The Glenn Beck Program - The 'Exhausted Majority'？ - 10⧸11⧸18

00:00:00.000 The Blaze Radio Network, on demand, Glenn Beck.

00:00:08.180 Well, you can take this to the bank.

00:00:11.880 Obamacare will eventually get repealed, but it will not be the GOP leading the charge.

00:00:18.420 It is going to be the Democrats.

00:00:20.120 At this point, I don't think the left ever really intended for the Affordable Care Act

00:00:26.180 to actually live up to his name.

00:00:28.440 That's what we said at the beginning.

00:00:31.320 This is destined to fail in catastrophic form.

00:00:38.680 Ten years ago, Americans with employer-provided health care had an average deductible of about $300.

00:00:47.860 Oh, how far we have fallen because of Obamacare.

00:00:52.240 The average deductible now is four times what they were before Obama, a decade ago to today.

00:01:05.200 It's now $1,400 in deductibles.

00:01:11.740 $300 to $1,400.

00:01:15.060 That's a 212% increase.

00:01:19.260 Deductibles are growing at a rate eight times faster than wage growth.

00:01:24.720 Twelve times faster than inflation.

00:01:27.120 And these are not my numbers.

00:01:29.780 They didn't come from the Heritage Foundation or the Cato Institute.

00:01:33.180 This is from the annual report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

00:01:38.940 And by the way, did I mention they're based, you know, behind the progressive iron curtain of California?

00:01:44.920 Did I also mention that Kaiser helped spin the left's talking points when the Democrats were trying to pass the Affordable Care Act and tell us that, oh, no, this is going to be fantastic for everybody?

00:01:57.940 Yesterday, President Trump wrote an op-ed in USA Today titled, Democrats' Medicare for All plan will demolish promises to seniors.

00:02:09.740 He goes on to explain how the plan would cost an insane $32.6 trillion during the first 10 years.

00:02:19.320 The president continued by slamming the left's open border policies and calling out their socialist policies.

00:02:25.880 USA Today's tweet pointing out the Trump op-ed read, quote, Democrats want to outlaw private health care plans, taking away freedom to choose plans while letting anyone cross the border.

00:02:40.200 We must win this, end quote.

00:02:43.780 Well, apparently, shockingly, Jim Acosta from CNN took major beef with this.

00:02:49.640 He fired back both at the president and USA Today with a little tweet of his own, quote,

00:02:55.880 Quote, this column may break the record for the number of falsehoods from a president ever published in a newspaper op-ed.

00:03:04.380 Just this tweet alone is false.

00:03:07.760 Outlaw private health care plans?

00:03:10.240 Letting anyone cross our border? 1.00

00:03:12.460 Huh?

00:03:13.600 Fact check.

00:03:14.920 False and false.

00:03:16.620 Come on, USA Today.

00:03:17.940 Now, I know I shouldn't expect journalists these days to to do any kind of actual journalism.

00:03:27.220 I mean, that's so old timey.

00:03:30.260 Remember when they actually didn't lie to us?

00:03:34.420 It's kind of funny.

00:03:36.500 Actually, it's really sad that it's painfully obvious that journalists like Acosta haven't even read the left's proposal on Medicare for all.

00:03:46.600 It's H.R. 676.

00:03:49.480 It has 123 Democratic co-sponsors.

00:03:54.200 That's more than half of the House Democrats.

00:03:57.660 And it reads, and I quote,

00:04:00.160 It shall be unlawful for a private health insurer to sell health insurance coverage that duplicates the benefits provided under this act.

00:04:12.620 End quote.

00:04:13.760 You see, you didn't point out that the president was lying when the president said,

00:04:25.360 You're going to be able to keep your doctor.

00:04:27.280 You're going to be able to get a refund.

00:04:30.600 In fact, you're going to save all kinds of money.

00:04:34.420 You wouldn't do the math on that.

00:04:36.800 It was simple math, but it required you to tell the truth about the bill.

00:04:41.800 Now, now you are denying that the Democrats want to stop all private health care.

00:04:51.620 It's in their bill.

00:04:54.940 How low can you guys go?

00:04:59.820 How much water can you carry before it snaps your back?

00:05:06.060 How much can you ignore?

00:05:08.160 The replacement for Obamacare is coming, and it is so radical that the left-leaning media can't even see it anymore.

00:05:21.220 The Affordable Care Act was a setup.

00:05:24.900 We told you it was.

00:05:27.320 If the left takes full control in 2020, you will finally see America.

00:05:34.280 The new America that we have been progressing toward the entire time.

00:05:40.320 It's Thursday, October 11th.

00:05:48.180 This is the Glenn Beck Program.

00:05:52.960 Let me give you some good news.

00:05:56.000 May I give you some good news?

00:05:57.720 You sure can.

00:05:59.160 There is a new study out.

00:06:00.780 They spoke to 8,000 people.

00:06:04.340 They also did 31-hour interviews, six focus groups.

00:06:07.980 And it was conducted between December 2017 and September 2018.

00:06:15.140 And here's what they were looking for.

00:06:19.640 Want to find out about how Americans feel about white privilege, sexual harassment, you know, all of the PC stuff.

00:06:30.480 The Me Too witch hunt.

00:06:32.340 They said there are seven distinct clusters now in America.

00:06:38.160 Progressive activists, traditional liberals, passive liberals, politically disengaged, moderates, traditional conservatives, and devoted conservatives.

00:06:48.460 Now, according to the report, 25% of Americans are traditional or devoted conservatives.

00:06:55.140 25%.

00:06:56.340 25%.

00:06:56.960 Whoa, wow, that's really low.

00:07:04.160 Well, only 8% of Americans are progressive activists.

00:07:11.040 Excuse me?

00:07:13.140 Their views are even more out of the mainstream and are less typical.

00:07:19.860 Two-thirds of Americans do not belong in either extreme progressivism, as progressive activists, or as traditional devoted conservatives.

00:07:35.320 The vast majority is now considered something called the exhausted majority.

00:07:43.780 The members of this two-thirds of our society share a sense of fatigue with our polarized national conversation, a willingness to be flexible in their political viewpoints, and have a lack of voice in the national conversation.

00:08:03.360 Most members of the exhausted majority dislike political correctness.

00:08:11.220 Among the general population, 80% believe that political correctness is a problem in our country.

00:08:21.100 Even young people are uncomfortable with it.

00:08:24.220 74%, 74%, ages 24 to 29, and 79% under the age of 24, think this is a problem.

00:08:37.940 The woke are in the extreme minority in this country.

00:08:48.020 Youth, not supporting political correctness.

00:08:53.240 And they're not supporting the race thing either.

00:09:00.180 Whites are ever so slightly less than average to believe political correctness is a problem in the country. 0.90

00:09:07.160 Whites.

00:09:08.880 79% share this sentiment.

00:09:12.120 Instead, Asians, 82%. 1.00

00:09:15.760 Hispanics, 87%. 0.97

00:09:19.440 Native Americans, 88%.

00:09:23.220 One of the focus group members, an American Indian, said,

00:09:33.000 It seems like every day you wake up and something's changed.

00:09:36.660 Do I say Jew or Jewish?

00:09:38.320 Is it a black guy or an African American?

00:09:40.600 You're on your toes because you never know what to say.

00:09:43.960 Political correctness in this country is becoming frightening.

00:09:47.200 That was a Native American.

00:09:51.940 You know, as those whites, which are the least offended, as those whites are standing up to protect the helpless Native American.

00:10:05.740 I think that's the thing that gets me the most are the people who are not.

00:10:12.560 It's almost like, how did you get into this conversation?

00:10:15.180 How are you a part of this conversation?

00:10:18.920 You're not.

00:10:19.920 You're not the one that is the red skin. 1.00

00:10:23.980 How are you standing up and telling Native Americans how they're supposed to feel when they don't feel that way in poll after poll after poll?

00:10:33.640 One part of the standard narrative of the data partially affirmed is that African Americans are most likely to support political correctness.

00:10:44.000 But the difference between them and other groups is much smaller than generally supposed.

00:10:49.280 Three quarters of African Americans oppose political correctness.

00:10:53.820 Three quarters.

00:10:56.000 This means there are only four percentage points less likely than whites and only five percentage points less likely than the average to believe that political correctness is a real problem in America.

00:11:07.080 While 83% of respondents who make less than $50,000 dislike political correctness, 70% of those who make more than $100,000 are skeptical.

00:11:20.840 You want to know why Trump won?

00:11:23.560 You want to know why Cory Booker and all of this nonsense is not going to win?

00:11:30.940 You know, yesterday, we had a call from a listener.

00:11:36.100 And I was not my best self.

00:11:40.960 And I jumped down his throat.

00:11:42.500 And I should have said, what is making you feel this way?

00:11:46.240 I know what's making him feel this way.

00:11:49.880 Portland is making him feel this way.

00:11:53.100 The guy who yesterday we found out is building a 200 or built a 200 pound bomb and was going to detonate it on the National Mall on Election Day.

00:12:05.520 That's what's making him feel this way.

00:12:08.740 The news reports where they are saying mobs.

00:12:12.500 No, this is just petitioning.

00:12:14.840 Your government is making you feel this way.

00:12:18.600 Getting up every morning and saying, OK, can I do I say Jew or Jewish today?

00:12:23.200 Which do I say?

00:12:24.380 Can I say transgendered or what?

00:12:27.080 What exactly do I say? 0.78

00:12:28.140 When they are trampling RuPaul for not being politically correct on transgender issues, you got problems.

00:12:38.840 That is why Cory Booker and Heidi Heitkamp and all of the others are not going to win.

00:12:45.740 It is why they are wildly out of step.

00:12:50.720 It is why you're winning.

00:12:53.160 It's why Kavanaugh is a Supreme Court justice today.

00:12:57.980 And I want to just keep hammering this home every day.

00:13:01.820 The left is not going crazy because they're winning.

00:13:07.740 The left.

00:13:08.760 Did you see what attorney general?

00:13:12.900 What's his name?

00:13:14.580 Eric Holder.

00:13:15.040 Eric Holder said yesterday.

00:13:16.180 Yeah, we had the audio.

00:13:17.200 I think of that.

00:13:17.620 Can we play the audio if we have that?

00:13:19.460 Listen to what Eric Holder is now saying.

00:13:22.080 It is time for us as Democrats to be as tough as they are, to be as dedicated as they are, to be as committed as they are.

00:13:30.160 Michelle always says, Michelle Obama, I love her, you know, she and my wife, like, really tight, which always scares me and Barack.

00:13:38.640 But Michelle says that, you know, when they go low, we go high.

00:13:43.560 No, no.

00:13:45.060 When they go low, we kick them. 0.90

00:13:50.580 Stop.

00:13:51.680 This is what happens to a country that has lost its underpinnings of the Judeo-Christian world. 0.51

00:13:57.160 When they go low, we kick them.

00:14:00.240 Yesterday, Hillary Clinton was all in the news for saying what? 0.62

00:14:05.040 We can't live in a country like this.

00:14:07.860 We can't live.

00:14:09.220 We cannot.

00:14:10.800 The time for civility is passed, basically.

00:14:14.600 After we win elections, then we can be civil.

00:14:16.500 We can't be civil with these people.

00:14:18.840 What was the other quote that he went on to say yesterday because it involved these people?

00:14:24.960 Where he said, I wanted to see if I can find, shoot, I don't have it.

00:14:31.520 The Eric Holder thing?

00:14:32.560 Yeah, the Eric Holder, where he said these people.

00:14:35.740 He said, use rage to vote to be rid of these people.

00:14:39.080 Yeah, use rage to be rid of these people.

00:14:45.520 Well, let me flip this around.

00:14:47.420 What do you mean by these people, Mr. Holder?

00:14:50.800 Because these people, we've learned, is, of course, racist.

00:14:56.560 We know what you... 0.93

00:14:57.260 That's a dog whistle.

00:14:58.500 That's an Eric Holder dog whistle.

00:15:00.740 And everybody knows what they're saying.

00:15:04.260 Look, I understand why we're angry.

00:15:09.840 Because I'm angry.

00:15:10.740 I'm angry every day.

00:15:11.780 I look at the news and I'm... 0.99

00:15:14.040 They're going to get people killed. 0.99

00:15:16.460 They're going to get people killed. 0.95

00:15:17.880 And when people, as I said in 2009, at some point, they're going to drag people out of their chairs in their studios and beat them to death in the streets.

00:15:32.480 When these people, who are dismissing and encouraging these people to be violent, when that is happening, a lot of people are going to say, well, they deserve it.

00:15:47.880 No.

00:15:49.360 No.

00:15:53.180 We cannot become what they are.

00:15:57.580 We have to hold on to what we've always been.

00:16:02.080 But, boy, it is tough.

00:16:04.520 But I will tell you, if we lose our minds, we'll lose.

00:16:08.760 Because, as I showed you in that poll, 80% of people are on our side.

00:16:16.100 Now, that doesn't mean politically.

00:16:18.260 That means they're tired of this.

00:16:21.720 They're tired of the political correctness.

00:16:24.460 They're tired of being told what to think, what to say, what to do, who to reject, what to post, what not to post.

00:16:34.020 They're tired of it, 80%.

00:16:36.960 Keep your cool, and you win.

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00:18:14.940 Glenn Beck.

00:18:15.900 It is time for us as Democrats to be as tough as they are, to be as dedicated as they are, to be as committed as they are.

00:18:23.760 Michelle always says, Michelle Obama, I love her, you know.

00:18:26.240 This is Eric Cohen.

00:18:26.820 She and my wife, like, really tight, which always scares me and Barack.

00:18:30.220 But Michelle always says that, you know, when they go low, we go high.

00:18:37.140 No.

00:18:37.840 No. 0.95

00:18:38.860 When they go low, we kick them. 0.97

00:18:48.040 Fight, fight, fight.

00:18:49.600 When's the last time you heard that?

00:18:51.120 That's what this new Democratic Party is about.

00:18:53.380 That's what the new Democratic Party is all about.

00:18:57.380 Democrats.

00:18:58.780 Is that who you are?

00:18:59.660 Is that who you are?

00:19:02.680 Is that what you want?

00:19:05.520 They are encouraging people to be violent.

00:19:09.080 He is encouraging people, let's just say, not to be violent, but to fight dirty and in the streets.

00:19:17.280 America, is this what we want?

00:19:20.540 Is it just about the win at all costs?

00:19:34.000 I hope I know the answer to that.

00:19:36.500 I hope I know the answer to that.

00:19:38.000 But I just want you to remember one thing.

00:19:41.220 If you are somebody who has been looking for an end to this madness of political correctness, 0.99

00:19:51.520 this madness of you're a racist, you're a homophobe, 0.98

00:19:55.600 80% of the nation agrees with you. 0.94

00:19:58.720 Now is the time to be reasonable, filled with common sense, and welcome people back into the fold.

00:20:07.340 There is a concerted effort outside of our country to get us to fight with one another.

00:20:18.620 Remember the story that we told you about about a week or two ago of the the feminist activist that was on the subway and she was pouring.

00:20:28.000 I think they said it was bleach on all those who were, you know, man spreading.

00:20:33.780 And we're like, look at this.

00:20:35.160 This is crazy.

00:20:36.660 Well, we find out now that that actually is Russian propaganda that never happened. 0.90

00:20:43.460 That was filmed by the Russians and put into our system as a poison to get us to hate feminists more. 1.00

00:20:52.860 Say, look at how exactly what we did.

00:20:58.000 We're going to take you to a story I thought was a joke.

00:21:01.080 I thought was a joke.

00:21:03.920 Where have the Russians gone?

00:21:07.040 How deeply are they into our into our consciousness?

00:21:14.820 What will they actually do?

00:21:17.160 Is it all about politics?

00:21:18.760 Stephen Kent, friend of the program and and quite honestly, a I mean, probably the biggest Star Wars geek on the planet.

00:21:27.080 Welcome to the program, Stephen.

00:21:29.300 How are you?

00:21:30.800 Doing well, Glenn.

00:21:31.560 Good morning.

00:21:33.920 Tell me this is a joke.

00:21:37.160 It's not a joke.

00:21:38.840 There is a study out from Morton Bay at the University of Southern California that looks at the role that online bots, particularly the Russian persuasion, might have played in the discourse on social media surrounding The Last Jedi.

00:21:53.760 Now, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:21:56.440 Yeah.

00:21:56.840 So you just kind of read by surrounding The Last Jedi, the movie, The Last Jedi, nice and low hanging target being a Star Wars movie.

00:22:06.980 What do people care about more than politics?

00:22:09.320 I would say that it's probably the light side versus the dark side and the eternal struggle in a galaxy far, far away.

00:22:15.340 You know, you know, you've mentioned, Glenn, like they prey on these very emotional and personal issues on social media.

00:22:22.580 It's not just about politics and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

00:22:25.700 It can be about kneeling the national anthem.

00:22:27.740 It can be about something that a celebrity might have said, and then it's amplified and sort of turned up to 11 so that people get really heated about it.

00:22:35.400 Star Wars is in that category, too, and there might be some evidence to show that this is actually happening every day.

00:22:43.020 Give me the evidence.

00:22:44.800 This is incredible.

00:22:45.800 Yeah, so it's circumstantial in many ways, but that's by nature of what we're dealing with here.

00:22:51.980 When you're talking about foreign influence and particularly malicious activity coming from Russian bots or trolls or sock puppet accounts, you are talking about a moving target, people who are deleting their accounts, changing their information, making new accounts, staying active so that they can't actually be tracked to a given location.

00:23:11.040 And if Morton Bay, the researcher at USC, could prove definitively that these are Russian agents, then he should be working at the CIA.

00:23:19.620 But he's not.

00:23:20.580 He's just a researcher at USC.

00:23:22.280 And what you look at is you look at the characteristics of social media accounts online, kind of what I just mentioned is what behaviors do they engage in?

00:23:31.900 Do they speak in all caps?

00:23:33.720 What words do they use?

00:23:35.100 And then is there a count there the next week when you look them up again?

00:23:38.380 These are sort of things that you look for when you're talking about foreign influence online, and it might be Russians, it might be the Chinese, it might be Iranians, or it might be some Floridian with a bone to pick with the rest of the country.

00:23:48.920 So what did they plant into our society?

00:23:54.340 Well, in this case, what they planted, there was evidence that there were 16 accounts that could specifically be Russian-linked, 105 that sort of had a question mark as to where they could be originating from, that are jumping online when The Last Jedi comes out, and people are starting to debate about the movie.

00:24:13.560 And then they start throwing in the tweets about the feminazi, Admiral Holdo, and then they start throwing in tweets about how masculinity is under assault because Poe Dameron wasn't able to lead the ship.

00:24:27.080 And then they start throwing in tweets about SJW droids and the fact that there was a droid in the hospital.

00:24:32.640 I remember those.

00:24:33.720 Yeah, and so, but the important thing, Glenn, is that that comes from real people, too, and you can't really distinguish what comes first, like the chicken or the egg.

00:24:43.500 Did the Russian, you know, bot or troll online plant the thought in a conservative or, you know, activist or Star Wars fan online, and then they sort of echo it? 0.74

00:24:53.320 Or did it go the other way around?

00:24:56.160 Because it is reasonable to look at Star Wars and see some sort of, like, you know, progressive fingers in the pot.

00:25:02.700 But there's also this discourse online that happens where you sort of amplify other opinions that you see.

00:25:09.380 You see someone upset about the feminazis now taking over Star Wars, Kathleen Kennedy or, you know, the Asian girl in the new Star Wars movie. 0.92

00:25:17.320 And if you get amplified about that and feel like, oh, well, someone else is angry about that, too, I can now feel a little bit more angry.

00:25:26.280 Then the discourse just rapidly gets more radical.

00:25:30.440 And it's pretty reasonable to think that there are foreign actors who engage in this malicious activity.

00:25:36.240 Steven, it's interesting, I think, and this is part of the crime against journalism that's happened, making every effort of what Russia has tried to do in America about Donald Trump.

00:25:46.300 You know, it's like, look at the scope of this.

00:25:51.320 The fact that they are trying to go in there and stir people up over not just politics, but culture and Star Wars and all of these kind of separate things, Kaepernick, all of this stuff.

00:26:02.160 And not just separating us, Stu, I think also pushing us into a place.

00:26:07.960 I hear this all the time.

00:26:08.880 I know I am like this.

00:26:10.780 When did everything become political?

00:26:12.740 They're pushing everything, all pop culture, everything into politics.

00:26:18.440 Yeah, there's a great book out right now called Addicted to Outrage by Glenn Beck.

00:26:23.460 Towards the end of part one, at least in the audio book, it's chapter 19.

00:26:28.220 They're talking a lot about the role that foreign actors and particularly Russians might play in trying to sow discord. 0.94

00:26:34.940 And what we do know about Russians that were able to do in the 2016 election, we don't know if they actually were able to impact the results and how people voted, but we are able to determine that they get their fingers into the way that we talk.

00:26:48.880 And what's most important, I think, about American politics and culture is not that we are able to agree on everything political, but that we're actually able to go to a movie theater and sit next to our neighbors in the dark and smile at a Star Wars movie.

00:27:04.000 But then when you go in and you've sort of been reading these things online and you've had people tell you that now it's like liberal propaganda and that it's not the Star Wars you grew up with, then you can't even do that.

00:27:16.700 And think about what that does to a culture, not in the course of one year, but in the course of 10 years.

00:27:22.120 We have we'll have nothing in common if we allow people to manipulate us like this and get us hooked on outrage on a constant basis about anything, whether it's politics or media.

00:27:33.920 Steven, thank you for writing about this.

00:27:37.860 This is in the Washington Examiner. Thank you for watching writing about this.

00:27:42.600 Is it is it because it was Star Wars that this popped up on your radar or why is it that no one else is is catching this, Steven?

00:27:53.260 Well, I would say that there was a pretty good deal of writing done about this.

00:27:56.740 And for me, I did catch this because I've got Google Alerts set up for Star Wars and I care a lot about it.

00:28:01.500 But, you know, I live in Star Wars Twitter as well as conservative and libertarian Twitter.

00:28:06.700 You know, these are kind of different ecosystems and the dialogue in Star Wars Twitter is is toxic.

00:28:13.580 It was so mean when these movies came out, particularly around Solo and The Last Jedi.

00:28:19.020 The Last Jedi really sort of agitated right wing Twitter and Solo really agitated left wing Twitter.

00:28:26.020 Everybody was arguing about these different things and just using language that you just don't see or you didn't see a couple of years ago in Star Wars.

00:28:35.040 And then you turn on your favorite conservative podcast.

00:28:38.540 Right. And I have a couple and they're sort of been echoing those sentiments.

00:28:42.560 And then their actual fans are going out and engaging in Star Wars discourse.

00:28:47.480 But there's it's not really clear, like who is genuine and who is not and who's coming to it as a really interested fan and who's coming to it as a political activist who just really wants to make people angry.

00:28:59.720 And that's what we have to remember when we get online is there is no guarantee that the person, even if they have a real name and a photo associated with their account, is a genuine human being who wants you to leave this conversation happy.

00:29:12.040 I don't know if you've ever won an argument on Twitter.

00:29:14.160 I have not.

00:29:16.220 It's the equivalent of a foreign city. 0.98

00:29:18.300 You need to be getting off the airplane in this new city and just assume that you're not safe anywhere you go and you should just talk to people that you know and that you trust.

00:29:26.660 Stephen, thank you very much.

00:29:29.260 Always good to talk to you.

00:29:31.240 Yeah, Glenn.

00:29:31.660 Real pleasure.

00:29:32.260 May the force be with you both.

00:29:35.060 Stephen Kent.

00:29:37.720 He's got a great sense of humor.

00:29:39.360 He has a he's really smart guy.

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00:30:00.360 Yeah.

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00:31:37.780 Have you been following the Khashoggi story?

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00:31:50.180 He went into, I think it was in Istanbul, and he was going into the Saudi embassy because he needed documentation that he was divorced from his wife because he was going to get remarried.

00:32:03.480 So he goes to the Saudi embassy.

00:32:05.540 Now, he is not an enemy of the Saudi crown prince, but he is a critic, and they were friends and everything else.

00:32:12.820 Now he's a critic of the Saudi crown prince.

00:32:16.640 And so he goes into the Saudi embassy there in Istanbul, and his fiancee waits for him outside.

00:32:25.500 She's in the car, and she waits, and she waits, and she waits, and she waits, and she waits.

00:32:28.980 And he never comes out.

00:32:31.760 When she calls and says, uh, where is, uh, you know, where's Khashoggi?

00:32:37.660 They say, I don't know.

00:32:40.080 He left a long time ago.

00:32:42.160 No, he walked out.

00:32:43.080 He was here.

00:32:43.700 We got the paperwork, and then he left.

00:32:45.680 She's like, no, I've been waiting outside.

00:32:47.520 They say, we don't know what you're talking about.

00:32:49.120 He left.

00:32:49.800 CCTV cameras show him going in, but no one ever coming out.

00:32:54.780 Now, there's an update on this.

00:32:59.600 Coincidentally, about an hour after he arrived, some planes arrive from Saudi Arabia.

00:33:08.120 They're Saudi Arabian crown prince, royal planes.

00:33:12.040 And these guys get off, and they have suitcases.

00:33:16.860 And they go in to the embassy.

00:33:21.100 Now, did anybody ever see Alfred Hitchcock's rear window?

00:33:24.780 If they had just left an hour later with those same suitcases and put them on the plane and then left, it might be a little weird, but what do you have?

00:33:37.300 Unfortunately, what we do know now is they got off the plane, and they were driving to the embassy, and one of them stopped for extra empty suitcases.

00:33:47.720 And another one went shopping for a bone saw.

00:33:54.960 Then they went to the embassy.

00:33:57.280 An hour later, they're leaving with heavy suitcases.

00:34:00.820 Now, I don't know about you, but I don't even know where you buy a bone saw.

00:34:08.960 But if I'm getting off a plane with light suitcases, I buy a bone saw.

00:34:13.500 I go to a house where a guy has been missing now.

00:34:16.880 And then I leave with heavy suitcases, and I fly out of the country on my own private jet under diplomatic immunity.

00:34:24.600 I don't know about you, but I think there's something suspicious going on there.

00:34:28.940 We should call Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart, because I think I saw something out of that window.

00:34:35.000 By the way, plenty of bone saws on Amazon, so you should be fine.

00:34:38.120 Really?

00:34:38.400 Yeah.

00:34:38.780 Seriously?

00:34:39.920 What are they for?

00:34:41.640 They call them butcher saws.

00:34:43.280 Okay.

00:34:43.840 But you should be fine.

00:34:45.080 Don't worry about it.

00:34:46.100 Amazon choice, $22.99.

00:34:48.680 I understand that.

00:34:49.920 If you're living in Colorado, you're living in Idaho or something, you've got to get a bone saw.

00:34:55.240 I get that.

00:34:56.680 If you're selling bone saws in Manhattan, I think maybe...

00:35:01.460 Or to the Saudi embassy.

00:35:02.760 Yeah.

00:35:03.260 They're not doing any butcher work in there.

00:35:04.800 Right.

00:35:04.980 I don't think that they're going out and going, you know, we're going to have venison tonight.

00:35:09.180 I don't think so.

00:35:09.920 That's not a good...

00:35:10.960 No.

00:35:11.380 Not a good sign.

00:35:12.360 No.

00:35:12.560 That's...

00:35:12.860 Wow.

00:35:13.020 That's frightening.

00:35:13.720 I mean, that is like...

00:35:15.040 You know...

00:35:15.520 I mean, that's...

00:35:17.020 It's movie stuff.

00:35:18.800 It's like international incident.

00:35:19.860 It's movie stuff.

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00:35:33.540 Yes.

00:35:34.120 Come to...

00:35:35.060 And if you don't...

00:35:37.400 Just saying, I have a bone saw.

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00:35:51.640 I have some Saudi friends with lots of luggage.

00:35:55.320 And a bone saw.

00:35:55.900 And you're sure you're not making a threat against the listeners of this program?

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00:35:59.780 Actually, what we are doing, we're helping the Democratic Party at our Addicted to Outrage tour.

00:36:06.700 We're going to be giving them tips on things that they can do.

00:36:09.500 And I'd like to take it a little further than Eric Holder did.

00:36:13.200 And that is, you know, if we go low, they kick us.

00:36:18.140 When they kick us, we buy a bone saw.

00:36:21.000 Right.

00:36:21.120 There has been almost no Democratic 2020 candidates that have even mentioned bone saws yet.

00:36:26.700 Right.

00:36:26.960 They have a long way to go in this campaign.

00:36:28.620 So maybe that could be, you know, I don't know, Spartacus' campaign slogan.

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00:36:52.320 I am thrilled to have and introduce you to Helen Pluckrose.

00:36:58.940 She is the editor in chief of Arrow magazine.

00:37:02.480 She has written an article that I want to go through with her.

00:37:08.260 But I also want to point out that if you follow the news a couple of weeks ago, I think it was of these three scientists that came out and tried to publish papers that were complete nonsense of the dog.

00:37:25.100 The I think it was the rape culture in dog parks on dogs. 1.00

00:37:28.920 And one of the responses before they published it was they did they get permission from the dogs?

00:37:34.540 They were they were afraid that maybe they were violated a little.

00:37:37.200 I mean, it's crazy what happened.

00:37:39.100 They they published one article that was they just took a chapter of Mein Kampf and I think changed it.

00:37:47.960 What did they change it to?

00:37:48.800 Studio, you remember?

00:37:50.920 White people are feminine. 1.00

00:37:52.340 I don't remember.

00:37:53.240 Helen will remember.

00:37:54.700 It's pretty remarkable.

00:37:56.300 We'll hopefully chat with her about that just a little bit.

00:37:59.260 Helen Pluckrose joins the program now.

00:38:01.860 Hello, Helen.

00:38:02.340 How are you?

00:38:03.540 Hello.

00:38:04.000 I'm very well.

00:38:04.720 Thank you for inviting me.

00:38:06.060 You bet.

00:38:06.320 Now, you're in you're in London now.

00:38:08.380 I am.

00:38:09.040 OK, first of all, thanks for coming on the program.

00:38:13.500 I want to talk to you about your essay, how French intellectuals ruined the West postmodernism and its impact explained. 0.72

00:38:20.940 I read the article and let's just say my audience is very smart.

00:38:28.120 I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

00:38:31.620 So pretend you're talking to somebody that, you know, doesn't doesn't really know much about this because you are talking to that person.

00:38:40.760 And I'm trying to understand it, but postmodernism itself just doesn't make sense at all to me.

00:38:48.640 And so I want to make sure that I have it right and the audience understands it, because I think it is the disease that is it's the cancer for the Western world, is it not?

00:39:01.480 Well, I don't think it's the only cancer.

00:39:05.600 I think it's certainly a problem that's coming up in how we understand knowledge and how we on the left are looking at ethics.

00:39:14.740 And I think that's feeding into a rise on the other side of an increase in nationalism and anti-intellectualism and a kind of reversion to some utopian past which never existed.

00:39:30.480 But, yes, it is it is a significant problem which has affected affected how we do how we decide what is true and how we evaluate rights and people standing in society.

00:39:45.920 Right. And so this is the source of, you know, gender fluidity and and really intersectionality and all of this stuff that we're hearing that most people wake up every day and they're like,

00:39:58.620 OK, what new term do I have to learn today? What can I say? What can I not say?

00:40:03.300 This is the source of that. Would you agree with that?

00:40:07.480 I would. Yes. Intersectionality is very explicitly defined by its founder as contemporary politics applied to postmodern theory.

00:40:15.400 OK, so let's start at the beginning of postmodernism.

00:40:21.720 Is it related at all to the Dadaist movement that grew out of the First World War, where where they were trying to make a point of nothing really has any meaning?

00:40:35.060 And then that kind of just went awry. Is is is any of the roots in that movement at all?

00:40:41.660 Yes. I mean, postmodernism, it is antecedents, which I don't actually go into in huge detail because they're just so varied.

00:40:50.060 But it comes out of a lot of counter-enlightenment philosophy. It comes out of absurdist art.

00:40:57.680 It's a kind of coming together of an artistic and philosophical movement.

00:41:02.700 And the artistic side of it is actually really fun. We don't have to worry at all about postmodernism in art.

00:41:12.180 It's when it starts being applied to society and we're starting to understand society as completely constructed in systems of power.

00:41:22.560 And knowledge is a construct of this power, that it comes from language, that language is dangerous because it constructs reality.

00:41:30.380 That that's that's that's sort of the key ideas which are underlying the problem that we're that we're seeing now.

00:41:37.940 Now, you say that it doesn't have a that it's not anything worrisome in art, but I would consider literature art as well.

00:41:44.240 And this is this is now how we are being taught that we have to read literature, that we read it through the lens of oppression, white, male, European oppression.

00:41:57.560 Even if the even if the author is saying, no, no, that's not what the story is about, that's not the author is not even the the last word on this.

00:42:08.720 It is the the postmodernist that can take and read that text any way they want. Correct.

00:42:15.380 Absolutely. Yes. I mean, I think there there's a slight confusion because that approach to literature is part of the cultural philosophical problem.

00:42:24.960 But a postmodern book, for example, would be a very different thing.

00:42:30.900 It would be something that had no clear plot, that didn't have an ending.

00:42:34.680 There's one which which is just the beginning of a lot of stories, which which doesn't add up.

00:42:39.500 So that is a style that is almost completely separate from the moralistic thing.

00:42:45.620 All right. So you're saying as an artist, you could create something that has no meaning, but it is only when it's used as a critique that it starts to get into trouble.

00:42:58.040 Yes. Yes, exactly. And it's some wonderful and very fun shows, apparently, of postmodern, but they're not political.

00:43:06.080 So they're not the same problem.

00:43:07.560 Great. OK. So tell me how it where it grew and how it grabbed us by the throat or our university systems.

00:43:18.560 Well, the the original postmodernist, they're just a small group of very, very prolific writers in the late 60s, including Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Baudrillard and particularly Michel Foucault.

00:43:33.880 And they came together all from different disciplines and all seemingly at the same time with the same message that they were disillusioned with the modern period.

00:43:44.880 They were disillusioned with Marxism and they were disillusioned with religion and institutions.

00:43:51.880 And they they thought that these were all meta narratives.

00:43:54.880 They were big, comfortable understandings of things that had just fallen apart.

00:43:59.880 This this comes after the world wars, the fall of empire, all these sort of certainties were crumbling.

00:44:06.880 And there was a shift in society to try to understand all the things that we thought were true, actually true.

00:44:13.880 The postmodernists are those who took this to a new philosophical level and simply said, no, this reality is not something we find.

00:44:22.880 It's something that we make and we make it in the service of power.

00:44:27.880 So it is powerful groups which have decided for us what is true.

00:44:31.880 And these are understood to be white, heterosexual rich men.

00:44:36.880 And this should be overturned.

00:44:39.880 It should be unpicked.

00:44:41.880 But the first postmodernists were not.

00:44:44.880 They didn't have a particular political goal.

00:44:49.880 They were certainly leftist, but they weren't.

00:44:51.880 They were they were generally quite aimless.

00:44:53.880 They wanted to sort of pull things apart, show problems with it.

00:44:56.880 It wasn't until the late 80s and early 90s when a lot of feminists and critical race theorists, queer theorists, et cetera, said, well, taking everything apart is all good and well. 0.70

00:45:08.880 Yes, we need to deconstruct things.

00:45:10.880 Yes, we need to see that everything is socially constructed.

00:45:13.880 But we have to have some kind of reality if we're going to address anything.

00:45:17.880 We cannot, for example, address sexism against women unless we agree that women are a certain thing that experience certain things in certain times and places.

00:45:27.880 So there was a change here to bring back some kind of objective reality.

00:45:32.880 And that was systems of privilege and power that could then be analyzed very subjectively from the perspective of experience and with the assumption that we are always looking at a power imbalance in any interaction between different groups.

00:45:50.880 OK, so let me let me let me let me go back and because I think people might be thinking, why are we talking about postmodernism?

00:46:00.880 How does it relate to my life? This, I believe, is critical in to if you don't understand this or at least have a basic handle on it.

00:46:09.880 You don't know what you're fighting. You don't know what's really happening.

00:46:13.880 You don't know who's behind a lot of this or what the theories are behind it.

00:46:17.880 So let me let me first say postmodernism.

00:46:21.880 The modern world is the world that was created that chased out the dark ages. 0.97

00:46:27.880 It was the it's the world created by the enlightenment of of science and reason and period empirical evidence.

00:46:36.880 And even I mean, when you hear people say mathematics is racist, this is because we're they're trying to deconstruct anything that holds the modern world together.

00:46:51.880 Is that correct?

00:46:53.880 Yes, they they they think that it has been constructed unfairly, that a lot of voices have been left out.

00:46:59.880 And this relates somehow to a lot of knowledge is I particularly have a problem with the idea that irrational and unempirical knowledge is the property of women or non white people. 0.87

00:47:15.880 So, yeah, that that is that is how it works.

00:47:18.880 OK, I'm going to take you before we move forward.

00:47:21.880 I want to take you back one more step.

00:47:25.880 I'm going to take a break and then we come back.

00:47:27.880 I'd like you to help me on this, because it's my understanding that Deridan Foucault came over to the United States, that this was really kind of shaped in frustration from the 1968 Paris riots and in frustration that they're not going to be able to take this whole thing down unless they take it all down.

00:47:52.880 I got to take all the systems down, they're not going to win through culture and that it was that it was actually much more strategic in its planting of a virus, if you will.

00:48:06.880 And I'd love to hear your take on that, if that's true or not.

00:48:10.880 When we come back, we're with Helen Pluckrose and we also have to ask her about the greatest prank ever.

00:48:18.880 They her and two other scientists went and they spent a year just writing peer reviewed papers and see if they could get them published.

00:48:30.880 They got seven published and they're complete nonsense, seven.

00:48:35.880 And what they learned out of that is astonishing.

00:48:38.880 And it kind of falls right into this.

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00:49:55.880 From Helen Pluckrose's article how French intellectuals ruined the West, despite all the evidence that racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia are at an all time low in Western societies.

00:50:14.880 Leftist academics and social justice activists display fatalistic pessimism.

00:50:20.880 This is coming from the post modernist take.

00:50:26.880 Now, Helen, I've I've tried to find good purposes for this and the way it is being enacted now.

00:50:35.880 It just seems like a total.

00:50:37.880 I don't know, an embrace of total chaos and destruction.

00:50:44.880 I can understand why a lot of people who are not understanding how this has worked and particularly conservatives can see this as completely destructive.

00:50:59.880 But that there was a good purpose to it.

00:51:03.880 There was there are good aims to it.

00:51:06.880 I mean, I am a liberal, so you and I will probably not agree entirely on what good aims are.

00:51:12.880 But when postmodernism postmodernism arose and the second wave of it, it's very important to sort of focus on the second wave, which which diversified into critical race theory intersectionality,

00:51:27.880 queer theory, et cetera.

00:51:29.880 That's what we're seeing now, much more than these earlier, very obscure ideas about knowledge.

00:51:34.880 But they came at the time following the end of the civil rights movement.

00:51:39.880 They claimed to be the heirs of Martin Luther King, a second wave liberal feminism of gay pride.

00:51:46.880 They came and they hit the U.S. and the U.K. particularly because we were in a position of a sort of culturally of power of what what had happened recently for the Brits empire had just collapsed.

00:52:05.880 And we were there was an enormous amount of postcolonial guilt in the U.S. and seeing the end of the Jim Crow era and sort of reckoning with a history of slavery.

00:52:16.880 So society was largely geared towards continuing this very positive sort of civil rights movement and making society free and more equal for for everyone.

00:52:29.880 So Helen, you know, you said a minute ago and maybe we just have a different definition.

00:52:40.880 I'm a classic liberal, as you as we would know here in America.

00:52:45.220 I am a I'm a libertarian.

00:52:48.220 I think that anything that makes man more free is good.

00:52:54.220 Anything that builds the individual up and is is empowering for the individual, I think, is is a good thing.

00:53:02.220 And I support it.

00:53:03.220 And I think that many Americans feel this way, you know, with political correctness.

00:53:09.220 You know, I go back to the handy capable, you know, nobody wanted to say if that really hurt somebody's feelings that that, you know, nobody wants to do that or very few people want to do that.

00:53:21.220 You know, it does kind of say, well, the next generation is going to just assume, you know, just going to attach the same meanings behind handy capable is handicapped.

00:53:31.020 But, you know, so it's a little worthless over the long period of time.

00:53:35.020 But I don't think anybody I think generally speaking, people are fair.

00:53:39.020 What this is turned into is oppression.

00:53:44.020 Yes, I mean, I think that's something that we have to hold on to, because when if we accept that everybody is generally trying to be fair, is generally trying to be good and to do good for their societies,

00:53:59.020 and they actually care about their fellow human beings, then, yes, we have this situation where the vast majority of us are still very much in line with modern principles of equal opportunity, freedom, rights.

00:54:14.500 And we have to understand that a lot of the people who have taken on and internalized a lot of the postmodern ideas are also trying to do good and trying to be fair.

00:54:24.440 But what we have to look at is how this is working in practice.

00:54:29.060 We are seeing a rising authoritarianism, a totalitarianism from the activists who are drawing on these ideas which have come out of these theories.

00:54:44.300 I believe that this is a small part of the population, but it is drawing in more of the left because they want to kind of internalize some of these ideas because the ideals are good.

00:55:00.860 The ideals that that women, people of color, LGBT should have the same rights as everybody else is what is underlying this.

00:55:09.360 And these aims are good. A lot of left liberals who really should know better are thinking, well, how bad can this be if they have these aims?

00:55:18.620 It is a problem because it is supremely irrational. It is supremely illiberal.

00:55:23.900 It is taking us away from the progress that we made in the universal liberal advance of the civil rights movements and equal pay for women, the decriminalization of homosexuality, etc.

00:55:36.860 It is not continuing that. It is really doing something quite different now.

00:55:41.280 So I want to continue our conversation on this and the and the notion that you're you're it's a race to the bottom with the intersectionality.

00:55:51.720 You are you're flipping the pyramid just upside down, but it is still a pyramid where the the one who has the most, you know, points, I guess, in their favor of I've been abused with this, this and this and by these groups and this group and this group that they become the power.

00:56:12.140 It it it sounds like it's it's it's just not just deconstruction, it is constructing something that is authoritarian in nature.

00:56:21.260 And I want to go there. And I also need to find out a little bit about the hoaxes that Helen and two other scientists did who were just they were looking at these peer reviewed publications and saying they don't even make sense.

00:56:38.940 I think I could write something that was genuine nonsense and get it published.

00:56:43.080 They had seven published in a year.

00:56:45.700 You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

00:56:51.440 Helen Pluckrose is a scientist in in England.

00:56:57.060 She is the editor in chief of Aero magazine, and she is a she's an academic in exile now.

00:57:05.360 Helen, I yesterday I spent a couple of hours with Dr.

00:57:09.240 Deborah. So do you know her?

00:57:10.940 Yes.

00:57:11.440 So we were talking and she said.

00:57:15.700 You know, Glenn, it's a very small number of people who are actually knowingly engaged in the silencing and everything else.

00:57:25.180 And you kind of said the same thing that you think there's a very small minority.

00:57:28.900 But the power structure has changed.

00:57:32.180 It has been flipped on its head.

00:57:34.360 And and and I don't understand.

00:57:39.300 Maybe they maybe it is a very small number, but they are very powerful in the effect that they have.

00:57:46.480 You know, otherwise, Deborah.

00:57:47.740 So wouldn't have told me that, you know, even tenure couldn't have saved her job had she stayed. 0.87

00:57:52.900 You know, Weinstein and what happened to him and his his wife.

00:57:58.780 I mean, it is it's stunning.

00:58:00.980 The effect that is happening in our culture and the way the media is not standing for common sense.

00:58:09.960 Yeah, well, I'd like to address that.

00:58:13.940 But first of all, I just wanted to say you've referred to me and to my collaborators a few times as scientists.

00:58:21.840 But I think it would be researchers.

00:58:25.240 Yeah.

00:58:25.760 I am a literature student and Peter is a philosopher.

00:58:30.100 James is a mathematician, but he's also engaged in the humanities.

00:58:33.140 So I wouldn't want people to be.

00:58:34.760 Thank you.

00:58:35.460 Mistaken.

00:58:36.100 Thank you.

00:58:36.560 That we're scientists.

00:58:37.740 But yes, I mean, I think we cannot over.

00:58:42.440 I mean, we do have to have to look at how powerful this narrative is now in certain institutions.

00:58:48.860 I mean, I agree.

00:58:50.280 Couldn't, for example, say that it is it is it is powerful overall of society.

00:58:55.500 Both your country and mine have both recently voted conservative.

00:58:59.980 And I think this is partly to do with some fear of this strange narrative rising on the left, which has caused many who were sort of centrist and leaning left to go further right.

00:59:13.360 As a leftist, I'd like them to come back again.

00:59:15.680 So that that is why this is is of concern to me.

00:59:19.040 May I stop you there and ask you for clarification on something?

00:59:21.880 I think and I'm I'm not sure, especially over in England, but I think that there is a misunderstanding sometimes with the press.

00:59:31.860 There are bad people who are racist and xenophobes and everything else.

00:59:35.900 But I think that there this multiculturalism has taken people to a place to where they are, you know, English are are proud of, you know, their culture.

00:59:46.460 And, you know, you either like the queen or you don't like the queen.

00:59:49.640 I think most people are like, yeah, it's you know, it's part of our tradition, but we shouldn't be paying for it.

00:59:54.340 And the multiculturalism that has made it racist to even say, yeah, I'm proud to be English.

01:00:05.200 I'm proud to be American.

01:00:06.680 I think that is being taken as racist, where I don't think it's meant as racist by the vast majority of people.

01:00:15.580 They're just proud of who they are and where they came from.

01:00:19.640 Well, I certainly agree with that.

01:00:22.380 I don't see the problem as as multiculturalism itself.

01:00:28.280 I am I'm in London and and we generally do do quite well with this, with this different color.

01:00:36.260 There's a great range of different cultures and walking through London is quite it is quite exciting as you go through Chinatown and you can go through various different areas.

01:00:46.800 There are also, yes, some considerable problems with a lack of assimilation with with some groups.

01:00:54.280 Right.

01:00:55.000 What the idea that it is it is prejudiced to be to like your own tradition.

01:01:05.700 Yeah, that that that that is the problem.

01:01:08.140 And I don't think it is only conservatives who see that as the problem.

01:01:13.380 Right.

01:01:13.640 I don't know if you're familiar with John Hite and his moral foundations.

01:01:16.920 Yes.

01:01:17.200 Which puts this loyalty and this like of tradition.

01:01:21.460 Yes.

01:01:21.660 On the conservative side.

01:01:23.100 I see quite a lot of this on the liberal side, too.

01:01:25.940 And I think those on the far left who mistake a liking for one's own traditions and culture as a hatred for everybody else's and as a form of racism are actually denying some some pretty basic things core and neutral and even positive aims.

01:01:45.400 So can we just spend a couple of minutes on what you guys did to try to get nonsense published and peer reviewed?

01:02:00.460 And and you and you know, you were hoping maybe to get one, but you had seven in a year and some of the topics were insane.

01:02:09.680 Which one were you responsible for?

01:02:11.720 Well, I took a part in all of them.

01:02:15.940 I was I took the lead on on one which called when the jokes on you, which was a bit cheeky, but argued that there there is no acceptable way to criticize social justice scholarship and activism.

01:02:31.600 And that anybody who mocked it or or did a fatire of it or a hoax academic hoax of it was trying to preserve their own privilege.

01:02:41.060 And that one was accepted quite quickly and was apparently a an excellent contribution.

01:02:49.060 So but you took you you guys found out that you couldn't just publish nonsense.

01:02:55.240 Exactly.

01:02:55.880 Yeah.

01:02:56.120 You pointed that out.

01:02:57.280 Right.

01:02:57.580 You you you you you you actually had to join in on the on the grievance club.

01:03:04.840 Is that is that accurate?

01:03:07.380 Yes.

01:03:07.760 You really have to understand and navigate a complex arrangement of of rules.

01:03:13.820 So it isn't we couldn't say anything that was was crazy, but we had to stay very firmly within orthodoxy and this developing body of theory.

01:03:24.060 So sometimes, yes, we take a a mad idea like unwanted humping among dogs reveals rape culture in humans and that men like dogs.

01:03:35.340 And then we'd have to find some way to link this to the theory.

01:03:39.560 And in that case, we looked at assumptions about implicit bias and claimed that we could read it in humans in their interactions with dogs.

01:03:47.440 And that was the hook that enabled us to build on a lot of theory to support this this claim and for it to be accepted.

01:03:56.760 And then on a does exemplary scholarship.

01:04:00.160 Unbelievable.

01:04:01.300 What was the what was the you took Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.

01:04:06.400 And and how much of that text did you leave in and what did you change?

01:04:12.100 That's quite that's quite difficult to explain.

01:04:15.320 And James took took the lead on that one.

01:04:18.060 So I'm not entirely clear on what.

01:04:20.880 OK.

01:04:21.680 Anyway, but the important thing to it is if you read it through, you would not immediately think that this sounds just like Hitler.

01:04:29.260 You know, it has been changed to intersectional feminism. 1.00

01:04:32.340 That the point of that one was really to draw on the the grievance and the totalitarian kind of feel of that.

01:04:44.640 But also we wanted to see we wanted to prove that we could make theory fit absolutely anything if we just brought in enough different bits of it.

01:04:52.640 So that one is incredibly complicated, bringing in bits of theory from all over the place.

01:04:57.720 But in the end, it builds up to to.

01:05:01.560 Yes, to make that kind of we must all bond together in the right thing against the common common enemy narrative work.

01:05:09.760 You know, when this came out and I mean, I would think that this would be something that, you know, the the the the world that you travel in would be outraged that those things were accepted.

01:05:28.820 And you would you would you would be viewed as a whistleblower.

01:05:33.820 Hey, wait a minute.

01:05:34.460 We've got a problem.

01:05:36.120 You got.

01:05:36.820 Have you have you had any response like that from your peers?

01:05:41.700 Surprisingly, yes, we have.

01:05:43.780 Good.

01:05:45.160 Yeah.

01:05:45.820 We were delighted, for example, that Mother Jones, which is often extremely critical of criticisms of feminism, other and sort of academic academic leftism.

01:05:58.820 Actually came down on our side.

01:06:01.900 BuzzFeed remained quite neutral and they're also often known for.

01:06:07.800 So, yeah, really uncharitable.

01:06:13.780 You know, you see, you say anything with an English accent.

01:06:16.760 It's like a it's like a it's it's it's like here in the Carolinas.

01:06:22.020 If you ever come down to the Carolinas, they'll say horrible things.

01:06:26.620 And but they'll follow it with this tone of you just want some sweet tea.

01:06:31.100 But they're telling you to leave.

01:06:33.340 And I think you have the same the English just have the same the same charm.

01:06:37.720 It was quite distasteful.

01:06:40.220 We have we have a habit of understatement.

01:06:45.820 A little bit, a little bit.

01:06:48.080 Helen, thank you so much.

01:06:49.340 And we would I would love to fly you in from London and sit down and and and spend a couple of hours with you and even your cohorts at some point.

01:06:59.920 I find you fascinating and refreshing.

01:07:02.740 And thank you for having the courage to speak out and explain things to, you know, the rest of us schlubs.

01:07:11.980 Thank you.

01:07:12.780 Thank you very much.

01:07:13.620 It is also unnecessarily complicated.

01:07:15.600 If I can break it down a bit, that's that's that's great.

01:07:18.900 Thank you very much.

01:07:19.820 I appreciate it, Helen.

01:07:21.200 Helen Pluckrose.

01:07:22.440 You bet.

01:07:22.940 Helen Pluckrose.

01:07:24.820 It is.

01:07:25.740 I'm sorry if if this is airing in a time zone in the morning and you're like, good God, Glenn, I haven't even had my coffee.

01:07:33.120 I apologize.

01:07:34.180 It is really complex and kind of heady to take.

01:07:39.440 But I wanted to make sure that we we got her to speak on record on it.

01:07:45.560 And hopefully we will on the podcast have a deeper conversation where we can really get into it.

01:07:51.840 But this is something that you need to understand.

01:07:54.220 Postmodernism.

01:07:55.060 It is the root of what we are feeling now.

01:07:59.580 And it is set to destroy the Western way of of life and the modern world.

01:08:08.060 You can get a very basic understanding of it.

01:08:12.560 It is what we talk about in the book Addicted to Outrage, but not like Helen explains it.

01:08:19.740 I mean, it's a it's a rookie explanation, but it is one that you can get your arms around addicted to outrage.

01:08:25.960 It's available everywhere now.

01:08:28.340 Critical that you understand.

01:08:30.560 And also we're going to be out and about.

01:08:32.620 We're going to be in a town near you.

01:08:33.760 You can find out that Glenn Beck dot com slash tour.

01:08:37.540 And still, you're coming.

01:08:39.300 Right.

01:08:39.500 I will be there.

01:08:40.100 Yes.

01:08:40.520 And we're going to be helping.

01:08:42.140 We're going to be helping the postmodernists.

01:08:44.100 We're going to help them.

01:08:45.120 I think so.

01:08:45.820 I mean, I've been looking.

01:08:46.440 There's a big article today about who's running for president for the Democrats in 2020 and who's taking the steps.

01:08:52.980 And I think we're going to have some material on some of these targets.

01:08:57.220 Yeah, I think so.

01:08:58.380 Yeah.

01:08:58.740 So I've I'm I'm offering my help on the tour and we're going to be giving their platform, the Democratic platform.

01:09:07.380 We might even come up with a few slogans for some of these contenders.

01:09:12.380 It's something you don't want to miss.

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01:09:16.440 Addicted outrage.

01:09:18.560 All right.

01:09:19.540 Did you see the stock market yesterday?

01:09:23.760 A little terrifying.

01:09:25.460 Yeah, a little bit.

01:09:26.600 What did gold do yesterday?

01:09:28.180 I can't figure out where this money is going.

01:09:30.760 Yesterday lost 831 points.

01:09:33.260 Today, down 149 presently.

01:09:37.620 Bitcoin crypto went down.

01:09:40.060 Bonds went down.

01:09:42.120 Where's where's where's the money going?

01:09:43.720 Where's the money going?

01:09:45.300 And it does look like it's it's up, but it's just having a problem with the chart.

01:09:50.040 It's definitely up, though.

01:09:51.100 I mean, that's not surprising.

01:09:52.280 This is where money goes.

01:09:53.160 When people get uncertain.

01:09:54.320 Right.

01:09:54.600 When things go uncertain.

01:09:55.760 That's where money always flies to to gold.

01:09:59.700 Can't find any place else that it went.

01:10:03.260 Look, we are headed for troubled times.

01:10:06.520 And this is this is normal and natural.

01:10:10.120 We have kept this thing up with the Fed in an unnatural way.

01:10:13.960 When we hit an election, if the Democrats take control of Congress and the House and the Senate, you're in for a wild, wild ride for the next two years where nothing is going to get done and chaos will ensue.

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01:11:10.240 Today, I really appreciate it.

01:11:13.760 So can we look at the Senate here a little bit?

01:11:15.480 Yeah, we're going to do a full breakdown of everything, of all of the House and Senate today before we leave.

01:11:22.360 Okay, we can do that.

01:11:23.940 So let me give you just a couple of things then from polling we had over the last couple of days.

01:11:29.400 The polling since the Kavanaugh thing has been really good for Republicans in the Senate.

01:11:34.300 It's looked really positive.

01:11:36.280 There hasn't been enough of it to necessarily know that the two are tied,

01:11:40.160 but it does seem like real positive things have happened in red states where Republicans were a little bit on the ropes at one point.

01:11:51.600 For example, I'll give you a Ted Cruz.

01:11:53.200 Ted Cruz going up against Robert Francis O'Rourke.

01:11:56.100 He's an Irishman.

01:11:57.260 You mean O'Beto?

01:11:58.460 Oh, yeah.

01:11:59.200 Oh, that's right.

01:11:59.800 O'Beto! 0.99

01:12:00.220 Most Irish people are called Beto, so I should point that out. 0.99

01:12:03.000 But Robert Francis O'Rourke is running against Ted Cruz.

01:12:05.500 Some of the polls, there's one poll that had him tied at one point.

01:12:09.620 Several polls showed Cruz only up by one or two.

01:12:13.520 The New York Times is doing something really, really interesting in which, you know, normally you kind of see polls.

01:12:19.060 The reporting news?

01:12:19.740 No, well, I didn't say that.

01:12:21.060 They're doing something interesting in that.

01:12:22.760 Like, normally you see polls and you see it, like, if you think of it as a sporting event, like, a football game happens and then you would see the score afterwards, right?

01:12:29.680 Like, you're not seeing the play-by-play of the game with a poll.

01:12:32.080 You're only seeing the results at the end.

01:12:34.060 New York Times is trying something this cycle that's different, which is they're actually showing you, as they make the calls, who is voting for who.

01:12:40.820 And you see the poll build slowly as you watch it.

01:12:43.920 It's addicting to watch.

01:12:45.520 And it's kind of interesting because one of the things you'll notice is how many calls they have to make to get anybody to agree.

01:12:52.240 At one point yesterday, the Texas Senate poll, they had made 17,700 phone calls and had 285 people who had responded.

01:13:03.240 Oh, my gosh.

01:13:03.740 That's how hard it is for them to get people on the phone anymore to take these polls, which is part of the reason why it's hard to read, you know?

01:13:09.860 Yeah, because, I mean, who's going to answer that?

01:13:12.120 Who's going to do that?

01:13:13.060 But Cruz, in that poll, wound up nine points in that one.

01:13:17.440 And he seems to have opened up a lead there again.

01:13:20.740 And I'm not surprised by it either.

01:13:22.140 Not a surprise.

01:13:22.800 So we'll get into all the details coming up.

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01:16:29.880 It's Thursday, October 11th.

01:16:32.080 This is the Glenn Beck program.

01:16:34.700 So I don't know if you noticed this, but yesterday it was a little scary if you had money in the stock market.

01:16:42.360 What is it?

01:16:43.060 The third largest point fall, I think, in history, American history, something like that.

01:16:49.380 But, you know, when when you look at it, historically, it's kind of unfair because the stock market is up so high down again today.

01:16:58.340 Bonds are down.

01:16:59.860 Debt is up.

01:17:01.800 Where is money going?

01:17:03.020 What is happening?

01:17:04.040 Is this the beginning of something or is this just a bump in the road?

01:17:07.900 We go to Stephen Moore, economist at the Heritage Foundation.

01:17:12.340 Hello, Stephen.

01:17:12.800 How are you?

01:17:13.840 Hi, Glenn.

01:17:14.500 No, I've been better.

01:17:15.400 I've been up a couple of three or four days we've had in the stock market.

01:17:20.080 You're right about that.

01:17:21.080 And and and so, look, but I remain pretty bullish.

01:17:25.460 Look, the dollar is down now to twenty five thousand four hundred.

01:17:29.040 It was up, you know, well over twelve hundred points higher than that a week ago.

01:17:33.240 I like I like to buy these dips.

01:17:35.660 But, you know, you look at the fundamentals of the U.S. economy with the tax cuts, the deregulations, the high employment.

01:17:42.060 I'm still I'm still really high on the U.S. economy.

01:17:45.000 I'm still high on the stock market, especially at these low, low prices right now.

01:17:49.680 So what happened yesterday?

01:17:51.200 What what what spooked it?

01:17:53.500 Well, good question.

01:17:54.680 We're all scratching our head wondering what it was.

01:17:56.540 I mean, Donald Trump seems to think it was the Fed.

01:17:59.020 And there's no question that the Fed interest rate hike and their announcement that they're going to continue to raise interest rates certainly move people out of stocks into bonds.

01:18:07.720 Because when interest rates rise, then bonds are more attractive relatively than stocks.

01:18:12.040 Usually those effects of Fed changes are short term.

01:18:17.100 So I don't I don't think you're going to see a long term effect from that.

01:18:20.400 Although I tend to agree with Donald Trump that here we've got this booming economy.

01:18:24.840 We don't see real signs of inflation, although energy prices are rising.

01:18:28.420 But other commodities are pretty stable or actually falling in price.

01:18:33.380 So I don't see a big inflation gain.

01:18:35.680 And I mean, you know, pick up in what Trump is saying.

01:18:38.860 And I think there's some truth.

01:18:39.880 This is to the Fed and Jerome Powell.

01:18:43.960 Why are you taking a punch bowl away from this party just when it's getting going?

01:18:47.500 And I tend to I tend to think that he's right about that.

01:18:50.840 You know, look, I don't want inflation.

01:18:52.460 But just because the economy is picking up doesn't mean you're going to have more inflation.

01:18:56.320 I don't think that the Fed's job is to squash a stock market rally and a pickup in employment, as we've seen in record numbers.

01:19:04.660 Yeah, I would tell I would tell you, Stephen, you know, I'm an inflation watcher and hyperinflation watcher.

01:19:11.460 I was I was really concerned with all the repatriated money that was coming in and the tax breaks.

01:19:18.200 And we haven't seen it.

01:19:20.360 We have shown me the inflation.

01:19:21.980 I mean, look, I would I agree.

01:19:24.060 I have to admit, you know, I admit when I'm wrong.

01:19:26.380 I'm a conservative.

01:19:27.440 That's when I'm wrong.

01:19:28.180 I'm not wrong all that often.

01:19:29.160 But I did predict we'd see higher inflation as a result of, you know, all the money creation by the Fed.

01:19:34.340 And the truth is, we haven't seen it.

01:19:36.440 And by the way, one of the reasons for that is we have international trade.

01:19:39.700 We have, you know, we have all sorts of technological change that makes goods and services cheaper over time.

01:19:47.640 And that trade and technology are two things that really keep prices down and affordable.

01:19:52.520 And so my only point is, I just think the Fed acted preemptively and prematurely in raising rates in a way that wasn't necessary.

01:20:01.200 I am a little concerned, by the way, Glenn, about the increase in the price of oil.

01:20:05.580 It's gone up to $80 a barrel.

01:20:07.040 That's like equivalent of $4 a gallon.

01:20:10.240 Why?

01:20:10.860 Why is it gone up?

01:20:12.400 That's like a tax on the economy.

01:20:14.020 Why has it gone up?

01:20:20.040 You there, Stephen?

01:20:21.120 Stephen, are you there?

01:20:22.420 Yeah.

01:20:22.680 Maybe I lost it.

01:20:23.280 I didn't hear what you just said.

01:20:23.960 Okay.

01:20:24.320 Why is oil going up?

01:20:29.140 That's a good question, too.

01:20:30.300 It looks like because there's been disruptions in the Middle East with respect to Iraq.

01:20:37.240 And so you're seeing a big, you know, a big sell-off as a result.

01:20:40.840 I mean, a big rise in the price because people are really concerned about the, you know, about the price, the global reduction in supply as a result of that.

01:20:51.240 So bring Texas back online.

01:20:52.940 Bring Texas back online.

01:20:55.740 Well, that's the point.

01:20:56.780 You know, look, I think oil prices are going to fall.

01:20:59.440 I just was out in Midland, Texas, in the middle of the Permian Basin.

01:21:03.000 I've never seen anything like it, Glenn.

01:21:04.520 I mean, everywhere you go, all they're doing is drilling, drilling, drilling, drilling.

01:21:08.120 And, you know, it's anywhere you can stick a stick in the ground, they're drilling for oil and natural gas.

01:21:12.800 So I don't think we're going to see a continuation, you know, over the next year or so of these higher prices.

01:21:19.800 In fact, I think they're going to dwindle back down again.

01:21:22.160 So, you know, I think that the big problem right now is just fear.

01:21:26.380 You know this.

01:21:27.180 The stock market is driven by fear and greed.

01:21:29.700 That's a truism for 150 years.

01:21:32.660 And people are afraid right now that, and by the way, there was a lot of profit taking.

01:21:36.600 I did this myself.

01:21:37.400 When the Dow hit 26,500, I said to my wife, honey, let's take some of these profits and get out of the market.

01:21:44.120 And I think a lot of people did that.

01:21:46.280 Stephen, let me ask you this.

01:21:49.980 I don't know if this is true or this is an old wives' tale.

01:21:53.380 But the last president that I heard really take on the Fed was Ronald Reagan.

01:22:00.400 And we had 19% interest rates, right, shortly after that, until he stopped talking about the Fed.

01:22:06.340 And the Fed has a lot of control.

01:22:09.700 I mean, and, you know, a lot of people say it's, you know, somehow some kind of a violation for the president to question the Fed.

01:22:17.400 And I wrote a column on this last week.

01:22:18.980 I don't know why.

01:22:19.560 The president is the chief executive officer of the country, right?

01:22:23.260 He is the one who is supposed to help manage our economy.

01:22:26.820 If he doesn't think the Fed is doing the right thing, why shouldn't he speak out?

01:22:30.120 Now, look, I don't want to see a politicization of the Fed.

01:22:32.980 But I think there's a lot of – look, one of the lessons we've learned, Glenn, you and I have talked about this over the years.

01:22:38.840 These are not some kind of oracles on high at the Fed.

01:22:42.000 They act as if they're the temple with all of the knowledge and all of the intelligence.

01:22:46.360 But they've made so many mistakes over the years.

01:22:48.340 As you mentioned, I remember the 70s, as you do, when we had literally 20% mortgage interest rates.

01:22:54.300 That was all because of Fed mistakes.

01:22:56.720 You know, I would make the same case that the Fed, you know, was the one that built up this bubble that led to the housing crisis in 2007 and 2008.

01:23:04.360 Why do we keep thinking these people are somehow, like, godlike?

01:23:07.520 I don't know.

01:23:09.920 I don't know.

01:23:11.380 Let me ask you about the NAFTA replacement and also the trade war that we have going on with China.

01:23:23.380 I fear that Donald Trump really likes trade wars and we're not – that this isn't a negotiation tactic.

01:23:32.240 If it is, you know, great, but do you think – is it, Stephen, or is this what he really fundamentally believes, that tariffs are good?

01:23:41.860 Here's my view, and I've talked to Donald Trump many times about this, you know, and he said this at the Rose Garden.

01:23:46.980 I was at his Rose Garden ceremony last week when he announced the new trade agreement, and he basically said,

01:23:51.980 look, I will – I am using these tariffs as a tool, as a negotiating tactic to get better trade agreements.

01:24:02.600 Now, I'm a free trade guy.

01:24:03.740 I think you are too, Glenn.

01:24:04.800 So I used to tell Donald Trump, I don't agree with you on your trade strategy, but I've got to say, so far, you know, the kind of apocalyptic view has not happened.

01:24:13.660 Trump is getting some good deals.

01:24:14.940 He got a deal with Mexico.

01:24:16.400 He played Canada like a fiddle here where he basically said, you know, we're just going to go ahead without you with Mexico. 0.92

01:24:21.180 And Canada at the 11th hour, literally 11 o'clock on the night before the deal had to be sealed, Canada came and said, okay, we agree to the deal.

01:24:29.580 He's going to get a good deal, I think, with Europe.

01:24:31.800 And then that leads to Canada – I mean, to China.

01:24:35.100 And this is where I think Trump is going to take a very hard line, and I happen to agree with – I don't know, you and I haven't talked about this, Glenn,

01:24:44.060 but I am a hard liner when it comes to China.

01:24:46.440 I'm a free trade guy, but China – we don't have free trade with China.

01:24:49.420 China's cheating, they're stealing, they're, you know, $300 billion of your intellectual property, they're building up their military. 0.96

01:24:56.280 They're like, you know, the old Soviet Union in terms of a lot of the tactics they're using. 0.75

01:25:01.220 And so I do think Trump should get tough with China.

01:25:03.220 What do you think?

01:25:04.320 I think so, too.

01:25:05.300 I just want to make sure that we understand the symbiotic relationship of mutually assured economic destruction when it comes to China. 0.97

01:25:13.360 Well, let me challenge you on that one.

01:25:14.940 And, you know, I'm going to – of course, a trade war would hurt us.

01:25:19.080 But I think the way Trump looks at it, and I think he's right about this.

01:25:21.900 Look, if we can't trade with China, we sneeze. 0.93

01:25:24.980 If they can't trade with us, they catch pneumonia.

01:25:27.300 And I think there's a lot of truth to that.

01:25:28.660 I mean, they can't – their economy depends on access to America's $15 trillion consumer market.

01:25:34.520 I mean, damn near everything you buy in Walmart is made in China.

01:25:39.600 And so Trump is playing that card and saying, look, we're not going to give you unfettered access to our markets if you're not going to play by the rules.

01:25:46.840 I talk to companies' CEOs all the time, Glenn, who basically say it's almost impossible to penetrate the China market.

01:25:52.840 You've got to give up ownership of your company.

01:25:54.760 You have to give up your trade secrets, your patents.

01:25:57.180 I mean, we can't live with that.

01:25:58.440 And Trump is right, I think, when he says, look, I didn't start this trade deal, this trade war.

01:26:02.820 They started it 10 years ago.

01:26:04.200 I would feel better if we also weren't – if they also weren't our bank at the same time.

01:26:09.620 I would feel better about it.

01:26:10.940 Hey, Stephen, quickly, one quick question for you, and you probably have a real insight on this.

01:26:16.380 We were kind of talked about the steel tariffs and these things going on, allies like Canada, as a way of negotiating and bringing these countries to the table for what was kind of like a NAFTA 2.0 type of situation.

01:26:31.340 Well, that happened, but the steel tariffs are still on Canada.

01:26:34.540 Do you have any idea why, or is this going to change at any point?

01:26:37.640 Well, this is one of the issues that I find my – as you know, I'm a big fan of Donald Trump.

01:26:41.520 I hope to write the tax plan with my buddy Larry Kudlow.

01:26:43.720 But I just disagree with this policy.

01:26:46.820 I don't see the wisdom in steel and aluminum tariffs or auto tariffs, but especially not steel and aluminum because, you know, we have something like 100,000 Americans who are employed in steel and auto.

01:26:56.560 But we've got 6 million other manufacturers who use steel and aluminum in what they produce.

01:27:02.580 I was over at Anheuser-Busch a couple weeks ago.

01:27:05.900 They, you know, when they make, you know, Budweiser's, they're using a lot of aluminum for those cans, and they say their prices are going up, and that's going on around the country.

01:27:14.900 Our auto producers, our autos are more expensive because of the steel tariffs.

01:27:18.680 So my point to Trump is this isn't even creating factory jobs.

01:27:21.600 We're going to lose factory jobs as a result of this.

01:27:23.880 So I disagree very strongly with the steel and aluminum tariffs.

01:27:28.160 I think they do more harm than good.

01:27:29.920 Does he look like he's softening?

01:27:32.800 No.

01:27:34.000 Do you think – I don't see it.

01:27:35.200 I don't see it either.

01:27:36.040 It's kind of an evergreen response to that question, isn't it?

01:27:38.500 No, he's not.

01:27:39.440 Yeah, no.

01:27:40.480 At the Rose Garden last week, he said how – he was boasting about how all the steel jobs were created.

01:27:46.320 It's true.

01:27:46.860 We are creating steel jobs, Mr. President, but we're losing auto jobs.

01:27:50.220 We're losing jobs in other areas that manufacture equipment, trucks, those kinds of things that use steel and aluminum. 0.94

01:27:59.460 So it's a dumb policy. 0.95

01:28:01.020 I wish you would reverse it. 0.98

01:28:02.320 And by the way, the auto care, same thing.

01:28:04.200 Even the U.S. auto industry doesn't want the auto care because so many of their supplies come from countries abroad.

01:28:12.320 But, you know, the steel might have come from, you know, Canada, the assembly might have come from Mexico, the parts might have come from Taiwan.

01:28:22.100 I mean, this is the modern American and global economy at work, and we put ourselves at risk here.

01:28:27.980 But at the end of the day, I think Trump is going to prevail on China. 0.79

01:28:30.640 I think I'll make a prediction within six months.

01:28:32.900 I think China is going to come hand in hand and make some real concessions to Trump.

01:28:38.420 And ultimately, if that happens, you're going to see the biggest stock market boom you ever saw.

01:28:44.040 Stephen Moore, thank you so much.

01:28:45.800 Good to talk to you, my friend.

01:28:46.860 Say hi to Larry.

01:28:47.560 How is he feeling?

01:28:49.060 How's Larry Kudlow?

01:28:49.940 Larry is the picture of health, and he's even stopped smoking.

01:28:53.060 That is good for him.

01:28:54.420 Good for him.

01:28:54.880 Make sure you say hi to him for me, will you?

01:28:56.380 All right.

01:28:56.620 We'll do it.

01:28:56.920 All right.

01:28:57.180 Stephen Moore from the Heritage Foundation.

01:29:00.520 Sponsor of this half hour is my Patriot Supply.

01:29:03.160 So I have been thinking and praying about the people in Florida and all of the devastation

01:29:10.120 in this country that we have had over the last couple of years, you know, between fires and

01:29:15.020 natural disasters.

01:29:16.180 By the way, did you see the report on NBC yesterday where they were talking about,

01:29:22.040 we can't call these natural disasters anymore because this is a man-made disaster.

01:29:25.840 Oh, geez.

01:29:26.440 Are you kidding me?

01:29:28.000 No.

01:29:28.300 We went over this yesterday on the News and Why It Matters.

01:29:30.720 I know we did.

01:29:30.920 Read the IPCC report about what they say about hurricanes.

01:29:33.260 It's basically nothing.

01:29:34.200 I have to send you this because it was so agonizing.

01:29:37.580 These are not natural disasters.

01:29:39.180 Hurricanes are not natural disasters anymore.

01:29:41.360 Can't take it.

01:29:41.700 It is crazy.

01:29:43.320 Anyway, how are these people affording, you know, to go live someplace?

01:29:47.940 Their house has been devastated.

01:29:49.400 They, you know, are going to have to, you know, put everything into getting their lives back.

01:29:54.820 How are they going to do that?

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01:30:43.900 Let me go to Jerome in Ohio.

01:30:45.240 Hello, Jerome.

01:30:45.840 You're on the Glenn Beck program.

01:30:48.120 Hey, Glenn.

01:30:48.600 How's it going, man?

01:30:49.260 Good.

01:30:50.800 Well, the, I don't want to say his name, but the gentleman that you got into with it yesterday.

01:30:58.080 Yes.

01:30:59.160 And stuff.

01:30:59.880 That was me three years ago.

01:31:01.380 I was ready to, I was ready to fight.

01:31:04.600 I was ready to punch, ready to stomp, you know, the whole nine yards.

01:31:08.300 And then I, sorry, I found hope.

01:31:15.320 And my, sorry, my daughter was born.

01:31:20.520 She was born four months early.

01:31:22.300 And, uh, I, uh, my focus went from everything going on around the world to what was going

01:31:31.740 on in my house, my household.

01:31:34.040 And, uh, it was, uh, sorry.

01:31:38.320 It was, uh, challenging.

01:31:39.540 Um, we were, she was, she was born November 1st and she was in the hospital until, until

01:31:48.360 Easter.

01:31:50.140 And she came home and she had a G tube and, um, she was on oxygen and stuff like that, but

01:31:55.340 she was home.

01:31:57.100 Um, I am remarried and, uh, me and my wife, we have between us, we had three, three daughters

01:32:04.560 and we tried for about 10 years and nothing ever happened.

01:32:08.300 And then, uh, out of the blue wife calls me and says, uh, we need to have a conversation. 1.00

01:32:13.260 And, uh, she told me that, um, that she was pregnant.

01:32:19.080 And, uh, it's, I don't know, I, I sympathize with the, the, the gentleman you, you, you were

01:32:25.820 talking with, um, because I, I still have moments to where I want to get angry and stuff,

01:32:31.540 but then I'd stop and take a step back and breathe and just think of, think of my daughter,

01:32:37.060 you know?

01:32:37.520 So did you think, did you gain hope or did you gain perspective?

01:32:42.440 Yes.

01:32:43.280 Uh, both.

01:32:45.240 I gained both.

01:32:45.960 Yeah.

01:32:46.100 Um, it's just, I, I had hope because I want, I want a better world for my daughter.

01:32:52.220 Yeah.

01:32:52.540 You know?

01:32:53.700 And, uh, the, the great, uh, Jerome, thank you for sharing that.

01:32:58.020 And thank you for, um, thanks for your honesty of emotion there.

01:33:02.580 Um, the, the good thing is, and this, what I tried to, um, impress on our caller yesterday

01:33:09.140 after, um, he hung up, unfortunately was we're winning.

01:33:15.100 We're winning.

01:33:15.960 Common sense is winning.

01:33:17.820 It doesn't feel like it, but that's just because the power structure that you are used

01:33:22.140 to is no more.

01:33:24.100 And when you look at what's happened and you look at the Democrats saying the things that

01:33:32.520 they're saying now that, you know, Eric, Eric Holder today, the latest is, you know,

01:33:37.780 when they go low, we kick them that that's, that's not an American principle.

01:33:43.800 That's not the way we should behave.

01:33:45.860 I don't want that from our side.

01:33:47.860 I don't think people want it from their side.

01:33:49.720 New research shows 80% of the American people feel the same way.

01:33:55.200 That's a good thing.

01:33:56.680 We're winning.

01:33:57.420 Back.

01:33:58.080 Mercury.

01:34:02.580 We have more on Florida coming up in just a second.

01:34:05.100 Can we take a look at, uh, also the, uh, uh, the election numbers?

01:34:10.180 I think it's about time we start getting, you know, your analysis, Stu, because I know

01:34:14.220 you love stats and there's nobody better looking at the numbers than you.

01:34:18.460 Thank you.

01:34:18.960 The polls are hitting and they're coming in fast.

01:34:21.260 And, uh, yes, there's a lot to, uh, to understand about where that's going.

01:34:25.260 We can definitely get into that.

01:34:26.580 Um, should we start there or do you want to start with some of the hurricane stuff?

01:34:30.420 Uh, well, I don't know if I want to talk to somebody who, uh, cannot agree with NBC news

01:34:35.420 that these are not natural disasters.

01:34:38.520 These are man-made disasters now.

01:34:41.300 So was it man-made that we went an entire decade basically without getting one hurricane

01:34:45.340 hitting the, let me ask you something about that, sir.

01:34:47.740 Yes.

01:34:48.540 Uh, would you agree with me that over the last 10 years, in the last 10 years, we have

01:34:56.240 seen a dramatic increase in hurricanes here in the United States since we dropped out of

01:35:05.300 the Paris Accords?

01:35:06.320 Yes or no, sir.

01:35:09.120 It is a yes or no answer.

01:35:10.820 You're saying, has it gone from zero to two in the time that, I mean, since we've been out of Paris?

01:35:17.080 Is that, uh, is that an increase, sir?

01:35:19.220 I mean, yeah, the trend is not increasing that we, we have one year that had more than another

01:35:24.360 year.

01:35:24.880 Is that what you're trying?

01:35:25.980 Because we had, I'm asking you in the last 10 years, have we seen a pickup of these,

01:35:32.340 these so-called natural disasters?

01:35:36.220 I want to just in the last couple of years.

01:35:38.100 Thank you for your question, NBC.

01:35:39.720 Yeah.

01:35:39.920 There has been an increase from all of the years of zero.

01:35:42.500 Thank you very much.

01:35:43.260 Now, let's go talk.

01:35:45.680 That's journalism these days.

01:35:46.940 It is.

01:35:47.320 Here's what the IPCC says.

01:35:48.720 Remember, this is Al Gore's favorite place to go for climate information.

01:35:53.020 Okay.

01:35:53.320 This is what they say about hurricanes.

01:35:55.280 Numerous studies towards and beyond the fifth assessment report of the IPCC have reported

01:36:01.100 a D, D, D, D, decreasing trend in the global number of tropical cyclones and or the global

01:36:09.740 globally accumulated cyclonic energy.

01:36:11.760 There is low confidence regarding changes in global tropical cyclone numbers under global

01:36:16.080 warming over the past four decades.

01:36:17.960 There is consequently low confidence in the larger number of studies reporting increasing

01:36:22.080 trends in the global number of very intense cyclones.

01:36:24.920 This is the UNIPCC report.

01:36:27.720 The latest, the latest update.

01:36:30.040 To bring it out of a boring UN talk, what they're saying is total number of hurricanes

01:36:34.300 going down and there is low confidence in any change in the increase, like what they

01:36:40.200 say is like, well, because they used to say there's going to be more frequent and intense

01:36:43.380 hurricanes.

01:36:43.940 Then they realized that the frequency thing wasn't happening.

01:36:46.420 It's going to be more intense.

01:36:47.640 They don't even have evidence of that.

01:36:49.700 And so that's-

01:36:50.380 Excuse me, Mr.

01:36:51.120 Is this not the strongest storm on record that has hit the Florida panhandle?

01:37:01.320 That is the report.

01:37:02.160 Thank you, sir.

01:37:02.880 I rest my case.

01:37:04.440 Here's the summary.

01:37:05.860 The IPCC once again reports that there is little basis for claiming that drought, floods,

01:37:10.700 hurricanes, and tornadoes have increased, much less increased due to greenhouse gases.

01:37:16.040 Not exactly the story you're getting on the media when they're trying to say-

01:37:18.860 We have 10 years now.

01:37:19.820 We have 10 years of intelligence.

01:37:20.120 They've renewed this.

01:37:21.400 They've upped their commitment.

01:37:25.400 And in response, I tell them, up yours.

01:37:28.540 So it is pretty remarkable.

01:37:33.240 Okay.

01:37:33.540 Let me ask you this as we get into the poll numbers.

01:37:37.420 I believe there is a chance we see a red wave because of Kavanaugh, that we were concerned

01:37:46.980 that there would be this massive blue wave in both the House and the Senate.

01:37:52.380 I think we see a red wave, not a tidal wave, but a red wave.

01:37:58.640 If it's possible, first of all, I would say Kavanaugh, if the last two years have been

01:38:04.880 any indication, Kavanaugh will be ancient history by the time this election happens.

01:38:09.520 It's like three weeks from now.

01:38:11.840 These things go away.

01:38:13.000 For example, the Access Hollywood tape happened right about this time in 2016.

01:38:20.480 Right about now.

01:38:21.320 It was October 8th or 9th.

01:38:22.740 It's October 11th today.

01:38:23.820 And that, by the time the election came, as we saw, had basically no impact.

01:38:28.660 Full-time news.

01:38:29.380 I mean, this stuff goes away fast.

01:38:31.500 And I think there will be...

01:38:32.700 I don't think this is because it's not just Kavanaugh.

01:38:36.200 If they would have left it alone, licked their wounds, but they're not.

01:38:41.380 They're doubling down.

01:38:42.740 Hillary Clinton yesterday, we can't live with these people. 1.00

01:38:47.060 Eric Holder comes out.

01:38:48.740 That's the news today that he says when they go low, we kick them.

01:38:53.820 And the crowd cheers.

01:38:55.460 And he follows it with, this is who the new Democratic Party is.

01:39:01.240 It's amazing.

01:39:02.040 It's amazing.

01:39:02.780 Michelle Obama pushed back on that today, by the way, kind of in an interesting way.

01:39:06.460 But, you know, what you see, I think, is if you are under control, you can make these

01:39:11.820 stories go away.

01:39:12.800 Their craziness in the Kavanaugh thing could probably be forgotten by a lot of voters.

01:39:16.600 If you would look at from the time that Donald Trump came down to the escalator to today, probably

01:39:21.320 his cleanest month was October of 2016.

01:39:26.080 After that tape came out, he was buttoned up for the rest of that time and made very

01:39:32.360 few statements and wound up winning the election because people were able to kind of forget about,

01:39:37.640 you know, sort of this craziness and scandals that were going on and looked more at Hillary

01:39:41.100 Clinton and her craziness and scandals.

01:39:43.400 So if you look at this, they could get it to go away.

01:39:47.100 Doing things like we're going to kick them when they go low and people saying, that's

01:39:52.660 not a mob.

01:39:53.300 What are you talking about?

01:39:53.860 That sort of stuff is not going to help them.

01:39:55.780 Nope.

01:39:55.940 And so far, since the Kavanaugh thing, what we've seen is really encouraging numbers for

01:40:01.240 the GOP, particularly in the Senate.

01:40:03.480 The Senate has, you know, we had a lot of races.

01:40:05.400 We talked about the Robert Francis O'Rourke versus Ted Cruz situation, where Cruz, that

01:40:11.740 poll came out at 52-43, a nine-point lead.

01:40:15.540 Now, Cruz had been, there was one poll, I think, that had them tied.

01:40:18.860 A few, most of them settled around three or four points with Cruz leading.

01:40:22.400 That's expanded in multiple polls now to nine and ten points.

01:40:26.000 I think it's going to be more than nine or ten points.

01:40:27.640 Yeah.

01:40:27.900 Pat Gray, who's not in here with us today, but he was talking on his show, I think it

01:40:32.340 was yesterday or the day before, believes that it's going to be over ten points.

01:40:35.780 Yeah.

01:40:36.020 I think it'll be between 14 and 18 points.

01:40:38.800 Another interesting poll that came out yesterday, again, from the New York Times.

01:40:42.540 And this is, you know, they're doing this live polling thing I mentioned last hour.

01:40:46.300 How many calls does it take to get 778 responses in Texas?

01:40:50.340 How many calls do you have to make to get 778 people to talk on the phone to you?

01:40:55.520 The number?

01:40:56.520 51,192.

01:40:58.820 Oh, my gosh.

01:40:59.560 They had to call 51,000 people to get 778 to actually participate in the poll, which is

01:41:05.680 incredible.

01:41:05.920 Okay.

01:41:06.180 Well, you're calling Texas.

01:41:07.600 Mm-hmm.

01:41:08.100 Uh, and if it's marked with a New York number or the New York Times, I understand that.

01:41:15.780 Uh, but I mean, it's, this is, this is overall, like, for example, New York, they did, they

01:41:19.300 also polled the, uh, Eastern Long Island district, New York one.

01:41:22.640 Uh, and what they found, 502 responses, they had to make 27,178 calls.

01:41:27.880 That's crazy.

01:41:28.320 Are you answering?

01:41:29.020 Seriously?

01:41:29.580 Do you know anybody that would take the time to answer that?

01:41:31.720 Nobody does.

01:41:32.280 And that's why, you know, again, if you take into account that factor, which has totally

01:41:36.980 changed over the last 20 years with cell phones and, and, uh, telemarketers and all those things,

01:41:41.360 it's amazing.

01:41:42.300 These guys get even close to accurate results from polls because you're self-selecting a

01:41:46.860 group of people who want to participate in them.

01:41:48.540 And it's like, you know, who knows if they're represented?

01:41:50.520 That's why Google home should include some sort of an FMRI so they can just read our brain

01:41:57.300 scan.

01:41:57.960 That would make it a lot easier.

01:41:58.880 It would make it a lot easier.

01:42:00.340 Things would just come to your door that you wanted.

01:42:02.320 I'd love that.

01:42:03.120 Um, another interesting poll that came out of the New York times though, however, uh,

01:42:06.300 was, uh, the test of the Taylor Swift effect.

01:42:09.400 Remember Taylor Swift, after all these, uh, all this time being silent on, on politics,

01:42:13.720 decided to dive into it inexplicably with a ridiculously, you know, again, like you almost

01:42:19.300 feel like with her PR team, if you're going to come out and do this, at least have like

01:42:22.920 sensible observations and don't be just bumper sticker, you know, uh, you know, quote

01:42:28.940 tweeting Huffington post, right?

01:42:30.940 Like that was the level of analysis she provided in her little post.

01:42:34.820 But again, she's one of the biggest celebrities in the world. 0.97

01:42:36.960 How does this happen?

01:42:38.100 Uh, she's from, you know, Tennessee.

01:42:39.500 She came out in Tennessee race. 0.99

01:42:40.820 The biggest thing that she talked about was Marsha Blackburn saying how anti-women she 1.00

01:42:44.920 was and, and how she didn't care about, she wanted to keep gays out of stores and all 1.00

01:42:49.780 these ridiculous things that aren't true. 0.93

01:42:51.280 Um, well, the first poll has come out since that.

01:42:53.820 Um, and it, uh, most of the calls were, uh, after that, uh, 54 to 40 Blackburn leads 14

01:43:02.980 points.

01:43:03.460 This was a race that was in the toss up category.

01:43:05.400 Wow.

01:43:05.780 Now, if that polling holds, I can think we could sit, uh, safely, uh, understand that

01:43:10.600 more people care about what Kanye West thinks about politics than Taylor Swift.

01:43:14.040 Uh, but we'll see if that holds or not.

01:43:15.980 So we could look at Senate, possibly a red wave in the Senate.

01:43:22.200 Yeah, I think, you know, so we talked about this a little while ago to, which makes sense.

01:43:27.020 People know that's where the Supreme court is happening.

01:43:30.300 And also people are in red States, right?

01:43:33.080 And they're going to become more excited to vote more passionate about voting.

01:43:36.900 The, the, the house we're seeing sort of a slight turn to the opposite effect where

01:43:42.080 purple districts, um, sometimes it has been tilting a little bit.

01:43:45.980 A little more blue, a little more blue, not much to tell from it.

01:43:49.300 I think already the house is in real, real danger.

01:43:52.180 I mean, I, it would be a surprise at this point if the Republicans were able to pull

01:43:55.300 out the house, not impossible.

01:43:56.720 It would be a surprise.

01:43:58.120 Um, uh, but for the Senate real quick, we had 10 toss up races that we were talking about 0.65

01:44:03.520 before.

01:44:04.240 Um, and I believe it was three or four that the, the Republicans had to win to control

01:44:09.440 the Senate.

01:44:09.860 I think it was three.

01:44:10.520 They had to win three of the 10 at the time we talked about it, the Ted Cruz race, which

01:44:14.240 in which he was favored by only three points was the best case, best case right now.

01:44:19.060 That's changed dramatically since we talked about that a couple of weeks ago.

01:44:22.640 Now, um, uh, Ted Cruz seems to be on solid ground, uh, and more than a three point lead.

01:44:29.180 Uh, Heidi Heitkamp seems to be in massive danger.

01:44:32.020 I would say it looks like two races were decided with the Kavanaugh hearings, barring some other

01:44:37.580 major development.

01:44:38.920 Uh, Heidi Heitkamp voted against him.

01:44:41.400 She looks like she's toast in North, in North Dakota.

01:44:43.600 Now, uh, Joe Manchin voted for Kavanaugh.

01:44:46.680 He looks like he's safe.

01:44:47.880 So those two races are not even in the toss up category anymore.

01:44:51.220 In my mind, uh, that Lee and neither really is the Cruz one, which gets you down to about

01:44:55.300 seven toss ups, which the Republicans need to win one, one of the seven will keep the

01:45:00.740 Senate, uh, in Republican hands.

01:45:03.240 This is a much improved situation from even when it was just a couple of weeks ago.

01:45:06.960 The Kavanaugh thing I think is a big part of it.

01:45:09.700 Uh, we don't know that for sure yet.

01:45:11.020 I think it'll play out in the next week or so when we really have a lot of results, but

01:45:14.060 it looks very promising in the Senate better than it's looked probably all year.

01:45:17.940 Uh, so that's a, that's a good thing if you care about that.

01:45:20.480 So let me ask, let me, let me explain something.

01:45:22.520 Uh, this election could mean that I know, I know technically we have three branches of

01:45:28.680 government, but I believe we kind of had five.

01:45:31.520 We have the press and the people, okay, five executive, legislative, um, and judicial are

01:45:39.580 the three in the constitution.

01:45:41.460 Then you have the fourth, which is the press and the people.

01:45:44.940 I believe what happens in this election could put all five branches into chaos.

01:45:52.740 If they win the house, the house will go nuts and they will impeach.

01:46:00.080 They will subpoena, which those subpoenas will go to the Senate.

01:46:04.940 The Senate will be in chaos because of it, because of the Democrats, they will put the administrative

01:46:10.680 in chaos because it will be under impeachment and it will also, uh, have testimony that

01:46:17.900 it has to give that it will fight.

01:46:20.020 They're going to subpoena his tax records.

01:46:22.120 He will fight that, which will go into the Supreme court, which the people will rise up

01:46:27.140 and destabilize the fifth branch.

01:46:29.580 If you will, the people as they stand up and they're starting to fight kind of back and

01:46:35.120 forth in the streets, you know, not in a mob sort of way, just in an antifa sort of way.

01:46:39.980 They will, the house will then again, I think, try to impeach Kavanaugh or at least get him

01:46:47.160 to recuse himself from anything having to do with the administration.

01:46:51.560 You watch it and the, and the press is already in chaos.

01:46:56.720 All every piece of society could be in chaos based on this election.

01:47:05.340 It's going to be a fun couple of years, isn't it?

01:47:07.540 It'll be a fun couple of years.

01:47:09.980 Thanks to you, uh, give us a quick report.

01:47:13.120 Maybe every day here as things start to change, uh, and, uh, give us a look on, on the polls.

01:47:20.220 I'd also like you to summarize the polls that I gave this morning on the people about the,

01:47:27.100 you know, what is it?

01:47:28.280 8% of the people are progressive hardliners.

01:47:30.780 29% are, uh, conservative hardliners and the rest are, are being called, uh, the, uh, what was it?

01:47:40.800 The burned out, uh, core or the, uh, the, the tired core, the people that are in the middle saying,

01:47:47.160 I don't want to be a part of either of these, it's, it's pretty remarkable.

01:47:51.980 And I think good news.

01:47:54.600 All right.

01:47:55.340 Exhausted majority.

01:47:56.400 Exhausted majority.

01:47:57.280 Thank you.

01:47:57.720 All right.

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