Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears & Edwin Black ｜ 10⧸26⧸23
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On today's show, Glenn and Stu talk about the mass shooting in Las Vegas, the Virginia primary election, and the Jewish woman who is encouraging people to go buy guns. They also have a special guest on the show, Virginia Lt. Governor, Winsome Earl Sears.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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The Lieutenant Governor of Virginia is a friend of the program.
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And she joins us now to talk about the election in Virginia that is coming up.
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And they're saying that this is going to set the tone for the entire country for 2024.
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And the extreme left of the Democratic Party has won the primaries.
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And so when this comes down, it is either going to be sanity or insanity.
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And we'll hopefully get some idea of which way it's going from Winsome.
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So tell me when, first of all, this is coming up in just a couple of weeks, is it not?
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Well, yeah, the official day, but it's been happening since September 22nd.
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Remember, there are 45 days before the actual day.
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And that's why we can't afford to wait for the traditional election day.
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We're talking about, you know, even anti-Semitism.
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We're talking about just the ability to speak one's mind.
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And also, we're talking about being able to attract businesses to come to Virginia because businesses are job creators.
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And then we're talking about what's happening in our schools when it comes to biological males, you know, being in showers with our girl children.
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And, you know, I sometimes, Glenn, you think the world has gone mad.
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It's just that some of them are just about control and power.
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And those of us who have a head on our shoulders must show that we understand there's common sense.
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Does it does it worry you at all that the the far left Democrats defeated the moderate Democrats?
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It seems like there's a good portion of America that is going over the cliff in a big way.
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Listen, Glenn, the Democrats who have won their primary elections thus far, they are so left that if the earth was flat, they would fall off.
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And and unfortunately, I think we've come to a time in America where we are compromising from the left.
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In other words, the left has gone so left that when Republicans look at compromising, we're actually in the middle of the left.
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We're not compromising from the center of the spectrum.
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So they've gone left and we've gone left with them.
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So what are you looking at for the for the vote?
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Virginia is not one that turns everybody over, is it?
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Yes, we all 100 House of Delegates seats are up and all 40 seats in the Senate are up.
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And what we have found, which is just so disheartening to me, is that we found 500,000, count them, Glenn, 500,000 Republicans who voted in 2021 and gave us the victory in the governor's race, my race, the attorney general's race and the House.
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And yet the very next year, Glenn, they did not vote in the congressional race.
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We could have had, Glenn, a totally different Congress Congress right now.
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We could have sent, I believe, at least two, if not three more House of Representatives members to Congress.
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The 500,000, they are the ones who only vote if there's a presidential race coming up or if it's a gubernatorial race.
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They think, you know, local politics isn't important.
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I mean, I don't understand people who don't think that state and local politics matter at this point.
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You're seeing the effects of all of it, all the way down to your house and your own children.
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And that's why we're saying Virginia is we think a bellwether.
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This is happening all over the state, you know, with Republicans.
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They in the Democrat Party have figured out how to get their 500,000 to vote.
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From this day forward, you will get a ballot for every primary election.
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A ballot will be mailed to you for every special election.
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A ballot will be made to you for every general election.
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I said to myself, oh, my goodness, this is how the Democrats are beating us.
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I don't have to do anything except go to my mailbox.
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And by the way, there's a government stamp on the return envelope.
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I had a ballot in September for an election in November.
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Don't tell me that this isn't how they're beating us.
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Well, thankfully, Glenn, thankfully, there is hope.
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We've been able to get those people who generally are not voters in these off-year elections, as we call them.
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But then, you know, we've just started on this journey.
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So let's hope it holds because the polls look good.
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How secure is the vote in Virginia, do you think?
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In fact, we have, because we have won, you know, now we are the ones who are doing the securing the vote.
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In fact, we have a website, secureyourvotevirginia.com.
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I think it's too late now to go and sign up to get an S&T ballot.
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But you sure can go in and to the registrar's office today, tomorrow, the next day, and go vote.
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But coming back to this, we have found voters, like 18,000-some voters, who were dead but still on the roll from all the way back in 1960.
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And we even got a vote passed this year that said, from now on, you will have the voter rolls cleaned up every month, every month, every time we get a moving notice from the post office, every time we get a death notice from the, goodness, I'm working too hard.
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From the health department, et cetera, you know, and from Social Security, then we clean up the rolls.
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We have been doing it in the past, culling the rolls every six months.
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We're doing that now every month, and we have removed, I think it was almost 200, 300,000 just by doing that.
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And we've partnered with other states and other organizations to make sure that our elections will be safe, secure, et cetera.
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Well, in 2016, MSNBC and Morning Consult did a poll, and the Democrats, 65% of Democrats said they did not believe elections were free and fair.
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Well, then came 2020, and the Morning Consult people did another poll, and this time it said it was the Republicans' turn.
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70% of them said they don't believe that elections were free and fair.
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So, you know, neither side, you know, believed in the process, but I can tell you, we're cleaning it up.
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The rumblings of Governor Youngkin jumping into the presidential race, have you heard that?
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Oh, yeah, everybody's heard it, but, I mean, we are focusing on 2023, and that's where his head is at.
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Glenn, we've got to win the Senate, and we've got to keep the House.
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We've got to fend off these extreme left Democrats, so we're focusing on 2023.
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Good, and the vote is November, I think it's the 7th, but you can vote in Virginia now.
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You know, Glenn, we tend to forget, as humans, how bad things have been once things get better,
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and we forget that they shut down our schools, the Democrats did.
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They shut down our houses of worship, said they hadn't gone far enough.
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You know, Glenn, this is why the Democrats said they had lost in 2021, that they hadn't gone far enough.
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And if we don't believe them, what did they do after we won in 2021?
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Well, they were picketing and protesting outside the Supreme Court justices' homes who live in Virginia.
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The Commonwealth attorneys didn't do anything about it, even though there's a law that says you can't do that.
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I mean, school boards went off kilter, even worse.
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So what I'm saying to you is the Democrats have told us how they feel.
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They said they didn't go far enough when they had absolute power.
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The Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earl Sears.
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Listen, when she was saying the Democrats said that they hadn't gone far enough,
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they just, the people that are running in their primaries,
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they just got rid of all of the moderate Democrats.
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If you are in Virginia and you think, like I do, I think like the founders did,
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And how this goes will give us some indication.
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If this goes well for the Democrats in Virginia, it's not going to be good.
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The rest of the country is watching Virginia now.
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So we have this really disturbing video of Jewish students at Cooper Union College
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who are locked inside of the library for their own safety
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due to pro-Palestinian protests that were happening right outside.
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Georgetown University, do we have the videos of Georgetown?
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These were projected onto the library at Georgetown Washington
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Divestment from Zionist genocide now and free Palestine from the river to the sea.
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I can't imagine what it is like to be a Jew today in America.
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She also has a podcast, the Carol Markowitz show.
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And she has been getting on and encouraging people who are Jewish to get armed.
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You wrote in January about the Chosen Comedy Festival that came to Miami.
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And you said you started to notice a difference with Jews back then.
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So, I mean, look, this latest round of Jew hatred is more violent and louder and bigger,
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And Jews were being beaten up in the streets of Brooklyn, where I was living at the time.
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Every day there would be a new attack, and nobody was talking about it because the perpetrators
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And since I've moved to Florida, I've seen a change in Jews.
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And I know it's, you know, definitely happening in Florida, but it's happening elsewhere as well,
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where they realize that nobody's coming to save them.
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And so what happened at that Chosen Comedy Festival was so funny because a Jewish comedian,
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this woman, got on stage, and she made some anti-gun jokes, and the crowd started booing.
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I was so happy and just, I had so much respect for these people who were saying,
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I'm not going to be gunned down when nobody's going to be around to protect me.
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I'm going to get armed, and this is not funny to me.
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I, you know, shot a gun for the first time like two years ago.
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But look, we're getting armed, and we're not waiting around for somebody to come save us.
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It's not, look, it's not just for Jews, obviously, but Jews were never, you know, kind of into guns.
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And I think it needs to become our thing, and very quickly, because what we realized is,
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Even if you're living in Israel, even if you're protected by the amazing Israeli military,
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you're still just at risk of attack, and you can't live like that.
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So the best thing that you can do for your family, whether or not you're Jewish, is become
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armed, become trained, learn how to use your weapon, and not be afraid.
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Is it true that in Boca, there's a group called Locks and Glocks?
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So, you know, this is why Israel is so important, because your guns could be taken from you here.
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The first thing they do is either disarm the entire population or disarm the Jews.
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That's why Israel is so important, because you are in charge.
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But, you know, my middle son and I visited your history museum, you know, last year,
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And the important lesson here is that you can't let them take your guns.
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And the history has shown so many different examples of that.
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I have faith in Americans that they're not giving up their weapons without a fight.
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But, you know, you see it happen again and again.
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You know, I had this conversation with a friend today, a Jewish friend who I'm convincing to get armed,
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lives in New York City, college educated, and has been fooled for so long to believe that getting a gun is super easy.
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And she said, you know, can I just go to my target and pick up a rifle?
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And so, you know, I think that step one is making people face the truth that they've been lied to about our gun rights
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and they've been lied to about the ease of getting weapons because it's not that easy.
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And the second thing is to be prepared in advance, not to wait until history catches up with all of us and they come for our guns.
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So, Carol, you know, I was with you and your son and your son was incredibly, incredibly bright.
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Yeah, I think we ended up spending many hours together because of him.
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How are you dealing with a son that is bright, so knows what's going on, and how is that affecting him?
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We've tried to keep kind of the details of what's going on away from them, but it's hard because it's, you know, everywhere.
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But I also, we teach them personal security again.
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They know that their parents are armed and not taking that very seriously.
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We're going to take them shooting, you know, as soon as that's okay to do at their ages.
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And we're going to make sure that they know that their security is their own responsibility
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and that they can't wait around for somebody else to save them.
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As Jews, but also just as Americans, you have to be prepared for the worst-case scenario.
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It's scary, but I feel a lot better when I look at pictures of myself at the range with my big gun.
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Especially if you know what you're doing with it.
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If you don't know what you're doing with it, you're a danger to yourself, your family, and your community.
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Carol, can I ask you, I've tried to prepare this audience for the last 15 years or so
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And I felt that I had ability to see into what was coming.
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And it so concerned me about what was happening.
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And now for it to happen, I hope my family and I have done enough to get to a place to where we won't make the mistake of Christians and everybody else
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I think the lack of fear, not being afraid to speak out.
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Just speaking the truth about what's going on in the country.
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I think that a lot of people on the left need to lie to themselves and say that this isn't really happening.
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And I just look, Jews and Christians very closely aligned for a lot of reasons.
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But I feel like our fates are also intertwined.
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It's not like, oh, they just came for the Jews and then they left the Christians alone.
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So I think that, you know, I'm so I actually so proud to be a conservative at times like this, even though things are bad.
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But, you know, I do feel good being a conservative because our side is overwhelmingly on the side of the right.
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And they know what's going on and they're not pretending otherwise.
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We pray for all of the Jews, wherever they are in the world and all those who are standing up to that will recognize evil for what it is and stand up against it in all of its forms.
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The amount of time that I have spent and the years that people have said, what are you doing?
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And the fact that I know the Lord said to me, do not stop on this.
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And because I had a lot of pressure to stop talking about the caliphate, stop talking about Islam, stop talking about the Jews and Israel so much.
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And to see it happen now is tragic, just tragic.
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And I ask you, if you are a long time listener, to please don't let our time go.
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Please remember the things that we have, we have talked about and we've taught each other, especially on this front.
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And the words of Bonhoeffer have never been more true.
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I mean, it may mean that some of us get beaten in the streets.
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But if you see somebody who is cowering, and I don't care which group is doing the ill.
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If you see a bunch of pro-Palestinian people making Jews cower, get between them.
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Edwin Black, who is an amazing, amazing author.
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He has been tracking down the roots of the Holocaust and man's inhumanity to man, the progressive era, and the lies of eugenics forever.
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He also is the author of The Far Hood, which we will probably talk a little bit about.
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And we've been talking about these things, and I can't believe that we're here.
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Yes, I think it's no longer that the threat is over a distant hill, and I don't think the threat is even around the corner.
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Just yesterday, students at Cooper Union Library, Jewish students, were trapped in the library because Palestinians were knocking on the window and wanted them.
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There was a home invasion of a Jewish man in Studio City, Los Angeles.
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He, his wife, and his children, and he was screaming that they were Jewish and he was going to kill them.
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I mean, if I hear one more thing about Islamophobia from this president and a refusal to acknowledge what is happening to Jewish Americans, it is astounding to me.
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I think that the problem is that a lot of people in America are sleeping with the enemy, and the Palestinians have come here, and they've embedded themselves, and they've just turned so many people against the United States and specifically against Jews.
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Almost all of it involves fake information, fake history, fake facts, and unfortunately, our colleges are ground zero for both hate and ignorance, and that is a very precarious intersection.
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So has any society in history been at this point with Jews and turned it around?
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One of the things that I have stressed is that I know that Jews came here after the Holocaust, and I know that my parents and many parents didn't want to discuss their experiences in the Holocaust.
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They thought everything was okay, they thought everything was okay, everybody got a job, everybody got a couple of cars, a bunch of TVs, and everything was hunky-dory.
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And even while I've been here in Dallas, Jews in the community are petrified to discover the facts right in front of their face.
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And I think what happened in Germany, what happened throughout Europe, in many locations throughout the centuries, we may be facing that here.
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We may be facing the dispossession of the Jewish people in the United States if the wrong people get elected, and it may come as soon as 2025.
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But there is a huge rehearsal for this right now, and it's not the juridical rehearsal, it's not just the trumped-up Farrah violations, it's not just the special assessments, it's not the clawback, it's the actual violence.
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In fact, what frightens me is last year, I started a series on my show, The Edwin Black Show, called Kristallnacht 2.0.
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And I had several of American Jewry's best thinkers and legal minds on the show, and all of them finally said, yes, it's coming.
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So, the third installment of this was canceled several days ago because the war broke out between Hamas and Israel.
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It quickly spread far beyond Gaza, all the way to the Brooklyn Bridge, and all the way to L.A. County.
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You were recognizing Farhud Day, right, this summer?
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I wrote a book called The Farhud, that's F-A-R-H-U-D, which means violent dispossession,
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about a horrible Arab-Nazi pogrom riot massacre in Baghdad on June 1, 1941.
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Babies killed in front of their parents, parents killed in front of their babies.
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And this arose out of a massive worldwide Arab and Muslim alliance with the Nazis during World War II,
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Hussein, I wrote that book and worked very hard to have International Farhud Day established and announced
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at the United Nations in a live global chat streamed announcement.
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And I said, to the astonishment of just about everyone, I said, is it going to be in Syria?
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And then, it's going to be in the United States.
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I said, I set forth my reasons, and unfortunately, the hell of it is, the damnation of it is that I've been validated.
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Why is it always socialism, Marxism, that accompanies this?
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I mean, when I first started seeing that progressivism started as communism,
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and then they approved Hitler until Hitler was discredited, but they still ride on this Marxist wave.
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Marx himself was a horrible, horrible anti-Semite, even though he was Jewish.
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Well, it's true that Marx is an idol within the progressive movement,
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and his birthday is celebrated all over the campuses of the United States.
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But when it comes to this particular threat, this is beyond progressivism.
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There is always a Marxist contingent to it, a communist contingent to it,
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but generally, that is a backlash to the capitalistic system.
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So there's always 10 or 12 factions, and one of them is always the communists, the socialists, the anarchists.
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It's basically about denuding personal freedoms, and it's coming here.
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And the Jews are going first, unless they wake up.
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And right now, they've got one or two drugs they've got to take, no-dose or Ambien.
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And if the Jews go on Saturday, the Christians are going on Sunday.
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I have made the case, privately mainly, that if you believe in good and evil,
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and evil is trying to best God, that evil, when he saw the Abrahamic covenant,
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But if God breaks his promise, he ceases to be God.
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And he says, he's going to make these people powerful and going to be as many as the stars in the sky.
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At least this is my feeling, that it is this evil that has targeted the Jews from the very beginning.
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Because this happens over and over and over again.
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Many of these plates are now crashing down on our head.
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Lies are living within us because we don't know any better.
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And right now, we have people thriving on ignorance and malcontent.
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And I think it'd be a long debate to divine just what is the definition and dimension of the evil that we are facing now
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and the evil that the Jewish people have faced throughout their times, just as you say.
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My father used to say, there's a suitcase under the bed.
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Edwin Black, host of The Edwin Black Show, author of IBM and the Holocaust and The Far Hood, which is F-A-R-H-U-D.