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00:01:39.580 the best thing i have heard or read about the debacle uh in afghanistan comes from andrew styles

00:01:57.680 and he writes the u.s military withdrawal from afghanistan has quickly become the most embarrassing

00:02:05.360 national security debacle since the vietnam war perhaps more importantly however the debacle

00:02:13.300 is one of the most inclusive of its kind in american history let's share with you what andrew styles

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00:04:03.420 so andrew styles has written something for the free beacon that i just love it is really important

00:04:19.680 that you know hey didn't all of our mothers say turn that frown upside down let's look for the

00:04:26.580 positives in what happened in afghanistan because yes yes it was the biggest embarrassment 1.00

00:04:33.160 in american history um you know the people said this is like saigon no it's not it's not like

00:04:41.260 saigon because nobody was hanging on to the helicopter and then plunging to their death after takeoff

00:04:49.380 so it wasn't like saigon they're right but he writes the biden administration's afghanistan policy

00:04:57.020 may have failed in the conventional sense but it was remarkably successful in the terms of gender

00:05:04.300 and racial diversity of the individuals responsible for that failure many will die as a result

00:05:11.900 but blame for their deaths will be shared among an impressive array of female 1.00

00:05:18.200 and uh people of color in official capacities all in all this is a triumph of american inclusiveness

00:05:28.920 and exceptionalism for instance vice president kamala harris was reportedly the last person in the room

00:05:37.220 with president joe biden when he made the decision to withdraw american troops from afghanistan

00:05:42.060 harris uh a female a female person of color uh she is um a tamil indian afro jamaican descent

00:05:54.660 and she's also in charge of biden administration's failed efforts to secure our southern border so

00:05:59.940 she's you know she is she's quite an amazing woman and her chief spokesperson uh is also

00:06:08.420 also a person of color now if you want to go a little further uh secretary of defense lloyd austin

00:06:16.500 first african american to serve in that position and the first to preside over military defeat in such

00:06:22.940 an extraordinary magnitude so he'll be remembered um avril haynes the director of national intelligence

00:06:29.720 she's the first woman to oversee an epic intelligence failure after the u.s spy agencies estimated the

00:06:36.880 taliban would uh overrun kabul within 90 days of u.s withdrawal it just happened in 72 hours

00:06:44.160 but uh she i mean she is going to be remembered as the first woman to really oversee something this

00:06:53.400 horrific by the way glass ceiling shattered shattered shattered um she also used to host uh regular erotica 0.57

00:07:01.020 night events in uh bookstores in baltimore so we got that going for her we got her what are you true

00:07:10.180 i'm not up that's absolutely true yeah avril haynes another important figure in biden's decision to

00:07:15.240 withdraw from afghanistan is the uh deputy secretary of state wendy sherman now she was the former director

00:07:22.800 of emily's list uh who served as a lead negotiator for the iran nuclear deal and she was joined by

00:07:30.240 victoria newland the undersecretary of state for political affairs newland prepared you know um at

00:07:37.260 choate rosemary hall she graduated from brown university served as a non-resident fellow at the 0.99

00:07:43.860 brookings uh institution and she is also a woman who has defended chinese propaganda but she's a woman

00:07:51.320 she's a woman and she was there okay and that counts for something linda thomas greenfield

00:07:59.960 the u.s ambassador to the united nations she provided invaluable representation as a person of color

00:08:07.160 with a vagina um alejandro mayorkas the secretary of homeland security critical voice from the latinx 0.84

00:08:16.280 community as he oversaw the administration's effort to provide visa to military interpreters and other

00:08:23.260 afghan refugees now i mean it didn't really work out but the blood of those people will be on the most 1.00

00:08:34.420 diverse set of hands in the history of american decision making wow that's great that is now white 0.98

00:08:42.160 house press secretary jen saki conveniently out of the office until the 22nd of august uh but she has been 0.99

00:08:49.520 both a fearless defender of the administration's uh decision to withdraw from afghanistan uh a stern

00:08:56.120 critic of the uh taliban she has a vagina uh last week she warned that the militant group has uh has to 0.85

00:09:05.480 make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the international community and i think

00:09:11.000 i think that kind of dress down uh from saki again a woman uh is amazing and she's just not a woman 1.00

00:09:23.820 okay she is also a proud member of the underrepresented uh underrepresented um ginger american community 0.52

00:09:31.900 you don't see a lot of gingers and especially gingers in power not in this country at least 1.00

00:09:39.040 no you don't not enough glenn not enough not enough so uh i mean that is a diverse group of people

00:09:48.100 um of course biden uh represents those people who are in cognitive decline uh you know the older set

00:09:59.080 that just can't do it anymore uh and that is upper you know that's underrepresented in in most boardrooms

00:10:06.180 you know or the highest levels of uh corporate organization attempting to be competent don't

00:10:13.380 normally employ don't take the brave step of taking someone who is incompetent yeah and put them in

00:10:18.780 charge and we've done that i mean i think that you know when you get somebody who is cognitively

00:10:25.240 completely checked out that is an important underrepresented uh underrepresented uh viewpoint

00:10:34.740 really it was it was an interesting choice to to put as a leader someone who's incompetent and

00:10:40.260 incontinent which is which is yeah not usually done not not the normal not usually done and i was under

00:10:47.180 the impression glenn i have to say that i thought maybe this is i shouldn't admit this on the air but i was

00:10:54.140 under the impression that only white men could fail this spectacularly no and that is that's why we 0.63

00:11:00.420 have to celebrate yes inclusiveness and we have to celebrate uh the fact that we see now people of

00:11:09.600 color people with vaginas oh wow uh um people that are ginger people that are completely incapacitated 0.99

00:11:20.080 because they're so old yes they can bring a bring a bring about the biggest debacle in all of american

00:11:30.040 history and i think that is wow that's that is something that we should just pause for a minute

00:11:35.980 and look at uh but you know i will tell you um that it is it's more than just this uh because we have

00:11:45.180 to go back to president obama um and really a tip of the hat to president obama uh for this because uh

00:11:54.740 you know he was the guy who really laid the groundwork for all of this and i think it's great

00:11:59.880 um in 2014 we all might remember the uh five taliban commanders remember that were released from gitmo

00:12:08.720 and uh we white guys like me we were like uh don't do that that's really these guys are really bad

00:12:17.180 but he pointed out that no no now they've been in jail now since 2002 and and they can go back and

00:12:25.960 and be productive members of society and it was it was barack obama again a person of color

00:12:33.720 um just to show the diversity there were white people involved there were men there were blacks

00:12:41.700 there were uh native americans there were there were indians there were all kinds of different

00:12:47.620 people involved in this decision that made it as spectacular as it really is i mean when you want

00:12:56.440 to say hey did the white people just take off on an airplane where a bunch of people were

00:13:02.880 hanging on to the sides and have them fall to the death you'll say no no that was a community

00:13:09.920 that made that happen that's great uh and so when you look at the new commander uh of the taliban

00:13:18.460 the guy who's in charge of the taliban i just want you to know that he was in gitmo until 2014 he was

00:13:27.900 taken in 2002 because he now don't judge him okay he was one of the main liaisons with al-qaeda uh while

00:13:37.960 he was functioning in the the uh the original taliban uh um government so someone that can work well with

00:13:46.420 others yes absolutely absolutely uh and he was really i mean he was really doing some some some great

00:13:55.700 things back then he was the minister of the interior now here the minister of interior would oversee our

00:14:02.460 national parks and things like that but over in the taliban the minister of interior is the guy that

00:14:09.720 oversees the enforcement of the islamist punishments so he was the guy who was in charge of cutting 0.97

00:14:17.560 people's hands and heads off uh you know uh stonings and those kinds of things that was his job and we

00:14:27.000 captured him in 2002 because he was not a good guy so we sent him to prison and then in 2014 barack

00:14:34.240 obama finds this guy who we all know is a hero uh you remember bo bo bergdahl yeah the uh the army

00:14:45.680 sergeant oh yeah oh that was taken uh by uh the extremists and uh and they were they were he was

00:14:56.120 taken um and and well not tortured but he was held for two years and then during that two years suddenly

00:15:04.560 they became very very good at targeting our troops and later you know later we find out that uh

00:15:12.760 you know uh he pleaded guilty to desertion and uh misbehavior before the enemy and was uh sentenced

00:15:22.020 to a dishonorable discharge um and well he appealed but the um the courts held uh upheld the conviction

00:15:30.380 against him so uh you know and several soldiers were killed uh or seriously injured uh during the

00:15:36.580 search and rescue missions uh to find him uh sorry it wasn't two years it was five years in captivity

00:15:42.740 and uh and that's when obama celebrated him as a heroic pow uh something that the pentagon never

00:15:50.360 never said obviously because they were getting ready to uh you know charge him with serious crimes um

00:15:57.260 but then his dad you know praised allah in the rose garden and it was it was great it was great

00:16:03.680 we traded him for the guy who's now leading the taliban so i think we have even i you know when you think

00:16:15.640 this is bad then you realize no no no this collection of uh very diverse people i was thinking back to

00:16:24.580 the did a great job immortal words of bo bergdahl you know and i'm glad that we traded this taliban uh

00:16:31.680 you know leader leader for for him and i was thinking back to what he was saying about

00:16:36.740 america and how much he loved it and when he when he said i'm sorry for everything here these people

00:16:42.700 need help yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are

00:16:47.060 nothing and that they are stupid and they have no idea how to live i am sorry for everything the 0.87

00:16:51.800 horror that is america is disgusting oh that's great i'm glad we got him yeah yeah we got him back

00:16:58.060 we traded him for only five taliban leaders including the the leader the leader now who's

00:17:04.560 in charge of afghanistan who by the way has promised there will be a very diverse taliban uh they are

00:17:12.200 not going to overlook women this time around so good again another win another win he'll kill them 0.96

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00:18:28.880 so i have uh uh recently found um a woman who i just think is really quite brilliant she does a 0.97

00:18:48.060 podcast for ricochet and her name is michaela gets and she wrote to me last night and she said i've been

00:18:54.960 thinking about the people of afghanistan and many nights in my prayers i say thank you god for

00:19:01.280 choosing me to be a person and to live in america and to live right now considering that god could

00:19:08.440 have dropped me down at any place at any time i'm floored that i was chosen to be born here in america

00:19:14.920 at this time watching the last hope for freedom fail fade into in real time for people in afghanistan

00:19:22.640 i can't help but wonder why one of them is not me why is it them and not me as people literally hold

00:19:31.720 on to airplanes in the hopes of leaving their country i'm sitting here concerned about rising gas prices

00:19:37.680 as the taliban strips women of their personness in america we're concerned about female athletes being 0.52

00:19:45.960 paid less than their male counterparts a little perspective changes everything not that in america

00:19:54.480 we're not facing real challenges we are but i still thank god every day i was born in america and

00:19:59.940 somewhere somewhere afghanistan like afghanistan i was not born in watching the taliban make such a 0.97

00:20:09.020 radical advance makes the preservation of american ideas even more paramount freedom is being stripped

00:20:16.300 away from people of afghanistan surely we can't willingly hand ours away in america surely we won't do that

00:20:26.560 she wrote when i was in ukraine a man saw my u.s passport sneaking out of my backpack as i put my things

00:20:34.300 away ah the golden ticket he said every day in ukraine someone would tell me of their dream and

00:20:42.780 then their dream of coming to work in america i even had a few marriage proposals but my best friend in

00:20:50.580 ukraine anna wanted to come to america and sell jewelry my aunt and uncle owned a jewelry store in 0.99

00:20:57.020 my town i always considered working there as kind of a backup should i really need a job and fail at

00:21:05.200 everything else considering that anna's dream is my last resort backup really shook me at the time

00:21:15.000 god loves anna the same as he loves me anna's faithful intelligent and tough she'd be a great 0.98

00:21:22.440 american and yet for some reason i was born with a golden ticket and not her in no way is that justified

00:21:31.020 and yet it is the question is because god has given me so much what can i give in return

00:21:37.280 how can i be worthy of the blessing of being an american today that's the question i'm asking myself

00:21:46.920 today the taliban is gaining gaining ground freedom is being globally challenged 0.88

00:21:53.880 and we seem to be giving ours away what can i do with the blessing of being an american today

00:22:04.140 that is real perspective

00:22:10.980 that is what we should be thinking of today how blessed we are to live here and we didn't have to

00:22:22.160 scramble onto an airplane or hold on to the tires as it was lifting off we were given this and for

00:22:32.140 anybody who thinks that america isn't the best would you hold on to the outside of an airplane if it was

00:22:40.000 flying there

00:22:41.300 this is the glenn back program i don't see anybody doing that to get to afghanistan or any other country

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00:24:11.300 this is the glenn beck program we welcome pat gray from pat gray unleashed into our studios with us 0.82

00:24:27.200 now thank you uh boy i was proud of our president yesterday oh bursting he was bursting with brian yeah

00:24:34.320 he the buck stops here well except for the you know the part that except for the part where he

00:24:39.480 blamed trump yeah and the part that he and the afghani people well as he said the buck stops here

00:24:45.880 except for wherever else the buck stops his fault it really is i mean it's really their fault it's

00:24:53.560 really their fault it's not my buck stops directly right and it was important to know that that uh he

00:25:01.260 made the decision but he was forced into the decision uh but uh by trump because this is the

00:25:08.120 one thing that's well he followed the trump plan like he's done so many other times every time man

00:25:12.200 if he's followed one trump plan he's followed them all he refuses to change it up at all from the

00:25:21.120 direction that trump was going and it was too good that's why this is a that's why that was a good

00:25:25.580 excuse yeah because of his consistency on all the other trump related matters like the border yeah

00:25:31.240 for instance just you know straight ahead straight ahead well i think he is keep it going i mean the

00:25:36.260 nice thing is uh the way he he is so consistent the way the border is going is exactly the way

00:25:46.100 afghanistan is going you mean worse than ever before yes okay yes what about inflation though it's not

00:25:52.020 that's not going yes it's actually is spending spending uh yeah they're we're thinking that

00:25:57.960 maybe 13 trillion dollars to 21 trillion dollars by the end of his term i love how he's blaming

00:26:04.780 trump for that too oh that eight trillion he spent was ridiculous you spent that in about an hour

00:26:10.280 and all democrats agreed with that spending yeah i should point out as well uh trump i believe was

00:26:16.400 making them smaller wasn't he at one point wasn't he like uh some of some of it yeah yeah

00:26:21.560 um by the way george w bush uh spoke out yesterday he said laura and i have been watching the tragic

00:26:28.160 events unfolding in afghanistan with deep sadness our hearts are heavy for both the afghan people

00:26:33.440 who have suffered so much and for the americans and native nato allies who have also sacrificed so

00:26:39.580 much the afghans now are at the greatest risk as are as are the same ones who have been on the 1.00

00:26:48.060 forefront of progress inside their nation president biden has promised to evacuate these afghans along 1.00

00:26:54.300 with american citizens and our allies the united states government has legal authority to cut the

00:26:59.120 red tape for refugees during urgent humanitarian crisis and this is what i like um you know we could

00:27:05.600 have done that slowly and methodically but now let's just let's just cut the red tape and no need

00:27:15.740 to really go slowly on who comes here in america and who doesn't you know i'm sure all those who are

00:27:23.420 applying only have the best of intentions and really belong here which is yeah you won't get anybody from

00:27:30.300 the taliban or al-qaeda no not a single person no i mean there's not going to be anybody i mean i just

00:27:35.760 hope we can get more ilan omars you know right uh which we brought into this country and she has

00:27:43.180 just she loves it she loves it hey by the way did you hear about the dna test i did see this story

00:27:49.260 yeah yeah so there was a dna test about the dna oh you didn't no yeah endeavor dna laboratories uh

00:27:56.640 did a test they took a they took i think a straw from one of them and a cigarette and a cigarette butt

00:28:05.660 from the other okay and ilan omar and her brother slash husband i mean her husband her husband brother

00:28:13.800 yeah brother husband brother brother husband uh now here's the thing they find out it is her brother

00:28:20.920 well only 99.999998 chance oh so you're saying there's a chance i'm saying that there's a chance

00:28:30.000 that they're not but uh hopefully we can get that kind of screening done it's a bit of a weird story

00:28:36.520 they they claim to have legitimately like she's smoking and they just took the cigarette butt and

00:28:42.640 tested the dna over a multiple year investigation it's a very it's a very strange story but that is

00:28:49.360 what who reported that was the daily mail i can't uh yeah daily mail yeah so i don't know i don't wow

00:28:55.000 i haven't heard anyone else reporting it yet i mean it's a very odd story well odd but interesting

00:28:59.760 but the whole saga is very odd the whole saga is odd even without dna evidence yeah let's not talk

00:29:06.200 about it because there's nothing to see there let's just get as many people from afghanistan

00:29:11.000 on to flights here in america look it's a tough line because no it wouldn't have been no it can help

00:29:18.620 us do deserve to get out of there yeah they wouldn't have been a tough line it wouldn't have been a tough

00:29:24.020 line had you done it differently yeah you you say we're gonna pull out everybody who is 1.00

00:29:29.500 concerned about dying come to the embassy right now and we'll get all this paperwork done

00:29:37.120 you should have done that first and they've been doing that they've just blown the process the

00:29:42.060 entire time which is not a surprise yeah they've had plenty of time i mean as we as everyone has

00:29:46.340 noted here donald trump uh negotiated this deal and mike pompeo negotiated this deal and the the exit

00:29:54.100 was supposed to be may 1st so we actually had more time than was actually outlined in the deal

00:29:59.720 and still it went this way which is incredible you had you had multiple extra months to prepare for

00:30:05.280 this and still screwed it up like this massively uh mass massively pathetic well you know the thing

00:30:11.760 that i really like uh is the fact that now the entire world uh every single one of our allies

00:30:20.480 now saying they know they can trust us good god yeah they know that they're coming out now they

00:30:27.560 know out loud i know they are and saying we don't know if we can trust that america will ever have our

00:30:33.660 back well yeah that's england and and denmark and germany and france our allies are saying well

00:30:41.280 some of those countries punch above their weight anyway well they don't need they do they don't need

00:30:46.700 yeah they do what would you say if i'm taiwan i am uh well don't worry terrified yeah don't worry

00:30:54.880 uh china just said when uh we march into taiwan don't expect the americans to come the americans

00:31:02.220 won't help and they're right exactly right they're right what do you say about that well yeah okay you're

00:31:11.020 right clearly i mean any move china obviously is aware of this i'm not breaking news to them but

00:31:15.620 any move they'd want to make right now they could just get well they already did with hong kong

00:31:19.460 yeah they did it with hong kong we didn't do anything yeah they could do it with they could

00:31:22.360 do it with taiwan they could do it wherever they wanted did you guys know that they know it and they

00:31:25.500 won the olympics do you guys see that i saw that i see they tried to win the olympics yeah by adding

00:31:30.200 taiwan yeah and hong kong and they still didn't beat us with taiwan and hong kong they tried and not in

00:31:37.980 total it was very it was very close it was very very close and we added canada because they're just

00:31:44.220 like us anyway you can't tell canadians apart and china and china we also added china and we'd still

00:31:49.640 be at what not even half their population isn't that amazing yeah think of that you say five times

00:31:56.360 our population america isn't exceptional america isn't exceptional they have five times the population

00:32:03.640 and don't forget the sport camps where they take children from their families when they're two

00:32:08.180 correct and they take the children that are are destined for greatness and they never see their

00:32:15.960 families again and they're taken to these camps and they're trained their whole life to be this is

00:32:22.900 what you're gonna do and they can't find a way to beat us it's pretty amazing hmm gee i know this system

00:32:30.000 doesn't work does it that old freedom thing just there's i don't know it's kind of messy

00:32:35.700 yeah it's we're exceptional you know a lot like great britain is exceptional and japan is exceptional

00:32:44.900 and russia is exceptional everyone is exceptional there's nothing exceptional about us because

00:32:50.020 everyone thinks they're exceptional exceptional hey can i ask you a question should anyone be talking

00:32:55.620 about the 25th amendment should anyone be talking about that you mean should everyone be talking about

00:33:02.560 trump yes yeah when he gets back in in august we need to remove him immediately with the 25th

00:33:08.960 amendment we only have 13 14 days left uh so we better get that done i mean pretty soon i mean i i find

00:33:16.560 this incredible that no one is talking about that well i don't you know honestly watching him yesterday

00:33:24.080 yesterday he looked solid he looked solid and honestly because he hasn't worked in two weeks

00:33:28.880 maybe but i would say he seemed completely um completely confident in his huge mistake like i

00:33:35.920 he he absolutely seemed to i did this intentionally yeah uh sort of laid it out and i stand behind it

00:33:42.960 yeah i i think he okay i don't i you know because on sunday i felt the same way where is this guy

00:33:47.840 this is do we have a president or not but he was there he was just making this decision intentionally

00:33:52.560 and it went the way that he was talking about no not on the weekend not on the weekend he wasn't

00:33:56.880 he wasn't he was actually calling the fort worth school district to uh congratulate them on this

00:34:04.320 is a very that's a true thing true story actually did very brave stand on masks to stand against the

00:34:10.720 governor of texas he was making calls to support the teachers union while people were falling out of the

00:34:22.080 sky and being slaughtered in the streets of afghanistan i mean just in case you needed it to be worse 0.87

00:34:30.240 right uh there it is there's there's your president i'll say this coming into this none of us believed

00:34:36.240 joe biden was going to be a good president but this is but it's really worse than i thought this is

00:34:42.000 you know what this is the exact opposite of of donald trump i expected donald trump to be

00:34:49.440 somewhat of a disaster uh back in 2016 in 2016 he gets into office and he was a disaster on you know

00:34:58.080 relationships and everything else but it all kind of turned out the right way you know i think that

00:35:03.840 they're all treasonous in the press and you're like oh dear god why would you say that and then

00:35:08.480 like two years later and you're like you know what i think he's right it's in the press you think he's

00:35:12.800 right look at apples to apples here basically he came in with one of the biggest people forget this

00:35:17.920 one of the biggest things in the entire campaign was isis in 2016 wiped him out and he wiped him

00:35:22.720 out a very similar situation here where you have an insurgent group starting here and we're just like

00:35:27.040 giving them the country we're just like ah you guys take it you'll probably do better than we could

00:35:31.440 anyway that's basically is it i mean think about how bad this has been this has been we all assumed

00:35:38.480 this is almost it's very similar to the taliban like we all kind of assumed that maybe the taliban would

00:35:42.880 get back in control eventually but it happened so fast it was like breathtaking that's the biden

00:35:47.920 administration like i didn't assume he was going to be a good president but this is breathtaking how

00:35:52.400 bad he has been how quickly he has got he's gotten to this level of complete failure i mean this has been

00:35:58.080 it's remarkable no you did this why would you expect less in afghanistan when this is exactly how

00:36:04.000 breathtaking the border was yeah yeah exactly i mean it didn't it wasn't a big build up it was just

00:36:10.000 like you know what come on in yeah and everybody came in they had a chart they've been running for

00:36:16.880 years on the border that the government releases and you've seen amazing have you seen this i don't

00:36:21.760 know you've probably seen this chart a million times where they show like how many migrants are

00:36:25.200 coming in and and like the lines kind of follow each other pretty much every year there's a spike

00:36:28.880 every once in a while and then you've seen the chart where they goes up and it goes way above the

00:36:33.360 all the previous years uh well the peak of that chart was 200 000 they've now had to adjust the

00:36:41.680 chart because it literally went off the chart it went off the chart they had to change the

00:36:47.840 chart they've been releasing yeah it was 210 or 220 so now they're now north of the top of the actual

00:36:53.280 chart that's how bad he's been he's been legitimately literally off the charts bad

00:36:58.560 congratulations congratulations but it's a very diverse group of people that's true that's

00:37:07.440 important you know and some of the men in the administration are having babies and i just think

00:37:12.480 it's it's something to be proud of it really is all right so you want your kids to know about the

00:37:20.320 truth you want to know um why socialism is bad why you can't think like the collective why individual

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00:37:39.440 this one no mask will work against strangely kind of the same way unless it's an n95 man um but uh you 0.97

00:37:48.640 want them inoculated from all of the crap that they're going to bring home from school the best way to do

00:37:54.800 that is to teach them in an effective way exactly who we are where we came from why we made the decisions

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00:39:01.760 this is the glenn beck program

00:39:08.080 uh coming up lieutenant general jerry boykin is going to join us uh he's currently the executive

00:39:14.080 vice president of family research council uh which of course we all know is a terrorist organization

00:39:18.640 according southern poverty law center um but uh he also was one of the founding members of delta

00:39:25.840 force uh and has been in charge of our our special forces and a remarkable man and want to get his

00:39:35.200 view on afghanistan what this means to us all around the world uh and especially china with what china is

00:39:44.800 saying it is they are mocking us right now they are mocking us the u.s lost it was a no-brainer

00:39:56.320 that was from their communist party newspaper china daily the u.s lost it was a no-brainer

00:40:04.080 from what happened in afghanistan those in taiwan should perceive that once a war breaks out in the

00:40:09.760 straits the island's defense will collapse in hours and u.s military won't come to help

00:40:17.440 that's from the other chinese communist party mouthpiece global times as a result the uh ruling

00:40:25.520 party of taiwan of taiwan will quickly surrender i mean the age of a superpower is now behind us 0.94

00:40:36.400 thank you joe biden thank you joe biden uh and the world will become a much much more dangerous place to be

00:40:49.440 by the way uh george soros uh just popped up on the scene again uh as he usually does he is um he's

00:40:56.720 saying gosh i shouldn't have made all these deals with china i think they are the greatest threat to uh 1.00

00:41:01.440 america and i see a war with china coming oh really do you george thanks 0.98

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00:42:47.840 this is the glenn back program

00:42:56.640 so again i just like to start the out of the hour with some positive news yes afghanistan is a

00:43:04.080 humiliating defeat that may put into jeopardy our very superpower status but it was a diverse group of

00:43:13.600 people that pulled this debacle off and i think in today's world that's a win

00:43:21.440 lieutenant general jerry boykin joins us in 60 seconds

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00:45:28.720 legend uh in at least for me a guy that is just one of the straightest arrows you will ever meet

00:45:37.760 uh he is now the executive vice president of the family research council who uh of course we know uh

00:45:44.560 thanks to the southern poverty law center is a terrorist organization lieutenant general jerry boykin

00:45:51.120 hi jerry how are you sir i'm well glenn it's good to be with you good good to talk to you again um

00:45:57.760 let's just start with your opening thoughts on afghanistan and how this is gone

00:46:04.480 uh tragic uh it's uh reminiscent of uh saigon 1975 i am can i may i say may i don't mean to interrupt

00:46:16.640 general but uh saigon everybody's comparing it to that but no one was hanging on to the helicopters

00:46:23.760 and then falling to their deaths in saigon when we left well clearly you are correct in fact uh

00:46:32.000 the people in saigon had close to two months to prepare for what ultimately unfolded there on i

00:46:38.400 think about the 15th of april so you're right i say it is reminiscent of saigon we haven't seen that

00:46:46.160 kind of thing it it marks a number of things first of all it marks uh uh the end of of this war that

00:46:54.800 america has lost and that is a hard thing for me to say but we have lost here uh and we need to

00:47:01.360 accept that and understand that and we need to understand that there's plenty of blame and

00:47:06.080 criticism to go around going all the way back to the bush administration here because we we really

00:47:12.480 fouled this thing up when we took our eye off the ball after we'd completed our objectives there

00:47:18.880 with the exception of capturing or killing bin laden we then turned everything over to nato and nato

00:47:25.760 will not fight that's just a simple thing i mean all you have to do is uh talk to people that have

00:47:32.400 been in different situations and i'm one of those people where nato has been on the ground nato has

00:47:38.080 been responsible and the nato countries do not fight they they come with national caveats that prevent

00:47:44.480 them from fighting so what we did is we lost our focus turned to uh iraq and uh left it in the hands of

00:47:53.040 nato we should have pulled out probably in january of uh 2002 because we had achieved our objectives

00:48:00.720 and uh then we got into nation building and when we got into nation building and we turned it over to

00:48:06.160 nato we just took our eye off the ball and uh now we see the results of that and i i am very saddened by

00:48:13.440 it uh this is worse than what happened in saigon you're right but uh it is reminiscent uh for a

00:48:21.280 generation that was not here during that period when i mean we are on the edge of losing our

00:48:29.360 super power status are we not i mean russia and china china's mocking us right now with taiwan uh 0.88

00:48:38.480 and i think they're right i think they're right well i think they're right too and that may be the

00:48:44.640 biggest loss in this whole thing it may not be just the loss of the war it may be a loss of our

00:48:50.640 credibility as a as an ally listen don't think for one minute that china and russia are not uh

00:48:57.680 licking their lips and at the same time taiwan and the ukraine are are very very worried because

00:49:04.880 we have demonstrated just how reliable we are not i comes down to it i have never in my lifetime

00:49:14.560 seen our allies uh come out as they have i mean some of our allies didn't like donald trump and

00:49:22.080 they would make you know remarks here and there but not like this our allies now all over the nato

00:49:29.760 nations they're all saying the same thing what does this mean we can't trust that america is going to

00:49:35.840 have our back anymore i mean we betrayed all of those people that went in with us did we not

00:49:44.800 we did indeed and remember we had a nato coalition there and with which i was talking about earlier

00:49:51.600 when we just finally turned everything over to them and we went to iraq we we had a nato coalition

00:49:57.760 there is and and by nato charter an attack on one is attack on all and those nations were uh obliged to

00:50:05.840 pony up uh troops to go into afghanistan and and fight with us there in afghanistan and again i'll

00:50:12.880 come back and tell you that my experience with them in the balkans and in other places is the nato

00:50:19.280 countries come with caveats from their own government that tells them exactly what their

00:50:25.040 rules of engagement are and they're never consistent with the rules of engagement that

00:50:29.520 are established to be able to win in the environment and that's what we turned it over to people who would

00:50:34.960 not fight and uh and that was a huge mistake but there's plenty of blame to go around to include

00:50:41.920 going all the way back to the bush administration when they when they did lose their focus and they

00:50:47.440 pulled everything out and went to uh iraq uh just as we were uh actually achieving our objectives there

00:50:56.720 in afghanistan with the exception of bin laden we could have pulled out of there in in january 0.93

00:51:02.560 and uh and have left behind uh the right small forces to include intelligence capabilities a

00:51:10.400 counter-terror operation uh some trainers advisors and then finally some some uh people to secure the

00:51:18.480 embassy there we could have we could have left them all behind in a very small element and sustain

00:51:25.360 that for an indefinite period of time uh but more in an advisory and counter-terror role than anything

00:51:31.280 else and we didn't how we stayed there in major forces and until finally a bad decision was made by

00:51:38.400 the obama administration to tell them what we were going to do and then turn around and pull out

00:51:42.960 precipitously uh before the even the iraqis were prepared um can you can you help me out on

00:51:50.000 why we would build a billion dollar embassy and a gigantic air force base with all kinds of strategic

00:51:58.720 uh capabilities um uh capabilities and advantages and then just walk away with it including some

00:52:05.520 drones and some blackhawks and everything else why would we do that yeah uh i i will tell you that my

00:52:14.720 my assessment is in this i hope this doesn't sound like sour grapes but i think we got uh in the obama

00:52:20.800 administration that we got some uh we got some really uh bad leadership into our military at all

00:52:28.640 levels and all services we got some bad leadership there and then we also got some some very bad

00:52:34.560 leadership over in the state department uh and i think that the combination of of of what started

00:52:41.120 under the bush administration there were some bad ones in the bush administration but that just increased

00:52:47.680 during the obama administration and and uh actually trump was about to clean it up when he uh when he

00:52:55.360 left but don't don't forget trump did uh actually say that he was going to be out of there by may

00:53:02.320 the difference is that donald trump was flexible enough to see what was going on to listen to

00:53:08.720 his advisors those that he knew that he could trust in terms of how to deal with what was going on and

00:53:15.440 i think he would have uh he would have taken a step back and have uh probably uh developed a different

00:53:23.760 timeline for this and he would have responded when he saw the taliban was going to uh to do what they

00:53:30.320 were doing i think he would have gone in there with uh with some pretty heavy firepower and uh and

00:53:35.920 fought that back oh yeah there's let them do that yeah there's no way donald trump would not have been

00:53:41.840 humiliated and let the united states be humiliated he if if that thing was coming undone you know and i

00:53:49.840 know he would have unleashed hell on the taliban he may not have changed the dates of of leaving or 1.00

00:53:57.440 anything else but he certainly wouldn't be making phone calls to the school district in fort worth on

00:54:05.040 saturday congratulating them on their tough stand on masks that wouldn't have happened he would have

00:54:11.840 been engaged yeah well what's happened to uh this country since donald trump left this whole idea of

00:54:19.440 putting america first is is is become something that we are supposed to be ashamed of but donald trump

00:54:26.480 made us proud to be americans uh and and he he did exactly what he believed in and he did what he said

00:54:32.880 he was going to do i disagreed with him uh one time and i said so publicly in the media and that was

00:54:39.920 when he pulled the u.s forces out of north east uh syria when the turks announced that they were

00:54:47.280 going to invade that area and i and i went to see his national security advisor and and his chief of

00:54:54.000 staff and i sat down and talked to him and said look i i understand this whole idea of having to write

00:54:59.040 letters home to american families because i've done it and it's very painful but the difference

00:55:04.800 between that and donald trump's responsibility i was there when they died i was with them when they

00:55:10.720 died and that makes it even more difficult but don't don't do this don't compromise don't leave the

00:55:17.520 kurds uh up there uh un un guarded don't leave them there with no allies at all and uh and that was

00:55:28.720 the one thing that i disagreed with him all but look he you talk about uh allies i don't care what

00:55:34.880 people think about uh nato and donald trump they respected donald trump he is the only guy that would

00:55:42.560 stand up there before them and say pay your side pay your bill pay up pay your portion of what it

00:55:49.920 costs to run nato and uh that was supposed to be the end of our relationship with nato but what did

00:55:55.920 they do they paid up they paid up and uh and i think that they actually respected donald trump

00:56:02.560 regardless of what they may have said about him i think that they were uh nato nations that wish that

00:56:08.720 their leader was like that and look this guy has built uh relationships in the world today

00:56:14.880 that uh i think are everything that he had built is probably destroyed now just with this whole

00:56:22.480 thing that's going on in afghanistan i've never seen i mean you're seeing big officials from england

00:56:29.520 and all over the world uh just saying this was a nightmare and we can't trust anymore um can you hang

00:56:37.200 on just a second let me take a one minute break and the pentagon can't say if it it plans to keep us

00:56:42.800 weapons out of the hands of the taliban what have we given them and what should we be doing more in

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00:58:15.760 so we have left all kinds of people behind we have left all kinds of military equipment behind that

00:58:34.800 they now have it is obscene um and biden while he said yesterday buck stops here he blamed it on

00:58:44.720 everybody including the afghan people who he said will not fight but they have lost 69 000 people in this

00:58:54.640 fight uh that's you know that's more than we lost in vietnam and they are not the size of america during

00:59:03.360 the vietnam years by any stretch of the imagination is it that they wouldn't fight is it that we wouldn't

00:59:11.600 provide air cover what happened yeah listen uh we need to understand what makes america america's uh

00:59:24.240 soldiers sailors airmen marines fight the way they do and they've done a good job

00:59:29.200 is that they have a they take an allegiance to a constitution that means something to them

00:59:35.280 to a constitution that goes back you know to the very beginnings of this nation and that in that

00:59:42.000 uh alone uh helps to bring about a camaraderie that puts them in a situation where they're fighting for

00:59:49.840 a nation they're fighting for their families they're fighting for the future of their children and their

00:59:55.600 grandchildren you go back and look at the taliban or not taliban but the afghans they're a tribal 0.86

01:00:01.920 society right their allegiance is to the local tribal chief and when you try to make a country 0.82

01:00:08.240 out of them and by the way glenn they started out writing a constitution for the afghans they started

01:00:15.920 it with the islamic republic of afghanistan well that ought to tell you something right there that we

01:00:23.520 don't know what we're doing and that for them what that's saying is therefore sharia will be the law of 0.96

01:00:30.560 the land and uh we we are to blame for that kind of nonsense but they don't fight because the taliban is 1.00

01:00:38.880 actually uh organized and motivated by an ideology a theology that they believe in very much as to what

01:00:49.440 their responsibilities are under the banner of islam and they're motivated by that uh but the the you 0.99

01:00:57.440 know the uh army that we trained and left behind there the afghan national forces uh they're still

01:01:04.240 tribal they're still their allegiance is still to the tribe and they're not fighting for

01:01:10.480 the country it doesn't exist right so um whose whose failure is this uh is it the intelligence um is it

01:01:21.600 the pentagon or did they tell did they tell the president everything they needed he needed to know

01:01:28.240 i mean he's making it sound like no that's not what they said they didn't say that this would fall apart

01:01:34.160 and uh listen glenn i i know you know scotty miller but very very well scotty was one of my delta force

01:01:44.160 guys and i know that scotty miller gave him advice not to do what he was doing and others others gave

01:01:50.480 him the same advice the problem is he's got these uh harvard and yale and and uh all these graduates from

01:02:00.240 some of these finest ivy league universities that are uh part of his cabinet part of his advisory team

01:02:08.240 part of his national security element there and they they have not a clue what afghanistan or any

01:02:17.040 other country like that is well how it's composed of the tribal nature and structure they have no

01:02:24.000 idea and they are giving him bad advice at the same time that uh some of his generals are trying to

01:02:30.480 tell him wait a minute slow down back up let's let's do this right and he has ignored that he's blown

01:02:36.560 that off because his advisors like uh his secretary of defense and his chairman of the joint chiefs

01:02:43.360 have been uh sycophants as far as i am concerned and they have nodded and said yes this will work mr

01:02:49.600 president and then you know you look at the doggone uh chairman of the joint chiefs when he was

01:02:55.040 testifying before the armed services committee and he's talking about white rage and he's talking about

01:03:00.880 what makes people go to the uh capital and breach the cap that has nothing to do with the military

01:03:07.120 nothing i didn't in 36 and a half years i never saw white rage by statute general milley is supposed to

01:03:14.720 be the advisor to the president on all things military breaching that capital had nothing to do with

01:03:21.360 the military so why are you spending your time instead of thinking about the readiness of our military and

01:03:27.440 white rage as far as i'm concerned it is a non-issue for the military so he needs some new leadership

01:03:34.960 in the pentagon well they're not coming they all felt that they did a great job uh lieutenant general

01:03:40.160 jerry boykin thank you so much sir for all of your service and best of luck at the family research

01:03:44.960 council uh lieutenant general jerry boykin find him at frc.org

01:03:51.600 this is the glenbeck program so it was lisa it all comes down again to stew stew and his wife

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01:04:27.440 until there was no food in the house now you always say i was left with no food in the house i think what

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01:05:23.360 this is the glenn beck program there is a guy who's been on the program before

01:05:28.720 um he is somebody who's just i mean a giant mentally first of all he won in 93 won the

01:05:37.920 bodybuilding championship uh as a teenager and you're like okay he's a muzzle then he went on

01:05:44.560 to receive his ba and his ma in history um then uh dual minors in philosophy and literature um he

01:05:54.320 also studied uh closely with victor davis hansen uh graduate courses at georgetown university

01:06:01.760 um he uh also studied medieval islam and semitic languages at catholic university of america

01:06:10.400 serves as the arabic language and regional specialist at the near east section of the

01:06:15.440 library of congress where he uh informs a lot of people um that are in the know and uh government

01:06:23.840 officials he also often functions as a journalist has uh been a media fellow at the hoover institution

01:06:30.720 um news analyst for cbn news and others uh he produces a monthly report muslim persecution of

01:06:39.440 christians which is why i wanted to bring him on now um he is chronicling day to day the abuses and

01:06:47.360 slaughters of christians throughout the islamic world and no one is really paying attention to what is 0.99

01:06:55.280 going on i wanted to uh bring him on uh it's raymond ibrahim he is the author of sword and scimitar

01:07:03.440 and uh distinguished senior fellow at gatestone institute raymond welcome hi glenn very good to be

01:07:11.120 with you again yeah good to talk to you again um i i'm concerned with what's going on in uh afghanistan

01:07:19.680 you know i i don't know if you're aware but i started the nazarene fund a few years ago uh with

01:07:26.400 isis and we have been going in and trying to free the women and children that have been made slaves

01:07:32.480 and anyone that is persecuted because they're a minority a religious minority um we've been trying

01:07:39.120 to get them out and now i think we've got a whole new country to look at can you tell me what's going on

01:07:46.480 yeah absolutely um afghanistan even before what happened recently was uh is widely considered the

01:07:55.600 absolute worst muslim nation in the world in so far as its treatment of minorities specifically 1.00

01:08:02.320 christian minorities so if you look at um open doors international human rights organization they

01:08:08.240 publish their world watch list annually of the top 50 worst nations um habitually of course it's

01:08:15.440 dominated by muslim nations for obvious reasons but the top 10 are top 10 nations are the absolute

01:08:21.680 worst and two or three of them are not islamic and usually the first worst nation in the world is 0.99

01:08:26.640 north korea um but then the second worst nation and the first muslim nation is afghanistan and so you 0.99

01:08:33.440 can imagine with what's happening right now it's going to get uh significantly worse for any sort of

01:08:39.520 believer believer in that area um in fact here's a little quote from the world watch list about

01:08:44.880 afghanistan it says quote it is impossible to live openly as a christian in afghanistan leaving islam is

01:08:50.160 considered shameful christian converts face dire consequences if their new faith is discovered 1.00

01:08:55.520 either they have to flee the country or they will be killed and that's uh so and now with this new

01:09:01.600 resurgent emboldened uh islamist mentality uh you can be sure that it's going to get significantly worse 0.92

01:09:08.560 for any uh christian living in that nation or even nearby raymond can you help us out on the one question

01:09:14.320 that is kind of a nagging question and i don't understand it at all and that is why did the afghani

01:09:22.160 people not put up any kind of fight what what what happened there well um i would say that

01:09:32.960 you know it there's what we are told and this actually what i'm saying right now actually comports

01:09:38.640 very well with so many other things that we talk about in the west and america and so forth but there's

01:09:43.600 what the media tells us there's what the analysts and the experts tell us and then there's the reality

01:09:50.080 and um the people on the ground in afghanistan and in these countries they don't really care for the

01:09:56.640 western uh uh for for for the things that the west cherishes okay the things uh that we say are you

01:10:05.040 know the cornerstone of western culture let's say uh uh gender equality for one example uh or you know

01:10:12.080 eliminating the patriarchy these are things that have existed uh not just in afghanistan and not just

01:10:17.840 because of islam i would say islam actually reinforces so many of these primordial tendencies

01:10:23.760 of let's say patriarchalism and so forth not creates it it actually just it reinforces it so

01:10:29.920 they go way back these ideas in places like afghanistan and when you just go there and as

01:10:35.280 the u.s government actually did especially increasingly in more recent years uh try to import you know i don't

01:10:43.120 know to what degree but it sounds like to a large degree they were trying to import woke culture as well

01:10:47.840 none of that's going to fly with any afghani at all because they're just not part of that culture 1.00

01:10:52.800 and they might have you know to an extent in as much as the america was in there and they were

01:10:57.920 trying to work with it they played along but once it became imminent that the u.s is leaving and so

01:11:03.200 forth all you know the charade just came off the mass came off and it was right back to the way it was

01:11:08.720 and before and that's the idea you know this whole nation building and trying to import democracy to

01:11:13.440 cultures that simply uh you know have it doesn't resonate with at all for a myriad myriad reasons

01:11:20.080 um that's why it fails and after two decades and all the money and blood and treasure that's been spent

01:11:25.520 that's why we are where we are so um because i heard tucker carlson last night talk about

01:11:32.640 how you know we were teaching all these woke principles um and uh you know these are principles

01:11:39.520 that don't sit well with half the population over here has this made them uh turn to an islamist

01:11:49.200 even harder or is it just is it just like i don't care just not these guys anymore i would argue the

01:11:57.760 former um historically wherever the west in any way shape or form retreats or is perceived to be weak it

01:12:04.240 has actually immensely exacerbated the idea of radical islam so if you go back to let's say the

01:12:10.880 colonial era in the you know 19th century mid 19th century and early 20th century um where the where

01:12:18.320 today we would describe america or not america's actions mostly europe's european action in the

01:12:22.720 middle east and the islamic world as very negative it was toxic masculinity it was not multicultural it was 1.00

01:12:29.600 you know our way or the highway that's how europeans more or less came about that actually

01:12:34.000 believe it or not and you know putting aside all judgments worked and muslims didn't feel resentful

01:12:39.920 they didn't they actually tried to catch up and they saw it as the winning way and we have to be

01:12:45.120 part of that culture and that's why you saw the hijab go away um it's ironic today you know 21st century

01:12:50.880 you see the hijab and the burqas and all and that uh but when you go back to the 1800s and you look at

01:12:56.400 pictures of women in the middle east and egypt afghanistan and uh syria and these countries they

01:13:01.840 actually look like western women so they were actually trying to emulate but in as much as the 1.00

01:13:05.920 west starts to retreat start to say our ways are bad our history is awful your way is love is wonderful

01:13:12.960 and that actually isn't seen as oh you're being polite let me try to reciprocate it's actually seen

01:13:17.920 as admission of weakness and it emboldens and it makes muslims go back to their own way and that's 0.94

01:13:24.160 why you see today in the 21st century um a large segment of the muslim population trying to emulate the 0.63

01:13:29.600 the 7th century muslims the pure jihadists of muhammad's time and so yeah there's definitely a 1.00

01:13:35.200 symbiotic relationship with western weakness and islamic aggression and i think with what happened

01:13:40.560 in afghanistan you're going to see that again so i read the story this morning about a woman who is a

01:13:47.040 mayor of a small uh town and the taliban has come in and she said i'm just waiting for them to come 0.99

01:13:53.680 and take me and kill me and she said there's no place for me to go um and so i'm just waiting um

01:14:01.920 the taliban has said oh no no no we're we're no we're not like that anymore do you does any sane

01:14:10.000 person believe that to be true no but the problem is we were lacking insanity um to a large extent

01:14:18.720 especially when it comes to you know our leaders and our betters for what for whatever reason they

01:14:23.440 just don't want to think according to same principles and it's even worse than that um

01:14:27.920 reports came out around august 11th a week ago of the taliban going door to door and forcibly taking

01:14:34.800 girls as young as 12 to be their sex slaves to be their wives and again so you see it's all back

01:14:41.920 it's just amazing you know 20 years of that and this most powerful nation and all the money that's spent

01:14:47.360 and all the blood and all that and then we are not just back to where we were i would argue to an

01:14:52.000 even worse spot and it all has to do with a very myopic western world view which is okay look we killed

01:14:59.040 the bad guys we got rid of the bad guys let's say osama bin laden and remember mullah omar and now we've

01:15:05.040 you know we've set up a government and obviously they're all going to want to be like us because

01:15:10.240 this is the natural culmination and see i think this is what they don't understand in order to reach

01:15:14.880 a good sort of western democracy and and the principles that we have you have to have a bedrock

01:15:22.320 before that you can't just import it on you know a surface of islam or tribalism and our bedrock

01:15:28.800 would be i would argue something judeo-christian principles and that's why you can build um

01:15:34.560 what we essentially built and but because they don't see that and they actually and when you say

01:15:39.840 that oh my god that's the worst thing judeo-christian principles oh that's you're being

01:15:43.760 you know uh whatever triumphalist and and so forth and so without that you see what's happening they

01:15:50.000 bring the package without the found the groundwork being laid and the end result is what we see and

01:15:55.360 what we always keep seeing we're talking to uh raymond uh ibrahim uh who is an expert on the

01:16:01.840 middle east um what is coming our way do you think because of this collapse oh i would argue well it's

01:16:10.320 funny because i remember almost 20 years ago you know amin zawahiri who was the second at the time

01:16:16.560 of al-qaeda he's currently the head of al-qaeda since osama bin laden died but i remember when

01:16:21.280 osama bin laden ever about three years after the invasion of afghanistan some reporters cnn asked him

01:16:26.960 uh amin zawahiri what's you know what happened where's osama bin laden where's mullah omar we

01:16:32.000 don't hear about him and what he said is it was very telling i'll give you the quote he said to them

01:16:36.560 jihad in the path of allah is greater than any individual organization it's a struggle between

01:16:41.360 truth and falsehood until all almighty inherits the earth then he said mullah omar and sheikh 0.78

01:16:46.240 osama bin laden are merely two soldiers two soldiers of islam in the journey of jihad but the struggle

01:16:52.160 continues for all time and so you see there's that patience where it looked like they lost

01:16:57.680 they stepped back now well look they're winning even though those two guys are not there mullah omar

01:17:03.360 and sheikh osama bin laden and amin zawahiri will come and go muhammad himself the prophet

01:17:08.240 came and died but the jihad goes on so and they're already saying this uh just recently a leader said it's

01:17:15.520 our belief that one day the mujahideen will have victory and islamic law will come not just to

01:17:20.240 afghanistan he just said this a couple days ago but all over the world we are not in a hurry we

01:17:25.360 believe it will come day jihad will not end until the last day so you see it's just it's this patient

01:17:31.200 mentality that we're dealing with while we usually just you know sit and look at these little myopic

01:17:37.040 sort of um uh you know uh milestones uh that in the end just don't amount to much

01:17:43.840 uh raymond um any suggestion on where we should go from here and and and i mean as a people not as a

01:17:53.920 government um you know we're this audience is very involved in um rescuing people in the middle east and

01:18:02.320 all over the world that uh especially women and children that are found in these situations and we

01:18:08.080 want to help all uh persecuted minorities um get to safety any suggestion on on what we should be

01:18:17.280 looking towards or how we can help well the first thing of course is to have to be armed with adequate

01:18:23.760 knowledge and i know you are and i'm assuming most of your audiences but to be able to understand that

01:18:28.880 you know we're talking about something like christian persecution or religious persecution of

01:18:32.800 minorities in general when you come to understand that it is overwhelmingly the lion's share of that

01:18:37.920 phenomenon is being uh dealt out at the hands of muslims and and the fact that it's happened it 0.99

01:18:44.320 happens in sub-saharan muslim africans nigeria we have a genocide of christians it happens of 0.99

01:18:49.200 course in east asia pakistan even though in malaysia indonesia and of course the heart of the muslim

01:18:55.440 world all throughout north africa middle east turkey iran when you understand that i think you start

01:19:01.120 to realize there's an ideology behind this and it's important to get you know our heads wrapped

01:19:06.000 around that ideology and understand it's not going anywhere anytime soon it's been around 14 centuries

01:19:11.440 you don't have to say every muslim believes this or every muslim is out to do this to understand that

01:19:15.600 you do have this core in there doing that and it needs to be eventually excised in order to put an end

01:19:23.360 to what's happening people need to understand the difference between a muslim and an islamicist

01:19:29.920 uh right that is the real problem and we refuse to name it raymond uh ibrahim thank you so much

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01:21:22.400 we have a fantastic guy coming on next we've been talking just recently about how we were teaching the

01:21:30.960 afghans to be woke uh well we don't like it can you imagine what that society feels about it well a guy

01:21:40.480 who is taking on woke inc joins us next why he is blowing up on how corporate america is poisoning

01:21:53.440 our society why is he speaking out oh he's speaking out like no one else next

01:22:02.480 hello america we want to talk about wokeness and i want to take you to a couple places this hour uh we

01:22:15.040 were just talking to a middle east expert that was talking about how our woke culture uh it really

01:22:21.440 didn't didn't sell well over in afghanistan uh you're kidding me it barely sells over here in america but when

01:22:30.400 it does giant corporations have taken this and they are they are just playing people like crazy when

01:22:39.200 people figure out how bad this uh this woke culture is and how it's just a product i think they're gonna

01:22:49.360 be a little upset for being used but maybe that's just me there's a new book that is coming out today on

01:22:56.320 woke inc i have its author in 60 seconds

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01:24:10.000 vivek ramashwamy is the author of woke inc he is uh quite an amazing man uh that uh was at 20 years

01:24:28.880 old was a hedge fund partner he founded multi-million dollar enterprises he led a biotech company as the ceo

01:24:36.640 uh he is a he studied to be a scientist at harvard a lawyer at yale pretty much the guy you're like

01:24:44.320 all right sit down have a nap you're making me look bad uh he is uh with us now vivek how are you sir

01:24:51.520 good to talk to you glad to be here yeah yeah um tell me the the book that you're doing is you're

01:24:58.720 blowing the lid off of of this woke scam and uh i don't know if you tie it into the great reset

01:25:05.920 um and and what black rock is or you know with what black rock is doing but um it's it's quite an

01:25:14.960 amazing scam it is it is the defining scam of our century and i didn't i wasn't born into elite america

01:25:22.000 glenn but i have lived in elite america for the last 15 years and i'm revealing the scam of our time which

01:25:28.480 is that these companies in corporate america pretend like they care about something other than profit and

01:25:34.240 power precisely to gain more of each and and the problem is that that's not just an act of hypocrisy

01:25:41.360 it is wreaking havoc on our democracy because it demands that a small group of investors and ceos

01:25:47.440 determine what's good for the rest of society rather than our democracy at law at large and that is

01:25:52.320 fostering a new crisis of institutional mistrust in our country it's dividing our country to a breaking

01:25:58.480 point as they're pushing a woke agenda that says your identity is based on your race and your gender

01:26:03.440 and your sexual orientation and that might make us better consumers to buy their stuff but it leaves us

01:26:09.120 worse off as citizens in the end and that's what i'm exposing in the new book and hopefully also

01:26:13.760 charting a better way forward for us so tell me why companies like nike this this the number one

01:26:20.000 question people have why would they do this why would they uh hold these but why would coca-cola

01:26:26.560 say be less white in their meetings why would they do that coca-cola would rather talk about teaching 0.91

01:26:34.240 their employees to be less white or issue statements about new voting law in georgia that make it sound

01:26:38.960 more like a super PAC than a soft drink manufacturer for that matter then it would talk about its own

01:26:43.840 product's impact on a nationwide epidemic of diabetes and obesity including by the way glenn in the very

01:26:49.760 black community that they profess to care so much about that is how this new game is played where big 0.99

01:26:55.680 business effectively blows woke smoke to cover up their actual business practices that they would 0.72

01:27:00.960 rather not talk about wall street mastered the game in the post 2008 era glenn when you might remember

01:27:06.720 big business was bad guy in the eyes of the old left yep but what the new left found is there was this

01:27:11.200 new what what big business found is there was this new woke left that said actually the real problem

01:27:15.680 wasn't economic injustice it was racial injustice and misogyny and bigotry and that actually presented

01:27:21.600 the opportunity of a generation for big business and for wall street in this country to say that if

01:27:25.520 they could use their market power to push these woke values if they could lend their legitimacy to this

01:27:31.040 new work movement then they could actually go from being the bad guys to becoming the good guys and so

01:27:35.920 what i talk about in the book is the story of how you know a bunch of big banks got in bed with a bunch of

01:27:39.680 a bunch of woke millennials together they birthed woke capitalism and they actually put occupy wall street

01:27:44.800 up for adoption silicon valley then copies the act effectively censoring content that the new left

01:27:50.320 doesn't want to see online but in return expecting the new democratic party to look the other way

01:27:55.360 when it comes to leaving their monopoly power intact and it has worked so masterfully for wall street

01:28:00.240 and for silicon valley that nike and coca-cola and the rest of corporate america as we know it are following suit

01:28:05.840 and i think that that is the real threat to individual liberty and prosperity today i agree

01:28:10.400 it isn't just big government it is this new hybrid of big government and big business that can do what

01:28:17.120 neither one can do on its own yeah that to me is the defining challenge of our time i think this is

01:28:23.280 you know i've heard i've heard big capitalists say for 25 years you know china's the new model and i've

01:28:29.520 always i've always responded with uh i don't want that to be the new model thank you um but that's

01:28:35.280 really what stakeholder capitalism is are we as a shareholder in shareholder capitalism i can go to

01:28:43.280 the meetings i can vote etc etc but stakeholder capitalism my only way in for a voice on that

01:28:52.080 is who i elect and we know how well washington is working for us now exactly and some people you know

01:29:00.000 amongst milton friedman types they may not like stakeholder capitalism because they think that

01:29:04.160 politics infecting business makes business less efficient and i share those concerns to some

01:29:08.720 degree i've been a ceo but i actually am more concerned about the opposite glenn is the way in

01:29:13.440 which actually it allows big business to erode our democracy yeah it makes it makes government

01:29:20.000 it makes government more efficient because they can't do those things yeah and and it also imperils

01:29:28.160 democracy because you convert this one person one vote system that we have into a one dollar one vote

01:29:34.880 system where a bunch of ceos spouting off from davos get to decide what's best for the rest of us and

01:29:40.240 you know stakeholder capitalism sounds like a very friendly title in reality what it is is a vector to

01:29:45.520 advance values that empower the people who are at the top of that chain but at the expense of democracy

01:29:51.760 itself and here's what the progressives don't realize glenn is that once corporations become

01:29:56.560 a vehicle to advance progressive agendas which they are today they become a vehicle to advance any

01:30:02.320 agenda and you put your finger on it before they are advancing the agenda of the communist party of

01:30:07.120 china because when companies like nike and disney do not say a peep about true human rights atrocities

01:30:13.120 in china while they continue to criticize the united states relentlessly that creates this false

01:30:18.960 moral equivalence on the global stage between the united states and with china when twitter bans

01:30:24.720 the 45th president of the united states but continues to allow the taliban to tweet it creates a false

01:30:29.120 moral equivalence between the united states and the taliban and that attacks our greatest geopolitical 0.75

01:30:34.640 asset of all which is not our nuclear arsenal it is our moral standing on the global stage and these

01:30:40.000 companies have turned into trojan horses that are undermining those american interests from within

01:30:44.880 not just in our culture and in our democracy but now in geopolitics i am so glad that you have

01:30:50.800 published this book i am so glad that you've published this i've been ringing this bell for a while and

01:30:56.880 you know people say oh that's crazy no it's not it makes total sense that they would do this they are

01:31:03.600 gaining money and power and not forget about america it's one market to them they're going for the globe

01:31:11.280 exactly and you think this is also a foreign policy disaster dating back 30 years in the united states

01:31:17.280 where we thought we could use our money to get countries like china to be more like us to spread

01:31:22.880 democracy correct and instead countries like china have turned that on its head by using their money

01:31:28.240 to get us to be more like them and i am sorry to say it is working that exporting big masks and happy

01:31:33.520 meals to other countries didn't spread democracy instead china has used nike sneakers and disney movies

01:31:39.120 as trojan horses sending them back with their own values and that is the reality of of the painful 1.00

01:31:44.720 lesson that we've learned over the last 30 years one of the things i do in the book though is i lay

01:31:49.200 out what i think is a better way forward what we ultimately need to do to turn this tide it will not be

01:31:55.040 easy but i think it is the defining challenge for not only the future of the conservative movement

01:31:59.360 but the future of the american movement as we know it so vivek how do we uh i mean when you look

01:32:05.680 you mentioned the banking system you know you look at the um uh the paris accords that wasn't about

01:32:12.320 global warming that was about the banking system that's all that was um and so of course it was

01:32:19.520 when you have the banking system and this new esg uh rollout you have complete control and shutting

01:32:30.400 anyone down that stands against it how are you how are you proposing how do we get out of that

01:32:37.840 so so what's happening right now glenn is crony capitalism 2.0 and it's the mirror image of crony

01:32:43.440 capitalism 1.0 in crony capitalism 1.0 what happens is companies co-opt the government to do their own

01:32:49.680 bidding effectively through an indirect bribe what we see in version 2.0 is the reverse

01:32:55.280 the government is actually co-opting companies to be able to do through the back door indirectly

01:33:01.600 what the government cannot directly accomplish through the front door under our constitution

01:33:05.520 so let's talk about climate change or climate addressing climate change as an issue that you

01:33:10.400 raised right now they could not get the green new deal through congress right so what they're instead

01:33:15.440 doing is john kerry the climate czar of president biden is boasting about this he's using big banks on wall

01:33:21.600 street to stop lending to any projects that they feel does not comport with their agenda that is

01:33:27.360 using the back door to accomplish what they couldn't do through the front door which is an affront to

01:33:31.440 the constitution and i will tell you big banks are not charitable institutions glenn they do not do those

01:33:36.240 favors for free the real question is what they are getting in reverse is a reverse bribe same thing with

01:33:41.440 big tech censorship they say that these are private companies operating as private institutions well guess

01:33:46.800 what maybe if they're operating as private companies they should be free to do what they want

01:33:50.320 but they're not they are now doing the bidding of the federal government to take down misinformation

01:33:54.880 and hate as defined by the party in power jen saki and joe biden are boasting about it and worst of all

01:34:01.280 they're actually protected by this cloak of federal immunity called section 230 that immunizes them from

01:34:06.400 liability in the states for doing exactly that and so my view is if it is state action in disguise

01:34:12.640 then the constitution still applies in the case of big tech these companies still ought to be bound

01:34:18.160 by the constitution of the first amendment the constitution and the first amendment to the

01:34:21.280 constitution of the united states when they are doing the selective bidding of the government

01:34:25.280 and when they are protected by federal immunity to do it that's an example of the kinds of solutions

01:34:29.440 i trace in the book looking back to the way in which government has actually used its power

01:34:33.840 to empower certain classes of companies to do the bidding of big government and particularly the

01:34:38.400 progressive wing of big government without the accountability that we have in our constitutional

01:34:42.720 system with checks and balances we have a government however that even without the private side

01:34:47.680 is not following the constitution and it doesn't seem as if anyone really cares about it they don't

01:34:54.400 they just think it'll always be this way and everyone who has lived in a foreign country especially

01:35:00.400 a former soviet bloc uh they are they all see exactly what is coming uh and the american the

01:35:09.440 american people just don't see it i want to continue our conversation here in in just a second the name

01:35:14.480 of the book that is out is woke inc it comes out today it is critical that you understand this is the

01:35:23.680 problem this is what we're fighting we're not fighting a bunch of marxists or anything else i personally

01:35:29.520 think the marxists are useful idiots remember i'm the guy that wrote arguing with socialists 0.84

01:35:37.120 i learned my lesson after i wrote that book wait a minute that's not even the real target the real

01:35:46.080 target is government and business colluding that's the structure and it's a communist model and yeah it

01:35:56.160 sure looks an awful lot like socialism but it's totalitarianism uh and it is run by the corporations the

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01:37:33.680 the vague ramaswamy uh is with us he is the author of woke inc why i'm blowing on how corporate america is

01:37:54.640 poisoning society um you can't be very popular revake in the circles that you have run in off

01:38:05.520 some some quote-unquote powerful people i will say in recent days as the book has come out and uh and

01:38:10.400 i'm okay with that glenn because unlike a lot of people including myself who years ago may have had to

01:38:15.760 choose between putting food on the dinner table and speaking my mind openly thankfully i've lived the

01:38:20.640 full arc of the american dream now and i don't have to really restrain what i have to say for fear of

01:38:25.200 consequence i thankfully started a company that ended up being successful i have seen this from

01:38:30.320 the inside and so many people who have seen it from the inside would rather continue playing the game

01:38:35.760 wear hipster clothes applaud diversity and inclusion muse about the racially disparate

01:38:41.120 impact of climate change after flying on a private jet to davos i can tell you it's not a bad life

01:38:45.760 i've seen what that looks like but at the end of the day somebody has to tell the story from the

01:38:50.480 inside and and i'm not a journalist reporting on my findings this is what i have seen from elite

01:38:55.760 academia to big pharma to wall street to silicon valley i have lived in those worlds and at the

01:39:01.680 end of the day i think once the american people see what's going on yeah maybe their blood will boil

01:39:06.480 but i think that is also the first step to seeing the problem with clear eyes that allows us to chart a

01:39:11.760 better way forward so you are um i mean you just said one of the bigger problems is a lot of people

01:39:17.200 would just rather play along um uh you know people i think feel powerless and when you they feel

01:39:25.120 powerless over the government but when you join the government with big tech and big corporation

01:39:32.080 what chance do you have absolutely it's really hard where you have to ultimately make the choice

01:39:38.560 between keeping your job today and speaking your mind and i personally think one of the things i

01:39:42.400 talk about in the book is i think that we need a legislative solutions that meet that unique

01:39:47.360 challenge to liberty in 2021 not just reciting some slogan we memorized in 1980 saying the free market can

01:39:52.880 do no wrong without recognizing that the free market that we idealize doesn't actually exist today

01:39:57.840 no we need to apply new dogmas to address our present challenges and so so one of those for me is really

01:40:03.600 simple i think we should add political belief as a protected class right up there next to race sex 0.69

01:40:10.400 religion national origin and sexual orientation into civil rights statutes and you know if you want

01:40:15.920 to have a conversation about whether that's actually one more constraint on a business that we shouldn't

01:40:20.240 want to apply i think that's reasonable if we get rid of protected classes altogether but a lot of the

01:40:25.200 solutions that i propose in the book is i think you can't have it both ways either we trust the market

01:40:31.120 and the truly free market to address for all forms of discrimination evenly or we have to apply those

01:40:36.480 standards evenly to say that if you can't discriminate against somebody or fire somebody

01:40:40.480 or de-platform somebody just because they're black or gay or muslim or christian or jewish or whatever

01:40:46.880 you should not be able to fire or de-platform them just because they're an outspoken conservative

01:40:51.600 either and that is not an academic issue it is happening every day in this country directly or

01:40:56.560 indirectly if it can happen to the 45th president of the united states it can literally happen to

01:41:01.600 anybody and so i think these are the kinds of solutions we need to meet our moment give me uh

01:41:05.680 we have two minutes give me a final uh pitch to somebody who kind of really doesn't doesn't get it

01:41:13.200 yet they're like i don't know if that's as bad as they're making it out to be sounds like a conspiracy

01:41:19.840 theory well i think it's not a conspiracy in the sense that you can see it in plain sight you look at

01:41:25.920 the ways that companies do business here in the united states and criticize the united states while

01:41:30.320 they're doing it ask those same businesses if they're criticizing slavery in the united states

01:41:34.320 250 years ago then why are you not reducing your reliance on slave labor in china today and if you

01:41:40.160 think that that isn't the ccp behind the scenes pulling the strings directly you can actually look 0.99

01:41:44.160 at hard facts that prove they are airbnb posts a nice black square on its corporate instagram account

01:41:49.920 and says it stands in solidarity with black lives matter here in the united states while it uses

01:41:54.080 that to win your trust to give them your data and they're handing that over to the ccp as a 0.97

01:41:59.680 condition for entry into the chinese market details that i detail in my book so this is a

01:42:04.320 game in which the american consumers are being played american citizens are being played but glenn

01:42:08.720 the right answer isn't to cancel wokeness in return it is to dilute it to irrelevance by reviving

01:42:15.120 a shared sense of american identity that runs so deep that it really dilutes wokeism to nothing and

01:42:20.560 and i think if the last decade was our decade of celebrating our diversity and our differences

01:42:25.680 then so be it let the next decade still be about celebrating what binds us together as one people

01:42:31.120 and i think that that's actually the ultimate solution is a cultural revival of that american

01:42:35.520 identity i talk about at length in the book i love you bet i i i love you uh vivek ramaswamy the name of

01:42:44.480 the book is woke inc it just became available today it is well worth your time might want to buy a

01:42:52.560 couple of copies and give one to a friend you want to understand what's going on here's a great place

01:42:57.360 to start woke inc available everywhere this is the glenn back program michael lives in arizona he writes in

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01:44:37.280 i became aware of a video uh early i think last week uh from politozoid uh politozoid has uh done

01:44:47.840 several videos that are well worth your time to watch uh let me just uh play the highlights of this

01:44:54.960 one it starts in disneyland uh and it's a woke world ladies and gentlemen boys and girls welcome

01:45:11.440 this video takes you into it's a small world except everything has changed inside but it looks exactly

01:45:21.680 like it it's uh it's a world of privilege in boats that are cramped welcome to disney's re-education

01:45:33.200 camp if your skin if your skin is white it's time you're contrite it's a woke world after all 1.00

01:45:43.760 it's a world of power a world of fears and we work long days to make souvenirs

01:45:49.200 there is a land where once you lived free as a capitalist pig of the bourgeoisie

01:46:15.840 we could eat until we are fat and we would vote democrat if we just get past that wall

01:46:26.880 the guy who put this together would like to remain anonymous so we're just going to refer to him

01:46:33.920 uh as a the creative director of politozoid he is a former disney artist welcome to the program

01:46:42.800 thank you you bet how are you i'm doing well i like your narration there thank you uh so you must

01:46:53.600 have a great job especially since you you don't uh you don't have to you don't have to take credit in

01:47:01.840 the bows you also don't have to take the hits well my family's not quite ready for that yet i think

01:47:09.040 they will come um but considering i live in los angeles and uh i run my own shop so you know i have

01:47:18.000 clients that couldn't really handle uh the fact that i animated that piece that you shared uh but you

01:47:24.960 know i'm tired of watching my country go down the drain and it's it's time to do something um i've

01:47:30.400 been doing these cartoons for about 10 years um and you know at times we've had funding and and a team

01:47:37.600 of 12 guys running around other times it's just me it just it depends on what the opportunity uh you

01:47:43.680 know the opportunity is there but um uh i took about a seven-year hiatus off of doing these cartoons and

01:47:51.040 jump back in the game with um a piece called shift hits the fan uh because i was getting so uh

01:47:58.000 bent out of shape over the impeachment scam and uh kept seeing adam shift coming on you know saying

01:48:04.240 all these things that were undoubtedly you know false and uh every one of them proved uh that he was

01:48:10.400 lying and so i i dressed him up like wiley coyote and and i put some uh you know trump hair on the

01:48:17.360 rogue runner and had him chasing after him and about three weeks later the white house was sharing

01:48:23.040 it and uh uh so you know it was like well i guess i'm back so since then i've been putting out as many

01:48:29.760 as i can in between client jobs and because these um these take quite a while to do i mean the piece

01:48:35.920 you just played took about uh four to five weeks to complete so wow um full time you know yeah it's a

01:48:42.800 heavy investment in time to do something like this and are you doing it by yourself or are there others

01:48:49.200 involved in it um right now the animation was done by myself uh i had uh some friends that helped

01:48:56.720 contribute some elements some of the posters at the end and um you know like the pictures of mal and that

01:49:02.400 sort of thing uh i i had some help uh and then uh i had some friends that uh brought together the the

01:49:10.080 chorus because all that music was recreated yeah that none of that was pulled from any original

01:49:16.160 disney material right so the orchestra everything had to be recreated uh using synthesizers and uh but

01:49:24.080 i can't sing like a child so fortunately uh i had a friend that was able to bring together um you know

01:49:32.400 a lot of acting students and and uh and of course the end was an adult choir so i'm not even sure how

01:49:38.080 many people went up singing it because i wasn't there they sent me the files um but without their

01:49:43.440 help i couldn't have pulled this off i mean if that song's not right i mean you want to feel like

01:49:47.520 you're no attraction yeah and i have to tell you the animation is unbelievable i mean you worked for

01:49:54.800 disney uh at one point as an animator and it is i mean this is really really well done um what uh

01:50:04.080 why did you take on disney well i wouldn't do what i do without walt disney um i i grew up not

01:50:14.720 wanting to be an animator i grew up wanting to be walt disney um and uh you know i've i know his

01:50:21.360 history uh i've actually traveled to marceline missouri twice and stood in front of his old offices in

01:50:28.640 kansas city and of course done the tour here in la multiple times of just uh tracing his steps

01:50:36.240 because um i can't imagine what our country would be like without amen i am so glad to hear you say

01:50:43.280 i've been allowed to go into the archives i've gone through his daily calendars and his diaries

01:50:49.200 um he's an amazing man and i i don't know if you could say this about very many people especially

01:50:59.200 in the 20th century imagine america without walt disney it would be a radically different place

01:51:08.240 and i'm not sure we'd still be free because he put so much americana into us buried it deep into us as

01:51:16.960 kids well yes um i mean just imagine what hollywood would be like without him you know there would

01:51:24.160 have been no counterbalance it's what we got now um you know i i don't know how deliberate or

01:51:30.880 structured the takeover was or if it was just kind of like an opportunity that presented itself to

01:51:35.920 the left but they took care of it by overtaking walt's company i i i understand why walt took the

01:51:44.400 company public uh he wanted to execute his ideas but it was the worst mistake he ever made uh followed

01:51:50.800 up only by him not really having a good succession plan when he died um he didn't i mean you know he

01:51:57.360 probably felt like he was immortal or something i'm not gonna die yeah uh but um that happened much

01:52:04.080 sooner than he anticipated and um you know i learned what america was through watching those shorts you 1.00

01:52:11.920 know pecos bill and and paul bunyan and all those sorts of pieces that just gave you a sense of

01:52:17.120 pride and and a connection to the people that came before us and um that that connection has been

01:52:23.760 severed and i know that walt would be just i mean that's why i put walt at the end i know you didn't

01:52:29.280 get to that part but i actually know his congressional testimony where he was talking about the communists

01:52:35.360 in hollywood i turned that in on itself where he is actually calling the current regime a disney

01:52:40.960 communist as a floating head in the reanimation lab because the old urban legend that he was right

01:52:47.360 right you know it was actually cremated well that's what they want you to believe he's actually uh

01:52:52.880 in the middle of the uh african uh uh what is that stupid ride called the african jungle the jungle ride

01:53:00.400 that's where he is the freeways the freezers in the middle of the jungle uh the jungle cruise um

01:53:05.680 um uh are there are there more people like you than we think because while we don't think there

01:53:11.920 are anybody there is anybody like you are there more disney people that are in that company that

01:53:18.080 are just silent right now um there are a uh lot of traditional folks that are below the line in

01:53:26.960 hollywood meaning that you know they're they're the the craftspeople the ones that actually do the work

01:53:32.080 as opposed to the ones that are green lighting projects and and um actors commanding large salaries

01:53:37.840 and uh they keep their head down you know i have a buddy that is having to you know direct woke stuff

01:53:43.760 right now and and i get texts going man this is just it's not my scene i hate this and um you know

01:53:50.080 they'll share my videos around by email you know their personal email and give me the thumbs up but

01:53:55.760 you know what really needs to happen is an opportunity to start pulling those folks into

01:54:01.600 a new operation that competes with hollywood yes uh one where they know that they're not going to be

01:54:06.400 canceled and that they can feed their families and and save their country at the same time and if an

01:54:11.920 opportunity like that you know presents itself and i i think that there are tons of people in hollywood

01:54:17.120 that would jump at the chance i will tell you though the conservatives just don't part with their money as

01:54:24.400 easily as liberals do especially on things like movies um you know they they don't like the odds of

01:54:31.360 success and and it's interesting because when it comes to politics it seems like the left never runs

01:54:39.040 out of money um but it's very difficult on the right for some reason well there's a very different

01:54:46.000 mindset i mean you know i kind of straddle the world between entertainment and politics and there's

01:54:51.600 very um you know the people that run the money in politics are very set in their ways um and and

01:54:58.480 they're able to kind of get the same sales pitch as to where the money's going to go and the ads and

01:55:02.960 uh you know i um you know i actually created 10 spots for the trump campaign but then not one of them

01:55:10.240 got used um and it wasn't the folks that i was working with directly they were great but it would go up the

01:55:16.480 food chain and it would get mixed wow would you be willing to share them i'd love to see them

01:55:23.280 i actually uh rebranded them as politozoid and they're on uh they're on the youtube channel and

01:55:28.160 the twitter um all right that still made sense to release but i mean i would i i didn't sleep all last

01:55:34.640 october and i put out uh spots that could have come up like the day after a debate or something and they

01:55:40.880 just didn't get used and um it was very frustrating because it i feel like the pieces i did could have

01:55:46.960 moved the needle they could have brought in folks that attrition for traditional campaign ad would 0.96

01:55:51.760 not have reached um so but you know it's it's going to take time then unfortunately we don't have a lot

01:55:58.240 of time but um you know i'm gonna keep hammering at it and as the opportunities present themselves then

01:56:03.600 i'm just gonna you know kind of keep building well i uh politozoid i have to tell you i i was really

01:56:09.440 really impressed with this uh video and uh i will begin to share some of your uh some of your work as

01:56:16.560 well and hope to uh talk to you offline as well i i think what you're doing is exactly right and i

01:56:23.200 really appreciate your uh your passion uh and your willingness to risk thank you thank you appreciate it

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01:58:10.640 uh just when we thought the worst of the pandemic was over uh it started to crawl out uh again like a

01:58:18.800 cockroach underneath a refrigerator the tyranny has uh crawled out again california reminds us the

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The Glenn Beck Program - August 17, 2021

Is America Reliable？｜ Guests： Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin & PolitiZoid ｜ 8⧸17⧸21

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The Glenn Beck Program - August 17, 2021

Is America Reliable？ ｜ Guests： Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin & PolitiZoid ｜ 8⧸17⧸21

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Is America Reliable？｜ Guests： Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin & PolitiZoid ｜ 8⧸17⧸21