The Glenn Beck Program - Stupidity and Hysteria Abound | 8/2/19
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Apparently, there's a jumbled process for replacing a governor who just stepped down in Puerto Rico.
Nobody understands this system.
There's just no way to tell what happens from here.
No, no.
I think they just pick randomly straws, I guess, from the citizens.
This is a good system.
Because remember, they had all these protests.
Puerto Rico. Yeah. And, you know, he was, the governor got pressured. He decided he's going to step
down. And the day he's going to step down is today, I think, at 5 p.m. So who's going to replace him?
You'd think by now. Like a lieutenant governor. Right. There you go, right? You'd think by now,
you'd have an answer to that. Right? Like, this would be a time in which you'd think you'd have identified
who is going to be the next governor. And they have not yet. They have not. They don't know who it is.
It's kind of interesting.
Yeah, it's weird because it's just been one of these situations that they do have a system to replace the governor if he were to step down.
But it's very because of the way it's happened has been convoluted.
To put it in American president terms so we can kind of just all understand because I have no idea who any of the people are in the actual intrigue here.
But let's just say Donald Trump got into a scandal.
and he decided he got all these protests and decided he was going to step down.
So Donald Trump's going to step down.
Who's the president?
Mike Pence.
Unfortunately, Mike Pence was also wrapped up in the scandal and has already stepped down.
So that's just an empty slot.
Okay.
So the next person would go to Pelosi, right?
The Speaker of the House.
So in theory, she would be in line to be president.
Now, of course, Trump would know this.
So at the last minute, he's named a replacement essentially for,
for his vice president.
And he,
whoever the vice president equivalent would be,
would step in to the presidency.
The issue is in their system,
you have to confirm what is essentially the vice president.
So there's going to be, I guess, a vote today.
Oh, wow.
To figure out whether they confirm this person.
If they confirm him, he'll become governor.
If not, the other person will become.
So it would be like Pence or Pelosi.
Imagine being in a place where like,
all right, is it going to be, at the end of the day,
it's either going to be,
you know, let's say he named Tom Cotton to be, you know, his replacement VP.
And it's like some hard, you know, it's hardcore Trump supporter or Nancy Pelosi.
One of the two.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
That's not a good system.
Also, they just elected a new prime minister in Britain.
Right.
And we've talked about this too.
There's just an inconceivable system.
Don't understand the parliamentary thing.
It doesn't make any sense.
Nobody understands it.
There's just no way to tell what's, it's like the metric system.
There's just no way to tell what's going on.
Nobody knows.
You know, Pat, that there is a way to tell with the metric system.
There's no way to tell.
Like, is 50 kilometers five inches or is it 8 million miles?
Nobody knows.
There's no way to tell.
There is no way, Stu.
There are a lot of people who know.
They think they do.
They're wrong.
They're just wrong.
And that's why we have the great system we do here.
But Boris Johnson has now suffered.
His first big defeat is prime minister after losing the Breakin and Radnachia.
by election.
Oh, how many times
if we talked about that?
If you lose the Brinkin and Radnishire?
You can't lose that one.
You can't get it.
That's the one you can't lose.
So now it cut his Working House of Commons majority to just one.
So if you lose that majority, do you lose the office as well?
Nobody knows.
No one knows.
There's no way to tell.
I think there's another election.
I think he just had one, which was won by Boris Johnson.
And if he loses his majority, are they going to have another one?
I think they would go to what.
whatever party takes control, right?
And then that if it's tied.
I don't know.
No one knows.
No, but nobody knows.
No, but nobody knows.
No one could ever know.
Oh, you did tell.
It is fascinating.
I feel like...
So weird.
There's this thing that goes on around the world, which is like, the United States of America
starts this experiment in, you know, in, you know, self-rule.
Man can rule themselves.
And we invent this whole, I mean, we further it, but invent, essentially, a real
system where the free market.
and capitalism and constitutional republic with elements of democracy involved and we build this
great system and everyone sits back and was like whoa like this is fantastic look at how great they're
doing we should take what they're doing and really screw it up and that'll work for us and they've done
it over and over and over all over the world like there's so many places that replicate like britain system
i know it's like now britain look is a you know we like them they're you know close ally we are
closest. But, you know, we've done a little better. Like, we've just done a little better.
Yeah. You know, no offense to any Brits out there. In a much shorter time. In a much shorter time.
The same thing, you know, all across the world, like, people are like, yeah, you know, we could just
replicate essentially their constitution. I mean, it's out there. They've released it. It's not like,
it's not like, you know, the 24 herbs and spices. It's like, we're telling you what it is.
It's not the secret sauce. There's only 11 herbs and spices. Oh, I don't know why you're trying to
complicate the KFC spice thing.
It's only 11?
It's nothing.
Yeah.
What's 24?
Is it 24?
24 flavors?
What am I thinking of Baskin Robbins?
Vasco Robbins is 31.
31.
What am I talking about?
Okay.
Well, there's 24 of something that is protected on knowledge and that was what that reference
was supposed to be.
Okay.
The point is that we are telling you exactly, we're giving you the blueprint.
Here's how to make a country that's going to be pretty successful.
Literally, has anyone?
I don't think there's been anyone who is just,
directly replicated what we have here.
I know.
I can't think of anybody.
Did Liberia do it?
Liberia, I was going to say.
The capital of Liberia is Monrovia.
It's named after James Monroe.
And even they can't think of,
just copy it.
Literally take a copying machine to it.
You can just press print,
take the thing out,
cross out United States, put in Liberia.
Like, that is the way you should go.
And no one will do it.
No.
Now look, look at our system,
at times it feels a tad dysfunctional.
But are we?
Are we doing it in a lot?
election every three weeks? No. No, we're not. At least generally speaking, when people go into office,
they stay in office until either they want to go or there's a new election. Every once in a very long while,
you got a, you know, Rod Bukloyovic or whatever, who gets thrown out of office, but it's pretty
darn rare. Mm-hmm. You know, as much as a lot of the Democrats want to throw Trump out of office,
guess what? You can do it in November of next year. Okay? That's basically what's happening here.
And everyone else is like, I don't know, but what if we, I don't know. What if we, I don't know.
What if we roll dice to see who the next president is?
What if everything depends on Brecken and Radnashire?
That's what I always thought.
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Now, apparently, we have found a glitch in our system, haven't we?
A real violation, Pat.
Just this week, a real violation.
and it's
it's got to be corrected.
There are constitutional standards
we must adhere to
and you cannot violate those.
There are certain laws.
There are certain things that rise
to a level
that goes beyond politics.
It goes to a level of
of just like almost religious
violation, heresy.
I'm talking about the fact
that Democrats are criticizing Barack Obama
presidency. Oh, wow. That's not okay.
No, it is not. It is not okay.
We may have a system that makes a lot of sense, but you do not step in and criticize anything
that occurred in the Obama presidency. You don't do that. How dare you? Stay away from
Barack. Democrats now seething over the criticism of Obama. Party officials are frustrated
that the former president's record was collateral damage in the debate on attacks on Joe Biden.
Joe Biden is fair game
Barack Obama is not
Lots of allies out on record here
Stay away from Barack Obama
A well-known Democratic lobbyist
Who worked on Kerry's campaign
I don't know why you would attack Barack Obama
Or his record or any part of him
No parts of him, Pat can be
Especially Michelle Obama's arms
You can definitely attack them
You ever seen her arms? They're beautiful arms
I've never seen arms like them
Incredible arms
She's two of them
Yeah yeah she does
Yeah, exactly two.
Not three, not one.
They're perfect.
It's a perfect amount of arms.
Yeah.
You don't want too many arms.
You don't want too few arms.
You know, because you two have any arms.
And she has exactly the right amount.
Two.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you have eight, you're an octopus or a spider.
That would not be good.
No, you don't want that.
She's Michelle Obama.
She has two arms and they're perfect arms.
And if you say something bad, if this Democratic debate devolved to where they start
criticizing her arms.
They never.
They would never do that.
They couldn't.
I hope not.
I will not stand for it if they do.
Republicans have already.
seized. This is what the Republicans do, Pat. When something happens, they seize on it.
They jump right on top and they just pile on. Donald Trump Jr., President's eldest son, of course, tweeted Thursday morning, how nice it was to, quote, see Democrats finally go after Obama's failed policies very aggressively, which is true. I mean, they told us that Obamacare was the greatest thing in the world was going to solve all more problems. And now it sucks. Now it's terrible.
It's a failed healthcare system.
Bernie Sanders in the first debate said there is no one here who can defend the dysfunctionality of this system.
This is your system.
Wow.
You passed it.
This isn't our system.
We weren't like, ah, you know what we should do is massively expand government to control health care.
That was you.
You guys, did you vote for that?
Bernie?
Pretty sure you did.
Yes.
The answer is yes.
He did.
Thursday night, the president echoed this theme.
The Democrats spent more time attacking.
Barack Obama than they did attacking
attacking me this morning. That's all the
fake news was talking about. I will say
this. It is interesting to see because
the other candidates feel a
level of desperation. They saw
in the first debate
Kamala Harris
pretty successfully go after Joe
Biden. He was leading by, he was
at about 35, 36%
before that. He fell down
to about 28 and then bounced
back up to 3233. So he regained
about two thirds of what he lost.
and Harris
had a nice jump
after the debates
but then lost about a third
of what she gained
and so I think what the
other candidates
said to themselves
going into this is
look we can't hold back
against Biden
we just got to go for it
and any means necessary
so if it's criticizing Barack Obama
because he deported too many people
because you know how tough
he was on the border Pat
or if it's about how
Obamacare didn't cover enough people
despite the fact
they all praised it and said that it would
when yesterday
Pat, I'm listening to Joe Biden do a press conference.
The world, it's like, at some point, you almost wonder if it's worth talking about these things.
Because what did we say?
The entire time Barack Obama was trying to pass Obamacare.
We were saying over and over again, this is a hardcore left-wing plan.
This is the biggest progressive expansion of government health care that we've seen since LBJ.
This is a massive deal.
He is changing the fabric of our economy, one sixth of our economy.
This is a huge, huge deal.
And what do they say?
This is just common sense reform.
This basically came from the Heritage Foundation.
It's almost too conservative for us.
It's almost a libertarian plan.
I swear this is common sense measures.
Don't worry about it.
So now that Obamacare is a huge failure.
And they're going after Obamacare.
Joe Biden in a press conference yesterday says there was absolutely nothing conservative or moderate about Obamacare.
This is one of the most progressive plans we've ever seen.
I was one of the most liberal senators in all the Senate the entire time I was there.
But Obamacare was a massively left-wing push for health care reform.
And you know who finally agrees with it?
Joe Biden.
You know who finally agrees with it?
the Democrats, Barack Obama's
administration. Now that it's cool and it
helps them to say that it's liberal, it's liberal.
Before, when it was just
common sense and moderate. No, they blamed
on Mitt Romney half the time.
On Mitt Romney. Romney. Romney
Carr. Oh, look it.
It's just what Massachusetts did and it's
working for them. Yeah. And Mitt Romney loved it
then. Why didn't he love it now? Yeah.
And then Biden yesterday, there was nothing moderate
about what we did with Obamacare. It's amazing.
It's just... It's really embarrassing
is what it is. Listen to anything
that they say. Yeah, crazy stuff.
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Pat? I know you watch it every day. Oh man
Pat's a huge fan. I can't
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You know to me a day without MSNBC
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A day without sunlight
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That's their new slogan, isn't it?
I think it is.
If it's not, it should be.
It should be.
So they were a little upset that Democrats went after Barack Obama this week.
Listen.
It was more like Gulliver's travels.
I mean, there was Vice President Biden tied down after rope after rope for his long political career.
I had to defend every element of it going back as Michael Bennett said back 50 years on issues like busing.
It was very hard for him to play defense.
He was 100% better or maybe 200% better than he was in the first debate.
He seemed to be aware he was in a debate, which was a start for him.
And I thought he was reciting a lot of stuff.
In fact, a lot of times when he got to the end of his time, it was like he ran out of his recitation.
And the weirdest thing to me, which I'm having a hard time with, is, is it a smart strategy to attack the Obama administration?
I mean, this is a Democratic president elected twice.
I think he's the only Democrat we've had, you know, with the margins he's had since FDR that did that,
remains wildly popular in the Democratic Party.
It was weird for me to watch about 40, almost 40 minutes of primarily attacks on the Obama administration's policies.
It was odd.
It's almost as if the debate forgot who's president.
Because the attacks on Donald Trump, I don't remember his name being mentioned that much.
And so it was odd for me for these candidates to debate changes in health care and,
There are different policies on immigration as if Trump doesn't exist.
Yes, they were attacking the Obama administration.
They were.
They spent a lot of time doing that.
I think if you're a Democratic candidate for president and you spend on that, you're not making,
I think you're not making progress.
That is weird.
It's a weird approach.
And I guess there's, I don't know what you do, right?
If you're one of these opponents, why do you, what do you say you're going to do that's
going to be better than Biden if you say the Obama administration was great?
It's a tough, it's a tough sell.
But, I mean, Barack Obama's a approval.
approval rating he's uh among democrats there's a bunch of polls here 83 to 10 approval rating 88 to 10
83 13 90 to 7 he's a very popular guy among in this party in the democrat in the democratic party yeah
he's not not you know overall he's you know he's so he does he does well overall but not nearly
that well obviously i mean you know you that is a these are really good numbers he's probably the
most popular democrat in america with the maybe exception of michelle obama
right, his wife.
Yeah.
I mean,
that couple is probably the,
there's probably the two most popular people
in the entire Democratic Party.
Which was mentioned by Fat Lump,
Michael Moore again.
He said it in another interview.
Is that another title?
Yeah.
It's,
it's,
his name.
Is that on his business card?
Michael is now his middle name.
Fat Lump is,
first and second,
he's got two middle names.
So he's Fat Lump, Michael Moore.
Fatt Lump Michael Moore.
Okay.
Yeah.
He said in a,
that there's only one candidate
up to the challenge
to beat President Trump.
In fact, he thinks he'd crush.
She'd crush President Trump.
He says, that candidate is Michelle Obama.
Everybody watching this right now.
No, she's beloved.
And she would go in there and she would beat him.
I think we have the audio of this.
You want to hear this?
Yeah.
Okay.
Here on audio of Michael Moore talking about Michelle Obama running for president.
Who's the street fighter that can crush Trump?
And frankly, I think there's a person that could do this.
If the election were held today, there is one person that would crush Trump.
and she hasn't announced yet.
And her last name rhymes with Obama.
In fact, it is Obama.
Michelle Obama, everybody watching this right now knows she is a beloved American
and she would go in there and she would beat him.
She would beat him in the debates.
He wouldn't be able to bully her.
He wouldn't be able to nickname her.
And she has beloved all.
Just go to C-SPAN and follow her book tour across the country.
She's playing 15,000 seat arenas in the Midwest.
They have to turn people away.
She takes the stage and she's so powerful and so good.
You just look at that and you think, of course, she could win.
But everyone's now saying, well, of course, she's not going to run.
Well, has anyone asked her?
Yes.
I think if she were asked.
Look, if you watch the book tour, we're sorry about this.
We have to come back to you.
You have to go back to the White House.
Your country needs you.
if asked to serve, I believe she would serve.
Well, except for you were asked to serve or I were, whatever our skill set is, wouldn't we do that?
I can't take any more, Michael Moore today.
Yeah, and I mean...
I think some of what he says is true, though.
She's really popular for some reason.
I don't understand it, but she is.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan myself.
I will say, though, it's rare when Michael Moore agrees wholeheartedly with Bill O'Reilly.
This is exactly what Bill said about the election.
He said if they run a Michelle Obama, she would win by a lot.
I think there's a good argument to be made there.
I mean, you have to, when you've never seen someone run for president,
there's a big unknown factor of how they actually react in that sort of pressure situation.
And she's obviously been in this world for a while, but she's never been the focus of it.
And when she was the focus of it in the first campaign, she did not do well.
If you remember, they pulled her off the campaign because she kept saying things like,
I'm not proud of my country until today.
Right.
Right. She doesn't exactly love.
America, seemingly.
I mean, you know, like you said, she was proud for the first time when her husband was nominated for president.
That was her first pride in this country.
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Yeah. We were reminded that we did an Alzar Cowie cake.
Okay.
Back when he died in like 2006.
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I drank beer on the air.
Okay.
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So you had a little celebration for death day for Hamzhi bin Laden.
We did.
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A bacon cake.
Yes, because we wanted to honor, truly honor him.
I'll bet that was tasty.
Oh, I mean, I will say it was raw bacon kind of strewn on the outside of it.
I did not eat it.
But, you know, it wasn't for me.
It was for him.
Yeah, right.
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That's confirmed.
He is, we're very excited about it.
You know, they said like they think he died sometime in the last two years.
Wow.
Do we know of what?
Again, narrow it down a little bit more than that.
Did he die of heat-seeking missile or did he die of some natural cause?
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Can't get enough of the squad.
Oh.
I can't get enough of the squad.
Yeah, the squad is fascinating.
Yeah.
The squad is fascinating because they can say kind of anything and get away with it
because their only approach to life is to tell you how they've been victimized.
So every story that goes on with the squad always comes back to how they're a terrible victim.
You know, like there was a sign of this from the staffers of Kamala.
Harris this week. When Kamala Harris and Joe Biden walked to the center stage, obviously
Harris kind of hammered Biden in the first debate. Biden walks up to him a nice moment. He says,
ah, go easy on me, kid. What was the reaction from the Kamala Harris staffers? Kid? She's a senator.
How dare you refer to her an accomplished woman breaking a glass ceiling as a kid?
this just constant victimization.
She won the battle and is still the victim, right?
Yeah.
It's just nonsensical.
And this is the attitude of the squad all the time.
Always the victim.
Someone's always oppressing them.
There's always a man there to push them down.
Despite the fact that we're talking about a person who's a bartender a year
and a half ago and is running the Democratic Party.
That person is telling you that they are oppressed.
The same thing with Kirsten Gillibrand on stage.
Oh, gosh.
I mean, she's not part of the squad, however.
But she says, oh, gosh, you know what?
I'm the right person to be nominated as the Democratic candidate
because I can go to suburban women and explain to them what white privilege is.
Have you ever heard of a more demeaning statement?
And then she said, you know, I know I'm a beneficiary of white privilege.
which not in the polls you're not.
I don't know where.
In fact, so far she's not part of the next debate.
No.
Because she is not qualified.
She's not close to qualifying.
No.
I think she's been, uh, over 2% in one poll.
Right.
But she doesn't have 130,000, um, donations.
And you need both in this next debate.
So 130,000 individual donors plus you have to hit 2% and I believe it's four polls.
Now there's going to be a lot of polls before here and there.
but there's only certain ones that qualify.
So even if she hit 2% before this previous debate, that wouldn't count.
It's going to be something that leading up to this next one.
Can she get some additional support?
It's possible, but she's a disaster.
And the squad, you know, look, they're very well known, but very unpopular.
I mean, Elon Omar has a 9% approval rating.
AOC's at like 20.
People know them very well.
They just don't like them.
And so AOC was on a radio show talking about marginalized communities.
And I think she, look, marginalized communities, again, marginalized,
whoever she's talking about is a victim.
And there's only one thing that they can do in this victimized situation.
Listen.
That by marginalizing Palestinians, you create safety.
I believe that injustice is a threat to the safety of all people.
Because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized,
then you create a popular.
Like once someone,
doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot, right? Oh, wrong.
No. Remember the riots of Flint, Michigan? When they didn't have access to clean water,
they just went nuts. They just went ape crap and just started burning down that city. It doesn't
even exist today in Michigan. There used to be, they're just a hole where Flint Michigan was.
And they're pretty pissed about that. Yeah, they were. Interestingly enough, I've heard over and over again for years
that Flint, Michigan was the result of this,
I think a Republican conspiracy
to either kill African Americans
or at the very least,
just because they wanted evil profits or something.
What we find out, by the way, on Flint, Michigan
is their system with Detroit
was actually working pretty well.
They had a long-term lease with water from Detroit.
It was working pretty well.
The water was cheap.
But they decided to change that.
Why did they decide to change that?
shovel ready jobs.
You see, they had to build a brand new pipeline for the water.
And they were able to use stimulus to come in and say,
oh, well, we can, not only are we going to get new water supply,
but we'll also create a bunch of jobs for people to work on this pipeline.
So when they implemented that, it was something they didn't need.
They implemented it because of the government,
because of a Keynesian economic argument of stimulus.
They decided to build these things.
That's when everything got screwed up.
So this is not a, you know,
And Republicans and Democrats agreed, by the way, to do this because Republicans no longer care about arguments on economics.
It's not a thing anymore.
But Republicans came on and said, yeah, we need new shovel-ready jobs.
And Democrats came on and said, yeah, we need to new shovel-ready jobs.
So they built this pipeline.
And wow, did that turn out well?
Yeah.
Well, like the president at the time said.
Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.
That's funny.
I love it when they screw up policy like that.
They lied to us.
Right to our faces.
Right to our faces.
It's so funny.
Oh.
So speaking of AOC and how people have no choice but to riot if they don't have access to clean water.
That's sure.
One of her incredible thoughts of the last year.
Yeah.
Prospect magazine has deemed her one of the world's top 50 thinkers.
No, no, no, no.
of the year. No, they did not. One of the years.
No. Top. Don't say it.
50. No. Thinkers.
No. Is that amazing?
Top 50 thinkers. She doesn't even know the requirements of her own job.
What's this thing in my sink?
When I flip a switch at growls. I'm scared.
Like, Israel is like, I don't know, like whatever.
Yeah, she's really thoughtful.
She's really brilliant.
I mean, look, you can definitely make the argument she's influential.
Yes, but she's not a thinker.
She doesn't know anything.
She's butt stupid, this woman.
The only thing of substance that she's actually produced was the FAQ for her Green New Deal,
which is she herself has denied.
She has now thrown to the sidelines and acted as if she somehow mistakenly wrote it.
It's like, you don't mistakenly write.
things. That's not how writing works.
You can't mistake...
Oh, I just mistakenly wrote this novel.
Oops. Look at this. It's a spy thriller.
Oh, how did that happen? When you write things, it's intentional.
Well, she chisels her thoughts into stone so she can't take it back.
Okay.
Yeah, so there's no erasing it.
I didn't know that. Yeah. Because I mean, this is...
You thought she was maybe using a word processor or something? No, no. No.
Because they said, oh, that was half baked. We weren't done with that yet. Well, first of all,
I mean, it showed, right?
It was not only,
it's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
Ideas like, you know,
retrofit every building in the country.
Yep.
To put high speed rail to every place that,
uh,
that airplanes fly.
Eliminate air flight within 10 years.
Within 10 years.
Get rid of all automobiles.
Um,
we're talking about,
uh, free jobs for everyone who has,
who's willing to work,
I think it was.
Or even unwilling.
Or even.
Or even.
And then they still get paid, I think.
Yeah.
You still get paid if you're unwilling.
And this.
all came out and how did you know it wasn't one of these things where every once in a while you get
this thing where you know the blaze uncovers this hidden document uh it was sent to us by a source
they sent it to npr they were proud of this they sent the FAQ this is the one that also said uh
we can't quite solve cow farts yet they sent this to uh to npr to tell them how to cover it
and then tried to deny later on that this was just a draft well where was the final
product. You never came out with a final product.
They didn't have a final product. This was the final product.
And they were just embarrassed at the ridicule they received.
And they deserved every bit of it.
Oh, absolutely. That was one of the things, too, by the way, Andrew Yang said in the debate that no one really pointed out.
Yang pointed out something that we've noted many times here, which is the U.S. is only 15% of global emissions.
15%. Yeah. Okay. They don't like to hear that.
They don't like to hear that because if you put it this way, the intent.
The entire transportation sector of the United States is about 20% of our total emissions,
okay?
All cars, trucks, the entire transportation sector, okay?
If you turned it off, if you had a switch and you were able to just flip it off like
a light switch, the entire transportation goes carbon-free tomorrow.
You would save 3% of global emissions.
Three.
China is growing at between 1.5% and 2% per year.
So you would have, you would wipe out the,
the gains, you know, whatever you, whatever to gain from AOC's, you know, turning off the
transportation sector idea, it would be wiped out by China in two years.
Unbelievable.
And we're talking about something that's impossible.
And yet turning off the transportation sector.
She's one of the world's top 50 thinkers.
Right.
Crazy.
Come on now.
They write, the voluminous coverage of 29-year-old Ocasio-Cortez, who was elected to Congress
last November, is focused on her youth and personality, certainly her campaigning skills,
mastery of social media.
And up from the Bronx story are striking.
but what's most interesting about her meteoric political career is that her success is based on ideas is it
yeah it was her manifesto health care for all tuition free university and a federal jobs program that set her on
her path wait a minute Bernie Sanders proposed all of those things before she was even born I think
and finished second last time but they do admit she's the force behind the green new deal which is
embarrassing and has put taxes in how much the rich pay back on the American political agenda.
It's always been in a political agenda. Nobody ever talks about how much the rich pay because if people
actually knew how much they pay, they'd be flabbergasted. They'd be stunned that they'd pay 45% or
50% or depending on what state you live in. You could pay up to 60% in taxes. I think that would
shock a lot of people. Yeah, they went back and they did a poll several years ago as to not just should we
raise taxes on the rich. But what is the,
what's the amount that's okay to charge them?
And people were like, well, you know, should it be more than 5%, should be more than 10%,
and they go up the whole thing.
Yeah.
And most people, the majority of people said it shouldn't be more than 25%.
It shouldn't be more.
That's wrong to go over 25%.
Most people believe, because of the way the people talk about this, that they pay zero.
Right.
Right.
Because they'll say like, well, Amazon paid zero in taxes.
And so people are just like, oh, well, you know, that's what the rich pay.
That's what the rich pay.
They're all paying anything.
And that's, of course, not true at all.
And now you get people.
like Bernie talking maybe 70%.
Yeah, an AOC said that as well.
Unbelievable.
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Here's yet another indication about how indoctrated American students are in colleges all over the country.
The college poll surveyed 27,000 college students.
And 30% of them said that China is the most powerful nation on earth, not the United States.
States of America.
Hmm.
I mean,
there's just the,
you know,
it's,
socialism is better than capitalism.
China is more powerful and better than the United States.
It's just the continual
indoctrination,
it seems of higher education.
It's,
it's really tough.
This is a hard battle that it seems like we're losing right now.
How many of your kids went to college?
All of them?
Most of them?
I mean,
three are in it right now.
And,
yeah,
I'm trying to think there's 71 of them.
So.
Yeah.
What percentage of, can you give me a roundabout?
Percentage of how many, do you know how many kids you have?
I'm going to say 38% of them graduated from college.
Yeah, 38%.
Because I, you know, I have younger kids.
There's six and seven.
And I, as of this moment, I'm like, hell no.
I'm certainly not paying for it.
Right.
But I don't even want them to go.
I know.
I would much rather go a different direction.
I mean, I...
Because I'll tell you, it's hard to find a conservative college.
Yeah.
You can go to a college where you think it's conservative.
And then they're going to get hit by some liberal professor there.
I feel like if you go to the hardest right wing school you can find, you're going to get neutral.
You know, if you're lucky.
Yes, if you're lucky.
If you're lucky.
I much rather invest in their early education than invest in college at this point.
Because a lot of the stuff, too, you're learning in college is obsolete so fast.
I'd rather invest in a better primary education.
Get the foundations the way you want them.
And then, you know what?
They're going to have to figure out the rest of their life.
Good luck, kid.
But, I mean, I'll give you the basis.
You go out there afterwards.
What you do with it is yours.
Yeah.
But, you know, I don't know.
Spending $100,000 to send them to be indoctrinated into socialism.
Doesn't make any sense.
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Get this.
Women in Saudi Arabia will no longer need the permission of a male
guardian to travel.
What?
That country is going to hell in a handbasket.
Wow.
They are going to, oh my gosh.
They can leave their house and drive around, say,
Riyadh without a man?
Drive around?
They can drive.
Yes, I believe so.
This is horrible.
Few other changes that they're baking right now.
I mean, next I'll be telling us they can vote.
Oh, my God.
No.
And then you might as well just forget it.
Then you just turn the country off.
Right?
Mm-hmm.
they're also thinking about allowing them to apply for passports.
No.
Register a marriage, divorce, or childbirth, and be issued official family documents.
Oh my goodness.
Okay.
Official family documents?
Not rip off replicas?
No.
No, actually official documents issued by the kingdom.
It's interesting that this is happening.
And look, first of all, it actually is really positive as is ridiculously backward.
There have been some reforms lately.
Yeah, they've moved.
It's interesting.
The guy who's like capturing his relatives and holding them hostage inside the four seasons is a guy who's pushing for a lot of these reforms.
And, you know, he's gone, what seems completely ridiculous to us that they would still have these restrictions on women.
It is positive, you know, progress is positive on that front, right?
so, you know, it's easy to mock and I will mock it.
But it's also positive, I guess, in some roundabout sort of way.
Because there's still so much negative there.
It's hard to get excited about it.
But I find this interesting.
I was actually watching Handmaid's Tale last night.
Have you watched this?
I've never seen it, no.
Is it HBO?
Is that what it is?
It is Hulu, I believe.
Hulu.
Okay.
And my wife loves the show.
Like, she's totally into it every Wednesday.
I think the episodes come out and she's like, I don't, you know, she just disappears for an hour
because she has to watch it on the night it comes out.
She's that into it.
And it's a really well done show.
I mean, you could tell they spent a lot of money on it.
And it's a great, it's a fascinating premise.
I would love to see the show made in which they kind of, like a prequel series would be really fascinating.
Basically, the concept is like the, at some point, I'm going to butcher this if you're a fan.
I'm sorry.
I don't really watch the show.
But at some point, there was a civil war of sorts in that.
And somehow like a.
group of religious fanatics basically took the country over.
Now, America, I think, still exists, but it's like only in Alaska.
And the, the place, most of what you would think of as America is a place called Gilead.
Okay.
So it's a, it's a, and it's like a super religious fundamentalist place where, like, the guys have all the rights.
They, the women are all basically slaves.
There's something to do with like, because we're on the verge of that right now.
Oh, my gosh.
We are just on the verge.
Amen.
Yeah.
I mean, it's basically
Mike Pence's fever dream.
This is what he wants to happen.
And that's kind of why.
Well, he won't have dinner with a woman other than his wife.
Which is the same thing.
Same thing.
Same thing.
And there's something to do with like an infertility problem in the country.
So I don't know what caused that.
I don't know if it's clear in the actual series.
But basically there's this sort of any fertile woman is going to have.
a lot of issues because she's basically going to be raped over and over and over and over again
by basically every commander or whatever that wants to.
I will say it's really hard for me to watch it at all because it's like...
It's pretty ugly.
It's basically like think of every awful thing that could possibly be done to a woman.
Here's a series about it.
That's essentially the entire thing.
I don't know.
It's hard to watch, but it's really well done.
And you can understand why it's popular.
But the real reason why it's so popular in such a media darling is exactly what we were just talking about.
It's like it's a left-wing fantasy of what they think Donald Trump would do if he had complete control.
It's like basically a statement against women have no rights right now.
Me too and all of these other things combined to we're essentially Gilead.
We're essentially this oppressed society.
We're what, Donald Trump stays in power.
This is happening at the end.
kind of how I think the left looks at it.
Oh, it's fascinating, though.
And he's so fundamentally religious.
Oh, it's so deep.
There's no one more fundamentally religious than Donald Trump.
Oh, my gosh.
It goes back so far.
Look, he's been good on a lot of those issues, but I would not say it's to his core.
No.
But anyway, so he has a, there's an episode last night where this commander guy, they're
driving somewhere.
I don't know.
I don't know the whole story.
but and I'm minor minor spoiler alert
if you're watching the series
but they're driving down this road
now I know somebody's driving
great thanks
thanks for that
I should have said spoiler alert first
so they're driving down this road
and at one point there's this big moment
where like you know the music builds
and this big moment where the commander says to his wife
do you want to drive
and she looks at him like
what? What?
Drive me? I'm a woman
and they pull over and they switch seats
and they put the top down
and they're just driving down this road
and it's kind of like the old day
she's remembering her freedoms
of the old days and stuff
and it's like
the left looks at this
and says this is what Donald Trump wants
and they don't look at it and say
this is what half the world is
right now half the world
is coming up with you know what maybe we should let women drive
maybe some of them should vote
maybe we should see more than just their eyes
because a big part of the handmade sales
they're all dressed up in these fundamentalist ways
they're all very much covered up
you can only see their faces
It's like you guys realize that the people you're constantly defending.
You're saying that we should not say their culture is worse than ours.
That is happening in those places right now.
Yeah.
We were just talking about the reforms in Saudi Arabia.
Yet still, the rules are in place where they require male consent for a woman to leave prison.
Male consent for a woman to exit domestic abuse shelters.
Can you imagine that?
So your husband has to come and let you out of prison?
a domestic abuse shelter? That doesn't seem like a good idea.
That does seem like a problematic strategy.
They can't marry without male consent. And women, unlike men, still can't pass on citizenship
to their children. I will say in most marriages, male consent is also used here.
It's a weird one. What do you mean? I guess, unless it's two women marrying each other,
male consent's always part of that package, isn't it?
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Wow.
Do these things ever fade away, Pat?
Is there ever a moment in which these crazy warnings and fears are ever, is there a moment
where they later on go back and say, wow, we shouldn't have been, that was pretty
ridiculous.
No, they never do that.
They never do that.
I mean, really, before Trump and Pence went into the White House, there was a legitimate outward fear
that Mike Pence was going to start imprisoning.
imprisoning homosexuals.
I don't know where that came from because he didn't,
he wasn't really outspoken about it to my knowledge.
No, at all.
I mean, you know, he had a,
you might have had a couple comments in like the 90s when he was in Congress that they
didn't like.
I think he was pro-traditional marriage.
He was for marriage between a man and a woman.
And I guess because Trump obviously not known as the most religious guy,
they had to find a religious boogeyman, right?
And so they picked Pence.
And they were like, oh, he's going to spend all of his time, you know,
driving around cities, just picking up gay.
people and put them in the back of a van and then bringing them to prison.
Are there gay people left in our society?
I'm not sure.
They're all in prison right now.
They are all in prison.
So that one was true.
Okay.
That's a bad example, man.
That pants, man.
First of all, he wouldn't have dinner with women that weren't his wife.
Then he decided to jail all the gays.
Oh my gosh.
You can't trust that guy.
The other one was I was thinking of was, remember when they warned us that Cory Booker was going
to ban birth control?
Yeah.
And they ran this, Corey Booker, you know, a moderate Republican
senator from Colorado. He's no
hardcore conservative at no
point did he ever consider
trying to ban birth control.
And they ran tons of ads against him
saying that when he got in there, that's what he's
going to do. Right. That was what his outcome
was. He was going to go in there and try to ban
birth control. That's right, sweet Pete. Cory
Booker wants to ban birth control. No, it was
in that one. It was, that's right, sweet Pete,
Corey Booker banned birth control. There's no condoms
anywhere in America. Right. And that's, you know,
it's essentially the same thing as Hine and a Handmaid's Tale, right?
Like they... Oh, Corey Gardner. Yeah.
not Booker. What did I say Booker? Did we say Booker?
I thought I said Gardner initially, but maybe we changed it.
Yeah, Corey Gardner, Band,
well, he did this. They're all out.
Did you try the corner market? Of course.
Grocery store? Sold out.
Drug store? Come on.
Stupid.
So everyone sold out of condoms.
Hmm. How did this happen?
Corey Gardner banned birth control.
And now it's all on us guys.
Wow. And you can't find a condom anywhere.
Can't fight a condom.
And the pill was just the start.
The Pell Grants, my little brother, was counting.
on for college.
Gone.
Corey cut them.
Climate change that everyone
knows is weirding our weather.
Corey flat out denies it.
Sweetie.
Corey denies science.
Come on.
This guy has no idea what's going on in the real world.
That guy.
I love that ad.
Such a great ad.
It's so, first of all,
okay, if he's banned birth control,
why are you going to all these stores?
Right.
I guess, so he's banned the pill and
condoms are theoretically available,
but there's not enough of them.
But there's been a run on him.
And so, yeah, they're completely out of stock.
Because now it's all on us guys.
I love that.
We shouldn't have to even think about it.
Us guys, we didn't have any deal with it.
I love how dismiss if he is of her when she asks about the drugs.
Come on, you moron.
Idiot.
Why would I check the gas station and the grocery store and not the drug store,
you'd loser?
You know what?
Now I don't even want to have sex.
Now I don't even want to have sex with you.
because you're so stupid
that I can't
I can't bring myself
to be interested.
I can't even look at you. I can't even look at you.
I just not into it anymore.
You're so dumb.
Why would you think I wouldn't look at the drugstore?
Idiot?
Sweet pee.
So essentially right now,
Cory Gardner has banned sex.
Yeah, you just can't have it.
Yeah.
You just can't have it.
So you can't have it because I mean, God,
God forbid, you know, you know.
And it's like this idea.
So nobody comes back as, you know, like your first point.
did they ever come back and say,
hey, we panicked when we shouldn't have?
Did they ever say that about Cory Gardner?
Yeah.
It was not banned birth control, by the way.
And it has made no moves to it, has introduced
no bills that would do it.
Like none of it.
How about, I remember before George W. Bush,
when he was going for re-election,
Cameron Diaz, remember her?
Yeah, the actress.
Yeah, it's been a while.
So I just wanted to make sure people were familiar.
But she said that a vote for George Bush
was a vote to legalize.
rape. Literally, I mean, seriously said that.
Surprisingly, it's still illegal.
Is it illegal still? It is. Okay. That's good.
Yeah, shocking. That's good. I'm glad it's illegal. It's not a good policy.
That's Gilead's policy. Legalized rape. We did not do that. We didn't do it. George W. Bush
because he was such a hardcore conservative that was just always pushing for those
conservative policies. Another fundamentalist, man. Oh my gosh. And just, no, didn't do that.
There's never a reckoning, right? There's never a point where you look back to
say, wow, you know what?
None of that crap happened.
Well, how many predictions have been wrong about global warming?
Every one of them?
And there's never a-
All of them?
There's never a reckoning for that.
No.
I remember there was a book I read.
I want to say it was Nate Silver's book a few years ago.
And he wrote in there, he is a chapter on global warming.
And he's no conservative.
But he was writing about this and saying, like, look, you know, it's all about
prediction models and how to make predictions.
That's what the book is.
It's called The Signal and the Noise.
It's a great book.
And so at one point he's talking about it.
about global warming.
And he's like, you know, I think normally what you would do, and he shows all the models
and shows how typically these models have over-emphasized the potential for too much warming.
Like they've predicted incorrectly how much warming there was.
There was less warming in reality than there was in the prediction models.
And over time, when that happens over and over again, you would adjust your expectations.
Like, that's how you make an informed prediction.
You adjust your expectations.
if you see these models are always too warm,
you need to think about where it's going to go.
And he got beat up, a guy in the left,
got beat up because just saying
the idea that just admitting
the actual facts that the models were
overheated was too much for anyone
to take and to think that maybe we should readjust
our beliefs
and how we think about this.
And he wasn't saying, I don't think global warming is real
or anything like that.
Bjorn Lumpberg is another guy, a guy who's
said over and over again, he believes in global warming,
says it's human
caused and says but the way we want to spend money on it and our priorities need to be
thought of in a much more methodical fashion the guy is called a climate denier amazing it's
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So can we look forward to any kind of corrections on any of the hysteria that we've heard in the last few years?
Will it ever happen?
I don't think it does because there really was a lot of hysteria.
We forget it from the Bush administration.
You know, because Trump is so much more of a large figure in just the public eye,
he's so much more involved in the lives, I think, of the everyday person.
When it was Bush, it was more like the political people and people who followed the news.
There was a lot of craziness there in Hollywood and stuff like that.
with Trump, it's everybody.
I think everybody is hearing all of these stories every day.
So it gets more and more crazy.
And to me, Bush kind of set the stage for Trump in that he responded to almost nothing.
Almost something.
He didn't respond ever.
No.
Just left it.
He let it lay.
Yep.
He didn't want to.
And then it festered and got worse.
Yeah, I think that's true.
That's a good point.
I think, you know, there was an interesting conversation I heard recently about the Tea Party and where it's gone.
I think I want to say it was with Tim Alberta, who wrote a great book.
Has it gone to the grave?
It's called American Carnage.
Dead.
Well, first of all, yes.
The Tea Party is absolutely dead.
You know, it's just, the things that inspired the Tea Party, things like, hey, we need
to cut the budget.
Hey, we need to have fiscal responsibility.
These things are not even considered anymore by the Democrats or the Republicans.
You're a lunatic if you're a Republican even and you bring it up.
And to Trump's credit, he ran on that.
Like, he ran on, I'm not cutting Medicare.
I'm not cutting Social Security.
I won't adjust it.
He said he liked debt.
I'm the king of debt.
I mean,
he was very overt about it and, you know,
and open.
And he's done that.
And he's done that.
So, I mean, it's hard to criticize him.
Though the conservatives in Congress could still vote for different things and they don't.
They vote for these giant spending programs.
We had one yesterday that was finally passed.
And it is a embarrassment to our nation.
The spending package that was just passed is utterly embarrassing.
We are projected to go.
$80 trillion in debt in the next 30 years.
In addition to the 22 we already have, $80 trillion.
Just Social Security and Medicare is actually $103 trillion of debt.
But the rest of the budget supposedly, and if you believe this, you'll believe anything,
is supposed to be $23 trillion in surplus.
So we are in massive problems here.
And, you know, they don't care.
Nobody cares.
It really is like there's almost no interest in the idea.
How did they come up with $23 trillion in surplus?
Plus.
How is that going to happen?
It's a CBO report.
But do you know, $23 trillion outside of those programs.
So overall, $80 trillion to the negative.
Yeah.
So that just shows you.
But that's like we'll be running a budget surplus?
Yeah.
Outside of those two programs.
That's what they say.
No, that's not going to happen.
It never happens.
That is not going to happen.
So there was an interesting sort of competing analysis.
I'd like to get your thoughts on this, Pat.
One, the Tea Party was never about those things.
It was about, look, you know,
It's the closest, you're in your bedroom in the middle of the night.
Someone breaks through your door.
You grab for the closest weapon.
Is it a lamp?
Is it a bat?
Whatever you can do to hit this guy, right?
Is it a gun?
Whatever you have?
And so the closest thing to opposition to something they did not want, which was Barack Obama,
people just grabbed for the budget.
They grabbed for constitutional values.
They grabbed for whatever was the most useful thing against Obama at that time.
But it was never a real belief of the core voter.
Yeah.
Is it that?
Or is it it really was a core belief?
But the people who were really supportive of the Tea Party said, we tried so hard.
We did all of these things.
And we still got nowhere.
So why bother?
And if basically given up and now let's just fight out the culture war and we'll fight out these things,
we'll go, we'll talk about Call and Kaepernick every day.
Because that stuff's never going away.
We can't do anything about it.
Screw it.
So now there's no opposition to the spending.
I mean, there's one bill passed by essentially.
the Tea Party, which was the sequester.
And if you remember that whole debate,
it was a one real restriction on spending that was able to be passed.
It was overridden every single time by Republicans largely that said,
ah, we can go past these caps.
We can go past these caps.
And this last one is even worse.
Now the debt limit is gone for two more years.
They don't even have to think about it.
And both sides are happy about it.
Because they both believe it's, well, the president believes it's just been taken off the table
so they can't use that against him.
They can never say, government shut down, government shutdown!
And that's just off the table to the election.
And now, and that's what the Republicans in Washington believe at all levels.
It's like, look, you guys said you cared about this.
I don't think you do.
So we're just going to do what we need to do and spend as we need to spend.
Why should we take the arrows for this?
If you guys don't care about it.
And, you know, that's not leadership by any means, but it is seemingly the reality in 2019.
So the fallout from the debate is still going on.
And we are seeing a bunch of these candidates now have to answer for things that they either said or that are in their history.
And a lot of this happens when it's a good news if you are able to make a splash in the debate, but then they're going to start asking you questions.
So let's go through some of these.
This is all from sort of reaction interviews after the debates.
Okay.
Here is Tulsi Gabbard.
made a big splash. I thought she was, she was the best one in that
second debate. I thought she did very well. She had a
really good back and forth with Kamala Harris. A lot of people kind of thought
she won it. Yeah, I thought she did. Yeah. And she did really
well in the first one too. She's, she's solid. She's a decent
she's really well spoken. She seems to be pretty smart. She's got a
really interesting background. Fascinating background. And the fact
that she did two tours in the Middle East is amazing. And
and that now you wouldn't expect her to be really anti-war and she she is yeah very much so so
and she's sort of she has an interesting brand of her type of anti-war it's like there's a certain
i think i said this there's like a you know it's like if if bernie sanders and like someone from
the alt-right had a baby it would be her it's like her it's like really it's a strange
grouping of views but it's it's like it's a strange grouping of views but it's it's
Part of that is why she kind of seems like the most sane sometimes because she has some views that are sort of conservative libertarian-ish.
Most of them are not.
Strangely, some people are now, and I'm sure it's just opponents in the Democrat Party believing that she's being controlled by Russians.
Have you seen that line of thinking?
Yeah, because she aligns that the foreign policy stuff aligns well with like the Russia today take on the world.
Right.
Like that, you know,
but one of the big ones is Bashar al-Assad.
She's been by far...
And she is really kind of friendly to him.
Yeah, like the biggest defender of Assad that you could find.
Which is very weird.
Probably in all of Congress.
It's a strange...
Again, it's a strange set of views.
I'd like to hear...
I don't know that I ever have heard her explain why she's pro-Assad.
There's not a lot of people like you said who are.
Let her give it a whirl here, Pat.
Here's Gabbard on meeting Bashar al-Assad.
Oh.
When sitting down with someone like Bashar al-Assad in Syria, do you confront him directly and say, why do you order chemical attacks on your own people?
Why do you cause the killings of over half a million people in your country?
Look, you know, I want to break this down to what we're talking about.
I mean, I want to break this down to what we're talking about here today because you're talking about a meeting that took place, what, three years ago?
And every time I come back, no, every time I come back here on MSNBC.
You guys talk to me about these issues.
It sounds like these are talking points that Kamala Harris and her campaign are feeding you
because she's refusing to address the questions that were opposed to her.
For the American people to have context about your foreign policy issues and where you stand.
If you're leading with foreign policy and you're running for the President of the United States,
a meeting with Rashallah Assad, which I'm sure you understand, is a very controversial meeting to take.
Hence the reason why when you come on MSNBC, it is important for us to talk to you about it.
And of course, every anchor has a different perspective and different questions to ask of you.
Every single time for three years, this is where the propaganda comes in.
I will say, too.
You kind of like that, though, because she's subjected to some of what Republicans face every single time.
Yeah.
I will say it's, and this is a great example of it because it happens to Republicans all the time.
You can't say, look, it's important we ask these questions.
We have to have context to your trip and then demand a yes or no answer.
You can't get context out of a yes or no answer.
Right. That's not possible. That's right.
Right.
But she did not explain herself there.
She did not.
I would have liked it if she did.
She does, you know, she's talked about this in that she did it eventually, you know, she will acknowledge that this guy is a really bad guy.
She will acknowledge that.
She said that he, you know, he is a, she's very much against war there.
But she says, you know, he is, he did, you know, hurt his, and kill his own people with chemical weapons and all the rest.
I think there's a, a little bit.
of a temptation with her in that, you know, we forget that people like Diane Feinstein
was meeting with Assad. Assad was not someone that the Democrats didn't meet with routinely,
and not only Democrats, but largely Democrats.
Yeah, a short time ago, he was not the boogeyman of the Middle East.
Once they got into that war, most people bailed on the thing, though.
And she seems to be the one who's stuck around it the most, which is kind of strange.
Yes.
But two things to take out of that, I think. Number one, people are starting to recognize that
Gabbard is at least a force on the on the lower end of this election.
Someone who has the possibility of getting into the next debates, someone who could make some
noise.
Well, and she's only 38.
She's kind of setting herself up for later.
For later, a later run.
Because she could run how many tough six times, five or six times?
And I assume they all will, right?
But she could also be a possibility for a Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense or
something in that realm.
Also, VP is a big consideration.
and that is also tipped, the hand is tipped there as she once again goes after Kamala Harris.
Like she has made her job right now is going after Harris to protect Biden.
Will that lock down the vice president nomination?
Will he be his selection?
Is a really interesting fit.
I mean, look, she's a woman of color, which is the way you're supposed to say that now.
Yeah, you can't say colored woman.
No, of course, that would be hateful.
But woman of color is so much better.
I don't understand it.
Good observation.
That's an interesting one.
Yeah.
Because like the worst thing you can say is just reversing the worst?
Yes.
Yes.
Because it adds an ED at the end of color.
And then it becomes colored.
And you can't be colored.
But you can be a person of color.
Yes.
But you can be a person of color.
What, what, what ethnic is she?
Is she Polynesian?
Yeah.
And she's from Hawaii.
Yeah. And, you know, like, so let's put it this way. There's a scale on the, on the Democratic Party of intersectionality. You get points for each, each level. So she's getting a point for the woman thing. She's getting a point for the not white thing. So she's got a couple things going for her there. When you look at her, do you think of her as not white? Because I certainly don't. I don't know. I don't know that most people think of her as, as a minority. She's usually talked about in those in those groupings. But yeah, I think she has that, you know, Polynesian background of some level. But I,
You know, what is, I don't care.
Yeah, who cares?
People on the, that's the thing.
I don't care.
We don't, we don't classify people that way all the time.
Well, that person is a person of blackness.
Wait, no, a black person.
This has happened to us legitimately a dozen times since we've been doing the show.
And that will come out and we'll be critical of someone.
And they'll come out and they'll say, oh, you're just criticizing them because they're, whatever it is.
Jewish, Catholic, mixed race.
And we'll be like, wait a minute.
I thought, I thought that, I thought it was just.
a white dude.
Right?
I,
I,
you know,
it's so funny,
like people are so obsessed with these groupings and racial identities and,
and,
and,
I mean,
I just,
I don't,
you know,
you just don't think about it.
And Glenn,
go by that ancient thought process.
That,
what was his name,
Dr.
Demento?
No,
it wasn't Dr.
Demento.
No,
it wasn't Dr.
Demento.
Oh,
oh gosh.
What a show that was.
um doctor uh launched the career of weird el yancovic people don't remember that pretty amazing so when
martin luther king said judgment by the content of the character rather than color of skin i think we
kind of took that to heart we've been trying to do it yeah it's not even the thing for me before
all of this stuff where everybody demands that we notice the color of skin now yeah i think they demand
the left insists that you notice the color of skin right like because i you know i think conservatives
especially modern day conservatives took Martin Luther King literally.
He said, yeah, that's the goal.
That's right.
That's great.
You don't care any more about color of skin.
That's the goal.
For socialists, it's a midpoint to the goal.
And the goal is that all that reverse.
The old days are just reversed.
Where now it's all about identity as long.
I mean, listen to the people who talk,
especially people who are like election analysts talking about polls.
And you just hear them say things like, you know,
it's really great because, you know,
she's a black woman and then she'll get black voters.
And she's like, whoa, I don't talk to an individual African-American person.
Are they voting for a black person because they're black?
I hope not.
Is a woman really voting for a woman, a female candidate because they're a woman?
No, you vote for them because they're the best candidate and you're supposed to not care
about all these little subgroups when you make your decisions.
That was the goal.
Yeah.
And I feel like conservative.
are there.
You know, I, I, I, I, we looked at how many candidates.
I mean, this last field was as is they would say for Republicans, a diverse field, right?
I mean, you had everything, you had Hispanics, an Indian American, you had,
women, you had, I mean, you had, you know, all the colors of the freaking rainbow.
There was never a moment in which any of that entered my analysis of that election.
Like, there's never, there's never more like, who do I want to vote for?
Oh, well, I don't know.
What kind of, what?
What genitals does she have?
Do we know?
Because I only make my decision based on genitals.
That's an important part of my election analysis.
That's just weird, man.
It is weird.
The pigment in your skin?
What does I have to do with any of this?
Who has the best policies?
Who would be the best leader?
Who actually cares about the Constitution?
And on the left, it's not like that.
It is really like, we can't have a white man again.
Is like half of their voting population who are taking one gender and one color
in eliminating them.
How is that not racism?
That was the problem with racism.
It was the problem Martin Luther King was trying to solve.
Hey, stop looking at the color of our skin and eliminating us.
And the response to that now is we've got to eliminate those white people.
We can't have white people doing it.
That's bad.
So, you know, it's fascinating that it's come that far because it's gone from the goal at the time, race was way too big
an issue, the goal was to not make it an issue.
Now it's not that much of an issue,
and the goal is to make it into a big issue.
And it's like, I don't,
how do you even follow this crap?
So, Gabbard, I think,
would be an interesting choice for VP,
but her history is strange enough that I don't know
if it would work.
Yeah, I'm not sure she'd be. Yeah. And how does she help
Biden in any way? She really doesn't, because,
okay, you've gained Hawaii. Yeah, you're going to want Hawaii anyway.
Yeah. Uh, so.
well, I mean, I guess that's,
the, you know, someone who works this hard on behalf of Biden during these debates, though,
is going to get rewarded if he wins.
Yeah.
You would think that she, you know, she may very well, not even want VP.
She may want Secretary of Defense.
That's an important issue to Tulsi Gabbard.
I mean, that is what she cares about.
And she does actually care.
She's not one of these candidates that's coming out with basically just trying to get catchphrases and viral videos.
She actually cares about that.
And, you know, good for her.
It's why I think people look at her and see some authenticity that they don't see in
people like Cory Booker.
Yeah.
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Another ridiculous zero tolerance policy sort of thing just happened in Michigan.
Michigan elementary school student was charged with aggravated assault for hitting a
classmate in the head with a...
with a ball, a rubber ball
during a game of dodge ball
on the school playground.
Aggravated assault for playing
dodge ball and hitting somebody in the head?
Isn't the function of dodge ball?
You're supposed to hit people with balls?
But yeah, but you're supposed to dodge the ball
and so maybe you don't get hit anywhere
but the kid was obviously
trying to kill him.
Really?
Yeah, try to kill him.
10-year-old Bryce Lindley, who was in fifth grade,
learned he was being charged last week for the incident.
At the time, he was suspended from school for one day.
His mom was a little upset.
I couldn't believe it.
This is a kid playing on the playground with his friends.
I mean, was it one of those things where, like, the kid wasn't looking
and it came up and threw the ball as hard as they could from two feet away?
You could argue a suspension for something like that, right?
Yeah, but not charges.
But not charges.
I mean, this is just.
It's completely.
absurd tonight, but this is kind of where we are right now.
Things are so stupid and chaotic.
I'm surprised Dodge Ball is all out anywhere at this point.
I know. It has been banned in many, many places.
Yeah.
Because it's just a vicious, brutal, awful sport.
It's so fun, though.
I used to love it.
I loved it.
How did we live through our childhoods when we all played dodgeball, went outside,
rode bikes without helmets?
As far as I know, we were the only two that did survive it.
Everyone else.
Everybody else is dead?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Okay, so that's the pile of bodies I saw on my way to work.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, they probably have seen it out of their childhood.
We need to take care of that.
Yeah, because, I mean, you'd walk, we'd walk home from school.
You drive your bike home from school, like miles.
And your parents never worried you were going to get kidnapped by anybody?
Yeah, I know.
I go back and forth on this.
I'm so hypocritical on this one.
Oh, me too.
So hypocritical.
Because I was super protective with my kids.
Totally.
Like, I listened to Lenore Scanesi, who started that organization,
and let grow, which is about like free range kids,
the free range kids movement.
And she, you know, works hard to make sure parents don't get arrested
for letting their kids go to a playground by themselves.
I mean, it's like that ridiculous.
And every time I talk to her, I think to myself,
she's 100% right on all of these arguments.
Like, yeah, she is.
The crime, it's much less likely anything like this would happen.
You know, school shootings is a great example of this.
And nobody knows this.
But school shootings, I was much, much, much more likely
to be shot in a school shooting.
when I was in high school than I then kids are today.
It's not even close.
It's like three times.
I'm three times as likely to get shot in the 1990s.
And you're right, nobody knows that.
Nobody knows that.
It doesn't feel that way, even to me.
I look at those numbers all the time and it doesn't feel that way.
Yep.
So we've at some level, you know, seen danger go down so much.
But at the same time, like, you know, my kids, like I can't even imagine letting my kid walk home
three miles from school or ride his bike home three miles from school.
It seems completely nuts.
I did that all the time.
And you're right.
I wouldn't let my kids do that today.
How old are your kids?
Well, the youngest is 19.
I still wouldn't let her do it.
It's true.
I mean, it really is weird.
And I know in my brain, I know logically it doesn't make any sense.
But there's just that part of you that's like, well, the second I turned my head,
they're going to get abducted.
That's what's going to happen.
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check out. It's secondary in my mind because there was the return of something called the National
Football League last night, which is really all I care about. I love it. I love it. I mean,
it's a meaningless preseason game. It's the 12th string players, but I just loved seeing it on my television.
You know, I was channel surfing the other day and came across the Longhorn Network, you know,
the Texas UT's television network. And just to
kill time because you know you got to fill 24-7 worth of broadcasting right on a channel that just
really covers one team Texas football that's about it yeah but they're doing a football game from
1976 it was Texas Arkansas and Keith Jackson was the play-by-play guy oh yeah and you know
none of it is relevant to today I had no interest in either team just the sound of the voice and
the fact that it was football, I must have watched it for an hour and a half.
It's embarrassing.
It's so bizarre.
It really is.
But I'm very, I mean, I like watching baseball.
I like watching basketball.
But there's nothing like football.
You're not like football.
And for me, the national football league.
I know you are a more of a college guy.
But still, it's just the return of it.
It just feels good.
It feels right.
Especially when your options are watching Bernie Sanders or watching Kamala Harris or Joe
Biden.
That's not fun.
No, it is not.
They are trying to figure out, they're trying to sort something out here in the left.
And I remember how the Republican primaries of 2016 just ripped the conservative movement apart, right?
Like there were people who absolutely freaking love Ted Cruz, absolutely freaking love Donald Trump, absolutely loved Marco Rubio.
People had some mixed feelings about Jeb Bush.
There was passing interest in.
John Kasich at times
by him
his family.
His mom.
His mom was very much
is a Kasek person.
Well, she was sort of divided.
Yeah, yeah.
She did wind up voting for Trump.
But she was,
she's thought about Kasek for a while.
But there was a lot of passion there.
When you go back and think about that field,
you know,
I mean, you had people who made,
you know, no impact in the race
that were really good candidates.
I mean, Bobby Jindle is a guy
who turned around a stand.
state was an incredibly executive.
He's a Rhodes Scholar.
He introduces a very detailed, very good conservative healthcare alternative.
And basically it was at 0% until he dropped out.
I mean, like, that was a big field.
But what was funny about that, and it wasn't funny at the time, is how much everyone
basically hated each other that considered themselves Republicans or conservatives.
Like everyone had their guy and hated all the other guys.
and now we're seeing that on the Democrats,
and it's a lot more fun.
It's like everyone who's a Kamala person
hates all the Joe Biden people
and all the people who are Biden people
hate the Kamala people,
and Cory Booker hates Biden.
And there's like three people who are Cory Booker people
who are also not in love with Biden.
So Biden was asked on,
on TV this week about,
is the party going too far left?
Is it, is it,
are we getting a little,
little out of control here with the movement towards, let's say, socialism. Here's what he had to say.
Your party has changed as well. Do you think it's moving too far into the left, even on
immigration where some of your fellow Democratic candidates say that they want to decriminalize
those who cross the border illegally? Well, look, it's not about a little left to, right? I think I
represent the party. I think my views are where the vast majority of the Democratic Party are.
There's a lot of really, really good people who got elected who are really pushing the envelope.
It's healthy to do that.
But the idea that they represent what the party is today does not comport with who gets elected.
It does not comport with how we won last 18.
It does not comport.
And so, but it's a totally legitimate debate to have.
The one thing we have to focus on, and the one thing I agree with Corian last night,
let's focus on what it is we can do together.
We are so different.
Every one of those people on that stage has a fundamentally different view than Barraud.
excuse me, they talk about Barack, but they have a fundamentally different view than the present
President of the United States is. And let's argue who has the best path forward to lead this country
to greatness? I mean, I think he's right on that, right? I think other than it does not comport
that he kept saying over and over again, he's probably right. Like he probably is a better
representative of the average Democratic voter than someone like, you know, Bernie Sanders. But the
activists are the ones that are voting in the primary.
They have all the energy. AOC's on TV.
They get all the attention to. They get all the attention.
Which makes it related to up for somebody like him.
Biden's no moderate, as we pointed out a million times.
But the fact that, you know, like the moderate position of only free college for two years is the Joe Biden position.
That's not moderate.
That's like, that's something that Obama didn't, did he even suggest that?
No, not that I know.
I don't remember him suggesting it.
No.
I mean, I'm sure they would have, he would have loved it.
But now the idea that if you don't go for.
four years of college for free and a free job and a universal basic income and let
people cross the border with no penalties and give them free health care.
If you're not that person, you're psychotically right.
I don't think that's the reality for the voters and it's probably why Biden's winning
right now.
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I'm back to the NFL.
I thought we were going to go to this Kamala Harris
clip about employee-based insurance.
You don't want to...
No, no, we're not.
I've got that right here.
Because she's trying to defend.
All right. I'll wait.
I'll wait for how long is this clip?
This one is a little over a minute.
Is she talking about the NFL?
She may discuss that at some point in here.
Let's listen.
Here's Kamala Harris talking about
whether she's going to eliminate employer-based insurance.
One of the things that has been charged is that you will not
be able to keep your private insurance if we get insurance through CNN. If GM workers get insurance
through GM, under your plan, they will not be able to keep that private insurance. Is that true?
What the conversation was about whether you can keep your private insurance through your employer.
My plan will separate your health care from your employer, meaning your employer will no longer
dictate the kind of health care you receive.
Under my plan
of Medicare for all, private
insurance companies will be able
to provide coverage if they play
by our rules. And therefore,
what that means in a very
important way is that you don't
have to be wed to your
employer to keep the insurance
you like and that you need.
I am decoupling it. So there will
be private insurance. There will be private plans.
This is interesting. But it will not be
coupled with your employer.
so you can have choices about where you work and where you live.
And I understand the portability argument.
I already have that choice.
It is very important.
But what you have to convince voters of is that, yes, they may be able to keep a private insurance,
but it's not their private insurance, correct?
They get to make the choice.
No, because you're basically allowing for a Medicare Advantage plan where insurers can enter that plan
and they can choose it if they want to.
But if you're getting insurance from GM, from your employees,
lawyer, you will not be able to keep that, correct?
Right.
You will have 10 years to transition.
She's trying so hard to.
The insurer who has partner with GM is going to then have the opportunity to compete in my
Medicare for All plan.
And so you as the consumer can choose under my Medicare for All plan to have a public plan,
a government sponsored plan or a private plan.
Do you say a single thing about the NFL?
Stu, I feel really deceived here.
No, she didn't talk about the NFL.
Really?
No.
Maybe we cut the.
clip off too early. I think she went into the Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver situation right after
this. Yeah, yeah, right after this. Is Tyreek Hill hurt? We don't know. So, because this is a shade
different than a Bernie plan, right? Where she's saying, first of all, it's going to take 10 years to
transition. Second of all, what she's saying is, in theory, you could get a private insurance plan if you
want, right? But you cannot get it through your employer. Now, the idea of separating
employer from insurance is not a liberal idea. That is a
it's an idea that I would say
most economists on the left
and the right think it would be good.
Plus, can I just point out, you can
choose your insurance
today because you don't have to take
a job where an insurance
plan you don't like
is offered. You don't have to take that job.
And you can refuse it. It's just
it's so much a better deal, right?
Like you're going to, because your employer is paying for part
of it and they get a group
discount rate. So everyone
takes it. Like I, I, because I am
very friendly to the idea of having insurance separate from my employer.
However,
the insurance here is good.
So I take it.
And I think that's what everybody does.
I think in a perfect world,
this would be a good thing.
Like the idea that you're tied to your employer with your insurance is actually not a thing
that Kamala Harris is making up.
Conservative economists have been arguing for this forever.
They're just saying go to a free market system on the other side of that.
She's saying you're not allowed competition state to state.
Yeah.
and that's a big part of the two.
Takes care of a lot of that stuff.
Yeah.
And she's saying, okay, well, we're going to give everybody a government plan.
And then I guess if someone wants to come in and try to compete it as a private plan, they will.
Her argument in her belief is what they will do is subsidize these plans so much no one will pick the private insurance.
And eventually private insurance goes away anyway.
Like she's trying to do it a little bit through the back door where Bernie's just saying it.
He's just coming out and saying, we're getting rid of it.
It's going to be illegal for you to have private insurance.
So there is a little bit of a shade, I suppose, of difference there.
But you just see these people.
People try to struggle to get through and say exactly what's happening with their own plans.
She can't admit that health care is going away.
If you have it through GM, if you have it through CNN, you're not going to have it there anymore.
It's over.
And that is something that polls in the mid-20s nationwide, mid-20s.
And they don't want to admit it because they know how unpopular it is, but that is what their plans will do.
Bernie Sanders was on as well.
and he's basically running a president, vice president thing with Warren.
They're just trying to figure out which ones first.
I don't think either one would name the other as their candidate,
but they're running essentially an alliance right now,
like an old school survivor alliance.
And they're working basically together to fend off all these attacks.
And all their policies sound almost exactly identical.
So CBS was asked, or asked Bernie,
can you explain what is the freaking difference between you and Elizabeth?
Listen.
Or at some point, you and Elizabeth,
Warren, as most pundits seem to indicate, we'll make that next debate.
How will you differentiate yourself from her?
You're two progressives.
I'll tell you, I'll let you guys and the punditry and the American people make that decision.
What?
All I can say.
All I can say.
What is the single principle?
What is the biggest difference between you and Senator Sanders?
It's not up to us.
You've got to draw the distinction, Senator.
No.
No?
I have to tell the American people what I believe.
and I'm going to take on the greed of Wall Street, the drug companies, the insurance companies,
we are going to tell the fossil fuel industry that they cannot continue to destroy this planet
for their short-term profits.
I'm fascinated by this.
I am fascinated by this.
First of all, of course, he's got to draw distinctions.
I mean, if not, people are going to do it for you.
You know, she's going to wind up beating him in this because he's just, you know,
he's just so curmudgeonly and awful.
Terrible.
But beyond that,
what they just, what he just described as his philosophy was to say, I think it was four different things were really bad.
Those four things are basically the fundamental basis of our civilization.
Fossil fuels.
Yes.
Right.
Medicine, right?
Healthcare.
Pharmaceuticals and health insurance.
And then last one was Wall Street.
And you might say, well, Wall Street's not the fundamental basis.
Well, it is.
It's the foundation of capitalism.
You know, the first stock was in the, you know, ever sold was in the 16.
back in the Netherlands
and that was the foundation
of how capital gets moved around
and eventually creates the foundation
of capitalism.
I mean,
so Wall Street,
while you can criticize things
at all four of those groups,
they are the fundamental basis
of our civilization
if you eliminate,
you know,
things like faith,
which obviously are important to some,
but not all.
But I mean,
when it comes down to just human things,
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that have ever happened to us.
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He's on vacation.
Triple 8-8-27B-E-CK.
Didn't just take a vacation?
Yeah, he takes a lot of them.
Yeah.
No, he's out this week and next week, by the way.
Right.
This is his big summer break.
Actually, next week he's not really on vacation.
He's going to Australia.
Oh, that's pretty big.
Yeah, that's the sex life thing, right?
Yeah, he's going on a tour of some local establishments.
You can find some.
No, I'm going to say.
He is actually, they rescued some in Iraq.
One of the girls who they rescued was thought to be dead, apparently.
And the parents thought that she was dead.
And they found her, and they're going to bring her home
to their new home, Australia,
which is, again, created by the donations of this audience.
I don't mean Australia was,
but I mean the area where these refugees are living,
all of this comes from, you know,
large and generous donations of this audience with the Nazarene Fund.
And, you know, thousands of people have been rescued
from really terrible circumstances.
So he's going to be down there.
And I know checking all that stuff out and doing,
I mean, you know, this is something Glenn cares deeply about,
obviously if you listen to the show, you know that.
So he's going to be doing that next week.
We'll be on next week here as well.
And I'll be hosting TV and it's going to be a fun week.
We'll have fun.
We'll have fun. The best thing is you just get to make fun of a lot of people.
And that's what we usually do.
Are you, have you, surely listened to the tape of Ronald Reagan talking to Richard Nixon back in, what was this, 1968-ish?
70, 71. Yeah. Something like that.
This is a little bit of a...
He calls...
He calls people from an African nation.
He refers to them as monkeys, right?
Without any shoes on or whatever.
And it's...
He's disparaging the UN and he's saying we don't want to be subject to
all these people.
Yeah. And so now...
Throw him out of the country.
Final confirmation that Reagan was the racist.
We all knew he was.
It's essentially how this is being promoted.
You just don't want to believe it's true.
I know when I listened to it, I thought, okay, they've, you know, interpolated this in some way that isn't what he said.
But no, he did actually say it.
And it's a tough comment.
I mean, that's, you can't defend it.
No, I didn't ignore what anyone to.
But it's the only one I know of.
Has there any evidence other than that that?
Yeah, Paul Kengar, who was a Reagan biographer, wrote about this and said, you know, look, this is not a good statement.
It is literally the only one he's ever found that was anything like it.
And he did it.
He talks about how he has giant boxes filled with documents and statements that
titled Reagan on race.
Oh,
wow.
And there is literally nothing.
So,
I mean,
so if you want to deep,
you know,
if you want to dive into it a little bit,
first of all,
if you can't judge someone by one word that they've made in 1971.
Right.
It's not,
even if it's bad,
you know,
you try to look at the breadth of a person and realize,
what was their,
life really like, you know, he was very good on these issues and in a million other
opportunities. So it's hard to understand. The other thing you look at is, you know,
he was talking to someone who was kind of a racist, right? Richard Nixon, if you look
through those tapes, he's making anti-Semitic comments and racially insensitive comments throughout.
You know, is it one of those things where he's, you know, you're in a room where people are making
foul jokes and you make a foul joke? Is it that type of thing? Do they taint? And because
You talk about one comment as compared to the comments of LBJ that were practically endless up to 1964.
And they ignore all of that.
I mean, he's an absolute virulent racist.
Yeah.
Margaret Sanger.
They ignore all of her racism.
Horrific.
And so they'll, and by the way, I, we just don't say enough how bad of a president LBJ was and that he may very well be our worst president.
Yeah, one of the worst.
Again, when you look at that debt number and you're really.
all of it, or at least
two-thirds of it, comes from him.
You know, you remember that
because not only was he terrible as a
president, but also an awful human being
in a million different ways. Like, this is
not a good dude, and he gets a complete pass.
Reagan has one comment,
bad. And they'll beat him with it forever.
Yep. Yeah.
Triple-eight
727BECK. It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the
Glenn back program this week and next week
as well.
Because Glenn's not here, there's
extra room in the parking lot
a lot of space
for people to park in places they don't usually
because when Glenn's not here
about three quarters of the building doesn't show up
to work. It's about right.
It's an interesting phenomenon. It is an interesting phenomenon.
But there was right next to my car
the other day was parked one of those
smart cars.
Oh, geez. Those teeny little things that looked like
a you go vomited and that's what came out.
What a useless little crap can that is.
Why would you ever
ever by one of those.
I guess you have to be wholeheartedly
into global warming, right?
You've got to think.
Yeah, but it doesn't even help that problem.
And it doesn't help.
It doesn't save you money either.
It's gas powered, and also, you know,
it does get good gas mileage.
But you, I think, if I remember right,
you have to use premium gasoline.
So you're, really?
Yeah, for this little go cart.
You got to use premium.
It's a glorified skateboard, really.
So you can save gas,
but you're paying more for the gas you need to use.
The skateboard,
with a dome on it.
It's so, you know, the most annoying thing
about those cars is you can't tell
when they're in parking spots, when you're pulling up.
That's true.
You think you have a spot.
Yeah, and then all of a sudden, ah!
Oh, every time I see one, I'm so tempted to just gun it.
It's the other half of a gremlin.
Remember the old gremlin?
It looked like it was cut in half.
Yeah.
The other half is a smart car.
We just found it.
I just, it's so frustrating when you turn that corner
and you're about to pull in, you're like,
I got a great spot.
Smart car.
Yes.
There are so many irritating things about that car.
Who makes that?
Any idea?
Terrible vehicle.
Is it under company like a,
is it something related to like Mercedes or something?
Is that it?
Mercedes?
I don't think it is a Mercedes,
but it is like, I think owned maybe by Mercedes?
I'd have to remember.
I don't know.
We should Google that.
But that is a great sign of...
Did that spring from the Obama administration?
No. Or was that before? Remember, it was funny going back and you look at those days late in the 2007, 2008, you know, as we're getting into that election, one of the big issues was gas prices.
Yeah. So gas prices were a huge thing and people were looking for ways not to save the planet, but to save money on gas. And that was kind of the criticism of the smart car at the time. You, you first of all, you have to be folded up like a, you know, like your piece of paper to fit into it. And then you're not even getting.
getting the benefits really of saving money because you're paying, you know, 40 cents more than
regular because you have to put premium in the freaking car so we can go 18 miles an hour.
Do you really have to put premium in it? Why would, I wonder why that would be the case.
I don't know if people actually do it. I mean, you know, my car says it's supposed to have
premium in it, but like I want it to go fast. Right. Like, so I'm a sucker for the marketing.
Whether it's true or not, I'd have put, I put premium in there. For if you're a smart car,
though, that's the last thing you're thinking of, right? You're buying a smart car.
you're not like, oh, I got to get this thing to go zero to 60 and 18 seconds instead of 19.
It gets 40 miles per gallon, which is good, but that's not exceptional.
No, it's not even close to like a hybrid or plug-in hybrid or anything like that.
It's just like, I want less space is your argument for it.
I guess like if you were in a city where there's a lot of parallel parking, maybe you're making deliveries in a city.
Like you could see a use for it in some capacity, but.
But if you ran into a squirrel, you'd be dead.
Oh yeah.
You die right.
A squirrel would total your car.
A squirrel's child gets you.
You're flipping the car for sure.
Maybe you live, but you're flipping it.
Yeah.
And I don't even know that you live through that.
You'd be in critical condition.
There's no question about that.
No doubt.
It really is.
And then it goes back to the, you know,
Barack Obama famously said we were going to have like millions and millions of electric
cars on the road by, I want to say it was 2016 or 2018.
And he missed this goal by so much.
It was hilarious.
By like infinity?
Yeah, it was basically like.
You missed the goal by infinity.
Like they had cars.
They're like, we think there'll be 65,000 Fisker's on the road by 2020.
And like Fisker went out of business like a week later.
I remember that.
That was so great.
There was a bunch of those like startup electric car brands that just all died at the same time.
Yeah.
It was basically the Cylindra approach to economics where you give a bunch of money and tax incentives to companies that go out of business a week later.
It's not normally a good idea to do.
Barack tried it though.
That did not affect him with Democrats, though.
And that's one of the interesting things about this week with these debates, is the Democrats are becoming critical of Biden and they have to say bad things about Obama.
But is that a good idea in a Democratic primary?
Let me give you some of these stats on polling.
Democrats, approval rating of Barack Obama currently is at 95 to 4.
Wow.
95 to 4 percent unfurrently.
Are you playing to the AOC side too much when you're trying to play up to AOC and the squad?
Meanwhile, she's got about 20% approval.
Right.
I don't know what it is among Democrats, but it's higher than 20 probably.
Among black voters, these are Democrat or Democrat leaning black voters,
Barack Obama has some issues there.
He's only 99% approved.
Now, on the other side of that, of course, is,
a big portion of our society, which is zero percent unfavorable. So it's 99 to zero,
but one percent has not made their mind up yet. So there's literally no one shows up as disapproving
of Barack Obama. And this is why I think one of the reasons Biden does so well in South Carolina
right now because it's the first state with a large minority population voting in the primary
and these other candidates who are coming out bashing Joe Biden and Barack Obama, it's not going to
work well for them. The other part of this, which is interesting,
is I think once again the Democrats have lost sight as to how important and how liberal the average Democratic voter is.
Among total voters in the states that are made up, and Harry Enton has a great breakdown of this,
between Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, here's the states that are going to turn the election most likely.
Barack Obama, among all voters, including Republicans, has a 57% favorability.
So he's 5743 in those states.
He's a popular president, at least in his exit.
Would you rather, again, this is Democrats,
would you rather have building on top of Obamacare,
or would you rather replace it for Medicare for all?
55% say Obamacare, 39% of Medicare for all.
So a 16-point lead for the more conservative, quote, unquote,
of those two policies.
Neither one is conservative.
I should point that out, too.
those are if you know those lessons if you're in this world why wouldn't you feel comfortable saying you're a moderate yet joe biden is out there running away from that moniker yeah right we have a clip from his press conference yesterday this is audio we just got in from yesterday Biden talking about was was Obama care a conservative policy was it a moderate policy was it I don't know maybe a socialist policy listen but here's the deal there's nothing
We're moderate about what Barack did in Obamacare.
Nothing.
What?
No president had come close.
And they tried and they tried and they tried.
Seven presidents.
This guy did an incredible thing.
In addition to that, he covered 100 million people who had preexisting conditions.
He allowed kids to stay in their parents' policies until they're 26 years old.
He covered 20 million more people.
We tried to get the Medicare option added to it.
We couldn't get it done.
I will get it done this time because the people have realized what it's about.
They figured it out.
Fantastic.
Now remember, this was sold to us, the American people, as a moderate approach.
Common sense, reform. Common sense approach.
It was originated with the Heritage Foundation and it was basically Romney Care.
We're almost passing a Republican policy here.
And we said all along, no, this is the first step to socialize medicine.
That's what this is.
they're trying to bring about single-payer universal health care.
No, that's a conspiracy theory.
You're a conspiracy theorist.
And we said this is a massive move to progress,
sort towards progressivism.
There's nothing moderate about it.
And now you hear Joe Biden saying the same exact thing.
It's amazing.
We played the clip over and over again with a guy from Tides Foundation
where, you know, he lays this out in uncomfortable detail.
One once said to me, this is a Trojan horse for a single pair.
And I said, well, it's not a Trojan horse, right?
It's just right there.
I'm telling you, we're going to get this.
there. We're going to get there. So in other words, between a capitalist system and single-payer universal
healthcare, there had to be a transitional step, and that was Obamacare. And he was admitting it.
He's saying, look, yes, that's the goal. But the goal is just right out there. Everybody knows it.
There's no reason to deny it. Yeah. And this was one of the architects of the plan.
Yes. And if you listen closely enough to these debates, if you can take it, if you can handle how awful it is.
I can't.
It's really difficult.
But if you can take it and you listen to the quote unquote moderates
pushing back on single payer health care.
Why didn't you put a quote in the quotation marks?
You quote unquote so you left it blank so there is no quote there.
The quote moderates end quote that we're in the debate.
Yeah.
If you listen to what they're saying,
what they're saying is I'm more moderate because I think we should try to do it
slowly so people don't notice.
It is not, you know what would be really bad for our society?
is socialized medicine. It is not the argument.
The argument is we got to be
realistic about what we can get done right now.
People need help right now. Let's get what we can get
done right now. We can always expand it later.
But get something done now instead of shooting
for the moon and getting nothing.
That is the argument in the Democratic
Party. It is not socialism
versus capitalism. It is
socialism versus slower
socialism. Yeah, they're not even saying
necessarily, even the Delaney's
of the world and the Hickenloopers are
necessarily even saying socialism is
bad. Let's not go down that road. They're saying we'll lose to Trump if we admit we're
Socialism. Exactly. Because they will say socialism is bad because it's a bad approach that's going
to scare off voters. Not because it's bad. Not because they don't like that system or wouldn't
like to go to that. We got to go slower. I mean, they're so radical now, so extreme in the Democrat
Party. This goes back to the turn of the century. It was the argument between progressives and, you know,
revolutionaries. Is it revolutionary or revolutionary? And, you know, was it Van Jones
said, I've dropped the radical means for the radical ends.
Right.
Right. And that is true.
It's the, it's only a question of speed.
Even these people, they say our moderates, are saying we want to get to these social
programs eventually.
We want to get there, but we need to take step by step and be methodical.
And I think there's a good argument for that because the American people have shown over and
over again that once you pass one of these programs and you get it in there for a few years,
they, it becomes part of them.
You know, it becomes part of them.
And there's no getting rid of it.
Medicare is a great example of this.
Social Security is a good example of it.
Right now,
Obamacare is becoming a good example of it.
People, the approval rates are up.
You're seeing Republican governors now embrace
the Medicaid expansions that initially
that they opposed and initially were,
and were ruled by the way, unconstitutional,
the way they tried to do it.
That's a kind of a big deal.
kind of and you know they know if we can take a baby step we'll never turn back it's like with the
budget when they're like oh we're going to add a hundred billion dollars of spending well that's not
a hundred billion dollars of spending when you add a hundred billion dollars of spending the next
year the budget is calculated off of that new higher number so you've created that hundred billion
dollars of spending for every year in the future it's not just one year of a hundred billion
is one year times infinity
$100 billion.
It's nuts.
It is and you know
it continues to happen
and that's why this approach is effective.
It's why progressivism has worked
to really transform our country
and we're moving past it now.
Now they're just admitting it.
I don't know if that's going to work with voters
but it's terrifying because if it does
we are an entirely different nation.
Pat and Stufer Glenn on the Glenn Beck Program
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What's your favorite fast food restaurant would you say?
I probably go with Taco Bell.
I freaking love Taco Bell, man.
Oh, I love Taco Bell, too.
Oh, God, I love it.
I love it.
You know, it is a, it has, it's just so freaking good.
We had the fries, they have the new, what are they called?
Just did that last week, right?
The spicy fries disaster they gave.
I just love it.
I mean, it's not one of those things you can eat in any sort of rational way.
Whenever I eat there, I mean, I eat way too much and I just love it so much,
but then I just feel terrible afterwards.
Yeah.
Or you can go to, like you can have McDonald's breakfast and eat something that's relatively okay.
I can't do that at Taco Bell.
I'm not, I can't, I can't pull it off.
Food too tasty.
Food too tasty.
Food too tasty.
I have, by the way, Burger King is going to have the Impossible Whopper in stores next week.
By Thursday, right?
By next Thursday.
Yes.
We did a taste test last time with the Impossible Burger.
Glenn and I couldn't tell.
We couldn't tell the difference.
Incredible.
Amazing.
Between meat and the plant-based.
Pretend meat.
So maybe we'll try that again next week.
Yeah.
But in this survey of customer loyalty,
Chick-fil-A turned out to be America's favorite restaurant.
And I would expect, I mean, there's a lot to me.
Yeah.
And they have by far the best customer service.
They have really good fries.
By far the most delicious milkshakes.
Really?
Right?
Would you say they have the best milkshakes?
Yeah, I love them.
You don't love their milkshakes?
Yeah, you should try it.
I never, I wouldn't say I distinguished them.
Put it to the test.
Yeah.
Go try it out.
They had a peach milkshake that I saw on their menu recently.
I was like, that sounds delicious.
Yeah.
Interesting.
What else is on the list?
In and Out holds the top spot in burger loyalty.
And they scored 73% for staff friendliness.
Five guys won the category in food quality and speed.
Five guys in and out are pretty similar to me.
I've only been to five guys, I think, once.
The best thing about five guys is they give you fries.
intentionally give you too many to fit in the container and they all fall in the bag.
Yeah.
Like that's like their policy.
I like that good policy.
Yeah, it is.
Because you're like, oh, crap, I'm out of fries.
No, there's a hundred more.
30 more.
Yeah.
Yeah. Healthy.
Well, between 30 and 100.
I didn't count specifically, so I'm not sure how many there were.
But they don't serve milkshakes.
So I think it's a communist establishment.
Oh, okay.
I can't frequent it.
Let's see, in the Mexican food category, Chipotle beat up Moes.
Now, I've never been to Moes Southwest Grill.
Moes is good.
Are you familiar?
I'm not.
I'm not a huge Chipotle.
I'm Moses is good, though.
They have them in the Northeast for sure.
And then Papa John's for pizza.
Not in the top five even.
Taco Bell is America.
And I don't care what you say.
I don't care.
Oh, it's Mexican food.
I know it's not.
It's American food.
We've taken it over.
You're listening to Glenn Beck.
