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00:00:33.260 by the way back on monday we get into uh biden's continuing issues with his cognitive decline and

00:00:40.360 how the media basically has made him a non-entity in in the news which is very strange andrew cuomo's 0.97

00:00:46.840 daughter has come out as demisexual and if you don't know what that means you're a hate monger 0.98

00:00:52.080 we we hate you everyone hates you but you're the hate monger somehow i can't remember i don't know 0.99

00:00:58.520 exactly how that works but we will tell you what a demisexual is if you don't happen to know and we 0.99

00:01:04.400 look at the war in afghanistan what's the right way to think about it and did we do the right thing 0.79

00:01:09.200 sort of just in the cover of night leaving and leaving a giant airbase empty questionable pat what

00:01:16.840 you said questionable okay okay good we did say good luck to him on the way out though good luck

00:01:21.320 they didn't hear us because they were nowhere in the area because we didn't tell them we're leaving

00:01:24.820 but that's probably okay that's that's fine maybe we left a note like a sticky note maybe hey good

00:01:30.160 luck guys uh even though the taliban now has already a third of the country what could possibly go wrong 0.91

00:01:36.700 here's the bucket you're listening to the best of the blend back program

00:01:49.340 one quick point here on the vaccines and the fact that the media obviously doesn't care about getting

00:01:57.940 people vaccinated yeah this door-to-door thing is ridiculous ridiculous and that's going to push

00:02:02.020 people from away from the vaccine you show up at the door with a needle i'm sorry i don't know where

00:02:09.240 that's been i don't want anything to do with it see you later yeah bye-bye now one thing you could do

00:02:14.820 is i think and they don't they're not doing this so far but like you could just get the vaccines to

00:02:20.640 people's doctors right one of the one of the issues like i had a friend who was thinking about

00:02:26.320 getting the vaccine they hadn't gotten it yet and they went to a doctor's appointment and the doctor

00:02:29.900 was like look you should get it like get the vaccine get it done i know it's annoying just get

00:02:33.260 it done and they were like all right what do i need to do and what they needed to do was leave

00:02:38.160 the doctor's office right and go on their phone and set up an appointment for four days later 0.77

00:02:44.420 and then drive over right then right like just get it get it in the hands of the freaking doctors who 0.99

00:02:48.580 people trust right like right you know their local doctor who's who's giving them the information

00:02:53.320 that's one thing another thing you could do and this is more applicable to what we're talking about

00:02:57.720 here which is if you actually care let's just say let's just come up with a mythical world

00:03:05.560 where the priorities of the media and the government was to say we want this pandemic to be over and we

00:03:13.860 want people to be vaccinated and the vaccines are great and we think this is the best thing that we

00:03:17.540 can do yeah we're going to put that above everything we're not going to obviously it's bigger than

00:03:20.820 politics right what you could do is have a uh a a concentrated effort to put a guy named donald trump

00:03:33.480 on television yeah and all over the media to talk about how much the vaccines are a success story can

00:03:40.620 you imagine what that would do yes it probably would make a big difference it would it would

00:03:45.320 influence millions of people who are supporters of his and remind them that hey he's the one that

00:03:50.560 got this going right it going through his it's his administration it's his accomplishment yes by

00:03:55.560 the way not biden's donald trump got the vaccine yep i listened to donald trump on the clay travis and

00:04:02.420 buck sexton show they're in the rush limbaugh time slot and they had the president of the united

00:04:07.080 states on the air former uh former sorry i should say you're right former president of the united

00:04:11.460 states and jeffy by the way thank you chewing the fat podcast joins us here just a believer i mean

00:04:15.940 joe biden got more votes than anyone my friend he's the president of the united states of america

00:04:21.820 but like you take the former president and and i was listening to him talk about the vaccines he

00:04:27.560 sounds exactly the same way he did during the campaign a huge part of his his re-election campaign

00:04:33.680 was hey we're getting these vaccines done and a huge part of his legacy is having gotten the

00:04:38.940 vaccine done yeah in the time frame he said yes it would get done yeah which is incredible and as he

00:04:45.160 pointed out again the entire media said it was impossible and he was lying about it right okay

00:04:51.060 so let's just say like i know you have this ban on the president i know you can't bring him on when

00:04:56.180 asking him about denouncing white supremacy or whatever weird thing you feel like you have to do

00:05:00.800 every time he comes on how about don't do any of that how about have a nice softball interview

00:05:05.740 where you say to donald trump hey guess what don it would work uh yes it would mr president you came

00:05:11.400 up you were you were able to shepherd these think about this approach if cnn was on the air if if ever

00:05:16.980 if all the news networks and and the president of the united states went and said you know what mr

00:05:22.280 president we have a lot of disagreements but look you did an incredible thing here where you push

00:05:27.200 these things through you were able to make a uh create an environment where things occurred that have

00:05:32.880 never occurred in human history that you have wiped out uh with these vaccines we could wipe this

00:05:41.100 pandemic off the planet and you're the guy who shepherded that process through instead what they've

00:05:46.540 done is say there was no plan there was no plan at all we had no idea we came in here there's boxes

00:05:52.380 of vaccines they didn't they were even going to be mailed like they just completely lied because they

00:05:58.140 wanted to win politics more than they cared about whether people lived or died and they could that

00:06:02.460 is the truth ignore everything that happened before and just say uh here's donald trump donald trump

00:06:07.540 helped get this thing done and donald trump what do you think about the vaccines and he could just do

00:06:12.380 it and they don't have to say anything about it they don't have to go backwards they don't have to

00:06:16.220 talk about january 6th go forward they don't have to talk about what you just said that would never

00:06:20.500 happen biden could never say that not in a million years it would not happen neither could one single soul

00:06:26.120 on cnn they couldn't even bring themselves like let donald trump come in there and say you know

00:06:30.820 what you guys lied about me the entire time and these vaccines were a success and you guys were wrong

00:06:35.860 and let him say every terrible thing because obviously you care about people getting the vaccine

00:06:40.840 about getting it right yeah you care about the fact so you know they don't you're gonna put the

00:06:45.000 pandemic above your personal pride right guys except no they're not not a chance even consider it

00:06:51.640 and you you played his you know we continue to play clips of joseph robinette biden struggling yes uh to

00:07:00.160 say anything and i see where there's a new uh study done a new survey of a thousand likely voters

00:07:05.900 from the convention of states and uh the trafalgo group 56.5 percent of american voters do not believe

00:07:14.240 that president biden is fully executing his duties in office wow that's amazing okay 56

00:07:21.620 and a half percent again of american voters you can't get to 56 and a half with just democrats

00:07:26.420 guys no you can't you can't do that no you cannot no it's just just republicans so that's not just

00:07:31.860 republicans saying yeah he's not fully executing it's that's democrats republicans independence

00:07:37.340 i'd like to know because i'll bet you know there's a huge portion of uh i don't know you know

00:07:45.860 there's a lot of jeffies out there who i don't know i don't know so what is it like 56.5 to 20

00:07:52.720 to 19 who think he's fully executing his job his responsibility uh does it say 36.4 percent believe

00:08:01.660 he is directing all policy and 36 that's higher than i would have guessed 31.7 percent democrat voters

00:08:08.320 do not believe that's incredible i know wow i know that's you know eight you got 83.6 percent of

00:08:17.660 republican voters that don't believe he's doing it i would say that's a little low yeah i mean that

00:08:22.580 seems a little low and 58 a little over 58 percent of independent voters do not believe he's fully

00:08:29.240 executing that's remarkable i mean and i don't see how you come to another conclusion other than you just

00:08:34.400 you know you you're hoping you're a democrat you voted for him you're hoping right like or you just

00:08:39.880 watch cnn which doesn't cover any of it you know you only that's true in your little sphere all you

00:08:45.720 see is what reinforces your point of view and if that's what you do then you don't understand that

00:08:51.500 the guy is in serious cognitive decline yeah i mean no question i mean he does not wearing his pants

00:08:56.980 backwards uh like uh the previous president donald trump but he could barely been disproven by the way

00:09:03.900 i mean he's just struggles every day and i would say that uh you know you talked about the notes in

00:09:10.760 his in his jacket pocket being the same i don't know doesn't he carry the names of all the you know

00:09:16.700 the names of dead soldiers and the oh that's what he claimed yeah the deaths of the coronavirus in the

00:09:23.240 one pocket so he didn't seem to have that in either pocket though i don't know uh it seemed like the

00:09:28.960 other note he didn't mention he didn't he didn't pull the first one out and go oh these are the

00:09:33.100 numbers that i carry with me every day no no he did not mention that so it's probably the exact

00:09:38.940 same note i'm sure it is sad also uh dreams do come true uh here as long as we're doing a little

00:09:47.660 chewing the fat segment i want you to know dreams do come true michaela kennedy cuomo 23 came out on

00:09:53.860 instagram and you know the daughter of your man you know you love him andrew cuomo andrew cuomo is

00:09:59.820 awful dot com yes uh is his last name dot com i think it is it must be every time i hear andrew

00:10:06.780 cuomo is his middle name and then dot com yeah andrew cuomo is awful dot com that's the way it

00:10:12.580 works all right she uh she came out last month as queer but now really yeah now has declared 1.00

00:10:20.940 herself uh demisexual wait hold on because i i thought also she had come out previously do you have

00:10:26.660 the whole transition i do okay walk us through this because this is pretty interesting okay so

00:10:30.600 in elementary school uh she feared that she was lesbian and that's the way she phrased it wait she

00:10:36.380 feared i don't know why she feared it what kind of hate monger is this person yeah that is the way

00:10:41.340 she phrased it she feared so you have to assume that i guess before that she was either straight

00:10:46.360 or nothing right right she's a little kid elementary school so she hits elementary school and she's like

00:10:50.900 oh my gosh i'm terrified i might be i might be lesbian okay right wow and a lot of kids in

00:10:56.440 elementary school think in those terms a lot of kids are like i think i might be a lesbian 0.95

00:11:01.060 happens all the time very common then in middle school middle she came out to family and close 0.94

00:11:06.180 friends as bisexual okay so there's the third thing that she she is she's bisexual in elementary

00:11:12.020 school then when she was in high school high school she discovered pansexuality okay pansexual 0.97

00:11:17.900 she has sex with every that's the flag for me no i think pansexual if i understand it correctly 0.99

00:11:23.780 and jeffy i know you'd probably be the expert on this but let me attempt it pansexual means that 0.99

00:11:28.300 basically you don't care about whether it's a guy or a girl like you're just gonna like whatever

00:11:32.900 whatever if you meet someone you like them you go for it you don't think about it you're not

00:11:36.760 attracted to either one but that's almost anything right and now she recently learned it's not

00:11:40.940 limited to just men or women i i think right right right but we're bisexual you're you're you're you

00:11:47.440 are attracted to both yes pansexual is you're not necessarily attracted to either it's just you're

00:11:52.820 just attracted to the the individual and you're not necessarily not attracted to everything either

00:11:58.060 right so you might be attracted to absolutely everything or nothing or nothing or nothing or

00:12:05.400 nothing you can't be pinned we should point out that a lot is queer yeah okay okay now what difference

00:12:10.220 what is now she's demisexual demisexual which is high sexual what is demisexual that is uh people 1.00

00:12:17.680 only feel sexually attracted to someone when they have an emotional bond i think this is interesting

00:12:24.260 because i think i'm demisexual right i think i think demisexual is the way we're supposed to be

00:12:30.480 right yes now i think like when you talk about sexual attraction i can look at uh you know some

00:12:37.600 movie star and say wow she's hot right without having an emotional bond with her yes right or he 1.00

00:12:44.540 in my i'm saying in my particular case okay i might say but like i i so you she's saying you can't be

00:12:51.720 attracted visually you can only be attracted via emotional bond right so i it's not exactly the

00:12:59.120 way that i think uh everybody is but it's a good element of a relationship i think now this is where

00:13:04.260 her dreams have actually come true because she said in this interview that she has always dreamed

00:13:08.720 of a world in which nobody will have to come out me too oh my gosh you guys i think the dream is

00:13:15.480 that's my aspiration you've arrived you've arrived you don't have to worry about it anymore she claims

00:13:21.580 that nobody has to come out because everybody's sexuality will be assumed fluid that's a different

00:13:28.360 formulation in a world in the world that we live in now it force feeds cisgender heterosexuality 0.99

00:13:35.440 coming out of the closet is a lifelong process of unpacking internalized social constructions and

00:13:43.540 how many times have i said exactly the same thing how many times i can't if i've said it once

00:13:49.340 you said well that's the time you said it but i haven't so no but if i had said it once

00:13:55.940 this is why i keep hearing this mainly from the is that her the very warm uh videos produced by

00:14:03.860 giant corporations like procter and gamble yeah who say like love is love let us give you a two

00:14:09.500 minute pride video about that yes and at the end of one of these i watched last week it said like we

00:14:14.420 just want to get to this point where we don't need to talk about this anymore we're just you know

00:14:17.780 you've arrived congratulations you you know because they say like oh well we we wanted to come out

00:14:23.780 and and then we realized people were going to be judging us and obviously that means evil

00:14:28.980 conservatives like us right that would be judging us here's the thing we're not judging you we don't

00:14:34.020 want to hear about it we don't need to hear about it you can do whatever you want to do on your own

00:14:36.960 i don't want to hear word one about it and you've arrived at this incredible world you desire this

00:14:42.400 oasis that you've been trying to get to this entire time where you just don't have to tell anybody

00:14:47.600 about it we don't have to hear about it don't feel like you have to tell us we don't need to know

00:14:51.720 i'm sorry if we if we conveyed to you that we wanted to hear about this stuff

00:14:55.460 that's our mistake again we we don't i know we don't we never did dreams do come true

00:15:00.860 by the way they do come true every day on chewing the fat with jeffy

00:15:06.420 you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program

00:15:12.340 raytheon another gigantic american corporation that is involved in uh critical race theory

00:15:30.120 or crt as we call it for short and uh apparently they're they're taking their white employees to

00:15:36.480 school so that's great that's great you could tell that the left is not enjoying the way this

00:15:43.580 is playing out because they're doing all the typical things that people on the left do in

00:15:47.840 these situations which is deny it's not really what we mean you're using the term incorrectly

00:15:53.480 uh it's not really happening these things that you say are so bad when their former position was

00:16:00.420 these things are not bad these are good yeah right now they're realizing the pushback i think from

00:16:04.740 the american people they've run up against that wall a little bit with this stuff and so they're

00:16:08.800 saying things like well it's not really critical race theory it's just intersectionality

00:16:13.740 they're very closely related as we as we all know intersectionality essentially would be an

00:16:20.340 element that is required to discuss critical race theory right well for instance have you

00:16:26.140 confronted your privilege yet have you confronted it i have you have yep okay yeah and confronting it

00:16:34.420 uh it ran the other way it did yeah it would so you don't have your privilege i don't i've

00:16:39.260 chased it scared it away you scared it away yep that's how you do it when you confront it

00:16:42.860 you just got to confront it come out from behind a door or something when it's walking it's like

00:16:46.800 maybe it's on its phone yeah and then you jump out you make a really loud noise and it runs away

00:16:50.440 oh okay and then you don't have any more privilege good all right that's how it works okay so you

00:16:56.040 identified and scared away your privilege uh have you stepped aside for minority voices yet

00:17:01.720 you need to step aside no no you haven't done that i'm not going to step aside really for anybody

00:17:07.200 i'm going to uh well these minority voices though stew are more important than your own

00:17:14.300 so so you kind of need to step aside for them understanding what we're doing is encouraging

00:17:22.820 people to listen to to others based on their skin color yes now has there ever been

00:17:29.360 an example of this being utilized and turned out poorly has there ever yes really there's many

00:17:37.020 examples of that but we're ignoring those now oh we're going to ignore them yeah we're ignoring

00:17:41.180 okay good yeah because i i had this idea and it's been sort of foundational to me for quite a long

00:17:48.440 time which is never ever in your entire life make any decision based on skin color really never not

00:17:56.620 once not even not even one time in your life should you make any decision based on skin color old

00:18:02.720 think is what that is that's old think okay yeah not the appropriate way to go not appropriate anymore

00:18:07.700 got it no and by the way we should point out raytheon is our second largest defense contractor

00:18:13.320 yes they should be thinking about building giant missiles yes and planes but things that blow other

00:18:21.680 things up focus on that that's really important the intersectionality should not be the focus of

00:18:28.600 raytheon and why is it it's just so bizarre and we're supposed to reject according to raytheon

00:18:36.780 in their program they're telling employees to reject the notion of equality and instead strive for equity

00:18:45.760 yeah can you walk us through the difference between equality and equity stew sure again um as chris

00:18:53.900 ruffo who was initially reported this as he seems to be doing all the time raytheon explicitly instructs

00:18:59.720 employees to oppose equality defined as quote quote treating each person the same regardless of their

00:19:08.100 differences right reject that yeah that's old again old think instead is strive for equity which

00:19:15.460 quote focuses on the equality of the outcome end quote love that do you remember when like the

00:19:22.460 conservative attack against the left wing philosophy was to say hey they there we all want equality we

00:19:30.620 just want equality of opportunity they want equality of outcome and the left would be like what how dare

00:19:36.500 you say that that's not true that's not what we want now they admit it now they admit it it's exactly

00:19:41.880 what they want of course it's what they want and that's what equity is they this word which sounds

00:19:47.900 like the other word but is not the other word equality and equity are different things big time

00:19:52.740 and and so this is essentially marxism they're talking about because they want to guarantee the

00:19:58.700 outcome so or at least theoretical marxism of course marxism in reality has no such thing as equality of

00:20:05.560 outcome uh but except that everybody everybody comes out poorly everyone comes out poorly except

00:20:11.980 for the ruling class which has a pretty sweet life yep uh certainly different groups ask the uyghurs 0.89

00:20:17.980 if communism provides equality of outcome well you can't because they're in concentration oh yeah it's

00:20:24.720 difficult to get to them at this point uh they're in thousands of concentration camps spread throughout the

00:20:29.520 uh the country uh but yeah it does not actually provide such things but it is theoretically providing

00:20:34.580 providing those things chris ruffo writes finally in a collection of recommended resources the company

00:20:41.580 encourages white employees to quote defund the police and quote this is a defense contractor we

00:20:50.220 should defund the police i love this also quote participate in reparations huh decolonize your bookshelf

00:20:57.180 and something that i will personally guarantee that i will never ever in my life ever do

00:21:03.820 quote join a local white space now what is a white space yeah it seems to be a collection of white

00:21:13.840 people who talk about their whiteness that their whites why do i want to do that for example let

00:21:19.180 me just give you a theoretically all talk about how bad you are as white people well talk about your 0.61

00:21:24.340 whiteness and understand and think about your race all the time something like they used to have

00:21:27.740 these groups uh people wore hoods to the meetings um and uh they were great i'm sure uh robert bird was

00:21:34.780 a big member big proponent of local white spaces huh uh yeah that was uh something that uh that used

00:21:40.480 to happen among democrats all the time and now they want to bring it back isn't that wonderful

00:21:44.380 you know the democrats brought us the kkk and now we have local white spaces which are totally different

00:21:50.340 than the kkk in that they're also white people getting together to talk about the race all the

00:21:56.160 time i guess the fact that they're saying they're the bad race instead of another race being bad

00:22:01.800 is some sort of improvement but i would say not a concept worth revisiting not a fixable one you know

00:22:11.400 pat sometimes you get to the point where you're just like you know what let's not try it let's say

00:22:15.420 fascism let's not remix it and see what we can come up with and try it again let's just skip it

00:22:20.980 let's just rule it out kkk let's just rule it out let's just take it out let's not try to fix it

00:22:27.140 let's not try to come up with a different way of doing a local white space let's get rid of them 1.00

00:22:31.240 entirely sounds like the right approach to me yeah it does unbelievable and this is so constant right

00:22:39.280 now raytheon again this is not i don't know to use some example like starbucks

00:22:44.940 right like okay some left-wing organization some left-wing company i don't know some like

00:22:50.660 organic you know uh by local hemp salesman you know coming up with an org with a with a

00:23:00.160 with a seminar like this this is a freaking defense contractor yeah second largest in the in the

00:23:04.600 country after lockheed martin uh it's pretty amazing now one thing you should stay away from

00:23:10.380 first of all one thing you need to do pat i want to make sure we understand what you need to do

00:23:13.660 what you need to stay away from you need to according to the raytheon internal documents

00:23:17.580 you need to think about telling your think about telling your employees do this you have to quote

00:23:23.900 identify everyone's race now your employees if they spend a minute trying to identify every other

00:23:34.140 employees race what you should do with that employee is fire them immediately get them the hell out of 1.00

00:23:40.800 your company if you have employees that are taking time out of your work day to figure out and like

00:23:47.080 what document everyone's race pat has there ever been a historical example where a group of people

00:23:54.880 documenting others race has turned out poorly has that ever gone the wrong way like if you want to

00:24:03.740 make a giant list of people and try to figure out like i don't know what percentage black they are

00:24:09.460 what percentage jewish they are but let's just say in a theoretical world could that turn out poorly

00:24:17.160 oh wow i in the last 15 minutes i can't think of a situation like that if i was to go back maybe

00:24:30.380 i don't know into the sort of early to mid last century i could possibly think of a place or two where

00:24:39.380 maybe that occurred okay okay so there is maybe one but we shouldn't probably think about it and

00:24:44.500 learn anything from it right no okay no uh how about um you must listen to the experience of

00:24:50.180 marginalized identities and give those with such identities the floor on meetings or on calls even

00:24:56.820 if it means silencing yourself so let's say you have a really good idea for a missile okay but i you

00:25:03.600 know a um a mongolian person is in the room a mongolian american and they say you know what 0.93

00:25:09.600 i as a mongolian american am oppressed i believe the missiles should be shot with slingshots 0.94

00:25:15.960 let me have the floor for let's say an hour okay what you should do is silence yourself in your rocket 0.94

00:25:21.720 propulsion propulsion technology and say you know we got to go slingshots because look they are a

00:25:28.100 marginalized group and that's your job and that would be part of deconstructing my privilege 0.99

00:25:33.520 wouldn't it it would really and understanding how white male behavior is devastating to racial

00:25:38.700 minorities right and in that situation where you're you know you're you're suppressing your own idea for

00:25:45.420 theirs why uh you've done a good thing there yeah there you go done a good thing and i think we

00:25:52.020 could look at this at three different levels here pat right the level of like higher education

00:25:56.160 university teaching should critical race theory be discussed like i don't want my kid necessarily i

00:26:01.520 don't want to pay send my kid to a place where they're going to learn about that but you know

00:26:04.520 what academic discussion whatever you can do whatever you want shouldn't be banned certainly

00:26:08.340 although i wouldn't want to send my kid to a school that was doing it secondarily you have this

00:26:12.620 level right raytheon companies what i want to work at a company what do i want to invest in a company

00:26:18.540 what i want to uh if i was running a company do this sort of nonsense and teach critical race

00:26:25.680 theory or something similar to it to my employees i would say absolutely not should it be banned

00:26:30.680 no i mean i think if raytheon wants to freaking waste their their people's time with this nonsense

00:26:36.760 i don't think you can ban it you know we live in a country where people should be able to do these

00:26:41.060 things if they want to however horrible idea the next level though is the one we're talking about

00:26:48.020 more frequently which is should these be taught in public schools to k to 12 right and that should

00:26:54.260 that be banned sure it should absolutely should not be taught uh to kids k to 12 and and so the

00:27:00.360 the defense there from the left has been what this is what vox's framing of it was last week many

00:27:06.140 republican lawmakers cite critical race theory as a reason to ban discussions about racism in schools

00:27:10.460 first of all i've never heard that before i've never heard a republican say anything like that

00:27:14.680 no one says that they don't want to discuss racism in schools no one says they want to say you

00:27:19.460 know what let's present slavery positively i've never i went through the whole school system in

00:27:24.140 public schools never did i hear word one that racism was good never did i hear word one that uh

00:27:30.540 that uh slavery was kind of a positive never taught but they say the way they frame it is republicans

00:27:38.020 are trying to ban discussion of racism in schools which is not at all what's going on and then they

00:27:43.420 say though there's little evidence that the framework of critical race theory is even being taught

00:27:47.460 in k through 12 schools so it it's not a bad thing but even if it were being taught uh even if it

00:27:53.540 were a bad thing it's not actually being taught in k to 12 schools here are two stories from just the

00:27:58.220 past week the nation's largest teachers union has approved a plan to promote critical race theory in

00:28:06.180 all 50 states and 14 000 local school districts i does that sound like a k to 12 problem does does to

00:28:15.080 me ibram x kendi the guy who wrote anti-racist uh how to become an anti-racist and anti-racist baby

00:28:22.040 he is scheduled to speak wednesday at the american federation of teachers teach conference

00:28:28.700 this is absolutely a massive issue here and it should be thought about and it should be out of

00:28:38.140 our schools if we're going you want to have a you want to start your own private school where you teach

00:28:41.800 kids a critical race theory and kids pay their own money to go to it and blah blah blah that is

00:28:47.900 allowed in the united states of america even if we don't like it however public schools absolutely

00:28:52.720 not and skates absolutely have the right to put standards on what is taught in the curriculum of

00:28:58.060 their schools of course they do of course they do the federal government doesn't have much of a role

00:29:02.760 in it but the state government does and the local governments do even more and the idea that this

00:29:09.200 is just a non-issue because democrats find it to be unpopular and they realize they're on the wrong

00:29:14.040 side of the polls on it does not mean it goes away yeah 61 of americans don't want critical race

00:29:19.340 theory taught in their schools 61 you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program

00:29:28.560 so it's finally happened the pullout of afghanistan after a mere

00:29:48.520 20 years i mean is it too soon i don't think so i don't think so either i don't think so are

00:29:57.200 are we and are we the last of the coalition to still be there the british aren't there anymore

00:30:02.300 no yeah they're gone they've been gone for a while uh so it's just us it is just us well it was just

00:30:08.340 us i mean it's basically done now now it's the afghans heard a report this morning they're going to

00:30:13.040 keep a few hundred troops in the country mainly to protect the embassy you know which is sensible

00:30:20.180 right like if you have an embassy there with in a country if you're not going to keep them there

00:30:24.980 then you move the embassy you move the people out of the end yeah you just abandon the country all 1.00

00:30:29.560 entirely but if you're going to have an embassy there you should have troops there to protect the

00:30:33.360 people in it so we left the other day uh our our troops left bagram air air base uh basically in

00:30:41.860 the middle of the night and didn't tell the afghans that we were leaving so a group of people went in

00:30:48.740 and looted the place yep before the afghans got in there which is great now this is great a 14 square 0.98

00:30:54.880 mile air force base yes gigantic area uh and you know so they i guess what i guess what happened was

00:31:04.420 there were some rumors that were going to be i mean we all they they presented this in the media

00:31:09.060 they're like well ahead of schedule well trump had it scheduled for my for may so july would not be

00:31:17.900 ahead of schedule biden just said he just changed the schedule to september and then left in july 0.97

00:31:24.360 after the initial scheduling so like he this is how the how the left gets away with this crap with 0.50

00:31:30.240 the media i i'll never i'll never understand but i guess when you have someone who you're rooting for

00:31:36.700 it's a lot easier to justify such things but basically there were the rumor that they were

00:31:40.960 going to be leaving they just turned the lights out and everyone was like wait why did all the

00:31:44.220 lights go off over there we should just go over there and and see what's going on realize nobody was

00:31:48.980 there and there's like photos of people like carrying off cases of like red bull full you know like

00:31:53.940 energy drinks and stuff right bizarre bizarre circumstance and it's hard to imagine that

00:31:59.560 this turns out well yeah the the problem is the taliban will probably now just retake afghanistan

00:32:08.840 right that's what i expect to happen is that terrorists will just get back together and uh reclaim

00:32:15.620 reclaim reclaim reclaim the country but what would you do just stay there forever what's the alternative

00:32:23.440 yeah if you don't pull out and you we don't ever come home um and we leave troops there forever it

00:32:31.300 we probably could keep the taliban at bay but when you leave what can you do there's all sorts of 1.00

00:32:38.620 reporting where afghan troops are handing over weapons to the taliban the taliban now supposedly

00:32:45.120 but the best estimates are they control one-third of the country already as we're leaving i mean we've

00:32:51.880 basically just given up on this and and look you can make the argument that our mission should have

00:32:56.520 been more narrow and that mission was accomplished right i mean uh you know osama bin laden is dead

00:33:02.680 uh the al-qaeda is not really the force that it once was but you know our our mission was that was

00:33:09.120 the goal we could have left in 2011 yeah or a lot you know i mean osama bin laden specifically as an

00:33:17.340 individual was 2011 but i mean there was a massive damage to al-qaeda generally well before that yes uh i do

00:33:24.920 hesitate at times with this idea that we should judge a war by how long it goes on for you know

00:33:34.840 like first of all this has not been a war in the way that we think of warfare for a long time that's

00:33:43.900 true you mentioned earlier that is true pat late last hour that 13 people per year die from getting

00:33:50.880 hit by vending machines vending machines that fall over yeah right well in 2020 11 people died in

00:33:58.460 afghanistan for 11 11 less than the amount of people who die from vending machines falling over them

00:34:05.080 in the united states not to minimize of course the loss of our totally i mean like but i mean when you

00:34:11.180 look at the deaths that occurred several of them were motor vehicle accidents oh wow right uh there were

00:34:18.120 some that were attacked some of them were um attacks by afghan troops yeah that's the toughest

00:34:24.160 to take that's the toughest to take for sure i'm not saying any of these don't uh aren't crucial but

00:34:31.160 i mean like here we go non-hostile vehicle accident non-hostile incident non-hostile vehicle accident

00:34:37.800 rollover non-hostile non-hostile five yep um there here's a hostile hostile fire smart small arms file

00:34:45.700 green on green on green on blue attack so that was a by an afghan afghan right a troop yep same thing

00:34:52.140 for the next one um then a non-hostile aircraft crash six non-hostile aircraft cash uh crash and

00:35:00.280 then hostile fire ied attack so when you think about the four of them a traditional warfare attack

00:35:06.140 i'd say you would say one right i mean you wouldn't necessarily think off the top of your head of a

00:35:12.400 green on blue type of attack right but but you have to count all of these count obviously and you

00:35:17.660 know if you have a kid over there who died in an aircraft crash you're not going to feel any better

00:35:22.300 about it but that stuff happens in the united states yeah and we have aircraft crashes from military test

00:35:27.300 pilots in the united states that happen that's not to say that it's nothing it's something and i look we

00:35:33.840 have to at some point even if it's just for spending right reasons like you know you can't just spend

00:35:39.360 money maintaining another country forever but like to think of this as everyone's like this is

00:35:45.300 america's forever war i i can you look at a year like 2020 and say okay that's a war year remember

00:35:52.780 what's the what's the alternative of war what we used to do in war was yes the wars would end in three

00:35:59.100 to five years because hundreds of thousands if not millions of people were dead yeah you you fought

00:36:05.220 them full bore full on it was it it was uh it was just warfare yeah all the time it wasn't like okay

00:36:16.320 we're gonna we're gonna take this country and we're gonna maintain it yeah and then we're gonna we're

00:36:20.500 gonna get attacked every once in a while that's that's not what's i mean that's what's been happening

00:36:25.720 in afghanistan yeah for what 10 and 10 years at least maybe more than that i mean if you look at

00:36:32.760 the fatalities u.s fatalities in afghanistan really uh you had a peak the highest number was 2010 at

00:36:41.940 498 now again 498 was 10 minutes of a battle of previous wars yeah as sad as all of this is and

00:36:50.560 every loss of life is incredibly i mean you don't have to i don't have to sell this audience on the

00:36:55.160 fact that i you know we all care about our military members but war has changed in a way

00:37:01.800 that i think is positive even though you know there's not there's no longer necessarily these

00:37:09.380 days where you walk away with the parades and everything else i mean 498 was the peak in 2010

00:37:14.460 then it went to 415 310 128 and it's been under 100 since 2015 or 14 it was 55 22 then 13 15 14 24 11

00:37:24.400 then that was 2020 was 11 now again i went through those 11 only one of them is what you would think

00:37:31.000 traditionally of a of a war death a couple of others from friend allies that should have been

00:37:37.960 helping us and turned on us a couple of those that was it was three and the rest were non-hostile

00:37:42.040 events where you know car crashes airplane crashes things that were terrible but also not what you would

00:37:48.660 think of as a traditional war death um there did you happen to read the uh the latest malcolm

00:37:54.640 gladwell book of the bomber mafia by any chance it's really good i mean it's really really well

00:37:59.800 done and i like malcolm's stuff i mean it's always interesting to me but this is about basically the

00:38:04.380 idea of early the early air force where they decided we they their vision of what war could become

00:38:10.860 where they would drop guided bombs not just bombs that plastered an entire you know just denigrated an

00:38:17.600 entire civilian population without thinking about it their vision of trying to create the technology

00:38:22.120 that would allow us to target the military installations we wanted to hit and not just

00:38:26.800 carpet bomb societies and the one of the main proponents of this was in world war ii and was

00:38:34.260 and got to the point where he was leading the operations against japan from the air and eventually

00:38:42.160 lost his gig because they the technology wasn't really ready they didn't really have it ready and

00:38:47.080 they wound up changing to carpet bombing basically but you realize that like you know when we think

00:38:53.260 of japan obviously in world war ii we think of the atomic bomb so much was done with essentially napalm

00:38:59.860 type devices fire bombing uh these places because the way their their homes were built were very

00:39:05.780 vulnerable to fire and they were very close to each other and we were just you know dropping and there

00:39:10.620 was a lot of that during vietnam to clear away the jungle yeah exactly so but they were doing it to

00:39:15.800 clear away you know communities and how cities and and i'm not questioning these tactics in that like

00:39:21.640 this war needed to end and i'm glad that we dropped the atomic bomb i'm not like anybody who thinks the

00:39:26.860 opposite of that but like that was the the choice at the time it was like do you essentially kill a

00:39:33.860 hundred thousand people tonight in their homes essentially the equivalent of what we saw in miami right where

00:39:39.820 the entire building just catches on fire or collapses and everyone in it dies and do you do this over

00:39:46.540 multiple square miles every night for a year that was warfare yeah look afghanistan is is a different

00:39:54.460 situation and to sit here and say like you look at these years years do you have the total from the

00:40:00.120 the whole war it's something like four or five thousand right two thousand four hundred fifty two two thousand

00:40:05.900 that does not include this year by the way i have only up till 2020 here but 2452 now it's i think

00:40:11.120 the number you're thinking of is 3596 which was total coalition deaths uh so that includes the uk and

00:40:17.780 other 455 from the uk 689 total in all the other countries combined um iraq was 4910 total coalition

00:40:26.440 4586 u.s but again even iraq you look at iraq this is uh since 2012 2012 there was two deaths

00:40:34.920 for for the u.s 2004 i'm missing 2013 on my chart here but 2014 4 then 8 20 22 17 12 11 and again you

00:40:45.300 look at the details to them and many of them are the same sad situations vehicle accidents uh rollovers

00:40:51.440 uh non-hostile uh there are some that are hostile i mean these are still dangerous areas for sure but

00:40:58.560 i think judging a war what we should look at when we judge a war should be of course the

00:41:04.640 outcome did we stop people attacking us if that's why we went to war which in afghanistan i would 0.98

00:41:10.320 argue that was the reason we went and we stopped that and when we've seemed to accomplish interrupted

00:41:15.460 a lot of it and also the main thing is how many the most important thing to me is how many of our

00:41:20.720 service people do we lose not how long the war goes on yeah look the it's uncomfortable to say and

00:41:27.060 this is true that people who fought in who went to uh afghanistan after 9 11 have children who are now

00:41:34.840 serving in afghanistan or very recently it's hard to think in those terms but the fact if we could

00:41:40.300 return both of those people back here that's much more important than the timeline oh yeah and we have

00:41:47.080 changed warfare i mean people are dying a lot less in wars and that is good uh it is as much it's no

00:41:54.020 longer the the the uh the drain on human life that it once was at least not at the moment we can take

00:42:01.140 a little solace out of that

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