Charlie Kirk (15:32)
the question remains is did we learn anything in this last year? And I don't think we did. We have increased our federal deficit by $5 trillion. Basically asking inflation to come our way. The average billionaire is much wealthier than they were before. The billionaire class has increase their net worth by $600 billion. We've lost 40% of small businesses in some cities, as high as 60% in other cities. And what do we have to show for it? The states that locked down do not have better virus hospitalization or death rates than the states that fully and completely opened. It was an unnecessary move, but an intentional move by Democrat governors that wanted a federal bailout. They wanted a federal bailout well before the Chinese coronavirus came through. And finally they had their big opportunity to get federal dollars appropriated to broken cities like Chicago and Los Angeles. What I never understood about Chicago and their lockdowns was that if it was all about saving lives and Lori Lightfoot trying to have people stay at home, why didn't Lori Lightfoot ever have that big of a concern for the death in the streets of the city of Chicago? There were 792 homicides in Chicago just last year. And yet she's worried whether or not people are wearing masks when they're showering some of the strictest mask mandates in the entire country. Because it's actually not about saving lives. It was never about saving lives for Lori Lightfoot or J.B. pritzker or Andrew Cuomo or Bill de Blasio or Gavin Newsom or Eric Garcetti or any of these guys. Instead it was about making themselves more important obey us. And what was so stunning to me is how little backlash there was from free thinking people. And this should be a fire alarm and a wake up call for all of us. If you do not contest and contend for your liberties and freedoms, they will disappear if they have not already disappeared. I just want to make this point. In the last year I believe America has undergone the greatest one year change of any time in American history, except Maybe World War II. Maybe in one year. We have radically redefined how we view race. We have decided to go backwards and view race like the KKK did. We have decided to say that the education of our children does not matter. We have changed the way that we value small businesses and private property. We have pastors facing $2.5 million in fines, like my friend Pastor Mike McClure at Calvary Chapel San Jose, which, by the way, we have a Turning Point USA campus tour stop in San Jose. We're going to Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Nashville, Vegas, then San Jose. TPUSA.com Jenfree if you want to check it out. And we're gonna have a lot of fun there. And we're gonna be talking about a lot of topics. So pastors were criminalized, but abortion factories remained open. So as we are now looking back on the one year of the 15 days to slow the spread, why should we ever trust anything that the people in charge tell us about public health, public policy, the direction of our country, the best way to solve problems? The answer is we shouldn't. And yet the Democrats in the left, they commonly say we must trust the science. They don't believe that they're saying trust the scientists that we like. The entire conversation around the Chinese coronavirus should have always been around therapeutics. Zinc, vitamin D, natural sunlight, hydroxychloroquine, and other potential therapeutics that could have helped with the treatment of the virus. Instead, all the focus was around sit at home until we have a vaccine. And guess what? President Trump delivered a vaccine quicker than anyone ever before. Joe Biden says there was not even a vaccine when he came into office, despite him taking a vaccine while Trump was president. Pathological liar. And in the last year of the year of the 15 days to slow the spread, I saw the wealthiest, most prosperous, most blessed country in the history of the world basically sit back and watch as their country got radically redefined by people that do not share American values and want to restore the American Promise. What is the American Promise, by the way? The American Promise is very simple. The American promise is that if you work hard, play by the rules, your children can live a moderately better life than you, and you are able to see your life materially increase and increase in richness in other ways outside of financial. The American promise is that your politicians are going to tell you the truth, that you can speak your mind, you can worship your creator outside of government mandates or edicts. Everything in the last year has been a targeted campaign at breaking the American promise. And it just so happened in the midst of an election year. As you notice, every time I mention the virus, I call it the Chinese virus, the China virus. In fact, I was the first person to tweet out China virus. And then when Trump had a Twitter, he, quote, tweeted my tweet. And then he used it ever since. I'm not saying he got it solely from me, but there is public proof of that. And yet throughout all of this, I feel as if we have decided not to focus on China's role in all this, where it very well could have been a biological weapon that was formed in the Wuhan laboratory. And then we make a very dangerous conflation with how we talk about what has happened in the last year in the New York Times. Worthless paper has a whole section here, all these pictures of these kids that don't have, that had no school, sports, that had no activities. And the story is actually pretty compelling. However, it blames the virus for all of it. It says that Covid disallowed these 17 year olds from having a soccer season or from having dance class. I said, Covid didn't do any of that. The Chinese coronavirus did not prevent any of that. The lockdowns did. And so we are dealing with two separate threats. One that was a foreign attack on our country from the Chinese Communist Party. Allegedly, and with 99% assuredness. I could tell you that this was probably developed with malevolent intent from the Chinese Communist Party because that's all they do, is lie. They are treacherous, deceitful people. And the Chinese Communist Party has internationalist goals and ambitions that are so immoral and evil. And as I said yesterday, a missed opportunity was forming an alliance. Not just an alliance, but a in your face, come and get us type coalition with Japan, who the Chinese have always feared the Japanese. You see, the Chinese have always had a heavy emphasis on history and culture. The one thing the Chinese Communist Party fears is a strong Japan. We should be involved in activating or reinvigorating the warrior spirit in Japan. Instead, we have a base there, which is great. And we have a phenomenal military in Okinawa. In fact, I just spent some time with someone who served in Okinawa. Phenomenal guy. But I think it would be in our best interest to help rebuild the Japanese military. Anyway, that's a side point. And so I'm reading this article in the New York Times and the way that the story is told is, yes, we are pointing out that we removed the freedom and liberty and the way of life from young people. But we act as if we had no choice in Florida. It shows that we do have a choice. We did have a choice in Florida. It shows that an open state not only can have better virus rates, better hospitalization rates, better death rates, lower unemployment rate, higher growth rate, rising property values, but people are happier. And even the New York Times, which is a worthless paper, haha found it says, I'd much rather be in Florida other than New York. No big city in the United States has been struggling with more Chinese coronavirus weeks in Miami, but you'd hardly know it if you lived here. Now remember, cases are not deaths. And you go through this and it talks very positively about how the American way of life has been restored in Florida. Ron DeSantis says, you can live like a human being here in Florida. You aren't locked down, people aren't miserable. We've been doing that for over a year in Florida. The governor boasted and he should boast because he trusts his citizens. And so then the New York Times says more than 32,000 Floridians have died, an unthinkable cost that the state's leaders rarely acknowledge. Hold on a second. How many people have died in California? The death rate is basically the same. So massive lockdowns and the infringement of liberties make no significant increase or impact on the death rate. Yet the New York Times completely misrepresents this. And an untrained eye of someone that gets the New York Times delivered to their home, they'd say, oh yeah, that's really bad. Maybe it's not as good as you might think, but there is a good quote here. People here, they have been able to work, the kids have been able to go to school. Again, if you think that this virus is a threat to you, then don't leave your home. That's what liberty is all about. I actually know someone that is deathly afraid of flying. They drive everywhere, even cross country. There's no federal law that says that this person must get on an airplane. They have the liberty to get in the car and to drive, even though driving is much more dangerous than flying. But that's their belief. The point is that if you believe this virus is a threat to you, then stay at home. Don't prevent others from living their life. This used to be something that liberals, an argument they used to use around mass drug legalization and other socially degenerate causes. But when it comes to just going to church, owning a business, and living a normal life, that's when they decide to put up a big fight. Look, you've heard me talk about MyPillow.
