The Glenn Beck Program - Should You Abandon Your Progressive State or Stick It Out? | Guests: Greg Laurie & Lily Tang Williams | 8/30/23

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

Glenn tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who found himself in front of a school board member for having a Gadsden flag patch on his backpack. After social media backlash, the school board backed dow...n. Pat Gray joins Glenn and Stu to discuss whether or not conservatives should abandon their liberal states and risk balkanizing the country. Glenn discusses Ron DeSantis’ response to Hurricane Idalia and talks with evangelist Greg Laurie about the moves God is making on the island of Maui. Glenn discusses the downfall of America’s military. U.S. House Candidate Lily Tang Williams, a survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, joins to share her fears that America is following China’s path of dictatorship. Glenn and Stu look at the criminal charges Trump faces and whether any are strong enough to possibly convict.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:04:13 Let me tell you about the kid in Colorado. Jaden is a 12-year-old boy. He attends Vanguard School, Colorado Springs, Colorado. He's in this video. You may have seen it. It went viral on social media. It shows he and his mom. confronting a school board administrator who says that he has to take the Gadsden flag patch
Starting point is 00:04:40 off of his backpack because it's too disruptive. And they're like, it's too disruptive. What are you talking about? It's too disruptive. We don't want the flag displayed in school because of its origins with slavery and the slave trade. Now, I'm just trying to figure that one out historically. I mean, I can't, I don't know. Don't tread on me.
Starting point is 00:05:02 how does that relate to the slave trade at all? Okay, it doesn't. It clearly doesn't. And these are the kind of boobs that we have running our schools, all right? They have no idea what they're even talking about. Now, Jaden, who has kicked out a class for having the patch, says, there's no origins of slavery. This 12-year-old, no origins of slavery.
Starting point is 00:05:30 and the school's director says, well, this is being very disruptive in the school environment. So they removed him from class. Mom fought back against it, explaining the coiled snake above the phrase, don't tread on me, is not a pro-slavery image. It has origins in the Revolutionary War.
Starting point is 00:05:52 It was a symbol of resistance to British tyranny. I'm free. Don't tread on me. So you could say it's actually an anti-slavery. If you want to talk about slavery, it would be anti-slavery. Because it came from the north. It came from New England. New England had already banned slavery.
Starting point is 00:06:17 But it's not about that at all. It's not. It's about the British tyranny. Don't tread on me. So now all these experts are like, No, it's slavery. It's slavery. It's connected to Patriot groups.
Starting point is 00:06:35 Okay. Okay. All right. So, wait. The flag chose to be part of a Patriot group. The flag's like, the snake's like, I gotta, I just love white people. Is that what happened?
Starting point is 00:06:52 Jeez. Libertarians have adapted this. Lefty groups. A pro-LGB group has adopted it as well. It's really nothing to do with a snake. The snake was sewn on or printed on. I don't know if you, it's kind of like a gun. The gun didn't make the decision.
Starting point is 00:07:14 The person did. So this is, this is a flag that's already gone through the government. EEOC. They were like, somebody was was suing because the Gadsden flag is some slavery. EEOC said, yeah, no, it's not a racist symbol. The EEOC.
Starting point is 00:07:39 I don't think I've ever agreed with anything. The EEOC has ever done. So the ruling has come out. The school cannot discriminate against Jaden's viewpoint by declaring that this is just a racist symbol and one that will be disruptive. even the governor of Colorado, a Democrat, said the gas in flag is a proud symbol of American Revolution and an iconic warning to Britain or any government not to violate the liberties of Americans.
Starting point is 00:08:07 Yeah, it's almost like it's appropriate today when they're telling you you can't speak out at the school board meeting. Isn't it? Don't tread on me? Seems like a pretty good motto. Or when they're telling you, at home you're killing every grandmother on the planet wear this mask could I have the don't tread on me flag on the mask could I do that that would be weird I wonder if you put a mask and the don't tread on me flag together if they cancel each other out and disappear most people don't know that the snake was really a important signal a symbol for our founders the snake and the skull the skull the skull
Starting point is 00:08:57 usually would have a crown above it. And it represented no king but God. The king dies and he becomes a skeleton. So no king but God. The snake was selected because it doesn't want to bite you. It's just sitting there in the grass. It's like sunning itself. It's like, this sun is so great.
Starting point is 00:09:23 And you come walking along. And what is it? do. It doesn't sneak up on you and bite you. It rattles. Stop where you are. I mean, I have a ranch. Rattlesnakes everywhere. I kind of like it because it's extra security. Go ahead. Come across that field. Do it. Rattlesnakes everywhere. Now, if you're smart, you're paying attention. It's like booby traps. But these booby traps,
Starting point is 00:09:57 They actually rattle before they bite. Stay away from me. Don't walk on me or I'll bite. That's why our founders loved it. It wasn't an aggressive thing. Well, I mean, if you're a mouse, but if you're a human, it's not an aggressive thing. It's mining its own business. You know, there's the very first political cartoon ever done in America was done.
Starting point is 00:10:31 by Benjamin Franklin, and it was a rattlesnake. And it looks pretty much like that snake on, don't tread on me. It was a rattlesnake. And it was cut into 13 pieces. And it had on each piece, each state or each colony. And underneath it just said, unite or die. Meaning we could all go our own separate ways. The king will cut us up.
Starting point is 00:10:59 we'll help him. Or we could join together and live. I bring this up because, by the way, the kid who is fantastic. I love this kid. This kid, by the way, his favorite book is the creature from Jekyll Island by the Tuttle Twins. Love this kid. He knows what he's talking about. He's back in school with the flag on his backpack today.
Starting point is 00:11:32 Congratulations. now I see a lot of things that are happening at the state level even in in states like Colorado Colorado just put in their in their in their in their house Colorado Colorado Colorado people from Colorado decided that they really thought this teacher who is a Marxist and wants a Mao like cultural revolution. He talks about an aggressive cultural revolution. That's code for Mao. They just elected him and put him in the house. Okay, it's their state. You can do it. You also have people like this. Now, the question is, and I mean this sincerely, the time is when we are in
Starting point is 00:12:35 real trouble, real trouble. I don't know if you saw Tucker on X yesterday. He did an interview with Victor Orban from Hungary. Okay, that's a little frightening. Victor O'Brien's like, yeah, World War III, everybody here knows. Ukraine is losing. There's no way to win. You got to make peace right now.
Starting point is 00:12:59 Because the only thing you can do is start sending boots on the ground to help them because they're out. you do that it's World War 3 you start sending the jets over and everything else World War 3 he'll use a nuke he will you should probably trust the people who have been taken by the former
Starting point is 00:13:19 Soviet Union and have lived next to Russia our whole existence you should probably listen to us I mean there's a notion between you and us you know you may not know what's best I think he's right on that but as tough times come
Starting point is 00:13:37 and you live, if you live in Washington, D.C., there's no way you get a fair trial. No way. I think if you live in New York City, there's no way you get a fair trial. If it's political. If you're like, uh, yeah,
Starting point is 00:13:53 my child is my child, not your child. They're not going to get a sex change. No. You're not going to get a fair trial. California, do you really think? Now, things are changing, for instance, in Washington, D.C. I don't know if you've seen the climate activists that have glued themselves to the roadway again. Honestly, I just think, did you see the, I think it was in New Mexico, but it was on the native side.
Starting point is 00:14:25 I think it was on the Navajo Nation. You know, Burning Man was happening. And these dopes just blocked traffic and traffic was blocked forever. And they were on the Navajo side. So the Navajo Rangers came. They just took their truck and went through the blockade and then turned around and started going. And the kids were like, they can't do that.
Starting point is 00:14:48 What are they doing? And the guy gets out of the truck with his gun. He's like, get out on the ground right now. And he's aggressive. Yeah, he's aggressive. And these hippies are like, you can't do that. Yeah, yeah. You know, you're in a different country.
Starting point is 00:15:05 you don't think you are, but you are. You're in the Navajo Nation now, and they don't play by the same rules. In Washington, D.C., all of these climate activists were out, and people were blocked. Now, this has happened two days in the last two weeks. People are blocked for like an hour, two hours. They're just blocked, and they're getting out of their cars, and they are starting to accost these people. And they're like, what do you think you're doing? I have a house payment.
Starting point is 00:15:39 I have a car payment. I'm raising kids. I'm trying to feed my family. Get the hell out of the street. And it's getting ugly. It's getting really ugly. The people, the good news is, I think the people have had enough of this. They've had enough.
Starting point is 00:15:57 For that to happen even in Washington, D.C., that's interesting. So now they, I don't know, they took a chisel and got the guy's hand. you know, off of the concrete, but they were all arrested. They'll be back because they think they're Martin Luther King. So they'll be back. But the question is, which way is your state going? And should we consider? Because I know I have.
Starting point is 00:16:32 I moved to Texas for a reason. I have a ranch in Idaho for a reason. I bet on two states. There's other states that I'm sure might, you know, actually stand to and these two states might eventually fall. I don't know. But I bet on two states. I didn't want to be in New York.
Starting point is 00:16:57 Those people will eat you. They will. It's going to get very, when there's no food and, you know, because of, you know, the Green New Deal, when all of that wind power is producing all the electricity that it's supposed to produce and nobody has any power and you're in Washington, D.C., and you're in a skyscraper, 55. 60 stories tall with people in it and their children and they're all hungry? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:17:23 I don't know. Some new recipes might be tried out. I'm just saying. Or do we stay in those places because we know that our founder said unite or die? And what we're doing is we're separating ourselves. I don't have an answer for this. I really don't. I'm really struggling with this.
Starting point is 00:17:54 Do we unite or do we separate? Do we balkanize? Bad idea. But is it the only idea? I don't know. Because I got to tell you, I'll never go to Washington, D.C., never again. Because I know if I'm arrested for some political reason, I'll never get a fair trial. Never.
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Starting point is 00:19:46 10 seconds. Station ID. Mom in California says she was the victim of cancel culture over her politically incorrect comments made during school board meeting about LGBTQ materials being included in school curricula. Janet Robertson lost her job 10 days after speaking out at the school board. She has three children
Starting point is 00:20:16 attending schools in the school district said it's not a choice. People are not gender fluid. And to teach our children this is not okay. I just got something today in the mail where
Starting point is 00:20:30 Here is it is. I just got this, not in the mail, but email. Let me read it to you. This is from a very trusted organization that my daughter does, plays in from time to time. And very, very conservative, okay, tries to do family-oriented stuff. Dressing room policies. All actors are required to arrive at the theater in base. clothing of tank tops and shorts.
Starting point is 00:21:02 If you do not arrive in base clothes, please use the restrooms to change upon rival. All children under the age of 17. Use the second stage dressing room. Costume changes during the show will be in conference room or green room. Please preset your costume pieces. All adults who identify as female will be in the dressing room behind this section of the theater.
Starting point is 00:21:21 All adults who identify as male will be in the... You know what? No. No. No. No. No. My daughter's not going to be really happy to hear this, but no. I don't care how you identify. You're a dude? Go to the men's room. You're a girl, woman. Go to the girl's room. That's it. Period. I don't care. Oh, I identify. I don't care. I don't care. There is no such thing as a biological male. Okay? Well, biologically, I'm a male. But. No, there's no but. Of course, you're a biological male. That's the only kind of male that exists. Biological. Everything else is psychological. And I'm not going to deal with your psychosis. No, not going to. I'm not changing because you're truly messed up in the head. And I say that with as much love and respect as I can give at this point. I've never had a problem. I mean, I feel. I feel. feel for people who are really suffering from gender dysphoria. I really do. But you know what? Enough is enough. Enough is enough. And it's not their fault. It's everyone else who's enabling them. Yeah, I mean, it's the same way you'd feel for someone who's suffering with anorexia. Yes. You wouldn't confirm that they're actually really fat and never need to eat again.
Starting point is 00:22:50 You would instead say, no, you need to change the way you're not fat. You need to make sure you change your habits. and that's what we're supposed to do. Instead, we're going down this other road where we just kind of like say, yeah, whatever you think. No. Whatever's Rattle Around inside that brain is true. Right. Speaking of Rattle Around, don't tread on me. Do we move or do we stay?
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Starting point is 00:24:29 BlazTV.com slash Glenn. Sign up now and use the promo code Glenn. Save yourself $10. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. We're talking about whether or not people should move. And we're three people here. Pat's joining us. Three people here who have moved to Texas from New York.
Starting point is 00:25:02 You know, we got out when the getting was good. And we're here for a reason because we're counting on Texas to stand. If your state or your community is going to hell in a handbasket, should you stay? Because if we, if all of conservatives move to, you know, 10 states, 25 states, we just split the, then we've split the country. We're Balkanized. But I'm so torn on this.
Starting point is 00:25:31 Because maybe Balkanization is good. No, no. Balkanization is really bad. Pro-bulkization. I go from the big picture, which this is really bad. No way around it. Balkanization is bad. To the little picture, it's easy for me to say,
Starting point is 00:25:47 now, you should stay in New York. You should stay in California. Well, you should if you were planning to move to Texas, because Texas is full up. It's full. We're just full. Okay. Up to the room.
Starting point is 00:25:59 There's no vacancy. Let me go to Ben in Ohio. Hello, Ben. Hi, how are you? Good. How are you? I'm fantastic. Honor to speak to you, sir.
Starting point is 00:26:09 Thank you. Unfortunately, I lean towards the side of it. We have to move. States are being picked off one by one. States like Illinois and California are obviously lost. We don't have enough that are going to move to those areas that we can try to take those states back. And I've got family that lives in Texas.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Unfortunately, I'm probably headed that way. I know you say you're full, but I think you can take one more family. Well, you're a listener of ours. We'll sneak you across the morning. Absolutely. Yeah. But yeah, it was, it's, we have to start surrounding ourselves or we're just going to continue to be split up.
Starting point is 00:26:46 We're so spread out the people that love this country and stand for the Constitution are so spread out and so split up that we're losing on the bigger picture. And it's unfortunate, but we need to start kind of creating those home bases, in my opinion, and where we can start solidifying what we need to do to protect what we have. The problem is we're fighting a battle on 50 fronts. This is the only way I can make this work in my head. We're fighting a battle on 50 fronts. And we tend to be losing on those 50 fronts.
Starting point is 00:27:20 And not because of the argument or anything else, but because of the big cities. They're all controlled by progressives. And so the big cities vote and you lose the state. So, you know, how are you going to change? You've got to change those big cities, which requires some of. of us and God bless you, you're a hero for going into those cities and changing them from the inside. If we leave, we've lost the state. We lost the state. And we will balkanize. But isn't there something to be said to stop the, I mean, look at how close Texas is. Texas, I think,
Starting point is 00:28:00 is pretty close to becoming a blue state. Yeah, I mean, we get a little room here. A little room. A little. A little. The cities are gone. Gone. I have a really strong feeling on this question, by the way, which is absolutely leave. Like I don't try to convince me that I'm going to be the difference and spend the next multiple decades of my family's existence trying to fight Balkanization in some blue state. Forget it. Do what is best for your family and go to the place where your family can be raised the best way possible. you just I understand what you're meaning from a societal viewpoint but when you're making that
Starting point is 00:28:41 decision as a an individual you make that decision that is best for your family totally agree with you got to make the decision that's right for your family totally agree totally agree however you know don't don't don't come here if you're a progressive well yes you got all that you got the dreamland over in California and New York and everything else but you know the The problem is, is that, I mean, go back to Franklin. Unite or die. That's giving up on our friends and neighbors who vote Democrat but are not these crazy people that glue themselves to highways.
Starting point is 00:29:21 That's giving up on them and saying there's no way back for them. Then they should change, vote sensibly and come to Texas too or come to Florida too. There's, there is plenty of room despite our warnings. for sane people. Except in Texas. We accept in Texas. Obviously we're filled to the brim.
Starting point is 00:29:40 But no, I mean, I think it is, you, I think a lot of times we make these decisions based on things like, well, what will happen in 40 years with the future of the nation? Live your life the best way possible. For your family to honor your,
Starting point is 00:29:55 your principles and your faith, do that because you're not going to be able to control what the hell Kathy Hochel does in New York. You're not saving it. save your family. You know, when you see what that goes again, you know, I'm stuck. Really? I'm stuck because I know what I would do as my, I know what I am doing for my family.
Starting point is 00:30:17 Yeah, because I know I live here. And a good chunk of the reason I live here is because you decided you wanted to be in Texas, which I'm very thankful for, by the way. So you're welcome and 10% of the salary can come to me now. You're paying 100% of it. That would just mean you'd pay 90% of it. Okay. Good. Glad we understand each other.
Starting point is 00:30:36 So I go back and forth on what's right for you, what's right for the individual, and then what's right for the nation. And, you know, I don't have a right to say. I just would, I think we should just point out that balkanization is not good. And that's what they want. That's what they want. And people. The aliens? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:03 you know them yep yeah you saw that you saw them I did and it and the thing you saw all those all those that's who that's who wants it all great documentaries
Starting point is 00:31:16 all great documentaries do you pat make decisions like that based on I think about this when I'm voting sometimes not usually no like where you're like oh well what's the strategic thing to do right now is to do this because this person will go this and this person then this will happen and this will happen just vote for who you think the best person is oh I hate that yeah
Starting point is 00:31:32 I've done that before and it never works. It never works. It's a terrible idea. You're not going to be the person who makes the one vote difference to get your candidate over that's going to make X, Y, and C happens. And then 35 different chain reactions occur. And then it really works out in the end. That's not the way it works. Just vote for who you think the best person is.
Starting point is 00:31:51 Wow. So he's saying every vote doesn't count. Your vote doesn't count. That's basically what I heard him said. I think America heard it too. Yeah. I was talking to Eric July the other day. And he's like, you know, democracy sucks.
Starting point is 00:32:02 It does. It's true. It sucks at the end of the day. And, you know, it was a funny point, but also like, you know, this process at times has its problems. The bottom line is make decisions that you feel comfortable with for your family and your future, right? Like, that's all you can do. And people get so wrapped up in trying to micromanage the future of the nation. If everyone just makes good decisions based on solid principles, we're going to be okay. We've been okay for a long time. We just abandoned that. Let me go to Chrissy also in Ohio.
Starting point is 00:32:38 Hi, Chrissy. Thank you so much for all you do. We had a really big thing in Ohio, and it was the voting on issue one, and it's about amending our Constitution. And a lot of people in my family were, you know, split on it. And, of course, I was yes. And my sister was sending me text saying, you know, hey, this is all of the about, you know, abortion. It's all about this. And, you know, I am a pro-choice person. I'm very conservative, but I believe in some, you know, cap on weeks and all of that. And when she, you know,
Starting point is 00:33:20 sent me that text, I sent her, I said, hey, I cannot vote on one issue. I cannot just vote on abortion. So what that would mean is if we had 40 percent, that you needed to amend the Ohio Constitution, then when if it was, we wanted to change it to 60%. And I said, what if they want to start, you know, having trans story time in school? What if they started doing those types of things? And, you know, everybody just, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:33:55 I think we need to start talking about it differently. I'm happy to move to Florida, although I love Ohio and we have family in Florida. but it's it's really tough no i know it's really tough it's really really tough the the i have to understand your point of view though you so you voted against the change to 60 percent now she said she voted yes no no okay all right good i voted i voted yes because i wanted it to stick to go to 60 right instead of and that's not what happened in ohio is it no now it's now we need only 40 percent that's insane that's all you need you need to
Starting point is 00:34:33 and it can be changed. But can I say something real quick to thank you? Sure. Always. Well, actually, I need to thank you all of you guys. I've been listening for a long time and I've been sober for a long time. Oh, good. But I attended 828 and I went to Wilmington and I went to restoring love.
Starting point is 00:34:56 And I am still in contact with these people that I have met. And it literally has changed my life. And I just want to say thank you for following your heart and believing in, you know, letting your life go and take it where your God that you believe in sends you. So thank you. Thank you. I really, it means a great deal to me. You know, all of those things that we've done in the past always seemed like they were, you know, game changing. And they never, you never saw the result. But I think over time I have seen the result. And Chrissy, I hear this from people like you all the time, that those events changed their life because they met people and they have new friends. And, I mean, they, I've watched them. I've watched these people in their circle of friends who met at one of these events and one is dying of cancer. One has MS.
Starting point is 00:35:56 And the whole group gathers around to help. It's really a remarkable audience. And I thank you for being part of it, Chrissy. Okay. That's awesome. I mean, like it is, surrounding yourself with community. I mean, I think I could, I might be a person who's in upstate New York somewhere and have a great community around me and say, you know what, I can make it through this. We've got a great circle and we can do this.
Starting point is 00:36:20 That's a totally rational decision in any particular situation. But it's like there's no reason to torture yourself. There's no reason to sit here and pay insane taxes to a state that is going to use it to fund a. abortions. There's just like, that's not a thing you have to do. Federalism is really important. We should get to more of that. We should get to more. And I think we're, I think we're moving towards that more and more. I mean, look at what, what's happening in, in Hawaii. I mean, there's a chance that things change in Hawaii because all of, I mean, the, the electrical company said it was their fault that the fire started. Now they're blaming the fire department because you didn't put it out properly.
Starting point is 00:37:07 But it's the blame is all not on global warming. It's all on government and efficiency. And I think people are seeing, wow, government, when I've said this for years, when the government is the police and the offender, where do you go for help? And I think people are starting to maybe realize that. By the way, today, I'm hosting a off the record private Q&A exclusively for Blaze TV subscribers. This is your chance to chat with me about anything and everything that is on your mind. We don't have any big tech sensors looking over our shoulders. So no topic is off limits. You can join us at blazTV.com off the record and sign up today to join the conversation. Use a promo code off the record. The other Blaze TV
Starting point is 00:37:57 hosts and I are we do these live chats on a regular basis. If you want to have a direct line to me today, all you have to do is just go to blazedtiv.com slash off the record and join us. I think that's, I'm not sure. I better not say, but it's in the mid-afternoon, central time, I believe. So you can go there and it'll tell you when it's going to happen,
Starting point is 00:38:20 I'm sure. It's mid-afternoon, central time, late night, Eastern, and then morning Pacific. Right. And Hawaii, it doesn't even happen in Hawaii. It doesn't happen.
Starting point is 00:38:29 It never gets there. It's a way to get there from here. It's a long swim. All right. Also tonight, the Wednesday night special. Speaking of Maui, the disaster in Maui, the government failures that help caused it, and why there are so still so many unanswered questions. It's a microcosm of progressive governments everywhere.
Starting point is 00:38:53 Tragically ironic because the core tenet of Democrats, at least according to how they market themselves, is their government is always there for the people and they care. and they're the best to take care of things when it turns out they're the worst. Join me tonight. Tragedy in Maui, how left-wing government failed Hawaiians. That's tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern on blaisTV.com, 9.30 p.m. on YouTube.com slash Glenn Beck. Right after a brand new. Stu does America.
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Starting point is 00:42:31 We're a national organization that comes in and writes the local people checks because we believe they're the best able to help themselves. and so we support the churches and the local people that are making the difference on the ground and when people need food or water, we're there for that as well. But if you want to make sure that 100% of your money is going to these things, just donate now. Mercury1.org and give to our emergency relief fund. 100 cents on every dollar goes to those emergencies. and not overhead.
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Starting point is 00:45:45 program. Natural disasters happening again. We have still recovery in Maui and now the hurricane in Florida. What a difference a government makes. What a difference a governor makes? What a difference a freedom kind of capitalist makes
Starting point is 00:46:09 compared to a socialist progressive? Look at the difference between Florida and Hawaii and how the state has responded. We're going to show you that and we're going to talk to the guy, who if you saw the movie Oh shoot What was it called Jesus Revolution Thank you
Starting point is 00:46:31 We have the guy Greg Lorry Who was the kid In that movie His church is in Maui And he's going to give us a report On what's happening there Coming up in just a second
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Starting point is 00:48:14 People need to heed the instructions from their local officials. You still have time this morning and early afternoon to be able to make the preparations that you need to. You are going to start seeing on the Gulf Coast of Florida some of the effects of this as we get into Tuesday night. The state, we have tens of thousands of utility workers staged ready to go in for rapid power restoration. We also have urban search and rescue teams staged ready to go if there needs to be rescue operations. we will lead the effort on that. And then, of course, we have other types of supplies as people need. So we're ready to go on this.
Starting point is 00:48:54 This is a storm that's hitting a part of the state that hasn't had a major hurricane on the current track in a long time. And so there's a lot of woods, a lot of forests. I think you're going to see a lot of debris as a result of this storm. And that means we have our guys ready to clear the roads. It's amazing. They are taking action. prior to. You remember a year before, to the day, the year before Katrina, I was on the air and I told you
Starting point is 00:49:26 the most dangerous city in America was New Orleans because the levees have been used as a political fundraiser forever and then they never fix the levees. And I said, it is the most dangerous if it is hit straight on. it will cause chaos unlike anything we've ever seen. Twelve months later, to the day, it was happening. It didn't take a profit to see it. It only takes somebody who's looking at what is not being done by the government. The same thing with Maui.
Starting point is 00:50:08 You know, what we've learned from Maui, A, about the government we'll get into later. but what we've learned is the people can take care of themselves. The people are taking care of themselves. The community is coming together. Everyone I talked to that has been to Maui or is in Maui has said the same thing. This is a tight-knit community that is really helping each other. You can't expect a government who is several time zones away to be your first responder. for one reason they suck.
Starting point is 00:50:46 They always suck. You need people closest to the ground. That's why we don't give to big national charities unless we know they are the first on the ground and they have a long track record of being the first in and the last out. When you give your dollars to Mercury 1, you're not really giving them to Mercury 1. We are just finding the place where those dollars will get the most bang for the buck because we don't take anything off the top. And so the first places we go are local churches. You know, the local churches, the local clubs, the local emergency people that have dealt with these things over and over again. And the churches are usually one of the best places.
Starting point is 00:51:38 Well, Greg Lorry, he's the guy who was in the. movie Jesus Revolution, or he wasn't actually, and it was about him and that whole revolution. He has a church there on Maui in this community. It's an amazing story, and they were the
Starting point is 00:51:58 first people out to be able to help, and we wanted to get the story from him on what's going on. Welcome. Greg. Thanks so much for inviting me to be your show, I was actually just in Maui yesterday. And we've had a church there, as you mentioned, for 41 years now. A friend of mine started it. He's a pro-surfer. He started this church. And he wanted to retire and ask if we'd bring it into our church family that's called Harvest. And so now
Starting point is 00:52:34 it's been a part of our churches for seven years. And, you know, it's usually a very happy thing to go over there. very close congregation of around a thousand people. And man, when I spoke to him last Sunday, it's like they were all collectively traumatized still, but yet still filled with hope. And that is, I think, one of the most important things right now is to bring yes help and thanks to you and Mercury 1 and others that have helped us. We've been able to bring tangible help to people, helping them get clothing, food. We've helped 100 families in tangible ways financially to survive this thing.
Starting point is 00:53:17 But I think the thing that we have to offer that's more important than anything is hope. You know, it's been said that men can live 40 days without food, three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but not one second without hope. And there's a lot of people on this island that have lost hope. I was talking with J.P. Decker, who works with you at Mercury 1. And he brought to my attention the fact that there have been a number of suicides since it has happened among those who've lost their home, their livelihood, and apparently their hope.
Starting point is 00:53:52 And so we're really working on that. I, you know, from everything I read, the people who were in the water that watched people burn to death and watch people, you know, eventually give up and drown all around them. The, you know, the one woman who finally after two days of looking for her son, she was turned around by the police and everybody else, and they said, no, we've already cleared all the houses. She went back to what was left of her house, and her son's bedroom was still fairly intact, and he was, he had not been incinerated and he was sitting on what was his bed holding his dog. Once you see these kinds of things up close and personal and one after another after another,
Starting point is 00:54:46 I mean, what are you guys dealing with over there psychologically? You know, I know people, I think misuse the concept of PTSD, but I think you're really seen this on a widespread. at scale because these people have experienced major trauma in stories like that when you just shared. That's so unbelievable. And they were told to not go to their home. And they were told to not leave and they were turned back again.
Starting point is 00:55:21 And many of those people were incinerated because of that and for the ones that just broke the law effectively and disobeyed what they were told. They lived. And so this, without question, has been horribly mismanaged on so many levels. But we stepped in immediately because we're there on the ground. And in every way possible, I mean, giving people, you know, a man who lost his livelihood, gave him fishing poles so he can go out and dish again. We have one couple of the church, they know, to Round People pizza.
Starting point is 00:55:57 And they just made all of their pizza free. for anybody that wants it. And so we got in this truck and we're driving around just giving pizzas to police officers to people anywhere. But are you what, Glenn? People love pizza.
Starting point is 00:56:12 I saw the power of pizza. I mean, it's a little thing. But we give it to him in the name of Jesus Christ. Here's a pizza. Thank you. You know, little things matter. But I think, you know,
Starting point is 00:56:23 there's something called the Ministry of Presence where you're just dead. You care about people. And of course, we pray. with them, Christ, and because he is the one who's ultimately going to give us the hope we need. You have preschool. Now you're allowing the church facilities to be used for teachers and parent groups and, you know, educational support. And the preschool is child care for families.
Starting point is 00:57:02 I mean, this is turning into kind of a full-time thing. How long can the church do that? We'll do it as long as it needs to be done. And we're working with other organizations at Mercury 1, Samaritan's First, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. We're also helping people just with the practical things like filling up their insurance forms and making their claims. Because a lot of these people don't know how to do it. They didn't have Internet for quite a while. We've run in some of those Starlink systems.
Starting point is 00:57:36 So people could just, there was like literally. there was no communication on this island. People couldn't text each other. They couldn't call each other. They couldn't communicate at all in this fire, as you know, just incinerated everything in its path. When I got there, we got down on what is called Front Street, and that's kind of the main destination of Lahaina.
Starting point is 00:57:59 People come from around the world of business. It's a tourist attraction, beautiful street. In fact, in my social media, I posted a drone shot that we had done two weeks before this fire, because I was there doing a program with CBN, featuring our church in happier days. And I put this drone shot of what Front Street looked like in its heyday and its glory right next to a shot of the same places that we just took on that same street. And it looks like a war zone. It's just, it's incomprehensible because I pretty much know every square inch of that street. And, you know, think of all those.
Starting point is 00:58:38 building your favorite stores and restaurants, but even more, obviously, the loss of life. I mean, you're walking through, effectively, a graveyard, and it's very sobering. It's very sad. But at the same time, I see, you know, the Bible talks about beauty coming out of ashes, and I see that happening. You know, here's the amazing thing, is downtown and behind there's this tree. It's a Banyan tree. And it was actually planted, interestingly, dedicated to the first missionary that came to Lahaina. And this tree somehow survived. And to me, it's a picture of resilience and about how if a person is rooted in a relationship with God, they can survive anything. And I think that tree has, in many ways, become a symbol for the people on the island.
Starting point is 00:59:32 they're going to come back again, they're going to rebuild again, but the loss of life, those people can never be replaced. Greg Lorry, he is the real-life guy that you might have seen in the Jesus Revolution. That was his story, and he is a senior pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship. One of their branches is right there in Lahaina in Maui, and he has been on the scene. The church has been working. And thank you, Greg, for being such a good steward of the money that Mercury One has given the church to be able to help all these people. Thank you. We like to give it to people who understand sacred money. Well, Glenn, thank you so much. And for all the
Starting point is 01:00:20 folks that invested, we really appreciate it. And God bless you all. Thank you very much. So you know, several of the charities that he mentioned, Billy Graham and Samaritan's purse, we helped them get the first, I think it was a C-130 off the ground right away when this was happening. That was also your money, and we appreciate it. If you'd like to help and then help those who are now in Florida as well, government is not the thing. It is the local people that always fix the problems. So why send your money to an inefficient where they're using maybe 40 cents on every dollar?
Starting point is 01:01:09 The rest is in overhead. 100% of the money goes directly to whatever it is we're trying to serve in disaster relief. give to local charities and local people. And if you don't know who to give there, you can go to Mercury 1 and we will find those people for you. Mercury 1.org. Tonight we have a special on Wednesday night, our Wednesday night special.
Starting point is 01:01:37 It is the tragedy in Maui, how left-wing government has failed Hawaiians. There's a lot of questions out. And it wasn't global warming. It was the government in, competence, fear of them, their own government, and not paying attention to all of the warnings. Tragedy in Maui tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern on blazedtv.com and then 9.30 tonight, YouTube.com
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Starting point is 01:03:56 1 p.m. Eastern. and we're going off the record. And you can give any question that you want and nothing is out of bounds. And I will do my best to answer any question. We can have a conversation about whatever you want. You steer the conversation. BlazTV.com slash off the record. If you're not a subscriber, subscribe today.
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Starting point is 01:04:39 and they're coming back and forth. It's a great time and they'll ask you all sorts of uncomfortable questions. So it's great. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I have something that you have not heard because no one has reported on it and we got wind of it and did our homework and found that it's not only true, it's probably worse than we thought. If you have confidence in our Pentagon, first of all, you're the one.
Starting point is 01:05:11 If you believe that our Pentagon is still the same Pentagon, you are sorely mistaken. And I'm going to give you the story that you will not hear anywhere else an exclusive story. I'm going to give it to you here after the bottom of the hour break. So stand by for that. It's shameful and a little bit terrifying, quite honestly. A little bit terrifying. Did you see Tucker Carlson's interview with Orban? I did not see it.
Starting point is 01:05:42 I saw some of the coverage of it, though. I bet he goes to Putin next. Interesting. Yeah, bet he goes to Putin next. I bet he's going to interview Putin. It seems the coverage I've seen in the media is like, well, this was a pro Russian interview and and they were
Starting point is 01:05:59 Vladimir Putin is Tucker Carlson's best friend. Orban does not like Putin. Really? No. That's what the coverage I saw said. I was like I mean I he of course know that the media does this but was there any indication of this? He just said he wanted peace right? He wanted to get this over with. Yeah he's like there's no way to win this.
Starting point is 01:06:19 This is this will mean World War III and I think he's right. I think he's right. Definitely risking it. There's no question about that. He's pro-China, but he's not pro-Russia. Okay. He's not pro-Russia. Neither one is a good one to be proud. The Glenn Back program.
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Starting point is 01:07:57 com slash glenn so monday an Iranian female singer put out a music video expressing support for Iranian women and protesting against the hijab mandates and encourage women to remove their hid job well no not not there so she's in jail now
Starting point is 01:08:25 just to remind you of how much we have in common with the Iranian rulers not the people, but the rulers. A couple of days ago, NPR continued the assault on Senator Tommy Tuberville, saying, I'm sorry, Tupperville, thank you. Tuberville, saying his hold on military promotions are affecting 650 officers by the end of the year.
Starting point is 01:08:54 Now, I don't know about you, but boo-hoo. Oh, no, they don't get their promotion. Why is he doing this? well he is saying you got to change the policies get away from all these woke policies and one in particular abortion secretary of defense lloyd austin has made three separate and desperate calls pleading with him to abandon his hold and each time the senator's response has been changed the policies and i'll release the hold it's an impasse and i for one say good and here's why
Starting point is 01:09:33 a confirmation is not a rubber stamp and if the military is proceeding down a road that we don't find acceptable it is the duty of our representatives in the Senate to do their
Starting point is 01:09:49 jobs and write the ship I'd like to see this from the Republicans in the house why did you approve the FBI building?
Starting point is 01:10:01 the new FBI. Why would you do that? You have the control of the purse strings. Now, let me ask you, do you feel comfortable with what's coming out of the military lately? Between abortion, on-based drag queen shows, partisan identity politics, do you feel comfortable that your kids could join the military and still be a part of the greatest military machine of all time? Or do you think you're just putting them in a slaughterhouse? Should we just green light fundamental transformation of the most powerful military machine
Starting point is 01:10:43 in the history of mankind? I don't think so. But I don't think people know how bad it has gotten. The head of the United States Strategic Command is General Anthony Cotton. This was brought to my attention a few days ago, and we did our homework. We couldn't believe that this was true, but it is. In 2020, the head of the Strategic Command, General Anthony Cotton, told the Air Force magazine that the United States is racist. Quote, I'm here as a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force, and when I see what happened to Ahmed Arbery, Briona Taylor, George Floyd,
Starting point is 01:11:27 Rayshard Brooks and the list goes on and on, that could be me. Now a couple of years ago, Cotton said, quote, diversity and inclusion are the tools for national defense. And that diversity is a war fighting imperative. I don't care what color or who the person is sleeping with when they're killing in the name of our country to save people and to save human rights. Diversity is a war fighting imperative, really?
Starting point is 01:12:03 You see, winning wars is no longer the goal. Worshiping at the altar of the Church of Woke has now replaced national defense. Now, a couple of weeks ago, the U.S. Strategic Command, remember, this is General Cotton. The Strategic Command conducted their 2023 deterrence symposium, and General Cotton invited an interesting guest speaker. Dr. Syed Hosen Musavian.
Starting point is 01:12:38 Easy for me to say. That was a roller coaster ride, but I think he got through it. Dr. Syed Hussein Musavian. Before kicking off his keynote speech, he thanked General Cotton for the invitation and then stated his goal as this. Today, I want to talk about Iran-US mutual threat perceptions and deterrence policies. It's historical perspective,
Starting point is 01:13:07 but more an Iranian perspective. I'm afraid you may don't like it, but I think it's important to know the other side, the adversary thinking. So he was going to deliver the Iranian point of view. Now, I don't remember inviting in, you know, the Russians to tell us their point of view. You could bring a former Russian in. It says, this is the way they think, and this is why they behave this way. And here's how you need to position yourself strategically. But that's not what he's doing. He was giving the Iranian point of view from a guy who believes the Iranian point of view. and I'm sure he does that quite often at his current post at Princeton University. Now, I find this, you know, very interesting because he is very qualified to give the Iranian point of view towards the United States.
Starting point is 01:14:08 He was born and raised in Iran. His family had ties to the religious revolutionary movement. From 1990 to 1997, he was the government Iran's ambassador to Germany. he held this post as Iranian agents murdered four Iranian dissidents in Berlin at a restaurant. The Germans demanded that he be recalled back to Iran. He responded with a veiled threat. He said that if Europe treated Iran the way America and Israel did, they would be treated the same way by Iran. Now, I wonder what could that could mean.
Starting point is 01:14:47 What does that mean? Was that reference to Iran's attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut? Or was that the murder of the Beirut CIA station chief, William Buckley? Or maybe it was the 1985 murder of the U.S. Navy diver when they hijacked TWA Flight 847. I'm not sure what he was referring to, but that's the way Iran treats America. Is that the treatment he was talking about? This is the guy that General Cotton invited in to speak at the United Nations Strategic Command. Now remember, General Cotton is also a guy who's not really in love with the United States as we are.
Starting point is 01:15:31 So, Musavian also was Iran's senior negotiator because it's bad, but it's about to get worse. The senior negotiator for nuclear issues from 2003 to 2005, and he brought up the nuclear issue in his keynote. which he said, of course, was all our fault. The attendees had to listen to everything, according to him, being our fault. Iran was the victim. We were the bad guys. Never mind the fact that he never mentions, you know, obviously that Iran was stolen by a radical Shia 12 or Islamist group,
Starting point is 01:16:13 but he's fine with that. Never mentions that eradicating Israel remains their top priority. Oh, and death to America as well. But never mind that. Everything is America's fault. Now, is that true? I mean, really? I mean, is that, is that true that they, that we started their nuclear, their nuclear program?
Starting point is 01:16:38 Because it doesn't mesh with my notes. Because I'm seeing that Iran's first official hacking program began in 2002. He said this. He said that in 2010, Susnecks, the cyber attack that the United States did on the Iranian nuclear sites under the Obama administration convinced Iran to start up a cyber program. He said they never had one before. It was our fault that they were looking to build a missile. And then it's our fault that they're doing anything online because they had never heard or thought about any kind of hacking program. Now, our side says, yeah, you started in the 2000 years, 2002, eight years before we attacked you.
Starting point is 01:17:31 The Iranian cyber army, an affiliate of IRGC, attacked Twitter in 2009. So did he not know that? Did he not know that? He would also mention the assassination of the former Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander, Soleimani. Now, listen to this. He bragged about his government's death threats after Soleimani's assassination. He said he had Trump's officials trembling with fear. More specifically, Trump's special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, but not him personally. He said his threats made Brian's wife so afraid that, quote, she couldn't sleep, she cried and she trembled.
Starting point is 01:18:25 This is what he's bragging about. Now, I expect this from Princeton. But why is he being invited by a United States general to speak at strategic command? We are opening the doors to the very enemies. We're doing it on our border. And apparently we're doing it at the Pentagon. I don't know what's happening with our military, but it's not good. And if Tuberville can hold the destruction of our armed forces off,
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Starting point is 01:20:40 We try to get back to you within 15 minutes. Real estate agents, I trust.com. This is the Glenback program. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Thanks so much for tuning in today. the coast of Florida is they're expecting storm surge in some areas of up to 12 feet. Can you imagine? I mean, I mean, I'm just, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest where, you know, the temperatures are moderate.
Starting point is 01:21:28 We don't have massive snowstorms. We don't have hurricanes. We don't have tornadoes. It's not hot in the summer. You also don't have happiness. No, we have no happiness. And a volcano once in a while. But other than that, and I just, I mean, I just, like here in Dallas, the heat in the summer, and I would say it every summer.
Starting point is 01:21:49 But, you know, 108 is 108. You know, it's a lot. It's a lot. And I don't care if it's dry Arizona. It's a dry heat. No, 112 is 121. And this isn't a dry heat. It's not Houston, but I just don't like it.
Starting point is 01:22:06 And I can't imagine. I mean, I'd love to live on the ocean. I'd love to live, you know. But no, the idea that everything you have, just gone, I don't know. I don't think so. I just want to live someplace where nature just leaves me alone. Yeah. You know?
Starting point is 01:22:26 And it's surprising how many people have to deal with this so regularly. Obviously, Florida getting hit today. You know, California, everyone's like, oh, everything's fine. But then you get the earthquakes. There's always the potential for the earthquake in California. Yeah, no, California, I think, is the worst of all of them. Really? Well, yeah.
Starting point is 01:22:41 Everyone loves the weather in Southern California. You love the weather in California if you can live through the mudslides, the fires. You're going to get swallowed by the earth, but when you're on top of the earth for that, whatever that period of time is, it's very nice. Until you're sliding into the abyss, it's nice. Yeah. It's nice. Weather-wise. Right.
Starting point is 01:22:59 I mean, you know. I mean, you're not going to have any money. And you're going to be consulted by homeless people who are defecating on the streets every minutes, but other than that, it's really wonderful. It's really great. It's really great. I think, I mean, I don't know. I like Arizona, even though it's 121. You know, I like that because there's just nothing.
Starting point is 01:23:22 You know, I don't like the big funnels that come out of the sky here occasionally. Yeah. You know? Yeah, that can happen. Yeah, those funnels come down and you're like, uh, I'm not really feeling comfortable about this. It's not like a rainstorm, you know, or a hurricane that you can prepare for. It's just all of a sudden, hey, where's Ellie?
Starting point is 01:23:46 I sucked up into a funnel in the clouds. It's no big deal. And if you're not hit by that, you're hit by like grapefruit size. I don't know how people survived here early on, early on. First of all, you know, you didn't know that these things were coming. All of a sudden, grapefruit hail is coming down at you. What am I going to hide under my cow? My cow's going to die too.
Starting point is 01:24:10 I mean, I am glad I live in this century. I mean, this century. Not last century. This one. Right. And here. Like the air conditioning thing, we really do overlook. What an incredible innovation that is.
Starting point is 01:24:26 Yeah. It is absolutely opened up half the country for people to live in. It has. It has. It's a miracle. It was invented. you know, in San Antonio. Mr. Carrier
Starting point is 01:24:37 invented it for, I think, a theater in San Antonio. And there's no way I would live anywhere, anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line ever, if it wasn't for air-conditioning. As, you know, Joe Biden starts, you know, that wind power really kicks in.
Starting point is 01:24:56 Yeah. Half the country is going to go, wait a minute. What? As, you know, you have rolling brownouts. It's not California here. You need the air condition. We'll say, in the phone, all the world can be a guy of the finance. Not no need to have a gross monger in art, to play at golf, or to be an pro of the crypto. Not
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Starting point is 01:26:32 former teacher in Colorado that was too radical for Colorado. He went from school to school to school. He has called for revolution. He believes in a forceful, his words, forceful cultural revolution. You'll never guess where he is today. I'll tell you that story in 60 seconds. You know, speaking of Colorado, there was a story about the, what was he,
Starting point is 01:27:04 eight years old, ten years old, twelve years old, thank you. 12 years old, he is going to school, got a backpack. The Don't Tread on Me flag is on the back of his backpack. School kicks him out because, of course, as they say, yeah, that's racist. No, it's not. Oh, it was all about slavery. No, it wasn't. That was about don't tread on me from the founders.
Starting point is 01:27:29 He knew that. So he wasn't going to take any crap. He went and he talked to his mom. They kick him out of school. His mom goes back and says, excuse me, no, the governor, the Democrat governor of Colorado actually backs the kid up. He's back in school with his backpack and the don't tread on me flag. Reason why I bring this up is, as I'm finding more about this kid,
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Starting point is 01:28:34 It's garbage. Tuttle Twinsbeck.com. Go to Tuttle Twinsbeck.com right now. So let me tell you this story real quick. Teacher Colorado, he gets up and he says all kinds of things in his classroom. We went on a Marxist rant. He said, I want to tear some S up for you. Are you ready?
Starting point is 01:29:00 What's happening in our schools? Showing up in our classrooms. You know, we have ideological circles up here. We compete on who knows Marx better, who knows Lenin better. I'm a Leninist. I'm a Marxist. Kids don't care. It's important to know the theory, but you have to have some practices.
Starting point is 01:29:18 You have to get out into the streets. You have to get out into the workplace. You have to go with your families. We're just sitting, talking in an ideological circle. Our kids still going to schools that are underfunded, where they're investing more in their failure than in their success. Your communist theory won't save you. only revolution will save you. And it won't be the person who understands Lenin or Marx the best.
Starting point is 01:29:43 It will be a revolution that is led by the people. He has said, quote, I'm for a forceful cultural revolution. He goes on. There's much worse things that he said, but here's the good news. In Denver, the statehouse of representatives had an open seat. and the Democrats have just appointed him to take that seat in the statehouse. So you have an open Marxist in the statehouse of Colorado who's calling for a forceful cultural revolution. Well, there is somebody that is running for the country's house.
Starting point is 01:30:28 And she knows all about this. She was actually supposed to be a guest on this show. She was here in our green room the day Robin Williams died, and we haven't had a chance to have her back. She's now running for the U.S. House. Her name is Lillitong Williams. She's a survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution and recognizes all the signs. And she is now running for Congress in New Hampshire's second congressional district again. She's already there now.
Starting point is 01:30:59 Welcome. How are you? Well, thank you for having me back, Glenn. It's great to see you both here and the great introduction. And my story is like American Dream story. And like you mentioned it, I don't like what's going on in our country today. I'm very terrified. The terms they're using and the tactics they're using.
Starting point is 01:31:23 What does a forceful cultural revolution mean? It means use whatever violence necessary to destroy the old. traditional cultures, systems, institutions, also nuclear families. I have been calling this American Cultural Revolution for a few years. Me and other Chinese immigrants. I know. And we're very, very loud on Twitter. And to educate people, and I have my YouTube channel,
Starting point is 01:31:54 I interview immigrants who fled totalitarian regimes like Cuba, you know, Venezuela and China. And Vietnam, we are talking about the same thing. What's going on in our beloved new country? But lots of people, especially they are used in this country, they don't realize because they don't know. They never left it under. You know, it was, Victor Orban was talking to Tucker Carlson yesterday.
Starting point is 01:32:21 And he said, you know, you guys have an ocean between you and Russia. They occupied Hungary. Listen to the people of Hungary. We know how they operate. And I hear that all the time from immigrants like you that come here. You thought you got away from it. You were in a free country. And now the same exact language and the same tactics.
Starting point is 01:32:46 It's happening. Yes, I summarize mouse features of culture revolution. I was two years old to 12 years old. I was indoctrinated to believe only communism or religions were demonized. And I would go home, tell my book. Buddhist mom to say, stop praying. You know, it's like you should believe Mao and believe in communism. I was a child.
Starting point is 01:33:14 Of course, I did not know. And I feel guilty. And it's like, thank goodness I did not turn my mom in. Because during the most cultural revolution, if you believe in any other religions, you're Christian, Buddhist, whatever other religion you believe in, you are deemed to be one of the five black classes and you are country revolutionary and you should be the enemy of the people. And don't you feel like this is in an insidious way, almost the same things that are going on now?
Starting point is 01:33:50 They're teaching our kids that your parents are wrong on things, don't listen to your parents, and your parents should be shut up and maybe you should be taking. from them. I mean, I published my op-ed when New Hampshire trying to pass parental rights bill, but sadly we failed to pass in New Hampshire. I published my story growing up under Mao that there is always a secret between schools and the parents because they truly believe parents have no rights. Your children belong to the state. Of course, that's how common things, why would I come to America to testify to support parental rights? Is that the inherent human rights, natural rights, an American value that kids belong to us,
Starting point is 01:34:41 belong to the parents, not belong to the village, belong to the societies? It's very scary to to see what's going on here. So you've been in Congress, and I would imagine you know the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution better than a lot of the Americans that you serve with. That's what brought me to this country. When I was in law school in China, third year, I was looking for something because I was totally depressed, lost, because I was told to study law. It's not for justice. It's not for equality. It's actually comedy's part is too to govern the people.
Starting point is 01:35:20 But you didn't know that at the time when you first got in. You were still part of, you know, the brainwashing. Well, why start to ask questions when Mao died when I was 12 and then 14 years old and parties said Mao is not a god. Mao actually was a human being and he made a mistake. So I was saying, I was talking to myself, oh, let me say I was like to. I was chanting non-lived to my mall for straight six years in government schools. He was like a god to me. He because I went home, demonize my mother who is a Buddhist and then I say long-neiver chin my mouth 10,000 years, double 10,000 years, that's one million years. How did he die? I had a little brain left. I was asking that
Starting point is 01:36:07 question inside of my head when he died and then later party said, okay, he was human being. I was totally lost and I said, I'm going to study law. When I have a chance to go to college, I'm going to transform China to rule of law society, no longer rule of man. But I was wrong. I realized I could not achieve that dream in China because I realized there's a one-party dictatorship. But I went to this dancing party and met foreigners and I met one American student. And later he asked me to visit him in a foreign student's dormitory. And he's the one who told me about the decoration of independence and the U.S. Constitution. My light bulb turned on.
Starting point is 01:36:53 I have individual rights. liberty. After that, he put America in my head and I was talking to myself, you know, oh, I have individual rights. I shouldn't have to report who I'm going to see when I go to see him as supposed to register at the dormitory door to say who I'm going to meet. What is my major? Where is my dormitory address? There was guard at each foreign students and scholars buildings. So I did not have a right to talk to anybody, but had to report it. So I was a very rebellious and I slicked into his building a couple of times talking more about USA. And I thought, oh, this is a great country. All men are created equal. And I said, what do you mean? It's
Starting point is 01:37:44 you are born Chinese and you have different skin color, but you are created by God. You have an individual rights by being you born by being you my life came on and never turned off so i said oh this is cool country if someday i have to leave china and this is a country i will come so i always had the america in my mind so third year how difficult because it was so foreign to you we know we say we hold these things to be self-evident how long did it take you to realize that that was self-evident i mean when he said those words at first, you didn't, you couldn't have understood. No, I was puzzled.
Starting point is 01:38:24 I said, that's why I asked him, what do you mean? What is self-evident mean? Because in China, I grew up in a communist country. They rights are collective sense. Right. Workers' rights. So my parents are illiterate workers. They have workers' rights.
Starting point is 01:38:39 Peasants' rights. And the soldiers' rights, teacher rights, women's rights, all collective sense. I never heard individual has a right. Wow. And that was just, I couldn't quite get it. So that's why I had to go back. And when I went back, I already started rebelling. I'm not going to register. So I did not register at the door because I knew what we're talking about is supposed to be not PC. I will get into trouble to say, I'm going to spend lots
Starting point is 01:39:08 time with this American student, you know. So I just slicking in and slick out. But I feel like there's something excitement, you know, in me. So when you came here, you didn't plan on running for Congress until you started seeing things go wrong. We're talking to Lily Tong Williams. She's a candidate for the U.S. House in New Hampshire. She's already a Congress person. No, I'm not yet. I'm not elected yet. I thought you were already. I thought you were running for second I didn't win last year. Okay. Yeah. So I was on your radio show last year. Yeah, yeah. Talk about EST last year. Right, right. Yeah. Yeah. So what is the thing that you are going to, what is the thing you're going to change? What is the thing that you're going to change? What is the thing that
Starting point is 01:39:50 you're going in to fight. Well, I'm trying to use my stories to remind people why America was my promised land. When I was in China, dream about more freedom and just leave my American dream. And it took me 20 years actually in this country, learning English, learning the culture to get rid of the indoctrulation I received. And throughout my 24 years, leaving China under one part. CCP dictatorship. We don't want to go down the wrong path because there are lots of people, include some elect into Congress and push for socialist policies. And now I feel like there's
Starting point is 01:40:35 some kind of like, for example, when you talk about work and cultural revolution, I feel like there is some kind of things going on trying to defeat America. And I thought America is a free country, based on individual rights and liberty, like our forefathers put into funding documents. But our young people today remind me my youth. I was a young pioneer, red guards, I was totally brainwashed, and my parents had no rights.
Starting point is 01:41:07 I just, I couldn't even sleep last couple of years, especially during the riots and the burnings. It's like what's going on? I feel like something, history is repeating itself. And I feel like, I feel it's my duty to come out to tell my stories for the whole country to hear me. And my unique voice matters. We have to have courage now to speak the truth, even though I have been targeted by CCP.
Starting point is 01:41:35 I bet you have. Shut up. In this country, you are traitors. Like a traitor to who? I'm an American citizen. I have a free speech. And I have a citizen's duty to tell the truth. So if I say my country is getting destroyed.
Starting point is 01:41:49 by the Marxists and socialist and young people who don't know what the freedom is about, it's my duty to come out to warn people. I don't want to relive another socialist country. I don't want my children to lose their American dream. If you would like to help Lily Tang, you can go to Lily Tangwiliams.com, L-I-L-Y-L-Tang-Wiliams.com and help her on her, fight for America, a candidate for the U.S. House. Back in just a minute, Lily, thank you.
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Starting point is 01:43:27 many, many more at MyPillow.com. 10 seconds, station ID. You know, I think it's going to be, honestly, the immigrants who came here from countries like this and alcoholics that have a chance of saving us. What about immigrant alcoholics? How they're even... That's twice the power. It is.
Starting point is 01:43:54 It's twice the power. It's people who have lost everything. or have given up everything for this life to be able to live here because they chose it. Or like me, an alcoholic, people who have lost everything and know the only thing is that's important. The media always tries to say, oh, conservatives are anti-immigration. And it's like, I don't see that at all from conservatives. No. Illegal immigration, yes, we have a major problem with people breaking the law. That is 100% true.
Starting point is 01:44:24 But I think conservatives appreciate immigrants in ways that the left. do not. You know, you see people come from other countries. I mean, this story is an incredible story. And it's that sort of appreciation. It's the exact opposite of your typical Antifa member who thinks, oh, you know, this country sucks. It's been nonstop oppression. It's awful. When someone comes from another country and has actually experienced that stuff in real life and they come here, you realize how much they appreciated it. It's amazing. It's amazing. perspective. Revolutions are always started by usually rich 20-somethings.
Starting point is 01:45:02 And every 20-something in our society is rich in the world's eyes. And they have nothing to do but think and complain and, you know, be a revolutionary because I go against the grain. Yeah. Because I know my parents are stupid. Yeah. And it's always that, always that. That's a little old now, but it's a few years.
Starting point is 01:45:26 ago. It was if you are at our poverty level, our poverty level in the United States. So in the worst situation possible, you were better off than 85% of the rest of the world. Not the rest of the world's poor, but all the people in the rest of the world. If you're at our poverty level, you're better off than 85% of them. And that doesn't even include the freedoms and such that doesn't calculate. That's just financial. Look at this. Look at the way America, who even the poverty line people are better off than 85% look how we just hoard everything. Damn straight, yo.
Starting point is 01:46:01 Proud of it! Proud of it. Look, there's a reason why this has worked. Yeah, we're not hoarding it. There is enough for everybody. You just have to apply the principles. And honestly, I bet that stat isn't quite as impressive as it was a few years ago. Because of that difference, because we've had a little bit of a
Starting point is 01:46:20 pullback to the wrong director. and the rest of the world, while they're still, I'd still rather live here than anywhere else, have adopted some of the things that capitalism brings and have improved things. And thankfully, thank God for that. You know, billions of children now are living lives instead of dying at eight years old. They're living longer lives and are able to be fed and well-nourished. It's a great innovation capitalism has brought to this country. We're happy to share it.
Starting point is 01:46:50 You should embrace it. The rest of the world. And a lot of them don't. And quite honestly, a lot of us don't either. Lately it seems like more and more. That's the problem. All right. Back in just a second one more.
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Starting point is 01:48:51 the uh tucker interview with uh orban uh i don't know how i feel about victor orban other than he's right for his country uh he would not be necessarily good for our country um you know i don't I don't know, but, you know, there are different things. For instance, Putin is really horrible, really horrible. However, to keep that country together and not go into chaos, you need somebody like that. Okay? I don't like that. But it's like, you know, you get rid of Saddam Hussein and the entire thing melts down.
Starting point is 01:49:30 because, you know, we divided the Middle East up and made these warring tribes, if you will, into a country. And then we said, yeah, he'll keep them down. And they never wanted to be united. So the question is, do we want to be united? Tucker said to him, his last question was, you had a tough election, and Americans don't know, but millions of their tax dollars went against you
Starting point is 01:50:09 and for the other candidate, who I don't even know. Do you know who that was, too? Who ran against Victor Orban? I don't know. I don't have any idea. I didn't even know Victor Orban was really going through an election because he's not a,
Starting point is 01:50:24 my concern and why is our state department picking winners and losers in other countries? That's reprehensible. Reprehensible. Yeah. And most, I mean, like, I, you know, certainly would, we've opposed brutal dictators before. And he's a, he's a member of NATO, I believe. No, I'm not saying this particular case. I'm saying in some cases I think it's appropriate for us to oppose. Sure. And sometimes we've done it obviously militarily, behind the scenes, but even just rhetorically, I think it's okay to say, to say, hey, these, you know, they should change what they're doing.
Starting point is 01:51:08 But you want money going into ad campaigns and everything else? No, that's ridiculous. That is ridiculous. Can you imagine if Russia was actually buying ad campaigns and had money behind the, you know, one candidate or another? Imagine if, you know, let's say $20 million was given to Joe Biden by China. All right, that's a bad example. But we don't accept that.
Starting point is 01:51:34 And here we are doing it. We should generally keep our nose out of everybody else's business. Keep our nose out of everybody's business. People rule their nations in all sorts of weird ways that we're not comfortable with. And that's okay. And so he said, so Tucker said, you know, you were in a tough election. It didn't end up that way. he won in pretty much a landslide.
Starting point is 01:51:55 And he said, did you ever think about putting your opponent in jail? And he said, no, that's not the way we do things in Hungary. He said, that's the way the communists did it. He said, we don't do that in Hungary. He said, I didn't think you did that in your country. And he then went on and said something really important. The reason why you don't do that is, because you will never get the country to reunite.
Starting point is 01:52:26 You will forever separate as us versus them. Because one side won't forgive you for doing that. And then the other side will say, really, you're going to play that game? I'll do it to you. And you immediately divide your country. He said, the president of a country, if you want it to stay together, has got to be uniting force and somebody who is saying all citizens, all citizens, I represent. When's the last time you heard that?
Starting point is 01:53:05 Now, this is supposedly coming from a fascist. And in our country, that's probably what you would call him. But in his country, I don't think, I mean, the people are electing him handily. Could it turn out horribly? Yeah, I could. I don't know. but the things he says some of them make sense like that. You don't arrest your opposition or you will forever divide your country.
Starting point is 01:53:34 I cannot believe that needs to be said, especially in this country, especially right now, especially with this particular ex-president who was harangued on the campaign trail by the media, constantly because his audiences were chanting, lock her up. And they all said that's a banana republic. look, you can't do that. You can't even chant that. He didn't, this wasn't talking about the actual arrest. This was talking about a chant in a rally, which most people, I think, believed, you know, like there, no one really believed that it was necessarily going to happen.
Starting point is 01:54:05 I mean, me not no one. I guess some people did. Some people, I thought it was, I didn't want him to do it, you know, lock her up. It went through the system, the system was flawed, leave it alone. But I thought she should have gone to jail. Yeah, and I think there's, you can argue it's not. the right place or the right way to talk about it in a political rally. Like I can understand that point of view.
Starting point is 01:54:28 However, I don't understand the point of view saying that and then cheering on every new indictment or lawsuit that Donald Trump faces. You know, that we all understand looking at a system like this. When you're talking about two political parties going against each other, we all understand that the law could be used as a weapon in that battle. when one side has power, they can use the law against the other side. We've always stayed away from that or almost always stayed away from it in our nation's history. But a couple of the reasons why is we have real pressure releases to that system.
Starting point is 01:55:09 We have the voting, we have a democratic process that allows people to say, hey, we're going to take this on our own. We're going to get in the way. Don't try this with your one party attacking the other party legally. Let us get involved. We're going to make that decision. That pressure valve is there. And the other one is impeachment.
Starting point is 01:55:28 Where you have a process that while it is political is really out in the open and you can hold the people who make those votes responsible if you think they're misusing that power. Instead, what we're doing here is going around both of those things. And look, we all understand if someone decided it was a serial killer and was also president, they should go to jail. There's no question about that. But the standard should be really high. the standard level of proof should be really high. I talked to someone who is more in favor than I am of Trump going to jail for all of this stuff. And I said, look, you better have Donald Trump on tape saying, I know I lost the election.
Starting point is 01:56:10 However, I'm going to manipulate this process because I should remain in power because I'm super duper awesome. You should have him on tape saying that. And they said, well, we'll never get that. And you know what? you probably won't. But what does that tell you? That tells you that you should have a standard that looks toward that level of evidence. And if you don't have it, you shouldn't go down this road.
Starting point is 01:56:33 Use these other paths that have been provided to you. And, you know, to go down this road with like, well, you know, a lot of people that Donald Trump despised told him he was wrong is not a legitimate level of evidence in this case. You have to do better than that. You should have to do better than that. Because while we say, yes, no one's above the law, the standards for politicians in some ways should be higher. The reason for that is, not because they have some level of, you know, royalty, but because we know the motivations of the political system. We know that one side is going to try to take out their opponents.
Starting point is 01:57:10 So you have to guard against that and make it really super clear. If you're going to go throw a president in jail, man, that evidence must be really, really crystal clear. and the crime must be really, really high on the scale. Well, the Democrats used to know that. They used to at least espouse that with Bill Clinton, that it has to be really, really super high. Yeah. Now, it's weird because I don't know how super, super high it has to be because literally there doesn't seem to be any crimes here. Okay.
Starting point is 01:57:42 No, I don't know. The racketeering thing is so weak, so weak. You're going to have problems with that. they're going to have problems with it. That'll go away. The thing in New York is super, super weak. The thing in Florida, I think is really weak just because of precedence. I mean, Joe Biden had records that he had, you know, when he was in the Senate.
Starting point is 01:58:11 He still had them. So, come on, you can't. I mean. I know. I think, look, I think he didn't help himself there. No, I know that. He made his life more miserable with that particular one. But my, like, they're going to have some legal evidence on that one.
Starting point is 01:58:24 It's just to me, the charge is ridiculous. So here's the thing. This is what you're saying is keep the standard high. Yeah. But I don't understand the standard because it is so low. It charges him with things that everybody does. And it seems all politically motivated, okay, from the White House. It seems politically motivated.
Starting point is 01:58:50 That should never happen even on our side, ever. But then their standard is also so high that a president taking money, and even if it didn't go to him, but it went to 10 people in his family through money laundering routes to shell companies. I don't know. do you what's what's higher than that you could say well murder well yeah murder that's bad but you know if it was a crime of passion it's still murder in the first degree but i got news for you he he is selling all 350 million of us out you've betrayed the country that keeps all of us safe honestly i cannot think of anything higher than that. I really can't. No. And look, I think the standard should be
Starting point is 01:59:54 high on Joe Biden too. You know, if all we had was the WhatsApp message, right, where Hunter is saying, hey, I'm sitting here next to dad. I'm sitting here next to dad. We need to make this payment. We're going to punish you and hold this against you a grudge and get revenge. Like, that is evidence. But if we didn't have payments and all sorts of other pieces of evidence, it wouldn't be enough. It shouldn't be enough. It shouldn't just be indications. That sort of evidence can be judged by the people and they can say, hey, I think that's too much. I'm not voting for Joe Biden. And if you are saying there's not enough evidence, well, just this, everything that Joe Biden told you was true is now a proven lie. It's now a proven lie. Nobody in my family made any money.
Starting point is 02:00:48 I didn't know about Hunter's business. I never talked to any of his business partners. I never talked to him about it. All lies. All lies. Proven lies. Proven lies. They should not result in a conviction in a court of law, but they should make you not vote for this guy.
Starting point is 02:01:05 And that should be enough. That's how we deal with these things. Maybe it's even to rises to the level of impeachment. I think there's a good chance that it does. I think there's a good chance Republicans launch an impeachment inquiry based on these pieces of evidence and that will give them a lot more authority to go after more evidence to prove these things to be true or not. But I've never seen a case clearer for impeachment than a president possibly selling his
Starting point is 02:01:30 country out while in office. While in office. I mean, that is that if they're, if that's not the highest of high crimes for a political impeachment, I mean, I think the guy should go to jail. But more importantly, he should be, we should teach each other the. lesson, that can never, ever happen, ever. And the latest piece of evidence with the Shokin situation in Ukraine is amazing. Was it John Solomon telling us about that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where the whole idea was everyone agreed this guy was corrupt. And that's why Joe Biden was bragging about withholding
Starting point is 02:02:07 a billion dollars of aid to Ukraine so he would get fired. Not because of the Hunter Biden stuff. Everyone agreed this guy was corrupt. And now we learned the behind the scenes analysis of this at the time. that the State Department said he's good. Yeah. Give him the money. Right. I mean, and he said the president and state department were with me.
Starting point is 02:02:28 Remember? Yeah, that was totally his case. Yeah. And it was a case that was accepted by every mainstream outlet. I honestly, to be, to be frank about it, had no idea if that guy was good or not bad. Like, who the hell knows? For one, some Ukrainian prosecutor, what do I know about that? We didn't know anything about it at the time.
Starting point is 02:02:45 All of the reporting was this guy was really bad. and of course this was justified. Well, we now know the State Department disagreed with that. Years and years later, that's when we find out. I mean, if it wasn't for Joe Biden bragging on that stage that he did this and withheld this money for this reason, this would be a much more difficult case to work through. But he's on tape saying he did it. And at the same time, he is sending hundreds of millions of dollars over to the exact same people.
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