The Charlie Kirk Show - How Corporations are Secretly Plotting to Destroy the American Family

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00:03:12.000 There's so many stories I want to get into here.

00:03:14.000 And I want to get into this BlackRock story of how massive funds are buying up single-family housing.

00:03:20.000 And that's why housing is going up so dramatically because there's so many dollar bills out there and no one knows what to do with it, which is, of course, because why we have inflation in front of our very eyes.

00:03:29.000 I want to get into this story of Dr. Fauci proclaiming himself to be science.

00:03:34.000 He is science.

00:03:36.000 It's not Sir Francis Brake Bacon or Sir Isaac Newton or Galileo Galilee that had the accomplishments of discovering the heliocentric theory of the earth or the three laws of Newtonian physics or the scientific method as Newton, Bacon, and Galileo did know.

00:03:53.000 It is Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is the man who describes himself as to be science personified.

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00:04:03.000 Me, quite frankly, are attacks on science because all of the things that I have spoken about consistently from the very beginning have been fundamentally based on science.

00:04:15.000 Sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people, and there was pushback against me.

00:04:21.000 So if you are trying to, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you're really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you're attacking science.

00:04:33.000 Do you hear that?

00:04:34.000 If you dare disagree with Fauci and everything he's been wrong about and his corruption and how he has lied to you, then you actually hate the scientific method.

00:04:44.000 So what is the scientific method?

00:04:45.000 We actually had an episode a couple weeks ago that I think really covered this.

00:04:49.000 Well, but remember, science was born in the medieval universities and was originally governed by the church.

00:04:55.000 It blossomed under that kind of patronage and nowhere else.

00:04:59.000 It's an inquiry into the natural world.

00:05:01.000 Science should be asking questions and proving what we as human beings can make sense of the natural world.

00:05:10.000 So Dr. Anthony Fauci, when he said hydroxychloroquine will not help people, he was lying.

00:05:15.000 That was anti-science.

00:05:16.000 Dr. Fauci lied about masks.

00:05:19.000 I just kind of find this particular soundbite very funny.

00:05:25.000 Throw back to 2003 when C-SPAN caller calls for Fauci to resign.

00:05:28.000 If only we would have gotten rid of this bureaucrat in 2003, cut 74.

00:05:34.000 You've been at the NIH a pretty long time, and it seems to me that during your tenor, our ability to control infectious diseases hasn't improved, but in fact, worse.

00:05:43.000 And don't you think it's time that you step down and let someone else who has a more effective message?

00:05:50.000 Actually, no.

00:05:52.000 She wants to know if I want to step down.

00:05:54.000 2003 is when that caller called in, and Fauci made us no more prepared for infectious disease spread then than he did now.

00:06:04.000 And if you dared criticize Dr. Fauci said everything I said was rooted in science, that's not true.

00:06:08.000 The Fauci emails show that Dr. Anthony Fauci knew that this was made in a laboratory.

00:06:15.000 It was made artificially and he covered it up intentionally.

00:06:20.000 And this is a common tactic that is used by leftists that do not want to have any sort of criticism.

00:06:25.000 They hide behind the shield of things that we respect.

00:06:30.000 You see, there is widespread respect for science for good reason.

00:06:34.000 Now, there's a misunderstanding what science actually is.

00:06:37.000 Science is not dogma.

00:06:39.000 Science is question.

00:06:41.000 Science is an inquiry.

00:06:42.000 Science is an exploration.

00:06:45.000 You see, you must understand that when we go back into history and we understand where science originated from, Sir Francis Bacon, who was a Christian, and Sir Isaac Newton, who wrote more about biblical prophecy than he did even about the natural and physical world, Galileo Galilee, who was a Christian, but he had his own little toss-up with the Catholic Church, different conversation for a different time.

00:07:07.000 All of this matters because if you do not believe that nature has a certain rhythm or creation behind it, then it's all just an act of randomness and madness.

00:07:18.000 Then why wouldn't you all of a sudden say that I am the embodiment of science?

00:07:23.000 Science is not one particular person.

00:07:26.000 No, when we criticize you, Dr. Anthony Fauci, we are embracing the legacy of Bacon, Galileo, and Newton.

00:07:32.000 We are asking ourselves the question, wait, you've told us one thing, but the others seem to be so obvious.

00:07:38.000 Dr. Fauci is the opposite of science. 0.78

00:07:41.000 Dr. Fauci is what the Catholic Church was to Galileo. 0.56

00:07:44.000 No, the earth is the center of the universe.

00:07:46.000 And if you dare disagree, we are going to put you out to pasture and put you and try you.

00:07:52.000 Basically, try you for that.

00:07:54.000 And Fauci has been adamant that the only way we can get out of this pandemic is through mass inoculation.

00:08:01.000 We went through in great detail yesterday how hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, a ZPAC, and ivermectin, let me say that again, ivermectin, right, Producer Andrew, is very effective.

00:08:15.000 And yet, Dr. Fauci refuses to say that any of these therapeutics that were used and were advanced by scientists and doctors early on.

00:08:23.000 He said, Well, I was just following the science.

00:08:26.000 That is not true.

00:08:27.000 We were following the scientists that they liked.

00:08:30.000 Now, you know what type of scientists we were following?

00:08:33.000 We were not following epidemiologists.

00:08:36.000 We were not following physicists.

00:08:38.000 We were not following biologists.

00:08:40.000 We were following political scientists.

00:08:43.000 We were not following scientists that cared about infectious diseases.

00:08:47.000 We were following political scientists that knew how to win an election.

00:08:50.000 We were following scientists that knew what it took to get rid of Donald Trump.

00:08:55.000 The scientists that we were trusting were not scientists that actually wanted to preserve liberty and freedom.

00:09:00.000 We were following scientists that knew how to properly divide and conquer.

00:09:05.000 Those were the scientists that we were following.

00:09:09.000 And Dr. Anthony Fauci is not an epidemiologist, no matter how much he insists.

00:09:13.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci singularly played a role more than any other person in recent history to alter the outcome of a presidential election.

00:09:23.000 Mail-in balloting, the destruction of small businesses, people at home in fear, and all of that blame projected on Donald Trump and not the person who actually deserved it, the Chinese Communist Party, the unconstitutional, immoral, and anti-scientific lockdowns that followed.

00:09:37.000 Do you know there is not one state, not one case study that shows that lockdowns did any good to stop the slow of the spread or the death of the Chinese coronavirus of lockdown states versus non-lockdown states? 0.58

00:09:49.000 States that opened up in last May, such as Florida, have much better infectious rates, death rates, spread rates, and they did not lose their small businesses.

00:10:00.000 They don't have the increases in mental health as many of these other schools across the country, mental health issues that the schools across the country also have, such as suicide, mental self-harm, and drug issues that are happening at an alarming rate.

00:10:14.000 But Dr. Fauci is basically hiding behind something that all of us respect, which is science.

00:10:18.000 He says, look, if you attack me, you're attacking science.

00:10:25.000 No, actually, if we attack you, Dr. Fauci, we're making you defend every single thing you have said by using the scientific method.

00:10:34.000 We are making you defend all of this.

00:10:38.000 And instead of actually saying, well, look, here was the thesis and here where I was right and here was I was wrong, he said, I was right the entire time.

00:10:46.000 Because he was.

00:10:48.000 Let me say this again.

00:10:48.000 Dr. Fauci's goal was reached.

00:10:51.000 I'm going to say something unconventional and unusual.

00:10:54.000 Dr. Fauci got what he wanted.

00:10:56.000 Dr. Fauci was given a mission and he accomplished that mission.

00:11:00.000 Dr. Fauci was whispered, someone whispered in his ear and he said, get him out.

00:11:08.000 And Fauci got that done.

00:11:10.000 Fauci did not care about slowing the spread as a nice additional cost.

00:11:14.000 He, of course, wanted to usher in the great reset and have pharmaceutical companies make a bunch of money.

00:11:18.000 But the goal of people, as he went in the private meetings in the bowels of NIH, people said, get him out.

00:11:28.000 And like an infiltration of a Trojan horse into an ancient city, finally the Democrats had a way to demoralize and demean and cross-examine Trump from within.

00:11:41.000 And that guy was Dr. Fauci.

00:11:43.000 He got what he wanted.

00:11:44.000 He's not an epidemiologist or a biologist.

00:11:47.000 He's a political scientist who had a very sinister goal to get rid of a duly elected president, undermine our republic, all for power, for power's sake.

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00:13:07.000 We made a prediction early on in this show, and I'm sorry to say that we were right.

00:13:12.000 I'm sorry to say that the prediction that we made has come true and some people disagree with me, good friends of mine.

00:13:19.000 Even a couple months ago, they said, oh, no, that's never going to happen.

00:13:22.000 Inflation is not just here, but we are now at fire alarm levels of inflation.

00:13:28.000 We have created dollar bills out of thin air while keeping the country locked down, incentivizing bad behavior, and we are now seeing the consequences of that.

00:13:37.000 You're seeing that in housing prices.

00:13:40.000 You're seeing that in lumber.

00:13:41.000 You're seeing that in food.

00:13:42.000 You're seeing that in every single sector of the economy.

00:13:45.000 Inflation, very simply, is when the amount of dollar bills supersedes the amount of value that is in the economy.

00:13:52.000 And so that kind of balance needs to hopefully be managed by a responsible central bank or federal government or federal agency or Federal Reserve in our case, and it's not happening.

00:14:04.000 One of the other reasons why inflation is increasing and housing prices are going up is because of massive funds that are coming in and they are buying up single family homes.

00:14:18.000 If you sell a house these days, according to the Wall Street Journal, the buyer might be a pension fund.

00:14:24.000 The Wall Street Journal says yield-chasing investors are snapping up single-family homes, competing with ordinary Americans, and driving up prices.

00:14:33.000 So what's happening is basically these massive funds are coming in.

00:14:36.000 They're buying home after home, single suburban homes, not massive apartment complexes or shopping malls, but your home.

00:14:44.000 Now, some people say, well, Charlie, what's wrong with that?

00:14:46.000 Why would there be anything wrong?

00:14:48.000 If they want to sell that home voluntarily, why would that be wrong?

00:14:52.000 Well, that is an ideological, abstractionist, purely theoretical argument that acts as if, wait a second, if you buy the home and it raises rate, it raises the average home, where is that person going to go then?

00:15:05.000 So they buy their home for a million dollars, so they can go buy a home for $1.1 million.

00:15:10.000 Who wins there?

00:15:11.000 Or what's more likely to happen is they buy, they sell the home for a million dollars and then they go rent.

00:15:19.000 Now, what's the difference between renting and owning?

00:15:23.000 Well, those people that rent are much more likely to be obedient Democrat voters.

00:15:28.000 Home ownership is one of the highest predictive qualities or points of data that shows that someone is going to be a conservative.

00:15:39.000 If you are in touch with the land, you are more likely to be a conservative and be proud of your country.

00:15:45.000 If you are renting, then it's the tragedy of the commons.

00:15:48.000 It's the HOA that takes care of that.

00:15:51.000 I'm only here temporarily.

00:15:52.000 I don't feel that I have equity, different type of equity than we've talked about before.

00:15:56.000 That really means ownership.

00:15:57.000 I don't feel as if I am in touch with the mortgage payment I am making.

00:16:02.000 Now, we know this as the suburban housing boom took over America the last couple decades.

00:16:07.000 But now, what is BlackRock doing artificially raising housing prices across the country?

00:16:15.000 Now, this Wall Street Journal goes into great detail how dangerous this is for everyone involved.

00:16:21.000 Yield-chasing investors are snapping up single-family homes, competing with ordinary Americans, and driving up prices.

00:16:27.000 Meanwhile, inflation is here.

00:16:30.000 Under Donald Trump, 1,000 feet of lumber cost $304.

00:16:34.000 Now it's $1,500.

00:16:36.000 One gallon of gas was $1.95.

00:16:38.000 Now it's $3.05.

00:16:39.000 One ton of wheat was $183, and now it's $251.

00:16:43.000 One ton of coal was $39, and now it's $80.

00:16:46.000 One bushel of corn was $3.43.

00:16:48.000 Now it's $6.86.

00:16:50.000 And the inflation that we are experiencing was intentional.

00:16:53.000 Inflation is a strategy.

00:16:55.000 Let me say that again. 1.00

00:16:56.000 Inflation is a strategy to try to justify to bring in more people into our country.

00:17:01.000 Inflation helps the richest people in our country.

00:17:03.000 Inflation justifies a greater government power grab.

00:17:07.000 It justifies more government spending because what's the difference between $30 and $40 trillion if your currency is becoming worth less 8% a year.

00:17:16.000 What's really disgusting about this entire BlackRock story, which amazing is kind of the press blackout on this, by the way, is that the Wall Street Journal writes this up and then Bloomberg writes glowingly about how BlackRock hits returns.

00:17:28.000 And so what's amazing is I tell people say, yeah, you know, housing prices are up.

00:17:32.000 My home is now worth 20% more than it used to be.

00:17:34.000 I say, well, are you going to sell?

00:17:35.000 They say, where am I going to go?

00:17:37.000 I'm going to sell my home for 20% so I can go find a home and chase another person against nine other bidders.

00:17:42.000 And I could go put in a bid for somebody else, but then I don't know if I'm actually going to get my price for my home.

00:17:46.000 So this kind of idea of the ever-far-reaching housing market is pricing out you.

00:17:53.000 And most importantly, it's pricing out 28, 29, and 30-year-olds from ever buying a home.

00:17:57.000 Producer Jake went through this a couple months ago, that every time he tried to buy a home in Phoenix, he had cash buyers coming in almost instantaneously.

00:18:04.000 And I guarantee you, a lot of them were massive pension funds.

00:18:07.000 Let me be very clear.

00:18:08.000 Outside of people that want to flip homes and outside of people that might do one-off deals, if you have a portfolio size of more than a couple, let's say, let's be generous, a couple thousand homes, you should not be allowed to buy single-family homes for a derivative for flipping just to make a quick profit.

00:18:24.000 Single family homes should be about building real equity, taking ownership of your community, not getting yield chasing so that the California pension fund can hit their certain metric.

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00:19:36.000 We had some robust discussion during the break here about massive $8 trillion firms coming in to buy single-family homes so that your 29 or 30-year-old recently married child or grandchild will have to go live in a rental facility or a rental unit in West Houston instead of actually buying a home.

00:19:52.000 And a good question was asked by Mr. Jake.

00:19:55.000 He said, well, what's the difference?

00:19:56.000 What difference does he sound like, Hillary?

00:19:58.000 What difference does it make, right?

00:20:00.000 Is that what he said?

00:20:01.000 What difference does it make?

00:20:02.000 Come on.

00:20:03.000 And it's a great question.

00:20:05.000 It really is.

00:20:06.000 Why is it that we as conservatives and Americans should value homeownership over renting?

00:20:12.000 Well, first of all, number one, the entire tax system is built around homeownership.

00:20:16.000 You get the most tax benefits of the mortgage interest deduction.

00:20:20.000 There is no such tax benefit for renting.

00:20:22.000 That's just a very simple thing.

00:20:23.000 But number two, there's something that is uniquely American about being able to say, this is mine.

00:20:29.000 I own this.

00:20:30.000 This is my yard.

00:20:32.000 And my rules go here.

00:20:34.000 There's a sense of pride, good pride, that goes with that.

00:20:38.000 And every time you go to work and you pull into the driveway, you know that you are pouring into something that is lasting.

00:20:43.000 When you're renting, it's almost as if I might get out of here at any moment.

00:20:47.000 Also, when you're renting, you're not actually paying every single month to something that is increasing your net worth.

00:20:52.000 You are staying the same.

00:20:54.000 And places where you have to rent are typically more expensive.

00:20:57.000 So you go to downtown Houston or downtown Dallas or downtown Austin, downtown New York, food is more expensive.

00:21:01.000 Transportation is more expensive.

00:21:04.000 You're less likely to own a car when you rent, when you live in a place where you rent.

00:21:07.000 Now, why does that matter?

00:21:08.000 A car is freedom.

00:21:09.000 A car, you're more likely to listen to talk radio and be very enlightened by shows like this.

00:21:13.000 A car, you're more likely to say, you know what?

00:21:15.000 I actually care about the price of gas.

00:21:17.000 You know that people who don't care about the price of gas, yuppies that live in Brooklyn.

00:21:20.000 They don't care about the price of gas.

00:21:22.000 $9 a gallon.

00:21:22.000 They're like, oh, who cares?

00:21:24.000 I ride the subway.

00:21:25.000 Yeah, right.

00:21:25.000 The subway is powered by vegan milk or something.

00:21:30.000 No, everything comes from energy.

00:21:30.000 I don't know.

00:21:33.000 But the point is that the more distance you have between your neighbor, and there's extremes to this, the more likely you are to be a patriotic American and on the center right of the political spectrum.

00:21:42.000 And some people say, well, Charlie, we can't craft public policy just based on how people view politically.

00:21:47.000 Oh, no, we absolutely should craft public policy based on how people view politically.

00:21:51.000 I completely reject the premise.

00:21:53.000 If all of a sudden we have a sense of a sort of policies that make people less likely to have children, less likely to attend church, more likely to do drugs, and then vote in a certain way to confiscate our weapons and destroy the country, I'm going to push back against that.

00:22:05.000 Of course, we should have a desired outcome.

00:22:06.000 There is a hierarchy of the good and a hierarchy of truth.

00:22:10.000 Now, with that being said, some people might be really thrilled they can make a quick profit by selling their home to some arbitrary LLC or to some Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

00:22:18.000 But then where are they going to go?

00:22:22.000 I happen to have a place in Florida.

00:22:25.000 I took out a loan.

00:22:26.000 I did it the right way a couple years ago.

00:22:27.000 I loved that place in Florida.

00:22:30.000 And I could turn it for a quick profit right now.

00:22:33.000 But then I asked myself, wait, so where am I going to go?

00:22:35.000 I'm going to go down the street and then outbid myself with the same dollars.

00:22:39.000 So you're on the same sort of carousel.

00:22:41.000 It's either the equity transfers or it doesn't.

00:22:44.000 And so then you have these massive firms.

00:22:45.000 You might ask, well, what's in it for these massive firms?

00:22:47.000 Well, first of all, they have more dollar bills than they know what to do with.

00:22:50.000 So they got to find a place to put these dollar bills.

00:22:52.000 They know inflation is coming.

00:22:54.000 So they want things they can touch and they can feel.

00:22:57.000 And if we act as if single-family home is the same sort of thing as gold and silver, we're fooling ourselves.

00:23:03.000 A single family home is a place where you measure your kids' heights every six months.

00:23:07.000 A single family home is where you open up presents on Christmas morning.

00:23:10.000 And a single family home is where you play basketball games and where memories are developed.

00:23:15.000 A single family home is part of this romantic quality in a good way that has kept America more free and less likely to be urbanized.

00:23:22.000 And yes, I am pushing for a de-urbanization of America.

00:23:25.000 But if you want people to go live in vertical housing units, if you want people to go have the tragedy of the commons, if you want people to go live in these 95-foot monstrosity, these ugly utilitarian buildings that are being built in downtown Phoenix, I look at these things when I land, I say, who thinks that was a good idea?

00:23:41.000 I know who thinks it's a good idea.

00:23:43.000 You want just parcels for Democrat voters, just verticalize them.

00:23:46.000 The higher you are, the less likely you are to be a conservative.

00:23:50.000 One of the reasons why Maricopa County is the largest Republican county in the country in Arizona is because it's the most horizontal county.

00:23:58.000 They have vertical housing units.

00:24:00.000 Go west is what we used to say.

00:24:02.000 Now we say go up.

00:24:04.000 And go up means you're less likely to own that unit.

00:24:06.000 Oh, but don't worry.

00:24:08.000 I live in a community of other people that also want to change the world.

00:24:11.000 And we ride the bus to work and we ride Uber and we don't own our own homes.

00:24:15.000 The point is this, is that if you want to decline, if you want to further the decline of the American nuclear family and with it, this kind of idea of self-government, then by all means, you should let BlackRock come in with their trillions of dollars.

00:24:30.000 But that's only if you think America's a colony. 0.62

00:24:32.000 You think, I think America's a country.

00:24:35.000 And my belief system when it comes to politics is rooted in what is good for the nation.

00:24:40.000 And of course, we are led by certain ideological impulses that markets generally work and entrepreneurship is the best way to allow wealth to be created and private property is essential and private properties with freedom.

00:24:52.000 But we do not resort to ideology or abstractions for the sake of such.

00:24:57.000 Instead, we say, hold on, is this really a good thing?

00:24:59.000 Do we want to live in a country where a recent college graduate is never going to be able to buy a home for 15 years?

00:25:04.000 Is that a good thing?

00:25:05.000 So ask yourself this question.

00:25:07.000 You have a recent college graduate who's 25 or 26.

00:25:10.000 Maybe they have $20,000 in student loan debt and they just got a job where they are earning $70,000 a year.

00:25:15.000 They then get married by age 27.

00:25:17.000 Hopefully. 1.00

00:25:18.000 We'll see what happens with this whole weird feminist movement. 1.00

00:25:21.000 That's a different conversation for a different time. 1.00

00:25:22.000 But hopefully they get married and they say, well, where am I going to live?

00:25:26.000 And all of a sudden they say, well, in order for you to get a home that isn't in the complete slums of Dallas, you got to put $85,000 down and your monthly payment is going to be $2,100 a month.

00:25:38.000 And their eyes wide and they say, I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that for another 20 years.

00:25:43.000 So they look at their spouse, they're like, well, I guess we're going to rent forever.

00:25:45.000 Or they go to a family member who might be able to pay the down payment for them, if they're even able to do that.

00:25:51.000 And the point is that we are now creating a culture that is going towards renting, not owning.

00:25:57.000 If you want people to all of a sudden have those two words we say so often, common sense, have them have a home where all of a sudden the air conditioning stops working at 2 a.m.

00:26:06.000 Have them have a home where all of a sudden they have to pay to go get the pool guy to come in or they have to pay the gardener.

00:26:12.000 What am I getting at is all of a sudden, the more you own, the more the R word starts to come in, responsibility.

00:26:18.000 And when people are responsible, they stop believing in these ridiculous utopian schemes.

00:26:22.000 Alexandria Casio-Cortez has never owned anything in her life except a Tesla.

00:26:28.000 Alexandria Casio-Cortez has never worked on a farm.

00:26:31.000 She has not lived in a single family home.

00:26:34.000 So when you live in a single family home, a lot of things start to change.

00:26:37.000 You start worrying a lot more about crime.

00:26:41.000 You start worrying about who's actually in your neighborhood for good reason, that neighborhood watch program.

00:26:45.000 You care about the schools.

00:26:47.000 But all of a sudden, if single-family homes, so here's what's going to happen is BlackRock buys these single-family homes and then they're going to rent them back to people.

00:26:54.000 That's what they're going to do.

00:26:55.000 So they're going to go buy these one after the other, this one on this street and this street.

00:26:59.000 Sure, we have money and money.

00:27:00.000 So they have hundreds of thousands of single-family homes.

00:27:03.000 And so then that 28- and 29-year-old couple who can't put down the $85,000 down payment, which might be a little much, let's say it's $40,000 down payment, but they can afford $1,800 a month in rent.

00:27:16.000 And they're like, well, we can live in the same home, but we're just going to rent for the rest of our life.

00:27:20.000 And there's a difference.

00:27:21.000 They won't be building wealth.

00:27:23.000 That money will just disappear and go into the coffers of BlackRock from now into perpetuity.

00:27:29.000 Number two, they won't get the mortgage interest rate deduction, so they'll pay more in taxes.

00:27:34.000 And number three, there will be a fundamental difference in how they view their relationship with that community.

00:27:40.000 Because in the back of their head, they'll say, I'm not an owner.

00:27:44.000 I'm a visitor.

00:27:46.000 If you want people to view America as if they're a guest in this country, go create a renting craze.

00:27:51.000 If you want people to think that they are a citizen in this nation, have them own stuff.

00:27:56.000 Ownership was fundamental in the Homestead Act and the expansion of the Northwest Territories and how we are able to expand West.

00:28:02.000 This is my land, and I'm going to take care of it.

00:28:05.000 And if you come on my land and I don't like it, then you're going to have to deal with me.

00:28:09.000 My kind of rugged Western cowboy spirit is now being demolished by a group of anti-American Wall Street bankers who are pushing for momentary pleasure who do not care about the well-being or the backbone of our country.

00:28:22.000 And so excuse me if I'm going to push back against abstractions and ideology for ideology's sake, because I actually want more young people to own stuff.

00:28:31.000 In fact, I'm as radical. 0.90

00:28:33.000 I think that we should say that any person who's 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, who's married, you get a free piece of land in the West and you could go do whatever you want with it.

00:28:44.000 Congratulations.

00:28:45.000 Consider this your student loan debt repayment.

00:28:48.000 Now, well, who could possibly be against that?

00:28:49.000 Here's your piece of land. 0.97

00:28:51.000 Go build something.

00:28:52.000 What do you mean, build something?

00:28:53.000 Do something with it.

00:28:54.000 All of a sudden, they're going to have to take responsibility for their life.

00:28:58.000 If you want responsibility to erode, you must have people rent.

00:29:02.000 And inflation is surging at a record rate, and very few people are talking about it.

00:29:08.000 And you're seeing it all around.

00:29:09.000 You're seeing it again in housing.

00:29:10.000 And you might say, well, why is housing going up so quickly?

00:29:14.000 It's because these big firms are snatching up homes before you could possibly even get close to them.

00:29:21.000 What is good for the nation?

00:29:23.000 What is good for the country?

00:29:25.000 Not just good for some person's fund in Wall Street.

00:29:29.000 I believe, unlike AOC, Warren, and Bernie Sanders, that owning something is good.

00:29:35.000 We believe in private property.

00:29:37.000 And what's happening here is because of hiding behind ideology, we're going to have less people own private property.

00:29:43.000 Going back from Aristotle to Locke to Adam Smith, when you're able to own something, you are able to protect your freedom.

00:29:53.000 We know that community is essential.

00:29:55.000 Let me ask you a question.

00:29:56.000 Do you think that an apartment complex in downtown Dallas has a higher sense of community or a suburban neighborhood in West Dallas?

00:30:10.000 Who has more community?

00:30:11.000 Of course, the suburban neighborhood does.

00:30:13.000 Absolutely.

00:30:16.000 And so this is a very important point, and it's a robust discussion that's happening in the conservative free market movement right now.

00:30:23.000 And in an ironic turn of events, you're not going to have a free market to trade in if you allow these sort of things to continue.

00:30:30.000 If you're not going to all of a sudden have a place where families can flourish and grow, where children can run in the yard, you're like, well, no, we live on the 19th floor.

00:30:37.000 We're going to have to go downstairs and let the dog, whatever it might be, it changes behavior against what I think is actually good for the nation at whole.

00:30:49.000 You want to increase homeschooling?

00:30:51.000 Have actually people have a home where they can school them in.

00:30:55.000 You want to increase government school dependence?

00:30:59.000 Have them in vertical housing units that demean and diminish and put you inside of a mentality that is bad for the well-being of the nation and the republic.

00:31:09.000 Stop building up and start going west.

00:31:12.000 If you can touch the land of which you are in, you're going to care about the nation that you live in.

00:31:16.000 It's not about an $8 trillion fund in New York.

00:31:18.000 I couldn't really care less about their well-being or what they have to do.

00:31:21.000 God bless them.

00:31:22.000 I hope they go find a bunch of Chinese stocks to invest in because you know they've done plenty of that.

00:31:26.000 No, I'm fighting every single day for the 29-year-old engineering student that just graduated that is $60,000 in debt who just got married and wants to build a family and doesn't want to have to rent the rest of their life.

00:31:36.000 I think that American dream should be in grasp, should be in grasp for any American person who wants it.

00:31:43.000 It's a fundamental American value.

00:31:46.000 It's happening all across the country from Fargo to Bismarck to Dallas to Oklahoma to Florida to Georgia of people that do not share your values that are snatching up homes so they can rent them back to you.

00:31:56.000 And it's wrong.

00:31:57.000 I want to play some tape here, as I encourage a lot of you to check out the remarks we had at the Chandler Unified School District.

00:32:05.000 We have an episode on our Charlie Kirk Show podcast page about that.

00:32:09.000 Take out your podcast app and type in Charlie Kirk Show, hit subscribe.

00:32:14.000 So there's this entire theme about who runs our country.

00:32:17.000 And we have been very clear on this program that corporations have far too much power right now.

00:32:22.000 The corporations are willing to use their power to try to make America in their image.

00:32:27.000 Ron DeSantis makes it very clear that Republican governors that were hesitant to sign laws protecting girls' sports say it's just corporate pressure.

00:32:35.000 For example, Governor Bergnam refused to sign a law that would have protected female sports because Governor Bergnum in North Dakota likely is probably getting phone calls from Microsoft or from Amazon.

00:32:47.000 Who knows?

00:32:47.000 Ron DeSantis has courage, cut 64.

00:32:51.000 And why do you think some Republican governors are hesitant to sign legislation like you did?

00:32:55.000 I think it's just corporate pressure.

00:32:57.000 I think the corporations have gotten very woke.

00:33:00.000 You can't let them, like some woke corporation, you're going to turn over the reins of government to them and let them set the policy.

00:33:07.000 That ain't happening in Florida.

00:33:08.000 Unfortunately, it's happening in Arkansas and it's happening in North Dakota and it's happening in Arizona, where governors are much more worried about whether or not some corporate CEO is going to call them and say, you know what, the most important thing for us at Amazon, and we're going to move our fulfillment center out of Fargo, if we all, if all of a sudden you say that women's sports should be protected.

00:33:27.000 Now, Governor Ron DeSantis has courage and he's willing to do the right thing.

00:33:32.000 And boy, have we seen the difference between governors this last couple months.

00:33:36.000 And when I visited out in Bismarck and I visited and I went on the flag with Scott Hennan, we had such a great time together.

00:33:42.000 I said, look, this is going to be used.

00:33:44.000 This Amazon coming into Fargo is going to be used as a soft pocket veto to prevent meaningful social conservative reforms to happen in the state of North Dakota.

00:33:55.000 So if those that don't know, in North Dakota, they brought in this massive fulfillment center in northern Fargo, and a lot of Republicans were bragging about it.

00:34:04.000 And I said, not so fast.

00:34:05.000 I don't like that at all.

00:34:06.000 First of all, it destroys small businesses.

00:34:08.000 It makes us more addicted to cheap products from China. 0.81

00:34:11.000 Amazon is a server company.

00:34:12.000 The profits go to fund the Washington Post.

00:34:14.000 But even beyond that, they're going to call the shots of the public policy decisions in a state like North Dakota.

00:34:19.000 So Governor Bergnam had a chance to protect female sports in North Dakota, decided not to do it. 0.99

00:34:24.000 And according to Ron DeSantis, governors like that are saying it's because of corporate pressure.

00:34:29.000 It's because of a small group of companies that do not share our values, that do not care about your values, that do not care about our way of life, that are deciding to flex their muscles and say, if you dare do these sorts of things, such as protect female sports, we are going to pull the economic stimulus that you said you wanted in your state.

00:34:47.000 And so courage is a very interesting thing.

00:34:50.000 Very few people have it.

00:34:51.000 And the type of Republican Party that we want to inspire and encourage is are ones that are willing to stand up against the true power interest.

00:35:01.000 Now, that used to be the public sector teacher unions, and it still is.

00:35:04.000 But you know who has more power than the public sector teacher unions?

00:35:07.000 You know who has more power than the NRA, as we've been told the last couple years?

00:35:11.000 A couple of small tech companies that build fulfillment centers and data centers in states like Texas and Arizona and Florida.

00:35:18.000 And I got to tell you, I was just driving down the street here at our Turning Point USA Young Women's Leadership Summit, and I got sick to my stomach.

00:35:25.000 As I pulled off the highway, I saw a fulfillment center of one of the largest things I've ever seen in my life.

00:35:30.000 It was as far as the eye could see.

00:35:33.000 Amazon, Amazon, Amazon, Amazon.

00:35:35.000 I thought to myself, ticking time bomb.

00:35:38.000 Just a matter of time until that detonates.

00:35:41.000 We're in North Dallas.

00:35:42.000 Amazon's going to call the shots of the local city council and then the county and then the state.

00:35:47.000 You see, Amazon and their fulfillment centers are nothing more than Democrat super PAC headquarters disguised as package delivery services in your local community.

00:35:56.000 They don't share your values.

00:35:58.000 They don't care about your values.

00:36:00.000 They also destroy our small businesses and brag while doing it.

00:36:03.000 They actually got richer during the lockdowns, as Bezos has over $160 billion in net worth.

00:36:10.000 And so that's a really important question, which is why are certain Republicans so focused on the abstractions of momentary economic growth while it deindustrializes our economy and we don't see the values we care about, such as women's sports being protected or the protection of the unborn?

00:36:28.000 Why has that happened?

00:36:30.000 It's because, quite honestly, we've had an unsophisticated Republican Party for quite some time.

00:36:34.000 We've had a corporate spokesperson Republican Party, and that's going to change.

00:36:38.000 And it's changing because a lot of you are listening to programs like ours and Tucker Carlson and doing something about it.

00:36:45.000 And it's time that we continue to demand from our leaders to turn off BlackRock and turn off Amazon and listen to their voters and do the right thing.

00:36:53.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:54.000 Email us your thoughts.

00:36:55.000 As always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:36:57.000 I enjoy hearing from you.

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00:37:03.000 God bless you guys.

00:37:04.000 Speak to yourself.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 11, 2021

How Corporations are Secretly Plotting to Destroy the American Family

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