On this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck is joined by his good friend and former radio host Mike Downey to discuss abortion, the McDonald's drive-thru scandal, and whether or not he would vote for Donald Trump.
00:14:01.160And so they were like, we can't let them have joy.
00:14:03.560See, I thought it was more – and you might be right.
00:14:05.740I thought it was more related to the sort of approach that Biden brought to the table and Hillary as well, which was this constant top five alarm fire sort of, oh, my gosh, get on the edge of your seat.
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00:17:45.720There's only about, I think there's like 2,000 of these people that we work with around the country.
00:17:51.380And we don't have it any bigger than that because we want to make sure that we can really watch these people and talk to you after your real estate experience to make sure they did a good job.
00:18:03.500How do we know that these people are really going through interviews?
00:18:07.540And it's not like Donald Trump who has people who are screened.
00:18:12.260Shh, shh, shh, don't say that out loud.
00:18:17.600Where do you think Donald Trump got that idea?
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00:33:49.940But now, not only do you have the Epstein files, you got the Diddy files too, that may be pretty telling and pretty incriminating for a lot of people.
00:44:34.420We're going to talk about that coming up in just a second.
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00:46:49.680And I've known Jeff for a long time and he's a friend.
00:46:52.280But I could not disagree more with this assertion.
00:46:56.200Look, if you don't want to vote for Donald Trump, it's your right to vote for whomever you want.
00:47:02.500But for somebody to actually vote for Kamala Harris and to say that they must vote for Kamala Harris because they're a conservative, I don't know how one justifies that.
00:47:12.660Now, maybe what I've written will invite a response, but I've identified a number of things that Kamala Harris wants to do.
00:47:19.500So, like, entirely gut the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
00:47:25.580Say that again and explain it because I think people will roll their eyes when you say, oh, she wants to gut the First Amendment and, you know, all the religious freedom.
00:47:35.520They'll roll their eyes because they don't know.
00:47:55.900The Do No Harm Act, ironically named, like so many other Democratic showpieces, because it would do immense harm.
00:48:04.180What the Do No Harm Act would do is essentially say that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act does not apply, cannot offer any protection to the free exercise of religion.
00:48:16.220If somebody experiences what they call dignitary harm, if they experience harm, including dignitary harm, meaning you have insulted my dignity as a person by doing X, Y, or Z.
00:48:28.300So let's say if you go to a, I don't know, like a religious hospital, for example, and you want a late abortion or you want a sex change operation or something like that, and that religious hospital says, sorry, it conflicts with our religious beliefs and policies to perform that procedure.
00:48:46.700We're not going to do it, and then that person sued to try to enforce them.
00:48:51.840This seems to be a favorite trick of the left.
00:48:54.280The Religious Freedom Restoration Act would do you no good there and would disappear because Kamala would have neutered it.
00:49:00.940Look, there is very little left of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act if her bill passes.
00:49:06.240So if you, let's say, let's say you are a church, you don't, you know, you have only male priests, and you don't marry gay people, would you be forced to marry gay people, and would you be forced to have female priests?
00:49:30.040Okay, this is a good question. I'm glad you're raising this, because the left loves to point to this, and they love to point to Barack Obama's promise when Obergefell was decided,
00:49:40.180look, I'm not going to force any of your clergy to perform gay weddings if they don't want to perform.
00:49:46.060They love to say we're not going to do that, and we couldn't get away with that anyway.
00:49:49.560Well, look, maybe that's true, and that's usually not where they're going to go anyway.
00:49:53.060They're actually going to go in the direction of religious institutions and religious individuals for not complying with what it is that they want.
00:50:03.020So it might not be a court order saying you clergymen X, Y, or Z must perform this ordinance.
00:50:09.680It's more like, yeah, if you want the ability to participate in this government program,
00:50:14.500if you want to maintain your tax-exempt status for that matter, you cannot do certain things that we regard as discriminatory.
00:50:22.740Therefore, comply or be punished. That's usually how it manifests itself, and Kamala Harris would be just fine with that.
00:50:29.400How do we know that? Well, because she wrote a bill that would do that.
00:50:32.260Okay, so you start with Jeff Flake and say Kamala wants to gut your religious freedom.
00:50:38.860That's not conservative, nor is it okay.
00:50:44.300Yeah, I go on. Say she likes price controls.
00:50:47.420That's not conservative. That's what Marxists do.
00:50:49.880Price controls don't work. Price controls buy into the Marxist theory of economics, which doesn't work, and it's certainly not conservative.
00:50:58.800I can point out that she's got an unhealthy preoccupation with abortion.
00:51:46.180Kamala wants to shut down X for not suppressing conservative content.
00:51:50.400Kamala let in 10 million illegal aliens.
00:51:53.080Also let in enough fentanyl to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans while enriching international drug cartel to the tunes of tens of billions of dollars a year.
00:52:02.660Kamala thinks it's a good idea to use taxpayer money to pay for sex change operations for prisoners.
00:52:08.980Kamala believes it's okay for elected federal bureaucrats to make 100,000 pages of new law every year.
00:52:17.000Kamala wants to tax unrealized capital gains.
00:52:22.360Kamala wants to give free health care to illegal aliens.
00:52:25.260She wants to force women to compete against biological men in sports rather than a tortured reading of Title IX.
00:52:31.100Kamala actively encourages lawless, violent protests in 2020, pledging to give money to rioters to pay for their bail.
00:52:40.140Kamala said she wants to decriminalize immigration offenses.
00:52:44.640Kamala believes there should be no restriction on abortion up until the moment of birth.
00:52:49.740Kamala backed tyrannical policies punishing Americans for not getting the COVID vaccine, even if they had legitimate medical or religious reasons to avoid it.
00:52:59.580I can't identify a single conservative reason to vote for Kamala Harris, not even one.
00:53:06.180I have to tell you, you look at that list.
00:53:09.740I mean, Mike, how does somebody, how does a religious person not just see the Democratic Convention and the free abortion vans that they had parked outside and say,
00:57:56.420Well, we're not, but they think we are.
00:57:58.720And that's yet another reason why no person who has any sympathies toward conservatism should ever vote for Kamala Harris.
00:58:06.980But they really are that transactionally minded.
00:58:09.960And you saw John Pester recently, a Democratic senator from Montana, was being interviewed and asked why he wasn't going to Kamala rallies.
00:58:21.020And he said, because I'm up for reelection.
00:58:23.600So it's just very transactionally minded, very open about saying, well, yeah, I can't act like the liberal that I am because I've got an election that I've got to face.
00:58:37.640So that's not that's not that's not cool.
00:58:40.740Look, the Democrats do think we're dumb.
00:58:43.120They do think that they can rest on the fact that we've all been marinating in Marxist indoctrination for our entire lives.
00:58:51.160Because, well, we have is primary education, secondary education, higher education, news media and entertainment media have all been under the control of leftists for pretty much all of our lives.
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01:01:00.620And there's been one question, hey, why is one answer different in the promo than the answer you aired the next night in the special from Kamala Harris?
01:01:14.600Kamala Harris was asked a question, and she gave this long convoluted answer on Face the Nation from that interview.
01:01:25.680Then when it aired the next day on CBS, the whole interview, it wasn't anything like that.
01:01:33.060So, people have been saying, can you release the transcript and release the video footage?
01:03:34.620You need to email, or write snail mail, but I would suggest email.
01:03:40.340Email the stations, make it to the general manager.
01:03:45.340You look for your local CBS television station, and you ask them why they are not demanding for their own local audience to be informed on what looks like CBS News election interference.
01:04:02.360Here's why you write that, because a letter has to be saved.
01:04:08.380Any complaint like that has to be saved for the FCC.
01:04:12.720That's how you get their license pulled.
01:04:15.720You don't do it, you know, nationally.
01:04:53.080As a moral and religious people, those of us who are still part of that group, we are all that stands in the gap between this bloodthirsty death cult that has taken over a massive chunk of the left and our nation and the innocent children that they kill every day in this country.
01:05:10.700We have to change the hearts and minds of people, and we're not going to do it by shouting against, you know, people who are going in to have an abortion.
01:05:18.500We have to love the mother and we have to love the child.
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01:15:13.120But the idea that you would bump 15 minutes of a Kamala Harris interview with this context around it to air a pre-produced piece about what happened in the 2020 election in Arizona?
01:16:12.060You know, this is not helpful to our local community because that's the directive that they have to hit.
01:16:18.780Uh, by the way, uh, fiscal policy out of the 50 states, Tim Walls, Minnesota for fiscal policy ranks last.
01:16:30.100The bottom 10 states, according to, uh, new, um, analysis, New Mexico, Missouri, Oregon, Michigan, Wisconsin, Delaware, Washington, Maine, New York, and lastly, Minnesota.
01:16:52.220Well, he proposed a budget for $2 billion more in new spending and, uh, taxes would have to increase by $1.3 billion.
01:17:02.840Then in 2021, he proposed adding a new individual income tax rate of, uh, 10.85% above the current top rate.
01:17:13.660Um, also a surtax on capital gains and dividends, a hike to the corporate tax rate from 9.8% to 11.25%.
01:17:23.780I mean, it would have raised $1.6 billion.
01:17:27.280It was, what was rejected by the legislature.
01:17:31.260Um, you know, but, uh, he has raised taxes, fees on vehicles, transportation, uh, in indexing the gas tax for inflation, increasing vehicle registration taxes, raising fees on deliveries and sales tax in the, uh, Twin Cities area.
01:17:50.780Uh, last place for fiscal policy beyond New York and California.
01:18:06.800Hey, we're up against the wire within a couple of weeks.
01:18:09.440We're going to have a much better idea where the country is headed economically, but I would argue that either way, you should, you should count on things getting worse before they get better.
01:18:18.580Uh, even if another Trump administration, you know, comes in, we're not going to be in any real good economic shape immediately.
01:18:27.420So, you know, the drill, don't trust the dollar, do your own homework, find out what's right for you and your family.
01:18:34.340But if you have money and you saved for your retirement and you haven't at least put 10% of that in gold or silver, you know, I'm not a financial advisor, but, uh, you know, it's doubled in the last 24 months, the price of gold.
01:18:49.840And it is going to go over, especially if she wins.
01:21:50.480Wall Street Journal just came out, said, because he did, he sat down with him for 90 minutes, the editorial board.
01:21:56.220Lately, Mr. Trump's detractors have been speculating about his, quote, mental decline, end quote.
01:22:01.200There's no sign of such slippage in our Thursday meeting.
01:22:04.160The 2024 Trump seems more confident and is certainly more knowledgeable about policy than he was in 2015.
01:22:11.580His discursive style of talking can confuse listeners, but that was equally, equally true nine years ago.
01:22:19.220And he never appears to be lost in his thoughts the way President Biden repeatedly did in their June debate.
01:22:25.920So, here's the Wall Street Journal saying, it's not, it's not true, he's not.
01:22:32.420And I will tell you, I was talking to Tanya over the weekend, and I said, I, Donald Trump is sharper, I think, than he was in 2016, in the way that he just seems to know a little bit or a lot of everything now.
01:22:51.920You know, he's, you could talk to him about absolutely anything.