The Glenn Beck Program - 'What If'? - 7/2/18

Episode Date: July 2, 2018

Hour 1 Stu in for Glenn...What if Roe vs. Wade was overturned?...Are we 'to restrictive' on abortion?...What are the laws on abortion in other countries?...The importance of the next Judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court...Would Ben Shapiro be a good addition to the Supreme Court?...Remember ObamaCare and it being upheld by Justice Roberts?   Hour 2  Mexico is welcoming a newly elected President...The girl from 'The Bronx' is really from Yorktown 'Heights', Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...The redistribution of wealth is a fine idea until it comes out of YOUR pocket...Socialism and its rise in America- through the porn industry?...Sports talk w/ Stu...Maxine Waters will not be intimidated!...Remember this name, Henry Davis, as the main stream media will not be giving him any coverage.   Hour 3 The 'Fart Act' and the trade policy...The paper straw was designed by satan...Big Beverage seems to be going at it the right way and we applaud you...Movie talk w/ Stu...What does it take to live in California these days?...Talking economics and food w/ Pat Gray and Jeffy... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Blaze Radio Network. On Demand. You'll be very happy to hear that Chelsea Handler does not think about having that baby. Chelsea Handler is not a mom and apparently is very excited about that fact. She had two abortions many years ago and she never thinks, God, I wish I had that baby. Now you may be with me and the rest of America in thinking that you also are happy that she is not around any children. And that would be an understandable instinct. However, that's not where I want to take this today.

I would rather go to the idea that, you know, we're in a world where there's a lot of important decisions about to be made. We have a Supreme Court opening. July 9th is the day, which is a week from today. You can't release big news like that on July 4th week. Everyone's on vacation. The justice will be named on July 9th. And it will be a big decision because we are looking at potentially the future of many huge cases. And I know that that has certainly been covered.

With Chelsea Handler, I think you have the situation where she's saying, God, I wish I never think God, I wish I had that baby. You know, the sad thing there is, and she had two abortions in a year. The sad thing is, you know, the baby doesn't really get a chance to decide that one for themselves. Wouldn't have minded them weighing in on that one, but they don't get that chance. And it's sort of part of this left-wing fear-mongering about what's going to happen with this court going forward. Now, first of all, there's a lot of steps to go through before you get to a Roe versus Wade being overturned. There's a long distance from here to there.

The map, there's not a straight line there. You're going to need massive GPS to find it. It's going to be hard. I mean, the reason why Roe versus Wade wasn't overturned before is because Ronald Reagan picked a justice that didn't go the right way on it. That's how hard this is to do. Once you get Roe versus Wade overturned, what happens? Well, some states will probably ban abortion. However, it will not be the majority of states, most likely.

And it will still leave abortion legal in the majority of states, which, with a little travel, anyone can get one. We're getting massive fearmongering, however, from the left. Jeffrey Tubin has really lost it on this one. He's on CNN all the time. He writes that there will be massive problems here. It will overrule if the court goes to the conservative. direction here that we expect. It will overrule Roe versus Wade allowing states to ban abortions

and to criminally prosecute any physicians and nurses who perform them. It will allow shopkeepers, restaurateurs, and hotel owners to refuse service to gay customers on religious grounds. It will guarantee that fewer African American and Latino students attend elite universities. Think of the way you have to spin these things to make them sound this way. I mean, yes, banning abortion could be an outcome in some states. It will still be legal in other states, unless we get some constitutional amendment. Not to mention, even if we got a constitutional amendment, it would be illegal in many other places.

Beyond that, you have, it will allow shopkeepers, restaurateurs, and hotel owners to refuse service to gay customers on religious grounds. There is no evidence to support that. We all know what the Masterpiece Cake Shop case was about, and it was not about just saying no to gay customers because they walk in. It will guarantee that fewer African Americans. American and Latino students attend elite universities. Well, that's, you know, you're talking about affirmative action there, which is a law to

put people into college based on the color of their skin. How can anyone defend that? I mean, think about that with another color. Think of how indefensible it would be if you said, oh, you know what, we're going to make laws that make more white students go even if they don't deserve it. You may think that that's coming, but certainly not part of the law. Not to mention, ask Asian Americans how they feel about that particular concept. Because they have been, and this just came out, I think, last week,

in which Asian students should be 43% of the student base at Harvard. And instead, they are 15% because of affirmative action. They don't want to have too many Asians. But that's apparently okay. It will also mean the Second Amendment will prohibit states from engaging in gun control, including the regulation of machine guns and bump stocks. Really? Is that all of this is going to happen?

All of this is going to happen at any moment. And I think we've lost sight as to what the world actually thinks about abortion. We get this idea from our media that everywhere else in the world, this is an obvious thing. That women should be able to walk into any equivalent of 7-Eleven and have to, an abortion on demand. And that is not at all how the world looks at this. Now, in America, where they say that we are too restrictive on abortion, we have unlimited access to abortion, pretty much at any time in Washington, New Jersey, New Mexico, Colorado, Vermont,

New Hampshire, Alaska, and Washington, D.C. Pretty much free, you just really no restrictions on it. Now, the other 43 states restrict abortion after a certain point in pregnancy, which the left seems to think is completely oppressive to women. Three states, Virginia, South Carolina, and Iowa prohibit abortion after the 28th week. Think about the oppression there. Think about it. You've only got seven months to figure out what to do? That is, wow, incredibly restrictive, guys.

I mean, now it gets worse. 20 different states prohibit abortion at the point of viability, which is around the 24th week. Six months? Six months does not seem long enough to figure out how to pull the trigger on that pregnancy in almost a literal sense. 11 states prohibit abortion after the 20th week of pregnancy. And as a blanket rule, abortions are legal in every single state

before a pregnancy has reached its 20th week. Again, we're talking about 5.5. months here. Five months. I know that's really oppressive, and it may seem incredibly oppressive to you. But a lot of pro-choice people actually think that women in America are shackled with, you know, reproductive slavery. So let's look around the world for a second here. Because we're told that this is such a backwards hellhole when it comes to women's rights. Now, you can find your abortion paradise in a place like China where abortion is not only legal at any point in the pregnancy, but is also encouraged and quite frequently required. A lot of times there's a little

enforcing that one against your will, but no one's going to hold China up as an example. So let's look to Europe. Abortion is legal in England up to 24 weeks, but there is no time limit if there there is substantial risk to the women's life or massive problems with the pregnancy. Netherlands mandates a five-day waiting period between the initial consultation and the abortion. Mandates a five-day waiting period. Clinics must provide women with information about abortion alternatives,

and only after all of that is abortion legal to the 24th week. That means England and the Netherlands are more restrictive than 10 states in America. Socialist Sweden allows abortions until the 18th week of pregnancy, and bans most after the 22nd week. In the four-week gray period,

a woman can get an abortion only if it's approved by the National Board of Health and Welfare. You imagine demanding women go to a National Board of Health and Welfare to get their abortion approved? In Spain, abortion is legal in the first 14 weeks of a woman's pregnancy, but allows abortion up to 22 weeks in cases of fetal deformities. In Denmark, abortion is available on demand up to 12 weeks of. of pregnancy. Much more restrictive than us. Afterward, exceptions are made for cases of rape,

threats to the woman physical or mental health, risk of fetal defects, and cases where the woman can demonstrate a lack of financial resources to care for the child. Can you imagine in America asking a woman to say, oh, prove that you're too poor for this kid to the government? Do you imagine how the left would react to that? In Germany, abortions after the 12th week are completely banned in case, accepted cases of serious threat to the mother's physical or mental health. Women who want a first trimester abortion. A first trimester abortion. That's the thing that Roe versus Wade guaranteed you'd have access to.

They are subject to a mandatory three-day waiting period and a counseling session. That means that Germany, Germany is more restrictive than almost all of the United States, including Utah. abortion in Belgium is legal until 12 weeks after conception and is required for women to have six days of counseling prior to the abortion. God made the universe in six days. It's a long time. In fashion forward France, abortion is also legal only up to 12 weeks. In Finland, abortion is available up to 12 weeks of pregnancy if a woman can provide a social reason for seeking to determine. her pregnancy, such as poverty, extreme distress, or already having at least four children,

which if you're a fifth child right now, you realize really sucks. Like, ah, you can't really deal with a fifth one. In Italy, a woman has 90 days from the date of conception to request, request, request an abortion. Under the law, the termination must be due to health, economic, social, or family reasons. In Switzerland, abortion is legal up to 12 weeks. If, if, if a woman files a written request stating that she is in a situation of distress. Then the doctor has to give her a comprehensive information about the procedure. Then the doctor has to discuss the decision with her in detail. Then the doctor has to give her an information sheet with the addresses of counseling services

where she can get moral and material help and be informed about adoption. Switzerland. In Portugal, a woman can only get an abortion up to the 10th week after a mandated three-day waiting period. Abortion is illegal in Poland, except for cases of rape, fetal malformation, or serious threats to the woman's health. Andorra allows abortion

only in cases where it is necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman. And abortion is entirely prohibited in Malta. Do not go to Malta for your abortion. Or Lichtenstein also bans it as well. How many states in America have banned abortion entirely?

If I remember correctly, the answer to that is, is zero. We act as if the rest of the world has embraced this where we really are on the other side of it. The most abortion-friendly countries in Europe are more strict than almost all of America. The most restrictive countries in Europe are tougher on abortion than all, all of America. And Europe is supposed to be more enlightened than the United States. We're told that over and over and over again. And maybe the truth is, for this particular topic, they actually are.

Glenn Beck. It's stew in for Glenn Beck, who's on vacation, I mean, on the day where Duncan Donuts has talked about releasing donut fries. So, I mean, he's always out when the big stories happen. But hopefully he'll be back next week, and he can taste test them for you. Susan Collins was on CNN. And if you think Roe v. Wade is getting overturned and Justice is going to skate through,

Susan Collins got a lot to say about that. Collins and Murkowski are two pro-choice Republicans. And that word, if you couldn't hear it through the radio, had massive air quotes all over it. About 65 pairs of air quotes around the term Republican when I talked about Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. However, she was on CNN to talk about whether she will vote for a Supreme Court justice

that may overturn Roe v. Wade. Listen. There's a big difference between overturned some precedents such as Plessy versus Ferguson, which was overturned in the school desegregation case of Brown versus the Board of Education versus overturning a ruling that has been settled law for 46 years, 45 years, and it involves a constitutional right and has been reaffirmed by the court 26 years. 26 years ago. Indeed, Justice Roberts has made very clear that he considers Roe v. Wade to be settled

law. I would not support a nominee who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade because that would mean to me that their judicial philosophy did not include a respect for established decisions, established law. This line of thinking is insane to me. Their job is to go in there and examine the law as it's related to the Constitution. Of course you should overturn laws that are unconstitutional.

Of course you should. Of course you should. That is your job. You know, I mean, there is this bizarre argument that Roe versus Wade has some sort of immunity against as opposed to every other case. Every liberal in the world will tell you you got to overturn Citizens United,

which is the case that allowed people to spend money with their own, you know, with their own political opinions. The exact thing the First Amendment was designed to protect. I got to overturn that next week. But Roe versus Wade is settled law. It's settled law. There's this argument that goes back and forth between the left and the right, where the left says, yeah, there's a living constitution.

And the right says, well, I'm an originalist. I'm a textualist. I want to look at what was there in the documents. And sometimes there are arguments that are passionate on both sides. But one is right and the other one's really dumb. That's where we find ourselves with the Supreme Court. One side is saying, hey, you know how it's our job to protect the Constitution and make sure the things that go on in this country are constitutional? I say we do that by looking at the document and doing the things it says inside of it.

Look at the words. Read the words and have that inform what we do. And the other side saying, you know, I don't like that law all that much. Let's change it. Or I wish the law said this. So let's put it in there. Or, you know, that one. makes me feel bad. Let's show some empathy and change the thing around. Or, you know,

if I were to design a society, it would be more like this country or that country. Let's do that here. By edict. That is not the way the Supreme Court is supposed to react. It's not the way they're supposed to operate. You know, Susan Collins, it's hard to tell. There's a split here between people who say, look, she voted for Gorsuch. She's just, she's giving lip service here to the idea that she would oppose a Trump nominee because of her Roe versus Wade stance. And when it comes down to it, she's going to be fine. She's going to vote for it.

They need these votes. They need pretty much every one of them. So someone like Susan Collins can probably go a long way in stopping this. There's going to be a lot of pressure on Red State Democrats to vote for this nominee. It's going to be very difficult. but I would not be surprised if none of them come along. The Democrats tend to be able to keep their flock in one straight line. The other thought here is she's saying,

maybe she's just saying, I'm not going to vote for someone who comes in here and outwardly opposes abortion. I mean, there's really not a lot of examples of this. There's a couple justices on the list that have spoken outwardly about how they would rule on that case or have, you know, given opinions on this? You know, one of the speculations is Mike Lee might be off the board. Because Lee has obviously spoken.

It did so on the show the other day about what a poor legal decision Roe versus Wade was. Will she vote for someone who has been that outspoken about their opposition to Roe versus Wade? And that's a question that's open. The other thought is she's going to oppose anyone. because she does not want Roe versus Wade to be overturned. So unless she really believes it's not going to be overturned, she's going to vote against them, and it's going to make it almost impossible to get somebody through.

That being said, the map sets up very nicely for Republicans in the Senate in November, so it may not be an issue. We'll have more on this coming up. It's Stu in for Glenback on the Glenn Beck program. It's Stu in for Glenback here on the Glenn Beck program. He's on vacation this week. We have Pat and Stu reunion tour coming up tomorrow, as well as Thursday. Pat Gray will be hosting on Friday.

Good week of shows this week for you. And then Glenn returns on Monday. If you think the Supreme Court isn't that big of a deal, you may remember the horrible decision made by Chief Justice John Roberts on, well, really not once, but twice on Obamacare, leaving Obamacare in place. And we're getting updates now on how that's going for everybody,

which is really good. If you're going to, if you're one of these people who was skeptical on Obama? Maybe you thought you weren't going to keep your doctor? Or are you going to be surprised? Because this is going really well. In 2009, the Obama administration authorized $30 billion in financial incentives to encourage the adoption of electronic health records and everything from large teaching hospitals to solo practices.

Due to the administrative requirements, 40% of the providers who participated were penalized in 2016 for failing to hit the meaningful use targets. The administrative requirements were such a nightmare. Congress created a mass escape hatch in 2017. It's according to the Hill. Electronic data security has turned out to be another lie. A 2017 Accenture Survey estimated that 26% of all Americans had their personal medical data stolen from electronic medical record systems.

Half of those people, half of those people ended up as victims of medical identity theft. On average, victims suffered a $2,500 loss in each incident. Now, I do remember the Obama administration telling us that we were going to save $2,500 when Obamacare was passed. Is it possible they just wanted to save us from the burden of having to spend that $2,500? Is that possible? I think we should at least entertain the possibility. But, I mean, $2,500 per incident and half of the people,

that's what, 13% of Americans? In 2015, more than 100 million patient records were stolen. But this is where it gets really good. If you thought, those are mistakes, right? You have a new program, you want everyone to participate it, and, ah, 40% blow it, and you have to pass an escape hatch. Okay, there's a little problem there. Sure, 26% of all Americans had their medical information stolen, and half of those had identity theft issues that suffered an average of $2,500 per incident.

Sure, but those are mistakes. Here's the design of Obamacare, and this is where it gets really good. When the Obama administration restructured private individual insurance, it created bloated policies that people were not voluntarily purchasing. So you're forcing people to buy these things they don't want, to me, completely unconstitutional. For some reason, John Roberts disagreeing with that one. Not counting the money spent on state and federal exchanges, the federal government spent $341 billion from 2014 through 2016 on subsidizing individual coverage so that people would buy it. So again, you create this really crappy product that people don't want to buy. You force them legally to make them, to make them.

them buy it. Of course, they don't want to pay that price or they can't afford that price. So you take money from evil rich people and you give it to the insurance companies to subsidize the cost of these insurance policies. The cost again, $341 billion from 2014 to 2016. All of this spending managed to increase private coverage by 1.7 million people, slightly less than half of the natural increase in the civilian labor force. So again, half of the natural increase was the amount of people that we actually increased coverage for and the private market.

The cost per person, $200,000. We insured people at a rate of $200,000 per person. The feds could have saved money by closing the exchange. changes and giving people who qualified for subsidies a check for $50,000 for each of the three years. Those people could have then spent $20,000 for their own unsubsidized policy and use the rest to either cover out of pocket costs or buy a nice used car. $200,000 per person. And this is the case over and over and over again with these bloated government policies. And, you know, look, the point where the Supreme Court shouldn't step in and say, hey, you know, look, this is a bad policy.

There is a policy out there. There's plenty of them in America where we waste a bunch of taxpayer money inefficiently on programs. That's something we do all the time. That was different than Obamacare because Obamacare was written incorrectly. We all know the whole tax versus fee argument. You go back and find out how they subsidize the states. These were all constitutional issues. and John Roberts basically went in and was like, you know what,

I think the law should say this instead, and then just rewrote it. But the idea that these programs are a good idea in the first place, over and over again, we see the same scenario play out. $200,000 per person. You could just throw money at people, throw it at them, and save money. You could save a lot of cash and a lot of taxpayer dollars

and a lot of heartbreak. These are bad policies. They've hurt people. They've had to lose their doctors. They've lost access to the treatment they were receiving. And all of that costs us $200,000 per person. Insane. I don't know who's going to be in there to overturn it.

I don't know if you had a new justice come in that was really conservative. Would they have any chance at overturning parts of Obamacare? I mean, perhaps. But again, John Roberts is still there. and he seems to be the wonderful wall. He's the wall that we want on the border around Obamacare for some reason. That no one seems to understand. So I don't know who we're going to get.

A lot of people online are tossing around the name Ben Shapiro for Supreme Court Justice, which I kind of like. I mean, the guy's very smart. You know, has a Harvard, right? Harvard legal mind. he's a little outspoken potentially for Susan Collins' taste, I think. That may be a problem. And I don't think, I'm not sure the administration loves him all that much.

He went on Bill Maher this weekend to talk about civility because we're here in the era of Trump. And as we know, everything bad that happens in the realm of incivility is Trump's fault, including a long-term local newspaper disagreement. that occurred when Donald Trump was hosting The Apprentice. That's also Donald Trump's fault. These things are really getting out of control. Shapiro went on with Bill Maher to talk about it. Can we just say insvility is bad across the board?

Yes, but you can't be a person. Why is it that we're only opposed to when you're Democrat? You're only opposed to insvility when it's Donald Trump. But suddenly Maxine water is anti-Maxine. Because, Ben, you can't walk into a romance and see an elephant and a mouse and not know which one is bigger. But it's not an elephant in a mouse. It's two elephants. But it is, really?

Yes. Threatening to lock up journalists is. 100 officers to protect me at Berkeley. Yes, it's an elephant and an elephant. Yes, it's an elephant when Joe Biden in 2012 says to Mitt Romney that he's going to put y'all back in chains about black people. This stuff pre-existed Donald Trump. That didn't come from the president at Berkeley.

It came from the vice president when he was saying that Mitt Romney, the cleanest person ever, okay, was a guy who was going to put y'all back in chains. To pretend incivility started with Donald Trump. No, not insinvility. I'm talking about the level to which it's at, where you're threatening. I agree with you. Do you really think Donald Trump respects the rule of law? I mean, if somebody...

No, but I think the Constitution itself is a pretty damn durable document, thank God. Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that. It is pretty durable. In fact, it's the most durable Constitution in the world by quite a long stretch. This is an amazing weekend for this all to be happening, by the way. Ben Shapiro talking about inscivility, and he's been protested, but even worse, 600 officers to protect him at a speech. And it's not just Shapiro.

It's tons of conservative speakers. that go and get attacked at, I mean, Charles Murray was attacked at a speech. You know, not, what, last year? Is that Trump's fault too? Every conservative speaker that goes and gets hit with pies and gets he screamed at until they have to leave the campus. Is that Trump's fault?

There's no reason. Like, I don't like the stuff that Donald Trump does when it comes down. I didn't like what he said to, you know, people in crowds and go after them and, you know, I don't like that. And we've talked about it many times. but he certainly didn't start it and the elephant and the elephant is a much more apt description. In fact, this weekend,

as this is all going on on Bill Maher, the co-founder of Vox Media, Joshua Topolsky, tweets about Ben Shapiro. And someone tweets to him, says, you know, I guess saying because Ben Shapiro is Jewish, he's supposed to be liberal. I guess that's the way that's supposed to work.

I don't know if maybe anyone who happens to be Jewish can explain to me, you know, is that in the Torah? Where do we find that exactly? Ben Shapiro is the Jew who helps other Jews onto the train. The co-founder of Vox Media wrote, he then deleted the tweet, which tends to happen when you accuse people of being Nazi collaborators. However, he says he did not. delete it because he's apologizing. He says he deletes it because a mob of right-wing babies

were flooding his mentions. You see, it's the right-wing's fault. It's got to be Donald Trump's fault that you accused Ben Shapiro of being a Nazi sympathizer. Again, I, you know,

I never think anybody should be fired for a tweet, so I don't care. I mean, it tells you who Vox is. It tells you exactly what you're dealing with, at least with some of the people there. I think there's some good stuff that comes out of there as well. But you gotta think it's limited after seeing stuff like this. It's hard to understand.

I mean, in the middle of, we're talking about incivility, right? Incivility. This is a Donald Trump thing. Incivility. By the way, a 33-year-old California man has been arrested on charges of trying to kill the family of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. Now, there are a lot of reasons to threaten to murder someone. None of them good, right?

There's a thou shalt not that appears in front of the word murder over and over again in certain contexts. And that's a good way of thinking about it. Thou shall not murder. However, if you're going to threaten someone with death, is net neutrality really the thing that's going to put you over the edge? The fact that you think in the future, in theory, your Netflix may buffer is a reason to threaten a public official with death? I mean, I love my Netflix, but I think you may have lost perspective here.

Glenn Beck. It's Stu in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program. He's away this week, obviously a big holiday week. Hope you're going to have some good stuff planned. You know, I feel like a lot of people don't really respect this holiday, like we do some of the other big ones. We don't really, I don't know, throw as big a celebration as one might expect. Of course, I'm talking about Bobby Bonilla Day.

Potentially my favorite American holiday, which was yesterday. If you don't know Bobby Bonilla and Bobby Bonilla Day, you may not be a big sports fan, but Bobby Bonilla played, it was a pretty good play. back in the day in the 90s, played for the Mets and the Pirates, among other teams. But his departure from the Mets

is now stuff of legend. So he was owed $5.9 million in 2000, and they wanted to buy out his contract. He was not working out. He was fighting with the manager, wanted to leave the team. So he is negotiating his departure. They don't want to pay him $5.9 million, though.

because, you know, they don't like them and they want them to go away. So instead of paying them $5.9 million, they negotiate a deferred compensation plan. God, I want this deferred compensation plan so badly. Instead of receiving $5.9 million in 2000, he would receive $1.19 million in 2011 and 2012 and 13. 14 and 15 and on and on and on all the way to 2035. So instead of receiving $6 million in 2000, he gets $1.2 million every year from 2011 to 2013. Amazing.

Something like $28 million instead of five. Now you think, why the hell would the Mets want to do this? This makes no sense. Well, at the time, they had some different information. They wanted to pay for players right at that moment to make a World Series run, which they made. There was some success to it. They went up trading the player they got. They got another one of their all-time grates.

There was some success there. But the reason why they thought it was going to work out financially is because they had these incredible investments. They were guaranteed 15% a year on these investments, and they were only paying 8% interest. Almost a guaranteed win there. Pretty big deal. I mean, it's like giving you money. The only slight problem with the 15% guaranteed returns is it came from an investment advisor named Bernie Madoff.

So they made this whole deal believing they were going to make all this made-off money for decades to come, and that one didn't work out all that well. Anyway, I hope you celebrate this week. Happy Bobby. Glenn Beck. So we have some new information about America's favorite socialist. Alexandria.

Ocasio Cortez. Very excited to tell you about it. It's been a big week for socialism. Mr. Lopez Obrador, the new coming to be, soon to be, president of Mexico, has won the presidential election there. First time a big time leftist has won in a long time.

You might think, wait a minute, the last guy wasn't a big time leftist? Apparently not. They've gone further, but he won 53% of the vote. And it looks like we're going to have, it's going to be an interesting part of this because with all the stuff already going on with Mexico, they haven't been big fans of us recently. And the idea of potentially renegotiating trade deals and things like that could be a big time complication to this process. Also, the president has outwardly said he is not going to try to stop anybody from crossing the border.

Now, you might think, wait a minute, was the last guy trying to stop people from crossing the border? Apparently, yes. This is what it's been like when they've been trying. Can you imagine them? The opposite will be. But the good thing is they're going to bring socialism there. And then socialism will make the country so great, no one will want to leave.

When's the last time you saw people trying to escape a socialist or communist country? I don't think it's ever happened. I mean, Cuba, it's really more about the heat. It's just too hot there. They want to go to the cool, the quiet, cool breeze of Miami. instead. Because there it's not warm at all. And North Korea, look, sure, you know, that's more of an issue, local weather patterns. You wouldn't understand.

Plus everyone, you know what happens is you go south, you're like snowbirds, you go south, and then you can't get back in. That's the problem there. And sure, you know, there may be some evidence of a wall that used to stand up so that people would get shot when they tried to go over it in Germany. But that was, again, people, they were concerned. It was a high wall. You go over that wall, you fall on the other side, ankles break.

So this was for the, nothing to do with trying to escape. It was all to do with helping because they didn't want, no one wants health insurance costs to go up. No one needs a broken ankle. But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she is the person, who beat Joe Crowley was one of the highest ranking Democrats, I think fourth in line there, talked about as a potential replacement for Nancy Pelosi at some point,

and he got smoked in his election. Now, some people are going out of their way to say that this is about demographics, and that's wrong. Okay. Now, there, I think, are three districts as diverse as this district in America that had white representatives, and two of the three are stepping down,

and then there's this one. So that was the fourth. I think there's one left. I mean, this is, you know, look, you get to vote for whoever you want. If you have a community that is diverse in whatever way, you can vote however you like. That's part of America. You can vote how, I mean, I would never vote based on skin color or heritage.

That would never be something that I would do. Many people do. And many people get it encouraged. A lot of people think that that's a good idea. I am not one of those people. I do not think you should ever, ever, ever vote based on skin color. Really bad things have happened in the past when that's gone on. I could actually send you back to some of the countries we've been just talking about

where a lot of that goes on and has gone on in the past. But Ocasio-Cortez has been your standard sort of liberal activist for many years. She won this race. She's 28 years old. And she's kind of the phenom of the left right now. She's pretty new to politics. In 2016, she voted and tried to celebrate the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, helped campaign for Bernie. Not a huge surprise.

She also protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline and visited there, visited Flint, Michigan as well, which is a big thing with the public water supply, the public water supply, which somehow was a left-wing cause, that that went wrong? Is that not a right wing point? The public water supply. The government screws things up a lot. Oh, God. I'll get into that one again.

She then went back to work for a restaurant in Union Square in Manhattan. A very capitalist area that has a lot of left-wing protests in it. If you've ever been to Union Square, we did the show for many years in New York City. And Union Square, you go around, it's a, you know, it's a friendly, a place for tourists. But it's a very upscale area. Surrounded by trendy, you know, restaurants and such. Trendy shops, along with some chain stuff.

Like, it is, it's not exactly a socialist paradise. However, if you go to Union Square, you'll almost always find a bunch of socialists chanting about something or other. It's an interesting location for that activity. But she wound up getting a, an ask from the former veterans of the Sanders campaign to see if she wanted to run for Congress, which she did, and she won. Now, her brand of socialism has been interesting since.

She kind of portrayed herself as Jenny from the block, right? She grew up in the Bronx. She was a girl from the Bronx was the way she kind of touted herself. There's been some questioning of that lately. People have kind of looked back into her childhood and found, maybe she didn't grow up in the Bronx all that much. In fact, she grew up in Yorktown Heights in New York, which is kind of being presented as this super upscale area.

Now, I spent a good chunk of my summers in Yorktown, which, by the way, I don't think I've ever heard anyone call it Yorktown Heights in my entire life. Everyone always calls it Yorktown. That's as far as I've known. But my aunt lived in Yorktown for many years, and my grandparents lived nearby, so I was shuttled back and forth between those.

two locations quite a bit. And I did a lot of time in the summer up there. It's a nice area. It's not, I wouldn't say it's a, you know, to paint it as this Beverly Hills-esque town is, I do not think accurate. It's nice. It's a nice, it's a working class town.

Now, I mean, the average salary is high, but that's because it's in Westchester County. And, you know, there's a lot of people who live there who bring that average up quite a bit. But it's not, you would not go there and think, Oh my gosh. This socialist is living in Beverly Hills. She's basically 902.10.1.

It's not that. It's being a little bit overstated in the media today. But Yorktown is a nice place and certainly, you know, significantly different than the Bronx. It's a suburb. I mean, it's Westchester County, right? This is not, you know, this is not the school of hard knocks. It's a nice place.

live. So this has been, she had a fight with John Cardillo over at Newsmax about this, where he apparently, he's the one that brought some of this to people's attention. And she

writes back that she didn't go to Brown or the Ivy League, I went to B.U. Try Google. I guess his first article mentioned that she was in the Ivy League. However, B.U. Like, do you claim BU as an argument for your working class upbringing?

BU costs $70,000 a year to attend. Now, she's very smart, apparently, so probably had some sort of scholarship. But, yeah, I don't think you can act as if you didn't have a nice education when you go to Boston University. This is, this is, it might not be Ivy League, but it's pretty elite. 70 grand a year? It's a lot of money. She also fired back and was upset about

her family, her story, her home, and her identity was stripped by John. I don't know if that's accurate. Seems that as if she was misported. She was portraying her upbringing in a way to make her story more friendly for voters.

I'm a kid from, It is legitimately what Jennifer Lopez did, right? Jennifer Lopez wanted you to know she was Jenny from the block. She hasn't changed. She wanted to emphasize that she was from the Bronx. She was down the, she's the same girl from the block. She used to have a little. Now she has a lot.

And you're supposed to relate to Jennifer Lopez because of that. Now, as far as I understand, Jenny was actually from the block at some point, which is a difference in the stories here. But the idea is your PR approach. is to tell people, hey, I'm from your town. We see this all the time in elections. People move in, you know, like Hillary Clinton moves in.

Oh, yeah, but I went to New York once. Yeah, okay, I don't know if that means that you should be senator, but since we know your name so well, congratulations, you've won. That's the thing that you do. You move into the town and you act like you had some familiarity with it. It's kind of a standard thing. Now, she did spend time in the Bronx, so I think that's part of it. But, you know, the Yorktown, Yorktown,

part of the story, apparently, and not as notable. She also, as a socialist, has some strange habits. For example, after winning her election, and, you know, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is very pretty, I would say. Now, you might say, wait a minute, isn't that demeaning? How could, how dare you call a woman pretty? I don't know. I think it's true.

She's 28 years old. She's quite attractive, and probably part of the reason she won. You know, I mean, like, look, we all know. that better looking candidates are what political parties look for. You look for better. Why do you think that the left is always threatening to run celebrities? Because they have all the good looking celebrities on their team. And so that is part of it.

You know, I mean, that is, you know, it's part of the package. You want to have someone who's good looking and can, I don't know, is telegenic, right? They're going to go on television all the time. And you might say, wait a minute, I look at the blaze. and doesn't seem like he focused on that at all. That's true. It's a good point. It's a very good point.

None of us know why we're on television. I tried to start on radio so you wouldn't have to look at me every day. So don't blame me. But Ocasio-Cortez had an issue with a lot of people saying that they wanted to know what shade of lipstick she was wearing. Now, I assume it was some government-designed lipstick, perhaps straight out of the Castro regime that she imports, but no. Apparently, it's a capitalist brand of lipstick,

which she went on Twitter, a company, you may note, that works for profit, and tweeted the brand and type shade of lipstick to her audience. Now it is sold out on Sephora's website. website. Sephora, you might know, another company who run on the profit motive, and this I know, because approximately 40% of my salary goes to Sephora. Thank you, Lisa. My lovely wife.

She is now touting this lipstick color, and everyone's going crazy for it. It's a strange world we live in, where socialists are so open. to embracing capitalism when it benefits them. We see this all the time. Tonight on TV, I'm filling in for going on television as well tonight. We're to go through some of the lifestyles of the rich and socialist. I want people to be able to see how these wonderful celebrities

that have now come into your living room through the television every day based on their belief in redistributing wealth and how they actually redistribute it to themselves. We'll go over that tonight on television, 5 p.m. at the blaze. or on your local cable provider. But I love this part of this. Now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez worked very recently at a restaurant in, as I mentioned, Union Square. Now, normally these issues, like, there's a, there's an ex-co worker that doesn't like her

very much, apparently. And normally, I would say these stories are pathetic. Like, this happens left and right. people try to look back and find one worker who worked with them that didn't like them for many years ago. And these stories are a little lame, honestly, in most cases. You know, this happened certainly, you know, with, you know, Mitt Romney when, you know, people were talking about, well, he once went on a trip and put his dog on the roof. And like, he once gave an illicit haircut to someone who was when he was 18 years old.

And they're, you know, they're meaningless stories because they go back so many years. This one, however, is a little bit interesting to me because Akazio Cortez is only 28. She was working at a restaurant six months before she started running for Congress. This is part of her sort of wonderful story, right? Like she's, you know, girl from the Bronx, really Yorktown, but girl from the Bronx

who loves the Bronx so much that she works in Manhattan. And that's something you're supposed to like if you're from the Bronx, apparently. But what I think I thought was interesting is this. She's being hailed as the new face of the Democratic Party, a Democratic socialist. But the people she worked with, generally speaking like her. However, one waitress has a bad memory of working with Ocasio-Cortez, 28, as she tended bar at the very busy Cinco de Mayo celebration in 2017.

At the end of the night, when it came time to split the $560 in tips that she had received at the bar, Ocasio-Cortez gave the wait-tons. only $50. After the waitress complained to her manager, her take was doubled to $100. So again, if you've ever worked at a restaurant, they pool all these tips and you're tipping out if you're a bartender, right? You're going to give some money to maybe some of the servers,

maybe some of the bus boys, whatever. Apparently, this waitress was supposed to get $100 and only got $50, meaning that the Democratic Socialist did not properly redistribute The wealth. It is exactly the thing that they're supposed to be wanting to do. However, when they're working at a capitalist restaurant to get money for their capitalist lipstick so they can tweet about it on the capitalist social media site, apparently redistributing the wealth no longer applies.

Glan Beck. 727 Beck is the phone number. Stu in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program talking about socialism and its rise here in America. There's a podcast out called The Butterfly Effect by John Ronson.

And it's really an interesting listen if you like these sorts of things. It follows the butterfly effect kind of what happened when a guy in Montreal decided, you know it would be cool if we did a YouTube for porn and basically decided to

figure out a way to make streaming porn available to the masses. What changed in our society? You know, it used to be, this is not a great commentary, but it used to be that reputation, infamy, disease, yuckiness, the fires of hell for all eternity, was a trade-off for a lot of money. And that was at least a decision that you could theoretically understand. Jenna Jameson is known as a porn star,

but also known as a multimillionaire, right? There was that idea that you went in and you sacrificed a lot of things, but at least you got rich out of it. I mean, Stormy Daniels is another example, right? You probably didn't know her name until very recently. But still, she somehow made a lot of cash. And yes, you pay a high price forever.

The best possible outcome for you past 30 is a rumored affair with someone more famous than you at a golf tournament. But still, there's the money. At least you're making. a decision. Not a decision I would advise, but you're making a decision. Now the supply of porn is so high and almost all of it is free and it's basically wiping out the people making it. New girls come in, they do their first time on camera, they make some money and then they make a little bit more for each escalating degrading thing that they do. But in a few months they're gone

and no one wants them anymore. The reputation is in the trash. They've got no money in their pocket and they've got a lot of new antiviral medications to pay for, which are not cheap, even with the wonders of Obamacare. I know it's surprising. So the podcast goes through this, and the free porn has led to an increase in infidelity, in ED among young men, along with incredible improvements and data analysis.

But the worst thing, other than the pain that comes from the fire that has never extinguished, it never consumes, is Montreal, the ugliest capitalist thing in the world and the ugliest capitalist industry came from Montreal. We lost it to Canada? This is a disgrace. You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

It's due and for Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck Program vacation week, and I believe it was a gift sent from the heavens. That LeBron James would sign a new contract when I'm hosting by myself. Because we all know that Glenn would not even know who LeBron James was. Glenn would have absolutely no idea. He would probably think it was a former, you know, progressive activist that he read about once

in some nerdy letter that he paid way too much money for. However, LeBron James goes to Los Angeles. Going to the Lakers, $154 million over four years. $38.5 million per season. Now, he turned down $35.6 to stay at home because who could afford those Akron real estate rates at only $35.6 million? It's going to be an interesting thing to watch.

One of the overlooked stories about LeBron James is how he returned to Cleveland and then held them hostage every single year, opting out of a contract every single year, to get every single dime he could to stay there. The complaint was always that you couldn't get enough people to come play with LeBron. Well, part of that is probably because no one knew if he'd stick around for another season or not. The other part about it is, it's just not true.

This past team started out with Kyrie Irving. You may remember him from taking and making all the big shots in the championship season that they had. But he just couldn't bring himself to play with LeBron. anymore, but that's definitely not LeBron's fault. He makes everybody around him better. So they traded him for Isaiah Thomas, fresh off bringing the Celtics to the conference finals and averaging 29 points a game.

But that one couldn't work out either, but it's not LeBron's fault. He makes everyone around him better. And of course, Kevin Love, who is the most sought-after free agent in the league, sure he averaged 26 points and 13 rebounds a game before LeBron, but he sucks now. out too. That's not LeBron's fault, however. He makes everyone around him better.

George Hill, sure, last year he averaged 17 points a game, but he couldn't make it work with LeBron. However, that's not LeBron's fault. He makes everyone around him better. Kyle Corver, he can shoot, but he's too old. I mean, he was an all-star way back in 2015. Do you even remember how old you were back in 2015? Ancient history. And his feelings are not LeBron's fault. He makes everyone around him better. Jeff Green averaged over 17 points a game. That was a couple years ago, though, too. And that's certainly his performance is not LeBron's fault.

He makes everyone around him better. Rodney Hood was averaging 17 points a game this season until he came with LeBron. But that's not LeBron's fault. He makes everyone around him better. And J.R. Smith averaged 18 points a game in his season for the NBA. Remember that? But he's total junk, too.

I mean, did you see that play? He forgot the score. he delayed a final shot by a couple of seconds in an important game, which totally justified LeBron doing nothing in overtime of that game. Sure, I'm leaving out the fact that it was one of the greatest plays. I mean, he really played one of the greatest games

I've ever seen him play. But still, if they had won that game, they may have only lost that series in five games instead of four, which would have been incredible. Remember, LeBron makes everyone around him better. By the way, in their first 15 seasons, Jordan played, Michael Jordan, played with an all-star six times. It was Scotty Pippen all six times.

LeBron played with 14 all-stars. The fact that he has never played with anybody makes no sense. He's played with 13 players that have made an all-star team at some point in their career, including six future Hall of Famers. But please give the man some help, Cleveland. What is wrong with you? And this follows, by the way, a long-term approach of LeBron James. to leave the situation that he's in for something that personally benefits him.

Now, in our capitalist society, that is a wonderful thing that I treasure. But LeBron, as the Hillary Clinton supporter, doesn't exactly, uh, I don't know. I don't give him quite as much leeway there. LeBron leaves his team when he believes there is a better situation for LeBron somewhere else. Remember, he left the cabs who were coming off the best. record in the NBA to go to Miami. Everybody remembers that. But what people don't look at is he did the same thing when he left Miami to come back to Cleveland. Yeah, it was his hometown and that had maybe something to do with it, but it was an objectively better situation he was going into.

Instead of flailing around for a few more years with Bosch and Wade in full collapse, he got Kyrie Irving and the number one overall pick in the draft, which an impatient LeBron forced the team to trade for Kevin Love, who everyone complains about now, who they could have had as a free agent a year later. And now, after finals lost number six, it's time to run away to find a better situation again for LeBron. The only difference between his move to Miami and his move back to Cleveland was the PR. He brought his talents to South Beach.

And then he's coming home to Cleveland. Notice how each time he moves somewhere, the attention to it drops. It was this big festival on TV the first time. Then it was this wonderful heartwarming letter. Now he's just like on Instagram. Yeah, go to L.A. See you there. Look, he obviously wants to go and increase his future earnings when it comes to television and movies. And he has every right to do that.

LeBron James is probably going to end up as a top 10 player of all time. and he has every right to chase the glamour and the attention that he can get only probably in Los Angeles or maybe New York. He's going to go to Los Angeles where he may be as high as the fourth best player in franchise history and that's something that's going to stick out. I mean, sure, maybe it's more like eighth.

You know, but people think I'm a LeBron hater, but I'm really not. I mean, just because I'm nice, I'm not even counting George Miken. Look, he was on the Minneapolis Lakers. I'm not even counting him. But good for LeBron. I will be legitimately happy to see him actually play in something other than the weakest conference

in any sport in my lifetime. That will be interesting to see, and I'm willing to see it. When LeBron originally returned to Cleveland, he wrote a letter explaining the incredibly, incredibly selfless move he was making because no one explains how selfless LeBron is better than LeBron. He wrote, I always believed that I'd return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

I just didn't know when. Apparently, he still has to get that one scheduled. I guess that's maybe on the schedule for 2025, 2025, 2006. We'll see. We'll see Cleveland. You get to find out someday soon. Now, Cleveland will always have this championship that they got. And that's a big, big deal.

I, for one, completely understand this as a Philadelphia Eagles fan. quite honestly, Nick Foles could join ISIS tomorrow and all I'd want to do is give him a hug. So I get it. I get how much you're never going to lose a connection if you're Cleveland to LeBron James. But let's be honest, LeBron isn't, it's not about Cleveland with LeBron. It's not about going home. Whether it's for a better team or more glitz or warmer weather or a few extra dollars, which always need to be maximized.

LeBron is and always is about LeBron. It's Stu and for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program, taking a couple of different advantage points here to look at the Trump administration and how it's operating. First of all, let's go to Maxine Waters. Maxine Waters, who of course is, you may know her as the insane congresswoman, who recently called for people to harass Trump administration employees. in the street at restaurants and at gasoline stations, as she called them, because, you know, the Trump administration is also evil and people like Sarah Huckabee Sanders deserve to get harassed because it's always okay for a Democratic woman to say, hey, go ahead, go on out and harass a bunch of women. That's fine with me. Here is Maxine Waters now talking about Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

I'm going to get, I'm not intimidated by him. I think he does not. I deserve to be the President of the United States, and I simply stand up to him. And so he'll keep doing that as he has done throughout this limited career of years. And I'm going to get on. We're talking about what we as Democrats are doing to deal with the most important issues of our times, important issues that we need to be focused on and providing the kind of public policy that will help create housing in this country. We have a housing crisis.

that will try and protect Obamacare, the ACA that they're trying to tear down every day, that will deal with infrastructure so that we can create jobs. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. I can defend against him, and I can promote good public policy. I intend to do that, and let him call me whatever he wants to call me, let him say whatever he wants to say. He will not stop me. He cannot cause me to shut down.

that's what they would like to do. They want me to run away. They want me to stop talking. They want me to be quiet. But he can't do that to me. I won't stand for it. And not only did you have that, you know, the right came after you, but you had even the leadership of the Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi.

Were you surprised to have the leadership of your own party come out and essentially call you an American? Uh-oh. Well, you know, I was surprised that Chuck Schumer, you know, reached into the other house to do that. I've not quite seen that done before. but one of the things I recognize being an elected official is in the final analysis, you know, leadership like Chuck Sumers will do anything that they think is necessary to protect

their leadership. And so what I have to do is not focus on them. Yeah, that's what you need to do. Here's a, you know, again, attempting to make herself the victim after she's called for the harassment of public officials, she's the victim. She's just trying to do the right thing. And the darn Trump administration, darn you, is trying to stop her from doing her thing. So there's one view. Complete failure, failure on housing, infrastructure, Obamacare. You know, she calls out Trump for having a limited career.

Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe politicians' careers should be limited. Got a little proposal called term limits I'd like you to take a look at, but we'll get to that in a second. Here's the other side. From the African American community as well, a man named Henry Davis, upload a video of himself talking about the state of the economy for him. I was just sitting here watching President Trump talking about Foxcon and explaining all of the things that he's doing for America.

And he had this black lady come up there and give a little speech about how her life has changed because of some of his accomplishments and whatnot. And I'm just so proud. I'm just proud to be an American, you know. And again, Barack Obama,

I respected the office. I respected the fact that he was the president, but ain't nobody like Trump, man. If you want to work, it's jobs out here. And I'm literally like, I'm just crying because

because I'm just I'm like it's just a good time to be alive and to be able to witness what's really going on and we got a chance I'm just talking about from a black perspective if you really want to work

and get up off your ass and do something you can do it I just thank God for President Trump you know I ain't never met the man I don't know the man but I'm just talking about what doing for our country and what he's doing for our people. Black people working, you know what I'm saying?

Jobs is coming back. Factories is opening up. You know, he helping with the drug epidemic and all that. It's just a, it's just a beautiful time to be alive, y'all. Y'all, y'all got excuse me, but I'm wearing my feelings on my shoulder right now. And I'm just happy to be an American and where at least I know I'm free. Trump and crack. So there you go. Two perspectives, both from the African American community, one of which will be completely ignored,

and the other one will be echoed day after day after day. You know, both of them should have some weight. This is something that's real that's going on, whether you like Trump's policies or not, and the African American unemployment rate is as low as it's never been. That's something to celebrate.

You'd think the left would want to celebrate that, whether it was their policies, whether they want to say it was actually Barack Obama who did all of this, whatever you want to say, at the very least, shouldn't you be thrilled by these developments? These are good moves in the right direction. And when it comes down to real people who are actually living it, they're feeling a lot of that. And it's something that you'd think the media would want to highlight in a different world. But no, it'll be Maxine Waters on television every day telling you the exact opposite about how she needs to be there to protect that very worker, Henry Davis.

I don't think there's a lot of protection going on there. The government is not here to help. Back with more in a second. It's Stu Infor Glenn on the Glenn Beck program. Breaking news in the world of international trade. president has been elected, a socialist, and he's going to up the battle on what we are seeing with tariffs around the world. Axios has obtained a leaked draft of a Trump administration bill ordered by the president himself that would declare America's abandonment of fundamental

world trade organization rules. The draft legislation is stunning. The bill essentially provides Trump a license to raise U.S. tariffs at will without congressional consent and international rules be damned. The details, the bill titled the United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act, or FART, would give Trump unilateral power to ignore the two most basic principles of WTO and negotiate one-on-one with any country key parts of this bill. The most favored nation principle that countries can't set different tariff rates for different countries outside of free trade agreements and bound tariff rates, the tariff ceilings that go to each WTO country, it's a world trade organization, if they've already agreed into previous negotiations.

Now, FART would be the equivalent of walking away from the WTO and our commitments there without us actually notifying our withdrawal, said a source familiar with the bill. Good news is that Congress would never give this authority to the president, the source added, describing the FART Act as insane. Fart is not implementable at the border. Given Fart would create potentially tens of thousands of new tariffs on products. And Fart would completely remove us

from the set of global trade rules, which is a big deal. Behind the scenes, Trump was briefed on Fart in late May, according to sources familiar with the fart situation. Most officials involved in farts drafting, with the notable exception of hardline trade advisor, Peter Navarro, think that fart is unrealistic or unworkable. USTR, Commerce, and the White House are involved in all of the elements of fart. Now, the Fart Act is, it's big time,

it's raising the stakes here in the world of trade. And the White House meeting to discuss Fart earlier this year, legislative affairs director Mark Short bluntly told Navarro that the Fart Act was dead on arrival and would receive zero support on Capitol Hill according to sources familiar with the exchange. Navarro replied to Short

that he thought that Fart would get plenty of support particularly from Democrats, but Short told Navarro he didn't think Democrats were in much of a mood to hand over more authority to Trump even for Fart. Spokeswoman Lindsay Waters at the White House said it is no secret that POTUS had frustrations with the unfair imbalance of tariffs that put the U.S. at a disadvantage.

He has asked his team to develop farts to remedy this situation and create incentives for countries to lower their tariffs, which is, you know, it's an important concept. The current system gives the U.S. no leverage in other countries no incentive, and that's why the administration believes we need fart. Walters, however, signaled that we should not make this fart bill and act as if it's anything like a done deal. The only way that this would be news is if the Fart Act were actual legislation, that the administration was preparing to roll out. But it's not. She was referring to the Fart Act. Principles have not even met to review any text of Fart on reciprocal trade. And that's an important part of this story.

A lot of people are going to get down the road and think, hey, this is a done deal. not at this point. And you need to note, as Axios points out, the specificity of Walter's quote, Trump directly requested fart and was verbally briefed on fart in May, but he has not met with the principles to review the fart yet. It's an important part of this. The bottom line, as a smart trade watcher, told Axios, quote, the Trump administration should be more worried about

not having their current authority restricted rather than expanding authority as the FART Act would do. And apparently they are going out on a limb here to make sure they send the message that the administration should hold the fart in. And as someone who really cares about free trade, the United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act or FART to me is not the right direction to go for this country. You know, I know there's a lot of disagreement on tariffs, but it really are going to go, I mean, I just don't think, I don't think fart is the right answer for our economy at this time. We've made so much progress. And then we're going to go, we're going to go fart, and then it's going to be all reversed. I mean, fart would knock out all the good things that happened in, with the tax bill, I think. You know, you're talking about tens of thousands of tariffs. People are going to, people, fart will become a bad word. People will think of farts and think negative things. Is that what we want out of this country? I don't think it's appropriate at all.

And I hope that, you know, you will maybe take a moment and call the White House and say, hold the fart in. Because what we need in this country is not another fart. We need free trade. We need capitalist principles. We need low regulation. This is understood throughout the rest of the, the economy. It doesn't seem to be understood on the borders. And that's why fart isn't the answer.

You know, it might make sense to think that if you have, if you pass fart, you'd be able to keep people out of, you know, maybe you'd slow down the influx of various trade, malfeasance. But I don't think that's the way this is going to go. And I hope you'll call the White House today. Just let them know, you know, fart's not the answer, guys. Fart is not the answer, hold the fart in. I know we go a little bit, a lot of people don't like to go too much into depth on trade policy, but I felt like it was important today. And I appreciate you allowing me the leeway to do that. If you want to talk about fart, our number is 888-727-B-E-C-K. It's stew quite clearly filling in for Glenn Beck on the Glenn Beck program.

On Twitter, at World of Stew is where you can tweet to me. A lot of people commenting on the FART Act, whether they want it to pass or not, the Fair and Reciprocal Trade Act, um, hashtag don't pass the fart, uh, hold the fart in. These are, these are really important things because look,

free trade's important and there's not enough discussion. It's an uncomfortable topic sometimes on conservative radio these days. A lot of people don't want to talk about fart and it's implipate. What happens with it? People don't want to know. And, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, stinks. It stinks. And a lot of people are tweeting that exact phrase about fart. It stinks. So I'm trying to get a movement started here because, you know, you've heard me on the show before talking about free trade. I think it's really important. It's really important that we don't have extra tariffs on products coming into the country.

I don't think that's a good idea. And that's why I oppose fart. That's why I do it. By the way, the, uh, the, uh, and a move that comes directly from Satan, McDonald's in the UK has decided to ban plastic straws. And what will they go to? You may have seen them before, if you've ever visited the seventh level of hell, the paper straw. There is nothing on this earth,

even fart. That is worse than the paper straw. the papers have you ever has anyone at a restaurant who thinks paper straws are a good idea ever had to take a drink out of a paper straw here's the thing with paper when you put fluid on it it like

it gets wet and it crumbles and then it gets pieces of the paper come off in your mouth while you're drinking it is the worst thing humanity has ever done give or take a couple things there's a couple things in there that maybe you'd put in this

in this group all 1,361 McDonald's restaurants in the UK and Ireland this is the way you can tell this is a UK story will benefit from the new anti-plastic straw policy benefit that doesn't make any sense it is the word literally

designed by Satan the paper straw. By the way, new developments in the world of soda taxes, and you know if I'm going to fill in, Stu, by the way, on Glenn, the Glymock program, you know I'm going to talk about sugar taxes, because I hate them so much. The soda tax was passing all over California

in city after city after city, and the beverage industry has tried a new approach. Instead of fighting the ordinances city by city, it is turning to the states, trying to pass laws preventing any local governments from taxing their products. This is kind of an interesting development because it's sort of progressivism eating its own, or in this case maybe drinking its own. Because here it is, the approach that the left takes all the time.

They always try to get things out of the local and into the state and then into the federal. They always try to get the power higher up and centralized. They always try to escalate things in this way. So here's their new fancy tax. They want to tax people who like soda. And now they're just going straight. The soda companies are like, all right, we'll just go to the states. We'll go to the states and get soda taxes banned there.

And that is apparently what they're trying to do in California. And California is going along with it because they don't want to deal with the way that the beverage companies are acting and good for big beverage. I support you wholeheartedly the exact opposite about how I feel about fart and the fart act.

Because that I do not support. Okay? I do not support fart. We're also experiencing apparently the biggest revolution in movie ticket prices in decades. I find this to be fascinating as a proud and

loving supporter of movie pass. you don't have movie pass, get it while it's still there. Apparently, they're having some financial troubles, at least according to this article. However, what they do is for about, what is it, $10 a month, you can go see unlimited movies in the theaters with a couple, and I say unlimited. It's not the right word because, you know, it's limited. But the differences is very minor. You can't go see like 3D movies.

You can't go see the same movie twice. There's a couple of restrictions like that, but they're pretty minor. you can't really go enough. You're not going to be limited by this, by your movie pass subscription. It's available in basically for every single theater in the United States, something like 90-something percent of theaters.

And they have really now changed, whether to succeed or not as a company, have changed the way people are buying movie tickets. And now a bunch of other theaters are doing subscription plans. AMC has one for 20 bucks a month. You get three movies per week at its locations. Now look, that's not as good as movie pass,

but still, I'd much rather have that than the old way. I mean, the old way was, you know, it's $10, $12 a movie. And you never wanted to take a chance on a crappy movie. Like, if there was a movie that was sort of on the borderline, you never wanted to go to it. Because you walk into the theater, you get halfway through, you're like, I've wasted $12, this sucks. You know, so you just don't, you don't go.

You stay home. With movie pass, I'll go see all the crap they can churn out in Hollywood. And this is a good thing for theaters, right? Because I went to take my kids to some kids movie in which I had movie pass and saved money on the tickets. However, then I went inside and ate like $60 worth of food at the dining theater because I'm overweight. And those are those types of things that I do, like most people who go to movies. So, well, I don't know why they wouldn't want this. I can say that I know it does encourage you to take chances on movies.

To take a chance on a movie you think is maybe borderline. Maybe you think it's, there's a part of it that looks interesting, but you might walk out in the middle of it if it sucks. Well, you can do that with movie pass and these new subscription services. Now, I don't know if I would have walked out in the Last Jedi. Because the Last Jedi, I was not a huge fan of it. I did see it twice and you say, well, why would you go see a movie you don't like twice?

Well, it's Star Wars, right? It's a Star Wars sequel. And for some reason, I feel like I owe it to them to see all their movies. Even when I don't like them. I mean, you go through the prequels, there wasn't a lot there. But you still go to every single one of them, which is a strange thing. I mean, it is, frankly. However,

Mark Hamill Even Mark Hamill didn't seem to like the Last Jedi all that much Now, spoiler alerts minor here, if you haven't seen it But Luke's not exactly the guy you thought he was In the movie Here's Mark Hamill talking about his role And how it played out in The Last Jedi

Idealistic character He was the most optimistic character And I said, you know, even if I did something ghastly like picking the wrong young student that I would redouble my efforts. I wouldn't just go off to an island for 30 years. But that's not my job. I have to do what I can do the best to realize the vision of the rider, in this case, Ryan Johnson. So, I mean, it had to, it was tough on me because it's, you know, I was sort of old school George Lucas and you have to make, way for the new generation.

So I had to figure out how can I best make this work. And there's lots of back story I made up for myself that wouldn't concern the audience in any way. And that's when I made the analogy of being the Beatles generation where all you need is love.

And in effect, we failed because I think the world is much worse now than it was then. Holy crap. Dark analysis of your own role. Here's a guy who had this really big movie a million years ago, and he waits and waits and waits and waits. And I don't know how often you've gone back and looked at Star Wars.

Mark Hamill, objectively, is not a good actor. Now, I love those movies. But Mark Hamill is not good in them. Okay? He's something that you overlook in a retro sort of fashion. And you're like, I have a warm feeling in my heart about those movies. So therefore, I will ignore his acting. I mean, I'm sorry, but it's true.

And then you wait all of this time. You wait through an incredibly long delay. Three terrible prequels. And then another long delay. Where it seems like it may never come back. And then like, we're doing it. We're bringing in JJ. J.J. Abramsams is going to make the new movie

and guess what, Luke, you're going to be in it. They probably call him Luke, I'm assuming, and not Mark. Luke, you're going to be in the movie. Congratulations. It's wonderful. Here's your big comeback. And you read the script, and then you're in the last eight seconds of the movie and you don't say anything.

So that's your... That's rough. Then they bring you into the movie, and I swear they made that first one just so they didn't have to expose long stretches of acting for Mark Hamill. Then they bring him into this new one, and I swear they gave him this role of, like, quiet brooding guy, so he didn't have to speak. He could just wear a beard.

They even covered his face with a beard, so he couldn't express a lot. And then they run through the whole thing, and he had a mistake with a student, so he ran away to an island for 30 years. Like, what? I mean, it just really wasn't that good. And then they bring in Woody Harrell. for the solo thing, which I just can't take any more Woody Harrelson. Like, I, you know, I mean,

there's got to be a maximum amount allowed of Woody Harrelson in one's life. And I hit it during cheers. So think of how torturous this is for me. I will say it's not as torturous as the Fair and Reciprocal Trade Act or Fart. And we'll get into that a little bit more. Coming up,

Pat Gray, which were really excited. excited about. Also, Jeff Fisher will be here. 888727 Beck. It's Stu in for Glenbeck. This is the Glenn Beck program. It's Glenn Beck program. Joined by Pat Gray and Jeff Fisher,

which I'm very excited about half of that. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Stu. I'm excited as well. Yeah. I'm excited about this week, actually, because tomorrow we have a Pat and Stu reunion tour moment, which I'm excited. excited about. Also on Thursday as well.

And then Pat Gray. On Friday. On Friday. So it's a big week. Big week. And then you'll have to slum it with Glenn next week. Which is not going to, you're not going to like that. Yeah.

I'm sure. Oh, sure. So big day today. We talked a little bit about LeBron James leaving and going to the L.A. Lakers. Strange move, I think. I mean, I know he has a home there and he loves it, apparently. A couple homes, right?

I don't know. I think it's two L.A. More than one in L.A. I heard that he had. He had bought two within the last year or so in L.A. I mean, it's a fun city. You know, if you like nonstop nonsense. It's great.

If you like to take, I don't know, two and a half to three hours to go five miles. And you like nonstop communism. It's a great place to live. Well, there's an income level in which L.A. becomes bearable. And he's certainly north of it. Yeah, he is. I don't know what the level is, but I think it's early. I think it's probably true. I think if you make

3 million a year. Maybe. That's probably about the level. I would say that's probably about the level. And Jeffey, I don't think you're completely clear of the hassles there. I think you got to go to helicopter level before you're actually clear of the hassle. That's true. Three million still sounds like you're still struggling. But I mean, you're in traffic. You know, you could buy an okay home, maybe a 2,000 or 2,500 square foot home. Maybe. You know, maybe.

Maybe you could have an average size home and you could have decent groceries on $3 million a year. Maybe. Maybe. If you're lucky. Yes. If you scrimp. It's amazing. We talked about this a little bit late last week about how the Bay Area now in San Francisco,

of course, a little north of there, now earning $117,400 to qualify you as low income in some counties. Unconscionable. A family of four must earn $117,400. a year. Very low income, very low is considered $73,300. Wow. Okay. Imagine this place. I mean, even if you were like playing for the San Francisco Giants, you might not be able

to afford a home. Yeah. The median home price now $935,000. That is just absurd. It's absurd. The whole state is crazy. Yeah. Which is why it's great, you know, when you sell a home in California and move to Texas,

because you can afford something considerably better. Yeah, we had a similar moments of this, right? Coming from the Northeast down here. And it seems like someone brought out the pricing gun and mispriced all the houses. Some moron, like the dumb brother. It's beginning to change, however. It is. It is beginning to change.

It's gone up almost 40% in the last five years. It changes when you come here, right? Like when you're here and you start getting used to the prices, all of a sudden they start seeming high again. but that's not what it was like when we came down here. It felt like everything was like on the sale rack by mistake. And that is not the way. And I don't know.

LeBron might be hitting some of those. I mean, the tax bills are legitimate. They were saying if he had gone to Philly for the 76ers, the contract he would have saved $11 million in taxes over four years. And Philly's not even a good tax area. Well, he left, and I'm sure the taxes in Ohio are much less than they are California. And he left $54 million on the table not staying with the cab. $54 million over the life of the contract.

So it wasn't about money for him. He does. I will say he maximizes every cent, though. I mean, he kept opting out of the contract with Cleveland to get the extra new max deal every single time for one year, which, you know, kind of holds Cleveland hostage. Yeah, it does. And why would any big free agent want to go there when he's only committed to for one year? So now at least he's committed to four years, or at least three years, actually.

Yeah, he's got an option. Yeah, with L.A. So that'll be interesting. It'll be interesting to see him play in the West. It'll be interesting to see him dealing with all the Hillary Clinton policies he supported. Right. Because now he gets to deal with all those new taxes and all the regulations and all the things getting in his way. Yeah.

Sometimes it's nice to see that. Yeah, I know Pat always says he loves it when liberals eat their own. And it's kind of nice. It's almost an example of that. It's also going to be interesting to see if he can carry that team. It's him and Lanzo Ball now. Woo. Yeah.

They're going to get crushed by everybody. They'll get somebody, though. They'll bring somebody in. I don't know who that's going to be. At least the White Leonard, I don't think they can get him this year. Next year, though. But, yeah, not this year. The Brown can carry that, too.

Don't worry about it. The other one is, he can carry the team to a certain extent. Like he did with Cleveland. They won't get to the final zone. Not in the Western Conference. No, I don't think so. They're not getting anywhere near that. They're not even going to be in the Western Conference.

That would be quite an achievement if he's able to get that team. If he gets to Marcus Cousins, they're talking about to Marcus Cousins. Maybe that's pretty good. Maybe that's enough. So another story I wanted to bring up with you guys And Jeffrey, I think you'd be the expert A lot of people were very critical of the show today, I have to admit.

Multiple times. You were doing it. Yes, and that's part of the reason. Multiple times I've been hit with, because I did two segments today. One on the Fair and Reciprocal Trade Act or FART. Is it actually called Fair and Reciprocal Trade? Yes, that's the name of the act.

I swear someone in the Trump administration who doesn't like the bill, did it on purpose. It has to be, right? They couldn't have possibly screwed that up. But the Fart Act one, or I was thinking it also could be the Trump administration intentionally leaking a fake bill to Axios

just to have a group to do this. I don't know, it could be that easy. It could be that too. But the Fart Act, and also I talked about a podcast about the business of porn, and multiple people said, why are you doing these segments without Jeffie in the room? You have an expert on staff.

Who knows both of these topics in great detail? Well, I don't like to discuss my porn business. You know, that's... Tax issues involved. But I am concerned. This one I had to bring you in for. Donut fries. I know.

Donut fries from Dunkin' Donuts. They look good. They look really good. And I was... I had emailed your producer, whatever... she goes by. And she said she wasn't going to get him.

I don't know who's running this joint, too. Apparently not you. Not even close. Not even close am I getting them? I mean, the donut fry seems like a really good direction to go. And Mr.

kale and grilled chicken over here now, who hasn't had, oh, yeah. You know, Mr. Healthy Eater all of a sudden. Since Pat and Stu ended, all of a sudden,

Pat's dropped like all his weight. He's Mr. Healthy guy. now. It's really infuriating. So healthy. It is not something I support. I'll be honest. Not something I support. Are you into the donut fry idea? I think sometimes you get a little carried away with this stuff with these novelty things. And I like things that are savory to be savory and things that are sweet to be sweet.

Mixing the two doesn't really exactly very much. You know, like the donut bun for a hamburger. I don't like that. That was really sweet. That was tough to take. And you did have that on the air. And I did have that on the air. So. It's amazing. The amount of chewing we've done into microphones over the years is it's not a good broadcasting.

No. They kind of remind me of the Burger King French toast sticks. That's what they looked like. Oh. So I don't know. Those are very greasy. They are very greasy, but not bad. I'm not a big fan of those.

I'd rather have just French toast. Thank you. Have you ever had? Funnel cake fries. Funnel cake fries. I don't know. Do we have that at the Texas State Fair? I think so.

They have them at the Texas Rangers games. And we, of course, broadcasting from Dallas. Were they awesome? Oh, my God. They're so good. Really? They're so good. I don't know.

There's something about, like, a funnel cake is not something that's easy to eat. It's kind of a weird thing to eat. I mean, Jeff, I mean, I know you needed one bite, so it's easy for you. They're not very difficult. But the fry delivery system for, a funnel cake. It's excellent. Because then you can dip them in like a, they have like a raspberry sauce or something. Oh, that sounds good.

Oh, yeah. Seriously. If you go, if you go to a Rangers game right behind home plate, got to go. Do they come with the powdered sugar on them or do you dip that as well? They come with powder sugar. Okay, good. As you probably know. I'm surprised. I'm surprised you were able to put that one together. We stumbled on to something though that's very, very healthy at my house.

It's called nutter butter cereal. Have you ever tried that? No. Oh my gosh. Oh, man. I thought I loved Reese's is peanut butter cup cereal? To me, this is better. This is better. That sounds delicious.

Nutter butter cereal? I mean, that screams health. And incredibly healthy. Not a drop, not a grain of sugar in it. Not one grain. And look, I would say, not one grain. Not one grain.

I would say the same goes for nilla banana pudding cereal. Oh my gosh. I didn't know they had that. Which is, I think, in the same line, because I think they got an Oreo and it chips a hoi. It's a cookie. I don't know. I've looked for it in stores and I cannot seem to find it.

Has anybody done bananas foster cereal yet? I'm all over that. I don't think so. I'm all over that. But the point here, though, is not just how delicious these foods are. Yeah. The point is, in a world run by Alexandria Cortez. We don't have nutter butter cereal.

Oh, for sure. We don't have banana pudding cereal. Right. In a socialist world, we lose these capitalists in inventions. Yep. And it's not a world worth living in. No, it's true. No, it's not.

No, it's a sad world. It's a world dominated by suicide is what it is. It's a sad world. I mean, Venezuela got it wrong. They tweaked, what was there? What's their inflation rate right now in this socialist, Shangra law? They've kept it pretty steady lately. The inflation rate is just a little bit, just a tiny bit above 43,000.

percent. Just on shade over 43,000. You know why? They didn't go far enough. Oh, okay. That's why they didn't go far enough. Someone's got to get it right.

I just read that article the other day. Somebody trying to excuse socialism. And they said, everybody's painting Venezuela is a failed socialist place. And the problem with Venezuela is it. Go far enough. It's always the problem every time. Oh, that's it. Okay, good.

You know, it's amazing, too. Think about it. We have people in Venezuela. A million boulevars for one cup of coffee now. A million. That's the rate. 43,000 percent interest, inflation. And where now are all of these Hollywood celebrities

who are down there encouraging the people to vote for? Sean Penn, Danny Glover. There's a huge slew of them. And they were praising, I mean, Michael Moore. praising Venezuela as this hope. Now, Venezuela was actually in pretty good shape before the socialists got in charge there. Well, they should be.

They're oil rich. Exactly. I mean, you know, it wasn't any necessarily miracle of capitalism. They just had a lot of oil. And they were able to sell it. And they were not... I mean, they were... Like, they had some corruption just like everybody does.

But you have to be pretty bad to screw up that economic system. When you've got that much oil... You're an OPEC oil nation on this side of the planet. And you're that. I mean, we used to get a lot of oil from them before we became, you know, not best buddies anymore. So when the government took that over, they ran it right into the ground. Yeah. And now you have people there in Venezuela hunting for stray dogs to eat.

Yeah. To eat while we have nutter butter cereal. Right. And there's an argument between these two systems? Hard to believe. We've got a pudding made into a cereal. A pudding. They're scavenging zoos for food.

Yes, they're eating like, I mean, you think about, you don't want to get into a zoo with one of those animals. Lions and tigers and bears. Oh my. Yet they're willing to go hunt them down to eat them. I mean, there's a big difference in the systems here. I think one works better than the other. yet here's America.

We want our Democratic Socialists. We want Bernie Sanders. We want Bernie Sanders campaign volunteers. Not the ones that are shooting a congressman per se, but the ones that are winning elections apparently now in New York. Amazing. Although if we do get the ones that are shooting at Congressman, we'll just ignore that they shot at Congressmen.

We won't pay any attention to that. That thing really did disappear fast. I mean, think about this. What are we a year? A little over a year. Barely. Since a Bernie Sanders volunteer almost assassinated, 10% of all elected Republicans in Washington.

Okay? And a year later, we're talking about the insubility of Republicans. I mean, you got to give the media some credit here. You got to admire their work a little bit. It's pretty amazing. They've worked hard on that. That's incredible to turn that one around. All right.

On the show today, Pat Gray Unleashed. Jeffie, are you going to let him in as well? Jeffie will be there to chew the fat with us. At 1230 Central. He gives me a segment. They've titled it. Chewing the fat. Well, that's what you talk about.

When you're like a bunch of friends, you know, you're around, you're just kind of hanging out, talking about the news of the day. A lot of times you'd say we're just going to chew the fat a little bit. So that's why your segment's called that. Oh, okay. Right, Pat? Right. Yes, exactly. That and he's fat.

I tell you what, it is good. It's good to be here. God, I miss you so much. I miss you so much. All right. Pat Granley is coming up in just a minute. Check it out at the blaze.com slash TV. or radio, and on the app, of course, as well.

You can get it any time. It's Stu in for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program. Back with more in a second. All right, AAA 727 Beck is the phone number. It's Stu in for Glenbeck. We'll be back with Pat tomorrow. Let's go to Rick in Ohio. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program.

Hey, Stu. We have the fart stinks, but if we hold it in, we run the risk of ripping the guts out of the country. So sometimes, sometimes it's just better to let it rip. but most importantly, I'm worried about the beer fart and the egg fart. Those are tariffs hitting those particular products very hard. You're right. And I don't think it's fair or reciprocal, to be perfectly honest with you.

Thank you for the analysis, Rick. I appreciate it. Lots of analysis at World of Stu on Twitter of really picking apart this bill, the Fair and Reciprocal Trade Act or Fart. We'll be back with more maybe tomorrow on the Glenn Beck program. Glenn, back. Mercury.