The Charlie Kirk Show - Where Did All the Workers Go?

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00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, we go through the question: where did all the workers go?

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00:02:50.000 Barry Weiss is a very interesting person.

00:02:54.000 The world has gone mad.

00:02:56.000 That is, that goes without saying.

00:02:58.000 A lot of you say, of course, but even just saying that the world has gone mad is now a controversial statement, according to CNN.

00:03:04.000 Barry Weiss is a former New York Times reporter.

00:03:07.000 She's smart.

00:03:09.000 She's tough.

00:03:10.000 She has a really good sub stack.

00:03:13.000 If you don't know what Substack is, it's a rather interesting decentralized platform.

00:03:20.000 Is that one way to put it where you kind of get people you can kind of get what they're saying as they say it and support them?

00:03:26.000 I get her emails.

00:03:27.000 I don't agree with everything she says.

00:03:28.000 She kind of strikes me as kind of an old school, moderate liberal, but she's really courageous and she speaks about issues that matter.

00:03:39.000 And she now has a new article that has come out this last week that is making the rounds.

00:03:45.000 I want to read from it.

00:03:46.000 Where she wrote about how the whole world has gone woke and has lost their minds.

00:03:53.000 And she says, why are moms like me being called domestic terrorists? 0.89

00:03:56.000 Reposted this article from Maude Moran.

00:03:59.000 She 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.

00:04:08.000 I've been outspoken about my views, along with an untold number of frustrated parents.

00:04:12.000 For that, the FBI is considering using the Patriot Act against me.

00:04:15.000 Let me explain.

00:04:16.000 Last month, National School Board Association, an umbrella organization representing thousands of local elected school board officials, sent a letter to President Biden.

00:04:24.000 The 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.

00:04:37.000 Barry Weiss has covered a variety of different issues from why people are suing UCLA for not wanting to discriminate against their students.

00:04:45.000 And 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.

00:04:56.000 So she went on CNN this weekend at the low-rating, not well-watched show hosted by Brian Stelter.

00:05:04.000 And does Barry Weiss have a new book out?

00:05:06.000 Is that right?

00:05:07.000 Does she have a new book out?

00:05:08.000 So this is a two-minute clip.

00:05:09.000 I want you to listen to the whole clip.

00:05:11.000 So Brian Stelter asks Barry Weiss, kind of like, oh, Barry Weiss, you say the world has gone mad.

00:05:17.000 Why do you say the world has gone mad?

00:05:18.000 And she owns Stelter to his face.

00:05:24.000 Barry Weiss is able to say so clearly, here's why the world has gone mad.

00:05:29.000 Why are you not doing anything about it?

00:05:31.000 And then he challenges, says, oh, well, it's not like you're not allowed to say those things.

00:05:37.000 Play Barry Weiss, some of the most beautiful two minutes on television of CNN being called out to their face.

00:05:43.000 By the way, this is a moderate liberal.

00:05:45.000 She is not a conservative.

00:05:47.000 She's not a leftist.

00:05:48.000 This is someone who's on the center left who worked for the New York Times.

00:05:51.000 Listen.

00:05:52.000 You're right.

00:05:53.000 There are tens of millions of Americans who aren't on the hard left or the hard right who feel the world has gone mad.

00:05:59.000 So in what ways has the world gone mad?

00:06:02.000 Well, 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.

00:06:14.000 When you're not able to say out loud and in public that there are differences between men and women, the world has gone mad.

00:06:21.000 When 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.

00:06:32.000 When we're not able to say that Hunter Biden's laptop is a story worth pursuing, the world has gone mad.

00:06:38.000 When, in the name of progress, young school children, as young as kindergarten, are being separated in public schools because of their race.

00:06:48.000 And that is called progress rather than segregation.

00:06:51.000 The world has gone mad.

00:06:53.000 There are dozens of examples that I could share with you and without any of the people who are in the world.

00:06:56.000 And you often say, you say, oh, you say we're not allowed to crime.

00:07:02.000 Who's the people stopping the conversation?

00:07:04.000 Who are they?

00:07:07.000 People 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.

00:07:18.000 It was a simple.

00:07:21.000 But I'm just saying when you say allowed, I just think it's a provocative thing you say.

00:07:24.000 You say, we're not allowed to talk about these things, but they're all over the internet.

00:07:28.000 I can Google them.

00:07:28.000 I can find them everywhere.

00:07:30.000 I've heard about every story you mentioned.

00:07:31.000 So I'm just suggesting, of course, people are allowed to cover whatever they want to cover.

00:07:35.000 But 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.

00:07:57.000 And so what happens is a kind of internal self-censorship.

00:08:01.000 This is something that I saw over and over again when I was at the New York Times.

00:08:05.000 And that two minutes is some of the most important television for all of you that are listening to this.

00:08:09.000 We'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.

00:08:16.000 Why is that some of the most important piece of television?

00:08:19.000 Because here you have a moderate liberal against a propagandist, Brian Stelter, who's never had an original thought in his life.

00:08:25.000 He just toes the party line, does what he's told, says what he needs to say.

00:08:30.000 They just give him a script.

00:08:31.000 He says it.

00:08:32.000 And she says, no.

00:08:34.000 She says, you know what, there are interesting stories that you're ignoring here on this network, CNN.

00:08:37.000 For 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.

00:08:50.000 And what you see there in real time is an honest liberal.

00:08:53.000 And this is the important point for those of you that are listening that have liberals in your life.

00:08:57.000 Send that clip to them and say, which side are you on?

00:09:00.000 Are you on the Brian Selter side or are you on the Barry Weiss side?

00:09:04.000 Are you on the side that tries to have a liberation from groupthink and the tyranny of conformity?

00:09:10.000 Or 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?

00:09:22.000 And this goes to the distinction of a liberal versus a leftist.

00:09:26.000 Brian Stelter is a leftist.

00:09:28.000 He'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.

00:09:41.000 And Cesar Flickerman was skinny and Brian Stelter is not.

00:09:45.000 And Caesar Flickerman was funny and Brian Stelter is not.

00:09:50.000 And Cesar Flickerman was popular and Brian Stelter is not.

00:09:53.000 Besides that, they're exactly the same.

00:09:56.000 Where 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?

00:10:11.000 Well, Barry Weiss is one of the few that deserves to be platformed.

00:10:14.000 Again, I don't agree with her on everything.

00:10:16.000 In 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.

00:10:24.000 I'm sure that I'm much more strict on immigration than she is, whatever.

00:10:29.000 But she believes in something that will help keep this country alive for the time being.

00:10:35.000 She believes in something virtuous.

00:10:37.000 Freedom of speech, dialogue, differences of opinion, individual initiative.

00:10:41.000 She believes in liberty.

00:10:44.000 Barry Weiss is the type of Democrat that used to exist in this country.

00:10:48.000 Barry Weiss is the type of Democrat that used to say, you know what, I agree to disagree.

00:10:52.000 You might have a difference of opinion, but I'll still allow you to speak.

00:10:55.000 She 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.

00:11:07.000 Therefore, we want to shut you up.

00:11:09.000 Barry Weiss would say, I disagree with Charlie.

00:11:12.000 Let's see what he has to say.

00:11:14.000 It's a completely different approach.

00:11:17.000 Freedom of speech is not a left-wing value.

00:11:19.000 It's a liberal value, small L classical liberal value.

00:11:23.000 And the distinction is critical.

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00:11:40.000 It's not a joke.

00:11:41.000 People are going to suffer because of the malevolence and some would say the incompetence of this regime.

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00:13:52.000 There's a mystery out there and you can help us solve it.

00:13:56.000 Some of you have an idea of how we can answer this question together.

00:14:00.000 I think I have a good idea of what is happening, but I don't have the complete picture.

00:14:06.000 But I definitely know the problem.

00:14:08.000 And we're going to talk about the problem together.

00:14:10.000 And 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.

00:14:18.000 Wall 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.

00:14:26.000 So the Wall Street Journal has the piece, where did all the workers go?

00:14:29.000 So we are in Loudoun County and we on our way to Vermont.

00:14:33.000 And we asked ourselves the question.

00:14:35.000 We said, why are the Starbucks?

00:14:38.000 And again, some people on our team love Starbucks.

00:14:40.000 I know I'm going to get blown up by that, but whatever.

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00:14:49.000 Starbucks were closing at 10 a.m. in Northern Virginia.

00:14:53.000 They were open for five hours.

00:14:54.000 They could not find the workers to keep Starbucks open.

00:14:58.000 We 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.

00:15:09.000 They said that they have only half of their workers showing up to work.

00:15:12.000 I went to a place in Phoenix, Arizona last weekend, Protein House, great place.

00:15:17.000 If you're in Phoenix, you should check it out.

00:15:19.000 It's a terrific restaurant.

00:15:20.000 Two great conservative Christian patriots that run that place.

00:15:23.000 And they said that they are paying people as cashiers $17 an hour, and they can't get people to do the work.

00:15:30.000 $17 an hour.

00:15:32.000 And they just kind of show up whenever they want to show up.

00:15:34.000 They do whatever they want.

00:15:36.000 We are hearing about this labor crunch all across the country.

00:15:40.000 People are calling it a tight job market, a strict tight job market.

00:15:45.000 And I can't quite figure it out.

00:15:48.000 Now, before you email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, you say, well, Charlie, it's obviously the stimulus payments.

00:15:53.000 Those have stopped.

00:15:54.000 Charlie, it's obvious the generous unemployment benefits.

00:15:57.000 Those have stopped.

00:15:58.000 They're still continuing in certain states, nowhere like where they used to be.

00:16:01.000 Or, Charlie, it's all this.

00:16:02.000 So let's work.

00:16:04.000 There's lots of different elements to this.

00:16:06.000 There is no obvious answer.

00:16:07.000 If you think you got the obvious answer to this, then email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, because I'm genuinely interested.

00:16:13.000 There is a labor shock and shortage that we've never seen before.

00:16:17.000 And let me just tell you the way that they're going to try to spin it. 0.90

00:16:20.000 They'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.

00:16:27.000 We got one email, though.

00:16:31.000 And they said, Charlie, why don't people, and this is a really important point, they say, where have all the workers gone?

00:16:40.000 This is from James, who emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:16:43.000 Where have all the workers gone?

00:16:44.000 We didn't just create too many jobs.

00:16:46.000 It looks like the labor force disappeared.

00:16:49.000 Are high schoolers not working anymore?

00:16:51.000 Where did they go?

00:16:52.000 Well, that's an important.

00:16:54.000 High schoolers don't work anymore because most parents don't actually want their kids to work.

00:16:59.000 They'd rather have their kids do AAU basketball, competitive sports, study to go to college.

00:17:04.000 The labor force participation for high schoolers is the lowest it's been in our country's history.

00:17:08.000 I think that makes America more entitled.

00:17:10.000 I think that makes America less competitive.

00:17:13.000 I think that high schoolers working is a great thing.

00:17:15.000 And 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?

00:17:23.000 I'll go do sports or kind of take the summer off.

00:17:27.000 Wall Street Journal asked this question: where did all the workers go?

00:17:30.000 Labor Department last week, week and a half ago, reported another disappointing month for employment.

00:17:35.000 But the problem wasn't a dearth of jobs.

00:17:38.000 The question is, what happened to the workers?

00:17:42.000 And no one has a good answer to this.

00:17:44.000 I've asked economists, I've asked job, and I think it's a mixture of things.

00:17:47.000 Number 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.

00:18:00.000 That after the Fauci virus, wearing a mask, flipping burgers, I want nothing to do with it.

00:18:06.000 That there's kind of this prejudice towards manual work.

00:18:10.000 That people say, I don't want to do that anymore.

00:18:12.000 Forget it.

00:18:13.000 I would rather be unemployed.

00:18:14.000 But I have the very honest question.

00:18:16.000 The Wall Street Journal agrees with us.

00:18:18.000 How are these people supporting themselves?

00:18:20.000 The generous unemployment benefits have been restricted.

00:18:25.000 It 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.

00:18:35.000 But people on food stamps have actually gone down in the last couple of months.

00:18:39.000 Many people have saved some of their transfer payments, and now Democrats are promising more.

00:18:44.000 It says here in the Wall Street Journal: inflation may be tilting the scale to leisure instead of work.

00:18:48.000 Average hourly earnings are rising fast, up 4.6% from a year ago, 7.4% at an annualized rate.

00:18:55.000 Wage 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.

00:19:03.000 We are seeing a labor shortage that is going to result in rising prices and a supply shock.

00:19:08.000 What does that mean?

00:19:09.000 What can we do about it?

00:19:13.000 Look, if you've been keeping up with the news, or even if you haven't been, you might hear the word tapering being used a lot.

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00:20:50.000 We just got an email here, Charlie Kirk, freedom at charliekirk.com from Baker City, Oregon.

00:20:55.000 Charlie, our town needs workers in almost every business.

00:20:59.000 One company will pay people to move and work for them.

00:21:02.000 They pay for entry-level work $20 to $30 an hour.

00:21:06.000 However, because weed is legal in Oregon, employees can't pass the drug test.

00:21:13.000 I'm 70 years old and I want to go help at the grocery store, but they make me wear a mask.

00:21:18.000 So I told them I could work at the store, but they say it's because of corporate.

00:21:22.000 Employees must wear a mask, although customers do not.

00:21:25.000 This is where the workers are.

00:21:27.000 From Penny.

00:21:28.000 Now, Penny makes a good point, which is some of the vaccine mandates, mask mandates, people are like, you know what?

00:21:35.000 I don't want to have to go through this.

00:21:36.000 It's not worth it.

00:21:39.000 Ryan, 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.

00:21:47.000 I don't think any, I think everyone has some perspective and everyone's right.

00:21:52.000 There's a shortage because people still have money saved up from the unemployment benefits that's holding them to get a job.

00:21:58.000 You'll see a boom in people getting jobs when they run out of money. 0.85

00:22:01.000 I know a bunch of people younger age that say that, which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

00:22:06.000 So 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. 0.67

00:22:14.000 So you'd rather have six months of kind of luxury and leisure time instead of working and building a life.

00:22:21.000 This is the economic illiteracy that is a byproduct of our government school education system.

00:22:27.000 You're not supposed to live off your savings, everybody.

00:22:31.000 I tell people that I save at least 25% of all the money that I personally earn.

00:22:36.000 I encourage everyone to do that.

00:22:37.000 Hard, I get it.

00:22:38.000 You might live paycheck to paycheck, but eventually you get to your life, get to a place in life.

00:22:43.000 I hope that can be the case for you.

00:22:45.000 Delayed gratification is a Western value that I will forsake something today to try to get something tomorrow or try to get something next week.

00:22:57.000 Now, we have been long warning about this.

00:22:58.000 And again, we are not an economic show.

00:23:00.000 We're not CNBC.

00:23:01.000 We're actually right on this program when it comes to economics because we've read the economic books.

00:23:06.000 We know the laws of nature and nature is God.

00:23:08.000 Every prediction we have made, not just me, but our whole team, Connor and Andrew, and all of us, around inflation, has come true.

00:23:15.000 We were mocked and ridiculed by the smart people when we said that inflation is coming, buckle up.

00:23:21.000 Well, now everybody is saying it.

00:23:24.000 Carl Icon has said that we're going to hit a wall and a crisis is coming.

00:23:32.000 I want to play the one here.

00:23:33.000 I think it's Pete Budig.

00:23:35.000 Yeah.

00:23:35.000 Play cut five.

00:23:36.000 This 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.

00:23:48.000 And so, look, Pete Budigeg is on maternity leave or something because he adopted a child or something.

00:23:55.000 And meanwhile, we have a supply chain crisis.

00:23:57.000 We have boycotts through Southwest Airlines, which we'll get to in just one second.

00:24:01.000 Make no mistake, the vaccine mandates and mask mandates is one of the reasons why we can't find workers.

00:24:05.000 People do not want to put up with it.

00:24:07.000 So it's actually hurting the economy.

00:24:11.000 And so Pete Buttigieg obviously does not understand basic economics.

00:24:16.000 Why?

00:24:16.000 Well, Pete Buttigieg has never actually worked meaningfully in the private sector.

00:24:20.000 You know what he did?

00:24:21.000 He worked for McKinsey, which is a great crash course in how to offshore American workers and jobs to Wuhan China.

00:24:28.000 Pete 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.

00:24:38.000 So he thinks it's great that the American dollar is weakening.

00:24:41.000 He thinks it's great that our dollar is worth less than any other time in our nation's, you know, in modern monetary history.

00:24:49.000 And he says it's a good thing.

00:24:50.000 People have dollars.

00:24:50.000 They're willing to spend them.

00:24:51.000 This is a demand surplus.

00:24:54.000 Now, what's the problem with that?

00:24:56.000 Inflation is a tax on middle-income and lower-income workers.

00:25:01.000 And the real reason why the other side wants inflation is that once you get inflation, it creates a mandate for government takeovers of industries.

00:25:09.000 People then are going to say, well, we might as well nationalize that industry.

00:25:12.000 We might as well give government-run housing to us because I can't afford to live there anymore.

00:25:18.000 Inflation is the gateway drug of Marxism.

00:25:20.000 Let me say that again.

00:25:21.000 Inflation is a gateway drug to Marxism.

00:25:25.000 Play cut five.

00:25:26.000 Look, part of what's happening isn't just the supply side, it's the demand side.

00:25:30.000 Demand is off the charts.

00:25:32.000 Retail sales are through the roof.

00:25:34.000 And 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.

00:25:55.000 It'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.

00:26:04.000 Vladimir 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.

00:26:18.000 Luxury and abundance, affluence covers a multitude of sins.

00:26:25.000 You are able to be woke when you're rich.

00:26:28.000 You are able to engage in CRT, diversity, equity, inclusion when you have more stuff than you know what to do with.

00:26:35.000 Do you know why critical race theory tends to not be very popular in Guatemala or Nicaragua, El Salvador, Venezuela, or Somalia?

00:26:45.000 Because 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.

00:26:57.000 Affluence 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.

00:27:13.000 We 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.

00:27:25.000 The lockdowns had zero epidemiological upside.

00:27:29.000 The lockdowns did not help in any way whatsoever.

00:27:32.000 Instead, 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.

00:27:45.000 Somebody just asked me, is this all by design?

00:27:47.000 Of course, it's by design.

00:27:49.000 They want inflation, they want supply chain issues, they want chaos.

00:27:54.000 Chaos is the most proven way for a tyrant to be able to assume totalitarian control over a society.

00:28:04.000 This is not incompetence.

00:28:07.000 This is by design.

00:28:10.000 Carl Icon, who is a famous billionaire investor, cut 28 says, We're going to hit a wall and a crisis is coming.

00:28:17.000 Play Cut 28.

00:28:19.000 In the long run, we're certainly going to hit the wall.

00:28:22.000 And I get everybody, people may say to me, Well, anybody do say that.

00:28:26.000 No, but I really think there will be a crisis the way we're going, the way we're printing the money, the way we're going into inflation.

00:28:33.000 I mean, if you look around you, you see this inflation all around you.

00:28:38.000 It's coming, and it's created by the bipartisan cartel that runs the kingdom of Washington, D.C.

00:28:45.000 And what are they debating right now?

00:28:46.000 Another $4.7 trillion in spending.

00:28:50.000 Cut 17, ABC News report, and how it's not just harder to find some goods right now, but prices are too high.

00:28:55.000 Play Cut 17.

00:28:57.000 Longshoreman 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.

00:29:05.000 It's not just making things harder to find, it's making them more expensive.

00:29:09.000 So, what are we about to have shortages of?

00:29:12.000 Just a short list.

00:29:13.000 Ben and Jerry flavors, not exactly upset about that, bunch of communists. 0.59

00:29:16.000 Carbonated 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.

00:29:33.000 So, therefore, prices are going to go up.

00:29:35.000 But guess what?

00:29:36.000 The rich, the powerful, and the well-connected, they won't just survive, they'll do better in this.

00:29:42.000 If you own assets, properties, where you're able to adjust your prices easily, you're going to do just fine.

00:29:49.000 If 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.

00:30:03.000 And you pair that with the labor shortage and then also the vaccine mandates.

00:30:08.000 So, 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.

00:30:18.000 I don't know about you, but I'm not really worried about catching polio because I was vaccinated against polio.

00:30:25.000 Why are people now worried about getting the Fauci virus after getting vaccinated?

00:30:30.000 Will anyone ever mention natural immunity, azithromycin, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine?

00:30:34.000 Play cut 13.

00:30:35.000 Actually, no, let's play cut 14.

00:30:37.000 Pilot from Southwest Airlines shares an important message on behalf of employees: no medical tyranny will be allowed at Southwest Airlines.

00:30:43.000 And I have some good news on this.

00:30:44.000 This, I'll say after this clip, play cut 14.

00:30:46.000 There's no medical tyranny should be allowed in Southwest Airlines.

00:30:49.000 We're the love airline, the airline of freedom.

00:30:52.000 Our slogan is freedom, and yet our executive management is trying to take away our freedoms of choice.

00:30:59.000 And 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.

00:31:08.000 That's a win, everybody.

00:31:10.000 That's a win of holding the line, not submitting your vaccination status.

00:31:14.000 This is happening with the Chicago Police Department right now.

00:31:17.000 This is happening all up and down sector of services.

00:31:21.000 And if you do not want to take the vaccine and you believe it's not in your medical best interest, hold the line.

00:31:26.000 People are being fired.

00:31:28.000 People are losing their careers.

00:31:30.000 People that have worked so hard in a specific industry.

00:31:33.000 And somehow we think that's going to help with the labor shortage.

00:31:36.000 And here's why Delta Airlines was smart.

00:31:38.000 Ed 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.

00:31:49.000 But 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. 0.83

00:32:01.000 The airline will fall apart. 0.81

00:32:03.000 And what he, and for those 90%, I guarantee you, a lot of them thought that they were actually going to enforce it.

00:32:09.000 So what's my advice for those of you out there?

00:32:11.000 Hold the line.

00:32:12.000 It might actually have some sort of reversal.

00:32:15.000 But I just wanted to make sure you're all bracing for impact.

00:32:17.000 There is economic shock that's about to happen throughout this economy.

00:32:22.000 We're going to live through a value crisis.

00:32:25.000 People 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.

00:32:31.000 Month over month, inflation is near 5%, everybody.

00:32:34.000 You annualize that, you could have double-digit inflation year over year.

00:32:41.000 And 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.

00:32:49.000 That's an economic hurricane.

00:32:51.000 Hold on for your life.

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00:33:50.000 Well, the czar running the country, Biden, he was captured not wearing a mask this last weekend in defiance to the DC mask mandate.

00:34:00.000 Now, everyone says, oh, this is hypocrisy.

00:34:02.000 It's a double standard.

00:34:03.000 No, no, it's worse than that.

00:34:04.000 I'm going to tell you what it is.

00:34:05.000 But first, Jen Saki defends Biden because he's the president. 1.00

00:34:10.000 He does whatever he wants.

00:34:11.000 I mean, come on.

00:34:13.000 It's not like he's a citizen.

00:34:15.000 Play cut 30.

00:34:17.000 Jen, 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.

00:34:28.000 Well, 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.

00:34:37.000 So I would say, of course, there are moments when we all don't put masks back on as quickly as we should.

00:34:43.000 Now, what's the real reason here?

00:34:46.000 The real reason is not hypocrisy.

00:34:49.000 It's hierarchy.

00:34:51.000 Hypocrisy would be like, oh, rules for them and not for us.

00:34:54.000 No, they think they're above you.

00:34:55.000 That's totally different.

00:34:57.000 They think the rules should not apply for them under any circumstances whatsoever.

00:35:01.000 They truly believe they are better than you, that they believe they are in the divine right of kings.

00:35:08.000 That 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.

00:35:22.000 Meanwhile, children are literally being arrested in Wyoming for not wearing a mask.

00:35:28.000 A 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.

00:35:41.000 Colorado State University trespassed and threatened to arrest unvaccinated students after learning they failed to submit proof of COVID-19 vaccination.

00:35:48.000 Our college campuses have become islands of totalitarianism.

00:35:52.000 I've been saying that for years.

00:35:53.000 These are fascist camps where they are arresting children for not being vaccinated.

00:35:58.000 Meanwhile, Jill and Joe Biden, no mask, walking out of the restaurant, no big deal.

00:36:04.000 I want to get to another piece of sound here.

00:36:07.000 Christopher Steele, who was the author of the Dirty Dossier, all of a sudden he's talking.

00:36:13.000 He lives.

00:36:14.000 I 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.

00:36:24.000 Christopher Steele is an enigma.

00:36:26.000 Is he hero?

00:36:27.000 Is he traitor?

00:36:28.000 Christopher Steele is a guy who picked a fight with two presidents, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and he's lived to tell the tale.

00:36:35.000 Christopher Steele, even today, is a mystery.

00:36:39.000 That now infamous dossier said that President Putin has compromising information on President Trump.

00:36:45.000 None of that was true.

00:36:47.000 Steele stands by him on a vast majority of that.

00:36:50.000 He admitted some of it was untrue.

00:36:53.000 But 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.

00:37:01.000 And I think the only reason he's doing this press blitz is because John Durham might be circling the wagons.

00:37:07.000 We have an amazing interview on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast with Kash Patel on this very issue, where he agrees.

00:37:13.000 He says this is a profound development.

00:37:17.000 This 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.

00:37:39.000 If 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.

00:37:49.000 Enjoy.

00:37:50.000 Today in America, there really is only one unforgivable sin, and that is to deviate from the accepted script when speaking of protected identity groups.

00:38:02.000 It is to say something, whether intentionally or not, that either offends protected identity groups or that the elites find offensive on their behalf.

00:38:12.000 What 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.

00:38:22.000 It's the dominant ideology in America, period.

00:38:26.000 If 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.

00:38:46.000 Americans are now divided into favored and disfavored groups.

00:38:51.000 And civil rights law, we are told, should not applied to the favored groups.

00:38:56.000 Identity 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.

00:39:06.000 And it demands that we do so in perpetuity.

00:39:10.000 It rejects the principle of what James Madison once called equal rights under equal laws.

00:39:16.000 And it instead demands that we build a modern caste system that privileges some groups over others in our laws and culture.

00:39:26.000 Identity politics is not answering the question, who am I?

00:39:31.000 Although it does have an answer to that question.

00:39:34.000 Its primary focus rather is the much deeper question of, why is there evil in the world? 0.62

00:39:41.000 And identity politics provides a clear and unambiguous answer, because of straight white men.

00:39:48.000 Identity politics takes and modifies the Christian teaching on sin and now no longer applies to everyone, but only to the oppressor groups. 0.60

00:39:57.000 But here's the more important modification.

00:39:59.000 It offers no hope of salvation or of redemption from sin.

00:40:03.000 Equal group outcomes are now the measure of equal opportunities between groups.

00:40:10.000 And under this logic, all disparities can only have one explanation, discrimination.

00:40:17.000 All 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.

00:40:30.000 And here, of course, ultimately is the great paradox of this focus on group results.

00:40:37.000 It requires discrimination in order, it says, to eliminate discrimination.

00:40:43.000 If 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.

00:40:57.000 The 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.

00:41:16.000 This, in truth, is a false choice.

00:41:19.000 Identity 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.

00:41:39.000 If that piqued your curiosity, which I hope it did, go to charlie4hillsdale.com.

00:41:43.000 CharlieForhillsdale.com.

00:41:45.000 Thanks so much.

00:41:48.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:41:50.000 Email us your thoughts.

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00:41:53.000 God bless you guys.

00:41:54.000 Thank you for listening.

00:41:55.000 Talk to you soon.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 18, 2021

Where Did All the Workers Go?

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