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Wait until you meet our first story. Also, the results of the European elections, we talk a little bit about the snotty art world, the storms that hit Dayton, Ohio. Mending fences and hard work. Something I learned. on vacation. We're looking at mending fences completely wrong. And again, Gillette stands in and tries to fill the gap on good men and bad men. They've got another lecture on how bad you are if you don't want to give your kids steroids to change them from little girls to boys. All that and so much

more on today's podcast. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Imagine being evicted from your home for not paying your home equity loan back, but you never took out a home equity loan. That would suck, wouldn't it? I mean, literally evicted from your home. We've been telling you about this couple in Portland, Bill and Betty. They had no idea that somebody had taken their house and forged the title, gone over to a bank, taking all of the equity loans out that they possibly could. Bill and Betty start getting these things.

They discard them. We didn't take out that loan. The bank insists that, yes, you did take out that loan. They're like, no, it's not us. Next thing they know, the house is foreclosed on. And they've had to spend thousands of dollars to get their house back. I mean, it's an absolute nightmare. We can get a free title scan to you right now to make sure that your house is still your house,

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Hometidallock.com. Go there now. Hometidalock.com. A felon from Washington State made a series of mistakes when he shot himself in the testicles and tried to hide the weapon, all while storing drugs in his butt. Cameron Wilfrey Wilson, 27, was carrying a pistol in his front pocket while in Kashmir, Washington.

He was at an apartment on April 5th when the firearm accidentally discharged and blew off one of his testicles. Wilson, who is a 13, hurt to say that, Stu? It did. I could feel the pain. Yeah. Wilson, who is a 13-time convicted felon, told his girlfriend to dispose of the weapon before heading to the hospital. When the ex-con finally went to the hospital,

now wait, hang on just a second. Let me stop there. Stu, why do you suppose he wanted that weapon disposed of being a 13-time felon? There may be some criminal concerns there. Right, like he doesn't have a right to own a gun. Right. And he also had already kind of dispose of his own weapon. Yeah.

So this is not a good day. So when he went to the hospital, a balloon of drugs, and I'm just slipped out of his anus while he was being operated on by the doctor. Now, I don't know how it just slipped out of his anus, but apparently it did. Cops arrived at the hospital when alerted of the gunshot wound. They searched his car where they discovered a bag of meth in the bloodstained jeans that he was wearing when he shot himself to death. There are so many things that this guy's going to jail on. They say men can't multitask.

No. Here we go. This is a really good. As he was being processed at the county regional justice center, Wilson was strip searched and another balloon of marijuana was found. How much? No, I mean, I can't say it was found. Let me quote the story. Another balloon of marijuana slipped from his anus.

While in jail, he made a number of calls to his girlfriend and asked her not to cooperate with investigators. Another crime. That is the worst. The convicted felon was charged with possession of a firearm. Unlawful possession of meth. Possession of a controlled substance in a correctional facility and four counts of tampering with a witness. Wait a minute. I got to take issue with the possession in a, what was it in a correctional facility?

I mean, yeah, that was a mistake. Come on. He had it in there long before. Yeah, I mean, Your Honor, I was free when I put that in my butt. Yes. I think that's a legitimate defense. I think so, too. There's got to be an attorney will take that one on.

Yeah, I think so. I mean, we can cut him some slack on that one. That's pro bono material too. I mean, that's just, wow. You really have to, at some point, it's like, You know, it's like those people that, you know, go on, you know, American Idol that somebody in their life didn't just say to them, you really suck at singing. Somebody in his life needed to say, you're really not a good criminal. I know you want to be a criminal, but you're really a bad criminal.

And it is one of those things like criminal life is you only really get into it if you're good at it. In theory, right? I mean, like, what's the point? 13 times you start to think to yourself, I should apply. my time to something else. Like I should apply to like a job and use like because there's plenty of incompetent people

in regular life that hold jobs down. You can work for the federal government. Yeah. You can run for office. You'll never go to jail. That's what you do. You could have anything coming from your anus and you're fine. Yeah. And you have like legitimate like you're above the law in some of these

circumstances. Remember when Harry Reid went on the Senate floor and he was like, look, you know, Mitt Romney didn't pay his taxes. He didn't pay his taxes, just blatantly lying with no evidence. And later admitted it. And later admitted it. But he was on the Senate floor, so you can't really do anything about him. I mean, if something were to slip out when you were giving a speech on the Senate floor, I think you're exempt from any crime. I think a 10-pound bag just slipped out of his butt while I was giving a speech. I was given a speech. I was on the floor of

the Senate. I'm fine. This would encourage some really interesting individuals to get into politics. It would. I think that's where we, I think that's where we. I think that's where we need to go. So if you were having a bad day, just realize, most likely, I was going to say nothing, but most likely nothing is going to slip from your anus today. And you don't have to tell your girlfriend to hide a gun. You're fine. You're fine. Today's a good day for you. The best of the Glenn Beck program. Hi, it's Glenn. If you're a subscriber to the podcast, can you do us 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. I saw a story in the Huffington Post about pro-Trump drawings. Our pro-Trump drawings art. This drove me out of my mind. They take

President Donald Trump has inspired a range of famous artists across different mediums to create works criticizing his administration and make a statement about his place in culture. But there's also a lesser-known group of amateur and professional artists who laud the president and depict him as a strong, sometimes superhuman leader. Largely rejected from the established art venues, these pro-Trump images proliferate on social media and have staked out a place as the Trump administration's unofficial icon iconography.

Okay. So the premise of this article is if you don't like Trump, you're a respected artist. But if you do like Trump, you're not really an artist. You're not doing art. You're doing drawings. You're an amateur drawer. Okay. That's what you are. A few months ago, we assembled a group of editors and reporters from our culture and politics team, some who are no longer with a company. I love that. Why? Why are they not with a company? We executed them. They said Trump stuff was good, so they're no longer with the company. Or the earth.

They're no longer here. Right. To discuss the pro-Trump art. So they go through these artists and some of them are good. Some of them are bad. But, you know, like John McNaughton. You know who John McNaughton is, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

John McDonton is a real artist and has done some really amazing. amazing religious paintings and everything else. He's the guy who most conservatives will know because he did the painting of, I think it was Obama. Wasn't he standing on the Constitution? Right. And the founders were behind him weeping. And he did a lot of different political art.

But it's real art. I mean, it's beautiful art. He did something for the Underground Railroad as a fundraiser. he's done a lot of a lot of famous famous art if you're on the right but he never gets any credit because he's on the right this whole thing is

where they talk about the pro-Trump art it's just propaganda it's not art really because do you remember the hope poster that's now hanging in which museum? In Los Angeles, one of the big museums

is now hanging his work. Now, that truly was propaganda. That was released as street art, if I'm not mistaken, at first. And it was used as propaganda. It was based on propaganda. And that one's art. But anything that makes Trump look good is just a drawing.

Yeah, I mean, it's not surprising, of course. Now, you as the 100th most important man in the world of art, as named by some really highfalutin art magazine. I don't even remember it's so highfalutin. I don't even remember which magazine it was. That's actually legitimately happened. It really did. Because you had correctly talked about the art at Rockefeller Center,

and they wanted to demean you and mock you by putting you as a hundredth. You actually were a hundredth, though. Yes, I was. As the most important man of art, as someone who knows that, though, I mean, we all know, you obviously know what this world is, right? Like, it's just a world to promote the hard left. You know, the idea of political art at this point, the reason why you know, you can name a few of the conservative artists

is because they're so rare. Right. You can just be, it's like, you know, the story because it's a story you know, the rarity makes it. Yes, Sabo, exactly. Like when he comes out and he does one of his great posters and they show up, you know, whenever there's a big democratic

event somewhere, you know about it and it's a big story because of the fact that it's so rare that someone actually takes that stand. I mean, there's a lot of people who are a conservative artists that just, you know, they don't get into that world. Like, we've met a bunch of people who are real artists and known

for their art. However, they don't come out and state their political views. I know one of my favorite artists who shall not be named and kind of at a request of him, please don't, please don't ever, please don't. He's a big fan. He listens every day. He paints most of his stuff and it goes for hundreds of thousands.

I can't afford one of his paintings. I want one of his paintings really badly. One of my favorite artists, he sells for thousands and thousands of dollars. he's a huge fan he sells a lot of stuff to most of his stuff to the left to the hardcore left and they have absolutely no idea

and his paintings are very American I love him because you know who I'm talking about Stu they're very American but not red white and blue America they're very they're subtle in their America you know when you think of American

painters you think of the eagle you know, and the flag and a soldier and a jet flying someplace. Not that. He does his beautiful, beautiful art. But he can't be known. He's like, I'm doomed. If it ever comes out, I'm doomed. He's in museums and everything else.

And he's had to live in hiding. That is horrible. Absolutely horrible. But if you go to museums, what you're seeing is, I mean, come on. when I went, they took down the painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware one year in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And I went there specifically to take my kids through the art museum, and one of the things I wanted to show them was that.

But I also went through all of their, you know, modern art and everything else. I'm a fan of art. And we got to where the painting was supposed to be. And they're like, oh, yeah, it's in a warehouse. But you know what? wasn't in a warehouse, a bigger painting. And if you've ever seen Washington crossing the Delaware, it's like 20 feet by, I don't know, 15, it's a gigantic painting. What wasn't in the warehouse was a piece of art I like to call blue. And I like to call it blue because I believe that was

the name on the card blue. Oh, okay. Now, I went up to read the little card on this entire wall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art because I couldn't figure out what it was supposed to be and then I read blue and I'm like well yes it is blue I think it's Sherman

Williams number five I'm not sure but it was entirely flat blue it was on a wall I like to call eggshell white now at some point

somebody, and you know this is happening, somebody went, I'm going to paint, I'm just going to paint this thing blue. I'm just going to take a roller, and I'm going to paint it blue. I'm not talking about Jackson Pollock where the splatters can be. I'm talking flat blue. I'm looking at the painting now, Glenn. You see it? Wow, it's amazing.

It's blue. Well, that is, you're using a shorthand. And you, because you're so familiar with the world of art, you feel comfortable doing that. I will call it by it's a full name, Blue Panel 2. Blue Panel 2, yeah. Painted in 1977. Yeah. Now, I'm guessing that who's the artist there?

I'm pretending I don't know. Ellsworth Kelly. Ellsworth Kelly. I'm guessing that Ellsworth Kelly was very, very popular on the left at the time. I don't know. That's interesting. And had at some point said to somebody, maybe it's a, his husband, maybe his wife, I'm not judging.

Whatever it is, somebody that he really trusted and went, I just sold this to a freaking museum, okay? That's how stupid this whole system is. I just sold this. It's Blue Panel 2. Can you understand Blue Panel 2 if you didn't see the original? Yes, if you didn't see Blue Panel 1. Right, if you didn't see that.

Yeah. Okay. Blue Panel 1. is a little lighter or darker than Blue Panel 2. Now, would you like to hear what he was doing? Not that you don't know, but for the audience. Yeah, what he was trying to do. As Blue Panel 2 suggests, he treated color and shape in his painting as synonymous and an integral with each other.

In keeping with a prevalent mid-century philosophy that illusionism was a denial of paints flat essence. This guy spent more time coming up with what the meaning was. Kelly's conflation of shape and color is especially evident in his inventive exploration of the shaped canvas. In this case, a trapezoid that is nearly a parallelogram.

This design is based on collages he made on a postcard postcard views of the island of St. Martin, which may account for the painting's seductive blue evocative of sky and water. It's just blue. Which is just a blue painting. That's all it is.

That's all it is. That's amazing. I don't think I made a billion dollars out of that. You know what? Get over yourself, Huffington Post. Get over yourself. It's a scam. Everybody knows it's a scam.

Gee, how come the ones that reflect the values of the laughter in museums? And it's just a caveman drawn over here. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray Unleashed. His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest where extreme weather was 20 days of sunshine. The only thing that we had in regards to natural disasters that I recall, I remember I was about 17 years old, I think, when Mount St. Helens blew up.

And I was on the other side of the state, and I heard it. It shook the windows. but on that really nothing. I mean, we don't have a fly problem or mosquito problem. It's pretty sweet in the Pacific Northwest. You move around the country and you get a real sense of how different people are and how different the areas are. And you start to appreciate weather.

I remember because we didn't, it rained all the time in Seattle, but if you have ever been in Seattle or lived in Seattle, you know it doesn't ever rain really hard. It's just always misty and drizzly. And I remember 18 years old moving out to Washington, D.C. And people must have thought I was crazy. I'm 18. I'm in this rental apartment that I had an apple box,

a little like 12-inch screen TV. I had a mattress and a refrigerator full of beer and macaroni boxes. That was it. And it rained. in August and it rained like a Washington humidity thunderstorm. I had never seen lightning before. We have what's called, I can't even remember now, a sheet lightning.

It would be up above the clouds in Washington State, so you never saw a bolt. And I stood out, like an idiot, stood out in the rain, just watching these bolts come down thinking, this is unbelievable. The one place that I have lived that scared the hell out of me is Texas. Because they have one weather event that is completely unpredictable and so destructive.

It's terrifying. They're tornadoes. When a tornado goes off here and we're in kind of a suburb of tornado alley, when we have tornado warnings that happen. And when they happen, at least for me, it still freaks me out in the family. Means get into the center of the house. Like, well, oh, okay.

All right, the center of the house where there's no glass. Oh, okay, sure, that's going to. I don't know if you know this. It's up above the house. It could set down in the middle of the house and suck us up into it. And they are so random. If you've ever seen the effects of a tornado, something on one side of the street can,

be absolutely fine. And a corner of the house across the street is completely gone. They jump, they jump fast, and the destructive power is unlike anything I've ever seen. A massive tornado tore through Dayton, one of Ohio's largest cities last night, levels home, leveled homes, entire apartment complexes, knocked out power, knocked out water, tens of thousands of people, about 140,000 people in this area, trying now to figure out their lives as this tornado, massive tornado, just hopscotched across Ohio. Last week, it was bad. Indiana, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio now, destruction all across the country.

Oklahoma. And it's been a busy week for Mercury 1. And to tell us what we can do is Suzanne Grishman. She is here. She is the executive director of Mercury 1. Welcome to the program, Suzanne. How are you? I'm good. Good morning, Glenn. So I know you guys were out last week for the storms in Oklahoma. What do we have going on and what do people need? So it's been a very big. busy week for our partners on the ground. People need food. They need water. There are mucking out homes right now. A lot of the areas have been flooded very badly in the Midwest. But the trail, the devastation of destruction is really what's the worst right now on the ground. We have Team Rubicon working real hard. A lot of our veterans that volunteer their time through Team Rubicon,

they're deployed all over the Midwest right now and they're responding. For people who don't know what Team Rubicon is. This is the greatest charity. It is they're all veterans. And these veterans, you know, they come home and they feel like they're not making a difference. And they want to make a difference. And Team Rubicon is usually the first on the ground and they're the last to leave. There's a lot of people still on the ground with Team Rubicon with Hurricane Harvey still. It's amazing. It's amazing. And so they come in and the first thing they do is muck out homes. And if you've never had to do that, it's an awful experience to do it for somebody else's house.

I can't even imagine doing it for your own house. But Team Rubicon is great. Operation Blessing is there. They're really food and disaster relief kind of stuff. They are. Food, disaster relief. They actually are a volunteer organization as well. So they go in with people and they work through some of the local churches there and they

try to lift people up in a time of crisis. and you can imagine a lot of trauma. Minuteman Disaster Relief and City Impact. What Mercury 1 does is we give 100% of whatever we collect to these charities. We've vetted these charities. We've worked with these charities. We know that this is actually your money is going to the right place. Nothing against the Red Cross, but you know, you're funding sometimes their phone system when you give to the Red Cross.

this, we know, 100% goes to these impact. And you can go to natural disasters if you want to just fund natural disasters. We know that that money will go right directly to the people and not to some big institution. And so we really need your help. You can go to mercury1.org, donate to our humanitarian relief fund. Did you see also, Suzanne, there was a story that came out today that says, here it is, genocide of Christians reaches an alarming stage. Christian persecution is now, quote, at near genocide levels, this according to a report in the BBC.

A lengthy interim study ordered by the British former secretary, blah, blah, blah, says one in three people around the world suffer from religious persecution with Christians being the most persecuted religious group. That's crazy. It is unfortunately the truth. It is happening all around the world. They're saying that nobody is talking about it and they're not talking about it for politically correct reasons. Which is the wrong reasons. This is when you do stand up and take a stand. That's exactly right.

And I know we're doing a lot around the world on Christian persecution. You can get involved on that at mercury one.org. And one last thing. We do these pop-up museums. and the collection at Mercury One has grown is quite an amazing collection already, and it's about to get even bigger as we move forward. But we're also partnering with other museums, the African-American Museum in Dallas,

the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the Frontiers of Flight Museum, the Dallas Historical Society, the Old Red Museum, blah, blah, and we are, we've, we've partnered with them to put together something called 12 score and three years ago, based on Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, four score and seven years ago. It's now been 12 score in three years ago that our founders got together and said, hey, we have an idea for a country. And Lincoln had a goal. And Lincoln's goal was, can we actually do all men are created equal? Can we free slaves? It's been a fascinating journey and many people will focus on the really bad things about slavery or they will take it out of context. It's important that context is put in around slavery so you really truly understand what was going on and how it affects us today. But also those who did something with their freedom, those who said, I'm not going to sit around. I'm free now.

What am I going to do with it? We look at the Gettysburg Address. We'll be here. The Emancipation Proclamation coming. That's amazing stuff that you will be able to see 12 score in three years ago. The unfinished promise of unity. And when does that happen? So it's going to happen on the 29th and 30th of June.

And then we'll be also here the 4th through the 7th. So come spend your 4th of July weekend with us. They can go on a tour with you too, Glenn. I know. David Barton is going to be giving tours. I'm going to be giving tours. Stu will give his usual crappy tour where he really doesn't know anything. I'm just saying if you don't want your kids to learn anything, you just want to have fun. We don't want a stew tour. That's what I do.

But anyway, grab your tickets now. You can get them at mercury one.org. And just look for 12 score and three years ago. And come see us as we open up the studios again this year for a really. fantastic look at American history and the promise of unity that has not been fulfilled yet and what we have done in the past and what we need to do in the future going forward. Thank you so much, Suzanne. I appreciate it. You're welcome. All of this can be found at mercury one.org.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. You know, what happened in the elections last week in Europe took a lot of people by And it took people by surprise exactly the same way that Donald Trump win took people by surprise. And it shouldn't. Because what the EU is is an artificial entity. It was an entity that was maybe started with good intentions. It was started because after World War II, they were like, okay, these countries, it's, you know, Belgium, you're not really even a country or a waffle house at best.

and you know we're just going to put you into one group well the belgians are like yeah we do make waffles but we also do a couple of other things that are really cool and the EU was starting to erase those things and starting to call people names you're a racist if you were a proud Belgium you were a racist if you were proud of your Swedish flag well that has nothing to do with racism and this is by erasing and folding everybody into this artificial EU, people started to push back on it. That doesn't mean that they hate France or hate Italy. It means that they're proud of who they are

and they don't like this artificial argument. That they're racist. That's only making things worse. No, we just don't want to. to be controlled by a foreign body. We don't want the Germans telling us in France what to think or do. We're different. Doesn't mean we hate Germany, but because it's been set up this way, and because the media and everybody else has been saying, well, you're a racist if you believe this, the Bubba effect is coming into play in Europe. The Bubba effect is really happening.

and you can see it in things like Nazis, punching Nazis. We all know punching Nazis, punching anybody is wrong. Yeah, but you don't get that reaction from the left because they say, well, you know, punching someone. I mean, look, the Nazis deserved it. Sure, punching people is wrong, but, you know, they deserved it. And someone needed to stand up, and you're not going to step in and tell us we can't do that.

And that is the effect that's, you know, it's been long rumored that it would happen to somewhere, you know, in some southern city and, you know, after some, you know, a bunch of racists would be involved in it. And it's been the opposite. It's been in, you know, San Francisco where you're seeing it happen. But the point is, like, people get to that level where they don't care anymore. And they know, they know that, for instance, are Nazis a problem?

Yeah. Are Nazis really one of the biggest problems in the United States? No. But there's a rally scheduled this week weekend for the KKK. Okay. Where was it? Headlines everywhere. It's like in, I thought it was in Dayton.

I thought it was in Ohio someplace. Like nine people showed up. Nine people. Nine. How, endless coverage, previewing an event where nine people show up. Now, there should be zero people. We all realize that, but you can't account for stupidity that much. I mean, like, you can't, they're going to be able to find, you know.

There are racist. There are. Of course. There will always be racist. And do we like them? No, we don't. but we don't blow it out of proportion and that's what everything that's everything right now everything is blown out of proportion and what happened in

Europe is happening here and is going to continue to happen on a bigger and bigger scale until we either get it or destroy ourselves let's take abortion we're a most people on abortion most people are look I mean I don't want to if there's rape or in I don't. Yes, it's a baby. I don't want to even think of it that way. Most people, and I'm giving the benefit of the doubt on this,

because I don't think this is most people, but it's close. But I'm going to throw the scale in their favor. Most people are safe, rare, and legal. That's where most people are. And legal for a short period of time. Short period of time. Short period of time. When you're into 20,

five weeks. Dude, you've already carried the baby. What kind of scars are you? I mean, hello, what are you talking about? So if you were raped or there was incest and, you know, that's where most people are. That's not where I want to be, but it's not really where I think I am. life is life and I'm changing on that and people are changing and if you have when you stop changing

you're dead you're either dead physically or you're dead mentally if you're not changing if your views aren't evolving someplace and you're dead why get up in a morning you're not learning anything new

so the problem is that just like the EU, you are either in the EU and for the EU or you're a racist. That's not true. That is not true. And people have had enough of it. And it's not going to end in a good way when it comes to abortion. You either hate women or you're for whatever the latest is right before birth, right after birth, two years after birth. You're either for that or you hate women. It's not true.

And here's why it's effective for the left, because they always make it about that one person. They make it about a story. For instance, does anybody think giving your kids access to gender and hormone treatment is a good thing as a parent. Does anybody think that? Now, what they want to do after they went, your brain stops developing, you're fully developed, I think, at 24.

You know, legally 18, okay, you're on your own, you can do your own thing, whatever. But I would caution that you don't do anything when you're a kid that lasts forever? We don't let our kids go into a tattoo parlor at five or six or eight. Why? Why? Because it's permanent.

Don't make any permanent decision. Don't let your kids get married at nine. Why? It's not about sex. It's about they're not fully developed. They can't make that decision. Now here's Gillette. framing gender therapy in a completely different way.

And they, when they do this, how do you argue? Here's, yes, the sexist razor company trying to show you just how evil you are. Listen. Growing up, I was always trying to figure out what kind of man I wanted to become, and I'm still trying to figure out what kind of man that I want to become. I always knew I was different. I didn't know that there was a term

for the type of person that I was. I went into my transition just wanting to be happy. I'm glad I'm at the point where I'm able to shave. South, south, north, north, east, west, never in a hurry. No. Right. One.

Now, don't be scared. I'm scared. That's his father. Shaving is about being confident. Oh, you're doing fine. You are doing fine. I'm at the point in my manhood where I'm actually happy. It's not just my self-transitioning.

It's everybody around me transitioning. Whenever, wherever, however it happens, your first shave is special. Gillette, the best a man can get. Now, how do you argue about that? You see that. And if you say, wait a minute, wait a minute, can we not jam transgenderism down everybody's throat? You're immediately a hater. Why? Well, the feeling of that is nice, right?

It's a parent's a dad and his kid and they're having a nice moment and, you know, how can you fight against that? So I read this story. I didn't see, that's the first time I've seen the commercial, but I read the story. And when I read the story, it was an anti-Jolette stance. Okay, but as I read the story and I read the transcript, they're selling love. That's what they're selling. They're selling love. Just like they sold love. Who are you to judge?

You're going to stop? This is about love. Love always wins. No. No. Gay marriage was not about love. If it was about love, we should have said the federal government shouldn't have anything to say about anybody. marriage. Because love, if you love a tree and you want to marry a tree, marry a tree. It's not

the government's business. But it wasn't about love. It was in some particular cases, it was about love. It was at the individual level in most cases about love. But in the political arena, at the at the level of of the activist. It wasn't. It was about change. Not a change in me. About change in everyone else. It's a change of everyone else.

You now must agree with me. So we've just taken, you must agree with me. Gay marriage is wrong. To you must agree with me, gay marriage is right. Neither of those is good. because it rules out people being different.

I may not hate people who are gay. I may not hate people who are married. But that doesn't mean that I want that in my life, that I want to teach that in my life. It means I'm tolerant of people who are different. But are the people who are different than me tolerant of me. In my, in my particular case, yes, unless they are politically motivated, yes. Every gay person I personally know, we don't have a problem at all. None.

Married, they have children. I don't care. They're my friends. That's the way it is with most Americans. but you are made to feel like you hate. If you're not for abortion in the extreme, you hate women. If you're not for hormone therapy, for your 6-year-old, 8-year-old, 15-year-old, you hate people who are different than you. That's not true. That's not true. If you don't agree with them on abortion, up until the last minute,

of birth. You're pro-life, which means you're a hater. And I want to talk to you a little bit about how that has been flipped around on us so much that now people want to be pro-choice, even though they're really not. They're more pro-life than a lot of Republicans. But because this media has made this,

has done such an effective job, that you, if you are truly pro-life and are willing to say it, you are made to feel completely alone, even though many of those people who are pro-choice may in some cases be more pro-life than even you are, but they fail to recognize it, and they certainly won't admit it. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Breaking news from the Supreme Court in the last hour or so.

to do our best to wade through this. We think it's both good and bad for pro-life people. The bad part is the Supreme Court decided not to even consider an overturning of a law that was passed by Mike Pence when he was the governor of Indiana that said, you cannot abort based on sex, well, gender. I think disability is in there as well. Disability, which is really remarkably bad. And race, I think, is in there too.

So you can't say, ah, it's a white baby. I don't want a white baby. You can't say, oh, well, they're handicapped, so I don't want a handicapped kid. They've overturned that, so you can do those things, which I don't understand yet. We haven't read, Clarence Thomas concurred with that, but it's a long statement.

It's like 25 pages long, so we haven't read it yet, but we will by tomorrow, and I'll have that for you because I don't understand that. Yeah, and they're basically, race, sex and disability are the three main ones, and they're basically saying they have no opinion on that. They didn't take it up. I think you would have an opinion on that. You'd have an opinion on that. Yeah, you know, there's a complicated reasons why they do these things.

And so it's not necessarily a bad ruling, but we would have wanted a ruling in, you know, you want them to hold up the law. So that will now have its legal challenges on its own. Now, the Supreme Court did overturn an overturning of the law that Mike Pence did on fetal remains. Yeah, so just to make it understandable, it went the good way for pro-life people on the fetal remains part of the law. which basically says, hey, it's a person, so you kind of have to bury it with all the laws of burying a person, you know, cremate or bury, right? You can't just, I don't know, you know, sell it for parts or, you know,

put it on, you know, whatever they're doing, whatever weird, twisted thing Planned Parenthood is doing these days with the remains, they have to bury it like it's a person. And it's a respectful thing, obviously. They don't want that to happen because they're trying to argue it's not a person. So it went to a... That's a big deal. Yeah, and it's interesting because I think one of the things it does is it puts another

burden on Planned Parenthood, right? So if they're having 10,000 abortions at a clinic, they now have to have 10,000 cremations or 10,000 burials. But that's not what they really argued. They didn't argue it was an undue burden, which is one of the reasons why it seemingly went through. Basically, the law was, does the government have any, any reason? to look at how people are buried.

And they said, yes, they do. And so they upheld the law. So that one, I think, is good. And I think it is good anytime Planned Parenthood has another burden to deal with. You know, the way they approach that, I kind of wonder, does the federal government have any place? Well, remember, this is state state. It's a state law. You know, so that's a whole, a whole other situation.

So there's been some good and some bad on that. There's still a few big cases. this maybe we should spend some time on this because we're getting to the end of the session here we're going to have some of the bigger uh yeah things coming out um you know there was there's before we move off of abortion let's just wrap up what we were talking about on on abortion and how we are we're focused on the wrong things and and even people who are uh really truly pro life say they're pro-choice because they don't want to say that they're pro-life. Yeah. And they are viewing it differently.

Yeah, a friend of mine was talking about, you know, the pro-choice, pro-life thing. And he says he's pro-choice. And, you know, you investigate these things and you realize that, like, the people even that say that they're pro-choice are so far away from where the debate is actually happening and certainly so far away from anything the Democratic Party is advocating for these days. You know, he said it was basically the first trimester, you know, which you know, kind of where Roe versus Wade was. That's where the ruling initially was, unlimited ability to get an abortion in the first trimester.

And he was saying, talking about cognitive abilities and how far along it was. And as you talk to him, you're like, well, the position he's describing, and what a lot of pro-choice people are describing, is something considerably to the right of what most Republicans are trying to do in their states. Most, the typical Republican position,

and this is different than the, the last week or so of debates where people were talking about Alabama going for six weeks. Most Republican states are trying to get a ban on abortion at 20 weeks. 20. And what we're talking about here with people who consider themselves pro-choice, they're saying, well, I think that it should be allowed up to 12 weeks or 10 weeks. I mean, the polling on it is really incredible. As we talk about the first trimester, about 60% of Americans think abortion,

should be legal in some form. And the reason why I truly believe is because it's been drilled into our head, rape, incest, I don't want to make that decision. I don't, I'm not that person. It is the emotional argument there. Right. And so I think that is the argument of compassion, people think. And it is, it's normal, I think, to be there.

Because you want to say, and it's actually in some ways, very American to be there. I'm not in your situation. Right. I don't want to make that call. And that's what people, because it has not been made about life, the left gets all libertarian, I'm you? Yeah. Oh, yeah, we don't want anything to do with our body.

I mean, sure, we want to micromanage this type of straw and how much soda you drink every single day. But we don't want to be involved in your health decisions. Sure, we want to take over the entire health care system. But gosh, you and your doctor, that relationship's so. important. It's so insultingly fake. I mean, they don't argue this point on any other issue, but it works for a while. It works because if they are there and you keep the argument there, most people are there. If you can do that, yeah. So 60% of people in the first trimester think

abortion should be legal. In the second trimester, generally legal or not, only 28%. So you're down to an incredibly unpopular position. So you're in incredibly, you are very much alone, if you believe, in the second trimester. But the word trimester means there's another trimester that's coming. And you're at 13%. 13% of people believe in the stated democratic position, right, that you should be able to have an abortion in the third trimester generally. that's incredibly terrible. And this is a position,

can you believe that they have 24 candidates and they can't find one who's going to side with the 80, I think it's 84 to 13 technically, 84% of people who believe third trimester abortion should be illegal? They can't find a person? There's not one of the 22 dozen candidates?

You can't find somebody who's going to stand up and say, yeah, by the way, that third trimester thing, that's a little nuts. Nobody? And all they can do is find people who come out and say, well, Well, look, five minutes before birth, yes, it's the woman's choice. For any reason, the woman's choice.

That is, I mean, I think a huge problem because, number one, people want to describe themselves oddly to me as pro-choice, even when they're taking positions to the right of where George W. Bush was or where, you know, where most Republican states are, right? Like, people want to be able to say that they're pro-choice instead of pro-life. And in a way, it's, it's, I mean, I would not certainly consider someone who's for abortion in the first trimester to be pro-life. But when you look about the scale of debate right now, most of the debates happening in the ninth month of pregnancy, where there's supposedly a controversy and isn't. And then the rest of it, people are like, well, okay, 20, 20 weeks, that's a Republican position. every time that gets trotted out, the media beats on them.

Like, they're psychotic. They just want to steal women's ovaries and use them for sport. And it's like, well, that's not what's happening at all. They're a pool with ovaries? Yes. It's fun. Overy pool? I figured you'd play before because you're an evil conservative.

Right, yeah, sure. So, I mean, they want to play ovary billiards. That's one way to go. But in reality, the conversation is to the, you know, the reality of the situation is, if you went with all these Republican states, and they said 20 weeks, you would get rid of a massive amount of some of the most horrific things we allow as a society. And it would not, you know what, the job wouldn't be done.

And people will say, well, it's just a Trojan horse. You're trying to get no more abortion. It's not a Trojan horse. I'm telling you. It's right there. I'm telling you that's what I'm going for. Absolutely, I consider this, all of these things, a step towards never having another one of these happen.

And that's why people will say they're pro-life. because they get bogged down pro choice. Because they get bogged down in that first six weeks and they'll be like, I don't want to make that decision. And the left will say, well, they're just trying to get rid of it all entirely.

And they're stuck there at that point of compassion. And because they are compassionate, Americans are compassionate people, they will look at people who say, yeah, the night before, yeah, go ahead. kill the baby the night before. Kill them. Let him die after birth.

We tried to kill him and we didn't kill him. We can let him die. What they'll say to themselves is that's not. That's not real. That's not going to happen. Yeah. That's not. It's just that people aren't going to do that.

No, no. People are doing that. People are shouting their abortions. People are happy about abortions. And so they live in this safe but rare kind of world where they're like it's, it's rare and it should be safe and it should be legal. And so I don't want to be pro-life because that means, you know, that it's all going to be back-alley abortions. And so they get stuck there. That point is really, it bothers me because, I mean, you're, I've heard people say this before.

Like, oh, well, look, you're talking about these last-minute abortions. There's almost none of these things that happen. It's like one to two percent of abortions. That's one way of thinking about it. And I bet that way makes you feel good. How about this other way? How many 9-11s are you willing to excuse? six, seven, eight, ten, because that's what we're talking about.

We're talking about tens of thousands of babies that would be born in weeks that are fully formed in the womb that you're killing. So yeah, you can say one to two percent because that feels a lot better than saying seven or eight, nine-elevens. I mean, it feels a lot better. But let's just say all we did was save the 20,000 kids that were killing within the last few weeks of pregnancy. By the way, there's a big story while you were out in the NPR has their language. of how you're supposed to talk about abortion, you might have caught a little bit of that. The one thing they did say in there was don't call them rare

because we don't know how many of them occur. That's NPR. All of that was all left-wing propaganda, except that one point. They said, don't call late-term and third-term trim trim trim trim abortions rare because we don't know if they're rare. So we know we're talking about tens of thousands. We don't know how many, how many there actually are.

And even if it was just that, if you could just get off this little debate thing where you're saying, well, I don't know. Donald Trump seems to not want them. So I want them. If you can get past that sort of thing, you could save tens of thousands of actual children. And wouldn't that be great? And you know what?

You can go on in front of Congress and say, well, what about these kids that are in cages and the shiny blankets? They aren't being treated as well as we should on the border. That's a great point. Seems secondary to the tens of thousands of kids that are dying. Seems secondary. You know, get rid of that first. then come talk to me about the color of their blankets. It's the only way you could argue about the color of the blankets

because they are children. And we hear from the left all the time. If we can just save one, it's worth it. The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand.