The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | 3/17/21

Episode Date: March 17, 2021

Stu and Pat rank the states on how they handled the pandemic over the past year. President Biden is taking credit for Trump’s vaccine success, and Pat and Stu explain why that’s ludicrous. Meanwhile, Israel’s vaccine rollout is doing surprisingly well. AOC’s "crying" photos are even more cringeworthy in light of the Biden administration’s border crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How do they do over the past year? Yeah. And so we went through, did a formula there. Let me give you some of the factors that went into this. One, obviously, how well did you avoid people dying in your state? You know what I mean? Like that's obviously a big factor. But number two, I mean, because all we hear from the, you know, the news media is trying to compare death totals and everything else.

We also looked at the economy. How well were you be able to protect the economy through this? Okay. It was a really difficult thing for states to do. Some states did a lot better than others. We also looked at what is from, there's an Oxford University of Oxford, a stringency index,

which is basically a measure of how hard the government cracked down. How long did they put the people into relative shutdown levels, right? Did they have a light touch? Did they have a heavy touch when it comes to that? And I think that's somewhat controversial and that like people would say, well, what does that matter? I think like if you have two states that had the same results with the economy and deaths, right? But one gave you complete freedom. The other one locked you down in individual plastic bubbles.

That matters. Yeah, that matters, right? I mean, free. This is the United States of America here. So I use that as a factor. Those are the three biggest factors. However, there's also, you know, we factored in the age of the population. So a state that has an older population.

should get a break in comparing the death rate, you know, to a state that has a younger population. Same thing with a density. If you have a state with a population density, that's high. We looked at vaccine rollout, all sorts of different things. And kind of came up with a final score, zero to 100 for all 50 states. So let me give you some of the bottom states. I'll start seventh from the bottom for a reason because it was California. Score of 35.7 out of 100.

They did, they actually didn't do terribly as far as the rate of COVID. But as we point out, they have a relatively young population in, in, in California. So that does make a difference as far as the death rate. But we factored that in. They finished seventh from the bottom. Six from the bottom was Massachusetts, 28.1 out of 100. Fifth from the bottom, Connecticut, our old home state, Pat. Now, again, can you, can you blame some of its neighbors from?

this, I think he could. Yes. But we'll get it. Connecticut also didn't do all that well. Rhode Island is fourth from the bottom. 25.2 is the score out of 100. Third from the bottom, red state, Louisiana. 20.6 out of 100.

Now, you can probably fairly note that part of the reason Louisiana had a really bad outbreak of COVID was. Marty Grau. Was Marty Grau, which happened at the end of February. last year and of course was held in a very blue area of Louisiana not a very red area of Louisiana but you know as long as you have New Orleans in your state you're responsible for it Louisiana I apologize for that but you know I didn't put it in your state that was that was your thing so you're responsible for for the for the outbreak in New Orleans so they came at

third to worst 20.6 out of 100 then there's a going to drop off from third to worst at 20 to second to worst, New Mexico, 7.9 out of 100. Wow. So from 20.6 to 7.9. People don't realize that New Mexico had the hardest lockdown in the nation, harder than any other state, California, New York, nobody locked down further, harder than New Mexico. I didn't know that. Yeah. They had, their economy was a disaster as well. They, and they didn't even get good results as far as COVID. I mean, really, they didn't do anything well throughout this. entire process. So New Mexico finishes second to last, and

in dead last place, without anyone's surprise, of course, is New York with a score of 6.8 out of 100. They had the second strongest lockdown in the country. Despite that, had the second worst

COVID numbers, only to New Jersey, which is completely New York's fault anyway. And also, their economy was a disaster. Despite the fact they have a giant industry there, that could work from home they still couldn't protect the economy at all so they finish in dead last place

of course Andrew Cuomo is awful.com should be noted at this time should we give you some of the top top picks yeah who did the best let's see all right who did the best and we're starting it let me give you 10 all right Alaska number 10 score of 66.7 again we take into account population density

but again there are some there's some asterisk in this like Hawaii what do you do with you know Hawaii obviously is going to have a really good result on COVID because they're an island but also a really bad result on the economy because they're dependent on flights yeah so it's a tough one to measure but Alaska came in 10th South Dakota in ninth and I think I think a lot of people would think South Dakota would do really well on this they were number two on the stringency index so it's the second least amount of time in lockdown. But they really, they're 44th as far as COVID per million. So they, that hurt them. Like they, they had a very open, uh, attitude towards this, which I respect and I like Christy know quite a bit. But, uh, look, they just had a really, had a really rough battle with that when it comes, uh, to, uh, their rates. Uh, eighth place, Nebraska, 67.8 out of 100. then Virginia actually did pretty well in seventh place 68.9 Iowa in sixth place

69.9 out of 100. Iowa, another one that never they had that initial shutdown period and then were pretty open after that and had relatively good results, certainly good economic results. Number six, number five, Oregon. That's a surprise.

That one is a surprise to me. So I was thinking about this because the score is 70.1 out of 100 for Oregon. Again, best COVID results by state for the entire year. They had a, you know, they had very low rates of COVID, but they'd locked down. I mean, they were middle of the pack when it comes down to how far they, how long they locked down.

My theories on this was, one, Portland in particular was burning down most of the years, so probably people were terrified to go outdoors at all and see anyone. plus you also have a in their economy did relatively well compared to some of these other more lockdown type states and I think you might have a population that was more able to work from home you know the industries there are friendlier to being able to work at home so there wasn't as much of a need for that but that's where that finished um the number uh let's see number four Idaho 74.1 score out of 100 Idaho did pretty much everything pretty much everything pretty well. Every one of their categories was pretty good. Not at the top of the list, but in the top

third on pretty much every single thing. A couple of surprises here towards the top here. Number three, and there's an asterisk on this one a little bit too. Number three was Wisconsin. And I would think Wisconsin, how the heck, really? They have a Democratic governor. Yet they ranked on this, you know, how long did they lock down the stringency index? They were only fifth. They were somehow fifth. Now, I looked into that a little bit more thinking, how the hell did Wisconsin finish fifth in this measure? Because it's really the strongest thing that they had going for them in this, in the little formula here. And the reason was the courts kept overturning all the things the Democratic governor wanted to do. So they never, like, they were on and off again a little bit, but the courts were like, no, you can't do any of this crap.

So they didn't go into lockdown as much as a lot of other blue states did, which is kind of an interesting factor. score of 83.9 out of 100. Number two, New Hampshire, 84.9 out of 400. Wouldn't against that one either. Yeah, you know, I wouldn't have either. Although you got live free or die, right? They were actually, they did not lock down all that hard. They had pretty good results from COVID.

And their economy was relatively well protected. They are also an older population, which helps them in this measure. I mean, considering they were eighth overall in death rate and had the second oldest population in the country. It's pretty impressive that that stuck together. And I don't know, it kind of makes sense in some ways. You know, that's a, it's a state that has a motto where you're supposed

to be taking responsibility for your own actions and maybe that helped play in. Number one though, are you ready? Score of 90.1 out of 100. I am. 90.1 out of 100, the number one score. In the entire union, this was a surprise

to me. I will say, I didn't see this one coming. Number on the state of does this end or confusion the state of confusion no no okay this state of Utah Utah that is what I was gonna guess really yeah yeah

that's what I was going to guess that's pretty interesting to me I would not have guessed it really just because I don't know I mean I it didn't get any press you know like people talk the right has talked about Texas they've talked about Florida they talked about Arizona they talked about South Dakota they've talked about

a lot of different states Georgia got press at the beginning quite a bit. Really, I haven't heard much conversation about Utah. But Utah kind of sat there and did incredibly well in every measure here. Number three, as far as

how long were they in lockdown? Third least amount of time. So they were third say on the freedom index, right? Okay. Economy, they finished seventh in the entire country. And their COVID results, they finished sixth. Wow. So, really,

really did now I will say they are the youngest state in the union which I did not know either until doing this research youngest state in the union however that they get punished in this in this measure for that like if you're a young state you lose points on on the formula because you know you shouldn't you know an older state it has a tougher time with something like this yeah so even despite the fact that they got punished for that still finished number one uh in the union with a score of 90.1 wow and really has had no press and no credit and And no love. I mean, I haven't heard anybody saying,

wow, you know who's doing a good job is Utah. And this comes back to something I, you know, I think has proved since the beginning of this to be really important. We've talked so much about what the government does. Am I going to sit here and say that everything that Utah did from the government level was right? I doubt it. I mean, I don't know all the details. I don't live in Utah.

But I guarantee if we open up the phone lines, we get lots of people complaining about what the government was saying or doing in Utah, as we would from every state. But, like, there's something to do with this coming back to instead of the government, the people. You know, this is the United States of America. We lead the government. The government doesn't lead us.

That's not the way this works. And, you know, if you look at the type of population you'd want to potentially have in the form, in the, in the time of a pandemic, I got to say, you might draft Mormons number one. You might. First of all, they're pretty healthy. Second of all, as you point out, pretty young. Yeah.

I would say they do a good job following rules. Would you say that's a good job? an accurate statement. I would say that's pretty accurate. Like they're not like the type of people who are like going to, you know, they're not like people who are going to go out and like, you know, burn down government buildings because they don't like a policy. They're going to argue with it. They're going to say what they believe, but they're not, they're not going to do that. They're not activists. Yeah, they're not like, yeah. And I think that's, you know, I mean that in a good way in this particular measure, specifically. And then also, there are people who tend to do a lot of thinking about others.

right like they're much I would say less focused on like well damn it's my right than you know what like I don't like this but I don't want to make anyone else sick I want to make I want to make sure that like every I think there's a there's a very selfless aspect of

of that culture that makes a state like Utah perform really well and I will note too number four was Idaho yes also quite Mormon also quite Mormon and I you know that It's an interesting thing. And I think that it comes down to that a little bit more than than cable news and even talk shows and politicians have talked about. You just mentioned this with the masks.

The government policy has been such a factor. But really, I mean, you look at the states with no mask mandates and compare them to the ones with mask mandates. There's about a 10 to 12% difference of mask usage. It's really not that different. Yeah. It really doesn't make all that much difference. It's really about what the people wind up doing. We lead this government.

They don't lead us. So would this be a good time to send the couple of guys in white shirts and bicycles over to your house? Seems like a pretty good time maybe for that. I'll make the call. I'll make the call while you do the commercial. I have COVID. They can't come up. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

All right. So in Israel, apparently people are pretty open to getting the vaccine. I have kind of a different impression of many Americans because I hear from a lot who just have no intention of ever being vaccinated. Yeah, the polling has been pretty consistent. It's improved as far as people wanting to take the vaccine, which is what you would expect, right? It's been basically the entire time broken down like this. About 40% of people are like, absolutely give me the vaccine. Like give it to me, I'm ready for it.

Day one, I'm rushing down, throw some needles at me, whatever stick. and I'll take that one. They're fine. About 30% of people are like, say basically, I'm open to it. But I want to kind of see if everyone starts dropping dead first. You know, like, can you have, can I not be first in line? Let me just see if people, these needles go in people's arms and they just spontaneously combust.

If that doesn't happen, all right, I'll go check it out. Then there's about 20% of the population who says, I don't want to get it. But like, like if I have to, like if work tells me I need. to do it or I can't get into any, I can't take any flights because I can't get a vaccine. All right, I'll, whatever, I'll do it. And then there's about 10% of the population that is like sign up ideologically against, you know, vaccines in general or this particular vaccine for some reason. So the polling has been pretty consistent in that general format.

Some of the people who have, were in that 30% group that say, look, I'm open to getting it, but I'm a little worried. Some of those people have now moved into the, I'm going to get the vaccine group. So it's, and some of the people have received the vaccine already in that group. So it is, most people are fine getting it.

They realize, you know, they might not be excited about getting a shot, but they're going to go through it and get it anyway. I think there's a certain percentage of people, you know, seems to be about 10% that are just, you know,

ideologically against the vaccine for whatever reason, or just don't think it's going to work or don't think it's safe or healthy. and I don't think you're going to change those people's minds. You know, that's just the way, you know, the way they've, you know, processed the information. A larger part of that area, though, are people who just don't go to the doctor all that often. You know, people who, those are the people that are reachable on the vaccine.

People who just like, don't tend, like, there's a lot of people who like never go to the dentist, for example. Like, you know, they just don't ever do it. And it's a surprisingly high percentage of the population that, you know, don't get dental care for decades on end, right? And the same thing happens with doctors, that, you know, especially in minority communities, in communities in inner cities that just don't have access or don't have money or don't desire to go see the doctor for every little thing. And they just don't come in contact that often with medical professionals. So there's some skepticism there as well. And I think

those are the people they're going to try to reach. In Israel, they have kind of the same problem where the Orthodox communities are much less likely to want to get the vaccine for ideological reasons. So those communities are much harder for the government to get the vaccine too. But they are at, as you point out, Pat, over now 50% fully vaccinated in Israel. They lead the world by a very large margin in that world. Let's see if I can get the exact numbers. This is fully vaccinated numbers. right now.

Here we go. 50.4% in Israel. Number two is Bahrain at 12.9. Wow. So a huge, huge gap there. Because we're at between partially and fully vaccinated, I think we're at around 20%. Aren't we? And we, between those who have gotten one of the two shots and those who've gotten both of them.

I've got that right here. It's not quite, oh, you mean between both. Yes. I'm sorry. Yeah, here we go. So at least one dose in the United States. States. Uh-huh.

18 plus population, 27.9% has already received one dose. But more importantly here, right, for this particular virus is the 65 plus population. Now, 65% of that population has received at least one dose. Which was the important group. Yeah. And look, you know, the Biden administration can try to take credit for all of this, which is completely ridiculous, right? Like during the Trump administration, they develop the vaccine.

they got it already. They did all the testing. They got it all prepared. They designed the entire rollout strategy. And then Biden comes in office. It's like, look what we just did with the vaccines. Right. We're great.

We inherited a broken system. A completely broken, non-existent system. A lot of the people who are from the Trump administration who are running this effort are still there. Yeah. You know, they're not partisans. They're just, you know, people who are really good at logistics. And you know what the record was?

The record development time before this. for a vaccine from start of the disease to when you have a vaccine for it. Before now, 10 years. Measles took, I think it was a measles vaccination, 10 years. I thought there was one for like whooping cough or something that was like more like four or five years. But still, maybe. It was multiple years. Yeah, it's a long time.

It's a lot longer than a year. Yeah. I mean, for start to finish, this thing happened in less than a year. Yeah. Really incredible. It's incredible. Whether you like it or not, it is an absolutely impossible thing. It's a miracle.

Which is, it really is incredible. And really more exciting than this particular vaccine is the technology behind the vaccine. This MRNA technology, which offers the ability to develop vaccines quickly like this. Yeah. Not just like pandemics. I'm talking about like, you know, diseases that have existed in the third world for generations. And no one's really been able to get them under control. because the development is cost is so high and it takes so long and obviously these countries don't have the money and all of this this technology can be adapted really easily to things we've been fighting for a really long time so I think long term the upside is even more exciting than just what we have here we can go back to restaurants in a couple of weeks but we now fully vaccinated in the country 15% of the 18 plus population and 37% of 65 plus

So you're going to see, you know, the one thing you're seeing in Israel is they, when they break down the death rates from the vaccinated population and the non-vaccinated population, it's remarkable how well this is working. You know, more than half of the deaths right now in cases are coming from only like the 5% of the population that isn't vaccinated in the older groups. because and the other 95% of the population is, you know, accounting for less than the 5%, which is really remarkable. You look at it when it comes down, they break it down by age. The older population, their deaths are dropping like crazy in Israel. And they're down by, you know, over 70% now as far as just cases overall with the entire population. So, you know, it's encouraging.

You know, what do you make of all the stories, though, of people, you know, dying within a day or two of this and or or becoming uncontrollably shaky for you know the rest of I mean I don't know how long it's going to last but there was for instance there was a woman who did a video and she couldn't stop shaking I mean every part of her body was shaking and it had been going on for days and couldn't stop and the only thing she could attribute it to was the vaccine So, I mean, you're hearing these stories. And I, you know, maybe some people are just not able to handle it. I don't know.

It's possible. I mean, I think, you know, look, science via YouTube video is never a good idea. Are you sure? Yeah. That's actually the first scientific principle. Huh. Don't do science based on YouTube videos. What about Internet stories?

Internet stories are a different thing. Well, if it's forwarded, then it's science. Okay. If people forwarded enough times, it becomes science. So like I get it in my email in my inbox, I can take it directly to the bank. Yes, definitely. I can believe it's true. As long as the person sending it to you is not the source.

If it's been passed three or four times, then it becomes science. Okay. I mean, look, you have to look at the anecdotal cases as, you know, what they are. And some of them, you know, there are some people who have had bad reactions to it, I guess. It's pretty minor. I mean, we know this, that the people who are taking the vaccine are dying at a much lower rate than people that are not taking the vaccine. And getting extremely sick at a much lower rate.

And that's not just COVID. That's overall. Now, there could be a reason for that in that people who are maybe healthier and more engaged in the healthcare system are more likely to get the vaccine. But it's certainly not showing there's no evidence whatsoever of these effects in a large scale. For example, there's a debate going on with this Astrozenica vaccine in Europe. And AstraZeneca is not approved for use here in the United States. United States they're in the middle of the test that would get it to approval but it is not

approved in the United States yet was improved very early on as you might expect because it has to do with Oxford in the UK and that's really what they're using in the UK they went over to to Europe and there's a debate now about a lot of the European countries have pulled it from usage and they because they believe there was I believe five cases of blood clots or maybe it might have been up to about 30 cases of blood clots related to the AstraZeneca vaccine. Again, totally different technology than Pfizer and Moderna, but still, this was the concern.

And so people were freaked out about it. They pulled it off the market. It's interesting, though, to look at the numbers there, in that Europe, the people that pulled it off the market are saying that blood clots are happening in 1 in 167,000 people who get the vaccine. Now, in Britain, who's been using this vaccine the entire time, they're saying it's one in 500,000.

So there's a disagreement between 1 in 167,000 and 1 and 500,000. However, both of those numbers are better numbers than the population in general. So the idea that it's the vaccine causing this, the people, more than 1 and 167,000 people just get blood clots on a normal everyday life basis. So there's no reason to believe none of this, you know, none of the science shows that any of this. stuff is happening. Now look, that does not mean, and you know, as you can probably tell, I'm, I'm very pro vaccine. I want to get back to normal life. I think this is the best path to do it. I love what the Trump administration did on this. I love the fact that capitalism was involved. I love the fact that the ultimate enemy of every single left-wing newspaper in America,

big pharmaceutical companies were involved. I think it's hilarious. And I love the fact that this is, I feel like the American way out of something like this. We just innovate, come up with something great, and get out of it and go on with our lives. So I do like that. I am pro. However, nobody should be forcing you to take it if you don't want to take it. And that is, you know, we have not seen anyone in the United States yet require it. And they don't even require it in Israel.

But it is something that you could see Gavin Newsom or Andrew Cuomo doing and saying that it is required. And you should not have to take any of these things if you don't want to take them. That's an important part of liberty. Just like you shouldn't have to wear a mask if you don't want to wear it. mask. Same thing. Right. Like, even if, even if it was the best idea in the world, you still get to, I mean, look, I, I,

you know, I would not for, this is a country in which we're not supposed to be forcing people through the government to do pretty much anything, you know, I mean, with the exception of don't murder, you know, don't steal, there's a bunch of things. There's a few commandments that outlined some of these ideas at one point in an old book. but I mean, really the government should have very limited access to your life as far as managing it. And so, you know, the people who are much more skeptical on the vaccine than I am, I stand with them in the idea that they should not be forced to take it. That's a terrible idea. And it also will just turn people off from wanting to take it.

You know, people who are on the fence are just going to be like, screw you, don't tell me what to do. It's exactly how I'd be if they started to mandate it. Well, now I don't want it. Yeah. Now I don't want it. And the messaging on this has been terrible. It's basically like in Israel they're saying, hey, get the vaccine, then go do what you want. As soon as you're vaccinated, none of these rules apply to you anymore, basically.

That's what they're trying to communicate to the people. That's not entirely true in Israel, but it is what they're trying to communicate. That's the messaging. Here the messaging is the opposite. It's like, hey, get the vaccine. And then in the year, 27, you'll be able to see another person again. You know, you may even be able to eat outdoors before 2050. We'll let you know.

you know, we get to tell you when that happens. And the American people are just like, wait a minute, what? I know. Yeah. And it's if you behave yourself, if you do everything we tell you to do, then maybe you can get together and have a backyard barbecue the Fourth of July. We'll see. We'll see. And we'll let you know, by the way.

Do you think any of this, Pat, is them just trying to underplay it? It's like, you know, when an airplane company, you know, air, uh, air, uh, air, uh, A flight tells you that you're going to be there at 3 o'clock when they know you're supposed to be there at 2.30. So they have that like that wiggle room in there. Yes. They're just trying to say like, it's like, oh, a million vaccines a day. It's like, well, we're already doing that. Like, he's trying to set expectations so low that he's definitely going to clear them.

Maybe it's just that way. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And we really want to thank you for listening. Joe Biden last night on with George Stephanopoulos. And Stephanopoulos actually pressed him on the crisis going on at the border, which, of course, to the Biden. administration isn't a crisis at all. It's the same thing that's been happening for years, and this is all Donald Trump's fault anyway. Here's Stephanopoulos, actually asking him some

decent questions about the border. A lot of the migrants coming in saying they're coming in because you promised to make things better. It seems to be getting worse by the day. Was it a mistake not to anticipate this surge? Well, first of all, there was a surge the last two years. And And 19 and 20, there was a surge as well. This one might be worse. No, well, it could be, but here's a deal. We're sending back people to, first of all, the idea that Joe Biden said come, because I heard the other day that they're coming because they know, I'm a nice guy,

and I won't do it with you know. Because you told them to. Well, here's the deal. Here's the deal. They're not. They're not. Do you have to say quite clear? What do you mean?

They're not. Good follow up there. Yes. I can say quite clearly. Here's the deal. They're not. In the process of getting set up. Don't leave your.

town or city community. Okay. Democrats get to say this every time and it's not hateful. You know, don't leave your town or city is the thing that Donald Trump would say and that would be hateful when he said it. And xenophobic. Yeah. Yeah, you should. Well, you shouldn't. You know, he's right on that point. If you want to give him

very narrow, he's correct. You shouldn't illegally come to another country in any circumstance. It's a good safety tip. Potentially like a massive war going on in your country and you're escaping as a refugee. really there's no reason to do this.

It's not for not for economic benefit. That's not what these laws are set up to do. And honestly, illegally, you shouldn't ever come. You should come as a refugee in certain circumstances. Well, Biden denies that he is responsible at all for this. But let's go back to the campaign and the problems he made essentially to the people of Mexico and Central and South America when he talked about the first hundred days of his administration. Cut number two. They're there seeking asylum.

First time ever we've told people they can't come to America. That ends. The cages are closed. That ends. Cages are closed. And in the first 100 days, he goes on to say that they can come here essentially and receive asylum from the United States of America. Like we've never told them before not to come. Yeah.

And by the way, the cages are open. just so you know. They're now open. Come on in. You're going to Cageville, everybody. Uh, right. Cagedown. And they're at full capacity too, beyond full capacity.

Yep. The cages. I mean, the average is something like 300% of pre-COVID capacity. So, I mean, Democrats were weeping over it. They, they would literally have press conferences where they would break down and weep openly about how inhumane it was Donald Trump treating these children that came across the border that were ripped, that were torn from the arms of their crying mothers and then tossed into these cages like animals.

All of that was so tragic under Donald Trump. And now it's just the humane thing to do. Now, what else are we supposed to do with them? And they're just all here without their parents. And we've got to find someplace for them. And we don't know where they belong. And we're trying really hard to find their parents. So what are we supposed to do other than put them in these facilities?

They're facilities now. They're not cages. No, now they're just facilities. They're wonderful facilities. I went back, by the way, Pat, and I think you'll remember the story when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, these photos came out of her at the border and she was crying at a fence. You remember these things? I do. Yeah.

And, you know, the people were kind of mocking them as sort of looking very staged. And they were actually taken before AOC was like a figure, a public figure. She was running for office, but like no one knew who she was at this point. And I went back and just glanced at those. They are among the most cringe-worthy photos I've ever seen in my life. Oh, I'd love to see them. She, it, they, now she claims this was a real moment. And the photographer says it was a real moment of emotion over time.

kicking her. Yeah. They look so cringy and staged. And, you know, she's standing in front of this fence. And it is like down the road along like driveway, if you will, to a facility. So people were saying, oh, she's just in front of an empty lot. It's not true exactly. Like, you know, she was near the facility.

It was as close as she could get. I mean, they weren't allowing people inside. Mm-hmm. But still, like, I just, I don't know. it's like, you know, I don't know, I'm trying to think of like if you were, if you went to a, a site that somehow meant something to you, but you could barely see it in the distance. It's, it doesn't seem like it would evoke the emotion. And then it just like, it just doesn't look real. It looks like she's just standing there fake crying for the camera. I mean, it did. I don't know what it is seeing them again after knowing her. Because when we first saw them, she was kind of in the news and it wasn't a huge story at the time. knowing how awful she is and how her only goal in life is to pander to cameras. You know, all she does all the time is going Instagram live and run her mouth about God knows what, about she doesn't know how the freaking, you know, garbage disposal works or whatever she talks about.

And to see these photos in that light now that we know kind of who she is, oh, they're cringy. Are you looking at them? Did you bring up a photo? I'm trying to find him. I haven't seen him yet. Oh, I have to sound up here. They are so cringy. And we had them on the,

we showed briefly on the show the other day on Studeau's America. And it just, oh, it gives you that feeling inside your stomach when you realize, like someone's like trying, like a really bad actor or actress who's trying to pull off a role and failing and like everyone around you knows that they're failing to get that like tightness in your stomach.

And it's like, oh, God, this is so cringy. That's what it feels like when you look at them. I know she said something early on when it came out again that that Biden is using the cages. And she actually said something, uh, negative about it. Moderately.

Moderately negative. Not was it wasn't a literal concentration camp when Joe Bout Biden was doing. No, that's for sure. But she's been amazingly silent since. I think she said one thing about it and then she shut her mouth about it. And she said like, this is wrong. It's always been wrong. That's what it was.

Donald Trump is evil. It was like that type of thing. Yeah, it's pretty much. Yeah. You know, totally different standard. And of course, all these things that she talked about, you know, complained about wanting this $15 minimum wage and how she was going to hold up the process. She didn't vote against the bill.

It's amazing. She let it go through anyway because she's just like so many other Democrats. You know, there's no, there's nothing there. And back in late February, Glenn tweeted out, maybe you guys talked about this at the time. Just for the record, the Biden administration is separating children and parents. Did you talk about that in the time? Because politic fact, fact check that. They are separating children and parents.

Yes. Glenn Beck said that, that the evil. Glenn back with his hatefulness. I love this one. This is the one where he said a full sentence and they fact checked half the sentence. They actually broke the sentence

into two pieces so they could give him a false ranking. That's unbelievable. And like, I don't understand why this is better. What is happening now? This is their argument. When Donald Trump was president, a mom and a son would come across the border

and the mom would get arrested for coming across the border. They didn't want to throw the son into jail, right? Yes. So they would detain them in two different places. That was the separation of children from parents that we heard so much about. Right.

Right. Right. What's happening now is the parents at some point before they cross the border are having their kids go ahead of them by themselves. So they're now crossing the border solo instead of with their parent. They're still separate. They just separated on the other side of the border. And that means Donald Trump is evil and Hitler and literally.

concentration camp guy and Joe Biden is totally fine. And they act as if Donald Trump had his minions down at the border stealing babies from the arms of their of their parents when in fact it was mostly teenagers then like it's mostly teenagers now. It was it was older children and teens. I don't think a lot of babies were torn from the arms of their mothers as they carried across the border. Now, I mean, what we're looking at right now is 15, 16, and 17 year olds largely.

Now, look, are those quote unquote children? I mean, the lies of the law, sure, they're underage. But, you know, it's a different story than what you picture. And, you know, they will use the photos to elicit emotion. They will find the one younger child who happens to be in a large group and focus on them, who doesn't know what's going on. I mean, just obviously they use this, they use these photos for their advantage, just like these AOC photos.

I think we have them now. Have you, if we, if you're, oh good. Looking. Oh yeah, look at that. And it's just comical. That just happened to be somebody walking by with a camera at the same time that AOC started breaking down. It is. It's clearly spontaneous.

If you happen to be on Blase TV, it's worth watching because it basically you have the, there's a couple different vibes here. You have one vibe where she's looking like a sad puppy. dog at the camera, which is just hysterical. And then the other one where she's standing by herself and awkwardly bending over in her pristine white clothing and her nice new watch. And she's kind of just like crying. Like I just, it doesn't seem.

It bent her in half. Yeah, it bent her and half. The grief. The grief of these children being taken from their parents, bent her in half. And look, there are a lot of sad stories on the border. This is why we say we should have it. under control. I mean, there are really terrible, tragic stories that happen on the border all the time. People who are convinced by Democrats largely that this is not really an offense, that it's basically,

it's less than a speeding ticket, because you don't even get fined. And we, and, you know, they come across the border thinking they're going to get a better life because Democrats are screaming that, uh, that it's possible. And now they see Biden as the quote, migrant president. The Mexican president said that these migrants see Joe Biden as the, migrant president. And they're coming here because they believe it's okay. But they believe because half the country and all of the media is saying it, it's okay. And just to accentuate that point, we have one of the migrants actually speaking about this.

Let me see. Did we have this today or? Yeah, okay. Here's one of the migrants talking about. Joe Biden actually. What I want for my people, I just want patient and pest that we can get to the U.S. because they're having a new president

versus Biden. He's going to help all of us. He's giving us 100 days to get to the U.S. and give us legal mental paper so we can get a better life for our kids and family. Isn't that great? So they got it right from Joe Biden. He's given

him 100 days to get here and just have a better life for him and his family. And I, look, We, that's amazing, isn't it? And we as conservatives would look at this and say, a lot of times we'll say, like, you shouldn't come across the border and, you know, it's a bad idea, blah, blah, blah. And that's, of course, true. But it's also like, from their perspective, the messaging they're getting from the entire media. And not to mention, the candidate himself and all of his allies in Congress is it's mean if we send you back.

Yeah. If we say, hey, you know, we're going to deport you. That's the mean thing. we're not going to do that anymore. He campaigned on it. Of course they believe they can come in. We've been telling you this for months and months and months and months. If Joe Biden gets in, everything's going to be fine.

Well, of course they believe they can come in. Of course they do. He told them. Yeah. He essentially told them that, look, I'm your guy. I'm your president too because I'm going to invite you in. That's what he did. That's the message they got.

Yeah. And they're not experts on. the law of the United States. Think about this. Like, sure, you could say, okay, it's against the law. But like, when the leader of the nation and all of the big Democrats are all saying it's basically okay, well, of course that's the impression they're going to have. It's basically okay.

Yeah, it might be frowned upon. Yeah, you know, I mean, they're not going to like fly you in and give you a welcome ceremony. But at the end of the day, you're going to come in. You're going to be in a facility for a couple of days and get released into the country. And you're going to get what you want. and anything other than that is mean and Hitler in literal concentration camps. So of course they believe this is okay. You know, I mean, if you had a speeding limit of, you know,

a speed limit of 55, but the governor, the sheriff, the police force, we're all saying it's actually 75. You guys can all go 75. What the hell would you do? You go 75. Right? I do anyway. So yes, the answer to that is yes.

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