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Glenn and Sean are joined by special guest Pat Gray to discuss the passing of Grandpa Grandpa and the impact it has had on the country. Plus, a tribute to the late Coolio, and a story about how you can be cool as a cucumber even when you re not sweating.
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So, I just got the first drawing of me as Coolio.
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And you don't want to miss the tribute to Coolio on our podcast.
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Also, I did kind of snap on Lizzo twerking and James Madison's flute.
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So, that might be an ugly segment you might want to listen to or might not want to listen to.
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So, that and also a lot on the economy and cryptocurrency and what you need to do to prepare what all of this stuff means.
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You know, when I'm out on the gridiron, playing ball, throwing the pigskin, I look at all the other men out there and they're sweaty and hot and stinky.
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But this is my true testimony that when I'm out hitting that gridiron, even when I, as the quarterback, carry the ball all the way into the end zone, okay, from the opposing team's 20-yard line, still not sweating because I have Sweat Block.
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If you or someone you love has a problem with sweating, please remember Sweat Block worked for me.
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But the sweat wipes, you put them on once a week.
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Otherwise, you can get it full price at Amazon.com.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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We welcome Mr. Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed, Blaze TV, and wherever you get your podcasts.
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We were just starting to talk about Jean-Pierre.
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So the president was giving a speech, and he talked about, you know, people that were working on this bill, and Jackie Wolorski was one of them.
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Um, she's passed away, tragically, in a really horrible car accident.
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The president, you know, talked about her, et cetera, et cetera.
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Um, however, when he's giving the speech, he says this.
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And so many of you know so much about this as well, and you're committed.
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And I want to thank all of you here for including bipartisan elected officials like Representative Gover, Senator Braun, Senator Booker, Representative Jackie, are you here?
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To all Americans, this should be very, very important.
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Maybe it's time for Grandpa to stay home and just enjoy the rest of his life.
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But Grandpa has no clue as to what he's talking about.
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I think this is the clearest moment of dementia since this all began, what, three years ago-ish.
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I mean, you know, they always give the, well, he was a stutterer.
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We like to make fun of Democrats often when they make dumb mistakes.
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This is, I mean, this is example number a thousand of them.
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And some of them, there's been a couple here and there that any average person could make.
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He released a statement specifically about her death.
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He's at an event where surely at some point someone said, now, of course, the late Jackie Valera or whatever her name is.
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Valorski is, is not, is, you know, worked hard on this and we want to give her credit for it.
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And here's, may I give you, may I give you an explanation, but it does not explain a way why he would do it, but it would explain why he made a comment.
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If I don't, if I am afraid of pronunciation of a name, I will often times just to avoid it say, and, uh, and Stu, and I'll see Bregeer on the teleprompter and I know I can say it, but I'm afraid I'm going to botch it.
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He was deflecting because he saw the name, probably knew it.
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And, and had no idea what he was even talking about.
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Possible though, but he should still know that she's not alive.
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I mean, that's saying to me that he's checked out, just reading a teleprompter, not engaged at all with what's going on, forgets that she's dead.
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If I, if I were, you know, talking about my mom and thanks to Pat for bringing this up, uh, my mother passed away in a very tragic way when I was young.
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And if I was talking about my mom and I was like, hey, is my mom called?
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I think like there, there's a, a theoretical argument here.
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Let me give you another potential explanation for this.
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And it's not good, but he knew nothing about this happening at the time.
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He, they released a statement in his name that he didn't even approve or know about.
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He has no awareness of who this person is or that she died and just looks around and says, oh, Jackie, are you there?
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And maybe because of the pronunciation is why he said, is she here?
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Especially because, no, I think this is, I think Stu.
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He is so checked out that they don't update him.
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They may have updated him at the time, but like, he's not going to remember something from several months ago.
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I mean, I can't remember something from several minutes ago.
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And I think like there's a, like, let's just say this was Ron DeSantis.
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He comes out and he says, Jackie, are you here?
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And, and, and she's been dead for three months.
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And he really, again, if, if this happened to someone who no one believed was losing it,
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no one thinks Ron DeSantis is on the verge of dementia.
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But they wouldn't come out and say it, he was, she was on top of mind.
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He would come out and say, oh my gosh, I can't believe I did.
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I got confused at the wrong person and I, I totally forgot.
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You know, I'm just, it's, it's inexcusable and I apologize.
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And for someone you believed was competent, you'd say, that's a really bad mistake.
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You look like an idiot, but you know, what are you going to do?
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The White House can't say it because everyone already believes he's gone mentally.
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So if they say he's confused or forgot about someone dying, it's going to be yet another
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Which brings you to KJP, somebody who is, I just don't think she believes what she's saying.
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Even if she knows what she's saying, then that may just be, she may be dumb as a box
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But all of the people in the White House had a session, all the best PR minds in the
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White House all got together and said, what do we say about this?
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Florida, that is the focus and that's going to continue to be the focus these next couple
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The president appeared to look around the room for an audience member, a member of Congress
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who passed away last month and seemed to indicate she might be in the room.
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So the president was, as you all know, you guys were watching today's event, a very important
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The president was naming the congressional champions on this issue and was acknowledging
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He had planned to welcome the Congresswoman's family to the White House on Friday.
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There will be a bill signing in her honor this coming Friday.
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He very much looks forward to discussing her room.
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This is not some right-wing conservative that's saying, oh, we're in trouble.
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You know, Glenn's just saying this could happen.
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We are on the verge of World War III, and we have a president who is not cognitively engaged
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We don't know if he's actually in charge or if someone else is in charge.
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I have John Lennon top of mind just about every day, but I'm not looking around for him anyway.
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When you sign a bill for John Lennon as president, then we can have this conversation.
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These moments of confusion are happening with the recent...
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Americans are watching this that are happening.
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At the end of the year, what can you tell us about that?
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The Treasury Secretary Yellen is looking to leave the administration.
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It is not your turn to speak, and you're being rude to your colleagues, and let your colleague
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Maybe the colleague should be asking their same question.
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You're yelling and over your colleague, so that is incredibly rude.
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Oh, is that the rude thing that's happening here?
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There are reports that Treasury Secretary Yellen is looking to leave the administration at
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The woman who was speaking out there was Kimberly
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It's either Peter Doocy or the foreign press that is saying, you know, there's something
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And she points out that it's been happening frequently.
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Can you give us a real answer on what's going on here?
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You know, we make fun of Barack Obama for 57 states, right?
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This is something that not only conservatives or independents understand, the left understands
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And in fact, in the halls of the White House right now, they should be having conversations
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We, on election night, we have to come up with, you know, all of the people that have
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been accused of horrible things that are running, that the press has never brought up, and the
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And that could be, honestly, that could be the vice president.
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She said this morning that we have a very close ally in North Korea.
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They're not, these people are not being chosen to run.
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There is no check and balance when you don't know who's actually making the decisions.
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And I don't mean to, I shouldn't mess this, I shouldn't, I shouldn't cross these streams
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The Kamala Harris thing with North Korea is like 57 states.
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I like making fun of her of her because she's a dope.
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If she were president of the United States, that wouldn't be.
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But the fact that she is just as, not as intelligent as you would.
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If she was even half as intelligent as a bathroom bull brush, you'd give her the benefit of the
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But he's not connecting dots because he is slipping into darkness.
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And everyone in the media and everyone on the left and everyone in the White House, they
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Yesterday was the straw that broke the camel's back to reveal it to everybody, right?
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Democrats, Republicans, independents, communists, I don't care who you are.
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Now you know that what we've been saying for the last two and a half years is true.
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The guy is definitely out to lunch and he's not coming home for dinner.
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And I think the only way the left is actually going to admit this and the media is going
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to admit it is if they decide they want someone else to be the candidate in 2024.
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At some point, for example, if they were to get, you know, beat up really badly in this
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2022 election and they decided, holy crap, this is going really badly.
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2024 is going to be catastrophe if we keep this guy on the ticket.
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Then they'll all of a sudden start to admit what all of us know, that this guy cannot do
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this job and he's out to lunch and not coming home for dinner.
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And at that point, then the rumors can start, then the leaks can come to the New York Times,
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then the Washington Post and the style section will have some fascinating story that doesn't
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seem to make sense in the style section that points out that everyone in the White House
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knows that he's long gone and they're all talking about a change behind the scenes.
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And eventually we can have Joe come out and say he's having health issues and he's stepping
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That's the only way they'll ever admit this is going on when they decide it benefits them.
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They get to run the whole fantasy league with the country.
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They're all sitting back there with none of the responsibility making all the decisions.
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I will not be lectured by these people that I am anti-government or anti-constitution.
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All I'm asking is for our government to read and execute the Constitution as written.
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I'm fine with that, but use the Constitution and don't you dare say I'm anti-government
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There should be a real discussion on his mental health.
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That Democratic momentum to the midterms is really, really ravishing.
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We have Andy Barr with us, the congressman from Kentucky.
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He is on the House Financial Services Committee, senior member, and a member of the House Foreign
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We were talking a little bit about cryptocurrency and other things, and I wanted to have him on
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So, I want to get to cryptocurrency, but I want to clean something up here that is in the news,
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He is a rational human being that doesn't hype things up, et cetera, et cetera.
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Several weeks ago, I learned that Citibank locks some of its customers out of accounts and refuses
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to release their money, even if they show up with ID.
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They sent an email explicitly affirming its right to do this without cause.
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In the email from Citi, Citi reserves the right to close an account at any time and for any
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They will only return funds that they, quote, deem as belonging to the customer.
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There's a lot of things that changed after 2008.
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Are you guys watching these banks so they don't just take everybody's money if they want to
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or if it becomes politically expedient for them to do that?
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And we had Jane Frazier, the CEO of Citigroup, in front of our committee last week.
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We had some of the CEOs of the largest financial institutions in front of us, and we asked probing
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questions about their commitment to depoliticizing the allocation of credits.
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We talked to them about competition in the financial marketplace.
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So let me send you the story, and then if you can look into it, great.
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Yesterday in England, the sterling almost wiped out.
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The dollar is going up, but only because it's the best of the worst.
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And eventually, the chickens will come home to roost and things will fall apart.
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The government seems to be moving towards a cryptocurrency that is not anonymous.
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And when they say that, they immediately say, well, but none of the banking system really
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The reason why you see the economy stumbling the way it is, moving into recession, there
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Why inflation is at a 40-year high is because of too much government.
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Too much government spending, raising taxes in the middle of an economic downturn, increasing
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taxes on businesses, discouraging business investment, paying Americans to not work, too much government
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intervention in the form of regulation, a war against domestic energy production.
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All of this economic trouble, all of the headwinds that Americans are facing is a direct result
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And when you have these socialists who are advocating for a central bank digital currency,
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It is more government intervention into the private economy.
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And it portends a threat to not only privacy, but it also is a grave threat to our private sector,
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There are certainly important goals in the digitization of our money supply.
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Goals like instantaneous settlement, reducing friction, preservation of the dollar's dominance.
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But none of that, none of those goals require a Fed-issued digital dollar or what's called a central bank digital currency.
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I believe this is because we are, whether we admit it or not, using modern monetary theory now,
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which allows us just to print everything that we want,
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as long as you have access to everyone at the bottom, their accounts,
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Is that why we're looking at this kind of currency, one of the reasons?
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I mean, the concern here is more government control.
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The prospect of government surveillance of Americans' individual financial transactions is real.
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If you have a central bank digital currency, especially when it's coupled with a so-called Fed account,
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if you think the idea of postal banking is a bad idea,
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where your money would be in a central bank account instead of a private bank account.
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Think of the power that the federal government would have over your funds.
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They could debit your account without your consent.
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The Internal Revenue Service could attach funds that are in your account.
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It's government approval or disapproval of the way in which you manage your finances or spend your money.
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The government can look into where you're getting your funds
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and approve or disapprove of how you're getting your funds, not just how you spend your funds.
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And then think of government agencies that disapprove of the way you conduct yourself
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and the fines that government agencies could impose
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and, again, debit your account without your knowledge and without your consent.
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So it raises serious privacy concerns, but it also raises concerns about more government control
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over private society and the politicization of our society, politicization of loans,
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politicization of payments, of your credit scores, of your tax compliance.
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And here's the thing that I think is probably one of the greatest concerns.
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You're transferring all of this financial power away from the private sector
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And what you do when you have a central bank digital currency,
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especially when coupled with Fed accounts, which many of these socialists are advocating,
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is you disintermediate the private banking system.
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What that means is as money gravitates away from bank accounts, checking accounts,
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savings accounts, deposit accounts, and into these central bank accounts, the government accounts,
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it means that the deposit base for the private banking system is eroded.
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That is a problem because it means less lending, less credit available for private sector institutions
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That's very distortionary to the private sector.
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So it's basically a fundamental shift away from a private economy to a socialist government-controlled economy.
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I just did a special on this last night, and we spoke about cryptocurrency in the last part of the program.
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And the experts that I had on said, this has got to stop.
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And people are thinking about this as a far-off, distant thing.
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It's not that far off, and it will start subtly, and it'll be just, we're only taking this step.
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And before you know it, the government will have a bank account where they will say to you,
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you know what, there's $1,000, and every single person has it in their Fed bank account.
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Just activate it, and you can have access to the $1,000.
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Then the next step would be, by the way, you get $2 for every one if you change them over to digital currency.
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But what they're taking from you is the ability to truly be free.
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Because the government, if it can give, it can take away.
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And when you try to control the economy like they're going to try to control because of monetary theory,
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modern monetary theory, what they have to do is they have to, if the gas prices are going out of control,
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they will just say to the private sector, you know, if your name starts with A, B, C, D,
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you can't spend any money on gas on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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And you'll be controlled on what you can and cannot buy.
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You're eating too much meat, go ahead, but this is not going to buy meat.
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They can outlaw anything just by making this digital currency not work at a gun store or a meat store.
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And Glenn, what you're describing is not theoretical.
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This is what China's experiment with the digital yuan is producing,
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a surveillance state where the financial system is totally controlled by the government
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and where individuals lose their freedom to government manipulation, coercion, and threats.
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That is the Chinese Communist Party's experiment with the digital yuan or the digital RMB.
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We do not need to compete or we should not compete with China by becoming more like China.
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There is no threat currently to the dollar's dominance.
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The rule of law is what, in our private sector strength, is what gives the dollar its dominance.
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If you want to preserve the dollar's dominance, and that is a paramount goal,
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we shouldn't compete with China by trying to mimic China.
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Instead, what we need is to encourage private sector innovation in digital assets and in cryptocurrency.
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The reason why there's an increased adoption rate of crypto and digital assets is because of the advantages of privacy,
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of frictionless transactions, of instantaneous settlement, real-time payments,
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those are all real strong advantages in this innovation.
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But instead of centralizing that new technology in the federal government,
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we simply need a regulatory framework that will attract competition in private, dollar-backed, so-called stablecoins.
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A true cryptocurrency, they complain it is some of the critics and the promoters of central bank digital currency say,
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well, these crypto currencies like Bitcoin, they're too volatile.
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That's why we need a central bank digital currency.
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What we need is stablecoins that preserve value, that store value without volatility,
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that are dollar-backed, kind of like a money market account.
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So you have a fiat-backed, a dollar-backed stablecoin,
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and allow there to be bank-issued stablecoins, private bank-issued stablecoins,
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Let there be private sector innovation and competition,
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but have a regulatory framework where consumers know that this digital asset will preserve value
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That's the way you take advantage of the frictionless, instantaneous settlement technology,
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while at the same time protecting the dollar's dominance without compromising privacy,
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without giving in to more government control and preserving Americans' freedom,
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and protecting the dominance of the private sector in our society.
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Okay, so Andy, I've got about 45 seconds here for an answer on this question.
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Will the United States government eventually shut things like Bitcoin down if they go to cryptocurrency?
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I think a CBDC is a massive threat to the private sector innovation with cryptocurrencies in the private sector.
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It is an effort to displace private sector crypto innovation,
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and we need to stop it, and we need to protect that private sector innovation.
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You know, the advent of cryptocurrency is a freedom-producing phenomenon.
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We cannot allow government bureaucrats to co-opt that freedom-producing technology,
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and I think that's why digital assets and innovation in crypto is such a threat to the promoters of big government.
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Because they see that it liberates people, and so they want to co-opt it
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and concentrate all of that technology in the hands of a central bank.
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That is why Republicans in the majority in the next Congress are going to fight the Federal Reserve's exploration of a central bank digital currency.
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In the 70s, people were protesting, peaceful protests in front of the Fed.
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This should be something that you pay attention to because this is the end of your freedom should it happen.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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So this is a recent robbery, and we all know now who did it.
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Who broke in and stole $86 million in cash and assets.
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They came in with guns a-blazin', picked some of the locks of the safety deposit box, broke open others,
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No, only really from, I've heard you tease it the last couple days, but that's the only time I've ever heard of it.
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This is the break-in of the vault of Beverly Hills by the FBI, and that's why no one is going to jail for it, but they should.
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The FBI began investigating a U.S. private vaults store in Beverly Hills, and what they did is they were watching people.
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They were watching this vault, and somebody on the FBI just noticed that there were cars that were coming in from Illinois and going in and putting things in a vault.
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Cars were going in and out that had Illinois plates.
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I assume there's more to come that's better than that.
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Uh, cars with coming in with the Illinois plates.
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Um, oh, and, um, and there were many of the customers that were using rental cars to come.
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And, uh, these rental cars are, of course, associated with drug traffickers because if they smell marijuana, well, they don't, you know, you can say, I don't know.
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Now, remember, in California, marijuana is legal.
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So, you had those two things going for the FBI.
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They had six warrants, five of which were rather straightforward and pertained only to the business and the business owners.
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However, according to a study now from the LA Times, the sixth warrant signed by a U.S. magistrate judge, Steve Kim, in 2021 authorized the agents to seize business equipment from the store, including 1,400 safety deposit boxes located in the store.
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Even though the agents did not know the identity of the box owners or have probable cause to suspect that the owners of those boxes were involved in any kind of drug trafficking or money laundering scheme.
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The government didn't know what was in those boxes, didn't know who owned them, what, if anything, these people had done because they didn't even know the people.
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So, 400 customers had their goods taken from this safety deposit box.
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Now, according to court filings, the FBI insisted on the affidavit that the warrants authorize the seizure of the nests of boxes themselves, but not the contents.
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On the warrant itself, signed by the judge, this warrant does not authorize a criminal search or seizure of the contents of the safety deposit boxes.
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However, the FBI didn't care, and they opened up every single one of those boxes and took the ill-gotten goods.
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The FBI later said, we have no obligation to inform the judge how later actions such as criminal investigations against box holders or forfeiture of box contents would play out.
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So, he specifically said, you have no right to open up any of those boxes.
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They did because they probably had probable cause, but we don't know what the probable cause was.
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And when they had probable cause, it was license plates from Illinois and they were using rental cars.
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700 customers, I'm sorry, I thought it was 400.
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Nine were referenced by the FBI in the affidavit.
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Thus far, no one has gotten any of their stuff back.
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None of the customers have been charged with any crimes.
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Not a single customer has been charged with a crime.
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FBI won't say if any of them have been a subject of a criminal investigation prior to the raid.
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Alleged in the alleged alleged in the affidavit only is the fact that those who are irrational or who have criminal motives would rent a box from this this safety deposit box company rather than a bank.
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So in the affidavit, that's another thing they told the judge.
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Why would you keep your money there instead of at a bank?
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What it's not your decision to make, whether it's rational or not.
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Now, the vault company apparently pled guilty to the drug and money laundering charges.
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But nothing else has come from the investigation.
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And now people are suing to get their money back.
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But a lot of customers aren't willing to put up all of the money for, you know, because not everybody had a lot of money in there.
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You know, somebody had the ashes of their loved one in a safety deposit box.
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And the reason why people aren't willing to do it is because it's taking a lot.
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So it's taking a lot of money to fight the federal government.
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So people are losing tens of thousands of dollars at this early stage just to just to make sure that they're cleared.
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Do you know that in 2008, banks changed the rules.
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The government changed the rules that in the case of any kind of emergency, the bank does not allow you to go in to get your safety deposit box and open it.
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It must be opened in the presence of a DHS official.
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In case of an emergency, if the government says it's an emergency and we have, you know, any stupid reason to see what's in everybody's safety deposit box,
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the banks cannot allow you to take the contents of your box without a DHS official in the room with you going through the box.
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So, I mean, I guess the theory behind that would be what?
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Like you have illicit material so you'll get caught by the DHS official?
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Let's say there's terrorists and you've got a, I don't know, a pipe bomb, you know, or, you know, plans for a pipe bomb.
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You're automatically guilty, as we've seen with this sort of, I mean, the government's taking this at all levels.
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This is on the civil asset forfeiture sort of framework, and it's something that we've talked about for a long time.
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It's incomprehensible that this stuff goes on in the United States of America.
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If you were to tell me this happened, you know, in Russia.
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The fact that the United States government is claiming and just taking stuff from citizens all around the country with no crime, many times even being charged, let alone.
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I mean, to me, conviction is the point when you have an argument.
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When you prove your case, you can take the stuff.
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Instead, they're doing it before they even charge anyone.
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The lawsuit also claims that some of the box holders who came forward to reclaim their seized property were then subject to another investigation.
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If you went to the FBI and said, I want my stuff back, the FBI examined their bank accounts, their DMV records, their tax returns, and any criminal history checks.
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Approximately 20 to 30 box holders decided, you know what?
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FBI agent Linda Zellhart said that many have speculated that those holders who walked away wanted to avoid either becoming an FBI target or the tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
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So, in other words, if you just say, you know what?
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So, you're guilty if you walk away and you're guilty.
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And it is important that you wake up and stand up.
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If he is not already delivering sermons about the blessings of God because we're stopping abortion and then warning what's going to be happening in those other.
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If he's too afraid to say anything about abortion and alert you to the blessings and the dangers, find another church.
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That's not just a phrase in the Declaration of Independence.
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If you can't say God, then it's got to come from the government.
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And I don't get anything from the government, especially for free.
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If they're not on the front lines of standing up and protecting God-given rights, you're in the wrong church.
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Go find one and start standing up for these things.
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You are about to have a digital currency that has all of the earmarks of the mark of the beast.
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Read what cryptocurrency can do if it's run by the central bank.
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Does God want you just to stand around and just allow corruption to happen?
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Does God have a position on mutilation of our children's bodies?
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Do you think God has a position on whether it's cool or not to teach kids all about sex in second grade?
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Do you think God has a position on any of this?
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Do you think if Jesus came back today and you were there saying,
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you know what, whatever about the trans shows and the stripper shows with the kids,
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He has strong opinions, especially on what happens to his children.
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And that includes you, me, Democrats, Socialists, Marxists, kids, old people.
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Because God's people have got to start standing up or we lose freedom.
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