We are live with Dr. Kirk Elliott. It's our resident economist on Badlands Media. I'm Sean Morgan.

I'm a host over at AMP News. And so, Kirk, you know, I've been looking at the headlines today,

and I've been noticing this toxic, poisonous, disgusting ideology of the leftists, the ESG, the LGBTQ pride, all of this stuff, the climate

change crap.

It's all infected corporate America.

And it's changed the incentives to a perverse point.

Let's start out just by talking about Starbucks, because this is a company that's so

pro-Antifa, they just let them

break down the windows. But yet they're backtracking on the Pride Month stuff. They're not

letting people put up the decorations, but it's all behind the scenes. Their official policy is

supporting Pride Month, but behind the scenes, they're backtracking because of Bud Light and Target.

Any comment on that?

Well, you know, they might want to pretend to be all about that and everything.

But yet it just boils down to money, right?

So when there's public support, they're all in favor.

When there's public backlash, they pull back.

So really, what do they like?

Well, they like money is what they like.

I mean, that's really what it's boiling down to.

Now, there is a bigger ideological movement, though, happening, right?

So, like, for example, if you look at what the Bank

of International Settlements is working on with Project Icebreaker and Project Aurora, right, if you go to

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