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Glenn and Stu discuss the fallout from the Democratic Debates, including Michael Moore's comments that Michelle Obama would easily beat Donald Trump in 2020, and the NFL's return to the NFL. They also discuss the latest fast food restaurant controversy, and whether or not it's a good or bad thing.
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Welcome to the podcast. It's Pat and Stu in for some guy, Glenn Beck.
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Today on the podcast, we're talking about the debates. Fallout is still kind of going on.
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What's interesting about this is you get these follow-up comments now.
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They're doing interviews afterwards, making statements, contradicting themselves, contradicting what they've been telling us for years and years and years,
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especially with stuff like Obamacare. We go over that today.
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We talk about fat lump Michael Moore, claiming that Michelle Obama would easily defeat Donald Trump in the election.
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It would be interesting to see if this race fell apart.
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Like they nominated Elizabeth Warren, and she's losing by 18 points.
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Also, you have, there's some new fast food developments that you need to know about that we hit today.
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The return of the National Football League was last night and just made us feel so special.
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We'll get into that and a lot more on the podcast today.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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I can't go a day without, you know, to me, a day without MSNBC is like a day without orange juice or whatever.
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A day without MSNBC is like a day without cloud cover.
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So they were a little upset that Democrats went after Barack Obama this week.
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I mean, there was Vice President Biden tied down after rope after rope for his long political career.
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I had to defend every element of it going back, as Michael Bennett said, back 50 years on issues like busing.
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He was 100 percent better or maybe 200 percent better than he was in the first debate.
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He seemed to be aware he was in a debate, which was a start for him.
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In fact, a lot of times when he got to the end of his time, it was like he ran out of his recitation.
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And the weirdest thing to me, which I'm having a hard time with, is is it a smart strategy to attack the Obama administration?
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I mean, this is a Democratic president elected twice.
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I think he's the only Democrat we've had, you know, with the margins he's had since FDR that did that remains wildly popular in the Democratic Party.
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It was weird for me to watch about 40, almost 40 minutes of primarily attacks on the Obama administration's policies.
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It's almost as if the debate forgot who's president because the attacks on Donald Trump.
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I don't I don't remember his name being mentioned that much.
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And so it was odd for me for these candidates to debate changes in health care and their different policies on immigration as if Trump doesn't exist.
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Yes, they were attacking the Obama administration.
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I think if you're a Democratic candidate for president and you spend that you're not making I think you're not making progress.
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If you're one of these opponents, why do you what do you say you're going to do that's going to be better than Biden?
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If you say the Obama administration was great, it's a tough it's a tough sell.
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But I mean, Barack Obama's approval rating, he's among Democrats.
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There's a bunch of polls here, 83 to 10 approval rating, 88 to 10, 83, 13, 90 to 7.
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He's a very popular guy among in this in the Democratic Party.
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Yeah, he's not not, you know, overall, he's you know, he's he does.
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He does well overall, but not nearly that well, obviously.
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I mean, you know, you that is a these are really good numbers.
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He's probably the most popular Democrat in America, with the maybe exception of Michelle Obama.
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I mean, that couple is probably the they're probably the two most popular people in the entire Democratic Party, which was mentioned by fat lump.
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Again, he said it in another interview, another title or is that it's it's it's a new his name.
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He said in a that there's only one candidate up to the challenge to beat President Trump.
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In fact, he thinks he'd crush she'd crush President Trump.
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Everybody watching this right now knows she's beloved and she would go in there and she would beat him.
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OK, here's an audio of Michael Moore talking about Michelle Obama running for president.
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And frankly, I think there's a person that could do this if the election were held today.
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There is one person that would crush Trump and she hasn't announced yet.
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Everybody watching this right now knows she is a beloved American and she would go in there and she would beat him.
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Just go to C-SPAN and follow her book tour across the country.
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She's playing 15,000 seat arenas in the Midwest.
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She takes the stage and she's so powerful and so good.
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You just look at that and you think, of course, she could win.
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But everyone's now saying, well, of course, she's not going to run.
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If you watch the book tour, she's at every stop at it.
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Well, except for if you were asked to serve or I were.
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Whatever our skill set is, wouldn't we do that?
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I will say, though, it's rare when Michael Moore agrees wholeheartedly with Bill O'Reilly.
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That's exactly what Bill said about the election.
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He said if they run a Michelle Obama, she would win by a lot.
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When you've never seen someone run for president, there's a big unknown factor of how they actually react in that sort of pressure situation.
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And she's obviously been in this world for a while, but she's never been the focus of it.
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And when she was the focus of it in the first campaign, she did not do well.
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If you remember, they pulled her off the campaign because she kept saying things like, I'm not proud of my country until today.
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I mean, you know, like you said, she was proud for the first time when her husband was nominated for president.
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The squad is fascinating because they can say kind of anything and get away with it because their only approach to life is to tell you how they've been victimized.
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So every story that goes on with the squad always comes back to how they're a terrible victim.
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You know, like there was a sign of this from the staffers of Kamala Harris this week.
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When Kamala Harris and Joe Biden walked to the center stage, obviously Harris kind of hammered Biden in the first debate.
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What was the reaction from the Kamala Harris staffers?
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How dare you refer to her an accomplished woman breaking a glass ceiling as a kid?
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She won the battle and is still the victim, right?
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And this is the attitude of the squad all the time.
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Despite the fact that we're talking about a person who was a bartender a year and a half ago and is running the Democratic Party.
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That person is telling you that they are oppressed.
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The same thing with Kirsten Gillibrand on stage.
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I'm the right person to be nominated as the Democratic candidate because I can go to suburban women and explain to them what white privilege is.
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Have you ever heard of a more demeaning statement?
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And then she said, you know, I know I'm a beneficiary of white privilege, which not in the polls, you're not.
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In fact, so far, she's not part of the next debate.
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So 130,000 individual donors, plus you have to hit 2%, and I believe it's four polls.
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Now, there's going to be a lot of polls before here and there, but there's only certain ones that qualify.
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So even if she hit 2% before this previous debate, that wouldn't count.
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It's going to be something that leading up to this next one.
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And the squad, you know, look, they're very well known but very unpopular.
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And so AOC was on a radio show talking about marginalized communities.
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And I think she – look, marginalized communities, again, marginalized.
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And there's only one thing that they can do in this victimized situation.
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I believe that by marginalizing Palestinians, you create safety.
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I believe that injustice is a threat to the safety of all people because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized, then you create a popular – like once someone doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot.
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When they didn't have access to clean water, they just went nuts.
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They just went ape crap and just started burning down that city.
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There used to be – there's just a hole where Flint, Michigan was.
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Interestingly enough, I've heard over and over again for years that Flint, Michigan was the result of this, I think, a Republican conspiracy to either kill African Americans or at the very least just because they wanted evil profits or something.
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What we find out, by the way, on Flint, Michigan is their system with Detroit was actually working pretty well.
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They had a long-term lease with water from Detroit.
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You see, they had to build a brand-new pipeline for the water.
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And they were able to use stimulus to come in and say, oh, well, we can – not only are we going to get new water supply, but we'll also create a bunch of jobs for people to work on this pipeline.
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So when they implemented that, it was something they didn't need.
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They implemented it because of the government, because of a Keynesian economic argument of stimulus.
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So this is not a – and Republicans and Democrats agreed, by the way, to do this because Republicans no longer care about arguments on economics.
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But Republicans came on and said, yeah, we need new shovel-ready jobs.
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And Democrats came on and said, yeah, we need new shovel-ready jobs.
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So they built this pipeline, and wow, did that turn out well.
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Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.
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I love it when they screw up policy like that and they lie to us, right to our faces.
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So speaking of AOC and how people have no choice but to riot if they don't have access to clean water,
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that's one of her incredible thoughts of the last year.
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Prospect Magazine has deemed her one of the world's top 50 thinkers of the year.
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She doesn't even know the requirements of her own job.
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Like, Israel is like, I don't know, like whatever.
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I mean, look, you can definitely make the argument she's influential.
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The only thing of substance that she's actually produced was the FAQ for her Green New Deal,
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She has now thrown to the sidelines and acted as if she somehow mistakenly wrote it.
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Well, she chisels her thoughts into stone so she can't take it back.
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You thought she was maybe using a word processor or something?
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It was not only ridiculous ideas like retrofit every building in America.
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To put high-speed rail to every place that airplanes fly.
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We're talking about free jobs for everyone who's willing to work, I think it was.
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Every once in a while you get this thing where the Blaze uncovers this hidden document.
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This is the one that also said, we can't quite solve cow farts yet.
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They sent this to NPR to tell them how to cover it.
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And then tried to deny later on that this was just a draft.
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And they were just embarrassed at the ridicule they received.
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That was one of the things, too, by the way, Andrew Yang said in the debate that no one really pointed out.
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Yang pointed out something that we've noted many times here, which is the U.S. is only 15% of global emissions.
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They don't like to hear that because if you put it this way, the entire transportation sector of the United States is about 20% of our total emissions.
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All cars, trucks, the entire transportation sector.
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If you turned it off, if you had a switch and you were able to just flip it off like a light switch, the entire transportation goes carbon free tomorrow.
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China is growing at between 1.5% and 2% per year.
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So you would have, you would wipe out the gains, you know, whatever you were able to gain from AOC's, you know, turning off the transportation sector idea.
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And we're talking about something that's impossible.
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They write, the voluminous coverage of 29-year-old Ocasio-Cortez, who was elected to Congress last November, is focused on her youth and personality.
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Certainly her campaigning skills, mastery of social media, and up from the Bronx story are striking.
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But what's most interesting about her meteoric political career is that her success is based on ideas.
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It was her manifesto, health care for all, tuition-free university, and a federal jobs program that set her on her path.
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Bernie Sanders proposed all of those things before she was even born, I think.
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And ran for president and finished second last time.
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But they do admit she's the force behind the Green New Deal, which is embarrassing, and has put taxes and how much the rich pay back on the American political agenda.
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Because if people actually knew how much they pay, they'd be flabbergasted.
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They'd be stunned that they pay 45% or 50% or sometimes 55%.
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Depending on what state you live in, you could pay up to 60% in taxes.
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They went back and they did a poll several years ago as to not just should we raise taxes on the rich, but what's the amount that's okay to charge them?
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And people were like, well, you know, should it be more than 5%, should it be more than 10%?
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And most people, the majority of people said it shouldn't be more than 25%.
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Most people believe, because of the way that people talk about this, that they pay zero.
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Because they'll say like, well, Amazon paid zero in taxes.
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And so people are just like, oh, well, you know.
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And now you get people like Bernie talking maybe 70%.
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Now, women in Saudi Arabia will no longer need the permission of a male guardian to travel.
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They can leave their house and drive around, say, Riyadh without a man?
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A few other changes that they're making right now.
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I mean, next they'll be telling us they can vote.
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They're also thinking about allowing them to apply for passports.
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Register a marriage, divorce, or childbirth, and be issued official family documents.
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No, actually, official documents issued by the kingdom.
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And look, first of all, it actually is really positive.
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The guy who's, like, capturing his relatives and holding them hostage inside the Four Seasons
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is a guy who's pushing for a lot of these reforms.
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What seems completely ridiculous to us, that they would still have these restrictions on women.
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You know, progress is positive on that front, right?
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So, you know, it's easy to mock, and I will mock it, but it's also positive, I guess, in
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some roundabout sort of way, because there's still so much negative there, it's hard to
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But I find this interesting, and I was actually watching Handmaid's Tale last night.
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Every Wednesday, I think, the episodes come out, and she's like, I don't, you know, she just
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disappears for an hour, because she has to watch it on the night it comes out.
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I mean, you could tell they spent a lot of money on it.
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I would love to see the show made in which they kind of, like, a prequel series would
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Basically, the concept is, like, at some point, and we're going to butcher this, if you're
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a fan, I'm sorry, I don't really watch the show, but at some point, there was a civil
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war of sorts, in that, and somehow, like, a group of religious fanatics basically took
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Now, America, I think, still exists, but it's, like, only in Alaska.
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And the, the place, most of what you would think of as America is a place called Gilead.
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Okay, so it's a, it's a, and it's, like, a super religious fundamentalist place, where,
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like, the guys have all the rights, they, the women are all basically slaves.
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I mean, it's basically Mike Pence's fever dream.
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Well, he won't have dinner with a woman other than his wife.
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And there's something to do with, like, an infertility problem in the country.
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I don't know if it's clear in the actual series, but basically, there's this sort of,
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any fertile woman is going to have a lot of issues because she's basically going to
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be raped over and over and over and over again by basically every commander or whatever
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I will say it's really hard for me to watch it at all because it's, like...
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It's basically, like, think of every awful thing that could possibly be done to a woman.
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And, you know, you can understand why it's popular.
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But the real reason why it's so popular in such a media darling is exactly what we were
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It's like, it's a left-wing fantasy of what they think Donald Trump would do if he had
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It's, like, basically a statement against, women have no rights right now, me too, and
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all of these other things combined to, we're essentially Gilead.
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There's no one more fundamentally religious than Donald Trump.
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Look, he's been good on a lot of those issues, but I would not say it's to his core.
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There's an episode last night where this commander guy, they're driving somewhere.
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And a minor spoiler alert if you're watching the series.
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And at one point, there's this big moment where, like, you know, the music builds.
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And this big moment where the commander says to his wife, do you want to drive?
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And they pull over, and they switch seats, and they put the top down, and they're just
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driving down this road, and it's kind of like the old days.
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She's remembering her freedoms of the old days and stuff.
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And it's like, the left looks at this and says,
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And they don't look at it and say, this is what half the world is.
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Right now, half the world is coming up with, you know what?
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Because a big part of the handmaid's nails, they're all dressed up in these fundamentalist
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It's like, you guys realize that the people you're constantly defending, you're saying that
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we should not say their culture is worse than ours.
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And we were just talking about the reforms in Saudi Arabia.
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Yet, still, the rules are in place where they require male consent for a woman to leave
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Male consent for a woman to exit domestic abuse shelters.
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So your husband has to come and let you out of a domestic abuse shelter?
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And women, unlike men, still can't pass on citizenship to their children.
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I will say in most marriages, male consent is also used here.
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I guess, unless it's two women marrying each other, male consent's always part of that
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It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
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Is there ever a moment in which these crazy warnings and fears are ever, is there a moment
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where they later on go back and say, wow, we shouldn't have been, that was pretty ridiculous?
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Like, I mean, really, before Trump and Pence went into the White House, there was a legitimate
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outward fear that Mike Pence was going to start imprisoning homosexuals.
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I don't know where that came from because he didn't, he wasn't really outspoken about
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I mean, you know, he had a, he might've had a couple comments in like the 90s when he
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He was, he was for marriage between a man and a woman.
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And I guess because Trump, obviously not known as the most religious guy, they had to find
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And so they picked Pence and they were like, oh, he's going to spend all of his time, you
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know, driving around cities, just picking up gay people and put them in the back of a
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He just, first of all, he wouldn't have dinner with women that weren't his wife.
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The other one was, I was thinking of was, remember when they warned us that Cory Booker
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And they ran this, Cory Booker, you know, a moderate Republican Senator from Colorado.
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He's no hardcore conservative at no point did he ever consider trying to ban birth control.
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And they ran tons of ads against him saying that when he got in there, that's what he's
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He was going to go in there and try to ban birth control.
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And that's, you know, it's essentially the same thing as Handmaid's Tale, right?
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I thought I said Gardner initially, but maybe we changed it.
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The Pell Grants my little brother was counting on for college.
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Climate change that everyone knows is weirding our weather.
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This guy has no idea what's going on in the real world.
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It's so, first of all, okay, if he's banned birth control, why are you going to all these
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I guess, so he's banned the pill and condoms are theoretically available, but there's
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Us guys, we shouldn't have to even deal with it.
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I love how dismissive he is of her when she asks about the drugstore.
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Why would I check the gas station and the grocery store and not the drugstore, you loser?
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Because you're so stupid that I can't bring myself to be interested.
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Why would you think I wouldn't look at the drugstore, idiot?
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So essentially, right now, Cory Gardner has banned sex.
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Because, I mean, God forbid, you know, and it's like this idea.
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So nobody comes back as, you know, like your first point.
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Did they ever come back and say, hey, we panicked when we shouldn't have?
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How about, I remember before George W. Bush, when he was going for re-election, Cameron Diaz.
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So I just wanted to make sure people were familiar.
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But she said that a vote for George Bush was a vote to legalize rape.
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Because he was such a hardcore conservative that was just always pushing for those conservative policies.
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There's never a point where you look back and say, wow, you know what?
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Well, how many predictions have been wrong about global warming?
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I want to say it was Nate Silver's book a few years ago.
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But he was writing about this and saying, like, look, you know, it's all about prediction models and how to make predictions.
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And so at one point, he's talking about global warming.
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And he's like, you know, I think normally what you would do...
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And he shows all the models and shows how typically these models have overemphasized the potential for too much warming.
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Like, they've predicted incorrectly how much warming there was.
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There was less warming in reality than there was in the prediction models.
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And over time, when that happens over and over again, you would adjust your expectations.
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Like, that's how you make an informed prediction.
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If you see these models are always too warm, you need to think about where it's going to go.
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A guy on the left got beat up because just saying the idea that these...
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Just admitting the actual facts that the models were overheated was too much for anyone to take.
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And to think that maybe we should readjust our beliefs and how we, you know, think about this.
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And he wasn't saying, I don't think global warming is real or anything like that.
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A guy who's said over and over again, he believes in global warming.
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And says, but the way we want to spend money on it and our priorities need to be thought of in a much more methodical fashion.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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I will say there's a lot of great election debate analysis this week that you can go check out.
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It's secondary in my mind because there was the return of something called the National Football League last night, which is really...
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You know, I was channel surfing the other day and came across the Longhorn Network, you know, the Texas UT's television network.
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And just to kill time, because, you know, you've got to fill 24-7 worth of broadcasting on a channel that just really covers Texas football.
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And, you know, none of it is relevant to today.
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I had no interest in either team, just the sound of the voice and the fact that it was football.
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And for me, the National Football League, I know you are a more of a college guy.
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You know, especially when your options are watching Bernie Sanders or watching Kamala
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They're trying to sort something out here on the left.
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And I remember how the Republican primaries of 2016 just ripped the conservative movement
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Like, there were people who absolutely freaking loved Ted Cruz, absolutely freaking loved Donald
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There was passing interest in John Kasich at times.
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When you go back and think about that field, you know, I mean, you had people who made,
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you know, no impact in the race that were really good candidates.
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I mean, Bobby Jindal is a guy who turned around a state.
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He, you know, introduces a very detailed, very good conservative healthcare alternative.
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And basically, it was at 0% until he dropped out.
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But what was funny about that, and it wasn't funny at the time, is how much everyone basically
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hated each other that considered themselves Republicans or conservatives.
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Like, everyone had their guy and hated all the other guys.
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And now we're seeing that on the Democrats, and it's a lot more fun.
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It's like everyone who's a Kamala person hates all the Joe Biden people, and all the people
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who are Biden people hate the Kamala people, and Cory Booker hates Biden, and there's like
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three people who are Cory Booker people who are also not in love with Biden.
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So, Biden was asked on TV this week about, is the party going too far left?
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We're getting a little out of control here with the movement towards, let's say, socialism.
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Do you think it's moving too far into the left, even on immigration, where some of your
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fellow Democratic candidates say that they want to decriminalize those who cross the
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Well, look, it's not about moving left to right.
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I think my views are where the vast majority of the Democratic Party are.
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There's a lot of really, really good people that got elected who are really pushing the
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But the idea that they represent what the party is today does not comport with who gets
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elected, does not comport with how we won last in 18.
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And so, but it's a totally legitimate debate to have.
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The one thing we have to focus on, and the one thing I agree with Corey on last night,
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Every one of those people on that stage has a fundamentally different view than Barack,
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excuse me, they talk about Barack, but they have a fundamentally different view than the
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And let's argue who has the best path forward to lead this country to greatness.
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I think other than it does not comport that he kept saying over and over again, he's probably
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Like, he probably is a better representative of the average Democratic voter than someone
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But the activists are the ones that are voting in the primary.
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Which makes it really tough for somebody like him.
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Biden's no moderate, as we pointed out a million times.
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But the fact that, you know, like the moderate position of only free college for two years
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That's like, that's something that Obama didn't, did he even suggest that?
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Did Barack Obama even, I don't remember him suggesting it.
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I mean, I'm sure they would have, he would have loved it.
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But now the idea that if you don't go for four years of college for free and a free
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job and a universal basic income and let, you know, people cross the border with no
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If you're not that person, you're psychotically right.
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You know, I just, I don't, I don't think that's the reality for the voters.
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And it's probably why Biden's winning right now.
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Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
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Well, I thought we were going to go to this Kamala Harris clip about employee-based insurance.
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Here's Kamala Harris talking about whether she's going to eliminate employer-based insurance.
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One of the things that has been charged is that you will not be able to keep your private
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If we get insurance through CNN, if GM workers get insurance through GM, under your plan, they
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will not be able to keep that private insurance.
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What the conversation was was about whether you can keep your private insurance through
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My plan will separate your health care from your employer, meaning your employer will
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no longer dictate the kind of health care you receive.
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Under my plan of Medicare for all, private insurance companies will be able to provide coverage
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And therefore, what that means in a very important way is that you don't have to be wed to your
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employer to keep the insurance you like and that you need.
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But it will not be coupled with your employer so you can have choices about where you work
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What you have to convince voters of is that, yes, they may be able to keep a private insurance,
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No, because you're basically allowing for a Medicare Advantage plan where insurers can
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enter that plan and they can choose it if they want to.
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But if you're getting insurance from GM, from your employer, you will not be able to keep
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The insurer who has partnered with GM is going to then have the opportunity to compete in
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And so you as the consumer can choose under my Medicare for all plan to have a public plan,
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She didn't say a single thing about the NFL, Stu.
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I think she went into the Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver situation right after this.
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So because this is a shade different than a Bernie plan, right?
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Where she's saying, first of all, it's going to take 10 years to transition.
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Second of all, what she's saying is, in theory, you could get a private insurance plan if
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Now, the idea of separating employer from insurance is not a liberal idea.
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That is a, it's an idea that I would say most economists on the left and the right think
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Plus, can I just point out, you can choose your insurance today because you don't have
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to take a job where an insurance plan you don't like is offered.
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Like you're going to, because your employer is paying for part of it and, and they get
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Like I, I, cause I am very friendly to the idea of having insurance separate from my employer.
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However, the employee, the insurance here is good.
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So I take it, you know, and I think that's what everybody does.
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I think in a perfect world, this would be a good thing.
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Like the idea that you're tied to your employer with your insurance is actually not a thing
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that Kamala Harris is making up conservative economists have been arguing for this forever.
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They're just saying, go to a free market system on the other side of that.
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She's saying you're going to allow competition state to state.
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And she's saying, okay, well, we're going to give everybody a government plan.
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And then I guess if someone wants to come in and try to compete as a private plan, they
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Her argument in her belief is what they will do is subsidize these plans so much.
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No one will pick the private insurance and eventually private insurance goes away anyway.
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Like she's trying to do it a little bit through the back door where, where Bernie's just saying
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it, he's just coming out and saying, we're getting rid of it.
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It's going to be illegal for you to have private insurance.
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So there is a little bit of a shade, I suppose, of difference there, but you just see these
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people try to struggle to get through and, and, and say exactly what's happening with
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If you have it through GM, if you have it through CNN, you're not going to have it there
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And that is a, something that polls in the mid twenties nationwide, mid twenties, and they
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don't want to admit it because they know how unpopular it is, but that is what their
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And he's basically running a president, vice president thing with, with Warren.
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They're just trying to figure out which ones, which ones first.
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I don't think either one would name the other as their candidate, but they're running essentially
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an alliance right now, like an old school survivor alliance.
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And they're working basically together to fend off all these attacks and all their policies
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So CBS was asked or asked, uh, Bernie, can you explain what is the freaking difference?
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Listen, at some point you and Elizabeth Warren, as most pundits seem to indicate, we'll make
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Well, I'll tell you, I'll let you guys and the punditry and the American people make that
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What's one, what is the single principle, what is the biggest difference between you
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It's not up to us, you've got to draw the distinction, Senator.
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I have to tell the American people what I believe.
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And I'm going to take on the greed of Wall Street, the drug companies, the insurance companies.
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We are going to tell the fossil fuel industry that they cannot continue to destroy this planet
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First of all, of course, he's got to draw distinctions.
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I mean, if not, people are going to do it for you.
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You know, she's going to, and you know, she's going to wind up beating him in this because
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he's just, you know, he's just so curmudgeonly and awful.
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But beyond that, what they just, what he just described as his philosophy was to say, I think
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Those four things are basically the fundamental basis of our civilization.
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Healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and health insurance.
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And you might say, well, Wall Street's not the fundamental basis.
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You know, the first stock was in the, you know, ever sold was in the 1600s back in the
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And that was the foundation of how capital gets moved around and eventually creates the
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I mean, so Wall Street, while you can criticize things at all four of those groups, they are
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If you eliminate, you know, things like faith, which obviously are important to some, but
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But I mean, when it comes down to just human things, these are the greatest things that
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And their whole platform is just opposing them.