The Glenn Beck Program - June 28, 2022


Best of the Program ｜ 6⧸28⧸22


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Glenn and Stu talk abortion and the Texas trucking accident that killed 50 immigrants in the back of a semi-trailer headed across the border from Mexico to the United States. Plus, a clip you might not remember from the abortion case.

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00:00:25.440 today. Conditions apply. Welcome to the podcast. It is Pat and Stu in for Glenn today. He's
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00:01:08.000 about today's podcast, which is fantastic. We talk a lot about the abortion case, which
00:01:12.240 still has reverberations going on. I mean, it's not a one or two day story. This is going
00:01:15.840 to be something we're dealing with on an ongoing basis for a long term. So we're going to be
00:01:20.440 dealing with all that. The crazy reaction from the, uh, the woman of the coven or the
00:01:24.960 view. We get into that today. Uh, we have, uh, all the kind of crazy reaction from around
00:01:30.680 the spectrum. Uh, and a clip you might not remember from Louis CK speaking about abortion
00:01:35.520 that I think you're going to enjoy. So good. I mentioned this on the show at one point,
00:01:39.660 but you know, I got all these texts back and forth with people talking about this and just
00:01:43.480 saying, like, I can't believe this happened. And I, I realized I just kept replying over and
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00:02:23.060 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:02:38.340 That's two for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program this week. What a horrible tragedy in Texas
00:02:43.220 yesterday. Jeez. Uh, 50 immigrants were found in the back of a semi trailer and well, 50 were 1.00
00:02:53.420 dead. Uh, 16 were taken to a hospital and, and in bad shape. Uh, you can't stuff a hundred people
00:03:03.020 in the back of a semi in the Texas heat in late June and expect everything to be fine while you're
00:03:10.360 driving them across the border and smuggling them into this country. I would say it's ill-advised 0.81
00:03:14.680 to go outside in any, in any capacity right now. It is. Don't go outside. Don't get into your car.
00:03:21.000 Just stay inside in the air conditioning and hope and pray that modern convenience
00:03:24.520 makes it livable. It's that it's been rough the past couple of weeks. It's been over a hundred
00:03:28.420 almost every day here in the Dallas area. And when you've got no ventilation and you've got no air
00:03:34.700 coming in, uh, oof, no, this is bad and look terrible. You know, obviously you can't control
00:03:43.440 every single, uh, you're not going to catch every single thing that comes across the border.
00:03:48.200 This, this does, this stuff does happen, uh, and it shouldn't happen. And I think like the,
00:03:53.120 the set, the message that the government constantly sends to illegal immigrants is,
00:03:57.980 hey, you're welcome. Come, we love you. You know, hugs, kisses, uh, how much money do you need?
00:04:04.620 You know, Hey, well, come on in. We'll release you. We'll give you a great life here. Great life.
00:04:08.300 I mean that Biden, you got nothing to worry about if you come here. Biden explicitly made these
00:04:12.700 arguments during the campaign. Yes. And of course that's caused a massive part of our border problem
00:04:18.160 overall. And you see this as a, you can't, you see this as an effect of those policies over a long
00:04:28.140 period of time, you know, uh, people in, uh, in Central America, Mexico, Colombia, all the way down
00:04:36.500 to South America should be aware that if you decide to come to the border, it is, you are taking your 0.96
00:04:43.040 life in your own hands and God only knows what's going to happen. There's no way we can protect you.
00:04:46.780 That's not, it's not, it's, that's not something that you should expect sadly, because there's a lot
00:04:53.280 of people that coyotes and others that will do everything they can to exploit your life for your
00:04:59.920 money. Yeah. They don't, the coyotes don't care at all. They don't care. They don't care. They want 0.75
00:05:04.840 their $7,000 per person and they'll take that and they don't care what happens to you. It's really
00:05:11.400 tragic. It really is. And you know, the, our policies have a part in causing these incidents
00:05:16.960 over and over again, going back decades. But I mean, this one is particularly terrible and it is
00:05:23.660 a foreshadowing. We're still, we still have the overwhelming amount of people who are waiting on
00:05:31.140 the border to cross. I mean, it's building every day. We've had numbers that we've never seen before
00:05:37.160 the entire Biden administration and has not had the press as some of his other catastrophes,
00:05:43.480 because you know, there's been so much to cover. Normally I'm critical of the media for not covering
00:05:47.560 all of his, you know, the Democrat president's catastrophes. It's almost impossible to ask them
00:05:52.520 to do that. There's too many. Every aspect of this presidency has been an unmitigated disaster.
00:05:59.540 Every aspect of it. Nothing has gone right. I don't know if this guy is the unluckiest person
00:06:05.700 we've ever lived. He's just the most incompetent. Or the most incompetent. Yeah. And I think that's
00:06:10.460 what it is. Ever. Ever had. I mean, there are several issues that clearly are bigger to the average
00:06:18.000 American's life to focus on. I mean, everything from inflation, gas prices, economy, you know, 1.00
00:06:25.900 obviously COVID was part of that and that didn't, he didn't handle that very well either.
00:06:30.720 You know, Ukraine is still a big situation. We sent $50 billion plus to Ukraine. We just agreed
00:06:38.040 to billions more with, at the G7. Almost every single week, we agree to billions more in Ukraine.
00:06:45.880 Almost every week. And how, how deeply do we want to be enmeshed in this? Yeah. And honestly,
00:06:52.760 like Ukraine is basically his most popular policy, which is, it's stunning. I mean, it's not popular,
00:06:59.260 stunning, but it is more popular than anything else he's doing. And you look at the border,
00:07:05.760 while the numbers and the constant horror show on the border has not really been covered by the media,
00:07:14.140 people know about it. It's actually outside of inflation. And some of these, his economic
00:07:18.620 measures, he, as far as popularity goes and job performance goes, it says the lowest one out of
00:07:23.840 all of them. I mean, people realize it's going badly. They're just not getting beat over the head
00:07:27.740 by the coverage. But once this flow comes, they're not going to have a choice to avoid that either.
00:07:31.700 This is why they're so big on the abortion thing. They want the abortion thing to be the issue you
00:07:35.880 vote on because they know at the very least they have, you know, half the people who generally
00:07:41.320 speaking are, you know, some level of abortion support. Yeah.
00:07:45.180 And, you know, they've seen the Handmaid's Tale that maybe they'll get the reference.
00:07:48.820 And like you mentioned, what else does he have? He's got nothing else.
00:07:52.440 He's underwater on everything. The economy is terrible.
00:07:56.960 Inflation skyrocketing. Gas prices are completely out of control.
00:08:03.420 You've got the border, which is a mess. Crime.
00:08:07.600 Crime is not. Yeah.
00:08:09.200 It's going through the roof. That's not good.
00:08:10.900 A lot of these big cities. I mean, it's all that's why the two things they have right now,
00:08:15.240 they believe, are January 6th and abortion. Right. 0.92
00:08:19.080 Those are the two things. It's why they're making such a big deal about it.
00:08:21.240 They scheduled a brand new conference or, you know, session for today in their committee
00:08:26.980 because they have supposed new evidence. We'll see what that is.
00:08:30.720 They've said that multiple times. Of course.
00:08:32.780 Multiple times. And it's like a nothing burger every time.
00:08:36.160 So they're trying to come up with something, right?
00:08:38.200 And like, look, you'd expect this out of a party where they're not going to just sit here and lose nicely.
00:08:42.880 They're going to try to do something. But they it's just shocking how little they have to hang on to.
00:08:47.320 I can't point to anything.
00:08:49.160 And they even make I mean, was it Biden that talked about the police officer on January 6th?
00:08:54.700 They even try to still maintain that the that the mob on on January 6th killed the police officer, Brian Sicknick.
00:09:04.320 Yeah. He had two strokes. Right.
00:09:07.540 How are you blaming that on the Trump supporters?
00:09:11.020 You can't.
00:09:12.940 They're also blaming the suicides that two other cops committed later on weeks afterward.
00:09:19.100 That was because of January 6th as well.
00:09:22.600 I mean, they act like multiple murders occurred when these were health related issues, mental or or physical health.
00:09:30.840 And there's just no reason to exaggerate what it was.
00:09:34.600 It wasn't good. Right.
00:09:35.820 There is. It is. And it was, you know, like the January 6th committee could be worth something.
00:09:40.780 Like, for example, I'd really like to know why we didn't have enough security at the Capitol.
00:09:47.220 And why were some officers allowing people to come in?
00:09:49.740 Sure.
00:09:50.260 And others were, you know, shooting tear gas at the crowd.
00:09:52.840 I think it's valuable to know what Trump's response was to it.
00:09:56.360 You know, I mean, we watched it happen in real time.
00:09:58.480 It felt like a long time. What was really going on?
00:10:00.800 Why? Why wasn't he out there, you know, tweeting or making speeches right after it?
00:10:05.020 I'd like to know. I mean, I think it's important for us to know.
00:10:08.100 But does anybody there may be valid reasons there may be.
00:10:12.540 Maybe he was on the phone talking to people constantly.
00:10:15.160 I'd like to know the answer to it.
00:10:16.540 But the bottom line is we know for certain this committee is not serious in finding those answers.
00:10:22.220 They are out there to just smear Donald Trump and go after him and try to make Republicans all look like they're wearing horns and breaking into Nancy Pelosi's office.
00:10:32.040 And that's not who they were.
00:10:33.860 It's not even the people who were at the speech on January 6th.
00:10:39.440 Those most of those people weren't even involved in any of that stuff.
00:10:43.160 So this is just they are it shows a an incredible amount of desperation and I think some connection to reality.
00:10:54.420 They realize how badly this is going to go for them.
00:10:57.480 They see a historic wave election right around the corner, smacking them in the face and no argument to make against it.
00:11:05.500 And they're on the wrong side of it.
00:11:06.700 They're on the wrong side of it.
00:11:07.540 They don't there's no there's you know, it's like a giant tidal wave is coming toward them and they have no seawalls.
00:11:13.320 They have nothing.
00:11:14.080 They're all just standing there on the beach going, holy crap.
00:11:16.660 So they're trying to dig themselves a hole and hoping that works out.
00:11:19.520 Well, that doesn't usually work out very well, but that does seem to be their attempt.
00:11:24.320 This is all because of that.
00:11:26.240 All of the the January 6th thing because of the way it's being done, I think it's just all them trying to hold on to political points.
00:11:34.860 Yep.
00:11:35.260 And similarly, I'd say the same thing for the way many of the Democrats are reacting.
00:11:40.200 Now, there are people on the left who really care about abortion and it's their big thing.
00:11:43.740 We know Joe Biden isn't one of those people.
00:11:45.920 He's one of those.
00:11:46.480 He said himself every abortion is a tragedy in 2006, not not 1986, 2006.
00:11:54.180 This is a guy who who he claims to be very religious, a guy who obviously understands at least the pro life side of this argument.
00:12:02.900 Right. He understands he might not agree with it, but he understands it.
00:12:06.440 At least he did at one point when he wasn't 80 years old.
00:12:09.100 And so for him to act, you listen to a speech after the Roe versus Wade decision comes out and in the Dobbs case and his his whole speech is about voting for Democrats.
00:12:22.660 Nancy Pelosi, you just got to you got to vote for us. 0.53
00:12:24.820 That's how you solve this problem.
00:12:26.000 It's always the way you solve this problem.
00:12:27.960 Always the same thing.
00:12:29.720 And it shows how desperate they are.
00:12:32.200 It really does.
00:12:33.420 It's embarrassing, but it is reality for the left right now.
00:12:37.040 Committee member representative Jamie Raskin called.
00:12:41.840 He called what's coming up for the committee a deluge of new evidence.
00:12:48.820 It's a deluge of new evidence.
00:12:51.960 I can't wait to see what it is.
00:12:54.080 Is this all the the documentary thing, I guess, like it seems like the Trump administration had commissioned a documentary through this period.
00:13:04.260 Yeah.
00:13:04.780 With like a friendly source.
00:13:06.040 And so they had a bunch of interviews right after January 6th with all these big players that were supposed to go into this essentially like it's been described as a puff piece documentary.
00:13:15.320 Like one of those documentaries, you know, we're showing history.
00:13:18.800 It was there was their approval was needed for the footage to be used and stuff.
00:13:22.520 Is it the Nick Searcy thing or is this a different one?
00:13:25.880 I don't know.
00:13:26.380 I'm not sure.
00:13:26.820 I don't think I don't think it is.
00:13:28.080 But it was there's a they were they had all of these interviews.
00:13:31.660 It was a guy who's I can't think of who it was his name off the top of my head.
00:13:34.460 But it was a guy who's friendly with the administration.
00:13:35.780 So they were like, oh, yeah, we'll do it.
00:13:37.260 I mean, we know this isn't like a hit piece.
00:13:39.400 So they came in and they had all these interviews.
00:13:41.280 Like one of the things they were trying to hype a lot is that Ivanka Trump said something about how.
00:13:46.320 Well, you know, we don't know.
00:13:47.740 We want to make sure we're fighting for every vote to be counted or something.
00:13:50.380 As if that disagrees with what she said earlier when she said, you know, I heard Bill Barr say that, you know, the election wasn't stolen.
00:13:56.940 So I believed him like done done a big moment.
00:14:00.720 It's like, wait, so she wants every vote to be counted.
00:14:03.660 Like, how is that bad at all?
00:14:06.420 Every vote should be counted.
00:14:07.660 Number one.
00:14:08.800 And number two, it doesn't disagree at all with her, you know, hearing in a private meeting with somebody that wasn't stolen in her believing it.
00:14:16.680 Like, it doesn't mean that she doesn't want every vote to be counted.
00:14:19.980 It's a silly stuff like this, but they're just desperate for anything they can they can get their claws into.
00:14:25.240 Yeah, the panel's investigators sat for two hours with British filmmaker Alex Holder.
00:14:31.420 Is that who you're talking about?
00:14:32.220 Might be.
00:14:32.860 That might be.
00:14:33.260 That's not that's not the guy who was like related to the Trump administration, though.
00:14:37.440 The guy who's related to the Trump administration commissioned a documentary.
00:14:40.980 And then that footage that was initially going to be used in this documentary is now now all of it is being turned over to the committee.
00:14:48.800 So who knows?
00:14:49.760 You know, maybe somebody did say something interesting in there.
00:14:51.960 We might find that out.
00:14:53.020 So far, what they've leaked, it has not been interesting.
00:14:55.120 No, it has not.
00:14:56.520 No, it's been nothing.
00:14:58.940 Absolutely nothing.
00:14:59.880 Nothing.
00:15:02.080 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:15:04.760 So the worst run cities in America, would you think that they are they're run by Democrats or Republicans?
00:15:15.340 Well, obviously Republicans.
00:15:16.620 First of all, women don't have rights there. 1.00
00:15:18.480 OK, yeah.
00:15:19.300 Did you know there's no trans rights in those cities?
00:15:21.040 It's like the handmaid's tale.
00:15:23.300 Yeah, that's a good reference because no one's made it.
00:15:25.300 You know, no one's put together that particular reference.
00:15:28.400 I thought it was really creative.
00:15:29.260 Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
00:15:30.400 Now, I have heard it from every Democrat.
00:15:34.100 Oh, you have?
00:15:34.580 That's ever lived.
00:15:35.340 Yes.
00:15:35.600 The handmaid's tale reference.
00:15:36.980 But I would like to hear it more often because it's so incredibly smart.
00:15:41.980 It's apropos, if you will.
00:15:43.060 It is.
00:15:43.980 You know, of course, it's interesting that like you're saying that the people who argue for smaller government and less control of government of your life are the people that are going to implement the full control of your life through the government.
00:16:01.120 That's because that makes a lot of sense.
00:16:03.300 Sure it does.
00:16:04.100 You know, it's really consistent with the with the Constitution and the principles we espouse is is a bunch of theocratic leaders taking over and making women have to get a big part of family values on the right has always been. 0.64
00:16:21.700 You should be married to a woman and then have a concubine on the side to impregnate constantly. 1.00
00:16:26.620 That's a big part.
00:16:27.920 That's a big part of the conservative argument.
00:16:29.560 How many times have we talked about that on this show?
00:16:31.700 It's the big vision of conservatives.
00:16:33.500 You must have a concubine on the side. 1.00
00:16:35.800 That's kind of what the whole I mean, that's the whole argument for conservatism in this country is pro concubine.
00:16:41.500 It always has been.
00:16:42.200 And that's why The Handmaid's Tale is so prescient. 0.94
00:16:45.580 You know, it really is that it really is.
00:16:47.380 Look, if we get in control.
00:16:48.480 Yes, we're telling you now concubines. 1.00
00:16:51.300 That's what's happening.
00:16:52.120 Got to have.
00:16:52.560 We're very pro concubine on this program.
00:16:54.420 Got to have.
00:16:54.880 We got to have you got to have a concubine. 1.00
00:16:57.060 Now, I prefer 10.
00:16:59.400 10 is great.
00:17:00.300 10 is great if you can get 10.
00:17:01.500 And I will say we also want them to dress very, very in a covered up way.
00:17:06.860 We don't want to see their hair.
00:17:08.920 We don't want to see really any part of them except their face.
00:17:11.980 That is the way we've been talking about.
00:17:13.820 That's what we want.
00:17:14.820 Concubines, but well-dressed concubines. 1.00
00:17:17.280 Yeah.
00:17:17.820 Well, covered anyway.
00:17:19.040 Covered.
00:17:19.220 Yeah, not necessarily.
00:17:20.040 Definitely covered.
00:17:20.840 Not stylish.
00:17:21.620 Because you don't even want to see their wrist, you know?
00:17:24.140 No.
00:17:24.520 You want their sleeves to go down up to about their fingers.
00:17:28.560 I mean, you look at Clarence Thomas's writings from law school.
00:17:31.640 He talks very much about anti-wrist pro concubine.
00:17:34.180 That's pretty much his only two positions.
00:17:35.640 He was huge at Yale on that.
00:17:38.900 Oh, yeah.
00:17:39.160 Those were the two things.
00:17:40.140 Oh, yeah.
00:17:40.820 In fact, I think his final thesis at Yale was about that.
00:17:44.880 It was.
00:17:45.320 Yeah.
00:17:45.560 It was.
00:17:46.120 Did you hear the other day?
00:17:47.060 This is a little bit.
00:17:47.860 I know I'm dragging you off topic a little bit here.
00:17:49.540 But someone, I think it was on NBC News, called Amy Coney Barrett a handmaiden.
00:17:58.000 Oh, my gosh.
00:17:58.760 I mean, how?
00:18:00.040 Here is a woman who's. 1.00
00:18:01.560 This is the ultimate example of feminism, right? 1.00
00:18:05.120 Back in the original thought of it, a woman who can rise above everything, to have a giant 1.00
00:18:11.140 family and still achieve all of her dreams, rise to be one of the most powerful people 0.99
00:18:16.820 in the nation.
00:18:17.800 Yeah.
00:18:18.060 She's a handmaiden. 0.99
00:18:19.680 She's a handmaiden. 0.99
00:18:20.600 And, you know, of course, Sotomayor and Kagan are two women who are on the Supreme Court. 0.99
00:18:24.820 They're not handmaidens. 1.00
00:18:26.160 They, not at all.
00:18:27.220 Not at all.
00:18:27.800 No.
00:18:28.020 You know, that's not at all.
00:18:30.680 No reason to talk about them that way.
00:18:32.380 Just Amy Coney Barrett because you don't like her. 0.96
00:18:34.160 That's incredible.
00:18:35.100 All right.
00:18:35.360 Sorry.
00:18:35.680 Tell me about the worst cities in America.
00:18:36.740 Worst city in America.
00:18:38.260 Worst run city in America, Washington, D.C.
00:18:43.640 Run by Democrats.
00:18:46.440 But I'm sure that's the exception rather than the rule.
00:18:48.540 But only for about 60, 70 years.
00:18:51.660 San Francisco, California, number two.
00:18:54.080 But, again, run by Democrats for only about 50 or 60 years.
00:18:58.780 Okay.
00:18:59.480 Then you've got New York City, New York, New York.
00:19:01.920 Now, there have been some Republicans in the past in New York, but they're not there now
00:19:05.820 and they haven't been for a while.
00:19:07.960 So, New York, number three.
00:19:10.640 I'm not sure about Chattanooga, Tennessee.
00:19:12.560 I don't know who the mayor is there.
00:19:16.160 It's possible it's a Democrat.
00:19:17.980 We should maybe look into that.
00:19:19.540 Cleveland, Ohio, run by Democrats.
00:19:22.260 Okay.
00:19:22.480 That's one, two, three, four.
00:19:24.240 We're down to the five.
00:19:25.520 Number six, Detroit, Michigan, run by Democrats forever.
00:19:28.840 Flint, Michigan, run by Democrats.
00:19:31.280 Oakland, California, Democrats.
00:19:33.760 Hartford, Connecticut, Democrats.
00:19:36.500 And then you get to Gulfport, Mississippi at number 10 as the worst run city.
00:19:41.820 A lot of the mayoral races, we did a project on this a long time ago.
00:19:45.160 Oh, they're non-partisan.
00:19:47.040 Yeah, so this is a lot of them, yeah.
00:19:48.220 Tim Kelly is the mayor of Chattanooga and he's a new, a relatively new mayor, but he
00:19:53.140 is listed as an independent.
00:19:55.720 Okay.
00:19:56.040 So, it doesn't, you know, I don't know.
00:19:57.380 I don't know.
00:19:57.700 Maybe someone from Chattanooga can tell us.
00:19:59.160 But we went, we did a project on this a while ago for one of Glenn's books.
00:20:03.560 And we went back and we researched.
00:20:05.140 I think it was, I want to say it was an inconvenient book.
00:20:07.720 It may have been that one.
00:20:08.880 It was one of the very, it was one of the earlier books.
00:20:10.660 And we went through, we looked at every, every single city in America with the worst poverty
00:20:17.800 levels.
00:20:18.980 I had the biggest problems with ongoing poverty over long periods of time.
00:20:23.700 And we looked at them and we said, who are the mayors of these cities?
00:20:26.800 I mean, people are struggling.
00:20:28.800 You know, the poverty rates are extraordinarily high.
00:20:31.420 Usually the crime rates are really high.
00:20:33.780 Yeah.
00:20:34.240 And, and we went back and we, we found that of the top, I think it was the top 10 cities
00:20:40.920 with the worst poverty levels, Republicans had only run them in, I think it was like six
00:20:46.940 or 8% of the years since 1960, which is fascinating.
00:20:53.900 It's not close.
00:20:55.180 I'll tell you that.
00:20:55.920 It was well over 90% run by Democrats.
00:20:58.880 Yeah.
00:20:59.140 Well, well, you know, some of them were independents that essentially operated as Democrats, but
00:21:05.260 as far as just Republicans, it was something like, I don't know, you know, nine, six or
00:21:10.220 8% was right. 1.00
00:21:11.100 It was under, under 10%.
00:21:12.360 The only ones, it was like Miami, there have been some Republican mayors.
00:21:15.980 I don't know if they're still in the situation where they're in the top 10 anymore for poverty
00:21:19.520 levels, but at the time they were, and I think Cleveland going back a bunch of years had
00:21:23.500 a mayor or two that was Republican, but it's really rare and it's really rare.
00:21:28.060 And you, Trump made this argument and the media beat him up on it, but like the idea that
00:21:36.340 at some point you should try something different.
00:21:39.940 I don't even know.
00:21:41.060 Like maybe you might say, Hey, it's not Republicans, it's libertarians, whatever.
00:21:46.080 But like at some point, don't you think that you should try something other than Democrats?
00:21:52.380 Constantly.
00:21:52.980 You would think so.
00:21:54.460 It doesn't make sense that that thought doesn't seem to occur to them.
00:21:57.940 It really doesn't.
00:21:59.300 Okay.
00:22:00.080 Conversely, what's the best run city in America, according to the survey?
00:22:04.220 Nampa, Idaho.
00:22:05.220 Number two, Boise, Idaho.
00:22:09.880 Number three, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
00:22:13.960 At number four, Nashua, New Hampshire.
00:22:16.880 Then Lexington, Kentucky.
00:22:19.280 Lincoln, Nebraska.
00:22:21.220 Las Cruces, New Mexico.
00:22:22.820 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
00:22:25.500 Missoula, Montana surprises me at number nine.
00:22:28.660 And number 10, Durham, North Carolina.
00:22:30.160 I mean, it is amazing the fact that the worst run cities, the cities in the biggest problems
00:22:39.280 in the most debt with the highest crime rates and cities that have, like Stu just mentioned,
00:22:46.500 the highest poverty rates, almost exclusively Democrat run cities.
00:22:52.240 And conversely, the best run, usually Republican run cities.
00:22:56.980 And yet, I don't know, the cities that are run crappily by Democrats, they continue to
00:23:03.820 vote for Democrats.
00:23:04.880 It's really amazing.
00:23:06.020 It really is.
00:23:06.820 I don't understand it.
00:23:08.220 You know, it's a total, it's totally shutting off the theory that you should be open to other
00:23:16.460 options, right?
00:23:17.180 Like, it's only like a, it's a borderline religious situation.
00:23:21.580 I remember this is going back a couple of elections now.
00:23:23.260 There was a complaint about Philadelphia from the right.
00:23:25.900 And they said, look at all these, these voting districts where it's like 100% of people in
00:23:32.860 Philadelphia voted for Democrats.
00:23:34.240 This can't possibly be right.
00:23:35.760 And so, you know, people looked at me like, gosh, it was, it was all over.
00:23:38.700 It was like, you know, district after district after district.
00:23:40.780 And it would be like 98%, 99%, 100% for Democrats.
00:23:44.780 And you'd go in and you'd look at it.
00:23:46.700 And what they would find is, you know, this quote unquote voting district was essentially
00:23:51.440 one building, right?
00:23:53.160 Like a, you know, an apartment building.
00:23:55.380 And that was the entire district.
00:23:57.000 And they'd go through it and they would be like, no, it's like, they're just all like
00:24:00.560 registered Democrats.
00:24:01.580 Like, that's just like what it is.
00:24:03.360 You know, you get to a certain, particularly in some minority communities in these inner
00:24:08.560 cities, you find 99%, 95% of people voting for the same thing.
00:24:15.080 I mean, we know this nationally, nationally, African-Americans vote for Democrats in the
00:24:20.740 presidential races in the, you know, around 92%, 95%, 88% varying on the year.
00:24:26.800 Like the big win is 88% for, you know, if it's only 88%, huge victory for Republicans.
00:24:33.840 Like that is, I don't know how to explain that, Pat.
00:24:37.620 You know, I, people are different.
00:24:39.800 And I think like you just get to this place where it becomes part of your, of your culture
00:24:46.000 and your identity that I vote this way.
00:24:48.400 And no matter what these people do to you, you still continue to come back to that same
00:24:52.900 well.
00:24:53.460 Despite the fact that your life sucks because of the way things are run around you, you
00:24:57.800 keep voting the same way.
00:24:58.980 It doesn't, it really doesn't make sense.
00:25:00.900 I wouldn't look if Republicans became, I've, I've voted third party before because of
00:25:06.760 this.
00:25:06.960 When Republicans infuriate me because they're big government, I don't care.
00:25:11.220 I'm not going to stick around.
00:25:11.760 No, I don't either.
00:25:12.340 I'm not going to get beat up by a stupid political party year after year after year
00:25:16.780 after year.
00:25:17.480 And, you know, some people, you know, you'll argue, they'll say, Hey, you know, you should
00:25:21.420 vote for that.
00:25:22.240 You know, and like, yeah, you only vote for one of the two parties.
00:25:24.240 Look, if, if the Democrats became a party where they actually respected individual rights
00:25:30.700 and reversed essentially all their positions, I'm not locked into the R I'll vote for the
00:25:37.040 D if they're better.
00:25:38.120 They're just not, they're terrible in every way.
00:25:41.520 So I'm not considering that, but I would consider it if they change their views.
00:25:44.660 Well, I frankly don't understand the, the, uh, obsession with party affiliation.
00:25:51.720 Yeah.
00:25:52.060 I mean, I, you know, I don't feel that affinity for the Republican party that I must be loyal
00:25:57.960 to them no matter what.
00:25:59.640 Well, no, if they've got crappy policies that they're acting like Democrats, I, I don't care.
00:26:04.360 I'm not voting for Republicans.
00:26:05.880 I'll go independent or, you know, find somebody else to vote for.
00:26:09.840 Um, but you know, it's, I mean, you go back to the George Washington thing where he said
00:26:15.700 we shouldn't have a party system and you look at the way things are now and it was probably
00:26:20.720 pretty smart.
00:26:21.880 He might've known what he was talking about there.
00:26:24.000 It's possible.
00:26:25.160 I don't know.
00:26:25.640 I mean, what are the, what's the evidence that that guy was smart?
00:26:27.860 Yeah.
00:26:28.100 George Washington.
00:26:28.920 Yeah.
00:26:29.500 You know, I don't know.
00:26:30.440 He doesn't, what did he know?
00:26:33.260 Not much, obviously.
00:26:34.520 Yeah.
00:26:34.700 Not much.
00:26:35.200 Interesting thing going on with the Supreme court decision, as far as Roe v. Wade is concerned.
00:26:57.100 Uh, it was, it was Sam Alito who wrote the opinion, but it seems to be, uh, it seems
00:27:06.080 to be someone else who's getting all the flack for it.
00:27:08.580 Yeah.
00:27:08.760 It seems to be Clarence Thomas largely getting all the flack.
00:27:12.000 Now Alito, it's white male, Pat. 0.91
00:27:15.140 I don't know if you know this.
00:27:15.900 I did know that.
00:27:17.220 Clarence Thomas is not.
00:27:18.820 He's not a white male.
00:27:19.760 He's not a white male.
00:27:20.800 What about his white supremacy?
00:27:22.240 What about that?
00:27:22.920 F Clarence Thomas being said all over the place.
00:27:25.460 I've seen the N word applied to him.
00:27:27.360 Oh yeah.
00:27:27.900 I, you know, uncle Tom, the N word, you can call him whatever you want, I guess, as long
00:27:34.060 as you're on the left.
00:27:35.220 It's totally fine.
00:27:36.240 I mean, you've seen this all over the place.
00:27:38.120 It's bizarre.
00:27:38.580 This would obviously be attributed to racism if someone on the right was doing it.
00:27:42.340 No question.
00:27:42.920 When you're critical of any person who happens to be another race, always the motivation 1.00
00:27:47.260 is assigned to you to be racism.
00:27:50.220 Uh, but we had, we had Lori Lightfoot. 0.99
00:27:51.560 Do we have the Lori Lightfoot side?
00:27:52.720 I think we do have the Lori Lightfoot audio of her at this concert.
00:27:56.220 This is her talking about the abortion ruling and saying, F Clarence Thomas.
00:28:00.480 If you read Clarence Thomas, concurrence, he said, thank you, F Clarence Thomas.
00:28:07.620 He thinks that we are going to stand idly by when they take our rights.
00:28:16.900 I mean, she's delightful, isn't she?
00:28:19.000 She's a delight.
00:28:20.380 You know, beyond that, I hate to get into this, but she's just pretty.
00:28:24.380 She's just a, just, she's so attractive.
00:28:27.660 Yeah, you're right.
00:28:28.340 You know, it's hard, it's hard to be critical of her because she's so beautiful.
00:28:31.740 Yeah, right.
00:28:32.280 In every way.
00:28:33.260 In every way.
00:28:33.820 In every way.
00:28:34.420 I just, just happen to like.
00:28:36.680 She kind of glows.
00:28:37.740 She glows.
00:28:38.120 Yeah, she does.
00:28:38.840 She does.
00:28:39.240 I just have, maybe it's just me.
00:28:40.780 I just have a thing for people that have eyes in very strange places.
00:28:44.340 Like, they just seem to be pointing in all different directions.
00:28:46.540 I just love it.
00:28:47.460 You know, I just got that thing for the, that fish eyed look.
00:28:50.420 Yeah.
00:28:50.580 You know?
00:28:50.920 Well, there's no, I mean, it's no wonder.
00:28:53.000 It's really an attractive look.
00:28:54.480 It's just attractive.
00:28:54.900 It is.
00:28:55.240 I mean, it's not traditionally thought of in that way.
00:29:00.040 Oh, really?
00:29:00.440 But, you know, they're doing different things.
00:29:02.480 Like, for example, in the swimsuit issue right now, they're doing different things.
00:29:05.240 They have a larger woman.
00:29:06.840 They are doing different things.
00:29:08.180 They have sometimes guys, sometimes trans people, sometimes, you know, people without 0.60
00:29:16.180 their limbs.
00:29:17.080 There's a lot of different kind of attractiveness.
00:29:19.120 Right.
00:29:19.420 Thank you, Pat.
00:29:20.100 And Lori Lightfoot fits exactly in that kind of attractiveness.
00:29:22.780 Yeah.
00:29:23.060 It's a different kind.
00:29:24.080 Different kind of attractiveness.
00:29:24.920 A different kind.
00:29:25.480 But, so she was addressing this Clarence Thomas thing and people say, oh, Lori Lightfoot
00:29:31.900 there.
00:29:32.120 Like, you know, we are not going to stand by and let this happen.
00:29:35.720 You know who else isn't standing by and letting this happen?
00:29:38.280 The other conservative justices.
00:29:40.360 Now, I think Clarence Thomas is right on this point, which is the idea that these Supreme
00:29:46.600 Court rulings were decided improperly.
00:29:49.060 And when you have overt creation of rights through the court, that should be reversed.
00:29:56.100 I agree with Clarence Thomas on that.
00:29:58.680 I do not want contraception to be illegal in this country.
00:30:01.800 No.
00:30:01.880 However, when the ruling is put through in a way that is improper, you should reverse
00:30:08.560 it and then states should allow it.
00:30:10.120 States should be allowing contraception, which, of course, all 50 of them would immediately. 0.89
00:30:14.700 Mm-hmm.
00:30:14.940 So, taking the next step beyond that, the idea that you have to stand up against Clarence
00:30:20.940 Thomas is ridiculous.
00:30:22.200 He has one vote.
00:30:23.740 He has his own vote to do the things he's talking about, which is why he wrote a concurrence
00:30:29.040 in which only he was involved in.
00:30:30.860 No one else has agreed with him on it.
00:30:32.760 You have one vote in the Supreme Court on this.
00:30:34.940 Right.
00:30:35.300 One.
00:30:35.740 That's an important point.
00:30:36.860 But they are trying to terrify you that he's going to undo all these other rights.
00:30:40.140 Yeah, he can't.
00:30:40.880 He can't.
00:30:41.600 Clarence Thomas is not the king of America.
00:30:44.360 He might be the most important man in America.
00:30:46.520 Uh-huh.
00:30:47.220 I might argue that.
00:30:48.800 Uh-huh.
00:30:49.060 But he is not the king.
00:30:51.040 He is not the king.
00:30:51.580 Nor does he want to be the king, by the way.
00:30:53.880 So, all of the racism starts spilling out of the left.
00:30:56.540 Yeah, why is this?
00:30:57.420 Like, you can't believe.
00:30:58.840 Why is this?
00:30:59.460 Why are they attacking Clarence Thomas?
00:31:00.980 And if I'll give you one other example who's taken a beating for this, it's not Brett Kavanaugh.
00:31:06.000 It's not Justice Gorsuch.
00:31:07.360 It's Amy Coney Barrett.
00:31:09.220 The woman and the black person. 0.95
00:31:11.340 Those two teams seem to be the targets of every ounce of animosity from the left.
00:31:17.080 Why is that?
00:31:17.740 I don't know what they would say it was.
00:31:21.500 They would say it's sexism and racism.
00:31:23.920 And you know what?
00:31:24.860 Maybe it is.
00:31:26.220 Maybe it is.
00:31:27.500 Well, I think it is.
00:31:29.100 I don't know.
00:31:29.700 I really do believe it is.
00:31:30.680 I don't know what else it could be.
00:31:31.860 Especially with Amy Coney Barrett.
00:31:33.040 Like, all she did was agree with the opinion.
00:31:34.920 She's exactly.
00:31:35.780 I mean, Thomas did take that extra step.
00:31:37.840 So, maybe you could argue there's a little bit of that there.
00:31:39.800 But Amy Coney Barrett, all she did was agree.
00:31:42.540 All she did was concur with the opinion.
00:31:44.940 That's it.
00:31:45.440 But you look at the left, and you see how often this happens.
00:31:49.100 And it's just, it's to the point now where you can't ignore it anymore.
00:31:53.360 You've got to acknowledge they are a bunch of racists.
00:31:57.000 I mean, somebody who doesn't get nearly enough credit for his racism is Joe Biden.
00:32:01.700 I mean, how many times have we been down that road where he says things that are completely racist and gets away with it, and nobody says anything?
00:32:10.560 I mean, you've got the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy.
00:32:23.400 It's actually a showering.
00:32:24.100 It's a storybook, man.
00:32:25.220 It's a storybook, man.
00:32:26.240 They don't usually shower.
00:32:27.340 I don't know if you're aware of that.
00:32:28.480 Yeah.
00:32:28.980 Yeah.
00:32:29.320 They're not usually articulate.
00:32:30.540 That's for sure.
00:32:31.120 No, come on now.
00:32:31.820 According to Joe Biden.
00:32:32.840 It's crazy.
00:32:33.260 Like, think about this.
00:32:34.060 He's comparing Barack Obama, an African American who can speak and take showers, to like a unicorn.
00:32:41.820 Yes.
00:32:42.120 To a magical story.
00:32:43.040 To something that's a storybook.
00:32:44.880 Yeah.
00:32:45.600 That's incredible.
00:32:46.360 How did that guy become the Democratic nominee for president?
00:32:49.860 And it's not just that.
00:32:50.940 There have been so many times where he's gone down that road.
00:32:54.160 The other portion is a lot of people don't know how to register.
00:32:58.520 Not everybody in the community, in the Hispanic and the African American community, particularly in rural areas that are distant and or inner city.
00:33:09.460 City.
00:33:09.700 Not rural or city.
00:33:12.400 Know how to get online to determine how to get in line for that COVID vaccination.
00:33:17.820 I don't know how to get online.
00:33:21.640 Are you kidding me?
00:33:22.940 And I love how he tries to make this distinction between rural and urban, and he just includes all of them.
00:33:28.280 So it's basically what?
00:33:29.160 Maybe suburban blacks can figure out how to get registered, but not urban or rural. 0.98
00:33:33.200 They're the only ones, though.
00:33:34.260 Or rural.
00:33:34.700 Right.
00:33:35.000 And if somebody had said this who was on the right, what would happen?
00:33:42.540 In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian Americans moving from India.
00:33:47.980 You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. 1.00
00:33:54.580 He's not joking about that.
00:33:55.740 I'm not joking.
00:33:56.740 Okay, yeah.
00:33:57.320 He's not joking.
00:33:58.080 I thought he might have been joking.
00:33:58.960 No, he wasn't.
00:33:59.580 Might have given him a pass.
00:34:00.420 No, he's not joking.
00:34:02.460 And this is one of the most telling to me.
00:34:04.060 And by the way, what you all know, but most people don't know, unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community.
00:34:14.320 Yeah, they have different thoughts.
00:34:15.160 With incredibly different attitudes about different things.
00:34:18.140 Yeah.
00:34:18.940 Not blacks, though. 1.00
00:34:20.800 They don't have different attitudes about different things.
00:34:23.320 They all think alike.
00:34:24.640 And this guy is so entitled that after saying all of those things, he then came to the table with, if you don't vote for Joe Biden, you ain't black.
00:34:34.560 That is, I mean, think of the entitlement that goes into a statement like that.
00:34:37.960 So if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black. 0.78
00:34:43.380 Incredible.
00:34:44.360 Seriously incredible.
00:34:45.640 This man is president of the United States.
00:34:47.540 I just don't know how any of it happened.
00:34:50.300 I don't understand how he became vice president to begin with.
00:34:54.000 Oh, well, we do know that.
00:34:55.760 Racism.
00:34:56.320 Well, yeah.
00:34:57.100 Barack Obama said he believed Americans were so racist, he needed to pick an old white guy.
00:35:03.220 That is legitimately why he did it.
00:35:05.880 He wanted to pick an old white guy because he thought Barack Obama is pushing these racists far enough.
00:35:11.520 You know, the name, he's got a different name, as he's pointed out.
00:35:15.140 I don't know if you ever heard him say that, Pat.
00:35:16.240 He noted.
00:35:17.920 He did?
00:35:18.240 He said that?
00:35:19.140 Huh.
00:35:19.300 He noted occasionally that his name was different.
00:35:21.680 And he had a different name.
00:35:23.140 And there were a lot of people who would not accept that.
00:35:25.480 So they had to bring in a steadying influence for somebody who was older and white.
00:35:32.800 Somebody who could be comfortable to whitey. 0.99
00:35:35.820 Yeah.
00:35:36.440 And that was another whitey. 0.96
00:35:37.740 Because we know how Barack Obama sees the country.
00:35:40.480 That's so true.
00:35:41.140 People who have, who are, they are clinging to their gods and their guns. 0.65
00:35:47.980 And they have antipathy to people who are different.
00:35:52.700 This is how he sees America.
00:35:54.120 And he saw America that way.
00:35:56.300 So he picked Joe Biden.
00:35:57.420 And somehow, this country rewarded him with the presidency.
00:36:01.880 That's incredible.
00:36:03.440 It's incredible.
00:36:04.400 How on earth.
00:36:06.140 And clearly, he didn't like Joe Biden.
00:36:08.360 And still doesn't.
00:36:09.280 I mean, you saw him when he came back to the White House.
00:36:11.580 And they celebrated his arrival.
00:36:13.560 And everything was so great.
00:36:15.000 And they had all those get-togethers.
00:36:16.940 And Biden was like a little puppy dog that was trying to get his attention.
00:36:21.760 I mean, desperately trying.
00:36:23.120 Barack!
00:36:23.700 Barack!
00:36:24.180 He's yelling at Barack.
00:36:25.380 And Obama continues to ignore him and turns his back on him the whole time.
00:36:30.640 He didn't even like him.
00:36:31.920 But I think you're right.
00:36:32.660 It was the racism.
00:36:33.440 And even when he tries not to be racist, he's still racist.
00:36:38.260 Like the time, for example, as I was just reminded, that when he said, poor kids are just as bright as white kids. 0.54
00:36:45.860 No, he didn't say that.
00:36:47.420 Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. 1.00
00:36:50.340 Oh, come on! 0.99
00:36:56.740 And the amount, the lengths the left will go to paint a conservative or a Republican as a racist.
00:37:05.460 They will take something out of context that they didn't mean from 50 years ago and trotted out as evidence that they're this evil undercover racist.
00:37:16.160 When you have, I mean, seemingly every speech that Joe Biden makes has some racial comment in it that is uncomfortable to hear.
00:37:26.420 And the only exception to that are the ones where you can't understand his sentences.
00:37:30.220 Like, the only reason he has not been doing that that much lately is because now he just mumbles through them and you can't tell what he's saying.
00:37:37.100 God only knows what words he's saying under the mumbling.
00:37:39.760 How many times has this guy blurted out a slur in the middle of his speech and we didn't realize it?
00:37:43.880 Probably a ton.
00:37:44.680 Wait, oh my God, I think he just said the N-word!
00:37:48.140 Yes, he probably did!
00:37:50.540 It really is a problem.
00:37:54.140 I mean, Trent Lott said what?
00:37:55.880 That he liked somebody, he liked a former or a person that people considered a racist?
00:38:02.340 It was, uh, what's his face?
00:38:04.780 Yeah.
00:38:04.900 A hundred-year-old guy.
00:38:06.860 Yes, I can't remember.
00:38:07.900 Strom Thurmond?
00:38:08.660 Strom Thurmond.
00:38:09.320 Yeah, it was Strom Thurmond.
00:38:10.320 And he said, yeah, we'd be better off.
00:38:12.080 He would have been a great president or something to that.
00:38:15.140 It was, I think it was his hundredth birthday.
00:38:17.220 Hundredth birthday, which, you know, was close to his family.
00:38:19.320 And he said the guy would have been a great president.
00:38:21.300 And I don't even think he said that.
00:38:22.440 I think he said we would have been better off if we listened to him or something like that.
00:38:25.800 Now, it was not specific like we would have been better off if we listened to his racism.
00:38:29.760 He just said a general nice comment at the guy's hundredth birthday.
00:38:33.460 And he's done forever.
00:38:34.900 Yeah.
00:38:35.460 They threw him out.
00:38:36.020 But, you know, basically every other week we get another comment from Joe Biden.
00:38:42.060 And no one cares.
00:38:43.780 It's Joe being Joe.
00:38:45.080 He's just allowed to do those things.
00:38:47.120 And for a long time.
00:38:48.420 Very strange.
00:38:49.040 I mean, the Obama comment came in, what, 2008, 2007 or 8, when he talked about what a clean, articulate African-American he was.
00:38:56.360 Yeah.
00:38:57.560 So he's been doing it for a long time.
00:39:00.080 And really.
00:39:00.580 And getting away with it the whole time.
00:39:01.560 And you go back to the 80s and 90s and you find even worse stuff.
00:39:03.860 Oh, yeah.
00:39:04.040 But, I mean, you look at the only time he ever was really held to any account for all of the racial insensitivities was by his vice president.
00:39:14.920 So weird.
00:39:15.620 In the debate.
00:39:16.220 When they wanted Biden to lose.
00:39:18.120 At the time, they had the option of Bernie Sanders.
00:39:20.280 They had the option of Kamala Harris.
00:39:21.740 They had the option of all these other people.
00:39:23.180 And they kind of didn't really want, the media didn't want Biden to win.
00:39:26.360 So they ran with that Kamala Harris thing about how she was this girl.
00:39:30.160 That girl was me.
00:39:30.820 This is a five-year-old.
00:39:31.740 Five-year-old girl.
00:39:32.520 Five-year-old girl was hurt by your bussing policies.
00:39:35.300 And that little girl was me.
00:39:38.780 To the surprise of absolutely no one.
00:39:40.580 I know.
00:39:42.140 It was the longest setup to a reveal line that everyone knew was coming that we've ever seen.
00:39:47.600 But it was successful for her.
00:39:49.560 I mean, that was when Kamala Harris rocketed to first or second in the primary. 1.00
00:39:54.580 She was unable to hold that position.
00:39:56.100 Lasted about 15 minutes.
00:39:57.640 But was able to guilt him into putting her as VP.
00:40:00.680 So I guess it worked in a roundabout sort of way.
00:40:04.080 But no one seems to care.
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