Glenn Beck is joined by Pat McAfee to talk about the Eagles-Ducks game, the new IRS agents running around looking into you, and the new PayPal policy. Plus, Glenn tells a story about a guy who thinks he's a Native American.
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00:05:12.440You didn't even have an explanation for that one.
00:05:15.440Gays for groomers say more and more companies are coming out in full support of the sexualization, indoctrination, and medicalization of minors.
00:05:22.420By the way, PayPal also shut down Us for Them, a campaign group that advocated for reopening schools during the COVID-19 lockdown.
00:15:08.200Now, moving forward, I will begin to work with the legislature to figure out a way, how do we curb this pension money to be invested in companies like BlackRock,
00:15:21.160who clearly want to see the demise of the fossil fuel industry, which is probably the biggest industry we have in Louisiana.
00:17:00.240I have talked to treasurers across the country since last Wednesday.
00:17:05.200And, you know, they're just looking at ways on how to reinvest this money, because at the end of the day, you do have a fiduciary responsibility.
00:17:14.780Those pension workers or those retired government workers need to get their paychecks.
00:18:21.840I know they got trillions of dollars, but I know they knew that I was moving this money.
00:18:27.240But they never made mention of it when I met with them two weeks ago.
00:18:30.360But what they did do was apologize and say that, you know, that they, you know, wanted to assure me that they weren't against the fossil fuel industry and this, that, and the other.
00:18:48.360Well, Glenn, I told them – I'm sitting there with three people and one of the directors, and it was about a 45-minute long conversation.
00:18:55.840And after a little bit, I told them, I said, look, this isn't personal with you guys.
00:19:00.920But y'all are sitting here telling me one thing, but I can show you, quote, video, and audio of your CEO saying something different than what you're sitting in this room telling me today.
00:19:12.640Now, I'm the treasurer of Louisiana, and I don't mean this in a disrespectful way, but I guess the CEO of BlackRock needs to tell me otherwise,
00:19:21.740because y'all are sitting here telling me one thing, but what I read, see, and hear is something totally different than out of your CEO.
00:19:30.300So unless he's willing to go out publicly and now reverse what he has been saying and go to conferences –
00:19:38.740because, look, Glenn, I don't need to tell you, it's everywhere, all over the Internet where he makes comments about what they need to do,
00:19:46.080where BlackRock is becoming almost like the communist leader, that they know what's best for the world water,
00:20:54.080I don't want to get in the weeds, but I just read a story today.
00:20:57.360The banks can't invest in fossil fuels over in Europe, they're saying, because the money isn't there for investment.
00:21:05.760And if the price collapses, then they're going to be sitting on all of this oil, and they won't be able to hedge it.
00:21:16.680And I read that, and I thought, well, the problem is ESG.
00:21:21.540The problem is that people are not investing in energy now because they're being encouraged not to and being told that that is not the future.
00:21:31.520Well, it may not be the future 150 years from now, but it is over the next 50 years from now.
00:21:44.340You know, a couple things have to happen, going back to your comment about your hope and others are doing the same thing.
00:21:51.280I can tell you factually, we are, and they are.
00:21:54.220I think what has to happen, what's so great about this country, and look, I'm an entrepreneur, and if I can have a minute, Glenn, I want to tell you something.
00:24:57.400And he said, when they didn't do that, and then the mask thing, and then let's just try an experimental drug without telling anybody anything about it.
00:25:05.480He said, I realized we were in a different place as a world.
00:25:11.120So he started doing research, and it took him back, really, to authoritarianism.
00:25:18.920Which he says is very different, because that is something that the mass participates in.
00:25:42.520When you're anxious, and you don't know what you feel anxious for, you feel completely out of control.
00:25:47.560But if you start to believe that your anxiety is caused by something, no matter whether it is true or not, and that there is a strategy to deal with that something, then you have an experience of control.
00:25:59.000And also, you have an object to direct all your frustration and aggression on.
00:26:03.560So that's the first psychological advantage, the first step of mass formation, where the first psychological advantage of mass formation.
00:26:10.000And in a second step, something even more important happens.
00:26:15.240Because so many people participate in a strategy, for instance, the lockdowns, but it could also be the concentration camps or the crusades or the witch.
00:26:23.060Because so many people participate in the strategy to deal with the object of anxiety.
00:26:28.700They have the feeling to fight a collective heroic battle with the object of anxiety.
00:27:00.940First, there always has to be a scapegoat at whom all this frustration and aggression can be directed.
00:27:05.280And also, even more important, this new social bond, this new connectedness, is not a social bond between individuals.
00:27:12.480It's always a social bond between the individual, between each individual separately and the collective.
00:27:20.080Meaning that in a mass, the famous citizenship, the famous solidarity that is so typical for mass formation, is never a solidarity between individuals.
00:27:29.340It's always a solidarity between the individual and the collective.
00:27:31.820Meaning that, and it is even the case, that the longer the mass formation exists, lasts, the more all solidarity and love is sucked away from the bonds between the individuals and injected in the bond between the individual and the collective.
00:27:46.700And that makes that, in the end, solidarity with the collective is much bigger than a solidarity with other individuals, leading to the famous paranoid state in totalitarian systems, where every individual is willing to snitch on every other individual, to report every other individual to the state, if they have the feeling that this other individual doesn't show enough solidarity to the collective.
00:28:11.760In the end, this leads, typically, I've been talking with this woman, Shoray Fishtali, who lived in Iran during the revolution there, which was a huge scale process of mass formation.
00:28:22.040And she told me how she has seen how a mother reported her son to the state, and how this mother hung the noose around his neck when he was on the scaffold.
00:28:30.820And when he was hung, she claimed to be a heroine for doing what she did.
00:28:34.860That is a dramatic end stage of mass formation.
00:28:38.660That's what we have to avoid, that it goes to this end stage.
00:38:03.580Now, let me bring it back to the psychology of totalitarianism.
00:38:09.740If this was happening to any protester that was peacefully protesting, peacefully, would you be for 11 years in prison and the FBI not giving them a chance to surrender?
00:38:29.080I'm talking about somebody who has called the local cops, doesn't want to burn anything down, they're totally cool, they're in their 60s, 70s, and 80s, and maybe they have their grandchildren with them, and they've done all of that.
00:39:35.700America, you already have half the population remaining silent on the abuse from the FBI, remaining silent on all of the stuff that has gone on, and is actually sitting there and remaining silent when a president of the United States says,
00:39:57.740You know, anybody who voted for Trump, 90 million people, they're all terrorists.