Glenn Beck and his guest, Fox News anchor Greta Thunberg, discuss the dangers of using the word "invasion" and why it is not allowed to be used in the United States. Glenn also talks about why he thinks the term "woke" should be banned.
00:03:40.400There's just this thing that I think you see a lot now.
00:03:43.220There's like an aspect of the left and the sort of moderate side of things that looks at the world and says, okay, I might not agree with you on taxes or health care or whatever, but like clearly the left woke thing is nuts.
00:04:43.560When you have individuals in large quantities that enter another country by force or illegally waving the flag of another country, that is an invasion.
00:05:50.980From Bridget Phetasy, like millions of other Americans, I'm exhausted.
00:06:16.520But I'm not tired from resisting or tired from screaming at a MAGA rally.
00:06:21.700I'm just tired of the toxic tribalism infecting the very foundations of our democracy, straining our relationships, and poisoning our view of our fellow humans.
00:06:33.520I'm tired of everyone being outraged, getting worked up over the latest news cycle only to forget about it two hours later.
00:06:39.860I'm tired of being afraid to voice my own opinions, of knowing how saying the wrong thing at a barbecue while someone is filming on their iPhone could result in a nationwide clarion call for my head on a pike.
00:06:52.940I'm tired of the rage mobs and the cancellations.
00:06:57.0802016 was a breaking point, or at least a watershed moment, when the vilification of diverse opinion exploded.
00:07:05.100Trump versus Hillary forced everything into a binary and suddenly bipartisanship and moderation and radical positions to take.
00:07:16.980Now, you aren't just voicing out of habit or, God forbid, voting for your own interests.
00:07:23.300Every vote is a statement on your own personal identity and worth, your value, who you are, what world you want, whether or not you're a good person or an evil person.
00:07:36.000It all boils down to whichever lever you pull.
00:07:38.780Damn your reasons, vote for the right person, or else you're a fascist or a racist, a globalist or a communist.
00:07:48.240Politically disinterested citizens like me have increasingly been pulled off the sidelines into this incredibly divisive political climate.
00:07:57.220Unwilling combatants in a battle fought among fiercely partisan tribes.
00:08:02.500Many are being bullied into involving themselves in the process because intolerance and shaming have become features of the American life.
00:08:11.580Thanks in no small part to social media, the simple act of expressing your opinion or even going so far as to ask a question has been negative, has had negative effects on lives and has destroyed people.
00:08:25.400You may have once fancied yourself a good progressive, while also having an opinion that there are only two genders.
00:08:32.020Or you may describe yourself as a staunch conservative but tend to think racial targeting by police is a problem.
00:08:57.860And not just the enemy, you're evil, evil, evil.
00:09:03.020After 2016's chaotic impact on the culture took hold, each mere opinion or vote became life or death, the fight for the survival of civilization.
00:09:13.860And you're either with civilization or you're against civilization.
00:09:19.220The trouble is, everyone believes they're on the right side of history.
00:09:23.700And they all justify abhorrent behavior in service of that belief.
00:09:47.100I understand why the silent majority is uneasy.
00:09:50.720They're not wrong to worry that sharing their opinion could cost them their livelihood.
00:09:55.840Most people are just trying to raise their families and pay their bills and pine for the days when they only had to think about politics every four years.
00:10:03.360Now, millions of independent thinkers recently polled at about 70% of the American population are labeled as the exhausted majority.
00:10:12.780Those harboring intense feelings of political homelessness and ideological isolation.
00:10:22.940Both parties demand totalitarian-like devotion to their ideology.
00:10:28.060And if you're indifferent, apathetic, or nuanced in your approach to politics, you'll end up in the wasteland of the center, tireless, unprotected, and increasingly insulated.
00:10:45.280My inboxes have become something of a confession booth for people who have issues with their own side or sympathy for their political opponents.
00:10:52.940People I speak with at length in person have all manner of opinions and thoughts.
00:10:57.540And they not only don't feel comfortable admitting this publicly, but they go out of their way to craft an online image that portrays sometimes the exact opposite.
00:11:08.640The trouble with living under mob law is that no one is honest.
00:11:34.360It is absolutely our duty as citizens to denounce demagoguery, where we see it, when we see it, to fight corruption, to push back against attacks on free speech, due process, and the scientific method, to combat racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and all forms of bigotry, to continue to extend the gains made by the civil rights movement, to demand compromise and moderation.
00:11:58.520This starts with fighting our own tribal instincts and laziness and educating ourselves.
00:12:05.020We may not see eye to eye on how to best make America even greater, but we need to be able to have a conversation about it that starts with extending good faith and grace to people with whom we disagree.
00:12:17.660It doesn't start with calling everyone who disagrees with us garbage.
00:12:21.420This is what we have been saying, and the good news is it's coming from people who have traditionally considered themselves on the left.
00:12:33.420It's happening, and I'll show you the beginning of a theory.
00:12:40.780I think the pendulum is swinging back the other way.
00:12:43.980So, Bridget was saying in her essay that democracy doesn't die in the darkness.
00:12:52.040It dies when politics become team sports, in full view of a bloodthirsty, cheering electorate.
00:13:00.480You know, it's interesting because democracy dies in the darkness.
00:14:59.920And he's talking about the rise of, of these groups on both sides.
00:15:03.140And then he does mention Antifa as, as a danger, but goes on to say, look, you know, I think it's very ironic that we're talking about making Antifa into a terrorist group when they were specifically formed to stop terrorism.
00:15:18.880What world do you live in where you, you actually believe because it says Antifa that you're like, oh, well, they Antifa, fascists, Antifascist.
00:15:45.960I mean, it's, it's, it's crazy to think otherwise.
00:15:49.440And to get someone who just will come out and say, look, taking pieces of cement and throwing them at officers and citizens, beating the crap out of old people in the middle of the street.
00:15:59.440Why that has to have any controversy attached to it.
00:16:02.060Why you can't just say that and admit it is a big part of the problem I think she's talking about here.
00:16:06.680So I want to get into the pendulum between me and we, the we generation and the me generation and how that has an 80 year cycle.
00:16:18.540But I think it's starting to go back to the me and I'll explain.
00:16:24.640I'm going to share with you some, what I think is good news.
00:16:27.120I've been, you know, I've been studying waves and, uh, and pendulums and curves for, for a long time.
00:16:36.040Now I've been looking for where history repeats itself.
00:16:39.860And one of the important pendulums has been the me and we back in the 1980s, we were at the, the Zenith of the me generation.
00:16:50.700And everybody says that's bad and it might be bad because we are in this together.
00:16:56.260But the deal with a me generation is it never goes bad with government, uh, taking over a bunch of stuff because it's all about the individual.
00:17:08.040And so nobody can cobble together a big enough force to have a, you know, a totalitarian state, traditionally speaking.
00:17:19.240Now we're approaching the Zenith of the, we, the last time, uh, America or the West saw we was in the 1930s and we know what happened.
00:17:31.340And we went through the new deal cause we were all in it together and we had all kinds of socialist ideas that had been brewing for a while, but all of a sudden they kicked in.
00:17:42.820And the same thing happened, the, we, before that, uh, was during the civil war.
00:17:49.760Uh, and that was the, the exact time that over in Europe, they were doing the communist manifesto.
00:17:56.420And the time before that was the American revolution and the French revolution.
00:18:00.680The French revolution shows that if you don't have the right principles, it goes awry.
00:18:06.640The communist manifesto in Europe, if you go into a wee generation and you don't have the right principles, you go awry.
00:18:53.440There are three factors that we're all feeling right now.
00:18:57.280One of them is globalism, globalism versus nationalism.
00:19:01.640The globalists, I think, are still in control.
00:19:06.260And, and a lot of people feel the pressure from globalism.
00:19:09.820And when I say globalism, what I mean is having to be the world's policeman, having everybody tied together and no real nation state, no borders or anything else.
00:19:21.320And on top of that, you have corrupt cronyism and capitalism that's just corrupt, not a free market, but a corrupt game playing capitalism that's controlled by very wealthy people and governments.
00:19:37.380Okay, so those things are still on the rise and no one, you can say you're cleaning out the swamp, but are you cleaning out the swamp?
00:19:44.680Is the swamp allowed to be cleaned out by anybody?
00:19:48.240Who's actually taking on the big things?
00:19:53.060Now, Donald Trump, you can paint him as a warmonger, but the last thing he is is a warmonger.
00:20:12.580And it's being pushed there by things that are easily taken care of.
00:20:17.640But if you don't take care of those things, the country will become more and more nationalistic because what people are saying is, why are we spending so much money abroad?
00:21:20.780And every day you read something about Facebook or Google, those things are hurting.
00:21:27.120They're not helping because people see these things as giant corporations, not socialist movement.
00:21:33.780Giant corporations that are corrupt, that are getting their way and getting rich off of our backs.
00:21:38.820So that's another reason why socialism is going up.
00:21:42.760But we're going the opposite direction, and I think this is a leading indicator.
00:21:48.040We're starting to feel the pain now on we.
00:21:53.740We're starting to feel the pain on I have to walk lockstep with a tribe, or I'm going to lose my job, or I'm going to lose all my friends, or I'm going to lose my family.
00:22:04.620That's so un-American, that's so un-American, that's so unlike us, except in wee moments.
00:22:11.980And it's the worst I've ever seen it, and the worst, I think this is the worst since the Civil War.
00:22:17.940And you're either with entirely 100%, or you're against entirely 100%.
00:22:26.460And people are tired of it, and they're fed up with it on both sides.
00:24:38.320About, about Israel, you had, um, Palestine banning, um, uh, events by LGBT, um, uh, communities in the area because you can't, they can't do that.
00:24:51.960There's no, no complaint from anyone here in the United States.
00:24:55.040These people that were so angry about Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib not being able to go visit her grandmother, even though she was, and decided not to.
00:25:03.900So, so upset about that, but not upset about them, you know, retweeting cartoons from Holocaust deniers, and not upset about LGBT people being trounced in their rights in Palestine.
00:25:23.180I think the squad or the tribe or whatever you want to call them, uh, that pack of, of rabid women, uh, I think they're actually hurting the Democrats more than they, more than anyone ever thought.
00:25:39.020And I think the leadership knows that.
00:35:25.680He wore a shirt that says Beta Cuck for Life.
00:35:27.260He's the gentleman who really heated up the altercation that's going famous on the bridge where there was two buses full of right-wing protesters stuck in traffic.
00:35:38.340And they came up and assaulted the bus.
00:35:40.180Now, this guy had – he got away with multiple assaults before getting arrested.
00:35:44.220So the police, you know, they move in once – they basically have to prevent a death.
00:35:48.080But other than that, if people want to fight, they're just ready to watch the havoc.
00:35:51.600But Ted Wheeler's been caught on camera, and he stands with people who stand against this, and they have the right to demonstrate.
00:35:57.620And according to him, demonstrations are also tearing apart your city and beating people up who are walking down the street.
00:36:03.240So there's one guy – and we've been watching some of the video that you guys took – one guy who's wearing, like, a Roman Legion helmet and, you know, says, I hate the left.
00:36:59.660I think that, you know, basically what we have here is that the city has clearly shown that the involvement of police is a PR stunt for a city that has absolutely fallen to homelessness and to unrulyness and to anarchy.
00:37:13.280And the teenagers, not only were they mostly young white people.
00:37:17.020You always find where the people fighting Nazis and fascists and racists are all just a bunch of white people, young white people specifically.
00:37:23.540I found out that, you know, they have, like, militant factions and recruiting in the colleges around here, which is interesting.
00:37:55.540And I can tell you from the signs I see in windows to the way things were on the streets, this is only a couple weeks after the last one of these demonstrations I put out lightly happened.
00:38:03.220This city is a breeding ground for radical left-wing domestic terrorism, and it is occurring on a regular basis and a more frequent basis.
00:38:12.420And the government is not stepping in to intervene, and it would look like by the way that they're treating the people who are committing acts of violence, breaking the law, stopping traffic.
00:38:22.480By the way, I might add, I'll end with this.
00:38:24.480All the businesses in the area, almost every single one, including Starbucks, shut down.
00:38:29.240We're talking about lost income, everything.
00:38:30.820Businesses are afraid to have the doors open, and all he does is just put up a couple police while the news crews are there.
00:38:36.760Once the news leaves, the police are out.
00:38:38.740The city's in havoc, and Ted Wheeler never condemns them, only condemns the right-wing, and they're not the ones destroying the city.
00:38:45.780Elijah, thank you so much for going up there.
00:38:48.180You can find Elijah Schaefer at slightlyoffensive.com, and we're going to also be posting the video,
00:38:54.860and we'll have you on this afternoon to go through some of that video with us at 5 o'clock on today's TV show.