The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guest: Rep. Thomas Massie | 8/7/20

Episode Date: August 7, 2020

Glenn tested negative for the coronavirus and has had enough of quarantine. But is he ready to return to the studio? Joe Biden claimed the black community isn’t diverse, unlike Latinos, and Trump claimed Biden is “against God.” If Biden is elected, who will really be calling the shots? Rep. Thomas Massie discusses the next stimulus bill, what a dollar collapse looks like, rumors that the intel community is spying on Congress, and his new HBO documentary, “The Swamp.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, it's Glenn Beck. I'm back for the Friday podcast. You don't want to miss today's show. We've got a lot of great information. A lot of updates on stories that we have covered even back in February now being confirmed. It shows real progress in the elimination of the deep state. Don't miss a second of today's show. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. I think Joe Biden has said it best.

And if I may, could we just, let's get his viewpoint on Hispanics because I mean, he's a genius. What you all know, but most people don't know, unlike the African-American community with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things. Oh, unlike black people. So unlike black people who are just lockstep and they think alike on everything. Wow. And that's not the first time with him either because he just said if you're not black. Yeah.

I mean, if you don't vote for me, you're not black. You're not black. I mean, this guy, does he know, does he know like the king of all black people? He does. Does he? I mean, I'd like the information that shows him that all black people just think alike. Yeah. Can you imagine if Donald Trump, if I would have said that, I'd be off.

the air today, if I would have said that. I mean, that's incredibly racist. We should note, too, that Joe Biden not only said that, but then reiterated it. He said it twice. So, I mean, it wasn't like a mistake. He misworded it. He said the same thing two separate times. And then he tried to deny it afterwards by saying, earlier today, I made some comments

about diversity in the African-American and Latino communities that I want to clarify, in no way did I mean to suggest the African-American community is a monolith. Well, not on... What do you say? Not by identity. Not on issues. Not at all. Well, what do you mean?

No, that's the opposite of what you said. That's what you said. This guy is... I mean, it's incredible. Yeah. Absolutely incredible. And then, if I may, let me play what Cuomo has said about Donald Trump. Listen to this.

We had assumed the president was refusing to help us with testing because he was making a political calculation. But regrettably, we may have been wrong. Today, this president gave us reason to believe that his judgment may not just be bad. It may be impaired. Did you hear this? Those are the rantings of someone shouting at the sky and hoping for spare change. Wow. Wow. This is in response. I'll get it. I'll get it. I'll get it. I'll get it. It's in response to something Donald Trump said yesterday. But did you hear what he just said? First of all, the first time CNN has admitted that they were wrong.

Yeah. We weren't hard enough on the president. That's the problem. We were wrong. This guy is the devil himself. We just thought he was a spawn of Satan. We were wrong. He's Satan.

So the first time that they've admitted that they're wrong, they're calling him mentally impaired. Biden, on the other hand, no, he's totally fine. But they're saying he might be mentally impaired. Now, here's the statement from Donald Trump that made him say that. Listen.

You will have a crash in the markets because he's going to double and triple your taxes. He's going to do things that nobody ever would ever think even possible because he's following the radical left. agenda. Take away your guns. Destroy your Second Amendment. No religion, no anything. Hurt the Bible. Hurt God. He's against God. He's against guns. He's against energy. Our kind of energy. I don't think he's going to do too well in Ohio.

Okay. So not real eloquent, but that's not what we expect from Donald Trump. But he's right when he says, you know, he's against God. Well, I don't know if he's against, I don't know if he's like in his, in his bedroom going, I'll thwart you. But he is in league with the people who are taking away the rights of the religious. He is in league with people who are Marxist, who are anti-God. I don't think that Joe Biden is anti-God. I don't know I don't even know if he understands that he's still alive today or understands the concept of God at this point. But his policies and the people he surrounds himself will with, are you telling me that this movement is not, they're burning Bibles in Portland. And the left is saying that we're just making this stuff up, that these guys aren't really even there.

They're figments of our imagination. I don't know. I think denial of what's going on is kind of anti-science and anti-God. Well, they're backing a movement that is Marxist and anti-family, thus anti-God, I'd have to say. When you're trying to break up the nuclear family, that's against God's precepts. So, yeah, you can make the case. You can actually make the case. You can make the case.

But what do I know? be dead by, I could be dead by Sunday. If people don't vote for me for the Radio Hall of Fame, that's the doctor, that's what I heard the doctor say. Well, you are a doctor, so you probably did actually hear a doctor say it. Thank you,

Stu, thank you for pointing that out. Thank you. More evidence. More evidence that you should vote for me for the Radio Hall of Fame. I hate doing that. I hate doing that. Which, well, threatening, threatening death.

Having to tell you. you the truth that I might die if you don't vote for me. I hate to do it. I hate to do it. Now, at least if you die, you won't come into the studio on Monday, right? And in fact, the rest of us, with whatever COVID-19 stuff, you've got running around in your body. I don't have any COVID.

I do not have the vid. Are you going to deny science? Are you going to say that these highly accurate tests, 99.9.9% accurate. you're telling me that I can't trust the test. I'm going to say there's a chance that you have it anyway. I'm going to say that maybe you get two tests and then come out. Two negatives. Let's do another one.

Really? One more test is good? Did you not say earlier this week? You said earlier this week that your two weeks of quarantine begin when Tanya gets completely better. Now, she wasn't completely better earlier this week. So when does that two weeks start? No, this, this, this, uh, it started two weeks ago.

Uh, she got better. I, I'd say she was better by Tuesday. You know, she was on the mend by, by Monday. She was better by Tuesday. Of this week? But it is. Yeah, but it is. Yeah, it is Friday.

I know. Yeah. I know. But I'm in quarantine. Yeah. It feels like four weeks. So I've doubled the amount of time. You're not, no, life is, you know, I don't know why you're so

opposed to quarantine. You'd basically be living it by choice for multiple years. Is that funny to you, Pat? Yeah, kind of. Yeah, it kind of is. You know what, you know what it is? I'm just, I'm just done with it. I mean, I've just done with it.

You know, I quarantined. I did everything it's supposed to do. It's been five, what has it been? Five months? It feels like five months. Yeah, it is five months. Three months? No, it's been five months.

It's five months. Yeah. months. It's half a year since I have worked in the studio. Half a year. Well, if a year is 10 months, yes, it's half a year. But the year's not 10 months. Okay. I'm going to just.

I'm just trying to point out your faulty math here because it's not been 14 days either yet. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to get the vid from you. I don't want the rona from Glenn. Okay, I won't come in. If everybody's like a baby about it, I won't come in. Well, yeah, you're going to be babies about it. Yeah, no, no, I'm fine.

I'm fine with that. If nobody wants, if nobody wants me in, I'm fine with that. How long can we, because what if no one wants you in for longer than a couple weeks? I'm coming in and I'm going to lick your face in two weeks. Two weeks. What does your contract run out? What if we don't want you in until then? It's my studio.

I own the studios. How come I'm the only one not working there? It's a fair point. It's a fair point. So now you can come in and we'll stay home. All I know is I'm not going to be near you anytime soon. All right. So it'll be two weeks from next Tuesday then.

Or it'd be two weeks from last Tuesday. You're right. Next Tuesday. I think you're right the first time. It's next Tuesday. In fact, when you say next Tuesday, who can even define which Tuesday that is, right? It could be 100 Tuesdays from now. Because by the time Tuesday rolls around, it won't be the next one.

Right. You have to wait until eventually we'll catch up, I think. If we just keep asking ourselves, what's next Tuesday, and then we'll do two weeks from that day, just keep asking yourself every day. It makes perfect sense. I feel like I'm speaking. I feel like I'm talking to the teachers union. That's what's happening. You guys have joined the teachers union.

Did you hear that in New York, if they have one case of COVID in a school, they're shutting it down? That's what the teachers unions want. One case, shut it down. Oh, my gosh. I mean, that's obvious. Wow. This is, I fully expect my kids to be home at. some point this year for a week or two or who knows, right?

Like, I think you have to build that in as a parent going into this year that, you know, it's going to happen. Yeah, one case, I think most, most schools will not close down for one case. However, there will probably be many outbreaks, you know, here and there all over the country and, you know, seven, eight kids get it. They're going to, they're going to cancel that. Did you guys see the latest from the CDC now of the warning for our kids in schools? There's some new disease.

that they're saying is like polio. Yeah, saw that. And they're saying that it will, yeah, it will paralyze our kids. And we should be very aware that this fall, you know, our kids could start getting becoming paralyzed. You're like, wait, what? It has nothing to do with COVID? Where did this one come from? China.

When did this one happen? It's funny, too, because we've heard a lot about these, like, weird outbreak diseases for kids. some of them related to COVID, some of them not related to COVID. But the numbers on like overall deaths for kids are way down. Like way down. Now, they're way up for everyone who's not a kid. But they're way down for kids. And, you know, they're trying to figure out like what's going on.

What's those? Because there's been these arguments about like, oh, there's maybe more suicides or more drug deaths or whatever. And they're going through the numbers. And under 18, the numbers are way, way down. And what they think the situation is, is number one, like, you know, less people, you know, a big cause for kids to die

would be, like, car accidents, right? And, like, those aren't obviously happening nearly as often. But the other thing is, like, parents are home all the time. So it's like, parents, you know, kids aren't like, you know, getting under the cabinets and, I don't know, guzzling bleach or whatever the hell. No more tide pod challenges, I suppose. I don't know.

I don't know. Can I tell you something? I am about to, I am about to have my teenagers take the, the Tide Pod challenge. Right. I mean, kids being home after five months, which is not half a year, I just found out. You're welcome.

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How are you feeling? I'm feeling fine. I had all the symptoms except for a fever. I went and got a test, and I tested negative. I'm the only one in the family now that hasn't had COVID, but I tested negative. But I think that's because of my doctor has had me on an aggressive flight of, you know, zinc and hydroxyclose. as soon as the family got it, I started taking that as well. And he said, we're going to make sure that you don't, we don't, we don't, we've done everything we can to make sure you don't get it. And I think it worked. Well, I've got some interesting news to share that nobody knows yet. I took the COVID test, the swab that goes up in your nose. I took that last Friday. But also, but I also asked them to draw my blood and do the antibody test. And lo and behold, yesterday, the FedEx guy delivered my results. And I have the antibodies. So that means...

So you've had the vid. I've had the Rona and I have recovered from it and I've got three... The tighter of my antibodies indicates I have three times the level that's required to donate plasma. So I would happily do that to help anybody I can. But I'm convinced I had it in January. I was laid out for four days. No energy. This was the end of the Christmas recess.

A fever. sore throat. I laid on the couch for four days because this was before we do what Rona was, but I knew I had something and I didn't want to give it to my family. And I went to the doctor. I hadn't been to the doctor for a sickness in like 10 or 15 years. That's how sick I have to be to go to the doctor. And I said, look, I got to go back to Congress. Give me whatever you got. And they gave me a strong antibiotic shot and an antihistamine. and I was feeling better within a day. Hmm.

You know, the plasma thing is what stopped it in Italy. I mean, the plasma treatment seems to really work. Nobody's talking about that here. You know, I've talked to doctors here in Kentucky who used that early on and are convinced that it worked. So I'm happy to donate my plasma. And I just wanted to share that. I wanted to get out there and tell folks about this.

So, let's talk about other stuff. Yeah, can we talk about what's happening with the stimulus bill? What, what, what's going to happen? Today is the day, right? Today is the day. You know, they say they'll give us 24 hours notice if they come up with a deal. This is the problem with the swamp gland. There are four or five people writing this bill.

And in reality, it's probably staff that are doing it. And then we're all going to be called back, given 24 hours to read it. and told to take it or leave it. And then you'll be vilified if you vote against it. In fact, they'll try not to have a vote, but they know that I will force it, so they'll probably go ahead and have the vote. So what are we looking at, Thomas? And how does this end?

How does it the big end end? I mean, it ends with default. And nobody loaning us money at the federal government and us printing and hyperinflation. That's how it all ends eventually. Well, we don't have to go very far on that. Right now, 95% of all of our treasuries that go up for sale are purchased by the Fed. The biggest buyer in 2020 of the national debt or anything that we spend has been Jerome Powell. I mean, it's all being purchased by the Fed right now. You know, you said you hate to call me a Republican. I have some friends who call themselves collapsatarians or Excel. And actually, I think they're the party in power. Because this is going to accelerate the collapse of the dollar, I believe.

And I nobody's willing to say that. And all of the signs are there. They're all there. I mean, we've been downgraded, I think it was by Fitch, not in our actual AAA score, but in our outlook. as I think dangerous was the word they used. We're printing money. We're borrowing it from the Fed. There's no end of the spending.

China and Russia just hit the point where they can now de-dollarize and not have to worry about it. They've traded all of their treasuries in, except for, you know, a small number for what each of them held before. And they have purchased gold. they're already on the move, and they're trying to convince others to do a basket of currencies or whatever else, which would collapse our dollar. And I don't think anybody really understands, Thomas, what that means when that happens. I don't think the average person understands collapse of a dollar in what it means. Let me tell you how unsustainable this is.

We're on the path for a $4 trillion deficit this year. I looked it up. The income tax generates $2 trillion. So we would have to triple the income tax rate, and that's our biggest source of revenue for the general fund is the income tax. We'd have to triple the income tax rate. If you're paying 25% of your income, you'd have to go to 75% to cover government spending this year. That's assuming that that kind of tax rate didn't kill the economy. So it's just not sustainable.

Here's another way of looking at it. There are $4 trillion divided by 435 congressional districts is $10 billion per congressional district. I mean, that's 20 counties in Kentucky are going to have to come up with $10 billion at some point to cover this coronavirus spending. It's just not sustainable. It's not going to happen. The dollar will collapse. Tell me what a collapse of a dollar looks like to the average person. What does that mean?

Well, it's going to hurt the average person more than it hurts the upper class. Oh, yeah. The upper class is not going to have. They won't feel it. Right. They're hedged. They don't have all their money in dollars, and they've got hedges against the stock market and everything that they hold. The average person is going to see their savings go to nothing if they've got any savings.

The retirement income, that's in fixed dollars. Your Social Security is in fixed dollars. They're not going to adjust that for hyperinflation. So that evaporates as well. Since we started this, the dollar has declined in value by 10%. that means if you had a thousand dollars in the bank, you still, it'll still read a thousand dollars, but you only have $900 worth of buying power. And people aren't understanding that a 30% drop or more is very possible in, you know,

in the span of a very short period of time where you could lose the buying power of half of your money. That's, that's staggering. But I know you have a lot of depressing topics to talk about. And I was excited to talk about some of the other ones. Yeah, well, let me talk about the swamp. The new HBO documentary that I can't believe is on HBO. Talk to me a little bit about it. Yeah.

So they followed me and Matt Gates and Ken Buck around for a year. We gave them unprecedented access to our staff, to our offices, to our homes. they could have really screwed us on this movie. And even though when a lot of Republicans watch this movie, they're not going to be happy because it's critical of the president, it leans to the left in some ways. Even though all that's true, they really gave us a fair shake. They did not distort anything that the three of us said.

They didn't take our words out of context, and it's somewhat of a miracle that this movie is on HBO. And all in all, I think it's good. We did it. We took that risk because we needed to get the message out, not just to the people watching Fox. And by the way, Fox doesn't even cover what's wrong with the swamp. But we needed to get it out to a broader audience, and I think they've helped us do that. I love your part where you're talking about the capital is the Death Star, and you're trying to find the weakness, and you end up in the trash compactor.

Yes, that's my daily grind. You know, there was an exhaust port on the Death Star. The other analogy to the Death Star is they're always working on it in the movies, right? But even though it looks like they're working on it and the Capitol's always got scaffolding on it, right? It's fully functional and capable of destroying happiness anywhere in the universe. Like, that describes the Capitol as well as the Death Star. That's really sad, isn't it? I mean, it's really crazy.

And, you know, we were just talking about Joe Biden's sanity. And, you know, I'm not saying that he is, you know, Alzheimer's or anything else. He's just at least having the natural decline that happens to people when they get older. But he is really slipping. He's not going to be the president. And I don't think, I mean, if he would win, he's not going to be running things. And I don't think it'll be the vice president either. Who's actually behind?

Who are you voting for? voting for Joe Biden, who's running the show? It's going to be the people who stay in power, whether it's a Bush or a Clinton or an Obama or a Trump. They're just below the political appointees, and they have the most power because they've been there the longest. And they just expanded that part of the government in the National Defense Authorization Act. They created a cyber czar, a permanent position in the executive branch that has 75. full-time equivalent reports who are not political appointees, who will decide the cyber policy.

Now, they'll say it's for security, but they're going to dictate standards, not just for the government, but for any company that wants to interact with the government. And so they're going to be the ones perpetuating the backdoors and all your software and whatnot. Let me transition to another story that I read. that the Intel community will not confirm that congressmen and senators are being surveilled.

That's disturbing. Let me share a personal experience with you on this, Glenn. We went down in a skiff. They called some of us down in a skiff. And they said, we have reason to believe another country is trying to basically infiltrate Congress or make connections with you all. and while I was sitting there, I realized they are covering their posteriors here. My suspicion was they are spying on some or all of us in this room, and they want to disclose it without disclosing it. So instead of asking the briefer in that room, whether they were spying on me or anybody in the room, I asked the briefer, if you were spying on one of us, and one of us asked you if you were spying on us, would you tell us,

if you were spying on us. It could, that's been to a flitter. And they, what did they say? They, they got flustered, couldn't complete sentences.

I mean, it was the body language, and then they basically refused to answer the question, which is an answering of the question. Okay. So, so, so,

so, let me take a break. I want you to come back and explain what that means, um, to the average, average person and what it means to you in Congress or the Senate or the White House, if the Intel community is just eavesdropping on everybody, you know, for their own safety. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

We have the audio from Joe Biden from yesterday where he was talking to the CBS news reporter and they asked, you know, have you had a cognitive test? at all. Listen to this. Have you taken a cognitive test? No, I haven't taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test? Come on, man. That's like something. Before you got in this program, if you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not, what do you think, huh? Are you a junk? What do you say to President Trump, a black man? He brags about his test and makes your mental state an issue for voters? Well, if he can't figure out the difference between an elephant and a lot of.

a lion. I don't know what the hell he's talking about. Did you watch that? Look, come on, man. I know you're trying to goad me. But, I mean, I'm so forward looking to have an opportunity to sit with the president or stand with the president in debates. There are going to be plenty of time. And by the way, as I joke with them, you know, I shouldn't say it. I'm going to say something I don't, I probably shouldn't say. Anyway, I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical mental my physical as well as my mental fitness

I you wouldn't believe this if it was written for a movie you would not believe it it's just remarkable my mental capacity at least Woodrow Wilson was in office before this stuff happened you know this is like

nobody knew Yeah. I mean, this is like everyone, everyone can see this. All Democrats know what's going on here. They all know it. Yeah. The question is, who's really going to be president? Because it's not going to be the vice president. It's really not. Is it Center for American Progress? Who is in charge of the next president?

No, no, no.