The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Rep. Jim Jordan & Justin Haskins ｜ 10⧸9⧸20

00:00:00.000 hey welcome to the friday podcast this is a good one jim jordan joins us from washington

00:00:04.720 uh we talked to uh we talked to i think one of the best uh reporters out there somebody who has

00:00:13.520 really risked everything and has paid a heavy price for telling the truth john solomon we're

00:00:20.240 going to talk to him about what's really going on with the documents and why the why the federal

00:00:27.460 bureau of investigation can seem to catch these whitmer terrorists quickly which i'm glad they did 1.00

00:00:34.700 and yet we still don't know what was going on during the 2016 election where the prosecutions

00:00:40.660 where's the fbi there that and how to argue critical theory all on today's podcast

00:00:47.580 the guy who's one of the watch uh watchmen on the gates uh serves as the ranking member of the house

00:01:07.000 judiciary committee on the and the house oversight uh committee his name is jim jordan one of the more

00:01:12.920 conservative guys in fact i think the most conservative guy in uh congress welcome jim how

00:01:18.080 are you i'm doing fine glenn good to be with you today thank you very much so i want to i want to

00:01:23.160 talk to you about several things uh but uh first of all let me start with the whitmer thing um i

00:01:29.720 condemn this this is these are not right-wing people uh they're not constitutionalists uh they

00:01:36.640 hate donald trump in their own words and the video has the black anarchist flag behind them

00:01:43.680 now yeah i'm glad the fbi took them down but can you tell me why the hell we can take they these

00:01:51.020 guys down in a seemingly such short order but we're still asking the question if there's any 0.90

00:01:56.640 coordination with antifa yeah no i i look i'm like you these guys are these guys are crazy and it

00:02:03.880 and it's great that the fbi is uh is is going after them and and arresting these guys and they

00:02:09.780 should yeah and yeah and they should you're right but but also look at antifa what is it now 120 some

00:02:15.960 days yeah great that they've been laying siege to the to the city of portland i mean literally laying

00:02:20.760 siege to a city um so we need to figure out and we've we've talked to the justice department about

00:02:26.800 this we need to figure out who's financing these folks wait wait wait what is the justice i'm you know

00:02:31.780 uh i'm sorry congressman because i'm not coming out you know on on you hard i really not you're one of

00:02:37.400 the good guys but i am so frustrated with hearing about oh well the justice department and and bill

00:02:44.460 barr is going to be doing you know all the when when yeah well you you you and you and all kinds of

00:02:51.120 other americans glenn you and millions of other americans because well let's just go back to the fbi

00:02:55.280 to the uh to the whole uh trump russia hoax that we now know without a doubt we knew this already but

00:03:00.900 now we have proof without a doubt was a hoax that clinton made it up to cover up her the fact that

00:03:04.500 she destroyed 30 000 emails we got that we got brennan's notes this week so we we know what's

00:03:09.140 up there it is time to figure out can can we actually arrest some people here can we indict

00:03:13.660 some people here so yesterday yesterday the frustration yesterday trump said that uh you know

00:03:20.480 ag bar has more than enough evidence to indict members of the obama administration and i think he

00:03:26.900 went as far as saying obama for the trump you know uh russia stuff uh he said it included obama and

00:03:36.400 joe biden so well do you know what and what the what the president is referencing there and then look

00:03:43.280 bill barr has done a done a good job and i i appreciate the work he's doing but like so many

00:03:47.400 americans we are all like come on we we know what happened here but what i think the president's

00:03:52.100 referring to is the now famous january 5th meeting january 5th 2017 when they're in the white house

00:03:57.080 with it's obama it's biden it's susan rice the now famous email 15 days later where susan rice

00:04:01.900 does the the greatest cover your backside email in history and says oh the president told us to do it

00:04:07.280 all by the book but that's the meeting where they decided we have to get michael flynn because michael

00:04:12.580 flynn is former head of defense intelligence we'll figure out what we did we have to cover it up and the

00:04:17.300 only way to cover it up is to get rid of the guy who was former head of defense intelligence

00:04:20.160 who's now going to be the national security advisor to the president of the united states

00:04:23.740 so that's the day they have to plan to take out michael flynn and they did it just 19 days later

00:04:29.800 january 24th four days in the administration when they went in and set up michael flynn okay so so

00:04:34.160 we know that right we know that we've had that but now we also have evidence that the president was

00:04:40.980 briefed by brennan by brennan twice so i mean this this goes back all the way to the summer before

00:04:48.660 during the election right no it goes back to three days before it goes back to july 28th three days

00:04:57.220 before they open the investigation three days before that brennan tells them it's a hoax clinton's

00:05:01.440 doing it to take the heat off of her clinton's do this to to to people you know conjures this whole 0.89

00:05:06.760 thing up three days before three days later on july 31st they open the investigation so those two

00:05:11.820 things that july 28th notes and then what happened on january 5th 2017 that seems to point to

00:05:17.080 right to the president and to mr uh and to the vice president uh vice president biden and i think

00:05:23.200 that's what the president's referring to so again we can't you and i can't indict anyone

00:05:28.760 right you know you do a great job of giving people information and i'm in congress what i can do is

00:05:33.440 is and we did this we talked about there were just a handful of us three and a half years ago

00:05:38.580 a handful of us who were talking about this and no one wanted to help us and frankly

00:05:42.060 we had we had leaders back then in the republican party who tried to stop this but we said something

00:05:46.920 smells wrong here and the more we dug into it the more we figured out there was a rat here and now

00:05:52.040 it's not now it's time for the justice department to figure out if they're going to indict someone and

00:05:56.980 if they're going to do it they need to do it but we can't control that okay so here's here's the

00:06:01.160 problem as i see the republic is at stake you've i'm sure you have read the uh at least the executive

00:06:08.820 summary of the you know what is it the the transition integrity project have you read that

00:06:15.180 yet i'm not but i've heard about this oh my gosh i'm good about it but i've not read my staff will

00:06:20.120 send you all of the notes and it's not our opinion it's their words these are the same exact people

00:06:28.740 that were involved back then and it is a plot to repeat the 1876 election where

00:06:38.640 it was absolute chaos and i'm telling you it's insurrection how when when is something going to

00:06:46.140 happen is there anyone i mean i don't believe that ag bar is a member of the deep state but there is a

00:06:53.020 there is a group of people who don't care about the election that are just going on and running this

00:07:01.680 country if we don't get it before trump leaves office god forbid we're not going to get it and we

00:07:08.000 lose the republic no that that and that turns me that concerns me uh that that you know but but

00:07:14.740 here's the good news look look look i i understand what the deep state wants to do i understand some

00:07:19.100 of these folks and what they're trying to do but the good news is i think the president's going to win

00:07:22.660 i think he's got i mean you can feel it in in our state you know he won our state by eight and a half

00:07:26.960 and we're always considered the the swing state ohio right uh but but he won and it feels exactly

00:07:32.000 like 2016 in some ways it feels like there's more energy for the president uh now than there

00:07:37.020 was at least there was good about that there was some energy behind hillary clinton being the first 1.00

00:07:42.120 woman etc etc there's no energy behind joe biden none well of course not this this election is about

00:07:50.040 the president it's about the president and and uh the energy the positive energy for the president is

00:07:55.540 is something i've just not seen you can the trump parades the boat parades you can the flags everywhere

00:08:00.480 you can see it across our great state and frankly i've traveled around the country and you can feel

00:08:04.860 obviously if i've been in wisconsin i've been in pennsylvania i'm going to be in texas i'm going to be

00:08:07.800 in florida uh later tonight you can you can feel that as well uh because they know this guy has been

00:08:13.180 fighting for us and here's the thing i always come back to remember the other night when when kamala

00:08:17.740 harris says she she said you can't she couldn't trust the president i'm like you can't trust the

00:08:22.080 president this guy more than any president in our lifetimes glenn has done more of what he said he

00:08:26.440 would do than anyone he said he would cut taxes cut taxes said he reduced regulation reduced regulation

00:08:30.680 said he'd have a great economy had the greatest economy ever before the virus is coming back said

00:08:34.740 he'd build the wall he's built the wall said he'd get out of the iran deal got out of the iran said he

00:08:39.160 put the embassy in jerusalem put it in jerusalem said he'd get a new nafta new nafta and said here's the

00:08:43.960 best one he said i'm going to give you a list of the people i will choose from for the supreme court

00:08:49.140 put out a list chose from that list gorsuch and kavanaugh they're now on the court then he said you

00:08:53.740 know what i'm going to do it again put out a list chose from that list with the passing of justice

00:08:58.160 ginsburg and pick uh amy coney barrett this guy more than any public official more than any politician

00:09:04.120 has done what he has said he would do that's what the american people understand that's what that's

00:09:09.460 what the vice president communicated the other night and that's why i think he's going to win and i

00:09:13.260 think frankly it could be big uh from your lips to god's ear i i if if i didn't have the mainstream

00:09:20.740 media telling and filling your head or my head with polls uh that i think are wildly inaccurate and you

00:09:28.080 can prove those by looking at the methodology um if i didn't have that i would say this is going to be

00:09:34.080 a landslide because the left is so out of touch with the american with the traditional american

00:09:41.520 viewpoints um let me i i know we're pressed for time so let me just ask a couple of uh a couple of

00:09:49.140 other questions brennan has laughed off the claims that hillary approved the russian hoax the media is

00:09:55.820 still treating you know everything they're saying is fact uh how how does this story end for the media

00:10:05.820 what has to happen before the the facts are actually called facts no with the mainstream press

00:10:13.800 it'll never happen but but again the american people can see through the mainstream media well

00:10:18.780 we got the story today steve scully is is is colluding with what what uh scaramucci some some some uh

00:10:24.200 some email today we they're never going to to to see this is the same mainstream media where you had

00:10:31.520 15 people who traveled with the president who said that the comments that were printed by four

00:10:36.080 anonymous sources and they believed the anonymous sources when you had 15 eyewitnesses so when you

00:10:40.980 have when you have john bolton who wrote an anti-trump book say that's not true yeah i mean yeah so

00:10:48.020 the mainstream press is just the democrat party uh pretending that they're doing some kind of

00:10:52.720 journalism when we know they're not so i don't i don't ever think they're going to come around to the

00:10:56.520 truth but the american people get the truth and they know what the what they did to this president

00:11:01.320 was was uh was completely wrong and they started before he was even even elected the only reason

00:11:07.320 i can think nancy pelosi is pulling this 25th amendment stunt is because she's trying to 1.00

00:11:12.280 wear the american people out and just go i can't do this for another four years

00:11:16.760 yeah probably so because you know if you're so confident if you believe all these polls

00:11:22.380 then then you know there's election in 26 days what are you what are you focusing on the 25th

00:11:26.600 amendment for right i mean that's that that if if joe biden is kicking everyone's tail and he's

00:11:31.460 going to win this thing why is he campaigning in pennsylvania right well it seems to me he should be

00:11:35.240 campaigning in wyoming for goodness sake if he's up by if he's up by that amount uh that so i'm like

00:11:40.420 you but remember this cato did a survey now if you can trust this survey which wasn't per se about

00:11:44.680 politics cato did a simple survey they said are you comfortable speaking your mind in the cancel

00:11:49.980 culture environment we find ourselves and they ask the question are you comfortable speaking out

00:11:53.380 62 percent of americans said i'm reluctant to share my views in the cancel culture environment

00:11:58.000 we find ourselves in well if 62 percent of americans are reluctant to share their views on a

00:12:01.920 on a kind of a generalized question might they be a little less than straightforward yeah on a poll

00:12:06.840 asking about the most controversial figure in probably our lifetimes in american politics

00:12:10.880 president trump i i think i think they might so i don't buy the polls because they're no different

00:12:15.760 than they were in 16 when president trump won this election um twitter locked the account of the

00:12:21.740 former uh dni uh the director of national intelligence uh rick grinnell he shared an image of ballots sent

00:12:31.340 to him by a friend living in california who says they were addressed to his parents who have been

00:12:37.440 dead for 10 years why was this happening why why can't we talk about this why why do they feel they

00:12:45.160 have to uh ban him now for that yeah well there's two two questions there first of all why did they

00:12:50.920 ban him this and the second question is look what's happening with these ballots we have a staff person

00:12:55.120 in our office who lives in who got four uh four other ballots sent to her residence four other ballots

00:13:00.960 people who had already moved now you don't think there's potential for mischief there what glenn why is

00:13:06.800 there just one party who thinks it's okay to count ballots after election day even if you can't

00:13:13.260 distinguish the postmark date on the envelope the ballot arrived in why is that the case why would

00:13:17.360 there be only one party who wants that to happen that is the position we find because that's exactly

00:13:22.200 what's going to happen in pennsylvania well i that is scary stuff jim i will tell you that i i fear for

00:13:27.900 the voices if they can take uh grinnell and silence him here here with evidence in his own life we're not

00:13:35.860 going to be able to defend the president or the election uh on social media at all because they will

00:13:40.900 silence all of our voices i am glad you are in congress thank you so much for all that you do

00:13:46.580 and uh and stay in touch you bet thank you if you are ready for some really great news keep listening

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00:14:54.440 hello grace how are you hi how are you very good uh where do you go to school i shouldn't even ask

00:15:04.960 that um you're in texas and you have a professor and tell me about the professor without singling

00:15:11.820 him out or her sure um so my professor uh we're learning about different communication theories and

00:15:20.360 what we have been talking about for the last few weeks is critical theory especially in the economic

00:15:26.600 sense um basically saying that there is a huge gap between the bottom 10 and the top 1 and the people

00:15:35.820 in the bottom 10 are stuck there and the people at the top are resilient and stay at the top and

00:15:42.140 basically have um a hand over everyone and the people at the bottom um especially the communities of

00:15:50.180 color do not really they have a chance but it's a very limited chance of getting even in the top 10

00:15:57.520 right so okay all right so you have to argue uh this it's it's a flawed uh thing to if you're going to

00:16:07.760 argue that this system as it currently stands is a free market because it's not a free market uh it is

00:16:16.120 big businesses and those with real money uh colluding uh with congress and and everybody else not through

00:16:24.720 just elections uh but through uh lobbying that really i mean that's why you see google and uh twitter

00:16:34.300 getting all of the special exemptions because they've got enough money to be able to do it so don't argue

00:16:40.700 uh that this system that we're using right now this system needs to be cleaned up and people need to go

00:16:47.260 to jail and laws need to be enacted to stop this kind of stuff uh grace let me introduce you to

00:16:52.700 justin haskins have you have you two met have you already talked on the phone uh we actually talked

00:16:58.280 yesterday on the phone yes all right so justin welcome justin uh justin is i think one of the best

00:17:04.980 voices on uh socialism marxism uh what's going on in america and uh also critical theory and i get a

00:17:15.320 little uh fuzzy and probably too much in the weeds on critical theory so i wanted to get justin who i

00:17:22.920 think is really good hi justin hey how you doing glenn i'm good to speak with you good good to talk to

00:17:29.900 you uh so justin you understand what grace is trying to find out right i do yes grace and i

00:17:38.880 spoke yesterday and uh she's got an assignment coming up and if we don't get an a on this assignment

00:17:44.420 i'm gonna have a black five matter like protest on the front lawn of the college i think that's

00:17:49.260 what we're gonna do okay that's gonna be the plan so justin i do understand it take her take her

00:17:54.020 through and the audience because there's a lot of people you know i just talked to gad scat gad sad

00:18:00.080 yesterday and and by the way if you're a blaze tv subscriber that is out right now you can watch it

00:18:06.820 on demand tomorrow it'll be released on youtube for everybody else about three o'clock in the afternoon

00:18:11.760 but grace i urge you to watch that because he's also uh i mean he's a professor and he explains

00:18:19.700 what's going on really really well i think that will help you as well if you have somebody in your

00:18:24.880 life that is trying to figure things out watch that podcast with him um because he's he's really

00:18:30.460 good all right so justin where do we start okay so i think the the best the most important thing to

00:18:36.460 understand is what critical theorists are trying to do and what critical theorists are trying to do

00:18:42.040 is they're looking at the world the way of looking at the world that's what critical theory is

00:18:45.600 and what they're trying to do is they're trying to explain why the problems that exist in the world

00:18:49.940 exist the way that they do and essentially what critical theorists argue and there's a whole bunch

00:18:56.780 of different kinds of critical theories but what they always try to argue is um that the reason why

00:19:02.840 some groups of people in society whether it's race or religion or any other kind of group class

00:19:08.560 um the reason why those people are not successful relative to other people not as successful as other

00:19:15.540 people is because of power structures differences between power in society so for example critical

00:19:24.040 race theory is one of the easiest ones to understand uh white people wrote the laws of the united states

00:19:29.580 this is how a critical race theorist would talk white people wrote the laws of the united states so the

00:19:34.640 system is rigged in the favor of white people even if they didn't do it uh deliberately they 0.67

00:19:41.980 subconsciously did it they created a system that benefits their own group and so african americans

00:19:48.340 and hispanics and other groups they have no hope of success because the rules are written to favor 1.00

00:19:53.700 the people who are in power and and that's what makes it so hard for people to move out of lower

00:19:59.620 classes into upper classes this is what they would argue and so all the problems that exist in society

00:20:05.940 exist directly or indirectly because of a difference in power dynamics between groups so the only way

00:20:13.880 to fix that is for there to be no differences in powers between groups now this is why it's so

00:20:20.280 important for people it's really important for people to understand this this is a fundamentally

00:20:24.760 marxist concept and the reason i say that is not only because karl marx made these exact same kinds

00:20:31.320 of arguments about wealth when he's arguing against capitalism right but because when you take this to

00:20:36.140 its logical end if you have different amounts of wealth in society even if you could fix all the

00:20:41.760 other differences in power if you have different amounts of wealth in society then you have different

00:20:45.360 amounts of power in society so the only way to fix the problem if you take it to its logical end

00:20:51.260 is for everyone to have exactly the same amount of wealth that's communism that's why the system

00:20:56.140 ultimately always leads back to marxism because that's the only way for there to have no differences 0.81

00:21:02.560 in power that in in society the other way to go is like a national socialism or some sort of

00:21:08.840 authoritarianism doesn't have to be communism but it's always marxism um you know the the nazis were

00:21:15.640 socialists national socialists and what they said was um you can have private property but you can only use

00:21:24.680 it the way the state wants you to use it uh what the great reset now being pushed by uh the un

00:21:31.500 um and also the economic forum world economic forum uh that great reset is based on this same thing

00:21:39.560 that we're going to balance everything out and you'll be a companies will be able to own things

00:21:44.920 but and they'll be the manufacturing company apple will still exist but they'll be partners with

00:21:51.720 the government they'll have to make the things that the government and their advisors say they need

00:21:57.980 to make um and it's more of a chinese communism where it's a hybrid between the two they say but

00:22:06.940 there is no free market in that would you agree justin yeah that that's that's exactly right this is

00:22:14.420 the way that you you get socialism in the 21st century you're not going to get it through

00:22:18.600 marching people out of the cities into communes in the countryside like they did 50 60 years ago

00:22:24.960 it's just not going to happen you're going to do it exactly the way you just described

00:22:28.760 by controlling the economy not necessarily owning everything and the elites of course are the only

00:22:35.320 people in in the world who are qualified enough to tell everyone in the world how to live it has to

00:22:41.140 be the the elites that control all of us so you're exactly right and that's that's what the great

00:22:45.980 reset is all about and that's what the world economic forum is pushing for this is the best

00:22:53.140 of the glenbeck program

00:22:54.340 i do want to mention actually if you don't mind that my professor did say yesterday in class he

00:23:04.220 said if you disagree with me i appreciate that because you are not taking things at face value

00:23:10.920 good for him yeah i'm sure he'll appreciate this paper yeah good good good so um what what else do

00:23:18.660 you need help with sure so how would you oppose critical theory without sounding heartless

00:23:27.720 oh my gosh this is this is great this is great we could go on for two hours on this one

00:23:35.040 you want to start justin yeah i i think that the best way to start is to do exactly what glenn said

00:23:41.700 earlier and admit that the current system is broken it's full of cronyism it's no good we don't like

00:23:47.520 the current system as it stands now it's not really important yeah it's not the free market what we're

00:23:53.020 experiencing is not the free market exactly and then i think this i think the second point that you

00:24:00.520 want to hammer right away is you want to say look what i want is a system that makes everyone wealthy

00:24:07.600 i want everyone's life to be better i want everyone to be wealthy and successful and healthy and happy

00:24:13.500 that's what i want and i believe that history shows unequivocally that the best way to do that

00:24:19.360 is to have a free market economic system that when you the the freer the market is in a society

00:24:25.880 and coupled with individual liberty coupled with protections under the rule of law the freer that

00:24:31.760 market is the more economic success that country has for everybody across the board it's in the book

00:24:38.940 we talk about the really important point to make in the book we talk uh about india and if you look at

00:24:45.260 india uh it was a communist country it was a socialist country the caste system i mean it was you were

00:24:53.380 either going to make it or you're not now that there is the free market in india india is exploding it's

00:25:00.820 it's still not uh america uh but it is changing a great deal and it gives people the opportunity

00:25:09.340 at any level to start something themselves you in india you have all kinds of shop owners that had

00:25:18.280 nothing they had nothing and now they have their own cart or their own shop and they're much happier

00:25:25.420 and have access to wealth now that they didn't have before that's that's exactly right and actually the

00:25:34.000 story of india and really the story of some of the liberalization that's gone on in china too although

00:25:40.100 they're obviously not a free market country um in both of those places hundreds of millions of people

00:25:47.080 over the past 50 hundreds of millions of people more people have left poverty in those countries

00:25:53.480 than people live in the united states in just the past 50 years so why is it that we don't hear that

00:26:00.640 narrative ever being talked about when we have these conversations about socialism and capitalism and

00:26:07.120 capitalism and free markets even though they're just putting a little drop of free market capitalism

00:26:12.820 into their system they are lifting hundreds of millions of people from poverty the best thing

00:26:17.360 that could have ever happened to india and to china is even just a little bit of of capitalism in their

00:26:24.280 society and so it's and use the word free market over capitalism because capitalism is is what people

00:26:30.760 think of when they think of this country and uh this country unfortunately is crony capitalism uh it is on

00:26:39.540 the path to what russia has russia doesn't have a free market you have a bunch of people that are still

00:26:45.920 in pain because you had the the former communist take control they just took off their uniform and put a suit

00:26:53.800 on now they become oligarchs and now they off each other um it's it's it's a mob run system uh over

00:27:02.000 there russia is an example of of of communists not knowing how to use the free market as the everyday

00:27:12.660 average person and then those in power taking control again and instead of just having the state take it

00:27:20.460 from people they just take it they just take the power and the money and they become oligarchs so you

00:27:26.500 need to really talk about um adam smith's understanding of a moral society uh and a uh and and a uh um

00:27:38.640 a system that you you haven't seen here in america it requires people to be involved but if you believe

00:27:48.380 in the individual and you believe in free will and freedom of choice which i believe is is

00:27:56.480 a god thing we were given free will if you believe in martin luther king and what he said

00:28:03.080 that all men should be looked at and judged by the content of their character not the color of their

00:28:08.480 skin not their wealth nothing just what is it they do a merit-based society where the government as it

00:28:16.940 says in the declaration of independence is instituted among men to protect those rights

00:28:24.460 right now our government is protecting the rights of the wealthy instead of protecting the rights of

00:28:31.520 all men it's why justice is blind but we don't have a blind justice system anymore look at what happens 0.94

00:28:39.120 if you are a elected official you can get away with anything if you're somebody with power you can get

00:28:46.160 away with it if you're somebody who's just the average joe you go to prison that's not blind justice 0.98

00:28:54.060 that's not the constitution that's not part of the system that we uphold we want people to uh

00:29:03.720 to be uh happy and fulfilled but unless you can um chart your own course unless you can say yeah i know

00:29:14.020 i'm gonna be poor because it it sucks but uh i really believe in the toy train wheel store because i'm an

00:29:22.660 expert on toy train wheels and that's all i want to sell okay well that's probably not going to be

00:29:28.580 successful but that person goes to work every day and they love their job they love it because they have

00:29:36.440 the chance to be who they are i can't guarantee you a success on that but uh they uh they are happy

00:29:45.960 the other thing you have to remember um and this is really kind of adam smith's moral sentiments in a

00:29:53.500 nutshell the best kind of capitalism is the kind of capitalism that says what do people need okay

00:30:03.320 what do they need how can i make their life better for instance windows windows by bill gates

00:30:11.460 changed the world and made our lives so much easier because all of a sudden we didn't have to have to

00:30:19.100 learn code it just all of a sudden the window was there and we could use these instruments and they've

00:30:25.360 changed the world and made all of our lives better apple what does the world need they they need a way

00:30:32.620 to access music and their phone and take pictures so the free market asked what do they need

00:30:39.580 and then it created it so the best way for capitalism to really work is when you have those entrepreneurs

00:30:48.880 that are saying how can i like make people's lives better how can i make their lives easier when people

00:30:55.600 are incentivized to help other people uh amazing things happen for instance it will always be the rich

00:31:05.420 that get i'm in fact my wife for my 40th birthday 15 years ago my 40th birthday my wife bought the very

00:31:13.840 first flat screen hang on the wall television it was a sony trinitron flat screen it weighs a ton

00:31:23.400 uh and it costs ten thousand dollars a flat screen now hangs in some of the lowest class uh homes

00:31:34.620 in america because yes the rich do buy it but that money pushes it forward so it can go down and

00:31:44.080 become cheaper and cheaper and cheaper until people can everybody can access it

00:31:48.360 yeah that that's that's a that's a great point glenn and the other the other side of that is that

00:31:56.040 progress that progress can only come when you have a high level of efficiency in the economy

00:32:02.640 and what government does when they start getting involved in the economy is slowing that efficiency

00:32:07.900 down and making it harder for that progress to occur and that actually limits the ability over the long

00:32:15.320 run for lower income people to move out of poverty because they're limiting economic opportunities and we

00:32:21.920 see this across our entire country at the state and federal level with things like occupational licensing

00:32:28.600 rules where you can't even cut people's hair now without getting a license we see this for all kinds

00:32:33.700 of other things regulations are actually keeping people in poverty and limiting economic growth if we

00:32:40.560 didn't have so much of that the economy would be growing faster people would be making more money the

00:32:46.000 quality of life would be improved that's not happening in large part because the government is

00:32:51.340 keeping its boot on the throat of regular people and not allowing them to have those economic 0.80

00:32:58.300 opportunities and then the system is rigged at the top because the wealthiest most influential

00:33:04.020 corporations are able to buy support at the political level to craft the rules so it benefits them and not

00:33:10.100 their competitors if free market system would never allow for any of that to happen and i i just want

00:33:15.900 you to remember one thing uh grace um you people will say but yeah but people will suffer people will

00:33:24.280 people will go broke yes yes they will um it is not always because you're a non-compassionate hate

00:33:35.020 monger that you say people have to pay the consequences the banks never paid the consequences they were say they

00:33:43.860 were saved by the federal government in this in this crony capitalism they made really bad unethical

00:33:51.820 decisions they should have paid for it now would we have all paid for it yes but i can tell i contend we

00:33:59.040 are paying for it in a different way right now with civil unrest it is a loving parent that allows their

00:34:07.460 children to feel the ramifications of their own actions my dad told me if you ever are pulled over

00:34:15.000 and you're drunk or driving and you get pulled over and you're going to jail you will not see my ass bailing 0.91

00:34:20.700 you out and he meant it and it why did he do that because he's a bad guy no because my actions

00:34:29.060 have serious consequences and i need to pay that price that's real compassion not just handing everybody

00:34:39.740 anything that they want um grace i've got to run is how has this been helpful yes absolutely this has

00:34:47.940 helped me so much narrow down how i can argue against critical theory great um we want to hear the

00:34:54.840 updates on it and send me your paper because i'd love to read it all right all right thank you you

00:35:01.260 bet thanks justin thank you very much uh you bet justin and i by the way are working on a new book

00:35:07.100 you are going to really really love

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