Glenn Beck returns from vacation and talks about Coochid19 and why he and his family are the most isolated family on the planet. Also, Glenn is up for induction into the Radio Hall of Fame, and he makes an announcement about it.
00:09:50.820But I will tell you that my doctor has done a lot of research.
00:09:54.700And he is always calling me going, hey, hey, you should know.
00:09:59.280But hydroxychloroquine is what I'm supposed to take.
00:10:04.600He said with zinc, not with zinc, not with a Z-Pak, but with zinc, then the bare children's baby aspirin, that's because people are getting blood clots.
00:15:37.960So, this really comes on the heels of Seattle City Council's support for cutting the police department by 50 percent.
00:15:45.260The next thing on their wish list is to close the largest county jail in downtown Seattle, which would reduce the county's total jail capacity by at least 60 percent.
00:15:55.860And this is something that the county executive had been kind of circulating documents.
00:16:06.720Within the next six to 12 months, we could have 50 percent of the police force and about 40 percent of the county jail capacity.
00:16:16.060And it's all predicated on the same ideas that we talked about last time with the kind of undoing whiteness training.
00:16:23.060The documents that I've obtained really show that critical race theory, the idea that the world is reducible to the kind of evil force of whiteness and creating these racist institutions, is at the heart of this plan.
00:17:15.940I know that people homeowners that are selling their houses and leaving the city of Seattle, it's up fifteen hundred percent compared to the same period last year.
00:17:25.100People are definitely moving with their feet.
00:17:27.540But there is a kind of religious fanaticism and conviction to socialist politics.
00:17:35.380And it's rationalized in the sense that when when their plans don't work, people people basically say we didn't go far enough and they double down.
00:17:45.280And I'm I'm very afraid that that's what's happening here.
00:18:54.560And then he came back last year and he said, it looks like somebody dropped an atomic bomb on your city.
00:19:00.500I mean, the change has just been extremely rapid.
00:19:03.540And I think that, you know, the question of when to move, people are starting to now really speed up this exodus.
00:19:11.020You know, the numbers from the real estate companies are a huge exodus.
00:19:14.980If you look at the price of a U-Haul from Seattle to Boise, it's about 10 times more than the price from a U-Haul from Boise to Seattle, suggesting a huge outflow.
00:19:25.540And, you know, a friend of mine who's a pillar of the Jewish community in Seattle, you know, as you mentioned, he says, you know, all of my community, the kind of conservative Jews in Seattle, we're now meeting very often trying to say, when is the time that we actually leave?
00:19:42.940And he said something I thought was very astute.
00:19:45.680He said, you know, as Jews, we have a special instinct for when things are about to go bad.
00:19:50.760And those sentiments, those feelings, those premonitions, they're now firing at an extremely rapid rate.
00:19:57.800And people are making plans either to leave Seattle for another city, for an outlying area.
00:20:02.020And some of the folks are saying it's gotten so bad, we're actually thinking about going to Israel.
00:20:10.180Well, Israel, I mean, if the times of the seasons are what I think they are, Israel's not going to be a very safe place either, but at least they'll stand there.
00:20:22.460Would you mind putting us in touch with him?
00:20:24.220I'd like to talk to him about that, because this is a very unique time period.
00:20:31.520And I think people of all religions really need to wake up, especially with what happened with John Roberts this weekend, when they don't recognize the First Amendment that sets it completely apart from the government.
00:20:48.220So tell me more about this document that you found, the Community Supports Meeting.
00:20:54.120Tell me the highlights of this document.
00:20:55.720So this is a document that comes from the King County Executive's Office and really provides the theoretical basis for the executive's plan to really just completely and permanently shut down the largest jail with no plans to replace it.
00:21:11.560And it basically looks kind of like a hybrid of a university lecture on critical race theory or a diversity training and kind of a very progressive company.
00:21:21.800But it has kind of a chart in a pyramid that says underneath the justice system are the thing that is foundational to the justice system in Seattle and in the United States is white racism, white supremacy, white fragility, and a whole other series of kind of the buzzwords that have been circulating lately.
00:21:44.800And then it goes up the pyramid, and then at some point they say, you know, when criminal offenders offend, it's actually the fault of society, not that criminal offender.
00:21:55.900And the logic is, well, if you have a racist society that in essence forces people, especially people of color, to commit crimes, if you abolish the institutions of the carceral system, if you abolish the jails, if you abolish the police, if you abolish the municipal courts,
00:22:13.800those people will stop offender because their oppression has been lifted.
00:22:18.800And I mean, it's absurd. It doesn't work in practice at all and gets the causality so skewed it's hard to even understand on logical grounds.
00:22:30.220But this is the kind of pseudoscientific, kind of pseudo-academic nonsense that is driving the decision-making at the highest levels of government in Seattle and Portland and New York, elsewhere.
00:22:44.400And it's really shocking, because they're really boiling down a very complex social problem, crime, to just, you know, white people are evil, and they've set up these evil institutions that force people to do wrong, and their only solution.
00:23:04.760It's not reform at this point. For many years, it was about criminal justice reform.
00:23:09.480They've moved well beyond that in very rapid succession to do criminal justice abolition.
00:23:15.540And, you know, my last thing I'd say is that you had three weeks ago cutting the police department 50 percent, this week cutting the jails by 60 percent.
00:23:24.620And my sources in city government are saying the next target is to get rid of the municipal courts almost altogether.
00:23:37.520So they're basically saying that we are not going to prosecute or bring to the courts any misdemeanors, and we'll bump up felonies to the county court system.
00:23:47.160So they're really looking to essentially eliminate criminal penalties and the criminal process for, you know, really the vast majority of crimes, and only prosecute the most serious crimes, the most violent crimes at the county level.
00:24:03.960So this is something that I had heard rumblings about two years ago.
00:24:17.940But it's very quickly capitalizing on the chaos of the coronavirus shutdown, capitalizing on the death of George Floyd.
00:24:25.860But these are people who have been laying the groundwork for years, and now they're really seizing this opportunity to push forward.
00:24:34.540And unfortunately, when you shut down the jails, you fire 50 percent of your cops, and you abolish the courts, those are almost irreversible decisions.
00:24:43.900So it really is a very dangerous period for these cities.
00:25:10.820I mean, business owners are apoplectic.
00:25:12.860They have been fighting kind of headwinds in Seattle for many years, and it really started with kind of economic policies, taxes, minimum wage.
00:25:23.520Those are kind of your traditional business versus labor fights, right?
00:25:28.280These have been the kind of mainstream battleground between business and labor organizations.
00:25:34.700And there was a sense, looking back in retrospect, a naive sense that, well, this is really as bad as they can make it.
00:25:43.720They can put in kind of onerous scheduling laws.
00:25:46.400They can increase the property taxes on business owners.
00:25:50.080But now business owners are finding themselves in a real whole new terrain.
00:25:54.300I know that in downtown Seattle right now, there are entire blocks that have been boarded up for two months.
00:26:00.620I mean, businesses that are saying, you know, the risk of getting looted, the risk of getting ransacked, the risk of getting burned down is a greater risk than just shutting down and going to zero revenue for the foreseeable future.
00:26:16.940And the business trade groups, they're predicting that maybe up to 50 percent of all restaurants in downtown Seattle may never come back.
00:26:29.760So this is a really frightening thing.
00:26:32.800And then if they do come back and there are 50 percent of the police officers on the street, it's going to be an absolute nightmare.
00:26:40.400And my friends and sources within the police department say if these cuts go forward, they're going to have no proactive policing and they're going to have a limited number of officers basically bouncing from emergency call to emergency call to emergency call.
00:26:57.380And it could be sometimes up to two hours before an officer can show up at the scene of a crime.
00:27:05.940Real quick, because I have to take a network break.
00:27:08.320Is there any chance that the the the chief of police runs for higher office?
00:27:15.960I mean, she seems to be striking a chord with a lot of people where she's just coming out.
00:27:20.980She's apologizing and saying, look, I have nothing to do with this.
00:27:29.220Is she looked on as reasonable or not reasonable?
00:27:33.620She's looked at she's looked on as very reasonable.
00:27:36.040And I think what what's happening is increasingly a chief of police, Carmen Best.
00:27:41.280She's a longtime SPD officer, moved up the ranks and is now chief.
00:27:45.700She's seen as the only thing standing between the city and the mob.
00:27:50.500I mean, she's really the last kind of bastion of hope for the city of Seattle.
00:27:54.980And I know that rank and file officers, as well as some of the political power brokers who are in the more kind of center left moderate camp.
00:28:02.900They're encouraging her to consider a run.
00:32:12.480We can't get the sand from the desert because that is smooth on all sides.
00:32:16.980The sand that we can use only really comes from oceans and the bottom of rivers, where it's just been broken and it's all jagged so it locks together.
00:32:39.680We're running out of aluminum cans now, right?
00:32:42.140Yeah, and on the coins, it seems like less people going out and having face-to-face transactions is stopping the circulation of these coins.
00:32:52.580And the mint has turned down the amount of coins they're making because of coronavirus and the shortages, you know, lowering staff numbers.
00:33:01.180So that is apparently what's causing the coin shortage.
00:33:43.860It's why, apparently also why some soda flavors have been, you know, not really been seen on shelves in a while because they are trying to go to their core flavors.