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00:00:00.000 welcome to the podcast uh today we had a lot of a lot of stuff going on today um on the show you

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00:00:32.340 was the show of what's coming next we had a three-part series um and it was uh highly highly

00:00:41.240 watched you can still watch that on what's coming in the next 12 to 18 months and that's kind of what

00:00:46.680 we did a little bit in a different way on radio today we talked about what's coming in the next

00:00:50.800 18 months with the presidential election who's running who could possibly beat donald trump if

00:00:58.120 everything stayed stable that's going to be a hard a hard feat for somebody especially when as

00:01:04.680 stew did on the podcast talk about who the democrats really are yep and there's a really interesting

00:01:10.540 poll on that of how the democrat party has changed in the exact ways you predicted as uh as listeners uh

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00:02:49.880 it's home title lock dot com this is the glenbeck program so they've been nibbling on some sponge cake

00:02:57.040 and uh watching the sun bake and it's been great for the democrats uh in puerto rico until the camera

00:03:04.840 showed up and then when the camera showed up it got ugly and i mean that in every possible way i don't

00:03:10.760 know if you've seen the picture of the fat cats on the beach but i'm gonna say the same thing that i

00:03:17.360 would say if i were on the beach i don't go to the beach because i know that cameras exist and i don't

00:03:23.120 mean cameras like in the press i mean home cameras my camera no pictures of me on the beach nobody wants

00:03:30.400 to see it may i say it's pretty much true for all political you know all politicians i don't want

00:03:38.460 to see you in your swimsuit chris christie looked pretty hot on the jersey shore that time yeah right

00:03:42.660 i'll say that but at least he was sitting down oh that's not a good look i mean he now he did have

00:03:47.880 a shirt on i've seen some of these guys standing up i mean sitting down is the worst possible

00:03:53.580 thing you can do as a fat man have you seen bob menendez on the beach without a shirt i have not

00:04:01.340 okay nor do i want to but you can imagine it and i'm sorry to make you do that i mean i'm not making

00:04:06.600 you do that but once i say bob menendez without a shirt on the beach you can't get that picture out

00:04:13.700 no okay did they did they clear the island of underaged girls before that was the first thing that

00:04:19.720 i thought good i thought you know him on the beach talking to a woman in a bikini is not

00:04:26.020 flattering in any way whatsoever so the democrats have um uh have you know vacation now at the seaside

00:04:35.900 resort and uh they went to a ridiculously overpriced uh version of hamilton uh tickets started at

00:04:44.840 ten dollars went as high as five thousand dollars guess which one i don't think i don't think um

00:04:52.260 menendez and the rest of the democrats you know had the ten dollar tickets they weren't in the rafters

00:04:57.400 no no they weren't no they weren't so they were at the hispanic caucus bold pack um that said this

00:05:04.860 year's winter retreat promised to be our most wildly attended with over 220 guests including 39 members

00:05:10.440 of congress oh great golly so while people are struggling people are struggling and this

00:05:18.000 president doesn't care they're on the beach in puerto rico watching hamilton uh by the way there

00:05:25.560 was also in attendance 109 different lobbyists uh rj reynolds was there facebook was there comcast

00:05:33.440 amazon pharma microsoft intel verizon and of course all the unions like the national educational

00:05:42.100 association this is how everything that gets done that you sit back and you're like gosh why would

00:05:48.140 they even do that this doesn't make any sense well it's because they probably were on there some fat

00:05:52.100 guy was on the beach with a bikini clad model and he had six drinks not really a model either i didn't

00:05:58.620 see the picture yeah that one didn't work out either for her all right but then the the congress

00:06:03.420 was five drinks in and maybe a little too friendly and someone took a picture and like it's it's it's

00:06:08.360 all house of cards like they all they threw they threw kevin spacey out of there they should put him

00:06:13.000 in congress that'd be a much better role he should actually go into the real uh real washington and

00:06:18.320 just take a role there he'd fit in perfectly i was gonna say do you think there's really any difference

00:06:23.180 i think he really actually would fit in perfectly yeah he'd probably be really successful yeah he would

00:06:29.340 be he's very convincing i think he can pull off the speeches a lot better than some

00:06:32.880 adult congressman yeah i think he should try it and i don't think any of it would have a problem

00:06:38.020 with him oh and then then they could probably get congress to pay for all the lawsuits too

00:06:41.780 this is his future career path right here this is this is the path for kevin spacey i think you're

00:06:47.100 right i think you're right he already knows how to act like a politician no one obviously cares about

00:06:51.760 opinions or policy anymore you just got to act like a politician and be able to handle those big

00:06:56.540 moments when you're uh when you've got your when you're stressed well he could do that that's his gig

00:07:00.700 has spartacus announced yet his candidacy no that is weird because there is a uh an argument to be

00:07:07.680 made you need to get out there early uh if you're a like that's why they think elizabeth warren elizabeth

00:07:12.840 warren's goal was to apparently to beat bernie sanders to announcing uh so she can be the main

00:07:18.700 socialist candidate do we still have the do we still have the audio of her getting getting herself

00:07:23.800 i'm gonna get me a uh a beer do we because it's just it's just horrible horrible she's actually

00:07:31.480 worse than hillary clinton when it comes to delivery which is really hard to say oh there's nobody

00:07:35.640 there's nobody that could have beaten uh hillary clinton until elizabeth warren comes onto the stage

00:07:41.140 here's do we have that video okay we're getting it's just we have to have that handy because it's

00:07:46.260 just so ridiculously bad anyway we had some other announcements uh that happened yes uh tulsi gabbard

00:07:54.700 running for president from hawaii from hawaii she is a very left-wing and in fact kind of running in

00:08:02.640 that that area where she wants to kind of be to the left of of bernie sanders um she is every policy

00:08:09.720 you can think of you know ocasio-cortez think ocasio-cortez that's essentially who she is she was

00:08:14.000 ocasio-cortez before ocasio-cortez was ocasio-cortez she was ocasio-cortez when when ocasio-cortez was

00:08:20.520 serving drinks at a mexican restaurant in union square so like three years ago no well not that

00:08:25.320 long um so uh and so uh she is having some issues because she's announced and you know of course when

00:08:32.960 you announce to be to run for president people generally will look into your background even

00:08:36.760 apparently if you're a democrat which i didn't know i didn't know that happened on the left no uh but

00:08:41.220 i know they check in case in case you want to do something important like you know host the oscars

00:08:45.600 then you have to know every tweet that has ever come out right however uh running for president as

00:08:50.500 a democrat i didn't know you had any background check but they have looked into her background and

00:08:54.520 and discovered that she apparently had some very very strong anti lgbtqia plus viewpoints that's not a

00:09:05.980 joke by the way what do you mean that she didn't have those viewpoints or that lgbtq i'm trying to

00:09:11.280 get all yeah i know i know and i just want to point out that that's that's it's not a joke well

00:09:17.340 quilt bag is also not a joke i know and quilt bag two is not a joke i know quilt bag two electric

00:09:23.000 boogaloo is a joke yes that's not actually true but i feel like if we get ahead with electric boogaloo

00:09:27.360 we can get all the groups that are coming in the future just kind of fit into those letters all

00:09:31.580 right so she has an anti quilt bag two kind of stance she does history she does she was uh she

00:09:37.380 her father i guess was a big anti-gay marriage activist um back in the day they they you know

00:09:42.860 tried to push through a um an amendment to ban uh gay gay marriage i think and i think they were

00:09:47.860 successful even in hawaii this shows how fast this has changed over the past uh 10 or 15 years

00:09:52.420 um but she worked her father's group was promoting uh and uh gay conversion therapy which is something

00:09:59.720 you're not i mean this is not even a like again like forget what you think about that it's like

00:10:04.440 that is not a position you can have as a left-wing candidate in the democrat party right ever ever

00:10:10.940 right and it's like if if kevin hart for a a nothing joke 10 years ago he can't host the oscars

00:10:18.940 you're gonna the democrats are gonna elect elect a congresswoman who was for gay conversion therapy in

00:10:25.380 the 2000s in the 2000s like there's just no way i would think but her she's trying to now back off

00:10:32.140 of that of course she now says she totally disagrees with it and you should understand that she she was

00:10:36.640 won over to the viewpoint basically the same point kevin hart was making that no one gave him any benefit

00:10:41.200 of the doubt for she's trying to make here he was doing it for a joke she of course was doing it for

00:10:45.580 real she was an activist on the cause i know but she she now wants to position herself as a vice

00:10:51.120 presidential candidate which right would be great diversity lives i guess and there that is a point

00:10:56.240 to be made there's there's she doesn't even think she can be the president of the united states i think

00:11:00.340 she thinks can i be bernie sanders vp can i be uh you know let's say bernie sanders wins can

00:11:06.060 tulsi gabbard could that be the vp that's the sort of thing she's looking for hey maybe putin's looking

00:11:10.580 for a running mate that's possible too we can ask about that right same thing with julian castro

00:11:15.640 right like does anyone think you're going from the hud secretary to the president united states

00:11:19.140 i mean look we've crazier things have happened however really yeah crazier things have happened

00:11:24.720 however does anybody believe julian castro no is a dynamic enough personality to pull that one off

00:11:31.300 no my guess is no yeah so another person who's in there like if elizabeth warren were to win uh

00:11:37.960 elizabeth warren julian castro maybe joe i'm joe biden maybe you know like these there's a there's a

00:11:44.600 certain amount of people there's three different categories here i feel like you have the people who

00:11:47.380 actually think they can win there are people who are kind of going for vp and then there's the

00:11:51.520 people who are just trying to introduce themselves to you so that in the future they can run for

00:11:56.200 something big and honestly gabbard and castro are probably more in that third category than even the

00:12:00.960 second uh but it's going to be hard it's going to be an interesting road to see her try to explain

00:12:06.740 that to democrat activists all across the country hey i know i know when you were like you know like

00:12:13.840 when your kids that are now 18 when they were 10 i was working really hard against gay marriage and

00:12:20.240 for gay conversion therapy but believe me i'm now a left-wing candidate that's going to be interesting

00:12:25.200 yeah i'm not even a democratic candidate yeah i am a hardcore left-wing candidate that's going to be

00:12:31.200 an interesting pitch this is this is we we get down this is just this is a buffet we have a two-year

00:12:37.720 buffet of 20 democrat candidates all trying to kill each other and move further to the left

00:12:43.240 this is going to be a glorious buffet of candy yeah every single day you're going to wake up with

00:12:48.680 another one of these stories for the next two years where you where you where where things like

00:12:53.680 them partying on the beach half naked really it's like that small potatoes have you heard who else is

00:13:00.760 running this is the best of the glenbeck program

00:13:06.920 pat gray joins us on the glenbeck program pat what is the uh uh stew and i can't come up with the

00:13:17.720 right word when a state would take over something it's not to nationalize something is state eyes what

00:13:25.160 what what it's called to stateify state okay thank you very much you stateify the issue i think

00:13:32.040 they're going to stateify power in california have you heard oh yeah the biggest provider of

00:13:38.440 electricity and uh uh get what is it gas power and light uh in california is declared bankruptcy

00:13:46.120 you watch pgnl is it they're gonna yeah i think it is gas and electric yeah and they're gonna

00:13:50.680 stateify it are they really no that's my that's your prediction they're gonna stateify it okay i

00:13:56.440 mean is that not the perfect opportunity yeah you might as well go for it while the democrats

00:14:02.120 are getting further and further to the left right we have these candidates coming out just

00:14:06.040 i mean now casio cortez is like the celebrity of all celebrities for some reason which by the

00:14:09.880 way is the greatest thing that's ever happened to republicans hold on this story she i mean as

00:14:13.240 the they're like oh you're afraid of her are we yeah you know what if we're so afraid you

00:14:17.240 should totally put her on tv more totally it's a great idea please let's change the constitution

00:14:23.240 so she can run yes for president for that just a special exception for her and just for her and

00:14:30.360 then tulsi gabbard like i mean is this this is really who the democrats are putting out well she's

00:14:35.640 you know she's getting uh she's really getting some serious flack now because she announced over

00:14:41.640 the weekend that she's in for the for running for president and so they as you guys mentioned

00:14:47.240 a few minutes ago they've they checked into her past and her past includes uh supporting and i'm

00:14:53.000 not sure you guys said it was she was it was an anti-gay thing the only thing that i can find from

00:14:58.600 her is kind of pro-traditional marriage stuff okay uh but you can't be pro-traditional marriage

00:15:04.360 no but she was yeah she her dad was and she worked for she was working for the organization

00:15:10.840 so she was and she said some things in support of her mom who was being attacked by a gay activist

00:15:17.080 right so she sort of attacked people who were attacking her mom is that outrageous yeah how dare you

00:15:24.920 yeah that's kind of horrific person are you but she can't she cannot run if she is saying hey my

00:15:32.520 parents have a different position than me and they should they have a right to have a different

00:15:36.920 position than than i do on on gay marriage etc you can't run when 70 of your job as a democrat is to

00:15:44.200 call republicans homophobic or racist or whatever for whatever comment how can you do that when your

00:15:49.640 mom and your dad unless you're calling them are you willing to call your mom and your dad homophobic

00:15:53.400 well she can't right i mean she's not going to but she should like consistency would indicate that

00:15:59.240 she should be able to call them homophobic right silly rabbit tricks are for kids and i used to be

00:16:05.880 homophobic too i guess is what she could say and she could say it was because she's only 37 now i think

00:16:13.320 so she was 19 years old when this can we stop with all 19 you know what's so crazy is that we're talking

00:16:19.400 about this and i don't know if you've seen in chechnya there is a real issue with uh the the russians in

00:16:28.200 chechnya rounding up and disappearing torturing and killing homosexuals and the lgbt organizations

00:16:38.280 tweeted anything that's anti-gay have they tweeted anything okay well so i mean this is what we should

00:16:45.320 be talking about here in the united states if you want to talk about gay issues that's what we should

00:16:50.280 be talking about not about this stupid thing in and hawaii islamic state throwing them off of the

00:16:56.280 top of buildings no but this one is brand new now i mean that's been going on for a while this charge

00:17:02.360 now in chechnya is new um it's been going on for a while but there's new evidence that has just come

00:17:08.920 out that's stuff we never hear about either never they they don't seem to even care about any of that

00:17:13.640 it's all it's always the the focus is always on somebody's uh tweet you know and there's real

00:17:19.160 things happening right now it shows that they don't never actually cared about it right i mean

00:17:23.400 this is they were all saying that oh it's a foundational part of my belief system that gay

00:17:28.920 marriage is wrong a few years ago and as soon as the polls cross the right way and now it's favored

00:17:33.880 by the american people they're everyone who doesn't believe as they do is immoral and homophobic and it's

00:17:39.320 like none of these positions are actually their positions they're just saying whatever benefits

00:17:43.480 them at the moment so i listened to um uh andrew heaton uh on friday and his uh podcast with this

00:17:50.760 guy this author scientist that uh did a study on how we are not more polarized as a nation we think we

00:17:59.000 are but we're actually not more polarized he said we're just better sorted and that's why you see the

00:18:07.560 independence growing there are more independence than there are democrats or republicans so um it's

00:18:13.560 just that we're more sorted and most people are not all 100 but they're just not ideologues that are

00:18:21.880 like i believe in everything that that democrat says i believe in everything that republican says

00:18:27.480 they they're not like that and what happens is when we get to the election we're forced into one of these

00:18:35.000 two things you know it's either a or b a or b choose or i blow your head off and so americans have to

00:18:42.680 go that way but what's happened is it started in congress to where um congress became because of the

00:18:50.680 the districts they became so radicalized and then the party said you have to believe this or you're out

00:18:58.680 and so it's really not changed what's changed is we're better sorted now the parties have ostracized

00:19:09.080 everyone who disagrees with anything but the party line and so they've become extreme but the american

00:19:16.840 people have not well that's not true of the of the uh 30 democrats that are going to be running for

00:19:22.760 president in 2020 because you can go all the way from socialism clear to communism in that whole

00:19:29.800 spectrum the whole spectrum wow that's yeah that's so that's wide open yeah that's they got a big tent

00:19:35.400 that's one of the things that we're that's one of the things that we're trying to do at the blaze

00:19:40.040 and one of the reasons why i was so disappointed that that gavin mcinnis who by the way is going to be

00:19:44.440 on one of my podcasts uh the man that you persecuted hunted down and tried to kill nothing to do with

00:19:56.360 well i did try to kill him but i didn't have him fired um anyway um that's one of the things that i

00:20:02.520 i'm so proud of with the blaze is you can go from uh somebody who is you know right on the edge of

00:20:11.960 anarchy um but still has conservative kind of principles like libertarianism libertarian yeah

00:20:20.040 you know yeah libertarian to the extreme or you can go to the gop guy that's like no i love lindsey

00:20:27.800 graham you can go and that is a spectrum that is a spectrum and that is a spectrum that we have to

00:20:34.680 keep together because if we don't then we're part of the extremist movement in the parties we have

00:20:41.480 to be able to go yeah i disagree with that guy on this but here are the big principles that we do

00:20:46.280 agree on and we can come together on it yeah and i like hearing you know across that spectrum because

00:20:50.840 uh it's where you get challenged right like i don't get challenged by watching cnn and watching some

00:20:55.320 crazy leftist come up and say something that i you know i know it's nowhere close to my value system

00:21:00.280 but if i hear something from another conservative that has a different take on something i i find that

00:21:04.680 that to be much more interesting so proud of one of the researchers um on the economy that um is is

00:21:12.440 informing me now on some things and he wrote this morning and he said hey glenn you and i both believe

00:21:18.200 depression is coming not a recession depression but here are the two best arguments against why this is

00:21:25.480 not coming um and you know we were we were exchanging emails this morning that how important it is

00:21:33.080 that when you really truly believe something that you find continually look not for the confirmation

00:21:40.120 bias stuff but for the stuff that is constantly informing you on the other side going well wait

00:21:45.720 a minute not so fast i'd like to hear the two best reasons that it's not coming that might be a

00:21:50.040 little comforting we'll all win the lottery is never won it wasn't i didn't buy into it

00:21:54.680 you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program

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00:22:17.000 congressman uh or congressperson rashida talib's swearing in ceremony uh and a private dinner with the

00:22:24.600 the entire family uh was abbas hamida abbas has uh said things like hamas and islamic jihad in

00:22:34.840 gaza congratulate and celebrate the heroic operations carried out by hezbollah a terrorist organization

00:22:41.960 by the way jewish groups whining about removal of hamas from the eu terrorist list suck it up

00:22:49.560 um netanyahu is comparing hamas a palestinian palestinian national liberation movement to isis

00:22:57.160 uh hello a happy birthday to the most honorable arab muslim leader in our lifetime nazrallah so um

00:23:05.720 this guy is you know kind of out there on the edge and everybody's kicking up you know dust about it but is

00:23:13.640 this really any surprise coming from the new democratic party the democratic party is about

00:23:20.440 as far left as you can possibly get and out of step and here's here's where um and i really kind of

00:23:28.440 want to focus on this for a while the the parties have just become uh organizations for people's pet

00:23:40.680 projects so in other words you might you might disagree with abortion and you don't want to fund

00:23:49.400 planned parenthood well there's one organization that you can go to that's going to fight they say

00:23:54.600 to stop it and that is the republican party if you are for abortion all the way up until birth or

00:24:01.720 beyond you can go to the democratic party but that doesn't mean we're in lockstep with everything else

00:24:10.120 those are the edges of the party but those are the only things the parties are talking about

00:24:15.320 because they're super serving these hyper-political edges and they're the edges that the democrats have

00:24:24.600 gone to i think if the american democrat the voter in america really would look at what their party

00:24:33.640 has welcomed in and become they would realize they are way out of step with them as voters yeah

00:24:42.280 i mean we've been saying for years and years and years and years and i know the audience has felt

00:24:46.200 this as well the democratic party has become more and more extreme more and more liberal um

00:24:51.480 and all those times we've been saying that we now know we were right because there are extensive

00:24:57.480 studies on this now and there's a new one out talking about the split between liberals moderates

00:25:03.800 and conservatives within the democratic party and a lot of times we say like remember back you

00:25:08.840 you know in the clinton days and bill clinton meaning uh like they they were different like

00:25:14.280 they were they would make these arguments about i mean the era of small government is over that's

00:25:18.360 something that bill clinton said the a democratic president said the uh the uh big government i say

00:25:25.160 small no big the area area uh era big government is over so look back looking back now to that era

00:25:32.040 back to 1994 uh you see the split between liberals conservatives and moderates in the democratic party

00:25:39.400 in 1994 it was 25 conservative okay 25 the democratic party considered themselves conservative democrats okay

00:25:48.600 48 consider themselves moderate democrats and 25 consider themselves liberal democrats stop and think about

00:25:56.760 that just for a second an equal percentage of democrats consider themselves liberal as conservative

00:26:04.840 liberal back there back then was progressive yeah so you know progressive is what they meant back

00:26:11.480 then by saying liberal so only 25 of the democratic party would have considered themselves a progressive

00:26:18.440 yeah and you think about that that's the hardcore right those are the people who would say yeah you know what i'm all for

00:26:23.240 government health care i'm all for you know bernie sanders of the world exactly the bernie sanders group

00:26:27.480 so that was only 25 of the democratic party but there's 25 that were considered themselves to be

00:26:32.920 conservative right so that might be someone who is joe lieberman yeah joe lieberman right somebody who was

00:26:38.120 a hawk on defense maybe uh was a hawk on kind of spending for the democrats sometimes they'd be pro-life

00:26:46.200 even though they agree with big programs and stuff there was a group there at one point and that was you

00:26:51.160 you know a quarter of the party so those things have changed okay how much so conservatives who

00:26:58.440 were 25 of the democratic party now are 12 no way so more and that's even hard to believe right uh

00:27:05.240 that's that's i mean if you look at the democrats too about 12 approve of trump right like it's about

00:27:10.520 that era area so there are some people who consider themselves democrats whether this is an old

00:27:15.240 family sort of like brand that they had from back in the day and they still consider themselves

00:27:21.240 conservative now is this in the party wait wait wait is this in the party yes these are the party

00:27:25.320 this is this is the party this is not the voter these are the people in washington no this is the

00:27:29.880 this is everyone who's in the party so if you're a democrat if you are if you declare a democrat this

00:27:34.120 is who you are yes okay so you're not an independent leans democrat but a democrat a person who

00:27:38.440 and that's you know yeah i believe the country okay so from 25 to 12 that's a something to not

00:27:44.680 just brush over you've cut the people who consider themselves conservative in the party in more than

00:27:49.640 in half second is moderate now moderate was 48 of the party a full half of the party consider themselves

00:27:57.240 to be moderate democrats today it's only a third from 48 to 33 percent wow a significant drop yeah now

00:28:06.440 those two things would indicate to you that perhaps liberals have gone up and you're going to be

00:28:11.240 surprised to hear that that's true liberals which were 25 of the party back in the mid 90s

00:28:16.920 are now 51 of the party wow more than half of the party now considers themselves to be liberal and now

00:28:25.080 obviously to conservatives probably every democrat seems liberal to you but there's a different choice

00:28:29.720 of saying uh about yourself right like you're identifying yeah i'm out there right i'm

00:28:36.200 i'm as far left as you can get you're saying i am uh going for the universal health care i am going

00:28:42.040 for all these giant programs and all the tax increases and this is a casio cortez half the

00:28:46.520 party is now identifying themselves and it's interesting to see how that happens because

00:28:50.680 it happened two different ways one way is the liberal point is winning out among the democratic

00:28:56.920 people they're sitting there and they're looking well you know what we used to be yeah sure we used to be

00:29:00.680 uh we used to triangulate and we used to try to move to the middle and win voters but i don't like

00:29:04.200 that that didn't work we got to go more liberal that could be part of it right the other part of

00:29:08.520 it is though the voters who were conservative and who were moderate are leaving and are becoming

00:29:14.680 independent your 45 is not on the ocasio cortez 45 of that party are not on that train they may be

00:29:24.760 here and there on certain programs etc etc but they don't consider themselves that's a huge number inside

00:29:32.920 of the party yeah and again i think this goes to sorting stew this is why the the parties have

00:29:40.280 become more extreme but the american people haven't necessarily well no i mean this is the american

00:29:46.440 people it is the question is 45 are leaving the democratic party or would like another choice because

00:29:53.880 they're not ocasio cortez right i think the the the interesting thing to look at here and we'll know this

00:30:00.280 more as as this time goes on are these people who i think it's both i think people who were moderate

00:30:06.840 democrats before and we're in the democratic party and been there for a long time have decided we want

00:30:12.200 essentially bernie sanders but probably in a younger more attractive package right like they're saying you

00:30:17.160 know what i just don't want to deal with i i don't believe this moderate thing works anymore and they

00:30:22.280 become liberal and conservatives maybe have become moderate or liberal in that party the other thing

00:30:26.840 though is because people who were conservatives it's no longer a place to stand if you are a conservative

00:30:32.200 democrat how can you possibly belong to that organization anymore how can you possibly be

00:30:37.240 surrounded by people like ocasio cortez people who like tom perez who are saying hey uh ocasio

00:30:42.600 cortez is the future of our party and if you are pro-life we want you out right like so people are leaving

00:30:49.240 and they're becoming moderates and they may still vote for democrats but they're becoming less and less

00:30:53.240 attached to democrats because what they see there is a a growing group of the furthest left uh vote uh

00:31:03.400 voters and uh people in control getting the absolute uh grasp on the party and when it's 51 that are

00:31:13.240 liberal that's why you're seeing these candidates like uh uh you know uh tulsi gabbard think that they

00:31:19.320 can come out and be competitive so so i want you to look at something for i want i want to show you

00:31:24.520 some numbers here and show the breakdown of trump and the loss of hillary and see if you can actually

00:31:32.760 make the case with numbers you're a numbers guy but see how you can make this case this i think clarifies

00:31:39.160 a lot of the last election just that poll if you look at it and you make some uh suppositions on what

00:31:50.600 happened to the you know the democratic voter if that's who they are it explains the last election

00:31:57.880 without even going in to the republican party this is the best of the glenn beck program and don't

00:32:07.720 forget rate us on itunes talking about the the left and the right and how they they've changed so much

00:32:19.960 and part of this is too going into some of these kind of crazy policies that they do for example uh

00:32:26.040 uh california now wants to tax water they want to actually tax your drinking water and this is sort

00:32:33.720 of going on the same thing that we've seen this movement over the past few years about taxing soda

00:32:38.600 it's a sin tax right so it is bad for you you shouldn't drink it uh in theory of course i totally

00:32:43.320 disagree with that analysis but uh it's very bad for you and you shouldn't drink it so therefore we're

00:32:47.960 going to tax it philadelphia did this the first academic study about this is out now and the results

00:32:53.960 are pretty amazing first of all in philadelphia people did not cut calories as a result of the

00:33:00.280 tax on sweetened drinks they didn't shift their drinking to anything more healthy uh instead what

00:33:07.160 they did is they got in their cars and they drove across the city line and they bought all their soda

00:33:13.080 there and of course when you're buying all your soda there you're also buying your groceries there so

00:33:17.160 this is a boon to the uh uh economies outside of the border um we dealt with this when we were in

00:33:23.960 philadelphia there's a wage tax uh on in philadelphia but not in the surrounding communities

00:33:29.240 so everyone there's this one road called city line avenue and everyone builds their businesses on the

00:33:33.960 other side of city line avenue to avoid philadelphia's stupid wage tax and the reason

00:33:37.560 why it's called city line it's where the line of the city is i mean the city officially ends in the

00:33:42.840 center of that street and it is the most incredible thing it will show you the difference between free

00:33:49.080 markets and and state run heavy run heavy tax because you go down that street yep and you're driving

00:33:57.640 around and you're looking to your right which is surprisingly free market you're driving around

00:34:04.920 the circle to your right and you're looking and you're seeing prosperity you look the other way

00:34:11.000 into the city on your left and it is it's just blight there is it's crazy it is crazy it's crazy it is

00:34:19.560 the it's the best example of what uh a big progressive high tax city does to a community because it is

00:34:30.840 literally in the center of the road it's it's blight and poverty and sacks fifth avenue on the other

00:34:39.640 side amazing we're gonna get back into this democratic republican thing here in a second

00:34:42.920 but just to give you the final uh take on this study uh a we find no significant reduction in

00:34:48.520 calorie and sugar intake this is what you're it's been sold on right like that it's going to help

00:34:52.440 people not be as fat and not be as unhealthy um the tax does not lead to a shift towards uh healthier

00:34:58.120 products and most importantly again like the democrats are the working man's people right it affects low

00:35:04.120 income households more severely because they are and it is also limited in its ability to raise

00:35:09.240 revenue so obviously people are avoiding the tax so it's not raising revenue and the people hit

00:35:13.880 hardest by it are the people who don't have the cars who don't have the ability to go out of town to buy

00:35:18.120 all their stuff so they get hit with a tax over and over and over and over again the poor people who

00:35:22.040 can't leave if you're going to work on a bus amazing if you're going to work on a bus you're paying for

00:35:25.960 the tax and unfortunately you don't have the money to pay for the tax and so you just stop drinking

00:35:32.040 soda maybe or you just shift your funds someplace else and you have less money in fact they actually

00:35:40.200 showed uh that people did not switch they just wound up having to pay for it and had less money

00:35:44.520 for other things correct in fact what they showed is there was a decrease in soda sales inside of city

00:35:49.800 philadelphia however the increase in soda sales and the surrounding communities

00:35:54.200 actually made all of it back and more so overall there was an increase in soda because people you

00:36:00.760 know this is the thing like i want to avoid the soda tax i'm gonna go load up while i'm out there

00:36:04.280 so they bought more soda and they brought it back and drank more soda so if you really believe soda

00:36:09.720 so evil you actually had people consuming more of it in your city i mean it doesn't work on

00:36:15.960 any level and yet they're still trying to pop this up all over the country i'm telling you this is

00:36:21.720 what we're gonna have the problem with uh um basic minimum income income income it fails every

00:36:30.440 single time it's tried and they keep trying it one of the first experiments was richard nixon actually

00:36:35.720 here he tried it in in the united states and it failed and they banned it they just did it in finland

00:36:40.680 they had this grand experiment touted by liberals uh and progressives all over the world i think they

00:36:46.040 did it with berkeley too they did it and didn't they do it yeah they started i don't know how i haven't

00:36:50.200 seen the outcome on that one yet but finland i know failed they canceled the program i think it's

00:36:55.240 i think it failed in california as well and they've just revamped it oh no it's gonna work it doesn't

00:37:01.000 work it doesn't work and that i think that is the next the next stage is basic minimum income it's

00:37:09.960 socialism

00:37:10.600 socialism this is the best of the glenbeck program

00:37:30.760 so this next election is really important because if the economy goes down donald trump's going to have

00:37:38.120 a really hard time winning the election and unfortunately somebody who will have an easy

00:37:44.600 time winning the democratic primary will be a socialist people will run towards socialistic

00:37:52.760 properties and values if the economy is really really hurting so who are they going to run and

00:38:01.720 who's actually dangerous if they would win uh in the socialist front but also uh who could beat trump

00:38:12.120 if there is no economic disturbance that's the hard one and that's the one of the issues with thinking

00:38:18.360 of elections as a binary topic where there's just two people most of the only two people you could ever

00:38:23.560 consider um and it's a problem because it worked well i think for trump in 2016 right like people who

00:38:30.360 weren't necessarily thrilled about trump saw hillary clinton were like no uh however the the same

00:38:37.720 thing might happen in 2020 this is the risk if things go poorly because if there's only two choices

00:38:43.240 and the economy were to collapse or uh something went wrong unforeseen then you have people saying

00:38:49.800 well i don't like trump so i'll go with that other person and that other person might be an actual

00:38:55.320 socialist but if they can hide it well enough from the american people to not turn them off

00:38:59.320 they become the only other place to go the only other game in town the question is now let's just

00:39:04.280 take out the economy stuff okay let's just leave that off the table deal with that if that happens

00:39:08.920 okay um so let's say that trump goes in as healthy as he is right now okay things are things are the

00:39:15.080 same how who do you run that is left enough for the left because 51 percent of democrats now consider

00:39:25.000 themselves left liberal progressive um who do you run that is left enough for all of the the ones that

00:39:34.920 are going to get out everybody and devote but then can come back and be center enough for the rest of

00:39:43.080 america right and can i add a third uh thing you have to do survive donald trump yes because if there are

00:39:51.800 certain people uh that don't have the personality type to be able to survive donald trump i'll give

00:39:57.800 you a great example elizabeth warren elizabeth warren will get slaughtered oh my god that'll be

00:40:03.720 done in a day again if things if donald trump is about where he is now which is like low to mid 40s

00:40:09.800 approval rating he's kept his base he's kept republicans on board he's got some independence he's not overly

00:40:15.560 you know thrillingly popular but he he's got his base if we go into that next election as the uh as

00:40:23.240 the primary uh shifts it's you know kind of sifts its way out then it's going to be one-on-one and

00:40:27.960 trump is going to be able to go after that other person and do what he does best right he's going

00:40:32.040 to put pressure on them all the time he's going to they're going to have to answer rename them you're

00:40:35.800 going to rename them he's going to he's going to go after them in every speech and there's a certain

00:40:40.680 type of person elizabeth warren is this type of person that cannot handle it she can't seem

00:40:46.600 authentic she can't fake it hillary clinton had the exact same problem you know this is when hillary

00:40:52.040 was in the middle of this and she's like oh i you know what i know pokemon go to the polls like that

00:40:57.720 was her risk like this is how she dealt with it she's terrible and you know what i'm gonna get me

00:41:03.080 um a beer is has to be setting off alarm bells all over the democratic party because when he's coming

00:41:10.040 after her with all these attacks and and the way he's going to come after her and name her and and

00:41:14.360 take every position she's had and make it into this big thing and the media is going to follow it that

00:41:18.360 way all he has to do is say me smoke him one pump too uh he says that she's not gonna be able to deal

00:41:24.520 with it she's done she will not she will just shut down and become a robot and this one's already played

00:41:29.560 out right he did say those things he did say pocahontas he did call her all that and what did she do

00:41:35.240 she thought it was a good idea to do a dna test to prove she was one 1024th of native american that

00:41:41.720 was her way of handling it she has no capability to deal with the pressure of donald trump now joe

00:41:46.760 biden on the other hand is a guy who's been in these waters for a long time he's more not policy

00:41:52.920 wise but he's more trump than your average politician he can insult you he can come back

00:41:57.880 with snappy comebacks he's kind of likable end of the guy uh the bar sort of way he's kind of

00:42:02.600 and i say this i say this with as much endearment as uh as i possibly can when everybody said i like

00:42:10.040 the i like the guy down the the the end of the bar basically that's somebody who's just saying

00:42:16.200 crazy things but you know you're all thinking it you're all thinking it in the bar but he's just

00:42:21.160 saying he's willing to say it he's he's got to out crazy crazy he's we already have the guy at the

00:42:26.440 end of the bar and that's what people liked about donald trump was he was just saying it he wasn't afraid

00:42:32.120 of people like elizabeth warren who would say how dare you right do you know that the the number

00:42:39.400 of indians that died and i am one of them and how dare you even quit they're sick of that yeah they

00:42:45.560 want somebody at the end of the bar who's like shut up pocahontas yes okay that's what they want and

00:42:52.200 i think this is the most basic hurdle uh to clear for any 2020 candidate you have to be you know who else

00:42:59.240 can't do it cory booker oh my god cory booker i am spartacus that guy cannot handle the pressure

00:43:04.200 of donald trump i don't think that betto can either i think betto that would be interesting

00:43:08.680 i'm not sure i'm not sure either but there's there's there's i don't know there's too much

00:43:14.760 stagecraft in him then again i felt there was stagecraft in obama and it worked

00:43:20.200 it worked it did work although obama never had to face trump i mean obama had a a way about him

00:43:28.760 that maybe he would have been able to deal with it in a different sort of fashion than i think uh

00:43:33.400 joe biden would i mean joe biden will just start oh gosh that guy's a moron don't even worry about it

00:43:37.880 like that's the type of thing he'll say yeah obama obama you have to put put yourself back

00:43:42.680 back if obama was a conservative and obama running the first time uh i mean he was mr arugula i mean

00:43:50.200 that's all that that's all that donald trump had to say oh yeah i mean you give him the arugula guy

00:43:55.240 and he's done you're right it's one of the reasons i think talk show uh listeners like donald trump so

00:44:00.200 much because a lot of times he sounds like a talk show host he's like he sounds like a guy you'd listen

00:44:03.640 to on conservative talk radio who's just like oh these these people are a bunch of morons are totally

00:44:08.600 incompetent and they can't do anything well that's that's what that's what talk radio is

00:44:12.680 right a lot of times um you can get a lot more depth than that but i mean that that is basically

00:44:17.240 like what what what we're talking about here every day average person it's speaking the average

00:44:22.840 person's language yeah taking a a 5 000 page policy proposal and turning into something that you don't

00:44:27.640 want to hang yourself after listening right to so uh i think that's a huge hurdle so that biden is and

00:44:33.480 it's interesting i think the audience it was we've kind of you know informally polling them over the

00:44:38.120 past couple weeks of who you think can pull that off a lot of people see biden as the person who

00:44:41.960 can do it i think so too he can say maybe maybe maybe i mean nobody's done it yet no but he can say

00:44:47.320 to uh the left during the primary um i was with barack obama man you know who i am i can i can do all

00:44:54.120 these crazy liberal use the word man and i'll use the word man right which is what he does right and

00:44:58.760 he will go out there and say look i passed you know you know health care we gotta go further on that

00:45:03.480 he'll be able to convince them that he's left then he'll be able to come back to the middle and at

00:45:07.720 least attempt to get back that sort of rust belt vote that hillary lost he'll be able to say hey

00:45:13.240 i went to katie's diner that place has been closed for 30 years and it was great and i'm a blue collar

00:45:17.400 guy everyone calls me middle class joe i'm not saying he's convincing on it but he at least attempts

00:45:21.480 it where hillary didn't even attempt it and he can actually pull it off and sit with bikers

00:45:28.200 right and and and and be comfortable the bikers aren't comfortable no but he's comfortable

00:45:32.840 they feel very weird you pointed this out in the famous picture of uh joe biden creepily like

00:45:38.360 hugging and like somewhat me tooing a biker a woman who's sitting there there's another guy in the

00:45:44.920 picture and his his face is like oh my god what am i looking at he's like pissed off but i had never

00:45:50.600 noticed this before he because he looks offended like this is this is not right he's like thinking

00:45:56.520 like he's almost like royalties he's like i i how dare you do that right and then you notice his

00:46:01.240 name i don't remember it troll troll that's right he even offended a guy named troll he was president

00:46:07.720 troll on his leather jacket it did say president and underneath it said troll he pissed off for

00:46:14.520 president troll right so he's that creepy but joe biden feels comfortable remember hillary clinton got

00:46:19.800 out of her van she in a mini van right come on she was not she that's not her so she went on her her

00:46:29.960 listening to her in a van yeah trying to pretend she liked it she never embraced she should have gone

00:46:36.760 and said i don't understand fair food but i i'm digging it i mean it's not my scene but i'm digging it

00:46:42.600 she she could not do that instead she was like what i'm perfectly fine with you know deep fried snicker

00:46:49.240 bars on a stick i make these for bill all the time just shut up inauthentic is what hillary clinton

00:46:55.880 is inauthentic is what joe biden is authentic yeah take politics out of it biden is like the guy

00:47:02.920 who like sold you uh your uh your forklift and he comes to the holiday parties and he's fun and

00:47:11.240 you're like he's a salesman but i like the guy right take politics out of it that's kind of who the

00:47:15.400 guy is and he's able to pull that persona off cory booker's not doing that elizabeth warren's not

00:47:20.280 doing that um you know beto i think beto comes off i mean beto essentially is the guy who ran against

00:47:26.120 frank underwood in season four of house of cards uh where he's like good looking guy and he's uh he's

00:47:32.200 he's live streaming his dental appointments and and all of that you know stagecraft he's essentially

00:47:38.600 trying to replicate that campaign which uh i mean there's a lot that went on with that one but

00:47:43.720 didn't really work uh for multiple reasons point being though you you can't if you can't clear the

00:47:49.720 hurdle of surviving trump you you can't beat trump unless something dramatic happens with the economy

00:47:54.920 or something now here's the problem as much as joe biden can say hey i'm the barack obama guy

00:48:00.600 barack obama came out this weekend and said it's time for new blood well unless joe's getting a

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