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I would shut it down. Boy, I cut an ad for that right now. In fact, we might at turning point action, our 501 organization. I would shut it down again. The Democrats believe they have the upper hand on two issues. And in this sense, they are related. They believe they have an upper hand on the Chinese coronavirus and on health care. These draconian lockdowns are incredibly unpopular. Even Democrats hate them. Democrat leaders don't even abide by them. They don't believe in them. They're nothing more than power muscle flexing exercises for wannabe dictators that miss their calling. And the Eva Peron types, they're also really bad for the economy. We're gonna get into exactly how bad they were for the economy in just a second. But often, instead of helping fight the Chinese coronavirus, their main contribution has been detrimental to America's health. So actually, if you care about the health of the American people, you, you should be against these lockdowns. The next chess move President Donald Trump must execute on right now to win this election and checkmate Joe Biden while he's on defense on the riots. You could totally pummel his campaign into oblivion. Checkmate him for what he is. Lockdown Biden. So let's go through the list of the impacts of what lockdowns would be in Biden's America, which he just said, I would shut it down. Economic. At the height of the lockdowns in May, there were close to 41 million Americans unemployed. And the impact of the lockdowns on small businesses have been devastating. Now, I want to get our language specific. People say, well, the virus has really kept a lot of people out of work. No, that's not true. The lockdowns, our reaction to the virus, kept people out of work. There's the virus, then there's the lockdowns. Do not conflate the two. Because we had the choice and we had the capacity to not lock down our entire society, we could have trusted people and given them the liberty or the agency to, to make good decisions. Listen to this from the US Chamber of Commerce. According to a July survey From Goldman Sachs, 84% of recipients expected to exhaust their PPP funds by August. That means approximately 4 million small businesses have likely already exhausted all their funds, or 13% of America's 31 million small businesses. Furthermore, only 13%. I'm sorry. Furthermore, only 7% of small businesses are very confident that they will be able to maintain payroll if no further government help is provided. And this is just information from small businesses that have been able to stay afloat. Again in May, at the height of the Biden lockdowns, the Washington Post reported that more than 100,000 small businesses have closed forever. If lockdown Biden gets elected. What about the next 100,000 small businesses as the nation's pandemic toll? They write. But it's an important distinction they failed to make. It's not the pandemic, it's the lockdowns. If you care about small business owners and if you are a small business owner, Biden is your biggest enemy. The Chamber of Commerce says businesses will continue to sink if they don't get more support from the federal government. But that's in and of itself its own economic issue. A massive one at that. The deficit is set to increase to $3.3 trillion this year. 2.2 trillion of that is due to the overblown, irresponsible and reckless response to the pandemic, which was a handout to corporate America, National Public Radio, illegal aliens, PBS and free checks to people that sit around and weren't working. It was a dumb stimulus bill. We never should have done it in the first place. I spoke out against it. I know why the President had to sign it. But legislatively and policy wise, I am a huge critic of borrowing money. We do not have to study things that do not motivate economic growth, subsidize bad behavior and set precedent for universal basic income massive crony capitalist bailouts, when in reality small business and middle income owners who are barely got the help they needed. No one should want to vote for a renewal of this kind of economic malaise. But that is exactly what Joe Biden is running on. So as Trump has him on the run going to Kenosha and just I hope Joe Biden and his campaign realize and recognize, and they do, and I hope you recognize watching this movement is an indicator of life in politics. A candidate's time is the most valuable thing a candidate has. The fact Joe Biden goes and has visited to Kenosha is a sign. Outside of the polling, outside of the spending, outside of the chatter and the punditry and the prognostication, it is a sign that there's a crisis in the Biden campaign. There is no benefit for him to go to Kenosha. He highlights exactly what his Democrat worldview would do for the entire country. It puts the entire country in massive form of jeopardy, safety, chaos, disarray and ruin. So the Democrats want to talk about healthcare. They actually think that it's a winning issue. So in some ways, Joe Biden would on the surface embrace a conversation when it comes to the lockdowns. He's like, oh yeah, I'd be happy to talk about the lockdowns. Why not? We'll talk about the lockdowns, but in reality, the Biden lockdowns have been devastating for healthcare in America. According to electronic medical records, vendor EPIC appointments for screenings for cancer for cervix, colon and breast cancer were down between 86 and 94% in March, compared to average volumes in the three years before the first Chinese coronavirus case was was confirmed in the United States. A model created by the National Cancer Institute predicts that tens of thousands of excess cancer deaths will occur over the next decade as a result of missed screenings, delays in diagnosis, reductions in oncology care caused by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Suicides are on the rise. So Biden supports the continuation and the absolute shutdown of the American economy, the American way of life. Biden wants to lock down your livelihood. In Fresno, California, for example, suicides were up 70% in June compared to the same compared in 2019. The National alliance of Mental Illness helpline has seen a 65% increase in calls and emails since March, particularly among high schoolers. And from the center for disease control, 25% of young Americans ages 18 to 24 seriously considered suicide during the lockdown. If you're watching out this and you're over the age of 50, you should be sick for what we have done to young people in this country. We have destroyed their life because the experts and the scientists told us to do that. It's also large, in part due to massive increase in drug and alcohol usage. People can't visit their gyms, their social circles, their sporting events, they can't get outside. The only thing that you're allowed to go do is, is go be angry in the streets. The only allowable or essential activity is go put on a BLM Incorporated T shirt, say you hate America and you'd be willing to burn the country. That is considered to be an essential activity in the eyes of the ruling class. These lockdowns kept kids out of schools, gyms and churches. You really think that things are going to end well when you take away the spiritual component, the physical component, and the educational component of society? What keeps human beings human is their connection to a God, their physical existence, their educational pursuit, their source of meaning, their source of community. We removed all that. We said, oh, you could just stay in your apartment and find meaning. No. That is the least free human beings have ever been. We had the greatest experiment in socialism in our country's history. And Joe Biden just said in the clip we just played that he's willing to bring us back to that lock down the country again. President Trump needs to play offense on this issue immediately. President Trump needs to frame it like Joe Biden wants suicides to go up. Joe Biden wants cancers to go underdetected undetected. Joe Biden wants more small businesses to close. Joe Biden wants record unemployment. Joe Biden wants everything that you have suffered through to happen again unnecessarily because he's a power hungry, foolish tyrant. And Joe Biden would keep on saying, I'm going to follow the science. And President Trump should say and preempt it, I don't want to shut it down because of the science. Joe Biden will say, I would shut it down. I would follow the science. Keep on repeating that ad one after the other. I'm about to take some of your questions. If you guys want to win a signed copy of the New York Times bestseller the MAGA Doctrine, email us right now. Freedomarliekirk.com freedomarliekirk.com I'm about to take your questions. We'll do it right here. Before I do, though, the more President Trump can get Joe Biden to answer on his terms, to crisscross the country to places he doesn't want to go, that's how you win. The issue of the lockdowns is falling out of favor with the American people, especially as you see Democrats defy the lockdowns themselves. The Nancy Pelosi hair salon incident is one of the greatest political openings that Donald Trump could have been given. He needs to seize it. By seizing it, he can win this election and preserve the republic and Western civilization with it. Joe Biden was at his best when Donald Trump had to just talk about virus rates, death rates and case rates. Hard to run up against a virus, to be honest with you. It's hard to run one on one up against something that is a transmissible disease. Much easier to run up against somebody who wants to shut down all of American society again with we cannot endure that. We can't. We do not. You want to talk about survivability rate? America cannot survive another lockdown. Cannot happen. In New York City, most businesses, restaurants are going to fold if they have to stay shut down another 60 days. I know fitness center owners in Los Angeles that have totally shut down and they're done. I know entrepreneurs all across the beautiful state of California, all across the beautiful state of New Jersey, that because of the criminal edicts that have been put forward to them and because they have no choice, they shut down. Business licenses are gone and all the jobs that they Produced, all the value they created for that local community are destroyed. And here's a really interesting question for you. Who do you think actually wants lockdowns again? Who do you think wants lockdowns again? You might say, well, no one wants them. Who wants lockdowns again? Who got really rich during the lockdowns? If I was Jeff Bezos, I would want another hundred thousand small businesses to go under. What's been amazing to me is how the left has decided not to challenge the economic ruling class in this country. What's been amazing to me is how the left has decided that they hate Donald Trump, but they love Jeff Bezos. How did that one work? A year ago, Amazon stock, I'm Sorry, on Thursday, January 2, year to date, Amazon stock was $1,898 a share. Amazon stock today is $3,368 a share. So who actually benefited from the lockdowns? Amazon almost doubled their market cap. Amazon's market cap. It's hard to believe that I'm reading this is $1.69 trillion, almost $1.7 trillion that they were an 800 billion dollar company not too long ago. Apple just hit 2 trillion dollar market cap. Now there's a lot of cheap money floating around, so these valuations kind of just playing with silly money, kind of playing with house money. But I want you to think to yourself, who actually is pushing in Joe Biden's ear? Lock it down again. Lock it down. The people that actually think small businesses are an inconvenience to society. People that want the hyper corporatization of America. Now, mind you, incredibly, the Republican Party used to be the party of corporate America. The Republican Party used to be the Party of the U.S. chamber of Commerce and giving money to China and bringing in lots of plastic piles of garbage that we don't need into our garages to give to our children that they're going to forget about and throw away six days later. Now the Republican Party kind of backed into being the party of middle class workers, family formation, faith and free speech. That's now the Republican Party. And so when Joe Biden is saying, I'd lock it down again, you know who else kind of wants it to be locked down again? The pharmaceutical companies. Pharmaceutical companies that benefit tremendously from more people taking antidepressants, more people taking, let's say drugs to solve problems for other problems that drugs caused. Corporate America benefited tremendously from the lockdowns, especially the tech sector, Silicon Valley, which really runs our country, if we're honest with it the companies that run the people that are the most powerful in our country are Silicon Valley. It's just they run the country. D.C. doesn't run the country. They don't. They say they do and then all of a sudden they pander to the Silicon Valley elites. I'm not saying they have no power, but the real power is vested in Wall street and in Silicon Valley. So now Donald Trump is a disruptor to all these power systems. So when Joe Biden says I want to lock down America, you can then expose who Joe Biden really represents. He represents the BLM Incorporated Government addicted. So they get government benefits. They don't work. They get free money from the government, they don't work at all. The permanent government dependent class. And then the 1% of the 1% of the 1%, that's Joe Biden's constituency, that's who wants another lockdown. Regular, normal, decent, reasonable people, they shudder to think what will happen if we lock down our country again. For good reason. Another shutdown of the American economy might break the civilization as we know it. Here's the framing. President Donald Trump needs to be the open up America candidate. Joe Biden needs to be the lockdown candidate. Lockdowns are not about health care, they're about livelihoods. The longer you keep America locked down, the more social unrest there will be. The longer you keep America locked down, the more suicides, the more domestic abuse, the more sexual abuse, the more alcohol and drug consumption. As soon as you allow liberty to be embraced again as a fundamental value in our country, a lot of these problems will self correct. The longer you go around with a gun and say if you leave your home, if you open your business, you're out of business, then all of a sudden you are centrally commanding American society for the needs, wants and interests of an ever growing, not ever growing, but ever richer and more powerful group of governing elites. To be perfectly honest with you, I don't think it's a good thing that Jeff Bezos is now worth $170 billion while most Americans can't scrap together a couple pennies. Now, I think that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, their economic policy is anti American and it's evil and it's immoral. But when Jeff Bezos accumulates that kind of wealth, while most Americans have, have gone further into debt and their kids are thinking of killing themselves and their other kids are learning to hate America, I ask myself the question, who actually allowed these trends to accelerate? And the answer is people like Joe Biden. And Joe Biden just wants those trends to continue. More. If he locks down the country again, Jeff Bezos will be worth $250 billion and the average American family will be $50,000 more into debt. And here's the scary thing. Here's the other reason why people want lockdowns. Here's why Bill de Blasio wants lockdowns. This is a hard thing for people to realize. I was stopped at an event recently in Montana and by the way, please email us your questions. Freedom. Charliekirk.com if I select your question, you guys win a signed copy of the New York Times. New York Times bestseller, the Maga Doctrine, if I select your question. But I was stopped by somebody and they said, charlie, I refuse to believe that there is an ideological campaign to want to keep America closed. I think it's all under the best interests of people. I say you have not spent enough time around the American left. You see, Bill de Blasio is a true Bolshevik. Jacobin Marxist, he is. And Jacobin being a. Or Jacobin, there's a. Pronounce it both ways. Jacobin, Jacobin, French Revolution style insurgent. Bill de Blasio views the American system of governance to be a mistake. Worse, he actually considers the American way of life to be a mistake. Bill de Blasio believes, at all costs, we must break America from within. So outside of the corporate elites, you see this very interesting alliance that has been formed in our country where you have this strange marriage that has happened, where you have corporate elites that want America locked down again because they're going to benefit from it financially, like Jeff Bezos, so everyone can go get some package that you didn't really need delivered to you in a day or less because you can't leave your home. So Jeff Bezos benefits from it. And then you have the other people that benefit from it, the people that have been trying to find a way to short circuit, overload the programming to put in a virus, no pun intended, into the computing processing system of America and destroy it to blow it up. These people are looking for any and all opportunities, any ports of entry to disrupt what we know is the American way of life. The American way of life, as I mentioned in my RNC speech. So you work hard, you play by the rules. You want a better life for your kids. You believe in a higher power. You believe in freedom of speech. You believe in proper firearm owning. You just try to do the right thing and pass on these values to the next generation. You believe in service. You believe in duty. You believe in liberty. You believe in the American trinity, in God we trust, you live a life where your kids will live a slightly better life than you do. That's the American way of life. But people such like Bill de Blasio, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Bernie Sanders and others, they had a goal written on a piece of paper before the Chinese coronavirus, before the lockdowns of I want to destroy America. Present to me a way I can do it. So then the crisis comes, and it's not about health, it's not about all that. They instead look at this as an insurgent opportunity to overwhelm the American system and destroy it from within. That's where they look at this opportunity. So you have these corporate elites and these Bolsheviks that otherwise would have bitterly hated each other, partnering with the agreed upon goal and objective that what we have here in our country must no longer exist. That's the unspoken of tragedy of this moment. A better way to word it is probably that's the unspoken of story here. It is a tragedy because you have the richest people and the most disgruntled people that are partnering to. To destroy what Aristotle would call the golden mean. The middle class, the people in the middle, those that don't have a little, they don't have a lot, but they have enough to get by, and they're invested in your system. But guess what happens when those people in the middle stop believing in the system, which is happening at an increasingly alarming rate, where debt increases, jobs disappear, churches are not allowed to open. That middle class turns into a revolutionary class. And it happens like that. And as soon as the middle class turns into revolutionary class, leave the country, because it's not going to end well, the Republican Party and the conservatives and President Trump can stop all this. You know, what a great way to make sure this doesn't happen, don't lock down the country anymore. So Bill de Blasio, in a very unusual way, says he hates rich people. He's actually helping rich people by keeping all of New York City closed. Who do you think is the one that's delivering all the packages? Because people can't go to these restaurants? Bill de Blasio. Bill de Blasio says, I want to tax the rich more. Well, first of all, rich people have a thing called planes and helicopters. So they're out of New York City. You can't tax them anymore. They've sold their assets and New York. But rich people also have this really interesting thing called the capacity to still sell goods even though they don't live in your city. And so the drones flying around now delivering your packages in New York. Bill de Blasio to the lower middle income earners who you've just destroyed their lives because you've said that restaurants are not going to open except outside dining. Well, guess what? If you have in October, it's kind of cold in New York and it just, it's not easy to have indoor dining. Bill de Blasio says he hates the rich and he wants to tax the rich. Yet his own policy will actually benefit the wealthiest Americans more so than ever before. But he doesn't care. He just wants to break the system so he can have some sort of Marxist revolution. He considers Fidel Castro and Vladimir Lenin to be admirable figures in American society. Joe Biden is the lockdown candidate. Donald Trump is the open up America candidate. Checkmate, Biden. Okay, let's get to a couple questions here. Freedomarliekirk.com and we are also going to give away 10 signed copies of the MAGA doctrine over a period of time here. If you guys can show you're subscribed to the Charlie Kirk show, so subscribe right now on Apple Podcasts. We have the link in the Facebook description. Love the show. Thanks for your voice and knowledge. What would Biden propose if the virus never goes away and the vaccine isn't 100%, which no vaccine is, we should stay shut down forever. Depend on government. Yes, he wants to shut down America and he would kowtow to the corporate elites to keep our country permanently closed. What do I say that? This is a great question, Jenny from Brooklyn. What do I say to people that support the lockdowns? I can tell them these facts and everything, but they still have absolute trust in the science and the government. Surely they don't actually enjoy the new normal. Thank you, Jenny. First of all, there's two ways to answer this question. The first of which is just because you open up America doesn't mean you have to leave your house. This thing called liberty is you don't actually have to leave your home once you open up the country. And the second thing is, if you still support lockdowns, you hate people. It's that simple. If you still support lockdowns, you actually love ideology and dogma more than you love people. It's that simple. It is an immoral position to say that you want to keep America locked down anymore. We are in September, they told us two weeks to slow the spread. We are in September and we still can't get the act together with this. Keep the whole country Locked down, people will make responsible decisions or they'll make irresponsible decisions. It is not the role of the state to micro program everything you do. If it was, we wouldn't have speed limits over 10 miles an hour. If it was, no one would own a firearm or a kitchen knife. If it was, we wouldn't have pools in a backyard where kids, far too often the American Southwest owners unfortunately drowned to death. If it was, we wouldn't have fireworks where people blow their head off every July 4th. The incredible thing about liberty is you have to have responsibility. But now we've indulged in this ridiculous, this ridiculously dangerous central planning experiment where we're going to microprogram every single citizen. Like, don't leave the home because I know what best for you. No, you don't know what's best for me. And by the way, I elected you. You don't control me. We have a thing called first principles in this country. We've forgotten all of that. We have philosophically abandoned the fundamental roots of our country so quickly in such a disappointing and sudden fashion. So that's what I would say. Jenny, if you support lockdowns, you love ideology and dogma more than you love people. It is immoral and it is evil to keep America locked down any further. Please continue to email us your questions. Freedom charliekirk.com Freedom charliekirk.com Let's get to this one. 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