Glenn Beck and Stu debate why the right feels like they're losing, when the data is starting to show they're winning, and some exciting news about Kamala Harris and her plans to run for president in 2020. Plus, a call-in question from a listener about how to talk to people when they don't know the facts.
00:02:47.680Pretty 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
00:02:53.920when 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.
00:03:08.240And it's constantly being changed and kind of all the odds are stacked against us, you know?
00:03:12.360So, Matthew, let me go through a couple of things.
00:03:16.200First of all, you have to, when you have a discussion with somebody, not an argument, a discussion with somebody.
00:03:25.460You 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?
00:03:41.420Because if you do that with me and you have things that I don't know, I'll check into them.
00:03:48.140But 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.
00:04:04.920Then 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.
00:06:27.620I can tell you when I became against the vaccine and I'm not really against it.
00:06:33.460But 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?
00:06:50.620When did the other side say, I'm not going to take this vaccine if it comes from Donald Trump?
00:06:56.980And then all of a sudden, because it was administered by Joe Biden, they're not willing to question any of it.
00:07:46.340Is an opinion, not an actual check of the facts and declaration of the facts.
00:07:52.420And under the libel law, opinions are protected from liability for libel.
00:07:58.320OK, so here's what here's what they actually filed.
00:08:03.080This is the quote from Facebook's complaint.
00:08:06.380The label themselves are neither false nor defamatory.
00:08:09.320To the contrary, they constitute protected opinion.
00:08:14.920Beyond the threshold of Section 230 problem, the complainant also fails to state claim for defamation.
00:08:20.140For one, Stossel fails to plead the facts for establishing that Meta acted with actual malice, which is a public figure he must.
00:08:26.700For another, Stossel claims focus on the fact check articles written by climate feedback, not the labels affixed through the Facebook platform.
00:08:38.860The labels themselves are neither false nor defamatory.
00:08:42.060To the contrary, they constitute and I'm quoting protected opinion.
00:08:49.860This is something that you need to share with your friends.
00:08:53.480You need to have this almost printed up in a little card that you keep with with you.
00:08:59.160This is Facebook's defense on against the defamation claim of John Stossel.
00:09:08.960John Stossel, John Stossel says this is not misleading.
00:11:57.320Cass Sunstein, who was working for the president, President Obama, advocated and still advocates calling everyone who disagrees with, let's say, critical race theory.
00:12:11.280They claim that that's a conspiracy theory.
00:12:28.980By 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.
00:12:44.220We know you can't call milk or meat organic without standards.
00:13:59.260And 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.
00:14:58.440Hey, 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.
00:15:09.400As it begins to take away all their assets, all the generational growth.
00:15:14.760And I think we don't talk enough about that.
00:15:16.600I 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.
00:15:29.800I think that those are not solely tied to inflation.
00:15:37.160Inflation 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.
00:17:34.560So what do you where do you see the economy going here?
00:17:37.840For example, one of the things that I don't think a lot of people are talking about is since COVID started.
00:17:44.840The 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.
00:17:54.720You don't have to pay your student loans right now.
00:18:49.320And I think that's because people know you've got you've got something else you have to pile on here.
00:18:54.600People 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.
00:19:07.120And 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.
00:19:16.660OK, instead of selling it to countries, no country will buy it.
00:19:20.040So the Fed has been buying that debt, which just adds to their balance sheet.
00:19:25.620Then 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.
00:19:39.220So they can they can put their balance sheet in order.
00:19:42.260You have had these bailouts going out going on really since 2008, and it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.
00:19:53.140They're tapering all of that now, which means they're turning that tap of cash off that's really flowing into the market.
00:20:00.840So they have to turn that off when they turn that off.
00:20:04.800That's going to cause problems with the bank.
00:20:07.340It's going to cause problems in the stock market.
00:20:09.820It'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.
00:20:19.280Then they're going to also raise interest rates, which they have to do.
00:20:24.840The way you fight inflation is to raise interest rates.
00:20:29.200But 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.
00:20:41.940No one in the history of the world has ever tried that.
00:20:46.540In 1980, Paul Volcker got our interest rates up to, I think, 15 or I believe the highest was 19.
00:20:55.600It might have been 15, but I believe it was 19 percent.
00:22:53.720And I'm not saying that's a Republican one.
00:22:55.560It's just more sane than the Democrats.
00:22:57.460But 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.
00:23:10.680This kind of goes back to what the earlier caller was saying.
00:23:13.780You know, you mentioned the Reagan situation.
00:23:15.400And there's no better way to emphasize, I suppose, that conservative policies are better than by implementing liberal ones.
00:24:39.760That's so pervasive on the right right now.
00:24:43.360But 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.
00:24:52.960They're being overturned because the courts are overturning them because they're unconstitutional.
00:24:57.080Right. 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.
00:28:50.900Stu, we were talking last hour about this feeling that we are losing somehow.
00:28:58.360Yeah, 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.
00:29:07.700And there there's a sort of pervasive sense of constant losing.
00:29:13.160You 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.
00:29:26.780And and like, yeah, of course, I would agree.
00:29:29.540It'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.
00:29:35.300You know, I know I live in Texas where there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of pushback.
00:29:39.120Maybe if you're living in downtown Portland, the libraries are quite different.
00:29:42.480But 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.
00:29:59.980Obviously, we're seeing the results of some of the judges.
00:30:03.280And 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.
00:30:11.520That'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.
00:30:25.800And that is likely to lead to positive things pretty soon down the road.
00:30:31.080Now, 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.
00:30:41.220But 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.
00:33:17.900Before we had, you know, these these rhinos that were running Michael Steele that were running the Republican Party.
00:33:27.040Now, 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.
00:33:47.300They want to get rid of these clowns in office.
00:33:51.840And it's more mature than it was with the Tea Party.
00:33:55.120We 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.
00:34:39.920You 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.
00:34:56.700Notice, 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.
00:36:50.720It's awful because they've forgotten that it's entertainment that is much more important than the message.
00:36:59.260You can't get anybody to listen to the message.
00:37:01.220And 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.
00:37:14.100And be the things that we've always talked about that were conspiracy theories or only theories are now being proven to be true.
00:37:25.100I say something now and it used to take, you know, 10 years before you would see it.
00:37:31.940I can tell you now about the Great Reset and tell you that I think we're really, really behind the eight ball.
00:37:38.800But 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.
00:37:58.000We are winning because people are waking up and the sides are flipping.
00:38:05.620They 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.
00:38:16.740OK, that's how they that's how they destroyed us.
00:38:20.360Well, they are forcing people into their religion and people are understanding their religion is not based on facts.
00:39:04.820This 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.
00:39:13.580You know, part of this obviously is covid from both sides.
00:39:16.880You know, people losing loved ones and people having to deal with crazy restrictions and losing their livelihoods and all the things associated with it.
00:39:22.700And that's part of this era that I don't think you can separate.
00:39:25.700But, you know, it was after the the Wisconsin parade incident where the guy where that SUV ran over all those people.
00:39:55.960But 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.
00:40:15.880There were people from, I'm sure, all over the political spectrum there.
00:40:18.860But everyone was great and we had a great time and we loved it.
00:40:21.960And at the same the same weekend, probably tens of thousands of communities had similar events that were fantastic and everybody loved them.
00:40:33.800And 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.
00:40:46.300And almost all of them were not at this one parade that we all know about that was legitimately tragic and horrible.
00:40:53.560And we need to, you know, we need to worry about and stop, of course.
00:40:57.440But it doesn't affect, you know, it probably did not affect your life.
00:41:02.100It 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.
00:41:35.800It's not the media saying, OK, well, don't worry about that.
00:41:38.120They seem to not want to talk about the Wisconsin parade, right?
00:41:41.240Because it didn't feed their narrative, which is waking even more people up.
00:41:46.780The ones who responded, the ones who helped, the ones who are talking about it, were talking about it.
00:41:53.860Those, 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.
00:42:10.120They brought this upon this community.