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00:00:00.000 Hey, great podcast for you today. We talk about the Minneapolis ice shootings. I have a few

00:00:04.900 thoughts on that one. Oh, and also constitution in my pocket. Governor talked about that also

00:00:11.760 unrigging the system and rugged individualism versus warmth of collectivism. All that and more

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00:02:06.400 I want to say something really, really careful because this matters. A conversation is happening

00:02:24.900 in our country right now about housing, about corporations being able to buy homes and whether

00:02:31.740 they should be allowed to do that at all. And my first instinct is no, because the pain this is

00:02:42.560 causing and the pain is real. Young families are locked out, rents rising faster than wages,

00:02:49.620 communities hollowed out. And you have governments all around the world who are pushing for you will

00:02:57.220 own nothing and you'll like it. Meaning somebody owns everything. You're just a constant renter.

00:03:04.220 You're a surf. Yesterday, Donald Trump said we should pass a law that will ban corporations from buying

00:03:15.880 houses. And at first I was like, yes, because the problem is real. Finally, somebody is recognizing

00:03:25.280 this problem. But every libertarian bone in me went, no, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:03:33.740 Because banning ownership is not freedom. It's just not. What is the difference between Mamdani

00:03:42.200 saying you're going to have a different relationship? If you're white, you're going to have a different 0.98

00:03:47.220 relationship with ownership than you've had before because you're not going to be able to buy

00:03:52.920 things that others can buy. That's not a free society. Once you decide who can own property,

00:03:59.600 you've crossed a line that history tells us is not easily crossed back in the other direction.

00:04:08.720 But here's the part that we have to be honest with ourselves about because pretending otherwise

00:04:13.740 is honestly how we lose the country. What is happening in our country right now is not a free

00:04:22.260 market. You can look at it that way. If you squint really, really hard and lie to yourself every

00:04:28.760 day, you can go, yeah, we're a capitalist country. It's a free market. It's not. And until we admit

00:04:35.800 that, we will just put band-aids on and we will start making decisions that are not right for a free

00:04:42.200 people. We've built something entirely different from the free market. Anybody who was born in, I don't

00:04:50.340 know, past 2000, I don't think you've, I don't, you've never lived under a free market. You don't

00:04:55.460 know what it's like, especially if your first memories are from 2008 plus. The free market is

00:05:02.560 gone. Here's what a free market does. A free market, a real market, risk matters. In a real market,

00:05:13.220 price signals mean something. You can look at a corporation's paperwork and you can go, oh,

00:05:20.640 I see what's going on here. Nope. Uh, that stock's going to go down because of this X, Y, and Z.

00:05:27.780 But when X, Y, and Z show really bad news and the stock goes up, you're not in a real market. Okay.

00:05:34.220 In a real market, if you make a bad bet, you lose. But that's not what's happening. At least

00:05:43.600 not at the corporate level. Okay. That's not happening in housing. Housing has been transformed

00:05:50.360 into a financial instrument. It's not about a house for a family. It's about a financial instrument.

00:05:59.680 And this isn't by accident. This is policy. It comes from years of zero interest rates,

00:06:07.400 trillions of cheap, of cheap dollars, um, government backed mortgages, pipelines that are all

00:06:15.600 securitized, regulatory advantages that favor the size or the lawyers and the leverage that you don't

00:06:22.040 have access to. Our federal government didn't just invite wall street into, into housing.

00:06:29.680 It pulled it by the collar and said, you are doing these things because it's good for our

00:06:36.120 reelection and I'll protect you. If there's a problem, that's not a free market. So when a hedge

00:06:43.780 fund goes in and buys 10,000 single family homes competing against first time buyers,

00:06:49.580 that's not capitalism. It's not because they don't have any risk.

00:06:56.900 That's state distorted concentration of capital.

00:07:01.260 Then when the government turns around and says, you know what, this is out of control. We have to

00:07:08.240 ban ownership. That's not a solution. It'll feel good. Felt good to me yesterday when he said that. 0.99

00:07:13.940 I was like, yes, finally, it'll feel good, but it's not really a solution. That's like the state

00:07:20.360 breaking your leg and then saying, here, I got a wheelchair for you. You're the one who broke my leg. 1.00

00:07:27.880 How about we stop breaking people's legs instead of giving them wheelchairs? 1.00

00:07:33.160 The problem is not corporate ownership. The problem is privileged ownership.

00:07:42.040 The problem is when government quietly rigs the game. When, I mean, we saw this in 2008,

00:07:49.500 when a government socializes the losses and all the gains are privatized. You win, you keep the money. You

00:08:01.220 lose, I'm going to spread that to the taxpayer. That's not free market. That's rigging. When financial

00:08:08.540 instruments are guaranteed because you're large, you've got a huge system behind you, you've got a lot

00:08:17.720 of money. When, when that is guaranteed for the large and the small guy can't afford it,

00:08:25.640 then you've rigged the game again. Again, when risk is absorbed by you, but profit is captured by the

00:08:35.660 institution. That's not liberty. That's not capitalism. That's corporatism. And, you know,

00:08:44.380 people used to say, oh, the government, the republics are just for the corporations. I'm not

00:08:49.480 for the corporations. I don't like corporatism. I don't like fascism. That's a public-private

00:08:56.880 partnership. That is literally what the WEF, the World Economic Forum, and Joe Biden was talking

00:09:04.420 about in speech after speech. We're going to have a public-private partnership. That is the literal

00:09:08.840 definition of fascism. Corporatism leads to someplace really, really dark that we don't want

00:09:19.120 to go to. Once people are priced out of ownership, once property becomes something that you can only

00:09:25.940 rent from institutions. Remember, communism, the government just takes it all and they tell you

00:09:32.680 where you're going to live. And everybody gets a house, but I mean, depends on how popular you are

00:09:37.560 with the state. Okay? That's communism. Fascism is when the government gets into bed with giant

00:09:47.300 corporations and the corporations are allowed to own everything, but only under the direction of the

00:09:53.940 government. They play ball with the government. And again, in fascism, you really don't own anything.

00:10:00.880 Everybody else owns something and you don't.

00:10:03.460 Once property is something that you only rent from institutions, then you've changed the

00:10:10.700 relationship between the citizen and the state. You're no longer independent. You're no longer

00:10:16.680 rooted. You're no longer secure in anything. You're managed. And that's what we've been fighting

00:10:23.880 against. I have been. I don't want to be managed by the progressives. I don't want to be managed by the

00:10:29.420 world economic forum. I don't want to be managed by a conservative who believes people should be

00:10:34.700 managed. That's when all of the warning lights should start going off. You know, this week we

00:10:41.880 have dealt with constitutional issues over and over and over again. Sometimes they cut your way.

00:10:48.920 Sometimes they, the constitution comes in and says, no, that would be a violation. And you just can't do

00:10:54.560 that. And you're like, crap, because that's an easy solution. But that's, that's not who we are. 0.98

00:11:03.560 We're not, we're not a country that believes in easy solutions. We look for the right solution.

00:11:12.680 They're really powerful global voices who are speaking openly about a future where ownership is

00:11:19.840 obsolete, where everything is nothing but a service and where permanence is replaced with permission.

00:11:27.840 Stakeholder capitalism comes to mind. Efficiency, sustainability comes to mind. But history has

00:11:35.620 another word for that. And that is feudalism. The serfs that don't own their land, the lords of the

00:11:42.720 manor own everything. And you live at the pleasure of the lords. I am not willing to sit here and watch

00:11:51.380 or help or remain quiet. If America takes a single sleepwalk step back into feudalism, not one inch

00:12:01.480 goes that way. And especially not because you're afraid to tell the truth or you're afraid to be

00:12:07.400 unpopular, whatever. So what is the truth? Here is the truth. You don't fix a rigged market by banning

00:12:15.780 ownership. You fix it by removing the rigging. We lose, if you believe in the constitution, you lose

00:12:27.940 by denying that corporations are coming in and buying housing. And there's a, there's a shortage of

00:12:34.060 housing. And a lot of it is happening because of things that have been rigged and the government

00:12:39.800 getting into bed with all these corporations. If we deny that that's happening, we say, no, the constitution

00:12:44.620 won't allow you to do that, but you don't offer a solution. You lose because the problem is real. So how do

00:12:52.820 you fix it? One, no more government backstops for, for bulk buying of anything. No, the government

00:13:04.000 has no, there's no backstop for you. If an institution wants to buy 10,000 homes, fine, but you do it with

00:13:11.540 real rates, real risks, real consequences. You get no hidden guarantees, no taxpayer insurance,

00:13:20.940 no socialized downside. You lose, you lose, and you go out of business just like I would with one house.

00:13:28.760 Second, tax neutrality. There should be no special depreciation tricks, no accelerated write-offs,

00:13:39.800 no advantages that only exist at scale. If the average person can't get it, you shouldn't get it

00:13:47.740 because you have scale. If you rent a house, you play by the same rules. I don't care if you own one

00:13:54.780 house or 1,000 houses or 10,000 houses. And here's the big one. Third, zoning laws. We have to unleash

00:14:05.160 supply. Zoning laws, minimum lot sizes, endless environmental reviews, parking mandates, all of

00:14:14.660 this is written by, for a different century, honestly. And there are artificial constraints

00:14:21.580 that are strangling housing and protect, and protecting the incumbents. They benefit the large

00:14:29.100 and they punish the young. If supply were actually allowed to respond, hoarding wouldn't work as a

00:14:37.540 strategy. Last one, watch concentration, not ownership. Antitrusts exist for a reason. When any

00:14:51.140 entity, whether it's corporate or otherwise, begins to dominate a regional housing market, that's again

00:14:58.680 not freedom. That's control. No one can dominate that. That's antitrust. Transparency, reporting,

00:15:09.340 friction as concentration rises. Not bounds, not bands, but boundaries.

00:15:18.280 What we should be defending is really simple and non-negotiable. Property ownership must be easier

00:15:25.420 for citizens than it is for institutions, and right now it's the other way around. Not forbidden

00:15:31.680 to institutions, just no longer privileged. You shouldn't have any of these privileges. If I don't

00:15:39.040 get those privileges, you shouldn't get those privileges. And we should defend the free market,

00:15:46.320 but don't defend this because this is not the free market. And if you're defending this as the free

00:15:52.220 market, nobody who has never lived under the free market will go your way. Because this is not the

00:15:59.600 free market. This is all rigged. It's all a game, and we all know it. So don't even suggest that this

00:16:06.880 is a free market. If the left solves things by banning things and banning ownership, they'll destroy

00:16:14.880 the foundation of the republic. They'll destroy the free market. And that's not a small issue. It's not

00:16:19.920 about housing. It's whether the American experiment rooted in you, the private citizen, the private

00:16:26.780 property owner, the one who has personal sovereignty, whether that continues or not, or we just trade it

00:16:33.400 quietly away for managed comfort. The, what was it? The warmth of collectivism and permanent rent.

00:16:40.200 I won't go there. I'm glad he addressed it. I'm glad he said it has to be a law. But I won't go

00:16:51.360 there. I want laws that remove the rigging of this system. 0.99

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00:17:07.040 You know, I arrived at the studio at 5am. I'm in a great mood. It's my 26th wedding anniversary

00:17:14.180 today. In a great mood. Totally at peace with the world. Read all of the stories. Knew what was going

00:17:21.840 on? Reading it at 4am. I'm reading all the stories. Yep. Got it. Got it. Got it. And by the time the

00:17:28.860 staff started rolling in about six, I'm not stressed by the stories. I'm stressed by my own staff.

00:17:35.540 Everybody is, is so passionate about everything that is going on. Let me just say this. It's all

00:17:44.680 gonna be okay. It's all gonna be fine. It's all gonna work out. Here's how I know. Let's start with

00:17:54.120 Minnesota. Let's start with NBC. What? NBC breaks down the ice shooting in Minnesota. Normally, I would

00:18:05.320 not say let's go to NBC, but they actually did it fairly. So here they are breaking down what happened

00:18:13.040 in Minnesota in the ice incident yesterday. Listen. Stuff we were learning from the get-go.

00:18:19.220 Again, the police chief saying this vehicle was blocking the federal agents right there.

00:18:23.640 That's right, Tom. And a big caveat, we don't know what happened before this,

00:18:26.240 but they're definitely gonna look at the fact this is an unmarked vehicle, but the lights are on.

00:18:29.860 These are clearly members of law enforcement. So that's at least known to this driver.

00:18:34.000 Let's play the video because something else happens right here. Those officers approach the vehicle.

00:18:37.480 They try to open the door. Let's stop it here. How will this help the investigators?

00:18:40.880 Whatever is said here, what these officers say, if the driver said anything or not,

00:18:46.640 could really help them understand whether or not they thought there was some sort of

00:18:50.200 imminent threat. Was this person trying to listen to them? Were they scared? Or is this

00:18:54.100 gonna be a problem? And then, of course, what the driver does next. Let's play that video.

00:18:57.440 Trying to leave there. One of the officers felt like they were forced to fire, and they do.

00:19:01.660 We want to show another angle, a reverse angle of the same incident here. We're gonna freeze it.

00:19:05.660 This is that same angle here. And what does this show us, Tom?

00:19:08.320 Well, this appears to show an officer right in front of the vehicle. That and between the

00:19:12.800 way that the vehicle was moving and the timeline of that, how is the officer responding in that

00:19:17.780 split second gonna be critical for investigators?

00:19:20.220 Finally, one more piece of evidence we want to talk about here, and it is the bullet hole

00:19:23.460 in the front of the windshield. What will this tell investigators?

00:19:25.840 You look at this, you look at ballistics, you look at witness statements, you look at other video,

00:19:29.420 all gonna be part of this investigation. But, Tom, it's gonna take some time.

00:19:32.520 Okay, that's basically what happened. That's what happened yesterday. Now, it's not why it

00:19:39.020 happened, but it is what happened. Why did this happen? Well, let me give you one scenario.

00:19:47.820 One of the ICE agents, one of the agents involved, somebody had already tried to ram their car into

00:19:54.340 him at another incident. Tried to run him over because he's one of them damn ICE people. 0.99

00:20:00.880 So, if somebody's tried to run me over once before, and I'm in exactly the same kind of 0.99

00:20:09.420 situation, I don't know. I think I tend to generally think, oh, dear God, it's happening again.

00:20:17.220 Especially if it's in a split second. Okay? There's number one. Number two, if I'm an ICE officer and

00:20:24.600 I have the mayor, the governor, and everyone else, I'm gonna get to this here in just a second,

00:20:31.680 I think you're gonna love the National Guard comments that I have. If you have all of these

00:20:38.580 forces making you into the villain, A, you are on knife's edge every time you go out to do your

00:20:49.520 job. Knife's edge. You are razor sharp and, quite honestly, would be much more likely to defend

00:20:57.820 yourself than you would be if, you know, if everybody was cool. You'd see an isolated incident.

00:21:05.860 Somebody might come up, but you'd be like, okay, relax, everybody. But because everything has been

00:21:10.020 ratcheted up to ICE is the evil ICE, these guys are on edge. And they should be, because they're

00:21:18.000 constantly under attack, as are their families. Okay? Why are they? Why are they constantly under

00:21:29.460 attack? Why? Let me give you a couple of things. First, let me play cut three. No, cut two. This is

00:21:38.320 Mayor Frye. Right after the shooting, here's what he said. But I do have a message for our community,

00:21:46.600 for our city, and I have a message for ICE. To ICE, get the f*** out of Minneapolis. 0.98

00:21:56.580 We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, 0.99

00:22:03.920 and you are doing exactly the opposite. Hmm. Okay. Now, can I ask you,

00:22:11.420 what else is going on in Minneapolis? They're going, they're going into the Somali community.

00:22:19.140 Why Somali? Somali, Somali, Somali. Is that in other news? Oh, yes, that's right. The biggest scandal 1.00

00:22:25.440 of the state and possibly the biggest heist of taxpayer money in the history of our country is going on

00:22:32.540 in the Somali community. Who are the most likely, you know, Tim Walsh said some white people better

00:22:38.920 go to jail. Oh, I know two white people that probably will go to jail. The governor and the

00:22:45.200 mayor. So do they have any incentive at all to make the federal government into the bad guy?

00:22:53.300 Absolutely. Beyond just the fact that that's what Democrats do, I guess now, is you just make the

00:23:00.260 federal government. I thought we were the ones that hated the federal government. No, no, no.

00:23:04.180 We've never hated the federal government. We hate the federal government out of control.

00:23:10.560 We hate the federal government when it is being unconstitutional.

00:23:15.340 We do not hate the federal government. Anarchists, communists, people who are trying to actively

00:23:22.760 overthrow our government by causing chaos in our streets. They hate the federal government.

00:23:31.400 To me, that sounds like Democratic Socialists of America. Sounds like the people who are really

00:23:37.840 in charge. Not necessarily the voters, but the people who actually have been duped and believe

00:23:45.100 that the Democrats actually care about the Constitution are not trying to overthrow things.

00:23:49.300 So, Tim Walsh comes out. After saying, get the F out of the city from the mayor, the governor

00:24:01.780 comes out. And the government makes a statement saying that, let me see if I have it here.

00:24:12.200 Where? Ah, shoot. Where is it? At the top. Here it is. Here it is. No, it's not. At the

00:24:21.360 very top of this? Yeah, Minnesota. Okay. Oh, here. Here he said. I actually want the whole

00:24:31.340 statement. I don't have it. I said yesterday, we're at war with our federal government. We're

00:24:38.700 at war with our federal government. We do not need any further help from the federal government.

00:24:46.120 To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you've done enough. There's nothing more important than

00:24:51.300 Minnesotans' safety. I have issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard.

00:24:59.680 We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary. I remind you, a warning

00:25:08.980 order is a heads up for folks. A heads up for who? A heads up for who? There is no other

00:25:20.020 way to read this other than, I am training our National Guard to stand up against our federal

00:25:27.720 government. Gang, this is the beginning of a civil war unless everybody remains calm and

00:25:40.080 does the constitutional thing. So when this happened yesterday, I wanted to reach out to some friends

00:25:46.800 who know the Constitution and ask them, how does the National Guard actually work?

00:26:01.160 A governor cannot block the Department of Justice in any criminal investigation. The governor cannot

00:26:11.440 block the Department of Homeland Security enforcement action. A governor cannot block immigration and

00:26:19.120 customs enforcement deportations carried out under federal statute. Federal authority in these areas

00:26:25.640 come directly from what's called the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. It means the federal law

00:26:33.820 law is supreme over what the governor says and what the state law is. State consent for federal law

00:26:42.580 enforcement is not required. So when a governor says, we don't need any further help from the federal

00:26:48.560 government, that's all political. There's nothing legal in that. Nothing. Now, a governor can refuse

00:26:56.820 cooperation, but it can't interfere. A governor can say, we declined to assist federal agents. They can do

00:27:04.100 that. I don't like it, but they can. They can withdraw all state resources, not against the Constitution.

00:27:10.780 They can instruct state agencies, you're not to participate. A governor can do that. But a governor

00:27:18.080 cannot obstruct any federal officers. Cannot threaten force to stop federal investigations. Use state military

00:27:29.940 assets to interfere with federal law enforcement. Cannot do that. And the moment the governor crosses this line

00:27:38.220 from non-cooperation to interference, they've just violated the Constitution and put us on the edge of a

00:27:46.300 constitutional crisis or civil war. Using the National Guard as a warning is the brightest red line you can

00:27:57.500 find because there is no authority in the Constitution. In fact, the Constitution talks specifically about

00:28:06.280 this and what he's trying to do. I've issued a warning to prepare Minnesota National Guard prepared to be

00:28:13.500 deployed if necessary. Once the governor said that, everything has to change. The Minnesota Guard,

00:28:19.520 the National Guard, is a state force under the governor, unless it's been federalized.

00:28:28.440 But it cannot ever be used to obstruct federal officers. The reason why Trump could call on the National

00:28:36.500 Guard in California is because he was using them to protect federal officers. It can be nationalized by the

00:28:46.720 president if the state cannot protect the federal investigations or federal officers. That's the only way he can

00:28:54.880 just take control and say, nope, I'm calling up the National Guard and they're under my orders now and they have

00:29:01.020 nothing to do with the governor. He can call it up and nationalize them to protect federal officers carrying

00:29:08.760 out federal law. That's the only way it can happen. That's why Donald Trump, they could cry a river that he

00:29:15.200 was violating the Constitution, but he wasn't. That's why they lost every time in court because that's the

00:29:22.600 Constitution. That's what the National Guard is allowed to do, protect federal officers. Here's what they

00:29:30.080 can't do. They can't obstruct federal officers. They can't enforce state political objections against

00:29:36.400 the federal law. They cannot deploy or be threatened to deploy against DOJ, DHS, or ICE because that

00:29:46.240 violates the Supremacy Clause. Also, posse comitatus. If they are deployed as police officers,

00:30:00.080 if they are deployed to go against federal law enforcement, posse comitatus comes in. Also, federal criminal charges

00:30:10.880 come in of obstruction of justice. So, it's not an issue of state rights. Once he says, I'm threatening to use the

00:30:19.720 National Guard, that's constitutional defiance. Now, what does the federal government, what should our response be from the

00:30:28.180 federal government? Federal authority continues anyway, doesn't matter what the state does. Investigations and

00:30:36.040 deportations need to proceed, no matter what the governor says. Okay, whatever. Federalization of the Guard does

00:30:44.380 become an option. I don't like it, but if it has to be done, then it has to be done. The president can do it, stripping

00:30:52.400 the governor of command if he's threatening to use it illegally or not protecting the federal officers.

00:31:01.600 The third thing that we have an option is obstruction consequences. Federal injunctions, contempt of court,

00:31:10.180 criminal exposure for obstruction. This all has precedent and it should be considered.

00:31:16.600 Now, here's what Walsh is actually doing. He's not going to call up the National Guard and do that

00:31:23.880 because he knows he'll go to jail and he's avoiding, he's trying to avoid going to jail. That's why he and

00:31:32.500 the mayor are doing this, because of all of the corruption in Minnesota. This has nothing to do,

00:31:39.380 do you think they're doing this because they're protecting the Somali citizens? That's what they're

00:31:43.920 saying, but they have been involving Somali citizens knowingly in deep corruption and they also know I 0.88

00:31:55.680 can never be elected here if I don't look strong on the Somalis. If we don't change the flag in 0.99

00:32:02.420 Minnesota to look like the Somalian flag, I can't be governor anymore. Okay, what he's actually calling

00:32:09.220 up is not the National Guard. He is calling up the Democratic National Guard. He is calling up

00:32:17.220 the, honestly, he is calling on people like Nicole Renee Good. He is trying to get people who are so

00:32:30.740 zombie-like on the Democratic side to go up and put their bodies in and to obstruct. He's using them

00:32:41.720 as soldiers. That's not just unconstitutional on the National Guard side. That is just morally

00:32:50.080 reprehensible. You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more? Check out the full show

00:32:55.820 podcasts anywhere you download podcasts. So what were you born to do? I can't tell you, I can't tell

00:33:04.360 you what your calling is, you know, what specific skill you have. That's for you to decide. But I can

00:33:09.460 tell you that you were born to act and not be acted upon. I want to, I want to get to the warmth of

00:33:17.360 collectivism. I want to get to what, why are these things happening so rapidly in Washington and, and

00:33:29.080 mountains being moved. And it all comes down to being somebody who acts or somebody who has acted upon.

00:33:37.900 So many of us have so many doubts that run through our head. And we believe things that are not true,

00:33:48.160 but we believe them. I'm going to say something that I probably shouldn't say on the air. But

00:33:56.160 I wrestle hard with a belief that I truly believe is real. And no one that I know believes is.

00:34:09.560 And that is that I'm a bad father.

00:34:14.700 And I have my own reasons for believing that. But my children say that's not true. My wife says that's

00:34:20.420 not true. My family, you know, my friends say that's not true. But I believe it. Why? Why do I

00:34:26.620 believe that? And I bet that you have something that you believe is absolutely true. I'm ugly. I'm not

00:34:34.620 talented. I'm a failure, whatever it is. I want you to ask yourself,

00:34:39.980 who's teaching you that?

00:34:49.380 I believe I'm the one. I'm the one teaching me that lie. Nobody's ever said that to me.

00:34:57.300 It's been one of my big fears since I was a kid. And, you know, cats in the cradle song. My mother

00:35:06.660 used to say, listen to this song. As a kid, that wasn't really healthy, mom. Thank you.

00:35:13.040 But that's, I think that's where it came from. And now I'm saying it to me. Why? You know,

00:35:21.120 so much stuff is subjective. Like I'm ugly. That's pretty subjective. 0.61

00:35:29.640 Why? Why would you choose to believe that instead of I'm a pretty good looking guy?

00:35:36.660 Because we always seem to choose the negative. We dwell on the negative. I mean, look at what's

00:35:43.560 popular in social media. Negative. Why? Why don't good things, inspirational things, things that

00:35:51.800 uplift and empower, why don't those, why aren't those the things we grab onto?

00:35:56.880 Because everything that we think we have a choice on. What is the difference between Donald Trump and

00:36:08.380 Joe Biden? I mean, lots of differences, but fundamentally.

00:36:12.540 One, I believe truly is a victim. I've never seen anybody victimized as much as this guy. But if I

00:36:25.060 went up to Donald Trump and said, dude, you're a victim, I, he might punch me in the face because 0.59

00:36:30.600 that is not the way he sees himself. He is not a victim. They have tried everything to victimize and

00:36:37.720 stop him. And yet he has chosen who he is. And victim is not part of that.

00:36:45.520 And so by believing that and speaking those things and speaking the truth that I'm a powerful guy,

00:36:52.700 I'm a smart guy, I'm a powerful guy, I am a guy who gets things done, I'm a businessman and I'm a good

00:36:57.980 businessman. He has spoken that into reality and that's what's happening. And in believing that he's not a

00:37:05.820 victim, he's teaching others, don't be a victim. Where I think Joe Biden

00:37:12.040 saw himself as a victim of the system. I've put in my time in the system and they tried to,

00:37:22.600 they tried to thwart me and not give me this because they wanted to give it to Barack Obama

00:37:27.080 and it was my turn. And then I had to make a deal with Hillary Clinton and I, and he was a victim his

00:37:32.540 whole life and he was playing the game so he could get, he believed in the warmth of collectivism.

00:37:37.980 I can't do it myself. I got to tell you, you could put Donald Trump alone, absolutely alone.

00:37:44.920 And that guy is going to figure out a way to get it done. No matter what the odds are, you put somebody

00:37:50.940 like Joe Biden in, if he doesn't have somebody that he can, you know, wheel and deal with, I don't think

00:37:58.960 he's going to get it done. And because he believes those kinds of things, because of what he believes,

00:38:06.580 he puts into words and actions and he's teaching and taught people, you're a victim.

00:38:11.800 The power only belongs in the hands of the collective. Okay. And that's, that's what we're

00:38:18.700 really facing right now. Bom Donnie said, I'm glad he said what he said, that we are going

00:38:26.280 to replace, what did he say? Rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism, because that

00:38:33.080 is the honest choice that we're facing right now. But I want to show you how one instantly

00:38:39.900 leads to failure. Because your words have real power. Whatever it is you tell yourself, it will

00:38:49.200 become. You at least will believe it. If you keep speaking it into existence, you at least will believe

00:38:57.000 it. And most likely you'll create that. So let's talk about these two phrases. Rugged individualism.

00:39:04.760 What does rugged individualism or rugged, just rugged, what does that imply? When you hear the word

00:39:12.320 rugged, it implies, oh, geez, there's going to be struggle. I got to be tough. No, he's going to be

00:39:21.960 helping me out. I got responsibility. Oh, toughen up, Jack. That's what rugged means. What does warmth

00:39:33.760 say to you say to you? The warmth? Warmth shows you you're loved. We're going to hug you. You know

00:39:44.160 what? Sit here by the fire. I'm going to get a blanket for you. I'm going to put it around your

00:39:47.560 shoulders. Ease. Okay. You've worked so hard. You just sit down. I'm going to, can I get you some

00:39:55.800 cocoa? That's what warmth leads you to believe. Okay. Rugged is for people who act. Warmth is for

00:40:09.400 people who want to be acted upon. Can somebody bring me a blanket? Rugged, they're not asking for

00:40:18.060 anybody to bring a blanket. They know they have to go get the blanket. Reason why I started this with

00:40:26.200 why were you born? I can tell you everyone on earth was born to act. That's why you have free

00:40:35.560 will. You were born to act, not to be acted upon. Can somebody get me a blanket? Warmth of collectivism.

00:40:45.240 I got to go get the blanket myself. It's my responsibility. Rugged individualism.

00:41:00.680 One is about comfort, warmth of collectivism. Don't you, when you hear that, don't you think

00:41:07.520 of a blanket? Don't you think of us sitting by a fire or somebody just holding you and just

00:41:11.860 I have a warmth of color. We're all going to just hug you. Rugged individualism always makes me think

00:41:17.860 of, yeah, those were the guys who, you know, cross the mountains, right? One was growing and pushing.

00:41:26.180 The other one is sitting down and relaxing by the fire. America has always been the one who pushes. 0.97

00:41:33.160 And there's one thing about growth that is absolutely true. There is no growth in comfort.

00:41:43.660 And there is no comfort in growth. When you are working out at a gym, last night I hugged my wife

00:41:52.280 and she was like, ow, ow. And I'm like, what, what, what happened? Are you okay? And she's like, yeah,

00:41:57.800 no, no, my arms are really sore. I've been working out all day. And I'm like, ah, yeah,

00:42:03.100 that's why I don't work out on him. My arms never hurt. But she says the same thing. And I can't

00:42:08.820 testify. This is true. I've heard this from everybody who works out, but I've never worked

00:42:11.940 out a day in my life, which is why I'll be dead probably in about 10 minutes. But she said to me

00:42:19.400 just last week, she was not feeling well. She was like in a mood. And I said, are you okay? And she said,

00:42:25.120 yeah, I'm just, I just don't feel good. And I said, mentally, physically. And she said like,

00:42:30.600 mentally, I'm just, I don't feel good right now. And then she paused for a minute and she said,

00:42:35.820 and I think it's because I haven't worked out in two weeks because we were on vacation. Well,

00:42:39.960 I haven't worked out in two weeks. I'm thinking I haven't worked out my entire life and that's why

00:42:45.140 I feel good. Okay. But everybody I know that works out, they always say two things and they're

00:42:51.660 supposedly diametrically opposed. Ow, I hurt. Ow, my legs really hurt. And then they always follow

00:42:59.620 it with, I feel great though because I worked out today. It's true. It is true. You feel better.

00:43:10.000 And let me take it out of front of the word. For those of you who are slugs like me and don't work 0.97

00:43:13.840 out. Let me change this. I believe growth is our natural state. And remember, there is no comfort 0.98

00:43:24.320 in growth and no growth in comfort. Growth is our natural state. And it's why you feel good after

00:43:33.240 you've put in a hard day's work, after you've accomplished something yourself, you learn something

00:43:39.900 new and you pushed yourself and you went past beyond where you thought you were going to

00:43:44.180 be. You feel good about it. Just like you're working out. You feel good about it because growth

00:43:49.260 is what you were born to do. Comfort is a human desire. It's not what you were born to do. It's a human

00:44:01.820 desire. So which do you want? Were you born to get everything you desire and you'll end up

00:44:18.620 feeling worthless in the end? Or were you born to grow? The reason why I'm bringing this up

00:44:28.180 is I felt optimistic this week. And that's such an unusual place for me to be. I felt really optimistic

00:44:41.920 this week. And I've wanted to make sure, is this real or is this a high because things are, what am I

00:44:50.820 actually thinking? Because I have to think these things because I have to share my thoughts with you.

00:44:55.340 And so I want to make sure I'm not just feeling like, wow, I feel good about this policy. And it's

00:45:02.820 not right. It's not real. It's just a high. And this week, I think we've had real growth and it's

00:45:11.500 hard growth. It's hard growth. We had to debate constitutional questions this week. And I feel

00:45:20.960 good because I feel like we've taken the right steps and the hard and scary steps as a nation,

00:45:26.280 but they're the right steps to repair us long-term. And so I think that's what I feel good about.

00:45:37.360 But I want to bring you back to Donald Trump.

00:45:41.240 What was one of the first things he said when he was sworn into office? One of the first things he

00:45:47.800 talked about, what was one of the first things he talked about? And it seemed nuts at the time,

00:45:54.140 and we're still talking about it. And I'm telling you, it's going to happen. I don't know how,

00:45:58.000 but it's going to happen. And it's something that's been around for a hundred years. I never talked

00:46:03.840 about it before, but people in the people in, you know, I don't know, think tanks or whatever been

00:46:09.700 talking about for a hundred years. I have never uttered those words before. And I think it's going to

00:46:16.280 happen because he believes it.

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