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On February 5th, 1859, a man named James Ewell was brutally beaten to death in the Senate by his own colleague, a Democratic senator from Kansas named Jimmie stewart. What happened next?
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slash blaze or 1-800 a patriot is the place to go it was late on february 5th and congress was in
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session they were working on the kansas territory pro-slavery constitution
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and things were heating up now remember just a few years ago there had already been a beat down in
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the senate when a senator stood up and said the south is sleeping with a harlot they are sleeping with
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a whore of slavery well that upset a congressman who heard about that somebody somebody was saying
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this about the south how dare you sir say these things about the glory of the south and so he
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crossed chambers and came in and he beat the man almost to death okay it was it was quite a it was
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quite a show nobody stopped him he took his cane and he beat him in the head until he was almost dead
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the only thing that saved him was that little jimmy stewart senator desk that he that they all sit
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behind and he crawled underneath it and it couldn't be moved and that was stopping uh the blows to the
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head he was out for about three years and never really truly recovered but he had to go out uh and uh
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convalesce for about three years what's amazing about this story is no one in the senate asked for
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the perpetrator to be arrested and in fact the democrats took pieces of that cane and they made
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little teeny canes out of the wood and some out of silver and they put them on chains that they wore
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around their neck that basically said you come after the south you come after to slavery and we'll beat
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you to death they were proud of it all right so four years later they're in session and now they're
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talking about slavery again and uh the uh the south and the southern democrats were were pushing slavery
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on to kansas and things started to boil over more than 30 members started joining in on what became
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a melee it was about two o'clock in the morning and they started insulting each other and then somebody
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threw a punch at one and then the other threw it back and it became this melee and this is the this is
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my favorite first of all the sergeant of arms you know the guy who comes in mr speaker i hate this
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the president of the united states and everybody yeah he has a mace and i don't even know stew does he
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carry the mace around i don't know the answer to that no well you would recognize it it's this do you
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know what it is have you ever seen it no okay this is a tradition comes from the 1800s like 1840 they
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decided to go all regal on us and uh and so they made this mace and it's it's 13 wooden rods and then
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i think in silver it's bound together like a fascis uh and so it's it's bound together with silver then
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it has a globe on the top and a giant silver eagle and so it's he carries this around like i can hit you
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with this at any time and i can also have you arrested because i've got this big stick thing
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so the sergeant of arms he grabbed the mace in this melee and he started swinging the mace
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uh you're not really actually supposed to swing it and he was swinging the mace somebody else they
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were they were punching each other about 30 of them punching each other one guy this is my favorite i
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would love to see this recreated a um a guy named cadwaller washburn uh it's a solid name right there
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cadwaller washburn yeah i'm cad baller washburn uh he was a northerner he was a republican or uh
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yeah i think he was a republican yeah wisconsin republican called uh cadwater uh cadwaller washburn
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he grabs one of the democrats he was a democrat from mississippi his name was william barksdale
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and he grabs him and grabs his hairpiece and rips it off this is one of the most satisfying moments
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i can possibly imagine imagine somebody in washington dc they're having a brawl and a famous politician
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with which had to be an infamous hairpiece somebody reaches and rips it off his head and he's bald
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how satisfying would that be needs to happen and more more get togethers in washington it does it
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needs to happen tonight it needs to happen tonight i'm going to be up in the balcony and i'm going to
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be going cadwaller washburn this is the best of the glenn beck program
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uh went through a period of his life where he thought he should have a toupee
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i don't know i don't you don't remember this no really no wow okay so george so you know george he's
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he's bald as a cue ball he's just got the hair right around the strip okay he's been bald since like
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1971 and everybody knows that he's bald he comes into the office one day and uh he he goes into
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all the management and i'm on the air and somebody comes into the office and says do not say anything
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george is wearing a toupee and i'm like what george is wearing a toupee well maybe he's wearing it as a
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joke no he's not we called he's he's he's wearing a toupee we called okay so like a central information
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source of some yeah some sort yeah so yeah is this a is this a joke toupee so he he wears the toupee
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and i'm sitting in this meeting and i'm like i can't i mean i just i have to say something but i
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don't i don't just in case it's a joke will about 10 days go by and no one has said anything about
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this and uh and i said before he was coming in i said we we have to tell him about the toupee because
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it's ridiculous and he's serious and uh so there was like no no i'm not gonna say anything i said i
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will so he sits down in my office and i said george i gotta talk to you about the hair piece he said
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what i said the hair what are you talking about george you've been bald completely bald until last
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friday you i mean we all have noticed what what do you what do you think i think it looks ridiculous
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why why are you doing this and he said well thank you for saying something you know nobody would say
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anything to me and i i it was just a joke it was just a joke and i could tell that it wasn't
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and it was him just going through a time in his life i mean guys women don't understand what
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what hair losing your hair does to you it freaks you out and apparently all the way up until you're in
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your 70s it continues to freak you out so he took the hair piece off but anyway i i brought that story
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up because i thought you remembered he looked ridiculous in it and that was in like 2010 when
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hair pieces were good what did hair pieces look like in 1850 yeah that's like you slaughter a beaver
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on the way into the capital and you just throw it on your head that's that's about as good as it
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could have possibly been skin yeah it'd be like a coonskin calf i mean what did that look like
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could you imagine how ridiculous somebody looked in one of those back then i think that's bad think of
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how it smelled i mean nothing could have smelled good in that era imagine a i mean either a dead
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animal or a bunch of other humans hair kind of just worn on a sweaty head with no air conditioning
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oh i hate to i hate to bring this up i hate to bring this up but uh do you know that in medieval times
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urine was a prized possession urine was collected uh and and and i hate to even i mean but it's true
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they used to think that it had purifying properties and so they would wash their hair in it and they
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would like brush their teeth if they brush their teeth with it is this true it's honest to god true no
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honest to god true shockingly the life expectancy was like 32 uh which no that was old age okay that
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was old age i you know what you can say what you want you can say how horribly oppressed you are and
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all these things you ain't brushing your teeth and washing your hair in urine man be happy be happy
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maybe i think that's i think that's how trump starts the state of the union today hey look there's some
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things you don't like but you're not brushing your hair and you're brushing your teeth and washing
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your hair and urine so be happy all right good night that's the state of the union it's pretty
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strong thanks good night good night everybody i i think that's exactly right we'll get to what you
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should watch for uh tonight in the state of union what we think is going to happen coming up in just
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a second also ben sass on his uh uh is banning of infanticide an incredible story what an extremist he
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is i can't believe he's asking to ban it completely i mean no options for infanticide not even one you
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have you have the baby you can't let it die or kill it come on now not even in an extreme circumstance
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you're late for an appointment uh okay jesus thanks a lot for dropping by
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hi it's glenn if you're a subscriber to the podcast can you do us a favor and rate us
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on itunes thanks and i want to play uh this audio uh this is a democratic representative
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that has a new idea to help the public health listen how they want to now tax your ammunition
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currently ammunition is taxed at the same rate as other products but we want to increase it by 50
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because we see this as a prevention measure it wouldn't apply to law enforcement or to military
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but for example if someone were to buy a 50 cartridge box of ammunition which goes for about
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10 dollars it would increase the price to 15 dollars we see this as a public health measure
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similar to what we've done in the state of connecticut with increasing the tax on cigarettes
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when we increase that tax we've seen a reduction in use and so we want to continue connecticut's legacy
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of being a leader on preventing and addressing gun violence and we see this as another step forward
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in that direction uh interesting connecticut's a leader on that interesting that the probably the most
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famous mass shooting did occur in your state i don't know if you're aware of this uh i don't know if
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your your measures for preventing gun violence have worked all that well uh i don't know if anyone's
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noticed that this isn't if if this isn't uh going around the second amendment that's all this is that's all this is
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your ammunition is already very expensive very expensive you want to be a good shooter you have
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to shoot a lot you want to be somebody who is sloppy who's going to get somebody killed go ahead make
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ammunition unaffordable because you can't go out unless you have i target pro which you should have
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look it up um if you don't if if you're not at the range shooting a lot of ammunition you're going
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to be a danger to yourself and everybody around you so their solution is tax ammunition yeah make it
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unaffordable for people this is one of those things that they say all the time it's like the ar-15 is
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too easy to shoot it's too easy it's like well what the hell do you want it to be i mean you want
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it to be hard to shoot you want if someone has to protect themselves you want them to what have
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to do a handstand to fire the thing you want to fire erratically so it doesn't hit the target and
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instead hits innocent bystanders what do you what exactly do you want of course you want the thing
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to be easy to shoot it's the whole point you want to be able to hit the target you're aiming for
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and obviously yes there are people that have used it uh in terrible ways but that is not the
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overwhelming majority of people who uh who bought millions of these things that aren't used in in
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terrible crimes uh it's it's such a bizarre thing to want it to be used more erratically
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think think about how extreme congress is going to become uh in the next two years and how extreme
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if they win how extreme they're going to be i mean nobody in the remember they used to call us
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extremists because we stood for the constitution because we stood for the constitution we were
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extremists and haters of the u.s government work that math out in your head but you've never heard
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anyone on cnn or msnbc or any place else new york times talk about how the democratic party has been
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hijacked by absolute extremists i mean they despise the constitution look at what they do to it
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every time one of their little uh rights is limited they get so upset about it i mean here's a
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your your right to bear arms shall not be infringed and what do they do well it's okay to infringe it
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when we really don't like the stuff like bump stocks for example or if we don't if we think they're bad
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then we can infringe and and sure we're not going to infringe your right to bear arms but we're going to
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infringe your right to be able to actually purchase the things that go in the guns uh the the ammunition
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this is the same thing glenn they did with the partial birth abortion ban which was passed and
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signed it is it is against the law to to uh to do a partial birth abortion so instead instead of
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partially birthing the baby and then killing it they kill it inside the womb a day or two beforehand
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and let it die and then deliver the baby dead instead of partially alive therefore they can get around
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it they're just skirting the law we all know what these laws are supposed to do we know what the
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second amendment's supposed to do they're just finding ways to get around it and acting as if
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they're you know acting in a legal and responsible way they're not and it's all because they never get
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any pushback on these things i mean can you imagine if they passed an environmental law right that said
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uh no uh you know coal factories or no coal plants and what they found is they they you know republicans
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started building coal processing plants on one side of the street and coal burning plants on the
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other side of the street and found out some way to get around the law there'd be a 300 page new york
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times investigation about how they're skirting the spirit of the law and yet they do this over and
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over and over again and get zero pushback from the media there was a ban passed on partial birth
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abortions a ban they're illegal and yet they're still doing them and getting defense from one of the two
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major parties i think it's inexplicable whenever whenever that law is on their side of things man
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they just don't care about it at all on top of that they are always the ones who are telling us we're
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not going to do that we're not going to use tax dollars to fund abortions well where is that one
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because we're funding planned parenthood how about this one uh you know we are we are not going for
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single-payer health care or medicare for all we are just going for obamacare well what about that
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one i mean they the people who hate the slippery slope argument always hate it because it is a
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slippery slope and they know it it's like they hate the use of the word don't use the word baby use
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the word fetus why because you know it's a baby and the only way you can win is through deceit
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now i'm not saying that the conservatives you know aren't deceitful at times sure everybody has bad
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guys but i don't know if you've noticed your party has been hijacked by people who have taken the exact
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opposite opinion of the things that you believe in the republican party do a lot of things that i
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really don't like that's why i'm not a republican but i will tell you this they haven't turned into a
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group of murderous thugs and the democratic leadership is starting to look an awful lot like murderous
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thugs they're starting to look like uh you know uh uh you know black shirts they're starting to look
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an awful lot like the thugs that take over in revolutions it is really truly amazing how fast
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they have they took off the mask and it has been a just a uh a straight you know triple diamond black
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uh black diamond uh slope down into off this mountain they are just going crazy we now have
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what 10 democratic candidates in i believe for 2020 already we'll probably get another 10 to 15 before
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this thing is over the litmus test for them right now is every single one of them basically needs to
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have any chance to win has to support medicare for all and medicare for all is it is a proposal that
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was completely insane just a few years ago bernie sanders support proposed medicare for all in 2013
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and got zero co-sponsors of the democrats none of them were with him but no they all were with him
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but i'm going back to your point that you made earlier they were all with him but it wasn't
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politically expedient to say that now it is now that the masks have come off now they can say yeah you're
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damn right i'm a socialist you damn right i'm for abortion at any time even after birth i'm fine
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with it if we try to kill that sucker and that sucker came out and it's still alive we're going
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to neglect it or we'll kill it i'll strangle it with my own hands if i have to that's the kind of
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mentality we're dealing with now they are now at the point to where they're saying we're just going to
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make uh ammunition unaffordable they'll do anything and once they once they tip a little bit farther i can
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guarantee you they will all start to say out loud we got to go for guns we just have to i'm sorry but
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the bill of rights doesn't mean anything anymore the second amendment doesn't mean anything and it's
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scary because they're already doing that with the fourth amendment uh i contend the the third amendment
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as well with all of the wiretapping and everything else i mean it's there's two things that can happen
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here either they're going to move so far left and then when it comes back to a general the american
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people democrats are gonna be like whoa they're way too crazy or god forbid they might embrace it
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because they hate trump so much they might embrace these sorts of things and then we are in a totally
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different country so we want to go to cbs confronting cory booker on medicare for all and also tell you the
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latest polls uh from the american people they're frightening because democrat republicans are starting
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to go you know what higher taxes not such a bad idea this is the best of the glenn beck program
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so uh eric bowling is hosting our live coverage on the blaze tv uh tonight uh it'll be on youtube
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facebook uh blaze tv.com you will uh you will see of quite a lineup tonight mark levin will be there i will
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be there sean spicer uh bill o'reilly cory lewandowski is also going to be uh there and all hosted by eric
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bowling hello mooch how are you scared mooch he's going to be there too i can't can't leave out the
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mooch well i would but you don't have to i'm doing well you know the only thing we're not we're on
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facebook youtube blaze tv.com dropping the paywall um we should be in time square on that big megatron in
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times square don't you think yeah just for your hits just yeah just just for us yeah just for us
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okay so um what are you expecting tonight what do you hope the president's gonna do i hope he turns
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around and smiles at nancy pelosi and says see i got this i'm gaining my wall like it or not i would love
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that that would be perfect he is i i hope that he is uh strong on the border and uh we he will be
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yeah is he going to propose something or is he just going to use the stick and say
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i'm i'll just declare a national emergency you mean is he going to propose a deal no yeah i cannot
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imagine him offering a deal i'd say this is his stage you know this is his moment where he gets
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anywhere between 60 and 90 minutes to make his right but doesn't next year but doesn't he need to make the
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case that it was congress that shut down the government not him i mean it was his and he said
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i'll i'll take the blame for it but he expected somebody to negotiate and he was willing to negotiate
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you know okay not a wall it's a fence they were not willing to budget all yeah you know the the
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absolute bizarreness here's if i were steven miller writing his speech right now i would i would appeal to
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people's common sense this is a phrase you used to use i don't know if you still use it you should
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because you are brimming with common sense five billion dollars on a 4.2 trillion dollar budget
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comes to about if you had a hundred dollar bill it comes to about 10 cents so if you've got a
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hundred dollar bill in your pocket are you willing to protect your hundred dollar bill
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by spending 10 cents to guarantee to protect that hundred dollar bill now hundred dollar bill
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represents our 20 trillion dollar economy open up the southern border open up our any of our borders
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the world will flood in and you will ruin our economy you will just destroy our country you'll do
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to us what has been done to europe and if and guess what if you made a mistake and the 10 cents didn't
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work you still have 99 and 90 cents in your pocket but if you don't do it you might have the whole
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hundred dollars pickpocketed right from you you think he'll break it down like that i would if i
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were him i don't know if he will i mean he's look he's a deal maker and he's he's a um he walks tall
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and carries a big stick so my guess is it'll be along the lines of hey i've tried to make a deal with you
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we shut down the government i gave nancy pelosi and chuck schumer an opportunity to come back to the
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table make another deal you haven't done it i'll have to do what i have to do my guess is he'll he'll come a
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little harder in your face at the democrats and then put it on them if if they shut down again
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you know mitch mcconnell had a really good line he said you there's there's very little education in
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the second kick of a mule the republicans should see that and i think trump will see that and says
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and say look we we have to do something have to do something i mean glenn you you've been around a long
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time to find five billion dollars in a 4.2 trillion dollar budget is nothing it's it's it's it's it's
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a rounding error in probably five different agencies
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when you talk about the state of the union you would have to include something near and dear to
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you the opioid crisis is it's getting worse and worse we found uh fentanyl enough fentanyl
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to kill 57 million americans we found it coming across our border just uh last week
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so we have to talk about the opioid crisis there's he will i i in fact i've uh emailed back and forth
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with steven miller the opioids crisis and fentanyl and you know the whole southern border drug issue
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will be a big part of that speech and they've they've assured me that um there's a new kind of
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talking point going around right now and i think it's legitimate as someone who's lost my only son
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to to this horrible horrible drug weaponizing fentanyl a suitcase filled with fentanyl can kill
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the whole city can kill the whole city so imagine if you can get that into some sort of into the air
00:28:30.900
supply or into the the food or water supply they're talking about weaponizing fentanyl i think trump will
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talk about why another reason why we need the southern border tied up back to the five billion
00:28:42.820
five point seven billion i think the ask for 2019 by by congress is 27 or 28 billion dollars in foreign
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aid to countries like jordan well to israel as well but afghanistan to central america they we want
00:28:59.460
they're asking for our government our taxpayers to come come forth with 28 billion dollars to help
00:29:05.300
other people out likely securing their own borders so i think that he needs to make all these cases
00:29:10.820
tonight and let the american people you know do what glenn beck does use your common sense and
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in common sense is give him give the guy the money so do you do you have confidence i i have um
00:29:28.180
you remember when they used to call us extremists because we stood for the constitution and the tea
00:29:33.140
party they were government hating constitutional uh crazies and they were so they were hijacking the
00:29:40.580
republican party you couldn't be more far off the mark than that statement the democrats have become
00:29:48.420
such extremists when yesterday ben sass tries to get the senate to you know stand up and say hey we're
00:29:55.860
not for infanticide they won't even they won't even be on record for that they wouldn't even stand up for
00:30:01.620
that vote it's amazing it's amazing you have to bring a bill that says we will not kill a live born human
00:30:08.020
being they're also bring a bill to outline that that's insanity they're also talking about a wealth tax
00:30:15.540
of 70 percent or more um you have you have socialists now openly going against the free market
00:30:26.100
i'm is who's mounting the campaign to do the sales job for the free market uh you know you and i've
00:30:35.620
spoken about this in the past it's it's young people right now are looking up to um aoc alexandria
00:30:42.900
uh ocasio cortez who is a out an outright socialist she calls herself a democrat socialist but if you're
00:30:48.820
going to pose a 70 percent wealth tax and if you're going to propose um end of the free market
00:30:55.380
billionaires should be illegal i mean is that the most insane thing you've ever heard so so in other
00:31:01.060
words at what point does it come millionaires should be illegal or what point does it become everyone
00:31:05.700
should have the same thing that's communism socialism right that's what they're proposing so but young
00:31:11.540
people glenn i go back to this young people probably under the age of say 27 they've been voting for
00:31:19.620
eight years seven eight years nine years um have never experienced like a really bad time they've
00:31:25.540
never experienced the great depression they probably don't recall the great recession of 2005 six seven
00:31:33.220
and so they think well yeah go ahead let's just let's get free stuff free stuff's good we can afford
00:31:37.700
free stuff look at this country we're the most powerful wealthiest country on the planet free
00:31:42.340
stuff is good they don't know the other side of free stuff when your economy goes into a a downturn i
00:31:47.460
saw 1989 stock market crash people jumping out of buildings in new york city saw it know it i was there
00:31:53.780
for the 2005 crash where people were going we'll pay you u.s government you don't get interest rate
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to give them your money we were saying i'll pay you government to hide my money because i don't
00:32:06.900
think it's going to be worth anything at this rate it was insane the world was upside down
00:32:11.940
goldman sachs was about to go bankrupt uh-huh warren buffett stepped in and put a five billion dollar
00:32:17.060
buffer on on goldman sachs saved goldman sachs if goldman sachs goes after lehman went after bear
00:32:24.340
stearns went after countrywide it was it was company after company falling goldman goes i'm telling you
00:32:29.620
the world financial system would have broken at that moment i don't know where it would have
00:32:33.620
bounced from i don't know how deep it would have gone but they saved goldman they saved you know
00:32:38.420
hate them if you want but warren buffett saved literally the fine financial system with a five
00:32:44.420
billion dollar uh lifeline to goldman sachs you and i have talked about the economy for a very long time
00:32:51.780
and the economy is in a really weird place we we you have cycles so you're gonna have a recession
00:32:59.220
we should have had a recession during the obama years and we just kept you know the fed just kept
00:33:04.180
propping it up propping it up propping it up the fed's not really propping anything up anymore
00:33:09.140
um and we're we're due for a recession but worse is the cdo problem uh the mortgage uh the mortgage
00:33:19.540
systems the car loans that are out there the same bad stuff that caused oh eight has only been made much
00:33:27.220
much much worse are you concerned about no no i'm not because of the the things we were overextended
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as an economy as a country individually in 2005 six and seven and eight um but there are things in
00:33:45.780
there you talked about cdo uh credit derivative um assets but we we put in place things and again you
00:33:53.700
you and i don't like more government but these things happen to be smart we put in place ways
00:33:58.580
that companies like goldman sachs of the world who leverage the leverage so in other words everyone
00:34:03.220
was leveraged by borrowing right so individuals companies we all borrow so we're we're at a
00:34:07.380
negative leverage these outside groups went and said i'll package these things and sell them at a
00:34:12.660
discount so now there's leverage upon the leverage and they did it so many they daisy chained it so many
00:34:17.380
times that there was literally one let's say one finger's worth of asset in there and the whole
00:34:23.060
body's worth of leverage in there and when the system started to crumble it all fell apart we've
00:34:27.380
now put rules into place where that they can't do that anymore so i think yes we are extended but we're
00:34:32.820
not deriving instruments on credit extensions cdo problem was about 60 or 70 trillion if i remember
00:34:41.540
right it is now over 160 trillion but we can't there were you could be a wall street player and and
00:34:49.940
and leverage literally hundreds of millions of dollars of mortgages with no asset behind you right
00:34:56.660
can't do name no the bank the banks now need to show that they're not overextended on their ass on
00:35:01.860
their balance sheets which is a good thing in one minute you tell me the state of the union today
00:35:11.540
much improved long way to go i don't need a moment much improved long way to go i think he's gonna
00:35:19.140
i think barring any sort of major meltdown in the economy i think you're gonna have
00:35:24.340
six more five more states of the union under donald trump state of the union tonight hosted by eric
00:35:31.300
bowling here uh in washington dc we're gonna be in the trump hotel after the state of the union
00:35:36.820
in the hotel bars never happened before i know i know i gotta watch this it's all on uh all online
00:35:44.580
we're taking the paywall down as eric said so blaze tv uh you can go to blaze tv.com you can also watch
00:35:52.340
it on youtube and uh also on our facebook page tonight commercial free starts at 7 30 eastern time
00:36:19.860
in the constitution it says from time to time the president
00:36:25.140
shall um address congress and it could be in letter form or any way he finds uh suitable
00:36:31.860
uh and um make them aware of the state of the union so if i were going to be the president of
00:36:40.500
the united states and i seriously had to think about this i would start with what are our duties
00:36:45.860
as government what are the things we can affect what is the state of our union and i would start by
00:36:52.020
explaining that we have a constitution that we've all signed an oath to that's the only reason why
00:36:57.060
we're here is to protect and defend the constitution and that is something that we established to um
00:37:02.980
create a more perfect union a more perfect union not a perfect union we're never going to get this
00:37:09.380
right but are we moving in the right direction and it and the constitution gave us certain things so
00:37:16.180
let's go through the state of the union we're supposed to establish justice have we done that is it
00:37:24.020
justice is it equal justice because now there is social justice and perhaps social justice should be left
00:37:30.900
to the churches and equal justice which is the job of the state we are to promote domestic tranquility
00:37:39.060
america has never been more anxious and we're anxious because of washington dc provide for the
00:37:47.540
common defense we got a great military best in the world however that's not the only defense we're
00:37:53.460
worried about what about providing for the common defense on our borders what about what about the
00:38:00.580
common defense with china and ai and and the 5g network and how they are infiltrating our our country and our
00:38:11.060
companies and they are stealing us blind what about russia lots of investigations going on about russia but
00:38:19.380
they all revolve around me go ahead investigate all you want but has anybody looked what is russia really
00:38:27.060
doing whether i'm the president or the next person is the president we are under attack are we providing
00:38:33.780
for the common defense promote the general welfare promote so are we promoting those things are we saying
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only we can do those things how have we promoted the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty
00:38:55.620
for us and our posterity boy i could spend some time on abortion on that one but i'd also like to say
00:39:04.500
we now have members of congress that do not believe in the free market system
00:39:11.220
how are we promoting and securing the blessings of liberty when we have people that want to change
00:39:18.260
our system of government into a system that is known for its oppression of people
00:39:25.860
i'd say the state of the union is tenuous tonight that's how i'd start john miller who is uh our um
00:39:36.020
our white house correspondent uh uh and uh does his own show on the blaze tv and gives you a roundup and
00:39:43.060
a look at what's really happening in washington hello john how are you good how you doing glenn good i don't
00:39:49.380
think the president's gonna say any of those things tonight no i think you're right about that i think what
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he'll likely do is talk about the state of the economy which is obviously still on fire you were
00:39:59.460
just talking about that in the last segment but uh it's interesting because the state of the economy
00:40:03.860
is great but it should feel like the roaring 20s or it should even feel like the 80s in terms
00:40:08.100
of the national spirit it absolutely does not no um and i think that is because we are so divided
00:40:14.020
and we're tenuous we're tenuous we're not sure this is going to last because of spending
00:40:20.100
is completely out of control in our own homes and also uh nationally it's out of control and
00:40:26.740
you have this fight about taxes going up to 70 percent yep i mean you don't know which direction
00:40:34.180
we're going and it's interesting because the president is calling for unity tonight and it's
00:40:38.500
a matter of how do you unite with people who believe what the modern left believes in i mean how
00:40:43.700
do you unite with people who believe that life doesn't start not at conception or even the third
00:40:47.380
trimester but when the baby's in the car on the way home and the mother's mental health is considered
00:40:52.660
uh fit i mean how do you compromise with people who are literally saying to you we're going to keep
00:40:57.380
the government shut down unless you do what we want or people who bring as their guest to the state of
00:41:02.500
the union uh the person the uh agitator who stopped flake in the hallway or the people the illegal
00:41:09.380
immigrants or the doc recipients so you know the president obviously does his own uh uh dividing on
00:41:15.860
twitter occasionally he you know has to do the political fisticuffs but when he's calling for
00:41:20.420
unity and the democrats are saying we don't really want to unite with you we want to shove it in your
00:41:24.340
face i don't know how you heal that divide it's that you said uh promote domestic tranquility i don't
00:41:29.380
know how you do that with people who are doing just that give me and give me a ranking give me a grade
00:41:35.700
for of the of the constitutional responsibilities of this government first to uh uh to provide
00:41:45.780
equal justice i would say c why i would say c because you have i mean you look at what happened
00:41:54.660
to kavanaugh i mean the justice system i mean forget the actual just the fact that the courts are out of
00:41:58.980
control forget the fact that the courts have completely taken over uh what they're supposed to
00:42:03.540
be doing and have outgrown uh how the constitution sees them i mean the national spirit in terms of
00:42:08.980
how you see uh people are completely guilty until proven innocent you saw that with the covington kids
00:42:14.340
you saw that with kavanaugh you see that they i mean it's just a mentality that you don't have to have
00:42:19.060
any evidence as long as we believe it to be true believe all women that's the motto on the left unless
00:42:23.540
of course that guy is a democrat like the uh lieutenant governor of virginia then you don't have to believe
00:42:27.860
him so here's the problem with this um the government i think has actually gotten better on
00:42:32.500
justice with the justice reform that just happened um and the justice that you're talking about is
00:42:39.380
really coming you would say is coming from us and the media but it's not it's actually coming from
00:42:45.140
political organizations sure it's not government imposed social justice but is the media the washington
00:42:50.900
post is absolutely helping them it is it is um okay so justice how can they even claim it's part of
00:42:59.140
their job promote domestic tranquility you know i don't know so how does government actually do that
00:43:08.180
i mean they can they can try to promote it but at the end of the day it is up to we the people to do
00:43:12.260
that and that's why i mean the preamble starts with we the people of the united states to promote it
00:43:16.820
right but they establish the constitution for the government to do these things in order to create
00:43:23.780
a more perfect union so you notice it says promote domestic tranquility that just means to me pet the
00:43:31.540
cat don't do anything that is disrupting if if everybody is wants to be disrupted then you just have
00:43:39.860
to be a leader and step in and go we're gonna make it it's gonna be okay i know everybody's arguing with
00:43:45.940
each other right now but that's not what they're doing and i would give probably an f to everyone
00:43:51.060
on that i mean everyone plays their role from government down to the media down to you know
00:43:55.220
people on twitter and facebook yep everyone everyone that yep um provide for the common defense i think
00:44:00.820
pretty good except the board is a disaster and that is you know that's the primary function you
00:44:05.620
know many would say that's the main function of a military is to protect the borders here at home
00:44:10.180
instead of you know thousands and thousands of miles away so i think we're doing a good job uh
00:44:14.900
thousands of miles away yes exactly yeah staving off those threats but the ones that are closest to
00:44:19.540
us we're not doing anything and the ones that are coming in new forms ai the 5g network russia with
00:44:26.260
their their ones and zeros that we're in war with russia right now they are attacking us uh even uh anyone who
00:44:33.220
is is is uh in the information you know facebook google what are they doing to provide for the common
00:44:41.140
defense against companies like that right they're doing nothing because it helps their business model
00:44:45.780
exactly right so what'd you give them i i would give uh a c again because some people in some areas
00:44:51.300
it's good i mean we we feel safe so i would go i would say internationally a right uh domestically f
00:44:58.260
i agree and that kind of comes down to a c yeah um general uh general uh general welfare promote the
00:45:04.900
general welfare uh i think i would say again maybe a d to be honest why i mean to you that i don't know
00:45:16.180
exactly what it means i think that i mean the domestic tranquility and general welfare uh kind of seem the
00:45:22.100
same um i would agree um but i think that the state of our the spirit of our nation i i feel right
00:45:29.220
now uh is not in good shape yeah and i think that that is falls into the category of general welfare
00:45:35.300
and securing the blessings of liberty i would say f i would too i would say f i mean this government
00:45:42.180
is a failure this government is an absolute failure if you grade it on the things the constitution
00:45:49.620
says they must do well like you said in terms of the i mean just in terms of life i mean securing
00:45:54.020
the blessings of liberty if you're not going to stand for life yeah and our posterity that's what
00:45:58.340
it says us and our posterity yep and i mean the spending is out of control that's for posterity and
00:46:03.380
then also i i mean just in terms of um the way the the way the businesses it's good i mean trump has
00:46:11.780
repealed a lot of regulations which is good for business but uh liberty is more than just business
00:46:17.620
liberty and so i think that the notion of freedom it's not something anyone talks about anymore
00:46:22.900
i mean when is the last time you heard a politician really talk about the importance
00:46:27.380
of individual liberty and freedom um outside of a you know uh we're fighting for women's rights or
00:46:35.060
other than you know bogus speeches almost never yeah it's not almost never and you're seeing it in
00:46:41.380
the polling of millennials freedom of speech they don't believe that they don't believe that anymore
00:46:47.060
they don't believe in freedom of speech they're trying to now put a 50 tax on bullets they don't
00:46:52.900
believe in the second amendment you know the only one that i think we could all agree on is the third
00:46:57.700
amendment you know the king can't quarter soldiers that's the most important amendment but you know
00:47:03.460
what i think i think we're actually violating that because i think with the nsa
00:47:08.020
okay they're doing the same thing the king was trying to do by quartering soldiers they've
00:47:13.540
their soldiers are just digital right right now i think that's interesting yeah yeah uh john uh
00:47:18.580
you're going to be part of the uh broadcast yeah we're going to be broadcast i think we're going to
00:47:21.940
be in uh emancipation hall as well so oh wow okay uh so we'll see you tonight on the uh broadcast hosted
00:47:28.180
by eric bowling and that is happening on the blaze tv tonight starts at 7 30 uh and uh it's commercial
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