Silicon Valley’s Mass Layoff Event + Does Black History Deserve an Entire Month?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.6 • 65.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Google, Facebook, Amazon: The biggest names in tech are cutting tens of thousands of jobs. That might spark schadenfreude on the right, but Charlie explains why those layoffs should cause worry and why he believes a major crash is imminent. Plus, as we approach Black History Month, Charlie gives his argument for why a whole month focused on one race is unhelpful and even dangerous.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Today on the Charlie Kirk show, we go through the latest news on the economy. What are the five laws of economics? Well, there's more than that, but the five that we focus on. It's a pretty thoroughly researched episode, and somehow we get into the topic of Black History Month and made some headlines there. Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com. Get involved a Turning Point USA at TPSA.com. That is TPSA.com. Sort of high school chapter or a college chapter today at TPUSA.com. That is TP.USA.com. Buckle up everybody here. We go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. |
| 0:34.4 | I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. |
| 0:38.0 | Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. |
| 0:41.0 | I want to thank Charlie. |
| 0:42.3 | He's an incredible guy. |
| 0:43.4 | His spirit, his love of this country. |
| 0:45.2 | He's done an amazing job. |
| 0:46.8 | Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. |
| 0:51.4 | We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, |
| 0:55.7 | destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. |
| 1:00.4 | That's why we are here. |
| 1:03.2 | Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at |
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| 1:12.1 | I believe there is an economic collapse looming. We've been saying this for a couple |
| 1:17.4 | months now and unfortunately our predictions on this program are coming true at the exact |
| 1:22.8 | time we said they were going to happen. We said in early 2023, we are going to see mass |
| 1:27.2 | layoffs. If you are employed right now, you should be thankful that we're going to happen. We said in early 2023, we are going to see mass layoffs. |
| 1:28.3 | If you are employed right now, you should be thankful that you have a job because this morning, |
| 1:33.1 | Google just announced 12,000 layoffs. That's 6% of its global workforce. Two days ago, |
| 1:38.3 | Microsoft just laid off 10,000 people, 5% of its global workforce. Amazon just laid off 18,000 people in two |
| 1:45.5 | waves of layoffs in the first three months. Facebook has cut 11,000 jobs, 13 percent of its |
| 1:51.1 | workforce. Now, there are less famous names. Salesforce laid off 8,000 people. Cisco has laid off |
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