On today's show, Glenn and Pat discuss the latest in the Biden vs. Booker debate, the Democratic Party's obsession with socialism, and what it means for the future of the country. They also talk about what it's like to be a Democratic Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker.
00:17:15.380They're trying to hide all of the policies they've been trying to pass for a million years under the sort of pretense of the environment.
00:17:23.300But that's not really what it's about.
00:17:24.940When you look at climate change and you want to look at the priorities for the American people, we see the same thing over and over and over again.
00:20:52.580But I want to go down this list and show you, I don't think I have ever seen a party more out of step with the items on the list of what people actually care about and how they rank them ever before in any election.
00:21:10.540Listen, if the economy stays as solid as it is right now, Donald Trump has a big win in front of him.
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00:22:18.380John Stewart actually introduced Booker once as the superhero mayor of Newark.
00:22:25.580Look, I will tell you that I am trying to buy Cory Booker's cape right now because I think it needs a special place in our Museum of American History because superhero is really what he is.
00:22:39.880And if he was a superhero, his name would be Stuntman.
00:22:42.520Earlier this year, the Washington Post called Booker perhaps the true first social media influencer in politics.
00:22:57.460First, the first thing he did when he was elected to his first position in Newark City for Newark City Council, he was 29 years old and he went on a 10-day hunger strike.
00:26:31.760New businesses came to town because of the superhero on Twitter saying all kinds of things.
00:26:37.640But during his last full year as mayor, the outer wards of the city had a curfew because of shootings and drug dealing.
00:26:44.360So, I don't know about you, but I want to go do my shopping right there in the inner city where the minute it gets dark, you better be inside.
00:26:56.920The share of Newark citizens living below the poverty line rose while he was mayor, maxing out at 36%.
00:27:05.080Currently, the poverty rate in Newark still hovers around 30.
00:27:09.720But that's double the national poverty rate.
00:27:12.680When Booker left near the end of his second term to become a U.S. senator and Spartacus, he left behind a $93 million deficit.
00:27:23.760They should have just raised taxes some more.
00:27:26.620Here's what the New York Times says about Booker.
00:27:29.880His constituents do not need to be reminded that six years after the mayor came into office vowing to make Newark a model of urban transformation,
00:27:38.280their city remains an emblem of poverty.
00:28:03.780Now, what Ellen didn't point out is that Newark had to eliminate three firefighting companies because Cory Booker didn't know how to work on a budget.
00:34:45.740And so we were kind of like, how did this happen?
00:34:47.920And so we go back to the creation of baseball and we follow it all the way up through to today.
00:34:53.200And it was just this fascinating kind of look at how manufacturing kind of left the United States and the conditions that were kind of prevalent, the conditions that were around at the time to kind of make manufacturing flourish here.
00:35:10.020And, you know, there is – I have to say I entered this – anyone that says that bringing back American manufacturing is going to be an easy thing that could happen easily is not saying telling the truth.
00:35:26.640But that said, I entered this in with a certain thought process, with my own bias and my own ideology, this kind of standard kind of conservative look of the world.
00:36:44.120Bangladesh isn't going to start by making the stealth bomber, right?
00:36:48.500They start by making towels, and then they go on to making T-shirts, and then they go on to making the baseball cap, and then they go on to making – assembling our smartphones, and then they move up from there.
00:36:59.520When you lose your base of manufacturing, you lose the ability to innovate in the future because people don't know how to work in a shop.
00:37:10.300And so it was a very interesting – there's a lot of talk of tariffs now and whether they're good and whether they're bad.
00:37:20.420And I feel like what we're using these tariffs for now is more to try to get fair – to actually get free trade because there are these relationships that we have with foreign countries are not reciprocal.
00:37:35.000They do not – they manipulate their currencies.
00:37:58.520So we really delve really deep into this entire process and come to the conclusion that we must start changing our mindset on this.
00:38:09.740We must start valuing the ability to make things again rather than just become a service industry that feels like, okay, China is – we lose on our security.
00:38:21.980We lose the ability to be able to purchase products, components for our military because the Chinese – we can't get components without Chinese parts.
00:38:33.540So there's so many things that we lose by just pushing everything overseas besides the jobs.
00:38:41.240I have to tell you, Patrick, my son and I are really into old cars, and he really wants to rebuild one from ground up.
00:38:53.680And I'm like, I have no idea how to do that.
00:38:58.240But we've been looking into it, and the more we look into old cars from, you know, the turn of the century up until really after World War II,
00:39:07.220there were all of these great cars that were made all over America that were just innovative and totally different.
00:39:16.380And people would go into the car company business.
00:39:21.900Most of them failed, but they failed because the big three would put them out.
00:39:25.800But they would go in to build – you know, they'd only build 30 cars a year or 10 cars, you know, total.
00:39:32.680But there was this idea that you could do it, and now we've lost that.
00:39:39.220We've lost the idea that, yeah, my friend – you know, you hear something – yeah, my friend is building cars.
00:39:47.620You know, I spoke to a guy that does a lot of work with aerospace business and military contractors,
00:39:54.040and they are concerned – deeply concerned because we have lost the ability to bring people into their companies to build things and make things because it's just not taught.
00:40:10.220Parents look at, oh, okay, if you're going to go in that direction, you're a failure.
00:40:14.620That said, people graduate with four-year degrees in whatever degree it is, and they can't get a job anywhere because of various other forces in play.
00:40:27.860And until we start to really change our mindset and look at it as, you know what, we need this on our shore.
00:40:33.640Yes, are we going to ever make toilet brushes again?
00:40:39.560But we can – if we start to value Made in America more and we start to see the value in it, I think that that starts to open the doors and you start to create a workforce.
00:40:51.580But we're talking about, you know, a two-decade-plus –
00:40:55.920And at the same time, Patrick, you've got technology passing you.
00:41:00.760I mean, you have technology making most of the manual labor obsolete, even in China.
00:41:06.720I mean, they're already going into technology where it's robotics and 3D printing, and you're just not going to need the humans to be able – which I think is even more frightening, because then we lose it entirely.
00:41:36.260We can't lose our intellectual and physical abilities to be able to step in.
00:41:43.220Otherwise, the world's going to be just a magic show.
00:41:45.960You know, that is probably one of the scariest things that we've been looking at, this AI and how technology changes lives and progress and things that look like progress.
00:41:58.040What does that do to the human condition?
00:42:00.400And I think that a lot of times – I mean, we're so conditioned to believe that all progress is a positive thing for human culture.
00:42:09.120I think of one story that, you know, when the explorers first came here to the United States and decided to make contact with the natives, eventually 90% of the people died because of the germs that we brought with us.
00:42:25.760And I often think, would we, knowing that, going back to that time, the progress that we made by making that contact with those natives, if we knew that 90% of them were going to die, would we have made that decision to make the contact?
00:42:44.420Or would we have taken a step back and thought about how to better serve mankind?
00:42:52.780And I think when we look at technology, we so often just run straightforward thinking any progress is a good thing.
00:43:02.080But in a lot of cases, there's huge, huge impacts on human life that I think that we need to start thinking about a little bit more.
00:43:11.960And it's very hard to think on those terms when you're talking about, you know, the bottom line.
00:43:19.660I have to tell you, Patrick, I would love to talk to you about this.
00:43:24.300I'm very much into technology and AI, ASI, AGI, and I'm telling you, nobody is asking that question.
00:43:32.900Too few people are asking the question, yeah, we can do it, but should we?
00:43:37.000And the entire world, I mean, what's happening in South Korea right now, where they're just running headlong into all kinds of things that you should stop and say, wait a minute, wait a minute, this changes everything.
00:43:51.980But all these people want to be first.
00:43:54.500And we're not asking the big ethical questions of what does this mean?
00:44:01.520Because we're talking about alien life forms.
00:44:50.980How long has it been since the smartphone has been in our lives?
00:44:54.860I still have the first video of a waiter that came and served me at my table on my phone, on the phone that I'm using right now.
00:45:04.780It wasn't that long ago that smartphones came along, but when these things happen and when these changes happen, they happen – they can happen overnight.
00:45:13.560And we aren't – we worry about and we are concerned with biohazards, right?
00:45:20.420We know that there's certain kinds of germs and certain kinds of viruses that we do not want cultivated because they will hurt human culture.
00:45:34.860We need to start applying that to these AI and these technology-type discussions because they could have similar implications.
00:45:43.220It might be drawn out over 10 or 20 years.
00:45:46.460And I have a hard time saying this as somebody that considers themselves right of center, that we need to start thinking about these things because it goes against my capitalist kind of base.
00:45:58.360But that said, there's real consequences here that I think that as anybody that comes from a right of center thought process, we really need to start opening up our mind and changing our mind on this and really start thinking about it more.
00:46:12.560Patrick Karelchi, he is the host of Red Pilled America.
00:46:46.260And this is about a woman having full agency and control of her body and making decisions about her body and what is part of her body with medical professionals.
00:47:22.660All I'm saying is you guys go too far when you pervert the facts.
00:47:25.880We have the president of the United States saying that a baby is born at the end of full term, swaddled in a blanket, and then to decide whether or not to execute it.
00:48:53.440When she was presenting this in front of, you know, the assembly and saying, asked specifically those questions and said, yes, it would be legal under my bill.
00:49:05.340But, by the way, I just want you to know, if it's so outrageous, then why wouldn't any Democrat vote for the born alive bill?