US Democrat Pledges Allegiance to Guatemala？! ｜ Guests： AG Ken Paxton & Sen. Tim Scott ｜ 8⧸5⧸25
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Glenn Beck is back with a story about gerrymandricting in Texas, and why it s so bad it needs to be stopped. Also, a woman in a pickleball tournament almost got into a car accident on the way to her match.
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We have the story in Texas, which is really all about gerrymandering.
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We'll explain and why everybody is upset in Texas on both sides, both Republicans and Democrats,
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The Attorney General joins us in about an hour on that story.
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And it's not sealed by race or bloodline, but just an allegiance to an idea that we are all one people, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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So what happens when somebody who is elected to serve under the very idea declares allegiance not to the United States, but to a foreign nation?
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Because we not only have one, we have several now in Congress doing this.
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So what happens when somebody who is elected pledges allegiance to another country?
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Well, first of all, it's a violation of your oath.
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Congresswoman Delia Ramirez stood this week on foreign soil speaking in Spanish at a summit in Mexico City.
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And she said, and I'd like to quote, I am a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American.
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That's the Rolling Stone, which reported that a couple of years ago.
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This is a sitting member of Congress sworn to uphold the Constitution, says she's a Guatemalan before she's an American.
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Meanwhile, her household, she does, defies the immigration laws that she just swore to protect and defend.
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And it is happening over and over and over again.
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We have people, Ilan Omar, she is a Somali before she's an American.
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You know, you can't say you don't love the country of your ancestors.
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I mean, Tanya's family is so great, you know, because they're they come from Italy.
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They're Italian-Americans, but they would never say they're Italian.
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But when you separate yourself and you are an Italian first, there is no way anybody in Tanya's family throughout history would have ever said.
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In fact, her uncle Leo, I've talked about a million times.
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He was born here in America while they were on vacation.
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They went back to Italy, but he was the only natural born citizen.
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He was the only citizen when when the war came, they were afraid that the entire family was going to be wiped out.
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But instead of just sitting collecting things, he's like 18 years old.
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And because he had a heavy Italian accent, everybody thought he's a spy.
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When that gate came down, he was one of the first to try to make the mad dash to the cliff.
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When you serve in Congress, when you sit on the the committee for the Homeland Security.
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You're representing the sovereignty of the United States of America.
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You are part of the body tasked to defend our borders, its laws.
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And I am sick and tired and I won't play the game.
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And nor should you that our identity is worse than anybody else's.
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That our identity somehow or another doesn't matter.
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While also being ashamed of some of the things we did when we beat our chest.
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When we went away from our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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That's what some members of Congress are calling for.
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She certainly should be kicked off the Homeland Security Committee.
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You cannot have your loyalty to another country over your loyalty to the United States of America.
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I mean, when will we start taking allegiance seriously again?
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George Washington in his farewell address warned about foreign entanglements.
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And we always think that that is, oh, well, we shouldn't get involved in foreign wars.
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Do you know why you have to be a naturally born citizen of the United States to serve as president?
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You know, everybody's like, I'd let Arnold Schwarzenegger be president.
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Because the founders feared that you would have an alliance that would be above the United States of America.
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You would say, in Elon Musk's case, you know what?
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I really am more loyal to South America or South Africa than I am the United States.
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Or Arnold Schwarzenegger, I'm more aligned with Austria than the United States.
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But we have members of Congress who say, I am more aligned and it is more the heart, the country that I have the heart for is Somalia or Guatemala over the United States.
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He wrote of the danger of foreign influence and corruption, noting that allegiance divided is allegiance denied.
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Theodore Roosevelt didn't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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There is no room, quoting him, there is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.
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Now, that is obviously not a swipe at immigrants.
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It was a call to unify under one flag, one set of laws, one national destiny.
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Because people came and brought the best of their culture with them, but they melted and wanted to be an American.
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And when dual loyalties creep into the halls of power, that's when a republic crumbles.
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And as I said, Congresswoman Ramirez, her comments didn't happen in a vacuum.
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They come at a time when Donald Trump has made immigration central to the campaign,
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ending birthright citizenship, ramping up ICE arrest, deporting those who break our laws,
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Outrage from the same people who, you know, want our borders open, sanctuary cities,
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policies that blur, if not erase the line between citizen and non-citizen.
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And now with her own words and her own associations, she's drawn that line in the sand.
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Will Congress and the American people choose America over Guatemala or Somalia or any other place?
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So here's what, this is what I believe should absolutely happen immediately.
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She needs to immediately be removed from Homeland Security or immigration-related committees.
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If you don't believe in national sovereignty, you should not be managing our national sovereignty.
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There should be a full investigation into her husband's immigration status.
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No one in this country, not even the spouse of the Congresswoman, should be above the law.
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If Melania Trump had been, had come here illegally, I would say exactly the same thing.
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Yeah, we've had one in the past, and I think we should reintroduce it.
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Because that is the oath of office, the oath of allegiance.
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And that has to be a binding standard for those who are serving.
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Do you pledge allegiance to our flag, our country, our constitution?
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And if you can't say with real, full conviction, oh yeah, absolutely, of course, that your allegiance
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is with the United States of America, well, then you don't belong in government.
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If you can't say, no, my loyalty is absolutely behind the Constitution of the United States
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of America, then you should not be in government.
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And here's the biggest thing that has to happen.
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We have to stop going, oh well, that's just politics.
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This goes right directly to the soul of our nation.
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And it was crossed with Ilhan Omar, and we said nothing.
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And now it's been crossed with Congresswoman Ramirez.
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Her husband, according to Rolling Stone, isn't illegal.
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Because if we don't know where our allegiance is, then we no longer know who we are.
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You can serve as a defender of the Constitution and our sovereignty
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and not believe in the Constitution or our sovereignty.
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That we are so, we have become so susceptible to retardation
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You really should have loyalty to the United States first
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And you'd think, I'm not surprised that this stuff happens,
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but I'm surprised that it's being admitted, right?
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I don't know if she thought, well, I'm on foreign territory
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more than you do the one you're working for, right?
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It's like, you know, if you're working at McDonald's,
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Certainly, you can even have an order of preference
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in all the years doing the show with you, Glenn,
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as to why they're not doing the thing they're doing.
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...than this person I've literally never heard of
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Oftentimes, that's where a lot of the damage comes from.
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and the stuff that winds up bothering us the most
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So I'm glad there's some attention being drawn here.
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Well, we'll see whether anything's going to happen.
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So here's a story that I think if we don't stop
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your soul, as captured by a memory or photograph,
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Stand your ground, when times get dark, gotta face the dark and embrace the fire.
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so i want to talk to you about something that is not a bug in the system it is a feature and it's
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called gerrymandering and the term comes from eldridge uh jerry he was a founding father he
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was from massachusetts i believe and he approved a redistricting map in 1812 and it was so
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contorted in such a squiggly line it looked like a salamander hence gerrymandering jerry
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governor of massachusetts mander salamander the irony is is that uh uh he opposed strong centralized
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power but his name is now the brand of one of the most anti-democratic practices in modern politics
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except it started in 1812 and every both sides do it now it is the feature of the system you want to
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change that we can talk about that but what's happening in texas is the democrats uh the
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democrats believe that you know they can do it wherever they are uh but the democrats the republicans
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better not try it well that's not the way it works unfortunately gang for for you i know you like
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special privileges but uh both parties are equal i guess ken paxton is here to tell us what is
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number four relief z factor from relieffactor.com ken paxton welcome to the program great to be back
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glenn hope you're doing well the same by the way how are the polls going for you how's the uh race
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you're running against cornyn well it's going well i mean the the numbers every poll i've seen even
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polls i haven't done have me way up my own polls have me up 25 points and we just continue i just
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continue to do the same job i've done over the last 11 years and he's uh obviously changed his uh his
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focus from being what he was to being a all-in trump guy for the last few months it's a it's a
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miracle he's a converted guy i know i know uh okay so ken let's talk a little bit about uh gerrymandering
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and what is happening here in the state of texas uh the the democ go ahead no no you go ahead and ask
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the question i should wait at least for the question yeah the democrats uh don't like the fact that the
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republicans are going to do some gerrymandering here which is done everywhere else so they have
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left the state this is the third time they've done it so what is their plan what is what should
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happen and what are you as the attorney general and the government of the governor going to do about it
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first of all it's pretty ironic that they're going to illinois new york and massachusetts three of the
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most liberal states and some of the most gerrymandered states in the country i think illinois might be the
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most gerrymandered if you look at illinois and how it's drawn i think 82 percent of the members of
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congress are democrats whereas 48 percent of the population votes republican so it doesn't match up
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even closely so they read texas as the democrats the 51 some of them go to chicago to a state that is
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completely gerrymandered so it's really hypocritical in my my view what they're doing as you've already
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mentioned in the prelude to talking to me so the goal here is i mean i honestly would have locked
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them up when they were in the house texas speaker could have shut the doors and kept everybody and
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we've done that we did that back in 2003 and once the doors are locked you can't get out and you spend
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the night there and you vote and they could have done that they did not do that so they let the
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what do they say the cat out of the bag the cat's gone so now you either arrest them which you're not
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going to get help from jurisdictions like illinois boston and boston you're not going to get help
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massachusetts or new york so arresting them is not likely scenario until they come back what has
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happened in the past is our governors have waited them out because ultimately they many of them have
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to come back they have jobs they have families they're not going to live in illinois it gets cold
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up there and new york's cold boston's cold so they come back and we vote and every time we've
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ultimately been successful another option we're looking at as a matter of fact when i get out of this
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fall i'm meeting with a bunch of my lawyers to talk about this uh this quo puerento which is a
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possibility that we looked into a couple of years ago we suggested it might be a way to take existing
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members out of their positions if they fail to show up uh to perform their duties now you take them out
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of the positions but then there has to be a special election so you can't go right to vote right yeah no
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because you can that changes the quorum i think it'll change the quorum so you have less numbers
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your quorum numbers change so abbott could also appoint i think could appoint and uh at least until
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there's a special election some of these might be appointed positions as well for a period of time
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so there's possibility it's definitely not a fast process although we're trying to figure out a way to
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fast track it uh so that we can get an answer sooner rather than later otherwise it's just a
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it's just a waiting game either way in the end we we know how this is going to turn out because
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governor avid is not going to back down and he'll just keep calling them back until they show up
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this is a nuclear weapon that they launched and all you're going to hear from the media is if you launch
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back they're going to just say that you're using a nuclear weapon you're destroying the republic etc etc
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but they're the ones that launched the nuclear strike you don't do that and this is the third
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time they've tried this and it doesn't work well what's interesting glenn is i mean i've been i've been
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i was in texas house starting 2003 served 10 years in the house two years in the senate been ag for 11
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the only thing they've ever left on it's not abortion it's not you know welfare it's it's you
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know what it's always this this is what they care about they care about controlling congress about
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controlling things through manipulation and these are the rules of the game the supreme court laid down
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the rules you can as you said you can gerrymander as long as it's political the legislature has every
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right to draw the lines however they want to and they could be really bad lines for the other party but
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they're allowed to do it under texas or under a u.s supreme court precedent and it is a state's
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decision this is not a federal decision this is a state's decision every every state can do whatever
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it is what do you think about new york which is already gerrymandered what do you think about new
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york saying well if texas is going to do that then we're just going to gerrymander even more
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well look they're they're entitled to do whatever their state constitution their laws allow them to do
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there's always a risk you go too far and you stretch those seats too far there are republicans
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in new york i know because my family's from there um there are republicans and if you draw those
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seats too tightly you can you can end up losing some of those down the road i will uh i'll tell you
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that uh you know the problem with gerrymandering in in my opinion and the founders you know both
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jefferson and i think it was i think it was adams and jefferson wrote about this and uh this is about
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1820 so after gerrymandering had started um and they talked about how this was a flaw in the
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constitution that they wish they would have put in what are called stakes and it comes right from the
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old testament where you know you start with uh you know 500 people and then that's a square
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and then when that becomes you know a thousand people you cut it in half and it becomes another
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square and so it just you don't you can't gerrymander everything just keeps growing and
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you just keep cutting it in squares because the problem is when you gerrymander all of a sudden
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your neighbors don't matter all of a sudden you might be represented by somebody who's way away
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from your community instead of somebody who's living right in your community and the other thing is
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you no longer care about the middle you're only playing to the extremes because you've cut
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everyone else out that would help balance you at all it's really dangerous do you agree with that or
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not no i absolutely agree with you it's just that's not the system the founders put in place
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and as a result you know you the democrats are going to do it you can you can sit back and say well
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philosophically i'm against this and the democrats are just going to control the house and the
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senate forever because we're against this you can't let that happen so right right um i agree
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with you it's it's not it's not ideal but you play by the rules just like in football you might like
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all the rules but you play by the rules you got correct um so you're going to decide i mean
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on a warrant or warrants have been uh have been issued right but it's it's one where they come
00:57:55.940
into the state and it's not they don't take you don't take them to jail you take them to the house
00:58:00.520
correct yes it's not a prison sentence i mean unless you consider being on the texas house floor
00:58:05.280
which i often did uh a prison sentence um but because you figure if you're if the doors are shut
00:58:11.080
and you're stuck with all those people sometimes you wish you weren't um right yeah it's just it's just
00:58:15.540
uh they're once they step into the state they'll be escorted back to the house and presumably
00:58:20.900
they'll do what i suggested and and either if they're not going to step there you know they're
00:58:26.760
going to if they come back they're going to stay they've made their decision so who knows when that'll
00:58:31.960
be but i think in the end it won't matter it'll happen the way the way the republicans have planned it
00:58:38.560
ken thank you very much are we you're going to be looking into who paid for these flights
00:58:45.380
it's my understanding that some of them were flying private jets and i'd like to know who paid
00:58:50.040
for those that that just has to be declared before the next election or at the end of the year
00:58:55.440
so um during special session we they have to report on their campaign expenditures and their campaign
00:59:03.480
contributions so that will all be seen by the public within i think a month after session something
00:59:10.000
like that so the special session last 30 days i forget exactly what day he called it
00:59:14.900
um sometime in i i would say sometime in in september we should know that information
00:59:20.100
wow thank you so much ken i appreciate it keep up the good work absolutely have a great day
00:59:25.660
you bet bye-bye so stew i mean it's nuclear war it's nuclear war it's a very pathetic version of
00:59:37.820
nuclear war where you run away to jb pritzker i mean it's not it's not the day after exactly
00:59:46.660
it's sissy yes it's sissy yeah it's nuclear war it's democrat nuclear war it really is pathetic
00:59:52.620
right it's it's this you know you're scampering away to hide behind a very large governor in another
00:59:59.300
state and and we should also highlight why it's illinois there's a reason for this right like you
01:00:07.120
know you could go there is a an indian native american reservation with a with the world's largest
01:00:14.680
casino glenn right over the border of texas they could go there and stay there and uh they'd be
01:00:22.560
across state lines they're in illinois because you know fundraising exactly they're looking because
01:00:29.560
they want jb pritzker to be their sugar daddy and they also realize that jb pritzker's likely going to
01:00:35.760
run for president in 2028 uh these people want to be uh close to that those types of uh that type of
01:00:42.860
money he's a billionaire and uh and that type of influence and so they're going there to sort of
01:00:47.980
scout whatever their next gig is or wherever the next donation is coming from it's got nothing to do
01:00:53.300
with uh you know caring about any of this like of course they care about the seats you know canon's
01:00:59.620
right like that's seemingly their most central interest is power but this is all this is this works
01:01:07.080
on multiple fronts for their continued power and this is why they're doing it even though they know
01:01:11.200
they're going to fail i mean there's no there's no way this ends with with texas not having a quorum
01:01:17.960
for the rest of uh the term like that's not that's not how this ends no no uh you know and it's it's
01:01:25.100
what's sad is they're supposed to be talking about uh property tax relief that if you really want to
01:01:30.340
help your constituents you pass that you you change the property tax rules the property tax in texas is
01:01:37.680
just like florida completely out of control completely out of control yeah i i certainly
01:01:46.040
agree with that uh but there's also the flood you know these flood victims you know and and it's funny
01:01:51.600
because the way the media is spinning this is that republicans are stopping it it's like what no wait
01:01:59.540
wait a minute the democrats are in another state what do you mean republicans are stopping the funding
01:02:03.820
they come back and then they can start talking about the funding for uh yes they're going to do
01:02:08.760
the maps that's going to be part of it and that's going to happen either way but this way would also
01:02:12.320
get the money to uh you know the people that need it in these flood zones that is and it's fascinating
01:02:18.060
that the republicans get the blame for that um just like the republic just like israel's getting the
01:02:22.800
blame for the starving hostages now you know where wait a minute hamas is starving the
01:02:30.200
hostages but it's israel's fault that they're starving like i it's hard to even follow the
01:02:36.460
logic but that's where we are with it i know i know and the other thing is is they were getting
01:02:40.840
rid of the uh uh the star tests which your kids have taken star testing stew uh maybe i don't know
01:02:49.280
i don't pay attention to it much they just you know they they come and go as they please
01:02:53.700
the star testing is the state of texas the standard standardized test and uh yeah everybody hates
01:03:01.280
it teachers hate it kids hate it because it's just you're teaching half of the year just to that test
01:03:06.920
and it's ridiculous you gotta stop teaching to tests that's what makes schools so depressing
01:03:15.240
is you're just memorizing for tests you're just memorizing and and what is that teaching you
01:03:20.600
that's not teaching you how to think that's teaching you what to think and how to answer
01:03:25.200
questions on a test uh that you've memorized it's it's ridiculous i don't know why we do it and that's
01:03:33.300
another thing that is on the uh on the list but you know the democrats had to get out of town so they
01:03:38.520
could gosh darn it so they could stand for their constituents yeah you know i mean i know this isn't
01:03:44.920
the topic but i'm not i don't hate them as much as everybody else does standardized testing
01:03:50.160
you know i get why it has a bad rep and i i understand okay what why that is okay hang on
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so could i show and this comes with a warning uh may i show the picture of the prime minister of
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canada in vancouver uh prime minister mark carney known as a very serious man
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hugging a guy at the gay pride parade now which one is carney uh carney's the one in the pink
01:06:17.160
who has the pink thing on his chest oh oh i should be right yeah because there's a pink thong in the
01:06:23.740
picture too i thought maybe you were saying yeah he that was him he's the so you're saying he's the
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one in the suit not the one yeah that's probably a better way to say it he's the one in the suit
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yeah right uh that is uh that's disgusting uh and he just wanted to go because you know he just wanted
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to show his support uh for you know gay pride and you can do that without hanging out with guys in a
01:06:51.560
pink thong uh and nothing else out on the streets i mean i think you could be pro lgbtq uh and not do
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that you know i don't think that's uh you don't think you have to have physical contact with a naked
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man to support lgbt no i don't i really don't i really don't it might be a little demeaning i mean
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even the canadians are mocking him for this really yeah i mean look at how pathetic he looks
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yeah and he's like keeping his distance he's like okay i'm gonna give you a shoulder hug you know or
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my shoulder touches your shoulder okay i'm not looking directly at you it's pathetic there's a
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bit of disconnect from reality when it comes to politicians and these especially these parades
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where like i think in their mind it's like oh it's a parade to support rights and like they like
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i can't believe that that you know conservatives would highlight the you know the every sure there's
01:07:52.360
a bunch of people running around with sex toys or whatever but like that i can't believe they would
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highlight them and then they go down there and they realize it's actually a big part of the festival
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you know it's a oh yeah the festivities are basically yeah it's it's not like a wnba game you know
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that that was the problem no kidding oh i would say multiple multiple design problems uh weren't they
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controlling it by like a playstation controller right i mean that's probably one of the things you know
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you get into it it's like wait this is a playstation controller i don't think i'm going down under the
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water i don't think i'm going to we really are trusting people um maybe to our fault we are i said
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earlier today retardation has gone airborne we are just retarded we have become it's it's becoming a
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national epidemic epidemic yes you did say that yes um so the uh
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yes glenn you did say that um speaking of uh going back to the story we were talking about a second
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ago with the canadian prime minister um i don't know getting felt up or whatever was happening in
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that photo at the gay pride parade with a guy in a thong uh i was wondering if do you think
01:11:32.360
canada has had the same sort of no uh reawokening uh if you will that we've had i could tell right
01:11:40.900
where you're yeah nope nope yet when the when the prime minister is hugging a guy in a butt thong
01:11:48.680
no i don't think they've had the awakening at least at least um to that level you know this might
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help with the reawakening because people in canada are like oh dear god what did our
01:12:03.120
prime minister just do um i mean this this would help but i don't think i mean you you saw here in
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america pride parades were way down pride flags way down the pride days parades pride festivals they
01:12:19.400
could not get sponsors this year because it's over it's over and i don't know i shouldn't say it's over
01:12:25.000
yeah it's not over it's it's the the frenzy of it is over yeah i think there's a big we talked about
01:12:33.180
this at the time too and at the time it felt more controversial than maybe it does right now
01:12:37.560
but like there are in my mind sort of like three different categories of companies you've got like
01:12:43.940
real left-wing companies and you got a few real right-wing companies and then you have a bunch of
01:12:48.780
companies that are in the middle they're going to go wherever they think the the tide or the current
01:12:55.600
is going and if in the moment they think the best thing they should do is tweet about pride day
01:13:01.100
they're going to do that and if the next day it's uh the it's you know red white and blue and uh you
01:13:08.120
know and and pickup trucks and uh you know people having beer in the on the tail in tailgate then that's
01:13:16.020
what they're going to do like that is i think the majority of companies i think the majority of
01:13:21.400
companies are in that category they are looking to sell their product they don't want to be cracked
01:13:26.540
down you know by the government they don't want to be dragged through some crisis in the media and
01:13:32.600
they just want to do their own thing and i think you know now it's easy to kind of say well that kind
01:13:36.840
of seems like where it is i don't think we've seen a massive awakening like i don't know that
01:13:40.460
american eagle is some right-wing company right like they're just no putting their they're putting
01:13:46.300
their finger up in the air and saying oh okay this is the way the wind is blowing exactly there are
01:13:50.460
people who didn't really care in the first place yeah they right just they also didn't care about
01:13:54.860
the stuff yeah yeah they're just shallow and honestly like i know that sounds bad but like i can
01:14:00.800
deal with that from companies what i want them to do is provide a service i don't need to even know
01:14:06.820
what their opinion is about these things i don't care about it at all i'm not going to make my
01:14:11.360
decision based on what american eagle or bud light or patagonia tell me about a particular topic i get
01:14:17.820
i don't know who the people are that care about that um i know why and you've covered it in a couple of
01:14:23.540
your books why that was being done um because it was to it was much more than you know just dei it was
01:14:30.760
esg and and you know crt and all these other different uh things that were piled on top of
01:14:37.420
each other and it was kind of an end round around our normal systems of government right like it really
01:14:43.580
was a way to influence the entire culture by going around the normal ways we do things so i understand
01:14:50.320
why they were trying that but i don't care about it and i don't need that from my companies um you
01:14:55.260
know president trump uh highlighted the you know the sydney sweeney thing uh the other day i think
01:15:00.680
it was yesterday and was saying hey you know he said uh sydney sweeney a registered republican
01:15:05.300
is that has the hottest ad out there i think it's true i i oh that's fantastic it's bizarre like i
01:15:15.700
honestly when i saw it i was like probably not true there's probably somebody else with the same name
01:15:19.920
but it seems like multiple sources have now reported on this and said yes she is a registered
01:15:25.020
republican which is interesting in a couple of ways number one you wouldn't she does not seem like
01:15:31.180
the type that would be out there like making political statements she does she really doesn't
01:15:35.780
talk about politics at all she's not doesn't seem like a political person at all the the stuff that
01:15:40.360
she i mean she's she was in the handmaid's tale right like she it's not like she's been like
01:15:44.540
you know only been seen in religious pictures uh euphoria not exactly a conservative vehicle
01:15:51.400
i would say i was gonna say has she been in any religious pictures well yes uh the handmaid's tale
01:15:58.080
uh the handmaid's tale lots of religion in the handmaid's tale um you know she's in the pictures
01:16:04.780
in the moving pictures you know what i mean though i know i know i know you have that sort of like
01:16:09.900
cultural there's those signals that you get from certain people gosh uh he seems to be in all these
01:16:14.980
movies about good fatherhood and and you know sports right like that you have those types of
01:16:21.100
people and you can kind of say there's a good chance that they're conservative you would not
01:16:23.840
get that from sydney sweeney's past i mean that's not what you'd get so that is uh that's interesting
01:16:29.020
and so it's interesting that she would take the time again you're registering you make that choice
01:16:33.160
uh you're saying you can easily just be an independent and you know no one's gonna know and if
01:16:38.560
you're an actress like you'd think you'd you consider that and you're making a decision i know
01:16:43.880
this might be found out i'm going to do it anyway that's that's i think interesting i'll also add is
01:16:48.900
there any reason glenn why that should be public information why on earth should we be able to
01:16:55.540
search a database for an individual's party registration why do we need to know that other
01:17:01.720
than the fact that these dumb politicians want to text us constantly other than that what is it
01:17:06.720
what's the purpose of that why what good good does it do for america that i can pull up bob thompson
01:17:12.940
in des moines uh and find out that he's a des moines iowa and find out that he's a he's a
01:17:18.660
republican or a democrat well what business of that is mine i don't understand that well you said the
01:17:24.300
key word and you've already addressed it you've said the key word business you know it's it's all
01:17:30.560
about calling you getting money and you know it's business that's what that's about that's that's just a
01:17:35.540
terrible so everybody knows who to get business from it has nothing to do it's nobody's business
01:17:41.200
right but nobody's business there are that's why you should register as an independent because i
01:17:46.000
you know i'll vote for whoever has the best ideas uh democrats haven't had a good idea
01:17:53.180
oh for a long time um but you know i mean i would love to have john f kennedy be a republican i mean
01:18:02.100
with the policies that he had back then i would like him to be a republican i'd probably be more apt to
01:18:09.300
vote for him than most of the republicans today because the the republicans they're not that i mean
01:18:16.060
kennedy is a conservative in comparison to a lot of the republicans today it's a bizarre time
01:18:22.760
uh when it comes really bizarre it comes to that but i think you're right i think you're right that
01:18:26.760
the time this this the time of the wokeness is is over the and i can't say it's still going to be
01:18:34.040
there yes um but the the time of the craziness i think is over at least temporarily if if they
01:18:41.560
regain control uh can you imagine how the revenge the revenge that will happen oh yeah terrifying and
01:18:51.380
a lot of these companies that now are maybe seeming more sane will go the other way when when pressure
01:18:57.220
is going that way trump did highlight though in that same uh i guess truth uh that uh it was uh he
01:19:04.220
highlighted jaguar as well jaguar uh did a stupid and seriously woke advertisement that is a disaster
01:19:09.760
ceos just resigned companies in turmoil and it is true like thinking of those two moments
01:19:15.300
had me thinking about how how far we've come in a very short period of time you know i sometimes think
01:19:23.300
about the covet era like that let's say april march 2020 right they just had the 15 days to slow the
01:19:29.980
spread every restaurant in town is closed you can't go out to them you know that period where it felt like
01:19:35.800
your kids are maybe not in school and you're at home and it's weird right like the whole world feels
01:19:42.060
incredibly strange and you look back at that and say gosh i can't believe we actually went through
01:19:47.280
that and that's a normal thing to go through i think when you're thinking back to the covet era
01:19:51.160
we don't do it enough when it comes to like george floyd to 2023 right like that period
01:19:59.200
like the like the world went insane for a couple of years like i someone posted this over the weekend
01:20:07.040
and it went viral and i had totally forgotten about it but it was a tweet from the nhl the national
01:20:12.560
hockey league okay just a tweet from the nhl's main account that said um uh trans men are men trans women
01:20:23.360
are women um and uh some other ridiculous piece of ibram kendy nonsense thrown into a tweet with no
01:20:34.640
explanation from the national hockey league who i mean until recently like i don't even think they had
01:20:43.320
a player that wasn't like russian like they're like the least diverse organization in the world
01:20:49.840
and like you know i i just a bizarre moment like why on earth would they think that is an appropriate
01:20:59.060
thing for a hockey league to be talking about and there was just think this was all over the place
01:21:04.680
at that time just think how uh you know they they say your history is you're on the wrong side of
01:21:11.120
history i think you're beginning to see which side was the wrong side of history yeah yeah i mean
01:21:17.080
jaguar learned it oh yeah yeah because they they they missed the deadline right like the time ran out
01:21:23.200
when all that stuff was normal to just be like super weird and woke and then they were like well
01:21:28.100
what if we design our entire company around that image and a year later the ceo is fired right like
01:21:33.180
that is is is that where it really truly jumped the shark where is the jump the shark moment that's a
01:21:39.680
great question ah that's a great because that's when we all noticed it when jaguar did that we went
01:21:45.900
whoa it felt all of a sudden it was like whoa what are they doing yeah it felt like wait they did
01:21:51.260
they miss a memo like what why is this happening um you're right you know i'm trying to think of what
01:21:56.700
the jump the shark that might be the jump the shark moment like because you know you think about that
01:22:01.800
and if you don't know that reference it's from happy days uh when fonzie jumped the shark and everyone
01:22:07.020
was like that was the end of the series being good was essentially that line right and you know it was
01:22:12.660
over essentially after after that moment i mean i i maybe the jaguar thing is a good representation
01:22:19.120
of that because that would have been last year and it did feel like when that happened it was
01:22:24.800
we noticed it right and i can't that's part of the jump the shark moment it's not just that it's a bad
01:22:30.000
show it was like that was the moment everyone like oh god this this show is actually not even good
01:22:34.080
is it like that was kind of that uh and just like just like everything else it's not that you
01:22:40.420
didn't know that happy days was not going well you know what i mean everybody knew happy days
01:22:47.120
was not going well it wasn't like great and then jump the shark it was now this is really suffering
01:22:53.980
this is bad we should put it out of its misery oof this is getting really tough he's going to take
01:22:59.780
his bike and jump a shark huh it's over it's over just like just like the just like the woke moment
01:23:07.880
i think that might be the jump the shark moment because we felt it coming we all felt it coming
01:23:13.360
we're like this is not going well this is not gonna last much longer this is and then that happened
01:23:19.760
we're all like wow yeah this just stinks up the whole room yeah that feels like a good example i'd love
01:23:26.420
to hear what other people think of as that another one that popped into my mind was the was the the
01:23:31.180
major league baseball canceling the all-star team or the all-star game in in atlanta because of a
01:23:37.460
statewide voting policy that uh that wanted increasing voter turnout now that to me isn't right though it's
01:23:47.040
too early in the process it was you know it wasn't it was that's not the right one um you know you think
01:23:53.220
of all the the people posting things on on uh instagram for black lives matter but again that
01:23:59.120
was on the early side no it's got to be a little later that's that's an interesting question maybe
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Well, hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. We've got a great hour packed for you today.
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We're going to spend just a few minutes on the idea of God and the role he has played in the country and is still playing in the country.
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We have a couple of guests. We have Kirk Cameron coming up in just a second.
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And next, Tim Scott, who is a Republican out of South Carolina.
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He just wrote a book called One Nation Always Under God.
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The way I look at it is if we're going to understand our future, we must have a great foundation in our past.
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And America's foundation was a Judeo-Christian ethos.
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And through the book, One Nation Always Under God, I speak a lot about these amazing Christians who dedicated their lives to being extraordinary, not because of who they are, but because of whose they are.
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In God's hands, we can do the most remarkable things.
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So there's a couple of books out that are, one of them is coming out, yours is out now, One Nation Always Under God, that is explaining this, I think, in the best way possible.
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Because when a country loses its story, it loses.
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And these are the stories where American Christians stepped up and needed God and moved our nation forward.
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You know, Glenn, one of the things that got me in trouble back in 2021, as I said the truth, which is that America is not a racist country.
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And one of the reasons why we're not a racist country is because we've wrestled with race for so long, we've won.
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And William Lloyd Garrison was an abolitionist who fought tooth and nail against racism and slavery.
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And because of his fortitude and his faith in God that he was called as an ordinary person to resist the way that the world was at the time, he achieved a victory for other people.
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You know, Proverbs 31.8 reminds us to stand up for those who can't stand for themselves.
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William Lloyd Garrison and millions of Americans have taken that stand.
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And today we celebrate the achievement of those who went before us.
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And if we're smart, we'll remember that as we look to our future and celebrate where we are today because of the sacrifices of yesterday.
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Jim Lovell was a man of conviction and strong faith.
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He was lost in space, 200,000 miles, 200,000 miles away from home, so to speak.
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And he understood what he needed to do to save the lives of the astronauts that were with him by conserving oxygen, making some things happen that were nearly impossible.
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But he was led by his faith and prayer that gave him a peace that allowed him to rely on the expertise he had inside him over years and years as an astronaut.
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It's a tremendous story of victory, even outside of this world.
01:36:16.880
Dorothea Dix is a wonderful story of an amazing Christian who felt called to examine the institutions where those who were suffering from mental health and mental breakdowns were housed.
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She found their fight to be disgusting and challenging.
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She felt called by God, an ordinary, everyday woman who did something extraordinary.
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She changed the way that the insane asylums of her time were housing everyday Americans.
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And because of her, we have sanity, we have respect, and dignity in so many of the places that today, those who are suffering mental health challenges are taken care of.
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Just really an amazing story of a woman called by God, everyday person, to do something, frankly, groundbreaking around the globe.
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All started here in America by one woman with a Christian conviction.
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So we are, let me get off the book here for a second, but focus on this, what she did.
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We are now, we have a mental health problem on the streets of our country.
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Tim, there's, you know, the president says, you know, we've got to get these people back into care.
01:37:45.880
But I also remember what the government was like, what those government institutions were like, and what they became.
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When I was a kid and Reagan stopped them, they were really bad and dangerous.
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And one of the reasons why I wrote about Dorothea Dixon, I looked around and saw the flight of everyday Americans today.
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A hundred thousand people have lost their lives because of fentanyl and drug overdoses.
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During COVID, we saw a 30% increase in parents bringing their teenage kids to the ER because of mental health episodes.
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We are living in a time of great mental instability.
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The way that we solve this is, frankly, not by having the government take it over.
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It is, however, by having programs like the one started by John Baker, who focused on Celebrate Recovery and church.
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I believe the fastest way to solve the problems that we face today is by depending not on the government, but depending on each other.
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And this program called Celebrate Recovery is in over 40,000 churches around the world.
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The one thing you and I both celebrate is the fact that the government will depend on the government because they don't do things well.
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And frankly, the actual solutions are closer to home, in your local church, in your local community, in your family.
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We need the restoration of the family as a bedrock of our society if we're going to solve many of the issues and the ills that we face.
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It only happens because a person convicted by the Lord turns to God for help.
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Families restored because fathers and husbands see their rightful place in the family, and they find their common sense and return home to their families.
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For me, the conviction, I'll talk about my personal experience.
01:39:59.660
As a kid growing up in poverty, I was lost as a goose in a rainstorm for much of my childhood.
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I nearly fed out of school because I didn't see a way forward.
01:40:10.080
But Glenn, I'll tell you, I felt this growing need for something, and I had some really good Christian friends who taught me, by example more than words, that what I was looking for was a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
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I felt this conviction, and I want to look at that compared to me speaking to condemnation.
01:40:30.120
So often people that condemn you are looking out for your best interests, but you do need to have this conviction in your own heart that there is a better way.
01:40:39.720
And that conviction for me led me to examine Christianity, and I came to the staving conclusion my life is better off in his hands.
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And so when I talk about that conviction, I'm really talking about this understanding that something must change, and it must start in me, not somewhere else.
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You know, it is, to me, it is the definition of evil.
01:41:02.740
What we're seeing happen in our country where people are telling you, you know, everything's stacked against you, you'll never make it, you've got to vote for this, or, you know, your life is wasted.
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And it is so evil to convince people that they don't have everything in them to make it, because they do.
01:41:21.420
Absolutely, Glenn, this is one of the most important foundations of our country.
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We were given our inalienable rights, not by government, not from government, but by God.
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And if that's the case, then we should never see ourselves as victims, but we should see ourselves as victors,
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because all things are possible in a country whose foundation is the Lord's.
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I'm not suggesting that we have, but I am suggesting that the closer we get to that more perfect union,
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the more likely we are in consistent harmony with the principles that undergird the society that come from the gospel.
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And, you know, anybody who says America's a failure never gotten it right, never lived up to its principles.
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I mean, those principles that all men are created equal, you know, and endowed by their creator, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness,
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those principles are really, really, really super high.
01:42:31.600
And I can't think of a grander mission statement than what our declaration lays out.
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And we don't cut ourselves any slack as human beings and say, look, we're going to mess it up,
01:42:44.620
but you've got to get back up and reapply yourself to the mission again.
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Well, you should keep preaching that, because that's exactly what the book of Proverbs reminds us,
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that a man falls seven times, but a good man gets up the seventh time that he falls.
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It's the same thing that we hear from Jesus in the book of Matthew, that how many times should I be forgiven?
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It's exactly the same thing that we see in the midst of great challenges,
01:43:11.740
and frankly, even in my home state of South Carolina at the Mother Emanuel Church shooting.
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The believers of that church said to the killer, they said, Matthew 544,
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you've got to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
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It comes from the recognition that we are all flawed humans, and as flawed humans,
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the most powerful thing that we can do is to give it to the Lord.
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When we do that, we see this life come out of us and form around us.
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That is what makes America in pursuit of this thing called perfection.
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But ultimately, are you going to strive for mediocrity?
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Or do you want to get as close as possible to this notion that we are perfectible?
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Well, we're only perfectible on the other side.
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But until then, let us strive in the direction of perfection because we believe in absolute truth.
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We'll miss the mark, but I'm going to continue to fight tooth and nail to be all that I can be until I am entered into heaven through the glory of God.
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I want to ask you something because we're talking about conviction, and you've been talking about religious conviction.
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But let me ask you about conviction to our own country.
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She was at a summit in Mexico City over the weekend.
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She's speaking in Spanish, and she says, I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American.
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We've had Ilan Omar say that she feels like she serves Somalia more than the United States.
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Can you be an official of the United States and hold up the Constitution if you are not convicted that America is where your heart is, that that's what comes first?
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But if your first citizenship is in Somalia or Guatemala, how are you in the government of the United States?
01:45:33.200
Well, Glenn, let's just be clear for all the listeners.
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Anyone who has taken the oath of office, who says that their allegiance is to another country, they have betrayed their oath of office, and they should resign.
01:45:49.200
Any American citizen who says that they are more beholden or more connected to their homeland that's not America, they, too, are as lost as a goose in a rainstorm.
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The fact of the matter is to be an American requires, in my heart and my deepest understanding, you have to assimilate, acclimate to what it means to be an American.
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You cannot hold an allegiance to someplace else while saying that, you know, I'm here because it's the greatest country on the planet, but I'm going to celebrate home.
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The fact that you are here suggests that the most compassionate country on the planet has allowed you in, at least in response to our compassion and our love.
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At least assimilate to what it means to be an American, and then go a step further.
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Encourage everyone in your community to do the same.
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It is not okay to get here and be, you know, to say that Somalia is where you're going to celebrate your real affection or that you're somewhere in Mexico.
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We, the United States of America, an incredible melting pot of people, but we have one single culture, and it is defined at our inception.
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It is the unique place on the planet where we celebrate diversity, but not multiculturalism.
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We have multiple cultures in our country, but unless they align under the banner, we can't survive.
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And one of the things you'll read in One Nation Always Under God, available right now at Amazon.com or where books are sold,
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the one thing you'll figure out pretty quickly is we celebrate America.
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We don't celebrate any other country for one reason.
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We are the greatest place on the planet to call home, and I believe we have an obligation, a responsibility to celebrate all the founding fathers who went before us
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and the ordinary people who stood up for this American ethos embedded in the gospel so as to move us towards being a more perfect union.
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It is a prerequisite for public service that you stay with all of your heart.
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We are one nation under God and indivisible, period.
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So just, what is it, next week, I think, Kirk Cameron is going to be, you know, taking his cultural movement to the libraries again, your local libraries.
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Uh, and, uh, what he's been doing is been, he has been, uh, sending people out, celebrities, et cetera, et cetera, to read, uh, good, wholesome Christian books, uh, in the libraries, uh, and tried to take those libraries back from the radical left.
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I mean, remember, it was, you know, trans story hour at the libraries, just, I mean, this is going to be remembered as a moment of insanity and now a moment of healing.
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Um, but he's going to be, uh, with us here in just a second.
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Glenn, we were talking earlier about jumping the shark.
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And when, uh, this, uh, this crazy woke movement jumped the shark, uh, and I thought it, it might
01:53:59.960
That's that, but it, it also could have been, uh, maybe the Bud Light commercial.
01:54:05.740
That's probably a better, better example still.
01:54:08.820
I mean, that, that, that's the most obvious one, right?
01:54:11.200
The, the Dylan, uh, Mulvaney, Mulvaney, Bud Light moment, if you will.
01:54:21.000
Another one is, um, someone suggests, uh, when, uh, when Disney had a lesbian black space
01:54:28.260
witch in Star Wars, and then Disney blamed, uh, the Star Wars fans for being toxic, says
01:54:47.560
Kirk Cameron was on this program with me, I think four years ago, and he had put a book
01:54:54.120
out and he was banned from reading it in the library, uh, all across the country.
01:55:00.140
And that kicked off a movement back then, but it was wildly different times.
01:55:17.540
Tell the, tell the story where, where woke really just came down your throat.
01:55:21.860
Oh, well, yeah, that's, that's just, that, that, that's some disturbing imagery, uh, right
01:55:29.100
there, but you know, you're talking about the black lesbian space, which, um, I'm, I'm remembering
01:55:34.860
Buzz Lightyear and I'm remembering, uh, Bud Light commercial, just like you said.
01:55:39.380
But for me on a personal level, it was, it was four years ago when I went to public libraries
01:55:44.580
and was outright locked out of them, just straight up denied by over 50 woke libraries that wouldn't
01:55:52.040
let me read my wholesome children's book about faith, hope, and love to the communities that
01:55:59.460
And when I told, uh, you and a few other friends who helped to spread the word, uh, I put them
01:56:09.300
This is viewpoint discrimination of the worst kind, religious discrimination.
01:56:13.440
And, um, they quickly reversed their judgment, gave me an invitation.
01:56:17.980
And when I showed up, there were thousands of parents and grandparents who were there to
01:56:21.180
support a movement of getting back to the values in education that lead to our kids blessing
01:56:27.520
So, uh, that, that was three years ago movement.
01:56:38.640
And now, now this year, you're going to be at the library of Congress.
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This is the perfect plot twist in a great movie.
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Just when you think all hope is lost, when you're up against the worst kind of odds, we feel like
01:56:57.880
we're on a freight train headed for a leftist brick wall.
01:57:02.080
Uh, all of a sudden the, the, the political winds change and opportunities open up.
01:57:06.980
So we went from being locked out of libraries to now partnering with the Trump administration
01:57:14.480
And I think the key is it's you've got to genuinely have pure hearted motives behind what you do.
01:57:22.960
If you want heaven's help, you've got to have a clear conscience and a faith that doesn't
01:57:28.740
And essentially what we need to say to those who are destroyers of our children's liberty
01:57:35.060
is that, um, we're not begging for a seat at the cultural table.
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And now the Trump administration is pulling up a chair and we are about to change the cultural
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narrative because you don't let faith and freedom falter.
01:57:54.600
Uh, you don't retreat when that happens, you rally.
01:58:01.840
Are you concerned at all, um, about Trump losing to a Democrat for some reason, the economy
01:58:09.860
goes sideways or something and the vengeance that the left will come back with.
01:58:18.080
I mean, they just, they're, they're, they're, they're salivating at the opportunity, but,
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but that has been the case for, uh, 10 years to just destroy the man and the administration.
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I think that the divine hand of Providence has been behind this guy.
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I mean, I'm, I'm not saying he's the epitome and moral paragon of, uh, everything that,
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you know, we want our daughters to, to, to marry as a, he certainly, neither was David,
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neither was King David, neither was Moses, neither was anyone in the Bible except for
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And, and certainly, you know, I mean, do we want to say that Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden,
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Obama, and Kamala, uh, were, were of higher, higher moral character or anyone else behind
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I know of only a couple of people that I would say I think are really morally upstanding
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people, uh, at that, those levels of power and influence.
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But what I do know is more has been done for pro-life more has been done for families,
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more has been done for opportunity and education and freedom.
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And I'm so thankful to be on this train right now.
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Um, so how is, uh, how is, uh, Iggy and Mr. Kirk doing?
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You know, Iggy, my little five-year-old puppet iguana that I'm raising in my backyard tree
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house, he's getting a little bit of a big head.
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You know, he wants his name at the, at the, at the front of the title of the show.
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Uh, and that's on the brave, uh, brave plus, right?
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It's streaming on brave plus, but it's also streaming on the angel network, which we're
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really, um, grateful for right next to the chosen and it's streaming on pure flicks as
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Um, my sister, Candace Cameron is a big part of the great American family channel and it's
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Well, I was just going to say, you know, it's, it's like so many other powerful pieces of
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technology, you know, there's so much to love about it and there's so much to be terrified
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And when Elon Musk says that he thinks it's a larger existential threat than nuclear warfare,
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uh, you know, we gotta, we gotta take that serious.
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He just did a, uh, uh, an interview with one of the kids that died at Parkland, uh, through
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And I saw that today and I thought of you immediately being on the show because I thought
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This, this seems just so unbelievably wrong when you don't have, you know, it's soulless.
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It's a literal digital puppet of whatever the parents are thinking.
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Uh, it just seemed to cross a really dangerous line.
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I mean, I think that's always our dilemma is, um, can we keep up morally with the things
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I mean, this is the stuff that makes for great movies.
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It's when the mad scientist creates the thing and then it falls into the wrong hands.
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I just did a, uh, an episode on, on my podcast where we talked about AI relationships and people
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straight up have AI girlfriends, boyfriends, and virtual soulmates, and they're getting
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married to them, at least in their hearts and ceremonially.
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And they're in tears saying, I've never been so in love.
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And you think, is this the future of relationships?
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Uh, or is this just a dismantling of human beings and the beginning of transhumanism?
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What, what, what will our sons and daughters marry in the future?
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Obviously it's the end of humanity, end of humans.
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If you're, if we all pair off with an artificial being, you know, we're not going to be making
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Uh, and, and, and, and, and, and, and it's a truly frightening world where, you know, you
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don't have to deal with any messy downsides of a relationship at all.
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You don't, you don't have to come home when you've had a really bad day and have the AI
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say, Hey, you know, you haven't even asked me about my day yet.
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I mean, that that's part of being alive, you know?
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I, I've, I've found nothing in my life to be more, uh, sanctifying or a character building,
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uh, than being married because that's the, that's the ultimate school where I learn how
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to be like Jesus and die to myself and, and, and lay down, uh, my preferences and, and serve
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That's, that's really hard for human beings to do.
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So, but with AI, um, you know, look, if you've ever wanted to program your husband so that
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he has the perfect responses to you, now you can, uh, you're going to be with Missy
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Uh, Missy and, and Jace Robertson from duck dynasty are going to be with me at the library
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And this is the big event that we have been done doing the last couple of years.
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It's the culmination of all these story hours and book readings, and it's going to be in
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hundreds and hundreds of libraries across the U S led by parents and grandparents, singing,
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praying, reading books of virtue and character and patriotism.
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And I will be at kind of the mothership, which is the library of Congress with Missy and Jace
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and the department of education center for faith in partnership with the Trump administration.
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He's gone from in four years, gone from being kicked out of 50 different libraries to now
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having over 500 libraries, uh, participating in this, including the library of Congress.
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Uh, you can find out more by going to see you at the library.com.
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Alex Stein, our own Blaze TV's Alex Stein, appeared on MSNBC last night, though not in the typical
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We just watched the speaker gavel out with a whole lot of anger, Kelly.
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Sometimes this happens, and we understand that that can happen.
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And while we love free speech, we're going to keep control here.
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Yeah, I do want to give full free speech, obviously.
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Now, of course, they have the right to cut away from that particular moment.
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But that's Alex Stein from Blaze TV just saying MSNBC sucks over and over again.
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What we don't have is they went back to the conversation.
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And once again, Alex just walks in the background and just starts screaming MSNBC sucks again.
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And some people will have a problem with the way Alex is acting there.
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But I don't think you can disagree with the point, which is MSNBC sucks.
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It's really hard to disagree with the foundational intellectual argument that he's making there.
02:08:20.920
Here is we have a clip about Donald Trump and the administration talking about banning soda and candy sales in certain circumstances.
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Listen, since my confirmation, our department has encouraged states to think differently and creatively about how to solve the many health issues facing Americans.
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One way is by not allowing taxpayer-funded benefits to be used to purchase unhealthy items like soda, candy, and other junk food.
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The number one purchase by SNAP recipients is sugary drinks.
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SNAP is a supplemental nutrition program meant to provide health food benefits to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget
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so they can afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being.
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That is the stated purpose of the SNAP program.
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So today, I'm proud to sign six more waivers for Florida, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and Colorado.
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This is in addition to the waivers we've already signed for Iowa, Indiana, and others across the country.
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I continue to encourage states to be laboratories of innovation.
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Think through how you can promote healthy families and healthy communities.
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In fact, I love sugary drinks, and I love candy cakes and all the delicious treats.
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My house is basically like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory at this point.
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I'm starting to make furniture out of chocolate again.
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It is a supplemental nutrition program, though.
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This is supposed to help people who don't have enough money for food get the food that they need to survive.
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It's not supposed to be Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
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You know, if you're going to be on one of these programs, it's not the job of the program to make you have every desire that you imagine.
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You know, go back and read Ben Franklin's quote about doing good for the poor.
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The more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provide for themselves and, of course, become poorer.
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And on the contrary, the less that is done for them, the more they did for themselves and they became richer.
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It shouldn't be a situation where we are subsidizing every delicious item on the shelves.