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00:00:00.000 Hey, welcome to the program. We've got a lot of good news for you. We start the podcast off with

00:00:04.660 some things that are happening that show that the tide is changing. And we focused a little bit on

00:00:11.560 the media and something that John F. Kennedy said back in 1961. Also, we have Azra Nomani. She is

00:00:20.600 this remarkable woman, former Wall Street Journal reporter, who is now following all of the things

00:00:27.400 going on with school boards. She gives us an update on that. There's some real progress on that.

00:00:34.300 David Harsani is with us. Also, Bjorn Lomborg is talking to us about climate change. Don't forget,

00:00:42.100 Glasgow is coming up this weekend. And Joe Biden wants to give them a big hug and kiss.

00:00:49.200 And that's the focus of your new special as well. Yes. Tonight on Blaze TV, blazetv.com slash Glenn

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00:01:13.560 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:17.480 So, Dee Parker wrote the case for optimism, 10 reasons why the pro-freedom right will defeat

00:01:29.520 the anti-liberty left. He said, the leftist enemies of freedom and civil rights are such

00:01:35.860 that it makes it impossible for them to win. And while it would be a disaster if they were

00:01:41.240 to befall the planet, it would be still hard to be positive. It is still hard to be positive

00:01:47.400 when it's a steady diet of doom and gloom every day. Every day brings yet another attack

00:01:53.180 on freedom and progress from people falsely labeling themselves as liberals. Many of these

00:02:01.580 reasons for optimism of the pro-freedom right are because they are directly contrasted with

00:02:07.700 the negative characteristics of the anti-liberty left. Now, this is really important. Do you remember

00:02:13.740 years ago, I talked about Martin Luther King and how he was right about a couple of things.

00:02:23.960 One was once you have the images that people can contrast between good and evil, people will

00:02:34.120 always pick good. Americans will. Now, that is true as long as our Judeo-Christian values are still 0.86

00:02:42.360 alive in our heart. That's why we try so hard to keep our hearts soft. That's one of the reasons why

00:02:48.980 I started Mercury One, to remind you how good it feels to do good. And we were just reminded this summer

00:02:56.200 when we went and helped people in Afghanistan, which is still going on. We have to keep our hearts soft

00:03:03.720 so we can recognize the difference between good and evil. That's one reason why I say we can't become

00:03:09.900 them and defeat them in the way they want to defeat us. We have to go a different path.

00:03:18.580 Martin Luther King said, if you contrast the two, they will always pick, the American people will always

00:03:23.980 pick good. We didn't have the pictures of the German shepherds, you know, being sicked on blacks as they 1.00

00:03:33.180 marched in Memphis. We didn't have the fire hoses. What we had was a group of people that we felt were

00:03:42.080 Marxists. And do you remember how they fought against that? When Newsweek came out and said,

00:03:48.780 we're all, we're all, what was it, socialists now? We pointed that out at Fox and said, really, we are?

00:03:56.920 Because I thought you were denying that you were socialists. Now they're saying they're out in the

00:04:01.600 open and Barack Obama went on a big smear campaign and saying that anybody who claims that he was a

00:04:09.860 Marxist or a socialist, uh, was racist. Now they're coming out and they're embracing Marxism. As I said

00:04:18.200 to you, they want to tell you exactly what they're doing, but they can't because the minute they do,

00:04:25.920 you're onto them and you're saying that's not me. This is what happened in Afghanistan. When, uh,

00:04:34.180 Joe Biden failed miserably and then claimed it to be a victory. Americans saw that and went,

00:04:42.360 that's not us. That's not us. I don't recognize that those military leaders. I don't recognize our

00:04:50.340 government. That's not who we are. And we could contrast that with who we've always been.

00:04:59.040 Now, let me give you some of the reasons for optimism. According to D Parker, he says, one,

00:05:05.240 we're on the side of freedom and anti-liberty left is on the side of authoritarianism.

00:05:10.900 This is becoming more and more clear. Uh, for instance, Chomsky was just on, um, MSNBC a couple

00:05:20.620 of days ago. And he said, people who refuse to accept vaccines, I think the right response for

00:05:27.800 them is to not force them, but rather to insist that they be isolated. If people decide I am willing

00:05:34.500 to be a danger to the community by refusing to vaccinate, um, they should say then, well,

00:05:40.020 I also have the decency to isolate myself. I don't want the vaccine. I don't want the right

00:05:45.820 to run around harming people. That should be convention. Enforcing is a different question.

00:05:51.120 It should be understood and we should try to get it to be understood. If it really reaches a point

00:05:55.680 where there are, they are severely endangering people. Then of course you have to do something

00:05:59.520 about it. So what is he, what is he saying? He's saying that there should be camps or there should

00:06:08.220 be, they should self-isolate in their home, but he really means isolate because the next question

00:06:16.160 was, well, how do they purchase food? This isn't how do they go out and work or anything else?

00:06:22.480 How do they purchase food? Chomsky's response is telling, well, quote, actually that's their problem.

00:06:34.100 End quote. So who is on the side of freedom and people and who is on the side of authoritarianism?

00:06:44.580 It is becoming clear that the left is authoritarianism and not because we say it

00:06:51.080 because their actions are now showing it. Second, uh, point of optimism. We have timeless advantages.

00:07:01.460 The anti-liberty left only has short-term tactics and tricks. Well, let me give you one. Did you see

00:07:09.860 that, um, that the, um, military came out yesterday and said, what is it? There are 496 Americans

00:07:20.520 still trapped in Afghanistan. Well, first of all, there are more than 496, but that is double the amount

00:07:30.220 that they said over the summer. They said there were about 200. Okay. So double the amount over double

00:07:38.440 the amount. And then it later, they said there was less than a hundred. Now they're saying there's

00:07:45.040 almost 500. The truth is that it is much larger than 500 could be in the thousands. One, two, three

00:07:55.700 thousand could be 5,000. Nobody really knows. But when we said that we were called conspiracy theorists,

00:08:04.060 we were called all kinds of names, unreliable. It is becoming apparent that their short-term tactics

00:08:12.000 and their tricks don't work. Another example of this is, well, it's just transitory. Don't worry about inflation.

00:08:19.580 It's just transitory. Well, it's not transitory. Is it? Have you checked what you're paying for meat?

00:08:26.200 Have you checked what you're paying for gas? Have you noticed how expensive almost everything is?

00:08:32.180 Did you know that this Thanksgiving, the meal that you put down, the traditional Thanksgiving meal here

00:08:39.000 in America will cost you more than it ever has in the history of our country. That's saying something.

00:08:48.360 It's not transitory. It is something that we should be working to solve. All of their short-term tactics

00:08:58.520 and tricks, they all fail. But we have the truth on our side. We have mathematics on our side. We have

00:09:08.200 evidence on our side. Three, while we can be honest, the anti-liberty left has to lie to survive.

00:09:16.880 Sanjay Gupta was a great example of this with the horse dewormer stuff. That is a Nobel Prize winning

00:09:25.280 medicine. Yet everybody had to claim that it was horse dewormer. Why? To stop people from getting

00:09:34.600 some sort of treatment and to focus everyone on the vaccine. We all know the truth.

00:09:45.040 The vaccine is effective. If you want to get it, you can get it. We also know that there are other

00:09:53.820 things that will help ease the pain if you have COVID. Horse dewormer is not one of them.

00:10:02.000 However, the Nobel Prize winning human version of that may help. But they have to discredit 0.88

00:10:12.780 everything. January 6th. January 6th is another case. Why is it that they won't release all of the

00:10:22.840 video? Well, there is a really fascinating report that is out now from Revolver that looks like that maybe

00:10:33.680 the FBI was involved in setting this up. We'll give you that story coming up. But they always have to lie

00:10:41.840 to survive. We can be honest. We believe in civil liberties is number four. They don't.

00:10:51.360 Let me again give you this. This is the scariest thing I've heard from a government official, perhaps

00:10:57.040 of all time. And it came out of out of Rochelle Walensky's mouth. She's the CDC director. Last

00:11:06.680 Sunday, she said there is a plan to get unvaccinated essential workers, education and counseling so they

00:11:16.340 will feel comfortable getting vaccinated. I got news for you. I'm not getting vaccinated.

00:11:22.980 I have antibodies. I and I am not going to go through some government education. And I certainly

00:11:29.800 will not sit down with a government sponsored therapist for counseling.

00:11:36.960 So wait a minute, which one of us believes in civil liberties? Which one of us really is fighting for

00:11:46.000 freedom of speech? Which one of us is fighting for the freedom of the press? Did you see?

00:11:52.320 Yesterday, two new people were appointed to the FCC, hardline lefties. That is going to affect my job,

00:12:02.200 my voice, your ability to hear me on radio. Mark my words. They have to shut people down.

00:12:11.320 That's not somebody who believes in the Bill of Rights. The fifth reason to be optimistic.

00:12:17.540 We love America. And the average person loves America. They do. We have problems and we're honest

00:12:27.160 about those problems. But the anti-liberty left hates America. Look at Colin Kaepernick.

00:12:35.080 We believe in individual rights is number six. The anti-liberty left believes in collective rights,

00:12:41.800 vaccines, the mandates, the passports. By the way, the FDA has approved one of the vaccines for kids.

00:12:53.460 So I guarantee you the collective right of your kid and you to be the parent of your kid and decide

00:12:59.160 what goes into his body and what doesn't go into their body. You're going to lose that right if you're

00:13:04.960 not standing up. By the way, Terry McAuliffe, he doesn't mind. You as a parent don't have a right

00:13:12.920 to raise or teach your kids or question what your kids are learning in school.

00:13:18.220 Number seven is economic liberty has always worked and societal slavery of socialism has never worked.

00:13:26.380 You know, they said the model is China. Have you seen what's happening in China lately?

00:13:30.880 Number eight, we're productive in society. Those who believe in the Bill of Rights, the Constitution

00:13:38.600 and the Declaration of Independence, we generally are productive in society. Anti-liberty leftists are

00:13:45.520 parasites. Good example of this is unrealized gains. What are unrealized gains in the stock market? 1.00

00:13:55.220 That means if you're a teacher, your teacher's union has your pension and your pension is in the stock

00:14:02.820 market. And every time the stock market goes up, you're now going to have to pay for those

00:14:09.620 unrealized gains. In other words, even if you don't pull that money out, you're going to pay

00:14:16.940 to the government the privilege of that money making money. Elon Musk just came out and said,

00:14:25.220 this is insanity, insanity. And it is, you know, this goes back to their lies and their tricks.

00:14:33.720 They say they've already paid for everything. No, they haven't. Or they wouldn't be looking for

00:14:38.420 unrealized gains. Or if they say, no, we're not into redistributive wealth. We're not into socialism

00:14:45.220 and killing the system. Then they wouldn't be doing this because this will hurt the stock market.

00:14:53.300 People will pull their money out of the stock market. Why? Because you can't afford to pay

00:15:00.700 the unrealized gains without pulling the money out of the stock market.

00:15:05.360 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:20.060 Azra Nomani is with us. And hopefully, I think you have some good news for us, Azra.

00:15:26.880 Oh, yes. I hope everyone's strapped in.

00:15:30.520 Yeah, good. Good. I'm ready to hear some good news. What is happening on the school board front?

00:15:37.740 Well, what's fantastic is that we have this mama bear revolution just, you know, coming up in school

00:15:45.480 districts around the country. And we have made the school board association back down from their

00:15:52.980 threat against our parents. Of course, they did. They issued a apology to their own members Friday

00:15:59.020 night, one of those Friday night missives that they hope will get ignored. But they don't realize

00:16:03.500 we're all home because our kids are home, right? We're paying attention to everything.

00:16:08.700 You know, I don't think they got the memo or they forgot that little point about

00:16:12.580 eyes in the back of our heads. Yes.

00:16:16.160 Glenn, like you're an investigator, you're a researcher, but you don't even have anything on a mom,

00:16:22.360 right? Oh, no. Uh-uh. You really don't. You really don't.

00:16:26.360 And once, so, you know, we've got these mama bears and I think we all grew up reading a little

00:16:31.580 Nancy Drew because we know how you got to follow the money. You have to find out the truth. We don't

00:16:39.380 accept white lies, right? We don't accept this kind of nonsense. And so what we were able to do last 1.00

00:16:46.140 week was, you know, earlier we established really clearly that the attorney general had a conflict of

00:16:51.640 interest with his son-in-law running a company that profits off of school board decisions,

00:16:57.920 a company called Panorama Education. And then with this great work that our mom-in-chief at Parents

00:17:04.720 Defending Education did, she sent Freedom of Information Act requests to every single member

00:17:11.100 of the National School Board Association's Board of Directors. And they are all school board officials.

00:17:19.220 So they're, as you know, their emails are open to public scrutiny. Correct. And so in those emails,

00:17:27.620 we got evidence that the School Board Association interim director, Chip Slavin, acknowledged that

00:17:34.460 he'd been in talks with the White House for, quote, several weeks before he issued the letter asking for

00:17:42.280 intervention from the Justice Department. And voila, you've got this, you know, this completely

00:17:48.560 cooked up campaign then against parents. So there's something new as well. There is a new member to the

00:18:02.740 National Assessment Governing Board. Are you aware of this? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So she was the co-signer

00:18:10.480 on this letter calling for help from the White House. And Ms. Garcia is her name. And she is the

00:18:20.280 president of the National School Board Association. And so conveniently, she was named by the Education

00:18:27.680 Secretary, as we know, a political appointee in the Biden administration, to this much coveted role,

00:18:34.400 you know, that now has oversight over school assessments and does a report card every year.

00:18:41.140 And again, bringing it back to the money, the industry that has emerged over the last several

00:18:50.040 years, particularly of this thing called education technology, hinges its work on assessments.

00:19:00.120 And they cook the books many times, like it's very, very, you know, dubious, some of their evidence

00:19:09.720 base, it's really not evidence based. But it's, it's very important that we, we look at understand that

00:19:19.540 these government appointments help private industry and, and in some cases, not for profits that are

00:19:25.600 actually working for profit. Got another headline for you, Glenn, because I know you love breaking

00:19:30.080 news. Yeah. Chip Slavin, the, I did this up late last night investigating this, but Chip Slavin, the

00:19:37.300 interim president for, for the National School Board Association, he is actually, has been an advisor

00:19:46.920 to an education technology company. And the, that company has, its founder is the chair of the

00:19:58.960 commission that the, that Garcia was appointed to. You've got to be kidding me. Yeah, I mean, this is

00:20:05.760 just so incestuous. Yeah, I knew you would understand you, you, I can see your mind working,

00:20:13.940 connecting the dots and understanding exactly what I just told you. So yeah, it's incestuous. And

00:20:20.920 it's everything, it's just traditional, like gumshoe reporting that we have to do on this. And we have

00:20:25.900 to remember always, that school system that has your child walking through its doors is part of an

00:20:33.740 industry. Like we have to always put now incorporated, you know, behind every, like it's Fairfax County

00:20:41.920 Public Schools Incorporated. It really is. It's, it's really disgusting that they hide behind these

00:20:49.300 are public schools and we hate corporations. Because as we saw with Common Core, a lot of the goals

00:20:58.480 that are being set now by these corporations in the guise of helping students is just to make

00:21:06.800 better workers for those corporations. Yeah, better workers and then also build a market, right? 0.91

00:21:16.980 Yes. Building a market. So this is the rest of the story that I don't, I definitely want to make sure

00:21:22.200 that you, we get time to talk about. So, so for the last four months, I've filed 200 plus FOIAs with the

00:21:32.300 public school systems in America. And we created something that we've called the consultant report card.

00:21:39.800 And the last time I was on, I promised your listeners that I'm going to give them a top 10 list of

00:21:44.800 companies to look for in their school district. Okay.

00:21:48.260 So we've got it. Go to defendinged.org and look for the consultant report card. And one of the first

00:21:54.680 blogs that we've got, their blog post is the list of the top 10.

00:21:58.980 But, but then beyond that, we've identified 200 plus companies and consultants that have raised

00:22:08.540 over $20 million in contracts that we've documented. And, and, you know, Glenn, this is just tip of the

00:22:15.040 ice. Oh yeah. And of course, and the number one company is Panorama Education. And so, yeah. And so

00:22:22.860 right now we just dropped a piece in Real Clear Education that I want everyone to look at. Like,

00:22:28.660 go to my Twitter thread and I'll, I'll, I'll tag you on it also. But everyone needs to know,

00:22:34.880 like this company Panorama Education as an example, they are using something called social and emotional

00:22:42.480 learning to data mine your kids and psychologically profile them. And we have an example in our column

00:22:50.260 today that I co-wrote with my colleague, Erica Sansey, where you can see to nine students in Portland

00:22:59.020 public schools in one particular school, that one boy said that he was gay. Like, do I need to know

00:23:04.860 that information? No. Does a company in Boston need to know that information? No. And guess what?

00:23:10.280 They also are surveying the parents. So I know now, and you know now, all you got to do is Google

00:23:16.500 Portland public schools and Panorama screener survey results, and you will know how many parents

00:23:23.880 self-identify as questioning, as non-binary, as transgender, and then heterosexual since,

00:23:31.920 you know, they count too. And this is all being done by the school district?

00:23:36.880 Yes. So what is happening is the school district, this big enterprise is outsourcing to these

00:23:44.760 contractors like Panorama Education, this work. And what we found in Fairfax County, Virginia,

00:23:52.020 is that they are able to bypass all these privacy laws that are put in place to protect our young

00:23:59.540 people by, you will not believe this, they put into the contract that Panorama Education,

00:24:06.880 officials are deemed school officials. And that's how they get access to the information.

00:24:15.320 Let me go back to the school board association, the national school board association. We have

00:24:19.900 Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Ohio now dropping out and saying, we don't want anything to do with the

00:24:27.860 national school board association because of the letter. Now with the news, not only of the letter,

00:24:35.120 but the collusion with the white house, uh, and, uh, and the money that is being made,

00:24:44.880 um, and the, I think it was a letter to protect that money, uh, to the attorney general,

00:24:52.540 why aren't more, uh, state school board associations pulling out of the national school

00:25:01.880 board association? Yes. So they, so these are the ones that have pulled out, as you said,

00:25:07.180 but our number now is at 21 states out of 50, right. That have distanced themselves and reprimanded

00:25:16.660 the national school board association for their letter. So this is like, why wouldn't,

00:25:20.740 why wouldn't they, why wouldn't they pull out though? Why would they, why are they just saying,

00:25:25.500 Hey, this is about, what do they get from the national school board association?

00:25:29.580 Yeah. You know, Glenn, it's the same machine, right? That Washington trade groups, um, pull on

00:25:35.760 the state, uh, organizations or, um, or as you know, like we do this in industry, we do it in public,

00:25:44.600 uh, public office. Like this is our public roles. Like this is why the teachers union has such power,

00:25:50.780 right? As a national, like they claim to represent the state. And this, these are, I pulled the 990 on the

00:25:58.900 national school board association. It's a multimillion dollar, uh, nonprofit, quote unquote,

00:26:04.780 nonprofit. Right. Um, and they, you know, they get, they, this, they just tell these, uh, these, uh,

00:26:12.200 local folks, as you know, Oh, we're going to represent you in Washington. We're going to lobby

00:26:16.200 for you. We're going to get, um, you know, you know what they do? Like they get their, their,

00:26:20.620 the language and the appropriation language. They get money funneled to the states with whatever,

00:26:25.120 you know, shenanigans they're trying to pull in DC. They claim that they can do it better.

00:26:30.560 I have to tell you, I, uh, if you are a parent, you should go to your local school board and demand

00:26:38.720 that they send the message to the state school board. You don't want anything to do with the

00:26:44.680 national school board association. This is obviously corrupt. You now have two people, uh, that you can

00:26:51.620 point to directly, uh, that are part of this incestuous, uh, I don't even a cabal, uh, that is his

00:27:01.520 silencing parents and, uh, mining our children. You've got to get away from the national school 0.87

00:27:10.320 board association. And no matter if they, you really think that they're doing things, they must be taught

00:27:16.100 a lesson. And that lesson will only be taught when they lose everything. They have to lose everything.

00:27:24.760 Nikki, um, our president put it really well yesterday when we were just chatting and she said,

00:27:28.900 you know, they need a house cleaning and that house cleaning is only going to happen when the states

00:27:34.720 revolt basically. And they say that we will not participate in this war that you have launched

00:27:41.440 against the very people in our communities that we were elected to represent. I only have about a

00:27:46.880 minute left. FDA advisors recommend Pfizer's vaccine now for children ages five to 11. You know,

00:27:54.520 now that is coming to as a mandate to our kids, this is not going to help calm parents.

00:28:03.740 Yeah. You know, Glenn, I have a 19 year old and I just thank the heavens that I don't have to

00:28:10.520 take that decision that the, the, the, the parents of these young kids are having to navigate right

00:28:16.340 now. Um, we have really failed our society and on this public health message, we turning it into

00:28:24.260 edicts and directives and, you know, much, much, um, much like the, this, you know, top down on

00:28:32.100 school boards, you know, and trying to silence us as parents. Um, and so just what we encourage is

00:28:39.620 please everyone, whatever position you have advocate, you know, just you are the voices of

00:28:45.940 your children and whatever conclusion you come to from that place of reason and love that you have

00:28:52.260 as a parent, please like overcome any fears that you have and look at, watch the videos of school

00:28:59.560 board meetings. You know, yesterday we spent the night all watching Loudoun County and it, and I,

00:29:05.640 I don't want to drop that bomb in the last seconds of our conversation, but, but it's all indicative

00:29:10.800 that like, it just takes one parent, you know, in every situation, one parent, courage is contagious.

00:29:17.740 Thank you so much, uh, Ezra. I appreciate it. We'll talk to you again.

00:29:21.280 David Harsani, senior writer of a national review, author of Euro trash. Why America must reject the

00:29:43.060 failed ideas of a dying continent. Uh, you can find David's work at national review.com and his new

00:29:49.840 book, wherever books are sold. Hello, David, how are you? I'm well, thank you for having me.

00:29:55.160 You bet. It's always good to talk to you. Um, so, uh, tell me about the, uh, the Euro trash, 1.00

00:30:01.820 because as I'm, as I'm looking at Europe, I have seen Europeans say, oh my gosh, America has gone 0.99

00:30:09.220 crazy. Uh, and we're becoming so much like Europe. We are passing Europe in some ways. Are we not?

00:30:18.160 Uh, I think that's fair to say in some ways. I mean, when you look at this $3.5 trillion bill,

00:30:24.660 it's a welfare state cradle of the grave sort of European style expansion of the state,

00:30:29.900 but it's even worse because in Europe, at least they pay for that stuff. And, you know, in Denmark,

00:30:35.520 in Denmark, a person making, making 60 K will pay like 65% of his salary in taxes. But can you imagine

00:30:41.560 an American doing that? And Bernie doesn't want us to, he just wants to either print more money or,

00:30:45.740 or, or, David, David, David, I've heard from the president. No joke. It's the truth, man.

00:30:53.080 It's all paid for. It's not going to cost a dime. $0, $0, $3. It's the same guy who told us that

00:31:00.780 spending more money will help with him bring down inflation. So I don't know if, I don't know if

00:31:05.800 he has his economics or anything else, frankly. Uh, so, um, why doesn't the socialist system that

00:31:16.880 works in Sweden work here? Uh, well, I mean, first of all, scale, you're talking about, I think

00:31:25.220 Sweden has 9 million people and it's the largest Nordic nation. You can't scale that kind of system.

00:31:30.540 It would mean having a massive bureaucracy. But the other question is why would I want it anyway?

00:31:35.580 It's not as if they do anything better than we do. Certainly they're not better at assimilating

00:31:39.520 new people. They're not better at healthcare. They're not better at any of the things, um,

00:31:44.960 that, that we can quantify. And they're certainly not better at things we can't like risk taking

00:31:50.420 and entrepreneurship. So I don't know why we'd want it a and B. I don't think that we could do it

00:31:56.120 even if we want it to. So David, are we, uh, I mean, we are now talking about, um, what is it?

00:32:04.560 Unrealized gains in the stock market for people like Elon Musk, who is like him or not, he is

00:32:12.840 changing the way things are happening in the world. Um, and he sees over the horizon, he sees a

00:32:20.740 different, uh, a different future. And now we're talking about giving him, uh, an extra tax on

00:32:27.220 unrealized capital gains that that's, that's insane. That's a perfect example of, of a European mindset 0.99

00:32:35.360 where when you, when you think about innovation and technology, the top 30 technological company,

00:32:42.480 tech companies in the world, one is European Spotify and the rest are not. Most of them are American.

00:32:48.640 Why do Europeans come here to start their companies? Tons of our biggest companies are, 0.98

00:32:53.540 are started by immigrants or children of immigrants here. It's because of things like this, taxing

00:32:58.900 people's unrealized profits would, um, undermine the risk-taking venture and undermines investment.

00:33:06.900 And it's exactly the sorts of things they do in Europe. I mean, every country is a little

00:33:10.080 different, but that's, that's the mindset over there and we're bringing it over here.

00:33:13.200 But they're not, but they don't tax unrealized gains, do they? I mean, I, I've never heard of

00:33:18.560 that before. How does that system even work? You go, your stock goes up, they, you pay income tax on

00:33:25.760 it. Then your stock goes down. Do they give that money back? What, I mean, how does that work?

00:33:30.660 No, because these are, these are parlors. These are tricks to try to tax rich people where it is in

00:33:34.880 Europe. They just do it. We're honest about it. Right. Um, so yeah.

00:33:39.340 Until they start driving people out. So have you ever, have you ever seen a president or really,

00:33:45.920 really anyone do what Biden did when he went over to Europe and tried to get the Europeans

00:33:51.940 to agree on a baseline corporate tax? So no one would be stealing corporations from,

00:34:00.800 from each other. You'd trap them in the countries.

00:34:03.760 Never, never. And I just don't even understand. I mean, you know, a lot of people talk about one

00:34:09.720 world government and sometimes it's down a little bit nutty, but I have to say when you have the

00:34:14.080 United States trying to create a worldwide tax system, um, to, to, to stop competition, which is

00:34:21.540 what that does. I just can't think of any American president that's done that. That would have been

00:34:27.100 something that would lose you the election immediately. I mean, I just think, I just can't,

00:34:32.760 there's nothing I can even compare it to. I think one of the worst things that we have seen,

00:34:37.080 um, and, and Afghanistan didn't help us on any front. I mean, we have now lost the,

00:34:44.620 the moral center of the United States. I mean, and a lot of people had been convinced that,

00:34:52.020 you know, America wasn't moral and, and in many ways we haven't been for quite some time.

00:34:57.320 Uh, but we at least would go into Afghanistan and we would, uh, help our allies. We would help

00:35:05.960 women and children, et cetera, et cetera. Um, we don't have that moral high ground anymore for our 1.00

00:35:12.260 military where I don't think we're trusted anymore. And the other thing that is horrible is people used

00:35:18.880 to view this country as a land of opportunity. Now they view us as a, a racist state.

00:35:28.960 Yeah, they do, but still people stream to our borders to come in because it's just not true.

00:35:34.400 And, you know, by any, again, quantifiable measure, and I go into this pretty deeply in the book, we are

00:35:39.940 far less racist and more tolerant than any place in my neighborhood. For instance,

00:35:44.540 I live among people who would be killing themselves in many other situations and live

00:35:48.620 peacefully here to send their kids to the same schools, et cetera. Um, but it is true that people

00:35:53.540 think of us that way, um, wrongly. Show me, I believe that show me how they're more,

00:35:59.540 we're more tolerant than Europe because that's not what you hear ever.

00:36:05.860 Well, let's talk about immigration then, you know, legal immigration, not, not illegal immigration,

00:36:10.700 but think about assimilation in Europe. There are places in outside of Paris, outside of Berlin and

00:36:17.220 elsewhere where there are basically ghettos, generational ghettos of high unemployment.

00:36:21.660 I don't mean, you know, 10%, I mean, 35, 40%, um, that where people don't speak the language of the

00:36:28.500 country, where they don't accept the customs and the ideals of the country. Uh, you know, people say

00:36:33.600 diversity is our strength here. That's just a trope. I mean, what our strength here is that we have a

00:36:37.480 diverse types of people who accept the same foundational ideas about living together or

00:36:42.020 they used to, um, in Europe, you don't have any of that. These countries can't assimilate any group 1.00

00:36:47.860 in a healthy way. And we do it all the time when, when we do it, right. Um, why is that? Why is that?

00:36:56.060 I think we were built for it, frankly. I mean, some of this is just structural problems. You have

00:37:00.800 Hungary. Hungary has an ethnicity. It has a culture. It goes back a long time. There are,

00:37:05.060 they have grudges that go back a thousand years. It's not as easy for them to accept other people.

00:37:10.640 It is for us, but you know, I'll give you one quick, uh, poll number in France, 27% of people

00:37:16.920 say they wouldn't want to live next to someone who wasn't like them, race, religion, whatever in

00:37:21.420 America. That number is 1%. Now, maybe some people are lying, but at least they know that that's the 0.90

00:37:27.320 right thing to say. That's the credo. That's the way we live here. And Europe just isn't that way.

00:37:32.880 And people go to like the tourist spots and they think that's Europe. That's not Europe.

00:37:37.840 Talk to David Arsani of National Review. Uh, David, one of the things I think is fascinating

00:37:42.760 and it's totally against the narrative that we hear from the media is we need to be more enlightened

00:37:48.900 like, uh, like Europe is. And one of the big issues they talk about is abortion. Like we,

00:37:54.800 why don't we have women's rights like they do in Europe? Why don't we have abortion that anyone 1.00

00:37:59.000 can get at any time? That's what Europe is like. They're ahead of us and they understand real

00:38:03.800 women's rights. Is that actually accurate? No, you're one of the better things they do better 1.00

00:38:09.500 than us actually is have stricter abortion laws, but you know, it's complicated because I don't think

00:38:15.420 there really is a pro-life movement in Europe. So they've sort of settled on a more moderate stance

00:38:19.620 organically. There are very few religious people in Europe and that's a big problem. Um,

00:38:24.700 so there isn't that movement, but they are, there are a few things they do better. They have less

00:38:29.680 homicides, um, you know, in, in urban areas and things like that because of our gun culture, 0.99

00:38:34.920 which obviously I approve of in some ways, the murder part, but the ownership part, um,

00:38:40.720 and abortion and social policy. Um, but some of their social policies, I mean, they do not

00:38:46.760 value life in the same way we do. They do not try to save.

00:38:50.040 So why, so why do they, why are there laws more restrictive than, uh, than ours? Is it just from

00:38:59.980 experience, the genocide that has happened in Europe over and over again? I wouldn't say their,

00:39:08.160 their laws are stricter than ours in many places, not in some places, but let's say New York, but

00:39:13.660 they're not, you know, they're still very liberal. They would be considered liberal by any stretch for us,

00:39:18.180 I think. So I just think it's because there's, they, they moderate, I think the pro-life movement

00:39:23.820 drives the progressive left to more extreme and extreme places, just as pushback. Now, you know,

00:39:30.440 it used to be a, what was it? Safe and legal, um, and a rare safe and legal. And now it's, you know,

00:39:36.020 celebrated. So I think that that's just because of our political culture in some ways, I hope.

00:39:40.480 Is Europe, uh, as divided as we are. I mean, I, I see things like, I think it was in, uh, gosh,

00:39:51.400 where was it? Is Switzerland? I can't remember. Um, but just this weekend, they had massive protests

00:39:58.460 out on the streets about vaccines and everything else. Um, and you're seeing these protests,

00:40:04.160 are they as divided as we are? And we're just not seeing it. I'm actually surprised by those,

00:40:11.080 those protests in some sense, because in general, I think Europeans are quite docile and pliant people.

00:40:16.740 I say that in the way that I think that their risk takers came here or left or go elsewhere. I,

00:40:23.580 so I'll give you a quick example in Finland, like 91% of people are like doing, and it doesn't matter.

00:40:31.140 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what was that stat? What was that stat you broke up?

00:40:34.440 91% of Finnish people are, you know, have a, have a, have a positive view of their government.

00:40:43.380 So you can't have that here because we are diverse and we live in different sorts of places and we do

00:40:48.200 different sorts of things and we have different cultural backgrounds, but in Scandinavia, people are,

00:40:52.920 are more, more client. They're, they like their government. They don't debate in the way that we do,

00:40:57.100 and they don't have sorts of, uh, um, lines of, you know, ideological lines that they draw.

00:41:05.660 They also don't have the diversity we have. We are the most diverse country in the world.

00:41:11.580 No one else is like us.

00:41:13.200 Yeah.

00:41:13.720 In human history. And the scale in which we do it is immense. And I think the European union was formed

00:41:18.880 and based on the idea of federalism in the United States, but of course they've lost that just

00:41:23.440 centralized top down control. Now that's what, that's what progressives want here. Right. But

00:41:28.800 it won't work. It can't work when you have a truly diverse nation. 1.00

00:41:33.040 David, there's this thing that Bernie Sanders and the left has done forever, which is like,

00:41:36.520 Oh, why don't we just have the healthcare of Sweden or Denmark or Finland, um, and apply it that way.

00:41:41.960 And I think a little bit of that actually creeped into the right when it came to the COVID stuff,

00:41:46.060 which was basically, they just said, well, why don't we just do all the things that Sweden is doing?

00:41:49.900 Um, I mean, is there anything we can learn from these countries that seemingly have some things

00:41:56.580 that they do correctly that we could bring here?

00:42:00.000 Yeah, I think we could have learned from Sweden that we shouldn't shut down our economy

00:42:03.540 because of the pandemic. That would have been a smart thing. And again, um, I wrote, started writing

00:42:09.720 this book before COVID. The COVID thing actually scared, scared me quite a bit in the way that we had

00:42:14.780 politicians and bureaucracies, especially bureaucracies, just unilaterally running the

00:42:21.160 country. The bureaucracies run the country. And in Europe, bureaucracies are huge and multi-layered

00:42:26.520 in ways that we can't even imagine. And, uh, you know, listen, the bureau, Donald Trump was elected.

00:42:31.600 The bureaucracy decided they didn't want him to be president and, you know, and they undermine them

00:42:35.420 every, every step of the way. The CDC decides it's going to run the country, um, during COVID.

00:42:40.360 These are scary things because it's not a democratic process, but it's not certainly not a liberal

00:42:45.620 in a good sense process.

00:42:47.360 David, you said that you mentioned that Europeans are compliant. What are, were you surprised

00:42:52.880 at the COVID reaction of the people in the United States and how much of this people kind of just

00:42:57.480 went along with?

00:42:59.160 Yeah, I think it was scary. It was, it was really scary that, uh, that a governor in Virginia

00:43:03.580 could shut down the churches and people would be like, okay, I mean, I just don't even, I don't

00:43:08.260 understand how that can happen here.

00:43:10.480 And how are we, how are you feeling today? Are you more optimistic than you were a year

00:43:15.140 ago?

00:43:16.560 Yeah, I feel better. Um, there was that story. I was just a microcosm of this was that Ruth

00:43:20.940 Marcus, the Washington post was in an elevator in Texas. And she told this guy, you know,

00:43:25.660 I think you should be wearing a mask, you know? And the guy said, I don't really care what

00:43:29.080 you think. I think that's like the American credo, right?

00:43:31.760 I don't really care what you think. And that's how we should function. I mean, it sounds selfish,

00:43:36.700 but it's not, it's not another thing, you know, Europeans think we're selfish, but we

00:43:40.620 give around, and you know, that's of course, seven times as much per capita as European.

00:43:44.760 Yeah. David Harsani. Thank you so much. Senior writer, national review. His new book is called

00:43:49.340 Euro trash. Why America has to must reject the failed ideas of a dying continent. That in 1.00

00:43:56.120 of itself is a sad and frightening that Europe is dying, but it is, it's true. 1.00

00:44:01.760 Na, na, na, na.

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