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Apparently, there's a jumbled process for replacing a governor who just stepped down in Puerto Rico.
Nobody understands this system.
There's just no way to tell what happens from here on.
No, no.
I think they just pick randomly straws, I guess, from the citizens.
This is a good system.
Because remember, they had all these protests in Puerto Rico.
Yeah.
And, you know, he was, the governor got pressured.
He decided he's going to step down.
And the day he's going to step down is today, I think at 5 p.m.
So who's going to replace him?
You'd think by now.
Lieutenant Governor.
Right.
There you go.
Right.
You'd think by now you'd have an answer to that.
Like this would be a time in which you'd think you'd have identified who is going to be the next governor.
And they have not yet.
They have not.
They don't know who it is.
It's kind of interesting.
Yeah.
It's weird because it's just been one of these situations that they do have a system to replace the governor if he were to step down.
But it's very, because of the way it's happened, it's been convoluted.
Long story.
To put it in American president terms so we can kind of just all understand because I have no idea who any of the people are in the actual intrigue here.
But let's just say Donald Trump got into a scandal and he decided he got all these protests and decided he was going to step down.
So Donald Trump's going to step down.
Who's the president?
Mike Pence, right?
Unfortunately, Mike Pence was also wrapped up in the scandal and has already stepped down.
So that's just an empty slot.
Okay.
So the next person would go to Pelosi, right?
The Speaker of the House.
So in theory, she would be in line to be president.
Now, of course, Trump would know this.
So at the last minute, he's named a replacement essentially for his vice president.
And he, this vice, you know, whoever the vice president equivalent would be, would step in to the presidency.
The issue is in their system, you have to confirm what is essentially the vice president.
So there's going to be, I guess, a vote today to figure out whether they confirm this person.
If they confirm him, he'll become governor.
If not, the other person will become.
So it'd be like Pence or Pelosi.
Imagine being in a place where like, all right, at the end of the day, it's either going to be, you know, let's say he named Tom Cotton to be, you know, his replacement VP.
It's like some hard, you know, hardcore Trump supporter or Nancy Pelosi.
One of the two.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
That's not a good system.
Also, they just elected a new prime minister in Britain.
And we've talked about this too.
It's an inconceivable system.
They don't understand the parliamentary thing.
It doesn't make any sense.
Nobody understands it.
There's just no way to tell what's like the metric system.
There's just no way to tell what's going on.
Nobody knows.
You know, Pat, that there is a way to tell.
There's no metric system.
There's no way to tell.
Like, is 50 kilometers five inches or is it 8 million miles?
Nobody knows.
There's no way to tell.
There is no way, Stu.
There are a lot of people who know.
They think they do.
They're wrong.
They're just wrong.
And that's why we have the great system we do here.
But Boris Johnson has now suffered his first big defeat as prime minister after losing the Breken and Radnissire by election.
Oh, how many times have we talked about that?
If you lose the Breakin and Radneshire, you can't lose that one.
It's the one you can't lose.
So now it cut his working House of Commons majority to just one.
So if you lose that majority, do you lose the office as well?
Nobody knows.
No one knows.
No one knows.
There's no way to tell.
I think there's another election.
I think he just had one, which was won by Boris Johnson.
And if he loses his majority, are they going to have another one?
I think they would go to whatever party takes control, right?
And then that party.
I don't know.
No one knows, but no one could ever know.
It is fascinating.
I feel like... So weird.
There's this thing that goes on around the world, which is like the United States of America starts this experiment in, you know, in self-rule.
Man can rule themselves.
And we invent this whole, I mean, we further it, but invent essentially a real system where the free market and capitalism and constitutional democracy, constitutional republic with elements of democracy involved.
And we build this great system.
And everyone sits back and was like, whoa, like this is fantastic.
Like, look at how great they're doing.
We should take what they're doing and really screw it up.
And that'll work for us.
And they've done it over and over and over again.
All over the world.
Like, there's so many places that replicate like Britain's system.
I know.
It's like, now, Britain, look, is a, you know, we like them.
They're, you know, the close ally, our closest.
But, you know, we've done a little bit.
Like, we've just done a little better.
Yeah.
You know, no, no offense to any Brits out there.
In a much shorter time.
In a much shorter time.
The same thing all across the world.
Like, people are like, yeah, you know, we could just replicate essentially their constitution.
It's out there.
They've released it.
It's not like the 24 herbs and spices.
It's like we're telling you what it is.
It's not the secret sauce.
There's only 11 herbs and spices.
Oh, I don't know why.
I'm trying to complicate the KFC spice thing.
It's only 11.
There's only 11.
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Oh, it's nothing.
Yeah.
What's 24?
It's difficult.
Is it 24 flavors?
Remember Baskin Robbins?
Baskin Robbins 31.
31.
What am I talking about?
Okay.
Well, there's 24 of something that is protected on knowledge.
And that was what that reference was supposed to be.
Okay.
The point is that we are telling you exactly, we're giving you the blueprint.
Here's how to make a country that's going to be pretty successful.
Literally, has anyone?
I don't think there's been anyone who has just directly replicated what we have here.
I know.
I can't think of anybody.
Even Liberia?
Liberia, I was going to say.
The capital of Liberia is Monrovia.
It's named after James Monroe.
And even they can't think of it.
Just copy it.
Literally take a copying machine to it.
You can just press print, take the thing out, cross out United States, put in Liberia.
Like that is the way you should go.
And no one will do it.
No.
Now, look, you look at our system.
At times, it feels a tad dysfunctional.
But are we doing this?
Are we doing an election every three weeks?
No.
No, we're not.
At least generally speaking, when people go into office, they stay in office until either they want to go or there's a new election.
Every once in a very long while, you get a Rod Boglojevich or whatever who gets thrown out of office, but it's pretty darn rare.
You know, as much as a lot of the Democrats want to throw Trump out of office, guess what?
You can do it in November of next year.
Okay, that's basically what's happening here.
And everyone else is like, oh, I don't know.
What if we, I don't know.
What if we roll dice to see who the next president is?
What if everything depends on Brecken and Radnershire?
That's what I've always thought.
Brecken is.
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Now, apparently, we have found a glitch in our system, haven't we?
A real violation.
Just this week, a real violation.
And it's got to be corrected.
There are constitutional standards we must adhere to.
And you cannot violate those.
There are certain laws.
There are certain things that rise to a level that goes beyond politics.
It goes to a level of just like almost religious violation, heresy.
I'm talking about the fact that Democrats are criticizing Barack Obama's presidency.
Oh, wow.
That's not okay.
No, it is not.
It is not okay.
We may have a system that makes a lot of sense, but you do not step in and criticize anything that occurred in the Obama presidency.
You do that.
How dare you?
Stay away from Barack.
Democrats now seething over the criticism of Obama.
Party officials are frustrated that the former president's record was collateral damage in the debate on attacks on Joe Biden.
Joe Biden is fair game.
Barack Obama is not.
Lots of allies out on record here.
Stay away from Barack Obama, a well-known Democratic lobbyist who worked on Kerry's campaign.
I don't know why you would attack Barack Obama or his record or any part of him.
No parts of him, Pat can be.
Especially Michelle Obama's arms.
You can definitely beautiful arms.
Have you ever seen her arms?
They're beautiful.
Beautiful arms.
I've never seen arms like incredible arms.
She has two of them.
Yeah, she does.
Yeah, exactly two.
Not three.
Not one.
They're perfect.
It's a perfect amount of arms.
You don't want too many arms.
You don't want too few arms.
You know, because you too have any arms.
Exactly the right amount.
Two.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes.
If you have eight, you're an octopus or a spider.
No, you don't want that.
She's Michelle Obama.
She has two arms and they're perfect arms.
And if you say something bad, if this Democratic debate devolved to where they start criticizing her arms.
They'd never.
They would never do that.
They couldn't.
I hope not.
I will not stand for it if they do.
Republicans have already seized.
This is what the Republicans do, Pat.
When something happens, they seize on it.
They jump right on top and they just pile on.
Donald Trump Jr., president's eldest son, of course, tweeted Thursday morning how nice it was to, quote, see Democrats finally go after Obama's failed policies very aggressively, which is true.
I mean, they told us that Obamacare was the greatest thing in the world.
It was going to solve all of our problems.
And now it sucks.
Now it's terrible.
It's a failed healthcare system.
Bernie Sanders in the first debate said there is no one here who can defend the dysfunctionality of this system.
This is your system.
Wow.
You passed it.
This isn't our system.
We weren't like, ah, you know what we should do is massively expand government to control healthcare.
That was you.
You guys, did you vote for that, Bernie?
Pretty sure you did.
Yes, the answer is yes.
He did.
Thursday night, the president echoed this theme.
The Democrats spent more time attacking Barack Obama than they did attacking me.
This morning, that's all the fake news was talking about.
I will say this.
It is interesting to see because the other candidates feel a level of desperation.
They saw in the first debate, Kamala Harris pretty successfully go after Joe Biden.
He was leading by, he was about 35, 36% before that.
He fell down to about 28 and then bounced back up to 32, 33.
So he regained about two-thirds of what he lost.
And Harris Had a nice jump after the debates, but then lost about a third of what she gained.
And so I think what the other candidates said to themselves going into this is: look, we can't hold back against Biden.
We just got to go for it.
And any means necessary.
So if it's criticizing Barack Obama because he deported too many people, because you know how tough he was on the border, Pat.
Oh.
Or if it's about how Obamacare didn't cover enough people despite the fact they all praised it and said that it would.
I mean, yesterday, Pat, I'm listening to Joe Biden do a press conference.
The world, it's like at some point, you almost wonder if it's worth talking about these things.
Because what did we say the entire time Barack Obama was trying to pass Obamacare?
We were saying over and over again, this is a hardcore left-wing plan.
This is the biggest progressive expansion of government healthcare that we've seen since LBJ.
This is a massive deal.
He is changing the fabric of our economy, one sixth of our economy.
This is a huge, huge deal.
And what do they say?
This is just common sense reform.
This basically came from the Heritage Foundation.
It's almost too conservative for us.
It's almost a libertarian plan.
I swear this is common sense measures.
Don't worry about it.
So now that Obamacare is a huge failure and they're going after Obamacare, Joe Biden in a press conference yesterday says there was absolutely nothing conservative or moderate about Obamacare.
This is one of the most progressive plans we've ever seen.
I was one of the most liberal senators in all the Senate the entire time I was there.
But Obamacare was a massively left-wing push for healthcare reform.
And you know who finally agrees with it?
Joe Biden.
You know who finally agrees with it?
The Democrats, Barack Obama's administration.
Now that it's cool and it helps them to say that it's liberal, it's liberal.
Before, when it wasn't common sense and moderate.
No, they blamed it on Mitt Romney.
On Mitt Romney.
Romney Care.
Look at this.
This is just what Massachusetts did and it's working for them.
Yeah.
Mitt Romney loved it then.
Why doesn't he love it now?
Yeah.
And then Biden yesterday, there was nothing moderate about what we did with Obamacare.
It's amazing.
It's just why even listen to anything that they say.
Yeah.
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Pat, I know you watch it every day.
Oh, man.
Pat's a huge fan.
I can't go a day without, you know, to me, a day without MSNBC is like a day without orange juice or whatever.
Wait, sunshine.
A day without some moonlight.
Cloud cover.
That's what it is.
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That's their new slogan, isn't it?
Yeah, I did see that on the so they were a little upset that Democrats went after Barack Obama this week.
Listen.
It was more like Gulber's travels.
I mean, there was Vice President Biden tied down after rope after rope for his long political career.
I had to defend every element of it, going back as Michael Bennett said, back 50 years on issues like busing.
It was very hard for him to play defense.
He was 100% better, or maybe 200% better, than he was in the first debate.
He seemed to be aware he was in a debate, which was a start for him.
And I thought he was reciting a lot of stuff.
In fact, a lot of times when he got to the end of his time, it was like he ran out of his recitation.
And the weirdest thing to me, which I'm having a hard time with, is is it a smart strategy to attack the Obama administration?
I mean, this is a Democratic president elected twice.
I think he's the only Democrat we've had, you know, with the margins he's had since FDR that did that remains wildly popular in the Democratic Party.
It was weird for me to watch about 40, almost 40 minutes of primarily attacks on the Obama administration's policies.
It was odd.
It's almost as if the debate forgot who's president because the attacks on Donald Trump, I don't remember his name being mentioned that much.
And so it was odd for me for these candidates to debate changes in health care and their different policies on immigration as if Trump doesn't exist.
Yes, they were attacking the Obama administration.
Well, they were.
They spent a lot of time doing that.
I think if you're a Democratic candidate for president and you spend, I think you're not making progress.
It is weird.
It's a weird approach.
And I guess there's, I don't know what you do, right?
If you're one of these opponents, why do you, what do you say you're going to do that's going to be better than Biden if you say the Obama administration was great?
It's a tough, it's a tough sell.
But I mean, Barack Obama's approval rating, he's among Democrats.
There's a bunch of polls here.
83 to 10 approval rating, 88 to 10, 83, 13, 90 to 7.
He's a very popular guy in this party.
In the Democratic Party.
In the Democratic Party.
Yeah.
He's not, you know, overall, he's, you know, he does well overall, but not nearly that well, obviously.
I mean, you know, these are really good numbers.
He's probably the most popular Democrat in America, with the maybe exception of Michelle Obama, right?
His wife.
Yeah.
I mean, that couple is probably the, they're probably the two most popular people in the entire Democratic Party.
Which was mentioned by Fat Lump Michael Moore again.
He said it in another intersection.
In another interview.
It's his new.
Is that on his business card?
Michael is now his middle name.
Fat Lump is first and second.
He's got two middle names.
So he's Fat Lump Michael Moore.
Fat Lump Michael Moore.
Okay.
Yeah.
He said that there's only one candidate up to the challenge to beat President Trump.
In fact, he thinks he'd crush, she'd crush President Trump.
He says that candidate is Michelle Obama.
Everybody watching this right now knows she's beloved, and she would go in there and she would beat him.
I think we have the audio of this.
You want to hear this?
Yeah.
Okay, here.
Audio of Michael Moore talking about Michelle Obama running for president.
Who's the street fighter that can crush Trump?
And frankly, I think there's a person that could do this.
If the election were held today, there is one person that would crush Trump and she hasn't announced yet.
And her last name rhymes with Obama.
No, no, it doesn't.
It is Obama.
Michelle Obama.
Everybody watching this right now knows she is a beloved American.
And she would go in there and she would beat him.
She would beat him in the debates.
He wouldn't be able to bully her.
He wouldn't be able to nickname her.
And she is beloved.
Just go to C-SPAN and follow her book tour across the country.
She's playing 15,000 seat arenas in the Midwest.
They have to turn people away.
She takes the stage and she's so powerful and so good.
You just look at that and you think, of course, she could win.
But everyone's now saying, well, of course, she's not going to run.
Well, has anyone asked her?
Yes, I think if she were asked, look, if you watch the book tour, she's asked every stopper.
I have to come back to you.
You have to go back to the White House.
Your country needs you.
If asked to serve, I believe she would serve.
Well, except for if you were asked to serve, or I were, whatever our skill set is, wouldn't we do that?
I can't take any more Michael Moore today.
Yeah, I mean, I think some of what he says is true, though.
She's really popular for some reason.
I don't understand it, but she is.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan myself.
I will say, though, it's rare when Michael Moore agrees wholeheartedly with Bill O'Reilly.
This is exactly what Bill said about the election.
He said if they run on Michelle Obama, she would win by a lot.
I think there's a good argument.
I'm afraid of that.
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Yeah.
There's a good argument to be made there.
I mean, you have to, when you've never seen someone run for president, there's a big unknown factor of how they actually react in that sort of pressure situation.
And she's obviously been in this world for a while, but she's never been the focus of it.
And when she was the focus of it in the first campaign, she did not do well.
If you remember, they pulled her off the campaign because she kept saying things like, I'm not proud of my country until today.
So she doesn't exactly love America, seemingly.
I mean, you know, like you said, she was proud for the first time when her husband was nominated for president.
That was her first pride in this country.
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By the way, Pat, this week I filled in on TV.
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I bet that was tasty.
Oh, I mean, I didn't.
I'll bet that.
I will say it was raw bacon kind of strewn on the outside of it.
I did not eat it.
But, you know, it wasn't for me.
It was for him.
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Confirmed.
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That's confirmed.
He is.
We're very excited about it.
You know, they said they think he died sometime in the last two years.
Wow.
Do we know of what?
Again, narrowed down a little bit more than that.
Did he die of heat-seeking missile or did he die of some natural cause?
Psoriasis.
Oh, wow.
Psoriasis killed him.
It broke his heart so hard.
He passed away.
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In this case, at all.
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You can't get enough of the squad.
I can't get enough of the squad.
Yeah, the squad is fascinating.
The squad is fascinating because they can say kind of anything and get away with it because their only approach to life is to tell you how they've been victimized.
So every story that goes on with the squad always comes back to how they're a terrible victim.
You know, like there's a sign of this from the staffers of Kamala Harris this week.
When Kamala Harris and Joe Biden walk to the center stage, obviously Harris kind of hammered Biden in the first debate.
Biden walks up to him.
A nice moment.
He says, ah, go easy on me, kid.
What was the reaction from the Kamala Harris staffers?
Kid?
She's a senator.
How dare you refer to her an accomplished woman breaking a glass ceiling as a kid?
This just constant victimization.
She won the battle and is still the victim, right?
Yeah.
It's just nonsensical.
And this is the attitude of the squad all the time.
They're always the victim.
Someone's always oppressing them.
There's always a man there to push them down.
They can't, despite the fact that we're talking about a person who was a bartender a year and a half ago and is running the Democratic Party.
That person is telling you that they are oppressed.
The same thing with Kirsten Gillibrand on stage.
Oh, gosh.
I mean, she's not part of the squad, however, but she says, oh, gosh, you know what?
I'm the right person to be nominated as the Democratic candidate because I can go to suburban women and explain to them what white privilege is.
Have you ever heard of a more demeaning statement?
And then she said, you know, I know I'm a beneficiary of white privilege, which not in the polls, you're not.
I don't know.
In fact, so far she's not part of the next debate.
No.
Because she is not qualified.
She's not close to qualifying.
No.
I think she's been in one.
I think she's been over 2% in one poll.
Right.
But she doesn't have 130,000 donations.
Donors.
And you need both in this next debate.
So 130,000 individual donors, plus you have to hit 2%.
And I believe it's four polls.
Now, there's going to be a lot of polls before here and there, but there's only certain ones that qualify.
So even if she hit 2% before this previous debate, that wouldn't count.
It's going to be something that leading up to this next one.
Can she get some additional support?
It's possible, but she's a disaster.
And the squad, you know, look, they're very well known, but very unpopular.
I mean, Elon O'Mar has a 9% approval rating.
AOC is at like 20%.
People know them very well.
They just don't like them.
And so AOC was on a radio show talking about marginalized communities.
And I think she, look, marginalized communities, again, marginalize.
Whoever she's talking about is a victim.
And there's only one thing that they can do in this victimized situation.
Listen.
That by marginalizing Palestinians, you create safety.
I believe that injustice is a threat to the safety of all people because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized, then you create a popular, like once someone doesn't have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot, right?
Oh, wrong.
No.
Remember the riots of Flint, Michigan?
When they didn't have access to clean water, they just went nuts.
They just went ape crap and just started burning down that city.
It doesn't even exist today in Michigan.
There used to be, there's just a hole where Flint, Michigan was.
And they were pretty pissed about that.
Yeah, they were.
Interestingly enough, I've heard over and over again for years that Flint, Michigan was the result of this, I think, a Republican conspiracy to either kill African Americans, or at the very least, just because they wanted evil profits or something.
What we find out, by the way, on Flint, Michigan is their system with Detroit was actually working pretty well.
They had a long-term lease with water from Detroit.
It was working pretty well.
The water was cheap.
But they decided to change that.
Why did they decide to change that?
Shovel-ready jobs.
You see, they had to build a brand new pipeline for the water, and they were able to use stimulus to come in and say, oh, well, we can not only are we going to get new water supply, but we'll also create a bunch of jobs for people to work on this pipeline.
So when they implemented that, it was something they didn't need.
They implemented it because of the government, because of a Keynesian economic argument of stimulus.
They decided to build these things.
That's when everything got screwed up.
So this is not a, you know, and Republicans and Democrats agreed, by the way, to do this because Republicans no longer care about arguments on economics.
It's not a thing anymore.
But Republicans came on and said, yeah, we need new shovel-ready jobs.
And Democrats came out and said, yeah, we need new shovel-ready jobs.
So they built this pipeline.
And wow, did that turn out well?
Yeah.
Well, like the president at the time said, shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.
Funny.
I love it when they screw up policy like that.
They lied to us right to our face.
Right to our face.
It's so funny.
So speaking of AOC and how people have no choice but to riot if they don't have access to clean water.
That's one of her incredible thoughts of the last year.
Yeah.
Prospect Magazine has deemed her one of the world's top 50 thinkers.
No, Of the year.
No, they did not.
One of the years.
No.
Top.
Don't say it.
50 thinkers.
No.
Is that amazing?
Top 50 thinkers.
She doesn't even know the requirements of her own job.
What's this thing in my sink?
When I flip a switch, it growls.
I'm scared.
Like, Israel is like, I don't know, like, whatever.
Yeah, she's really thoughtful.
She's really brilliant.
I mean, look, you can definitely make the argument she's influential.
Yes, but she's not a thinker.
She doesn't know anything.
She's butt stupid, this woman.
The only thing of substance that she's actually produced was the FAQ for her Green New Deal, which is she herself has denied.
She is now, she has now thrown to the sidelines and acted as if she somehow mistakenly wrote it.
It's like, you don't mistakenly write things.
That's not how writing works.
You can't mistake.
Oh, I just mistakenly wrote this novel.
Oops.
Look at this.
It's a spy thriller.
Oh, how did that happen?
When you write things, it's intentional.
Well, she chisels her thoughts into stone so she can't take it back.
Okay.
Yeah, so there's no erasing it.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
Because, I mean, this is.
You thought she was maybe using a word processor or something.
No, no.
No.
Because they said, oh, that was half-baked.
We weren't done with that yet.
Well, first of all, I mean, it showed, right?
It was a terrible.
It was not only ridiculous ideas like retrofit every building in America.
Every country.
Yep.
To put high-speed rail to every place that airplanes fly.
Eliminate air flight within 10 years.
Within 10 years.
Get rid of all automobiles.
We're talking about free jobs for everyone who's willing to work, I think it was.
Or even unwilling to work.
And then they still get paid, I think.
You still get paid if you're unwilling.
And this all came out.
And how did, you know, it wasn't one of these things where every once in a while you get this thing where the Blaze uncovers this hidden document.
It was sent to us by a source.
They sent it to NPR.
They were proud of this.
They sent the FAQ.
This is the one that also said, we can't quite solve cow farts yet.
They sent this to NPR to tell them how to cover it and then tried to deny later on that this was just a draft.
Well, where was the final product?
You never came out with a final product.
They didn't have a final product.
This was the final product.
And they were just embarrassed at the ridicule they received.
And they deserved every bit of it.
Oh, absolutely.
That was one of the things, too, by the way, Andrew Yang said in the debate that no one really pointed out.
Yang pointed out something that we've noted many times here, which is the U.S. is only 15% of global emissions.
15%.
Yeah.
Okay.
They don't like to hear that.
They don't like to hear that because if you put it this way, the entire transportation sector of the United States is about 20% of our total emissions.
All cars, trucks, the entire transportation sector.
If you turned it off, if you had a switch and you were able to just flip it off like a light switch, the entire transportation goes carbon-free tomorrow, you would save 3% of global emissions.
Three.
China is growing at between 1.5% and 2% per year.
So you would have, you would wipe out the gains, whatever you were able to gain from AOC's turning off the transportation sector idea.
It would be wiped out by China in two years.
It's unbelievable.
And we're talking about something that's impossible.
Just turning off the transportation.
She's one of the world's top 50 thinkers.
Right.
Crazy.
Come on now.
They write the voluminous coverage of 29-year-old Ocasio-Cortez, who was elected to Congress last November, is focused on her youth and personality.
Certainly her campaigning skills, mastery of social media, and up from the Bronx story are striking.
But what's most interesting about her meteoric political career is that her success is based on ideas.
Is it?
Yeah.
It was her manifesto, healthcare for all, tuition-free university, and a federal jobs program that set her on her path.
Wait a minute.
Bernie Sanders posed all of those things before she was even ran for president and finished second last time.
But they do admit she's the force behind the Green New Deal, which is embarrassing, and has put taxes and how much the rich pay back on the American political agenda.
It's always been in the political.
Nobody ever talks about how much the rich pay.
Because if people actually knew how much they pay, they'd be flabbergasted.
They'd be stunned that they'd pay 45% or 50% or sometimes 55%, depending on what state you live in, you could pay up to 60% in taxes.
I think that would shock a lot of people.
Yeah, they went back and they did a poll several years ago as to not just should we raise taxes on the rich, but what's the amount that's okay to charge them?
And people were like, well, you know, should it be more than 5%?
Should it be more than 10%?
And they go up the whole thing.
And most people, the majority of people said it shouldn't be more than 25%.
It shouldn't.
It shouldn't be more.
That's wrong to go over 25%.
Most people believe, because of the way that people talk about this, that they pay zero.
Right.
Because they'll say, like, well, Amazon paid zero in taxes.
And so people are just like, oh, well, you know, that's what the rich pay.
This is what the peerage pay.
They're all getting away with it.
They're not paying anything.
And that's, of course, not true at all.
And now you get people like Bernie talking maybe 70%.
Yeah.
And AOC said that as well.
Unbelievable.
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Here's yet another indication about how indoctrinated American students are in colleges all over the country.
A college poll surveyed 27,000 college students, and 30% of them said that China is the most powerful nation on earth, not the United States of America.
I mean, you know, it's socialism is better than capitalism.
China is more powerful and better than the United States.
It's just the continual indoctrination, it seems, of higher education.
It's really tough.
This is a hard battle that it seems like we're losing right now.
How many of your kids went to college?
All of them?
Most of them?
I mean, you're in the city.
Three are in it right now.
And yeah, I'm trying to think.
71 of them.
Yeah.
What percentage of?
Could you give me a roundabout percentage of how many.
Do you know how many people?
I could say 38% of them graduated from college.
Yeah.
38%.
Because I have younger kids.
There's six and seven.
And I, as of this moment, I'm like, hell no.
I'm certainly not paying for it.
Right.
But I don't even want them to go.
I know.
I would much rather go a different direction.
Because I'll tell you, it's hard to find a conservative college.
You go to a college where you think it's conservative, and then they're going to get hit by some liberal professor.
I feel like if you go to the hardest right-wing school you can find, you're going to get neutral.
You know, if you're lucky, yes, if you're lucky.
If you're lucky, I'd much rather invest in their early education than invest in college at this point because a lot of a lot of this stuff, too, you're learning in college is obsolete so fast.
I'd rather invest in a better primary education, get the foundations the way you want them, and then you know what?
They're gonna have to figure out the rest of their life.
Good luck, kid.
But I mean, I'll give you the basis: you go out there afterwards, what you do with it is yours.
Yeah, but uh, you know, I don't know, spending a hundred thousand dollars to send them to be indoctrinated into socialism doesn't make any sense.
Well, thank you.
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Patent Stew for Glenn on the Glen Beck program, triple eight seven two seven B E C K. Get this: women in Saudi Arabia will no longer need the permission of a male guardian to travel.
What that country is going to hell in a handbasket.
Wow, they are gonna, oh my god, they can leave their house and drive around, say, Riyadh without a man.
You're driving, they can drive, yes, I believe so.
This is horrible.
A few other changes that they're making right now.
I mean, next they'll be telling us they can vote.
Oh, my God.
No, and then you might as well just forget it.
Then you just turn the country off, right?
Uh, they're also thinking about allowing them to apply for passports.
No, register a marriage, divorce, or childbirth, and be issued official family documents.
Oh, my goodness, okay, official family documents, not ripoff, no replicas, actually, official documents issued by the kingdom.
It's interesting that this is happening.
And look, first of all, it actually is really positive, is ridiculously backward.
There have been some reforms lately, yeah.
They've moved.
It's interesting.
The guy who's like capturing his relatives and holding them hostage inside the four seasons is a guy who's pushing for a lot of these reforms.
And, you know, he's gone, which seems completely ridiculous to us that they would still have these restrictions on women.
It is positive, you know, progress is positive on that front, right?
So, you know, it's easy to mock, and I will mock it, but it's also positive, I guess, in some roundabout sort of way because there's still so much negative there, it's hard to get excited about it.
But I find this interesting.
And I was actually watching Handmaid's Tale last night.
Have you watched this?
It's a little dark for HBO.
Is that what it is?
It is Hulu, I believe.
Hulu.
Okay.
And my wife loves this show.
Like, she's totally into it.
Every Wednesday, I think the episodes come out, and she's like, I don't, you know, she just disappears for an hour because she has to watch it on the night it comes out.
She's that into it.
And it's a really well-done show.
I mean, you could tell they spent a lot of money on it.
And it's a great, it's a fascinating premise.
I would love to see the show made in which they kind of like a prequel series would be really fascinating.
Basically, the concept is like the at some point, I'm going to butcher this if you're a fan.
I'm sorry.
I don't really watch the show.
But at some point, there was a civil war of sorts in that, and somehow like a group of religious fanatics basically took the country over.
Now, America, I think, still exists, but it's like only in Alaska.
And most of what you would think of as America is a place called Gilead.
Okay, so it's a it's a and it's like a super religious fundamentalist place where like the guys have all the rights.
They the women are all basically slaves.
There's something to do with like because we're on the verge of that right now.
Am I right?
Oh my gosh.
We are just on the verge.
Men.
Yeah.
I mean, it's basically Mike Pence's fever dream.
This is what he wants to happen.
And that's kind of wild.
He won't have dinner with a woman other than his wife.
Which is the same thing.
Same thing.
And there's something to do with an infertility problem in the country.
So I don't know what caused that.
I don't know if it's clear in the actual series.
But basically, there's this sort of any fertile woman is going to have a lot of issues because she's basically going to be raped over and over and over and over again by basically every commander or whatever that wants to.
I will say it's really hard for me to watch it at all because it's like pretty ugly.
It's basically like, think of every awful thing that could possibly be done to a woman.
Here's a series about it.
That's essentially the entire thing.
So I don't know.
It's hard to watch, but it's really well done.
And you can understand why it's popular.
But the real reason why it's so popular in such a media darling is exactly what we were just talking about.
It's like it's a left-wing fantasy of what they think Donald Trump would do if he had complete control.
It's like basically a statement against politics.
Women have no rights right now.
Me too.
And all of these other things combine to we're essentially Gilead.
We're essentially this oppressed society.
Where Donald Trump stays in power, this is happening at the end.
It's kind of how I think the left looks at it.
Which is fascinating, though.
He's so fundamentally religious.
Oh, there's no one more fundamentally religious than Donald Trump.
Oh, my gosh.
It goes back so far.
Look, he's been good on a lot of those issues, but I would not say it's to his core.
No.
But anyway, so he has a there's an episode last night where this commander guy, they're driving somewhere.
I don't know.
I don't know the whole story.
But and I'm minor, minor spoiler alert if you're watching the series.
But they're driving down this road.
Now I know somebody's driving.
Great.
Thanks.
Crap.
Thanks for that.
I should have said spoiler alert first.
So they're driving down this road.
And at one point, there's this big moment where like, you know, the music builds.
And this big moment where the commander says to his wife, do you want to drive?
And she looks at him like, what?
Drive me?
Male Consent Marriage Laws00:03:07
I'm a woman.
And they pull over and they switch seats and they put the top down and they're just driving down this road.
And it's kind of like the old days of remembering her freedoms of the old days and stuff.
And it's like the left looks at this and says, this is what Donald Trump wants.
And they don't look at it and say, this is what half the world is.
Right now, half the world is coming up with, you know what, maybe we should let women drive.
Maybe some of them should vote.
Maybe we should see more than just their eyes.
Because a big part of the handmade sales, they're all dressed up in these fundamentalist ways.
They're all very much covered up.
You can only see their faces.
It's like, you guys realize that the people you're constantly defending, you're saying that we should not say their culture is worse than ours.
That is happening in those places right now.
Yeah, we were just talking about the reforms in Saudi Arabia.
Yet still the rules are in place where they require male consent for a woman to leave prison, male consent for a woman to exit domestic abuse shelters.
Can you imagine that?
So your husband has to come and let you out of a domestic abuse shelter?
That doesn't seem like a good idea.
That does seem like a problematic strategy.
They can't marry without male consent.
And women, unlike men, still can't pass on citizenship to their children.
I will say in most marriages, male consent is also used here.
It's a weird one.
What do you mean, male?
I guess, unless it's two women marrying each other, male consent's always part of that package, isn't it?
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Uh...
Wow.
Do these things ever fade away, Pat?
Is there ever a moment in which these crazy warnings and fears are ever...
Is there a moment where they later on go back and say, wow, we shouldn't have been...
That was pretty ridiculous.
No, they never do that.
They never do that.
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Never did that.
I mean, really, before Trump and Pence went into the White House, there was a legitimate outward fear that Mike Pence was going to start imprisoning homosexuals.
I don't know where that came from because he didn't, he wasn't really outspoken about it, to my knowledge.
Not at all.
I mean, you know, he had a, you know, might have had a couple comments in like the 90s when he was in Congress that they didn't like.
I think he was pro-traditional marriage.
He was for marriage between a man and a woman.
And I guess because Trump, obviously, not known as the most religious guy, they had to find a religious boogeyman, right?
And so they picked Pence and they were like, oh, he's going to spend all of his time, you know, driving around cities, just picking up gay people and putting them in the back of a van and then bringing them to prison.
Are there gay people left in our society?
I'm not sure.
I feel like they're all in prison right now.
They are all imprisoned.
So that one was true.
Okay.
That's a bad example, man.
That Pence, man, he just, first of all, he wouldn't have dinner with women that weren't his wife.
Oh, my God.
Then he decided to jail all the gays.
Oh, my gosh.
You can't trust that guy.
The other one was I was thinking of was, remember when they warned us that Corey Booker was going to ban birth control?
Yeah.
And they ran this Corey Booker, you know, a moderate Republican senator from Colorado.
He's no hardcore conservative.
At no point did he ever consider trying to ban birth control.
And they ran tons of ads against him saying that when he got in there, that's what he's going to do.
Right.
That was what his outcome was.
He was going to go in there and try to ban birth control.
That's right, Sweet Pete.
Corey Booker wants to ban birth control.
In that one, it was, that's right, sweet Pete.
Corey Booker banned birth control.
There's no condoms anywhere in America.
Right.
And that's, you know, it's essentially the same thing as Hyana Handmaid's Tale, right?
Like they.
Oh, Corey Gardner.
Yeah, not Booker.
What did I say Booker?
Did I say Booker?
I thought I said Gardner initially, but maybe we changed it.
Yeah, Corey Gardner banned birth control.
Well, he did this.
They're all out.
Did you try the corner market?
Of course.
Grocery store?
Sold out.
Drugstore?
Come on.
Stupid.
So everyone sold out of condoms.
How did this happen?
Corey Gardner banned birth control.
And now it's all on us guys.
Wow.
And you can't find a condom anywhere.
Can't find a condom.
And the pill was just the start.
The Pell Grants my little brother was counting on for college, gone.
Corey cut them.
Climate change that everyone knows is weirding our weather.
Weirding it.
Corey flat out denies it.
Sweet Pete.
Corey denies science.
Come on.
This guy has no idea what's going on in the real world.
I love that ad.
Such a great ad.
So, first of all, okay, if he's banned birth control, why are you going to all these stores?
Right.
I guess so.
He's banned the pill and condoms are theoretically available, but the there's been a run on them.
And so, yeah, they're completely out of stock.
Because now it's all on us guys.
I love that.
We shouldn't have to even think about it.
Us guys, we shouldn't have to deal with it.
I love how dismissive he is of her when she asks about the drugs.
Come on, you know, idiot.
Why would I check the gas station and the grocery store and not the drugstore, you loser?
You know what?
Now I don't even want to have sex.
Now I don't even want to have sex with you because you're so stupid that I can't bring myself to be arrested.
I can't even.
I'm just not into it anymore.
You're so dumb.
Why would you think I wouldn't look at the drugstore, idiot?
Sweet.
So essentially, right now, Corey Gardner has banned sex.
Yeah, you just can't have it.
Yes, you can't have it.
Yeah.
You just can't have it.
You can't have it because, I mean, God, God forbid, you know, you know, and it's like this idea.
So nobody comes back as, you know, like your first point.
Do they ever come back and say, hey, we panicked when we shouldn't have?
Did they ever say that about Corey Gardner?
No, yeah.
Who has not banned birth control?
He is not.
And has made no moves to it, has introduced no bills that would do it.
Like none of it.
How about I remember before George W. Bush, when he was going for re-election, Cameron Diaz, remember her?
Yeah, the actress.
Yeah.
It's been a while.
So I just wanted to make sure people were familiar.
But she said that a vote for George Bush was a vote to legalize rape.
Literally.
I mean, seriously said that.
Surprisingly, it's still illegal.
Is it illegal still?
It is.
Okay, that's good.
Yeah, shocking.
That's good.
I'm glad it's illegal.
It's not a good policy.
That's Gilead's policy, legalized rape.
We did not do that.
We didn't do it.
George W. Bush, because he was such a hardcore conservative that was just always pushing for those conservative policies.
Another fundamentalist, man.
my gosh and just no didn't didn't do that There's never a reckoning, right?
There's never a point where you look back and say, wow, you know what?
None of that crap happened.
Well, how many predictions have been wrong about global warming?
Every one of them?
And there's never all of them?
There's never a reckoning for that.
No.
I remember there was a book I read, I think I want to say it was Nate Silver's book a few years ago, and he wrote in there, it's a chapter on global warming.
He's no conservative.
But he was writing about this and saying, like, look, you know, it's all about prediction models and how to make predictions.
That's what the book is.
It's called The Signal and the Noise.
It's really, it's a great book.
And so at one point, he's talking about global warming.
And he's like, you know, I think normally what you would do, and he shows all the models and shows how typically these models have overemphasized the potential for too much warming.
Like they've predicted incorrectly how much warming there was.
There was less warming in reality than there was in the prediction models.
And over time, when that happens over and over again, you would adjust your expectations.
Like that's how you make an informed prediction.
You adjust your expectations.
If you see these models are always too warm, you need to think about where it's going to go.
And he got beat up.
A guy on the left got beat up because just saying the idea that these just admitting the actual facts that the models were overheated was too much for anyone to take and to think that maybe we should readjust our beliefs and how we think about this.
And he wasn't saying I don't think global warming is real or anything like that.
Bjorn Lumberger's another guy, a guy who's who said over and over again, he believes in global warming, says it's human-caused, and says, but the way we want to spend money on it and our priorities need to be thought of in a much more methodical fashion.
The guy is called a climate denier.
Amazing.
It's insane.
It really is.
Sweet Pete.
That's absolutely ridiculous.
Thanks, Sweet Pete.
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So, can we look forward to any kind of corrections on any of the hysteria that we've heard in the last few years?
Will it ever happen?
I don't think it does because there really was a lot of hysteria.
We forget it from the Bush administration.
You know, because Trump is so much more of a large figure in just the public eye, he's so much more involved in the lives, I think, of the everyday person.
When it was Bush, it was more like the political people and people who followed the news.
There was a lot of craziness there in Hollywood and stuff like that.
With Trump, it's everybody.
I think everybody is hearing all of these stories every day.
So it gets more and more crazy.
And to me, Bush kind of set the stage for Trump in that he responded to almost nothing.
Almost nothing.
He didn't respond ever.
No.
Just left it.
He let it lay.
Yep.
He didn't.
And then it festered and got worse.
Yeah, I think that's true.
That's a good point.
I think, you know, there was an interesting conversation I heard recently about the Tea Party and where it's gone.
I think I want to say it was with Tim Alberta, who wrote a great book.
Has it gone to the grave?
Called American Carnage.
Dead.
Well, first of all, yes.
The Tea Party is absolutely dead.
You know, it's just, you know, the things that inspired the Tea Party, things like, hey, we need to cut the budget.
Hey, we need to have fiscal responsibility.
These things are not even considered anymore by the Democrats or the Republicans.
You're a lunatic, if you're a Republican even, and you bring it up.
And to Trump's credit, he ran on that.
Like, he ran on, I'm not cutting Medicare.
I'm not cutting Social Security.
I won't adjust it.
Well, he said, he liked debt.
I'm the king of debt.
I mean, he was very overt about it and open.
And he's done that.
And he's done that.
So, I mean, it's hard to criticize him, though the conservatives in Congress could still vote for different things, and they don't.
They vote for these giant spending programs.
We had one yesterday that was finally passed.
And it is an embarrassment to our nation.
The spending package that was just passed is utterly embarrassing.
We are projected to go $80 trillion in debt in the next 30 years, in addition to the 22 we already have.
$80 trillion.
Just Social Security and Medicare is actually $103 trillion of debt.
But the rest of the budget, supposedly, and if you believe this, you'll believe anything, is supposed to be $23 trillion in surplus.
So we are in massive problems here.
And they don't care.
Nobody cares.
It really is like there's almost no interest in the idea.
They come up with $23 trillion in surplus.
How is that going to happen?
It's a CBO report.
But you know, $23 trillion outside of those programs.
So overall, $80 trillion to the negative.
Yeah.
So that just shows.
It sounds like we'll be running a budget surplus.
Yeah.
Outside of those two programs.
That's what they say.
No, that's not going to happen.
It's going to never happen.
That is not going to happen.
So there was an interesting sort of competing analysis.
I'd like to get your thoughts on this, Pat.
One, the Tea Party was never about those things.
It was about, look, you know, it's the closest, you're in your bedroom in the middle of the night.
Someone breaks through your door.
You grab for the closest weapon.
Is it a lamp?
Is it a bat?
Whatever you can do to hit this guy, right?
Is it a gun?
Whatever you have.
And so the closest thing to opposition to something they did not want, which was Barack Obama, people just grabbed for the budget.
They grabbed for constitutional values.
They grabbed for whatever was the most useful thing against Obama at that time.
But it was never a real belief of the core voter.
Is it that?
Or is it it really was a core belief?
But the people who were really supportive of the Tea Party said, we tried so hard.
We did all of these things and we still got nowhere.
So why bother?
And have basically given up and now let's just fight out the culture war and we'll fight out these things.
You know, we'll go at, we'll talk about Colin Kaepernick every day because that stuff's never going away.
We can't do anything about it.
Screw it.
So now there's no opposition to the spending.
I mean, there's one bill passed by essentially the Tea Party, which was the sequester.
And if you remember that whole debate, it was the one real, one real restriction on spending that was able to be passed.
It was overridden every single time by Republicans largely that said, eh, we can go past these caps.
We can go past these caps.
And this last one is even worse.
Now the debt limit is gone for two more years.
They don't have to, they don't even have to think about it.
And both sides are happy about it.
Because they both believe it's, well, the president believes it's just been taken off the table, so they can't use that against him.
Yeah.
They never say, government, shut down, government, shut down.
And that's just off the table to the election.
And now, and that's what the Republicans in Washington believe at all levels is like, look, you guys said you cared about this.
I don't think you do.
So we're just going to do what we need to do and spend as we need to spend.
Why should we take the arrows for this if you guys don't care about it?
And, you know, that's not leadership by any means, but it is seemingly the reality in 2019.
So the fallout from the debate is still going on.
And we are seeing a bunch of these candidates now have to answer for things that they either said or that are in their history.
And a lot of this happens when it's like good news if you are able to make a splash in the debate, but then they're going to start asking you questions.
So let's go through some of these.
This is all from sort of reaction interviews after the debates.
Okay.
Here is Tulsi Gabbard.
Now, she made a big splash.
I thought she was the best one in that second debate.
I thought she did very well.
She had a really good back and forth with Kamala Harris.
A lot of people kind of thought she won it.
Yeah, I thought she did.
Yeah.
And she did really well in the first one, too.
She's solid.
She's a decent, she's really well spoken.
She seems to be pretty smart.
She's got a really interesting background.
Fascinating background.
And the fact that she did two tours in the Middle East is amazing.
And that now you wouldn't expect her to be really anti-war, and she is.
Yeah, very much so.
And she's sort of, she has an interesting brand of her type of anti-war.
It's like there's a certain, I think I said this.
There's like a, you know, it's like if Bernie Sanders and like someone from the alt-right had a baby, it would be like her, it's like really, it's a strange grouping of views.
But the part of that is why she kind of seems like the most sane sometimes, because she has some views that are sort of conservative, libertarian-ish.
Most of them are not.
Strangely, some people are now, and I'm sure it's just opponents in the Democrat Party, believing that she's being controlled by Russians.
Have you seen that line of thinking?
Yeah, because she aligns that the foreign policy stuff aligns well with like the Russia today take on the world, right?
Like that, you know, one of the big ones is Bashar al-Assad.
She's been really kind of friendly to him.
Yeah, like the biggest defender of Assad that you could find.
Which is very weird.
Probably in all of Congress.
It's a strange, again, it's a strange set of views.
I'd like to hear, I don't know that I ever have heard her explain why she's pro-Assad.
There's not a lot of people like you said who are.
Let her give it a whirl here, Pat.
Here's Gabbard on meeting Bashar al-Assad.
No.
When sitting down with someone like Bashar al-Assad in Syria, do you confront him directly and say, why do you order chemical attacks on your own people?
Why do you cause the killings of over half a million people in your country?
Look, you know, I want to break this down to the next one.
I want to break this down to what we're talking about here today because you're talking about a meeting that took place, what, three years ago?
Well, Congresswoman, every time I come back, every time I come back here on MSNBC, you guys talk to me about these issues.
It sounds like these are talking points that Kamala Harris and her campaign is.
It's not a talking point, Congresswoman, because she's refusing to address the questions.
Congresswoman, it's important, I think, for the American people to have context about your foreign policy issues and where you stand.
If you're leading with foreign policy, I would love to provide that cause in the United States.
A meeting with Bashar al-Assad, which I'm sure you understand, is a very controversial meeting to take.
Hence the reason why when you come on MSNBC, it is important for us to talk to you about that.
And of course, every anchor has a different perspective and different questions to ask of you every single time for three years.
This is where the propaganda comes in.
I will say I like that, though, because she's subjected to some of what Republicans face every single time.
Yeah.
I will say it's, and this is a great example of it because it happens to Republicans all the time.
You can't say, look, it's important we ask these questions.
We have to have context to your trip and then demand a yes or no answer.
You can't get context out of a yes or no answer.
Right.
That's not possible.
That's right.
Right.
But she did not explain herself there.
She did not.
I would have liked it if she did.
She does.
You know, she's talked about this in that she did it eventually.
You know, she will acknowledge that this guy is a really bad guy.
She will acknowledge that.
She said that he is a she's very much against war there, but she says, you know, he is, he did, you know, hurt his and kill his own people with chemical weapons and all the rest.
I think there's a little bit of a temptation with her in that, you know, we forget that people like Dianne Feinstein was meeting with Assad.
Assad was not someone that the Democrats didn't meet with routinely, and not only Democrats, but largely Democrats.
Yeah, a short time ago, he was not the boogeyman of the Middle East.
Once they got into that war, most people bailed on the thing, though.
And she seems to be the one who stuck around it the most, which is kind of strange.
But two things to take out of that, I think.
Number one, people are starting to recognize that Gabbard is at least a force on the lower end of this election.
Someone who has the possibility of getting into the next debates, someone who can make some noise.
Well, and she's only 38.
She's kind of setting herself up for later.
For later, a later run.
Because she could run how many six times, five or six times?
And I assume they all will, right?
But she could also be a possibility for a Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense or something in that realm.
Also, VP is a big consideration.
And that is also tipped.
The hand is tipped there as she once again goes after Kamala Harris.
Like she has made her job right now is going after Harris to protect Biden.
Will that lock down the vice president nomination?
Will he be his selection?
It's a really short time.
She should be his selection.
I mean, look, she's a woman of color, which is the way you're supposed to say that now.
Yeah, you can't say colored woman.
No, of course that would be hateful.
A woman of color is a colour.
A woman of color is so much better.
I don't understand it.
Good observation there.
That's an interesting one.
Yeah.
Because the worst thing you can say is just reversing the worst.
Yes.
Yes.
Because it adds an ED at the end of color, and then it becomes colored.
And you can't be colored.
But you can be a person of color.
That's the way you're supposed to color.
You can't be a person of color.
What ethnicity?
Is she Polynesian?
Part Polynesian.
And she's from Hawaii.
Yeah.
And, you know, like, so let's put it this way.
There's a scale on the Democratic Party of intersectionality.
You get points for each level.
So she's getting a point for the woman thing.
She's getting a point for the not white thing.
So she's got a couple of things going for her.
When you look at her, do you think of her as not white?
Because I certainly don't.
I don't know.
Oh, really?
I don't know that most people think of her as a minority.
She's usually talked about in those groupings.
But yeah, I think she has that Polynesian background of some level.
But I don't care.
Yeah, who cares?
People on the right.
That's the thing.
I don't care.
We don't classify people that way all the time.
Well, that person is a person of blackness.
Wait, no, a black person.
This has happened to us legitimately a dozen times since we've been doing this show, and that we'll come out and we'll be critical of someone.
And they'll come out and they'll say, oh, you're just criticizing them because they're whatever it is, Jewish, Catholic, mixed race.
And we'll be like, wait a minute, I thought it was just a white dude.
Right?
It's so funny.
Like, people are so obsessed with these groupings and racial identities.
And I mean, I just, I don't think about it.
And Glenn, go by that ancient thought process.
That, what was his name?
Dr. Demento.
No, no, it wasn't Dr. Demento.
No, it wasn't Dr. Demento.
Oh, God.
Oh, what a show that was.
Dr. Launched the career of Weird Al Yankovic.
People don't remember that.
Pretty amazing.
So when Martin Luther King said, judge men by the content of their character rather than color of skin, I think we kind of took that to heart.
We've been trying to do it.
And it's not even the thing for me before all of this stuff where everybody demands that we notice the color of skin now.
Yeah, I think they demand the left insists that you notice the color of skin.
Right.
Like, because, you know, I think conservatives, especially modern day conservatives, took Martin Luther King literally.
Said, yeah, that's the goal.
That's right.
The goal is you don't care anymore about color of skin.
That's the goal.
For socialists, it's a midpoint to the goal.
And the goal is that all that reverse.
The old days are just reversed, where now it's all about identity.
I mean, you listen to the people who talk, especially people who are like election analysts talking about polls.
And you just hear them say things like, you know, it's really great because, you know, she's a black woman and that, and then she'll get black voters.
And you're just like, whoa, I don't talk to an individual African-American person.
Are they voting for a black person because they're black?
I hope not.
Is a woman really voting for a woman, a female candidate because they're a woman?
No, you vote for them because they're the best candidate and you're supposed to not care about all these little subgroups when you make your decisions.
That was the goal.
Yeah.
And I feel like conservatives largely are there.
You know, we looked at how many candidates, I mean, this last field was, as they would say for Republicans, a diverse field, right?
I mean, you had everything, you had Hispanics, an Indian American, you had women, you had, I mean, you had, you know, all the colors of the freaking rainbow.
But there was never a moment in which any of that entered my analysis of that election.
Like, there's never, there's never a moment.
Like, who do I want to vote for?
Oh, well, I don't know.
What kind of, what, what genitals does she have?
Do we know?
Because I only make my decision based on genitals.
That's an important part of my election analysis.
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That's just weird, man.
It is weird.
The pigment on your skin, what does that have to do with any of this?
Who has the best policies?
Who would be the best leader?
Who actually cares about the Constitution?
And on the left, it's not like that.
It is really like, we can't have a white man again.
He's like half of their voting population who are taking one gender and one color and eliminating them.
How is that not racism?
That was the problem with racism.
It was the problem Martin Luther King was trying to solve.
Say, stop looking at the color of our skin and eliminating us.
And the response to that now is we've got to eliminate those white people.
We can't have white people doing it.
That's bad.
So, you know, it's fascinating that it's come that far because it's gone from the goal at the time, race was way too big an issue.
The goal was to not make it an issue.
Now it's not that much of an issue.
And the goal is to make it into a big issue.
It's like, I don't, how do you even follow this crap?
So Gabbard, I think, would be an interesting choice for VP, but her history is strange enough that I don't know.
Yeah, I'm not sure she'd be.
And how does she help Biden in any way?
She really doesn't because, okay, you've gained Hawaii.
Yeah, you're going to want Hawaii.
You're going to get that anyway.
Yeah.
So.
Well, I mean, I guess that's the, you know, someone who works this hard on behalf of Biden during these debates, though, is going to get rewarded if he wins.
Yeah.
You would think that she, you know, she may very well not even want VP.
She may want Secretary of Defense.
That's an important issue to Tulsi Gabbard.
I mean, that is what she cares about.
And she does actually care.
She's not one of these candidates that's coming out with basically just trying to get catchphrases and viral videos.
She actually cares about that.
And, you know, good for her.
It's why I think people look at her and see some authenticity that they don't see in people like Corey Booker.
Yeah.
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Another ridiculous zero tolerance policy sort of thing just happened in Michigan.
Michigan elementary school student was charged with aggravated assault for hitting a classmate in the head with a ball, a rubber ball during a game of dodgeball on the school playground.
Aggravated assault for playing dodgeball and hitting somebody in the head.
Isn't the function of dodgeball?
You're supposed to dodge balls.
But yeah, but you're supposed to dodge the ball.
And so maybe you don't get hit anywhere, but the kid was obviously trying to kill him.
Really?
Yeah.
Try to kill him.
10-year-old Bryce Lindley, who is in fifth grade, learned he was being charged last week for the incident.
At the time, he was suspended from school for one day.
Mom was a little upset.
I couldn't believe it.
This is a kid playing on the playground with his friends.
I mean, was it one of those things where the kid wasn't looking and came up and threw the ball as hard as they could from two feet away?
You could argue a suspension for something like that.
Yeah, but charges.
But not charges.
I mean, this is just completely absurd.
But this is kind of where we are right now.
Things are so stupid and chaotic.
I'm surprised dodgeball is allowed anywhere at this point.
I know.
It has been banned in many, many places.
Yeah.
Because it's just a vicious, brutal, awful sport.
It's so fun, though.
I used to love it.
I love it.
I loved it.
I loved it.
How did we live?
How did we live through our childhoods when we all played dodgeball, went outside, rode bikes without helmets?
As far as I know, we were the only two that did survive it.
Everyone else.
Everybody else is dead?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
So that's the pile of bodies I saw on my way to work.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You probably haven't buried them from their childhood.
We need to take care of that.
Yeah, because I mean, we'd walk home from school.
You'd ride your bike home from school like miles.
And your parents never worried you were going to get kidnapped by anybody.
Yeah, I know.
I go back and forth on this.
I'm so hypocritical on this.
Oh, me too.
So hypocritical.
Because I was super protective with my kids.
Totally.
I listened to Lenore Skinese, who started that organization, Let Grow, which is about free-range kids, the free-range kids movement.
And she, you know, works hard to make sure parents don't get arrested for letting their kids go to a playground by themselves.
I mean, it's like that ridiculous.
And every time I talk to her, I think to myself, she's 100% right on all of these arguments.
Like, the crime, it's much less likely anything like this would happen.
You know, school shootings is a great example of this, and nobody knows this.
But school shootings, I was much, much, much more likely to be shot in a school shooting when I was in high school than kids are today.
It's not even close.
It's like three times, I'm three times as likely to get shot in.
Nobody knows that.
Nobody knows that.
It doesn't feel that way, even to me.
I look at those numbers all the time, and it doesn't feel that way.
So we've, at some level, you know, seen danger go down so much, but at the same time, like, you know, my kids, like, I can't even imagine letting my kid walk home three miles from school or ride his bike home three miles from school.
It seems complex.
I did that all the time.
And you're right.
I wouldn't let my kids do that today.
How old are your kids?
Well, the youngest is 19.
I still wouldn't let her do it.
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Yeah.
But there's just that part of me that's like, well, the second I turn my head, they're going to get abducted.
That's what's going to happen.
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It's secondary in my mind because there was the return of something called the National Football League last night, which is really all I care about.
I love it.
I love it.
I mean, it's a meaningless preseason game.
It's the 12th string players, but I just loved seeing it on my television.
You know, I was channel surfing the other day and came across the Longhorn network, you know, the Texas UT's television network.
And just to kill time, because, you know, you got to fill 24-7 worth of broadcasting on a channel that just really covers Texas football.
And that's about it.
But they're doing a football game from 1976.
It was Texas, Arkansas, and Keith Jackson was the play-by-play guy.
Oh, yeah.
And, you know, none of it is relevant to today.
I had no interest in either team.
Just the sound of the voice and the fact that it was football.
I must have watched it for an hour and a half.
It's embarrassing.
It's so bizarre.
Yeah, it really is.
But I'm very, I mean, I like watching baseball.
I like watching basketball, but there's nothing like the National Football here.
There's nothing like football.
And for me, the National Football League, I know you are a Morocco college guy, but still, it's just the return of it.
It just feels good.
It feels right.
Especially when your options are watching Bernie Sanders or watching Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.
That's not fun.
No, it is not.
They are trying to figure out, they're trying to sort something out here on the left.
And I remember how the Republican primaries of 2016 just ripped the conservative movement apart, right?
Like there were people who absolutely freaking loved Ted Cruz, absolutely freaking loved Donald Trump, absolutely loved Marco Rubio.
People had some mixed feelings about Jeb Bush.
There was passing interest in John Kasich at times.
By him, his family.
His mom.
His mom was very much a Kasich person.
Well, she was sort of divided, but she did wind up voting for Trump, but she's thought about Kasich for a while.
But there was a lot of passion there.
When you go back and think about that field, you know, I mean, you had people who made no impact in the race that were really good candidates.
I mean, Bobby Jindal is a guy who turned around a state.
Yeah.
Was an incredibly executive.
He's a Rhodes scholar.
He introduces a very detailed, very good conservative healthcare alternative and basically was at 0% until he dropped out.
It was a big field.
But what was funny about that, and it wasn't funny at the time, is how much everyone basically hated each other that considered themselves Republicans or conservatives.
Everyone had their guy and hated all the other guys.
And now we're seeing that on the Democrats, and it's a lot more fun.
It's like everyone who's a Kamala person hates all the Joe Biden people, and all the people who are Biden people hate the Kamala people.
And Corey Booker hates Biden.
And there's like three people who are Corey Booker people who are also not in love with Biden.
So Biden was asked on TV this week about is the party going too far left?
We're getting a little out of control here with the movement towards, let's say, socialism.
Here's what he had to say.
Your party has changed as well.
Do you think it's moving too far into immigration where some of your fellow Democratic candidates say that they want to decriminalize those who cross the border illegally?
Well, look, it's not about moving left or right.
I think I represent the party.
I think my views are where the vast majority of the Democratic Party are.
There's a lot of really, really good people that got elected who are really pushing the envelope.
And it's good.
It's healthy to do that.
But the idea that they represent what the party is today does not comport with who gets elected.
It does not comport with how we won last in 18.
It does not comport.
And so, but it's a totally legitimate debate to have.
The one thing we have to focus on, and the one thing I agreed with Corey on last night, let's focus on what it is we can do together.
We are so different.
Every one of those people on that stage has a fundamentally different view than Barack, excuse me, they talk about Barack, but they have a fundamentally different view than the present president of the United States is.
And let's argue who has the best path forward to lead this country to greatness.
I mean, I think he's right on that, right?
I think other than does not comport, that he kept saying over and over again, he's probably right.
Like he probably is a better representative of the average Democratic voter than someone like Bernie Sanders.
But the activists are the ones that are voting in the primary.
They have all the energy.
AOC's on TV.
They get all the attention.
Which makes it really fight for somebody like him.
Biden's no moderate, as we pointed out a million times.
But the fact that the moderate position of only free college for two years is the Joe Biden position.
That's not moderate.
That's something that Obama didn't.
Did he even suggest that?
Barack Obama even though he said, I don't remember him suggesting it.
No.
I mean, I'm sure he would have loved it.
But now the idea that if you don't go for four years of college for free and a free job and a universal basic income and let people cross the border with no penalties and give them free health care, if you're not that person, you're psychotically right.
You know, I just, I don't, I don't think that's the reality for the voters.
And it's probably why Biden's winning right now.
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I'm back to the NFL.
I thought we were going to go to this Kamala Harris clip about employee-based insurance.
You don't want to.
No, no, we're not.
I've got that right here because she's trying to defend.
All right.
I'll wait.
I'll wait for how long is this clip?
This one is a little over a minute.
Is she talking about the NFL?
She may discuss that at some point.
Let's listen.
Here's Kamala Harris talking about whether she's going to eliminate employer-based insurance.
One of the things that has been charged is that you will not be able to keep your private insurance if we get insurance through CNN.
If GM workers get insurance through GM, under your plan, they will not be able to keep that private insurance.
Is that true?
What the conversation was, was about whether you can keep your private insurance through your employer.
My plan will separate your health care from your employer, meaning your employer will no longer dictate the kind of health care you receive.
Under my plan of Medicare for All, private insurance companies will be able to provide coverage if they play by our rules.
And therefore, what that means in a very important way is that you don't have to be wed to your employer to keep the insurance you like and that you need.
I am decoupling it.
So there will be private insurance.
There will be private plans.
This is interesting.
But it will not be coupled with your employer.
So you can have choices about where you work and where you live.
And I understand that.
I think that's a liability argument.
I already have that choice.
It is very important here.
But what you have to convince voters of is that, yes, they may be able to keep a private insurance, but it's not their private insurance, correct?
No, they get to make the choice.
No, because you're basically allowing for a Medicare Advantage plan where insurers can enter that plan and they can choose it if they want to.
But if you're getting insurance from GM, from your employer, you will not be able to keep that, correct?
Right.
You will have 10 years to transition.
The insurer who has partnered with GM is going to then have the opportunity to compete in my Medicare for All plan.
And so you as the consumer can choose under my Medicare for All plan to have a public plan, a government-sponsored plan, or a private plan.
She didn't say a single thing about the NFL, Stu.
I feel really deceived here.
No, she didn't talk about the NFL.
Really?
No.
Maybe we cut the clip off too early.
I think she went into the Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver situation right after this.
Yeah, yeah, right after this.
Is Tyreek Hill hurt?
I don't know.
So, because this is a shade different than a Bernie plan, right?
Where she's saying, first of all, it's going to take 10 years to transition.
Second of all, what she's saying is, in theory, you could get a private insurance plan if you want, right?
But you cannot get it through your employer.
Now, the idea of separating employer from insurance is not a liberal idea.
That is an idea that I would say most economists on the left and the right think it would be good.
Plus, can I just point out, you can choose your insurance today because you don't have to take a job where an insurance plan you don't like is offered.
You don't have to take that job.
And you can refuse it.
You can refuse it.
It's just it's so much a better deal, right?
Like you're going to, because your employer is paying for part of it and they get a group discount rate.
So everyone takes it.
Like I, because I am very friendly to the idea of having insurance separate from my employer.
However, the insurance here is good.
So I take it.
And I think that's what everybody does.
I think in a perfect world, this would be a good thing.
Like the idea that you're tied to your employer with your insurance is actually not a thing that Kamala Harris is making up.
Conservative economists have been arguing for this forever.
They're just saying go to a free market system on the other side of that.
She's saying you're going to allow competition state to state.
Yeah.
And that's a big part of a lot of that stuff.
Yeah.
And she's saying, okay, well, we're going to give everybody a government plan.
And then I guess if someone wants to come in and try to compete as a private plan, they will.
Her argument and her belief is what they will do is subsidize these plans so much, no one will pick the private insurance.
And eventually, private insurance goes away anyway.
Like she's trying to do it a little bit through the back door, where Bernie's just saying it.
He's just coming out and saying, we're getting rid of it.
It's going to be illegal for you to have private insurance.
So there is a little bit of a shade, I suppose, of difference there.
But you just see these people try to struggle to get through and say exactly what's happening with their own plans.
She can't admit that healthcare is going away if you have it through GM, if you have it through CNN, you're not going to have it there anymore.
It's over.
And that is something that polls in the mid-20s nationwide, mid-20s.
And they don't want to admit it because they know how unpopular it is, but that is what their plans will do.
Bernie Sanders was on as well, and he's basically running a president-vice president thing with Warren.
They're just trying to figure out which one's first.
I don't think either one of them would name the other as their candidate, but they're running essentially an alliance right now, like an old school survivor alliance.
And they're working basically together to fend off all these attacks.
And all their policies sound almost exactly identical.
So CBS was asked, or asked Bernie, can you explain what is the freaking difference between you and Elizabeth?
Listen.
At some point, you and Elizabeth Warren, as most pundits seem to indicate, will make that next debate.
How will you differentiate yourself from her?
You're two progressives.
I'll tell you, I'll let you guys and the punditry and the American people make that decision.
All I can say.
All I can say.
What is the single principle?
What is the biggest difference between you and Senator Sanders?
Shut up, though.
You've got to draw the distinction, Senator.
No.
No?
I have to know.
I have to tell the American people what I believe.
And I'm going to take on the greed of Wall Street, the drug companies, the insurance companies.
We are going to tell the fossil fuel industry that they cannot continue to destroy this planet for their short-term profits.
I'm fascinated by this.
I am fascinated by this.
First of all, of course, he's got to draw distinctions.
I mean, if not, people are going to do it for you.
You know, she's going to, and, you know, she's going to wind up beating him in this because he's just, you know, he's just so curmudgeonly and awful.
But beyond that, what they just, what he just described as his philosophy was to say, I think it was four different things were really bad.
Those four things are basically the fundamental basis of our civilization.
Fossil fuels.
Yes.
Right.
Medicine, right?
Healthcare.
It was pharmaceuticals and health insurance.
And then the last one was Wall Street.
And you might say, well, Wall Street's not the fundamental basis.
Well, it is.
It's the foundation of capitalism.
You know, the first stock was in the, you know, ever sold was in the 1600s back in the Netherlands.
And that was the foundation of how capital gets moved around and eventually creates the foundation of capitalism.
I mean, so Wall Street, while you can criticize things at all four of those groups, they are the fundamental basis of our civilization if you eliminate things like faith, which obviously are important to some, but not all.
But I mean, when it comes down to just human things, these are the greatest things that have ever happened to us.
And our whole platform is just opposing them.
Yes, they just demonize them.
That's all Sanders does.
That's all Warren does.
That's all Harris does.
That's what they do.
They just demonize the pillars of capitalism.
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Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program this week.
He's on vacation, 88-8727BECK.
Didn't just take a vacation.
Yeah, he takes a lot of them.
Yeah.
No, he's out this week and next week, by the way.
Right.
This is his big summer break.
He's actually next week.
He's not really on vacation.
He's going to Australia.
Oh, that's pretty big.
Yeah, that's the sex slave thing, right?
Yeah, he's going on a tour of some local establishments.
See if he can find some.
No, I'm saying.
He is actually, they rescued some in Iraq.
One of the girls who they rescued was thought to be dead, apparently.
And the parents thought that she was dead.
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And they found her and they're going to bring her home to their new home, Australia, which is, again, created by the donations of this audience.
I don't mean Australia was, but I mean, the area where these refugees are living, you know, all this comes from, you know, large and generous donations of this audience with the Nazarene Fund.
And, you know, thousands of people have been rescued from really terrible circumstances.
So he's going to be down there and I know checking all that stuff out and doing, I mean, you know, this is something Glenn cares deeply about.
Obviously, if you listen to the show, you know that.
So he's going to be doing that next week.
We'll be on next week here as well.
And I'll be hosting TV and it's going to be a fun week.
We'll have fun.
We'll make it.
The best thing is you just get to make fun of a lot of people.
And that's what we usually do.
Are you?
Have you surely listened to the tape of Ronald Reagan talking to Richard Nixon in what was this, 1968?
1971.
70, 71.
Yeah.
Something like that.
This is where he calls people from an African nation.
He refers to them as monkeys, right?
Without any shoes on or whatever.
And he's disparaging the UN, and he's saying, we don't want to be subjected to all these people.
Yeah.
And so now throw him out of the country.
Final confirmation that Reagan was the racist we all knew he was is essentially how this is being promoted.
You just don't want to believe it's true.
I know when I listened to it, I thought, okay, they've, you know, interpolated this in some way that isn't what he said.
But no, he did actually say it.
And it's, it's a tough comment.
I mean, that's, it's, you can't defend it.
No, but it's the only one I know of.
Has is there any evidence other than that?
That yeah, Paul Kengor, who is a Reagan biographer, wrote about this and said, you know, look, this is not a good statement.
It's, it is literally the only one he's ever found that was anything like it.
And he didn't.
He has, he's, he talks about how he has giant boxes filled with documents and statements titled Reagan on Race.
And there is literally nothing.
So, I mean, so if you want to deep, you know, if you want to dive into it a little bit, first of all, if you can't judge someone by one comment that they've made in 1971, right?
It's not, even if it's bad, you know, you try to look at the breadth of a person and realize what was their life really like.
You know, he was very good on these issues in a million other opportunities.
So it's hard to understand.
The other thing you look at is, you know, he was talking to someone who was kind of a racist, right?
Richard Nixon.
If you look through those tapes, he's making anti-Semitic comments and racially insensitive comments throughout.
Is it one of those things where he's, you know, you're in a room where people are making foul jokes and you make a foul joke?
Is it that type of thing?
Do they taint?
And because of, you talk about one comment, as compared to the comments of LBJ that were practically endless up to 1964.
And they ignore all of that.
I mean, he's an absolute virulent racist.
Yeah.
Margaret Sanger.
They ignore all of her racism.
Horrific.
And so they'll, and by the way, we just don't say enough how bad of a president LBJ was and that he may very well be ours.
One of the worst.
Yeah, one of the worst.
Again, when you look at that debt number and you realize all of it, or at least two-thirds of it, comes from him, you remember that because not only was he terrible as a president, but also an awful human being in a million different ways.
Like, this is not a good dude.
And he gets a complete pass.
Reagan has one comment, bad.
And they'll beat him with it forever.
Yep.
Yeah.
Triple eight 727B ECK.
It's Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program this week and next week as well.
Because Glenn's not here, there's extra room in the parking lot, a lot of space for people to park in places they don't usually, because when Glenn's not here, about three-quarters of the building doesn't show up to work.
That's about right.
It's an interesting phenomenon.
It is an interesting phenomenon.
But there was right next to my car the other day was parked one of those, what are they called, smart cars?
Oh, geez.
Those teeny little things that look like a Yugo vomited, and that's what came out.
What a useless little crap can that is.
Why would you ever, ever buy one of those?
I guess you have to be wholeheartedly into global warming, right?
You've got to think.
Yeah, but it doesn't even help that problem.
And it doesn't help.
It doesn't save gas powered.
It's a power, isn't it?
It's gas-powered.
And also, it does get good gas mileage, but I think, if I remember right, you have to use premium gasoline.
Really?
Yeah, look for this little go-kart.
You've got to use premium gasoline.
It's a glorified skateboard.
Right, really.
So you can save gas, but you're paying more for the gas you need to use.
The skateboard with a dome on it.
Yeah.
It's so, you know, the most annoying thing about those cars is you can't tell when they're in parking spots when you're pulling up.
You think you have a spot.
Yeah, and then all of a sudden, ah, every time I see one, I'm so tempted to just gun it.
It's the other half of a gremlin.
Remember the old gremlin that looked like it was cut in half?
Yeah.
The other half is a smart car.
We just owned it.
I just, it's so frustrating when you turn that corner and you're about to pull in.
You're like, I got a great smart car.
Yes.
There are so many irritating things about that car.
Who makes that?
Any idea?
Is it under company?
Is it something related to like Mercedes or something, isn't it?
Mercedes.
I don't think it is a Mercedes, but it is like, I think owned maybe by Mercedes?
I'd have to remember.
I don't know.
We should Google that.
But that is a great sign.
Did that spring from the Obama administration?
No.
Or was that before?
Remember, it was funny going back and you look at those days late in the 2007, 2008, you know, as we're getting into that election, one of the big issues was gas prices.
Yeah.
So gas prices were a huge thing and people were looking for ways not to save the planet, but to save money on gas.
And that was kind of the criticism of the smart car at the time.
First of all, you have to be folded up like a piece of paper to fit into it.
And then you're not even getting the benefits really of saving money because you're paying 40 cents more than regular because you have to put premium in the freaking car so it can go 18 miles an hour.
Do you really have to put premium in it?
I don't know why that would be the case.
I don't know if people actually do it.
I mean, you know, my car says it's supposed to have premium in it, but like I want it to go fast.
Right.
Like, so I am a sucker for the marketing.
Whether it's true or not, I put premium in there.
If you're a smart car, though, that's the last thing you're thinking of, right?
You're buying a smart car.
You're not like, oh, I got to get this thing to go 0 to 60 in 18 seconds instead of 19.
It gets 40 miles per gallon, which is okay, but that's funny, but not crazy.
It's exceptional.
No, it's not even close to like a hybrid or a plug-in hybrid or anything like that.
It's just like, I want less space is your argument for it.
I guess like if you were in a city where there's a lot of parallel parking, maybe you're making deliveries in a city, like you see a use for it in some capacity, but if you ran into a squirrel, you'd be dead.
Oh, yeah.
You're dead.
You died.
A squirrel would total that car.
A squirrel's child gets you.
You're flipping the car for sure.
Maybe you live, but you're flipping it.
Yeah.
And I don't even know that you live through that.
You'd be in critical condition.
There's no question.
There's no question about that.
No doubt.
It really is.
And then it goes back to the, you know, Barack Obama famously said we were going to have like millions and millions of electric cars on the road by, I want to say it was 2016 or 2018.
And he missed this goal by so much.
It was hilarious.
By like infinity?
Yeah, it was basically like infinitely.
He missed the goal by infinity.
Like they had cars that are like, we think there'll be 65,000 Fiskers on the road by 2020.
And like Fisker went out of business like a week later.
I remember that.
It was so great.
There was a bunch of those like startup electric car brands that just all died at the same time.
Yeah.
It was basically this Cylindra approach to economics where you give a bunch of money and tax incentives to companies that go out of business a week later.
It's not normally a good idea to do.
Barack tried it, though.
That did not affect him with Democrats though.
And that's one of the interesting things about this week with these debates is the Democrats are becoming critical of Biden and they have to say bad things about Obama.
But is that a good idea in a Democratic primary?
Let me give you some of these stats on polling.
Democrats, approval rating of Barack Obama currently is at 95 to 4.
Wow.
95 to 4% unfavorable.
Are you playing to the AOC side too much when you're trying to play up to AOC and the squad?
Meanwhile, she's got about 20% approval.
Right.
I don't know what it is among Democrats, but it's higher than 20 probably.
Among black voters, these are Democrat or Democrat-leaning black voters.
Barack Obama has some issues there.
He's only 99% approved.
Now, on the other side of that, of course, is a big portion of our society, which is 0% unfavorable.
So it's 99 to 0, but 1% has not made their mind up yet.
So there's literally no one shows up as disapproving of Barack Obama.
And this is why I think one of the reasons Biden does so well in South Carolina right now, because it's the first state with a large minority population voting in the primary.
And these other candidates who are coming out bashing Joe Biden and Barack Obama, it's not going to work well for them.
The other part of this, which is interesting, is I think once again, the Democrats have lost sight as to how important and how liberal the average Democratic voter is.
Among total voters in the states that are made up, and Harry Anton has a great breakdown of this, between Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, here's the states that are going to turn the election most likely.
Barack Obama, among all voters, including Republicans, has a 57% favorability.
So he's 5743 in those states.
He's a popular president, at least in his exit.
Would you rather, again, this is Democrats, would you rather have building on top of Obamacare or would you rather replace it for Medicare for all?
55% say Obamacare, 39% Medicare for all.
So a 16-point lead for the more conservative, quote-unquote, of those two policies.
Neither one is conservative.
Should point that out too.
Those are, if you know those lessons, if you're in this world, why wouldn't you feel comfortable saying you're a moderate?
Yet Joe Biden is out there running away from that moniker.
Yeah.
Right.
We have a clip from his press conference yesterday.
This is audio we just got in from yesterday.
Biden talking about, was Obamacare a conservative policy?
Was it a moderate policy?
Was it, I don't know, maybe a socialist policy?
Listen.
But here's the deal.
There's nothing moderate about what Barack did in Obamacare.
Nothing.
What?
No president had come close.
And they tried and they tried and they tried.
Seven presidents.
This guy did an incredible thing.
In addition to that, he covered 100 million people who had preexisting conditions.
He allowed kids to stay in their parents' policies until they're 26 years old.
He covered 20 million more people.
We tried to get the Medical Care option added to it.
We couldn't get it done.
I will get it done this time because the people have realized what it's about.
They figured it out.
Fantastic.
Now, remember, this was sold to us, the American people, as a moderate approach, common sense approach.
It was originated with a Heritage Foundation, and it was basically Romney care.
We're almost passing a Republican policy here.
And we said all along, no, this is the first step to socialize medicine.
That's what this is.
They're trying to bring about single-payer universal health care.
No, that's a conspiracy.
You're a conspiracy theorist.
And we said this is a massive move to progress towards progressivism.
There's nothing moderate about it.
And now you hear Joe Biden saying the same exact thing.
It's amazing.
We played the clip over and over again with a guy from Tides Foundation where he lays this out in uncomfortable detail.
Someone once said to me, this is a Trojan horse for a single payer.
And I said, well, it's not a Trojan horse, right?
It's just right there.
I'm telling you.
We're going to get there.
We're going to get there.
So in other words, between a capitalist system and single-payer universal health care, there had to be a transitional step.
And that was Obamacare.
And he was admitting it.
He's saying, look, yes, that's the goal.
But the goal is just right out there.
Everybody knows it.
There's no reason to deny it.
This was one of the architects of the plan.
Yes.
And if you listen closely enough to these debates, if you can take it, if you can handle how awful it is.
I can't.
But that's really difficult.
But if you can take it and you listen to the quote-unquote moderates pushing back on single-payer healthcare.
Why didn't you put a quote in the quotation marks?
You quote unquote, so you left it blank.
So there is no quote there.
The quote moderates end quote that were in the debate.
Yeah.
If you listen to what they're saying, what they're saying is, I'm more moderate because I think we should try to do it slowly so people don't notice.
It is not, you know, what would be really bad for our society is socialized medicine.
It is not the argument.
The argument is we got to be realistic about what we can get done right now.
People need help right now.
Let's get what we can get done right now.
We can always expand it later, but get something done now instead of shooting for the moon and getting nothing.
That is the argument in the Democratic Party.
It is not socialism versus capitalism.
It is socialism versus slower socialism.
Yeah, they're not even saying necessarily, even the Delaneys of the world and the Hickenloopers aren't necessarily even saying socialism is bad.
Let's not go down that road.
They're saying we'll lose to Trump if we admit we're so clear.
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Exactly.
Because they will say socialism is bad because it's a bad approach that's going to scare off voters.
That's all they're worried.
Not because it's bad.
Yeah.
Not because they don't like that system or wouldn't like to go to that.
We got to go slower.
I mean, they're so radical now, so extreme in the Democrat Party.
This goes back to the turn of the century.
It was the argument between progressives and revolutionaries.
Is it revolutionary or evolutionary?
What was it Van Jones said?
I've dropped the radical means for the radical ends.
Right.
Right.
And that is true.
It's only a question of speed.
Even these people they say are moderates are saying we want to get to these social programs eventually.
We want to get there, but we need to take step by step and be methodical.
And I think there's a good argument for that because the American people have shown over and over again that once you pass one of these programs and you get it in there for a few years, it becomes part of them.
You know, it becomes part of them.
Yeah.
There's no getting rid of it.
Medicare is a great example of this.
Social Security is a good example of it.
Right now, Obamacare is becoming a good example of it.
The approval rates are up.
You're seeing Republican governors now embrace the Medicaid expansions that initially that they opposed and initially were ruled, by the way, unconstitutional, the way they tried to do it.
That's kind of a big deal.
Kind of.
And, you know, they know if we can take a baby step, we'll never turn back.
It's like with the budget when they're like, oh, we're going to add $100 billion of spending.
Well, that's not $100 billion of spending.
When you add $100 billion of spending, the next year, the budget is calculated off of that new higher number.
So you've created that $100 billion of spending for every year in the future.
It's not just one year of $100 billion.
It's one year times infinity, $100 billion.
It's nuts.
It is.
And, you know, it continues to happen.
And that's why this approach is effective.
It's why progressivism has worked to really transform our country.
And we're moving past it now.
Now they're just admitting it.
I don't know if that's going to work with voters, but it's terrifying because if it does, we are an entirely different nation.
Patton Stuart Glenn on the Glenn Beck program, 888-727B, ECK.
What's your favorite fast food restaurant, would you say?
I probably go with Taco Bell.
I freaking love Toco Bell.
Oh, I love Taco Bell too.
Oh, God, I love it.
I love it.
You know, it is a, it has, it's just so freaking good.
We had the fries.
They have the new, what are they called?
They just did that last week, right?
The spicy fries disaster they gave.
I just love it.
I mean, it's not one of those things you can eat in any sort of rational way.
Whenever I eat there, I just, I mean, I eat way too much and I just love it so much, but then I just feel terrible afterwards.
Yeah.
Or you can go to, like, you can have McDonald's breakfast and eat something that's relatively okay.
I can't do that at Taco Bell.
I'm not, I can't, I can't, I can't pull it off.
Food too tasty.
I have, by the way, Burger King is going to have the Impossible Whopper in store by next week.
By next Thursday, right?
By next Thursday.
Yeah, so we did a taste test last time with the Impossible Burger.
Glenn and I couldn't tell.
We couldn't tell the difference.
Incredible.
Amazing between meat and the plant-based pretend meat.
So maybe we'll try that again next week.
Yeah.
But in this survey of customer loyalty, Chick-fil-A turned out to be America's favorite restaurant.
And I would ex.
I mean, that's a lot different and they have by far the best customer service.
Uh, they have really good fries, the most delicious milkshakes really right, would you say.
They have the best milkshakes.
They are.
Yeah, I love them.
You don't love their milkshakes?
Yeah, I never.
I wouldn't say a distinct.
Put it to the test.
Yeah, go try it out.
They had a peach milkshake that I saw on their menu recently and I was like that sounds delicious.
Yeah interesting, what else is on the list?
IN N OUT held the holds the top spot in burger loyalty and they scored 73% for staff friendliness.
FIVE GUYS won the category in food quality and speeds.
In IN N OUT are pretty similar to me.
I've only been to FIVE GUYS, I think, once.
The only thing that's good, the best thing about FIVE GUYS, is they give you fries and they intentionally give you too many to fit in the container and they all fall in the bag.
Yeah like, that's like their policy.
I like a good policy.
Yeah, it is because you're like, oh crap, I'm out of fries.
No, there's a hundred more, 30 more yeah yeah, healthy.
Well, between 30 and 100.
That we didn't count specifically, so I'm not sure how many.
There were um, but they don't serve milkshakes.
So I think it's a communist establishment and I can't.
I can't frequent it.
Let's see, in the Mexican food category, Chipotle beat up Moe's now.
I've never been to Moe's Southwest Grill.
Moe's is good, are you familiar?
I'm not a huge Chipotle guy.
Most is good, though they have him in the northeast for sure.
And then PAPA John's for TACO BELL I like not in the top five.
Even TACO BELL is America and I don't care what you say, I don't care.