Glenn and Stu discuss the drug crisis at the border, the Supreme Court decision on Sotomayor, and much, much more. Plus, the latest on the latest in the Biden gun rule change.
00:17:22.980Listen, it's just a testament to the magic of my magnetic personality, my insane levels of riz, as they say, as the kids say.
00:17:29.920You know, everyone can't get off the rap train now.
00:17:35.740It's a station, and we will not be denied that number one status on Billboard number one.
00:17:41.980Even Billboard is now admitting, by the way, that we're probably going to make the digital song downloads number one this week, just in time for the Grammys.
00:17:49.540So, I can only hope that next year we get some inspiration for a Super Bowl halftime show.
00:19:32.640The joy that my art brings to others is really the reason I'm in the game.
00:19:38.460So, Ben, let's change the subject here for a second.
00:19:41.380What is the biggest threat to our country right now?
00:19:48.000I think the biggest threat to our country is that there is a widespread conspiracy theory that's held on virtually every side of the aisle,
00:19:53.560which is that success in a free market, free system is somehow emblematic of exploitation.
00:20:01.300You see it mostly on the left is basically what DEI is, is this theory that the powerful in society control everyone else
00:20:07.420and that you can tell who the powerful are by their success, and then you can group them by race.
00:20:12.200And so DEI basically says that if you're a white male, you're on the top of the power hierarchy, you're unfairly exploiting others,
00:20:17.160and therefore you need to be brought low.
00:20:18.700So that tends to cross streams with anti-Semitism, obviously, because once you start talking about groups that are disproportionately successful in the United States,
00:20:26.480you get into Asians, you get into Jews, it gets into really ugly territory.
00:20:29.580But I also see some elements of this on sort of the far right, this idea that everything is conspiracy,
00:20:34.580everything is a group of elites who are seeking to keep you under the boot,
00:20:39.380and success is therefore belonging to this elite cadre of people.
00:20:44.820Now, that doesn't mean there aren't institutions that aren't run by people who really do have your worst interests at heart.
00:20:49.540I mean, the media are run by people who do not agree with your vision of America, the universities.
00:20:54.040But we're talking just broadly speaking, the implication that success is unachievable in a free market society
00:21:00.120or in a free speech society, that is enervating to the American public.
00:21:04.180It leads us to see each other as enemies.
00:21:06.200It's really ugly. It's destroying us domestically.
00:21:08.520I think it's destroying us in terms of foreign policy as well.
00:21:10.580So it's that sort of – it's that ideology, I think.
00:21:13.800So I tell you, I don't know exactly what you're pulling from.
00:21:17.220There's a couple of things like this horrible ruling, I think, about Elon Musk and the attacks on Elon Musk.
00:21:24.800They're trying to destroy him, but that's because he doesn't agree with policy.
00:21:27.920I have no problem with people making money and being successful.
00:21:32.040My problem is with the elites that are – it's not a conspiracy.
00:25:29.400I mean, on a political level, absolutely the border.
00:25:31.320On a political level, 100% the border.
00:25:33.280You know, when we're talking about the crises that face us right now, I think this is the crisis that's going to define not just this year, but maybe this generation.
00:25:40.540Not just on America's southern border, but all over the world.
00:25:42.920This mass migration of peoples from areas that are not particularly friendly to Western values into places in the West is obviously breaking politics in Europe.
00:25:51.840But in the United States, this idea that we can have an open border that is being openly pursued by Joe Biden.
00:25:56.500I mean, there's just no question that Joe Biden has crafted the policy that is specifically designed to keep our borders open.
00:26:02.140I was just down on the border and I was talking with Brandon Judd, who's head of the Border Patrol Union, and he was he was showing me the border.
00:26:09.060I mean, we went 25 miles without seeing a single Border Patrol agent.
00:26:11.740And that was in the area that did not have border gate.
00:26:16.060That was on the Native American reservation in Arizona.
00:26:17.900And I mean, that place is so unoccupied by Border Patrol that when we sat there at night and we looked out the window of the car, there's a drone flying over us, monitoring us.
00:26:26.580I assumed that it was an American drone.
00:26:28.120It was a Mexican drug cartel drone that was monitoring our car because and it was on American territory.
00:26:32.880And I asked the Border Patrol agent, why don't you shoot it down?
00:26:35.340He said we would have to get direct permission from Alejandro Mayorkas directly to shoot that down.
00:26:39.600So it's not to create an international incident on the border.
00:26:42.660So the border, the drug, the drug cartels are in control of the border.
00:26:45.380They're playing this game that is fully taking advantage of what Joe Biden is doing.
00:26:48.960So to understand what Biden has done, the basic answer is Joe Biden has now declared that if you say the magic words with regard to asylum, you will be allowed into the country.
00:26:57.860Not only that, Border Patrol's first duty is to take you at the border and to process you and release you into the interior of the United States.
00:27:05.380So what the what the drug cartels are doing is they will literally drive up in a truck yards from the border, unload a bunch of illegal immigrants.
00:27:12.740These illegal immigrants will literally walk across the border where we were.
00:27:17.140And if you push the button, it says push for Border Patrol help like they're bellboys.
00:27:21.360And you would and you push the button.
00:27:23.400The Border Patrol all rushes over to do what Joe Biden wants them to do, which is busing an administrative duty.
00:27:27.220That leaves the border wide open for the actual scary people, because there are two groups of people, right?
00:27:31.660There are people who shouldn't be in here because they don't actually have legal asylum claims.
00:27:34.920They may be on the welfare system, but they're not necessarily people who are seeking to do violent crime or smuggle drugs or something.
00:27:41.160And the drug cartels make money from from coyoteing them up, obviously.
00:27:44.720But the drug cartels are making the real money from smuggling fentanyl over the border, from smuggling people of criminal records over the border, terrorists over the border.
00:27:52.500And Joe Biden is leaving those swaths of the border completely unoccupied so that he can process more people who are claiming asylum.
00:27:59.500I mean, it's not a shock that the criminals who just beat up the cops in New York the other day, they were claiming asylum.
00:28:04.100I mean, that's literally what they said. They said, we are here. We are claiming asylum.
00:28:07.220They don't have a legit asylum claim. And that is purely on Joe Biden, because under Donald Trump, we had a remain in Mexico policy, which was if you arrived at the border and said, I claim asylum, we'd say, great.
00:28:16.020Now you wait in Mexico and then we'll adjudicate your case. And then their case would be adjudicated.
00:28:20.480They wouldn't have an asylum claim and they would have to go back home.
00:28:22.760Well, that's a pretty good incentive not to show up at our southern border. Joe Biden has done precisely the reverse.
00:28:26.500Ben, obviously, is with The Daily Wire and he's got a new documentary out about his trip to the border and shows you all of these things.
00:28:37.020And you can watch it on The Daily Wire if you are like me and you are a member of The Daily Wire.
00:28:48.100I appreciate talking to you and and keep the spark alive for the hip hop in your heart.
00:28:53.340Well, I will. We'll do. We'll do. Thank you so much, Ben Shapiro.
00:29:01.220You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:29:07.960So I want to ask you some questions that, you know, most people roll their eyes at it or, you know, just they haven't thought about it and they think they know and they don't.
00:29:23.240Not the question that most Americans, you know, are spending any time thinking about, but we must.
00:29:28.340We must begin asking our families and our friends these questions because you'll be surprised how many people don't have any idea.
00:29:37.380When you grow up in America, freedom, individual freedom, it's really all, you know, and it's easy to assume that it's, you know, just kind of like water.
00:29:55.680They have no idea, especially kids today.
00:29:58.260We've completely disconnected from the source of all things.
00:30:02.800Now, the source for our rights is government.
00:30:12.640Earlier this month, Rasmussen did a survey for the committee to unleash prosperity, and they divided respondents between elites, super elites, and the general public.
00:30:22.840They defined elites as Americans who have at least one postgraduate degree and earn over $150,000.