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00:00:15.140 Okay, there's a lot of stuff going on in today's show.

00:00:17.620 We talked to you about the SPLC, an update on that.

00:00:20.640 The rot runs really, really deep.

00:00:22.880 And if I hear one more person say,

00:00:24.680 Well, the FBI does it.

00:00:26.100 They're not the FBI.

00:00:27.220 I couldn't get all of that out of my system in the monologue.

00:00:32.120 You'll hear that.

00:00:33.360 Also, talk about the housing market.

00:00:36.020 What is actually happening with the housing market?

00:00:39.620 What is the problem there?

00:00:41.440 And some real solutions.

00:00:42.760 Also, are we turning into Canada?

00:00:45.140 And what is Canada turning into?

00:00:47.340 All that and so much more on today's podcast.

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00:02:49.400 So there's a couple of things that we have to talk about that have to be done.

00:02:58.040 If you want to fix our economy, we have to fix the fraud.

00:03:02.360 The latest now, the latest numbers from the GAO, the Government Accounting Office,

00:03:08.820 is that they estimate that our government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion

00:03:19.940 every year based on fraud between 2018 through 2022.

00:03:26.740 Can you imagine how bad it is now?

00:03:29.580 Half a billion dollars.

00:03:32.860 Sorry, half a trillion dollars.

00:03:35.680 how many trillions are we in debt in two years just based on fraud in two years we will add

00:03:42.680 another trillion dollars to our debt and that entire number of trillion will be because of

00:03:49.840 fraud i don't know is that sound important that's not like that's not cutting pennies here that's

00:03:56.980 cutting a trillion dollars every two years that seems really important because we're just not

00:04:04.740 going to make it with this kind of spending. And if this fraud continues like this, we're not going

00:04:10.660 to have a country left to protect. And I don't mean just because of the fraud. I mean, because

00:04:15.500 we're not going to believe anybody. People are going to start saying, I'm not paying for it

00:04:20.120 anymore. You're wasting my money. You're wasting everything that I have worked hard for. I work

00:04:26.280 four months out of the year just to pay my income tax. That's not reasonable. When you're losing

00:04:33.800 half a trillion dollars in fraud. People are just going to have enough of it. That has to be

00:04:40.440 addressed. But then we also have to address something that is both partially a lie and

00:04:46.840 partially true. And because there is a, there is a deception that is going on that people are

00:04:53.240 believing. And here's what it whispers to people every day. You can't afford the life you want.

00:05:00.900 You can't afford to buy a decent house.

00:05:03.960 You can't start a family.

00:05:05.900 Not in this economy.

00:05:07.000 Not anymore.

00:05:11.640 I think most Americans buy that now.

00:05:14.520 And they have every reason to buy it.

00:05:16.480 The soaring prices, the endless debt, the perfect images online of what everybody else's dream is.

00:05:24.400 And you look and go, that dream is dead.

00:05:26.600 So we have put off marriage and children.

00:05:31.280 We put off a home that we can own.

00:05:34.980 And we get less and less hopeful because we convince ourselves that real happiness and success requires more than we could really ever achieve.

00:05:48.500 I want to do an experiment with you.

00:05:50.300 right now think about the house that you believe would make you truly happy okay i want you to just

00:06:00.080 actually pick a number in your head how many square feet how many bedrooms for you to be like

00:06:07.200 i'm happy i'm i'm i'm living a dream i'm living the way my parents would have lived okay you know

00:06:13.740 when the dream was available for everybody how many kids are running through those rooms

00:06:19.100 what's the square footage of the home how many bedrooms how many kids you have that number

00:06:28.820 keep that number in mind now let me go back to probably the peak the golden era of america

00:06:37.360 back to the 1950s and i'm not saying it's golden era for everybody blah blah blah stop

00:06:42.360 But this was a time when we had a booming economy, jobs everywhere, manufacturing.

00:06:49.160 I mean, we were the envy of the world.

00:06:51.060 Cheap gas, cheap energy.

00:06:54.500 The world seemed to be at peace.

00:06:57.380 America stood at its zenith.

00:07:01.400 The average home back then was $7,000.

00:07:05.960 Now, these are $1950.

00:07:08.240 $7,000.

00:07:09.380 how big remember the number that you have on square footage

00:07:16.260 how big is that home that you're thinking right now because the average home today is 2500 square

00:07:24.280 feet the average new home in 1950 was 983 square feet 983 square feet the average family

00:07:38.180 was almost four it was 3.9 so there were two children two adults living in 983 square feet

00:07:46.120 and that's where the American dreams were built that's where families gathered around the table

00:07:52.100 and children played in the yard and people people felt their life was full and good

00:07:58.180 if I told you you could afford a modest home of that size under a thousand square feet and raise

00:08:07.080 your family in it, would you take it? Would you mentally trust that you could be genuinely happy

00:08:16.840 with two children and 983 square feet? Because our parents did, and our grandparents did.

00:08:26.540 Now, that home in 1950 cost about $7,300. Adjust that for inflation, and you're looking at about

00:08:35.540 $95,000 in today's dollars, okay? The same average home today, the average home, is over $400,000.

00:08:46.740 Not double, not even triple, that's four times higher in real terms, but that's today's average

00:08:53.820 home because back in 1950, it was 950 square feet. Small, modest, practical, almost, you know,

00:09:03.220 almost the exact size of what you could get today, but not for $400,000.

00:09:15.360 Level the playing field, same size, because $400,000 is about a 2,000-square-foot home.

00:09:24.160 Let's adjust this to 1950s inflation.

00:09:26.720 back then home adjusted for inflation ran about a hundred dollars per square foot today the same

00:09:36.020 home you're looking at 200 250 maybe at the priciest places around 300 per square foot

00:09:43.100 so when you strip away the size inflation from 2000 to 950 and you compare apples to apples

00:09:51.300 the home is still about two times more expensive so you're talking about from 95 you're talking

00:09:57.620 about 200 000 so you've doubled the price bare minimum if you're living close to a city it it

00:10:05.260 might be three times same square footage in 1950 top end 950 square feet selling for

00:10:12.220 five to seven thousand if you look in 1950s numbers that's 10 to 14 000 so it's double

00:10:18.820 now we're told a story to try to explain this it's inflation but it's not it's not inflation

00:10:32.360 because if it was all inflation in 1950 dollars it would be it would be uh seven thousand dollars

00:10:40.840 but it's not if we we look at that and we say it's 14 it's 10 to 14 thousand dollars

00:10:46.400 that's the inflation okay

00:10:48.680 so what else is costing us this money what else is costing this today's dollar should have been

00:10:58.120 7 000 but it's not it's 14 what is causing the double price here's another lie well the homes

00:11:07.420 are better when it's not exactly a lie it's kind of true we have central air we have advanced

00:11:12.720 electrical systems we have insulation appliances smart tech things that didn't even exist in 1950

00:11:19.160 you walk into a 1950s house and you're like this is a total teardown okay even if it was taken care

00:11:24.320 of perfectly you don't want to live in that house okay but that doesn't explain the two or three or

00:11:30.680 four hundred percent increase dishwasher didn't triple the price of a home so what did

00:11:35.140 Well, the answer is not in the house. The answer is what's under your feet. Land. And if you're a farmer, you know this because you can't afford to buy land. Land has become the most expensive part of the American home.

00:11:53.440 now why is that did we run out of land you drive 30 minutes outside of almost any major city

00:12:02.900 in any county and you're going to see it it's all still sitting there

00:12:09.060 wide open space waiting so why is land so expensive

00:12:14.160 because our government made it that way you didn't i didn't but the government local state

00:12:22.620 and federal government, they all made it that way. Zoning laws, permits, restrictions, endless layers

00:12:29.100 of EPA approval. We didn't run out of land. We restricted the access to the land. And then

00:12:36.000 something else happened. We stopped building. Not completely, but compared to what we used to do,

00:12:42.820 it's not even close. We also have immigration. Now that brings in a sudden overwhelming demand

00:12:50.600 for homes. Millions of people need a home. So the question is on that one, have we ever been there

00:12:58.000 before? Huge sudden demand for homes, shortage of homes. Yeah. Been in exactly the same position

00:13:05.460 after World War II. Millions of soldiers came home and they wanted to start a family and they

00:13:11.480 wanted their own home. So there was this massive housing shortage, far, far worse in many ways than

00:13:17.460 what we're facing today. Demand exploded overnight. So what happened there? Because I don't remember

00:13:27.520 almost going into revolution in the 1940s, late 1940s and early 1950s because there were home

00:13:34.340 shortages. In fact, I don't really remember reading much about the home shortages except for right

00:13:40.340 after the war. What happened? Because we had to study it for decades, right? I mean, we held

00:13:48.240 hearings and we passed rules to slow things down. Nope, nope. We did something different back in

00:13:57.180 the 1950s. We built, we built entire communities almost overnight. I don't know if you ever heard

00:14:06.260 of Levittown, but Levittown is a great example. Homes were built like cars on an assembly line.

00:14:13.260 Homes were built in days, not months. Days. Can you imagine? I'm building something now in Florida.

00:14:21.200 I'm building a new building in Florida. I'm hoping that I can have just the permitting done

00:14:28.460 by this summer. And that's Florida, one that is not a problem.

00:14:36.260 The GI Bill made the financing available, millions of veterans, they served their country,

00:14:40.900 they came back, the interstate highway system opened up the land that had never been reachable

00:14:45.040 before, and perhaps most importantly, the government got out of the way.

00:14:50.080 The government made it easy to build.

00:14:53.200 So what happened?

00:14:54.760 Prices rose at first because everybody needed a home, and then they stabilized because supply

00:15:01.160 caught up with demand.

00:15:02.440 That's how markets are supposed to work.

00:15:04.480 Now, fast forward to today. We have a shortage again. But this time, are we unleashing builders? No, we're restraining them. Are we expanding supply? No, we're constraining it. Instead of saying, yes, like Donald Trump just did with the oil, drill, baby, drill, build, baby, build.

00:15:26.740 Instead of that, we say, not here, not here, not here.

00:15:29.940 And then we act surprised when prices skyrocket.

00:15:36.140 This is why the most important number is not the price of a home.

00:15:39.500 It is the ratio between a home price and income.

00:15:43.340 In 1960, the average cost was two times the average annual income.

00:15:47.840 Today, it's over five times.

00:15:50.400 That's the difference between opportunity and exclusion.

00:15:53.540 That's the difference between a young family starting a life and one stuck renting indefinitely.

00:16:01.600 So when your kids ask, you know, how did your parents do it?

00:16:06.560 How do you do it?

00:16:08.560 The honest answer is this.

00:16:11.880 We lived in a country that believed in building.

00:16:15.400 A country that saw the problem and solved it with action, not obstruction.

00:16:20.780 we were actually trying to make people's lives better because we cared about the individual

00:16:26.260 person not the planet over people we cared for the planet but we also cared for people

00:16:36.120 you know the country believed that growth was good expansion was good opportunity was something

00:16:42.560 that you created not something that you rationed and somewhere along the way that whole that whole

00:16:48.580 mindset of America changed. We didn't lose the land. We didn't lose the resources. We've lost

00:16:55.840 the will. And until that changes, this doesn't get fixed. The American dream is not dead.

00:17:07.340 We've just been lied about what it actually is. Some of us are being lied to because they say

00:17:15.820 there's no way out we're never going to be able to do it you're lying because we're americans

00:17:20.160 we solve problems we build that's who we are we're builders that's the difference between america

00:17:28.760 and the rest of the world we build we invent our way out of these problems but that's not

00:17:36.720 what's happening and then the other half of the problem is the lie that just keeps continuing

00:17:42.480 that you're not going to be able to live the American dream.

00:17:45.680 Well, what is the American dream?

00:17:47.760 Because if you want to live the way your parents did,

00:17:51.020 it's not in a 2,500-square-foot house.

00:17:53.680 That's new.

00:17:56.480 And that's not even what people are even really hoping for.

00:18:01.380 They want to live in a 5,000-square-foot house

00:18:04.460 or a 10,000-square-foot house.

00:18:07.580 The American dream was never about a mansion.

00:18:12.480 And so anybody who is watching life on, you know, Facebook or on TikTok or on Instagram,

00:18:22.000 that's not real life.

00:18:23.920 That's not.

00:18:25.800 The American dream is about freedom and opportunity and hard work and faith and building a life

00:18:30.500 with the people that you love, not in a homeless shelter, but not necessarily in a home that

00:18:38.300 is built just to impress.

00:18:40.100 let's remember what it means to actually be happy don't confuse social media with reality

00:18:49.200 you know you think it's never going to happen to you but one day it does all of those times

00:18:56.260 in the movies seeing somebody get mugged nothing to prepare you for experiencing it in real life

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00:19:51.740 Now back to the podcast.

00:19:53.220 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:56.580 So the Southern Poverty Law Center, the very organization that built

00:20:00.380 a billion-dollar empire labeling mainstream conservatives, Christians, concerned parents

00:20:05.780 as hate groups, now has been federally indicted on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and money

00:20:12.300 laundering. They stand accused of secretly funding over $3 million in donor money to actual

00:20:19.360 Klan members, neo-Nazis, and extremist groups that they are apparently opposed to. Terrifying

00:20:27.100 american uh citizens into giving giving giving while they were allegedly paying the very monsters

00:20:33.300 they said they were fighting now it seems as though the press is uh is running to protect

00:20:41.140 these hacks um you know they're they're doing everything they can to downplay the indictment

00:20:47.340 um and why well i don't need to explain why you know why but what is it that they are what is it

00:20:54.900 that they're saying well one of my favorites let me give you this one uh kind of a smarty pants

00:21:01.080 reaction uh to something i said yesterday and this is the general attempt to downplay what is

00:21:07.880 what was exposed uh this is from mike young the indictment alleges donor disclosure for fraud

00:21:14.760 that the spLC didn't tell the contributors their money-funded informants inside extremist groups

00:21:19.720 That's what the 11 counts describe. Beck reads it as proof that the right-wing extremist movements

00:21:25.600 were manufactured. The indictment doesn't say that. Paying informants inside the KKK does not

00:21:30.640 make the KKK fictional. I never said that. I never said the KKK was fictional. I never said

00:21:36.320 neo-Nazis don't exist. I said the money that they were paying was amplifying it, making it bigger.

00:21:42.940 the organization exists absolutely the violence was real yep um let's see Beck appears on the

00:21:51.400 SPLC list 157 times that's legitimate grievance about overbroad listing you think it's not

00:21:57.980 evidence that white supremacist violence is a color revolution operation I didn't say that either

00:22:03.260 look this exists hatred exists racism exists nazis exist radicals exist anarchists exist 0.93

00:22:13.880 people who want to kill you people who just want to watch the world burn for some unknown reason

00:22:18.220 all of that exists the question here on the spLC is were there were they aiding and abetting that

00:22:26.160 so they could grow and do the bidding of their Marxist

00:22:30.440 or their leftist progressive leaders?

00:22:35.480 Were they part of a system to tear America apart?

00:22:42.460 Yeah, they were.

00:22:44.540 But that's not even what the legal question is.

00:22:47.320 Remember, let me just go back to what I just read at the beginning.

00:22:50.860 they are indicted

00:22:56.540 on charges of wire fraud

00:22:58.680 bank fraud and money laundering

00:23:00.680 now

00:23:02.300 the other thing that the left is saying

00:23:04.780 is that they are

00:23:06.700 they are claiming that

00:23:08.580 well the FBI does that

00:23:10.580 and

00:23:13.260 let me figure that one out

00:23:16.080 yes the FBI does that

00:23:18.340 is the

00:23:20.260 SPLC the FBI I know they all have letters in their names but the SPLC is not the FBI

00:23:30.900 different letters which means they can't do what the FBI does they're doing the same thing they

00:23:40.200 were just paying for informants were they were they well let's just let's just go into this

00:23:46.940 here for a second did you read the indictment because what they said what the indictment says

00:23:52.500 they did and this is all alleged but what the indictment says they did was they opened up

00:23:59.180 bank accounts under false pretenses and false names well yeah but they were doing undercover work

00:24:07.020 wait wait wait can we please just stop and think for a second please for the love of pete can we

00:24:15.760 If I opened up a bank account or you opened up a bank account today under a false name and then you made wire transfers under other false names, would you expect anyone to go, yeah, but I was doing it to, you know, help children with cancer?

00:24:37.740 No.

00:24:38.420 Well, I was doing it, you know, to get the bad guys from stopping hurting good guys.

00:24:46.540 Nope.

00:24:47.660 Well, the FBI does it, and it doesn't work that way.

00:24:53.440 It doesn't work that way.

00:24:54.680 Opening an account, I just want to give this so the media,

00:24:58.240 because they apparently just don't have Google or ChatGPT or anything.

00:25:02.740 They can't look this stuff up, so I'm going to help them.

00:25:04.980 When you open up a bank account in the United States, under the Customer Identification Program, that's in the Patriot Act.

00:25:17.680 No, I don't like the Patriot Act.

00:25:19.100 Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:25:21.080 It doesn't matter if you like it or not.

00:25:24.060 It's the law.

00:25:26.080 This was implemented via FinCEN and banking regs.

00:25:30.700 If you provide false identification to a bank, it can be treated as bank fraud under 18 U.S.C. Section 1344, also as identity-related offenses under 18 U.S.C. 1028, or aggravated identity theft in Section 1028A.

00:26:00.700 Okay, so you can't, you've got three codes, three U.S. codes that you violated here.

00:26:07.260 Just by opening up a bank account with a fake name, you've violated three federal laws.

00:26:14.700 Wiring money to fake names.

00:26:17.260 Wire transfers must include accurate originator and beneficiary information under anti-money laundering rules.

00:26:25.220 Supplying a fictitious name or structuring transactions to avoid detection can trigger money laundering statutes, statutes like 18 U.S.C. 1956 and 18 U.S.C. 1957.

00:26:42.520 Banks are required to monitor and report suspicious activity.

00:26:46.860 Mismatched or fabricated identities are a classic red flag.

00:26:52.440 so

00:26:54.360 you can't do the things

00:26:57.140 even though the FBI does it

00:26:59.120 why why why

00:27:00.460 the FBI does it

00:27:02.400 because they have special

00:27:05.360 exemption they have

00:27:07.160 lawful structures

00:27:08.500 they have to report they have

00:27:11.180 to log they have to follow

00:27:13.020 certain laws themselves

00:27:14.580 but they get special dispensation

00:27:17.360 because they're a law enforcement

00:27:19.460 agency

00:27:20.200 you know what i i i arrested somebody i tried them and i i'm keeping them in jail in my basement

00:27:28.980 what the police do it you can't do it you're not the police i i cannot take these people who say

00:27:40.920 they are so highly educated who cannot think these things through logically i just don't believe 0.99

00:27:47.560 they're that stupid there's no way there is no legal carve out for private citizens to impersonate 1.00

00:27:57.660 people to send fake wires to fake people or to open up fraudulent bank accounts that breaks all 1.00

00:28:06.080 kinds of laws so how exactly are you justifying this well the fbi does it oh god

00:28:15.940 america i just would like to come to you today and just say there is no hope there is no hope

00:28:23.780 none zero we're all doomed if this is the level of argument that we have in this nation

00:28:32.880 where our press and and we buy this that we can go online and just go the fbi does it

00:28:43.140 there's no hope you cannot be entrusted with your republic you cannot be entrusted with your 0.99

00:28:49.700 government the american experiment is over if we're this stupid if we actually entertain that 0.99

00:28:58.080 argument somebody says that to you just go you're not the fbi 1.00

00:29:02.780 you watch their heads explode they'll have no place to go they won't even understand it

00:29:14.120 they're not the fbi they don't have legal authority to do that that's in violation of

00:29:20.540 all kinds of federal code that's jail time if you do it what part of this don't you understand

00:29:27.220 oh so anyway the rot's pretty deep it's deeper than just the SPLC this is what happens when

00:29:41.240 power and money and self-righteousness replaces truth they lied to their donors oh well 0.97

00:29:48.980 they profited from the fear that they helped create oh well they're proven liar these are 0.94

00:29:58.700 the ones who said that our border guards were whipping Haitian migrants do you remember that

00:30:04.920 oh well they violated banking laws do you not care about that are you okay with anybody

00:30:18.960 just making up because if you're okay with that are you okay with the drug cartels doing it 0.75

00:30:24.960 are you okay with uh hezbollah doing it are you okay with the chinese government opening up bank 0.85

00:30:33.340 accounts in the united states with false names well no but they don't have the heart

00:30:39.020 the court system doesn't judge your heart it judges your actions

00:30:44.800 oh my gosh

00:30:48.540 the people who gave

00:30:52.220 I hope you wake up because you're not evil

00:30:54.520 you were most likely

00:30:56.460 I mean not everybody but a lot of people were just

00:30:58.660 scared they believed

00:31:00.380 that somebody was out there

00:31:02.800 on their side fighting real hate

00:31:04.800 and the desire for justice

00:31:06.560 is good

00:31:07.540 but when you

00:31:09.880 outsource your moral

00:31:12.480 discernment to institutions

00:31:14.380 instead of anchoring it in eternal truth you're easy to manipulate you're really easy to manipulate

00:31:23.740 if you're like yeah i can do it why can't i oh my gosh are you a second grader

00:31:29.380 if you want accountability then we have to have radical honesty we have to have personal

00:31:39.460 responsibility. We have to be able to refuse the lies even on our own side. Even when it hurts us,

00:31:48.280 refuse to live the lie. Stop funding the machine. Demand transparency. Demand justice. Equal

00:31:58.240 justice. All sides. If I were opening up bank accounts under false names and I was wire

00:32:08.020 transferring to fictitious people and I wasn't telling anyone about it and I'm not the FBI

00:32:14.640 and that was happening in my charity do you think I would go to jail yes and I should go to jail if

00:32:22.820 that's what I was doing because it's against the law these organizations they've got to be rooted

00:32:33.220 in truth. Rooted in truth. Not in outrage. But here's the good news. The same God who sees

00:32:42.480 every hidden fraud also sees every honest heart. There's such a loss of hope right now. Feed your

00:32:52.380 hope. Grow your gratitude. Grow your gratitude in just this. The light is exposing those things

00:33:00.000 hidden in darkness. Choose every day to live with integrity that these institutions have abandoned,

00:33:07.320 that the press people have abandoned, that so many people online have abandoned. Just live

00:33:12.620 your life with integrity. Accountability is coming. It is coming. But the real revolution,

00:33:22.320 the only one that will save the republic, that revolution has to begin in us.

00:33:30.000 the best of the Glenn Beck program. So let's look at what a free nation is. Before I get into this

00:33:36.720 and I look at Canada, let's describe what a free nation really is. Democracies and free nations

00:33:43.980 can exist, but it's rare and historically very fragile. So here are the core hallmarks

00:33:51.980 and pillars that actually determine whether a nation will remain free.

00:34:00.280 Rule of law is number one.

00:34:02.700 Rule of law, not rule of man.

00:34:04.760 A free nation, the law applies equally to everyone,

00:34:08.280 citizens, leaders, and institutions alike.

00:34:10.640 No one is above it, nobody's beneath it.

00:34:13.020 Rule of law is number one.

00:34:15.020 Let's keep that.

00:34:16.740 Two, free, fair, and regular elections.

00:34:19.820 Democracy requires that citizens can choose their leaders through elections that are transparent, competitive, peacefully conducted, and regularly scheduled.

00:34:29.900 Power must also transfer peacefully when people decide.

00:34:33.060 Without that, voting becomes theater.

00:34:36.160 Number three, protection of individual rights.

00:34:40.000 This is the dividing line between pure democracy and a free society.

00:34:44.540 In a truly free nation, certain rights can not ever be voted away, even by a majority.

00:34:50.960 That's freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and due process.

00:34:55.220 Documents like the Constitution and Bill of Rights exist for this reason.

00:34:59.580 Number four, separation of powers.

00:35:02.200 Powers are divided so no single person or group can dominate.

00:35:07.860 Legislative, they make the laws.

00:35:09.620 Executive, they enforce the laws.

00:35:11.140 Judicial, interprets the laws.

00:35:12.700 this is

00:35:14.000 this is a

00:35:16.280 that's a free society

00:35:18.540 anytime there's friction in that

00:35:20.300 it's usually

00:35:22.640 it's usually

00:35:24.900 you know people bring that

00:35:26.760 friction in on purpose

00:35:28.260 five independent 0.59

00:35:30.900 judiciary courts have to be able

00:35:32.780 to rule against the government without

00:35:34.440 any fear if judges serve

00:35:36.660 political power instead of the law

00:35:38.560 then the rights exist only on paper

00:35:40.580 justice has to be blind

00:35:42.340 not obedient. Six, free press and open information. Free Nation requires a press that can question

00:35:49.460 authority, investigate wrongdoing, inform the public without censorship. Seven, civilian

00:35:55.040 control of the military. Eight, protection of minority rights. Nine, economic freedom and

00:36:02.680 property rights. And ten, a culture that values freedom. Okay, that's what I'm looking for. Now,

00:36:10.500 Let's look, see, if we can, let's look at Canada

00:36:14.760 and see are they a free nation anymore

00:36:19.300 because show me your friends and I will show you your future.

00:36:24.240 Okay.

00:36:25.920 Let's start with the basics of any real democracy,

00:36:31.080 and that's accountability.

00:36:31.920 In 2021, Parliament discovered that a scientist

00:36:36.900 in Canada's highest security lab

00:36:39.240 had shipped live Ebola to the Wuhan Institute of Virology 0.73

00:36:44.780 and collaborated with the Chinese military on bioweapons research. 0.91

00:36:50.420 Kind of a big deal, right? 0.84

00:36:51.940 Do we have anything like that?

00:36:53.100 Uh-huh.

00:36:54.220 So what happened in Canada?

00:36:56.080 The House ordered the documents four times.

00:36:59.560 The Liberal Party blocked it every single time.

00:37:03.520 They sued, they stonewalled,

00:37:05.080 they even called for a snap election to kill the investigation.

00:37:08.960 So what is that?

00:37:10.140 That's rule of law being violated and separation of powers being violated.

00:37:15.200 Remember, those are two out of the ten things that you have to have if you're going to be a free nation.

00:37:20.240 Three years later, the Auditor General exposed the almost $400 million in outright corruption.

00:37:27.140 But again, Parliament, the Liberals, shut it down.

00:37:31.420 Accountability, independent oversight violated.

00:37:34.840 Then Trudeau resigned.

00:37:36.640 and one-third of one percent of Canadians, the elite inner circle, handed the Prime Minister's

00:37:43.720 office to Mark Carney. They tried to do that here when they tried to hand the nomination

00:37:48.820 and did hand the nomination to Kamala Harris. While this was happening, the House of Commons

00:37:54.980 stopped sitting for eight months. So Canada was governed by executive decree. No oversight,

00:38:04.940 no debate no votes where's your representation separation of powers okay that's not a democracy

00:38:12.280 that's rule by fiat they weren't even in session the elect elections are they free and fair

00:38:19.780 csis confirmed china interfered in both 2019 and 2021 funding 11 candidates trudeau was briefed for

00:38:31.460 this, on this, and he did nothing. That's free and fair elections out the window. Liberal MP

00:38:37.600 openly told people to collect a Chinese Communist Party bounty on a conservative candidate. No

00:38:45.000 charges. Equal application of the law violated. The next election, 121 mail-in ballots went

00:38:53.200 uncounted. In one, the vote was decided by a single vote. Elections Canada printed the wrong

00:39:07.840 postal codes on the envelopes in another, data entry errors, and that delivered a 327-vote

00:39:16.500 swing to the Liberals.

00:39:20.280 Trust in the election?

00:39:22.320 Then five MPs flipped into the Liberal Party

00:39:24.900 in five months,

00:39:27.300 and convenient that it handed the elections

00:39:33.260 to the now majority,

00:39:35.200 a two-seat majority to the Liberals.

00:39:38.500 Democracy by design,

00:39:40.240 or is it democracy by manipulation?

00:39:42.740 Do we see any of this happening here?

00:39:44.520 Because, see, people blame this on the Republicans.

00:39:46.820 But where are the Republicans in Canada?

00:39:51.420 Why is this happening with progressive leadership all over the West?

00:39:59.260 Once in power, they move to control what you see, what you say, and how you live in Canada.

00:40:04.460 They invoked the Emergencies Act against the 2022 Freedom Convoy.

00:40:09.160 They froze the bank accounts of protesters, their supporters, all across the country.

00:40:12.920 That's a silencing of free speech and assembly and property rights.

00:40:18.060 Two federal courts, including the Court of Appeal, ruled unanimous, unreasonable, unlawful, and a violation of charter rights to expression, assembly, and protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

00:40:32.460 No national emergency existed.

00:40:35.160 The government is still appealing to the Supreme Court, but the courts have already spoken.

00:40:39.480 They acted without justification, and then they got away with it.

00:40:42.920 That's judicial authority and rule of law.

00:40:46.740 They passed a bill called C-18, the Online News Act.

00:40:52.600 That forced Google and Meta to pay Canadian outlets for links.

00:40:57.000 Meta blocked all news on Facebook and Instagram for Canadians.

00:41:01.140 Google paid up instead of blocking, but the precedent was set.

00:41:04.360 Government decides what information flows.

00:41:07.700 Free press, information flow, controlled.

00:41:10.500 That's not part of a free nation.

00:41:12.920 Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, does the same thing to Netflix, YouTube, Spotify,

00:41:19.420 forcing them under the thumb of Canada and their DEI quotas and Canadian content mandates.

00:41:27.780 That's speech.

00:41:29.280 That's cultural expression influenced by the state.

00:41:32.840 That's not a free nation.

00:41:34.780 They kept the carbon tax despite two-thirds of Canadians opposing the increases.

00:41:39.900 Two-thirds.

00:41:40.620 Is that a democratic republic?

00:41:44.220 They ended the visible consumer tax only to keep the hidden clean fuel regulations

00:41:50.040 and industrial carbon tax quietly raising your fuel cost if you happen to be in Canada.

00:41:56.380 Transparency. There's none there.

00:41:58.740 They tried to mandate 100% EV sales by 2035,

00:42:03.280 then replaced it with emission rules that achieve the same thing except through the back door.

00:42:08.320 That's regulatory overreach. Property rights? Optional. In Ontario, Bill 212 lets the province

00:42:16.400 ram through highway projects, override municipal bylaws, and force property owners out faster.

00:42:24.060 No property rights. In Waterloo, the government secretly used NDAs and expropriation threats

00:42:33.440 to grab 770 acres of prime farmland for a mega site.

00:42:39.300 Maybe a data center, don't know.

00:42:42.180 Farmers found out only after the fact.

00:42:44.760 Where's your property rights?

00:42:45.700 New Brunswick.

00:42:46.980 A judge reduced a convicted man's sentence specifically

00:42:49.660 so he wouldn't be deported

00:42:51.240 because his skills mattered more than enforcing the law.

00:42:55.880 Where's equal justice?

00:42:56.860 In Toronto, city council voted to open government-run grocery stores that waive their own taxes to undercut private business.

00:43:11.300 Fair market violation.

00:43:13.780 In rural New Brunswick, they saw forced municipal mergers and tax hikes of 50% and 60% on homeowners.

00:43:22.840 British Columbia moving now from rural property rights into permission-based system,

00:43:30.280 applying to the government for everything from selling eggs to, you know, giving writing lessons,

00:43:37.140 you know, or face a $50,000 a day fine. Economic freedom, gone. Guns, they banned

00:43:44.420 2,500 assault-style firearms, called the buyback voluntary, and then warned that keeping your

00:43:53.400 legally purchased property after the deadline means jail. Is there any property rights?

00:44:00.000 Then there's the darkest chapter, MAID, medical assistance in dying, legalized in 2016 for those

00:44:06.300 with reasonably foreseeable deaths.

00:44:09.340 In 2021, they dropped that safeguard.

00:44:11.620 In 2024 alone, 22,535 Canadians requested it.

00:44:17.560 16,499 received it.

00:44:22.600 5.1% of all deaths in the country are now medical-assisted suicide.

00:44:29.020 From 2016 to 2024, over 76,000 killed by their own government's health care.

00:44:37.960 It's now the fourth leading cause of death in adults.

00:44:41.020 They have killed more people medically than they have euthanized pets in Canada.

00:44:49.880 meanwhile socialized medicine patients are averaging averaging 28 weeks for treatment

00:44:59.340 three times longer than in 1993 some doctors are offering made for back pain curable conditions

00:45:07.520 mental health when the state controls your health care and offers death as a solution to its own

00:45:15.520 failures. You're no longer a citizen. You're a cost center. And now they want more. The combating

00:45:21.540 hate bill, C9, moving through parliament up in Canada, new criminal offenses for hate, codified

00:45:28.900 definition that would criminalize religious belief, peaceful protest, dissent. There's no

00:45:35.340 freedom of speech there. Former Google executive pitched a $500,000 exit tax on educated Canadians.

00:45:42.920 if you dare to leave they're gonna they're gonna charge you half a million dollars so you know i

00:45:50.040 mean i mean isn't that a berlin wall of sorts you owe the state for the privilege of being born 0.80

00:45:57.320 there stay and serve or pay to escape oh my gosh that's not a democracy it's not democracy is not

00:46:07.480 when Parliament sidelined for eight months. Democracy is not when foreign interference

00:46:14.700 is ignored and elections are gamed. Democracy is not when the courts rule the government

00:46:21.500 broke the law and then nothing changes. Democracy is not when the state controls your speech,

00:46:28.460 your property, your health care, your energy, your news, your guns, and then offers you assisted

00:46:33.320 suicide because the wait times for their medicine is too long. Canada has become something else.

00:46:41.680 It's a managed oligarchy with democratic trappings. The forums remain, the elections,

00:46:49.300 the parliament building, the maple leaf flag, but the substance of what Canada has always been

00:46:54.400 is gone. Power is consolidated now. Dissent is managed. The individual exists to serve the state

00:47:01.840 and not the other way around.

00:47:04.600 Look how far Canada has fallen.

00:47:09.800 Now recognize, America, this is your future.

00:47:14.880 We are already letting unelected bureaucrats 0.82

00:47:20.100 and activists and judges rewrite the rules. 0.96

00:47:24.280 If we allow and tolerate foreign interference

00:47:27.780 and media capture,

00:47:29.220 if we accept that the government

00:47:30.540 can freeze your bank account for protesting, seize your farm for progress. If we trade liberty

00:47:36.560 for equity, safety, and Canadian content, we're going to wake up in the morning in exactly the

00:47:44.540 same place. I wanted to show you what was happening in Canada. The slide is gradual.

00:47:52.980 The language is polite. The slogans might even make people feel good until one day you realize

00:47:59.040 The cage was built around you, and you're free to walk around but not out.

00:48:06.480 It's going to be a little harder to do because we have the Constitution,

00:48:10.460 but if you listen to—I'm going to play this when we come back—

00:48:13.440 if you listen to what people are saying right now,

00:48:17.400 senators are saying right now about what is coming,

00:48:21.120 what they're planning on doing, packing the court, everything,

00:48:24.800 we will be canada overnight wake up america wake up look at what they're doing in just virginia

00:48:34.680 things are feeling a little less human these days aren't they but isn't the whole point of

00:48:42.080 progress to make things more human that's why at td when we design a product whether it's an app

00:48:48.440 for making trading easier or monitoring your account for fraud we ask one simple question

00:48:53.800 How does this help people?

00:48:56.540 That's how we're making banking more simple, more seamless, and more intuitive.

00:49:01.960 But most importantly, that's how TD is making banking more human.

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