The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 197 ｜ Tim Scott’s Message to ‘Modern Plantation Owners’ ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

00:00:00.000 Well, as we approach the 2024 election, I'm devoting a series of episodes to the Glenn Beck

00:00:05.820 program podcast. They're conversations with presidential candidates. My job, so you know,

00:00:12.580 is not to help or hurt any candidate. There is no agenda except to ask fair questions that are

00:00:18.780 important to the American people. We need candidates to be crystal clear about who they are

00:00:25.080 and what they stand for. I've been watching the debates. I get very little out of that.

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00:00:36.520 on a debate stage. Now, today's guest is committed and he's committed an unforgivable sin to the far

00:00:44.820 left, at least. He's a committed American, even though he's black and he's a Republican.

00:00:51.000 He is the Senate's only black Republican. He's been called vile, unrepeatable things. And of

00:00:59.780 course, all of these names come from liberals. Turns out the same people who spend their time

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00:01:19.600 it's his grandfather who picked cotton and never learned how to read, got to see his family go

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00:01:30.820 but you can't be both. He's a huge advocate for people to, quote, be able to agree without disagree

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00:03:20.060 Senator, good to see you. Glenn, thanks for having me. You bet. Yeah, you look sharp. Thank you.

00:03:25.320 I'm not wearing a red power tie. Can I ask you just a frank question? Frank question. I've been

00:03:32.960 watching the debates. Yes. What the hell was that last debate? Yes. It was. I mean, did you get

00:03:40.120 anything out of it? Well, I think I got a little more of the second one that I got the first one.

00:03:44.740 The first one was an absolute food fight. The second one was better, but not much better. The

00:03:48.940 truth is we're not learning anything about what separates the candidates and correct. Why one of

00:03:54.280 us should become the nominee of the Great Opportunity Party. And frankly, that's disappointing.

00:03:59.160 I'd love to spend, and thankfully we will spend some time on not only the underlying issues with

00:04:04.240 the 60 second soundbite, but what is the philosophy that undergirds that 60 second soundbite? That's

00:04:10.640 where the magic is made. The magic is actually not magic. It's typically hard work, pressed down,

00:04:19.200 shaken together, and then it runs over the boundaries according to Luke 638. And then you see the benefits

00:04:24.680 of that hard work over time. If we had that opportunity to see the summation of a 60 second

00:04:31.460 answer because of the understanding of the underlying principle, then we'd be cooking with oil.

00:04:37.160 Yeah. By the way, Grand Opera, no, Great Opportunity Party. Did you make that up?

00:04:42.960 I didn't make it up. I'm sure I got it from someone, but at the end of the day.

00:04:46.240 I've never heard that.

00:04:47.280 It's the most important transition that's happening before our very eyes. So one thing about the Grand

00:04:52.480 Old Party is that it does not, the roof is not wide and large enough for the Great Opportunity

00:04:59.980 Party to emerge. We have to have the Great Opportunity Party. The Great Opportunity Party

00:05:03.660 is a party driven by principles. Its focus is not on populism, it's on principles because those

00:05:08.800 principles have undergirded human flourishing for all of human history, and they come from the gospel.

00:05:14.360 And so when you understand those basic principles-

00:05:16.920 So let's go through them because I think most people don't know what those principles are.

00:05:20.720 That's why we're in the trouble. So what are the principles?

00:05:22.860 Well, one of those principles for me, it starts with, it's 2 Corinthians 10, 4 or 5 that says

00:05:28.920 take these thoughts captive that exalts itself against the Lord, basically is what it says.

00:05:34.680 Paraphrasing, paraphrasing. And what that basically means is there's something called absolute truth.

00:05:39.320 It is a foundational principle on which this country was born. The idea of America is that

00:05:45.160 there is an absolute truth. And absent of absolute truth, you cannot have an objective standard

00:05:51.660 because everything is relative. When everything is relative, you get these people in 2023 who say,

00:05:57.920 oh, my truth and your truth. There is no truth in my truth and your truth. There are experiences,

00:06:03.060 but there isn't a truth. The truth has to be absolute. It has to apply consistently throughout

00:06:10.440 all of the universe. And without that simple gospel truth, you cannot have an objective standard.

00:06:16.880 So you can say, my truth is America is a great place. And somebody else can say, my truth is that

00:06:24.140 America is an oppressed state. But what's the principle truth behind it?

00:06:29.560 And those are your experience leads you to the conclusion that America is.

00:06:33.540 And those experiences can absolutely be real.

00:06:36.220 Well, this is where I'm going to love this part of the conversation. I hope we continue this way.

00:06:40.760 Our emotions are real. They're just not real accurate.

00:06:46.680 One of the foundations of this truth known as America is that we are the greatest nation on God's

00:06:54.260 green earth because we sought to do what no other country's ever done, which is to be born through

00:06:59.220 a declaration of independence that says that we have things that don't come from each other

00:07:06.160 because there is a higher power that gave us certain inalienable rights, life, liberty,

00:07:11.940 and the pursuit of happiness. Pursuit of happiness is in many ways embedded in this notion of the rule

00:07:16.760 of law because without the rule of law, the strong take from the weak, period.

00:07:21.260 America is unique that we believe something far greater, far more powerful than the strong takes

00:07:28.200 from the weak, that there are boundaries. There are legal limits. That is unusual.

00:07:35.560 That says that the weak has a right to life, born or unborn. It says that the kid who's living today

00:07:46.820 in rural Iowa understands that there is a playing field called America that if you just,

00:07:53.380 the mayor said that the mayor of Dallas, the new convert to the Republican Party said it today,

00:07:58.200 if you play by the rules, understand the maze, and respect law enforcement, your chances of succeeding

00:08:05.060 in America, pretty darn good. That works in rural Iowa or any city Chicago if you have absolute truth

00:08:14.280 an objective standard. In these big cities, you don't have them anymore.

00:08:17.740 So people would say that I don't have that because I don't have the education. I don't have the family.

00:08:24.200 I don't have the opportunities.

00:08:25.960 I didn't either. I'm here to celebrate the goodness of America, not because I was born with a silver spoon.

00:08:33.000 Mine was plastic. And I grew up with a father in a household who was there to teach me all the things

00:08:39.220 that you hoped that your father would teach you. I missed that part of growing up. I did have a

00:08:44.920 strong, powerful mother who believed that prayer was the key, that faith would unlock the door.

00:08:49.000 And a mentor who came along who really complimented my grandfather's early teachings that,

00:08:55.400 you know what? Getting better is a choice. Being better is also a choice. You can only choose one

00:09:03.400 route. I chose the route of being better because there was someone there that helped me.

00:09:09.220 understand that the harder I worked, the luckier I got. John Moniz, a Chick-fil-A operator,

00:09:15.720 Citadel graduate, go to Bulldogs in South Carolina. One of the lessons that John Moniz taught me

00:09:20.760 when I was 15 years old. You got to remember, Glenn, I am the opposite of the privileged person

00:09:29.140 growing up. I now know we're all privileged. If you're living in America. Oh, yeah.

00:09:34.340 I have to tell you, you are, you are, you are amongst the most privileged people on the planet.

00:09:39.720 Yeah. It even, I'm sorry. No matter where you're living, you're privileged. But this particular time

00:09:47.740 is the reason why we're having so much strife, I think is because we're absolutely ungrateful.

00:09:55.180 We don't recognize how great our life is and we're looking for something to bitch about.

00:10:00.940 Well, you're not wrong. I think you're right. Here's what I, here's what I, here's how I would

00:10:04.120 take what you just said and say it in Timisms. One of the things I'd say is that we are like a group

00:10:10.660 of people, not Americans, but those who believe that victimhood is the choice of drugs of today.

00:10:19.460 They're like geese lost in a rainstorm. They have a compass. They have a internal guiding system that

00:10:29.200 tells them which way to go. And the circumstances around them have short-circuited what is innate

00:10:35.740 within them. Americans, we are exceptional because our DNA is different. We've embedded within the

00:10:41.800 construct of who we are. It's this true north. We have a compass that works. But when you start

00:10:47.360 looking around for feedback, as opposed to looking up for direction, you find yourself like a goose

00:10:55.040 lost in a rainstorm. And you start thinking that what you see around you is more important than what

00:11:00.760 you have in you. Our founding fathers should be celebrated as geniuses, not canceled. And here's why.

00:11:07.300 The resources were not the brilliance of America. It was this notion that you have the right to be

00:11:15.140 free, to pursue your definition of the American dream, embedded in the DNA of every human, blessed by

00:11:24.280 God to be an American. We not only have that in our DNA, we have the opportunity for full expression

00:11:32.540 of that passion to be free. But if you pervert it, you actually see the results in Baltimore,

00:11:43.180 D.C. last night with the carjacking of a congressmember, to Los Angeles, Philadelphia,

00:11:50.480 50 arrested after a melee of night. Listen, the facts are simple. Truth works. Everything else

00:12:00.400 is a con. What's the role of government? Limited. Our founding fathers got that right, too. I mean,

00:12:08.340 we have certainly three different forms of government that we could talk about. Article 1,

00:12:11.960 Section 8 is a really good place for us to start on the federal level. But then we also have the

00:12:15.620 state and the local government. And if you take local, you can break that down into two specific

00:12:20.340 areas. Typically, there's a county level, and then there's just a city or municipal level. The truth

00:12:25.180 of the matter is that the less intrusive the government, the better off the people seem to be.

00:12:30.680 The people who trust the government closest to them more, therefore, why not find ways to shift those

00:12:36.120 resources and decisions back to the local levels. Classic example, I created Opportunity Zones as

00:12:43.020 part of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. And one of the things I decided in my Opportunity Zones,

00:12:49.460 I basically took Jack Kemp's idea of Enterprise Zones, wanted more money for people living in poverty

00:12:56.220 or in vulnerable economic situations. Check. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

00:13:01.400 Two, he wanted the government to provide more assistance. Well, been there, done that,

00:13:07.660 got the t-shirt, too. That didn't work out very well for me. Poverty in my neighborhoods were sky

00:13:11.800 high. Unemployment for kids like me was over 30%. I knew the government was not the answer.

00:13:18.960 Jack really had a good idea, but that one part needed to be shifted. I shifted the focus to the

00:13:24.260 private sector. $75 billion from the private sector, not a penny from the federal government,

00:13:29.200 coming into the poorest communities, designated by the governors, not by Washington, on where those

00:13:35.580 locations should be, has led to an 8% increase in wages, a 20% increase in property values, less than

00:13:42.980 5% gentrification, and real opportunity for poor kids who are really smart, really bright, but don't

00:13:50.440 have access to the same opportunities as wealthier kids. Why not just level the playing field and bring

00:13:54.780 opportunities back to those communities? The government, when creating the right incentives

00:14:00.540 and then taking a step out of the way, letting the free market miracle work, you know, the theory

00:14:06.880 of the invisible hand, as it works, we get better results for the people who need it the most,

00:14:11.780 and the people who have it get the incentive, capital gains reduction, to play where they would not

00:14:18.780 play before because the risk was too high and the return was too low. If you can reduce the risk and

00:14:23.940 increase the potential return, people will take the calculated risk to do the right thing.

00:14:30.620 Americans always do the right thing, sometimes after doing the wrong thing.

00:14:36.760 I'm a huge fan of the concept that we should be buying products made here in America, and there's

00:14:41.580 a lot, there's a certain level of pride that comes from making things and knowing you're spending

00:14:48.840 your money on things that are made here in America, and the money that you spend is going to land

00:14:53.880 in the pockets of hardworking fellow Americans, but it's hard. It's really hard. Just about

00:14:59.180 everything you buy comes from someplace else on the globe, or at least has parts of it.

00:15:05.440 All too often, it's China. That's one of the reasons why I enjoy partnering with companies 1.00

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00:15:57.960 So help me out on capitalism, because if I'm listening to you, and I'm 24 years old, I've only seen

00:16:06.320 capitalism give it to the government, giving it to the banks, the banks screwing my mom and dad, 0.72

00:16:14.520 because they lost their house in 08. That's all I know. So why would I want to give any money or

00:16:23.240 help have the private industry come in and do anything?

00:16:28.040 Well, you know, that's a great question and a fair question. Just think about that 24-year-old

00:16:32.420 whose parents lost their house in 2008. I'm going to compare that to the seven-year-old who had no house

00:16:39.260 to lose, being me, living in poverty, in an inner-city community, government's always around,

00:16:46.320 trying to provide more resources, more help. And what was the result of that? The stagnation.

00:16:53.420 Very static. The people in my communities where I grew up most often into generational poverty.

00:17:00.920 The result? Well, the Great Society is a big part of that. Part of the Great Society was that we were

00:17:06.300 going to bring checks into households if the male, the father, would leave those households. The

00:17:12.620 devastations, particularly in black communities, can be measured in unemployment, measured in crime, 0.77

00:17:22.080 measured in fatherlessness. And from the good book, Hope Deferred Makes the Heart Sick.

00:17:27.440 We can now look generations later, decades later, 60 years later, and see that the devastation of the

00:17:34.320 first inklings of socialism brought by the government and to the poorest communities, that devastation

00:17:42.920 is wreaking havoc all over the country in these big blue cities. That is avoidable for this 24-year-old.

00:17:52.140 I've brought this up to a couple of people, and I'd love to hear your opinion on it.

00:17:55.580 How did Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was absolutely racist to the day he died, horrible racist,

00:18:03.520 the guy who stopped the civil rights program in the Senate in 1959, all of a sudden becomes

00:18:09.360 the architect of the Great Society? I am convinced that the people that he worked with that produced

00:18:17.380 did not necessarily have African Americans' best interest in mind. I think it was a poison pill. 1.00

00:18:26.560 African Americans had a higher familiar or marriage rate than white Americans did.

00:18:33.320 Absolutely. Going into the, that's one of the things I said that, you know, the founder of 1619

00:18:37.840 Project has been just trying to destroy me on the web. Congressman Bowman called me Sambo because of

00:18:46.560 my positive comments the other night. Oh my gosh. I mean, this is the kind of disgusting racism that

00:18:51.760 I'm hearing and feeling from people who look like me. It would devastate the average person. I've just 1.00

00:18:57.340 had so much of it over the last several years. When I wrote the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, I was one of the

00:19:02.080 three authors of the legislation. They called me a prop. When I decided I wanted to defund, to stop

00:19:08.940 the defunding of the police and start refunding the police, they called me a token. When I pushed

00:19:14.740 back against Biden's agenda, they called me the N-word. The one thing I see from the radical left

00:19:20.100 and frankly, from the power brokers who sometimes look like me is that they are willing to use class

00:19:25.360 and race to hold on to their power, even at the expense of the American people. It is disgusting 0.96

00:19:31.900 what we're seeing there. But I will say that what we've learned over time is that the radical left

00:19:38.700 says to people like me, sit down, shut up, but don't forget to vote. And we mean blue.

00:19:46.160 The price is too high. And you think about LBJ or Planned Parenthood founded for the termination,

00:20:00.120 really the extermination, from her perspective, of black people. And to see where they set up their 0.97

00:20:07.440 shops, to see what they're selling. They're not in my neighborhood.

00:20:11.160 It's devastating. And that's why, that's why I feel like it is my responsibility as a kid who grew

00:20:19.380 up in poverty, as a kid who only had a mother in the household, as a kid who had a mother who

00:20:25.360 didn't, only had a, barely had a high school education, who worked 16 hours as a nurse's aide

00:20:30.720 changing bedpans and rolling patients. As a kid whose grandparents endured racism from the 1920s

00:20:40.500 in the Jim Crow South, to pretend that that family history didn't exist would be alive from the pit of 0.51

00:20:49.420 hell. To pretend that it is exactly that way now would also be alive from the pit of hell. So my

00:20:56.900 responsibility is to take the seriousness of who we are as Americans, the seriousness of the issues

00:21:02.940 that we face, and take a look back and give people a snapshot of what is possible in this great nation

00:21:10.020 coming from tough neighborhoods where my friends were shot, buried, or locked up. When you understand

00:21:19.300 that this country works for all of us in the year 2023, we should not be playing games with people's

00:21:28.960 emotions. We should not be selling socialism in a radical progressive movement that has been proven

00:21:36.500 wrong, not just in Cuba or today in Venezuela, but in the poorest blue cities in our nation.

00:21:44.800 We see the results of socialism, and it's devastated poor people.

00:21:50.420 How come? I mean, I keep feeling this way about all people with Joe Biden. How bad does it have to get

00:22:01.420 before you wake up? And I would say that in Detroit in 1960 was the greatest city in the world. It was

00:22:11.380 the iconic city. This is how you do it. Right. Totally agree. How much, how many times do you have to vote

00:22:18.720 that way before you go, this is not working out well? Listen, I, my, my answer is stop. Stop. Don't do it

00:22:27.320 again. The, the price is too high for your kids. The price is too high for the people that you love the

00:22:35.360 most. The price is too high and there is no ROI coming your way. We cannot sell baby Americans. 1.00

00:22:48.380 It's the path of socialism. When they're born, they owe basically 90 something. I say a hundred,

00:22:55.140 right around a hundred thousand dollars per American born in this country. Oh, to the government.

00:23:01.040 We can do better. Nobody thinks that we're going to have to pay that off. Please tell me,

00:23:05.980 please tell me why this debt has got to be solved. Why we have to stop spending,

00:23:12.980 but say it to the average person who's never felt the effects of this debt.

00:23:18.940 Well, the short answer is we are a country that brings in $4.8 trillion under Joe Biden. He plans

00:23:25.540 to spend $7 trillion, which is 40% overspending that annual deficit. Annual deficit is $2 trillion.

00:23:34.160 When you see that as your future, you should ask yourself, do you ever have to pay it back? And do

00:23:39.780 you have to service the debt? The answer to both is yes. So the question, immediate question then

00:23:44.740 is if I have to pay the debt back, what is that credit card payment today? The credit card payment

00:23:52.200 today is an interest only payment that does not include the last 11 rate increases.

00:23:58.180 Oh my. The interest only is 572% or over 10% of all of the revenues that we have coming in today.

00:24:08.460 We are paying out on interest only. Therefore, the $33 trillion worth of debt keeps going up without

00:24:17.360 being touched. Second thing you should ask me is, well, what does that look like in five years or in

00:24:23.420 10 years on interest only? Well, if you increase the interest rates to reflect the 11 rate increases

00:24:31.420 we've had.

00:24:32.700 So this is already, it's just coming. We haven't rolled over all those pieces of debt.

00:24:38.260 So it's already here. What is it?

00:24:40.380 Be closer between $1.2 and $1.5 trillion. In a nation that only brings in $4.8 trillion,

00:24:47.440 said in a way that we understand, one out of every $3 would go to debt service interest only,

00:24:54.820 not to our military, which is about $850 billion, not from Medicare, which is about $750 billion,

00:25:02.800 not to Social Security, which is $1.1 trillion, not to veteran benefits, which is around $400 billion,

00:25:08.260 or Medicaid, which is somewhere around $300 billion, or Obamacare, no one knows what that costs.

00:25:12.660 Not to any of those things. Not to the annual expenditures, which we know, we think as far as

00:25:21.040 the annual appropriations, about $1.7 trillion. None of that. Just for our debt interest. One out of

00:25:32.840 every $3. That's why you run for president, to restore sanity to a country that afforded me

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00:27:04.900 You don't seem to have either party. You know, we're getting to the place to where I think

00:27:15.600 Charles Sumner was when he spoke on the floor of the Senate in the 1850s and said,

00:27:25.140 neither of you, neither of you parties are serious about anything. You run and you say this,

00:27:29.900 and then you don't do it. And that was the beginning of the Republican Party, which was

00:27:35.900 all about stopping slavery. Yes. And it was a group of people who actually believed it. Yes.

00:27:42.720 Believed it. They weren't running for just an office in power. They wanted to do this. They wanted to

00:27:50.300 stop slavery. Set people free. Right. So I keep waiting for that moment because I look at the GOP,

00:27:59.760 honestly, I'm done. I'm done. Never write a check to the GOP ever again. Just look at what they've

00:28:08.460 done with the budget. Yeah. Congress has the purse strings. That's constitutional. Yes. We have

00:28:15.020 had both parties in power. It started in 2008. If Congress doesn't take their power back and say,

00:28:24.720 no, you're not using that money that way. We have the purse strings. The entire balance of the

00:28:31.980 Constitution and the separation of powers is gone. It rests upon getting that power structure back the

00:28:40.280 way. So how are you going to do that? How do you have to do this? Frankly, it takes a chief

00:28:44.340 executive of the United States, also known as a president or commander in chief that says that

00:28:49.600 here are the limits. It's not a phone and a pen. Here's the Constitution. I'm going to abide by it.

00:28:56.760 I'm going to use the power of my veto. I'm going to use the power of my bully pulpit, but I'm not going

00:29:01.440 to pass laws from my desk. That is a problem that we've been facing for, frankly, multiple presidencies.

00:29:09.080 Yes. And that is a problem that can be fixed by a president who says there is a greater good.

00:29:14.220 There is a greater opportunity for me to point the rudder of our ship in the direction we want the

00:29:19.520 nation to sail.

00:29:20.320 So you're saying that you would not be frivolous and write the kind of executive orders that have

00:29:27.940 been written.

00:29:28.980 And you, yes, I'm saying that, but it goes a step further. We also have to have a president who

00:29:36.080 reigns into bureaucracy that creates rulemakings and they decide that those rulemakings are laws.

00:29:42.980 The SEC is a classic example. I'm no fan of Chair Gensler and probably anybody who's been on the

00:29:49.280 Before Banking Committee knows that, including Chair Gensler at the SEC. He's making decisions

00:29:54.580 about environmental policy as the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He's making

00:30:00.360 decisions about ESG, DEI, and the future of this country from sitting at his desk. He wants to get

00:30:07.020 everybody's identifiable information who makes a transaction in the stock market. He wants to

00:30:11.140 gather to one location so that it's easier for people to cyber attack us, I guess. I don't know

00:30:16.200 what it is, but there he is there. But it's that kind of rogue behavior that if you appoint the right

00:30:21.680 people who want to actually be textualists, like we want on the Supreme Court, you want people who

00:30:25.700 are going to follow the law in every single cabinet position. Having that would transform this nation

00:30:31.840 and it would restrain the bureaucracy who believes all you have to do is outlive, outlast a member of

00:30:39.620 Congress. And they're not wrong. So getting that right is a job of a president who has a vision

00:30:46.900 for what this nation should be based on what we have been.

00:30:50.620 So that's great. And I agree with you. Everything you just said, Donald Trump came in. Yes. And he came

00:30:58.400 in kind of a lone cowboy, not popular with everybody. You'll know. I mean, you've been a constitutionalist for

00:31:07.940 a long time. You're an extremist, according to a lot of the people in the Republican Party. I agree.

00:31:14.640 You're an extremist. Yes. No, you're a constitutionalist. I'm not an extremist. You're right. Exactly.

00:31:20.520 But that's the way they perceive you. Donald Trump took shots from the inside and the outside,

00:31:26.640 and they are currently trying to show everyone this is what happens to you if you dare cross us. Yes.

00:31:36.080 So how are you going to do it? Yeah. Well, listen, I've been taking shots, as I said, from from the

00:31:40.560 work that I've done on the tax code to work on behalf of police reform to working on behalf of

00:31:45.660 pushing back on the the cancer that grows through this Biden administration. You just have to be

00:31:51.400 willing to take the shots and frankly, push back. I think we said this before we came on air, but

00:31:56.700 the congressman, I think it's Conway from the guy who pulled the alarm in the house just the other day.

00:32:02.320 He referred to some of my comments that I made during the debate and said that I was the being Sambo,

00:32:07.760 which is about radical racist. He's the guy who called you Sambo. Yes. Oh, my gosh.

00:32:13.640 So disgusting. He reminds me of what we would think of as a plantation owner using the whip to

00:32:21.660 suppress the thoughts of people that might stand up and say that's wrong. In modern America,

00:32:29.700 in 2023, those same plantation owners use their words to suppress anyone who looks like me from

00:32:38.840 standing up and speaking conservative truths. This is the part of the battle. When you stand up to

00:32:44.680 that, standing up to what the even our side, the my side, the radical, the radicals in Congress,

00:32:51.720 which would not, of course, be the conservatives, right? The populace.

00:32:54.900 That is a challenge worth having. It's a fight worth having for the soul of this nation.

00:33:04.720 Our soul is good. I think it was Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1830s, French diplomat who came

00:33:11.240 to America looking for the source of our greatness. It was our goodness was the conclusion.

00:33:16.420 Yeah. He said it rang loudly from the pulpits all across America. America is great because she's

00:33:22.440 good. However, let's stop there for just a second. Yeah. I'm looking for the preachers that are

00:33:32.000 ringing the bell from the pulpit. I'm looking for the black peer preachers who will stand up to their

00:33:41.340 own congregation and say, I'm looking at my own church to do the same. You cannot be a member

00:33:48.620 of good standing. You cannot be and call yourself a Christian. If you are associating yourself with 1.00

00:33:55.180 people who want to kill children, we could even argue about when that life begins. But this

00:34:01.540 celebration of death is immoral. Absolutely. Where are they? I will tell you that they're harder to find

00:34:11.180 in any pulpit in America, frankly, black or white. Yeah. And that's part of the challenge that we

00:34:15.120 have. We have to get back to fundamental truths. Creating the culture that protects and preserves

00:34:19.060 life is incredibly important. As a guy who has 100% voting record as a conservative, pro-life

00:34:25.280 conservative and 100% pro-life conservative as president of the United States. I just want to

00:34:30.500 shake your hand for that. Thank you. Absolutely. Yeah. Listen, I'm on the campaign trail. I speak in

00:34:37.100 churches across this country. I've had the privilege of sharing the good news of the gospel. But here's

00:34:44.040 why I think this issue is so important. I've taken two young ladies when I was in private business for

00:34:50.660 myself who worked for me, who were both thinking about having an abortion. I took them to the local

00:34:57.920 crisis pregnancy center because I knew they needed advice that they couldn't get from anywhere but people

00:35:04.780 who have been where they are. Yeah. One decided to have an abortion. The other one chose life. And

00:35:10.300 the one that had an abortion, I think she was about 22, 23 years at the time, she started writing poetry

00:35:15.780 about the worst decision she had ever made in her life. I don't come at this purely from a religious

00:35:22.380 standpoint. Sure. I watched two young ladies grapple with the issue. I watched them enter into the

00:35:29.820 doors. One made a decision for life. The other one says it was a worst mistake she's ever made. I will

00:35:37.100 say this. Having the opportunity to win the hearts and minds of the American people on such an important

00:35:43.680 issue is our responsibility. It is. And when you have the second most powerful woman in all of the 0.90

00:35:49.160 government, Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, walk into a banking hearing to talk about labor force

00:35:57.880 participation rates. And she says that poor black women will have a better labor force participation 1.00

00:36:05.160 rate if they have an abortion. Oh my gosh. As a kid who was raised in poverty by a single black woman, 1.00

00:36:15.000 I ran down to the banking committee and I asked her, I knew I misheard her. And she repeated it.

00:36:25.480 When you have some of the most powerful voices in our country suggesting that abortion isn't even a

00:36:33.720 decision you grapple with, but it's a decision that helps your labor force participation.

00:36:37.800 With tears welling in my eyes and anger in my voice, I said, I thank God almighty that my mother

00:36:49.960 chose life. And how dare you come down here and tell vulnerable women of any color 0.97

00:36:57.160 of the alternative

00:36:59.400 I have to tell you, it is stunning. It's not only stunning. It is the one of the most racist things

00:37:13.000 I can imagine, because if that's the way you think of the labor force, what about the white women? 1.00

00:37:19.400 Right. What about white women? Absolutely. All of them. 1.00

00:37:22.120 Yeah, that's my whole point. This is this is something and what happens and this goes back to the conversation

00:37:26.760 of eugenics and Planned Parenthood is that wherever you see powerful people willing to take advantage 0.52

00:37:34.760 of the vulnerable, just because they don't look like you or live where you live, don't think it stays

00:37:40.040 there. Three out of four African-American kids are growing up in poverty and in a single parent household.

00:37:47.640 Now, 40 percent of white kids growing up in a similar fashion, working class white folks. Why is that the case? 0.86

00:37:54.840 Because anytime you introduce socialism somewhere, it's going to spread. Yeah.

00:38:01.400 Our country needs a firewall that stops this damage from spreading. And then we reduce the damage.

00:38:10.440 You know, it seems like there is always a constant battle running between cyber criminals and the United

00:38:17.240 States government who can steal the most from people. Well, I think we're going to learn in the end.

00:38:23.080 It is definitely. Yeah. The U.S. government take home home title theft. Home title theft is the fastest

00:38:34.280 growing crime in America right now. And there's a good reason for it. It is simple to do home title theft.

00:38:41.960 You also don't catch the people usually because you don't realize it until it's too late.

00:38:47.400 You know, you go to get a loan at the bank and you no longer have your house or you're paying your

00:38:54.520 mortgage and then somebody else comes and tries to kick you out. The sheriff is there because

00:38:59.320 you don't have the deed to your home. You've been making payments. You thought everything was fine.

00:39:05.320 It wasn't. Somebody else took it, took your deed and then mortgaged everything against that.

00:39:12.200 So what do you do? Home title lock. They put a like a razor wire fence around your home's title.

00:39:19.080 The instant they detect any activity or tampering, they help shut it down fast.

00:39:24.080 So first things first, you need to verify you're not already a victim of home title theft.

00:39:28.760 You can find out for free with sign up when you use the promo code back at home title lock dot com.

00:39:34.120 That's home title lock dot com promo code back. OK, well, I've got to ask a ton of questions here that I have to know that I have to ask.

00:39:43.520 And I know we're limited on time, so I just want to go through some standard questions we ask all. OK, OK, sir.

00:39:51.240 Let's see. Are you for or against the ongoing aid to Ukraine?

00:39:55.280 Well, I am for us understanding what is America's national vital interest in Ukraine.

00:40:03.400 Degrading the Russian military is the answer. Should we continue to provide assistance to Ukraine?

00:40:08.260 Yes. At what level? Very debatable.

00:40:10.980 Second question is, should we do with accountability? Absolutely.

00:40:14.720 Absolutely. Why? The axis of evil that started in 2014 under President Obama, when he allowed for the incursion into Ukraine that took Crimea, has metastasized.

00:40:28.640 No, no, no, no, no, no. You know this. If you don't, we'll spend some time afterwards.

00:40:33.060 Yeah. We didn't allow that.

00:40:36.140 Yeah. We we were part of overthrowing Obama.

00:40:40.880 Yes. Yes. Yes. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. My point, though, is Obama years devastated Ukraine 20 years after President Clinton got the Ukrainians with a promise from America to be their their their firewall.

00:40:59.300 Promises made promises unkept. And then you saw the manifestation of that through the Obama years.

00:41:05.080 The point for me is that the China Russia connection started right before 2016.

00:41:13.580 Let's talk about China. Yes.

00:41:16.840 Think they're going to go into Taiwan?

00:41:18.720 I think they want to. I think they are reticent to do so because they are not militarily prepared as of yet.

00:41:25.260 They will be. They will be. I think they their their stats.

00:41:27.600 I've been reading and watching and talking to my my best my best friends from John Ratcliffe to many others on the topic.

00:41:36.520 Their military capabilities, they hope to hit their apex of 2035.

00:41:41.440 They've suggested that 27, 2027, 2028. They find themselves there.

00:41:45.600 I think that's a premature number, but they're this one that they hope that we can see the point.

00:41:50.520 I think making sure that Taiwan has the military capabilities and missile defense systems you saw recently that they came up with their own sub.

00:41:58.820 They spent nearly a decade saying we can't rely on people who say yes to subs but never deliver them.

00:42:05.220 We can't rely on on allies. We're going to do it ourselves.

00:42:08.160 It's that kind of ingenuity and resourcefulness that you want to reward with the kind of training that you've seen,

00:42:13.960 the joint training exercises that you've seen that we continue to provide that kind of assistance to Taiwan.

00:42:20.520 I haven't seen since we switched to, you know, police actions and and wars.

00:42:28.060 I haven't seen a decisive victory in a long time when that counts.

00:42:33.720 And I think that's because I mean, I think our foreign policy stinks on ice.

00:42:39.820 I think the State Department is wrong almost every single time consistently.

00:42:43.860 Our our presidents just follow the advice and I don't want to go to war with Russia.

00:42:51.500 I don't think anybody wants to go to war with Russia.

00:42:53.720 Yeah, I think we've done a really good job of reducing the likelihood of that by the by the degradation that we've seen in the Russian military.

00:43:00.540 That's really good news.

00:43:01.920 As of today.

00:43:02.920 Yes.

00:43:03.200 They're doing a nationwide drill for nuclear weapons.

00:43:08.060 Now, that may be posturing, of course.

00:43:10.980 Tomorrow, the United States is doing a EAB test for the first time.

00:43:18.460 I don't know in how many years.

00:43:20.240 Yeah.

00:43:21.020 Sending nationwide only done twice.

00:43:23.820 Saw that.

00:43:24.000 I mean, I don't I I think we are playing with matches in a gunpowder factory. 0.94

00:43:34.220 One of the reasons why I respect Ronald Reagan's peace through strength doctrine is because it was so darn effective.

00:43:43.240 Yes.

00:43:44.420 Overwhelming force.

00:43:45.700 It is the panacea to much that ails us from a military conflict perspective to the extent that we understand and reinvest in that single minded approach of lethality and coming home safe.

00:44:00.300 The less likely we are to have to use the greatest resource we have from a military standpoint and frankly purging our military of all the social experimentation that we've seen in the last few years from the vaccine to gender issues to abortion questions to ESG and DEI.

00:44:17.300 We have to purge all of that out so that our men and women have one single minded focus that they're really good at.

00:44:23.840 And that would, I believe, help reduce the likelihood of threat, not increase the likelihood of threat.

00:44:31.360 But you also have to look at the fact that it's not only Russia.

00:44:35.260 When Jim Mattis was on the Armed Services Committee, when Jim Mattis, the general general, decided that we needed to go from a counterterrorism strategy to a near peer competition.

00:44:47.840 It was because of the threats that he saw rising in China.

00:44:51.680 Listen, they have more warships than we have today, but their warships are not the same quality as ours.

00:44:57.460 They have a couple hundred, which is a significant nuclear arsenal from what I've been listening to and reading and watching.

00:45:05.480 They want to get to 1500 and by the year 2020, 32, 32, 33.

00:45:09.400 So we know that the pressure and if you look at the Russia, Russian military and nuclear arsenal,

00:45:16.720 look at Iran's objectives from a nuclear perspective and add in China's growing arsenal, you have to ask yourself,

00:45:24.680 where is strength that reduces the likelihood of this from becoming one unit focused on us?

00:45:34.560 And it ain't appeasement.

00:45:36.220 It's strength.

00:45:38.220 It's strength.

00:45:39.760 And that's why when you see this administration talking to Saudi Arabia about a deal with Israel that may include nuclear, a commercial nuclear program,

00:45:48.740 you guys absolutely not.

00:45:49.760 When you think about the JCPOA under President Obama, absolutely not.

00:45:54.580 We have to find a way to reduce the likelihood of nuclear conflict.

00:45:59.600 And one of the ways you do so is by shrinking its footprint outside of our country and making sure that we fortify ours within the walls of our country.

00:46:08.340 So maybe I'm on a different page than you are and many of my friends are.

00:46:16.060 We'll have conversations that I never dreamt that we would ever have before.

00:46:23.020 And their conversation, I had one just yesterday that said, can you tell me how this ends well for America?

00:46:33.720 Can you show me just on the, just on the presidential race?

00:46:38.640 Yes.

00:46:39.700 Either side wins.

00:46:40.840 The other side's going to say they didn't, didn't trust it.

00:46:43.600 Um, if the, if, you know, you would win the election, they would say it was stolen or whatever.

00:46:52.520 Um, we are in so much trouble right now.

00:46:57.600 The whole thing is just a tinderbox.

00:47:01.060 Okay.

00:47:02.360 If the Democrats win, Joe Biden would win there.

00:47:07.120 Our side is going to say, how is that even possible?

00:47:10.580 And it only takes a couple of people.

00:47:13.700 We also have war.

00:47:16.060 We have a federal reserve that is completely out of control.

00:47:21.240 Our budget is completely out of control.

00:47:23.860 Our Congress is not working.

00:47:25.780 No one's talking to each other.

00:47:27.740 We have the outside China, Russia. 0.89

00:47:31.260 They want us to collapse.

00:47:33.440 I mean, we'd be on the ground if this were Russia or China, because we did it before in Russia.

00:47:37.980 Yeah.

00:47:38.480 We'd be on the ground.

00:47:41.820 How does this, you know, you're talking about in 2035, I think there's a lot of people that go, how about 2025?

00:47:51.480 How do we make it to 2025?

00:47:53.380 I think leadership matters, number one.

00:47:56.260 The fact that it matters, there's a way for us to rally this country around, frankly, a revival in conviction that we can believe in each other.

00:48:04.540 The greatest threat to our country does not come from China, doesn't come from Russia, doesn't come from Iran, doesn't come from BRICS. 1.00

00:48:10.340 It really comes from internal.

00:48:12.880 Here's how we struggle.

00:48:14.020 I saw the problem.

00:48:14.900 One of the things I've been successful at doing in this campaign and campaigns in the past is finding a way to use common sense conservatism to rally people who don't vote for me to the same cause.

00:48:26.580 I'll give you two examples, one on the campaign trail and one in the United States Senate.

00:48:30.180 On the campaign trail, I've been running ads in Iowa that basically says four different things.

00:48:34.720 Number one, if you're able-bodied in America, you work.

00:48:39.340 Number two, you take out a loan, you pay it back.

00:48:43.180 Number three, if you commit a violent crime, you go to jail.

00:48:47.180 And number four, God made you a man.

00:48:49.780 You play sports against men.

00:48:52.880 95% of Republicans say, heck yes.

00:48:56.560 75% of Democrats say, I agree.

00:49:00.500 65% I think it is of African Americans agree with all four points.

00:49:05.680 58% of millennials agree with all the points.

00:49:09.780 We have to give this nation a vision big enough to compel us to action.

00:49:15.860 And one of the ways that we do that I believe is to look at the formation of this nation and say that the idea of America and the American dream is alive.

00:49:24.960 It is well, and let me give you a grand vision of your ability to achieve the American dream.

00:49:30.960 You're a version of it, but you can achieve it.

00:49:33.560 And let me give you some points to think through about what those common core principles are that builds the greatest society we've ever known.

00:49:45.480 Let me see.

00:49:46.340 We've only got a couple more minutes.

00:49:48.060 DOJ, the weaponization of lady justice.

00:49:56.100 Do you should have a blindfold on?

00:49:58.140 I have never agreed.

00:50:00.400 When I was small, I remember Nixon being impeached.

00:50:03.720 And then they pardoned him right away.

00:50:06.880 And I thought that was wrong.

00:50:08.280 Now, Mike Lee and I have talked about it before Trump was impeached.

00:50:13.080 And we were talking about Clinton.

00:50:14.920 And I said, I think she belongs in jail and, you know, with a trial and, you know, an actual, not a kangaroo court, actual facts.

00:50:24.940 And if she's found guilty, she should go to trial. 0.95

00:50:27.220 And everybody should be at that standard.

00:50:29.120 He said, Glenn, that's what banana republics do. 0.97

00:50:31.860 And I said, but there's a point to where it gets so bad.

00:50:35.720 People are now they're trying to put Donald Trump in.

00:50:38.260 And I'm actually hearing people on the left say, if he gets in, he'll put people in jail.

00:50:45.980 Well, I want to know from you.

00:50:50.220 Yes.

00:50:51.240 Not from vengeance.

00:50:53.860 But if people at the highest levels, if they were lying, obstructing, breaking the Constitution, any of those things.

00:51:05.700 Yes.

00:51:06.300 Will you put them in jail?

00:51:07.440 Will you use your bully pulpit to say they need to be tried?

00:51:12.160 Absolutely.

00:51:12.760 Here's what we need.

00:51:13.600 We, as a kid who grew up in the 1960s and 70s, the one thing I yearned for was fairness.

00:51:21.640 Yes.

00:51:22.100 I wanted justice for all.

00:51:23.720 I wanted lady justice to wear a blindfold and make decisions. 1.00

00:51:28.640 To me, as we first started this conversation off of the concept of absolute truth, and then I talked about the objective standard.

00:51:37.060 The objective standard is how you apply fairly the laws of the land equally to everybody in the country.

00:51:44.100 If you depart from that, you put a big question mark.

00:51:49.640 Yeah, on everything.

00:51:50.380 On everything.

00:51:51.560 And this Department of Justice under Merrick Garland has been weaponized to hunt Republicans, including the former president.

00:52:00.660 But it doesn't stop there.

00:52:02.560 This Department of Justice referred to parents attending school board meetings as domestic terrorists.

00:52:10.840 They show up at a pro-life activist home with a SWAT team.

00:52:17.640 At the exact same time, Burisma sits there in file 13 for four years.

00:52:28.860 Thankfully, Congressman Comer, winning back the majority, elections have consequences and they do matter.

00:52:34.340 And general, as I call them, but his name is Senator Chuck Grassley, working together to bring more and more and more of this information to the surface so that we can restore confidence.

00:52:47.460 I think the last poll I saw said that 17% of Republicans had confidence in our Department of Justice.

00:52:56.820 Everything's gone.

00:52:58.240 We've had trust in all of it.

00:53:00.020 All the institutions.

00:53:00.900 All the institutions.

00:53:01.640 And this is what China is selling, by the way.

00:53:03.100 China is selling that the Western decline is irreversible.

00:53:08.700 And they point to the internal conflict as example number one.

00:53:15.900 Okay.

00:53:16.780 I've got 90 seconds.

00:53:19.760 On a scale of one to 10, how committed are you to this?

00:53:24.240 10?

00:53:24.760 Restoring.

00:53:25.280 No.

00:53:25.640 Two.

00:53:26.180 Restoring fossil fuels.

00:53:29.040 10.

00:53:29.740 Okay.

00:53:29.940 Stopping all this EV garbage of...

00:53:33.900 10.

00:53:34.260 Okay.

00:53:36.260 Making sure no time, anybody, can vaccine mandate.

00:53:40.500 10.

00:53:42.780 The CBDC, the Central Bank Digital Currency.

00:53:45.980 Yeah.

00:53:46.520 Is it going to...

00:53:47.240 Are you against it or for it?

00:53:48.680 I need more information about it.

00:53:50.200 It's certainly against the whole notion that we're eliminating the dollar.

00:53:53.080 So, probably 9.8 there with...

00:53:54.940 Okay.

00:53:55.220 ...0.02 for learning more about the...

00:53:57.420 More of the consequences.

00:53:58.540 Border.

00:53:59.120 Border.

00:53:59.940 11.

00:54:01.380 Closing the border.

00:54:03.000 Reinstating the remaining policy, the remaining Mexico policy, the asylum policy that requires

00:54:07.600 you to seek asylum contiguous with the country that's near yours, finishing the wall for $10

00:54:12.820 billion and not selling off the construction material like this president, and using military-grade

00:54:19.300 technology to stop human trafficking and to stop fentanyl from killing another 70,000 Americans

00:54:24.060 in 12 months.

00:54:25.260 11.

00:54:27.980 Last question.

00:54:28.840 Okay.

00:54:29.940 Donald Trump just called for the end of debates.

00:54:32.720 He just said there shouldn't be any more debates.

00:54:34.540 Yes.

00:54:35.060 Okay.

00:54:38.600 How do you see any of you guys breaking through?

00:54:45.320 And is it important to stay, even though at this time, it looks clear he's the front-runner

00:54:54.540 and there's nothing to change on that?

00:54:57.000 Yeah.

00:54:58.000 The short answer is absolutely, positively, unequivocally, it matters to stay the course and keep telling

00:55:05.280 the story of the goodness of America.

00:55:07.380 We need someone with the power of persuasion.

00:55:09.420 We've lost three national elections in a row, and one of those three elections that we lost was January

00:55:14.980 the 5th.

00:55:15.640 Everyone knows January the 6th, but January the 5th, 2021, losing one out of the two Georgia

00:55:22.360 Senate seats cost the American people $4 trillion in unnecessary spending.

00:55:29.840 That devastation can be reversed by having a red wave winning back the Senate, expanding

00:55:36.440 the majority in the House.

00:55:37.640 That will take me at the top of the ticket.

00:55:40.380 By doing so, we not only restore hope and create opportunities, we restore faith in America.

00:55:46.780 We are the city on the Hill.

00:55:48.540 We've got to tell people.

00:55:50.060 Shout it from the rooftops.

00:55:51.260 Just a reminder, I'd love you to rate and subscribe to the podcast and pass this on to a friend

00:56:07.100 so it can be discovered by other people.

00:56:21.260 We'll see you next time.

00:56:22.260 Bye.

The Glenn Beck Program - October 07, 2023

Ep 197 ｜ Tim Scott’s Message to ‘Modern Plantation Owners’ ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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