Glenn Beck is back with a new segment on why statues and monuments are racist, and a list of other things that have been called racist in America in the past two years. He also talks about the new DA in Dallas, Greg Abbott, and why he's the greatest Governor in America.
00:14:15.860And because they know criminals are going to vote for Democrats.
00:14:18.540Now, listen to this question that we have from the town hall last night about prison voting.
00:14:25.480And listen to the way the question is asked of Bernie Sanders.
00:14:29.500And tell me if Fox News would have asked this question exactly the same way if they wouldn't have been called racist and Islamophobes.
00:14:39.480Listen, my follow-up question goes to this being like you're writing an opposition ad against you by saying you think the Boston Marathon bomber should vote not after he pays his debt to society, but while he's in jail.
00:17:12.140My new perspective on it, or at least, because I feel like I'm torn on it, and I don't know what Glenn's leading to here, so I hope I don't butcher your thing here.
00:17:20.500But, so, the idea being that, like, if someone is in prison, and one of the issues in the campaign is about prison conditions, should the person who's being affected by those policies be able to have input in them?
00:17:36.640Use the example that you used today, and I'm not saying that this is your, and maybe you were just using this for me.
00:17:45.840So, my first example was, what if they outlawed air conditioning in prison?
00:17:49.260Okay, and so, it's really hot, and should you be, as a person who's affected by the policy, be able to say, wait a minute, I want a politician who's going to oppose that?
00:17:57.140Then, to appeal to Glenn, I said, what if they started outlawing, they started throwing, as we've, you know, foreshadowed many times, they started throwing people with unacceptable political opinions in prison.
00:18:08.080What if you're some outrageous talk show host, and you get into prison, and you're now in prison for some BS thing that you shouldn't have to do?
00:18:16.280What if they started throwing Kate Smiths to the world in prison, right, because they said these horrible things?
00:18:21.140Should you not have input to say, you know what, I don't think that candidate who is, in my belief, violating the Constitution should be able to go?
00:18:29.340A gun claim is another good one, the Second Amendment.
00:18:31.980If you get thrown in jail because they put in one of these crazy policies, should you not, while you're in prison, be able to say, I want a different politician who sees the Constitution the right way?
00:18:40.320And I think there's an, I think this is a largely meaningless conversation, number one.
00:18:50.320But number two, also, like, you know, I know we all get all, we get all excited about the actual, you know, meaning of a vote, and it's very, very important historically and all that.
00:18:59.120You know, the idea that these are turning over elections often is going to be unlikely.
00:19:03.680But just from a, from a principled manner, like, I think that if you, people who would oppose those policies that put them in prison shouldn't, you could, in theory, right, like, you're Hitler, you could put, you could put Jews in prison who could never vote you out of office, right?
00:19:20.980And you could come up with some ridiculous way to put them in prison, and then they would have no input to overturn that way.
00:19:26.940Yeah, that's kind of a separate topic, though, from what we're talking about here, because we're not at that place.
00:19:31.980If we got to that place, then, yeah, it might, I might think differently about it, but we're not there.
00:19:37.160No, it's definitely not a, it's not a vote for their own air conditioning.
00:21:03.300I mean, we either believe in the pay your debt or we don't.
00:21:08.120Once you've paid your debt, if your, if your crime is so bad that you can never, ever recover from it, you should never, ever be out of jail.
00:21:19.460That's the, that's kind of the argument on the, like the, you know, Megan's law list, right?
00:21:23.620Like if, if you are a threat enough to potentially molest children that we need to tell everyone in your neighborhood about it, maybe you shouldn't be in the neighborhood.
00:21:33.300But I do think that if there are things that we don't understand, we don't understand, you know, if you can ever be cured and God forbid in this, this tape will destroy me probably in maybe a year and a half.
00:21:50.000Uh, but if you can't be cured from pedophilia, yeah, I know it's old timey.
00:21:55.760He believed in cures for pedophilia, which is just natural.
00:22:00.840Um, that might not be a year and a half.
00:22:10.980And so we don't want to take chances with our children.
00:22:13.740However, you know, the voting booth is not a schoolyard with kids in it.
00:22:19.580Now you just hope you don't move into an area where the voting booth ends up being in the school because then you're, you know, and you're solved.
00:22:27.720If you've committed a crime, you know, against children, go to the school, you can't go to school to vote.
00:22:35.540Uh, and I think too, my general position on this forever has been, if it's part of the punishment and you receive, you do the crime and receive the punishment, you know about it in advance, right?
00:22:45.840Like it's all publicly available that you're not going to be able to vote anymore, probably okay and fair, but I can understand the other side of that one because there is, you know, like part of your voting right is, is saying like, I think laws should be this way.
00:22:59.280And if you are on the wrong side of that law and then there's no one there to overturn an unjust law, that could be problematic in a long-term scenario.
00:23:08.400And I don't know if the cost of having somebody vote in prison is worth that.
00:23:13.080We, uh, the American way used to be that we err on the side of, of, of freedom, of freedom, always err on the side of freedom.
00:23:24.660So what you're saying is, well, yeah, but maybe these guys get out and they're going to vote for this or that.
00:23:30.520Well, yeah, maybe, but what about the guys who come out and they are truly reformed?
00:23:35.880Are we going to, we're going to punish them just the other day.
00:23:38.680The guy who was released under Trump's, uh, second chance law and he, you know, completely reformed and actually got out of prison.
00:23:45.900Then they brought him back in on some technicality and then Trump's, uh, law, uh, bipartisan law, by the way, here's, what's crazy.
00:23:52.760Now, this is not Bernie Sanders because Bernie Sanders doesn't think you should ever lose that right.
00:23:57.500Even while you're serving, while you're serving, you are the Boston marathon guy.
00:24:01.980You should still be able to vote basically the same.
00:24:07.580What isn't in my opinion is to be able to say, look, you lose it for that time period, but we either as a country believe in forgiveness and redemption or we don't.
00:24:19.520So if you pay the price, we must let it go.
00:26:56.100They're making a big deal out of having access to the Internet.
00:27:00.060Well, if I have access to the Internet and Wi-Fi, but I don't have a computer, as long as I steal one for $700, I'm okay.
00:27:07.740And think of the message this is, but put yourself in the shoes of the mom-and-pop grocery store or some other type of store in some part of town in Dallas County somewhere,
00:27:21.740where they may have people coming in and saying, listen, I'm just going to take this or take that from the store owner because there's no fear whatsoever of being prosecuted.
00:27:32.900That is lawlessness by this district attorney, and I'm very, very proud of all the law enforcement agencies, both in the state of Texas as well as in Dallas County, coming out as well as I did, as well as the attorney general did.
00:27:46.120We want to send a message, not just to Dallas County, but also to the entire state of Texas, that this type of lawlessness is not going to be allowed, will not be allowed to be promoted, and we're going to work to shut it down.
00:27:58.500How do the police feel about, because they're going to be the ones who a Starbucks is going to call and say, we have these guys, they come in every day and they steal muffins right off the counter.
00:28:11.180They just take them and they walk out.
00:28:15.640How do the police, how are they expected to deal with this?
00:28:19.260Because they're going to take the brunt of the store owner or the person that's just been robbed when they say, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do.
00:28:26.580Exactly, and that's one reason why the police are so extremely angry about this, because they, too, take an oath.
00:28:33.680They, too, risk their lives every single day where they could be shot and killed as they were gunned down in downtown Dallas a couple of years ago.
00:28:42.040They put their lives on the line to promote safety, to protect the people whose communities they patrol, and now they are being told by the prosecuting attorney in that county that these criminals may not be prosecuted.
00:28:56.960And so it ties the hands of police officers, and they are rightfully angry about this.
00:29:03.240Governor, this is way above your pay grade, but I know you're doing something about it.
00:29:08.400I want to tell you a story of something that happened to me, or this is way below your pay grade, way below your pay grade, sorry.
00:29:16.120But I want to tell you something that happened to me, that I could not believe I lived in the state of Texas.
00:32:01.480Listen, I know this is tough on you and many of your listeners.
00:32:03.920But think about the average senior who is being driven out of their home that they may have already paid off because the property taxes are increasing so much they can no longer live in their home.
00:32:15.540Think about the millennial who's looking to buy their first home and they average out their monthly income and things like that and figure out, you know, we can afford to buy this home for $100,000 or whatever the case may be.
00:32:26.340But then when they have to factor in what the property taxes are, they realize, well, they're not going to be able to afford to live in the home.
00:32:32.860So point one is we have to reform an appraisal system.
00:32:38.680The way the appraisal system works in the state of Texas for property owners, for homeowners, is that they are able to jack up your appraised value by 10 percent per year.
00:32:48.720By God, they're going to try to get every penny from you by doing exactly that.
00:32:53.020And there is no limit on businesses of what they can increase the property taxes by.
00:32:58.180And so the cost of what you're paying for your goods and things like that that you may buy somewhere is going up a whole lot because property taxes of the seller is going up so much.
00:33:07.520But point one, we want to reform the appraisal system.
00:33:10.660Point two, we want to use state money to buy down your property tax rate so that we will lower the amount of property taxes that you pay.
00:33:20.720And then point three, we need to close the back door to prevent taxing authorities from being able to come back in and raise your property taxes back up.
00:33:31.400That's why people have seen in the news that the Texas Senate has already passed out and the Texas House soon will pass out limits on the ability of taxing authorities to raise your property tax rates.
00:33:43.280We are going to hammer down property taxes in Texas.
00:35:25.740It's going to be very difficult for the audience to come up with these answers.
00:35:29.420And that's why we brought in an expert.
00:35:32.220It has nothing to do with neither one of us wanting to read a bunch of David Duke quotes so we can be taken out of context and we don't care about Jeffy.