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On today's show, Glenn explains why the Statue of Liberty should not be removed from the United States and why Chris Cuomo should be "red flagged" as a suspect. Also, Sarah Silverman talks about the cancel culture and Chris Cuomo's "red flags" and the question that Donald Trump tweeted today.
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Hey, welcome to the Tuesday podcast. A lot of great stuff on today's podcast.
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The legal green card immigrants and what NPR was saying about, you know, the poor, the tired,
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the huddled masses. I needed to correct the the the the lies about what our country stands for,
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what the Statue of Liberty really means. Also, they're building a Statue of Liberty or built
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a Statue of Liberty. The protesters did in Hong Kong, but they're being beaten over the head.
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And today's been a bad day in Hong Kong and a bad day for freedom, not only abroad,
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but here in America. The facts on the red flags guilty until proven not crazy. Also,
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Sarah Silverman talks about the cancel culture and Chris Cuomo. Should he be red flagged?
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The question that Donald Trump tweeted today. Why? All that and more on today's podcast.
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place to go. So as I I usually do every morning, I try to listen to the left, listen to the opinions of
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the other side so I can understand where they're coming from. Many times it has been important to
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listen to where people are coming from, to be able to understand their point of view and to be able to
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understand how they arrived at where they are. But increasingly, it is becoming more and more
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frustrating because there is no logic and there is no authentic fact that is backing up what they
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have to say. Yesterday, we talked about the facts of guns and gun control. Today, we're going to
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continue that later on in the program on the facts of red flags. It's been done before.
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And it hasn't ended up well. So we'll talk to you about the facts and that is really important. If
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you don't know the facts, please shut your mouth. If you don't know the facts, ask, read. But even the
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facts that you think you know, perhaps you should look into. Here's what I heard today from the
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Washington Post and their podcast. I want you to listen to this opening story and the way they
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frame it. Give us your tired, your poor. Those lines etched on the Statue of Liberty by poet Emma
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Lazarus are part of our common understanding about what America is, what it has stood for since its
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founding. Yesterday, a top immigration official in the White House, Ken Cuccinelli, said he's, quote,
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certainly not prepared to take anything down off the Statue of Liberty. But at the same time,
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a new administration rule will fundamentally change who gets to come to this country.
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Okay. Since when? Since when have we been the country that says, hey, come here for free stuff?
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Hey, come here. If you can't afford things in your country, come here because we're going to give it
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to you for free. Since when? Now, they will argue that that is the Emma Lazarus poem. Give us your tired,
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your poor, your huddled masses. That is not what that poem means, period. And we've talked about it
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before, but it is important that you understand it so you can teach it to your friends. They're never
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going to get it. There's never there. I have yet to see the anchor or anyone from the left that will
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honestly say, you know what? I was wrong. I learned something. I see this in a different way. I had
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a misunderstanding. I have not seen that from the left. I have seen that from the right. We've done
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it on this program. It's important. If you don't do that, you're not learning anything.
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So the misunderstanding is that the Statue of Liberty, the emphasis is always on she's the
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mother of exiles. She's this mom. And she's saying, give us your poor and you're tired and
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you're huddled masses because we're a giant hospital. That's not what she's saying. That's
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not what America is. What in what world, including the world of Jesus Christ, in what world does a
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messenger say, hey, if you're really poor and you just can't make it and you want to live off the fruits
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of somebody else, come here, come here. In what world does that work? In what world is that financially
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reasonable? In what world is that spiritually reasonable that crushes people? The Statue of
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Liberty is a challenge. She holds imprisoned lightning. What is imprisoned lightning? What
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does that mean? Her torch is called imprisoned lightning. Imprisoned lightning is leading the
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way of a brighter tomorrow. It's not just, it's not a flame. That flame, that torch is imprisoned
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lightning. Imprisoned lightning. Imprisoned lightning is a direct reference to the discoveries of
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the age. Imprisoned lightning is another way of saying a light bulb. It is the invention of
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the time that is moving things forward. She is the mother of exiles. But let's just look at her for a
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minute. What is the crown? It's not a crown. It's a misinterpretation. Have you ever seen the
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Michelangelo sculpture of Moses? That sculpture of Moses? It's sitting in Rome in a church. It's a
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beautiful sculpture, but it is weird as hell because Moses has horns. Look it up. He has two horns coming
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out of the side of his head. You're like, what the? Why does Moses have horns? Because it's a
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misinterpretation of a word. It is easily, I can't remember the word, but it is easily
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translated to horns. But it is not horns. It is rays of light. So it's not a crown. It is the light
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behind the statue of liberty. She is standing as a guard in front of something that is, oh, I don't
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know, dare I say, a shining city on the hill. The light behind her is reflected in that crown. That is a
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crown of rays of light. And she is standing at our sunset washed gates. She is standing like
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the Colossus of Rhodes. But the Colossus of Rhodes, which was one of the wonders of the world.
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The Colossus of Rhodes was holding a spear and a shield. It was a warrior. And the ships would go in
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between his legs. And he would stand at Rhodes, this great old port. And people would come in and that
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Colossus was saying, don't screw with us. And so it was meant as a warning. But as Emma Lazarus
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says, here at our sunset washed gates, stands the mother of exiles. Now the mother of exiles also has
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chains around her feet, but they're broken chains. They are broken chains, not just as a reflection
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of us breaking the chains of slavery in 1865. It's not just that. But it is breaking the chains
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of slavery because of pomp and circumstance and your heraldry. It's breaking the chains of
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you can't do it because you're not a lord, a lady, or a landowner. And what breaks those chains
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So if you understand the Emma Lazarus poem, it is not ever to be read like this. Give me your poor
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and your tired and your huddled masses. Just send them here. We're going to hold them. That's not
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the way it is meant. If you listen to the whole poem, you'll understand. Not like the brazen giant
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of Greek fame with conquering limbs astride from land to land. We are not conquerors. Every war,
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have we conquered? Did we conquer Europe? Or did we conquer tyranny and give that land and that
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government back to the people? We are not conquerors that take land. So not like the brazen giant of
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Greek fame, the Colossus of Rhodes, with conquering limbs astride from land to land. Here at our sea
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washed sunset gate shall stand a mighty woman with a torch. Now does that sound like your mom? She's not a
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mighty mom that is standing there with a pie or a mom who is standing there with a teddy bear and a
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blanket. This is a mighty woman with a torch whose flame is the imprisoned lightning. The ideas of
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tomorrow that are happening today. And her name is the mother of exiles. Oh, that's sweet. From her beacon
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hand glows worldwide welcome. Her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
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Those twin cities, the New York Harbor, that's New York City and Brooklyn. She's standing there in
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between the twin cities and she's welcoming people. But how is she welcoming them? With mild eyes that
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command. Command what? Command that you listen to what she's saying. Keep your ancient lands and your storied
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pomp. So in other words, I don't care what your history is. I don't care that you have lords and ladies. I
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don't care that you went to the right college, the right university. Oh, you have the right papers. Oh, you're in the
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right guild. You're in the union, so you can do it. I don't care. Keep all of that.
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Keep your ancient lands and your storied pomp. Cries she with silent lips. Give me your tired,
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your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
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She's saying here, I challenge you. I challenge you. Send all the people that you say can't do it.
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Say, send me all of the people that you are holding down because, oh, they're just riffraff.
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They're not the right people. Oh, they'll never make it. Send those people to me.
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Send those people to me. The homeless, the tempest toss, the people you don't want.
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Send the garbage that you don't want. Why? So I can hold them? No. Because I lift my lamp
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beside the golden door. The rays of light reflected behind her that you see in the crown, the rays of
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light. She's standing behind or next to a golden door. She is a guardian of that door. There is
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something special on the other side of that door, something behind her that is shining so bright.
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Send them here because the promise of what you can do, I don't care who you are. If you apply
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yourself, you'll make it here. That's what America is. That's what the Statue of Liberty stands for.
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Not this bull crap of we're going to hold everybody who just can't make it and doesn't want to do
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anything for themselves and they just want to sponge off of us. That is putting a chain around
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their legs and a chain and a ball around our children's necks. That's not what the Statue of
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Liberty stands for. She is the breaker of chains. But she's only letting you through the door.
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Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray
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Unleashed. His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast. First of all,
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it's pie related. It's about a pie. Oh, I love pie. No, I think this would be a good guest.
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Don't you dare. No, it's good. Well, I don't know if you know what it is, but Pat, it's a book about
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pie. It's called the pie letters. And I think it looks pretty interesting. First of all, a lot of
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interesting conversations about pies, which I know you're a fan of. And then it's about the baker who
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writes letters about the history of their family and the things that went on in their family,
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in-depth things about their family and how it might relate to other people's lives.
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And of course, obviously, you like advice. You want to live your better life, live your best life.
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Sure. I don't know if you recognize the author at all.
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Coletta, she is... Now, doesn't she look a little familiar?
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If you look at her, she doesn't have any resemblance to anyone you know.
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Would you say? We do look an awful lot alike now, don't we?
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This is Glenn's sister has come out with a book.
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And it's a really cool idea for a book. It is legitimately about pies and like the things...
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Yeah. Here's the thing. My sister has wanted to write this book forever and she's been working
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on it for a while. And it's really kind of, you know, we all go through our own journey.
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And after her husband committed suicide and, you know, we had a sketchy childhood, et cetera,
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et cetera, she kind of just goes away and goes on this journey to find the meaning of life.
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And she thinks she's going to go in one direction. Instead, she returns back home in Wyoming.
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And she opens up this little business that she's only making, I don't even know, 20 pies, 12 pies a month,
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something like that. And it's personal. You have, you know, she selects people that she's going to make pies for
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and they buy a pie a month. And so she has a pie of the month club. And with each of those pies,
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there is a letter of why that pie was important and what it means to her and her journey and its
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life lessons. It's really, it's really well written. I was, I was, was, I was disappointed
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because I was like, well, now she's, no, I'm not, no, I'm not unique. She's got a really good book too.
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Yeah. I mean, it's much better than the trash you churn out, but it's actually,
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there could be some interesting nuggets. I feel like we could maybe mine as far as,
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I could interview my sister, but I don't think you guys interviewing my sister would be good for
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the book. It seems like a really good idea. I can add to it. I think, you know, and I believe
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there's a show called Pat Gray Unleashed. I believe there is immediately before this one.
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Right. And don't you make the decisions on what guests come on the show?
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Too bad you guys don't know how to get ahold of her.
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Oh, I think we can figure it out. I think we can figure it out.
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So anyway, if you're, if you're interested in, uh, in, in not the interview, definitely not the
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interview. Uh, but if you're interested in the, uh, book, it is, it's really a good book.
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Yeah, Amazon. It's the pie letters, uh, just called the pie letters or,
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It is the pie letters and I like pie. I like let, I like all 26 letters.
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Hey, it's Glenn. And you're listening to the Glenn Beck program. If you like what you're hearing on
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this show, make sure you check out Pat Gray unleashed. It's available wherever you download
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your favorite podcasts. All right. Hong Kong is, I mean, I don't know how these guys are expecting
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to win, but God bless them. God bless these, these freedom fighters, true freedom fighters
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in Hong Kong that are standing up against China. And they're saying, no, we are not part of this.
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You're not just disappearing people at night. Now this is getting news, but are we really
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even supporting them? I want to play a clip. These are protesters that built the statue of
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Liberty in Hong Kong as part of the protest. They built the statue of Liberty and here's what
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they did last night. Oh, the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. Standing with
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And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air. Gave proof through the night that
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our flag was still there. Oh, say does the star sprinkle the nighed way. Oh, the land of the
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country. And the home of the brave. Now, if you see this picture, you will be confused
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because they are dressed in a way like Antifa. They're wearing masks. And they look like they're
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ready to do battle. And they're holding American flags. What? Those are people who are fighting
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for freedom against real totalitarianism, against real fascism, against communism.
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And they are doing it to appeal to you. They are holding that flag, something that many people
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in the NFL wouldn't do. They are holding the flag and respectfully singing the words in English
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of our national anthem. They are trying to say, America, wake up. Now, why do they need
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us? Well, because they don't have a right to bear arms. They don't have a, they don't have
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a way to fight the army. Oh, you're going to fight the Chinese? Well, yeah. Yeah. I'm going
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to give it a, I'm going to give it a good old college try. You know, it seems to be working
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for those in the Middle East who are fighting the world's most powerful army. And when it's
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your own homeland and it's your freedom, yeah, I think you can, I think you can best a powerful
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military. There's videos all over social media of Chinese military vehicles, seemingly in large
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numbers entering this area. And these people are going to be slaughtered and disappeared.
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Oh man. I mean, this is, you know, this is not just some random look. I mean, I don't want to
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downplay it. If it is some random city somewhere, life is life. But this is a massive financial center
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for the globe. It's Hong Kong. This is it, man. I mean, and they have had this weird relationship
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with China in which they are, they're in China. They're part of China, but China kind of just lets
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them do their own thing largely. But they don't have to anymore. Who's going to stand up against
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China? Who's going to stand up against China? Who is willing to say the truth? China is an evil
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empire. China is enslaving people. China red flags people. Right now, China has a system to where
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you're red flagged by someone. You go away for psychiatric care. You go away to a concentration
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camp where you're just reeducated. It's no big deal. It's not a concentration camp. No, that's the wrong
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word. Millions of people. And what are we doing? What is the, what is the place that has the
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Statue of Liberty that those people are building a replica of, holding up our flag, singing our
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national anthem, appealing to us? What are we doing? We're talking about imposing our own
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red flags. We're talking now about putting in red, a red flag system that would mark you as trouble.
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And if you're trouble, well, gosh, that's kind of a problem for you. You're going to have to prove
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that you're not trouble. This is taking our country upside down. And you know, who's, you know,
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who's, who's going to benefit the most from it? Who's going to be behind it? Doctors, doctors,
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psychiatrists. You've already heard the rhetoric that people on the right are insane. They're not in
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their right mind. You've already heard that being a conservative is some sort of a psychological
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disorder. From the same people who are telling us that there is no gender, that a man can have a
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period. They're going to tell us we're insane. They're going to be the judge of us. Really?
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And you're okay with this. I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat or an independent. I don't
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care if you hate Donald Trump or love Donald Trump. This should terrify every single American.
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Now we really don't know because the records are still secret, but in 1978, at least 4.5 million
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Soviet citizens were listed as having mental health problem. 4.5 million citizens. Now what happened to
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those 4.5 million citizens? Well, right before the wall came down, perhaps because they realized,
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oh crap, maybe we'll go through Nuremberg trials, which they never did. We're going to release 800,000
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of them. Millions of people were falsely diagnosed with a mental illness because they didn't agree
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with Marxism. Cuba did the same thing. Evidence now that China is still doing it. And on the scale
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of the former Soviet Union and the World Psychiatric Association, yeah, they're pretty much
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ignoring it. They said that people associated with Fulongong are nuts and putting them in asylums run by
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the state security apparatus is normal. It happened here in America in the 1920s.
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If you were deemed a dissident, like one who protested the trial of Sacco and Vicente, who I think were
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terrorists. I know the left loves to hold these guys up at freedom fighters, but they were anything
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but. They were terrorists. But if you stood up and had a different point of view in the 1920s,
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you were put into an asylum. In the 1960s, members of the American Psychological Association
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smeared presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. They said he was crazy.
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But that had nothing to do with politics, right?
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Did you know that Dinesh D'Souza, you know that he went to jail for a crime that Rosie O'Donnell
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committed and said she knew she was committing. She didn't go to jail. He went to jail. But did
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you know that the federal judge that sentenced D'Souza to prison, not only sentenced him to
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prison, but two years of mental health counseling, despite the fact that a licensed psychologist
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said he's fine mentally. But there must be something wrong with him.
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Are we truly thinking about giving the power to claim somebody is dangerous and having the
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burden of proof fall on them after we have acted? So they are guilty until proven not crazy?
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By the way, when you look at professions with a high suicide rate, dentists, I think, are number
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one. Real high up on the list, psychiatrists. Do they have mental issues? Are they stable enough?
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By the way, the red flag laws. The red flag laws that we're talking about have been used
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in the past and are being considered today to to make sure that we we take away some rights
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from people who believe in conspiracy theories.
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How many of how many of how many of how many of our children, how many of how many Americans
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got online and joined in to the Area 51 conspiracy theory because it was funny?
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If you went online, you are now registered as somebody who could be a danger to fellow Americans
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and the country. We're talking now, we already are taking people out of jobs that made some crazy
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comment online at 16. What is what if you or your kids went online and thought it was funny and started
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to say, yeah, you know what, Area 51, we should storm it? Do you really think that you're not
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on a list? Do you really think if you have the wrong political view? And we're in a system
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of red flags, you're ever going to be able to purchase a gun?
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So you don't believe in you don't believe in socialism? Well, that could be a mental disorder.
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You've visited sites that are deemed inappropriate or dangerous. Well, you could be dangerous and
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that's a red flag. What happens if you believe in a conspiracy theory or you are you have spread
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that conspiracy theory? You're on record. Well, let's just look at this week. Let's look at
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Epstein. Let's start with Joe Scarborough. Should he have a gun?
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Now, the odds are that, yeah, he'll be able to get a gun because he's on the left and the left
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will be the ones that decide. But Joe, Joe Scarborough said the Epstein suicide is a Russian
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hit. He not only suggested there was foul play, he also insinuated something about Donald Trump's
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connections to Epstein and Russia, saying that his death looked predictably Russian. Now,
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that's a conspiracy theory. If you heard that and you liked it or posted it to your fake Facebook
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page, you could be red flagged. If you said, even in jest, I mean, we were joking yesterday.
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You know, I'm, I'm willing to, I'm perfectly willing to consider that Bill and Hillary Clinton
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didn't, didn't kill Epstein. Okay. That's a conspiracy theory. You could be red flagged for that
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because that's dangerous. That is sowing distrust. Now think of somebody who has a differing point of
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view and the power of red flags. It can be a total stranger. I, um, I'm reading this, this great book
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started last night. I'm about a third of the way through. You have to, you have to pick it up. It is
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great. It's a story I've never heard of. It's called the volunteer came out a couple of weeks
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ago and it's a story that has been buried and has popped through a couple of times in history. But
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this is the first time that anybody's really done research. And it's a guy in Poland who has, uh,
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who volunteered to go into Auschwitz and see if he could start an uprising. He volunteered to go to
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Auschwitz. I mean, it's a crazy story, crazy, crazy story. In the beginning of the book, it talks
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about, he was part of the underground and what he would do is he would have people tip off that he
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would figure out who was tipping off the Nazis, who was ratting out the underground. And they were all
00:34:44.780
gathered at this club. And so they were working at this club. And so what he would do is he would,
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he would, um, work in an office across the street from this club and he would take pictures of
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everybody going in and he would piece it together. And then he would take the guys who were betraying
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the polls and he would have somebody tip off the Gestapo that that guy is working with the underground.
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So all these people were red flagged. They were actually on the side of the Nazis,
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red flags have been done before. They're always done in places like China, like the former Soviet
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Union, like Cuba, and in our worst times here in America. Let's learn from history and not repeat
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our mistakes. You need to send the message to the GOP and Donald Trump. No red flags. None of this
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stuff is acceptable. The second amendment must stand. You want to know why? Look to the people in Hong Kong
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today. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Thanks. So last week, uh, some audio came out and it's the best ever. Yeah. Uh, it really is
00:36:39.260
amazing. Uh, there's an organization, Young Americans Against Socialism, and they're the
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ones at least that pointed this, this audio out to me on, on, on the Twitters, on the Twitters.
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This is amazing because we've seen so many times these examples, particularly colleges where you'd see
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students complaining about the most minor things, calling them microaggressions, saying they've been
00:37:00.520
triggered and targeted and going into their safe space and their quiet room and all that stuff. And
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you see articles about it and it's laughable, but we've never, I feel like I've never seen it in
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action before. And this is not a college. This is an actual, this is the convention for the
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democratic socialists of America. This is the group that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a card
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carrying member of. I think two of the squad members are actually card carrying members. I
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think, is it to leave or Presley? I think it's Presley. Yeah. It's either, it's either George
00:37:32.320
Harrison or Ringo of the squad is also. We don't know that much about it. I don't know that much
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about it. Like they did something at some point, but listen to some of this audio and tell me
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if you can see the future of America encapsulated right here, a quick point of privilege, quick
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personal privilege, um, guys, uh, first of all, James Jackson, Sacramento, he, him. I just want to
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say, can we please keep the chatter to a minimum? I'm one of the people who's very, very prone to
00:38:00.260
sensory overload. There's a lot of whispering and chatter going on. It's making it very difficult for
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me to focus. Please. Can we just, I know it's, we're all fresh and ready to go, but can we please
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just keep the chatter to a minimum? It's affecting my ability to focus. Thank you. Thank you, comrade.
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Okay. Is there a speaker against name, chapter, pronoun? Point of personal privilege. Yes. Please
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do not use gendered language to, to address everyone. I love that guy. Okay. Okay. Uh, do you notice
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the he, him thing too? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hi, I'm, uh, I'm Stubergear. He, him. Like you need to
00:38:34.960
shut up. Like why is that part of your name now? Every time you say something, you have to
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say what pronoun people need to call you. I mean, if you just gave the name, why don't they just call
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you by your name? So here's the, I mean, if you think that some of these people in a real socialist,
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an actual socialist nation wouldn't end up at the pointy end of a gun, right? You're crazy. Of course.
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The good thing though, is that if these people do invade, if we just whisper long enough,
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they'll all be distracted and we won't be able to continue the invasion. So Morgan
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Zeggers, Morgan is, uh, is somebody she's, she's been named a rising star of the New York
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GOP. Do you want to just call her she, her, if you would? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Um, and
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she actually a very well funded, um, uh, state assembly, um, man or, uh, him, her, watch
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it, watch it assembly. It, uh, was, was almost, was almost beaten, uh, by her. She's 21 years
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old. She is truly a rising star and she is the co-founder and CEO of, um, uh, young Americans
00:39:46.680
against socialism. And she's with us now. Hello, Morgan.
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Very good. Very good. Thanks for turning us onto that, uh, that video. It's I think
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hysterical. Um, so most people, Morgan, um, who are my age know exactly what socialism
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is. Um, however, millennials have missed the lessons. And so you are launching a website,
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So young Americans against socialism, it's a nonpartisan 501 C three nonprofit. And we
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are dedicated to exposing the truth about socialism to young Americans because we believe that
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those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And that's exactly the case with
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my generation. They were not taught the dangers and the failures of socialism. And now 50% or
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more of young Americans would choose socialism over capitalism. And that is destructive and
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puts the future of the country at risk. So how are you, how are you expecting to
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break through on this? Like, what are you going to be featuring on the website?
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Exactly. So we travel the country and film the stories of people who have escaped from the hell
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of socialism. And we do it because the left is so good at emotion and the right conservatives,
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people who advocate for freedom and opportunity, we're not the best at it. And so young Americans
00:41:10.620
against socialism is adding emotion to the playbook. We take these emotional, powerful stories of
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people who escaped from Venezuela, from Cuba, from the USSR. It's really, really some scary,
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passionate stuff that they tell to the screen. And we turn them into very short social media videos.
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And because 90% of young Americans are on social media, we have the opportunity to put these videos
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in front of almost everybody in this generation and show them what's going to happen if we let
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socialism in the United States. That's the power of social media, and we're going to harness it.
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Morgan, let me just play devil's advocate here. What the response will be is, well,
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those weren't really socialists. We're talking about Sweden. No, that's not what the kind of
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Exactly. And we break that down in shorter videos. We're talking about all the issues. We're talking
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about personal stories. And usually, you know this, I'm sure, they start out by saying, oh, we're not
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So then you could say, okay, well, Venezuela was a democratic socialist country then. It was a
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democracy, elected socialist. And then the country went from a democracy into a socialist dictatorship
00:42:14.240
with people starving in the streets. But then, what did they say after that? They go, oh, we weren't
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talking about Venezuela. We were talking about Nordic European socialism. So then you have to break down
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how Sweden tried it. From the 1970s to 1990s, they tried socialism, and it failed. And now they know
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they can't pay for those big government programs without the wealth created from capitalism.
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And those weren't even really socialist countries. They had a lot of socialist trappings. But that's
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not what democratic socialists are really talking about. They are talking about top-down control of
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Exactly. And that's why it's so important that we educate our generation, because the far left in
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this country is aware that our generation does not know the truth about it. And they are preying on
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that. They are using it to their advantage. That's why you hear people like Senator Sanders
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and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez using it to their advantage and saying, oh, no, if we get rid of
00:43:07.180
socialism, or if we get rid of capitalism, we scrap that because it's not working. And we get
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socialism, we'll end up like Sweden. And that's why people our age are like, sweet. Sounds good to me.
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I want free stuff. Everybody looks so happy in Europe. It's just very surface level. And we are going
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Thank you for being on the program. What kind of money do you have backing this?
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So we are going to be funded mostly with people across the United States, small dollar donors who
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care about the future of this country, and they want to preserve it. That's why our logo is a torch.
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It's actually the people who are in the older generations deserve to pass the torch to our generation
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and know that the future of the country is in good hands. And right now, that's just not the case.
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And so if anybody is interested in financially supporting us as we make these videos and show
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our generation the truth before the country turns socialist, please go to our website. It's
00:44:05.240
Do you think that the younger generation, I mean, we've taken these two parties, both Republicans and
00:44:13.640
Democrats, and they're both piles of dog crap, in my opinion. And neither of them are really standing
00:44:22.800
for the Constitution and the free market. If they were, we wouldn't have the problem with the GOP we
00:44:29.800
have now with Obamacare. They would have opened it up for the free market. So we don't even really
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have a torchbearer on the right in in the GOP. Do you believe there's an appetite on the Democratic
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side? I mean, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are number two and three in the latest polls on
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what the Democrats are looking for in a president. Do you believe there's an appetite with the
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Well, I think that's where that idea that Twitter isn't real life comes into play. You see a lot of
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the most radical people on both sides of the aisle come together on social media and rant at each
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other. But the most important thing to remember is that not a lot of people are paying attention to
00:45:16.840
this, and they could be easily tricked by the far left. That's why we come in. We're not going to
00:45:21.400
convince people who are passionate Che Guevara t-shirt wearers. We're probably not going to convince
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them. I mean, those people wear them to pride parades. It's crazy. And Che Guevara killed gay people
00:45:31.040
and put them into prison work camps. So they're kind of lost. But we are going to find the average
00:45:36.640
Americans who could easily be tricked by seeing AOC talking on Twitter about how capitalism isn't
00:45:41.900
fair and how our lives would be better if we were like Europe. That's the kind of audience that we
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are targeting. And we have major potential to reach them and show them that opportunity, freedom,
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capitalism has led to more opportunity for anybody in the world than socialism ever will.
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Well, we will help you in any way we can with your launch on Thursday at YAAS.org, Young Americans
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Against Socialism. And I urge anybody in the audience, if you are looking to put your money in a place where
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you can fight for freedom, we must reach the millennials and those below the millennials. We
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cannot afford to lose another generation like we've lost the millennials. They must be educated
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on socialism. And the best ones to reach them are the people in their own age group. And that's what
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Morgan has put together. So please check it out. And if you have the money that you can help,
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help them at YAAS.org. Thank you so much, Morgan. Appreciate it.