Former Vice President Joe Biden is running for President of the United States in 2020, but what will he actually do? Glenn and Pat discuss that and much more on today's show. They also discuss the latest on Kamala Harris and her campaign, a new documentary about a city that is going downhill, and the end of the free market system.
00:09:17.200It's showing up mostly in just like social justice.
00:09:20.400Yes. They make up words. They're making up words.
00:09:25.080Coloniality 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,
00:09:43.080look, 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.
00:09:50.820You had them on for a podcast, which is coming up in a few weeks, I think.
00:10:02.040This is their stuff. Like these things, they're just a jumble of words.
00:10:05.080Like 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.
00:10:11.760And 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.
00:10:20.680And 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.
00:10:27.920Like that is like you have made everyone here stupid because of your answer.
00:10:33.760But, but, but what she's doing here is, is such important work.
00:24:03.940I mean, he's a Cowboys fan, but other than that, he's pretty good.
00:24:08.060Coming up next, my hometown, Seattle, dying.
00:24:17.160You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:24:19.840Seattle is dying and it's dying because of a socialist system and it is spreading all over the country.
00:24:38.840Just 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.
00:24:59.700What 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.
00:25:39.740And 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.
00:29:44.320They know that there are solutions out there.
00:29:47.040They simply have turned their back on the solutions.
00:29:49.860The problem is, and you see in this documentary, it's from KOMO News in Seattle, called Seattle is Dying.
00:29:58.340Watch it because it's coming to a city near you.
00:30:01.800The city council is brutal, brutal to the people who are standing up.
00:30:08.060They'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.
00:30:14.480Now you're sending me back to the police?
00:30:16.680People are just getting the runaround.
00:30:18.560That'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.
00:30:36.020They 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.
00:30:52.920All things are done in the guise of, or for the goal of, social or economic justice.
00:31:02.700As those things begin to break down, those in control also begin to abuse their power through graft, greed, and ignorance.
00:31:29.300Give me some money, and I'll help you.
00:31:32.460And 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.
00:31:40.220And that's what's happening in Washington, D.C. as well.
00:31:45.820Those people in Washington, D.C., do you think they actually like you?
00:31:49.960Do you think Nancy Pelosi wants to come over to your house and have dinner at your house?
00:31:55.440Do 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?
00:33:05.900And all in the name of Marxism and compassion, they are just destroying people.
00:33:13.140And I mean the homeless people, just destroying them.
00:33:16.360And all of the people that are living there are living through hell.
00:33:20.680And 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.
00:33:30.840Ari Hoffman, he is a board member on a cemetery in Seattle that was part of this documentary.
00:33:38.580And 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.
00:33:58.040I 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.
00:34:44.620I went to anybody I thought could help, and nobody was interested in helping us.
00:34:47.700So 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.
00:34:55.660And 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.
00:35:32.620People 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.
00:35:39.460Nobody's going to enforce the rule of law, and they can get away with whatever they want.
00:35:43.140They can live wherever they want, and nobody's going to do anything about it.
00:35:45.800When 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.
00:36:05.660And 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.
00:36:28.140Near 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.
00:36:35.960And 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.
00:36:41.860And 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.
00:36:49.000It's become a very dangerous neighborhood.
00:36:51.760And Georgetown is unique because it has a residential neighborhood mixed in with commercial neighborhood, and the residents there are beside themselves.
00:36:58.200So 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.
00:37:05.400It's just out of control in that neighborhood.
00:37:07.540So, Ari, you're running for city council.
00:37:11.020I 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.
00:37:19.040I stepped up to the plate and said, it's got to be better than what these guys are doing.
00:37:22.740And I started doing my research, and I started analyzing, and I realized this was all a policy problem.
00:37:26.980And it was all the behavior they were enabling in Seattle, and they're not treating the drug addiction.
00:37:31.340They're not treating the mental illness, and they're calling it a housing crisis, a homeless crisis.
00:37:36.120So, 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.
00:37:58.440I mean, I've seen clips of the city council.
00:38:11.100One 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.
00:38:17.240Another one refused to meet with us and said, flat out, had their staff tell us they're not meeting with us.
00:38:23.300So 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.
00:38:30.640And six hours later, they called me for a meeting because they got so much pressure.
00:38:33.400But 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.
00:38:40.460And we still had to do things ourselves.
00:38:41.960I mean, during the winter, things got better at the cemetery just because people didn't want to be outside.
00:39:32.440And I think my message is really resonating because there's people from all over Seattle, from all sides of the political spectrum,
00:39:37.960saying they want to support me because enough is enough and things have just gone too crazy.
00:39:41.820And 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.
00:39:52.240I will tell you that I was struck by KOMO News, the way this was written.
00:39:58.840I don't know how many times they asked the question, is this compassion?
00:40:03.880And 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.
00:40:14.560And that if this if you're doing these things because you think this is compassion, you're wrong.
00:40:23.580Are you you are seeing people on the you know, that are, you know, elect or the people who are electing officials.
00:40:31.820Are you seeing elected officials at all waking up?
00:40:35.660Is there any sign that anybody else that's already in office is waking up going, hey, guys, this doesn't work?
00:40:41.440Not 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.
00:40:50.460But 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.
00:40:57.600I'm tired of being called non-compassionate when I'm trying to get people into shelters.
00:41:01.460I'm tired of being called non-compassionate because I don't want people sleeping on the streets or in their cars.
00:41:06.000And the citizens are tired of being told they're not compassionate.
00:41:16.160Don't know his politics, but if you want to check it out, Hoffman for Seattle dot com.
00:41:21.880I don't think if you're in Seattle, you care about the politics of the person.
00:41:24.480You just want someone who's taking that issue seriously.
00:41:26.660It doesn't seem like there's anyone there doing it.
00:41:28.480Yeah. 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.
00:41:33.920I think that's I think that's what's happening all over the world.
00:41:36.220You know, people just they just don't care.
00:41:39.740And 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.
00:41:57.860Police 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.
00:42:12.080The woman inside was brutalized for an hour.
00:42:15.200She was raped and beaten and choked and robbed.
00:42:19.060Police say Louis Arby also urinated on the floor.
00:42:22.860Afterwards, police say he left through the same window he'd entered through.
00:42:26.220The victim was treated for bleeding on the brain, a broken nose and other injuries.