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00:00:00.000 Hello, podcasters. It is Wednesday. Great show for you today. Joe Biden, we're still waiting

00:00:04.700 on pins and needles. He's supposed to announce tomorrow. But we do have some information on

00:00:10.440 some of the people that are running against him. In particular, Kamala, did I say it right?

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00:00:50.200 any city in America, problems with homelessness and drugs and all sorts of stuff. And the

00:00:54.600 way the city council is implementing social justice, feel good policies and destroying

00:01:00.180 the city. It's incredible. We talked to someone who is on the board of a cemetery that has been

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00:03:17.560 to come tomorrow. So what we expect now and ABC News has confirmed and this is different

00:03:21.880 than previous reporting on when they're going to announce which were just sources inside the

00:03:26.340 campaign and the buzz is and blah, blah, blah. ABC News at least now claims that they've

00:03:31.280 confirmed that Joe Biden will announce he is running for president of the United States

00:03:35.640 tomorrow via a video. That will be Thursday and then Monday will be his first campaign

00:03:43.080 event and that will be I think in Pennsylvania. He's going to he's going to kick it off in

00:03:49.020 Pennsylvania. So it's interesting because, you know, he is the front runner coming in. He

00:03:54.420 will be the guy, you know, he'll come in as the favorite, you know, a favorite in 20 in

00:03:59.260 a 20 person field though is not necessarily that exciting. You know, you want to be ahead

00:04:03.880 obviously, but 20 person field can shake out in a million different ways, obviously. So

00:04:07.700 that's that's one of those things where what it could be the best moment of his campaign

00:04:12.800 is Thursday morning right before he plays presses play on the video, right? Like that's a very

00:04:18.060 realistic possibility because people are going to pick apart his record. It's very lengthy.

00:04:23.160 It is, you know, he's done a lot of stuff and he's run for president multiple times. And if you

00:04:28.780 remember, he did not win any of those times. He is not an unbeatable candidate by any means

00:04:33.740 in a primary. Democrats have handled him in the past. Now he comes in here with a sort of the cachet

00:04:39.580 of vice president for eight years, eight years that Democrats generally speaking, remember well.

00:04:44.680 Uh, although there's a turn on that a little bit with progressives lately, but generally speaking,

00:04:49.560 they remember the Obama administration pretty well. And he also comes in with, um,

00:04:57.020 a couple of advantages over people like Bernie Sanders. For example, uh, Biden does very well

00:05:02.940 with black voters. Uh, you know, this, he is, uh, he is, I think America's second black president.

00:05:09.100 So Bill Clinton was first, Biden would be second. Uh, I, I don't know if, if Barack Obama counts.

00:05:14.680 Uh, but I guess in the, cause I mean, depends on how he identifies on a particular day. We'll

00:05:18.940 have to figure that out. But, uh, Biden does very well with African American voters. I does

00:05:22.840 very well in, uh, in the Midwest is this kind of his target area, uh, that obviously could

00:05:27.640 be helpful in a place like Iowa could be helpful in some early primary States. It could be very

00:05:33.660 helpful to him in South Carolina where he is. It's probably the biggest favorite of all,

00:05:38.460 you know, as we start this off where he looks to be the strongest. So Biden's got a great

00:05:43.320 path. He's leading the polls. Uh, all the, I, I smell hair and touch people's shoulders

00:05:47.800 too often thing has not really given him too much of a bump, uh, downwards.

00:05:52.960 Well, may I bring you this from the CDC, uh, CDC, the centers for disease control?

00:05:59.240 Yes. Okay.

00:06:01.280 Public officials have confirmed the insect, and I can't pronounce the name of this insect,

00:06:08.340 is a blood sucking creature that feeds on animals and humans and has a particular fondness for

00:06:15.980 biting faces. They have confirmed the presence of this bug, which they have deemed the kissing

00:06:24.880 bug. They have said for the first time, it is here now, and it is in Delaware. I am not making

00:06:36.800 that up. So the kissing bug that likes to creep up behind you and kiss your face and nibble on your 0.95

00:06:46.000 face and your ears is in Delaware. Wow. Maybe this is what happened to Joe. Maybe he was bit a long 0.55

00:06:53.700 time ago or he's just the kissing bug. He may be, it's just him. Yeah. Cause I'm thinking it's more

00:06:59.980 like, uh, uh, a situation where like, like the fly, right? Maybe he went into a chamber with one

00:07:05.680 of these bugs and they meshed somehow physically and like the molecular structure of his body turned

00:07:11.300 into half kissing bug. So now he goes up and just, this is a good movie. Goodbye. Could, could, could,

00:07:17.520 could be, uh, a family in Kent County, Delaware contacted local health authorities after something

00:07:23.180 had bitten their child's face while she was watching television. Could have been Joe Biden.

00:07:28.960 I could have been Joe Biden. Could have been Joe Biden. Could have been. I don't think there's

00:07:32.900 any doubt. In fact, now I've confirmed it. ABC news is confirming that too. Uh, yeah, they're

00:07:38.520 confirming the kissing bud fly meshing theory. This is, uh, this is big. Don't call them for

00:07:45.380 confirmation. Fever, swelling at the infection site, fatigue, rash, body aches, uh, eyelid swelling,

00:07:51.620 headache, loss of appetite, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, swollen glands, and enlargement of the

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00:08:21.120 You look exasperated. I, I, I, I, the, the, the fat sex therapist. I, I just don't, I don't, 0.99

00:08:28.920 I don't know if I can do it, but I'm going to play the audio now of the fat sex therapist. 0.97

00:08:35.860 Don't do us any favors. Here, here it is. 0.92

00:08:38.120 Body size has always been a marker of coloniality, um, especially since the rise of capitalism in the

00:08:45.740 1600s and, and how we've seen white supremacy at work in many of these capitalist structures.

00:08:52.460 Stop, stop, stop. Totally agree so far. I am in on the coloniality.

00:08:57.360 Colonial, coloniality. This is not even a word. This is not even a word. You're making up words now.

00:09:04.520 I disagree with that. Coloniality is definitely. Coloniality. If it's a word, it's a new word.

00:09:10.920 They print words all the time.

00:09:14.800 Ugh. It does just, what's it say?

00:09:17.200 It's showing up mostly in just like social justice. 0.74

00:09:20.400 Yes. They make up words. They're making up words.

00:09:25.080 Coloniality of power is a concept, uh, interrelating the practices and legacies of European colonialism in social orders and forms of knowledge, advanced and post-colonial studies, decoloniality, and, not coloniality, coloniality, and Latin American,

00:09:43.080 look, this is, this is, this is the, who are the two guys that you had on? It was a Peter Boghossian, uh, and James Lindsay.

00:09:50.820 You had them on for a podcast, which is coming up in a few weeks, I think.

00:09:53.980 Yeah.

00:09:54.220 Or we're releasing it. And these are the guys that, two of the three people who put these fake studies and all of these, uh, you know.

00:10:01.240 This is their kind of stuff.

00:10:02.040 This is their stuff. Like these things, they're just a jumble of words.

00:10:05.080 Like they just come up with these new words and they throw them in there and they make it seem like these are proven concepts or have some merit.

00:10:11.760 And people, it makes you sound smart if you can pronounce them, unlike me, but if you could, it makes you sound smart for a few minutes and until someone decides to start thinking about it. 0.97

00:10:20.680 And then they say, wait a minute, what you've just said, you know, it's like the, the, that moment in Billy Madison where it's like everything you've said has just made everyone here dumber. 0.99

00:10:27.920 Like that is like you have made everyone here stupid because of your answer. 0.96

00:10:33.760 But, but, but what she's doing here is, is such important work. 1.00

00:10:37.940 Again, back to the fat sex therapist. 1.00

00:10:41.000 And so the end of fat phobia, it means the end of Western civilization as we know it. 0.98

00:10:46.520 Stop.

00:10:47.020 Stop.

00:10:47.820 The end of fat phobia means the end of Western civilization as we know it.

00:10:56.080 So wait, is she arguing for this or against it?

00:10:58.540 So she's saying if, if fat phobia ends, which you'd assume that she wants to happen.

00:11:02.560 Then it will be the end of Western civilization.

00:11:05.480 So she wants that to happen.

00:11:07.180 She wants the, she wants the end of Western civilization. 0.99

00:11:09.860 Now, here's the thing.

00:11:11.240 Western civilization, fat phobia has nothing to do with anything except what people look at and say, I want a piece of that.

00:11:24.140 Okay.

00:11:24.840 It's what you generally can't have or don't have.

00:11:29.400 It's what the rich have.

00:11:31.080 Okay.

00:11:31.260 That's what it is.

00:11:32.520 It started like this years and years and years and years and years ago when everybody was a surf or a smurf.

00:11:39.360 I'm not sure.

00:11:41.040 I'm not up on my colonial.

00:11:43.100 What is, what is it again?

00:11:44.680 Coloniality. 0.93

00:11:45.660 Coloniality. 0.93

00:11:46.760 Long before the free market system. 1.00

00:11:49.940 Painters were painting fat asses naked on, on women and hanging them in their castles. 1.00

00:11:59.500 Why? 1.00

00:12:00.760 Because the picture of a fat woman was the picture of health and wealth. 1.00

00:12:07.340 Mm-hmm.

00:12:08.160 You weren't starving.

00:12:10.060 Why did, why did ladies paint their faces so white in France? 1.00

00:12:14.980 Because you had to work outside to grow your own food.

00:12:19.460 So the idea of a very pale skin was a sign of leisure. 0.95

00:12:25.120 Now we glorify not white skin because white skin, you're sitting indoors all the time. 1.00

00:12:32.640 You're working.

00:12:33.800 The sign of a tan is, oh, he plays golf all the time.

00:12:38.840 He must be wealthy.

00:12:40.280 Oh, they're outside.

00:12:41.440 They must be jet setters.

00:12:43.360 That's all this is.

00:12:45.100 That's all this is.

00:12:46.320 That's all this is a sign of leisure time.

00:12:49.680 But fat phobia, that doesn't explain fat phobia.

00:12:53.020 Yeah, it does.

00:12:53.700 How?

00:12:54.480 Because.

00:12:55.060 People are afraid of fat people and you've not discussed that.

00:12:57.440 Because if you are, if you are fat, it's the sign that you are just an average working 0.99

00:13:03.020 Joe that is going out there, busting their butt, you're a mom in the school, you know, 0.97

00:13:08.100 going to take the kids to school, you don't have time to work out, you're just eating at

00:13:12.920 McDonald's where the rich, well, they have personal trainers, personal trainer, they have

00:13:18.600 time to go and work out, they have time to exercise, it's the in crowd.

00:13:23.840 That's all that is.

00:13:25.660 That's all that is.

00:13:28.240 That's so, but you think that's what she's talking about when she's talking about fat

00:13:31.600 phobia?

00:13:32.540 No, she's, no, no, no, no.

00:13:34.240 She's saying.

00:13:34.680 She's talking about like, you won't hire fat people and you don't, you don't think they're

00:13:37.920 sexy and you, like there, it's like there's these, all these privileges of not being fat

00:13:43.900 that are being applied here.

00:13:44.420 That's what she's talking about.

00:13:45.560 Okay.

00:13:45.940 She's talking about, you know, the privilege of skinny people.

00:13:49.960 This is a, this is a society of privilege, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:13:54.500 Yes, but it's a human thing.

00:13:56.520 But she's also arguing for that to be torn down, right?

00:13:58.740 Like she wants Western civilization to end.

00:14:02.200 Correct.

00:14:02.700 Okay.

00:14:03.060 Correct.

00:14:03.560 Because it'll be replaced with rainbows and unicorns and puppy dogs.

00:14:07.340 Always is.

00:14:07.840 Always is.

00:14:08.480 All the countries around the world that have gotten rid of capitalism always worked out

00:14:11.960 well.

00:14:12.240 Yes.

00:14:12.520 And boy, they, you want to talk about skinny people and go to North Korea.

00:14:17.900 Uh, all right, go ahead and play some more.

00:14:20.440 Those things are connected.

00:14:22.620 Uh, the end of fat phobia would mean the end of racialized capitalism.

00:14:26.220 Um, so when I talk about structures and systems, I'm talking about the root of it all.

00:14:30.000 I'm not talking about us making a new law or us. 0.99

00:14:33.620 Um, I don't know, doing something else stupid like that. 0.99

00:14:37.860 If we need to bring it all down because it's all toxic and bad. 1.00

00:14:42.520 So she wants to tear down the whole society. 1.00

00:14:44.680 Because it's all toxic.

00:14:45.520 I really don't understand though.

00:14:46.940 Like, so the theory being, if we were to become unafraid of fat people, then racial capitalism

00:14:57.080 would go away.

00:14:58.260 Can you draw the connections there?

00:14:59.920 Tonight we're going to start talking about how to politicize our definition of body image

00:15:04.240 because oftentimes we actually get stuck thinking of it, uh, as a, um, you know, through

00:15:09.000 the lens of a white supremacist white supremacist happens every day in these little things.

00:15:15.800 And yes, even in fat, what, um, we should be critical of the use of science and production

00:15:21.960 of knowledge to contribute to promoting this idea of certain bodies that are fit, able

00:15:27.300 and desirable is my fatness.

00:15:29.920 Is that what causes my high blood pressure or is it the, my experience of weight stigma? 0.97

00:15:37.700 I'm pretty sure it's your fat sweetheart. 0.96

00:15:41.640 My experience of fat stigma? 0.97

00:15:44.180 Yes.

00:15:44.700 Yes.

00:15:45.880 Uh, however, she pivots to support scientific findings as she pondered intentionally pursuing 0.99

00:15:51.160 weight loss, claiming what we're discovering scientifically is, uh, is that it's just not possible.

00:15:57.200 Um, she challenges all authorities, not just the authority that science has given us, but

00:16:04.440 also the legal authority.

00:16:05.860 The same way I want to challenge all laws.

00:16:08.740 I want us to challenge all prisons and policing.

00:16:12.680 She's a therapist who claimed that she will never have a professional cold of code of ethics 0.92

00:16:18.520 that tells her what she's allowed and not allowed to do with her body. 0.72

00:16:22.900 Um, she, she, um, she doesn't think that it's surprising that the man who shot up the Christ

00:16:32.060 church in New Zealand was a fitness instructor instructor.

00:16:37.560 She said, there is a clear communication.

00:16:41.340 Listen to this.

00:16:42.640 There is a clear communication that there is still an idealized body.

00:16:46.760 Nazi Nazis love this idea of the perfect body.

00:16:51.040 So it makes a lot of sense that he was a fitness instructor.

00:16:56.500 You know, she's going to be surprised to hear it doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:16:59.780 That's probably something that she should be aware of.

00:17:02.700 Makes a lot of sense.

00:17:03.840 Does it?

00:17:04.380 A lot of sense. 0.93

00:17:05.760 All fitness instructors are Nazis. 0.54

00:17:08.680 Nazis are clearly bad guys, but there's a few defining characteristics of a Nazi and I can't 0.90

00:17:26.000 believe I have to go through this, but I will one. 0.99

00:17:30.360 They hate Jews to they hate everyone that doesn't look like them. 0.88

00:17:38.680 That's important to say it that way because they happen to be in Germany. 0.98

00:17:44.360 So they believed in the Aryan race, but you could be called a Nazi if you hate everyone

00:17:51.340 else except your race.

00:17:54.280 That's a sign of a Nazi. 0.88

00:17:57.100 Another sign of a Nazi and you really have to have more than one. 0.66

00:18:01.300 One, you're a nationalist, which means you put your country first at the expense of all

00:18:10.200 others and you believe your country should rule the world even if it's through brutal force.

00:18:19.620 Next one, socialist.

00:18:22.580 You have to be a socialist.

00:18:25.140 You have to believe that yes, your country should run everything even by force in the

00:18:34.060 entire world, but you also believe your leader and a group of you Nazis should lead the entire 0.85

00:18:42.720 country.

00:18:43.380 And even if it's through force, tell everybody else what exactly they should do, should not

00:18:50.060 do, what they should eat, how they should work, all of that.

00:18:54.320 That's what a Nazi is, not a fitness instructor. 0.88

00:18:59.980 Okay, not a fitness instructor.

00:19:03.740 Also, a Nazi is not necessarily someone you disagree with.

00:19:11.340 Yes, I disagree with all Nazis, but no, not all people I disagree with are Nazis.

00:19:24.440 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:19:33.740 You know, the Blaze has had several graduating classes here, and one of the original alumni

00:19:48.900 is Will Kane.

00:19:52.100 And Will is an amazingly smart guy, really good guy.

00:19:56.900 He's got a great career going for him.

00:19:59.020 And I'm thrilled that he, you know, really kind of kicked his career off in some ways

00:20:05.140 here, and now at ESPN, and he is demonstrating such courage.

00:20:11.300 He didn't have to get involved in this Kate Smith thing, but listen to this argument.

00:20:16.640 What show is this from, Stu?

00:20:18.480 I don't remember.

00:20:20.440 It's him, it's Stephen A. Smith, and I think Max Kellerman on ESPN.

00:20:24.400 So listen to what Will has to say about Kate Smith.

00:20:27.860 You're asking me and Max, Will, what are you suggesting should be done?

00:20:32.840 Okay, I'm suggesting it's an absolute and utter fool's errand to go back through history,

00:20:38.180 decades, someone who's been passed away for 30 years, incidents which occurred eight decades

00:20:43.280 ago, and apply modern historical standards to something you can almost reach a century.

00:20:47.660 I'm suggesting that your standard, yours, only requires a handful of people to be a little

00:20:53.000 outraged to go back and tear statues down.

00:20:55.860 And I'm telling you that by your standard, President Obama's statutes would not stand

00:21:00.320 to today's standards when it comes to gay rights.

00:21:02.740 And that to me is ask Obama.

00:21:05.640 That's fair.

00:21:06.320 Don't ask, don't tell.

00:21:07.240 What are you talking about?

00:21:07.840 Obama was openly opposed to gay rights.

00:21:09.560 And by today's state, that would be ask.

00:21:11.320 I hate this.

00:21:11.920 Well, that's pretty damn easy for you to say because you're not the offended party.

00:21:16.760 It's real easy for the person or the group that's not the offended party to take that position.

00:21:21.740 And let me, let me just, you're going, stop, by the way.

00:21:25.120 Stop.

00:21:25.780 I mean, as a member of the not offended party in almost every circumstance, it is not easy

00:21:30.940 at all.

00:21:31.620 No.

00:21:31.840 The easiest thing in the world is to act offended.

00:21:33.940 Right now, I'm with you.

00:21:35.040 It's called virtue signaling.

00:21:36.620 Exactly.

00:21:36.980 That's the easiest thing in the world to do.

00:21:40.040 Correct.

00:21:40.200 Just go on with whatever, whatever party is being offended.

00:21:42.980 You side with them.

00:21:44.280 You look virtuous.

00:21:45.540 You can't get in trouble.

00:21:46.760 It's the easiest thing in the world to do.

00:21:49.440 It takes great courage to do what, uh, uh, what Will Kane did.

00:21:54.020 And it, it takes a little bit of thing.

00:21:56.740 I don't know anything about Stevens.

00:21:59.180 Steven A.

00:21:59.620 Smith.

00:21:59.900 Yeah.

00:22:00.340 Steven A.

00:22:00.860 Smith is, you know, he's in, he's an interesting guy.

00:22:02.740 Cause sometimes you're like, yes, yes.

00:22:04.140 I totally agree with what he's saying.

00:22:05.680 And then other times you're like, oh man, I, why is he saying that?

00:22:07.680 I mean, this, it takes no thinking at all.

00:22:10.260 I mean, listen to what he just said.

00:22:11.620 Uh, you know, I'm the, my people are the, uh, aggrieved party, aggrieved party.

00:22:16.620 Well, that's why we don't put the family of those who a crime has been committed against

00:22:22.640 in the jury box, nor do we put them in the seat of judgment on sentencing.

00:22:30.180 We don't, we can listen to the aggrieved party and hear them and say, okay, I see how

00:22:37.480 much damage has been done here.

00:22:39.120 And we'll take that into consideration.

00:22:41.620 But we don't let the aggrieved party judge or sentence.

00:22:47.680 That's what's different about America.

00:22:50.300 You're supposed to be blind on this.

00:22:53.220 And, and if you are angry, you don't listen.

00:22:58.060 And that's not, that's not me saying that that's science.

00:23:02.060 You don't listen.

00:23:03.940 Your shields go up because you're angry and you're injured.

00:23:07.360 The Kate Smith thing is so easy to talk about because a, it didn't just happen 80, 90 years

00:23:16.020 ago.

00:23:16.640 It was a parody.

00:23:18.400 It was making fun of racists at the time, but you're so angry about it that you won't

00:23:26.680 even listen to that.

00:23:27.860 You won't even, you won't even look for that.

00:23:30.380 It's similar to OJ, right? 0.91

00:23:32.680 Like it wasn't listening to the evidence that made that him be not guilty.

00:23:36.440 Even as jurors on the case have now admitted, it wasn't about him.

00:23:41.800 It was about how we've been wronged all this time.

00:23:44.360 That's a terrible way to, to make decisions on individuals.

00:23:47.860 But if you happen to be a collectivist, well, then it makes a lot of sense.

00:23:52.640 And that's why this fight between individualism and collectivism is so important.

00:23:56.380 I mean, because you can always be on the wrong side.

00:23:58.340 Anyone can say they're at the offended party.

00:24:00.000 It's a, it's a great job by, by Will Kane there to stand up.

00:24:02.620 And he's not perfect.

00:24:03.940 I mean, he's a Cowboys fan, but other than that, he's pretty good.

00:24:08.060 Coming up next, my hometown, Seattle, dying.

00:24:17.160 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:24:19.840 Seattle is dying and it's dying because of a socialist system and it is spreading all over the country.

00:24:38.840 Just this last weekend, the Dallas, Texas DA said, as long as people steal things that are worth less than $750, he will not prosecute unless it was to enrich themselves.

00:24:57.560 What the hell does that even mean?

00:24:59.700 What he meant was there are people that need things and if they go into a store and they really need it and it's less than $750, unless they were taking that to sell it, you know, then, then they're okay.

00:25:18.080 We're not going to prosecute.

00:25:19.600 That's the kind of stuff that leads to what's happening in Seattle and San Francisco.

00:25:25.740 And it is destroying so many of our great, great cities.

00:25:31.960 It's destroying them.

00:25:34.480 Will anyone stand up?

00:25:38.020 Well, the people are in Seattle.

00:25:39.740 And what was so incredible in this documentary was to see how out of touch, no, to see how arrogant the city council and the mayors are and see how they despised the people who voted for them.

00:26:00.180 They despise them.

00:26:03.740 We go there in one minute.

00:26:09.740 Okay, Seattle on fire, totally on fire.

00:26:23.060 Let me play cut for Seattle cop blogger quits, calls it a concentration camp.

00:26:27.800 Listen to this.

00:26:29.460 There was a police officer named Todd Wiebke.

00:26:31.960 He prided himself on getting his boots dirty, on meeting the people on the fringes, in the camps.

00:26:37.020 He tried to find common ground as human beings, and he tried to police.

00:26:41.940 He wrote a blog for a long time, first-person musings about patrolling what happens in the dark shadows of West Seattle.

00:26:49.380 Not long ago, he wrote this.

00:26:51.540 This week, I dealt with crisis, with narcotics, with heartache, and with liars.

00:26:57.120 Sometimes all at once, sometimes one at a time.

00:27:00.160 I am helpless to unlock the doors when dealing with a person trapped in a horror inside of their own mind.

00:27:06.420 Lord, I try, but I am a limited man with just a little skill.

00:27:10.240 I still love coming to work.

00:27:11.880 We have an awesome city with the ability to adapt and overcome.

00:27:15.400 The only way to lose is to not try.

00:27:17.660 We are trying to solve this crisis, and we will not lose.

00:27:22.780 And then one day this past October, Todd Wiebke was told by one superior to impound an RV and clean up the spot.

00:27:30.520 And when he did it, another superior scolded him for doing so because of new protocol.

00:27:36.320 He had a belly full, and he walked into HR, and he quit.

00:27:40.580 Retired, just like that.

00:27:42.280 I feel like I abandoned the ship, that I walked away, and I did, because I couldn't do it anymore.

00:27:49.400 It was just the bureaucracy built up to the point where I felt like I was no longer necessary as a police officer,

00:27:56.820 that the system had a different idea of how they wanted to handle it, and I was an appendix.

00:28:01.860 I needed to be gone, so I'm gone.

00:28:04.520 Ask anyone.

00:28:05.640 They'll tell you this was a good cop, the kind we want out there, the kind we need.

00:28:10.060 But I will tell you that there is no morale.

00:28:14.560 There's a love for the job.

00:28:16.240 He says the drugs, the camps, the theft, the rot, and the disgrace of it all don't have to destroy Seattle.

00:28:22.680 They're being allowed to.

00:28:24.660 Everybody's trying to do the right thing.

00:28:26.440 It's just coming out wrong.

00:28:27.780 Listen to these next words carefully.

00:28:30.020 Let them sink in.

00:28:31.000 You know, I've said it before, and I'll say it again, that the only thing I can equate it to is

00:28:35.600 we're running a concentration camp without barbed wire, up to and including the medical experiment of poisoning these people with drugs.

00:28:44.560 I don't know how else to put it, and it's infuriating.

00:28:48.400 Now, when people speak out, they're shouted down.

00:28:56.540 Here's a lifetime resident of Seattle calling out the city council for ignoring solutions to the homeless problem.

00:29:04.940 Listen.

00:29:05.820 Steve Danashek has spent his whole life in Seattle.

00:29:08.920 He says when misdemeanors stopped being enforced, it was the beginning of the end.

00:29:13.340 And at that point, everyone got the message, it's a free-for-all down here.

00:29:17.900 It's the Wild West.

00:29:19.280 No laws apply.

00:29:20.900 Do whatever you want. 0.99

00:29:22.440 I could go down here and pee on the street or crap over there or smoke a joint. 0.94

00:29:27.880 I have no one's going to get arrested for doing that because they're not doing that. 0.97

00:29:32.120 They're not arresting anyone.

00:29:33.800 If I was a city council member, I might say, well, we're overwhelmed.

00:29:37.400 We've got this homeless epidemic.

00:29:38.820 No, no, no.

00:29:39.520 We don't know what to do.

00:29:40.360 The city council is not overwhelmed by anything. 1.00

00:29:42.400 The city council are idiots. 1.00

00:29:44.320 They know that there are solutions out there. 1.00

00:29:47.040 They simply have turned their back on the solutions.

00:29:49.860 The problem is, and you see in this documentary, it's from KOMO News in Seattle, called Seattle is Dying.

00:29:58.340 Watch it because it's coming to a city near you.

00:30:01.800 The city council is brutal, brutal to the people who are standing up.

00:30:08.060 They're like, you've got to call the police, and the people are saying, I did call the police, and they said to come to you.

00:30:14.480 Now you're sending me back to the police?

00:30:16.680 People are just getting the runaround.

00:30:18.560 That's why when I'm trying to describe this socialism, this Marxism that's coming, I try to do it charitably, but it is a group of non-expert experts who believe truly that they are smarter than the people that they serve.

00:30:36.020 They make the rules, the laws, and market decisions that, yes, may hurt individuals, but those individuals are just part of out-of-favor groups, and those individuals can either afford it or deserve it.

00:30:52.920 All things are done in the guise of, or for the goal of, social or economic justice.

00:31:02.700 As those things begin to break down, those in control also begin to abuse their power through graft, greed, and ignorance.

00:31:13.360 That's what's happening.

00:31:18.400 They're just getting cronies coming in saying, oh, no, you're a genius.

00:31:25.140 No, we can fix this.

00:31:26.200 No, that's right.

00:31:27.000 Give me some power.

00:31:29.300 Give me some money, and I'll help you.

00:31:32.460 And the people are getting, and the people on city council and the people in city hall are growing further and further away from the people and the problem.

00:31:40.220 And that's what's happening in Washington, D.C. as well.

00:31:45.820 Those people in Washington, D.C., do you think they actually like you?

00:31:49.960 Do you think Nancy Pelosi wants to come over to your house and have dinner at your house? 1.00

00:31:55.440 Do you think she would just fit in with all of your friends, that she'd be saying the same kinds of things that you're saying?

00:32:02.980 Do you think?

00:32:04.360 Because I don't.

00:32:05.360 I don't think most of the people in Washington would be comfortable around you, would be comfortable around me.

00:32:15.360 They would come and see me because I have some sort of influence, they think.

00:32:21.780 And so they'll come and see me, but they don't want to.

00:32:25.400 They don't need to come see you, especially if we get rid of the electoral college.

00:32:29.620 They'll never see you.

00:32:31.180 That's what's happening in Seattle.

00:32:35.020 We're talking about a documentary that came out from KOMO News in Seattle called Seattle is Dying.

00:32:40.940 I was shocked by this documentary because I grew up in the Seattle area, grew up in Mount Vernon, Washington.

00:32:47.600 I love Seattle.

00:32:48.940 It's one of my favorite cities.

00:32:51.080 And it's just being destroyed.

00:32:52.940 And I saw this documentary and I thought, I recognize the street corners that this is all happening on.

00:33:00.020 This used to be a great part of the city.

00:33:03.400 It's now just a horror show.

00:33:05.900 And all in the name of Marxism and compassion, they are just destroying people.

00:33:13.140 And I mean the homeless people, just destroying them.

00:33:16.360 And all of the people that are living there are living through hell.

00:33:20.680 And it doesn't seem to me like the city council has anything but contempt for the people who live in Seattle, pay taxes and are trying to run businesses or just go to work.

00:33:30.840 Ari Hoffman, he is a board member on a cemetery in Seattle that was part of this documentary.

00:33:38.580 And we wanted to get him on to talk a little bit about, you know, his experience and what happened with the cemetery that he's a board member of.

00:33:49.080 Hello, Ari.

00:33:49.520 How are you?

00:33:50.900 Good morning, Glenn.

00:33:51.660 How are you doing today?

00:33:52.640 Very good.

00:33:53.380 Thank you for coming on the program.

00:33:56.640 My pleasure.

00:33:57.840 Sure.

00:33:58.040 I don't know your politics, don't really care about your politics, but do want to hear about your experience in Seattle and what happened to you and the cemetery that you're a board member of.

00:34:11.300 Sure.

00:34:11.680 I've been on the board for about 10 years, and the cemetery has been around for 130 years.

00:34:16.580 And the name of the cemetery is Bikor Cholim, which translates to helping the sick.

00:34:20.920 And it funds our synagogue services for the Jewish community.

00:34:24.060 And what happened was I got a call about a year ago exactly that said, hey, Ari, we have a problem.

00:34:30.040 Prostitution, drug dealers, pimps, drug dealers, and addicts have all moved into the cemetery.

00:34:36.640 We have a real problem here.

00:34:37.960 They're causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage.

00:34:40.320 Can you help us out?

00:34:41.580 And I went to elected officials.

00:34:43.380 I went to city officials.

00:34:44.620 I went to anybody I thought could help, and nobody was interested in helping us.

00:34:47.700 So I took it to the media, and we started this massive media campaign, and finally enough pressure was brought to bear that things started changing.

00:34:55.660 And we even had to bring armed former Israeli soldiers out to the cemetery to guard some kids who are putting flags in the ground for a Memorial Day event that they do every year.

00:35:05.180 What part of Seattle is it?

00:35:06.580 This isn't a bad part of Seattle?

00:35:09.220 No.

00:35:09.400 Or is all Seattle?

00:35:11.060 It's in Northgate.

00:35:11.600 Well, so this is in Northgate, which is a nice neighborhood in Seattle.

00:35:15.620 And nothing ever happens out there.

00:35:17.380 We haven't had anything like this in 130 years of being in operation.

00:35:21.620 And because of policies by the Seattle City Council, this is now happening.

00:35:25.140 So what are the policies that lead people to go and live in a cemetery?

00:35:30.860 It's much enabling behavior.

00:35:32.620 People are coming from across the country because they hear that they can get free whatever they want in Seattle, and nobody's going to do anything.

00:35:39.460 Nobody's going to enforce the rule of law, and they can get away with whatever they want.

00:35:43.140 They can live wherever they want, and nobody's going to do anything about it.

00:35:45.800 When I was in San Francisco a few years ago, I was driving my car, and these homeless people came, and they were walking in the street, and they just started pounding on my hood.

00:35:57.620 And they were belligerent.

00:36:00.300 Who do you think you are with your car?

00:36:02.500 And I was like, I'm just driving to the hotel.

00:36:05.000 I'm what?

00:36:05.660 And they were coming across the street, and they made it very clear they own the street, not the cars, not the people who are trying just to get to and fro and obeying the law.

00:36:20.500 They own the street.

00:36:22.040 Is that attitude pervasive now in Seattle as well?

00:36:27.740 Yes.

00:36:28.140 Near my office in Georgetown, which is a more industrial area, a whole bunch of these RVs have moved in, these broken-down vehicles, which people are living in.

00:36:35.960 And the city council keeps claiming these are homeless people, but I know that they're running drugs and other criminal enterprises out of these vehicles.

00:36:41.860 And when I go up to confront them to get them to move, they say things to me like, I make more money dealing drugs than you'll ever see in a lifetime.

00:36:49.000 It's become a very dangerous neighborhood.

00:36:51.080 It's not safe.

00:36:51.760 And Georgetown is unique because it has a residential neighborhood mixed in with commercial neighborhood, and the residents there are beside themselves.

00:36:58.200 So one of these people sold in a full-size semi-truck, the cab part of it, and crashed into a few cars the other day.

00:37:05.400 It's just out of control in that neighborhood.

00:37:07.540 So, Ari, you're running for city council.

00:37:10.580 Yes, sir.

00:37:11.020 I decided I had enough of what was going on and that the only way to get things done sometimes is to step in yourself and try and get it done.

00:37:18.320 So that's what I did.

00:37:19.040 I stepped up to the plate and said, it's got to be better than what these guys are doing.

00:37:22.740 And I started doing my research, and I started analyzing, and I realized this was all a policy problem.

00:37:26.980 And it was all the behavior they were enabling in Seattle, and they're not treating the drug addiction.

00:37:31.340 They're not treating the mental illness, and they're calling it a housing crisis, a homeless crisis.

00:37:36.120 So, but it is really, and I don't want to get into politics, but it is this social and economic justice attitude that creates these policies that are so prevalent in Seattle and San Francisco, and the arrogance that usually goes with that.

00:37:58.440 I mean, I've seen clips of the city council.

00:38:01.280 They're not listening to the people.

00:38:02.860 They don't care about the people.

00:38:04.280 It's almost like they despise the people.

00:38:06.060 It sure seems like that to me as well.

00:38:09.060 We try to talk to them.

00:38:09.980 They refuse to meet with us.

00:38:11.100 One of them was supposed to come out to the cemetery to meet with us and send staff instead, even though we had organized the community to be there to meet with them.

00:38:17.240 Another one refused to meet with us and said, flat out, had their staff tell us they're not meeting with us.

00:38:22.000 And I just had enough of that.

00:38:23.300 So what I did was I took their office number and their email for their office, and I put it online, and I said, hey, Jewish community, let them know what you're thinking.

00:38:30.640 And six hours later, they called me for a meeting because they got so much pressure.

00:38:33.400 But at the same time, after that meeting, they said, you know, they made all these promises in this meeting, and they didn't follow through on any of them.

00:38:40.460 And we still had to do things ourselves.

00:38:41.960 I mean, during the winter, things got better at the cemetery just because people didn't want to be outside.

00:38:46.500 They moved to other areas of Seattle.

00:38:48.220 But just two weeks ago, the RVs came back, and we're dealing drugs again.

00:38:51.820 And thank God we got a grant in the off-season, I'll call it, for safety at the cemeteries.

00:38:57.480 And we had to send the guards back out there to enforce things.

00:39:01.440 Jeez.

00:39:03.400 How's your election going?

00:39:05.680 Well, I'm getting so many attacks online, I must be the frontrunner.

00:39:08.420 We don't really do polling for these kind of things.

00:39:09.960 Well, you're Jewish, so I don't know if you're a frontrunner. 1.00

00:39:14.740 I mean, Jewish people tend to be a target now, unfortunately, and I'm sorry for that.

00:39:20.840 But you can't put anything into attacks, but at least you're over the target if they're attacking you.

00:39:26.440 Exactly. I heard a good line from somebody that if you're getting heavy flack, you must be over the target.

00:39:32.060 Yes.

00:39:32.440 And I think my message is really resonating because there's people from all over Seattle, from all sides of the political spectrum,

00:39:37.960 saying they want to support me because enough is enough and things have just gone too crazy.

00:39:41.820 And that's the most unique thing to me is how united the citizens seem to be in wanting a change on the Seattle City Council and wanting to push back of these policies that enabled all this.

00:39:52.240 I will tell you that I was struck by KOMO News, the way this was written.

00:39:58.840 I don't know how many times they asked the question, is this compassion?

00:40:03.880 And the documentary was, I thought, really well done and kept asking the question for a Seattleite with a way for them to hear is through the heart.

00:40:14.560 And that if this if you're doing these things because you think this is compassion, you're wrong.

00:40:21.900 You're sadly mistaken.

00:40:23.580 Are you you are seeing people on the you know, that are, you know, elect or the people who are electing officials.

00:40:31.820 Are you seeing elected officials at all waking up?

00:40:35.660 Is there any sign that anybody else that's already in office is waking up going, hey, guys, this doesn't work?

00:40:41.440 Not really. It seems more like they're saying the things that people want to hear occasionally so that that way they may have a chance at reelection.

00:40:50.460 But it seems that the average citizen has said, I'm tired of being called non-compassionate when I'm trying to get people treatment for drug addiction.

00:40:57.600 I'm tired of being called non-compassionate when I'm trying to get people into shelters.

00:41:01.460 I'm tired of being called non-compassionate because I don't want people sleeping on the streets or in their cars.

00:41:06.000 And the citizens are tired of being told they're not compassionate.

00:41:09.040 Yeah. All right. Thank you so much.

00:41:10.720 Appreciate it. And good luck.

00:41:12.580 Hoffman. Thank you for having me.

00:41:13.740 You bet. Hoffman for Seattle dot com.

00:41:16.160 Don't know his politics, but if you want to check it out, Hoffman for Seattle dot com.

00:41:21.880 I don't think if you're in Seattle, you care about the politics of the person.

00:41:24.480 You just want someone who's taking that issue seriously.

00:41:26.660 It doesn't seem like there's anyone there doing it.

00:41:28.480 Yeah. You know, you want someone who's going to take that on and actually be brave enough to stand up and say, hey, this is this is wrong.

00:41:33.920 I think that's I think that's what's happening all over the world.

00:41:36.220 You know, people just they just don't care.

00:41:39.740 And in Seattle, you know, they're letting people out on the streets that are really, really sick and people that they know are going to commit more crimes.

00:41:48.880 I mean, I don't know if you saw.

00:41:51.160 Did you see in the documentary the story of the rapist?

00:41:55.180 I mean, you want to talk about real consequences.

00:41:57.420 Listen to this.

00:41:57.860 Police say that on July 20th of 2017, this man, Louis Arby, the third, 41 years old, removed the screen from a woman's window at an assisted living facility in Sea-Tac and crawled in.

00:42:12.080 The woman inside was brutalized for an hour. 1.00

00:42:15.200 She was raped and beaten and choked and robbed.

00:42:19.060 Police say Louis Arby also urinated on the floor.

00:42:22.860 Afterwards, police say he left through the same window he'd entered through.

00:42:26.220 The victim was treated for bleeding on the brain, a broken nose and other injuries.

00:42:31.680 She was 71 years old.

00:42:33.360 It was a shocking and disturbing crime.

00:42:36.460 But perhaps we shouldn't have been all that surprised.

00:42:39.300 Just four days before the rape, just 96 hours before police say he scarred one woman's life forever.

00:42:45.460 Louis Arby, the third, was arrested here, sitting next to the fountain right outside the King County Courthouse.

00:42:51.700 Police say he was selling methamphetamine.

00:42:53.680 That's him in the back of the squad car after the arrest.

00:42:59.140 He was booked and then released almost immediately.

00:43:02.540 Our criminal justice system decided that he shouldn't spend even 24 hours in jail.

00:43:07.060 But even a brief look at his record would have shown that Louis Arby had come from California,

00:43:12.140 where he'd spent 19 years in prison for kidnapping, robbery, and carjacking.

00:43:17.460 And had prosecutors looked a little more closely,

00:43:20.380 they'd have known that Arby was the only suspect in a case three months prior,

00:43:24.940 in which a woman was taken hostage, forcibly shot full of drugs,

00:43:28.540 and viciously raped and beaten for 15 hours.

00:43:32.560 The King County Prosecutor's Office says,

00:43:34.540 In this case, we had information that he had a 1995 California conviction for kidnap to commit robbery and other offenses.

00:43:42.100 The prosecutors assigned to the investigation had no knowledge of other pending investigation.

00:43:47.880 And so we are left with a question.

00:43:50.360 How is it that a man is arrested in front of a courthouse in possession of a deadly drug that destroys lives?

00:43:55.880 How is it that this man, who has a long history of violence, doesn't even spend 24 hours in jail?

00:44:02.420 How is it that he is sent right back onto the streets?

00:44:08.720 A compelling, compelling, and compassionate documentary that I think everybody should watch.

00:44:15.180 You can watch it. I watched it on YouTube.

00:44:17.020 It's from KOMO TV in Seattle, and it is called Seattle is Dying.

00:44:22.900 It's coming to a city near you.

00:44:25.500 The Blaze Radio Network.

00:44:30.260 On demand.

The Glenn Beck Program - April 24, 2019

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