The Glenn Beck Program - The 'Exhausted Majority'? - 10/11/18

Episode Date: October 11, 2018

Hour 1 'Oh far we have fallen' because of Obamacare... 212% deductible increases...we are entering a brave new progressive world ...New Study: How Americans Feel About...25% are Traditional Devoted Conservatives...only 8% are 'Progressive Activists?...80% make up the 'Exhausted Majority' make up the most ...NY man charged with building a 200-lb bomb DC bomb plot?  ...Eric Holder threatens to 'kick, those people'? ..."Russian meddling in 'Star Wars'? When will Robert Mueller investigate?"...Young Voices spokesperson, Stephen Kent explains?...'everything' pop culture is being pushed into politics?...Winning Twitter Arguments = Impossible   Hour 2  Academic in Exile?...Editor-In-Chief, Areo Magazine, Helen Pluckrose, joins to discuss "How French 'Intellectuals' Ruined the West: Postmodernism and it's Impact, Explained'?...Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself?...the Lefts total embrace of chaos and destruction...flipping the pyramid upside down?...the Left threaten to return us to an irrational and tribal 'pre-modern' culture? ...Positive Polling...it's looking good for the Republicans...even the New York Times are reporting trouble for Democrats in November   Hour 3 Remaining Bullish with Economist, Stephen Moore...still high on the economy after yesterday's 'spook'...agrees with President Trump for blaming the Federal Reserve?...but Why?...fear and greed rules the day?...Trade War update?...a hard-line on China is coming...China is using Soviet like tactics...to take America's economy down? ...Election Numbers with Stu...Pollsters can't get a hold of people to take surveys...no one ever answers their phone...Ted Cruz vs. Beto O'Rourke = Blowout?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On demand. Glenn, back. Well, you can take this to the bank. Obamacare will eventually get repealed, but it will not be the GOP leading the charge. It is going to be the Democrats. At this point, I don't think the left ever really intended for the Affordable Care Act to actually live up to his name.

That's what we said. at the beginning. This is destined to fail in catastrophic, in catastrophic form. Ten years ago, Americans with employer-provided health care had an average deductible of about $300. Oh, how far we have fallen because of Obamacare. The average deductible now is four times what they were before Obama. A decade ago to today. It's now $1,400 in deductibles. $300 to $1,400.

That's a 200 and 12% increase. Deductibles are growing at a rate eight times faster than wage growth, 12 times faster than inflation. And these are not my numbers. They didn't come from the Heritage Foundation or the Cato Institute. This is from the annual report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. And by the way, did I mention their base, you know, behind the progressive Iron Curtain of California?

Did I also mention that Kaiser helped spin the left's talking points when the Democrats were trying to pass the Affordable Care Act and tell us that, oh, no, this is going to be fantastic for everybody. Yesterday, President Trump wrote an op-ed in USA Today, titled, Democrats, Medicare for All Plan will demolish promises to seniors. He goes on to explain how the plan would cost an insane, insane $32.6 trillion during the first 10 years. The president continued by slamming the left's open border policies and called, out their socialist policies. USA Today's tweet pointing out the Trump op-ed read, quote,

Democrats want to outlaw private health care plans, taking away freedom to choose plans while letting anyone cross the border. We must win this, end quote. Well, apparently, shockingly, Jim Acosta from CNN took major beef with this. He fired back, both at the president and USA Today with a little tweet of his own. Quote, this column may break the record for the number of falsehoods from a president ever published in a newspaper op-ed. Just this tweet alone is false.

Outlaw, private health care plans, letting anyone cross our border? Huh? Fact check. False and false. Come on, USA Today. Now, I know I shouldn't explain. journalists these days to do any kind of actual journalism?

I mean, that's so old-timey. Remember when they actually didn't lie to us? It's kind of funny. Actually, it's really sad that it's painfully obvious that journalists like Acosta haven't even read the left's proposal on Medicare for all. It's HR 676. It has 123 Democratic. co-sponsors. That's more than half of the House Democrats. And it reads, and I quote,

it shall be unlawful for a private health insurer to sell health insurance coverage that duplicates the benefits provided under this act. End quote. CNN. How is the president lying? You see, you didn't point out that the president was lying when the president said you're going to be able to keep your doctor you're going to be able to get a refund in fact you're going to save all kinds of money you wouldn't do the math on that it was simple math but it required you to tell the truth about the bill now now you are denying that the democrats want to stop all private health care. It's in their bill.

How low can you guys go? How much water can you carry before it snaps your back? How much can you ignore? The replacement for Obamacare is coming. And it is so radical that the left-leaning media can't even see it anymore. The Affordable Care Act was a setup. We told you it was. If the left takes full control in 2020,

you will finally see America, the new America that we have been progressing toward the entire time. It's Thursday, October 11th. This is the Glymbeck program. Let me, let me, let me, let me give you some good news. May I give you some good news? You sure can. There is a new study out.

They spoke to 8,000 people. They also did 31-hour interviews, six focus groups, and it was conducted between December 2017 and September 2018. And here's what they were looking for. Want to find out about how Americans feel about white privilege, sexual harassment, you know, all of the PC stuff, the Me Too witch hunt. They say there are seven distinct clusters now in America. Progressive activists, traditional liberals, passive liberals, politically disengaged,

moderates, traditional conservatives, and devoted conservatives. Now, according to the report, 25% of Americans are traditional or devoted conservatives. 25%. Whoa, wow, that's really low. Well, only 8% of Americans are progressive activists. Excuse me. Their views are even more out of the mainstream and are less typical. Two-thirds of Americans do not belong in either extreme,

progressivism as progressive activists or as traditional devoted conservatives. The vast majority is now considered something called the exhausted majority. The members of this two-thirds of our society share a sense of fatigue with our polarized national conversation, a willingness to be flexible in their political viewpoints and have a lack of voice in the national conversation. Most members of the exhausted majority dislike political correctness. Among the general population, 80% believe that political correctness is a problem in our country. even young people are uncomfortable with it. 74% ages 24 to 29 and 79% under the age of 24 think this is a problem.

The woke are in the extreme minority in this country. Youth not supporting political correctness. And they're not supporting the race thing either. Whites are ever so slightly less than average to believe political correctness is a problem in the country. Whites. 79% share this sentiment. Instead, Asians, 82%. Hispanics, 87%.

Native Americans, 88%. one of the focus group members an American Indian said it seems like every day you wake up and something's changed do I say Jew or Jewish? Is it a black guy or an African American? You're on your toes because you never know what to say.

Political correctness in this country is becoming frightening. Hmm. That was a Native American. You know, as those whites, which are the least offended as those whites are standing up to protect the helpless Native American. I think that's the thing that gets me the most

are the people who are not, it's almost like, how did you get into this conversation? How are you a part of this conversation? You're not the one that is the red skin. How are you standing up and telling Native Americans how they're supposed to feel when they don't feel that way in poll after poll after poll? One part of the standard narrative of the data partially affirmed is that African Americans are most likely to support political correctness, but the difference between them and other groups is much smaller than generally supposed. Three quarters of African Americans oppose political correctness.

three quarters. This means there are only four percentage points less likely than whites and only five percentage points less likely than the average to believe that political correctness is a real problem in America. While 83% of respondents who make less than $50,000 dislike political correctness, 70% of those who make more than 100,000 are skeptical. You want to know why Trump won? You want to know why Cory Booker and all of this nonsense is not going to win?

You know, yesterday, yesterday we had a call from a listener, and I was not my best self, and I jumped down his throat. And I should have said, what is making you feel this way? I know what's making him feel this way. Portland is making him feel this way. The guy who yesterday we found out is built a 200 pound bomb and was going to detonate it on the national mall on Election Day. That's what's making him feel this way. The news reports where they are saying, mobs, no, this is just petitioning your government is making you feel this way.

getting up every morning and saying, okay, do I say Jew or Jewish today? Which do I say? Can I say transgendered? Or what exactly do I say? When they are trampling RuPaul for not being politically correct on transgender issues, you got problems. That is why Cory Booker and Heidi Heidkamp and all of the others are not going to win. It is why they are wildly out of step.

It is why you're winning. It's why Kavanaugh is a Supreme Court justice today. And I want to just keep hammering this home every day. The left is not going crazy because they're winning. The left, did you see what Attorney General, what's his name? Eric Holder. Eric Holder said yesterday. Yeah.

We had the audio, I think of that. Can we play the audio if we have that? Listen to what Eric Holder is now saying. It is time for us as Democrats to be as tough as they are, to be as dedicated as they are, to be as committed as they are. Michelle always says, Michelle Obama, I love her, you know. She and my wife, like, really tight, which always scares me and Barack. But Michelle says that, you know, when they go low, we go up. No.

No. When they go low, we kick them. Stop. This is what happens to a country that has lost its underpinnings of the Judeo-Christian world. When they go low, we kick them. Yesterday, Hillary Clinton was all in the news for saying what? We can't live in a country like this. We can't live.

We cannot. The time for civility is past, basically. after we win elections, then we can be civil. We can't be civil with these people. What was the other quote that he went on to say yesterday because it involved these people where he said, I wanted to see if I can find, shoot, I don't have it.

The Eric Holder thing? Yeah, the Eric Holder, where he said these people. He said, use rage to vote to be rid of these people. Yeah, use rage to be rid of these people. Well, let me flip this around. What do you mean by these people, Mr. Holder? Because these people we've learned is, of course, racist. We know what you.

That's a dog whistle. That's an Eric Holder dog whistle. And everybody knows what they're saying. Look, I understand why we're angry. Because I'm angry. I'm angry every day. I look at the news and I'm, they're going to get people killed. they're going to get people killed.

And when people, as I said in 2009, at some point, they're going to drag people out of their chairs in their studios and beat them to death in the streets. When these people, who are dismissing and encouraging these people to be violent, when that is happening, a lot of people are going to say, well, they deserve it. No. No.

We cannot become what they are. We have to hold on to what we've always been. But boy, it is tough. But I will tell you, if we lose our minds, we'll lose. Because as I showed you in that poll, 80% of people are on our side. Now, that doesn't mean politically. that means they're tired of this. They're tired of the political correctness.

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Michelle always says, Michelle Obama, I love her, you know. She and my wife, like, really tight, which always scares me in Barack. But Michelle always says that, you know, when they go low, we go up. No, no. If they go low, we kick them. Fight, fight, fight, fight. When's the last time you heard? That's what just new Democratic Party is about.

That's what the new Democratic Party is all about. Democrats. is that who you are? Is that who you are? Is that what you want? They are encouraging people to be violent. He is encouraging people, let's just say not to be violent, but to fight dirty and in the streets. America, is this what we want?

Is it just about the win at all costs? I hope I know the answer to that. I hope I know the answer to that. But I just want you to remember one thing. If you are somebody who has been looking for an end to this madness of political correctness, this madness of you're a racist, you're a homophobe, 80% of the nation agrees with you. Now is the time to be reasonable, filled with common sense,

and welcome people back into the fold. There is a concerted effort outside of our country to get us to fight with one another. Remember the story that we told you about about a week or two ago of the feminist activist that was on the subway and she was pouring, I think they said it was bleach on all those who were, you know, man spreading. And we're like, look at this. This is crazy. well we find out now that that actually is Russian propaganda. That never happened. That was filmed by the Russians and put into our system as a poison to get us to hate feminists more.

Say, look it out exactly what we did. We're going to take you to a story. I thought it was a joke. I thought was a joke. Where have the Russians gone? how deeply are they into our into our consciousness? What will they actually do? Is it all about politics?

Stephen Kent, friend of the program, and quite honestly, a, I mean, probably the biggest Star Wars geek on the planet. Welcome to the program. Stephen, how are you? Doing well, Glenn. Good morning. Tell me this is a joke. It's not a joke.

There is a study out from Morton Bay at the University of Southern California that looks at the role that online bots, particularly the Russian persuasion, might have played in the discourse on social media surrounding The Last Jedi. Now that might— Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So you just kind of ran by surrounding The Last Jedi, the movie. The Last Jedi, nice and low-hanging target being a Star Wars. Wars movie. What do people care about more than politics? I would say that it's probably the light side versus the dark side and the internal struggle in a galaxy far, far away. You know, you've mentioned, Glenn, like they prey on these very emotional and personal issues on social media.

It's not just about politics and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. It can be about kneeling, the national anthem. It can be about something that a celebrity might have said, and then it's amplified and sort of turned up to 11 so that people get really heated about it. Star Wars is in that category too, and there might be some evidence to show that this is actually happening every day. Give me the evidence. This is incredible. Yeah.

So it's circumstantial in many ways, but that's by nature of what we're dealing with here. When you're talking about foreign influence and particularly malicious activity coming from Russian bots or trolls or sock puppet accounts, you are talking about a moving target, people who are deleting their accounts, changing their information, making new accounts, staying active so that they can't actually be tracked to a given location. And if Morton Bay, the researcher at USC, could prove definitively that these are Russian agents, then he should be working at the CIA. But he's not. He's just a researcher at USC. And what you look at is you look at the characteristics of social media accounts online, kind of what I just mentioned is what behaviors do they engage in?

Do they speak in all caps? What words do they use? And then is their account there the next week when you look them up again? These are sort of things that you look for when you're talking about foreign influence online. And it might be Russians. It might be the Chinese. It might be Iranians or it might be some Floridian with a bone to pick with the rest of the country. So what did they plant?

What did they plant into our society? Well, in this case, what they planted, there was evidence that there were 16 accounts that could specifically be Russian-linked, a 105 that sort of had a question mark as to where they could be originating from, that are jumping online when the Last Jedi comes out, and people are starting to debate about the movie. And then they start throwing in the tweets about the Feminoz, Admiral Holdo. And then they start throwing in tweets about how masculinity is under assault because Poe Damran wasn't able to lead the ship. And then they start throwing in tweets about SJW droids and the fact that there was a droid in the high...

I remember those. Yeah. And so, but the important thing, Glenn, is that that comes from real people, too, and you can't really distinguish what comes first, like the chicken of the egg. Did the Russian, you know, bot or troll online plant the thought in a conservative or, you know, activist or Star Wars fan online, and then they sort of echo it, or did it go the other way around? because it is reasonable to look at Star Wars and see some sort of like, you know, progressive fingers in the pot. But there's also this discourse online that happens where you sort of amplify other opinions that you see.

You see someone upset about the feminazis now taking over Star Wars, Kathleen Kennedy or, you know, the Asian girl in the new Star Wars movie. And if you get amplified about that and feel like, oh, well, someone else is angry about that too, I can now feel a little bit more angry. agree, then the discourse just rapidly gets more radical. And it's pretty reasonable to think that there are foreign actors who engage in this malicious activity. Stephen, it's interesting, I think, and this is part of the crime against journalism that's happened, making every effort of what Russia has tried to do in America about Donald Trump. You know, it's like, look at the scope of this. The fact that they are trying to go in there and stir people up over. politics, but culture and in Star Wars and all of these kind of separate things,

Kaepernick, all of this stuff. And not just separating us, Stu, I think also pushing us into a place, I hear this all the time. I know I am like this. When did everything become political? They're pushing everything, all pop culture, everything into politics. Yeah, there's a great book out right now called Addicted to Outrage by Glenn Beck. Towards the end of part one, at least in the audio book, it's Chapter 19.

They're talking a lot about the role that foreign actors and particularly Russians might play in trying to sow discord. And what we do know about Russians that we're able to do in the 2016 election, we don't know if they actually were able to impact the results and how people voted, but we are able to determine that they get their fingers into the way that we talk. and what's most important, I think, about American politics and culture is not that we are able to agree on everything political, but that we're actually able to go to a movie theater and sit next to our neighbors in the dark and smile at a Star Wars movie. But then when you go in and you've sort of been reading these things online and you've had people tell you that now it's like liberal propaganda and that it's not the Star Wars you grew up with, then you can't even do that.

and think about what that does to a culture, not in the course of one year, but in the course of 10 years. We will have nothing in common if we allow people to manipulate us like this and get us hooked on outrage on a constant basis about anything, whether it's politics or media. Stephen, thank you for writing about this. This is in the Washington Examiner. Thank you for writing about this. is it is it because it was star wars that this popped up on your radar or why is it that no one else is is catching this stephen well i would say that there was a pretty good deal of writing done about this and for me i did catch this because i've got google alert set up for star wars and i care a lot about it but you know i i live in star wars twitter as well as conservative and libertarian twitter you know these are kind of the different ecosystems and the dialogue in star

Wars Twitter is is toxic. It was so mean when these movies came out, particularly around Solo and the Last Jedi. The Last Jedi really sort of agitated right-wing Twitter, and Solo really agitated left-wing Twitter. Everybody was arguing about these different things. And just using language that you just don't see or you didn't see a couple of years ago in Star Wars. And then you turn on your favorite conservative podcast, right? And I have a couple. And they're sort of been echoing those sentiments and then their actual fans are going out and engaging in Star Wars discourse. But it's not really clear, like, who is genuine and who is not, and who's coming to it as a really interested fan and who's coming to it as a political activist who just

really wants to make people angry. And that's what we have to remember when we get online, is there is no guarantee that the person, even if they have a real name and a photo associated with their account is a genuine human being who wants you to leave this conversation happy. I don't know if you've ever won an argument on Twitter. I have not. It's the equivalent of a foreign city. You need to be getting off the airplane in this new city and just assume that you're not safe anywhere you go and you should just talk to people that you know and that you trust. Stephen, thank you very much. Always good to talk to you. Yeah, Glenn, real pleasure. May the force be with you both. He's got a great sense of humor.

He has a... He's really a smart guy. You listen to his podcast. Follow him at Twitter. What's his... What's his Twitter handle? It's got to be like, Yoda kicks ass.

I think it is Yoda. No. I lost it. Here we go. It's at Stephen underscore Kent 89. Yeah. Follow him. He's a smart guy.

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And these guys get off and they have suitcases. And they go in to the embassy. Now, did anybody ever see Alfred Hitchcock's rear window? If they had just left an hour later with those same suitcases and put them on the plane and then left, it might be a little weird, but what do you have? have. Unfortunately, what we do know now is they got off the plane and they were driving to the embassy and one of them stopped for extra empty suitcases. And another one went shopping for a bone saw. Then they went to the embassy. An hour later, they're leaving with heavy suitcases.

Now, I don't know about you, but I don't even know where you buy a bone saw. I don't even know where you buy a Bonesaw. But if I'm getting off a plane with light suitcases, I buy a bone saw, I go to a house where a guy has been missing now, and then I leave with heavy suitcases, and I fly out of the country on my own private jet under diplomatic immunity. I don't know about you, but I think there's something suspicious going on there. We should call Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart because I think I saw something out of that window. By the way, plenty of bone saws on Amazon, so you should be fine.

Really? Yeah, just just. Seriously? Well, they call them, four. They call them butcher saws. Okay. But you should be fine. Don't worry about it.

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Yeah. They're not doing any butcher work in there. I don't think that they're going out and go, you know, we're going to have venison tonight. I don't think so. That's not a good, no. Not a good sign. Wow, that's frightening. I mean, that is like, you know, I mean, that's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's

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Yes. Come to, and if you don't, just saying I have a bonzo. I'm just saying. You have a, buy the tickets or don't. Are you threatening the audience? No, I'm not. No, I, I'm thinking that we're going to have elk. I have some Saudi friends with lots of luggage and a bone saw. And you're sure you're not making a threat against the listeners of the program. Of course not. No. Actually, what we are doing, we're, we're helping the Democratic Party at our addicted to. outrage tour, we're going to be giving them tips on things that they can do. And I'd like to take it a little further than Eric Holder did. And that is, you know, if we go low, they kick us. When they kick us, we buy a bone saw. Right. There has been almost no Democratic 2020 candidates have even mentioned bonesaws yet. They may have a long way to go in this campaign. So maybe that could be, you know, I don't know, Spartacus's campaign slogan.

vote for Spartacus. I know where to buy a bone saw. Just say. Buy your tickets now. Glenbeck.com slash tour. I am thrilled to have and introduce you to Helen Pluckrose. She is the editor-in-chief of Arrow Magazine. She has written an article that I want to go through with her.

But I also want to point out that if you follow the new. a couple of weeks ago, I think it was, of these three scientists that came out and tried to publish papers that were complete nonsense of the dog, I think it was the rape culture in dog parks on dogs. And one of the, you know, responses before they published it was they, did they get permission from the dogs? They were, they were afraid that maybe they were violated a little. I mean, it's crazy what happened. They published one article. that was, they just took a chapter of mind conf. And I think changed it.

What do they change it to, Stu? Do you remember? White people are feminine. I don't remember, Helen will remember. It's pretty remarkable. We'll hopefully chat with her about that just a little bit. Helen Pluck Rose joins the program now. Hello, Helen.

How are you? Hello, I'm very well. Thank you for inviting me. You bet. Now, you're in London now? I am. Okay. First of all,

Thanks for coming on the program. Uh, I, I want to talk to you about your essay, how French intellectuals ruined the West, postmodernism and its impact explained. I read the article and let's just say, my audience is very smart. I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Uh, so pretend you're talking to somebody that, you know, doesn't, doesn't really know much about this, uh, because you are talking to that person. and I'm trying to understand it, but postmodernism itself just doesn't make sense at all to me. And so I want to make sure that I have it right, and the audience understands it, because I think it is the disease that is, it's the cancer for the Western world, is it not?

Well, I don't think it's the only cancer. I think it's certainly a problem that's understand knowledge and how I think that CDA rise on the other side into some utopian how we decide what is true. Right. And so this is the source of, you know, gender fluidity and really intersectionality and all of this

stuff that we're hearing that most people wake up every day and they're like, okay, what new term do I have to learn today? What can I say? What can I not say? This is the source of that. Would you agree with that? I would, yes. Intersectionality is very explicitly defined by its founder as contemporary politics applied to postmodern theory. Okay. So let's start at the beginning of postmodernism. Is it related at all to the Dadaist movement that grew out of the First World War where they were trying to make a point of nothing really has any meaning? and then that kind of just went awry. Is any of the roots in that movement at all?

Because they're just so varied. But it comes out of a lot of counter-enlightenment philosophy. It comes out to society as... Now, you say that it doesn't have a... That it's not anything worrisome in art, but I would consider literature art as well. And this is now how we are being taught that we have to read literature, that we read it through the lens of oppression, white, male, European oppression.

Even if the author is saying, no, no, that's not what the story is about. That's not, the author is not even the last word on this. It is the postmodernist that can take and read that text any way they want, correct? Absolutely, yes. I mean, I think there's postmodern. an ending. There's one, which is completely separate from the moralistic thing. All right.

So you're saying, as an artist, you could create something that has no meaning, but it is only when it's used as a critique that it starts to get into trouble? Yes, yes, exactly. I'm very fun. Right. So it's apparently a post, so they're not the same problem. Great. Okay.

So tell me how it, where it goes. grew and how it grabbed us by the throat or our university systems? Well, the original postmodernists, a small group of very, very prolific writers in the late 60s, including Jean-François, Liatar, Baudria, Foucault, and they came together Marxism, to try to understand, are the things that we thought were true? Modernists are those who took this to say,

No, have a particular political goal. They were certainly leftists. They were generally quite show problems with it. It wasn't until the late 80s, and nothing. We cannot, for example, against women unless we agree that women are a certain thing. Okay, so let me go back and because I think people might be thinking, why are we talking about postmodernism?

How does it relate to my life? This, I believe, is critical in to, if you, don't understand this, or at least have a basic handle on it, you don't know what you're fighting. You don't know what's really happening. You don't know who's behind a lot of this or what the theories are behind it. So let me first say postmodernism, the modern world is the world that was created, that chased out the dark ages. It was the, it's the world created by the Enlightenment of science and reason and empirical evidence. And even, I mean, when you hear people say mathematics is racist,

this is because they're trying to deconstruct anything that holds the modern world together. Is that correct? Yes, they, they, they believe it. I take the idea that that is how it works. Okay, I'm going to take you, before we move forward, I want to take you back one more step. I'm going to take a break, and then we come back. I'd like you to help me on this, because it's my understanding that Derrador and Foucault came over to the United States, that this was really kind of shaped in frustration from the 1968 Paris riots,

and in frustration that they're not going to be able to take this whole thing down unless they take it all down. They've got to take all the systems down. They're not going to win through culture. And that it was actually much more strategic in its planting of a virus, if you will. And I'd love to hear your take on that, if that's true or not. When we come back, we're with Helen Pluck Rose. and we also have to ask her about the greatest prank ever. Her and two other scientists went,

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Leftist academics and social justice activists display fatalistic pessimism. This is coming from the postmodernist take. Now, Helen, I've tried to find good purposes for this, and the way it is being enacted now, it just seems like a total, I don't know, an embrace of total chaos and destruction. I can understand feminism of gay pride for everyone. So, Helen, you know, you... She's very different to that. So you said a minute ago, and maybe we just have a different definition.

I'm a classic liberal, as we would know here in America. I am a libertarian. I think that anything that makes man more free is good. Anything that builds the individual up and is empowering for the individual, I think is a good thing. And I support it. And I think that many Americans feel this way, you know, with political correctness, you know, I go back to handicable. You know, nobody wanted to say, if that really hurts somebody's feelings, that, you know, nobody wants to do that or very few people want to do that. you know, it does kind of say, well, the next generation is going to just, you know, just going to attach the same meanings behind handicapable as handicapped.

But, you know, so it's a little worthless over the long period of time. But I don't think anybody, I think generally speaking, people are fair. What this is turned into is oppression. Because when, if we accept that to be good, their societies and they actually care about their fellow human beings, are still very much. We have to understand that a lot of the people who have taken on and internalized a lot of the postmodern ideas are also trying to do good and trying to be fair. But what we have to look at is... So I want to continue our conversation on this, and the notion that it's a race to the bottom.

With the intersectionality, you're flipping the pyramid just upside down, but it is still a pyramid where the, the one who has the most, you know, points, I guess, in their favor of, I've been abused with this, this, and this, and by these groups and this group and this group, that they become the power. It sounds like it's just not just deconstruction. It is constructing something that is authoritarian in nature. And I want to go there. And I also need to find out a little bit about the hoaxes. that Helen and two other scientists did who were just, they were looking at these peer-reviewed publications and saying, they don't even make sense. I think I could write something that was genuine nonsense and get it published.

They had seven published in a year. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program. Helen Pluckrose is a scientist in England. She is the editor-in-chief of Aero magazine, and she is a, she's an academic, uh, in exile now.

Helen, I, I, I, yesterday, I spent a couple of hours with, uh, Dr. Deber So,

you know her? Yes. Yeah. So, um, we were talking and she said, you know, Glenn,

it's a very small number of people who are actually knowingly engaged in the silencing and every, everything else. And you kind of said the same thing that you think this is a very small minority. but the power structure has changed. It has been flipped on its head. And I don't understand, maybe it is a very small number,

but they are very powerful in the effect that they have. You know, otherwise, Deborah Soe wouldn't have told me that, you know, even tenure couldn't have saved her job had she stayed. You know, Weinstein and what happened to him and his wife. I mean, it is, it's stunning the effect that is happening in our culture and the way the media is not standing for common sense. Yeah, well, I'm a researchers. Yeah, I am a literature student and Peter is a philosopher. James is a mathematician, but he's also engaged in the humanities.

So I wouldn't want people to be mistaken. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. thinking that we're scientists. But yes, I mean, I think we cannot. May I stop you there and ask you for clarification on something? I think, and I'm not sure, especially over in England,

but I think that there is a misunderstanding sometimes with the press. There are bad people who are, you know, racist and xenophobes and everything else. But I think that there, this multiculturalism has taken people to a place to where they are, you know, English are, are, are proud of, you know, their culture and, you know, you either like the queen or you don't like the queen. I think most people are like, yeah, it's, you know, it's part of our tradition, but we shouldn't be paying for it. And the multiculturalism that has made it racist to even say, yeah, I'm proud to be English. I'm proud to be American. I think that is being taken as racist, where I don't think

it's meant as racist by the vast majority of people. They're just proud of who they are and where they came from. With that, I don't see through Chinatown and you can go through various different areas. There are also that. That is a problem, and I don't think of them. I don't know if his moral foundations, which and the conservative side. I see quite a lot of this on the liberal side too. Basic things.

core and neutral. Yeah. So can we just spend a couple of minutes on, on what you guys did to try to get nonsense, published and peer reviewed? And, you know, you were hoping maybe to get one, but you got seven in a year. And some of the topics were insane.

Which one were you responsible for? A part is which argued that they're or a hoax philosophy. So, but you took, you guys found out that you couldn't just publish

nonsense. Exactly, yes, I'm glad you pointed that out. Right. You, you actually had to join in on the grievance club. Is that accurate? A mad idea

like build on a lot of unbelievable. What was the, what was the, you took Adolf Hitler's Mind Kampf and how much of that text did you leave in and what did you change? That's quite, that's quite difficult to entirely clear on what, anyway, but immediately think. When this came out and, I mean, I would think that this would be something that, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the. the world that you travel in, would be outraged that those things were accepted, and you would be viewed as a whistleblower. Hey, wait a minute, we've got a problem.

You got, have you, have you had any response like that from your peers? Surprisingly, yes, we have. Good. Delighted for example of criticism of the side. Yeah, the actually is really uncharitable. You know, you see you say anything with an English accent. It's like a, it's like a, it's, it's like here in the Carolinas, if you ever come down in the Carolinas. They'll say horrible things, but they'll follow it with this tone of, you just want some sweet tea, but they're telling you to leave.

And I think you have the same, the English just have the same, the same charm. It was quite distasteful. Um, uh, a little bit, a little bit. Um, uh,

Helen, thank you so much. And we would, I would love to fly you in, uh, from London and, and, uh,

and spend a couple of hours with you and, and, and even your cohorts, uh, at some point. I, I find you fascinating and refreshing. And thank you for having the courage to,

uh, speak out and explain things to, you know, the rest of us slubs. It's necessarily complicated. If I can break it, down a bit. That's great. Thank you very much. I appreciate it, Helen.

Helen Pluck Rose. You bet. Helen Pluck Rose. It is, I'm sorry, if this is airing in a time zone in the morning and you're like, good God, Glenn, I haven't even had my coffee. I apologize. It is really complex and kind of heady to take, but I wanted to make sure that we got her to speak on record on it, and hopefully we on the podcast have a deeper conversation where we can really get into it.

But this is something that you need to understand postmodernism. It is the root of what we are feeling now, and it is set to destroy the Western way of life and the modern world. You can get a very basic understanding of it. It is what we talk about in the book, Addicted to Outrage. But not like Helen explains it. I mean, it's a rookie explanation, but it is one that you can get your arms around. Addicted to outrage. It's available everywhere now, critical that you understand.

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It's definitely up, though. I mean, that's not surprising. This is where money goes when people get uncertain, right? Right. When things go uncertain, that's where money always flies to gold. Can't find any place else that it went. Look, we are headed for troubled times. And this is normal and natural.

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where Republicans were a little bit on the ropes at one point. For example, I'll give you a Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz going up against Robert Francis O'Rourke. He's an Irishman. You mean O Beto? Oh, yeah. Most Irish people are called Beto, so I should point that out.

But Robert Francis O'Rourke is running against Ted Cruz. Some of the polls, there's one poll that had him tied at one point. Several polls showed Cruz only up by one or two. The New York Times is doing something really interesting in which normally you kind of see the reporting news well I didn't say that they're doing something interesting in that

like normally you see polls and you see it like if you think of it as a sporting event like a football game happens and then you would see the score afterwards right like you're not seeing the play by play of the game with the poll you're only seeing the results at the end New York Times is trying something this cycle that's different which is they're actually showing you

as they make the calls who is voting for who and you see the poll build slowly as you watch it it's addicting to watch And it's kind of interesting because one of the things you'll notice is how many calls they have to make to get anybody to agree. At one point yesterday, the Texas Senate poll, they had made 17,700 phone calls and had 285 people who had responded. That's how hard it is for them to get people on the phone anymore to take these polls, which is part of the reason why it's hard to read, you know? Yeah, because, I mean, who's going to answer that?

Who's going to do that? But Cruz in that poll wound up up nine points in that one. He seems to have opened up a lead there again. And I'm not surprised by it either. Not a surprise. So we'll get into all the details coming up. Our thoughts and our prayers are with the people of Florida today. Please be safe.

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So I don't know if you noticed this, but yesterday, it was a little scary if you had money in the stock market. What is it, the third largest point for? fall, I think, in history, American history, something like that. But, you know, when you look at it, historically, it's kind of unfair because the stock market is up so high. Down again today. Bonds are down.

Debt is up. Where is money going? What is happening? Is this the beginning of something? Or is just a, you know, bump in the road? We go to Stephen Moore, economist at the Heritage Foundation. Hello, Stephen. How are you?

Hi, Glenn. No, I've been better. There's been a couple of three or four days. We've fed in the stock market. You're right about that. And so, look, but I remain pretty bullish. Look, the Dow and it's down now to 25,400. It was up, you know, well over 1,200 points higher than that a week ago.

I like to buy these dips. But, you know, you look at the fundamentals of the U.S. economy with the tax cuts, the deregulations, the high employment. I'm still really high on the U.S. economy. go high on the stock market, especially at these low, low prices right now. So what happened yesterday? What spooked it? Well, good question. We're all scratching our head, wondering what it was. I mean, Donald Trump seems to think it was the Fed, and there's no question that the Fed interest rate hike

and their announcement that they're going to continue to raise interest rates, certainly moved people out of stocks into bonds, because when interest rates rise, then bonds are more attractive relatively than stocks. Usually those effects of Fed changes are short term. So I don't, I don't think you're going to see a long-term effect from that, although I tend to agree with Donald Trump that here we've got this booming economy. We don't see real signs of inflation, although energy prices are rising, but other commodities are pretty stable or actually falling in price. So I don't see a big inflation gain. And I mean, you know, pick up. And what Trump is saying, and I think there's some truth of this is to the Fed and Jerome Powell, why are you taking a punchbow away from

this party just when it's getting going? And I tend to think that he's right about that. You know, look, I don't want inflation. But just because the economy is picking up doesn't mean you're going to have more inflation. I don't think that the Fed's job is to the squash a stock market rally and a pickup and employment as we've seen in record numbers. Yeah, I would tell you, Stephen, you know I'm an inflation watcher and hyperinflation and inflation watcher. I was really concerned with all the repatriated money that was coming in and the tax breaks, and we haven't seen it. We have to show me the inflation. I mean, look, I would, I agree. I have to admit, you know, I admit when I'm wrong. I'm a conservative who admits when I'm wrong. I'm not wrong all that often,

but I did predict we see higher inflation as a result of, you know, all the money creation by the Fed. And the truth is we haven't seen it. And by the way, one of the reasons for that is we have international trade. We have, you know, we have all sorts of technological change that makes goods and services cheaper over time. And trade and technology are two things that really keep prices down and affordable. And so my only point is I just think the Fed acted preemptively and prematurely in raising rates in a way that wasn't necessary. I am a little concerned, by the way, Glenn, about the increase in the price of oil. It's gone up to $80 a barrel.

That's like equivalent of $4 a gallon. Why? Why is it going up? That's like a tax on the economy. Why is it gone up? You there, Stephen? Are you there? Yeah.

Maybe I lost it. You were you just said. Okay. Why is oil going up? That's a good question, too. It looks like because there's been disruptions in the Middle East with respect to Iraq. And so you're seeing a big, you know, a big sell-off as a reasonable. result, I mean, a big rise in the price because people are really concerned about the, you know,

about the price, uh, in the global reduction in supply as a result of that. So bring Texas back online. Bring Texas back online. Bring Texas back online. Well, that's the point. You know, I'm, look, I think oil prices are going to fall. I just was out in Midland, Texas in the middle of the Permian Basin. I've never seen anything like it, Glenn. I mean, everywhere you go, all they're doing is drilling, drilling, drilling, drilling and you know it's it's uh anywhere you can stick a stick in the ground they're drilling for oil and natural gas so i don't think i don't think we're going to see a continuation you know

over the next year or so of these higher prices in fact i think they're going to dwindle back down again so you know i think that the the big problem right now is just fear you know this the stock market is driven by fear and greed that's a tourism for 150 years and people are afraid right now that uh and then by the way there was a lot of profit taking i did this my myself. When the Dow hit 26,500, I said to my wife, finally, let's take some of these profits and get out of the market. And I think a lot of people did that. Stephen, let me ask you this. I don't know if this is true or this is an old wives tale. But the last president that I heard really take on the Fed was Ronald Reagan. And we had 19% interest rates, right? Shortly after that until he stopped talking about the Fed. When the Fed has a lot of control, I mean, and, you know, a lot of people say it's, it's, you know, somehow, some kind of violation for the president to question the Fed. And I wrote a column on this last week and why. The President is this chief executive officer of the country, right? He is the one who is supposed to help manage our economy. If he doesn't think the Fed is doing the right thing, why shouldn't he speak out? Now, look, I don't want to see a politicization of the Fed. Correct.

But I think there's a lot of the – look, one of the lessons we've learned, Glenn, you and I've talked about this over the years. These are not some kind of oracles on high at the Fed. They act as if they're the temple with all of the knowledge and all of the intelligence, but they've made so many mistakes over the years. You mentioned, I remember the 70s, as you do, when we had literally 20% mortgage interest rates. That was all because of Fed mistakes. You know, I would make the same case that the Fed was the one that built up this bubble

that led to the housing crisis in 2007 and 8. Why do we keep thinking these people are somehow like godlike? I don't know. I don't know. Let me ask you about the NAFTA replacement and also the trade war that we have going on with China. I fear that Donald Trump really likes trade wars and we're not, that this isn't. a negotiation tactic. If it is, you know, great.

But do you think, is it, Stephen? Or is this what he really fundamentally believes that tariffs are good? Here's my view. And I've talked to Donald Trump many times about this, you know, and he said this at the Rose Garden. I was at his Rose Garden ceremony last week when he announced the new trade agreement. And he basically said, look, I will, I am using these tariffs as a tool, as a negotiating tactic to get better trade agreements.

Now, I'm a free trade guy. I think you are too, Glenn. So I used to tell Donald Trump, I don't agree with you on their trade strategy, but I got to say, so far, you know, the kind of apocalyptic view has not happened. Trump is getting some good deals. He got a deal with Mexico. He played Canada like a fiddle here where he basically said, you know, we're just going to go ahead without you with Mexico.

In Canada, at the 11th hour, literally 11 o'clock on the night before the deal had to be sealed, Canada came and said, okay, we agree to the deal. He's going to get a good deal, I think, with Europe. And then that leads to Canada, I mean, to China. And this is where I think Trump is going to take a very hard line. And I happen to agree with, I don't know, you and I haven't talked about this one, but I am a hardliner way it comes to China. I'm a free trade guy, but China, we don't have free trade with China.

China's cheating. They're stealing. They're, you know, $300 billion of your intellectual property. They're building up their military. They're like, you know, the old Soviet Union in terms of, of a lot of the tactics they're using. And so I do think Trump should get tough with China. What do you think? I think so, too. I just want to make sure that we understand the symbiotic relationship of mutually assured economic destruction when it comes to China.

Well, let me challenge you on that one. You know, I'm going to, of course, a trade war would hurt us. But I think the way Trump looks at it, and I think he's right about this. Look, if we can't trade with China, we sneeze. If they can't trade with us, they catch pneumonia. And I think there's a lot the truth to that. I mean, they can't, their, their economy depends on access to America's $15 trillion consumer market. I mean, damn near everything you buy in Walmart is made in, uh, is made in China. And so Trump is playing that card and saying, look, we're not going to give you unfettered access to our markets if you're not going to play by the rules. I talk to companies, CEOs all the time, Glenn, who basically say it's almost impossible to penetrate the

China market. You've got to give up ownership of your company. You have to give up your trade secrets, your fans. I mean, we can't live with. with that. And Trump is right. I think when he says, look, I didn't start this trade deal, this trade war. They started it 10 years ago. I would feel better if we also weren't, if they also weren't our bank at the same time. I would feel better about it. Hey, Stephen, quickly, one quick question for you. And you probably have a real insight on this. We were kind of talked about the steel tariffs and these things going on allies, like Canada, as a way of negotiating and bringing these countries to the table for what

was kind of like a NAFTA 2.0 type of situation. Well, that happened, but the steel tariffs are still on Canada. Do you have any idea why, or is this going to change at any point? Well, this is one of the issues that I find my, you know, as you know, I'm a big fan of Down Top. I hope, write the tax plan with my buddy Larry Cutlow. So, but I just disagree with this policy. I don't see the wisdom in steel and auto and aluminum tariffs or auto terrorists, but

especially not steel and aluminum because, you know, we have something like 100,000 Americans who are employed in steel and auto, but we've got six million. and other manufacturers who use steel and aluminum in what they produce. I was over at Enhouser Bush a couple of weeks ago. They, you know, when they make, you know, Budweisers, they're using a lot of aluminum for those cans. And they say their prices are going up and that's going on around the country. Our auto producers, our autos are more expensive because of the steel tariffs. So my point to Trump is this isn't even creating factory jobs.

We're going to lose factory jobs as a result of this. So I disagree very strongly with the steel and aluminum. I think they do more harm than good. Does he look like he's softening? No. Do you think I don't see it? I don't see it either. It's kind of an evergreen response to that question, isn't it?

No, he's not. Yeah, no. And I, I, at the Rose Garden last week, he said how, he was, boasting about how all the steel jobs were creating. It's true, we are creating steel jobs, Mr. President, but we're losing auto jobs. We're losing, you know, jobs in other areas that manufacture equipment, trucks, things, you know, those kinds of things that use steel and aluminum. So it's a dumb policy.

I wish you would reverse it. And by the way, the auto terrorist, same thing. Even the U.S. auto industry doesn't want the auto tariffs. Because they, you know, there's so many of their supplies come from, you know, countries abroad. You know, it was manufacturing, you know, the steel might have come from, you know, Canada, the assembly might have come from Mexico. The parts might have come from Taiwan. I mean, this is the modern American and global economy, it was.

and we put ourselves at risk here. But at the end of the day, I think Trump is going to prevail on China. I think I'll make a prediction within six months. I think China's going to come hand in hand and make some real concessions to Trump. And if that happens, you're going to see the biggest stock market boom you ever saw. Stephen Moore. Thank you so much. Good to talk to you, my friend.

Say hi to Larry. How's he feeling? How's Larry Cutlow? The picture of health, and he's even stopped smoking. That is. Good for him. Good for him. Make sure you say hi to him for me, will you?

All right. Stephen Moore from the Heritage Foundation. Sponsored this half hour is my Patriot Supply. So I have been thinking and praying about the people in Florida and all of the devastation in this country that we have had over the last couple of years, you know, between fires and natural disasters. By the way, did you see, did you see the report on NBC yesterday where they were talking about we can't call these natural disasters anymore because this is a thing. man-made disaster. Oh, geez. Are you kidding me? No. Lord, we went over the session and the news and why it matters. I know we did. Read the IPCC report about what they say about hurricanes. Well, you say about it. Well, you said, I have to send you this because it was so agonizing. These are not natural disasters. Hurricanes are not natural disasters anymore. Can't take it. It is crazy. Anyway, how are, how are these

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Glad you're here. Let me go to Jerome in Ohio. Hello, Jerome. You're on the Glenn Beck program. Hey, Glenn. How's it going, man? Good. well um the uh i don't want to say his name but the the gentleman that you got into with it yesterday yes um and stuff that was me three years ago i was i was ready to i was ready to i was ready to fight i was ready to punch ready to stomp you know the the whole nine yards and then uh um i sorry

i found hope and uh my uh sorry my uh my daughter was born she was born she was born four months early. And I, my focus went from everything going on around the world to what was going on in my house, my household. And it was, sorry, it was challenging.

We were, she was, she was born November 1st and she was in the hospital until, until Easter. And she came home and she had a G-tube. And she was on oxygen and so like that, but she was home. I am remarried. And me and my wife, we have, between us, we had three daughters.

And we tried for about 10 years and nothing ever happened. And then out of the blue, wife calls me and says, we need to end up a conversation. And she told me that she was pregnant. And it's, I don't know, I, I, I see. sympathize with the gentleman you you you were talking with um because i i still have moments to where i want to get angry and stuff but then i'd stop and take a step back and breathe and just think of think of my daughter you know so did you think did you gain hope or did you gain perspective uh both i gained both yeah it's just i i had hope because i want i want a better world for my

daughter. Yeah. And the great, Jerome, thank you for sharing that and thank you for, thanks for your honesty of emotion there. The good thing is, and this is what I

tried to impress on our caller yesterday after he hung up, unfortunately, was we're winning. We're winning. Common sense is winning. It doesn't feel like it. But that's just because the power of structure

that you are used to is no more. And when you look at what's happened and you look at the Democrats saying the things that they're saying now that, you know, Eric Holder today, the latest is, you know, when they go low, we kick them. That's not an American principle. That's not the way we should behave. I don't want that from our side. I don't think people want it from their side.

New research shows, 80% of the American people feel the same way. That's a good thing. We're winning. We have more on Florida coming up in just a second. Can we take a look at also the election numbers? I think it's about time we start getting your analysis, Stu, because I know you love stats, and there's nobody better looking at the numbers than you. Thank you.

The polls are hitting, and they're coming in fast. and yes, there's a lot to understand about where that's going. We can definitely get into that. Should we start there? Or do you want to start with some of the hurricane stuff? Well, I don't know if I want to talk to somebody who cannot agree with NBC News that these are not natural disasters. These are man-made disasters now.

So was it man-made that we went an entire decade, basically, without getting one hurricane hitting the... Let me ask you something about that, sir. Yes. Would you agree with me that over the last 10 years, in the last 10 years, we have seen a dramatic increase in hurricanes here in the United States since we dropped out of the Paris Accords? Yes or no, sir. It is a yes or no answer. You're saying has it gone from zero to two in the time that, I mean, since we've been out of Paris?

I mean, the trend is not increasing. We have one year that had more than another year. Is that what you're trying? I'm asking you in the last 10 years, have we seen a pickup of these so-called natural disasters just in the last couple of years? Thank you for your question, NBC. There has been an increase from all of the years of zero. Thank you very much. Now, let's go talk.

That's journalism these days. It is. Here's what the IPCC says. Remember, this is Al Gore's favorite place to go for climate information. This is what they say about hurricanes. Numerous studies towards and beyond the fifth assessment report of the IPCC have reported a DDD decreasing trend in the global number of tropical cyclones and or the globally accumulated cyclonic energy. There's low confidence regarding changes in global tropical cyclone numbers under global warming over the past four decades. decades, there is consequently low confidence in the larger number of studies reporting increasing

trends in the global number of very intense cyclones. This is the UNIPCC report. The latest, the latest update. To bring out of a boring UN talk, what they're saying is total number of hurricanes going down, and there is low confidence in any change in the increase, like what they say is like, well, because they used to say there's going to be more frequent and intense hurricanes. Then they realized that the frequency thing wasn't happening. It's going to be more intense.

They don't even have evidence of that. And so that's... Excuse me, Mr. Brigere. Is this not the strongest storm on record that is hit the Florida panhandle? That is the report. Thank you, sir. I rest my case. Here's the summary.

The IPCC once again reports that there is little basis for claiming that drought, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes have increased, much less increased due to greenhouse gases. not exactly the story you're getting on the media when they're trying to say we have 10 years now they've they've renewed this they've they've they've upped their commitment and in response I tell them up yours so uh it is pretty remarkable okay let me let me ask you uh this as we get into the poll numbers i believe there is a chance we see a red wave because of Kavanaugh that we were concerned that there would be this massive blue

blue wave in both the House and the Senate. I think we see a red wave, not a tidal wave, but a red wave. It's possible. First of all, I would say Kavanaugh, if the last two years have been any indication, Kavanaugh will be ancient history by the time this election happens. It's like three weeks from now.

Like, these things go away. For example, the Access Hollywood tape happened right about this time in 2016, right about now. It was October 8th or 9th. It's October 11th today. And that by the time the election came, as we saw, had basically no impact. Old-time news. I mean, this stuff goes away fast.

And I think there will be- I don't think this is because it's not just Kavanaugh. If they would have left it alone, lick their wounds, but they're not. They're doubling down. Hillary Clinton yesterday, we can't live with these people. Eric Holder comes out. That's the news today that he says, when they go low, we kick them. And the crowd cheers.

And he follows it with, this is who the new Democratic Party is. It's amazing. That's amazing. Michelle Obama pushed back on that today, by the way, kind of in an interesting way. But, you know, what you see, I think is if you are under control, you can make these stories go away. Their craziness in the Kavanaugh thing could probably be forgotten by a lot of voters. If you would look at from the time that Donald Trump came down to the escalator to today, probably his cleanest month was October of 2016. After that tape came out, he was buttoned up

for the rest of that time and made very few statements and wound up winning the election because people were able to kind of forget about sort of the craziness and scandals that were going on and looked more at Hillary Clinton and her craziness and scandals. So if you look at this, they could get it to go away, doing things like we're going to kick them when they're, when they go low and people saying, that's not a mob, what are you talking about? That sort of stuff is not going to help them. Nope. And so far, since the Kavanaugh thing, what we've seen is really encouraging numbers for the GOP,

particularly in the Senate. The Senate has, you know, we had a lot of races. We talked about the Robert Francis O'Rourke versus Ted Cruz situation, where Cruz, that poll came out at 52-43, a nine-point lead. Now, Cruz had been, there was one poll, I think, that had them tied. A few, most of them settled around three or four points with Cruz leading. That's expanded in multiple polls now to nine and ten points. I think it's to be more than nine or ten points. Yeah, Pat Gray, who's not in here with us today, but he was talking on his show, I think it was yesterday of the day before, believes that it's going to be over ten points. Yeah, I think it'll be between

14 and 18 points. Another interesting poll that came out yesterday, again, from the New York Times. And this is, you know, they're doing this live polling thing. I mentioned last hour. How many calls does it take to get 778 responses in Texas? How many calls do you have to make to get 778 people to talk on the phone to you? The number 51,192. Oh my gosh. They had to call 51,000 people to get 778 to actually participate in the poll, which is incredible. Okay. Well, you're calling Texas. and if it's marked with a New York number or the New York Times, I understand that. But I mean, this is overall, like, for example, New York, they did, they also pulled the Eastern Long Island District, New York 1. And what they found, 502 responses, they had to make 27,178 calls.

It's crazy. Are you answering seriously? Do you know anybody that would take the time to answer that? Nobody does. And that's why. I wouldn't. Again, if you take into account that factor, which is totally changed of the, the last 20 years with cell phones and and telemarketers and all those things.

It's amazing these guys get even close to accurate results from polls because you're self-selecting a group of people who want to participate in them and it's like, you know, who knows if they're representative. That's why Google Home should include some sort of an fMRI so they can just read our brain scan. It would make it a lot easier. It would make it a lot easier. Things would just come to your door that you wanted. I'd love that.

Another interesting poll that came out of the New York Times, though, however, was the The test of the Taylor Swift effect. Remember, Taylor Swift, after all this time, being silent on politics, decided to dive into it inexplicably. Would they ridiculously... So foolish. You know, again, like, you almost feel like with her PR team, if you're going to come out and do this, at least have, like, sensible observations. And don't be just bumper sticker, you know, quote tweeting Huffington Post, right? Like, that was the level of analysis she provided in her little post.

But again, she's one of the biggest celebrities in the world. How does this happen? She's from Tennessee. She came out in Tennessee race. The biggest thing that she talked about was Marsha Blackburn, saying how anti-women she was and how she didn't care about. She wanted to keep gays out of stores and all these ridiculous things that aren't true. Well, the first poll has come out since that.

And most of the calls were after that. 54 to 40 Blackburn leads. 14 points. This was a race that was in the toss-up category. Wow. Now, if that polling whole, I can think we could safely understand that more people care about what Kanye West thinks about politics than Taylor Swift. But we'll see if that holds or not.

So we could look at Senate, possibly a red wave in the Senate? Yeah, I think, you know, so we talked about this a little while ago. Which makes sense. People know that's where the Supreme Court is happening. And also people are in red states, right? And they're going to become more excited to vote, more passionate about voting. the House we're seeing sort of a slight turn to the opposite effect, where purple districts, sometimes it has been telling a little bit, a little more blue, not much to tell from it.

I think already the House is in real, real danger. I mean, it would be a surprise at this point if the Republicans were able to pull out the House. Not impossible. It would be a surprise. But for the Senate, real quick, we had 10 toss-up races that we were talking about before. and I believe it was three or four that the Republicans had to win to control the Senate. I think it was three. They had to win three of the ten. At the time we talked about it, the Ted Cruz race, which in which he was favored by only three points, was the best case.

The best case right now. That's changed dramatically since we talked about that a couple of weeks ago. Now, Ted Cruz seems to be on solid ground and more than a three-point lead. Heidi Hydecamp seems to be in massive danger. I would say it looks like two races were decided with the Kavanaugh hearings, barring some other major development. Heidi Hicamp voted against him. She looks like she's toast in North Dakota now. Joe Manchin voted for Kavanaugh.

He looks like he's safe. So those two races are not even in the toss-up category anymore, in my mind. And neither really is the Cruz one, which gets you down to about seven toss-ups, which the Republicans need to win one. one of the seven will keep the Senate in Republican hands. This is a much improved situation from even when it was just a couple of weeks ago. The Kavanaugh thing, I think, is a big part of it. We don't know that for sure yet. I think it'll play out in the next week or so when we really have a lot of results.

But it looks very promising in the Senate better than it's looked probably all year. So that's a good thing if you care about that. So let me explain something. This election could mean that I know technically we have three branches of government. But I believe we kind of had five. We have the press and the people, okay? Five, executive, legislative, um, and judicial are the three in the constitution. Then you have the fourth, which is the press and the people. I believe what happens in this election could put all five branches into chaos. If they win the house, the house will go nuts. And,

And they will impeach, they will subpoena, which those subpoenas will go to the Senate. The Senate will be in chaos because of it, because of the Democrats. They will put the administrative in chaos because it will be under impeachment. And it will also have testimony that it has to give, that it will fight. They're going to subpoena his tax records. He will fight that, which will go into the Supreme Court, which the people will rise up and destabilize. the fifth branch, if you will, the people as they stand up and they're starting to fight kind of back and forth in the streets, you know, not in a mob sort of way, just in an antifah sort of way.

They will, the house will then again, I think, try to impeach Kavanaugh or at least get him to recuse himself from anything having to do with the administration. You watch. And the press is already in chaos. all every piece of society could be in chaos based on this election it's going to be a fun couple of years

isn't it? It'll be a fun couple of years thanks too. Will you give us a quick report maybe every day here as things start to change and give us a look on the polls? I'd also like you to

summarize the polls that I gave this morning on the people about the, you know, what is it, 8% of the people are progressive hardliners. 29% are conservative hardliners. And the rest are being called the, what was it, the burned out core or the tired core, the people that are in the middle saying, I don't want to be a part of either of these. It's pretty remarkable. And I think good news.

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