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On today's show, Glenn and Stu talk about Sanctuary Cities and why they're upset with President Trump. They also talk about Cher's MAGA hat and why she should have worn it. Plus, who should be funding the border patrol? Cory Booker or Joe Biden?
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Hey, welcome to Monday. We have a great podcast for you. We're going to talk a little bit about
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Sanctuary Cities and how they're upset and how Cher is now wearing a MAGA hat. I never saw that
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one coming. Cory Booker, too, apparently. We'll talk about Sanctuary Cities and how we can up that
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just a little bit. I mean, the president's all about show. Let's really put on a show.
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Uh, also, uh, Joe's polls, Joe Biden, not looking real great. Uh, uh, Pelosi is starting to minimize
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AOC and the real fanatics, except that's not going to be sitting well. Also, uh, who should be
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funding, uh, who the government should be funding if anyone, and did you get a tax break? This one
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from the New York Times. You don't want to miss it. Also, don't forget tonight, five o'clock,
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very special show. It's part two of Joe Biden's dicey history with helping his children. That's
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all he's doing. Joe Biden's excellent adventures. Yes. In China tonight at five o'clock only on the
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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lock.com. That's home title lock.com. I am fabulous. Glenn, are you? Yes. Yeah. I feel
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good today. You do? Yeah, I do. I do. I do. Usually a dangerous thing. Well, usually when
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you feel good, I have to deal with PR nightmares for the next six weeks. Well, either you say
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that when I feel really bad too. Yeah, that's true. That's a good point. I wonder what we're
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learning here. Um, so here's the thing, uh, Donald Trump today is the day that, uh, I love,
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I love Donald Trump being the president of the United States because no one else would have the
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balls to do this. He came out and said, okay, so, um, you won't help us out on the border.
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Um, you don't think it's a problem, but everybody else in America seems to think it's a problem,
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but you don't. In fact, you've got your sanctuary cities. So I tell you what we're going to do.
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We got all these people that you just say release into America. What we're going to do instead is
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we're going to transport them to your sanctuary city and we'll just drop them off in your city.
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Good luck with that. Yeah. I'm, I'm interested in this because it's a, I heard it's a radical
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proposal. Um, I, you know, this, he's out of control. You know, at first they just said it was
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something that was floated and that was bad enough, but now the president's really, really considering
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it. And I just, I want someone to ask what is the negative? Tell you explained to me what the
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negative is. The only one I've heard is it's going to cost more, which doesn't make any sense to me
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at all. Cause there's sanctuary cities around every border in America. So you can just go to a close
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one. You don't have to go to San Francisco. It could be an option. I hope it is an option.
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See, that's the thing. It's like, this is being treated as a troll, right? By the president of
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the United States. He's trolling them. And the trolling part, as you pointed out, is really
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fun. And in fact, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to up the ante. I don't think it's troll
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enough, but we'll get to that in a second. Okay. Go ahead. But I got to say the trolling part of it
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is my least favorite part of this proposal. Listen to it for a second. Let me give you my case.
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Uh, how is this bad for the cities, the sanctuary cities? Cause I hear, you know, all these left
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wing people coming out and saying, well, we, we can't bring all these people here. We're
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can't even care for our own. I think it was share. It was share. Yeah. Share. She's like,
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we can't even care to care for our own here in California. You can't bring more people here.
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Wait a minute. That's our argument. Yes. Stupid. Yes. I don't, like I, I don't even begin to
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understand how they're, I don't understand how they actually get out and, and tie their own shoes
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and make it in the world. Yeah. They obviously have not thought these things. If that is your
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argument, you're on the wrong side. Exactly. And maybe it's so fundamental to their belief
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that the real reason we don't want illegal immigrants here is because they're race,
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we're racists. Like maybe that's what they actually believe. I've always thought that was
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just a dumb political tactic. Maybe that's what they actually believe. Because if you think the
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only reason we want people here, don't want people here is because we don't like Mexicans. Well,
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then you're an idiot. I mean, we, we, we, we're happy to bring legal Mexican immigrants into this
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country. Happy to do it. The, the question here is whether we can take care of people who are illegal.
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So if you are saying that it's bad, it's a punishment essentially for these cities to get these
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illegal immigrants. You are admitting a foundational part of our argument. And if it's not true, well,
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then you're going to be happy. It's not a punishment. So you, you're not worried on the
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city side. How about for the immigrants? Is it bad for the immigrants? Well, you tell us all the time
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that the sanctuary cities are the only people treating them fairly. You tell us that the cities
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that are sanctuary cities are welcoming with open arms, these people, and are treating them better
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than the other places. So shouldn't it be, if we're going to be nice to illegal immigrants
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or people claim, trying to claim asylum, that we should bring them to the cities that you
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identify as the only places they can be treated fairly in the United States? Yes. Isn't that good
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for immigrants? Yes. So now we found it's good for cities and it's good for the immigrants.
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What about the border towns themselves? The border towns that are not sanctuary cities. What about the
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cities that they're going to, these illegal immigrants or asylum seekers are going to
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now that are not sanctuary cities? The people who do want to enforce our immigration laws and are
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instead forced to take thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants that they aren't welcoming
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with open arms. Is it fair to them? No, it's not fair to them. And it's not fair to the immigrants
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either. The undocumented immigrants, because these are dangerous cities for them because they're not
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welcomed like they are with open arms in places like San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and
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even Austin, Texas. You know, you've got open arms. You're saying, come here. What is the point of
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saying you're a sanctuary city? Because you're saying, open arms. Hey, this is the place. If you're looking
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for sanctuary, nobody ever, you know, uh, Esmeralda didn't run into the house of the hunchback,
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you know, because she's like, Hey, I want some soda. Does anybody have any soda in here? No,
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she cried sanctuary. You can't touch me. You can't take me out of here. You can't do anything. I'm safe
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here. That's why you have a sanctuary city. You're safe there. Every place. It's not a sanctuary city.
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It's very unsafe. And as we've learned, nobody wants to feel unsafe. That's a safe zone for you.
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So you, we don't want to just let them come over to places that are not safe. Exactly. The feelings
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are an important part of this, I think. Yes. And again, like, I think this can come off as a troll,
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but in reality, no, no, no, no. If, if it is like these, these cities are saying we have the resources
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to deal with these people. We have the, we, we have the open arms to deal with it. We have the
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type of people who will accept illegal immigrants. You guys don't. We're better than you. We've
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decided to violate federal law to signal our virtue on this issue. We should reward that
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behavior. I agree with you 110%. And the only thing in the article initially, and since the
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only thing they can come up with those two things. One is it's going to cost more. We don't have the
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money for this. Hey, Hey, it's the right thing to do. Well, that's not put a price on the right
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thing to do, but you do have to put, as I would argue in many other cases, as would you, that
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Congress has the power of the purse and there has to be money associated with these types of things.
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You can't just create money. You can't just print money to do this. Right. So I, now look,
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the government doesn't care about this, but I do. Uh, there are so many stew. How dare you this?
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What will it cost us not to do this? Again, you're just trolling. No, I'm saying this is a
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legitimate proposal. I say, let's take them up on their offer. Sure. I understand that. But like
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they're like, so I'm listening to, by the way, I don't want to just troll in a minute. I'm going to
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tell you how I want this actually executed. I don't want to just troll. I sincerely want this
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to happen. I am with you on this. I mean, I will help out. You know what? This program,
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I believe if they say there's no money for buses, I believe this audience will raise the money
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to bus these people to sanctuary cities. It's funny. I had the same thought of like, okay,
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well, they're on a bus. They'll be on the bus a little bit longer. Will there be more associated
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costs? I guess. But first of all, they're close by. They keep talking about San Francisco. That
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would take a long time. But Glenn, according to at least ABC news, they're not, they're flying
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people to these cities. They're taking, they're in planes at $7,000 an hour that they're flying
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people to these cities. And they're like, well, if they have to fly them a little bit longer,
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it'll cost more. Flying them? How is that even a thought? Like I, if they're going to Indiana,
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they can get on a Greyhound bus and go to Indiana if that's where they're supposed to be sent.
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And that's the other thing here is that- Greyhound bus? I say we just get some yellow
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school buses. Whatever. The point though is that the, the idea that if we can't hold them
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in our facilities, which by the way, Republicans have asked for additional facilities and been
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rejected by Democrats, very important to remember. So if you can't, you have to put them somewhere
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inside the United States. Why would you not give them to the people who say they want them?
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Exactly right. That is a good option. Exactly right. And you can do it by the way. There are
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border towns. There are places all across the border that are sanctuary cities. Preach it.
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You don't have to go to San Francisco or somewhere in Alaska. You can bring them to the closest one
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and certainly save money over flights with a bus. Preach it. Now, may I tell you how I would like
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today? The Glenn Beck program has Mr. Pat Gray on. Hello, Pat. How are you? Hello, Glenn.
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So. Isn't that great? It's great. It is great. It is great. It is great. And you know what's so
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great about not only the Glenn Beck program having Pat Gray on, we also have Stu here and we're going
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to talk about how we can make these sanctuary cities very happy. Right. And very happy. I'm all about
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that. I am all about it too. I think they're going to be thrilled. I know, uh, mayor elect
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Lori Lightfoot of Chicago is going to be incredibly happy. Mom, Gordon's sister. Yeah, I think so.
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Yeah. Okay. Half sister. Uh, this is, this is Lori, uh, talking about what she wants to do with
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Chicago and illegal immigrants. Listen, I don't think that we should take the bait every time the
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president puts out a provocative tweet. What I think we need to do is make sure that we are being very
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clear and speaking our values. We are a city that is a sanctuary city. We have immigrants from all
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over the world who call Chicago, their home. They'll continue to do that. And we're going to
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continue to make sure that this is truly a welcoming community for those immigrants. And we want them
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to come to the city of Chicago. Lori, as you just said, we're a sanctuary city. What happened to your
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voice? What's going on? As Lori just said, they're a sanctuary city and they are, they want, they want
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immigrants from all over the world. I mean, is she lying? She said they want to be truly welcoming
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community. Right. I think we start in Chicago and here's the great thing, America. This sounds like a bit.
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This sounds like something we would have said 15 years ago and there was no chance of this happening.
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I think this president will do it. That's what I love about this. He would, he would, he would do
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this. He would, he's got a twitchy eye. He is, he is, it's why he was a horse in a hospital. It's why he
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was elected. It really is. It is. It is. We wondered the whole time. We know now this is why he was
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elected because he would do something like this. Yeah. Well, he, it was his plan to ship him to
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sanctuary cities, which I thought that's, that's genius. George W. Bush would never have done that.
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No president would have ever done that. Now listen, here's the thing. Here's the thing. It won't work
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unless it's a production. It will not work unless you have plane loads arriving all at the same time.
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Planes, buses. Yeah. You've got to have, it has to be an overwhelming city. And I think
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an overwhelming scene for one city. And I think you do it to one city and they stop.
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So it'd be so hard to pick though, because you got Chicago mouthing off. Wait, wait, wait.
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Chicago is where it started. Remember last week we showed you that the sanctuary city movement
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started in Chicago. Oh, that was the first one. We drop them off. We drop them off at that church.
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At that exact address where 19 charitable organizations mysteriously have their home
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base. Yeah. No, I think that, that makes sense. Chicago is the one. The only thing about Chicago
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is there, cause I mean, there's a part of this again, that's a troll, right? Where, and that's
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what everyone's talking about in that it probably is the type of thing that you want to make a big
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production about and let everybody know. Chicago is a big enough city that it is, it can absorb a lot
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more that. And I, that may be why they were looking at small and mid-sized cities rather
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than large ones. Along those lines is Cambridge Mass. Their mayor just talked about this over
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the weekend. Mark McGovern of Cambridge said, I'm proud Cambridge is a sanctuary city. Trump
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is a schoolyard bully who tries to intimidate and threaten people. I'm not intimidated. And
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if asylum seekers find their way to Cambridge, we'll welcome them. I'd love to put that to the test.
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Oh, that's a great one. Here's 78,000 from the last month. Good luck. Yeah. I think too,
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the other thing about that is, is I like the idea of targeting, not a city like Chicago that is
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absolutely struggling and can't even do things for themselves. Pick, pick a nice rich community.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts is a fantastic one. They got plenty of money. 80,000 a year is the average
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salary. Oh yeah. This is like, you're talking about, this is the wealthiest nation on earth,
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Pat. Of course we can help these immigrants. Absolutely. This is one of the wealthiest cities.
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In the wealthiest nation on earth. MIT is there. MIT will probably open the doors just,
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and just admit them into college. That's what I think is going to happen. You don't even have to
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qualify. Free college tuition at Harvard. I think Harvard, if they overwhelmed the city in any way,
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I think Harvard would open their gym doors. Yeah. And still have them housed there. Wouldn't that be
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great? Because they're really nice. Well, and they've got an endowment. I don't know if you're
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aware of $39 billion, $39.5 billion. Now they could take every single one of these illegals
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and give them free college education for the next 50 years with that tuition, probably. Just apply it
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to educating illegals who come to Cambridge to live in your sanctuary city. That'd be awesome.
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I love this. And you know what's going to happen in Cambridge? As we've been told over and over
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again, the crime rates are going to fall. They're going to drop through the floor because as we
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know, immigrants' crime rates are lower than citizens. Here's the thing. Truth is no longer
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verifiable. We've taken the search for truth and disconnected it from all kinds of science and
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reason, right? Truth just becomes something that someone says, and then someone else equally as
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important or more important repeats it. And then after so many people repeat it, it becomes true.
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Okay. So the, the, we know if sanctuary cities had more people coming into them, the crime rate would
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of course fall. Okay. And so they tell us, right. So let's just put it to the test. Pat Gray,
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are you willing to say you were wrong? If indeed we put 78,000 people in Cambridge and the crime rate
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does indeed fall, are you willing to say you were wrong? Yes. Are you willing, Stu? I think I am.
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I am too. If, if, if all of a sudden Cambridge just becomes this paradise, okay. Okay. We were wrong.
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If property values go up, crime goes down, salaries go up, employment is better. Uh, I'll happily admit
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I was wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong. I'll change out really well. Change sides. Yeah. I'll change
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sides on this, but I don't think it's going to happen, but you do now put your money, put your
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town, put your neighborhood, put your tax dollars where your big fat mouth is because you forced
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us to do it. You forced us to do it. We are all putting our tax dollars into something we don't
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believe in. We're forced to do it. We live near a sanctuary city. If we, if we have, if we live,
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God forbid, near the border, we're all suffering from it. You in Cambridge, no, not so much.
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Well, it's 7.6% Hispanic there. Hmm. And, and, uh, about 70% white there. Oh my gosh. You know
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what the problem is? There's too much diversity. You don't know. The problem is they don't have
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enough diversity. Right. You know what I mean? Let's, let's. Irving, Texas is 25, 25, 25.
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Let's take a bunch of people who don't speak English that have no intention of becoming an
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American that just want their culture and let's drop them in Cambridge. And I'm wondering if anyone
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in Cambridge would start to say, Oh, this place, this place is become, it's just getting better.
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It's what that is now what they'll say. Of course they will. They will. But I'm, I'm wondering if
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anyone would say, Jesus, like we're losing what we were. You know, a lot of people do on vacation.
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Certainly not. Glenn, when you got a nice vacation with a family, you want to enjoy the great outdoors
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with your family, you'd go camping. Well, they would love a tent city in Cambridge. I think they
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would love a bunch of tents popping up all over the city for people to live. Where you don't even have
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to go out of the city for camping. Imagine that right there, right there for you. And you know,
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you're talking about camping. Another place to do it is, is Portland, Oregon. Oh, that's true.
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Yeah. People love that. Yeah. I mean, those guys, those guys, you want to talk about hearts.
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They camped out for a long time there. Yeah. And they've got big, big, big, big, big, big,
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big, big, big, big hearts in Portland, Oregon. They would love to take care of, you know,
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150,000. Well, they would. They tried to shut down ICE completely. Right. So we should send,
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we should send them there. And, and, and because they've got big hearts, they can take care of
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everything. The city is totally in control. Let's just drop a hundred thousand people into their
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population. See what happens. I mean, we can even give, you know what? The left is so pro-choice.
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They always are. We can give the, the each illegal immigrant a choice. Do you want to go to city A
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that the mayor says this or city B where the mayor says this? And we can have them put them side by
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side and say, which one would you rather go to? And you know what? I bet a lot of them are going to
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pick the place that says specifically that they're a welcoming community to illegal immigrants.
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The people who say that, you know, we bring them here. We want them here.
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Yeah. One city is fighting to abolish ICE. One city will not work with federal enforcement.
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One city will not arrest you. One city will not ask you any questions at all. And if you are stopped
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with drunk driving, don't worry about it. Don't worry. We all have a few on the way home from work.
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That's the way it works. That's right. Not American citizens. Cause they go to jail.
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Well, yeah, but if you're not from here, then it's fine. Yeah. We'll just let you go. Right. I mean,
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what do you think we're talking about? Hate mongers? No. Okay. Yeah. No. So you have that or you have a DWI.
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You're not only in jail, then you're deported and that's not fair. And the mayor and the city and the
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police and everybody else, they're all committed. In fact, they look at ICE as a partnership.
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Which city do you want to go to? Oh my goodness. I'm going to Portland. Oh, it's all about,
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you're all about Portland. You're about Cambridge. You're about Chicago. Los Angeles. These are good,
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good places to go. Chicago started the movement, right? They started the sanctuary city movement.
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They started the caravan movement. San Francisco's got Nancy Pelosi's district right there. And we know
00:23:48.240
she loves them. What if you just drop them off at Nancy Pelosi's house? Certainly she'd be excited
00:23:52.300
about that. Wouldn't she? She'd love that. Well, there's a giant wall around her house though.
00:23:56.000
Oh, shoot. The walls don't work. In fact, they won't work in this case because they'll get over
00:24:03.220
that wall if they want to. I'm telling you, warning, America. Warning. I've kind of come to a place in
00:24:12.800
the last year where I've realized, eh, you know what? My job is not to provide answers. It's really not
00:24:21.300
because I got none. My job is to warn you. That's my job. I'm on the gate. I can see a little
00:24:28.960
over the horizon. My job is just to warn you. So listen to my warning. Heat it. Don't heat it.
00:24:36.920
My hands are clean. I'm warning you now. There is going to be such a struggle on our border
00:24:44.980
that the western half of America at some point you will have farmers, ranchers being slaughtered
00:24:55.980
and you will have people claiming this is their land and no longer part of the United States. It
00:25:02.100
was stolen from them and they want it. Warning. If you continue going down this road, that is what
00:25:10.800
will happen. These are not just all wonderful people that are coming over. You don't know.
00:25:18.680
Would you say everyone in Seattle is a wonderful person? Pick the whitest white city in the U.S.,
00:25:25.420
whatever that city is. Would you say everybody in that city is great? Of course not. Of course not.
00:25:32.140
Of course not. You are letting hundreds of thousands of people in. You have no idea who any of them are.
00:25:40.800
It's ridiculous to think that some do not have ill intent, are not running from the law,
00:25:48.180
and not because they were just persecuted. It's ridiculous to think otherwise. Warning.
00:26:10.800
All right. Last week, I took you through several examples of the way Joe Biden apparently helps his
00:26:20.060
close family members secure amazing business deals while he was vice president. One of those
00:26:27.640
instances involved Joe Biden's younger brother, James, becoming an executive of a new construction
00:26:34.520
company, even though he had absolutely no experience in construction whatsoever. Six months after he
00:26:43.060
joined the company, it scored a $1.5 billion contract to build 100,000 homes in war-torn Iraq.
00:26:51.940
What are the odds? Here's a construction company that hires somebody as an advisor who has zero,
00:26:59.960
and let me say it again, zero construction experience. And just a few minutes, just a few
00:27:07.680
months later, he is so good with his advice that that company gets a $1.5 billion contract from the
00:27:15.540
United States government, which his brother is the vice president of. What are the odds?
00:27:24.220
It's a miracle. Even the president of the company said to investors, it kind of helps to have the
00:27:31.100
brother of the vice president as a partner. Oh, well, this isn't everything that's wrong with
00:27:37.080
capitalism, is it? If you think it's good to be the vice president's brother, it's even better to be
00:27:44.500
his son. On last Thursday's TV show, I did a major chalkboard explaining how Joe Biden's son,
00:27:52.100
Hunter, came on the board of Ukraine's largest private natural gas company. Now, wait a minute.
00:28:01.160
Wait a minute. Did Hunter have lots and lots of experience to be on the board of a gas company
00:28:09.940
in the Ukraine? Well, he had as much experience as his uncle did in construction. Zero.
00:28:18.320
Tonight on TV, I'm going back to the chalkboard for part two of Joe Biden's profile. And as bad as
00:28:27.660
the Biden's activity was in Ukraine, it is the tip of the iceberg when you see the deals that have
00:28:34.060
been struck in China. Now, to give you just a quick hint, and this isn't even a preview about how
00:28:41.400
plugged in they are in China, I want to give you a separate story that we don't even have time to get
00:28:46.880
into tonight. This should tell you how big tonight's episode is when this is a scrap that we couldn't
00:28:57.080
even get. We had to leave this one on the edit floor. Chinese oil tycoon Yi Jiang worked overtime to get
00:29:08.080
meetings with his top movers and shakers in the U.S. government. His efforts included, well, you just,
00:29:16.360
tell me, Stu, you're, you're just a, you're just a businessman. You want to do business with the United States.
00:29:23.060
What do you have to do to get a meeting with, like, the vice president? What do you think you have to do?
00:29:28.460
If, if the vice president under Obama, what do you have to do? You just message him on LinkedIn.
00:29:34.260
Then message him on LinkedIn. That's a good one. That's a good start. Send in your resume. Show how
00:29:40.020
much of a mover and shaker you are. Gotta be a big deal. Yeah, be a big deal. Have some merit behind
00:29:46.560
that. Or you could donate a hundred thousand dollars to the Clinton Foundation. Hmm. That's
00:29:55.160
always another path, isn't it? It seems to be a path to so many things. Right. I mean, it was almost a
00:29:59.540
rite of passage for any foreigners that wanted access to anybody in the Obama administration, but
00:30:04.940
it's, it's weird because those are separate. Right? Right, right. Of course. Okay. 2015, Mr. Yee
00:30:15.000
worked on trying to connect with the Biden family, but by that point, as you will see tonight,
00:30:21.860
Hunter Biden's company was deeply involved with Chinese businesses.
00:30:26.480
At first, one of Mr. Yee's top lieutenants, a guy named Patrick Ho met with Hunter Biden in
00:30:33.960
Washington, DC. That led Mr. Yee himself meeting with Hunter at a Miami hotel in 2017. At that
00:30:42.820
meeting, Mr. Yee proposed partnering with Hunter Biden's firm to invest in U.S. infrastructure
00:30:49.360
and energy. Well, there's nothing wrong with that, right? Then in November of 2017, Joe Biden's
00:30:58.900
brother, James, was in the hotel lobby when he got a random call from Patrick Ho. Now this,
00:31:06.780
remember, is Mr. Yee's top lieutenant. Ho was in deep trouble and told the vice president's
00:31:13.880
brother that he was looking for a lawyer. Federal agents had arrested Ho in New York on allegations
00:31:20.100
that he bribed African officials in Chad and Uganda for access to oil fields. Bribery? Wait a minute.
00:31:31.500
That's awful, an awful lot like what was happening with the gas in the Ukraine.
00:31:37.560
During Ho's trial, prosecutors showed that Mr. Yee's company had a side gig. Not only bribery,
00:31:46.280
but he also was an arms dealer. Ho was ultimately convicted of conspiracy, attempted bribery, and
00:31:53.720
money laundering. His boss, Mr. Yee, is now in Chinese custody at an undisclosed location.
00:32:01.280
Now, perhaps the weirdest and most cryptic part of this whole episode is what James Biden told the
00:32:08.660
New York Times when they interviewed him about that phone call from Patrick Ho. Listen carefully.
00:32:16.300
James Biden said he was surprised by the call and believed that Ho had intended to reach Hunter Biden,
00:32:23.940
Joe Biden's son. So he gave him Hunter's contact information. And then Joe, then Joe's brother,
00:32:32.700
James, said this, quote, there's nothing else I have to say. I don't want to be dragged into this
00:32:39.280
anymore. End quote. Dragged? Dragged into what? Who's dragging Joe Biden's brother into something nefarious?
00:32:53.260
Presumably, the deep web of Chinese business connections that Joe Biden facilitated for his son
00:33:01.320
while he was vice president might be something that his brother does not want to be dragged into.
00:33:09.360
Probably the most disturbing aspects of the Chinese deals are the national security implications.
00:33:15.640
Tonight, I will show you the partnerships that have been formed in China. I explain all of it on
00:33:23.640
tonight's Glenn Beck program only on Blaze TV. We also talked to Peter Schweitzer, who blew the lid off
00:33:30.760
this scandal on Biden's activity. But no one seems to care. Perhaps it's because they haven't heard the
00:33:41.080
story. They haven't seen it on the chalkboard. Tonight, things are heating up on BlazeTV.com slash Glenn
00:33:50.580
BlazeTV.com slash GLENN. If you haven't joined yet.
00:33:56.200
Joe Biden's stuff is amazing, isn't it? Yeah. And his, uh, his polling lead is seemingly,
00:34:12.380
I mean, evaporated at least in one poll. He now trails Bernie Sanders 2924 in the latest poll from
00:34:19.320
Emerson, which is a good pollster, but small sample size. The dates are right in the middle of the,
00:34:24.540
you know, the peak of this sort of controversy. So whether this is a long-term thing or not,
00:34:29.200
we don't know. Uh, Pete Buttigieg is up to 9% now in the third place. And then the kind of group of,
00:34:35.280
um, other contenders, including Kamala Harris and, uh, America's made their mind up on those guys.
00:34:42.260
Uh, O'Rourke and, uh, and, uh, uh, Warren as well are right there in eight. That's in 7%. And then
00:34:48.740
everybody else follows well behind. This is a national poll, by the way, this is going to be, uh, I'm
00:34:54.260
convinced. You make a lot of, I'm convinced statements about politics that you later on
00:35:00.200
say you were not so convinced about or should not have been so convinced about. Yeah. I was always
00:35:04.180
convinced. I was just always wrong. Right. Yes. You were, I mean, I'm, I'm willing to admit I'm
00:35:09.160
wrong. No, this is never, you've never been a guy who says I can predict politics. No, I'm the exact
00:35:14.260
opposite of that. I can't predict politics. I have no idea. Uh, no idea. I mean, I can predict,
00:35:20.760
predict, I can predict, uh, directions. I'm good at direction, you know, long-term direction.
00:35:29.300
And, uh, I just feel that, uh, this race is going to be won by somebody that is not in the system,
00:35:39.780
just not in the system. Uh, and that would be a Buddha judge or someone, someone like that. That
00:35:47.080
is, that's a complete outsider that when right now, uh, the people who are really paying attention
00:35:54.140
are the people who are politically connected and politically aware. I think the, the Democrats
00:36:01.940
are so overplaying their hand that their, um, their arrogance is going to be their undoing this time
00:36:13.680
around. And why I say that is, uh, when, when you see what AOC and Ilhan Omar and all of these people
00:36:25.300
are saying, um, it's too far for the average Democrat, even the democratic voter, not the
00:36:33.180
ones in Washington, even the ones in Washington and the ones in Washington are sick, but they,
00:36:38.020
but they're the ones they're not going to get the vote because people see this game that they're
00:36:43.280
playing and they're sick of it. They're sick of it. And Nancy Pelosi would love to get everything
00:36:49.320
that AOC and, uh, you know, Ilhan Omar are asking for. She'd love all of it, but she realizes that
00:36:56.200
exactly what you're saying. It's too far for a lot of America, right? Uh, she's used to dealing with
00:37:01.640
the entire caucus. Some people who are in purple districts where they won by one point and they
00:37:06.420
can't come out and endorse socialized medicine tomorrow, even though they may very well want it.
00:37:11.960
But here's the problem that, um, the Democrats, because they, they hated me and said, everything
00:37:19.560
that I said was, was, you know, conspiracy theory and stupid and whatever, that they didn't listen to
00:37:27.000
the warning that I gave, not just to the American people, but I gave it more importantly to the
00:37:34.900
Democrats. When I talked about the coming insurrection, that book from France, and it was
00:37:41.820
written by the people who were sick of the progressives. They were the actual Marxist
00:37:48.740
revolutionaries. And it started in, what a surprise, academia. And they were saying, you people have been
00:37:56.820
in office forever and we're so close now. We want it. Just take it. You guys are only doing this for
00:38:05.240
yourself. You're not, you don't even believe in this. You're just doing this for your own power and
00:38:11.180
you're never going to complete the deal. You're just going to keep stringing us along. And that's
00:38:16.280
why the insurrection was coming in France, which we have seen with the yellow vest. By the way, did
00:38:21.140
you see the police were given permission to use live ammunition to bring down yellow vest protesters
00:38:27.840
this weekend? Okay. Things are heating up in France and that is where it started. The real radicals that
00:38:35.800
said we want change. Now, Nancy Pelosi can say she's a progressive all she want, but progressivism was not
00:38:44.020
the answer. It was a means to the end. The end was to flip us red. Not red state. No, to flip us
00:38:55.720
totalitarian dictatorship. All I'm trying to, the words that didn't have the meaning that they have
00:39:02.400
now, there is no meaning. In fact, it was Stuart Chase that said after World War II, we just have to call
00:39:09.920
this system X now because fascism, communism, dictatorship, those are all words that have
00:39:17.500
different meanings. So we don't have a word. We're just calling it system X. So progressivism was just
00:39:26.140
to put in system X, which is top down everything. We would have known it as communism or fascism or
00:39:36.060
authoritarianism, statism. Nancy Pelosi doesn't realize you're not in charge anymore. You're not
00:39:45.660
in charge anymore. You think you are. You thought you could use these radicals. You thought you could
00:39:52.560
bring them in, give them a taste of power, teach them how the system works, then let them create their
00:40:02.320
own little viruses and you'd somehow be inoculated against it. You're not. I mean, she certainly is
00:40:09.900
dismissive of them. I mean, this, this video, can we play some of this? This is Nancy Pelosi talking
00:40:14.820
about, she gets to AOC and Ilana Mar. Listen to how dismissive she is of them. They, I mean, at this
00:40:22.660
point, the people who have held power for a long time hate this group of newcomers. They are not fans.
00:40:29.540
They don't like the idea that they're getting all the attention. They're getting all the media
00:40:33.800
love. Listen to this from Nancy Pelosi. You yourself said that you're the only one who can
00:40:39.720
unify everybody. And the question is, can you? By and large, whatever orientation they came to
00:40:47.580
Congress with, they know that we have to hold the center, that we have to go down the mainstream.
00:40:53.800
They know that? They do. But it doesn't look like that. It looks as if you're, it's fractured.
00:41:01.260
She likes to minimize the conflicts within her caucus between the moderates and the progressives.
00:41:07.900
You have these wings, AOC and her group on one side. It's like five people.
00:41:13.260
No, it's the progressive group. It's more than five. I'm a progressive. Yeah.
00:41:18.920
No. No, you're not. Well, she is. She is. She is a, remember, she's actually more progressive
00:41:25.500
than them. She's, she's progressing slowly. They're going for the revolution. Correct.
00:41:30.300
But she sees progressivism as a destination. It's not a destination. It is a system to get you. It's
00:41:40.480
like, I'm a train. No, you're, no, you're, you're, that's not a destination. That's a vehicle that
00:41:47.840
delivers you from one place to another. Progressivism is to progress you to another
00:41:54.280
destination. The people at the other destination are saying, your train's too slow.
00:42:00.300
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:42:16.520
Also today is charity day. Uh, today you're probably feeling your most charitable, right?
00:42:21.060
This is how you support other people. You pay your taxes. I bet you're feeling exciting about
00:42:25.320
feeling not only charitable, strangely charitable and so very patriotic. Yes. Super patriotic.
00:42:32.180
This is basically July 4th, part two. And I hope you're feeling that way today. I know
00:42:36.820
I am when the, when the federal government comes into my account, just sucks out a big
00:42:40.820
chunk of it today. Love it. Excited about it. Love it. Almost as much as I love it when they
00:42:45.100
take it is when I read about how they wasted it. Yeah. That's really fun too. Love that. When
00:42:50.060
you realize, and they're like, Oh, when Nancy Pelosi says there's, there's just no scraps
00:42:54.880
left in the cupboard. We can't cut anymore. And you get these, you know, what was there
00:42:59.180
was, you had one the other day, like, it was like several billion dollars in just fault,
00:43:03.380
like mistaken payments to people. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Was it on the college thing?
00:43:07.620
Was it? Uh, yeah, no, it was on the Pell Grants. Yeah. Pell Grants. They just,
00:43:12.040
sometimes they screw it up. Pay it, man. You've already paid it. Ah, pay it again.
00:43:17.200
And every once in a while you like to stop and think about it when they say like, Oh yeah,
00:43:21.420
they made a, let's say a $10 million mistake, a minor mistake when it comes to the, to the
00:43:27.620
government of the United States. Uh, they made $10 million payment to someone who didn't deserve
00:43:32.380
it or it's just disappeared or whatever. And you stop and think about it. And that is going
00:43:36.960
to be more money in taxes than you will pay in your entire life. Plus probably everybody
00:43:46.540
you know, every dollar they will pay in their entire life. And that's that little kicker
00:43:53.160
story that doesn't even, it's not even on the front page of the paper. If there was
00:43:57.200
one, I don't know if they print them anymore, but it's like the inner, like you're in the
00:44:00.840
little tiny little section of like the hill.com, like, you know, several clicks in and they'll
00:44:06.040
be like, Oh yeah, they've wasted $10 million on this. That's everything you'll work for,
00:44:10.300
for your whole life plus a lot. And that is like, when you think about it, how just, just
00:44:16.980
depressing that is. These little mistakes, these little stories we bring up are real people's
00:44:22.980
life's work going down the drain for nothing, nothing. You could have every tax dollar you've
00:44:30.460
ever put in back plus all the tax dollars of everybody that you know back and then some
00:44:39.540
if they hadn't made that one mistake and we blow it off all the time. We don't even blow
00:44:45.020
it off. Barely even worth a mention. I mean, you think they, every year they release that
00:44:48.900
government waste report Republicans do that show all the quirky things that they've spent
00:44:53.440
money on. You know, they spent $500,000 on this story to see if snails can fly. And like,
00:44:58.560
it's all this weird stuff. And you're like, Oh, that's a funny, that's a funny kicker story
00:45:02.200
that day. Those are people's life's work going down the drain over and over and over again
00:45:08.420
every year. And nobody notices. I mean, you want to know how bad taxes are. And I think
00:45:14.200
it's, it's, we're at the point where we need to start making these arguments and making them
00:45:20.940
more profound because I mean, listen, listen to this. This is the New York times today.
00:45:24.880
Um, and I just, I just, just did this just a second ago. Now that as I'm talking about
00:45:29.800
this, listen, this says the gap between perception and reality on the tax cut appears to flow from
00:45:34.340
a sustained and misleading effort by liberal opponents of the law to brand it as a broad
00:45:40.180
middle tax tax, uh, middle class tax increase. This is the New York times telling you this
00:45:46.040
time. Yes. They are telling you that it was a misleading effort by liberals that make people
00:45:52.360
not understand this because we're seeing long sustained. Yeah. We're seeing now, uh, polls as
00:45:56.800
low as 17% of people believe they got a tax cut when the real number is well North of 60, uh, and
00:46:03.160
probably even higher than that. We don't know how the final numbers yet. They say the effort began in
00:46:07.440
the fall of 2017 when Republicans prepared, uh, their first draft of this tax bill and one tax policy
00:46:14.420
center at the independent tax policy center predicted it could raise taxes on nearly a third of middle
00:46:19.360
class taxpayers. Now that's not the bill that passed. I continued through Trump's signing of
00:46:24.040
the law, even though the group's model showed the same group that initially said it would raise taxes
00:46:28.200
on people. The group's model showed that the revised bill would raise taxes on relatively, relatively few
00:46:35.180
in the middle class. After the law went to effect, Democrats played down those estimates and instead
00:46:41.080
highlighted projections that most Americans taxes are set to increase in 2026.
00:46:47.860
after the individual tax cuts are scheduled to expire. So they're saying your taxes are going
00:46:55.700
to go up after the tax cuts go away, which of course is true. This is, but that's them. That's
00:47:01.780
their tax, those, their, their tax rates, which are higher. This is the amazing thing about the New York
00:47:06.400
Times. At times they tell the absolute truth. Yeah. At times they'll say that now they'll disagree with
00:47:13.860
what they just printed in the op-ed. Yes. The op-ed will tell the exact, all these lies will be echoed a hundred
00:47:21.100
times. Yes. By all of their op-ed columns. Correct. Just a couple. But sometimes they do great reporting. It's such a
00:47:28.900
weird thing. If you are really, truly just being a hack for the left, how does this person survive? Yeah.
00:47:39.480
It's a mix. I mean, I, and I think that's important. That is important to note. It is. I mean, a lot of
00:47:43.980
times when we're talking about real conservative arguments, you know, the basis for that, the source
00:47:48.420
of that reliable information is the New York Times, because it's easy, it's great to go to the left and
00:47:53.040
say, uh, this is the New York Times I'm showing you. This is them saying it, not me, not in National
00:47:58.320
Review, not the blaze, not Breitbart. Here it is right here, New York Times. Uh, they say now that
00:48:04.220
three quarters of Democrats say they did not think they got a tax cut, uh, from the law. And
00:48:09.040
the overall, uh, share of Americans who said that they got a tax cut just rose slightly since
00:48:14.940
the initial, uh, argument. Experts are divided on whether the tax law, uh, tax cut law was a good
00:48:20.520
idea, but there is little disagreement on this core point. Most people got a tax cut. The tax
00:48:26.580
policy center estimates that 65% of people paid less under the law and only 6% paid more. The
00:48:33.000
Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress's nonpartisan team of tax analysts, found that every income
00:48:38.060
group would see a tax cut on average. So did the Institute of Taxation on Economic Policy,
00:48:42.880
which is a left-leaning think tank. They went even further. They said every income group
00:48:48.960
in every state would pay less on average. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Um, and what's
00:48:55.440
interesting about that is people aren't realizing these tax cuts, uh, because they say a relatively
00:49:01.340
small amount. Um, some people got about $780, the middle, the middle, uh, middle class. And they
00:49:07.600
say, well, you know, $780 is nice. You'd like to get $780, but you know, it was a few dollars
00:49:13.960
in bi, bi-weekly checks. And I think, and I just said this myself, I'm mad that I'm paying a giant
00:49:19.500
chunk today. I have a giant tax bill to pay today, unfortunately. But the truth is I should be happy
00:49:25.540
about that because my money was in my hands for longer. I was able to invest it. I was able to
00:49:31.520
hold onto it. I was able to make interest. I did not make an interest-free loan to the government.
00:49:35.200
You know, what's crazy is we use the federal government as a bank. Yeah. And it's the worst
00:49:40.580
bank ever. And we do the same thing with social security. It's the same idea. We, we, we look at
00:49:45.080
the federal government as a bank and we hope we get a tax return. Well, you're getting the money you
00:49:50.600
paid in, but you're not saving, you're not getting any interest on that. So they're not paying you
00:49:56.040
interest. No. So you could have put that same amount in the bank and said, I'm going to take
00:50:02.840
less every month and I'm going to put it in the bank so it can earn interest. I'm going to put it
00:50:08.260
in a CD. I'm going to put it in something safe, but it'll at least get 5% interest. And then come tax
00:50:14.380
day. I will take that money and I'll cash it out and I'll pay exactly how much I need to pay.
00:50:21.900
Instead, we don't do that. We let the government take all of our money. And then when they give us
00:50:29.440
a year later after holding it and using it, then they give it back to us without any interest.
00:50:36.380
And we celebrate like it's a gift. Like the whole thing is a gift. Like I didn't know I had any of
00:50:41.820
that. Yeah. I think it's insane. I want to say it was H&R Block last year that did an ad campaign
00:50:46.140
about like it's tax refund day. Like there's this great holiday. It's like, it's not a holiday.
00:50:51.440
They've been stealing your money for a year. I mean, this is, we've been saying this point for how
00:50:56.720
long? I mean, legitimately 30 years. Reagan. Reagan said it. He said, if you at the end of the year,
00:51:02.020
if people had to just write a check, then this would be totally different. Why don't we push for that
00:51:07.600
as actual policy? Why? We always talk about it. We always mention it. I don't know. You know,
00:51:13.120
because make it quarterly checks or monthly checks or whatever it is. Every time you get a paycheck,
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every time you get a paycheck, it's not withheld. You have to write it out. Write a check and send
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it in. You have to write a check. It's automatically, you know, you got to be able to, there has to be
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some action taken because it's just like your point with immigration. If we take all the sanctuary
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cities and take illegal immigrants and spread them out across, there will be some impact to these
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cities, but most people might not notice the big impact. If you do it with a bunch of buses and
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they all arrive at the same time and you plop them down and everyone's going to notice, you do with a
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lot of fanfare. This is what this is. It's fanfare. Make people notice what they're doing. Make people
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accountable to, you know, to, to, to the actual people and the money that they're spending because
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people don't realize it. You know, we say this with health insurance too. People don't know what the
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prices are. This is why they develop this system. They develop this system because they knew you
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would revolt if you actually had to do it yourself. So they've made it. But what, what, what thing does
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the government make easy for you? The government make anything easy for you? You can't get a, I mean,
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it's impossible to do almost anything when it comes to government. Almost anything. Except give them your
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tax dollars. They will take those tax dollars. Now at the end of the year, it's a pain in the ass. But that's to
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get your money back a lot of times. Correct. But to pay your taxes every single paycheck. Oh, they make that
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so easy and they take that burden away from you. Thank you so much for that. The Blaze Radio Network.