The Glenn Beck Program - Capitalism Is in Big Trouble | Guests: Ken Paxton & Brian Riedl | 1/27/21

Episode Date: January 27, 2021

The World Economic Forum has responded to Glenn’s comments about America’s new “oligarchy." The WEF wants "stakeholder capitalism," but who are the stakeholders? Texas Attorney General Ken Paxto...n talks how fast President Biden has been moving and a federal judge blocking Biden’s order to pause deportations. The media float the idea of triple masking, so Glenn and Stu go on the search for the perfect number. Economic policy expert Brian Riedl takes on the $15 minimum wage and how it would decimate the economy. BlazeTV host Steve Deace talks "the COVID miracle" under Biden and the country’s trajectory toward an oligarchy. Glenn reviews Biden’s new "Made in America Office” (or MAO), which sounds good, but is terrifyingly vague. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:03:14 Hmm. I'm going to give you the response. I'm going to tell you what I said. Give the response. Then I'm going to use their definitions of this new capitalism that we're all going to love. And you tell me if using their own words, words, this is something we're all going to love. Yes. Klaus, Klaus, and Peter, I'm going to respond to you, as I apparently now know, you're listening. The truth behind the Great Reset in 60 seconds. So Janice lives in Texas. She's been a substitute teacher, you know, her whole life. she has to climb stairs every day and she said
Starting point is 00:04:05 that there were times I just couldn't do it anymore I had to refuse to go to class well let me tell you something Janice I know you live in Texas so it's not the same but you can refuse if you live in California or you know or Illinois you could refuse to go to class
Starting point is 00:04:21 because it's so unsafe because of COVID there anyway she actually wanted to go to class she developed pain in her hips or knees or back just got worse and worse every day. She heard me talking about relief factor. She was skeptical at first, but eventually she was like, I got nothing to lose. Within the first three weeks, she tells us, she found that not only was she able to climb the steps pain free, but she was bounding up them.
Starting point is 00:04:46 She said relief factor made her feel young again, and she got out of pain. She got her life back. Janice, I'm sorry that you're now bounding up the stairs because I don't, I mean, take the elevator. You know what I mean? I wish I had the excuse. use. But you got your life back. Congratulations. And thank you so much for just trying it. That's what you have to do to get out of pain. I know you've tried a million things. Just try it for three weeks. Seventy percent of the people who try it for three weeks go on to order more because
Starting point is 00:05:16 it works for them. Relieffactor.com. 800, 500,883.84. 800,000, 8,384. It's relief factor.com. And then they have shareholder capitalism, which does not work. And so we must have stakeholder capitalism. Oh, this is great. Now, they've released a little chart yesterday because they say what I'm saying is completely wrong. And what I'm saying is this isn't, this is an oligarchy.
Starting point is 00:05:55 That's all this is. This is for the oligarchs. You are going to be run by the people, well, well, not by the people's, representatives. I mean, we have a house of representatives, right, Stu, don't we? Right, right, right? Right. Representing our needs. They don't have freezer full of ice cream in freezers that most people can't afford. I mean, you know what I'm saying? And multiple freezers in the same kitchen. Right. They are just like you and they represent you. Okay. So it would never happen in America where the people who get power become suddenly very, very rich. And even, even,
Starting point is 00:06:34 more powerful. And then they start making new laws and dismissing laws for their friends, for the businesses that are helping them. Like for instance, we would never have social media here going around the Constitution and doing things that constitutionally the government should say, hey, hold on, you can't limit speech. You can't just deperson people. You'd think those representatives, well, I know in our country, those representatives would represent the people, right? I'm sure they would. Okay. So there are types of capitalism. Okay. This is the, this, this is from the world economic form. Types of capitalism. State capitalism, that's where the government is the key stakeholder. Government steers the economy and can intervene where necessary.
Starting point is 00:07:22 It's China's model, right? Russia's model in theory. Yeah. Kind of. Yeah. State capitalism. Business interests are subsidiary to state interests. Okay. So if the state says, we're going to do something, the businesses have to do it. That's state capitalism. Now, what we have is shareholder capitalism, where the key stakeholders are the company shareholders. You buy into the company. The social responsibility of that business is just to increase its profits.
Starting point is 00:07:51 Short-term profit maximization is the highest good. And who really touted this? Milton Friedman. Oh, geez, I hate him. Now, here's the new one. Unlike anything else that I've just, this is completely new. Stakeholder capitalism, who are the key stakeholders? All stakeholders matter equally.
Starting point is 00:08:19 Wow, that's really good. That sounds great. I love equality. Right? Okay, so everybody matters. All right. Key characteristic. Society's goal is to increase the well-being of people and the planet.
Starting point is 00:08:33 So the implication for the companies focus on long-term value creation and ESG measures. Oh, wow, this sounds really great. I like that. All stakeholders matter equally. Okay, so now let's get into who defines stakeholders. Yesterday, I said, this is the governments of the world coming together and working with big businesses, the governments get power, the big businesses, they get money. And you lose.
Starting point is 00:09:11 Peter Vanham. Peter Vanham. Hi, it's me, Peter Vanham, from the World Economic Forum. Here's my friend Klaus Schwab. And I'm Peter. Wait, wait, what accent is this exactly? What can you describe? I don't.
Starting point is 00:09:30 I don't know, exactly. just making it up as I go. Okay. Pater Swam. Pater, wait, no, Pater Vonham. So, I don't know. I'm sorry, Peter.
Starting point is 00:09:44 You're making me like him more. I don't think I'm supposed to like this guy, and you're making me like him with his accent. And over here, we have beautiful paintings. He seems delightful. He does, doesn't he? Have some venas all wrapped up in little blankets.
Starting point is 00:10:00 So, um, Peter tweeted. Now he's the co-author of stakeholder capitalism, a global economy that works for progress, people and planet. Klaus Schwab. And Peter
Starting point is 00:10:16 Vonham. So he writes, we address the false notion that any global elites, quote, the corporations and world leaders Glenn Beck talks about, should rule this system. Instead, we plead for subsidiary, meaning that decisions are made at the most granular level.
Starting point is 00:10:40 Local stakeholders should decide. Oh, that's why my mayor of my little town is in Davos. Wait, Glenn, there's no mayors of little towns in Davos. I was trying to get a hold of the city council just the other day, and they were all like, we're at Davos, working on stakeholder capitalism. Really? Yeah, yeah, okay. Because it's so local, it's going to take power away from centralized government.
Starting point is 00:11:07 Right. All of the prime ministers and all the big corporations are there. And my city council member, they are lecturing them right now on the ski slopes. Yeah. Wow. With the little leaners in the blankets. I don't know who this is, but I love this guy. Peter says, this is not propaganda as Glenn Beck asserts.
Starting point is 00:11:29 So this guy is. This guy's at the World Economic Forum in Davos with the weaners in the in the blankets. And he's texting this to me. Okay. This is not propaganda as Glenn Beck asserts. Subsiderary and stakeholder capitalism are approximated in Western European countries like Scandinavia, Benelux. I don't have Benelux. Benelux? I've never even heard of Benelux.
Starting point is 00:11:58 And Germany. Oh. Business and governments consult with one another on wages and social security, et cetera. And governments, now listen to this. This is how they get to you. Because you're a stakeholder in this. You're a stakeholder. And governments made up of representatives of the people regulate the markets,
Starting point is 00:12:22 in part to avoid the market concentration and formation of any unlawful ogiloply. And by the way, Glenn, just to reiterate how local this is, Benelux is the combination of three nations, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. But it's so local. It cares so much about the local control here. They've only just brought those three nations and just count them as one thing. Well, I bet that was driven by the people. You know what I mean? I'm sure it was.
Starting point is 00:12:53 When populists on the right and left claim that they at least agree they dislike global elite, They miss a much larger fundamental disagreement that they have over the kind of economic and political system that's needed to avoid the oligarchy they both fear. The system we propose is one of stakeholder capitalism. It's capitalism as it recognized the benefits of private enterprise, competition, and market forces. But it's a model of consultation with the people, meaning the governments, because we're all represented. Right? Don't you feel like, don't you feel like our government listens and responds to you,
Starting point is 00:13:34 the little people? I know I do. And it's a model of consultation. And I love this, and this is really important. It's a model of consultation with the people and the planet. Hang on, quiet.
Starting point is 00:13:55 I'm consulting with the planet right now. Shut up. Really? I mean you're positive. I don't want to make a mistake on this one. All right. Stu, the planet said you have to throw yourself into a volcano.
Starting point is 00:14:11 Really? Yeah. I would not be surprised. I'm just taking consultation and listening to the planet. That's what I'm doing. And I believe if I go to the representatives in Washington, I believe I could convince a lot of them that you should throw yourself into a volcano.
Starting point is 00:14:30 know if you're tied to me yes if you're tied directly to me so pater thank you so much darling for writing in that's wonderful but we don't like it we don't like it it's i don't know i like my mayor you know and maybe the local boss of the local restaurant i'm just saying although your winners in a blanket are wonderful let me go over you can't possibly believe that we should try, let's say, kind of an experiment of people governing themselves. You wouldn't think that would be appropriate, that people should make decisions based on their own self-interest. They don't know.
Starting point is 00:15:14 They're not smart enough. They're not smart enough. What we need are these world leaders. Right. And quite honestly, yesterday, I'm going to give you this quote, yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the same. said that let me see here, blah,
Starting point is 00:15:32 blah, the, in fact, I have the audio. Instead of reading it, let me give you the audio. It is Beninoff. Yes, Mark Beninoff,
Starting point is 00:15:43 CEO of, I don't know, people that do stuff for you.com. Here's what he, here's what he said at Davos yesterday. CEOs around the world need to realize they must manage for all stakeholders, not just shareholders.
Starting point is 00:15:58 And there has been a mantra for two, long that the business of business is business, but today the business about business is improving the state of the world. And this is more important than ever. We realize that. And so thank you, Klaus, for that. And we don't have to look any farther to that mantra than 2020 itself the year of the pandemic. In the pandemic, it was CEOs in many, many cases, all over the world, who were the heroes. They are the ones who stepped forward with their financial resources, their corporate resources, their boys, their factories, and pivoted rapidly. Yes.
Starting point is 00:16:34 Not for profit, but to save the world. Right. That is so true. Finally, somebody's saying it, the CEOs are the heroes. Amen. Amen to that. Now, the Secretary General of the OECD said, we don't want to return to normal. I mean, don't you feel that way?
Starting point is 00:16:54 We don't want to return to normal. We don't want COVID to end and for us to return to some. form a status quo because the status quo caused this brought us here to our knees. Those wishing to return to normal must inherently wish for disease and destruction to return and must secretly wish for death in the future. Oh man. Prime Minister of Spain said, let's not delude ourselves. There can be no social justice without tax justice. Now there's a guy speaking for all of us, huh? It's time to go one step further. It's not enough to distribute income more fairly through taxation, but take serious steps to ensure equal distribution of wealth to all people, all races,
Starting point is 00:17:42 and all nations. Prime Minister of Spain yesterday. Man, I, let me tell you something. this is an organization, I was wrong. Peter, thank you. This is absolutely an organization of we the people. I'm going to show you how we were actually warned by one of our presidents in recent modern history about this very thing coming up in just a second. Blinds.com is our sponsor this half hour. You can do something about those old window blinds, you know, the ones that look. look like somebody flew an airplane through them?
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Starting point is 00:19:13 10 seconds, station ID. You know, Eisenhower, President Eisenhower, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the guy, you know, you know, that really kind of won the war for us in World War II. In his farewell address, people miss the point. And this is something that you know. You know one line from it. You know this line about the military industrial complex. And a military industrial complex will roll the world.
Starting point is 00:19:56 We've all heard that over and over again. he is speaking with real foresight. He had learned about the power of large corporations and discovered that public and private power tend to prioritize their own interest and well-being over ours. Right now, in 2021, America needs to hear his words again. We finally have an answer to the question, what happens when corporations are in league with government programs? we know now. The bad news is our nation is turning into an oligarchy.
Starting point is 00:20:33 Exactly like Eisenhower warned. Everybody remembers his comments about the military industrial complex, but he also warned us about something else. Dangerous merging of industry and government and education.
Starting point is 00:20:50 Listen. Into and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial military posture has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central. It also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of the federal government.
Starting point is 00:21:18 Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shock, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists. in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research, partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. hear that? They're not curious about things. They just follow the money. Technological revolution
Starting point is 00:22:03 resulted in its own family tree of industrial complexes. Do I have enough time here to play the education industrial complex? Listen, the prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in hold of, holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific, technological elite. Hmm.
Starting point is 00:22:44 I can't imagine that happening. This is him in the 1950s warning exactly against something like The Great Reset. I want you to do your own homework. Their own words, spell it out. You know, it's interesting how they just keep referring to stakeholders as you. But what you need to understand, you are only representative, represented by the government. This is the Glennback program. We have Ken Paxton on coming up in just a second.
Starting point is 00:23:19 He's in tell us about one of the lawsuits they just won against Biden here in the great state of Texas. What if you had a time machine that could allow you to go back at any moment in your past what moments would you relive you don't have a time machine but we do have old photos and videos and films the videotapes and audio tapes all those moments that were captured now sit in a box in your garage a jumble of bygone formats now here's the good news legacy box can transform that old box of fading memories into something lasting you use their kit to safely send the moments you want to preserve and their team will create a digital collection and then it comes back to you stored on the cloud a thumb drive DVD all with the original
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Starting point is 00:24:36 Do it now. Two weeks ago on TV, we talked about government and private industry coming together in the Biden administration. They're just getting started. Every time you open a closet at the Biden White House, there's another special interest skeleton that tumbles out. Tonight, we're going to take a look at the major stakeholders who have their tentacles all over this White House.
Starting point is 00:25:07 The new Biden administration, already showing America the natural end result that comes from decades of being dominated by special interest groups. Eventually, you get government that at the top is so beholden to these groups, you can call them stakeholders. The stakeholders have vested interest in the actions and policies of the government, financial interest, ideological interest, often both. These stakeholders always take priority. over you and me.
Starting point is 00:25:36 Tonight I'll show you the stakeholders in this new stakeholder capitalism and the Biden administration. What they want, who they're working with inside the Biden administration, 9 p.m. Eastern on blazedtv.com and Blaze TV YouTube. 9 p.m. Eastern, blazTV.com or Blaze TV YouTube. We have Ken Paxton with us. he is the 51st Attorney General of Texas. He has fought and won many of the cases against Barack Obama's administration, and they've just posted their first victory on the Biden administration.
Starting point is 00:26:19 The first one to bring a lawsuit, and within six days, Texas has halted Biden's illegal deportation freeze. Joining us now is Ken Paxton. Hi, Ken, how are you? I'm doing well. Good morning. It's been a fast start, hasn't it? It is breathtaking how quickly things are changing. And quite honestly, we were talking about it in the break, a little frightening. I agree. It is frightening. I don't think it's ever happened this fast. I mean, I think Biden is off to the fastest start of any president
Starting point is 00:26:52 and just issuing executive orders and changing sort of what we had going. Yeah, he had a, he's had a record of, I think 38. which it just smashes all the other records of executive orders. He's signing more today, this one. They are going to preserve, I don't know what that means exactly. I fear I do. I've read Agenda 2030. Preserve 30% of all federal land by 2030.
Starting point is 00:27:24 I don't know exactly what that means, but that doesn't sound good. Yeah, it doesn't sound good. First, let's talk about the win that you had. tell me about the lawsuit and what it means. So we had an agreement that we signed with the Department of Homeland Security recently that said that if they were going to change major immigration policies that we were going to be provided notice. And so obviously the executive order that came out that ended all deportations and the invitation for people to cross the border didn't meet those requirements. And so we filed a lawsuit on President Biden's third day, and we challenged that executive order, not just based on that agreement, but also based on the fact that federal law requires him to do certain things that he has said now he will not do.
Starting point is 00:28:15 And so we argue that he violated federal law and his constitutional duty to enforce the law that now exists. And so what did the judge say? So the judge basically gave us, we were asking for a preliminary injection, a temporary, a temporary, injunction first. We're going to seek a permanent injunction next. And we did that because we had to show that there was harm to the state of Texas if this went forward while we were litigating the merits of the case. So we haven't won the merits of the case. We've merely made a good argument showing that we will suffer irreparable harm as a state if this goes forward. And it wasn't hard for us to show that, given that we already have a mass of people coming up from the southern border,
Starting point is 00:28:55 essentially have COVID, that potentially have other communicable diseases that potentially are criminals, and that will cost the state of Texas billions of dollars. And so that harm was not hard to show, in my opinion. So how are you going to argue for permanent, especially with the way this administration is moving, where social justice outweighs everything? Well, it's going to be pretty much the same argument. Just to say, we are going to suffer damage, we need time to have this question answers to whether the president is violating federal law by stopping the, you know, the implementation of what is federal law. Can he do that? And the argument that we need time or we will be harmed still, it's the exact same argument, just that we need longer to decide the merits of the case.
Starting point is 00:29:53 So, but, but, but, but, but, what, what I'm saying is if, if you're arguing and, you know, Biden, this is all changing now. We're not talking about rule of law anymore. We're talking about, uh, social justice outweighing absolutely everything. If they, um, if they win and he can just say, we're not going to do any of that. A, isn't that what they've already done with, with, uh, you know, we're not going to enforce, you know, know, busts on pot. So haven't they already done that? And if they do codify this in the courts, then doesn't this make him in some ways a dictator to where he could just administratively do whatever the president can, not just Biden, but any president could just do whatever they want.
Starting point is 00:30:42 And it never has to go through legislation. No, you've hit the nail on the head. And it means literally that Congress becomes almost irrelevant. The courts become. not so relevant, and the states that are supposed to have all these powers reserved to them that are not specifically granted to the federal government also lose their power. It does become a real focus on one person having all of the power, which clearly was not what our framers intended. So, Ken, I've talked to other attorney generals around the country, and they are just as concerned as I am. And I'm wondering, I know many of them are all working together to try to stop this onslaught.
Starting point is 00:31:28 But is there any conversation about a sanctuary state of not secession or anything like that, but just saying this state will not violate the Bill of Rights and the Constitution? And if you try to do these things that are unconstitutional, this is a safe haven, a sanction. a sanctuary state for rights? You know, it's interesting that conversation has not come up among the AG specifically, but I was at a conference with technology leaders around the country, and most of them were actually pointing to that by saying they were either considering or they were on their way or they had already moved to Texas or Florida,
Starting point is 00:32:15 because they felt like those were states that they could go and be safe, and that the risk in the states that they're in is becoming untenable for them, and they're trying to find a safe haven where their rights will be respected, and they will have continuing opportunities to work. And, I mean, how do we do that? They are already talking about, you know, if you're depersoned, that you won't, what was it, the head of MasterCard said yesterday, we don't have to do business with just anybody, meaning if we don't if we don't like the business that they're in we can just say we're not doing business with them anymore and this is a growing trend and when it comes to businesses like mine or for anybody that is unpopular this is extraordinarily dangerous are the states will Texas stand behind the universal God-given rights that we have always stood with
Starting point is 00:33:15 We will in my office. You know, I'm part of, you know, I'm part of the entire state. I'm not the entire state, but we will at my office. That's why we are now investigating the five companies that were related to the parlor deplatforming because we want to understand how are they doing this? How do they have the authority to just de-platform a whole company because they disagree with their views or they disagree with the people that they allow to speak? Are you and the governor having conversations at all about
Starting point is 00:33:45 critical race theory to make sure that's not being taught in our schools? Well, I haven't had those conversations. That's not an area that I can do much about as Attorney General unless there's some specific violation of law. My job is to enforce whatever laws we have. So I always have to look for my way of getting into court. Well, we can't teach discrimination in schools, can we? No.
Starting point is 00:34:12 But that would be probably if they were teaching discreet. discrimination law in schools, that would be probably a lawsuit by an aggrieved party, a student, a parent who said, hey, you can't do this in this school. And then it becomes under your purview. Well, so then if the school asks me to represent them and I think they're wrong, I say, no, I can't represent you. This is a legitimate lawsuit and you need to be accountable for doing the right thing. Okay. Do you have any advice for what the average person should be doing right now in their state?
Starting point is 00:34:49 Absolutely. I think they should be speaking out. I think the more voices that are speaking out, because what is going to happen, my concern is, you know, they go after the president, and people don't say anything. If we keep quiet right now, if people are afraid to speak, which I see some of this, I see some of this with, you know, some of my fellow AGs. I see this in a lot of circles. People are afraid that if they speak out, they'll be the platform. they'll be canceled. So if we don't all speak out, if we don't address these election issues and states where there was, you know, they weren't following their own laws, we have to address that now where it will be too late. They will come and de-platform all of us.
Starting point is 00:35:29 And if you think you're going to hide from that, you're not going to hide from it. They may get to somebody else first, but unless we're all working together, it's going to be a problem. Ken, thank you very much. Thank you for Thanks for staying on top of things And thank the governor for us as well We are counting on our state reps
Starting point is 00:35:50 And our governor and you to Stand and fight the good fight against This onslaught that is coming Our way quickly I'll say this Glenn is Texas doesn't fight If we are in the middle of this fight I don't think we have much hope I think it's Texas has to be in the fight
Starting point is 00:36:09 Texas has to be in the fight Texas has got to, I mean, I've talked to sheriffs and they've said, if I have to deputize every single citizen in my county, so they have the right to carry a gun, we're not backing, we're not backing down. It's got Texas must. I mean, it's really sad. I talked to Christy Nome, and I'm like, you know, I'm a little embarrassed. Texas should be knocking you into the dust right now. We need to be Texas. We need to stand and be very clear and be a leader for freedom.
Starting point is 00:36:42 Supposed to be the alibi. Thank you very much. Absolutely good. Appreciate it. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas. If you're a cyber criminal, you're going to have to get up pretty early in the morning
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Starting point is 00:38:28 Apparently, Reddit is pushing stocks, and GameStop has gone through the roof. I mean, like, Yeah. Crazy amounts. GameStop, of course, a brick and mortar, largely mall-based physical video game retailer.
Starting point is 00:38:48 Uh-huh. Not exactly the best business to be in in 2020 and 2021. It's been sitting at about five bucks a share throughout entire of 2020. And there's a Reddit message board called Wall Street bets. It's been around for a long time. They take really risky bets and they talk about them. You know, it's been around for a while. And there's been lots of really interesting stories.
Starting point is 00:39:08 that have developed out of this message board over the years. This one, they decided, one guy decided to invest $50,000 because he saw something interesting in the GameStop trading world, which was everyone, predictably, was shorting GameStop stock. They all thought it was going to go to zero, which is seemingly where it should have been going, probably at this point. So these billion dollar hedge funds, multi-billion dollar hedge funds came in,
Starting point is 00:39:36 and they were able to identify, that there was not a lot of shares available, that they had actually shorted more shares than were available in the entire stock. So if they could get enough people to just start buying this stock, it would go up and it would trip a bunch of different tripwires that make people buy the stock back to cover their positions. So they would buy the stock back,
Starting point is 00:40:00 then it would just keep going up and up and up and up and up. And it's what's called a short squeeze. But it is a little bit complicated to go through the details of it, but it doesn't really matter. The bottom line is they were able to push this stock from $5 to this morning. It hit $350 a share. That is crazy. In a matter, I mean, really, it's all happened within the last week or two.
Starting point is 00:40:21 So if your GameStop, I mean, are you freaking out? Because it's going to, it'll collapse once everybody's made their money. It shouldn't, it's not valued. Yeah. The big hedge funds they were targeting finally gave up and said, all right, we're pulling all our money out. I mean, they basically beat this hedge fund. Now, all of this sounds very fun, and it is really fun in some ways.
Starting point is 00:40:42 Like these guys basically, you know, David taking down Goliath in some ways. And they're looking, they like it because they don't like some of these billionaires. They don't like some of these hedge funds, what they do to companies. There's a sort of, I don't know, almost a left-wing anti-capitalist message in here as well. The other side of this, though, is that when things like this happen to a lot of billionaires and a lot of people, by the way, also, you know, teachers, unions and, and, uh, pension funds and all the things that are wrapped up in these hedge funds, when they no longer have a retirement, the government usually cracks down on such things.
Starting point is 00:41:15 And you could see this going the opposite way really fastly from happiness to sadness. We'll see what happens, but it's now down from 350 to 270. So it's already started to drop again. It's going to be a fascinating thing to watch and has been so far. How'd you like to be an employee at GameStop? This is the Glenn Back program. All right. Let me tell you about America.
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Starting point is 00:43:50 Unbelievable. I mean, this is insane. You know, they already went after his business when he was supporting the president, you know, the, what is it? The Better Business Bureau. And I know the story. I know all the details of what happened there. And it was a political hatchet job. Mike just does not seem to care, though.
Starting point is 00:44:13 I mean, he's out. He just keeps, he keeps talking, doesn't mind telling you exactly what he thinks, and he doesn't care how much you threaten his business. And look, if you don't like what he says, don't listen. If you don't like what he says, don't buy his pillow. You know, I happen to actually like his pillow. And if I don't like what he says, I still sleep well. If I do like what he says and I like his pillow, I might buy the sheets.
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Starting point is 00:45:31 you might want to just, you know, tweet out that you're getting a MyPillow at MyPillow.com and they've got a two-for-one special. I mean, I think that would be, it would be nice just for your friends, you know, just to let people know that you're at mypillow.com or their number 800, 966, 3117. Do it now. Mypillow.com. It's science, man. It's science. Okay. I'm a doctor. And we want to get into some heavy-duty science. Let me start with CNBC's report yesterday on masks. The experts keep telling us that wearing masks is really about protecting ourselves, protecting others from ourselves in the event that we are contagious.
Starting point is 00:46:20 But, you know, if other people aren't wearing their masks or they're wearing them improperly, we need to protect ourselves. So experts say you can double up with a tight weave fabric mask for added protection. Now, Virginia Tech researchers found that doubling up these cloth masks increases the efficacy from 50 to 75%. A three-layer mask could block up to 90% of the particles. Wow. So you get three masks. You're up to 90. Now, you could just buy the N95, which filters out 95% of all dangerous particles. And when those were tough to get at one point, but now you can really go into any Home Depot and pick them up. In the N95, that would stop you from having to wear three masks.
Starting point is 00:47:08 Didn't stop Mitt Romney, who's always a leader. He's always a leader. And I just, I just, he's got a sweet spirit. I just love him to death. And he was on the floor of the Senate, and he was wearing two masks yesterday. And I thought, you know, Mitt, I know you know about these things. You may not be a doctor like I am, but I know you know these things. I mean, you don't just take a big oldie, tie your dog to the roof of your car without having some idea of science.
Starting point is 00:47:37 You know what I'm saying? And so I say this with all humility to that sweet, sweet, dear man, Mitt Romney. I have 25 masks. Now, yesterday, we got it up to 10, but your ears start to rip off your head. There's a structural collapse around 10 to 12 masks where your ears do not hold them. Your ears don't actually have any bones. Surprisingly, most people, I'm a doctor, so I knew this. But most people don't know.
Starting point is 00:48:08 Your ears don't have actual bones in them. So there's no real structure there. And so they'll just rip right off your face if you put. But I had 11, but as a doctor, I would not recommend more than 11 masks tied to your ears. However, we did go and we found these little mask thingies that you can put on the mask that it's like string. And then you can adjust it on the back of your head. It's like the fat guy seatbelt extender on airplanes. Exactly right.
Starting point is 00:48:39 Not that I know. Not that I have to use those. Not that I've ever sat next to my wife. And she said, why aren't you buckling up? and I, you know, I don't have any experience. Well, that's just anyway. So, so now 25 masks. This will filter out 700 and, well, let me just.
Starting point is 00:49:00 Now, you just put it up here. Now, my nose hurts a little bit from yesterday because it kind of crushes your nose when you really tighten it up. So now, these masks, 25 masks, will filter out 700. 180% of old particles. 780%. 780%. At another 10, you're up to 1,000%.
Starting point is 00:49:24 So if we had another 10, if you had COVID, now this is speaking as a doctor, and I hate to get into science like this, but if you do have COVID and you're wearing a thousand masks, it actually sucks the COVID out of your body. It sucks the COVID. it out of your body? Yes, and you're cured. Now, I don't want to talk about cures, because this is
Starting point is 00:49:53 just, well, I haven't run it by the FDA yet. No, no, no sign off by Fauci on that one yet. Right, but a thousand masks will really, now, you're going to have a hard time, because it's going to be like your, I don't know, like Pinocchio. Right. You know, when his nose was really, long. Yeah, it's a lot of masks. You can't turn really easily because you get a thousand masks on. Right, a thousand masks. But this is just, this is 25 masks. And I feel comfortable. I don't think that my life is being disrupted at all. No, no.
Starting point is 00:50:34 I don't think it looks ridiculous. I think people will see this and they'll go, that guy is safe. There's a lot of pressure on the nose. I mean, the nose is also, are there bones in the nose, doctor? There are bones in the nose? But they're higher up, you know, they're up here. You're really worried about the cartilage. Yes. Right here at the end, because that really does hurt. I think I have a nose bleed, but the good thing is the masks are completely absorbing all of the board.
Starting point is 00:51:01 It's like a maxi pad for your nose. Thank you. Thank you. Scientifically. Yeah, I was going to say, it sounds a little, it sounds a little growth. Coming from a non-doctor, but as a doctor, I'm telling you, uh, You know, there's nothing wrong with stuff and a couple of feminine hygiene products to your face. No.
Starting point is 00:51:24 25 feminine hygiene products is like a hundred face masks. What? A hundred. Yeah. Did you say 100 face masks? A hundred face masks. That's what that's like. Now, my understanding is if you said a thousand face masks will suck the COVID out of you.
Starting point is 00:51:40 Yes, a thousand will. Let's just, let me, I want to throw a theory by you. I'm not a doctor. Yes. If you were to put on 5,000 face masks. Yes, your whole family is safe. Okay. Now, let me ask another question. Okay, all right. If you were to put on 10,000 face masks, could you bring people back from the dead that died of COVID like Pet Cemetery?
Starting point is 00:52:01 Well, I don't, as a doctor, okay? I don't have this peer reviewed yet. You don't have a peer reviewed, okay. So I'm just saying in the studies that I have done, if they are, if you're wearing 5,000 N95 man. Yes. Okay? Mm-hmm. You can't,
Starting point is 00:52:17 you have to be extraordinarily careful when you're walking near graveyards. Really? Yes. Because the people... The people will just wake up and then you'll hear from under the ground, Oh, I'm still alive and you're living out. And then...
Starting point is 00:52:32 It's really ugly, because you don't know who's been killed because they, you know, were supposed to die and, you know, they were a killer or something like that and they were executed. Or if they just died, COVID because if you're wearing the N95, it saves everybody. Is it possible? This is how the Walking Dead started, that documentary, where people were, there's a
Starting point is 00:52:55 Well, can I tell you something right now? The Walking Dead, uh, yeah. I mean, you know when you see this? Your scientific opinion is yeah. Yeah. Okay. Did you need me to break that down for you? If you wouldn't mind.
Starting point is 00:53:09 Yeah. Prescription, you could write? Yeah, I think, you know, to break it down, yes. I think so, yeah. There's a bit of physical pain involved in this bit. Again, I mean, this science. You know, I wear this in honor of that sweet, sweet, dear, sweet spirited man, Mitt Romney, who I just think is a leader, who is a genius, and somebody that I really, really respect.
Starting point is 00:53:42 Respect? Perfect? Did you understand that or respect? It's a little hard to understand it. I'm just trying to... Oh, I guess you can really understand what I was telling you about my respect around there. Do you think that you are a hateful COVID denier that should be thrown off the internet if you're only wearing three masks? Well, I think definitely under 10.
Starting point is 00:54:03 Under 10, you think under 10? Well, under 10, thrown off a D platform, you shouldn't be able to use a bank. No banks, okay. But if you're, let's say you're not wearing, you're not wearing eight, execution. Execution. I'm sorry? Execution. But a different kind of execution.
Starting point is 00:54:24 I suggest that if you're wearing under eight masks, that you are sent to New York and Andrew Cuomo can put you into one of the nursing homes. Okay. You just get free, free lodging at an Andrew Cuomo nursing home. Yes, and the state will then kill you there slowly. It's classy. Yeah, thank you. You're welcome.
Starting point is 00:54:45 Okay. Enough for the science. Ow. It really is. It hurts your nose. Oh, it hurts. But it's worth it. If it just saves one child, isn't it worth it still?
Starting point is 00:54:56 Well, I think it's mostly worth it because both of us have already had COVID. So there would be absolutely no improvement? And not 90% improvement. Zero percent improvement because we can't, you know, we're not going to get it again. Well, a thousand has three zeros in it. So if you're wearing a lot of, a thousand masks. It's three times as better as none.
Starting point is 00:55:17 That's not how it works, doctor. No, it's, you don't understand. No, it's true. Let me take you a real quick. I don't. Break and tell you about AMAC. Knowing on who you can count on has always been a valuable commodity. For instance, can I trust this thousand mask theory?
Starting point is 00:55:32 Yeah, you can. Now, did you get it from a reliable source? Sure, me. But what about, what about if I read it, you know, from some organization that does work in Washington. Probably not as reliable. Unless it's AMAC. AMAC is a, is a association for mature American citizens.
Starting point is 00:55:55 It's a seniors group that has now over two million members. They give you everything that you need, everything that you need, all the discounts and everything else that you're like, oh my gosh, we're going to go, I don't know, cross the country and we're going to need AAA and we're going to need discounts on hotels and, you know, Whatever people, you know, that are 50 plus, I don't know what those people do. But whatever it is, those people do, you'll get the discounts. Shut up, Stu. You'll get the discounts.
Starting point is 00:56:24 Now, the other thing is they really work in Washington to represent you. They represent faith, reason, courage, solvency, you know, for the national debt, the sanctity of life. They have a full-time presence in Washington, and Amac has been pushing back for years against the radical left's socialist agenda. I believe they started around the Obama health care time. They are in it for the right reasons. The benefits are great. The cause is greater.
Starting point is 00:56:54 It's our freedom. Amac.amac.amac.us. amac.us. Amac.com.us. slash Beck. Amac. slash back. Amac is better, better for you, and better for America. 10 seconds, station ID. You know, you want to see somebody who's been, I think red-pilled, maybe?
Starting point is 00:57:23 I don't know if she would say it this way. But Tulsi Gabbard, what is happening with Tulsi Gabbard? I'm relatively certain she would not say it that way. I mean, explain it another way. I mean, have you seen what she's saying? She issued a dire warning to the American people on Tuesday, expressing concern, quote, that domestic enemies of the United States
Starting point is 00:57:46 in the national security community and big tech industry are plotting to create a police state in America. She said the CIA director, John Brennan, and Adam Schiff, two leading proponents of expanding national security powers, labeling them domestic enemies of the country. Now, is that different than Adam Schiff, or is that, as Adam Schiff, a new guy I need to be aware of?
Starting point is 00:58:11 No, it's kind of an Adam Schiff, Adam Schifty. Okay, you're just in between. I want to remind people that, Mm-hmm. And it also, you know, if you, it's also Adam, you take the C out and the Fs and just move the T closer in and you'll say. No, I got. You sure you don't even need to go further? I think you explained it.
Starting point is 00:58:34 Because I'm, I can put it out on the chalkboard and really work it out for you if you'd like. Surprisingly, no, you don't need to do that. The mob who stormed the Capitol on January 6th is try to stop Congress from carrying out its constitutional responsibilities. We're behaving like domestic enemies of our. country, Gabbard said. But let's be clear, John Brennan, the Adam Schiffs and the oligarchs in big tech who are trying to undermine our constitutionally protected rights and turn our country into a police state with KGB-style surveillance are also domestic enemies and much more powerful, therefore dangerous,
Starting point is 00:59:08 more dangerous than the mob that stormed the capital. She doesn't. She doesn't have a prayer. No. She just doesn't have a prayer of, I mean, I'm surprised that the helicopters haven't picked her up already to take her to a nice little summer camp. Yeah, I mean, look, she has a lot of really far left-wing policies, but she's always been very against that sort of Clinton establishment type. Yeah, she loves America. There's, that's one thing you can say.
Starting point is 00:59:38 Yeah, there's one thing you could say. And that's why, you know, you can have disagreements with people. but when they when they actually love America like I couldn't take that from all of these Democrats during the the inauguration with all of the flags up there and all of the things and the star spangled banner and there's a tear to my eye no it doesn't no it doesn't you've been saying for the last five years how much this country sucks how this flag is a symbol of oppression how the star spangled banner is a symbol of oppression and a song of oppression. I mean, I just can't take it.
Starting point is 01:00:16 But I can take differences of opinions easy. But to you at least believe in the Bill of Rights. And I think Tulsi Gabbard does. We've been trying to get her on the show. For some reason, for some reason she doesn't want to come on the show. That's weird, didn't it? That is very strange. I'm shocked by that.
Starting point is 01:00:32 Oh, you know who I have on for the podcast tomorrow? Oh, you're going to love this. If you are a Blaze TV subscriber, you're going to going to get it two days before anybody else tomorrow i have the head of the astronomy uh department at harvard his credentials are a mile long who says uh we've already we've been visited in 2017 by aliens and he said uh you know i can make a pretty good case he's got a new book out called extraterrestrials and it's about that remember that that cigar shaped oh yeah okay the asteroid i got up to like chapter four last night it's he's like it's not an asteroid and here's why and he explains it he explains
Starting point is 01:01:25 how it was shiny it was like mirror like or metallic and uh the way it behaved he said comes, destroys everything we know about the physical universe. If this indeed is an asteroid or a meteorite or something, it did not behave within the principles of physics. And he said, so it would be impossible. It would be impossible. Or our physics are wrong. And he said, we should have this talk, but nobody wants to talk about it because, you know,
Starting point is 01:02:01 oh, right, right, right, right. It's an alien ship. Well, what else is it? And he's not saying it's an alien ship. He said, it's the best, easiest explanation. But if it's not, what is it? And the way he talks about it is phenomenal. He's going to do a podcast with me tomorrow and you'll be able to hear that.
Starting point is 01:02:21 Tonight, for Blaze TV subscribers and also, I think we're putting this on the Blaze TV YouTube channel. Tonight I'm going to talk to you about what's happening in the Biden administration and all of the oligarchs and the way they are now structuring the government. A recent article in foreign affairs written by Samantha Power. Yeah, she's back. President Biden had made her the new head of USAID. And then he put USAID that seat on the National Security Council.
Starting point is 01:02:57 Why? Here's what she says. No leader wants it known that he has used his position of power and privilege to help himself and his. cronies profit at the expense of citizens. That's the accidental definition of Joe Biden. So we started looking into the crony capitalism two weeks ago on Glenn TV, and tonight we're picking that baton back up, and we're going to look at more of the deep-pocketed
Starting point is 01:03:22 stakeholders from BlackRock and Big Tech who have unprecedented White House access to further the worldwide agenda that is happening right now in Davos. it's amazing that the World Economic Forum actually responded to this program yesterday. I said something on this program yesterday, and from Davos, they tweeted back, and they said, Glenn Beck is just this isn't right. Yes, it is, and we explained it in the first hour of this broadcast today. Something is very, very wrong, and you need to know about it. It happens tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern on BlaisTV.com slash Glenn.
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Starting point is 01:05:31 conservative programming. Go to blazhtiv.com slash Glenn. The promo code is Glenn, and you'll save $30. So $15 an hour. Why only $15 an hour? I mean, it's like the masks. You know, well, one mask is good. two masks is better. Why not three? Why not seven? Why not 25?
Starting point is 01:05:56 Same thing with minimum wage. Why shouldn't the minimum wage be something really living? And maybe, you know, something that includes like where you could buy a house, maybe like $60,000 a year. I mean, why don't we just do that? Why stop at 15? Brian Riedel is with us. He's the senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute. he's a guy who doesn't care who's in office, Republicans or Democrats. He points out both of them suck when it comes to actually living by the budget. And we wanted to talk to him about the $15 wage. And also, how long can we last at these kind of spending limits?
Starting point is 01:06:38 We go to Brian now. Hi, Brian. How are you? I'm Greg. Glenn. How are you? Very good. By the way, I forgot to mention you were also one of the researchers and co-authors of the book,
Starting point is 01:06:48 broke, which was fantastic. At least they tell me. Yeah, thanks Brian. Okay, so Brian, let's talk about the $15 wage. What will that do to the nation? Oh, holy cow. Restaurants are going through right now. Restaurants, their minimum wage buys.
Starting point is 01:07:56 So, Brian, explain to people who don't understand, you know, these big companies, they could afford $15. an hour. Explain why this cancels their jobs. Especially in low-cost place, raising the minimum wage really high in Puerto Rico about 15 years ago, and it cost something like 40% unemployment. Companies can afford it. It doesn't take a loss that you're going to walk into a taco belt.
Starting point is 01:09:03 I mean, it was the old automat, or the old, what is it, automatic, I think, was the restaurant up in New York, where you didn't have anybody waiting on you back in the 1930s. Now there's no one behind the machine to stuff the food in. Now it will just be a machine. And we would call that progress anywhere else, but because it's going to put people out of work, now it's going to be devastating to the economy, especially when you have truck drivers who are going to be the first on the block when automated trucks are everywhere on the highway. A lot of people ought to work. Universal basic income payment. So there are places like in New York City, and not today.
Starting point is 01:10:07 There are places in New York City with $15 an hour would be reasonable. You know, you've got to pay higher if you're living in New York City. But there are also places all over the country where $15 an hour is quite a haul. Crazy for a national number. It's not sensitive to local economies and local conditions. The taxering job doesn't pay that. I'm raising their minimum wage. Tell me about Seattle, because the initial response was this is going to put the restaurants out of business.
Starting point is 01:11:27 What has happened to Seattle since they put this in? Caused an epic crash in the state automation. Even the trade-off exists in Seattle. It hasn't caused a crash. So we have, according to President Biden now, a $11 trillion in new spending over the decade. They're no longer looking for the offsets. He's saying that three trillion in new taxes will help offset that. I mean, we're just, we're printing money, right? I mean, we're really on modern monetary theory at this point, right, without calling it that. Right. And John Kerry
Starting point is 01:12:56 is a huge amount and hop of the Biden would have a run. Is that number optimistic, too, Brian? I mean, does that reflect reality even $26 trillion? Oh, and also assumes no interest rate hikes. Exactly. All these numbers is they assume interest rates stay low forever. Congressional Budget Office assumes here is in interest. Oh, my gosh. Okay.
Starting point is 01:14:07 Wow. You know, people say, this is not Vimar. It's not Zimbabwe. And it's not yet. You know, it wasn't Vimar until a certain point. And then it was like, oh my gosh, and it's too late. Any idea when it becomes too late? I mean, we are headed, correct me if I'm wrong.
Starting point is 01:14:32 We're headed for a Zimbabwe or a Weimar if we don't stop this at some point, right? Oh, the Congressional Budget Office proposed 114 over 30 years. Okay, so these numbers are so big, it sounds like monopoly money. And it will be monopoly money. Yeah, in five years is lending Washington money, ridiculous, and you're going to have to pay us to compensate for the risk. At that point, you get into this vicious circle where Washington has to pay higher interest rates in order to attract lenders, which are more nervous, which requires even higher interest rates. At that point, I think, didn't we already kind of hit this in some ways? I mean, I think it was over last summer or the summer before, we offered bonds, and nobody took them in the best.
Starting point is 01:16:07 then the Fed just started buying them. Three trillion to lend to us. Now, hopefully as the recession ends... Have you seen what's happening in Davos with a great reset? Yeah, I know, I know. Everybody's carrying such a heavy load. Yesterday, they said all we need is $50 trillion, and we can do all these things.
Starting point is 01:17:21 50 trillion. Thank you so much. Brian, I'd love to have you on again, but I need to take some medicine here before. I talk to again. Brian, thank you so much. I appreciate it. We'll talk again.
Starting point is 01:18:01 I would like to go in a little further on what it means when the dollar starts to lose its value and who really gets hurt. It's the people who always played by the rules and people who have their money in a savings bank. Exactly. All right, Brian, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Brian knows that stuff better than anybody. I swear, he's a great follow on Twitter at Brian underscore Reedle, I believe it. is, R-I-E-D-L.
Starting point is 01:18:27 Great place to go because he's got this stuff, and he's been saying it the whole time. He was saying it, every president going back through the years, through Trump, the whole time, you know, a lot of conservatives haven't focused on the budget here and the debt for a while. Hopefully that's going to return here with Biden as president, because it's really important. That is, I mean, that is the one good thing about the Biden administration is at least conservatives will start paying attention to the debt again. Some people find their faith. Yeah.
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Starting point is 01:20:36 They referred the Washington Examiner to the FBI. The FBI declined to respond. Now, the acting secretary for the Army, John Whitley, told reporters yesterday in a conference call that what I can tell you is in terms of what the FBI is briefing us is that there are several upcoming events that we need to be here for. When pushed on it, he said we don't engage in intelligence work ourselves. We rely on federal partners and particularly the FBI to provide that information. After the January 6th Capitol riot, intelligence failures by law enforcement were cited by former Trump Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy.
Starting point is 01:21:24 He said, you know, we should have been notified of this and had the troops there. They said, we don't do domestic intelligence. We don't know. It's against the law for us to do this. Whitley said, FBI briefings have indicated that an upcoming unlawful First Amendment protected protest could be used by malicious actors to incite more violence. We're posturing our forces to be able to respond to these threats if they emerge. So we've got
Starting point is 01:21:55 We have 7,000 Guard members that will be there until this weekend And they're going to keep 5,000 National Guard members At the Capitol until mid-March Let's not normalize this American military troops on the streets of our nation's capital Yeah, can we not normalize this? I think the people need to demand some answers.
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Starting point is 01:24:01 and I want you to say, thank you, Jesus, because there is a COVID miracle that is happening all around this great land. You know, Joe Biden said miracles just don't happen, but we got a Joe Biden COVID miracle right here on our hands, and I want you to recognize that miracle in the next few minutes. We're going to tell you all about.
Starting point is 01:24:24 with a great preacher friend of mine, Mr. Steve Dase in 60 seconds. Bill Pard. Yes. Bill Pard is saving my butt because I don't know about you, but I have a real sweet tooth. I am trying to lose about over 50 pounds in the next year. And I'm down five pounds, I think, now total since the beginning of the year. And I have a really big sweet tooth. And there's nothing that I have ever had that kind of cures that.
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Starting point is 01:26:26 days. Morning guys the ride over here you guys had this thing. What's that yellow thing in the sky? I haven't seen that where I'm from in a month and a half. We have it all the time. I rolled the window down in the car and I felt like rusty on, remember the movie mask? I felt like rusty and the sun shining on my face. It was a miracle. Yeah. It is nice here. It's nice. So Steve, let's talk a little bit about the COVID miracle. Indeed, you touch the hem of Joe Biden's dementia and look what happens. Look what happens, right? People are healed. New York is opening up. Yes. California yesterday.
Starting point is 01:26:58 Gavin Newsom came up and said, hey, all of this stay-at-home stuff, it's over. Yeah. What happened? Well, they have the worst spike in the country, actually, right now in the state of California. It is, it's cynical and it's sinister, and we knew it was coming. But to watch it unfold in real time is still a sight to behold, nevertheless. I mean, if you go back and trace to when Joe Biden was certified the winner on January the 6th. And if you look at the series of, well, fortunate events if you want your life back,
Starting point is 01:27:28 that has occurred since then. You cannot do anything but retcon it and trace it back guys to the fact that, hey, we're in charge now and lockdowns just aren't politically useful to us anymore. To me, the most, you mentioned several examples. There's Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan. Remember, you know, I mean, last winter and spring, you couldn't buy seed to work in your yard in Michigan, right? Okay.
Starting point is 01:27:51 I mean, this is happening all over the country, except if you're in Ohio governed by the appropriately named Republican Mike DeWine, who seems to be. be completely drunk on branch, Cividy and Kool-A. But in a lot of other places where Democrats just talk the woke game in order to get power. But really, it's just because they'd like to be sitting in box seats at their favorite Major League League team this summer instead the Republicans. Suddenly they're like, you know what? We need to reopen this thing.
Starting point is 01:28:16 And the most cynical of them all was one hour after Joe Biden was inaugurated. The World Health Organization came out and said, stop testing all these asymptomatic people, your cycle thresholds for PCR testing, positive tests are all too high. You know the stuff people like us got crushed with our Facebook traffic and demonetized by the quote unquote Facebook science team for saying all last fall. Now the World Health Organization is saying it now that Joe Biden is in there. So, Stu, you know the opposite argument for the testing. You know, because I've heard a lot of people say this testing is going to make things look. a lot better because the cycle you know you run 40 cycles and it it picks up things that
Starting point is 01:29:01 aren't necessarily there or dead virus etc etc give me the opposing argument I'd like to hear you too well I mean I don't think that there's an opposing argument to whether you should be able to post what you believe is true no no no not not that the actual testing that it doesn't really change that much uh well I mean like the I guess the argument would be that you know you have a the PCR test right that they can they run a certain amount of cycles. And so they basically these are heating cycles that try to manipulate it to magnify the virus basically so you can detect it. Most of them run 30 40 50 cycles. It's a matter of when they get picked up. There's a certain percentage of those tests that wind up in a late
Starting point is 01:29:40 sort of run, right, where they'll be like maybe in the 40th cycle. The concept is that those tests should be rerun, which is what they were trying to state in this in this alert. They've been terrible at communicating things from the very beginning. And we've been hammering on them from the very beginning to explain these things in a way that people could understand. You know, if these tests come up and they have, they wind up being, there's a certain percentage chance of false positives if they run in those later cycles. Now, there's the very low chance of PCR tests, generally speaking, coming out as false positives. That's, you know, typically not the way they work, right? When you amplify something and you're looking for something very specific,
Starting point is 01:30:18 you're not going to see that amplify. Like, for example, if you had like Lady Gaga song playing really quietly and you turned it up as loud as you can and you kept amplifying it and then playing it lady gaga would get very loud right you would never detect barry manelow in there right right right right that's just not how it works right however if there's if they screw up which they've done many times if the testing uh if the sample is uh manipulated or a defective in some way you can have those situations happen if the lab isn't run appropriately right you can have some of these positive tests so it is significant it's just that the question is whether it i mean it's doesn't it doesn't
Starting point is 01:30:54 I don't think you'd make the case. I mean, I've, you know, seen many of Steve's posts where you talk about this is a serious thing and it's killed a lot of people. The question is, why do we have to deal with these sensors who come in? And every time when you make a point like this, you get thrown off. And when the World Health Organization comes in and says, yeah, there might be some of these. They don't come back and put you back on the internet. You don't get your reputation back. I checked my inbox before I came on.
Starting point is 01:31:20 No apologies? Received anything from the Facebook Science tank. Really? Nothing. Why? There's no good answers to your question. See, I thought you were going to raise the point that if we had a more accurate testing system, you're right that PCR testing is considered the gold standard, but there's
Starting point is 01:31:37 always the human element, right? Yeah. Meaning how many times do I look at something and eventually I'll find it if I want, but is that some kind of viral artifact? Will it actually be something that if someone comes into contact with it, will it still be infectious, right? Yeah, and that's a huge difference. And there's no distinctions being drawn there.
Starting point is 01:31:52 There haven't been until, well, an hour after Joe Biden got inaugurated. Now there are. But the reason why that's so important to note, because the other argument is, well, if you get rid of all these asymptomatic positives, then you guys always want to talk about how low the IFR is for this, the infection fatality rate, that it's actually just slightly higher than the flu, like Anthony Fauci originally wrote in February in the New England Journal of Medicine. You guys always talk about that. Well, if we get rid of all the asymptomatic positives, the IFR rate's going to go way up.
Starting point is 01:32:20 And I agree that it will. but see, but that's different because the strategy from the beginning has been to control this virus by locking down the healthy, locking down the asymptomatic. Okay. If we particularly identify who is the most prone to this, then we will do what human societies have been doing since Bible times with outbreaks, isolating the people who are infected or the most vulnerable to being infected, but the rest of society has to go on. Yeah. That's, we have been doing that as a species for thousands of years.
Starting point is 01:32:51 this one time for reasons only a law knows, we decided to do the exact opposite of that. It seems like, too, the antigen tests are an interesting part of this battle and that, like, it seems to more accurately identify people with active virus that can affect others. And, like, that's really the important. Like, there's two things that are important, right? Knowing who has had the virus six months ago is important to know how it's spread. And there's a lot of things that scientists can prove out of that. And we can understand the virus better.
Starting point is 01:33:20 But as far as like, should you be able to go into work next Tuesday? Right, right. Like that is like, the antigen test seems to do a much better job. That's what the NFL has been using. That's what a lot of the college teams used. And then if you got a positive, they went to the PCR route to verify that. But even with the National Football League, which you would assume those people have as good of private health insurance as any private industry in the country. They had dozens upon dozens upon dozens of false positives this year.
Starting point is 01:33:47 So let me bring you back because I honestly feel like, uh, We're entering the days of Galileo again. Let me give you two comments that came out of the Davos speeches yesterday on the Great Reset from the World Economic Forum. This one comes from the president of the European Union. Quote, a new study by the Center for Human Progress demonstrates that fake news spread six times faster than real news owed to the fact that fake news does not have the burden of having to go through the journalistic process of verification of facts. acts. Therefore, new regulations must be set for social media platforms around the world, requiring all news stories and articles to go through a validation process before they're allowed to be published or shared. This comes from the editor of the Times of London yesterday at the World Economic
Starting point is 01:34:39 Forum. Freedom of speech is a sacred right, but freedom to lie, to mislead and fool others is not. If your speech disagrees with science. science, it is a lie. If it disagrees with facts, it is a lie. Lies are not protected by free speech. Well, maybe not in London, but lies are protected here in the United States. All speech should be protected and is under the Constitution. But what caught me here was Galileo, if you can hear me, if your speech disagrees with science, it's a lie. Which science? I mean, one of the things that has been, and we've talked about this with you guys before. The biggest surprise to me since I started pushing back on this last March is I was hesitant
Starting point is 01:35:28 to go out in front and pushback because I was concerned that it was just going to be the Blaze Bright Bart Brigade of, you know, of deplorables against the climate change agenda. This would just be a proxy for that, right? What shocked me is how in academic circles there was pushback right away, how epidemiologists at Oxford pushed back on Imperial College and its doomsday model, like the day after Boris Johnson succumbed to it. How scientists at Stanford,
Starting point is 01:35:58 long before I even knew who Scott Atlas was, but epidemiologists at Stanford, John Ianidis and others were pushing back on many of these things. Scientists at Harvard, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, these are not insignificant places of academia. Most of these are places that teach people that life came out of nowhere
Starting point is 01:36:16 because of proteins and amino acids, amino acids spontaneously combustive one day. There's 59 genders, right? They're not on Team Blaze, many of these places are. But even they looked at the models and the science and said that dog won't hunt. And so one of the great mysteries to me for the last year has been even within their own academic circles, there have been elite sectors of their own intelligentsia that have called BS on this and have largely just been ignored by our own scientific policy community.
Starting point is 01:36:45 I think maybe we're learning that there's a scientific community and then there's a scientific policy community, if you know what I'm trying to say. People who then want to weaponize their findings to create certain policy outcomes. And if you go back to the very first Imperial College model, when I started researching Imperial College, one of their great benefactors is a guy named Jeremy Bentham. And Jeremy Bentham is a radical climate alarmist. And if you looked at all of Neil Ferguson's solutions for this, they were all essentially proto versions of the Green New Deal right out of Jeremy Bentham's, you know,
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Starting point is 01:39:35 has been the technological revolution during recent decades in this revolution research has become central it also becomes more formalized complex and costly a steadily increasing share is conducted for by or at the direction of the federal government today the solitary inventor tinkering in his shock has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. partly because of the huge costs involved a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.
Starting point is 01:40:34 Those are powerful words, but listen, he goes on to talk about the technological revolution, having its own family tree. Listen to this. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present. and is gravely to be regarded. Yet in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific, technological elite.
Starting point is 01:41:16 Now, listen to the last thing. He says, this is how it's all going to come together if we don't pay attention, we didn't listen. We face a hostile ideology, global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insiduous in method. Unhappily the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint, the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle with liberty, the state. We have not protected the, because of the military industrial
Starting point is 01:42:10 complex, bleeding into science, science, and government, and the private corporations, working together on money for money, then having to go to the educational elite, They're just doing things, giving the government and the complex, whatever answer they want. And it's now being driven by this really hostile ideology, which you're now seeing in the Great Reset and by oligarchs all around the world. And we've lost our place. You see it in something simply practical that in a lot of these states that were there were shutdowns. If you had a small or family-owned business, you had to shut down. You couldn't be, it couldn't be assumed that you could.
Starting point is 01:42:55 protect your clientele from COVID. But if it was one of these big box stores with a lot more overhead and a lot more exposure, frankly, it was assumed that they could and they have been open the entire time. Those are just some of the practical assumptions that are the result of the belief system he's up against. And really what we're talking about, I describe it on my show as a spirit of the age. It's really a rival religion. It's almost like a modern babble.
Starting point is 01:43:21 And, you know, just like within Christianity, there's this constant tension, you know, God is sovereign, but we have free will. And so we have debated those two dueling tensions within the faith for thousands of years. They have a tension in their religion as well, which is they believe human nature is not fallen and in need of redemption. That human nature is perfectly fine. They're Pelagian, as Hawley once pointed. Senator Hawley described it. They're Pelagian in nature.
Starting point is 01:43:46 But then at the same time, they assert, though, that even human nature is basically good and we can chart our own path and make up our own realities and morals. but they then say, but you don't know how to wield that basic natural freedom unless you're guided by a higher evolved set of people that can show you how to channel that freedom into the way that we want you to. And so that's the tension where they believe in that that's why we catch them in hypocrisies all the time. Why can I choose to get an abortion, but I can't choose whether or not to wear a mask, right? We catch them in those kinds of hypocrisies because abortion is approved by that high. set wearing a mask you not wearing a mask not approved by that higher set and so it's hypocrisy to us in their worldview though from the upside down the other side of the looking glass Glenn it makes perfect sense we approved this we didn't approve that Steve days you can hear him on his podcast
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Starting point is 01:46:34 coming together in the Biden administration. We're just getting started. Now, normally this is about corruption, and I believe it is still about corruption, but in a very different way. Every time our researchers have opened a closet at the Biden White House, another special interest skeleton tumbles out.
Starting point is 01:46:53 Tonight, we're going to look at the major stakeholders who have their tentacles all over the White House and what they really want. The new Biden administration is already showing America the natural end result that comes from decades of being dominated by special interest groups. Eventually, you get the government beholden to these groups. And you can call those groups stakeholders. These stakeholders have vested interest in the actions and policies of the government.
Starting point is 01:47:21 Now you don't know who is serving who, where the head of this Hydra really is. Tonight, you don't want to miss it. find out who these stakeholders are, what they want, who they're working with inside the Biden administration. 9 p.m. Eastern only on blazedTV.com slash Glenn. We ask that you would join us. We are headed for very, very difficult waters. And I wish I could tell you some things, but I'm not going to.
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Starting point is 01:48:39 I'm not sure when we're going to get it out, but it's going to be soon. We're working on it right now. But it's a very difficult thing to understand. You have to really pay attention to what the World Economic Forum is doing because they're very slippery on the way they phrase things. They're talking about going from shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism. Well, who are the stakeholders? They will always say it's you. But when the push comes to shove and they defined it yesterday on a tweet that was tagging me because it was in response of something I said yesterday,
Starting point is 01:49:20 that this is an oligarchy in the making. And somebody at the World Economic Forum is listening to this program while they're busy in Davvo. to try to correct any errors. They said, no, no, no, stakeholder capitalism is not an oligarchy. It is a partnership with everyone. The stakeholders are everyone. And the people are represented by their representatives in Washington, D.C. Well, I haven't felt my representative represented me in a very long time.
Starting point is 01:49:52 And it is a way to get the government into our businesses. and then you'll have social and economic and ecological justice that is happening. Let me give you a few things that happened yesterday in Davos at the World Economic Forum and when they were talking about the new Great Reset. We don't want to return to normal. We don't want COVID to end and for us to return to some form of status quo because it was a status quo that caused us. caused this and brought us here to our knees. Those wishing for return to normal must inherently wish for disease and destruction to return again and for more death in the future.
Starting point is 01:50:37 That's the Secretary General of the OECD. Let us not delude ourselves. This is from the Prime Minister of Spain. There can be no social justice without tax justice, but it is time to go one step farther. It is not enough to distribute income more fairly through tax. taxation, but to take serious steps to ensure equal distribution of all wealth to all people, all races, and all nations, Prime Minister of Spain. This comes from Alan Jope.
Starting point is 01:51:11 He is the CEO of Unilever. ESG, which is environmental, social and corporate governments programs, ESG programs is now central to how companies interface with investors, shareholders, and the public. At Unilever, one quarter of executive pay is directly linked to how we perform against social justice and climate issues. Okay. Let me give you one more quote. This is from Klaus Schwab. He's the guy who's pushing this. He's the head of the World Economic Forum. Stakeholder capitalism is a form of capitalism in which companies seek long-term value creation by taking into account the needs of all their stakeholders, including society at large. They don't seek profits for investors,
Starting point is 01:52:03 but rather benefits for themselves and all stakeholders, including employees, customers, and all people. Unless capitalism can guarantee equality for all people, which it cannot, it's a failed system. So what are they talking about? Is this a March to Mark? No, this is, this is worse. This is worse. This is something not new, but something that the left and the right should be able to come together on. This is an oligarchy. Now, let me show you how it ties in to us right now. Did you hear about President Biden's made-in-America executive order? Sounds great, right? It aims to force U.S. government agencies to work closely with U.S. businesses rather than to pay foreign businesses for goods and services. Well, that's fantastic. Right. That's Donald Trump could have done that.
Starting point is 01:53:01 I mean, let's buy America. If the United States government is right in the check, let's have it benefit the United States of America and all of the employees here. I think we should favor U.S. businesses. The U.S. spends $600 billion every year on contracts. Let's spend that money here. Okay, that's probably all you heard in the media. But now let me show you the fine print.
Starting point is 01:53:30 According to the order, the Biden administration is creating the federal agency called the Made in America Office. Do you realize what the acronym is? Made in America office. Sorry, yeah, Made in America office. So if you take the in out, I'm assuming. It's Mao. Okay. I'm going to refer to this.
Starting point is 01:53:53 office as Mao. The office of the Mao. Yes. One of the purposes of the Mao office is to force other federal departments to spend more of their money on goods and services offered by the U.S. business, but exceptions are still permitted when appropriate. But the maid, the Mao will be led by the director of Made in America office. It doesn't merely require the federal government to work more closely with U.S. businesses.
Starting point is 01:54:22 Listen carefully. and tie it together with what I just told you about stakeholder capitalism. It also mandates the government buy from businesses that promote left-wing goals. In other words, if you're not a woke business, the federal government may not be able to buy your goods and services. Why would Unilever make social justice part of their CEO compensation? because if you're not engaged in social justice and climate change and and critical race theory, you're not going to be able to do business. Now, this was noted at the very end of the White House official statement about the new department.
Starting point is 01:55:05 This order is deeply intertwined. I'm quoting with the president's commitment to invest in American manufacturing, including clean energy and critical supply chains, grow good paying union jobs and advance racial equity. The federal government should buy from suppliers that are growing the sectors of the future and treating their workers with dignity and respect. Yes, half of that is true. The part about, you know, this is what company should do, yes, but they are cloaking what's really happening.
Starting point is 01:55:39 This is right out of the Great Reset Playbook. You use the spending power of government. to coerce businesses to pursue the left-wing causes like clean energy or racial equity. You don't have the right ratios of Hispanics to Asians, for example. Then the federal government can't do business with you under this policy. The same can be true for those businesses who don't rely enough on electric vehicles, or that profit in some way from CO2 producing energy sources, or those businesses without enough union workers.
Starting point is 01:56:15 Do you see what's happening? The government is forcing people into this. And the big corporations don't care. They just don't care. So the language of the order is so vague in the policy section that it could be interpreted to give the new Mao agency the power to deny contracts for virtually any reason. It reads, quote, the United States government should, whenever possible, procure goods, products, materials, and services from sources that will help American businesses compete in strategic industries and help America's workers thrive. Wow, that all sounds great. Unless you know
Starting point is 01:56:59 what it really means. Strategic industries that help America workers thrive could mean just about anything to the Mao director. It opens the doors to all kinds of crazy policies. Tonight, I will show you those American corporations, those coming oligarchs that have their hands all over the Biden administration and how it ties in to the Great Reset. Tonight, don't miss it on blaisTV.com slash Glenn. Use the promo code, Glenn. please tell a friend. This is not Marxism.
Starting point is 01:57:42 This is not socialism. This is not communism. It's not state capitalism. It is stakeholder capitalism. And stakeholder capitalism, you're only represented in that. If you're an investor in the company or your House of Representatives, your congressman, your senator, they'll represent you. And if the government is fine with it, then you're going to be fine because you have representation. That is nothing.
Starting point is 01:58:14 Let me quote, Klaus Schwab. Capitalism has failed. No, it hasn't. But we are on a whole new, well, we're entering a brave new world. What if I was around the TV like an hour before your special? Was there be anything in particular I could watch? Not really. No, no options.
Starting point is 01:58:37 I think we were on cartoons. I mean, you're talking about 8 o'clock Eastern? 8 o'clock Eastern. On Blaze TV? It might be a great time to tune into Blaze TV. Not really. I think it's reruns cartoon. Maybe an old Western.
Starting point is 01:58:48 It's not. It's, it's, it's, it's too does America. It's going to be a great episode leading into years. No, I don't think so. I think it's a Western. What? Yeah. Are they not airing my show?
Starting point is 01:58:57 It's a silent Western. Oh, okay. Even. What do you have on your show today? We're actually going to the, this, the GameStop thing a little bit, which is going to be. Fascinating. It's fascinating. It's fascinating.
Starting point is 01:59:07 It's like, you know, it's going to cause a massive pushback from the Democrats on capitalism. Oh, regulatory. Wait to you say. Yeah. And also Biden's executive climate orders and all the craziness going on there. So some good stuff. Yeah, good stuff. Also you, I think.
Starting point is 01:59:21 I think you're going to be on, which I'm excited about until this moment. Matt Dillon is going to be the guest tonight, not me. There are people in their cars that are like, I haven't heard Matt Dillon in a long time. It's a very random person to be. be booking. All right, let me tell you about Gold Line. They are offering a huge promotion on self-directed IRA acquisitions for retirement accounts right now. Retirement account, you think you're fine with your retirement account. As the dollar falls, you're going to get screwed because everything is, everything, you can have a whole bunch of money, but nothing your money will be able to buy as it
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Starting point is 02:01:31 $2 a share. These guys on Reddit, they decided that they were going to run this up. Now, if I did this on national radio, it would be illegal. You can't say, hey, everybody, let's do this. But apparently on Reddit, you can. Yeah, it's public, usually public, openly speaking about your opinion on a stock is fine. Doing it in private venues is usually not fine.
Starting point is 02:01:59 And secondarily doing it, FCC has all sorts of laws about how you can do that. Correct. And a different conversation. So let's say you invested in the $2 stock when everybody was on Reddit and they're like, hey, let's buy this up. And the guy, the first, he invested $50,000. Yep, his life savings supposedly. This guy on Reddit and then started talking about this theory, which has proved to be very, very accurate. So as of yesterday, it was up to $15 million.
Starting point is 02:02:29 It was worth. However, the stock has basically doubled today. So this craziness Insane It is craziness You know You're putting Billionaire hedge fund investors
Starting point is 02:02:43 Out of business Maybe shutting down There's rumors of bankruptcy Of this hedge fund If this happens I mean these guys are not going to be happy And they know a lot of people But a few of these guys
Starting point is 02:02:53 Are going to get very very wealthy off of it I wonder what the repercussions are going to be Not just for them But when Democrats start saying This can happen Look at how bad capitalism is That's around the corner or two.
Starting point is 02:03:04 Stu will have more on that at 8 o'clock Eastern tonight on Stu does GameStop. And tonight, my Wednesday night special immediately follows 9 p.m. Eastern Blaise TV.

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