Glenn Beck addresses the Minneapolis ICE shootings, criticizing Mayor Fry and Governor Walz for allegedly obstructing federal law enforcement under the Supremacy Clause. He argues that a rigged system socializes losses while privatizing gains, fostering corporatism over rugged individualism. Beck proposes removing government backstops, reforming zoning, and enforcing antitrust laws to restore free markets. Ultimately, he contends America's decline stems from embracing collectivism's comfort rather than the struggle required for true liberty. [Automatically generated summary]
Also, unrigging the system and rugged individualism versus the warmth of collectivism.
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Privileged Ownership vs Free Market00:15:14
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I want to say something really, really careful because this matters.
A conversation is happening in our country right now about housing, about corporations being able to buy homes and whether they should be allowed to do that at all.
And my first instinct is no, because the pain this is causing and the pain is real.
Young families are locked out, rents rising faster than wages, communities hollowed out, and you have governments all around the world who are pushing for you will own nothing and you'll like it.
Meaning somebody owns everything.
You're just a constant renter.
You're a serf.
Yesterday, Donald Trump said, we should pass a law that will ban corporations from buying houses.
And at first, I was like, yes, because the problem is real.
Finally, somebody is recognizing this problem.
But every libertarian bone in me went, no, no, no, wait, Because banning ownership is not freedom.
It's just not.
What is the difference between Mamdani saying you're going to have a different relation?
If you're white, you're going to have a different relationship with ownership than you've had before because you're not going to be able to buy things that others can buy.
That's not a free society.
Once you decide who can own property, you've crossed a line that history tells us is not easily crossed back in the other direction.
But here's a part that we have to be honest with ourselves about, because pretending otherwise is honestly how we lose the country.
What is happening in our country right now is not a free market.
You can look at it that way.
If you squint really, really hard and lie to yourself every day, you can go, yeah, we're a terror capitalist country.
It's a free market.
It's not.
And until we admit that, we will just put band-aids on and we will start making decisions that are not right for a free people.
We've built something entirely different from the free market.
Anybody who was born in, I don't know, past 2000, I don't think you've never lived under a free market.
You don't know what it's like.
Especially if your first memories are from 2008 plus.
The free market is gone.
Here's what a free market does.
A free market, a real market, risk matters.
In a real market, price signals mean something.
You can look at a corporation's paperwork and you can go, oh, I see what's going on here.
Nope, that stock's going to go down because of this X, Y, and Z.
But when X, Y, and Z show really bad news and the stock goes up, you're not in a real market.
Okay.
In a real market, if you make a bad bet, you lose.
But that's not what's happening, at least not at the corporate level.
That's not happening in housing.
Housing has been transformed into a financial instrument.
It's not about a house for a family.
It's about a financial instrument.
And this isn't by accident.
This is policy.
It comes from years of zero interest rates, trillions of cheap dollars, government-backed mortgages, pipelines that are all securitized, regulatory advantages that favor the size of the lawyers and the leverage that you don't have access to.
Our federal government didn't just invite Wall Street into housing.
It pulled it by the collar and said, you are doing these things because it's good for our reelection, and I'll protect you if there's a problem.
That's not a free market.
So when a hedge fund goes in and buys 10,000 single-family homes competing against first-time buyers, that's not capitalism.
It's not because they don't have any risk.
That's state-distorted concentration of capital.
Then when the government turns around and says, you know what, this is out of control.
We have to ban ownership.
That's not a solution.
It'll feel good.
It felt good to me yesterday when he said that.
I was like, yes, finally.
It'll feel good, but it's not really a solution.
That's like the state breaking your leg and then saying, here, I got a wheelchair for you.
Wait, you're the one who broke my leg.
How about we stop breaking people's legs instead of giving them wheelchairs?
The problem is not corporate ownership.
The problem is privileged ownership.
The problem is when government quietly rigs the game.
When, I mean, we saw this in 2008.
When a government socializes the losses and all the gains are privatized.
You win, you keep the money.
You lose, I'm going to spread that to the taxpayer.
That's not free market.
That's rigging.
When financial instruments are guaranteed because you're large, you've got a huge system behind you, you've got a lot of money.
When that is guaranteed for the large and the small guy can't afford it, then you've rigged the game again.
Again, when risk is absorbed by you, but profit is captured by the institution.
That's not liberty.
That's not capitalism.
That's corporatism.
And, you know, people used to say, oh, the government, the republics are just for the corporations.
I'm not for the corporations.
I don't like corporatism.
I don't like fascism.
That's a public-private partnership.
That is literally what the WEF, the World Economic Forum, and Joe Biden was talking about in speech after speech.
We're going to have a public-private partnership.
That is the literal definition of fascism.
Corporatism leads to someplace really, really dark that we don't want to go to.
Once people are priced out of ownership, once property becomes something that you can only rent from institutions.
Remember, communism, the government just takes it all and they tell you where you're going to live and everybody gets a house.
But I mean, depends on how popular you are with the state.
Okay?
That's communism.
Fascism is when the government gets into bed with giant corporations and the corporations are allowed to own everything, but only under the direction of the government.
They play ball with the government.
And again, in fascism, you really don't own anything.
Everybody else owns something and you don't.
Once property is something that you only rent from institutions, then you've changed the relationship between the citizen and the state.
You're no longer independent.
You're no longer rooted.
You're no longer secure in anything.
You're managed.
And that's what we've been fighting against.
I have been.
I don't want to be managed by the progressives.
I don't want to be managed by the World Economic Forum.
I don't want to be managed by a conservative who believes people should be managed.
That's when all of the warning lights should start going off.
You know, this week we have dealt with constitutional issues over and over and over again.
Sometimes they cut your way.
Sometimes they constitution comes in and says, no, that would be a violation and you just can't do that.
And you're like, crap, because that's an easy solution.
But that's not who we are.
We are not a country that believes in easy solutions.
We look for the right solution.
There are really powerful global voices who are speaking openly about a future where ownership is obsolete, where everything is nothing but a service, and where permanence is replaced with permission.
Stakeholder capitalism comes to mind.
Efficiency, sustainability comes to mind.
But history has another word for that, and that is feudalism.
The serfs that don't own their land.
The lords of the manor own everything, and you live at the pleasure of the lords.
I am not willing to sit here and watch or help or remain quiet if America takes a single sleepwalk step back into feudalism.
Not one inch goes that way.
And especially not because you're afraid to tell the truth or you're afraid to be unpopular, whatever.
So what is the truth?
Here is the truth.
You don't fix a rigged market by banning ownership.
You fix it by removing the rigging.
We lose, if you believe in the Constitution, you lose by denying that corporations are coming in and buying housing and there's a shortage of housing and a lot of it is happening because of things that have been rigged and the government getting into bed with all these corporations.
If we deny that that's happening, if we say, no, the Constitution won't allow you to do that, but you don't offer a solution, you lose because the problem is real.
So how do you fix it?
One, no more government backstops for bulk buying of anything.
No, a government has no, there's no backstop for you.
If an institution wants to buy 10,000 homes, fine.
But you do it with real rates, real risks, real consequences.
You get no hidden guarantees, no taxpayer insurance, no socialized downside.
You lose, you lose, and you go out of business, just like I would with one house.
Second, tax neutrality.
There should be no special depreciation tricks, no accelerated write-offs, no advantages that only exist at scale.
If the average person can't get it, you shouldn't get it because you have scale.
If you rent a house, you play by the same rules.
I don't care if you own one house or a thousand houses or 10,000 houses.
And here's the big one.
Third, zoning laws.
We have to unleash supply.
Zoning laws, minimum lot sizes, endless environmental reviews, parking mandates.
All of this is written for a different century, honestly.
And they're artificial constraints that are strangling housing and protecting the incumbents.
They benefit the large and they punish the young.
If supply were actually allowed to respond, hoarding wouldn't work as a strategy.
Last one, watch concentration, not ownership.
Antitrusts exist for a reason.
When any entity, whether it's corporate or otherwise, begins to dominate a regional housing market, that's again, not freedom, that's control.
No one can dominate that.
That's antitrust.
Transparency, reporting, friction as concentration rises, not bounds, not bans, but boundaries.
What we should be defending is really simple and non-negotiable.
Property ownership must be easier for citizens than it is for institutions.
And right now, it's the other way around.
Not forbidden to institutions, just no longer privileged.
You shouldn't have any of these privileges.
If I don't get those privileges, you shouldn't get those privileges.
And we should defend the free market, but don't defend this because this is not the free market.
And if you're defending this as the free market, nobody who has never lived under the free market will go your way because this is not the free market.
This is all rigged.
It's all a game and we all know it.
So don't even suggest that this is a free market.
If the left solves things by banning things and banning ownership, They'll destroy the foundation of the republic.
They'll destroy the free market.
And that's not a small issue.
It's not about housing.
It's whether the American experiment rooted in you, the private citizen, the private property owner, the one who has personal sovereignty, whether that continues or not, or we just trade it quietly away for managed comfort.
Federal Authority vs. State Governors00:15:32
What was it?
The warmth of collectivism and permanent rent.
I won't go there.
I'm glad he addressed it.
I'm glad he said it has to be a law.
But I won't go there.
I want laws that remove the rigging of this system.
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You know, I arrived at the studio at 5 a.m. In a great mood.
It's my 26th wedding anniversary today.
In a great mood, totally at peace with the world.
Read all of the stories, knew what was going on, reading it at 4 a.m.
I'm reading all the stories.
Yep, got it, got it, got it.
And by the time the staff started rolling in about six, I'm not stressed by the stories.
I'm stressed by my own staff.
Everybody is so passionate about everything that is going on.
Let me just say this.
It's all going to be okay.
It's all going to be fine.
It's all going to work out.
Here's how I know.
Let's start with Minnesota.
Let's start with NBC.
What?
NBC breaks down the ICE shooting in Minnesota.
Normally, I would not say let's go to NBC, but they actually did it fairly.
So here they are breaking down what happened in Minnesota and the ICE incident yesterday.
Listen.
Stuff we're learning from the get-go.
Again, the police chief saying this vehicle was blocking the federal agents right there.
That's right, Tom.
And a big caveat, we don't know what happened before this, but they're definitely going to look at the fact this is an unmarked vehicle, but the lights are on.
These are clearly members of law enforcement.
So that's at least known to this driver.
Let's play the video because something else happens right here.
Those officers approach the vehicle.
They try to open the door.
Let's stop it here.
How will this help the investigators?
Whatever is said here, what these officers say, if the driver said anything or not, could really help them understand whether or not they thought there was some sort of an imminent threat.
Was this person trying to listen to them?
Were they scared?
Or was this going to be a problem?
And then, of course, what the driver does next, let's play that video, trying to leave there.
One of the officers felt like they were forced to fire and they do.
We want to show another angle, reverse angle of the same incident here.
We're going to freeze it.
This is that same angle here.
And what does this show us, Tom?
Well, this appears to show an officer right in front of the vehicle that in between the way that the vehicle was moving and the timeline of that, how was the officer responding in that split second?
Could it be critical for investigators?
Finally, one more piece of evidence we want to talk about here, and it is the bullet hole in the front of the windshield.
What will this tell investigators?
Well, you look at this, you look at ballistics, you look at witness statements, you look at other video, all going to be part of this investigation.
But Tom, it's going to take some time.
Okay, that's basically what happened.
That's what happened yesterday.
Now, it's not why it happened, but it is what happened.
Why did this happen?
Well, let me give you one scenario.
One of the ICE agents, one of the agents involved, somebody had already tried to ram their car into him at another incident, tried to run him over because he's one of them damn ICE people.
So if somebody's tried to run me over once before and I'm in exactly the same kind of situation, I don't know.
I think I tend to generally think, oh, dear God, it's happening again, especially if it's in a split second.
Okay?
Number one.
Number two, if I'm an ICE officer and I have the mayor, the governor, and everyone else, I'm going to get to this here in just a second.
I think you're going to love the National Guard comments that I have.
If you have all of these forces making you into the villain, A, you are on knife's edge every time you go out to do your job.
Knife's edge.
You are razor sharp and quite honestly, would be much more likely to defend yourself than you would be if, you know, if everybody was cool, you'd see an isolated incident.
Somebody might come up, but you'd be like, okay, relax, everybody.
But because everything has been ratcheted up to ICE is the evil ICE, these guys are on edge, and they should be because they're constantly under attack, as are their families.
Okay.
Why are they?
Why are they constantly under attack?
Why?
Let me give you a couple of things.
First, let me play cut three.
No, cut two.
This is Mayor Fry right after the shooting.
Here's what he said.
But I do have a message for our community, for our city, and I have a message for ICE.
To ICE, get the f ⁇ out of Minneapolis.
We do not want you here.
Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.
Hmm.
Okay.
Now, can I ask you, what else is going on in Minneapolis?
They're going into the Somali community.
Why is Somali?
Somali, Somali, Somali.
Is that in other news?
Oh, yes, that's right.
The biggest scandal of the state and possibly the biggest heist of taxpayer money in the history of our country is going on in the Somali community.
Who are the most likely, you know, Tim Wall said some white people better go to jail.
Oh, I know two white people that probably will go to jail, the governor and the mayor.
So do they have any incentive at all to make the federal government into the bad guy?
Absolutely.
Beyond just the fact that that's what Democrats do, I guess, now, is you just make the federal government, I thought we were the ones that hated the federal government.
No, no, no.
We've never hated the federal government.
We hate the federal government out of control.
We hate the federal government when it is being unconstitutional.
We do not hate the federal government.
Anarchists, communists, people who are trying to actively overthrow our government by causing chaos in our streets, they hate the federal government.
To me, that sounds like Democratic Socialists of America.
Sounds like the people who are really in charge.
Not necessarily the voters, but the people who actually have been duped and believe that the Democrats actually care about the Constitution are not trying to overthrow things.
So Tim Waltz comes out.
After saying, get the F out of the city from the mayor, the governor comes out and the government makes a statement saying that Let me see if I have it here.
Ah, shoot.
Where is it?
At the top.
Here it is.
Here it is.
No, it's not.
At the very top of this?
Yeah, Minnesota Sheriff.
Okay.
Oh, here.
Here he said.
I actually want the whole statement.
I don't have it.
I said yesterday, we're at war with our federal government.
We're at war with our federal government.
We do not need any further help from the federal government.
To Donald Trump and Christy Noam, you've done enough.
There's nothing more important than Minnesotans' safety.
I have issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard.
We have soldiers in training and prepared to be deployed if necessary.
I remind you, a warning order is a heads up for folks.
A heads up for who?
A heads up for who?
There is no other way to read this other than, I am training our National Guard to stand up against our federal government.
Gang, this is the beginning of a civil war unless everybody remains calm and does the constitutional thing.
So when this happened yesterday, I wanted to reach out to some friends who know the Constitution and ask them, what?
How does the National Guard actually work?
A governor cannot block the Department of Justice in any criminal investigation.
The governor cannot block the Department of Homeland Security enforcement action.
A governor cannot block immigration and customs enforcement deportations carried out under federal statute.
Federal authority in these areas come directly from what's called the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution.
It means the federal law is supreme over what the governor says and what the state law is.
State consent for federal law enforcement is not required.
So when a governor says, we don't need any further help from the federal government, that's all political.
There's nothing legal in that.
Nothing.
Now, a governor can refuse cooperation, but it can't interfere.
A governor can say, we decline to assist federal agents.
They can do that.
I don't like it, but they can.
They can withdraw all state resources, not against the Constitution.
They can instruct state agencies, you're not to participate.
A governor can do that.
But a governor cannot obstruct any federal officers, cannot threaten force to stop federal investigations, use state military assets to interfere with federal law enforcement, cannot do that.
And the moment the governor crosses this line from non-cooperation to interference, they've just violated the Constitution and put us on the edge of a constitutional crisis or civil war.
Using the National Guard as a warning is the brightest red line you can find because there is no authority in the Constitution.
In fact, the Constitution talks specifically about this and what he's trying to do.
I've issued a warning to prepare Minnesota National Guard prepared to be deployed if necessary.
Once the governor said that, everything has to change.
The Minnesota Guard, the National Guard, is a state force under the governor unless it's been federalized.
But it cannot ever be used to obstruct federal officers.
The reason why Trump could call on the National Guard in California is because he was using them to protect federal officers.
It can be nationalized by the president if the state cannot protect the federal investigations or federal officers.
That's the only way he can just take control and say, nope, I'm calling up the National Guard and they're under my orders now and they have nothing to do with the governor.
He can call it up and nationalize them to protect federal officers carrying out federal law.
That's the only way it can happen.
That's why Donald Trump, they could cry a river that he was violating the Constitution, but he wasn't.
That's why they lost every time in court because that's the Constitution.
That's what the National Guard is allowed to do, protect federal officers.
Here's what they can't do.
They can't obstruct federal officers.
They can't enforce state political objections against the federal law.
They cannot deploy or be threatened to deploy against DOJ, DHS, or ICE, because that violates the supremacy clause.
Also, posse comitatus.
If they are deployed as police officers, if they are deployed to go against federal law enforcement, posse comitatus comes in.
Also, federal criminal charges come in of obstruction of justice.
So it's not an issue of state rights.
Once he says, I'm threatening to use the National Guard, that's constitutional defiance.
Now, what does the federal government, what should our response be from the federal government?
Federal authority continues anyway.
It doesn't matter what the state does.
Investigations and deportations need to proceed, no matter what the governor says.
Okay, whatever.
Federalization of the Guard does become an option.
I don't like it, but if it has to be done, then it has to be done.
The president can do it, stripping the governor of command if he's threatening to use it illegally or not protecting the federal officers.
The third thing that we have an option is obstruction consequences.
Federal injunctions, contempt of court, criminal exposure for obstruction.
This all has precedent and it should be considered.
Now, here's what Walt is actually doing.
He's not going to call up the National Guard and do that because he knows he'll go to jail.
And he's avoiding.
He's trying to avoid going to jail.
That's why he and the mayor are doing this, because of all of the corruption in Minnesota.
This has nothing to do.
Do you think they're doing this because they're protecting the Somali citizens?
That's what they're saying.
But they have been involving Somali citizens knowingly in deep corruption.
And they also know I can never be elected here if I don't look strong on the Somalis.
If I don't, if we don't change the flag in Minnesota to look like the Somalian flag, I can't be governor anymore.
Okay.
Teaching People They Are Victims00:06:20
What he's actually calling up is not the National Guard.
He is calling up the Democratic National Guard.
He is calling up the, honestly, he is calling on people like Nicole Rene Good.
He is trying to get people who are so zombie-like on the Democratic side to go up and put their bodies in and to obstruct.
He's using them as soldiers.
That's not just unconstitutional on the National Guard side.
That is just morally reprehensible.
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So what were you born to do?
I can't tell you, I can't tell you what your calling is, you know, what specific skill you have.
That's for you to decide.
But I can tell you that you were born to act and not be acted upon.
I want to get to the warmth of collectivism.
I want to get to what why are these things happening so rapidly in Washington and mountains being moved?
And it all comes down to being somebody who acts or somebody who is acted upon.
So many of us have so many doubts that run through our head.
And we believe things that are not true, but we believe them.
I'm going to say something that I probably shouldn't say on the air, but I wrestle hard with a belief that I truly believe is real.
And no one that I know believes is.
And that is that I'm a bad father.
And I have my own reasons for believing that.
But my children say that's not true.
My wife says that not true.
My family, you know, my friends say that's not true.
But I believe it.
Why?
Why do I believe that?
And I bet that you have something that you believe is absolutely true.
I'm ugly.
I'm not talented.
I'm a failure.
Whatever it is.
I want you to ask yourself, who's teaching you that?
I believe I'm the one.
I'm the one teaching me that lie.
Nobody's ever said that to me.
It's been one of my big fears since I was a kid.
And, you know, Cats in the Cradle song, my mother used to say, listen to this song.
As a kid, that wasn't really healthy, mom.
Thank you.
But that's, I think that's where it came from.
And now I'm saying it to me.
Why, you know, so much stuff is subjective, like I'm ugly.
That's pretty subjective.
Why?
Why would you choose to believe that, instead of i'm a pretty good looking guy?
Because we always seem to choose the negative, we dwell on the negative.
Well, I mean, look at what's popular in social media negative why?
Why don't good things in, inspirational things, things that uplift and empower, why don't those?
Why aren't those the things we grab on to?
Because everything that we think we have a choice on, what is the difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden?
I mean lots of differences, but fundamentally one, I believe, truly is a victim.
I've never seen anybody victimized as much as this guy.
But if I went up to Donald Trump and said dude, you're a victim I he might punch me in the face because that is not the way he sees himself.
He is not a victim.
They have tried everything to victimize and stop him and yet he has chosen who he is, and victim is not part of that.
And so by believing that and speaking those things and speaking the truth that i'm a powerful guy, i'm a smart guy, i'm a powerful guy, I am a guy who gets things done, i'm a businessman and i'm a good businessman, he has spoken that into reality and that's what's happening.
And in believing that he's not a victim.
He's teaching others.
Don't be a victim, where I think Joe Biden saw himself as a victim of the system.
I've put in my time in the system and they tried to.
They tried to thwart me and not give me this because they wanted to give it to Barack Obama and it was my turn.
And then I had to make a deal with Hillary Clinton and I and he was a victim his whole life and he was playing the game so he could get.
He believed in the warmth of collectivism.
I can't do it myself.
I got to tell you you could put Donald Trump alone, absolutely alone, and that guy is going to figure out a way to get it done, no matter what the odds are.
You put somebody like Joe Biden in.
If he doesn't have somebody that he can, you know, wheel and deal with, I don't think he's going to get it done.
And because he believes those kinds of things, because of what he believes, he puts into words and actions and he's teaching and taught people, you're a victim.
The power only belongs in the hands of the collective.
Okay, and that's.
That's what we're really facing right now.
Momdani said i'm glad he said what he said that we are going to replace.
What did he say?
Growth as Our Natural State00:06:35
Rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism, because that is the honest choice that we're facing right now.
But I want to show you how one instantly leads to failure, because your words have real power.
Whatever it is you tell yourself it will become.
You, at least, will believe it if you keep speaking it into existence.
You, you at least, will believe it and most likely you'll create that.
So let's talk about these two phrases, rugged, individualism.
What does rugged individualism?
Or rugged, just rugged?
What does that imply?
When you hear the word rugged, it implies, oh me, struggle.
I got to be tough.
No, he's going to be helping me out.
I got responsibility.
Toughen up, Jack.
That's what rugged means.
What does warmth say to you?
The warmth.
Warmth shows you you're loved.
We're going to hug you.
You know what?
Sit here by the fire.
I'm going to get a blanket for you and I'm going to put it around your shoulders.
Ease.
Okay?
You've worked so hard.
You just sit down.
I'm going to, can I get you some cocoa?
That's what warmth leads you to believe.
Okay.
Rugged is for people who act.
Warmth is for people who want to be acted upon.
Can somebody bring me a blanket?
Rugged, they're not asking for anybody to bring a blanket.
They know they have to go get the blanket.
Reason why I started this with why were you born?
I can tell you everyone on earth was born to act.
That's why you have free will.
You were born to act, not to be acted upon.
Can somebody get me a blanket?
Warmth of collectivism.
I got to go get the blanket myself.
It's my responsibility.
rugged individualism one is about comfort warmth of collectivism don't Don't you, when you hear that, don't you think of a blanket?
Don't you think of us sitting by a fire or somebody just holding you and just warmth of colour?
We're all going to just hug you.
Rugged individualism always makes me think of, yeah, those were the guys who, you know, cross the mountains, right?
One was growing and pushing.
The other one is sitting down and relaxing by the fire.
America has always been the one who pushes.
And there's one thing about growth that is absolutely true.
There is no growth in comfort.
And there is no comfort in growth.
When you are working out at a gym, last night I hugged my wife and she's like, ow, ow.
And I'm like, what happened?
Are you okay?
And she's like, yeah, no, my arms are really sore.
I've been working out all day.
And I'm like, yeah, that's why I don't work out, honey.
My arms never hurt.
But she says the same thing.
And I can't testify this is true.
I've heard this from everybody who works out, but I've never worked out a day in my life, which is why I'll be dead probably in about 10 minutes.
But she said to me just last week, she was not feeling well.
She was like in a mood.
And I said, are you okay?
And she said, yeah, I'm just, I just don't feel good.
And I said, mentally, physically.
And she said, like, mentally, I'm just, I don't feel good right now.
And then she paused for a minute and she said, and I think it's because I haven't worked out in two weeks because we were on vacation.
Well, I haven't worked out in two weeks.
I'm thinking, I haven't worked out my entire life and that's why I feel good.
Okay.
But everybody I know that works out, they always say two things and they're supposedly diametrically opposed.
Ow, I hurt.
Ow, my legs really hurt.
And then they always follow it with, I feel great, though, because I worked out today.
It's true.
It is true.
You feel better.
And let me take it out of for the word.
For those of you who are slugs like me and don't work out, let me change this.
I believe growth is our natural state.
And remember, there is no comfort in growth and no growth in comfort.
Growth is our natural state and it's why you feel good after you've put in a hard day's work, after you've accomplished something yourself.
You learn something new and you pushed yourself and you went past beyond where you thought you were going to be.
You feel good about it, just like you're working out.
You feel good about it because growth is what you were born to do.
Comfort is a human desire.
It's not what you were born to do.
It's a human desire.
So which do you want?
Are you...
Were you born to get everything you desire and you'll end up feeling worthless in the end?
Or were you born to grow?
The reason why I bring this up is I felt optimistic this week.
And that's such an unusual place for me to be.
I felt really optimistic this week.
And I've wanted to make sure, is this real or is this a high?
Because things are, what am I actually thinking?
Because I have to think these things because I have to share my thoughts with you.
And so I want to make sure I'm not just feeling like, wow, I feel good, you know, about this policy.
And it's not right.
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It's not real.
It's just a high.
And this week, I think we've had real growth and it's hard growth.
It's hard growth.
We had to debate constitutional questions this week.
And I feel good because I feel like we've taken the right steps and the hard and scary steps as a nation, but they're the right steps to repair us long term.
And so I think that's what I feel good about.
But I want to bring you back to Donald Trump.
What was one of the first things he said when he was sworn into office?
One of the first things he talked about, what was one of the first things he talked about?
And it seemed nuts at the time.
And we're still talking about it.
And I'm telling you, it's going to happen.
I don't know how, but it's going to happen.
And it's something that's been around for 100 years.
I never talked about it before, but people and the people in, you know, I don't know, think tanks or whatever have been talking about it for 100 years.