The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Jeffy Fisher | 8/8/19

Episode Date: August 8, 2019

Pat and Stu wonder if they’ll be able to trust the GOP and President Trump not to back down on “red flag laws." The president said he would rather take firearms first and go through due process second, but he’ll probably change his stance shortly. The guys have a good laugh (and maybe a cry) over a twenty-something employee who was incredibly offended by being told that there is no "p" in “hamster.” Why have the Democrats completely abandoned the (very electable) pro-life and pro-gun rights positions? And now, they're running an entire campaign on a lot of the things that were included in the suspected El Paso killer’s manifesto. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the podcast. By the way, you can tune in to the Glenn Beck program on TV. This last couple of weeks I've been hosting it. Tonight, we're doing something pretty cool with a guy who wrote a book about socialism called Socialism Sucks. A couple of economists. They went around all the socialist countries, including North Korea, by the way. I can't wait to ask about that. No kidding. And he says they drank their way through the socialist countries. So we've decided to bring back a power hour. We're going to do Power Hour talking socialism on the Glenbeck. program today because Glenn's not here. So, I mean, the beer flows

is the way I think about it. So join BlazTV.com slash Glenn. Use the promo code Glenn and save some money. On the podcast today, we talked about red flag laws and whether these are a good decision or not. We kind of are on the side of no.

But that does not seem to decide that the Republicans are coming around to it, it seems like. And Democrats have already switched their tune to, well, we're not going to do that because that's not enough. not going far enough. It's already happening. Of course. We also have a fascinating story about a millennial

who is at work and has an issue with spelling that blows up into basically an international incident. She cannot believe that the editor of her written piece will not let her spell the word hamster the way she wants to spell it.

She's been spelling it that way for her whole life. Why should you ever change what she's doing? Well, it's wrong. It's not the way you spell the word. Says you. Thank you. Thank you. This is essentially the debate that's happening in our workforce right now.

And God bless you if you're a boss having to deal with that. Oh, man. Will Tucker Carlson get fired? They are trying to get him fired as they always are. And now because he's taking a vacation, they're taking credit for getting him suspended. It's not going to be on the air anymore. Yeah, that's what they do every time. Chris Cuomo at the town hall is as bad as you'd expect to get into that.

And as you just heard his voice, Jeff Fisher. from the wonderful podcast, Chewin the Fat. Talk about excitement. I mean, people are pumped up. We'll get into that and a new poll from Iowa as well, all on today's podcast with Pat and Stu. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Pat and Stu for Glenn, who will return on Monday.

AAA 727, B-E-C-K. Wow, there was, I mean, so much insanity going on. I don't know if it starts with the CNN Town Hall last night or with Cory Booker or there's just so much where do you even where to even begin. I love how nothing that the Republicans, even though the Republicans are bending over backward right now and many of them caving in to gun control mindset,

that's not enough. Nothing's enough. Nothing's ever enough. This is why you don't cave in. Yeah, because it won't be enough. It will never be enough. We're seeing this now, Chuck Schumer. He's warning the GOP against settling for tepid red flag laws. So the red flag law thing, which is completely controversial to conservatives, is a massive move to the left.

It is a constitutional violation. It is the type of thing that we took calls all day yesterday. All day yesterday from people who love Donald Trump and are like, don't cross this line. Please don't cross this line. This is really, really bad. I talked to David Harris Jr. And David Harris Jr. It's a pretty MAGA guy.

You know, big, big Trump supporter. He's not quite as pro-Trump as Donald Trump, but he is more pro-Trump than Donald Trump Jr. He's in between those two. Okay. No, David's great. I love him. But he's like a big Trump guy. Yeah.

And he said yesterday, same thing on his social feeds. Don't. They said, like, you know, look, we love Donald Trump. He's done a great job. Don't cross this line. It's too big of a deal. And I think this comes to the core of like Donald Trump, who's a guy who's, he's lived in, you know, in New York as a rich guy behind security. Like he's in that environment.

I was born in New York. I grew up partially in New York, partially in Connecticut. You know, in that region, you just, it's just not part of your life. You don't think about guns all that often. And especially if you're Donald Trump living in the top of a tower, like, that's not. last thing in the world you're concerned about it's not part of your core you don't see the second amendment the same way probably and you know so i don't know that he would understand what a big deal this would be to someone who really cares about the second amendment and we man we heard it like crazy

yesterday i mean i think there was one caller yesterday who said you know i really like what he's i understand at least he's trying to address mental health which i think is of course true but already the democrats are saying look that's not enough you can't you can't just give us this this is what's so frustrating about being a conservative and having the only real representative for you being the Republican Party because they are constantly folding on these

things. They're terrible. And they just do stuff like, well, you know what? The Democrats want $700 billion for this project. We only want to give them $400 billion. And you're like, well, yeah, but what about the one, what about the option of not doing it? You know, and there's no one who represents that side of these issues. What about the option of spending less? Yeah, that doesn't exist.

It's impossible. It's impossible. Actually, I have a Republican congressman from Ohio, Michael Turner, who's actually talking about not just the red flag laws, but also a limit on the, you know, the magazine limits. Yep. And a ban on assault weapons. Yep. Assault limits.

Assault. Yes. Because they assault people. That one is really fascinating to me because obviously, you know, every. weapon is an assault weapon. This is a breaking news for you. You can assault people with any weapon, and I don't mean just guns. No, you could have an assault knife. There's a reason why...

I can assault you with a knife. Yeah. There's a reason why we own 10 times per capita the amount of guns as Russia, and they have double the murder rate. Because people are able to kill other people with other things. Pakistan, same thing. Pakistan has almost no gun violence problem. You want to move there? Let me get you on Zillow. I could jam a spoon in your eye right now. That might be an assault. Right?

It's like, I mean, does anyone remember Paris? Right? Like, or was, I mean, Nice, I'm thinking of. When they went down, you know, in the middle of you run over people with a street festival in your truck. 87 people, it seems. It was a lot. It was a lot. It was a lot.

Does it seem, does any, are any of those people like, oh, man, at least I wasn't shot? No. No. That's not the way that works. You know, you can do these things. There was a big stabbing yesterday, right? Four people were killed in a stash. of stabbing yesterday.

Yeah. And again, that would be, that would qualify on the mass shooting list if it happened to be done with a gun. But I guess because it's not with a gun and there's no political gain there. No one cares. Well, the people who got, you know, who are victims of these crimes still care. You know, the people who are in Chicago who do get shot in gun violence, but not the type of gun violence that moves the needle on your polls. Those people care. Which is why, I strongly believe.

after, if they got some kind of ban on, let's say, rifles, let's say you ban assault rifles, then they'd have to go for handguns as well because the carnage will continue. The carnage like in Baltimore and Chicago is not going to be abated by banning rifles. You're going to have to, and they'll come after, they'll come after handguns as well. It's just the beginning. You open up this door, they're going to keep walking through it. it's just it would never end.

And that's why we just can't give in. AAA 727 B-E-C-K. More coming up in one minute. This is the Glenn Beck program. It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program. AAA 727BECK. It's gotten so the media people in the media don't even care. They hate Trump so much.

They don't even care if what they're saying about him is remote. remotely accurate. Like Nicole Wallace, who was, who claimed that Trump has been talking about exterminating Latinos. Her guest is like, yeah. No. No, he has not been talking about that. That is something that the president has never, never done. Well, a lot of times this stuff is like a game of telephone, right?

Like maybe she happened to hear, she happened to tune into TV when Beto O'Rourke was saying that Donald Trump was saying the same rhetoric as the third right. Right. And maybe she heard that and thought, well, that's extermination. I guess I can now say this. Like they all just kind of pass it on just a little bit. And then when she's called out on it, her only statement is she tweets, I misspoke about Trump calling for an extermination of Latinos. My mistake was unintentional and I'm sorry. Trump's constant assault on people of color and his use of the word invasion to describe the flow of immigrants is intentional and constant. so it's still his fault. It's still his fault, obviously. It's not her mistake, really.

It's just that he's so awful. You know, I found really, I was thinking about this yesterday, and it is remarkable where these people go. We've talked about this at the beginning of the administration, Pat. If the Democrats had, instead of launching a massive march and rally on literally the day after Donald Trump's inauguration, saying how horrible. of a president in person he was when he hadn't even done anything. If they had approached this at going to him and saying like, look, we, we want a bunch of stuff.

We think you're, you know, we think you're the type of guy that can get a deal done and we're going to work with you and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Trump would have gone along with, I think, a lot of these things because he, you know, I don't think he, I think he is much more in this, in the fight of this. And when they attack him, he's going to attack back. I mean, we saw it with criminal justice reform. He's willing to work with the other side. He is. I mean, that's been his whole life. You know, he, so I don't think that's a crazy, a crazy thing.

But the other thing, the lesson that, and I'm, by the way, I'm glad they didn't do that because God only knows what policies would have been passed. But the, the, they hate him too much to do it. Right. Even if it was to their benefit, they just hate him too much to do it. Yeah. And I think that's true. And it's fascinating to see what's going on now where they are now calling. every person who supports Donald Trump a racist.

Go back to the 2016 election. Have they learned the lesson of the basket of deplorables from Hillary Clinton? You know, Hillary came out and you go back and that became sort of a thing, right? Like the deplorable, oh, we're the deplorables. Well, the deplorables. Go back and look at Hillary Clinton's statement. You can argue with certain parts of it. But generally speaking, it's true.

And it's true about every can. candidate, right? Every single candidate has supporters who are awful. And Donald Trump is no exception of that. Neither is Hillary Clinton, by the way. But every candidate has, you know, she said it as a basket of deplorables. There's some people who are supporters of a candidate who are doing it for really bad reasons, whether it's racism, whether it's sexism, whether it's socialism, whether it's extremism, whatever the thing is. Everybody has that level. of support in some way. And her point was not,

she was not, that point was not about talking about how bad Donald Trump supporters are. If you go back and read the actual text of it, what she's saying is, yes, there are some supporters, she's talking to a Democratic audience and saying, yeah, you know,

I know you guys are always talking about the really bad people, the deplorables, but they also have a lot of people who can be won over to the cause. They're not, they don't like this stuff. They don't like Donald Trump's evil rhetoric, blah, blah, blah, right? Like,

I'm not saying I agree with her point, But generally speaking, what she's saying is there's a separation. There's good Trump supporters and bad Trump supporters. And we have to acknowledge there are good Trump supporters. So Hillary Clinton is making the exact opposite point in 2016 that the Democrats are making now. The Democrats are saying all of the Trump supporters are bad. They've actually gone the other way. They haven't learned the lesson that calling half of his supporters deplorables was a bad idea.

Their lesson is we should have called them all deplorables. Yeah. They've actually gone the other way completely. And this is something that I think arguably lost them the election. And hopefully we'll do so again. And I mean, this is how bad they are at this. Right? Like they have not learned a single lesson from the last two years.

And, you know, obviously because they're supporting socialism, this is a good thing for, I think, the Constitution and the American people in general. But it's just fascinating to watch a party do this to itself. Like Donald Trump has got a 42, 43% approval. writing. This should not be an unwinnable election, but they're trying to make it into one. It really is. They're like, well, what if we raise the mountain even higher for us to climb? And we should be thankful for it. Yeah, that at least, right? Yeah, sure. More in 60 seconds. Hi, it's Glenn. If you're a subscriber to the podcast, can you do a favor and rate us on iTunes?

If you're not a subscriber, become one today and listen on your own time. You can subscribe on iTunes. Thanks. Glenn Beck Program. Point of personal privilege. He hers? Yes, go ahead. Thank you. Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program. Now, apparently you've got a story that's even

more pathetic than the people we saw at the socialist convention? I think it's at least on that level. Really? And it's really telling. Because, you know, look, it's a socialist convention. I don't, maybe you would expect it to be a little nuts like that. Honestly, I was surprised. I didn't expect. I didn't expect.

I mean, I just expected socialism. I didn't expect the weenism that came out of it. Right, because there is that level of, I need a cry space, a crying cave, I need a safe space. And I feel like we hear those stories from time to time. And usually that's college stuff. It's usually college stuff. And it's usually, I don't know. For some reason, I don't, I don't want to say I dismiss it because it is something real that's happening.

And it's so bizarre and extreme to me. Yeah. On the other hand, though, it's so laughable. And I think it's one of those things that even when you, like, if you tell a story like that, I have plenty of friends who vote Democrat. If I tell that story to them, they're going to laugh at it too. Yes. And they're going to be embarrassed by them. They're going to be embarrassed by them. Yeah. That is very, it's so crazy. Like, you know, it's not just a Democratic Democratic voter. It's not just a Democratic Socialist voter. It's a Socialist Party. Like, you're in the Democratic Socialist Party. So I guess it's Alexander I Kazzo, Cort. level craziness. She's a card-carrying member, right? But it's not your average Democratic voter, right? Like, that is not who people, they don't operate like that. I don't think so. I don't think so. Yeah, I hope we're not quite there yet.

They're super liberal. They want higher taxes. They're wrong on all of these issues. But they're not saying, hey, wait, guys, don't make noise. You're, you know, what was it? You're hurting my focus. Yes. And don't use non-gender pronouns. Really sensitive to sound and smell and sight and taste. stop all of my senses right now. And apparently everything else. Yes.

So there's a story by a, she told the story on Twitter and it's, I think one of the more fascinating insights into what our future looks like in America. And what if you happen to be a boss who is employing people from this generation and trying to figure out how the hell to do it? Tell me this story does not relate to you. We'll get into it. it in 60 seconds. This is the Glenn Beck program.

Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program. All right. All right. You're ready for this? I'm ready for it. Yeah. Here's the story. Here's hopefully a short synopsis of something that happened this week that I still don't understand. In office space near a client, a young woman was meeting with her boss. She was, by my estimation, in her late 20s. The boss, also a woman, was giving her feedback and reviewing edits she had made on something that this young woman wrote.

They had been speaking in low tones, but their volume got louder toward the end of the conversation because the young woman was getting agitated about a particular edit. So she wrote some article. She's getting edits from her boss. She doesn't like this one edit.

This happens all the time in this world. The particular edit was correcting the spelling of hamster to hamster. Now, I'm going to give you to read the spelling. She spelled it, the employee,

spelled it H-A-M-P, S-T-E-R. Now that is not what the word is, obviously. It's hamster, H-A-M-S-T-E-R. Yes. Okay. So she spelled it hamster, like a hamper where you throw your clothes? Yeah.

Right. But hamster, meaning the animal, there's no P in there. Okay? Pretty basic. Right. So she spelled it wrong and somebody corrected her. Right. And she's hacked off about it.

She had used the phrase like spinning in a hamster wheel in the draft. And it was like, they were talking about it being like an op-ed or a speech or something. So spinning in a hamster wheel, H-A-M-P-S-T-E-R. So the boss is saying, hey, we got to change that to H-A-M-S-T-E-R. The young woman kept saying,

I don't know why you corrected this because I spell it with a P in it. And the boss said calmly, but that's not how the word is spelled. There is no P in a hamster. And the young woman replied, but you don't know that. I learned to spell it.

it with a P, and that's how I spell it. The boss, remaining very calm and professional, let's go to dictionary.com and look it up together. Now again, as the writer points out, this is a

woman in her late 20s, not a fifth grader. The young woman insists she doesn't need to look it up because it's fine to spell it with a P because that's how she wanted to spell it. Okay. The boss says, let's look over the rest of this piece so I can explain the rest of my edits.

They do. And I can see the young woman is fighting back tears. The boss is calm, cool, and handles this with professionalism and empathy. The boss says, I know edits can be difficult to go over sometimes, especially when you're working on new kinds of things as you grow in your career. But it's a necessary process and makes us all better at what we do. Can't handle it better than that, right? You can't handle this craziness better than that.

Yeah. The boss gets up from the table and goes to her office, and the young woman can barely hold it together. She moves to another table. Is there a crying room in this workspace? That's the problem. I hope there is. Apparently there was not.

Oh, no. Because she goes to another table in the common workspace area, drops all her stuff loudly on the tabletop and starts texting. A minute later, her phone rings. It was her mom. so she called her mom. She had texted her mom to call her because it was urgent and I'm sure her mother might have thought,

you know, I don't know, she's in the ER or something. She then, in the common workspace, puts her mom on speakerphone. Okay. She bursts into tears and wants her mom to call her boss. Now, I'm guessing if I don't know, I'm guessing mom will do that because this is obviously how she's been brought up. How else could she be this way, right? Okay.

Yeah. She bursts into tears, wants her mom to call her boss and tell her not to be mean about telling her how to spell words like hamster. Oh my gosh. The mother tells her that her boss is an idiot. This is again on speakerphone. And she doesn't have to listen to her. Wow. And she should go to the boss's boss to file a complaint about not allowing creativity in her writing.

Why don't you just spell every word the way you want then? Why not? How would anyone communicate with each other if you could just spell words however you want? The young woman kept saying, quote, unbelievable. I thought what I wrote was perfect, and she just made all these changes, and then had the nerve to tell me I was spelling words wrong

when I know they are right, because that is how I have always spelled them. Now, that is not the way. way you figure out whether something is right or not. This is that world right where like every fact is morally relative, right? Like there's some relative thing. Well, I think it's right. So therefore it's right.

I have my truth. Right. It's that sort of rationale. Yep. She says she then went on still on speakerphone to tell her mom that I'm very great and often. By the way, there's no embarrassment factor here.

No, I know. Everybody's hearing this? You're in a common workspace on speakerphone. I always have those thoughts when you're like in an airport and someone's like in a fight on their speakerphone, like sitting on a bench around. Like what person thinks that's the right thing to do? It's incredible. Like you go to the corner if you have to have this conversation right now and you do it quietly and calmly. You don't put it on speakerphone and yell swears at the person.

But yet that happens like every other time I'm at an airport. The woman then, the employee, then went on still on speakerphone to tell her mom, I'm very great. and office inappropriate detail about how hungover she was and what she did with her friend and when some guys the night before. So she's saying how wonderful she is but then also talking about how she's hung over at work

on speakerphone in public and then her mom laughed and laughed. The colleagues in and around the workplace kept looking at one another. Some even put earbuds and headphones on. It appeared as though this was a regular thing with her. She ended the conversation asking her mom how she should bring this up with a boss's boss. I mean, this is a quote.

I mean, I always spell hamster with a pee. She has no right to criticize me. She walked into the office kitchen for the rest of the call so I don't know what happened next. I always get five when I add up two plus two. It got no right to correct me on that. Isn't that incredible? Where does that end? There's no place that ends.

Right. Except with total chaos in society. And we've talked about, how many times have we talked about the idea that you have to be able to have a foundation and truth? We all have to be able to agree on some common principles for a country to operate. Yes. And like the spelling of words should be really easy one of them. That's a no-brainer right there. Yeah.

And like Glenn says all the time, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, those should be a no-brainer. We should all agree on that. Okay. That's our foundation. It's literally the foundation of this country. And then facts such as, I don't know, spelling and math. should kind of be in concrete. They really should.

You can't just spell it that way because you always have been wrong spelling it that way and you're going to keep doing it. It is really incredible. And of course, you're going to keep making it. So what came of this? Do we know the outcome? She kind of goes into a, you know, look, I don't know.

Maybe she has some learning disability and maybe, like, you know, she's trying to find some way. She's basically covering every basis in case she's being mean and doesn't realize she's being mean. because in our society today, that's another thing that's happening. Because a lot of times it happens, like if you say,

oh man, that guy's got a crappy haircut, he fell on his head when he was four years old, you bastard. It's like, all right, I didn't know that. Okay. And, you know,

okay, I'm sorry. I like, all right, you know, I guess it's not his fault, right? Like, but this is this,

you know, of course there is the outlying possibility that there's something. But again, like, she's writing op-eds and, you know, you know,

it doesn't seem like a normal, uh, arrangement, she's allowing for the complete outlier of the possibility that she's missing something significant here. She goes on to say, this is the writer of the story, I think I was more perplexed by the insistence of wanting to spell something the way that she wanted to, ignoring the fact that there are rules and dictionaries and seeming offended that anyone would suggest the use of an outside resource as reference. She goes on and say, you know, obviously if there's something

I don't know about, you know, she needs help or whatever, I hope she gets it. But it seemed like more like someone who had never been told no or that she is anything other than 100% perfect and amazing and can do nothing wrong and it's going to be exhausting for her and anyone in her orbit. I asked a colleague about it and he relayed a story about the time he gave an early

20 something feedback on a writing assignment. The young man quit the next day and had his parents call to tell him what a terrible boss he was for correcting work that didn't need correcting. I worry about how kids are being raised sometimes. I really do. That's how

unless she wraps it up. How are they going to get along in the workplace? This is the problem. You know, parents like that have allowed that behavior the whole time. They haven't challenged them. They haven't corrected them. And everything they've done is right. So where do you go with that in the workplace?

Yeah. And you see this like there are funny examples of it. I mean, this is an extreme example. I assume. I mean, I, hopefully. I will say we work around people in their 20s and they don't seem that way. Right. So it's certainly not why.

widespread. However, I mean, it may be widespread, but at least people who come work at the blaze aren't like that. I guess that's the only statement I can actually make on that particular topic. People who are, you know, might be leaning conservative, maybe have a different profile. But it is a situation where, you know, it's the American Idol effect, right? They start that first episode and all these people come in that can't sing at all. And they've been told their whole life, how good they are. Yeah. And they have no idea that they can't function in this world that they think they can function in. Yeah.

They think they're great and Simon Cowell is just mean. Simon Cowell is just telling you the truth. And at some point, you have to believe that people in this generation that have been raised this way bump their heads really hard into a wall called reality. The scary part is not that, though, to me. The scary part is at some point, that generation is now the boss. We're only, what, 20 years away from that. And when that generation is the boss and those people who think that way,

if they're not, they don't have a change of thinking by then, they're running the country. What the hell happens then? It's over. It's over at that point. More in 60 seconds. With Pat and Stu this week for Glenn, AAA 727 BECK.

You know, we never did play the, uh, Chris Cuomo babbling at the, uh, at the, at the, at the, it was a town hall for gun control. last night. And Chris has all the answers. It's pretty amazing. Some of the things he had to say. I love it when he gets into that serious voice and it's like, okay, I'm going to tell you things that nobody's ever told you before. And then it's all the same. Blah, blah, blah. I'm being a tough guy by taking the position every other member of the media is currently taking. Am I not brave? Because yes, everybody's on my side.

Guys, we just have to stand up to this NRA. I mean, sure they can't even like keep their own operation going at the moment. Which is amazing. Yeah. And it's sad and scary because they are very important. But I mean, they're having real troubles internally just keeping the doors open with, you know, sort of infighting going on right now. And again. But we're still supposed to be.

They're still the boogeyman. Oh yeah. They're the boogeyman. Not even though they were outspent in the last election by a large amount by anti-gun organizations. Like every town USA. Everytown USA and many others, you know, that are supported by people like Michael Bloomberg who just fun by the way, a billionaire. Yeah. A billionaire.

So it's a fascinating thing. Like I, I, I, this comes up a lot where people are like, well, look, they just, they're folding to the NRA. They're just folding to the NRA. Well, first of all, the NRA has no power in and of itself. The power comes from the members. And they represent millions and millions of individual people who care about the Second Amendment. So you're not folding to the NRA. If anything, you're folding to the people who are in the NRA, the actual members.

Which is American citizens. American citizens and voters, right? Yes. But they're not, like the idea that a few million dollars that the NRA spends, which used to, by the way, go to a lot of Democrats. I mean, there was a time where they had, I think it was 60 or 70 Democrats they gave an A rating to. Now there's like two. Because are there two?

I'm surprised there's two. If there's even two. I mean, I just read the stat. I want to say there was a couple of them, but I can't tell you their names off the top of my head. But the bottom line is like this is a situation where the Democrats, have fled the gun rights position. They've abandoned it, just like they've abandoned the pro-life position.

There used to be pro... I mean, like one of the most famous Supreme Court cases in history has the name Casey in it. And now you have... Because he's a very famous last name in Pennsylvania and Democrat politics. Now, I mean, you can't even find anybody. They're kicking people out for being pro-life.

Oh, yeah, you can't. No. I mean, so it is one of those things that's very strange because politically, forget the Second Amendment. forget the fact that you should have, you know, the rights that you should have that come from God to protect yourself. Forget all those things for just a second. If you're just looking at politics, why wouldn't you ban assault weapons? Who cares? Like you've got, most people don't have

a quote unquote assault weapon and I know that's not really a term, but like I'm using it for the ease of conversation here. Yeah. Why wouldn't you? There's five million of them out there, they say. You know, a lot of them, a lot of people own multiple assault weapons. It would be the easiest thing in the world to say, yeah, background checks, sure, and yeah, assault weapons, sure. And what else do you want? Oh, yeah, sure. Like, it looks like I did something and it'll help, you know, at the polls. Mm-hmm.

These are things that are generally that poll pretty well. You know, not as much the assault weapon ban, but things like, you know, the background checks and stuff. Or even though they're kind of misleading, they poll very well. You could be the person out there saying, you know what, I did something. I got that legislation passed. You could brag about how difficult it was. Like Kirsten Gillibrand, when she said, when people told me that giving health care to 9-11 victims was impossible,

I continued to fight for it. Oh, wow, impossible. Yeah, you remember when everybody was saying that to her? Oh, divisive issue, that one is. Whoa, no one wants to give health care to 9-11 victims. That was just way out there. And how did we get that across the finish line with a Kirsten Jillibrand? you could do all that self-aggrandizing nonsense

and say that you did something. The politics of it are easy. The point is that we actually have rights on a constitution and that's why you fight for them. You fight for them because it's the morally right thing to do. Not to mention, the process makes it impossible for you to do the things you're trying to accomplish. There's a constitution you can't violate it.

Shall not infringe is a big, it's a really restrictive wording. Seems like it. They didn't leave it open for interpretation. It was certainly in that part. And yet here's all the, here's the compelling argument from Chris Cuomo last night. I want you to stop saying that this is going to be about the president.

He's not going to solve this problem. You can argue the reasons why in different ways, but it doesn't matter. He says he's open to making changes, but he is yet to act in a real way. And this really shouldn't be all about him. All major movements in this country start with you. not them, not the politicians. True. Sure. When they run, they all have plans and ideas and promises, thoughts and prayers, sympathy for those who suffer. They just rarely act on it because it really is for you to lead with your voices and your votes.

Thank you. And I believe there's reason for help. Okay. For one, we can't continue to be this stupid. It just defies common sense. We have a clear consensus among Americans of wanting better and more protection. This is amazing. This is just advocacy.

All right. This is, he's running an anti-gun charity right here on television. This country rejects hate and the idea of white nationalists praying on a certain part of them. Because there's a lot of countries that openly embrace hate. There's a lot of places where hate is the thing they love the most is hate. I mean, there are.

There actually are. I mean, if you go through the Middle East, you can find a lot of people who hate Jews. In polling, it's. 70 and 80 and 90%. So there are those societies. It's the ones you're constantly defending, by the way. That's for sure. Those are the ones that when we are critical of

the culture in those countries, you say we're hateful. All right. He had more. See if we can get through to this. Part of us is unacceptable. And I believe your revulsion will force lawmakers to treat people like them as the terrorists. They are. Right. People point to the 94

assault weapons ban as a model. But is it really? No. Barely found political consensus. Didn't do anything. 216 and 214. To be honest, it really was easily run around by manufacturers. Oh, is that what happened?

I would argue we've never really taken this on. And yet now they got the ban for a decade and they're saying it doesn't count. What good argument did you hear? It's every socialist argument. We had a socialist government, but it didn't count. That data really shouldn't be shared

with relevant agencies. These fears of some mystery database, well, they'll know what you have. And then when you have to go against the government someday, you'll be unprepared. ill-equipped. It's not even it's not even journalism.

It's not even moderation. He's not moderating this thing. All right. We got enough of him because it's pathetic. This is just a guy saying like, we are dumb if we don't take the government action that I want. Right? Yes.

Because conservatives have a million different things that we think would help the situation. You just don't like any of them. Exactly. You don't like having extra security. You don't like having people getting rid of gun-free zones. You don't like those. answers. So you say we're being dumb because we're not adopting your answers. Well, that's just advocacy. We can have a debate about which one of those issues is better than the other, and

that's what we've done. Sure, we can all say white nationalism sucks, and we should fight against that. But of course, you're going to tell us it's a much bigger problem than there's any right to believe that it is. You know, I mean, we have individual actors that have terrible ideologies, but, I mean, you can't. These arguments, they're not even attempting to be fair. Oh, absolutely not. Not even attempting. AAA 727BECK. More in 60 seconds. This is the Glenn Beck program.

So I came in here on Monday after these shootings and was talking about the motivation behind them because everyone was saying it was white supremacy. It's like the time to actually read, you know, the actual document from this murderer. And he does describe white supremacy. And he does use the word invasion, which is the entire link, basically, to Donald Trump. We can blame Donald Trump because he used the word invasion and Donald Trump's used the word invasion. That's their big link. So I came in here and I said, well, the media, they're not telling you and they're not even linking to the document for you to find out yourself is there's an entire section. It's basically equal parts in the document of white supremacy, anti-immigration sentiment on one hand.

And on the other hand, anti-corporate and environmentalist rhetoric. and here we are now, four days later, and I have still yet to see one example of the mainstream media even mentioning that it appears in the document. I'm not saying they have to say it was the overwhelming motivation, or even that it was on equal footing. You could even give me an argument if you want and say, well, you know what, I don't think he meant that one.

I don't think he meant the environmentalist stuff. We only think he meant this stuff. You can say all of that, but the idea that they would continually blame Donald Trump without even mentioning it is remarkable. I would love, if you happen to see any mainstream media source that has mentioned this once, send it to me, tweet it to me at World of Stew. Because it's very possible I missed one or two, but the overall narrative here has been very clear. it has been Donald Trump, use the word invasion, and that means that he's responsible. But take a step back for a second,

because I don't think it's even this, it's much worse than the way I'm describing it. If you want to say Donald Trump is responsible for this shooting, which they are just saying as if it's fact, you have to complete multiple magic tricks to get to that, right? You have to say that invasion, which is a colorful way of, run-of-the-mill

conservative border analysis, right? Like, the point is that we're not doing anything and millions of people keep coming into the country when we're saying, please don't come into the country. So, like, is that an invasion? You know, it's not the word that I would use. But, I mean, it is not, it's a bunch, it's millions of people breaking the law.

It's something bad if you care about the law. Okay. If you care about rule of law, it's certainly something undesirable. and obviously for decades, the conservative analysis of the border, and about 50, any time before 10 or 15 years ago, the Democratic version and analysis of the border was the same, which was we can't just have people flooding over the border

and screwing with our economy and committing crimes and doing all these bad things. It was not a controversial issue. But to get to Donald Trump inspired this person, you have to say, okay, invasion, invasion, yes. But also that invasion is a real code word. And that code word is a code word for white supremacy and white nationalism when there's no evidence that Donald Trump supports white supremacy or white nationalism. There's no evidence of it whatsoever.

You can say he's racially insensitive at times. You can say he says things that are bad. You can say that he's not a uniting force in our country, blah, blah, blah. But there's no rational argument to say that he supports white nationalism. because just at a very simple level, he hasn't overtly done it. Right? Like, you could say he didn't quickly enough

denounce the people in Charlottesville, or he said there's good people on both sides. But he's never overtly said, I believe this is a white country, and we should only have white people in it, right? There's no evidence of that whatsoever. None. Right?

Mm-hmm. However, in the environmentalist part of this, there is evidence that all of these candidates have said specifically the things he mentions in the, in the, in the, uh, the manifesto. They are all running a campaign currently based on the things he cites in the document as his motivation for the killings.

They all are saying we are a consumer society. They all are saying corporations are hurting our environment. They are all saying that we are at an apocalyptic tipping point with the environment. They are all saying so much plastic waste is in our oceans and ruining our environment. They are all saying we're overdoing it with our resources and over harvesting those resources. They are actually overtly saying the exact same things with no qualifiers. It's not like with white nationalism where you have to say, well, invasion. What he means is he doesn't want any Hispanics in the country.

What he means is that he must mean white nationalism. You don't need any leaps. He's basically quoting the debates that you're seeing on stage. And so if you are going to say with certainty that Donald Trump is responsible, You must say with even more certainty that the Democratic candidates are responsible for this attack. Now, alternatively, you could have a morally defensible position and say that the killer is the one responsible for his killings. That you could also go that direction. But you can't just say that the one half of the manifesto, with a bunch of magic tricks and gymnastics to try to

mentally bend your way into finding that Donald Trump is responsible, you can't say that just that half is part of it when the Democrats are saying everything word for word from the other half of the document and say they have no responsibility and not even that, not even mentioned that it occurred in the document. This is the biggest I have never in my life seen anything like this. The media malpractice, which is completely intentional. I have never seen a worse example of it.

In my entire life, I've been doing this for 20 years, and I've never seen anything like it. They are absolutely denying that half of this document exists. It's blowing my mind that they're at least not mentioning it and dismissing it. But they are not. And they are blaming Donald Trump with certainty when there's, if you want to go down that road, there is more evidence. Again, more.

evidence that the Democrats are responsible for the El Paso shootings. More evidence. It's just that they're just not mentioning it. And you know what? And the mainstream media lets him get away with it. It's incredible. Yeah. Hey, it's Glenn.

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