The Charlie Kirk Show - Woke Credit Scores, Blackrock Wages War, and Starbucks Gets Based?

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00:02:16.000 Hey, everybody, welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:02:20.000 I am joined here by not producer Andrew, but producer Connor, whose rent has gone up too much lately.

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00:02:42.000 Guys, happy new year.

00:02:43.000 Welcome back.

00:02:44.000 Well, thank you.

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00:02:45.000 Same to you, Charlie.

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00:02:47.000 Unfortunately, the wackiness continues.

00:02:50.000 Let's get to one of the stories here.

00:02:51.000 And for some people that are tuning in for the first time, we have you guys on monthly periodically to kind of cover corporate wokeism, this idea of how consumers need to be more aware and alert of where they buy their products and where they allocate their capital.

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00:03:22.000 Okay, there was this extraordinary letter that was published by Larry Fink from BlackRock, or is that right?

00:03:31.000 I get BlackRock and Blackstone confused.

00:03:31.000 Black Rock?

00:03:34.000 So to either of you, what are we supposed to make of this letter?

00:03:38.000 I read it here from Wall Street Journal.

00:03:40.000 Asset manager BlackRock has decided to reduce its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050.

00:03:46.000 What are we supposed to make of this?

00:03:48.000 Well, I think Larry Fink is one of the most dangerous people in the world.

00:03:55.000 His fund has a lot of assets under management, trillions of dollars, and he's a real voice for the unreasonable.

00:04:06.000 He has attached himself to a lot of the progressive radical left policies.

00:04:13.000 And as a consequence, he has all this money to use as leverage.

00:04:18.000 And BlackRock invests in other corporations, and they're pushing down their ideology onto these corporations that they buy stock in.

00:04:26.000 So, yeah, Larry Fink, BlackRock, they've really bought into the environmental extremism, the non-scientific environmentalism.

00:04:35.000 And, you know, when he speaks, unfortunately, he's got power to make people listen whether they wish to or not.

00:04:42.000 I guess it's the antithesis of that old financial services company that used to have commercials on TV where they'd speak and everybody in the room would stop to listen.

00:04:53.000 Only in that context, it was good.

00:04:54.000 Here it's not so good.

00:04:56.000 But Larry Fink really believes in stakeholder capitalism, not shareholder capitalism.

00:05:01.000 And that means that the focus of investing through anything owned by BlackRock focuses not on the shareholder who puts their money in.

00:05:10.000 He believes that he enjoys the right to take your profits and place them anywhere he cares to.

00:05:15.000 And that unfortunately is progressive left organizations.

00:05:19.000 And Charlie, we really appreciate you giving us an opportunity to tell this story to people around the country that listen to you, which you have a big listening audience, thank goodness.

00:05:30.000 Because a lot of folks that we talk to, people that are very well informed in many other things, have no idea about how their money is being used or invested.

00:05:42.000 And when they find this out, they do become aware and start looking at: wow, is this really where I want to put my money?

00:05:48.000 Where I may not earn the greatest amount of income off of this, but I may be supporting something that I really would not support with my dollars given my own opportunity.

00:06:00.000 So, Connor, do you have an excerpt from the letter there from the New York Times?

00:06:03.000 Yeah, I do.

00:06:04.000 So, Larry Fink wrote in this really interesting 3,300-word letter that access to capital is not a right.

00:06:12.000 And he said that a company's ESG score, so if you don't know what an ESG score, that's your environmental, social, and corporate governance concerns score.

00:06:21.000 It's a metric by which these stakeholders are going to judge basically your level of wokeness and how closely you are buying into the corporate green agenda, right?

00:06:34.000 How aligned you are to the regime.

00:06:35.000 Exactly.

00:06:36.000 And so he's saying if you don't, you know, live up to these ESG standards, then we're not going to fund your company anymore.

00:06:43.000 And, but he says it's not woke.

00:06:46.000 That sounds really woke to me.

00:06:47.000 I mean, by your standards at second vote, that would be woke, right?

00:06:51.000 Oh, absolutely.

00:06:52.000 And, you know, as we score them, they score, they don't score well on almost every issue that we cover.

00:06:58.000 And, you know, it does go beyond this.

00:07:00.000 This is a one-world government kind of movement.

00:07:03.000 This is the destruction of nation states.

00:07:06.000 This is just an agenda that is unhealthy.

00:07:10.000 It's certainly anti-American capitalism.

00:07:14.000 The shareholder, there's actually their fiduciary responsibility to be focused on shareholder return.

00:07:20.000 But they're making capitalism, although they've benefited by capitalism, they're making capitalism look bad as we have practiced capitalism.

00:07:29.000 Absolutely.

00:07:30.000 And it's the American capitalist structure that has helped create the biggest middle class and wealthiest middle class in the world.

00:07:37.000 But Larry Fink has that under attack.

00:07:40.000 We do have second vote advisors where we do offer products, financial products that are shareholder focused and contrary to what Larry Fink is doing.

00:07:50.000 Certainly, I don't enjoy the assets under management that he has under his firm.

00:07:54.000 But we've just launched that last year.

00:07:56.000 So we're looking to catch up.

00:07:58.000 But we do need to have conservatives understand the game that's being played and know that there are options to what is going on.

00:08:07.000 And we need to start accumulating assets under management in funds that focus on the shareholder.

00:08:14.000 So can I say something?

00:08:15.000 I just want to make sure we define that difference because I found that to be really interesting.

00:08:19.000 And you did mention it.

00:08:21.000 And the shareholder versus stakeholder.

00:08:24.000 And I'll be honest, I read this article pretty quickly.

00:08:26.000 I didn't really quite, I didn't quite get it, meaning I didn't quite capture that because it's just easy to kind of blur the lines.

00:08:35.000 Can we just kind of walk through the fundamental differences between traditional shareholder capitalism and stakeholder capitalism and why stakeholder is so new and dangerous?

00:08:46.000 Well, of course, the shareholder capitalism model is what almost all working Americans have in their 401k and IRAs, which are planning for their future retirement.

00:08:58.000 It's accumulating wealth for them to have available to them when they reach those retirement years.

00:09:06.000 And what the Larry Fink investment strategy is, is they're going to siphon off profits that really belong to the shareholder.

00:09:16.000 They're going to siphon off those profits and give those monies to radical leftist organizations. 0.99

00:09:23.000 And they're going to give money to organizations that more likely than not, you as a shareholder would never probably want to donate with.

00:09:30.000 But in all candor, this is like the uber rich stealing from the middle class.

00:09:37.000 And I do call this not financial economics.

00:09:42.000 This is financial egonomics.

00:09:44.000 This is Larry Fink is some guy with this giant ego.

00:09:47.000 I think he's got a Jesus complex.

00:09:49.000 But he seems to imagine that he's smarter on how your money should be used than what you would be.

00:09:56.000 But he's going to reduce your return on investment.

00:09:58.000 He's going to reduce your retirement account.

00:10:02.000 And this is a real attack on middle America and Main Street America.

00:10:06.000 So just to give everyone an idea of how big BlackRock is.

00:10:09.000 So they're a multinational investment management company, and they have $10 trillion in assets under management.

00:10:16.000 Now, both of you guys are big fans of the free market.

00:10:19.000 We like the free market.

00:10:20.000 It's the best system, despite some of the externalities that are created.

00:10:24.000 But I think there's something fundamentally wrong and disturbing with one company that controls an $8 trillion portfolio.

00:10:32.000 And I mean that in the sense that that's no different than a government.

00:10:35.000 And so Larry, you're right about the Jesus complex.

00:10:38.000 And the founding fathers were very clear about not allowing centralization of power.

00:10:43.000 And here you have Larry Fink.

00:10:44.000 It's basically like we live in Larry Fink's world, whether we like it or not.

00:10:48.000 And their subsidiaries are companies of hotels and shopping malls to massive swaths of land to real estate, you name it.

00:10:57.000 Do either of you want to comment briefly on that?

00:11:00.000 Well, real quickly, his approach to all of this is going to reduce the middle class of America.

00:11:06.000 And in all candor, he is trying to turn the United States into a Cuba. 0.80

00:11:11.000 And I've got a raft I'm willing to donate to him.

00:11:14.000 If he wants to paddle over to Cuba and see how great this idea is, we'll donate the raft and he can put it adrift and go on over to Cuba and see what this kind of system looks like up close.

00:11:25.000 Well, I think he wants to be Fidel Castro and he doesn't care.

00:11:29.000 And that's one of the most important point is that he's like, well, I get to be in charge.

00:11:34.000 And so I don't care about the rest of the people.

00:11:36.000 And it is an anti-human agenda.

00:11:39.000 And it is trying to seek profits for profit's sake.

00:11:42.000 Profit can be a good thing.

00:11:44.000 You built an amazing business.

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00:12:57.000 Connor, what else do we have on the agenda?

00:12:59.000 Well, I want to put a bow on the Larry Fink issue.

00:13:03.000 I think you have a great idea about sending them over to Cuba because if we send them over to Cuba, the Biden regime might not let them back in.

00:13:10.000 They're very unkind to Cuban refugees.

00:13:12.000 So that could solve that problem there.

00:13:15.000 There was some really big news that happened, what was this last week?

00:13:19.000 The news cycle is moving so fast.

00:13:21.000 The Supreme Court, in a historic 6-3 decision, struck down Biden's OSHA vaccine mandates, which would require businesses of over 100 or more employees to either require vaccines or mandate weekly tests.

00:13:37.000 But in response to that, we're seeing some companies, some really surprising companies actually, decide that they're going to buck the Supreme Court ruling and continue to mandate vaccines.

00:13:47.000 One of them was Carhartt, which was really surprising to me because for the longest time, Carhartt has been a symbol of the muscular class, something that we talk about a lot on the show.

00:13:58.000 Why do you think that they're doing that?

00:13:59.000 That feels like a betrayal to their customer base.

00:14:03.000 Is that smart business?

00:14:04.000 And I'm assuming they're ranking what down on your website.

00:14:07.000 Would I be correct to assume that?

00:14:10.000 Yes, we've already scored them.

00:14:12.000 Their score has gone down.

00:14:14.000 Posted today as a 2.10.

00:14:16.000 Good.

00:14:17.000 But good question.

00:14:19.000 Why would they do that?

00:14:20.000 It's contrary to their choppers, their customers' values.

00:14:27.000 And you really have to wonder what happens to these people who become so successful.

00:14:35.000 And I don't know if it's the cocktail parties they go to, they start joining in group thinking and kind of lose their way in terms of touching to the common man and woman.

00:14:47.000 I don't know, dear, do you have a thought on why such things happen?

00:14:52.000 Well, it does make me question, and I don't know that we will ever know that about who makes that decision.

00:14:56.000 Who is making that decision?

00:14:58.000 Is it a department that they have that is a department that we, even those that are in the upper echelons of the company, don't know?

00:15:08.000 Because we have found in colleges and places like that where they have diversity departments that if you talk to the administrators of the facility, they'll say, well, that isn't exactly what we think, but the diversity department.

00:15:21.000 So I don't know.

00:15:22.000 That's just a guess that maybe there is a diversity department.

00:15:25.000 Maybe there is a department where perhaps the folks at the top.

00:15:29.000 But what really does matter is that the people speak up.

00:15:33.000 And that's what Second Boat is about: it gives you an opportunity to directly contact those folks and let them know that you don't really like the decision they made and you don't intend on buying their product anymore.

00:15:44.000 And if that will not wake them up, I don't know what will.

00:15:47.000 Money and dollars in their pocket really is something that makes them listen.

00:15:52.000 And you can't directly contact them through our scored page on Carhartt.

00:15:58.000 I do think, Diane, actually, we do know that many companies, when they establish diversity offices or they build a diversity position within their HR department, CEOs, owners, they'll defer. to those individuals to speak on behalf of the corporation.

00:16:16.000 So that could certainly be part of what's going on here.

00:16:19.000 But one of the worst things that could happen to any company is to establish a diversity position or office.

00:16:24.000 Yeah.

00:16:25.000 Yeah, so they call it diversity, equity, inclusion.

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00:16:31.000 Die.

00:16:32.000 Exactly right.

00:16:33.000 That's the way I prefer to put that together.

00:16:36.000 But it really is an interesting thing.

00:16:38.000 I mean, you have a company like Carhartt, which I would imagine their target demo, as you say, is not exactly going to be the wokies. 1.00

00:16:47.000 And they're under massive attack and for good reason and lots of different boycotts over these vaccine mandates.

00:16:54.000 They're an American company, right?

00:16:56.000 They're born in Michigan.

00:16:57.000 Yeah, they've been around since 1899.

00:16:59.000 I had no idea.

00:17:00.000 I mean, they make 4,000 employees.

00:17:03.000 And yet now their big fight is saying that we're going to defy the Supreme Court precedent.

00:17:10.000 And they do have a right to do that as an employer.

00:17:12.000 That is a right that I wish that's a separate issue for Diane Tech.

00:17:17.000 What employers?

00:17:19.000 But they're good options too.

00:17:20.000 Duluth is a good option.

00:17:22.000 You can go to Duluth.

00:17:23.000 That's right.

00:17:24.000 Duluth Trading.

00:17:25.000 The problem with Duluth is they make all their stuff in China, but that's a separate issue, right?

00:17:28.000 So I'll never forget.

00:17:31.000 They run all these ads on Duluth, you know, these Duluth Trading Company ads.

00:17:35.000 So I went to get their stuff.

00:17:36.000 It's all China. 1.00

00:17:38.000 And I hope I'm not confusing them with another one because I could get a lot of angry.

00:17:42.000 Okay, good.

00:17:42.000 Am I right?

00:17:43.000 Because it was all China. 0.99

00:17:44.000 And my dad's a big stickler on that stuff.

00:17:47.000 And whenever you give him clothes for Christmas, the first thing he'll look at, where is it made?

00:17:53.000 And so, but Carhartt should, and this is something that's important.

00:17:56.000 And I'm glad you guys are taking the leadership on this, both Diane and David here, which is that if we aren't able or willing to do boycotts, then we're just kind of issuing press releases.

00:18:09.000 They need to feel a financial cost.

00:18:12.000 They need to be afraid that they're going to do these things.

00:18:15.000 And whether we like it or not, the other side, they've weaponized boycotts for quite some time.

00:18:22.000 I will say one more thing on the Carhartt issue because I think it's important.

00:18:25.000 And we drive this home every single interview with y'all.

00:18:28.000 And every single time we get more and more response at freedom at charliekirk.com from people who begin to actually get it, right?

00:18:34.000 So I spend a lot of time on Twitter for Charlie doing the work that we do here on the show.

00:18:39.000 And Carhartt trended the other day.

00:18:41.000 Yeah, I do it so he doesn't have to, right?

00:18:43.000 Which is good for everybody.

00:18:44.000 That's right.

00:18:45.000 Carhartt trended the other day all day long.

00:18:48.000 And what it was was leftists and, you know, Democrat folks on there saying, oh, the people who whine about cancel culture are now canceling Carhartt, how ironic, as if they've made some sort of profound point.

00:19:01.000 But at the end of the day, we are, you know, Americans who have a right to spend our money the way that we want to.

00:19:07.000 And I certainly don't see it as cancel culture to take my business elsewhere.

00:19:12.000 And I can't really rationalize how people could come to that conclusion.

00:19:15.000 Well, and the problem with the whole tirade against cancel culture is we never explained why we hated what was happening.

00:19:22.000 We hate injustice.

00:19:24.000 And that was the whole point: people are being canceled for silly things that very well should have been, you know, looked over or an apology accepted, such as decades-long tweets or comments or Facebook postings or trying to destroy Brett Kavanaugh's life or trying to take Dave Chappelle off Netflix because he made fun of the alphabet mafia or whatever, where that's an injustice.

00:19:45.000 We never properly explain that.

00:19:46.000 Okay, so we also have on here leftist media censorship, which actually is a perfect segue, right?

00:19:52.000 I was going to say the converse of that is that while they're accusing us of engaging in cancel culture, they're actually using all of the power of the cultural institutions like BlackRock, like Spotify, like Apple, like Google, and trying to end people's livelihoods.

00:20:09.000 Dan Bongino, who's a friend of our show and a great guy, he had his YouTube channel suspended recently, demonetized over COVID misinformation, right?

00:20:18.000 Whatever that is.

00:20:19.000 Can you tell us a little bit more about that?

00:20:21.000 I mean, that's outrageous, it seems like.

00:20:23.000 Not surprising.

00:20:24.000 But, you know, Diane could speak to this most certainly, but I just will comment quickly that any voice that is raised up to speak factually about what's going on with this vaccine is silenced.

00:20:43.000 And I was just reading earlier today about an Israeli scientist who was looking at the CDC website on the adverse reactions to the COVID vaccines and had looked to publish a paper, scientific paper, dealing totally with the facts.

00:21:02.000 And that paper was rejected and refused to be printed.

00:21:06.000 So scientists, entertainment, anybody who speaks up is silenced.

00:21:13.000 And as a scientist, I will say this is absolutely contrary to good science.

00:21:17.000 Good science is always about open dialogue, discussion of differences of opinion based upon facts.

00:21:25.000 And this is, in my entire career as a scientist, I've never seen anything like this.

00:21:33.000 Yeah, I am very concerned about the media that really the larger media and the bigger companies that have the ability to be able to shut down everyone.

00:21:44.000 And if you don't, if they don't like what you say, they're going to shut you down.

00:21:47.000 I mean, we're talking about looking back at what happened in Germany with the Nazis and how they shut people down.

00:21:54.000 I was just listening to a video of a lady that was four years old when all that happened.

00:21:57.000 And she went through and talked about her experiences from the time she was four until the time she finally did get out of Germany and come to the United States.

00:22:06.000 But it was really chilling to me.

00:22:09.000 And at the end of that, I got to thinking how closely aligned is what is happening here where you're closing down what people are allowed to say, not locking them up at this point, but certainly locking them out.

00:22:22.000 And we have got to wake up.

00:22:25.000 And Charlie, I so appreciate what you do because you are bringing in this younger population that really are the ones that need to stand up and say, no, we're not going to put up with this.

00:22:34.000 So it is a scary time when you have big media that controls what someone can and cannot say and shuts them out.

00:22:44.000 And they act like a tyrannical government and there's almost no check on that.

00:22:47.000 It seems to be a theme.

00:22:49.000 So banking is a big deal.

00:22:51.000 I tell this story often.

00:22:53.000 And I can't remember if I told this story with the blacks last time, but I know I told it on radio, which is that I was trying to buy a car and JPMorgan Chase, they actually were super sweet, the people that worked at the institution.

00:23:07.000 They're super woke.

00:23:08.000 But I bank with them and amongst other banks.

00:23:12.000 And I was trying to buy a car, and the car dealership was being super rigid and strict, and they couldn't accept anything except a cashier's check.

00:23:24.000 So I got the cashier's check and I went to the car dealership, and it was for the wrong amount because the car dealership didn't factor in taxes.

00:23:31.000 So I had to go back to the bank.

00:23:33.000 And so I redeposited the cashier's check, shouldn't have done that, had to get a new one, and my whole account got locked, right?

00:23:40.000 So here I am trying to purchase a car.

00:23:42.000 I had the funds to do it.

00:23:44.000 However, at that very moment, all of a sudden, I was not able to access any of my accounts.

00:23:50.000 Everything was frozen out.

00:23:52.000 Now, thankfully, it got rectified in the days following, but they told me that they got this like black access access thing.

00:23:59.000 Basically, there's like no one that could override it.

00:24:02.000 Now, why am I telling this story?

00:24:03.000 Because at that moment, I realized, like, wow, that money is really not my own.

00:24:08.000 Like, they could punch some numbers in, and all of a sudden, all my assets get frozen.

00:24:12.000 And that seems to be a theme of what's happening with banking.

00:24:16.000 And I know there are some entrepreneurs that are creating some patriotic banks that are becoming online soon because I believe that the next most aggressive form of cancellation, first they do social media, next is going to be banks, but we don't even have to speculate.

00:24:30.000 What's happening with Mike Lindell, Connor?

00:24:32.000 Mike Lindell, it's the, let me get the local bank in Minnesota, right?

00:24:38.000 Minnesota, right?

00:24:39.000 Which the fact that this is happening in Minnesota.

00:24:41.000 Minnesota nice everybody, right?

00:24:43.000 So for the mortal sin of daring to question a basic fundamental institution in the United States, our elections, Mike Lindell has had access to his access or his assets and his capital completely frozen.

00:24:56.000 He can't bank anymore.

00:24:57.000 He can't participate in a market society which we live in.

00:25:01.000 To me, maybe this is a little bit much.

00:25:04.000 I think that that's strictly evil, frankly.

00:25:06.000 It is.

00:25:09.000 Why would they do that to Mike Lindell?

00:25:11.000 And why should they have that much power over something that you earn and you create yourself when it comes to your capital?

00:25:18.000 Well, again, this is nothing we've ever seen in the United States.

00:25:23.000 The means of quieting people are many.

00:25:28.000 But the financial world, and we've been researching this, actually, this is our 10th year this year at Second Vote, but we early on at Second Vote and researching discovered the hostility of the financial community towards conservatives and Christians.

00:25:45.000 And this is only going to become more evident as time goes on.

00:25:50.000 They are going to use the financial networks to silence the voices of reason and facts.

00:25:58.000 And if you don't agree with the left, you will be silenced.

00:26:03.000 There won't be a platform for you to speak from.

00:26:07.000 And Mike Lindahl has been very open about his concerns of not only the election, but also the vaccines.

00:26:14.000 And he's, and I find him to be very reasonable.

00:26:19.000 I, frankly, don't find him to be radical.

00:26:22.000 I think it's good to question.

00:26:23.000 It's always been good to question.

00:26:24.000 And suddenly, if you question authority, it's a negative.

00:26:29.000 And what's funny is it's the liberals who always had stated that, gosh, it's a good thing to question authority, but not now.

00:26:38.000 Not anymore.

00:26:39.000 Well, it depends on who's questioning it.

00:26:41.000 You can question the authority of our police, the authority of other agencies that do work, but you can't question the left.

00:26:51.000 Right.

00:26:52.000 If you're on the left, of course you can question authority.

00:26:54.000 You can question whether or not you can be a sanctuary state or a sanctuary city.

00:26:58.000 You can question the Constitution, you know, however you want to, but we're not afforded the same privileges.

00:27:04.000 It's actually really terrifying.

00:27:06.000 I'm going through this whole apartment hunting scenario that we've been covering on radio recently.

00:27:10.000 It's been this ongoing joke.

00:27:11.000 It's a saga.

00:27:13.000 But I had to submit bank statements to the apartment complex, et cetera, et cetera.

00:27:18.000 And I was going through my own bank statements just to kind of keep a tally.

00:27:22.000 And I think to myself, all of the creeps at the bank who are canceling Mike Lindell and who are doing all this stuff, they can go through all this just with as easy as I can.

00:27:31.000 And let's say that they don't like where I spend my money.

00:27:34.000 Let's say that I donate to Donald Trump.

00:27:35.000 Let's say that I donate to Mike Lindell.

00:27:37.000 Let's say that I donate to a church.

00:27:39.000 All of a sudden, they can say, well, you are no longer fit to be a customer with us.

00:27:43.000 That should terrify every American and give everyone pause.

00:27:46.000 Well, and just the idea of freezing your assets in real time, that's something that could stop your business, stop payments, and vendors.

00:27:54.000 And so one thing we have done as a risk mitigation strategy at Turning Point USA, as soon as I saw the banking thing a year and a half ago, we have a family friend and also a friend here of Turning Point USA that Eric Eric and I know this family from North Dakota.

00:28:11.000 They own a series of banks and they have a branch in Arizona.

00:28:14.000 They just have like one branch.

00:28:15.000 I call them up and we just open an account.

00:28:17.000 I said, we have to be able to have, so Turning Point USA, we don't just have the big banks.

00:28:23.000 And look, they don't have all the bells and whistles and the apps and all that, but it's a bank and they're not going to cancel us.

00:28:28.000 And so I just want to...

00:28:30.000 Say that again?

00:28:31.000 I'm sorry, Charlie.

00:28:32.000 I was going to say, you know, at Second Vote, we always do say shop local, but that would include banking locals.

00:28:39.000 Local banks are not going to be at the moment tied up into these big, big, huge corporate banks that are in the woke community.

00:28:50.000 Your local banks, in our area, we have multiple options of local banks who share our values and who are not going to act and behave in this manner.

00:29:00.000 But one more thing I'd like to comment on real quick, too, is this movement towards not accepting cash.

00:29:06.000 You know, cash allows us to avoid this censoring, this activity on the part of these banks, but they're pushing us more and more to using a credit card or some form of plastic money.

00:29:20.000 And I think we should all be extremely concerned about that.

00:29:23.000 And of course, the World Economic Forum and the one world government folks are certainly after as much as they can to diminish the value of the United States dollar and to minimize its presence on the world stage.

00:29:35.000 So this attack on money is coming from many directions.

00:29:39.000 That's exactly right.

00:29:41.000 And the cryptocurrency, crypto asset part of it is they're trying to seize those as well.

00:29:47.000 There's a new story out that they might try to put a kind of federal federal digital currency together.

00:29:55.000 It's all about centralization of power and consolidation of control in one more than one ways.

00:30:02.000 Secondvote.com, you guys have got to check it out.

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00:30:07.000 You could see how Google or YouTube is on all the different issues, right?

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00:30:23.000 Whatever company you might be dealing with, secondvote.com is a great way for you to be able to look into it and to really figure out if your dollars are going towards things that are virtuous.

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00:32:56.000 What do we have up next?

00:32:57.000 I wanted to close this on a kind of surprising and lighter note.

00:33:02.000 So we have a Starbucks coffee right next to Turning Point headquarters.

00:33:07.000 And sometimes out of convenience, even though it might not be totally aligned with our values, we get coffee from Starbucks.

00:33:12.000 We work hard here.

00:33:13.000 We stay up late.

00:33:14.000 We get here early.

00:33:15.000 But we always make sure that we, you know, change out the cups.

00:33:18.000 That might be revealing a trade secret.

00:33:19.000 I don't know.

00:33:21.000 Can you tell us whether or not we have to keep doing that after what Starbucks did?

00:33:24.000 I mean, they came out and shocked the world, and they said we are not going to require vaccines anymore.

00:33:30.000 I mean, this is one of the wokest companies that I think I've ever seen. 0.90

00:33:32.000 They're based out of, what, Portland or Seattle?

00:33:35.000 One of those two.

00:33:36.000 Seattle Health Race.

00:33:37.000 Yeah.

00:33:37.000 Howard Schultz, Seattle.

00:33:38.000 And now all of a sudden, they're coming around and deciding to side with the Supreme Court and do the right thing.

00:33:44.000 What's going on with Starbucks?

00:33:46.000 Well, I know they use a lot of marijuana up there in that Seattle area, so there could be a drug intoxication issue.

00:33:51.000 That may be.

00:33:52.000 Maybe.

00:33:54.000 It is actually a humorous action on their part, but I think this is a great example of where money trumps their woke ideology.

00:34:05.000 I'm sure they're having trouble hiring baristas and folks to work in their stores.

00:34:11.000 But, you know, Starbucks is one of the worst companies we score.

00:34:16.000 I try to admonish anybody who's going to Starbucks to find a local coffee shop and support your local entrepreneur.

00:34:24.000 And the local is always better.

00:34:25.000 Starbucks has such burnt coffee.

00:34:27.000 I mean, it's really not good coffee.

00:34:29.000 Just so we're clear.

00:34:30.000 For all the listeners out there.

00:34:32.000 Look, I grew up in a gas station in Michigan that had coffee that would sit on the warmer all day long.

00:34:37.000 And I think I'd almost prefer that over Starbucks.

00:34:41.000 I don't think their coffee is that great.

00:34:43.000 It's not.

00:34:44.000 And I drank a lot of Marine Corps coffee when I was in the Marines.

00:34:46.000 I think that was better too.

00:34:47.000 But It is a puzzle, but you know, this is actually classic liberalism.

00:34:52.000 I mean, the liberals once upon a time would have acted this way.

00:34:55.000 Right.

00:34:56.000 And yet they've morphed over into this fascist tyranny that is unyou know, they just moved into this fantasy world that is the opposite of where the liberal movement began.

00:35:09.000 Yeah, that's exactly right.

00:35:10.000 And it really does beg a deeper question of, you know, does liberalism always eventually end towards totalitarianism, right?

00:35:18.000 Which is if you're always trying to liberate groups from alleged tyranny, women from the patriarchy, or ethnic minorities from systemic racism, well, where does that eventually lead?

00:35:29.000 Eventually, you're going to try to use that quenched fist against somebody, right?

00:35:33.000 That quenched fist is not going to open up into a palm of acceptance.

00:35:36.000 Doesn't usually work that way.

00:35:38.000 Okay, so, Connor, we have three minutes left.

00:35:41.000 What else?

00:35:42.000 Well, this is actually something really dark, and we have to do something about this.

00:35:46.000 And if we don't start speaking up about it, this could be the end of the United States as we see it.

00:35:50.000 I know we said we were ending on a lineup, but this is dark.

00:35:52.000 Really optimistic, Connor.

00:35:53.000 Well, look, I'm reading this, and this is on thefederalist.com.

00:35:56.000 Hospital system is using race to decide if a person gets treatment.

00:36:00.000 I mean, I can't think of anything that could be scored lower than that.

00:36:04.000 That is that is just pure medical apartheid, unadulterated evil.

00:36:12.000 Yeah, correct.

00:36:12.000 Here we go.

00:36:13.000 I mean, he's as a nurse, as a nurse for more than 50 years and an emergency room nurse.

00:36:19.000 I cannot imagine being in that position where someone comes in the hospital and says, We're going to rate you about where we think you should be and where we should think we should, how we should take care of you.

00:36:30.000 So, let's just put you to the back of the line.

00:36:33.000 I still cannot believe a Catholic hospital is even considering going down that road.

00:36:40.000 Everyone needs to be treated the same.

00:36:42.000 We don't look at color.

00:36:43.000 We don't look at race.

00:36:44.000 We don't look at any of that when we take care of patients.

00:36:47.000 I am just shocked out of my socks that this is happening.

00:36:52.000 Yeah, and they've created this equation, which absolutely, you know, we've heard from the left, from the woke group, that mathematics is racist.

00:37:00.000 Well, this is a true example of where mathematics is racist.

00:37:03.000 They have created an equation where a white person cannot achieve the score to receive necessary treatment. 0.53

00:37:10.000 But even a healthy black person will receive treatment for no conditions at all. 1.00

00:37:15.000 But here's, I do have to read off of their website because this is their mission statement.

00:37:20.000 I'll just read this part of it.

00:37:21.000 It says, let's see.

00:37:24.000 I'm sorry, I had it right here in front of me, but it is a Catholic hospital, and they do talk about their need to provide God's healing power to all of their patients.

00:37:37.000 I paraphrased it, but that's what they say.

00:37:39.000 And this is some of the greatest hypocrisy I've ever seen as we've done our research.

00:37:45.000 This is a hospital system out of Minnesota. 0.74

00:37:48.000 And it's just deplorable.

00:37:51.000 It really is.

00:37:52.000 Well, we're out of time.

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00:38:16.000 Thank you guys so much for joining us.

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00:38:19.000 God bless you guys.

00:38:20.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:38:21.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:38:22.000 God bless you.

00:38:23.000 You bet.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 22, 2022

Woke Credit Scores, Blackrock Wages War, and Starbucks Gets Based?

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