The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Judy Shelton ｜ 2⧸17⧸26

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00:00:15.200 Oh, I came in today with a buttload of stuff to say, and my hair was on fire.

00:00:23.180 The Rhode Island Trans Shooter, Canada.

00:00:26.500 I mean, you really want to go down the road, Canada, that you're going down?

00:00:29.780 Because I got a lot to say to you.

00:00:32.060 And we also talked to Judy Shelton.

00:00:34.440 She is an expert on gold and what we should be doing with our money right now.

00:00:40.500 She's trying to convince the White House and our Treasury. 0.99

00:00:43.520 Luckily, she's good friends with our Treasury Department.

00:00:46.280 And she might have a solution for us on real sound money.

00:00:50.920 If you want to get into this more, I might explain in hour three today, if you listen to the entire podcast,

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00:01:03.680 Because my mom and dad could afford a house, you know, a 2,000 square foot house.

00:01:07.720 And now I can't even come close to it.

00:01:09.340 Why is that happening?

00:01:10.900 I explained through the use of the Fed and their 2% inflation what that actually means.

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00:03:17.880 You know, I saw a story about Canada and Mark Carney deciding that he wants to go and have a little, you know,

00:03:38.620 just jam his tongue down the throats of all the Marxist leadership in China.

00:03:45.240 You know what? 0.97

00:03:45.780 Go do it.

00:03:46.760 Go do it.

00:03:47.520 My first response was that yesterday.

00:03:49.660 This mood started then.

00:03:51.140 Go do it, Mark Carney.

00:03:53.960 Do it.

00:03:56.240 Yes.

00:03:57.820 Reach for it.

00:03:59.020 I want you to do it.

00:04:01.180 Your journey to the dark side will be complete.

00:04:05.320 Do it.

00:04:06.060 I'm so sick and tired of countries who all we're asking for is trade balance, trade balance. 0.99

00:04:17.220 You know, Canada, your last two prime ministers have loved communism, love it, love totalitarianism.

00:04:25.900 Your policies are so close to matching the Chinese system.

00:04:30.160 When we watched you arrest all of those truckers during COVID, I thought, wow.

00:04:35.360 Now, is that you?

00:04:36.640 I'm having a hard time sometimes differentiating between, you know, the Canadian policies from your government and Mao.

00:04:47.220 This is why I can't ever be president because I would have, I mean, they would have said to me yesterday, sir, stop pushing the button.

00:04:58.460 We ran out of missiles 15 minutes ago.

00:05:00.380 But I slept.

00:05:04.780 And so I got up this morning and I wrote a little speech that I would like President Trump to give to the Canadians.

00:05:10.000 And if he won't do it, I will.

00:05:14.040 I'd like the president to come on and say, my fellow Americans and to our friends and neighbors in Canada, we bear no ill will towards Canada.

00:05:22.420 We love the people of Canada.

00:05:24.100 But you know what?

00:05:25.240 Your politicians are pissing us off.

00:05:27.420 For generations, we have been more than neighbors.

00:05:31.280 We've been allies.

00:05:32.100 We've been partners.

00:05:32.900 We've been friends.

00:05:34.900 Our soldiers have stood together.

00:05:37.020 Our economies have grown together.

00:05:38.720 Our families cross the same border every day in peace because for decades we have believed in the same principles, freedom, accountability, and the dignity of the individual.

00:05:50.000 But our friendship does not erase reality.

00:05:52.880 And we have reached a moment when reality demands real clarity.

00:06:00.200 Let me just say this to Canada and for the rest of the world and for everybody listening to my voice right now.

00:06:06.200 The world is changing.

00:06:08.140 The easy things we could have done 25 years ago to get off this highway to hell are long past. 0.98

00:06:17.180 All of the choices we now face suck.

00:06:20.540 But all of your assumptions of what the world's going to be like are now gone.

00:06:25.140 Nations everywhere on earth have to make hard choices about who are you?

00:06:30.040 Who are you?

00:06:30.660 What do you really believe?

00:06:32.160 And who do you want to stand beside?

00:06:34.060 And so I say this with respect, the president should say, with all seriousness, Canada, choose your partners carefully.

00:06:44.820 If you choose, and this is what he threatened yesterday, we're going to buddy up with China. 0.74

00:06:49.980 We're going to get in bed with China. 1.00

00:06:51.760 You want us to pay our fair share on tariffs and you want us to be your friend and pay for some of the things that you guys have been doing for us.

00:07:00.400 We're going to either cry or we're going to run to China.

00:07:02.440 Go ahead.

00:07:03.900 If you align yourself with Chinese Communist Party members, allowing the Chinese state-linked firms into your telecoms, your 5G, your cloud, your ports, your power grids, your satellite, your space, your sensitive minerals refining and strategic infrastructure, your intelligence systems, any of that, then the nature of our alliance has got to change. 0.84

00:07:29.060 And it has to change, not because we wanted to, but because the foundation of trust is gone.

00:07:37.420 Trust, you know, any alliance, the foundation must be trust.

00:07:40.900 And if that trust is gone, then it has consequences.

00:07:43.140 So let's talk, frankly, Canada, what your choice means.

00:07:47.360 You're going to do this?

00:07:48.280 Great.

00:07:49.220 The government in Beijing is not simply another trading partner.

00:07:53.700 It is a regime that censors speech and controls information at a national scale.

00:07:58.820 But why should you even recognize that?

00:08:01.220 It's what your leaders are already doing in Canada.

00:08:04.040 They use surveillance and technology to monitor and control its own systems.

00:08:09.060 Are you doing that yet, Canada?

00:08:10.260 Because if you're not, once you get in bed with them, you will be.

00:08:13.240 They detain and repress political and religious minorities.

00:08:16.980 Doing that yet?

00:08:18.180 You're going to be.

00:08:19.920 Punishes dissent.

00:08:21.440 Silence independent voices.

00:08:23.400 You're already doing that.

00:08:25.480 Uses economic dependence as a weapon against other nations.

00:08:29.400 Oh, you're about to feel that.

00:08:32.020 And all of these accusations, they're not, we're not saying that because we're a rival.

00:08:36.580 They're facts and realities recognized all around the world.

00:08:42.100 And America is no longer going to ignore these things.

00:08:44.580 You go ahead, go ahead, get in bed with them.

00:08:46.300 Go ahead.

00:08:47.560 We're not going to ignore it.

00:08:48.860 Neither should any nation that claims to stand for freedom.

00:08:51.100 We're telling England and the rest of Europe the same thing. 0.98

00:08:54.420 You're killing yourself.

00:08:55.640 And we are not going to go down that path any longer. 0.99

00:08:58.320 We were going on that path.

00:08:59.480 But Canada, you need to choose your partners.

00:09:02.000 We're saying no.

00:09:03.600 We say no to the hatred.

00:09:05.960 We say no to bitterness.

00:09:08.180 We say yes to clarity.

00:09:11.780 And there's another thing that really kind of hacks a lot of Americans off.

00:09:14.960 For generations, Americans have paid an enormous price.

00:09:18.520 Not just in blood, but in actual dollars to protect the free world.

00:09:24.900 We're still doing it.

00:09:26.360 Our sons and daughters fought wars oceans away so the West could live in peace.

00:09:31.560 So you could have free trade, or so they say.

00:09:36.220 So you could ship your goods to China and everywhere else without pirates.

00:09:41.060 Why?

00:09:41.540 Because the United States Navy said so.

00:09:44.860 And it was our taxpayers that funded the shield that allowed you as our allies to invest a lot less in military might so you could be more prosperous.

00:09:57.080 We paid for it.

00:09:59.200 And that protection created a dome under which, Canada, you flourished, as did Europe and, hell, the rest of the world.

00:10:08.080 And we were proud to do it.

00:10:09.860 We never asked you for anything, but the world has changed.

00:10:16.680 You overspent.

00:10:18.320 Europe overspent.

00:10:19.360 And we overspent.

00:10:21.060 We hollowed out parts of our own industrial base.

00:10:24.380 We chased cheap labor and short-term gains.

00:10:27.880 And yes, everybody did it.

00:10:30.300 You did it.

00:10:31.020 Our allies did it.

00:10:32.000 And we did it.

00:10:32.740 But now the bill is finally due.

00:10:36.680 So America is just going to start recognizing reality.

00:10:40.600 And the price of admission to the next era, you got to pay for it.

00:10:46.040 So we asked for something simple, and I think fair.

00:10:49.020 If you want free trade, then let it be truly free.

00:10:52.280 Drop your tariffs on our American goods, and we'll drop ours on yours.

00:10:55.820 No tricks.

00:10:56.480 No loopholes.

00:10:57.140 Just fairness.

00:10:57.920 That's it.

00:10:59.420 Because here's the reality.

00:11:00.880 Numbers, numbers, not slogans, are what makes the next era possible.

00:11:10.340 70% to 76% of Canada's exports go to the United States.

00:11:14.960 Do it.

00:11:16.740 More than three out of every $4 Canada earns from exports comes from access to the American market.

00:11:26.260 Dump it.

00:11:27.200 Dump it.

00:11:28.160 Walk away from it.

00:11:29.160 I want you to do it.

00:11:30.240 Your entire industrial system, your energy, your autos, your agriculture, your manufacturing is all intertwined with ours.

00:11:37.160 In 2024 alone, trade between our nations included or exceeded $760 billion in goods and over $900 billion with services.

00:11:48.820 You're not going to replace that overnight.

00:11:50.940 No country can.

00:11:51.700 We won't either.

00:11:52.320 If the United States were forced to pull back, if trusts were broken, the economic shock to Canada is going to be blinding.

00:12:02.840 Your factories will slow.

00:12:04.540 Your investments will flee.

00:12:06.440 Currency pressure is going to rise.

00:12:07.960 What do you think the Canadian dollar is really worth?

00:12:11.300 Supply chains built for generations are going to fracture.

00:12:14.520 Are we going to feel the pain?

00:12:16.200 Yeah, we're going to feel the pain.

00:12:17.500 Of course we would.

00:12:18.400 Yes.

00:12:19.080 But let's be honest here.

00:12:20.260 A country of 340 million people can adjust a little faster than a country of 40 million whose largest customer is us.

00:12:29.740 The most important thing here to think about is security.

00:12:35.260 Canada, if you choose to partner with an authoritarian power in critical technologies, especially telecommunications and infrastructure, then you can no longer participate fully in the shared defense system like NORAD.

00:12:49.980 You want to lose NORAD?

00:12:51.660 Go partner with the Chinese. 0.98

00:12:53.640 Have a blast.

00:12:55.760 Defense requires absolute trust.

00:12:58.500 The minute you start doing anything with telecommunications with China, you're out.

00:13:03.140 You have to be.

00:13:04.180 That's not even a choice for us.

00:13:05.960 It's automatic.

00:13:07.360 You do it, we're out.

00:13:09.560 And without trust, we can't protect you.

00:13:14.780 Now, you might say, fine, China will protect us.

00:13:17.420 Go ahead.

00:13:18.440 Go ahead.

00:13:19.080 Perhaps they would.

00:13:20.940 History tells us protection from authoritarian powers always comes with strings attached.

00:13:25.980 You don't like our strings?

00:13:26.860 Wait until you see the chains that come with China. 0.79

00:13:31.760 Here's the thing that world needs to hear.

00:13:33.680 America's done playing games.

00:13:35.320 This is not diplomacy theater.

00:13:38.420 This is real life.

00:13:40.060 The world's about to change.

00:13:41.720 And Canada, you know, my father used to say, all right, before he disciplined me, that's going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you.

00:13:48.640 And I never really understood him.

00:13:49.980 I never believed that until as an adult, I understand exactly what he meant.

00:13:54.600 Because nobody wants to do it.

00:13:56.180 I warned you.

00:13:57.200 I don't want to do it.

00:13:58.120 This is going to kill me because it's my son.

00:14:00.540 And the same with friends.

00:14:04.440 It's going to hurt us.

00:14:06.420 It's going to hurt us emotionally.

00:14:07.920 It's going to hurt us economically.

00:14:09.380 You're our neighbors.

00:14:10.400 You're our friends.

00:14:11.220 We don't want this.

00:14:13.200 Many of us have families on both sides of that invisible line.

00:14:17.480 But you know what?

00:14:18.560 Actions have consequences, as my father used to say.

00:14:21.300 You are standing on the cliff's edge.

00:14:26.520 Now, here's what I know.

00:14:29.000 You're not going to jump.

00:14:30.900 Because you're not crazy.

00:14:33.520 Canadians are not crazy.

00:14:35.400 But I think your leaders just may be.

00:14:39.480 But I warn you, don't jump.

00:14:42.660 Don't jump.

00:14:43.700 Because this president doesn't screw around.

00:14:46.460 If you decide to jump into the arms of China, America won't be there to catch you. 0.96

00:14:55.660 Choose freedom.

00:14:57.520 Choose transparency.

00:14:59.820 Choose values that built the West.

00:15:03.240 Individual liberty.

00:15:04.700 Ethical responsibility. 1.00

00:15:06.380 The moral foundations that shaped our nations.

00:15:09.700 Because once trust is broken, rebuilding it is going to take generations.

00:15:14.060 The door is still open.

00:15:15.340 It does.

00:15:16.460 But the time for pretending choices don't really matter.

00:15:21.220 Those days are gone.

00:15:23.780 And right now, you're writing history.

00:15:27.540 Careful, Canada.

00:15:29.180 Choose your partners carefully.

00:15:32.320 For decades, the United States has carried a heavy...

00:15:35.460 A heavy burden in blood and treasure.

00:15:45.340 And we did it gladly to defend the free world.

00:15:50.180 Do you even understand what that means?

00:15:53.680 Hell, half of our nation doesn't even understand what that means anymore.

00:15:57.340 It's worth defending and fighting for.

00:16:00.220 And under that shield, nations, including our closest allies like you, have been able to prosper without having to carry the military weight.

00:16:09.840 We carried it.

00:16:10.340 We carried it for the rest of the world.

00:16:12.220 It's not a complaint.

00:16:13.840 It's just the truth.

00:16:15.400 It's history.

00:16:16.280 But history is changing because it doesn't work.

00:16:20.140 I'm sorry, but the United States is facing really hard realities.

00:16:27.800 So are you.

00:16:30.420 We've all overspent.

00:16:31.960 We all hollowed out parts of our industrial...

00:16:34.540 We learned now that prosperity requires responsibility.

00:16:40.220 And that's the price.

00:16:42.140 That's the price of admission to the next era.

00:16:44.760 So we're not asking you for any favors.

00:16:47.380 All we're asking you for is fairness and a realistic recognition of what we have brought to the table all of these years.

00:17:02.260 Look, you want truly free trade?

00:17:04.560 Let's be free.

00:17:05.580 Let's do that.

00:17:06.360 Let's do that.

00:17:06.860 Let competition, not protectionism, decide the outcome.

00:17:11.240 But understand this.

00:17:14.140 We're done.

00:17:15.960 We are done.

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00:18:23.720 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:18:28.240 Judy, welcome to the program. 0.95

00:18:30.560 How are you?

00:18:32.220 I'm fine.

00:18:33.160 And Glenn, I'm so honored to be with you and your listeners.

00:18:37.260 Thank you for inviting me.

00:18:39.080 Well, thank you.

00:18:39.980 Can we just go into a little bit of the past with you?

00:18:42.660 It's 1989, and you publish a book called The Coming Soviet Collapse.

00:18:49.460 All the experts say, that's crazy.

00:18:51.520 That's not going to happen.

00:18:52.320 And just a few months later, the Berlin Wall falls.

00:18:55.700 What did you see that everybody else was missing?

00:18:59.520 You know, I'm kind of a green eye shade accountant by nature.

00:19:05.660 And I think that when I took on what was meant to be a very scholarly and probably dull project as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, my goal was to study the impact of Western capital on the Soviet economy.

00:19:23.300 Because it turned out, and you had to look at CIA statistics and some other statistics from government agencies to see this.

00:19:33.400 But Western banks and Western governments were lending twice as much as any of them thought to the Soviet government, which was really bailing out Gorbachev and all of his programs and not causing the Soviet Union to reconcile with everything it spent on a war machine.

00:19:54.820 So I looked at the Soviet financial statements, and I really analyzed their internal budget figures, and it became apparent that it wasn't adding up.

00:20:07.480 They always showed they had a balanced budget, but in fact, they were running a huge budget deficit, and they were financing it by printing rubles.

00:20:16.540 And so it was in analyzing and then recognizing that, that I was able to say, and it even surprised me at first, that this country was going bankrupt.

00:20:29.640 So you did this in the 90s, right before, you know, the Asian crash.

00:20:36.420 I mean, you have a way of being ahead of the curve.

00:20:41.380 Where are we today?

00:20:43.080 Go ahead.

00:20:43.560 Well, sorry, I was just thinking, that book actually came out in January of 1989, and by December of 1991, there was no more Soviet Union.

00:20:56.820 So it is wrong to say governments can't go bankrupt.

00:21:00.800 They can.

00:21:01.980 And that goes to your question of where are we now?

00:21:04.840 Well, it's alarming that our own country is running what everyone admits is an unsustainable budget.

00:21:15.020 We don't even see that over 10 years we have a plan to come close to balancing it.

00:21:22.600 And yet everyone says, well, this is unsustainable in the long run, but no one ever says this is day one of the long run.

00:21:30.480 So tell us the truth that politicians will just never say, what does this look like if we stay on this path?

00:21:41.920 How long do we have and what happens?

00:21:44.120 Well, I think that it shows that you don't have faith in the future viability of your country.

00:21:53.820 To me, it's here we are about to celebrate this year, our 250th anniversary.

00:22:00.180 And if you asked most Americans, do you think we will still be around, let alone standing tall in 50 years, in 2076, I don't know that you would hear a strong affirmation of yes.

00:22:14.780 And I think everyone's aware, and we're dealing with the fallout of fiscal deficit spending every day with this dread we all feel from perpetual inflation.

00:22:26.880 We're never able to catch up, no matter how much we're reassured that wage gains are helping to keep up.

00:22:35.560 Maybe for some people, yes.

00:22:37.280 Maybe for others, no.

00:22:38.520 And the problem for me is until we establish a beachhead that we're willing to look this problem square in the face and demand honest government, which means an end to deficit spending, which I consider immoral.

00:22:56.040 Because you're allowing people to consume today goods and services that haven't even been produced yet, which is robbing the next generation.

00:23:07.720 And we just need to face this and say we believe in honest jobs, that is productive labor that results in genuine output, that increases real prosperity instead of just being told the GDP has gone up because maybe Wall Street is making out financially.

00:23:29.340 And we can't have these government shutdowns, we have to have functional government and just say that we won't tolerate massive government at the expense of private sector growth.

00:23:44.000 And then I think we need to guarantee honest money.

00:23:48.140 So I have a very small proposal, which is just to begin to establish a link between what has long been the constitutional money of the United States, that is a dollar defined in terms of gold, as a special treasury offering for people who want that guarantee that they could convert a treasury security to gold redeemer.

00:24:14.000 Mobility in the future, and I'm even suggesting 50 years from now, if you believe that our country will still be standing.

00:24:23.220 I have to tell you, this is the only, you know, return to the gold standard idea that I have heard, and I'm going to explain it in great detail next, next hour, but it's the only thing that I have heard that actually would work.

00:24:37.780 Everything else would be too disruptive.

00:24:40.380 I mean, it would just cause so much pain, but this, this one allows it to, it allows us to go back to a gold standard.

00:24:48.040 Cause we know we're going to have to pay it out in gold eventually.

00:24:50.940 Um, and you know, if people stop believing, uh, and so it, it slowly forces us back into the gold standard, but I've heard so many people say bankers, et cetera, et cetera, say, Glenn, there's not enough gold on the earth to be able to pay for everything that we have now.

00:25:08.800 Um, there's just not enough gold to do that.

00:25:12.480 Well, and I think that's, that's very perceptive of you to see that when, when people say, oh, um, they're for a gold standard or, or say that I'm for a gold standard, they really don't define what they mean.

00:25:27.540 Um, it's, it's, it's not a matter of the government having enough gold to cover even the paper money that's out there.

00:25:35.660 Uh, the federal reserve has, has printed something like four and a half trillion in paper money.

00:25:40.760 And about 70% of that circulates outside the United States.

00:25:45.480 So our gold holdings, while they are the largest in the world, we have 261 million ounces and no other country even comes close.

00:25:54.520 Um, they nevertheless, it might be worth a trillion three, but I'm really talking about is in some ways it's symbolic, you could say, but it's also quite real because it would be the first time for there to be an official link between the dollar and gold.

00:26:12.840 Since President Nixon ended the Bretton Woods system, which was based on a, um, uh, gold convertible dollar and ended in August, 1971, it would be a way of saying for bondholders who, who are willing to lend money to the government.

00:26:32.720 I mean, we know, as you said, our treasury markets, they need to be stable.

00:26:36.720 They need to, they need to be popular.

00:26:39.320 But if you had an instrument that said to people who, who are willing to lend money to our government, but who are maybe skeptical about losing purchasing power of the dollar over the duration of that bond.

00:26:55.880 And it's a way of saying, you will have a choice at maturity of being paid out in the face value of the bond.

00:27:02.900 That's a normal treasury security, or you can receive this much gold, a pre-established amount, and it is at your option.

00:27:13.780 And, um, um, I think that is a way to, to say in a way we're putting our, our money where our mouth is, or you could say we're putting our gold where our money is.

00:27:24.420 Um, we actually have, have the gold sitting there doing nothing.

00:27:29.480 It's been doing nothing since 1971, although it is carried on the books of the treasury and on the books of the federal reserve at a value of being worth $11 billion.

00:27:42.500 So we have a windfall profit right there.

00:27:47.060 If we were to offer this treasury instrument and specifically warehouse the gold to serve as collateral, that would do two important things.

00:27:58.720 One, it would reassure a lot of people who don't even think the gold exists at Fort Knox.

00:28:04.200 I'm amazed that people don't even trust our government enough to believe it exists.

00:28:08.700 So I think it demands an audit.

00:28:10.660 But secondly, how do we know the next presidential administration isn't going to be even more spendthrift and someone gets the bright idea?

00:28:21.440 Oh, let's just sell that gold.

00:28:23.840 And because we haven't reconciled our budgetary dilemma, that money just goes down a rat hole because that's what happened in the UK.

00:28:32.720 No, I want to lock it up.

00:28:34.820 I want to lock that up.

00:28:36.140 Those are the family jewels, but I want to use them as a stake to say we are moving our way toward sound finances and sound money.

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00:28:52.940 Welcome to another shooter, America.

00:28:56.400 That's the gun.

00:28:57.400 It's not the gun.

00:28:59.280 It's not the gun.

00:29:01.800 Police now have identified the gunman who killed two people and critically injured three others at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island.

00:29:09.160 It happened yesterday afternoon.

00:29:11.220 Robert Dorgan, a transgender dad who railed against anti-trans hate in family legal disputes and deranged social media rants.

00:29:22.700 56-year-old father who shot four family members and a family friend before turning the gun on himself following the deadly rampage at the Pawtucket ice rink.

00:29:32.560 He used a female alias, but nobody was thinking he was a female except maybe him.

00:29:40.160 Roberto Esposito, Pawtucket police chief Tina Goncalves says, uh, during a press conference Monday night, we've identified the person by birth name.

00:29:51.400 The birth name was Robert Dorgan.

00:29:53.540 How dare her mislabel. 0.51

00:29:55.340 Let me tell you first.

00:29:56.260 First, let's recognize that this man was a father who just killed his family.

00:30:06.640 Here's a statement from a daughter who wasn't killed right after the shooting.

00:30:11.700 Listen to this.

00:30:12.260 She described that shooting suspect as her father.

00:30:24.540 She came out of the police department behind me here in tears after presumably being interviewed by police. 0.62

00:30:31.580 My father was a shooter.

00:30:33.220 Probably.

00:30:34.580 What happened?

00:30:37.040 Shot.

00:30:38.320 My family.

00:30:41.500 And he's dead now.

00:30:43.980 What was the reasoning?

00:30:45.040 Was there a family argument? 0.97

00:30:46.120 He has mental health issues.

00:30:48.040 So, yes, she goes on to describe those mental health issues a little bit more.

00:30:53.500 She says that he had been struggling with mental health for quite some time.

00:30:58.540 She said, quote, he was very sick.

00:31:02.020 Yeah.

00:31:03.800 Yeah, you think, Roberto, Roberto might have been a little sick?

00:31:08.700 You think?

00:31:10.500 I am so sick and tired of the so-called health professionals telling us how we are to behave.

00:31:19.480 Telling us what mental illness is and is not.

00:31:22.720 Telling us to never say that somebody who thinks that they were born in the wrong body,

00:31:27.960 the definition of insanity, is not insane.

00:31:31.980 That they should not even be asked a single question about it.

00:31:35.600 You're born in the wrong body. 1.00

00:31:37.100 Shut up. 1.00

00:31:37.620 Shut up. 1.00

00:31:38.080 Shut up. 1.00

00:31:39.680 We've got to help this person by mutilating them and filling them full of drugs that God only knows what it does to their mental state. 1.00

00:31:46.200 Oh, and by the way, after we do all this, it won't change their mental state at all.

00:31:50.360 In fact, it probably makes it worse because now they've done all this stuff and it hasn't changed the way they feel about anything.

00:31:57.740 And so what do they do?

00:31:58.740 They pick up a gun.

00:32:01.520 You can't say anything.

00:32:02.740 You can't say anything about that.

00:32:03.780 How dare you say that?

00:32:05.020 How dare you?

00:32:06.340 How dare you?

00:32:07.260 How dare you?

00:32:08.600 Mental health community.

00:32:10.280 You are going to be remembered as the bad guys.

00:32:14.000 You are going to be remembered forever and ever and ever.

00:32:18.060 Well, at least probably a hundred years and then we'll forget about it and we'll repeat it just like we did in 1930. 0.94

00:32:25.340 We're doing the same damn things they were doing in the 1930s.

00:32:29.860 And you know who's causing it? 0.97

00:32:32.100 You know where it's coming from?

00:32:33.680 Progressive ideas that have embedded themselves in medicine.

00:32:37.460 We have sick people who need help.

00:32:44.420 Let me show you a chart.

00:32:47.080 Look at the number of killers on the shooting graph.

00:32:54.960 These are the rates by demographic group.

00:32:58.940 Mass shooting rates by demographic groups.

00:33:02.400 Okay.

00:33:02.920 Four or more fatalities expresses rates per million population.

00:33:07.460 Trans, non-binary is 0.718.

00:33:13.840 Asian, 0.2.5.

00:33:16.820 Black, 0.099.

00:33:19.360 White, 0.088.

00:33:21.860 Hispanic, 0.047.

00:33:24.620 Native American, 0.000.

00:33:28.400 Gee, one of these things is not like the other.

00:33:30.740 Which one of these has a teeny, minuscule population?

00:33:39.800 Do you think, Doc, maybe something's wrong?

00:33:43.780 Do you think?

00:33:45.240 Or do you just think it's the rest of society giving them a hard time that's causing all of this? 1.00

00:33:50.120 They're mentally ill. 1.00

00:33:52.480 Call a spade a spade. 1.00

00:33:54.440 I'm so sick of it.

00:33:57.040 I'm so sick of it. 0.98

00:33:58.800 We're killing ourselves.

00:34:00.820 We are literally killing ourselves. 1.00

00:34:02.840 The Tumblr Ridge shooter, transgender. 0.93

00:34:05.520 Annunciation Catholic Church shooter, identified as trans. 0.69

00:34:09.500 Nashville Christian shooter, trans.

00:34:11.880 Lakewood Church shooter, trans.

00:34:13.740 Colorado Spring shooter, non-binary.

00:34:16.740 Denver shooter, trans.

00:34:18.160 Aberdeen shooter, trans.

00:34:19.540 Iowa High School shooter, trans activist.

00:34:21.420 Charlie Kirk's assassin, Tyler Robinson, had a furry obsession and lived with transgender boyfriend.

00:34:29.560 Trump's attempted assassin, Thomas Crooks, used the they, them pronouns, had a deep interest in furries, and was exploring gender identity.

00:34:38.500 Do you think maybe we have a mental illness problem? 1.00

00:34:45.600 Look, America, you want to kill yourself, kill yourself. 1.00

00:34:48.120 I'm just not going with you. 1.00

00:34:49.040 We are committing suicide.

00:34:52.200 I have a list of stuff.

00:34:53.660 I've spent three hours this morning going over, trying to figure out, what do I say to you?

00:35:01.120 What do I say to you?

00:35:02.660 What do I?

00:35:03.400 I've said all this stuff before.

00:35:05.460 I've said it over and over and over again.

00:35:07.120 For 30 years, I've said it.

00:35:08.800 I am so sick and tired of saying it.

00:35:10.560 I am so sick and tired of saying it.

00:35:13.400 I'm just waiting for the day common sense returns.

00:35:20.960 I'll be here waiting.

00:35:23.880 Hope it shows up before we're all dead.

00:35:26.620 Because if the medical community doesn't kill all of us, literally, look at what's happening in Canada.

00:35:36.400 And by the way, MAID, it's infected the U.S. 0.94

00:35:40.220 There are 18 states ready to pass death laws.

00:35:44.920 Guess who's going to do it? 0.98

00:35:45.960 Yes, the same people who are bringing you the transgender shooters. 1.00

00:35:49.980 Our doctors and nurses will be killing kids, killing adults, killing old people. 1.00

00:35:55.300 It'll start with the old people. 1.00

00:35:56.580 But believe me, it'll get to the kids.

00:35:58.540 It already is in Canada.

00:36:00.120 It'll get to everybody.

00:36:01.400 Because you can save money.

00:36:03.120 Exactly what I told you would happen if we passed Obamacare.

00:36:07.600 Because, remember, we're only going to use the complete live system if there's an emergency.

00:36:13.680 Well, what emergency could possibly happen?

00:36:16.300 I mean, how could we have shortages with health care besides opening our borders?

00:36:20.980 Besides our Congress spending every dime we have?

00:36:25.500 I mean, what could possibly go wrong there?

00:36:28.460 Don't worry about it.

00:36:29.580 Don't worry about it.

00:36:30.640 It's just crazy Glenn saying these things.

00:36:32.720 That's just crazy.

00:36:34.080 Just crazy, right? 0.91

00:36:35.420 Anarchists, communists, socialists, Islamists all working together to destabilize the West and destroy Israel and America. 0.86

00:36:46.240 How is that possibly going to happen?

00:36:48.120 That's not going to happen.

00:36:49.320 Oh, by the way, let's say hello to our good, good friend, Governor Gavin Newsom.

00:36:54.120 He called on Representative Randy Fine of Florida to resign over comments the Republican made about Muslims.

00:37:01.840 What did he say? 0.98

00:37:02.640 If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one. 1.00

00:37:08.440 Oh no, he's got to resign right away. 0.92

00:37:11.380 You know what?

00:37:13.900 Not all Muslims are Islamists. 0.99

00:37:17.000 But I will pick the dogs over the Islamists every day and twice on Sunday. 1.00

00:37:24.000 I know what my dog does. 0.95

00:37:30.300 I can't talk to you about what Islamists do because that would be racists. 0.51

00:37:35.600 I don't know if you heard what this activist in New York said, but dogs are not Islam. 1.00

00:37:46.120 They're not part of Islam and they shouldn't be in the street. 1.00

00:37:49.200 You should not have them in New York City.

00:37:51.500 You should not be able to have a dog in New York City because it's not Islam. 1.00

00:37:55.060 I don't care. 0.61

00:37:56.020 And you know what?

00:37:57.020 I'd be happy to announce that every dog is a good Christian, that every dog is going to heaven

00:38:03.060 because they've accepted Jesus Christ in their hearts.

00:38:06.040 I'm not going to judge my dog.

00:38:08.180 My dog is a good Christian. 1.00

00:38:10.580 What a bunch of bullcrap. 1.00

00:38:12.180 They're not Islam. 1.00

00:38:13.660 I don't care if they're Islam. 1.00

00:38:16.560 Welcome to the West.

00:38:18.320 West, this is Western Judeo-Christian Western values.

00:38:25.500 We like our dogs.

00:38:26.920 Now, I don't like cats, but I don't say that no one should have cats.

00:38:31.700 You want a cat?

00:38:33.140 Have a cat, communists.

00:38:35.060 Have a cat.

00:38:35.820 Have all the cats you want.

00:38:37.100 I'm never coming over to your house.

00:38:38.420 I'm highly allergic to cats.

00:38:39.660 But beyond that, I'm not going to eat at anybody's house where they have a cat who can jump on the

00:38:43.760 counter and I don't know God only knows what after they put their feet in their own poop. 0.71

00:38:48.760 I don't want it up on the kitchen counter.

00:38:50.620 Thank you.

00:38:50.920 I'm not going to eat at your house.

00:38:52.300 That's my rant with cats.

00:38:53.620 But you are more than welcome to have as many cats as you want.

00:38:58.340 You love cats?

00:38:59.680 Enjoy cats.

00:39:00.780 I don't say to you, well, you know what?

00:39:04.420 They're not really Christians. 0.98

00:39:08.840 Who do you think you are?

00:39:10.620 You're coming over to our country and you're telling us we can't have dogs? 1.00

00:39:15.120 Screw you. 1.00

00:39:18.320 I'm sick of it. 1.00

00:39:22.040 And you know what?

00:39:23.040 It's this little, it's little things like this.

00:39:26.280 You're like, ah, blow it up.

00:39:27.300 Don't say anything.

00:39:27.940 Don't make a big deal.

00:39:28.740 It's just cats.

00:39:29.460 It's just dogs.

00:39:30.160 Oh, well, they have their right to their opinion.

00:39:33.860 Yeah.

00:39:34.200 The right to your opinion is what's, that's you taking another step up to the gallows.

00:39:41.280 America, you're killing yourself because you refuse to say anything.

00:39:45.000 You're killing yourself because you refuse to stand up for what you know is right. 1.00

00:39:51.240 To hell with you. 1.00

00:39:52.860 You don't like my dog. 1.00

00:39:54.180 That's your right.

00:39:55.420 You say you want to get rid of them because it's not Islamist. 1.00

00:40:00.080 You know what?

00:40:00.680 Neither is the United States of America, nor will it ever be.

00:40:05.720 Over my dead body.

00:40:08.920 Na, na, na, na, na.

00:40:10.480 Oh, oh.

00:40:12.360 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:40:20.540 Oh, oh.

00:40:25.700 Oh, oh.

00:40:26.780 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:40:30.060 Oh, oh, oh.

00:40:34.380 Oh, oh, oh.

00:40:35.840 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:40:36.240 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:40:36.360 Oh, oh, oh.

00:40:37.240 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:40:37.320 Oh, oh, oh.

00:40:38.000 Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

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