The Glenn Beck Program - August 17, 2021


Is America Reliable? | Guests: Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin & PolitiZoid | 8⧸17⧸21


Episode Stats

Length

2 hours

Words per Minute

162.62454

Word Count

19,629

Sentence Count

58

Misogynist Sentences

18

Hate Speech Sentences

56


Summary

In the wake of the withdrawal of most of the U.S. forces from Afghanistan, many have been quick to point the finger at President Joe Biden and blame him for the debacle. But is there a silver lining to the story?


Transcript

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00:00:14.560 have pulled troops out of iraq or afghanistan would it have gone better than what joe biden
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00:01:10.240 what you are about to hear is the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:08:34.420 diverse set of hands in the history of american decision making wow that's great that is now white
00:08:42.160 house press secretary jen saki conveniently out of the office until the 22nd of august uh but she has been
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
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
00:09:23.820 okay she is also a proud member of the underrepresented uh underrepresented um ginger american community
00:09:31.900 you don't see a lot of gingers and especially gingers in power not in this country at least
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
00:26:48.060 forefront of progress inside their nation president biden has promised to evacuate these afghans along
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
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
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
00:37:31.200 responsibility is so important why the free market works you have to inoculate them you want a vaccine
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
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
00:38:03.200 we made a freer more perfect union accurate history of the united states free markets limited government
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00:38:33.360 parents need to know this as well just gave my son for his birthday as part of his present like the
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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
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
00:41:01.440 america and i see a war with china coming oh really do you george thanks
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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
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
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
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
01:00:01.920 society right their allegiance is to the local tribal chief and when you try to make a country
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
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
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
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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01:04:31.600 that means is you ate all the food in the house well no i was left and my wife left and she she she knows
01:04:38.400 how much i eat and she she only left enough for what six weeks so you're a couple days gone for three
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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
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
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
01:08:26.640 north korea um but then the second worst nation and the first muslim nation is afghanistan and so you
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
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
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
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
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
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
01:13:24.160 why you see today in the 21st century um a large segment of the muslim population trying to emulate the
01:13:29.600 the 7th century muslims the pure jihadists of muhammad's time and so yeah there's definitely a
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
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
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
01:18:44.320 happens in sub-saharan muslim africans nigeria we have a genocide of christians it happens of
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
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
01:26:55.680 business effectively blows woke smoke to cover up their actual business practices that they would
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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