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Episode Date: September 22, 2022Glenn talks to a spokesperson for the campaign of Ellen McMuffin. The guys debunk Stacey Abrams' claim that an unborn baby's heartbeat is a sound manufactured by the patriarchy at six weeks. Rep. And...y Barr joins to explain why we need oversight over big banks to stop their ESG-driven agendas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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All right, you sick, Twisted Freak.
Welcome to the Thursday podcast.
Man, I got about half of what we had planned on today, but it was all good eating.
Letitia James, the Attorney General for New York, we kind of took that one apart and told you what was really going on.
Also, why Stacey Abrams and what she said about a heartbeat is so incredibly dangerous.
Incredible.
Hilarious, but dangerous.
Yes.
We have Andy Barr to talk to.
to us about ESG scores, which also very, very dangerous.
And the left's war on air conditioning.
Just an interesting position to take.
Yeah, no, I mean, Americans love that.
They hate air conditioning.
Oh, yeah.
Arizona.
Yeah.
Texas.
Texas.
The entire South.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We hate air conditioning.
Just like the northerners, hate heat.
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Glenn Beck Program, along with my executive producer, the Honorable Steve Bergier,
who for some reason changed his name early on to Stu. Welcome.
Thank you, Glenn. I appreciate that.
terrible telling of that story.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
We also have in studio somebody that, you know, you've probably never seen before.
Ezra is with us.
She is our social media manager.
Yeah, yeah.
No, seriously, what's your real?
Social media coordinator.
Coordinator, okay.
So she coordinates our social media, which apparently she told me today, quote,
this has never been said before.
You're big on TikTok.
Mm-hmm.
Meaning like you look fat on TikTok?
Yeah, I look fat everywhere.
Right.
You know, that's what I thought.
Not just TikTok.
Instagram, all of them.
Yeah, yeah.
So you're streaming today on Instagram and TikTok?
Correct.
The behind the scenes, which is...
It's riveting.
It's riveting.
It's crazy.
And it will fill that void left by Colonel Sanders and Captain Kangaroo.
Really?
So, yeah.
Will it?
You'll eat
Will it though?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it does.
I'm pretty sure.
Carol Sanders produced a lot of good for the country.
A lot of chicken.
Ezra, you told me a minute ago that there's just a lot of mean-spirited things that are being said in the live comments.
Yes.
Who would have known?
They're not very nice.
Not very nice.
On the socials.
Is it mainly fat or?
What is it?
Or is it more Nazi?
Yeah.
What are they accusing him of today?
Yeah.
You are, you're a Nazi.
I'm a fat Nazi.
You're a fat Nazi.
And how dare you, you know, support Republicans.
Okay, all right.
Well, that's good.
Now, is that on TikTok or is that on Instagram?
That was on Instagram.
That was on Instagram.
TikTok must love me.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, they just love me.
Okay, you can follow it at the Instagram page for, or TikTok page.
I don't, I have no idea.
I have no idea.
Just dial pound 1-50.
And I think that'll, I'm not.
Anyway, all right.
Let me...
Just dial down the middle.
Yeah.
You know, just do that.
You'll get there.
Let's keep trying.
These new complex things, I mean, I thought it was exciting when we had a phone in the car.
California has a moral obligation now, according to Governor Newsom, who is going to clean up in the 2024 election.
I mean, right?
I mean, he is one with the American people.
He has said that they have a moral obligation to ban diesel powered trucks to rectify,
which I think is a great word because it makes me think of rectal,
which makes me think of an ass, which makes me think of Gavin Newsom.
Anyway, ban diesel trucks to rectify what?
Global warming.
What do you think?
I would think global warming.
Yeah, right. No. Decades of racist practices.
Okay?
Okay.
So they are going to ban medium and heavy-duty trucks,
and they all have to be fully electric by 2035.
Now, here's the good news.
Those 17 states that just signed on with all of California's emission standards and everything else,
that you're going to have to do it too.
You didn't know about that in your state?
Yeah.
You're now a slave to California.
Who did that?
Your governor and your legislators.
So buy-bye electric cars in Virginia.
I mean, gasoline cars in Virginia.
Buy-bye diesel trucks in Virginia and other states.
I mean, Minnesota, just stay in your house.
I mean, really.
You get what, like a week maybe where it's nice?
Stay in your house.
Well, that's why they built bridges, enclosed bridges all over Minneapolis.
So you never have to walk outside.
That should tell you something about it.
That's true.
Yeah.
I never, the first time I went there was like, they just turned this entire city into a mall.
They did.
He's just walking from hotel to hotel.
Now, is it true that only white people can buy diesel?
Is that accurate?
Yes.
Well, most parts of Texas, but I don't know about California.
No, here's the deal, Stu.
Decades, I'm quoting, decades of racist and classist practices,
including redlining and sitting decisions
have concentrated heavy-duty vehicle and freight activities
in communities of color.
Freight activities?
It's fascinating.
And it's not just color.
It's low-income communities.
Now, I don't know why they didn't build our airports
and our bus stations and our freight yards right in the middle of really nice suburbs.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Wait a minute.
It could be because if they did that, everybody who lived in those really nice suburbs would move away
and then they would have to cut the price of the housing and so those would become low-income neighborhoods.
I mean, how racist are you?
You don't want to live next to the freeway?
My gosh.
What's next?
Oh, I can't sleep at night because of the roar of the jet engines.
My gosh, you rich people make me sick.
Oh, I can't live by the bus station.
No, no.
Wow.
Racists.
This guy's going to be good for the country.
You know who else would be good?
If Utah would just elect Ellen McMuffin running against Mike Lee,
Ellen McMuffin is really, really good.
He was a CIA agent.
I don't know if you know.
And I think what the country needs right now to repair trust is a CIA agent in the Senate, you know.
He's running a lot of ads, running a lot of ads now.
trying to monetize, you know, his campaign, get somebody to, somebody besides George Soros and others like him, to, you know, kick in on the Ellen McMuffin train and see if they can get him elected.
So he's, he is doing some really good ads reminding everybody, hey, I was a spook.
And I think that's really good. I think that's right in line with what Americans want right now is another spook running around.
we wait a minute hang on just a second right now
a spokesperson for the Ellen McMuffin campaign
is joining us now
I'm I'm very good how are you
first of all gentlemen fantastic and I just wanted to thank you
for your incredible consistent support for
for Evan and his campaign against extremist Mike Lee
I know you've been you just of course said
that there would be nothing better than to have a
CIA spook in the Senate.
Oh, yeah.
And I just wanted to thank you for your support.
Sure.
Sure.
Sure.
So do you, I mean, have you thought this through that maybe, you know, at a time when, are you okay?
Are you really fat?
I'm in fat man, so I can ask that question.
No, I'm in the excellent physical condition.
Okay.
All right.
Anyway, I was just wondering, have you thought this through?
I mean, the NSA, the CIA, all that.
I mean, they're spying on Americans.
Oh, yeah.
It's really corrupt right now.
I know you're right.
It's great.
You know, we have been trying to highlight that part of Evan McBowland's campaign that he was in the CIA
because, of course, it's something that we really need right now.
We need more spying on American citizens.
We, of course, have a platform that's very well defined.
And, you know, as a person who was in the CIA,
imagine all the spying he could do if he was rid of the Senate.
It would be much, he would spy three, four, five times as much.
And that's what I think American people won.
And that's why I think the voters of Utah won.
And I think the voters of Utah should understand what's at stake here.
This is very important election, most poor election ever in history and stuff.
And it's important for the people of Utah to know that we are watching.
We're watching what they do.
We're watching how they vote.
We're going to make sure that they understand what's at stake here.
The globe is warming.
What do you, hang on just a second.
What do you mean that you're watching them and you're going to?
Well, I'm just saying that people should watch what they do.
That's all.
What do you mean?
They should watch what they do.
I mean that.
Every action has a consequence.
I think you learn that when you're a child, right?
And if, you know, if you were to not vote for Evan McMullen, you know, we would, we would know about that.
You would know about it.
And there are consequences to our actions.
See, this is the kind of thing that I would think that people would kind of go, wait a minute, I don't think I don't think I don't think I want to.
a CIA guy, you know, in the Senate?
Well, he won't know if you didn't vote for him.
That's all we're saying.
Is he like Santa Claus or does he have connections?
Again, when you, when Santa Claus knows if you've been good or bad, he knows when you're
sleeping.
He knows when you're awake.
And he also has half the information about you than Evan, no, no, it does.
So just think about it.
Look, if you're a Utah voter, you want to vote for Mike Lee, you can do that.
But would that make you any...
People could also vote for against Saddam Hussein.
Right.
You know, who knows?
See, maybe this goes again.
Ellen McMuffin has been saying that Mike Lee is, in so many words, an extremist.
He is an extremist, Glenn.
He is an extremist.
Yeah, we've been looking into his activity.
And wow, this guy's extreme.
Want to go on some examples of that?
Yeah, I would.
You ever hear of a potato?
What?
You ever hear of a potato?
Of a potato.
Yes, I have it.
You know what Mike Lee does with him?
No.
He cuts them up into little sticks and he fries them in boiling oil.
And then he applies a rock of some sort in small white crystals and then dips them in tomatoes and vinegar.
Okay.
So about chocolate.
How does Mike Lee eat it?
He does it.
He heats it and then drinks it.
He drinks hot chocolate.
it, Glenn.
It's extreme.
And by the way, before I go,
I just wanted to thank you
for your constant
and continual support
of Evan McMuffman.
Your endorsement
here in Utah's meant
so much.
Yeah, I haven't endorsed him.
And I just wanted to say,
well, you haven't endorsed
them, that's true,
but you have helped
our campaign quite a bit
because you keep calling him
Ellen McMuffin.
And we've done a lot of research
on Evan McMullen,
and we realized really nobody likes him.
That's one of the central things we've learned in our research.
Really?
But the best testing part of our entire campaign is that his name sounds like McMuffin.
That's the only thing we can find that's positive.
People like McMuffins.
And they like Ellen.
Right.
So you're calling them Ellen McMuffin.
You are helping our campaign much more than even George Soros.
Thank you very.
Thank you very much.
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
So Stacey Abrams says there's no such thing as a fetal heartbeat at six weeks.
That's weird because I know there's a fetal heartbeat on the sixth week, the seventh week, the eighth, ninth, tenth, 12, all the way, still heartbeat.
Even now, I still have a heartbeat.
It's weird.
It's not fetal, but I still have a heartbeat.
So no such thing as a fetal heartbeat in six weeks.
Not true, says she.
Now, she says that this is a manufactured sound.
If you haven't heard a fetal heartbeat, here is a fetal heartbeat from...
Okay, what is that sound?
What is that sound?
Feetal heartbeat?
No.
No.
That is the sound you hear at a cheap motel.
Something's going on in the room up above.
Listen to it again.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Tell me I'm wrong.
That's what it is.
And we put them into this magic box.
We go and we tape from seedy motels.
We tape the goings-on in other rooms.
We put it in this magic box.
And then just because we're trying to get rid of the hand sanitizer that New York had,
that's all expired now that they bought with taxpayer money.
We take that sanitizer.
That's what it is.
They say it's a gel,
but you just wipe that all over a woman's belly.
And then you take the magic stick.
And on that magic stick,
when you position it right,
you hit a little switch and it makes the magic box play what you recorded at the motel.
That's science for you.
That's Stacey Abrams branded science.
Really?
Yeah.
It's manual, I'm quoting.
Do we have her actually saying this in audio?
Here, here she is.
There is no such thing as a heartbeat in six weeks.
It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people control of a woman's body or waste of her.
Wow.
Wow.
You know, I thought it was a big deal that she thought she was the governor, you know, when she wasn't the governor.
And then she had this amazing.
turnaround where she said she never said that.
I thought that was kind of amazing.
This is for people who follow the science.
Now, I don't know if you follow the science.
But for people who follow the science,
I'm pretty sure that's not a manufactured sound.
I'm pretty sure what that is is a heartbeat.
Now, I'm only saying that because that's what science tells us.
and the evil magic box.
I don't know if I trusted anymore.
Well, the evil magic box was designed by men.
You know, men who wanted to take, I mean, what was the quote that men have the, it was a sound design to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman's body.
Amen.
What a weird, see, like, what, what a strange view of the world?
Can I just tell you as a man?
as a man
and
you know let's say a dirtbag man
the the
worst side of me
as a man
if I'm
if I'm getting women pregnant
I have no desire to settle down
yeah
can I drive you there
how can I pay for that abortion
okay guys
would be all in
for that that is much better
than having a child
with a woman you were just sleeping with
and you don't really want to have a relationship
and then that kid comes knocking on your door
and going, Daddy!
Men would rather have,
you have, an abortion.
That's what makes sense to me.
How, I'm trying to understand.
I'm trying to understand.
You think men, if they designed the machine,
would make it sound like nothing
because they want to be able to get out
of whatever we're,
night they had last night.
I could be a cancerous growth.
I could be a cancerous growth.
I may be a tumor.
I may be a tumor.
That's what it would say.
This is, of course, why so many on the left
oppose the policy of having ultrasounds
before the abortions.
Yes. Because they know they'll hear the heartbeat.
They will see if there's
a, you know, the scan to see.
They can see the movement.
They can see the baby formed.
When people are...
And it's 80.
The mother is 80% more likely to have the baby than kill the baby if she hears the heartbeat.
They know this.
So that's why she's not discrediting men.
She's not just saying, I mean, she's absolutely wrong about men.
We did that so you would have children?
You don't think so.
So she's wrong about that.
But what is she doing?
She's discrediting the machine.
I mean, in such a neophyte way, it's almost like, well, I was at this airport.
And I just had to tell them, look at how heavy that thing is.
That's not going to be able to fly.
They're putting you into an hypnosis.
Tramps.
They're saying they're flying you someplace.
You're not actually going anywhere.
They're putting a mine trick in so you think you went to your Cleveland office.
This really is.
We never went to the moon level.
It is.
It is.
Right.
You can see it on the video.
You can see the heart beating.
You can hear it.
This is what is going on.
It's a manufactured sound.
If you want to defend abortion, go ahead and defend it.
Defend what you're actually doing.
Stop denying what you.
what is reality.
That's all you have to do.
If this is such a great defensible policy,
then just come out and defend it.
But they never can.
You notice even after the Dobbs thing,
they're not talking about abortion.
They're talking about,
well,
what if you have an ectomic pregnancy?
What if a woman has a miscarriage?
You can't get it removed.
Like, first of all,
none of this has anything to do
with the laws passed on abortion.
But secondarily,
you notice how they can't go
to the actual thing they say was so important.
I know.
They keep defending these other things
that aren't true
and are a much totally different process as we've been talking about.
But like, if they really believe this was so defensible, they might occasionally defend it.
That's why they were successful for a long time because they said,
look, you don't want somebody else making decisions for the woman and for the people involved.
Let the doctor and the woman figure this out.
we pray or we hope that it is rare, but it has to be safe and legal.
That's how they got you into the boat.
Because that's how most people feel.
Most people are not for abortion at the very end.
But if most people feel, okay, I don't know exactly when life begins.
I mean, I think I do because the egg is alive and the sperm is alive.
So it is life when they join.
But you can argue about this back and forth.
Most people feel like, hey, once it's kind of identifiably as a baby, then we should kill it.
And they would say, I hope that it doesn't happen.
But in cases of incest or rape or something like that,
Then, you know, go ahead.
But it should be rare.
But it should also be safe and legal.
That was winning.
Celebrate your abortions.
I've had 1,800 abortions.
And I loved everyone.
I think it was my, well, it was my 300.
That's one I'll always remember that was so great that I celebrated at the time.
I mean, that's where they lose everybody.
And because they've celebrated their abortion and are losing regular people, you can't put that genie back in the bottle.
What do they have to do?
They now have to take the insane step of discrediting medical machines and technology.
This is after two years, by the way, of them claiming the biggest scandal in the world with people saying,
the voting machines were hacked.
After they had previously said that voting machines were hacked in previous elections, they lost.
Do a search real quick on Twitter, social media.
Is Stacey Abrams, does she have a warning that this is miss or disinformation?
Because this is important medical information, right?
This is important medical information.
She's saying that ultrasounds are not real.
that the sound of the baby is not real.
It's really what she's doing here.
This is what she's saying.
And this is a relatively recent thing from the left where they started calling it a flicker instead of a heartbeat.
Remember that whole thing?
The New York Times just called it a flicker in a random article.
And we're like, wait, a flicker.
It's been a heartbeat.
We've known it's a heartbeat.
It's one of the most amazing moments of early pregnancy, right?
You're there.
Maybe your spouse is with you.
You hear the heartbeat for the first time.
it's an overwhelming emotional experience.
It is.
Or it's created by men to control women.
Or it's just a mechanical sound of some sort.
Now, this is, honestly, gang, think this through.
Because this is where life gets very scary.
This is where you go to authoritarian rule.
And you can kill millions of people.
Because you're truly now discrediting things that
everyone knows is true. Okay? So if you disagree with it, you can say that is an evil magic box
that has made up sounds in it to convince people. If they will buy that, you're at the Salem witch
trials. You're at the Salem witch trials. Well, if she doesn't float, she wasn't a witch,
that's what you're looking at right now.
And what's frightening is she can say this with a straight face and no one discredits her from her own side.
No one is saying today, you know, I was for Stacey Abrams, and then I heard that and that's just evil magic box stuff.
That's witchcraft.
What are you talking about?
What are you talking about?
I can't support her.
And this is a woman who is delusional and has.
dangerous thinking. You know, we can't put her into a role of any kind of authority. If she thinks
this, and she really believes this. And if not, she's just, she doesn't care about lying.
Nobody's saying that. Nobody's saying that on the left. Not a soul. You don't think that they can
convince those people that you are a terrorist because of the way you vote? Of course they can.
they're so emboldened right now.
She thinks she can get away with saying this.
And people in the audience don't laugh at her or stand up in that public setting and go, come on.
Everyone on the panel nods in vigorous agreement.
Their heads.
You don't think they can convince half the country that you should be eliminated,
liquidated, put into a camp, whatever authoritarian's love to do.
I got a news for you.
I'd be saying the same exact thing
if people on the right were doing this.
We are headed towards dangerous, dangerous times.
We better wake up and stand together
because this is a frightening.
It's hilarious.
But because people are taking it seriously,
it is a terrifying statement.
The best of the Glenn Beck program.
Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.
I want to play something from yesterday that Joe Biden said about taxes, a global tax.
Listen to this.
Cut four.
With partners in the Americas, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific,
we're working to build a new economic ecosystem where every nation, every nation gets a fair shot.
And economic growth is resilient, sustainable.
and shared.
That's why the United States is championed a global minimum tax.
And we will work to see it implement.
You know what that means?
That means trapping every business where they are.
No one can move and get a better deal someplace else.
That's what that means.
Also, the bankers all met with the house yesterday.
And the Oversight Committee for Finance and Banking Regulations,
they had one guy who I just, I can't get enough of.
They had, what's his name from, Jamie Diamond from J.P. Morgan Chase.
And he said something incredible.
He said, no, no, we don't, we don't have any policies.
that we would stop funding oil and gas.
Really?
Because ESG kind of sounds like one.
Congressman Barr is with us now.
He's the Congressman Andy Barr from Kentucky.
He was there.
Did you ask Jamie Diamond to explain ESG to you?
Hey, Glenn.
Good to be on your program.
Thank you.
Yes, we wanted to make sure that we talk to all of these leaders
and finance about their policies and whether or not they were going to cave into the woke
thinking on Wall Street and be bullied by the Biden financial regulators and politicize the allocation
of capital or whether they were going to defend free enterprise and the free flow of capital
as it is supposed to be efficiently allocated based on supply and demand.
for your listeners who don't know, ESG stands for environmental and social governance,
which is a trendy way in which the progressive left have weaponized the banking system
to discriminate against companies and causes that they don't like,
that are unfashionable, such as the fossil energy industry or the firearms manufacturing sector.
Or trans, you know, parents, you know, that are speaking out against trans issues or, you know, that you're Coca-Cola, you've got to learn to be not so white, all of that stuff.
That's the S in ESG.
Exactly. And this is a form of discriminatory lending.
Banks should be making lending decisions based on objective, risk-based metrics, not the standards of woke corporate.
cancel culture. And the Biden administration has weaponized financial regulators to steer investors
into these ESG funds. And what the American people need to know is that they may be unwittingly
financing the agenda of the far left. And the result for retail investors, Glenn, is that
they are now invested in higher fee, less diversified, and lower return.
investments. And only 21% FINRA, which is the self-regulatory organization for stockbrokers,
in concert with the University of Chicago. They did a study, a survey of retail investors in America,
and only 21% of mom-and-pop investors saving for college, saving for retirement, counting on
financial performance in their 401k or their IRA. Only 21% of Americans even know what ESG is.
So there's a real disconnect between the institutional investors, the state pension funds, the
Black Rocks, and the vanguard, the asset managers in Wall Street, and some of these big banks,
and retail investors.
But retail investors are actually the owners of the capital, and many of these progressives
on Wall Street have misallocated their capital in ways that diminish returns and advance
political agendas ahead of financial returns.
So wasn't Jamie Diamond lying when he said, no, we don't have any policies that would
discriminate or defund oil and gas? They are fully signed on to ESG programs.
He even went as far and saying it would be an absolute, what did he say, disaster or
American nightmare if we stopped oil and gas?
Well, not all of these banks or asset managers are created equal, to be fair. Some of them have more aggressive ESG policies than others. I will say that at least in the case of Mr. Diamond, that he wrote in a letter to shareholders, and I highlighted this in my questioning of him, that we need a Marshall Plan for U.S. energy dominance to help ourselves and our allies to decrease our dependence on Russia for.
example, or foreign sources of energy. And so he, at least, and his institution, J.P. Morgan Chase,
they admit that they will continue, and they committed to continuing to finance oil, natural gas.
I focused on coal. Kentucky is a coal state. 22% of America's electricity generation still
comes from coal. We're going to need coal in the future, just like we're going to need other
fossil energy sources, natural gas and oil. And he did commit, at least to me, that his
institution would continue to finance fossil energy. And we need to. We don't need to be bullied by
climate alarmists, non-investor stakeholders, or Biden financial regulators to choke off financing
or investment into American energy companies. And yet that is what the ESG movement is. They are
trying to implement their Green New Deal, their radical climate alarmism agenda through financial
regulation and through the financial system.
This is absolutely compromising American energy dominance, American energy independence.
And we've literally gone, Glenn, from a position of American energy dominance to energy desperate in just two years under these Biden policies in concert with woke Wall Street.
We're about to do the same thing to farming.
Yeah, exactly.
So my argument is we need more, not less financing.
I mean, we talk about the Biden War on Energy, you know, canceling the Keystone XL Pipeline,
canceling infrastructure projects, holding up 4,400 drilling permits, frustrating the construction
of new refineries.
All of that's true.
But ground zero in the Biden war against American Energy, and American Energy Independence,
and affordable, reliable energy is the weaponization of financial regulation.
Because let's face it, this is a capital-intensive industry.
and investors just will not allocate capital into this capital-intensive industry unless they know
that there's some certainty with the regulation.
So some of the other CEOs, I will say, are not as open to financing energy.
And so we made a big point about keeping politics out of the business of banking.
Be a bank.
Don't be a political party.
Okay, so we're talking to Congressman Andy Barr from Kentucky.
He is on the House Financial Services Committee and also a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Let me ask you, did you get to Visa and MasterCard and American Express with the new gun registration?
Yes.
So one of my colleagues, Congressman Williams from Texas, did press the bankers, the bank CEOs on this issue.
Of course, this is a new merchant code for your listeners, and for those of us who believe the Second Amendment is fundamental.
They have created, the banks didn't do this, but the credit card companies created a new merchant code for firearms.
and some banks have participated in pushing for this.
And the danger of this, of course, is that it allows for woke banks who pursue this ESG agenda
to discriminate against Americans who are exercising their lawful Second Amendment rights.
The concern is it is a way in which banks can stop the financing of Americans simply exercising their rights.
uh... the bet the bankers uh... yesterday when asked about this question from congressman
williams they said look this was not our decision we just follow the rules
but the truth it but the truth is this is uh... of deep concern
uh... because it's another way in which the financial system is weaponized to
discriminate against americans who are simply exercising their rights but it was
amalgamated bank that was pushing for the change
uh... of the rules they were the ones who brought esg
to America in the first place, strangely a union bank, and they're the ones who were pushing
for this and got it changed. So are they saying now, we're held to some international banking
standard and we can't do anything about it? I joined with several of my colleagues in writing a
letter to that bank and objecting to their pushing of this to, again, politicize capital
allocation. And politics should not be in banking. It should be about, you know, objective factors.
Is the borrower credit worthy? Is it based on sound underwriting? Does this borrower have the
ability to repay, regardless of what they're doing? And so in addition to fighting ESG, we've also
been promoting fair access to banking. You know, long ago, there was discrimination in banking and
what they call redlining where African Americans were denied access to credit for racist reasons.
This was a horrible practice.
Well, today, the discriminatory lending is against conservatives.
It's banks in concert with liberals in government who use the weaponize the banking system to
discriminate against those who are exercising their Second Amendment rights or the fossil energy industry.
or as you say, you know, parents who just want visibility into their schools.
And so we cannot allow this to happen.
We want to de-politicize finance, and this is going to be a major, major focus of Republicans
on the Financial Services Committee when we take the gables back, when we retire Nancy Pelosi
and take back the majority.
You're going to be the committee chairperson, most likely, are you not?
Well, I'm in the leadership of the committee, and Patrick McHenry is our ranking member,
now. So he will be the chairman of the full committee, and he is on board with our focus on this.
And many of my other colleagues are really focused on this. Congressman Heisinga, who will
chair the Capital Market Subcommittee, French Hill from Arkansas, Brian Stile from Wisconsin,
and we are going to shine a bright light on this and make sure that investors know that some of these leaders,
in finance are not doing right by them as investors. The job of a fiduciary, an investment advisor,
the job of the investment advisor is to maximize returns for the investor. It is not to pursue
a political agenda at the expense of the investor. And that's what we're seeing with this
political agenda infecting the financial markets. Some of them are even saying, a friend of
mine went and talked about ESG, was asked about ESG at this, you know, investment seminar thing.
And the guy said, look, I mean, it's going to cost money.
You're going to probably lose money in the investment first 10 years, but it's going to really take off.
And he's like, you're talking to a group of people that most of us have gray hair here.
We're, you know, 10 years away or five years away from retirement age.
And you're talking to us about selling to us something that you're.
say is most likely not going to be the best return for the next 10 years, and I had to ask you
about that? That's kind of a problem.
A big problem. And consider this also, Glenn, most of these ESG funds carry much higher fees.
So the reason why BlackRock and some of these other asset managers are promoting this is
because they say it takes their skill to put together these environmentally friendly
funds. And so they charge on average, 43% higher than non-ESG funds. And not only that,
they violate the basic test of investing, investing 101, which is diversification. They're heavy
on tech and they're light on energy. And if you see what happened in the markets and the
equity markets over the last eight, nine months, a huge tech sell off. And energy prices went up.
So if you were invested in the energy, you did better. Well, many investors who are unwittingly invested in
their losses were much more severe because there was this huge tech sell off and they didn't have any energy stocks in their portfolio.
Andy, I am up against the network break and I've really got to run. But can you give me yes or no question? Are you up to speed on the digital currency and what's going on with all of that with the government? I'd love to have you back next week to talk about, you know, digital currency if you can.
I'd love to talk to you about the dangers, the dangers of a central bank digital currency and why we need to
promote private sector innovation, not have the government run digital currency.
Thank you so much.
That's Congressman Andy Barr from Kentucky.
You could follow him at barbarrr.gov.
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