After the State of the Union, President Trump said that the U.S. will never be a socialist country. Glenn and Sarah take a closer look at what he actually said. They also talk about the Green New Deal, global warming, and Cardi B.
00:00:00.000Hey, welcome to the podcast. It's Monday. We've got a lot. We start with a take on the State of
00:00:05.260the Union and what the president said about socialism, that socialism would not take root
00:00:12.700here in the United States. I wanted to pick that back up and start there because we've got a lot
00:00:18.520of socialists in today's world. We also had Pat in. He talked about what some of the fascistic
00:00:24.300freedom of speech things around the world, what's happening there. And who wrote the
00:00:29.780new Green Deal or the Green New Deal? Alexandria Ocasio's chief of staff. We're going to look
00:00:35.780at him a little bit. Interesting guy. Very sexy. We can say that. Very hot. He has a very nice
00:00:41.600beard. He wears tight shirts. Yes. All the things that you'd expect out of Alexandria Ocasio.
00:00:46.620There's also something else that maybe people should pay attention to. And we covered that.
00:00:51.360And polar bears being slammed by global warming yet again. And if we have time, we're going
00:00:58.900to squeeze in just a couple of comments with Cardi B, all on today's podcast.
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00:01:56.260You remember the, towards the end of the speech, the president said one thing that I thought was
00:02:00.300stunning that a president had to say, and I was glad he said it. He took an unequivocal stand
00:02:06.060against socialism. And if you remember, right, he said, America will never be a socialist country
00:02:12.660and all the Republicans. And I think there were a couple of people in the democratic party that
00:02:19.640stood up for that. We will never be a socialist country. I want to point this out in a different
00:02:28.780way because most people in the press have ignored it. Um, we have said, yes, finally, somebody
00:02:37.080is saying it, but what is it that he actually said when he said the United States will never
00:02:46.220be a socialist country? The feeling in the room was palpable, but what was it? He actually
00:02:55.300said, because we've heard him say it before, just in different words. In fact, we've heard
00:03:02.980it said by every single member of Congress, just in different words. Those words, I will
00:03:15.020protect and defend the constitution of the United States. That's what he said. We'll never
00:03:24.060be a socialist country. I will protect and defend the constitution of the United States.
00:03:32.520What, why that was so shocking. And I didn't think of it at the time, why that was so shocking
00:03:38.300is because it's been a long time since we've heard any politicians say those words outside
00:03:44.060of their oath that they quickly forget. I will protect and defend the constitution of the United
00:03:50.780States. Now the problem is democratic socialists. Their agenda here in the U S is crazy. Do we have
00:04:02.160that audio? We just played from Cory Booker on the new deal, the new green deal. Listen to this.
00:04:09.600Our planet is in peril and we need to be bold. It's one of the reasons why I signed onto the resolution.
00:04:18.060I co-sponsored the resolution for the green new deal. And there's a lot of people now that are
00:04:22.020blowing back on the green new deal. They're like, Oh, it's impractical. Oh, it's too expensive. Oh,
00:04:26.700it's all of this. If we used to govern our dreams that way, we would have never gone to the moon. God,
00:04:33.180that's impractical. You see that ball in the sky. That's impractical. We are a nation that has done
00:04:39.600impossible things before. And my parents taught me reach for the reach for the moon,
00:04:44.640reach for the stars. This is, this is the problem. You notice how they're framing this,
00:04:49.160that this is a moon shot, that this is something that we're going to do together. And it's, it's,
00:04:54.820it's fantastic. The moon shot was something that we, that we did together through private companies.
00:05:06.180We did it together. Now there were public things like NASA as well. And we have debated that forever.
00:05:15.720In fact, we've just gotten out of that. And we now have things like SpaceX, which are showing us that
00:05:23.080they can do things much faster, much cheaper and better than even NASA. But what we're talking
00:05:31.440about with the new green deal is something entirely different. See, our constitution says there is a
00:05:39.380bill of rights. And these are the things that the people own and the government must never do these
00:05:47.560things ever. What the green, the new deal, the new green deal does is in Ocasio-Cortez's own words,
00:06:01.920takes the second bill of right, which was attempted by FDR and expands that. Well, we,
00:06:12.600we never passed the second bill of rights. Americans, they don't even know there was an
00:06:20.920attempt to do this. And what it was, was to say, there is a new bill of rights. Forget about all
00:06:27.220those other ones. Here's the bill of rights. The United States government believes that you have a
00:06:32.540right to a house. You have a right to a job. You have a right to food. You have a right to medicine
00:06:40.400and medical care. Well, we've already passed the medical care. They're doing it in bits and pieces.
00:06:45.940Now, this is a large sweep to be able to take over the entire economy. This is not constitutional.
00:06:55.400Now, that's why you see progressives, they hate the constitution and the declaration of independence.
00:07:03.420They hate it. They need it to be destroyed. That's why they try to convince people that it's a living
00:07:10.600document, that it's out of date, written by dead old white men. The constitution is a barrier, you see.
00:07:20.520It's a barrier to fascism, to socialism, to communism, to all forms of statism,
00:07:27.420because the constitution is written as you are the king. You are the one who is in charge of your
00:07:36.760life. And democratic socialists hate it. And they think if the people democratically choose
00:07:44.140socialism, then somehow it makes it fair and acceptable. But that's exactly what the constitution
00:07:50.600prevents. No matter how the people might vote, the constitution makes the voting part irrelevant.
00:07:57.400Slavery, by the way, even if it's won by a popular vote, is still slavery.
00:08:06.440Popular vote doesn't matter. Doesn't matter how you try to spin it. The people want slavery.
00:08:12.040Well, the people can't have slavery. The constitution inherently limits the power of democracy to ensure
00:08:19.880that our natural God-given rights as individuals are never subverted by popular opinion.
00:08:27.400This is the antithesis of the socialist doctrine.
00:08:35.960Our founding documents identify and protect the rights and the freedom of the individual against the state.
00:08:44.520Socialism and socialist doctrine protects the rights and interests of the state and the collective over the rights of the individual.
00:08:52.580You know, very few people have the courage to speak out and face the criticism.
00:09:01.860I don't know what it is about Donald Trump, but he seems to thrive on criticism.
00:09:08.740And in an era where standing for the rights of the individual and standing up for America first leads to rampant accusations of racism and misogyny and bigotry and greed.
00:09:21.560It kind of makes a guy who thrives on criticism, kind of the only guy who could possibly weather this storm.
00:09:34.760By saying America will never be a socialist country.
00:09:39.200What Donald Trump said last week is, we are going to continue to live under the U.S. Constitution.
00:09:51.760What he said last week, what he said on the platform with Nancy Pelosi grinning at him,
00:10:04.560was something I haven't heard a politician say after they've taken the oath.
00:10:11.860I will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
00:11:48.980Well, if we're not getting fossil fuels, we also won't be able to take medicine because a lot of medicine is coated in, you know, petrochemicals.
00:12:00.000And so, you know, to be able to take your medicine in that capsule, you need fossil fuels.
00:12:06.480So if we're not using fossil fuels, you won't be able to take any capsules.
00:13:27.760Impossible is getting rid and retrofitting every single structure in the country, plus taking 99% of the cars off the road and replacing them with a whole new fuel system within 10 years.
00:13:42.040A fuel system that we don't even know what it is.
00:13:44.880Also, you know, replacing it, I would assume that because they didn't ban coal, that we would be using coal, but coal is dirtier than the combustion engine today.
00:13:59.240Well, obviously, coal is not going to be a factor, Glenn.
00:14:01.560In fact, not even nuclear power is going to be a factor, even though it has zero emissions.
00:14:18.280Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the same thing.
00:14:20.100Well, we're going to pay for it because we're a rich country and we can pay for it.
00:14:22.860In the document, they say they will pay for it the same way they paid for the New Deal, which, in case you're following along, is $50 trillion of debt.
00:14:30.020That's how they paid for the regular New Deal.
00:14:32.280The old-timey New Deal has caused us $50 trillion of debt.
00:14:37.920So that's how they're going to pay for the Green New Deal.
00:14:40.700They actually cited as a positive example the New Deal, which is causing almost all of our debt problems.
00:16:16.120And they're seeing that now as, you know, they're already seeing the beginnings of that.
00:16:20.040And their people are feeling the beginnings of that.
00:16:22.720And if you have a complete control over the government and complete control over every person in your country, you can get away with that for a little while.
00:16:29.580Now, just so we have the Green New Deal, you know, really covered, we just want to let you know that it also is banning all airplanes.
00:18:59.580Wait, if I use the wrong pronoun, I can be arrested?
00:19:02.880Well, in Great Britain, a 38-year-old mother was arrested in front of her children and locked up for seven hours and intensely interrogated after referring to a transgendered woman as a man online.
00:55:44.740I don't think people really understand how close we are to this socialist utopia being jammed down everybody's throats.
00:55:52.660We are just, you know, we are just a breath away, or to put it more frankly, a 2008 event away from us having socialism and a Green New Deal.
00:56:09.860And this is the problem with the binary choice thing, because they just don't like Trump.
00:56:15.780So whatever Trump is for, they are against.
00:56:17.540They used to be against late term, last second abortion.
00:56:21.880Like they used to be against free trade, and now they're not, because Trump has taken tariff positions that they used to love and now hate.
00:56:30.180The problem is, if it comes down to a situation where we have an economic collapse, and it's a one-on-one situation, they don't like Trump.
00:56:36.880If Trump's the one arguing for capitalism, they're going to go the other way.
00:56:39.540And they also are going to go the other way, because they'll promise jobs.
00:56:42.800Hey, if we have to build high-speed rail, and we have to do all this, they're going to just say, this is the work projects.
00:56:51.160This is how every socialist utopia begins, right?
00:56:55.120It's the idea of, we understand you don't necessarily feel comfortable with these sorts of things, but we need them right now.
00:57:01.000It's common sense to do them right now.
00:57:02.600The economy's going down, and we're in big trouble, and you need us.
00:57:06.180Well, you know, one thing I can't get past is how blind people are on the left.
00:57:15.920May I play, now I know this is really going to, you know, great lengths here, but may I play Cardi B from last week when she was talking about where does the tax dollars go?
00:57:29.860And, you know, they're taking this money from celebrities?
00:57:33.660All right, so you know the government is taking 40% of my taxes, and Uncle Sam, I want to know what you're doing with my f***ing tax money, because you know what I'm saying?
00:57:44.040Like, when you donate, like, when you donate to a kid from a foreign country, they give you updates of what they're doing with your donation.
00:57:52.120I want to know what you're doing with my f***ing tax money, because I'm from New York, and the streets is always dirty.
00:57:57.200We was voted the dirtiest city in America.