25:40.000 And so they're all going to come this year, and we probably will see three, four, maybe five million people come across the border before the end of this term of this administration.
00:25:51.000 That makes you sick at your stomach, but we're going to have to put up with it.
00:25:54.000 Elections have consequences.
00:25:56.000 I hear them say that, hey, Joe Biden says, you know, the Republicans aren't giving me money.
00:26:01.000 This guy's lost his mind.
00:26:03.000 I mean, we have offered everything in the world to stop the flow of immigrants, but he does not want to make any type of deal. 1.00
00:26:12.000 They're just going to open it up and let him come.
00:26:13.000 So, Senator, I'm 100% with you on the election, and it is the destination that we need to keep our eyes on.
00:26:20.000 However, there is this spending fight.
00:26:22.000 Speaker Johnson was on the border yesterday.
00:26:24.000 Is there anything legislatively that we can done?
00:26:27.000 Or are they just going to say we're going to break the law?
00:26:29.000 So be it.
00:26:30.000 Is it Mike Lee has said that he will not vote to fund the government while the border is open?
00:26:36.000 Is that something your conference is entertaining?
00:26:38.000 Well, there's several of us that are on that page.
00:26:42.000 We've got two things over the Democrats right now.
00:26:44.000 They want $100 billion more dollars to waste and to spend over in Europe on Ukraine.
00:26:52.000 And then, of course, they're going to want to fund the government with this excess expense of a lot of things that we need to start cutting back.
00:26:59.000 I don't know whether you saw it, Charlie, but a few weeks ago, we hit 23 million of federal employees that work for the government.
00:27:07.000 23 million, a record number, and they continue to grow every day.
00:27:12.000 So we've got to find a way to cut back.
00:27:13.000 The American taxpayer can't afford this.
00:27:16.000 We spent from September the 18th, December the 28th, a trillion dollars more than what we should have spent.
00:27:22.000 Think about that in three months.
00:27:23.000 We're not doing that now in a year or a year and a half.
00:27:26.000 We're doing it in just a month's time, and we're looking at $40 trillion in debt in a short period of time.
00:27:31.000 And the national debt and the deficit are some of the biggest issues.
00:27:35.000 And I'll be honest, I haven't seen an appetite from most Republicans to really make the spending cuts that are necessary.
00:27:42.000 I mean, we have huge amounts of waste and fraud and abuse all across the board.
00:27:48.000 And so, Senator, we're now going to enter this season, and I sure hope this is not the case.
00:27:54.000 where it feels as if people are just going to say it's an election year and we're not going to buckle down and we're not going to do what's necessary.
00:28:01.000 You have a new bill out I want to make sure we highlight where you introduced the No VA Resources for Illegal Aliens Act.
00:28:08.000 Please tell us about it.
00:28:08.000 Yeah, I'm on the Veterans Committee and there's nobody more important than our veterans that we need to take care of them and they're short-ended when it comes to the VA.
00:28:18.000 We've added money.
00:28:20.000 There's 22 million veterans in our country.
00:28:23.000 We can only treat 11 million.
00:28:26.000 We can only treat 50%. 0.99
00:28:27.000 So what we did is we started these satellite hospitals and clinics all over rural areas where an 80-year-old veteran doesn't have to drive two hours to go to a VA.
00:28:39.000 And so we started all these, we call them community care.
00:28:41.000 Well, now Joe Biden has opened up all those community care centers to illegal immigrants.
00:28:47.000 We have to pay 100% for their health care. 0.97
00:28:51.000 It's absolutely ridiculous.
00:28:53.000 Now the veterans are even having to stand in line at their own community care centers and at the VA.
00:29:00.000 So I'm trying to stop this.
00:29:02.000 Quit spending our VA and our veterans money on illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:29:06.000 It's not right.
00:29:07.000 It's wrong.
00:29:08.000 And, you know, this administration does not care about anything other than maintaining control and getting people in there where they'll vote for them because they allowed them to come across the border illegally.
00:29:19.000 So, Senator, in closing here, big year.
00:29:23.000 There's a lot of different elections that are popping up.
00:29:26.000 Any races that have really caught your attention?
00:29:28.000 Obviously, the presidential race is the big one, but Senate races that you're going to be spending time raising capital for?
00:29:35.000 What are the ones that you think the base really needs to be aware of?
00:29:38.000 Yeah, Pennsylvania is going to be huge.
00:29:40.000 Of course, Montana is going to be very, very important.
00:29:45.000 Arizona is going to be very, very important.
00:29:48.000 There's not any of them that's not important, but there's some that we've really got to focus on.
00:29:52.000 We have to take the Senate.
00:29:53.000 There's no doubt about that.
00:29:55.000 But I found this out, Charlie, since I've been here.
00:29:57.000 And I'm not a politician.
00:29:58.000 I was an educator.
00:29:59.000 I was a football coach.
00:30:00.000 I'm here to help our country.
00:30:02.000 I'm not up here for a career.
00:30:04.000 But the one thing that I noticed is the things across this country, people want to get reelected.
00:30:11.000 I mean, it's not about doing the right thing.
00:30:13.000 It's about just doing things just to get reelected, doing things that will appease the people that do elect them.
00:30:22.000 But we have got to have a fair election coming up.
00:30:24.000 We have got to take the White House.
00:30:27.000 And again, the thing that I've noticed, if you don't have the White House, I don't care if you've got the House or the Senate.
00:30:32.000 We have given so much power to the President of the United States with these executive orders.
00:30:37.000 It's just embarrassing to see what they do.
00:30:40.000 This men playing in women's sports is all in executive order. 1.00
00:30:44.000 Trends genders in the military is an executive order. 0.98
00:30:48.000 It makes no sense for this to be happening, but that's the direction that this group wants to go, and we've got to get them out of all out of it.
00:30:56.000 Coach, thank you so much for your time.
00:30:58.000 I would say, sorry about the Roseville result, but privately, I don't know who you are.
00:31:01.000 This is a former Auburn coach.
00:31:03.000 I'm half kidding.
00:31:03.000 You represent the great state of Alabama.
00:31:05.000 You're always cheering for Alabama, I hope.
00:31:07.000 All right, Coach, thanks so much.
00:31:09.000 All right.
00:31:09.000 Appreciate it.
00:31:10.000 Thank you.
00:31:10.000 God bless.
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00:32:05.000 We riffed on this a little bit yesterday.
00:32:07.000 We're going to talk about this in the Ask Me Anything episode hour coming up in the next hour.
00:32:12.000 And we talked about how there is an intentional campaign by the federal government to weaken the dollar, to deteriorate the dollar, which means you get inflation.
00:32:21.000 And they're doing so through massive quantitative easing, very sneakily, by the way.
00:32:25.000 For those of you that may not be paying attention, just off the top of your head, if you're not, I want you to answer this.
00:32:31.000 And if you get the answer right, email me freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:34.000 Without Googling, honor system, honor system, the NASDAQ.
00:32:39.000 What kind of year did it have in 2023?
00:32:42.000 Was it down 10%, down 15%, up 5%, up 10%?
00:32:47.000 What do you think?
00:32:48.000 How do you think the NASDAQ did in 2023?
00:32:52.000 Pretty simple question.
00:32:53.000 NASDAQ is a stock market index that includes almost all stocks listed on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange, along with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the SP 500.
00:33:02.000 So how do you think it did?
00:33:03.000 And I'll let you, if you Google it, then if you get the number exactly right, I know that you Googled it.
00:33:08.000 And I'll tell you the answer in about a minute as the emails start flowing in.
00:33:14.000 When you start to expand the money supply, money has to find a home.
00:33:19.000 It's one of the rules of economics.
00:33:21.000 Monetary policy impacts the economy even more than fiscal policy.
00:33:27.000 Fiscal policy is important.
00:33:28.000 Taxes, regulation, spending, those are the three main things.
00:33:32.000 Taxes, regulation, spending.
00:33:34.000 We are over-regulating right now.
00:33:36.000 We are over-taxing right now.
00:33:38.000 And we are spending way too much.
00:33:40.000 We should be cutting spending.
00:33:41.000 We should be cutting regulations.
00:33:42.000 We should be cutting taxes.
00:33:44.000 All three.
00:33:45.000 We're not doing any of those.
00:33:46.000 But then monetary policy, that's really where you start to get in trouble.
00:33:51.000 Monetary policy is an academic way of saying money printing.
00:33:58.000 That's simple.
00:33:58.000 So you expand the money supply, the money has to find a home.
00:34:03.000 And when the money has to find a home, you start to get assets that are overly inflated.
00:34:09.000 That is why Microsoft is almost a $3 trillion company.
00:34:14.000 Andrew looked it up.
00:34:16.000 So the NASDAQ in 2023 was up 43%.
00:34:23.000 43%.
00:34:25.000 Now, mind you, at the end of 2022, there was a big market correction.
00:34:28.000 So it was going up for that.
00:34:29.000 But did the economy grow by 43%?
00:34:32.000 Did we really have profits and earnings to reflect a 43% year?
00:34:40.000 Let's go back in the Wayback Machine.
00:34:43.000 April and May, I'm sorry, March or April of last year.
00:34:48.000 We had bank runs or bank failures.
00:34:50.000 Silicon Valley Bank.
00:34:52.000 What happened? 1.00
00:34:53.000 Well, Janet Yellen, who is a sneaky little trickster, she knows all these little pockets of money that she could deploy, buy back bonds here and release here. 1.00
00:35:01.000 And so the money eventually has to find a home. 0.96
00:35:05.000 And it will find a home in publicly traded securities or in real estate.
00:35:13.000 This is why, despite the fact that the economy is not good, that asset prices, especially real estate, is going up.
00:35:24.000 And that is so bad for millennials.
00:35:26.000 It's so bad for Gen Z. In fact, a new story shows here. 1.00
00:35:28.000 And again, I want to get into this in the Ask Me Anything episode.
00:35:31.000 American Dream Gone. 0.98
00:35:32.000 Gen Z dumps owning homes for luxury rentals. 0.94
00:35:35.000 That is bad for the economy.
00:35:36.000 That's bad for the civilization.
00:35:38.000 It's bad for the renter.
00:35:39.000 It's bad across the board.
00:35:40.000 You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
00:35:41.000 By the way, so the emails have come in.
00:35:43.000 People said, oh, Charlie, think it was up 8%, up 10%, up 5%, up 43%.
00:35:51.000 But it's all funny money.
00:35:53.000 It's fake.
00:35:54.000 It is a sugar high.
00:35:57.000 Now, that doesn't necessarily mean, by the way, that it's going to burst.
00:36:03.000 That's what's so interesting.
00:36:05.000 But what it does mean is that the federal government is signaling to you, they are broadcasting to you every single day: 15 to 20% inflation is becoming the new norm.
00:36:15.000 15 to 20% inflation is becoming the new norm.
00:36:17.000 That means that you have to outperform inflation and not get poor.
00:36:21.000 You have to become richer than inflation every year to not get poorer.
00:36:26.000 Your assets have to mature over the rate of inflation.
00:36:29.000 Your investments have to mature and perform over the rate of inflation.
00:36:34.000 Only the hyper-rich will be able to do that.
00:36:36.000 Only people that can be diversified into different sorts of asset classes will be able to post a 30% annualized return.
00:36:43.000 I remember back when people used to brag that they would get a 7% return.
00:36:48.000 If you're getting a 7% return in the new normal, you will get 13% poorer with where we're headed.
00:36:58.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:37:00.000 Email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
00:37:03.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:37:04.000 God bless.
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