The Charlie Kirk Show - Inflation Is Coming

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00:00:26.000 Hey everybody, inflation is here.

00:00:28.000 We've talked about it before, but what does it mean?

00:00:30.000 It's no longer a question of whether or not it's coming.

00:00:32.000 It's a question of what do we do now that it is here.

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00:01:44.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

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00:01:56.000 There's a lot happening in the country, and this is kind of a grab bag day of news, what we call it.

00:02:00.000 There's no dominant news story, so it could take us anywhere we want to go.

00:02:05.000 There's a lot of people that are talking about Liz Cheney.

00:02:08.000 A lot of people that are talking about this encounter between the Los Angeles police officer and some activist Karen who decided to just scream and call him a murderer.

00:02:21.000 We're going to cover that story because I think it's really interesting and one detail that I think most people are missing.

00:02:26.000 But I want to lead with some news that you would probably otherwise see on CNBC right now.

00:02:31.000 And it's something that we've been warning about for quite some time here on our program.

00:02:35.000 Again, what makes our program a little bit different is we go a level deeper.

00:02:39.000 We try to explain the why, not just the what.

00:02:42.000 We try to explain why these policies are being put into place.

00:02:47.000 What is the driving cultural motives of the people that are in charge?

00:02:55.000 So breaking this morning, what we have been predicting, and it is not a good thing for our nation.

00:03:02.000 It's a good thing for asset holders.

00:03:03.000 It's a good thing for Jeff Bezos.

00:03:05.000 A good thing for Bill Gates, because boy, is he going to need money. 0.75

00:03:10.000 Jeff, I think Bill Gates might set the record for the most expensive divorce ever.

00:03:14.000 Bezos said it before $30 billion.

00:03:17.000 Bill Gates, he is going to need all the inflation he can get.

00:03:21.000 And he did not sign a prenup.

00:03:25.000 But Secretary Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, former head of the Federal Reserve, and soon to be advisor to Goldman Sachs.

00:03:34.000 Just as soon as she exits, Goldman Sachs will have, I'm telling you right now, you'll be able to pull this tape here in two years, five years, or whatever many years.

00:03:42.000 And there'll be this beautiful press release from Government Sachs.

00:03:46.000 We are pleased to announce Janet Yellen is going to be coming on our board as the Equity Environment Diversity Advisor, soon to be employee of Government Sachs.

00:03:58.000 She announced today that we may need to hike rates, interest rates, to stop the economy from overheating.

00:04:06.000 Now, the economy is not in danger of overheating.

00:04:10.000 This is code for inflation.

00:04:12.000 This is a wink and a nod to investors.

00:04:16.000 Hey, we expanded the money supply way too much.

00:04:21.000 United States corn hit over $7 a bushel.

00:04:27.000 The highest price point in over eight years.

00:04:31.000 Just about a year ago, it was a little bit over $3 a bushel.

00:04:37.000 Now it's increased over 134% over the last year.

00:04:42.000 Now, some people are saying this is over supply worries.

00:04:46.000 I think that is only half the story.

00:04:49.000 The more important story is how if you just go look at the M1 money supply.

00:04:54.000 In 2018, the money supply was anywhere between $3.9 trillion to $4 trillion.

00:05:03.000 Now the money supply is upwards of $19 trillion.

00:05:08.000 You can look it up yourself.

00:05:09.000 M1 money stock, M1SL, March 2021, they publish it every month.

00:05:15.000 They don't even hide M2.

00:05:16.000 They actually hide M2 and M3.

00:05:20.000 And so we are now living through what we have been warning.

00:05:24.000 To use a Game of Thrones analogy, winter is not coming.

00:05:26.000 It is here.

00:05:28.000 So why is it that our leaders, the people in charge, have wanted inflation?

00:05:35.000 What is the motivation behind trying to expand the money supply?

00:05:39.000 And while we are now seeing the real-time effects of inflation, let's just go through the price of wood and lumber.

00:05:47.000 I have this one too.

00:05:49.000 I don't know the unit, but a year ago, it was about $220 per parcel of wood and lumber.

00:05:56.000 Again, this is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

00:06:00.000 Now it's $360, either dollars or the point is that the increase is dramatic.

00:06:07.000 I'm not sure what the Y-axis is there.

00:06:12.000 And so why is it that at every single turn, our leaders are demanding inflation?

00:06:21.000 A couple reasons.

00:06:22.000 First of which is when you are already a debtor nation, inflation is one of the only ways you are able to deal with massive debt.

00:06:32.000 You can get out of debt a couple different ways.

00:06:34.000 You could tax array out of it.

00:06:36.000 You could cut your way out of it, or you can inflate your way out of it.

00:06:38.000 You cannot print wealth.

00:06:40.000 We know this.

00:06:41.000 We know that if you just increase the money supply and you do not have a correlating amount of goods and services being produced alongside of it, that does no good for the economic well-being of the nation of which you are in.

00:06:55.000 Now, we know all the cliché examples.

00:06:57.000 We know Rhodesia.

00:06:58.000 We know Zimbabwe.

00:06:59.000 We know the Austria-Hungary and Empire.

00:07:01.000 We know the 1930s Germany.

00:07:06.000 Corporate borrowing went up by $600 billion last year. 0.84

00:07:10.000 Why would they do that?

00:07:11.000 They would only do that if they knew that the dollar they were borrowing last year was going to be worth less the year after that and the year after that.

00:07:19.000 Any of you travel recently to hotels?

00:07:21.000 Do you notice how almost every single hotel across the country has been redone?

00:07:26.000 Have you noticed that?

00:07:27.000 Have you noticed that restaurants, almost all of them have new facades and new aesthetics and exteriors?

00:07:35.000 It's because corporate borrowing expanded so dramatically that many of these massive corporations saw the price of money and they saw looming inflation and they said, we're going to expand our balance sheets because we're going to do the renovations and the investments in our business right now because we know we're never going to get this opportunity to be able to borrow and have that forgiven through a deteriorating currency.

00:07:56.000 At Berkshire Hathaway, CEO Warren Buffett, quote, we are seeing substantial inflation.

00:08:03.000 Quote, we are raising prices.

00:08:05.000 People are raising prices to us and it's being accepted.

00:08:07.000 Berkshire Hathaway obviously owns a variety of different companies.

00:08:10.000 They own NetJets.

00:08:12.000 They own Burlington Northern Santa Fe, which is one of the most corrupt deals done in modern American history as they shut down the Keystone XL pipeline so Warren Buffett can transport our oil transcontinentally.

00:08:23.000 They also own Seas Candies, which was one of Warren Buffett's best deals.

00:08:28.000 Warren Buffett is also a substantial holder in Coca-Cola.

00:08:33.000 Good luck, Warren Buffett.

00:08:34.000 I think that price, for the first time, I think Coca-Cola is not going to be a blue chip stock because I am done drinking anything from Coca-Cola.

00:08:42.000 Buffett also called out higher steel costs impacting Berkshire's housing and furniture businesses.

00:08:48.000 Quote, people have money in their pocket and they're paying higher prices.

00:08:51.000 It's almost a buying frenzy, noting that the economy is red hot.

00:08:55.000 Not sure I actually agree with that.

00:08:57.000 I think prices are red hot.

00:08:59.000 I'm not sure production is red hot.

00:09:01.000 Those are two different things: prices and production.

00:09:05.000 Quote: Clearly, we're dealing with inflation, is what mattress giant Temper Seeley said, like all manufacturers.

00:09:13.000 Our business model is when we have input costs increases, we pass them on to the consumer.

00:09:19.000 Proctor Gamble recently said they begin to hike prices on baby care feminine and adult products in the United States.

00:09:26.000 Price increases will range from mid to high single-digit percentages.

00:09:32.000 So, why is it that our leaders want inflation?

00:09:37.000 I've commented on this before, but it's worth repeating because repetition is the soul of memory.

00:09:42.000 And I wrote a piece for AmericanGreatness and Greatness.com, which is they're inflating the currency to try to create a chaotic situation for another 20 million people to come into the country.

00:10:00.000 Inflation is forcing the hand for mass amnesty.

00:10:05.000 Weaponizing inflation and immigration was my piece for AmericanGreatness.com.

00:10:10.000 The same reason that the Democrats and the left do not want to abolish police, they don't. 0.67

00:10:17.000 They want to replace it with a national police force.

00:10:19.000 It's the same reason why they are forcing inflation because they're not going to want to tax our way out of inflation.

00:10:27.000 They're not going to want to raise rates.

00:10:29.000 Instead, they're going to want another 20 million people into the country strictly and solely for political benefit.

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00:11:42.000 So the Democrats at all costs want to remake the electorate to make it more favorable to them.

00:11:49.000 Tucker Carlson came under fire a couple weeks ago for stating the obvious, that Democrats have been saying the private part out loud.

00:11:57.000 They are going to bring in more voters that agree with them and they will remake the electorate.

00:12:06.000 And so the question is, how are they going to do that?

00:12:08.000 And how are they going to create the situation that will warrant and almost necessitate more human beings into the country?

00:12:18.000 And so one of the ways that you can deal with inflation is to raise interest rates.

00:12:28.000 The collectivists and the totalitarians are not likely to do that anytime soon.

00:12:33.000 Another way you could deal with inflation is to raise taxes.

00:12:37.000 That is one of the ways that George H.W. Bush handled inflation that was present in 1990 and 1991.

00:12:45.000 The third way to deal with inflation is to increase the amount of participants in the labor market.

00:12:53.000 So for example, if you have 335 million people trading with dollar bills, therefore you divide the number of dollar bills by the number of people in your country.

00:13:07.000 But if all of a sudden you have 360 million people trading with dollar bills, the money supply then gets spread out over more people.

00:13:16.000 Therefore, the value of the dollar is held more in check.

00:13:24.000 It is a hedge against inflation.

00:13:26.000 More people trading with dollar bills makes the dollar bill less likely to lose its value and to have an inflated price behind it.

00:13:37.000 This is one of the reasons, by the way, that no one wants to talk about why George H.W. Bush dramatically increased legal immigration in 1991 to about 1.9 million people in one year.

00:13:50.000 It was one of the ways George H.W. Bush was able to address inflation.

00:13:56.000 It was the wrong way to address inflation, obviously, but it's a hedge against an increase in the money supply.

00:14:04.000 So if you're like me, at first you said, what is the Democrats' agenda for wanting to create $6 trillion new dollars out of thin air in the last calendar year, which we have done on top of our $4 trillion federal budget with a $30 trillion national debt?

00:14:20.000 And just so everyone knows, when I first started Turning Point USA and I first started going around to Tea Party groups in high school, listening to AM560 The Answer and so many of my friends to listen to this, the national debt was $8.5 trillion.

00:14:40.000 The national debt was $8.5 trillion when I first started this crusade against big government.

00:14:47.000 I can't say that I've won that battle.

00:14:50.000 And now it is $30 trillion strong.

00:14:55.000 And so for the people that have always had the motivation, for the people that have always had the desire to remake the American political electorate, inflation creates the crisis that they do not want to go to waste.

00:15:08.000 As Rahm Emanuel famously said, never let a crisis go to waste.

00:15:12.000 But we know Rahm Emanuel said that.

00:15:15.000 But what if I told you then we have a new industry of people, of crisis manufacturers, people that create a crisis, and then they say, well, we can't let this go to waste to then implement our very radical political agenda.

00:15:30.000 And you're seeing that happen with local policing because they want to enforce a national federal police force.

00:15:36.000 Get rid of local police and make them retreat.

00:15:39.000 Crime goes up.

00:15:40.000 People are going to demand some form of law enforcement.

00:15:44.000 And that will be the critical race theory-trained sensitivity police force that comes in.

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00:16:55.000 I want you to imagine Dick Durbin or Janet Yellen giving this hypothetical speech.

00:17:01.000 We are on pace, by the way, for 8% inflation and maybe even more, which is bad for workers, it's bad for families, it's bad for savers, it's bad for people that played by the rules, it's bad for farmers, especially.

00:17:14.000 My fellow citizens, a certain measure of inflation is understandable due to the necessary actions we took to combat the COVID-19 crisis.

00:17:22.000 Janet Yellen would say, We took decisive measures that saved lives and saved the economy and continue to do so now.

00:17:29.000 America is a nation of immigrants, and by embracing even more immigrants right now, this will not only help safeguard our precious legacy of diversity, it'll also ensure our economy is able to continue to produce goods at prices the most marginalized among us can afford.

00:17:45.000 These courageous people are fleeing oppression, and Americans owe it to them to open our doors to them on that basis alone.

00:17:51.000 But these noble and humble people are also willing to work jobs American citizens simply can't do.

00:17:56.000 Not only is their bravery admirable, but their addition to the fabric of the American economy will help ensure all inhabitants of America can continue participating in the promise of our nation.

00:18:07.000 To keep prices low and to keep us at full employment as a hedge against the economy overheating, we must increase legal immigration into our country.

00:18:18.000 You could see them giving that speech.

00:18:20.000 In fact, I guarantee you that speech will be given in some form or fashion in the next couple months.

00:18:27.000 One of the biggest complaints I have about Republicans is they act as if the crisis in front of you was organically created out of thin air, black swan event.

00:18:36.000 What if I told you that most of the crises that you are seeing is a chess move by the left?

00:18:44.000 They manufactured it as a means to get to some desired political outcome.

00:18:52.000 Let's listen to Milton Friedman on what he had to say about inflation, cut 33. 0.97

00:18:59.000 In 1973, Japanese housewives going to market were faced with an unpleasant fact.

00:19:06.000 The cash in their purses seemed to be losing its value.

00:19:12.000 Prices were starting to soar as the awful story of inflation began to unfold once again.

00:19:21.000 The Japanese government knew what to do.

00:19:24.000 What's more, they were prepared to do it.

00:19:26.000 When it was all over, economists were able to record precisely what had happened.

00:19:32.000 In 1971, the quantity of money started to grow more rapidly.

00:19:37.000 As always happens, inflation wasn't affected for a time.

00:19:40.000 But by late 1972, it started to respond.

00:19:44.000 In early 73, the government reacted.

00:19:47.000 It started to cut monetary growth, but inflation continued to soar for a time.

00:19:52.000 The delayed reaction made 1973 a very tough year of recession.

00:19:57.000 Inflation tumbled only when the government demonstrated its determination to keep monetary growth in check.

00:20:05.000 It took five years to squeeze inflation out of the system.

00:20:11.000 We're living through that.

00:20:13.000 Now, do you think our government has the determination to squeeze out of control monetary policy?

00:20:18.000 Of course not.

00:20:19.000 Instead, our government has a determination to increase the amount of human beings that are trading with U.S. dollars.

00:20:27.000 And hasn't that always been their motivation?

00:20:30.000 At every single turn, they're trying to justify an amnesty bill.

00:20:35.000 In fact, front page of the New York Times, Joe Biden did something right, and then he did something wrong.

00:20:42.000 Where is this one here?

00:20:43.000 Ah, in reversal, Biden raises limits on refugees.

00:20:47.000 It was 15,000, now it's 62,500 refugees coming into America this year.

00:20:56.000 On top of the 1,100,000 green cards we issue, on top of the 150,000 illegal entries across the southern border every single month.

00:21:13.000 You create a crisis that can only be solved with your desired outcome, and Republicans play right into it every single time.

00:21:23.000 And so for the Republicans that voted for these big spending bills, did they realize that they were creating the conditions to actually deteriorate the dollar, weaken American manufacturing, and force a situation that would give the Democrats more political power? 0.94

00:21:41.000 You know, the Democrats, they're such frauds. 0.94

00:21:43.000 They say that they care about black lives and Hispanic lives. 0.99

00:21:48.000 Inflation is the worst thing for the workers imaginable.

00:21:52.000 It's great for people that are able to move their assets quickly and adjust prices.

00:21:58.000 Let's go to the next cut here of Milton Friedman.

00:22:00.000 If you don't know who Milton Friedman is, he's a phenomenal economist, a monetarist, very smart.

00:22:06.000 I think he was a little bit too pure on trade because I don't think he weighed the national consequences of unlimited international trade, but he was very good on inflation, amazing on the price system.

00:22:19.000 I actually think that Milton Friedman would come around and agree with some of the modern day adjustments to trade policy just to be able to save the nation, of which he loved play tape.

00:22:30.000 Japan had attained relative stability.

00:22:33.000 Unfortunately, there's no way to avoid the difficult road the Japanese had to follow before they could have both low inflation and a healthy economy.

00:22:44.000 First, they had to live through a recession until slow monetary growth had its delayed effect on inflation.

00:22:52.000 Inflation is just like alcoholism.

00:22:55.000 In both cases, when you start drinking or when you start printing too much money, the good effects come first.

00:23:02.000 The bad effects only come later.

00:23:04.000 Man, is that a wise statement?

00:23:06.000 It's like alcoholism.

00:23:08.000 The good effects come first.

00:23:09.000 Booming economy.

00:23:10.000 You know, I was just traveling from Seattle yesterday, great Alec Rowland's Church, Westgate Chapel, and DJ's Church, the House Ministry.

00:23:18.000 And I've never seen the airport so packed.

00:23:22.000 In my entire life, I've never seen the airport so packed.

00:23:26.000 It's like that first, the first couple minutes of getting drunk.

00:23:33.000 It feels great.

00:23:35.000 But alcohol is a very tricky drug.

00:23:38.000 It's one of the few drugs that you must continue to consume it, or else you're going to have a natural de-escalation or a tapering effect.

00:23:47.000 So you must continue to drink, or else you're going to have the depressant effect.

00:23:53.000 Same with inflation, that you got to keep on creating money.

00:23:57.000 You have to keep on injecting new stimulus, or else you're going to have a crash.

00:24:04.000 And so the question is, people say the economy is red hot right now.

00:24:09.000 I'm not sure if that's true.

00:24:13.000 Are we seeing massive new production?

00:24:16.000 You see, I think a lot of the economic growth statistics we use are very misleading.

00:24:21.000 Things are getting more expensive.

00:24:24.000 The quality of the things we're buying is marginally better, if at all.

00:24:29.000 And we're not producing significant new hardware in our country, things you can touch and feel.

00:24:34.000 In fact, there's a massive supply crisis when it comes to automotives, textiles, corn, lumber.

00:24:43.000 Maybe it's because we've decided to educate our most valuable young people, most valuable resource or asset, I should say, which are our young people, and send them to college and have them study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist with money they don't have.

00:25:01.000 Imagine if we instead said to 3 million people a year, don't go to the University of Minnesota, don't go to NYU, and don't go to UCLA.

00:25:10.000 Instead, go become a plumber and a welder.

00:25:14.000 People right now that are working with their hands, it is a renaissance period for the muscular class in our country.

00:25:20.000 You can't find enough people to be able to do carpentry, fix exposed wiring.

00:25:30.000 It's because that's a skill set that is now understood by an ever-decreasing part of the American population.

00:25:43.000 And I also reject this idea that there are jobs that Americans just won't do.

00:25:48.000 I think there are jobs that our upper middle class, elitist mindset won't let our children do.

00:25:56.000 You know, I was just in Seattle and I was talking to a group and I said, because it's definitely a neighborhood where everyone must go to college.

00:26:05.000 That's kind of the ethos of where I spoke.

00:26:07.000 And I said, many parents in our country do not want their kids to work construction.

00:26:13.000 Many parents in our country, they would much rather have their children become secular liberals at a university than become a plumber, a welder, an electrician, or a carpenter.

00:26:24.000 And that's actually where the money is.

00:26:27.000 And so as we're seeing these sorts of effects on our country, what can you do with?

00:26:32.000 What can you do with this?

00:26:33.000 Well, if you have any resources at all, buy things you can touch that are valuable.

00:26:39.000 But when you start to see Bitcoin get as expensive and valuable as it has, cryptocurrency, people are basically indicting the dollar in real time.

00:26:50.000 Now, some people speculate this is all part of the great reset.

00:26:53.000 That very well might be true.

00:26:55.000 In order to get a one world currency, you must destroy the reserve currency of the world, which is the U.S. dollar.

00:27:01.000 Break the back of the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar.

00:27:04.000 Now, some people say, well, Charlie, we had no choice but to inflate our way and to stimulate the economy after the Chinese coronavirus.

00:27:14.000 That's an awful argument. 0.99

00:27:16.000 It's foolish. 1.00

00:27:16.000 It's dumb. 1.00

00:27:17.000 All we had to do is reopen every single state like Ron DeSantis did in May of last year, and none of the stimulus spending was necessary at all whatsoever. 0.97

00:27:27.000 Instead, we should have just cut taxes on the demand side.

00:27:30.000 We could have adjusted taxes on the supply side.

00:27:33.000 And the one thing that President Trump should have done is I think he should have given an address to Congress in June of last year, called Congress in, or done it through Zoom or whatever, and he should have presented a self-sufficiency investment bill.

00:27:49.000 And he should have put Democrats on defense and campaigned on it in the summer of 2020 saying, I want to make sure penicillin, vitamin C, lumber, steel, solar panels, cars, microchips, and valuable essential minerals are all made in America, and I'm willing to subsidize it, tariff it, whatever you call it.

00:28:08.000 We are never having to go overseas for things that matter again.

00:28:11.000 That would have been a winning political issue instead of just corporate tax cuts and deregulating businesses that don't share our values and declare economic warfare on our fellow countrymen because Georgia decides they want to require you to say you're to require you to show who you are when you vote.

00:28:31.000 So there's very little you can do once the masters of the universe decide to inflate your currency.

00:28:37.000 You can make adjustments.

00:28:39.000 You can adjust your portfolio and some of your investments.

00:28:43.000 And some investment advisors think what I am talking about here with inflation is overblown.

00:28:47.000 It's a moment in time.

00:28:50.000 I completely reject that.

00:28:52.000 I encourage you to go to American Compass by Oren Cass to show real inflation.

00:28:56.000 Healthcare, education, transportation, they're all getting dramatically more expensive.

00:29:02.000 But understand this is not just to break the back of the U.S. dollar.

00:29:07.000 It's not just to stimulate.

00:29:08.000 No, no, no, no.

00:29:09.000 They want to remake the American electorate.

00:29:12.000 They want to remake who actually votes in our country.

00:29:17.000 They don't want to dilute the dollar.

00:29:18.000 They want to dilute your vote.

00:29:24.000 So I saw this picture on Twitter yesterday, and there's a lot that I have to unpack with this.

00:29:28.000 So this is a picture of Joe Biden with the Carter family, Jimmy Carter and his wife.

00:29:35.000 Now, Joe Biden is a normal-sized person.

00:29:38.000 He is not, he is not that guy from Princess Bride.

00:29:42.000 What was that guy's name?

00:29:44.000 The guy that drank all the time.

00:29:46.000 I'll think of it.

00:29:47.000 Anyway, he's not Shaquille O'Neal, okay?

00:29:51.000 And it just looks from this picture that I never knew the Carter family were hobbits.

00:29:58.000 Andre the Giant.

00:29:59.000 That's what I was thinking of.

00:30:00.000 Andre the Giant.

00:30:01.000 And so this has been going all over the internet, and it's just kind of fun.

00:30:07.000 And it just kind of demands more questions.

00:30:09.000 Jill Biden is also not a massive person. 0.99

00:30:14.000 I think she's like 5'4, 5'5. 0.60

00:30:16.000 And maybe it's the camera angle.

00:30:19.000 I mean, Joe Biden looks like he's nine feet tall in this picture.

00:30:23.000 He takes up the entire photo.

00:30:26.000 And so, but here's the real question that we must ask: where are their masks?

00:30:32.000 Jimmy Carter and his wife, they're 96 and 93 years old.

00:30:36.000 Joe Biden wears a mask when he showers.

00:30:40.000 Joe Biden wore a mask on a Zoom call with other world leaders.

00:30:44.000 And yet Joe and Jill Biden don't wear masks when they go and visit a frail former president in his late 90s.

00:30:55.000 Maybe the entire mask game for Joe Biden is nothing more than just a kind of a trick?

00:31:06.000 Is it some sort of a just he's playing some sort of role?

00:31:13.000 I don't know.

00:31:15.000 But I think it's very interesting because we are being lectured by people that don't actually follow the rules themselves.

00:31:21.000 And people are starting to recognize and realize this.

00:31:24.000 Gavin Newsom going to French laundry while he tried to shut down the entire California economy.

00:31:32.000 Governor Whitmer's aide, I think she too also went to Florida.

00:31:35.000 Is that right?

00:31:36.000 Yeah, Governor Whitmer went to Florida.

00:31:39.000 How does anyone allow this to actually continue? 0.85

00:31:42.000 That Governor Whitmer comes to the open state of Florida to go enjoy an open state while she keeps her own citizens locked down.

00:31:51.000 I do not remotely comprehend how people are tolerating this in certain states.

00:31:58.000 But if anyone can explain to me at least the optics or the framing of that picture, while Joe Biden, why Joe Biden looks like Mutumbo and Jimmy Carter looks like Bilbo Baggins, I'm just, it's been bothering me.

00:32:12.000 Seriously.

00:32:13.000 And so anyone can email us freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:16.000 Maybe it's just a camera framing, or maybe Jimmy Carter all along has been 4'4 and we just didn't know.

00:32:26.000 Lubbock, Texas.

00:32:28.000 I actually spoke there with my good friend Betty Cardenas last year.

00:32:32.000 They have become the first city in the country to be a sanctuary city for the unborn.

00:32:39.000 And now, of course, Planned Parenthood is suing.

00:32:41.000 They won 62% to 38% against the one in favor of this.

00:32:47.000 The passage of the ordinance makes Lubbock one of some of two dozen cities, I'm sorry, it's the first city in Texas that has declared themselves a sanctuary city for the unborn and prohibits abortions from being performed locally.

00:32:59.000 But none of the cities in the movement, which started in the east town of Wascombe in 2019, has been as big as Lubbock.

00:33:06.000 I love this story.

00:33:08.000 This is the only way things are going to start to change when we start to play offense.

00:33:12.000 This is the biggest city to do it to date. 0.51

00:33:15.000 And so if the left can all of a sudden make sanctuary cities against federal immigration law, then we can make sanctuary cities for the unborn.

00:33:24.000 And this is significant because it's Texas Tech University as well.

00:33:28.000 And Planned Parenthood is suing, but they're on defense.

00:33:32.000 And that's a good lesson and a good posture for all of us to take, which is that we must play offense and put forward our values and our ideas where they matter most.

00:33:42.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:44.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:47.000 And if you want to support us, it's charliekirk.com/slash support and get involved with TurningpointUSA at tpusa.com.

00:33:54.000 God bless you guys.

00:33:55.000 Speak to you soon.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - May 04, 2021

Inflation Is Coming

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