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00:00:33.780 I start with a Carmelo story out of Texas and what it means.

00:00:41.700 But really what it means, how did we get here?

00:00:44.760 And how do we stop this from happening to our kids?

00:00:48.520 I spoke a lot about this in several different parts of the show today.

00:00:52.040 But we're focusing on how did we get here?

00:00:55.080 Then also the Belfast stabbing, because we're talking about two stabbings.

00:01:01.040 We're talking about Carmelo stabbing in the United States and the attempted beheading of an Irish citizen and the nonsense that's going on there.

00:01:10.220 What is the solution? What are we missing?

00:01:12.460 And Graham Plattner, he wins. He is now the official Democratic nominee.

00:01:17.400 And I give the Democrats, and really all of us, three specific warnings on this.

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00:01:29.900 All this and more on today's podcast.

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00:03:24.300 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:03:28.960 Listening to us in New York City, Stan, welcome.

00:03:31.880 Glad you're here.

00:03:34.560 Hey, who is this, Glenn?

00:03:36.820 Yes, it is, sir.

00:03:38.840 Oh, pleasure to be speaking with you, dude.

00:03:41.820 Thank you.

00:03:42.400 Thanks for taking my call.

00:03:44.380 Yeah, I wanted to comment on your segment you were just doing about the stabbing in Texas.

00:03:51.980 Yeah.

00:03:53.940 Yeah, I just, I'm a black guy, right? 1.00

00:03:56.460 And, you know, I just want to say, first of all, that, you know, all black communities don't feel the same. 1.00

00:04:02.680 I hope people... 0.87

00:04:04.680 You know, it's kind of, you know, it's weird, Stan, because it's like not all white people think the same. 0.67

00:04:11.980 Why don't all black people think the same?

00:04:14.780 I would imagine, you know, people tend to group and tend to think that that's the case, but it's really not.

00:04:22.700 You know, people are individuals, you know, collectively, tell you the truth, we're all Americans.

00:04:28.200 So truthfully and told, we all need to stop the ball.

00:04:32.260 You know, we're all Americans. 1.00

00:04:34.060 Let's just stop the crap. 1.00

00:04:35.700 It's really ridiculous, you know. 0.99

00:04:37.720 And because let me tell you, had that scenario been reversed, 0.94

00:04:43.740 oh, it would have been a big, you know, that would have been a big cabal, you know.

00:04:49.060 And, you know, it just seems like either way it goes,

00:04:54.580 the race car is always pulled and that's always an issue.

00:04:58.940 But you know what, Stan, I think that, you know,

00:05:02.420 Because I said, I hope that, you know, what we're seeing are just a few NGOs and a few people that really don't get it. 0.93

00:05:10.180 And I believe because there wasn't a big uprising yesterday in Texas, that that's not the way the black, the majority of the black community feels. 0.60

00:05:18.120 Some do, some don't.

00:05:19.980 But, you know, maybe we are getting past this.

00:05:23.640 Maybe this is a sign that we're getting past it a little bit.

00:05:27.180 This may be a baby step in the right direction.

00:05:30.340 Thank you, Stan.

00:05:30.860 And I appreciate it, especially hearing common sense coming out of New York City.

00:05:34.400 You know, we have two knife attacks, and that's what everybody is talking about.

00:05:38.240 And these knife attacks, we're not supposed to notice a pattern, I think.

00:05:44.000 We were just talking about in Texas, you know, Carmelo Anthony, convicted of first-degree murder, 35 years for stabbing, verbal spat, we got it.

00:05:56.360 Now, what happens next?

00:06:00.860 Jury took two and a half hours.

00:06:02.640 Evidence is clear.

00:06:03.640 But across the ocean, there is another knife attack that everybody's talking about.

00:06:08.360 Happened in Belfast.

00:06:09.440 That's Northern Ireland.

00:06:11.180 Just days ago, I don't know if you saw it.

00:06:13.160 It was horrible. 1.00

00:06:14.460 June 8th, a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker.

00:06:18.780 They're still not sure where he's from.

00:06:21.040 But he was charged with attempted murder after a brutal knife attack on a local man in his 40s, Stephen Ogilvy.

00:06:28.860 and we have the video of him now on the ground just hacking at this guy's throat it is

00:06:35.620 horrible straddling the guy on the ground slashing his head and his neck trying to hack his head off

00:06:43.360 victim lost his left eye suffered devastating wounds to his face his neck and his back he's

00:06:49.580 still fighting for his life in the hospital he's not dead yet now so what happened well i think

00:06:55.240 you're starting to see the Bubba effect in Ireland.

00:06:58.440 Protests erupt all across Belfast.

00:07:00.700 Fires burned, vehicles clashes

00:07:02.560 because it's years of frustration now boiling over.

00:07:07.320 And it was bad because what have I told you

00:07:11.760 in the Bubba effect?

00:07:12.880 What is the Bubba effect?

00:07:14.340 The government has screwed things up.

00:07:16.480 Bubba goes in. 0.99

00:07:17.340 He thinks he's going to take vengeance on a Muslim. 0.99

00:07:20.460 He kills a sheik because he's wearing a turban 1.00

00:07:22.480 even though Muslims don't wear a turban. 0.91

00:07:23.840 and everybody's like baba what did you do and they know they have to punish baba they know he

00:07:28.980 has to go to jail but the federal government comes in and they're like no back off we know baba did

00:07:35.160 wrong but we'll take care of that not you you're the cause of it so what is what are you seeing

00:07:41.100 in belfast they went and they set fires at houses uh that supposedly were for immigrants some

00:07:49.280 immigrants are you know they're not muslim they're not from africa whatever and they were standing 0.52

00:07:55.620 outside go wait wait wait wait wait doesn't matter you've enraged the mob and the world wants to talk 0.79

00:08:01.820 about isolated incidents and then far right group unrest let me tell you what's really happening

00:08:08.380 here everything you're seeing these are horrors they're downstream from progressive policies

00:08:14.680 that have weakened our kids,

00:08:17.140 have raced our borders,

00:08:18.560 erased our history,

00:08:20.140 erased common sense,

00:08:21.480 and punished anybody

00:08:22.900 who dares notice the consequences.

00:08:25.340 We here in America have raised generations now

00:08:28.640 without any clear identity.

00:08:30.780 I'm going to get into this next hour.

00:08:32.140 You've got to listen to next hour.

00:08:33.880 No moral guidelines,

00:08:35.760 no self-control,

00:08:37.360 no personal responsibility.

00:08:39.720 Race has been weaponized by politicians

00:08:41.720 to divide us instead of uniting us

00:08:44.160 under one creed kids don't know who they are anymore so a disagreement over a seat in a tent

00:08:51.040 escalates immediately to murder we have sown entitlement we have sown grievance and we're now

00:08:59.600 reaping the knives in schools and parking lots in belfast across the uk europe same globalist

00:09:06.820 mindset open the floodgates diversity is our strength since when unity is our strength coming

00:09:15.800 together even though we're diverse people coming together under one principle that's a strength

00:09:20.600 imagine having an army and going you know what these guys are all going to do whatever they want

00:09:26.500 they're all from different armies and they're all from different things we're just going to

00:09:29.540 let them do what they want diversity is our strength they'd be slaughtered on the field 0.99

00:09:33.380 then the people who are preaching this garbage to us brand concerned citizens as racist for 0.98

00:09:42.300 pointing out the obvious you know not every arrival comes to assimilate to melt into western 0.97

00:09:47.680 society to respect our laws and customs not every incident is about race we've seen the spikes in

00:09:55.480 knife crime grooming gangs rapes violence authorities that downplay or deny and then

00:10:01.560 accuse the people who are saying, wait a minute, this is my neighborhood, accuse them of being

00:10:06.020 racist. And let me just talk about beheadings. Because I don't know the last time you saw

00:10:11.020 somebody in the street trying to hack somebody's head off, but I looked it up. England hasn't had

00:10:16.300 beheadings since 1747. We weren't even a country. And the guy that they beheaded was executed for

00:10:25.520 treason so 1747 was the last time people were beheaded in great britain until the mass migration 0.96

00:10:34.680 from certain muslim majority countries brought the ideology and the blades with it i have now 0.71

00:10:40.760 seen in the last five years two people on the streets of england one was beheaded he was a

00:10:46.960 soldier gee i wonder what that was and now this one where they tried to cut the guy's head off

00:10:52.560 gee and the press is like i don't know we don't know the we don't have a probable cause probable

00:10:59.540 cause probable cause we don't know the cause but you don't know the probable cause i know

00:11:09.540 it was probably rooted in that guy's culture probable cause i mean it could be the cultural

00:11:20.200 class rooted in islamic patterns of violence that have no place in western society that's

00:11:26.680 probable isn't it i mean good enough is enough enough is enough people are rising up because 1.00

00:11:34.920 the elites ignored them for too long if you keep telling people that they are stupid bigoted far 0.99

00:11:41.840 right just for preferring straight safe streets and a coherent community where their children 1.00

00:11:48.980 aren't continually raped and you and and and they just don't want imported chaos because 0.52

00:11:57.000 they got enough chaos in their lives we have enough problems with crime in with with americans 0.90

00:12:02.940 we don't need to bring more people in that are criminals that want to be head people you know

00:12:07.980 towns just didn't slide into third world violence by accident it happened when leaders prioritized 0.93

00:12:17.040 open borders and brought the third world in. And then they added political correctness over 0.86

00:12:23.000 integration and vetting over the national interest. I'm telling you, Britain does not

00:12:31.200 have a civil war yet, but you are at the Bubba effect in Great Britain now. And if the elites

00:12:36.740 keep denying reality and blaming the native population instead of confronting failed

00:12:41.700 policies, they're lighting the fuse themselves. Victims are being stabbed here in America, 0.99

00:12:49.520 nearly beheaded in the streets of Great Britain. They're own citizens. Aren't these the people

00:12:57.120 that our governments are sworn to protect? You're not very kind. This isn't about kindness.

00:13:04.380 this is suicide suicide by compassion without any wisdom at all what do you say we plant the flag

00:13:12.360 deep in the heart of truth a truth borders exist for a reason assimilation isn't optional

00:13:21.220 here in america self-control and moral clarity are not relics their survival

00:13:29.200 i mean look how far we have fallen look at what our society has become over the last 20 years

00:13:40.080 we weren't like this before we were not like this what has changed oh i don't know the progressive

00:13:47.380 nonsense and i think our children deserve a better future than knife fights our neighborhoods deserve

00:13:57.600 better than imported tribal violence here's the good news all of these things they provide an

00:14:08.360 opportunity for us to wake up when people see that guy on the street in Belfast where the guy

00:14:16.240 is hacking at his neck it provides a chance for everyone to wake up now I think the people

00:14:23.060 are awakened. People in Great Britain, they do not have a Martin Luther King example. They don't.

00:14:29.520 Their example is Gandhi, but Gandhi used it against the English, so they're not really happy

00:14:34.200 with Gandhi. They don't have that example. They only have Christ, and Christ is almost dead

00:14:41.220 in Great Britain. There is no real church in Great Britain. It's starting to revive a little bit,

00:14:48.140 but it's on the ropes these people are not going to go for a martin luther king there is no

00:14:55.600 understanding of that over there if we if we can reject the division we can restore real

00:15:04.960 accountability we can secure our homes and remember who we are under god then perhaps

00:15:12.480 these tragedies are not going to be in vain because we can still choose life we can still

00:15:17.180 choose order we can still choose courage over chaos you know they're calling the one guy who

00:15:22.800 stopped the beheading a uh a hero and i find that kind of sad it's true but there were a lot of

00:15:32.800 people standing around just taping it with their phone what do you say you put the phone down now

00:15:38.160 i i understand if it's one person i get it but if there's lots of people standing around

00:15:44.220 Why don't you, does no one say,

00:15:46.900 hey guys, let's stop videotaping,

00:15:49.060 or you, you videotape so we have it on record, 0.54

00:15:52.600 and the rest of us, let's go stop that guy from being beheaded.

00:15:58.040 Personal responsibility in all things.

00:16:02.660 All we have to do is choose wisely.

00:16:04.500 We haven't been doing that lately,

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00:17:11.720 Now back to the podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:17:18.500 So we heard

00:17:19.480 about Carmelo and the stabbing. We've seen

00:17:23.740 our society, our classrooms, our kids just

00:17:27.900 start

00:17:28.400 unhinging and 0.91

00:17:33.240 and self-mutilating, and suicide, and all of these things.

00:17:41.480 What's happening to us?

00:17:45.760 If you're a parent or a grandparent, I want you to listen carefully here.

00:17:49.740 We are a people that have misplaced our own story.

00:17:52.880 We have lost the thread of who we are and how we got here.

00:17:58.340 Humans must have a story, okay?

00:18:01.220 And the story they're being fed to replace that is just of grievance and anger and revenge.

00:18:07.900 That's not healthy.

00:18:11.180 Do yourself a favor. 1.00

00:18:14.200 Ask somebody under 25. 0.94

00:18:17.140 Heck, ask them under 30, 35. 0.79

00:18:20.180 Tell me the American story. 0.96

00:18:22.480 Most people can't do it.

00:18:24.480 On the last national history exam, 13% of eighth graders came out proficient.

00:18:29.880 13 they're in school currently 13 4 in 10 couldn't clear the bottom bar which was

00:18:37.920 we're going to set a document out in front of you tell us anything about it they couldn't do it

00:18:44.520 and you can guess what those documents were right the civic scores fell for the first time since

00:18:50.300 they started keeping record in 1998 we are raising a generation that cannot explain the

00:18:56.380 country they're standing in. And it's not just the story that is thinning out. It is everything that

00:19:03.440 used to hold a person in place. Stories, your family, holds you in place. The church holds you

00:19:15.140 in place. A church is used to anchor a town. Fewer than half of us now belong to a congregation.

00:19:20.980 Gallup has its lowest measure since they started asking this question in 1937.

00:19:28.020 Then, friendships.

00:19:30.260 They used to hold you in place.

00:19:32.860 In 1990, 3% of Americans said they had no close friend at all.

00:19:39.700 3%.

00:19:40.420 No close friend at all.

00:19:46.240 That's now 12%.

00:19:47.720 since 1990 we didn't drift apart slowly we hollowed out in one generation so of course

00:19:56.840 we're lonely surgeon general said that it's an epidemic of loneliness he gave a body count he

00:20:04.620 said isolation does to a person to a human body roughly what smoking 15 cigarettes a day does

00:20:11.920 loneliness now it used to be that the loneliest people in america were the old people not now

00:20:21.540 it's the under 30s the most wired the most connected the most in touch generation that 0.62

00:20:29.920 has ever drawn breath is also the most alone human beings have ever produced hang on just a second

00:20:37.860 Try to hold all of that in your head at once

00:20:40.460 and then say, what do you think's happening to our kids?

00:20:44.060 No shared story, emptied out churches,

00:20:47.720 emptied out clubs, a friendship drought,

00:20:52.200 a loneliness the doctors are calling a health emergency.

00:20:55.560 Now picture being born into that.

00:20:57.280 You don't know all the stuff that you've known in the past.

00:20:59.860 Picture that country being handed to you one day.

00:21:04.960 You don't even know where you are.

00:21:06.160 You have no map.

00:21:07.860 You have no name for who your people are.

00:21:10.540 There's no seat saved at any table for you.

00:21:13.440 You have a screen in your hand

00:21:15.180 and a thousand strangers glad to tell you

00:21:17.580 who you ought to be.

00:21:20.700 That's the ground our kids are standing on.

00:21:23.640 They didn't crack it.

00:21:24.800 Don't blame them.

00:21:25.360 They didn't crack it.

00:21:25.920 They inherited this.

00:21:27.980 And it's exactly why,

00:21:29.700 out of everything I could talk about,

00:21:31.840 I want to talk about them.

00:21:35.480 Because we all know stuff,

00:21:36.880 but we may forget from time to time.

00:21:39.720 Kids don't know who they are.

00:21:41.520 They don't.

00:21:42.680 We think they do,

00:21:43.660 but try to remember all the things

00:21:45.580 that you used to think about yourself.

00:21:47.260 They're not supposed to know who they are at 19.

00:21:50.100 They're not supposed to know who they are at 16.

00:21:52.660 Certainly not at 11,

00:21:54.200 and that's how young this starts now.

00:21:56.100 11 is starting to be old.

00:21:59.520 Identity is not something kids have.

00:22:02.480 it's something that kids build piece by piece and they build it after whatever is reflected

00:22:10.200 back at them here's what's changed since we were growing up when you and i were building ourselves

00:22:17.640 the mirrors were our friends remember what did your mom used to always say show me your friends

00:22:22.760 i'll show you your future it was our friends it was our family it was a coach it was a teacher

00:22:27.600 It was a pastor. Today, your daughter is 12 years old, and she's holding a mirror in her hand

00:22:34.780 eight or nine hours every day. More waking hours than she spends in any classroom or doing anything

00:22:42.220 else. She's looking at that mirror. It's actually worse than a mirror. The phone, the feed, the

00:22:48.160 algorithm, the shows she watches, the influencers she follows, what she hears at school. This mirror

00:22:55.220 is actually talking back to her, whispering the same question.

00:23:00.220 This is who you are, right?

00:23:02.000 This is who you are.

00:23:03.240 This is who you are, right?

00:23:05.620 Now, some of that noise is just noise.

00:23:07.880 Companies trying to sell our things.

00:23:09.180 Fine, we grew up with that as well.

00:23:11.200 But some of the voices reaching your kids,

00:23:14.140 they are not random.

00:23:19.900 Okay.

00:23:22.420 You've got people who know exactly what they're doing.

00:23:25.220 they have a vision for who your kid should become.

00:23:29.340 They're patient, and they didn't ask your permission.

00:23:32.000 They don't care about you.

00:23:34.560 I'm telling you, stop assuming that everything coming through that screen

00:23:37.700 and that classroom door is neutral.

00:23:40.180 It isn't neutral at all.

00:23:42.740 So picture it.

00:23:43.440 A kid, younger than you think, still under construction,

00:23:47.540 swimming in a sea, an ocean of a thousand voices,

00:23:52.040 And then one of those voices steps forward

00:23:55.000 and offers the whole package, finished identity.

00:23:58.680 Here's who you are.

00:24:00.620 Here's your people.

00:24:02.120 Here's your club.

00:24:03.620 Here's what you stand for.

00:24:06.240 Do you understand now how that lands?

00:24:07.880 Why that lands with kids?

00:24:09.720 Kids, the kid doesn't feel like they're joining something.

00:24:14.220 They feel like they're finally becoming someone.

00:24:18.080 That's the hook.

00:24:19.200 oh you're going to join the the club for you know because you're bi or you want to be trans

00:24:24.640 you're joining a club and all your friends are there and you're accepted and you're cool

00:24:29.400 and the hook is set into your kid the deepest when your kid is lost when they're cut from the team

00:24:37.680 when they're dumped when they're left out of the group chat when you move to a new town a new

00:24:42.100 schools nobody saved them a seat you know how that feels even at your age when a kid feels

00:24:48.620 invisible. A ready-made identity stop becomes attractive and becomes irresistible because

00:24:54.940 they're looking for a shore. And the people I want to warn you about, the determined ones,

00:25:03.720 they know all of this. They're not looking for your kid at their best. They're looking for your

00:25:08.520 kid at his loneliness, the loneliest. Don't kid yourself that the one, my kids, my kids are fine.

00:25:15.740 really because a lot of them are hurting you just can't see it you don't remember

00:25:19.560 and here's the other half of this trap

00:25:22.880 you've seen this movie over and over again okay our kids have never seen this movie before

00:25:29.200 we've watched movements rise and fall our whole lives we we know things are going to constantly

00:25:34.280 change we know the smell of it they don't they can't spot the bad movie yet the group that says

00:25:41.280 sure, you belong over here, but hand your doubt over at the door. Stop questioning. Stop pushing

00:25:47.660 back. That one thing, that one group that promises to transform your kid, and all they have to do is

00:25:57.060 just obey. Just obey. Just fit in. That's the bind. The pull is stronger on the young. The danger is

00:26:06.940 harder for them to see and the recruiters now have to have to uh not go out and search everywhere

00:26:14.140 they just they find the recruit right there it it's in their pocket

00:26:19.360 your gut might say make a list good groups are here bad groups are here block this app ban that

00:26:30.060 channel switch schools look you use your judgment you're the parent you know your kids but you're

00:26:35.960 not going to be able to list your way out of this. Some of these movements are harmless.

00:26:40.360 Some are propaganda. Some are extraordinarily dangerous. Your kid's vulnerability is identical

00:26:48.340 for all of those categories because the weakness was never in the movement. The weakness is in

00:26:56.260 the normal unfinished kid and the normal lonely moment that is now not normal or it's becoming

00:27:04.180 normal at epidemic proportions. And it goes wherever they go. You can't pre-screen the whole

00:27:11.040 world. So I got a couple of ideas, and I want you to actually write this down. If you're

00:27:17.480 following me on this, write these two things down. First one, give them a place where they belong.

00:27:25.060 And more importantly, where they belong, where they can sit and disagree, and it's allowed.

00:27:30.480 okay your dinner table your church is even better you disagree i don't know i have a question about

00:27:38.600 this good question question question question with boldness even the very existence of god

00:27:43.500 forever be a god he'd much surely rather honest questioning over blindfolded fear yes question

00:27:49.500 because if the only place you're offering your kid belonging is a place that demands their silence

00:27:55.980 they will pay that price and when they're hurting when they've gone quiet and pulled away

00:28:04.720 that's not a moment to give them space that's the moment to move towards them because somebody's

00:28:11.840 going to fill that void in your kid and the only question on the table is who second thing tell

00:28:18.980 them about the trap tell them share this monologue talk to them like they're adults because they

00:28:24.300 understand a lot more. Speak in plain English. If anyone ever tells you that you have to stop

00:28:30.380 doubting in order to belong, run, run from them. If they promise that they will transform you

00:28:38.560 and all that you have to do for payment is be compliant, that's the tell. Tell them this now

00:28:46.000 before they need it, because they will need it if they haven't already. And when they do,

00:28:52.400 you need them to be able to recognize it on sight you cannot bubble wrap your kids you can't vet

00:28:59.760 every voice that reaches them that world is long gone but you can make sure that when they walk out

00:29:06.660 your door their eyes are wide open and they have a home worth coming back to

00:29:12.140 listen to your kids encourage them to question even you that's going to be so hard

00:29:21.500 i hated the teenage kids i hated the teenage years with my kids i hated it but they are you know

00:29:30.300 god is just a genius do you know why our kids get so nasty when they're teenagers

00:29:36.700 because god needs them to find out who they are and they can't do it if they're living with you

00:29:46.280 and they're 20. So there's this natural thing that says, I just, you don't know anything.

00:29:52.860 You're stupid. That's good. That's good. You want them to have that because that means they're 1.00

00:30:00.080 questioning everything and they want to find who they are. You have to make that safe for them

00:30:09.760 because if you are fighting that all the time it will only get worse and then they won't listen to

00:30:17.320 you anymore they barely listen if they're you're like my kids they barely listen to you anyway

00:30:21.620 but you've got to make sure that you are a place where you can they can tell you anything

00:30:28.780 and believe me my my son and my daughter have told me things that i'm like

00:30:36.280 oh my gosh don't react don't react you're right you ever had a kid tell you anything like that

00:30:41.460 where you're like oh oh okay yeah that's no big deal and inside you're like ah don't react that

00:30:49.080 way okay all right i understand that i need some time can i think on that let's talk about that

00:30:54.060 some more that's really interesting i'm glad you told me that no i'm not inside no i'm not i'm not

00:30:58.800 i didn't want to know that i didn't want to know that yes you do because they are so lonely

00:31:05.080 they are looking on who they are if you can't help them find safe places to help. My father

00:31:13.560 said to me when I was young, I've said this a million times, son, the two most powerful words

00:31:18.800 in any language is I am, and it's usually followed by a blank. I am blank. I am happy. I am sad. I am

00:31:28.320 a monster. I am worthless. I am great. Whatever it is, I am is usually followed with a blank. 1.00

00:31:35.460 And if you don't fill that in, I'll never forget the way he said it. He leaned into me and he said,

00:31:41.380 believe me, there are all kinds of people that are just waiting to fill it in for you.

00:31:48.540 You make the choice on what you fill that blank with and be very careful because that's who you

00:31:56.900 will be. Share that with your kids. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:08.360 Last night in May, a Democratic party got the candidate and had been told it could not afford

00:32:14.700 to lose. Graham Plattner. We know him as an oyster farmer. He is a combat veteran. He is an outsider

00:32:24.820 and he beat the establishment's own recruit, Janet Mills.

00:32:29.600 She was the governor.

00:32:30.660 He beat her so thoroughly that she quit the race weeks before the votes even were counted.

00:32:35.880 She still got 20% of the vote.

00:32:38.060 That means 20% of Democrats voted for a hat that is not going to be the senator over this guy, okay?

00:32:46.640 And now he is the nominee, the official nominee for the Democrats against Susan Collins.

00:32:50.980 Collins is the only Republican senator that is sitting in a state that did not vote for Donald Trump.

00:32:56.280 For Democrats trying to take back the Senate, Maine is the doorway, and they think Plattner is the key.

00:33:03.320 Well, there's just one problem.

00:33:05.160 Actually, there are several problems, but let's start with this one.

00:33:08.820 There is the tattoo that he covered up.

00:33:11.040 It is the Totenkopf. 0.62

00:33:13.140 That is the death head that the SS wore on their caps, and they had the same tattoos on their bodies.

00:33:19.720 that's how i mean if you were a member of the ss that's why you went to prison most likely

00:33:24.560 afterwards because you had the the um tattoo and everybody knows it um and that is happening

00:33:31.540 they're turning a blind eye to that at a time when this just happened on the subway in new york

00:33:39.300 listen to what this woman said to another woman who she just i guess assumed was jewish listen to

00:33:46.160 this. Jews are eating kids. Jews are eating kids. Jews are eating kids. It's okay for her to eat 1.00

00:34:10.360 children, but I can't choke her out. At least there were some sane people on the subway with 0.88

00:34:15.500 but we're entering insane times you don't mess with this then let's look at the old post there

00:34:23.940 was a report in the new york times remember the new york times their paper not ours which uh three

00:34:29.680 women who used to be in relationships with him described the behavior they called toxic and

00:34:34.460 unsettling one of them said that he physically restrained her in a room until she was in his

00:34:41.680 word calm you're not leaving until you're calm wow and the party is lining up behind him this is

00:34:49.900 the me too party so yes he's done these things but i mean he can win he can win the stakes are

00:34:57.880 too high i mean yes he's done these things but you know this time it's different no no no remember

00:35:03.580 what i told you last week everything you say before the word but is what your principles are

00:35:09.660 what you believe. Everything after the but is what you're willing to trade those principles for.

00:35:17.140 Yes, he's got a Nazi swastika, but we have to win the Senate. 0.71

00:35:24.060 Okay, I want to give you three warnings. One of them is political. One is about a movement

00:35:28.280 and what it becomes when it makes this trade. And the other is very, very old,

00:35:32.600 older than our country, older than the idea of our country even. And I promise you by the end,

00:35:36.860 you will see it's all the same warning bell okay so let me start with the political one and i want

00:35:42.360 to aim right back at you know the republicans first because you know the only way you can

00:35:48.000 gain trust with people is when you aim at your own side first so let me do that republicans

00:35:54.300 they have walked into the same fire and the same trap over and over and over again and they get

00:35:58.960 burned every single time uh roy moore in alabama 2017 party rallied around a man drowning in

00:36:06.260 allegations because the seat mattered they lost the seat reddest state in america went to democrat

00:36:12.900 todd aiken in missouri richard moordock in indiana two winnable seats in 2012 thrown into the ditch

00:36:20.520 not over policy but over the candidate christine o'donnell in delaware the insurgent who knocked

00:36:26.500 off the electable guy in the primary and then just lost in the general uh and just went away

00:36:32.360 2020 mitch mcconnell sorry 2022 mitch mcconnell stood up and said the quiet part out loud he said

00:36:38.760 it was candidate quality and i don't like mitch mcconnell but he's right he admitted his own

00:36:44.140 voters had handed the other team a majority by nominating people who couldn't close the deal

00:36:49.440 there's a body of research behind this you know a scandal stain or an extreme nominee

00:36:57.900 reliably runs behind in what a plain generic candidate of the same party would have gotten

00:37:04.500 in the same state i don't know if it's going to happen in maine but the party always tells

00:37:08.900 itself the you know the movement's energy it's going to outrun the baggage but the baggage wins

00:37:13.620 the race almost every time okay that's the political warning and it's bipartisan and it's

00:37:20.100 earned the seat you believe you cannot afford to lose is the exact seat you're most likely 1.00

00:37:25.400 you're most tempted to likely throw away because need makes you stupid and you'll talk yourself 0.99

00:37:34.180 into a candidate you would have laughed out of the room a year ago when the stakes felt smaller 1.00

00:37:39.880 okay now here's a second warning and this one's harder because it's not about strategy it's about

00:37:45.940 the soul for a decade one word has been used it's an it is an artillery shell that has been

00:37:54.640 fired by the american left over and over and over again and that shell is nazi it's been pointed at 0.60

00:38:04.220 parents at school boards it's been pointed at catholics anyone who wouldn't get in line for

00:38:10.240 their political their political viewpoint they've been called a nazi okay it's like this universal

00:38:17.000 solvent pour it on your opponent and you never have to argue with them again because you don't

00:38:21.980 debate nazis you destroy them right i have seen good people get that label welded to their foreheads

00:38:30.540 for the crime of just disagreeing and now the people who have used that as a shell made that

00:38:37.480 word its sword is wait what you're you you got a guy who has a death head tattoo covered it up

00:38:45.900 after he but he's he stands accused by women who knew him and called him frightened of frightening

00:38:52.300 controlling and he's got a death head wait what and you're swallowing it what happened to the

00:38:58.360 artillery shell they're doing it because he's useful when you excuse your own people in what 0.61

00:39:04.200 you damned in everyone else you've just confessed that your use of nazi was never a principle you're 0.75

00:39:11.440 not actually worried about nazis you use that as a weapon and that's it a principle is something 0.98

00:39:18.540 you hold even when it costs you the election a weapon is something you drop the second it gets

00:39:25.320 too heavy to swing a movement that figures out it can do this that virtue is just a tool you pick up

00:39:34.020 to hit the other guy and set down when it's inconvenient that movement loses its soul long

00:39:39.240 before it ever loses the vote. And I believe that has already happened. That's why you have

00:39:44.080 the problem with the Democratic Party. They don't have anything they actually believe in except

00:39:49.380 win. Everything else is a tool. The temptation to weaponize your own goodness, that's human,

00:39:58.260 not partisan. It's human. And the day we start excusing our own side, that's the day to be

00:40:05.020 afraid, because the day we've become the thing we've warned everyone about is the last day for

00:40:11.020 us, too. Democrats just went through this with Eric Swalwell. I mean, despicable, horrible human

00:40:18.020 being, discarded, disgraced. The minute he stopped being useful, and they think they're going to do 0.98

00:40:23.340 this with Plattner, the minute he becomes no longer a use, they think he can get rid of. But, you know,

00:40:29.940 remember, with Nazis, they've tried that before, and it didn't work. Now, let me give you the third 0.88

00:40:34.320 one. The third warning, this one goes back 2,400 years to Athens. I want to tell you about a guy

00:40:41.840 you probably have never heard of. Most gifted man of his generation in Athens. His name was

00:40:48.020 Al-Solbiades. That's it. Al-Solbiades. Sorry, I don't speak Greek. Picture this guy. Charismatic.

00:41:04.320 Think of him as the most charismatic

00:41:05.800 you guy I've ever met

00:41:06.720 and then multiply it

00:41:08.400 because he's also beautiful.

00:41:09.980 He's famously rich.

00:41:11.220 He's brilliant.

00:41:12.140 He's brave in battle.

00:41:13.960 He was a student of Socrates.

00:41:16.300 The two of them had saved each other's lives

00:41:18.600 on the battlefield.

00:41:20.220 And when he shows up at the Olympic Games,

00:41:23.020 he didn't just enter one chariot team.

00:41:25.100 He entered seven.

00:41:27.220 And he took first place, second place,

00:41:29.940 and fourth place in front of all of Greece

00:41:33.420 just to make the point no one alive can touch me so athens sees this guy and they're like this guy

00:41:40.540 is fabulous he's great he's the future and they were right to be dazzled he really was that good

00:41:46.240 but that's also what made him so dangerous because a mediocre man you can dismiss a brilliant one

00:41:53.820 you convince yourself you have to have them so at the moment people decide it needs a man it

00:42:02.460 loses the one thing it has to keep and that is the ability to judge him and dismiss him so

00:42:08.500 this guy goes in and he is talking to Athens and he's he talks them into a great gamble of war

00:42:16.120 the Sicilian expedition and you all know you never take on the Sicilians

00:42:21.040 it's an enormous fleet and he sends it across the sea to conquer Syracuse the cautious men

00:42:29.840 in Athens said don't do it but he is he is who he is and he wins the argument but on the eve of

00:42:39.320 the fleet's departure Athens wakes up and they find across the whole city in the dark somebody

00:42:44.800 had gone around smashing all the sacred statues the irms whatever they are and they stood at

00:42:51.140 every door and somebody went did that the city was horrified suspicion fell on on this

00:42:59.820 guy and his fast crowd. And they knew it was him. His enemies were clever, but that didn't stop him

00:43:08.060 from sailing. They just said, ah, let him go. So they let him go and then recalled him to stand

00:43:14.300 trial, knowing that they had him. Okay. Here's where you learn who he really was. Rather than

00:43:21.400 come home and face Athens, he defects, and he defects to Sparta. That's the enemy of Athens, 0.65

00:43:29.580 and he didn't just sit there. He handed Sparta the playbook to destroy his own city. He's not

00:43:36.240 going to go back. Fortify this position in our territory, he says. Send aid to Syracuse. Both

00:43:44.080 things happen. The great Sicilian expedition, his idea, ended in total annihilation. The Athenian

00:43:51.900 army was destroyed. All of its generals executed. A generation of young men from Athens gone.

00:44:00.040 The man that Athens had needed so badly authored their own death. Now you'd think that would be

00:44:08.280 the end of it, but it wasn't, because somebody still found him useful. They still found him

00:44:15.080 useful. He wears out his welcome in Sparta, because that's what these guys do. He was reportedly,

00:44:23.080 I guess, seducing the Spartan king's wife, and then he fled to Persia. And then, astonishingly,

00:44:29.520 Athens takes him back. The fleet recalls him. He won them some victories. He sails home in 407,

00:44:37.200 and he's a hero didn't you just turn and yeah then the first time for the first time things

00:44:46.920 go wrong on his watch and they turned on him again and he went into exile again and he died

00:44:52.980 in a foreign land with his house in flames all around him murdered some say at the request of

00:44:58.760 the very people he'd served. Why am I telling you this story that happened in 407? Because

00:45:06.640 the warning that history is handing the Democratic Party this week, it's handing this lesson

00:45:14.860 and warning to all of us because none of us is too good to need the warning or to not

00:45:21.920 need the warning. Athens did not fall because it lacked talent. It fell because it could not stop

00:45:31.180 reaching for the talented man that they had every reason not to trust, but they had to win.

00:45:38.820 They needed him so much to win. They never trusted him, never enough to follow him safely,

00:45:48.440 and so he did the worst possible thing it used him again and again and then the using is what

00:45:56.280 got them all killed so when a party stands out front of a flawed but dazzling candidate

00:46:02.380 whispering to itself he's the only one that can win stakes are so high this time it's different

00:46:07.980 understand this has happened over and over and over again in history this is not a moment of

00:46:15.280 strength. This is the precise sound a civilization makes right before it decides that the man it

00:46:22.720 can't afford to trust is the man it can't afford to lose. The statues came down the night in Athens,

00:46:29.640 but they let him go anyway because they needed him to win.

00:46:34.220 Listen to me carefully

00:46:39.000 Watch what gets covered up in the night

00:46:42.160 And watch who sales him anyway

00:46:46.480 They are destructive

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