The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Ken Paxton, Andrew Wilkow & Philip K. Howard ｜ 7⧸11⧸19

00:00:00.000 Hey, podcasters, welcome to Thursday's podcast. We affectionately entitle it, Nobody Wants War.

00:00:07.980 And we look at what is happening with Iran. There seem to be begging for war and what you need to know about that. 0.90

00:00:16.520 Also, there's a new poll out from the United Kingdom that says that says gay wokeness is fading.

00:00:23.560 And another Harris poll that you probably didn't hear because it came out the day before Independence Day last week.

00:00:29.620 And it shows that Americans, millennials, are starting to say, no, not so much with the LGBT thing.

00:00:38.320 Why is this happening? The media is perplexed. I think it's pretty clear.

00:00:43.560 I talk about that. Also, Andrew Wilkow is joining us, telling us how Jeff Bezos is probably the lawnmower man.

00:00:50.860 And a little on the U.S. soccer team. The real scandal here that nobody's talking about.

00:01:00.620 And finally, Philip K. Howard. He's the author of a book called Try Common Sense.

00:01:05.840 Everybody says burn the system down or reboot it or hope and change.

00:01:11.000 But nobody's telling us change to what, except the socialists.

00:01:15.900 This thing is going to have to be rebooted.

00:01:18.660 So after we unplug it or turn it off and on and reboot it, how do we reboot it?

00:01:25.960 This guy seems to have the answer, the beginnings of one.

00:01:29.280 He's fascinating. From the book Try Common Sense, all on today's podcast.

00:01:34.040 There is a really there's something happening with the acceptance of gay sex.

00:01:55.940 It's in decline in the UK. That is the big story today.

00:01:59.760 But there was another story that came out in a study in the United States over the holiday weekend that I also want to share with you.

00:02:06.760 It's a new Harris poll. Something has changed. And I think I know what it is.

00:02:13.160 And to me, it makes total sense. The left is like, what is happening? Those polls can't be right.

00:02:19.620 I think it makes total sense. And I'll give it to you here in just a second.

00:02:23.540 What doesn't make sense to me today, unless Iran wants war, is what's happening with Iran. 0.55

00:02:30.800 In the last few weeks, they have shot down a U.S. drone.

00:02:35.240 We almost had war on that. Thank goodness Donald Trump changed his mind at the last minute.

00:02:40.900 Then before that, they had mined two oil tankers.

00:02:48.760 So they blew up two oil tankers. Last night, the British went and boarded a ship, took a ship that they said was was full of Iranian oil, which is illegal to ship it to Syria.

00:03:05.540 So it's in the Strait of Hormuz. The British, I think they had a frigate or was it a frigate that that or or battleship that came and and blocked it.

00:03:17.560 30 Royal Marines boarded, took over the ship. Iran said they're going to pay a heavy price for this.

00:03:24.180 We'll see. What are they doing?

00:03:26.980 We have Jason Buttrell with us and Jason has the latest.

00:03:32.100 He oversees our research and and our our foreign affairs and military affairs around the world.

00:03:37.900 Jason, what are they doing?

00:03:41.320 Iran's doing what they always do every time they deploy any kind of military asset, which is usually by the IRGC.

00:03:47.060 And they are a nonconventional force.

00:03:49.800 So I think it's very, very important to understand that Iran does not want war.

00:03:54.480 The United States does not want war.

00:03:57.880 General McMaster said said it the best. 0.99

00:03:59.900 He said there's two ways to fight the United States military, nonconventionally and stupidly.

00:04:05.620 Nobody is going into a conventional war with the United States, not the United States Navy and not in that area.

00:04:11.600 And Iran knows this. The IRGC knows this.

00:04:13.940 What they do want to do, the nonconventional things they do want to do is they want to use elements like the IRGC or Hezbollah or all the little Shia militias to harass, 0.94

00:04:22.360 to do whatever they can to make it so economically painful in that area that they want to force us to the negotiating table.

00:04:30.640 It's no coincidence that, you know, the the Iran, they collaborated with the North Koreans to get their nuclear program up to speed.

00:04:38.160 Now they are using the exact same strategy of I'm the crazy guy.

00:04:43.360 You don't know what I'm going to do.

00:04:45.040 The Khomeini is. 1.00

00:04:46.500 Do they realize do they realize that that's the strategy of Donald Trump?

00:04:53.640 Right. 0.98

00:04:53.940 I'm the crazy guy. 0.60

00:04:55.380 Right. 0.99

00:04:55.620 I just might send the nukes over to you. 0.52

00:04:58.280 And I think I mean, yeah, he's the last guy you screw with.

00:05:02.020 For sure. They don't know what he's going to do.

00:05:04.420 And that's kind of one of the geniuses of the of the Trump doctrine there is they have no idea.

00:05:08.820 I agree.

00:05:09.100 Like they're he's very unpredictable.

00:05:11.440 That's what they're doing.

00:05:12.240 A lot of probing right now.

00:05:13.600 They had no idea how Trump was going to respond to downing of an unmanned drone.

00:05:17.200 Like they had no idea.

00:05:18.320 So they probed. 0.99

00:05:19.360 They had no idea how he would respond to a couple of tankers with those ridiculous limpant minds where they stuck. 1.00

00:05:25.800 That was not meant to cause any real damage. 0.96

00:05:28.120 That was caused that was so what should he what should he be doing, Jason?

00:05:33.340 Sanctions, sanctions, sanctions.

00:05:35.300 He's doing exactly what he's supposed to do.

00:05:37.360 Exactly.

00:05:37.940 Like this, this, this swarming attack was not serious.

00:05:41.240 It was not serious at all because the Iranians knew just as we knew that there were naval vessels all over the place out there.

00:05:48.000 They knew that they would be on them instantaneously.

00:05:50.420 And that's exactly what happened.

00:05:51.720 What they're trying to do is they're trying to drive up the insurance costs of oil tankers going through that strait so incredibly high that the companies, that the world, that governments will say, look, Trump, please go to the negotiating table.

00:06:05.480 Get this under control.

00:06:06.660 That's what they want.

00:06:07.420 Well, there's some facts right now that coming out of the Iranian economy.

00:06:11.480 Their inflation rate just topped 50 percent.

00:06:14.020 Now, the last time they were forced to the negotiating table, it wasn't even anywhere near 50 percent.

00:06:18.320 And then Rouhani was guaranteeing to the people that he was going to drop it below 20 percent.

00:06:23.100 But now it's topping 50 percent and the people are going crazy in Iran. 0.92

00:06:27.420 You're already seeing.

00:06:28.780 Imagine just just for just for the average person.

00:06:31.580 Imagine a loaf of bread being 50 percent higher than it is today in less than a year.

00:06:38.280 Imagine the cost of everything that you have going up 50 percent in less than a year.

00:06:45.960 People would be on the streets.

00:06:49.500 Now, they're not on the streets currently because the crackdowns are so bad.

00:06:54.540 But this is the kind of thing that helped the United States collapse the Soviet Union.

00:07:00.320 We we pressured them.

00:07:02.820 We sanctioned them.

00:07:04.340 We drove them into bankruptcy.

00:07:06.280 And then at the same time, we were helping the people on the streets of Poland through the church.

00:07:14.080 And also because we had a great ally in Margaret Thatcher, our our operatives were also in helping those people organize and try to overthrow the government, which they did.

00:07:27.400 That's exactly right.

00:07:28.660 You're exactly right, Glenn.

00:07:29.580 And for speaking of food prices, and that's the one of the biggest things that always brings people out into the streets in Iran, the jump in food staples is absolutely insane.

00:07:38.340 Eighty five percent increase since May.

00:07:42.020 Eighty five percent.

00:07:44.700 That's why you're seeing all this aggression from Iran right now. 0.99

00:07:47.340 And I tell you what, it's going to get worse.

00:07:49.200 And the key thing for us is to be not hyperbolic about it.

00:07:53.020 The Trump administration needs to not respond overly aggressive.

00:07:56.020 The Iranians are being very, very careful, but it's going to get worse. 1.00

00:07:59.800 There's they're going to use people like Hezbollah, groups like all their different militias in Iraq, for instance, that are going to get very, very close to, let's say, the U.S. embassy, the green zone in Baghdad.

00:08:10.680 They're going to get very, very close to U.S. troops in Syria.

00:08:13.200 But if there's ever a this is where it could change.

00:08:15.740 If they mess up, if there is a loss of life between U.S. personnel, allied personnel, that's when this thing could escalate.

00:08:24.040 They're playing a very, very dangerous game with this escalation.

00:08:27.080 But as long as it doesn't, if it stays like it is now, like drones getting knocked out. 0.96

00:08:32.180 OK, yeah, that sucks. 0.79

00:08:33.420 It's very, very expensive. 0.96

00:08:34.920 That drone that got hit was at last a couple weeks ago was more expensive than F-22, crying out loud.

00:08:41.920 Those things are expensive.

00:08:43.160 But as long as they don't cause any loss of life or they don't, let's say, if they don't sink a tanker, then this will not escalate.

00:08:51.080 But the Trump administration needs to hold the line here.

00:08:53.260 Continue with what you're doing.

00:08:54.400 Keep those sanctions going.

00:08:55.800 The Iranian people will do this for him.

00:08:58.020 They really will.

00:08:58.980 Yes.

00:08:59.160 I think that cooler heads prevailed.

00:09:05.740 And I don't think Donald Trump, I mean, you know, the left is trying to make him look like a warmonger.

00:09:09.860 He is always against war.

00:09:12.800 He's always been against interventionalist thinking.

00:09:17.080 Even though he has John Bolton, you know, I really believe that he is a guy that doesn't believe we should be involved everywhere.

00:09:24.820 He has a very long record of that.

00:09:27.200 And so I think when he, you know, when he figured out or when somebody came to him and said, look, look, look, look, no loss of life.

00:09:37.720 This will be just an endless bloodbath.

00:09:41.400 It'll not be good if we go in.

00:09:43.940 We're on the right track.

00:09:45.360 They're only doing this because we're on the right track.

00:09:48.960 I think his true colors showed that he is not a guy that wants this kind of confrontation.

00:10:00.420 And it amazes me that they all say that he's such a warmonger and he's surrounded by warmongers.

00:10:07.060 John Bolton is there.

00:10:09.220 Have you read anything about what John Bolton is saying about this?

00:10:12.440 What is his recommendation?

00:10:13.620 I haven't heard him say anything publicly on it lately, but I think John Bolton plays perfectly into if this really is a strategy by by by President Trump.

00:10:24.160 But I think it's genius to put a guy like John Bolton at the head of the Pentagon.

00:10:29.540 It's absolutely genius because it plays into that unpredictability.

00:10:33.780 Now, if it has no weight, if you have I don't know, you know, if you have a pacifist up in there, you can't play the doctrine of look, you don't know what I'm going to do.

00:10:42.420 I'm going to strike at any time.

00:10:43.380 You can't play that.

00:10:44.300 But everybody in the media ever, all of his opponents, everyone has been saying, oh, warmonger, warmonger.

00:10:49.400 He just wants to go to go to war.

00:10:51.300 That's good.

00:10:51.740 That's great.

00:10:52.280 Exactly.

00:10:52.780 It's great.

00:10:53.980 It's good.

00:10:54.520 And we know by now is we have we have always said for I don't know how long.

00:11:00.220 Oh, man.

00:11:00.760 Why do we tell everybody exactly what we're going to do?

00:11:04.140 Why do we tell everybody in advance?

00:11:06.040 That doesn't work to our advantage.

00:11:08.380 That almost guarantees the conflict where here you don't know where the line is.

00:11:16.400 You don't know what he's going to do.

00:11:18.160 His his record shows that he is somebody that just does not want war, doesn't want us to be involved in the Middle East.

00:11:28.280 He's on record saying destabilizing the Middle East was exactly the wrong thing.

00:11:33.820 He's been against the Iraq war.

00:11:35.620 He was against the the surge.

00:11:39.620 He was against what we were doing in Benghazi was against what we're doing in Syria.

00:11:45.900 He wrapped it up quickly with ISIS. 0.89

00:11:49.500 I mean, this guy has every bit of record saying I don't want to do this.

00:11:54.080 And he because he's surrounding himself with the best military minds.

00:11:59.260 He is peace through strength.

00:12:01.900 Look, I want peace.

00:12:03.600 And I think this is a great example.

00:12:06.060 And Reagan, I think, was this way that it's a great example of, look, I don't want to fight a war.

00:12:13.160 But if we have to, oh, I'm going to fight it to win and we'll obliterate you in the first 10 minutes.

00:12:21.060 That's the attitude the American president should always have.

00:12:26.080 I don't want war.

00:12:27.540 I have a long record of having a very patient and long fuse on this.

00:12:33.620 Don't do it.

00:12:34.560 Don't do it. 0.99

00:12:35.320 But if you start killing our people, I'm going to turn your sand into glass in about five minutes. 0.98

00:12:42.220 And then I'm going to go home and leave you with the message. 1.00

00:12:46.860 Don't screw with us.

00:12:49.080 We are your best friends, as the Declaration of Independence says.

00:12:52.840 We are your friends in peace and your worst enemy in war.

00:12:58.520 That's important.

00:12:59.440 Do you remember when John Bolton had that supposed slip up when he had written, when they were talking about Venezuela and it was written on the back, like 5,000 U.S. troops or whatever?

00:13:09.800 Right.

00:13:10.360 So that's exactly proving our theory here.

00:13:13.280 There's no way that was a mistake.

00:13:15.640 That was a will he or will he not?

00:13:18.360 Because you know I'm the mustachioed one.

00:13:20.600 I'm John Bolton.

00:13:21.360 I'll do it.

00:13:21.840 I'll do it.

00:13:22.620 No, no, no.

00:13:23.400 Yeah.

00:13:23.640 I want to do it.

00:13:24.580 Please let me do it.

00:13:25.680 I want to do it.

00:13:26.440 I want to send the troops.

00:13:27.860 So staged.

00:13:28.400 John, I know John Bolton.

00:13:30.440 John Bolton is one of the most buttoned up guys ever.

00:13:33.580 Right.

00:13:34.120 Ever.

00:13:34.840 For him to walk in and have send 5,000 troops to Venezuela.

00:13:39.400 Come on.

00:13:39.820 On the back of a notebook that he's holding right directly towards the press.

00:13:47.220 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:13:55.060 Hey, it's Glenn.

00:13:56.140 And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray Unleashed.

00:14:00.540 His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast.

00:14:04.520 There's a couple of things.

00:14:05.560 A story that came out today from The Guardian.

00:14:08.240 Acceptance of gay sex is in decline in the UK.

00:14:11.780 The very first time since the AIDS crisis.

00:14:15.120 30 years.

00:14:16.120 This is a story.

00:14:16.780 30 years of increasingly liberal attitude towards gay sex may be coming to an end

00:14:21.600 after the number of people who said they considered it wrong rose for the first time since the AIDS crisis.

00:14:27.980 In 1987, when every household received somber leaflets warning, don't die of ignorance.

00:14:35.680 Nine out of 10 people thought that there was something wrong with sexual relations between two adults of the same sex.

00:14:41.800 Nine out of 10.

00:14:43.240 This is during the height of the AIDS scare.

00:14:44.760 Every year since then, tolerance has increased.

00:14:48.660 But now the British Social Attitude Survey has found the number of people believing there is nothing wrong with gay sex 0.96

00:14:55.620 has fallen, leaving a third of the population in some way opposed.

00:15:01.840 Now think of that.

00:15:03.280 It was nine out of 10 said there was something wrong.

00:15:06.620 Then it then every year it built more and more tolerance until it was in the in the vast majority said there was nothing wrong with it.

00:15:16.000 Now it's down to a third.

00:15:19.460 This is this is remarkable.

00:15:23.120 And they don't know why.

00:15:25.480 Let me give you another story.

00:15:26.680 This came out last week on July 3rd.

00:15:28.940 So you may not have heard it.

00:15:30.600 There was a new Harris pullout.

00:15:32.300 Now understand there is a he describes himself as pro-homosexual.

00:15:37.720 He's the CEO of the Harris pull.

00:15:40.360 He says these numbers are really alarming.

00:15:43.300 Now listen to this.

00:15:44.360 According to the new Harris pull, Americans aged 18 to 34 are becoming less and less enamored with the LGBT lifestyle every year.

00:15:54.020 In 2016, 63 percent of millennials consider themselves allies of the LGBT movement.

00:16:02.300 That number fell the next year to 53 percent.

00:16:06.980 So it lost 10 points.

00:16:09.120 Then the next year it was at 45 percent.

00:16:14.560 Today, 36 percent of millennials are not comfortable when they learn a family member is homosexual.

00:16:22.200 That's up from 29 percent just a year ago.

00:16:26.800 Forty two percent of millennial males are uncomfortable learning their child has had a lesson on LGBT history at school or as a homosexual teacher.

00:16:36.520 That's up from 27 percent.

00:16:39.460 Now, here's what the pro-homosexual CEO of the Harris pull says.

00:16:44.460 These numbers are alarming.

00:16:46.520 I believe the reason it's happening is simple. 0.98

00:16:48.460 Millennials have had a gay agenda crammed down their throats their entire lives. 0.95

00:16:51.920 And 75 percent of them have at least one friend who is a homosexual. 0.96

00:16:56.840 OK, so what's what's happening?

00:17:00.100 I honestly believe that this has nothing to do with people.

00:17:06.780 It has nothing to do with homosexuals that you may know this has everything to do with. 0.96

00:17:15.460 Two years ago, would you be uncomfortable that your teacher, your child was being taught by a homosexual? 1.00

00:17:22.740 No. 0.85

00:17:23.860 Are you today?

00:17:25.620 Maybe.

00:17:26.780 Why?

00:17:27.960 Not because they're homosexual, but because you don't know what their agenda is anymore. 0.95

00:17:34.280 When we have when we have trans people coming in to the library and, as we have seen recently, are laying on top of these trans people and reading them stories, you kind of say, what the hell is going on? 1.00

00:17:51.680 Why does my six year old or seven year old have to go through this?

00:17:56.320 What are they teaching?

00:17:58.380 You know, a few years ago, it was about love.

00:18:01.820 This isn't about love anymore.

00:18:04.280 This is not about love.

00:18:06.980 This is about, you know, last night I saw Wicked with my daughter.

00:18:12.780 And I'm sorry, I've seen it before.

00:18:15.420 And maybe I didn't notice it, but I'm pretty sure this is new.

00:18:21.180 The number of guys on stage from Oz that were dressed as women.

00:18:26.900 Where they were wearing the, the, the jacket of the men, all the men and all the women were dressed similarly.

00:18:34.280 Okay.

00:18:35.160 But the, there were some men that were wearing dresses and then they had the male jacket on top and they were clearly males. 0.57

00:18:43.380 Now, what the hell?

00:18:44.920 Why are you doing that? 0.67

00:18:47.560 This is the thing that people are pushing against.

00:18:51.680 Stop jamming it down people's throats.

00:18:56.020 I don't care how you live your life in your own time.

00:19:00.260 You shouldn't care about how I live my life.

00:19:03.400 But stop jamming it down everybody's throat.

00:19:06.960 And it's no longer teaching love because love would then teach, hey, you know what?

00:19:14.260 People who are married and who are heterosexual, they're just in, in love just as much.

00:19:21.120 And you know what?

00:19:22.880 The majority of people feel that way.

00:19:26.960 But some people feel this way.

00:19:29.880 Okay.

00:19:30.940 Don't have a problem.

00:19:32.080 But when you're now saying, no, it's not a choice.

00:19:36.460 I can't change my sexuality.

00:19:38.780 It's absolutely not a choice.

00:19:41.200 That's what they used to say.

00:19:42.920 Now they're saying it is a choice and you should try it.

00:19:47.340 That's different.

00:19:49.700 That's different.

00:19:51.780 So I think that this again is a sign that they have massively, the left, massively overplayed their hand.

00:19:59.900 People like justice.

00:20:02.560 People like fairness.

00:20:04.840 But what we're seeing now is nothing like fairness, nothing like justice, and nothing like love.

00:20:13.660 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:20:26.640 Hi, it's Glenn.

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00:20:38.380 Thanks.

00:20:38.820 Ken Paxton, who I think is one of the best attorney generals in the country.

00:20:43.840 There's another one I like an awful lot as well from Utah.

00:20:47.880 But Ken is just tremendous.

00:20:50.860 And one of the first things he did as attorney general, he formed a special unit dedicated to combating human trafficking in Texas, which we're on the border.

00:21:01.780 It's really bad.

00:21:02.940 If we have time, I want to talk to him a little bit about that.

00:21:05.240 But I really want to understand, Ken, if you can explain, Texas is arguing for an end of Obamacare, and the White House now has joined, and I think there's another state involved, and it actually could take the ACA and throw the entire law out.

00:21:27.480 Is that correct?

00:21:29.140 Well, good morning, Glenn.

00:21:30.180 Yes, it's 18 states.

00:21:32.540 We filed shortly after Congress passed the Tax Reform Act at the end of 2017.

00:21:38.700 The argument being when they passed that, they eliminated the penalty associated with the individual mandate.

00:21:45.840 If you'll remember what Justice Roberts said, he joined the four conservatives and said, yes, the individual mandate, it orders you, Glenn, and every one of us to have health insurance.

00:21:53.480 And it orders you to participate in commerce was unconstitutional.

00:21:58.380 However, he switched sides, joined the four liberals, and said, but because this is a penalty associated with that, that's a tax.

00:22:06.620 And under the taxing power of Congress, they can do this whole individual mandate thing.

00:22:12.160 So they eliminated the penalty in 2017.

00:22:15.560 We filed a lawsuit and said, hey, the penalty is gone.

00:22:18.280 Therefore, the taxing power is gone.

00:22:19.500 Therefore, the individual mandate falls.

00:22:21.300 That's our argument.

00:22:22.180 It was successful in federal district court.

00:22:25.220 We got an overwhelming win.

00:22:26.720 The court declared it unconstitutional in full.

00:22:29.200 And we just argued this week that it was at the Fifth Circuit the very same thing.

00:22:36.080 How do you think this is going to be decided?

00:22:40.620 And will it get to the Supreme Court?

00:22:43.740 And will John Roberts, you know, contort and do all kinds of gymnastics to save it again?

00:22:50.460 You are asking the million-dollar question that we're all wondering.

00:22:54.500 We have gone through this whole process.

00:22:57.040 Feeling like, well, knowing that we are right on the law, that we are right on the Constitution.

00:23:01.040 Congress has never had the authority to order you to buy a house, a car, food, whatever.

00:23:06.280 That's what this does.

00:23:07.040 It is an exception to this rule that they can't make you buy anything.

00:23:12.000 So Justice Roberts...

00:23:13.000 That's the amazing thing is that Roberts took the stance.

00:23:18.860 And while Congress was saying it wasn't a tax, he went and he made sure that it was known as a tax because he knew that constitutionally that's the only way it could work.

00:23:30.120 That's right, right?

00:23:31.080 Exactly.

00:23:31.980 There's no doubt legal contortions to get to this result is where Roberts went, and that's why it was so disappointing that he made this decision.

00:23:40.180 But we've now stripped that away from him, and we're going to put it back on his plate and say, hey, your rationale for the case, your only rationale is gone.

00:23:49.360 Now go back and do the right thing.

00:23:51.080 Strike this down and get rid of this unconstitutional control of our lives.

00:23:56.860 Which would then take everything that has been done, the entire law, and return us to a somewhat free market.

00:24:06.560 We would return to where we were, kind of, before Obamacare, correct?

00:24:12.640 Well, so there's this other argument.

00:24:14.920 If the individual mandate is clearly in constitution and that's struck down, does that mean that the entire law is struck down?

00:24:22.060 California is arguing no.

00:24:23.920 The rest of it, some of it stays in place.

00:24:26.180 We'd still have vestiges of Obamacare running around. 0.97

00:24:30.640 It doesn't make any sense to keep it in place because, one, Congress didn't put a severability clause in there.

00:24:36.360 What that means is typically if Congress wants a law to stay in place, if some part of it struck down, they put a clause in that says, hey, if part of it struck down, that doesn't mean the whole law struck down.

00:24:46.320 They didn't do that.

00:24:46.880 As a matter of fact, six times in the language of the bill, they said the whole bill is essential.

00:24:53.020 The individual mandate is essential to this entire bill.

00:24:56.920 And it is.

00:24:57.480 It is the guts of the bill.

00:24:59.660 So if you strip out the individual mandate, why would you leave the rest of it alone?

00:25:02.920 We're arguing the whole thing should fall.

00:25:04.160 California is saying, no, keep it, keep the rest of it in place.

00:25:07.720 It would be great if we could do this.

00:25:11.280 And the insurance company, I'm not sure the insurance companies are on the side of the free market.

00:25:15.660 But if we could get the Republicans to say, now let's strengthen the free market with this, we are going to remove the barriers where you could you could buy insurance across state lines.

00:25:28.100 Because that would that would actually be a real boom for the American people.

00:25:32.960 We would be able to we'd be able to shop around and get good, better prices.

00:25:37.900 Yeah.

00:25:38.380 Do you agree with that?

00:25:39.480 Oh, absolutely.

00:25:40.080 This is exactly part of the solution to making health care work is eliminating these.

00:25:45.180 Because every state has individual insurance rules that make it hard for, you know, insurance across state lines.

00:25:51.100 Because, you know, you have to have different products for every state.

00:25:53.880 So if we could eliminate those, if Congress wanted to eliminate those, I think that would be great.

00:25:58.280 It would open up the market and we would move away from this government control that drives up cost, you know, pushes doctors out of the market and offers less choice to consumers to a more of an American model, which is free enterprise, competition, lower cost.

00:26:15.740 Is it perfect?

00:26:16.640 No, but it's a whole lot better than what we have now.

00:26:19.820 Sarah, how much time do I have left?

00:26:21.600 I think I only have about a minute, two minutes, two minutes.

00:26:25.700 Ken, I know you're on a tight schedule here.

00:26:27.720 Can you can you give me an explanation of what's happening on the border and what Texas is doing?

00:26:34.200 We've seen a 43 percent increase in illegals into Texas.

00:26:40.100 It is an absolute mess.

00:26:42.580 Is Texas doing enough to stop this themselves?

00:26:46.460 So Texas, from what I can see, you know, we have a legislature that has put, I think, over 600 million every biennium into border control, border security.

00:26:57.820 However, we can only do so much with that.

00:27:00.540 We can, you know, assist.

00:27:02.240 We can stop people from violating our state laws.

00:27:04.960 But when it comes to violating federal law, if they're crossing the border illegally and it's just a violation of federal law, there's nothing we can do.

00:27:11.140 There's a case called Arizona v. U.S. in which Arizona tried to step in the place of the federal government and do some of this stuff.

00:27:19.020 And they were told, no, you can't do that, even if the federal government advocates their responsibility.

00:27:23.560 So it's really frustrating because the federal government can create laws, not enforce them, and then push the states out of doing what they otherwise would have done.

00:27:32.200 But they are also dropping these people into our communities.

00:27:35.920 And many of our border towns are on the verge of collapse.

00:27:38.900 Our churches are on the verge of collapse.

00:27:40.960 And nobody's talking about all of the kids that we're trying to save from being sex trafficked.

00:27:48.040 And that sex trafficking has gotten much, much worse.

00:27:51.520 Only 40 seconds to answer, if you can.

00:27:54.200 So you're exactly correct.

00:27:56.300 People are not addressing the cost of this.

00:27:58.940 And part of the cost is not just to our country but also to the people that are being brought through here. 1.00

00:28:04.380 And trafficking in Texas, we're the number two trafficking state in the country.

00:28:08.400 We have Houston's the worst.

00:28:09.640 Please.

00:28:10.200 This is a huge problem that the media never talks about.

00:28:13.580 Ken, please keep up the good work.

00:28:15.840 I'd love to have you back on when you have more time.

00:28:19.060 That'd be great.

00:28:19.480 And say hi to your wife.

00:28:21.340 I will.

00:28:21.920 I'll see you in a few minutes.

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00:28:48.560 Andrew Wilkow.

00:28:49.360 Andrew Wilkow is heard on XM Sirius all around the country.

00:28:56.540 He is also, I think, one of the founding people on The Blaze.

00:29:01.300 You were there at the beginning.

00:29:03.080 And it's good to have you back at The Blaze TV.

00:29:06.840 Welcome.

00:29:07.460 Thank you.

00:29:08.660 How are you?

00:29:09.340 Fine.

00:29:09.600 How are you?

00:29:10.120 I'm good.

00:29:11.200 I'm good.

00:29:11.580 You were killing me with the thing about the deplatforming and the Patriot Mobile and all that.

00:29:18.100 Because, you know, we've been doing this forever.

00:29:20.920 And I think these companies and the activist groups they work with know that we go on the air every day and say, you know, private companies and capitalism.

00:29:30.260 We don't like boycotts, right?

00:29:31.760 Conservatives don't want to be in the streets.

00:29:33.100 We have more important things to do.

00:29:34.720 And they've played on that for so long.

00:29:40.200 For so long.

00:29:41.420 That they have gotten away with this because we've been like, capitalism, private property, get your hands off the internet.

00:29:46.680 We don't want the government and the internet.

00:29:48.100 And they've been like, ooh, how nice.

00:29:50.420 I know.

00:29:51.160 Conservatives aren't going to fight us.

00:29:52.960 I know.

00:29:53.380 Let's do our thing here.

00:29:54.900 And, you know, what's amazing is they are now in a position to where they are so powerful.

00:30:01.100 You know, every time I go out to Silicon Valley, I am both horrified and thrilled about what is on the horizon.

00:30:08.540 And they all say the same thing.

00:30:10.100 Anybody who's up at the top of echelons, they always say the same thing to me.

00:30:13.620 Glenn, you're thinking things.

00:30:15.740 You're not thinking things of the way they're going to be.

00:30:18.560 Nation states are a thing of a past.

00:30:20.920 And that really finally, I started to understand that in about the last year.

00:30:25.960 I was trying to get my handle on, get a handle on, well, what, so how does it work?

00:30:30.620 And it's all, you know, we're just going to have free trade and blah, blah, blah.

00:30:33.700 No, no, no.

00:30:34.200 That's not what they're saying.

00:30:35.020 What they're saying is corporations are the new nation states.

00:30:39.120 But again, conservatives and wealth.

00:30:41.240 I know.

00:30:41.740 You conservatives with your corporate love affairs, your oil companies.

00:30:45.920 I know.

00:30:46.220 It is, I think they dialed us in.

00:30:49.960 They zeroed in their scopes and they got us.

00:30:53.280 They knew that we would stick by our principles because we're always talking about principles.

00:30:58.480 We're always talking about, you know, not being like the left or imitating the left or trying to do what the left does.

00:31:04.080 And they said, hmm, where are our friends?

00:31:07.300 Ah, on the left.

00:31:08.540 Right.

00:31:09.040 So here's the thing that I think, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

00:31:13.760 I think to retain our principles and to win this war, we don't break them up.

00:31:20.540 We make them live by the law that the rest of us have to live by. 0.95

00:31:24.680 And that is, you're not a platform.

00:31:27.580 You're an editor.

00:31:28.880 You're a publisher.

00:31:29.920 The minute you start editing content, you're a publisher, which means you're going to have to deal with all the lawsuits and the litigation that come your way.

00:31:40.300 As a platform, you're protected from all of that.

00:31:44.040 Their stock price would go to about three bucks overnight if the government took their platform status away from them and charged them with, you are now a publisher.

00:31:56.840 And you get all of the fun stuff that comes along with that.

00:32:01.320 That would change their dynamics overnight.

00:32:04.780 You don't have to break them up.

00:32:07.160 One of our colleagues, Dennis Prager, is going to be speaking before the Senate subcommittee chaired by Ted Cruz on this.

00:32:13.320 And President Trump is now really paying attention to this.

00:32:17.420 And, you know, and I'm old enough to remember when some of the Silicon Valley people want to be friends with you.

00:32:22.540 I remember that they said, okay, well, maybe we should bring some conservatives in here.

00:32:26.320 Maybe we should talk to Glenn Beck and guys like Glenn Beck.

00:32:28.760 I don't know if that was a May to December, right?

00:32:31.640 That was just one of those short romances like, hey, look at us.

00:32:35.020 We're not biased.

00:32:35.920 We hung out with Glenn Beck for an hour.

00:32:37.540 It really – what's scary to me about this is the more they do it, the more they try to convince us they're not doing it, right?

00:32:47.420 Like it's – the more they are manipulating the algorithms, deciding what we see, deciding who we don't see, claiming that it's just a glitch in the system when a video magically disappears that was supposed to be monetized.

00:33:01.100 And it's got to kill some of these companies to hand over money, to conservative, upstart filmmakers, and even established personalities.

00:33:10.520 And the more they try to give off the impression that they're neutral, the more we know they are putting their thumbs on it.

00:33:17.880 Oh, yeah.

00:33:18.500 And, you know, but they're very good at it.

00:33:20.680 I mean, I learned my lesson on Zuckerberg that fast. 1.00

00:33:23.320 Not stupid people. 0.96

00:33:24.140 I gave him the benefit of the doubt because he was – he seemed so genuine in person, and he makes good business cases for why it would be crazy for it to happen. 0.99

00:33:40.900 And I know somebody who's in the conservative movement who just had a private meeting with him, one of the smartest guys I know in our business.

00:33:49.260 And he called me right after, and he said – I said, how'd that go?

00:33:54.140 And he said, you know, he's really surprising.

00:33:57.020 I really believe.

00:33:58.340 And I said, don't.

00:33:59.780 Don't.

00:34:00.300 You're falling into exactly the same trap I did.

00:34:03.460 He's very, very smart, and he makes a great, believable, passionate case. 0.98

00:34:11.780 The guy is a total fraud. 0.99

00:34:13.440 The guy is a total fraud. 0.99

00:34:15.360 Either that or he has absolutely no control of his own company.

00:34:18.520 Well, and that's the second layer of this because we did a whole episode on Blaze TV of all the tech sector money going to the very candidates that want to break them up.

00:34:27.900 So they're giving money to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

00:34:31.640 Bernie's out there on the stump telling you that if he gets elected, he's going to break these companies up, and yet their employees, the people they pay, are giving those people money.

00:34:40.660 But you know history well enough to know that's exactly what GM, that's exactly what Ford, that's exactly what BF Goodrich and Goodyear Tire did during the FDR administration.

00:34:54.120 They said, you've got to regulate us.

00:34:56.140 And so who did FDR go to?

00:34:58.420 The experts in that industry help us come up with regulation.

00:35:02.440 But that's another conservative thing.

00:35:04.660 You know, we don't like the idea of professors who write term papers on environmentalism regulating oil companies.

00:35:12.720 But they don't know anything.

00:35:13.960 They think they know something.

00:35:15.260 Let's say we've got a peer-reviewed study here by a bunch of other people who are trying to get their stuff peer-reviewed who don't like oil companies.

00:35:21.860 So we say it's nice when people have actual experience, and there's another trap that we just fell right into, our principles.

00:35:28.540 Exactly right.

00:35:29.120 That's why we just have to enforce the laws that we have and make it an even, I mean, they're going to, right now, they are so big, they're gobbling up any competition.

00:35:39.740 Something that Ray Kurzweil said, that would never happen.

00:35:41.920 I said, Ray, let's just play this out.

00:35:45.380 Why would a company that is putting together AI, knowing that whoever has AI, real AI, when they have that, they rule the world.

00:35:57.480 If you are collecting information on me, and you know everything about me, and I happen to be a scientist that's working on AI, and I'm going to beat Google, you're telling me Google would never do anything?

00:36:13.840 They would never manipulate anything on me?

00:36:16.880 They wouldn't come after me?

00:36:19.420 They made this movie, The Net, with, what's her face?

00:36:22.620 Sandra Bullock.

00:36:23.220 Yeah.

00:36:23.400 That was like the first movie out of the gate.

00:36:24.980 Right.

00:36:25.340 And that was the story.

00:36:26.520 And he said to me, Glenn, they would never do that.

00:36:29.600 And I said, why do you say that?

00:36:32.700 Because it's just against our corporate culture.

00:36:36.660 And I said, have you seen real people?

00:36:40.480 Have you seen life and history?

00:36:42.860 I mean, it happens historically the same way over and over and over again.

00:36:47.900 I fear at some point Jeff Bezos is just going to become the lawnmower man.

00:36:52.160 He's just going to – you ever see that movie?

00:36:54.280 No.

00:36:54.520 I think it's a Stephen King book where he becomes like electricity.

00:36:58.360 Like he just – Jeff Fahey is this slow kind of dim-witted guy, and Pierce Brosnan runs these experiments on him by trying to use this like nascent – it's before we called it the internet.

00:37:10.480 It's like 1992, and all of this brain power starts going into the Jeff Fahey character, and he becomes this like electrical, like non-human entity person who can like travel through computers and stuff.

00:37:24.700 And I feel like Bezos is just going to be some like Bond villain in like a giant armor suit that we can't stop.

00:37:30.680 You know, he's just going to go around, you know.

00:37:33.280 I will tell you the guy who would do that is Ray Kurzweil.

00:37:37.140 I mean, Ray Kurzweil, I mean, he's on the cutting edge of all of it.

00:37:40.420 He's with Google.

00:37:41.340 He's the head of their singularity project, and he believes in upgrades, and he will be the first guy that is saying, upgrade me.

00:37:51.120 He'll be the scientist in the lab where everybody's like, no, no, no, we can't do that yet.

00:37:55.160 It's unethical that stays at night and is like, I'm just doing it myself and becomes, you know, part of the machine.

00:38:02.960 You know what scares me the most about this is right now this is good for progressives, right?

00:38:07.520 They're on the winning side here.

00:38:09.280 They're on the winning side of the equation, and there's very few progressive voices.

00:38:14.900 I'm sure there are some that are saying, hey, are we sure we like this?

00:38:19.380 You know, you do see a little bit of liberals saying how the anti-free speech sort of heretic movement is illiberal, right, that we don't have to like these people, but let's be smarter than them.

00:38:32.700 Let's be better than them.

00:38:33.540 Let's debate them.

00:38:34.240 Let's not burn cars and beat people with antifa because we don't like this guy.

00:38:39.060 So there are some liberals that realize that the antifa shock troop, I don't like what you're going to say dynamic is kind of illiberal.

00:38:45.980 It's very illiberal.

00:38:46.740 I'm waiting for them to recognize that when this is bad for us, it's going to be bad for everyone.

00:38:52.700 It's not going to be – they're not going to stop and go, we've defeated the conservatives, we've defeated Trump, we've got our little utopia, everybody's riding on Google trains to Amazon Jobs, right?

00:39:04.580 Everything is great now.

00:39:05.960 Look at what's happening with Nancy Pelosi and AOC just yesterday.

00:39:09.460 And Nancy Pelosi has to bring all of them in and saying, look, stop eating your own. 0.98

00:39:15.960 Get off of Twitter, AOC, and stop eating us alive. 1.00

00:39:20.840 They've already lost control of the real radicals that they were using as fuel.

00:39:28.660 You and I both said 10 years ago, you don't want to open that can of worms because they're going to eat you.

00:39:35.420 You think you're using them.

00:39:37.540 They're using you.

00:39:38.840 And you're going to lose control of this, and they're going to wipe you out first.

00:39:44.320 And that's exactly what they're doing.

00:39:45.960 I don't think these companies want anyone getting in their way.

00:39:49.020 That's the bottom line.

00:39:49.820 They don't want anyone or anything getting in their way.

00:39:52.360 It is they live.

00:39:54.020 It is obey and consume.

00:39:55.720 It is do not think.

00:39:56.860 And, you know, that's scary that liberals think for a short-term victory, this is a good bandwagon to be on.

00:40:03.740 You know that to be true when you actually read what Bill Gates said in the launch of his Common Core curricula.

00:40:11.640 He talked about how they're going to use the cameras to read kids' eyes.

00:40:16.820 And he said that way we'll know early on what they should do for a living, and we can put them in there.

00:40:24.740 It's only about consuming and just being put into a little mold, and you're a little cog, and you go do this, and you'll obey.

00:40:34.180 Brave new world.

00:40:34.580 And you'll consume.

00:40:35.700 Brave new world.

00:40:36.300 Right.

00:40:36.620 That's what they're doing.

00:40:37.580 All right.

00:40:37.900 We are sitting with Andrew Wilkow.

00:40:40.680 We're talking about freedom of speech.

00:40:43.500 I've got a couple of other things.

00:40:44.720 Wait until you hear what he has to share about the women's soccer team.

00:40:49.480 We'll get to that here in just a few minutes.

00:40:51.060 First, I want to just switch over to Tommy Robinson because you had him on yesterday.

00:40:55.840 Yeah.

00:40:56.260 We played a clip of it earlier on the program.

00:41:00.640 He is a hard guy to get a hold of, and he's a hard guy to get a handle on because of the misinformation and disinformation.

00:41:08.700 And I haven't wanted to take a firm stand on him until I've talked to him myself and have some sort of a gut feeling.

00:41:18.660 Now, you've talked to him.

00:41:19.960 Who is he?

00:41:21.480 Let me just say this.

00:41:22.800 And if you're in this business, there's a lot of people that make you look good, right?

00:41:27.400 Like producers, camera people, production people, our staff down in D.C. just threw it out there, right?

00:41:34.200 They threw it out there not knowing if he would get back to us.

00:41:38.140 And while we were in the midst of doing a bunch of other things, like he's on Skype right now.

00:41:43.480 You need to get into this studio and get this done.

00:41:45.860 So I went running into the studio, and he was sitting there, and we were talking off camera.

00:41:52.400 And he was – I could tell you he was as emotional just as we were lining up the shot as he was when we went to record with him.

00:42:02.300 He is somebody that is begging this country.

00:42:05.240 And I started very sarcastically.

00:42:07.400 I said, we've got a million people at the southern border.

00:42:09.320 Why should we give you asylum? 0.95

00:42:10.940 And the story that he told us was that ever since speaking out about these gangs of men who have given over to the belief that non-Muslims are the kafir, they are the non-believers, they are the infidels, 0.99

00:42:29.180 that they have begun to take liberties with young women, mostly in small towns.

00:42:35.880 This makes Jeffrey Epstein look like he's a great guy.

00:42:40.620 I mean, what's happening over in England with the Muslims and what they're doing to young girls, it makes him look like he's done nothing. 1.00

00:42:51.340 It's so bad over there.

00:42:52.860 What he has said is that it's not the threats that are coming from the gangs.

00:42:58.180 It's the fact that he is making these judges and police officials look really bad.

00:43:04.940 And one of the questions I had for him was when these sexual assaults occur, as they've been – we've read about them in Germany since the migrant crisis.

00:43:12.660 It's been – this has been plaguing Europe for quite some time.

00:43:14.840 I said, has any member of government or upper echelon of the police department had any of their daughters subjected to this?

00:43:21.960 He said, no.

00:43:23.160 It's almost as if they know to target lower working class – right? 0.95

00:43:27.860 So this is something that's being done to working class British citizens with the government kind of looking the other way.

00:43:40.420 So he got in trouble for Facebook living, a court case where some of these men were being released on very – you want to talk about the Epstein?

00:43:48.840 Yeah.

00:43:49.100 They got sweetheart deals.

00:43:50.400 And he embarrassed the judge.

00:43:52.580 Right.

00:43:53.080 So now his fear is not the threat, the death threats that he's getting from these gangs, which he says he was informed that six of them were on the way to his house to murder him at one point with bombs and guns and knives.

00:44:06.620 He says, we can't even buy guns for ourselves, but they got them.

00:44:09.980 He says, I genuinely believe my government wants me to go away, that I am the problem with the politically correct society that we have built in Europe.

00:44:21.280 And he said, I'm begging America to see this, that my life is in danger from both these gangs and my own government at this point.

00:44:28.980 He's dead if he goes to prison.

00:44:29.980 And let me add this.

00:44:31.440 I said, you are lucky we have a Republican president because there's no way a Democrat president would insult your government that way.

00:44:37.840 Because if we give him asylum, it's like we're acknowledging, we're saying – and when we think of asylum, we think of really terrible places on earth, right? 0.91

00:44:46.580 We think of dissidents and activists and religious minorities in the Middle East, if we actually acknowledge that Tommy Robinson's life is a threat from the British government, we are saying to the British government, we're going to give someone asylum because we don't think you are going to protect him.

00:45:01.440 I think things might change, though, if Boris Johnson becomes the prime minister.

00:45:06.280 We'll continue our conversation next.

00:45:11.060 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:45:16.580 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:45:46.580 I've seen his TED Talk.

00:45:48.280 I didn't know this until after we decided to book him, but he is – he was the chairperson of the tribute in light for the 9-11 memorial that is – I was here at the time.

00:46:04.220 It was one of the most stunning things and moving things I have ever seen.

00:46:10.240 It's an honor to meet you, sir.

00:46:11.700 Great to be with you.

00:46:12.580 Yeah, thank you.

00:46:13.180 Okay, so I want to go through some of these things.

00:46:16.700 You say the profile of a practical society – and let me just run through these quickly, and then we're going to come back and dissect.

00:46:26.000 Profile of a practical society features the following characteristics.

00:46:31.320 Regulators, police, unsafe conduct, not correctness.

00:46:35.580 Regulation will be more effective, less disruptive when regulators and citizens alike focus on avoiding actual harm.

00:46:42.140 Regulation will be more effective, less disruptive, less disruptive when regulators and citizens alike focus on avoiding actual harm.

00:46:47.360 I mean, that's the role of laws, to prevent harm.

00:46:49.200 It's not to tell us how to live our lives.

00:46:51.200 It's not to replace freedom.

00:46:53.700 Washington basically has written so many rules.

00:46:56.240 They're trying to replace our freedom.

00:46:57.720 They're suffocating people.

00:46:58.820 They think that their job is to protect people, in many cases, from themselves or whoever they deem as the bad guy, where, wait, they're making us all into bad guys in many ways.

00:47:16.040 Yeah, that's right.

00:47:16.820 No one can comply with thousands of rules.

00:47:19.060 You know, it's interesting.

00:47:19.740 They lost the idea of law.

00:47:21.240 Law is supposed to be outer boundaries, protect against people breaching your contracts, committing crimes, polluting.

00:47:27.380 That's fine.

00:47:28.220 And the whole point of that is to make everybody feel more free and to define the field of freedom where people can get along or not, have disagreements, and follow their star on a field of freedom.

00:47:39.320 And what happened beginning about 50 years ago is they got the idea that they would tell people how to do everything correctly.

00:47:46.440 And so they reached like vines reaching in from the outside.

00:47:49.960 They started wrapping around our toes and our necks telling us how to teach a classroom and what forms to fill out even though nobody read them for making clean apples at the orchard or whatever.

00:48:03.620 You know, and it made no sense.

00:48:04.940 And it drives people nuts, and it doesn't work.

00:48:07.600 So which is the chicken and which is the egg?

00:48:12.000 Because part of it, when you have, you know, when you buy a lawnmower and it says on the lawnmower, do not use on roof, you know that's because somebody used it up on the roof and then tried to sue them.

00:48:26.460 So is it, was it the, I mean, as far as I'm concerned, I want those people who see a lawnmower and go, I could use that on my roof.

00:48:33.600 I want you to use it on the roof because it's just survival of the fittest in some ways.

00:48:38.760 But is it, was it the government or was it the attorneys going and suing everybody?

00:48:44.820 It's, well, basically, if you have the idea that you want to warn or prohibit against anything that might go wrong, you have some dweeb in a back office somewhere writing every rule and writing every warning.

00:49:02.960 Not realizing that if you have too many warnings, it's like crying wolf.

00:49:08.640 There's no, it's like no warning at all.

00:49:10.700 It's like white noise.

00:49:11.820 I was, I was at the, I think it's at the South Rim.

00:49:16.180 Is it the South Rim or the, I don't remember.

00:49:18.400 It's the Native American Rim of the canyon. 0.89

00:49:20.440 And you can walk up, I mean, to the edge, okay?

00:49:26.280 It is a terrifying, your butt is clenched for like a week after that experience.

00:49:31.160 And I said to, you know, one of the guys, I said, how many people die here?

00:49:37.080 And he said, funny, we don't have any problem.

00:49:40.140 And I said, what, really?

00:49:42.040 And he said, no, you guys in America, as a Native American telling me, you guys in America,

00:49:47.480 you have so many warnings and so many walls and so many gates.

00:49:52.120 People actually climb over your walls because they think they wouldn't make a wall that I could climb over

00:49:59.080 if they didn't really want me to do it.

00:50:01.660 So it's safe.

00:50:02.780 We are actually doing great damage because people don't think for themselves.

00:50:08.980 They don't think for themselves.

00:50:09.860 They're not alert.

00:50:10.620 There are lots of studies of this.

00:50:12.260 It's counterproductive.

00:50:13.420 The warnings were counterproductive.

00:50:15.200 I mean, my favorite warning was on a five-inch fishing lure.

00:50:18.500 It said, caution, harmful if swallowed.

00:50:23.820 And he sort of scoped into it because it turned out that the hook had lead in it or something.

00:50:31.220 But nobody's going to swallow it. 1.00

00:50:33.320 It's like completely, it's completely idiotic. 1.00

00:50:36.660 And if you did swallow it, everyone would know that's harmful. 1.00

00:50:42.500 Right.

00:50:42.820 Let me go to point number two.

00:50:45.340 Government is accountable.

00:50:47.700 Really, really important.

00:50:49.760 The whole basis of the Constitution was to give, not tell people how to do things,

00:50:54.700 but to give people in government responsibility and to have a mechanism for accountability.

00:50:59.620 That's what democracy is supposed to be.

00:51:01.200 It's a mechanism for accountability.

00:51:03.440 You don't like the people in office.

00:51:05.340 They're not doing a good job.

00:51:06.400 You like new people.

00:51:07.200 But that requires that they be in charge of the people who work for government.

00:51:11.840 So now nobody's in charge.

00:51:14.340 So I wrote an essay, and I'm arguing this in tri-common sense.

00:51:17.740 The civil service system, federal civil services, without any question, violates Article II of the Constitution because Congress subjected the president to collective bargaining in the law in 1978, which means he can't fire anybody, basically.

00:51:32.380 Well, there's a lot of learning, a lot of discussion by Madison early on.

00:51:38.280 Even FDR was against that.

00:51:40.900 Yes.

00:51:41.480 If there's any power inherent in the executive, it's the power to hire and fire.

00:51:47.740 If you break that link in the chain, there is no accountability.

00:51:51.940 And you wonder why it doesn't matter whom you elect.

00:51:54.640 You keep electing new people, expecting things to work differently, and the ship just sails on.

00:52:00.560 You know, it's like this democracy is run by dead people, right?

00:52:03.300 It's run by all the people who wrote all these laws, 40, 50 regulations, 40, 50 years ago.

00:52:08.160 And you can't even fire the people for badly enforcing them.

00:52:13.160 You know, I think there was one place where I think the founders didn't see the future.

00:52:19.020 They didn't see a future where greedy, power-hungry people would gladly give their power up because they didn't want accountability.

00:52:30.420 Yes, they did.

00:52:30.860 And these, you know, divisions now, these giant bureaucracies where the Congress says, okay, you guys make the laws.

00:52:44.860 No, that's your job.

00:52:46.280 You guys make the laws.

00:52:47.680 There is no accountability because who the hell do I complain to?

00:52:52.260 Right, right. 1.00

00:52:52.680 Ask yourself any stupid thing. 1.00

00:52:55.460 Okay, who's responsible for that? 1.00

00:52:57.800 And the answer to that is nobody.

00:52:59.880 Correct.

00:53:00.500 Nobody.

00:53:01.220 Because, oh, the rule made me do it.

00:53:03.100 You know, it's that.

00:53:05.380 That's a system of democracy that's no longer functioning.

00:53:09.140 That's why it's got to get rebooted.

00:53:11.620 The third one, public schools have similar freedoms as charter schools.

00:53:15.760 What does that mean?

00:53:16.600 Oh, boy.

00:53:17.680 I mean, we have so bureaucratized public schools.

00:53:20.480 People have over 20 states now have more non-instructional personnel than teachers.

00:53:26.800 So there are a bunch of people filling out forms.

00:53:28.780 That's where your tax dollars are going.

00:53:30.460 They're filling out forms instead of teaching the kids.

00:53:33.140 I mean, it's literally, combine that with special ed, and you've basically probably wasted about a third or more of the money of the budget.

00:53:42.300 But there's no reason in the world why local communities can't run their local schools the way they want to do it.

00:53:50.420 Exactly right.

00:53:50.660 There's no reason in the world.

00:53:51.940 And by the way.

00:53:52.740 Yes, there is.

00:53:53.620 Department of Education.

00:53:55.120 Right, right.

00:53:55.600 Well, the Department of Education needs to go.

00:53:57.440 And actually, the Trump administration has proposed merging it with the Labor Department, which I think actually makes a lot of sense.

00:54:02.760 But even if you have any role for the federal government, it ought to be as a distant trustee making sure they don't discriminate or something.

00:54:11.460 It shouldn't be getting involved in daily choices where the principal of one school in Brooklyn told me last year she spends all Friday afternoon filling out forms saying that they did things they didn't do in order to protect the teachers from having to worry about all this bureaucracy.

00:54:30.440 Crazy.

00:54:30.920 And she has a very effective school. 0.94

00:54:32.400 So her job as an effective principal is to lie to the bureaucracy. 1.00

00:54:38.580 You know, I have a collection of items from history.

00:54:45.280 And one of my favorites is a shooting target of a teddy bear that was put out by Theodore Roosevelt.

00:54:53.500 And it's a it's a it's an engraving of a teddy bear and it's got targets all over him.

00:55:01.140 And he used this as a way to try to convince the schools all across America he wanted to have a shooting range in every school.

00:55:11.960 Now, to show you how much America has changed, they were not upset about the government saying you should have a shooting range and we should teach kids how to use guns.

00:55:23.640 They were outraged that the federal government thought that they had a role to tell them anything that they should be doing in their local community.

00:55:32.920 Can you imagine how much better people would feel about their local communities if they had actual input into how the schools ran and where bad teachers could be fired?

00:55:46.920 There was a teacher there was a teacher just this week that was said, you know, I can't tell you that the Holocaust is even factual or real history.

00:55:57.120 They weren't fired.

00:55:59.040 They were just transferred to another job.

00:56:02.200 You know, can we talk about accountability for one second?

00:56:06.340 Accountability in an organization, people think of it and we naturally think of it as let's get rid of the bad people.

00:56:12.240 Right. And you do want to get rid of the bad people.

00:56:14.220 But the reason you need accountability in government and in schools and such is for a positive reason,

00:56:20.500 which is that it's only when you know everybody else is in your group, your school or whatever, it's going to be trying hard that you feel good about trying hard yourself,

00:56:29.820 that you have pride in your school, that you have the energy.

00:56:33.800 And if you know that job performance doesn't matter in government or in the school or stuff, what does that do to the energy?

00:56:42.800 It's like putting a hole in a balloon.

00:56:45.060 Every every American has worked at a job where we have said, I don't know if that person has pictures of the boss with sheep or what it is,

00:56:53.440 but they should have been fired long ago.

00:56:55.660 And when they're not, morale goes down and you never accomplish anything.

00:57:01.440 We're going to come back in just a second.

00:57:03.400 A fascinating conversation.

00:57:05.640 I think a great book that everyone should read.

00:57:08.200 Try Common Sense, Replacing Failed Ideologies of the Left and the Right.

00:57:12.280 Try Common Sense.

00:57:13.280 It's by Philip K. Howard.

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The Glenn Beck Program - July 11, 2019

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