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00:00:00.000 Hey, today we talk about all of it.

00:00:02.300 We talk about the border and the new border bill, which do not even call it that.

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00:00:09.480 We go through all of that.

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00:00:17.400 We talk about politics, the economy and the real jobs report, what you need to know.

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00:02:15.780 Well, you know, it's interesting.

00:02:17.440 It's so very, very sad.

00:02:18.880 Couldn't happen to nicer people.

00:02:21.660 CNN's morning show has been canceled.

00:02:24.980 They should just go dark in the morning.

00:02:27.240 You know what I mean?

00:02:28.420 Are you sure about that, Glenn?

00:02:29.900 I mean, in the morning?

00:02:31.860 I mean, shouldn't they just consider it for the whole 24-hour schedule?

00:02:35.000 Well, I was just thinking of the slogan, which is appropriate even today.

00:02:40.440 Darkness in the morning.

00:02:42.660 I think that would be good.

00:02:45.520 You know, CNN, if you're looking to rocket your ratings, you could put this show on just

00:02:50.380 as a simulcast, and you'd rock the ratings.

00:02:54.440 Now, the most heard thing from your newsroom would be, oh, pluck out thine eyes.

00:03:01.600 So you'd be all eyeless reporters.

00:03:04.000 But they couldn't be worse if they were eyeless.

00:03:06.780 So you might consider it.

00:03:08.100 I'm going to put the possibilities.

00:03:10.100 If you want to do another bet on that one for $1,000, I'm willing to take the no side.

00:03:15.220 Yeah.

00:03:15.680 Yeah.

00:03:16.980 Let's see.

00:03:17.600 So not only does this bill codify 1.5 million illegal border crossings into law, you've got

00:03:24.880 to call your senator right now in Oklahoma.

00:03:28.480 Oh, I feel bad for you.

00:03:30.180 Really?

00:03:30.720 I, your guy in the Republican Party, he negotiated this?

00:03:37.440 Wow.

00:03:37.920 Is that a surprise to you?

00:03:41.040 Not only does it codify a million and a half illegal border crossings and make it law, but

00:03:47.820 the border emergency that automatically gets implemented at 5,000 crossings a day in a week

00:03:54.940 can be overturned by Joe Biden.

00:03:58.440 Oh.

00:03:58.840 And then it also locks in all green card giveaways through 2030.

00:04:04.480 So that's another added, boy, I bet that was hard for Lankford to get.

00:04:09.320 Don't you think, Stu?

00:04:10.160 Ooh, he probably.

00:04:11.720 Here's the limiting part of the new border emergency authority.

00:04:17.720 It's, it's quite amazing.

00:04:20.960 Okay.

00:04:21.160 So remember, border emergency authority, if it's over 5,000 a day, then the president, should

00:04:29.540 he deem, can say, we're shutting this, no, we're almost shutting this down, which means

00:04:38.260 those, you know, extra 2,000 people just have to go to ports of entry so then they can, you

00:04:45.080 know, just go through the standard process at the ports of entry.

00:04:49.100 That's great.

00:04:49.620 Now, he can almost shut the border down for 180 days after the first two years of this

00:05:00.080 bill, which is kind of like saying, we're going to make them enforce the border when

00:05:07.460 it gets really bad, but only for six months out of the year.

00:05:10.560 And then I believe there's a 45 day clause as well, Stu.

00:05:16.980 Yeah, the 45 day clause is they can suspend, once the border, quote unquote, almost shut

00:05:22.980 down, kicks in, they can suspend the almost shut down for 45 days at the president's whim.

00:05:30.180 Basically, the only standard he has to hit on that is he feels that it is in the national

00:05:34.960 interest, which of course means anything, right?

00:05:37.560 Like, so, yeah, I know.

00:05:39.100 So, let me ask you this, Stu.

00:05:42.520 Who is organizing, we've proven it by showing you the actual maps and everything else, who's

00:05:50.320 organizing the people in South and Central America to get to our border?

00:05:57.500 Starts with an N, ends with O. 0.97

00:06:00.740 N-G-O? 1.00

00:06:02.260 Yes!

00:06:03.520 Okay.

00:06:04.340 All right.

00:06:04.720 Public-private partnerships, right?

00:06:06.880 It's the thing of the future.

00:06:09.100 I like to call it fascism. 0.80

00:06:12.380 This authorized $933 million to go to FEMA.

00:06:17.560 And it goes immediately for NGOs and towns.

00:06:22.540 Another $350 million authorizes only if ICE has increased in detention beds to 46,000 and has

00:06:31.020 hired two more deportation officers.

00:06:33.700 If the Border Patrol has hired 200 more officers and if USCIS hires another 800 asylum officers,

00:06:44.000 then, then, then, then, then they're going to get that money, okay?

00:06:48.980 Then another $116 million is available to FEMA if ICE has conducted 1,500 removal flights since the bill was enacted.

00:06:57.700 So, they get a little bonus there.

00:06:59.060 And if you're looking, you know, at the $1.4 billion in funding available to FEMA for disbursement to NGOs and municipalities, it's great.

00:07:11.960 It's great.

00:07:12.680 We're going to, they're going to give those, you know, those George Soros NGOs as long as border securing hiring and deportation provisions are hit.

00:07:22.340 So, we got that going for us.

00:07:24.880 We're only going to give money to people who are trying to destroy our country if they hit the other, other benchmarks, which is great.

00:07:35.120 Hey, if you get deported twice within a year, you can't come back for a whole year.

00:07:45.280 And I think that's, I think that's cruel, quite honestly.

00:07:48.900 So, wait a minute, I've crossed illegally twice, and then they caught me and deported me twice.

00:07:56.320 When I'm coming in for the third time and they catch me, I can't come in for a whole year?

00:08:03.780 What?

00:08:04.960 Wow, that's unfair.

00:08:06.580 That's, that's really, whew, unfair.

00:08:10.060 And I, I appreciate your call for people to call their Congress people and senators,

00:08:15.400 and it's, would not be the worst use of your time to do so.

00:08:19.220 No, not at all.

00:08:20.180 However, what I will say is, even if you do not call, there is almost no chance of this bill passing.

00:08:26.700 I mean, there is, Johnson is already saying it's dead on arrival.

00:08:31.260 Yeah, but it got, it has to be dead in the Senate too.

00:08:34.200 It can't pass the Senate.

00:08:35.720 I would, yeah, that would be, I mean, that doesn't, of course, if it just passes the Senate,

00:08:39.920 it won't become law necessarily, but still, you're right.

00:08:42.260 I mean, it's a good thing.

00:08:43.660 People should be making stands on it, and I think they will.

00:08:46.320 This is the type of thing that will get, you know, senators who stand up for it primaried,

00:08:52.660 which is an important outcome of this, to know which, which people think this is a good idea,

00:08:57.500 I think is an important outcome of this.

00:09:00.300 Johnson is saying in the House side, they're not even going to put it up for a vote.

00:09:03.240 So, Scalise is saying the same thing.

00:09:05.360 They're not even going to get a vote on this.

00:09:06.780 So, hopefully, this is dead on arrival, and it's not a realistic thing.

00:09:10.640 And it's funny, because, Glenn, this is really, you could make an argument,

00:09:14.600 this is the optimal time to negotiate something just like this.

00:09:19.580 No.

00:09:20.260 I'm serious.

00:09:21.060 No, there's an emergency.

00:09:22.860 Why would, what?

00:09:23.800 This would be the time of pressure?

00:09:25.640 Perfect time, right?

00:09:26.600 But, like, we've had these situations before, where there are times that pressure builds up,

00:09:32.540 and there are certain dynamics that go on, and Republicans try to get things out of these

00:09:38.320 negotiations, right?

00:09:39.520 Right.

00:09:39.800 And so, well, I mean, like, we like to think they are going to.

00:09:44.160 Right.

00:09:44.580 But, like, a good example of this is a government shutdown.

00:09:47.460 The government's about to shut down.

00:09:49.700 We know there's a funding thing that's about to happen.

00:09:53.020 They need money to open up the government.

00:09:54.720 And so, Republicans say, well, we're not going to vote for that unless you give us X, Y,

00:09:58.560 and Z.

00:09:59.120 And then what happens at the end of that process, almost every single time, basically, they get

00:10:04.240 nothing.

00:10:04.920 They cave.

00:10:05.820 Or maybe they get something super surfacy that doesn't really do anything.

00:10:09.700 And the reason for that is, in reality, the Republicans don't want the government to

00:10:13.940 shut down.

00:10:14.500 The thing that they're holding hostage is not something they actually want, right?

00:10:18.480 So, they're sitting here saying, well, you know what, we're going to hold this thing

00:10:23.240 open.

00:10:23.520 But they know it becomes a political liability if the government is shut down for too long.

00:10:27.480 And they also have lots of friends and themselves that are dependent on government funding.

00:10:32.700 So, they don't actually want that to happen.

00:10:34.820 The weird thing with the Ukraine issue is it's in that sweet spot where, regardless of what

00:10:41.120 you think of this, Republicans are kind of like shoulder shrug on it.

00:10:46.180 I think they could deal with spending another $100 billion and giving it to Ukraine, or they

00:10:51.680 could not.

00:10:52.300 I think they don't really care.

00:10:53.900 So, they have good...

00:10:54.920 Some do.

00:10:55.480 Some do.

00:10:55.820 Some do.

00:10:56.260 But not enough.

00:10:57.240 Some really oppose it.

00:10:58.920 Some really approve of it.

00:11:00.820 Obviously, the Nikki Haley side of the Republican Party really wants this funding to go through. 1.00

00:11:05.880 But as a party, they're kind of like could go, I think, either way on Ukraine funding, which

00:11:10.620 puts them in a unique negotiating position.

00:11:13.300 They can hold this hostage.

00:11:14.420 And if they lose it, they lose it.

00:11:15.700 If they win it, they...

00:11:16.380 So, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:11:17.920 So, are you saying that the left has put the Republicans into a position where really it's

00:11:22.960 a win-win for them?

00:11:23.700 It's almost hard to fail, right?

00:11:25.720 Yeah, it is.

00:11:26.520 So, you go to...

00:11:27.280 Then you go to this negotiation and you realize in that situation, which is an optimal negotiating

00:11:31.680 situation, this is the best they could come up with?

00:11:37.080 Like, this is the thing they came up with when everything was in their favor.

00:11:41.020 In the invasion of our country. 0.98

00:11:45.700 Right.

00:11:45.920 The only time that we have seen anything like this in human history, this is what they come

00:11:53.860 up with.

00:11:54.240 And this is the other side of it is part of this, right?

00:11:56.640 In a government shutdown negotiation, Democrats can say, fine, keep it shut down.

00:12:02.580 I don't care.

00:12:03.620 Fine.

00:12:04.060 Because we know we'll win the politics of that, right?

00:12:06.860 On the Democratic side.

00:12:08.240 The Democrats this time realize they're losing the politics of this.

00:12:11.860 They know the border is a massive story for them and a huge problem.

00:12:16.840 So, they know they have to do something or at least show they're doing something.

00:12:20.380 And still, with all of that, this is all Republicans were able to achieve.

00:12:25.200 That's it.

00:12:25.700 That's it.

00:12:26.540 Now, let me just say this.

00:12:29.820 Republicans, do not blame Donald Trump for losing this election.

00:12:34.740 Don't.

00:12:35.440 No.

00:12:35.880 Don't.

00:12:36.220 I mean, he can do his own part on that, but one of the reasons why people are going

00:12:43.780 to say, what difference does it make?

00:12:46.300 Because you can get somebody like Donald Trump who's willing to do things, but we don't trust

00:12:52.680 that you won't flip sides and stop him.

00:12:56.160 You won't flip sides.

00:12:57.900 He will have to do it all through executive order.

00:13:00.280 And there's a lot of conservatives like me that don't want that.

00:13:03.040 But what choice are you giving us?

00:13:06.640 What choice are you giving us? 0.99

00:13:08.740 You're worthless as a party. 0.99

00:13:12.200 Worthless. 1.00

00:13:13.200 And by the way, go ahead.

00:13:14.840 I was going to say quickly on the politics of this, Glenn, you know, Donald Trump is quite

00:13:17.900 aware of those politics as well and is outwardly telling everyone he is the reason this bill

00:13:23.960 is going to die. 0.90

00:13:25.100 He's been telling people that for behind the scenes for a long time and publicly for a couple 0.98

00:13:29.840 of weeks, he wants people to know, hey, this crappy deal, I'm the one that stopped it.

00:13:35.200 And that's another reason for you to be confident it is not going to pass, because when he's

00:13:39.020 talking like that, there's no way the Republican Party is going to come.

00:13:42.520 And no way.

00:13:44.340 And let me tell you, the people who stand against it should receive our praise, should receive

00:13:48.600 our praise.

00:13:49.120 They should be just as much.

00:13:51.260 You know, Mike Lee is fighting this thing like crazy.

00:13:54.180 I'm sorry I just spent the weekend with him, but Mike Lee is fighting this thing like crazy.

00:13:58.480 And he should, too, say it's because of me and this guy and this guy and this guy and

00:14:03.660 Donald Trump that stopped this thing.

00:14:06.380 By the way, let me just give you a little tip.

00:14:08.560 OK, this is I don't do any car companies, you know, but I do care about your financial

00:14:16.200 situation.

00:14:16.860 So let me just give you this tip.

00:14:19.540 If you're thinking about buying a new car or a used car, do not let Mitch McConnell or

00:14:26.740 any of the Republican leadership negotiate.

00:14:30.240 OK, because what he'll do is he'll say, I don't know.

00:14:34.320 And then he'll go back into the back room with the salesperson and he's going to make

00:14:40.020 an incredible deal.

00:14:41.580 And then he'll come out and go, I got your deal is really good. 0.99

00:14:46.740 And you'll say, wow, this really sucks. 0.94

00:14:49.660 And it's taken you months. 0.98

00:14:51.360 I've been sitting out here for months.

00:14:53.700 Yeah, well, you know, it's too late for you to back out.

00:14:58.180 You got you're going to sign it right now.

00:15:00.260 Sign it right now.

00:15:01.340 Sign it right now.

00:15:02.740 And then it'll get to the point to where he'll tell you that you really didn't even need

00:15:08.200 the car to begin with, but you just didn't sign a contract, sign a contract where it says

00:15:14.800 you'll never own a car ever, ever again.

00:15:17.060 At least for many years, you'll never own a car.

00:15:19.640 Wait, what?

00:15:21.560 That's the way this is negotiation is working out right now in Washington.

00:15:28.500 Don't be fooled.

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00:16:31.420 Now back to the podcast.

00:16:32.320 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:16:42.980 We were talking about an update that I gave you last week.

00:16:48.060 I told you about a South Dakota bill that is now massively under assault from the bank lobbyists

00:16:55.400 and special interests in South Dakota.

00:16:58.200 This is something that has to happen in your state as well.

00:17:02.340 In South Dakota, the Republican leadership is buckling.

00:17:05.900 But you need to be their spine.

00:17:08.760 What this is, is a fight for private property, believe it or not.

00:17:14.800 Private property.

00:17:15.920 Right now, if you have any money in stock that you bought through an intermediary, like Fidelity

00:17:24.460 or Merrill Lynch, you don't legally own that.

00:17:28.360 So if any one of these big financial institutions go out, that's collateral for their debt.

00:17:35.240 You don't own it.

00:17:36.080 It's just like the bank.

00:17:37.480 You don't actually own what's in your savings account.

00:17:41.920 That can be used as collateral for the bank.

00:17:46.400 You lose.

00:17:47.980 This wipes the average person out if there is a huge problem.

00:17:53.400 I warn you, this is going to be told that you are hearing nothing but disinformation.

00:17:59.060 It isn't true.

00:17:59.900 I just ask who has a better track record, me or the mainstream media.

00:18:07.600 So this bill in South Dakota allows you to keep ownership of your investment and all of

00:18:14.820 your savings, regardless of whether they're in an intermediary like Fidelity or Merrill Lynch.

00:18:22.060 Two, it restores the jurisdiction in the state of South Dakota.

00:18:26.900 This would put jurisdiction back into the state, which is hard to believe.

00:18:31.120 But currently, if you live in South Dakota and you have a dispute over the ownership of

00:18:35.980 your investments, say JPMorgan Chase, that will be solved in, I'm assuming JPMorgan Chase

00:18:42.880 is New York or Delaware.

00:18:47.160 So Delaware or a New York court is the place you will have to go to argue your case if you

00:18:54.980 live in South Dakota.

00:18:56.340 And how do you think that's going to go?

00:18:59.880 The legislators in South Dakota should not allow the big financial institutions to put

00:19:06.140 their customers at risk.

00:19:07.360 But the Republicans are buckling right now in South Dakota.

00:19:11.960 They are going to vote and they should tell you how they're going to vote in advance.

00:19:17.200 But this will tell you everything.

00:19:18.580 Because any legislature in South Dakota that votes against you, the citizen on this, they're

00:19:28.380 either working for the people of South Dakota and the constituents they represent, or they're

00:19:34.040 working for the special interests of someone else, the financial institutions that are all

00:19:38.240 too big to fail.

00:19:39.000 That's the only choice here.

00:19:41.280 On Wednesday, that's this coming Wednesday, February 7th, the State Affairs Committee is

00:19:47.240 voting on this bill.

00:19:48.540 It's HB 1199.

00:19:50.200 If this bill fails in committee, then the Uniform Commercial Code will continue and you are at

00:19:58.640 risk.

00:19:59.700 To protect the people of South Dakota, you need HB 199.

00:20:06.260 It is the Small Investors Protection Act.

00:20:10.140 It will protect South Dakotan investors and ensure that jurisdiction is restored to South

00:20:15.600 Dakota, where it should have always been.

00:20:18.160 Now, remember, this is not just about South Dakota.

00:20:20.660 This is in every single state.

00:20:24.200 All 50 states have the same dangerous law in place.

00:20:29.040 Every state will need to update its laws if you are to be protected, the individual, from

00:20:34.420 losing everything in a financial crash.

00:20:38.240 Here's what you need to do.

00:20:39.820 First, if you live in South Dakota, you need to call the members of the House State Affairs

00:20:45.140 Committee right now.

00:20:46.460 You can find their names online.

00:20:48.160 They have to hear from you today and tomorrow or early Wednesday.

00:20:53.320 Also, call Governor Christine Ohm's office as well or email.

00:20:57.580 Make sure they vote in support of HB 1199, the Small Investors Protection Act.

00:21:04.420 HB 1199, the Small Investors Protection Act.

00:21:09.620 They need to know that the people of South Dakota are watching this vote and they want

00:21:15.080 their property rights protected.

00:21:18.040 The one that really needs to hear this the most is the House Speaker, Stevens, and the House

00:21:23.680 Majority Leader, Will Mortensen.

00:21:26.300 They're playing games with this and siding right now with the big banks.

00:21:31.560 Over you, the citizens of the state.

00:21:34.100 They don't want you, the people, to know what is happening here.

00:21:37.760 And they will claim disinformation, but it is not.

00:21:42.340 This is true.

00:21:43.940 They will use that to thwart so many people.

00:21:47.880 Call and then it will go back and pass this Wednesday and nobody will ever think about

00:21:54.480 it again until it's too late.

00:21:57.460 OK, so call if you live in any other state.

00:22:00.880 I want you to call your legislator, your state legislator, and ask them to take a hard look

00:22:06.520 at HB 199 in South Dakota.

00:22:09.160 Every single state must pass a law like this.

00:22:13.520 The fight is focused right now on South Dakota, but that's going to change very soon.

00:22:19.620 The people that I work with are on this nationwide, and it's a fight that we cannot afford to lose.

00:22:27.800 You have to stop it before the next crisis begins.

00:22:32.420 OK, let's just talk a little bit about our strike on, you know, our retaliatory strikes

00:22:42.220 that happened over the weekend on the Islamic resistance in Iraq.

00:22:47.780 We struck, I think they said 82 targets on Saturday, but that's not true.

00:22:55.860 It's only seven targets and 87 or 82 strikes in those seven areas.

00:23:04.800 So let's say there's an airfield, that's one target, but it has, you know, 22 targets in

00:23:11.980 that airfield.

00:23:12.900 OK, I don't know why we gave the, you know, we gave Iran a week to do this. 0.91

00:23:23.700 You can't tell me that it takes a week.

00:23:25.520 It really, they don't have a plan for Iran.

00:23:28.440 I mean, that's a problem.

00:23:31.160 Why did they give them a week?

00:23:34.320 And what exactly are we doing here?

00:23:37.800 What is the goal of this?

00:23:42.900 Because we're also giving in the so-called border bill, which is not a border bill.

00:23:49.420 Oh God, I said this during the Inflation Reduction Act and nobody listened and they still passed 0.99

00:23:54.460 the damn thing. 0.99

00:23:55.560 This is not a border bill. 1.00

00:23:57.760 This is a war bill.

00:23:59.680 This is a war bill, period.

00:24:02.240 There's more money for war and refugees and everything else in this bill than there is

00:24:07.120 on the border.

00:24:11.020 But we are giving in the border bill, so-called, the war bill, we are giving Ukraine $60 billion,

00:24:19.860 $14 billion to Israel, and $10 billion to Gaza and Hamas.

00:24:29.460 Oh, who are we giving it to?

00:24:30.640 Well, we'll probably run that through the UN, which we know exactly what they're doing.

00:24:36.340 What do we do?

00:24:37.000 We're funding everybody on all sides.

00:24:39.420 It makes no sense.

00:24:42.000 God, we are just suicidal.

00:24:45.060 I'm sorry, Stu.

00:24:46.000 I'm going to have another aneurysm.

00:24:47.420 Can you just get in here for a second?

00:24:49.420 Suicidal is an interesting summary of the West overall.

00:24:55.420 But isn't it?

00:24:56.240 Yes.

00:24:56.800 We seem to be going down that road with extreme abandon.

00:25:02.140 You're right.

00:25:02.900 I mean, I think it's, the border stuff is only included in the bill because they want

00:25:09.880 the other stuff for Ukraine.

00:25:13.000 They want the cash for Ukraine secondarily for Israel, I suppose, but basically for Ukraine.

00:25:18.960 And this is their supposed flexibility on their border rules.

00:25:25.080 And it's interesting because, of course, the far left also won't vote for this.

00:25:29.180 So you'll have this situation where they're trying to cobble together the center left and

00:25:34.840 center right to come up with some sort of voting block that will get this thing through.

00:25:40.780 Going to be difficult, if not impossible, for a multitude of reasons.

00:25:44.020 But it just shows where their priorities are, right?

00:25:46.080 Like, I mean, it shows what they really want to happen.

00:25:49.560 And I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, Glenn, but like Zelensky is announcing basically they

00:25:53.920 have to reform the entire government because none of their war stuff is working.

00:25:57.460 They're just like, ah, you know, we need to kind of, we need a remix.

00:26:01.740 You know, this just doesn't work as an acoustic.

00:26:04.820 We need a techno version.

00:26:05.940 And like, I don't think that that is some, it doesn't seem like the situation you want

00:26:11.260 to dump a hundred billion dollars into.

00:26:14.660 Uh, let me, uh, uh, let me just say that, you know, one of the things that we're doing

00:26:20.320 is we are paying for their entire government.

00:26:24.380 All of the government workers, you, your tax paying dollar is going over to Ukraine.

00:26:34.080 We are funding a second government and that's not hyperbole.

00:26:39.220 Correct me if I'm wrong, Stu.

00:26:40.420 Hyperbole?

00:26:41.340 No, I don't think so.

00:26:42.440 I mean, it's, I mean, it's, you know, not necessarily the most, uh, the way they would describe

00:26:47.360 it, but yes, this is.

00:26:48.900 No, but it is, but that's what we're doing.

00:26:50.820 Does seem to be the realism of the situation.

00:26:52.820 That's what we're doing.

00:26:53.880 It is, it is just nuts.

00:26:57.560 And, um, anybody who tells you, you know, the Jamie Dimon thing over at, uh, the WEF

00:27:05.740 has bothered me for a while.

00:27:08.200 There's a couple of things that have bothered me.

00:27:10.440 Uh, one, Jamie Dimon coming out and then Al Gore coming out and saying, you know, I really

00:27:15.340 like the Trump supporters.

00:27:16.560 I don't think we should say bad things about the Trump supporters and Jamie Dimon, uh, coming

00:27:21.940 out and saying, you know, Trump wasn't really all that bad.

00:27:24.440 Where, where have you been, Jamie?

00:27:25.880 Where have you been?

00:27:27.180 Now there's two reasons for these kinds of switches.

00:27:30.600 There's one Jamie Dimon sees over the horizon and goes, none of this is good for the banking

00:27:38.100 system.

00:27:38.600 We're going to, we're going to get, we're going to lose the gold standard.

00:27:41.620 None of this is good.

00:27:43.060 And maybe we should take a look at Donald Trump or he's hedging his bet and thinking

00:27:50.380 Donald Trump is going to win and there's got to be somebody on the inside, maybe at

00:27:56.180 the treasury department.

00:27:57.320 Maybe I could say nice things about him and become the head of treasury so I can keep this

00:28:01.600 train running on the tracks it's already on.

00:28:04.100 I don't know.

00:28:05.560 Al Gore comes out and says these things.

00:28:07.760 Um, they are afraid, but what you're seeing is remember when I told you that there's their

00:28:17.780 whole thing was restoring trust.

00:28:19.940 I talked to some people this weekend that were actually there and I said, I have to ask

00:28:24.880 you restoring trust who whose trust are they trying to restore?

00:28:30.480 I said, I haven't said this on the air yet because it's just a theory, but I get the feeling

00:28:35.580 that they're not trying to restore trust between us and the people.

00:28:40.620 It's trust in the elite and in the program that people are starting to peel off up at

00:28:47.280 the top levels and they're saying, no, no, no.

00:28:50.020 We all have to trust each other.

00:28:51.400 This is going to work.

00:28:52.080 We got to stay together.

00:28:53.260 They both laughed and said, that's exactly what they mean.

00:28:58.740 They don't even think of us.

00:29:01.860 Okay.

00:29:02.420 We are just totally irrelevant.

00:29:04.360 They are in trouble.

00:29:06.980 We've got to stand together and use our common sense, be cool and collected and calm and finish

00:29:18.780 the job.

00:29:19.580 We started because we are winning.

00:29:22.800 They're freaking out.

00:29:23.960 We are winning, but it is going to be at the finish line.

00:29:27.540 It will be a photo finish.

00:29:28.920 I want you to hear this.

00:29:36.540 This is a question and answer from a teacher and his student talking about J.K.

00:29:44.120 Rowling.

00:29:44.800 Listen.

00:29:45.080 So these guys want to talk about J.K. Rowling?

00:29:49.200 So what's going on with that?

00:29:50.480 What do you want to know?

00:29:53.360 She's had a pretty controversial past.

00:29:55.440 I just want to know, like, what are your thoughts on it?

00:29:57.460 Like, do you still like her work despite her bigoted opinions?

00:30:01.960 So let's get specific, though.

00:30:05.260 Let's define bigoted opinions.

00:30:06.900 What opinions are bigoted?

00:30:08.500 We're going to treat this as a thought experiment.

00:30:10.280 I'm not going to say what's right or wrong or what way to think.

00:30:12.560 The whole point is to learn how to think, not what to think.

00:30:15.120 Yeah, yeah.

00:30:15.420 So when you say bigot, you're starting with the conclusion that, given her bigoted opinions. 0.78

00:30:20.860 Yeah.

00:30:21.060 So first, let's start with, does she have bigoted opinions? 0.74

00:30:24.120 So when you say bigoted opinions.

00:30:25.280 She has had a history of being extremely transphobic, I've heard.

00:30:29.800 You've heard.

00:30:30.460 So what, can you give me an example?

00:30:33.060 If you look at her Twitter, I think you can see a few things.

00:30:36.560 If you want, I can try and find something.

00:30:38.640 Yeah, see if you can find one.

00:30:40.540 So, one of these tweets that she came up with in 2019, she said,

00:30:48.300 Dress however you please.

00:30:49.760 Call yourself whatever you like.

00:30:51.720 Sleep with any consenting adult who will have you live your best life in peace and security,

00:30:59.620 but force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real.

00:31:06.720 So you find that bigoted?

00:31:08.380 What do you find about it?

00:31:09.740 It was, it was deemed transphobic.

00:31:13.760 Like, I myself.

00:31:15.800 Do you find that transphobic yourself?

00:31:17.820 Uh, I don't really have an opinion on it, but I'm just going with what a lot of other people have said.

00:31:24.380 So let's pause there.

00:31:25.260 Let's not go with what other people are saying.

00:31:27.180 Let's try and learn how to critically think.

00:31:29.160 So let's analyze the tweet ourselves.

00:31:31.240 So that statement, do you see anything problematic disregarding other people's opinions?

00:31:37.580 Um, she did try and pin some things on a specific group of people.

00:31:50.160 Where does she, where does she do that? 1.00

00:31:52.140 Can you read that?

00:31:53.240 But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real. 0.99

00:31:58.700 So when I hear that, I'm interpreting that as meaning if a woman says that, you know, saying that there's a difference between men and female and then being attacked as transphobic.

00:32:08.780 I think that's what she's saying by attacking someone for stating that sex is real. 0.99

00:32:13.980 That is exactly what she's saying.

00:32:15.560 Is that transphobic to you?

00:32:17.540 So, to me, no.

00:32:21.600 Stating that sex is real is not transphobic.

00:32:24.340 It's just a fact of life.

00:32:26.180 It exists.

00:32:26.820 So is there anything you disagree with in that tweet?

00:32:30.460 Uh, in that tweet, I can't really see anything that I myself disagree with.

00:32:37.680 Do you think it's fair that there's a, that she's being attacked by a large group of people and people are calling her?

00:32:44.440 Like you said, at the beginning of this conversation, you said, given the fact that J.K. Rowling is transphobic, how do you feel about Harry Potter?

00:32:51.780 Now, retroactively looking at that statement, do you think that that was the best way to phrase? 0.99

00:32:57.100 No, I feel like an idiot now. 0.96

00:32:59.160 It's okay, though, but this is why we do this, to learn how to think. 0.99

00:33:04.000 Is that not fantastic?

00:33:06.580 That's why we do this, to learn how to think.

00:33:08.420 I will tell you that when I went to school, I could only afford one class, and it was here at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

00:33:20.120 And, uh, I had a teacher, Wayne Meeks, and I have no idea to this day where he stood on issues.

00:33:27.740 No idea.

00:33:28.940 No idea.

00:33:30.060 And I would push back and forth with him, and he would push me.

00:33:33.620 And just when I thought, okay, I know what he believes, he'd flip sides, and he'd argue the other side like he was a passionate believer in that.

00:33:41.660 That's what we need.

00:33:45.660 School is not to teach what to think, but how to think.

00:33:51.480 And every single school has lost that.

00:33:55.280 They teach you how, what to think.

00:33:58.860 No.

00:34:00.120 Teach critical thinking.

00:34:01.980 The way he, the way he brought that and didn't get involved in the argument.

00:34:06.980 This is what we all have to learn.

00:34:09.040 Don't get involved or heated or frustrated in the argument.

00:34:12.820 He just took his time and said, well, wait a minute.

00:34:15.800 A lot of people say, well, what do a lot of people say?

00:34:19.300 Give me an example so we can take that.

00:34:23.920 And, uh, and remember, we don't take anything a lot of people say.

00:34:29.120 That's the problem.

00:34:30.120 That's why we've smeared so many good people, is because we haven't taken the time.

00:34:36.000 What did they actually say?

00:34:38.260 Was that in context?

00:34:40.400 What does that actually mean to you in context?

00:34:44.760 Do you agree or disagree?

00:34:46.600 With what part do you disagree?

00:34:48.880 What part do you agree?

00:34:50.820 So is that fair to say yes or no?

00:34:53.920 We should be doing this with the bill on the border stuff.

00:34:57.280 The border stuff, instead, everybody claims disinformation.

00:35:02.500 No.

00:35:03.540 Be specific.

00:35:04.960 Be specific.

00:35:06.480 What parts of this are really bad?

00:35:10.040 Now, I gotta say, I get, I suppose, I could find some good things in here.

00:35:17.620 Um, Stu, have you found any good things in here?

00:35:21.500 Yeah, I mean, I think there's some, it's not the, it's not a good bill.

00:35:26.080 But it's, it's theoretically could have some things that would be beneficial.

00:35:30.040 I mean, making the asylum process better would be a good change.

00:35:35.500 But wait, let's stop there and use critical thinking.

00:35:37.960 What exactly do you mean by better?

00:35:40.220 What do they mean by making it better?

00:35:42.520 Well, as we know, one of the big problems with the asylum process is number one, you get

00:35:46.180 on, get onto our soil and say you want asylum. 0.57

00:35:49.200 And basically you're just released within the country with a court date that can be as far

00:35:53.520 as 2032, okay?

00:35:56.320 Um, what they say, again, I'm not saying I believe this, but what they are saying this

00:36:01.580 does is it trims the asylum process from three, from multiple years to months.

00:36:08.020 So that would shorten the time period that these people were allowed to be in the United 0.98

00:36:12.260 States with no real repercussions.

00:36:14.560 Okay.

00:36:15.040 So stop for a second.

00:36:16.060 Stop for a second.

00:36:16.580 So I'd like to ask you a series of questions here and not what you just, not on, on the

00:36:22.900 facts of what you just said on what's in the bill.

00:36:26.020 I want to back up and ask you when you said they say that, that you can read the bill,

00:36:32.980 you know, it's in there.

00:36:34.540 What do you mean by they say that it will?

00:36:37.920 Uh, that they claim that if this was implemented into law, they would enforce it.

00:36:45.460 However, my hesitation here is because there's lots of things that are implemented into law

00:36:50.080 that they do not enforce.

00:36:51.680 Um, and that is why it is difficult to take any of these proposals seriously.

00:36:56.120 And would you say that happens on both sides of the aisle with almost any topic or just

00:37:01.580 this topic?

00:37:03.320 I would say that it does hit both sides of the aisle on various topics.

00:37:08.760 However, there is a heavy, heavy bias toward the left doing this.

00:37:13.840 They continually, uh, you know, do not follow the law.

00:37:17.580 And I would say there's a heavy, um, bias toward this particular issue as well, being one that

00:37:23.340 they do not enforce the law on.

00:37:25.100 So it makes me incredibly suspicious of it.

00:37:27.560 Okay.

00:37:27.660 So I could, I could go on to give me examples, but I think in, you know, just in, uh, because

00:37:34.760 of time, I'm not going to ask you that.

00:37:36.840 I think we can all find examples of that being true.

00:37:39.580 But what does that tell you now about the bill?

00:37:42.860 I mean, it tells me the bill isn't worth the paper it's typed on.

00:37:46.440 Yes.

00:37:46.860 So that tells me what, so how much time should you spend on a bill that isn't worth the paper

00:37:56.260 it's printed on?

00:37:57.540 Uh, I would argue zero minutes, but we've obviously spent more than zero minutes on it

00:38:02.440 today.

00:38:02.800 I know because we do have to inform people what's in the bill.

00:38:06.540 So they see, but I would add the caveat that we all know the game that is played on the

00:38:12.560 border.

00:38:12.960 We all know it.

00:38:14.100 So it's not worth, I mean, you can put as many, you know, uh, uh, shall over, uh, will

00:38:23.840 in any bill.

00:38:25.200 And the shall is meaning, well, they have to do it now.

00:38:28.020 I've seen that game played over and over and over again.

00:38:31.240 Uh, and it doesn't matter.

00:38:33.300 It doesn't matter.

00:38:34.100 They're not following the constitution.

00:38:35.900 So these bills don't mean very much.

00:38:39.000 The best thing that Congress and the, and the, and the administration can do now is not

00:38:44.040 pass anything until they've restored their trust with the American people.

00:38:48.740 But are they apt to do that?

00:38:52.480 Hmm.

00:38:52.720 I would argue, no, but let me follow up with this on your, on your side here, Glenn, because

00:38:56.780 and I will do this as a, someone who's completely dead inside on all of these issues.

00:39:01.620 I admit my, my devil's advocacy here is not heartfelt.

00:39:06.100 Uh, but no, mine isn't.

00:39:07.460 Yeah, I know.

00:39:07.980 I know.

00:39:08.500 But let's play devil's advocate.

00:39:09.780 But like if, cause I, my initial reaction to this bill is to read it and say, okay, there

00:39:16.580 are maybe a couple of things that could theoretically be good in there, but I don't trust them at

00:39:20.520 all because they're never going to enforce these things anyway.

00:39:23.080 If that is the case, then how is there ever a solution to this problem?

00:39:27.280 We could sit here and say that like, well, uh, question, you know, we are skeptical.

00:39:33.420 They're going to implement this, but we're going to be skeptical that they're going to

00:39:36.700 implement anything forever.

00:39:38.820 I think rightfully so.

00:39:40.560 So with that being said, how do you ever get to a place where this problem is solved or at

00:39:46.440 least alleviated?

00:39:48.080 So, uh, this leads me to a place that I didn't think we would go to.

00:39:52.000 Um, but, uh, I'm glad you asked that question.

00:39:55.140 Uh, civil war.

00:39:56.380 No, no, the, the answer to that question is none of this will be solved by the people

00:40:03.760 who caused the problem.

00:40:06.020 Um, the people that are currently saying that they are going to solve this problem are all

00:40:12.960 of the people that have caused this problem.

00:40:15.740 Joe Biden, uh, the GOP that says they want to solve problems, but they don't actually want

00:40:21.840 to solve them.

00:40:23.140 Um, the, you know, Chuck Schumer, all of the same people are involved.

00:40:27.580 So the, the, the real answer is, shouldn't we be spending more time on finding, uh, the

00:40:35.220 right people to run, ensuring that they get in, helping them get in and finding new candidates

00:40:42.160 that won't play this same game?

00:40:44.060 I mean, we've, we've seen that's, that's almost as harder, uh, almost harder than solving the,

00:40:51.400 um, the border problem.

00:40:54.500 I mean, you've, what you've just said is basically Donald Trump's argument, right?

00:40:58.280 His argument is put me back, put me in an office and I will take care of this.

00:41:02.340 And, and we shouldn't, even if there are improvements in this bill, we shouldn't look at them because

00:41:07.840 the more important thing is to get me back in office.

00:41:11.260 And therefore I can do these things because I alone can do this.

00:41:14.960 Well, then, no, wait, that's not what I said.

00:41:17.300 That's not what I said.

00:41:17.900 But I think that's similar to what, I'm not saying, I'm not saying you're, you're signaling

00:41:21.800 this to Donald Trump.

00:41:22.640 I'm just saying I'm, I'm personalizing to Donald Trump because he's making this argument explicitly,

00:41:27.020 right?

00:41:27.160 But again, he, he, if that was indeed what he was saying and, uh, you know, he didn't say it,

00:41:34.800 so let's not attribute it to him.

00:41:36.180 But indeed, if that's what he was saying, well, then that would be a problem because that's not

00:41:41.760 our system.

00:41:42.800 That's not our system.

00:41:44.260 If, if he would say, hire me, hire these people in their respective roles and together we're going

00:41:54.360 to fix this, that would be the ultimate, that would be the ultimate, uh, if everybody did what

00:42:00.840 they said they were going to do and they were fresh, fresh blood, that would be great.

00:42:06.100 Um, the next best thing is to do it by executive order, but I hate that solution.

00:42:13.000 Um, for, for one reason they can change it.

00:42:15.880 The next president that comes in.

00:42:17.280 Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

00:42:37.560 na, na na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na na, na, na, na, na, na.

The Glenn Beck Program - February 05, 2024

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