The Charlie Kirk Show - Kamala the Communist Wants Soviet-Style Grocery Stores

In America, we have it so good in the United States of America that we don t even teach our kids how to eat. You know why? It's because we have food on demand. It's so easy to take for granted when you say, "Hey honey, I gotta go get some stuff from the grocery store. Do you need anything, honey? Get in the car, honey, go to a grocery store." It's a modern miracle that you can go within, right here in America, there are 10 grocery stores that have more food than they know what to do with. You can go aisle by aisle. There are thousands of different selections of condiments and jams and peanut butters and sausages and bananas and lemons and frozen dinners and fresh food and seafood from all over the planet just waiting for you right there in America. In 1989, Boris Yeltsin was visiting the U.S. and he couldn't believe it. He said, "This is heaven on earth. This is an exception." And he chose the shoppers that he randomly engaged. In America we have a lot of abundance. In a context, remember, the Soviet Union was a socialist country where there was a barren, centrally planned, socialist system. It was a place where everything was free, but everything was awfully expensive. Not even Mr. Gorbachev himself eats as well as a poor person in America! Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments, the company that specializes in gold and physical delivery of precious metals. That's where I buy all of my gold. That is Noble Gold Investments. That s where I Buy all of your gold today. Thats where I get my gold and I get to keep all my gold! That s Noble Gold and I don't even have to pay for my gold!! It's where you can get it all, I can tell you how you can have it all for free. by becoming a Noble Gold Investor today! That is noble, you get a free gold investment and you get all of the gold you could ever dream of! and I can t wait to receive it in the future, I'll tell you what it's going to be like in a couple of years. I can't wait to send you all the gold and you won't have to go out and get it at the same time, it's all guaranteed to be safe, safe, secure, and you can t get any more gold!

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00:01:27.000 It is so easy to take for granted when you say, hey, I gotta go get some stuff from the grocery store.

00:01:32.000 Do you need anything, honey?

00:01:34.000 Get in the car, go to a grocery store.

00:01:36.000 It's so easy to take for granted what is a modern miracle.

00:01:42.000 It is a modern miracle that you can go within, right here, Ryan Broadcasting, there are 10 grocery stores that have more food than they know what to do with.

00:01:50.000 You can go aisle by aisle.

00:01:53.000 Thousands of different selections of different condiments and jams and peanut butters and sausages and bananas and lemons and limes and frozen dinners and fresh food and seafood from all over the planet just waiting for you right there.

00:02:07.000 We have it so good in the United States of America that we don't even teach our kids.

00:02:11.000 You know a grocery store is a modern miracle?

00:02:16.000 It is a modern miracle.

00:02:18.000 This was on full display back when future president of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin, visited the United States.

00:02:26.000 Boris Yeltsin visited the United States as part of a, kind of a, let's just say a thawing of hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union.

00:02:36.000 This occurred back in 1989.

00:02:40.000 On September 16th, 1989, Boris Yeltsin spontaneously told his team, kind of like a Trumpian thing, I want to see these American Grocery store.

00:02:51.000 I want to see it for myself.

00:02:52.000 I want to go see how the Americans eat.

00:02:55.000 Because I hear things about how they have food on demand.

00:02:58.000 Boris Yeltsin was running the Soviet Union.

00:03:01.000 Was about to run the Soviet Union.

00:03:02.000 Goes into a grocery store in Clear Lake, Houston.

00:03:05.000 At a grocery store called Randall's.

00:03:08.000 And he couldn't believe it.

00:03:09.000 Boris Yeltsin walked aisle by aisle, again this is a guy who was raised in communism and a defender of totalitarian communism, where everything was free, but everything was awfully expensive.

00:03:20.000 And he couldn't believe, he even said, quote, you have 40,000 different options at this store?

00:03:28.000 Yeltsin said, quote, he roamed the aisles of Randalls nodding his head in amazement.

00:03:34.000 Shoppers and employees stopped him to shake his hand and say hello.

00:03:38.000 In 1989, not everyone was carrying a smartphone in their pockets, so selfies were not a thing.

00:03:43.000 He said, quote, even the Politburo does not have this choice.

00:03:47.000 Not even Mr. Gorbachev himself eats as well as a poor person in America.

00:03:52.000 The leader of the Soviet Union could not believe that you could get ice cream on demand.

00:03:58.000 That you could get lettuce, onions, whatever you want.

00:04:02.000 He was shocked, he said, this is heaven on earth.

00:04:04.000 He said, is this an exception?

00:04:05.000 Is this a special store that I chose?

00:04:07.000 And the shoppers that he randomly engaged said, no, this is America.

00:04:12.000 In America, we have abundance.

00:04:15.000 In America, we have prosperity.

00:04:16.000 Now remember the context.

00:04:19.000 The Soviet Union embraced Marxist Totalitarianism.

00:04:24.000 It was a competition of ideas.

00:04:25.000 Was Western free market capitalism going to be the better way forward?

00:04:30.000 Or was it going to be top-down, communistic, dictatorship totalitarianism?

00:04:35.000 The fact that stores like these were on every single street corner in America amazed him.

00:04:42.000 By contrast, A Russian store was a lot different.

00:04:46.000 A Russian store was barren.

00:04:49.000 Everything was financed by the government.

00:04:50.000 There were price controls.

00:04:52.000 It was centrally planned, to each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

00:04:58.000 We famously sent Benny Johnson to a grocery store in Cuba.

00:05:02.000 Look at there.

00:05:03.000 That is a Russian Soviet grocery store.

00:05:07.000 Bland. 0.99

00:05:08.000 Disgusting old food. 0.97

00:05:10.000 Because there are no market principles that were driving it. 0.96

00:05:13.000 It was made by some government bureaucrat.

00:05:16.000 Here's your cranberries. 0.54

00:05:19.000 Here's your vodka chicken.

00:05:22.000 A Russian store looked as if people were in the third world.

00:05:25.000 You would spend two or three hours in line each day, and when the food runs out, it is out.

00:05:32.000 Your grey, brown, and yellow food.

00:05:35.000 There are stories that when Russians came to the United States after the Cold War, they'd visit a supermarket and load up on tons of meat because they thought it was just meat day.

00:05:43.000 And the USSR meat day would usually only be available one day a week and then it would run out and that is it.

00:05:48.000 There are stories of people buying up all of one product just so that they could watch in astonishment as workers came out and re-stocked the shelves.

00:05:57.000 The idea of having even more of something in the back was unheard of from people from communist nations.

00:06:04.000 Not just that, the man Yeltsin and Gorbachev, the most powerful people on the planet, they could not grasp The abundance.

00:06:14.000 They were in charge of one of the wealthiest, largest countries in the world, the Soviet Union, and they did not eat as well as a pauper in the United States of America. 0.57

00:06:24.000 It is easy to take for granted what we have in our grocery stores.

00:06:28.000 It is easy to look at the modern miracle and how free market capitalism works from an entrepreneur that thinks they can make a better ketchup to the assembly line that makes sure that you get your Dijon mustard.

00:06:38.000 To the olive oil imported from around the world and Greece, the incredible product of entrepreneurialism.

00:06:47.000 You can get tuna from Japan, olive oil from Italy, you can get feta cheese from Greece, all the while while you can get back to your home and complain that you are an oppressed person in this country.

00:07:01.000 You see, at the root of leftism, At the root of leftism is mobilizing resentments.

00:07:11.000 Now, of course, there are a lot of problems in this country.

00:07:12.000 It's hard to afford groceries right now.

00:07:15.000 People are voting more with their stomachs than even with their hearts or their heads.

00:07:18.000 Totally understandable.

00:07:21.000 And Kamala Harris, she wants to take us to the Soviet grocery stores. 1.00

00:07:27.000 Kamala Harris is hearing The concerns of the American people, her pollsters say, you gotta do something about this grocery problem, this price problem.

00:07:35.000 So Kamala Harris is going full Soviet. 0.75

00:07:39.000 Kamala Harris rejecting the lesson from Boris Yeltsin when he was marveling about the abundance in our grocery stores.

00:07:46.000 She wants to implement totalitarian, communist price controls. 0.54

00:07:51.000 From the Washington Post, quote, Vice President Kamala Harris will unveil a proposed ban on price gouging.

00:07:59.000 Now, Common Law's narrative is that inflation isn't real, grocery stores are just too greedy, charging extra money for no reason. 0.90

00:08:05.000 This is ridiculous.

00:08:06.000 If any of you know how grocery store margins work, they are the thinnest margins of any, let's just say, market out there. 0.95

00:08:15.000 The Democrats are trying to say, well, corporations are greedy and they're just price gouging.

00:08:18.000 We know why prices are going up.

00:08:21.000 When you have more dollars in the system than goods and services, Prices go up.

00:08:25.000 Inflation is the most proven way to crush an economy in a country.

00:08:30.000 Government overspending is the reason why you get inflation.

00:08:34.000 And Kamala Harris was the tie-breaking vote on trillions of dollars of unnecessary government overspending that flooded the zone with dollar bills and has raised your grocery prices. 1.00

00:08:44.000 So now she's saying we are going to do price controls.

00:08:46.000 This is terrifying.

00:08:48.000 If she were to win, she would then be at war against one of the most firmly settled rules of economics.

00:08:55.000 Literally 1,700 years ago, the Roman Emperor Diocletian tried to stop inflation with an edict on prices, and it failed.

00:09:03.000 During the French Revolution, the revolutionary government passed the Law of the Maximum, capping prices on food.

00:09:10.000 It failed.

00:09:11.000 Instead, what did it lead to?

00:09:12.000 Famine.

00:09:13.000 If you come in with price controls, you are going to have food shortages.

00:09:18.000 Kamala Harris has been saying time and time again, it's time for us to do more from the federal government.

00:09:26.000 The Washington Post comes out and reports that she wants to come in with federal price controls on your groceries.

00:09:33.000 Same reason why rent control doesn't work in New York, San Francisco, and D.C. 0.94

00:09:36.000 They don't have lower rent.

00:09:37.000 They have the highest rent in the country and constant housing shortfalls.

00:09:41.000 And then a small handful of people get to have apartments way below the market rate.

00:09:46.000 But here's the problem.

00:09:48.000 is that politically this could work.

00:09:49.000 Economics is not the public strong suit.

00:09:51.000 It sounds good.

00:09:52.000 Yeah, price controls.

00:09:53.000 You will enter into the Soviet grocery store quickly if Kamala Harris gets her communist way of promising you price controls on your groceries. 1.00

00:10:03.000 The solution is lower energy costs, cut government overspending, and grow the economy.

00:10:08.000 Not take a page from the Soviets. 0.96

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00:11:16.000 You cannot centrally plan the economy.

00:11:19.000 You can't centrally plan basically anything.

00:11:21.000 Not to mention, even if you had the smartest, best people, you can't centrally plan the economy.

00:11:26.000 They can't protect Trump.

00:11:28.000 They can't develop a vaccine without people dropping dead everywhere.

00:11:31.000 They can't secure the border.

00:11:32.000 They weren't able to invade and colonize Iraq.

00:11:37.000 They're not able to do the most basic things.

00:11:39.000 What makes you think that they could centrally plan an economy of 330 million people and billions of inputs and trillions of potentially outputs?

00:11:50.000 They couldn't build the pier in Gaza.

00:11:54.000 It takes us four and a half years to build a highway.

00:11:56.000 By the way guys, how long has that highway outside of our studio been under construction?

00:12:01.000 I mean, since 1880 that thing has been under construction.

00:12:06.000 I mean, since I have moved here, to build a road is like a major accomplishment now in America.

00:12:12.000 In China, they build highways overnight.

00:12:14.000 They build airports in a week.

00:12:17.000 It's a quarter mile long road, and you would think that at the rate that they are going, they are trying to recreate the aqueduct project.

00:12:26.000 Now, you might say, well, Charlie, you know, China centrally plans.

00:12:30.000 Well, yeah, that's the point.

00:12:33.000 Is that they're brutal with slave labor. 0.90

00:12:36.000 Not something I think we should embrace.

00:12:38.000 And by the way, China does not necessarily centrally plan their economy.

00:12:41.000 They have a mix of market principles.

00:12:44.000 You look here at what Kamala Harris wants to do.

00:12:48.000 Rent control is what San Francisco did. 0.99

00:12:51.000 Every time that rent control has been tried, it fails.

00:12:55.000 And now she wants to price control. 0.99

00:12:57.000 Bring in the same morons that are running our federal government to try and tell the local grocer what they are allowed to charge You the consumer. 1.00

00:13:09.000 When the solution is very simple. 1.00

00:13:10.000 Cut energy prices.

00:13:12.000 Drill, baby, drill. 1.00

00:13:13.000 Bring down the price of oil.

00:13:15.000 That alone will bring down your grocery prices. 0.84

00:13:17.000 Number two, bring up wages. 0.99

00:13:21.000 And then, step three, not difficult.

00:13:24.000 Slow the stem of illegals coming into the country. 1.00

00:13:27.000 Cut regulations.

00:13:28.000 Cut government overspending.

00:13:31.000 I'm gonna play this piece of tape here.

00:13:32.000 It's 121.

00:13:33.000 This is a Gen Z voter.

00:13:36.000 She asks, why is a one-bedroom apartment $1,600?

00:13:39.000 Rent prices are outrageous and these jobs, they're bare minimum jobs.

00:13:43.000 You know why?

00:13:44.000 Because you vote for Democrats.

00:13:47.000 Because Democrats are in control.

00:13:49.000 Because some Gen Z voters are so... 0.93

00:13:52.000 Enamored with the Kamala Harris PSYOP propaganda.

00:13:55.000 Oh, I like her laugh.

00:13:56.000 Oh, she talks about coconut trees.

00:13:58.000 You'll never be able to own a home.

00:13:59.000 You'll never be able to afford groceries.

00:14:01.000 But you are being manipulated by a Democrat machine that wants you to vote for some sort of TikTok trend.

00:14:10.000 It might work, by the way.

00:14:11.000 This might work.

00:14:12.000 Just so we are clear, price controls are very popular.

00:14:15.000 They're detrimental.

00:14:17.000 They will result in food shortages, food quality going down.

00:14:21.000 It will be one of the greatest government interventions in the economy in American history.

00:14:26.000 We've already seen it fail when it comes to rent control.

00:14:30.000 Play Cut 121.

00:14:31.000 I'm 20 years old.

00:14:32.000 Why is a one-bedroom apartment $600, $1,600?

00:14:34.000 Like, oh my God, for 500 square foot.

00:14:36.000 One at a time, I said.

00:14:38.000 Yeah.

00:14:39.000 Yeah.

00:14:40.000 Rent prices is outrageous.

00:14:42.000 And then, these jobs, they're bare minimum jobs.

00:14:45.000 Like, I'm supposed to be in customer service.

00:14:47.000 Before I was a server, I was working at, like, fast food restaurants.

00:14:49.000 And nothing against them.

00:14:50.000 Love it.

00:14:51.000 But we need them jobs.

00:14:52.000 I mean her concerns and her anxieties are legitimate.

00:14:55.000 those type of things. It's like the work life, trying to balance out school, trying to balance

00:14:59.000 out finding housing. It's just overhyped. Like I really waited my whole life to grow

00:15:04.000 up and do this.

00:15:05.000 I mean, her concerns and her anxieties are legitimate. The problem is that Kamala Harris 0.99

00:15:09.000 is going to use those concerns, those anxieties and mobilize them for a communist revolution.

00:15:14.000 That's the problem.

00:15:15.000 She's exactly right.

00:15:16.000 I mean, it's very hard to afford basic things in this country.

00:15:18.000 Rent is out of control.

00:15:21.000 Democrats create the problem, and then they say that they're the solution.

00:15:25.000 So they break the window, and they happen to own a window repair company, except they don't own a window repair company.

00:15:31.000 It's like breaking a window and calling an arsonist.

00:15:33.000 I'll break the window.

00:15:34.000 Let's have the local demolition crew come in. 0.89

00:15:37.000 It keeps them in power.

00:15:39.000 Inflation is caused by government overspending.

00:15:43.000 And we have it so good in this country?

00:15:46.000 And Kamala Harris is nakedly pandering. 0.99

00:15:49.000 If you want lower prices and better goods, you need free markets and competition rather than monopolies and price controls.

00:16:01.000 Economics, though, is not the public's strong suit at all.

00:16:04.000 She promises price controls? 0.99

00:16:06.000 Many of the lemmings are gonna love it.

00:16:08.000 Yeah, Kamala Harris is gonna Make it easier for me to be able to buy my groceries. 1.00

00:16:13.000 No, she won't.

00:16:14.000 You will have a Soviet grocery store.

00:16:16.000 Be careful what you wish for.

00:16:17.000 Or you can go back to the Trump way.

00:16:19.000 Free market capitalism.

00:16:20.000 Higher wages.

00:16:21.000 Less government spending.

00:16:23.000 Lower energy costs.

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00:17:29.000 When Boris Yeltsin came to America, he was marveling at our grocery stores.

00:17:35.000 Just put 118 up again.

00:17:37.000 He couldn't believe it.

00:17:38.000 His hands were up.

00:17:39.000 And it really is an interesting question.

00:17:41.000 That when the wall fell, was it 91?

00:17:43.000 Is that right?

00:17:44.000 1991?

00:17:44.000 Because this was two years before the wall fell.

00:17:47.000 When the wall fell, it was, it was 89?

00:17:50.000 Was that, then I guess my years are off.

00:17:54.000 Oh, then this was right before the wall fell.

00:17:56.000 USSR fell in 91.

00:17:57.000 Thank you.

00:17:58.000 That's what I was.

00:17:59.000 Wires crossed.

00:18:01.000 The, who won the Cold War?

00:18:04.000 Who won the Cold War?

00:18:05.000 We might've temporarily won the Cold War when the wall fell and the USSR fell in 1991.

00:18:11.000 But those idea pathogens, The same way that the virus came out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology went to the rest of the world. 0.50

00:18:22.000 We were told by Francis Fukuyama, it's the end of history.

00:18:25.000 Neoliberalism has won everything.

00:18:28.000 Little did we know that there was a sleeper cell, a very quiet tumor that metastasized.

00:18:36.000 Look how far we have fallen since 1989.

00:18:40.000 1989, he comes and marvels at our grocery stores.

00:18:44.000 2024, our current Vice President wants to bring the Soviet model to the United States.

00:18:49.000 With complete ingratitude, lack of understanding, no economic literacy whatsoever.

00:18:54.000 And I just want to caution all of you.

00:18:56.000 This is really, really bad economics.

00:18:59.000 But there is a problem.

00:19:01.000 Is that Good economics is rarely good politics.

00:19:07.000 Sometimes it is.

00:19:08.000 That's where Donald Trump is able to strike that balance between good politics and good economics.

00:19:13.000 But unfortunately, the lessons of Cuba, Venezuela, Central America, is that bad economics are good politics.

00:19:23.000 For example, I will give everybody free stuff.

00:19:25.000 Free stuff is very popular.

00:19:27.000 Gets Democrats elected in LA and San Francisco, San Jose.

00:19:31.000 New York, I will give everybody somebody else's income.

00:19:36.000 College loans are waived.

00:19:38.000 Free stuff populism is Kamala's angle. 1.00

00:19:42.000 She does not care what it does to the country.

00:19:44.000 She wants to be president so badly. 0.52

00:19:47.000 She wants to be in charge of this country. 1.00

00:19:49.000 It does not matter if she has to rule over the ashes.

00:19:55.000 She would rather become president of Dresden, where it is completely incinerated, firebombed.

00:20:02.000 Her platform, at its core, is I will take from somebody else to give you free stuff.

00:20:09.000 Not to mention the unintended consequences, the cause and effect.

00:20:14.000 She doesn't care about any of that.

00:20:15.000 I just have to continue to caution you.

00:20:18.000 She's trying to channel Bernie Sanders, because she has Bernie Sanders in the beer belly as a running mate. 1.00

00:20:24.000 Take from the rich, when in reality, she's taking from the working class. 0.97

00:20:28.000 Give from Americans to give to foreigners. 0.98

00:20:31.000 Give from citizens to give to invaders.

00:20:34.000 Here is a clip of Kamala Harris talking about grocery prices.

00:20:38.000 And we need to get the message out.

00:20:41.000 It's going to be hard to confront this.

00:20:43.000 I think President Trump can do it.

00:20:45.000 And I think that he is uniquely prepared.

00:20:47.000 And I think that he is in a unique position to be able to create a lot of cynicism and skepticism towards this free stuff grocery subsidy.

00:20:57.000 Call it what it is.

00:20:59.000 It is Soviet Communism. 0.69

00:21:00.000 Here's Cut 122.

00:21:01.000 What else are you going to do to fix this problem with inflation?

00:21:06.000 Thank you.

00:21:07.000 Well, let's start with this.

00:21:12.000 Prices have gone up.

00:21:16.000 And families and individuals are dealing with the realities of that bread costs more, that gas costs more.

00:21:27.000 And we have to understand what that means.

00:21:30.000 That's about the cost of living going up.

00:21:33.000 That's about having to stress and stretch limited resources.

00:21:38.000 That's about a source of stress for families that is not only economic, but is on a daily level something that is a heavy weight to carry.

00:21:47.000 So it is something that we take very seriously.

00:21:50.000 Very seriously.

00:21:52.000 And we know from the history of this issue in the United States that when you see these prices go up, it has a direct impact on the quality of life for all people in our country.

00:22:03.000 So it's a big issue, and we take it seriously.

00:22:05.000 By the way, do you notice something at the end when her voice goes up like this?

00:22:09.000 She's talking to you like she's an elementary school teacher of a third grader.

00:22:14.000 It's such an overly feelings campaign.

00:22:17.000 When prices go up, I talk to you like this.

00:22:21.000 If you're really good, you get a snack.

00:22:23.000 Anyway.

00:22:25.000 Her entire campaign is about vibes and emotion and feelings and free stuff. 1.00

00:22:32.000 She calls it the Joy Election.

00:22:34.000 We'll see.

00:22:35.000 I don't know if she could pull off the joy.

00:22:38.000 By the way, she said nothing in that entire one minute.

00:22:40.000 We know that when prices go up, people are hurting.

00:22:43.000 Yes, what are you going to do about it?

00:22:44.000 Now she's going to say, well, we're going to go after price gouging.

00:22:47.000 Oh, so you're going to go after the farmers, number one, who are barely making ends meet.

00:22:54.000 You're going to go after the distributors.

00:22:56.000 You're going to go after the truck drivers.

00:22:59.000 Milton Friedman famously had a video.

00:23:02.000 So for example, I have here, this is not a sponsor of the program, a thing of almonds.

00:23:08.000 Almonds has gotten a lot more expensive.

00:23:10.000 And Milton Friedman used to have something called the pencil speech, if you guys can get it, it's very powerful, where he would marvel at a single product.

00:23:18.000 Now, we look at this single almond, and we say, oh, you know, that's easy to do.

00:23:24.000 But think about the amount of jobs that went into just producing this single almond and getting it right here.

00:23:33.000 From planting the almonds to harvesting.

00:23:36.000 It was packed by Blue Diamond Growers in Sacramento, California.

00:23:40.000 Since 1910, Blue Diamond Growers has been producing the finest quality almonds from orchards in the rich, fertile valleys of California.

00:23:48.000 Someone had to monitor that and manage it.

00:23:50.000 Someone had to make sure that all the almonds were properly harvested and picked.

00:23:55.000 Someone had to design this bag.

00:23:59.000 Someone had to make sure all the bags got onto the truck, and someone had to drive that truck all the way down to Phoenix, Arizona.

00:24:05.000 Someone had to offload the goods from that truck and put it to a grocery store. 0.99

00:24:09.000 Someone had to man that grocery store. 0.93

00:24:12.000 And then when I showed up, the grocery store had to have its lights on so the utility bill was paid.

00:24:16.000 And then I had to eventually be able to, with almost no effort whatsoever, walk into an aisle and grab a thing of almonds.

00:24:22.000 That is what we call the invisible hand.

00:24:25.000 All the inner working trillions of little inputs that make it possible that we could show up at a grocery store and get something as simple as a bag of almonds.

00:24:36.000 The rest of the world does not comprehend this because they do not embrace those free market principles.

00:24:41.000 And there might be a million jobs that are interwoven into just one bag of almonds.

00:24:48.000 And I could go from a pencil to a pen to an iPhone, but we're talking about food here today.

00:24:54.000 And the same could be said, I mean, I have a thing of pistachios here, as you could tell.

00:24:57.000 The same sort of thing.

00:25:00.000 And Kamala Harris wants to say, no, I'm going to put a price control on how much you can charge this. 0.98

00:25:06.000 On this.

00:25:07.000 And think about the millions of Americans that will be impoverished from there.

00:25:12.000 And the key word is entrepreneurial capitalism.

00:25:17.000 A word that Kamala Harris will not say.

00:25:20.000 A term she will not say.

00:25:22.000 So when there are price controls, producers like the wonderful Pistachio Company, which I'm told they're actually a bunch of libs, but whatever.

00:25:29.000 I don't know if that's true.

00:25:31.000 They'll produce less.

00:25:32.000 Blue Diamond Almonds.

00:25:34.000 They'll produce less because they make more money and there will be supply shortages and then prices will really go up.

00:25:40.000 And the next time you want to go get almonds, you're like, wait, where did all the almonds go?

00:25:46.000 Milton Friedman explains the beauty of free market capitalism.

00:25:51.000 And this is under attack from within by a communist revolution that is picking up steam, that is accelerating.

00:25:59.000 and her latest proposal will go at the core and the essence and will cause mass starvation. 1.00

00:26:07.000 Play cut 126. Look at this lead pencil.

00:26:12.000 There's not a single person in the world who could make this pencil.

00:26:16.000 Remarkable statement?

00:26:18.000 Not at all.

00:26:19.000 The wood from which it's made, for all I know, comes from a tree that was cut down in the state of Washington.

00:26:25.000 To cut down that tree, it took a saw.

00:26:28.000 To make the saw, it took steel.

00:26:30.000 To make the steel, it took iron ore.

00:26:33.000 We call it lead, but it's really graphite, compressed graphite.

00:26:37.000 I'm not sure where it comes from, but I think it comes from some mines in South America.

00:26:43.000 This red top up here, the eraser, a bit of rubber, probably comes from Malaya, where the rubber tree isn't even native.

00:26:51.000 It was imported from South America by some businessmen, or the yellow paint, or the paint that made the black lines, or the glue that holds it together.

00:27:02.000 Literally thousands of people cooperated to make this pencil.

00:27:07.000 People who don't speak the same language, who practice different religions, who might hate one another if they ever met.

00:27:15.000 When you go down to the store and buy this pencil, you are in effect trading a few minutes of your time for a few seconds of the time of all those thousands of people.

00:27:29.000 And it wasn't centrally planned by Kamala Harris.

00:27:33.000 It happened spontaneously.

00:27:35.000 People taking risks that, guess what?

00:27:37.000 You do not get bags of almonds on demand if people don't think there is a profit motive at the end of the horizon.

00:27:48.000 If there is no profit in making almonds, then you will not have almonds.

00:27:50.000 If there is no profit in making pistachios, you won't have pistachios.

00:27:53.000 And Kamala Harris wants to swoop in and take that away in one of the lowest margin businesses in the country. 1.00

00:28:00.000 This is how these regimes always go.

00:28:02.000 They order lower prices.

00:28:03.000 They demand lower prices.

00:28:04.000 Take more from the rich.

00:28:05.000 Make it easier for you.

00:28:06.000 In reality, you get less stuff.

00:28:09.000 Then she'll start ordering more almond production. 0.95

00:28:11.000 Order this, order that. 0.65

00:28:12.000 And then you get Argentina, which used to be the grass-fed beef capital of the planet.

00:28:19.000 And thanks to Malay, they're starting to get their gusto back. 1.00

00:28:21.000 Venezuela should be one of the wealthiest countries in the world.

00:28:24.000 It's not.

00:28:25.000 And Kamala Harris is following in the Chavez-Maduro model.

00:28:29.000 All power pandering to the bottom.

00:28:32.000 Let us all be warned.

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00:29:39.000 Gary Rabine is with us.

00:29:41.000 Gary, great to see you.

00:29:42.000 Gary's a dear friend and he's hosting a huge event this weekend in McHenry County, Illinois.

00:29:49.000 Extreme entrepreneur, podcaster, CEO of Ditch Digger.

00:29:52.000 So Gary, welcome to the program.

00:29:53.000 Tell us what we have planned this weekend.

00:29:55.000 All right.

00:29:56.000 Hey, thanks for having me on, Charlie.

00:29:57.000 I really appreciate it.

00:29:58.000 We've got an amazing event and this'll be the biggest for my ticket guy that's doing all the ticket work says this would be the biggest Trump rally without Trump being there ever.

00:30:09.000 We're tracking for, you know, 11 to 15,000 people right now, and it could be more.

00:30:14.000 So it's going to be a blast, but we've got great Americans out there that love our country that know we have to fight for this American dream.

00:30:22.000 If we don't, we're going to lose it, Charlie.

00:30:23.000 Yeah, that's exactly right.

00:30:24.000 So remind the audience how they find tickets, where it is, and also there's going to be a lot of Southern Wisconsin Patriots coming as well in the must-win state of Wisconsin.

00:30:34.000 Absolutely, that's the idea, right?

00:30:35.000 We've advertised on radio stations in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin.

00:30:39.000 You've got to go to paradingfortrump.com, paradingfortrump.com.

00:30:45.000 My partner in the event has been doing parades for Trump across the Midwest for the last You know, four or five years and he does a great job.

00:30:53.000 This is my friend, Tom Meredith, who you've met, Charlie.

00:30:57.000 Great, great American that does this stuff all on his own time.

00:31:01.000 And he rallies thousands of people together.

00:31:03.000 Last event we had four years ago, if you remember, Charlie, you were awesome to show up to that one.

00:31:09.000 And we had just under 10,000 people at that event at Kane County Fairgrounds.

00:31:13.000 We knew we needed a little bigger place with better You know, Better Amenities and McHenry County Fairgrounds has given us that.

00:31:20.000 So we think we can do up to 20,000-30,000 people, and it's going to be incredible.

00:31:24.000 Wow.

00:31:25.000 I hope we hit that.

00:31:26.000 That would be amazing.

00:31:27.000 And the website again, Gary?

00:31:29.000 So it's paradingfortrump.com.

00:31:31.000 Paradingfortrump.com.

00:31:33.000 Yeah, and we did an event not too long—it was actually four years ago in 2020, and we must have been 15,000 people there, right, Gary?

00:31:40.000 It was an unbelievable turnout.

00:31:42.000 Well, it was anywhere from $10,000 to $15,000.

00:31:47.000 We never got a count on it.

00:31:48.000 And this is going to be much bigger than that one from everything we're seeing.

00:31:51.000 That one we didn't even charge for, Charlie, because we just wanted to get a lot of people out.

00:31:56.000 It was at our expense that we did that.

00:31:58.000 You and I and others.

00:31:59.000 This one here, we're actually going to raise money for my new pack.

00:32:03.000 And the PAC is the American Dream PAC.

00:32:05.000 And the American Dream PAC is going to be supporting causes that actually look out for us to save the American Dream.

00:32:11.000 And that means getting people out to vote in this election.

00:32:14.000 It could mean, you know, going after bad regulations, killing small business.

00:32:18.000 It could be that the price controls that these crazy people are wanting to put on business in our state and across the country.

00:32:25.000 It is ParadingForTrump.com.

00:32:27.000 Really quick, Gary, as an entrepreneur, you see what Kamala Harris is presenting.

00:32:31.000 What would Kamala Harris mean for job creators like yourself across the country? 0.93

00:32:35.000 Yeah, so she will decimate the small business and jobs across America. 1.00

00:32:41.000 There's no controlling price in a free country of America.

00:32:44.000 The free markets will work well.

00:32:45.000 Competitive companies will compete in a free market.

00:32:48.000 They'll be stunted in Kamala's communism, in my opinion.

00:32:54.000 She's a Marxist-Communist.

00:32:58.000 Gary, you're a great friend.

00:32:59.000 Looking forward to seeing you Sunday.

00:33:00.000 It's going to be a record, record crowd.

00:33:02.000 Paradingfortrump.com.

00:33:03.000 We'll see you guys.

00:33:04.000 It's northern Illinois.

00:33:05.000 Come on all across the Midwest.

00:33:06.000 Gary, God bless.

00:33:08.000 Thank you.

00:33:08.000 God bless you, buddy.

00:33:09.000 Thanks for all you're doing.

00:33:10.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:12.000 That's paradingfortrump.com.

00:33:13.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:14.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:16.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - August 15, 2024

Kamala the Communist Wants Soviet-Style Grocery Stores

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