On this episode of the Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck is joined by his good friend Pat and Stu to discuss the worst speech ever given by a presidential candidate, the Supreme Court's decision to strike down same-sex marriage between a woman and her husband.
00:05:31.680And you've got the U.S. Marine Corps standing guard in the background.
00:05:35.260Outside of them, though, that red highlight and the whole setting for it was just creepy and evil-looking to me.
00:05:47.120And I've been calling it the birth of a nation speech because, I don't know, like, just from a stagecraft perspective, number one, you have this weird red aura that permeated every camera shot.
00:05:58.380I guess they're claiming that if you zoom back, you'd see red, white, and blue.
00:06:01.960But every shot of the speech was just in red.
00:06:10.200Somewhere in between there is where he was making the speech.
00:06:13.200And number two, he's calling it soul of a nation.
00:06:15.540Now, when you hear soul of a nation, the first thing that popped in my mind was birth of a nation.
00:06:19.120The other Democratic president from back in the day when, you know, Joe Biden was in his 60s, I think, Woodrow Wilson, who embraced the KKK.
00:06:29.000The former name of soul of a nation was the Klansman.
00:06:32.420Or, excuse me, birth of a nation was the Klansman.
00:06:34.760That was the other name for the movie.
00:06:36.600So, this is something that immediately, if you have any sense of history, makes you think, wait a minute, why are they soul of a nation?
00:06:44.800Like, it's just like a weird framing of the speech.
00:06:50.120He already made a speech this week, a quote-unquote major speech.
00:07:59.860And the fact that gas prices have gone up to the highest levels ever, and now they've backed off that a little bit, they take credit for that.
00:08:08.500This is an interesting strategy from the left, by the way, which is make things the worst they've ever been, then brag about when you turn them into the second worst they've ever been.
00:10:07.220It's also changing fundamentally the structure of these loans where you can't, now no one will pay more than 5% of their income for a college loan.
00:10:19.480And you might say, well, that sounds great.
00:10:21.020I would like to pay 5% instead of 10%.
00:10:25.020But think of the incentives that that leads to.
00:10:27.720If you're a college, if you're going to a college, why do you care what it costs?
00:10:32.100If you're limited to 5% of your income, no matter what the situation, why would you care what it costs?
00:10:39.920If it winds up working and you get a million dollar a year job, right, you might have to pay a lot.
00:10:46.400But at that point, you're probably not going to care.
00:10:48.260You're making a million dollars a year.
00:10:49.500If you're only making $50,000 a year and you're around the average income, well, it's only going to be 5%.
00:10:55.480So it's not really going to ever hit you.
00:10:58.080Basically, it lowers the incentives for universities to keep costs low because they know if they can charge everybody $500,000, right?
00:11:11.060It doesn't matter because the government is going to have to make up everything above 5%.
00:11:15.320So I think the trillion dollar estimate is closer to reality, may very well go higher than that.
00:11:19.960And when you talk about spending all of that money, it's three times the amount of money they said they were going to save in the Inflation Reduction Act, which was never real.
00:11:26.740But that's what they were selling the package on.
00:11:28.860And it's going to, of course, increase inflation at some level.
00:11:33.560Might not change the entire picture of inflation, but it's going to do that.
00:11:37.060All these things add up to an attempt to buy voters with other people's money.
00:11:47.560And you spend and you spend and you spend like this and you act as if people aren't going to notice.
00:11:56.040The media is going to do its best to hide this stuff, but I just don't, I can't imagine the American people are this dumb.
00:12:57.740Because, you know, I just try to find out what's going on and try to predict these things as best as possible.
00:13:02.780But, and look, there's a lot of smart people who are out there saying this.
00:13:07.760I think Nate Silver is something like 75% right now, 538.
00:13:11.480Yeah, that might be where I got that statistic.
00:13:12.880Yeah, that estimate is, you know, and look, they're looking at what the picture is right at this moment, which is what they should be doing, right?
00:13:19.120I do think, though, what's not really talked about yet is I think the Dobbs decision and some other factors on the left have activated them earlier than Republicans.
00:13:33.360Republicans are not in election mode yet.
00:15:51.220People start looking honestly at the situation, not feeling, you know, sympathy for John Fetterman, who's gone through a tough situation, but start actually analyzing who would be a good senator for the state of Pennsylvania.
00:16:14.760But that being said, when you look at Fetterman, my expectation was, you know, early October, late September, you'd start to see this race come together a lot closer from not 16, 14, 11 points, but something closer.
00:16:29.960Well, the last two polls have showed Oz down only four and five.
00:16:38.740And what these analysts are looking at is, are these special elections where there has been a Democratic lean to several of these special elections.
00:16:50.040But special elections can give you an insight as to what the tone of the election is, what's the climate of the election, which is the main thing that kind of you judge the House races on and some of the Senate races as well.
00:17:03.400But, like, Democrats got, this is a weird way of saying this, but Democrats got a head start in their engagement this time because of Dobbs.
00:17:15.440Republicans were, like, excited, hey, this is a big win.
00:17:17.980But it didn't excite them to get to the polls.
00:17:20.660That was something they took as a victory.
00:17:23.340There is a sect of the Democratic Party who was very angry about the Roe versus Wade overturn.
00:17:31.440And went to the polls in bigger numbers than you'd expect.
00:19:44.660Here's a few of what a few of the comments that Joe Biden had and made, especially against MAGA Republicans, trying to nullify the votes of 81 million people.
00:19:57.820And they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections.
00:20:11.240They tried everything last time to nullify the votes of 81 million people.
00:20:18.940This time they're determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people.
00:20:43.100But the MAGA Republicans are trying to nullify 81 million votes.
00:20:49.700No, what they wanted to do, they did interrupt the House procedure for a short while.
00:20:59.500But what they wanted, I think, was people to acknowledge that maybe there was some fraud going on and maybe we should have another recount of it.
00:21:12.700I don't know that they ever wanted to overturn or nullify anybody's vote.
00:21:16.920Look, you could always find somebody that believes anything, right?
00:22:00.720You know, what are you, what are you calling a MAGA Republican?
00:22:03.160They, they're trying to take the, you know, few hundred people that went into the, the, the chamber and direct that toward everybody, everybody else.
00:23:48.000Basket of deplorables, you know, look, that was a big, controversial moment.
00:23:51.940But when you listen to the entire context, this is a weird stance to take on conservative radio, but I'm going to go for it anyway.
00:23:58.120When you listen to the entire context of basket of deplorables, what Hillary Clinton ham-handedly is attempting to do is separate out the extreme of the extreme.
00:24:10.980And say that those people aren't like the rest of us Americans, but there's lots of Republicans that are fine and they're wonderful.
00:24:47.280After you just spent 24 minutes telling us how bad we are.
00:24:50.420Now, the last 30 seconds, you're going to go ahead and say, well, that's not all of them.
00:24:55.640But I think it goes beyond borderline dangerous.
00:25:01.220It was just a dangerous speech because what are people going to – who are they going to blame now?
00:25:06.780They're going to look at – like they're going to look at us and say, well, you're the MAGA Republican and you're a threat to the democracy.
00:25:15.200So is somebody going to do something about that?
00:27:45.360And we're talking about, of course, the use of democracy as opposed to what we actually have in this country, which is a constitutional republic that does have elements of democracy inside of it.
00:27:55.940However, what they're trying to say, what they're, they're trying to get us used to the word democracy because what they're talking about is, is democratic socialism.
00:28:06.540This is just code for democratic socialism.
00:28:09.900And that's why they keep hammering it, hounding it about it all the time.
00:28:14.920I mean, it's certainly how democratic socialists use the word democracy.
00:28:34.280They've embraced that framing of this.
00:28:36.360And, you know, it's the type of thing that when they say, well, the Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade, but we looked at a poll that said that 54% of people support Roe versus Wade.
00:28:52.980Our system of a constitutional republic has the Supreme Court that is part of the system, not some fake thing Republicans invented, but it's part of the system.
00:29:04.000And when, just because a bunch of people who don't know what Roe versus Wade actually does, which we've covered in depth, think that it's a, they like it, that doesn't make, it has anything to do with democracy.
00:29:18.220Nor does that decision from the Supreme Court have anything to do with MAGA Republicans that he's blaming for taking away that right from women.
00:30:10.580He put, he had a list of members of the Federalist Society, that the Federalist Society legitimately put together this list with people like Mike Lee and Ted Cruz.
00:30:21.480These were, you know, conservative nominees.
00:31:03.760So, you know, I mean, I knew, you know, you knew Alito and Thomas would be there, but with these, with the new three, you didn't know.
00:31:10.440And, you know, I was very, very, very, very pleased at those picks.
00:31:15.320Less pleased about Kavanaugh, but overall, generally pleased with the picks that Donald Trump put in the Supreme Court.
00:31:22.580And these are people that, I mean, Brett Kavanaugh was talked about for this position before Donald Trump was even thought of it, thinking about running for president in 2016.
00:31:31.820Like, he was, he was on that list for, Neil Gorsuch had been on a list for a long time.
00:31:36.800Amy Coney Barrett was newer, but certainly within the tradition that you'd expect from the conservative movement going back half a century.
00:31:44.160And the idea that these are MAGA people, first of all, it doesn't matter if they were or they weren't.
00:31:51.980They're, if they're on the court, that's the qualification.
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00:48:30.960The criticism of Donald Trump from the left is that he tried to steal the election and more centrally attempted to steal it before he lost it.
00:50:13.960And and the the context of it is is at this point completely absurd.
00:50:17.960But I didn't like that moment, mainly because we always had the high ground when it came to violence, violence and riots and losing elections with grace.
00:50:29.960When we lose elections every time other than 2020, we've always come out and said, hey, look, you know, this sucks.
00:50:36.960It's pretty much have consequences and people don't like that.
00:50:40.960You know, people a lot of people want now you need more fight or whatever.
00:50:43.960And look, when an election has election irregularities, it's always important to look into them, even if it's an election that Republicans win.
00:50:52.960I don't I don't want to win an election if it has to do with irregularities or there's some problem with it.
00:50:58.960Of course, all that stuff should be looked into.
00:51:00.960But generally speaking, when you lose an election, Republicans have been, you know, of the mindset of, hey, you know, we lost and and we we, you know, our side probably sucked too much and deserved it.
00:51:11.960That's generally speaking the way we've reacted to that.
00:51:16.960Every major election Democrats have lost in my adult life.
00:51:20.960They have said was stolen from them, including up to the absurd 2004 election where they came up with all sorts of voting machine conspiracies about how they lost Ohio.
00:51:32.960They said that, you know, people left pamphlets around that said, you know, Republicans vote on Tuesday and Democrats vote on Wednesday.
00:51:42.960I don't know what if you're that stupid, you don't deserve to vote.
00:51:46.960You don't remember they act as if we don't remember October and November of 2020.
00:51:53.960How old were you back in October and November of 2020?
00:51:57.960I was four. I think I was four years old.
00:51:59.960Do you remember when you were four years old and it may be too young when celebrities, journalists, television personalities, politicians on the left were telling you that they were stealing mailboxes and putting them on trucks to haul them away?
00:52:18.960Because there might just be ballots inside.
00:52:21.960And Donald Trump and his control of the post office was trying to steal the election.
00:52:26.960Do you remember this from immediately before the election?
00:52:30.960Yeah. And they act as if we're all going to forget this stuff, which, of course, we didn't.
00:52:46.960I don't want to be involved in playing it, honestly, but they they created the rules of this game.
00:52:52.960And the fact that they're doing this now, Joe Biden is in front of the country, literally outlining their supposed criticisms of Donald Trump as their platform is a bit disturbing.
00:53:06.960And it's why this speech is the worst speech ever given in the history of mankind.
01:09:39.960With this guy saying it so many times, you would think there it would be some massive push like like we did for like Trump did for the vaccine.
01:11:05.960Where we weren't spending money on everything all the time.
01:11:08.960That this would be one of the few things you'd want to spend money on.
01:11:11.960If we had it, you'd want to spend money on cancer research.
01:11:14.960Now, there is a lot of academic literature that signals that giant infusions of cash from the federal government doesn't actually improve the quality of research.
01:11:25.960So there's a there's a hurdle to get over there as to whether it's effective.
01:11:27.960But honestly, with the way we spend money, a ten billion dollar lottery ticket would be something I'd be like, ah, let's give it a whirl.
01:11:34.960You know, I mean, I think a lot of people would be just like, OK, it probably won't work.
01:11:38.960But if we're going to spend ten billion dollars on something, maybe we get some benefit out of it.
01:11:42.960You know, we want to help people who have diseases, not just cancer, but, you know, diabetes and things of this nature.
01:11:49.960Like we all, you know, lots of people.
01:11:51.960There's lots of research dollars spent, as we remember, on covid research that led to some good things and some wastes of money.
01:11:58.960And that's what you have to sort of embrace when the federal government spends money.
01:12:03.960The federal government should only spend money on things that you are willing to accept in efficiency.
01:12:10.960Right. The military is a good example of this.
01:12:13.960I love our military. It's the best in the world.
01:12:16.960But our military wastes a lot of money.
01:12:19.960Right. We all know the toilet seat thing.
01:12:21.960Five hundred dollar toilet seats from back in the day.
01:12:23.960But more than that, we try to develop weapons that don't come through and don't work.
01:12:27.960We station troops in areas where they're they they're just completely inactive.
01:12:31.960We train tons of troops that never see action. Right.
01:12:36.960Yep. Obviously, there is a cost to that.
01:12:39.960Having preparation is, you know, a prepared military is an asset, even if you don't use it.
01:12:44.960But I mean, you can argue that we spend tons and tons of money on weight.
01:12:49.960We we, for example, go to a country for 20 years and then leave all our equipment there.
01:12:53.960Things like that might be seen as giant wastes of money.
01:12:57.960But because you're trying you have a very high goal here of protecting American lives and American sovereignty, you're willing to accept some of that.
01:13:04.960Right. That is something that, of course, the Constitution actually allows for, unlike a lot of our other spending.
01:13:09.960But if you're willing to expect, accept some inefficiency, let's say you spend ten billion dollars and don't get a major improvement on cancer.
01:13:19.960That's the type of thing you might look at and say, all right, well, that's suck.
01:14:08.960Making kids learn more effectively does not seem to be a result of the spending.
01:14:12.960What they're getting right now in part of the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex is a really nice indoor football practice facility that they're building for forty two million dollars.