Silicon Valley’s Mass Layoff Event + Does Black History Deserve an Entire Month?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.5 • 44.1K 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. |
| 0:04.0 | What are the five laws of economics? Well, there's more than that, but the five that we focus on. |
| 0:08.1 | It's a pretty thoroughly researched episode and somehow we get into the topic of Black History Month |
| 0:13.2 | and made some headlines there. Email us freedom at Charlie Kirk.com, get involved at turning point |
| 0:17.9 | USA at tpusa.com. That is tpusa.com, sort of high school chapter or a college chapter today, |
| 0:24.1 | at tpusa.com. That is tpusa.com. Buckle up everybody here. We go. Charlie, what you've done |
| 0:31.5 | is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky |
| 0:36.4 | to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. |
| 0:41.2 | I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. He's spirit, his love of this country. He's done |
| 0:45.5 | an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, turning point USA. |
| 0:51.6 | We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight |
| 0:57.9 | for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the |
| 1:04.1 | Lone Expert's I Trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at Andrew and Todd.com. |
| 1:12.4 | I believe there is an economic collapse. Looming. We've been saying this for a couple months now |
| 1:17.9 | and unfortunately our predictions on this program are coming true. At the exact time we said they |
| 1:23.6 | were going to happen. We said in early 2023, we are going to see mass layoffs. If you are employed |
| 1:29.6 | right now, you should be thankful that you have a job because this morning Google just announced 12,000 |
| 1:34.7 | layoffs that 6% of its global workforce. Two days ago, Microsoft just laid off 10,000 people, |
| 1:41.0 | 5% of its global workforce. Amazon just laid off 18,000 people in two waves of layoffs in the first |
| 1:47.6 | three months. Facebook has cut 11,000 jobs, 13% of its workforce. Now there are less famous names. |
| 1:53.2 | Sales force laid off 8,000 people. Cisco is laid off 4,100 people. Wayfair just laid off 1,750 people. |
| 2:01.6 | And of course Elon Musk's Twitter laid off more than half of its workforce as well. That 65,000 |
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