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Summary
Glenn Beck shows up to work today even though he can't see anything, but he's still doing a radio show. Pat and Stu talk about that, and Glenn talks about his recent eye surgery and how it went.
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Welcome to the podcast, and I can say, of course, welcome to Pat Gray, as well as myself.
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However, I will say, an interesting appearance from a one, the only, Glenn Beck.
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He can't see anything, but he's still doing a radio show.
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And look, you know, you can't see him either, so I guess everyone's equal when it comes to that sense.
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I think you'll enjoy the show, and Glenn, hopefully, we'll be back in full force tomorrow.
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And it got worse when I was on a plane, and my hands wouldn't work.
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I really, I got to a point where I said to my wife, it was around Christmas time, and I said,
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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So, I want to welcome Pat from Pat Gray Unleashed, and, of course, Stu, our executive producer.
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I am still kind of without eyes and can't really read anything.
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And so, the guys are going to kind of walk me through and help me do what I do and do so poorly.
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So, do you want to explain at all what you're going through?
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So, I have the weirdest things that happen to me.
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I have a problem with my eyes and my eyelids to where my muscles are not working and keeping my eyes open.
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So, I have problems with my eyes as it is, and then my eyelids aren't opening.
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And so, the last, I don't know, Stu, what, six months, I've been kind of, every time I will read things and it got worse and worse, I would read things on the air and I'd have to push my eyes open so I could see.
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Hopefully, it'll work what they did this time and if not, then they have to go back in and, you know, cut the muscles and all of the horrible stuff.
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I wanted to see face-off, but they wouldn't do it.
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I might be able to see a little bit better tomorrow.
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I was really looking forward to seeing the eye situation.
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Well, if you look in a Stu's monitor, there they are.
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Looks almost like you got your eyes gouged out.
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When we talked on FaceTime last night, it really did because of the lighting that was involved with where you were at the time.
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It really looked like you just had two holes there where your eyes used to be.
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You know, we're still doing construction on the ranch and I was on the phone with them yesterday, FaceTime, and one of the contractors was up there and he wanted to talk to me about, you know, the price of stuff.
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So, this wasn't the, this wasn't a retina problem, right?
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It's hard to keep track of all the health ailments on the Glenn Beck portfolio.
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You know, what's really weird is I was always the healthiest guy, right, Pat?
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And then I hit like 50 and all of a sudden it's like, yeah, you have leprosy.
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You got a touch of gangrene, but we think it's only a 24-hour case.
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Is there any particular topic you're looking for us to go into here, Glenn?
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Well, I know this is probably not on anybody's charts, but the, seeing the
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aurora borealis is a very big story that nobody has been talking about.
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This is the first time in 20 years that we have seen the aurora borealis as low and as
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But we had an event, and I talked about it in our meetings, Stu,
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last, I think, Monday, a week ago, Monday, and everybody looked at me like I was crazy,
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and I said, there's a huge CME that just happened.
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And luckily, it was on the side of the sun, but it was coming our direction, but not directly.
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It was the biggest solar flare since the Carrington event in, what, 1860 or whatever?
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How many times have we talked about the Carrington event?
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Come on, you know what the Carrington event is.
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Pat just started a new podcast called Pat and the Carrington Event.
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I can barely see through my eyes, but are you wearing, I'm a fan of the Carrington event
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So, the Carrington event happened in the 1860s, and we were hit by a massive solar flare.
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And, at the time, the only, you know, we didn't really have electricity or anything, but we
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And, the telegraph wire all over the country burned up.
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From the telegraph all the way through all of the poles, it just burned out.
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And, that is, you know, a significant problem with today's electricity and all of our wires.
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That could have been a blackout situation, an EMP.
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It could have shut down power companies and power lines all over the country, all over Europe
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The problem we have is all of our power transformers, it takes them, I think it's a year to build
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and to replace giant transformers, and we don't have extras.
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Brett Weinstein wrote a great article on this last week about, you know, he was kind of
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making fun of, you know, how everybody was saying, oh, look at the beautiful sky that's
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And, he's like, it would take so little to protect our infrastructure, and nothing is
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Well, this is a few years ago, but they were talking about not just a solar EMP, but an EMP
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from, you know, a foreign adversary, and how we could protect our infrastructure from it
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It's dirt cheap in comparison to what we would lose if it actually happened.
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It's one of those low probability, high, what do they call those things?
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This impact, if we were hit by an EMP, and it takes three nuclear weapons launched into
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space, Iran could probably do it, you know, when they get their missiles.
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All you have to do is put two barges, one on the East Coast and West Coast.
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It takes three missiles detonated at the right altitude above America.
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You'd shut us down, and in the first year, 95% of our population would die.
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And, you cannot repair it fast enough because we didn't protect anything.
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Spend $5 billion to protect the infrastructure.
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Seems like one of the basic things that government is designed to do, right?
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There's a lot of things they're doing that they're not supposed to do.
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Wouldn't this be something that falls in the category of must do?
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And how often do they talk about infrastructure?
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We've got electronics that could be protected, and they're not being protected.
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Do you know that this solar event could have knocked out all of Elon Musk's satellites?
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Do you know what would happen if we'd lost all of our GPS?
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So the GPS, our solar, our magnetic field is so far awry right now that it is, it's at about a 40, 30, 30 degree switch.
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So it's not up at the pole and at the top and the bottom.
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And because of that, it's causing all kinds of holes and thinning of our ionosphere.
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So, you know, all of this stuff can come through.
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And because our poles are shifting, it was then a year.
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It's now every six months we have to reset our GPS satellites.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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I don't know about you, but I know Pat and I really love beef.
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Why are we shipping beef from South America and China?
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In case you don't know and just joined us, I had eye surgery in the last, what was it, Thursday.
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I was hoping to be back yesterday, but I just can't even open my eyes and I can't really see.
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But hopefully it'll be a little bit better coming and everything went well.
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So I appreciate Pat and Stu filling in for me, and they're still here because I know the stories, but I can't read any of the stories right now.
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There is one story that I want to talk to you about that is on the front page of Blaze.com.
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By the way, if you haven't read the Blaze.com recently, this should be your go-to page every day.
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It is so good, and we are hiring more and more writers and really deep-thinking opinion makers every day.
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Anyway, the story is, the state of Wisconsin has argued that Catholic Charities is not operated primarily for religious purposes,
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and I'm quoting, because their activities are secular.
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That means that when Catholic Charities goes out and they train people to work, the government can do that.
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When they feed people, well, the government can do that.
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When they house people, the government can do that.
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When they give people clothing, the government can do that.
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These, you know, businesses can do those things.
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So they're saying now that their activities are secular, because in the secular world, they also happen,
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and so Catholic Charities isn't really a charity.
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Now, everybody else who is doing it is, and I don't mean this in a bad way, because a lot of things happen like this,
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and it's a really good thing through capitalism, but you are making money, and you have to make money.
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There are things that you do in charities that do not make money, and shouldn't be motivated by money.
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Christian compassion is what drives Catholic Charities.
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Well, it's like you always say, you don't feel charitable on April 15th.
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You're just out of the mainstream, Glenn, I think.
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You know, what is so bad is they are beating down...
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Where they started telling people, you can't make sandwiches for the poor.
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And these charities had been handing out food for like 25 years.
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And all of a sudden, the city, it was some city in California, decided, nope, you can't
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They are taking away our right, our God-given responsibility to be better people and to help
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And we lived in New York for probably four years.
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And then the city tax, I think, was, what was it, 12% if you lived in the city?
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Yeah, it was like 12% tax just for living in the city.
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And I remember walking up to our building on Avenue of the Americas, and the city had started
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And there were papers and garbage and everything else blowing around.
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And I walked up to the building, and whoever was with me, I said, how much money do I have to give this frickin' city for them to keep it clean?
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And then I just stopped, and I went, oh my gosh.
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In any other city I've ever lived in, if there was a newspaper blowing around, I would have picked it up and put it in the trash can.
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I would have thought that that was part of my civic responsibility.
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But because they don't want you to do anything, and they charge you for everything, you just get cold, and you just step over things.
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I mean, another part of it is if you touch the newspaper, you'll get syphilis.
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Well, yeah, I got a little, I got a 24-hour leprosy.
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I mean, this is somewhat oddly consistent, ideologically, with what progressives want, right?
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Like, the fact that they are not active in these situations, they don't want to help people through charity, is consistent with their horrible worldview that government's supposed to do everything.
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I mean, God tells us that, you know, when did I see you, Lord?
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Well, when you fed the sick, when you visited those in prison, when I was thirsty, did you give me drink?
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That's God telling us, not the government, telling us what we're supposed to do.
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And the whole point of living on the world, at least in my view, is because we're supposed to be better.
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We are clothed in flesh, so we forget our divine nature, because we have to wield all of the power that we have.
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If you don't believe, as a man thinketh, he becomes, you're a moron.
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You need to understand, all thought is creative.
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You have the power of, you know, parts of the power of God in you to be creative.
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You think of something, and you speak it out loud, and you believe it, it becomes part of your reality.
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All of this stuff that is around us, the car, the buildings you're looking at, the landscaping, everything, came from somebody's idea.
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So we're creative, and our job is to not get locked into all of the stuff.
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Instead, see all the stuff that we can do, and then also see that the most important thing we can do is serve one another.
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And our government is taking that God-given, not right, responsibility away from it.
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So yesterday, Donald Trump apparently fell asleep at his hearings, which I think is fantastic.
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You know, he said he wasn't asleep, but I think he should have said, yeah, there was nothing going on.
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But now Joe Biden is calling him Sleepy Joe, or I mean Sleepy Don, which is so very clever.
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But he's also on the campaign trail, and he's in trouble down in Florida, in Tampa, Florida.
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He was at a pro-abortion rally, and the people were screaming, you know, it's not enough.
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You know, we need 320 trimesters before you can tell us not to abort our babies.
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And he said that, you know, Ron DeSantis was extreme, and we have to do better.
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And the speaker said, in America today, in 2024, women have fewer rights than their mothers.
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Yeah, especially when it comes to sports and their grandmothers because of Donald Trump.
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Millions of women in Florida now face pain and cruelty.
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Millions of women in Florida now face pain and cruelty?
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And then he made the sign of the cross, which is kind of weird when you're talking about, you know, killing baby Jesus.
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I mean, it would have been convenient, I guess, for Mary to abort the baby.
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And her husband could have said, hey, I don't, yeah, right, like that happened.
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I don't know who that, yeah, well, you're not having that baby.
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And things might have been different if that would have happened.
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But that's between, you know, her and her doctor.
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And of course, before her doctor, you know, cuts her open and kills the baby or just, you know, inserts knives into the mom's womb and just chops the baby up.
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It's really, I feel good that he makes the sign of the cross.
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Millions of women in Florida now face pain and cruelty.
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Now, of course, there was a this is a high number, but about a million abortions occurred in the entire United States last year, which is how many in Florida?
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Not to mention, even their six week ban still allows about 40 percent of abortions to go forward.
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Again, not that you'd expect Joe Biden to have any idea what he's talking about, but he has no idea what he's talking about.
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Wow, that is that is deep analysis, too, and I think is appropriate, really appropriate.
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I mean, that's all that's all the deeper you need to go, right, with Joe Biden, because he's just so butt stupid and so terrible.
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Can I ask you, do you think anybody actually believes anybody, even his supporters, if they were honest, do they actually believe he's making the policies of the United States of America?
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And if not Barack himself, Susan Rice, through Barack Obama.
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But even not saying who is doing it, do they actually think he's walking into the room and saying, guys, here's today's agenda.
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They try to tell us how sharp he is, how brilliant he is, how penetrating he is.
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What I'm asking, ooh, your hair smells delicious.
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What I'm asking is, do you think the average Democrat, forget who's running it, actually believes he's setting the agenda?
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Is it fair to just exonerate him from the responsibility of this, though?
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I think he deserves every bit of the blame for what's going on.
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What my question is driving at is, because I don't think he's, he's not running the agenda.
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Um, so I'm not saying that, you know, give him a pass.
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I'm saying, how can someone vote for the president when, when he's not the president?
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He's not making the decisions and you don't know who is.
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Well, here's a really good indication of, uh, who might be making the decisions.
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There's a cut 16, uh, where Joe Biden, uh, talks about it.
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I asked her to be my vice president, but I knew I needed somebody smarter than me.
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And shockingly, this, this approach and this incredible energy and focus from our president
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has not leading him to good polling results so far.
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We mentioned this yesterday, Glenn, but you didn't get a chance to react to it.
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Uh, six swing States polling came in, Joe Biden only leading in one of them, 47 to 45
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So a two point lead, obviously within the margin of error, also in the margin of error, Pennsylvania,
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except Trump leads that one by three, 47 to 44.
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Still, it's gotta be, it's gotta be over five to seven points.
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Arizona and Michigan are seven point leads for Donald Trump, 49, 42, Georgia, 49, 39,
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uh, for Trump and then Nevada 50 to 38 for Trump.
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I think it's fair to be skeptical that Donald Trump is going to win Nevada by 12 points.
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That would be, uh, it's going to be more like 15 or 20.
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So I was talking to a guy who follows, um, the CIA and I'm not going to give you all
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the credentials, um, but, uh, he's a guy who knows and, uh, and knows things.
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And he's not currently involved with anything in the government, but he has, um, he knows
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And if you don't know what the color revolution is, um, just look at the Arab spring.
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We were the ones responsible for the Arab spring.
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Um, we got together with Facebook, told them to keep things open.
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Uh, we organized people on the ground and we found a way to get with, with social media
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We found ways to overturn governments, but it is important in a color revolution that you
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have somebody at the top that you can declare as a dictator, a fascist, a monster.
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Um, and we were talking about the election and I said, because I believe we are everything
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And I believe it's being set up here and it has been for a long time because they have
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all of the pieces you need for a color revolution, except the guy at the top being a dictator.
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And we were talking about it and I said, what do you think is going to happen in the election?
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He said, I actually think Donald Trump's going to win.
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And I said, oh my gosh, that makes me feel better.
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And he said, well, let me tell you why he said, because for a color revolution to work,
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they have to, the left has to have somebody that they say, this guy's evil.
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I think we all know that if Donald Trump wins, the left will set this country on fire.
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I mean, that strongly suspect that's going to happen.
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So it's one of those, you know, uh, you know, win wins again for the left.
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Can you imagine Kamala Harris being the president of the United States?
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Um, and if, if Donald Trump wins, I think the left,
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They'll do everything they claimed that the right was doing and that it was so wrong by
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claiming it was a fake election and it will just set the streets on fire.
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We just, we really have to be on our knees praying all the time.
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I, I, I, you know, I, I have a painting that I did.
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It's hanging in my office and it just says, save the Republic.
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I think that should be what everybody is praying for.
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It seems like the heat just keeps getting turned up as well.
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What's the outcome that leads to some peaceful resolution of all of this, right?
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Like, it feels like there are extremists on both sides, frankly, that, that, that are constantly
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threatening some, either some sort of violence or seems so on edge about everything that if
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Can I say something that I think, you know, this is just thinking out loud.
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So don't take this as something I've really thought deeply about.
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Um, but thinking out loud, um, I, I don't like this long-term because, uh, this individual
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is not a conservative by any stretch of the imagination, but I think if Donald Trump, uh,
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picked, uh, Tulsi Gabbard as vice president, it might diffuse things in trouble because she
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could reach out to the left, not to the left, to the regular Democrat and say, guys, I'm
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Um, but Donald Trump selected me to try to pull us back together and I'm appealing and
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she might be able to appeal to the common Democrat, um, and hold it together.
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What do you, what do you think of my theory that if he chooses Doug Burgum, people will
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be so bored that the entire nation will just fall asleep?
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Well, I, I have to tell you, uh, Pat, I'm actually hoping that Doug is the one because
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I've invested in the Doug Burgum used to be called Groucho Marx glasses.
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Well, I mean, that's what, yeah, it's the capitalist.
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It's a four to one favorite tied with Tim Scott.
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He and Tim Scott are four to one favorites for the, uh, vice presidential bill.
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First of all, Donald Trump always, he likes the surprise.
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Remember last time there was favorites and then they would fall away and there'd be another
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favorite and they'd fall away and there'd be another favorite.
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Um, you know, the, the real pick, uh, that I would want is somebody that is truly a constitutional
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stalwart, somebody who is just steeped in the constitution and not a Republican or a Democrat,
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I mean, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, neither one of them are even possible really.
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And they wouldn't help him, uh, on the, on the campaign trail, but that's what I would
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Um, because the Donald Trump only has four years, whoever he picks is going to be the
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That's why I worry about Tulsi Gabbard, but I think the Tulsi Gabbard move in the short
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run in the next four years, I think it might be really, really important because that we
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And look, people can change, but you, you know, Tulsi Gabbard again, endorsed Bernie Sanders
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There is no doubt in my mind that she loves America and I know she's, you know, socialist
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and everything else, but that goes back to, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, hang
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That goes back to the kind of argument that we used to have, you know, how big are our
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That we have, if you love America, if you love the basis of what we are.
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It's another thing to put a Bernie Sanders, you know, campaign head in, in the vice presidential
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slot when your president is in his late seventies and has the same affinity for McDonald's that
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That is never a move that I would ever recommend ever at any time.
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Um, but I would never recommend that at any time, except for now.
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We all know massive trouble is coming after this election.
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And if you don't think so, you're not paying attention.