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00:00:00.000 Great podcast for you today. We took a lot of phone calls, had some really interesting

00:00:05.140 questions about COVID, some different looks. Stu and I kind of debated for a while.

00:00:12.060 Why is it we feel on the right that we're losing when, in fact, the data is starting to show

00:00:18.520 we're winning? We're winning. We just have to stay the course. And some exciting news about

00:00:25.340 Kamala Harris. Don't know if you've heard. She hasn't been able to get down to the border

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00:02:32.960 All right. All right.

00:02:34.720 Let's get back to the phones.

00:02:36.900 We had Matthew on from Delaware just a few minutes ago.

00:02:41.980 And your question again, can you restate it, Matthew?

00:02:47.200 Yes.

00:02:47.680 Pretty much just how do we go forward in trying to talk to people and have conversations about all these things that we're dealing with

00:02:53.920 when they are genuinely misinformed about what the situation is, specifically regarding COVID and how the actual truth about all of this stuff is so hard to get a hold of.

00:03:08.240 And it's constantly being changed and kind of all the odds are stacked against us, you know?

00:03:12.360 So, Matthew, let me go through a couple of things.

00:03:16.200 First of all, you have to, when you have a discussion with somebody, not an argument, a discussion with somebody.

00:03:25.240 Correct.

00:03:25.460 You need to start with, are you set in your ways to where if I provide information that is factual, that you will reconsider or possibly change your mind?

00:03:41.420 Because if you do that with me and you have things that I don't know, I'll check into them.

00:03:48.140 But if they turn into, if they are facts, then I would be, I would be a horrible citizen and really kind of a bad person if I didn't change my mind.

00:03:59.780 So, you need to preface it, right?

00:04:02.060 You need to preface it with that.

00:04:04.920 Then you also need to say, because some of these things, most of our problems, you know, for instance, with coronavirus, my problem is not just, you know, does the vaccine work or is it a therapeutic, et cetera, et cetera.

00:04:24.440 Mine is based on the Bill of Rights.

00:04:28.480 Our biggest problem should be that you're being forced to take it.

00:04:33.540 If you're not forced to take it, then you take it if you want to.

00:04:38.300 And that's a Bill of Rights.

00:04:39.560 So, I have started all of my discussions with people that I don't know.

00:04:43.960 Do you believe in the Bill of Rights as written?

00:04:48.020 If they say no, then you can move on.

00:04:51.560 Now, here's the problem.

00:04:53.400 You are exactly right when it comes to the facts being deleted, the facts changing.

00:05:00.780 But we are living now in a world that is, if you are uninformed, it is self-imposed.

00:05:10.660 And here's what I mean by that.

00:05:13.040 Back in the 1930s, we didn't know if the Germans were really rounding people up.

00:05:19.740 Even the Germans didn't know for sure, but they were on the edge of self-imposed ignorance.

00:05:28.200 It only took somebody asking a few questions.

00:05:31.840 You know, it could get you killed, but asking a few questions.

00:05:34.920 Here in the West, generally speaking, we didn't know the difference between conspiracy fact and conspiracy theory.

00:05:42.740 We didn't know if they were really rounding them up.

00:05:46.900 We had heard rumors of that.

00:05:48.480 As they turned out, they were true.

00:05:51.340 But until we had evidence of that, it was a conspiracy theory.

00:05:57.400 We are now living in a world where we know and have access to the truth.

00:06:03.920 If you really, what is the difference between us?

00:06:07.960 Remember, it is our president, President Trump, that was the one behind this vaccine.

00:06:14.600 He took credit for it.

00:06:16.320 He deserves credit for it in some ways.

00:06:19.600 And it was it was his.

00:06:21.860 They were the ones that were skeptical.

00:06:24.940 Why did that suddenly flip?

00:06:27.620 I can tell you when I became against the vaccine and I'm not really against it.

00:06:33.460 But when I became very skeptical of it and that is when they started acting so bizarrely against all reason and when they started forcing people to take it, when did the other side flip?

00:06:50.620 When did the other side say, I'm not going to take this vaccine if it comes from Donald Trump?

00:06:56.980 And then all of a sudden, because it was administered by Joe Biden, they're not willing to question any of it.

00:07:06.880 So it's all politics.

00:07:09.260 Now, here's where it really gets.

00:07:10.780 I think we really get into trouble.

00:07:13.720 I don't know if you saw the story that came out last week, but that lawsuit filed by John Stossel.

00:07:20.040 You've been following this, too.

00:07:21.860 Yeah.

00:07:22.120 The lawsuit filed by John Stossel says he was defamed by fact check.

00:07:28.960 Now, fact check is part of something from Facebook.

00:07:32.560 And they they labeled a video that he made as misleading.

00:07:38.000 Facebook or Meta's attorneys say that Facebook's fact check.

00:07:44.420 You ready?

00:07:46.340 Is an opinion, not an actual check of the facts and declaration of the facts.

00:07:52.420 And under the libel law, opinions are protected from liability for libel.

00:07:58.320 OK, so here's what here's what they actually filed.

00:08:03.080 This is the quote from Facebook's complaint.

00:08:06.380 The label themselves are neither false nor defamatory.

00:08:09.320 To the contrary, they constitute protected opinion.

00:08:14.920 Beyond the threshold of Section 230 problem, the complainant also fails to state claim for defamation.

00:08:20.140 For one, Stossel fails to plead the facts for establishing that Meta acted with actual malice, which is a public figure he must.

00:08:26.700 For another, Stossel claims focus on the fact check articles written by climate feedback, not the labels affixed through the Facebook platform.

00:08:38.860 The labels themselves are neither false nor defamatory.

00:08:42.060 To the contrary, they constitute and I'm quoting protected opinion.

00:08:49.860 This is something that you need to share with your friends.

00:08:53.480 You need to have this almost printed up in a little card that you keep with with you.

00:08:59.160 This is Facebook's defense on against the defamation claim of John Stossel.

00:09:08.960 John Stossel, John Stossel says this is not misleading.

00:09:13.260 These are the facts.

00:09:15.060 So fact check came out and said, no, that's misleading.

00:09:21.320 John knows the facts.

00:09:23.480 No, it's not misleading.

00:09:25.440 These are the facts.

00:09:26.800 And he went to court to challenge them on the facts.

00:09:29.900 And what did Facebook do so they wouldn't lose a lot of money?

00:09:34.040 They said those are protected opinions, not actual facts that Facebook was providing.

00:09:46.220 So amazing what lawsuits reveal.

00:09:48.660 Yeah, it really is.

00:09:49.900 It really is.

00:09:50.560 So how can protected opinion trump and be the final word on facts?

00:09:57.900 I know what I can and can't say, you know, in the Facebook rules.

00:10:03.840 I know.

00:10:05.040 However, fact check that are merely opinions hurt my credibility, my name, my distribution.

00:10:14.680 I'm made into a conspiracy theorist or somebody who is sloppy on the facts.

00:10:20.660 I know when it comes to the coronavirus, we will admit anything that we get wrong, but we

00:10:28.380 work really hard to get it right.

00:10:31.700 We don't go off half cocked.

00:10:35.080 When we know we're posting something, when I know I'm saying something outside of an opinion,

00:10:42.540 I want to make sure that we have facts and I use facts to back up my opinion.

00:10:49.720 But my opinion is just that, an opinion, not a fact.

00:10:56.120 The fact that I said the opinion, now that's a fact.

00:11:02.540 But I mean, it's an opinion.

00:11:06.820 And when opinions trump facts, civilizations cannot stand.

00:11:13.940 When the Germans denied the gas chambers and said they were all conspiracy theories.

00:11:20.940 Well, it could have been a conspiracy theory because it was only backed up by whispers.

00:11:26.940 Questions and theories. 0.95

00:11:29.340 But when we had photographs, documents and eyewitnesses, only fools or knaves would deny those things. 0.89

00:11:41.740 And we call those people Holocaust deniers because they are denying the fact of the Holocaust. 0.94

00:11:51.040 Now, the problem here is with the left.

00:11:54.740 This is all by design.

00:11:57.320 Cass Sunstein, who was working for the president, President Obama, advocated and still advocates calling everyone who disagrees with, let's say, critical race theory.

00:12:11.280 They claim that that's a conspiracy theory.

00:12:16.360 Critical race theory.

00:12:17.700 It's not being taught in schools.

00:12:19.460 How many times have you heard that?

00:12:20.520 It's not being taught in schools.

00:12:22.040 That's a conspiracy theory.

00:12:24.860 That's Cass Sunstein.

00:12:26.880 That is the recommendation.

00:12:28.980 By Cass Sunstein to the administration and to the left to label people conspiracy theories, quote, even if the claim or the charge ends up being true.

00:12:44.220 We know you can't call milk or meat organic without standards.

00:12:50.460 Why?

00:12:52.380 Because if it's just an opinion, no, this is my opinion.

00:12:55.440 It's organic.

00:12:56.240 That label means nothing.

00:12:58.400 Nothing.

00:12:59.880 We cannot call a vaccine a therapeutic.

00:13:04.340 And you can't call a therapeutic a vaccine until recently without a very good reason.

00:13:10.920 That one really makes no sense.

00:13:12.600 Who cares what you call it?

00:13:14.040 Honestly, like the whole complaint they have are people that are against vaccines.

00:13:17.680 Probably calling it a therapeutic would benefit everybody.

00:13:20.280 Sure.

00:13:20.640 If they really want people to take it.

00:13:22.300 So how can Facebook claim they're checking facts when they are when their facts are merely opinion?

00:13:30.580 The damage is can't be undone.

00:13:35.860 And this is why your friends won't believe you.

00:13:40.480 It's a well-orchestrated plan.

00:13:41.480 It's a well-orchestrated plan.

00:13:43.480 It's a well-orchestrated plan.

00:13:44.500 All documented.

00:13:45.800 Read Cass Sunstein.

00:13:46.760 Just look them up.

00:13:48.060 Read Cass Sunstein.

00:13:51.340 This was well-orchestrated.

00:13:53.940 Read Rules for Radicals. 0.93

00:13:56.260 It says the same thing.

00:13:59.260 And your friends, if they won't go in and look at the other side, and I say the same thing about you, if you are presented with facts that you can go and check and you're not willing to change your mind if they prove to be true, well, then you've joined a religion.

00:14:19.200 And that is the problem.

00:14:22.960 Wokeism is a religion.

00:14:26.460 The Democrats have given over the party to religious zealots.

00:14:33.640 They are revolutionaries.

00:14:35.680 And they ask for faith, not facts.

00:14:42.660 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:14:49.200 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:14:52.500 Let me go to Susan in Ohio.

00:14:54.720 Hello, Susan.

00:14:55.520 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program.

00:14:57.780 Hello.

00:14:58.440 Hey, I just would, while I'm concerned about the inflation and the effect that the impact it has on me this year, I'm really concerned about the effects of inflation on the middle class families.

00:15:09.400 As it begins to take away all their assets, all the generational growth.

00:15:14.760 And I think we don't talk enough about that.

00:15:16.600 I know we want things immediate, but I would like, just please talk a little bit more about the loss of family farms and businesses and what happens from one generation to the next.

00:15:29.700 Right.

00:15:29.800 I think that those are not solely tied to inflation.

00:15:37.160 Inflation will, your nest egg will go away because if your salary doesn't go up with inflation, then you're going to have to start dipping into your savings.

00:15:49.960 So your savings goes away.

00:15:51.340 If we start working in a world where, as the president keeps saying, well, you've got to pay your people more.

00:15:58.980 If you do that in a high inflation period, which we are in now, if you do that, you start the inflation spiral.

00:16:07.580 Wages go up and thus prices continue to go up.

00:16:11.480 And so you're constantly battling.

00:16:13.300 That's why when you ordered food in a restaurant of in Germany, you paid for it when you ordered.

00:16:22.640 I would like a cup of coffee, please.

00:16:24.480 It's a quarter.

00:16:25.300 Great.

00:16:25.660 Here's the quarter.

00:16:26.960 Because 15 minutes later, 30 minutes later, when it got so bad, it might be 35 cents for that cup of coffee.

00:16:35.020 So you paid when you ordered that's the inflation spiral and that's going to happen.

00:16:42.280 But when it comes to losing your family farm, that's more than just inflation.

00:16:48.380 You're going to lose farms because people can't afford it.

00:16:52.120 But there are things that are going on in the United States right now and and the government that are going to take those family farms. 0.87

00:17:03.380 They are going to start limiting those those farms. 0.99

00:17:07.060 They're going to start regulating those farms. 0.97

00:17:08.900 They're going to tax them to death.

00:17:11.660 Remember, the goal of the Great Reset is by 2030, you will own nothing.

00:17:17.020 Well, how do you get a society that is built on ownership, private ownership?

00:17:23.060 How do you get that society to not own anything?

00:17:27.180 You bankrupt it.

00:17:28.900 That's what you do.

00:17:30.240 You bankrupt it.

00:17:31.220 Thanks for your phone call, Susan.

00:17:34.560 So what do you where do you see the economy going here?

00:17:37.840 For example, one of the things that I don't think a lot of people are talking about is since COVID started.

00:17:44.840 The Trump administration basically turned off the requirement to pay your student loans, you know, and they said, OK, you know, for we're in the middle of a pandemic.

00:17:54.720 You don't have to pay your student loans right now.

00:17:56.160 Turn the interest rates down to zero.

00:17:57.760 Oh, let's ride this out.

00:17:59.580 And so that's been extended multiple times by first the Trump administration and then into the Biden administration.

00:18:05.640 Biden is now saying that come next year, it's over.

00:18:09.080 Right.

00:18:09.260 I think it's January.

00:18:10.980 You're now going to have to start making those payments a lot again.

00:18:13.800 And you think about all the money that people owe that have and they've had this this ramp of not paying it.

00:18:21.060 Now, these payments turn back on in the middle of a very disconcerting economic time.

00:18:28.680 So that turns on inflation is there.

00:18:31.440 All of this backlog with the supply chain all working together at the same time.

00:18:37.700 What does that look like?

00:18:38.840 A mess.

00:18:40.080 It's why you're not hearing anybody saying, oh, well, this year's been bad, but next year will be better.

00:18:45.740 There's no way.

00:18:46.560 I can't wait for 2022.

00:18:47.780 Yeah.

00:18:48.020 You're not hearing that.

00:18:49.320 And I think that's because people know you've got you've got something else you have to pile on here.

00:18:54.600 People are going to be watching what the Fed decides to do this week because the Fed has to raise interest rates and they also have to taper.

00:19:07.120 And what they've been doing and we've been telling you this since 2008, what they've been doing is they've been buying our our federal debt.

00:19:16.660 OK, instead of selling it to countries, no country will buy it.

00:19:20.040 So the Fed has been buying that debt, which just adds to their balance sheet.

00:19:25.620 Then they've been printing money as well, and they've been shipping that money to the banks and the banks have been using it to buy stocks and everything else.

00:19:39.220 So they can they can put their balance sheet in order.

00:19:42.260 You have had these bailouts going out going on really since 2008, and it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.

00:19:53.140 They're tapering all of that now, which means they're turning that tap of cash off that's really flowing into the market.

00:20:00.840 So they have to turn that off when they turn that off.

00:20:04.800 That's going to cause problems with the bank.

00:20:07.340 It's going to cause problems in the stock market.

00:20:09.820 It's going to cause all kinds of problems because the money flow from the Fed, not the federal government, from the Fed is tapering off.

00:20:19.280 Then they're going to also raise interest rates, which they have to do.

00:20:24.840 The way you fight inflation is to raise interest rates.

00:20:29.200 But no one on Earth has ever tried to suck this much money back into the system, get it back to the to the Federal Reserve and the Treasury so it can be destroyed.

00:20:41.940 No one in the history of the world has ever tried that.

00:20:46.540 In 1980, Paul Volcker got our interest rates up to, I think, 15 or I believe the highest was 19.

00:20:55.600 It might have been 15, but I believe it was 19 percent.

00:20:59.360 Nineteen percent.

00:21:01.340 We are now at about three percent.

00:21:03.280 You want a mortgage?

00:21:04.240 Three percent.

00:21:05.340 You need a loan for your small business.

00:21:08.720 Three percent.

00:21:09.480 Five percent.

00:21:11.520 Eight percent if you're in real, you know, bad way.

00:21:16.060 Nineteen percent.

00:21:18.100 That was in 1980.

00:21:20.580 What is it going to take to get those interest to get this inflation down after dumping eleven trillion dollars out into the world?

00:21:31.140 We have to suck that all back. 0.88

00:21:33.660 The problem is when you suck all of that stuff back, it makes money scarce. 0.98

00:21:40.580 That will make inflation go down. 0.88

00:21:43.280 OK, then you worry about a deflationary period where people can't afford anything.

00:21:48.640 So the prices cave.

00:21:50.880 This is an incredible balance that I'm not sure they can do.

00:21:55.460 And we're doing it at the worst possible time.

00:21:59.980 Because we've made things so bad that if you don't have people who are willing to work.

00:22:09.860 You're going to have inflation.

00:22:12.400 If you then add extra salary to people to get them to work, that adds inflation.

00:22:20.140 Then if you take the money from the corporations through loans to build new jobs and to expand jobs, start to become more and more scarce.

00:22:30.560 And you're just in this cycle that just spins into the drain.

00:22:33.600 I think we're in for real, real trouble over the next year to I think it could be until a Republican gets back into into power.

00:22:48.160 And we have a sane Senate and House.

00:22:53.720 And I'm not saying that's a Republican one.

00:22:55.560 It's just more sane than the Democrats.

00:22:57.460 But until we start doing the right thing consistently and are willing to accept the pain that is coming from all of these horrible decisions, it's just going to keep getting worse.

00:23:10.680 This kind of goes back to what the earlier caller was saying.

00:23:13.780 You know, you mentioned the Reagan situation.

00:23:15.400 And there's no better way to emphasize, I suppose, that conservative policies are better than by implementing liberal ones.

00:23:25.040 Right.

00:23:25.440 When they get in to office and they do the things that they want to do, people tend to wake up and say, wow, we really don't want that.

00:23:31.820 We brought this up.

00:23:32.600 We're winning to fund the police earlier.

00:23:34.340 Right.

00:23:34.880 Minneapolis is like, ah, we'll defund the police. 0.99

00:23:36.640 Holy crap. 0.97

00:23:37.540 Let's let's rethink that a little bit. 0.78

00:23:39.980 And it happens pretty quickly.

00:23:41.080 But we were but we at the time were arguing theories.

00:23:45.620 Right.

00:23:46.300 And now we have evidence.

00:23:47.520 Now we have evidence.

00:23:48.560 And that's what's waking people up.

00:23:50.900 But this is something that has been bothering me for a while, though.

00:23:54.540 In all these conversations, including this previous caller who basically said, if you missed it, he said, you know, we need some chaos.

00:24:00.160 And he explained a little nuanced explanation of that.

00:24:03.200 But basically, we we need to let these things happen.

00:24:05.940 We need to try these sort of things.

00:24:07.440 We need to fight.

00:24:08.240 We need to do all these things that maybe aren't consistent with our principles per se.

00:24:14.820 But we need to win right now because we're always losing.

00:24:18.720 And that is like an undercurrent of of almost every conservative.

00:24:23.040 It seems that we all we're always losing.

00:24:26.380 These things are always rolling over us and we never do anything.

00:24:29.300 And therefore, we have to change everything that we're doing and and try these new tactics and, you know, go a little truck.

00:24:35.420 Get a little wild.

00:24:36.380 Like, let's try some stuff.

00:24:38.260 And I don't know.

00:24:39.760 That's so pervasive on the right right now.

00:24:43.360 But when you look at what's actually happening, these, for example, the vaccine mandates are not happening because we're we're out in the streets, causing chaos, causing chaos.

00:24:52.960 They're being overturned because the courts are overturning them because they're unconstitutional.

00:24:57.080 Right. And that's largely because of a long term conservative legal project that has resulted in a lot of good judges that actually know what the Constitution says.

00:25:08.680 We can thank a lot of this.

00:25:11.180 We can put the thanks on Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.

00:25:15.300 Yeah. And and I think, you know, it goes back further than that as well.

00:25:18.740 But like it's but it's but it's been a that's a success story.

00:25:22.740 Right. The possibility of Roe versus Wade being overturned.

00:25:26.980 And again, I'm not counting those.

00:25:28.880 And this is a weird way to talk about eggs and hatching because of the subject matter.

00:25:32.780 I'm not counting that as a win.

00:25:34.380 But the fact that it's even possible is because of a long term project.

00:25:38.800 So why is why why do conservatives feel this pervasive sense of losing when it does seem like we're winning?

00:25:48.940 Because I think conservatives.

00:25:53.480 Well, I think everybody generally is.

00:25:56.860 Let me give you this example.

00:25:59.320 Remember, I said yesterday we don't buy when it's cheap.

00:26:04.500 We buy at the top.

00:26:07.040 Buy high, sell low.

00:26:08.000 Yeah. When housing market goes crazy, you're like, I got to get a house.

00:26:12.600 I got to get a house.

00:26:13.560 I mean, this is crazy.

00:26:14.780 Yeah. You're you're and you're buying it way too late.

00:26:18.140 You're always behind the curve.

00:26:20.840 OK, you buy low.

00:26:22.960 You sell high.

00:26:24.680 We do the opposite.

00:26:26.420 The same thing is true. 0.92

00:26:29.420 You know, things are lagging indicators.

00:26:32.660 We are a lagging indicator.

00:26:34.680 There are other indications that show we're winning, but we don't feel it yet.

00:26:40.540 We I think we are we have been looking at the mainstream media as a barometer for a very long time.

00:26:49.820 That hasn't changed.

00:26:51.520 That's a really bad barometer.

00:26:54.640 OK, and they're not changing at all.

00:26:58.280 So we look at that and we see, you know, all of the shows on TV and everything else.

00:27:04.240 We're like, we're surrounded by this and we're not looking at what are the ratings?

00:27:10.940 What's the health of these companies?

00:27:14.780 How many people are watching them?

00:27:16.800 How many people believe them anymore?

00:27:19.940 Their credibility is in the toilet.

00:27:23.120 I think it's if it's not single digits, it's almost single digits with their credibility now.

00:27:28.160 So they they don't have any credibility left when you look at his all of these policies that we've been arguing about.

00:27:37.200 In theory, you can't reimagine the police.

00:27:42.100 We now have the evidence and those policies are now being reversed.

00:27:46.780 You can't just spend money like crazy.

00:27:50.100 Well, that's now being shown true because of the economy.

00:27:54.720 You can't teach this to our kids while we're not teaching it.

00:27:59.940 We don't believe you and the media cannot convince us that you're telling us the truth because we know the truth.

00:28:07.120 We're seeing it.

00:28:09.240 We are winning on multiple fronts right now, and this is a new feeling that I had.

00:28:16.400 I was really, really worried about losing and thought there are no way out.

00:28:21.200 No way out.

00:28:21.960 There is.

00:28:23.280 There is.

00:28:23.780 And it's already happening.

00:28:25.740 It's the American people standing up who are awake and others waking up because they're starting to feel real pain.

00:28:38.420 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:41.340 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:50.900 Stu, we were talking last hour about this feeling that we are losing somehow.

00:28:58.360 Yeah, you get this a lot from conservatives right now who just obviously were in a tough time and a lot of things have gone wrong over the past couple of years.

00:29:07.700 And there there's a sort of pervasive sense of constant losing.

00:29:13.160 You know, the example I hear all the time is this example of like, you know, we can't just sit here and like let people have trends, you know, trends.

00:29:21.980 What was it?

00:29:22.800 The story time, you know, trend is drag queen story. 1.00

00:29:25.900 Yeah, drag queen story. 0.67

00:29:26.780 And and like, yeah, of course, I would agree.

00:29:29.540 It's not a not a good thing for our society, although, you know, I will say it's not a recognizable part of my life.

00:29:35.300 You know, I know I live in Texas where there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of pushback.

00:29:39.120 Maybe if you're living in downtown Portland, the libraries are quite different.

00:29:42.480 But it does seem that there's this sense of we're constantly in this state of losing where like, you know, we're only I mean, in 2021, Donald Trump was president that that was still going on in this year.

00:29:58.180 Right.

00:29:59.980 Obviously, we're seeing the results of some of the judges.

00:30:03.280 And I think the legal system is held up pretty well when it comes to all the crazy challenges that the left has brought to it in the later parts of this year.

00:30:11.520 That's been, I think, a positive and what's happening, I think, now everywhere from Afghanistan to inflation is people are seeing the results of what happens when you go the other way.

00:30:25.800 And that is likely to lead to positive things pretty soon down the road.

00:30:31.080 Now, we've also talked about how far ahead many times progressives are with things like ESG and it makes you really doubt what the future can hold.

00:30:41.220 But we also should recognize that a lot of these things that we've tried to do over the years have worked pretty well and we've pushed back and won a lot of these battles, too.

00:30:49.600 It's not a constant state of losing.

00:30:51.500 The left isn't, you know, this is not it's not Samson in a way it is Samson.

00:30:58.000 But, you know what I mean?

00:30:58.520 It's not this unbelievable, impossible victory for conservatives.

00:31:04.900 We succeed more than I think we give ourselves credit for.

00:31:07.900 Well, we we have, especially recently.

00:31:11.380 I mean, you know, there is a Donald Trump succeeded.

00:31:18.000 He succeeded probably better than any other president in my lifetime in getting real some real changes made.

00:31:28.320 For instance, the Middle East is the biggest the biggest thing. 0.94

00:31:32.360 And he demonstrated a couple of things.

00:31:35.940 One, you can support Israel and not have the world come against you.

00:31:41.220 You can move the embassy there.

00:31:43.300 But you can also get the people in the Middle East to start siding with Israel and against Hamas, Hezbollah and terror.

00:31:53.180 And he had a historic peace deal.

00:31:57.300 Now it's falling apart.

00:31:58.500 You don't have to negotiate with terrorists.

00:32:01.940 You don't have to give them money to get them to comply with you.

00:32:07.960 Far as Iran, you you can end wars. 0.98

00:32:13.820 You don't need to have these endless ongoing wars.

00:32:18.020 What you need to do is go in and hammer the bats not out of them and then move on.

00:32:25.000 And that's how he killed the caliphate.

00:32:27.580 You have you have people now in in the conservative movement that are looking at possible war with China, possible war with with Russia.

00:32:40.820 And you have people who have always been very, very America first.

00:32:45.400 And let's go get them that are saying, I don't want war.

00:32:48.820 I don't want war.

00:32:49.920 Let's let's mind our own business here.

00:32:53.480 Let's take care of America. 0.98

00:32:55.660 And thus, if we set a good example, we will change the world.

00:33:00.460 That's new.

00:33:01.560 We're not so hawkish as we were.

00:33:04.180 Some of these things are are game changing for the Republicans.

00:33:13.280 Here's here's something else.

00:33:15.400 We don't trust the Republicans.

00:33:17.900 Before we had, you know, these these rhinos that were running Michael Steele that were running the Republican Party. 0.99

00:33:27.040 Now, I think you have voters, Republican voters, that if they had another option, somebody that they believed would actually go buck their own party, if need be, to stop playing the same game, they'd vote for him and they'd want him in. 0.97

00:33:47.300 They want to get rid of these clowns in office. 0.99

00:33:51.840 And it's more mature than it was with the Tea Party. 0.97

00:33:55.120 We know how the game is played now, and we don't trust that you're just going to be elected and then you're going to go and do it.

00:34:03.740 We watch you now.

00:34:06.300 The other thing is, is we have been playing the game.

00:34:11.020 And I see this one firsthand.

00:34:14.020 I've been telling you that there are Marxists in our government and and in the Democratic Party for the last 20 years.

00:34:25.120 And it has been laughed, mocked and ridiculed.

00:34:29.300 I've been called a conspiracy theorist.

00:34:31.800 I've been called a racist for saying that the president was a Marxist.

00:34:37.800 I've been called all kinds of names.

00:34:39.920 You notice nobody's denying now that Marxists are involved in our government, that Marxists are trying to overthrow the United States, that this this revolution is truly a revolution.

00:34:56.700 Notice, not a lot of people now in the middle are denying that it seems as though the Democratic Party has been taken over by radicals and revolutionaries.

00:35:10.600 That was unheard of.

00:35:12.680 That's a huge, huge change.

00:35:15.820 Again, have you noticed that the press isn't listened to?

00:35:20.240 Have you noticed that Jimmy Kimmel or who was it this week?

00:35:26.520 Fallon gets the president on and he's talking about the economy and nobody is buying into this economy lie.

00:35:35.880 And nobody's watching Fallon.

00:35:37.940 Nobody's watching Kimmel.

00:35:39.760 Certainly nobody's watching a bunch of dancing syringes.

00:35:43.240 You know, that was that was terrible.

00:35:47.120 You don't have the power of SNL anymore because it's not funny.

00:35:53.680 It's just not funny.

00:35:56.040 And it's gone through periods of not being funny, but it has now just given into we are a propaganda arm.

00:36:03.840 That's all we're supposed to do is hold up the right people and make fun of the wrong people as the woke crowd decides.

00:36:14.220 America isn't having any of that.

00:36:17.220 That that's a huge change.

00:36:19.380 You're seeing movies like we talked about earlier.

00:36:23.600 Movies are now starting to become what Christian movies used to be. 0.90

00:36:28.380 Christian movies used to be like, OK, I got it. 0.98

00:36:31.700 I got it.

00:36:32.140 Stop being so preachy.

00:36:33.320 Right.

00:36:33.820 Yeah. 1.00

00:36:34.060 And so they always sucked. 0.99

00:36:36.360 This now. 0.99

00:36:38.180 That's what's happening to the left.

00:36:40.700 The left is starting to make that Santa Claus thing on HBO.

00:36:45.180 What is that?

00:36:46.080 That claymation by Sarah Silverman and Seth Rogen.

00:36:49.760 It's awful.

00:36:50.720 It's awful because they've forgotten that it's entertainment that is much more important than the message.

00:36:59.260 You can't get anybody to listen to the message.

00:37:01.220 And yet we are now starting to understand entertainment and our message is gaining strength because a we are starting to learn how to tell stories on the right.

00:37:14.100 And be the things that we've always talked about that were conspiracy theories or only theories are now being proven to be true.

00:37:25.100 I say something now and it used to take, you know, 10 years before you would see it.

00:37:31.940 I can tell you now about the Great Reset and tell you that I think we're really, really behind the eight ball.

00:37:38.800 But three months later, they've called it a conspiracy theory and they're discredited because they are actually implementing it and the banks are now doing these things and you can point to them and people are paying attention to it.

00:37:58.000 We are winning because people are waking up and the sides are flipping.

00:38:05.620 They they they had the conservatives down because they said it's all about Jesus and God and they're forcing you to live like Jesus wants you to live.

00:38:16.740 OK, that's how they that's how they destroyed us.

00:38:20.360 Well, they are forcing people into their religion and people are understanding their religion is not based on facts.

00:38:30.460 It is a faith based religion.

00:38:34.620 Just believe Fauci.

00:38:36.920 That's different than science.

00:38:38.760 Believe Fauci.

00:38:40.460 Believe what we say.

00:38:42.080 Deny what your eyes are showing you.

00:38:45.180 Deny what your ears are hearing.

00:38:48.680 Deny what your wallet is saying every time you go to the grocery store.

00:38:53.080 Deny those things and believe us.

00:38:55.720 It's not going to last.

00:38:56.420 You can't spin your your way out of milk being triple the cost.

00:39:00.320 Yeah, you can't.

00:39:01.140 The media doesn't have that sort of power.

00:39:02.640 But let me ask you this.

00:39:04.820 This sort of sprung from a conversation I had with my wife on this idea that there's just this feeling of despair among the American people at times.

00:39:13.580 You know, part of this obviously is covid from both sides.

00:39:16.880 You know, people losing loved ones and people having to deal with crazy restrictions and losing their livelihoods and all the things associated with it.

00:39:22.700 And that's part of this era that I don't think you can separate.

00:39:25.700 But, you know, it was after the the Wisconsin parade incident where the guy where that SUV ran over all those people.

00:39:34.060 The out of control SUV.

00:39:36.460 We said SUVs were going to kill all the planet.

00:39:38.540 And there it is.

00:39:39.400 But after that happened, my wife, you know, we were going back and forth, I think, on text on it.

00:39:43.560 She said something like, you know, what is this world coming to?

00:39:46.000 I can't believe what what is this?

00:39:47.780 And that's a totally rational like reaction to a madman running over a bunch of people at a Christmas.

00:39:55.020 Absolutely.

00:39:55.540 Obviously.

00:39:55.960 But then I as I started thinking about it myself a little bit, we that very same weekend had gone to a Christmas parade slash festival type of thing.

00:40:08.720 Unafraid and unafraid.

00:40:10.700 And it was awesome.

00:40:12.320 We had a great time.

00:40:14.080 Our community was gathered.

00:40:15.880 There were people from, I'm sure, all over the political spectrum there.

00:40:18.860 But everyone was great and we had a great time and we loved it.

00:40:21.960 And at the same the same weekend, probably tens of thousands of communities had similar events that were fantastic and everybody loved them.

00:40:33.800 And they all left happy and they, you know, they had their hot cocoa and they their kids were, you know, wide eyed looking at Santa Claus and all the things that happened all over the country for so many people.

00:40:46.300 And almost all of them were not at this one parade that we all know about that was legitimately tragic and horrible.

00:40:53.560 And we need to, you know, we need to worry about and stop, of course.

00:40:57.440 But it doesn't affect, you know, it probably did not affect your life.

00:41:02.100 It was a really terrible thing that happened and it gave the sense to even my wife who and myself who were at really wonderful events that same weekend that the whole society was falling apart.

00:41:17.020 And I mean, it is reality.

00:41:19.240 That's not true, right?

00:41:20.840 I mean, it is not true.

00:41:22.580 How do we stop that?

00:41:22.960 But we stop listening and it's happening.

00:41:26.800 We stop listening to the coasts.

00:41:29.940 We stop listening to the coasts.

00:41:32.720 We don't we can't not talk about that event.

00:41:34.660 We can't not cover it.

00:41:35.800 It's not the media saying, OK, well, don't worry about that.

00:41:38.120 They seem to not want to talk about the Wisconsin parade, right?

00:41:41.240 Because it didn't feed their narrative, which is waking even more people up.

00:41:46.780 The ones who responded, the ones who helped, the ones who are talking about it, were talking about it.

00:41:53.860 Those, generally speaking, are the conservatives, the conservative movement, the ones who are ignoring this clear tragedy and a flaw in their own thinking, their own system.

00:42:10.120 They brought this upon this community.

00:42:14.240 They're not talking about it.

00:42:15.700 And by not talking about it, the people are noticing.

00:42:21.320 Especially the people in the town.

00:42:23.320 Wait a minute.

00:42:24.200 How come nobody's talking about us?

00:42:26.060 How come nobody's nobody's paying attention?

00:42:29.640 Yeah.

00:42:30.140 How come the news rooms in America just abandoned that story?

00:42:37.600 People are waking up and noticing.

00:42:40.000 That's the most important thing.

00:42:41.860 That's what I've been saying for years.

00:42:43.400 Wake up, America.

00:42:44.640 Wake up, wake up, wake up.

00:42:47.180 Once you awake this sleeping giant, it's a giant and it wins.

00:42:53.240 So do you, is it important to have those things together?

00:42:56.420 Being awake, noticing what's going on, understanding the world, but also keeping it in perspective.

00:43:02.800 I mean, I think that's a difficult thing for people to do when they're barraged by it constantly on social media and everything else.

00:43:08.460 Well, that's why I think it's important for people like us to ring the bell of alarm, but also talk about our successes.

00:43:20.380 You know, I did not feel this way three months ago.

00:43:26.680 I didn't feel this way three, four months ago.

00:43:29.560 I just didn't think we had it in us.

00:43:31.940 I was giving up on the American people.

00:43:34.220 I'm not there now.

00:43:35.600 I really, truly believe we are well positioned for a win.

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