Ten Commandments for Political Warfare | Guest: Steve Deace | 12⧸31⧸19
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Part 2 of the conversation on the Ten Commandments of Political Warfare, coming up next year. Today on The Glenbeck Program: How do we win, how do we advance what we as conservatives actually believe, and what does that mean to be a conservative?
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the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenbeck program
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so how do we win how do we actually do what we believe how do we take on the worldviews we
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discussed yesterday those seven deadly worldviews well part two of that conversation the ten
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commandments of political warfare coming up next year today on the glenbeck program
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back here on the glenn beck program i am steve dace totters and aaron mcintyre are here with me as
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well we are the crew from the steve dace show on blaze tv radio and podcast each weekday right after
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glenn beck filling in for glenn here these final two days of 2019 we got a ton of great reaction
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to yesterday's show uh about the seven deadly worldviews i probably spent the last half hour or
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so uh last night before i went to bed trying to answer as many of those as we could uh the most
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uh frequent question i received is hey can i can i get a further breakdown of those in written form
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and i should have mentioned this during yesterday's program i totally forgot um i wrote a book back in
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2016 glenn was very kind here to profile on the show which helped us sell a lot of copies by the way
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um it's called a nefarious plot uh you can still order it over at amazon.com but a lot of those
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seven deadly worldviews in fact all of them are broken down in greater detail if you want to learn
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more about those uh you can get to the book it's called a nefarious plot there it is on our shelf
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thank you air of course we have a radio audience of 500 stations across the country they don't know
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that and i got to remember that all right because we're used to doing a tv show so again if you're
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listening to us on one of those 500 radio stations across the country go to amazon.com and get a copy
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of a nefarious plot if you want to learn more about those seven deadly worldviews if you want to learn
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more about us and why wouldn't you of course blaze tv.com slash dace is how you can watch our show
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every day uh here on blaze tv you can also subscribe to our podcast just look for my name steve that's easy
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if you want to get some highlight clips of our blaze tv show uh you can listen to us live each
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day on blaze radio as well uh from noon to two eastern right after glenn beck so yesterday we we we
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spent part one looking at the landscape that we're called to engage what are we up against from a
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belief system from a worldview standpoint today we're going to be more practical how do we advance what
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we as conservatives actually believe how do we conserve because that's what it means to be a
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conservative to conserve so how do we conserve that which has proven through the course of history to be
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what's best right true and beautiful for the human condition east of eden how do we do that
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and five years ago i i wrote a book um called rules for patriots where i i kind of laid out everything i
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had learned um from my own time i think what makes me a little bit more unique than a lot of people that
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do conservative media shows is i've actually worked and been involved in kind of the technocratic
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nuts and bolts side of politics i've worked on campaigns i've recruited candidates i've consulted
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with campaigns i've done strategy for them and and so i've i've kind of got a foot in in both sides
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here you know the big idea you know uh philosophical worldview side that we focus in on often in
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conservative media but then the nuts and bolts side you know when we have candidates that represent
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our values and they run for office how do they get from point a to point b how do they how do they run on
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these themes what does that look like and so i wanted to put together um kind of a compilation
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of of the best things i've learned over the years and i wrote this book called rules for patriots that
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was published uh about five years ago and was endorsed at the time by uh who's who of people in
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in conservatism i i don't know that you're going to find too many books that get the endorsement of
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mucky mucks at the american family association and freedom works and and um you know uh you look at
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donald trump endorsed the book uh at the time when he was thinking of running for president
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newt gingrich endorsed the book at the time i mean it's a pretty diverse cross section of of people
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and involved on the on the right who took a look at the book and were willing to endorse it for their
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audiences and i've done a lot of talks and meetings about the book and stuff uh over the years but when
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i when i found that you know i i thought this stuff was good because i've done it and then i've seen it
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used against me and done by others and when i got final confirmation that i thought we were on to
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something is i got it i got a call one day from a guy named sam nunberg and it was july of 2015 so
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several months after the book came out and we had just had an event here in iowa that's where i live
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i grew up in graham pitts michigan but i was born in here in des moines iowa and that's where i raised
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my family now so i've been that's one of the reasons i'm so heavily involved in the technocratic
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side of politics is the iowa caucuses i've been heavily involved in that for a few cycles now and
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i worked for the ted cruz campaign this last go around and i got a call from a guy before i had
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declared for a candidate and decided which candidate i was going to support slash work for in this last
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cycle um one of the campaigns that was interested in me was donald trump's and the day before we had
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had this massive event carried by c-span i co-mc'd it with frank lens of fox news where 13 presidential
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candidates were here giving their pitches spiels uh to well over a thousand activists here for the
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iowa conservative activists for the iowa caucuses and i was i was standing backstage um to be
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essentially closed for lack of a better description by trump to come on board and um
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i still wasn't 100 sure i could do this you know um but i was going to certainly listen to the a pitch
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of a guy of this magnitude and todd you and i that whole summer were like yeah we see the samson
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bull in a china shop potential but can we really that's a pretty big worldview leap right we had how
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many of those conversations behind the scenes you and i had that summer as you kind of just being a
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sounding board and and and your willingness to ask because because my ego wanted all in on this
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okay but you were willing to ask a lot of the kind of the larger picture questions kind of helped me
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keep my ego in check and so we did a lot of game theory with this and how it would look correct and
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and so i'm standing there backstage and trump's being interviewed by franklund's and he talks about
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how um that was the moment when he said that uh when john mccain's name came up and i'm i'm no fan of
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john mccain as a politician anyway uh certainly appreciated his service to the country but as a
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politician um he hated people like us i just detested conservatives so i if you're if if i think
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you're going too far in criticizing john mccain that's probably too far and when he said you know
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i i like soldiers who weren't captured and the and the groans in the crowd and several other things
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he said and i'm like i there's no way i can i can at least not in a primary when there's so many
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other conservative candidates whose records are proven there's no way i can do this and we were
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actually doing a live show uh for a national radio network that day and i was breaking you were you
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were hoping helping to co-anchor the show when i was doing my mc events so i was coming back and
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forth on the stage to our stage right and i came back and you guys were like hey that was fast i'm like
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i can't it just can't happen you guys watched what happened out there i can't i can't get on
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board with this you know so the next day my wife and i are at a going to a movie after church and i
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get a i've got a voicemail it's from a guy named sam nunberg who at the time was essentially trump's
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political um operator rent was running trump's political machine and he said hey um i'm i'm you
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know you need to see this uh article i just ghost wrote for trump for usa today about his comments about
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mccain and so he sent me the link and i read the link and it was titled i will not apologize i think
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is what it was titled and he just refused to accept the premise that john mccain was an
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unassailable figure and and even went so far he even reversed the premise and went so far trumped
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it in this piece that sam ghost wrote for him to claim he's done more for pow's over the years than
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the former pow john mccain i'm amy i'm i am amy is reading this to me while i'm driving home from the
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theater and i am just incredulous okay at the chutzpah right and i called sam back and i and
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i thought you know sam and i are still friends and i thought this i thought there was a chance though
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this might be the last time we were ever going to talk because a lot of times in politics people are
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your friends when they need you or you have something they want and then when you don't
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anymore they're not you know and i was like uh bold strategy cotton all right nice knowing you
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there's that this has no chance to work and then he stopped me dead in my trash he goes i'm really
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surprised i just used the tactics out of your own book when i ghost wrote to this this you should
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have recognized these tactics you should have appreciated them it's right out of rules for patriots
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so a week later i was convinced trump was toast as a candidate a week later i called uh the guy
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running his iowa campaign named chuck laudner figuring maybe him and i might figure out you know
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because i'm about to decide who i'm going to support maybe we figured out we'd support the
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same person and he's like steve i i was about to walk away from this like everybody else i was
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offended at what he said but we are i'm i've never gotten more response from an audience around the
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country i've got military people who are who are sending us notes telling me i don't even like
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donald trump i am just so glad that finally someone said something they really think and didn't
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freaking apologize to the media that hates us for it after afterwards i didn't even like it i don't
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even agree with it thought it was appalling but it's not nearly as appalling as as the lies and fake
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news that the media that hates him and hates us feeds me every single day that the only reason i
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think government's too big under obama is i'm a racist the only reason i think a child is better off
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with a father and a mother is i'm a homophobe the only reason i think the border ought to be
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secured is i'm a xenophobe i'll take his appalling over that any day of the week and it stopped me
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dead in my tracks and you and i had conversations about this at the time too and thought maybe maybe
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well i had two responses a there's there's something different going on out there than we anticipated
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and b holy crap this stuff in this book works i mean i thought it worked all right but to see it
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played out and tried out on such a large stage was kind of the final confirmation and and that's why
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today what i want to do is i want to share with you some of the principles that were used that day
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to essentially salvage donald trump's nascent presidential campaign when we all thought it was
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done and and how these 10 commandments of political warfare how they can be used by us
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to elevate our principles and help them win the day we'll get to those in a moment here on the
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so like we pointed out yesterday this is the time of year we we kind of like to take a step back and
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assess things look at the bigger picture and so when we were asked to fill in these two days here
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on the glenbeck program the crew from the steve day show myself totters and an aaron mcintyre we thought
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hey let's kind of stick with that theme and and let's look at it two ways one a big picture philosophically
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and that's what we did yesterday with the seven deadly worldviews and then the other a big picture
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practically what's our antidote to this what's our response to this what's what's the battle plan
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here what do we do and i think it's very important because i mentioned yesterday we're having this
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debate on the right about how much of the leftist rot gut alinsky-esque tactics to deploy how many lies
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to tell how many schemes to plot how many fallacies to create because you know they're they're used so
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well against us maybe we should have our own jesse smollett's right um how many of how much of what
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they do effectively against us should we do in order to beat them how much how much fire to fight the
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fire and i reject all of that and the reason it doesn't mean there's never a time to fight fire
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with fire it doesn't mean it was wrong to firebomb dresden or drop the atom bomb on hiroshima and
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nagasaki i'm not saying there's never a time there's never a time even in the old testament the lord
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says go in there and lay waste you're the urban renewal program hit control delete nothing leave
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nothing to twitch all right i'm not saying there's never a time for this but we you have to you have
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to understand that's a last resort because the collateral damage of those acts is high and you have
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to do the calculus from a just war standpoint that the that the collateral damage is worth is worth
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that to accomplish the goal i don't think we're there yet especially when there's an opportunity
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to try a set of tactics that don't diminish our principles but elevate them and when i when i
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first wrote did a symposium on this book or a talk on this book at a group of with a group of
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conservative leaders a guy running for congress came up to me and said hey are you concerned about
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putting this out publicly that the other guys may try to adopt these tactics and no i'm not and the
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reason why these tactics won't work they won't work with with a leftist viewpoint they won't work with
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post-modernism um they won't work with moral subjectivism and moral relativism they won't work
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these are the tactics meant to attack those constructs not elevate them so we're going to spend the show
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here today barring any breaking news here on the final day of 2019 and let me be you know right away
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wish happy new year to all of you listening around the country we're going to spend the show today
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walking you through these 10 commandments of political warfare how do we do what we believe
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you guys ready to go for sure all right let's do it commandment number one all right never trust
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republicrats now i want to define this term aaron yes uh what does never mean never
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there you know yesterday he was so idealistic and virtuous as we were doing these highfalutin
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philosophical principles for those you don't watch our show daily that's actually aaron all right
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all right that's the the let me come over the top rope with a leg drop of cynicism and skepticism
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before you even make your point that's our aaron right there yes it's a beautiful thing yes yes all
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right so never if you look it up in the original greek means never never trust these people now
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let me define what this means a republican is not a rhino at this point we could be that we're
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probably the rhinos the conservatives are probably the rhinos a rhino is the chris christie liberal
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republican uh who knows what to who couldn't become a democrat in an all-blue state because the the
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roster's too full or they're not talented enough so or they're not connected enough so they realized
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you know i can make the b team over here the republican team in this blue state and you know i
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can i can be the you know the big fish in a small pond over here and they get huge power in these blue
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states right we've known the names of who rhinos in these blue states are over the course of our careers
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a republican is something different a republican is somebody who knows mitch mcconnell in kentucky
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one day when i the year i was launching this book at cpac was the day mitch mcconnell ditch ditch as i
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used to call him was uh because that's where he'll drive you if you trust him into a ditch uh he was
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speaking at cpac that day and he comes in waving this ar-15 yeah i'm sure he's got a rack of those
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that is brownstone over there in dc or not okay and he probably thinks ar-15 stands for assault rifle
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like the media does too all right the crowd goes wild yeah ditch yeah mitch yeah cocaine mitch yeah
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yeah see those guys realize that i you know i've got to be conservative here at home right
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it you know remember when mitt romney was a severe conservative in the presidential primary
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and then his his campaign aide eric fenstrom said that well you know that we won the nomination it's
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just kind of an etch-a-sketch remember that and we just kind of shake it up and now you know you
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move to the middle and and now you see that you know mittens willard is far more comfortable
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in those middles to lefts all along he was just lying to you before about being severely conservative
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see that's what a republic rat is the the guy who knows who with the consultants who tells him hey
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here's how you need to get elected in this state you can't be a rhino they won't you have no chance
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you won't win you got to say what they want to say rub their bellies okay pat them on the heads
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and then when they're not paying attention then you get to washington and you you hit k street
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which is where all the lobbyists live that's literally the street in washington where the
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lobbyist groups are all right man you hit k street all right the way the way we hit the mekong delta
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and nam okay and and you get as progressive as you want to be once you're here and you'll get away
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with it if you just go back home and give them the talking points that help them own the libs
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and then when you get to washington you can govern just like them and no one will say a word
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do you know legions like that i'm going to give you some names
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that are going to blow your mind when we come back here because they're your new conservative heroes
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except they're not we'll give you some names that illustrate what i'm talking about they're
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going to blow your mind when we come back here on the glenbeck program stay tuned
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how do we do what we actually believe how do we get it done get her done how do we do that
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our 10 commandments of political warfare this is number one
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do not trust someone just because they talk a good conservative game
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i believe there's a famous line from an all-time bestseller that says faith without works is what
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uh dead that would be dead all right show me your works and i'll show you your
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faith right show me your faith and i'll show you your works it's a symbiotic relationship
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in politics you are the hills you die on not the slogans you spout
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let me say that again in politics you are the hills you die on
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any unkept promise by this president in his first term
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they didn't repeal obamacare he outsourced that to paul ryan and mitch mcconnell they
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they don't believe in that stuff they weren't going to do it
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we still got soldiers standing around in afghanistan waiting to get ied to death like a
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in one of the armpits of this planet for reasons only a law knows
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has no other than its poppy fields it serves no strategic benefit whatsoever
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boy the pentagon is full of those kinds of republicrats
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just to continue updating how your members of congress are performing
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of gassing Jews and in in in ovens Zyklon A you
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last few years that was like the biggest pro-life
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long before Aaron was even born was was banning
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right on something you're wrong you can't do late-term
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and partial birth abortion in France where their
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prime ministers have their mistresses and their
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Mitterand all right and they stand next to each
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want it no okay if not stick a fork in it we're
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done here you can't do that in France where the
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mistress and the wife are both that Prime Minister
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Mitterand's general okay France won't let you do
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France but they don't permit late-term abortion
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when does life begin and all of our legislation
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all of it all of it artists ought to begin with
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co-opted it it should say child or baby in your
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against him one of the greatest I mean technicians
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the most famous examples I can think of off the
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top of my head early in his presidency the country
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Carter years still a big debate about whether his
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tax cuts are going to work or not we hadn't seen
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really a mass across the board tax cuts since JFK in
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the 60s and Keynesian economics reigns supreme at
01:16:07.760
this point in time and so Reagan's unpopular and the
01:16:11.180
economy's not doing well it just fired the air traffic
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controllers so a lot of the a lot of unions I think
01:16:17.300
the teamsters endorsed Reagan in 80 I believe thought
01:16:20.360
that you know he might be better for the everyday
01:16:22.300
working man then we saw in the Carter years we had to
01:16:25.260
invent the term misery index to accurately describe
01:16:28.520
what the economy was like and he's he's standing there
01:16:38.980
starts to try to corner the ABC the ABC's longtime chief
01:16:45.300
White House reporter of yesteryear tries to corner the
01:16:47.680
president says Mr. President you have said here today or
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stood here today and blamed everybody other than
01:16:53.680
yourself for the state of the economy you've blamed the
01:16:55.660
Democrats in Congress you've blamed you know a lack of
01:17:00.120
patience for your policies you blame Democratic governors
01:17:03.780
and their policies in in their Midwestern states you have
01:17:08.060
blamed everybody other than yourself sir you are the
01:17:10.120
president do you share no blame for how people are suffering
01:17:14.100
right now and without skipping a beep Ronald Reagan looks at
01:17:19.380
him and says well Sam you're right for many years I was a
01:17:24.700
Democrat so I do share some of the blame as well
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that's a mic drop one of the most famous clips of his presidency
01:17:35.360
is in the first debate against Walter Mondale in 1984 for his
01:17:40.240
re-elect Reagan did not perform well and it looked like he was going to
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cruise to re-election now suddenly like maybe this guy's too old to be
01:17:48.740
debate is about that performance and is he too old to be president how would
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he reassure the American people and he looks he cocks his head he looks over
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at Walter Mondale and says well I want to assure the American people I'm not
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going to stoop to the level of using my opponent's relative youth and
01:18:04.040
inexperience against him in this race and even Walter Mondale laughed at that
01:18:09.680
that's how you reverse the premise of your opponent's argument and use it
01:18:15.300
against them one of the things you'll often see me say when when somebody
01:18:19.860
crazy on the left makes a point calling somebody that we like names all
01:18:24.940
often respond with you know when it comes to blank you're certainly the subject
01:18:30.260
matter expert here so I may have to rethink my opinion on this topic because
01:18:34.500
everybody knows you've got this one down in spades bro okay don't hang them
01:18:41.840
from their hoist their hoist them from their own petard as Shakespeare used to say
01:18:45.920
that is a devastating tactic in argumentation in the arena of ideas
01:18:51.960
particularly when it's done with humor or winsomeness don't accept their
01:18:58.700
premise but now let's go a step further reverse it and use it against them we'll
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have more on that here when we come back our three of the Glenn Beck program is
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our third and final hour here on this new year's eve day filling in for Glenn Beck on the Glenn on the
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Glenn Beck program happy new year to all of you we are the crew from the Steve Day show that would be
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01:22:18.480
political warfare here's how I believe we can actually and effectively do what we believe and
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they're from my book rules for patriots how conservatives can win again endorsed by a few
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people you've probably heard of current president United States Donald Trump the former speaker of
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the house Newt Gingrich just a couple a guy named Ben Shapiro just a few people some of you may have
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heard of endorsed this book when it came out a few years ago I want to go back one more time to
01:22:44.460
commandment number five about reversing the premise of your opponent's argument and using it against
01:22:49.280
them we left off there at the end of the last hour and I know I want to I want to say one more
01:22:54.180
thing about this commandment you know we started off today talking about how I'm not a big fan of
01:22:59.800
the debate over how much like the left should we become to beat the left right you know what I've
01:23:08.100
I didn't always grow up in the best home and this is one of the reasons I'm sensitive this debate is is
01:23:14.260
my own life and I remember thinking as a little kid man I want to grow up and be better than my dad
01:23:25.240
was to me and I remember sitting watching Empire Strikes Back as a little kid when Luke goes into
01:23:32.300
that cave in Dagobah and he and he and the invader is there he's being tested and his immediate instinct
01:23:41.120
is I got to take this guy down right now right and he takes him down decapitates him actually
01:23:46.780
but then the helmet opens and whose face is inside is that blew my mind as a kid
01:23:53.780
and it does us no good to to try to beat venom with venom toxin with toxin one of the things we
01:24:06.060
point out in our show whenever this debate comes up is zero times zero is is just zero
01:24:11.660
when you're dealing with people in a movement that want to tear down everything sacred that matters
01:24:18.380
to you they're fine if you help them along they don't care you know as long as this thing is an
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is on the ash heap to history I mean that's all they care about you want to help push them make you
01:24:30.800
push the pile they're fine with it but that doesn't mean there's never a time as I also pointed
01:24:37.580
out at the top of the show to fight fire with fire this commandment is the place to do it this is the
01:24:42.960
place to do it let me give you an example if we're going to set the precedent in our society
01:24:47.340
that the only reason you could possibly have to disagree with Barack Obama's policies when he was
01:24:56.680
president is you're a racist right we're going to set that precedent sure okay okay you sure you want
01:25:02.160
that premise we'll go with it right now in the city of Detroit I'm assuming we're on there because
01:25:07.800
we're on like everywhere else right now in the city of Detroit eight percent of the children there
01:25:13.780
eight I just I can't even I can't even fathom that eight percent of the children
01:25:34.100
in the Obama years by the way that was that was their stat when he was president that was his
01:25:43.980
overwhelmingly the population of students in the Detroit public schools are black
01:25:52.840
so therefore if we are going to do let's just play out the math if we are going to set the
01:25:59.440
precedent if your premise over there on the left is that the only possible reason I would oppose
01:26:06.660
policies from the from the previous president we had more people on food stamps in America under
01:26:13.880
Barack Obama than the total population of Spain you ever been to Spain travel there take a trip
01:26:21.780
look around and realize that if you took the entire population of Spain that would be the
01:26:27.460
amount of people who are on food stamps when Barack Obama was president
01:26:30.600
and the only reason I think that's a bad idea that's bad for the country and bad for people
01:26:37.880
hey I grew up we were on food stamps I remember getting those as a kid we ate government cheese I
01:26:42.800
did reduce school lunches so the only reason you could possibly think it's bad to have more
01:26:49.360
Americans in the richest country on earth on food stamps
01:26:52.520
then the total population of Spain is you're a racist if that's where we're at now
01:26:58.120
okay well then the only reason you don't want school choice that would free those black kids
01:27:05.440
from those underperforming schools is you're a racist there cannot possibly be another reason
01:27:13.740
why do you hate black kids why are you a racist see that this is where you do it
01:27:21.000
you don't match a lie for a lie you know water down what you believe you don't accept their talking
01:27:30.020
points but I'm all for making the other side live by the standards they want to impose on
01:27:37.220
everybody else I'm all for that I'm not lowering my standard for you but I'm sure as hell going to
01:27:43.240
make you live by yours oh yeah that you want to live by that standard that's the standard you've
01:27:48.480
articulated you love misquoting Matthew 7 to me out of context judge not lest ye be judged
01:27:53.520
without finishing the rest of that verse which by the way Matthew 7 in its proper context is Jesus
01:28:01.620
condemning people of their hypocrisy their unwillingness to live by the standards that
01:28:09.180
they want to impose on everybody else which is why I'm totally fine imposing your standard upon you
01:28:14.280
it's not my standard you're the one that wanted that standard I don't want to live in a country where
01:28:17.620
the only possible reason you could disagree with me is you are the lowest form of life on earth
01:28:22.080
you're racist scum I I don't I don't want to live in that country but you said you did you wanted
01:28:28.460
to live there so by the power vested in me by the freedom of speech I'm sure as hell gonna make you
01:28:38.260
live there squalor there squat in it live in it breathe it eat it swallow it all would you like to
01:28:47.560
play a game of Matthew Broderick yes every last morsel of it you may have
01:28:51.800
if that's where you want to live I am I am perfectly fine letting you live by your own
01:28:59.920
stated standard that's what that means you have any further thoughts on that gentlemen
01:29:05.880
perfect asked and answered well done let's go to the next commandment number six never abandon
01:29:12.680
your base unless they're morally wrong never abandon your base see in politics if you don't
01:29:19.320
have a base you don't have anything you have name ID money but if you can't develop a base
01:29:23.360
meaning a primary in the radio business we call these people p1s your primary audience
01:29:28.720
the people that truly believe in your product and so they're gonna they're gonna give you the best
01:29:35.040
advertising of all word of mouth they're gonna spread it for you
01:29:37.980
that's the first goal any politician has to have is a base that's why Michael Bloomberg
01:29:45.220
is never gonna be the Democratic nominee he can outspend every candidate in the race except for
01:29:52.040
maybe Tom Steyer who's not gonna be the nominee either because they can have all the money they
01:29:58.540
want and if you live in our home state of Iowa right now you think Tom Steyer owns every television
01:30:04.840
station in the state because you cannot turn on a program without a Tom Steyer commercial and
01:30:13.620
and thanks to the algorithms if you if you live in Iowa you cannot log on to a website or a social
01:30:18.800
media site without being inundated with Tom Steyer inserts and ads but he has no base he's not
01:30:25.060
developed an actual base so you know what he's doing he's just creating really cool Christmases
01:30:30.880
for media ad buyers and media media ad sellers at all of these television stations and he's making a lot
01:30:38.800
of people rich but he's not he's not he's not growing a base you must have a base greatest example
01:30:47.020
of this is Ron Paul I can't think of a politician the system hated more than him over the years why
01:30:55.620
was he able to withstand that despite sometimes the crazy things he believed in the crazier things he
01:31:03.520
said because he had one heck of a loyal base so you you have to have a base even the republicats
01:31:11.760
that you maligned believe in this one as fervently because they know they have to lie to you enough
01:31:17.100
right to make you believe in the power of the magic are the only time in the obama years that the democ
01:31:21.960
that the republicans really took him on really took him on was when Antonin Scalia died
01:31:25.980
because if they let Barack Obama seat the successor to Antonin Scalia that's a real game changer on the
01:31:35.960
court and other than I'm just team GOP the number one reason you vote republican is judges in the 2016
01:31:45.680
election in the in the exit polling the number two issue that decided voters choices number one was the
01:31:52.080
economy and jobs number two judicial appointments and among those voters Donald Trump won those
01:31:57.520
voters by like 25 points so the republicans are like crap man we really want a shadow box here like
01:32:04.760
we always do and just you know get on Fox and lie to people and just go back home to our brownstones
01:32:09.620
and our our our our watering holes and and just cast the k street check but if out in the open and in an
01:32:16.360
election year if we let Barack Obama seat arguably the greatest conservative justice of the century
01:32:23.180
Antonin Scalia if we let Barack Obama in an election year out in the open seat and Antonin Scalia's
01:32:29.700
successor the whole scam is up here we can't afford that so on this one survival instinct took over we
01:32:35.780
have to fight like my old man used to tell me about the Alamo one of the main reasons there was so much
01:32:39.780
bravery there there wasn't a back door there wasn't a back door out of this one so the republicans had to
01:32:44.780
fight Obama on Merrick Garland and they did because they knew if they abandoned their base on this they
01:32:50.500
were toast don't ever abandon your base they do this though all of the time for those of you shocked
01:32:58.100
I get calls from media people all the time why are all these evangelicals supporting Trump
01:33:04.280
why has he got a 90 approval rating amongst republicans
01:33:12.560
doesn't always deliver for him now that's true too
01:33:19.280
but you're not worried about Donald Trump going to one of his rallies on national television
01:33:25.000
and throwing you under the bus on an issue you care about in that setting
01:33:29.300
like you used to worry when George W. Bush was on the debate stage with John Kerry
01:33:33.680
and you like watched with your fingers over your eyes
01:33:36.140
and when like certain issues come up you're like please just don't go to the left of John Kerry
01:33:40.260
and I'm going to call it a win please right right is that what I'm talking about sure
01:33:48.600
unless they're morally wrong if they're morally wrong
01:33:53.620
but if your base isn't morally wrong you cannot abandon your base
01:34:08.460
you know they have these things called primaries
01:34:25.080
you're not free to take part in the process until post Labor Day every time
01:34:29.020
because you know in philosophy we have what are called fallacies
01:34:33.800
which means if one side's assertion is true and the other one's not
01:34:41.160
so if it's true that you cannot abandon your base and be successful
01:34:46.420
then it must also be true that that base wields an inordinate amount of power
01:34:54.860
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consider them to be children and so a couple of
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Wasserman Schultz performed the age-old political
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wrestling move known as the tap out she couldn't get
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Deb hey Deb when were your kids kids you defend your
01:52:17.800
called as if you're a Christian you're called by
01:52:31.960
reason with our faith and faith with our reason
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but it doesn't say to always be on the defensive
01:52:38.240
having a defense for your beliefs isn't the same
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Saint Peter that wrote those words on the day of
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Pentecost went down to the went downtown on the
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busy one of the busiest days of the year in full
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throat and said y'all need to turn or burn that's
01:52:59.180
what's up turn or burn Jesus is the reason for the
01:53:03.460
season turn or burn and I'm here to tell you give
01:53:05.840
you the what's for and that's what's up now that's
01:53:09.000
going on offense and I you're not playing defense when
01:53:12.740
you're down there jumping on a box saying to the
01:53:16.460
crowd I got a little something something for you and
01:53:24.280
offensive Steve you say that's right it is yes the
01:53:32.520
difference between having a defense for what you
01:53:35.540
believe but being on the defensive if there is if
01:53:40.840
there is one of these tactics this president does
01:53:43.280
exceedingly well is that he rarely gets caught on the
01:53:47.620
defensive bias detractors do not do not feel like
01:53:58.440
culture is like a jury box yes at times you will be
01:54:02.920
called to the stand and you'll have to testify and be
01:54:05.880
cross-examined but you know what the other side has to
01:54:08.920
go to the stand and be cross-examined too you don't
01:54:12.080
like my belief system you don't like the constitution you
01:54:14.960
think it's forged by a bunch of racists you think the
01:54:17.960
the the judeo-christian worldview and moral systems the
01:54:21.040
heteronormative patriarchy cool what do you want instead
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then lay it out show us right unveil before us what your
01:54:27.560
plan therefore is because if you aren't willing to do
01:54:30.660
this with transgenderism in this day and age you don't
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deserve to have a culture quite frankly if you want to
01:54:35.020
know how devastating this tactic is look at elizabeth
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warren's presidential campaign three months ago she was
01:54:39.840
the heavy favorite to be the democratic nominee and it
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has collapsed ever since she was forced to do what defend her
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own record and belief system hey this medicare for all plan do
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the math show us how this is going to work so being the true
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marxist believer from wellesley college for women she is she
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we've got two more quickly of our 10 commandments of political warfare to get to number nine stay on
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message don't get off message stay on message when you have a winning message
01:56:40.220
don't change the subject play the hits people like to play the like to hear the hits all right
01:56:46.720
i'm not going to a deaf leopard concert to hear your new stuff because joe elliott can't sing
01:56:50.980
anymore all right if i'm gonna hear joe elliott blow out his larynx i want to hear it on photograph
01:56:56.100
and pour some sugar on me not some song they wrote for the behind the music special on vh1 last year
01:57:03.100
right stay on message and play the hits all right i'm gonna go watch elton john in concert i want to
01:57:08.640
hear some tiny dancer some rocket man some saturday nights all not right for fighting right i don't i
01:57:13.620
don't really want to hear what he thought you know looking at on golden pond last night last month i'm
01:57:18.960
not here for that i want to hear him screech his way through the hits so stay on message make make red
01:57:24.440
baseball hats pass them around you know that kind of thing yeah yeah yes stay on message yes and then
01:57:30.580
commandment number 10 play offense nothing inspires your base more than that is if you are on offense
01:57:38.780
people rally to you when they see you're on offense all right stay on offense gentlemen that pretty
01:57:47.620
much wraps it up for the last two days want to thank um uh the whole team here uh at the glenbeck
01:57:53.800
program both uh with the blaze and premier for giving us an opportunity to do this the last
01:57:58.560
couple of days it's been a tremendous amount of fun i'm usually in the basement this time of year
01:58:04.080
on vacation you couldn't get me out of the basement for just anything but a chance to to be a part of
01:58:08.760
this program uh the last two days and do it with the two of you was too good to pass up did you guys
01:58:14.360
have fun a blast yes definitely any final pithy wise words you want to impart to this audience in case
01:58:21.840
they never hear from us ever again take to heart what we said this isn't just show filler um 2020
01:58:27.280
is going to be nuts you need to be equipped for it yeah uh know thine enemy and know how to fight
01:58:33.660
back with that in mind and don't forget if you like what you heard here you want to hear more
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me steve at stevedace.com i hope all of you have a great new year and a rest of your holiday
01:59:05.320
until the next time we see or hear from one another john 317