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00:01:34.960 So that was, what do you got?

00:01:36.700 What do you got?

00:01:37.560 You talked about a bunch of stuff.

00:01:42.360 Okay, here's the podcast.

00:01:43.680 Jim Jordan is joining us now from Washington, D.C.

00:02:02.900 Hello, Jim.

00:02:03.580 How are you, sir?

00:02:04.840 I'm fine, Glenn.

00:02:05.520 How are you doing today?

00:02:06.160 I am, I'm actually kind of positive today.

00:02:10.260 I think you are doing a great job and a great service.

00:02:14.920 I think there are several of you now in Congress that I actually trust and believe you're actually going to do something.

00:02:23.260 So thank you for that.

00:02:25.140 Thank you.

00:02:25.920 Well, thanks for all you've been doing to get the word out to the American people.

00:02:28.580 So, Jim, tell me, this was incredible yesterday.

00:02:33.000 First of all, you gave your opening dialogue on, you know, a monologue on what you were going to see.

00:02:40.100 And then the Democrats came out and they said, what you're going to see are lies, half-truths, and fantasies.

00:02:47.800 I've never seen anything like that, especially when you are presenting whistleblowers.

00:02:53.820 Yeah.

00:02:54.260 And these guys are good men who love this country and value the Constitution, the First Amendment.

00:02:59.600 And but for guys like them, these guys and others like them, we wouldn't know about what they did with parents at school board meetings.

00:03:07.380 We wouldn't know about what they're doing to pro-lifers praying at clinics.

00:03:10.120 We wouldn't know about that, you know, Catholics attending Mass, that the Richmond Field Office viewed them as radical, traditional, Catholic extreme.

00:03:18.460 I mean, we wouldn't know about those things.

00:03:20.760 But for guys like this and the fact that they were willing to come forward shows just what good people they are and their commitment to the Constitution and to the oath they took.

00:03:28.920 But then what they've faced, the retaliation.

00:03:32.840 I mean, they literally tried to crush these guys, particularly Mr. O'Boyle and Mr. Frank.

00:03:37.360 It is so sad.

00:03:39.460 Yeah, it's so sad.

00:03:40.500 But for them, we wouldn't know the things we know and wouldn't be able to be in a position to make the case for, you know, going after these agencies in the appropriations process, which is what we have to do.

00:03:51.660 So I did a special last night on the reckoning of the Biden crime family.

00:03:56.380 And one of our listeners wrote in and wanted me to ask you today, is there a way to help these whistleblowers?

00:04:03.100 I'm concerned for them and their families.

00:04:06.220 Yeah, you can.

00:04:07.400 They have there.

00:04:09.460 They can receive like it's not GoFundMe, but there's there's ways that we should.

00:04:13.160 I should have that information.

00:04:14.380 OK, I'll get it from your office and we'll share it.

00:04:16.280 Yeah, we will try to get that.

00:04:17.360 Yeah.

00:04:18.520 So what is the next step here?

00:04:22.160 Because we had, you know, we had the dossier come out with the.

00:04:30.260 Yeah, they know, not the steel dossier, but the report.

00:04:33.220 The Durham report.

00:04:33.680 Yeah, the Durham report.

00:04:34.720 Thank you.

00:04:35.380 We had the Durham report come out and the media is blind.

00:04:39.160 And to me, this shows how deeply in trouble this nation is.

00:04:47.120 You have intelligence, CIA, FBI, justice, the White House, Congress, all of it dirty, like majorly dirty.

00:04:57.740 Well, I don't think it's funny how the good Lord works, because the same week we get the Durham report, we just happen to have scheduled this hearing where we have these whistleblowers coming forward.

00:05:06.140 So understand the Durham report, he said as clearly and as as straightforward as you could say that the FBI, I think the best line was the FBI failed in its fundamental mission of fidelity to the law.

00:05:17.560 Correct.

00:05:17.900 They didn't follow the law.

00:05:19.360 There was no evidence, no probable cause, no predicate whatsoever to launch this investigation.

00:05:24.160 They did it anyway.

00:05:24.960 They did it based on a fake document, a document they knew was false.

00:05:28.680 The dossier they knew was false at the time they use it to go to the court to get the warrant to spy on a presidential campaign.

00:05:33.800 That's terrible.

00:05:34.380 They put the country through all three years of craziness.

00:05:36.840 That's terrible.

00:05:37.900 But worse than that is what's happening today, because today it's not just limited to a presidential campaign.

00:05:43.360 It's the American people.

00:05:45.220 And it's what I just said.

00:05:46.780 If you're a pro-life Catholic, they view you as radical.

00:05:49.860 I mean, if you're a parent speaking up for your kid, they view you as a terrorist.

00:05:52.780 I mean, it's like, you've got to be kidding me.

00:05:54.300 But I just found it interesting that those two big pieces of information came out in the same week, just underscoring how, in your words to Glenn, how dire the situation, how real the situation actually is.

00:06:07.280 Well, Jonathan Turley had an op-ed out.

00:06:09.660 I just read it this morning, how Congress could have the final say on the Russian collusion scandal.

00:06:15.800 In the Durham report, it shows that people like, what's his name, Elias for the...

00:06:24.060 Yeah, Mark Elias.

00:06:24.620 Yeah, Mark Elias from the DNC, that he would not participate, wouldn't talk, wouldn't, didn't give anything.

00:06:32.080 And Turley is saying, why don't you start putting the screws to these guys and offer immunity?

00:06:38.300 Now, I don't think there's a chance that Mark Elias is going to turn on anybody.

00:06:44.000 But it's worth a try, isn't it?

00:06:47.180 Well, that's interesting.

00:06:48.760 You know, he is Mr. Democrat-elect.

00:06:51.700 I mean, he's the guy.

00:06:52.860 He's a man in that whole area.

00:06:54.820 So I don't know.

00:06:56.800 But that's an interesting strategy.

00:06:58.540 I haven't read Turley's piece.

00:07:00.340 I really respect Professor Turley.

00:07:02.080 So do I.

00:07:02.400 I'll read that.

00:07:03.400 I'll read that.

00:07:04.160 But I don't know.

00:07:05.600 I don't know.

00:07:06.100 I'll have to give that some thought.

00:07:08.240 But I do think we should be, in our investigative work, our oversight work,

00:07:12.820 we should be focused on getting every single fact and getting that information, the truth to the American people.

00:07:18.800 Because if you don't have all the truth on the table and do our constitutional duty of oversight,

00:07:23.520 then you're not in a position to make the case, which we're going to have to make, which we have to do.

00:07:27.860 When it comes to appropriating money, we're going to have to change how that's done.

00:07:31.100 We're going to have to limit funds.

00:07:32.240 We're going to have to say, you can't use funds for certain things.

00:07:34.260 We're going to have to tell the FBI, ain't no way you're going to get a new headquarters worth, I forget how many hundred millions of dollars.

00:07:39.760 Like, are you kidding me?

00:07:41.120 So there's those kind of things, but you make the case when you show what's been going on.

00:07:45.840 So when you're going through all of this, you're not getting the documents.

00:07:53.100 I mean, they're not.

00:07:55.560 Christopher Wray the other day was just unbelievable to watch.

00:07:59.700 Well, I can't talk about that document.

00:08:01.400 What do you mean you sent a letter to us?

00:08:03.580 We asked for the document.

00:08:04.420 You're not getting anyone in Congress getting the documents that you're demanding.

00:08:11.940 You have oversight, and they seem to feel like they have oversight over you.

00:08:18.200 Yeah.

00:08:19.060 So two quick points.

00:08:21.240 One, you're exactly right.

00:08:23.040 When the founders put this great nation together, three separate and equal branches of government,

00:08:27.780 if there was one branch that was supposed to be more equal than the others,

00:08:30.640 it was supposed to be the legislative branch, and in particular, the House of Representatives,

00:08:35.660 because that's the body closest to the American people.

00:08:38.860 Every two years, American people get a chance to throw us out.

00:08:41.440 That is a good thing.

00:08:42.300 That is a healthy thing.

00:08:43.560 That's why the founders said that's the body where all the taxing and spending bills have to originate.

00:08:48.740 So we're supposed to be able to tell the executive branch,

00:08:51.860 hey, we need information to do our job when it comes to legislating and appropriating, 0.99

00:08:57.600 so give us the darn information. 0.96

00:08:59.060 Second, when we've had these struggles, sometimes you go to court. 0.98

00:09:02.460 We went to court for a witness we wanted to get in the whole Alvin Bragg crazy situation up in New York,

00:09:07.460 and the court ruled in our favor, and we had Mr. Pomerantz in for a deposition just last week.

00:09:13.060 So sometimes you have to go to the courts to get what you need.

00:09:16.660 So we're going to continue to press, whether it's subpoenas, what have you,

00:09:20.140 for documents or for people to come in for an interview.

00:09:23.440 We're going to continue to press there, but we have to in the end.

00:09:26.580 The only thing that gets people's attention, the only thing that gets their attention is the money.

00:09:31.080 You've got to go after the money.

00:09:32.520 It's that simple, and we're going to have to do that here in the next couple months

00:09:36.420 as we go through appropriating for these agencies in the federal government.

00:09:40.440 Well, I mean, you can do that even if they don't pass a budget.

00:09:44.180 Does Congress have control of the purse strings still?

00:09:48.680 We sure do, but it's going to be a fight with the Senate. 0.97

00:09:50.960 It's going to be a fight with the White House.

00:09:52.340 But you know what?

00:09:53.080 When you've got an FBI who's retaliating against good guys like Garrett O'Boyle, Marcus Allen,

00:09:57.420 Steve Friend, I think it's worth the fight.

00:09:59.700 Yeah, and I think you would have the American people squarely behind you.

00:10:04.480 I think Congress, with the people like me, I don't care for the Republican Party,

00:10:14.000 but they're better than the Democrats, but I don't want to give a dime.

00:10:18.500 I'd give a dime directly to a candidate, but not to the Republican Party.

00:10:23.520 People like me are seeing, I think, are starting to see, wait a minute, wait a minute,

00:10:29.240 something is different, and there's just a few of you guys now that are standing up,

00:10:34.880 and I have to say, I'm shocked at McCarthy.

00:10:37.980 I did not think he would have the spine.

00:10:40.740 I'd like to see that continue, but he seems to be doing a lot of good things,

00:10:45.680 and his poll numbers are going up.

00:10:48.320 Yeah, no, he's, you know, Glenn, I talk about this all the time,

00:10:51.680 but we make this job too complicated.

00:10:54.240 What did you tell the people you were going to do when you put your name on the ballot,

00:10:56.960 you ran for the job, you went out.

00:10:57.840 If you get elected, if they put you in the job, go do what you said,

00:11:02.160 and Kevin McCarthy is doing that.

00:11:03.480 I think our team is doing that, and the most important thing is, as you just said,

00:11:06.620 we've got to continue to do that.

00:11:08.220 We've got to continue to do that because that's our mission.

00:11:11.000 Do what you told the American people you were going to do.

00:11:13.660 Okay, so there's one thing that concerns me on the budget,

00:11:18.560 and that is the expanded Capitol Police role.

00:11:22.780 Now, everything I've understood from the Capitol Police from the last administration was,

00:11:27.300 this is Nancy Pelosi's police force.

00:11:29.560 So whoever is in charge of the House, that's their police force.

00:11:33.480 They have expanded way beyond the Capitol.

00:11:37.760 They have new offices now in Florida, in California.

00:11:42.020 They are now turning into an intelligence force.

00:11:48.980 Pentagon has given them things to collect intelligence on Americans.

00:11:54.760 This is way beyond their scope, and I don't know about you,

00:11:58.480 but I don't trust any other police force with intelligence capabilities.

00:12:05.880 No more.

00:12:06.780 No more.

00:12:08.200 Yeah, look, the rank-and-file officers are great guys.

00:12:11.380 I talk to them all the time, coming in and out of different buildings.

00:12:14.060 They're wonderful guys.

00:12:15.000 Do the Lord's work like good local police officers do the Lord's work.

00:12:18.740 But you're right.

00:12:19.320 We don't need these offices around the country.

00:12:21.420 We don't need this expanded surveillance capabilities and activity.

00:12:25.180 So I agree with you there.

00:12:27.000 I think that's where the country is.

00:12:30.040 And I would have to check with the Speaker's office,

00:12:32.900 but I don't know that Speaker McCarthy is going along with that.

00:12:36.600 Well, I will tell you.

00:12:37.560 We'll have to find out.

00:12:38.340 I will tell you, in the Republicans' annual appropriations bill,

00:12:42.940 they have an increase of $46.3 million more than last year,

00:12:49.760 which already last year was a 22% increase.

00:12:54.760 That's got to stop.

00:12:56.400 Got to stop.

00:12:57.520 Yeah, we'll take a look at that, too.

00:13:01.840 Do we finally have the Congress and the Republicans

00:13:07.680 that will stand and not blink on the budget?

00:13:11.820 I think so.

00:13:13.840 I really do.

00:13:14.940 Because, you know, the spending has went up so dramatically,

00:13:17.660 and we don't have to get into all the numbers,

00:13:18.940 but just we're set to run a deficit of a trillion and a half,

00:13:24.040 I mean, $1.5 trillion this year.

00:13:27.160 Like, what?

00:13:28.520 I mean, so it is so out of whack.

00:13:30.560 We have to spend less than we spent before.

00:13:33.700 And if we can do that, take it back to lower levels,

00:13:36.800 that'd be the first time in my time in Congress,

00:13:39.240 maybe the first time in modern history where the next Congress

00:13:42.420 didn't spend more than the previous one.

00:13:45.040 If we can actually reduce spending and begin to show the country

00:13:47.920 and the economy and the world that, look, okay,

00:13:49.780 they're at least going to kind of rein this in and get a handle on it

00:13:53.920 and begin to pay back some of this debt, get to balance at some point.

00:13:57.300 If we can do that, then we'll be fine.

00:13:59.460 But if we just keep the crazy stuff up that the Biden administration is doing,

00:14:03.680 I worry about the dollar staying as the reserve currency,

00:14:07.360 which is critical for our country and a host of other things if we continue on this path.

00:14:12.400 But I think we're going to actually get to where we're spending less

00:14:15.040 after the crazy increases we've seen in the Biden administration.

00:14:18.340 So one last thing, the church committee did, you know, the Lord's work, if you will,

00:14:23.980 and tried to rein things back in, and it's gotten worse again than it was back then.

00:14:32.400 Do you think that this, I don't know, deep state, whatever you want to call it,

00:14:39.660 the people that have no fidelity to the law or to the Constitution,

00:14:45.920 can we save the Justice Department, the FBI, the intelligence community,

00:14:52.000 or is it too far gone?

00:14:54.020 How do you see this working?

00:14:56.880 Here's the key measure, I think, this Congress settled that will tell us

00:14:59.780 if we can get things back in the right direction or not.

00:15:02.380 That's the FISA renewal.

00:15:03.580 The 702 program applies us up for renewal.

00:15:06.400 If that gets passed and we just keep doing the same old thing,

00:15:08.800 because understand the church commission brought a lot of good facts to light,

00:15:11.580 but the church commission gave us the FISA court and the FISA process.

00:15:14.160 That's a problem.

00:15:15.180 That has to change.

00:15:16.360 That's up for reauthorization this year.

00:15:18.240 If we fundamentally change that, if we get rid of this ability for them

00:15:22.100 to query that database that they get,

00:15:24.140 where the 3.4 million Americans had their information queried,

00:15:28.720 information that was picked up when they were surveilling some foreigner,

00:15:31.040 but they talked to some American and then they got the American in the death.

00:15:33.660 That's the kind of stuff.

00:15:34.780 If we don't change that, then I'm very worried.

00:15:37.420 But I think we're going to change it.

00:15:38.980 I think yesterday's hearing helped show that.

00:15:41.860 When you have the FBI engaged in some of the things,

00:15:43.880 that will be a critical test.

00:15:46.460 And then, of course, as I've said now a couple of times,

00:15:48.280 what happens during the appropriations and the spending process.

00:15:51.260 The power of the purse is important.

00:15:53.080 That's the power that resides in the Congress.

00:15:54.740 And specifically in the House, we need to make sure we use it.

00:15:57.680 I will tell you, I found out just the other day that this program now has a bigger footprint than Fox News does,

00:16:05.180 which blew me away when somebody gave that stat to me.

00:16:08.000 This is good money to your good work.

00:16:11.560 No, no, no.

00:16:12.140 It's it's the what's happening is all the mainstream media is dying and shows like mine and others are all growing.

00:16:21.040 I don't know if we could turn this corner five, even five or six years ago.

00:16:27.740 But I think if you guys just keep going, we're going to turn a corner.

00:16:34.980 We're going to turn a corner because the mainstream media doesn't have the lock that they used to have.

00:16:39.880 Well said and praise the Lord for that.

00:16:42.700 And then the second thing I always say is the American people are smart people.

00:16:46.920 They have common sense and they hear common sense and they hear good information from you

00:16:50.260 and a bunch of other folks like you.

00:16:51.560 So that makes a huge difference.

00:16:53.760 So thank you for what you're doing.

00:16:55.220 Likewise.

00:16:55.900 Stay the course.

00:16:56.780 Thanks.

00:16:57.260 All right.

00:16:57.540 Take care, brother.

00:16:58.040 You bet.

00:16:58.340 Bye bye.

00:16:58.740 Jim Jordan.

00:17:00.040 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:17:03.740 Hello, America.

00:17:04.700 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:17:06.300 Hey, I just want to share some good news with you.

00:17:08.040 In fact, I want to bring Paul Fitzpatrick on.

00:17:10.760 I don't know if you remember the 1792 exchange.

00:17:14.180 He was on, I think, when they first launched it.

00:17:17.920 1792exchange.com.

00:17:19.200 Uh, it is a, it's a great, great service that ever you should have, uh, on your browser,

00:17:26.940 you should make sure that you're going there, uh, whenever you're looking at, uh, buying

00:17:32.480 something, doing anything, looking at companies.

00:17:35.420 Uh, Paul is with us.

00:17:36.740 Hi, Paul.

00:17:38.720 Glenn, how are you doing?

00:17:40.340 I'm great.

00:17:41.280 How's, how's 1792 exchange going?

00:17:45.240 Glenn, we are doing really well.

00:17:46.980 I have to tell you something really interesting happened the day you were generous.

00:17:50.840 You generously had us on the show to talk about our corporate bias rating, just ratings

00:17:54.720 of companies.

00:17:55.280 You just mentioned that day, your listeners responded so well.

00:17:59.240 We had a huge spike, biggest spike in traffic to our site ever, but the, the left didn't

00:18:04.980 like it.

00:18:05.460 They actually launched a very sophisticated denial of service attack on our site that shut

00:18:09.940 us down for a couple of hours, but actually that, no, no, it's, but honestly, it was a

00:18:14.580 good thing.

00:18:15.040 It let us know we're over the target and they don't want your listeners to engage or be informed.

00:18:20.560 That's fantastic.

00:18:21.440 So just real quick, you're, you are looking at all of the, uh, uh, companies that are

00:18:27.020 involved in some way or another with ESG.

00:18:29.480 So you can just, uh, if you're for ESG, great, use those companies.

00:18:33.160 If you're against it, don't use those companies.

00:18:36.380 Um, you're just giving the likelihood of a company canceling a contract client boycott,

00:18:44.720 divest, whatever, based on somebody's view or belief, right?

00:18:48.980 Um, that's correct.

00:18:51.320 Um, we want customers, whether you be, you're an individual consumer or you're running a

00:18:57.060 small business or you're running a nonprofit, we just want you to be informed.

00:19:00.280 Or frankly, if you're an employee trying to decide, should I apply for a job at a certain

00:19:05.180 company?

00:19:05.920 Um, and we let you know which ones are actually like, we like to use the term weaponizing

00:19:10.960 the corporation, the brand, their money.

00:19:14.500 Uh, that, that's really what it's about.

00:19:16.160 It's just informing people so they can make their decision.

00:19:18.020 Okay.

00:19:18.780 So there's some good news that I want you to share about ESG.

00:19:22.920 We talked about it.

00:19:23.960 I think the day this came out, but we just passed, mentioned it in passing and it is really good

00:19:29.900 news on ESG.

00:19:32.260 Oh, absolutely.

00:19:34.340 Uh, Glenn, the, you know, it is hard to argue with the market and market forces are working

00:19:40.400 and speaking, um, big picture, uh, a couple of years ago, there was almost $52 trillion in,

00:19:47.940 ESG funds globally that has declined 36% to about $33 trillion.

00:19:54.760 Wow.

00:19:55.160 Um, and ultimate, it's just a massive shift.

00:19:58.440 And for your, for your listeners, your question is, well, why would that happen?

00:20:02.380 Well, if you're making decisions for non-financial reasons in a portfolio, uh, you're going to

00:20:10.160 get harmed.

00:20:10.620 And so last year tech stocks and, you know, the ESG funds love the high tech stocks because

00:20:15.260 they do the environmental stuff and, and the, the social stuff, um, tech stocks down last

00:20:22.020 year were down 30%, but fossil fuel stocks were up 60%.

00:20:27.180 And so these ESG funds, they overweight tech, they underweight fossil fuels because they're

00:20:32.680 trying to drive an agenda, trying to transition the economy.

00:20:35.200 Well, they got harmed.

00:20:37.360 And so because of that money, billions of dollars are flowing out of ESG funds.

00:20:42.920 I think this is fantastic.

00:20:44.720 When we first started talking about it, um, I asked somebody, can you, we start tracking

00:20:49.620 these funds to see if they're losing money for people, people that, and we now know they

00:20:55.980 are, um, and, uh, and people have got to know this.

00:20:59.940 You've got to get your money.

00:21:01.420 If you have any kind of money, uh, with, I mean, maybe you could probably, uh, name more

00:21:07.520 than I can, but, uh, you know, BlackRock Vanguard, get your money out of there.

00:21:13.600 Oh, uh, bottom line.

00:21:16.820 And, and the, the reason is they are using your dollars, whether you're in an ESG fund

00:21:22.660 or not, this, this is the really most important thing.

00:21:25.240 Yes, you're right.

00:21:26.400 Find out, go to your asset manager, go to our 1792exchange.com, find out if your asset

00:21:31.500 manager's woke or not.

00:21:33.880 But if you're in a big asset manager, BlackRock or State Street, or most of the other bad ones,

00:21:38.840 you know, Franklin Templeton or JP Morgan or Invesco or Magellan.

00:21:42.040 Whether you're in an ESG fund or not, what they're doing is they're voting your proxies.

00:21:48.980 They're pushing the ESG agenda with your non-ESG funds.

00:21:53.320 So you really have to get out of those.

00:21:55.720 There's, there are very few big asset managers that are actually somewhat neutral.

00:22:00.040 Dimensional funds is probably one of the better big ones.

00:22:03.100 Uh, smaller, but really good.

00:22:04.840 You can trust them.

00:22:06.040 Our, our Vidant is one and one, another one is Strive.

00:22:09.840 They're smaller and, but they're growing.

00:22:11.400 And so we need to move out and, and that will, when consumers change our behavior, that's

00:22:17.460 going to force changes among these companies.

00:22:20.300 There's some really good information, uh, that you really should, uh, look at, but when

00:22:25.340 you're looking at brands, for instance, um, you know, uh, buy New Balance instead of Adidas,

00:22:32.000 tell your wife that no Adidas, uh, no Nike, buy New Balance instead.

00:22:37.860 Um, um, you know, there, there's, uh, problems now with, um, State Farm, State Farm.

00:22:46.160 If you're looking for a local agent, State Farm, uh, started paying for books and pushing a

00:22:52.880 transgender agenda for children, uh, and your local agent isn't aware of it, but you can

00:22:59.560 be, if you understand, uh, the 1792 exchange, uh, project at 1792exchange.com.

00:23:07.720 Yeah, Glenn, this is, this is about customers and consumers being informed and, and just

00:23:16.240 remember that these companies are being pressured by activist employees are being pressured by

00:23:22.720 these asset managers to take positions that, that harm the very company, harm their employees

00:23:28.740 and harm Americans. 0.58

00:23:29.760 I mean, it makes no sense.

00:23:31.400 So Paul, ultimately, where do you put, where do you put Budweiser?

00:23:35.760 Because I think the owners of Budweiser are, are conservative, but they're letting their

00:23:42.920 company, you know, be run by, uh, by these crazies who are all into this stuff.

00:23:50.120 And is there a better beer company?

00:23:54.120 I can't claim to be an expert on a beer company, but, but I will tell you,

00:23:58.360 this is a classic example of Budweiser.

00:24:00.620 Your listeners know, you know, a, a, I would say middle level manager, but very influential

00:24:06.340 manager of a very powerful brand.

00:24:08.920 So this is not a low level executive.

00:24:10.700 This woman was very highly paid, decided to make a decision, um, to put this brand behind 1.00

00:24:18.200 the trans agenda.

00:24:20.220 And my guess is that in a lot of these companies, the CEO was not asked, Hey, should we have

00:24:26.960 Dylan Mulvaney, uh, on the, the, the, the Bud Light cans?

00:24:31.180 Probably not.

00:24:32.320 But the question is, why are these CEOs hiring and promoting people, um, probably with their,

00:24:39.400 you know, gender studies major from Vassar?

00:24:41.800 Why are they promoting them to manage brands and, and giving them the ability to make these

00:24:47.480 decisions?

00:24:47.980 And, uh, the, the problem is, this is the beautiful thing about the, the Bud Light example, which

00:24:53.300 is very instructive for other companies.

00:24:55.800 So the, the people on the right, people who, who think that, um, gender dysphoria is not something

00:25:01.700 to be celebrated.

00:25:02.520 It's something to be treated with compassion and care medically.

00:25:05.720 Um, so we're unhappy, but then because Bud Light kind of pulled back from that, now the,

00:25:13.440 the left is unhappy with Bud Light.

00:25:16.000 So it's a perfect, it's a classic example of don't get involved in politics.

00:25:20.160 If you want to sell a product.

00:25:21.500 Yep.

00:25:22.220 Uh, thank you so much for everything that you're doing.

00:25:24.080 It's great to have you on.

00:25:25.180 Thanks for sharing the good news about, uh, ESG.

00:25:28.000 It's remarkable.

00:25:29.080 Uh, 1792 exchange.com.

00:25:32.920 Paul Fitzpatrick.

00:25:33.840 Thank you.

00:25:34.140 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:25:38.760 We have Victor Davis Hanson on who I just think is a national treasure.

00:25:43.300 Uh, he is, he is so wise and well-read and really knows history.

00:25:49.560 He can kind of point to, uh-oh, road sign ahead, uh, better turn left now.

00:25:56.540 Uh, he's just written something on the French revolution, uh, that is, I think spot on. 0.62

00:26:03.920 And I read it a couple of weeks ago, and this is the first time we've had a chance to get

00:26:08.540 together.

00:26:09.300 Hey, Victor, how are you?

00:26:11.120 We're good, Glenn.

00:26:11.920 Thanks for having me.

00:26:12.880 You bet.

00:26:13.280 Um, so, so take us through the French revolution and how it relates to us.

00:26:21.000 Well, it was a period where there were justified needs for reform.

00:26:27.560 The Bourbon kings had been, you know, under, uh, negotiations with a more representative

00:26:33.780 group of people.

00:26:34.580 And there, and we know in 1789, there was a French revolution storming at the steel, but

00:26:39.800 the immediate solution was to have a parliamentary, uh, twin to the monarchy.

00:26:47.140 And that was pretty much what the people were negotiating.

00:26:50.480 And then there were cycles that just kept occurring again and again.

00:26:55.340 And, uh, some gerondas took over.

00:26:57.540 That was a group of people who said, no, we don't want the key.

00:27:01.600 We want the king to be representative, not really an active partner in government.

00:27:05.920 And sort of as the British crown is today.

00:27:08.860 And then another group called the Montagnards, they were the people high up in the, in the

00:27:13.780 assembly hall.

00:27:14.560 They said, no, we've got to get rid of the king exactly.

00:27:17.540 And we don't want just a political revolution.

00:27:20.580 We want to have it more inclusive.

00:27:23.060 And then of course, yesterday's revolutionary was today's sellout was tomorrow's greater.

00:27:29.340 So the Jacobins came in under the Robespierre brothers and St.

00:27:33.860 Juiced and they said, you know, you people are sellouts.

00:27:38.100 You don't want to kill the bourbon. 0.97

00:27:39.980 We've got to execute the king. 0.99

00:27:41.980 We're re-antaned that we've got to get rid of them all. 0.96

00:27:43.980 We've got to be equity has to be an equality result. 0.94

00:27:48.120 We've got to attack the churches, hang the priest, confiscate church lands, renumber the 0.71

00:27:54.240 days of the work. 0.97

00:27:55.020 We've got to get a new foundational date.

00:27:57.320 It's not going to, it's going to be 1789 year zero.

00:28:00.780 We've got to name a new month and we're going to have to have a new supreme being.

00:28:06.900 First, it was, you know, a rat, the God reason radio, and then it was become just the cult

00:28:11.280 of the supreme being.

00:28:12.460 So it, what I was trying to say, and then of course they went so far that life was unsustainable.

00:28:18.040 And then we had what we called the Thermidor reaction where they came in and just swooped

00:28:21.800 in, decapitated the Jacobin leaders on the guillotine.

00:28:26.560 And then what was left was the director, the directory of the consulship and Napoleon

00:28:32.440 waiting as the, as the corrective of it.

00:28:35.080 So my point in this article was that these, the democratic party under Obama started this

00:28:40.880 progressive cycle.

00:28:41.920 And yet, if you look at it today, it looks pretty tame compared to what these Jacobins 1.00

00:28:48.920 are doing.

00:28:49.540 And it's a holistic movement.

00:28:51.560 They want to change our foundational date, like the French revolutionaries did 1619.

00:28:56.540 They're talking about redefining basic biology with women. 1.00

00:29:01.460 We're talking about reparations, so that somebody who may or may not have had a slave in his

00:29:07.380 ancestry eight generations ago is owed something by somebody who may or may not have had an

00:29:12.500 ancestry of the slave generation eight generations ago. 1.00

00:29:16.200 But it's similar in the sense that almost any means necessary, unconstitutional or otherwise,

00:29:23.440 are justified by the nobility of this total revolution of making everybody the same, supposedly.

00:29:30.160 And so, so, so where do we, where do we go from here?

00:29:34.140 What, what do you think if you just follow history is coming next and how do we make sure

00:29:40.360 that we don't fall into the hands of a Napoleon?

00:29:44.400 Well, I think it's very important to stop it now because we're getting to the point where

00:29:50.260 this revolution is unsustainable for life as we knew it, because when they're, if they're

00:29:54.840 canceling power plants as they are in New York or here in California, brownouts, and I was

00:30:01.920 in San Francisco recently, two weeks ago.

00:30:04.540 It's almost a medieval city.

00:30:06.080 It's dysfunctional.

00:30:07.240 Can't walk on the sidewalk downtown.

00:30:09.420 Wow.

00:30:09.760 Very unhealthy. 0.99

00:30:10.860 You see people injecting, fornicating, urinating, defecating right in front of you.

00:30:15.800 And, uh, you, the school system here in California is unworkable and we have this situation where

00:30:24.740 all these stores are just leaving the major downtown areas of Los Angeles.

00:30:29.020 And when I went into a wall Walgreens in San Francisco, it was almost like you were in

00:30:35.360 a prison commissary.

00:30:36.540 Everything is locked up and you have to, and I've never seen anything like it.

00:30:41.400 So we're starting to see the breakdown of the police.

00:30:44.700 We're seeing the breakdown of the financial system with 33 trillion in debt and we can't.

00:30:50.700 And so if we don't all step forward and say, we've got to stop this immediately and have

00:30:56.940 the courage to say, there's going to be no reparations.

00:30:59.380 I'm sorry.

00:31:00.000 It's just out of the question.

00:31:01.100 This is a racist effort and we're going to have to, we're going to have a border.

00:31:05.220 It's not going to be a construct anymore.

00:31:06.860 We're going to have a border and we're going to have to deport people who came in here knowingly 1.00

00:31:11.040 illegally.

00:31:12.180 And I think it's going to take that type of medicine to ward off somebody who finally

00:31:17.120 will, will say, you know, I'll put a lid on it, but we don't want that.

00:31:21.240 We don't.

00:31:22.340 You know, I, uh, Victor, you might be somebody that would brainstorm with,

00:31:26.940 me on this.

00:31:27.540 I, I, uh, I just found out a couple of weeks ago that, uh, the first transsexual surgery

00:31:34.300 happened in the Weimar Republic in like 1925 or 26.

00:31:39.520 Uh, and it was the first, uh, university of sexology.

00:31:43.420 The Weimar Republic was, um, doing all kinds of things that are happening now.

00:31:49.920 Uh, and the churches had gone silent and kind of dead inside.

00:31:56.400 Uh, and when the Nazis came around the corner, there were too many people that were all for, 0.99

00:32:03.400 you know, I'm not a Nazi, but they're going to burn the books.

00:32:07.020 And the first books that they were burning were the sexology books about transgenderism

00:32:13.800 and LGBTQ and all of that stuff.

00:32:16.560 We're repeating that.

00:32:18.760 And what I'm afraid of is you get to a certain point.

00:32:23.880 And if our churches don't wake up, what happens?

00:32:28.020 We will look for somebody who will say, as you just said, I'll put a lid on it and we will

00:32:33.000 cheer.

00:32:33.560 And then we, our side will become the bad guys because we haven't noticed that our hearts

00:32:41.360 have closed.

00:32:42.300 Does that make sense to you?

00:32:43.740 Yeah.

00:32:44.640 Yeah.

00:32:44.920 I remember the American sexologist have a lock Ellis.

00:32:48.040 He was our version of the German sex. 0.99

00:32:50.420 So he was very popular.

00:32:51.520 Well, he was advocating things that were pretty, even today look pretty crazy, but nobody, nobody

00:32:58.560 in Germany, I mean, Hitler, if you read the early propaganda of 1933, 434, it was all against

00:33:06.180 Weimar.

00:33:06.820 He tried to melt up everything he could because it was just an unstable mess, the Weimar Republic. 0.96

00:33:13.420 And, you know, they had deliberately printed in 1923, earlier, they printed all this cheap

00:33:19.200 money to pay off their identities to France and ruin the global economy. 0.95

00:33:23.900 It was a mess and they couldn't correct it.

00:33:26.940 And there was a, there was a kind of a cultural, I think what you're saying is there was a cultural

00:33:31.340 element to it.

00:33:32.560 Big time.

00:33:32.960 Very similar to what we've seen.

00:33:34.380 Yeah.

00:33:34.660 It's an idea that no one can judge anybody else's lifestyle.

00:33:38.780 Right.

00:33:39.340 And the, we had this.

00:33:40.740 And the banks started to be run by guys in their twenties and the older.

00:33:45.780 They did.

00:33:46.280 Yeah.

00:33:46.680 All the older people were like, wait a minute, what is happening to our country? 0.73

00:33:50.280 Uh, and it's similar to this EG ESG, this idea that we're going to make investments based

00:33:56.220 on social activism rather than financial logic.

00:34:00.380 And, uh, that's what's scary is that this revolution that I think started with Obama has

00:34:07.160 morphed into a 24, seven, 360 degree effort to be so intensive that, uh, sexuality, economics,

00:34:17.620 uh, academia, professional sports, almost every institution has to participate.

00:34:25.340 And I think that's because they realized there's no popular support for it.

00:34:30.080 That's what's ironic.

00:34:31.380 51% of the people do not agree with any of this, but when you have all of the major institutions

00:34:36.420 under your control and you've got the big money now, everybody thinks big money was Republican.

00:34:41.360 It's not anymore.

00:34:42.040 It's left wing Silicon Valley finance corporation.

00:34:46.020 And we, we have the voice, but we don't know how to exercise that power because we're just

00:34:52.660 saturated.

00:34:53.200 If you do a Google search, the first 20 results are going to be ideologically warped, right?

00:34:58.260 If you say, you don't know what's going to be banned on Facebook or, or maybe not anymore

00:35:03.100 Twitter, but everywhere you turn, your kid comes home from college and gives you a lecture.

00:35:08.060 You're going to see the school board for your nine-year-old.

00:35:10.960 It's just so intrusive.

00:35:12.440 And again, holistic that I think everybody is kind of retreated to a monastery of the mind

00:35:18.340 where they say, you know what?

00:35:19.580 I'm not going to watch any NBA anymore.

00:35:22.640 I don't watch the Superbowl half.

00:35:24.140 I haven't heard, I don't know what a Tony award is.

00:35:26.760 I have no interest in the Emmys.

00:35:28.860 I haven't seen an Oscar on TV.

00:35:30.520 That's the reaction.

00:35:32.360 And that's not going to stop it.

00:35:34.340 So it's not.

00:35:36.820 And I'm afraid that some people are also withdrawing from the news because they feel so alone

00:35:42.180 and hopeless and powerless, which is absolutely not true.

00:35:48.060 But there is one thing that I think is really good.

00:35:51.500 I, you know, cause I've been warning about these things since the beginning of Obama and

00:35:57.880 it has always, I just realized this week, it's always been, okay, Glenn, yeah, yeah.

00:36:04.460 The Republic is going to go down and these guys are all going to do these things.

00:36:08.420 Now it is seemingly accepted even by parts of the Democrats and the left that we're going

00:36:19.560 down and this is the time that it's, it's happening right now. 0.98

00:36:23.760 And you're waking up and, and solidifying in people's minds, oh crap, this is real.

00:36:31.840 And I think that's our opportunity here to save the nation is if we can act now together.

00:36:40.500 I see that as a good sign.

00:36:43.240 Yeah, I do too.

00:36:44.380 I think we, people have to realize that whatever their politics, this agenda is not a political

00:36:49.240 agenda.

00:36:49.660 It's a nihilist agenda.

00:36:51.040 It's, it's, it's goes nowhere, but destruction.

00:36:55.620 If you have, just to take one example, if you institutionalize the idea that you're going

00:37:01.980 to attack personally, the Supreme court justices, you don't agree with every day with this fix

00:37:07.360 the court and you're going to go to their homes and you're going to swarm their homes or your

00:37:11.260 Chuck Schumer, you're going to go to the Supreme court and threaten them with the world when

00:37:15.320 they're going to reap, that's not sustainable.

00:37:17.380 It won't work.

00:37:18.400 And yet that's, that's just partial.

00:37:21.160 Now, you know, I, I remember when pack the court was a dirty word from 1937 and Roosevelt's

00:37:27.300 failed gamut.

00:37:28.020 Now it's a, it's a, it's a badge of honor.

00:37:30.260 That's an agenda, but they're, they're advocating things that will not work in the sense that

00:37:35.400 if you were to enact them or implement them life, as we know, it would not be sustainable.

00:37:40.620 It, as we know it, I don't think it would be the California is the canary in the mind.

00:37:46.200 There's, there's certain things now that people do in California, but they've never imagined.

00:37:51.020 I don't go downtown.

00:37:52.820 I make sure I don't, I have, I have pharmaceuticals because I can't go into a store.

00:37:57.820 I don't go out after night in a big city after seven o'clock at night.

00:38:02.360 This is all new.

00:38:03.520 It's very rapid that collapse, it shows you how fragile we're, we were much more fragile

00:38:09.060 than we ever imagined.

00:38:10.600 Well, I really appreciate all the work you do, Victor.

00:38:15.000 Thank you for, for everything.

00:38:16.480 He, he ends his, his op-ed with a counter revolution is building, not just because people are angry

00:38:23.880 uh, as what has become of their country, but because they now are learning that if they

00:38:29.760 do nothing, they will have no country and soon.

00:38:34.720 Thank you for that real clarion call.

00:38:38.080 Thank you.

00:38:39.160 God bless.

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