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00:05:41.720 get $30 off your year's subscription. That's 30% off. Now I played this, um, a couple of days ago,

00:05:49.780 but we had such huge reaction. But when you see this special tonight, this is only one of the cases

00:05:57.340 that we're covering. These are all people that are under attack from the government or from the

00:06:05.180 policies that we are following now. And one of the most important things is the right to your

00:06:11.940 children. Well, there's a guy who has been fighting his ex-wife now over his son that she claims is a

00:06:21.700 daughter. This kind of stuff is happening and can happen to you. This is one of the more egregious

00:06:29.400 cases. I think, uh, we cover it. And then we have the experts talk to you about what do you do if

00:06:36.560 you're in this situation? This is the story from Jeff Younger about he and his two sons.

00:06:46.000 That moment, the doctor places your newborn into your arms, your entire world changes.

00:06:52.720 I'll do everything in my power to keep you safe. I'll fight for you every single day.

00:06:58.440 For Jeff, that moment arrived times two when his twin boys, James and Jude, were born.

00:07:09.060 And from the start, Jeff loved being a dad. I was the stay-at-home parent for them. I've

00:07:15.140 raised them since they were the youngest children. And, uh, we were very close and had a super tight

00:07:20.980 bond right up until the courts took them away from me. Everything changed when the boys were

00:07:28.420 two years old. Jeff's then-wife began telling James that timeouts were only for little boys.

00:07:35.840 And that,

00:07:36.560 The monsters only eat boys. You better not be a boy.

00:07:40.820 Scaring them in these little timeouts. And when I put my foot down and stopped that,

00:07:45.580 she filed for divorce almost immediately. She's a pediatrician. And, uh, using her connections with

00:07:52.460 licensed care providers, she was able to get psychologists to basically force me out of my 0.92

00:07:56.760 house. And that's when the situation escalated again. Jeff, who then still had 50-50 custody,

00:08:04.100 took this video of James when he was only three years old. You're a boy, right? No. I'm a girl.

00:08:11.320 Who told you you were a girl? Mommy.

00:08:24.880 She puts dresses on you? Oh, wow. And what else does she do? 1.00

00:08:30.160 She buys my headbands. Uh-huh. And she, and, and she gets me hair clips. Oh, hair clips? Okay.

00:08:42.380 She enrolled him in school as a girl under a fake girl's name. She started to, uh, claim that I

00:08:48.320 couldn't cut my son's hair and that I couldn't use male pronouns. And she went to court to try to 1.00

00:08:53.760 force me to use male pronouns at home to stop presenting him to the world as a boy.

00:09:00.540 This evening, there's a decision to share in a volatile custody case involving a seven-year-old's

00:09:05.400 gender. This case has taken on a life of its own. The central question being, should a seven-year-old 0.56

00:09:11.760 live as a boy or as a girl? The custody battles continued, but Jeff's ex-wife used her connections 0.97

00:09:18.100 with psychologists to force her hand. His 50-50 custody soon became every other weekend

00:09:25.440 only. This hurt the relationship between me and my sons tremendously. And my sons were very

00:09:31.080 sad about it and cried about it all the time. So James, now 10, has lived his short life in

00:09:39.380 a whirlwind of confusion. So there was a time when, uh, every authority figure in my son's

00:09:47.460 life except me was telling him he was a girl. His teacher at school, the principal, the police

00:09:52.540 officer at school, the librarian was telling him he was a girl, the lunch lady was telling

00:09:56.080 him he was a girl. His, uh, brother, although he didn't want to, was forced to use his girl's

00:10:00.420 name. But there's one part of James' story that makes it even more tragic. And here's the

00:10:06.360 important thing to know about my case. My son has never presented as a girl to me. He only 0.93

00:10:11.240 presents as a girl when he's with his mother. So my approach was just very simple, to show 0.89

00:10:17.120 my son how great it is to be a man. So we just did all the things that, that I did as a boy.

00:10:24.360 We hunted rabbits, we tracked animals, we did hikes, we didn't, we didn't need to worry about,

00:10:31.360 we were able to tough everything out. And my, my son flourished under these conditions.

00:10:36.700 On the weekends, Jeff shared with his sons his love for boxing. You know, he didn't think he

00:10:42.120 could make it through those first workouts, you know, and, and he, he saw that we could tough it

00:10:46.280 out together. We would get down there and do our, our one hour of floor work, working on our abs,

00:10:51.480 working on our core, and we could do all that together. In a boxing gym, everybody that does the

00:10:57.600 work gets respect. And they enjoyed that. They were treated like young men. Their time together

00:11:03.360 shaped James immensely. Became to understand themselves as in command of their world,

00:11:09.720 able to make changes in their world.

00:11:14.400 And this eventually culminated in my son refusing to wear a dress at his mother's home

00:11:19.520 because he likes being a man. He told the court appointed counselor that he wanted to be a boy

00:11:27.880 and want to go to school as a boy. The court ordered counselor, she said, well, this, this child is saying

00:11:33.100 he wants to be a boy. That must be because the father's making him say that. And on that basis,

00:11:38.440 she recommended that the court take the children away from him because my son asked to be a boy.

00:11:42.880 The boy's mother moved them to California. And Jeff says she's already beginning a full

00:11:52.320 transformation for James. He last saw them over a year ago. But Jeff's battle is far from over. In

00:11:59.540 fact, quite the opposite is true. But I assure you, I will not stop fighting for my son under any

00:12:04.780 conditions. We say, save James, save thousands of children. So we don't forget those other children.

00:12:11.740 All right. He's fighting for more than just his son. He's fighting for James, but also for all the

00:12:19.780 other kids whose parents just won't speak up. And in my daily prayers, I always remember the other

00:12:27.760 children and their parents who either can't or won't fight for them. Save James.

00:12:35.320 Save thousands. So tonight you will see this and you will hear from the dad who we recorded this on

00:12:46.660 Saturday night with a live studio audience. And when he started to speak, he said something right

00:12:53.860 off the beginning that was, I mean, powerful, really powerful. He got a standing ovation after he said

00:13:02.920 this. He works three jobs to be able to afford the lawsuits. He is he's it's an incredible story,

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00:16:21.760 Andy Biggs was first elected to serve the people of Arizona, Arizona's fifth district in 2016. He

00:16:27.840 currently serves on the house oversight and reform committee and the house judiciary committee,

00:16:33.600 where he is the ranking member of the subcommittee on crime, terrorism and homeland security. Uh,

00:16:40.040 he also served as the chairman of the house freedom caucus. He is current co-chair of border

00:16:45.820 security caucus, vice chair of the congressional Western caucus and co-founder of the bipartisan war

00:16:51.880 powers caucus. We have a lot to talk about with Andy Biggs who is, uh, is running for house

00:16:59.760 leadership. Andy, welcome to the program. Glenn, good to be with you. Thanks for having me. Uh,

00:17:04.900 it is, it is great to, uh, have you. Where do we even start? Um, how is, what is your path or

00:17:11.620 anybody's path to the speaker of the house when you have to get 218 votes? Well, you know, in a thin

00:17:20.880 majority, like we were going to have, it may be as big as five seats might be as few as three. Uh,

00:17:27.640 it's a tough path for anybody. Uh, I think Kevin's kind of polarizing. I, I don't know that most of

00:17:34.900 my colleagues would think that, but 36 people voted against him yesterday. Um, which means he's

00:17:41.060 got a, uh, a lot of meat on the bone. Right. Uh, and then I'm, I'm apparently polarizing as well,

00:17:48.040 but the point was, uh, somebody had to stand up and say, look, no more change to status quo. So

00:17:55.240 what's going to happen is there's going to be a lot of, uh, internal family discussion,

00:18:01.200 if I can put it that way between now and January 3rd. And, and I suspect if it's not me and it's

00:18:07.900 not Kevin, you'll get a, uh, basically a, a consensus candidate that'll come out where people

00:18:13.320 will say better this guy or this lady than, than Biggs or McCarthy. So is this, how is this

00:18:20.780 going to help us shape the party into a more vigorous, uh, do something party before something

00:18:28.520 party? Well, that is my goal. And that's one of my reasons that I felt I had to stand up against

00:18:36.040 Kevin because you, I think this internal discussion will help invigorate whoever's coming in to

00:18:45.820 understand you're going to have to fight. You're going to have to use all the tools, all the leverage

00:18:50.640 points to stop Biden and also keep the promises we made to the American people. And, and so I reached

00:18:58.280 out and talked to some of my more liberal, uh, Republican friends and they, they want to come

00:19:03.920 to the table too. And we will find things that believe it or not, that we agree on, believe it or

00:19:09.360 not, virtually every member of this conference, except for some squishy middle people, not on both

00:19:15.800 ends. We want a border wall on both ends. We want to, uh, fix title nine. So you can go after,

00:19:22.340 uh, uh, the men in locker room thing and, and both ends. We want to fix this place. So we can at least

00:19:29.300 offer an appropriations process to start bringing down spending to get our, our budget in balance.

00:19:36.100 Uh, you know, you have some right in the squishy middle that just want to not really do anything.

00:19:41.680 And I think we're going to invigorate them that way to go in. Well, I will tell you, um, doing

00:19:45.900 nothing was Mitch McConnell's. Well, actually he did more than nothing. He, uh, he actually, um,

00:19:52.100 ran campaign ads and spent money against Republicans. Um, but, uh, you know, doing nothing and we just

00:19:59.940 can't be the Democrats that, that doesn't work. That doesn't work. We need a fresh vision for

00:20:07.380 America. Yeah, I agree. And, and, and, and, you know, Glenn, I'm a big believer that when the other

00:20:14.200 side views you as political enemies, which they do, and then we have to treat them and use the

00:20:21.740 same tools they've used against us. Why in the world would Kevin back down from impeaching Alejandro

00:20:27.660 Mayorkas, who in my mind has committed multiple high crimes and misdemeanors and has made this country 1.00

00:20:33.420 a far less safe country than it should be and is attacking our very sovereignty. And he did,

00:20:39.120 he backed off of that. Well, as soon as he did that, I said, well, I've got to step in. Somebody's

00:20:43.920 got to step in because we cannot go any longer down that path. And right now, Glenn, I'll tell you,

00:20:51.500 I know that there's probably around 10, 15 people who've indicated they will never support Mr. McCarthy.

00:20:57.560 And that means that we have to find somebody else who will fight the fight.

00:21:03.260 Okay. So what should the Republican agenda be in Congress? What, what are some of the ideas that

00:21:10.000 you and your friends are kicking around that you're like, this, this is the top 10 got to do this.

00:21:15.420 Yeah. You, you, you've got to, you have to fix the appropriations process to slow the inflation,

00:21:20.800 uh, fueling government that we have. Hang on, hang on just a sec. Let me explain that

00:21:26.160 to the best of my ability. Um, uh, we have to have a budget and then it goes to appropriations

00:21:32.260 and they say, you get this amount, this department gets this amount, et cetera, et cetera. Right now

00:21:38.200 with a continuing resolution, we don't get any of that. We haven't since 2008. What makes you think

00:21:46.000 you can get it to appropriations to be able to start carving this money out?

00:21:52.000 You just, we have to enforce it. You have to lead and say, we expect you to get this done.

00:21:57.260 And there are ways to do it. Like you could, if you really wanted to streamline it, you would say

00:22:01.240 every authorizing committee, in other words, every committee. So if you're on judiciary,

00:22:04.880 you'd say, you're going to have the appropriations, uh, line items within a subcommittee on that

00:22:11.300 committee, working with the appropriations committee, and you're going to get this thing

00:22:14.320 done by March, March 31st. And then we go through and we, and we negotiate that out and you start

00:22:20.820 working on a, uh, uh, line by line budget, a line item budget, true line item budget, a zero based budget.

00:22:27.540 And that's, you can do that. And, but as long as we, we basically, uh, mess around and not do that,

00:22:37.360 I think, I think Kay Granger, who is the appropriations chair, I think she's frustrated

00:22:42.080 beyond belief. I think the budget committee guys are frustrated. You can get this done

00:22:46.780 with great leadership. Uh, and I think you get it through the Senate.

00:22:51.480 Once it gets through the Senate, uh, who knows? Cause you got the Democrats going to be in control

00:22:57.680 of the Senate again, and they're going to blow everything up. Uh, that's just right. Well,

00:23:02.060 it's important to at least try. Okay. So appropriations next, next border fence and border

00:23:08.760 security. You can get all of those types of things through here. And part of it is you do it through

00:23:14.160 the appropriations process, by the way, but you build a border fence. It's a standalone bill. Don't,

00:23:19.800 don't put it in this big conglomeration of immigration crap that, that some people like

00:23:25.760 this part, some do it straight up transparency. So that's another aspect that we do to change

00:23:31.880 the way we operate. And we do a lot more standalone, single, uh, single budget bill,

00:23:38.800 you know, single item bills. That's the way it should be. Yeah, that's the way it should be.

00:23:42.280 So everybody can see what's in there. You, you do the title nine thing. You do the,

00:23:46.760 they bring back the Keystone pipeline. You do that as leverage with, with a must pass bill you do in

00:23:52.720 the NDAA bill. You leverage that bill to get rid of VAX mandates and bring back these men and women 0.81

00:23:58.760 who we spent millions of dollars training. And they're, they, they love this country. They're

00:24:04.100 loyal to this country. You bring them back. You can do all of that, those things, um, uh,

00:24:10.760 with our normal process. If, if you've got the leadership, you, you streamline through your

00:24:18.180 budgetary process. Again, things like permitting exploration, development, extraction of American

00:24:22.980 oil and gas. Um, how about water there for the last two years, there's been no hearing,

00:24:28.640 maybe the last four years, no hearings on water, which is in a West in the Western United States is

00:24:34.540 in a crisis level. So you bring that back. I mean, these are things we can do, um, when

00:24:42.380 you unite, I don't know, the Tuesday group problem solvers together with the freedom caucus. And

00:24:49.640 that is what leadership would look like.

00:24:52.640 So tell me at the same time, cause what I, if, if, you know, if I had a voice, uh, and I

00:24:58.760 was King of the Congress, I would say you pass everything as fast as you possibly can. You go

00:25:05.800 in there with an agenda. You have everything all done. You work on it. Starting now, late at night,

00:25:10.920 you introduce it, you pass it. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Come what may, if it doesn't go past

00:25:16.700 the Senate, fine, but at least we've done our job and then investigate and, and, uh, finish this with

00:25:26.260 Hunter Biden, finish this with, um, uh, uh, COVID. We don't even know where it came from. That's

00:25:35.200 bull crap. Yeah. Are we going to investigate these people? I'm told we are. I'm on, I'm on the two

00:25:42.180 committees that do the investigations. We've already had, we've been actually meeting for a month and a

00:25:47.360 half or two talking about, uh, uh, preservation letters. We've sent out preservation letters. We've

00:25:53.160 done all the preliminary work to be ready to go. Uh, judiciary, uh, did a thousand page, um, uh,

00:26:00.940 report on the politicization of the FBI and DOJ. Thank you. All of those have to be done,

00:26:08.600 but you know, if we, if we think we're going to just take off between now and then, which we're

00:26:16.220 going to, because the, because we, that's the way Congress works, that's a problem. We should be

00:26:22.960 doing everything I'm talking about when you're talking about now, right now, right now, right now,

00:26:28.300 you know, look, I, Orson Wells is a, is a hero of mine. Um, he stopped me a lot of things from his

00:26:35.020 life to do and not to do. One of the best stories of Orson Wells is he had a contract with RKO and it

00:26:44.880 was this enormous contract. He was bluffing. He had no idea what movie he was going to make.

00:26:50.140 Um, and he goes in and RKO has no access to him, his actors, the script, nothing. And once they've

00:27:00.180 signed it, RKO wants to get onto that set and they want control of the movie, whatever movie he's

00:27:05.320 making, which turns out to be citizen Kane, right? He knew that if he failed, and this is the way you

00:27:12.720 should look at the American people, he knew if he ran behind schedule for one minute, RKO would come

00:27:20.980 in and supervise everything. So he took his people like right now, he took his people for a week or

00:27:28.920 two weeks prior to them ever getting on the set, cameramen, everybody. And he invited them to his

00:27:35.580 house and said, let's mock film these scenes. So the first day RKO was there and they were waiting

00:27:43.120 for him to fail and get behind because he's never made a movie behind before. They had somebody

00:27:47.780 standing at the door. So when the bell rang at the end of the day, they could get a sheet and see how

00:27:53.640 far they were. When the guy came back to, um, uh, Selznick and said, and Selznick looked at him and said,

00:28:00.420 am I on the set yet? Have you gotten me on the set? How far behind are they? He said, I'm sorry,

00:28:06.940 sir, but he's five days ahead. That's what you guys need to do. You need to work right now, right now.

00:28:17.120 We may not have another Christmas or Thanksgiving a couple of years from now. If you guys won't work

00:28:22.400 through Thanksgiving and Christmas. I, I agree with you a hundred percent. Look, I would just tell

00:28:28.900 you, uh, there's, this is important for everybody to understand. Congress will only work for eight to

00:28:37.440 10 months in this next year. And I, and I, and I say that it's, it's one of the hugest, biggest flaws

00:28:44.880 of Congress, because you're moving it to a presidential election, presidential cycle. And the

00:28:51.300 house of representatives is in a two year election cycle. We will, whatever we don't get done in

00:28:57.180 August or September of next year, there will be hardly anything that happens the following year

00:29:03.040 because you guys better. I'm telling you, Andy, this is, this is it. The American people are done

00:29:08.180 with you guys. They're done with Republicans. Absolutely. Done. Well, they, and they, they have every

00:29:13.460 right to be. And if we don't get something meaningful done and move the ball forward,

00:29:18.280 let's say, because we're dealing with demographic majorities in the Senate and the presidency,

00:29:23.640 let's say we can't get all of our, our, our stuff done. We should at least get our bills done,

00:29:29.240 not performance art. Glenn, it just cannot be performance. It has to be substantive. Correct. And,

00:29:35.040 and, and we have got to move the ball forward or otherwise we will fail to lead,

00:29:41.260 lead, lay down the foundation for 2024. And if we fail to lay, lay the foundation down,

00:29:46.600 we'll lose 2024, which means we will lose this country irrevocably.

00:29:52.060 Andy, I appreciate it. God bless. I'd love to have you back on again. And I, I, I thank you for

00:29:58.220 the trouble that you are probably in with all of the, you know, I'm a bit, I'm in a bit of a hot

00:30:05.180 soup there, Glenn. Yeah. And I'm glad that you are. Thank you so much, Andy, for doing the hard work.

00:30:09.680 Thank you. God bless. Thanks, Glenn. Congressman from Arizona, Andy Biggs. Uh, he is talking to us

00:30:15.860 about the, who, who is going to be the next speaker of the house and hopefully it will not be Kevin

00:30:21.900 McCarthy. And they're voting right now, I believe maybe at nine 30 or 10 30, uh, Eastern time,

00:30:29.460 they are voting, uh, for Mitch McConnell. Are they going to delay the vote or have the vote today?

00:30:37.100 If they have the vote today, most likely Mitch McConnell will win. If they delay it, they'll

00:30:42.260 have time to get people riled up. I hear it was quite the mess in the Senate yesterday.

00:30:49.560 And Rick Scott said he was going to run, right? I mean, he is, he, I mean, that's funny because,

00:30:53.860 you know, we were talking about that what a few weeks ago and I hadn't heard it anywhere.

00:30:57.600 And now it looks like he's actually going to do it. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck

00:31:04.960 program. Okay. So Sam Bankman freed. He was the digital guru who, uh, pledged to spend as much

00:31:17.620 as a billion dollars in support of democratic candidates. Now he's under a federal investigation.

00:31:25.180 Oh, I bet he is. So what did he do? And, uh, who are his friends? Well, Bankman freed SBF is what

00:31:39.400 they call him. SBF. The next Warren Buffett is what they also called him, uh, donated to president

00:31:46.260 Joe Biden's campaign and other democratically aligned entities in 2020, $5.7 million.

00:31:53.340 $40 million is the amount he donated to political candidates and committees during the 22 election

00:32:01.780 cycle, vast majority or Democrats, $40 million. His net worth as a election day was 16 billion,

00:32:14.260 600 million. His estimated net worth today, zero.

00:32:19.140 Now I just want to see if you find any kind of connection here. Free beacon did a great story on

00:32:30.460 this. Um, so you have, you have SBF. Then you also have Harvey Weinstein. He donated almost $600,000

00:32:42.060 to democratic candidates and committees since 2000. He had fundraisers for Hillary for Barack Obama.

00:32:50.500 Yeah. He's now in jail and on trial for even more rapes. He'll be in jail to the day he dies.

00:32:59.220 Then you have Jeffrey Epstein who donated more than $150,000 to democratic candidates and committees

00:33:06.980 in turn, including $10,000 contribution as recently as 2018.

00:33:14.980 Hmm.

00:33:17.420 Okay. So he was with liberal billionaires.

00:33:21.040 He wrote checks to Ivy league universities.

00:33:24.300 Bill Clinton was one of his good friends and then he hung himself in air quotes in his jail cell in 2019.

00:33:32.580 Okay. Then you have Ed Buck, long time liberal, liberal activists donated more than half a billion dollars

00:33:41.200 to democratic candidates and committee. He was sentenced in April to 30 years in prison for

00:33:47.120 luring young men to his home, sexually assaulting them. And at least two cases,

00:33:52.940 injecting them with a fatal dose of methamphetamine. Oh,

00:33:57.720 he was described as a violent, dangerous, sexual predator who exploited vulnerable victims,

00:34:04.600 men who were drug dependent and often without homes to feed an obsession that led to death and misery.

00:34:10.280 That's Ed Buck. He's another one of the big campaign donors, Bernie Madoff. Oh, he was the best $200,000

00:34:20.100 to the Democratic Party, including Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton.

00:34:26.780 He defrauded people of $65 billion, the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

00:34:34.480 He died. He had a 150 year prison sentence. He died in 2021.

00:34:40.620 He went to jail in 2009. So Sam Bankman freed is not the first.

00:34:45.640 So what is it about these guys that attract them to the Democrats?

00:34:56.360 Well, one, if you are in with the Democrats, generally speaking, you can hide out there forever.

00:35:03.020 They launder your reputation.

00:35:06.600 But there's something else. It's called effective altruism.

00:35:10.180 FTX, this scandal may rip the mask off the left and something that most people don't know.

00:35:19.740 What we see is apathy and lust, piles of dark money and the bizarre habits of atheist leftists. 0.92

00:35:27.560 The billionaire and CEO, the so-called philanthropist, Sam Bankman freed, is vaguely creepy.

00:35:35.720 His girlfriend is even more so.

00:35:40.540 He's the perfect hero for the left.

00:35:43.380 Mushy, lacking all masculinity, boring, hedonistic, and obsessed with doing good,

00:35:50.540 even if it means committing crimes that result in enormous pain for many people.

00:35:56.640 Now, most of us cannot imagine how people just commit evil so nonchalantly.

00:36:03.920 You know, they're just like, yeah, whatever, let alone with the smugness of someone who thinks they're morally superior.

00:36:12.580 So it makes sense that this arrogance is based on the ideas of leftist intellectuals,

00:36:18.860 a trendy movement that you probably haven't heard of, effective altruism,

00:36:26.940 which claims to be a new kind of philanthropy.

00:36:29.800 The World Economic Forum has used many of its ideas.

00:36:33.120 What a surprise.

00:36:34.520 One of the creators of effective altruism is a philosopher.

00:36:38.100 His name is William McCaskill.

00:36:40.500 He's friends with Sam Bankman freed.

00:36:43.360 They've known each other for at least a year.

00:36:48.940 McCaskill actually worked for Sam Bankman freed.

00:36:51.980 According to the New York Times, he was one of the five people from the charitable vehicle known as the FTX Future Fund,

00:37:00.200 who jointly announced their resignation on Thursday.

00:37:03.980 So what is this theory?

00:37:07.620 Well, you've seen it in play a lot.

00:37:12.280 In his book, Doing Good Better, McCaskill lists the steps to effective altruism.

00:37:21.000 In a weird twist, the book mentions a study about the crowds at Tea Party rallies and how the weather affected the crowd side.

00:37:31.240 Does a larger audience make a significant political difference in the effects of the events?

00:37:37.020 The study concluded, yes, each person makes a difference, which I think I agree with, but that's about as far as I'll go with this movement.

00:37:45.460 Like the World Economic Forum, effective altruism is obsessed with climate change.

00:37:51.560 They're obsessed with fair trade and green living, but that's not enough to stop climate change.

00:37:59.980 They want us to eat less meat, thus we eat bugs.

00:38:04.300 Like Klaus Schwab, McCaskill thinks that we need radical change to common sense.

00:38:12.100 He believes people should earn to give, make as much money as possible, and then give it away to people who would need it.

00:38:18.480 He argues that it's pointless to boycott sweatshops because, what, the workers then are going to make more money and they only end up doing worse someplace else.

00:38:30.400 Instead, he says wealthy Americans should donate a chunk of their salary to people who know better, and they can help the world.

00:38:39.900 This is a religion of activism.

00:38:42.340 McCaskill writes, advocacy also has the potentially high payoff, as one could influence the behavior of many thousands of people and help influence debates around particular policies.

00:38:55.960 Though this is particularly difficult to quantify, one could become an effective advocate through journalism or by pursuing an early career in academia and then moving on to become a public intellectual.

00:39:08.020 We see this, that that is what journalism now is.

00:39:13.140 He co-founded the effective altruism movement with, oh, one of my favorites, Peter Singer.

00:39:21.060 If you know anything about Peter Singer, you're running for the hills.

00:39:25.520 Singer is a bioethicist.

00:39:27.400 He's at Stanford, I think.

00:39:29.840 He's known for his work in animal liberation.

00:39:32.380 He sees animal farming and medical testing as a form of racism.

00:39:37.520 His stance on abortion is pretty much murder.

00:39:41.920 He believes newborns aren't people.

00:39:44.520 Newborns, not fetuses, newborns.

00:39:47.520 He said that killing a newborn baby up to the age of two is never equivalent to killing a person.

00:39:54.600 That is a being who wants to go on living.

00:39:58.040 Babies just don't know. 1.00

00:39:59.500 So it's OK to kill babies.

00:40:00.880 He advocates for most forms of euthanasia as long as the person consents.

00:40:06.920 Disability rights activists usually protest his events because he believes that disability is a valid excuse for euthanasia.

00:40:15.100 Oddly, oddly, a guy who is pretty much, you know, doing the same thing they did in Germany.

00:40:21.820 He opposes the death penalty and he's an atheist, yet he also blames God for evil.

00:40:30.740 He's Jewish with three of his grandparents dying in the Holocaust, yet he's pro-Palestinian.

00:40:37.240 This guy's a piece of work.

00:40:39.540 It should be no surprise that Singer is an agenda contributor to the World Economic Forum.

00:40:46.280 Klaus Schwab mentions him several times in his book, The Great Narrative.

00:40:49.920 So the Great Reset is a perfect example of doing good better, because the foundation of all these ideas is utilitarianism.

00:41:05.140 It is together we make one great host.

00:41:07.800 One great word.

00:41:08.340 Yeah, a philosophy that most sane people have rejected is just a thought experiment.

00:41:15.600 It's a form of radicalism.

00:41:17.480 It's an attempt to satisfy human needs without the obstacle of God-given rights.

00:41:24.860 Think of that.

00:41:26.100 That's the goal, to satisfy human needs without the obstacle of God-given rights.

00:41:33.820 This is the trolley problem.

00:41:38.940 You ever heard of the trolley problem?

00:41:40.400 A trolley is coming down and it approaches a fork in one direction.

00:41:43.460 A single person is tied to the track.

00:41:45.040 The other direction, a dozen people are tied to the track.

00:41:47.460 You have to choose which direction to turn the train.

00:41:50.560 And in utilitarianism, you sacrifice the single person, right?

00:41:55.800 Okay.

00:41:56.160 And when I say sacrifice, I mean sacrifice.

00:42:00.320 Murder, stealing, assault, violence of any kind can be justified by utilitarianism.

00:42:10.420 As long as its outcome is mostly favorable.

00:42:16.460 Mostly peaceful.

00:42:18.240 Utilitarianism is a secular alternative to Christianity and it goes hand in hand with hedonism.

00:42:28.460 What did I say about Sam?

00:42:30.360 He was a hedonist.

00:42:32.340 It's pragmatic instead of moral.

00:42:35.920 Its focus is collectivism and the greatest happiness principle, the greatest happiness for

00:42:41.640 the largest number of people.

00:42:42.880 It considers happiness and pain, more happiness, less pain.

00:42:49.160 Its rule is by elites who know better than you do.

00:42:54.320 And you're just really incompetent.

00:42:56.760 You're sheep.

00:42:58.400 You can see this leftist idea of equity, of outcome, affirmative action, inclusion at all 0.58

00:43:10.080 cost, even exclusion.

00:43:13.800 You can see what is happening.

00:43:16.040 It is this poison.

00:43:17.740 It is the gospel of a world turned upside down and inside out.

00:43:23.380 It is a ministry of pudgy billionaires devoted to annihilation.

00:43:30.080 That's what was truly behind FTX.

00:43:35.860 I mean, it's a pretty negative take on effective altruism.

00:43:38.760 And I would agree that there are problems with it and not a lot, not everything is to

00:43:45.620 like.

00:43:45.940 A lot of the people who practice it are nuts and that's part of the problem.

00:43:49.560 But like, you know, some of the points you mentioned, he, one of the philosophies is instead

00:43:54.980 of dedicating your life to, you know, I don't know.

00:44:00.580 A charity.

00:44:01.040 Some charity.

00:44:01.940 You use capitalism and you earn money and then you choose who to give it to.

00:44:07.620 That's absolutely, that's what I do.

00:44:09.220 Right.

00:44:09.540 It's, yeah.

00:44:10.300 I mean, I, so I, I don't think it's like, I think the way that the left uses effective

00:44:15.360 altruism is, is bad in most cases.

00:44:17.880 And a lot of it's because, well, first of all, Sam Bankman-Fried was just seemingly fraud,

00:44:22.840 you know, defrauding people to get this money to give away.

00:44:25.620 Yes.

00:44:25.960 So that's obviously a problem.

00:44:27.780 Peter Singer is also.

00:44:28.900 Peter Singer is a massive problem.

00:44:30.520 Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum.

00:44:33.160 But again, like, you know, using capitalism to do good is something that you have been

00:44:39.000 doing for long before they called it effective altruism.

00:44:41.340 The difference is that that is not effective altruism.

00:44:44.240 That's part of it.

00:44:44.680 That's part of it.

00:44:46.740 This is the ends justify the means.

00:44:49.420 It can be.

00:44:50.300 And that's, that's, I think the problem with, with some people who practice it.

00:44:54.120 But I mean, part of it is also like.

00:44:55.760 It's why it explains why they don't really have a problem with him and the Democratic

00:44:59.700 Party.

00:45:00.220 They didn't have a problem.

00:45:01.520 They knew about Harvey Weinstein.

00:45:03.580 They knew they knew it wasn't hard to justify the means and justify the means.

00:45:09.520 You can be in bed with anyone as long as they are furthering your goals.

00:45:13.740 There is a utilitarian bent that is sometimes disturbing, but we also could use at times more

00:45:18.760 utilitarianism when you're talking about taking your money and giving it to things that not

00:45:25.060 just feel good or give you the warmest feeling inside, but that, that actually do the most

00:45:31.040 good.

00:45:31.720 I mean, you, there's a version of this where you can, and I, I, I think you largely agree

00:45:37.480 with, with a good version of this because I've seen you in action.

00:45:41.680 You give away a lot of your money to causes that you believe in and you don't do it just

00:45:47.100 based on like, okay, here's a splashy thing.

00:45:49.820 Let's get a bunch of famous people together.

00:45:52.100 You're, you're, you're doing it in a way that you hope does the most possible good with those

00:45:56.900 resources.

00:45:57.700 And I think that's, that's a, an admirable thing to do with your, with your charitable

00:46:02.120 dollars.

00:46:02.560 I think it's kind of goes back to that old, uh, you know, that old conversation about

00:46:07.720 you passed a homeless person in the streets who's drinking alcohol and, and, and, and

00:46:12.700 begging you for money.

00:46:13.760 Do you give the money to them or do you give the money to the homeless shelter where they

00:46:18.000 should be going?

00:46:18.700 There is arguments on both sides.

00:46:20.760 And I've, you know, we've talked about it before at some point, if you feel led to do

00:46:23.900 it, to give it to the directly to that person, maybe that is the right thing to do.

00:46:27.080 Right.

00:46:27.400 But also if no one, if everyone gives it to the homeless people on the, on the street

00:46:30.920 drinking alcohol and none to the homeless shelter, the problem never gets solved.

00:46:34.680 And I don't know that the problem ever gets solved with homeless shelters either.

00:46:37.300 That's a whole other story.

00:46:38.120 But the point is, you know, doing, being responsible with your money when you give it away to charity

00:46:43.920 is really important looking at how those, the charities spend their money really important.

00:46:49.480 Um, you know, so I think there is a level there of trying to do the most good with your

00:46:54.860 resources.

00:46:55.400 That is, I think a positive aspect of effective altruism that is, is embedded in there.

00:47:00.700 And I think an increased focus on that by people would probably be positive.

00:47:05.020 That being said, eating bugs is not what I'm talking about.

00:47:08.780 Yeah, I know.

00:47:09.340 And, and the, the problem here is too, is if you are, if you are, um, in effective altruism,

00:47:17.740 uh, the way he saw it, you create things to make money to pull off and quote, do good.

00:47:25.960 Right.

00:47:26.340 And that's so when it starts to go awry, you'll cut corners any way you have to, you, you,

00:47:33.200 I think do what you love money is a side benefit.

00:47:39.100 Okay.

00:47:39.540 It's a side product and you get that money.

00:47:42.600 Great.

00:47:43.020 Then take that in, invest in things, but do first what you love and what, and, and what

00:47:49.820 you are doing to make money, not tying it directly to the charity that has to come after, or you

00:47:57.780 lose sight.

00:47:58.460 Na, na, na, na, na, na, no, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na,

00:47:59.200 na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

The Glenn Beck Program - November 16, 2022

Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Rep. Andy Biggs ｜ 11⧸16⧸22

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