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On today's show, Glenn Beck is joined by Ann Bauer, an essayist, writer, and friend of the show, to discuss the importance of standing up to Big Tech and Big Government. Glenn also talks about Bitcoin and the future of the future, and why he thinks Bitcoin is a good investment.
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But I think my mother and my family are probably grateful for it today
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because it stopped me from saying the words that I really felt
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And a great conversation with the essayist Ann Bauer,
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who had a conversation, well, had a couple of conversations in Minnesota
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where she used to live, and one of them went the typical way.
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I am well, and I loved your dramatic reading of my tweet.
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Uh, and I, I just loved your tweet, by the way, and is an essayist and she is, uh, the co-founder of story lies.
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So I, I assumed that I had mouthed off and, um, would not hear back from this woman whom I've known for 25 years.
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That's happened a lot with people in Minneapolis, but after, Oh, about 25 minutes, I got a text from her.
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I was only sharing photos of the items at the, at the places of Memorial.
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I was like, you know, what a gracious response.
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Um, I have had many people I had had, I'd been deluged by that Anne Frank quote that everyone was sending about, you know, they came to round us up from people in Minneapolis during the ice rates.
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And so I said to this woman, uh, Tim Waltz was censured by the Holocaust museum for his constant comparisons to mass genocide, which was something I'd been so happy to see, you know, this governor who I, who I have been loathing, frankly, and terrified of for years.
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Um, and at one point, Oh, he's, he's terrifying because he is both evil and dumb.
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And I, I went all around the country saying this before the election of 2020, 2024.
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I was like, Oh, people, you do not want this man, a heartbeat away from the presidency.
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But when I said this to her about Tim Waltz is being really harshly, I thought criticized by the Holocaust museum, accurately, harshly criticized.
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And of course, the reason she wasn't aware is because Minneapolis media is a blackout when it comes to any news that does not reflect wonderfully upon the governor.
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And so this very smart lady who I've known for all these years, who really does care and is deeply religious in her own way and would never say something that she thought was offensive, had no idea, no idea, thought that this was just a marvelous comparison to make.
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And she of course said the star tribune, the star tribune was her, you know, compass.
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And the star tribune is run by a publisher named Steve Grove, who served as commissioner of employment and economic development under Tim Waltz.
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Who is like an arm of the state administration.
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And it is shocking how the news in the star tribune specifically elsewhere to some degree is shaped in order to protect this man, which is how you all ended up saying in whatever fall 2024.
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My God, how can all these things just be coming out about the lies that he's told and the, and the service that he didn't perform that he said he did.
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And the trips to China that happened at really hinky times.
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Well, it wasn't reported because Minneapolis has only ever covered him as if he's, you know, the little prince who ascended and rules bountifully over the land.
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And you said to her at this, at this point, you know, um, what was it?
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Uh, I believe Tim Walz ginned up this dangerous violence situations and he did it to run cover for fraud investigations.
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After you said that, after you wrote, you know, what fraud, you just wrote.
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I mean, that is the nicest way of saying good God almighty.
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Oh, so do you even encapsulate in, you know, a text message?
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I happen to be sitting at, um, Bradley airport waiting for a flight.
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So I was like, how do I say, Oh, well, the five to six years of rampant ongoing state sponsored fraud that has been sucking billions of dollars, both state and federal into Minnesota NGOs, and then funneling it back to the DFL, that fraud, that's what I wanted to say.
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Well, um, she said, can you send me some articles?
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That kind of article I could find in the star tribune.
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They had done, you know, little smatterings of, Oh, bad Somali criminal.
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What I did was I found, uh, one or two pieces that made some links.
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You know, how could the Waltz administration be ignorant of this was the way that it came out in, for instance, national public radio and the New York times.
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And I did send those, I knew she wouldn't read anything with a paywall because, you know, she has her own life, her own media choices.
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I knew she wouldn't read anything from a right leaning source.
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So everything from Fox or, you know, daily wire, things like that was out.
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Um, and so I sent her, you know, these two articles and about an hour later, I got a text that said, Oh my God, do we ever get the money back?
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No, it is electing your attorney general again, no longer my attorney general.
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Because that would have been like the junior version.
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No, I'm a very proud resident of Thomas Massey's district in Kentucky.
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Uh, and, um, you know, I read this and I thought you handled this so well.
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Um, I wonder if you got the first response of, I'm sorry.
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I'm wondering if you got, I wonder if you got the, right.
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But I wonder if you got the first benefit of the doubt because she knew I better be careful
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Um, or if she would have reacted that to somebody who wasn't, didn't have any Jewish background
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I think she would have, I think just a genuinely nice lady.
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Um, so how do we, how do we, how do we spread that?
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I mean, I talked to so many people who are like, I can't talk to anybody.
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I say anything and it's just, it's like talking to a wall.
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How do we change what we do to be able to find those people like her that are genuinely
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I have lost almost every contact I have in Minneapolis, St. Paul.
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They've just announced the election is on Gavin, Gavin Newsom.
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He just did an interview where he said, you know, who scares me more than Donald Trump?
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Well, no, you probably aren't scared, but I don't know who scares you more than Donald Trump.
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You've been, you've spent what seems a lifetime now saying he's the scariest thing out there.
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And I told you because remember Ronald Reagan was a Nazi.
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He would just strap animals, uh, to the top of, of, uh, station wagons.
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Uh, and then Donald Trump, he was, he was the, he was Hitler's Hitler.
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He was, he was the guy that Hitler was afraid he might become someday.
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Now that we're cut, we're coming towards the next presidential election.
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We have to have somebody worse than Donald Trump.
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And I, I just, this is one of my favorite quotes.
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There are some people waiting in the wings in the MAGA world who would love to be the chosen ones of the Trump orbit orbit.
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You know, for whatever reason, Vance scares me.
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I mean, talk about a guy who put a mask on and his face grew into it.
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This is Gavin Newsom talking about how J D Vance is wearing a mask.
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And when I, when I hear Gavin news, when I read that today, honestly, this is how it sounded in my head.
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Coming from Gavin Newsom, it sounded like this.
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I gotta tell you, I gotta tell you, he scares me more than Trump.
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I mean, talk about a guy who put a mask on and his face just grew into it.
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Well, maybe not, maybe not because I apparently everybody's as dumb as Gavin Newsom.
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And if that guy's Hitler, how, where do you go scarier than Hitler?
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Just say, you know, like the German cannibal.
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I think he, JD Vance is like that German cannibal that was eating people.
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And I don't want to be hyperbolic about any of this.
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Well, thank you for keeping the hyperbole out of it.
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By the way, Jason, can I bring you in here for a second?
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Trump said about 10 days ago that, uh, Iran would have about 10 or 15 days before we would
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we would have action that would come up this weekend.
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Do we have any, you know, uh, I don't know, America two 50 freedom, two 50 events planned
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Any firework shows happening in Iran this weekend?
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We are getting a lot of signs that we could be seeing some fireworks displays.
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Um, you always look at some of the embassies that are around there and see what happens.
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The, the embassy in Lebanon, uh, the U S said that a non-emergency personnel should
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Um, China is now evacuating their people out of Iran.
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Um, the U S state department just said for non-emergency personnel to leave Israel, to leave
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It's not trending well for the Iranian regime right now.
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Vance came out and said, we're not going to get into a long protracted war in, uh, in
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It is not our intention to get into a long and try, uh, you know, intracted, uh, protracted.
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But I mean, you know, once you open a can of whoop ass, it's hard to get the ass back
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We hope that that doesn't happen, but it could.
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I mean, that's like saying, you know, FDR going and saying, look, we're not going to
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We're just going to go over and kick Hitler's ass and then come back and then we'll just
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elect a bunch of Republican presidents or just like Hitler.
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Uh, you know, you just don't know how it's going to go.
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And it, it, it concerns me because you know, Iran is not.
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They're not, they're not, it's not a good regime, you know, and they, they got a lot
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Well, and that's probably one of the biggest things that we should worry about is asymmetrically
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what, what the Iranian regime is going to do, because that, that will be their main,
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I guess, a point of attack on us to see if they can pull that off.
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So that's whatever sleeper cells they have in both South America and within our own country.
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But not only that, but cells within, uh, are close to military bases all over the, uh,
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You also got to look at the big one shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, which has always
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And they've already signaled that they plan on doing that while talks were going on in
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They actually did military drills where they shut down briefly the Strait of Hormuz,
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huge signal attack, uh, you know, signal of what they plan on doing.
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But when you talk about a long protracted war, I would like to know the definition of
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long in today's modern warfare, because I mean, I is, is two weeks long is three weeks
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It's going to take them a while to get air superiority, I think.
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But I don't even know the capability after Venezuela.
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I don't even know what our capabilities are as of now, but we expect the big guns to come
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The one thing is, I mean, the one reason why I think J.D.
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Vance could possibly get away with saying that is because he knows possibly what we
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I mean, you know, I, I would be shocked after Venezuela.
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I would be shocked if they can have, if we can't have air superiority.
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Minute one, the minute we cross the airspace, if, if the, any of their planes can actually
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get up off of the ground would, would shock me just based on what we did in Venezuela.
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Nobody knows really what happened in Venezuela.
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Never seen a country be able to do that before, which let's just savor that for a moment.
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We went from a country that was like, what, what?
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I mean, our withdrawal from Afghanistan was perfectly reasonable.
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We went from that four years ago to what the hell just happened in Venezuela.
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And China and Russia and everybody's like, what the hell is going on?
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Um, by the way, we're going to take your phone calls here in a second.
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What was going through JD Vance's mind when the Democrats, uh, lost it at the state of the union.
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I had one thought in my head the whole time, which is don't make a stupid face for two hours, which is hard for me.
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Can you imagine the pressure of sitting behind the president and not making a face?
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Cause I mean, you're sitting there literally for two hours.
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There's gotta be times when you're like, not thinking about stuff and you're like, yeah, I gotta, I got an itch on the inside of my nose.
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Gotta be really difficult, especially with that, which I mean, he did such a good job at that.
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I don't remember even seeing any expressions on his face or, uh, what's his face from the speaker of the house.
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I don't remember seeing an expression from either one of them, which says an awful lot.
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Cause I remember seeing Nancy Pelosi sitting behind him and rolling her eyes and everything else.
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There was no, I, there's no memory of what they did.
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I mean, that was such Stephen Miller was responsible for that.
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He just set them up and they walked right into the trap.
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And then he didn't have to say anything when he asked that question, you know, to stand up, stand up.
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If you agree with this, he didn't, he didn't say, you know, you have to agree.
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If you believe that the government of the U S serves U S citizens over illegal aliens.
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And Janie fans had to be sitting there going, don't, don't, don't look.
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If you want to know how America and the filibuster is supposed to work.
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He was standing at the table, just a glass of water, stack of papers.
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He, in that movie, he was a man all alone and he was willing to lose it all.
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This is the original filibuster, not a trick, not a procedural ghost, not a
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A man standing, speaking, burning daylight and paying a price.
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It actually comes, it's from the Dutch and it's like a
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It's control early in our history in the United States Senate.
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1806 at the urging of vice president, Aaron Burr.
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The Senate removed its previous question motion.
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That was the rule that allowed a simple majority just to cut off debate.
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They just knew gentlemen would restrain themselves.
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Well, history has a way of challenging assumptions, doesn't it?
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So for decades, they put the filibuster in and it was very, very rare.
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What is the reason we have the checks and balances?
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Why do we have our Congress and our Senate and everything set up the way it is?
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One of the reasons is to slow things down because people get passionate and they make stupid
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You make stupid moves when you are heated and in the moment.
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If there was something passing a group of people or one guy could stand up, but he had
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I telling you everything crappy about this company, this country came from the Woodrow Wilson
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So they were, there were, there was a, a small group of two people, both progressives.
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One was, uh, the fully at, um, what was his name?
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I think from Wisconsin, he is like a Godfather of progressivism.
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And two progressives stood up because Wilson wanted to now arm merchant Marine ships because
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And so we were sending stuff over in the over and, and he's like, we have to have, we have
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to have cannons on these ships so they can defend themselves.
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Two progressives actually stood up and went, no, that's, that's a prelude to war.
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And so he told the Senate, you need a new rule.
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And so this is when that stupid word that nobody knows what it means, cloture came to play.
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It was rule 22 and it ruled that it, it cloture meant that a super majority could end debate.
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At first it was two thirds in 1975, that was lowered to three fifths, 60 votes.
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So if you still wanted to stop something, you still had to stand there.
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You had to speak and the whole country could see you again.
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Think of Mr. Smith goes to Washington, Jimmy Stewart standing there, horse trembling, you
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know, collapsing under the weight of corruption and exhaustion, reading from the constitution,
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from the phone book, from the soul of the Republic.
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That scene is part of our bloodstream because it captures something really essential.
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If you believe enough, if you believe something is really wrong, then you must be willing to stand up and pay a price.
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And that may just be enduring, you know, enduring days and days of standing up and speaking.
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It was meant to be costly because it, it separates the serious from just the political.
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It's costly in stamina and it is costly in political capital.
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If you don't believe it, you're not going to do it.
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And it forces whoever wants to stop things to prove that they're serious.
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Well, the Senate adopted something called a two track system.
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And instead of grinding everything to a halt while a Senator spoke, the chamber could set aside the bill and move on with other business.
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And it was the two track system solved the problem they were trying to solve, which was paralysis of the entire chamber.
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What was happening was because of FDR, another progressive, they had grown the administration's administrative state.
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So large Congress and the Senate still had to pass the laws, the rules for the administrative state.
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And so they had all of these things they had to do.
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And so filibusters would start popping up and people would stand up and they're like, we have so much we have to do.
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It turned the filibuster from a rare act of physical resistance into just a routine procedural veto.
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Before there were two track filibusters, the filibuster was exhausting and therefore scarce.
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Why are people like me saying enforce the standing filibuster on these guys?
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Because we know it will cost them just like the state of the union cost them.
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They are going to be arguing against 80% of America, 71% of their own constituents believe in the save America act.
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One of the most popular unifying things I have seen come through Congress in 20 years.
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And it will require them to pay the price with their own constituents.
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Tell the American people while you're why you're shutting down the business of this government, the business of the people to do something the people are against.
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But once you take that price away, it's effortless.
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The real breaking point was not one speech, not one villain.
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1970, Vietnam, civil rights, Cold War, sprawling administrative state.
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In trying to prevent the paralysis, the Senate made paralysis easier.
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Because when obstruction no longer requires stamina, it no longer requires effort, it no longer even requires conviction, it only requires strategy.
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History is full of institutions that were destroyed by bad intentions.
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But sometimes, you know, in the name of practicality, really bad things happen.
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That's what Mike Lee and everybody else is saying.
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They just have to signal an intent to filibuster.
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And then that bill can't come back to the floor without 60 votes to proceed.
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If you require your elected Senator to stand and talk and defend why he wants to obstruct something, especially this popular, are you really weakening the filibuster?
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You are restoring the demand that you actually believe in something.
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Returning to a talking filibuster does not change the cloture threshold.
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Under the zombie filibuster, the majority must muster 60 votes automatically.
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Under the standing filibuster, the minority just has to continuously hold the floor.
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The zombie filibuster flips the entire Constitution on its head.
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The framers designed a Senate to cool the passions.
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They were the saucer to the House's hot teapot.
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Congress requires super majorities in very specific cases.
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Treaties, impeachments, constitutional amendments.
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But ordinary legislation, majorities rule.
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The filibuster evolved as a tool of extended debate, not as a permanent 60 vote requirement for everything.
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And when the minority can silently raise the threshold to 60 without lifting a finger,
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without standing there and saying, this is why it's important,
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If you're willing to halt the nation's business, you should be willing to stand in the well of the Senate
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and explain to the American people why, hour after hour, day after day, look into the camera,
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let the American people decide whether your stand is heroic or absurd.
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When senators no longer have to fight physically for their objections, they object more often, wouldn't you?
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Not because ideas were defeated, but because no one had to sweat.
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The majority must, the minority must endure.
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It would mean only the most serious objections turned into full-fledged filibusters.
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It would mean that when a bill dies, it dies in public.
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And we all should know where you stood and who stood and what you stood for.
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The Senate calls itself the world's greatest deliberative body.
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Do what America is demanding on both sides in overwhelming numbers.
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Have the balls to stand up for something you actually believe in.
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Some say the bubbles in an arrow truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth.
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Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light.