00:00:11.000Why are some parents putting up with this?
00:00:13.000Not all parents, almost every parent that listened to our show really does a wonderful job as engaged, or else you guys wouldn't be listening.
00:00:19.000I'm just a broader question more broadly.
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00:04:07.000If you look at the children who are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID.
00:04:17.000And what we mean by that, if a child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID and they get counted as a COVID hospitalized individual, when in fact they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that.
00:04:34.000So it's overcounting the number of children who are, quote, hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID.
00:04:44.000According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, children have represented 0.00 to 0.27 of all Chinese Fauci coronavirus deaths.
00:04:55.000Last week, the CDC reported that weekly deaths in people ages 18 to 29 have decreased to zero from one in five million to the week prior.
00:05:04.000It is so rare that children are at much greater risk of dying of being a passenger in a car, much greater risk of walking into a pool and suffocating.
00:05:15.000They're at much greater risk of dying from childhood cancer than from the Omicron strain or even the Delta strain of this virus.
00:05:25.000Despite all of this being very clear, what broke last night is one of the most stunning violations of the social compact and social contract, the generational social contract that I have seen in my lifetime.
00:05:44.000In my home city of Chicago, a city that had over 800 homicides last year, 800 homicides, most of which were black on black crime.
00:05:54.000And by the way, most of which remain unsolved.
00:05:58.000City of Chicago that says you're not allowed to go to a local restaurant without proof of vaccination.
00:06:06.000A city of Chicago that has become the laughingstock of the country, which is too bad.
00:06:12.000And now it's a dystopian third-rate city, third world city, in more ways than one.
00:06:17.000In Chicago last night, to continue the downward trajectory and spiral into oblivion for a virus that is not even impacting one in five million children.
00:06:32.000Last night, the Chicago Teacher Union announced they're closing schools.
00:06:38.000Chicago Teacher Union approved an action of 73% of its members.
00:06:42.00073% of teachers said that they want to pause on in-person learning until at least January 18th or until cases fall below a particular threshold.
00:06:55.000The Chicago Teachers Union action approved by 73% of its members called for a pause on in-person learning and to work remotely until January 18th or until COVID cases fall below a particular threshold.
00:07:11.000The union also demanded the city require negative tests from students and staff before returning to school.
00:07:20.000What population in America needs open schools more than inner city kids in Chicago?
00:07:29.000These deeply troubled people that call themselves teachers, these 17,000 people, right?
00:07:34.00017,000, they decide to crush and smash kids' futures that they are pledged to serve.
00:07:45.000Now, of course, the rich kids, the children of J.B. Pritzker, the children of any billionaire in Chicago, they'll go to private school or they could go to school in Florida and get on a jet and they can get out of town.
00:09:42.000And Chicago schools were already a disaster.
00:09:46.000The Chicago teacher unions, otherwise known as the Chicago Public Sector Cartel, which is no different than the drug trafficking, human smuggling cartel on the southern border.
00:09:56.000The only difference is that the cartel from Mexico doesn't have a direct impact on children in Chicago, only a tangential impact of bringing drugs and guns into the city.
00:10:10.000We already know that children that are born during the pandemic have lower IQs.
00:10:16.000We have created the stupidest, dumbest generation in American history because of the lockdowns.
00:10:25.000Adults are morally tasked with looking after the well-being of the upcoming generation.
00:10:34.000Especially if you're going to be in the place of an instructor or a teacher, you need to make decisions that are going to be in the best interest of people that are not in the same socioeconomic or generational position that you are for five, six, seven, eight, and nine 10 year olds.
00:10:56.000But put simply, what's happening in Chicago is the strong crushing the weak.
00:11:03.000It's teachers that receive their paycheck, that don't want to go to work, that say to the black and Hispanic kids of Chicago, go figure it out.
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00:12:24.00020% of kids in Chicago don't have internet at home.
00:12:29.000Only 50% of kids on the south side, which is predominantly a black area, have internet at home.
00:12:37.000In the south and west side, schools in 2020, one in five grades of all grades given in math and English were in F. Despite all this, the Chicago teacher unions have shut down the schools.
00:12:57.000A WBEZ analysis, local station in Chicago, said that even when they have class in person, about one in four kids don't show up anyway.
00:13:11.000And this year, Chicago public schools have said that they're letting all elementary and middle school students move on to the next grade regardless of whether they even show up or pass the class or not.
00:13:26.000Adults are morally tasked with looking after whether or not their children and who comes after them is going to experience at the very least something comparable to the country they lived in.
00:13:44.000Now, the reasoning for the teacher unions, they say that it's unsafe for them to be in these school environments, which is a very interesting way to put it considering the neighborhoods a lot of them have to actually teach in.
00:14:10.000They want to phone it in from home and do Zoom and Skype class, collect their paycheck, regardless of whether or not their kids, who, by the way, now thanks to these school closures, are going to be at disproportionate risk of dropping out and joining gangs.
00:14:27.000So homicides will go up, petty thefts will go up, Gucci stores being raided will go up.
00:14:35.000But according to the Chicago teacher unions, it's like the thing that Joseph Stalin used to say in the midst of the famine.
00:15:00.000And it really does ask the question, which is what is the moral compass of the Chicago ruling class, especially in the educational space, that believes this is even remotely acceptable.
00:15:18.000I'm going to expand on one of the things I talked about, which is the price, the cost that the lockdowns, that the abrupt changes in American society brought onto children who had no say whatsoever.
00:15:35.000For just newborn children, new research has found from Brown University that IQ levels are 20 to 30 points lower for new children born during the pandemic than before.
00:15:54.000It says parents are stressed and frazzled.
00:15:56.000The interaction the child would normally get has decreased substantially.
00:16:02.000The ability to course correct becomes smaller the older that child gets.
00:16:09.000Perhaps not surprising that children from lower socioeconomic families have been the most affected as this resonates with many of the other financial, employment, and health impacts of the pandemic.
00:16:41.000A child should never wear a mask, period.
00:16:45.000But instead, you have parents, adults, that deep down really hate themselves and they're trying to live vicariously through their children in this kind of outsourced ego way.
00:17:00.000And that's why when you go to these stores, you see these four-year-olds with masks on and you think to yourself, well, of course they're dumber, obviously.
00:17:06.000They're not hearing what anyone has to say.
00:17:08.000They're not seeing facial interactions.
00:17:10.000They're not learning how to read social cues.
00:17:19.000But I want to pose this question, which is, why wouldn't the group of people that recklessly borrowed $15 trillion that we didn't have, why wouldn't they just repeat that same sort of moral behavior by wrecking kids' lives when it comes to school closures?
00:17:41.000Our fiscal policy and the lack of morality that came to our death that related to our deficit spending last 20 years is directly connected to how and why we tolerated the obliteration of our children's future.
00:17:58.000I've been telling you guys about Relief Factor for quite some time.
00:18:00.000And truth is, I know millions of people are in fact, 100 million people are in some kind of pain.
00:18:05.000Look, producer Andrew, he couldn't walk.
00:19:05.000We're getting a lot of different emails, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:19:07.000They're outraged that Chicago would shut down their schools.
00:19:11.000And you look at a minority population that needs in-person learning and instruction, hopefully mask-free in-person instruction and learning.
00:19:21.000And this is something that really irritates us conservatives, and it doesn't irritate the left.
00:19:26.000Because we, as conservatives, believe every individual that is being robbed of an in-person education has the potential to flourish and has the potential within them to succeed.
00:19:38.000We believe that every single person, regardless of skin color, regardless of what neighborhood they're from, has a moral right to a high, high-quality education, at the very least, a moral right to learn how to read and write and do math.
00:19:53.000The left believes in no such thing, they just believe in monopolies and power, which is exactly why they're shutting down these schools, because the 17,000 self-righteous thugs that call themselves teachers that voted to keep these schools closed, the 17,000 teachers that did that, 73% of them, they're fine that the black fifth grader in Englewood is going to drop out of school and instead go into a gang life and end up dead in prison or a mass murderer.
00:20:21.000And there is a direct connection with school closures and increase of crime.
00:20:25.000There is a direct connection with school closures and kids falling through the cracks and getting into organized crime.
00:20:33.000But the deeper question that I want to explore with you is: where did this start?
00:20:38.000Where did we start the pattern of accepting the robbery, the thievery, the plundering of future generations?
00:20:52.000Well, one of my first kind of, let's say, moments of activism in the suburbs of Chicago at Wheeling High School was working with some of my local friends there complaining about the ever-increasing national debt and deficit.
00:21:07.000That as our deficit grew and our national debt grew, we were making a moral argument: hey, we're 16 and 17 years old.
00:21:26.000Our future is being mortgaged for the comfort and for the luxury and the short-term benefit of a generation that is not going to be inheriting the nation.
00:21:41.000Basically, the argument that we made at Turning Point USA and we made with some of my local buddies there in the suburbs of Chicago is very simple, which is why are adults okay with borrowing all this money and piling it on their children?
00:21:55.000And I know a lot of you listening right now are probably getting mildly irritated.
00:22:20.000The point is that the rule, though, the majority of people that are over the age of 50 have been perfectly okay with the moral injustice of what is now a $29.6 trillion national debt.
00:22:37.000You see, borrowing money to try and placate Medicare, Social Security, and generous welfare benefits, that same sort of behavior is precisely the same sort of behavior that created the robbery of children during the Chinese coronavirus Fauci pandemic.
00:23:20.000Laura Ingram did, Tucker Carlson did, Sean Hannity did, Donald Trump did, Joe Rogan did, Peter McCullough, Robert Malone.
00:23:28.000We weren't the only show, but we were definitely on the cutting edge of that, warning that we are going to be participating in a massive intergenerational wealth transfer of stealing the best years, stealing childhood development, emotional development, creating the most drug-addicted and suicidal generation in American history.
00:23:47.000But most, not all, most parents were unmoved by this.
00:24:38.000They're too worried that 18 unarmed people, black people, were killed by police, most of which were not even actually unarmed.
00:24:47.000Thomas Fordham said, quote, from the, I'm sorry, Michael Petrilli from the Thomas Fordham Institute said, quote, we have never seen this kind of academic achievement crisis in living memory.
00:25:02.000We have not seen this kind of academic achievement crisis in living memory.
00:25:10.000Many children and teenagers are experiencing mental health problems, aggravated by isolation and disruption of the pandemic.
00:25:19.000Three medical groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, recently declared a national state of emergency in children's mental health.
00:25:28.000They cited dramatic increases in emergency department visits for all mental health emergencies.
00:25:35.000Suicide attempts have risen, according to the New York Times.
00:25:37.000And by the way, all of this was manufactured by our rulers and by adults.
00:26:27.000Gun violence against children has increased because, in the midst of all this, we said, hey, you know what's a great idea?
00:26:33.000Let's also decide to just burn everything.
00:26:37.000And if you dare question it, you're a racist.
00:26:41.000We went on a mass cultural arsonist campaign.
00:26:45.000Many schools have still not returned to normal, worsening learning loss and social isolation.
00:26:51.000Lunchtime, extracurricular activities, assemblies, school trips, parent-teacher conferences, reliable bus schedules have been transformed, if not eliminated, totally unnecessarily.
00:27:03.000Jackie Irwin said this is no way for a child to grow up.
00:27:06.000For many kids, school represents a safe, comfortable, reliable place, but not for nearly two years now.
00:28:13.000Says across the country, say they're seeing an uptick in disruptive behaviors.
00:28:16.000Obviously, it's going to be the most medicated generation in American history.
00:28:20.000There's more swearing, vandalism, fights.
00:28:24.000Teacher in Northern California says it's the meanest, most inappropriate generation that she's ever had to teach.
00:28:32.000This circumstance, basically the intentional obliteration of a children's future, it all started when we decided to borrow money we didn't have.
00:28:45.000The real estate market is extremely hot right now.
00:28:47.000People are taking advantage of low interest rates and economic uncertainty by investing in real assets.
00:28:52.000Whether you are a first-time buyer or just looking to make a change, the key is to get the property you want is being pre-qualified and having cash in hand.
00:28:59.000That's why you guys, all of us, myself included, I had to stop doing this.
00:29:22.000Andrew Del Ray and Todd of Aikien, who become great friends of mine, AndrewandTodd.com.
00:29:26.000They are with Sierra Pacific Mortgage.
00:29:28.000My producer, Andrew, he's working with them right now, and he tells me they are part counselors, part financial planners, and they're really helping them.
00:29:34.000And I'm about to use them for something.
00:31:01.000Corey and TL Lincoln Way high schoolers were supposed to go back to school here in New Lennox tomorrow, but didn't find out until today that this week they'll be staying home.
00:31:30.000I have family that actually was from there spent a lot of time near New Lennox, not far from Lamont, which is where Turning Point USA was actually born.
00:31:37.000New Lennox is a far cry from Chicago public schools.
00:31:40.000And so, and New Lennox, by the way, is a very high income area.
00:32:11.000And they're just shutting it down, sending them all home.
00:32:15.000Dawn emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:18.000He says, I think they put up with it, parents, because they themselves are ill-prepared to think critically, having grown up being taught they are owed XYZ and want others to take care of educating their kids.
00:32:31.000I don't know that they have the internal toolbox required to do what needs to be done.
00:32:36.000Over the years, our education system has set up our society with a population that isn't very capable of standing on their own, let alone challenging bad systems, which is a perfect segue.
00:32:48.000Two things before we close out this hour.
00:32:51.000Number one, as soon as we tolerated the moral behavior of deficit spending, which is the same thing as school closing, make no mistake.
00:33:02.000When Congress started to borrow hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars, they were starting to condition the minds of the baby boomer generation that it's okay to steal from your kids.
00:33:50.000We know that politicians are kind of programmed to not care about long-term effects, only care about short-term or immediate implications, such as getting reelected or campaign contributions or nice articles in the Washington Post or New York Times.
00:34:09.000But what was really happening was the conditioning of a population to learn to be okay with reaching into the crib of the child and stealing.
00:34:25.000And so then when it came to the situation where all of a sudden the media told you, hey, you know that children could be super spreaders, which by the way, no evidence shows that children are spreaders.
00:34:35.000Dr. Peter McCullough said that asymptomatic spread is one of the great lies of the pandemic.
00:35:25.000It's called an omnibus bill, is what it is.
00:35:28.000So, when all of a sudden, the question of what do we morally do when we have to either prioritize our children or our immediate gratification so that we can remain comfortable on the golf course in Palm Beach, the answer was: let's do what we've already been doing.