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00:00:08.360 Welcome to the podcast. It's Thursday and we had an awful lot to talk about.

00:00:15.060 We had an update on Microsoft and the new things that they want to do.

00:00:18.580 They've got the military's back. They're going to provide AI for the Pentagon, which I'm torn.

00:00:24.480 I'm glad somebody in the tech industry is willing to be pro-America and help us out.

00:00:28.960 But I don't like the idea of robots killing people or teaching robots how to kill people.

00:00:35.860 Also, a touching tribute to George H.W. Bush from his son yesterday.

00:00:43.360 We kind of went into that and what makes a man.

00:00:47.300 Steve Dace also joins us and the one and only Andrew Heaton.

00:00:51.320 And also, some really important things to learn about the economy and the stock market and how it all works.

00:00:59.740 Justin Wheeler joins us for that.

00:01:01.700 All on today's broadcast and podcast.

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00:02:11.660 Glenn Beck.

00:02:13.040 Yesterday, the first funeral for George H.W. Bush happened in the National Cathedral.

00:02:27.240 And it was everything you think a Bush funeral should be like or would be like.

00:02:34.220 There were no snarky comments except from the press.

00:02:37.780 There was no lecturing anyone on politics.

00:02:40.880 It was just truly humble retelling of a man's life.

00:02:49.620 It was kind.

00:02:56.220 It was decent.

00:02:58.440 It was normal.

00:03:01.400 The press immediately jumped into, oh, did you see how Hillary Clinton and Trump behaved like, 0.95

00:03:08.380 can you shut up? 0.99

00:03:11.800 Sincerely, shut up. 1.00

00:03:16.440 Here's a guy, George W. Bush, 0.98

00:03:19.260 who I think is liked by every single president.

00:03:24.640 All of them like George W. Bush.

00:03:27.520 Here's a guy who had reason to hate Donald Trump.

00:03:34.680 Didn't say anything.

00:03:36.260 Was polite.

00:03:37.400 Was kind.

00:03:39.440 Who has reason to hate the Obamas.

00:03:43.600 Because look at what they did to him.

00:03:45.680 They just trashed him for four years.

00:03:48.180 It's the Bush economy.

00:03:49.100 Well, if Bush hadn't have screwed it up so much.

00:03:51.260 He never responded.

00:03:53.060 In fact, yesterday, he brought Michelle Obama candy.

00:03:59.400 Because the last time they were at a funeral, he did it.

00:04:03.140 And they've become friends.

00:04:04.640 Because, as he was describing his father yesterday,

00:04:13.580 he talked about who he was.

00:04:21.320 He said, my dad knew how to die young.

00:04:25.660 Probably because twice in his life, he almost did.

00:04:29.520 And he said, I think those brushes with death made him cherish the gift of life.

00:04:33.760 And he vowed to live every day to the fullest.

00:04:37.140 Dad was always busy in constant motion.

00:04:39.740 But never too busy to share his love of life with those around him.

00:04:43.620 He taught us to love the outdoors.

00:04:46.520 He loved watching dogs.

00:04:48.440 He loved landing the elusive striper.

00:04:52.820 Once confined to a wheelchair, he seemed happiness sitting on his favorite perch

00:04:56.520 in the back porch at Walker's Point,

00:04:58.800 contemplating the majesty of the Atlantic.

00:05:00.800 The horizons he saw were bright and hopeful.

00:05:04.680 He was genuinely an optimistic man.

00:05:07.220 And that optimism guided his children and made each of us believe that anything was possible.

00:05:13.900 How many of us are doing that with our children now?

00:05:16.020 He talked about his service to the nation.

00:05:26.360 He talked about how he didn't judge people.

00:05:32.100 Dad could relate to people from all walks of life.

00:05:35.320 He was an empathetic man.

00:05:37.240 He valued character over pedigree.

00:05:39.700 And he wasn't a cynic.

00:05:41.200 He looked for the good in each person and usually found it.

00:05:44.240 Dad taught us that public service was noble and necessary.

00:05:47.760 That one could serve with integrity and hold true to the important values like faith and family.

00:05:53.300 He strongly believed it was important to give back to the community and the country in which one lived.

00:05:59.980 He recognized that serving others enriched a giver's soul.

00:06:04.160 To us, he was the brightest of a thousand points of life.

00:06:07.900 When he lost, he shouldered the blame.

00:06:10.460 He accepted that failure is a part of living a full life.

00:06:14.420 But he taught us never to be defined by failure.

00:06:17.220 He showed us how setbacks can strengthen.

00:06:22.840 He went on to describe, and I urge you to read this eulogy.

00:06:28.360 Or to go back and listen to it again.

00:06:29.940 If you didn't hear it the first time, go back and listen.

00:06:32.500 He's describing what a man should be.

00:06:40.420 And you don't hear that anymore.

00:06:44.500 Andrew Heaton is in today.

00:06:48.020 Andrew Heaton has a new podcast called Something's Off with Andrew Heaton.

00:06:52.240 There's a story from Vancouver that traditional masculine values are being ditched by millennial men.

00:07:05.360 Can you tell me, as a millennial, what are traditional male values?

00:07:10.360 I'm not sure.

00:07:11.160 I mean, first of all, keep in mind this is Canada.

00:07:13.320 Yeah.

00:07:13.960 I'm looking at this, and it's from Vancouver.

00:07:15.880 It says young Canadian men, and I highlighted that.

00:07:18.840 Men seem to be holding masculine values that are distinctly different from those of previous generations.

00:07:23.560 Some of the, you know, I haven't read the report, but I'm reading through the synopsis of it.

00:07:27.640 Some of it makes sense to me.

00:07:28.740 Some of it I'm not sure of.

00:07:30.080 There seems to be this kind of shift in emphasis from physical strength to health, which is good on my end.

00:07:35.300 Because I would much rather try and pick up a woman at a bar based on my metabolism than stuff I could lift. 0.99

00:07:43.360 But, so that's, that's good on that end.

00:07:46.420 Yeah.

00:07:47.740 I, you know, I don't know that it's so much that we're actually altering what it is to be a male so far as it's just sort of bad to think about it.

00:07:58.300 I do think there's some of that going on right now where it's, you know, I've mentioned before on your show that I moved here from New York.

00:08:04.540 Um, and, uh, one of the things that was interesting to me about that experience was, uh, I didn't go into New York thinking of myself as a white male.

00:08:13.100 I am.

00:08:13.900 I mean, I'm demographically a white male, but it just wasn't important to me.

00:08:17.300 I didn't notice.

00:08:18.120 Yeah.

00:08:18.140 I, it's, I am.

00:08:19.240 If for those of you listening that can't see me, I am a storm of mayonnaise.

00:08:22.960 You're it's, it's, it's, uh, I'm, I mean, I'm literally wearing tartan truce right now.

00:08:27.600 So it's, it's, it's, it's uncomfortable.

00:08:29.960 Yeah.

00:08:30.140 It's, I've got a pocket square on, uh, there's, uh, but, but that wasn't part of my identity.

00:08:35.100 Uh, you know, if you'd asked me when I came into New York, I'd say I'm a comedian.

00:08:37.620 I'd, you know, I'd talk about politics.

00:08:38.820 Uh, and by the time I left that had kind of been hammered into me and it's not, it's not necessarily good that you're a white male.

00:08:43.760 Yeah.

00:08:44.340 How'd they hammer that into you?

00:08:45.700 Uh, it's brought up a lot.

00:08:46.900 Uh, like, or if we'll say, for example, if I have a contrary opinion, that's something that it's like, well, you know, you are coming from a position of privilege.

00:08:53.680 Uh, and, and which is a way of saying it.

00:08:56.560 You say, I I'm from Oklahoma.

00:08:58.840 There's no privilege at all in that.

00:09:01.240 Yeah.

00:09:01.520 That, uh, which there too, like, I, I think, um, you know, the phrase multivariate analysis comes to mind.

00:09:06.920 I dated a young lady in New York, uh, who she's from Oklahoma as well.

00:09:10.740 And, uh, she's from, uh, Cowita, uh, shout out to Cowita, but like, but while we were dating, she could not call her dad.

00:09:16.580 Her dad doesn't own a phone.

00:09:17.600 He doesn't, he's, he's that poor.

00:09:19.400 Uh, and this is, this is two years ago, three years ago, but he doesn't own a phone.

00:09:22.340 And if she needs to get ahold of him, she has to call her neighbor or write him a letter.

00:09:27.440 And I think like that, I don't feel like it's fair to lump that guy into the same category as I am.

00:09:32.280 It's not fair to lump us in the same category of like a hedge fund manager.

00:09:35.280 When my sister moved to, uh, Wyoming, she used to have to go to a phone pole about five miles away from her house. 0.73

00:09:44.660 She didn't have a phone.

00:09:45.760 She was too poor to, to put a phone in. 0.99

00:09:47.960 Uh, and she had to drive to a phone pole and she would stand sometimes, you know, hip deep to call and say, Hey, Merry Christmas.

00:09:56.640 We thought, you know, we're like, move back to civilization.

00:10:00.780 Uh, but I mean, is that privilege?

00:10:04.180 Is that privilege?

00:10:06.200 I, I, I think in general, whenever your, your instinct is to engage with people by negating their ability to make an argument, it's a bad thing.

00:10:14.060 You know, uh, it's, it's one thing to go.

00:10:16.140 I think that you're wrong.

00:10:17.620 Uh, it's another thing to say you, you are just forbidden to venture outside of what I believe is the proper narrative.

00:10:24.180 So did you hear George W. Bush's eulogy?

00:10:27.600 Uh, I, I, most of it.

00:10:29.600 Most of it.

00:10:30.480 So, um, I urge you to go back and listen to it.

00:10:33.300 Tell me that that isn't something that we would all say, I want to be like that.

00:10:40.360 Yeah.

00:10:40.940 That guy was a paragon.

00:10:42.540 He really was.

00:10:43.900 Uh, the, the, the photo, I'm sure it's been making the rounds, but the photo that I thought was very touching was, and he's so quiet about it.

00:10:49.360 Uh, George H.W. Bush was a guy who really didn't like political theater.

00:10:54.460 Um, he was raised by his mother to not use the pronoun I very often.

00:10:57.780 But, um, I think in his eighties, uh, there's this great photo of him completely bald because one of the secret servicemen, uh, his son, I think, had got leukemia.

00:11:06.740 And so all the secret servicemen, um, shaved their heads in support and George H.W. Bush just did it.

00:11:11.620 Um, and like, you know, it wasn't like a huge national story.

00:11:14.220 It did make the rounds a little bit, but it wasn't like he did a press conference.

00:11:16.760 It's just, he wanted to be supportive of this kid.

00:11:18.460 And I, I think that kind of, um, you know, that deep character that was very much concerned with people around him rather than adulation.

00:11:28.820 Bringing candy to Michelle Obama.

00:11:32.240 Oh, I thought that was cute.

00:11:33.580 That was, it was George W. Bush there, right?

00:11:35.240 Yeah.

00:11:35.640 Yeah.

00:11:35.800 But if that isn't his dad, I mean, he was thinking about her.

00:11:40.520 You imagine how hard it is to have a funeral that goes on and on and on and on and on.

00:11:47.740 He, George H.W. Bush died.

00:11:51.320 They put him in a coffin.

00:11:53.340 They fly Air Force One down.

00:11:55.660 They put him in the back.

00:11:57.100 The whole family gets on board.

00:11:58.920 They have a big ceremony in the, uh, laying in state in the rotunda of the Capitol.

00:12:04.460 Then they have a giant parade to go to the national, uh, uh, the, uh, national cathedral.

00:12:12.140 He has to give a eulogy.

00:12:13.780 Then they take the body after like the third 21 cannon salute.

00:12:20.300 They put him back on Air Force One.

00:12:22.840 They fly to Houston where they're going to have a parade and, uh, uh, and, and then another funeral.

00:12:29.360 Well, I, I so hope that in the middle of all of this, George W. Bush went, hey, I need to stop it.

00:12:35.080 Quick trip.

00:12:35.880 And like ran in and was like, you guys got Snickers?

00:12:38.100 Like, like bought it for Michelle Obama.

00:12:40.140 That would, that would be the most surreal, uh, uh, bizarre thing for the guy running that.

00:12:44.380 I mean, how great is that?

00:12:46.080 Can you imagine, seriously, thinking about burying your father who you were close to and, and having to go just through that?

00:12:54.100 And yesterday, do you have the clip, Sarah, just of the last part of his eulogy?

00:13:00.980 Play this.

00:13:02.260 In his inaugural address, the 41st president of the United States said this.

00:13:06.860 We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account.

00:13:13.340 We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood, and town better than he found it.

00:13:24.860 What do we want the men and women who work with us to say when we are no longer there?

00:13:29.020 That we were more driven to succeed than anyone around us?

00:13:34.360 Or that we stopped to ask if a sick child had gotten better and stayed a moment there to trade a word of friendship?

00:13:42.840 Well, Dad, we're going to remember you for exactly that and much more.

00:13:47.480 And we're going to miss you.

00:13:49.180 Your decency, sincerity, and kind soul will stay with us forever.

00:13:53.180 So through our tears, let us know the blessings of knowing and loving you, a great and noble man, the best father, a son, or daughter could have.

00:14:06.160 Oh, my gosh.

00:14:07.660 And in our grief, let us smile knowing that Dad is hugging Robin and holding Mom's hand again.

00:14:15.220 And here's a guy who has put on a strong face all week and been lifting other people up.

00:14:27.980 I don't know if you saw yesterday when he was accompanying the casket and everything else, but it dawned on me yesterday the last time I saw him look like that.

00:14:38.220 He had this, he had almost like a frown, but he was biting his lip, and you could tell that he wasn't, I mean, he was engaged and he was trying to hold it together.

00:14:49.140 And I realized yesterday as they were doing another 21, you know, cannon salute, and I watched him, and I realized I haven't seen that face on George.

00:15:02.540 I've only seen it once, one other time.

00:15:04.040 And it's when they whispered in his ear, we're under attack.

00:15:08.600 Remember, he sat there and he kind of frowned and he bit his lip.

00:15:13.080 That guy was working hard to hold it together all day.

00:15:17.760 And one crack there.

00:15:19.540 I think it's a lot of the time when we look at this kind of stuff, we almost dehumanize the people in it.

00:15:27.500 You know, it's ultimately that's his dad that died, which is really sad for him, regardless of the political connections.

00:15:32.400 Like, it's not George W. Bush is in that capacity, not there as a former president.

00:15:38.220 He is, but that's really incidental and secondary.

00:15:40.140 I'm glad that they did.

00:15:41.060 I mean, they did a secondary funeral in Houston, or I guess a college station at the George H. W. Bush Library.

00:15:47.960 And I'm really glad they did, because that's got to be very tough to have to put on that level of public-facing decorum when you're burning up inside.

00:15:59.380 And here he is, doing a job as a son and a former president of honoring his father the way his father and mother would have been proud, instead of wallowing in his own grief.

00:16:18.340 I just, I find this family remarkable.

00:16:22.020 Out of curiosity, what do you think George H. W. Bush is going to be remembered for?

00:16:28.140 Like, I think probably the Cold War and character.

00:16:31.800 I think those are the two things that are going to really stand out.

00:16:34.380 Yeah, I think so.

00:16:35.280 And his son will be remembered.

00:16:37.160 You know, George W. Bush said to me,

00:16:39.720 I'm prepared to be the most hated man on the planet for the next 50 years.

00:16:45.020 Well, good news there.

00:16:45.780 That has been eclipsed.

00:16:48.660 You are safe, sir.

00:16:50.400 He said, I'm prepared.

00:16:52.440 He said, because I know that in 50 years from now, they're going to look back and realize this is, they did what they had to do.

00:17:01.200 They did the only thing they could do.

00:17:05.280 And he said, I'm confident that history will remember.

00:17:09.740 And, you know, George H. W. Bush, I think history will remember.

00:17:13.200 The guy, you know, when Clinton came in, they started changing a lot of policies in the Middle East.

00:17:20.920 I'm sorry, not in the Middle East, in the Soviet bloc.

00:17:23.820 And George Bush, that was not something, we didn't even really think about that.

00:17:28.880 No, and that's to his great testament.

00:17:30.400 Like, I mentioned this, I did kind of a postmortem of the Bush administration on my podcast earlier this week.

00:17:37.360 And I mentioned that, that when you think about the collapse of the Cold War, you don't tend to think about it.

00:17:40.740 We think about the fall of the Berlin Wall, but we don't really think about anything else.

00:17:44.400 And that's to the great testament of George Bush, that it wasn't a big, it could have been terrible.

00:17:49.240 That could have gone off the rails.

00:17:50.200 That's a nuclear empire, a nuclear empire disintegrating.

00:17:54.020 And that could have gone real bad, real quick.

00:17:56.060 And what's amazing is, not only do you not think about it, you also don't think about him.

00:18:02.460 Yeah.

00:18:02.880 Until you stop and go, wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:18:05.160 What was that like?

00:18:06.080 Then you realize, oh my gosh, he managed that thing.

00:18:10.320 That's truly his kindness first.

00:18:14.460 The managing of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

00:18:19.060 A distant second.

00:18:21.340 And I think that's exactly how he would want it to be.

00:18:24.540 The best of the Glenn Beck Program.

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00:18:38.360 It's Steve Dace joining us now.

00:18:40.340 Hello, Steve.

00:18:41.080 How are you?

00:18:42.460 Morning, Glenn.

00:18:43.140 How are you doing?

00:18:44.480 Well, you don't sound happy.

00:18:48.160 Morning, Glenn.

00:18:48.800 How are you doing?

00:18:49.100 It was a little matter of fact.

00:18:50.320 Yeah.

00:18:50.660 My bad.

00:18:51.480 Sorry about that.

00:18:52.160 Let's start over again.

00:18:53.420 Steve, how are you?

00:18:55.360 I am better than I deserve, Mr. Black. 0.88

00:18:57.560 How are you, brother?

00:18:58.980 That's fantastic.

00:19:00.240 You're also lying.

00:19:02.600 I'm just watching the Dow just spiral out of control.

00:19:07.740 Only down 406 points.

00:19:12.200 No, 412.

00:19:13.500 No big deal.

00:19:15.520 Just about 2% on the opening bell.

00:19:17.940 So, you know, nothing to worry about.

00:19:21.720 Steve, I don't know if you know this.

00:19:24.340 But VeggieTales is racist.

00:19:30.600 Yeah, it's funny.

00:19:31.940 I don't remember that.

00:19:34.160 Watching all of those with my kids all of those years when they were little.

00:19:37.180 But I think I'm blinded to it because of my heteronormative, Caucasian, patriarchal tendencies. 0.79

00:19:44.740 There you go.

00:19:45.580 I couldn't catch it.

00:19:46.720 A group of students in California have an annual whiteness forum.

00:19:52.260 Now, we were, I'm pretty sure, don't you think, Andrew, we're pretty sure this is they're not for whiteness.

00:19:59.900 No, I was confused by that because the title of like the annual whiteness conference or something, I thought, oh, that's, you need to steer clear of that.

00:20:06.600 But, no, I think it's about whiteness and probably not in a favorable capacity.

00:20:09.760 Correct.

00:20:10.180 So, now, they have come out against VeggieTales and said that it is dangerous for children.

00:20:16.160 Actual words, dangerous for children.

00:20:19.040 They said that it's Bob the tomato and Larry the cucumber.

00:20:25.560 Cucumbers have been through a lot, Glenn.

00:20:27.140 You should leave them alone.

00:20:28.200 I know, so, but they are, they're villains because they, all of the, all of the colored vegetables are noted in the show as the bad guys. 1.00

00:20:41.080 Now, I'm not saying this, these are, they're in comas?

00:20:44.780 Is that what you mean when you say vegetables?

00:20:46.620 No, it's an actual cucumber and an actual tomato.

00:20:50.720 So, it seems much better now.

00:20:52.120 So, you never picked up on that, Steve?

00:20:54.060 I didn't, but, you know, there's, there's a couple of things at play in stories like this.

00:21:00.140 Every year on my show, Glenn, we, we always go in, we start a new year with like a theme.

00:21:04.600 I try to model myself after my all-time favorite bands, U2 and the Beatles, and just kind of reinvent yourself so you're not just doing the same stale thing.

00:21:13.840 And so, our, our theme for next year is no BS.

00:21:17.200 All right?

00:21:17.540 And, and one of the things, and we started it yesterday on this clip with Katie Turrett, MSNBC, talking about how meaningless life is because we won't, you know, focus wholeheartedly on, on global warming.

00:21:28.460 And, and I think what I mean by BS in these cases is force them to live by what they claim they believe.

00:21:35.580 For example, if you really believe that, if that whiteness is racist and you're at a university, remove yourself from the university then, drop out of school so that someone of color may have your spot. 0.96

00:21:48.660 When Kirsten Powers said on CNN a couple of weeks ago that she has been a beneficiary of the white patriarchy, if you really believe that, Kirsten, quit your paid gig at CNN so someone of color may have that spot. 0.82

00:22:03.160 If you really believe that, you know, what happened to Native Americans was so absolutely dreadful and terrible that you just can't even, then give up all the trappings of Western civilization, trade in Wi-Fi for Wampum, and join the local reservation. 0.97

00:22:18.320 And if Katie Turrett really believes that all is meaningless because we won't make global warming our single-minded focus, you know, don't take that gas-guzzling, you know, SUV unmarked out front of 30 Rock home to your posh flat there on the Upper East Side.

00:22:33.720 Quit your gig and, you know, grab a placard and go out there in Times Square, bang your drum, and say, bring out your dead.

00:22:41.180 These people don't believe any of this stuff.

00:22:43.820 They may feel it, but they don't believe it.

00:22:46.180 No, wait a minute, hang on.

00:22:46.940 And what they are, they're postmodern iconoclasts, Glenn.

00:22:51.040 They're just attempting to deconstruct and destroy the previous existing norms in order to make way for the new normal.

00:22:58.980 That's what this is.

00:22:59.860 Now, hang on just a second.

00:23:02.160 Bernie Sanders.

00:23:03.880 Bernie Sanders spent $297,685 with Apollo Jets, a private jet charter service, in one month.

00:23:17.080 And you're telling me he doesn't believe the things he's saying about global warming?

00:23:21.680 He's got to get there quickly.

00:23:23.680 Well, in fairness, when you have three homes while you're suffering for, you know, the working class, that requires a lot of jet travel to get back and forth to those $50,000 honorarium speaking engagements. 0.63

00:23:36.040 Steve, I'm going to push back a little bit.

00:23:38.820 But I will posit, I do think that generally Democrats and progressives do believe the stuff they're espousing.

00:23:45.000 I don't know that they always live up to it.

00:23:46.840 And so I would say the gap is one of hypocrisy, but not of actual, you know, sort of cynical lying about the ideology they're professing.

00:23:55.620 It's not cynical.

00:23:56.900 It's immaturity.

00:23:58.540 When I was a child, I thought spoken reason as a child.

00:24:01.120 When I became a man, I set aside childish things.

00:24:03.720 When we were kids, did we really love that song?

00:24:06.240 Did we really love our favorite team?

00:24:08.080 Did we really love that band?

00:24:09.640 Well, yeah.

00:24:10.220 And we were 11.

00:24:11.100 We didn't understand what love was, all right?

00:24:14.240 We were immature.

00:24:15.280 We were children.

00:24:16.460 The credo of progressivism is very simple, because I want to.

00:24:20.360 Whatever I want, I will justify whatever I need to reverse engineer, whatever philosophy I need to deconstruct, whatever cafeteria Christianity I need to choose from the menu, where Leviticus both is terrible to gays, but also the basis of my immigration system at the exact same time. 0.83

00:24:37.180 I can just do whatever I want because I want to.

00:24:40.400 And then when I finish Antonio Gramsci's long march through the institutions, so I control the college campuses and I control the media, four legs good, two legs bad becomes four legs are good, but two legs are even better, because I want to.

00:24:53.800 It's really about coercion, control, and power.

00:24:56.540 And that's really what progressivism is.

00:24:58.560 And now you're watching it, to borrow one of its own terms, transition.

00:25:02.320 It is transitioning now from postmodernism to evangelism to cultural terraforming.

00:25:07.340 And you saw that with one of the most powerful progressives in the world this week, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple.

00:25:12.560 He was literally talking about deplatforming people that he finds objectionable.

00:25:16.860 And look at the terms he used.

00:25:18.240 We put this video on my Facebook wall.

00:25:20.960 He used the terms, and I quote, sin.

00:25:23.360 He used the terms, and I quote, judgment.

00:25:26.160 Now, I'm old enough, and I think all of us listening are old enough to remember we couldn't use those words anymore.

00:25:30.740 They were intolerant.

00:25:31.720 Well, they're using those words now.

00:25:34.340 They're co-opting this now.

00:25:36.180 They are now spreading the new time religion. 0.88

00:25:39.640 So I happen to agree with you, Steve, that with the exception of this, I think there's a difference between progressives.

00:25:48.140 I think we're out of the progressive era.

00:25:50.420 I think we're in the postmodern era.

00:25:52.020 And it is the truly radical postmodernists that have control or the hands around the throat of the culture.

00:26:01.180 And they are culturally terraforming. 0.89

00:26:04.940 I don't think it's the average progressive.

00:26:08.580 I think the progressives like Bernie Sanders, who was not really a progressive.

00:26:15.360 He's really more of a Marxist.

00:26:17.160 He would say as much.

00:26:18.380 He's a socialist.

00:26:19.260 He's a socialist.

00:26:19.860 And so, you know, the average person who claims to be a progressive, I don't think is in that category.

00:26:30.580 I think there's 10 percent of this population that would like to just take us to hell.

00:26:35.480 And they would and they believe it, that it would be a great thing.

00:26:40.300 I think that's true.

00:26:41.020 I think it's a bad idea to view any any large group of political people as monolithic.

00:26:45.500 If we're looking at the even if we're looking at like the Libertarian Party, there's different camps within the Libertarian Party.

00:26:51.120 There's certainly different camps within the Republican Party and there's different camps within the Democratic Party.

00:26:55.480 And I would agree with you.

00:26:56.620 I think most most Democrats want America to be good.

00:27:00.280 They like America.

00:27:01.240 They're rooting for good things.

00:27:02.680 However, they have a different way of doing it.

00:27:04.340 So putting all of them into that kind of anarchic destroying the civilization thing, I think, would be overshooting the mark.

00:27:13.280 And I don't think that I'd like your opinion on this, Steve, that what's happening in Paris goes to show that 80 percent of the people in France believe in global warming.

00:27:26.680 They believe in it.

00:27:27.360 However, when it when it actually comes down to it and it's going to affect their life, they're like, well, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:27:36.160 I want to do something, but I want them to do something.

00:27:38.760 I want them to pay for it, not me.

00:27:41.740 And that's where a real problem comes in.

00:27:44.120 And I think what you're talking about, you know, it's do as I say, not as I do.

00:27:48.080 Well, that's that is the childlike thinking of I want things without consequences or I want to pass those consequences on somebody else.

00:27:59.500 And this has been a several staged cultural devolution.

00:28:03.020 It's been a cloward pivoting on a devolution scale.

00:28:06.760 That's what the welfare state was the first salvo.

00:28:09.860 And you begin this notion that we're going to devolve from a safety net to a full fledged welfare state.

00:28:15.180 And at the heart of it is this notion that I have to subsidize other people's poor choices that and therefore you're not accountable for your actions.

00:28:24.200 And we're going to create things like marriage penalties and we're going to incentivize things like out of wedlock births. 1.00

00:28:30.660 That's the first and opening salvo that I'm entitled to something that doesn't belong to me rather than face accountability for a poor life choice that I made.

00:28:39.120 You meet you reach the next stage now where this mindset becomes institutionalized.

00:28:43.240 And that's what you're talking about right now.

00:28:45.520 And this goes to the theme of our show was for this year, which was worldview.

00:28:49.780 And we started off our year talking about the seven deadly worldviews in the last stage.

00:28:54.080 And they go in stages.

00:28:55.500 And the last stage is secular humanism or postmodernism.

00:28:58.800 And it's always whatever it's been called in past eras.

00:29:02.160 It's a temporary staging ground because we want to believe in something transcendent.

00:29:06.680 We all have the Blaise Pascal described God shaped hole in our heart.

00:29:10.580 And so this is the final stage of deconstruction in order to prepare the culture for the next transcendent truth to come.

00:29:18.160 If you look at Europe, the two transcendent truths, and they're about a quarter century ahead of us on the devolution scale.

00:29:23.700 The two new transcendent truths are cultural Marxism and Islam, which is, you know, you have a lot of former Catholic churches now or mosques in Europe. 0.91

00:29:33.060 The same thing is going to happen here as well.

00:29:35.440 If you don't see spiritual revival in America, in a quarter century, we're going to be exactly where you see France, exactly where you see the U.K.

00:29:43.520 We're heading there now.

00:29:44.680 Look at what the so-called conservative parties are in Europe.

00:29:47.640 Look what's happening to the so-called conservative party in America.

00:29:51.200 They're really – we're just not that far-left parties.

00:29:53.820 And that's exactly what's happening here.

00:29:55.460 And it's unavoidable unless you have a great awakening of the likes of which that gave birth to liberty in America in the first place.

00:30:03.180 I will tell you, I think you're wrong on your analysis of 25 years.

00:30:08.720 I don't think we're that far behind.

00:30:10.560 I really don't.

00:30:11.720 I mean, look how fast –

00:30:12.600 I had a little optimism this morning, and then you guys peed all over me.

00:30:15.540 Steve, thanks so much.

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00:31:01.260 I want to bring in Justin Wheeler, who is a researcher for me and really watches what's happening in Wall Street and the economy.

00:31:12.140 And maybe – would you say you're a little more optimistic than I am?

00:31:16.220 Sure.

00:31:16.560 I think so.

00:31:17.340 You know, you're an optimistic catastrophist, and I think I'm an optimist and occasionally catastrophist.

00:31:23.260 So what is happening with Wall Street?

00:31:26.100 Down now, 433 points.

00:31:28.840 Yesterday rallied right towards the end, but it was ugly all day long.

00:31:34.600 It was.

00:31:35.220 What's happening?

00:31:36.260 So two schools of thought.

00:31:37.400 One is this is more of a normal correction.

00:31:40.880 We are seeing – you know, we've had a long bull run.

00:31:43.520 It has not, you know, had a significant retrenchment for quite some time.

00:31:47.320 It's had a couple of times this year where it looked like it was going to get into correction territory and then didn't.

00:31:52.320 It slipped right to that 10 percent line, and that recovered quickly.

00:31:55.880 So the one school of thought is this is normal.

00:31:59.900 We should expect this to occur.

00:32:01.380 It is normal for a market to have to retrench, for irrational advancements to need to get taken out of the marketplace and more rational advancements to come take their place.

00:32:10.240 So the one school of thought is this is a normal or healthy retrenchment.

00:32:15.720 The other school of thought looks back about seven or eight years and goes, it's not possible for this to be a normal or rational retrenchment because the market for the last seven to eight years has not been normal or rational.

00:32:26.680 Right.

00:32:27.340 We came out of the financial crisis and did abnormal, irrational things.

00:32:32.020 We built up the market with $4 trillion of printed money.

00:32:36.100 We brought $2 trillion of corporate money back into the United States.

00:32:39.700 Trump did that, brought that money back in from overseas, and the companies took some of that money and gave it back to the workers.

00:32:45.340 We saw those press releases when they occurred.

00:32:47.540 But the vast majority of that money, they took it, and to avoid paying taxes on it, they invested it in their own stock.

00:32:53.740 Now, it was no longer a tax that year.

00:32:55.880 It would be a capital gain for the following year.

00:32:58.460 So $2 trillion additional went into the market that otherwise would not have been there in stock buybacks.

00:33:04.560 So there really are those two competing schools of thought,

00:33:07.600 one that you'll hear from Merrill Lynch that says, this is a normal, rational retrenchment.

00:33:12.580 Even if we see a 10%, 15% decline in the market, that's a healthy retrenchment.

00:33:18.960 And early in next year, those gains will re-manifest themselves.

00:33:22.340 And then the other one looks back a few more years and just says, I'm not really sure that's the case because we didn't enter a healthy period.

00:33:28.880 And so what does that mean for a percentage of loss?

00:33:34.760 To get back to where we should have been, if this was a normal, healthy retrenchment,

00:33:40.640 the Dow would have to lose more than 15% to 20% of its total value from where it got to in terms of an all-time high.

00:33:48.080 Okay.

00:33:48.320 And some analysts say as low as $18,000 before we'd be back to where we should have been if a healthy retrenchment had occurred in 2008.

00:33:56.780 Okay.

00:33:58.520 But you don't think that this is a 2008-style event that is on the horizon?

00:34:05.140 Not yet.

00:34:05.840 I think there's actually still time left.

00:34:07.920 I do think we're going to see some declines.

00:34:10.820 We should see a floor today, for example, around 24,460, somewhere in that range.

00:34:15.840 It should level out right there, and we should see some support.

00:34:18.260 And then we should actually gain back, you know, from the all-time high through what we've lost today or into tomorrow,

00:34:25.820 we should gain back 50% or 60% of that over the next few weeks.

00:34:30.060 And I think we'll have a relatively light end-of-the-year season going into next year.

00:34:34.860 But then we have President Donald Trump, and Trump doesn't like markets to not respond to what he's doing.

00:34:42.080 You know, he made a major arrest yesterday or asked his Canadian friends to make a major arrest on behalf of the U.S. Justice Department.

00:34:50.220 Of very important Chinese.

00:34:52.200 A very important Chinese person, not just from who she is as a CFO of one of the largest corporations in China,

00:34:58.420 and the daughter of the founder of that corporation, who was also a major party member in the Communist Party, the founder was.

00:35:05.480 So the Chinese obviously can't not respond to that. 0.98

00:35:09.420 And then Trump, being who he is, will have to respond to them.

00:35:13.500 And the way Trump responds is publicly.

00:35:15.980 It is not privately through diplomatic channels.

00:35:18.500 It's through Twitter.

00:35:19.280 Our Secretary of State is his Twitter account.

00:35:21.300 Yes, effectively, that's true.

00:35:22.800 So can you tell me what she was arrested for? 0.87

00:35:29.240 No, they have not disclosed specifically, other than potential violations of the sanctions that we have against Iran.

00:35:38.000 But nothing specific, only that there are potential violations.

00:35:42.020 And the treaty that we have with Canada gives them up to 60 days to apply for her extradition to the United States.

00:35:49.100 So they may hold her for up to 60 days, unless, of course, the Chinese protest and they cave into those protests. 0.89

00:35:54.860 What would be our reason for doing this?

00:35:59.160 Of course, this depends on who you ask, Glenn.

00:36:03.600 There's a conspiracy corner that you can find on Zero Hedge that is delightful to read some mornings.

00:36:09.540 And it's a great way to wake up, actually.

00:36:11.900 Peel the skin off your face.

00:36:13.580 Conspiracy theories are a great way to get your imagination stimulated in the morning.

00:36:17.240 It is.

00:36:17.340 It is.

00:36:17.600 They're fantastic.

00:36:18.280 But, you know, a couple of those that are out there right now is this is a more protracted chess game that Trump is playing against China.

00:36:25.180 This is tantamount to what Reagan did to the Communist Party in the Soviet Union.

00:36:30.800 Trump is playing that long game with China.

00:36:33.640 He is not looking for a good, healthy trade agreement.

00:36:36.600 He wants to bring down the party in power.

00:36:38.720 And that is effectively the steps he is taking that won't take one step or two steps.

00:36:44.860 It's 15 chess pieces deep.

00:36:46.520 And then that party is in real trouble.

00:36:48.580 I will tell you that you could make a case for that.

00:36:52.520 I'm not convinced that he's a chess player.

00:36:56.540 You know, he seems like more of a checkers kind of guy.

00:37:00.140 So I'm not convinced he's a chess player.

00:37:02.560 But the moves that he has made, you could make a case.

00:37:07.300 You can make a case that he is going for something much bigger.

00:37:12.700 And it's the collapse of China.

00:37:14.200 Yeah, Justin, can you walk me through how that would work exactly?

00:37:16.660 So he's arresting this high-profile Chinese citizen.

00:37:20.940 And we're having a trade war.

00:37:23.520 How does that result in the Communist Party's downfall?

00:37:25.940 We are with Justin Wheeler, who is one of the guys who does research for me and watches the economy for me and just stock market and tries to explain different things.

00:37:35.820 And we were talking about Donald Trump and his tariffs with China.

00:37:41.760 He may be, may be playing a game of chess with China.

00:37:49.600 And it's not just about a new trade deal.

00:37:52.480 It's actually about taking at least President Xi out.

00:37:58.600 He is significantly damaging President Xi in China.

00:38:03.680 Yeah, I mean, China is an interesting economy because it is still a classical mix of a strong communist regime.

00:38:12.760 But over the last 20 years, they have adopted capitalist principles in order to grow.

00:38:17.520 That is how they have been able to grow is by saying, well, we got Hong Kong and Hong Kong's working.

00:38:22.200 What does Hong Kong do?

00:38:23.340 Well, they practice capitalism.

00:38:24.340 So let's do some of that.

00:38:25.600 And we've experienced this, quote unquote, Chinese miracle.

00:38:30.400 You know, Trump as a strategist, we talk about is he playing chess or is he playing checkers?

00:38:35.240 And Trump as a strategist, his, you know, if you read his two books from the 60s, but especially The Art of the Deal, which was used in Wall Street.

00:38:43.600 And one of the things you learn from the movie Wall Street is that these wealthy businessmen want to acquire or partner with companies.

00:38:51.720 And they don't look at a company that's having a Chinese miracle and say, I want to partner with them.

00:38:56.040 I want to acquire them.

00:38:57.580 They say, I want that company, but I want it on its downslide.

00:39:01.440 And so what do they do?

00:39:02.600 They cause its downslide.

00:39:04.540 They do things to impact that company so they can buy it at a good deal for them.

00:39:09.940 They want to buy it at a discount.

00:39:11.120 So they'll buy out suppliers that are supplying that company and say, well, you're no longer getting aluminum at this discounted rate.

00:39:18.400 They'll make a deal with the union for the union to go on strike.

00:39:21.320 They'll do things to that company. 0.81

00:39:22.740 And Donald Trump expresses this in the book.

00:39:25.100 This is strategy that you do to acquire a company at a better deal.

00:39:29.260 He's done it throughout his entire career.

00:39:31.100 And I think we're seeing very much that same game at play for him.

00:39:34.800 And it is working when he deals with economic issues and diplomatic issues.

00:39:39.620 He looks at the European Union.

00:39:41.660 He looks at England.

00:39:43.560 He looks at Canada and Mexico.

00:39:44.720 And now he looks at China and says, I do want a better trade deal.

00:39:49.020 I can't get that better trade deal.

00:39:50.900 The deal I want for the American people and that I think is best for us, I cannot get it from this communist regime.

00:39:56.700 So what do I do?

00:39:58.280 I take the knees out from underneath that communist regime. 0.88

00:40:01.400 I hurt them where they can't hurt me back, at least not in a grand scale.

00:40:06.360 Well, yes, cars are going to be a little bit more expensive over here.

00:40:09.400 But over there, they will have 5 million people out of work.

00:40:13.820 And those people protest and those people support the communist party.

00:40:17.900 And so it does a significant service to him in elevating his negotiating power and his position of power with them to do things that weaken that regime.

00:40:28.820 He doesn't want to destroy China.

00:40:30.280 This is not some racist, globalist thing.

00:40:32.760 He's not trying to be an imperialist.

00:40:34.660 He just wants a better deal for the American people.

00:40:36.600 And the best way to do that is to weaken Chinese companies and to weaken the Chinese regime.

00:40:43.220 So a dangerous game.

00:40:46.180 Sure.

00:40:46.900 And when Reagan played it with the Soviet Union, he had Thatcher playing the same game. 0.98

00:40:53.340 He had the Pope playing the same game.

00:40:55.260 I don't think Donald Trump, I'm not sure that even in his own administration, he's, if he is playing this game, express that to everybody.

00:41:05.280 I'm sure.

00:41:05.760 I'm sure he has not.

00:41:06.800 Right.

00:41:07.160 Is 5 million angry, unemployed people in China going to make a difference? 0.77

00:41:10.720 I mean, it's a large population and they're so suppressive of any type of dissent.

00:41:15.360 I don't know.

00:41:16.160 It's not like Xi Jinping is looking at polls going, oh, no, they don't like me.

00:41:20.780 Sure.

00:41:21.120 And it depends on where it happens in China.

00:41:23.540 So China is an interesting market now because you do have people in China who have independently grown wealth.

00:41:30.040 Yeah.

00:41:30.180 You have Chinese people over the last 15 years that used to live on a rural farm and work for the Communist Party growing rice and then now drive a car in Shanghai. 0.99

00:41:40.220 And just like us, if it comes to giving up that car, they now know I can have a car.

00:41:45.780 I don't want to give up that car.

00:41:46.880 So if you end up with 5 or 10 or 20 million unemployed people in rural China that is not covered by the news media and where people still are poor, no, it won't matter.

00:41:56.520 If you end up with 5 or 10 million unemployed people in Shanghai and in the larger metropolitan areas, it will matter significantly.

00:42:05.100 That's really what happened to the Soviet Union. 0.56

00:42:07.740 The Soviet Union collapsed on the protest of 10 million people, but 200 million citizens, but 10 million people protested.

00:42:15.900 The entire communist regime collapsed.

00:42:18.600 It depends where it happens.

00:42:19.760 Yeah, and the one thing that the communists have known, and this is why I think that they have their total surveillance state by 2020, is they can't handle, they're so fragile that they can't handle any real unrest.

00:42:37.020 I mean, this is why they built those ghost cities.

00:42:39.860 They built those damn ghost cities because they can't have this stop because they know if it stops, there's been enough people who have built those that are looking in going, I don't live like this. 0.99

00:42:52.880 Wait a minute. 1.00

00:42:53.360 People can live like this?

00:42:55.420 And once they see that, they want that.

00:42:58.640 I think the Chinese regime has been far more competent in terms of retaining its totalitarianism than the Soviets were, because Gorbachev, and this is not a slander to Reagan, by the way, but when we say that Reagan won the Cold War, I think that you're giving communism far too much credit.

00:43:14.020 I'm sorry, you're giving Reagan too much credit and communism too much credit. 0.99

00:43:16.900 Communism collapsed because communism is stupid. 1.00

00:43:18.880 Correct. 1.00

00:43:19.160 But what Gorbachev did was Gorbachev looked at this kind of fraying Soviet empire, and he went, here's what I'm going to do.

00:43:25.540 I'm going to give people more freedom, and they will love me and the government as a result of this.

00:43:29.480 And what happened was they went, you know what, now that I've got more freedom, I think of myself more as a Ukrainian than I do as a Soviet citizen, and the whole thing imploded. 0.78

00:43:35.680 China's learned from that model, and China's gone. 0.67

00:43:37.840 We're going to give enough economic freedom that we can get some money going, but we're not going to give any type of, no, you do not get any rights to protest or anything like that.

00:43:45.520 And they've managed to keep that grip on power.

00:43:48.300 Agreed.

00:43:48.660 I mean, there's a couple of differences.

00:43:50.680 The Soviet Union built itself as an empire.

00:43:53.180 They went and conquered numerous countries around them.

00:43:55.900 China is insular.

00:43:56.860 They have not conquered outside of their own border since World War II.

00:43:59.860 I mean, they really are a cohesive set of independent states with different cultures internally, but they are a cohesive nation.

00:44:06.760 They think of themselves as Chinese.

00:44:08.400 Yeah.

00:44:08.700 So that's a great point.

00:44:10.440 The other significant difference, though, of course, is what Glenn was talking about with that total surveillance state.

00:44:14.700 They want to snuff out dissidents at one person.

00:44:17.720 They don't want to wait until it's 20,000 people or Tiananmen Square anymore.

00:44:21.240 They've learned that lesson.

00:44:22.080 So that's why they want to be able to find one person in a big city and find them right now and shut them up.

00:44:28.740 And they're getting it.

00:44:29.520 We've talked previously, and I'm sure you've covered a lot on the whole credit rating system, the social credit rating system they have, where if you're looking at the wrong Google search images, you're seeing unpatriotic pornography, whatever the thing is, they can begin to algorithmically determine that you could be a problem person.

00:44:44.060 And we're just going to grind you to a dust to make sure that that doesn't happen.

00:44:47.040 So I find it interesting.

00:44:49.040 Let me switch back to, well, before we move off of China, we're playing a dangerous game because they hold our treasuries.

00:44:58.760 We're having a lot of debt come back up for sale.

00:45:04.040 There's no real buyers, which means we have to raise the interest rates.

00:45:08.940 And they do have the leverage to hurt us.

00:45:13.300 Now, we have the leverage to, I mean, if we go down, we both go down, right?

00:45:17.540 That's correct.

00:45:17.940 So, but it is a very delicate game that we're playing here.

00:45:23.120 It's a very delicate dance of, it's chemotherapy.

00:45:26.380 What we're engaging in right now is chemotherapy.

00:45:29.060 You might kill the cancer, but the chemo may kill you as well.

00:45:35.920 It's a very fair point.

00:45:38.680 They do hold a significant amount of U.S. debt.

00:45:41.020 And they have a, you know, no pun intended, Trump card to play that Trump doesn't have to play.

00:45:46.620 And that's labor. 0.93

00:45:48.320 China can bring a massive amount of effectively slave labor to bear to shore up any shortcomings they have in technological advances. 0.92

00:45:56.980 They can put 100 million people to projects, if they need to, at basically slave wages, to overcome us saying,

00:46:05.020 hey, we're no longer going to, you know, do manufacturing of this type or we're no longer going to trade with China.

00:46:09.400 So they have that card that they can play.

00:46:11.700 But that card is very dangerous for them to play.

00:46:13.900 Now that they have introduced some levels of capitalist freedom and wealth into that country,

00:46:20.300 playing that card is very difficult for them to do.

00:46:23.120 It's certainly more difficult than it was before they inherited Hong Kong and started to adopt some capitalist policies.

00:46:29.440 And how long do we have with the American people?

00:46:33.300 How much of a leash does Trump have with the American people on, for instance, farmers are hurting?

00:46:41.740 They're still saying, you know what, I still trust them it's going to work out, but they're really hurting.

00:46:46.900 When he says, you know, hey, we can take another 10 or 20 percent on our iPhones,

00:46:53.420 once that really starts hitting and impacting people, no, they're not going to put up with it for very long.

00:46:58.540 I agree with that. It's very much like we just saw with France and a 10 percent increase in gas prices.

00:47:04.480 You know, there was an assumption that these people support a green economy, 10 percent more.

00:47:08.740 They'll pay it because they support this.

00:47:10.580 But when the reality gets there and you're paying 20 percent more for your iPhone,

00:47:13.700 or if you're a parent, your four kids' iPhones,

00:47:17.000 all of a sudden that starts to have a significant impact to your disposable income.

00:47:20.340 One other thing I wanted to touch on that you brought up, and I just want to bring it up because

00:47:25.180 we talked five or six years ago about the fact that the Fed had run out of bullets.

00:47:31.640 The Fed jumped in and saved the economy.

00:47:33.440 They pumped four trillion plus into the economy.

00:47:35.720 They loaned a bunch of money out at zero percent interest,

00:47:38.060 and they lowered interest rates to zero, and they were out of bullets.

00:47:41.800 But they've reloaded.

00:47:43.200 That's what I thought.

00:47:44.200 Interest rates are back up now.

00:47:45.700 The Fed has, you know, interest rates up in the...

00:47:48.460 And they've offloaded some of their debt.

00:47:51.020 Yes.

00:47:51.440 More than a trillion dollars has expired of the debt that the Fed bought, you know, Treasury and Simmons.

00:47:56.880 The Fed didn't sell them back into the market.

00:47:58.920 The Fed just let them expire and got paid back by the Treasury.

00:48:02.600 And ostensibly all the profits from that sale went back to the Treasury,

00:48:07.360 if you believe the paperwork that they filed.

00:48:10.200 So the Fed has reloaded.

00:48:13.440 Yes, China currently owns in the neighborhood of 1.7 to $2 trillion of U.S. debt.

00:48:20.720 But the Fed could step in and buy that now.

00:48:22.600 They couldn't have five years ago or six years ago.

00:48:24.980 They were out of bullets.

00:48:26.000 But now they could step in and buy that.

00:48:27.760 They could reload their balance sheet back to $4 trillion and buy all of the Chinese debt 0.93

00:48:31.780 if the Chinese decided to dump it on the market to punish us.

00:48:34.780 When you say that they were out of bullets,

00:48:36.620 was there some sort of statute limitation on the amount of money that they could print?

00:48:40.300 I'm unaware of such.

00:48:41.580 No, you just, you can't.

00:48:43.200 When you're at zero, you have no more, you have no other place to go.

00:48:47.600 You have to go to negative interest rates.

00:48:49.160 You have to just start saying, please take this.

00:48:51.360 I'll pay you money to take this.

00:48:53.180 Which some countries did, obviously in Europe.

00:48:55.800 That happened quite a bit in South America.

00:48:58.420 And most of those have stabilized back to zero or zero plus interest rates.

00:49:02.560 We certainly could, you know, again, spend that type of ammunition and go zero.

00:49:07.200 The United States never has, but we could.

00:49:10.300 The other, again, challenging thing is the other bullets that the Fed can always spend

00:49:15.960 is just printing more money.

00:49:17.260 And I don't mean the type of money printing they did was to pump that money into Wall Street.

00:49:21.260 They printed a bunch of money, but really they just bought securities and gave loans to big corporations.

00:49:26.060 Very few of us, I mean.

00:49:27.580 Those poor guys at Wall Street really needed it.

00:49:29.560 I mean, you know, I was doing okay.

00:49:30.480 I've got a canoe.

00:49:31.620 I don't need any more money.

00:49:33.040 Right.

00:49:33.160 So, but they could do that other type of printing.

00:49:37.960 They could do the helicopter drop that we've, you know, has been talked about for a long time

00:49:41.960 as the last ditch effort of trying to save an economy.

00:49:44.680 Which is also a great way to rob anybody that's actually stored up wealth at any point

00:49:48.300 because you're, inflation is just taxation without legislation.

00:49:52.400 It's a way of, like, I'm going to print away, I'm going to make, I owe money,

00:49:57.400 and so I'm going to make my money less valuable so that I effectively owe less money.

00:50:00.780 But if you've spent 40 years trying to amass a savings account, well, there's 40% of your savings account gone.

00:50:06.340 Yeah, Germany taught us that in two years in the 20s,

00:50:08.660 and our country has taught us that over 70 years since then.

00:50:11.400 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:50:31.120 You know, Christmas is the gift that just keeps on giving for the radical leftist.

00:50:36.080 The charade goes on year after year where decent folks across the country

00:50:40.340 just try to enjoy and celebrate Christmas, you know, the most wonderful time of the year.

00:50:44.800 Why is it the most wonderful time of the year?

00:50:47.320 Why is it?

00:50:48.680 Because you kind of generally act like a human being for maybe a couple of days.

00:50:54.800 You're like, ah, you know what?

00:50:56.620 I'm going to pretend to care about people.

00:50:59.200 I'm going to be nice to people.

00:51:01.060 I'm going to smile and say, Merry Christmas back to you.

00:51:04.420 It's the most wonderful time of the year that militant progressives don't like at all.

00:51:12.700 And it's a little exhausting.

00:51:13.960 It's got to be.

00:51:15.160 Come on, you're not really outraged by Rudolph.

00:51:18.000 Are you really?

00:51:19.020 Really?

00:51:19.400 That's what you got going on in your life?

00:51:21.520 I mean, the thing's been on the air since 1964. 0.97

00:51:24.000 And first of all, if this is the first year that you've noticed that Santa was a jerk in that, 0.81

00:51:28.820 where were you? 0.98

00:51:29.580 You don't like Christmas, and it's totally fine.

00:51:34.240 It is.

00:51:34.760 I'm totally fine with that.

00:51:36.120 But could you just be cool with people who do like Christmas?

00:51:41.240 You know, there's tons of people out there that celebrate Christmas,

00:51:43.900 and they're tired of their happiness being held hostage by an extreme minority,

00:51:50.940 sometimes just one person going, I don't like that.

00:51:54.360 No, sir, I don't like that at all.

00:51:56.560 This year, a self-described unintentional Grinch who stole Christmas is in the lead to win Scrooge of the Year,

00:52:05.580 the principal at Manchester Elementary in Omaha, Nebraska.

00:52:11.460 She sent her teachers a memo this week outlining all of the Christmas-related items and activities

00:52:17.380 that will not be allowed in the classroom, and you will not have an extra scuttle of coal.

00:52:23.760 Well, the ban list includes Santa, Christmas trees, Elf on a Shelf.

00:52:31.640 Oh, man, I'm for execution for the person who came up with Elf on the Shelf myself.

00:52:38.920 But singing Christmas carols, playing Christmas music, making an ornament as a gift,

00:52:44.300 any red or green items.

00:52:45.760 Oh, hates the planet and communism, I see.

00:52:50.060 Reindeer and candy canes.

00:52:53.260 Now, not because the sugar will make the children hyper, because I guess Halloween was okay.

00:52:59.340 But as the principal explains, the candy cane is shaped like the letter J for Jesus.

00:53:06.500 She also writes, red is for the blood of Christ, and white is the symbol of his resurrection.

00:53:15.220 Oh, my gosh, I am so offended by her memo.

00:53:17.760 What kind of stuff is she trying to preach?

00:53:20.600 In case you try to cheat, different color candy canes are also not allowed,

00:53:25.400 because they still have the first letter of J.

00:53:27.820 Jesus.

00:53:29.680 So why is this principal going out of her way to delete any trace of Christmas in her school? 0.99

00:53:34.540 She says, quote, I come from a place that Christmas and the like are not allowed in schools.

00:53:43.460 Where is that?

00:53:44.340 Russia? 0.61

00:53:44.840 Where is that?

00:53:45.760 Her list, quote, aligns with my interpretation of our expectations as a public school

00:53:53.460 who seeks to be inclusive and culturally sensitive to all of our students.

00:53:58.560 No, you misunderstand the word inclusive.

00:54:03.300 What about being inclusive and sensitive to those students,

00:54:09.620 probably the vast majority, who do celebrate Christmas?

00:54:13.480 I mean, does your kid have to celebrate Ramadan and, I don't know, eat the food or whatever the hell it is?

00:54:22.980 I mean, nothing against Ramadan.

00:54:24.320 That's fine.

00:54:24.820 You want to do Ramadan? 0.98

00:54:25.760 That's fine.

00:54:26.320 I don't care.

00:54:27.600 I don't care that you teach my kids about Ramadan. 0.99

00:54:31.080 Can you stop with a hate on Christmas and Christianity?

00:54:37.260 Can you ask yourself,

00:54:38.520 are you the only one that doesn't feel like Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year?

00:54:44.760 Now, I think it's gotten less so since I was a kid,

00:54:47.520 but that just might be because I'm getting old and grumpy.

00:54:51.640 But I know when I was a kid, it was the most wonderful time of the year.

00:54:54.740 It was a time of new expectations, new hopes.

00:54:59.920 It was a time, I remember, when the snow would fall and everything would be quiet outside,

00:55:06.740 and it just brought peace.

00:55:09.420 Now, as far as I'm concerned as well,

00:55:12.780 snowing the day after Christmas doesn't help anybody's mood.

00:55:17.480 Snow between Thanksgiving and Christmas is delightful.

00:55:22.500 Why?

00:55:23.100 Christmas, I mean, do we, how do we miss that Christmas has the word Christ in it?

00:55:37.440 Christmas has been diminished over the years.

00:55:40.260 No offense, Rudolph, by Rudolph and Santa and everything else.

00:55:43.520 Those are still wonderful traditions.

00:55:45.280 But we celebrate Christmas to remember what a crazy cool dude Jesus grew up to be. 0.88

00:55:56.660 What a crazy, I don't care if you even believe it.

00:56:02.180 What a great gift given to humanity that you can be forgiven for even the worst things you've ever done. 0.70

00:56:09.920 I don't want to live in a world where there is no forgiveness. 0.61

00:56:12.880 I don't want to live in a world where I do something stupid and it's going to hang over my head for the rest of my life. 0.98

00:56:22.400 I mean, we're already seeing that. 0.98

00:56:24.260 It's called the Me Too movement.

00:56:26.200 You say something in 1971 to somebody, God forbid, that's hanging over your head.

00:56:34.480 Christmas.

00:56:36.120 It's the most wonderful time of the year for a reason.

00:56:39.300 And I don't care if you think it was Christ that brought this peace or, you know, I don't care.

00:56:47.600 You know, Mohammed, the Ramadan dog, whatever. 0.99

00:56:51.500 I don't know what, God forbid, you'd have any kind of legend spring out of anything Islamic. 1.00

00:56:57.800 They would have killed the makers of that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer if that had been done for Mohammed. 1.00

00:57:04.740 So, I don't care how you think we got here.

00:57:09.460 It worked.

00:57:11.100 It worked.

00:57:12.800 It creates magic and hope and kindness for just a few days out of the year.

00:57:19.640 Leave it alone.

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