Glenn Beck and Stu discuss the dangers of the White House Correspondents Dinner and the threat to freedom of speech. Plus, Kim writes in about her experience with Relief Factory and how she s found relief from her back pain.
00:07:21.400There were certain things like the press now is saying, Elon Musk, he's going to let people just say they're going to rape me and give me threats of death on Twitter.
00:08:56.140So how do you how do you punish people?
00:09:02.160How do I when when when a an author, an opinion guy like I am, when a newspaper prints something and the government says that's false and the government has all of the tools at its disposal.
00:11:01.740A citizen should have and I'm quoting should have the right to say everything which is passions suggest he may employ all of his time, all of his talents.
00:11:14.640And if he's wicked enough to do so in speaking against the government matters.
00:11:20.180And using things that are false, scandalous or malicious.
00:11:25.920Despite this, even if he condemns the principle of Republican institutions, censures the measures of our government and every department and officer thereof.
00:11:40.960And ascribes the measures of the former and conduct of the latter, however upright to the basis motives, even if he ascribes to them measures and acts which never had existence.
00:11:57.800Thus violating at one every principle of decency and truth.
00:12:05.300He needs to be protected in his speech.
00:12:37.240So much so that we don't think of this as old, dusty and irrelevant.
00:12:42.420That's as a that is as relevant today as anything else.
00:12:52.820John Thompson wrote, the government cannot tell a citizen, you shall not think this or that upon certain subjects or if you do, it is at your own peril.
00:13:04.720This was the first time the government was the slave.
00:15:47.960It's a monthly magazine for kids from the creators of the Tuttle Twins.
00:15:52.160And every issue has big ideas that promote personal responsibility and freedom, like, you know, owning their own health and education, as well as profiles about kids who started their own businesses.
00:16:04.480You can now get access to the magazine at a reduced price for forty nine dollars for an entire year.
00:16:11.000This will inspire your kids and give them examples of other kids doing great things.
00:16:16.560You know, it's basically what the school does, you know, every day when they get in, when they watch the CNN magazine, you know, right at the beginning of school.
00:16:26.240That's really except it's not like that.
00:16:29.040In fact, it's probably one hundred percent different than that.
00:16:32.380One hundred and eighty degrees in the other direction.
00:16:34.560This is about personal responsibility and liberty.
00:17:46.040But I'm inviting only the people I want to invite.
00:17:50.040That's where the White House Correspondents Association started.
00:17:55.260They started because they saw the White House as an enemy.
00:17:59.740And the White House was trying to cut off access.
00:18:04.260And so the White House Correspondents got together and said, hey, we're the ones going to cover and you don't tell us who's going to be in and who's going to be out.
00:18:14.960OK, then Woodrow Wilson had this idea.
00:18:20.100What if we just get them all together and we make friends?
00:18:27.740This happened around the same time they were starting with Colonel House, the best friend of Woodrow Wilson, when they started the Council of Foreign Relations.
00:18:40.120And no matter what it is today, what it was started as was let's get the scholars, the politicians and the media together to explain to them so they can understand.
00:18:52.540And explain it to the people because the people are too stupid.
00:18:57.700This is where you start getting the press looking down their nose at the average American.
00:19:53.440And they would put, you know, back in the 50s and 60s, Frank Sinatra would show up and sing.
00:19:58.780But there was no comedy until the 80s.
00:20:00.640And that's when they started bringing the comedians on.
00:20:05.440And the comedians used to be neutral and kind of, you know, Jay Leno ish.
00:20:11.820So it wasn't, you know, nobody's hair was on fire.
00:20:14.460And then in 94, Don Imus, a good friend of ours, went on, went on the stage and started making fun of Bill Clinton and, you know, cigars and and everything else.
00:22:07.180In fact, I knew that question was coming because I've been monitoring between you and your cohorts on the questions that you were going to ask me today.
00:22:44.560You know, we used to think causes were American causes, not conservative causes or liberal causes.
00:22:49.960One of those causes have has always been taking care of those who put their selves in between us and danger, whether that's the policeman, fireman or military.
00:23:03.520Charity Navigator rates tunnel to towers a four out of a four.
00:23:07.880This is the kind of organization that we should be giving to and kind of organization you can trust.
00:23:12.400Since 9-11, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation been supporting America's heroes and their families.
00:23:17.500If somebody doesn't come home from military service or first responder and they have young children left behind, Tunnel to Towers pays off the mortgage to lift the financial burden and bring their family to stability.
00:23:29.400For catastrophically injured veterans, first responders, Tunnel to Towers builds mortgage-free smart homes so they can live more independent lives.
00:23:38.560And now Operation Home Base is gifting tiny homes to homeless veterans.
00:23:43.820Our nation's heroes need your help through Tunnel to Towers.
00:23:48.620Donate $11 a month and be a part of this great organization.
00:47:26.300And so, I mean, in a sense, it's almost a good thing.
00:47:29.240It's almost like we should have a training program.
00:47:31.960Where anybody who's leaning towards socialism is required to start a small business just so they can see how difficult it is.
00:47:40.380But certainly an aversion to risk, you know, more consolidation of power that takes away the opportunity to innovate.
00:47:49.700And all of the barriers that the government has put up to make it more difficult to not only start a small business, but to hire your first employee and to allow a small business owner to succeed, you know, it is not a good thing for economic freedom, which is one of the reasons why people come here from all over the world to try to start that business and live the American dream.
00:48:11.580So when the Fed is raising the interest rates to try to control inflation, the reason why this led to an economic boom in the 80s is because at the same time, the government said, forget all this regulation, just go out and start a business, right?
00:48:30.880Without that part of the Reagan plan, raising interest rates while piling new regulation on, that's really a killer, isn't it?
00:48:44.980Yeah, I mean, if you think about the Fed's options here and what they're trying to do in terms of slowing down the economy, given the backdrop that we have of this messed up labor market and supply chain.
00:49:00.160I mean, I mean, the only way you're really getting a slower economy, in my opinion, is if small businesses and to some extent, big businesses, you know, just stop hiring altogether.
00:49:11.920And I think the small businesses, since they've had such a hard time hiring, you know, can't survive or, you know, other things that make it very difficult for a small business to survive.
00:49:22.480So the well-capitalized big businesses are going to be able to withstand this roller coaster, which benefited them on the front end, and they will coast through, you know, come out the other end okay.
00:49:34.640And the small businesses that have been beaten up, you know, have been closed, didn't get the relief funds, and, you know, haven't been able to take advantage of that free debt because they're smaller in scale, are really the ones that are going to suffer from all of this.
00:49:52.100So, if I read this one more time, my head will pop.
00:49:56.380I keep reading that the economy is, I mean, people are spending money like there's no tomorrow because the average American just has so much money in their bank account.
00:50:18.980So, the average, and we've talked about before, average is not necessarily the median.
00:50:27.560It's often dragged up by the wealthy at the top end.
00:50:31.160But the average American is in better shape going into this potential recession or stagflation or whatever it is that we're about to face and kind of in the middle of than they have been in other recessions.
00:50:46.620The personal saving rate is around, I think, 6.2%, 6.3% as of the end of March, which was the last number that came out.
00:50:58.340Now, that is worse than where we were in 2019 and 2020 going into the pandemic decisions, but it's not sort of horrible on a historic level.
00:51:12.880We had people pay down a lot of their credit card debt with the relief funds and whatnot since they were staying home during the pandemic.
00:51:20.980Now, that's starting to creep back up again.
00:51:23.620So, today, they are in better shape, but the trajectory, particularly with the inflation, as we know, is eating away at that.
00:51:33.360So, I would imagine that the personal saving rate will continue to decline.
00:51:37.460We will continue to see balances increase on their credit cards.
00:51:41.020And at some point, the consumer won't have that strength in their balance sheet and probably will also be making decisions to just punt certain expenditures because their core expenditures of living every single day have gone through the roof.
00:51:55.740So, we had some questions come in from the audience, and I want to go over a couple of them.
00:52:28.980So, probably splitting that down the middle.
00:52:33.200Certainly, there is a ginormous crisis across the globe.
00:52:38.760We heard that clip that you played from the fantastic Samantha Power, who doesn't seem to care, that potentially, you know, 40 to 65 percent of the world could be food insecure or, you know, face starvation because, you know, we don't have enough fertilizer.
00:52:53.880Certainly, we are in a better position in the United States, but it depends on things going the right way.
00:53:03.380I mean, we've seen that we had, you know, a bout of avion flu that we had to contend with.
00:53:11.660It depends on our government not just doing stupid things.
00:53:14.960I mean, we're seeing them pulling, you know, feed out of, you know, of the farm in order to put it into gasoline so that they don't have to drill for more oil.
00:53:27.180I mean, they don't make the best decision.
00:53:29.960So, I wouldn't say that there isn't a possibility that we're going to have issues here because I think there is that possibility.
00:53:38.660It just probably isn't as stark as it is in the rest of the world.
00:53:43.400That being said, nobody's ever been upset for being too prepared.
00:54:05.020What is the difference and how do we prepare?
00:54:07.540Is it smart for me to buy a house at this point?
00:54:10.520So, again, this is not financial advice, just some food for thought for you.
00:54:19.000It really depends on your personal financial situation.
00:54:23.740You know, if you're somebody who is still sort of living paycheck to paycheck or building up your reserves, we don't know what is coming down the pike.
00:54:36.980The big thing right now geopolitically is, you know, are these stupid statements from the Biden administration going to pull us into some sort of a nuclear war?
00:54:46.280At that point, you know, all bets are off.
00:54:49.000If we're just looking at sort of the inflation picture and the recession, I think the one benefit that we do have is that we have so few people in the labor market.
00:55:00.380Now, granted, it may get many people off the sidelines as they see their 401ks shrinking and have to deal with more inflation.
00:55:09.100But if you have a job that you are secure in, you are probably in a better position.
00:55:15.080But it's always good, again, to kind of think through what are your second and third options.
00:55:20.960What could you do if that worst case scenario comes about?
00:55:24.600And then, you know, again, look at sort of the risk reward on the home front situation.
00:55:30.260We are underbuilt as a nation in terms of homes.
00:55:33.880And that is long term, probably going to support housing prices.
00:55:38.080But it doesn't mean there isn't going to be some variability in the meantime, especially with the increase in mortgage rates.
00:55:45.000So I would just spend a lot of time doing the little pros and cons and putting that plan together for your plan B and plan C and, you know, wish you a ton of success.
00:55:54.080I remember my parents getting a small business in the 70s.
00:55:59.860It was a nightmare because it was a lot like this.
00:57:24.080But I don't think I think that it will be shorter in duration than it otherwise would have been if we didn't have some of these other structural issues going on at the same time.
00:57:35.660That's fingers crossed. But, you know, there are a number of factors here that the Fed between raising rates and shrinking their balance sheets, the geopolitical issues and, you know, some of the other kind of issues that we're contending with.
00:57:48.860You know, that that's just sort of a best guess right now.
00:57:51.140But but we've got to stay on top of this real time because things could change really quickly.
00:57:55.400All right. Back with more and Carol Roth and your phone call, 888-727-BECK.
00:58:00.480Every day, it seems like things go from bad to worse on the inflation front.
00:58:04.500And if you're not prepared for it to go even higher or sky high gas prices and food shortages, you're not paying enough attention.
00:58:15.080As Carol said, it is always good to be prepared for the worst case scenario.
00:58:19.780May I suggest you go to prepare with Glenn dot com prepare with Glenn dot com.
00:58:25.420You're going to be able to save one hundred and fifty dollars on a three month emergency food kit.
00:58:29.020And my Patriot Supply is the largest preparedness company in the world, a longtime sponsor of this program.
00:58:36.600And their food kit is very popular, as you can imagine right now.
00:58:40.840Make sure you get one for each person in your family.
01:00:20.300So, I mean, it really depends on how sophisticated you are financially and how on top of things you are.
01:00:27.800I mean, the reality is that for most Americans, you're not going, oh, well, you know, on a on a real interest rate basis, this is a negative interest rate on my house.
01:00:36.860And I'm really glad I have this capital to do these other things.
01:00:40.300I never think it's a bad thing to get rid of your debt, because that's just money that's going out the window.
01:00:47.000And unless you have some other great investment that is replacing that same kind of return.
01:00:53.620And right now, like, I'm just not sure where you're getting that.
01:00:58.060You know, we're having that the stock market is in turmoil.
01:01:01.940You certainly aren't getting that in your bank accounts.
01:01:04.360So, you know, now you have it in that asset.
01:01:09.180You're not putting that extra money out each month.
01:01:13.060And then on the tax benefit side, I mean, again, I'm not a tax accountant, but, you know, they've changed a lot of the rules.
01:01:20.300Like, you're not getting that much of a benefit the same way that you used to.
01:01:24.560They put a lot of caps around these things.
01:01:27.600So, you know, certainly talk to your tax accountant.
01:01:30.480But, you know, from my perspective, for just kind of the average person who's trying to do the right thing, getting out of debt is a phenomenal, phenomenal move.
01:01:42.360And, again, unless you've got some other amazing investment that you know is going to return you more than what it is you're paying on your debt, net, net, you've won.
01:02:36.300And all of a sudden, your profit margins, which in most industries, you know, aren't that big.
01:02:41.240Sometimes they're in the single digits, you know, starts to erode.
01:02:45.380And so you say, well, either I have to pass this on to the consumer or, in some cases, they shrink the product that they're offering called shrinkflation.
01:02:55.840You know, the pizza that you get that, you know, used to be huge, you know, all of a sudden kind of looks like it's half the size.
01:04:05.840Right now, you can save up to 60% on all GenuCell products across their website, including their brand new ultra retinol cream.
01:04:13.700And during the limited Mother's Day sale, every eligible order includes GenuCell's immediate effects for results in as little as 12 hours absolutely free.
01:04:23.880GenuCell's ultra retinol cream is powered by their proprietary MDL technology.
01:05:33.100So, Germany said, you know, we can't, we cannot outright ban oil from Russia because it would destroy Germany's economy and it would destroy the economy on the continent as a whole.
01:05:51.060And now he's changed his mind and he's saying we're going to stop all oil.
01:05:58.400They've changed their mind on quite a bit recently.
01:08:07.020Okay, so he also said over the weekend that any foreign intervention in Ukraine would provoke what he called lightning-fast response from Moscow.
01:08:17.900Now, I'm not sure what he deems as foreign intervention.
01:12:05.200And one of the things that's interesting about the structure of this war with us giving them all these weapons, which we can talk about because they publicly announced it.
01:12:12.040Oh, have you heard about the Phoenix Ghost Kamikaze drones we've sent?
01:12:34.820I mean, there's all sorts of rumors of them pulling people off the streets basically for this effort.
01:12:39.240So their military is getting worse as this goes on.
01:12:42.840The opposite is happening with the Ukrainian military.
01:12:45.080It's getting stronger because we keep sending them hundreds of millions of dollars of brand new shiny weapons.
01:12:50.320So their resistance is actually increasing in its ability to execute the war, which we've seen happen over just the past week, where now targets inside of Russia, inside Russian borders are being hit by Ukrainians with missiles and drones sent to them by Western countries.
01:13:14.180Again, on military installations, not targeting civilians like the Russians are doing in many places across Ukraine.
01:13:22.980But still, again, you know, this is a country who went to its people this week and said, hey, you know, Adolf Hitler was probably Jewish.
01:13:32.820Seriously, this is what they're saying.
01:13:36.140They do not need a lot of justification to to to to do all sorts of crazy things.
01:13:41.320And they will you clearly would utilize this for their own propaganda purposes and have honestly what you would probably consider if you were completely neutral in this battle as a good argument that we are involved in this, that we are helping their soldiers die.
01:13:59.520And while I agree that they should not be able to roll over the border of Ukraine and, you know, kill tons of civilians like they're doing, I can understand why the Russian people are looking at this and saying, wait a minute, we just had a special military operation going on here.
01:14:17.640And now they're hitting us inside of our borders with with missiles and drones from the United States of America.
01:14:23.600It shows they want regime regime change.
01:14:26.260Well, and, you know, we've also added something really super special.
01:14:30.160There's now, I think, two or three countries that are like it's I know it's Sweden and Finland who have now said, you know what, we really we really want in on that NATO thing.
01:16:11.180At the same time, Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, says the risks of nuclear war are now very significant.
01:16:18.640Russian state media prominent commentators this week suggested that nuclear war with the West wouldn't be too problematic because the Russians would go to heaven, whereas Westerners would just die.
01:16:29.860Yet this is not the time to bow before Russian threats.
01:16:33.600Indeed, Biden must respond to Russian aggression forcefully.
01:16:37.840This moment is also shaping a message about what America and by association, what the free world will tolerate in the 21st century.
01:16:46.300If Biden waivers, he will be sacrificing the relative peace and cooperation that was hard won in World War Two.
01:18:01.480The things that can be enacted and done during a massive war are staggering and you never come back from them.
01:18:10.620When you're looking at a party that is acting as reckless as they are, not listening to the average American, not watching the poll numbers, and they are just going over the cliff with our finances, with our dollar, with freedoms, all of these things.
01:18:32.180These chickens are coming home to roost.
01:19:39.340You know, Russia makes, I think, an irrational decision in going into Ukraine.
01:19:43.740But it's setting off a bunch of series of actions of people acting relatively logically for the moment that keeps escalating the situation.
01:20:43.340If your dog loves it as much as Uno or the three pugs here with Lori, then you've got to start feeding your dog Rough Greens, putting it on top of the food.
01:20:52.000Whatever it is that you feed your dog, you put Rough Greens on top and they will love it.
01:20:57.360And you will see a difference in your dog.
01:21:50.240So there's an emergency stocks boom in Switzerland going on.
01:21:55.780Canned goods are in such demand that there is what's called a ravioli frenzy going on in Switzerland.
01:22:06.740Chef Boyardee is making a killing right now.
01:22:10.960We'll give you all the details and so much more coming up in just a second on the Glenn Beck program as we continue after the top of the hour news.
01:23:18.240With the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, a number of states made changes to their voting systems to reduce the need to vote in person.
01:23:26.980Those changes triggered a backlash from Republicans, in part because it was expected to increase turnout and in part because President Donald Trump was actively engaged in trying to cast mail-in ballots as suspect,
01:23:40.340understanding that it was likely he would lose once those ballots were counted in the hours after the polls closed.
01:23:47.620There was a concerted effort to push back on the changes aimed both at constraining access and at triggering a legal fight that would empower state legislatures to decide election results.
01:23:59.360Trump and his allies lost most of those debates.
01:24:06.360The turnout was massive and Trump lost.
01:24:09.300That brings us to the new theory of how President Biden's victory somehow represents a successful effort to steal the presidency.
01:24:19.360It's been percolating for weeks, quietly being presented to state legislative bodies and in conservative media outlets.
01:24:27.740Next week, right-wing filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza will release a movie called 2,000 Mules that aims to force the theory into the spotlight.
01:24:40.800Well, Dinesh D'Souza is here to tell you all about it and to answer some of the questions that I guess they just didn't want to ask Dinesh in the Washington Post.
01:24:54.820Identity theft might sound complicated, but in some cases, all a thief needs to carry out a shopping scan is your name, email address, your mailing address, your address, and your phone number.
01:25:07.260With those details, they can start an online store account, but they'll add their own shopping information.
01:25:16.020Then, when they purchase items on that account without your knowledge, guess who gets to pay for the collection notices?
01:25:24.820It's everywhere, and it's really easy to do, and nobody can watch all bank accounts, watch all stores, every transaction at every business.
01:26:16.840I wanted to go over with you some of the things that you would hear from friends that are just tired of hearing about the election being stolen on the other side.
01:26:28.720So, tell me, first of all, the theory that you are proposing and what you found.
01:27:01.300And I work in this film with a group, an election intelligence group that is called True the Vote.
01:27:10.180And at the time when lots of charges of fraud were flying around, many of them sincerely meant but unsubstantiated, True the Vote got kind of a genius idea, which was, let us test a hypothesis.
01:27:23.920And the hypothesis is that if the Democrats are going to cheat, they're going to cheat exactly where the rules changed.
01:27:29.940In other words, it's kind of like saying that there were new vulnerabilities created by the sudden mushrooming of all these mail-and-drop boxes, the mailing of not just millions, tens of millions of mail-out ballots.
01:27:41.660So, if it's going to happen, it doesn't mean it did happen, but if it did happen, this is probably how it would happen.
01:27:47.080And so, what True the Vote did is they bought cell phone geospatial data, which is cell phone geo-tracking, in all the key areas where the election was decided.
01:28:24.500Frankly, if you walk into a mall and you get a notification saying, hey, there's a special at the Apple store, well, how do they know you're there?
01:31:23.740But who takes photos of themselves putting in multiple ballots if not to show their employers, hey, I was there, I did the work, I need to get paid.
01:31:39.960First, the changes in the rules that were allowed, that allowed the election heist, they have those in quotes.
01:31:46.340They are changes that made it easier to vote.
01:31:50.960That's at the heart of D'Souza's complaint and the Trump allies broadly.
01:31:55.420Often the allegation isn't that fraudulent ballots were cast, but just that the Democrats made it easier to vote, and that was the election theft.
01:32:04.060It's like complaining that your computer sold more widgets illegally because it lowered its prices.
01:32:15.960What he's saying is something like this.
01:32:17.740You have a bank, and what the Democrats have done is they have made sure by filing lawsuits that the security guards get three hours off every night,
01:32:27.440and they turn off the surveillance video when they take a break, and they've told the tellers,
01:32:32.520don't be too rigorous about matching signatures.
01:32:35.060Just make sure that the scrawl is roughly similar.
01:32:38.640So, now I agree with the Washington Post that that does not prove a heist.
01:32:42.580That simply proves that the bank is more vulnerable to a heist.
01:32:46.420The beauty of our movie is we don't just show the vulnerability.
01:33:27.040Here's what he's saying, and it's a little bit of guesswork on his part.
01:33:30.880What he's basically saying is that there is a difference.
01:33:33.600What he's saying is that vote harvesting, which is essentially giving your ballot to somebody else to return it, is legal under some circumstances.
01:33:45.12026 or so states allow some form of vote harvesting.
01:33:49.740Now, California, which has, not surprisingly, the most liberal law, you can give your ballot, Glenn, to anyone and say, hey, you return it.
01:33:58.220And that would explain people coming, you know, with a whole bunch of ballots, you know, I just collected them from everybody in the office.
01:34:58.520I'm going to quote from the thing again.
01:35:02.180What's more, even True the Vote doesn't allege the ballots themselves were fraudulent.
01:35:06.180When the website Just the News covered the Georgia story, it noted that True the Vote was not making such a claim.
01:35:11.820When True the Vote representatives testified in front of Wisconsin Legislative Committee, the group's Catherine Engelbrecht said so publicly.
01:35:18.520I want to make it clear we're not suggesting the ballots were cast were illegal ballots.
01:35:24.080What we're saying is the process was abused.
01:35:26.760It's the difference between making and selling a product legally and have someone smuggle that product into another country without your realizing it.
01:35:35.100If D'Souza's film shows that the ballots were fraudulent, that's a massive deal one would assume would have to quickly be presented to law enforcement.
01:35:42.760But there's been no such investigation, and the group whose data he's using says that's not what happened.
01:35:50.820That suggests, then, that D'Souza's claim to Kudlow is not backed up, that the 400,000 illegal votes, itself a remarkable assertion of scale, were not that.
01:36:02.100So, I think what's going on here is that Philip Bump is confusing the difference between a fraudulent ballot and a ballot fraudulently cast.
01:36:18.260No one is claiming, and True the Vote is not claiming, and this is the distinction they're trying to make.
01:36:22.680No one is saying that the actual ballot, the piece of paper, is fraudulent.
01:36:26.860In other words, they're not saying that somebody went to a high-quality copying machine and made hundreds of thousands of ballots.
01:36:33.200That would be a fraudulent physical ballot.
01:36:37.460What they are saying is that these ballots are not legal votes.
01:36:41.800And the way we know this, by the way, is you look at these nonprofit organizations,
01:36:47.860and it's worth mentioning here, by the way, that many of these so-called 501c3 organizations are strictly forbidden by law and by IRS rules
01:36:58.460from engaging in any kind of explicit electioneering.
01:37:02.580They can urge people generically to go out and vote, but the idea that they campaign or they collect votes for the Democrats
01:37:09.260or they try to advance a candidate or a party, this is strictly forbidden.
01:37:13.180So here's the question. How would 400,000 legal votes somehow end up in the hands of these far left-wing groups
01:37:21.080that would then need to hire mules to go out in the middle of the night and secretly dump them?
01:37:27.140Why would they act in that manner if these were legitimate votes, plausibly picked up?
01:37:31.560They just got them from people who said, yeah, here's my vote. You drop it off.
01:37:34.980Somehow they ended up with hundreds of thousands of these votes.
01:37:38.460Then the question becomes, why hire the mules?
01:37:41.220So the other thing about this, Glenn, is that this can be easily resolved, this ambiguity, if you will,
01:37:49.080by federal agents raiding these nonprofit centers, by cops arresting the mules,
01:37:55.000and all you have to ask them is, where did you get the ballots?
01:37:58.280Who gave them to you? Where did they get them?
01:38:00.580Who paid you? Who organized this operation?
01:38:03.360Now, obviously, we're not law enforcement. We can't do that in the movie.
01:38:06.500That's the logical next step, but it's ridiculous to say, since we don't know where an individual ballot came from.
01:38:13.760It's kind of like if I were to show you a murder, and I'm actually showing you the murder.
01:38:18.180And then the Washington Post is like, but where did he buy the gun?
01:52:05.760The lifestyle of a person who many times as a representative is not the coolest person and they maybe weren't the coolest kid in high school.
01:52:13.460To be able to go to, you know, to be wined and dined by lobbyists and business people and constantly asked for things and constantly rewarded with things in Washington, D.C. as their Mr. Important.
01:52:27.900You know, look, that's tempting to anybody, especially people who come oftentimes from a somewhat loserish background.
01:52:34.580So, look, I mean, you know, I understand why you'd want to keep that system going if you happen to be in Congress.
01:52:39.860I don't understand why we would allow it to keep going as the American people.
01:52:44.840And, you know, if you want to keep the agencies, which I'm not for at all.
01:53:53.620I had never said it before until Friday's episode of Studios America in my entire life.
01:53:58.240And what I find interesting about that, because I was doing a thing on Marjorie Taylor Greene and how they're trying to get her thrown off the ballot and how this is really bad for democracy, like Marjorie Taylor Greene or not.
01:54:08.000Horrible idea to throw people off of the ballot, trying to utilize the Constitution in this way that it obviously was not intended.
01:58:27.560Same time, Nomura Holdings forecasting 50, 75, and another 75 base point rate hikes beginning in May and continuing through July of this year.
01:58:40.060As soon as they forecasted it, if you were watching last week, the Dow and NASDAQ took a nosedive.
01:59:29.020You can also ask how you can get a free half ounce platinum coin and a free two ounce silver maple flex bar with the purchases of two boxes of Indians.