The Charlie Kirk Show - The Elites Get Short Squeezed & The Great Reset Takes Shape

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, what is going on in the stock market?

00:00:04.000 GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, surging stocks.

00:00:07.000 We talk about market manipulation and really break it down for you in great detail.

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00:02:57.000 Hey, everybody, welcome.

00:02:59.000 So we kind of had our team meeting beforehand, kind of saying, what are we going to talk about right now?

00:03:04.000 Impeachment, Joe Biden signing executive actions.

00:03:08.000 Are we going to talk about the new decision that struck down Joe Biden's immigration policy?

00:03:15.000 There's so much happening in the country.

00:03:17.000 And what I did not expect to talk about this morning, but we are going to lead with, is the stock market.

00:03:24.000 So kind of the chatter around here, everyone seems very excited because they've discovered something called a rising stock.

00:03:33.000 It's very interesting.

00:03:34.000 And so people are saying, Charlie, did you see what happened to GameStop?

00:03:36.000 And so I was a little bit out of the loop.

00:03:38.000 And so I started to read about this.

00:03:40.000 And this is kind of the top story right now.

00:03:43.000 I guess it's trending on Twitter.

00:03:44.000 It's trending everywhere, right?

00:03:46.000 And essentially, there's a website called Reddit.

00:03:49.000 If you haven't heard of it, you've lived a wonderfully, you lived a wonderful life.

00:03:53.000 Let me just put it that way.

00:03:54.000 However, other people have, I guess, enjoyed the website.

00:03:57.000 But on Reddit, there's a lot of people that it's it's hard to it's hard, really hard to describe Reddit.

00:04:04.000 Some people call it kind of just the library of the internet.

00:04:11.000 I guess that's one way to put it.

00:04:12.000 Anyway, a lot of people post videos and images and coordinate activities, all sorts of different things there.

00:04:17.000 Okay, so on Reddit, somebody that we do not know started to see that major hedge funds were placing shorts on a couple publicly traded companies, in particular GameStop.

00:04:34.000 And so GameStop, many of you know, buys and trades video games from people.

00:04:38.000 They've had a tough couple years, obviously, with more people going online and streaming games.

00:04:44.000 They've had a difficult time kind of continuing any sort of expansion or growth.

00:04:49.000 And so these people on Reddit started to see that some of these major hedge funds were shorting a stock.

00:04:56.000 Now, if you don't know what shorting a stock is, shorting a stock is when you place a bet that if the stock goes down, you make money.

00:05:05.000 Now, when you short a stock, though, and the stock goes up, you can lose infinitely.

00:05:13.000 Meaning, you can lose not just a little bit, you can lose as high up it goes on the stock price.

00:05:19.000 And so when you short a stock and it goes up, it actually can be much worse than what than just an option going long on a stock would be.

00:05:33.000 And so these hedge funds, they're called hedge funds for a reason because they hedge their bets.

00:05:39.000 They do long and short positions.

00:05:41.000 So long, basically, they're betting that the stock will go up in the long term.

00:05:47.000 I'm long on that position.

00:05:48.000 I'm short.

00:05:49.000 And so that's why these firms are called hedge funds.

00:05:53.000 Okay.

00:05:53.000 And so not really sure how this was coordinated.

00:05:59.000 Not really sure how this all came together.

00:06:02.000 But millions of people seem to get this idea, like, hey, let's go stick it to the man and let's all go buy GameStop stock and show them that shorting stocks is not going to be a safe position anymore.

00:06:19.000 And so as we are doing this show right now, I just want to give you an idea of the enormity of what has just happened.

00:06:24.000 GameStop stock is up 126% today, okay?

00:06:28.000 And they were trading at about $75 a share back on January 25th, Monday, January 25th.

00:06:38.000 Now they're at $339 a share.

00:06:42.000 Now, you might be wondering, well, did GameStop come out with a really cool product?

00:06:46.000 Did they post good earnings?

00:06:47.000 No, actually, they're losing money.

00:06:49.000 They're doing awful.

00:06:50.000 So if you buy GameStop stock, it's just, you might as well have Zimbabwe currency. 0.95

00:06:55.000 It's useless. 0.98

00:06:57.000 Well, I should say it's useless. 0.98

00:06:58.000 It has value, but it's nowhere near the value that it's been inflated.

00:07:01.000 So for those of you that are listening or watching and don't know how the stock market works, there's a buyer and seller behind every single stock certificate of a business.

00:07:09.000 And so the more people that want to buy a certain stock certificate of a business, the price goes up, right?

00:07:15.000 Simple supply and demand.

00:07:16.000 And so basically, this kind of coordinated internet activity started to drive millions and millions of people to get into the stock market and boost this stock price.

00:07:30.000 Now, it's not just GameStop, it's also BlackBerry and AMC.

00:07:35.000 And so just to give you an idea, the market cap of GameStop is now $23 billion, $23 billion, where it was a fraction of that just days ago.

00:07:52.000 Now, I'm going to be the bearer of bad news right now.

00:07:56.000 Whoever is behind this and is coordinating this, I highly recommend you stop because this is probably and almost certainly against the law to coordinate and manipulate market activity.

00:08:13.000 Now, some people are cheering this on, and they're not cheering this on because of the legality of it.

00:08:17.000 They're cheering it on because we have seen the rich get $500 billion richer, at least the billionaire class, the last couple of months in the pandemic.

00:08:26.000 We have seen working people struggle tremendously.

00:08:29.000 And basically, there's this new mentality: like, you have punished us into oblivion, you've shut down our country, you barely give us like a $1,200 check.

00:08:38.000 No, I am going to now use the levers available to us in this kind of populist revolt.

00:08:44.000 Sounds good.

00:08:45.000 You've probably never dealt with the Security Exchange Commission before.

00:08:49.000 And so, to think, I think it's Melvin Capital that lost big on this position.

00:08:54.000 To think that Melvin Capital is not currently on the phone with a regulator with the Security Exchange Commission and the Department of Treasury.

00:09:04.000 Who do you think financed Joe Biden's campaign?

00:09:07.000 It was Wall Street types.

00:09:09.000 And right now, every single hedge fund in New York is saying, hold on, stop it with the short positions, and there will be a coordinated lockdown on this.

00:09:18.000 Now, I don't really know if every single person that gets involved in this is going to be held accountable.

00:09:27.000 Again, if you're just buying and selling the shares, you're probably going to be just fine.

00:09:31.000 I'm not recommending you do that, by the way, because then you're participating in probably manipulated activity.

00:09:36.000 And the counter-argument that a lot of bloggers and people are making is, how dare you manipulate my manipulated market?

00:09:41.000 And that's perfectly fair.

00:09:43.000 I get that argument.

00:09:45.000 Good luck explaining that to an SEC regulator.

00:09:48.000 And you might say, well, Charlie, what could possibly be illegal about this?

00:09:51.000 Well, look, in order for the Security Exchange Commission and publicly traded markets, you cannot direct behavior in a certain way in markets to manipulate it outside of what would be, how's the best way I could word this?

00:10:13.000 I read a really thoughtful academic piece on this earlier.

00:10:15.000 But the best way I can word this is that if the behavior and the activity is deemed to be manipulative, and that's a very open-ended term, then you very well could be in a lot of trouble.

00:10:29.000 Now, it doesn't seem like the Reddit mob is slowing down any soon anytime soon.

00:10:35.000 AMC, despite being completely locked down, is up more than 200%.

00:10:40.000 So I think a lot of AMC executives the last week have been having a tough week.

00:10:44.000 It's been hard to run movie theaters, and now they're looking at their stock price.

00:10:48.000 And I'm sure a lot of the CEOs are like, so can we sell the stock now?

00:10:52.000 And so here's just some good recommendation.

00:10:55.000 If you're buying GameStop stock right now at $332 a share, you should reevaluate your life decisions, okay?

00:11:03.000 Because what you're going to see in this chart five years from now is you're going to see the GameStop stock like this with one little spike and then all the way through.

00:11:13.000 Now, look, the Security Exchange Commission could come in and suspend trading on some of these stocks.

00:11:18.000 They could come in and say, you are not allowed to trade these stocks right now.

00:11:22.000 They have that authority.

00:11:23.000 As soon as you enter into the public markets, there's a whole different level of regulation that surrounds this.

00:11:31.000 But I think this is appealing to people for a different reason than I mentioned briefly earlier, is that people have felt screwed by their system for so long that people have seen wealthy and well-connected ruling class elites do not just well, but have their best year ever in a year that normal people got clobbered.

00:11:55.000 They saw the bailouts go to the big banks.

00:11:58.000 They saw the hedge funds continue to do well.

00:12:00.000 And so now there's a little bit of a screw you middle finger to the system.

00:12:04.000 And I'm not saying it's legal.

00:12:07.000 I'm saying that's why people are supporting it.

00:12:09.000 And that's why people are eager to engage in it.

00:12:14.000 And they've already stopped trading on and off several times on some of these stocks, by the way, because of the massive volume.

00:12:20.000 So just take a little bit of advice from me.

00:12:23.000 Stay away from this stuff, everybody, because you could lose an extraordinary amount of money and you might get caught up in something that I don't think you might be prepared for.

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00:13:45.000 And so I was just talking to somebody and they said, oh, I just made all this money on GameStop.

00:13:52.000 I said, oh, really?

00:13:53.000 Have you ever heard of capital gains tax?

00:13:56.000 And they said, no, I already pay my income tax.

00:13:58.000 I said, okay, young Padawan, let me teach you about the complexities of our tax system.

00:14:06.000 And so if you make money in the market and those are realized gains and you lock in those gains, you don't put it in a Roth IRA or you don't have losses against it, then you have gains.

00:14:16.000 So then you have to pay capital gains tax.

00:14:18.000 And so it's all depending on your tax bracket.

00:14:21.000 It could be 0% if you're in a very low tax bracket, but you might get into another tax bracket because you might have to establish this as income.

00:14:29.000 And so especially if it's short-term capital gains, long-term capital gains are treated differently.

00:14:34.000 And so I think a lot of these day traders are now going to be realizing, I don't know if I like this whole capital gains thing.

00:14:40.000 At least the one unintended consequence of massive Reddit market manipulation is we could finally have a robust conversation about lowering the capital gains tax in this country.

00:14:52.000 I think that's finally a positive.

00:14:53.000 Now, one of the other stories I wanted to get to about the stock market, which I think is very important, is this idea of people benefiting in the public markets when they are able to control public policy.

00:15:09.000 And so there's a story that should have been headline news.

00:15:13.000 And there's a story that should have been talked about in every single major newspaper, every single podcast, every single television show.

00:15:22.000 And it actually is kind of, it's an issue and a story that leads to a bigger problem in our country.

00:15:28.000 I'm going to read it to you.

00:15:29.000 It is from Benzinga.

00:15:31.000 Is that a website?

00:15:32.000 Benzinga?

00:15:33.000 Well, it's on Yahoo, but I just want to make sure by Chris Katji. 0.96

00:15:37.000 Nancy Pelosi buys Tesla calls, stands to benefit from new Biden EV plan.

00:15:44.000 I think that means electric vehicle plan.

00:15:46.000 It says, over the weekend, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, purchased 25 call options of Tesla.

00:15:53.000 The purchases could have been done by Pelosi or her husband, Paul, who runs a venture capital firm.

00:15:58.000 The options were bought at a stake price of $500, an expiration of March 18, 2022.

00:16:05.000 Pelosi paid between $500,000 and $1 million for the options.

00:16:09.000 Pelosi also disclosed that she bought 20,000 shares of Alliance Bernstein Holdings, 100 calls of Apple, and 100 calls of Disney.

00:16:19.000 And so just like, just take a massive pause here.

00:16:25.000 This is an issue, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat.

00:16:28.000 You should be repulsed by this.

00:16:31.000 I spoke out against Senator Richard Burr in North Carolina, who's a Republican who was heavily involved in a potential, let's just say, troublesome situation.

00:16:44.000 The Department of Justice did clear him after an investigation, but that he sold all of his stocks after he got briefings on the Chinese coronavirus.

00:16:57.000 And so, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat or a conservative or a liberal, we got to take a step back and say, wait a second, the Speaker of the House of the Representatives of the United States of America, which is one half of one-third of our government, is able to make multi-million dollar stock purchases where she could control legislation, committees,

00:17:27.000 and make decisions that she would personally benefit from.

00:17:32.000 How is this even remotely legal?

00:17:34.000 And the answer is it is legal.

00:17:36.000 Now, the Stock Act was passed in 2012.

00:17:40.000 It's one of the few things that Barack Obama did correctly.

00:17:43.000 The Stock Act did not go nearly as far as it should have, but it was basically to stop insider information and trading.

00:17:52.000 Basically, if you had private information and you had private briefings, you were not allowed to trade on those briefings or on that information.

00:18:07.000 I want you to imagine how the media would have acted if Donald Trump would have bought a million dollars of ExxonMobil stock right before he signed a bunch of executive orders allowing expanded drilling and natural gas and the Keystone Pipeline.

00:18:25.000 I want you to imagine if Donald Trump would have bought Abbott stock or Abbey stock before a massive purchase was done for the vaccine from the government.

00:18:48.000 It never would have happened.

00:18:49.000 The media wouldn't have allowed it to occur.

00:18:50.000 Now, every single piece of legislation, Nancy Pelosi is going to be thinking, not what's going to benefit my constituents in San Francisco, not what's going to benefit the country, but what's going to benefit my stock portfolio.

00:19:03.000 You want to know why people are all of a sudden happy to flood Reddit and make the big guys suffer a little bit? 0.99

00:19:08.000 It's because of garbage like this. 0.96

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00:20:17.000 Dirks v. SEC.

00:20:19.000 So there's a lot going on with the stock market in the last couple of days.

00:20:22.000 You guys were breaking that all down for you.

00:20:24.000 But we just touched on this very sticky situation of a story with Speaker Pelosi and her husband buying lots of stocks in electric vehicle companies, theoretically knowing that the Biden administration was going to be taking leadership on this issue today and into the rest of the week.

00:20:40.000 There's a really interesting Supreme Court decision regarding a different type of insider trading than being within the company and knowing that your stock is going to go up.

00:20:49.000 Essentially, this court case, Dirks v. SEC, which was in the United States Supreme Court, created this precedent where you can tip a friend about non-public information that might influence the publicly traded stock price of a company, even if you don't work particularly for that company as an employee.

00:21:06.000 And in the past, friends didn't satisfy the legal definition of what an insider might be in insider trading.

00:21:12.000 So it was difficult to figure out how to prosecute those individuals that did know private information and personally benefited from that.

00:21:18.000 So this court case in particular created a precedent where you could go after and prosecute individuals who are not insiders for the company but did have private information that would benefit them personally from that stock.

00:21:30.000 So an example of this would probably be Congressman Collins recently, who I think was pardoned by President Trump.

00:21:36.000 Now he did not use his congressional inside information, but this is just a textbook case of insider trading where he was at a White House gathering and actually had nothing to do with the White House, but he got a phone call from his son or from an executive at a company saying like, hey, our drug trial got denied by the FDA.

00:21:59.000 Then he called his son and told his son to dump all the stock in that specific company.

00:22:04.000 That is a textbook case of insider trading.

00:22:07.000 Right.

00:22:07.000 And it's exactly a situation like that where nobody worked for the company in question per se that would be affected by this, but they had innate knowledge of what was going on.

00:22:17.000 So I want you guys to always email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:22:23.000 So the World Economic Forum is meeting virtually.

00:22:28.000 If you don't know what the World Economic Forum is, the World Economic Forum is a gathering of the richest, most well-connected people on the planet.

00:22:38.000 They usually meet in Davos, Switzerland, which is very hard to get to.

00:22:45.000 And in Davos, Switzerland, a lot of very big globalist ideas are introduced.

00:22:53.000 And so this is talked about sometimes in conservative circles as the Davos agenda or as the kind of globalist agenda.

00:23:03.000 This is their Super Bowl.

00:23:04.000 This is where they do their planning and their announcements.

00:23:07.000 This is where you'll have the Bill Gates of the world, the Jeff Bezos of the world, the heads of state from around the world gather, and they basically say, how can we destroy sovereignty of our nations?

00:23:17.000 How can we try and have free flow of people and make ourselves more important?

00:23:24.000 Now, we have gone into great detail in this program in the Great Reset, what the Great Reset is, where they do not want people to own property.

00:23:34.000 You will eat less meat.

00:23:35.000 I kid you not.

00:23:36.000 That's part of the list.

00:23:37.000 And you're going to be happier.

00:23:39.000 You hear that?

00:23:40.000 You're going to be happier.

00:23:40.000 And if you don't, you got a problem with that.

00:23:44.000 And so the World Economic Forum is now meeting digitally.

00:23:47.000 And so I'm going to go to Cut 55.

00:23:49.000 This is, I think, actually a promo video.

00:23:51.000 This is their hype video, where now their new way of handling the great reset is not acting as if it doesn't exist, but instead leaning into it.

00:24:03.000 Okay, let's play Cut 55.

00:24:05.000 The Great Reset?

00:24:07.000 That sounds more like buzzword bingo masking some nefarious plans for world domination.

00:24:13.000 Hands up, this kind of slogan hasn't gone down well.

00:24:16.000 But all we really want to say is that we all have an opportunity to build a better world.

00:24:21.000 And it's not surprising that people who've been disenfranchised by a broken system and pushed even further by the pandemic will suspect global leaders of conspiracy.

00:24:30.000 But the world's not that simple.

00:24:33.000 There's a great Shakespearean quote, and it says, The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

00:24:43.000 You can look it up.

00:24:44.000 I think I got my Shakespeare quotes correct. 1.00

00:24:46.000 The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

00:24:49.000 Now, I'm not exactly one for Shakespearean old English, but hold on a second.

00:24:56.000 You guys are worth like $700 billion, just five of you guys having lunch.

00:25:01.000 Why are all of a sudden you having to deflect against the accusation of you being puppet masters from around the planet with that kind of imagery?

00:25:08.000 I think you're a little bit self-conscious.

00:25:10.000 Let's go to Cut 56, where the Davos people are saying we need to be involved in all the decision-making.

00:25:16.000 We need enormous trust between the public sector and the private sector for us to pull this off.

00:25:21.000 Cut 56.

00:25:22.000 Every one of us has differing priorities, values, and ideas.

00:25:27.000 That's part of why solutions are so hard to come by.

00:25:30.000 And why we all need to be involved in the decision-making.

00:25:33.000 Because whether it's politicians, CEOs, academics, activists, or you, we're all about getting people together, even those you may not like, to sit down at the table and develop solutions that work for all of us.

00:25:46.000 But enormous trust between the private sector and the public sector for this to actually work.

00:25:55.000 That trust is hard to come by.

00:25:58.000 This is so dystopian.

00:26:00.000 We need everyone at the table, but.

00:26:03.000 No Trump, no conservatives, none of those nationalist people.

00:26:07.000 We don't like them.

00:26:08.000 Okay, so the forum is ongoing this week.

00:26:10.000 This was their promo video and their hype video.

00:26:13.000 So the first video the Davos people announced is that there is a lot of suspicions of a global conspiracy.

00:26:22.000 And that somehow there's a theory that everyone in Davos is trying to take over the world.

00:26:30.000 So you might say, well, Charlie, what's the significance of this?

00:26:32.000 You don't understand.

00:26:33.000 What happens this week in Davos, Switzerland sets the tone for the next decade.

00:26:38.000 This is one of their most important meetings, and they're doing it virtually and online.

00:26:42.000 But this is where they share their big ideas.

00:26:45.000 Do you know who got very, very famous at the World Economic Forum?

00:26:49.000 Greta Thunberg.

00:26:52.000 I believe Greta Thunberg got famous there before she actually spoke at the United Nations.

00:26:56.000 It might be one or the other, but she spoke at both.

00:26:58.000 I think the how dare you was at the World Economic Forum.

00:27:01.000 I think you're right.

00:27:02.000 It might have been at the United Nations.

00:27:03.000 Anyway, where she was scolding heads of state from around the world.

00:27:08.000 What happens at the World Economic Forum does not stay at the World Economic Forum.

00:27:12.000 It spreads to nations across the country.

00:27:15.000 This is where the ideas, such as the Paris Climate Accord, such as the Iran nuclear deal, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, they're all hatched here.

00:27:25.000 And so when you go through the website of the World Economic Forum, and I encourage everyone to do this, and just look at their own playbook.

00:27:32.000 Look what they're openly admitting what they want to do.

00:27:36.000 It paints a picture of exactly why they are trying to push so hard against conservatives in this country.

00:27:45.000 For example, building a net zero, nature-positive economy.

00:27:50.000 Basically, no carbon emissions.

00:27:52.000 That's right.

00:27:52.000 No natural gas at all.

00:27:54.000 What else are they talking about this week?

00:27:56.000 Delivering social justice in the recovery.

00:28:00.000 How about this one?

00:28:01.000 Financing the net zero transition.

00:28:07.000 And one of my favorites is an entire page here on the Great Reset.

00:28:12.000 Participants in the World Economic Forum today include Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Xi Ji Ping, the head of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, Antonio Guterres from the United Nations, and more.

00:28:30.000 What are the key themes this week of the World Economic Forum?

00:28:33.000 How to save the planet.

00:28:35.000 Fairer economies.

00:28:36.000 You know what?

00:28:36.000 I love having Jeff Bezos tell me how to have a fairer economy.

00:28:41.000 Tech for good.

00:28:42.000 Oh yeah, let's trust them to use technology for good.

00:28:45.000 Society and the future of work, healthy futures, and better business.

00:28:52.000 Part of their agenda just a couple days ago was advancing a new social contract.

00:28:59.000 You getting chills yet?

00:29:00.000 You should.

00:29:02.000 Implementing stakeholder capitalism in the Middle East and North Africa.

00:29:09.000 Transforming food systems and land use.

00:29:13.000 And more.

00:29:14.000 And actually right now, live is building a net zero nature-positive economy.

00:29:19.000 Now, what are the eight predictions from the Great Reset?

00:29:26.000 I'm going to talk over this because it's just background music.

00:29:29.000 This video was published by the World Economic Forum, and it's really worth going through.

00:29:36.000 Play tape.

00:29:39.000 Eight predictions for the world in 2030 by the World Economic Forum occurring right now.

00:29:44.000 You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

00:29:49.000 Whatever you want, you'll rent, and it'll be delivered by drone.

00:29:54.000 The United States won't be the world's leading superpower.

00:29:56.000 That's what it says in their video right now.

00:29:58.000 A handful of countries will dominate. 0.67

00:30:02.000 You won't die waiting for an organ donor.

00:30:05.000 I can sign up for that one actually.

00:30:07.000 We won't transplant organs.

00:30:09.000 We'll print new ones instead.

00:30:10.000 Want to probably make sure that's not creepy.

00:30:12.000 You'll eat much less meat.

00:30:14.000 Not a fan.

00:30:16.000 An occasional treat, not a staple, for the good of the environment and our health, Isabel.

00:30:20.000 Charlie, what are you reading?

00:30:22.000 I'm actually just literally reading the video.

00:30:23.000 Am I not, Isabelle?

00:30:24.000 Yeah, he's not just making this up, you guys.

00:30:26.000 We're reading word for word what the text of this video looks like, and it's chilling.

00:30:31.000 Yeah, so I am going through the list here.

00:30:34.000 The World Economic Forum wants you to think that there's nothing sinister about their globalist master plan.

00:30:44.000 And it's not surprising that the very people that shut down world economies, put millions and billions of people back into poverty, have suppressed human freedom and natural rights, are now all of a sudden going to say, oh, trust us with more power.

00:30:58.000 We need all of us.

00:31:00.000 Here's the second list of four things from the World Economic Forum.

00:31:03.000 Play tape.

00:31:06.000 A billion people will be displaced by climate change.

00:31:08.000 How uplifting.

00:31:10.000 We'll have to do a better job at welcoming and integrating refugees. 0.54

00:31:15.000 Number six, polluters will have to pay to emit carbon dioxide. 1.00

00:31:20.000 There will be a global price on carbon, and this will help make fossil fuels history.

00:31:26.000 You could be preparing to go to Mars.

00:31:30.000 Scientists will have worked out how to keep you healthy in space.

00:31:33.000 The start of a journey to find alien life, question mark.

00:31:36.000 And number eight, Western values will have been tested to the breaking point.

00:31:42.000 Checks and balances that underpin our democracies must not be forgotten.

00:31:49.000 I have several questions for the creators of this video.

00:31:52.000 We all breathe out carbon dioxide every day.

00:31:55.000 So does that mean we have to pay a tax every time we breathe?

00:31:59.000 And how are we supposed to get to Mars with zero fossil fuels?

00:32:02.000 That's my question.

00:32:03.000 But if we could figure that out, that'd be great.

00:32:06.000 That is a great point.

00:32:07.000 It's actually a really, really good point.

00:32:09.000 And so I guess they're going to put a tax on every single human being.

00:32:12.000 Every time you breathe, can't you?

00:32:13.000 And in the next segment, I really want to dive into why is it that people believe that the global elites are trying to take over everything?

00:32:20.000 Like, where do these theories come from?

00:32:23.000 Are all the theories true?

00:32:25.000 Of course, not all the theories are true.

00:32:27.000 But the question is, why are the elites doing nothing to try to stop these elites from spreading?

00:32:33.000 And so a lot of people are emailing us around the World Economic Forum, and I appreciate that because it's a very important thing.

00:32:46.000 And so the World Economic Forum came out and they said, there's all these theories of a global conspiracy, and none of that is true.

00:32:53.000 And again, the lady doth protest too much, methinks, as Shakespeare would say.

00:32:58.000 However, the ruling class and the elites, instead of actually taking a step back and they say, wait a second, why is it that all these theories are spreading?

00:33:12.000 Why is it that people are believing things that might be half true, might be totally true, or not true at all?

00:33:18.000 But the spectrum goes from there.

00:33:19.000 And so I'll tell you a quick story.

00:33:22.000 I was speaking at my pastor's church at Calvary Chapel Godspeak in Thousand Oaks, California, not too long ago, and I had some conversations with a couple people.

00:33:33.000 And there was one person in particular that I met, a really sweet person, and he just believed something that was untrue.

00:33:40.000 He just believed something that was not correct.

00:33:43.000 He said, Donald Trump will 100% serve four more years and get sworn in at the inauguration.

00:33:50.000 And so instead of kind of dismissing him, instead of mocking him, I took a deep breath.

00:33:55.000 I said, let's sit down.

00:33:56.000 Let's chat.

00:33:57.000 And so I had a 10 or 15 minute conversation and let him tell me rationally why he believed what he believed.

00:34:06.000 And then I responded with facts and with data and with information.

00:34:11.000 And after 15 minutes, his mind was changed.

00:34:14.000 He no longer believed that.

00:34:18.000 Why was he believing it without being confronted before?

00:34:27.000 The answer is that the self-contained conversations on social media create feedback bubbles.

00:34:35.000 Even worse, when you kick so many accounts off of social media and all you do is dwell on the message boards and you see hundreds of people commenting, they're almost a separate mob psychology starts to set in.

00:34:50.000 So this sweet gentleman who I talked to for a little bit had never been cross-examined online with a differing opinion.

00:35:03.000 And the same could be said, by the way, for people on the left that say that Donald Trump is a Russian agent.

00:35:08.000 They only follow people on Twitter that say that.

00:35:10.000 They only talk to people that say that.

00:35:12.000 They never had anyone factually or rationally cross-examine them.

00:35:16.000 So again, the self-contained conversations create negative feedback loops of information where the only output is what you already believe.

00:35:28.000 And a consequence of that is then you start believing things that are totally wacky and it invalidates any sort of criticism or concern that we might have.

00:35:38.000 And so I don't know if this is intentional or not.

00:35:43.000 I don't know.

00:35:45.000 I hope not.

00:35:46.000 But when you suppress so many pieces of conversation, all of a sudden, more conspiracy theories are going to start to get latched, hatched.

00:35:55.000 Not less.

00:35:57.000 More wacky, bizarro world ideas are going to start to spread.

00:36:03.000 Not less.

00:36:05.000 Maybe there are people that want to see conspiracy theories grow.

00:36:09.000 Maybe there are people that want to see this sort of unfounded stuff spread.

00:36:14.000 The best way to stop it is stop censoring anyone that might say something a little bit out of the ordinary.

00:36:25.000 And this is why the marketplace of ideas is so important.

00:36:29.000 Otherwise, groupthink kicks in.

00:36:33.000 And when groupthink kicks in, then there is almost a dogmatic belief around a certain perspective or subset of ideas.

00:36:46.000 That's why if you had these social media companies operate the way they should and someone says something like, you know, Mike Pence is in gitmo right now, someone could say, no, he's not.

00:37:00.000 Here's why.

00:37:02.000 Instead, they write that on a message board and everyone's like, OMG, really?

00:37:06.000 It makes so much sense because of this guy and this thing.

00:37:08.000 And all of a sudden, there's no disagreement.

00:37:10.000 There's no cross-examination.

00:37:12.000 And no one wants to hear it.

00:37:15.000 And when you start to shut down certain voices, you know what people say is, oh, they're shutting that person down because he has so much good stuff to say.

00:37:23.000 Well, no, they're shutting the person down immorally because they're afraid of what the consequences of the ideas would be, but they're handling it incorrectly.

00:37:31.000 You're only going to have more people like that than start to pop up, not less.

00:37:35.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:37:40.000 And you can support us at charliekirk.com slash support.

00:37:43.000 God bless America.

00:37:44.000 God bless you.

00:37:45.000 We'll be back later.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 28, 2021

The Elites Get Short Squeezed & The Great Reset Takes Shape

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