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00:00:00.580 Hello, podcast is another fantastic show. We celebrate COVID, the anniversary week.

00:00:07.660 It's really started this week. And, you know, this week is the week we met Anthony Fauci.

00:00:13.000 And so we've got an Anthony Fauci cake we're going to be cutting up a little later.

00:00:17.440 We talk about President Biden's press conference, just how scary that might be. 0.75

00:00:23.240 Remember when you used to watch like Dan Quayle or, you know, George Bush and your butt would tighten just a little bit.

00:00:31.080 And you'd be like, please don't screw it up. Please don't screw it up, please. 0.72

00:00:33.940 I'm happy to say Democrats are going to feel that way on Thursday.

00:00:36.920 They certainly will. Yeah.

00:00:37.920 We also looked at the similarities between what the media says about Donald Trump and who Andrew Cuomo actually is.

00:00:43.600 Ah, it's weird. Seems to be a lot of them.

00:00:45.860 Yeah. All that and more on today's podcast.

00:00:47.800 Don't forget to subscribe at blazetv.com slash Glenn. Promo code is Glenn for 10 bucks off.

00:00:52.040 Subscribe and rate and review this podcast as well as Stu Does America.

00:00:56.300 I would really appreciate that as well. 0.85

00:00:58.480 And don't forget, Andrew Cuomo is awful.

00:01:01.400 Dot com.

00:01:08.680 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:16.080 Too many people are not willing to actually tell you the truth.

00:01:19.880 They're not willing to tell themselves the truth.

00:01:23.080 And it's really, really super easy when you have people out there with bad intent who take things.

00:01:30.820 I'm talking directly to media matters and George Soros people that take things out of context and then send them everywhere to all of the media outlets.

00:01:42.440 And then those media outlets, because they're not honest and they don't look at media matters and say anything, but they're on our side.

00:01:52.600 They take those clips out of context.

00:01:55.280 They take those clips and they make it into something that it isn't because you don't actually listen to the whole thing.

00:02:02.280 It's not honest.

00:02:04.600 Tucker Carlson and I were torched by John Oliver over the weekend, and I don't really care, but I want you to know the difference.

00:02:14.680 I need you to be able to say, here is the difference.

00:02:19.920 Here's why we say that.

00:02:21.660 We think that fascism is happening in America.

00:02:27.340 We believe that if anyone who says my way or the highway is a fascist.

00:02:35.140 When it comes to Dr. Seuss books, it is not fascistic for the family to say, we're not going to print this anymore.

00:02:44.020 We want to change the, we want to change the, uh, the, the drawings in this book.

00:02:51.580 That's not fascistic.

00:02:54.680 However, what happened after that is fascistic.

00:03:00.720 eBay won't allow you to buy the book now.

00:03:05.740 Well, wait a minute.

00:03:07.160 What?

00:03:08.240 Amazon immediately pulled all the books.

00:03:11.200 Now, libraries are pulling the books.

00:03:14.840 Schools are pulling the books.

00:03:17.500 That's fascistic.

00:03:18.960 When the family says we're not doing it, that's one thing.

00:03:22.640 But once you cross into a public library where I can get a copy of Mein Kampf, but I can't get a copy of Dr. Seuss.

00:03:34.420 There's a problem.

00:03:36.740 You know what is fascistic?

00:03:38.480 Almost every story that is run on Dr. Seuss does not show any of the offending pictures.

00:03:45.400 When you see the offending pictures, you're like, okay, yep, that's kind of an outdated stereotype.

00:03:51.960 Mm-hmm.

00:03:54.240 And nobody's defending that.

00:03:56.340 But when you read a story and it won't show you anything, it won't actually let you decide that's fascistic.

00:04:09.580 Everybody is jamming everything down everyone's throat.

00:04:13.680 And if you don't agree, you should be canceled.

00:04:16.680 Here's John Oliver talking about Tucker Carlson and I this Sunday.

00:04:25.320 Now, that testimony was pretty newsworthy.

00:04:27.320 But while some networks took the hearings live, Fox, unsurprisingly, barely covered it.

00:04:32.120 In fact, across conservative media, you would hardly know the hearing had happened because they were too busy with this.

00:04:39.020 Dr. Seuss getting canceled.

00:04:40.920 The children's book publisher says it will stop releasing six of his books.

00:04:46.320 The cancel culture going after Dr. Seuss tonight.

00:04:49.760 Dr. Seuss books are now too insensitive and even racist for this mob.

00:04:55.520 They are banning Dr. Seuss books.

00:04:59.660 How much more do you need to see before all of America wakes up and goes, this is fascism?

00:05:10.560 Oh, I don't know.

00:05:11.500 A lot more.

00:05:13.240 Because the books weren't banned.

00:05:15.020 Dr. Seuss Enterprises decided to stop printing six of them.

00:05:18.280 And a company deciding which of its own books it will or won't print is an example of free enterprise, not fascism.

00:05:24.580 It would make as much sense to argue they're banning unicycles.

00:05:27.340 How much more do you need to see before America wakes up and says, this is transcendentalism?

00:05:32.660 Well, the first thing isn't even true.

00:05:34.300 And I've got no idea how you got from there to the second part.

00:05:37.340 Well, let me explain to you.

00:05:41.880 Here's how I explain it.

00:05:43.660 If someone was banning unicycles and everybody went out and tried to buy them and unicycles went from $5 to $1,500, you'd think there might be a market for it.

00:06:01.980 There's a market for these books.

00:06:05.780 People were standing in line to get these books before you couldn't get them anymore.

00:06:13.880 It's not just a private business making the decision.

00:06:18.580 First of all, he's right.

00:06:19.860 The family made the decision.

00:06:21.560 Then, then the publisher said, we're not going to publish it anymore.

00:06:29.980 Okay.

00:06:31.180 Private business.

00:06:32.460 Let's get into that here in a second.

00:06:34.280 Private business.

00:06:35.960 And a family.

00:06:37.300 Ah, ah, ah.

00:06:38.400 Okay.

00:06:40.460 Now let's go to the libraries.

00:06:43.340 Ah, that seems to be a government institution.

00:06:47.240 How about eBay?

00:06:52.260 Ah, ah, ah.

00:06:53.160 Private business.

00:06:54.720 Private business.

00:06:55.960 You know what's really interesting?

00:06:58.060 Is how all of these private businesses are doing things that are against the Constitution,

00:07:04.020 against freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of assembly.

00:07:09.240 All of these things.

00:07:11.000 Freedom to petition your own government.

00:07:13.200 I have a right to petition my government and say, hey, what the hell is going on with coronavirus?

00:07:20.740 Why are you behaving this way?

00:07:24.300 Instead, ah, ah, ah, they don't like it.

00:07:27.620 And so all the private businesses are stifling us.

00:07:33.320 Ah, ah.

00:07:33.800 Now that's not ah, ah, ah.

00:07:35.980 Exactly fascism.

00:07:38.120 But let me ah, ah, ah.

00:07:40.140 Explain how you got there.

00:07:41.380 Ah.

00:07:43.200 It's pretty easy.

00:07:46.140 These huge corporations are now doing the bidding for the United States government.

00:07:54.500 They are now, many of them are in bed with the government, doing business with the government.

00:08:01.720 Um, I know you're not from around these parts, uh, John Oliver, but maybe you should read some,

00:08:07.820 some of our past presidents.

00:08:09.760 Maybe you could read the farewell address, ah, ah, ah, from Eisenhower.

00:08:18.300 He explained all of this.

00:08:21.520 It's called a public-private partnership in many cases.

00:08:25.180 And while we don't have Hitler, we, ah, ah, ah, didn't have Hitler when Trump was in charge.

00:08:35.800 In fact, when Trump was in charge, he talked a good game, but he didn't do the things that are being done right now.

00:08:45.080 Stu, Stu, Stu has a list of all of the things that, that Cuomo has done.

00:08:55.060 Cuomo is the fascist that they said Hitler was going to do everything they said.

00:09:02.280 And I'm sorry, that Trump was, they said everything that Trump was going to do, Cuomo has done. 0.88

00:09:08.820 But you guys don't care because you're not honest.

00:09:14.560 By the way, uh, the thing that you said that none of us were covering, it was like it never happened.

00:09:21.140 Uh, I covered it several times that day, but you didn't care to look.

00:09:25.380 You just made a blanket statement that I didn't cover it.

00:09:29.420 I did cover it, but it would require work from you.

00:09:35.340 Oh, no, this is a warning sign.

00:09:41.840 You don't just wake up in a fascistic government.

00:09:45.720 You just don't wake up one day and go, whoa, we were free yesterday.

00:09:50.320 It's baby steps.

00:09:52.020 And I have no problem with the family saying we're not going to do it.

00:09:56.480 They own the rights so they can do that.

00:10:00.280 Why can't I sell my book on eBay?

00:10:05.340 Why can't I do that?

00:10:07.220 It's a collectible.

00:10:09.220 Again, on eBay, I could sell Mein Kampf.

00:10:14.080 But not Dr. Seuss.

00:10:16.700 That's weird.

00:10:18.600 And how they all get together and they all walk in lockstep.

00:10:23.260 And if you disagree with him, you're mocked.

00:10:26.920 You're ridiculed.

00:10:28.000 You're isolated.

00:10:29.720 Hmm.

00:10:30.320 You guys should build a gulag, don't you think?

00:10:35.180 Let me, I don't, I don't mean to be insulting.

00:10:41.440 Yes, I do.

00:10:41.860 But let me dumb it down for John Oliver.

00:10:47.820 Down in the bowels of the HBO lot, where the truth goes to die, a slow death and then rot.

00:10:55.660 Where the woke may talk freely and others may not, there sat in a green room upon his wee cot, a pundit, who dreaded all social injustice, whose hair was cropped close like Caesar Augustus.

00:11:12.540 Why bother reporting things as they were said, when you can simply clip them and play them instead?

00:11:20.000 Why bother with fairness?

00:11:21.520 Why trouble your head?

00:11:22.920 You'll sleep just the same late at night in your bed.

00:11:26.200 And so to that Oliver fellow from Britain, who, with clips missing all of their context, is smitten, who likes to dissect what I've said and what I've written, who must chew on the great big old bite that he has bitten, I say, with no malice, for nuns to be trucked, though my words you've cut short and my good name you've mocked.

00:11:55.380 And the system of good journalism you've bucked, my advice to you is go out and get yourself a Blaze subscription so you can have access to everything that I might have said, and maybe you won't get it wrong next time.

00:12:13.980 Yes, you will, because you're not actually looking for truth.

00:12:20.700 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:12:25.380 Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed joins us today.

00:12:37.340 Yeah, I see that you're perpetuating the myth that Booker T. Washington existed.

00:12:45.020 Is this not crazy?

00:12:46.740 What's next?

00:12:47.340 Are you going to say that Helen Keller really existed?

00:12:50.020 I hope not.

00:12:51.300 Please tell me that's not something.

00:12:53.800 No, that is something.

00:12:54.700 Oh, my God.

00:12:55.220 Oh, yeah.

00:12:55.920 Helen Keller didn't exist.

00:12:57.300 Hang on.

00:12:57.880 Hang on.

00:12:58.300 If you just joined us, on the copyright page of the new printing of Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, which is his story written by him.

00:13:12.260 A few years ago, it said, scholars aren't quite sure if this is a work of fiction or not.

00:13:20.400 We're not sure he actually lived in slavery.

00:13:23.900 Now, it says it is a book of fiction, and all characters have no likeness, no meaning to anyone who actually lived.

00:13:35.980 It's crazy.

00:13:38.400 Unreal.

00:13:38.700 But you're also protecting the Helen Keller myth, I see.

00:13:42.840 She, please, you got a deaf, blind person who can't speak that wrote 12 books?

00:13:51.380 Okay.

00:13:53.300 Whatever.

00:13:54.160 And flew an airplane, by the way, for a time.

00:13:57.560 I'm sorry.

00:13:58.680 And she was a motivational speaker.

00:14:01.000 Okay.

00:14:01.360 What else?

00:14:02.340 Did she fly, too?

00:14:04.380 Could she fly?

00:14:05.940 I think she probably could.

00:14:07.360 That she had an airplane.

00:14:09.460 Of course, she could fly.

00:14:10.020 Well, she flew without the airplane as well.

00:14:12.160 Oh, you're saying without the airplane.

00:14:12.300 Okay.

00:14:12.400 Yeah, she did fly an airplane, but I think she could fly without one. 1.00

00:14:15.400 So, are they saying that she didn't exist or that she couldn't do any of these things?

00:14:19.560 No, there's a Gen Z thing going on now on TikTok that she just didn't exist.

00:14:24.040 And people are really animated about it, really pissed off about it.

00:14:27.940 Because I think because, look, I can't accomplish anything but participation trophies.

00:14:34.520 And this woman who had all these disabilities did all these great things? 0.98

00:14:37.920 No, I'm sorry.

00:14:39.020 I can't accept that.

00:14:40.140 I think that's how it kind of started.

00:14:42.260 Because I think people are, I think they're put to shame by what she did.

00:14:47.020 And I'm not even a fan of Helen Keller.

00:14:48.460 I'm not a fan either.

00:14:49.340 She was a communist, but she did amazing things.

00:14:52.860 Right.

00:14:53.200 She was like, you know, nobody can do it by themselves.

00:14:57.800 And everything we learned about Helen Keller was that she was this real, you know, individualist

00:15:04.000 that would just would not be stopped.

00:15:06.200 And in some ways, that's true.

00:15:08.860 But as she accomplished everything, she said basically no one else could accomplish this.

00:15:13.940 Yeah.

00:15:14.220 I mean, it's the same thing that's going on now.

00:15:16.220 You know, people who are up at the top of the food chain are saying, yeah, but you'll

00:15:20.060 never be able to do that.

00:15:21.280 You'll need me.

00:15:22.260 Sort of slamming the door behind him.

00:15:24.100 Exactly right.

00:15:24.960 Exactly right.

00:15:25.960 But she did exist.

00:15:27.440 I have a friend who owns a lot of her writings in her own hand.

00:15:33.200 Right.

00:15:35.780 I can't believe it.

00:15:38.500 I can't believe it.

00:15:39.800 I am calling him.

00:15:40.960 I am calling him.

00:15:41.860 Oh, yeah.

00:15:42.240 Go ahead.

00:15:42.780 He owns her writings.

00:15:46.220 That would be really hard to fake.

00:15:47.680 How did she write stuff which she couldn't even see her writing?

00:15:49.440 Thank you.

00:15:49.960 How'd that happen?

00:15:50.520 We have a set of Bibles that the blind used to use in the 1800s.

00:15:58.220 Ah, blind Bibles. 0.99

00:15:59.480 Before, yes, they were, before Braille.

00:16:01.780 Ah, before Braille, Pat.

00:16:03.400 They were able to read it before Braille.

00:16:05.000 Oh, okay, wow.

00:16:05.600 Wow, what an incredible.

00:16:06.800 Maybe blindness and the definition have changed.

00:16:09.620 Sarah, call Caesar, have him call M1, get one of those Bibles over here. 1.00

00:16:14.520 Oh, Caesar, that's a real person.

00:16:17.780 Like, Caesar existed too, I bet.

00:16:19.980 Oh, yeah.

00:16:20.840 Yeah. 0.99

00:16:21.780 Okay, you are the worst. 0.96

00:16:23.140 We are. 0.82

00:16:23.920 We're actually in that time period now.

00:16:26.640 We are.

00:16:27.460 We're in that time period.

00:16:28.920 Yeah.

00:16:29.180 Absolutely.

00:16:30.480 It's crazy.

00:16:31.580 By the way, tonight on television, or no, sorry, tomorrow night on television, the Wednesday

00:16:36.160 night special is all about this kind of crazy stuff and how these things didn't happen.

00:16:42.020 They didn't exist.

00:16:43.080 And, uh, and, uh, our, uh, founders, I mean, we're getting to a point where our founders

00:16:47.500 didn't even exist.

00:16:48.540 Do you know that the new curriculum, I think it's for Minnesota for the United States of

00:16:54.900 America, it starts 1619, and then it skips over the Pilgrims, and then it skips over the 0.98

00:17:03.780 founding of America, it skips over, uh, the Civil War, it, uh, skips over, uh, the, all

00:17:12.440 of the inventions here in America, and then it skips over World War I, World War II, and

00:17:18.960 it picks up with the atomic bomb.

00:17:23.520 We go from 1619 to the atomic bomb.

00:17:28.220 Yeah.

00:17:28.620 There's no mention of Holocaust, nothing.

00:17:30.760 None of that stuff is in there.

00:17:33.800 Wow.

00:17:34.480 Yeah.

00:17:35.120 It's, well, it's not relevant.

00:17:36.460 It's old dusty stuff.

00:17:37.940 It's not relevant.

00:17:38.840 It was just a time of racism.

00:17:40.300 And then, so the, so the British came on shore in 1619.

00:17:46.160 They had slaves.

00:17:47.600 They built the atomic bomb and blew up the Japanese. 0.99

00:17:53.220 Wow.

00:17:54.160 Wow.

00:17:54.740 That's kind of hard to process.

00:17:55.620 For no apparent reason.

00:17:56.660 For no apparent reason.

00:17:59.620 That's right.

00:18:00.700 So, it's us, like, eventually bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima. 0.82

00:18:04.800 Yeah.

00:18:05.260 There's no, there's no, there's no reason for it.

00:18:07.660 No reason for it.

00:18:07.680 That started that process at all.

00:18:09.200 Well, we're racist.

00:18:10.280 We were racist in 1619.

00:18:12.480 Racism continued until we finally got a bomb.

00:18:14.900 And then we really took our racism out on people.

00:18:18.540 And there's no racism in the Pacific theater whatsoever.

00:18:21.020 No, there was.

00:18:21.480 Of course not.

00:18:22.080 There wasn't even a Pacific theater.

00:18:23.500 We just bombed them out of nowhere.

00:18:24.640 Right.

00:18:25.180 Why would they have a theater when they're too busy fighting war?

00:18:28.340 Hey, let's put our guns down. 0.99

00:18:29.940 Let's go to the theater.

00:18:31.220 It doesn't even make sense.

00:18:32.800 It really doesn't.

00:18:33.480 By the way, tomorrow night at nine o'clock, only on Blaze TV, we're going to be giving

00:18:39.720 you some history and we're going to show you how to fight it because you need to fight

00:18:46.120 it.

00:18:46.300 And school teachers, if you are not on the front line, you're going to be part of the

00:18:52.220 problem.

00:18:53.440 Because if you're, if you're just like, I'm just, I don't want to say anything.

00:18:56.760 I understand that.

00:18:58.120 I really do.

00:18:59.780 But think of the children.

00:19:02.180 Think of the damage that is going to be done on the children.

00:19:07.460 If you don't speak up right now, by the way, did you see Rush Limbaugh's death certificate?

00:19:14.980 No.

00:19:16.500 Yep.

00:19:17.900 On his death certificate.

00:19:20.980 The coroner wrote for occupation.

00:19:25.460 What do you think they wrote for occupation?

00:19:31.020 Radio host.

00:19:32.700 Best broadcaster ever.

00:19:35.860 Guessing those are not correct.

00:19:38.540 I don't know.

00:19:39.120 I guess it's completely out.

00:19:40.920 Greatest radio host of all time.

00:19:43.520 Okay.

00:19:44.020 Isn't that great?

00:19:45.060 I like that.

00:19:45.840 That's great.

00:19:47.220 Hard to disagree with that one.

00:19:50.520 Well, they'll find a way to do it.

00:19:52.740 I think they'll find a way to do it.

00:19:54.720 I thought they were going to put that on his tombstone, too.

00:19:57.240 Are they?

00:19:58.100 Do you know about that?

00:19:59.180 Do you know?

00:19:59.540 Have you heard if they're going to?

00:20:00.680 I don't.

00:20:02.740 I mean, who else?

00:20:03.560 I mean, there's other people that would be in that conversation, obviously.

00:20:06.420 But it's, it's, he changed the entire thing.

00:20:08.920 I mean, he changed one of the bands.

00:20:10.800 I mean, he saved an entire band of broadcast.

00:20:13.480 You would have to go, again, I, I talked about this with the, the, you know, the Mount Rushmore

00:20:19.060 of radio.

00:20:19.940 Yeah.

00:20:20.660 You'd go Orson Welles, who was a host, a radio host.

00:20:26.220 You'd go maybe Bob Hope or Milton Berle.

00:20:32.080 Yeah.

00:20:32.220 Paul Harvey.

00:20:32.980 Timey radio.

00:20:33.800 Yeah.

00:20:34.180 Yeah.

00:20:34.380 But I mean, in the, Paul Harvey definitely belongs there.

00:20:36.760 Yeah.

00:20:37.220 But in the, in the modern era, it's only Paul Harvey and Rush Limbaugh.

00:20:40.720 Pat, let me give you, let me give you one other host you might want to compare, maybe

00:20:43.860 put on that, uh, on that Mount Rushmore.

00:20:46.140 Here, let's listen.

00:20:46.740 Oh, sausages, desserts, really yummy, cut with a spoon style forks.

00:20:51.800 Now, have you ever heard of a spoon style fork, Pat?

00:20:55.180 A spork?

00:20:56.180 Yeah.

00:20:56.620 Yeah.

00:20:57.100 A spork would be a thing.

00:20:58.860 Yeah.

00:20:59.120 No one would ever call a spoon style fork.

00:21:01.760 Spoon style fork.

00:21:02.460 But, uh, you know, look, I want to make sure we get all the radio hall of fame people.

00:21:06.800 Thank you, Pat.

00:21:07.680 Thank you for saying, I was here to help.

00:21:10.000 You know, I was just trying to find a spork.

00:21:12.940 That's all I was doing.

00:21:14.760 You can call them sporks, but we have a lot of immigrants in this country and they're like, 1.00

00:21:19.600 what is this?

00:21:20.420 It's a spoon style fork.

00:21:23.620 That's it.

00:21:24.660 I'm just trying to welcome all of those newcomers on our border.

00:21:29.100 It's your claim that you cut Omaha steaks with a spork?

00:21:32.920 You can.

00:21:36.960 I'd like to see that, actually.

00:21:38.940 You can.

00:21:39.460 I'd like that.

00:21:40.180 I mean, it is tender.

00:21:41.320 They are incredibly tender and delicious.

00:21:42.820 That's exactly right.

00:21:43.880 A spoon style fork is a spork.

00:21:48.000 I can't even say it.

00:21:49.020 It's a spork.

00:21:50.900 So.

00:21:52.640 Thank you, Pat, for dropping by.

00:21:54.700 Yeah.

00:21:54.980 I appreciate it.

00:21:55.620 Happy to help.

00:22:00.540 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

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00:22:05.040 So, Stu, who knew that it was going to be so easy to solve poverty?

00:22:15.660 I mean, I had no idea.

00:22:18.260 All we had to do was write a $1,400 check to some people.

00:22:22.200 To some people.

00:22:22.920 Yes.

00:22:24.380 Yeah.

00:22:24.580 No, it's amazing.

00:22:25.700 All you need is a $1.9 trillion.

00:22:27.520 Almost all of it not going to the subject that's at hand.

00:22:30.560 How dare you say that?

00:22:31.540 And how dare you say that?

00:22:32.880 What did you just say?

00:22:34.100 I said almost all of it going to, not going to the topic of hand.

00:22:36.900 Listen to this exaggeration.

00:22:38.800 Listen to this exaggeration.

00:22:39.980 I happen to have the PolitiFact article right here.

00:22:43.680 Oh, good.

00:22:44.120 And you know that PolitiFact is a staunch conservative article.

00:22:49.400 Oh, hugely conservative.

00:22:51.120 I'm a little worried they're going to be biased here against conservatives.

00:22:53.960 You think?

00:22:54.980 I mean, for conservatives.

00:22:56.380 Right.

00:22:57.240 President Biden's $1.9 trillion American rescue plan will soon become law.

00:23:04.480 Total spending directly on COVID-19's health impact ranges from one set of numbers to another set of numbers.

00:23:12.280 Well, that's almost always the case with every fact.

00:23:14.960 Well, I'm just saying, if 9% of Biden's American rescue plan does not directly go to COVID-19, 9%.

00:23:24.820 So 91% goes to COVID-19?

00:23:27.580 I don't think that's accurate.

00:23:29.520 I'm going to go with no.

00:23:30.420 Well, I have it right here in black and white.

00:23:32.420 There's a 9 right there, is there not?

00:23:34.340 And what's followed by that 9?

00:23:36.020 I can't quite see.

00:23:37.340 But I do see a 9.

00:23:38.240 9.

00:23:38.760 And then nothing right after that.

00:23:40.380 And then the percent sign.

00:23:42.280 9, zero, nothing.

00:23:45.460 And percent, 9%.

00:23:47.240 This is incredible, by the way.

00:23:49.080 90% goes to non-COVID-related items.

00:23:55.960 This is a COVID recovery program.

00:23:58.400 Right.

00:23:58.800 And they are to, you know, really help people out.

00:24:02.080 So you've got $100 million, I'm sorry, $100 billion to $160 billion.

00:24:09.300 That's 8.5% of the bill's $1.9 trillion cost.

00:24:15.540 PolitiFact is reporting $14 to $20 billion goes to the vaccine distribution and vaccine-related efforts.

00:24:26.660 That's a percentage of about 1% to 2%.

00:24:29.940 The rest goes to partisan priorities.

00:24:33.900 For example, this is PolitiFact, by the way.

00:24:36.780 For example, at least $350 billion goes to bailing out state and local governments, despite most not actually experiencing predicted COVID-19 tax revenue shortfalls.

00:24:48.200 That means Biden's bill spends more than twice as much lining the pockets of bankrupt blue states than it does actually addressing public health.

00:24:58.380 Legislators included a completely unrelated $86 billion bailout for union pension plans.

00:25:05.700 And the bill pours $128 billion into public education.

00:25:11.240 Now, public education.

00:25:13.380 Okay, let's fix the schools and make sure that they're COVID.

00:25:16.580 They asked for $25 billion.

00:25:20.760 They got $86 billion.

00:25:24.000 No, I'm sorry, $128 billion.

00:25:27.160 This never happens to me in my negotiations.

00:25:29.940 I never ask for 20 of something and they give me 120 of it.

00:25:33.240 I mean, that's crazy.

00:25:36.020 Another one of the big ticket items is this, you'd mentioned it, the $300 plus billion for the state and local governments.

00:25:45.220 Correct.

00:25:46.200 And like you could say, let's step back from where we are for a second.

00:25:50.540 You could say, all right, well, look, the state and local governments are getting less money because of the COVID situation.

00:25:58.660 People are out of work, so maybe that's a rationally tied to the COVID situation.

00:26:04.820 There's a way to get your brain to that until you learn that the tax revenues aren't down.

00:26:11.420 Correct.

00:26:11.900 So, they're replenishing money that they actually already got.

00:26:17.600 The tax revenues, if they had fallen by 50%, how are these governments going to run themselves?

00:26:22.500 Okay, you could at least make a tie there, right, to say maybe.

00:26:26.060 Instead, they actually didn't have a fall in revenue and they are still giving them hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:26:32.880 And I can guarantee you that they're not going to go to pay bills.

00:26:36.100 They're not going to go into pension funds.

00:26:37.640 They're not going to do any of the things that got them to the place that they're in right now.

00:26:43.160 So, they're going to take this and they'll blow it and they will be back for more.

00:26:48.220 These are, you know, they're not going to pay down bills.

00:26:52.680 They won't.

00:26:53.520 And why should I pay for the, you know, the unions and all the things that they promised the teachers and the firemen and the police in Illinois when I live in Texas?

00:27:08.240 And I said, no, this doesn't work.

00:27:12.040 I would love to live in California, but their system is insane.

00:27:17.560 And it was only a matter of time before it collapsed.

00:27:20.840 And I didn't want any of that.

00:27:22.660 I didn't want to be responsible for any of that.

00:27:25.000 So, I don't live in California.

00:27:27.500 Why is Texas paying for the bailout of New York or California or Illinois?

00:27:33.820 Why?

00:27:35.180 Why isn't the state required to go to those people and say, look, your unions lied to you and we lied to you.

00:27:43.200 We said that this would all work out and it's all going to be fine.

00:27:47.360 And, yeah, you can have this amount of money and you can have this kind of a pension.

00:27:51.020 Well, it doesn't work out.

00:27:53.080 And everybody who said that it wouldn't work out, they were right.

00:27:56.180 We were wrong.

00:27:57.020 Why?

00:27:57.520 Why is there no penalty for anything if you're in the right crowd?

00:28:06.260 I don't I don't I don't understand it.

00:28:09.280 Because we wouldn't be getting that.

00:28:11.560 Would you be getting that?

00:28:13.200 Would anybody who's run a business poorly that isn't a bank or a union, would you be getting that if you just ran it into the ground?

00:28:24.780 And you had all kinds of debt.

00:28:27.760 Would the government be bailing you out?

00:28:29.900 Should the government be bailing you out?

00:28:32.200 The answer is no.

00:28:33.580 Now, if the government actually told you you were having a successful business and the government came to you and said, you've got to shut this down, then they're responsible for it.

00:28:47.300 You can't do that.

00:28:49.300 You can't do that to people.

00:28:50.260 You can't just take their money and their livelihood, shove them into poverty, destroy everything they've built.

00:28:57.420 And then what?

00:28:58.600 Because they're not a minority, they don't get help. 1.00

00:29:04.080 How is this fair to any Democrat?

00:29:07.580 And I'm not talking about I'm not talking about those in Washington.

00:29:11.760 I'm talking about those average people that live in our streets.

00:29:16.360 The average person that has a house a couple doors down from you.

00:29:19.540 We are we are getting to a place to where they think that because you believe differently, you were for the January 6th riot at the Capitol, that you are part of that somehow or another.

00:29:38.960 That's got to stop.

00:29:40.680 It's got to stop.

00:29:41.780 I don't know anybody who wasn't embarrassed by that, who wasn't horrified by that, who didn't watch that and go, oh, gee, stop, stop.

00:29:52.380 This is wrong.

00:29:55.700 But now I've lost a gig because of it.

00:30:01.260 A friend of mine wrote to me last night and said his uncle, who was more like his dad growing up, won't even talk to him.

00:30:09.720 They talked, you know, and saw each other.

00:30:12.840 And he said his uncle was like, well, you were just part of that January 6th thing.

00:30:18.600 And he's like, what are you talking about?

00:30:20.100 No, I wasn't.

00:30:21.940 I don't like that at all.

00:30:23.540 He said, luckily, we had the relationship where we could talk about it and get past it.

00:30:29.720 But I didn't think we were going to get past it for a while.

00:30:34.340 He's just so convinced that this is this is insanity.

00:30:37.720 Insanity, insanity.

00:30:40.400 When The Washington Post writes that Joe Biden has stopped poverty, cured poverty.

00:30:51.020 Why didn't we just write people fourteen hundred dollar checks, you know, back in 1968?

00:30:56.560 If that was the way to cure poverty, why didn't we do that?

00:30:59.980 Somebody should have pointed that out.

00:31:02.620 It's not curing poverty.

00:31:04.140 In fact, it's going to make poverty worse in the long run.

00:31:06.860 If you get people strung out on unemployment and benefits from the government, you are going to see very bad things.

00:31:17.700 We should point out the fourteen hundred dollar check is not unemployment, which is a totally different part of this bill.

00:31:23.560 The fourteen hundred dollar check is just extra money to people, many of whom did work throughout the pandemic.

00:31:29.580 It's just a matter of whether you made up to what is it?

00:31:31.840 It was between any other going back and forth between seventy five and one hundred thousand dollars.

00:31:35.180 We don't have a final number yet because the House and the Senate need to work it out together.

00:31:39.400 But the bottom line is this is just a stimulus check.

00:31:41.900 And we should point out it's fourteen hundred dollars per person in the household.

00:31:45.320 So if you have a four person household, you're talking about fifty six hundred dollars, which, you know, giving out checks of fifty six hundred dollars to household after household, many of which did actually work throughout the year.

00:31:59.100 It's a it's a big it's a I mean, it is because we it's easy to say, like, you're not going to solve poverty with fourteen hundred dollar checks.

00:32:07.320 And that's true.

00:32:08.060 But this is going to cost us a lot for a very short term sugar rush.

00:32:13.400 Yes, that is.

00:32:14.700 And people are going to rush out and buy things that they shouldn't.

00:32:17.580 Stu and I were talking just what was it?

00:32:21.240 Sunday.

00:32:21.740 Stu came over to my house and we were talking about the ESG standards, the environmental, social justice and government standards.

00:32:32.620 Our parties are fun.

00:32:33.700 Yeah.

00:32:34.460 Come to Glenn's house.

00:32:35.660 You are having a good time.

00:32:38.060 Would you like another drink?

00:32:39.420 Yes.

00:32:42.120 One trip and you're an alcoholic.

00:32:43.860 It's amazing how that happens.

00:32:45.040 So we were talking about that and talking about, you know, I might replace my roof.

00:32:50.180 I might have to because we had a big storm, blah, blah, blah.

00:32:53.520 And we're talking about maybe getting Elon Musk, the Tesla solar roof, solar roof, which is pretty.

00:32:59.920 I mean, it's pretty amazing technology, but I wouldn't I don't want to do it because it's not ready yet.

00:33:05.500 The technology is not ready.

00:33:07.420 But if you don't have your house greenified, you're going to you're going to pay all kinds of penalties.

00:33:16.900 You're going to pay all kinds of penalties.

00:33:19.140 So now they're giving, let's say, a family of four fifty six hundred dollars.

00:33:23.480 What is that family going to do if they knew what was coming their way?

00:33:27.960 They would save it and they would, you know, either move to some state that's not going to force you to do these things or you'd save it for the taxes or you would save it for, you know, whatever it is you have to do to greenify your house.

00:33:44.680 But you're going to be asked to make all kinds of changes to your house.

00:33:48.640 The Green New Deal does not have to pass.

00:33:52.300 It's going to be done through the banking system and big businesses.

00:33:56.620 That's why they're all for this, because they're all making things that they know you're going to be required to buy.

00:34:04.540 And so what are they doing?

00:34:07.300 They're sending everybody, you know, checks and people are going to go and they're going to blow it and it's going to be a sugar high.

00:34:14.000 All that money is going to wash into the system, which will make prices higher.

00:34:18.520 And then when it's gone, here comes the Green New Deal, or at least it's. 0.99

00:34:26.880 Non public, but it's private partner coming and shoving that down your throat.

00:34:34.540 Na na na na na

The Glenn Beck Program - March 09, 2021

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