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Biden can't seem to get any of the stories he's telling on the campaign trail straight, and it's starting to make him look like a complete idiot. The question is, what's going on with Joe Biden's brain?
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Welcome to the podcast. Have a good Labor Day weekend. But before you do that, listen to this,
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which is we have some interesting stuff from people who are calling in and trying to tell us
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what their view of the world is. It's one thing I know Glenn is prioritizing this year is trying
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to make sure that, you know, we hear your voice a little bit more often. And we're going to be
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going into that with a bunch of callers today. Also, we'll talk about Dave Chappelle, his new
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comedy special, which is really creating quite a stir for saying really obvious things, which is
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kind of a funny, funny thing in our society these days. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants you to know
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and teach you what capitalism is, because she, if she's nothing else, she's an instructor.
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We also have some stuff on Mike Lee today, Tom Steyer. And of course, we have a little bit about
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Joe Biden, who can't seem to get any of the stories straight that he's telling on the campaign trail.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Here is here is the latest from CNN on Biden. He made a well, what would you call this?
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He's made up a story, you know, did a story, but got all of the facts wrong.
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I mean, again, from Joe, on the Joe Biden curve, this is one of the most accurate things he's ever
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Well, because he actually did the stories about a soldier. He went to pin a medal on him. And the
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soldier apparently said, you know, I don't want this. And don't even give me the medal because
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the, you know, is fighting is, you know, brother in arms had already died, and he didn't feel good
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about taking it. And it's kind of an uplifting story about, you know, the character of our of our
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military. So all that happened. Like he did actually do it. He did it when he was a senator,
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though, not the vice president. And this is something that has been repeated over and over
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again. The Parkland thing was another example of this where he was not vice president when he said
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he was vice president meeting with the Parkland kids. Of course, the shooting happened afterwards.
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If he met with the Parkland kids about the shooting when he was vice president, what did he know?
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And when did he know it? That's what I want to ask. So he has this. He's one of these guys that he was
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plotting. I met with the Parkland kids, right? And we plotted this whole thing. He's he is one of
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those guys that I just, you know, his brain is not the wires aren't connecting. And I think
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everybody is saying and sees this. Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a five foot 10
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vice president? Is that what you're saying? Sorry, quoting Mel Brooks. Listen to this. This
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is Washington Post. One big question facing candidates and voters. Now, this is about
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Joe Biden from Brian Stelter. One big question facing candidates and voters is whether President
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Trump's routine falsehoods have changed the standards by which by which other presidential
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aspirants should be judged. OK, OK, wait, wait, wait, wait. I thought this was about Joe Biden.
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The Washington Post, the revelations about Joe Biden's completely botching, botching a war
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story. Last Friday in the campaign trail in New Hampshire, the Democratic forerunner told a moving
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but false story about a Navy captain who, despite his bravery, felt like a failure. The problem is,
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except this is a quoting the Post, except almost every detail in the story seems to be incorrect.
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More than a they spoke to more than a dozen U.S. troops, their commanders and Biden campaign
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officials to figure out what actually happened. They they concluded that, quote, Biden jumbled elements
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of at least three actual events in the story of bravery, compassion and regret that never
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happened. The bottom line is, in the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period,
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the location, the heroic act, the type of metal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient
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wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.
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So bizarre. I mean, because like none of those and this is what's weird about Biden.
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None of those things make the story better, right? The story isn't better because he's
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vice president. The story isn't better because he's in a different location. The story isn't
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better because it's one type of a metal over another type of a metal. He just doesn't seem
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to remember anything. And again, it seems to come back to that same thing where there's
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just like a a mental a normal mental brain function that occurs in your average person
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is occurring in a different way in Joe Biden's head. And it's I think it's been like that
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for a while. It just seems to be getting much, much worse. And the important thing here,
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as far as Democrat voters go, has nothing to do with whether he ever tells another thing
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that's true in his entire life, whether he ever tells another story that's true.
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The issue with Democratic voters here is for them to figure out whether he is so far gone,
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he's not going to be able to win this election. The second the Democrats believe these issues
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lead to him losing to Donald Trump is when he's no longer the front runner.
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The minute they realize he can't he's Hillary Clinton, they will treat him like Hillary Clinton.
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Now, Devon Cole from CNN notes, Biden made other several misstatements, not lies, misstatements
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at the same New Hampshire event last Friday, including one about how many visits he made
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to Afghanistan and Iraq. But two wrongs don't make it right. Now, listen to this.
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How do you feel? This is about Biden. How do you feel about how this may relate to how you feel
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about Donald Trump? Lots of progressives are all up in my Twitter mentions saying this Biden
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story doesn't matter because Trump is a pathological liar and lots of conservatives are promoting the
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Biden story for obvious reasons. Yeah, here's the obvious reason. I think he is mentally not fit
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anymore. He's not the same guy that he was four years ago. He is stumbling over his own words.
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He looks like he's beginning to go senile. And that's not conservative saying that. That's also a lot of
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liberals saying that. But he goes on. But the bar should stay high, even if Trump constantly finds
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his way to go lower and lower. Then he writes, here's the counter argument. Now, let me ask you
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this. Have you heard them have a counter argument for Donald Trump getting things wrong ever?
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Right. There's never been an excuse where they're like, look, what he probably meant here was this.
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They actually jump on it the complete opposite way. They look for anything he says that's the
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slightest bit off and then act as if he's making a major policy statement. You know, this goes back
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to things like even going back to the very classic example from 2015, where he came down the escalator
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and said, you know, look, we've got rapists coming across the border. Everybody who listened to that
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speech could easily tell that what he is talking about is, are there some? Yeah. I mean, the answer to that
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is, yes, there have been a lot of criminals that have come across the border. Everybody on earth
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knows that. He wasn't saying everybody in Mexico is a rapist, right? He's saying that, look, we have a
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problem with crime coming across the border. And most people were able to decipher that if they
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were being honest. But if you go the other way and you just act as if the exact thing he says is a
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major policy statement, it gets you a lot of clicks. You get a lot of outrage clicks. And that is what
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the media has decided to do with this president. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. They will talk
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down the economy and they are capable of doing it. They will never give the president the benefit of
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the doubt. Now, look, if you want to understand this president, you watch what he does, not what he
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says. They've known this since the 1970s with Donald Trump. Donald Trump is P.T. Barnum. Donald Trump
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knows how to manipulate the press to be able to get coverage. Now, he should change that, but he's been
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doing it his whole life. So you're asking him to teach an old dog new tricks. He doesn't feel
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comfortable when people aren't talking about him. That's the way he's lived his entire life. And and we've all
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known that he's hype. We've all known this. We all knew when we voted for him or, you know, when people
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voted for him, that that's baked in. There's not a single person that I know that really, when it comes
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down to it at the dead of night, doesn't know that Donald Trump just kind of is loose with the facts,
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to put it kindly. It's not why they voted for him. They voted for him because he said, I will be your
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president. And there are so many people in this country that feel like they've just been walked on
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constantly. They feel as though, you know, I'm called a racist no matter what I do. And I'm not
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a racist. And I've been called a racist for the last 15 years, at least by this media. They're not
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going to give me a counter argument on what I really said. They're not going to give me the benefit of the
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doubt ever. They're not going to they're not going to when I say something, they're not going
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to make it about Barack Obama. You know, I heard a story today from NPR. They were talking about
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these people who are in the streets saying, stop the coup, stop the coup. Well, I know where stop
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the coup is coming from. This is the Boris Johnson story where he has suspended Parliament. Well, that's
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not unusual. It's just two weeks longer than usual. It usually lasts about three weeks. It happens
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every year. Longer ones happen many times once the prime minister takes over, a new prime minister.
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He's asking for two more weeks than three. The Queen approves. Now they are in the streets and they're
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saying this is a coup. Now, NPR reported this story as Londoners, people gathered in the streets.
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They're very upset at Boris Johnson and what they claim is a coup. And then they played this whole
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thing and they talked to one of the people. They never said these are Labour Party members.
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They never said these are the socialist radicals. They never said any of that. Where if we were on
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the street, we would immediately be branded as extreme right wing or a small group of people
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who are very anti-government are protesting in the streets. That's the kind of coverage we get.
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And that's why people elected Donald Trump. And the more the press continues to harp on him
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unfairly in many cases, fairly in others. They harp on him and never give him the benefit of the doubt
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and continue to call anyone who supports him a racist, a homophobe. I don't know how this guy's
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a homophobe. He's the first guy to run on gay rights. Nobody else, Barack Obama, nobody else did
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that. He ran. He had a gay speaker in a prominent position at the GOP convention. How is this guy
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anti-gay again? I can't figure it out. I can't do the math.
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Yeah, I think one of the issues here is that to understand Donald Trump, you have to know that
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he sees the entire world and everything he does every day as a negotiation. So he's constantly in
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the middle of a negotiation. And you could look at it and you could say, we should listen to every
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word he says and freak out about it. Or you can look at his actions. For example, with North Korea,
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he has said both, we are going to bomb the hell out of you and fire and fury is coming.
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And also Kim Jong-un is a good guy. And we're going to negotiate and talk and I think we're
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going to get to a wonderful solution. Which one of those is true? I mean, certainly not the fire
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and fury thing. Donald Trump has a long history of wanting to avoid conflict internationally.
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And as you've seen in the past few months, when they're firing missile after missile after missile
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and he's just like, well, look, they're not violating the agreement. Everything's fine.
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He obviously feels that he would rather avoid conflict. He's trying to negotiate with China.
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There's another situation, right? He said over and over again, we're going to have a big trade war.
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And he's also said, you know what? We should go to zero tariffs. Well, which one of those do you
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believe? You could freak out every time if you're a protectionist and you're like, oh, he's going to
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go to zero tariffs. Donald Trump's a bad guy. Why is he abandoning his principles on protectionism?
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Well, he's not. Look at his actions. His actions are he's, you know, it's not a negotiation. He likes
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tariffs. He's hiked them over and over and over again. Russia is another example, right? Over and
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over again, people have said, well, he's way too kind to Russia. He said all these nice things about
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Russia. What has his administration done with Russia? They've been way more harsh on Russia than
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Barack Obama was. Over and over and over again, they've sanctioned them and they've done much more
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pushing back against Russia than Barack Obama ever contemplated. So when you look at those things as
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a whole, you realize that when Trump is speaking publicly, he's typically looking to to massage a
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situation into an area where he wants it. Right. And a lot of that has been right to win. He wants to
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win. And if he believes that winning is the is the trade war, he'll say what he believes at that time
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that will that will give him an advantage in that negotiation. And if you see how
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he negotiates for real estate deals, he plays hardball and then it's over. And then he's like,
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that's my best friend. He is just negotiating and no one can see that. No, no. Everyone can see that
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no one will give him the respect to be able to say the guy is one hell of a negotiator
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because he scares the hell out of the other side. And you never know. He might do that. I don't know.
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OK, could we play the AOC audio that people are confused about capitalism?
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People talk about, oh, my gosh, like socialism, this socialism, that. Let's talk about capitalism.
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OK, let's what is capitalism? I think that capitalism and the idea of capitalism gets confused
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by a lot of people. I think capitalism, a lot of people think about capitalism and they're like,
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oh, capitalism, that means businesses. Right. That means a free market. Right. That means
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that means competing for having different products compete on the market. Right. That's what capitalism
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is. Right. That's not what capitalism is. You can have free market economies with many with
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mixed economies, which mixed economies exist. You can have free market economies with democratic
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socialist businesses. What on earth is a democratic socialist business? And a perfect example of that
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is worker cooperatives. So worker cooperatives are, you know, if you ever go to Vermont or if you go
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to upstate New York, there'll be grocery stores that are employee owned or they are cooperative.
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Uh, which means that people, people own the shares and workers own the shares in the company. So
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a more democratically quote unquote socialist business would have workers on the board of the
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corporation. Uh, instead of talking or I'm going to be completely hammered because I can't take this
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without alcohol. So it's really about democracy in the economy. Uh, I don't believe in government. It
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does not mean government owns everything. Socialism does not mean government owns everything.
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Now, now, now, now I think she is, she's got a cute little, uh, uh, uh, idea. Cause if you look at
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cooperatives, cause they do these a lot, like they'll have a, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, team built,
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uh, uh, the store, like a deli or something. And I hear about them all the time. Cause I'm reading
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about how they always go out of business and you're like, why do they go out of business?
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Cause it doesn't, it, it doesn't, uh, it doesn't work. Uh, that, that, uh, that's why now I'm sure.
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I'm sure. Uh, I'm positive that, uh, some of them do work. I just don't know where they work.
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Uh, the same thing with socialism. Now she says in there, you know, you, you could, you could have all,
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you could have all, uh, there's a lot of varieties of socialism. Uh, and, and, and I looked it up in,
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in Webster's dictionary and it's true. There are three kinds of socialism. And, and, and I think
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she does, uh, she's right when she says people, people get confused. Uh, and so I did my homework
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and, uh, uh, it makes a lot of sense to me when you go to Webster's and you look up, uh, socialism.
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There's three definitions. One, any various economic and, uh, political theory advocating collective
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or government ownership and admin, admin, um, and people running, uh, the means of production
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and distribution of goods. So that's the really hard, hardcore, uh, uh, socialist, um, kind of thing.
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That's where, Hey, that's not Sweden. I'll tell you that. And so maybe, maybe we, uh, maybe we
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can find Sweden under number two. It's a system of society or group living in, in which there
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is, well, uh, in which there is, uh, no private property. So that's not a sweet. Okay. Two has
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a B and, uh, is to, to be definition to be, to be, to be a system or condition of society
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in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state. Okay. So, uh, I don't
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really know the difference between one and two, cause they both, they both suck. It must be
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number three. Definition of socialism, uh, by Marion Webster, who I, I, I, I, I, I think
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I dated, uh, Marion at one point, a stage of society in Marxist theory, transitional between
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capital, capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and, uh, pay
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according to work done. I don't even know what the hell that means, but it's got a spooky
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word of communism in it. So it's probably, it's probably, it's probably, uh, I think AOC
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is confused, very confused. This is absolutely outrageous how they are trying to redefine absolutely
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everything. And she's a dope. She's an absolute, if I were BU Boston university, where she went
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and she, she got her, um, uh, her degree in economics and world politics, I would be so humiliated.
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I would be watching her. If I was a president to be you, I'd be like, Oh, how did she steal
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her diploma? And did she actually ever go here? Cause if this is the kind of crap we're turning
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out, we should all go to prison. Cause she's not very smart.
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Maybe we have more co-op liquor stores. That's the way we solve the AOC issue.
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I love that idea. There is not enough booze for Americans. If her kind are running the country,
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there's just not enough booze. I love the, her really innovative point of, you know, there
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are things called mixed economies and those exist. They do exist, you know, um, in every
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country that's ever existed. Yes. They've all had mixed economies. Like, yes, it's true
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that like, well, no, there's, there's pure communism. I mean, well, no, because even that
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they kind of turn into, you know, there's a lot of oligarchs in, in communism. And there's
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also black markets that pop up like crazy. There's no way to have a pure, uh, example
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of these systems. These are theoretical systems. It's interesting though, that she applies the
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purity only to capitalism, right? Like she's trying to make this case in which, uh, she
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can be socialist, but not mean the definition out of the dictionary that you just talked
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about. Um, but on the other hand, capitalism, well, that's not what you're thinking about
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when you're talking about the free market. Well, that's a massive element of what capitalism
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is. It's, I mean, the thing that's missing out of capitalism are the policies that you're
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pushing for. The things like, you know, Medicare for all and the green new deal and, and, and
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various other programs dating back, you know, half a century.
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But what I love is she's, is she says, you know, what we're talking about here is, you know,
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a mixed economy. You, you, socialism does not mean that the government runs everything.
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Uh, I just gave you the three definitions of socialism in the dictionary and all of them
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include ownership of the, you know, of the production lines. Your own green deal job says
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it's a fundamental transformation of this economy. And it talks about the industries that will
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have to be taken over by the government. How is that not the textbook definition of socialism?
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Yeah. She's trying, she's trying to have the one with the gulags and stuff. She's trying to
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have this little middle ground, which is like, well, what do you like? That's socialism. What
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don't you like? That's capitalism. That is the extent of her knowledge on this topic. Uh, and
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again, I think BU, when they gave her the diploma had already gone to the co-op liquor store a few
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too many times because it does not seem to be that she understands any of these issues.
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All right. I've sobered up a little bit and I want to, I want to take you to another story.
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This is from the real clear politics on his August 20th Fox news show, Tucker Carlson detailed how
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Senate antitrust subcommittee chairperson, Mike Lee transformed one of Google's harshest critics
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into one of his most loyal defenders faster than you can say monopoly. From 2011 to 2015,
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Lee pressed the federal trade commission to pursue antitrust violations against Google for its internet
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search dominance, grilled its CEO, Eric Schmidt for the company's abuses and supported the European
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Union's investigation into the search engine giant. After the FTC slapped Google on the wrist,
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he said he would investigate the Obama white houses in proper interference with the investigation.
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But now, according to Tucker Carlson, he has done a complete 180. As a possible explanation for the
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flip-flop, Carlson pointed to investigation or to investments in YouTube. I'm sorry, in Utah by Google
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and Facebook, along with Google's fundraising for Lee. The two-term senator declined an invitation to
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discuss the issues on the show. Okay. Now, let me give you this from Mike Lee.
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Mike is a friend of mine. Mike and I have spent lots of time recently talking about Google,
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talking about how do you use the law without bastardizing the law, without creating a situation
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which, at least as a constitutional conservative, I don't want. I don't want the government to overstep
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its bounds. Once we do this, it's just going to happen over and over again. And Mike doesn't want
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to overstep the bounds, yada yada. So I've been talking to him one-on-one recently about Google.
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I am constantly talking to him about, look at what Google's doing here, look at what Google's doing
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there. I have set up conversations with him and others, or at least offered those conversations,
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whether they happen or not, I don't know. So he's passionate about it, and I know it. He knows
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what's going on. So I immediately, yesterday when I saw that story, I immediately called Mike and said,
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dude, what is this about? He sent this to me. Let me just read it to you.
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The Tom Steyer-funded left-wing attack group CRU, which has sued President Trump more than 175 times,
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recently spun off a new attack entity devoted to attacking conservatives over technology issues.
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This new entity from Tom Steyer attacked Senator Mike Lee for allegedly changing his position on
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antitrust laws due to lengthy, multifaceted campaign by Google and other big technology companies.
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Now, let's just dissect this as we go along. Do you notice anything about that, Stu?
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Anything important stand out to you? Well, usually there's not a lot of conservative attacks that
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are foundationally based on a Tom Steyer attack group. Thank you. Thank you. So let's start there.
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I'm going to take a one minute break and then just give us a little look at Tom Steyer's more than just
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a candidate who's spent millions and millions of dollars to become president and just has been
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excluded from the debate. He's more than just a two-time loser. He's a very powerful guy. And Stu
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will explain who Tom Steyer is coming up in just a second. And then I'll tell you what Mike Lee was
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really saying and really doing. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Well, welcome to Labor Day. Labor Day weekend. You know, as a kid growing up, Labor Day weekend
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just meant the end of summer and white pants. Couldn't wear white pants anymore, white shoes,
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which I don't even think is a fashion. There are no fashion rules anymore, I don't think.
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Anyway, Labor Day, that's what it always meant to me that the Labor Day weekend, you would watch
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the Jerry Lewis telethon and the next day you were going to school.
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Oof. It was the end of your childhood summer times.
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But you know, it actually was started by the Marxists, the socialists, to extol the power
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of the unions and the workers of the world unite on Labor Day. But I don't think anybody thinks
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of it that way. I guess some do. But almost every holiday, this is going to blow your mind,
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almost every holiday that has come after probably 1880, 1890 maybe, has really been a socialist
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kind of thing. And then they perverted the other holidays. Do you know that we didn't,
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when during the founding, Stu, during the founding, you know, we didn't celebrate Christmas,
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right? We celebrated Christmas, but you did. It was not a holiday. Did you know that?
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I don't know that I knew that. Maybe I did at one point, but it didn't off the top of my head
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Yeah. I mean, we didn't have national holidays. Wasn't really like a big thing at that point,
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was it? No. But Christmas was always a holiday. I mean, Christmas. I mean, these were Christians,
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but do you know why we didn't have Christmas? We didn't have Grinch. We didn't have it was.
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Yeah. Right. Yes. Have you seen that documentary? Yes. It's really powerful.
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All right. With George Washington as a who. We didn't have Christmas, not because it wasn't the
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federal government's position, but because it was considered garish to on the day that Christ
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was born, that you would take a day off and not work. Yeah. What did you do for it? You didn't do
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anything, you know? Right. Right. Nor can you do anything for it. Right. You know, that should be
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Labor Day. But anyway, so we didn't, we, we didn't do it because we thought it would be too
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commercialized. It's, it was a very private thing. People worked and then they went home and they had
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their Christmas meal. Do you know now when we did make Christmas a holiday? I did not know I had a
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quiz today, but no, I don't know off the top of my head. Take a guess. When did Christmas become
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something we celebrated by taking the day off? Last Thursday. I don't, I don't know. Shut up.
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18, 1870. That's my next guess. 1870 or last Thursday. Isn't that crazy though? Yeah. I mean,
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it's, it seems recent for something like that. Right. So we had in 1870, we adopted New Year's
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Day as a day off the 4th of July Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. Even though
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we already celebrated all of those, we didn't have the day off. And that was at the beginning. And
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isn't it interesting? In 1858, Marx writes his, you know, manifesto. In 1870, Paris, the communist
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riots are going on. And we're beginning to be influenced by Marxism and socialists. 1880 is
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when we really start to go hard left because our people like Woodrow Wilson are coming back home
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from school in, in Germany. And so they're picking up all of this crap. So listen to this. In 1880,
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we get Washington's birthday. In 1894, when just before, uh, Roosevelt starts the progressive party,
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uh, we get Labor Day. Then we get Armistice Day in 1936. That's to, you know, recognize, uh, you know,
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the end of the war, uh, in, uh, 1968. That's changed to Veterans Day. Uh, in, in, uh, uh, during
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the, uh, Roosevelt, uh, time, we changed Thanksgiving, which was meant to be really, really sacred.
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Uh, and we celebrated from George Washington. We celebrated Thanksgiving Day, just no day off on it,
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no holiday. Uh, and we celebrated it and we had it on the last Thursday of, of, uh, November.
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But during the Depression, we bastardized it. We took this really sacred holiday and Roosevelt moved it
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to the third Thursday so you could have a Black Friday and have shopping season last longer.
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I mean, you want to talk about your gods. Columbus Day is 1968. MLK was 1983. It blows my mind that it was,
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it wasn't until 1870 that it was a day off for things like Christmas.
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How much we have changed as a nation. Now you could have taken it off. You could have given it,
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you know, to your, your staff if you wanted to, uh, you could, you know, everybody was free to do
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whatever they wanted. We didn't even have a standard flag. You could make a flag and you could put the
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stars any way you want. You could do anything you want with the flag up until Woodrow Wilson.
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We didn't have a national anthem until FDR. That's crazy how we have now become so nationalized
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where we were the exact opposite a hundred years ago. All right. I want to talk to you a little bit
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about the, uh, Dave Chappelle, uh, special on Netflix. Everyone tells me they're like, Glenn,
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it is the funniest thing ever. It is so brilliant. It's blah, blah, blah. It is brave. It is funny.
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It's foul in case you, you know, or, you know, offended by language. Uh, it is very foul. Um,
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but I don't think it's, I think we are forgetting that this is the way comedy was 15 years ago.
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You could make all of those jokes 15 years ago. Now him making those jokes that were perfectly fine
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before are, are, is, is now suddenly cutting edge. And it, to me says a lot. It says that the left
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has overplayed its hand, that even people like Dave Chappelle and, uh, what was the other one that
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came out recently? Uh, you had mentioned Joe Rogan. Is that who you're at? Joe Rogan. Did you see that
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one? I have not seen the Rogan special yet now. Oh my gosh. Is that funny? Really? Uh, the,
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the Joe Rogan special is really, really funny in exactly the same way where he's just saying
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whatever he wants to say. And he's just done with the, you know, the shunning society. I don't know
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how these two guys make it, but they are leading the way back to sanity as comedy always should.
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It should, it should just take on truth and show us ourselves in a, you know, uh, a parabolic
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mirror. Sort of surprising though. I mean, you, because for a long time, right. Comedy pushed the
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boundaries of criticizing traditions and, you know, religion and, you know, people who were too
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stodgy and such. Right. And, um, that has been kind of the pattern. But don't you think that that's
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what they're doing now? Well, that's what I was going to say. You hear them talk about it. It's
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new truth. It's new puritanism. Your puritanism. It is like this idea that you have to line up. I
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mean, Louis CK, who, uh, has been shunned from our society at this point. And there's a very funny
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part. I don't think he's coming back. It's a very funny part of the Chappelle, uh, about the Louis CK
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thing. Um, but he did a bit just recently basically saying exactly that, that, you know, people,
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you know, when you talk about which pronouns you're allowed to be at, uh, um, called and people get
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offended if they're called the incorrect pronoun, is that almost not identical to the way that we
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have to refer to royalty? You know, you'd have to refer to a Kings and Queens and, and Prince and
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Princess and, and all of that. And you're briefed before you meet them to make sure that you have
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the right, the right pronouns. Right. Uh, I mean, that is a thing. It's, it's, it's because it's
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from the left. Most comedians have avoided criticizing it, but there's been a few brave
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ones and, and most of them are on the left. I mean, I think Dave Chappelle is certainly no right
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wing figure. Neither is Louis CK. We've seen stuff like this from people like even like Patton
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Oswalt, who's an incredibly left wing guy who's just, who came out and said, look, you know, I,
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we're trying to help where we, I'm a progressive guy, but can you not yell at me every time I get
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a pronoun wrong that you changed two days ago? I mean, these are, these are insane new standards
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that are being put on, on, uh, on us. And comedians are really the ones that are, that lead the culture
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as far as pointing out how ridiculously absurd they are. And you know, you got to cheer it on. I mean,
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this is why I get annoyed when, uh, conservatives, and this does happen, criticize some comedian for
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making a joke that's inappropriate or whatever. Like this is the, the ultimate bastion of free
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speech. This is where it needs to exist more than any other place is comedy. You have to be able to
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exaggerate and say ridiculous things and not have them be taken, taken like policy statements.
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It's comedy. You have to be able to do those things. And it's beneficial for our society in
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the long run that you have people who can do that and not be fired or canceled every time they come out
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with the wrong joke. But they abandoned their post for the entire Obama administration. Totally. Um,
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they were becoming organs of the left. That's all it was. There was no comedy. It was, they were going
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for claptor. This, if you watch Chappelle's comedy, people will clap when he says something and he'll say,
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Oh, shut up. I mean, he is, he is not going for claptor. In fact, he hates it. Don't, I mean,
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when he said, you know, uh, it's impossible to be a celebrity now, it's impossible to do our job
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because everything, you know, anything you say, if somebody, if I've said something 15 years ago,
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you know, everybody wants you shut down and, and people start to clap like, yeah, that's right.
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And he's like, shut up. You know who I'm talking about? You. I'm talking about you.
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Because no one sees this in themselves, right? No one sees the annoying person who's trying to get
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everybody fired in themselves. But I mean, that's why I tried so hard to avoid it. And I know we've
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done that many times as well. I mean, you look at, uh, I mean, Sarah Silverman's a great example of
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this. Sarah Silverman who came out and was the, through the entire administration, she's a complete
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leftist. She's constantly criticizing everybody else. And then here she is. She did a bit back
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in, gosh, it was 2006 or 2007 where she used blackface to make a point, by the way, a point
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about woke racism. She was basically acting like an idiot and not understanding racism to point out
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the evils of racism, right? That's the point of the bit. Then in 2014, she comes out and now is so woke
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that she's critical of herself saying, wow, I, even though I was making the right point,
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I shouldn't have done that. It was insensitive. And in 2019, five years later, she's losing gigs
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because people are going, are pulling screenshots of her in blackface as if she was doing something
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that was racist. And it's like, well, this is the society you've built. Do you not understand that?
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You've put all of these rules up and applied them only to conservatives. And now conservatives at some
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level are trying to apply to you. And the culture in general has now decided, well, now that's the
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rule. When we decide 15 years afterwards, that something is completely wrong, we can retroactively
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get justice by ruining your life today. And that can not possibly be a sensible standard for a
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civilization to hold. When he was doing the Chappelle show, he was called into HR and they said,
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Dave, you can't say the F word, you know, is in regard to gay homosexuals. And he,
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he said, you can't, they can't, you can't use that. And he said, oh, okay. Oh, I don't care.
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So he decided not to use it. And he said later, I thought, wait a minute, how come I can't use
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that word, but I can use the N word and everybody's fine. Went back and she said, uh, well, because Dave,
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um, you know, you're not homosexual. And he's like, well, I'm not an N word either. So wait a minute,
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you're, you're implying that I am an N word. And that's why I can use that. You wouldn't want to,
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I'm not, that's not who I am. You would not want to get an HR conversation with Dave Chappelle. That
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would not go well for you. That's such a good point. Such a good point. We've all been saying
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it, you know, wait a minute, this is a slam. It's either a slam or it's not. Well, they can say it
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because that's who they, you're calling them that you as a white man is calling them saying, yeah,
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they can say it because that's who they are. Oh my gosh. The blaze radio network