The Charlie Kirk Show - It's Time to Talk About George W. Bush

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00:01:59.000 So I was in Dallas this last week.

00:02:01.000 And actually, in fact, I was in Dallas twice in the last week.

00:02:06.000 Dallas is changing rapidly.

00:02:09.000 Dallas is no longer a Republican city, especially in Highland Park.

00:02:17.000 So Highland Park is a very affluent area.

00:02:20.000 It's North Dallas.

00:02:22.000 It's right up the Dallas North Tollway.

00:02:24.000 Producer Connor knows it very well.

00:02:27.000 Big mansions, massive churches.

00:02:31.000 It's the neighborhood of George W. Bush.

00:02:33.000 In fact, the Bush Center is literally in Highland Park.

00:02:38.000 So I was driving around Dallas this last weekend and I spoke at Kelly Shackelford's event, First Liberty.

00:02:43.000 And what a great guy Kelly Shackelford is and what a wonderful organization First Liberty is.

00:02:48.000 I don't say that about every organization.

00:02:49.000 They are terrific people.

00:02:50.000 They're warm.

00:02:51.000 They're friendly.

00:02:52.000 They're patriotic.

00:02:53.000 They're driven and they're loyal.

00:02:55.000 I think the world of them.

00:02:56.000 And so I was driving through Highland Park and every other street lamp was, there was these massive advertisements put forward by the city of Highland Park or Dallas in concert with the Bush Center, which was George W. Bush's new book.

00:03:23.000 Now, George W. Bush's new book is Out of Many One, which is obviously a play on the Latin phrase, E pluribus Unum.

00:03:32.000 So George W. Bush is going on a media blitz recently to advocate that what America is missing in the time of a pandemic, massive moral decline, an overly aggressive Democrat Party and a very weak Republican Party, George W. Bush's new fixation, his new obsession, is that we are not bringing enough people into our country.

00:03:57.000 That's his new fixation.

00:04:00.000 And so every other street lamp post, I guess you could call it, you know what I'm talking about, they have these big banners.

00:04:07.000 What do you call those things?

00:04:08.000 I guess it's a street lamp, right?

00:04:09.000 They have these big banners, every other one.

00:04:12.000 Anyway, you can't miss it.

00:04:15.000 And I thought to myself, first of all, why the overemphasis on this virtue signaling campaign of look how good of people we are because we want to open ourselves up to the rest of the planet.

00:04:31.000 So I just got to thinking, I said, have we actually properly explained as conservatives, really explained what is immigration?

00:04:42.000 What kind of immigration policy should we have?

00:04:45.000 What immigration policies do the rest of the world have?

00:04:49.000 And has America's immigration policy always been the same?

00:04:53.000 So let me be very clear.

00:04:56.000 People border jumping into our country is not immigration.

00:04:59.000 That's not even the focus of what I'm going to talk about.

00:05:01.000 That is illegal entry into the United States.

00:05:04.000 That is not immigration.

00:05:06.000 Immigration is legally requesting entry into a country for a specific purpose.

00:05:14.000 So on George W. Bush's website, it's thebushcenter.org, he has slide after slide and page after page focusing on what he calls immigration reform.

00:05:28.000 And so he has a new book out, as I've mentioned, called The Out of Many One.

00:05:34.000 And so when you go to his website, he has a couple quotes by him.

00:05:39.000 And he says, quote, at its core, immigration is a sign of a confident and a successful nation.

00:05:48.000 It says something about our country that people all around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and risk everything to come to our country.

00:05:55.000 Their talent and hard work and their love of freedom have helped us become the leader of the world.

00:06:00.000 Huh, that's a huge statement.

00:06:02.000 Wow.

00:06:03.000 Our generation must ensure that America remains a beacon of liberty and the most hopeful society the world has ever known.

00:06:12.000 We must always be proud to welcome people as fellow Americans.

00:06:15.000 Our new immigrants are just as they've always been, people willing to risk everything for the dream of freedom.

00:06:22.000 He continues by saying, quote, across the world, good men and women still dream of starting a new life in America.

00:06:29.000 People who bring energy and talent and faith in the future.

00:06:33.000 Often they bring a special love of freedom.

00:06:36.000 Really, they do?

00:06:37.000 Elon Omar brings a special love of freedom.

00:06:40.000 You're trying to tell me America's become more free because hundreds of thousands of Somalis have immigrated to America?

00:06:48.000 That's an interesting argument, George W. Bush.

00:06:50.000 You think we should have more congresswomen like Elon Omar that have never said a positive thing about our country?

00:06:56.000 The great yearning of so many to live in our country presents a significant challenge.

00:07:01.000 America's elected representatives have a duty to regulate who comes in and when.

00:07:05.000 I agree with that.

00:07:07.000 In meeting this responsibility, it helps to remember, ah, that America's immigrant history made us who we are.

00:07:14.000 Is that right?

00:07:16.000 Is it that simple that America's immigrant history is our national identity?

00:07:22.000 We should explore that.

00:07:24.000 Because we hear all the time, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy said, we are a nation of immigrants.

00:07:29.000 Is that true? 1.00

00:07:32.000 Maybe.

00:07:33.000 Or are we, it's that a nation of settlers who founded a country that didn't yet exist and created something.

00:07:42.000 And some people did come here legally, but what did they do when they came here?

00:07:46.000 When the Swedes, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Germans, the French, the Irish, the Scots, what did they come here? 0.67

00:07:51.000 They assimilated.

00:07:52.000 They learned our language.

00:07:53.000 They served selflessly.

00:07:55.000 They never said a bad word about America.

00:07:57.000 They kissed the ground when they came in.

00:08:00.000 And here's what George W. Bush says: amid all the complications of policy, may we never forget that immigration is a blessing and a strength.

00:08:10.000 So I'd love to ask George W. Bush, can you tell me the different fluctuations of immigration in American history?

00:08:18.000 Largely considered the greatest decade in American history, in my opinion, is the 1950s.

00:08:24.000 The 1950s was an era of peace and prosperity.

00:08:27.000 How many people were we bringing into our country in 1950?

00:08:32.000 Or how about 1947, right after World War II?

00:08:36.000 So just to give you an idea, right now we are currently legally bringing in 1 million people into our country, 1 million new green card holders, and they are able to apply for citizenship after five years.

00:08:49.000 Three if they're married to a U.S. citizen.

00:08:51.000 1 million people.

00:08:54.000 But how about in 1947?

00:08:57.000 Well, in 1946, we brought in 100,000 people into our country.

00:09:02.000 During World War II, we brought in almost no one to our country.

00:09:05.000 1943, we brought in 23,725 people.

00:09:09.000 How about 1933?

00:09:11.000 23,000 people.

00:09:13.000 How about 1936?

00:09:15.000 36,000 people.

00:09:17.000 How about 1940?

00:09:18.000 70,000 people.

00:09:21.000 Now, what I'm getting at here is we had massive spikes in immigration in the 1914.

00:09:26.000 We had 1.2 million people coming in.

00:09:28.000 1920, 800,000 people coming in.

00:09:30.000 1924, 706,000 people.

00:09:33.000 And then it went down, obviously, because of the Great Depression and the war.

00:09:37.000 But I would argue that the taking a moment to digest the big meal, to use the metaphor, was one of the reasons why we were able to have the ties that bound us together in the 1950s and that created the greatest generation. 0.78

00:09:50.000 The greatest generation was a beneficiary of controlled immigration policies. 0.88

00:09:56.000 America's greatness was large in part because we were able to slow down international immigration.

00:10:06.000 Immigration can be an asset.

00:10:08.000 Let me say that again.

00:10:09.000 It can be an asset.

00:10:11.000 What happens when immigration becomes a liability?

00:10:13.000 Are you allowed to say that now? 0.74

00:10:14.000 Of course you're not, but I'll say it.

00:10:16.000 What happens when immigration becomes a liability? 0.96

00:10:19.000 What happens when you're bringing too many people in too quickly? 0.99

00:10:21.000 What happens when people coming into the country are more likely to take government benefits than go take work? 0.99

00:10:25.000 What happens when the people come into your country and they don't share your values? 0.52

00:10:28.000 What happens when they come into the country and run for office and their daily mission is to deconstruct the country like Elon Omar?

00:10:33.000 What happens then?

00:10:34.000 Are we still supposed to just, we're just supposed to say this incantation: immigration is our strength.

00:10:38.000 Immigration is our strength.

00:10:40.000 I'm going to challenge that. 1.00

00:10:42.000 George W. Bush joined my friend Hugh Hewitt, fellow St. Louis Radio host.

00:10:50.000 Hugh is great.

00:10:52.000 And George W. Bush joined him for a conversation.

00:10:54.000 Let's listen to what George W. Bush had to say.

00:10:56.000 That's what we're doing.

00:10:57.000 We've got a coalition of like-minded people working this issue, and many of them are involved on Capitol Hill.

00:11:04.000 So the Bush Center is spearheading a reform movement.

00:11:07.000 It's quiet, except for this book, which makes it not quiet.

00:11:11.000 But we're lining up.

00:11:13.000 And, you know, we're talking to people about what needs to be done.

00:11:18.000 I mean, the Koch brothers, for example, I know that's a word that scares a lot of people on the left, but they're very much in favor of a rational immigration policy.

00:11:28.000 And they're putting money behind it, and they're pushing hard.

00:11:31.000 And so we're very much involved with what you said.

00:11:33.000 Now, so that's George W. Bush talking about a coalition that's going to try to push amnesty, funded by Mark Zuckerberg, amongst many other groups.

00:11:46.000 It's very interesting.

00:11:48.000 I'm a big fan of Aristotle.

00:11:50.000 Aristotle, I believe, was the great, the great philosopher, not a knock at Plato, but Aristotle dealt with things you could measure.

00:11:58.000 He was a scientist first and foremost.

00:12:01.000 He founded an academy called the Lyceum.

00:12:05.000 Aristotle famously said that the highest form of community is politics because it combines morality and sociability.

00:12:12.000 And Dr. Larry Arn from Hillsdale has a terrific course on Aristotle.

00:12:16.000 Aristotle dealt with eternal knowledge.

00:12:20.000 Aristotle observed human behavior and made predictions on how things always will be.

00:12:26.000 You know, someone asked me the other day, they said, Charlie, what is a conservative?

00:12:31.000 I said, one attribute of a conservative is we know human nature, we know it's not going to change, and we don't say how things ought to be, we say how things are and we create public policy around that.

00:12:47.000 Let me read Aristotle when it came to immigration.

00:12:52.000 It is the habit of tyrants never to like anyone who has a spirit of dignity and independence.

00:12:56.000 The tyrant claims a monopoly on such qualities for himself.

00:13:00.000 He feels that anybody who asserts a rival dignity or acts of independence is threatening his own superiority and the despotic power of his tyranny.

00:13:10.000 And he hates him accordingly as a subverter of his own authority.

00:13:14.000 It is also the habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at a table in his own society.

00:13:25.000 Citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.

00:13:33.000 Let me read that end part again.

00:13:35.000 This is 2,400 years ago.

00:13:38.000 It is the habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at the table in society.

00:13:44.000 Citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.

00:13:50.000 They'll do what they're told.

00:13:53.000 You see, the thing about a citizen, it's actually really interesting.

00:13:56.000 If you go back into the Greek, tyrants comes from a Greek word tyrannos, which means master to control.

00:14:04.000 And citizen comes from a Greek word which means co-ruler, equal say, participant in the project.

00:14:12.000 Where alien means foreigner, a distant, not currently invested.

00:14:16.000 So what is Aristotle getting at here?

00:14:18.000 And what does that do with our immigration policy?

00:14:21.000 It's harder to face your fellow countrymen and solve problems. 0.86

00:14:24.000 It's harder to go to rural Appalachia.

00:14:27.000 It's harder for George W. Bush to go to Hubbard, Ohio.

00:14:30.000 It's harder for George W. Bush to go to West Virginia and say, I screwed up.

00:14:34.000 I sent your sons to wars that we shouldn't have fought.

00:14:37.000 I signed trade deals that sent your factories overseas.

00:14:40.000 And I let in 10 million people from across the planet that put your wages down. 1.00

00:14:44.000 No, instead, it's a lot easier to say, let's go bring in people that are living in the third world because they will do what we tell them to do. 0.99

00:14:51.000 They're much more obedient voters. 0.98

00:14:55.000 It's harder to actually turn to your fellow countrymen and do something our leaders hate doing.

00:15:03.000 Take responsibility for what you did.

00:15:06.000 George W. Bush doesn't want to face his fellow countrymen because he might actually have to explain to the great people of Middleton, Ohio or Aberdeen, South Dakota.

00:15:19.000 I didn't put you first.

00:15:22.000 So instead, he's now the new spokesman, rather inarticulately, if I might add, of this project to say America is not a country.

00:15:34.000 America's a colony.

00:15:35.000 Who cares where you're from? 1.00

00:15:37.000 Elon Omar shares the same values of the people of Aberdeen, South Dakota, and I say that is garbage. 0.96

00:15:45.000 I have no obligation to let in another 100,000 people like Elon Omar.

00:15:50.000 Instead, I'm going to fight daily for the people of Hubbard, Ohio and the people of Prescott, Arizona.

00:15:55.000 That's where my loyalty is.

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00:16:05.000 Incognito mode, like the Chrome browser itself is a Google product, and Google has made its fortune by tracking your movements online.

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00:17:13.000 The biggest news story of the last couple weeks is right in my hands.

00:17:20.000 And no one is talking about it.

00:17:21.000 It will impact every single person watching, listening, traveling, you name it.

00:17:28.000 It's something we've been warning about for months.

00:17:31.000 We did entire podcasts on this, and in fact, we were ridiculed by the experts.

00:17:38.000 The people in charge said this is not going to happen.

00:17:41.000 Stop it.

00:17:42.000 Now, I do not have a PhD in economics, but I do know very basic math.

00:17:52.000 And I also look at the world around me, inspired by Aristotle.

00:17:55.000 I think logically and rationally outside of some sort of self-contained, hermetically sealed bubble at some college campus.

00:18:03.000 And then I make predictions.

00:18:05.000 Well, I encourage all of you to go back and listen to our episode where we said inflation is coming.

00:18:11.000 And some people emailed us their snarky emails: Charlie, we're in a cycle of modern monetary theory.

00:18:16.000 Don't you understand?

00:18:18.000 The laws of economics have been suspended.

00:18:21.000 That's actually an email I got.

00:18:23.000 The laws of economics no longer apply.

00:18:28.000 We've graduated to a postmoderns society where gravity?

00:18:34.000 Ha!

00:18:36.000 Force equals mass times acceleration.

00:18:38.000 Good one.

00:18:40.000 We have elevated ourselves to a woke level where we will never be constrained if an object at rest shall stay at rest.

00:18:48.000 We have conquered the natural world.

00:18:49.000 We are postmodernists.

00:18:52.000 And of course, I laugh and I chuckle.

00:18:55.000 I say, oh, yeah, if only you were the first one to think that you conquered the natural world.

00:19:01.000 Just ask how it went with Napoleon in Siberia or Alexander the Great in India or the National Socialist Workers' Party.

00:19:07.000 If you think you're the first person ever to think that you could take dominion over the laws of nature and nature's God, I got a continent to sell you.

00:19:17.000 Anyway, I just, I love these articles.

00:19:21.000 I get such a chuckle out of this.

00:19:23.000 Again, I didn't go to college.

00:19:24.000 I don't have a PhD in economics, obviously, but I've read Milton Friedman.

00:19:27.000 I read Thomas Sowell, and I think very deeply about this for hours and hours a day.

00:19:30.000 This was not a hard call.

00:19:32.000 Let me just say, I make some predictions that are kind of like, oh, wow, I didn't see that one.

00:19:36.000 This one was easy.

00:19:38.000 Consumer price index indicates growing inflation.

00:19:42.000 Did you guys hear about this story?

00:19:44.000 Happened a week ago.

00:19:46.000 It impacts all of you.

00:19:49.000 Every single person.

00:19:51.000 The groceries you buy, the education you pay for for your kids, the gas you fill up, everything is getting more expensive.

00:19:57.000 And none of your leaders want to talk about it.

00:19:59.000 None of the business channels are covering this.

00:20:00.000 Instead, they say, oh, look how wonderful the stock market's increasing.

00:20:04.000 Well, maybe it's increasing because there's so many dollar bills and no one knows that anything's worth.

00:20:10.000 You want to see a value crisis happening in real time?

00:20:13.000 What happened to Bitcoin over the weekend?

00:20:15.000 Yeah, crashed.

00:20:17.000 The reason that you have this Dogecoin, when you start to see things that have no value get really valuable quickly, run to the hills and then go buy the hills because they'll be worth a lot because you could touch them.

00:20:32.000 Consumer price index indicates growing inflation.

00:20:34.000 I get such a chuckle out of this. 0.80

00:20:35.000 By the way, this directly connects with immigration.

00:20:37.000 And I'm going to connect with George W. Bush.

00:20:39.000 I'm going to merge it all together.

00:20:40.000 Bang.

00:20:41.000 In a way that no one else will.

00:20:43.000 Inflation via the Consumer Price Index came above expectations by economists.

00:20:48.000 Who are these economists?

00:20:48.000 I have to stop.

00:20:50.000 We pay these people.

00:20:52.000 This was not a hard call.

00:20:55.000 You have 77 times earning valuations on the market.

00:20:59.000 I'm getting phone calls from people saying, Hey, Charlie, what are some good deals?

00:21:02.000 Would I look like a merchant banker?

00:21:03.000 I don't know.

00:21:04.000 The point is that no one knows where to put their dollars.

00:21:07.000 We create $6 trillion and we're less productive than ever before.

00:21:10.000 We're not making stuff anymore.

00:21:12.000 Housing prices are up dramatically, and we're supposed to be surprised when inflation starts to get reflected in the numbers.

00:21:19.000 The numbers showed that the CPI gained 0.6%, which was 10 points above the consensus on the highest single-month tally since June of 2009.

00:21:29.000 Bitcoin's at 54.

00:21:30.000 Okay, it rallied a little bit.

00:21:31.000 Still a lot of dollar bills.

00:21:33.000 Huh?

00:21:33.000 What is this down from 60 though?

00:21:34.000 Yeah.

00:21:35.000 Okay, it's down.

00:21:36.000 It'd be down 5% then.

00:21:38.000 It cratered to as much as 48 over the weekend.

00:21:40.000 Okay.

00:21:40.000 When compared to year over year, which is considered a more modest inflation metric, the CPI is plus 2.16% over month over month.

00:21:50.000 You know what that means?

00:21:52.000 If this even keeps up at half of the rate that happened last month, we're going to have 10% inflation this year.

00:21:58.000 I'm pausing for emphasis.

00:22:01.000 10% inflation.

00:22:04.000 Now, I love the way they justify this: Reuters, which is they're fine.

00:22:08.000 I'm not actually that anti-Reuters.

00:22:11.000 I love the way they justify this.

00:22:13.000 Oh, no, okay.

00:22:13.000 The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, both of them together.

00:22:15.000 Well, it's all because of gas price is what they say.

00:22:18.000 It is so funny.

00:22:19.000 The gasoline index continues to increase, rising 9.1% in March and accounting for nearly half of the seasonally adjusted increase in all items indexed.

00:22:26.000 Well, here's a little news flash: people buy gasoline.

00:22:29.000 So if that's getting more expensive, that's still a tax on the consumer.

00:22:33.000 But also, do you know that if gasoline gets more expensive?

00:22:38.000 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, they say the gasoline index continues to increase, rising 9.1% in March and accounting for nearly half of the adjusted seasonal increase of all items indexed.

00:22:49.000 Okay, so what's the significance of what when gas gets more expensive?

00:22:52.000 Let's try to think a little bit analytically here.

00:22:56.000 Everything gets more expensive.

00:22:57.000 Why?

00:22:58.000 Because when you need your vegan smoothie from a grocery store, someone had to transport those items and those ingredients to a grocery store.

00:23:04.000 And when it gets more expensive, the transport, your items, and your ingredients, everything gets more expensive.

00:23:10.000 It's not a little thing when fuel, when transportation gets to be more pricey.

00:23:15.000 It's a big deal.

00:23:17.000 This guy's Fawad Rakaza, Raza Kwada Gaza.

00:23:23.000 I don't know his name.

00:23:24.000 It's a very interesting name.

00:23:26.000 Anyway, I mean no offense.

00:23:30.000 Raza Quizada.

00:23:32.000 Okay.

00:23:33.000 A market analysis think market says, quote, inflation will probably pick up further and the numbers for the next few months may appear abnormally large as base effects from the 2020 lockdown skew the data.

00:23:45.000 The article finishes by saying the Federal Reserve's revised mandate has indicated that they will let inflation run hot above its former 2% benchmark in lieu of focusing on their mandate of maximum employment.

00:23:58.000 Who gave them that mandate exactly?

00:24:00.000 The Federal Reserve is unregulated.

00:24:02.000 No, There's no mandate of maximum employment.

00:24:05.000 There's something much more Machiavellian at play here.

00:24:07.000 I'm about to tell you what it is.

00:24:08.000 It's very interesting.

00:24:09.000 This will undoubtedly continue to have a bullish effect on gold and silver.

00:24:12.000 Yeah, no kidding.

00:24:14.000 If you own gold and silver, don't sell it anytime soon.

00:24:17.000 So, what's really going on here?

00:24:19.000 Inflation is here.

00:24:20.000 Again, I wasn't the only one that predicted it.

00:24:22.000 Okay, it's not that hard of a call.

00:24:23.000 I'm just making fun of these economists that literally says they came in above their expectations.

00:24:29.000 These guys must never leave their lockdowns.

00:24:33.000 They don't see human behavior outside of just graphs and charts.

00:24:37.000 Here's what's happening: there's only a few ways to solve inflation.

00:24:44.000 What is inflation?

00:24:45.000 Let's just reemphasize this.

00:24:47.000 Inflation is when the number of dollars in the economy is outpacing the value that is being created.

00:24:53.000 Pretty simple, right?

00:24:55.000 So when you're creating more dollars than creating more value, therefore the dollars will be worth less because the value is not correlated or compensating with the value that's being created.

00:25:10.000 So how do you solve that?

00:25:12.000 Well, one of the ways to solve it is to raise interest rates.

00:25:15.000 What does that do?

00:25:16.000 Well, it restricts the money supply.

00:25:19.000 What is an interest rate?

00:25:21.000 An interest rate is the price of money.

00:25:23.000 It's how expensive it is to borrow.

00:25:25.000 Well, right now, interest rates are really low.

00:25:28.000 So the guzzle is on.

00:25:30.000 Meanwhile, the federal government has created over $6 trillion in the last year.

00:25:35.000 So obviously, we're going to see a little bit of inflation.

00:25:39.000 So you can raise interest rates.

00:25:40.000 The Federal Reserve is actually very much uninterested in doing that.

00:25:44.000 So how else can you handle inflation?

00:25:47.000 You can raise taxes, which will confiscate money from the money supply, but that's not going to be enough.

00:25:54.000 No, no, no, no.

00:25:57.000 You can also solve inflation by bringing in more people to trade with dollar bills.

00:26:04.000 You see, the more people that have dollar bills, it diffuses the supply of human beings that are then trading with dollar bills.

00:26:14.000 What if I told you that Democrats have wanted inflation as an excuse to bring in more human beings to our country?

00:26:24.000 That immigration is directly tied to inflation.

00:26:30.000 That's what's happening here.

00:26:32.000 And the corporate oligarchs who George W. Bush represents, they want more immigration because it gives them an excuse to have lower wages and they don't actually have to pay American workers.

00:26:46.000 Who else is behind this push for mass immigration?

00:26:50.000 Well, George W. Bush has partnered with Mark Zuckerberg on this project.

00:26:55.000 That's right.

00:26:56.000 A former Republican president has partnered with Mark Zuckerberg.

00:27:00.000 What does that tell you about George W. Bush?

00:27:05.000 Because they would much rather hire someone from Bangladesh to go do the coding at Facebook than a graduate of Caltech or Arizona State University. 0.99

00:27:16.000 This is a wage-cutting exercise. 0.97

00:27:21.000 This is a wage-cutting program.

00:27:24.000 They don't want to hire our workers.

00:27:26.000 Now, let me make a moral argument that no one makes.

00:27:29.000 We have a moral responsibility to our college graduates.

00:27:32.000 Why?

00:27:34.000 Well, we invested in them in elementary schools, in high schools.

00:27:37.000 We invested in them and we told them, go borrow all this money.

00:27:42.000 Go through the loops of going to college.

00:27:45.000 Go to University of Texas, Austin, go to Texas A ⁇ M, go to University of Miami, go study all this stuff.

00:27:51.000 And when you graduate, our promise to you is a high-paying job. 0.99

00:27:55.000 And now our own graduates have to compete against foreign-born, non-college-educated workers. 0.99

00:28:02.000 Let me say that again: non-college educated. 1.00

00:28:05.000 They just happen to have the skill. 0.71

00:28:08.000 Now, I'm not even getting into the fact some people say, well, Charlie, we educate all these people in our schools and then we send them back to their country.

00:28:16.000 I actually think there's a very interesting point about this. 0.97

00:28:18.000 Why did we let them into our schools in the first place?

00:28:20.000 They pay full freight, therefore inflating the sticker price for all the rest of Americans when they actually want to go pay for a college degree.

00:28:27.000 By the way, I'm a huge critic of college.

00:28:28.000 I don't think we should send many people to college as it is.

00:28:31.000 But let's say you're studying engineering.

00:28:33.000 You study engineering at Northwestern.

00:28:36.000 You do what you're supposed to do. 0.98

00:28:38.000 You go $100,000 into debt, and now you have to go compete against a foreign-born individual of which they were never involved in the promise of America, the contract, the cooperation. 0.98

00:28:52.000 They were never a participant in the contract. 0.66

00:28:55.000 But George W. Bush's argument is: we don't have any loyalty to our fellow countrymen.

00:29:00.000 Who cares if these college graduates borrowed all this money?

00:29:03.000 What matters is how many people we bring in.

00:29:06.000 That will be the mark of how good a people we are.

00:29:07.000 And I say no.

00:29:08.000 Loyalty matters.

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00:29:23.000 You need to do something different.

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00:30:12.000 Allegedly, the Oscars was last night.

00:30:14.000 I used to watch that when I was growing up.

00:30:17.000 In fact, I remember watching the Oscars.

00:30:19.000 I think this was a high point of American cinema when Lord of the Rings won like every single award.

00:30:24.000 That was a great moment.

00:30:26.000 That wasn't political.

00:30:28.000 There wasn't any sort of message.

00:30:30.000 It was just, let's celebrate probably the greatest accomplishment in cinema ever.

00:30:36.000 And Lord of the Rings was pretty ambitious.

00:30:38.000 Peter Jackson, I think that's his name.

00:30:40.000 Peter Jackson, who produced Lord of the Rings, filmed all three movies at once.

00:30:45.000 He didn't know if it was going to be ridiculed as a dork show or going to be going down as one of the greatest movies of all time.

00:30:54.000 And they won.

00:30:55.000 And it was awesome.

00:30:56.000 I remember when the whole crew came up on stage, I think they won best music, best actor, best movie, everything.

00:31:02.000 Now the Oscars is actually unwatchable.

00:31:07.000 Let's just play a couple tapes here. 0.98

00:31:09.000 Regina King from the Oscars cut for, just give you an idea of just kind of the virtue signaling that's going on there, cut four. 0.99

00:31:18.000 People have been vaxxed, tested, retested, socially distanced.

00:31:23.000 And we are following all of the rigorous protocols that got us back to work safely.

00:31:29.000 So, just like on a movie set, when we're rolling, masks off.

00:31:34.000 And when we're not rolling, masks on.

00:31:38.000 All right, that's how we do it.

00:31:40.000 Yes, that was just a little bit, just a little snapshot.

00:31:42.000 But the Oscars, let's see if people want the woke stuff.

00:31:47.000 How did they do?

00:31:48.000 The Oscar ratings are in, and it's the lowest ever.

00:31:55.000 Only 9.8 million people tuned in, which is a 58% drop from last year's all-time low of 23 million people.

00:32:05.000 The ceremony landed a 1.9 rating for adults in the coveted 18 to 29 demographic, a 64.2% drop from 2020.

00:32:17.000 People said there were some charming moments.

00:32:19.000 I really don't care about them.

00:32:21.000 And what's happened here, and I'll be really interested to see how long this can continue, is this intentional sabotage of one's business for a very distant political pursuit, which is we are going to intentionally alienate our audience.

00:32:44.000 We are going to have a 58% drop in viewership for what?

00:32:50.000 What constituency do you think you represent?

00:32:53.000 When you have basically told the entire country, we hate you, we hate your values, and obey us, no one's going to watch.

00:33:00.000 But the question is, how long is this going to be subsidized by the corporate oligarchs?

00:33:05.000 Tyler Perry said something incredibly controversial.

00:33:08.000 He said, I refuse to hate anyone because they're Mexican or because they're black or white. 1.00

00:33:11.000 Good for him for saying that. 0.99

00:33:12.000 Cut one.

00:33:14.000 It is my hope that all of us would teach our kids, and not only to remember, just refuse hate.

00:33:20.000 Don't hate anybody.

00:33:22.000 I refuse to hate someone because they are Mexican or because they are black or white or LBGTQ.

00:33:30.000 I refuse to hate someone because they are a police officer.

00:33:33.000 I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian.

00:33:37.000 I would hope that we would refuse hate.

00:33:40.000 Now, I've been told he's getting a backlash for that.

00:33:42.000 I could be wrong.

00:33:43.000 He said, two things you're not supposed to say.

00:33:46.000 I refuse to hate anyone because they're white or a police officer.

00:33:49.000 You know what, Tyler Perry?

00:33:50.000 Good for you for saying that.

00:33:52.000 In a small little weird, bizarre way, that's a courageous statement nowadays, but you deserve credit for that.

00:33:57.000 And you might be cited for cancellation.

00:33:59.000 Now, I'm going to make a prediction.

00:34:02.000 Tyler Perry's going to clarify his remarks and have to apologize.

00:34:05.000 That's the way this stuff works.

00:34:06.000 If he hasn't already, because he'll get a phone call.

00:34:10.000 Now, maybe he's big enough.

00:34:12.000 He's got more wisdom than most Hollywood actors that I've seen.

00:34:15.000 You go woke, you go broke.

00:34:17.000 The Oscars is watched by a small group of angry people that it's kind of a little bit of an expanded MSNBC audience.

00:34:25.000 It's like MSNBC with better-looking people is basically what the Oscars has become.

00:34:31.000 Not exactly bearable.

00:34:33.000 And we'll see how long this sort of model can continue.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - April 27, 2021

It's Time to Talk About George W. Bush

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