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00:00:30.000 Wow. Wow. You know, okay, they didn't do the Save America Act, but the House has passed an act to fix the clocks.

00:00:38.280 Next, they're going to work on pizza crusts, I think.

00:00:40.960 Now, it didn't go through the Senate.

00:00:43.200 This is insanity. What the hell are they doing in Washington?

00:00:46.940 Also, a way to look and explain communism to people, instead of saying, you're a communist,

00:00:54.640 let's figure out how we can talk to people

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00:03:31.480 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:03:35.920 So I want to talk to you again about continuing the conversation.

00:03:40.080 This is something that's going to evolve over the next few months.

00:03:43.440 I think we're going to be talking about communists for a while now.

00:03:46.840 And we have to know who our audience is, who we're trying to talk to, and then not just run it all into just bumper stickers, okay?

00:04:01.280 Communists!

00:04:03.020 Nobody's going to react to that.

00:04:04.460 You know how they're going to react to that?

00:04:05.840 The same way when somebody calls you a racist.

00:04:08.700 Fine, whatever. 0.53

00:04:10.320 Ooh, I'm a racist.

00:04:11.180 It has no meaning anymore.

00:04:13.320 Communism has no meaning anymore, okay?

00:04:16.240 We have been saying communists forever, ever, and to a lot of people, that is, you know, I've heard them cry wolf about communism a thousand times.

00:04:26.640 People are not necessarily communists.

00:04:28.860 Not everybody is a communist.

00:04:31.280 Let me give you three categories of vote I think people are going through right now, especially if they're under 30 and maybe under 40.

00:04:38.760 I don't know, but I think there are three categories.

00:04:42.860 There is the valid disillusioned person that has real grievance that is looking at things and like I worked hard.

00:04:53.340 I did everything I was supposed to and I can't afford a house and a reasonable house.

00:04:58.500 I can't afford to start a family.

00:05:01.960 I can't find a job and it's all because of capitalism.

00:05:05.600 No, some of it is about crony capitalism, but again, nobody listens.

00:05:11.540 Nobody listens.

00:05:12.860 And so they're not communists.

00:05:14.980 They don't want gulags.

00:05:16.760 They don't want millions dead.

00:05:18.500 They just, they don't understand.

00:05:21.160 And no one's talking to them except the, quote, socialists,

00:05:25.680 who are now finding out in the study I told you about yesterday,

00:05:29.320 about 51% of the DSA, they're communists, self-acclaimed communists.

00:05:35.980 And there's a big difference between a socialist and a communist.

00:05:40.300 And so you have the disillusioned who are just trying to figure things out.

00:05:43.980 And then they start listening to socialists.

00:05:47.820 And they don't realize that 51% of the people that are behind this are communists.

00:05:55.860 And if they do, they may not even know what communists are, what they've done.

00:06:00.100 They don't know the history because they've never been taught.

00:06:02.580 That's the second category.

00:06:04.100 They start to become socialists, but they still are just, they're looking,

00:06:07.340 they actually believe in the utopia they believe this will make things better okay and then there's 0.93

00:06:14.640 the third category the category that actually are killers and thieves and communists okay because 0.58

00:06:19.960 once you know you're a communist and you are you declare it and you you know what that means

00:06:26.420 well then i put you in a separate category but the first two categories are the majority of people

00:06:32.160 that we're talking about who are voting for socialists they have no idea they have no idea

00:06:37.000 So we can't just yell communist because they're not going to listen.

00:06:42.080 And I don't want a better insult.

00:06:44.120 I want a better word.

00:06:45.340 I want something you can point to, something that fair-minded people can't just wave away because I don't know what's in their heart.

00:06:54.960 But I want them to know and I want to be able to describe what their policies that they are claiming they're for, what it does.

00:07:02.500 So let me take you back to Paris in 1850.

00:07:05.480 Two years earlier, 1848, a couple of Germans publish a little pamphlet.

00:07:10.820 You know the one. 0.87

00:07:11.600 And in the middle of it, one of these Germans, Karl Marx, does the thing his followers today will not do. 1.00

00:07:19.820 He tells you plainly what it's all for. 0.96

00:07:22.360 The whole theory, he writes, boils down to a single sentence.

00:07:26.540 The abolition of private property.

00:07:29.360 I don't think any of these people who are young socialists want to get rid of their cell phone, their house, their car, whatever it is.

00:07:39.520 But that's what it actually is.

00:07:41.940 It boils down to the abolition of private property.

00:07:45.720 That's his goal in his words.

00:07:49.360 So Marx names the goal, but it takes a Frenchman, believe it or not, to name the machine, and it's Bastiat.

00:07:56.440 Bastiat is a member of the French assembly.

00:07:59.360 1848, he has front row seats to socialism's very first live experiment, okay?

00:08:05.820 France is deciding it's going to guarantee every man a job paid for by taking from men who already have a job,

00:08:14.980 and he watches it start, and then he watches it quickly break.

00:08:19.140 In 1850, he now has TB, and he writes this book called The Law.

00:08:23.740 It's a little book.

00:08:24.340 You should get it.

00:08:25.000 And he hands us a phrase that we don't use, and he calls it legal plunder.

00:08:30.620 He chose those two words really carefully.

00:08:33.740 Plunder, what does that mean?

00:08:35.500 It means taking something that isn't yours.

00:08:38.400 And we know that's wrong.

00:08:39.980 We teach that as kids.

00:08:41.000 You don't take that.

00:08:42.180 That's not yours.

00:08:43.460 And we build prisons for it.

00:08:46.860 But Bastiat noticed something funny, and we've talked about this before.

00:08:50.160 When one man does it, we call it robbery, and we lock him up.

00:08:53.340 But when somebody who wears the robes of government does it, a bill, a program, a vote, we call it justice.

00:09:01.020 And we hold a ribbon cutting for it.

00:09:04.080 Same act, same taking of something that doesn't belong to you.

00:09:09.160 You're taking it from somebody else.

00:09:11.480 But you just put on a robe, so you're not a criminal.

00:09:15.260 So what's the best tool in this fight?

00:09:20.320 It's a test.

00:09:21.400 You want to know if a law is plunder? Don't argue the label, okay? Just look at it. Does it take from some people what belongs to them and hand it to people it doesn't belong to? Does it let one citizen do to another through the government what he'd be arrested for doing himself?

00:09:44.060 That's the whole test.

00:09:45.760 Could you do that yourself?

00:09:48.600 If the answer is no, because you'd go to prison for it, then you can't assign that.

00:09:54.120 You don't have the right to do it, so you cannot assign that right to the government.

00:09:59.700 That's the whole test.

00:10:01.660 And notice what it's not.

00:10:03.340 What it's not is you're a bad person. 0.98

00:10:06.060 You're a communist.

00:10:06.900 Do you own a Che poster?

00:10:08.880 None of that.

00:10:09.920 It's just a mechanism.

00:10:10.980 you run it on a policy and the policy passes or it fails you can roll your eyes at the name

00:10:18.000 but not the test okay you can't roll your eyes at a mechanism so here's the new vocabulary as I see

00:10:24.380 it and I'd be interested in talking to anybody else who has a better idea but I think we need

00:10:30.540 to redefine a few things first four words and I'll show you I'll show you why each one's work

00:10:36.300 First, the machine itself, the politics of plunder.

00:10:41.860 You use this for the act, the transfer, the seizure, the confiscation that's dressed up as compassion.

00:10:48.360 It's the politics of plunder.

00:10:49.880 It's the politics of thievery, theft.

00:10:53.340 It works because it drags the fight off of feelings and off of the field of politics and into facts.

00:11:00.540 You're not accusing anybody of secret ideology.

00:11:04.360 You're not pointing and saying, look, there's so much of communists.

00:11:07.300 What you're pointing to is what this proposed law would do in daylight and say, let's run the test on that.

00:11:14.180 Because this seems like the politics of plunder, the politics of thievery, of theft.

00:11:20.000 Second, the men who run it, they're not politicians.

00:11:25.380 They're confiscators.

00:11:27.980 The confiscation class.

00:11:29.800 This one works because it defines a man by what he does, not by what he feels. 0.99

00:11:36.360 He's a dirty commie. 0.98

00:11:37.600 No. 0.99

00:11:38.740 His job is to confiscate those things that are not his.

00:11:42.620 I can't see his heart.

00:11:44.380 I can see your voting record.

00:11:46.180 Are you voting for the confiscators?

00:11:48.620 A confiscator is anybody whose answer to every problem on God's green earth is the same.

00:11:54.580 Take more from somebody else, not me, but from somebody else, and let the state decide who deserves it.

00:12:03.520 You're confiscating property.

00:12:06.820 Now, I don't have to prove that person loves Stalin.

00:12:10.960 I only have to show you that his hand is in somebody else's pocket.

00:12:15.200 The third is the worldview underneath all of this, and that's the taker's creed, the thief's creed.

00:12:22.520 There are only two ways to get things in the world.

00:12:25.360 There's just two.

00:12:26.560 You can make it.

00:12:27.520 You can grow it.

00:12:28.380 You can trade for it.

00:12:29.300 You can earn it.

00:12:30.460 And that's the maker's way.

00:12:32.360 Or you can take it.

00:12:34.820 Whether it's you just being a thief or you've just given a right that you don't have yourself

00:12:41.780 and you've given that to the government and you've given it to a guy with a badge

00:12:46.220 and you call that taking that thievery fairness.

00:12:49.800 now it's really simple to see and none of it is political okay let me give you this a guy

00:12:57.240 a guy spends all summer raising a chicken he feeds it he sits up at night guarding it from the fox

00:13:04.200 he's built a fence around it he bought the food he frets over it like it's family because it's

00:13:09.520 feeding his family and then his neighbor who raised nothing didn't do anything all summer

00:13:15.500 risk nothing, lost no sleep

00:13:17.800 send some

00:13:19.880 guy that he has hired 0.97

00:13:21.480 over to your house and cuts the chicken

00:13:23.800 in half and says I'm taking half the bird

00:13:25.740 you're like wait

00:13:27.660 what, it's compassionate

00:13:28.880 no, no, it's theft

00:13:30.780 you don't have a right to do that

00:13:32.740 it says the man who produced

00:13:36.060 is suspect

00:13:37.140 and the man who redistributes it

00:13:39.200 is holy 0.53

00:13:40.280 that's insanity

00:13:42.260 say the inversion out loud

00:13:46.580 and people will feel it

00:13:48.240 because everybody listening knows in his bones

00:13:50.760 the difference between earning and taking

00:13:53.500 and here's the fourth one

00:13:56.580 the quietest, maybe the cruelest one

00:13:59.060 the architects of dependency

00:14:01.600 because this is where the road ends

00:14:06.060 plunder

00:14:08.300 if you take from the maker long enough what does he do and this is where this is where communism

00:14:18.180 fails all the time what happens you take from somebody who's a maker long enough what do they

00:14:23.760 do they either if they can get out of your country or they just stop making because why am i doing it

00:14:31.720 Why? Half or everything that I own, I can't own any property anymore.

00:14:37.440 I don't have anything that's mine.

00:14:39.300 Why am I doing anything?

00:14:41.040 I'll just stand in line with everybody else.

00:14:43.300 You feed the taker long enough.

00:14:45.840 You feed them, they forget how to feed themselves.

00:14:49.920 So you didn't rescue the poor man.

00:14:52.360 You built the poor man.

00:14:54.880 You designed him, and here's what's really nefarious about this.

00:14:58.340 You designed him to need you forever.

00:15:04.180 You've just made, I mean, you would be arrested if you did this in business.

00:15:09.140 You've just made a permanent client, a permanent patron, both of them mistaking the chain for a gift.

00:15:19.100 You've just enslaved them and they're thanking you for it.

00:15:23.260 Now your neighbor who votes for every bit of this, is he a monster?

00:15:28.340 no he's not dreaming of the gulag he sees a sick kid or a broke grandmother or a man who just lost

00:15:38.360 his job and thinks you know the strong should help the weak and they ought to that instinct is one of

00:15:43.860 the best things about humans that's what Jesus teaches us okay that you share Jesus never taught

00:15:51.880 that you take, you share.

00:15:56.020 But watch what the machine does

00:15:58.100 with a good intention once you feed into it.

00:16:02.180 And it's a number.

00:16:05.280 It's actually a number from a graveyard.

00:16:09.000 Scholars put together something called

00:16:10.620 Every Home Should Have This Book.

00:16:12.500 It's called The Black Book of Communism.

00:16:15.240 And it counted all of the dead

00:16:18.680 of the last century's communist regimes.

00:16:20.720 And it lands somewhere between 94 million and north of 100 million human beings.

00:16:27.280 Russia, China, Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba, 100 million.

00:16:33.900 Now, how do you kill 100 million people? 0.91

00:16:38.420 It's easy. It starts with a lie. 0.99

00:16:41.720 They died from a mechanism run all the way to the end.

00:16:46.600 Because the moment you grant the state can take from anyone to give to anyone else, you've torn down the only fence that ever protected a human being, a line around what is his.

00:16:57.680 Once that fence is down, there's no logical place to stop.

00:17:01.160 Not his property, not his farm, not his church, not his speech, not, in the end, his life.

00:17:07.440 The confiscators always start with your wallet because it's the easiest thing to justify what they're doing.

00:17:14.400 But the wallet was never the prize.

00:17:16.060 The wallet is just the first thing over the fence.

00:17:19.080 So I'd like to suggest we put the word communist down or at least use it sparingly.

00:17:26.780 The more we use that word, it's worn out and they know it.

00:17:31.040 Pick up the test instead.

00:17:33.160 Next time they roll out a program, don't shout communist.

00:17:36.140 Ask a question out loud.

00:17:38.320 Does this take from somebody what was his and hand it to somebody else that it never belonged to?

00:17:44.420 If it does, you don't have to guess at the heart or argue politics.

00:17:48.520 You know what you're looking at.

00:17:50.160 You're looking at the confiscators.

00:17:53.580 And now you have a new word that they actually have to think about

00:17:57.060 and not just laugh off or roll their eyes.

00:18:00.160 It's not a slur.

00:18:02.380 It's truth.

00:18:03.740 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:18:10.680 Oh, my gosh.

00:18:12.120 Oh.

00:18:13.720 Oh.

00:18:14.020 yesterday i mean i feel like we need a marching band what they did yesterday in the house is

00:18:20.700 remarkable no balance books no spending cuts next to bill protecting pizza crust they haven't gotten

00:18:30.800 to the pizza crust bill yet but they're going to uh don't panic don't panic everybody i know

00:18:35.620 everybody on the planet is saying geez what if we could get somebody to work on pizza crust but

00:18:40.100 They didn't get there yet, but what they did do yesterday, man, you know that whole fall back, spring ahead thing?

00:18:51.800 You may not have to, I don't know, watch my language carefully, you may not have to worry about that anymore.

00:18:58.460 Did I say you don't have to worry about that anymore?

00:19:01.380 No, no, I didn't say that.

00:19:03.240 I said you may not.

00:19:04.580 You know why I said you may not? 1.00

00:19:06.020 Because the Senate is probably not going to pass this worthless piece of crap. 0.99

00:19:13.760 So the House, oh man. 0.99

00:19:17.900 I just, I just love, I just love our Speaker of the House.

00:19:22.840 I love the non-Speaker of the House.

00:19:26.140 I, I, I, I love the, the House protocol guy.

00:19:31.940 I like all the House members.

00:19:34.000 I like the houses that the House members live in.

00:19:37.280 I just love them so much because did they take care of, you know, anything to do with voting?

00:19:44.360 No, no, no, no, no.

00:19:49.340 Well, they did compromise on that.

00:19:54.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:19:55.800 You know, there were a few that were standing up and they were like,

00:19:59.320 It's not going to happen. We're going to shut down everything in the House until they pass the Save America Act.

00:20:07.660 But our great Speaker of the House, and I don't know who else was involved, but they all got together and they said, wait a minute, wait a minute, let's compromise.

00:20:17.520 Let's just throw that into something else that the Senate's not going to pass.

00:20:21.680 And then we can spend the day fixing daylight savings time.

00:20:28.680 Is there anything better?

00:20:30.940 They were close.

00:20:32.420 They rang the bell.

00:20:34.140 Voter ID.

00:20:35.220 Maybe after hell.

00:20:38.620 All right.

00:20:43.540 All right.

00:20:44.420 Man.

00:20:45.940 I need a marching band all the time for them.

00:20:50.080 Seriously.

00:20:51.280 Because every time they do something, it's like, I need a marching band.

00:20:56.200 Because they have accomplished so much.

00:20:57.880 Let me just go over some of the accomplishments that have happened in the House and the Senate.

00:21:03.040 In the last two years, they have, they have.

00:21:18.060 Okay, I can't think of anything that they've actually done, but I know they've done something.

00:21:22.600 and maybe next time now i can't promise this is going to happen before the election

00:21:28.960 but can you imagine the magic if they could actually name a post office at

00:21:37.340 this session i mean before we all go to vote if they could name a post office i'd be like

00:21:45.000 wow i've got to vote for these guys why you're not with the republicans did you hear what they

00:21:50.720 just did daylight savings time of course the senate didn't do it but the house they had they

00:21:56.680 had the courage to say no we're not gonna spring ahead or fall back none of that stuff they had

00:22:02.720 that courage and then they went and they went all the way to the wall to name a post office

00:22:09.320 wow

00:22:11.960 but at least

00:22:19.160 at least I have the satisfaction of hearing that while I'm in

00:22:24.360 California and being in California

00:22:28.340 when you hear about the spring ahead fall back daylight

00:22:32.300 savings time bill you think to yourself I got it made

00:22:36.060 i got it made so let's see what else is happening by the way can we get annalina

00:22:46.780 uh annaluna paulina on with us i'd like to talk to her i know we've we reached out to her office

00:22:52.060 i just want to know what happened here what happened because i mean i really like her and

00:22:59.640 i trust her and you know she was like we're not gonna move anything and i didn't nobody saw the

00:23:05.280 daylight savings time coming nobody saw that one coming i didn't even know that was in the lineup

00:23:10.140 had i known that was in the lineup i would have said anna anna are you you're not enough you're

00:23:15.080 not gonna you're not gonna hold up the daylight savings time thing are you and she would have

00:23:20.740 of course said no no no no no i don't mean the daylight savings time thing i just mean all the

00:23:25.500 other stuff we can't it's it's you know when you're doing triage on the country you're like 0.59

00:23:32.100 okay you're hemorrhaging to death here you're hemorrhaging to death here you've got communists

00:23:36.340 over here and you're hemorrhaging over here what do you want to tackle first i don't know daylight 0.51

00:23:42.960 savings time yeah yeah yeah so they took the uh they took the uh save america act and they've

00:23:54.680 decided in the house that what they're going to do is they're going to tuck it into another bill

00:23:59.500 a must pass bill

00:24:02.380 the Senate will never see this coming

00:24:06.220 shh, keep it to yourself

00:24:08.520 so they're going to put it in another bill

00:24:12.740 that they have to pass

00:24:14.780 and if we all keep it to ourselves

00:24:17.720 they're not going to pull that part of the bill out

00:24:22.800 okay, they won't do it

00:24:24.920 they won't do it

00:24:25.820 because they won't know

00:24:28.160 Because you don't know.

00:24:29.220 I didn't know.

00:24:30.140 Did you know about the daylight savings time thing?

00:24:32.240 I didn't even know that was even a possibility.

00:24:34.220 And boom, like magic, they passed that.

00:24:39.040 So what they're going to do is they're going to put it in there,

00:24:42.680 and then the senators will all vote to pass it because it's a must pass.

00:24:47.100 And then we'll go, ha-ha, caught you.

00:24:49.540 You just passed the Save America voter ID bill.

00:24:53.260 And they'll say, what?

00:24:54.320 This is an outrage.

00:24:55.640 What happened?

00:24:56.460 how did that thing happen and then we'll all laugh and thune will be there like ha ha ha i was on

00:25:04.360 your side the whole time or or it will just go to the senate and thune and his cronies will pull it

00:25:13.600 out they'll pass the must pass bill without any of that and then we'll have the satisfaction of

00:25:21.240 being able to stand there and go see it was soon that did it oh man that's gonna feel so good

00:25:29.000 they're gonna follow it up with with naming a post office i'm telling you that's the plan

00:25:36.900 that's the plan republicans i don't know why you're losing i really don't i don't know why

00:25:45.860 i don't know why almost every single republican i know like i can't vote for these people anymore

00:25:50.940 I don't know why that's happening.

00:25:52.960 You respond to the people.

00:25:55.020 You really do.

00:25:56.900 It's so satisfying.

00:25:59.360 When I heard the daylight savings time, honestly, I turned the lights down and I lit a candle because it was like conservative porn.

00:26:07.660 I'm like, oh, man, we could balance the budget.

00:26:10.000 We could do so many things.

00:26:11.160 But the daylight savings time, oh, yeah, I'm not going to have to spring forward or fall back.

00:26:20.940 Man. I got a date with myself and that bill on Friday. That's a hot date, I'll tell you that.

00:26:32.280 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:26:36.840 Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. You know, I didn't get a chance on Monday to talk about

00:26:41.980 the CNBC best states, worst states to live in in the country. Now, CNBC, this is a business

00:26:50.760 a business network, okay?

00:26:54.900 And they are ranking now the top 10 worst states to live in for 2026.

00:27:02.020 And they say they are placing increased emphasis on quality of life,

00:27:07.820 one of the 10 categories of competitiveness in our annual America's Top States

00:27:13.200 for business studies, okay?

00:27:15.860 for business it's our annual ranking of every state's business climate now in its 20th year

00:27:23.380 okay all right let me just go through a couple of them um oklahoma one of the worst places to live 0.76

00:27:31.760 here's what they said oklahoma imposes one of america's strictest bans on abortion

00:27:38.120 what does that have to do with business state ranked 40th for worker protections what do they

00:27:46.660 mean by workers protection they mean the right to organize for a labor union i don't know the

00:27:54.260 businesses that love labor unions okay uh let's see alabama same thing uh weaknesses worker

00:28:04.260 protections health and inclusiveness okay i mean they get into some real hell holes you know real

00:28:12.000 hell hole like do i need to even say more than utah what a hell hole that place is texas oh man

00:28:21.340 people can't get out of texas fast enough indiana with just 779 licensed child care facilities in

00:28:28.940 a state of nearly 7 million people indiana finishes at the bottom for child care availability

00:28:33.200 on a per capita basis.

00:28:35.000 What's available is expensive,

00:28:36.300 eating up 15% of the median income for household,

00:28:39.280 blah, blah, blah.

00:28:40.220 Quality of life score.

00:28:42.160 The strength is crime, low on crime,

00:28:45.280 weakness, childcare, air quality, and health.

00:28:49.520 Texas, I love this.

00:28:51.000 While Texas continues to lead the nation

00:28:52.940 in attracting workers,

00:28:54.860 oh, I don't know.

00:28:56.160 It's not just the workers that are moving to Texas.

00:28:58.900 It's the business.

00:29:00.000 You'd have all the workers in the world

00:29:01.460 If you didn't have businesses moving in, you'd have a lot of unemployment there.

00:29:06.080 But those workers are finding a broad array of challenges when they get there.

00:29:12.120 The Lone Star State has America's highest rate of people without health insurance at 16.7%.

00:29:17.580 Now, you don't think that that might have something to do with, oh, I don't know, open borders?

00:29:23.760 You think maybe that percentage might be up because of the open borders?

00:29:28.900 The quality of life score is 78 out of 290 points because of child care air quality.

00:29:37.820 That's one of the reasons, the strengths that they have.

00:29:40.240 The weakness is health, crime, border, inclusiveness, worker protections. 0.97

00:29:47.240 It's a right to work state and reproductive rights.

00:29:50.300 Now, let me just go through this. 1.00

00:29:52.960 Health, I guess you have to have healthy workers.

00:29:56.220 Crime, you need crime.

00:29:57.480 You're going to have a problem doing business if crime is everywhere, but that's apparently a weakness.

00:30:05.000 Now, where would that be a weakness?

00:30:06.480 It would be a weakness on the border, or I would assume you would be saying, let's say, Austin, which is a blue city,

00:30:18.180 Houston, which is a deeply blue city, or Dallas, which is also a deeply blue city.

00:30:24.220 inclusiveness okay and worker protections and reproductive rights i gotta tell you

00:30:31.780 at the office as a businessman because i just i just want so many of my workers just to have

00:30:39.740 abortions and all of the women that work for me they're like glenn i can't work in texas i can't

00:30:45.180 get an abortion and i'm like right and that is so important to all of us here doing our jobs

00:30:51.100 uh america worst place to live tennessee is one of them why inclusiveness it's not the only area

00:31:00.200 where the volunteers of state falls short but uh they make no apologies for a rash of state laws

00:31:08.700 targeting the lgbtq plus community yeah the so-called bathroom law requiring transgender

00:31:16.360 people to use facilities designated for their sex at birth that's a target they're targeting people

00:31:22.740 no they're saying no we're protecting the women and the girls from creeps in the bathroom that's

00:31:31.800 what it is sorry i'm sorry you were assigned that hose at birth go into the hose room

00:31:39.560 The state also explicitly bars localities from adopting their own anti-discrimination ordinances.

00:31:48.760 To underscore the point, Lee signed a resolution designating June.

00:31:52.740 This is why you don't want to live in Tennessee. 0.78

00:31:54.720 Designating June, Nuclear Family Month.

00:31:57.940 God, God. 0.80

00:31:59.800 You know what happens when you have a nuclear family? 0.98

00:32:03.240 Businesses fall apart. 1.00

00:32:04.820 You can't do business in a place where they're, you know what I mean?

00:32:07.860 You just can't.

00:32:09.560 you're gonna do business where the families are strong that's that's what i hate about utah

00:32:14.240 you know you go to utah oh what a hell hole that place is there are people who actually believe

00:32:19.720 in god and uh you know the family is strong you know it's crazy i hear people move into utah all

00:32:26.500 the time and they say you know it's so great here it is so great it's not like california

00:32:31.960 so great the families are so great and there there's so much to do for children because there's

00:32:38.200 so many kids out here. Uh, you know, the only problem is, oh, all these, all these religious 1.00

00:32:45.420 people, what do you think gave you the children and the families? Oh, so anyway, I decided I was 1.00

00:32:56.900 going to put in my own recommendations and this is just for, I'm trying to think of, you know,

00:33:03.020 because we often, we have a very big blue state audience, huge blue staters.

00:33:10.380 They listen to this audience.

00:33:12.540 Blue staters in this audience, probably 99% of the audience.

00:33:16.180 And so I thought, I'm going to help them out.

00:33:17.920 I'm going to help them out.

00:33:19.080 And so I made a list, you know, based on a couple of different standards.

00:33:24.140 For instance, I'm going to give you maybe, you know, three lists here.

00:33:27.160 The first one, if you're looking for a state that has the fewest people that believe in God,

00:33:31.920 the highest concentration of Hamas supporters

00:33:35.220 and the lowest marriage rates 0.75

00:33:38.400 oh and no state is complete

00:33:41.300 you got to have fewest people that believe in God 1.00

00:33:44.140 you don't want any of those dirty religious people 1.00

00:33:46.560 you got to be surrounded by a bunch of people who love Hamas 1.00

00:33:50.840 they don't stick to that

00:33:53.880 old idea of marriage

00:33:56.580 but they're also overly educated 0.67

00:33:59.820 these are the best states for you

00:34:02.440 Massachusetts, number one.

00:34:04.620 Number two, New York.

00:34:06.720 I mean, Columbia, ground zero for the encampments, you know?

00:34:10.940 So Vermont, least religious state in America,

00:34:14.500 and one of the lowest marriage rates.

00:34:17.500 But the great thing is education levels far above, you know,

00:34:22.220 where you would think Vermont, because it's rural. 0.96

00:34:26.380 You'd think that they'd just be a bunch of dummies, but they're not. 0.98

00:34:29.860 They're overeducated. 0.97

00:34:31.120 And that's why they're the least religious state and the lowest marriage rates in the country. 0.87

00:34:37.800 That's what you're looking for.

00:34:38.820 You're looking for Vermont.

00:34:40.320 And, of course, California or Washington state, bottom five in religious affiliation, top 10 in advanced degrees, you know, and sustained activism at the University of Washington.

00:34:52.880 So you've got that whole thing wrapped up.

00:34:55.280 Just live in Seattle because that's not a hellhole.

00:34:59.000 Now, if you're looking for a different kind of place, 0.94

00:35:01.920 maybe you're looking for a place with the most morbidly fat people, you know? 0.95

00:35:07.540 People who are so fat, you're like, they're going to die in the next 10 minutes. 0.99

00:35:10.700 And you're looking for fat people who can't read and the weakest labor force, 0.99

00:35:16.100 these are the five states for you. 0.96

00:35:17.440 West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Nevada.

00:35:21.940 Now, Nevada at number four is really, because of the unemployment rates, only behind D.C. and California.

00:35:31.520 Plus, roughly one in four adults lack basic literacy.

00:35:36.980 So, Nevada makes it, obesity is only middling, you know, which keeps it out of the top three.

00:35:42.820 But they're being pushed from behind, if you will, by D.C. and California as a state.

00:35:49.020 Now, if you want to live in a place where it's super easy to find a drug dealer, and you want a lot of people living in tents, plus low test scores for your kids in school, and the most outrageously unreasonable housing costs, you need to live in New Mexico.

00:36:08.120 That's number one, okay?

00:36:11.160 Dead last in fourth grade math.

00:36:13.580 And it's a deeply blue state, so you're going to love it there.

00:36:16.140 um 16 points below the national national average in eighth grade math newsweek uh and and uh said

00:36:24.240 that it fell another 13 points in eighth grade math math from an already low base um and the

00:36:30.460 american enterprise institute say it is chronically top tier overdose rate and housing that's cheap on

00:36:37.940 paper but that's brutal because the incomes are so low but you're going to be able to find drugs

00:36:43.660 there okay nevada bottom tier schools las vegas housing market prices are far ahead you know of

00:36:51.120 what you can make there and it's a wide open corridor for fentanyl and meth so you got that

00:36:57.000 going for you number three is alaska but you gotta live in alaska i mean it's beautiful and

00:37:02.720 everything but i hear it gets cold number four is oregon so again if you're looking for drugs

00:37:10.180 I mean, an easy way to get drugs.

00:37:12.580 You've got to find a drug dealer.

00:37:13.720 You need them in 10 minutes.

00:37:15.680 Oregon's your place to be. 0.98

00:37:17.320 Homeless people living in tents. 0.99

00:37:18.900 Hello, Portland. 1.00

00:37:20.660 And low test scores in school but unreasonable housing costs.

00:37:25.240 Oregon.

00:37:26.140 And, of course, California.

00:37:28.500 California is great.

00:37:29.760 Now, honorable mention here, Arizona and Washington just miss this list.

00:37:34.960 but now let's just say you're the typical stereotypical blue stater and um it's so bad

00:37:45.880 and your lifestyle is just calling for just non-stop liquor stores and strip clubs and 0.99

00:37:51.840 casinos because you're a dirt bag and you're like i need to be surrounded by strip clubs 0.98

00:37:57.420 liquor stores and casinos where do i go 0.97

00:37:59.940 well not to utah not to not to utah no no uh i couldn't actually i don't know why i couldn't

00:38:11.340 put together the list of the top 10 i could only do the bottom 10 i'm sorry the bottom five so

00:38:17.240 these are the places if you are looking for strip clubs you're looking for liquor stores and casinos

00:38:24.580 Here's where you don't want to live.

00:38:25.720 You don't want to live in Hawaii, which surprised me, honestly.

00:38:29.120 You'd think there'd be a lot of that because I don't know if you know this.

00:38:32.060 You know, it's like when you're in a car chase in Hawaii.

00:38:34.040 Where are you going?

00:38:35.060 The freeway is a circle.

00:38:37.440 I mean, you're just going to end up in the same place.

00:38:39.320 Why don't you just block it?

00:38:40.580 Because you're coming back eventually.

00:38:43.140 You know, there's not a lot to do on the guy.

00:38:44.780 I mean, unless you're an outdoorsy person or you want human sacrifice in a volcano.

00:38:49.020 It's probably the number one place to human sacrifice, you know, in a volcano.

00:38:53.900 So no legal casinos there, no lottery, you know, casino.org, none of that.

00:39:02.120 They won't even let cruise ships fire up the slots in state waters.

00:39:07.340 You know, what's weird, though, is it's not like cruise ships.

00:39:10.740 If you have a casino in Hawaii, on a cruise ship, you can't pull into port. 0.92

00:39:15.500 But if you're on a gay cruise, unlike the people who are really shocked, 0.83

00:39:20.400 uh there were these gay cruises that were that were going to um egypt no turkey sorry turkey 0.73

00:39:28.200 and it was a gay cruise and they were shocked when they pulled in and uh turkey 0.60

00:39:35.060 because therefore you know i'm sure a lot of the people on board were like hey i'm with hamas

00:39:40.500 you know they love gay people uh and so they they pull into the uh they pull into the to the dock and

00:39:49.420 they were shocked and horrified

00:39:51.920 that there were places in the 0.72

00:39:53.660 Middle East that don't accept gay people, 0.96

00:39:56.160 even a ship of gay people. 1.00

00:39:58.700 You know? What kind of country 0.99

00:39:59.660 is that? It's

00:40:00.700 rather amazing. There was somebody also that

00:40:03.580 moved to Sweden. They were transgender

00:40:05.700 and they were like, I gotta get out of America 1.00

00:40:07.800 because it's so hateful. So they moved

00:40:09.720 to the glorious land of Sweden

00:40:11.400 and now they're realizing, wow,

00:40:13.500 they're bringing in a lot of people

00:40:15.560 that are not Swedish and they 1.00

00:40:17.640 don't like transgender and now they feel that their life is at stake so they're moving back 0.81

00:40:22.320 to the evil united states it's weird a lot of lessons being learned a lot of lessons being 0.99

00:40:30.120 learned but those are the states that you should live in you know if you're looking for those

00:40:33.840 things and you're welcome cnbc i did the work for you uh so you know if you're looking to start a

00:40:39.880 business and you're a liquor store or a casino or a strip club don't start in hawaii utah alabama

00:40:45.980 south carolina or idaho because they're not they're not interested in any of that and there's

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