The Glenn Beck Program - 'Comply or Be Destroyed'？ - 8⧸16⧸18

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, love, courage, truth, Glenn Beck.

00:00:16.220 Hello, America. I want to take you back to June. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the

00:00:23.820 Masterpiece Cake Shop owner Jack Phillips after he refused to make a custom wedding cake for a

00:00:29.500 same-sex wedding. We all remember this, but I will remind you that when that case was settled and

00:00:39.880 the ruling came out, we read it carefully and said we were concerned that what the court was

00:00:47.560 actually doing, Anthony Kennedy, was saying, you know, look, state of Colorado, here's what you did

00:00:53.160 wrong. If you just wink, wink, nod, nod, don't say these things, this would probably fly through.

00:01:01.940 I was concerned at the time that this was an instruction manual for how states could

00:01:10.840 discriminate quietly. The problem was, as the court said, you discriminated outwardly. You said it was

00:01:19.580 because of his religion. You can't do that. But if you didn't do that, the left is after him again.

00:01:29.120 And I have to tell you, I don't know how this guy goes on. He's a baker. My father was a baker.

00:01:38.040 My father fought to keep his business running. He had all kinds of pressures on him, usual business

00:01:49.840 pressures. And then the stores, the grocery stores started making cakes and they started making baked

00:01:57.560 goods and they'd make them right there in the grocery stores, which hadn't been done.

00:02:02.280 And my father's business just took another hit and another hit and another hit.

00:02:10.380 The stress on a small business owner is enough.

00:02:16.380 Now, here's a guy who is so faithful to what he believes, you don't have to believe it,

00:02:23.400 but what he believes that he won't even make a cake for Halloween.

00:02:28.480 Halloween. Okay. He says it's against my religion. I don't believe Halloween is a good thing.

00:02:36.600 Now, I know some people who are like, oh, trick or treating. That's just bad. I'm not one of those

00:02:41.560 guys. And in fact, I think you're taking things too seriously. However, I may be wrong.

00:02:49.480 I let my kids go trick or treating and I don't have a problem with it. And I quite frankly, when I was

00:02:54.880 younger, I probably made fun of people who were like, oh my gosh, Halloween is so bad. I don't

00:03:00.740 anymore because I, who am I to say what is ultimately true and not?

00:03:09.880 You can believe whatever you want. Isn't that what America is really all about?

00:03:15.140 So here's a guy who won't make a cake for Halloween and they are harassing him.

00:03:24.180 They have tried to get him to make cakes in the shape of Satan's penis.

00:03:34.100 I don't know how they know what that looks like, but they're, I mean, they've done everything.

00:03:39.500 tried to, tried to make him make cakes for drug use, Satanism, orgies.

00:03:51.180 I feel sorry for his staff.

00:03:54.720 My mother and my sisters used to be the ones that worked the front of the counter and my 0.96

00:03:58.680 dad and I would work in the back.

00:04:02.360 My sisters and my mother were the ones that used to have to take the phone call. 1.00

00:04:06.160 I don't know how anybody survives an onslaught, persecution, not prosecution, persecution.

00:04:15.660 Taking phone calls and having people describe how they want the, the phallic symbol to look

00:04:23.060 and him to make the cake.

00:04:24.740 How, how much does somebody have to take in today's America?

00:04:28.560 Same guy has been coming in over and over again, trying to get him to make all kinds

00:04:36.180 of cakes.

00:04:36.600 And finally he said, I want a transgender cake. 0.97

00:04:40.160 I'm a, I'm a making the transition cake and I want pink cake and blue icing because it

00:04:48.300 shows my fluidity.

00:04:51.480 He said, no.

00:04:52.380 So now the Colorado civil rights commission is going after him for discrimination.

00:05:03.500 Colorado.

00:05:04.860 You really should be ashamed of yourself.

00:05:07.600 You really should be.

00:05:10.400 Why, why, why do you, why do you feel it is your right to be able to force anyone to do

00:05:20.860 something against their conscience?

00:05:25.080 This guy is not just some bigot.

00:05:27.880 This guy won't make a Halloween cake.

00:05:34.680 This guy deeply believes in something.

00:05:40.940 What are you going to do?

00:05:41.980 You're going to burn him at the stake next?

00:05:44.680 When he still won't make the cake, what do you want from him?

00:05:49.140 You want compliance.

00:05:52.460 That's what you want.

00:05:53.600 You want compliance.

00:05:54.860 The guy has a conscience and you may disagree with it, but it is a deeply held belief.

00:06:02.860 You can call it crazy or whatever you want, but it's not about you.

00:06:07.140 How did you feel when people forced you into the closet because of their deeply held belief?

00:06:17.900 Didn't feel good, did it?

00:06:19.480 When you had to live a lie, when you had to pretend to be something just so you weren't

00:06:25.920 persecuted and prosecuted.

00:06:29.640 Boy, look at that.

00:06:31.560 How times have changed.

00:06:33.240 Boy, you're showing him, huh?

00:06:35.900 Yeah, you're showing people what it was like to feel like that.

00:06:39.800 Oh my gosh.

00:06:41.780 I understand that, but that is the basis of human indignity.

00:06:49.760 That is, that is a animal man, understandable feeling, but what makes you actually a human

00:07:03.340 is you are not, you are above the animal kingdom and you strive to be more and you say,

00:07:13.880 I am going to suppress my animal desire to rip the throats out of anybody who disagrees with

00:07:20.060 me because I was forced to do this for so long.

00:07:23.760 And in doing so, if you do not suppress it, you become everything you despise.

00:07:29.620 So here's this guy who just wants to have a bakery.

00:07:39.780 That's it.

00:07:42.240 He's becoming one of the most famous bakers in the world.

00:07:45.700 Why?

00:07:47.880 You didn't see anybody filing lawsuits because he wouldn't make a Halloween cake or a Valentine's

00:07:54.520 cake.

00:07:54.840 Why?

00:07:59.620 He's had enough and quite honestly, if you can't put yourself in his shoes, I question,

00:08:12.960 I question whether or not you're even connected to anything other than politics and political

00:08:23.760 correctness.

00:08:24.480 We're talking about human beings who didn't feel for Caitlyn Jenner.

00:08:35.260 I don't call Bruce Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner because people force me to.

00:08:42.100 I don't refer to him as her, even though X and Y man, science, science, biology says he

00:08:54.060 will always be a man.

00:08:57.160 But I refer to Bruce Jenner as Caitlyn and I say he's her, not because it's scientific fact

00:09:07.240 and not because anybody put a gun to my head.

00:09:11.460 I say it because I have compassion for him.

00:09:15.880 I say it because when I first heard his story about how he lived his entire life and he felt

00:09:23.480 he was a fraud the whole time.

00:09:28.180 I'm sorry.

00:09:30.640 I'm sorry you had to live that way.

00:09:32.680 I don't know what I would do.

00:09:37.640 I know what I can do.

00:09:39.760 I can show you compassion.

00:09:47.900 But that's not even good enough.

00:09:50.780 That's not even good enough.

00:09:52.920 I have to claim that Caitlyn Jenner is a beautiful, strong woman.

00:09:57.720 No, no, no, she's not beautiful.

00:10:04.060 She looks like a man in a wig with a dress. 0.97

00:10:10.760 If he, if, if, if, if, if he wants to identify as a woman.

00:10:17.620 Okay.

00:10:19.160 All right.

00:10:21.100 It doesn't affect my life.

00:10:23.820 I am not going to teach my children something that is not based in science.

00:10:37.480 But that's me.

00:10:38.640 That's my choice.

00:10:40.040 That's my choice.

00:10:41.260 From my conscience of what I believe is right.

00:10:44.780 Just like you have a conscience and what you feel is right.

00:10:49.640 You have a right to do.

00:10:51.300 But I don't have a right to force you to live what I think is right.

00:10:56.840 And you don't have a right to force me.

00:11:02.060 We, you know how many billions of people are on the planet?

00:11:08.400 There's a lot of us.

00:11:10.920 I don't think we're all going to agree on stuff.

00:11:13.380 In this lawsuit, Philip says that his family has lost 40% of his income due to just the harassment he has received.

00:11:27.300 He says he and his employees are forced to complete a re-education program.

00:11:33.340 When I talk to you about the re-education camps that China is building, we're disgusted by that. 1.00

00:11:41.100 We're no different now.

00:11:47.260 He has to go into a re-education program about not exercising his faith at work.

00:11:54.160 Well, you know, that's the problem with Christians. 1.00

00:11:57.060 It really is.

00:11:58.880 I don't even know what it means to be a Christian anymore.

00:12:01.500 I really don't.

00:12:02.340 No idea.

00:12:04.000 You know why?

00:12:04.520 Because nobody really lives it.

00:12:07.580 Oh, they all go on Sunday and we all pretend.

00:12:12.100 And then you leave and you become just as judgmental over the things you're doing in your life.

00:12:19.720 But, oh boy, God forbid somebody else does it.

00:12:23.260 You preach and preach and preach and preach and preach and preach.

00:12:26.460 Well, you live completely upside down gospel principles.

00:12:32.300 I don't even know.

00:12:33.280 I don't want to be a Christian. 1.00

00:12:34.340 If that's what a Christian is, I don't want to be a Christian. 0.99

00:12:38.980 I've had a real crisis of faith.

00:12:41.220 No, no, no.

00:12:42.640 My faith is so strong.

00:12:45.720 My faith in Jesus Christ is so strong.

00:12:48.240 My faith in God is so strong.

00:12:56.460 My faith in religion?

00:13:01.120 It's awful.

00:13:02.500 My faith in Christians?

00:13:07.160 Wow.

00:13:08.160 And I don't say this as a judgmental Christian because I'm a bad Christian.

00:13:13.420 At least I'll admit it.

00:13:15.020 At least I'm not going to try to jam it down anybody's throat.

00:13:18.460 But now there are other people on the other side.

00:13:22.320 Why do you hate Christians?

00:13:23.940 Because they've tried to jam it down your throat the whole time while being hypocrites.

00:13:29.300 Oh, my gosh.

00:13:30.840 Well, let's become them.

00:13:33.980 I know what's true.

00:13:36.100 And so I'm going to jam it down your throat. 0.98

00:13:39.300 And if you won't comply, I'll destroy you.

00:13:45.600 The Declaration of Independence.

00:13:47.700 Just before a list of specific grievances against King George.

00:13:52.420 Thomas Jefferson wrote these words.

00:13:56.060 To prove this.

00:13:57.420 He's talking about the king's tyranny.

00:13:59.800 Let facts be submitted to a candid world.

00:14:05.360 I wonder.

00:14:06.920 Do candid citizens in the U.S.

00:14:09.140 notice the tyranny against personal liberty?

00:14:13.720 Religious liberty.

00:14:18.260 Freedom of conscience.

00:14:23.140 That that oppression is not coming from the right right now?

00:14:28.080 Oh, sure.

00:14:28.820 There are some.

00:14:30.560 And I will stand against those.

00:14:32.360 I'll stand with you.

00:14:34.620 Somebody comes to round you up.

00:14:36.820 Somebody comes to tell you what to think.

00:14:39.000 And I have a history of proving that action.

00:14:43.540 It's not words.

00:14:47.220 I'll stand with you.

00:14:49.000 And I believe millions of other Americans will do the same.

00:14:53.360 Let's leave each other alone.

00:14:55.000 The left used to be like, hey, man, do your own thing.

00:15:01.340 You do you.

00:15:02.080 I'll do me.

00:15:03.160 Not anymore.

00:15:05.940 That's not true.

00:15:07.580 That is not the typical leftist philosophy anymore.

00:15:14.860 Now it's postmodernism.

00:15:16.820 There is no truth except the truth that destroys this culture.

00:15:22.880 And if you think I'm exaggerating, read postmodernism.

00:15:27.620 There is no truth unless it destroys this culture.

00:15:33.440 And if it destroys this culture, anything goes.

00:15:37.680 Are we still a country that believes in liberty and justice for all?

00:15:49.980 Or are we only interested in liberty, in freedom to think and to be this way and this way only?

00:16:00.360 And justice, not for all, but only for a vetted list of oppressed groups.

00:16:10.740 We have gone back 50 years in the last 10.

00:16:21.920 And I think about 40 of it has happened in the last five.

00:16:27.020 The left is confident in its ownership of the word bigot to slap on whomever it deems necessary.

00:16:39.520 Let's just go and say.

00:16:42.720 Let's just say the truth because no one else will.

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00:18:05.600 Can we have adult conversations?

00:18:12.180 Can we not, like MSNBC last night, do a segment on whether Donald Trump hates dogs?

00:18:21.640 And because I hate cats and they don't seem to care about that.

00:18:25.820 Can we just can we have adult conversations?

00:18:29.260 There's a couple of things I warned you that when you started to hear talk like this, that you should probably head for the mountains.

00:18:37.240 One was if you start to see stories that talk about rehypothecation, run for your life.

00:18:45.380 Forbes just ran a story this week on rehypothecation.

00:18:49.800 If you don't know what it is, look it up or I'll explain it some other show when it really starts to be a problem.

00:18:56.740 And you should head for the hills.

00:18:58.300 The other thing I said is our debt and our dollar is going to eventually crush the rest of the world because everything is traded in dollars and debt is in dollars with other countries.

00:19:09.580 And so as our dollar is strong and our debt is huge and their debt is huge, when things start to become unbalanced, people will start to starve, economies will start to crash.

00:19:23.160 And because everything's traded in a dollar, if ours is the strongest, most floaty piece of poop in the toilet bowl, our currency, everybody else is going to point to us and blame this on us and our lifestyle and our mistakes, because whether it's right or wrong, politicians will have to point to a villain and it will be us.

00:19:47.080 They will look at their starving people and say, this is America's fault.

00:19:53.160 Um, there's an analyst that I read just this morning and I wanted to get him on as soon as possible.

00:20:00.980 Uh, he is a, an analyst of, of note that says this may be the beginning of something very bad.

00:20:10.280 He's on next Glenn Beck, Mercury.

00:20:13.420 Uh, so, uh, I came in this morning and one of my, uh, researchers, uh, said, Glenn, there's a guy I really respect.

00:20:24.460 And, um, and I read something from him and then I read people saying that I really respect, this is probably the most important thing this guy has ever written.

00:20:32.920 Uh, and it, uh, it goes into a long standing, uh, fear of mine that when the currencies begin to collapse, uh, the dollar, because it's the floatiest piece of poop in the toilet bowl, um, is, uh, uh, everybody will rush into the dollar, which will make our dollar stronger, make the problem worse.

00:20:58.360 Um, because, you know, if your debt is in dollars and your currency is going down as a country and you're trying to buy stuff from the U S food or whatever, it's going to be a disaster for people all over the world.

00:21:12.720 And when that happens, those politicians will not want to take the blame.

00:21:18.160 They'll look right directly to us and say, it's their fault.

00:21:22.220 Um, but we, we could be on the verge of a real currency crisis.

00:21:28.140 I wanted to bring in Jacob Shapiro, uh, who just wrote about this.

00:21:33.560 He is the director of, uh, analysis, uh, for geopolitical futures.

00:21:38.220 Uh, it was with Stratfor for a while and, uh, and welcome to the program.

00:21:42.720 Jacob.

00:21:44.080 And thanks so much for having me.

00:21:45.400 It's nice to be here.

00:21:46.200 Thank you.

00:21:46.640 Uh, so tell me your, tell me your concern here.

00:21:50.480 Well, look, my concern is that if you look at the growth and as you said, U S dollar denominated debt from about starting at about 1990 to today in 1990, it was about something like 600 billion in the entire world.

00:22:04.160 Today it's 11.5 trillion.

00:22:06.760 So already you see the kind of irrational growth in an asset class that you would probably most associate with a bubble.

00:22:13.980 Um, the problem on top of that is that you have some countries that borrowed a lot of this U S dollar denominated debt to fuel growth.

00:22:22.120 And to recover from the 2008 financial crisis, borrowing dollars is actually usually a pretty good idea.

00:22:28.140 The problem is they have become addicted to it.

00:22:31.100 And in a lot of cases, their reserves can't even, can't even cover their U S dollar denominated debt, let alone their total external debt.

00:22:38.720 So Turkey was sort of the canary in the coal mine. 0.95

00:22:41.760 It's the first one.

00:22:43.120 But if you start poking around and you start looking at other national balance sheets, uh, you know, four countries that look kind of like Turkey are Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Indonesia.

00:22:54.340 Those are four major countries, four major countries with major economies.

00:22:57.940 And that's before we even get into any kind of, of the other countries.

00:23:01.020 So that's why I'm so worried about this.

00:23:02.780 Um, okay.

00:23:03.520 So tell me what happens.

00:23:05.040 Tell me what this currency, uh, I mean, uh, what this, this dollar denominated debt means to the average person.

00:23:12.320 Can you explain it and break it down on what, what happens?

00:23:16.100 What does that mean?

00:23:18.160 Well, what that means, we've sort of gotten an example of it in Turkey right now, so we can use that as a test case.

00:23:23.920 What happens is when investors stop having confidence in a particular country and start pulling out dollars, you get a rush.

00:23:31.780 And you get a decline in the value of the currency of that country.

00:23:35.320 So in Turkey, you've seen their national currency declining.

00:23:38.640 That means two things.

00:23:39.960 Number one, for daily Joe Schmo on the street, it becomes harder to buy things.

00:23:44.740 The things that you are used to buying are going to cost more, especially those nice things that you're importing, not just from the United States, from Europe and other places.

00:23:52.340 But what's more concerning is especially for a country like Turkey is you're losing the ability to actually pay back the debt you've incurred in the first place.

00:24:00.340 So that's not something Joe Schmo is necessarily going to feel until a little bit down the line.

00:24:04.280 But when you start looking at the relationships between different countries, you start talking about Turkey not being able to make good on the roughly $200 billion of U.S. dollar-denominated debt it's got in its system.

00:24:17.500 And as you said, then the United States has to decide what is it going to do.

00:24:21.720 Is it going to try and pressure Turkey?

00:24:23.800 Is it going to try and move Turkey in the direction that it wants to? 0.70

00:24:26.520 Is Turkey going to eventually have to default if there is enough of a crisis and if investors really run for the sidelines?

00:24:33.200 Those are the two main ways to think about what's going to happen.

00:24:36.760 And so we become kind of Germany to the last crisis, Greece.

00:24:44.020 Well, in a way, although Germany is a slightly different case, and the big difference between the United States and Germany is that Germany's economy is built off of exports.

00:24:54.960 Something like half of Germany's GDP comes from exporting and getting people to buy their goods.

00:25:00.080 What Germany did was Germany was lending out a bunch of money intentionally to get these European countries that otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford German goods to buy them.

00:25:09.760 And then when those countries suddenly couldn't pay the Germans back, the Germans were very shocked.

00:25:15.440 They shouldn't have been, because if you're loaning to the Greeks, you might expect that the Greeks eventually aren't going to be able to make good on it. 0.53

00:25:22.340 Yeah, it's funny, but it's true. 1.00

00:25:25.560 I mean, they're dealing with it with the Italians right now, too.

00:25:27.980 So when you think about, you know, should Greeks have the same monetary policy as Germany?

00:25:33.140 That's the whole problem of the European Union, but that's a rabbit hole.

00:25:36.160 The difference is that the United States does not depend that much on exports.

00:25:39.760 I know that the current U.S. presidential administration has been focusing a lot on trade and a lot on trying to build up U.S. exports and making U.S. exports more competitive.

00:25:48.960 But right now, exports as a percentage of U.S. GDP just aren't that big.

00:25:53.500 So this wasn't like the United States Federal Reserve or the United States decided that it was going to lend out all this money so that people would buy U.S. goods and prop up the economy.

00:26:02.360 This was really people saw the dollar.

00:26:05.120 They saw really loose monetary policy in the United States, but also in other places.

00:26:09.680 And they took the dollar and they were running with it.

00:26:11.780 What you have now is the United States is saying, OK, this has been 10 years since 2008.

00:26:16.140 We're going to start raising interest rates.

00:26:17.860 We're going to start really rationalizing this economy and making sure that this recovery doesn't just continue on in the back of government stimulus forever.

00:26:25.440 And when you have that, the U.S. acting its own self-interest, it's causing problems for a lot of different countries.

00:26:30.860 So the real difference between U.S. and Germany here is that I would say Germany was kind of screwed in 2008.

00:26:36.460 The United States is not screwed here.

00:26:38.240 It might get caught holding the bag, but that just means the dollar is going to strengthen.

00:26:42.040 You're going to see, as you said, more dollars coming into the United States.

00:26:45.200 The underlying basis of the U.S. economy is fairly well insulated as opposed to where Germany was in 2008.

00:26:51.360 So, Jacob, are we looking at the real possibility of currency collapse in these countries?

00:27:00.860 I think so.

00:27:01.940 And, you know, I mentioned those four countries.

00:27:03.840 The four that I'm most concerned about are Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Indonesia.

00:27:08.580 The only one of those countries that has not seen its currency waver in a big way so far this year is Mexico.

00:27:14.840 And they're sitting on $270 billion worth of U.S. deed debt.

00:27:18.720 That's the second highest total of any country in the world right now.

00:27:22.040 When you look at their gross external debt, you've got a more populous president who's coming in with a lot of ideas about social spending.

00:27:28.980 I'm pretty worried about Mexico.

00:27:31.160 But if Mexico, if Mexico's currency fails, what does that look like?

00:27:38.400 In real life to us, what does that mean?

00:27:42.180 Well, that means a lot of political instability in Mexico.

00:27:45.220 That means that you're going to have a, you know, if we think that the migrant issue across the Mexican border and the United States is serious now, you ain't seen nothing yet.

00:27:53.960 If this actually comes to pass, because people are going to be fleeing to try and get some semblance of stability.

00:27:59.540 The Mexican government itself, whether the previous administration and the new one coming in, has been under pressure for a host of other different reasons.

00:28:06.920 This is the last thing that they sort of need.

00:28:08.860 But, you know, Mexico would be a very serious one for the United States, and it's one of the ones I'm most worried about. 0.99

00:28:15.120 But the real reason this is so worrying is because, like I said, there's $11.5 trillion of this debt floating around out there.

00:28:24.840 Some of the countries we know, some of the countries don't report it.

00:28:27.560 I tried to email the Bank of International Settlements yesterday and asked for some more clarity on some of the countries that were holding this debt.

00:28:34.180 And they said, well, for confidentiality reasons, some countries we can't even release.

00:28:38.120 So in some sense, you know, it's hard to get a real scope of the problem.

00:28:41.340 But this is global.

00:28:42.540 This is something like the Asian financial crisis of 97, 98, 2008 subprime global crisis.

00:28:48.340 It could have that kind of transformative political impact across the world if it nosedives.

00:28:53.540 Does the trade war play a role in this at all?

00:28:55.980 The trade war plays a role in the sense that the trade war, in addition to raising interest rates in the United States, all of that is strengthening the U.S. dollar.

00:29:08.280 So the trade war is sort of one small part of a number of different things that are causing a stronger U.S. dollar.

00:29:14.920 So I wouldn't call it even one of the main movers, but you can't dismiss it.

00:29:18.600 And it's one of the things that in these countries is causing some panic.

00:29:21.780 One thing that I've been concerned about is this allegiance between Russia, Turkey, and Iran.

00:29:32.420 And they're all having currency problems.

00:29:36.760 They're all, you know, being pushed into a corner.

00:29:40.480 And desperate people do desperate things.

00:29:44.460 Are you concerned at all about, you know, the unholy alliance here that when pushed into a corner in a currency crisis that they might strike out?

00:29:56.160 Well, you know, I'm not worried about the unholy alliance striking in any particular place the way that you say, mostly because I think that alliance is mostly fake and mostly for it's mostly a PR bit.

00:30:10.460 Russia and Iran in particular do not trust each other farther than they can throw each other. 0.96

00:30:15.220 Russia has been trying to get Iran to pull back in Syria because Russia doesn't want all these issues with Israel and with the United States in the Middle East.

00:30:21.920 Russia was really looking to help kick Islamic State's butt, to just get Assad sort of stabilized and then to pull out and declare mission accomplished.

00:30:31.480 They've been trying to do that for a while.

00:30:33.680 Now, I would say I'm very worried about Iran in terms of its internal domestic stability.

00:30:38.300 You've had political competition there between sort of more reformists and pragmatists.

00:30:44.140 This is, of course, you know, in Iran.

00:30:45.540 And so what we would think of as reformists, it's not exactly what they're right, right.

00:30:50.220 The ones that are more on the reformist side are currently in the government.

00:30:53.560 They staked a lot on the Iran nuclear deal.

00:30:56.160 And when the Trump administration pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal, it sent the Iranian economy into a tailspin.

00:31:02.060 And you can see the sort of push and pull inside of Iran.

00:31:05.380 So I'm much more worried from Iran's perspective, not about where it's going to lash out, but whether the current regime can survive. 0.68

00:31:12.160 So does that look, is there a chance that that looks like 1979 in reverse, that there is a freedom movement afoot?

00:31:22.060 Well, the reason I don't think it can look quite like 1979 is because the IRGC, which is the Iranian Revolutionary Republican Guard,

00:31:31.600 they are sort of the guarantor of the 1979 revolution, right?

00:31:36.540 And what's different between 79 and now is that in 79, the Shah, even with all of his domestic security apparatus, 0.74

00:31:43.620 he didn't have the same level of control right now that the IRGC does.

00:31:47.600 There was a recent, I think it was even an Iranian government study that said that the IRGC controls something like 60 to 70 percent of the Iranian economy.

00:31:56.780 Wow.

00:31:56.880 So, and they have hundreds of thousands of, you know, soldiers and security personnel that are throughout the entire country.

00:32:03.020 So I'm not so much worried about a revolution or a return to 1979.

00:32:07.740 What I am concerned about is you have the extinguishing of that pragmatist voice in Iranian politics,

00:32:13.980 and instead you have the IRGC basically willing to do whatever it wants.

00:32:18.340 Because until now, Iran, though a lot of Americans see it as aggressive,

00:32:22.340 it's really been balancing between these two different factions.

00:32:24.880 If you had the IRGC take over, you'd be looking at a much more aggressive Iran, if you can imagine.

00:32:31.000 Jacob, thank you so much.

00:32:32.740 Thanks for the update.

00:32:33.920 We'll continue to watch.

00:32:35.540 If you see something and you think the word needs to get out, please contact us as well.

00:32:39.820 But thank you so much.

00:32:41.300 Jacob Shapiro, you can follow him at Jacob Schapp, S-H-A-P, Jacob Schapp on Twitter.

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00:34:40.900 I went to see Ben Shapiro last night here in Dallas at the Toyota Music Center, and it was great.

00:34:53.740 Yeah.

00:34:53.880 It was really great.

00:34:55.000 Really entertaining, too.

00:34:56.140 Yeah.

00:34:56.420 First time he's ever done that.

00:34:58.040 And he went out and he recorded his podcast and then took questions from the audience, and I've never seen him like that.

00:35:05.420 Very funny.

00:35:07.600 You know, he was really funny.

00:35:10.700 Really funny.

00:35:11.580 Yeah.

00:35:11.780 The black, black card is a, I'm not going to tell you the whole joke, but.

00:35:15.260 But it's a great, it's one of the best jokes I've heard in a long time.

00:35:18.260 It was a great one.

00:35:18.680 He was really entertaining.

00:35:19.740 Yeah.

00:35:19.900 And it was a lot of fun, plus really interesting.

00:35:22.080 I mean, Ben's so smart, and, you know, so you're always going to get good, solid analysis.

00:35:26.960 It was nice to see.

00:35:27.740 I sat in the crowd, and I came in, and then he said, hey, Glenn Beck is here.

00:35:34.420 And then the.

00:35:36.240 Was that the part with the dead silence in the crowd?

00:35:38.640 Yeah.

00:35:38.780 I remember that.

00:35:39.220 Thank you for that.

00:35:39.860 That was awkward, weird silence.

00:35:40.940 No, but then we hit intermission, and then the, you know, jig was up.

00:35:45.900 So, gosh, is that racist?

00:35:47.780 What does jig mean?

00:35:48.520 I don't know.

00:35:49.380 I don't know.

00:35:50.160 But, yeah, there were a lot of people coming over for pictures.

00:35:52.420 It was nice.

00:35:53.020 It was cool.

00:35:53.320 It was really nice, because I got a chance to meet his fans, who are also mine.

00:35:57.760 And what was nice, and I wrote to him afterwards, because I tried to remember everything that

00:36:03.140 people told me.

00:36:04.460 And, you know, I met people from Canada, and from Chicago, and California, and Seattle, and

00:36:10.240 Atlanta.

00:36:12.140 People flew in from all over the country for this.

00:36:15.280 Yeah.

00:36:15.460 And what was touching, and I wrote to Ben last night, and I said, you know, people want you

00:36:25.160 to know that they support you.

00:36:27.240 They're coming out because it's going to be a good show, and they, you know, hope to see

00:36:30.780 you, and, you know, whatever.

00:36:32.560 But they, I think they just want you to know how much they support you.

00:36:37.240 And that's hard to realize sometimes, because, you know, he's backstage with a bunch of security

00:36:43.760 and doesn't necessarily see it.

00:36:45.400 Yeah.

00:36:45.540 He's in Phoenix.

00:36:46.940 Phoenix tonight.

00:36:47.960 So if you're in Phoenix, go see it.

00:36:50.200 It's really good.

00:36:50.760 It's worth it.

00:36:51.600 It's worth it.

00:36:51.980 Funny, funny, funny.

00:36:55.480 Washington Post had a headline Tuesday.

00:36:58.300 And, you know, look, when newspapers were newspapers, they didn't have to worry about clickability

00:37:02.980 so they could maybe have a little more truth in their headlines, I guess.

00:37:06.480 But here's the headline from the Washington Post.

00:37:08.540 White supremacist rally costs D.C. at least $2.6 million preliminary estimate show.

00:37:17.720 Wait.

00:37:18.520 Okay.

00:37:18.960 Hang on just a second.

00:37:19.540 I mean, I understand the click thing.

00:37:21.520 Who's going to get more clicks, Antifa or white supremacists?

00:37:25.200 White supremacists, I'm sure.

00:37:26.840 That's the better bet.

00:37:27.940 And it's only because, you know, the press isn't telling everybody really how dangerous

00:37:33.540 Antifa is.

00:37:34.680 So they're like, oh, they're the good guys fighting for truth, justice, and well, not

00:37:38.780 exactly the American way, but so how can you tell me, Washington Post, how can you say

00:37:46.740 with a straight face that this white supremacist thing was even a rally a and then the estimated

00:37:56.900 cost was $2.6 million.

00:38:00.640 That's over $100,000 for every white supremacist that showed up because there were only about

00:38:07.820 24 people.

00:38:09.380 You could have given them all 50 grand.

00:38:11.400 You could have got them for half price.

00:38:12.680 Hey, would you just go home?

00:38:13.680 Here's 50 grand.

00:38:14.600 And they would have gone home.

00:38:18.860 Washington Post said, well, it was fewer than 40 supporters.

00:38:23.300 Well, yes, it was.

00:38:24.100 It was 24.

00:38:25.020 It's not hard to estimate the crowd when you can count them.

00:38:31.040 So not to, you know, defend the white supremacist lowlifes who did show up, but apparently they

00:38:37.560 were peaceful.

00:38:38.720 It was the hundreds of Antifa members who actually skirmished with police because there was only

00:38:44.300 24 losers.

00:38:45.820 They were like, I don't want to fight this crowd.

00:38:48.660 I mean, sure, I'm a Nazi, but, you know, I'm not crazy.

00:38:53.080 So long after the rally was over in those two dozen people left, Antifa lit smoke bombs and

00:39:02.320 firecrackers through exit police.

00:39:04.580 They knocked over trash cans.

00:39:06.000 They yelled at police to get out of their cars.

00:39:07.920 You got to meet us in the streets.

00:39:09.720 So the Post explains that the two point six million dollar price tag was for staffing and overtime for

00:39:18.080 Washington, D.C.'s thirty nine hundred member police force.

00:39:22.120 Law enforcement needed to respond with a massive premise of a presence to keep the white supremacist

00:39:28.120 physically separated from thousands of counter protesters.

00:39:31.860 OK, OK, so that's not the white supremacist fault.

00:39:38.780 That's the counter protesters that were in the thousands.

00:39:41.900 I think, you know, two or three guys probably could have handled the 24.

00:39:46.940 It was the thousands.

00:39:49.520 Now, once you arrived and you saw that there were, you know, 24, I can use that number.

00:39:54.740 I don't have to say 20 something or around 20.

00:39:57.020 You could get out of your you could stay in your car and count the entire crowd.

00:40:02.660 There were 24.

00:40:04.400 Why didn't you, you know, send a few of those thirty nine hundred officers home and save yourself

00:40:09.580 a million bucks or so?

00:40:12.420 Because.

00:40:14.320 It wasn't the white supremacist.

00:40:17.600 Two point six million dollars is insane for a non event.

00:40:20.960 But the reality is and the misleading part of the headline is that the bulk of the police

00:40:27.200 effort and expense didn't have to focus on the puny, pathetic, racist rally.

00:40:33.900 They had to focus on keeping the anarchist thugs in ninja suits from tearing up and burning

00:40:40.380 down the city.

00:40:41.220 And that is your headline.

00:40:43.100 It's Thursday, August 16th.

00:40:49.500 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

00:40:51.420 So last I think was last week, by the way, Aretha Franklin has passed away.

00:40:57.280 She was 76 years old.

00:40:59.640 She's been sick for the last few days.

00:41:02.400 And so our condolences to Aretha Franklin.

00:41:06.000 I think it was last week we read this amazing article from Vox and it was amazing on for

00:41:13.940 a couple of reasons.

00:41:14.840 One, it was stunning in the math.

00:41:19.560 What does it cost?

00:41:20.560 What what what Democrat Democratic socialists are proposing?

00:41:24.740 What is the actual cost?

00:41:26.880 And it it wasn't the numbers from the right or some right think tank.

00:41:31.160 These were a lot of these numbers were from either the CBO from from the government or

00:41:38.640 from the left.

00:41:40.240 And so they took those numbers and added them up.

00:41:43.780 Now, that's a staggering thing in and of itself.

00:41:46.320 We'll get to in a second.

00:41:47.720 But the fact that it was in Vox, I don't even know how that happened.

00:41:53.520 It was like, I think we slipped through a wormhole and we're in another universe.

00:41:57.680 It's definitely one of the horsemen of the apocalypse.

00:42:00.160 I'm not sure which one it is, but it's one.

00:42:02.320 But it's one of them.

00:42:03.660 Brian Riedel is the senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and he is the author of this really

00:42:10.080 great article.

00:42:12.140 And he joins us now.

00:42:12.960 Hi, Brian.

00:42:13.920 Hi, Glenn.

00:42:14.300 How are you?

00:42:14.960 I'm great.

00:42:16.020 Can I just start with how the hell did you get that done?

00:42:20.760 Well, Vox has often prided themselves on being very empirical and they say, you know,

00:42:28.540 we're not liberal, we just go where the data says.

00:42:32.320 And that's kind of an argument you hear a lot.

00:42:34.480 We're not ideological, we go where the data says.

00:42:36.840 Yeah, but I hear that from MSNBC.

00:42:39.280 I don't believe it.

00:42:40.520 I messaged them and said, you've been writing a lot on democratic socialism.

00:42:45.080 Well, if you're interested in where the numbers go, would you be willing to publish this piece

00:42:50.460 that shows you exactly what they cost?

00:42:53.000 And to their credit, they said, sure.

00:42:56.180 It took a few weeks to get it published.

00:42:59.180 Sure, sure.

00:42:59.700 But, you know, I told them, you know, if you're interested in going where the numbers go as

00:43:07.000 you claim, this is an important contribution to the debate.

00:43:09.400 In a way, that actually makes it more impressive that they didn't just take your piece and run

00:43:13.060 it because they wanted to give lip service to, you know, the conservative side of the

00:43:18.140 aisle.

00:43:18.440 I mean, this is like you look at this and I think it's important the way you approached

00:43:22.200 it, which was not to take, you know, the Heritage Foundation numbers or the Manhattan

00:43:25.980 Institute numbers or something like that.

00:43:28.700 You took government and left-wing numbers so it was not tilted against people, against

00:43:35.060 democratic socialists.

00:43:36.100 You took their own numbers and showed just where the money goes.

00:43:40.320 Yeah, I wanted to make it as bulletproof as possible.

00:43:43.000 I bent over backwards to give them every benefit of the doubt.

00:43:46.320 For instance, the score of the government jobs guarantee is probably going to be triple

00:43:52.260 what they claim it is.

00:43:53.240 Oh, yeah.

00:43:53.660 I saw the number and I was like, there's no way.

00:43:55.980 There's no way that number is that small.

00:43:57.680 I'm going to give you all of your numbers.

00:44:00.400 I'm even going to give you huge spending offsets later to help pay for it that are totally

00:44:05.740 implausible, too.

00:44:07.260 I don't want the left to be able to pick apart any part of this report because, you know,

00:44:13.140 if you find one spot where you substitute in your own judgment, they'll pick apart the

00:44:20.520 entire report and go right-wing bias.

00:44:22.440 So I made sure not to have a single right-wing source or conservative interpretation in the

00:44:28.940 entire paper.

00:44:30.060 And to illustrate this, can you dive in a little bit on the jobs number?

00:44:33.760 Because you're right.

00:44:34.600 There's no way it costs what they say it does, even though you gave them the benefit of the

00:44:38.520 doubt on it.

00:44:38.960 Yeah, they, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities did the numbers and said that if

00:44:44.440 you were to guarantee anybody a job at, they assumed $12 an hour, but now we're hearing

00:44:50.440 $15 an hour, and said anybody in America who walks off in on the street can get a guaranteed

00:44:56.700 job for $12 or $15 an hour full-time.

00:45:00.320 It would cost about $55,000 a year per person when you include the cost of benefits, health

00:45:07.420 care, everything else.

00:45:09.320 Well, what they assumed is that the only people who would sign up for this are people who are

00:45:14.520 currently unemployed and looking for a job.

00:45:18.440 They're assuming nobody, there are, there are about 60 million people who are currently

00:45:24.320 earning less than $15 an hour.

00:45:26.260 And do you know how many people just, they're already just clocking in, they don't care what

00:45:32.280 they do, and to be able to have a job where you really could never be fired would be a

00:45:39.000 dream come true to a lot of people in this nation.

00:45:43.200 And if you have a difficult job, if you're a landscaper doing really hard work, or a machinist

00:45:49.320 doing really hard work, and you're making a little bit under $15 an hour, a cushy government

00:45:54.520 job, make work job, you know, maybe, you know, paint, you know, painting murals like

00:46:00.340 the 1930s, sounds pretty good.

00:46:02.800 Even if you're a retiree who's on a fixed income, you might hear guaranteed $15 an hour

00:46:08.320 can't be fired.

00:46:09.600 Where do I sign up?

00:46:11.060 They assumed not a single person would sign up for this program who is not currently unemployed

00:46:19.200 and just desperate for a job.

00:46:20.560 Not only would you get every single person who makes, let's say, $9 an hour, why would

00:46:24.700 you stay at your $9 an hour job when there's a guaranteed $15 an hour job across the street?

00:46:28.660 But you'd even, I bet you'd get people who had difficult $17 and $18 jobs, leaving those

00:46:33.980 to go to the easy $15.

00:46:35.680 I mean, this, this, this would be, the cost of this program would be almost, it would

00:46:39.200 almost be impossible to estimate.

00:46:41.900 If you had back, as you said, like landscapers, back-breaking labor.

00:46:45.700 And you could get something, you know, you're, you're, you go home and your wife will say

00:46:51.400 to you, you got to stop, or you'll say to her, I've got to stop doing this.

00:46:55.180 It's killing me.

00:46:56.540 Why wouldn't you take $3 less an hour?

00:46:59.260 Of course you would.

00:47:01.780 Exactly.

00:47:02.440 And their numbers assume, even if none of these currently employed people sign up, it would

00:47:08.260 still be $6.8 trillion over the decade.

00:47:11.100 Have you done the, have you done the estimate of what you really think it is?

00:47:16.840 Yeah, I think it would probably be closer to $20 or $25 trillion over the decade for

00:47:21.360 that program.

00:47:21.980 That's incredible.

00:47:22.360 I think it would be triple or quadruple.

00:47:24.140 They're assuming about 9 million, they're, they're assuming about 9 or 10 million unemployed

00:47:27.740 people.

00:47:29.000 Well, there's really a universe of about 70 or 80 people, 70 or 80 million people who would

00:47:33.940 benefit from this.

00:47:34.900 Even if you assume 30 million sign up, that's, you've just tripled, or I'm sorry, you've just

00:47:41.620 quadrupled the cost from $6.8 trillion over 10 years to closer to $25 trillion.

00:47:48.320 So I was giving them every benefit of the doubt.

00:47:50.660 I said, okay, your numbers are bunk, but I'm going to give you $6.8 trillion anyway, just

00:47:55.960 because I don't want anyone to be able to complain.

00:47:58.160 Okay, so now take us through, let me take a quick break, and then I want you to take

00:48:02.300 us through what democratic socialists say, you know, this is what we need, and this doesn't

00:48:11.740 include a lot of the stuff that I know is on the slippery slope.

00:48:14.820 You got to have this too.

00:48:16.340 I mean, if you're going for, if you're going for the Rolls Royce, I mean, you got to have,

00:48:20.960 you have to have the upgraded stereo.

00:48:22.900 So, uh, uh, it's just the strip down what the democratic socialists say they want, and

00:48:32.100 we can afford, and the price tag using their numbers.

00:48:37.320 You'll notice they always go to a break.

00:48:39.160 Well, how do we pay for this?

00:48:40.260 They always go to a break, but they'll usually just summarize it in the, well, we're out of

00:48:44.580 time, but let me just tell you this.

00:48:46.260 It's, uh, we're the richest country in the world.

00:48:48.720 And, uh, how can we not afford this?

00:48:51.360 It sounds like a con job.

00:48:53.100 I I've given my wife a million times when I want to buy a new car. 0.89

00:48:56.660 Uh, anyway, we'll come back with those numbers here in just a second.

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00:50:42.320 and everything else.

00:50:43.460 We've, we've quoted, uh, Brian, uh, several of your articles here recently.

00:50:48.280 Um, uh, but we're really impressed with the work that you did on this and to make it bulletproof

00:50:53.060 against the left, picking it apart, taking their numbers.

00:50:56.900 What does national socialism actually look like?

00:51:01.200 Let's, let's show us the menu here and show us each piece.

00:51:04.640 Uh, there's the biggest pieces are of course, uh, socialized medicine, single payer healthcare

00:51:13.760 would cost, uh, according to not just the right, but according to the urban Institute,

00:51:19.400 uh, liberal think tank.

00:51:20.900 And according to a single payer advocate at Emory university, $32 trillion over 10 years.

00:51:28.520 That's the biggest 32 trillion for single payer healthcare.

00:51:31.680 What do you think a real number is?

00:51:33.880 Is that a real number?

00:51:35.560 Um, I think, I think you could probably add about 5 trillion to that because again, you're

00:51:41.700 going to have huge new demand.

00:51:43.400 When you're told that every medical procedure you could ever want is free without a dollar

00:51:48.860 co-pay for everybody that tends to be people, people tend to get some of the more optional

00:51:54.940 things done that they may not have otherwise done.

00:51:57.780 You know, the, the, the, the, wouldn't they just, that just wouldn't be covered.

00:52:01.720 I mean, you do, you know, the, the, wouldn't the government just say, Hey, well, that, that

00:52:05.420 open heart surgery, that, you know, that doesn't need to be done necessarily.

00:52:10.100 That's what happens.

00:52:11.100 Once everyone takes advantage, you promise everything.

00:52:13.840 Okay.

00:52:14.300 And then when everyone takes advantage and the government goes bankrupt, they go, Oh my goodness,

00:52:18.620 we have to start rationing.

00:52:20.140 Okay.

00:52:20.320 All right.

00:52:20.900 Okay.

00:52:21.200 So 32 there, 32 there, 6.8 trillion is the absurdly low jobs guarantee.

00:52:27.460 So now you're at about 38.8 trillion.

00:52:31.280 There's also democratic plans to give everybody free college tuition, 0.8 trillion.

00:52:38.020 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:52:40.460 Free college tuition is how much?

00:52:42.940 Well, and this is another low ball.

00:52:44.980 They say 800 billion over 10 years to make every public university free.

00:52:50.140 Not a chance.

00:52:50.940 No way.

00:52:51.820 What's the real number?

00:52:53.280 Oh, it's double that because you know what's going to happen.

00:52:55.940 People who are currently thinking of going to private schools are going to say, well,

00:52:59.540 I can pay $40,000 to go to a private school or nothing to go to a public school.

00:53:03.900 There will, there will be a stampede into public schools.

00:53:07.040 Right.

00:53:07.260 Additionally, the universities will raise all their costs because they know the feds will pay

00:53:11.420 it off.

00:53:12.320 So it'll be, it'll be double that.

00:53:14.420 Okay.

00:53:14.580 All right.

00:53:15.500 Then you got student loan forgiveness.

00:53:17.160 We're just going to pay off everybody's student loans.

00:53:20.460 That's 1.4 trillion.

00:53:22.160 Now, is that a real number?

00:53:24.720 Approximately.

00:53:25.200 Yeah.

00:53:25.440 1.4 to 1.6 trillion.

00:53:27.240 Okay.

00:53:28.300 The Democrats have pledged a trillion dollar infrastructure buildup.

00:53:32.360 They haven't specified what it would be, but they just said, we want to, we want to

00:53:35.920 spend a trillion on infrastructure.

00:53:37.140 Doesn't, doesn't Donald Trump want to spend more than a trillion?

00:53:42.420 That's not a real number.

00:53:43.620 That's across the aisle.

00:53:44.420 I think the trillion dollars.

00:53:45.620 Yeah.

00:53:45.640 We'll negotiate that one to a higher level.

00:53:48.520 Probably.

00:53:49.340 All right.

00:53:49.920 Uh, and then the final two are paid family leave, which is about 300 billion.

00:53:55.780 What's the real number?

00:53:57.680 Uh, probably three to probably closer to 400 billion, I would say.

00:54:01.920 Okay.

00:54:02.240 And Sanders has a proposal, a vague proposal to expand social security by about 200 billion.

00:54:09.520 That's the real number, but I would be surprised if he stops there, uh, if he actually has a

00:54:15.000 chance to, to expand social security, um, basically he would expand the minimum benefit.

00:54:20.240 Uh, and so you add all those up, you get 42.5 trillion.

00:54:25.360 If you get back to your question of how much would it really cost, honestly, probably closer

00:54:32.140 to 60 or 65 trillion.

00:54:34.260 Okay.

00:54:34.440 So only 65 trillion, 65 trillion.

00:54:36.720 Now that does not, which is $10 trillion more than the entire GDP in a year of this country.

00:54:42.620 Well, the GDP right now is 20 trillion.

00:54:45.200 Is what?

00:54:46.120 20 trillion.

00:54:47.060 Oh, no, I'm sorry.

00:54:47.920 I'm sorry.

00:54:48.320 No, all the, sorry.

00:54:50.020 I'm sorry.

00:54:50.680 All the money in the world is, is 55 trillion.

00:54:55.120 All the actual cash in the world is 55 trillion.

00:54:59.320 Yeah.

00:54:59.440 I mean, one way of looking at it is over the next decade, the entire federal taxes will

00:55:05.060 take in about $42 trillion over the next 10 years.

00:55:08.860 So if you're going to spend 44 to 42 to say 65 trillion, you're more than doubling, uh, taxes

00:55:18.300 in the size of government.

00:55:19.260 It is incredible.

00:55:20.760 Yeah, but it's only the rich people.

00:55:22.840 Right.

00:55:23.960 Brian, this does not include sort of some loose proposals we've heard about guaranteed

00:55:28.920 housing, for example.

00:55:31.080 Uh, and there's, I mean, there's a, there's more than they want to do than even this.

00:55:34.700 I don't know if they've been scored, uh, by a legitimate source, but they've, they've

00:55:38.480 tossed around a lot of things in the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sort of world.

00:55:42.260 Oh, they, they've said, you know, bigger welfare state, guaranteed housing, uh, big, bigger

00:55:47.580 SNAP benefits, higher special education funding, huge, uh, national education, um, uh, K through

00:55:55.100 12 initiative.

00:55:56.320 Those just haven't been specified and scored yet.

00:55:59.240 So, you know, don't think they're going to implement this 42.5 trillion and then stop

00:56:05.020 there and be satisfied.

00:56:06.440 I mean, there's always something to expand.

00:56:11.040 The, the, the chance that common sense is going to rule the day would be, I've got about,

00:56:24.320 I've got about 10 seconds, give me a percentage.

00:56:26.780 The reality is they could win every seat in November and they'll still never get the stuff

00:56:30.540 enacted because once people see the tax hikes, once people see that you'd have to have your

00:56:35.340 taxes doubled, it doesn't matter how many seats they hold.

00:56:38.280 They could never pass this.

00:56:39.780 Brian, thank you so much.

00:56:41.240 God bless you.

00:56:41.940 Thanks for your hard work.

00:56:43.240 Back in just a second.

00:56:44.320 Can you think of anybody that you believe is truly, truly a great man?

00:56:59.600 Now, have you ever met that man?

00:57:04.460 Really gotten to know him?

00:57:06.340 I have met people that I believe are truly great men and the closer I get to them, the

00:57:16.380 more flaws I see.

00:57:19.520 I'm away from them and I think that is the most amazing man.

00:57:24.400 And then if I'm allowed in, I can stand next to them and I'm like, wow, that doesn't really,

00:57:31.180 doesn't really jive with what you say here.

00:57:34.720 And you see that this great man is not perfect.

00:57:42.820 He's doing things that, you know, don't seem consistent.

00:57:47.700 My father used to say, life is nothing but a series of choices.

00:57:53.720 And you have to make the best choice you can at the time and then live with the consequences.

00:58:00.700 But you won't have any regrets if you really, truly try to make the best, most honest, genuine

00:58:11.080 and decent choice you can.

00:58:14.400 But you're going to screw it up.

00:58:18.700 Yesterday, Governor Cuomo, and he's only saying this because he's in a primary, because

00:58:25.520 Cynthia Nixon is moving him to the left, pushing him even farther to the left, because that's 1.00

00:58:32.940 the Democratic Socialists.

00:58:34.340 They're all losing.

00:58:35.000 They're losing all around the country.

00:58:37.260 Nobody's into it.

00:58:38.800 The moderates.

00:58:40.440 That's where the Democrats actually want to be.

00:58:43.320 The farther left they move as a party, the more that those candidates lose.

00:58:51.200 With the exception of places where it is so red.

00:58:55.280 I mean, it's mainly it's so red and it's because of the blood that is shot out of everybody's

00:59:00.140 eyes.

00:59:00.720 OK, but they're moving so far left.

00:59:03.860 So Nixon doesn't have a chance of winning.

00:59:07.480 She's just trying to push Cuomo closer to her socialist utopian vision.

00:59:16.260 OK, and he's got to play to the crowd.

00:59:20.340 So what does he say?

00:59:21.860 Well, America is not great.

00:59:23.840 Now, I want you to listen to what he said.

00:59:26.240 Play from yesterday.

00:59:27.520 Here's Governor Cuomo of New York.

00:59:29.380 And look, the simple point is all this comes down to this.

00:59:32.220 We're not going to make America great again.

00:59:36.540 It was never that great.

00:59:41.140 We have not reached greatness.

00:59:45.360 We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged.

00:59:53.200 Stop for a second.

00:59:53.780 We will.

00:59:54.400 Tell me.

00:59:54.780 Tell me which which country in history has had every Roman, every, you know, every German

01:00:02.200 German fully engaged.

01:00:04.960 Now, I can think of a couple.

01:00:08.260 You could say the former Soviet Union.

01:00:11.400 Everybody was fully engaged, mainly because you'd go to a gulag if you weren't.

01:00:16.260 But does that make a great country?

01:00:19.100 When they're fully engaged.

01:00:20.660 Remember, we live with humans.

01:00:24.840 They're not robots.

01:00:25.760 They're humans.

01:00:27.140 Some humans make the choice.

01:00:30.900 I don't want to do anything.

01:00:32.920 I don't mind living on the street.

01:00:36.100 There are some people that live on the street.

01:00:39.080 And I don't know what the numbers are or the breakup.

01:00:41.580 But there are some people that want to live on the street.

01:00:46.380 There are other people that just want to game the system.

01:00:50.680 They're not fully engaged.

01:00:53.380 They're just game in the system.

01:00:55.520 They want the least the path of least resistance.

01:00:59.600 So you're never going to have an America or any country where every citizen is fully engaged.

01:01:07.120 Next claim.

01:01:08.700 We will reach greatness when discrimination and stereotyping against women.

01:01:16.420 And 51% of our population is gone.

01:01:20.300 Stop.

01:01:21.180 And we're going to do that by discriminating against men?

01:01:25.740 We're going to attack and target white men? 0.70

01:01:30.180 You know, we'll be great when discrimination is a thing of the past.

01:01:35.620 Well, that's quite a utopian statement.

01:01:38.180 But no one has ever achieved that.

01:01:40.680 No one has even come close.

01:01:42.040 We are we are getting closer or we were we were making great strides.

01:01:49.120 But not we're not we're not we're not going to achieve no discrimination.

01:01:55.660 It's not going to happen.

01:01:56.700 Why?

01:01:57.140 Because it's the human flaw.

01:02:00.460 So here's the thing.

01:02:02.480 To say America was and I want to quote him never that great.

01:02:07.400 Is is is not an insult.

01:02:12.220 It's not an insult.

01:02:13.760 It shows the stupidity of this governor.

01:02:18.240 It shows the desperation of this governor.

01:02:22.560 Stupidity if he actually believes that.

01:02:26.500 That's like saying Gandhi's not a great man.

01:02:29.440 Can you imagine anybody on the left saying Gandhi was not a great man?

01:02:33.380 Gandhi's not a great man.

01:02:35.200 Excuse me.

01:02:35.980 Well, he this is true. 0.94

01:02:39.200 He was a racist.

01:02:41.420 Well, while he saw the struggle of his own people, the racist things he said about people in Africa when he was in South Africa is astonishing.

01:02:53.200 He was a racist.

01:02:55.580 OK, does that mean he wasn't a great man in this area and he had this flaw?

01:03:02.560 He was a super creepy with his young female relatives as well.

01:03:06.520 Yes.

01:03:07.220 Right.

01:03:07.880 Yeah.

01:03:08.160 You look at the bad, the dark sides of Gandhi and he's not a great man, but you have to look at the totality of the man and the time that he lived in.

01:03:17.920 Let's look at Churchill.

01:03:20.140 If you look at Churchill from the view of Europe, he's fantastic.

01:03:28.120 But take away the European part and you look at how he treated Indians.

01:03:33.640 He was the foe against Gandhi.

01:03:35.560 And the comments he made about the Indian people is they're astounding. 1.00

01:03:42.180 If you only know that about Churchill.

01:03:45.620 He's a monster.

01:03:48.780 Lincoln.

01:03:49.420 He's crazy.

01:03:52.380 He's crazy.

01:03:53.640 And he didn't do everything that he could possibly do on day one.

01:03:58.800 He cared about holding the country together.

01:04:01.020 He should have been just about stopping slavery.

01:04:05.600 Let me even go to a person on the left that they think is a goddess.

01:04:13.700 Margaret Sanger.

01:04:14.600 Are you telling me that you are because I don't think she's a good person because there there comes a point to where you're like, yeah, she was trying to kill an entire race.

01:04:27.000 She was kind of in with the whole liquidation of people.

01:04:31.460 I'm going to say I don't care how many other nice things you did.

01:04:34.960 Oh, but she brought. 0.99

01:04:36.260 Oh, she brought, you know, dinner over to her sick neighbor a couple of times.

01:04:40.080 I don't really care.

01:04:40.760 She wanted to wipe out an entire race. 1.00

01:04:42.580 But if you don't think that that's true, well, you have issues of truth.

01:04:50.260 But also.

01:04:52.380 Would you say that?

01:04:54.720 She's a great person.

01:04:57.000 She's a great person because I don't agree with everything she did.

01:05:01.880 Now, I can guarantee you at this women's speech that Cuomo would say, if you stood and said, excuse me, do you think that Margaret Sanger was a great woman?

01:05:12.400 I can guarantee you his answer would have been, look, she did some great things.

01:05:19.140 That doesn't mean I agree with everything she did, but she did some great things.

01:05:23.640 But no one will give this country that same standard.

01:05:28.300 Yes.

01:05:29.500 Yes.

01:05:30.500 Andrew Jackson, the guy who founded the Democratic Party, slaughtered Indians.

01:05:38.060 That happened.

01:05:39.260 He went back on all of our Indian treaties.

01:05:43.540 We treated them horribly.

01:05:45.680 Same with African-Americans. 0.99

01:05:47.920 And quite honestly, same with white Americans. 0.62

01:05:52.880 At the beginning of slavery, because they were deemed slaves, too.

01:05:57.620 It wasn't until later that we're like, oh, you know what?

01:06:00.060 Maybe just black people. 1.00

01:06:00.920 Can't tell me that we didn't do horrible things to the Chinese, to the Japanese. 1.00

01:06:08.300 You know who you know who you know what the truth is on the Japanese. 1.00

01:06:12.420 Most people most people don't even know the truth of the Japanese internment.

01:06:17.160 Do you know that FDR wanted to inter the Japanese in 1939?

01:06:24.060 1939 didn't happen until after Pearl Harbor.

01:06:26.560 But in 1939, he's like, I don't know, these Japanese people kind of spook me. 1.00

01:06:32.960 So he had somebody go out and and look in and do a full investigation on the Japanese problem.

01:06:43.140 Came back with a report saying, no, it's actually not a problem.

01:06:46.520 They're very patriotic.

01:06:48.760 So he couldn't do it.

01:06:50.740 He wanted to, but he didn't have any support on it.

01:06:54.420 Until Pearl Harbor.

01:06:56.880 And then he just rounded them up.

01:07:02.400 Well, wait a minute.

01:07:03.880 That's FDR. 0.50

01:07:04.860 I think.

01:07:05.680 Don't you say he's one of the greatest presidents of all time?

01:07:08.760 He was a racist.

01:07:10.680 He interred American citizens.

01:07:13.820 The country didn't do that.

01:07:15.780 That was executive order like 9066.

01:07:20.320 That was an executive order.

01:07:21.780 That was one man making the choice.

01:07:24.420 So that was your man that you say was so great.

01:07:27.800 Yet you cut him slack.

01:07:31.480 We apply this absurd standard that people and countries have to live up to.

01:07:38.840 They have to live up to whatever it is we say people should be.

01:07:43.600 Even when I say and I want to make clear, I'm saying we say.

01:07:49.760 Not the example that we are living, but what we say, for instance, our founders, they were so racist.

01:07:56.860 You know what they did?

01:07:57.620 They chose to be progressive.

01:07:59.620 They said, we'll never get to a place where we can abolish slavery. 0.75

01:08:05.420 If we don't have a country.

01:08:08.480 And so what we need to do is first make an agreement that we're going to make a country and just stop the slave trade. 0.65

01:08:16.680 And then if we stop the slave trade and expansion, we can come back and take the next step. 0.99

01:08:23.220 You don't think the people were that were pro-slavery were arguing this is a slippery slope.

01:08:28.500 First, they want to stop the slave trade.

01:08:30.320 Next thing, they're going to be coming for our slaves.

01:08:32.380 But we are expected to believe that progressives can't respect their progressive moves to abolish slavery.

01:08:48.660 That somehow or another, that's just not good enough.

01:08:53.120 Oh, be careful because you're going to be judged by the same standard in history.

01:08:56.040 Yet these same people say, they didn't even see it.

01:09:04.300 They didn't even look.

01:09:05.540 They didn't want to do anything about it.

01:09:07.000 They wouldn't even take a stand against it.

01:09:09.020 When they did, when our founders, many of them were the premier abolitionists.

01:09:18.660 But you dismiss that.

01:09:20.020 You're too busy blaming them for what they failed to see 250 years ago to even notice that you are the biggest hypocrite to possibly ever live.

01:09:33.780 Because slavery is worse now.

01:09:37.320 There are more people in slavery today than the entire 400 years of Western slave trade combined.

01:09:45.980 Are you an abolitionist?

01:09:50.020 Somebody starts talking about the founders.

01:09:52.740 You just say, hey, are you an abolitionist today?

01:09:56.000 What do you know about slave trade today?

01:09:58.300 Well, I'm not talking about that.

01:09:59.560 Well, you should be.

01:10:00.780 Because these are actual people that are living today.

01:10:04.820 We can have this theoretical conversation or we can actually free people today.

01:10:10.500 Are you an abolitionist?

01:10:13.860 The answer will always be no.

01:10:15.660 Look, America and you as a person, this is not track.

01:10:23.760 This is cross country.

01:10:26.080 You want to judge?

01:10:27.500 The only thing you can actually do is judge us as a nation day to day, year over year.

01:10:35.260 And judge people the same way.

01:10:39.640 Judge yourself.

01:10:41.920 The only fair way to do it is not to compare yourself to other people on Facebook.

01:10:45.980 That'll make you depressed really fast.

01:10:48.540 To compare yourself to other people won't happen.

01:10:51.280 That's what the Democrats would like you to do.

01:10:52.900 I'm telling you now to be a healthy person.

01:10:56.620 You need to compare yourself to who you were yesterday.

01:10:59.820 How you behaved yesterday and the week before and the year before that.

01:11:04.560 Are you growing as a person?

01:11:07.320 Are you getting better?

01:11:08.860 Or are you making the same damn mistakes over and over again?

01:11:12.940 Are you just stuck in this place where I haven't changed my opinion ever?

01:11:17.940 Well, that means you're not growing.

01:11:20.480 This is cross country.

01:11:22.140 There are no winners here.

01:11:26.340 The winner is you beating your own time.

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01:12:57.980 Glenn back.

01:12:59.420 One job that is not easy is PR.

01:13:01.960 Governor Cuomo says America is not great.

01:13:05.080 It was never that great.

01:13:06.900 What do you do when you have a disastrous comment like that?

01:13:08.720 You talk to Danny Lever, the press secretary for Cuomo, to come up with a good statement that will make it all better.

01:13:12.880 Her statement, Governor Cuomo disagrees with the president.

01:13:16.000 The governor believes America is great.

01:13:19.340 Wait.

01:13:20.400 So it was never that great.

01:13:22.820 Turns into the governor believes America is great.

01:13:25.920 That's PR.

01:13:26.820 It's a hard job.

01:13:27.980 Well, the president's a liar, you know.

01:13:30.620 You're right.

01:13:31.280 Believe it on the president.

01:13:32.660 Mercury.

01:13:35.660 The opening of every hour.

01:13:38.720 I try to I try to share a news story and what it means that will actually affect you in some way or another.

01:13:47.900 Something that's important.

01:13:50.240 And.

01:13:52.140 And I'm going to break that rule here for a second, because I just got news a few minutes ago.

01:13:58.260 About a death of a man that I would call a friend, Charlie Butcher.

01:14:08.360 Charlie Butcher was the morning guy at our affiliate.

01:14:12.880 Whoa, whoa.

01:14:13.740 In Fort Wayne, Indiana, which holds a very special place in my heart.

01:14:18.740 And it's it reminds me of how radio used to be when radio was great and it was local and and the people were decent and they were there forever.

01:14:34.720 And you got to know them.

01:14:37.020 Charlie Butcher did the morning show at WoWo.

01:14:40.320 He's he was 30 years in the same town and in a small town.

01:14:47.400 That says something.

01:14:49.240 He spent most of his life at number one.

01:14:52.400 And anybody who can be on the air for three years, the audience gets to know you and they can smell a fraud a mile away.

01:15:01.720 Charlie and.

01:15:05.160 Charlie was number one.

01:15:08.060 For damn near 30 years, the entire town knew him.

01:15:17.080 He died apparently a couple of days ago.

01:15:20.960 And I just got the news.

01:15:23.640 He.

01:15:25.440 His heart stopped and it was the end.

01:15:28.420 He was 61.

01:15:31.720 I want to.

01:15:38.840 I want to use Charlie.

01:15:41.660 As an example.

01:15:44.300 Of who I'd like to be.

01:15:48.740 I don't know if I I've spent.

01:15:53.600 Maybe I've met Charlie probably minimum three times, maybe 10 if I was being generous.

01:16:00.260 Um, I only saw him at work when we were in town and I have met people over my 45 years of broadcast.

01:16:09.980 I have met people like that.

01:16:12.600 And if somebody would come into my studio and say, Glenn, you know, Joe, so-and-so just passed away.

01:16:19.880 Most times I would say, most times I would say, who, who's that?

01:16:24.240 Oh, he's so-and-so he works at.

01:16:26.900 And then I would remember.

01:16:30.340 Charlie made such an impression on me.

01:16:32.740 That when somebody came in, even though I, I, I, I would be honored if he would have called me a friend.

01:16:40.760 I don't consider myself, you know, a friend.

01:16:44.360 I knew who he was because each time I met him, he was so different and so genuine.

01:16:53.220 He was just a decent guy and in a industry where there are so few decent people, he stood out.

01:17:09.260 Quite frankly, as does almost everybody that works at WoWo.

01:17:14.920 There's something in the water in Indiana.

01:17:24.280 And I just want the family at WoWo to know, and the people who have gotten up and listened to that voice for 30 years.

01:17:37.000 Those of us at Mercury in the Glenn Beck program mourn with you today.

01:17:44.920 It's Thursday, August 16th.

01:17:48.940 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

01:17:52.140 All right, let's get to work.

01:17:55.180 We have been telling you about Antifa for a while.

01:17:59.300 I've done chalkboards on it.

01:18:00.520 If you haven't seen the chalkboard, go to my YouTube page and look for the Antifa chalkboard.

01:18:04.820 You want to know who they are?

01:18:05.800 You want to know what the history is?

01:18:07.700 They are radicals.

01:18:09.200 They are communists.

01:18:10.360 They are anarchists.

01:18:11.660 They believe in the overthrow of the United States government, create enough anarchy to be able to pull this government down so a new communist government can start.

01:18:24.640 These are the people from, remember, the World Trade Organizations where they used to have to fence these people in because they were just, they would burn your city to the ground when the World Trade Organization would come.

01:18:37.160 That's who Antifa is.

01:18:38.840 Those are the same people.

01:18:39.880 Extraordinarily dangerous.

01:18:43.740 The press has given them a pass because the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

01:18:49.180 If you're against conservatives, and I want you to understand, they're not against conservatives for any other reason other than this.

01:18:59.680 Conservatives believe in the Constitution of the United States.

01:19:03.440 The Constitution was born out of the Age of Enlightenment.

01:19:06.960 The Age of Enlightenment is the Age of Reason.

01:19:10.820 Science, everything that came out of the Dark Ages where it was all about fear and somebody ruling and you could be snatched off the street at any time and you were under the thumb of whoever had power.

01:19:26.900 All of that stuff went away when the candle of reason was lit and people said, no, wait a minute.

01:19:34.160 Hang on.

01:19:35.640 Let's think this through and let's use science and let's use facts and reason.

01:19:41.760 And let's figure this out.

01:19:45.080 That's what gave birth to this civilization.

01:19:49.180 And because the Constitution is a product of that Enlightenment of what is called the modern era.

01:19:57.280 And because they believe everything that has happened in the modern era has been oppressive, you know, unlike everything in the Dark Ages.

01:20:09.180 That it must be torn down.

01:20:11.200 So the only reason why they can hate police or they can hate you or conservatives or or the media is because it was created in the modern era and it has kept it propped up.

01:20:25.040 Now, the media is so foolish to think that, oh, we're just like you.

01:20:28.980 No, you're not.

01:20:29.840 You are probably a deep progressive, maybe a socialist.

01:20:35.880 Maybe you don't.

01:20:37.060 Maybe there's parts of the country you don't like or the Constitution that you don't like.

01:20:41.420 Maybe, maybe.

01:20:44.040 That's not who Antifa is.

01:20:46.080 And they will drag the people out on the streets that are sitting in CNN and covering for them.

01:20:53.100 Believe me, they will go in and they will drag those people out in the streets and beat them to death.

01:20:58.880 Just as fast as they do it to me.

01:21:02.460 That's who Antifa is.

01:21:04.500 They're not an anti-hate group.

01:21:06.260 They're a communist and anarchist group.

01:21:09.180 Period.

01:21:10.720 Violence is the way they make change.

01:21:14.460 Benny Johnson was out.

01:21:16.360 He's with the Daily Caller and he went out to talk to Antifa, which they don't like to do very much.

01:21:23.820 But they did talk to him and he asked the question, if Donald Trump was here,

01:21:27.560 what would you do?

01:21:30.360 People said we should Gaddafi him.

01:21:33.340 As if I can quote it exactly, if my memory serves me right.

01:21:38.940 As long as it's a group thing.

01:21:43.060 As long as we're all in on it.

01:21:44.980 It should we should Gaddafi him, meaning we should pull him out.

01:21:50.840 Don't have a trial.

01:21:52.440 Just drag his body in the streets until he dies.

01:21:57.440 So, Benny, talk to these people.

01:21:59.380 All of them were threatening the president.

01:22:01.360 He's on with us now.

01:22:02.460 Benny Johnson, welcome to the program.

01:22:04.160 How are you?

01:22:05.660 Thank you, Glenn.

01:22:06.380 I'm doing great.

01:22:07.360 So, yesterday, Secret Service came to your offices to look at the tape, get the tape and, you know, see if they were going to pursue anything.

01:22:17.420 We don't know what the Secret Service is going to do.

01:22:19.660 Hopefully, they are watching a lot of these people.

01:22:22.800 That's why they mask their face.

01:22:24.220 But I want to talk to you a little bit about, A, what don't we know about Antifa that we should?

01:22:32.760 And, B, the long-standing history of CNN, in particular, excusing Antifa.

01:22:42.500 Yes.

01:22:43.240 So, the two are connected.

01:22:45.320 I believe the two are intertwined.

01:22:46.920 And it's important to understand one so you can understand the other.

01:22:50.360 The point of not covering Antifa is because there is such a confirmation bias on the left that if you're against the neo-Nazis or the white supremacists, then you're on the right.

01:23:04.620 You're on the right side of history.

01:23:06.680 You are correct.

01:23:08.320 Chris Cuomo said as much on his show this week.

01:23:11.780 That's not true.

01:23:13.360 And that confirmation bias leads to a major default, Glenn, in reporting.

01:23:17.020 So, there's not many reporters who go and do proper journalism on Antifa to show the kind of tactics they're using, the kind of tactics you just spoke about, which are extremely violent.

01:23:27.660 I only spent 40 minutes with Antifa this weekend, and I got five death threats on the president.

01:23:33.160 Just 40 minutes.

01:23:34.420 Five death threats.

01:23:35.640 You'd think that would be a very easy, journalistic story.

01:23:41.360 You'd think that that would be a very important story to tell in order to actually tell the truth about this group.

01:23:47.280 But journalists do not want to cover this.

01:23:50.360 They believe that they would be doing harm to their own progressive and resistance movements that they're a part of.

01:23:58.020 And so Antifa, by and large, gets completely ignored, brushed under the rug by mainstream journalism.

01:24:04.920 So, do they think that they're not a threat?

01:24:09.800 I mean, you know, some people will be like, ah, they're not really a threat.

01:24:13.940 I know these people.

01:24:15.420 So, do they think that, or do they just not want to recognize it because it puts them in cognitive dissonance?

01:24:23.560 So, let's talk about that cognitive dissonance.

01:24:26.160 Let's have a little thought experiment here.

01:24:29.100 If a Trump supporter, or better yet, let's try the Tea Party.

01:24:33.920 If a Tea Partier in 2010 were to have grabbed the camera of a reporter, said, F you to the reporter, thrown the camera on the ground, cut the camera cables, then that would be a month-long news cycle.

01:24:47.980 It might be a year-long news cycle.

01:24:49.560 Oh, yeah.

01:24:49.920 It would have been all of the proof that they needed to show that we were violent and out of control.

01:24:57.800 Precisely.

01:24:58.240 If a Vox.com or a ThinkProgress reporter had asked Tea Partiers what they would do if they met President Obama, and they all said they'd murder him, and they'd do him like Gaddafi, then again, this would be a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week, month-long news cycle about the hatred inside the Tea Party.

01:25:19.060 And no one knows the Tea Party better than you, Glenn.

01:25:22.120 However, you have NBC News reporters just this weekend having that exact same thing happen.

01:25:26.720 NBC News had one of their crews in Charlottesville, their cameras were grabbed, they were told to F off, their cameras were thrown on the ground, their reporters were assaulted, their reporters were harassed, an absolute attack on journalism, on the freedom of the press, and nothing, Glenn, nothing.

01:25:43.660 NBC News didn't even cover their own reporter's assault.

01:25:46.440 The same thing happened with ABC.

01:25:48.880 ABC had their camera cables cut.

01:25:51.240 Thousands of dollars worth of damages.

01:25:53.240 A woman came up and sliced the cables so that they couldn't video her. 1.00

01:25:58.300 Nothing on ABC.

01:25:59.560 Not a single report on their own reporters getting assaulted by NPR.

01:26:03.800 Okay, so, Benny, here's where we have to take this, because this is just an exercise in frustration.

01:26:11.560 We know the press is bad.

01:26:13.020 We know they're slanted.

01:26:14.220 We know they're not covering Antifa.

01:26:17.200 We know all of this.

01:26:19.880 So what do we do?

01:26:22.920 What do we do?

01:26:24.140 Besides turn off mainstream television.

01:26:26.700 Just turn them off.

01:26:27.820 Stop watching them.

01:26:29.700 Stop.

01:26:30.020 Yes, and I agree, and thank goodness, even though it's under attack and we're on shaky territory with social media platforms right now

01:26:40.660 and the deplatforming of conservative ideas and principles, I believe that it's been very important to watch the virality of these kind of clips.

01:26:48.860 It's amazing what happens when you just tell a true story.

01:26:51.940 So if you tell a true story and let these people speak in their own words, then you get Secret Service in my office taking my videos of these people,

01:27:03.580 and hopefully that will affect change.

01:27:04.980 Hopefully it won't be smiled upon to say you want to murder the president.

01:27:09.220 And this video has been seen by millions and millions of people around the country.

01:27:13.140 Even though the mainstream media blacked it out, I haven't got a single request to go on MSNBC, a single request to go on CNN.

01:27:20.260 I haven't seen this covered at all for center-left publications.

01:27:24.560 However, the center-right, Fox News, yourself, people like Rush, have really – the person who started The Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson.

01:27:33.340 And it has proven that conservatives have been able to do an end-around on mainstream media,

01:27:39.360 and millions and millions of people have now seen this.

01:27:41.460 And thank you, Glenn, for playing it and bringing attention to it on your program.

01:27:46.440 Benny, one quick question, and then we'll let you go.

01:27:50.340 You mentioned the squashing of conservative voices.

01:27:53.100 I was with Ben Shapiro last night, and it was quite an interesting conversation.

01:27:57.620 It was a private conversation, but there is growing concern, real concern, that we've crossed a threshold of some sort,

01:28:07.140 and our voices could quickly go away.

01:28:12.060 Do you sense that in conservative media, that that is starting to come to more and more people as,

01:28:20.900 wow, I think this is a reality?

01:28:22.540 Yes, there was a report about the reach of President Trump's Facebook.

01:28:32.040 President Trump's Facebook reach has been cut in half and even more since this report was filed.

01:28:40.880 People on the campaign shared some of this data with Breitbart, and this report was shocking.

01:28:46.720 He's a sitting president of the United States.

01:28:48.100 Because anyone in conservative publishing has seen an enormous backlash and delineation of reach for their contents.

01:28:57.440 I've worked for multiple conservative publishers, including yours, including the place.

01:29:01.740 And everyone who actually has their finger on the pulse knows that conservative content does not have the same kind of reach

01:29:10.040 that it had just a year ago or two years ago.

01:29:12.080 And you are seeing conservative publishers being targeted, not just on Facebook, on Twitter, of course,

01:29:19.540 like the shadow bans just happened to occur to only Republicans, to only conservatives, people on the right.

01:29:28.320 I believe that deplatforming is a very scary thing.

01:29:31.040 And here's why, Glenn, because if you get to a point where someone is deciding what hate speech is,

01:29:38.380 which I'm sure is what Ben was very concerned about, if Ben says that there's only two genders

01:29:44.220 and that transgenderism is a mental illness, that is, by every measure of every leftist I know, 0.99

01:29:50.860 that would be considered a hate speech. 0.98

01:29:52.080 Right.

01:29:52.560 And so when does it happen to Glenn?

01:29:54.400 When does it happen to Glenn?

01:29:55.340 When does it happen to Ben?

01:29:57.320 I mean, who determines what the hate speech is?

01:30:00.560 Benny, thank you so much.

01:30:02.120 Benny Johnson, reporter for The Daily Caller.

01:30:04.500 Let us know any updates that you have on Antifa, where we're watching them closely as well.

01:30:11.260 Thank you for your hard work and your willingness to go into that crowd.

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01:33:33.660 This portion of the program brought to you by Poop-a-roni.

01:33:42.120 Poop-a-roni on San Francisco streets.

01:33:46.480 Yes.

01:33:47.160 Doesn't a big heaping steamy bowl of poop sound good to you right now?

01:33:51.880 If you're in San Francisco, you bet.

01:33:54.760 Now, the city of San Francisco has come up with a way to get their hands around all the poop in San Francisco.

01:34:09.880 And they have now put a five-person crew out several of these poop patrols for San Francisco.

01:34:18.640 And, man, you know, I don't know if that's the government job that, you know, you could get if you go, you know, Democratic Socialist.

01:34:25.560 I could get a guaranteed $15 an hour, you know, look for human poop patrol job. 1.00

01:34:30.860 But that sounds, that sounds like fun.

01:34:33.860 Sounds like something I would be proud to do.

01:34:36.980 For my city, I'm on poop patrol.

01:34:39.960 It's kind of like a...

01:34:41.460 Neighborhood watch.

01:34:43.320 A poop-related Ghostbusters in a way.

01:34:45.900 Like, you're kind of just going around patrolling the streets, taking care of the problem, putting them into some sort of high-tech containment device.

01:34:55.060 There's a movie to be made there.

01:34:56.560 Probably better than the all-female Ghostbusters, too. 0.81

01:35:00.360 Well, I think that was...

01:35:01.260 I think that was...

01:35:01.960 Excuse me.

01:35:02.660 I think that was a sexist, bigoted remark right there.

01:35:06.100 That's what I was going for.

01:35:06.980 Because one of the Ghostbusters, the women were black? 1.00

01:35:09.700 Is that why?

01:35:10.160 Were they?

01:35:10.740 I don't know.

01:35:11.460 Oh, yeah.

01:35:12.460 Oh, yeah.

01:35:13.080 Like, I didn't know.

01:35:14.120 Mr. Klansman.

01:35:15.460 Okay.

01:35:15.900 Welcome to the program, Pat.

01:35:17.140 How are you?

01:35:17.960 I'm good.

01:35:19.040 Does it include, like, if it's dog poop?

01:35:21.040 Do they just leave it?

01:35:22.180 No, I don't.

01:35:22.680 Is it only the human?

01:35:23.520 I think it's only the human poop.

01:35:25.200 And I don't know if you're, like...

01:35:27.360 Maybe it's a small human, and it could be a big dog.

01:35:30.760 You know, I don't know if you're like, oh, I don't know.

01:35:33.020 Bill, come on over.

01:35:34.180 Is this human poop or is this dog poop?

01:35:36.100 I don't know what happens.

01:35:37.140 Yeah, I think if you have a small human and big dog that go next to each other, you need

01:35:40.080 a testing kit and another set of employees, maybe a new government agency, the poop testing

01:35:44.680 agency, that would come in.

01:35:45.700 Test the pH balance of the sample.

01:35:47.060 Right.

01:35:47.400 And then select which one was human and give that to the poop patrol for them to get rid 0.72

01:35:52.720 of.

01:35:52.880 Okay.

01:35:53.040 Now, so here's something else that they are doing.

01:35:55.180 They're doing pit stop toilets out in the streets.

01:35:58.360 So, you know, if you need a toilet, there'll be an extra, like, pit stop toilet right there

01:36:04.060 in the street.

01:36:04.520 I don't...

01:36:04.840 Like a port-a-potty type of situation?

01:36:06.000 Kind of, yeah.

01:36:06.900 Well, but a lot of classier than that.

01:36:08.620 Do you see that in Paris they're doing that?

01:36:10.420 Urinals. 0.97

01:36:11.320 Urinals. 0.97

01:36:11.940 Yeah.

01:36:12.080 Just set up...

01:36:13.260 In the middle of the streets.

01:36:14.180 And they look like garbage cans.

01:36:16.560 And then on the side of the garbage can is a little opening where you walk up and...

01:36:20.920 Oh, so it's not like a...

01:36:21.740 And wee-wee into.

01:36:22.520 It's not a port-a-potty.

01:36:23.400 So, no, it's not a port-a-potty at all.

01:36:25.420 You're completely exposed to everybody.

01:36:27.460 They put one right on the sand, on the bridge of the sand.

01:36:30.240 So you're there, and all the tourists are, you know, on those boats, and they're all coming,

01:36:34.740 and you are...

01:36:36.140 Completely exposed.

01:36:37.040 ...pointing your compass right at the boat.

01:36:42.640 Is that because people were peeing off the bridge?

01:36:44.560 Well, it's because people are peeing all over the streets in Paris.

01:36:47.820 The smell of urine is overwhelming.

01:36:50.600 Yeah.

01:36:50.980 What are we turning into?

01:36:53.320 And you notice...

01:36:54.060 Well, they've been selling that ode to toilet stuff for a long time.

01:36:59.660 It feels like, too, the port-a-potty experience for a person who lives in a home is the closest 0.98

01:37:06.680 you come to the homeless experience.

01:37:09.020 Like, when you walk...

01:37:10.000 When you're at a concert or a sporting event and you walk into the port-a-potty, you feel

01:37:14.280 like you've crossed the line to homelessness.

01:37:16.140 No, I don't think I've...

01:37:17.060 I think I maybe have done that twice.

01:37:18.780 If I have to use the port-a-potty, I go home.

01:37:22.880 Concert's over.

01:37:23.940 Let's go.

01:37:24.920 I'm not going into a port-a-potty.

01:37:27.680 I'm sorry.

01:37:28.420 Oh, I believe that about you.

01:37:29.420 Wait a minute.

01:37:30.100 I'm too much of a germaphobe.

01:37:31.560 Now, you might believe that about him now, but we're talking about a former alcoholic.

01:37:36.000 You're telling me you went to concerts in your alcoholic days and somehow survived the entire

01:37:40.820 time without hitting the port-a-potty?

01:37:41.740 When he was drunk, he would have drank out of the port-a-potty.

01:37:45.440 I love you, Mr. Urinal.

01:37:47.960 You're the best urinal I've ever peed in before.

01:37:52.180 You look like somebody's coffee cup.

01:37:54.540 But what are the cities of San Francisco where these problems are so prevalent?

01:37:59.880 San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Paris.

01:38:03.580 All bastions of progressivism.

01:38:05.200 Let me ask you this question.

01:38:07.360 I think conservatives need to run cities, and they run them, but they're not real fancy.

01:38:15.800 They're just stripped down.

01:38:16.800 They're like your base model city.

01:38:18.660 Okay?

01:38:19.260 Solid.

01:38:19.880 This city's going to drive forever.

01:38:22.020 You know, you can drive this city until the doors fall off.

01:38:24.200 It's going to be great.

01:38:24.980 And then the progressives look at it and go, oh, this could be such a great city if we just,

01:38:31.280 I don't know, we put some flowerbeds in and closed a couple of streets.

01:38:34.500 And they come in, and they make the city really beautiful.

01:38:38.660 And then they keep coming in, and then they start voting for like, you know what?

01:38:44.660 Flowerbeds for everybody.

01:38:46.180 And then all of the conservatives are like, oh, dear God, I can't afford the taxes.

01:38:51.060 And so they move away to another crappy city, and then the progressives take that city because

01:38:57.920 they can't run it.

01:38:59.560 You know, it's like you don't have the actors running the front of the house.

01:39:04.640 You know, the actors do what they do.

01:39:06.260 They do a nice little show, and that's great.

01:39:08.660 But good God, don't put them in charge of the money or the upkeep of the theater because

01:39:13.360 it'll never happen.

01:39:14.720 All right?

01:39:15.620 That's what the cities are.

01:39:17.280 So then they come in.

01:39:18.800 They make the city really great.

01:39:20.220 And we're like, how come we don't have any good cities that are conservative?

01:39:23.640 Because they chase this out of those cities, and then they destroy them.

01:39:28.420 And then hopefully we go back in when there's poop all over.

01:39:33.260 And we're like, okay, we'll clean up the poop.

01:39:35.320 You just get out of here.

01:39:37.120 We fix the city.

01:39:38.940 And it's back to, you know, a good solid Buick.

01:39:43.320 And we need the liberals to come in and just make it a little nicer. 0.98

01:39:47.500 Circle of poop.

01:39:49.140 Yes.

01:39:49.900 I think what I'm trying to say is we need each other.

01:39:53.200 We need to run the city.

01:39:54.980 No, I totally disagree with that analysis.

01:39:56.620 We need to run the finances of the city.

01:39:58.880 You can do all of the cool stuff that make it a nice, fun city.

01:40:03.340 But no pooping.

01:40:04.540 That's not a good part of the city.

01:40:06.260 No pooping.

01:40:07.580 Well, you come up with stuff that makes a city fun.

01:40:10.160 You know, but it's not supposed to be.

01:40:12.240 There's plenty of private businesses that make cities great, right?

01:40:15.960 There's plenty of them.

01:40:17.020 The issue is that whether it's supposed to come from the government or not.

01:40:19.560 And that's why the progressives love the federal government so much.

01:40:23.680 Because when all the conservatives with their money move out to the suburbs, the city can't

01:40:27.580 charge them anymore.

01:40:28.780 So then they have to go to the federal government so they can still get the money.

01:40:31.480 Yeah.

01:40:31.640 No, the thing is about the cities.

01:40:33.780 They start out in small neighborhoods.

01:40:35.680 They start out and they're like, you know, all of a sudden, all these artists move into

01:40:40.060 a neighborhood and they're like, we're going to beautify this part of the city.

01:40:43.040 And they do a great thing.

01:40:43.980 And then it becomes the hip neighborhood.

01:40:45.160 And then the conservatives are like, oh, dear God, it's going to be going to start pooping

01:40:49.300 on the streets anytime.

01:40:50.240 Let's get our families out of here before it collapses.

01:40:52.300 We leave.

01:40:53.220 Then they don't know how to run a city.

01:40:55.120 They don't know how to make any money.

01:40:56.820 And so they just saw like we need more free stuff.

01:40:59.920 Then they start taking it from the government.

01:41:01.620 And that's causing the collapse because there's no one with common sense left anymore.

01:41:07.040 Period.

01:41:07.520 That's if I if you elect me president, I'm going to make sure that conservatives are in

01:41:15.140 the accounting department and I'm going to make sure liberals are just, you know, you

01:41:21.060 know, making things pretty, but not on government money.

01:41:23.800 They're in the art department or in the art department.

01:41:26.420 We got a sales department.

01:41:27.960 We got a, you know, mechanical department.

01:41:30.740 We have the art department to the art thing.

01:41:33.260 It's great.

01:41:34.200 You make cities nice.

01:41:35.420 We just don't want to pay for it.

01:41:39.120 Yeah.

01:41:39.620 Yeah.

01:41:39.800 I mean, it's debatable, though, if liberals have ever made a city nice.

01:41:43.440 Have they?

01:41:44.420 I mean, oh, really?

01:41:46.120 I don't know about that.

01:41:47.680 Oh, I think I think every you look at every city they've run and they've gone.

01:41:52.680 They've run it into the ground.

01:41:54.040 No, after a period of time.

01:41:55.720 Yes, I think you're talking to a broad way when you say the city is like the city is

01:41:59.740 always filled with terrible areas and horrific crime and terrible poverty.

01:42:03.860 And then there's that one nice district with a few restaurants that everyone likes to

01:42:07.560 go to.

01:42:08.060 And that's cool.

01:42:08.980 But that's generally the people who generally I know this because I saw it happen in Seattle.

01:42:13.920 My mother used to take me.

01:42:15.500 I don't know why.

01:42:16.800 But when the Pike Place Market was just nothing but, you know, an injection center, she used 0.97

01:42:24.040 to take me.

01:42:24.940 I mean, that's on the original Skid Row.

01:42:27.000 And she would take me down there for some reason.

01:42:30.820 She didn't like starting to question this.

01:42:32.680 And then she'd leave me for a few hours and the police would show up and bring me home. 0.73

01:42:37.260 Anyway, we'd go down.

01:42:39.500 We'd go down with her and because she would always say, I want you to just look at this.

01:42:43.700 Look at this architecture.

01:42:44.880 Look what this could be.

01:42:46.400 And they were thinking about tearing it down.

01:42:49.580 And it was the artsy fartsy people that actually saved that.

01:42:53.380 And they went in and they put their money in and they started, you know, selling, I don't

01:42:57.460 know, weed.

01:42:59.920 And a beautiful place where the carcasses of dead fish get thrown through the sky.

01:43:04.460 Yes.

01:43:04.800 And everyone goes to see it.

01:43:06.000 Right.

01:43:06.300 And now it's nothing but dead fish being thrown at each other and poop on the streets.

01:43:12.120 But for a while there, there was this magic moment where there was a yin and a yang and

01:43:17.700 it all worked.

01:43:19.560 We're trying to divorce our yang. 0.99

01:43:22.280 You need your yang.

01:43:24.000 Okay.

01:43:24.460 You need the yang.

01:43:26.280 And, you know, that's it.

01:43:28.380 That's it.

01:43:28.700 I'm just saying.

01:43:29.360 You want a t-shirt with that on it?

01:43:30.280 Yep.

01:43:30.680 We need our yang.

01:43:31.780 We need our yang.

01:43:32.380 We need our yang.

01:43:33.060 I think that's a good Glenn Beck merchandise opportunity.

01:43:35.360 I think it is, you know, keep your poop, but we need our yang. 0.98

01:43:41.060 We need our yang.

01:43:42.120 You keep your poop. 0.97

01:43:43.380 We need the yang.

01:43:44.800 So anyway, Pat, what's on your mind?

01:43:48.180 It's so hard to top.

01:43:49.600 We need our yang.

01:43:50.520 I know.

01:43:50.760 Where do you go from here?

01:43:53.480 Twitter CEO kind of caved in on the Alex Jones thing, at least temporarily, and did suspend

01:44:00.340 him, like put him in a timeout.

01:44:01.840 I love his statement, though, when he finally caved, because, you know, I know you were just

01:44:08.300 talking about whether or not conservatives are going to be able to continue to have

01:44:13.280 a voice in the media because we're being banned and suspended everywhere, and the algorithms

01:44:18.540 have been changed on Facebook to avoid conservative traffic, and now they're just banning people,

01:44:24.760 and as much as I can't stand Alex Jones, this is a really bad thing, what's happening to

01:44:29.000 him.

01:44:30.280 It's just...

01:44:31.220 He's not the only one.

01:44:32.100 And he's not the only one, and they're going to come for the rest of us.

01:44:35.060 And so if you didn't say anything when they came for Alex Jones because you can't stand

01:44:39.720 Alex Jones, you're going to regret it because it's eventually going to be you.

01:44:44.160 It is.

01:44:44.900 So, Jack Dorsey said, I feel any suspension, whether it be a permanent or a temporary one,

01:44:53.620 makes someone think about their actions and behaviors.

01:44:58.220 So, I guess he's our parent now?

01:45:00.920 I guess Facebook and Twitter are going to function as parents?

01:45:06.460 Did you see what Facebook did?

01:45:08.800 By the way, they just got in bed with China. 1.00

01:45:12.240 I think it's...

01:45:13.240 Is it Facebook or it's Twitter?

01:45:14.740 I think it's Facebook that just got into bed with China, and they are... 0.95

01:45:18.220 Or is it Google?

01:45:19.460 I should have this story before I tell you the story.

01:45:21.560 It's Friendster and MySpace are both in bed with China. 0.99

01:45:24.000 And Napster.

01:45:24.820 No, they've just got in bed with China to edit the internet so they could get their entrance 0.99

01:45:32.020 into that market.

01:45:33.620 They've just partnered to be editors of the internet for the government.

01:45:38.640 It's just so dangerous.

01:45:40.240 Why would you do that other than greed?

01:45:42.880 I mean, especially if it's Google, don't be evil comes to mind.

01:45:46.560 And the hypocrisy of these guys.

01:45:49.240 Jack Dempsey, the nerve of him to be talking about people thinking about their behaviors

01:45:53.940 when Twitter is the most toxic, vile platform in the history of the planet.

01:46:02.320 I mean, I think Twitter is responsible for about 80% of the increased hate we have in this country.

01:46:10.240 All you see is hatred and nastiness on Twitter because you can say it without people seeing you.

01:46:17.360 You can say it in the comfort and privacy of your underwear in your basement, your parents' basement at home.

01:46:22.480 Just skip the hate.

01:46:23.920 Just skip the hate.

01:46:24.920 I don't get it.

01:46:25.540 That's why the only account I follow is at Pat Unleashed because I never get hate there.

01:46:31.740 One thing I do want to address, and we're going to have to do this tomorrow, is the latest from Facebook.

01:46:42.440 An executive at Facebook has come out and said,

01:46:46.000 If you don't join with us, if you don't play by our rules,

01:46:51.780 Oh, yeah.

01:46:52.620 You will find yourself in hospice as a business.

01:46:57.640 Yeah, you're going to die.

01:46:59.200 You're going to die.

01:47:00.640 That sounds like a threat.

01:47:02.220 Yeah.

01:47:02.440 It doesn't sound like a good business relationship, does it?

01:47:06.680 It doesn't.

01:47:08.160 What are you going to do?

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01:47:24.520 I know.

01:47:25.040 I know.

01:47:25.840 Well, the poop patrol closed down in our town, so we needed a job.

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01:48:46.240 This portion of the program not sponsored by Pooperoni, but apparently we paid a lot of money for the jingle,

01:48:50.440 so I want to get a use out of it.

01:48:51.760 One more time, please, Sarah.

01:48:53.800 Pooperoni on San Francisco streets.

01:48:58.900 Actually, the real reason to play that is I want that running through your head all day.

01:49:02.260 I want you to, while you're in a meeting or you're doing something important, I just want you to just,

01:49:05.620 just to have Pooperoni on San Francisco streets.

01:49:09.800 Yeah.

01:49:10.220 Our best case scenario is you're in the middle of a meeting and you actually sing it out loud.

01:49:14.640 Right.

01:49:14.860 That's what we want to happen.

01:49:16.680 Or you just start to laugh and somebody's like, what are you laughing about?

01:49:20.240 And you're like, oh, it's Pooperoni jingle.

01:49:22.440 And nobody in the room knows what you're talking about.

01:49:24.640 That's our ultimate goal.

01:49:25.720 That's our goal.

01:49:26.360 Yeah.

01:49:27.060 How does it sound, though?

01:49:27.940 I don't think I've heard it.

01:49:28.700 Oh, you haven't heard it?

01:49:29.200 No.

01:49:29.540 Oh, yeah.

01:49:29.800 I didn't have my headphones on.

01:49:30.720 Here it is.

01:49:32.200 Pooperoni on San Francisco streets.

01:49:36.200 By the way, make sure that you check out the podcast of the News and Why It Matters from last night.

01:49:43.420 Ben Shapiro joined us.

01:49:44.780 It was a great podcast.

01:49:47.040 Find it at Apple iTunes.

01:49:48.320 We'll see you at five o'clock.

01:49:49.700 Call in show today.

01:49:50.980 Mercury.

The Glenn Beck Program - August 16, 2018

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