The Glenn Beck Program - 'Stop the # Mob Mentality' - 8/23/18
Episode Date: August 23, 2018Hour 1 Literally, yielding crappy results; California poop problems spread?...Stu considers taking a 'poop' gig?...$184K a year for picking up poop? ...The Left pays off people too...blaming Anthony B...ourdain?...Stop with the # Mob Mentality?... the rise of radical movements with postmodernism roots? ...Apparently, 60 Minutes Australia has been listening to Glenn? Hour 2 Senator Elizabeth Warren seizes on the killing of Mollie Tibbetts to criticize President Trump...murder suspect thinks he's the victim? ...Democrats demand Kavanaugh nomination pause? ...Things we should be caring and outraged about?...learning to have empathy for others? Hour 3 Guilt By Association, the Democrats go-to strategy...Chuck Schumer calls for an immediate pause in Kavanaugh nomination ...How South Africa Could Become the Next Zimbabwe?...Young Voices contributor, Alexander Hammond joins to discuss the rhetoric in South Africa...tension has been building for decades ...Manafort Juror: "He was guilty" ...Will Texas turn blue?...Pat threatens to eat his underwear, again...Ted Cruz vs. 'Beto' McMexican?...Yard Sign Wars?...Hillary 2028? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Glenn back.
Well, we have to start the show with a California update brought to you by our sponsor,
new Puporoni.
Oh, Rony on San Francisco streets.
Yes, California's crappy policies now yielding some literal crappy results.
In one week last month, the city of San Francisco logged over 16,000 complaints of human
poop on the streets.
Let me say that again.
16,000 people called the city and went there.
Somebody's crapping in the street in front of my house.
In seven days, the mounds of vagrant-generated poop actually forced the closure of a convention
being held downtown.
You know, didn't they just, didn't somebody just pull a convention because of a bathroom issue
in some other state.
I mean, this is a bigger bathroom issue.
If you live in San Francisco,
I want you to know, help is on the way.
Mayor London Breed was
absolutely, I'm quoting, absolutely shocked
after walking around town and seeing
not only all of the poop,
but all of the used drug needles.
Now, how many needles are they giving them out
in San Francisco every month? It's like 500,000?
It's hundreds of thousands of.
It's hundreds of thousands of needles.
they're giving out.
Well.
And some of those come back to be recycled to.
I mean, certainly not all of them.
Well, they're supposed to return them, but you can't expect.
When you, you know, heroin users, they're not always dependable.
Well, the mayor has decided she's mad as hell and she's not going to take it anymore.
So she's bringing out the big guns.
It's a new really breed of a new hero.
I think we're going to be seeing this action hero on the big big screen soon.
It is the San Francisco version of Delta Force, so the Navy Seals, and they may already be patrolling your streets in San Francisco, dressed in hazmat suits and patrolling neighborhoods with the state-of-the-art patrol vehicle equipped with a steam cleaner and disinfectant.
They are the men and women of the San Francisco Poop Patrol.
Yep, this is our country.
Now keep in mind, this story is not a parody.
This is true.
San Francisco has now allocated over $100 million to combat the poop and needle problem.
Now, you might be thinking to yourself,
holy crap, $100 million?
That sounds like a colossal waste of a ton of money.
Really?
You can't get it done for cheaper than $100?
million dollars?
Well, remember, it's California.
And San Francisco.
I mean, the Bay Area, 100 million,
you know, San Francisco residents,
you remember when $100 million, you know,
was a lot of money?
It doesn't go as far, you know,
as it used to in that hellhole of San Francisco.
$100 million in San Francisco, I think,
can get you maybe
175 square feet, you know,
of a beautiful apartment.
Probably, I think somewhere between 5 and 8 gallons of gas or the poop patrol.
So which would you spend it on?
The new San Francisco Public Works budget includes $72.5 million for street cleaning.
Get this one, $12 million for housekeepers to get this, clean homeless encampments.
well, first of all, I got to have one problem.
They're not really housekeepers if there is no home.
They're homeless.
So let me see if I have this straight.
If I'm working in San Francisco, I'm just working at a deli and I'm paying taxes to San Francisco.
And I have to go home and clean my house.
I'm paying taxes so the people who come and poop in front of my store,
I'm paying taxes so they have a housekeeper?
Oh my gosh.
Also $2.8 million for washing down the camps and removing any biohazard.
2.3 million to steam the poop infested streets.
3.1 million for portable toilets.
$700,000 for a 10 member needle cleanup squad.
And, of course, nearly 900,000 for the poop patrol.
Each member of the Poop Patrol takes over, you ready, takes home over $184,000 in salary and benefits.
Now, I don't know.
I don't know what it would cost to get me to pick up human poop.
It would be, it would probably be a little more expensive than that.
But are you telling me that you can't find, oh, I don't.
know, group of teenagers, college students, anybody? How about, how about, how about all of those progressives
that just love people so much? And they just want to do good. And you're telling me that you can't get
them for, I don't know, a bag of weed and, you know, and a hemp dress. You can't get them to
go clean the streets of the human feces. Really, $184,000 is what you're paying people to pick up
poop? If I may, I'd like to give some advice to the new unit patrolling California streets.
If you would like to clean up all the crap in your cities, I would suggest that you start removing
the human poop that you strangely in California call politicians, the ones that are throwing all
this money at a failed city and a failed policy, one right after another. You can't really get rid of
the scent of poop by simply spraying something on it to cover up the scent.
You have to shovel it out.
May I suggest that you start shoveling out the Capitol building in Sacramento
and then work your way down to every city government from there?
Wait a minute.
I got a name.
Poop Patrol for progressive politicians and policy or the PPPPP.
And I think there would be some fun.
funding from, you know, rich people all over the country.
I mean, I would make a donation right now to the PPP, PPP.
You know, if we could get one in Washington, who's with me?
Keep an eye out and look for them coming soon to movie theaters near you,
patrolling the streets of D.C. and San Francisco, the Human Poop Patrol.
It's Thursday, August 23rd.
You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
Stu just looked at me and he said, could we discuss this a little?
Why not?
So, yeah, $184,000 a year for the Poop Patrol.
Of course.
Now, there are services in this service economy we now have.
Yes, yes.
Which will come to your home and pick up the dog poop from your lawn for like, you know,
you come over once a week and it's like maybe.
$50 a month.
Now, I appreciate capitalism, but there is also another service that comes over and picks up
the poop in your lawn from your dogs.
It's called 12-year-old children.
Well, I don't have one of those.
As I explain to my kids, that's what I had you for.
But first of all, that seems like a really high rate to go pick up poop.
$184,000 a year gig to pick up.
That's a great gig.
I would think that there's...
Let me ask you this.
How much would it take for me to get you into the poop industry right now?
I mean, so am I employed or am I not employed?
Do I need to leave a job?
Well, you do need...
I mean, Google is no longer taking...
You know, they're no longer requiring college degrees.
So let's say you don't have a college degree.
Right.
You know, but you do have some prospects,
but you're looking for a job.
How much does it take?
to get you into the poop. I mean, 184
easily gets me into that gig, right?
Easily. I mean, 100K
gets you into that gig, probably too.
There's a line. You gotta remember. This is San Francisco.
People have it. Things are much more expensive.
You're picking up poop.
That's what you're doing. You're picking up poop.
Thank God there's people doing it. Right?
I mean, you want...
No, no. No. I will thank...
No, I will thank God when people stop crapping in the streets.
Well, when did you?
we become monkeys?
When did we like, you know, just drop the trow right here and just, just leave a loaf on
the doorstep?
When did we become those people?
It's tough because once the trends starts, it's like, you know, when you go to a concert
or something and there's a bunch of parking spots and they're all filled and that first
person pulls up onto the curb and onto the grass.
Yeah.
And then five minutes later, you've got rows of cars on the grass.
The first time, I mean, it probably was a little strange.
I'll give you.
The first time someone was like, you know what?
That bathroom's three feet away.
Instead, I'm going to go here.
Right.
That was probably a strange decision the first time it happened.
However, when it's just the thing, when you have an entire product line called pooperoni, which is, you know.
That's delicious.
In fact, it's a sponsor this half hour.
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Oh, Rony on San Francisco Streets.
When there's enough poop going on at that point, you may need to fight back with
employees. 184,000 is a lot
though. That feels to me like a
like, you know, a
$15 an hour job.
It really does. It really does.
I'm willing to give you the $15
wage on that one. Right. You're picking
up poop.
It doesn't require you to think.
It just requires you be willing
to pick up somebody's poop. No, it's gross.
It's a gross job. Right. I might even give you
$20 an hour.
$20 an hour. $20 an hour.
There you go. $20 an hour. $20 an hour.
hour is a lot less than, let's say, $20 an hour times 40 times, let's say we work every week,
that's $41,000.
It's about a $40,000 job.
Look, it's a good gig.
That's a good gig.
San Francisco, I mean, you know, I mean, maybe it's probably not going to go that far, but still,
you're picking up poop, right?
Like, it's not a high level job.
No, it doesn't take a lot of skill.
It's not like, I've got my degree in poop picking up.
Right.
There's some jobs.
Like, you have, you've talked about this before with certain things you have to do to
cows on your farm.
which to me sound like completely horrific
escapades.
You're talking about the pregnancy check.
Yes.
Yes.
Now,
I can't think of an amount of money
that you would have to pay me
to do that one time in my life.
Although once you experience it,
you are kind of like,
you look at the guy with only one sleeve on his shirt
and a giant glove that goes up to a shoulder.
And you're kind of like,
you can feel the baby inside.
He's like, oh yeah.
And there's a piece of you that goes,
I kind of want to feel that.
once, but then you come to your senses.
You're like, no. No. No. I don't want my hand in the butt of a cow.
So I think there is a premium you pay.
But see, that guy is not just like, he's not like, I just, they pay me to come here and just
you know, stick my hand in the butt of a cow. The guy has an education. He's a doctor.
Right. Yeah, right. This is exactly. You pay him for more than just doing the thing that you don't want to do.
Right. But I think, I do think part of the preempts.
that doctors receive.
And this is all humans and
veterinarians and everything is the
ability to get over the really disgusting
stuff you have to do. Now it's also
you're healing people, but like there's people
who go and change bedpans, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the guys who do change bedpans
it should be
I mean, we should look at things. You know,
you're changing bedpans and you're
oh, you have to clean up all the vomit too, huh?
Wow. The guy who's doing
breast augmentation.
I don't put them.
I mean, I'd like to see their wages come a little closer to each other.
You know what I mean?
One's working on women's breasts and the other one's cleaning up vomit.
I thank God for both jobs personally.
But I would say that I would say that they think there is that idea.
This is something we've talked about with the supposed gender wage gap, right?
Yes.
Where women earn only 78 cents on the dollar.
We heard that's that.
It's not true.
It's a BS stat.
But one of the reasons it's a BS stat is that guys tend.
to pick jobs where they're very dangerous.
You know, some in the middle of nowhere oil rig that is a dangerous taxing job, physical jobs,
and also sometimes kind of the nasty jobs.
There's a lot of jobs out there that are really gross.
And one of the reasons the women have closed up that gender cap is because they've taken
a lot of roles in health care that are kind of gross.
So there is a premium.
Like if you were picking up rappers, you know, candy rappers after a concert, I think there's a
premium you pay to the poop squad from that job.
Like you're working in Disneyland and you've got one of those little claw things and you're
picking up the wrappers and you're putting in the trash can.
You're working at Disneyland, man.
You're picking up candy wrappers.
Relax.
You're picking up poop.
Human poop.
You get a bonus.
You get a bonus.
I'm not afraid to say you need to make a little extra more.
But $184,000 might be a little bit too much.
Is too much.
What would you say the difference?
is from the person who is
picking up dog poop for a living
as opposed to someone picking up human poop.
I think there's a premium there too.
Like if you're going to pick up human poop.
But once you're in the poop business,
maybe you don't notice.
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's in the poop.
I think you notice.
I think there's a slight premium.
But it's not the same kind of distance
between the candy wrapper guy
and the dog poop guy.
Okay? That's that.
Once you get into the poop business,
you've got a large spread.
Now, dog.
Poop human poop. There's still a spread there. You know it's like dog poop human poop
Elephant poop you know I you're just so elephant is worse I think only because of the
quantity and it depends if you're following one animal in a parade no if you're in
Africa and you want to have everything clean and you're at an elephant refuge. Yeah I think
there's a that's backbreaking labor that is that is there's something I think different
about animals than human.
I think like, you know, just like...
Well, animals don't wear pants.
You expect them to poop on the streets or wherever they're standing.
Here in America, we're now apparently just expecting humans to act like animals.
And we're cool with it.
And the great thing is, it's job creation.
If this isn't the perfect example of job creation in a progressive world, I don't know what
is, hey, we can hire more housekeepers because every homeless camp is going to now have housekeepers.
So they can't be expected to, you know, clean up their sleeping bag?
We got to lay that out.
Maybe we can leave a little mint on their pillow too.
We're creating jobs.
Okay, so they're pooping all over the street.
This is a job creator.
It's important.
That's why I don't live in California.
It's basically Paul Krugman's theory, right?
You know, if an alien was threatening the earth, we would increase our economy because we would all go together and go crazy to build up our society.
It's the broken windows.
No, no.
No, we just break the windows and then we can have people replace the windows.
That's good for the economy.
The broken windows thing.
That's a conservative idea.
Broken windows.
Yeah, you see people pick up windows and they rocks and they break a window on an empty street.
Okay.
We're not talking about broken windows anymore.
We're talking about people crapping on the street.
Well, if we just pick up the crap, maybe they won't crap on the street.
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Glenn Beck.
Well, we apparently have struck a nerve.
A lot of people are,
a lot of people are tweeting and calling about the Poop Patrol in California.
At World of Stew and at Glenn Beck.
Taylor writes, maybe the Poop Patrol is what Obama was going for
when he said shovel-ready jobs.
Very good.
Possible.
Yeah. D writes, I have a suggestion, what about the next person we see pooping on the street? Instead of arresting, they have to pick up the poop until we get to the next pooping person who will have to help. And then we will have a poop brigade for free.
Like that. This is good. Jeff writes later on our show about poop economics special guest Thomas Sowell, real highbrow guys. Thank you. Thank you for that.
This is interesting. Don't think we didn't realize that. I mean, I shut off the mic and I looked at Stu and I said, so what important things did you talk about today?
You know, the economics of poop patrols.
Well, you'll feel better from Gordon's comment.
I've been listening to you guys for over a decade.
This morning is the most informative radio broadcast you've ever done.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
We appreciate it.
And Drew says elephant poop smells incredibly worse than human poop.
Like the smell lingers for days after removal.
So I am giving a premium.
You are giving a premium.
I am giving a premium on that.
But I still don't think it's worth $184,000 a year.
Welcome to the program.
Glad you're here.
A lot to cover today.
We are going to cover the situation in South Africa.
I want to do something extraordinarily different next hour.
I invite you to join me on this.
I need your help on something.
He's got a lot of human poop in his backyard.
I do.
I do, and I don't have $184,000 to pay a person to do it.
Also, we should get to Asia Argento a little bit.
This story is kind of fascinating to me.
And I was joking on Twitter last night about how I've noticed that CNN is spending a lot more time talking about Donald Trump paying off people to be silent about sex than the Asia Argento situation where they're paying off people to have sex.
And obviously, like, he's the president of the United States.
They're going to spend more time on it.
Though, I mean, I think arguably the Asia Argento thing is the number two story right now behind what's going on with Trump.
And it was almost not mentioned at all in the hours that I watched CNN yesterday.
And I found it interesting that if you think about what we've seen over the past year, year and a half,
you have CNN, who has pretty much constantly been talking about, one, the Me Too movement,
and two, Donald Trump paying off people to be silent about sexual relationships.
During that entire time, one of their employees, Anthony Bourdain,
was in the middle of the intersection between those two issues.
Now, Anthony Bordane obviously killed himself and is gone now.
This may have played a role in that.
Who knows?
I mean, it's a terrible situation.
But he paid of his own money $380,000, which, by the way, you'll note,
is more than Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal combined to keep this kid,
who was a kid, he's not now a kid, but he was 17 years old at the time,
silent about a meet-to affair.
So the same exact situation when it comes to,
now,
I mean,
look what Asia did.
Look what Asia did.
She used Anthony.
Now,
just hear me out.
I have no insight on the relationship person.
I have no insight on the relationship.
I have no insight on his mental health.
And,
and suicide is,
is caused by illness.
You're ill.
You're really ill.
But it is helped by feeling trapped as,
well. He's working at a news organization that is zeroed in on paying people off to keep them
silence. And me too. And me too. And here's Asia. And she says, oh, I'm being blackmailed. I don't
know if she asked him or he volunteered. Worse if she asked him, but bad if he volunteered because he
pays $380,000 and then has to live in that world with the cognitive dissidence of
these things are bad, but I just did it because I know her and I love her.
That's, I mean, I don't know how.
Yeah.
I don't know how.
Very difficult to deal with.
Really bad.
And, you know, I don't think CNN was aware of this at the time.
But, I mean, it's an interesting study as far as journalism, right?
I mean, here is an organization that is on the air constantly hammering the Me Too movement.
And we all want the end goals of what is the generalism of Me Too,
which is women get respected and don't have to deal with sexual abuse and assault and harassment.
We all want that.
All people. All people should.
And all people should.
Men, boys, girls, women, nobody should deal with that.
But that storyline is being protected by.
one of their employees.
Here is a massive part
of this story that is sitting there.
One of the founders
of the Me Too movement and the most serious
allegations against Harvey Weinstein.
Now there's lots of them, so there's plenty
still there. But the most serious
allegations. And
at the time they're covering the story,
one of CNN's employees is paying
$380,000 to
silence an accuser
of the person involved.
And what's...
what's just as bad, if not worse,
is now that it has come out,
they're not talking about it.
They don't want to talk about Anthony Bourdain's.
They don't want to say,
what really happened with Anthony Bourdain?
How, here's a guy in our own midst who was doing this.
They're not examining that at all.
Right.
It's a tough situation.
The guy died tragically.
He was a very beloved figure.
They loved him at CNN.
Journalists love the guy.
Right, which is why he'll get a pass.
I, you know.
If I did this, if I paid $380,000 to somebody and I died, same way, do you think they
wouldn't look into me?
They sure.
Of course they would.
Of course they would.
Yeah.
And, you know, look.
But see, that's the problem.
That's the problem.
We are no longer used.
using reason anymore.
There's a great story, a conversation between the president and editor-of-chief
and the senior cultural writer for cut.
I don't even know what cut is, but I saw this story and I started reading it.
I want you to listen to this.
So Stella Bugby, she is the editor-in-chief.
She says, you know, one of the things I find most interesting about these allegations is
they trigger a lot of fears in me.
It's the same sickening feeling I have when I hear about false rape accusations.
They're rare but devastating to all future accusers.
I feel like screaming, this doesn't mean all rape accusations are fake.
And it makes me simultaneously defensive and despairing.
Will people who were anti-hashaggme too use this as an attempt to prove that it was all BS?
I just want you to listen to this.
Because remember, we are either going to add to the chaos or we're going to find a way through the chaos.
And if you believe that we are a culture in trouble, then I don't want to add to the chaos.
I want to try to heal.
And I'm willing to do whatever it takes to heal within the parameters of my principles.
So let me listen.
Let's listen to these two women talk back and forth with a different ear.
And maybe somebody else who's on their side will listen to us.
with a different ear.
Now listen, one of the things I find interesting triggers a lot of fears in me.
The same sickening feeling I have when I hear about fake rape accusations.
They're rare but devastating to all future accusers.
Yes.
Now, let's flip that around.
She says, I feel like screaming.
This doesn't mean all rape accusations are fake.
Yes.
Now, we have a fear when you see something like the lacrosse team and the just and Al Sharpton's
of the world coming.
down and politicizing it and making it all about race and rape and everything else, we feel
like saying, wait a minute, all of these aren't true.
They're not all true.
Let the process work.
Not all men are rapists.
Not all victims are women.
What did you do to heal the wounds of the team that was verbally,
maliciously raped.
The Duke LaCross team
Has anybody even thought about what their lives are like now?
I have a friend of a friend of mine was on the team.
And she tells me that he,
even though he was not actually there,
he was just on the Duke LaCross team.
He was never accused of any wrongdoing at all.
And he left with, you know, Duke and Duke lacrosse.
He was, you know, mentioned anytime you're
Google his name, he'd come up as the Duke lacrosse team.
That was the big thing that he did.
That's a huge accomplishment, by the way.
It's one of the best teams in the country.
And for years, he struggled to get a job after college.
Duke's a great school.
He wasn't even accused of wrongdoing.
But just because Duke Lacrosse was what you got when you Googled the guy,
he couldn't find a good job for years afterwards.
Sure.
So let's understand her point.
Her point is, don't let this discredit.
the ones that are real.
Okay? Don't even let this discredit what Harvey Weinstein did to Asia.
Right.
Okay.
Don't let it discredit that.
I 100% agree with that.
Totally.
But what we also have to talk about is the mob mentality, the hashtag mentality.
When you make an accusation, it doesn't mean it's true.
And so if we have a system of justice, you let that system of justice work.
Otherwise, you're going to destroy lives that shouldn't be destroyed.
Let's calm down and use reason and ration, not hashtags, not mob mentality.
Stop with a torch.
And process versus generalism is a problem we're dealing with right now.
It is.
I have not heard anyone on, you know, we'd say our side of the argument, which would be asking for process.
Like, I just want to process.
I want every single person who did these things to go to jail.
But I want to process before we get there.
I've never heard anyone on that side of the argument say, what we want is no women to be believed.
What we want is all men to get away with it.
What we want is every accusation to be dismissed.
The problem on the, I have heard that on the other side.
What we want is all women to be believed.
What we want is all women to be honored and automatically trusted.
And that, well, I don't think it's the majority of that side of the movement is a significant enough piece of it that makes you very, very hesitant to embrace the movement as a whole.
The goals, yes, but the movement as a whole has some parts to it.
Because the movement has post-modernist roots.
Because there are people in there who they don't care about.
reason. They don't
care about it. They're trying
to destroy the hierarchy.
They're trying to destroy
the Western
white, this
gender
hierarchy. Well,
I can't join you on that. I can't
join you on that. I can't join
you on, hey, let's have a system
and I'll stand with you. You're a victim of
somebody. I'll stand with you. And I
will believe you enough
to make sure that you are,
heard and that the process works.
But I'm not going to believe you and take you at your word because you say it's true.
I need a process.
You know, everybody has to be innocent until proven guilty.
That doesn't mean that you're guilty because you stood up and said,
hey, this person did it.
And I, that's when people attack that person like, like it happens on all sides.
when they attack somebody, sometimes you can go, okay, I get it.
I get it.
I mean, they're really not credible.
But other times, they are very credible.
And we have to have a process to go through.
And I'm for that.
This article continues to talk about, you know, this story maybe we didn't pay attention to her.
And we dismissed some of these warning signs because she was our friend.
Yes. Yes. Yes. That happens to all of us. And that's happening. That's, that is the crux of the issue in America today. The press believes one side. They believe that they are, that that one side is right and the other side is wrong. And anything that helps the wrong side, they won't cover or say. Anything that hurts the right side,
They won't cover or say.
That's the problem.
That's why Donald Trump was elected.
We need a process that reason is fixed in her seat and no one plays favorites.
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I saw something from the Australian News Agency.
They have a 60 Minutes program that's about to premiere,
and it looks like they read my book.
Listen to this.
Yeah, it was a bit unrehearsed.
I was off the cuff comment that was inappropriate for air.
Shouldn't have been on radio 100%.
The doctor was a good-looking restaurant.
About 40 years ago.
The thing is, as I said, we've got no income now.
And there's no real light at the end of the tunnel
of where that will change,
that will be. Look out Australia. 60 minutes will make your blood boil. It's a big cog up. Welcome
to the age of outrage. She's sort of become a blood sport where one stupid move. I love Don,
I love Don. I can destroy you. I'm sorry. Now Yasmin upset the entire country when she posted on
Facebook on Anzac Day. I think we've got to accept stupidity as a constant of human life. We all
do stupid things.
I'm quite happy to remove this.
Now, science proves we're getting high on hate.
What a crockish.
60 Minutes, Sunday.
Isn't that amazing?
Wow, they could have called it.
They're addicted to outrage.
Yeah, they're high on hate, addicted to outrage.
I mean, science proves it.
It absolutely does, and you'll find it in my new book,
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And why it's a huge problem if we want to,
save the Western world, we must, must surrender and admit to ourselves, hey, I'm an American
and I've got a problem. I'm addicted to outrage. In an interview yesterday, Massachusetts
Democrat, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and the sworn enemy of the President Trump made a fool of herself.
Now that in itself is not news, but the specifics of her statement all started with a goofy,
vacant grin and are really disconcerting. Here she is in an interview with the host John
Berman. I'm so sorry for the family here, and I know this is hard, not only for the family,
but for the people in her community, the people throughout Iowa. But one of the things we have
to remember is we need an immigration system that is effective, that focuses on where real
problems are. Last month, I went down to the border. And I, I
saw where children had been taken away from their mothers. I met with those mothers who had
been lied to, who didn't know where their children were, who hadn't had a chance to talk to
their children, and there was no plan for how they would be reunified with their children.
Just last month, she was there. Now, she wasn't there back in 2014. I know, because I was there.
She didn't want to pay any attention to it when it was happening under Obama, but she was there.
And she was talking to the mothers who had their children ripped out of their arms.
Now, there's a lot to unpack here.
First, let's start with the line.
You know, the things that we have to remember is we need an immigration system that it's effective that focuses where the real problems are.
Can I ask you what that really mean?
What does that mean?
What does that even mean?
Because in this past week alone, ICE, which people like,
Elizabeth Warren, want to abolish.
Because she compares them to Nazis.
She wants to abolish them.
In this last week, ISIS hauled off an illegal immigrant charged with murder in Mexico.
At the request of Mexico, we were tracking him.
And how was that reported in the press?
That was reported that, oh, this poor guy was just taking his wife.
She was, she was ready to have a baby.
She was going in for a scheduled C-section.
It wasn't like, she's like, she's like.
Oh my, I got, now I got to drive myself to the hospital too.
She was going in for C-section.
He was a murderer.
Would you have said, oh, you know what?
Oh, geez.
I, crap.
I didn't know Jeffrey Dahmer was taking his wife to the hospital.
Let him go.
Let him go.
Have the birth.
We'll try to catch up to him later.
He's a murderer.
They also got lived.
rid of a literal Nazi, something that the Obama administration couldn't get done. Donald Trump's
administration put pressure on Germany to take back a Nazi. This guy's been living here since
World War II. He killed people in concentration camps. Now, the world is so concerned about
Nazis in America. We've got 24 stupid people who are protesting.
in the street and you have a literal Nazi and somehow the Nazi organization, as you call it, ICE,
somehow or another, they got him out? I don't even understand it. If anything, the system has failed
in not preventing the entry of an illegal immigrant who murdered Molly Tibbet. How dare you say that?
Are you saying that all immigrants are murdered? Of course I'm not. In no rational or reasonable
reasonable world, is anybody actually thinking that I'm saying all immigrants are rapists?
I'm saying, here's a guy who, I don't know why, raped this woman and killed her.
And you know what?
He shouldn't have been here in the first place.
Molly Tibbitts could have been hit by a bus.
She might have died some other way.
Maybe it was her time, but it was not her time to go in that way.
if he wasn't here.
Then she says,
last month I went to the border
and I saw where children
had been taken away from their mothers.
What about
Molly Tibbets?
Wasn't she ripped out of the arms
of her loving family?
Here's this exceptional girl.
She didn't say a final farewell.
Her parents didn't take her
to a dangerous place
where they all knew.
they could be separated.
Molly most likely didn't even say goodbye as the front door closed behind her because she was just
going for a jog.
Here's Molly ripped out of the arms of her family and taken away from her mother permanently.
There is no paperwork to work out.
There's nothing that might have been misplaced and soon they'll be reunited.
She's gone until they're reunited.
on death.
And it wasn't done by
a group of people who are just overzealous.
She was ripped out of the arms of her
family by somebody who shouldn't have been
in the country in the first place
and is a true monster.
I think we need immigration laws that focus
on people who pose a real threat.
You mean like murderers?
Like murderers who murder young women, maybe?
I don't think mamas and babies are the place we should be spending our resources.
Tell that to the mother of Molly Tibbet.
You see, we're talking over each other and we're fighting a straw man.
That's it.
There's nobody in America that disagrees.
What was it?
8%? 20% maximum?
I can't remember what it was.
Very low percent of people who said, oh, yeah, no, no, no.
I think what ICE is doing is great.
I think the policy that Obama started of just, you know, ripping them out from their parents
and just shoving them all in different jails and cages.
I don't think.
There was nobody.
Virtually nobody that held that belief.
But shouldn't Molly Tibbitt's death signify the need for a more comprehensive system
that keeps people out that are criminals?
You know, the guy who is taking his wife to the hospital.
This guy could have come through the front door.
We could have checked.
And he could have passed and he would have been good.
And then he might have murdered Molly Tippett's.
That will happen in life.
But shouldn't we at least, shouldn't we at least try?
You know, MS-13 kills four times the number of kids.
They've killed four times the number of people than have been lost in school shootings.
Four times the number.
Why don't we care about them?
Warren speaks only in negatives.
She's criticizing Trump.
She uses the tragedy of a young woman who was murdered and says, yeah, well, that was bad.
But no, that was horrifying, full stop.
But in Warren's world, the man who murdered her is himself a victim.
This is the postmodern system of anti-logic that is getting dangerous.
People are dying.
Americans are dying.
Members of Congress are more concerned about the evils of having a
southern border than the actual strife of people on the border because they weren't there
when it was about their side.
I was.
And they're more,
they care more about destroying the other side than actual compassion.
It's Thursday, August 23rd.
You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
You know, I spent the last two years,
I spent the last five years,
But particular attention in the last two to figure this out.
Okay.
I remember trying to figure out around 2004.
What the hell happened to us?
How did we go from this nation with our founders to this nation that is so far removed from the Constitution?
What happened?
And I found progressivism.
And everyone told me Woodrow Wilson in the early 20th century didn't matter.
And I made my case every day, much to the chagrin of many people in the audience at first going,
it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter if they're liberal or progressive.
It does matter.
And now I see my country doing exactly what I feared.
I take my share.
In fact, I think I take more than my fair.
share of responsibility for what's happening in the country.
And I'm willing to do that because I know you know the truth.
I know if you watched me and listened to me, you heard me say more about peace and coming
together and trying to understand.
You heard those words from me more than anyone left or right.
So you know the truth.
I don't have to defend it with you.
you. And I'm willing to take more than my fair share. If that's what it will take to get people
to listen. Everybody wants to hate each other. I don't. And I don't care what I have to do
to get you to disarm enough to be able to listen again. Because we're a nation that's not
listening to one another.
And I know this firsthand because I didn't listen to you during the election.
I didn't understand.
And instead of doing the human thing, I looked at you as a group.
But it's so strange.
I heard Don Imus sign off.
His last broadcast, every broadcaster in America, every podcaster in America should listen
to Don Imis' last 10 minutes.
minutes. It's so revealing. Here's a guy who was a legend, is a legend, a guy who literally
changed radio, changed broadcast, extraordinarily, extraordinarily bright and talented.
And a good man. And is in his last five or ten minutes, he wept.
as he tried to convince himself,
look at the good we did.
Look at what we did.
We did together.
The most important thing he said was I'm not going to miss radio.
I'm not going to miss this show.
I'm going to miss you.
When he said that, man, my eyes filled with tears
because I knew exactly what he was talking about.
You and I feel like we're friends.
you know me.
I don't know you.
And people always say to me when they meet,
I feel kind of bad and weird because we don't really know each other,
but I know everything about you.
And I always feel the same way.
I know, but I think I know you.
Even though I don't.
People are listening, many of them wildly disagree.
Some, I would imagine, are in a coma right now,
and they just have the radio on, so, you know,
the person will feel like there's somebody there.
By the way, you're doing great.
You're going to make it.
But the people who come out, I feel like I know you.
And I don't think we're different.
I know what your heart is.
And I know what you...
I know your intent.
You know mine.
To do good.
To fix this.
To free people.
to help people.
But we've gone off the rails, and I don't mean us,
the entire nation has gone off the rails.
And that doesn't seem to be our objective anymore.
Our objective now is to stop the other guy,
and that's not going to work.
I want to talk to you here,
and I would love to hear your response.
Facebook, Twitter, on the phone.
Today, at 5 o'clock, I'm going to do it.
a just a half hour of phone calls and I want to hear your voice on look at the Molly the Molly
Tibbet story is important and then I introduce Elizabeth Warren into it and it cheapens it
but that's important too Cavanaugh what they're doing to Cavanaugh and other saying that
they're going to have to delay the Cavanaugh because well I mean you can't do that with
Paul Manafort what are you talking about universities are
welcoming their students back soon, and they all have plans on how to talk to their students
about the statues that might be around the campus.
All of these things are important.
All of these things are really easy to talk about.
But does it further anything?
Let me pick it up there when we come back.
You know, we were talking on the, we were talking on the air yesterday in the podcast,
the news and why it matters.
And we were talking about impeachment.
And, you know, if it was a, if it was just a simple majority, which it's not in the, in the Senate, you could see the Senate impeaching and convicting Donald Trump because there's enough squishy Republicans that just would not want to.
They'll go, they'll go and dis their own base because they've, they've,
don't want their world disrupted.
We saw that with the, you know, Obamacare.
Yeah.
Overturn.
And we were talking about, um, that's civil war.
I really think that would lead to civil war.
If he's removed from office.
He was removed from office and it was simple majority and because people would see that as a
complete betrayal.
And that's, of course, why it's not simple majority, I guess.
Correct.
Correct.
With 67 votes.
And it feels, it feels real.
I mean, it really does feel real.
But there could be something that could happen that we would go into a civil war.
Okay.
I hope to God that doesn't happen.
But that is the outlier of what could happen in your life.
What could happen in the foreseeable future.
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It's very strange.
We find ourselves in a country now
that in some ways nothing matters.
Right? How many times have you said
or heard a friend say,
it's like nothing matters anymore.
It's like the truth doesn't matter.
matter. Decency doesn't matter. Nothing matters. They're crapping in the streets of San Francisco.
They're, you know, our president is lying. This president or the last president. And they don't care.
The death of shame. Nobody cares about shame. There's no embarrassment anymore on anything.
It's like nothing matters. And yet at the same time, everything matters to the max. I am so
outraged by what so-and-so just said.
So we're living in this world where nothing matters,
except these little things over here that I'll fight to the death on.
That's not a recipe for success.
So what does matter next?
Continuing our conversation on what's important and what we should be talking about.
And I mean me and you.
We're eating around the edges.
We're just, we're not even into the pie.
We're just all eating the crust.
That's it.
Racism.
Gender issues.
Destruction of the family.
Free speech.
Violence.
What is causing all of this?
Where's this coming from?
And we're, we're amplifying it because we're concentrating on even smaller stories.
We've made our politicians,
our gods. We've made our political parties, our gods, and we've done it mainly without thinking.
Be honest. Be honest. Now, maybe, maybe conservatives have thought a little bit more about it because
they've been, they've had their back pushed against the wall for so long that you've probably
put some thought into it. But for the left, many times, not all times, but for the left, many times,
you haven't really even heard the other side.
You didn't even know there was another side.
And we're fighting to the death over it.
Let me ask you what's more important.
The Paul Manafort trial, which had nothing to do with Donald Trump,
and I'm not saying that because, you know, I'm on the right.
I'm saying that because it's true.
What they convicted him of had nothing to do.
It all happened before he got together with Donald Trump.
So what's more important?
here's a bad guy went to jail
that's a really good story one day
that's it
really bad guy went to jail
justice served perfect
but we're making this into
this will go on for months
is that more important than
the Christians that are being
slaughtered all over the world
the Christians that are being rounded up
Christians that are still in slavery
Christians that are being slaughtered because they won't
bow down.
The Christians in
the Christians in Asia.
165 churches were just burned
in China by the Chinese
government.
Anybody care?
You know that they just institute a law.
If you have a Bible, you're going to prison.
How about this one?
How about the Muslims in China?
One million.
Hear this.
One million Muslims
have already
been rounded up in China
and they're put in concentration camps.
We have the photos of the concentration camps
you can find and you can see them online.
It's China.
One million.
Add five more million and you've got the
Holocaust.
Why are we talking about that?
South Africa.
Is there a genocide going on?
Or is it the buildup of a genocide?
What's really happening there?
I don't know.
The loss of freedom of speech where both sides are celebrating when somebody who they don't like loses their platform or their ability to speak.
This should be a all hands-on-deck warning.
We should be hearing the claxon every single day.
If one person loses their right to speak and be heard, we will be next.
Nobody is really talking about the destruction of the Western way of life.
That you have now one political party who is supporting a group of people who say they want to destroy capitalism and get away from capitalism.
They are marching in the streets, no borders, no walls, no USA at all.
you have a political party and a media that is supporting that.
Well, I think that's probably the biggest story that maybe we should be talking about,
maybe in the history of our republic.
We apparently have half of a country that is either ignorant or a part of
an effort to destroy capitalism and our way of life and to destroy our Constitution.
in their words, not mine, not hyperbole.
Shouldn't we be, in that more important than Manafort?
Or whatever I led the hour with, with, you know, Elizabeth Warren.
Isn't that more important?
All we're doing is arguing about Trump.
And the last eight years, all we did was argue about Obama.
Didn't work, did it?
Isn't this the definition of insanity?
Should we argue some more about Trump, or should we look for the root cause?
because I know what the root cause is.
And once you find it, you will be amazed.
You will be your eyes, the scales will fall off your eyes,
just as they did when you really first started to learn about progressivism.
And this one isn't protected.
This one, this one is wide open.
This one will not be accepted by the mass of the people in blue states or I'm sorry, red states.
who are Democrats.
They will not accept this.
And it's called postmodernism.
Do you want to know why we're talking about the destruction of capitalism?
Understand postmodernism.
You want to know why people are calling white people all kinds of names and white people
are not allowed to defend themselves?
Postmodernism.
You want to know why there's 175 different genders, postmodernism.
You want to know why the destruction of the family seems.
to be a number one target postmodernism you want to know why freedom of speech why
people on the right the people who believe in the Constitution those people are
being demonized and being de-platformed and are called all kinds of names and are not
listened to and not welcome on any campus do you want to know why postmodernism
you want to know why we are living in a world that no longer makes any sense where
reason doesn't apply anymore.
Logic doesn't apply.
Only violence applies.
Post-modernism.
It's why nothing matters.
And we are fighting a fight now, the old fight.
We're fighting it like we've always fought it.
You're not even fighting the real enemy.
You don't even know what the real enemy is.
It's like trying to fight in Germany and not even being aware of
what Nazis even believed or what their goals were, not just not speaking their name, not knowing
anything about them. You're never going to defeat them. But the problem is, how can we know
them when we don't even know ourselves? We don't even know ourselves anymore. Who are we? Really?
Who are we? I've really had a tough time with God recently. I feel like I need baptism all over
again. I can't, I can't make heads or tails of my mistakes. I can't make heads or tails of,
of the path anymore. I don't, I, I just, I've, I believe in him. I know who he is. Perhaps for the first
time in my life, I'm actually beginning to be humble, because I don't know who I am in some ways.
because the things that I believed,
all of the important principles, I still believe.
I just don't know how to express them.
I don't know how to do my job.
I don't know how to make a difference without being a problem.
I heard a really important phrase the other day.
At the center of all human suffering,
that is where you will find God.
I know that's true.
And let me break it down for people who don't necessarily believe in God.
What is God?
Love, compassion, empathy, kindness, rational thought, reason.
If there is a God, he's the best scientist and the best mathematician out there.
Because look at the exactness of the universe.
Do you find reason, ration?
compassion, kindness, empathy.
Are you finding that on Twitter?
Because I'm not.
Are you finding that on Facebook?
Because I'm not.
Find that on CNN or Fox?
Or even on this show?
I'm trying to find God.
And that's what God is to me.
And God is also my pal.
And I miss my best friend.
And I know enough about him to know that he hasn't moved.
So I must have.
And if I want to find him,
him, we have to find ways to at least empathize with human suffering. And if we can lose
ourselves in others, we won't be so outraged every day by the nonsense. If we can just focus on things
that matter, perhaps we will stop fighting about all of the things that mean nothing. I care. I care
Christians in the Middle East.
I know you do too.
Do you realize that UN agencies, government agencies, have said that this audience has done more
than the world?
That when it comes to freeing the Christians in the Middle East, you are the model?
I care about what's happening to the blacks and the whites in South Africa.
I care about the Muslims in China.
I care about a guy who has caused me so much angst, so many problems.
I care about the voice of Alex Jones.
I despise him, but I care about his right to have a voice.
Could I ask you a favor?
I wish I could offer this to you for free.
Please go to Amazon and pre-order my book, Addicted to Outrage.
It is your first step into what I'm talking about.
And if you want to be a part of the solution, we must break the cycle of outrage.
Please.
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Addicted to Outrage.
We'll pick it up there again.
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Okay, Stu, we still have a lot on our plate to talk about.
Overloaded today.
Overloaded today with the news of the day and the real news of the day.
When we return.
You know, I think I'm going to start, I think I want to really start talking to people who haven't made their mind up on stuff.
Or just questioning, just questioning.
you know, because I am.
I'm right sometimes.
I'm wrong sometimes, but I'm always questioning.
And I'd like to talk to those people who are saying about Asia Argento.
Hey, hey, hey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You know, this don't throw out the whole baby with the bathwater here.
You know, she was obviously a flawed messenger.
And people who were even saying earlier this year or earlier this week,
hey, well, let's have some process.
I agree with you 100%.
100%.
Now the process happens to be over once there's photographic proof.
But I agree with you.
We should have a process.
But we should have a process on everything, shouldn't we?
We shouldn't have, you know, one person says something and then it's over.
Or, or, you know, just mob justice.
We should have systems, correct?
Should have hearings.
Some sort of process.
Some uncovering of evidence.
some ability to defend yourself, some thing.
Then why is it the Democrats are now trying to halt the confirmation hearing
for Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh?
It's scheduled to begin September 4th.
They don't want a hearing because now they have guilt by association.
The Manafort and Cohen courtroom dramas barely over
and Chuck Schumer took to the microphone and called for an immediate pause
of Kavanaugh's confirmation process.
Now the air was thick with the smell of his old spice and desperation.
Democrats are grasping, well, I would like to say straws,
but no Democrat would do that because it would be bad for the planet
and you could go to jail for it.
So they're grasping for, well, maybe paper straws,
ways to tank the Kavanaugh nomination.
Earlier this week, they tried unearthing the old documents.
trick. That effort uncovered that when Kavanaugh was working for Kenneth Starr in the 90s,
yeah, part of his job was, you know, to prepare the detailed questions to ask Bill Clinton
during the Lewinsky scandal. So basically, he was guilty of doing his job. He can't trust a guy
like that. After Manafort and Cohen, the developments happen on Tuesday, Democrats
were tossed a lifeline, they thought.
I mean, it's barely a strand of dental floss,
but they'll take it at this point.
Senate Democrats say Kavanaugh cannot be confirmed now,
because what if a case involving President Trump lands before the Supreme Court?
Kavanaugh couldn't possibly be a fair judge in such a case because Trump appointed him.
Yeah, it's kind of like, you know, the deciding vote on Obamacare
couldn't have landed on the lap of a Republican justice
and had him vote with it,
Right? Or wait, he did.
Democratic Senator Maisie Hirono, I think that's her name, in Hawaii.
She's on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
She says she's now going to cancel her meeting with Kavanaugh.
She didn't need to even meet with him now.
Doesn't need to hear him.
Well, now that would make sense if you had pictures of Manafort and Cohen,
you know, going to the same baseball game, you know, with Kavanaugh.
and they were just buddies and, you know,
and putting ketchup and mustard on each other's weaners,
then maybe you would have something,
but not now.
We don't have those pictures.
Manafort and Cohen don't have anything to do with Kavanaugh that we know of,
but it gives them the chance to pretend to care about truth and justice
and the American way.
But in reality,
they only oppose Kavanaugh because they're freaked out that he may somehow
another end abortion and enslave women forever.
They don't care about the thousand other issues that Kavanaugh could deal with on the
Supreme Court.
But this is the Democrats' last ditch Hail Mary plan, delay Kavanaugh's confirmation until
next year, win a bunch of seats in November, impeach Trump, clone Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
get Mike Pence to nominate, you know, Ruth Ginsburg 2 to the Supreme Court.
It's a foolproof plan.
All they need is just a little more time to make it work.
It's Thursday, August 23rd.
You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.
So I want to talk to you a little bit about South Africa.
We've been trying to get our arms around what's happening in South Africa for a while.
And we have not put anybody on the air about it because the people who generally seem to be
reporting on this have been unreliable.
They, uh, they, they are usually alt writers and I, I, I, I just don't, I know who the alt
right is and I'm, I don't trust them at all. Um, so I've been really torn because I've seen
interviews and I've seen things that are happening that may or may not be happening.
Meanwhile, the press is not covering it all. Well, I understand that coming from the press and I don't
trust the press at all. So what the hell is.
happening yesterday we reached out to a farmer and we could barely understand him we
worked with him yesterday to see if we could do an interview with him you know make him
understandable and he just is his accent is so thick you can't even understand him
but I wanted to tell you that what he said to us what he was going to say was my
land is being taken away but it's it's more of a of a eminent domain thing and he
doesn't know of any white farmers, he's a white farmer, that have been killed at all.
We have somebody else who's saying, oh, no, there are lots.
But we don't know.
We don't know.
Here's what I do know for sure.
The rhetoric in South Africa is getting dangerous.
It is talking about slitting the throats of whiteness.
This is the kind of rhetoric that when it comes from top leadership, it changes everything.
Beyond that, violence, I don't know yet,
and I'm not going to bring you something
until I'm pretty sure that that's a reliable source.
On the other front, one thing I can bring to you
is they are talking about taking land from farmers
and giving it away, they say to the people,
but it will be to their pals,
because that's the way it always is.
And so they will give it to people
who know nothing about farming.
and South Africans will starve.
That's the way it always plays out.
Alexander Hammond, he is a contributor for young voices.
He's been following this, and he just wrote an article,
this is how South Africa could become the next Zimbabwe.
Welcome to the program, Alexander. How are you?
Hi, Glenn. Thanks for having me.
You bet.
So tell me what you know is happening and your concerns.
Okay.
So what's currently happening, the way I see it, is Cyril Ramaphosa, who is the current president of South Africa.
His party is the AMC, the African National Congress.
And on the 31st of July last month, he said that we're going to change the Constitution.
So Section 25 of the Constitution currently says, if the land is taken away from a property owner by the government, compensation must be just and equitable.
Now, Brownposer says he's changing the amendment to outline more clearly the conditions under which they can expropriate land, essentially meaning that this just an equitable clause, which compensation must be, is going to be taken away, so it can mean expropriation with no compensation.
So that's the background to what's happening recently as farms are beginning to be seized.
and the rhetoric surrounding, especially coming from the EFF, is disturbing.
The president is basically a democratic socialist, is he not?
He's a full out socialist.
Okay.
He never joined the Communist Party, but he is a full-out socialist.
Right.
And he's, I mean, he was, you know, campaigning for universal to,
universal health care, universal food, and universal clothing, I think a basic minimum income.
I mean, all the stuff they're campaigning for here.
But the way he really got into office was playing on the white versus black.
Yeah.
There's no illusion that Rappos is some dictator who's suddenly taken over South Africa
and he's enforcing his will on the people.
He ran on the promise that when he comes to power, if he was to come to power, he would be taking the white land and giving no compensation in return.
He caused it.
It's healing the historic wound doing us.
But I think even more concerning is that there's no illusion of Rapposa is, and in the past, has been very racist towards the white in South Africa.
There's a well-recorded case of that he actually compared the strategy of dealing white.
in South Africa, it's about boiling frogs.
Now, in this, I mean, he said,
you must raise the temperature slowly
so the frogs don't realize what's happening
because if the temperatures raise too quickly,
the frogs jump out of the water.
Then, by the time the frog realizes it's dying,
it's too late to escape the pot.
This is the current president of South Africa.
All right.
Let's stick to the devil we do know,
and that is the idea of land distribution.
So I don't know why people don't get this, because it didn't work in Russia.
It didn't work in Zimbabwe.
It never, ever works.
Can you give us a little history on that?
Yeah, so it seems right now they're following the exact path of Zimbabwe.
Because in 2000, Yipzig, Zimbabwe, under Mugabe, started taking the white farmer's land.
And from my research, a result was essentially freefold.
increased. Five white farmers died and a dozen more black farm workers were killed because they were
associating with the white farmers. Food production plummeted. Food production fell by 60% within 10 years.
Zimbabwe used to be called the breadbasket of Africa. Not anymore. Exports were down over a billion
and then it induced hyperinflation. And the hyperinflation got so bad in the economy.
they average 98% a day at its peak in July of 2018.
And it seems very likely that South Africa will be following this course.
Violence is slowly increasing.
The economy is abysmal right now,
and some predict it is heading towards high inflation if the trend continues.
So, Alexander, have you had any thoughts on, well, for instance,
I mean, here we are watching Venezuela, just, I mean,
just imploding. People starving, people dying, violence, a ruthless dictator. And we're seeing
this march to socialism and this march to redistribution. And people that are your age are seemingly
loving it and embracing it when every single example of it being tried fails horribly.
why is this
becoming, why is this spreading and becoming
so popular?
So that's a great question.
Obviously, I think it's been known for decades
that the youth always
go towards socialism.
But in the case to South Africa,
I don't think it's out, the A&C,
I don't think we're inserting this policy out of ignorance.
I think they're fully aware
what the economic consequences will be.
I believe that they're instilling
these policies to gain the support
for the next election, which is next year.
And I think the ANC will continue to push with populist policies in order to boost their popularity.
Marion Tupi of the Kalo Institute has recently said the African, the South African Parliament,
them instilling this policy, it doesn't rest in ignorance, but arrests in their desire for survival.
And they essentially see it as a way, because they can't control the economy right now,
they've been doing awful in a lot of ways, so basically this is their way to appeal to the
African people.
Is this, is the ANC, which is the party of the president, are they have, are they,
they're kind of partnering with the EFF, which is the really dangerous, racist group.
Is it the same kind of story that's happening here with the Democrats and, you know,
Antifa?
I'm not sure it's far bad, their partnership at all, because apparently the ANC in the
African Parliament has a majority of 60%.
So it's not like they need any more support from these more extremist parties.
Perhaps they could be trying to take some of the economic freedom fighters vote away from them by following some of their policies.
But the EFF isn't extremely popular in South Africa by any means.
So I'm not sure we can make that comparison quite yet.
but it seems like they could be taking some ways.
Quickly, any evidence that you have found that anything like, you know,
white, black violence killing lots of farmers is actually happening.
Right, sure.
So this is a really difficult issue.
Eight hours ago, the president, actually slightly longer than that now,
about 10 hours ago, the president tweeted that about the South Africa land reform
and they're going to get the Secretary of State and to look into it.
But in this tweet he said it was a large scale.
killing our farmers. Now I don't think that's quite accurate, saying large scale.
The problem with South Africa right now is not there's no official numbers are
available. The best we've got is reports from the South African Police and the
Transvaal Agricultural Union which is just a union representing the interest of
farmers. And the latest data we do have is from January to March 2018 and
it indicates that there is a slight there is an increase in attacks on the white
farms and in its three-month period there are 109 attacks and 50 murders on the white
farms meaning one white farmers killed every five days that's pretty significant
phasma reports for sure that it's it's devastating but claiming the president
claiming it's a large scale killing it's down to your definition but okay it's
problematic because there's no official numbers good Alexander thank you so much uh Alexander
Hammon, you can follow him.
Is it just Alexander Hamill?
Yeah, Alexander Hammond.
Alexander H-A-M-M-A.
Okay, thank you very much.
I appreciate it, Alexander.
Thank you for having me.
You bet.
So difficult to figure this out.
I mean, like Newsweek ran a story with the numbers
Alexander just talked about, quoting activists as saying one death every five
days.
New York Times is saying the number of killings of white farmers was at a 20-year low.
So I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't.
The problem is, I don't believe.
believe Newsweek and I don't believe the New York Times.
So I don't know which, I don't know what this is.
But we are working on it and trying to find some credible voices to tell us in South Africa.
What exactly what's going on?
We'll bring that news to you.
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check it out yeah I just found out that uh the pat gray radio program can get guests that this
national radio program can't get well millions of listeners all across the country uh we're not big
enough senator ted cruz top of our three today mm not pat grantly unbelievable are you going
to inform him that you have bet that if he loses this race you will eat your underwear i'm
heavily invested in this race heavily unveil very unveil very unveil
invested. You should stop
betting your underwear because at
some point, I don't think it's his time,
but at some point you're going to
end up eating your underwear.
O'Rourke has done such a great
job of
his spandering during this campaign that
I honestly
think most Hispanics
believe he is Hispanic
instead of Irish. Oh, I got into
a, well, it's a one-sided Twitter
war. I just, you know,
just like, uh-huh. Sure.
But I made some statement here recently about how Beto is being used to try to make him into a McMexican.
And he's, I mean, there's no Mexican or Hispanic in his blood at all.
No.
He's 100% Irish.
Now all of a sudden he's McMexican.
Yeah.
What is this?
And I just don't know.
but Beto is a Hispanic nickname for Roberto.
For Roberto.
And his real name is what?
Robert.
Robert Francis.
Robert Francis.
Very, very Hispanic.
That might be the whitest name ever produced.
Yes.
Right?
Is this not cultural appropriation?
Yeah, that's what I've been saying that all along.
Why aren't the Hispanics pissed at this instead of accepting him?
But that's why he puts only the one word on the yard signs and the bumper stickers.
Just Beto for Senate.
That's it.
Well, why don't you at least put your last name there?
So we know that you're at least half Hispanic and half Irish.
Yeah.
Unlike Ted Cruz, it is 100% Hispanic.
By the way, I got a new yard sign.
You like this one?
Oh, I love that.
Yes.
It's a new yard sign.
I love the Hillary 2028 yard sign.
She looks good at that picture.
I want to put that up in my yard.
At 2028, she's still.
she's still holding together. She doesn't look a lot different.
I have a couple of neighbors that I think just to spite me put up Beto signs in the neighborhood.
Is that what they do?
I think that's what they do?
No, wait, wait, wait.
In a joking way or just because?
I think they, I don't know.
I don't know.
But that would be a great yard sign to put up in response.
I have to tell you, I would love to get into a yard sign war with my neighbors.
If one of my neighbors started a yard sign war,
oh don't
oh don't
don't think you're going to walk away the winner
because I'm willing to put anything in my front yard
the poll out today
I think confirms what seemingly
was coming here
which is this is a fairly close race
no it's not you don't believe that
there's been about five or six polls here that have shown
this one's 49 to 45
cruise leading
no so he's up by four
four here there's another poll
he was up by two
he's had a couple, five, and three.
You just think there's no chance of him.
I think here's, I think this is what it is.
I think there are people that are pissed at Ted Cruz,
who really believed in him and, you know, stood strong with him.
I can't think of anybody by name.
And they felt betrayed.
And then he really,
and then he really just kind of didn't ever really kind of hug anybody back.
And say, look, I understand where you're coming from.
And I think this is their first chance to tell pollsters.
something, send message to Ted Cruz.
Maybe.
And when they get into the polling booth, they'll pull for Cruz.
They're not so mad that they want to lose Cruz.
They're,
they like him as a senator.
They like him as a senator.
I just don't believe that Texas has turned so crazy blue that this unknown guy
who,
what was the statement he just made?
Well, he's getting a lot of viral attention for us.
brilliant. A speech, brilliant, the most perfect response to the NFL kneeling issue. And like some
left-wing website has been sharing and it's getting lots of attention online. And I mean,
they're trying to make him out to be the next like Barack Obama. Nothing could be more American
than kneeling for the national anthem. Right. Right. Shut up. And it's like a really weak response
where he goes through and misses all the, gets all the stats wrong. And it's just like, it's one of those
things you just, you can't, it would only work in the internet era. You know, it's the only, because when you
don't check anything and you don't know anything about.
the issue. This guy comes out and he's, you know,
a decent looking guy, a younger guy.
He says some things that are, that confirm
what you already believe and you share it.
Like, that's our whole society right now
and that's basically what it was. Well, and he talked about
how police are killing blacks
at an alarming rate.
The stats don't show that at all.
That's just a flat out
lie. So I just don't think that
Texas has gone crazy. And
you know, look, you're betting your underwear.
If Ted Cruz loses,
that will, that will send
That shows me that I don't even understand Texas anymore.
I'm moving.
And I'm moving to Mars.
Okay?
I'm moving to Mars.
I'm not going to be like one of those other celebrities to make a promise.
And they say, I'm moving.
And they move across the street if they move at all.
I'm moving to Mars.
So you'll see the rocket launch.
He's up by four.
Wow.
Huh?
Cruz is up by four.
Now, when Pat made this promise, he was probably up by 20.
Probably.
But you're doing it when he's up by four.
Right.
If he loses, if he loses, I'm moving to Mars.
I'm moving to Mars.
Okay.
Now, I happen to think, if I could...
Just lock that sentence in a vault right there.
If he loses, I'm moving to Mars.
Lock it in.
I'm fine.
I love you, Ted, but I'm now rooting against you.
So I think what you look at the polls, it's interesting because, you know, he was up by a decent amount.
It's closed.
And I at first kind of didn't, you know, you don't really believe these things when you see one or two polls.
The fact that it's this close, I think is interesting.
And to piggyback on what you said, you kind of said of like the people who really liked Cruz and weren't so crazy.
about Trump and then, you know, Cruz kind of went to Trump.
And maybe they're cool with Trump now.
And they're cool with, they're cool with Ted.
They just feel like, well, I don't know what that was about.
Right.
I don't know what that was about.
So that's one group.
I think another group, too, with Cruz, are the people who loved Trump.
Yes.
And were pissed at him for staying in so long.
Yeah.
And not endorsing at the convention.
So the kind of first, the early Trump people and the early Cruz people,
but he's feel weird about that.
Yes. Yes. And so I don't know now because he has completely embraced Trump now.
Right. You know, I mean, he'll still disagree with him occasionally on an issue, but he's fully embraced him.
I think the Trump people that didn't like Ted during the election, those people are going to be, are going to say clearly, okay, well, I don't want Beto in because, you know, I mean, remember, they're binary choice people.
So they don't want Beto in. And so they'll forgive him. They might be sending him a message through the point.
polls. But when they get in and close the curtain, they're going to pull for
Cruz. I hope so. That's right. I think you might be right. I think you might be right.
It's a statement now just to shake him up a little bit. Yeah. He deserves it. Yeah.
For what he did. Yeah. I'm going to make him work for this. I'm going to make him work for it.
Yeah. It's interesting though when a campaign gets close, you know, sometimes you can't control
that momentum, you know, and Beto's raised a fortune. Yeah. A lot of money. More than Ted.
More than Cruz. He's, he's all over the place campaigning.
think that people who are living in Texas and have lived in Texas, I think they suffer from two things.
Texas is huge.
It's huge.
It takes you as long to drive from the Mexican Texas, Mexican border to the northern border of Texas, as it does to drive.
As it does to drive from the northern border of Texas to Chicago.
Okay.
That's how big this state is.
It's enormous.
isolated and everybody just thinks, oh, Texas is always going to be red.
You know, it's a red state.
It's always going to be red.
We're Texas.
No, no.
Demographics are changing.
So there's arrogance involved in it.
And I think with that arrogance comes a little bit of apathy.
Of course, Ted's going to win.
Well, maybe not.
Maybe not.
And I'm actually pulling for Beto because I want to live on Mars.
I think I would understand Mars more than I understand Earth.
I can almost guarantee that.
You're not going to take the rocket ship to Mars before Pat eats his underwear, though.
No, I'm going to wait until after when that's over.
I'll watch it from the capsule.
Because we're not blasted off until he eats it.
Because I want to, I'll come back down those stairs and I will have some harsh words for him.
Every day I've been tweeted underwear recipes.
So people are getting me ready.
There are some people.
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Yes.
Yes.
Okay.
Okay, thank you. Hopefully it won't be necessary, but yes.
So what do you guys make of this hysteria that all this nonsense coming from the left
that the South African story is completely made up?
It's only a white nationalist, white supremacist story,
and you're only pushing this conspiracy theory because you're all about white nationalism.
Vice ran a story and talked about how awful it was, except it's not true.
it's completely made up.
I mean, isn't that a little reminiscent of what the world did in 1940?
Can I tell you, this is why Pat and I are best friends and have been for, what, 100 years now?
105.
Because I thought exactly the same thing.
And I even went to a documentary on, what is it, exposing the Times.
And it was a documentary that came out in 2012, actually starting a monologue on this today.
I just was working on something for the future,
showing and comparing the way the New York Times handled the Holocaust
and the way the mainstream media handled the Holocaust
and how we're dealing with this now.
Now, this may very well be nothing at this point.
Or somewhat overblown.
There is something, and even Vice admits that.
There's something going on.
And there is, when there's smoke, there's fire.
Now, it may just be a match strike at this point.
But you want to blow that match out.
You want to blow that match out.
Don't go down this road too far.
Yeah.
And it's amazing how we've always said never again.
Right.
And then every time it happens again, we just discount it.
So, Pat, I made it.
It's not that bad.
We're not going to do anything.
I made a list.
I made a list.
We are right now ignoring one million Muslims in China.
In China.
In China.
Been rounded up. We know it for a fact.
One million Muslims in China.
Never again.
Well, rounded up.
There it is.
It's happening right there.
That's one sixth of the Holocaust.
One sixth.
And we know it.
And they just got started.
We're ignoring the Christians in the Middle East.
Christians in the Middle East.
We're not paying attention to the Christians being rounded up and killed in Burma.
We're not even talking about, you know, oh, hashtag save our children in northern Africa.
Those are Christians.
Those are Christians that were enslaved.
We don't seem to care about that.
We don't seem to care about what's happening in.
South Africa. We don't, what's so amazing is there are these rumors. We know that the seeds are being
planted. We have them on tape saying, you know, we're going to cut the throat of whiteness.
We have all of that. We have the president on tape saying, changing the constitution so that they
can take things from people without compensation. That's not like a warning flag to you. So we know
that's going on. Yeah. And this is the direction we, we're going.
Fearheaded, just the rhetoric and the redistribution and the Democratic socialist stuff and the white against black stuff.
We don't even care to verify that.
And what are we doing?
We're arguing over stupid stuff like Manafort.
Yeah, it's amazing.
The guy's guilty.
Move on with your life.
Had nothing to do with Trump.
He's guilty.
He's going to jail.
Celebrate.
Things 12 years ago.
Jeez.
Yeah.
Thanks, Pat.
Thank you.
Get your underwear recipes.
to Twitter at Pat Unleashed.
Because he's going to be...
Say hi to Ted.
Oh, yeah.
And let him know that my email address is still the same.
It's...
Yeah, no, it didn't change.
Still works even.
And still the same.
So, yeah.
Good times.
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