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00:02:07.000It's sort of just reporting on different...
00:02:09.000Rumors and ideas under consideration in the White House, but basically the White House is considering how do we encourage people to have children?
00:02:17.000How do we raise America's average number of kids per family?
00:02:20.000And one of the ideas that was thrown out was to have a $5,000 baby bonus for every American mother after she gives birth.
00:02:29.000They asked Trump about it on Tuesday and he responded, sounds like a good idea to me.
00:02:54.000There's still been issues with the birth rates in many of these countries.
00:02:58.000And also, you know, I'm just going to say it, America has more of an issue.
00:03:04.000With, you know, sort of the baby mama syndrome than some of these other, you know, Eastern European countries do.
00:03:10.000And I worry that if you don't put the right kind of conditions on something like this, then you just kind of create that situation all over again.
00:03:20.000Yeah, so I think Hungary has actually stabilized the decline, if I'm not mistaken.
00:03:25.000It's gone up, so I'm looking at the numbers right in front of me right now.
00:03:28.000They spend, I think, 7% of GDP on pro-family policy.
00:03:34.000I mean, it's an extraordinary investment.
00:03:43.000When you go around in Budapest, it's like every corner there's a new playground or something's going on, and they have kids' sections in the restaurant in Poland as well.
00:03:52.000It's amazing to see what a pro-family country, like a pro-child country, actually looks like.
00:03:57.000And then you start asking questions about ourselves.
00:05:08.000Yeah, it's an old communist Cold War thing.
00:05:10.000They brought in North Vietnamese through an exchange program.
00:05:13.000So you find these Vietnamese markets in the Czech Republic.
00:05:17.000But so they just they have consistently been a bit ahead and they follow a very similar pattern, which is worth flagging.
00:05:24.000They bottom out around the same point.
00:05:26.000They similarly have a bit of a rise in the 2010s, and then they similarly fall right after COVID hits.
00:05:32.000So Hungary did reverse their decline, but it's also worth saying, did they reverse the decline because of their policies, or is there a wider social thing going on?
00:05:43.000I'm not sure if they border them, but they're very close to the Czechs, and culturally, historically, they have a lot of similar inputs going into that, and they're following a pretty similar pattern.
00:05:52.000And I think with the 5,000 baby bonus, you kind of run into what I think is the reality, which is you can do things to encourage bigger families, but the stuff that you can do that would actually work, it's not within the Overton window of what a democracy could do.
00:06:08.000If you gave women a million dollars per birth, just had a nationwide Elon Musk policy, it'd probably work.
00:06:57.000But that type of work, too, is like, I mean, there's things that you can do in addition to a bonus, the baby bonus, just like straight cash.
00:07:04.000Because I think the straight cash, I don't know if there's anyone that's done extensive research on that.
00:07:10.000But the street cash does seem like it's a really bad idea.
00:07:12.000Yeah, well, and it's kind of the line is $5,000.
00:07:16.000Like, you think, who is the person you're envisioning who is tipped into having an additional kid by a one-time bonus of $5,000?
00:07:25.000And to be blunt, it's probably not the sort of kids that we need to have more of.
00:07:32.000Because what's really hollowing out in the U.S. and what's really driving the birth rate down is...
00:07:37.000People who are in what you might say like the responsible middle class are the ones who feel the most constricted about having kids.
00:07:44.000People on the lowest end somewhat impulsively have kids and they don't work terribly hard at raising them.
00:07:51.000And people who are very, very high income, making multiple millions of dollars a year, can effectively afford to have as many kids as they want.
00:07:57.000And they actually do have more kids as a result.
00:07:59.000But I think the absolute rock bottom of fertility, the people who have the lowest number of kids, are people who are maybe 75th, 80th percentile in income, where they're the ones who care a lot about having kids responsibly.
00:08:16.000Don't have kids until you get married and make sure you can give each of them the lifestyle that you think a kid should have and you can give them the proper amount of resources.
00:08:24.000Those are the ones who are at absolute rock bottom.
00:08:27.000Those are the ones who you would want presumably to raise the most to because those are the kids who kind of make your country able to succeed.
00:08:35.000It is a problem in America if the upper middle class specifically cannot reproduce itself.
00:08:41.000If it's going extinct, you are burning up the human capital of your country when people who make the best parents, probably, are not having kids anymore.
00:08:51.000I mean, I do respect, first of all, President Trump embracing this because we should want another baby boom.
00:08:57.000I want to just read off some things, though, to defend Hungary, though.
00:09:01.000Abortions went down 41% since their pro-family policy, 41%.
00:10:44.000Kids are staying inside and they're playing too many video games.
00:10:47.000Okay, we're going to make it so kids can only play video games for three designated hours of the week.
00:10:53.000I don't know how strictly it's enforced, but in 2021 they had a law where if you're under 18, I think, basically you could do it, I'm not sure the exact time, but it was one hour on Friday night, one hour on Saturday, one hour on Sunday night.
00:11:06.000And that's when you're allowed to play online video games in China if you're not an adult.
00:11:10.000They had a huge video game addiction problem in China, too.
00:11:15.000This was something where they even had rehab centers where families could send their kids because they were too addicted to online games.
00:11:24.000And I don't mean like you're playing on your phone a little bit.
00:12:54.000I will say, though, just anecdotally, though, I will say that the most, I think that having more kids is coming back in style with the more Christian you are.
00:13:05.000At least anecdotally, would you agree, Jack, that there is a three-plus push?
00:13:12.000And maybe, again, full disclosure, I very well might just be around wealthy people that can afford having three, four, five kids, but...
00:13:20.000Unfortunately, having children has become a luxury item.
00:14:33.000So it actually prevents you from having more kids because of the exorbitant cost of daycare.
00:14:38.000And so that's why J.D. Vance talked about this at great length during the campaign, as we all know, that that's why to him...
00:14:46.000Making it so that you could live as a family on a single income would actually help better for family formation because then you've got one parent that can stay home with multiple children.
00:14:59.000You don't have to put your kids into daycare because it isn't a situation where both parents are forced to work.
00:15:04.000So for the last 2,000 years, there was an assumption that having children was something that everyone wanted.
00:17:26.000You know what's interesting about this, and I always talk about it, is do you guys remember the movie It's a Wonderful Life, like the Christmas movie, you know that one?
00:17:37.000They go into, like, he, you know, I'm not going to read the whole thing, but it's like they go into the nightmare version of the world if George Bailey had never lived, and he goes into, he says, I want to see my wife, I want to see Mary, and he's being walked through, and it's sort of a Dickensian kind of take on things.
00:17:53.000And they say, oh, you don't want to see your wife, George, you don't want to see what happened to Mary.
00:18:07.000She's closing up the local library and she's like in her 30s.
00:18:11.000And so there's something that's changed in American culture where that was considered nightmarish and like incredibly backwards in the 1940s, you know, during World War Two, essentially.
00:18:27.000And the word spinster, the idea of social shame around this was seen as a really, really bad outcome.
00:18:35.000Whereas these days they say, oh, you know, go and get your master's in library affairs, go get your MLA or whatever.
00:18:42.000And that's considered this great good.
00:18:44.000And then they tell you to not even have kids.
00:18:47.000You put off family formation until your 30s, late 30s, etc.
00:18:51.000And suddenly we wonder why there's low fertility rates.
00:20:37.000And it was that gradual, I think it's a gradual transition.
00:20:40.000I know among Mormons, you'll hear a lot where it's, okay, my grandparents had eight or nine kids apiece, my parents had four to six kids apiece, and now good Mormons are having two to three kids apiece, and maybe the next generation will be having zero to 1.8 kids apiece.
00:20:57.000And it's that big, it's sort of the breakdown of what your normal environment is.
00:21:03.000If everyone around you is normally having six kids, the normal thing to do is to have six kids and you see that gradual slide away.
00:21:09.000So you'd almost have to say like in China where I mentioned where they're doing these things, a lot of what China does is just.
00:21:14.000The person who has six kids is better than you.
00:21:19.000The person who has the most kids is a better citizen than you are.
00:21:23.000And if we're just wildly throwing around ideas that will never happen because we're not allowed to have cool ideas here.
00:21:30.000You'd almost say, like, what if you could only vote if you were, like, if you are a married couple with a kid, you can vote and also vote your kids' vote, but actually you can't vote if you're just a single person.
00:22:08.000And we know that married couples always tend to vote more conservative.
00:22:14.000And certainly when people get older, as they have kids, they do tend to be more conservative.
00:22:20.000So generally, as a movement, that is something that we should be pushing.
00:22:24.000And also something that we should be pushing in terms of...
00:22:28.000The country, we don't want to be a country where we're forced to hollow out our population replacement by replacing them with more immigrants, which is what we've been doing since the 1970s, essentially, and saying, oh,
00:22:46.000That's created all these other problems, but my GDP go up, my shareholder value go up, and people are all upset about it.
00:22:53.000This is also because, by the way, we now have a much lower trust.
00:22:59.000So those social shaming campaigns don't necessarily work as well because we don't have a society that generally trusts the government and the institutions.
00:23:09.000This is something that people attack us for all the time.
00:23:12.000They say we are the cause of it, but no, we're not the cause of that.
00:23:29.000Although, if I remember correctly, there is, and Blake, you probably know better than me, isn't there a correlation between birth rates going up and, like, warfare?
00:24:44.000Women on campus think that motherhood is a great burden.
00:24:47.000They think that if I have to go through it to get my genes, fine, continuing.
00:24:53.000But it's really awful and it's really terrible.
00:24:56.000Whereas the prior generation looked at it as something, not just something that they really should do to continue the species, but they get to do.
00:25:06.000And there's a lot of reasons for that.
00:25:48.000And so I think that's what's becoming more transparent in politics today is now that we're seeing very clearly, it's like, well, you know, if things are going wrong in America, you know, it's probably that one outlier category.
00:26:00.000and the one outlier category that exists on every poll today is that it's white college-educated women are the ones that are so far distant from every single other category.
00:26:38.000And when you talk about Caucasian relationships in the United States, that's the fracturing of society.
00:26:43.000And it would be no different than in a majority black community in Africa having such separation between female and males on something.
00:26:55.000But we're talking about a complete ideological split between males and females happening in America right now that are white.
00:27:02.000And so you cannot expect, I completely agree with you, I think it's men probably, not probably, are for sure the likely side that wants to have more kids than women because of the direction they're going.
00:27:16.000You know one of the biggest lies being sold to American people right now is that you're in control of your money, especially when it comes to crypto.
00:27:22.000But the truth, most of these so-called crypto platforms are just banks in disguise, fully capable of freezing your assets the moment some bureaucrat makes a phone call.
00:27:31.000That is not what Bitcoin was built for.
00:27:47.000Not some three-letter agency that thinks it knows better than you do.
00:27:50.000This is how it was intended by the original creators of Bitcoin.
00:27:53.000Peer-to-peer money, free from centralized control, free from surveillance, and free from arbitrary seizure.
00:27:59.000So if you're serious about financial sovereignty, go to Bitcoin.com, set up your wallet, take back control, because if you don't hold the keys, you don't own your money.
00:30:36.000So our team is actually seeing where the left is pushing Bernie Sanders and AOC as populists.
00:30:45.000I've been predicting this the whole time.
00:30:47.000So we're seeing this in multiple places.
00:30:49.000Yesterday, actually, one of our staffers got in a debate with somebody about whether or not...
00:30:55.000I can't remember where it was, but somebody posted, like, this is our brand of populism.
00:31:01.000So I'll just admit, I just feel like I, like, this is one of those things where, do you ever feel now that you're over 30 that, like, you realize there's no new news stories?
00:31:11.000Yeah, it's just kind of all repurposed.
00:31:12.000So they're like, wow, the Democrats, like, now this new generation of Democrats, they're not afraid to be nasty.
00:31:18.000Okay, in 2017, there was this whole pattern where they would go and find Trump admin officials in restaurants and scream at them until they had to leave.
00:31:27.000Remember Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the chicken restaurant?
00:31:28.000Yeah, it happened to her and it happened to a few others.
00:31:30.000I think Ted Cruz got chased out of the restaurant.
00:32:09.000Well, the funny part about this was this was like, you know, Candace had just barely become like kind of had some notoriety post the Kanye stuff.
00:32:18.000So like nobody it wasn't like she was like a known household name at that point.
00:32:23.000But what had happened was the place that we picked just happened.
00:33:50.000And remember all the police officers were all black and all the Antifa people were white and they were like spitting and like getting up in your face.
00:33:59.000All the black police officers were like they got involved and were like body slamming and they were like piping them down and everything.
00:34:10.000So, for Dark Woke, what can we expect?
00:34:14.000We could imagine things that have never happened before among Democrats.
00:34:17.000They might target random people who aren't famous and just make giant villains of them on the internet and try to blow up their lives.
00:34:26.000They could get people fired from their jobs because of things that they just said a decade ago.
00:34:33.000There's like so many unprecedented things that Dark Woke could do, Charlie.
00:34:36.000They could lock people up and deny them due process and deny them a hearing and file all sorts of extraneous charges on them for years until the Supreme Court finally steps in and shuts it down.
00:35:08.000Could you imagine if they were censoring your free speech rights?
00:35:12.000Could you imagine if they were kicking you, you know, taking your children away from you because you didn't want them to be transgenderized and they would put them into other states?
00:35:25.000I think this is a—I will say that—I don't want to keep saying it.
00:35:33.000I don't want to keep on giving Democrats advice.
00:37:13.000What I would say is, kind of my take is, trying to help him would be a heroic thing, but I sort of can't blame people for not immediately taking action.
00:37:24.000At that moment where he's floundering, I don't know if I agree.
00:38:52.000Where people are just filming bad stuff that's happening.
00:38:55.000By the way, did we ever find out the person who at Florida State University was the person with the Starbucks with that girl that got shot?
00:40:37.000So that's why we were discussing it, like, how should we blow it up more?
00:40:40.000And I was saying, I'm always very wary of taking any four-second clip and exploding it, because the truth is, you don't know what's going on before that video or after that video.
00:41:00.000Not helping someone when you should help them, but also recording when you really should be exercising basic self-preservation.
00:41:08.000Because you get people who obviously are putting themselves in danger or actively inhibiting an evacuation or something that needs to be done because they're just recording it with their phone.
00:42:44.000How is this going to look on, you know, whatever your social media choice is?
00:42:47.000And so rather than Rather than directly interface with that, we always take that extra step back to think, how will others look at this if we then go and film it?
00:42:58.000So I think we've rewired all of people's brains.
00:43:02.000This is why I talk about the generations that grew up with technology are just fundamentally different.
00:43:09.000Yeah, just the blurring of the lines between the two, right?
00:43:56.000You can even skip a payment every six months of the 12 times.
00:43:59.000Okay, we have one last time for one last topic.
00:44:08.000Alrighty, so this is the, uh, it's a factory that they just built in China.
00:44:15.000And what's special about this factory, let me see if I can get it here, is it apparently can be run entirely without any humans whatsoever, and it can build one smartphone every second.
00:44:45.000It can do one phone a second, so that's about 86,400 phones a day.
00:44:50.000It operates in darkness, because it doesn't need any humans at it, so they don't need light.
00:44:56.000And it pumps out a phone every second, and the Chinese company that designed it has some creepy, ominous, dystopian video future, and it would all be in Chinese.
00:46:52.000So the thing is, is you often get the take of China, that China succeeds in manufacturing because they are, it's slave labor, you'll come in here, it's sweatshop labor, they just beat us on cost.
00:47:51.000Or people think about cell phone radiation is going to give them brain cancer.
00:47:56.0005G is actually not just about cell phones.
00:47:59.000One of the biggest things about 5G is you can use it to interface a billion robots in your factory and have them all be super reliable and they're getting a super reliable signal and you can have your entire factory be so much more advanced and complicated and all of that.
00:48:15.000When I say that, we talk about America re-industrializing, and I think a lot of people, they have this nostalgic vision of what manufacturing is, and they're like, oh, it was so cool when America had steel plants, and this guy could go in with a hard hat and work in his steel plant for 40 hours a week, and he would make this middle-class income and have a wife and his 2.7 kids.
00:48:34.000And I'm not sure if people totally realize what manufacturing is at this point.
00:48:39.000And what it would mean to bring it back to America.
00:48:42.000Let me read something from a top, top businessman.
00:48:45.000I'm not going to say who, but you guys would all know the name.
00:48:47.000And I want you to say, because actually this was part of a group chat.
00:50:59.000You don't make shoes as much in China anymore.
00:51:02.000You make those in Vietnam or Bangladesh.
00:51:04.000You make them in places where there actually is lower labor.
00:51:07.000And they've chosen to specialize in that.
00:51:09.000But if their specialty is we have the absolute most advanced robots that can build a phone a second with no human input other than fixing a machine when it breaks.
00:51:24.000The other problem is that if you try to bring back, which we should, industrial manufacturing, you're going to run into major labor unions.
00:51:29.000I mean, they don't have labor unions in China.
00:52:33.000Remember, the base of the Democrat Party is young, unmarried women who are very miserable and visit their doctors all the time for antidepressants and Xanax.
00:52:43.000And young women tend to be very upset and very troubled.
00:54:27.000Can you imagine her running a factory?
00:54:28.000Every time there's a crisis and it's this text exchange where it's this girl, I think a girlfriend messaging her boyfriend or maybe a wife, husband, and she just says, what's going on with the stock market today?
00:54:38.000And he just replies, lol, don't worry about it, babe.
00:56:05.000Charlie, can you just, can you explain to me what a gig is when they say, because I understand it means something different down to the Aggies than it does to the rest of us.