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Episode Date: December 12, 2018

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Was that great or what? I mean, I don't think anybody won on that. but it was fun to watch. I was actually, I want the Truman show for all politicians. I want them on camera all the time. I think this is fantastic. We'll get into that a little bit later. Also, I want to talk to you a little bit of what's happening over in the UK.

But now saying, who wasn't that downgraded Deutsche Bank? Deutsche Bank just came out and said, yeah, we're going to raise the odds that the UK the government will collapse to 30%. Oh! But what is the president tweeted today? Also, Christmas should be a time of happiness and celebration the world over, but in Europe, it is now the season of terror.

The sounds of Europe's famous Christmas markets of Merry Christmas and laughter are being replaced with the sounds of Allah Akbar and gunfire. Two years ago, ISIS attacked a, a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12, injuring another 48, and tragically the sound of automatic gunfire. Strange in a continent where you can't buy automatic weapons. The chant of Allo Akbar was heard at yet another Christmas market in Europe yesterday. This time, it was in France.

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13 are battling for their lives right now in Strasbourg, France. An attacker walked into the city market, the Christmas market, shortly after 8 p.m. And shouted Alu Akbar. And then he just started firing into the crowd. He then proceeded to battle the police in four separate locations while he fled the scene. At this moment, he still has not been caught.

The city of Straussburg is on full lockdown. France's terror level has been elevated. A man, Middle Eastern descent, has been identified as the subject. This is not going to be, this is not going to make things better in Europe. This is not going to calm things down in Europe. He was already on a terror watch list and had been deported from Germany recently with 20 criminal convictions. Why was he still in Europe? The politicians will have no answer.

And that is why people are in the streets, one of the reasons. He is also well known in the Islamist circles and has reportedly radicalized after spending time in prison. Apparently, he wasn't too radical for the Germans, but not for France. The Germans said, huh? But France said, oh, we'd like to welcome everyone, huh? What is it going to take for these governments? Like France, quite honestly, America is on this path as well to wake up to their failed policies. Nearly 300 people have been killed in terror attacks in France in the last three years alone.

300 people in three years. But despite that, the French government refuses to address any immigration issues. They continue to open their border policies. they, more importantly, refuse to listen to their people when they try and tell them that they are scared to death over this issue. This is something, if you're a long time listener, we talked about for a long time. What's happening in France is not only the coming insurrection, which is something that we talked about 10 years ago, a legitimate plan from Marxist and communists published in a book called The Coming Insurrection, where the communist movement would take over.

But this is something else as well. This is also the Bubba effect, something that we have warned against here in the United States. And the Bubba effect is this. There's a terror attack in the United States. And somebody, nobody's doing anything. And everybody's up in arms about it. And the government hasn't listened.

And the government just has. and done anything about it. And they keep telling you, shut up, shut up, you're a bigot, you're a racist. Well, there's going to be a time where a Bubba is working at the convenience store. And a Sikh comes in, not a Muslim, a Sikh, but he's got a turban. Bubba doesn't know the difference between the two. Bubba just knows that people are coming into our country and they're killing people. And he thinks, turban, Muslim, Muslim, killer.

and he shoots him. And everybody in the town and everybody in the United States knows that Bubba was wrong. And Bubba should pay for his crime of murder. But when the feds arrive, the town gathers around Bubba and says, we're going to take care of Bubba. You got nothing to say around here because it's your incompetence. It is your arrogance. It is your refusal to listen to people like us.

Not Baba. Like us. That is causing this. Because Bubba's been a good guy the whole time. But we're so frustrated and you keep telling us there's no difference between a Muslim and an Islamist. And there is. But Baba doesn't know the difference because you've told us to shut up. So get out.

that's when civil war happens. That is what special forces experts told me in 2006 was their greatest concern for the United States and its future. A government that has not responded and listened to its people. Now, I don't know if they've been preparing for that in France, but that's part of what is happening all over the world. world. This is one of the real reasons why the yellow vests are tearing the country apart. The government refuses to listen to their fears on terrorism, unchecked immigration, open borders, the failing economy, high taxes, out of control spending. Wow, do any of these things sound

familiar to you? How many years? How many months are we behind, France? Listen to us. Listen to the people here in America. Outrage has replaced baseball as our national pastime. And do you know why Donald Trump won? Because he's angry as hell, just like the rest of America is, of not being listened to or not having common sense listened to. Nobody. No, but, well, I can't say this.

What? 3% maybe of people who. want a border wall or like, because I don't want any of them Mexicans in here. Maybe, maybe, and I think I'm being generous, maybe 3%. Everybody else who says yes to the wall is saying, look, man, we've got to protect ourselves. Do you see what's happening in Europe? We've got to protect ourselves. We cannot have a rush at the border, just like everybody says, oh my gosh, you're not going to

let those people into the life rafts? No, because if they do, we all die. And then we're not able to help anybody. That's what's really going on here. But the more we're told to shut up and sit down, and it's not a problem. The problem is with you. The more disenfranchised we come. We become. I tweeted a political cartoon today that I thought was hysterical. It had this alien coming out of this the spaceship. And it said, people of the earth, we have taken all of your politicians. And if you don't do exactly what we say, we will release all of them. That is the way I feel, man. Take them. Take them. People have lost the ability to engage in peaceful protest. Street demonstrations have turned into street brawls over in.

Europe. But look at the images from places like Portland. European governments are losing the social contract with their people. Why? Because years of broken promises and outright lies from Washington. Hear me. If we don't work to reduce the chaos that does not mean don't be angry, There's a lot of things to be angry about. But if we don't work to reduce the chaos, how long before what's happening over in Europe happens here. All right, let me tell you our sponsor back in one minute. It's X chair.

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they're going to raise the odds that the UK government will collapse to 30%. That's not... The UK government collapsing to 30%. 30%. What does that mean? Does that just one of their... Do they mean like they're going to...

I know they're doing a vote of no confidence, apparently, today? Yeah, this is all coming from... This is all coming from Theresa Man. and her her. The Brexit thing. The Brexit thing, yeah. Falling apart.

And they don't think that they're going to be able to put this genie back in a bottle. And the people are going to, they're already starting to rise up. I mean, it's unbelievable. Imagine if you went through that process where they said, hey, nation, let's vote on this. Should we get out of the EU or not? Just put it this way. This is, if it wasn't partisan, okay, if it wasn't partisan, if they, if we would go to a poll for a special election, election and we had to vote, do we want Obamacare or not?

And Obamacare lost and we were supposed to get rid of it. And so all the politicians now were held to that vote. And then they went in and said, yeah, we're not going to do that. You're like, what? It makes you lose faith in the entire system. It's foundationally challenging to a country. Yeah. You can't ignore your people.

and they did it more than most politicians. I mean, there was a very big, elaborate, expensive vote. And you know, one of their solutions was, let's vote again. Yeah. Excuse me? Well, let's keep voting until you guys approve that we stay in is what they wanted. That's crazy. I mean, it's still on the table, apparently.

We should get Daniel Hannan on at some point. I was thinking about this the other day when I heard the Theresa May thing, they might vote her out. Let's make Daniel Hannan, Prime Minister. That's what you need in that country. You get Daniel Hannan in there and things will run right. That would be nice. Because he would not think of himself as a person who could run everything right.

He would think the people could make decisions for themselves. See, that's the problem. That's what's happening in Europe. Is the people believe, hey, you know what? My country can run things better for my countrymen than the EU. It's it's, it's federalism instead of stateism. They're asking, stop it. We don't want some far off capital making the decision for us.

And they're being called racists. But I think that's the same kind of revolution that we should have here in America. I hate to say it, but it was the American Revolution. That's what that was about. We don't want a government overseas making decisions for us. And then, because of the Bill of Rights and the way the Constitution, we don't want someone in Washington or Philadelphia. making the decisions for us in Virginia or New York or wherever.

It's interesting when Great Britain got on the other side of that, how they reacted. I didn't like it that much. Yeah. It can maybe understand a little bit of our argument from back in the day. And they're not learning. They're doing the same thing that George did. Yeah, the government didn't learn anything. They're doing the same thing that King George did.

No. No, you will, I'm telling you, and they make things worse. 30% collapse from Joy J. Bank? 30% Well, that's not going to help things. Now, does collapse mean something different there? Because in all these parliamentary systems, I get confused of what the heck they mean.

Like every other day, like, oh, new elections tomorrow. And you're like, wait, how, what kind of system do you have? The leader can just be like, you know what? We're going to call for elections next Tuesday. And it just happens? And like, they just dissolve governments. Is it that type of thing?

And when they're saying collapse, I mean, that says to me real chaos, but that might not be exactly what they're going for when they say collapse. It's not clear whether it can win support from the Labor MPs, blah, blah, blah. Is it just like one of those, you know, you have got the multifactions working together and that, you know, unity collapses and then they have a new government and they have a new election and those systems are so, you know, literally foreign to me. Yeah. It is a, it's, the way you talk about them is you got to be careful. Yeah. I think, I think it means the, the coalition of the government.

There's still a really big deal. Collapses. It's a really big deal. Because who takes over? What is the coalition? Who's going to cobble together coalition? Well, and plus if they, if this happens, it falls apart. And whoever grabs power is, you know, whether it's labor or,

you know, someone, someone on the left that wants to stay in the EU, they're going to do everything they can to make sure that happens. I mean, Theresa May, I don't think, has tried actively to thwart the movement completely. She's just trying to please too many bosses and it's not working and it's falling apart and no one's happy. It's one of those situations. But like, you could find someone who's actively against it and then just says, no, we're going to have another election and pushes that through somehow. And that's, then you're looking about real collapse on the table. So you're having, this is, this is how they're thinking that it's going to work out.

First, the binary choice. Do they accept this exit, this orderly exit? Do they accept this orderly exit or not? If they accept it, which I think would be insane, they still have to live with all, a lot of the Brexit, or a lot of the European Union rules. I mean, it is the most one. cited thing. Basically, you get to stay in, you get to leave, but you have to stay in and all the most onerous stuff. Well, no thank you. That's not what we want. I don't know who would vote for that,

but if they accept that, then they go through an orderly exit. If they don't, it'll be a chaotic exit. these are the options. A general election. Put it to the parliament again. A vote of no confidence, leadership challenge, and second referendum. So if you have a vote of no confidence, it will be a election or a new government. If there's a leadership challenge, there would just be a new leader, a new prime minister. But they think that there will be a vote of no confidence and there will be a new

new government and what they have now will collapse. But who replaces it? There's this amazing story today that we should get into about the rise of fascism and the rise of communism in Europe. People are turning to these two things because in Europe, that's all they have. They don't have a small, a small. a small constitutional government that is restrained by the Bill of Rights. We are the only ones on earth that have it. We should recognize that.

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The U.S. CFOs overwhelmingly expect a recession within two years. That's coming up. What's you drinking enough? Water. I'll get you later. Welcome to the program. glad you're here. Pat Gray.

Why do you care what I'm drinking? Don't. I mean, yeah. Pat Gray is joining us from the Pat Gray Radio Roundup. And we're, someone caught Pac-Rae at least, immediately preceding this program. Yeah, whatever. But we're glad to have Pat. We want to just give you a quick update because I think this is important.

CFOs 82% say that we are headed toward a major recession in 2019 or is it 2020? By 2020, it's 82%. 2019 is 45%. No, wait, that's not good. No, it's not good. Probably not a good thing. And it's not good because of the elections. Well, many reasons.

But also, nobody wants to go into a recession. Right. Oh, please. That's not fun. Please. If you're just talking about political, it loves it. It's going to be very difficult to win an election if they are right.

The economy has to hold up, I think. So here's it. Yes, I do. So here's the thing. The reason why I put that actually first. It is lots of suffering. And when lots of people suffer, they immediately go to the government for help. And when it comes to the election, it will be a socialist sweep. It will not be a democratic sweep. It will be a socialist sweep. No, you'll elect somebody like Beto O'Rourke. You certainly will. And so Donald Trump has got to do the right thing for the economy. He's got to stop the trade. Let's trade stuff. Please stop it, Mr. President. president. Yesterday, real quick, did anybody else really kind of have like a sick joy in watching the Titans battle it out in the Oval Office? Oh, Schumer Pelosi and Trump? Yes. And then Mike Pence sitting quietly nearby.

Mike Pence was, was even in the room? He was sitting right next to Trump. He let the adults hammer it out. Yeah. He's just sitting in the room like, what am I? I don't know. I don't know why I'm here. What does the vice president even do in this situation?

Right. So my wife's person never been in a situation like this before. So let me give you a quick take on this. I'd like to hear yours. And then Pat wants to talk about Kavanaugh a little bit with Donald Trump. So so let me give you a quick take. I saw that and I felt good because Donald Trump was like, I'll take it. I'll shut down the government.

I don't care what you say. I'm not playing. I'm not afraid of you. And Chuck Schumer was so arrogant that that's that. that look on his face was just, you just wanted to smack it off of his face. You know what I mean? If I would have made a face like that around my mother,

she would have slapped that look right off my face. It was just so arrogant and so dismissive. You wanted to go over there and give him something to cry about it. Right, right. I wanted my mom to go into that room. Stop it, Chuck, right now. I'm pulling this White House over. Right.

So anyway, so it was satisfying until you really start thinking about it. When you start thinking about it, and you watch, what happened yesterday? The Democrats won with the Democrats, standing up and dismissing this bully, Donald Trump, and Donald Trump won with his people for dismissing these two incompetent boobs. Okay? That's all that happened. It was a good day for fundraising for both Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer. It's good for the Democrats and the Republicans yesterday.

Nothing happened. we can't get we can't get snarled in this this web of we're just fundraising and I'm not saying that that's what the intent was yesterday but that's the result and they will learn that

quickly I don't think that was the intent I think they're genuine dislike on the part of Pelosi and Schumer and frankly I think and he said I think the president likes them both I do too I think they hate his gut so much that they just can't stop themselves Donald Trump is just a business man

who is ruthless. And so he doesn't hate you per se. You can have respect for you. You're a mean. You're a mean. You're to an end. Yeah. That's all you are.

Yep. Yep. But they hate him. No. And Chuck Schumer was just ugly. Both of them were ugly. He on Pelosi. Both of them, particularly, I mean, everybody in the room was, including Pence, by the way.

Everyone in the room was very aware they were on television. And, you know, you could see Schumer. He would say these lines and look at Nancy for approval. Like, did that one look good in front of the cameras? You know, it's like it's so. And there were other times that he would look at the cameras like, It's me. Ah.

Oh, so ugly. So ugly. But revealing, and that's kind of what I liked about it. Yeah, I think we should have the Truman Show for all of them. They should have a camera strapped to their head at all times. Can you think of another instance where that's occurred, where an argument like that, a spontaneous argument has broken out live on national TV? I can't think of a similar occurrence.

He's done a couple of these things, Trump, in which he's in. Only Trump. Yeah. But I haven't seen it with any other president. I kind of liked it, though. I did too. I kind of liked it. He was calling their beer it.

Yeah, let the American people hear it. She tried to pin him down to, you've got the votes. Right. Go ahead and see if you have the votes. You don't have the votes. And he's saying, well, of course I have the votes in the House. I could do it. I could do it today if I wanted to.

It's the Senate that's the problem. He should take that off the table. And that's what I think should happen. Take it off the table. Push that issue. Right now. And then have them invoke the nuclear option in the Senate and get it passed by the end of the year. They'll never do it.

No, they'll never do it. But they could. If you do the nuclear option on this? I think so. I think so. I would think that this would be the type of thing you could, they would filibuster. Because he even said, then we need the extra 10 votes. Yeah, I don't know.

You've got to get 60 in the, according to the Senate rules right now. But I think those can be changed to 50 plus one. It is always rules, right? It's a rule. So you can change the rules. As they did it with just as they'd have a cow if you change the rules. And then God only knows what happens the next time the Democrats get 51 senators. Right.

Yeah, we'd have this big fight. And it would end up like Kavanaugh did. We had this big fight over Kavanaugh. Everybody's like, oh, my gosh, he's going to go at night and kill women. There will be no women. If he's on the Supreme Court, he'll kill every woman on earth. He'll just be a guy club. He was in rape gangs.

Yes, I know, I know. It's not that much of a stretch. And so polarized. And what happens? He's become a friend of Planned Parenthood. I know. He's already betrayed us. We should have let him derail his nomination.

No, we should know. But I read because you would have gotten Amy Coney Barrett. No, we should. Maybe. We shouldn't have because it was the wrong thing. You didn't want to set that precedent. I'm not sure. I, you know, and I said this, I said this during it.

Is this guy worth fighting for? Right. No. I think as a justice. No. Right. He's not. He's not.

He was not worth fighting for. But the principle was. The principle is worth fighting for. Yes. Yes. And it's one decision. We shouldn't, shouldn't say. I know.

Hopefully this is one thing. It's a bad sign that we were all nervous about. and we thought, Amy Coney Barrett would be so much better. And sure enough, the first chance he gets. He goes to the other side. And why is it that you never see it? The reverse. You never say.

Because they actually believe in something. We always try to get those people who are going to, you know, have no record of being anything bad. They won't take a hard test. Well, they have a litmus test. Right. We have, we should have a litmus test. And not on the issue. but on the Constitution.

Yeah. I want you to rule on the Constitution as it was written. Sometimes that will work for us. Sometimes that will work against us. I don't care. As written rule on the Constitution. That's our litmus test. Wouldn't it be nice if just once you could say, wow, can you believe Ruth Bader

Ginsburg cited with Clarence Thomas on that Second Amendment thing? Right. Oh, I didn't see Sonia Sotomayor getting together with Samuel Alito on abortion. Huh. I wish. It's just never going to happen. Didn't Trump in the campaign to say that he was actually fine with a litmus test on some of these times? He did.

He was the only one who said that. And of course. And he should be because the Democrats absolutely have a litmus test. Of course they do. The litmus test is Roe v. Wade is settled law. Period. It's constitutional that you can have abortion on demand. Well, we should get somebody on the other side who says the opposite.

That should be the litmus test. That seems right. And again, we brought this up many times. But Kavanaugh was not on the list that got Donald Trump elected. Donald Trump came out with a list of 21 justices. And it was the reason that dozens and dozens and dozens of people called this program and said, you know what? I have my hesitations on Trump on X, Y, and Z.

But that list was really good. And these are a lot of good justices. And that's a really important issue. And it was a really logical way to cast your vote. And he got elected. And the first one he took right off of that list, Neil Gorsuch. And there's been no problems with him. And then after he got a little.

Right every time. He's been great. After the election, they added five people. Now, that's the one thing. My only hesitation with Amy Coney Barrett is that she was also added after the election. Why there are still 20 people on the original list that are not Supreme Court justices? Why do you, if you have 20 people still on that list, why are we expanding it? They're all still there. They're all still available. Go take them off of that list. The one that everyone came together and said, well, you know what? If he sticks to that list, it's worth it no matter what he does. I mean, Kavanaugh should have been, you know, after all of the justices had been replaced, and we still had 11 more justices on that list. And those 11 all dropped dead from a heart attack. That's when Kavanaugh should have been considered. It would be very unusual. Yes. And sad. So that's how far, that's how far off the mark he is with Kavanaugh.

It should also be noted. We can't let John Roberts off the hook here. Oh, yeah. He also voted with the liberal justices. Oh, I don't even count him as a... John Roberts is not... I mean, what a disappointment he's been. I don't even consider him a...

He's almost a David Souterland by now. He's almost that bad. I mean, he's certainly at least... You know he's at least going to be Kennedy. Oh, yeah. Which means that this whole thing about all these justices is not going to get you anywhere, right? I mean, it's just going to bring it back to where we were.

Yeah, he'll take it up. And if Kavanaugh is also Kennedy, then you're Orsoff. And it's some sort of legacy thing with him. With Roberts. With Roberts. I used to think maybe they had something on him. No, I think it's just a legacy thing with him. He wants to be remembered fondly by history books.

I don't even think it's that. I think he doesn't want to be remembered as the Supreme Court that changed everything. I think he wants a Supreme Court that's just kind of like, well, no, we're not doing anything over here. No, everybody can love us. We're in touch with everybody who loves us. lesson. So many Republicans have learned that it is not possible for you. If you're a Republican, if you're supposed to be, I mean, just because he was named as a Republican by a Republican, he will always be a Republican.

And they're never going to love it. And they're never going to know. No matter what he does. And they're they never, do they ever give him credit? Did Planned Parenthood send out a thank you to Kavanaugh and Roberts? Nope. No, looks they'll call him, you know, that they hate women and they'll do that forever. Yep. Which means that he's either a much bigger man than I am. and he was like, you know what? I'm going to give a bone to them. And he's a much bigger man.

Stupid. He's more stupid than I am. It's also not his job to be a big man. His job is to read the Constitution in our life. I know that. I know that. But I remember when he was going through all this, my instinct was, I don't care what the Constitution says.

You're due. It's a good instinct. Thank you, Pat. All right. that is my instinct too with the Kavanaugh I was hoping he would be because I was very worried about him when they named him

and we talked about it at length on the air and then there was that hope of like well they were so awful to him maybe he'll just he'll do he'll go like Clarence Thomas and just be like I'm never going to give you an inch because of what you did to me

now I'm not saying that's what Clarence Thomas did he is just a guy who loves the Constitution but I thought maybe that would harden him does not seem to have done that so this is the time of year we're supposed to take stock of all the things that we're grateful for. All the things that, you know, have happened,

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And it's because I believe deeply in both of them. And the president of the NRA, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, joins us now. Hello, Oliver. How are you? I'm glad to be with you, brother. I'm glad you remember. Yeah. So I want you to take this month's magazines and tear out that right after my column on page nine, and tear those out and give your best friends on the planet Earth memberships in the NRA for Christmas.

Merry Christmas, buddy. I think I could do that. Thank you very much. Okay. So we have you on because you're starting a new show on NRA TV. Yeah. And the first one is done by a guy who I'm not sure people really know. No, the average person, they just don't know who this guy is, and he is one of the greatest heroes of our lifetime, I believe.

All true. Dave U. Bank is a former U.S. Army Ranger, a Special Forces officer, a missionary, and the founder of Free Burma Rangers. And I had covered him when I still worked for Fox, made him part of one of our documentaries up in Kurdistan. And went back out there because this man has such a great story. He is an American hero, thus in the name of the show, and he's one of the most remarkable human beings I've ever met. He is out there with his family. In fact, he was in Syria yesterday with a congressional delegation. He lives in Burma.

He has a home in Washington State. He has the kind of courage that is so remarkable, it just had to be our first story in this long series. He really truly believes that he's on a mission from God to help people and that, you know, God will protect him for as long as God needs him to do his thing. And he brings his family with him. And he's been in some of the worst places in the world trying to save people who are being oppressed. Well, we were out there with him in Mosul, and I can tell you that was the worst place in the world. thankfully it's getting better now. But what he does is he takes his family with him, his lovely wife,

his two gorgeous daughters and his son. How old are his children? She's the only 16-year-old I know that can drive a Humvee. Thank God she can because she saved a lot of lives by just putting that sucker on the road and going out and picking up casualties and bringing them back to a field hospital that they had set up. You know, there's a lot, as you and I, know well. There's a lot of groups out there that will provide medicine and food and water

and the essential supplies. But there's very few that will deliver them to the front lines of a conflict like this. And that's what makes this guy so remarkable. They walked right up to me one day. We're up in the berm right around Mosul, getting ready to go into the city. And a casualty load came in from across the berm, helped by the Kurdish soldiers, the Peshmerga. and every one of these folks was badly wounded. And Dave raced out there in the middle of no man's land to bring him back. We've got one very remarkable scene in it. In fact, it's part of the tease for the show where he spots a little girl who's the only survivor of one of these massacres by ISIS.

And she's wrapped in her mother's clothing. And what Dave does, only Dave could do, because he knew who to call on the telephone. He calls an Iraqi general, and the Iraqi general eventually loans him a tank. and Dave races up behind the tank right up to where the kid is, can't get out because he has to cross an open space of about 50 yards, and he gets on the phone with a U.S. Army officer and a Marine artilleryman, and they drop smoke in between Dave and this hospital that ISIS had taken over, and it's an enormous fortress.

It's got any aircraft weapons, anti-tank weapons, lots and lots of guys with guns. And with just that tank to protect him, goes right up to the edge of this battle, races out, grabs the little girl and brings her back. And the prayer he says just before he goes is as powerful as anything I've ever seen. And he says, you know, afterwards he said, I said, you're a hero. He said,

nobody ever wants to be a hero. Nobody tries to be a hero. And what, of course, a hero is, is a person who puts themselves at risk for the benefit of others. That's clearly what Dave does every single day. He does it in Burma. He's done it in South Sudan. He's done it in Iraq. He's done it in Kurdistan.

And he's done it in Syria. Without him, scores of people would have died that he saved. So if you are a listener of this program and you are involved with the Nazarene Fund, you know that the Nazarene Fund now is in Burma. And the guy who is working for the Nazarene Fund in Burma is the guy who had the rifle behind the tank and stepped out in front of the tank and started laying down fire. So he could go run out and get the child. and they're amazing people, and this guy is one of the most amazing heroes around. You can find it now on NRATV.com.

That's NRATV.com. So, Oliver, can I ask you something? Because you are such a, you are such a piece of history now. And you have been for a long time. But now that we have distance from things and we see the world, as you see, what you went through in the 1980s and how the world worked.

How do you view that period of time compared to what we're going through now and what you're seeing happening in our country? Well, frankly, I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed to see that I was blessed to work for a great president. His goal right from the very beginning of his eight years was to end the evil empire, and he did. And, of course, that had finished. in the administration of the guy we just buried here

a couple of days ago, George Herbert Walker Bush. I look at what we went through back in those days to eliminate one of the greatest threats to mankind that ever was, which is the evil empire, the Soviet Union, it's all its satellites. And I look at what's happening today with terrorism. I look what's going on in our border. And I say to myself,

the polarization in the city where I have to go to work, Washington, D.C., the polarization is, so great that a president, this president, cannot get the Congress to do what the Congress ought to do to protect our borders. And a nation that has no borders is not a country. I mean, the meeting yesterday with Pelosi and Schumer and the president in the Oval Office is an example of how incredibly left-leaning our Congress is today. That's a shock to me, quite frankly, because I would have thought the American people did not want this kind of thing to be happening. As I look at what's happening on our border, and I've been, I've been watching it for a while,

and I've been, I've been comparing it to what's happening on the borders of Israel. I believe that we are at the beginning of, you know, almost a Palestinian little mini state there on our border, where we are going to be used, just like the Israelis are used, by the media. They're just, they're going to attack, they'll do things just to continue to bring America down to her knees. I think we're in a really bad place to where you can't even recognize truth. I mean, there are people who are refugees that should be allowed in, but there are also people who wish us ill that should not be let in. Well, and what you just point out, the Israelis did solve that problem.

They built a wall. And to gong on it, you can't argue with if. the effect of it and it it stopped the kind of terrorism israel is experiencing almost every day it's just eliminated it and at some point they're probably going to have to build a wall around gaza look at the iranians are stirring up trouble in that part of the world the likes of which

should never have happened all because the last administration in washington dc let him get away with it in fact help pay for some of it gave money back to them they use for that very purpose what's going on in our southern border is not the direct consequence of that But you've got to know that they're taking advantage of it. And everybody that knows what's going on on the border. You've been there.

I've been there. Many of our listeners have been. That open border is an abscess in the health of America. And what we saw happening before the tear gas was used with rocks and bottles and feces being thrown at U.S. Border Patrol, it's an outrage. And it should not be happening. My hope is that the president sticks with his guns. Mine too. Um, the, um, the, you know, everybody is talking about, uh, Cohen and Flynn and Flynn and everything else today.

You've been at the eye of a hurricane like that before. What does it, what does it feel like to be in that position and you, it must be very lonely? Well, I was, I was, I was always certain of the outcome. It was just a matter how long it was going to take and how much it was going to cost to get there. I, I never once doubted what my attorney. Brendan Sullivan told me repeatedly, it's going to turn out okay. It's just going to be a long, hard slog to get there. In my case, it took five years.

I was indicted in March of 1988. The trial was over in 1992, went all the way to the Supreme Court, and I was eventually vindicated. The challenge today is they'll never do what they did to me. They'll never put a hearing together like that. They should never have brought back to special prosecutors. I mean, it's the, it's the, entire opposite of justice. In justice, you have a crime committed, you find a person who perpetrated it, and you give them justice. In this case, you find a person, and then you go

trying to look for a crime that they committed. And that's just the opposite of what justice really is. And unfortunately, I said this to the president at the time, don't let this happen. And unfortunately, they've allowed the appointment, and you're going to get what you've, what you're always going to get with these circumstances is they've, they've, they've, got a person, now they're going to have to find a crime for which they're going to convict them. And of course, that's what Flynn's going through right now. Wow, great perspective on that. Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, president of the NRA and the host of American Heroes now on NRATV.com. Always good to talk to you, sir. Thank you so much.

Merry Christmas, my friend. Merry Christmas. God bless. Never more than just a few seconds away from more content on the program. Let me take one minute, and then we'll be back into the program tell you about simply safe home security, making it really easy to keep your family safe this holiday season. You can put off a lot of things in life, but you should never, never put off home security. It's your home, it's your family. At this time, it's the stuff that you have in your house

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A nine-year-old girl has committed suicide. A nine-year-old girl. This story should be everywhere. She committed suicide. She's from Alabama because she was being bullied. She's in fourth grade. She was being called names, made fun of, mocked. The bullying came from her friendship with another little boy.

And they weren't the same color. It's in Alabama. And you can't be friends with a little boy that's not the same color in Alabama, apparently. Things haven't changed except the color. This is a nine-year-old black girl who befriended a little boy who was white. they were friends the white kid his parents would drive him to school

and so they would stop by her house and pick her up and they'd drive to school together and all of her black friends said why are you friends with a white person you're black you're a sellout you're ugly you're stupid what's wrong with you

all over her friendship if the role was reversed. I'm sure people would try to exploit this and it would be everywhere and this little boy would be remembered as a

hero who just couldn't take it anymore. This little girl is a hero. Her name was Mackenzie Adams made fun of every day because

she befriended a person who was white. I prefer to tell this story because she befriended someone who was different than she was. Racism doesn't know color. Hatred doesn't know color. It doesn't know nationality. It doesn't know religion. Hatred just is.

And hatred is inside all of us. us. You know, we each have a good side and a bad side. And if you deny that, well, then you're a liar and probably pretty dangerous. There's a good side and a bad side in all of us. And what started out, I think, as trying to help people know that the bad side was maybe too strong in them has turned out to be a force for evil itself because it was arrogant. and wrong to say that racism is a white problem. Racism is a human problem. It's not a black problem, white problem, yellow problem, brown problem.

It's a human problem. The family members had transferred, had transferred McKenzie to another elementary school. because she was bullied at her school in Linden. They had talked to the school about it. Children were writing nasty notes in class. I don't know how she did it, and I don't want to know how she did it. But I want you to remember the name McKenzie Adams. You know, we all have our low points.

We all have our bottom. I'm wondering when America's going to hit her bottom. When is America going to say, you know, we've got a problem. It's just out of control. And everything I try to do won't stop it. And so I surrender everything that I thought. I surrender. I'm not going to fight it this way anymore because this isn't working.

In fact, this is making it worse. When is America going to be humble enough to say, we all have a problem? And I play a role in it. When? When will the press? when will the politicians say we each play a role. We each need forgiveness. You know, why are we banning each other?

Why are we deplatforming people? Because there is no forgiveness. Somebody wins the Heisman trophy. Might take it away because, well, look what he said when he was 14. There is no forgiveness. There is no decency, no forgiveness, no kindness. Restore that this holiday season and do it in the name of McKenzie Adams. God bless you, McKenzie, and God bless your family.

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slash Glenn. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Lots of emails have come in in regards to the Tyler Perry Walmart idea where he just went in and just paid for people's layaway. Two stores. Did it in two stores. Kid Rock just did it in Nashville as well. And we've talked about it. And so many people are doing something similar.

and I just want to give you some of the emails that have come in. Dear Mr. Beck, my husband and I listen to you every day. Today, while you were talking about the Tyler Perry story and challenged your listeners to do the same, my husband called me and said, let's do this. We have been so stressed out and struggling financially, and with the season upon us, we've been worried about how to afford to buy our kids,

things that we wanted to buy them for Christmas. After listening to how your deeds affected so many people, we both realized how thankful we are for what we do have. And we don't have to choose whether or not to buy my children toys or food. This comes from a story that I told where a woman's layaway was paid off. And she said at the time, I have been laying awake. I've been trying to figure out how to pay this. I have three jobs.

My husband left me. I lost my home. I just was evicted. I've got four kids. And through tears, she said, I now, because somebody paid off my layaway, I now have the food I need. I don't have to worry about a Christmas dinner. I have the money to buy food. That's remarkable to me. And we don't sometimes live there. You know, we get so lost in what we want or whatever that we don't really recognize the, people who might even be on our own street that are making that kind of choice. After listening how it affected so many people, we figured that we could cut some spending out of our weekly budget and pay $100 toward a layaway at Walmart. I went to my nine-year-old son and told them what we were doing. He gave me the last $15 he had from his lawn mowing money that he earned this summer.

Together, we paid two strangers layaway bills off in full. My son has a beaming smile on his face, and I am so proud of his generosity. So challenge accepted, Mr. Beck. We have decided to this as a family now every year. Dear Mr. Beck, I don't know how to go about things like this, and I've always had trouble with issues expressing my feelings. But I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart because somebody paid off my layaway, and now I have a Christmas for my kids.

If it wasn't for a kind soul, my tree would be empty because I couldn't afford to pay away my layaway. I recently got married in November and found out that we were expecting our third child. I've been in and out of the hospital missing work and being sick that my paychecks were all we had to use for Christmas. As a parent being able to see my kids happy with a smile on their face Christmas Day, is a great blessing. Thank you. Thank you for giving me that joy and happiness on Christmas Day. You and your listeners are an answer to our prayers.

Glenn, this might be the most memorable Christmas I have had in a long, long time. After listening to your segment, I went to Walmart and wound up paying for seven families' gifts on Layaway. One family in line, plus we just finished shopping for two foster kids in the neighborhood. At the end, the manager shook my hand, thank me, and wish me Merry Christmas. I couldn't even talk. The lump in my throat prevented me from speaking. I just nodded my head in agreement, tried to hold my tears back, and briskly left. Tonight, I hope to make ten stockings out of paper to hang on the mantle. It'll be reminded of what Christmas is really all about.

Thank you, Glenn, and thank you Tyler Perry for the great idea. Thank you for everything and standing up. uh, Glenn, as a daily listener, you had the dad tears flowing today, as you shared the Tyler Perry challenge that you experienced. And as you said, it does ground you.

This year I am so strapped that I can't even afford layaway as my wife has had a double mastectomy this year and nearly a year of chemo and radiation. My precious bride of 21 years, becoming even more of a hero than she was when she gave birth and bless me with my four beautiful. beautiful children, all under 16, no doubt. But just hearing about the grandmother, hearing that she didn't have to cancel her Christmas, and the mother of four after the husband had left

and losing the house, you had me in tears, and for the first time in a long time, I was not cursing the traffic on the 405. Instead, I was sharing in a truly human moment with you and with millions. I was touched deeply. Thank you. You stoked the fire of hope within me this morning. I'm glad you took me there. From San Antonio, Glenn, I paid off three Walmart layaways as a result of your show. One man in line? He didn't know he had to pay the whole thing and didn't have the money. So I tapped him on the shoulder and I told him I came here today to pay off some layaways and I'm happy to pay yours. He was so thrilled that he called his wife and handed me the phone saying he wanted to thank me. They were overjoyed. I then paid two more while I was there. What a great

feeling. You know, we forget how easy it is to make an impact in somebody's life. That it doesn't take a Tyler Perry. It doesn't take a huge checking account. I learned that Saturday. As we were shopping as a church, we all went out to the Walmart and we were buying toys for a shelter for abused women and children. And we do this every year. We go out and we shop for these kids and then the moms come in to where we have all the toys and then they just go shopping for their kids.

And it's great. We love it. It's just so great. And I heard about the Tyler Perry thing that he did. And I thought, I've never even thought of that. You know, we think about the people in the homeless shelters. We think about the people who are going out to get aid, who are in real dire trouble. But we never think about the people who are just on the edge.

The people who aren't asking for anything. And I think that's why I liked the layaway thing so much, is because these people were, not that it, not that it, it's any different, but these people were on the edge and they were trying, trying to do their best to be able to have something under the tree for their kids and nothing for them. And it doesn't take a lot. It doesn't, you don't have to be Tyler Perry. Find a way, I challenge you and your family to put meaning in Christmas this year.

Find a way to serve others. Find a way to find that person that thinks nobody even notices me. Even if you don't go to church, sometimes churches will know somebody in that, you know, that area, that church that is really struggling. So if you can't find anybody, reach out to somebody else and say, hey, do you know anybody who's just on the edge? Because I think that's what Christmas is really supposed to be about. we're supposed to humble ourselves at Thanksgiving and we're supposed to be down on our knees and be able to see

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Also, some phone calls. We're going to get to Richard and Tina coming up in just a second, who have some, I think, some things to say that they'd like to get off their chest. And we'd like to provide that service. and also there's a new Casio-Cortez citing. Yes, she was apparently, this is an interesting thing, a reporter was at a GOP gathering at Trump Hotel last night. And Joshua Green, he says the big preoccupation wasn't Trump, Pelosi, or Schumer.

It was Akazio-Cortez. And of course, Casio-Cortez is on the Twitters. And she says, good, make them sweat. Which is like, you know, she's basically on social media. media all the time and commenting either a little snappy one-liners like that or just telling you how she's a victim because every single time anyone says anything critical of her, she's a victim because she's a woman or she's young or she's whatever she is as far as race goes, I don't even know, nor do I care, nor will I ever care to know. That's not something that's important to me,

so I don't care about it, but whatever. Like, this is, you're in that perpetual victim machine. Yes. Yes. But the speculation kind of went on, and this this went on. through a bunch of reporters and such trying to analyze why she is, why the attention is on her? Why is she an obsession of the right? Why is she an obsession of the media? And I honestly think when it comes to Republicans

overall, and someone's going to eventually tell her this, if she's got someone around her who is smart enough and brave enough to tell a new Congresswoman, something like this, the reason why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is obsessed about by Republicans is because they are hoping and praying every single night

that she becomes the face of their opposition. She, they are all, they are all sitting back and they are, keep it to yourself. A lot of people responded with this, she might learn to read and read this.

It's like, well, that's not. But it's, I really do think that's it. Think of the time investment by the Republican Party over the past half, century to convince the American public that Democrats were socialists. Think of how much time. Now, there's a lot of indications that many of them were.

But all they did in that entire time was fight against it and say, if you call me a socialist, you're a racist. If you call me a socialist, you're lying about me. You're just throwing these awful names at me. We're like, that's not a name. It's a political philosophy. Well, the only problem with this argument is that the, you know, millennials, generally speaking, don't have any experience with socialism.

And so they think that it is, you know, Norway. And it's not Norway. That's not socialism. No. And so they don't see anything wrong with it. And they're like, well, what's so bad? No, and I think that's true. Although it tends to, I think that's always been somewhat true with younger-aged people.

And they tend to grow up and learn about the world a little bit. But, I mean, I think the idea that you can have as a face of the new Democratic Party. An actual socialist. An actual socialist who also doesn't seem to know. the basics about her job. I mean, the fact that you can get someone who's under-informed and over-spending is a great combination. And in fact, we should see if she would like to do a show on the Blaze TV.

Yeah. Because it is, I do like having her out front. She is. I mean, think about this. It's a gift. That's why the GOP loves it. They see her as a gift. Do you know who should be truly embarrassed?

Truly deeply embarrassed. Oh, I can name a lot of people on this list. No, no, for Ocasio-Cortez. Oh, okay. Who should be the most embarrassed? Who? B.U. Oh, yeah, B.C.

Is it B.C? Does she go to Boston, you or Boston College? I think you're right. It was B.U. So she has a degree in economics. Yeah. And I think foreign affairs. She has no clue.

She has no clue. If I were at B.U, I would be, I would be questioning our entire system. I would be like, how did she get out? How is she, how did she graduate and she's answering things like this? It's like people are, you know, furiously all over America trying to change their BU on their resume to University of Phoenix and hoping people won't notice. Right. I mean, it's, it's, and it's not a political thing. She could have come out a conservative and, and, and, and, and, and said these things.

It's happened. She's just, she has no idea about how things work in her field of expertise. It's true. And, you know, we could. go back and look at, I mean, look, this is a risky strategy because when you elevate someone you think it's easy to beat, ask the Democrats how that worked with Donald Trump. Ask the media. Right. How did that work with Donald Trump? I mean, they wanted Donald Trump to be the candidate because they thought they could beat him and they couldn't. She may get smarter. She may get

more savvy over time. She's only 28 years old. This is not a strategy without risk, but that is the strategy. People want her to be the face of the Democratic Party. That's why the obsession is there. And the only reason why she's an icon is because she's pretty. I really think she's pretty. That's it. of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glembach program. So there's a stupid Twitter war going on. Over an article by Chad Green in the Federalist, The stigma against my conservative politics

is now worse than the stigma of being gay. It's absolutely true. It's absolutely true. He writes, Why would a person choose a life where they will be hated, judged, and rejected by society? It's one of the first arguments I learned to defend myself against in arguments about my sexuality. In the late 1990s, it was perceived as a powerful call to the humanity of those who oppose gay rights

under the notion that it was merely a lifestyle choice. But today, I find myself in the same frame of mind, and I'm under the same weight of frustration and skepticism. And it's not because I'm gay. Today I look across the turbulence sea of political discourse and say, Why would anyone choose to be a conservative? As I told you the story of the little girl in Alabama, why would anyone choose to be white? This heroic black girl, nine, nine years old committed suicide

because her black friends were mocking her for having a white friend. Can we stop with the comparisons? Because that's not what is important. What's important and not the comparisons, what's important is the direction. Are we getting better? Are we getting worse? Let's focus on getting better in one minute. This is the Glenn Beck program.

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I want to talk to you a little bit about, so what are we going to do about it? So what are we going to do about things? How do we solve this? This little girl in, this little girl in Alabama is just killing me. Just killing me. Such a horrible story. I mean, not just the fact of the, of why she was apparently bullied by befriending a white kid

and being bullied because black kids aren't supposed to mix with white kids, being bullied by other black kids about it. That's obviously disturbing. And it's just the idea that how a nine-year-old could contemplate suicide is just for any reason. It's almost shocking that you don't even be aware of the possibility. at nine years old. I mean, that's just stunning to me.

I don't remember these things happening. I'm sure they did, but I don't remember these things happening in the past. And I would have been just as outraged if it was, you know, a white kid that was bullied. Now, those I can read in history. But I don't remember those happening, you know, in the recent past in the last 25 years. And I'm sure one or two have happened. And maybe it's just this one. And I hope it is.

But we're not healing. We're not getting better. just shifting the hatred from one side to another. Tina's in Massachusetts. Hello, Tina. You had some perspective on this? Yes, I'm biracial. My biological mother is white and my biological father is black.

And my mother didn't have an prolonged relationship with my father. So she ended up marrying a white man later on and having more children. and he had children from a previous marriage. So I was the only black child in the family. I grew up in a small, all-white town, and it was brutal with the white kids always, you know, saying horrible things to me. But when I was a freshman in high school,

my parents decided to send me to a private boarding school that was a preparatory high school. And there were black kids there. and I was like, wow, kids like me. It was horrible. It was absolutely horrible. Not only did the white kids not want to deal with me because I was black, the black kids were so brutal.

And I just, I couldn't even believe it. They made fun of my hair because I didn't know how to do my hair and I was still wearing an afro. And this was like an 81. They made fun of my clothes. I dressed white. I spoke white. I acted white.

So Tina, how did you deal with this? Where do you come away from it now? That's an 81. So time is past. So where, what wisdom do you have you found? Oh, I'm trying not to cry, but, um, because it still hurts. I bet it does. My, I, I have to tell you, I hated being black as a kid.

I used to go to nut bed every night and pray that God would make me white, and I would wake up every morning and run to the mirror to see if I looked like my sisters. Oh, my gosh. And it never happened, obviously. Did your parents know you felt that way? They sent me to counseling, but they, no, they did not know. my adoptive father loved history and I loved history too but as a child and actually as a child I used to hate black people because everything in history books white people were wonderful they were strong they did everything black people were always victims the only thing I heard about growing up were the same five black figures Harriet Tubman Frederick Douglass, you know, and, you know, it was just these five people. Yeah.

And I was like, black people can't do anything for themselves. I don't want to be black. I hate it. Tina, I have to interrupt you here for just a second. I have to tell you, we're doing, in February, we're doing a black history museum here at the studios. You have to come. You just have to come.

Because that was my complaint. I said, I don't, you know, you can. hear about Martin Luther King, you can hear about Harriet Tubman, you can hear all these things. I want to focus on the people that you've never heard of that made huge impacts, but have been erased by history. You won't believe the stories that we're going to tell in the Black History Museum this February. And I'm so glad to hear you say that because I know, I try to think of myself, if I were black, my history has been taken from me.

and I don't know it. And what would I want to hear? And I wouldn't want to hear about the same things that I could read about in every school book. I want to hear news stories. Exactly. And, you know, as an adult, I'm almost 51 now. No, I'm sorry, almost 52. My husband and I have talked about this.

And I said, you know, the problem with this country is woven into the fabric, starting in school because they teach white kids essentially that black people are are victims, and they teach black kids to hate themselves that they're victims, that white people are wonderful and they do everything. That's my own personal feeling. That's what I came away with from 12 years of school. And I still see it. It just, you know, when my stepkids, when I looked at their students, when I looked at their

school books. The things that, you know, were glorified were things to me that I didn't understand why Marilyn Monroe had four pages in a history book. I'm like, really? I know. I'm like, and Elvis Presley. And there was one page on George Washington, and I didn't really see anything on Frederick Douglass. I just, the problem goes to our schools. We are, it's an institution. racism that is subconsciously woven into all of us because of what we're taught in school and how we're taught it. You know, black history shouldn't be a month set aside every year. Black history, it should be chronological woven in with everything else. It shouldn't, you know, it shouldn't be set aside. Black History Month is a good start to raise awareness of it, but I have to tell you,

It's not black history. It's American history. It's American history. Amen. So, Tina, thank you so much. Thank you for calling in. And God bless you.

When we come back, I've got a couple of things that I want to share. Well, you know what? Let's just do one more phone call here with Richard in Tennessee. Hello, Richard. How are you? Doing good. How are you doing? Very good.

We got a guy here that holds a lot of property in Memphis. named Fogelman, Aaron Fogelman. And he went to Burlington Coat factory and paid off $25,000 with the layaway. Wow. After he did that, and I was listening to Ben Ferguson, and he was talking about the left and some people talking about paying off these layaways that it's just the rich people trying to show off. Oh, my gosh.

And the rich people trying to put their name out there and get the glial. glory for it and you know just kind of put everybody else down you know that can't afford it and I was like you know every time you do something good on the right the left has got to do something to counter it you know I don't know if that's left or right I mean I will tell you this my sister called me my eldest sister no she didn't call me she called my sister my other sister and just read me the riot act through my sister how dare Glenn say anything about it it's just does everything everything he was trying to do, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was talking to my sister about it.

And I went, look, Tyler Perry inspired me. If he would have kept that quiet, I wouldn't have had the idea. I didn't even think about it. I mean, there is a time and place you keep things quiet and you do things like that. But there's also a time that you allow inspiration to inspire other people. That's good. Well, like Ben said, you know, he doesn't care. if somebody gets the publicity, you know, further their brand or their music or whatever,

it's helping somebody get their stuff for Christmas that would not normally get it. Yeah. And that's what counts. That's what the whole point of it is. Richard, thank you so much for calling in. Thanks for listening to Ben. We appreciate it. God bless.

Ben, by the way, is part of the Blaze TV. If you are a big fan of his, you can sign up. BlazTV.com. BlazTV.com. You get $20 off if you sign up for the year. If you use the promo code Beck Christmas, that's Beck Christmas, BlazTV.com. It strikes me, too, is just an anti-rich person thing.

You know, because if let's just say, you know, some rich person and some celebrity comes in and does $10,000 and spends it on, you know, Walmart paying off or $100,000, you know, paying off Walmart layaways, like they're getting criticized for that, for what, for what reason? If someone only had $100,000 in the bank and they gave all of it away,

there'd be no one who would say, oh, my gosh, they're just looking for their self-aggrandizement. Like, no one would say that. It's like the idea that these people have, they can also still go home and have a nice house or a nice car. That's the problem everyone has. People don't like it when you, it's like, well, but it doesn't make it. I mean, it just.

It's just still helping people. Who cares? Again, I will, I will side with her color on the last, on this one part. you know, the left always has to have it, you know, all ways. You know, they hate the rich because the rich never do anything. The rich don't ever go and help or do anything. Well, here's Tyler Perry, $407,000. Here's Chris Rock, or Kid Rock, doing the same kind of thing.

Why, wait, you're mad at them for some reason? Why? These people are voluntarily giving their money away, and they're giving it to a place where it's, 100% of it is going right directly to the people in need. 100%, not like the, what, 47% that goes if you give it in taxes? Cool way for you to help out here in just a second, something that we just found online. I want to, you know, I want to talk to you a little bit about taking stock in the things that you're grateful for.

One of the things I'm really grateful for is after a year of taking, taking relief factor. My pain is so much under control. Last year at this time, I said to my wife, in fact, it was at Thanksgiving that I had a meeting with all of my agents that nobody knew about. And I said, I don't know if I can do this anymore. And I certainly don't want to do it anymore. But I can't take the pain anymore. I said to my wife. She said, will you try relief factor? And I said, it's not going to work. It's, you know, it's one of those healthy things, blah, blah, blah. It needs to have narcotics in it to take away pain.

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This family, let me just say this. My father was 19 years old and he's always wanted to go back to D-Day. He landed at Normandy on D-Day and he has always wanted to go back to D-Day. And he has always wanted to go back to France. He was the youngest in his unit. He's now the only survivor of the 453rd Automatic Weapons Battalion out of Fort Knox. He was a machine gunner on a half track. My mother never wanted to travel and he would never leave her side. They were married for 71 years. She's just passed away and my sister and I are trying to make my dad's dream come true and be part of the D-Day ceremony in Normandy for the 75th reunion.

I think we can do this. They want to raise $12,000, and I think they are, I think they're almost halfway there now. So I want you to go to Go Fund Me and just search for get to Normandy. Okay, get to Normandy. It's a World War II veteran that wants to go to Normandy. It's Lori and Julie are the daughters. They're from Tacoma, Washington. and their dad, Lauren, landed on the beach on June 6, 1944.

And it would be so cool to put him back there for the 75th anniversary. And it would be great if they could have this all wrapped up and give it to him for Christmas. So go to go fund me.com and search for Get to Normandy. Now, if you do any of these things, Will you do yourself a favor? Will you put this story underneath your tree? What do you mean? Put it under your tree?

If you're helping anybody, if you went to Walmart, put the receipt underneath your tree and open it on Christmas or put it in a stocking and sit on Christmas morning and talk about the people that you helped impact, let your children and you it's a it's the best present you can give to your family and you is to share your blessings but I don't want you just to do it and then feel great today and then Christmas comes and you're not even thinking about it put the receipt to remind you and talk to your family

and your children so put if you help him out go to go fund me and search for uh get to normandy yeah we also uh i just tweeted it out for Matt world. So we can do it from Glenn, your account as well. Okay. And help them. But then print it out and make sure you talk about it with your family. So you can enjoy the idea that they opened up a present as well, that somebody else that you're not seeing. You sent a present. And it was a big deal. And it was a great thing that they wouldn't have had for Christmas. But you guys helped pitch in. So again, go to gofundme.com. Get to Normandy is what you search for.

And let's see what we can do. I mean, we should be able to do this within an hour. They're like $4,000. So they want to get to $12,000? Yeah, $8,000. We should be able to raise this quickly. Go and do this right now. It's a great story.

Make this hero veteran make his lifelong dream come true. Back in just a second. You're listening to Glenn Beck. So do you play games with your kids, still? Do you play like board games or anything? Yeah, sometimes. Do you? Yeah.

Have you ever played the game, Say Anything? I have played Say Anything, yes. Say Anything is a great game for you to play as a family because you learn about your kids. And I remember the first time we played it. We learned how they were thinking and how they were perceiving people in the family. And it was, Tony and I walked away. We were like, ha, ha, ha, ha, this is fun. funny. We walked away going, holy cow, did you just, did you just pick up on that? It's amazing.

Now, this is not why they invented the game or put it together. It's not so you could figure out your kids, but it does. It helps you figure out your kids and everybody in the family, and it's a lot of laughs. It's say anything, and you'll start to see things through other people's eyes. Say anything. It's available now at Target. Go to the toy section. Ask for it. It's easy to get. At Target, it's called Say Anything. All right. When we come back, anger, the real roots of American outrage. This is the Glenn Beck program.

Welcome to the show. We're glad you're listening. I want to go back to a story we mentioned earlier about the real roots of American rage. It's a story that is out, and I want to talk to the author, and I want to explore this a little more. But it's an interesting article that is actually. out just search for it or all posted real roots of American age. And it starts in 1977 with a researcher up near Greenfield, Massachusetts. And he decides to take this anger survey.

Now, Greenfield at its time, it's like 18,000 people. It was middle class. He didn't think everybody was angry. And he really didn't think much about this survey. He didn't think he would show much anger. the first the first response that came back about when tell me in the last week when you've really been angry and the first response was my husband just bought a brand new car and took it over to his girlfriend so so she could she could drive around in it and then he brought it home to me

I don't know how she found out about that but she had a reason to be angry but he didn't think that he'd get much more. And he found that there is this anger that is brewing underneath this veneer that is, that's always there. And that we live in a society that says, if you're angry, you should be kind of ashamed. And he said, what he learned in this is that, no, that's, that's not true. That you have a reason to be angry at times. And you should not embrace, but recognize your anger and let it out. And it's just don't dwell on it and and don't keep picking at it. And what we're doing now is we're being controlled by our anger.

And he said, this is why he thought that Donald Trump was going to win because people said he's too angry. And Donald Trump's response, do you remember? Damn right. I'm angry. The country's being run by idiots. And he said, it was at that moment because the research. that he did, he thought this guy's going to win

because that's what people were feeling. And I find it a really interesting study that was completely disconnected from 1977. And we'll get into that maybe on later this week. It kind of ties in to what?

I was going to say, but this is, we're seeing this so often, you know, the way the anger just rules us. And I think we instead of, because you're saying like, don't dwell on it. But we've turned that into a mission statement, right? Like, it's not, it's not something we're trying to avoid and failing. It's something we're trying to exploit.

Yeah, we're trying to get people to focus on their outrage and then hold on to it. It's the entire purpose of the internet currently, right? It is. I mean, like, there's a column you mentioned earlier by Chad Felix Green for the Federalist, who wrote, the stigma against my conservative politics is worse than the stigma of being gay. and he's a gay conservative, a well-known gay conservative, who writes often on, you know, not just causes related to this,

but all sorts of conservative things. And the reaction to it is, for example, Deadspin, which was my impression they were a sports website. I don't know what this is, but the title of their response to him is, conservative gays need to shut the F up. You're allowed, I'm sorry, that's the world we're in. You're allowed to tell an entire,

group of people like that to shut up gay gay people that's okay and again it's your intersectionality you have to tell them to shut up because they're fascists right because they're yeah and and and it's interesting a lot of people are like oh don't you realize you're proving his point in his article like you're saying the stigma is worse and it's not really what the article says the article is agreeing it should be worse yeah you should be you should be demeaning people for being conservative that's what you should do and you shouldn't do that for being gay now i certainly agree you shouldn't demean people for being gay uh but you also shouldn't just demean people and tell them shut the F up if they happen to like lower taxes.

That's not a sensible position, especially for a sports website, which I don't even understand. But it's not just that. It's it's everyone going after him today. And I have never seen a conservative, I'm sure somebody has done this, but I've never seen a conservative say anything bad about this author because he's gay. I've never seen anyone oppose, you know, and get fired up over that reason. People, you know, conservatives aren't, that's not what we're supposed to be doing. There's a lot of prominent gay conservatives who write about these types of topics all the time,

but they're not defined by them. It's not all they write about. They have other opinions and other thoughts about other important issues. And the idea that, you know, a major company and a major website would have the idea that it's an appropriate action to tell all people who are conservative and gay that they have to not speak their mind. I mean, talk about going into a closet. It certainly is making the point that he's making in the original op-ed. But in addition, there's no attempt to hide it. There's not an attempt.

It's something to be proud of to shun someone because of their political views and get angry and swear about it. Because, hey, we're embracing that anger and that's what the world is about. I responded to somebody on Twitter. I can't find it now this morning that said they read this article and then they said, you know, conservatives. They had a little back and forth, you know, us. Oh, no, sorry, conservatives. Homosexuality is a perverse condition, and they all must be eradicated.

And then he put in his position, Hugh. That's unreasonable. And no, you shouldn't do that. Conservatives. Oh, my plight is so horrible. Excuse me. That's not what's happening. What's happening is you, this person, you say, here's what conservatives say.

They think that it's a perverse and all gays need to be eliminated. When conservatives say, no, that's not what we believe. And then you just butt in and say, fascist, de-platform them. Shut up. I mean, it's like, what are you talking about? It's about it. It is it. These ridiculous tropes that they use to say, this is what conservatives, no, that's not what conservatives believe.

It's not. It really, it's not, I mean, identity politics have never supposedly been part of what conservatism is, at least to me. I mean, you can't, if you're an individualist and you believe in a small government and you believe man can attempt to rule ourselves like we have in this experiment here, you don't see things in groups of people. Now, I know there have been people in the past who have been racist and have been, you know, anti-Semitic and all sorts of things. But, like, it's fundamentally at odds with our philosophy. Now, that doesn't mean that every person who says they're a conservative has had no racial bias. Certainly going past, certainly in the history books, we're going to see some of that. And you're certainly some of it's active today.

But the bottom line is fundamentally, you're identifying people as a group instead of an individual. And when you do that, that is the most anti-conservative thing that you can do. Here is the thing that we do not discuss. And this is, I think, one of the real rubs. A socialist can say, look, we can just all put our money into a giant pile and we'll all take care of each other and everyone will have their needs. Okay. Everybody will be taken care of. And you can say, that's utopian.

and it never, ever has come close to working, ever. You have a capitalist system and you want a welfare state. That has worked up in the Netherlands because it was a very unit identity kind of population. Everybody was the same. So it was a lot easier. Once you started to put people in there that were. not Norwegian. When you started putting people in there that do not want to marry into that culture,

the whole damn thing fell apart. But that's with the capitalist system and a welfare state. Socialism has never, ever in the history of the world, ever worked. It's a utopian idea. And so they will always say, yeah, but this time we can do it. Conservatives are immediately called hate mongers because that's not. what that's not what happens that's not what happens we see you we see what happens you say you want a small government then people starve to death well actually no um capitalism and conservative ideas

of the idea that every man if he's left to his own devices he can make a difference in his own life and sometimes he needs a little bit of a safety net sometimes he needs people helping him out but small government actually changes the world. We have 250 years of evidence of that working in astonishing ways. But they hold us to, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. And among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Really? Well, what about the founders? They were all racist. Well, no, actually, that's wrong. But I'll even give you to the point that, yes, slaves were happening. They were having that argument at the time. That I did.

is a utopian ideal that I will tell you now, man will never perfect. Man will never get that right. But it's worth striving for because when we strive for that idea, it actually changes the world for the better. Bumps along the ways, mistakes along the ways, really bad guys like Jackson along the way, because they are not in sync with that ideal. Socialism as an ideal, it's wonderful. It's never worked. This one has never just been perfected.

I don't know. I think I'm going to go with the one that's been working, but we can do better on. And it's all the things that the left supposedly is so against, racism and sexism and homophobia and all of these things are all intertwined so closely every time socialism is attempted. Yes. It's always part of it. You think Che liked other, you think he chay like gay people? You think Che liked other races? How about Cesar Chavez?

About black people? Listen to his words about gay people. Chavez is the same thing. The Soviet Union certainly, again, even when you go back to like, oh, well, what about the South and the, you know, the separation and all of that? First of all, you're going to see a lot of Ds after the names of the people. Yeah, that's the first thing you're going to notice. But secondly, how can something, an organization, a group of people of,

philosophy who supports small government possibly be in favor of taking an entire color and not allowing them to go to certain water fountains. That is not the way a small government person thinks. Those are large government. You have to have a large government to enforce nonsense like that. That's why we always advocate for the opposite of it. Every single time, the groups change. The faces change.

You want to go to see socialism in action in Africa? They might be hating a different. group. But there's always a group to hate. There's always a group to be demeaned. And it's always by this large collective. If you avoid collectivism, you avoid racism because racism is an example of collectivism. And that's why it's completely inconsistent. The same thing with homophobia. The same thing with sexism. It's inconsistent with the view of conservatives. And it's why I hate like what happened yesterday. I celebrated. I loved it in one way because I'd like the cameras to be on these politicians all the time. What happened in the Oval Office yesterday. Because in the end, that was

only dividing us into tribes. That changed no minds for the Democrats, changed no nines for the Republicans, only polarized us into two different groups. Look, we got to solve these problems. They're not going away. And just yelling at each other is not going to work. We have to solve the problems. And I think the American people want to solve the problem. I just don't think people in power want to solve the problem because this collectivism, this, this progressivism has infiltrated. It started with the Republicans for the love of Pete. And they've never divorced themselves from it. It's in both parties. And that is an anathema to small government. Casper mattress. You want a good night's sleep. Try the Casper and mattress. You're not going to want to get out of bed. It's going to be all nice and warm. warm and cozy and you're going to be just so perfect. And then your alarm clock goes off. I know. I have one.

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$50 off the purchase of your select mattress. Casper.com. Terms and conditions to apply. Let me go to Les in Florida. Hello, Les. Les, welcome to the program. Thank you. It's been a long time.

Last time I talked to you was in 2001, January. Your birthday dropped Kenneth Hill. Wow. Wow. And I got my picture with you, and I guess if I showed it to you, you would never know who these two guys were. You've aged as well as I have. Yeah, I mean, that was what Glenn's 58th birthday back then? Shut up.

Shut up. Shut up. So, Les, what's up? You remember Malcolm Glazer head? Oh, yes, I do. Yes, I do. That was me. You asked to hold the head up so the kids could hit it.

That's so funny. Okay, I've only got a minute here, Les. How can I help you? Well, I'm going to make my stranger. I know everything happens in January, my birthday, and all that crazy stuff. My truck, the transmission went out, so I had to get it fixed. And I was there getting it picked up, paying the guy. And there was a young couple there, and he worked, as in Port Ridgey, he worked in Valarico,

construction company. They were building something. Yeah. And their transmission went out, and he had to fix it. And something told me, hey, you know, you got $300 extra dollars, give it to him. So I went to Joe, and I said, Joe, this couple, they need their transport. mission fix and they're in they're trying to figure out what the sale that they got to get extra $300.

He just put it on my card and pay the taxes with it. And I never said anything about it. But you know, I did reach out because, you know, I believe in my Lord and Savior Jesus. And I'm like, I should have witnessed a woman about it. But in my mind, I was thinking my wife's going to kill me. Yeah. I had that thought. I had that thought this weekend as well.

So that's why I brought her in real quick. but I tell you less you did good and it is a witness it already is a witness your actions are truly a witness of who you serve Merry Christmas and thank you so much for calling in You're listening