The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | Guest: Pat Gray | 10/28/19
Aired: 2019-10-28
Duration: 54:01


=== Obama Selfie Angle (11:39) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, welcome to the program.
[00:00:02]  It is the pre-pre-big show, we think.
[00:00:04]  Big show is going to probably be happening on Wednesday, but it's a pretty darn good pre-pre-big show.
[00:00:10]  Today we talk about Al Baghdadi, his death, the media, how Donald Trump handled this.
[00:00:18]  Also, we have news from the world of rap, Holmes, that you really, what?
[00:00:25]  You don't want to miss.
[00:00:27]  I write the final episode of the Star Wars.
[00:00:32]  It's not a trilogy or sex talking about.
[00:00:35]  It's a trilogy of trilogies.
[00:00:36]  A trilogy of trilogies.
[00:00:38]  And then Betto, just learning just this weekend.
[00:00:41]  Hey, wow, ARs can be used for hunting.
[00:00:44]  Who knew?
[00:00:45]  Who knew?
[00:00:46]  on today's podcast you're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program So could we put up, if you happen to be watching The Blaze, let me just put up a picture of Donald Trump in the situation room as they watch Al Baghdaddy being blown up in a tunnel.
[00:01:15]  Do we have that picture?
[00:01:16]  Can we put that picture up?
[00:01:20]  Apparently not.
[00:01:21]  Yeah, you do.
[00:01:22]  I thought I just saw it.
[00:01:24]  If you can get that and also the picture, I'd like to see them side by side.
[00:01:27]  The picture of Hillary Clinton as she was sitting.
[00:01:32]  Remember, it wasn't Barack Obama sitting at the center of the table.
[00:01:36]  That's right.
[00:01:37]  He was like off the side, slumped over, kind of like leaning back or something.
[00:01:40]  Yeah, he was sitting on a couch, like in the back.
[00:01:44]  Like, I don't know what to do here.
[00:01:46]  So he's laying on a water bed, actually.
[00:01:49]  Yeah, they should put a water bed.
[00:01:49]  With a bong with Katie Hill, I think.
[00:01:52]  But so it was quite a different scene.
[00:01:56]  Now, have you seen the picture of Donald Trump?
[00:01:59]  Yeah, he's pretty badass.
[00:02:00]  Yeah, he's sitting right in the center.
[00:02:02]  There it is.
[00:02:02]  He's sitting right in the center.
[00:02:05]  He is alert.
[00:02:06]  His shoulders are squared.
[00:02:09]  Notice everybody's in a suit, unlike with Barack Obama, who I think was in his PJs.
[00:02:16]  He had a crop top, actually, on.
[00:02:18]  He was wearing a crop top on a water bed, if I remember it correctly.
[00:02:23]  It was like a mesh crop top, which was a strange choice for a big operation like that.
[00:02:27]  So Barack Obama says it was the hardest decision that he had to make.
[00:02:31]  And Joe Biden says hardest decision in 500 years.
[00:02:34]  Oh, what a hard decision it was to get Osama bin Laden.
[00:02:37]  I mean, the world's most wanted terrorists killed thousands of our citizens.
[00:02:41]  Do you invite him to tea or do you go kill him?
[00:02:45]  I don't know.
[00:02:46]  500 years of decision-making.
[00:02:49]  I don't know.
[00:02:50]  I don't know what we do.
[00:02:52]  There's Barack Obama sitting in the back, Hillary Clinton with her hand over her mouth.
[00:02:57]  Oh my gosh, what are they going to do to this poor man?
[00:03:00]  Oh my gosh.
[00:03:04]  Look, it's fascinating.
[00:03:05]  I mean, look, these are pictures they release, right?
[00:03:09]  They come from the White House.
[00:03:11]  So it's not necessary.
[00:03:12]  Look, you can, it's not necessarily exactly how these operations go.
[00:03:16]  It's how the White House wants to message them, right?
[00:03:20]  Yeah.
[00:03:20]  And you look at the picture from the Trump administration, it's it's it's a message of strength.
[00:03:25]  It's a message of.
[00:03:26]  Yeah.
[00:03:27]  Of like, we went in there and kicked this guy's ass and we're glad he's dead.
[00:03:31]  The message from the Obama White House is, oh my gosh, I can't believe we have to do such things.
[00:03:35]  Oh, my gosh, I don't know.
[00:03:37]  This is a terrible downside of our job that we have to get rid of these people who may have gone down the wrong road.
[00:03:44]  If we just listen to them, if we just listen to them.
[00:03:47]  If we could hit them with guns of therapy, we would do that.
[00:03:51]  If we could just get rid of all of the guns in the world and have rainbow ponies, oh, it would be the best.
[00:03:57]  It would be the best.
[00:03:59]  Unfortunately, we are not going to do the flower in the gun procedure we were hoping for.
[00:04:04]  It's just that they hate capitalism.
[00:04:06]  They just hate our capitalism.
[00:04:09]  That's how they, I mean, that's the messaging of a photo like that, right?
[00:04:13]  Barack Obama, they look pensive.
[00:04:15]  They look, oh man, I can't believe we have to do this.
[00:04:18]  I guess we have to.
[00:04:19]  And that's kind of how they treated the decision, too.
[00:04:21]  I mean, they waited for, what, months?
[00:04:22]  Six days?
[00:04:24]  I thought it was six months.
[00:04:25]  Six months.
[00:04:25]  I remember it being a very long time, which they had the information where they believed he was.
[00:04:29]  Where he was pacing back and forth in the White House.
[00:04:32]  I don't know what to do.
[00:04:33]  I don't know.
[00:04:33]  My image of that night is not that picture.
[00:04:36]  My image of that night was him upstairs.
[00:04:38]  Remember, he was playing cards upstairs.
[00:04:41]  He didn't even want to be in the situation room.
[00:04:45]  They're killing Osama bin Laden.
[00:04:48]  You have troops on the line and you were upstairs playing cards.
[00:04:54]  Like, ooh, I don't know.
[00:04:55]  Is this Jin?
[00:04:57]  Can I play on that four?
[00:04:59]  I mean, that's insane.
[00:05:01]  And now look at the picture of Donald Trump sitting there right in the center, sitting erect.
[00:05:09]  He's got Pence right next to him.
[00:05:12]  Pence looks serious, focused.
[00:05:15]  Everyone in the room looks like kill them.
[00:05:20]  You know what I mean?
[00:05:21]  Yeah.
[00:05:23]  They look confident.
[00:05:25]  They look like they are concerned about our forces, but nobody is.
[00:05:32]  There's not a lot of cowering going on.
[00:05:34]  No, there's none.
[00:05:35]  There's zero.
[00:05:37]  That's a picture that you send around the world that makes people say these guys will come and get you.
[00:05:46]  And you're the master of aesthetics on these things.
[00:05:48]  Like you notice looking at the two pictures, you're at table level for the Donald Trump picture.
[00:05:53]  Like they're all looking down essentially at you, right?
[00:05:58]  There's a where if you look at the Obama picture, it's like the selfie angle.
[00:06:03]  It's like looking down.
[00:06:04]  That's a really good point.
[00:06:05]  Isn't this what is the difference?
[00:06:07]  Yeah.
[00:06:07]  Do you know what the difference is?
[00:06:08]  Because when you know you, when you when you're doing a movie, if you're doing a horror movie, you'll notice you're always looking up at the people.
[00:06:14]  You're looking up at Jason Voorhees.
[00:06:16]  You're looking up at Michael Myers because, and they're looking down at you because they're in the position of power.
[00:06:20]  Yeah, dominance.
[00:06:21]  Where the opposite is true in the Obama photo.
[00:06:23]  Like it's, I mean, it looks like the selfie.
[00:06:26]  They have it on a long selfie stick and it's towards the ceiling and it's pointed down at you, which looks good for Instagram models.
[00:06:32]  Not necessarily the right angle when you're trying to project strength.
[00:06:36]  Especially, I mean, look whose head is the lowest in the picture.
[00:06:39]  Put that picture back up.
[00:06:41]  Look whose head is the lowest in that picture.
[00:06:45]  Yeah, Barack Obama's.
[00:06:47]  Yeah, he's the lowest.
[00:06:48]  He's like buried in the corner.
[00:06:49]  Yeah, he's in the corner.
[00:06:50]  It looks like a little weakling, honestly.
[00:06:56]  That's incredible.
[00:06:57]  And they message this, right?
[00:06:59]  I mean, like, this is they put the picture back up of Donald Trump.
[00:07:02]  We're fascinated by this picture.
[00:07:03]  But this is something that they choose to release.
[00:07:06]  This isn't like, okay, there happened to be a reporter in there who got the shot.
[00:07:10]  This is, you know, this is their photographer.
[00:07:15]  Like, there's focus.
[00:07:16]  They're all staring at you in the Trump photo.
[00:07:19]  You know, it is an intensity.
[00:07:21]  So you know what?
[00:07:23]  Look at Donald Trump's head.
[00:07:25]  His head is the highest if it wasn't that the other heads were coming closer to you.
[00:07:30]  Right.
[00:07:30]  Yeah.
[00:07:31]  He is sitting the highest in there, too.
[00:07:36]  And look at the way he's just focused.
[00:07:40]  I mean, these are two incredible pictures that really say everything, absolutely everything you need to know about the two administrations and how they felt about killing terrorists.
[00:07:53]  And yeah, it tells the story of their foreign policy, right?
[00:07:55]  Yeah.
[00:07:56]  I mean, the reason why ISIS exists is because of failures of the Barack Obama approach.
[00:08:02]  So, yes and no.
[00:08:05]  Yes and no.
[00:08:06]  It is a failure.
[00:08:08]  However, I don't think you really, I don't think any of us know what the actual policy was and still is, apparently, of the Democratic Party and the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton.
[00:08:25]  We have, in doing the research for this Wednesday's special, we stumbled upon a name that kind of popped up in Ukraine and we're like, wait a minute, why do we know that name?
[00:08:37]  And none of us could remember.
[00:08:38]  So we went back into the files and just, you know, searched for the name.
[00:08:42]  And a name popped up that we haven't seen since around 2010.
[00:08:49]  And it was when we were just finishing up at Fox, and it was a name that was associated with several players.
[00:08:59]  And I don't want to say too much because we want to make sure we have everything buttoned down and then bring it to you.
[00:09:07]  We will tell you a little bit about it on this Wednesday show.
[00:09:11]  But I'm telling you, I said to my wife, she said, What is it that you're working on?
[00:09:17]  And I told her and I said, Honey, I think for the very first time, I have found something that if it is the policy still currently, and I believe it is, I think it's unknowingly.
[00:09:36]  I think it is deep state.
[00:09:38]  I mean, it's just, it was put into action and it's just running.
[00:09:41]  And it explains what they're truly doing in Ukraine.
[00:09:48]  And I said, honey, I think if this is really on autopilot and it doesn't stop and people know about it, I don't think I could fly the American flag anymore.
[00:10:01]  It makes me so ashamed of what our country is doing.
[00:10:06]  And nobody, I think both sides, Republicans and Democrats, when you hear what we have found, you will be so disgusted.
[00:10:19]  And you will, I hope, rise up.
[00:10:23]  And I hope the president will declassify something and then stop it.
[00:10:29]  But it is deep state and what we're doing around the world.
[00:10:34]  And it's not good.
[00:10:37]  So when you see the little cowering pictures of the Obama administration, that's not really who they are.
[00:10:44]  That's not who they are.
[00:10:47]  That's the face they put on.
[00:10:49]  But it's much more accurate.
[00:10:55]  See the little Hillary Clinton with her hand over her mouth at that moment?
[00:10:59]  Oh, Mike, what are we doing?
[00:11:01]  Oh, oh, no.
[00:11:04]  It's much more accurate picture of Hillary Clinton when she found out that the Libyan ambassador, the Libyan president, Muamar Gaddafi, was dragged through the streets and killed and beaten to death in the streets.
[00:11:23]  Remember what she said?
[00:11:24]  We came, we saw, he died.
[00:11:27]  And then she laughed.
[00:11:29]  That is truly the Obama policy and the policy at the State Department today.
[00:11:37]  And we will show that to you.

=== Insurance Policy Changes (13:38) ===

[00:11:39]  And we begin this Wednesday in two nights.
[00:11:43]  It's part two of our chalkboard.
[00:11:45]  This one is, all right, what's happened since?
[00:11:49]  How has the media spun this?
[00:11:53]  How are people reacting to this?
[00:11:55]  What are the updates?
[00:11:56]  When you see the work that we've done on the media, we take the five principles of journalism, the five standards that you have to hit, and we show you how they've been dealing with what we had on the chalkboard and what they're saying is happening.
[00:12:15]  And we compare them to the five standards.
[00:12:18]  They're violating every single one.
[00:12:22]  And usually in every single story they do.
[00:12:25]  We'll show that to you on Wednesday and get you prepared for the big reveal, The Empire Strikes Back, if you will.
[00:12:38]  And that is coming up in about three or four weeks.
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[00:13:17]  The best of the Glenn Beck Program.
[00:13:25]  Hey, it's Glenn, and you're listening to the Glenn Beck Program.
[00:13:28]  If you like what you're hearing on this show, make sure you check out Pat Gray Unleashed.
[00:13:33]  It's available wherever you download your favorite podcasts.
[00:13:37]  Welcome to the program.
[00:13:38]  Hello, and welcome to Mr. Pat Gray.
[00:13:42]  Hello.
[00:13:42]  Who I saw Pat, you know, Pat got dressed up.
[00:13:45]  He was at the M1 ball and looked nice.
[00:13:49]  Stu sat in the corner like a little mouse.
[00:13:52]  Not round.
[00:13:53]  I was like the Barack Obama of the picture.
[00:13:54]  I was like in the back slumped over.
[00:13:57]  Your head was lower than just about anybody in the room, I noticed.
[00:13:59]  That's true.
[00:14:00]  That's true.
[00:14:01]  So he was, he was, you notice, and we have an announcement to make.
[00:14:07]  Stu just signed a new deal with the program, so he's going to be here for another show up for a couple more years.
[00:14:13]  10 days or whatever it is that we can tolerate.
[00:14:16]  Very good.
[00:14:18]  But when I called him out and I'm like, hey, and Stu just, you know, he just signed a new deal.
[00:14:23]  He's got some money laying around on the couch now.
[00:14:27]  That was appreciated, by the way.
[00:14:29]  Just wanted to.
[00:14:29]  Yeah, well, you didn't stand up.
[00:14:31]  Everyone's like, where's Stu?
[00:14:32]  Yeah, I could have given you that moment, but I didn't, did I?
[00:14:34]  But you didn't.
[00:14:35]  I didn't.
[00:14:36]  I didn't, did I?
[00:14:37]  I sat back there.
[00:14:39]  The people right around me knew because I was sitting with them and a couple of tables around me, but I was way in the back of the corner.
[00:14:44]  Yeah.
[00:14:44]  And you just got to sit up there and just like look around aimlessly for about 30 really quiet seconds.
[00:14:49]  Yeah, it was nothing.
[00:14:51]  Nothing.
[00:14:53]  And I appreciate that.
[00:14:56]  It was my least favorite M1 fundraising gala.
[00:15:02]  Why?
[00:15:04]  It's quite an endorsement there.
[00:15:05]  Because you guys knew.
[00:15:07]  And I didn't know.
[00:15:09]  I was horrified when I found out.
[00:15:13]  I was sitting at the table and I had no idea what was coming my way.
[00:15:22]  And we had been working on something for a couple of years.
[00:15:25]  And I know who we were talking about giving it to and decided, no, not this year, probably next year.
[00:15:35]  And we had worked on this really beautiful award called the Bonhoeffer Award.
[00:15:40]  And it's for people who will stand and speak in the face of evil.
[00:15:46]  Bonhoeffer said, silence in the face of evil is evil itself.
[00:15:51]  Not to stand is to stand.
[00:15:53]  Not to speak is to speak.
[00:15:54]  God will not hold us guiltless.
[00:15:59]  And so it requires people who are willing to stand.
[00:16:03]  So I'm sitting there and I said to Suzanne, who's running Mercury One, I said, am I supposed to speak tonight?
[00:16:13]  Because I heard I was supposed to speak and I don't know what am I supposed to talk about.
[00:16:18]  And she's like, oh, you know, didn't you get the notes?
[00:16:23]  And I'm like, no.
[00:16:24]  And she looks over at my wife and my wife looks at me and I said, do you have notes?
[00:16:28]  And she's like, yeah, I've got them in my purse.
[00:16:30]  And I said, can you take them out of your purse?
[00:16:32]  I think I'm supposed to speak in a few minutes.
[00:16:34]  What am I supposed to say?
[00:16:36]  And then she looks strangely at Suzanne and Suzanne said, ah, you'll be fine.
[00:16:40]  Just add Libbett.
[00:16:41]  And I'm like, just add Libbett.
[00:16:42]  I don't know what I'm supposed to even talk about.
[00:16:46]  And so my wife is looking through the whole script that she had.
[00:16:52]  And I'm like, I'm the one who has to speak.
[00:16:54]  Can I look at the script?
[00:16:55]  And she just gives me this dirty look and she gives it to me like, okay, I know now why she didn't want to give it to me because as I'm turning it and it says, you know, Bonhoeffer Award, it says, you know, Glenn Beck and it's being given to me.
[00:17:12]  And that's when my name is said on stage, Glenn Beck.
[00:17:15]  And I'm like, wait, what?
[00:17:17]  No, no.
[00:17:20]  And I walk up and I gave this speech and I don't even know what I said.
[00:17:24]  And it was, I just walked off the stage just not feeling good, not feeling good.
[00:17:31]  It was the opposite of, I think, winning the Oscar, you know, because they all think they deserve it.
[00:17:36]  And I was like, no, This was supposed to go to, I know who this is supposed to go to as a surprise.
[00:17:44]  I know who this is supposed to be.
[00:17:46]  It's not supposed to go to me.
[00:17:47]  It's supposed to go to them.
[00:17:48]  Well, Pat and I, I think we're both there, and we both feel the same way that you didn't deserve it either.
[00:17:54]  So we stay with you.
[00:17:56]  Now I think I deserve it on that one.
[00:17:58]  Is that a beautiful?
[00:18:01]  Who's the Favili?
[00:18:03]  This is the guy.
[00:18:04]  This is one of the Disney artists.
[00:18:08]  Oh, that designed it?
[00:18:10]  Yeah, designed it.
[00:18:11]  It's a absolutely beautiful, beautiful award.
[00:18:14]  Yeah.
[00:18:16]  I thought it was going to be Bonhoeffer, you know.
[00:18:19]  But that's not Bonhoeffer.
[00:18:21]  No, it's an Angel.
[00:18:22]  Yeah.
[00:18:22]  It's an Angel.
[00:18:23]  Okay.
[00:18:23]  Yeah, because it's Bonhoeffer's Angel or something, right?
[00:18:26]  No.
[00:18:26]  The Bonhoeffer's Angel Award.
[00:18:28]  No.
[00:18:29]  Charlie's Angels, but it was less popular.
[00:18:31]  All right.
[00:18:34]  Okay.
[00:18:35]  No.
[00:18:37]  It was not nearly as sexy.
[00:18:38]  No.
[00:18:39]  Nearly as sexy.
[00:18:40]  No, it's not.
[00:18:41]  No.
[00:18:41]  I wish we would have known.
[00:18:42]  I wish we would have known that Al Baghdadi was being killed as we were raising money to help the people.
[00:18:49]  You know, we had an operative in.
[00:18:53]  Didn't we announce from the stage?
[00:18:56]  I kind of lost track of everything, but I think it was announced from stage that there was a rescue mission that was happening during the event, and we rescued another group of people that had been kept slaves during that event on Saturday.
[00:19:16]  But what did you think of Al Baghdadi?
[00:19:18]  It wasn't the toughest decision in 500 years.
[00:19:19]  No, it was the second toughest because the toughest was Osama.
[00:19:23]  It was actually, they're actually calling it the third toughest decision in the last 500 years.
[00:19:27]  Really was.
[00:19:27]  Number one was Osama bin Laden.
[00:19:29]  Number two was extending daylight savings time another month.
[00:19:34]  Really?
[00:19:35]  Wow.
[00:19:36]  It's kind of weird.
[00:19:36]  Wow.
[00:19:37]  Yeah.
[00:19:37]  And then Al Baghdadi was third after that.
[00:19:40]  Now, I mean, that's a really tough one.
[00:19:42]  I had heard.
[00:19:42]  I had heard.
[00:19:43]  I didn't know about the second place, but I had heard third was actually, so it may have moved this into fourth.
[00:19:50]  I had heard third was actually when Barack Obama last year decided to stop using Johnson  ⁇ Johnson No More Tears shampoo.
[00:20:00]  Oh, really?
[00:20:00]  Yeah.
[00:20:00]  Oh, yeah.
[00:20:01]  Yeah.
[00:20:01]  Because it's very hard.
[00:20:04]  It gets in your eyes and it causes you to cry.
[00:20:06]  And when you stop using it, yeah, then you do start crying when you're shampooing.
[00:20:10]  It's not good.
[00:20:11]  It's not good.
[00:20:12]  Not good.
[00:20:13]  It is not.
[00:20:14]  I heard he had to switch to head and shoulders because at some point you've got enough dandruff.
[00:20:20]  Right.
[00:20:21]  But apparently you don't have enough money.
[00:20:22]  No, that's you never have enough.
[00:20:24]  Never had enough.
[00:20:24]  Never have you never.
[00:20:26]  Some points you have too big of a house.
[00:20:27]  Really?
[00:20:28]  Because it doesn't seem like that.
[00:20:29]  You just bought a $15 million house.
[00:20:31]  Strangely on an island when you're telling us that within 10 years, all the islands are going to be underwater.
[00:20:38]  Yes.
[00:20:38]  Which is weird.
[00:20:39]  That's a weird investment.
[00:20:40]  Very weird.
[00:20:41]  It's a very weird investment.
[00:20:42]  The actions versus Wards thing on global warming is fascinating among rich liberals, isn't it?
[00:20:47]  Yeah.
[00:20:47]  I mean, like, you go down and you see, okay, you look at the coastline of Miami and southern Florida, which is just littered with beautiful homes built nine inches away from the ocean.
[00:21:01]  And they just continually tell us that this torturous ocean level rise is going to wipe out city after city after city.
[00:21:10]  Al Gore has maps where they're animated and there's water all over Florida.
[00:21:14]  If they keep investing millions and millions of their own dollars in the middle of the middle Malibu right on a cliff, hang on just a second.
[00:21:20]  Not necessarily millions and millions of their own dollars.
[00:21:23]  Yes, they buy the house, but they know that if anything happens to that house because of weather, it is the average person that is paying the taxes that actually pay for their insurance.
[00:21:35]  The flood insurance.
[00:21:36]  This is one of the first things I would get rid of, and it would not be popular.
[00:21:40]  It would not be popular.
[00:21:41]  But if I were president, one of the first things I would do, well, I mean, maybe on day seven, maybe on day seven, there's a lot of other things, probably bigger than this.
[00:21:51]  But stop guaranteeing insurance for the big houses in Malibu and in Miami and all up and down the coastline.
[00:22:03]  And subsidize rich people's homes is essentially what we do.
[00:22:06]  That's exactly what it is.
[00:22:08]  And you feel bad in some places, like in Houston.
[00:22:11]  Those were not necessarily, you know, expensive homes.
[00:22:15]  They were homes in low-lying areas.
[00:22:18]  But, you know, the idea is you shouldn't build in a low-lying area because you couldn't get the insurance.
[00:22:25]  And so we never did.
[00:22:26]  Like the homes in Houston are miles and miles inland.
[00:22:31]  Yeah.
[00:22:31]  You know, they're not built right on the beach.
[00:22:33]  Correct.
[00:22:33]  Correct.
[00:22:34]  They're built 100 miles inland.
[00:22:36]  Correct.
[00:22:36]  And being flooded.
[00:22:37]  That's correct.
[00:22:38]  That's a big difference.
[00:22:39]  If you couldn't get insurance through any kind of regular insurance, you shouldn't build a house there.
[00:22:48]  Now, if it is like a 100-year flood, that's fine.
[00:22:53]  That's fine.
[00:22:53]  100-year flood, that's fine.
[00:22:55]  Those are the type of things, too, that insurance companies will ensure.
[00:22:58]  Yeah.
[00:22:59]  Yes.
[00:22:59]  It becomes too expensive when these houses are getting constantly.
[00:23:04]  If it's an annual floodplain, that's a little different.
[00:23:07]  Right.
[00:23:07]  A 500-year floodplain.
[00:23:09]  Right.
[00:23:10]  You don't build things there.
[00:23:13]  And we are paying for every large mansion.
[00:23:18]  I'll bet you Mar-a-Lago has that insurance, has government insurance.
[00:23:22]  I mean, you have to.
[00:23:24]  And that's the thing.
[00:23:25]  It's not necessary.
[00:23:25]  Look, there's a lot of people who built homes in these areas with the understanding they were going to be able to get this insurance.
[00:23:32]  And that's one thing.
[00:23:33]  But the continuation of that policy is just incentivizing people to do it more often, which is why the hurricanes, when they come, cost so much more than they did years ago, because there's so many more expensive structures right on the water.
[00:23:47]  I was just, I just saw an article about a place in South Carolina that was completely wiped out.
[00:23:52]  I forget which hurricane it was.
[00:23:54]  It was like a hurricane 20 years ago that completely wiped out the area and then destroyed every home in there.
[00:24:01]  So what'd they do?
[00:24:02]  They built right back up.
[00:24:04]  In fact, closer to the shore.
[00:24:06]  Bigger homes, closer to the shore.
[00:24:09]  Yeah.
[00:24:09]  It should not happen.
[00:24:10]  It's ridiculous.
[00:24:11]  We should give, if you live in a place like that that has been wiped out over and over again, we should end the federal insurance by saying this.
[00:24:22]  Look, we'll pay you for the home right now.
[00:24:26]  You know, for the, your home has been wiped out.
[00:24:29]  Great, but you cannot rebuild here.
[00:24:33]  You can rebuild if you want, but we're never going to cover this insurance ever again.
[00:24:38]  Ever.
[00:24:39]  Go build your home someplace else.
[00:24:42]  Part of it is just like, you know, the American spirit of being like, we got knocked down.
[00:24:45]  We're going to build it up again, right?
[00:24:48]  Never going to.
[00:24:49]  We are Chumbawamba.
[00:24:51]  They go to Chumbawumba there.
[00:24:54]  Wow.
[00:24:55]  We're quoting songs from Chumbawumba.
[00:24:59]  All right.
[00:24:59]  Thank you very much.
[00:25:05]  This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

=== Kanye Convincing Performance (08:59) ===

[00:25:18]  Hey, it's Glenn.
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[00:25:27]  Hi, it's Glenn.
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[00:25:38]  Thanks.
[00:25:39]  All right.
[00:25:39]  We are in the danger zone.
[00:25:44]  As I give you word from the streets to your mother, please don't do that again.
[00:25:52]  Does that make you feel uncomfortable?
[00:25:54]  Just a little bit.
[00:25:58]  All right, let's get jiggy with it and talk about a couple of items in the rap world.
[00:26:09]  First of all, what?
[00:26:11]  Oh, no, you're doing a very good and convincing job as a major reporter in the world of rap.
[00:26:18]  On Saturday night, rapper YG, as he's known, I call him just Y.
[00:26:26]  I listen to him and people will say, what's that?
[00:26:31]  And I'll say, no, the question is, why?
[00:26:35]  Are you sure it's not pronounced?
[00:26:36]  G. Nope.
[00:26:40]  Okay.
[00:26:41]  You're not sure.
[00:26:42]  Okay.
[00:26:42]  I'm just going to check.
[00:26:44]  All right.
[00:26:45]  So at a concert with YG on Saturday, he noticed that a fan was not singing along to his very popular anti-Trump anthem, which is so super, super clever, F. Donald Trump.
[00:27:07]  So he.
[00:27:08]  Do you want to go through any of the lyrics?
[00:27:10]  I don't think it goes much deeper than F. Donald Donald Trump.
[00:27:14]  Let's see if they had any really, maybe they had some information on the Russian investigation enclosed in the rap that we need to look into.
[00:27:21]  No.
[00:27:22]  No?
[00:27:22]  No.
[00:27:23]  So he invited the less than enthusiastic fan in the crowd who might have, because we all do, might have loved all of the other super, super classics from YG, but just didn't like this particular song.
[00:27:42]  So he invites him up.
[00:27:43]  That's so sad.
[00:27:44]  Yeah, it is.
[00:27:44]  So he invites him up on stage.
[00:27:46]  And do we have the audio and video here?
[00:27:51]  Here it is.
[00:27:53]  I spotted you out in the crowd.
[00:27:55]  I asked you if you f Donald Trump.
[00:27:57]  You say you don't know.
[00:28:00]  So since you don't know, I need you to make up your mind tonight.
[00:28:03]  I need you to say your name.
[00:28:05]  I want you to state your name because I know your mama, your daddy, your grandmama, your grandfather is watching.
[00:28:10]  I want you to state your name and get Donald Trump.
[00:28:14]  Don't do it.
[00:28:14]  Look at this.
[00:28:15]  No, you won't.
[00:28:15]  This is a brave kid.
[00:28:16]  Get his f out of here.
[00:28:17]  Get anybody's name.
[00:28:18]  And pushes him.
[00:28:23]  Pushes him offstage.
[00:28:25]  Don't come to a mother effing show with YG on the mother effing bill.
[00:28:34]  If you, a Donald Trump supporter, the rapper continued.
[00:28:40]  F are you doing?
[00:28:42]  Don't let this A back in the crowd.
[00:28:46]  Tell him YG said so.
[00:28:49]  Donald Trump's racist.
[00:28:52]  He don't F with black people.
[00:28:55]  So if you F with Donald Trump, you racist as F, and I can F with you, period.
[00:29:05]  Almost poetry.
[00:29:07]  It's beautiful the way you deliver it.
[00:29:09]  Thank you.
[00:29:10]  Thank you.
[00:29:10]  Well, I am all up with rap.
[00:29:15]  And to be fair, you're from the streets.
[00:29:17]  I grew up in the streets.
[00:29:19]  I was there at the birth of rap.
[00:29:22]  Well, just the screaming part of the birth.
[00:29:24]  Yes.
[00:29:25]  Yes, yes.
[00:29:25]  You know, that part of rap.
[00:29:27]  That's an interesting, it's an interesting line.
[00:29:30]  I don't think rappers would enjoy the economics of rap without white suburban kids who might support Donald Trump.
[00:29:38]  That's not an economic picture you want to necessarily go into.
[00:29:42]  Because you're going to find there's a lot of white suburban kids who are.
[00:29:45]  Yeah, but you don't realize that YG is an artist.
[00:29:51]  Oh, so he doesn't care about the economics of it.
[00:29:53]  No.
[00:29:53]  Because I saw, as they pan to the right, I saw an American apparel sign on stage.
[00:29:58]  No, which I thought.
[00:30:00]  It seemed like he might care about economics.
[00:30:02]  No, he doesn't.
[00:30:03]  He doesn't care.
[00:30:04]  Because I remember a time, you know, as, and I'm not a historian of rap as you are.
[00:30:09]  As I am.
[00:30:09]  But I do remember a time in which one of the common attacks on other artists was that they were sellouts, right?
[00:30:17]  Like that, oh, they're selling out to just corporate interests.
[00:30:19]  They're not actually artists.
[00:30:20]  They're just trying to make money.
[00:30:21]  And like, for example, if you had a giant American apparel sign on stage with you while you were rapping, that might have been a sellout.
[00:30:29]  No.
[00:30:30]  But that's not the way it is now.
[00:30:31]  No, not on the streets.
[00:30:33]  Not in Duhood.
[00:30:35]  I'll tell you this.
[00:30:36]  No white people ever have shopped at American apparel before.
[00:30:39]  I'll tell you that.
[00:30:40]  Definitely not.
[00:30:41]  Only, only, only Trump haters have gone to American apparel.
[00:30:47]  Now, would you like more from the rap world?
[00:30:51]  I feel so educated right now after hearing this segment.
[00:30:54]  All right.
[00:30:55]  But I do need more.
[00:30:56]  Okay.
[00:30:56]  Well, you know, Kanye.
[00:31:00]  Yes.
[00:31:01]  I call him K. You do.
[00:31:05]  And Kanye is got a new album out.
[00:31:11]  He does.
[00:31:11]  Yeah.
[00:31:12]  Jesus is King.
[00:31:15]  And he said he would not sleep until this album was out.
[00:31:20]  And so that was 16 months ago he said that.
[00:31:23]  And Friday, a very, very tired Kanye West put out Jesus is King.
[00:31:31]  Which is a, I mean, a remarkable cultural development in a lot of ways.
[00:31:37]  I mean, I know I don't care about Kanye West's music.
[00:31:40]  I know you're the rap aficionado here on this program.
[00:31:43]  I don't care at all about what he raps about generally.
[00:31:47]  But I mean, the idea that Kanye West, go back a few years, think about him standing with a terrified Mike Myers on a telethon saying George W. Bush doesn't care about black people to the point where he is now not only embracing Donald Trump, which is remarkable in and of itself, but now releasing what seems to be like a legitimate gospel album.
[00:32:07]  It's not even, it's not like a, you know, I mean, he's been calling himself the king for how long.
[00:32:12]  Now Jesus is king.
[00:32:14]  And it's coming out and it is a remarkable development.
[00:32:18]  And I hope it's sincere.
[00:32:20]  It does sincere.
[00:32:22]  It does.
[00:32:22]  And I just, I hope it's not like, Well, like somebody standing on stage with American apparel, you know, the logo right next to them.
[00:32:34]  Anyway, closed on Sunday, you're my Chick-fil-A.
[00:32:40]  Hold the selfies, put the Graham away.
[00:32:44]  Get your family, y'all hold hands and pray.
[00:32:50]  The lyrics, of course, from You're My Chick-fil-A.
[00:32:55]  That's interesting because I almost thought you were playing the song.
[00:32:58]  That was such a convincing Kanye.
[00:33:00]  That was you reading it.
[00:33:01]  When you got daughters, always keep them safe.
[00:33:04]  Watch out for vipers.
[00:33:06]  Don't let them indoctrinate.
[00:33:09]  Closed on Sunday, you, my Chick-fil-A.
[00:33:13]  You're number one with the lemonade.
[00:33:16]  Raise our sons, train them in the faith.
[00:33:20]  Through temptations, make sure they're wide awake.
[00:33:24]  Follow Jesus, listen and obey.
[00:33:27]  No more living for the culture.
[00:33:29]  We nobody's slave.
[00:33:33]  Closed on Sunday, you, my Chick-fil-A.
[00:33:38]  Wow.
[00:33:38]  That's beautiful, Glenn, the way you did that.
[00:33:40]  Thank you.
[00:33:41]  Of all the things to praise at Chick-fil-A, I feel like lemonade is a strange choice.
[00:33:46]  It would not be the first thing I would think of when you're talking about Chick-fil-A.
[00:33:49]  Can I ask you where the rhyme is in that one?
[00:33:52]  When you got daughters, always keep them safe.
[00:33:54]  Watch out for vipers, don't let them indoctrinate.
[00:33:57]  Closed on Sunday, you, my Chick-fil-A.
[00:34:00]  You're my number one with the lemonade.
[00:34:02]  Doesn't really.
[00:34:04]  Filet, lemonade.
[00:34:07]  I think that's what he's going to say for here.
[00:34:08]  Closed on Sunday, you, my Chick-fil-A.
[00:34:12]  You're my number one with the lemonade.

=== Beginning of the End (05:34) ===

[00:34:17]  Right.
[00:34:17]  Right.
[00:34:17]  Okay.
[00:34:19]  Now, I don't know.
[00:34:20]  I will say you are an aficionado in the world of rap.
[00:34:24]  I'm more of an iconic hero in the rap world.
[00:34:27]  In the rap world.
[00:34:27]  You come from the streets.
[00:34:28]  We know that.
[00:34:29]  I've been told by people who have more insight in rap quality that Kanye not necessarily known for his rapping as much as his producing.
[00:34:41]  So his rapping, when he's doing the actual rap, let me ask the words as a strong suit.
[00:34:50]  Is Christmas known for its rapping?
[00:34:52]  No.
[00:34:53]  It's the gift inside that counts.
[00:34:55]  And you know what that rhymes with?
[00:34:57]  Lemonade.
[00:34:58]  Thank you very much.
[00:34:58]  I'm pretty sure.
[00:35:00]  I think we're done here.
[00:35:04]  This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
[00:35:17]  Like listening to this podcast?
[00:35:19]  If you're not a subscriber, become one now on iTunes.
[00:35:22]  While you're there, do us a favor and rate the show.
[00:35:25]  We could also have you on the job of writing headlines for the media because this is a difficult gig.
[00:35:31]  Yes.
[00:35:31]  You got to understand.
[00:35:32]  You got to come up with creative new ideas every single day.
[00:35:35]  Yeah.
[00:35:35]  It's really hard.
[00:35:36]  I don't think it's as hard as some people think it is.
[00:35:39]  Really?
[00:35:40]  I mean, let's go through some of the headlines.
[00:35:42]  This is Beckett Adams posted these.
[00:35:44]  It's amazing.
[00:35:45]  June 2016.
[00:35:47]  The beginning of Trump's end.
[00:35:51]  June 2016.
[00:35:52]  The beginning of the end for Trump.
[00:35:55]  That was a question mark at the end of that one.
[00:35:57]  See the difference?
[00:35:58]  I do.
[00:35:59]  I do.
[00:35:59]  August 2016.
[00:36:00]  Will Trump's attack on the cons be the beginning of the end for his White House hopes?
[00:36:06]  October 2016.
[00:36:07]  Is this the beginning of the end of Donald Trump?
[00:36:10]  Again, it's a question.
[00:36:12]  Who knows?
[00:36:13]  February 2017.
[00:36:15]  This is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump.
[00:36:18]  February 2017.
[00:36:19]  Is General Flynn the sacrificial lamb or the beginning of the end for Donald Trump?
[00:36:24]  See, again, a statement?
[00:36:26]  Question.
[00:36:26]  I don't know.
[00:36:28]  March 2017.
[00:36:29]  In the White House, things are looking bad.
[00:36:31]  This could be the beginning of the end for Trump.
[00:36:34]  Statement.
[00:36:35]  Next one's got to be a question.
[00:36:37]  If CNN's new Russia report is true, we may be seeing the beginning of the end of Donald Trump's presidency.
[00:36:43]  Wow.
[00:36:44]  The beginning of the end.
[00:36:45]  May 2017.
[00:36:46]  Is it the beginning of the end for Trump?
[00:36:48]  Even elected Democrats can feel it.
[00:36:50]  Off Democrats are going to say it.
[00:36:52]  Well, then you got to believe it.
[00:36:54]  There's such credible say.
[00:36:58]  Was she out there now saying on, you know, I used to be on the Trump train, but now I question it.
[00:37:06]  February 2018, John Dean warns Gates' testimony may be the end of Trump's presidency.
[00:37:13]  I don't even remember Gates' testimony.
[00:37:15]  That's how he thinks that happened.
[00:37:16]  March 2018, is this the beginning of Trump's end?
[00:37:21]  See, that's totally different.
[00:37:23]  The end of Trump or the beginning of the end of Trump.
[00:37:26]  This is the beginning of Trump's end.
[00:37:29]  Okay.
[00:37:29]  You notice the subtle differences.
[00:37:31]  April 2018, Michael Cohen and the end stage of the Trump presidency.
[00:37:36]  August 2018, the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.
[00:37:40]  August 2018, Donald Trump may have finally reached the beginning of the end.
[00:37:45]  Well, at least they're recognizing it.
[00:37:47]  We've been printing these stories for two damn years.
[00:37:50]  He may have finally reached it.
[00:37:53]  November 2018, the end of Trump.
[00:37:56]  Now we're just like stating it.
[00:37:57]  No, December 2018, Trump's latest meltdown shows even he knows this could be the beginning of the end.
[00:38:05]  It could be.
[00:38:05]  It could be.
[00:38:07]  Even he knows.
[00:38:08]  Nancy Pelosi's known for a long time, but even he knows it could be.
[00:38:12]  Yeah, I love that because we have to recognize here all the qualifying parts of this.
[00:38:16]  It's not the end.
[00:38:18]  It's the beginning of the end.
[00:38:20]  And it could be the beginning of the end.
[00:38:22]  And Trump, even he might know that it could be the beginning of the end.
[00:38:26]  So, you know, what's amazing about that, though, when you think about it, is they can't even agree on the beginning.
[00:38:31]  It's not like the beginning of the end happened, and all of these things are happening now.
[00:38:36]  So we're at the middle of the beginning of the end.
[00:38:39]  Right.
[00:38:39]  No.
[00:38:40]  It's just the middle.
[00:38:40]  We're still there like, forget about that beginning.
[00:38:42]  Yes.
[00:38:43]  Because that didn't work out.
[00:38:44]  This one is the beginning.
[00:38:46]  They keep changing the beginning.
[00:38:48]  We're not even in the middle.
[00:38:50]  Every time it fails, and they're like, yes, but this one?
[00:38:54]  Right.
[00:38:55]  Did you see his caloric intake?
[00:38:58]  How about January 2019?
[00:39:00]  This looks like the beginning of the end for Trump or September 2019.
[00:39:04]  Could this impeachment inquiry be the end of Trump's presidency?
[00:39:08]  The good thing about this is sometime before January 2025, they're going to nail this.
[00:39:14]  They're going to be right.
[00:39:15]  They're going to have it.
[00:39:16]  As he's on the stairs waving goodbye, they'll say, could this be the end of Donald Trump?
[00:39:25]  And they will be wrong yet again.
[00:39:33]  You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
[00:39:46]  So Joe Biden is in a high school.

=== Biden AR-15 Proposal (13:56) ===

[00:39:51]  And, you know, he's the guy who said, hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15s.
[00:39:57]  Is they letting Biden in high schools now?
[00:39:59]  I'm sorry, not Biden.
[00:40:00]  Betto O'Rourke.
[00:40:01]  Oh, okay.
[00:40:02]  So Betto O'Rourke is in high schools.
[00:40:04]  And high school students is, excuse me, you've said, hell yes, I'm going to take your AR-15s, but I go deer hunting, and that's what I use.
[00:40:15]  Why are you taking that away?
[00:40:18]  Now, Betto claims this is the first time he heard that people use those as hunting rifles.
[00:40:26]  Of course.
[00:40:27]  Shut that.
[00:40:28]  What do you think they're used for?
[00:40:30]  Well, it's also, if that's true, let's take him at his word for a moment.
[00:40:35]  Then he does not have enough information about the topic to make policy recommendations.
[00:40:39]  Exactly right.
[00:40:40]  Exactly.
[00:40:42]  He also said, you know, I've heard about it, you know, in Texas with feral hogs.
[00:40:49]  Oh, so you do know that they are used to hunt things.
[00:40:54]  Okay.
[00:40:55]  Well, that's like hunting deer.
[00:40:59]  Except feral hogs have to be killed because they destroy everything on these ranches.
[00:41:05]  The guy lives in Texas.
[00:41:08]  He is preaching about gun safety and removing a firearm from your house door to door with a sheriff.
[00:41:18]  And he didn't know those were a modern sporting rifle.
[00:41:24]  The guy's an idiot.
[00:41:27]  But he folds to this teenage kid.
[00:41:30]  Listen to what he says.
[00:41:31]  So this is the first time that I've heard the case made for using an AR-15 to hunt deer.
[00:41:38]  I've heard feral hogs in Texas, which are a real problem on a lot of the ranches and farms in my home state.
[00:41:46]  Perhaps a way to address a legitimate concern or need is to ensure that those who have or want to use an AR-15 are able to keep it at a hunting club or at a gun range.
[00:41:59]  So there is some control and safeguards still placed on that firearm.
[00:42:05]  But this is why I'm here.
[00:42:06]  I want to listen to those who feel perhaps differently than I do, including ideas in whatever becomes the final piece of legislation or the law that we adopt.
[00:42:18]  This is why I'm out of high school, so I could listen to the experts.
[00:42:23]  This is the first time you've ever heard that these guns were used for hunting.
[00:42:29]  That's absolutely incredible.
[00:42:34]  What are they purchased for?
[00:42:37]  Seriously, what are they purchased for?
[00:42:38]  To murder, Glenn.
[00:42:40]  They're purchased to murder.
[00:42:42]  It's their only use.
[00:42:44]  Their only possible use is to murder.
[00:42:48]  This is why.
[00:42:49]  Well, if I want to get those feral hogs, I can keep my rifle at the gun range.
[00:42:54]  So all I have to do is get all the hogs into the back of my truck.
[00:42:58]  Yeah, bring them over to the gun range.
[00:42:59]  Bring them over to the gun range, and then I can have my gun there to shoot them.
[00:43:02]  That sounds pretty reasonable.
[00:43:03]  You know, if I could put them in, so I like to shoot skeet.
[00:43:07]  So if I could put them in, you know, loaded in one of the skeet shooters, you know, where you just pull and a feral hog.
[00:43:15]  Right.
[00:43:16]  That'd be fun.
[00:43:18]  That sounds like a beto sort of policy prescription for this one.
[00:43:21]  Sure.
[00:43:22]  Yeah.
[00:43:22]  I mean, it's a bizarre thing because such a small percentage of rifles are ever used for any negative purpose.
[00:43:29]  And one of the big complaints from the left seems to be we really don't like the guns that work well.
[00:43:35]  Like we like, it's okay if you have ones, that's fine.
[00:43:39]  Right.
[00:43:40]  But this one, if it shoots accurately, they even say that.
[00:43:43]  These are precisely accurate.
[00:43:44]  Well, what the hell do you want a gun to be?
[00:43:46]  It's supposed to fire accurately.
[00:43:47]  I don't like one of it.
[00:43:48]  I like one where the barrel can be bent both ways.
[00:43:52]  You never know what you're going to hit.
[00:43:53]  What's in front of you, what's behind you, what's beside you.
[00:43:56]  You never know.
[00:43:56]  Yeah.
[00:43:57]  I mean, the whole point is that you can hit the thing you're supposed to hit.
[00:44:00]  Obviously, a very tiny percentage of people have decided to use these things in bad ways.
[00:44:06]  But we saw a mass shooting again this weekend that had nothing to do with an AR-15.
[00:44:10]  You look at many of the mass shootings have happened with handguns or shotguns or anything.
[00:44:14]  Exactly why we should take all guns.
[00:44:16]  Yeah.
[00:44:16]  And that's the next beto thing, right?
[00:44:18]  Yeah, and they should be kept in Betto's basement.
[00:44:20]  You can just go over to his house, knock on the door and say, hey, Betto, I need my gun.
[00:44:25]  And then he'll say, well, bring the robber or whoever is here.
[00:44:30]  I'll give you your gun.
[00:44:31]  You can sign it out.
[00:44:32]  And then you can keep him.
[00:44:34]  Do not threaten him with that gun.
[00:44:36]  No.
[00:44:36]  But you can use your gun, just not towards him, until the police arrive.
[00:44:43]  That's basically where we're headed.
[00:44:44]  Really?
[00:44:45]  That's where we're headed.
[00:44:46]  Okay, so let's talk a little bit about Joe Biden.
[00:44:49]  Joe Biden, apparently, according to a new poll, 27% of likely Democratic voters would be dissatisfied with Joe Biden.
[00:45:01]  27%.
[00:45:03]  That is higher than the 21% that would be dissatisfied with Bernie Sanders as the nominee.
[00:45:11]  And, you know, Biden's running as a sort of consensus candidate, right?
[00:45:15]  The case for his election is that nobody's completely offended by his policy platforms.
[00:45:24]  Okay, so I think, I think this could be true because Biden is the corrupt candidate like Hillary Clinton, old establishment corrupt candidate, right?
[00:45:38]  And that's what people on the conservative side wanted to get rid of, the corrupt candidate that was part of the system.
[00:45:47]  So I can understand that you don't necessarily like him, but for it to be six points higher than those who don't want the avowed socialist who's saying we're going to get rid of the free market, that's pretty stunning.
[00:46:03]  So 21% are dissatisfied with Sanders.
[00:46:07]  15% would be unhappy if Warren was the nominee.
[00:46:13]  Only 9% dislike Mayor Pete Buttigieg, which is also starting to come up.
[00:46:21]  Have you noticed?
[00:46:22]  I've got a story someplace where they are talking about how right here.
[00:46:28]  Let's see.
[00:46:29]  An emerging scenario where Buttigiege wins the nomination.
[00:46:33]  For a rising star in the party, vastly overperforming expectations in crowded presidential field would easily be considered a victory in its own way.
[00:46:42]  But there's a real reason to think Pete Buttajudge could win this nomination outright.
[00:46:47]  One such rather plausible scenario is starting to develop right before our eyes, and it starts as these things often do in Iowa.
[00:46:55]  Two polls this last week had good news for Budajudge in the lead-off caucus state.
[00:47:01]  Suffolk University and USA Today poll had the mayor in third place at 13%.
[00:47:08]  More importantly, he was just five points off Biden's first place lead of 18.
[00:47:13]  There were a lot of undecideds in this survey at 29%.
[00:47:18]  They were four behind Elizabeth Warren, 17%.
[00:47:23]  Bernie Sanders had fallen back to fourth.
[00:47:26]  So it's Butajudge at 13, Elizabeth Warren at 7, and Biden at 18 with 29% undecided.
[00:47:35]  Yeah.
[00:47:36]  I mean, look, there's a case here.
[00:47:38]  Budajej is a guy that I don't think has really excited Democrats so far.
[00:47:45]  He's sort of boring, but he's well-spoken.
[00:47:47]  He's obviously a pretty smart guy.
[00:47:50]  And he has some intersectionality value for the left.
[00:47:56]  The other thing that's great for Budajej is the two states that vote first are super duper white.
[00:48:03]  They're like the whitest of the white, the whitest, whitey people of all times.
[00:48:07]  And that's the problem for Biden.
[00:48:10]  Biden's got to go through three elections before he gets to a large African-American voting base.
[00:48:16]  And it's like, that's where he's super strong.
[00:48:18]  But you lose three states in a row.
[00:48:20]  Can you survive that?
[00:48:22]  Well, you have Butajej, whose only constituency seems to be white.
[00:48:29]  Yep.
[00:48:30]  White and liberal.
[00:48:31]  As soon as you get out of white liberal, you are in trouble with Buttijudge.
[00:48:36]  I mean, legitimately, when you break down the crosstabs of these polls, he's showing up at 0 and 1% among black voters.
[00:48:43]  It's only zero.
[00:48:44]  Only one place to go.
[00:48:46]  That's true.
[00:48:47]  And then you can write another article about how he's increasing his support among black voters.
[00:48:51]  I mean, look, Biden has a case here to still make.
[00:48:55]  I mean, he really hasn't fallen apart nationally, despite all the press about Warren.
[00:48:59]  He's stuck right around the same area.
[00:49:01]  The difference has been some of Sanders' support has gone away and it's gone to Warren.
[00:49:05]  But Sanders, or Biden's been right around 25% to 27% this entire time.
[00:49:10]  And, you know, he hasn't really fallen apart.
[00:49:13]  His campaign seems to be asleep.
[00:49:16]  I mean, what did you say, the zombie campaign they're describing as the zombie campaign?
[00:49:20]  It's kind of apt.
[00:49:21]  I mean, like, think about this.
[00:49:23]  The Biden thing happens with Ukraine and the whole Trump situation.
[00:49:29]  They're going through this impeachment.
[00:49:31]  I made this case before.
[00:49:32]  If you are Biden, you need to take the hand that you're dealt.
[00:49:35]  If you want to win this nomination, you're out there every single day bragging about how Trump felt the need to call a foreign president to get dirt on me because I'm such a great candidate.
[00:49:44]  He knows I'm going to beat him.
[00:49:45]  So he's trying to break all the rules to beat me.
[00:49:48]  I'm the guy that can beat him and he even knows it.
[00:49:51]  That's the case you're making to the American people.
[00:49:52]  It's the case you're making to raise money.
[00:49:54]  It's the case you're making on every left-wing talk show, but he's not doing that.
[00:49:58]  He's barely doing anything.
[00:49:59]  Let me give you another example.
[00:50:01]  What's going on with Syria right now?
[00:50:03]  Syria, the Kurds, all these battles going back and forth between Turkey.
[00:50:08]  This has been in the news cycle like crazy, right?
[00:50:10]  And what's the fundamental part of this?
[00:50:13]  The Kurds want their own homeland, right?
[00:50:15]  The Kurds want their own homeland.
[00:50:17]  Turkey doesn't think they should have it.
[00:50:18]  Nobody thinks they should have it, right?
[00:50:20]  This entire region, the Kurds want their own homeland.
[00:50:23]  Well, if you go back to the Iraq war, when that was all going on and everyone was coming up with their ideas, there was one guy, Joe Biden, who actually recommended that Iraq be divided into three countries, right?
[00:50:40]  Where the Kurds would have their own homeland.
[00:50:43]  Now, you can go back and look at that policy and find shoot holes in it like crazy, and you could say it wouldn't work and it's not the right prescription.
[00:50:50]  But again, Joe Biden is running for president of the United States.
[00:50:54]  It's his job and his team's job to take advantage of news events and say this is where the president was.
[00:51:00]  He should be the president because if he were the president back in this time, he would have done this.
[00:51:06]  The Kurds would have had their own homeland and maybe this wouldn't even have happened.
[00:51:09]  How can you not be making the case?
[00:51:10]  He's the only guy I can remember ever recommending that policy prescription.
[00:51:15]  It was a big deal at the time.
[00:51:16]  Huge.
[00:51:17]  And instead, he just is sitting back as if he's, oh, I know a lot about foreign policy.
[00:51:22]  Why don't you describe some of the specifics?
[00:51:24]  Why not take advantage of what's going on?
[00:51:28]  His campaign seems to be completely inept at this.
[00:51:31]  Every other candidate is doing this, and he can't seem to do it.
[00:51:34]  Okay, so this is from New York Magazine that calls it the zombie campaign, and it's obliterates him.
[00:51:41]  Obliterates him.
[00:51:42]  Okay, so this is from like page 15.
[00:51:45]  It's a strange dynamic.
[00:51:47]  The most qualified candidate in the race surrounded by an entitled staff who don't understand that they have to fight for the nomination or even the presidency, but without a real case to make beyond a Democratic succession that would amount to an Obama restoration.
[00:52:03]  One person close to the Biden family said, the problem is Joe has no center.
[00:52:12]  He's literally only a politician.
[00:52:15]  That's who he is.
[00:52:16]  That's all he is.
[00:52:18]  Biden is fundamentally a toady.
[00:52:21]  He's just political.
[00:52:22]  He needs to kiss ass.
[00:52:24]  He'll kiss ass.
[00:52:28]  I mean, it is remarkable what they are saying.
[00:52:33]  Of course, Biden is consumed with endorsements, another side of his perhaps outdated political instincts, getting insiders to declare their support meant something when powerful political machines controlled the primary process.
[00:52:49]  But it doesn't have relevance to presidential politics today.
[00:52:52]  And the only endorsement that could matter hasn't materialized.
[00:52:56]  Barack Obama has remained silent on the 2020 primary, even as he saw fit to involve himself in Canadian affairs, endorsing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
[00:53:07]  A senior White House official reflecting on Biden's weakness told me Biden should have never even entered the race without knowing he'd have the former president's support.
[00:53:16]  Of course, that was always less of a sure thing than it might have seemed.
[00:53:21]  In 2016, Obama went all in for Hillary, even as Joe Biden was contemplating a run.
[00:53:28]  In the early stages of this race, he didn't just avoid allying himself with Biden, but gestured toward other candidates, including many unlikely contenders, including Duval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, possibly to discourage his former vice president from running.

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[00:53:47]  I mean, they are, they do not want him to be president, the far left and the media.
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