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On today's show, Pat and Stu talk about the Democratic Debates, the Women's Equal Pay debate, and Elizabeth Warren's attempt to take over the Democratic Party. They also discuss racism in the U.S. Women's Soccer team, and how to deal with it.
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Welcome to the podcast. Pat and Stu in for Glenn today. Jeffy, of course, joins us as well. Sorry about that.
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We have a lot of going over the debate to do today, I would say, is the focus of the program.
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Because there's a lot of crazy people on the left, and they did a lot of crazy things last night.
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So we wanted to tell you about them, so you didn't actually have to watch the debate.
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Here's the thing. If your favorite football team is going to the Super Bowl,
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you watch the other conference championship game.
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Because you want to know what team is going, what their strengths are, what their weaknesses are.
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So that's why we actually waste time doing this.
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And so we go through that kind of in-depth today.
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Also tell you about another sports-related thing, as I'm making a sports analogy, Pat.
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Yeah, the women are so discriminated against and making so much less than the men.
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It's really, really, really tragic and wrong and discriminatory.
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Islamophobia, I think, has a lot to do with it.
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We'll go into that and a preview of tonight's debate as well on the podcast.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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I could watch it all night and really kind of did because it lasted a long, long time.
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And it's like 20 minutes after the start of the debate.
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And all they've done is sing the national anthem, have the color guard come out, and do opening statements.
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They hadn't asked one question 20 minutes into the debate.
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But it gave people a chance to catch up on the debate if they joined it late.
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Like Jeffy said, he joined it late, and so he didn't miss anything.
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There was no joining it late because there was nothing good.
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Did you have a moment there where you're thinking to yourself,
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it was awesome when we had a country where capitalism was a part of it,
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where people thought that the Constitution was something that we should think about occasionally.
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Yeah, where class warfare wasn't practiced every single minute of every day by Democrats.
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I mean, I can't believe this idea, and this is the narrative coming out of the media today,
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which is there was this battle for the soul of the party between the moderates and the left.
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You know, you got the socialists out there, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in the middle of the stage,
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and then you had all these moderates coming after them.
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You know, the moderate, think about this, the moderate position now in the Democratic Party
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is only two years of free college for every single person in America.
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Even Steve Bullock last night said he's a progressive.
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Well, okay, then you're saying essentially that you want the socialist policies.
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And that was a fascinating part of this because the discrepancy between Elizabeth Warren,
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Bernie Sanders, and people like John Delaney, and Bullock, and others, and Klobuchar,
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none of it was based on the idea that getting to full socialism was a bad idea.
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It was all based on we can only get certain things done.
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Let's be realistic and get the parts of it we can get done now and keep advancing.
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The only one who sort of stood up for some sort of sanity is Hickenlooper, right?
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And he was, I would say, probably the worst one in the debate.
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He's also a guy who went to, like, a porn movie with his mom when he was 18.
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But at least he is saying, look, we need to ground this party in reality.
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We will lose the election if we're – and I hope he's right about that.
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Because some of the American people don't see the brilliance of our socialism yet,
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That is a totally different point than saying socialism is bad.
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I mean, Hickenlooper is a guy who's best known for basically saying,
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You know, that whole Second Amendment thing, they probably didn't mean that one, right?
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I mean, Delaney, I thought, had really good points against Sanders and Warren.
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And they went back and forth quite a bit about, you know, whether you can have Medicare for all.
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Do you really want to force 100 million people to abandon their health care
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As a Democratic Party, do we want to be the party that says,
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hey, we're taking away that thing that you like?
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However, he's not making it with the idea of, well, the proper outcome is people should always be able to choose
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and the free market should have these wonderful forces to help control costs and all this.
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It was like, well, if we do that, people will get mad at us and they'll elect Donald Trump
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and we won't be able to get any more socialism.
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So if we do it my way, we'll get a good chunk more socialism
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It's like people didn't like Obamacare at first.
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Then next election, which is, by the way, what they're doing,
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they can come in and say, well, now we need Obamacare times two or times three or times four.
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Which, again, is exactly what we said was going to happen.
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And here it is playing out just like everybody knew it was going to happen.
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I'm also in love with the climate change hysteria, too, because that's, that's just good fun.
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It's either 12 years or it's 10 years and then catastrophe now.
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And that was, by the way, disproven by the people who did the study they're quoting.
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They have outwardly come out and said, no, it's not 12 years or 10 years.
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Thank you for giving us the opportunity to clear it up.
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There's, and it was fact, it was actually fact checked by NBC and others.
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And they said, there's no catastrophe after, you know,
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at 2030 is not the demarcation of catastrophe for the, for the climate change thing.
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What they're trying to say is that they need to do something.
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You know, we need to get really serious about it.
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They're just, they're not saying it's going to be catastrophic if we don't.
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No, but who is going to respond if you say we need to get serious about it within 12 years?
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This is why they lie about it because they know, you know,
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they're trying to get people to act on this thing.
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And it's a wonderful way to push this stuff through, right?
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The Green New Deal was the most clear illustration of this, right?
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How long has, have conservatives said global warming is essentially the way the left uses it,
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So slash socialism slash every other freaking policy they've asked for for the past few decades.
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Why not get it all done through environmental means?
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And then they kept saying like, what are you talking about?
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They're all saying how bad this is going to be.
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It's the globe warming 0.9 degrees over 100 years.
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So what's the policy you want to address with it?
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Why is it, why are you talking about every left-wing fever dream for the past half century?
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Why are all of those things in the Green New Deal?
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Because honestly, if you want to help the environment, the best thing we can do is let people die.
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If people just die, then we'll cut the CO2 emissions.
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It's the worst thing in the world for the environment.
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Did you guys talk about a couple of weeks ago, Mo Brooks was, they were doing a hearing on climate change.
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And Mo Brooks got four scientific global warming experts on to admit that the Earth has been warming for 20,000 years, ever since the last ice age.
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Essentially, off and on, other than a few dips for little ice ages and whatever, in the meantime, it's been warming for 20,000 years.
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And so the average temperature increase, he said, over the centuries, per century, was 0.4 degrees.
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I think because it's gone up 11 degrees in 20,000 years.
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Okay, so I think it worked out, I don't remember all the specifics, but what he got them to admit was, the average of the last 20,000 years is about the same as it's been the last 100 years.
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And yet, they're attributing all of this in the last 100 years, or the last 50, or the last 30, to humans, to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
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When it's the same as it's been, the Earth's natural climate-changing situation that's happened forever.
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Do you know, I can see the denial coming from you right now.
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You know, this is why we can't just go with the moderate proposal for how to deal with global warming from someone like John Delaney, who's offering a too conservative an approach of only spending $4 trillion, his number, on global warming.
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Now, he's below a Beto who I think is at $5 trillion.
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I'd say $90 trillion a month is about the number I'm comfortable with.
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Because the problem is at that point, you're printing so much money that just the machines to print the money cause more global warming.
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And you've seen these hardcore right-wing proposals from, again, the quote-unquote moderates last night in the debate.
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John Delaney did mention this briefly, but I've looked at the extensive plan.
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His plan, again, the moderate, the guy that you watched last night, I think everybody in this audience, if they watched the debate last night, watched and said,
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that guy actually kind of seems sensible on some of this stuff.
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I mean, I don't agree with him, but he's much better than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
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He introduced a plan that would require every person, when they turn 18 years old, to serve the government in a mandatory fashion for one or two years,
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doing things like installing solar panels and...
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You're like one of the, like, end-of-the-world preachers who are just going, like, you know,
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Be aware of it, because I've got to increase the awareness of sustainability!
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You're going to go to places and install solar panels, because what 18-year-old who can't get my order right at a fast-food restaurant wouldn't be capable of installing a solar panel?
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But they'll train them all, too, and they'll pay them, and they'll put them up in housing,
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and it will be a requirement for every 18-year-old to do.
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Do you have any recollections of Barack Obama as president of the United States?
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And remember how liberal they were, like, really far left, and we were complaining about it all the time?
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And there were crazy people like David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel who were kind of going...
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They're just saying all these crazy left-wing things, and no one could believe it?
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So, back in the day, back in the old days when Barack Obama was president, there were a lot of figures we talked about.
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People like Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, who had really far left-wing views that none of us were comfortable with.
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They were views that were, you know, rejected by big portions of the United States.
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The entire time it's existed since it was proposed, until very recently.
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It was very unpopular, underwater, in almost every way.
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Well, Rahm Emanuel came out the other day and said, hey, I'm noticing these candidates going really far to the left.
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And, you know, I don't think they understand what the middle of the country is like.
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They're going so far left, they're never going to win in these states, you know, because he's obviously in Illinois.
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But, I mean, the states that surround him are not hardcore left states.
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This is a guy who dealt with the realities of, you know, governing a country.
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Obviously, I think they did it very poorly, but at least he has awareness.
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So, that first Rahm Emanuel comes out and says that yesterday, or two days ago.
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So, here's David Axelrod talking about where this party is going.
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Again, this is not some conservative critique of the Democratic Party.
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You said something interesting, which was it isn't good enough to argue that the country doesn't want this.
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It does seem, if you're running for president, that you ought to take into consideration what the country wants.
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And the fact is, large numbers of people oppose the Medicare for All proposal if it replaces private insurance.
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A large number of people in this country do not believe the border should be decriminalized.
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A large number of people in this country don't believe that undocumented immigrants should qualify for publicism.
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And, by the way, he's right on all those things.
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The polls show about 25% to 27% for all three of those policies.
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So, free health care for illegal immigrants, decriminalizing the border, Medicare for All, eliminating private insurance, which is the Bernie and Elizabeth Warren plan.
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You're talking about 26% or 27% support by Americans.
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And I believe all three of those policies are underwater with Democrats.
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The people who are winning, somehow winning right now with the exception of Biden.
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He's the only thing in between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders leading this race.
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They're in the center of the debate last night.
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And they're talking about policies that are underwater with Democrats.
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How about John King from CNN talking about how far the party has moved to the left?
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What Senator Sanders was just describing, what Senator Warren is describing, has not happened in our lifetime.
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That a Democrat can run in a national election to be for Medicare for All, for free college tuition, maybe for reparations, for giving health care to undocumented immigrants, a host of liberal proposals.
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Way to the left of the last Democrat who won Barack Obama.
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Way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way left to Bill Clinton, the Democrat to win before that.
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This is something we've talked about forever, Pat.
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You know, Bernie Sanders in 2013 proposing Medicare for All and getting zero co-sponsors on it.
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Now, I don't think he'd be able to stop people from co-sponsoring it.
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He'd want the credit for himself, and everyone's jumping on his bandwagon.
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And, you know, you can watch that debate last night and I think pull out a lot of different things.
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I thought Bernie Sanders, I mean, the man has never had a happy moment in his life.
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I've never seen anyone who is more angry and awful.
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There's no, I cannot imagine a candidate like that winning in the United States of America.
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And I, you know, look, people talk about Trump's anger and he gets pissed off a lot too, but
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But I will say this, and I don't think he did a great job in the debate last night, but
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He has absolutely transformed this party from a party that was really super liberal to a
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I mean, the fact that John Delaney, who is a Maryland congressperson, a former Maryland
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congressperson, looks like a conservative on the stage, is really revealing.
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David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, John King there talking to you about how, how far this party
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I mean, Bernie Sanders, you know, his loss in 2016 and then the subsequent Hillary Clinton
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loss has told this party they should just be honest about it.
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It's exactly what Glenn said all those years, you know, to take the mask off, be honest about
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I cannot believe they're admitting that they want these policies.
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I mean, Elizabeth Warren last night on stage saying we should decriminalize border crossings.
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Are you saying you would decriminalize illegal border crossings?
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And she went to battle something else afterwards, but she did say yes.
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And I love this as it combines to their gun policies, because it's like you say what
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You want to take away guns from law abiding citizens here in the United States.
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But at the same time, you want to open up the borders.
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Do you think some guns might also come across that border when you open it up?
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Is it possible a terrorist or two could come across the border?
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Isn't that such a strange combination of policies?
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At this point, I think they're just resting this whole thing on, well, we think we can beat
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What we remember is Bernie Sanders yelling, I wrote the damn bell.
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He probably prepared for and they probably planned that out before the debate even happened.
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I mean, and could there be a more miserable human being?
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He cannot have had an experience in his life, a moment of joy.
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There's never been a time where he like woke up and said, wow, look at the sun, the sky.
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It's sunny and there's not a cloud out there and this is a great day.
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There's never been a moment like that for Bernie Sanders in his entire life.
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I think he had like, he asked a girl out in like eighth grade and she berated him and mocked him and did like, maybe he did like a carry thing.
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Like at one point he was standing in front of his high school and someone dropped pig blood out of a bucket onto his head.
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I mean, I think at one point he stood up during the debate and he waved his arms around and all the doors closed in the back of the auditorium.
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You know, there's not a moment where he's like calm and introspective.
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Which is why I can't understand for the life of me why he's popular with millennials.
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There is that appeal of, I think, the unrelenting ideology that is appealing to you when you're young.
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When Ron Paul was running, there was the same sort of energy.
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You know, Ron was not nearly as angry as Bernie is.
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You know, the libertarian philosophy is basically we don't go to war.
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He's the guy on stage next to Rudy Giuliani sticking to it.
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Being like, yeah, no, he shouldn't have done anything about 9-11.
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I mean, I'm totally exaggerating there for all the Ron Paul fans out there who will now email me.
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That exchange was like, it's a tough thing in a Republican debate to stand up and say, yeah, the whole 9-11 response was not good.
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And he would stand up in Iowa and say, you know what?
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And I think if you're an ideological person or at some level, when you're young, you have that sort of aspirational thing going on where you like the fact that people aren't apologizing.
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I think Elizabeth Warren has that going on for her at some level.
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And it's why some of the energy of the party is there.
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But I mean, you have to look at this if you are a Democrat.
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How on earth can you expect to win with these candidates?
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And I guess that's why Joe Biden is still winning.
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You know, I mean, Kamala Harris, I think, will try to walk the middle ground.
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It's hard to imagine a person who is an old school Democrat.
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He sounded like, what's the guy you always bring up when we talk about presidential candidates that he's going to run at any time?
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He sounded like, remember when Democrats used to be awful 20 years ago?
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He sounded more like that awful Democrat than the awful Democrat of today.
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And those people exist in places like Ohio and Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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They're the reason why Donald Trump is president.
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And those people are going to look at Elizabeth Warren like she's as insane as she is.
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And I just, I mean, if you're trying to win this election, I don't know how you go down that road if you're a Democrat.
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What did you think of Buttigieg in his performance last night?
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I think he has a massive problem that he is not recognizing.
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And somebody on his staff is telling him it is a good idea.
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Or he has no chance of being president of the United States, which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing.
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I don't want to be president of the United States.
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But this is him talking about standing up for the right policy.
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If it's true that if we embrace a far-left agenda, they're going to say we're a bunch of crazy socialists.
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If we embrace a conservative agenda, you know what they're going to do?
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They're going to say we're a bunch of crazy socialists.
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Not because I think it's the right triangulation between Republicans here and Democrats here.
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People like my mother-in-law, who is here, whose life was saved by the ACA,
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but who is still far too vulnerable to the fact that the insurance industry...
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Like, I think an untrue point, but a good one for a Democratic debate, right?
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To say that basically they're going to call us socialists no matter what we say.
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We might as well just come out and go for the things that we want.
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And, of course, that should always be true, right?
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That shouldn't be something you need to clap for.
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You should always be promoting the policies you think are best.
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But, you know, in debates, this is the way you work it, I guess.
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Buttigieg invoking scripture because we're oppressing the poor.
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And so-called conservative Christian senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage
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when scripture says that whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker.
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Is that what you really want to do is invoke scripture?
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If you want to play that game, people can play that game all of a sudden, right?
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If you're going to start casting aspersions at Christians in the Republican Party,
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But you really should stop using scripture for your points.
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I mean, I don't know who he's trying to please with it.
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Because the media looks at Christianity as a political tool to hurt your opponent.
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So they think, okay, well, look, this is a great point by Buttigieg because he's using their rhetoric against them.
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Well, they don't want this government policy for minimum wage.
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And we can squeak and nail them with their Christianity.
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That is not how Christians look at Christianity.
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This is a country that if you get into the general election and want to win any of the states that are anywhere near the Midwest where you are supposedly from and you represent those values.
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If you want to do that, trying to weaponize Christianity against the moderates who might actually put you in the White House is not a good idea.
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I know afterwards when, you know, John King is interviewing on CNN.
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It's a single tenet of Christianity where the government is called on to do anything for the poor or anybody else.
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Jesus never said, hey, Rome needs to take care of people.
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I'm tired of the Romans not taking care of people.
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The last, what they don't want you to do is what everyone on that stage did last night, which is worship government.
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They had another idea about who you should worship.
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And the fact that Pete Buttigieg is going to be this preacher who's going to come at us and tell us how to be Christians is utterly, let's put it this way, utterly a very poor, a very poor plan politically at the very least.
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Especially when he's trying to have it both ways because he's also calling out Mike Pence for taking the Bible literally.
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And I will say that it's very possible what he's trying to do is goad right wing, you know, the wings, you know, the far right and the right wing to come out and start saying bad things about him personally and trying to goad him into being a victim.
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He's trying to make himself a victim, essentially inviting these attacks.
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But again, I don't know that any, I don't know that he can understand how insulting it is to hear that from him, especially when it's such a basic argument.
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The guy's a smart guy and the fact that he comes with a fourth grade argument about Christianity, the idea that any Christian understands that is a BS argument.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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He kind of set the stage for the whole thing before the debate got underway last night.
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Yeah, and no one watched this, of course, because you'd be insane to do it.
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Because I only did it by mistake, to be honest with you.
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I tuned in a few minutes early, so I was getting dinner ready.
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Because I just, it immediately set me off before the debate even started, Pat.
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Because you don't want to go through a situation where you're angry going into something that's
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This is Perez talking about Medicare, an amazing accomplishment by the Democrats, and the legacy
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Here's Tom Perez from right before the debate yesterday.
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Democrats dreamed of putting a man on the moon, and we did just that.
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We dreamed of a great society, and we built it.
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We dreamed that seniors and people with disabilities and people who are poor could get access to
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And 54 years ago today, President Johnson signed Medicaid and Medicare into law.
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And I will note, parenthetically, what did Republicans who opposed it call those laws?
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Ronald Reagan said, and I quote, Medicare will lead to socialized medicine.
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He was full of it then, and these folks are full of it now when they try to distract you.
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I mean, that's like a spooky prophecy from Ronald Reagan.
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It would lead to socialism, and now what are we talking about?
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He is on stage, literally standing in front of a podium in the center of the stage, in
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which the person leading the field of this debate is an announced socialist.
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The person standing next to him is, for all intents and purposes, a socialist as well.
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So, Warren and Sanders are leading the field that's about to stand behind him, and he has
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the balls to mock a prediction that Medicare would lead to socialism.
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And this is not something that a lot of people like to hear, because Medicare is a very popular
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And yet, it, in and of itself, is a form of socialism.
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I mean, look, it is something that you might like.
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And because of it, it has, it has cleared the path for many more programs like it.
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And it's part of a long run from going back to FDR.
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But Medicare in particular is a massive driver of our debt.
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In the next 30 years, the CBO projects we are going to get an additional $80 trillion of
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$80 trillion of debt in the next 30 years is what they're predicting right now.
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No, this is just, this is just what we're going to actually get in the next 30 years.
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And that does, of course, not include any of the plans you've heard talked about on stage
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It doesn't include any of the other crazy crap they're going to actually pass in the
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But $80 trillion is what they project right now.
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The way they get to that number is Social Security and Medicare are projected to be $103 trillion
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And the rest of the budget is supposed to be $23 trillion in surplus.
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So to get to $80 trillion, it's $103 trillion of Medicare and Social Security.
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And it actually backs off from that back to $80 because of other parts of the budget.
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They're destroying our nation when it comes to debt.
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They are incredibly popular when you poll them.
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I mean, 70% of Republicans approve of these programs.
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Now that dependence is part of your life as an American.
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When people come out and say, I'm going to change the year you're eligible by one year
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We now have both parties who run candidates who say, I will not touch one little tiny part
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Now, look, if you paid into the system, do you, you know, under an agreement, you, you know,
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None of these programs ever touch people who've already paid into it.
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They always grandfather people in because of that, because of that argument.
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But I think conservatives a lot of times will look at these big government programs and
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You know, what the bad one is, is, you know, even Obamacare, right?
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Where so someone who is theoretically in need of something, the government gives them hands
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But much worse is the universal program, Social Security and Medicare, because every
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Delaney made a great point last night where he was, he said, you know, why are we going
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That would be like when we pass Social Security, we should have made pensions illegal.
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It's the government forcing you into this long term scam, right?
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Because we know the money isn't actually going to your health care.
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So later on, they give you it's a government forced savings program where you get basically
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But now it is so locked into the character of this country because, you know what?
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When it comes down to manipulating public opinion, it works.
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This is why when it when Obamacare was at 38 percent approval, they forced it through
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anyway, because they knew if they let they let it stick in there long enough, people would
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get used to it, would get dependent on it and it would become popular.
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It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program.
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The good news is if you missed the debate last night, you're in luck.
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And, you know, the two main players in this one will be Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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That should be interesting because as Biden described it, Kamala Harris took a two by four
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So I don't think he's going to be quite as pleasant.
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Obviously, the number one dynamic is how does Joe Biden respond to being destroyed last
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He needs to be massively ready and he needs to be able to do a good job tonight.
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Not a not as typical, you know, middling performance in a debate.
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He's a show that he's not slipping because it looked last time like he was slipping.
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And so I'm going to be interested to see that, I think, is the number one takeaway from what
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And I think Harris and by the way, you can get I did the there's a new edition of the
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And, you know, we ranked from 25 to one all the candidates and how they're doing.
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And it's worth checking out for a little pre pre debate prep if you want to look at how
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they're doing and also make fun of them a little bit.
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She actually finished second behind Biden overall in the field in this edition of the
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But I think there's stuff to worry about there because more than anyone else, Kamala Harris's
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And you can win a lot of basketball games by shooting 60 percent from three point range, but
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If she if her path to the presidency is a perfect debate performance every time, she's not going
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She needs to be more consistent in between these debates.
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And if she has a bad performance tonight, you can see her support going away quickly.
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It's amazing how that moment is perceived to be so great, too, because what was it she
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Usually, I mean, to create a little thing where you get drawn into it.
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And then at the end, oh, by the way, I was that five year old girl.
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She didn't even do it like she didn't even do it.
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Well, I thought she did OK with it, but it's a story that is irrelevant, irrelevant.
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I mean, we find out later that basically she agrees with him on busing, which is even more
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But again, she had she had several good moments in that debate.
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I mean, I think she had when it comes down to a large field debate.
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I don't know that I've ever seen anyone have a better night.
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But that being said, that that is not a you don't win elections as she's seeing.
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She had a nice burst up to about 15, but she's down to about 12 again.
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You know, everything settled kind of back to where it was before the debate.
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She probably she was probably about five or six, maybe seven percent before that jumped
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So she's held maybe two thirds of the bump where Biden lost about 10 points and has regained
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But at some point, Democrats are going to look at Biden if he continually turns in poor
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performances and said, wow, if Kamala Harris is doing this to him.
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So I think that that's going to be interesting.
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Another thing I did to draw your attention to, if you happen to be watching this disaster
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Now, Gabbard, since the Kamala Harris or Kamala Harris debate has has run large amounts of
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She has criticized loudly Kamala Harris stance on busing and defended Joe Biden.
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She has said Kamala Harris is not qualified to be president of the United States.
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Probably the most aggressive attacks in this entire primary so far have been in the past
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And it signals to me very strongly that Gabbard wants in on a Biden administration, whether
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it's VP or secretary of defense, something like that.
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But Kamala Harris needs to be prepared because Gabbard is pretty smart.
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And she if she's ganging up essentially on Harris with Biden, Harris better be prepared
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for that because it's one thing to attack some old white guy.
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You know, Tulsi Gabbard is not going to go away so easily.
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So that's, I think, an interesting thing to watch as you go through this tonight.
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Another amazing part of this is when you look at the field, the way they set up this field
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is the two people who are leading the polls are in the middle.
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Biden and Harris, two people who are the least the worst in the polls, de Blasio and Michael
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You know, Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jay Inslee, right?
00:44:58.220
Andrew Yang is what you would say, I guess, is third place in this field right now.
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And he had almost no time to talk in the first debate.
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But, you know, first one of those these things.
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We interested to see if he can do anything tonight.
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Because Democrats criticizing Democrat debates.
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Will there be anyone tonight who will continue the rich tradition of Democrat debate yodeling?
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Will will we have a yodeler as we did last night?
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Way over there with Bernie and Elizabeth normally way over there with Bernie and Elizabeth normally way over there with Bernie and Elizabeth.
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My hope is that, yes, there will be yodeling again tonight.
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My requirement for every candidate is that they at least say one sentence in every debate in each language available to them.
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I am saying that somebody should speak it to them.
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I will be interested to see, too, if the two people on stage who have a long-standing immunity to shame and embarrassment, Cory Booker and Bill de Blasio, I expect fireworks out of both of them, particularly de Blasio because he's got nothing to lose.
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And he is literally begging for money for donations because he's trying to get to that $130,000 mark now.
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The one thing I thought Bill de Blasio would be good at would be getting money.
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The guy is running a city, which is the financial center of the world, which is filled.
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How does he not have more money than everybody else?
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First of all, he'll try to get to the left of everyone on stage.
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And secondly, I would be stunned if he does not go after Biden in particular because he
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He's all about trying to get these viral moments to get attention.
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Cory Booker, to a lesser extent, I think will try the same thing.
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Booker's pissed because Booker was actually criticizing Biden before Kamala was.
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And then Kamala got the big moment out of it because Booker's terrible.
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Like Kamala, say what you say about her, can at least perform a little bit.
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In every way, he's just not good at this thing he's trying to do.
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You know, a lot of people try a lot of different things.
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When you're not and you realize you're bad at this thing you're trying to do, sometimes
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He is like the guy who comes in and like the first episode of American Idol and tries
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And he's going to try something tonight, I'm sure, to get himself on the highlights.
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And he's got some Spartacus-esque line that he's going to try to roll out there tonight.
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And that's what he's going to get from all the judges.
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Otherwise, he'd be, you know, in the teens at least right now.
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He's still behind Beto, and Beto is virtually imploded.
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Beto crossed an interesting line for me last night, which is,
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my expectations have now become so low, he actually exceeded them.
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Was it the 10-year thing on the climate change that swayed you?
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Listen to that again, and maybe it will sway you this time.
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Here's Beto talking about, you know, how desperate the climate change situation is.
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I've listened to scientists on this, and they're very clear.
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And we won't meet that challenge with half steps or half measures or only half the country.
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The people of Detroit and those that I listened to in Flint last week, they want the challenge.
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They want to create the future for this country and the world.
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Those community college students that I met in Tucumcari, New Mexico, understand that wind
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and solar jobs are the fastest growing jobs in the country.
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And those farmers in Iowa say, pay me for the environmental services of planting cover crops
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and keeping more land in conservation easements.
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So 10 years to climate catastrophe, according to Beto O'Rourke.
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And he said he wanted to listen to the scientists.
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I will tell you that the actual scientist who did the report he's talking about said specifically
00:50:42.280
he was wrong on it in a fact check on Beto saying this.
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But yet he's still saying it on stage at a debate.