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00:00:00.000 Well, hello, Stu. Got a little dicey today with the politics and everything that was happening yesterday.

00:00:05.980 So many big stories in one day. What a weird 24 hours.

00:00:10.700 Yeah, like all of these huge stories, including the prime minister of Poland,

00:00:16.480 talking about how two politicians went to the presidential palace there and they were arrested.

00:00:22.360 And the president had already pardoned them and everything else.

00:00:24.800 And he said, for the first time since communism, we have political prisoners.

00:00:30.000 And then in Canada, the reporter that was arrested on the street for, what was it, attacking a police officer?

00:00:39.740 And the video is there. That's not what happened at all.

00:00:45.040 Shocking the way we are regressing.

00:00:47.960 The president also came out and he's going to have the Department of Labor put out the same thing that Gavin Newsom did for gig workers.

00:00:59.300 It's working well for Gavin Newsom. They're in the middle of a budget emergency.

00:01:03.600 So, I mean, why not replicate what they're doing out there?

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00:02:44.380 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:50.720 Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:53.020 It's Thursday.

00:02:54.240 Maybe later we can go through some of this polling on the border, Glenn,

00:02:56.980 because, you know, it's a huge vulnerability for Biden going into this election.

00:03:01.540 Huge.

00:03:02.020 It's catastrophic.

00:03:02.360 45% say it's a crisis.

00:03:05.200 Crisis.

00:03:06.140 I am surprised it's that low.

00:03:08.920 When they're kicking people out of their schools.

00:03:13.440 Oh, my gosh.

00:03:14.040 In, what is that, New York, right?

00:03:15.980 Yeah, New York.

00:03:16.540 In fact, do we have the video of that?

00:03:19.980 It is, it's astounding.

00:03:22.000 Play the video of that.

00:03:23.560 Of them being ejected.

00:03:24.940 Here we go.

00:03:25.260 How does it feel that you can tell the kid that is a mom?

00:03:27.960 How does it feel?

00:03:29.060 You feel good?

00:03:30.100 I hope you feel good.

00:03:31.940 I hope you all sleep really well tonight.

00:03:35.900 That's a mom. 0.98

00:03:36.980 Yeah, I guess.

00:03:39.900 I have a right to.

00:03:41.340 That's why.

00:03:42.360 That's why.

00:03:43.020 Because I'm an aggravated mother.

00:03:44.500 That's why.

00:03:46.960 Yeah, we'll do that.

00:03:47.960 I mean, I doubt.

00:03:49.960 Incomprehensive.

00:03:50.540 I doubt this mom.

00:03:52.200 Taking all of my kids' schools.

00:03:55.160 Yeah.

00:03:55.380 I doubt this mom was, you know, a diehard voter one way or another. 0.94

00:04:01.400 I mean, there's going to be a lot of, it might be, but.

00:04:03.760 Yeah.

00:04:04.280 Who knows?

00:04:04.820 They're moms first. 0.76

00:04:07.200 Mm-hmm.

00:04:07.340 And their kids are being kept out of school and told they got to go someplace else because

00:04:13.320 all of these migrants are coming in, not migrants, I'm sorry, illegal aliens coming in, and they're 1.00

00:04:19.280 just taking the schools.

00:04:21.380 What the hell is happening?

00:04:24.420 It's legitimately shocking.

00:04:26.440 It's also 2,000 people you know nothing about.

00:04:28.680 You don't know if these are criminals, are felons, are mass murderers, and they just moved into this

00:04:34.920 neighborhood 2,000 at once.

00:04:37.240 It's incredible.

00:04:38.460 It's an unconscionable story.

00:04:40.400 Wait until you see this documentary on Blaze TV on Colony Ridge, the new documentary with

00:04:46.660 me and Jason Buttrell on right now.

00:04:52.220 You can watch it at blazetv.com slash Glenn.

00:04:56.200 If you're not a subscriber, you'll need to subscribe, use Colony Ridge, and you'll save

00:05:00.760 30 bucks or 30% off your Blaze TV membership, Blaze TV Plus.

00:05:08.220 This documentary is for Blaze TV people only.

00:05:12.340 It is really amazing, truly amazing.

00:05:16.340 And we can only make these things because of you and try to find the real story.

00:05:24.700 And the real story on this has been missed by almost everybody.

00:05:29.500 The real story on Colony Ridge?

00:05:31.540 Yeah.

00:05:32.160 It's been missed by everybody.

00:05:34.200 And we expose it because it was so, when you actually go down and you're trying to find

00:05:39.480 the truth, it's not what you heard and it's not necessarily, you know, what the development

00:05:46.680 says either.

00:05:47.920 Okay?

00:05:48.440 Those are polar opposites of each other.

00:05:52.220 So what is the real truth and what's the real story?

00:05:55.760 And you'll see that tonight on the documentary, blazetv.com slash Glenn, use the promo code

00:06:02.620 Colony Ridge.

00:06:03.720 But this does not, this is the fastest growing development in Texas.

00:06:09.640 This is going to be everywhere.

00:06:13.380 And you'll understand why tonight.

00:06:15.880 I mean, everywhere. 0.59

00:06:17.440 Aren't they selling like 200 lots a day or something ridiculous? 0.85

00:06:20.800 It's crazy. 0.81

00:06:21.240 It's out of control what's going on.

00:06:23.240 Yeah, it's crazy.

00:06:24.560 It's going to be the biggest city in the southeast or southwest pretty soon.

00:06:28.420 Oh, I mean, it is 30 minutes outside of Houston.

00:06:32.040 Yeah.

00:06:32.380 And it's already, what, 70,000 people?

00:06:35.740 You'll find out tonight.

00:06:36.840 That's what some people say.

00:06:38.300 That's what some people say.

00:06:39.520 You'll see tonight.

00:06:40.420 It's pretty amazing.

00:06:42.140 And you know where we got the official number?

00:06:44.620 The schools.

00:06:46.700 Oh, they'd know.

00:06:48.820 Yeah, they'd know.

00:06:51.060 All right.

00:06:51.760 Anyway.

00:06:52.100 It's poor people living in the shadows.

00:06:54.060 I don't know what your deal is with them.

00:06:56.140 They're just here to make a better life for themselves.

00:06:58.440 Just a bunch of families coming in, wanting a better life.

00:07:01.640 The word I would use is not emergency.

00:07:04.040 I would say it's invasion.

00:07:08.340 Yeah.

00:07:08.780 Well, that's the word that people agree with most now.

00:07:11.220 They just did a study on that, a survey.

00:07:13.480 And rather than a crisis, they're saying it's an invasion.

00:07:16.720 The American people are starting to wake up to it.

00:07:18.720 I don't know if they're awake enough to elect a new leader who's going to do something about this, but I sure hope so.

00:07:24.460 Well, Mike Lee is on today because Mike Lee is saying no budget, no border, no budget, no border, no budget.

00:07:31.140 The way it should be.

00:07:32.000 That's what Chip Roy is saying.

00:07:33.340 You know, they torpedoed, 12 of them torpedoed the budget yesterday in the House.

00:07:42.180 Because it included nothing on the border.

00:07:44.000 Nothing on the border.

00:07:44.720 It's laughable.

00:07:45.780 I mean, this charade we went through with throwing McCarthy out as if it was going to make some difference.

00:07:51.260 And then the exact same deal comes back.

00:07:53.900 Yeah.

00:07:54.140 A lot of the people who were responsible for that, I haven't heard word one from, by the way.

00:07:58.820 I know.

00:07:59.160 But I mean, it was just a waste of time.

00:08:00.780 I mean, I don't care about McCarthy.

00:08:02.260 I don't care.

00:08:02.780 And I don't think Johnson's the worst guy in the world or anything.

00:08:05.380 But, like, there's no change here.

00:08:07.340 This is the same thing.

00:08:08.240 They're restrained the same way.

00:08:10.800 They can't do anything.

00:08:12.320 They fail over and over again when they have power. 1.00

00:08:15.640 I mean, it's pathetic. 0.92

00:08:17.580 Who's best equipped, do you think, after everything we've seen so far in this campaign, to do something substantial on the border? 0.97

00:08:25.060 To finally, would it be Trump?

00:08:27.480 Would it be DeSantis?

00:08:29.400 I think it would be...

00:08:30.320 Vavake, Nikki Haley.

00:08:31.700 I mean, who do you have the most faith in?

00:08:33.900 To do something on the border?

00:08:34.960 Yeah.

00:08:35.360 I think Trump and DeSantis are side by side.

00:08:38.880 Yeah, me too.

00:08:39.560 Vavake's pretty strong on...

00:08:42.520 Yeah, Vavake...

00:08:43.300 From what I've heard of.

00:08:44.140 Right, but I don't know if he would have the muscle.

00:08:46.820 I think he would make a decent vice president.

00:08:50.540 Because I think he could explain things.

00:08:53.000 He could be out on the road, be a bully pulpit. 0.96

00:08:56.080 He's a bulldog, too. 0.99

00:08:57.020 I mean, he's a bulldog. 0.89

00:08:57.760 He will.

00:08:58.240 You've seen him with the press over the past few weeks, especially.

00:09:00.080 He's been great with that.

00:09:00.940 Very, very good.

00:09:01.720 You know, look, there's a lot...

00:09:03.140 It's so weird.

00:09:03.700 I think people are so polarized on Vavake.

00:09:06.520 And it's like, I don't know.

00:09:07.660 I mean, he's got something to offer.

00:09:10.460 I really do think that.

00:09:11.580 I mean, he is...

00:09:12.380 He's just super smart.

00:09:13.480 He's super smart.

00:09:14.220 He's very good.

00:09:14.940 I mean, he really does...

00:09:16.520 You've mentioned this before, I know, Glenn, with Vavake as a potential Trump VP type of

00:09:21.020 candidate.

00:09:21.520 And it's like, you know, I mean, you could see it.

00:09:24.400 You know, he sort of has a younger, more...

00:09:30.580 He's certainly a different approach, let's say, a more well-spoken and sort of refined

00:09:33.920 approach than Trump. 0.94

00:09:35.420 But he's a bulldog in the same way.

00:09:37.260 And like, what you might point out as issues with Vavake, if you're looking at him generally,

00:09:42.600 like, you know, occasionally he does go down certain roads.

00:09:45.620 He's had some odd comments on, you know, 9-11, for example, that might cause a normal candidate 0.95

00:09:51.140 problems.

00:09:51.980 That's not going to cause Donald Trump any problems.

00:09:53.900 Okay, hang on.

00:09:54.700 It doesn't care at all.

00:09:56.100 That would be like, oh, yeah, whatever, whatever, yeah.

00:09:58.660 But let me ask you on 9-11.

00:10:01.420 There are many conspiracies about 9-11.

00:10:04.160 Steel doesn't melt, comes to mind.

00:10:06.000 Sure.

00:10:06.580 Then how do you make it into a beam?

00:10:09.380 How do they shape it so well?

00:10:11.000 Yeah, right.

00:10:12.300 But, you know, World Trade Center number seven collapsing later that day is really the conspiracy

00:10:20.760 theory.

00:10:21.400 There's a hundred million conspiracy theories.

00:10:23.900 I don't, you know, I don't embrace any of them.

00:10:26.420 But still, like, you know, I think if you talk to Vavake, he's not saying, well, it's

00:10:29.900 will World Trade Center seven fall down.

00:10:31.500 He's saying like, okay, well, they lie to us about Saudi Arabia's involvement.

00:10:35.120 He's not like...

00:10:35.780 I agree with that.

00:10:36.500 I wish he'd clear that up, though.

00:10:37.640 I agree with that, yeah.

00:10:38.360 He makes it sound like he's Alex Jones on the issue, and he's... I don't think he is.

00:10:41.880 And then you might think that because he brings Alex Jones on his podcast and then goes on

00:10:46.800 to me as a mistake, but who am I?

00:10:49.380 Again, I think that he has something to offer.

00:10:51.580 But, like, his vulnerabilities as a candidate, the places he's, you know, weak or questionable as a lead

00:10:58.740 candidate are all issues that Donald Trump could roll through without even thinking about it on a

00:11:03.360 Tuesday afternoon.

00:11:04.360 Yes.

00:11:04.600 Like, none of those problems that Vavake might present to a Nikki Haley, he doesn't present

00:11:10.140 any of those problems to Donald Trump.

00:11:12.000 Oh, no.

00:11:12.540 Donald Trump will be like, oh, yeah, well, actually, I think it was a conspiracy.

00:11:16.460 It wasn't.

00:11:17.200 He'll, like, outdo Vavake on all those things.

00:11:18.880 I saw George Bush plant the explosives.

00:11:21.180 He doesn't care.

00:11:22.180 He'll go whatever.

00:11:23.020 So, like, you know, it's an interesting fit because, you know, Vavake would be able to go on all these

00:11:28.740 shows and just constantly roll over media people attacking Trump.

00:11:32.380 And if that's a job you'd think Trump would really like to have a bulldog, you know, Pence was a

00:11:37.800 different pick.

00:11:39.140 Pence was like, hey, a lot of, you know, evangelical people don't trust me right now in 2016.

00:11:44.120 I need someone who will give me that credibility.

00:11:46.000 And Pence filled that role and basically didn't, you know, never disagreed with him for four years.

00:11:53.000 I mean, I know everyone talks about January 6th, but, like, before January 6th, Pence was very

00:11:58.480 subservient to Donald Trump basically the entire time.

00:12:02.780 And, like, I don't know.

00:12:04.280 You watch Vavake on stage.

00:12:06.420 He's almost doing that already.

00:12:08.700 Right?

00:12:09.220 Like, he literally said while running for president in a debate that Donald Trump was the best president

00:12:15.500 of his lifetime.

00:12:16.660 And it's like, if you believe that, let him run again.

00:12:19.200 Let's get him be president.

00:12:20.820 We don't need you if we have him still.

00:12:22.780 But, you know, Vavake as a number two in that role, there is there's something to it.

00:12:28.500 However, however, let's play the the game of you need all of the Republicans.

00:12:35.240 That would lead me to believe if if Nikki Haley does well in in Iowa, if she comes in second 0.96

00:12:42.020 in Iowa and, you know, you you leave DeSantis kind of in the dust, I think DeSantis could be

00:12:49.620 done.

00:12:50.700 If DeSantis finishes third, he's toast, right?

00:12:53.340 There's no way to come back.

00:12:54.800 It's a close third, you know, if it's like one or two points away.

00:12:57.700 I mean, you're in Iowa.

00:12:58.740 He's put all of his resources there.

00:13:00.340 If he finishes third.

00:13:00.960 There's almost no path.

00:13:02.160 Yeah, I think so, too. 0.90

00:13:03.140 Other than Trump is in a gulag.

00:13:06.520 They take Trump off the ballot somehow.

00:13:09.280 You know, something like that.

00:13:10.140 You might say, OK, he's playing for second.

00:13:11.640 If it was him versus Nikki Haley, all polling of Republicans shows he would he would beat Nikki

00:13:17.360 Haley easily.

00:13:17.900 But the question is, when when given the Trump the three way choice here with Trump and Haley

00:13:23.760 and DeSantis, the DeSantis people who like DeSantis are more likely to vote for Trump.

00:13:30.420 If Trump isn't there, DeSantis may say, OK, well, I have a path forward.

00:13:34.520 You know, I mean, again, we have to take these things seriously because, you know, the entire

00:13:39.400 U.S. government seems to be aligned to try to destroy Donald Trump.

00:13:42.760 So you have to think of what happens as a secondary choice here.

00:13:46.220 And so DeSantis might see a path forward there.

00:13:48.580 But in a traditional primary, if all he has spent all of his resources in Iowa, if he finishes

00:13:54.340 third, there's a new poll today that shows him in third, by the way, if that is true

00:13:58.660 and that is and it's hard to believe.

00:14:00.900 But if that is true, he's got to be toast, right?

00:14:04.880 Like that.

00:14:05.520 If you spend all of this time, all of these resources on Iowa and you finish third behind

00:14:10.760 Nikki Haley in a state that's like Iowa, that's catastrophic for this campaign.

00:14:15.640 This is where that really cold, cold front could help DeSantis.

00:14:19.600 Yeah.

00:14:19.800 Because his people are going to be hopefully motivated.

00:14:23.940 If he's behind Nikki Haley, they'd be either they'll either give up or they'll be motivated

00:14:30.420 to get out to the caucus and really caucus for him and be strong.

00:14:34.960 He's got the best organization, I think, in the entire state.

00:14:37.300 I talked to Steve Dace yesterday who kind of outlined that same idea.

00:14:40.480 I think Donald Trump has a pretty strong.

00:14:42.000 I've heard that he is killing it on the ground.

00:14:44.520 I mean, look, the poll, that poll that I mentioned that has DeSantis in third place also has Trump

00:14:50.000 over 50 percent.

00:14:51.140 The weather could definitely play a part in this, though.

00:14:53.840 It's going to be like 15 here.

00:14:55.820 How cold is it going to be in Iowa on Monday?

00:14:58.000 15 below.

00:14:58.600 Yeah.

00:14:59.040 Really cold.

00:14:59.860 Really cold.

00:15:00.600 And if you're a Trump voter and you're thinking like he's up by 30, why am I really going to

00:15:04.980 That could really hurt him.

00:15:06.400 That could really throw into chaos.

00:15:07.640 That could really hurt him.

00:15:08.560 All right.

00:15:08.860 Back in just a minute.

00:15:09.740 Thank you, Pat.

00:15:10.220 Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed, only on Blaze TV.

00:15:14.520 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:15:34.160 Yesterday, Mike Lee went on a rant on X.

00:15:39.060 I wish Senate GOP leaders would admit that Biden already has the power to stop the border surge,

00:15:44.420 but refuses to do so.

00:15:46.060 And two, passing new laws, paying $106 billion as the price of admission won't change that.

00:15:52.120 When this effort fails, Biden will blame the GOP for the surge.

00:15:55.400 By not including Speaker Johnson in these border security negotiations to give him what he needs,

00:16:01.840 Senate R's are setting up GOP to get blamed for the border.

00:16:05.260 Why exclude the House Speaker in this?

00:16:07.920 This gives Biden and the Democrats a massive win.

00:16:12.060 Biden will never enforce the law, and Dem AGs will litigate it to death and ensure that none of it takes effect.

00:16:18.900 Those advocating for this deal, including members of both parties, are setting Republicans up for failure.

00:16:23.740 Nothing that's in this deal, which we still haven't seen, but it's been described to us in broad terms,

00:16:28.980 would stop the current surge in the border, and some of its provisions might as well, might make the surge far worse.

00:16:37.700 No one believes this can pass the House because it's got serious problems, so why are we setting up Republicans?

00:16:43.600 Perhaps the firm has now ousted Speaker Johnson and renamed it as the law firm of Schumer, McConnell, and Jeffries.

00:16:51.680 If so, that speaks well of Speaker Johnson.

00:16:56.140 Mike Lee is here to talk about this.

00:16:59.380 Hi, Mike.

00:17:01.000 Good to be with you.

00:17:02.600 Good to be with you, Senator.

00:17:04.780 You give me a little bit of hope because I've been wondering about Speaker Johnson.

00:17:11.440 You're saying now that he's cut out of this in the Senate, and that might mean that he's actually a good guy.

00:17:18.300 Yeah, it appears to me that Speaker Johnson, who I met with this morning, has not been in the loop on this at all.

00:17:29.060 It appears to me also that Speaker Johnson knows that this has no realistic hope of going anywhere in the House,

00:17:36.420 and I believe Speaker Johnson also understands that President Biden has the authority to address the border crisis

00:17:43.600 in a meaningful way to get the numbers down low the way they were before President Trump left office.

00:17:54.900 But President Biden refuses to do so.

00:17:57.740 And one of the dangerous things about this game is that by setting this up,

00:18:02.600 we're almost taking accountability away from President Biden by buying into the narrative

00:18:08.620 and implicitly furthering the narrative that says that this whole border crisis,

00:18:14.660 the humanitarian crisis unfolding there, the rule of law chaos,

00:18:18.660 the invasion of the United States of America by people from all over the world,

00:18:23.200 including not just from Latin America, but from places like, oh, I don't know, Afghanistan and Syria.

00:18:29.380 China.

00:18:30.360 China.

00:18:31.440 All kinds of places.

00:18:32.900 Yemen.

00:18:34.520 This is occurring for want of adequate legislation, for a lack of adequate federal law.

00:18:42.080 It is not.

00:18:43.380 Look, Glenn, the bottom line is this all started and all gets perpetuated through our asylum laws. 0.90

00:18:51.320 And our asylum laws at the outset are discretionary.

00:18:55.540 They're written in may language rather than shall language.

00:18:58.800 They contemplate that when someone comes in, crosses our border without documentation,

00:19:03.060 if they want to apply for asylum, they do so.

00:19:05.480 They're supposed to be incarcerated until their claim can be adjudicated.

00:19:09.760 And if and only if they're deemed eligible for it, then they're admitted.

00:19:13.180 Most of them are not, by the way.

00:19:14.980 But what these guys are doing, they're saying, well, we ran out of bed space.

00:19:18.800 We don't have enough time or people and enough beds to process all of them and hold them.

00:19:23.960 So what we're going to do is just release them into the interior of the country. 0.65

00:19:26.780 In fact, we're going to buy them a plane ticket and they can board that plane without a driver's

00:19:31.180 license or a passport or anything else.

00:19:33.680 We'll just fly them into the country and we'll tell them, have fun. 0.99

00:19:37.200 We'll probably contact you for your immigration hearing, which may be 10 or 12 years down the

00:19:43.100 road.

00:19:43.800 And within 180 days, we'll give you a work permit.

00:19:47.380 That is not what the law requires.

00:19:49.740 Much of that is not even what the law allows.

00:19:52.020 What they could and should do is say that because there is no affirmative right to asylum by anybody

00:20:00.340 coming into this country without documentation, there's no affirmative right that we have to 1.00

00:20:03.900 recognize.

00:20:04.580 The president and Secretary Mayorkas should say, once we're no longer able to process all of

00:20:09.660 them, we're going to stop even considering asylum applications for people who cross our borders 1.00

00:20:15.780 without documentation and thereafter seek asylum.

00:20:18.760 We should be turning them around right away.

00:20:22.020 This whole negotiation presupposes that this is, you know, somehow based on a lack of adequate

00:20:28.440 federal legislation.

00:20:29.640 Sure, some of our laws are messed up and need to be fine tuned.

00:20:32.560 That's not the problem here.

00:20:34.280 The problem is that President Biden defiantly refuses to enforce them.

00:20:38.840 You say that this law, if passed, might even make things worse.

00:20:43.340 How?

00:20:43.620 Well, there are elements of it that might make things better, but there are elements of it

00:20:47.900 that might turn up the electromagnetic pole for illegal migrants.

00:20:53.020 For example, there are provisions that would eliminate the 180 day waiting period between

00:20:58.780 the time someone is released from the initial screening into the interior of the country.

00:21:04.740 They have to wait 180 days between that moment and the moment they get their work permit.

00:21:07.860 And this would turn that down to zero days.

00:21:10.240 They would get it immediately after their release from the initial screening period.

00:21:14.360 So that's a thing.

00:21:18.040 Number two, while it would give a new Title 42-like authority to the president to shut down

00:21:25.660 the border in ways that we can't yet ascertained because we haven't seen bill checks, they won't

00:21:30.260 let us see it because they're still negotiating it.

00:21:32.280 I don't know why that means we can't see it, but whatever.

00:21:35.060 However, they're negotiating that, and that sounds great, that, you know, once we've achieved

00:21:39.820 5,000 migrant encounters a day, and we're several times that right now, that the president

00:21:45.820 would have authority in unspecified ways to sort of shut down the whole process of the

00:21:49.980 border, the process by which people entering by land without documentation could be brought

00:21:55.100 in.

00:21:56.040 But then it says it can do that for only 14 consecutive days.

00:22:00.120 And initially for a maximum of 275 days per year, ratcheting down over two or three years

00:22:08.080 after that to a total of 180 days.

00:22:10.880 Well, just what that does, Glenn, that allows El Chapo's successors and interests and other

00:22:16.860 like-minded international criminal cartels to game the system, to calendar around when they'll

00:22:24.800 bring in these uncontrolled waves of illegal immigration.

00:22:27.760 This will just guarantee that they will be able to have free reign because the president

00:22:32.980 won't be able to shut it all down.

00:22:34.720 Okay, so Mike, you know, the budget thing, I have been watching you, and thank you for

00:22:39.980 being one of the good guys, and no border, no budget.

00:22:43.860 That should be a mantra all around the country.

00:22:47.160 No border, no budget. 0.98

00:22:49.860 But the Republicans are going to shoot themselves.

00:22:52.760 The Mitch McConnells are going to do it again. 0.94

00:22:54.900 Again, they're going to say, oh my gosh, this is horrible.

00:22:58.720 You know, we're going to shut down the government because of these extreme Republicans who everyone

00:23:03.600 knows that the border is a crisis.

00:23:07.540 Everyone knows that.

00:23:09.200 And I don't know why the GOP is acting the way they do.

00:23:14.280 I don't know if they're in bed just for themselves or big business or whatever.

00:23:17.860 But if you've got the Mitch McConnells and the machinery of the GOP not standing behind,

00:23:25.560 no border, no budget, it's just going to be a nightmare again.

00:23:31.920 It will, just as it is a nightmare now.

00:23:36.400 So, yeah, we need a simple demand.

00:23:39.740 The simple demand is secure the border or shut it down.

00:23:44.340 Now, there's some flexibility in what the it is, whether that's the whole government

00:23:48.540 or the Department of Homeland Security or the White House toilet paper budget.

00:23:52.720 I don't know.

00:23:53.720 But regardless, there needs to be some consequence.

00:23:56.360 Something, someone, somewhere needs to be defunded directly as a result of the refusal

00:24:01.860 to enforce the border.

00:24:03.480 And it is willful and it is politically motivated.

00:24:06.640 They need to face consequences from that by the Congress.

00:24:13.100 Remember, you can't really pass any spending legislation without going through the Republican

00:24:18.480 controlled House.

00:24:19.580 You can't even pass any spending legislation separate and apart from the Republican controlled

00:24:25.360 House without getting at least nine votes from Republicans in the Senate in addition to

00:24:31.540 the 51 Democrats.

00:24:32.740 So, if Republicans really wanted to hold them to this, we could impose some consequence,

00:24:38.600 whether that's shutting down DHS for a while until they get their act together, until they

00:24:42.660 enforce the border, or much more broadly.

00:24:45.640 I'm agnostic as to what exactly ought to be defunded during that period, but we've got to

00:24:49.840 defund something because we can't pretend this is business as usual.

00:24:54.000 We cannot, must not reward them for inviting an invasion and acting as if nothing has to change

00:25:01.700 as a result of that.

00:25:02.740 Mike, thanks for flying the flag and trying to keep the Republic safe.

00:25:10.760 I appreciate it.

00:25:12.080 Can I ask you a quick question on the Donald Trump lawsuits?

00:25:18.440 Yes.

00:25:19.080 I mean, is the Supreme Court going to rule that this is unconstitutional?

00:25:24.900 I mean, how can you keep somebody off a ballot quoting the Constitution if the guy has never

00:25:31.820 even been charged with insurrection?

00:25:33.900 Yeah, that seems really problematic to me, problematic on many levels, including and especially the fact

00:25:41.900 that not one person, certainly not Donald Trump, has even been charged with, much less convicted

00:25:51.800 of, the crime of insurrection.

00:25:53.820 Donald Trump hasn't been convicted of anything close to that.

00:26:00.380 He hasn't been convicted of anything, in fact.

00:26:02.520 And so this is an act of lawlessness.

00:26:05.840 There are some other more technical, less intuitive reasons in there.

00:26:10.940 Some of the language used in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment specifically references some

00:26:16.840 offices, not the presidency, indicating that it does not apply to President Trump.

00:26:24.400 But in any event, for three or four independent reasons, I will be shocked if the Supreme Court

00:26:30.340 does anything other than overturn the Colorado Supreme Court, which acted lawlessly and in

00:26:37.880 a pretty shameless political maneuver. 0.99

00:26:41.540 I will not be surprised at all if the decision is either unanimous or near unanimous.

00:26:47.420 It would have to be.

00:26:49.140 And they're going to have to act soon, because otherwise this is going to cause absolute chaos.

00:26:55.640 And you may see this metastasize throughout the country.

00:26:58.560 So the court likes to be deliberative, so this will require them to act more quickly than

00:27:04.100 they normally do.

00:27:04.820 But I think they will.

00:27:05.760 I suspect that within a few weeks of argument, you may see the opinion of the court released.

00:27:12.280 Well, it's already too late in Denver or in Colorado.

00:27:16.980 It's already too late.

00:27:17.680 They've already printed the ballots, and his name is not on it.

00:27:22.400 And there are states now saying, oh, you want to play that game?

00:27:24.800 Two can play that game.

00:27:26.100 I mean, this is, we have constitutional crisis after constitutional crisis, and I don't hear

00:27:32.660 anyone calling it that.

00:27:34.960 And it needs to be.

00:27:36.760 But it is.

00:27:38.240 Because it is a constitutional crisis.

00:27:41.740 I've issued and made some tweets about that one over the holidays on my Based Mike Lee

00:27:48.280 account that explains some of the reasons why this thing is so out of control.

00:27:53.240 I even wrote a rudimentary song about Sheena.

00:27:58.960 Sheena Bellows, the Secretary of State in Maine, reached the same decision.

00:28:04.040 This song, which I've released to no one, is called, it's to the tune of Sheena is a punk

00:28:10.340 rocker by the Ramones.

00:28:11.620 And it's something along the lines of, Sheena is a woke Marxist, but we'll leave that one

00:28:16.460 for a different day.

00:28:18.620 Mike Lee, rewriting the Ramones.

00:28:21.580 Fantastic.

00:28:22.160 Thank you, Mike.

00:28:22.640 Appreciate it.

00:28:23.920 Thanks so much, Glenn.

00:28:24.800 God bless.

00:28:25.260 Remember this phrase, no border, no budget.

00:28:31.940 This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:28:41.140 Peter Giedel.

00:28:42.760 He is the managing editor for Return for Blaze Media.

00:28:48.060 He is also a tech journalist, magazine editor, essayist.

00:28:51.560 He covers human stories in the digital age, from crypto to AI to transhumanism.

00:28:57.900 He lives in Colorado.

00:29:00.080 Hello, Peter.

00:29:00.620 How are you?

00:29:01.820 I'm doing really well.

00:29:02.980 Thank you so much for having me on today, Glenn.

00:29:05.220 By the way, big fan.

00:29:07.800 Love your writing.

00:29:09.420 You just did something on virtual sex, one of the essays, and it was unbelievable and unbelievably

00:29:19.040 spot on.

00:29:19.860 So, big fan.

00:29:21.560 Thank you very much.

00:29:22.960 That's very kind.

00:29:25.700 Researching that story, it was tough talking to a lot of young men who were dealing with

00:29:31.220 an addiction right now.

00:29:33.880 It was tough, but yeah, it's crazy what's happening in that space and where society is

00:29:39.900 going with pornography.

00:29:41.760 So, tell me, you're at the Consumer Electronics Show.

00:29:45.660 What is the feeling there on what's new, exciting, spooky?

00:29:51.060 What's happening?

00:29:51.880 Well, it's, I mean, you know, Consumer Electronics Show, it always is rolling out some of the

00:29:59.440 coolest new tech we'll see in the year.

00:30:01.820 You know, they've rolled out the VCR and home video game systems in the past.

00:30:06.640 I'm seeing a lot of AI everything.

00:30:11.140 They're trying to integrate artificial intelligence, large language models with every conceivable

00:30:18.840 type of technology and gadget.

00:30:21.300 Now, I mean, most of these things are, okay, do you need AI for your toilet?

00:30:26.740 Probably not.

00:30:27.580 But I think we're definitely going to see some products that break through and are utilizing

00:30:36.060 this technology in ways that will have transformative effects on society.

00:30:40.800 Like what?

00:30:43.560 You know, there's a lot of integrations coming of, you know, there's forward-facing consumer

00:30:53.720 products like ChatGPT that people are using, and, you know, sometimes it's silly stuff like

00:30:59.940 making photos.

00:31:00.520 But I think there's a lot in the background of, like, you know, companies that are creating

00:31:07.380 AI that could do a lot of contract work that a lot of lawyers do now.

00:31:13.480 How far away are we from a personal assistant that is really good?

00:31:19.420 In my opinion, we're very close.

00:31:22.120 There's some products here already that are utilizing AI to basically interact with your

00:31:29.980 apps.

00:31:31.320 So instead of researching best flights, you know, if you're trying to go to New York City

00:31:37.840 for vacation, you can just tell the AI to find the app and book your plane, and it just

00:31:43.840 does it with one touch.

00:31:45.340 So I think it's very reasonable to think in within 18 months, we're going to see an

00:31:51.900 assistant that's very competent and is taking away a lot of menial tasks away from a person.

00:31:59.700 Have you seen the doll Moxie yet?

00:32:05.400 Unfortunately, it is burned in my brain.

00:32:08.940 Terrifying, right?

00:32:10.540 Terrifying.

00:32:11.300 Yes.

00:32:11.520 Okay, so this is a doll for children.

00:32:14.180 It's a robot doll for children.

00:32:15.940 Explain.

00:32:17.880 Yeah, so I wrote about this in a diary for Unreturned.

00:32:23.820 And it was in the Amazon, like, home of the future.

00:32:28.380 So, you know, it's got all kinds of creepy Amazon Alexa integrated tag where your bed is

00:32:34.320 watching you at night, and you can talk, Alexa pumps its voice into your head through glasses. 0.51

00:32:43.400 So, you know, standard Amazon stuff.

00:32:45.540 But then I got to the Moxie, and it's, I mean, you almost have to see it in person to really realize how creepy it is. 0.69

00:32:54.440 But it's this small robot with this human-like face that's on a screen, but it's all integrated with chat GPT-4, and it's designed to talk to children.

00:33:09.300 And, I mean, if you go on YouTube, there's a lot of clips of it asking kids very creepy, weird questions.

00:33:15.680 And it was incredibly disconcerting.

00:33:19.320 Yeah, but good news is it'll go up to the cloud, and all of that information about your child will be there forever, which is...

00:33:28.900 Exactly.

00:33:29.720 And the good thing is you don't have to, you know, you don't have to raise your kid anymore.

00:33:33.800 You can just rely on this robot to do it for you.

00:33:35.780 Thank you, Amazon.

00:33:36.820 That's great.

00:33:38.760 What is the, what's the talk about central bank digital currencies?

00:33:44.040 And, you know, kind of the, we're going to make all of your problems disappear.

00:33:50.180 Just give us everything you are.

00:33:55.200 Absolutely.

00:33:55.820 There's, you know, there's some talk of it.

00:33:58.600 You know, a lot of people, it's hard to get them on record.

00:34:01.820 You know, they express fears and concerns even with, you know, they work at these tech companies, but obviously they don't want to go on record.

00:34:09.200 You know, the CBD-C, I would encourage your listeners to do some research.

00:34:16.140 There's a great, we have some articles on return kind of summarizing in their own words all the people who are advocating for this technology.

00:34:23.820 Um, so it's kind of this, this sort of Damocles that's hanging over everything.

00:34:29.980 But one thing I'll, I'll say that I was noticing is there's a ton of companies that are harvesting biometric data, your health, your health things.

00:34:40.760 And then what they're doing with that technology or with that information, no one knows.

00:34:46.380 There's a, there's a mirror, like a literal black mirror, um, called a beer.

00:34:54.980 It's by a company called Barracuda, BeMind.

00:34:58.120 And when you wake up in the morning, it will use technology to read your mood and what you're kind of thinking almost, and then, you know, give you soothing music to make you feel better.

00:35:11.340 Cause the mirror can tell that you're having a bad, uh, depression or a bad day.

00:35:17.200 And then, you know, again, they're harvesting all of this data and what they're going to use it for and assuming that it's going to be tied in to digital health records and then into CBDCs to me is not a big leap.

00:35:34.160 I think that that's, it's really right around the corner.

00:35:36.940 Yeah.

00:35:37.460 I tell you the, the digital IDs are, are truly between that and CBDC.

00:35:44.260 It just shuts everything down.

00:35:46.200 I mean, the total control of your life.

00:35:49.960 Absolutely.

00:35:52.040 Um, I was just looking at the, um, the latest return.

00:35:55.320 You can just search for it, just Google return blaze and you'll see it to the ultimate guide, uh, to escaping the surveillance state.

00:36:05.460 Possible even.

00:36:06.880 Is that possible?

00:36:09.860 It's very difficult, but there are, there are some steps, you know, within that piece.

00:36:16.020 And other places online, there's things that you can start doing now to protect your digital identity, your privacy, and your sovereignty.

00:36:24.860 Um, uh, X seeks to disclose FBI surveillance requests to users.

00:36:29.280 This is another story.

00:36:30.040 Tech leaders building a city in California, not at all worried about, uh, public backlash or accusations of foreign ties.

00:36:37.620 Says the CEO.

00:36:39.640 Um, uh, let's see some of the other stories.

00:36:42.940 I mean, just, just really great.

00:36:44.280 And your diary from CES day one, AI, everything.

00:36:48.940 Um, are you generally optimistic as a human being, uh, seeing all of this stuff or not?

00:36:58.340 In, I mean, I would say in, in general, I'm somebody who got into tech journalism because I actually generally love technology.

00:37:09.280 And I think that there's some really cool and amazing things that we can create with this.

00:37:14.940 I mean, I, I saw this company there were actually several companies are creating kind of like haptic feedback, uh, canes for blind children that will give them a signal.

00:37:26.220 If there's someone in front of them, just by kind of buzzing, um, on their hand.

00:37:30.980 And it's, they were saying it's like really revolutionizing and helping, you know, blind children.

00:37:35.380 So the, you know, obviously there's a ton of technology that's beautiful and incredible and makes our lives better each day.

00:37:42.760 But there are, there are really some trends that are very concerning about just technocratic monopolistic giant company control, government control over your life.

00:37:56.020 And they're going to be wielding a lot of power with this information and this digital control.

00:38:01.940 And I mean, you've talked about this in your books and on your show over the years.

00:38:06.460 And it's, we really have to be on guard about what's coming and, you know, try to resist it as much as we can.

00:38:13.520 Because it is here.

00:38:14.980 I mean, we are at, I think we've already taken our first step over the threshold into a lot of this tech that quickly can, uh,

00:38:26.120 enslave us in ways that you can't even imagine today.

00:38:31.800 Absolutely.

00:38:33.280 Peter.

00:38:33.680 And I mean, I think that.

00:38:34.500 No, go ahead.

00:38:35.120 Go ahead.

00:38:35.260 Finish.

00:38:36.080 Oh, I was just, you know, I think the, you know, James Polo's founded Return.

00:38:40.280 Uh, he's the host of Zero Hour.

00:38:42.380 And, you know, our, our goal is to, to try and hold on to our humanity in the digital age.

00:38:47.800 And, you know, it's hard, but it's worthwhile.

00:38:50.280 So, Peter, uh, Giedel, he is Blaze Media Managing Editor for Return, uh, the tech magazine put out by Blaze.

00:38:59.800 You can get it if you're a Blaze TV Plus subscriber.

00:39:04.100 If you Google it, you're, you're going to be able to find, uh, at least the, one of the later episodes, the latest episode, I think, today, or the latest edition of it.

00:39:11.680 Um, Peter, thank you very much.

00:39:14.580 Thank you very much.

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