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In this episode of the Glenn Beck Program, Glenn explains why capitalism is not the boogeyman that should get all the blame, it is the way to fix what s broken in our own lives and our own families and points to the future for the youth.
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program i started the show off with donald trump
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is going to be speaking to the uh nation here in about 30 minutes usually he's late so maybe in an
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hour um but he's going to be talking about what he's doing in washington dc and we're going to give
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you all the facts on that because i mean the first thing that everybody in the media is doing here's a
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fascist no he can't do that in los angeles but the district of columbia is federal mandate so the
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the ones really in charge of the district of columbia is the federal government he can do
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many things that he can't do anywhere else in washington dc but of course they just use this
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to claim he's a fascist no it's district of columbia but i'll get into that uh later so we're talking
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about crime and why the teens are becoming worse and worse why
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let me switch this around because we look at it at my age and go how could you do that
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let me look at it from i've been raised in the last 16 years and my kid my family went through hell
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in 2008 and uh and they've never really gotten back on their feet so i was raised i was raised
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uh in a family that is broken in a society that is broken i went to school they told me the system
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is against you they taught me how to be uh how to hate people how to hate people of other races how to
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blame things on everybody else and on the system how never to take responsibility and how you've
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watched your whole life nobody gets punished the bad guys don't go to actual jail uh you know at the
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top level and you know what here in the local level nobody seems to go to jail for it anyway
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i mean think about it was three percent of those criminals that used a gun in violent crime in
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washington dc three percent went to jail three now if it was a bunch of white guys carrying guns and
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not even using them in washington dc what do you think the percentage would be that they went to jail
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i would say probably closer to 100 it's the law and they don't screw around with it right we got gun
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violence we got to get tough on gun why aren't they not getting tough on gun violence nobody's trying
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to solve this problem this is why a batman always arises and we have to be very careful because i've
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told you we are entering the time of gotham that the problems seem overwhelming superman i told you
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about that just about 20 minutes ago batman a defender who sees that the system is completely broken
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there is no justice so he steps in to do it but there's also the other uh angle the punisher
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the punisher is really more on the left we have the we have my fear is that we start to believe in
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a batman figure on the right and they believe in a punisher um that's really dangerous that's not
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america that's really really really dangerous so what is what's happening to us as a society
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you know why your kids are depressed and i'm i'm saying this about myself and my my own family
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um so i'm not pointing fingers at anybody pointing them to me you know when i have low self-esteem
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when i feel that i'm not productive when i'm not productive when i'm not doing something of
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consequence when i'm sitting around the house you know doing whatever playing games reading frivolous
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stuff watching tv if i do that for more than a couple of days i start to feel like really nasty
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about myself i'm like oh you know not worth any that's the problem we have by by devaluing capitalism
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what is capitalism in in um in a nutshell what capitalism is is the right for you to work hard
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to have a better idea to produce that better idea and then be rewarded for it that's capitalism
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now it's been conflated with consumerism and corruption and crony capitalism but the essence is
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you don't have to have a title everywhere else in the world still go over in england try to make it on
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your your your own really do you have the right english accent do you use the queen's english where
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did you go to school who are your parents that happens all over the world doesn't happen here
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because in our system of the free market you have the right to have an idea and then work hard
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and produce it but in a society where we have removed all personal responsibility
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you're not responsible for anything you took out a loan well let's somebody else has got to pay for
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that well no wait wait wait you were there during the decision you you and your parents signed those
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papers now you may have been misguided but also it honestly it's like anybody my age who is like i
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can't believe they're going to touch social security i planned on that well you may have because you
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had to there's a difference if you had to because i could never get ahead and i paid into the system
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i get it because you paid into the system but for anybody who says that and they don't have to rely on
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it it's what are you stupid i mean we all knew this thing is coming and we all know it's a scam
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all of us know it's a scam the closer we get to retirement age the more we need that scam to stay
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in place because they bled us dry everywhere else we want what we paid in for
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it's it's the same thing here with with capitalism when you take away the personal responsibility
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responsibility the right to succeed and the right to fail you notice they only they only talk about
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the right to fail they only say you're not going to fail you're going to fail if you go that way
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you're not going to fail with us because we're not going to let you fail failure is a part of life
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the reason why our kids are so tender is we've never let them fail we've never said you know what
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you played a you played your best did you go out and play your best great the other team smoked you
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because they were better oh no you were you were a superstar out there no you dropped the ball
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no i'm not gonna harp on that i'm not gonna beat that into you i'm not gonna be one of those parents
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are like you dropped the ball i'm not that but i'm gonna tell you the truth because the the truth
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will set you free i didn't get the role you know why because she's better he's better now what are you
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going to do to get better at those things so that doesn't happen again but if you just say you know
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what the system was rigged against you the system may be rigged against you that is also part of life
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somebody else gets the job that you're perfectly qualified for and it may just be because of the way
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they look because they have a friend who has a friend in the business whatever it is that's part of
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life and you need to be resilient enough to understand that instead all of our problems are
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the system's fault and that takes away all pressure to take action other than to the streets
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nobody believes nine to five is worth i mean kids expect adulthood to be more fun
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yeah i did too when i was a kid and then i grew up and i'm like oh crap this is even worse
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your childhood is the that's as good as it gets usually i mean unless you're in a really abusive
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childhood that's as good as it gets you know and still your whole life is just set up to what
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recover from childhood because there were so many things that things that happen and you misinterpreted
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or somebody did something and you're like i gotta that's gonna leave a mark for the rest of my life
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we're all just that's adulthood trying to trying to put our childhood into perspective
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and hopefully you know if you have common sense you have faith you can do that in pretty short order
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it takes time and it's hard but you can put that into short order but it keeps cropping up
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mine does i'm i'm in the full throes of absolute just like crazy town right now with things that are
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i thought i had gotten rid of and i gotta dig them up again and start dealing with them again
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because i apparently didn't heal enough on a few things and then the left romanticizes not working
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cuba cuba cuba you want to live on cuban they romanticize communism you know anything about
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communism no because they don't teach you anything about communism they just say it's better
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and you know ignore their hardships over in cuba it's just better instead of instead of focusing
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on the hardships over there and saying you'd rather have this than that wouldn't you they don't focus
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on the hardships over there they only focus on your hardship here
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and by doing that you're only creating something people that have just this giant hole within them
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just this emptiness because they're not working is your kid sleeping later and later
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playing games all the time on you know on a on a gaming machine uh and and bummed out all the time
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kind of just withdrawing that you know why they think that's normal because that's what everybody does
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right now but that's the cause of the problem nobody said you know what go pick up a shovel
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how's that i told my son he's he's in a time between you know classes and he's like i don't feel well
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i just you know i'm kind of and i'm like i i get it i get it here's an idea go work at a pizza parlor
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dad that's not going to solve yes it is son yes it is get up every morning and work until you're
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butt tired and i guarantee you mentally you will feel better you will feel better you're gonna
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probably complain oh but you know what everybody did that in my day we all did that that's part of
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life that is the value the true value of work idle hands devil's workshop why it's not because you
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just get yourself in trouble but because you start to be introspective and you start to look at all of
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the things that you don't have that you want that and you just fuel this emptiness over and over and
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over again here's a stat that'll blow your mind life satisfaction life satisfied are you satisfied
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with your life how much does that uh does marriage affect that
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marriage has no value family no no value how much in life satisfaction does marriage change
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545 a 545 a 545 increase in life satisfaction with marriage by the way uh jobs job satisfaction
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we're devaluing the things that give us meaning in our life first thing you need to say to your kids
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go to work get a job get a job get a job because you're never going to feel better until you i mean
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uh peterson said it best until you make your bed and clean your room clean your room make your bed
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now step two get the hell out of the house and get a job when you have a job you can come back
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you can do whatever we'll help you anyway get a job oh but that might yeah it might it might
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but i'll tell you coddling them just one more thing before i go and i got it's going to touch on this
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we'll talk about it later do you know what's now starting to hit the market and taking off
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adult pacifiers adult pacifiers that's an oxymoron
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and it's being accepted by kids as reasonable no it's not
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let me tell you about relief factor you know it's weird when you stop to think about it
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when you were younger you didn't really ever think much about pain
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not when you climbed a ladder carried groceries spent a saturday fixing the yard you just did
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things no mental negotiation is this gonna hurt tomorrow somewhere along the way some little
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calculations began to start at least in my head uh maybe i won't pick that one up maybe later
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life started getting a little more difficult day after day and your interest and abilities got
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that's relief factor.com 800 the number four relief 800 for relief now back to the podcast this is the
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best of the glenbeck program let me just talk a little bit about what he's going to come out and
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uh and talk about he's crime is out of control we talked about this last hour the stats on crime
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jason buttrell chief researcher is with me today um the stats on crime in washington dc are off the
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charts off the charts and it's if you look over a period that goes back to like say 2010 uh there was
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a reduction uh around 2023 but the reduction just gets us back down to basically right when donald trump
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left office right so if you look at it as a whole it's still insane the the white house actually just did
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a comparison of the of the 2024 murder rates per 100 000 people washington dc at 27.54
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is larger than bogota at 15.1 jeez mexico city 10.6 islamabad 9.2 lima 7.6 ottawa 2.17 paris
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1.64 i mean what are we at it just keeps going dc 27.54 27 yeah double though almost three times as
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much as islamabad islamabad oh my gosh i mean kind of bad kind of bad it's nuts uh so you know when they
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say it's going down yes but going down to where from when uh you have to look at it's just been out of
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control for a long time and a lot of stuff we were talking about last hour if you missed it go to the
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podcast and listen to our number one uh of the podcast because we were talking about you know
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kids and what's happening today uh and why our kids are turning out the way they're turning out and we
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need to turn a corner on this but we'll get back into that here in a second um the
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washington dc is uh different it is a federal district they don't have a governor okay the
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president is kind of the governor in some ways it's not but in some ways the uh congress uh can
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uh overrule things in 1973 congress passed the home rule act it granted dc the ability to elect a mayor
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and a city council but but congress can still override all the local laws at any time and even
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manage the city's budget well that would be good they'd be good at that um but they didn't even have
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a mayor until 1973 did you know that so this is not an american city like you understand it this is a
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failed american experiment quite honestly 1973 is when everything changed when i went to washington dc i
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it was 1982 maybe and i was working at wpgc in in washington that was i don't know 18 years old
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and uh the license plates back then said district of columbia no tax no taxation without representation
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and they were trying to become a state they were trying to say we pay federal taxes we want statehood
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okay so this has been an ongoing battle uh since the very very beginning and washington dc when it
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comes to policing it's very complex you have the metropolitan police which handles the the everyday
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policing under the dc mayor and chief of police but the park police handle you know the national mall
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and other national park areas in the city which is a good portion of the city then the u.s capital
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police which is not under dc rule capital police they're supposed to patrol the capital complex
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and the surrounding areas then the secret service is in charge of the white house and any of those
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areas then you have the fbi the atf the u.s marshals that investigate crime in the dc area along with
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the police so it's it's not an american city as you understand it if donald trump was going to say
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i'm just going to take over well then you know maybe maybe you would have a point if it was chicago
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but that's not what's happening here there is no governor so he can call out the national guard
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now there are things that he can and cannot do here's what the president is allowed to do and we'll hear
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what he wants to do he can deploy the national guard for law enforcement for support for emergencies
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crowd controls and to execute federal laws uh under the home rule act the president can assume control
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of the metro police but only for 48 hours during special conditions of an emergency nature and the
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time period can be extended so he may choose to do that and say it's a national emergency or it's a city
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emergency and then just keep extending it every 48 hours uh he could invoke the insurrection act
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and that way he can deploy military forces to enforce federal law suppress any kind of insurrection or
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restore order when civilian authorities can't but i don't think he's going to do that because he would
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have done that in portland or seattle or any of the other crazy places um increase the presence of
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federal law enforcement in dc including the fbi u.s marshals capitol police and dea so he can
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increase the presence of them it also allows him to form an interagency task force under federal
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authority to conduct operations in dc my guess is that's what he's going to do he's going to put an
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interagency task force on the streets that can conduct uh operations in the district of columbia
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that seems the broadest and uh the one that would give him the most authority without any kind of
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time restrictions on it here's what the president cannot do and i want you to know before he speaks
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if he suggests any of these i will speak out against him because the president cannot do these
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things he can't take indefinite control of the metro pd you do it for 48 hours and then he has to
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renew it every 48 hours i just don't see that as a workable thing but uh but he can't take indefinite
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control of the metro pd um he cannot repeal the home rule act only congress can alter it or repeal it
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um he cannot use active duty military forces beyond the dc national guard in certain roles
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for domestic law enforcement uh unless authorized by congress or under specific exemptions like the
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insurrection act okay so no active duty can go on national guard can but only in certain roles
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and he also cannot make any changes to dc's local criminal laws or police policies only congress can
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make those changes so if you're talking about a fascist those that would be the mark of a fascist if he
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says we're going to do that if he says we want to change the criminal laws he is absolutely in in
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within his uh jurisdiction if you will to say i'm going to pass some new criminal laws but congress
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has to do them he can't just sign executive orders and do those he has to have congress to do those
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and that last thing on the eo i'm not really sure i'm not a big fan of executive orders i don't know how
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far those things have been expanded in the last 25 years but i would hope that it is not going to
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because that should be challenged and uh and i don't know how that would work out
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i what what i would love to see him do i know he can't over overrun the uh home rule act but i would
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love to see him use that bully pulpit to bully pulpit the crap out of the home rule act to really do a
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full court press and get rid of it because in my opinion it's an abomination it's not what the framers
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had in mind it should not be there and i think the only i mean there's multiple reasons why you
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can say why we have the home rule act it's not supposed to be that way it's supposed to be a way
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to where congress which is a joke because i think congress gave it up because why they're doing the
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thing that they always do which is skirt responsibility disagree i was alive at the time disagree
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when they got it what did the license plates change to immediately what what was it no taxation
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without representation that was a move towards statehood that was a progressive okay give us home
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agreed and then then we need to have a governor we need to have a state we need to have representation
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in washington dc this has all been a move to make washington dc a a state when our founders thought that
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was absolutely the wrong thing to do we cannot have our capital in a state it has to be a district
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but they run by the government the federal government but they basically already have it they have the
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benefits without it actually being a state because in the 1960s they were given three electoral votes
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you want to guess how many times that the district of columbia has gone towards republicans and
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republicans have gotten i'm gonna take a guess zero zero zero zero right right just insane yeah
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so it it's um this is not fascism you need to understand that right you need to understand home
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rule change 1973 just remember that home rule 1973 that gave them the ability to have a mayor and a city
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council they never had one until 1973 this is a failed american experiment it has become more and more
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leftist and the more leftist it gets the more out of control that city gets congress should abolish home
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rule it should go back to congress and the president running that city they're very capable of doing it
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and the only reason to have home rule is to make it a state that's the only reason i mean and
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honestly look at that look at look at the mayors anybody remember mary and barry
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mary and barry was caught uh smoking crack and they re-elected him i mean he went to prison i think
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and then he got out of prison he's like yeah remember me i'm the crack guy yeah elect me again and they did
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i mean it's it's an insane city it's an insane city and our capital cannot i remember you know when
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i was living in washington dc i was a kid 18 years old all by myself never i had never been west of
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boise or east of boise idaho okay uh and i move across the country and i move to washington dc
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it was the freakiest place i had ever been i'd never seen an east coast city i had never i mean
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yeah but i remember i got up every morning and i would go to the lincoln memorial and i would sit
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on the stairs of the lincoln memorial watch the sunrise and in the summer and uh they would hose
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that thing down fire fire hoses and they'd hose that thing down i don't think that's been washed in
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i don't know maybe since 1983 um and i could walk the whole mall in the middle of the night
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i could walk i i could walk up to the capitol doors and these beautiful relief doors that tell
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the story of america you can't even walk up the stairs to those doors you are no longer allowed to
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even see those doors okay because of security and what is that security giving you that security is
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maybe some security inside the capitol but everybody else you're on your own well that's my city as
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well i am so proud of this audience i remember when we went and we did um restoring honor there and
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the national park service called the office and said could you please ask mr beck to please
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ask his audience to stop calling us you know why you know why they were why this audience was calling
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because people had gone up and they had seen how badly it was being run and how the park service
00:31:52.200
didn't wasn't mowing all the lawns and everything else so this audience volunteered over and over and
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over again saying can we just come up and mow the lawn can we just we'll clean it all up we just want
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to mow the lawns in washington dc and the park service was like we can't let people just come out on the
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and i'm like you know what you should you should if the people can fix it and you can't let the people
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fix it it's their own it's their own place you can't do things in washington dc and it's really
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not for your safety they'll say it's for your safety but it's not and it is separated the people
00:32:32.660
from that city and now you go walking down the street good luck i i go walking down the street
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with my wife at night because i have armed security with me i'm not walking down that i'm not walking
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down that street by myself nor would you you want to go to washington dc and see the founding documents
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good luck with that this is the best of the glenn beck program
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i want to talk to you we've been talking today about uh the system and what is happening to our kids
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uh what is what's happening to our world and jason and i i think we were kind of you know at this place
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where when i was a kid i was lucky enough my mom and my dad never said you can't make it my dad
00:33:30.260
believed in the power of positive thinking um and he believed in words create a force and they do
00:33:39.300
what you think becomes what you speak becomes you say it enough and it becomes um and so my my father
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was always like you're going to make it whatever you set your mind to if you do the work and you
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can visualize it it will happen i've been talking to some people about some things and they were like
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glenn we know your record if you see it it's done and it is truly that is one of my superpowers that
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my dad gave me was visualize it if you can see it done it will be done you have to put all the work
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into it but it will be done when your vision is murky or cloudy you're not gonna you're gonna
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create more murky and cloud you have to have a super clear vision on things um but i know that
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everybody around me my my dad said you should just have a backup son because uh radio is not a really
00:34:34.480
good industry to get into for success and i know i mean the odds of you being a talk radio national
00:34:42.720
guy there's what five of us six of us not even that maybe four of us left um the odds hollywood
00:34:50.900
looks like easy to get into compared to this and my dad was right now everybody else in my life said
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you'll never make it loser you'll never make it but i i set out because i knew what i could accomplish
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and i also i also wanted to prove people wrong and i'm not sure that's a very american thing
00:35:14.680
you know when you set out to go really you think i can't do that oh i will i mean how many people
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cross the mountains because somebody in their life is like you're never gonna cross those mountains
00:35:26.520
oh yeah it's a very maybe it's childish but it's also a very american thing to do and when we take
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that what's left jason if your kids don't have that i'm gonna prove it i i i can prove it you become
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what europe an average who cares country pretty much yeah like europe like europe they don't believe
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they can change things because they've been conditioned to believe the system won't allow
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it and they've allowed a system to be created around them now we were the first to break that
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and nobody's really broken that except us nobody went the you know the full monty like the united
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states did and that's what that's what built people in my generation and all the generations before
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but we don't have that foundation being um uh taught or even extolled by anybody i mean now the
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slogans are you know capitalism is just greedy capitalism x you know exploits capitalism is the
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reason why you're miserable no no you're miserable because you're thinking about your misery
00:36:42.180
i mean it it's an easy thing to say when you've never had to live without it and our kids have
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never had to live without it capitalism is not just an economic system it is a moral revolution
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and i don't think we frame it that way enough you know for the first time in human history
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your destiny was not locked into who what family you were born into did you did you come from wealth
00:37:10.980
and wild success oh no yeah i didn't i mean i i mean really honestly i've looked into my genealogy
00:37:18.540
it is a loser city i am the king of the loser people there's not a single person that did anything
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in my genealogy at all me included i but i'm like the king of all of the people nobody nobody i mean
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really one of the relatives that i hang on to my my great great grandfather and great great uncle
00:37:41.080
you know what they did they were captured by the south in the civil war after a week of fighting
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and one of them died in andersonville i mean that's how you i mean that's how low you got to go you're
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like yeah but what am i two of my relatives were fighting for the north of course got captured in the
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first week and one of them died in prison but they are on the right side that's how low it is
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how could somebody like me make it you listen to this show you can't figure it out right it's america
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it's america hard work vision and honestly luck they all come but for the first time america gave
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that opportunity you didn't need a king's permission to own land over in england all of
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that's king's land and then it was granted to the lords and the ladies and if they ever wanted to sell
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it they could sell it it used to be that it had to go back to the king but here you don't need to
00:38:47.680
be nobility you had to be noble to be able to open a business overseas you you didn't have to be born
00:38:53.740
into privilege to invent to create to rise you know why everybody over in england had such bad
00:39:00.160
teeth for so long because if anybody would have invented the toothbrush and toothpaste a lord or lady
00:39:07.600
would have gotten all of the royalties for it you're just a peasant you're like you know what i i'd like
00:39:13.500
some minty breath next time i kiss you you're not going to get the royalties from it you're not going
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to get anything except a minty kiss which it quite honestly would be enough for me to invent the
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toothbrush but that's just me speaking from today's point of view um capitalism was the one that just
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broke all of the chains of feudalism and said to the world if you have an idea if you have a dream
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try it may not succeed but try it it never promised you success it gave you something much more valuable
00:39:49.260
and that is the chance who is striving for the chance
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there have been no rich people except those who were born noble or into wealth
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there's nobody that has become rich that wasn't looking for a chance they weren't doing you didn't
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win it by lottery and you certainly didn't do it for long through theft
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i mean you from almost the entirety of world history people lived in gut grinding poverty
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you you didn't live past 30 years there was no there was no middle class that's a function of
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capitalism no middle class no social mobility you didn't go from the lower class to the upper class
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didn't happen only capitalism did that now has it been distorted and perverted yes by whom
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the people who want to treat you like a serf the people who are like they don't know i know better
00:40:57.580
than them they're too stupid to rule themselves the same people that have been enslaved the rest of
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the world for all of humanity are now winning the argument that this isn't good you know what you
00:41:13.320
need somebody like me to make all the decisions for you and then take all the money in the end
00:41:18.840
wow i mean this is a very short window of time child labor used to be a necessity it was a necessity
00:41:30.320
you you you would be out on your ear when you were 12 or 13 nobody could you you had to fend for
00:41:38.280
yourself you don't anymore you don't why because of capitalism all of the inventions that we take for
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granted the light bulb antibiotics the internet at all came into the world because people were free to
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dream and do are we encouraging our kids to dream and do if you were a 20 something forget about all of
00:42:05.740
this crap that everybody's telling you dream and do it what's stopping you honestly what's stopping you
00:42:13.520
besides fear what is stopping you i got to you know i'm making massive changes in my life
00:42:21.980
and i got to a place to where you know my wife and i prayed on it and everything else but before we
00:42:28.760
pray on it we always try to make the decision and then bring it to dad and say hey what do you think
00:42:33.920
of this because i know as a dad i don't want my kids to come in what what should i do now dad i don't
00:42:40.700
know think it through what do you think is the best thing and then i could go oh no great idea have you
00:42:46.240
thought about this so i approach god the same way why you think dad and he'll be like boy i can't
00:42:55.560
believe you're still alive out of all of the natural selection i didn't think you would have survived
00:43:00.160
do you know about your great great grandparents anyway um
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i'm making these changes in my life and before we brought it to god tanya said what do you think
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and i said i keep making the list in my head pros and cons and all of the negatives they're all based
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in fear they're all based in fear and she just looked at me and i went i know i know i know
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that's the worst reason to have if it's fear-based get rid of that don't make a decision ever based in
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fear ever ever ever you will make a bad decision make a decision based in love or in hope or based
00:43:41.640
in fact not just like you know what i hope my butt starts growing flowers because then my my farts
00:43:48.760
won't won't smell so bad that ain't gonna happen okay real hope based in something
00:43:55.100
that that when you have that you can change the world and it's a ripple effect when when a guy in
00:44:05.620
ohio figured out how to mass produce steel it built railroads in india not just here in india when a
00:44:14.500
woman in america developed a new vaccine children in africa live to see adulthood capitalism doesn't just
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create wealth it spreads it over oceans and continents and through generations
00:44:28.960
the inequalities of capitalism they point to that as if that's proof it's broken but the truth
00:44:37.980
under capitalism the poor today live better than the kings of the past do you know there was a
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well let me just go here because i'm going to run out of time king louis didn't have air conditioning
00:44:50.780
you know where that was invented san antonio you know where it was first put in a movie theater
00:44:57.260
do you know why have you been to a building in san antonio texas in the summer you want to kill
00:45:05.900
yourself i'd i would really if that's how i would live i'd be like can we make the life expectancy
00:45:11.940
only 30 because i don't think i can do this another 30 years i mean for the love of pete
00:45:17.420
it came because people went there's got to be a better way and you didn't need a king the king
00:45:23.680
didn't have air conditioning queen victoria didn't have any antibiotics you know you you through just
00:45:30.760
opening up a faucet you couldn't have clean water arrive at your home and that's not the work of a
00:45:37.840
dictator that is the work of millions of people thinking dreaming trading freely innovating
00:45:45.500
competing and not for the glory of the state but the hope of what why do they say people come here
00:45:52.560
to build a better life for themselves and their families why can you use that as you know what
00:46:00.180
you just against the legals all they're trying to do is make a better life for themselves and their
00:46:04.460
family wait are you saying they can't do it here but they can't do it there but somehow or another
00:46:09.100
under this system which is oppressing you they can make it what do they have that you don't have
00:46:15.120
oh i know work ethic a dream a desire they've seen the other side they don't want to live like that
00:46:23.460
capital isn't perfect but it is human and anything human can be corrupted
00:46:31.040
but compared to every other system in the world it has taken more people out of poverty rewarded more
00:46:39.320
hard work and transformed more nobodies than any other system the world has even imagined
00:46:53.720
when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every
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fabulous item i see from winners like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those from
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winners oh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that
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