The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | Guests: Sen. Rand Paul & Rep. Nicole Malliotakis | 2/26/21

Episode Date: February 26, 2021

The House-passed Equality Act is frightening. Sen. Rand Paul joins to discuss Biden nominee Dr. Rachel Levine and her controversial stance on transgender surgery for children. Companies are sidestepping the Constitution to enact the Equality Act. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis explains all the pork in the $1.9 trillion COVID relief package. Glenn gives one of his most Radio Hall of Fame-worthy lines yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The best of the Glenn Beck. We ever need Rand Paul and some libertarian thinking in our country more than ever. Welcome to the program, Dr. Rand Paul. How are you, sir? Very good, Glenn. Thanks for having me. You bet. Yesterday during the Senate, let me just play the clip of Rand Paul with Rachel Levine and her confirmation hearing.

Listen. Genital mutilation has been nearly universally. condemned. Genital mutilation has been condemned by the WHO, the United Nations Children's Fund, the United Nations Population Fund. According to the WHO, genital mutilation is recognized internationally as a violation of human rights. Genital mutilation is considered particularly egregious because, as the WHO notes, it is nearly always carried out on minors and is a violation of the rights of children. Most genital mutilation is not typically performed by force, but it is a But as WHO notes that by social convention, social norm, the social pressure to conform, to do what others do and have been doing,

as well as the need to be accepted socially and the fear of being rejected by the community, American culture is now normalizing the idea that minors can be given hormones to prevent their biological development of their secondary sexual characteristics. Dr. Levine, you have supported both allowing minors to be given hormone blockers to prevent them from going through, puberty, as well as surgical destruction of a minor's genitalia. Like surgical mutilation, hormonal interruption of puberty can permanently alter and prevent secondary sexual characteristics. The American College of Pediatricians reports that 80 to 95 percent of pre-puberal children with gender dysphoria will experience resolution by late adolescents if not exposed to

medical intervention and social affirmation. This statement of yours, Ran, is responsible for headlines like this. Rand Paul tried to derail Rachel Levine's historic confirmation hearing with transphobic misinformation So, you know, the interesting thing is none of it was directed towards her personally or who she is, who was directed towards the question of whether children can consent. And this is an intellectual question. It's not a, you know, inflammatory question. It's a question of serious consequence.

can a young girl of 12 years old or 15 years old, can they consent to an abortion? Can they consent to have their ears, tears? Can they consent to have surgery to change their sex? I mean, these are important questions, and most people would argue that children can't really make an informed consent. You know, we have laws against, you know, a man having sex with a 12-year-old, even if the 12-year-old says yes, because we don't think a 12-year-old is capable of consenting. They just aren't old enough to make the difference. But, see, it's even worse than this. In one of the clinics in England, one of these gender dysphoria clinics in England, 10% of the kids that are coming in are between the age of 3 and 10. My goodness, people talking to a 3-year-old and trying to tell them it's fine that they really are of a different sex. See, most of this stuff would be, you know, 3-year-olds think they're alien sometimes. I mean, they have no conception of any of the importance of any of these incredible questions, but to let a three-year-old participate in that or a five-year-old or an eight-year-old.

And then you've got these loony-tune left-wing parents encouraging this and reaffirming it. And this is what the American pediatricians have said, is that if you don't medically do anything and you don't reaffirm it and you just kind of let the kid grow up, most people grow out of this and understand that it's an aberration, not something that they would really desire. Is she going to be confirmed? overwhelmingly she's in a special category now so the democrats will vote for i suspect a couple of republicans who want to somehow you know send some kind of signal we'll vote for her too

but it's alarming and it isn't about who she is it's about the idea to my mind that a minor could make the decision and see a lot of this stuff is irreversible you give a boy girl's hormones in the ages of 14 to 16 they don't come back you give a girl boys, hormones. You know, once a girl is given enough testosterone to grow a beard with, their face doesn't go back if they change their mind. So to me, here, it's just crazy. To me, it is a little bit about who she is, and nothing about her sexuality or her trans, transition to a woman. It has everything to do with her mother. She took her mother as

she was the Secretary of Health for Pennsylvania. She took her mother out of nursing home as soon as COVID restrictions without warning anybody else, hey, you know, maybe you should do that. She also during COVID had a report out from her on an official health department stationary about how the COVID scare should affect your. And she put rules out. Our kids can't go to school. But her priority was if you're going to go to a place where you're going to have sex with several people, here's what you have to do. I mean, the world is a clown show, an absolute clown show. I think this is why she wouldn't answer my question.

She refused to answer the question and came up with some empty problem. But she didn't want to answer it because she truly is an extremist. She is so far out there that most of America would recoil in horror if they knew what she was for. But you're right about the practicality of it. Other people ask that question. That was why I didn't dwell on the idea of what she did bring her mom out and would make everybody else to die. Absolutely, that's disqualifying, and that's most pertinent to whether she can do the job. But there is this big issue of normalizing this idea that a nine-year-old can want to change her sex and you start giving them hormones.

and if the parents say no, that the child gets to decide at nine, and that's just wrong, and children just aren't capable of making life-changing decisions, and there is a permanence to this. At some point, when they start giving them cross hormones, meaning that you give a boy-girl hormones or a girl-boy hormones, when you start doing this, and they do it between the ages of 14 and 16, as minors, they're irreversible changes. Do you become sort of this in-between? You're neither boy nor girl, but you can't go back.

A book that came out three years ago that basically says the same stuff, quoting medical science and scientists, warning about how detrimental this can be on children was pulled from Amazon. It's been out for three years. It was pulled for hate speech by Amazon, what, Sunday, I believe. this also goes right into the Equality Act, which if you don't buy into this stuff, if you don't call people by the right pronoun, if you don't affirm the new sexual norms and gender ideology, you're in trouble. And this is, this will affect small businesses. This will affect charities. This will affect churches. and it appears to be written in a way where there is no recourse. You're not going to a court and having this reversed on you.

I don't think I've ever seen anything this bad that has a chance of passing. It's insane where we are. I mentioned the story of a young woman in England by the name of Kira Bell, and she just read on the Internet. She was a confused young woman. She says she was confused. She had psychological problems at the time. She didn't know who she was.

She was trying to discover her identity. And she read on the Internet about transsexual, thought it was cool. She went in after a couple of appointments. They were very encouraging it to her. There was no other side presented. She ended up taking cross hormones and then having a double mastectomy. Now she regrets it. She's worried about whether she knows she's a woman now and she would like to have children.

She's fearful that she will be infertile. And she ended up having a, you know, a body transceptychic. transforming double mastectomy, and she just regrets it. And they've changed some of the rules in England on this now. But this Dr. Levine has said that most of the time she's not for surgery before 18, but she is for street kids. So she's for poor kids who don't have parents. You can imagine if you're a homeless 15-year-old, there's a lot going on that either

your parents have been rotten parents or you have psychological problems or you might be schizophrenic or you might have other problems for the reason why you're homeless, but to take those people and pray upon them and say they don't really need consent, and we're going to get the state to sort of approve their hormones. I mean, this is really grotesque that they would take a poor child and, you know, put their, infuse their beliefs and their extreme views on these children is just obscene. Ran, I know you have to run. I want to ask you, I'm not sure if you're aware of what's going on with the World Economic Forum

in the Great Reset, but you're already seeing it happen in companies. There is this merger, if you will, between government, NGOs and corporations, these public-private partnerships, and all based on what are called ESGs, or, yeah, ESG, environmental, social, and governmental mandates. These big companies are already adopting these. these things like the Equality Act and critical race theory. And they're jamming it down people's throats and it's an end run around the Constitution. Let me ask you, as a libertarian, we complain a lot as conservatives about big tech and what they're doing.

But I believe, and I know you believe private business should be able to do what they want to do. It's right in the free market. But when these companies are aligned so closely with a partner, and the government specifically, and they're doing an end run around the Constitution, what should we do? Don't buy their stuff. You know, look, Coca-Cola, you know, both my wife and I are incredibly upset with them right now. They came out with this woke thing about you need to admit that you're white and you're a

terrible person. You need to admit that you're aggressive, that you're opinionated, and you'll apologize for being white. And that's the most grotesque sort of racist thing I've ever. ever heard. That is the World Economic Forum's ESGs. Yeah, and then you got Bill Gates out there promoting that we need to have critical race theory in math. And there was a great professor from Vanderbilt, African-American woman who said, you know, that's the most racist thing I've ever heard that Bill Gates thinks my kids can't learn because of the color of their skin and that

we're going to dumb down math and that's showing your work or having too much emphasis on the correct answer is somehow racist. You know, that whole concept is racist, but that's the world we live in. You got Black Lives Matter extorting big corporations who are now paying for Black Lives Matter, people to go riot in different cities. It's obscene. I know a guy works for one of the big truck companies. He says, oh yeah, if I give $100, my company will match $300 to Black Lives Matter. And I've seen them. The people were in the George Washington Hotel, in the Willard Hotel, $500 a night with plane tickets, all paid for by big corporations through Black Lives Matter to get people to riot in D.C. The people almost killed my wife and I were paid for by big corporations. Big U.S. corporations paid their way there. So are there enough Republicans that are at least feeling some sort of responsibility to stand up for the Constitution and, you know, and do something? I guess the danger is, is that you have to have some footspah, you got to have some guts, some courage to stand up because it is a culture out there where even by me, everybody's saying,

made transphobic comments yesterday. All I did was asked was whether a minor consent to this kind of dramatic surgery. Nothing I ever said was hateful. I said nothing hateful about these people. I said nothing hateful about adults who choose to do this. But the culture is out there that is so strong that so many people in office are afraid to speak out and it's getting worse. So there's a handful of us that will speak out in the Senate. There's a handful in a house and we just have to grow our ranks. But we have to resist or it's just going to roll over us and we're going to live in this terrible cancel cultural world where nobody speaks out and everybody's afraid to say anything. Silence in the face of evil is evil itself, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Rand, thank you for being one of those people who will stand up. We will help you in any way we possibly can, and that goes for anybody left or right that will stand against this nightmare that is happening. Thank you so much, Rand Paul. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Paul Maliatakis is the congressperson brand new in the house from New York. She joins us now to give us the details on the $1.9 trillion dollar COVID-19 relief package. Nicole, how are you? Great, Glenn.

Great to be with you. I appreciate you having me on to expose what's actually happening in this bill. Yeah, so I read a lot of stuff. The media is spinning this, of course, as this is all going to help those states that are really in need and all those people that are really in need. I don't read it that way. Can you fill us in with the facts on what is in this bill? Sure. Well, first of all, I think what people need to understand is that there's a trillion dollars left over from the previous package. So Congress didn't take the time to really identify where the need is, where we could potentially be shifting resources and ensuring that we came out with something that was tailored and specific to the needs of struggling Americans and small businesses. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I want to make sure I understand this. There's a trillion dollars in, you know, some fictitious bank account. that they've already approved that hasn't been sent out? That is correct. So, and that's education spending to reopen schools. Some of it is PPP money for small businesses.

Oh, my. So, so, so, and the interesting thing enough with the education funding is that the CDC said it would cost $25 billion to reopen school safely across America. Yet they put $64 billion in the previous package with the majority of it unspent. and as you know, many schools, including those in my city, remain closed. And on top of that, they want to put another $130 billion in this package with 95% of that funding not being able to be spent until after this year is over. So wait, the estimate is that to reopen schools, it would cost $25 billion, but between the unspent money in the last bill and the new bill,

they are sending our schools $200 billion? That is correct. And so what I say is only under a mismanaged government or when Democrats are in control with things end up costing eight times as much as originally estimated. So what exactly is the, what do they say?

What is the response on $200 million for schools? Well, there's been no response. As a matter of fact, they keep insisting that this is for reopening America's schools. We know that's not the case, number one, because the estimates were an ace of what they're putting into this fund. The second thing is that the money is restricted to be used for over a year, so it's not emergency funding unless they anticipate that they're not going to reopen schools for a whole

other year. So to give you an example, in New York State, my state, Governor Cuomo did receive $4 billion for school, yet many of our schools remain close. throughout the state. I mean, we just reopened middle schools in New York City. And as you know, the school's chancellor just resigned about an hour ago. And it's because, I believe, really, because he hasn't been able to successfully roll out the opening of these schools and like the Catholic schools have in our city. Yeah. May I just recommend for anybody who is struggling to figure out how to open schools, the first thing you have to do is teachers, you're to report back to class,

on Monday, if not, you're fired. That would be the first thing to do to open up schools. Maybe it's just me. You also in this bill are, we are finding now that there is a $86 billion of our tax dollars to rescue union pension funds. Yeah, I mean, look, that's in there. There's a lot in there. is why we call it the Pelosi payoff bill, not the actual COVID relief bill.

So it's not just, you know, the bailout for pensions, but you actually have a $3.5 billion going overseas internationally for the global health fund for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. You know, good cause, but the thing is, why is the American people picking up 88% of the tab for this international organization's expenditures? because that's what $3.5 billion equates to. And this is at a time when even our diplomats overseas haven't even had access to the vaccine. And the other thing, to show you how bloated this package is,

less than 1% goes to vaccine production and distribution. And you ask any Democrat or Republican, local leader or national leader, and they will tell you that the vaccine development distribution is the number one thing to getting us back on track. So the fact that it's only equating for less than 1%, And I had to use Siri, by the way, to figure that out because, you know, calculators and go up to $1.9 trillion. But when you calculate it using Siri or Alexa, you'll find out that something like 0.7% of the entire package is going to what is said to be the number one priority. That is how below this bill is.

Nicole, is there, I mean, you're new to Congress. So let me ask you, are you, is it word? than you thought it would be or better or about what you expected? Well, unfortunately, it's, you know, it's a very polarizing. And my first month wasn't great. It was a very polarizing first month. You know, the fact that we lost the Senate was not helpful because there's no balance anymore. They changes the rules in this procedure so that way they don't even need any Republican votes.

They changed it from the 60 vote requirement. They changed it to 51 votes using what's called the budget reconciliation. And so, you know, they've basically shut us out of this process. And now we know why, because they wanted to jam all this pork into this bill. And as a New Yorker, I can say, look, of course I want my city and state to have money. But I also want accountability. And I don't trust this mayor or this governor. I believe that they'll take the federal funds and they still will increase the taxes that are driving New Yorkers out.

They're already talking about imposing higher income taxes and stock transfer tax. Mayor de Blasio increases the property tax levy every single year. They just increase tolls on our roadways. And so they're taking the money and they're still going to take from the people. And what's interesting about the way the Democrats set up this formula is that they changed it based on population to now based on unemployment rate. So governors like Governor Cuomo and Gavin Newsom are actually being rewarded for shutting down their economies and driving people out of work. So it's very disheartening to see how this is playing out. but I was a member of the New York State Legislature, also in the minority.

And so I'm kind of used to these types of games being played. But I'm hopeful that we'll be able to actually work together in a bipartisan fashion on something like the president said he wanted to do, even though he hasn't tried yet. So I was just talking to Bill O'Reilly, and he said what was happening in the New York House and Assembly was that the Democrats are going after Cuomo, not because of any of the Scandinavian. but because he's not radical enough. Do you believe that's true? Or are the Democrats in New York waking up to Cuomo? No, I think the Democrats in New York are getting a lot of pressure from their constituents who are demanding answers and families who are demanding justice.

The governor made a bad mistake by implementing this order that mandated the nursing homes except COVID-positive patients. Then he underreported it to the public, the number of deaths that were as a result of that. And then he stonewalled the legislature when they try to get answers. And then his own chief of staff admitted that they were covering up the whole thing simply because they didn't want the Department of Justice to gain access to this information. Then he bullied one of the Democratic Assembly members who stood up to him because his uncle died in a nursing home. So I think they're getting very tired of the governor's antics.

Thousands of New Yorkers have actually joined me in adding their name at enoughcom to send a message that they want the governor to resign. And this has only been exacerbated now by the fact that a young woman who is part of his administration has come forward with sexual harassment claims. So I think the Democrats really are starting to get tired of the governor. He's been in governor for three terms. He does use bullying tactics to get what he wants. He is vindictive.

And I think that he's outdoing his welcome, both with the other Democrats in the state, but also with the people, which is why his poll numbers have just been dropped so much last month. So with him and de Blasio are, and I would love to know this in California as well, but you are from New York, so you might have a good handle on New York. with Cuomo and de Blasio, the wreckage that has been done with these policies, especially because of COVID, are people just wanting to get rid of them, or are they tying them also to the policies that are so damaging? Well, they are tying them to their policies because they're the ones who put forward these arbitrary restrictions, these mandated shutdowns. that have hurt our local economy, that have led to thousands of people losing their jobs, that have put small businesses, people's livelihoods out. And, you know, schools, the parents, teachers, and students that I speak to want to go back to school.

And that is very upsetting. Children don't have school athletics anymore, which is another big issue. And there's not a lot of these restrictions that they put in place lacked common sense. Like you can go to the gym, but you can't go to the yoga studio. You know, you can ice skate and, you know, you can go to an ice skating pavilion and skate, but you can't have hockey leagues. You know, it just doesn't make any sense. And so there's a lot of frustration. And New York City were being treated differently than the rest of the state.

The rest of the state is at 50% capacity for indoor dining. New York City was shut down for so long. And finally, we got 25%. I kept pushing. We got now a 35% inching up toward 50. But why are we being treated differently than the rest of the state? So people are upset about this. They see that the governor and the mayor had way too much power.

And, you know, the governor's power needs to be rescinded. I've said that, you know, repeatedly, I've been saying that for months. And the Democrats keep dragging their feet. But they finally have to go and do it and take back their power as a equal branch of government and work to just reopen this economy and get children back to school and get people back to work. I have to tell you, I think between what companies are, have to say, covered with Zoom and virtual work, et cetera, et cetera, and the absolute devastation that has been done to Manhattan and your district in southern Brooklyn and Staten Island, I don't, and I know

you won't agree with this, I'm sure, but I don't see New York City ever recovering to the the city that it once was, at least for a decade. how how are you how is that area going to pay for all of the services that it needs and have promised when everybody's moving away companies are shutting down you're absolutely right about the policies that have been put in place that are driving people out i do have hope that new york city will recover that uh we do have a mayor's race and i'm hoping that some who will be, you know, really, really try to roll back some of this stuff that the mayor did. I mean, look, whether it be defunding the police, which was a completely ridiculous idea,

it's led to crime skyrocketing. We have a lot of mismanagement, a lot of mismanagement of our tax dollars, which is why I'm so concerned with billions more coming to New York. But I do believe that it's up to the people. The people have to be vocal. They have to complain. You know, I ran for mayor of New York City in 2017. I think we'd be in a better position had I won that election.

Unfortunately, this mayor spends more and more money and the problems get worse and worse. So that is the definition of mismanagement. I think there's a lot of things we could be doing differently to tackle our homeless crisis to make sure our streets are safer, to make sure that our trains are running, to make sure that our children are getting a good education in person. These are things that I think, unfortunately, government has just strayed from the basics of what they're supposed to be doing, right? People expect you to keep them safe, give their kids, a good education, make sure traffic is flowing, the trains are running on time, making sure

that there's an environment where jobs can grow. And unfortunately, they've strayed into all sorts of areas. They've got to get back to the basics. And that's what I'm going to be pushing for and speaking out for both here in Washington and when I'm back home in New York City. Thank you so much. Congresswoman Nicole Malia Takas from New York. Thanks for checking in with us. I appreciate it. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on iTunes. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. It is Friday. I want to tell you about the podcast that comes out tomorrow with Tulsi Gabbard.

It is really fascinating. It really is. Yeah, it is fascinating. But I think it's important that we cover something that you just said. Why do you have this? Sometimes you say these things and they're so profound in the moment. You are such a joke. What are you?

We lose them because of just, you know, you're so rapid fire with so many great moments. And then we miss a general. And I think the audience may have missed a gem just a few moments ago. And I think the audience wants to settle in, clear your mind. What do you have? And just contemplate this brilliant analysis by Glenn Beck. Sausages, desserts, really yummy cut with a spoon-style forks. You'll say 50.

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But so are you, I just want to clarify here. Shut up. Are you cutting? Shut up. Are you cutting the fork with a spoon? Yes. Can we hear it one more time? I'm sorry, Sarah.

No, there's no reason. Cut with a spoon-style fork. So is it a fork that cuts like a spoon? Do you just? Or are you cutting? You know, you did nothing? I mean, just. There's a reason they gave that to you in 2020.

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Did you cut a spoon with a fork on stage? Look, I don't know how I got this job. I don't know how I keep this job. I really don't. I listen to other shows. Yeah. I know how talented everybody else is. I listen and I'm like, they don't make any mistakes.

They don't say, ever. They would never say, they'd never say this. Cut with a spoon-style forks. I know that. Listen, I don't know how they do that. I know. I must have had pictures of somebody that I never took, nor did I know I have. You know, I bought something, and it was in like a pocket of some used jacket or something,

and it was like, he's got that jacket. You should put him on the air. Otherwise, he's going to use it. I don't know what was in the jacket. I don't even know what jacket it was. I just don't understand why you would need a spoon-styled fork. Shut up. Just use a fork or a...

Shut up. Why would you style your fork after a spoon? All right. There's two different utensils. Separate your cutleries. All we're trying to say here. Shut up. It's such a jerk.

Wait, what's that award again? Radio Hall of Fame. Wow. I mean, that's a, what an amazing achievement. Again. For you. I had pictures of somebody in a jacket I don't own. Here's the thing.

Could we go back to the show, please? cut with a spoon-style forks. Did you talk to Tulsa Gabbard about the spoon-style forks? You know what's so weird? I am more comfortable with this than if you are actually heaping praise on me. If you were saying, you know, you're a great, I would rather have you point this out. That's how sad my life is. Surprisingly enough, I'm more comfortable with it too.

I know what you mean, though. You feel awkward when when people say positive. things about you. Which is really nice because it doesn't happen. At least very often. I've removed myself from that position consistently throughout my entire life. Well, here's the great thing. You're standing in my shadow for just the last 25 years. I know. What does that say? What does that say about me? No, it's true. It's sad. It's depressing when I think about it, so I try to drink a lot. Well, I can't drink anymore. So.

Think how I feel.