The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | 2/17/20

Episode Date: February 17, 2020

Happy Presidents’ Day! Today we celebrate ALL presidents, including the ones whose welfare programs put us $23 trillion in debt and counting. And even more dirt came out on Mike Bloomberg over the w...eekend. He was in some bad plays, advocated for letting the old and sick die, and said farmers don’t have the brains to work in information technology. And attorney Michael Avenatti has gone from liberal “savior” to convicted of all charges in his Nike extortion attempt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the podcast. It's Pat and Stu today for Gled, who's out with the coronavirus. He very, very... Just a 24-hour coronavirus, though I think. Well, he took a Japanese cruise to Cambodia. Yeah. And then he stopped in Wuhan. And all those things are apparently things you're not supposed to be doing right now. Wow.
Starting point is 00:00:17 So he'll be back on tomorrow's program. But for today, we have a lot to go through, including the President's Day. What? I really, we start the show with a review of President's Day that is, very strange, I will say. But we do get through some of the real facts about our former leaders here in the United States. Also, Michael Bloomberg, all the rest of the stuff, there's so much opposition research dropping on Bloomberg right now. We go through a bunch of that. Joe Biden explains why Obama put kids in cages. You're not going to want to miss that explanation. It's
Starting point is 00:00:49 pretty solid. Well, they had to. Basically, that's what it is. That's basically what it is. They had to. Yeah, they gave away the whole show. I don't understand. Sorry. Sorry. And the new transgendered trend where males are dominating, excuse me, I'm sorry, trans women are dominating. Thank you. Traditional women? Like the ones that were born that we thought were girls? They're losing a lot of races now. They were assigned female at birth.
Starting point is 00:01:15 Thank you. That's much better than what I came up with. It is much. That's all coming up today on the program. And I want to remind you, when you're here, you're in a podcast app already. What a smart thing it would be to go over and click on Stu Does America and subscribe there, rate and review that podcast. And then go over to Pat Gray Unleashed.
Starting point is 00:01:32 And rate and review and subscribe there as well. Always a good decision. And will make your life more fruitful than it is today. Well, you'll be happy and you'll be rich. Eventually. I mean, I don't know when, but Not because of this. No. Unrelated to subscribe. But someday you'll be rich. If you work
Starting point is 00:01:48 really hard and apply yourself. Or you'll die before that happens. One of the two. So check it out all on today's podcast. You're listening to The Best of the Glenbeck with Pat and Stufer Glenn on the Glenn Beck program. Happy President's Day. Not just any, I mean, well, yeah, just any president.
Starting point is 00:02:17 It's not a specific president anymore. Right? It used to be Washington and Lincoln had their separate days. Then they were combined. And it was like, nah, it's just for all presidents. Okay. Yeah, I generally only support William Henry Harrison today. Really?
Starting point is 00:02:37 That's kind of where the. direction I like to go. Yeah. I'll throw on a little Tyler at times, you know, just to mix it up. Okay. But those are the only presidents I actually support on President's Day. Huh. That's interesting.
Starting point is 00:02:47 Yeah, well, you know, look, if it was a specific president, then maybe I would think about them on this day. But it's not. It's just presidents in general, which, you know, a lot of them sucked. So I don't know why they would be honored on a day like today. Yeah. But they are. Are you a big James Buchanan fan too?
Starting point is 00:03:04 Huge Buchanan guy. Huge Buchanan guy. A huge Buchanan guy. widely considered the worst president of all time. Kind of is, yeah. So. We're just saying something. Yeah, it is.
Starting point is 00:03:12 Because there's been some really bad ones. Really bad ones. Woodrow Wilson comes to mind. Oh, my. Lyndon Johnson comes to mind. Thank you. Thank you for mentioning him in this. Yes, he's awful.
Starting point is 00:03:24 He was awful. He for some reason. He gets a pass. He gets a pass on this. Is it because he didn't run for a second term? Well, he had that half, you know, that one year where he took over for Kennedy. Then he won a, an election and then he decided not to run for a second term.
Starting point is 00:03:40 So a second full term. And maybe it's that that got him off? I don't know. That got him out of everybody thinking he was so bad because it was only, what, five years? I mean, if he ran for a re-election and won, we'd have to come up with new numbers to describe the debt that we have. Because right now, we're about a trillion. We kind of know quadrillions next.
Starting point is 00:04:01 After that, who knows? I don't think it's possible to know. Just like the metric system. It's not possible to know what's next. Yeah, it's nobody knows. Nobody knows. But when we get, we would get there with Lyndon Johnson and another turn.
Starting point is 00:04:12 Quadrillion? Oh, easy. Easy. Easy. I think we get to the next one. I mean, I would say it's quintillion, but who even knows until you get there? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:19 You don't know until you're on the doorstep of quintillion. What if it is quintillion or quadrillion or what it is. But, I mean, there's a meme that goes around on social media, which I just love. And it shows these political buttons from, you know, long time ago from Social Security time and Medicare time. And it's like, remember 50 and 75 years ago when Republicans were telling us socialism was going
Starting point is 00:04:46 to destroy our country? I don't either. Did it happen? No. And it's like, well, you guys do realize we're $23 trillion in debt. Yeah, with $100 trillion in long term liabilities. And almost all of it are the two programs you're sitting here defending. Yes.
Starting point is 00:05:03 Almost all of it. That the Republicans were saying is socialism because it is. It is. It might be popular socialism, but it's socialism nonetheless. Nobody wants to eliminate it now. Everybody's afraid, scared to death to even say anything about it. But Social Security and Medicare Medicaid have bankrupted this country. And we just were like, oh, I love it.
Starting point is 00:05:26 Don't keep the state out of my Medicare. Even Republicans will say that. There is no opposition party for this. The Democrats wanted. bigger that, I mean, even, you know, Trump and all the Republicans say they're not going to do anything to screw with it. It is exactly They're afraid of it. They're afraid of it.
Starting point is 00:05:42 Because it is popular now. Because we, you know, once you've been given stuff, you're going to want to keep taking it. Yeah. There's no going back on that. You can't turn back on that. And there is a legitimate argument from people who have been paying into the system for a long time and will sure receive it. I understand
Starting point is 00:05:58 that. Like us, we've paid into the system for a really long time. Though, no plan that looks to adjusted would change that. Like you, if you are going to get Medicare soon, there's no plan that's under proposal that would change that for any of these people.
Starting point is 00:06:14 Right. Like, it's only people who would be coming up in the system. Remember when George W. Bush wanted to reform it? Yeah. And it was like, if you want to keep your current system, this won't touch anybody who's already got benefits.
Starting point is 00:06:29 And he would say that all the time. No one cares. Nobody care. It was like, you're going to take away my social security? No, he specifically said he's not. And by the way, he was offering something that would be, that for every person that has ever existed in the country would, would do much, you do much better under his proposed system. And including after the 2008 collapse, all of that stuff, you'd still do much, much better under the proposal that was given by George W. Bush at that time.
Starting point is 00:06:57 Yeah. However, everyone was scared of it, so we didn't do it. So now everyone gets less. And we all cheer it because at least we could depend on less. it is a bizarre thing and it's it's this weird denial where everyone looks at these programs as if they're positive things they are clearly destroying the future of our country
Starting point is 00:07:19 when it comes to debt there's no doubt about it every single estimate looking forward says the same thing that this is going to grow you know grow from where it is now at $23 trillion in debt and we'll continue to increase and then not only will it be these programs that are wiping us
Starting point is 00:07:34 out, but it will also be the payments on the debt on the past years of that program that will wind up being 30, 40, 50% of our budget every year. That is not a sustainable situation. However, it's popular. And so people go on the internet and they post these things as if they're brilliant geniuses. And does anybody ever put a minute of thought into what they're actually posting? I don't think so.
Starting point is 00:07:57 Do you see that story that said by 2030? We're going to be at 180% of GDP in our debt. Our debt will be 180% of GDP. It's not positive. It's unsustainable. So if we don't stop that trend by then, it's going to be a disaster. And this is why we shouldn't have President's Day.
Starting point is 00:08:18 We're going to honor people that have put us $180 trillion in debt. Come on. Come on. That's not good. That's not right. All right. Let's pause 60 seconds. And we'll be right back on the Glenn Beck program.
Starting point is 00:08:31 Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn. Back Program, AAA 727BECK. This is great. The Iowa caucus was a total debacle for the Democrats. I mean, they just, they botched it so badly.
Starting point is 00:08:49 I mean, even they admit that. Not just because all of the candidates sucked. Right. Because that was a disaster. That was the, we knew that disaster going in, though. This is the secondary disaster in which they couldn't count the votes. Amazing. Did you see this report in the New York Times, by the way, that went over all the ways they made mistakes? No.
Starting point is 00:09:08 It is incredible. Because for all the beating the New York Times takes, 99.9% of it very well deserved. They're really good at this type of thing, which is looking an inane amount of depth to cover these really intricate things like this. And so they go through and just list how, like, you know, the way the system, works is you have to get 15% of the vote to have any chance to be viable, right? So you go in there and a lot of candidates have 10% of the vote. And so they're not viable and those people can go to another candidate. So whatever the first count of votes is has to be the lowest amount of votes in total, right?
Starting point is 00:09:55 People can't come in after that, that first vote. So they look and they have like a hundred different places where there's, like, like 5,000 votes in the first vote and then there's 6,000 in the second. Well, no one was allowed to join after the first vote. You couldn't come in and do it again. And there's mistakes like that all over the place
Starting point is 00:10:14 and they have it all documented. Sometimes it's like, well... It's like they've done this for just the first time. It's incredible. It's incredible. And the rules are so complicated, Pat. I actually understand how it got screwed up. It's, there are things like... Hasn't it always been, though? Why don't they have this down yet?
Starting point is 00:10:30 I don't know. I don't know. They did change. a lot of the rules because they changed some of them. The Bernie people came in after last time and they were pissed about it last time. They wanted, they thought they should have won Iowa last time. They lost in a very close election to Hillary, went on to blow Hillary out in New Hampshire and they think if they would have won both of those states, maybe they get the
Starting point is 00:10:50 nomination. It would have changed the 3 million people who voted or 4 million people who voted against him. It was a huge gap there. People were like, oh, it got the election taken from him. Really, he lost. I mean, be honest about it. Yeah, he got his butt kicked. With Bernie Sanders, what you have is about 25% of people who actually like Bernie in that primary. Another 15% who just didn't like Hillary, which gets him to 40, does not get him to 50.
Starting point is 00:11:13 Hillary's still on 60% of the vote in the primary overall. But this is their complaint. This is their big complaint. So that's why they had the popular vote released this time for the first time. And they had the secondary popular vote, which Bernie won on both counts. Buttigieg still wins with the state... statewide delegate equivalents. But the statewide delegate equivalent,
Starting point is 00:11:37 obviously it's a ridiculous idea. Just count the stupid votes, right? And again, I understand that like, this is what the left says about the electoral college. It's a totally different situation. In a primary like this, it makes a lot of sense to just do the popular vote. So they look at this and they would come down
Starting point is 00:11:56 and two people would tie for the amount of delegates they were supposed to have. So there'd be one delegate outstanding. Let's say they had five and they were supposed to tie. They can't split the delegates. So instead of it being two and a half versus two and a half, which might make some sense if you tie, right?
Starting point is 00:12:13 They have to award the one delegate to one of the two candidates. So it has to be three to two, even if they tie, which makes no sense. Weird. So this is why you saw the coin flipping going on, legitimately flipping coins. Which was ridiculous. Why are you flipping a, why are you doing a coin?
Starting point is 00:12:31 toss in a political matchup like that. It's ridiculous. Is that democracy? I guess so. This is what democracy looks like as they used to chant all the time. Oh, man. So in other times, there would be like they would have to round the vote percentages off, and they would round them incorrectly.
Starting point is 00:12:49 So then there'd be extra delegates. They only had seven to give away, and they gave away eight. This is happening all over the state. Unreal. And, you know, so this is a complete disaster. And the app was a big part of it because the app was supposed to do a lot of these calculations for the people. So how much of this was because they had new rules?
Starting point is 00:13:05 Was all of it? Some of it. They were describing, you know, the app was supposed to do it all. Obviously, the app didn't work. So then they had a long handbook that would describe what to do in all of these really intricate situations. So if you have a tie, if you have, you know, too many delegates, too few delegates, if the rounding leads to both people getting a delegate when only one of them is supposed to, blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:13:30 all these complicated situations, a long handbook that they admit themselves did not actually cover all of the possibilities. Why don't you just go to a primary? I mean, it's ridiculous. Just let people come in and vote for their favorite candidate. Yeah. Make it easy.
Starting point is 00:13:46 You know, they're doing this thing in, and I actually think this is a really good thing for all voting, but they're doing this thing in Nevada this time with basically what is essentially ranked choice voting. And didn't they have the same system, though? They had the same app. So they had the same app initially. now they've changed this
Starting point is 00:14:02 so now they have a new app that is coming on party controlled iPads so the party comes and gives you the iPad with the new app on it that they've never used now considering they were using a different app two weeks ago what could possibly go wrong
Starting point is 00:14:20 so they're going to try to do this and now they also have here early state voting so how do you do that with a caucus you're supposed to all go into a room and then everyone gets in they're dumb groups, right? Yeah. So in Nevada, they're having early voting where they're doing basically a ranked
Starting point is 00:14:36 choice voting. It's like, my number one choice is Tulsi Gabbard. My number two is Tom Steyer. My number three is Joe Biden, right? So if Steyer and Gabbard are not viable at 15%, your votes will go to Biden. You know, you can rank them like that, which I think is a smart thing for all voting actually. Because then you'd be able to, it wouldn't seem like you're throwing your vote away in a
Starting point is 00:14:58 third party candidate. it. If you think you want to go for the, whatever, the libertarian in a particular race. And they're not going to win. They're not going to win. You go to your second choice. You go to your second choice, which would be the Republican, let's say. And I think that makes a lot of sense, frankly. So they're going to do some of that. Like you said, people couldn't tell you, ah, it's a binary choice. You throw your vote away. And I get that argument, but it's, you wind up with a two-party system till the end of time with two-terable parties with that idea. And that's where we are. And that's where we are because of it, right?
Starting point is 00:15:27 So they've started doing that. They did it in Maine. They've been trying to roll this out across the country, which, you know, so far they've got, I think, one or two areas that do it. But I do think it's a good long-term solution because you should be able to do that. Right. Like if I want to say, like, you know what? The Constitution Party is really the party I really like. But obviously they're going to get 0.1%.
Starting point is 00:15:50 So I'd rather go with the Republican Party. Or, you know what? You could be like, hey, I really want to vote for the socialist workers party, but they're really not going to win. if I don't get that, then I can have the Democrat. And that would make sense. It would also inform people of, you know, what are the flavors here, right? Like, you've got different flavors to choose from. You can pick, what's the actual, maybe there is an appetite for socialism.
Starting point is 00:16:11 Who knows? We're seeing it right now. Who knew? I know the Democrats didn't seem to think this. They used to say the area of big government is over. They used to not co-sponsor Medicare for all. Right. Now they all think socialism's the way to go.
Starting point is 00:16:24 Well, when Obamacare was proposed, we were told, we're not going to go to single payer. That's nothing like what we're talking about. No. Wasn't it the lie of the year one year? Yeah, I think it was. I think it was from Politifax saying that if you think that single payer is part of this, that you're nuts.
Starting point is 00:16:39 Well, of course, it's the long-term plan. And the architect of Obamacare said so. Well, it's not a Trojan horse, is it? It's just right there. I'm telling you. I'm telling you we're going to single payer. Well, that happened a lot sooner, I think, that anybody imagined it could.
Starting point is 00:16:57 Because just, you know, what are we, eight years later, they start saying, yeah, I'm for universal single-payer health care. It's incredible. And they all are. They're all running against Obamacare. Virtually all of them. They're all saying, you know what sucks Obamacare? And that's why we need Medicare for all. Or, I mean, even the thing that, you know, probably the most friendly to Obamacare has been Biden.
Starting point is 00:17:19 Obviously, he was in a big role in trying to pass that. But even he says, we need to fix this because of X, Y, and Z. I mean, we need a public option. We need to massively expand what we did then. Why? They're all saying what they did then didn't work. Yeah. But you told us this was the solution.
Starting point is 00:17:38 And here you are running against it. The best of the Glenn Beck program. Hey, it's Glenn and you're listening to the Glenn Beck program. If you like what you're hearing on this show, make sure you check out Pat Gray Unleashed. It's available wherever you download your favorite podcasts. Michael Bloomberg had a quite a busy, weekend. Actually, I'm not positive where he first began
Starting point is 00:18:08 singing and dancing. When did that... I'm not sure when that occurred. But the video of the singing and dancing from Michael Bloomberg just started springing up on the internet. And... Pat, you know, he was in a musical. Yeah. And see, when New York City
Starting point is 00:18:24 one way of abbreviating that would be NYC. Now, if you were to be super duper clever, you might recognize that the C, that stands for city, could also
Starting point is 00:18:39 stand for the C. The C, S-E-A. So if you were to do an underwater musical called NYC, it would be a very good move for the rest of your life. Wouldn't it? It would.
Starting point is 00:18:54 And Michael is finding that out. And I want my next president to be good in a Broadway musical. Me too. That's the main, That's the main thing I'm looking for. And I think this goes beyond good.
Starting point is 00:19:07 I mean, he's great in this. Watch, uh, in Michael Bloomberg in a fish outfit. No, that's not him. But he's arm in arm with, uh, I guess, the lobster. He's sort of dancing, but not, sort of. Your paracuda, not like when you're not in NYC. Okay.
Starting point is 00:19:33 Let me get a little dance scene. A big guy, lobster walks away. now turns back to the fish and here comes Mike. Up there we got big bed bucks. Big bedbugs. Okay. Up there, air rugs taking drugs. New Yorkers the bravest people.
Starting point is 00:19:50 The cops on the big day care. It's true firefighters' teachers. We got heroes everywhere. Oh, my God. Oh, man, that is, that's painful. That's painfully bad. not only should Michael Bloomberg's campaign be over, we should shut down Broadway over that.
Starting point is 00:20:11 If that happened on Broadway, yes, yes. Because you can hear the guy who's the lobster guy who's singing, like, can, you know, he can sing, I guess, and you can tell he's very Broadway. The Bloomberg part of it is so bad. He's like way off time and not only off key and can't sing, but he doesn't even know what time to come in. Right, he has no idea.
Starting point is 00:20:31 He's trying to be funny with an A-Rod drug joke. It's so bad And then there's this Is this the same play just later on Or is this a separate Broadway musical I think that it's the same play I think it's the same play Later in the play
Starting point is 00:20:50 He's not a fish anymore Now he's like a Mary Poppins character And he's got an umbrella And watch what happens here Maybe this is a different play I'll tell you where I'm going Oh, oh Wow, that's
Starting point is 00:21:08 First Iowa, then New Hampshire Maybe I can get the whole country to behave And he's lifted up and he floats away Everybody waving goodbye to him That's Great That'd be fun to eventually be in that point where we can wave goodbye to him Yes
Starting point is 00:21:28 Wow Oh my gosh, it's so cringe-worthy Why do the politicians do this? I don't know. They think that this is going to be relatable. I think if I do this, people will think I'm funny. And then it'll be okay. They'll love it.
Starting point is 00:21:45 The end of the day, they'll just remember me is the guy who just has fun with things. They just, I just want to jump in. I don't take myself too seriously. I don't. I don't. Look at it. I'm in a play with a lobster. How can I possibly take myself seriously?
Starting point is 00:21:57 I'm not afraid to be an arm and arm with a man. That shows you how inclusive I am. That's me. That's Mr. Inclusive is what I am. Mr. Inclusive. And they try to do these things. And look, every politician has participated in nonsense like this at one time or another. I mean, there's, I mean, you go back to the, what was the clip with Trump and Giuliani?
Starting point is 00:22:20 Where they both dressed as women? I don't know. All of these things are just so ridiculous that they exist for everybody. It's never a good call, though. No. There's never a moment. You're like, you know what? That worked out well.
Starting point is 00:22:31 Is there nobody around you that says, Mike, no, this isn't a good idea. Don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this to yourself. You're a billionaire, Mike. You're the type of person who can buy your way out of situations like this. All right. Just don't do it. Is everybody, is everybody around him a yes man? It must be. It must be because nobody warned him off it.
Starting point is 00:22:54 Nobody warned him off this particular discussion either where he is talking about death panels. This is a little different setting. He's not on Broadway in this particular instance. No, are you sure? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. This is him where he's denying health care to the elderly. Yeah, it's always good.
Starting point is 00:23:14 Listen. All of these costs keep going up. Nobody wants to pay any more money. And at the rate we're going, health care is going to bankrupt us. So not only do we have a problem, it's going to back. And we've got to sit here and say which things we're going to do and which things we're not. Nobody wants to do that. You know, you show us.
Starting point is 00:23:32 up with prostate cancer. You're 95 years old. We should say, go and enjoy. Have a nice to live a long life. Go home and die. Yeah. And you can't do it. If you're a young person, we should do something about it. If you're young.
Starting point is 00:23:45 Society's not willing to do that yet. Yeah. Yeah, so if you're old, we're going to tell you, go have fun. Enjoy yourself while you die. Your rectal cancer. You're going to love it. It's fantastic. It really will.
Starting point is 00:23:57 Basically a giant party for you is what it is. Have a great time with it. You may have heard bad. things about it, but don't believe any of that. Just go home and have fun, and then you'll be dead. We won't have to worry about you. A prostate, it's prostate cancer, it's a joy, and you should really, I mean, you should uniquely, it's uniquely wonderful.
Starting point is 00:24:17 That doesn't seem that great to me. No, it doesn't. But, there's a, uh, wow, this is a very standard argument by many, not even just the left, where the idea is, yeah, you're too old, you don't deserve the care. I don't tend to ascribe to that. It seems like a bad idea to do this. It's the culture of death in the Democrat Party. They don't care.
Starting point is 00:24:44 This is only true if you have left-wing healthcare ideas that are implemented. Because yes, then you have to ration. You can't give people the care that they need. You have to come up with some line where you say, all right, well, how about old people? They don't get it. Or how about, I mean, go back in history, you'd find other examples. They would say this color doesn't get it or this sexual preference doesn't get it or whatever it is. Or this able-bodied person isn't as able-bodied as other people.
Starting point is 00:25:15 And so, you know, they can go off and die too and enjoy it. Enjoy that. This is not a rare, this is not a Michael Bloomberg thing. This is a progressive thing. This is, we can't afford to. It goes back to eugenics, really. Yeah. It's survival of the fittest.
Starting point is 00:25:32 Right. Right. They somehow try to make that, oh, well, that is a, that's a Republican thing, this social Darwinism. That's a Republican thing. It's like, is it really? No. It seems like they're the ones who are applying it all the time. I mean, you know, conservatives like merit.
Starting point is 00:25:52 And if you want to say merit is social Darwinism, sure, you can say that if you want. It's not real. It's not true. But you can say it. This is a situation where you don't even get a chance. Right. You're 95 years old. You have a certain kind of cancer.
Starting point is 00:26:04 No treatment. Sorry. Why? Well, you know, it's true when you make private health care illegal. And where is that cut off? By the way, where is that cut off with you're too old? Is it 70? Is it 75?
Starting point is 00:26:16 Is it 80? It's whatever age Michael Bloomberg is. It's one day older than him. Everyone can die. That's for sure. But he gets to do whatever he needs to do. All right. He had even more to say this weekend.
Starting point is 00:26:27 It was a busy one for him. We'll get to that in 60 seconds. Pat and Stufer Glenn on the Glenn Beck program talking about Michael Bloomberg and the weekend. He had the wonderful weekend. He was talking about farming. This is amazing too. If this guy isn't one of the biggest elitists you have ever seen. And what I think he believes is that he's so far above the rest of us.
Starting point is 00:26:53 He's so much better than we are that he just believes he can pontificate on whatever topic. and just make people understand what the real deal is. Like, you don't understand that you can't drink more than 16 ounces of a soft drink. I need to legislate that for you because I'm way above you. You don't need salt, and I'm going to ban that for you so that you don't kill yourself. Even the poor need to be taxed more so they have less money to buy food because they buy food and eat food that isn't good for them. Wow.
Starting point is 00:27:29 Okay. And now we find out some of his thoughts on farmers and farming. Anybody, even people in this room, so no offense intended, to be a farmer. It's a process. You dig a hole. You put a seed in. You put dirt on top. Add water. Up comes the corn. Then we had 300. You could learn that. Then you have 300 years of the Industrial Society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe. You turn the crank and the direction of the arrow. And you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs. One point 98% of the world worked in agriculture today. It's 2% in the United States.
Starting point is 00:28:06 Now comes the information economy. And the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze. And that is a whole degree level different. You have to have a different skill set.
Starting point is 00:28:31 You have to have a lot more gray matter. You've got to be smarter. You got to gray matter. You have to be smarter than farmers and people work in factories. Farmers. Yuck. I scrape them off my shoe is what I do with farmers. Oh, me too.
Starting point is 00:28:46 Right off my shoe. Disgusting. They're disgusting people who feed us. It's so easy. You put a seed into the ground. You put some dirt on it and you water. it up comes corn. Is there anything to it?
Starting point is 00:29:00 I don't know. If there is, I don't know what it is. There's nothing to it. You put a little dirt on there. You put a little water on there. And what pops up? I mean, every fruit and vegetable you could ever want. Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:09 Enough to feed the world. Right. You know, one of the reasons why 98% of people used to be in agriculture and only 2% are is because the people doing it are so good at it. Right. Yes, you can plant a garden out in front of your house. I know a lot of people do that. Dang hard to get anything to work in your garden.
Starting point is 00:29:31 Now we're talking about yield percentages and how you can get the maximum amount of crops out of a very small amount of area. And the technology is apply there. I mean, you've got tractors or GPSs that are running by themselves. I mean, this is incredible technology. You have to be brilliant to get anything to happen. I couldn't get a frigate thing to come out of the ground of my life to play. dependent on it. Nope. Like I if unless someone
Starting point is 00:30:01 drops the thing at the grocery store on the ground, it's the only time I'm getting food off of the ground. That's it. I have no hope if it's out of the produce aisle, it doesn't come into my home. But does his elitism show here or what? I mean
Starting point is 00:30:16 yeah, farmers are stupid. Factory workers are stupid to do things like I do. Oh, you got to be smart. Oh yeah. Of course I am. And that's why I'm going to be president. and tell you what to do. The information economy is where all the smart people are. I mean, you know, look, sure farmers can feed the world,
Starting point is 00:30:34 but can they get someone to tweet a cat video? And the answer to that is not. The answer to that is not. Yeah. Pathetic. These people can't even tweet a meme. Pathetic. They can't do it.
Starting point is 00:30:45 Sure, they can give you thousands of varieties of fruits and vegetables. They can give you all the meat that you need. Right. They can give you all the... But can they screw up an election in Iowa? No. No. They can't do it.
Starting point is 00:30:55 They can't do it. If they ran it, it probably would work, those losers. It's really incredible to see it in action. And this is him all the time. And we keep saying he had a bad weekend. He didn't have a bad weekend. None of these things happened this weekend. These things have all happened in the past.
Starting point is 00:31:12 And it's just the very beginning. They're just coming to light now. Yeah, it's the very beginning of the opposition research that's coming on Bloomberg because they're starting to take him seriously. I mean, he's showing up at 15 and 18% in some of these national polls. He's leading in some of these Super Tuesday states. I think Florida is one of them. I mean, he's got, he has put himself in a position to have a shot at winning.
Starting point is 00:31:32 And people like to say, oh, he's buying the election. No person, he is, no person is forced to vote for him, nor is he paying anybody individually. He's running ads saying, this is what I believe, this is who I am. And people can either choose to believe it or not. Tom Steyer's also spending a lot of money and no one's voting for him outside of two states. You know, it's, it, it, is, it, is. This idea that you can buy an election is ridiculous. What you can do, though, is get yourself hurt.
Starting point is 00:32:00 You know, it's like the idea of the New York Yankees, where the Yankees can spend a zillion dollars every single year and make themselves, at least give themselves a chance to compete. It's been a long time since they won a World Series, though. Was it, 96? It's been a long time. Yeah, it's been a long time. Been a long freaking time.
Starting point is 00:32:17 Might be around 96, yeah. And so it doesn't mean you automatically can buy an election, but you can at least get your voice heard. You can at least be considered. also something else that popped up apparently in the opposition research. In 1990, the employees compiled a nice little booklet containing a lot of Michael Bloomberg's quotes. No doubt, Stuart just pissed off every Yankee fan on the planet.
Starting point is 00:32:42 Minor correction here. I forgot about a few World Series. And honestly, they should all be deleted from history. The Yankees won them. But 2009, they did win the World Series, which I have forgotten about against the Phillies. Okay, so just 1996 and 2009. And then they did win three consecutive.
Starting point is 00:32:55 consecutively between 1998 and 2000, but all those sucked. So you're saying 96, 98, 99, 2000, and then 2009. Yeah, if we're going to give myself
Starting point is 00:33:07 a little bit of a break here, I kind of, I was remember the 1996 grouping. I knew they won. I thought 96 was the last year, but it was actually the first year. Yeah. Well,
Starting point is 00:33:16 they hadn't won for a very long time before that. And then they came back and started winning World Series. And I was thinking 96 was the end. It was actually the beginning. So they won those four within like five years. and then I did totally forget about 2009 though and look it should be removed for
Starting point is 00:33:31 I don't know what cheating scandal they actually were involved in that year but you know well actually you do know it was Ayrod well yeah we actually do know what cheating scandal they were involved in and it was significant so there we go so put that in your pipe in 1990 employees at Bloomberg LP gave their boss this is beautiful presidential candidate former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, a booklet containing notable quotes
Starting point is 00:33:57 they said were attributed to him over the years as a gag birthday gift. So this was obviously something that didn't hack him off. This was something he was probably fairly proud of. The booklet was called the Portable Bloomberg, the wit and wisdom of Michael Bloomberg.
Starting point is 00:34:13 And it's a compendium of sexist, crude, and off-color remarks that Bloomberg employees heard him make, including if women wanted to be appreciated for their brains, they'd go to the library instead of Bloomingdale's. That's nice. That's nice.
Starting point is 00:34:34 That's how you win friends and influence people, especially women. The problem with going through this list is we really can't hit a lot of these things. But they're very, very offensive. On computers, he had some pretty sexual interesting things to say that are sexist. well on many topics marriage capitalism salesmanship and all of it really unrepeatable on the radio
Starting point is 00:35:02 but this guy is just a he's a buffoon and he's a sexist pig his denial is fantastic on this one though because they gave this his employees as a loving gift said hey look all you remember all those sexist jokes you made they're hilarious this is all funny happy birthday here here's your witten wisdom and of course he
Starting point is 00:35:20 at the time was ah ha ha ha ha ha it was great. Now he's saying he denies the things that he said or were attributed to him in this document. However, he has said things that are against his values. Now we're not going to tell you what those things are.
Starting point is 00:35:36 We're just going to tell you that they're not the things in this book. Now he did say the things very similar that were in this book but not those exact things. Kind of like he said them. Sure he said the exact things that were the book. But the things that were in the book were not the things he said. No. No. Right. Not at all.
Starting point is 00:35:56 And he does not have those values or the values prescribed it prescribed him in that sort of book. And of course he's got to skirt it like this because he's got, you know, a thousand witnesses. The employees themselves who put all this together and then gave it to him and everybody saw all of that. Pretty hard to deny. And this is a lot of these are older. I mean, he said to a reporter within the last few years. You know, as a woman walked by in a tight dress, look at the, he didn't say but, but look at the butt on her, like he's in dumb and dumber. And it said in front of a reporter, and they're like,
Starting point is 00:36:32 in the middle of a profile, and then, of course, he just comes out later and denies it, right? Yeah. Because that's what he does. But this is going to be a huge problem for him, obviously. And it's just beginning. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hey, it's Glenn.
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Starting point is 00:37:15 become one today and listen on your own time. You can subscribe on iTunes. Thanks. I'm wondering, is there now an official quarantine on Michael Avanotti from the press? I hope so. Because there was a long time in which
Starting point is 00:37:28 all they could do was touch him. All they could do was stick their time. tongue in his mouth. Yes. And now... And then some. They seemingly have discovered maybe this guy is a fraud. What?
Starting point is 00:37:40 Where did that come from? And it's interesting because now he had the stretch of the... Of he was the exalted one. Michael Avanotti was the savior of our planet and our country. Then he went into a phase where this seems a little weird. What's going on with this guy? And he wasn't on as much. And he wouldn't really book him.
Starting point is 00:37:59 and now he's been convicted and he is going to go to prison over this whole Nike shakedown thing he attempted. Which, you know, it's interesting because looking back, Avanotti, no matter what side you're looking at, you could look at Avanotti as the bad guy.
Starting point is 00:38:16 I mean, because if you are a person who likes Trump, Avanotti's taking these unfair shots at Trump. If you're a person who likes Stormy Daniels and you don't like Trump, I mean, Avin'I seemingly screwed over Stormy Daniels too. She says so. Yeah, she says so. And it's hard to feel bad for her or honestly anybody involved in this at this point.
Starting point is 00:38:36 It's just a mess. But it's like he seemingly tried to take advantage of every single person he interacted with. And it was a lot of people. And he was basically presented as a one-man wrecking crew to take down this evil Trump administration. And he was going to do it. If he wasn't going to do it through this case, he was going to do it by running for president and winning. Yeah. Listen to this. This is an incredible montage. Washington Freebeacon put this together.
Starting point is 00:39:03 Listen to some of just how much they loved this man. If we all could find a relationship where we were loved as much as the media loved Michael Avanati. We would all be happy. We'd be thrilled with life. Here is the montage of Michael Avinati in the mainstream press. He's Donald Trump's worst nightmare. Michael Avin. Joining us once again is Michael Avanotti. That's bringing in Michael Avanotti. Michael Avanotti. Michael Avanotti, thank you very much. He's out there saving the country.
Starting point is 00:39:33 John Meacham says he may be the savior of the republic. You are something of a folk hero now. Oh, Michael Avanotti, an apology. I've been saying, enough for ready, Michael. I've seen you everywhere. What do you have left to say? I was wrong, brother. You have a lot to say.
Starting point is 00:39:46 I am just dying to hear what you think. These people all like you. I'm the only person right here. Donald Trump fears more than Robert Miller. We think you guys are the tip of the tip. of this beer that's going to take down Donald Trump. Michael Avanotti's a beast. Okay, that's true.
Starting point is 00:40:02 And he's a beast. He's a beast. I hand it to her. And I hand it to Michael Avenetti. But he has a bigger calling here, that being a lawyer is minimal compared to what he's doing. No one has talked tougher directly to Donald Trump on TV than Michael Avanotti, and Donald Trump is afraid to mention his name. That's fascinating.
Starting point is 00:40:22 Donald Trump is terrified of Michael Avanotti. He has Trump a run for his money than anybody else. anybody else Michael Abenotti. Existential threat to the Trump presidency. The Democrats could learn something for you. You are messing with Trump a lot more than they are. He has no doubt created sheer panic and Donald Trump's very fragile mind.
Starting point is 00:40:40 Michael Abenotti is laying down the law as guest co-hose. And is he really thinking about running for president? One reason why I'm taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news. You look at the field of Democrats right now in Avanotti is the one who stands out. stands out. If they decide they value a fighter most, people would be foolish to underestimate Michael Avanotti. I have always said that they need a fighter. Look, I mean, we're going to continue to use the media. I think we've used it with great success. Oh, yeah. No doubt about that. Oh, I love it.
Starting point is 00:41:09 That's incredible. Oh, my gosh. Just a sampling of how much they absolutely gave this man. Who essentially walked off the street as a no name with an accusation against the president of the United States. And they treated him as if he was the ultimate truth teller. Yeah. Immediately. Put him on every show. Treated him seriously. Took his claims seriously. Acted as if he was making progress. When you think Trump was panicked about Michael Avinani, was laughing about it. I mean, what I would think about this. Take a step back from, how you feel about the Trump issue here with Avanotti and Stormy Daniels and all that. Let's just say all of it is true. And Trump really acted poorly. And he was.
Starting point is 00:41:53 was a terrible guy and he should have been impeached for them. What a terrible disservice to those claims to have Michael Adenati involved in them. And one of the reasons why it's easy to dismiss all of these claims is because Michael Avanetti is the one bringing him to you. How could you possibly believe this man? Anything he says, you have to assume is a lie. And he steps down from this whole thing where he gets all this media attention and starts shaking down Nike for tens of millions of dollars, which is not a good move.
Starting point is 00:42:26 No, he's going to pay for that with a little prison term, apparently. It almost seems like, Pat, he got to a point in his life where he was like, look, I'm really in debt. I got nothing going on. I'm not going to be able to make this work. What if I just go media crazy and try to make it into a big deal, and then maybe the attention will drive more cash and I can pass it almost like a Ponzi scheme. Like I can pay off all my old stuff with all this new stuff. I mean, it's at least possible. Maybe.
Starting point is 00:42:50 Yeah, maybe. The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand.

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