The Glenn Beck Program - Standing Up to Wokeness Is Working | 5/3/21

Episode Date: May 3, 2021

Antifa put out video threatening Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, and the FBI is now investigating it. Caitlyn Jenner argues biological boys shouldn’t compete in girls’ sports. Mitt Romney was booed a...t a GOP convention in Utah. Glenn gives some good news on Southlake, Texas, parents’ fight against critical race theory entering their schools. After conservative boycotts, Coca-Cola seems to be distancing itself from wokeness. A college football coach was fired after mocking Stacey Abrams. Glenn explains the “Cobra effect” and how the prices of goods are already rising dramatically. President Biden claimed he will still wear a mask outdoors with other vaccinated people. Is that helping convince anyone to get vaccinated? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:04:16 Hey, Stu, welcome to Monday. Thanks, Glenn. I appreciate that. It was great. I took my kids' food out of my oven last night in, but with my bare hand, which was a terrible idea, apparently. And so I just scorched my...
Starting point is 00:04:34 Can I see? I mean, it's gonna be hard. You're not going to be able to see anything, but I basically... I had a towel, but it sort of, I guess, moved, as I was picking it up. So I was good to reach into the oven with a towel. Well, you know, I mean, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:04:48 It was a pot holder or was it a towel. It was a towel because, of course, obviously my house was filled with water. So now I'm living upstairs and none of the stuff is anywhere. So I just grabbed a towel thinking, I don't know. As an adult, I'd be able to figure it out and not go to the emergency room. So that was my night. Has this just been the worst year? I curse anybody who says, hey, 20,
Starting point is 00:05:12 20. I can't wait till 2021. Yeah. I told you at the time, I will curse you. I'm cursing you right now. It only gets worse each year. We had golf ball size hail, and I just traded a truck in, our farm truck, for a new truck. I had it for two days, and now golf ball hail. It's just riddled.
Starting point is 00:05:36 It looks like I put it out in front of a driving range. It is just two days. two days old. Incredible. So anyway. But no matter what is happening in your life, no matter what is happening, thank your lucky stars. You are not Ted Wheeler today. Ted Wheeler is the mayor of Portland.
Starting point is 00:05:58 Now remember, what was it? Last week where he came out and said, well, I've had enough of this. Oh, boy, let me tell you something there's about 80 far. You've got to get rid of those guys. Yeah, after multiple years of them destroying the city, he's decided to talk tough. Yeah. We're going to get rid of them. And you know any of these cretons.
Starting point is 00:06:16 You call the police. Wait a minute. Call the police. You hated the police. What happened? What happened? Well, that's kind of what Antifa is now saying. What happened?
Starting point is 00:06:30 See, they didn't like him before. You see, they want something called anarchy. So Antifa. has made a nice little video that is spooky as hell. I want to play it for you. I want you to listen.
Starting point is 00:06:51 This is how far out of control Portland is. Listen. Hello. We come to use a small collective from within the anarchist and anti-fascist community. We do not speak for the whole
Starting point is 00:07:03 as each individual may carry different ideologies and beliefs about how things could, should, or will be accomplished. We hope with this message to simply convey a few points that are commonly agreed upon within this community. The mayor of this city is undeserving of his position. He has made it abundantly clear that windows to him are more important than human life.
Starting point is 00:07:27 For we are not just challenging the idea of having TED as a mayor. We are challenging the idea of having mayors at all. We want abolition. Abolition is absolutely peaceful marches, speeches, and voting. were enough to bring about that goal, then we would have already been there. Window smashing and riots are a necessary escalation when those in power have proven that they are unwilling to listen and have made the choice to ignore you. We are moving with a sense of urgency because not only is the system destroying us,
Starting point is 00:08:02 it's destroying the very planet that we live on. This movement encompasses the liberation of all those oppressed by the system, whether it be black, indigenous, Hispanic, etc. Nobody owns this movement and wanting to or trying to claim ownership of this movement just leads to more division which is counterproductive to all of our goals. We are on the same side though. And the more time we spend fighting each other, the less energy we have to fight the true enemy. So let's start local with our own city's failed leadership. Ted, we are asking for the last time that you resign. If you ignore this message outright, the destruction to your precious
Starting point is 00:08:38 way of life is going to escalate. Blood is our right. ready on your hands, Ted. But next time, it may just be your own. Okay, okay, okay. Well, that's nice. It ends with the address of the mayor's house. Okay, let me I just go through this here quickly. First of all, he says, we represent, I represent Antifa, but I don't really speak for
Starting point is 00:09:11 everybody because it's a collective and I can't speak for everybody. in it because everybody has their own ideas. Now, this is a really interesting thing because we're all supposed to kowtow and think exactly what anyone tells us to think. But Antifa, apparently at this stage of the game, has more respect for diverse opinion than current society does. Okay. Then they tell you exactly what they want.
Starting point is 00:09:43 They don't want justice. They think justice is eradicating the entire system. Now, that seems like a threat to, I don't know, all of us. You know, when they say, oh, no, please, we don't really mean no police. Yes, they do. Yes, they do. Then they say this is a necessary escalation because nothing else is working and global warming. They're looking for the liberation of everyone.
Starting point is 00:10:18 Now, this goes to a story that I will tell you in just a little while about how Los Angeles is thinking about letting 76,000 prisoners out onto the streets. Then, strangely, Antifa says, look, we have some problems with some people, but we all really need to work together. What? what? So we all need to work together. This is a call for everyone on the left to put our differences aside and fight together, because we can win if we fight together. We might want to remember that one.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Then the next tip is think local. Huh. Maybe we should remember that one as well. Then it ends with a threat to the mayor. Now here's what Andy Noe had to say. about this. Uh, he said, you know, the police and the FBI are now looking into, uh, this, uh, this video and who posted it, et cetera, et cetera.
Starting point is 00:11:25 Andy No was the first person, uh, to point out that the user, Hazy 1312 was the first person to promote the video and follow the obscure newly created account, not a threat. Uh, so. So Hazy 1312, he writes, looks like a response has been formed to some of the anarchist in Portland after recent comments made by Ted Wheeler. Now, this guy is a far left journalist. 1312 is coding for ACAB, all cops or whatever. And Hasey 1312 is wearing the same mask as the guy. in the video on his little picture up there on the corner he's wearing the same mask
Starting point is 00:12:18 uh and by the way it was the the website uh had been uh created right before it was released and somehow another this guy just stumbled onto it oh my gosh look at this so i'm not sure it's going to be hard for the FBI, but maybe it will. Maybe this guy had nothing to do with it. I'm sure I'm you know, I'm pretty sure that's, um, anyway, uh, so we have this ad. We also have had, uh, salts in Seattle and all through Oregon, uh, but it's not just there in Austin. Do we have the, um, the sound of the communist marching through Austin? There they are carrying the red flags. No, I don't know, that's not a sign of communism at all. Then the driver that goes through the protesters blocking the road.
Starting point is 00:13:27 The protesters, I believe this one was in Seattle. As we're trying to. Get it. Look at this. They're just on top of the car. Good. I mean, what are you going to do? Are you actually going to stop?
Starting point is 00:13:46 I'm not. I'm driving on. these people just jumped on the car and he moved he moved on here's a student leader encouraging the students in Minneapolis to place fake calls to the police and make their lives hell listen to this
Starting point is 00:14:03 you say disrupt you on PD what exactly do you mean by that make their lives hell annoy the out of them okay I'm saying what are they over do we know I don't know if Amy you know more and more
Starting point is 00:14:17 and you mentioned stuff with you and PD, like use up their resources, make their officers show up to something. She's talking, unfortunately, we lost the audio there. Gosh, I'm sorry we couldn't hear more. The girl is Lauren Myers. She's the chief financial officer for the Minnesota Student Association. And get this. She's the co-chair of the Office for Student Affairs Mental Health Committee.
Starting point is 00:14:52 So. You're feeling pretty good if you, you know, hey, my daughter, my son's going to college, you know, in Minnesota. He's kind of having a hard time. He's struggling, you know, feeling a little low. Oh, that's great. Go to the mental health committee. You got, you got Lauren Myers there. She'll certainly help.
Starting point is 00:15:13 By the way, it's a felony, maximum fine of $20,000 and could be followed by a 10-year prison sentence for, making false calls to the police. But that's, you know, don't worry about it. Clearly because the law has been set up to discriminate against people breaking the law. And no one talks about that. Well, you just did. And I thank you for it. You're welcome.
Starting point is 00:15:38 I, you know, you make so much sense. You make so much sense. And, uh, you know, between you, I don't know who my favorite person is. You or the creepy, oh, Ted Wheeler, we're coming for you. I just don't know. Do you have any? I mean, I feel really. bad for Ted Wheeler?
Starting point is 00:15:57 I mean, no, I'm nervous for Ted Wheeler. I wouldn't want to be Ted Wheeler. I don't know what I would do if I were Ted Wheeler. I would take this very seriously if I were Ted Wheeler. But I feel for him as a fellow human being, but intellectually, I really don't have that much sympathy for him. He's allowed this to go on in his community for so long when everyone outside of the key.
Starting point is 00:16:25 helped throw it. Yeah. And everyone outside of the community was saying, hey, that sounds like a really terrible idea. Continued to do it all throughout the election that was going on. All through 2020, this was stoked by not only in Portland, but activists all over the country. And as you've pointed out a hundred times, Glenn, they don't like a normal Democrat or even a left-leaning Democrat. That's not who these people are. They're not going to stop because Joe Biden got elected.
Starting point is 00:16:52 That's what the left wanted to use this for. but it's not going to stop because of that. They're going to keep doing this stuff. I'm not even sure AOC would be safe in the end. You know, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and all these people, they're just in as much trouble as Ted Wheeler is with this group. You know, once, if this group would ever get real power, they don't hate, they don't, they don't, they don't hate the politicians.
Starting point is 00:17:21 They want them eradicated. They're not going to be kind and say, well, we'll wait for the next election and let's see what the American people say about you, Chuck Schumer. They're not going to. I said this when? 2009, these people will drag people, including media, who are playing footsie with them. They'll drag them out of their broadcast chair while live on television and beat them to death in the streets. And they won't have a second thought because that's who they are. That's what they believe.
Starting point is 00:17:56 Yeah. Ted Wheeler. These people seriously when they start burning down your buildings and attacking police officers. It's like they act as if it's some little jokey college protest until it makes them move from their apartment. And it's like, well, it's hard. I'm with you. I mean, it's hard to feel intellectual sympathy for this. Of course, as a, you know, that doesn't mean that they deserve the-
Starting point is 00:18:18 You feel human sympathy. Yeah. But intellectually, if these were just people we were reading about. and it was history. I would have no sympathy for Ted Wheeler because it's not history and I have no idea what's going to happen and I don't want anything bad to happen to anybody. I do have sympathy. But intellectually, I mean, you don't put the genie back in the bottle. How is Portland or Seattle?
Starting point is 00:18:42 How are they going to put this genie back in the bottle without extreme police force? And who's going to like that? Who's going to do that? I mean, you'd have to hire basically the thugs that are currently on the street to do it. I mean, who's going to, who, what good honorable police officer is going to be left in the Seattle or Portland or Minnesota Police Department. And we should point out that the president, the former president now, tried to do something about this and offered help hundreds of times and was ignored and was called a fascist for even offering the help. So again, it feels really. really difficult to muster up sympathy outside of what we're talking about because this is a
Starting point is 00:19:29 this was utilized to try to make the president look bad for the past year and now that it's continuing after the election it's like oh gosh like we're really I can't believe what's going on it's like well I mean you brought this upon yourself I mean they they they continually acted as if this was not a real threat when everyone saw buildings on and federal buildings being attacked. Police officers being assaulted. No one seemed to care. All right.
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Starting point is 00:21:47 Yeah. You know, I've been reading up on this and, you know, she's right. And it's weird because if I could mention when she was a he, he was an Olympic athlete. so he knows a little bit of something about this. Now, I don't know if that traveled on with him when he became a she. I'm actually, I'm 100% positive it did, but I don't think the New York Times would allow you to point that out. Anyway, I'm reading the stories this weekend, and I love this one. Caitlin's words are huge, but let's look at the numbers, because this isn't as black and black and white as it may seem.
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Starting point is 00:24:31 Welcome to the program. It is Monday. Flenbeck, Stubrigere, and Pat Gray is joining us from Pat Gray Unleashed, the podcast that you can hear every day, Monday through Friday, here on The Blaze, right before this program airs live. Or you can pick it up later as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. All right. I want to start with some audio from Utah and the audio of Mitt Romney coming to the state. stage. Do we have it? Do we have it? We don't have it. Okay. I don't know how that happened. Let me reenact. I think we had that for my show. Is it not on my show's sheet? Did we? Thank you. You have to assume it was just glorifying and very positive. It was. It was beautiful. Other than the very warm around booing, it was really warm and fuzzy. Yeah, it was quite ugly. It was. It was quite ugly. It was.
Starting point is 00:25:41 quite ugly. This is the GOP Convention in Utah. And everybody knows how I feel about Mitt Romney. You love him, right? Big fan. You adore him. Adore him. He's a Romney head. People call him a Romney head. He tours the
Starting point is 00:25:57 country with other Romney heads. Yeah, you guys did that really good comedy tour together in 15. We loved it. We loved it. We loved it. Okay. So let me, let me explain because I was, you know, I was seeing all kinds of articles about this and why Romney was booed and how rude it was and everything else.
Starting point is 00:26:18 For Mid Romney and the GOP and everybody else to understand what happened, Mid Romney, I'm sure is a nice guy. I've met him several times and he's always been kind and gracious, but I find him phony after, you know, after meeting with somebody for a few times when they're not a senator, you can kind of see if they're phony or not as a politician. He's a politician. Now, normally that's not a bad thing, but we're at a time where people don't want politicians. Politicians are perceived as saying one thing, but they actually believe and do something else.
Starting point is 00:27:05 And they generally don't like the people who vote for them. They're elitists. Romney said, look, I'm a Republican, as they were still booing him. I'm a Republican. Yes, that's kind of the problem, Mitt. I know this is a Republican convention, but that's kind of the problem. What does that mean? And so the GOP in Utah should wake up.
Starting point is 00:27:29 You either have to split, which would be a horrible mistake, or you need to recognize that the majority of people that were there that were booing, they're kind of booing the GOP as well. And here's why. What does the GOP stand for? Does it stand for the Constitution? Because the Constitution, small government, trust the people to do it themselves,
Starting point is 00:27:55 America first without being bigoted. That's what we thought Republicans stood for. But we don't believe that anymore. However, at the same time, you notice they didn't boo Mike Lee. Mike Lee got a standing ovation and no booze. Why is that? Mike Lee is not a flamethrower.
Starting point is 00:28:20 He's not a bomb thrower. He doesn't make fun of people. He's not like Donald Trump, because that's what they try to say about anybody who disagrees with people like Mitt Romney. He's Donald Trump. No, Mike is constitutional. Even when it goes against what he might, wish could be true. See, Mitt and GOP supporters, Mitt has spent the last few years calling half
Starting point is 00:28:46 the country bigots, racists, and extremists. And he may not have used those words, but through his actions and his lack of defense and cooperation with the senior senator from his state, Mike Lee, he demonstrates it all the time. And quite honestly, the GOP, half. of it is tired of being called a racist, a bigot, or an extremist for believing in the constitution of the United States of America. That's it. That's all that was about. You disagree, Pat, or? No. What are your thoughts? I agree completely. I, and that's, that's the right forum for what they did with Mitt Romney. They let him know at a political convention what they thought of him. I don't like it when people on the right,
Starting point is 00:29:37 are doing that to him in public. That's the, you know, that's the Maxine Waters. Yeah, it was uncomfortable. A costume on the streets. Get in them in their face. And then when he got on that plane and people were yelling traitor at him, I don't like that. That's wrong. That's wrong.
Starting point is 00:29:51 I don't like that either. When he's on the stage, I mean, there is. But he's on the stage at the Republican convention. That's the time to let him know how you feel about him. Yeah. And I, and it made me uncomfortable. I didn't like it. But that is the appropriate time to let him know exactly what you feel.
Starting point is 00:30:07 that and at the election booth. Right. When he's in public, you just don't say anything. I mean, we have to remember what our moms all taught us. If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. Now, there is an exception unless you do my job because this would be a one-minute show, maybe a 20-second show every day. Yes.
Starting point is 00:30:28 So you, you know, we have to have common decency. And that is the thing that I think, again, Mike Lee represents common decency. I mean, he can work with anyone. He can work with Bernie Sanders. How is he defined as a extremist? And make no mistake, in Utah, that's half of what the GOP calls him. They call him and believe he's an extremist, you know, because they're still following an Orrin Hatch kind of philosophy.
Starting point is 00:31:02 The Mike Levitt, Oran Hatch people are terrible to Mike Lee. they treated like horrible garbage yes yes he's treated by garbage by surprisingly a lot of very powerful people in Utah let me
Starting point is 00:31:17 let me play the audio you have the audio now here he is walking out on stage you know me as a person who says what he thinks and I don't hide the fact that I wasn't a fan of our last president's character issues
Starting point is 00:31:33 I mean this is just a bloodbath aren't you embarrassed aren't you embarrassed? He's saying all the wrong things. Yeah, he is. Stop, stop, stop. He's saying all the wrong things. He's antagonizing the crowd.
Starting point is 00:32:01 Instead of saying, look, I take it. I wasn't ashamed, but I take it. I know a lot of people are upset at me. I get it. I get it. Go ahead. Let it out. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:32:11 He's like, aren't you embarrassed? What? I mean, it's just, the elitist speaking, I think. You take it like a man on stage,
Starting point is 00:32:29 you take it like a man, and you say, I understand. I get it. I will say this in his defense. He had to know that was coming, and he went anyway, and he spoke anyway.
Starting point is 00:32:41 And so, he had to. He kind of had to, but he faced it and took it. And how did that decision, work out for it. Yeah, not well. Maybe that was not very well. You know, he had to, maybe. He didn't have to. There's another side to it.
Starting point is 00:32:57 Yeah. I mean, he still really believes, he still really believes that he's, you know, he's on the right side and, you know, maybe he is. I don't think so, but maybe he is. He still believes he's on the right side of history and what is coming.
Starting point is 00:33:13 He's still playing a long game, he thinks, that, you know, people like, people who follow Mike Lee are extremists and are going to fall by the wayside. I don't think so. I mean, I just don't think so. You know, we believe we're the hope of freedom for the future. And I don't see anybody on this side sitting down.
Starting point is 00:33:38 But he, you know, he believes that. And is what makes him even more infuriating. I wonder how he is going to fare in his next election. I mean, I don't think people are going to forget this. Oh, I think he loses that people will forget it. Yeah, I think he'll lose. Yeah, I do. Not to a Democrat maybe, but he'll be primary and lose to a Republican.
Starting point is 00:34:00 That's what I think. A Republican or a constitutionalist? Well, yeah. I mean, somebody on the right. Yeah, but Mitt Romney's on the right. Not really. I mean, somebody right of Mitt Romney. He was the guy who said on that very stage, look, I've been a Republican my whole life.
Starting point is 00:34:19 A Republican who was pro-abortion for some time in the 90s, if we would remember correctly. A Republican who had Romney Care instituted in Massachusetts, that's not much of a Republican. I mean, that's really the main problem with Mitt Romney from the beginning is that he's not really on the right. He's not really terribly conservative. No. No. Hard to believe. And he started, he really.
Starting point is 00:34:49 kind of started out where Orrin Hatch was. And at least Oren Hatch started out as a staunch conservative. I mean, he was Mike Lee for a while. And I mean, not quite as good, but he was Mike Lee for a while and then just went to hell in a handbasket. And it was the system that corrupted. And the system is corrupting a lot of the GOP all around the country. I was, you know, I kind of, I guess maybe this. is a theme, Pat. We were talking earlier.
Starting point is 00:35:21 As a human being, I feel bad for Ted Wheeler. Intellectually, I don't really feel bad for Ted Wheeler. No, he brought this on himself. I mean, he condoned it for a year. And now all of a sudden, you've had enough. Oh, okay. Well, it's kind of late in the game for that. Yeah. And I kind of feel the same way about Mitt Romney. You know what I mean? Yep. I kind of, you know, he brought this on himself. And intellectually, I have no sympathy. as a compassionate human being. That was a tough one.
Starting point is 00:35:54 I wonder if Mike Lee wondered what his ovation would be. Yeah, I'm sure he had some trepidation, but it's... I wouldn't want to... Could you imagine being the next speaker that is... You know, it's kind of, in some ways, it couldn't get worse than that. Yeah. But in other ways, you have no idea what's coming. Thanks, Pat.
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Starting point is 00:36:34 German Shepherds have the weirdest digestive system. You know if they go out and they run and play for like after 30 minutes of eating? Their stomach can flip over, tie in a knot, and they can be dead within hours. these dogs are It's not easy being a German shepherd It's not and Ava knows it Well she says Ava loves the taste She's always anxious to eat
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Starting point is 00:38:09 No, they don't. If the system is corrupt, yes, we should. If it's, if the system is based on the Constitution and following the constitutional guidelines, we don't want that torched. that that's anarchy. We want the Constitution, and we want the people to actually have their voice heard in fair elections, and we want the voice of the people to be ruled through our representatives. We don't want our representatives to go to Washington and be bought out by lobbyists or by the pressure of the party. Now, let me ask you, the reason why the Democrats,
Starting point is 00:38:49 one is well several reasons but one of them is everybody thought that Joe Biden was a moderate can we stop thinking that Joe Biden is a moderate we told you he wouldn't be a moderate we told you he was one of the most liberal senators in Congress he was not a moderate he's not a centrist he he has dropped the radical pose and he is he is he is posing as a moderate. Let me, let me, let me go over this.
Starting point is 00:39:25 There's a great story from Byron York, uh, in his daily memo. And he, he asked the question, if Biden is a centrist, why do leftists love him so much now? The guy who started the daily costs.
Starting point is 00:39:39 Okay. And net roots, uh, the, uh, organization. This guy. When Joe Biden was running,
Starting point is 00:39:48 he tore him apart. He was for Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, anybody on the far left. And he said, you know, this guy did the crime bill. This guy is a nightmare. He's not going to do anything. He's going to take us back to the Obama years. That's what he says. And that's not enough. Well, now he's happily admitting that he was wrong about Biden. After 100 days in office, can anyone argue that Biden's agenda would look that different from Warren's or even Bernie's? A man with the entire career of state institutionalist centrism is now forging the most progressive presidency since FDR. Listen to the audio from AOC this weekend. One thing that I will say is that I do think that Biden administration and President Biden has definitely exceeded expectations that progressives had. You know, I'll be framed. I think a lot of us expected a much more conservative administration. And I think that his not only what has ultimately come out, but the active invitation and willingness and collaboration with progressives in his first 100 days, or almost 100 days, has been very impressive. Wow. So when are our neighbors going to wake up that they've actually.
Starting point is 00:41:22 elected Bernie Sanders and not some moderate. I have a feeling soon with inflation the way it's going. I'll explain later. In a world that's lost its way, lost respect for logic, law and order, who can you count on?
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Starting point is 00:43:48 Stand by. Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. It's Monday, and I want to begin this hour with some good news. In fact, I think there's good news all throughout this hour. People pushing back against the radical agenda and winning in a spectacular, spectacular win. We're going to begin with that one in 60 seconds. Stand by.
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Starting point is 00:46:30 get them online just go to lifelock.com use the promo code back and you'll save 25% off lifelock.com or 1800 life lock use the promo code back okay I just want to I want to read this story to you and show you the power of one the power of one the power of of one parent getting involved in calling another parent and another parent calling another parent and that parent calling another parent. It is the power of one. All of a sudden, you have a tidal wave on your hands. This happened this weekend in South Lake Texas. It's a small little town, conservative town, and affluent. The test scores show there is, and this is almost unheard of, if not unheard of entirely. in America or any nation, where blacks and whites perform equally as well on all of their final tests.
Starting point is 00:47:34 That doesn't happen. Well, they wanted to transform the school and make the school have more diversity. Now, listen to the way this is written. Supporters of local candidates who oppose a school diversity plan rallied in South Lake, over the weekend. Nine months after officials in the affluent Carol Independent School District introduced a proposal to combat racial and cultural intolerance in schools. Voters delivered a resounding victory on Saturday. Okay.
Starting point is 00:48:12 So what was it? I mean, because it sounds nice, right? All they want is just a peaceful school, one that, you know, isn't racist and, you know, admires cultural differences. no that's not exactly what they wanted in fact the school board put a presentation to game to into play for a teachers retreat they were given a preview of the kind of instruction they would be expected to oversee and carry out in a cultural competency regime in the slides presented in this retreat this is what caused the the havoc in south lake teachers and administrators who choose to treat students, parents, and colleagues equally, regardless of their skin color or ethnicity, were accused of cultural
Starting point is 00:49:02 blindness, a state in which differences are ignored, and one proceeds as if differences don't exist. White privilege is being able to navigate daily life in the American culture without having to think about race. The administrators
Starting point is 00:49:19 were encouraged to construct a white identity, What does it mean to you to be white and whiteness as well as naming some characteristics of white culture? Then they went into white fragility. The presentation then went in against stereotyping, which says happens when you generalize about a person while ignoring the presence of individual differences. This is how bad it has to get before most white people notice burning crosses, swastikas, clan, the N-word. well needless to say the teachers went back and they were like ah i don't agree with this now this is in texas so a few teachers did object are those teachers in your school district because i can
Starting point is 00:50:07 guarantee you this is happening in your school i guarantee you so there's all of this stuff about systematic racist and racism and how you can't look at people all the same and treat them the same. It's treating people the same and looking at them know differently that has led to the good test scores, I believe, in South Lake. One of the best schools and school systems in the country. So what happened over the weekend? In an unusually bitter campaign that echoed a growing national divide over how to address issues of race, gender, and sexuality in schools, candidates in the city of South Lake were split between two camps, those who supported new diversity and inclusion training requirements for Carroll students and teachers, and those backed by political action committees that were formed last year to defeat the plan.
Starting point is 00:51:14 Holy cow. This paper is out of touch, right? Oh, it's NBC News, the local NBC. Candidates and voters on both sides describe the election as a fork in the road for South Lake, a wealthy suburb 30 miles northwest of Dallas. So goes South Lake, a local conservative commentator warned in the weeks leading up to the election. So goes the rest of America. In the end, the contest was not close.
Starting point is 00:51:42 candidates backed by the conservative family pack, which has raised more than $200,000 since last summer. Notice all of a sudden it's about money and an evil pack. Those people did really well. In fact, Randy Robbins received 70%, 70.4% of the vote. His opponent, Sabrina Hacameh, received 29% of the vote. in the city council place five election. Amy Torres Lepp had 70% of the vote.
Starting point is 00:52:18 Her opponent had 30. In the CISD school board race number four, Cameron Cam Bryant received almost 70% of the vote. His opponent, 31% of the vote. In the school board place number five, Hannah Smith received almost 70% of the vote. Her opponent, Ed Hernandez, 30% of the vote. Now, here's what's interesting.
Starting point is 00:52:41 She's a radical. I don't know if you know this, Stu. You pay attention to South Lake politics. I'm not sure. But Hannah Smith, oh, she's a radical. She's a South Lake lawyer who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. There's a bad recipe for you.
Starting point is 00:53:01 Yeah, there's a really bad. This, she's, she won against Ed Hernandez, a business consultant. She's now on the school board. Oh, my gosh. I might transfer my kids to, I might move to South Lake so I can get my kids into that. Can you imagine having her on the school board? That's fantastic.
Starting point is 00:53:22 The reason why I want to bring this up is because the parents all stood together. They stood up. They were against the press. They were called names. Smith has received all kinds of threats. I mean, it's, it's been really, really bad. But they won.
Starting point is 00:53:43 And 70% came out against because once you explain what they're teaching, nobody is for that. And this, I can guarantee you this or forms of this are happening in your school right now. Because this is a national movement. And it must be taken out of your school or you kids have absolutely no chance of survival. Yeah, the best thing that happened in this situation, too, was all the national media attention. I mean, once people recognized what was going on there, it was easy to defeat. But it needs to be called out. You know, like, Demi Lovato, the singer, we brought this up a couple of weeks ago,
Starting point is 00:54:24 seemed to have like some, she went to high school in Texas and seemed to have some sort of high school rivalry with this town. And so posted the videos of these parents just like saying, like, I kind of don't want my kids to like think about skin color all the time, you know, these sort of really rational requests from the parents, but they were all edited to kind of make them look like they were racists. And she tweeted it out to her multiple millions of followers. And it became kind of this big story and all this back and forth went on. And that guaranteed the defeat of critical race theory in this town.
Starting point is 00:54:58 Yeah. Well, that and honestly, the school board members that voted illegally against the parents' wishes, they did not have a hearing on critical race theory because they knew how it would go. So they voted privately in secret to put it all in. Yeah. And once that was found out, I mean, two of them went to jail. It all goes back to this ridiculous. Several years ago, there was a video of a couple of students who were singing along with a rap song and said the words in the rap song instead of, I guess, you know,
Starting point is 00:55:33 because N word doesn't rhyme with the word it was rhyming with. So apparently they, and I don't know the whole history that they may have been terrible videos, I don't know. But like a couple of students doing something dumb. And the town felt like, oh, well, our reputation is on the line. We need to take steps to show that we're aligned with Ibram Kendi for some reason. So, you know, this sort of stuff goes on around the country. And if it doesn't get pop stars tweeting about it and NBC news writing giant articles trashing the town as racist, if those things don't happen, this, all of this stuff just slides by parents.
Starting point is 00:56:05 because, you know, they do it behind closed doors. And unless a lot of attention gets, you know, put on it, they don't know. I really would like to talk to the candidate running for the Beaverton School Board in Portland, Oregon. She is standing up against critical race theory and comprehensive sexuality education. It might not go the same way as it did in Texas. It'll be fascinating to watch her. Her name is Jeanette Shod or Shod A, S-C-H-A-D-E, Shod. And she is running by herself.
Starting point is 00:56:46 You know, the school district says, they're just doing culturally relevant teaching. Uh-huh. CRT, critical race theory. Critical race theory, culturally relevant teaching. No, no. So if you call and say, are you doing CRT? Yes, yes, we are. But ours is culturally relevant.
Starting point is 00:57:05 teaching. Oh my gosh. These schools are just getting completely out of control, completely out of control. But what happened there shows you as a parent need to get involved and speak up on your schools. But there's more good news. Pushback has actually changed in a dramatic way. Coca-Cola's stance. I'll give you that in 60 seconds. So what have I told you that just with a little bit of your time today, you could not only be paying significantly less for your phone service, but also dealing with a phone company that shares your values, not the leftist ones. It's Patriot Mobile. And if you switch today and bring your own phone, you'll get 50% off your first two months,
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Starting point is 00:59:16 And how they're creepy. into being social justice warriors. March of this year, no, sorry, March of last year, 2020, the company blasted U.S. soccer for making legal arguments in the equal pay lawsuit filed by the women's team, the lawsuit, the women filed lost in court. June 2020, Coca-Cola announced it was suspending advertising on Facebook and Instagram, joining a coalition of left-wing advocacy groups as part of a campaign forcing the social media network to stringently police hate speech and disinformation. The boycott openly directed at Facebook's refusal at the time to censor the post of Donald Trump. Then they issued where we stand on social justice, a manifesto.
Starting point is 01:00:07 We must put our resources energy towards helping end the cycle of systematic racism, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So they didn't care about systematic racism in China. They opposed a bill that would ban products made with forced labor in the province where all of the concentration camps are. They didn't worry about that. And then the diversity training where the leaked slides from Coca-Cola said they needed to be less white. try to be less white. Then they added this. Coca-Cola's new general counsel, Bradley Gaten,
Starting point is 01:00:49 announced a new set of diversity guidelines for outside counsel. Under the guidelines, outside counsel will commit that for any new matter, at least 30% of each billed associate and partner, the time will be from a diverse attorney, such as amounts that at least half will be from black attorneys. outside counsel, if they fail to meet this commitment over two quarters, it will incur a non-refundable 30% reduction in the fees, payable for such new matters going forward until the commitment is met. Okay. Okay. So I love this coming from my soft drink company, especially then when they got involved in Georgia and the elections. and people started to, you know, speak up, stop drinking.
Starting point is 01:01:40 An influential Atlanta pastor used a bullhorn on the street call for a boycott of Coca-Cola. Ran Paul and Donald Trump called for boycotts. Ted Cruz, I wonder who's the largest institutional purchaser of Coca-Cola. Do they agree with the woke Coke radical politics? All right. here's what happened. They have decided on April 10th. They met, along with all these other CEOs, about the sanctions in Georgia, and we talked about it.
Starting point is 01:02:20 And they ended up issuing a vaguely worded statement about voting rights that didn't even mention Georgia. And then Coca-Cola, along with Delta Airlines, conspicuously absent from the list of signatories. Hmm. then they said we believe the best way to make progress now is for everyone to come together and listen respectfully share concerns and collaborate on a path
Starting point is 01:02:46 forward we remain open and productive conversations with advocacy groups and lawmakers who may have differing of views it's time to find common ground in the end we all want the same thing free and fair elections the cornerstone of our democracy what happened
Starting point is 01:03:01 what happened how did they go from try to be less white to, hey, we believe diversity intellectually is happening, and that's where we want to focus. How did that happen? Well, let me tell you one other thing that happened at Coca-Cola. Gaten, the general counsel, the guy who issued that whole thing about, you know, has to be 30% done by black lawyers, et cetera, et cetera. He left. He left.
Starting point is 01:03:33 Now, he was only there for. eight months. Huh. And he took a $4 million sign-on payment and a monthly consulting fee of, listen to this number, $66666 to transition to the strategic consultant role. That seems like a way of getting rid of an attorney. you no longer want to have. The
Starting point is 01:04:10 Monica Howard Douglas is the one that is now replacing. She's a veteran of Coca-Cola's legal department. She hasn't said anything about his resignation, but she told the company's legal department that his departure meant a pause on the controversial diversity initiatives. Again.
Starting point is 01:04:35 Why is Coca-Cola taking a pause on all of these? Because you have been standing up. You and others have been standing up. Your voice, it's the power of one. Your voice makes a difference. By the way, did you see how Basecamp? Basecamp is a software company, and they decided that they don't want any political discussion.
Starting point is 01:05:05 because we're tired of this political thing going on and we're not a political company. So shut up about activism and all of this crap. Just work on software. This was genius. A third of their employees walked out. They didn't have to fire, fight in court, or pay any severance. These people all walked out. And Basecamp has their company back.
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Starting point is 01:06:58 Hey, don't forget. Make sure you subscribe to the Blaze. You can do it now. Use the promo code Glenn and save blazedtv. com slash Glenn. This is the Glenn Beck program. On the podcast this last weekend, I had Bob Woodson, and he is a remarkable guy, a guy who went with Martin Luther King on the civil rights journey and was put into jail several times wrongly just to get him to shut up and sit down. He's an amazing guy.
Starting point is 01:07:32 It did not turn into hate for him. It turned into passion, but he never lost the understanding of amazing. America and he started the American Enterprise Institute and now he is, you know, the founder of the 1776 project in the Bob Woodson Center. This guy is an American legend. He is really a fantastic guy and is in the actual communities. You probably may not have ever heard of him because he's not always looking for a microphone. He's busy doing his work. However, he has started something called 17.
Starting point is 01:08:10 76 unites.com. And I urge you to go download this right now. It is a movement to liberate tens of millions of Americans. It's what we should be teaching our children about the black experience, this whole curriculum written by blacks under Bob Woodson's tutelage. And it is some of the biggest scholars from the black community writing what it means to be American to be an American. It also is the history of blacks you've never heard of and their stories are fantastic. It is something that should be
Starting point is 01:08:52 taught in schools. He started it because he wanted to refute the 1619 project. And it does just that. It's 1776 unites. And is that dot com? Yeah, I think it is dot com. 1776 unites.com. Kind of a controversial figure now, which you wouldn't think he would be anymore, but he was. Now, the reason why I bring this up is because we have to unite as a people. We as conservatives need to get involved. There was a local election happening here, and I'm very concerned about our school, and I'm meeting with one of the new school board members today, my wife and I, one that was just voted in. We want to be involved in making sure that our schools are teaching the right things, and we all have to be involved in this.
Starting point is 01:09:53 Now, let me tell you what another town has done, not for schools, but for the unborn. Lubbock, Texas has become the largest sanctuary city for the unborn. Representative, the state rep, Dustin Burroughs said, after the vote on Saturday, today is a victory for life and proof the silent majority will stand up for its Christian conservative values. The town of Lubbock voted 62% in favor of Proposition A, which prohibits abortions without any exceptions in the town of. of Lubbock. 38% of the voters opposed it.
Starting point is 01:10:34 It's the largest city in Texas to pass such a measure. Has your town done that? These towns are starting to come together. And the towns are realizing if we don't focus locally, we're toast. And we have to do that. I'm watching another story because the town of Chattanooga, the offensive line coach Chris Malone is suing his former employer, claiming he was wrongly forced to resign for a tweet that criticized a politician.
Starting point is 01:11:13 This is UTC and the attorney for this coach, Jug Churter, said, they're going to get acquainted with the First Amendment. As a public school, it can't control what an employee says. at social gatherings or on social media, it certainly can't fire them for criticizing and mocking a politician. I mean, that's one of the things that we're afforded in the Constitution.
Starting point is 01:11:39 We are allowed to mock people. And the left mocks people and ridicules. And not only that, they actually denigrade people. This is what this coach tweeted. I don't know if you read this, too, and fat Albert at Stacey Abrams.
Starting point is 01:12:03 Now, he seems to be saying something about, this specific about Stacey Abrams and her appearance. He's calling her Fat Albert, yeah. That's what he's calling her. Because you have truly shown America the true works of cheating in an election. Again, enjoy the buffet, big girl. You earned it. Hope the money is good.
Starting point is 01:12:23 Oh, still not governor. That's what he tweeted on the night of the, Georgia election. He was fired within 48 hours. And he now says, calling a politician a liar and calling them cheaters is a proud American tradition. He's like, why are we not allowed to say something about her?
Starting point is 01:12:48 And on our own private social media, he's been at this school, by the way, for 20 years. And now he's known as a racist because he called her fat Albert. I think he's actually kind of more I mean, I don't know about a racist, I don't know the guy don't think he is, but I mean,
Starting point is 01:13:06 calling her fat Albert is kind of funny. It's kind of funny. Although the gender is wrong. Well, who are you to gender, Stacey Abrams? You're right, I don't know what she is. She gets to decide what she is. Thank you very much, dude. I hope you understand that.
Starting point is 01:13:23 Thank you for bringing that to my attention. By the way, another reason to be proud SpaceX. The crew has returned to Earth. Do we have the splashdown video and audio here that we could play? There it is. There's the splashdown of SpaceX.
Starting point is 01:13:44 A private company going out in space. Okay. So now a private company has done this, but let me show you what the government of China has done. Please, wait. What's about to fall from? space? A bit of bad news for you, some bad outer space news.
Starting point is 01:14:04 It's kind of important. This week, China launched a rocket for its space station, and that went great. The rocket is successfully in orbit. But the launcher, which is the size of a 10-story building, accidentally also went into orbit and is descending back to Earth, and no one knows where it's going to crash or what it's going to crash into. Yeah. That's not quite true.
Starting point is 01:14:25 And so this is, so this is the thing. It was supposed to go up. It's a booster. And like he said, size of a 10-story building. It was supposed to go up into space, but they miscalculated a little bit. So it is technically in space in lower Earth orbit, but it's decaying now. And they didn't get it up far enough. So it's going to come back to Earth soon.
Starting point is 01:14:50 And rest assured, the Chinese are all over it. They said we can't predict when and we can't predict where it's going to hit. But we can rule a few places out. We believe it won't hit any place north of New York and any place more southern than New Zealand. So no Antarctica. So no Antarctica ruled out. No Alaska, no Canada. Of course, their calculations were wrong in the first place.
Starting point is 01:15:27 Yeah. So. I haven't exactly been a banner year for Chinese science, I would say. No. There's been a couple of issues people may have noticed that have cropped up from China over the past year. I have to follow some of the scientific journals that I follow. I know this is a science-based show. Well, we're known for science on this program.
Starting point is 01:15:47 Many awards. I being a doctor. Yeah. And we did a, if you missed it, a 47-part series last year on the inner workings of Chinese science won multiple awards. Some people may have missed that series and don't know. Yeah, it's unfortunate. Kind of a crap heap year when it comes to their scientists. Kind of don't want to listen to them about anything right now.
Starting point is 01:16:08 Yeah, you know, I think the 10-story building that's going to be coming down to Earth in flames that could just, you know, land on a neighborhood, you know, might not be the best PR thing for the Chinese space agency. I guarantee it will kill a lot less people than the last mistake they made. that one I'm pretty sure of. Well, I mean, unless it hits New York. Remember, it says no one north of New York. So that includes New York. Ten story building falling from space. How many blocks are this serious?
Starting point is 01:16:45 How many blocks could that take out? That thing coming at an angle. Imagine it's coming down like, you know, Broadway? It would take how many? What kind of destruction would it do? and would Biden even say anything? It would be really interesting to be completely ignored it. You know what?
Starting point is 01:17:09 You know what? Now I'm really pissed. Now I'm really pissed. I am going to tell Hunter that he should eventually get out of that Chinese, you know, space firm thing that he's doing that I have no idea what he's even doing. Do you know it's 100 days in? He promised he would get rid of all of his shares. in China still hasn't done it.
Starting point is 01:17:30 Stunning. I'm stunned. Yeah, I know, I know. I can't wait for the... Well, it's not really a real thing. Can't wait for the coming headlines of Republicans pounce on Joe Biden not commenting on half of New York City being wiped out by a Chinese building falling from space.
Starting point is 01:17:45 You know what? Here's what I say we do. Here's what I say we do. If they drop that building or that rocket on us, we send Stacy Abrams up. And as she's coming back, it's not a 10-story building, but imagine the impact of Stacey Abrams traveling at that velocity. You have been fired from your offensive line coaching job at Chattanooga State, Glenn. I'm sorry for you.
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Starting point is 01:19:36 NMLS Consumer Access.org. Hey, no big deal, but everybody's following science. Well, not the teachers' unions. No, the American Federation of Teachers, they're lobbying the scientists at the CDC. But no big deal. they have your children's best interest at heart. The teachers unions had a full court press on the CDC just before the CDC, you know, put the
Starting point is 01:20:15 breaks on a full reopening of in-person classrooms. This according to emails that have now been obtained through FOIA, Freedom of Information request, by a conservative watchdog group, Public Trust, American for public trust. Apparently, it shows that the CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky and her top advisors and union officials with Biden also looped in there in the White House. In the days before the ruling and the announcement on school reopening guidelines, the CDC and the White House got together with the teachers union.
Starting point is 01:20:57 And again, they said, thank you again. Teachers Union for Friday's rich discussion about the forthcoming CDC guidance and for your openness to the suggestions made by our president, Randy Weingarten, and the American Federation of Teachers. It is great that we are looked at as the CDC's thought partner. Oh. Oh, now, see, I like that. I like that.
Starting point is 01:21:27 I like the Teachers Union telling the scientists. what they should do as a thought partner. Now, I don't know any conservative group that has been asked to share their opinion as a thought partner. Do you, Stu? I do not. I do not.
Starting point is 01:21:48 I will say whenever there's anyone who's even put gas in their car and is associated with a scientist, they say big oil is influencing the scientists and we can't let that happen. Well, they don't want them as thought partners. Right. No, they don't. Right.
Starting point is 01:22:07 But here, this is completely okay and has no bad influence whatsoever. Because it's about the children's too. It's about the children. You know and I know the teachers' unions. They're all about the children. Oh, my gosh. That's all they care about. They wouldn't have it any other way.
Starting point is 01:22:23 You know, occasionally, Glenn, I just wish they'd think of themselves. You know, take a moment and think of yourself. Thank you for that. A little new time, you know. That's what's needed here, you know. I mean, because we'd hate for the teachers to start killing themselves as fast as our children are killing themselves. You know, that'd be a tragedy. Because they don't, you know, and again, this is certainly not all teachers, but there's certain elements of the teachers union that don't seem to ever want to work again.
Starting point is 01:22:54 Like, they just, you know, what if there's an illness in the school at some point in the future, therefore, we're, or we don't just keep paying us and what we'll do is we'll sit at home. And I don't, that's not a union of teachers. That's a union of people not working. You know what? You know, I don't understand that.
Starting point is 01:23:13 You know what I long for? You might have been too young. Do you remember when Ronald Reagan came in and the union for the air traffic controllers went on strike? Oh, I know the story. And he said, yeah, he said,
Starting point is 01:23:26 you're all going to be there on Monday. Or I'm firing every single. one of you. So you decide. And he did. Wouldn't you love it? Won't be this president? Wouldn't you love it for somebody to say, uh, teachers unions? Yeah, we're going to fire every single one of you and hire new teachers if you don't commit by next week that you are going to be there as we reopen schools. We're firing you. I think every school board in America should move in that direction. Hello, America. I want to talk to you about what's really going on in our country, no matter what the
Starting point is 01:24:13 experts tell you what's really happening in the economy and what is coming. They will tell you that inflation is not a problem. It hasn't arrived. There's no inflation. Have you been to Costco lately? Have you
Starting point is 01:24:29 tried to buy really pretty much anything? Are you paying attention at the gas station? I'm going to tell you what's really going, what's really happening, and what is really coming our way, even this summer. We begin with your swimming pool and your paper towels in 60 seconds. So one of the things that you think of when you think of summer is outside cooking and barbecuing,
Starting point is 01:25:05 there is a rec tech with your name on it. They are phenomenal. This will grill, this will smoke, it will bake even. And I haven't burned a thing. I mean, that's darn near impossible for me. I'm good. I'm a good cook in the kitchen. I'm horrible on the grill.
Starting point is 01:25:25 And especially with meats, they just always catch on fire. And then it's over. It started out as a good piece of meat. Now it's, now it's looked like it was been in a car wreck really bad. Anyway, rec tech will take care of that problem. It has sensors in it. It is smart technology. You can control it from your phone.
Starting point is 01:25:45 phone, I haven't wrecked a single piece of meat. In fact, they come out delicious and perfect every time. There is no grill like a rec tech. You can go and find the best grill out there on the market. Look at the price. Look at what it does. See how it's built. And then compare it to a Rectekek. Nothing even comes close. It's R-E-C-T-E-Q.com. That's R-C-T-E-Q.com. So you're seeing two different things now when you go to the gas station or you go to the grocery store. When you go to the gas station, you're starting to see inflation. When you go to the grocery store many times if you're paying the same price for a product, you may be paying shrinkflation.
Starting point is 01:26:39 Shrinkflation is not something that we talk about except usually with snack foods and potato chips. Where you open up the package and it's the same package. and it's filled with air and they're like four chips in it. And you're like, wait, what, what happened here? It is the significant price increase on a per unit basis. How do we, how do we, how do we offer that when every, all of the raw materials are going up? Well, you just repackage in the same package, but you, you shrink it somehow or another. Well, this is what's just happened at Costco.
Starting point is 01:27:24 This according to the bear trap, they say that the paper towels, the Costco paper towels, you're spending the same amount of money, but the roll has 20 fewer sheets, which may not seem like a lot, but they're only 160 sheets in a roll. So now you've gone from 160 sheets to 140 for the same price.
Starting point is 01:27:48 That's the equivalent, of 14.3% inflation. But nobody's going to say anything about it because it's shrinkflation. When 30% of all of the groceries that are purchased in the U.S. are generics, that's a pretty big deal. 30% now are generics. The retail price, if it goes up by 5%, and the size of the package or the product drops by 10%,
Starting point is 01:28:18 you have 15% inflation, not five. And that's not, nobody's talking about that. Oh, you know, maybe we have 4.8%, you know, percent inflation. Really? Okay. Now, has anybody shrinked the size of the food that you've just received or the product that you've just received?
Starting point is 01:28:39 Because we have to add that up. Remember, whatever it is reduced by, 10% less product plus, you know, 4.8% inflation or whatever it is, if it goes up in price, that's what you have. If it stays like the Costco towels, they went down by 20 sheets. So now you have 10% inflation. This is going to hit us everywhere. And people are going to celebrate the labor. They're going to say, oh, yeah, but look, because I can guarantee you, you're going to hear
Starting point is 01:29:14 shortly, the White House is going to say, we've created. these good high-paying jobs. Well, these high-paying jobs were not high-paying jobs before COVID. They are high-paying jobs now because the government is paying people to stay home. And so as they stay home, these restaurants and all of these ma-and-paw stores, they cannot hire anybody. They have to keep raising the wage and raising the wage and raising the wage and raising the wage. which will be passed on to you as a consumer in inflation of the prices of whatever that store sells or whatever that company makes. So we're killing ourselves by saying, oh, look, we're going to, we're going to, I have a higher wage.
Starting point is 01:30:06 Yes, and because of that higher wage, we all are going to have higher inflation. So whatever you made in your wage is going to be gone anyway because of, the price of food and literally everything else. Warren Buffett was talking about this this weekend. He said, and I quote, we are seeing substantial inflation. Why are we seeing substantial inflation? He says it's because people have money in their pocket. Well, why do they have money in their pocket? Most people haven't even worked for a year. How do they have money in their pocket? They have money in their pocket because the government has paid them. Some, in some cases, more than what they were earning in the first place.
Starting point is 01:31:00 Everything is surging and you don't realize the impact. So when China decides to build the biggest dam in the world, the price of concrete goes up because we're running out of sand and China is using a ton of concrete much more than we are or anybody else. So when somebody says I have an infrastructure project, for instance, we're going to renew the electricity grid, what does that drive prices up to for you? for one thing copper all of the electrical grid is dependent on copper so if you're trying to wire a house good luck with that because the government is now going to be the biggest buyer of copper which will
Starting point is 01:32:02 drive the price through the roof that's why copper is up 90% in the last year and they say with the Joe Biden thing, the price will double from there. That's also because, not just because of the electricity grid, but also because of electric vehicles and solar panels, everything, including the copper, will balloon. So what does that mean to you? It means everything that you buy is going to be more expensive. Here's another thing. Meat.
Starting point is 01:32:45 Have you tried to buy any meat lately? This is because there was a deadly pig disease that hit Germany and China, and it's roaring back in China. Also, crop prices surged. And so farmers that had poultry, pigs, cattle, any of it, they're the first ones to get pinched. And some of them, they can't afford the high price of feed. And so what do they do? They either sell the cows for slaughter or slaughter them themselves. Costs for corn fed, corn feed for livestock, doubled.
Starting point is 01:33:25 Soybean meal, 40% higher. Can you feed your family on food that has doubled in price, especially if you're living close to the line? So how are we expecting our farmers to do this? Coffee is up 33%. sugar is also up. You like toast in the morning? Wheat prices have hit the highest they've been since 2013. Everything is going up.
Starting point is 01:33:59 And it's causing something called the Cobra Effect. And we are now in the early stages of the biggest Cobra effect in the history of economics. This is pretty remarkable. there has been $15 trillion globally put in to finance, $15 trillion. And that was to save the economy and save, you know, a deflationary period where cost of everything goes through the floor. So they put $15 trillion globally in. That is, I think, a low number because if these two other stimulus packages, passed that Joe Biden was talking about last week, the United States and the Fed will have put in
Starting point is 01:34:51 $19 trillion in the last year themselves. So what the cobra effect is is when something in price is pretty steady and then all of a sudden it just spikes up like a cobra and it's in trouble bringing its heads straight up. we're seeing a cobra effect a lot of them in a lot of different things the price of Ethereum after Elon Musk tweets the US unemployment after the government lockdowns a spike in the search on Google for the word inflation that's a cobra spike now what they're looking at is the price of corn and copper and aluminum and cobalt year over year, more than 100%.
Starting point is 01:35:46 Construction for lumber, seen a spike of 320% year over year. Used cars are now up 55%. And they are now starting to show up in things that you have to buy groceries, especially meats, pork, chicken, and beef. Gasoline. Technically, we're already in a cobra effect.
Starting point is 01:36:11 But it's regional. Electronics, phones, personal computers, anything with a computer chip. I got news for you, gang. That's everything. Travel costs, airfare, rental cars, hotels, all of it. So why is this happening? Again, Uncle Sam. Trillions of dollars have been pushed into the economy.
Starting point is 01:36:41 And now that we're reopening, the flood of. of spending, of travel, of buying with all of that cash is going to accelerate. And goods and services that you rely on are going to stand up just like the head of a cobra. They're going to go through the roof. You haven't seen anything yet because you're not spending yet, not on the consumer level. Spending is slower than it would, that it should be with all of this cash. People are hanging on to their cash. But the minute that money starts to move, you know, $19 trillion is going to come into the economy.
Starting point is 01:37:29 Five trillion, even if $5 trillion comes into the economy, that's a problem. Now, there are problems that we're also seeing from Bank of America. they said we're headed for another 2008 style problem with derivatives. Do you remember those derivatives? Yeah, everybody made bets on derivatives and it was really stupid and we all agreed that it was stupid. But nobody had to pay a price because we bailed all the banks out. And so they learned, oh, well, if we make a mistake or we cause a problem, we're too big to fail. Well, let's go buy more derivatives and sell derivatives.
Starting point is 01:38:19 Oh, they have. And Bank of America just reported, we might be headed towards trouble. Oh, really? Oh, well, Barney Frank told us we wouldn't have any trouble. I'll give you more on this. Coming up in just a second, standby. First, stop saying inflation is on the way.
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Starting point is 01:40:04 All right. Some stories that we are following for you. Mortgage-backed securities. Do you remember those still? Yeah, that was kind of a big story. I remember about 12, 13 years ago. Yeah. Well, we fixed it.
Starting point is 01:40:22 Oh, good. Yeah, we fixed it. And don't worry about Bank of America. They said on their earnings call last week, they said 22% of U.S. mortgages that they are holding is there are in some sort of forbearance, meaning we're screwed. We have to rewrite all of these loans because people are too far behind. So we either have to foreclose on them or we have to rewrite the loans. 22% of everybody's mortgage held by Bank of America. This is what comes from people not being able to lose their house and be invicted from their house.
Starting point is 01:41:06 Okay, good. But what does that mean to the banks? We've been asking that. It doesn't just stop there. It goes all the way up the chain. Now, the number is probably higher because Bank of America is, perceived at least have making more safe loans than other lenders who cater to lower credit qualities. So maybe as much as 30 to 35 percent of mortgages are in default without forbearance
Starting point is 01:41:39 in place. Also, the bailout of the Federal Reserve is now being talked about, a bailout of the Federal Reserve. There's a new requirement. U.S. pensions to be insured by Uncle Sam are required to carry 33% balance of U.S. government bonds by January 30th, 2022. So now what does that mean? That means no one is buying our bonds. So the labor unions have agreed to have their pensions guaranteed by the federal government, but they have to buy U.S. Treasury bonds.
Starting point is 01:42:23 33% of all of the union's pension funds have to be in U.S. treasuries. Everyone's going to get screwed on that one. So now this doesn't bail out the United States. This takes about $9 trillion off of the Fed's sheets. You know, everybody's like, we're just printing our own money and the Fed's just making up debt. No, no, they had a plan the whole time. They're not going to hold the debt. What do you think the banks are going to hold that debt?
Starting point is 01:42:58 And remember, that's who the Fed is. No, of course not. Mm-mm. On the money, Mary, go round? You just have the Fed just sell it to the pensions. That's it. Labor unions take it. Oh, that's fantastic.
Starting point is 01:43:18 By the way, in 2008, the FDIC, the insured banks had a total of $878 billion in derivatives exposure. $878 billion. As a fourth quarter last year, the banks sure learned their lesson. We're at $4.2 trillion for FDIC insured banks. That's a 478% increase. By the way, the total derivatives market is in the hundreds of trillions of dollars.
Starting point is 01:43:48 But we're just talking about the banks that are FDIC insured. The first thing the banks do is take your money and apply it to their losses. And as soon as there is a collapse in stock, they are all in those stocks and they've all bet on derivatives and they've all double sold them 400 and 758% increase. $4.2 trillion in FDIC banks. We're going to get into all of these stories later this week, but let me tell you what this means. This means you get into a bank that is local that does not have a trading desk, that they're not also trading. They're just taking in deposits and making loans. Get into a local bank.
Starting point is 01:44:44 Let me say it again. Get into a local bank that is not one of these big banks and is not part of Maryland. or J.P. Morgan or any of those trading houses. Just go to a local bank. And I would suggest you do it soon. Maybe today. This is the globe.
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Starting point is 01:46:45 It was a pleasure, Glenn. I wanted to see if you wanted to comment on, because I was fascinated by this. The stance taken by Joe Biden about masks and whether you're supposed to be wearing them indoors with other vaccinated people when you're also vaccinated. So I just want to ask this, are we following the science or are we following something that feels good to some people? I think that's what Joe Biden is doing now. He's just deciding what feels good to him and he's doing it. And that's what's been condemned by him and so many others for so long. He seems to basically admit what you're saying here.
Starting point is 01:47:31 Listen to this clip. This is Joe Biden in a recent interview. Are you going to be one of these folks now? We'd no longer go and see the President of the United States outside with the mask on. Sure, sure. I mean, but what I'm going to do, though, because the likelihood of my being able to be outside that people not come up to me is not very, very high. So it's like, look, you and I took our masks off when I came in, because look at the distance
Starting point is 01:47:55 we are. But if we were, in fact, sitting there talking to one that are close, I'd have my mask on, and I'd met you'd have a mask, even though we'd both been vaccinated. And so it's a small precaution to take that has a profound impact. It's a patriotic responsibility for God's sake. It's making sure that your wife, your children, you're, in fact, they haven't been vaccinated, making sure that they're not going to get sick. But how?
Starting point is 01:48:24 I can't. You're both vaccinated. I mean, I was singing about this at church yesterday. We were singing, you had to wear a mask. When you're singing, you got to wear a mask. Oh, I hate that mask so much I can't stand it. And if the church would just say, hey, if everybody gets vaccinated, we can all take the masks off. You know, because there's elderly people there, et cetera, et cetera.
Starting point is 01:48:44 We're still distancing from each other. But still, you know, in that situation, you don't want to be sitting there shoulder to shoulder when there's people that could be sick. You know, and I thought, you know, I'd go rush to get the vaccination if the message was. Vaccination. Everybody, we get up to 80% vaccination, 90%. Everybody can, everybody, forget the mask thing. But they're not, that's not what they're saying. They're now saying maybe school will open up in fall. Maybe.
Starting point is 01:49:19 Right. Maybe. I mean, there's absolutely no science whatsoever involved in these decisions. I mean, Billy, if you push them enough, they'll even tell you. It's about mass culture. We want to make sure that people see people like the president, wearing masks so they know that they should also be wearing masks, which is just an insane thing. But you're right on the messaging, Glenn. The messaging is the biggest, is the craziest part about
Starting point is 01:49:44 this. I was talking to a friend of mine who, you know, is no big fan of the vaccine and has absolutely no interest in getting it under any circumstances. And I said, you know, what if the government pitched it to you like this? If you get the vaccine, you will never hear from Anthony Fauci again. and she was like, all right, I would get the vaccine. In that circumstance, I would get it. Right. Yes. Because everyone in Congress had been vaccinated. Everyone in Congress had been vaccinated.
Starting point is 01:50:14 And you know they cleaned that thing out before anybody came in. If Congress would have come in and been full and seated next to each other and no one was wearing a mask. And the president said, oh, it is good to be back to normal. this is because everybody here has been vaccinated. Guys, get the vaccination. Let's end this nightmare. Let's get back to normal. Everyone would do it.
Starting point is 01:50:39 Yeah. Where the vast majority of people would do it. You'd be at herd mentality quickly. Heard immunity. You always say herd mentality. But it's, yeah. I know. We're in herd mentality.
Starting point is 01:50:50 Yes, we're definitely there. I keep saying it. You know, it's Freudian because we're talking about the masks and that's what it is. It's herd mentality. We have achieved. mentality, just not herd immunity yet. We have. But you're right. That would be a big difference. And, you know, because the government has come out and messaged this particular way, you know, like Ted Cruz was walking around
Starting point is 01:51:13 without a mask. And they're like, how dare you, sir? You're putting us in danger. He's like, I've already been vaccinated. This is ridiculous. The whole point of this is to return us back to normal. People don't just like getting shots in their arms for fun. Like, the whole point of this is to return us back to normal. And now you have a situation where well over 80% of our elderly have already received the vaccine. Over 80%, not all fully vaccinated yet, but on their way. And that is a massive step forward. And we've seen incredible results from it already.
Starting point is 01:51:47 And instead of just embracing this and saying, hey, look, this is a great way to get back to our old normal lives. No, they can't. They can't. They can't. Yeah. They have to have the crisis. And you'd have to ask yourself, why? What do they need this crisis to do more than it's already done?
Starting point is 01:52:06 You've already passed trillions of dollars of new spending. Still trillions on the board to pass, though. They still need this crisis to get jobs. I mean, if everything's going back to normal, you don't need to spend $5 trillion extra dollars on all of these projects, right? That's why these things even have a chance of passing is because people understand. It's been a terrible year and we're trying to bounce back from it
Starting point is 01:52:33 and I understand that. But like, without that crisis, you don't have the ability to spend the $5 trillion most likely. And it's just, it's frustrating. It's really frustrating to watch because they, instead of just having, saying, look, we've got a good product here. You know what? We don't have to force people to take it.
Starting point is 01:52:50 And we just, let's just be honest with everybody. If this is a 90% effective product, roll it out there, let people take it if they, want to take it. And I think the vast majority of people would. And that's, you know, we're already past the majority, but still, there's no reason to talk it down. There's enough people who are, just don't want to get shots, people who don't normally go to the doctors for anything. There's a lot of those people out there. And I know there's a lot of people, yes, people get a lot of focus on people who are really ideologically against vaccines. And that's, that's, that's, that's, that's up to
Starting point is 01:53:19 them. But like, you don't need to, you don't need to get those people to do it. Just get people who, who are, who would take it. But, don't really, you know, see the value in it because you keep telling them if they get the vaccine, nothing in their life will change. Well, why the hell would you do it? Did you like needles? What is the point of it? There's no reason to do it unless you're, the reason why it's so high with elderly is because they have, they have reason to do it. If they get it, they can die. So everybody else who isn't in that situation is not elderly, why would you do it? Why? I mean, Why would you do it?
Starting point is 01:53:57 Well, I mean, like, I think that, again, I'm, to be clear, super mega, America's most pro-vaccine person. Like, I totally, I think it's a very positive thing. And I'm not against the vaccine at all. I just had COVID and I had a bad case of it. And I'll, you know, I'll watch when everybody else who had COVID starts to get it again. And then I'll, because I'm way behind them. There's about a third of the country they believe has had COVID in one way or the other, including myself and you, both COVID-19 survivors. and you know people they do tend to overlook those with natural immunity that's part of this
Starting point is 01:54:31 package here right if you had it already there's a good chance I mean that doesn't mean you shouldn't get the vaccine there's still some crossover there but you know it's it's certainly a more borderline choice as you go down those roads but the bottom line is like you know there are a lot of people who would get it if they if the messaging was different and it would be nice if they would if they would do what kind of Israel did. And Israel was like, look, you know, we're just going to open everything up as soon as we get it as number. Yeah. I mean, and instead of doing that, they've been trying to threaten people. They've been trying, you know, a big part of this too is the media looking for reasons to criticize the South Republicans, religious people. The people who may have
Starting point is 01:55:14 higher percentages of not going to get the vaccine. They're just using this as a nice way to criticize people like Donald Trump. Now again, Donald Trump got the vaccine. He got COVID and he got the vaccine. Donald Trump, the guy that, you know, they keep saying is that the head of this anti-vaccine movement, oddly enough, came up with Operation Warp Speed, then got the vaccine the second it was available.
Starting point is 01:55:40 I don't know how the guy could be so anti-vaccine doesn't seem to be to me. But still, like, this is just pushed as another way to try to terrorize people that, you know, than the media doesn't like instead of just, you know, pitching this is not give people reliable information and they will act as if they, as they see, as they deem appropriate. And that's a much better way of handling this stuff. The reason why they're going after Donald Trump is because he's just anti-science.
Starting point is 01:56:06 I mean, it's so clear where you have Joe Biden, who is Mr. Science. And now, just to back that up, when they're, when the science disagrees with him, he's like, come on, man, it's just your patriotic duty. Yeah. No, I thought we were following science, not patriotism. And think about what... They've given Joe Biden this amazing, amazing credit for this vaccine rollout when, as we point out, the same guy who Trump put in charge is in charge now. Since Biden took it over, yes, we've seen more people get vaccinated because that's because the supply has increased, right?
Starting point is 01:56:44 I mean, obviously more people have been vaccinated. But, I mean, the rollout has had all sorts of problems. They had a 15 million dose loss in a Baltimore factory. They still are screwing up this whole thing with AstraZeneca doses that they eventually might get to people who need them. Millions and millions of doses just sitting there unused. You have the messaging of this, which has been an utter disaster. And now you already are at the point where we're seeing declines daily, which I don't necessarily think is as big a deal as some others do. but still, and then yet this guy gets all this credit and Trump gets beat up over it as if he had no plan whatsoever.
Starting point is 01:57:27 And by the way, Donald Trump was heavily involved in every conference, everything with COVID. Biden and Harris have skipped almost every COVID conference call with the governors. And the guy leading that now is Andrew Cuomo. And then you have Joe Biden this weekend saying, we got to stop all travel. to India and all travel from India. When a year ago, he was calling Donald Trump a racist for doing that with China, China. Now he's doing it with India. India needs help and we're not helping India.
Starting point is 01:58:05 I mean, that's one of our good, strong allies. Why are we not mobilizing to help the people in India? I mean, this compassionate Democratic administration is oh so compassionate. I am so subtle about it that I almost miss it every day. All right. Let me tell you about our sponsor this half hour. It's American finance. No, I'm sorry, it's not.
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Starting point is 01:59:45 I was going to say the 60 minutes last night. Leslie Stahl went in to one of the only chip manufacturers in America that is left and showed how bad the chip industry is in trouble. And there's going to be a massive shortage of chips. And that is, you know, everything. I mean, what doesn't have a chip in it besides people? What doesn't have a chip in it? And anything that has a chip in it, if it goes wrong or if you're trying to buy a new one,
Starting point is 02:00:19 is going to go up because there are. China is building infrastructure using chips. There's been problems of slowdowns in China. We don't make them. And even Ford is saying that they're not going to be able to
Starting point is 02:00:37 when, Stu, when does the American people, when do they start to say I've never seen this before in America. I've never seen a 18 week wait for something. I mean, we've been very tolerant because of COVID, but we're not going back to a world where things are going to be as easy to get as they have always been.
Starting point is 02:01:08 I mean, if that's true, I don't think the American people have recognized that yet. People still look at this and say, well, there's COVID. I know here in Texas, we had some bad weather over the winter, and so everything is difficult to get your hands on right now. but if this extends over a long period of time, I don't see how it escapes blame. Eventually, the American people are going, I keep saying these things.
Starting point is 02:01:28 I don't know if I even believe them anymore. Eventually the American people are going to see this and say, hey, someone's got to be held accountable for it. This is not America. This is not what we're, you know, this is not what this country has been able to produce over all these years. But it does seem to be that right now, they are understanding generally.
Starting point is 02:01:49 they're understanding that okay i wonder if that ever comes i wonder if it ever comes back where we're like wait wait what do you mean i have to wait i mean how long before that goes away i'm not there uh because i still give it the break of covid but fundamentals have completely changed uh you know when you can't build a house the new a new house now is 36 000 more expensive just because of the lumber Try this one. Better get some chlorine for your pool because they're expecting we're going to run out of chlorine this summer. So you won't be able to put chlorine into your pool. We're going to run out of chlorine. What? Okay. That's because they had a fire last year.
Starting point is 02:02:40 And now some of the raw materials that it takes to make the chlorine is in, is in shortage. Chlorox bleach is the same thing. They're having a problem. They had four quarters of unbelievable growth in their company. Now they're having shortage problems and they're going to have to start raising the price of bleach. I mean, at one point, at what point do people say, okay, wait a minute, all the prices are going up and I have to wait for everything. It's not in the American psyche. The only thing we can do now is maybe a couple trillion dollars more to.
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