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On today's episode of the Glenn Beck Show, Glenn talks about the Minneapolis Ice shootings, the Constitution, and the need to have a free market in real estate. He also talks about unrigging the system, and rugged individualism versus warmth of collectivism.
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Hey, great podcast for you today. We talk about the Minneapolis ice shootings. I have a few
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thoughts on that one. Oh, and also constitution in my pocket. Governor talked about that also
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unrigging the system and rugged individualism versus warmth of collectivism. All that and more
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I want to say something really, really careful because this matters. A conversation is happening
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in our country right now about housing, about corporations being able to buy homes and whether
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they should be allowed to do that at all. And my first instinct is no, because the pain this is
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causing and the pain is real. Young families are locked out, rents rising faster than wages,
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communities hollowed out. And you have governments all around the world who are pushing for you will
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own nothing and you'll like it. Meaning somebody owns everything. You're just a constant renter.
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You're a surf. Yesterday, Donald Trump said we should pass a law that will ban corporations from buying
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houses. And at first I was like, yes, because the problem is real. Finally, somebody is recognizing
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this problem. But every libertarian bone in me went, no, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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Because banning ownership is not freedom. It's just not. What is the difference between Mamdani
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saying you're going to have a different relationship? If you're white, you're going to have a different
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relationship with ownership than you've had before because you're not going to be able to buy
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things that others can buy. That's not a free society. Once you decide who can own property,
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you've crossed a line that history tells us is not easily crossed back in the other direction.
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But here's the part that we have to be honest with ourselves about because pretending otherwise
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is honestly how we lose the country. What is happening in our country right now is not a free
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market. You can look at it that way. If you squint really, really hard and lie to yourself every
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day, you can go, yeah, we're a capitalist country. It's a free market. It's not. And until we admit
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that, we will just put band-aids on and we will start making decisions that are not right for a free
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people. We've built something entirely different from the free market. Anybody who was born in, I don't
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know, past 2000, I don't think you've, I don't, you've never lived under a free market. You don't
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know what it's like, especially if your first memories are from 2008 plus. The free market is
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gone. Here's what a free market does. A free market, a real market, risk matters. In a real market,
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price signals mean something. You can look at a corporation's paperwork and you can go, oh,
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I see what's going on here. Nope. Uh, that stock's going to go down because of this X, Y, and Z.
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But when X, Y, and Z show really bad news and the stock goes up, you're not in a real market. Okay.
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In a real market, if you make a bad bet, you lose. But that's not what's happening. At least
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not at the corporate level. Okay. That's not happening in housing. Housing has been transformed
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into a financial instrument. It's not about a house for a family. It's about a financial instrument.
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And this isn't by accident. This is policy. It comes from years of zero interest rates,
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trillions of cheap, of cheap dollars, um, government backed mortgages, pipelines that are all
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securitized, regulatory advantages that favor the size or the lawyers and the leverage that you don't
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have access to. Our federal government didn't just invite wall street into, into housing.
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It pulled it by the collar and said, you are doing these things because it's good for our
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reelection and I'll protect you. If there's a problem, that's not a free market. So when a hedge
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fund goes in and buys 10,000 single family homes competing against first time buyers,
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that's not capitalism. It's not because they don't have any risk.
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That's state distorted concentration of capital.
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Then when the government turns around and says, you know what, this is out of control. We have to
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ban ownership. That's not a solution. It'll feel good. Felt good to me yesterday when he said that.
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I was like, yes, finally, it'll feel good, but it's not really a solution. That's like the state
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breaking your leg and then saying, here, I got a wheelchair for you. You're the one who broke my leg.
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How about we stop breaking people's legs instead of giving them wheelchairs?
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The problem is not corporate ownership. The problem is privileged ownership.
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The problem is when government quietly rigs the game. When, I mean, we saw this in 2008,
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when a government socializes the losses and all the gains are privatized. You win, you keep the money. You
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lose, I'm going to spread that to the taxpayer. That's not free market. That's rigging. When financial
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instruments are guaranteed because you're large, you've got a huge system behind you, you've got a lot
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of money. When, when that is guaranteed for the large and the small guy can't afford it,
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then you've rigged the game again. Again, when risk is absorbed by you, but profit is captured by the
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institution. That's not liberty. That's not capitalism. That's corporatism. And, you know,
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people used to say, oh, the government, the republics are just for the corporations. I'm not
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for the corporations. I don't like corporatism. I don't like fascism. That's a public-private
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partnership. That is literally what the WEF, the World Economic Forum, and Joe Biden was talking
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about in speech after speech. We're going to have a public-private partnership. That is the literal
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definition of fascism. Corporatism leads to someplace really, really dark that we don't want
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to go to. Once people are priced out of ownership, once property becomes something that you can only
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rent from institutions. Remember, communism, the government just takes it all and they tell you
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where you're going to live. And everybody gets a house, but I mean, depends on how popular you are
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with the state. Okay? That's communism. Fascism is when the government gets into bed with giant
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corporations and the corporations are allowed to own everything, but only under the direction of the
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government. They play ball with the government. And again, in fascism, you really don't own anything.
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Once property is something that you only rent from institutions, then you've changed the
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relationship between the citizen and the state. You're no longer independent. You're no longer
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rooted. You're no longer secure in anything. You're managed. And that's what we've been fighting
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against. I have been. I don't want to be managed by the progressives. I don't want to be managed by the
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world economic forum. I don't want to be managed by a conservative who believes people should be
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managed. That's when all of the warning lights should start going off. You know, this week we
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have dealt with constitutional issues over and over and over again. Sometimes they cut your way.
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Sometimes they, the constitution comes in and says, no, that would be a violation. And you just can't do
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that. And you're like, crap, because that's an easy solution. But that's, that's not who we are.
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We're not, we're not a country that believes in easy solutions. We look for the right solution.
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They're really powerful global voices who are speaking openly about a future where ownership is
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obsolete, where everything is nothing but a service and where permanence is replaced with permission.
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Stakeholder capitalism comes to mind. Efficiency, sustainability comes to mind. But history has
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another word for that. And that is feudalism. The serfs that don't own their land, the lords of the
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manor own everything. And you live at the pleasure of the lords. I am not willing to sit here and watch
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or help or remain quiet. If America takes a single sleepwalk step back into feudalism, not one inch
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goes that way. And especially not because you're afraid to tell the truth or you're afraid to be
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unpopular, whatever. So what is the truth? Here is the truth. You don't fix a rigged market by banning
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ownership. You fix it by removing the rigging. We lose, if you believe in the constitution, you lose
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by denying that corporations are coming in and buying housing. And there's a, there's a shortage of
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housing. And a lot of it is happening because of things that have been rigged and the government
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getting into bed with all these corporations. If we deny that that's happening, we say, no, the constitution
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won't allow you to do that, but you don't offer a solution. You lose because the problem is real. So how do
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you fix it? One, no more government backstops for, for bulk buying of anything. No, the government
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has no, there's no backstop for you. If an institution wants to buy 10,000 homes, fine, but you do it with
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real rates, real risks, real consequences. You get no hidden guarantees, no taxpayer insurance,
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no socialized downside. You lose, you lose, and you go out of business just like I would with one house.
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Second, tax neutrality. There should be no special depreciation tricks, no accelerated write-offs,
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no advantages that only exist at scale. If the average person can't get it, you shouldn't get it
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because you have scale. If you rent a house, you play by the same rules. I don't care if you own one
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house or 1,000 houses or 10,000 houses. And here's the big one. Third, zoning laws. We have to unleash
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supply. Zoning laws, minimum lot sizes, endless environmental reviews, parking mandates, all of
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this is written by, for a different century, honestly. And there are artificial constraints
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that are strangling housing and protect, and protecting the incumbents. They benefit the large
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and they punish the young. If supply were actually allowed to respond, hoarding wouldn't work as a
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strategy. Last one, watch concentration, not ownership. Antitrusts exist for a reason. When any
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entity, whether it's corporate or otherwise, begins to dominate a regional housing market, that's again
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not freedom. That's control. No one can dominate that. That's antitrust. Transparency, reporting,
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friction as concentration rises. Not bounds, not bands, but boundaries.
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What we should be defending is really simple and non-negotiable. Property ownership must be easier
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for citizens than it is for institutions, and right now it's the other way around. Not forbidden
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to institutions, just no longer privileged. You shouldn't have any of these privileges. If I don't
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get those privileges, you shouldn't get those privileges. And we should defend the free market,
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but don't defend this because this is not the free market. And if you're defending this as the free
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market, nobody who has never lived under the free market will go your way. Because this is not the
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free market. This is all rigged. It's all a game, and we all know it. So don't even suggest that this
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is a free market. If the left solves things by banning things and banning ownership, they'll destroy
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the foundation of the republic. They'll destroy the free market. And that's not a small issue. It's not
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about housing. It's whether the American experiment rooted in you, the private citizen, the private
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property owner, the one who has personal sovereignty, whether that continues or not, or we just trade it
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quietly away for managed comfort. The, what was it? The warmth of collectivism and permanent rent.
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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
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there. I want laws that remove the rigging of this system.
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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes.
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You know, I arrived at the studio at 5am. I'm in a great mood. It's my 26th wedding anniversary
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today. In a great mood. Totally at peace with the world. Read all of the stories. Knew what was going
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on? Reading it at 4am. I'm reading all the stories. Yep. Got it. Got it. Got it. And by the time the
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staff started rolling in about six, I'm not stressed by the stories. I'm stressed by my own staff.
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Everybody is, is so passionate about everything that is going on. Let me just say this. It's all
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gonna be okay. It's all gonna be fine. It's all gonna work out. Here's how I know. Let's start with
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Minnesota. Let's start with NBC. What? NBC breaks down the ice shooting in Minnesota. Normally, I would
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not say let's go to NBC, but they actually did it fairly. So here they are breaking down what happened
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in Minnesota in the ice incident yesterday. Listen. Stuff we were learning from the get-go.
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Again, the police chief saying this vehicle was blocking the federal agents right there.
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That's right, Tom. And a big caveat, we don't know what happened before this,
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but they're definitely gonna look at the fact this is an unmarked vehicle, but the lights are on.
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These are clearly members of law enforcement. So that's at least known to this driver.
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Let's play the video because something else happens right here. Those officers approach the vehicle.
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They try to open the door. Let's stop it here. How will this help the investigators?
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Whatever is said here, what these officers say, if the driver said anything or not,
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could really help them understand whether or not they thought there was some sort of
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imminent threat. Was this person trying to listen to them? Were they scared? Or is this
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gonna be a problem? And then, of course, what the driver does next. Let's play that video.
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Trying to leave there. One of the officers felt like they were forced to fire, and they do.
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We want to show another angle, a reverse angle of the same incident here. We're gonna freeze it.
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This is that same angle here. And what does this show us, Tom?
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Well, this appears to show an officer right in front of the vehicle. That and between the
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way that the vehicle was moving and the timeline of that, how is the officer responding in that
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split second gonna be critical for investigators?
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Finally, one more piece of evidence we want to talk about here, and it is the bullet hole
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in the front of the windshield. What will this tell investigators?
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You look at this, you look at ballistics, you look at witness statements, you look at other video,
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all gonna be part of this investigation. But, Tom, it's gonna take some time.
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Okay, that's basically what happened. That's what happened yesterday. Now, it's not why it
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happened, but it is what happened. Why did this happen? Well, let me give you one scenario.
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One of the ICE agents, one of the agents involved, somebody had already tried to ram their car into
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him at another incident. Tried to run him over because he's one of them damn ICE people.
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So, if somebody's tried to run me over once before, and I'm in exactly the same kind of
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situation, I don't know. I think I tend to generally think, oh, dear God, it's happening again.
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Especially if it's in a split second. Okay? There's number one. Number two, if I'm an ICE officer and
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I have the mayor, the governor, and everyone else, I'm gonna get to this here in just a second,
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I think you're gonna love the National Guard comments that I have. If you have all of these
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forces making you into the villain, A, you are on knife's edge every time you go out to do your
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job. Knife's edge. You are razor sharp and, quite honestly, would be much more likely to defend
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yourself than you would be if, you know, if everybody was cool. You'd see an isolated incident.
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Somebody might come up, but you'd be like, okay, relax, everybody. But because everything has been
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ratcheted up to ICE is the evil ICE, these guys are on edge. And they should be, because they're
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constantly under attack, as are their families. Okay? Why are they? Why are they constantly under
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attack? Why? Let me give you a couple of things. First, let me play cut three. No, cut two. This is
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Mayor Frye. Right after the shooting, here's what he said. But I do have a message for our community,
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for our city, and I have a message for ICE. To ICE, get the f*** out of Minneapolis.
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We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety,
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and you are doing exactly the opposite. Hmm. Okay. Now, can I ask you,
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what else is going on in Minneapolis? They're going, they're going into the Somali community.
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Why Somali? Somali, Somali, Somali. Is that in other news? Oh, yes, that's right. The biggest scandal
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of the state and possibly the biggest heist of taxpayer money in the history of our country is going on
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in the Somali community. Who are the most likely, you know, Tim Walsh said some white people better
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go to jail. Oh, I know two white people that probably will go to jail. The governor and the
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mayor. So do they have any incentive at all to make the federal government into the bad guy?
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Absolutely. Beyond just the fact that that's what Democrats do, I guess now, is you just make the
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federal government. I thought we were the ones that hated the federal government. No, no, no.
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We've never hated the federal government. We hate the federal government out of control.
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We hate the federal government when it is being unconstitutional.
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We do not hate the federal government. Anarchists, communists, people who are trying to actively
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overthrow our government by causing chaos in our streets. They hate the federal government.
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To me, that sounds like Democratic Socialists of America. Sounds like the people who are really
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in charge. Not necessarily the voters, but the people who actually have been duped and believe
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that the Democrats actually care about the Constitution are not trying to overthrow things.
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So, Tim Walsh comes out. After saying, get the F out of the city from the mayor, the governor
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comes out. And the government makes a statement saying that, let me see if I have it here.
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Where? Ah, shoot. Where is it? At the top. Here it is. Here it is. No, it's not. At the
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very top of this? Yeah, Minnesota. Okay. Oh, here. Here he said. I actually want the whole
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statement. I don't have it. I said yesterday, we're at war with our federal government. We're
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at war with our federal government. We do not need any further help from the federal government.
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To Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, you've done enough. There's nothing more important than
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Minnesotans' safety. I have issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard.
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We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary. I remind you, a warning
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order is a heads up for folks. A heads up for who? A heads up for who? There is no other
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way to read this other than, I am training our National Guard to stand up against our federal
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government. Gang, this is the beginning of a civil war unless everybody remains calm and
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does the constitutional thing. So when this happened yesterday, I wanted to reach out to some friends
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who know the Constitution and ask them, how does the National Guard actually work?
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A governor cannot block the Department of Justice in any criminal investigation. The governor cannot
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block the Department of Homeland Security enforcement action. A governor cannot block immigration and
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customs enforcement deportations carried out under federal statute. Federal authority in these areas
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come directly from what's called the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. It means the federal law
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law is supreme over what the governor says and what the state law is. State consent for federal law
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enforcement is not required. So when a governor says, we don't need any further help from the federal
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government, that's all political. There's nothing legal in that. Nothing. Now, a governor can refuse
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cooperation, but it can't interfere. A governor can say, we declined to assist federal agents. They can do
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that. I don't like it, but they can. They can withdraw all state resources, not against the Constitution.
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They can instruct state agencies, you're not to participate. A governor can do that. But a governor
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cannot obstruct any federal officers. Cannot threaten force to stop federal investigations. Use state military
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assets to interfere with federal law enforcement. Cannot do that. And the moment the governor crosses this line
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from non-cooperation to interference, they've just violated the Constitution and put us on the edge of a
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constitutional crisis or civil war. Using the National Guard as a warning is the brightest red line you can
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find because there is no authority in the Constitution. In fact, the Constitution talks specifically about
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this and what he's trying to do. I've issued a warning to prepare Minnesota National Guard prepared to be
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deployed if necessary. Once the governor said that, everything has to change. The Minnesota Guard,
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the National Guard, is a state force under the governor, unless it's been federalized.
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But it cannot ever be used to obstruct federal officers. The reason why Trump could call on the National
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Guard in California is because he was using them to protect federal officers. It can be nationalized by the
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president if the state cannot protect the federal investigations or federal officers. That's the only way he can
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just take control and say, nope, I'm calling up the National Guard and they're under my orders now and they have
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nothing to do with the governor. He can call it up and nationalize them to protect federal officers carrying
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out federal law. That's the only way it can happen. That's why Donald Trump, they could cry a river that he
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was violating the Constitution, but he wasn't. That's why they lost every time in court because that's the
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Constitution. That's what the National Guard is allowed to do, protect federal officers. Here's what they
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can't do. They can't obstruct federal officers. They can't enforce state political objections against
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the federal law. They cannot deploy or be threatened to deploy against DOJ, DHS, or ICE because that
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violates the Supremacy Clause. Also, posse comitatus. If they are deployed as police officers,
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if they are deployed to go against federal law enforcement, posse comitatus comes in. Also, federal criminal charges
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come in of obstruction of justice. So, it's not an issue of state rights. Once he says, I'm threatening to use the
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National Guard, that's constitutional defiance. Now, what does the federal government, what should our response be from the
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federal government? Federal authority continues anyway, doesn't matter what the state does. Investigations and
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deportations need to proceed, no matter what the governor says. Okay, whatever. Federalization of the Guard does
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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
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the governor of command if he's threatening to use it illegally or not protecting the federal officers.
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The third thing that we have an option is obstruction consequences. Federal injunctions, contempt of court,
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criminal exposure for obstruction. This all has precedent and it should be considered.
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Now, here's what Walsh is actually doing. He's not going to call up the National Guard and do that
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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
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the mayor are doing this, because of all of the corruption in Minnesota. This has nothing to do,
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do you think they're doing this because they're protecting the Somali citizens? That's what they're
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saying, but they have been involving Somali citizens knowingly in deep corruption and they also know I
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can never be elected here if I don't look strong on the Somalis. If we don't change the flag in
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Minnesota to look like the Somalian flag, I can't be governor anymore. Okay, what he's actually calling
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up is not the National Guard. He is calling up the Democratic National Guard. He is calling up
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the, honestly, he is calling on people like Nicole Renee Good. He is trying to get people who are so
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zombie-like on the Democratic side to go up and put their bodies in and to obstruct. He's using them
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as soldiers. That's not just unconstitutional on the National Guard side. That is just morally
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reprehensible. You're listening to the best of Glenn Beck. Need a little more? Check out the full show
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podcasts anywhere you download podcasts. So what were you born to do? I can't tell you, I can't tell
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you what your calling is, you know, what specific skill you have. That's for you to decide. But I can
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tell you that you were born to act and not be acted upon. I want to, I want to get to the warmth of
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collectivism. I want to get to what, why are these things happening so rapidly in Washington and, and
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mountains being moved. And it all comes down to being somebody who acts or somebody who has acted upon.
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So many of us have so many doubts that run through our head. And we believe things that are not true,
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but we believe them. I'm going to say something that I probably shouldn't say on the air. But
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I wrestle hard with a belief that I truly believe is real. And no one that I know believes is.
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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
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believe that? And I bet that you have something that you believe is absolutely true. I'm ugly. I'm not
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talented. I'm a failure, whatever it is. I want you to ask yourself,
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I believe I'm the one. I'm the one teaching me that lie. Nobody's ever said that to me.
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It's been one of my big fears since I was a kid. And, you know, cats in the cradle song. My mother
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used to say, listen to this song. As a kid, that wasn't really healthy, mom. Thank you.
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But that's, I think that's where it came from. And now I'm saying it to me. Why? You know,
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so much stuff is subjective. Like I'm ugly. That's pretty subjective.
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Why? Why would you choose to believe that instead of I'm a pretty good looking guy?
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Because we always seem to choose the negative. We dwell on the negative. I mean, look at what's
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popular in social media. Negative. Why? Why don't good things, inspirational things, things that
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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
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Joe Biden? I mean, lots of differences, but fundamentally.
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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
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that is not the way he sees himself. He is not a victim. They have tried everything to victimize and
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stop him. And yet he has chosen who he is. And victim is not part of that.
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And so by believing that and speaking those things and speaking the truth that I'm a powerful guy,
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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
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businessman. He has spoken that into reality and that's what's happening. And in believing that he's not a
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victim, he's teaching others, don't be a victim. Where I think Joe Biden
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saw himself as a victim of the system. I've put in my time in the system and they tried to,
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they tried to thwart me and not give me this because they wanted to give it to Barack Obama
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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
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like Joe Biden in, if he doesn't have somebody that he can, you know, wheel and deal with, I don't think
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he's going to get it done. And because he believes those kinds of things, because of what he believes,
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he puts into words and actions and he's teaching and taught people, you're a victim.
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The power only belongs in the hands of the collective. Okay. And that's, that's what we're
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really facing right now. Bom Donnie said, I'm glad he said what he said, that we are going
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to replace, what did he say? Rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism, because that
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is the honest choice that we're facing right now. But I want to show you how one instantly
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leads to failure. Because your words have real power. Whatever it is you tell yourself, it will
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become. You at least will believe it. If you keep speaking it into existence, you at least will believe
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it. And most likely you'll create that. So let's talk about these two phrases. Rugged individualism.
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What does rugged individualism or rugged, just rugged, what does that imply? When you hear the word
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rugged, it implies, oh, geez, there's going to be struggle. I got to be tough. No, he's going to be
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helping me out. I got responsibility. Oh, toughen up, Jack. That's what rugged means. What does warmth
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say to you say to you? The warmth? Warmth shows you you're loved. We're going to hug you. You know
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what? Sit here by the fire. I'm going to get a blanket for you. I'm going to put it around your
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shoulders. Ease. Okay. You've worked so hard. You just sit down. I'm going to, can I get you some
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cocoa? That's what warmth leads you to believe. Okay. Rugged is for people who act. Warmth is for
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people who want to be acted upon. Can somebody bring me a blanket? Rugged, they're not asking for
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anybody to bring a blanket. They know they have to go get the blanket. Reason why I started this with
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why were you born? I can tell you everyone on earth was born to act. That's why you have free
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will. You were born to act, not to be acted upon. Can somebody get me a blanket? Warmth of collectivism.
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I got to go get the blanket myself. It's my responsibility. Rugged individualism.
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One is about comfort, warmth of collectivism. Don't you, when you hear that, don't you think
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of a blanket? Don't you think of us sitting by a fire or somebody just holding you and just
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I have a warmth of color. We're all going to just hug you. Rugged individualism always makes me think
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of, yeah, those were the guys who, you know, cross the mountains, right? One was growing and pushing.
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The other one is sitting down and relaxing by the fire. America has always been the one who pushes.
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And there's one thing about growth that is absolutely true. There is no growth in comfort.
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And there is no comfort in growth. When you are working out at a gym, last night I hugged my wife
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and she was like, ow, ow. And I'm like, what, what, what happened? Are you okay? And she's like, yeah,
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no, no, my arms are really sore. I've been working out all day. And I'm like, ah, yeah,
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that's why I don't work out on him. My arms never hurt. But she says the same thing. And I can't
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testify. This is true. I've heard this from everybody who works out, but I've never worked
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out a day in my life, which is why I'll be dead probably in about 10 minutes. But she said to me
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just last week, she was not feeling well. She was like in a mood. And I said, are you okay? And she said,
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yeah, I'm just, I just don't feel good. And I said, mentally, physically. And she said like,
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mentally, I'm just, I don't feel good right now. And then she paused for a minute and she said,
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and I think it's because I haven't worked out in two weeks because we were on vacation. Well,
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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
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supposedly diametrically opposed. Ow, I hurt. Ow, my legs really hurt. And then they always follow
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it with, I feel great though because I worked out today. It's true. It is true. You feel better.
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And let me take it out of front of the word. For those of you who are slugs like me and don't work
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out. Let me change this. I believe growth is our natural state. And remember, there is no comfort
00:43:24.320
in growth and no growth in comfort. Growth is our natural state. And it's why you feel good after
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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but they're the right steps to repair us long-term. And so I think that's what I feel good about.
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What was one of the first things he said when he was sworn into office? One of the first things he
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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