The Glenn Beck Program - October 06, 2021


Best of The Program ｜ Guests： Sen. Mike Lee & James Simpson ｜ 10⧸6⧸21


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Sen. Mike Lee (R-VA) joins Glenn on the show to talk about his opposition to the stimulus bill, and why the government should not be allowed to have a say in what is taught in public schools.

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00:00:19.480 stuff that you may not want to know, but you kind of have to know. Some really important things from
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00:01:41.480 Senator Mike Lee is joining us now. Thank you. I know you just had to you had to cast a vote and
00:01:47.980 you got another one coming up. So I appreciate the time you're taking with us, Mike.
00:01:52.600 Anytime. Anytime. Mike, I am
00:01:55.640 more and more concerned about our nation
00:01:59.760 with every day that goes by. I know you have the same
00:02:04.160 pit in your stomach that I have every day. As I go to work,
00:02:08.140 I look at things like, for instance, the FBI
00:02:11.220 now, now going to be used
00:02:15.040 as a weapon
00:02:17.720 on behalf of CRT
00:02:21.260 and the school boards. That's
00:02:23.140 that's not what the FBI
00:02:25.260 is supposed to be doing. That's a state
00:02:27.560 thing.
00:02:29.060 But it's now almost like the FBI
00:02:31.460 is an arm of the Justice
00:02:33.600 Department and and the
00:02:35.500 Justice Department will defend them.
00:02:37.300 Yeah, look, Glenn, I find this really disturbing.
00:02:42.980 To me, the memo feels like code for we'll take over the parenting from here.
00:02:49.060 We've got this. It's also code for parents
00:02:52.480 suggesting that they shouldn't have a say in their children's education.
00:02:56.000 So first, we have teachers and we have their unions
00:02:59.340 and also people like Terry McAuliffe, who have basically been saying, hey, it's our job,
00:03:06.620 not the parent's job to decide what your kids are taught and how they're being taught.
00:03:10.940 And now the attorney general
00:03:12.220 is using the force of the FBI to stop parents for having any say
00:03:17.820 in what's being taught in their children's schools.
00:03:21.180 Now, look, every state in the union has laws that protect people,
00:03:26.060 including school officials against assaults,
00:03:28.880 against all kinds of harassment.
00:03:31.800 If they actually commit a crime,
00:03:33.860 state and local authorities are able to deal with that.
00:03:36.000 I do not see any reason why the FBI should step in here
00:03:41.540 other than perhaps to send this message to parents.
00:03:45.780 We'll take the parenting from here
00:03:47.260 and we're going to federalize these issues down your throat.
00:03:50.700 Mike, in the stimulus bill,
00:03:53.640 there is the right for the, or no, not the right,
00:03:58.680 the instruction to the banks that they have to report any transaction.
00:04:05.100 I've heard two things.
00:04:06.420 I've heard $600.
00:04:07.640 I heard yesterday morning that that has been removed and made $10,000.
00:04:12.660 But I don't know what the truth is anymore.
00:04:15.440 But that's not, that's a violation of my Fourth Amendment rights.
00:04:21.780 No, it absolutely is.
00:04:23.780 They might as well claim that they have general warrants against the American people.
00:04:29.180 And wasn't, wait a minute, wait a minute, explain general warrants.
00:04:31.900 Isn't general warrant exactly one of the reasons why we broke away from the king?
00:04:41.040 Yes, yes.
00:04:42.520 There's any one policy that could be said to have been the straw that broke the camel's back.
00:04:47.560 It may have been general warrants.
00:04:49.220 That is to say that the crown and parliament were so aggressive and so insistent
00:04:54.900 that the American colonists be brought to heel 0.98
00:04:58.440 that they issued these documents that didn't bother to go after particular information.
00:05:03.160 It basically just said, if you need any information to use on behalf of the king and parliament,
00:05:09.820 you can get that information.
00:05:12.000 They kicked down people's doors.
00:05:13.800 They rifled through their personal effects.
00:05:15.760 And it was all okay because the government said so.
00:05:19.520 This is the sort of thing that is abusive.
00:05:23.760 And it's the type of abuse of government that caused us to separate from the mother country
00:05:29.200 and to create our constitution.
00:05:33.000 We are also being told that we have to have a vaccine mandate.
00:05:38.280 And if I'm not mistaken, a vaccine mandate can be done by individual states,
00:05:43.860 but not by the federal government.
00:05:46.580 Is that correct?
00:05:48.480 We've never, ever in the history of our republic had the federal government issue a general vaccination mandate.
00:05:54.520 Not to be confused with something that affects particular employees of the federal government,
00:05:58.820 like the troops.
00:06:00.220 They're a different category.
00:06:01.260 But a general population-wide mandate never had that.
00:06:04.620 And so look, Glenn, they're weaponizing OSHA.
00:06:06.860 They're weaponizing the Centers for Disease Control.
00:06:08.840 They've weaponized the Department of Justice, the IRS, the FBI.
00:06:14.140 This is unacceptable.
00:06:15.880 The Constitution is clear.
00:06:17.860 We have got to fight to protect it.
00:06:20.220 Freedom doesn't pass to us through the bloodstream.
00:06:23.240 As Ronald Reagan famously said, we have to fight for it.
00:06:25.860 We have to defend it.
00:06:26.600 We have to win it at every stage.
00:06:28.520 And that means pushing back hard when we see these things happening,
00:06:32.860 calling them out for what they are,
00:06:34.400 which is aggressive abuses against the people.
00:06:37.900 So it doesn't seem, Mike, like there's a lot of people in the Senate or the House.
00:06:44.140 I mean, you know, I'm concerned about the $2.5 trillion, the $3.7 trillion, whatever it turns out to be.
00:06:53.380 I'm concerned about the spending.
00:06:55.100 But I am also probably more concerned about the infrastructure that these bills will allow the government to build.
00:07:05.260 And they're very dangerous.
00:07:08.740 Yeah.
00:07:09.700 It's as though they're saying we need problems for government to grow.
00:07:14.660 So we're going to fund the creation of more problems so that we can grow the government bigger,
00:07:20.700 so that we can create even more problems and perpetuate the growth of big, aggressive government.
00:07:26.660 And you're exactly right with respect to the IRS.
00:07:29.480 We're talking about pumping in an enormous sum of money to new law enforcement.
00:07:36.560 At the same time, we're dramatically expanding the reporting obligations of banks.
00:07:42.220 In a way, by the way, that will probably drive a whole bunch of community banks out of business.
00:07:47.160 Oh, of course it will.
00:07:47.720 Just the regulatory compliance costs of this.
00:07:52.260 And so, look, it's important to remember, Glenn, that there are a whole lot of constitutional infractions
00:07:58.280 that are rarely challenged in court.
00:08:00.580 Or when they are challenged, they're challenged inadequately or too late to matter.
00:08:05.460 Most of what defending the Constitution is all about doesn't necessarily involve litigation
00:08:10.820 because you don't have time or resources to litigate each and every instance.
00:08:16.840 What that means is for our constitutional republic to survive, for the Constitution to have meaning,
00:08:22.200 we have to defend it in the political branches and at the citizen level every single day
00:08:27.120 and call these things out and use what power we have in each branch to counter abuses in the other branches.
00:08:34.580 But everything is being couched as, for instance,
00:08:38.640 let me play what the President said yesterday about being complicit with America's decline.
00:08:46.180 Listen to this.
00:08:49.040 Let's cut four.
00:08:52.820 Do we have it?
00:08:54.880 These bills are not about left versus right or moderate versus progressive
00:09:00.640 or anything that pits Americans against one another.
00:09:03.560 These bills are about competitiveness versus complacency.
00:09:07.380 They're about opportunity versus decay.
00:09:11.520 They're about leading the world or continue to let the world pass us by,
00:09:15.820 which is literally happening.
00:09:17.460 To support these investments is to create a rising America.
00:09:21.480 America is moving.
00:09:23.420 To oppose these investments is to be complicit in America's decline.
00:09:27.740 I found that extraordinarily disturbing because the word complicit, that is a legal term,
00:09:35.520 if I'm not mistaken, that you are engaging in some illegal activity.
00:09:40.960 You are doing something to harm the Constitution.
00:09:46.900 But maybe that's just a play on words.
00:09:48.880 But listen to how that is being...
00:09:51.060 Go ahead.
00:09:52.800 It's not.
00:09:53.640 That's exactly what he wants you to think.
00:09:56.160 He wants to accuse you of some sort of abstract crime against humanity,
00:09:59.940 or at least crime against the social welfare state,
00:10:03.980 or crime against the excessive growth of the federal government.
00:10:07.440 But, Len, that was only the second most disturbing feature of that clip.
00:10:11.460 The most disturbing feature of that clip is what Joe Biden seems to be saying,
00:10:17.020 what he seems to be assuming, the underlying assumption in all of this,
00:10:20.960 is that he's not talking about America, the country, the nation, the people.
00:10:25.260 He's talking about the United States government.
00:10:27.900 There's a vast world of difference, a huge gulf between those two things.
00:10:32.200 He wants to grow the federal government.
00:10:35.180 The problem with government, Len,
00:10:36.420 and the problem with growing the federal government in particular,
00:10:39.720 you can't do it except at the expense of the liberty and the prosperity of the people.
00:10:44.940 He knows that.
00:10:45.700 He's willing to make that sacrifice.
00:10:47.300 We as a people aren't.
00:10:48.640 We have to counter him.
00:10:50.720 So how do we do that, Mike?
00:10:53.220 All right.
00:10:53.760 So at every stage, people need to be reaching out to their elected officials,
00:10:59.480 especially their elected officials in Washington.
00:11:02.760 Does it actually work?
00:11:03.940 It helps.
00:11:04.460 Look, I routinely monitor these things, and I know my colleagues do as well,
00:11:10.460 and encourage them as specifically as you can to push back on things like,
00:11:16.200 and including, and right now especially, the vaccine mandate.
00:11:19.520 It's not just about the vaccine.
00:11:22.600 And look, I've been vaccinated.
00:11:24.060 My family has too.
00:11:25.000 I think the vaccine is generally safe.
00:11:26.840 But the federal government has no business making this decision for people who may have natural immunity
00:11:32.080 or may have religious objections or may have a medical condition or may, for whatever reason,
00:11:37.660 not want to do it.
00:11:38.400 None of the federal government's darn business.
00:11:40.860 So members of Congress need to hear that.
00:11:43.380 We need to hear that.
00:11:45.060 We need to keep pushing things.
00:11:46.820 Like Senator Roger Marshall ran last week an amendment to the continuing resolution
00:11:50.920 that would deprive the federal government of any funds to implement the vaccine mandate.
00:11:57.500 All 50 Republican senators voted for it.
00:12:00.620 Not a single Democrat did.
00:12:02.380 Actually, Joe Manchin initially cast his vote as yes, and then late in the vote, switched it to no.
00:12:07.300 So all of us need to hear over and over again that we need to keep bringing that up
00:12:11.720 and that we need to not fund the government if funding the government means we have to fund this unconstitutional mandate.
00:12:18.600 Well, that would be, you know, the debt ceiling, not funding the government.
00:12:24.160 Is this going to pass?
00:12:26.220 Is Manchin and Sinema, are they going to just, are they going to fold on this?
00:12:29.400 Are we getting this package?
00:12:30.660 The bottom line is I'm certain that they will end up doing it,
00:12:37.420 and they will end up passing a variation of the reconciliation package.
00:12:41.420 It remains to be seen how long it will take for them to get there,
00:12:44.600 but they do operate as something of a well-oiled machine, and that's troubling.
00:12:50.120 But Glenn, we do have some role in this.
00:12:53.820 We're not entirely an object to be acted upon.
00:12:58.060 We, as a citizenry, have always been in charge of our own government.
00:13:02.280 We remain the sovereigns.
00:13:03.920 The more we can act like it, and the more we can take ownership of it individually
00:13:08.920 and speak to our friends and our neighbors, in addition to our elected officials,
00:13:14.480 our bosses, our colleagues at work, even those that we think we don't like at the moment,
00:13:21.100 talk to them about why this matters.
00:13:22.620 It's talking about what's at stake and about the fact that the entire American experiment
00:13:28.660 is all about asserting the sovereignty of the people, reminding government that it works for us
00:13:34.180 and not the other way around.
00:13:35.840 There are far too few of us in Washington who feel that way,
00:13:38.900 but I know the overwhelming majority of the American people agree.
00:13:43.420 And we need more of them in Washington and more of their influence felt here.
00:13:46.780 One last question.
00:13:47.940 Whistleblower Facebook.
00:13:49.540 This is clearly, I mean, this woman is being represented by the attorneys that we're representing
00:13:57.860 and really pushing through the whistleblower on Trump's first impeachment.
00:14:05.420 She has donated to far, far left groups.
00:14:08.980 She's got Obama's deputy press secretary working with her.
00:14:15.540 This is clearly a ruse.
00:14:17.880 Why would CBS all of a sudden be for this and the Democrats all for it and everybody's covering this?
00:14:24.840 They want, Facebook and those want more regulation.
00:14:28.920 This is not something that conservatives should be for.
00:14:33.660 That's exactly right.
00:14:35.200 And that's what creates this fake harmony moment.
00:14:38.940 No, they're not here to ask us to the prom.
00:14:40.920 They're not here to join our club.
00:14:43.320 There are a whole lot of people who are focused on this issue, some for the wrong reasons,
00:14:49.200 namely to adopt exactly what Facebook announced yesterday that it wants,
00:14:55.000 which is comprehensive federal regulation of the Internet itself.
00:14:58.440 They want the excuse and the mandate from government to comprehend and regulate and require them
00:15:06.720 to be both their mandator and their excuse for even more obsessively censoring speech.
00:15:16.180 That's wrong.
00:15:17.660 And so, look, in this area and everything else, I need your help,
00:15:21.760 but I want you to know and I want all of your listeners to know
00:15:24.300 I'm fighting like hell on this, on every one of these fronts.
00:15:30.100 And I will fight as long as I'm alive, breathing in the United States Senate.
00:15:36.140 We need all hands on deck right now.
00:15:38.580 And we can we must always fight peacefully.
00:15:42.900 But with the understanding also that the Constitution is on our side.
00:15:48.500 Natural law is on our side.
00:15:50.620 The spirit of freedom that lives and beats within the heart of each of us
00:15:55.680 is stronger than government, as overpowering and intimidating as it can be.
00:16:03.440 It's a difficult fight.
00:16:05.640 I'm in it.
00:16:06.680 And anyone who wants to join in the fight and help me in this effort,
00:16:09.560 I encourage them to go to LeeForSenate.com and ask them for their help.
00:16:15.320 Thanks, Mike.
00:16:15.720 Appreciate it.
00:16:17.220 LeeForSenate.com.
00:16:18.240 Thank you so much.
00:16:18.860 You bet.
00:16:22.760 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
00:16:25.480 Let me talk a little bit more about what the federal government can and cannot do.
00:16:42.640 Let me start with the banks.
00:16:45.620 They want a proposal or they have a proposal now.
00:16:49.140 The Biden administration has it in the infrastructure bill.
00:16:53.720 Internal Revenue Service will be notified by the banks on transactions.
00:16:57.700 Every transaction over six hundred dollars.
00:17:01.100 Janet Yellen in the Treasury Department is calling this collection of information routine.
00:17:06.960 Really?
00:17:07.840 Then why do you have to change the law on that?
00:17:11.040 Now, she says it's because the banks already report interest on any bank account that earns more than ten dollars of interest.
00:17:18.980 I thought it was because they already routinely break the law.
00:17:21.980 Yeah.
00:17:22.300 So they very well could be very well could be.
00:17:25.480 This is she says right now, every bank account that earns more than ten dollars a year in interest,
00:17:29.840 the banks report the interest earned to the IRS.
00:17:31.960 That's part of the information base that includes W-2s and reports on dividends and other income that taxpayers earn.
00:17:37.700 So collection of information is routine.
00:17:40.140 OK, great.
00:17:41.900 Then why do you need more?
00:17:44.200 Why do you need more information?
00:17:46.320 Here's why.
00:17:47.100 She said there's an enormous tax gap in the U.S. 0.85
00:17:52.580 And that's the reason they need this information.
00:17:56.480 Blaming the gap on places where information on income can be hidden.
00:18:02.240 OK, well, if you want to talk about income that can be hidden, then let's talk about illegal immigrants. 0.96
00:18:12.360 OK, let's talk about that.
00:18:15.680 Yeah, no, I know it's it's well, it's dangerous to even say illegal immigrants.
00:18:19.340 Now, I know a lot of them steal somebody else's identity and pay taxes.
00:18:25.960 Right.
00:18:26.600 But they're stealing someone else's identity and paying in.
00:18:31.020 Others are paid in cash.
00:18:33.380 Well, we should have digital currency.
00:18:36.400 Do you see where this is going?
00:18:39.600 Somebody's always going to be avoiding something somewhere.
00:18:43.680 Illegal aliens. 1.00
00:18:44.620 They pay taxes.
00:18:45.520 How many times have you heard that?
00:18:46.620 They pay taxes.
00:18:47.700 They pay more taxes than most people.
00:18:49.280 Do they?
00:18:50.320 Do they?
00:18:50.820 Sixty percent of this population, as of last year, don't pay any taxes.
00:19:00.940 You think the legal aliens are paying the tax, do you? 1.00
00:19:03.680 Really?
00:19:04.560 Hmm.
00:19:05.780 This is to control you.
00:19:09.320 You say something.
00:19:10.660 You're on a different side.
00:19:12.720 You're, to quote Joe Biden, complicit with the American decline because you disagree with him.
00:19:18.520 You will see an IRS, IRS agent at your door.
00:19:23.520 Now, here's the difference between America and the rest of the world. 0.52
00:19:29.240 America was great because America was good.
00:19:32.300 But what made America good?
00:19:34.320 The people.
00:19:35.400 The people made America good.
00:19:37.160 Not the government.
00:19:38.220 The people and the churches, our faith made America good.
00:19:42.460 And we kept the government at bay.
00:19:45.080 In other countries, you're assumed, you're assumed guilty.
00:19:50.500 Here in America, you are innocent until proven guilty.
00:19:55.200 By taking your information from your bank account, they're saying people are avoiding taxes.
00:20:01.500 So, they're deeming all of us guilty and saying we just got to find it.
00:20:09.040 This is why we said, when people said, I'm not doing anything wrong, what difference does it make to me?
00:20:14.640 Because if there's a political agenda, they will find something.
00:20:21.460 They will tie you with all of the mega data that is available on you.
00:20:29.240 All of the data.
00:20:31.020 You don't think they can piece something together that maybe is completely untrue.
00:20:36.340 But you don't think they could make a case and make your life miserable?
00:20:42.260 Remember, in today's world, all you have to do is be accused of something.
00:20:47.140 We don't wait for the trial.
00:20:49.440 We don't believe people are innocent until proven guilty.
00:20:52.580 We hear it on social media and they're guilty.
00:20:55.340 This collection of information, if it is routine, it needs to stop because they are weaponizing everything.
00:21:09.940 The IRS is being weaponized.
00:21:12.360 The Treasury Department with the banks being weaponized.
00:21:16.040 The FBI going in on local issues, not not destroying federal buildings, but parents asking the local school board questions.
00:21:29.640 Those people are now being deemed terrorists and Antifa.
00:21:34.440 Antifa, we couldn't send the FBI.
00:21:37.060 We couldn't send any kind of federal aid out to Oregon.
00:21:41.280 Do you remember what they said when we suggested that?
00:21:45.880 Cut to six.
00:21:49.200 Some of the recent protests against police violence and racism have been met with a federal response.
00:21:56.180 And in Portland, Oregon, local officials believe that presence is causing more harm than good.
00:22:01.780 It's like pouring gasoline on a fire.
00:22:04.100 Your presence here isn't wanted.
00:22:05.920 It's not needed.
00:22:06.920 In the nature of the man to lash out.
00:22:08.500 He thought, great, I'll send these federal guys to Portland.
00:22:11.980 We can have a fight.
00:22:13.980 He hasn't thought through the consequences of it.
00:22:15.960 Federal agencies should never be used as your own personal army.
00:22:20.960 Trump troops in Portland are definitely not the answer.
00:22:24.740 As we saw, this only escalates the tension and we need dialogue and de-escalation.
00:22:32.420 I think it has a substantial chilling impact on First Amendment speech.
00:22:35.500 Jay Ashley Albies, a civil rights attorney in Portland, worries the tactic may deter law-abiding citizens from participating in demonstrations.
00:22:44.380 Mayors of five major cities sent a joint letter to President Trump and Attorney General Barr today calling for the removal of federal officers from their city, saying, quote,
00:22:53.220 The unilateral deployment of these forces into American cities is unprecedented and violates fundamental constitutional protections and tenets of federalism.
00:23:02.720 He's stepping on his political influence onto the Department of Homeland Security to use this big law enforcement force to go beyond the scope of what their normal activities are to do.
00:23:13.200 Local officials there had been allowing peaceful demonstrations without too much interference.
00:23:17.780 But President Trump was not happy about that.
00:23:20.940 So he decided to send in the feds.
00:23:24.740 OK, so let me just go over what they're saying.
00:23:27.480 You know, I was being gracious to Joe Biden when Mike Lee shockingly said, no, Glenn, that's exactly what he meant when I said he used the he used the word complicit, saying if people in Congress don't go along with his spending packages, you're complicit in America's decline.
00:23:49.620 Could you look that word up?
00:23:50.780 That is a that's a legal term.
00:23:54.400 And it means you're involved in illegal activity to harm or steal.
00:24:00.220 Do you have it by any chance?
00:24:01.580 Yeah, keep looking it up.
00:24:03.100 And I said, I'm sure he's just using that word.
00:24:05.460 And he said, no, he's using that word directly.
00:24:09.100 He knows exactly what that means.
00:24:12.420 Now, listen.
00:24:13.160 He's saying that he's sending FBI into our local school board.
00:24:19.820 He's calling parents terrorists.
00:24:23.640 Let me just let me just quote the left.
00:24:27.560 That's like pouring gasoline on a fire.
00:24:30.560 It's wrong to use the the federals, the Fed officers as a personal army.
00:24:37.280 It's only going to make things worse.
00:24:40.320 It's what we need is dialogue.
00:24:43.160 This is going to deter law abiding citizens from actually protesting things in a law abiding way.
00:24:50.200 This is a violation of federalism.
00:24:52.420 All of those things are true.
00:24:54.420 And they knew it then.
00:24:56.820 They know it now.
00:24:59.640 They know it now.
00:25:03.120 They know exactly what they're doing.
00:25:05.880 They are pouring gasoline on a fire.
00:25:09.300 They are using the FBI as a personal army.
00:25:13.760 One for, I think, the labor unions.
00:25:17.460 It is going to make things worse because we do need a dialogue.
00:25:22.100 It will, if we don't stand up, if we don't know exactly what they're doing, it will deter law abiding citizens.
00:25:31.960 They know exactly what they're doing.
00:25:37.420 They're itching for a fight.
00:25:39.000 They want you to strike back.
00:25:41.820 They want you to do it.
00:25:43.420 They will use that as the excuse to transform everything overnight.
00:25:51.220 You know, there's this talk about a national divorce.
00:25:59.120 We are in civil war.
00:26:03.400 Just one side is fighting it.
00:26:05.020 We're in revolution.
00:26:05.960 One side is fighting it.
00:26:07.100 The left is fighting a revolution.
00:26:09.940 The rest of us are in denial.
00:26:12.140 The rest of us are trying to make sure that that doesn't happen.
00:26:16.560 And I include some Democrats in that as well.
00:26:19.480 I mean, your neighbor Democrats, unless they're crazy and you live in San Francisco.
00:26:23.500 The people who are not blind and people who do still believe in the Bill of Rights, we're all standing around going, I'm not like that.
00:26:34.760 I don't want to be like that.
00:26:36.720 I'm so sick of Washington.
00:26:39.740 I'm so sick of all of this.
00:26:41.620 And we're standing around as they are changing the foundation of the very rocks we stand on.
00:26:48.600 And it's going to end in a hot war because the left wants it.
00:26:57.140 They want it.
00:27:01.620 I don't.
00:27:03.000 I don't think you do.
00:27:05.880 But I do want to preserve my country.
00:27:11.020 And I said 12 years ago, I'm willing to split the states right now.
00:27:15.520 You take 25.
00:27:16.920 We take 25.
00:27:17.780 We get Texas.
00:27:19.920 And you can take that.
00:27:21.300 We get first pick Texas.
00:27:22.760 You can take whatever states you want.
00:27:25.580 You pick 25.
00:27:27.440 And you can leave us with all of the worst states.
00:27:31.480 Okay.
00:27:32.860 And we will cream you in the end. 0.97
00:27:36.840 Economically.
00:27:38.100 The health of our society.
00:27:40.140 We'll clean your clock.
00:27:42.420 But we have to build a wall around those 25 states.
00:27:45.580 Let's just take everything from Texas on up.
00:27:48.920 Okay.
00:27:49.240 You can have the coasts.
00:27:50.680 Fine.
00:27:53.640 We're going to take from Texas on up.
00:27:57.040 And we'll cream you. 1.00
00:27:58.580 We'll cream you. 0.99
00:27:59.800 Not because you don't have resources and we do.
00:28:03.540 But because all of your policies are so screwed up.
00:28:07.220 You'll be eating each other in a cannibalistic way within 10 years.
00:28:11.640 And you know who you'll blame?
00:28:13.200 Us.
00:28:13.800 We have to have a wall.
00:28:15.320 You're not coming in with your ideology.
00:28:17.680 We have no contact with you.
00:28:20.080 Because you will end up blaming us.
00:28:23.620 Because you can't ever blame yourself.
00:28:28.400 I'm absolutely willing to do that.
00:28:31.440 No war. 0.70
00:28:33.440 Just take it.
00:28:35.500 Fine.
00:28:36.560 Take the coasts.
00:28:38.080 We're taking this.
00:28:39.240 And I never want to hear from you again.
00:28:42.180 You do your thing.
00:28:43.500 We'll do our thing.
00:28:45.280 But I'm not going to secede.
00:28:47.860 I'm not seceding.
00:28:49.880 The one thing that comes with this is you send all of those original documents to us.
00:28:56.500 Because we're the United States of America.
00:28:59.160 And there might even only be 25 of them.
00:29:02.280 But we're the United States of America.
00:29:04.920 You want to change it.
00:29:07.280 You think those documents are bad.
00:29:10.340 We say those documents are not being enforced.
00:29:13.280 We're saying that no one is paying attention to that document.
00:29:18.540 We will.
00:29:19.860 We will.
00:29:21.160 I don't need to change a darn thing in our Constitution.
00:29:25.740 See, that's the difference.
00:29:27.060 The South broke away because they wanted to change the rules.
00:29:30.700 Fine.
00:29:31.360 I don't want to change the rules.
00:29:33.260 I want the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
00:29:37.360 And I want them enforced.
00:29:38.720 That's what government is supposed to do.
00:29:45.060 Enforce those things.
00:29:48.260 I want them taught in schools.
00:29:53.940 You can have everything else.
00:29:55.460 I don't care.
00:29:56.880 I don't care.
00:29:58.160 Just leave us alone. 0.76
00:29:59.480 We're at that place.
00:30:03.160 And maybe it's time we start having that dialogue.
00:30:07.940 After the top of the hour, we have some things on who Karl Marx really was.
00:30:13.300 Everybody loves Karl Marx.
00:30:15.840 And I'm going to tell you next hour about Washington State University is leading a new $125 million USAID project to detect emerging viruses.
00:30:27.480 Oh, so what they were doing in Wuhan.
00:30:34.220 I know this is this is all just hearsay.
00:30:37.400 No, it's not.
00:30:38.380 Watch our special in a couple of weeks.
00:30:40.220 What they were doing in Wuhan.
00:30:42.760 We're now going to have all of our universities doing it.
00:30:46.380 Oh, we can find every every possible virus from every possible animal.
00:30:52.900 What could possibly go wrong?
00:30:55.340 The best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:31:12.300 Jim Simpson is a friend of the program goes way back.
00:31:16.260 He was helping us with the Cloward Piven strategy of manufactured crisis and overwhelm the system back in the day.
00:31:25.520 He's back.
00:31:26.140 He's got a new book.
00:31:27.120 Who was Karl Marx?
00:31:28.940 The man, the motives and the menace behind today's rampaging American left. 0.53
00:31:34.240 He has worked under President Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton.
00:31:38.660 He was in the Office of Management and Budget.
00:31:42.040 He is a guy who has an awful lot of credibility and has been around and has because he's an investigative journalist actually knows how to tell the right story and get the facts right.
00:31:56.440 Jim, good to talk to you again.
00:31:57.480 How are you, sir?
00:31:58.560 Hey, Glenn.
00:31:59.380 Great to be with you.
00:32:00.340 Thank you.
00:32:00.800 So, who was Karl Marx?
00:32:05.000 Yeah, who was Karl Marx?
00:32:06.860 Well, you know, he's made out to be this secular god that could never have done any wrong.
00:32:14.700 But as I describe in the book, he is everything, everything that he claimed to hate about all the people he was going to destroy with the Communist Revolution.
00:32:30.600 He was a greedy, selfish, petty, arrogant, lazy, dishonest, two-faced, lecherous, bigoted, and he brimmed with hatred.
00:32:43.240 He had all the ugly characteristics he attributed to others to excuse the destruction he and his followers intended to inflict on the world.
00:32:50.880 He was deeply bigoted, he hated blacks, he favored slavery, he called the proletariat, he was supposedly going to free from their chains, stupid boys, rogues, asses.
00:33:09.720 He spied for the German government on his communist friends for money, and despite the fact that his father was a wealthy attorney who showered money on him, he was perpetually broke and spent his life depending on small cash donations from his co-conspirator, Friedrich Engels, who stole money out of his father's business petty cash account.
00:33:38.920 And then spent the rest of his time hovering over ailing relatives, waiting for them to die so he could find out what he would get in their wills.
00:33:47.560 This was the real guy.
00:33:49.840 And it turns out, he is typical.
00:33:54.140 Mao Zedong was the same way. 0.88
00:33:57.040 Bill Ayers was the same way.
00:33:59.760 The Castro brothers were the same way.
00:34:01.820 These are all impossibly arrogant, greedy, selfish men who believed they had the right to own the world.
00:34:13.440 I mean, really, that's what it comes down to.
00:34:15.600 All they were driven by, really, was power and greed.
00:34:21.060 And the Marxism, communism, is window dressing.
00:34:25.920 It's the marketing plan to sell this monstrous ideology.
00:34:30.680 That's what it is.
00:34:31.920 It is.
00:34:32.900 When you actually learn about him, and a lot of this stuff wasn't known, a lot of the stuff was held back by the former Soviet Union and classified.
00:34:44.300 And I think it was a Verona paper time that some of this stuff was released, but nobody wants to talk about it.
00:34:51.160 Nobody wants to expose it.
00:34:52.600 But it's all factual information, because I think his wife said this should be preserved.
00:34:58.580 Yeah, well, it's definitely, you know, it's available today.
00:35:05.960 In fact, a lot of the sources, a lot of my sources come right out of a website called Marxist.org.
00:35:13.520 And it's simply amazing.
00:35:16.580 And, you know, there's still a lot of classified stuff, stuff about the Soviet communists and their various meetings.
00:35:26.180 But Marx is just amazing, just amazing, the truth about his life.
00:35:32.500 You know, two of his daughters committed suicide, a son-in-law, three of his children died of malnutrition while his wife was running around trying to raise enough money to get a coffin for one of their kids.
00:35:45.960 Marx employed what one writer described as a loudish, libidinous, and otherwise useless secretary, because he felt that a man of his stature needed to keep up appearances.
00:35:59.880 I mean, it's simply amazing.
00:36:02.640 It's simply amazing.
00:36:04.680 And this is the guy that all the leftists, all those Antifa folks rioting out in the streets, claim to call their own secular god.
00:36:17.760 Do you get into his faith or lack of?
00:36:23.780 I mean, there's evidence that he was a tortured guy and had said in his life, I sold my soul to the devil.
00:36:36.840 Can you talk about that at all?
00:36:39.260 Yeah, sure.
00:36:39.780 So, you know, they were an ethnically Jewish family, but his father converted to Christianity, became a Lutheran so that he could continue to practice law in Lutheran-dominated Germany.
00:36:54.000 And Marx was raised as a Christian and actually in high school wrote beautiful Christian poetry.
00:37:00.020 It's really quite stunning.
00:37:01.120 I quote it in the book, but when he went off to college, like we are all familiar with, he fell in with the wrong crowd.
00:37:13.060 Some claim it was a Satanist crowd.
00:37:16.460 You know, Richard Wurmbrand, who was a Catholic priest who was tortured by his communist government.
00:37:28.680 I believe he was Yugoslavian or Romanian, I forget.
00:37:32.720 He wrote a book called Marx and Satan.
00:37:35.300 And he quotes Marx's poetry after he made this conversion.
00:37:44.740 Marx wasn't an atheist.
00:37:47.500 He felt like he should be equal to God.
00:37:52.860 And I quote a poem right at the beginning of my chapter on Marx that describes that.
00:38:00.760 And it's really a paraphrase for Isaiah, where God describes Satan.
00:38:10.860 I mean, it's really the same thing.
00:38:12.480 And Isaiah says, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, and I will be like the Most High, talking about Satan.
00:38:20.820 And Marx says, I will wander godlike and victorious through the ruins of the world.
00:38:27.240 And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.
00:38:32.460 So Marx hated God.
00:38:34.600 You know, and I really believe, actually, most atheists, if they're honest, that's the truth.
00:38:40.980 It's not that they don't believe.
00:38:42.420 It's just that they can't imagine God would allow, you know, all the things to happen that happen in the world.
00:38:50.300 And that's their rationalization.
00:38:52.300 I don't think, from what I've read, I don't think Marx was, you could put him in that category of just can't believe that God would allow these things to happen.
00:39:04.120 He was an oppositional, knowing oppositional force.
00:39:09.140 He was, I think he actually believed in God and was trying to thwart him, taking the opposite positions.
00:39:17.980 Yes, exactly.
00:39:19.940 No, exactly.
00:39:20.760 Absolutely blazing defiance.
00:39:23.540 And that pretty much defines his life and his story.
00:39:27.460 I mean, all of his friends describe him as a man, a destructive spirit whose heart was filled with hatred, one said.
00:39:37.540 Engels said he rages without ceasing, as if 10,000 devils had caught him by the hair.
00:39:43.880 Mikhail Bakunin, probably the most prominent anarchist, said one has to worship Marx in order to be loved by him.
00:39:52.180 One has to at least fear him in order to be tolerated.
00:39:56.500 Marx is extremely proud, up to dirt and madness.
00:40:01.680 This is the guy they founded their whole ideology on.
00:40:06.280 I mean, it's crazy.
00:40:07.120 It really is.
00:40:07.560 I want to switch from Marx.
00:40:10.260 Let me take a one-minute break, and then we're going to come back.
00:40:13.640 Because in the book, you talk about the strategies that come from Marx that are being used on us right now.
00:40:19.780 And Marx, if you understand Karl Marx, it is all about hatred and ginning up hatred and chaos.
00:40:29.840 And that's what's happening now.
00:40:31.640 And Jim has some ways and some things that we need to understand before you go in for an intellectual fight.
00:40:40.780 Jim Simpson, author of the book, Who Was Karl Marx Out Today?
00:40:45.720 So, Jim, your book pretty much describes everything happening today as a result of, you know, Karl Marx and further developed by his followers.
00:40:56.060 But am I wrong saying that it is chaos and hatred is the main strategy?
00:41:03.480 Yes, no, absolutely.
00:41:05.340 You know, and it's really, although, obviously, you look at Antifa and BLM, these people express genuine hatred.
00:41:14.020 I mean, it's hatred for things that don't, literally do not exist.
00:41:19.480 It's manufactured hatred.
00:41:21.340 And some of them are foolish enough to actually believe it.
00:41:25.800 But the strategy, the strategy is to, in basically, intimidation.
00:41:32.260 I call it psychological terrorism.
00:41:36.160 And Lenin was the first one to really articulate that.
00:41:39.420 He said, we need to write in a language that inspires hate, revulsion, and scorn towards those who disagree with us.
00:41:51.340 You know, not towards those who are bad or wrong or anything, to those who disagree with us.
00:41:57.660 And the whole point is to intimidate, marginalize, and, as we're seeing, you know, destroy the reputations and the lives of people who are articulate in pulling these guys' covers and showing who exactly they are.
00:42:18.780 They go out to destroy them.
00:42:20.420 And so people don't necessarily go along with this whole idea that, you know, we're white supremacists, we're a racist society, all that.
00:42:30.740 But they're afraid to say otherwise because they see what happens to those people who stand up to the left.
00:42:40.100 And, really, nobody wants to be in that position.
00:42:43.620 Nobody wants to be excommunicated from their society, from their friends, from their neighbors, from their family, even, losing jobs.
00:42:54.900 You know, it's literally a form of terrorism.
00:43:00.100 And, you know, it was started with Lenin, but it was carried forward through the Soviet Communist Party, telling Communist Parties of the world, call our opponents bigots, racists, call them anti-Semites, call them fascists, Nazis.
00:43:16.980 And so they just keep repeating that, and over time, people start to actually believe it.
00:43:23.380 And then it got brought forward by another hardcore communist who talked about white privilege, Noel Ignatieff, who was actually a Harvard professor.
00:43:42.660 Even though he did not have the qualifications to be a Harvard professor, he became one anyway.
00:43:48.660 Ask yourself how that happened.
00:43:50.520 And he came up with the idea of white privilege.
00:43:54.400 We have Herbert Marcuse, who deserves a book of his own, who came up with the concept of partisan tolerance.
00:44:02.760 That is, tolerance only of the ideas from the left, and complete intolerance, right down to the level of thought of anybody who disagrees with them.
00:44:14.500 And so this is where all this stuff came from.
00:44:17.100 And then our favorite guy, Saul Alinsky, put it all together in a manual on how to destroy your enemies called Rules for Radicals. 0.99
00:44:27.980 We are, I've been saying for a while, we are in a revolution, but only one side is recognizing it.
00:44:36.760 And the rest of us are like, well, no, it's not that.
00:44:39.920 It's, right?
00:44:41.320 Right.
00:44:41.820 Nobody wants to think of that, because to do so really requires a whole change in our, not merely our perspective, but in our lives.
00:44:52.360 I mean, we really have to get off the couch and really get to work, because we are losing our country.
00:44:59.500 So what does that mean?
00:45:00.380 I know you, the longest chapter in the book is all about Vaclav Havel.
00:45:06.440 Well, no.
00:45:07.720 Well, that's one of the ideas in that chapter.
00:45:10.320 Yeah, I quote Havel later.
00:45:13.580 Somebody, one of my readers sent me an essay he wrote.
00:45:17.740 I didn't actually know that he had said the same thing, but it's very important, because his suggestion, you know, he was the leader of Czechoslovakia after the Soviet Union, quote unquote, fell.
00:45:32.260 You know, he was the Czech Republic's first president, and he said the only way to circumvent the communism that is deeply entrenched in the culture and the society and the institutions, which is the same problem we have here, is to create a parallel society.
00:45:52.140 And you create a parallel society that everybody will find preferable, because what the communists set up is so horrific.
00:46:03.600 Nobody wants to be part of it.
00:46:05.220 They just don't have any options.
00:46:07.040 But we have a very good opportunity here, especially in state and local government.
00:46:12.440 You know, we watch how the school boards are being overthrown.
00:46:17.700 And, of course, how the national government comes in and says, well, we're going to declare those people domestic terrorists.
00:46:24.200 Right.
00:46:24.540 Totally insane.
00:46:25.520 But we have to provide those alternatives.
00:46:29.820 And as we do, the votes and the money drain from the left and go back to freedom-loving America.
00:46:40.760 And that's what we need to do.
00:46:43.360 And that chapter describes at great length.
00:46:46.460 It is the longest chapter with hundreds and hundreds of suggestions on ways to do that and the things, the ways that we should behave.
00:46:54.700 And a lot of it involves things that don't really require that we really change our lifestyle too much, because, you know, most people just aren't going to do that.
00:47:06.320 Most people aren't going to go out in the street and start fighting against Antifa.
00:47:09.800 Most people aren't going to stand up to this massive cultural incursion that the left has successfully prosecuted over the last hundred years.
00:47:19.840 So we need to figure out a way to work that harmonizes with our abilities and, as Saul Linsky said, doesn't take us out of our comfort zone.
00:47:29.700 So, Jim, I am, I am, I'm going to pick your book up today.
00:47:33.180 I'm going to begin to read it today.
00:47:35.980 This is the kind of stuff that I have been looking for.
00:47:39.660 And, you know, I, I know your research.
00:47:43.800 I know, you know, this inside and out, and this is more than just knowing where it all came from, which is really, really important to see how it was built.
00:47:54.280 But I am, I'm very interested in the solutions as well, because we better get moving quickly or time will run out on us.
00:48:04.960 Jim Simpson, the author of Who Was Karl Marx?
00:48:08.220 The man, the motives, and the menace behind today's rampaging American left.
00:48:13.800 Who Was Karl Marx?
00:48:15.460 Get it wherever books are sold today.
00:48:18.380 Na, na, na, na, na.