The Glenn Beck Program - Ten Commandments for Political Warfare | Guest: Steve Deace | 12/31/19

Episode Date: December 31, 2019

BlazeTV host Steve Deace is back on the program and shifting gears from theology to political theory. Together with his cohorts Todd and Aaron, he reveals what he calls the ten commandments for politi...cal warfare. Why is it essential not to trust Republicrats? Who are the most notable GOP lawmakers who fall into this category? Why must you never accept the premise of your opponent’s stance if you intend to win a debate? And what is the connection between never conceding the high ground and never abandoning your base? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:04 The fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. So how do we win? How do we actually do what we believe? How do we take on the worldviews we discussed yesterday, those seven deadly worldviews? Well, part two of that conversation, the Ten Commandments of Political Warfare. Coming up next year today on the Glenn Beck program. This is the Glenn Beck program.
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Starting point is 00:01:28 com slash back. Set up your free demo and get your free guide today. NetSuite.com slash Beck. Back here on the Glenn Beck program, I am Steve Dease. and Aaron McIntyre are here with me as well. We are the crew from the Steve Day Show on Blaze TV radio and podcast each weekday right after Glenn Beck, filling in for Glenn here, these final two days of 2019. We got a ton of great reaction to yesterday's show about the seven deadly worldviews.
Starting point is 00:02:07 I probably spent the last half hour or so last night before I went to bed trying to answer as many of those as we could. The most frequent question I received is, hey, can I get a first? further breakdown of those in written form. And I should have mentioned this during yesterday's program. I totally forgot. I wrote a book back in 2016. Glenn was very kind here to profile on on the show, which helped us sell a lot of copies,
Starting point is 00:02:29 by the way. It's called a nefarious plot. You can still order it over at Amazon.com. But a lot of those seven deadly worldviews, in fact, all of them are broken down in greater detail. If you want to learn more about those, you can get to the book. It's called a nefarious plot. There it is on our shelf. Thank you, Aaron. Of course, we have a radio audience of 500 stations
Starting point is 00:02:51 across the country. They don't know that. And I got to remember that, all right, because we're used to doing a TV show. So, again, if you're listening to us on one of those 500 radio stations across the country, go to Amazon.com and get a copy of a nefarious plot. If you want to learn more about those seven deadly worldviews, if you want to learn more about us, and why wouldn't you, of course? BlazTV.com slash dace is how you can watch our show every day here on Blaze TV. You can also subscribe to our podcast. Just look for my name, Steve. That's easy to spell. D-E-A-A-C-E. Steve Day, search for that on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, et cetera. You can also search for us on Facebook. Search our YouTube channel as well. If you want to get
Starting point is 00:03:32 some highlight clips of our Blaze TV show, you can listen to us live each day on Blaze Radio as well from noon to 2 Eastern right after Glenn Beck. So yesterday, we spent part one looking at the landscape that we're called to engage. What are we up against from a belief system from a worldview standpoint? Today, we're going to be more practical. How do we advance what we as conservatives actually believe? How do we conserve? Because that's what it means to be a conservative, to conserve.
Starting point is 00:04:05 So how do we conserve that which has proven through the course of history to be what's best right, true, and beautiful for the human condition east of How do we do that? And five years ago, I wrote a book called Rules for Patriots, where I kind of laid out everything I had learned from my own time. I think what makes me a little bit more unique than a lot of people that do conservative media shows is I've actually worked and been involved in kind of the technocratic nuts and bolts side of politics. I've worked on campaigns.
Starting point is 00:04:43 I've recruited candidates. I've consulted with campaigns, I've done strategy for them. And so I've kind of got a foot in both sides here. You know, the big idea, you know, philosophical worldview side that we focus on often in conservative media. But then the nuts and bolts side, you know, when we have candidates that represent our values and they run for office, how do they get from point A to point B? How do they run on these themes?
Starting point is 00:05:09 What does that look like? And so I wanted to put together kind of a, compilation of the best things I've learned over the years. And I wrote this book called Rules for Patriots that was published about five years ago and was endorsed at the time by who's who of people in conservatism. I don't know that you're going to find too many books that get the endorsement of mucky mucks at the American Family Association and Freedom Works. And, you know, you look at Donald Trump endorsed the book.
Starting point is 00:05:44 at the time when he was thinking of running for president. Newt Gingrich endorsed the book at the time. I mean, it's a pretty diverse cross-section of people and involved on the right who took a look at the book and were willing to endorse it for their audiences. And I've done a lot of talks and meetings about the book and stuff over the years. But when I found that, you know, I thought this stuff was good because I've done it. And then I've seen it used against me and done by others.
Starting point is 00:06:16 And when I got final confirmation that I thought we were on to something is I got a call one day from a guy named Sam Nunberg. And it was July of 2015. So several months after the book came out. And we had just had an event here in Iowa. That's where I live. I grew up in Grandin, Pittsburgh, Michigan, but I was born here in Des Moines, Iowa. And that's where I raised my family now. And so I've been, that's one of the reasons I'm so heavily involved in the technocratic side of politics is the Iowa caucuses.
Starting point is 00:06:50 I've been heavily involved in that for a few cycles now. And I worked for the Ted Cruz campaign this last go around. And I got a call from a guy before I had declared for a candidate and decided which candidate I was going to support slash work for in this last cycle. One of the campaigns that was interested in me was Donald Trump's. And the day before we had had this massive event carried by C-SPAN. I co-emceed it with Frank Lentz of Fox News, where 13 presidential candidates were here giving their pitches, spills,
Starting point is 00:07:20 to well over a thousand activists here for the Iowa, conservative activists for the Iowa caucuses. And I was standing backstage to be essentially closed, for lack of a better description, by Trump to come on board. And I still was, wasn't 100% sure I could do this, you know, but I was going to certainly listen to a pitch of a guy of this magnitude. And Todd, you and I, that whole summer were like, yeah, we see the Samson bowl in a China shop potential, but can we really, that's a pretty big worldview leap, right?
Starting point is 00:08:00 We had how many of those conversations behind the scenes you and I had that summer as you kind of just be in a sounding board and your willingness to ask because my ego wanted all in on this? Okay, but you were willing to ask a lot of the kind of the larger picture questions to kind of help me keep my ego in check. And so we did a lot of game theory with this and how it would look. Correct. And so I'm standing there backstage and Trump's being interviewed by Frank once. And he talks about how that was the moment when he said that when John McCain's name came up, and I'm no fan of John McCain as a politician, certainly appreciated his service to the country. But as a politician, he hated people like us.
Starting point is 00:08:39 I just detested conservatives. So if you're, if, if, if, if, if I think you're going too far in criticizing John McCain, that's probably too far. And when he said, you know, I, I like soldiers who weren't captured and the groans in the crowd. And several of the other things he said, and I'm like, there's no way I can, I can, at least not in a primary. And there's so many other conservative candidates whose records are proven, there's no way I can do this. And we were actually doing a live show, uh, for a national radio. network that day and I was breaking you were you were hoping to helping to co-anchor the show when I was doing my MC events so I was coming back and forth in the stage to our stage right and I came back
Starting point is 00:09:20 and you guys were like hey that was fast I'm like I can't it just can't happen you guys watched what happened out there I can't I can't get on board with this you know so the next day my wife and I are going to a movie after church and I get a I've got a voicemail it's my guy named sam Nunberg who at the time was essentially Trump's political um operator rent was running Trump's political machine And he said, hey, you know, you need to see this article I just ghost wrote for Trump for USA Today about his comments about McCain. And so he sent me the link and I read the link and it was titled, I will not apologize, I think is what it was titled. And he just refused to accept the premise that John McCain was an unassailable figure. And he even went so far, he even reversed the premise and went so far Trump did in this piece that Sam ghost wrote for him to claim he's done more for POWs.
Starting point is 00:10:09 over the years than the former POW John McCain. I'm Amy I'm, Amy is reading this to me while I'm driving home from the theater and I am just incredulous okay at the Hutzpah right and I called Sam back and I and I thought you know Sam and I are still friends and I thought
Starting point is 00:10:27 I thought there was a chance though this might be the last time we were ever going to talk because a lot of times in politics people are your friends when they need you or you have something they want and then when you don't anymore they're not you know and I was like bold strategy cotton All right. Nice knowing you. I thought this has no chance to work.
Starting point is 00:10:44 And then he stopped me dead in my trash. He goes, I'm really surprised. I just used the tactics out of your own book when I ghost wrote to this. You should have recognized these tactics. You should have appreciated them. It's right out of rules for patriots. So a week later, I was convinced Trump was toast as a candidate. A week later, I called the guy running his Iowa campaign named Chuck Lawner,
Starting point is 00:11:06 figuring maybe him and I might figure out, you know, because I'm about to decide who I'm going to support. Maybe we'd figure out we'd support the same person. And he's like, Steve, I was about to walk away from this like everybody else. I was offended at what he said. But we are, I've never gotten more response from an audience around the country. I've got military people who are, who are sending us notes telling me, I don't even like Donald Trump. I am just so glad that finally someone said something they really think and didn't fly. freaking apologize to the media that hates us for it afterwards.
Starting point is 00:11:40 I didn't even like it. I don't even agree with it. I thought it was appalling. But it's not nearly as appalling as the lies and fake news that the media that hates him and hates us feeds me every single day. That the only reason I think government's too big under Obama is I'm a racist. The only reason I think a child is better off with a father and a mother is I'm a homophobe.
Starting point is 00:11:59 The only reason I think the border ought to be secured is I'm a xenophobe. I'll take his appalling over that any day of the week. and it stopped me dead in my tracks. And you and I had conversations about this at the time too. And thought, maybe, maybe, well, I had two responses. A, there's something different going on out there than we anticipated. Then B, holy crap, this stuff in this book works. I mean, I thought it worked.
Starting point is 00:12:23 All right, but to see it played out and tried out on such a large stage was kind of the final confirmation. And that's why today, what I want to do is I want to share with you some of the principles. that were used that day to essentially salvage Donald Trump's nascent presidential campaign when we all thought it was done. And how these 10 commandments of political warfare, how they can be used by us to elevate our principles and help them win the day. We'll get to those in a moment here on the Glenn Beck program. If you're looking to fully protect your home with award-winning 24-7 home security, now is the time to do it. Time is running out on SimpleSafe's biggest sale of the year. SimplySafe has everything that you need to be.
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Starting point is 00:13:48 But it ends December 31st. So go to SimplySafebec.com now. Remember, this sale ends December 31st, Simplysafbeck.com. So like we pointed out yesterday, this is the time of year. We kind of like to take a step back and assess things. Look at the bigger picture. And so when we were asked to fill in these two days here on the Glenn Beck program, the crew from the Steve Day Show, myself, Toders, and Aaron McIntyre,
Starting point is 00:14:26 we thought, hey, let's kind of stick with that theme. And let's look at it two ways. One, a big picture philosophically, and that's what we did yesterday with the seven deadly worldviews, and then the other, a big picture practically. What's our antidote to this? What's our response to this?
Starting point is 00:14:43 What's the battle plan here? What do we do? And I think it's very important because I mentioned yesterday, we're having this debate on the right about how much of the leftist rot-gut-Alinsky-esque tactics to deploy. How many lies to tell, how many schemes to plot, how many fallacies to create? Because, you know, they're used so well against us. Maybe we should
Starting point is 00:15:03 have our own Jesse Smollets. How many of, how much of what they do effectively against us should we do in order to beat then? How much, how much fire to fight the fire? And I reject all of that. And the reason, doesn't mean there's never a time to fight fire with fire. It doesn't mean it was wrong to fire bomb Dresden or drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'm not saying there's never a time. There's never a time. Even in the Old Testament, the Lord says, go in there and lay waste. You're the urban renewal program.
Starting point is 00:15:34 Hit control, I'll delete. Nothing. Leave nothing to Twitch. All right? I'm not saying there's never a time for this. But you have to understand that's a last resort because the collateral damage of those acts is high. And you have to do the calculus from a just war standpoint.
Starting point is 00:15:51 that the collateral damage is worth, is worth that to accomplish the goal. I don't think we're there yet, especially when there's an opportunity to try a set of tactics that don't diminish our principles, but elevate them. And when I first wrote, did a symposium on this book or a talk on this book at a group with a group of conservative leaders, a guy running for Congress came up to me and said, hey, are you concerned about putting this out publicly that the other guys may try to adopt these tactics and no I'm not and the reason why these tactics won't work they won't work with with with a leftist viewpoint they won't work with postmodernism um they won't work with moral subjectivism
Starting point is 00:16:32 and moral relativism they won't work these are the tactics meant to attack those constructs not elevate them so we're going to spend the show here today barring any breaking news you're on the final day of 2019 and let me be you know right away wish happy to New Year to all of you listening around the country. We're going to spend the show today walking you through these Ten Commandments of Political Warfare. How do we do what we believe? You guys ready to go?
Starting point is 00:16:59 For sure. All right. Let's do it. Commandment number one, all right? Never trust Republicans. Now, I want to define this term, Aaron. Yes. What does never mean?
Starting point is 00:17:13 Never. There, you know, yesterday he was so idealistic and virtuous as we were doing the, you know, these highfalutin philosophical principles. For those you don't watch our show daily, that's actually Aaron. All right. All right. That's the,
Starting point is 00:17:28 let me come over the top rope with a leg drop of cynicism and skepticism before you even make your point. That's our Aaron right there. That's a beautiful thing to be bold. Yes. All right. So never,
Starting point is 00:17:40 if you look it up in the original Greek, it means never. Never trust these people. Now let me define what this means. A Republican cat is not a rhino. At this point, we could be that we're probably the rhinos the conservatives are probably the rhinos a rhino is the chris Christi liberal republican uh who knows what to who who couldn't become a
Starting point is 00:18:03 democrat in an all blue state because the the roster's too full or they're not talented enough so or they're not connected enough so they realized you know i can make the b team over here the republican team in this blue state and you know i can i can be the you know the big fish in a small pond over here and they get huge power in these blue states right we've known the names of who rhinos and these blue states are over the course of our careers a republicrat is something different a republicrat is somebody who knows Mitch McConnell in kentucky one day when i the year i was launching this book at seapack was the day Mitch mcconnell old ditch ditch as i used to call him was uh because that's where he'll drive you if you trust him into a ditch uh he was speaking at
Starting point is 00:18:47 CPAC that day and he comes in waving this AR-15. Yeah, I'm sure he's got a rack of those that is Brownstone over there in D.C. Or not. Okay. And he probably thinks AR-15 stands for assault rifle like the media does too. All right. The crowd goes wild. Yeah. Ditch. Yeah. Mitch. Yeah. Okay, Mitch, yeah. See, those guys realize that I, you know, I've got to be conservative here at home, right? You know, remember when Mitt Romney was a severe conservative in the presidential primary? And then his campaign aide, Eric Fenstrom, said that, well, you know, that we won the nomination. It's just kind of an etch of sketch.
Starting point is 00:19:25 Remember that? And we just kind of shake it up. And now, you know, you move to the middle. And now you see that, you know, Mittens, Willard is far more comfortable in those middle to lefts all along. He was just lying to you before about being severely conservative. See, that's what a republicrat is. The guy who knows, with the consultants, who tells him, hey, here's how you need to get elected in this state.
Starting point is 00:19:46 You can't be a rhino. They have no chance. You won't win. You got to say what they want to say, rub their bellies. Okay, pat them on the heads. And then when they're not paying attention, then you get to Washington and you hit K Street, which is where all the lobbyists live. That's literally the street in Washington where the lobbyist groups are.
Starting point is 00:20:03 all right man you hit k street all right the way the way we hit the may kong delta and nam okay and and you get as progressive as you want to be once you're here and you'll get away with it if you just go back home and give them the talking points that help them own the libs and then when you get to Washington you can govern just like them and no one will say a word do you know anybody like that do you know allegiance like that, I'm going to give you some names that are going to blow your mind when we come back here. Because they're your new conservative heroes, except they're not. We'll give you some names that illustrate what I'm talking about. They're going to blow your mind when we come back here on the Glenn Beck program.
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Starting point is 00:22:42 show we are on after glen noon to two eastern every day on blaze tv radio and podcast blaztiv dot com slash dace you can also uh look us up subscribe to our podcast on itunes stitcher and google play so yesterday we talked about worldview today we're going to talk about tactics how do we do what we actually believe how do we get it done get her done how do we do that our ten commandments of political warfare this is number one for a reason Never trust Republicans. Do not trust someone just because they talk a good conservative game. I believe there's a famous line from an all-time bestseller that says faith without works is what?
Starting point is 00:23:23 Dead. That would be dead. All right? Show me your works and I'll show you your faith, right? Show me your faith and I'll show your works. It's a symbiotic relationship. In politics, you are the hills you die on, not the slogans you spout. Let me say that again.
Starting point is 00:23:40 In politics, you are the hills you die on, not the slogans you spout. I could look at any unkept promise by this president in his first term. And it would come down to one thing, a trusting of Republicans. They didn't repeal Obamacare. He outsourced that to Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. They don't believe in that stuff. They weren't going to do it. We still got soldiers standing around in Afghanistan waiting to get IED to death like
Starting point is 00:24:13 glorified, well-outfitted mall cop in one of the armpits of this planet, for reasons only Allah knows, has no, other than its poppy fields, it serves no strategic benefit whatsoever. Why? Boy, the Pentagon is full of those kinds of Republicans. People love to talk America first in the jingoistic game, but in the end, when some Muslim terrorist coordinate a shooting at a Pensacola military base. The first concern is, let's make sure this doesn't impact our Saudi troop sharing program.
Starting point is 00:24:51 Priorities. Yes. In the end, you're the hills you die on, not the slogan just about. Let me prove this to you in the most painful way possible. All right. So this is one of our favorite games.
Starting point is 00:25:06 Todd, the audience, could not see your smile. It's our spiritual gift. Yes. One of our favorite games. our sister site at the blaze is called conservative review. And conservative reviews primary function is what's called a Liberty score. And it's to record on a rolling average of the last 50 votes on every conceivable issue. Just to continue updating how your members of Congress are performing on conservatism.
Starting point is 00:25:35 What I love about this score is it just keeps rolling over. And other than like a great group like Club for Growth is going to be folks. focused on one slate of issues, this can, this takes every issue into account. Because a conservative review, they reject, well, I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. No, no you're not. There's no such thing. That person doesn't exist, okay? Except maybe at Cato. There's like five of those people on a floor. All right. But those votes don't exist. Those voters don't exist. That person really doesn't exist in mass. All right. You're either a conservative or you're not. Okay. And if you're offended by that, by all means, email me. Steve at Steve Dease.com. I'll be happy to correct.
Starting point is 00:26:14 you. Okay. You cannot limit government by promoting Sodom and Gomorrah. Because when there's immorality, people are like, you know what, if I get to do whatever I want and if it blows up in my face, I'm not paying for it. I'm going to make you pay for it instead. That's how we got the welfare state in the first place, folks. Right. So this Liberty score just looks at how they actually vote on the issues that matter to you, all of them. I'm going to give you a few. I'm going to give you a names here because they've been in the news a lot. You see them on Fox News every night practically. What do you
Starting point is 00:26:50 call them trademark what, Aaron? What do you call them on our daily show? Conservative, no, it's actually new conservative hero. Yes, these are your new conservative heroes. Meaning I own the libs in a sound bite or a video clip. And now, the talking point has come down
Starting point is 00:27:05 from Mount Vahala. These are now behold, your new conservative of heroes. Trademark. The name Devin Nunez has been in the news a little bit the last few years, right? Just a little bit. Yeah. I thought he did. By the way, we read his memo on our show when he came out and almost, I can't think of something in his memo that was not proven to be true. So let's keep credit word, credit is due. He has done some good work on debunking the Russian collusion hoax. But in the end, when they create hoaxes on the next Republican president you have, because that's how they roll. Their names change. sometimes it's Julie Swetnik, sometimes it's Anita Hill. The names change.
Starting point is 00:27:49 The scams remain the same, right? Fire up the Jimmy Page. The song remains the same, all right? In the end, if you want to beat these people, you got to beat them with a better society, with the right principles. His liberty score, and he's been in Congress for 15 years. Well, a lot of you're going to be drinking tonight, so let's just go ahead and be honest with you. All right? 33% folks
Starting point is 00:28:21 That's not even a Moses Malone Foe foe foe 33 33 That means almost 70% of the time Your new conservative hero Devin Nunes votes with the very Democrats That you believe
Starting point is 00:28:41 That he'll be slaying tonight On your behalf On his 798th consecutive appearance On the Lori Ingram program You just take freedom, Steve. Indeed, yes. Lindsay Graham. Oh, yeah. Remember he went off? He saved Brett Kavanaugh.
Starting point is 00:28:58 The biggest travesty I've ever seen. These were my friends. These were my friends. You were supposed to do this to one of them conservative judges I don't like. Not one of, not car a robe and a black robe. That's not the rules of engagement around here. I'm incensed. Lindsey Graham from the deep blue state of South Carolina.
Starting point is 00:29:28 I believe you can, I think in fact to get elected to the Greenville, and I love Greenville. We have one of our offices there in Greenville, South Carolina. Correct me if I'm wrong, if you're listening there from the home branch in Greenville this morning. I believe to get elected to the city council in Greenville, South Carolina, you must be able to recite the entire New England primer, word for word, in page order, I believe. that's how red South Carolina is right Lindsay Graham Nasty's Liberty score 30% 30 which means 70% of the time
Starting point is 00:30:05 he votes like he represents Bernie Sanders Vermont remember I told you guys yesterday pragmatism sucks Lindsay Graham's Liberty score is living breathing proof how about the newest conservative hero oh yes she faced down
Starting point is 00:30:23 Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler, the Eisengard and Mordor of our Middle Earth, the two towers of progressive dominance. Okay. Would you like to know her Liberty Score? She's been in Congress for five years, for four years, 24% of the time. She votes with you. At least Stefanik didn't even vote for the Trump tax cuts, guys. Like, that is to be a Republican.
Starting point is 00:31:02 that is the minimum threshold. You have to be willing to vote for like any tax cut, like literally any of them. Like you can't be one, like anywhere. Like even Chris Christie cuts taxes. Even the rhinos cut taxes. Because everybody knows that is the minimum threshold. The number one thing,
Starting point is 00:31:19 now for those of us that have been Republican activists, number one thing we would know the Republican Party for is being pro-life, pro-second. Right? But within the skull and bone society of the Republican Party, The vow you take, nominate potter. All right.
Starting point is 00:31:36 When you are brought in. Did you like that? When you are brought in, I took a shot at you yesterday. I had to give one back this morning to my Catholic editor over here to my right. And when you are a made evolved blob of tissue, fetal matter in the Republican Party, the agreement is you must vote for any tax cut. It's just automatic. You have to.
Starting point is 00:31:58 Or you're out. She didn't even vote for the Trump tax cuts last year. or in 2017. She couldn't even bring herself to do the bare minimum it takes. Remember in the Man of Steel movie you love so much when you find out that the S stands for hope in their language? Yes. Like what does the magic R really stand for?
Starting point is 00:32:17 Rot-gut? Yes. Rancid. How about wrong? It's the new math. It's the new math. Yes. So, Elise DeFantic, who right now,
Starting point is 00:32:28 there are conservative women around the country right now saying to their daughters. Be more like her. Indeed. Vote against the number one reason your economy is booming right now. The Trump tax cuts. Do that. Dude, if you can't get a Republican to go to cut your taxes. That is the point you might as well just vote Democrat.
Starting point is 00:32:51 Because you're going to get everything else that the Democrats want to. What was it that you pointed out regarding this? How these Republicans run in red states versus how progressives run in red states? Yeah, we're going to get to that in a second, too. I've got to get to one more, though. Because there was a huge blow-up about Doug Collins, the congressman in Georgia, who's got lots of cool quips going off on Mueller and all these hoaxes we've all had to endure for the last year. All right?
Starting point is 00:33:22 His Liberty score in Deep Red Georgia, 48%. Remember when Reagan said the person who's your 80% friend, isn't your 20% enemy? What about the person who's the 50% enemy, 70% enemy? Are they a 20 or 30% friend? And if you think these are isolated, oh, there's more. We'll get to those when we come back here on the Glenn Beck program. You're listening to Glenn Beck. It's time to get back into gold because there's a reset coming.
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Starting point is 00:35:23 If you don't heed Cicero's warning about the enemy within the gates, right? And you're up against the folks that when the bullets start flying can just reverse the jersey and start fighting against you, right? When the Visigoths came over the wall in Rome, they weren't met with a lot of resistance because a lot of the Roman army had become so watered down. It was made up of their own kinfolk and countrymen. And so when the Visigoths came over the wall, a whole bunch of Roman soldiers, man, took off the Centurion gear and said, Svess, family reunion. Let's sack this place.
Starting point is 00:35:57 All right, if you align yourself with those who will betray you, there's no tactic for that. You can't overcome that. That's why I wanted to spend our opening hour on this commandment alone. And let me leave you with this thought. Lamar Alexander, 12% Liberty Score, that's Tennessee. Thad Cochran when he was alive. Mississippi, Liberty score, 24%. Deep Red Mississippi.
Starting point is 00:36:19 Orrin Hatch, Utah. Deep Red, Utah, 27%. John Hoven, North Dakota, 28%. Another red state. Roger, the other Mississippi senator, 30%. Johnny Isaacson, when he was the senator in Georgia, 31%.
Starting point is 00:36:34 Shelly Capito in West Virginia. A state, Donald Trump, didn't just win every county folks. He won every freaking precinct in 2016. Her liberty score is 32%. These are some of the reddest states in the union. And the people you're electing go to Washington and vote like Democrats. But then let's look at Democrats in swing states. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, 10%.
Starting point is 00:36:56 Michael Bennett, Colorado, 10%. Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin, 9%. Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow in Michigan, 8%. Mark Warner, Virginia, 4%. Bill Nelson in Florida. The ultimate swing state has a 2% Liberty score. In other words, when Democrats get elected to national office in swing states that they could lose,
Starting point is 00:37:19 they still go to Washington and vote like Nancy Pelosi. But when you elect Republicans in red states that they couldn't lose any way other than just forgetting to have their name on the ballot, they go there and vote a lot like Nancy Pelosi too. So what do you do with this information? Forewarned is forearmed. I understand you can't make the perfect, the enemy the good. You don't have to give me those lectures.
Starting point is 00:37:50 I've actually worked in the trenches. A lot of you have only just heard about on the radio. I understand all of that. But you have to understand how to use your assets appropriately. Lindsay Graham wants to be a senator for life. Leverage him. Use him. But if you don't know who Lindsey Graham really is and you let him lie to you, you won't.
Starting point is 00:38:12 You'll just let him keep backstaffed. happen you. A lot of these people you're going to elect, particularly as the culture continues to decline, are craven opportunists. Create an environment where it's opportunistic for them to do what you think and what you say and which you want. Not the media or the swamp or the establishment or whatever we're calling District 1, the capital out there in Washington, D.C. nowadays. That's the point of this information. You leverage them. instead of letting them betray you. The next nine commandments of political warfare are next here on the Glenn Beck program.
Starting point is 00:39:19 You're listening to Glenn the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program. How do we do what we believe? How do we win? What tactics elevate and advance our principles as conservatives rather than diminish them and help us become exactly like that. which we're trying to defeat. That's the theme and the questions we're answering today on the Glenn Beck program.
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Starting point is 00:41:31 Just look up my name, D-E-A-C-E. You can also go to blaz-tivy.com slash days to watch us and all of the other great programming we do each day at Blaz-TV. Blase TV. Blase-T-V-T-V-T-V-T-Vey-Sash-Dase. So we spent an entire opening hour on the first of the Ten Commandments of Political Warfare from my book Rules for Patriots, which I wanted to write the antidote to Sololinski's rules for radicals. How do we actually have principles that? elevate those of us that believe in God-given rights rather than emulating the principles of a book
Starting point is 00:42:02 dedicated to Lucifer. How do we do that? That's what these Ten Commandments of Political Warfare are all about. So now that we have, I think, at the very least, enticed a number of you to consider how much you are willing to blind trust these Republicans you elect because they gave you the soundbite you wanted on Fox News tonight. Let's move on to the rest of the tactics, gentlemen. You ready to go? Let's get it. Yep. Let's go to number two. Second of our Ten Commandments. Never a which you're not willing to kill. This is a mistake I have seen conservatives make in public office way too often.
Starting point is 00:42:36 Here's the reality. The minute you become the Republican nominee for any office in America that matters, you are immediately a racist, a misogynist, a homophobic, a xenophobe, and you probably kick puppies.
Starting point is 00:42:55 Immediate. I look at John McCain, The media did everything he could to get him the nomination 10 years ago. Five minutes after he clinched the nomination, front page in the New York Times, he's got a mistress. Now, I believe that story was debunked, but you think that they just found out about that five minutes after he clinched the nomination, or do you think they probably had that story ready the entire time? And if he hadn't clinched the nomination, there would be no point in running that story because then they could still use him to book him every Sunday morning to use and dispute their talking points against people like us, right? the way the game is played. You're a Green Bay Packers fan.
Starting point is 00:43:30 Correct, Todd. Yeah. You're the legendary coach, Vince Lombardi. Always used to say to his players, if you're going to go over the middle, catch the ball. Because when you go over the middle, you know that safety's coming up behind you. He can't see if you caught the ball or not most of the time.
Starting point is 00:43:45 And so he is caught to play you, the player, not the ball. So that's why he hits you to try to stop you and separate you from the ball. So you're going to get hit, going over the middle, sticking out those out how many times on an NFL Sunday or a college football Saturday do you see guys stick the alligator arms out there right meaning they they don't fully extend for the
Starting point is 00:44:05 ball and then they get cold jacked anyway and you're screaming as a fan just catch the ball you're getting a hit anyway what was the point of taking the hit if you're not going to move the chains or or score the touchdown right correct yes all too often you see the people representing you think, you know, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, a few weeks ago. Dude, loaded up came, came, came, man, emptied the freaking chamber. And then with. bodies twitching and smoke pouring forth from the barrel, went for a refill,
Starting point is 00:45:05 cocked again, unloaded the chamber again, and then was like, Austin Powers, I'm spent. That's what you do, guys. Well, of course you do, but we need a better, this is like the reverse of the Joker, we need a better class of criminal,
Starting point is 00:45:25 and I'm going to give it to him sort of thing. but this is this is really really hard to do because ultimately a lot of our candidates get involved listen their pageant parents is what they are this is they really want the ribbon the the ceremony all of that stuff and you don't have to be a jerk you listen it's easy we're quite good at it but you don't have to go in there name call it or anything like that this is about the ideas Just kill the ideas. I go back to John Jr. You watch that clip.
Starting point is 00:45:59 He's not in there being a D-bag or anything. I mean, if anything, his delivery reminded me of Chris Farley and Tommy Boy. Bert, you were there, right? When he looks over at when he looks over at Whoopi Goldberg and says, I mean, hey, Whoopi, you were. I mean, Joy, you wore blackface too. I'm like, come on. We're all just Ralph. We're all part of the Ralph Northern Society here, right?
Starting point is 00:46:23 See, that tactic, doing it that way actually works even better. Because if you go in there with brow furrowed from the outset, then they can right away just label you. But when you go in there, you know, like Kumodi, how you like me now, you know, we're just sitting there having some coffee talk and the truth's on my side. I got nothing to fear. This is a devastating tactic. They're going to treat you like the Covington kids. Anyway. Anyway.
Starting point is 00:46:51 So what is the point of earning all of these bad names? Why do any of this then? If you're not going to lay waste, okay, lay waste to the fortress, then don't enlist. Because you'll be treated just the same as if you had anyway. That brings us to commandment number three. never accept the word never you're to find is used a lot here i like absolutes we we love absolutes on this show we embrace them we marinate in them we love them never accept the premise of your opponent's argument never never never and again if you just tuned in this morning never in the
Starting point is 00:47:40 original greek means never it's never os never oz never it's never it's never right um how are we doing that today oh you know and tons of things how many we all do it and i and we're all afraid of getting banned on social media right now everybody in conservative media is for the most part except for kurch schlichter i think he's begging for a ban god bless him all right i mean it's like he it's like he's like looking for updates to their terms of service of what you can't say do and it's like all right now i know i've got my marching orders for today all right and and i'm i'm convinced they won't ban them because they just don't want to give them the satisfaction so most of us in our industry are paranoid about getting banned from these platforms because there are
Starting point is 00:48:37 primary conduit to reach most of you with with our clips and stories and it's how you aggregate your information and news nowadays our ability to reach you is severely diminished without them and so what's happening is mental illness known as trans this and trans that but it's mental illness it's insanity I mean let me read for you this headline
Starting point is 00:49:00 let me find it here from over at red state yesterday all right this headline is incredible and it was a story out of the UK this is the headline I'm just going to read it verbatim a lesbian couple identifying as neither a straight nor gay couple has a miracle baby with the sperm of a man
Starting point is 00:49:17 identifying as a woman thanks to a transgender doctor. That's 2019 in one headline, y'all, right there. Yes, it is. And Red State is doing it this way of pointing out how insane this all is. But two, this is the most devastatingly effective way they could do so without violating the terms of service of the social media groups and getting banned. If you verbalize your opponent's talking points, you're helping to advance them. If you, if you permit the premise of your opponent's argument to be granted, he will win the argument every time. Whoever's premise is accepted in an argument always wins, always wins. We're always arguing bottom line, bottom line, bottom line, they're always arguing premise, premise,
Starting point is 00:50:12 premise. That's where the fight is at. It's not at the end of the argument. It's at the beginning, Todd. That's why you have to, who's the player of former nationals now in the Phillies? Oh, you're talking about Bryce Harper? That's why you need to be comfortable saying that's a clown question, bro. You've got to have that in their arsenal. And you have to say it a lot because the media just comes at you over and over again with these ridiculous premises. And it's fascinating that you bring up, read that headline because one of the best jobs you did this in real time with the local guy on Channel 13. You got to tell people about that because you basically said that's a clown question, bro.
Starting point is 00:50:49 There was a local news guy and they had me when I was doing just local radio and they used to do this feature, local newsmakers for in a chair for 60 minutes and can ask you anything. So I go into the chair and they want to ask me all kinds of questions about homosexuality. All right. And he starts asking me questions like do I, you know, do I think a homosexual should be allowed to openly serve in the military? And I said to him, I think all males and females who are able-bodied and can live by the uniform. code of military justice. If they wish to volunteer to serve their country, they ought to be able to.
Starting point is 00:51:24 And then he asked me again, same question. I gave him the exact same answer. All males and females that can serve and can live by the UM Uniformed code of military justice should be able to. He's like, well, what about, what about gays? I'm like, I only know of two forms of people, male and female.
Starting point is 00:51:39 If you know of a third variation of the species, by all means, you should be in the chair. It's what I told them. You should be, let's switch spots. You're the newsmaker. You're breaking news. You're letting us know something science has not previously told us I only know men and women.
Starting point is 00:51:51 And then he said to me, he goes, well, do you have any family members who are gay? Because this was right after we had the election about throwing the judges out over gay marriage here in Iowa. And I looked at him and I said, well, I believe that what someone, I used their own talking point against them. I looked at him and said, well, I believe what someone does with another consenting adult in their own bedroom is none of my business. So I don't call up my family members and ask him, hey, did you have gay sex last night? And that's how the, that's how the exchange ended right then and there. That's what you're talking about. December 31st, 2009, you would have probably been somewhere on the airwaves, or maybe not, because you were probably on break then.
Starting point is 00:52:26 But around that time, you would have been somewhere saying, you know, with the gay marriage debate, this would have been five and a half years before a burger fell, with the gay marriage debate, what we're really debating here, and you would have correctly pointed out is that there is no gender. Right. And, of course, you would have been told, oh, you're just making a slippery slope argument. This is just about, this is just about love is love. and love is equal and all of this. Ten years later, December 31st, gets that red state headline. Because ultimately we're saying it's not natural
Starting point is 00:52:55 for men to be attracted to women and women to be attracted to men, and that's how we perpetuate the species. That's really what you're saying, is those aren't God-given or nature-ordained instincts and desires and wants, and that's why we're going to justify no longer recognizing that and undoing them.
Starting point is 00:53:12 So what you're really saying, if you take your argument to its logical premise, you're saying there's no gender, And I'd bring these people on, as you point out, they'd lose their minds. But now, what is the argument? What's been the number one cultural flashpoint we've had all year in 2019? The very gender argument they used to deny to people like me they really wanted to have all along. More here on the Glen Beck program in a moment.
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Starting point is 00:55:00 never accept the premise of your opponent's argument. This is a common sin on the right. We use their talking points. We shouldn't ever argue about gun violence, ever, that talking point. I was on a panel on MSNBC one day when they literally invented that term in the middle of the panel during commercial break. We just changed the talking point to gun control to gun violence. I'm not changing. That might be your talking point, but I mean, you don't control my conscience.
Starting point is 00:55:27 You want gun control. You want gun confiscation. That's what you want. I'm not using your talking points. You wouldn't use mine. Why should I use yours? Why do we just volunteer to be on defense? Why?
Starting point is 00:55:43 And it's one of those questions that there's no good answer to. And the minute somebody asks you this, you don't you feel like you're empowered and free to be like, you know what, you're right? I don't have to do that. I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm not. Like I would never use the word abortion.
Starting point is 00:55:58 We don't use it really on our show. Call it child killing. That's what you're doing. Killing babies. I mean, abortion sounds like a tonsillectomy. I'm just, you know, I had this thing that I don't need. I got rid of it and we move on. Doesn't it sound, it sounds so clinical.
Starting point is 00:56:12 Again, why would I use their terms? Why? That's the term they want. Why would I use that? Why would I let people who get up in the morning and live out the boy in the striped pajamas in real time as their job at the abortuary at the child killing plant? One day a few years ago when Noah was sick, And when he was little, I took his sisters down to see him.
Starting point is 00:56:36 He was in the hospital with a bad virus for a couple of days. And he needed IVs and stuff that we couldn't do at home. And I took his older sisters down to see him. They were still kind of young at the time too. And there used to be a planned parented right across the street from Mercy Hospital here in Des Moines. Irony of Ironies. It's closed. Like a lot of the clinics are closing nowadays.
Starting point is 00:56:53 Praise God for that. And my daughters asked me, hey, what is that? My oldest, I think she was 11 maybe at the time. the youngest would have been like seven. I told them. I told them the truth. I didn't tell them that was an abortion clinic. I said, women go in there and have their babies killed because they don't want them. And they do that right across the street from the hospital.
Starting point is 00:57:17 You know, the model we have in our house is when you're old enough to ask the right questions, you're old enough to get the right answers. So I told them that. Why would I, why would I sanitize this on any level? So why do we, all the answers. to that question are bad. Are we ready for commandment four? Yes. Here's commandment number four.
Starting point is 00:57:41 Never, there's that word again, never surrender the moral high ground. Never. Ben Kenobi, Obi-1 looks at Anakin Skywalker and says, it's over, Anakin, I have the high ground. That was actually a pretty good impersonation. Didn't that sound like him a little bit? No.
Starting point is 00:58:05 I hate you. I thought it sounded pretty good. No? Hello that. No? Okay. Why give up the high ground on your argument? Let me give me an example in recent years of what this looks like.
Starting point is 00:58:22 And then I'll let you guys chime in, okay? The ObamaCare debate. So here we have the most anti. I didn't use the prefix un. The most anti-constitutional piece of legislation, arguably, in American history. Now, something can, we can debate on the left and right, and people of good conscience can debate, how far the general welfare clause should go, for example.
Starting point is 00:58:50 Really, what preemptively can a president empowered his commander in chief really do preemptively on his own militarily? And people of good conscience can have disagreements about these things and then have it adjudicated and found to be unconstitutional in the end. Okay. But when something's anti-constitutional, that's different. Unjust means, you know what, we checked, we looked, we analyzed it, and it doesn't really line up with the Constitution's original framework and scheme, schema were intended to be. So, nice try, but no.
Starting point is 00:59:25 Anti-means, you're trying to undo this. You are against. Unmeans you're wrong. Anti-means. You're against. You're intentionally attempting to undermine that which you're opposing. So when something is anti-constitutional, it's against the Constitution. Obamacare was against the Constitution on every level.
Starting point is 00:59:45 On every level. The idea that government could order you to buy something you don't want. The idea that government could order you to fund services you don't need. The idea that government could then say you must violate your conscience if you're Liberty University, if you're Hobby Lobby Corporation, if you're those poor nuns at Little Sisters of the Poor, you've got to pay for me to get my freak on and kill my kid afterwards. I can't think of any viable tenant. You even screened people for Second Amendment rights.
Starting point is 01:00:12 I cannot think of a tenant of the Constitution that Obamacare did not violate. And what was the often argument that you heard from Republicans about it? Was it that argument? Are those of the arguments shows like this made? But the politicians you elect, the argument you often heard was, they can't afford that. They can't afford that. Okay, cool.
Starting point is 01:00:36 So if we were running budget surpluses, It wouldn't be anti-constitutional anymore. It wouldn't be any less wicked if we were in the black instead of the red. What an absolutely stupid argument. And when your argument is stupid, you lose. And that's why Obamacare never got repealed. More of the Glenn Beck program in a moment. You're listening to Glenn Beck.
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Starting point is 01:02:45 Look for Steve Dase, D-E-A-C-E. Look for Steve Dase on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, et cetera. And as always, you have any questions or anything you want to ask me about? email me, Steve at Steve days.com. As the show continues to grow, I can't respond to everybody the way that I used to when we were just a wee last. But I do try to get back to as many people as I possibly can. I want to continue on here with commandment number four, though, for just a second. And why tactically this is so important.
Starting point is 01:03:16 Let's go back to the Obama here at debate. Because I think it's the number one reason why Republicans lost control of Congress. I think it's the number one reason, the number two reason. the number two reason, the number three, and the number four. And I don't think it has any of to do with Trump's tweeting activity, which most days I'm not a fan of myself, okay? But I don't think that, I don't think, I live in the suburbs, Republicans lost. I don't think a whole lot of people got up in the morning on that first Tuesday in November
Starting point is 01:03:47 and said, you know, Trump tweeted something I saw on TMZ in June, and that's why I'm voting for this Democratic. They didn't keep their promise in the end. They didn't keep their promise to repeal Obamacare. You cannot promise something to the American people over 50 times and they're not deliver it. George, read my lips, no new taxes. Herbert Walker Bush called. He agrees.
Starting point is 01:04:14 Can't do that. Can't lay a marker down and then not go through with it. Can't do that. That's the red line for the American people. If you were a Republican in Congress, which debate would you rather have? The debate over whether this was the GOP consultant class talking point, it's a monstrosity we can't afford. So number one, you're making an argument based on fiduciary responsibility with a federal government that's already trillions of dollars in debt to the average American who has a zero savings account right now. And things we can just literally call up the Xerox machine at Fort Knox and print more money.
Starting point is 01:05:03 You're saying the horse kind of left the barn on that one already? Yeah. When you're running trillion, when you've already done Medicare Part D because we had to do that, you know, that compassionate conservatism thing in the George W. Bush years. So we already did Medicare Part D. We already did race to the top. No child left behind. We already had to bail out Lehman Brothers. All right. And the bankers. You know, we just suspend free market principles to save the free market. We had to do all of these things. by the way, do you know what the most unpopular piece of congressional legislation in the history of modern polling is? TARP was. TARP was the most unpopular piece of legislation.
Starting point is 01:05:41 Ever. Ever. And Republicans sign on to it. The Republican presidential nominee was in first place in the real clear politics polling average in September coming out of the convention. Largely thanks to a Sarah Palin speech. He then suspends his campaign while in first place. to save us from billionaires losing a few billion dollars or something. Wasn't that something?
Starting point is 01:06:09 We learned yesterday you have to suspend free market principles to save it. For some reason, okay? And then got destroyed just a few weeks, a couple of months later in the presidential election. He was never a factor after this. So you just went through a decade where you conditioned people that we can do all kinds of things. We can have endless war, right? The Iraq we allegedly freed is having its Benghazi moment as we speak right now, reportedly. The dead clock just ticks like a bomb behind us all.
Starting point is 01:06:38 It's just back, right? It's like elevator music now. So as a, yeah, so as a. That's my favorite music. Yeah. Yes. Everyone's hold music nowadays when you call is the debt clock music. Perfect.
Starting point is 01:06:54 That's a clockwork orange come to life. Indeed. but you've conditioned people that you can grow government anytime you want. And now suddenly the other side's arguing, single moms can't get health care and you hate kids. And so after let's do endless war in Iraq, let's do endless mall copping in Afghanistan, because, you know, those last remaining Taliban interlopers riding their horses like the resistance on the, on the, on the, the, the shell of the Star Destroyers and rise of skywalk. are what are quite the menacing threat to the 101st airborne.
Starting point is 01:07:32 Yes. Yes. Keep doing all of these things. Trillions and trillions and trillions. More, more and more for America last. But guys, when it comes to single moms and their health care, we just, we can't afford that. We're broke here. Is it any wonder why that dog didn't hunt?
Starting point is 01:07:51 And people are like, listen, I'm SMRT smart. I went to public school. But I got to believe, if we've got money for my son to follow in my footsteps, I fought in Afghanistan. And now my kid's going? We got money for that. But we don't have money for single moms to have their health care. I might need a better argument. And these Republicans will turn around and they say, well, the press, and that's just a lying argument.
Starting point is 01:08:17 And yeah, because progressivism, the whole thing is a lie. They're always lying. You don't get to suddenly pull out and play victim status because they spun one on you. The entire thing is a canard. Yes. You can't exchange a canard with a canard. You know, I've probably been on MSNBC and CNN over 50 some odd times in my career. I know this.
Starting point is 01:08:43 I've been live on the set. I don't have to accept their talking points. I don't have to accept the premise of their arguments. I don't have to give up the high ground on my position. I don't have to do that. And neither do any of you Republican. politicians. You choose to do it. You could have, you could have gone on with Soladad. Is she even on anymore? I don't watch any of these shows. I don't even know who's on.
Starting point is 01:09:05 She's like one of the angriest, craziest people on Twitter, and that's saying something. Has she gone to the Alyssa Milano? Don't mess with me. I'm premenopausal. She played that car. Have you ever seen her and Alyssa Milano in the same place? Yes. Glass is on? Glass is off. Soledadad O'Brien with the glasses on, Alyssa Milano with the glasses off, right? Like Clark Kevin Superman? So, um, You don't have to. They don't like hand you a script. And hey, Trubidor, play this tune.
Starting point is 01:09:33 You can just, I don't know, blow it up and say what you think. What's the point of that free speech thing if you're not going to use it? Right. I got to get this. Since we're on this show, I mentioned this last month, the last season of season two of Yellowstone. This is my mantra and it needs to be yours. But the last episode, it's these warring factions. and the side, the family that you're following is, it's fighting back and it gets the final win.
Starting point is 01:10:08 But in, and it's two people talking and one is dying. The bad guy is dying. And the good guy, the family that you're following says, did you really not think we wouldn't fight back? And the guy who's dying just kind of laughs as he's dying and he says, no one ever fights back. man, that's everything Steve is talking about in this point and the last point and the last point, which is why he says never, never. Because if you think you have high ground and you won't fight for it, it was never your high ground to begin with. Like on the issue of life, if we really believe it's a life, then why would we spend our,
Starting point is 01:10:48 tell you what, if you do a little song, do a little dance, and you wear white after Labor Day, It's three minutes after midnight on a Thursday. And you saw black cats. Yeah, and you're working kind of buckwheat and all the long places. And I'm going to be, damn it. Then you can kill your kid. Why would we do legislation like that? The heartbeat bills and stuff we're seeing around the country nowadays?
Starting point is 01:11:14 Why weren't we doing these 40 years ago? Why did we spend millions, billions of dollars trying to ban. late-term partial birth abortion. We got it all the way to the Supreme Court, Carhart v. Gonzalez. And we didn't ban it. Won the case and didn't ban it. All we did was banned one method of it.
Starting point is 01:11:34 It's like you, at Nuremberg, they only banned one form of gassing Jews in ovens. Zyclon A, you can't use Zyclon A, but if you use the Zyclan B, dude, it's totally dope. We're down. Can't use the Zyclan A, though. That's bad stuff. That's what the, that was like,
Starting point is 01:11:51 until the last few years, that was like the biggest pro-life legislative win ever was banning, or at least since the Hyde Amendment, which is going back long before Aaron was even born, was banning one form of partial birth abortion, late-term abortion. And yet we're still one of only six countries in the world that permits this. Pretty good rule of thumb is if you're an exclusive company with North Korea in anything, you're wrong. Another good rule of thumb number two.
Starting point is 01:12:22 if France is morally to your right on something, you're wrong. You can't do late term and partial birth abortion in France, where their prime ministers have their mistresses and their wives show up at their state funerals, Mr. Mitterrand, all right? And they stand next to each other, okay? That country doesn't let Ralph Northam say, you know, when we have the kid, then we put it in swaddling cloth over there in the incubator, the mom decides, do you want it?
Starting point is 01:12:54 No, okay, if not, stick a fork in it. We're done here. You can't do that in France. Where the mistress and the wife are both Prime Minister Mitterrand's general. Okay? France won't let you do that. Where they give their kids cigarettes for breakfast.
Starting point is 01:13:08 Would you have for breakfast? What'd you have for breakfast there? France. Well, you know, mom gave me a pack of lucky strikes. And they give their kids cigarettes for breakfast in France. But they don't permit late-term abortion. And yet we do. When we thought we had won this battle, but we didn't win it ever.
Starting point is 01:13:28 Why? We spent so much time trying to regulate child killing. Instead of arguing our actual point, when does life begin? And all of our legislation, all of it, all of it, ought to begin with that premise. We shouldn't even use words like fetus, and I know the medical term, but they've co-opted it. It should say child or baby in your legislation. Why do we give up the moral high ground on any of this? Again, a question that doesn't have any good answers.
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Starting point is 01:15:36 one of the greatest, I mean, technicians ever at this was Ronald Reagan. And a couple of the most famous examples I can think of off the top of my head. Early in his presidency, the country is mired in a deep recession coming out of the Carter years. Still a big debate about whether his tax cuts are going to work or not. We hadn't seen really a mass across the board tax cuts since JFK in the 60s. and Keynesian economics reigns supreme at this point in time. And so Reagan's unpopular and the economy's not doing well. It just fire the air traffic controllers.
Starting point is 01:16:15 So a lot of the unions, I think the Teamsters endorsed Reagan in 80, I believe. Thought that, you know, he might be better for the everyday working man than we saw in the Carter years. We had to invent the term misery index to accurately describe what the economy was like. And he's standing there doing a briefing, a nationwide press briefing. they're in the White House. And Sam Donaldson starts to try to corner the ABC's long time chief White House reporter of yesteryear tries to corner the president. It says, Mr. President, you have stood here today and blamed everybody other than yourself for the state of the economy. You've blamed the Democrats in Congress.
Starting point is 01:16:57 You've blamed, you know, a lack of patience for your policies. you blame Democratic governors and their policies in their Midwestern states. You have blamed everybody other than yourself, sir. You are the president. Do you share no blame for how people are suffering right now? And without skipping a beep, Ronald Reagan looks at him and says, well, Sam, you're right. For many years, I was a Democrat.
Starting point is 01:17:25 So I do share some of the blame as well. That's a mic drop. one of the most famous clips of his presidency is in the first debate against Walter Mondale in 1984 for his re-elect, Reagan did not perform well. And it looked like he was going to cruise to re-election. Now suddenly like maybe this guy's too old to be president. First question he gets in the second debate
Starting point is 01:17:49 is about that performance. And is he too old to be president? How would he reassure the American people? And he looks, he coxed and he looks over at Walter Mondale and says, well, I want to assure the American people. I'm not going to stoop to the level. of using my opponent's relative youth and inexperience against him in this race. And even Walter Mondale laughed at that.
Starting point is 01:18:10 That's how you reverse the premise of your opponent's argument and use it against them. One of the things you'll often see me say when somebody crazy on the left makes a point, calling somebody that we like names, all often respond with, you know, when it comes to blank, you're certainly the subject matter expert here. So I may have to rethink my opinion on this topic because everybody knows you've got this one down in spades, bro. Okay? Don't hang them from their hoist them from their own petard, as Shakespeare used to say.
Starting point is 01:18:46 That is a devastating tactic in argumentation in the arena of ideas, particularly when it's done with humor or winsomeness. Don't accept their premise, but now let's go a step further. reverse it and use it against them. We'll have more on that here when we come back. Hour three of the Glenn Beck program is next. You're listening to Glenn Beck, the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck program.
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Starting point is 01:21:29 here on this new year's eve day filling in for glenbeck on the glenbeck program happy new year to all of you we are the crew from the steve day show that would be me steve day's totters and Aaron McIntyre, noon to two Eastern, every weekday right after Glenn Beck on Blaze TV, radio and podcast. If you liked what you've heard here the past couple of days, if you want to check us out, blazTV.com slash Dace, last name is, D-E-A-C-BlazTV.com slash dace. You can also just look for my name, Steve Dase, if you want to subscribe to the podcast at iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, et cetera.
Starting point is 01:22:06 Find our channel on YouTube as well. Follow me on Twitter. at Steve Dase show. You can also email me, Steve at Steve Dase.com. We are going over my 10 commandments of political warfare. Here's how I believe we can actually and effectively do what we believe. And they're from my book Rules for Patriots, how conservatives can win again endorsed by a few people you've probably heard of.
Starting point is 01:22:30 The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, the former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, just a couple. A guy named Ben Shapiro, just a few people some of you may have heard of. endorsed this book when it came out a few years ago. I want to go back one more time to commandment number five about reversing the premise of your opponent's argument and using it against them. We left off there at the end of the last hour. And I want to say one more thing about this commandment. You know, we started off today talking about how I'm not a big fan of the debate over how much like the left should we become to beat the left. Right. You know what? I've
Starting point is 01:23:08 I didn't always grow up in the best home. And this is one of the reasons I'm sensitive to this debate is my own life. And I remember thinking as a little kid, man, I want to grow up and be better than my dad was to me. And I remember sitting watching Empire Strikes Back as a little kid. When Luke goes into that cave in Dagobah, and he, and the invader is there. he's being tested. And his immediate instinct is, I've got to take this guy down right now.
Starting point is 01:23:43 Right? And he takes him down. Decapitates him, actually. But then the helmet opens and whose face is inside is. That blew my mind as a kid. And it does us no good to try to beat venom with venom,
Starting point is 01:24:03 toxin with toxin. One of the things we point out in our show whenever this debate comes up is zero times zero is just zero. When you're dealing with people in a movement that want to tear down everything's sacred that matters to you,
Starting point is 01:24:19 they're fine if you help them along. They don't care. As long as this thing is on the ash heap to history, I mean, that's all they care about. You want to help push them, push the pile, they're fine with it. But that doesn't mean there's never a time, as I also pointed out at the top of the show,
Starting point is 01:24:38 to fight fire with fire. This commandment is the place to do it. This is the place to do it. Let me give me an example. If we're going to set the precedent in our society that the only reason you could possibly have to disagree with Barack Obama's policies
Starting point is 01:24:56 when he was president is you're a racist, right? We're going to set that precedent? Sure. Okay. Okay. You sure you want that premise? We'll go with it. Right now in the city of Detroit.
Starting point is 01:25:06 I'm assuming we're on there because we're on like everywhere else. Right now in the city of Detroit, 8% of the children there. Eight, I just, I can't even, I can't even fathom that. 8% of the children are reading proficient
Starting point is 01:25:26 according to the U.S. Department of Education. In the Obama years, by the way. That was their stat when he was president. That was his department of ed. 8%. 8. Overwhelmingly, the population
Starting point is 01:25:49 of students in the Detroit public schools are black. So therefore, if we are going to let's just play out the math, if we are going to set the precedent, if your premise over there on the left,
Starting point is 01:26:03 is that the only possible reason I would oppose policies from the previous president, we had more people on food stamps in America under Barack Obama than the two.
Starting point is 01:26:15 total population of Spain. You ever been to Spain, travel there, take a trip, look around, and realize that if you took the entire population of Spain, that would be the amount of people who are on food stamps when Barack Obama was president. And the only reason I think that's a bad idea, that's bad for the country and bad for people. Hey, I grew up, we were on food stamps. I remember getting those as a kid. We ate government cheese.
Starting point is 01:26:42 I did reduce school lunches. So the only reason you could possibly think it's bad to have more American. Americans in the richest country on earth on food stamps, then the total population of Spain is you're a racist. If that's where we're at now, okay, well, then the only reason you don't want school choice that would free those black kids from those underperforming schools. Is you're a racist?
Starting point is 01:27:11 There cannot possibly be another reason. Why do you hate black kids? Why are you a racist? see that this is where you do it you don't match a lie for a lie you know water down what you believe you don't accept their talking points but i'm all for making the other side live by the standards they want to impose on everybody else i'm all for that i'm not lowering my standard for you but i'm sure as hell going to make you live by yours oh yeah that you want to live by that standard that's the standard you've articulated you love misquoting matthew seven to me
Starting point is 01:27:51 out of context, judge not let he be judged, without finishing the rest of that verse, which by the way, Matthew 7 in its proper context is Jesus condemning people of their hypocrisy, their unwillingness to live by the standards that they want to impose on everybody else, which is why I'm totally fine imposing your standard upon you. It's not my standard. You're the one that wanted that standard. I don't want to live in a country where the only possible reason you could disagree with me is you are the lowest form of life on earth. You're racist scum. I don't want to live in that country, but you said you did.
Starting point is 01:28:28 You wanted to live there. So by the power vested in me by the freedom of speech, I'm sure is how going to make you live there. Squalor there, squat in it, live in it, breathe it, eat it, swallow it all. Would you like to play a game of Matthew Raderick? Yes, every last morsel of it you may have. if that's where you want to live. I am perfectly fine,
Starting point is 01:28:57 letting you live by your own stated standard. That's what that means. You have any further thoughts on that, gentlemen? Perfect. Hasten answered. Well done. Let's go to the next commandment. Number six, never abandon your base unless they're morally wrong.
Starting point is 01:29:16 Never abandon your base. See, in politics, if you don't have a base, you don't have anything. You don't have name ID, money. But if you can't develop a base, meaning a primary, in the radio business, we call these people P-1s, your primary audience, the people that truly believe in your product. And so they're going to give you the best advertising of all, word of mouth. They're going to spread it for you. That's the first goal any politician has to have is a base. That's why Michael Bloomberg is never going to be the Democratic nominee.
Starting point is 01:29:49 He can outspend every candidate in the race except for maybe Tom Steyer. who's not going to be the nominee either because they can have all the money they want. And if you live in our home state of Iowa right now, you think Tom Steyer owns every television station in the state because you cannot turn on a program without a Tom Steyer commercial. And thanks to the algorithms,
Starting point is 01:30:14 if you live in Iowa, you cannot log on to a website or a social media site without being inundated with Tom Steyer inserts and ads. but he has no base he's not developed an actual base so you know what he's doing he's just creating really cool Christmases for media ad buyers and media media ad sellers at all of these television stations and he's making a lot of people rich but he's not he's not he's not growing a base you must have a base greatest example of this is ron paul i can't think of a politician the system hated more than him over the years
Starting point is 01:30:54 Why was he able to withstand that? Despite sometimes the crazy things he believed and the crazier things he said. Because he had one heck of a loyal base. So you have to have a base. Even the Republicans that you maligned believe in this one as fervently because they know they have to lie to you enough to make you believe in the power of the magic are. The only time in the Obama years that the Republicans really took him on, really took him on, was when Antonin Scalia died.
Starting point is 01:31:26 because if they let Barack Obama seat the successor to Antonin Scalia, that's a real game changer on the court. And other than I'm just team GOP, the number one reason you vote Republican is judges. In the 2016 election, in the exit polling, the number two issue that decided voters' choices. Number one was the economy and jobs. Number two, judicial appointments.
Starting point is 01:31:55 And among those voters, Donald Trump won those votes. Donald Trump won those voters by like 25 points. So the Republicans are like, crap, man, we really want a shadow box here like we always do and just, you know, get on Fox and lie to people and just go back home to our brownstones and our watering holes and just cast the K Street check. But if out in the open and in an election year, if we let Barack Obama seat arguably the greatest conservative justice of the century, Antonin Scalia, if we let Barack Obama in an election year out in the open seat and Antonin Scalia's successor.
Starting point is 01:32:30 The whole scam is up here. We can't afford that. So on this one, survival instinct took over. We have to fight. It's like my old man used to tell me about the Alamo. One of the main reasons there was so much bravery there, there wasn't a backdoor. There wasn't a backdoor out of this one. So the Republicans had to fight Obama on Merrick Garland and they did.
Starting point is 01:32:47 Because they knew if they abandoned their base on this, they were toast. Don't ever abandon your base. They do this, though, all of the time. for those of you shocked I get calls from media people all the time why are all these evangelical supporting Trump why is he got a 90% approval rating amongst Republicans
Starting point is 01:33:09 doesn't abandon his base doesn't always deliver for him now that's true too he doesn't always deliver for them but you're not worried about Donald Trump going to one of his rallies on national television and throwing you under the bus on an issue you care about in that setting
Starting point is 01:33:29 Like you used to worry when George W. Bush was on the debate stage with John Kerry and you're like watched with your fingers over your eyes. And when like certain issues come up, you're like, please just don't go to the left of John Kerry and I'm going to call it a win, please. Right, right. Is that what I'm talking about? Sure. Sure. That's that you cannot abandon your base unless they're morally wrong. If they're morally wrong, then the higher law takes over. But if your base isn't morally wrong, you cannot abandon your base. Which means if you're in that Republican base,
Starting point is 01:34:01 do you know how much clout you really wield? Why are you the one, man, why do I got to vote for this rhino again? You know, they have these things called primaries. You know, you don't have to have that guy again. You don't have to have Lindsey Graham again, John Cornyn again. You don't have to. I mean, you're like doomed to your fate. You're not free to vote until November.
Starting point is 01:34:25 You're not free to take part in the process until post-Labor Day every time. because you know in philosophy we have what are called fallacies which means if one side's assertion is true and the other one's not the argument's not sound so one-sided argument okay so if it's true that you cannot abandon your base and be successful if that's true then it must also be true that that base wields an in anordinate amount of power and that base is you you have the power wield it more of the glenbeck program here in a moment you have heard me talk about Mike Lindell, the inventor of my pillow, and how his pillow has given me a great night's sleep, which I need. Now, from time to time, he'll send me something to try. From pillows to the sheets, to the towels, I've loved them all so far. You're the one who have built this into an incredible company, and have trusted Mike Lindell to give you a great night's sleep. So Mike wants to do something for you, and that is his geez at dream sheets, which are great. He's
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Starting point is 01:35:56 Enter the promo code back or call 800-9663117 and get the great radio specials. Back here on the Glenn Beck program, we are the crew from the Steve Day show, noon to two Eastern, each weekday after Glenn Beck on Blaze TV, radio, and podcast. Just search for our name, D-E-A-C-E on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, et cetera, or blazTV.com slash days. We left off with commandment number six, never abandon your base unless they're morally wrong. All right? Never abandon your base. But the reason why. This commandment is in there for those of you that aren't going to run for office, but are conservatives.
Starting point is 01:36:46 It's because it's also there to demonstrate how powerful you are. Conservatives are way too passive in the process, waiting for engineered outcomes from a Republican Party hierarchy that hates you. The only political party I know in America that hates conservatives more than Democrats are the Republicans. And if you want to know the true difference in Washington between the two parties, it's that the Democrats inspire their base to get what they want. and the Republicans conspire against their base to get what they want. So if it is true that if a politician goes against his base, if you want to know Joe Biden got in this race last spring, basically running his own Make America Great Again ads,
Starting point is 01:37:32 all the Americana, right, we saw all that stuff. And we were sitting there on our show. We were like, dude, he's nailed it. He's figured it out. People want to return to, they want to blame somebody for the divisiveness. and they want to Pax Romana, and he's coming up the middle with the right message, right? We said that at the time.
Starting point is 01:37:48 Sure. Doesn't that seem like it was 10 years ago? Pretty sure it was. Because it feels like it, because now he's running on, shut down the entire states of West Virginia and Pennsylvania because of what the temperature might, might, might be in the year, Zephram Cochran creates warp speed engine technology,
Starting point is 01:38:08 so we make first contact with the Vulcans, okay? Might be. Now he's running on. applauding kids, parents when they bring them to their shows and say, hey, what do you think about me castrating my kid and making him a girl? Oh, yeah, great idea.
Starting point is 01:38:23 He's just another candidate now. He's just another lefty now. Why? Because he did the math and he figured this is what my base wants and I've got to give him my base what they want. Pete Buttigieg soared
Starting point is 01:38:34 to heights here in Iowa running on. I'm a veteran. Everybody loves me. I'm from small town USA. I'm not a, you know, I'm, I, I'm, I, I'm, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm, I, I, I'm from a community that understands, you know, that you can't always just have the worst motivations
Starting point is 01:38:49 and suspicions of those you disagree with politically. And Iowans were like, oh, yes, we're Iowa nice. Not to mention, please give us a chance to show all the people that hate us. We're really not homophobes. Please. Let me slap another coexist bumper sticker on the back of my cul-de-sac Subaru. Please, please, please, please. And boy, it soared and it worked. But now he's out there in the last couple of weeks telling you that the Constitution was made for racists, Jesus was born into the world a refugee. In other words, he's, he sounds like just any other lefty now. Why? Don't abandon your base. Why is Tulsi Gabbard more popular with conservative media than she is her own party? Because they feel like she's abandoned them. That's
Starting point is 01:39:33 why. So they've abandoned her. You have that power on the right. You do. I don't know why we need to make these guys superheroes. Everybody's the, you know, the vessel of God. You're hiring an employee. I know there's going to be a lot of business owners in this audience. When you need a sales manager, when you need a mechanic, are you like, you know what? I think this guy's the next Navy Kenezer, who's a bad dude, by the way.
Starting point is 01:40:05 No, no, you're just hiring him. You're hiring a mechanic. Okay? you have the power stop giving it away to politicians own the power you have make the politicians bend to you the left base does it that's why uncle joe just now sounds like comrade joe what isn't our base do this you have the exact same power use it though or lose it we've got four more commandments to go. The final four of our Ten Commandments of Political Warfare coming your way here in a moment
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Starting point is 01:42:31 That's me, Steve Day's Todderson, and Aaron McIntyre. And again, if you want to follow up with us after we're done here today, and we bid you adieu as well as the year 2019. BlazTV.com slash dace, blazTV.com slash Dasee or look up Steve Dase on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter at Steve Dase show. Let's continue with today's theme, our 10 commandments of political warfare. We've got a few more to go. Let's get to commandment number seven. Define your opponent before they define themselves.
Starting point is 01:43:05 and define yourself before your opponent defines you. So define your opponent before they define themselves and define yourself before your opponent defines you. There was a time we did this well. Like you don't find anybody who identifies themselves really as a liberal anymore. That word was annihilated. And you can think,
Starting point is 01:43:32 the Ronald Reagan presidency, his entire political apparatus, Lee Atwater, who ran George Herbert Walker Bush's campaign in 1988 and turned it into, took it to, as Todd you like to say, dial that spinal tap up to 11. I mean, liberal was already a bad word in the Reagan 80s. But when the H.W. Bush campaign got a hold of it in 1988, I mean, they just won an entire candidacy against Michael DeCoccus on he's a liberal, card-carrying member of the United States.
Starting point is 01:44:02 the ACLU, the Willie Horton adds, the revolving door, the furloughs, the ridiculous picture of Dukakis in a tank, right? He's just out of the mainstream of America. The word liberal was entirely destroyed. That's why we hear the term progressive now. See, I think we have to understand that, because you know what, here's where the term liberal is still used in conservative media. You still see the term liberal used a lot. And I think Glenn was one of the first people that kind of transitioned to the notion that these are, this is the, you know, the Wilsonian progressivism come to life. The Fabian socialists come to life from the late 18th early, or late 19th, early 20th centuries. We use the term leftist on our show a lot because they're,
Starting point is 01:45:03 I don't believe there really are any liberals anymore. Well, let me rephrase that. I, I don't think there's a lot of liberals left in elected politics anymore. I think we have a lot of friends and family members who are liberals, meaning people that want government to give you the ability to do that, which God says is dumb and immoral. That's really what a liberal is. Or someone who thinks government should do for people what they can't do for themselves, right? That's kind of the traditional definition.
Starting point is 01:45:29 We all have a lot of the, I mean, I grew up in Michigan. You grew up in Wisconsin? You know, we're going to run into all kinds of those kinds of people in this time like that, right? Sure. but do you see a lot of those kinds of people in elected office or on cable news? No, what you see are leftists. What's the difference? The leftist wants a government to compel you to do the things that God says are dumb or immoral,
Starting point is 01:45:51 that you will be made to care, as Eric Erickson likes to say. Bend the knee. Yes. You will change the way you worship for government. You will change your moral behavior for government. you will change the English language for government. That's what a leftist does. So the liberal wants government to permit you to do stuff
Starting point is 01:46:14 that God says is dumb or immoral or to help people do things they can't do for themselves. The leftist wants to use the full, coercive power of government. The power of government compels you. That's what a leftist is. Now, I ask you, those of you listening to us across the country today, how many of the other people you listen to and read, have defined this properly for you.
Starting point is 01:46:45 And then how many of them are still partying like it's 1989 in what they say? Or even 2009. You want to have fun this New Year's Eve? Well, not fun, fun, more like gallows humor fun. Just go online on YouTube and just start searching for clips Democrats 2009. and look at the MSNBC 2009, CNN 2009, and see what was being said 10 years ago.
Starting point is 01:47:19 And compare it to the stuff that's going on now. Heck, you want to really be gallows humored? Go on to YouTube and type in Fox News 2009. Can I get a witness? That'll preach compared to what gets said on that channel nowadays. Okay. So if you have to properly, that's, you want to know how important this commandment is. We spent three hours yesterday on this commandment.
Starting point is 01:47:51 That's what the seven deadly worldviews program we did yesterday was. This. How in the world can you properly defeat an opponent you can't properly define? And then why do we call people who want to kill children pro choice? who came up with that language the baby killers did because what do you think sells more better in a focus group baby killer or pro-choice activists what do you think probably goes over better and fly over country narrowly the line yeah it's like i can see why there might be some confusion sure it's like dan brown the author of the vinci coat you know he told you the the council of nica it was a real
Starting point is 01:48:35 narrow vote to decide which books were going to make it into the bible or not Yeah, I think it was like 348 to 3. I think it was the actual vote or something like that. Really narrow. Yeah. I mean, several recounts and hanging chads there. The Emperor Constantine had to sift through. We got file footage of that.
Starting point is 01:48:51 Constantine holding up Chads. Is this one dangling hanging? I don't know. 3.48 to 3. I mean, let's do a recount here. Yeah. Pro-choice activist is going to sell better than baby killer. So then why would we call them by the term they want to be called?
Starting point is 01:49:08 like when we go on their shows or read their articles, are we referred to as pro-life or anti-choice, anti-reproductive freedom? We don't get that accommodation. Why do we grant it to them? Again, questions that have no good answer that probably you're sitting there thinking, yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Starting point is 01:49:32 Probably should have done to this a long time ago. Yeah. Imagine if we've been doing this stuff the last 25 years. how different things would be in America right now. Commandment number eight. Always make always, again, we love those absolutes. And just as never in the original Greek, neveros means never. Always os means always.
Starting point is 01:49:58 Always make your opponent defend their record and belief system. Great example of this in the last presidential primary. It was his one shining moment. But when Rand Paul announced he was going to run for president, the senator from Kentucky, he talked about being pro-personhood, meaning that a human being is a person from the moment of conception as defined in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that says, no person shall be denied life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
Starting point is 01:50:31 Or the 14th Amendment, equal protection under the law for all persons in the United States. Right. That's what that means. Okay. And so right away was attacked. Who was that bride of Frankenstein, woman that ran the DNC. Oh, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. That's right. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Starting point is 01:50:47 That's right. She gets, he gets attacked by Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I couldn't remember her name. I'm sorry. I'm Frankenstein. Oh, yeah. That triggered.
Starting point is 01:50:54 That's right. I buried the lead. That triggered your memory. Oh, yeah, I got that one. Like Pavlov's dog. Yes. Okay. And she comes at him right away.
Starting point is 01:51:04 Six are, well, Democrat activists with bylines, otherwise known as reporters after after Rand. And he responds. back with something along the lines of. Tell you what, you go back, I'll answer your question about when is a zygote, a human being. If you go ask Debbie Wasserman Schultz, when were the children that she carried to term humans? Go ask her that.
Starting point is 01:51:30 Four months at gestation, six, seven, nine months, three seconds before she gave birth? At what point did she consider the children of her own that she carried in her womb? At what point did she consider them to be children? And so a couple of these reporters actually did this. And Debbie Wasserman Schultz performed the age-old political wrestling move known as the tapout. She couldn't get out of this one fast enough. When do you think life begins? When did it begin for your own kids, Deb?
Starting point is 01:52:10 Hey, Deb, when were your kids, kids? You defend your belief system. Now, in the New Testament, we are called as, if you're a Christian, you're called by St. Peter to always have a reason or apologia there. That's a Greek word we get apologetics from. To always have reasons for the hope that we have. Reasons to believe. To offer, to offer reason with our faith and faith with our reason. But it doesn't say to always be on the defensive.
Starting point is 01:52:39 Having a defense for your beliefs isn't the same as letting yourself get cornered. because the St. Peter that wrote those words on the day of Pentecost went down to the, went downtown on the busy, one of the busiest days of the year in full throat and said, you all need a turn or burn. That's what's up. Turner Burn. Jesus is the reason for the season. Turner Burn. And I'm here to tell you, give you the what's for, and that's what's up. Now, that's going on offense.
Starting point is 01:53:09 You're not playing defense when you're down there. jumping on a box saying to the crowd, I got a little something, something for you. And here it is. You ready? So when they win, that's offensive, Steve, you say, that's right. It is. Yes, the truth is often offensive.
Starting point is 01:53:28 Yes. Yes. So there's a difference between having a defense for what you believe, but being on the defensive. If there is one of these tactics, this president does exceedingly well, is that he rarely gets caught on the defense. defensive biased detractors. Do not feel like you have to constantly be the one.
Starting point is 01:53:58 You know, the culture is like a jury box. Yes, at times you will be called to the stand. And you'll have to testify and be cross-examined. But you know what? The other side has to go to the stand and be cross-examined too. You don't like my belief system. You don't like the Constitution. You think it's forged by a bunch of racists.
Starting point is 01:54:17 You think the Judeo-Christian worldview and moral systems, the heteronormative patriarchy, cool. What do you want instead then? Lay it out. Show us. Unveal before us what your plan therefore is. Because if you aren't willing to do this with transgenderism in this day and age, you don't deserve to have a culture, quite frankly.
Starting point is 01:54:34 If you want to know how devastating this tactic is, look at Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign. Three months ago, she was the heavy favorite to be the Democratic nominee. And it has collapsed ever since she was forced to do what? Defend her own record and belief system. Hey, this Medicare for All plan, do the math. Show us how this is going to work. So being the true Marxist believer from Wellesley College for Women, she is, she did.
Starting point is 01:54:56 And people are like, screw that noise. I don't want that. No, make them defend what they believe, at least for a change. More in a moment here on the Glenn Beck program. You're listening to Glenn Beck. Mortgage rates are so low right now. It is truly the right time to review your financial goals and set the course for your family's future. My choice is American financing.
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Starting point is 01:56:39 When you have a winning message, don't change the subject. Play the hits. People like to hear the hits. I'm not going to a deaf leopard concert to hear your new stuff because Joe Elliott can't sing anymore. All right? If I'm going to hear Joe Elliott blow out his larynx,
Starting point is 01:56:54 I want to hear it on photograph and pour some sugar on me, not some song they wrote for the behind the music special on VH1 last year, right? Stay on message and play the hits. I'm going to go watch Elton John in concert. I want to hear some tiny dancer, some Rocket Man, some Saturday nights all not right for fighting. I don't really want to hear what he thought, you know, looking at on Golden Pond last month. I'm not here for that. I want to hear him screech his way through the hits.
Starting point is 01:57:21 So stay on message. Make red baseball hats, pass him around, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Stay on message, yes. And then commandment number 10, play offense. Nothing inspires your base more than that. is if you are on offense, people rally to you when they see you're on offense, right?
Starting point is 01:57:43 Stay on offense. Gentlemen, that pretty much wraps it up for the last two days. I want to thank the whole team here at the Glenn Beck program, both with the Blaze and Premier for giving us an opportunity to do this the last couple of days. It's been a tremendous amount of fun. I'm usually in the basement this time of year on vacation. You couldn't get me out of the basement. just anything but a chance to to be a part of this program
Starting point is 01:58:09 the last two days and do it with the two of you was too good to pass up did you guys have fun a blast yes definitely any final pithy wise words you want to impart to this audience case they never hear from us ever again take to heart what we said this isn't just show filler um 2020's gonna be nuts you need to be equipped for it yeah uh know thine enemy and know how to fight back with that in mind and don't forget if you what you heard here you want to hear more blaztv.com slash dace d-e-a-c-e-a-c-e-c-tvlaz-tvvvvvvv-com slash dace you can also follow me on twitter at steve dace show subscribe to our podcast just look up my name steve dase on itunes stitcher google play and more we've got a channel
Starting point is 01:58:55 up on youtube and lots of highlight clips as well uh and email me steve at stevedase dot com i hope all of you have a great new year and a rest of your holiday Until the next time we see or hear from one another, John 317. You're listening to Glenn.

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