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00:00:00.120 Have you left your house, Stu, in three days? Four days?

00:00:03.180 I did venture out a little bit yesterday.

00:00:05.500 You did?

00:00:06.420 Yeah, my kid had a baseball lesson, and they decided to open up for it,

00:00:12.080 because there was like a period of two hours where everything melted.

00:00:15.180 So, we were like, hey, let's get this kid out of the house,

00:00:18.160 because he's got to move around, or we're all going to lose our minds.

00:00:21.740 Wow, and yet you do nothing. You're not coming into work.

00:00:25.780 Wow, I get it.

00:00:26.980 You weren't either.

00:00:28.060 You know what I had to do, though, is legitimately, like, I have a little gate

00:00:30.740 that had to, you know, where my driveway is, and it's like the center of all ice in Texas,

00:00:36.580 so whenever it gets icy like this, it builds up,

00:00:38.860 and I had to sit out there in buckets of hot water to melt it,

00:00:41.960 because of course I have no salt, no, you know, ice melt, nothing. 1.00

00:00:47.200 No way to do this except like an idiot out there with a bucket of water. 1.00

00:00:50.700 I know. I was out this morning with, I took my, you know, my metal cup, 1.00

00:00:56.840 you know, my, what do you call it, it's, this says it's an Arctic, but it's not, it's an off-brand.

00:01:06.640 Anyway, I took my metal cup, and I was just bashing the gate to try to chip all the ice off this morning.

00:01:13.480 It's so, I mean, it's so bad, so bad.

00:01:16.820 It's embarrassing.

00:01:17.280 It is, it is.

00:01:18.860 But we both made it in for the podcast, and a really good podcast today.

00:01:24.200 We start with some really dicey things about ESG,

00:01:28.920 and why you have to call your state legislator right now.

00:01:34.960 There are some really nefarious things going on,

00:01:38.140 and we explain it in hour number one.

00:01:41.320 Ken Paxton is also with us.

00:01:43.560 We have Bill Forsgin, who is back with us to talk about what the World Economic Forum is coming,

00:01:52.460 a catastrophic hack into, could be our financial system, could be our electrical system,

00:01:58.920 in the next two years.

00:02:00.420 How do you prepare for something like that?

00:02:02.720 And then another solution coming from yet another source,

00:02:10.920 somebody gathering the team and gathering enough money to build a website called 1792 Exchange

00:02:18.160 that actually will report which banks are safe, we think,

00:02:25.400 and which banks are definitely not safe.

00:02:28.020 It goes through all industry, all on today's podcast.

00:02:31.020 I want to talk to you a little bit and give you an update on a couple of things.

00:02:52.100 ESG is one.

00:02:53.020 But first, let me start with the three problems that we have.

00:02:59.220 And these all are front burner now.

00:03:02.840 There's very little time for you to get up to speed,

00:03:06.540 and you have to be very, very careful on whom you're in bed with, okay?

00:03:11.680 Trust no one.

00:03:12.960 And as I'll show you later on in the show,

00:03:15.480 that's going to get much worse within a couple of years.

00:03:18.300 First, biggest, most pressing problem, ESG and the World Economic Forum.

00:03:27.100 It is imperative that you teach your friends and your families about ESG and the World Economic Forum.

00:03:35.780 It is important that you do not go to any other source, honestly, than the World Economic Forum.

00:03:42.880 You can watch them say and plan all these things out in the open.

00:03:47.900 Now, they've taken a lot of stuff off of their line,

00:03:51.240 but there's something called the Wayback Machine,

00:03:53.380 where you can show this originated from them.

00:03:58.040 We have a second book coming out, probably in June or, God forbid, July,

00:04:04.040 and it is going to outline how deep the problem is beyond ESG, now into tech.

00:04:12.380 The second biggest problem that we have standing in the way of freedom

00:04:16.580 is our federal government and the governments of the West.

00:04:21.140 They are in bed with ESG.

00:04:23.860 Look at Canada.

00:04:25.380 It is terrifying what Canada is turning into.

00:04:29.180 So our federal government is now a problem.

00:04:32.220 And the third one is tech and AI.

00:04:37.380 These are the three biggest problems that we have right now that are standing in our way.

00:04:42.980 And you are going to feel very, very small when it comes to all three of them.

00:04:48.520 Do you feel like you can battle big tech?

00:04:52.740 Big tech, by the way, is hiring all of the people.

00:04:56.360 It is a revolving door from the FBI Justice Department

00:05:01.320 and our nation's intelligence agencies.

00:05:06.060 It's a revolving door.

00:05:08.060 They're basically running high tech now at the highest levels.

00:05:12.520 It is terrifying, this public-private partnership and merger

00:05:18.380 between our law enforcement and our spy agencies with big tech.

00:05:24.660 But they also introduced something now that is just starting to become real.

00:05:31.080 And you might skip these stories, but please do not.

00:05:35.840 Anything on chat GPT is very important because it's an entry-level understanding

00:05:41.680 of how the world is going to change.

00:05:44.760 Once AI kicks in and is over everything, we're in deep trouble, deep, deep trouble.

00:05:55.920 Federal government, you understand.

00:05:58.640 ESG and the World Economic Forum, you understand.

00:06:02.440 But let me start this program with just a look at the WEF and ESG.

00:06:11.400 Yesterday, I was on the phone with the head of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts,

00:06:18.820 who I have a great deal of respect for.

00:06:22.160 And just in full disclosure, and not to sell them down the river

00:06:26.760 because I believe in the Heritage Foundation,

00:06:29.140 but they are part of a coalition and they don't have control of all of the partners, etc., etc.

00:06:38.220 And I'm not sure who is part of this coalition and what their real intent is

00:06:44.000 because they're doing some things that I don't understand.

00:06:47.420 And they're blocking legislation that empowers you at times.

00:06:53.080 The coalition is.

00:06:53.920 Yesterday, Kevin Roberts came out with a great statement.

00:06:59.560 ESG poses a clear and present danger to the American way of life, 0.98

00:07:03.560 the soul of our nation, and every sector of our economy.

00:07:06.820 Many organizations in the conservative movement have undertaken efforts to address this threat

00:07:11.100 through policy research, litigation, commentary, model legislation, and more.

00:07:16.140 The conservative movement is at its best when it moves in unison.

00:07:18.800 And Heritage is honored to help lead and work alongside multiple coalitions focused on these activities.

00:07:26.200 We support any leader and organization who is charging the Hill to limit the power of woke financial institutions 1.00

00:07:31.300 and eliminate politics in the boardrooms of America's companies.

00:07:35.240 On this issue, we are proud to work with blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:07:39.360 Our movement is stronger together.

00:07:40.840 I completely agree with Kevin and the Heritage Foundation on this.

00:07:45.440 We cannot separate ourselves from one another.

00:07:50.760 I will support when I can.

00:07:53.320 They should support when they can.

00:07:55.740 And we should support each other when we are moving in the same direction.

00:08:01.420 However, I want to make something real clear.

00:08:08.760 The fight on this is happening right now at your state level.

00:08:13.460 If you want to change things, the next two weeks are very important.

00:08:20.240 And there are three different types of legislation.

00:08:23.120 I'm sorry to get so into the weeds, but you are the only solution to this.

00:08:28.240 Three types of legislation being pushed.

00:08:31.020 And I want you to understand the different bills so you can be aware of what's being introduced in your state.

00:08:36.340 And so you are empowered with the pertinent information to fight for the protections you need in your life,

00:08:44.200 for your family, for your business.

00:08:46.240 This is happening now in the next couple of weeks.

00:08:50.080 You cannot trust the system.

00:08:54.440 Understand that.

00:08:56.120 The system is corrupt.

00:08:58.320 The system of lobbying is corrupt.

00:09:01.780 The system, the global system of banking is corrupt.

00:09:07.100 The closer you get to you, the less corrupt, the less the possibility is that it is corrupt.

00:09:17.720 But it's still a real threat at the local level.

00:09:21.820 Do not trust the system.

00:09:23.800 And I mean that means even me.

00:09:25.600 I am saying do your own homework.

00:09:28.060 Anything that, like, for instance, Wall Builders is doing on this, partnered with me, you need to understand.

00:09:36.020 I want you to look under every rock.

00:09:39.420 I want you to see exactly what we're doing.

00:09:41.900 I want you.

00:09:42.900 And if you have a better idea, great.

00:09:45.220 Maybe we'll support you on that better idea.

00:09:48.140 But we're looking to – let me explain it this way.

00:09:52.840 Now, the World Economic Forum and ESG is a nasty super virus or super bug, okay?

00:10:02.060 We need our strongest antibiotics to kill this thing. 0.88

00:10:06.900 Now, why do they always say take all of your antibiotics?

00:10:09.360 Because if you leave any of that bug alive in your system, you stop taking those antibiotics towards the end because you feel better, what you've left behind is the strongest part of that bug.

00:10:26.780 And they mutate and they mutate and get stronger and then they don't – they're immune to antibiotics.

00:10:33.540 Almost everything in our system is immune to antibiotics.

00:10:37.320 You can expose it and nothing happens.

00:10:40.300 You can document and expose and you can even bring it all the way up to the top to the justice system and nothing happens.

00:10:48.780 It's immune to almost all of our antibiotics.

00:10:54.200 So we need the strongest antibiotics we have left in the republic to go after this bug and make sure it is wiped out entirely.

00:11:08.140 Take all of the antibiotics.

00:11:11.080 So do not dismiss any approach. 1.00

00:11:15.160 Kill it with everything that you have. 0.99

00:11:17.680 Does that make sense? 0.99

00:11:20.220 The most important thing, I think, is we must return the power to the hands of the people.

00:11:29.640 And right now, Heritage is working on – and so are many others, but because I brought up Heritage – they're working on some really great bills.

00:11:39.440 Number one bill, prohibit state contracts with companies that boycott based on ESG causes.

00:11:46.980 So your state won't award any contract to anybody.

00:11:51.880 Now remember, we'll probably have only about 20 states and they'll be the red states, where the blue states are the ones, generally speaking, New York and California, that carry all of the weight.

00:12:05.560 And any purple state is not going to do it.

00:12:08.260 Okay?

00:12:08.860 So prohibit state contracts.

00:12:10.580 A good move.

00:12:11.980 Number two, prohibit state pension funds for being used for ESG.

00:12:17.140 A spectacular move.

00:12:19.100 Has to be done.

00:12:21.540 However, I want you to understand that doesn't affect you.

00:12:28.780 Okay?

00:12:29.980 Prohibiting state pension funds from being used under ESG.

00:12:34.360 State pension funds.

00:12:35.920 That's not your pension.

00:12:38.160 That's just the state workers.

00:12:40.340 So it doesn't include everything.

00:12:42.660 Again, it's the state doing what the state can do with the money that they have.

00:12:49.880 What about your pension fund?

00:12:52.200 And that's what is happening now in Congress.

00:12:55.080 Okay?

00:12:55.300 Now, the last one is, in my estimation, equally as important.

00:13:06.720 And it is called fair access.

00:13:09.260 The third type of bill, and this is the one the banks and everybody else is standing up against.

00:13:14.040 They're fighting the others.

00:13:15.460 But they are winning the fight on fair access.

00:13:18.980 And that's concerning to me.

00:13:21.060 This is the one that provides protection for you and our critical industries.

00:13:29.080 It is protection for you, the little guy, the individual.

00:13:34.200 Because let's not forget, ESG are truly against you.

00:13:40.600 Cut your energy off.

00:13:42.320 Cut your voice out by regulating what you can and cannot say.

00:13:48.640 And destroy your business by making sure that you have the right kind of people,

00:13:54.660 according to the banks and to the government in your organization.

00:13:59.840 That will destroy everything in America.

00:14:03.380 In fact, Larry Fink said,

00:14:05.120 every company and every industry will be transformed by the transition to net zero world.

00:14:10.920 The question is, will you lead or will you be led?

00:14:13.580 So the third bill that I think is really important is fair access to Financial Services Act.

00:14:22.160 Fair access would require, this is, the argument is,

00:14:26.320 the state can't tell businesses what they can and cannot do.

00:14:31.440 Well, really?

00:14:32.980 Because they seem to be doing that a lot lately.

00:14:34.820 The local banks and the state banks and the credit unions and insurance under the Fair Access to Financial Services Act

00:14:47.300 will require them to disclose to you if anything is denied based on anything other than quantitative financial standards and traditional criteria.

00:15:00.680 So if you're, if you are applying for a loan and your ESG score is bad, they have to tell you that.

00:15:09.440 Now people will say, why is that so important?

00:15:12.040 Okay, so we know.

00:15:13.840 Right.

00:15:15.220 Information is power.

00:15:17.800 When they have to tell you that,

00:15:20.760 you then as an individual or a corporation or a company

00:15:25.640 can come in and sue them.

00:15:30.220 Without this part, you're waiting around for the Attorney General.

00:15:35.260 And you have no proof as to what they're doing.

00:15:39.300 It's all hearsay.

00:15:40.440 Look, I know I walked into that bank.

00:15:42.100 I've always been good.

00:15:42.980 And they turned me down.

00:15:43.920 Why'd they turn me down?

00:15:45.720 Well, they don't have to tell you.

00:15:47.380 So you can never take action against them.

00:15:50.160 And you do not want to wait or hope and pray that your Attorney General is walking the same line as you are

00:15:59.340 and is also not so overwhelmed that he can take this on.

00:16:07.840 The power must reside with you.

00:16:11.100 That doesn't mean that the other things can't be passed.

00:16:14.260 They should be passed.

00:16:15.320 But fair act, I want you to call your legislatures today 0.97

00:16:19.800 and tell them you want a fair access bill.

00:16:25.800 It is so critically important.

00:16:29.600 Now, I will tell you, let me take a quick break

00:16:32.140 and then I'll tell you something that I know

00:16:33.860 that no one will go on record with,

00:16:38.920 but I have had conversations about it.

00:16:42.100 And I think you need to know about it.

00:16:45.320 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:16:59.880 Ken Paxton, how are you, sir?

00:17:02.360 I am doing well.

00:17:03.540 And by the way, they're called stabilizing braces.

00:17:06.100 Stabilizing braces.

00:17:06.840 That's what it is.

00:17:07.420 Thank you.

00:17:08.380 So you're stabilizing.

00:17:10.200 Thank you.

00:17:10.640 I am the worst gun advocate because I don't know.

00:17:15.980 Anyway, stabilizing braces.

00:17:17.680 We love you anyway, Glenn.

00:17:18.980 It's good.

00:17:19.660 If you have one of these, and I have friends that have them.

00:17:23.220 If you have one of these, you bought them legally,

00:17:25.460 and now the ATF says in like 118 or 117 days,

00:17:31.560 you're going to be a felon if you haven't applied for a tax stamp

00:17:37.500 and sent them all of your information.

00:17:40.020 Well, there's no way to get a tax stamp in 120 days.

00:17:43.000 I don't want to give the government, you know,

00:17:45.600 any information on anything unless I absolutely have to.

00:17:51.480 What do people do if they have these guns?

00:17:54.500 Well, you forgot to give the good information.

00:17:56.980 They'll only put you into prison for up to 10 years.

00:17:59.800 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, right.

00:18:01.080 You forgot to mention the 10-year prison sentence.

00:18:03.780 Now, this is pretty radical.

00:18:06.280 Obviously, a stabilizing brace, it makes no sense,

00:18:09.480 other than that they're trying to force registration,

00:18:13.020 which is completely illegal.

00:18:15.280 And so not only do you have this Wisconsin group,

00:18:17.060 but I can guarantee you we're on our way to filing a lawsuit

00:18:20.280 because this is complete violation of the Second Amendment,

00:18:24.460 which, you know, clearly this is just another work.

00:18:26.340 They call it workarounds, workaround the Constitution.

00:18:28.380 This is what they do, workarounds.

00:18:31.080 And this is, I mean, if this stands, everything,

00:18:35.420 I mean, we'll lose everything because all it means is that

00:18:39.120 the ATF can just deem anything too dangerous to have,

00:18:42.660 and their word is law.

00:18:45.520 So do you expect this to be resolved before the 120 days?

00:18:50.860 Or let's say you're a lawyer and I'm your client.

00:18:57.020 Ken, I have one.

00:18:59.580 I've got friends who have one.

00:19:01.180 What do I do?

00:19:03.560 Well, we're going to file a lawsuit,

00:19:05.580 and the first thing we're going to ask for is an injunction

00:19:07.860 so that people are not subject to these regulations

00:19:12.660 without us having the opportunity to try this on the merits.

00:19:16.080 And I think trying it on the merits, obviously, I think we would win.

00:19:20.060 Yeah.

00:19:20.600 So, yeah, so that's what we're going to try to stop it

00:19:22.820 so that people don't have to live in fear of the ATF coming to their house

00:19:25.900 and arresting them for having a stabilizing brace for a pistol.

00:19:31.300 We are sitting in a country now where our federal government

00:19:35.320 is imposing rules and regulations that will make us criminals,

00:19:41.760 terrorists, federal offenders,

00:19:46.600 and yet they're letting all of the people who should be in jail out

00:19:51.440 and letting people get away with stuff 1.00

00:19:53.980 if they're on the right side or a useful idiot. 1.00

00:19:57.600 I mean, the world is upside down. 0.99

00:20:00.280 Well, we've elected people that are not there to help the American people.

00:20:03.520 I mean, all you have to do is look at what they did with COVID.

00:20:05.280 They told Americans, one, you're going to lose.

00:20:08.580 We're going to try to force you to lose your job if you don't get vaccinated.

00:20:11.160 We're not going to let you transport around the country

00:20:13.140 or be anywhere if you don't wear a mask.

00:20:15.040 You can't come back into the country unless you get tested

00:20:17.260 and you don't have COVID.

00:20:18.540 However, if you're an illegal, if you're coming here illegally,

00:20:20.980 whatever your background is, criminal or not,

00:20:23.300 you can come to the border.

00:20:24.280 We're not going to test you.

00:20:25.480 We're going to transport you around the country.

00:20:27.500 We're not going to worry if you had COVID.

00:20:28.640 As a matter of fact, if you have COVID, all the better.

00:20:31.500 So it's clear to me this administration is not out for the best interest

00:20:36.220 of the American people.

00:20:37.460 They are out to change us into the country that they control, 1.00

00:20:41.440 much like what happened in Venezuela or China.

00:20:44.600 So we just had in Texas, we just completed, I think,

00:20:49.400 two miles of a new border wall.

00:20:51.840 Then we had, we're working on another 12, but there's at least 40 that is just

00:20:58.920 hemorrhaging people.

00:21:01.360 And Texas is just doing this, you know, on its own.

00:21:05.820 Ken, people are so tired of games and things just going on and on and on and on.

00:21:16.560 What do you have in your quiver that is going to end this madness?

00:21:22.520 And how long is it going to take?

00:21:24.840 Well, elections have consequences and our system of government depends on a balance of powers.

00:21:31.780 And so we're fighting our way.

00:21:33.240 We have 15 lawsuits.

00:21:34.700 We have 38 total lawsuits where we've sued the Biden administration in a two-year period.

00:21:39.220 We've got 15 of those relate to the border.

00:21:41.180 We just filed this other one that you referenced earlier, where they're going to let 30,000 people

00:21:46.040 into the country and they're going to fly them in, completely illegal. 0.97

00:21:49.700 And, you know, we're in the middle of, we're winning most of those.

00:21:53.080 The problem is it takes a long time to go through the judicial system.

00:21:57.340 And on occasion, we lose.

00:21:58.780 I mean, the Supreme Court made a horrible decision on remaining Mexico.

00:22:02.000 Fortunately, we have another lawsuit that I think we've got a chance at.

00:22:04.840 But, you know, it's not an easy process taking on the federal government,

00:22:07.760 especially when the Supreme Court told us in this case under the Obama administration,

00:22:13.200 which was called the United States versus Arizona,

00:22:16.000 where they said that the federal government could pass laws and then not enforce them.

00:22:20.920 And then if a state tried to protect themselves, that was illegal.

00:22:23.980 And that's insane.

00:22:24.780 And I'm hoping we'll get a chance to challenge it.

00:22:27.900 I'm hoping our legislature, our governor does something that violates that particular holding.

00:22:33.440 And we can challenge it because it cannot be right.

00:22:35.620 States don't have the right to protect their citizens if the federal government is going to walk away

00:22:40.360 from enforcing the laws around the books.

00:22:42.620 I thought it was in maybe the state constitution.

00:22:45.100 I thought it was in the constitution that if the government doesn't protect the borders,

00:22:50.040 if they are found negligent in that, it is the state's right to enforce that.

00:22:58.580 I thought the argument was we just had to make the case that this was out of control.

00:23:03.780 Is that not true?

00:23:04.500 Well, no, so there's, first of all, there's no case on that.

00:23:08.120 So that, that there, there is a provision that we, we're, we can try to rely on.

00:23:12.060 Here's the challenge.

00:23:13.040 We're not in a position where we were in the entire history of our country,

00:23:17.240 where border patrol was there to stop people from coming in.

00:23:20.540 They used to like guard the border.

00:23:22.360 The Biden administration has changed the paradigm.

00:23:24.660 The paradigm now is border patrol does logistics.

00:23:27.980 The cartels have been informed by the Biden administration from day one,

00:23:31.940 that all they have to do is bring people and bring as many as you want.

00:23:35.180 As a matter of fact, the more you bring, the more money you'll make, 10,000 a person, 8,000 a person, whatever it is.

00:23:39.120 And just, you're not running from us anymore.

00:23:41.420 You come to border patrol, you deliver to the border patrol.

00:23:44.580 So now none of our state resources are involved.

00:23:47.080 They go directly to border patrol and they hand them off.

00:23:50.140 And they say the magic word, which is asylum.

00:23:53.680 And then border patrol takes over.

00:23:55.680 And this is, by the way, not border patrol's fault.

00:23:57.580 This is what the Biden administration has.

00:23:59.180 I know, I know.

00:24:00.660 So now all they do is they then transport them wherever the federal government says to transport them.

00:24:05.860 And there's no place in that process.

00:24:08.520 The only way we can stop that, and that's where most people go,

00:24:11.860 is to start, I mean, I guess, shooting border patrol agents, which, you know, is not going to happen.

00:24:17.680 We're not going to, those are not the enemy.

00:24:19.540 The enemy is the Biden administration who is taking advantage of border patrol to cut a deal with the cartels.

00:24:25.900 And we have basically are in partnership with the cartels.

00:24:28.740 And that's the problem.

00:24:31.520 This is so insidious and evil.

00:24:33.800 And, by the way, I don't know anybody who, I didn't understand the shooting, the border agents.

00:24:41.960 These guys are, man, I mean, the suicide rate is high because these guys aren't allowed to do what they know is right.

00:24:50.500 I feel for these border agents like crazy.

00:24:52.840 And, Glenn, if they do, then they're punished. 0.98

00:24:54.940 I mean, you saw those guys that were on horseback and they made this garbage up and they couldn't prove it, 0.87

00:24:59.720 but they still punished them. 0.96

00:25:01.060 And they went out and just made them look terrible.

00:25:03.940 And, I mean, this is pure evil.

00:25:05.360 These are your employees.

00:25:06.600 They're the ones out risking their lives.

00:25:08.060 They're trying to protect Americans. 0.98

00:25:09.160 And the Biden administration kicks them in the head, beats them up, and throws them away. 0.99

00:25:13.700 And that's our administration. 0.99

00:25:16.100 That's why I'm saying these people that are running our federal government do not like Americans.

00:25:21.280 They do not like freedom.

00:25:22.780 They are doing everything they can to do work around the Constitution so that they can tell us how to live our lives.

00:25:30.340 So why doesn't, why isn't the governor out or, I mean, don't want you to have to answer for the governor,

00:25:38.200 but why are we not making more of a case to at least Texans that we are in bed with the cartels?

00:25:49.120 The sex trafficking and the child sex trafficking is off the charts, let alone all of the fentanyl and drugs that are coming across the border.

00:26:01.680 You have 500 immigrants in New York, and they're declaring an emergency.

00:26:09.000 Good heavens.

00:26:10.660 How many hundreds of thousands have come just through Texas?

00:26:14.780 How many millions have come through Texas and are still here?

00:26:18.240 Well, so I would say, I mean, the legislature is in session right now in Texas.

00:26:23.100 We're, they're authorizing billions to be sent.

00:26:25.540 The governor is going to sign that.

00:26:27.720 I do believe the governor, lieutenant governor are all out talking about this issue, but I know you're going to be shocked by this,

00:26:34.040 but your show is not like CBS, NBC, ABC, that they don't cover our point of view, but we are out saying,

00:26:41.660 I am literally talking about this every single day about this insanity that is going on with the federal government.

00:26:47.860 Basically, not basically, they have an agreement with the partner, with the cartels to import drugs, human traffic,

00:26:53.940 and get as many people here and make the cartels literally billionaires. 0.94

00:26:58.900 Hang on, hang on, hang on.

00:27:00.340 You say not basically, they do have.

00:27:04.280 Do you have proof that they have that kind of a deal?

00:27:08.300 It's not in writing fun.

00:27:09.660 It's, it's the message that was sent day one.

00:27:11.900 We're not going to, I mean, day one, we will not.

00:27:14.440 I agree with that.

00:27:15.640 And by the way, come just bring your people to us.

00:27:18.860 That way the border's wide open.

00:27:20.780 All of the, all of our people, a lot of our border patrol now, right there at that point.

00:27:24.800 And so we used to have more border patrol agents along the border.

00:27:28.000 Now they're doing logistics.

00:27:29.060 And so it makes it easier for the cartels to transport drugs, get people in here who can't qualify, 0.71

00:27:35.160 can't say the magic word asylum because they may be a terrorist or, you know,

00:27:38.780 some type of criminal.

00:27:39.720 They go, they just walk across the border now because there's no one there.

00:27:42.940 And this is the, this is the deal.

00:27:45.040 It's not written down, but it has been told.

00:27:47.540 It has been spread by the Biden administration.

00:27:50.280 And it's clear to the cartels, hey, we can make a lot of money on drugs, human trafficking.

00:27:55.440 We can, we can import as much drugs as we can make.

00:27:59.380 We can get them here.

00:28:00.120 Kids are going to die.

00:28:01.080 And the Biden administration, do it, do it as fast as you can.

00:28:04.340 Bring as many people as you can import as much drugs as you can.

00:28:07.500 They don't say that publicly, but they say, here's how you do it. 0.96

00:28:11.260 We've given you the roadmap and the cartels are not stupid. 1.00

00:28:14.440 And the Chinese are not stupid. 1.00

00:28:16.240 They're producing these drugs as fast as they can send them to the cartels. 1.00

00:28:20.020 And it's all happening the way I'm saying it's that.

00:28:22.560 I mean, I have to tell you, Ken, the Chinese are just running the opium wars on us. 1.00

00:28:28.520 Well, they learned this from Great Britain, and they're doing it to us.

00:28:34.280 They're on our border, shipping all this stuff across and rotting us from the inside.

00:28:40.540 And the Biden administration is a big part of it.

00:28:43.600 Ken, I appreciate all your hard work.

00:28:45.340 Leave me on a high note.

00:28:46.780 Are we making progress on it?

00:28:49.280 Do you see a light at the end of the tunnel on this?

00:28:51.740 I don't think we can ever rest, but I do think we have a really good chance of winning this because we are right.

00:29:01.320 We're doing the things that protect the American people.

00:29:03.920 And I truly believe as the consequences of this border affect more and more Americans, which it's going to, we are going to see the consequences of this for years.

00:29:12.180 And when you see Democratic mayors complaining about it, even though they're not directing at the right people, you know this is having an impact.

00:29:19.760 And I believe in the long run, we're going to win this fight.

00:29:23.640 Glad to hear it.

00:29:24.540 Ken Paxson, our Attorney General from the great state of Texas, thank you so much for talking.

00:29:31.760 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:29:49.760 I want to talk to you about somebody who is in swinging for the fences here on ESG.

00:29:59.080 It is 1792exchange.com.

00:30:04.920 1792exchange.com.

00:30:06.140 They have put together a list of a thousand companies.

00:30:10.420 They've looked over all their policies, their practices, and other criteria to determine the likelihood of that company, that business, that bank canceling a contract or a client or boycott, divest, or deny service based on the views or beliefs of the person, of the customer.

00:30:31.480 So I wanted to get Paul Fitzpatrick on, because he's the president of the 1792exchange.

00:30:40.660 Paul, thank you for all of your hard work.

00:30:43.680 Well, Glenn, thank you.

00:30:44.820 It's my honor to be on, and I appreciate that you are educating your audience once again on this important issue.

00:30:49.400 So here we are looking at ESG, something that we were told, what, two years ago, that it was a conspiracy theory.

00:30:58.740 There was nothing to it.

00:30:59.960 It is absolutely everywhere now.

00:31:02.360 I'm just looking at 1792exchange.com, and I just pulled up the banks.

00:31:08.380 How confident are you that these ratings are comprehensive enough for these banks?

00:31:17.920 Glenn, that's a fantastic question.

00:31:20.880 What our team has done, and you're right, you said we have analyzed a thousand companies, looking at six criteria, but we had to go with publicly available information.

00:31:30.800 Honestly, if we heard from a friend of a friend that they got canceled, their bank canceled them, or their payroll processor, or their web hosting site canceled them.

00:31:39.400 If we couldn't verify it, we actually didn't change their rating for that.

00:31:43.380 We'll try to find proof, because what you see is when you look in there, you pull up.

00:31:47.700 Like you said, you could search on banks.

00:31:49.740 You could search on different by industry.

00:31:51.780 You could say, I want to give me every lower-risk bank, and then look at those.

00:31:56.540 What we want folks to do is look through the actual ratings.

00:32:00.180 Look at the footnotes and see.

00:32:01.520 Because, for example, a bank may be rated as low or, excuse me, medium risk, but the reason it's medium risk may be a greater threat to me than it is to you.

00:32:12.420 So we have to go with publicly available information, but what we are asking people to do is to go on our site and submit their example that if they were canceled by a bank, so we can know, so we can alert others and we'll change their rating.

00:32:25.980 And I would say we hope that this tool both equips and protects small businesses and nonprofits and families, but also that it helps corporations make the right decision in the future.

00:32:38.280 Maybe we can get to that later in the program.

00:32:39.500 So are you paying attention at all to the legislation that is working its way through states on fair access?

00:32:47.000 Yes, Glenn, we have behind the scenes been looking at and monitoring and been involved in fair access.

00:32:56.980 You've got bills that some talk about as raised as social credit scores.

00:33:01.680 Right.

00:33:02.020 And those are more complicated to write, frankly, from a constitutional perspective.

00:33:06.700 Right.

00:33:07.080 But these are important.

00:33:09.040 The others that you're seeing.

00:33:11.020 Hang on just a sec.

00:33:11.820 The fair access bill, I talked about it a couple of hours ago.

00:33:15.240 This is why the legislation is so important, because you may have a feeling that these banks or these businesses are canceling you for some reason, but they don't.

00:33:25.700 They're not required to disclose that if you have your fair access legislation in your state, they have to disclose they're using something other than traditional practices.

00:33:37.440 They're using an ESG score or something like that.

00:33:40.780 And that's the only way we can ever truly know if these banks, if these businesses are really safe or they're not, because we have to use public information.

00:33:53.720 You are absolutely right.

00:33:55.540 We do need legislation both federally and state.

00:33:58.780 We also what we've seen is lots of legislation moving and you'll see it in 20 to 30 states to protect the pension funds of the state employees.

00:34:06.700 And these pension funds, as you know, and your listeners know, they have been weaponized.

00:34:10.820 You have red states like Texas and others have been handing over the billions and billions, actually trillions of dollars to asset managers and like BlackRock.

00:34:20.060 And that those organizations, BlackRock is going in, they're voting the shares and they're putting pressure, even more importantly, putting pressure on CEOs.

00:34:28.600 And you're absolutely right.

00:34:30.040 We need daylight.

00:34:31.580 And that's why we call this our spotlight reports, our corporate bias ratings.

00:34:35.360 So we encourage folks to go in there.

00:34:36.920 And we do encourage, as you're saying, your listeners to touch base with your state legislators, federal legislators, but all of your statewide elected officials so that they can get behind good legislation.

00:34:47.960 So help me out on, because this could be used to find a bank, real estate.

00:34:54.900 I mean, really, you have everything covered in this.

00:34:58.640 And I'm just looking up, I'm trying to look up food, beverage, and tobacco.

00:35:05.060 When you look at companies like, for instance, Coca-Cola, it's damn near impossible to boycott them because they own almost everything.

00:35:15.080 I mean, there's like four companies that, or I think it's 12, that control most of the food and beverage in the country.

00:35:24.640 It is a real challenge, Glenn.

00:35:27.060 And that's why what we also, we understand people are going to make decisions, say, I'm not going to shop at this store.

00:35:32.340 I'm going to shop at that store.

00:35:33.360 But we think you actually have an even better influence, yes, do that, that shop in stores that support your values, or at least don't undermine your values.

00:35:42.800 But we want folks to print out the report, bring it into the store that's doing the wrong thing and say, can I talk to the manager and say, why do you have a high risk rating?

00:35:51.700 I'll shop here if you get to medium or lower.

00:35:54.880 And then go to the other store.

00:35:56.880 Oh, well, let me say, the stores where you do shop that are rated lower risk, print it out and go in and say, thank you.

00:36:03.980 Thank you for not undermining my values.

00:36:06.420 Thank you for just providing good products and services.

00:36:09.180 We believe in those market forces.

00:36:11.540 But frankly, our side isn't really good at just saying no and moving.

00:36:16.480 We need to communicate if we're going to do that.

00:36:19.060 Yeah.

00:36:20.440 So how can we help you?

00:36:23.340 Well, honestly, if you encourage folks to go to 1792exchange.com, look at our spotlight report.

00:36:31.920 Look up the companies where you shop, where you bank, who, if you're on a small business or a nonprofit, you're a larger customer.

00:36:39.660 You have leverage.

00:36:41.220 Those folks should talk to their suppliers.

00:36:43.960 Use this.

00:36:44.580 And also go in and say, I see that you are a medium risk or a high risk.

00:36:49.780 Would you change the terms of my contract to guarantee that you're not going to cancel me for ideological reasons?

00:36:56.300 If we had a lot of people going in and doing that, that would filter up to the higher ranks of corporations.

00:37:02.000 And so those are just some simple things that people can do.

00:37:05.840 But, again, your listeners are educated.

00:37:08.260 But I encourage them to let their statewide elected officials, all of them, governor, AG, treasurer, state legislators, as well as your federal, let them know you care.

00:37:19.600 Because there's a lot of folks are doing a lot of good work.

00:37:21.480 I know, as you've talked about, you've had people like Riley Moron, treasurer, he's a treasurer of West Virginia.

00:37:26.680 You've got attorneys general doing good things.

00:37:29.460 Thank them when they step out.

00:37:30.760 Because I will tell you, the business interests put massive pressure on these elected officials.

00:37:37.040 They say they're going to not support them.

00:37:39.880 Massive.

00:37:40.400 And they're not going to support them financially.

00:37:41.880 So these folks need to hear from voters.

00:37:45.940 Paul, why are you doing this?

00:37:48.160 Why this topic?

00:37:49.800 Why?

00:37:50.440 I mean, I'm looking at your history.

00:37:53.200 You have, you know, you served on Capitol Hill, Deputy Chief of Staff for Kelly Loeffler, Georgia, Mark Meadows of North Carolina.

00:38:03.420 You've worked with the Family Research Council, Freedom Partners.

00:38:08.260 You've got great education, a wife of kids.

00:38:12.700 You're working actively in your church.

00:38:15.180 Why is this one important to you?

00:38:17.500 Why did you do this?

00:38:20.300 Honestly, Glenn, the left has had this long march through the institutions.

00:38:25.100 And the last one that they have captured is big business.

00:38:29.660 And so now we have the marriage of big business with big government.

00:38:33.480 And the left is able to advance their agenda far more rapidly.

00:38:37.660 And what that does, that threatens our freedom.

00:38:40.440 It's really free exercise, freedom of speech, but free enterprise.

00:38:44.860 And if those go, the nation goes.

00:38:47.200 We are not going to be able to raise our families, worship the way we want to worship, and have jobs and be able to support our families if we can't fix this.

00:38:56.900 And just one point, just think about this.

00:39:00.180 Black Rock, State Street, and Vanguard, they control roughly $20 trillion in assets.

00:39:05.020 The entire U.S. economy is roughly $20 trillion in assets.

00:39:09.400 So when they are politicizing public companies, that hurts those companies, right?

00:39:16.000 And so that means their stock is going to go down, most likely.

00:39:20.580 Well, 75% of all assets in the stock market are tied in one way, shape, or form to retirement.

00:39:26.760 And so these corporations getting politicized, taking their eye off the ball, and focusing on political agendas, not shareholder value, what they are doing, they're harming the retirement security of every American.

00:39:39.220 And so that's why we're doing it.

00:39:40.700 I want my kids and your kids and grandkids to have opportunity and freedom and security, because a weak nation is going to be very vulnerable.

00:39:49.380 And I know you've talked about it, but even in this ESG banner, the E is choking off our energy.

00:39:55.560 And that is a tremendous threat to us.

00:39:58.580 On the S, that's where the threats and the social are threats to our freedom and undermining our values.

00:40:05.220 And so that's really why we do it.

00:40:06.880 And we're a nonprofit, and we just appreciate that folks are coming alongside and speaking out.

00:40:12.780 Okay, we're talking about 1792exchange.com.

00:40:16.280 One more question.

00:40:17.640 How do you get a high-risk rating?

00:40:20.760 If I go to your website, Natalie, yeah, how do I, what does lower risk mean, that there's no evidence of it, and medium is there's some rumors, and high-risk is, what is it?

00:40:35.540 Yes, that's a good question.

00:40:37.300 You know, high-risk is they have canceled.

00:40:40.400 We know they've canceled.

00:40:41.680 They have weaponized their brand.

00:40:43.500 They've weaponized their dollars.

00:40:45.280 They've either fired an employee for ideological reasons.

00:40:48.020 They've denied service.

00:40:49.140 They've canceled a contract, like you've recently seen folks being denied service by banks and others.

00:40:56.360 Medium risk is they have done some things.

00:40:58.960 They haven't outright canceled, but they are stepping out.

00:41:02.300 They're speaking.

00:41:03.000 They're using their voice and their platform and their dollars that makes you think, you caution.

00:41:09.960 The kind of company that is going to do all those things just short of canceling actually might one day decide to cancel.

00:41:16.820 And that's where you get a medium risk.

00:41:19.140 Just to put it in generic terms.

00:41:21.860 Okay.

00:41:22.980 Paul, again, thank you for everything.

00:41:24.680 Anything we can do to help you, you please ring me up and talk to us because we are there in your corner.

00:41:31.340 Thank you.

00:41:32.980 Well, thank you, Glenn.

00:41:34.000 We appreciate all you're doing.

00:41:35.600 You bet.

00:41:35.920 1792exchange.com.

00:41:39.300 Now, listen, one of the important things that he's asked for here is if you feel you have, especially if you have evidence of it, that you have been canceled, you have been rejected, you've lost a job.

00:41:53.880 Anything because of ESG, any of those scores, anything because of your politics or anything else, you need to let them know.

00:42:03.660 Go to 1792exchange.com.

00:42:07.020 But there's also something I gave you in our number one of the podcast is the exchange that we have put up as well.

00:42:17.660 This one is just for lawmakers to be able to see.

00:42:22.120 It's ESG Against Us.

00:42:26.080 We are looking for anybody who has had problems being canceled for any reason by a company, especially a bank.

00:42:35.520 Go to ESG Against Us.com.

00:42:39.260 And I would ask you to go to 1792exchange.com.

00:42:44.260 Na, na, na, na.

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