00:00:00.000Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we go through the question: where did all the workers go?
00:00:03.000And also, we start the show off with a beautiful example of a liberal challenging a leftist.
00:00:09.000For all of you that have liberal friends, I think Barry Weiss challenging Brian Stelter is one of the greatest pieces of television I have seen in recent memory.
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00:02:11.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:46.000Where she wrote about how the whole world has gone woke and has lost their minds.
00:03:53.000And she says, why are moms like me being called domestic terrorists?
00:03:56.000Reposted this article from Maude Moran.
00:03:59.000She says this: She quotes, I am a mother of four, a criminal defense attorney, and a lifelong liberal who is deeply concerned about the direction of New York City public schools.
00:04:08.000I've been outspoken about my views, along with an untold number of frustrated parents.
00:04:12.000For that, the FBI is considering using the Patriot Act against me.
00:04:16.000Last month, National School Board Association, an umbrella organization representing thousands of local elected school board officials, sent a letter to President Biden.
00:04:24.000The letter implored the White House to enlist support of Homeland Security, FBI, Department of Justice, to investigate the threat, adding that the alleged crimes fall under the purview of the Patriot Act in regards to domestic terrorism.
00:04:37.000Barry Weiss has covered a variety of different issues from why people are suing UCLA for not wanting to discriminate against their students.
00:04:45.000And she's kind of getting a reputation as a former New York Times reporter, as someone who's actually willing to tell the truth, someone who is willing to speak clearly and courageously.
00:04:56.000So she went on CNN this weekend at the low-rating, not well-watched show hosted by Brian Stelter.
00:05:04.000And does Barry Weiss have a new book out?
00:05:53.000There are tens of millions of Americans who aren't on the hard left or the hard right who feel the world has gone mad.
00:05:59.000So in what ways has the world gone mad?
00:06:02.000Well, you know, when you have the chief reporter on the beat of COVID for the New York Times talking about how questioning or pursuing the question of the lab leak is racist, the world has gone mad.
00:06:14.000When you're not able to say out loud and in public that there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad.
00:06:21.000When we're not allowed to acknowledge that rioting is rioting and it is bad, and that silence is not violence, but violence is violence, the world has gone mad.
00:06:32.000When we're not able to say that Hunter Biden's laptop is a story worth pursuing, the world has gone mad.
00:06:38.000When, in the name of progress, young school children, as young as kindergarten, are being separated in public schools because of their race.
00:06:48.000And that is called progress rather than segregation.
00:07:07.000People that work Work at networks, frankly, like the one I'm speaking on right now, who try and claim that, you know, it was racist to investigate the lab leak theory.
00:07:30.000I've heard about every story you mentioned.
00:07:31.000So I'm just suggesting, of course, people are allowed to cover whatever they want to cover.
00:07:35.000But you and I both know, and it would be delusional to claim otherwise, that touching your finger to an increasing number of subjects that have been deemed third rail by the mainstream institutions and increasingly by some of the tech companies will lead to reputational damage, perhaps you losing your job, your children sometimes being demonized as well.
00:07:57.000And so what happens is a kind of internal self-censorship.
00:08:01.000This is something that I saw over and over again when I was at the New York Times.
00:08:05.000And that two minutes is some of the most important television for all of you that are listening to this.
00:08:09.000We'll post this at charliekirk.com and we'll repost it on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast page throughout what we are doing, Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
00:08:16.000Why is that some of the most important piece of television?
00:08:19.000Because here you have a moderate liberal against a propagandist, Brian Stelter, who's never had an original thought in his life.
00:08:25.000He just toes the party line, does what he's told, says what he needs to say.
00:08:34.000She says, you know what, there are interesting stories that you're ignoring here on this network, CNN.
00:08:37.000For example, Hunter Biden's emails, the origins of the Fauci virus, funding of gain of function research, gain of function research, and where the money came from.
00:08:50.000And what you see there in real time is an honest liberal.
00:08:53.000And this is the important point for those of you that are listening that have liberals in your life.
00:08:57.000Send that clip to them and say, which side are you on?
00:09:00.000Are you on the Brian Selter side or are you on the Barry Weiss side?
00:09:04.000Are you on the side that tries to have a liberation from groupthink and the tyranny of conformity?
00:09:10.000Or are you on the side that just wants to propagandize the party line, do what you're told, never actually have any sort of comprehensive conversation of solutions, what's actually occurring in the country?
00:09:22.000And this goes to the distinction of a liberal versus a leftist.
00:09:28.000He's a, at best, Pravda-style communication czar who goes on television, no different than Caesar Flickerman in the Hunger Games, except Cesar Flickerman had hair and Brian Stelter does not.
00:09:41.000And Cesar Flickerman was skinny and Brian Stelter is not.
00:09:45.000And Caesar Flickerman was funny and Brian Stelter is not.
00:09:50.000And Cesar Flickerman was popular and Brian Stelter is not.
00:09:53.000Besides that, they're exactly the same.
00:09:56.000Where there is this question that arises, which is a very legitimate question, of are the people on television at all ever self-aware at the damage they're doing to American society?
00:10:11.000Well, Barry Weiss is one of the few that deserves to be platformed.
00:10:14.000Again, I don't agree with her on everything.
00:10:16.000In fact, I'm sure that if we have different views on abortion and different views on transgender stuff and different views on, I don't know, pick your certain issue.
00:10:24.000I'm sure that I'm much more strict on immigration than she is, whatever.
00:10:29.000But she believes in something that will help keep this country alive for the time being.
00:10:44.000Barry Weiss is the type of Democrat that used to exist in this country.
00:10:48.000Barry Weiss is the type of Democrat that used to say, you know what, I agree to disagree.
00:10:52.000You might have a difference of opinion, but I'll still allow you to speak.
00:10:55.000She is different than Brian Stelter, who's the type of leftist that we're going to have to encounter tonight at the University of Vermont, where at University of Vermont, they say, oh, we disagree with you.
00:12:23.000I have boxes of their stuff at our home because when things start to fall apart, we're going to be well fed at our home because we know that we have My Patriot supply.
00:12:32.000You could save $100 right now on their three-month emergency food kit just in time before all the panic.
00:12:38.000Literally, Pete Buddha Judge is coming out and he's saying things are running out.
00:14:08.000And we're going to talk about the problem together.
00:14:10.000And then we're going to figure out what exactly the main reason, the driving reason is, and then what I think their solution is going to be.
00:14:18.000Wall Street Journal writes this piece and it's exactly what we've been saying on our team because we're traveling the country and we saw the most bizarre thing yesterday.
00:14:26.000So the Wall Street Journal has the piece, where did all the workers go?
00:14:29.000So we are in Loudoun County and we on our way to Vermont.
00:14:54.000They could not find the workers to keep Starbucks open.
00:14:58.000We went to Cheesecake Factory last evening after our event, and I kid you not, there must have been, what, 20 tables that were not wiped off or cleared on our way.
00:15:09.000They said that they have only half of their workers showing up to work.
00:15:12.000I went to a place in Phoenix, Arizona last weekend, Protein House, great place.
00:15:17.000If you're in Phoenix, you should check it out.
00:16:07.000If you think you got the obvious answer to this, then email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, because I'm genuinely interested.
00:16:13.000There is a labor shock and shortage that we've never seen before.
00:16:17.000And let me just tell you the way that they're going to try to spin it.
00:16:20.000They're going to try to say, okay, therefore, we need more immigrants to come into America to go do these jobs because they're willing, eager, because people don't want to work.
00:16:54.000High schoolers don't work anymore because most parents don't actually want their kids to work.
00:16:59.000They'd rather have their kids do AAU basketball, competitive sports, study to go to college.
00:17:04.000The labor force participation for high schoolers is the lowest it's been in our country's history.
00:17:08.000I think that makes America more entitled.
00:17:10.000I think that makes America less competitive.
00:17:13.000I think that high schoolers working is a great thing.
00:17:15.000And I started to see this kind of change when I was in high school, where kids that didn't need the extra income for their house, they're like, yeah, why would I go work?
00:17:23.000I'll go do sports or kind of take the summer off.
00:17:27.000Wall Street Journal asked this question: where did all the workers go?
00:17:30.000Labor Department last week, week and a half ago, reported another disappointing month for employment.
00:17:35.000But the problem wasn't a dearth of jobs.
00:17:38.000The question is, what happened to the workers?
00:17:44.000I've asked economists, I've asked job, and I think it's a mixture of things.
00:17:47.000Number one, and I think our team member Jake said it best: I think there's this new expectation that I want to be able to work for my laptop, work from home, and physical manual work is something that no one wants to do anymore.
00:18:00.000That after the Fauci virus, wearing a mask, flipping burgers, I want nothing to do with it.
00:18:06.000That there's kind of this prejudice towards manual work.
00:18:10.000That people say, I don't want to do that anymore.
00:18:16.000The Wall Street Journal agrees with us.
00:18:18.000How are these people supporting themselves?
00:18:20.000The generous unemployment benefits have been restricted.
00:18:25.000It does say in the Wall Street Journal that there are still many other federal financial payments that don't require work, including a $300 monthly allowance per child food stamps and rental assistance.
00:18:35.000But people on food stamps have actually gone down in the last couple of months.
00:18:39.000Many people have saved some of their transfer payments, and now Democrats are promising more.
00:18:44.000It says here in the Wall Street Journal: inflation may be tilting the scale to leisure instead of work.
00:18:48.000Average hourly earnings are rising fast, up 4.6% from a year ago, 7.4% at an annualized rate.
00:18:55.000Wage growth after inflation has been declining for many low-income Americans who spend more on incomes on food and energy, and prices are going up.
00:19:03.000We are seeing a labor shortage that is going to result in rising prices and a supply shock.
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00:21:39.000Ryan, one of our team members here on the Charlie Kirk show, said, and we were asking, because I'm just trying to find the best answer to this.
00:21:47.000I don't think any, I think everyone has some perspective and everyone's right.
00:21:52.000There's a shortage because people still have money saved up from the unemployment benefits that's holding them to get a job.
00:21:58.000You'll see a boom in people getting jobs when they run out of money.
00:22:01.000I know a bunch of people younger age that say that, which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
00:22:06.000So you have savings, so you're going to live off your savings and then get a job instead of getting a job and then keeping your savings and growing your savings and then live a nice life.
00:22:14.000So you'd rather have six months of kind of luxury and leisure time instead of working and building a life.
00:22:21.000This is the economic illiteracy that is a byproduct of our government school education system.
00:22:27.000You're not supposed to live off your savings, everybody.
00:22:31.000I tell people that I save at least 25% of all the money that I personally earn.
00:22:45.000Delayed gratification is a Western value that I will forsake something today to try to get something tomorrow or try to get something next week.
00:22:57.000Now, we have been long warning about this.
00:22:58.000And again, we are not an economic show.
00:23:36.000This is how Buttigieg is trying to spin it, where he says, look, demand is up because income is up, because the president has successfully guided the economy out of the teeth of this terrifying recession.
00:23:48.000And so, look, Pete Budigeg is on maternity leave or something because he adopted a child or something.
00:23:55.000And meanwhile, we have a supply chain crisis.
00:23:57.000We have boycotts through Southwest Airlines, which we'll get to in just one second.
00:24:01.000Make no mistake, the vaccine mandates and mask mandates is one of the reasons why we can't find workers.
00:24:21.000He worked for McKinsey, which is a great crash course in how to offshore American workers and jobs to Wuhan China.
00:24:28.000Pete Buttigieg does not understand supply chains, doesn't understand payroll, doesn't understand capital flows, never been an actual job creator or employer in his life.
00:24:38.000So he thinks it's great that the American dollar is weakening.
00:24:41.000He thinks it's great that our dollar is worth less than any other time in our nation's, you know, in modern monetary history.
00:24:56.000Inflation is a tax on middle-income and lower-income workers.
00:25:01.000And the real reason why the other side wants inflation is that once you get inflation, it creates a mandate for government takeovers of industries.
00:25:09.000People then are going to say, well, we might as well nationalize that industry.
00:25:12.000We might as well give government-run housing to us because I can't afford to live there anymore.
00:25:18.000Inflation is the gateway drug of Marxism.
00:25:34.000And if you think about those images of ships, for example, waiting at anchor on the West Coast, you know, every one of those ships is full of record amounts of goods that Americans are buying because demand is up, because income is up, because the president has successfully guided this economy out of the teeth of a terrifying recession.
00:25:55.000It's hard to believe people take him seriously and that he's in charge of the Department of Transportation when actually we are through multiple transportation crises happening in our country.
00:26:04.000Vladimir Lenin famously said: the best way to crush the producers, the job creators, the entrepreneurs, is to grind them between a millstone of taxation and inflation.
00:26:18.000Luxury and abundance, affluence covers a multitude of sins.
00:26:25.000You are able to be woke when you're rich.
00:26:28.000You are able to engage in CRT, diversity, equity, inclusion when you have more stuff than you know what to do with.
00:26:35.000Do you know why critical race theory tends to not be very popular in Guatemala or Nicaragua, El Salvador, Venezuela, or Somalia?
00:26:45.000Because they're too busy trying to feed themselves, find work, keep the value of their currency, and stop rising crime that has been happening in their countries and their cities and their localities.
00:26:57.000Affluence allows our country to become apathetic and also not care about fundamental economic laws that allow entrepreneurs to create value, that allow prices that stay stable or be down, or competition to ensue.
00:27:13.000We lost, because of the tyrants and the lockdown artists, both Republicans and Democrats, 600,000 small businesses during the Fauci virus pandemic that would never reopen their doors again.
00:27:25.000The lockdowns had zero epidemiological upside.
00:27:29.000The lockdowns did not help in any way whatsoever.
00:27:32.000Instead, the only thing it did do was only further the descent into a collectivist, private property-abolishing, family-destroying crusade by the ruling class in our country.
00:27:45.000Somebody just asked me, is this all by design?
00:28:57.000Longshoreman telling me some of these containers have been sitting here for six months with a shortage of truck drivers to get the goods on the highway and into stores.
00:29:05.000It's not just making things harder to find, it's making them more expensive.
00:29:09.000So, what are we about to have shortages of?
00:29:13.000Ben and Jerry flavors, not exactly upset about that, bunch of communists.
00:29:16.000Carbonated drinks, chicken, coffee, diapers, fish sticks, frozen meals, Heinz ketchup packets, Marie Callender pot pies, McCormick gourmet spices, Rice Krispie treats, Sour Patch Kids, Toilet Paper, and more are about to have a massive supply shock.
00:29:33.000So, therefore, prices are going to go up.
00:29:36.000The rich, the powerful, and the well-connected, they won't just survive, they'll do better in this.
00:29:42.000If you own assets, properties, where you're able to adjust your prices easily, you're going to do just fine.
00:29:49.000If you don't own much of anything, if you are a recent college graduate that was propagandized to go to a college university and borrow a bunch of money you don't have to study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist, and you are renting, not owning, inflation will crush you.
00:30:03.000And you pair that with the labor shortage and then also the vaccine mandates.
00:30:08.000So, this is the worst time to intervene into a very fragile economy and say, oh, by the way, you have to go get vaccinated for a vaccine where people are dying even though they get the vaccine.
00:30:18.000I don't know about you, but I'm not really worried about catching polio because I was vaccinated against polio.
00:30:25.000Why are people now worried about getting the Fauci virus after getting vaccinated?
00:30:37.000Pilot from Southwest Airlines shares an important message on behalf of employees: no medical tyranny will be allowed at Southwest Airlines.
00:30:44.000This, I'll say after this clip, play cut 14.
00:30:46.000There's no medical tyranny should be allowed in Southwest Airlines.
00:30:49.000We're the love airline, the airline of freedom.
00:30:52.000Our slogan is freedom, and yet our executive management is trying to take away our freedoms of choice.
00:30:59.000And Delta Airlines announced in a surprising reversal, Ed Bastion, I think that's the guy that runs Delta, that they are no longer going to force the vaccine on their employees.
00:31:30.000People that have worked so hard in a specific industry.
00:31:33.000And somehow we think that's going to help with the labor shortage.
00:31:36.000And here's why Delta Airlines was smart.
00:31:38.000Ed Bastion, who of course pandered to Major League Baseball, anti-vote, you know, the voting law debacle a couple months ago, Delta, which is a Democrat super PAC.
00:31:49.000But Ed Bastion did one thing correctly, where Ed Bastion realized that he's not going to be able to run an airline if they force those 10% people to be fired or get the vaccine.
00:32:12.000It might actually have some sort of reversal.
00:32:15.000But I just wanted to make sure you're all bracing for impact.
00:32:17.000There is economic shock that's about to happen throughout this economy.
00:32:22.000We're going to live through a value crisis.
00:32:25.000People are going to have more dollar bills than they know what to do with, and those dollar bills will be diminishing and deteriorating in value.
00:32:31.000Month over month, inflation is near 5%, everybody.
00:32:34.000You annualize that, you could have double-digit inflation year over year.
00:32:41.000And here's the worst case: not only will you have more dollar bills, we have less stuff because we're not producing as much because of the supply crisis.
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00:34:17.000Jen, there is a mask requirement inside DC restaurants, yet President Biden and the first lady were not wearing masks while walking around a DC restaurant on Saturday live.
00:34:28.000Well, I think what we are referring to is a photo of them walking out of a restaurant after they had eaten masked in hand, where they had not yet put them back on yet.
00:34:37.000So I would say, of course, there are moments when we all don't put masks back on as quickly as we should.
00:34:57.000They think the rules should not apply for them under any circumstances whatsoever.
00:35:01.000They truly believe they are better than you, that they believe they are in the divine right of kings.
00:35:08.000That no matter what you throw at them, no matter what you question them, They believe because they are in charge, that they will not be held to the same sort of accountability or questions that you might have to encounter.
00:35:22.000Meanwhile, children are literally being arrested in Wyoming for not wearing a mask.
00:35:28.000A student in Wyoming got arrested for not wearing a mask, and we're going to have on our program another student at Colorado State University who is arrested when she comes on campus for being unvaccinated.
00:35:41.000Colorado State University trespassed and threatened to arrest unvaccinated students after learning they failed to submit proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
00:35:48.000Our college campuses have become islands of totalitarianism.
00:36:14.000I think there might be some indictments coming very soon for Christopher Steele, who was the main driving force against the coup against Donald Trump, because all of a sudden he's doing this massive PR blitz, Play Cut 26.
00:36:53.000But if Christopher Steele knowingly submitted information that was going to be used for a FISA warrant application and colluded the FBI to do that, I sure hope some people start to go to jail.
00:37:01.000And I think the only reason he's doing this press blitz is because John Durham might be circling the wagons.
00:37:07.000We have an amazing interview on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast with Kash Patel on this very issue, where he agrees.
00:37:13.000He says this is a profound development.
00:37:17.000This is a serious development in trying to find justice for the people that spied on Donald Trump and tried to entrap him using the levers of government to penalize and punish someone just because they don't share their politics.
00:37:39.000If you guys want to get a small taste of the Hillsdale Online course, listen to this little teaser, Civil Rights in American History from charlie4hillsdale.com, charlieforhillsdale.com.
00:37:50.000Today in America, there really is only one unforgivable sin, and that is to deviate from the accepted script when speaking of protected identity groups.
00:38:02.000It is to say something, whether intentionally or not, that either offends protected identity groups or that the elites find offensive on their behalf.
00:38:12.000What I think is important to grasp from the outset is that identity politics today is not just the dominant ideology when it comes to civil rights.
00:38:22.000It's the dominant ideology in America, period.
00:38:26.000If you look at prominent politicians, professors, producers, pundits, Fortune 500 CEOs, tech gurus, journalists, all of the famous, credentialed, and successful people who comprise our ruling class, they either all affirm the tenets of identity politics or at the very least are deferential to them.
00:38:46.000Americans are now divided into favored and disfavored groups.
00:38:51.000And civil rights law, we are told, should not applied to the favored groups.
00:38:56.000Identity politics is demanding that we judge people not by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin, their sex, and their sexual orientation.
00:39:06.000And it demands that we do so in perpetuity.
00:39:10.000It rejects the principle of what James Madison once called equal rights under equal laws.
00:39:16.000And it instead demands that we build a modern caste system that privileges some groups over others in our laws and culture.
00:39:26.000Identity politics is not answering the question, who am I?
00:39:31.000Although it does have an answer to that question.
00:39:34.000Its primary focus rather is the much deeper question of, why is there evil in the world?
00:39:41.000And identity politics provides a clear and unambiguous answer, because of straight white men.
00:39:48.000Identity politics takes and modifies the Christian teaching on sin and now no longer applies to everyone, but only to the oppressor groups.
00:39:57.000But here's the more important modification.
00:39:59.000It offers no hope of salvation or of redemption from sin.
00:40:03.000Equal group outcomes are now the measure of equal opportunities between groups.
00:40:10.000And under this logic, all disparities can only have one explanation, discrimination.
00:40:17.000All disparities are blamed on discrimination, and anyone who suggests otherwise is immediately called a sexist and a racist in order to silence dissent and stimulate.
00:40:30.000And here, of course, ultimately is the great paradox of this focus on group results.
00:40:37.000It requires discrimination in order, it says, to eliminate discrimination.
00:40:43.000If you focus on results, this will inevitably lead you to deny positions to some people on the basis of their skin color, their race, their ethnicity, their sex, their sexual orientation, you name it.
00:40:57.000The main reason that identity politics exerts such a powerful pull in America is because it suggests that we can either embrace identity politics or remain callously indifferent to the well-being of fellow Americans who happen not to look like us.
00:41:19.000Identity politics should be rejected not because it demands justice for those who have been unjustly treated, but because it poses a threat to Republican self-government by corroding patriotic ties and demanding special treatment rather than equality under the law.
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